These podcasts are gold, I’m impressed by the storytelling aptitude of everyone. Good listening. Also, audio wise its very creatively done. Keep em coming!

The story about the guy whose wife waited in the car troubles me. I hope that guy eventually found a job! (And a better place to store his wife.)

Thief was one of those mixed-reaction types for me. The very first mission pretty much got everything right: stay sneaky, avoid fights, look for secret passages, cover your tracks. But all of it got broken in the second mission — places where you couldn’t hide, goals that required fighting, few secret areas. I never played past that point.

It really is the softness of failure and ambiguity of awareness that makes it. The sense that you can actually just try and bolt across the room and maybe get away with it, and worst case, you’ll still be out of the room to possibly greener pastures and more shadows.

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The same occurred to me in System Shock 2 – the game environment creeped into my mind. I spent so much time enjoying the uncomfortable solitude and thrill enhanced, by the sound effects.

I listen(ed) a lot to old radio dramas ( thanks to Jeff Bezos archive.org !) and many of the Looking Glass/Irrational Games stuff has elements that remind me a lot of these (live) radio productions – sound matters.

btw,

I remember a programmer in the early 80’s who stank worse than a hobo. And I did some voluntary social work with homeless people, I know what I’m saying.

This Duder wasn’t even much of a great coder, but man, his ‘personality’ was sorta borderline. Nobody wanted to go near him. Every morning we hoped it would be the day, he took a rare shower.

Funny how cliche and reality seem to blend into each other.