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Dragon's Dogma 2 Makes Friction Fun

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

Jason Schreier, Technology, Society & Culture, Maddy Myers, Video Games, Kirk Hamilton

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

What is "friction" in video games? We've got a taxonomy, of course! This week, the Triple Click gang talks about how Dragon Dogma 2 tries to push players away, the necessity of video game friction, and what it means when a game is impenetrable.

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0:00.0

How well do you remember seventh grade science class as in the definition of friction?

0:09.4

Don't worry we got you covered. Welcome to Triple Click, where we bring the games to you.

0:15.0

This week we talk about the ways that video games resist the player.

0:19.0

In seventh grade science terms, writing the ox cart and dragon's dogma too, that's a simple machine, and friction is when a griffin attacks.

0:25.4

I'm Maddie Myers.

0:32.4

I'm Jason Schreier, and I'm Kirk Hamilton and hello hello hello it's us again

0:38.3

My friend

0:39.3

Surin's back. We made it back to this crazy thing we call show and that show is triple click and we're here again and how do we make the magic happen everyone to know, and the answer is available to you

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