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Adaptations · Pick Up and Deliver

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to pick up and deliver the podcast where I
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  Speaker 1: pick up my audio recorders, I step out for a
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  Speaker 1: walk and deliver an episode to you while I stroll around.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Brendon Riley. Well, greetings listeners. It's a lovely day
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  Speaker 1: here in suburban Chicago. The sun is out and it
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  Speaker 1: is hot.
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  Speaker 2: But I am.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoying myself strolling around talking to you about board games. Well,
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  Speaker 1: in the last episode, I talked a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: the adaptation game from Dune nineteen eighty four, the David
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  Speaker 1: Lynch movie that I got to play at Bogan Khan.
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  Speaker 3: That got me thinking a little bit about.
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  Speaker 1: Games with IP games that are made from adaptations. And
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  Speaker 1: I know that I've talked about this a bit on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast before, but boy howdy, if I couldn't I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't find it. I looked in the I did the
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  Speaker 1: search terms I could think of to kind of see
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  Speaker 1: when I had talked about this before, but I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: find it. I'll probably search a little bit more and
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  Speaker 1: future Brendan will come in here and let you know
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  Speaker 1: if there is If there is a previous episode, and
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  Speaker 1: apologies if I'm repeating myself, But in the eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty nine episodes before this, I don't recall talking
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  Speaker 1: about this, and I couldn't find record of it.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I would What I would thought What I
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  Speaker 1: thought I would talk about is I think what makes
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  Speaker 1: a good a game from a established intellectual property, an
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  Speaker 1: adapt and an adaption and adaptation game interesting and fun?
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  Speaker 3: And what are some of my favorites?
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  Speaker 1: I will say if you're looking at trying to find
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  Speaker 1: out figure this out from a more elaborate perspective. Paul
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  Speaker 1: Booth's first book about games is all about this. He
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  Speaker 1: writes a lot about different ways that games are adapted.
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  Speaker 1: He calls it metafiction or because he's talking about fan
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  Speaker 1: communities and the way that adaptation connects to fan communities.
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  Speaker 1: It's worth taking a look at it if you think
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  Speaker 1: this sounds interesting from an academic perspective.
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  Speaker 3: But okay, so.
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  Speaker 1: I thought of three different ways that I think games
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  Speaker 1: build on intellectual properties in ways that I enjoy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna talk a lot about ways that I
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  Speaker 3: don't enjoy.
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  Speaker 4: It.
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  Speaker 3: Suffice to say.
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  Speaker 1: If a game is just using the theme and a
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  Speaker 1: really nothing burger of a game, if it's just like
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  Speaker 1: the Dune game could have been that I think it
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  Speaker 1: transcended a little bit, but it's pretty close. But there
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  Speaker 1: are games where there's just like really nothing going on
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  Speaker 1: and the game has nothing to do with the intellectual property,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just kind of slapped on there.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like that. There's also just if the game
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  Speaker 3: is really bad.
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  Speaker 1: If you're interested in exploring that a little bit, you
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  Speaker 1: should check out the now fully archived but still delightful
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  Speaker 1: podcast Flip the Table. I'll Flip the Table was a
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  Speaker 1: podcast where they played cheesy, weird, and obscure board games
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  Speaker 1: and had fun. It's incredibly well produced, very funny, and
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  Speaker 1: pretty timeless. The games they were playing were already old
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  Speaker 1: and cheesy, so the fact that the episodes are kind
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  Speaker 1: of out of date doesn't matter. Definitely worth checking out
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  Speaker 1: if you get a chance. That's I'll Flip the Table.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So, and they talk a lot about what makes a
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  Speaker 1: bad board game adaptation, So I talk about first. The
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  Speaker 1: first kind of board game adaptation I really like is
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  Speaker 1: one where the game mechanisms make it feel like you're
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  Speaker 1: engaging in the film.
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  Speaker 3: What I mean by that is, if you're doing a
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  Speaker 3: film or.
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  Speaker 1: A book or whatever, there's an event or there's plot,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's like the feeling that's happening in the text.
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  Speaker 3: That they want to emulate.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, her doctors have so.
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  Speaker 2: You never have a wait for.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah cause it o.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I.
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  Speaker 1: Always I I request so many things that of and
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  Speaker 1: don't check.
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  Speaker 3: I just look at the shelf.
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  Speaker 5: Oh okay, have.
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  Speaker 2: A good one.
