Episode 04: Guestcast feat. Dishonored 2’s Harvey Smith

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🗓️ 7 October 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

From Deus Ex to Dishonored, Harvey Smith has worked on some deeply influential video games. As he jets across the world to promote Dishonored 2’s release on November 11, Smith stopped by VICE Gaming’s New Podcast to chat with us.

With October in full swing, we kick things off by discussing how horror has influenced his approach to game design, before drilling down into the process of making a sequel. Smith hasn’t worked on back-to-back sequels since Deus Ex: Invisible War, a game that wasn’t exactly well-received back in 2003. Fortunately, Dishonored 2’s looking really promising.

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0:00.0	What's good internet it is Austin Walker it is October
0:21.3	So what is this the first time you've done this you've never you've never done a date intro
0:26.6	I know that's why I'm bumbling it but here's the thing is the last time we didn't intro the weather was really bad
0:31.0	And so I was just like focused on that today the weather is like that exact perfect New York fall weather
0:35.9	So all I can think about is like oh, it's it's October. It's exactly the it's the the platonic ideal of an October day in New York right now
0:43.9	So so I'm focused. I want to say I want to say October, you know is beautiful out here too
0:48.4	So I you know, maybe we're gonna
0:50.8	Jinks this and then fin of ten minutes or now it's gonna become a potential downpour but right now we both have nice weather
0:55.9	I'm gonna try and enjoy it. It is it is a extra beautiful in here today because I have a special guest
1:01.1	And he's covering his face right now and wiping sweat from his brow
1:05.8	Harvey Smith is joining us surprise guests. Hey guys very happy to be here and very happy
1:10.5	It's October my favorite month. Is it is it is it is it because of Halloween is because of the weather?
1:15.2	You know growing up in Texas my family spent half their time on the Gulf Coast because that's where one part was from and half the time in
1:21.4	Central Texas which both are hot and one's really hot and muggy and so somehow
1:26.6	You know after these summer days where sometimes it's over a hundred for 30 days straight or whatever
1:32.2	It's oppressive and so
1:34.9	Somehow when that first turn of autumn happens and a cold front comes in it just feels like magic to me and then it signals
1:41.2	The coming of Halloween and how the holidays and all right lots of masks lots of yeah
1:46.6	Which like I guess I'm curious how is Halloween in the part of the country where you were from is it is it like a big deal?
1:52.8	Do people like go all out is there lots of decoration?
1:56.3	Yeah, Spookhouses and setting your house up like a haunted house or whatever
2:02.5	Having big parties everybody being in costume like you know, it's more maybe more function of age than anything like
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