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Triple Click

What Makes a Game Wear Out Its Welcome? (Mailbag)

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

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

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

That's right: it's another mailbag! Kirk, Jason, and Maddy talk about the criteria of a dad game, print vs web journalism, and when you know that a video game has outstayed its welcome. Plus: Kingdom Come Deliverance 2!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Last week, we opened up the mailbag to answer some of your burning questions.

0:08.4

So this week, we're opening up the mailbag to answer some of your burning questions.

0:13.0

Welcome to Triple Click, where we bring the answers to you.

0:16.4

That's right.

0:17.0

We're doing another burning questions.

0:19.1

We're talking Dad games, Donkey Kong Bonanza,

0:22.0

wearing out his welcome, and print magazines versus web.

0:30.1

I'm Jason Shrier. I'm Kirk Hamilton. And I'm Maddie Myers. Hello. It's us again. Hello, my friends. I just got back from

0:39.6

Los Angeles, sunny Los Angeles, where it turns out that Hollywood is dead, you guys.

0:46.0

Whoa. I keep hearing that. Just a wasteland out there? The entertainment industry is dire to the

0:52.3

point where multiple people in separate conversations

0:54.5

to me described it as the new Detroit in that the entire industry is just going to be carved

1:00.5

out of it and who knows what will be left.

1:03.4

In fact, I am very curious to hear from.

1:05.9

I think we have some listeners out there who are in the entertainment industry.

1:10.5

If you are a listener who's in the

1:11.7

entertainment industry, I'm actually very curious to hear some thoughts on what things are like,

1:16.8

where things are going. Maybe we'll do an episode where we talk about like the entertainment

1:19.8

industry because we're not, we're games podcast, but it intersects for sure with film and TV.

1:24.2

Some parallels there. I keep hearing about it just about how shooting has moved out of

1:28.5

California and movies are just being shot overseas a lot because of it's just so much cheaper to do.

1:33.6

And I keep seeing those kinds of prognostications.

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