Maddy Myers

Yeah, that's a great poll.

I just thought of Simlish reading this, which is a very similar to English kind of language, but just sounds like fake English that was created for the Sims.

I think it's consistent.

A little consistent.

Yeah, there's certain phrases that translate to mean specific things that are used over and over.

I don't know if anybody, I don't know if it's like Klingon or Elvish where you could learn enough words that you can carry on a conversation.

I don't think it is.

It is great.

And I do think that part of the charm of a fake language is like, do you want to listen to it for a long time?

Especially if you're playing a video game for many hours as The Sims player.

requires necessitates i would say um that and i don't know the mass effect characters have some pretty fun ways of speaking they're all inspired by star trek characters so no surprise there i suppose but those that was the other franchise i thought of in reading this

Yeah, it is fun when games do that, like the Fez method, where over time you start to actually learn what a secret code means just by dint of seeing the symbols over and over.

Even if they aren't necessarily a language so much as a secret code, you still start feeling really smart over time.

I think that can be really rewarding in a way that a game can take advantage of.

I mean, the benefit of Oregon Trail is that you could name your party after your friends.

So I feel like the Gritty Reboot allows you to do a full character creator where you can actually make them look like people you know, and you get to put yourself in the game sim style, but it's gritty, so they can all die of dysentery, etc.

And you get to see their gravestones

Yeah, I actually had, like, sort of an updated version of Oregon Trail.

I think I may have talked about this on our edutainment bonus episode that we did a while back where we talked about games we played as children that had a pretty complex first-person shooter game that was part of the hunting minigame.

And, like, the original version of Oregon Trail, you're like...