Let's Just Do This Sidequest First (RECAST)
Kotaku Splitscreen
Kotaku
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Kirk and Maddy start by congratulating Jason on his new fatherhood, then get straight to the heart of the matter: video games. Maddy's still playing Fire Emblem and also tried two cool tabletop games, Sheriff of Nottingham and Escape from Aliens in Outer Space. Kirk's tabletop group is still playing Betrayal Legacy; Kirk also played the new Hitman level and... drumroll... Destiny 2: Shadowkeep. After a break (28:32), we bring on Kotaku's editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo to talk about Ghost Recon: Breakpoint and also attempt to define a sidequest (and shout out some of our favorite ones). We then close out with off-topic talk (1:08:15) about Elementary, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Music pick of the week: "Oh My," Natalie Prass
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kitaku Split Screen, the only podcast that keeps drone repellent next to its insect repellent. |
| 0:14.6 | It's October 3rd, 2019, and we've got a ton of gaming goodness to get through. |
| 0:18.8 | First up, Maddie and I talk about the games we've been playing from tabletop gems |
| 0:21.8 | like Sheriff of Nottingham and Betrayal Legacy to video games like Hitman 2's new Island |
| 0:26.2 | Adventure and Destiny 2's overwhelming new Shadowkeep expansion. |
| 0:30.0 | We're then joined by Kotaku EIC, Stephen Totillo, to get his early impressions of Ghost Recon |
| 0:34.0 | Breakpoint and talk more broadly about side quests. |
| 0:36.9 | What makes a side quest a side quest. What makes a sidequests a |
| 0:38.0 | what makes a good sidequest good? We close out with off-topic discussion of the TV and |
| 0:42.7 | movies we've been watching along with a very fresh music pick of the week. Stay tuned. |
| 1:00.2 | Welcome back to the show for another week of video game discussion. The fall is getting underway. The video games are coming out. There's so much to talk about. My name is Kirk Hamilton, |
| 1:04.4 | and I'm glad you've joined us, and I am also joined by my co-host, Maddie Myers. Hello, Maddie. |
| 1:09.9 | Hello, Kirk. I'm here again. You sure are. |
| 1:13.1 | But you know who still isn't here is proud father, Jason Shrier, who has successfully had a baby with |
| 1:21.0 | his wife. She's here. It's real. It's happening. A baby exists. Jason's very busy, very sleep deprived. A baby Shriar. Yes. |
| 1:29.3 | We're very excited for him though. So congratulations to Jason and tweet him your congrats if you feel |
| 1:34.9 | so moved to do so. But we've been playing some... Yeah, not having babies, having games. |
| 1:41.0 | Definitely not having babies over here, spending our time playing video games. I do want to say that Jason was playing some destiny yesterday. |
| 1:46.7 | I think he actually played destiny before I did because I was like busy all day and didn't |
| 1:50.5 | have a chance to do it. |
| 1:51.7 | I was like, wow, all right, man. |
| 1:53.8 | Trying to log in, just trying to get a couple minutes in there. |
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