VGA 265 - Do Androids Dream of Vidjagames?

Vidjagame Apocalypse

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4.7 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Things get technical in this week's episode of Vidjagame Apocalypse as Chris and Matty Allen are joined by USGamer.net Editor in Chief Kat Bailey to discuss the top 5 androids in videogames. Inspired by the release of David Cage and Quantic Dream's Detroit: Become Human, we explore the Uncanny Valley, ponder what it means to be human, and try to figure out why dudes in games seem so thirsty for any robot that displays even a hint of anything feminine. Question of the Week: What is your favorite pop culture android?

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0:00.0	The Oh, Hey everybody welcome to episode number 265 of
0:31.6	of video game apocalypse I am your evil robot
0:34.1	Doppelganger host Matthew Allen, who's here in the Michael Repares Memorial
0:37.8	chat room with me.
0:38.6	alternate reality battlefield five with all men Chris Antista. Cat Bailey, editor and chief of U.S. gamer, and I wish I had a witty way to introduce
0:50.0	myself, but not tonight I'm afraid.
0:52.4	But oh, that battlefield five thing with it never
0:56.0	ends does it Chris it never ends says the woman invading our sausage fest
1:00.3	that's what I do I invade sausage Fest all the time and that totally came out wrong.
1:05.8	Stop, you guys are making me hungry talking about sausage fest.
1:09.4	You know what else didn't exist in World War II?
1:12.1	What else didn't exist in World War II? What else didn't exist in World War II?
1:14.3	60 frames a second, steady cams, 4K resolute,
1:19.1	I don't know, just like, when does...
1:20.9	People wearing trench coats and looking, it looks like something straight out of
1:24.9	fortnight to be perfectly honest I don't know what's going on everybody wants to be
1:29.3	freaking fortnight now ten years ago it was all gray and awful and dreary and brown and now it's like we're
1:36.2	colorful and borderline cartoony.
1:38.3	You know what else didn't exist in World War II guys?
1:40.6	What's that?
1:41.6	The topic of this week's episode. Just as a reminder in these
1:44.6	interim episodes each week we're going to be doing a top five based around a
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