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Get Played
- By: Headgum
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Nov 18 20242 hrs and 5 minsFailed to add items
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1 hr and 45 mins
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2 hrs and 18 mins
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Edward M. Warischalk
- 03-19-22
My favorite podcast.
Beautiful minds discussing video games. Listen to Get Played while you are gaming to simulate having friends!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- CT Graham
- 08-20-21
Only Review For HDTGP That Anyone Will Ever Need
Overall:
How Did This Get Played? is a podcast about video games featuring a failed game designer/successful fast food podcaster, a talented and funny but tragically friendless veteran of the gaming press, and a young boy. Originally, the podcast was primarily about notoriously bad retro games, featuring one to be played and reviewed each week, until the hosts realized what a terrible slog it is to actually have to play all of those unplayable games.
These days the podcast is an eclectic mix of strange games, great games, new games and old games. Each episode usually features a guest, which can range from Twitch streamers to comedians who have not played a video game since their local laundromat got rid of the Galaga machine. There is a lot of focus on funny banter between the hosts and guests, although for the most part the topic of conversation stays rooted in video games. The objectively best part of each episode is Devon Torrey Bryant's opening theme music, which remixes the show's original theme song in the style of that week's game, whether the resulting song is a chiptune Sega Genesis banger or a blast of 90s third wave ska.
Overall rating is 5 Stars
Performance:
Not sure why Audible is making me review this podcast's performance or what performance means in this context, but no one else has reviewed this podcast yet so I feel as if I must set some sort of precedence here for future reviewers to use as a guide. In terms of performance at the games themselves, host Heather Anne Campbell tends to be more skilled at beating difficult games and more often plays on original hardware, while Nick Wiger seems to rely more on save states and finding playthrough videos of the game's later parts. Heather is also very good at Street Fighter. The guests' performances range from in at least one case not knowing that playing the game was an intended part of their podcast appearance to wasting hours and hours systematically finding every secret in a game that was really not worth playing in the first place.
If performance is more supposed to refer to comedic performance, the core host group tends to work very well together. The usual dynamic is Wiger and Matt making silly and juvenile comments and Heather either showing general disdain towards their contributions or replying with some form of sick burn. Their style of humor tends to mesh well with more absurd aspects of the games they play, and they are good at organically finding comedy in what are sometimes just a confusing pixelated mess of bad ideas. The guests also tend to be entertaining, although in my opinion the format of the show tends to work better with guests that have a genuine interest in video games and it is inherently hard to consistently find new guests who are both comfortable in the comedy podcast setting and spend a significant amount of time playing games. As mentioned earlier, Devon Torrey Bryant's opening theme performances are consistently flawless.
Performance rating is 5 Stars
Story:
Again, not sure why this is one of the three main ratings pillars for podcasts on Audible but I'll do my best. While not in any way a narrative podcast, How Did This Get Played? features some compelling stories. Heather Anne Campbell shares many heartfelt and personal stories that range from disturbing childhood experiences that may or may not be a factor in why she is completely desensitized to scary video games, to how video games factored into the inspiration for her career and her sense of identity and orientation. Wiger tends not to share as much emotionally sincere personal anecdotes, and self-identifies as the generic default player model in most games. Although if you have ever wondered about the behind the scenes development history of Playstation 2's HBO tie-in game "The Sopranos: Road to Respect" then this is the podcast for you. Producer Matt Apodaca adds the zoomer perspective by talking about growing up with games that the hosts played as wizened adults, and bridges the Sega Kid (Heather) and Nintendo Kid (Wiger) divide by having no memory of the console wars era.
In a broader sense, the podcast and its hosts have grown and changed over time. The early episodes were mostly focused on dumping on bad games, the Thanksgiving episode was a complete debacle (although the hosts handled the situation well to their credit), and Heather spent a lot of time early on criticizing certain types of games that did not involve fail conditions as not being "real games". Since then they have expanded the podcast to cover much of what they actually like in games, seem more comfortable and confident as hosts, and have maybe even learned something about themselves and have had some genuine personal growth (although maybe that is just Heather). They collectively fell in love with a game about a post-apocalyptic wasteland where everyone was forced to hide indoors and delivery people became heroes, and they also podcasted about what it was like to live through a roughly similar situation.
There are certain podcasts where you can't help but feel legitimate fondness for the people who are putting in the significant time and effort to produce silly content that makes you laugh, and this is one of the best for that. Before the pandemic hit I listened to this podcast on the train going to work, and during the pandemic I listened to it while cleaning my house and trying not to think about all of the bad things going on in the world. As someone who is not very social in the best of times and was even less so while being stuck inside for over a year, it was nice to listen to other people talk about similar struggles and what they were going through at the same time.
Story rating is 5 Stars
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