Ep 78: Nature vs Nurture

Nature vs. Nurture

This episode evolved like a Pokemon. What started as “what makes for a game with mass appeal for kids and adults, or non gamers and gamers?” shifted to “how do people tend to become gamers at all?”

Every now and then, we just gotta go on a wild hare.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 2:29 What we've been playing this week
• 2:34 Dempsey: Hogwarts Legacy
• 4:20 Dempsey: Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade
• 7:59 Katie: Shadow of the Colossus
• 12:28 CHAP006
• 14:03 Katie: The Long Dark
• 14:58 Seth: Vampire Survivors
• 16:46 Seth: Split Fiction
• 19:11 Seth: Minecraft
• 21:13 Topic: Games that appeal to a multitude of audiences
• 23:54 Board games and complex rules
• 25:35 How do you get non-gamers to play games?
• 26:22 Baldur's Gate 3
• 28:31 Goat Simulator
• 30:58 Finding the right game for the right person
• 37:48 Accessibility for non-gamers
• 44:31 Different generations and the appeal of gaming
• 47:51 Is the core gaming group mostly adults at this point?
• 51:47 Nature vs, nurture
• 58:56 Closing thoughts and outro