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[Write-in Thread] Firelink Episode #52
Added 2025-01-28 21:53:10 +0000 UTCThis week on Firelink we're discussing our favorite first games from new studios, and why it's always good for teams to have to chance to iterate and build upon a sequel.
The second half of the podcast will be dedicated to your topics and questions!
Send in your thoughts, questions, or topics you'd be interested in us discussing! We won't have time to read and discuss everything, and please keep posts topical, safe for work and not huge walls of text.
Submissions close at 3 PM CT on Wednesday, January 29th.
Comments
I've been playing a ton Pacific Drive lately. It's so well made, it's almost hard to believe it's Ironwood's first game.
Pat the Vandal
2025-01-29 16:36:10 +0000 UTCI was a teen in the 1970's, so the internet was nary a gleam in anyone's eyes. I did [& do] tabletop rpgs for fun & got into console gaming around 2000. Games I go back to for fun are old - like Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & a slew of PS2 games, like FFX, Shadowheart & SMT Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2 [aka Avatar Tuners]. While I utterly love Baldur's Gate 3, why don't older games - like those I cited - get remade more often? When FFX WAS updated for computer play I bought it immediately. There has to be a market, so why isn't it exploited more? ^_^
melchar
2025-01-29 13:45:03 +0000 UTCI am in a gaming rut for 2+ years now. Have any of you experienced this feeling where learning new games feels mentally taxing & unfun, but old games feel boring & unfun? If yes, any tips on how to get out of ze rut?
MeowIndeed
2025-01-29 06:41:50 +0000 UTCWhat game/type of game do you usually play to relieve stress and anxiety, or to rebalance yourself after a really bad day?
Dour Dodger Esquire
2025-01-29 02:29:27 +0000 UTCThanks for the feedback! Would not have thought to start with a 3d game with camera control.
Dean Pearson
2025-01-29 00:25:07 +0000 UTCI can only speak from experience but my little 3 year old loves Mario. Specifically bowsers fury that Marty also loves. Only issue is he loves it so much I can’t play anything else, even other Mario games! So I’m getting very good at bowsers fury, luckily it’s a good game. Curiously he responds better to 3d games rather than 2d. I think being able to move the camera etc comes more naturally as a first exposure than it did with us growing up on 16 bit 2D games.
Inverse Skies
2025-01-29 00:07:06 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite games ever is CrossCode (2018), the debut title of Radical Fish Games. I only discovered it by chance because a streamer mentioned it as his favorite game of that year, and I wish it was more well-known! Do y'all have low-profile favorites that you wish were talked about more among gaming folks?
TooManySpreadsheets
2025-01-28 23:13:44 +0000 UTCDoes [it] need a sequel though? Just play the game again?
HardRevenge
2025-01-28 23:03:39 +0000 UTCDo you guys have gaming backlogs? If so, how do you keep track of them (or do you keep track of them)? Is there anything you've been wanting to play for a long time but haven't? Curious how having games as a job impacts your approach to games on your own time (if it impacts at all)
plz help
2025-01-28 22:16:18 +0000 UTCConsidering they’d only made one or two smaller mobile games, Stellar Blade came out really well as Shift Ups first crack at a console quality game
Fas
2025-01-28 22:04:57 +0000 UTCOn topic: What game series/franchise do you think would not exist at all if they never got a second chance to realize their vision via a sequel? Street Fighter was pretty bad, for example, but then we got Street Fighter 2 and it was mostly uphill from there.
Filthy & Free Publishing
2025-01-28 22:01:17 +0000 UTCMy wife and I have two little twins boys who are nowhere near ready for this (they're 5 months old), but when the time comes, I'm curious to hear what you guys think is the best first video game for a kid. Thanks! Love yer stuff!
Dean Pearson
2025-01-28 22:00:50 +0000 UTCBastion by Supergiant Games is not only one of their best titles but also laid the template for future games that they iterated on leading up to Hades which combined all their trademarks into a landmark title
LookItsAnEric
2025-01-28 21:57:47 +0000 UTCA question specifically for Nick - I grew up in the 90s pre internet so had video game magazines as my main information source. Being younger and having more readily available internet access when you were growing up, did you miss this phase of video games or are there specific video game magazines you recall enjoying?
Inverse Skies
2025-01-28 21:57:29 +0000 UTCAs you’ve gotten older, what genre of game, if any, have you found yourself gravitating towards that has surprised you? For myself, it would be JRPGs.
Andrew White-Winter
2025-01-28 21:56:46 +0000 UTC
