029: Such Hildevastation

07/19/22 • 59 min

In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Chadd and Sean look at the single largest concept in long-format games: Player Equity. Other topics include surprisingly garbage subplots in the Godfather, the great flaw of Web 3.0 gaming, and the role of the passage of time, both in-game and out, in MMO storytelling.
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In this episode of the premiere (and self-correcting) Final Fantasy XIV lore podcast, Sean and Chadd look at the fundamentals and implications of the Hildibrand questline. Other topics include the invention of cutscenes in MMO's, the enduring influence of James Bond, and the nature of the relationship between a game's fandom and itself.
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030: Twistwalker

In this episode of the premiere FFXIV lore podcast, Chadd and Sean look at one of the big questions of narrative design: what makes twists good? Other topics include roughly tousling Gaius van Baelsar's hair, Disney's underreliance on The Clone Wars, and the extremely common and understudied Ontological Twist.
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