Elden Ring and Open-World Games

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

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

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🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This year has seen the release of three great open-world games: Dying Light 2, Horizon Forbidden West, and Elden Ring. What do they all have in common? And what do they all do differently? This week, Kirk shares his new taxonomy for open worlds in video games and the Triple Click crew figures out what they like most in an open world.

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0:00.0	Oh wonder, how many goodly-side quests are there here?
0:07.9	A brave new world that has such NPCs in it.
0:13.1	Welcome to TripleClick, where we bring the games to you.
0:16.0	This week we talk about open world games.
0:18.4	What makes them work is experiences.
0:20.0	Do we want to be told what to do, or do we want to carve our own path?
0:24.5	It all depends.
0:29.8	I'm Maddie Myers.
0:30.8	I'm Jason Shire.
0:31.8	And I'm Kirk Hamilton, and hello.
0:33.8	Hello.
0:34.8	It's us.
0:35.8	Welcome back.
0:36.8	And it's us again.
0:38.8	Everyone out there should be extremely grateful that we have all managed to pull ourselves
0:42.3	away from Elden Ring to record a podcast.
0:44.8	Barely.
0:45.8	Barely?
0:46.8	Weirdly true.
0:47.8	I don't think that's ever been so true.
0:50.8	All of us are a little bitter that we're not playing Elden Ring right now.
0:54.8	And we're looking at each other's faces instead of some horrifying, gaping maw of something
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