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The Polygon Show

Merry Emails To You

The Polygon Show

Vox Media Podcast Network

Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The team is over the river and through the woods, so we're hitting you with a special holiday themed Oops All Emails ep! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Polygon show.

0:12.8

Oops, all emails, volume 5, 3, 17.

0:18.4

76.

0:19.4

We've only had 28 episodes, but this is volume 76 of oops all emails I'm

0:23.8

Simone de Rochefort from polygon dot com and I'm joined by Allegra Frank

0:27.4

hello Ashley O hello andck. It's us.

0:34.0

Uh, wow.

0:35.0

Okay, so it's coming down to the end of the year,

0:38.0

and we're coming down to the end of our emails.

0:40.0

I'm going to just start off with what's on the top of my list here.

0:43.0

Dear, the Polygon show,

0:45.0

when CD-ROMs came out, many games used full motion video scenes to show off the new technology,

0:50.0

often to the detriment of the game.

0:52.0

What in your opinions is the FV of the past couple of years?

0:57.0

You know the thing that makes you think the designers of the game were so preoccupied with whether or not they could,

1:01.0

they didn't stop to think if they should.

1:04.0

Oh, that's a really good question. For me, it's excessively big open worlds that means so much

1:08.9

dev time is spent on collectibles and side quests instead of fleshing out the main story.

1:13.0

I'm looking at you, DA Inquisition.

1:15.0

Yours Nick Blake.

1:17.0

Ooh.

1:18.0

So this is the thing that's like, and not just FMVs,

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