Triple Play: Avowed

Triple Click

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Jason Schreier, Technology, Society & Culture, Maddy Myers, Video Games, Kirk Hamilton

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The gang takes a deep dive into Obsidian's latest roleplaying game, Avowed. They talk about the crunchy combat, the ramifications of story decisions, and why the exploration works so well. Plus: SNL turns 50!

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0:00.0	Chests. If you've played a role-playing game, you've probably opened one. But did you know that the same company makes every chest in every video game you've ever played?
0:12.0	It's their whole thing. It's all they do. Welcome to Triple Click, where we bring the games to you. This week we are talking about avowed obsidian's fun new action role-playing game where you
0:21.0	run around a beautiful world, getting into fights, having conversations, and opening a whole lot
0:25.8	of chess. I'm Kirk Hamilton. I'm Maddie Myers. And I'm Jason Schreier. Hello. Hello. Hello, my
0:36.5	it's us. It's us again. I went to the DMV today. It was very unpleasant.
0:41.9	What? Hopefully we can be a better experience for you than that recording trouble. I hope so, too.
0:48.0	Low bar. Can we clear it? At this DMV, this is like a new DMV and they make you wait online and get in and then when you get you start off before you even get to the desks, you start off at this little podium where this woman is like, here is the paperwork you need to fill out before we can even register you. And what you do is you go to this little table and you fill out the paperwork and then you go back to her. And so I did that. And then the guy who was like in line waiting to get his paperwork started yelling at me because I cut the line.
1:12.2	He was like, there's a line here.
1:13.5	And I don't know what happened.
1:14.5	Usually I'm pretty nice to people, but like my inner New York got out.
1:17.6	And I was like, the fuck is wrong with you.
1:19.6	I'm just doing what she told me to do.
1:21.6	And it was very unpleasant.
1:23.7	The fuck is wrong with you.
1:25.1	You just like went full accent.
1:26.5	It was full New York City. Hey, I'm walking here.
1:30.2	You were a Spider-Man NPC. It should really got out of hand. That's terrible, Jason. That's terrible. It was terrible. It was a terrible experience.
1:39.3	That is an energy that I'm glad that we don't see here on Triple Click, a lovely and calm space that
1:45.7	we are able to maintain each week thanks to the support of our listeners. And of course,
1:50.8	thank you to all of them, everyone who is a member of our wonderful network Maximum Fun and
1:56.0	makes it possible for us to make this show. And if you would like to join their ranks, go to
2:00.7	maximum fun.org slash join and sign up
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