Why Are Games So Much Like Jobs?

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

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

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

How should video game consoles differentiate themselves without exclusives? Do games make us more or less lonely? And are RPGs popular because they feel like jobs? This week, Maddy, Jason, and Kirk open up the listener mailbag and take some of your (excellent) questions. Plus: three killer new games that are out this week!

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0:00.0	If you think about it, a lot of video games are kind of just jobs that are so satisfying that we pay in order to be allowed to do them.
0:12.0	Welcome to Triple Click, where we bring the games to you.
0:15.0	This week we're opening the mailbag to talk about console exclusives, games as labor, how to enjoy a prequel and more.
0:21.1	And after the break, we talk about three great new games that we've each been loving.
0:24.8	Lots to talk about. Let's get into it.
0:30.9	I'm Kirk Hamilton. I'm Maddie Myers. And I'm Jason Schreier. Hello. Hello. Hello.
0:37.2	Hi, my friends. It's us. Welcome to the Gates of Oblivion, aka the Triple Click podcast. Yeah, that's the day we're recording this. We just saw that. Just watched it. Good stuff.
0:49.1	The key with our podcast is you run in, you pass all the enemies, you just run to the very end, and then you get the unique piece of loot, and then you run out. That's how you listen to TriplePers. I thought the key was that
0:57.5	you hit a rat, and then the rat starts just wildly flying around the room and not obeying the
1:02.7	laws of physics at all, and you just kind of watch it happen. That happens to. I think we've lost
1:07.8	the metaphor at some point there. That's just my Oblivion Gate memory from playing Oblivion, which I think we'll talk about in the future.
1:13.6	At any rate, triple click.
1:15.6	At any gate.
1:16.5	At any gate of oblivion?
1:18.6	And any small gates.
1:20.8	A listener supported Oblivion Gate.
1:23.6	This Oblivion Gate only opens to the plane of oblivion, thanks to the support of all of our listeners who worship at the idol of each of the gates to keep the magical power flowing so that the gate is open.
1:34.5	Yeah, everyone knows this. We say it every week. It's like, it's getting repetitive at this point. We need your dark energy in order to perpetuate the portal because it takes a lot of energy to open a rift
1:45.1	between planes of reality. And we really appreciate that you make it possible for us to
1:50.9	sunder this realm every week. No, seriously, we're a listener-supported podcast. We love all of you
1:56.9	who support us. If you want to support us, go to maximum fun.org slash join to sign up to
2:01.7	become a member. We put out bonus episodes every month. There are so many of them. There will be so many
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