Happy Valentine’s Day, Talk This fans! We love our listeners and readers, so we’re sending you all many extra heart containers today. We also recognize that some of you might be battling against some baseless stereotypes this February 14th. Gamers are often unfairly characterized as single losers who always stay in their mom’s basement and…
“Look, I’m good at this game now!”
-Josh, feeling confident
He’s learning! We’ll make a real fan out of him yet. Welcome, readers, to the penultimate edition of Clickbait Boyfriend: Kingdom Hearts 1 Edition. Appropriately for Talk This, we’ve got some sidequests to wrap up before we dive into the real endgame. But fear not! There’s the same amount of hilarity in store.
(PS- You can catch up on past entries here.)
(PPS- Yes, technically it’s Clickbait Boyfriend: Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Edition).
“This is all I’m gonna do from now on.” -on gliding…and playing video games Happy New Year from Talk This NYC HQ! As you probably know if you live in the continental US (unless you’re in my much-missed Miami), it’s freaking freezing out. As a result, Josh and I have become hermits who only leave…
“Have I supplied you with any good quotes for Clickbait Boyfriend?” -Josh, midway through Neverland He’s becoming self-aware. Welcome back to Clickbait Boyfriend’s playthrough of Kingdom Hearts. It’s like a Let’s Play, but with less gameplay and more non-sequiturs. A Merry Boxing Day to everyone celebrating, and a happy slightly belated 12th birthday to Kingdom Hearts 2 for…
It’s getting cold out here in New York City, and you know what that means! It’s video game season! Now that Clickbait Boyfriend and I are officially not going outside until March (I wish), we have a lot more time to spend running around virtual worlds. In Kingdom Hearts, that’s pretty literal. Our heroes are going to…
Happy Thanksgiving Talk This fans! We are so thankful for everyone who has listened to our show, read our blogs, or followed us on social media over the past ten months. This time last year, we hadn’t even considered starting a podcast, let alone recorded almost fifty episodes! It’s been amazing to go on this…
Emma muses on how different professions are portrayed in games. OBJECTION! Emma mostly rambles. Okay, you got me there.
So, in the same way we all like different types of movies, books, and TV, we all like different types of games. Shocker, right? But there’s actually been a lot of research done into our motivations behind why we like the games we like. One way to look at it is player types. The oldest…
Why do we like games that make us cry, scream, fling our controller, sleep with the lights on, despair at our existence, etc? Here’s some of Emma’s musings.