The PALGN Podcast, Episode 38

While not generally the topic at hand, no thoughts of some sort of reform considering the notion that inherently politicians get it but Mr Atkinson doesn't, someone somewhere has to think "wait a minute, this is wrong, it has to change"? I mean everyone throws around the notions of common sense and the lack thereof in regards to classification, yet no one seems to want to label the situation with Mr Atkinson as lacking common sense and needing reform. I mean yeah we see calls for it to change randomly, or for Atkinson to stand down or fall in line, but what I found interesting is that Mr Crago understands that progress is being made besides one man, yet there was no notion whatsoever of any discontent with the processes and instead discontent with the individual. Would it not have been beneficial to tangent to a possible solution to the situation or his thoughts on the very processes in place and how they might need to change?

It might just have been my expectations though, but I figured it'd have been touched on instead of what we already inherently know int he film industry using outdated culture arguments to vindicate taxpayer subsidising, Mr Atkinson being a deusche or the Q&A session being filled with stereotypes, misrepresentation and being a farce, that I expected some possible structural outcomes that could be viable to rally behind.

On the narrative in games debate, I've actually been replaying some of the FF's and noticed that while they attempted to portray a story, arguably all the way up to 9 they inherently were just glorified hack and slash, yet I found that with FFX there was an inherent shift towards actual narrative from a perspective backed up by a rather large soundtrack to convey emotion, with the hack and slash still being core, but having less impact than previously. Where previously emphasis would have been characters to convey story, text to convey narrative and music to convey location and general mood instead of specifics. While at no means perfect, I think it was actually a better way to convey the narrative that seems to have unfortunately only lasted for that particular game in that series.