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  Speaker 1: One of the best examples of the kind of game
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about where playing it feels like the source
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  Speaker 1: text is Jaws. The Jaws board game, adapted from the
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  Speaker 1: film Jaws, and which was adapted from the novel, of course,
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  Speaker 1: was created by Prospero Halla. In fact, it's sort of
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  Speaker 1: their first partnership with Robinsberger, really demonstrating how good that
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  Speaker 1: studio was at this kind of work. The Jaws board
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  Speaker 1: game feels like the movie Jaws. In the first half
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  Speaker 1: of the game, you are the human players trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what's going on with this shark, and as
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  Speaker 1: a shark, you're trying to elude the human players while
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  Speaker 1: eating as many people as you can. It feels really thematic.
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  Speaker 1: There's the hunt. You never know where the shark is
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  Speaker 1: gonna pop up next. When it does, you try to
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  Speaker 1: race to get there. They have equipment that is both
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  Speaker 1: useful and sort of evokes moments of the rules.
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  Speaker 3: From the the movie or moments of the plot from
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  Speaker 3: the movie. Works really well.
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  Speaker 1: Another game that I think feels a lot like the
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  Speaker 1: movies is Harry.
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  Speaker 3: Potter Hogwarts Battle.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: This game is a little more abstracted. Is a deck
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  Speaker 3: building game.
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  Speaker 1: And I will caveat I don't really buy Harry Potter
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  Speaker 1: things anymore, and I'm not interested in watching them as.
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  Speaker 3: Long as JK. Rowling is getting money from them.
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  Speaker 1: That said, I have all the Harry Potter stuff from
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  Speaker 1: before the game was made, so whatever it is, what
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  Speaker 1: it is. This is the deck building game in which
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  Speaker 1: you are trying to You are one of the four kids,
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  Speaker 1: one of several kids I think there's five ultimately with
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  Speaker 1: one of the expansions, one of the five kids, and
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  Speaker 1: each of you as you're cooperating together building a deck
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  Speaker 1: so that you can fight the various batties. The game
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  Speaker 1: comes with several boxes, seven of them which sort of
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  Speaker 1: match the seven boxes of seven chapters of the story,
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  Speaker 1: and each box reveals another set of villains and it
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  Speaker 1: gets a little more complicated, So playing through the campaign
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  Speaker 1: feels a little bit like going through the movies. We
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  Speaker 1: see the events of the movies unfolding, but also the
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  Speaker 1: challenges get harder, the characters get bigger. There's actually a
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  Speaker 1: point where you get the more mature versions of the characters.
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  Speaker 3: You get the middle school where.
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  Speaker 1: The high school versions of the characters rather than the
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  Speaker 1: middle school versions. The items that you get become more powerful,
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  Speaker 1: but also the villains become more powerful, and there are
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  Speaker 1: times in that game where things.
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  Speaker 3: Just feel absolutely hopeless.
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  Speaker 1: It overlaps what's going on in the story really well.
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  Speaker 1: On the third one I want to point to where
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  Speaker 1: the mechanisms feel like. The game is the Buffy the
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  Speaker 1: game Buffy the Vampire Slayer of the board game, and
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  Speaker 1: this is the one that was published in the mid
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  Speaker 1: to late twenty tens. I think twenty seventeen is the year.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe this game is focused on the show, and it's
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  Speaker 1: sort of built like an episode of the show.
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  Speaker 3: So there is there'll be.
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  Speaker 1: A couple minor bad guys, and then you reveal the
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  Speaker 1: big bad you have to go stop them before too
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  Speaker 1: many townspeople get killed. It works really well to evoke
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  Speaker 1: the feeling of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes. You
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  Speaker 1: are constantly struggling with where are these monsters are gonna
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  Speaker 1: appear in?
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  Speaker 3: What harm are they gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to keep the characters safe, have them not
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  Speaker 1: getting into trouble, but the monsters could go after them
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  Speaker 1: as well, and it's full of that feeling of trying
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  Speaker 1: to save the town against the sort of rising tide
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  Speaker 1: of bad guys. So those are games where the mechanisms
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  Speaker 1: of the game make it feel like you're involved with
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  Speaker 1: the story of the source material. The second thing that
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  Speaker 1: I like is when the game components do a really
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  Speaker 1: good job of evoking the experience of the game. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these are adaptations that are not going to last the
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  Speaker 1: test of time nearly as well, right the ada. If
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  Speaker 1: they components evoke the game, evoke the experience, but the
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  Speaker 1: gameplay isn't good, these will wither and die over time.
