Ep. 225: 'Achievement Oriented' on 'Assassin's Creed,' Video-Game Movies, and the Year of the FPS

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🗓️ 23 December 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion discuss the newly released movie 'Assassin's Creed,' then bring on their colleagues Jon Lovett and Kam Collins for a wider discussion about why video-game adaptations historically haven't worked well as films. Lastly, they talk to Chris Plante of The Verge about how and why first-person shooters broke out of their slump and whether 2016 was the best FPS year ever. 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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0:30.0	Hello and welcome to Achievement Oriented, Channel 33's gaming podcast.
0:42.1	My name is Ben Lindbergh and we're writer for TheRinger.com and on the other line, we're
0:46.5	100% synchronized.
0:48.4	It's Jason Concepcion.
0:49.4	Hey Jason.
0:50.4	Nothing is true Ben.
0:52.2	Everything is permitted.
0:53.8	Oh yeah, we're going to talk about Assassin's Creed later in this episode.
0:59.3	We're going to talk to Chris Plant from The Verge about whether this was the year of
1:04.1	first-person shooters and how we even got to the point that we could have that conversation.
1:09.0	In just a little bit, we're going to welcome a couple of our colleagues to talk about movie
1:12.8	video games in general.
1:14.7	But first, we're going to focus on one specific movie video game that just hit theaters.
1:20.4	We have both seen this movie.
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