To All the Games I've Never Played (Episode 14)

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Today we're talking about AppleCider's article, Looking Back on Gaming without Nostalgia! We chat about feeling left out of the conversation, and how you don't necessarily have to play a game to talk about it.

Guest Intro (00:00:45)

Brief intro to our returning guest, AppleCider!

What we've been up to (00:01:19)

AppleCider (@appleciderwitch)

• World of Warcraft
• Fall TV Shows: Atlanta, Chef's Table: France

Kaleri (@kaleri_)

• World of Warcraft
• Zootopia
• Once Upon a Time
• Grey's Anatomy

Pam (@jasyla_)

• Virginia
• The Bunker
• Attack the Block
• Hard Candy
• The People vs OJ Simpson
• American Horror Story
• Chez Lindsey

Gaming and Nostalgia (00:36:03)

AppleCider's article : https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/09/looking-back-on-gaming-without-nostalgia.html

• Why write this now? What spurred you to talk about it?
• Gatekeeping in gaming
• Positives and negatives that come from having a lack of nostalgia
• How much mainstream dialogue around games requires extra knowledge (ex describing a game as a 'Metroidvania')
• Cultural osmosis of gaming knowledge
• There are so many ways to experience a game now (Let's Plays, Streaming) so do you need to play a game to talk about it?

Twitter/Listener questions (01:27:47)

• Does a gender double standard also apply to requiring childhood gaming for credibility or is that universal? @lonelyboardgame
• Does a remake of a classic owe a duty to new players to do more than just modernize the graphics? @alatinolawyer

AppleCider's new article is up on Kotaku! Check out her writing on Overwatch and femslash here: http://kotaku.com/why-overwatch-fans-are-obsessed-with-shipping-its-femal-1787244865?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Kotaku_twitter

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Music: Vivacity by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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