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  Speaker 1: This is what's happened to me with the Backs of
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  Speaker 1: the Future games, or have been. I've acquired three different
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  Speaker 1: Back in the Future games, maybe four four, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and I've slowly sold them off because I played them
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  Speaker 1: once and I'm like, oh, okay, that's fine, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't really enjoy it very much, So off it goes
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  Speaker 1: the one I've held on to is the one where
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  Speaker 1: I really like the game. Ironically, it's the one with
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  Speaker 1: the least of that first thing I said, where the
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  Speaker 1: mechanics feel like the game, but when the theme comes
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  Speaker 1: through in the components, that's really fun. If the board
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  Speaker 1: evokes the town of Hill Valley, if the pieces, if
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  Speaker 1: the different pieces feel like nods two different parts of
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  Speaker 1: the IP. This is all sort of basic product design
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  Speaker 1: stuff that's really important for making the game feel fun.
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  Speaker 1: So the one that I've kepped is Back to the
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  Speaker 1: Future Entry in Time, which is the Matt Riddleben Pinchback design.
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  Speaker 3: That is really a multi use.
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  Speaker 1: Card puzzle game with the kind of back to the
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  Speaker 1: Future theme on it, but the theme does not feel
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  Speaker 1: connected really at all. It's very disconnected from the experience
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  Speaker 1: of the game. That said, I think it's really delightfully made.
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  Speaker 1: It comes with a little Back to the Future car
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  Speaker 1: and it's enjoyable. Another game where I think the components
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  Speaker 1: feel really cool is Shark Island. Now, Shark Island is
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  Speaker 1: a little controversial because it is a Jaws ripoff. It's
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  Speaker 1: like Jaws, but they didn't want to pay for the
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  Speaker 1: license of Jaws and arguably, the Jaws components, the ones
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  Speaker 1: that came with the Prospero Hall game, are amazing. These
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  Speaker 1: are well crafted, careful pieces of game material. They are
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  Speaker 1: impeccably graphically designed. Most importantly, they used the right font,
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  Speaker 1: which is a silly thing to say, but you don't
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  Speaker 1: realize how much the font of the credits imprints in
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  Speaker 1: your brain until you see a game that uses the
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  Speaker 1: right font in there on the cards and it just
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  Speaker 1: feels very natural for what you want the game to be.
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  Speaker 1: And I really like that piece of it. So the
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  Speaker 1: Jaws components are amazing. It looks good, it's really fun
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  Speaker 1: to play, really interesting. But there's this game called Shark Island,
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  Speaker 1: which is basically like what if all three Jaws movies
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  Speaker 1: were part of one game? What if we didn't have
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  Speaker 1: the license? What would it look like? And it feels
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  Speaker 1: a lot like Jaws. The best part is there's this
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  Speaker 1: little yellow barrel. Little yellow barrels are part of the game,
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  Speaker 1: which is really fun. But there's also just different aspects
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  Speaker 1: of the game that fit the scenarios of the different films,
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  Speaker 1: and that makes it really delightful as an experience.
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  Speaker 3: I would say the game not great. Now I haven't
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  Speaker 3: gone back to it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it actually is better than I remember, so it's
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  Speaker 1: maybe worth going to again trying it out. But I've
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  Speaker 1: held out to it because I'm amused by the art
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  Speaker 1: and design of the game quite a bit, and I
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  Speaker 1: keep thinking, yeah, maybe I'll go back to it at
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  Speaker 1: some point. So that is Shark Island. Finally, if I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to point to a third game that I think
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  Speaker 1: where the where the components connect.
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  Speaker 3: With the IP, this would be.
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  Speaker 1: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the game which I think is
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  Speaker 1: the two thousand board game rather than the twenty sixteen
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  Speaker 1: or twenty seventeen board game. Now this one uses still
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  Speaker 1: images from the TV show.
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  Speaker 3: It's got a.
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  Speaker 1: Much cornier looking gameplay mechanism. Although it is an interesting game.
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  Speaker 1: It's not bad. It's not great, but it's not bad
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to some other games. Like if you look
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  Speaker 1: at this game, you'd be like, oh, this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be bad, Like it feels like a dumb branded board game,
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  Speaker 1: but it's actually pretty entertaining and most importantly, it evokes
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  Speaker 1: the theme well, like when you're playing it, you really
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  Speaker 1: do feel like you're right in Sunnydale hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: all of the Buffy Friends, So that is Buffy the
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  Speaker 1: Vampire Slayer the game, maybe the two thousands one. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: the third thing that I really like, or the third
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  Speaker 1: kind of IP game that I really like, are games
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  Speaker 1: that expand the IP by which I mean these are
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  Speaker 1: games where they are in the world of the story
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  Speaker 1: they're adapting, but they aren't mimicking the story. They're adapting
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  Speaker 1: there going from the world and looking at other things.
