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Triple Click Maximum Fun
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4.7 • 10 Ratings
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Video games: They’re serious business! Except when they’re not serious at all. Each week on Triple Click, video game experts Kirk Hamilton, Maddy Myers, and Jason Schreier journey into the fascinating world of games. They’ll explore hot topics in video game news and culture, answer burning listener questions, debate the pros and cons of the biggest new games, and replay old classics together.
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How To Make Good Video Game Lore
When is video game lore good? When is it bad? This week, the Triple Click gang talks about Skyrim books, Elden Ring item descriptions, Destiny guns, and all the other delectable morsels of plot that exist underneath the stories of video games.
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What's The Deal With: Stardew Valley
Eight years after it first came out, Stardew Valley is still getting patches. But what's the deal with this one-man-developed farming simulator? How was it created, and what makes it so appealing? Allow us to explain!
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Are Video Games Really A Waste Of Time?
It's the 200th episode of Triple Click, and to celebrate, it's time for a mailbag! The gang answers listener questions such as "could we ever see gambling in video games?" and "are games really a waste of time?"
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Dragon's Dogma 2 Makes Friction Fun
What is "friction" in video games? We've got a taxonomy, of course! This week, the Triple Click gang talks about how Dragon Dogma 2 tries to push players away, the necessity of video game friction, and what it means when a game is impenetrable.
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We Seriously Can't Stop Playing Balatro
Balatro is one of the best games of 2024 so far — and certainly the most addictive. This week, the Triple Click gang dives into the new poker roguelike and dissects what makes it so great. They talk about the three phases of Balatro players, the appeal of randomness, and the thrill of this game's parade of interesting decisions.
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How Do You Know When A Game Should Be Canceled?
Happy MaxFunDrive! This week, the Triple Click gang opens up the mailbag and takes some listener questions: Are libraries ethical? How bad will ads in video games get? And when does a game developer know if it's time to cancel a project?
Customer Reviews
Too nerdy
The three people that used to host the Kotaku podcast have gone indie - and the results are mixed.
I can admire the guts of trying to distinguish themselves from any other gaming podcast out there. However, now they have gone too far in that direction, in my opinion.
You come, or I at least do, for the takes on the latest news or the newly released games. And I chose to listen to them on the old podcast specifically, as they are extremely insightful, critical and occasionally very funny. In Triple Click, some episodes are designated to news or new games, and I find these the most enjoyable. The latest Assassin’s Creed Valhalla episode is good example of this.
In between, there are episodes where they discuss a certain topic. In these, I often find myself skipping forward. They require a lot from the listeners. You need knowledge about certain computer parts in the last decade to follow the conversation or be caught up on American football. The episode about building your own PC is an example of this, where I just don’t understand the appeal at all.
The conversations can be simply be extremely nerdy and a tad too high brow, which is, admittedly, something that could or should be a good thing. However, I just find it too difficult to follow.
This review is already too long, so let me finish by saying that the hosts are great and have a fun dynamic between them. It’s just feels like a waste that they keep talking about niche subject, when they often have the most interesting (btw, a word that is spoken way too much on the podcast) takes on everything else that is going on the in the gaming world.
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