Ep 75: Agency

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 4:03 What we've been playing this week
• 4:08 Brett: Megabonk
• 7:41 Dempsey Season: A Letter to the Future
• 17:08 Seth: Runescape
• 18:03 Seth: Slay the Spire
• 18:28 Seth: RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike
• 21:07 Seth: Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
• 26:29 Topic: When games give you too much agency
• 27:19 Fallout 4 and Bethesda games in general
• 30:36 Minecraft and Far Cry
• 32:13 Hogwarts Legacy
• 33:41 Dempsey doesn't exist and the developer needs to tell him how to exist within the confines of the game
• 38:31 Does the amount of choices in a game increase its value?
• 40:25 Baldur's Gate 3 and choices matters games
• 46:09 How education is shifting towards giving more agency to students
• 48:17 Learning styles and emotional investment
• 54:38 Pokemon & text-heavy tutorials taking away agency
• 58:20 Death Stranding and monologues
• 1:03:07 Outro & closing thoughts