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  Speaker 3: So I really like.
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  Speaker 1: I really like the idea of diving into a world
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy from fiction and then seeing where it goes,
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  Speaker 1: seeing what the designers do for me in that world.
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  Speaker 1: That's really compelling to me and I think works really well.
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  Speaker 1: So how does that show up? The first one, the
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  Speaker 1: first game I've thought of that does that, is the
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  Speaker 1: Expanse board game. Now, the Expanse board game, you could argue,
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  Speaker 1: just follows the plots of the show or the book.
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  Speaker 1: It is themed around the show, but the show, of
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  Speaker 1: course is themed around the books. And mechanically, the Expanse
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  Speaker 1: uses the card driven war system like like something like
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  Speaker 1: Twilight Struggle uses, but it's designed for three players instead
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  Speaker 1: of two, which is a pretty compelling twist. And then
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  Speaker 1: it uses the factions and sort of setup of the
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  Speaker 1: Expanse universe to allow you to create your own narrative
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  Speaker 1: of the struggle between the Earthlings, the Martians, and the Belters.
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  Speaker 3: It works really well. I thought it was really fun.
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  Speaker 1: However, as a card driven game, is really one of
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  Speaker 1: those games you're gonna want to play a lot with
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  Speaker 1: the same person and the same couple people, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just not a game that was going to get.
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  Speaker 3: Played very much, so I sold it along.
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  Speaker 1: But I really enjoyed what I played of it, and
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  Speaker 1: I think the theming was really cool. Next example is
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  Speaker 1: the one that appears maybe more in this podcast than
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  Speaker 1: any other game, that is a study in Emerald the
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  Speaker 1: Study and Emerald, of course, is using both Sherlock Holmes World.
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  Speaker 1: It's also using a story.
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  Speaker 3: Told by Neil Gaiman and building on HP.
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  Speaker 1: Lovecraft as well, so it's sort of three ips meshed
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  Speaker 1: into one. The premise is really interesting. The Elder Gods
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  Speaker 1: have taken over Europe and there are revolutionaries fighting against
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  Speaker 1: the European the Elder Gods. So you're either on the
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  Speaker 1: side of the loyalists or the side of the Elder
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  Speaker 1: Gods or this out of the revolutionaries and you're committing
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  Speaker 1: campaigns of working on control of various houses of Europe
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  Speaker 1: and a couple other places. Again, this is set in
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  Speaker 1: the world of the story, but it's so much different
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  Speaker 1: than what's going on in the story.
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  Speaker 3: It's really fun.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, Godfather Corleon's Empire is sort of about being one
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  Speaker 1: of the footmen under Veto Corleone and.
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  Speaker 3: Trying to find your way. Well, there's a house run
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  Speaker 3: chirp in a.
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  Speaker 1: Way, being a foot soldier and trying to find your
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  Speaker 1: way toward financial success in the world of Veto court Leone. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it works really well. It's a great setting. We all
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  Speaker 1: understand the theme and enjoy it. It's tied into this mechanism,
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  Speaker 1: so it feels a little bit more fun, but it's
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  Speaker 1: essentially it could just be random gangster game. The Godfather
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  Speaker 1: part doesn't really shape what's happening in any great detail. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: a fun game, all right. So those give you a
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  Speaker 1: sense of the kinds of things that I think make
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  Speaker 1: adaptations really good. I've now got for you five games
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  Speaker 1: where I think the mechanisms, the components and the expanding
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  Speaker 1: the IP all blend together really well in various levels
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  Speaker 1: to give you the exceptional IP experience. I'm gonna work backwards.
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  Speaker 1: The lowest one on this list for me is Legendary Alien.
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  Speaker 1: The Legendary Alien is an incredible system of gameplay. It's
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  Speaker 1: a deck building game where you are playing your way
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  Speaker 1: through the Alien movies. I think the system works really well.
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  Speaker 1: I think the cards are very compelling. The mechanism decision
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  Speaker 1: to use the chest bursters the way they do is fantastic,
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  Speaker 1: excellent game. The reason it's number five on my list
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  Speaker 1: you are just following the plots of the movies. There
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  Speaker 1: is no expanding beyond those. You are trying to resolve
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  Speaker 1: the movies the way they resolve or better. But you
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  Speaker 1: never get to do your own thing. So that's why
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  Speaker 1: that's number five for me. Number four is Dune Imperium.
