This is great! I didn't expect to watch all of a four-hour interview, let alone enjoy it so much. Thank you!

Joseph Staten will always be one of my personal heroes. His writing is so genius and extravagantly beautiful. His attention to metaphors and symbolism is par none. His imagination and his ideas are so cool. There's a reason why Halo went down after he stopped being the brainchild behind the series. He's the reason why we have a religious alien empire that's bound by a covenant worshiping ancient idols as gods. He's the reason why we have a Lovecraftian horror beyond nightmares. He's the reason why humans are fighting tooth and nail against total annihilation. He's the reason why we have an Arbiter who questions his faith. He's the reason why we have prophets of false faith they preach. He's the reason why we have an insane AI monitor from a millennia of isolation. He wrote it all baby. Oh that's more interesting than anything 343 has ever come up with. Which by the way is nothing but a love story between Chief and Cortana for three games now that they keep trying to redo because all 343 thinks Halo is being about humanizing the Chief and the UNSC. Halo is an epic sci-fi horror space opera. Halo is not about the UNSC and a fucking love story between Chief and Cortana.

I just completed Animal Well (not 100% - sue me) and highly recommend. I am sad the adventure is over and look forward to more Billy Basso games. Congrats!

Very Cool 😃

Amazing interview! Loved the talk, big fan of Billy's work!

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the fake laughing is so annoying

Thanks for the interview, and great game. Actually a work of art

I grew up with Darksiders games, and this series is like no other. The setting, the gameplay, the music - it all comes perfectly together in this series, and I love the games very dearly for that. It's very unlikely, but I will always have my fingers crossed for the final war of the Four Horsemen. p.s. Genesis came out an amazing title, it's very sad the game is so underappreciated p.p.s. also damn that Ari Marmell prequel novel is so good

Amazing talk. I don't know why but at times I got emotional just for the success of Billy with this game that is one of the most earnest games I've played. Animal Well is the type of game that makes me love this medium so much. Video games is an industry, but it's also expression, creativity, discovery and INTERACTIVITY. Thanks Billy and thanks Trent for the great interview!

Apparently Ive been working with Billy as a part of an outsource team, both for mobile fighting games AND level X, I wonder if thats through him or through his friend that invited him there. No offence to host, I barely listened for an hour so far, but you need to learn not to interrupt people you interview. So far your bits would have had same value if they were a comment after Billy finishes his thought, but interrupts stop him half way and then you guys switch to the next train of thought

I heard he wrote Animal Well in Assembly with no macros

Excellent excellent interview. Billy is an inspiration, what clout to stick to it for such a long period of time and bring out the amazing game that is Animal Well. Really comprehensive interview too, I think Trent did a wonderful job here... I got everything I wanted from this one. Thanks gents, well done!

Bioshock in space! 😮💛🍑🌎😎

1:41:41 would love to know Billy’s thoughts on Furnace tracker and the possibility of implementing support for its tracker files as opposed to MIDI or OGG

I tought one of his main inspiration was Knytt Story, turns out it is house on the rock

Thanks for the long talk! Always nice to hear Billys insights on the creation of Animal Well, it's such a gem of a game.

I appreciated that you guys had a good back and forth. Not sure what Brian is on about. Thanks for uploading such a long and interesting talk!

Trent you need to let the FEATURED guest talk. At least give them 10 seconds unimpeded.

Absolutely amazing. Thank you and the developers for such great insight on their team and the game and passion. I love playing the game , its so unique and special. Big congrats 👏👏

this game seems like it was made by a power obssessed weirdo and all of joes shelys talk of needing "respect" shows that in a small way. what a fucking weirdo.

Good ol' days when Bethesda Game Studios still was one of the Most prestigious western game Companies in the Industry and every one of their Titles was worth a visit.

No Chance! 😂

Is it me, or does the perspective and style in her art look inconsistent?

This was. SUCH a good interview! Thank you!

So much fun to visualize the dank Ultimate Wizard scene of the time!

Gaming's Last Action Hero. #0451Forever

Awesome talk, learned a lot about mythology

Is it the same ugly thing, that is trying to ruin gaming industry too?

Great game !!! No mistakes

Great video, and an amazing artifact of this moment in the biz. This feels like a Ph.D thesis justifying on a granular level every reason why jak 2 was like That

The Mrs. Cripps story was wild

Psychonauts 2 was sooooo good. I would love see a sequel or spin off of the franchise, but if they want to do a new IP, I'm totally on board.

Hi, just found out your channel, but its filled with interesting interviews from the industry. Thanks for your effort

I agree with Mr.Salim that it's interesting how different and similar games and cinema are. When it comes to movies the actors and the director are part of the selling point. Although with games people mostly pay attention to the gameplay and the studio that made the game not the names behind it. That's why I'm happy there's more interviews like this out there.

I know I’m late watching this now some 8 months later, but I recently started playing Starfield on PC and I have to say, I’m kind of blown away. I’m really loving this game and kicking myself for giving in to all the negative hype last year over some console war BS.

That was a really good interview.

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This idiot was the phil of playstation Sony fired him after low sales

One day I will watch an interview with him without spontaneously sobbing~ Just such a lovely person. Great relaxed interviewing, thank you!

I had to stop this episode a third of the way in on my podcast app because it was driving me so insane how much Adam was talking over Meghna and explaining concepts to her as if she didn't already have a deep understanding of them based on her extensive and lauded experience in the industry. Why was I hearing more about Adam's opinions than Meghna's??

Im 1000 viewer 🎉😅 i saw 999 views and i couldnt resist 😅

Listening to this is so bittersweet now that Tango are shutdown 😢

1:22:17 yes, multiversus wins!

An interview with David Gaider about the Dragon Age saga and the upcoming release of the fourth game would be great.

what a great interview

Looking forward to a potential future 'Endless mode' - 'The Flame in the Flood' comes to mind.