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Ep. 230: 'Achievement Oriented' on 2017 Trends and the Man Behind Marcus Holloway

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4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion recap their holiday gaming and talk to New Yorker contributing writer Simon Parkin about his book, 'Death by Video Game'; VR and psychology; end-of-year lists; and recent (and future) industry developments. Then Ben, Jason, and their colleague Justin Charity talk to actor Ruffin Prentiss about playing the protagonist of 'Watch Dogs 2.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Achievement Oranted Channel 33's Gaming Podcast.

0:14.2

I am Ben LeBurg and I'm the winner of the Dreamer Community.

0:16.6

And I joined, as always, by my Ringer colleague, Jason Concepcion, a Jason Happy 2017.

0:22.8

Oh, what a wonderful year.

0:24.4

Yeah, I'm so excited.

0:26.0

Nothing catastrophic so far.

0:28.2

No, no, there's still time, but not yet.

0:31.1

Yeah, there's plenty of time.

0:32.3

So how did you spend your holiday gaming hours?

0:35.5

Oh, other than countless hours of Overwatch, I assume.

0:38.7

I did play a lot of Overwatch.

0:39.9

I played a lot of Hitman, which I found quite innovating and also comical in various ways.

0:48.0

It's just one of the best, probably one of the most entertaining stealth games,

0:51.4

just because of the amount of things you can do.

0:53.8

And when you blow a mission, you can just go on a murder spree and stab everyone in the town.

0:59.0

Good, yes.

1:00.8

That's an essential quality of stealth games for me.

1:04.0

Yeah, I use my holiday hours as kind of like a catch up for all of the holiday games that

1:09.8

we talked about and maybe dabbled in or played enough to know what we were saying, but couldn't

1:15.6

actually finish just because there was a new great game coming out every week.

1:19.5

So I finished the telltale Batman season.

1:22.8

I started the new season of the Walking Dead, whose first couple chapters came out.

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