Ep. 272: ‘Achievement Oriented’ - 'Horizon Zero Dawn,' 'Resident Evil 7,' and Video Game Phobias

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🗓️ 3 March 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion have a spoiler-free chat about the newly released PS4 exclusive 'Horizon Zero Dawn,' discussing its obvious influences, how it tweaks the open-world formula, and whether games have gotten too long (1:00). Then they bring on Kotaku editor Luke Plunkett to talk about his aborted attempt to play 'Resident Evil 7' and try to pinpoint what combination of in-game mechanics and hangups inside their own psyches makes some video games so scary (24:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought to you by the Ringer NFL Show.
0:03.7	This week is the NFL Combine, and our football experts are live from Indianapolis breaking
0:07.6	down everything you need to know.
0:09.1	You can subscribe to the Ringer NFL Show at iTunes.com slash the Ringer or wherever you
0:13.2	get podcasts.
0:16.2	And if you're listening to this episode on Channel 33, we have some excellent, long-awaited
0:19.8	news.
0:20.8	A lot of people have asked, and now we can answer, yes, you can subscribe to Achievement
0:24.4	oriented on its own podcast feed.
0:26.8	Search for it wherever you get podcasts, subscribe, and please remember to rate and
0:29.8	review us.
0:30.8	It helps us out.
0:31.8	Hello and welcome to Achievement oriented, the Ringer's official gaming podcast.
0:50.8	I'm Jason Cipcione, a staff writer at the Ringer, and poke her down in his Manhattan apartment
0:55.9	with a virulent case of mono.
1:00.0	It's Benjamin Lindbergh.
1:01.4	If only I could craft an antidote to my anus.
1:05.2	I've explored every menu, and there's nothing I can do but wait for it to go away.
1:10.5	I am pretty sure I had mono at one time, because all my symptoms were congruent with mono,
1:17.2	and so basically I just stayed inside for a few months.
1:20.5	Yeah, I am too old to have mono, but I have it anyway, and it actually works out pretty
1:26.0	well, because giant 60 hour open world games are coming up every week right now, so I
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