Episode 456: O'Dell Awakens

Official PlayStation Podcast

Sid Shuman

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week we introduce our newest pod member O’Dell, plus Respawn Entertainment’s Design Director of Combat Jason de Heras stops by to discuss Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and how devs chose to expand upon its predecessor.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the official PlayStation podcast I'm your host Sid Schumann and I'm joined
0:24.1	by Kristen Zetani. Hi Tim Teri. I said and Odell Harman. Hey, hey, everybody. A fresh new face and
0:32.1	voice. Oh, there. Who is that? Let's let's take a moment to to talk about this new member of the
0:38.0	podcast crew. Odell, so you've been with us here for G Wiz. It's been like what? Like four months?
0:43.4	It's January. Yeah. I saw it January night. So yeah. Time flies. Yeah. I remember we were coming back
0:50.3	to the new year. And like right before the holidays, it's like, I'm gonna have someone new
0:54.0	joining us. Like, oh, it's like a present. We come back. Yeah. Very exciting. So happy new year.
1:00.4	So Odell's been with us here on we call ourselves the content communications team. So crank it out,
1:06.7	content on that there. PlayStation blog and TikTok with Kristen and all manner of things like that.
1:12.6	But Odell's our newest recruit and very excited to have him aboard. He's racking up some wins here
1:18.2	after about four years. So tell us a little bit. We haven't done this segment a while. We used to
1:22.1	call it origin story. Odell, it's only fitting that you have the honor of doing the first origin story
1:27.8	in. Oh, I don't know three or four years. And a hot minute. Yeah. How did you get into the gaming
1:32.1	industry? Like how did that all come together? Oh, well, it all started when I was a wee lad.
1:37.4	I remember I liked video games when I was younger. But it was kind of like how everyone played
1:43.0	video games back then. Someone had a console. You went to their house. Some random cousin that you never
1:47.3	spoke to had a something you went to go play. And for my fourth birthday, not on my actual fourth
1:53.4	birthday. But later on my aunt got me a Sega Genesis. Yeah. And I only rented games with my first
2:00.7	game. I got later was a copy of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. And I don't know. Nothing was ever the same
2:07.1	after it. It was just like, oh, man, because you know, before the games were like, you know,
2:12.8	almost like arcade experiences. You play for five, 10 minutes. And then you know, they tell you to
2:16.8	stop. But this was like, this was mine. And I could do it whenever. And I'm sure I never beat the
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