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  Speaker 1: I really like Dune Imperium. I thought it was good
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  Speaker 1: for me. The components are great, the overall gameplay is
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  Speaker 1: really good. But I don't feel like you are doing
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  Speaker 1: the done thing very much like if it were just
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  Speaker 1: random space planet, I wouldn't feel dramatically different. The desert
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  Speaker 1: doesn't feel like the desert. It's just a place you
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  Speaker 1: have war. It doesn't have that the actual feel of
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  Speaker 1: the IP isn't there as strongly as I would like.
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  Speaker 3: It to be the way that it is. I think
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  Speaker 3: in the original Dune game.
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  Speaker 1: Next up would be Battlestar Galactica. I think Galactica is
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  Speaker 1: the whole package. The components are really good. They feel
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  Speaker 1: very compelling, They're thematic and interesting. The gameplay itself feels
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  Speaker 1: like what it is.
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  Speaker 3: That is a race.
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  Speaker 1: Against the villainous Cylons who are trying to murder you.
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  Speaker 3: It's very tense.
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  Speaker 1: It's very hard to win, which is how the show feels.
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  Speaker 1: It's the complete package. It's very very good. As an adaptation.
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  Speaker 1: It's number three because I don't really enjoy it. I
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  Speaker 1: each time I play it, I think I'm I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: give it another try. I probably will at some point
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  Speaker 1: in the next couple of years give it another try,
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  Speaker 1: even though I think I have put it on my
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  Speaker 1: no I'm good list. But I generally don't enjoy myself
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  Speaker 1: when I play it. That said, I really admire it
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  Speaker 1: as a game design and as a game. My number
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  Speaker 1: two game that fits this is the Thing now. The
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  Speaker 1: Thing is a board game vert adaptation of the John
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  Speaker 1: Carpenter movie, which is an adaptation of the John Campbell novella,
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  Speaker 1: or it's an adaptation of the film The Thing from
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  Speaker 1: Outer Space, which is an adaptation of the John Campbell
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  Speaker 1: novella Who Goes There. This is a game that very
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  Speaker 1: perfectly captures the feel of paranoia and terror that's at
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  Speaker 1: the heart of the film. So it definitely has mechanisms
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  Speaker 1: that capture the IP. It's also just a wash in
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  Speaker 1: references to the film and the way the film plays,
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  Speaker 1: so as a gameplay experience, it fits the movie really
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  Speaker 1: really well as well. It is the whole package. Also,
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  Speaker 1: it's my number two. I think it's good. I don't
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  Speaker 1: love the game. I think it's really good. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's very compelling as an experience related to the Thing,
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  Speaker 1: but it's good as a game, not great, Which leaves
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  Speaker 1: my top adaptation. The game I think that does this
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  Speaker 1: best is Star Wars Rebellion. Now, Star Wars Rebellion captures
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the feel of the films. It uses
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  Speaker 1: incredible components to make you enjoy playing with the things
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  Speaker 1: from the world. But here's where it excels over as
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  Speaker 1: some of the other things of the Thing. For example,
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  Speaker 1: it also makes room for you to play in the
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  Speaker 1: world separate from the story of the films. I know
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  Speaker 1: this has I've given this example before myself, but there
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  Speaker 1: is an Empire quest in the game where you capture
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  Speaker 1: a rebel and put them in carbonite. But it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to be Han solo. You can put a different
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  Speaker 1: rebel in carbonite. You can also try to convert a
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  Speaker 1: different rebel to work for you could have Chewbacca, could
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  Speaker 1: be converted by Darth Vader to be his right hand
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  Speaker 1: person instead of Luke. The game has some flexibility there
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  Speaker 1: that I think is really compelling.
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  Speaker 2: You.
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  Speaker 1: Also, as the rebels, you can choose where you want
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  Speaker 1: to hide your base. Part of the main thrust of
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  Speaker 1: the game is the Empire is trying to find the
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  Speaker 1: rebel base before the rebels managed to disrupt the Empire's
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  Speaker 1: goals enough to swing the galaxy favor to their side.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a hide and seek game versus a publicity game.
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  Speaker 1: Either way, it's a great game. I really really like
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  Speaker 1: Star Wars Rebellion. I'm sad I haven't played it more
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  Speaker 1: recently than I have, which is who knows when. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know when the last time I played it was.
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  Speaker 1: But it's excellent.
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  Speaker 3: So those three things together mark the end of.
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  Speaker 1: The list that I have for you and an end
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  Speaker 1: of the conversation for today.
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  Speaker 3: So that leads me to say, thanks for joining me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a walk today.
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  Speaker 1: What games do you think are the best IP adaptations?
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• 22:30
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  Speaker 1: the user name Wombat nine two nine. Well, thanks for
• 22:50
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