Immersion Breaking

• Follow Up: Unreal Engine 5
  • PS5 is winning the race baby
  • One triangle per pixel
  • Lumen lighting
  • Resolution Vs. FPS
• Follow Up: ESO
  • Playing alone
  • Dugneons
  • The 
    MMO Grind
• Follow Up: Animal Crossing
  • Debating starting over
  • Comparing your islands to others
  • Coming back after not playing for weeks
  • Tips for new players
• Metal Gear Phantom Pain
  • It's kind of brilliant?
  • Way too melodramatic
  • Convoluted Story
  • Voice Recordings galore
  • Intriguing story
  • Killer gameplay
  • The 'yeeting' mechanic
• Sony State of Play: Ghost of Tsushima
  • Exploration
    • Map UI
    • Horse Riding
    • Beautiful world
    • Hidden secrets
  • Combat
    • Samurai fights
    • Honorable vs. Dishonorable approaches
    • Stealth
  • Customization
    • Different armor advantages
    • Charms give you edges in battle
    • Color options
    • Photo mode
  • The Playstation 5 Controller
    • DualSense
    • Touch Bar doubling down
    • Light changes
    • Adaptive triggers 
    • USB-C
    • Create button
    • Microphone array (??)
    • Design concerns

Links
- @Maxeljulio
- @JoshuaTParrott
- Tap and Swipe
- System Error
- Honestly Though Podcast

• Happy Birthday Joshua! 🎁🎉
  • You're 
  • still
  • trash
• Fallout 76 Follow up
  • Joshua is still playing
  • Wastelanders quest variety
• Inside Xbox Event
  • It was kinda wack
  • Belittling marketing 
  • Stand out moments:
    • Dirt 5
      • With Troy Baker and Nolan North!
    • Scorn
      • Gross looking alien setting
    • They're making ANOTHER Madden!?? 
      • No way!!
    • Call of The Sea
      • Sea exploration mystery 
    • The Medium
      • Psychological horror 
      • Silent Hills Composer
    • Second Extinction
      • Multiplayer dinosaur hunting 
    • Assassin's Creed Valhalla 
      • Gameplay??
• Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order
  • The start of a new franchise
  • May the 4th Update
• Elder Scrolls Online Impressions
  • Character creation
  • Engaging dialogue
  • Voice acting
  • Varied Quests
  • Combat improvements 
  • Environments
  • The problem with MMOs
    • Grind
    • Immersion Breaking
    • Microtransactions 
• Apex Legends Season 5
  • New Legend: Loba
  • Map changes
  • Quests
  • Ranked Improvements
  • Tweaked Legends
  • UI improvements 
• Post Show: Quarantine Birthdays

Links
- @Maxeljulio
- @JoshuaTParrott
- Tap and Swipe
- System Error
- Honestly Though Podcast

• Ep. 52 Follow up
  • Sonic follow up
  • Sonic music
• Animal Crossing Follow up
  • A couple months with the game
  • What works and what doesn't
  • Online is a mess
  • Save back ups are still nowhere to be found
  • New update
• Jedi Outcast & Jedi Academy 
  • Joshua's journey as a Jedi
  • Nostalgia 
  • Favorite Jedi games
• Fallout 76 Wastelanders
  •  OMG thanks Bethesda you're SOOOO awesome /s ❤️🥺
  • NPCs are back
  • Story is captivating
  • New interesting areas
  • Fallout First worth
• The Perks of being a patient gamer
  • Waiting for updates
  • Waiting for stability
  • Starting a game over 
• Joshua what are we?
  • Our gaming relationship
  • Gamers with benefits or something more?

Links
- @Maxeljulio
- @JoshuaTParrott
- Tap and Swipe
- System Error
- Honestly Though Podcast

Mia Ginae Watkins is a Community Outreach Specialist in the gaming industry and she joins the podcast this week to discuss her gaming upbringing and our collective obsession with Animal Crossing

• Mia's gaming story
  • The consoles that shaped us
    • Sly Cooper
    • The original Spiderman game
    • Bible Trivia game!
  • Mia's recent favorites
    • Watch Dogs 2
    • Enter The Gungeon 
    • Uncharted
  • The balance between working in the industry and enjoying the games 
• Animal Crossing
  • Growing up with Animal Crossing
  • Sharing an island with your family
  • Pompom is a thief 
  • Time traveling is between you and your god

Show Notes
Mia's Website

Links
- @Maxeljulio
- @JoshuaTParrott
- Tap and Swipe
- Waiting for an Update Podcast
- Honestly Though Podcast

