The Hardest Things We've Ever Done In A Game (RECAST)

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🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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The Hardest Things We've Ever Done In A Game

Episode 213: Jason, Kirk, and Maddy talk about Disco Elysium, Hollow Knight, and Monster Hunter: Iceborne before checking in on some quick news (29:00): Sony's skipping E3 and Final Fantasy VII and Avengers are both delayed. Then they open up the listener mailbag for some questions about the hardest things they've ever done in a video game, whether Microsoft will ever turn Xbox into a living room PC, and the games they might hypothetically speedrun. They close things off with some off-topic talk (1:07:00) on James Cameron, Parasite, and the glorious return of Jason's NFL Playoff stories.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Kataku Split Screen, the only podcast that will always toss a coin to your witcher.
0:15.1	Today we're talking about Disco Elysium, a wonderful RPG that Kirk and Maddie are still playing.
0:20.5	We also dig a bit into Hollow Night and Monster Hunter World Iceborn before checking in on some quick news.
0:27.1	Then we open up the listener mailbag to answer some questions about our most difficult gaming accomplishments,
0:33.1	the games we would hypothetically speed run, and whether Xbox might ever make a living room PC.
0:39.1	Finally, we talk about James Cameron, Parasite, and the glorious return of NFL playoff stories.
0:45.8	Let's go.
0:58.3	And we are back for another episode.
1:01.6	My name is Jason Shire, and I'm joined once again by Maddie Myers.
1:03.3	Hello, it's me.
1:04.1	And Kirk Hamilton.
1:05.7	Hello, it's me too.
1:10.0	Maddie Kirk, I have a little bit of news before we start. I am going on the second half of my paternity leave and we'll be gone for the next four weeks once again. So you guys will have to manage without me somehow. What if you were announcing it to us on the show right now? Like what if we also didn't know this information? We didn't know. We're like, whoa, what? What? We're going to be gone for four weeks.
1:30.3	Oh, okay. You're going to be like, oh my God, we know about it. We do. So I'm sure you guys are
1:36.2	going to plan all sorts of fun activities and guests and superstars while I'm gone. We will.
1:43.3	We will miss you, though, because as always, the show is never the same without you. It's true. I have to finish a book, so I will hopefully be able to do that in the next four weeks. I think you can. I believe in you. And before we start talking about video games, Kirk, is there something that you had to, a correction, correction from you?
2:01.4	It's not a correction. It's a clarification. We received this from several listeners via
2:05.8	email and tweet. As always remember, you can email us at split screen at kataku.com. We were talking,
2:11.6	I think this is on our games of 2019. We were talking about daggers and knives. The difference
2:15.9	between the two. Is there one? There is. There are a couple. Well, there's really just one. So basically about daggers and knives. The difference between the two. Is there one?
2:17.7	There is.
2:18.3	There are a couple.
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