"It's not an exciting time to be a movie fan," he says. "We've got our spade of five or six good movies, and the rest of the year, it would be fucking shit." He was talking with Gab last night about rollercoaster tycoon being a girl game. And I started thinking about what was the straight line that led to me being a novelist. 'I think if you can call chat rooms a video game'
Gaming used to be for everybody, like Lego. But somewhere around the early noughties gaming became extremely gendered, with first person war shooters dominating mainstream gaming and “girl” games arrived. We talk The Sims, Harvest Moon, Pokemon, Stardew Valley, tv and movie franchise games, horse riding games, a little bit of Zelda, and a little bit of Skyrim. We also discuss Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and finish with recommendations for new gamers. Recs include:
Wandersong
Chicory
A Short Hike
Cult of the Lamb
Boyfriend Dungeon
Going Under
Wychwood
What Remains of Edith Finch
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