15. Being a Bad Spider-Man - a podcast by Allen Pike and Nigel Brooke

Scott Stevenson of Low Earth Orbit joins us to talk open world games. We discuss side quests, railroading, and trying to tell a story when the player can ruin everything. As usual, we end with a diversion into games we’re excited about, and some peculiar Kickstarters.

• Thief


• Hey cousin! Let’s go bowling!


• Thank goodness everything is back to normal!


• Infamous Second Son


• Polygon’s Spider-Man 2 Review


• Red Dead Redemption


• Nathan Drake


• Radical’s Prototype


• Fez’ $40,000 bug fix


• Fuel


• ReRoll, the Kickstarter for a game world that was literally the entire earth


• Danielle Riendeau’s Transistor review


• Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn

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