The Conflict of the Vampire Person - VECTORMEN - Episode #53

AKA No One Wants To Be A “Vampire Person”; Ham-to-Ham Combat; Eat Your Slop, Piggy; The Path of the Brain Worm; Dark Patterns

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Hosted by Lee Brady (@leepaulbrady // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (@BPR_Lawrence)

Music by Lee Brady

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Segments:

00:00:00 — Merry 2023 

00:00:38 — Follow-Up (Another two month absence; Robbed of Future Content; Explaining publisher confidence by way of game numbers)

00:05:08 — Lawrence plays Vampyr

00:05:08 — Tenuous Question: What is the most 7 out of 10 game you’ve ever played?
00:06:35 — Vampyr, not Vampire
00:07:33 — Lawrence, the vampire guy
00:09:39 — What is “the eurojank of vampire games”?
00:15:59 — The golden rule of vampire fiction: the brood
00:19:01 — Vampyr’s Reverse-Nemesis System
00:28:03 — Combat and Classism in Eastern European Bloodborne
00:36:13 — Permasaving the wrong decisions
00:41:15 — The Double A Energy
00:47:53 — The Influence of Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines (and summary)
00:55:58 — Lee’s best 7/10 game: Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion

01:06:34 — Lee’s genealogical tour of PlayStation rhythm games

01:06:34 — Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory
01:11:29 — PaRappa the Rapper
01:16:00 — Vib-Ribbon 

01:22:54 — Lee is stuck in RPG hell: Persona 3, Witcher 3, Final Fantasy VI

01:22:54 — The Witcher 3’s 60-hour-long first act and comparisons to Vampyr
01:45:30 — Final Fantasy VI, problems with JRPGs, and how VI avoids some of them
01:55:18 — Persona 3’s opening vitally lacks a personal hook

02:24:20 — The News

02:25:00 — The Game Awards 2022
02:30:15 — John Carmack leaves Meta
02:32:38 — Square Enix’s Bold Commitment
02:36:56 — Ubisoft’s Bold Commitment
02:43:20 — Yuji Naka escapes Prison Island
02:45:40 — Microsoft’s Bold Commitment
02:47:40 — Epic Games’ “Dark Patterns”
02:49:45 — Ash Ketchum hangs up his cap
02:51:58 — The latest Pokémon Rap

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Links:

Lee: “Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion review — cheap birthday cake”

https://www.truetrophies.com/n22455/crisis-core-final-fantasy-vii-reunion-review 

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