AggroChat #337 - Revisiting Comfort Games

Tonight we have a bit of an odd show at the end of a painfully long week.  We talk about Outriders some more and how odd it is that they are patching the demo and being completely transparent about it.  Since more folks have played it there are some fresh impressions to go along with that. This breaks out into a broader discussion of live service games and the looter shooter genre.  From here we sorta make a trip down into comfort gaming and revisiting old familiar stories as a way of regulating mood.  Tam and Kodra talk about how they are wired a little differently and their version of this is playing some sort of game where they can enter a flow state and find peace and calm in the challenge.

Topics Discussed

Outriders Patching the Demo More thoughts about the game Concerns about the setting Broad Discussion about Live Service Games What makes success Are regular story drops achievable? Comfort Gaming Revisiting a story in a time of need Tam and Kodra wired differently Flow state games Using media to regulate moods