No, I Dont Want to Stop Playing to Listen to An Audio Log in The Callisto Protocol or other video games | Extra Punctuation game audio log

No, I Don’t Want to Stop Playing to Listen to an Audio Log – Extra Punctuation

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This week on Extra Punctuation, Yahtzee takes a look at audio logs and how games like The Callisto Protocol, after all these years, are somehow still getting them wrong by making people stop playing the game to hear them.

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It’s all very well doing video essays on big weighty topics like emotional tone and what it means to be fun and who our favourite Persona waifu is, but with the contrarian nature of Youtube commenters they always seem to lead to arguments. Of course games have to be fun. Of course tonal mishmash can be used for deliberate dramatic effect. Who the fuck sticks with Rise? She’s basically the free sample. So for the sake of bringing us all together for the holidays, I thought for this episode it would be nice to discuss something completely inarguable. Let’s talk about a universally negative thing video games persist in doing. Doing intentionally, I should clarify. A deliberate design choice that isn’t a result of bugs or hardware limitations or publisher interference that absolutely everyone hates.


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Yahtzee Croshaw
Yahtzee is the Escapist’s longest standing talent, having been writing and producing its award winning flagship series, Zero Punctuation, since 2007. Before that he had a smattering of writing credits on various sites and print magazines, and has almost two decades of experience in game journalism as well as a lifelong interest in video games as an artistic medium, especially narrative-focused. He also has a foot in solo game development - he was a big figure in the indie adventure game scene in the early 2000s - and writes novels. He has six novels published at time of writing with a seventh on the way, all in the genres of comedic sci-fi and urban fantasy. He was born in the UK, emigrated to Australia in 2003, and emigrated again to California in 2016, where he lives with his wife and daughters. His hobbies include walking the dog and emigrating to places.