Ep. 211: 'Dishonored 2,' 'Watch Dogs 2,' and How Not to Screw Up Stealth

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion share their thoughts on stealth games and discuss their impressions of recent high-profile releases ‘Dishonored 2’ (3:25) and ‘Watch Dogs 2’ (16:40). Then, they bring on ‘Firewatch’ and ‘Mark of the Ninja’ designer Nels Anderson to explain ‘Dishonored’ from a developer’s perspective and reveal how his games avoid the potential pitfalls of stealth and narrative exploration games (21:33). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Bill Simmons.
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0:45.1	Hello and welcome to Achievement Oriented Channel 33's gaming podcast.
0:49.2	My name is Ben Lindbergh and I'm a writer for TheRinger.com and joined as always by the
0:54.0	man who's slinking in the shadows Jason Concepcion, my colleague at TheRinger, Jason.
0:59.5	My sound meter is almost right to alert the cards.
1:04.0	We're going to talk about that because this is our stealth episode.
1:09.2	We're going to talk a little bit about Dishonored 2, a little bit about Watch Dogs 2 and just about
1:14.0	our general feelings about stealth.
1:16.3	We're also going to talk later in this episode to Nels Anderson who was a designer on Firewatch
1:22.6	and also more relevant to this themed episode, The Designer of Mark of the Ninja, which is
1:28.5	one of my favorite stealth games ever, Xbox 360 arcade game.
1:32.2	So this is the first of two episodes we are doing on this Thanksgiving week.
1:36.4	We'll be back with the second one on Friday, focusing on storytelling.
1:40.3	But we're going to get into stealth first.
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