Space Game Tropes All Rounded Up (December 4, 2014)

[ChrisReid]

Space Game Junkie recently recorded a new podcast about "The Tropiest of Space Game Tropes." Wing Commander is guilty of reusing quite a few well known sci-fi conceits - none perhaps as common as the duplicitous traitor. Jazz, Hobbes, Admiral Wilson, Admiral Tolwyn, Prime Minister Jamison and Ortiz come to mind, just to name a few. If you'd like to jump to this and other focused WC topics in the discussion, scroll over to about the 44:30 timestamp, otherwise the entire two-hour broadcast is worth a listen if you have the time. SGJ has been pretty prolific in the space sim podcast arena with a total of 85 recordings in less than two years. If you'd like to hear more, good episodes to start with are the interview with Chris Roberts and a conversation with capi of the WC RPG.

Welcome, my friends, to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast (also happy Thanksgiving to all of my fellow Americans! ! This week, Jim and I talk about a few things, such as a small glut of space games hitting Steam, the (at the time upcoming, currently ongoing) Steam Fall sale, and our main topic of the week, space game tropes! Tropes like: Why are pirates always like a biker gang? Why do they call big fighters, a??bombersa??? How come YOU always have to be in charge of the damned wing? That sort of thing. It made for a fun conversation, Ia??d like to think.

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Original update published on December 4, 2014

 

[Bandit LOAF]

Someday I'm going to find the person who taught the internet the word trope, and it's not going to end well for them.

The questions, though! Do they figure out that pirates are that way because they're based on... you know, pirates and that bombers come from... bombers?