• COVID-19 in the Gaming World
  • GDC, E3, and esports events CANCELLED
  • Will consoles be cancelled?
  • Gaming has gone way up
  • The anxiety caused by the pandemic
  • The Last of Us 2 playable demo 
  • Animal Crossing timing
• Call of Duty: Warzone
  • A different battle royal
  • Gulag mechanic
  • Contracts
  • Buy stations
  • Weapon variety
  • Impressions
• Xbox 5 Deep Look
  • Form factor
  • The insides!
  • Controller differences
  • Seagate partnership 
  • Suspend and resume
  • Load times
  • Holiday 2020?
• The Road to PS5
  • Long SSD talk
  • Game installs
  • Custom I/O 
  • Open market SSDs
  • Ray tracing
  • Heat diffusion
  • Tempest 3D audio engine
• Xbox vs. Playstation
  • Xbox is stronger ON PAPER
  • PS5s custom hardware
  • 3D audio
  • Exclusives
• Deserted Island Games

Links
- @Maxeljulio
- @JoshuaTParrott
- Tap and Swipe
- Waiting for an Update Podcast
- Honestly Though Podcast

• I got banned from PSN (NSFW)
  • The story
  • The crime
  • The time
• Animal Crossing New Horizons Direct!
  • New features
  • Crafting
  • Multiplayer 
  • Types of currency
  • Adding neighbors
  • Real time mechanics
  • Seasonal Updates
  • Save recovery
• Baldur's Gate III Gameplay reveal
  • Turn Based combat
  • It looks like Divinity
  • Larian Studios vs. Old Bioware
  • DnD controversy 
• What You Can Expect from Next Gen Gaming
  • Phil Spencer writing for Xbox Wire
  • Xbox 5 features
  • Next Gen Processor
  • AMDs Hardware
  • Variable Rate Shading
  • Raytracing
  • SSDs
  • Quick Resume feature
  • Full backwards compatibility 
• The final Minecraft Nether Snapshot
  • Redstone Target block
  • Crying Obsidian (Set your Spawn point anywhere)
  • Is starting a new Realm worth it now?

Links
- @Maxeljulio
- @JoshuaTParrott
- Tap and Swipe
- Waiting for an Update Podcast
- Honestly Though Podcast

• WWP: Joshua's games
  • Minecraft 
  • Sonic Mania
  • Fallen Order
• WWP: Doom (2016)
  • Optimization with my PC
  • Gunplay
  • Story
  • Losing interest (played 3 times)
• WWP: Frostpunk: The Last Autumn
  • The premise of Frostpunk
  • Too damn hard
  • The balance between hard and frustrating
• Apex Legends
  • Using Revenant
  • We won duos!
  • The tricky thing about reloading
  • Bouncing around heroes
  • The grind to gold
• Rainbow Six Siege Year 5 / Void Edge
  • New heroes
  • Coming to PS5 and Xbox 5
  • Getting back into playing ranked 
  • The grind to platinum 
  • Pick rates
• Minecraft Snapshot
  • Nether updates
  • Piglins / Hoglins 
  • Netherite! Stronger than diamond! 😱

Links
- @Maxeljulio
- @JoshuaTParrott
- Tap and Swipe
- Waiting for an Update Podcast
- Honestly Though Podcast

• Redownloading Skyrim Mods
  • Sharing my mod list with Joshua
  • Reformatting gaming PCs
  • Immersive mods
  • Vanilla vs. Mods
• Apex Legends Season 4
  • New Legend: Revenant
  • Revenant's abilities
  • Map changes
• Games that make you feel lonely 😢
  • Death Stranding
  • Stardew Valley
  • Subnautica
  • Dead Space
  • The Last of Us (Mid game Spoilers)
  • Frostpunk
  • Red Dead Redemption 2 (End game spoilers)

Links
- @Maxeljulio
- @JoshuaTParrott
- Tap and Swipe
- Waiting for an Update Podcast
- Honestly Though Podcast

Topics

• Sony isn’t attending E3 2020
  • Is E3 outdated?
  • ESA Statement
• Rumored Sony February Event
  • 4Chan leak names launch titles
  • Sci-Fi Naughty Dog game incoming?
• Xbox Series X Prototype Leak
  • Xbox ports
  • Someone's in TROUUBLEEE
• Everything is delayed 2020
  • Avengers delayed
  • Final Fantasy 7 delayed
  • Cyberpunk delayed
  • Dying Light 2 delayed
  • What's next? Animal Crossing!? 😰
• Death Stranding Follow Up
  • Too much mindless gaming 
  • Working that head cannon
  • Too many player created structures
  • Kojima we like you just chill baby
• We're playing Divinity Original Sin again!
  • Getting hyped for the sequel

Links
- @Maxeljulio
- @JoshuaTParrott
- Tap and Swipe
- Waiting for an Update Podcast
- Honestly Though Podcast

• New Years Gaming Resolutions
  • Sunk Cost Fallacy 
  • Being picky with games
  • Ignoring tempting micro-transactions
• Most anticipated games of 2020
  • Animal Crossing 
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • Minecraft Dungeons 
  • Marvel's Avengers
  • The Last of Us Part 2
  • Kerbel Space Program
  • Halo Infinite
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator
  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Quarantine 
  • Divinity: Original Sin 1 & 2
• PS5 vs Xbox Series X

Links
- @Maxeljulio
- @JoshuaTParrott
- Tap and Swipe
- Waiting for an Update Podcast
- Honestly Though Podcast