Adaptations With more and more movie and TV show adaptations of video games, join us as we dig into what is lost or gained when games are adapted to the big screen. Dempsey, our resident film expert, has some strong opinions, Katie is excited about allusions, and Brett would love an adaptation of Mass Effect (the book….not the game…). What game adaptation is your favorite or least favorite? What game do you wish they would adapt? Send us an email with your thoughts! overthinkinggamespodcast@g...
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Adaptations With more and more movie and TV show adaptations of video games, join us as we dig into what is lost or gained when games are adapted to the big screen. Dempsey, our resident film expert, has some strong opinions, Katie is excited about allusions, and Brett would love an adaptation of Mass Effect (the book….not the game…). What game adaptation is your favorite or least favorite? What game do you wish they would adapt? Send us an email with your thoughts! overthinkinggamespodcast@g...
This week, Katie picked yet another topic she didn’t really understand well, and maybe we all will understand it a smidgeon better by the end. Maybe… Teleological thinking is “means to an end” kind of thinking, and non-teleological thinking is more like “the journey, not the destination” thinking. We discuss the way these two kinds of thinking can influence the games we play and how we play them, and also, and also a rather-longwinded discussion of how the way one approaches gaming relates to...
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Adaptations With more and more movie and TV show adaptations of video games, join us as we dig into what is lost or gained when games are adapted to the big screen. Dempsey, our resident film expert, has some strong opinions, Katie is excited about allusions, and Brett would love an adaptation of Mass Effect (the book….not the game…). What game adaptation is your favorite or least favorite? What game do you wish they would adapt? Send us an email with your thoughts! overthinkinggamespodcast@g...