Sometimes there are characters in video games that make you care for them. Sometimes characters are there just to establish that this thing you are about to dispose of - was a humanoid. But what happens if the characters you were supposed to ro

Soulless creations Vs Games with soul. Guess which one is better

Jul 11th, 2021 27m 58s

All right. Time for us all to get on the same level of terminology. Sometimes I say that the game is soulless and it can't be judged appropriately. Yes, some games have nothing but a dream of a big corporation for a profit. Some games are desig

Doom 3: How to make a solid game bad

May 16th, 2021 43m 7s

Usually people try and make the best they can do. At least we all hope people try to strive for greatness. Not a lot of people try to make bad things, not a lot of developers try to make bad games. But bad games happen. And sometimes bad games

Omikron: the Nomad Soul: Everyone sucks in the beginning

Apr 4th, 2021 40m 19s

Remember that time when I told you that you're going to suck when you begin? No? Well, here's the link:https://duckracy.com/podcast/you-are-going-to-suck-when-you-begin/Now you know. Back when I made this episode, I didn't play Omikron: the

Saints Row 4, Quake 2: power fantasy doesn't always work

Mar 14th, 2021 36m 5s

That was not an easy episode to make and I know that I took a lot of time to make it but I hope that it's all worth it in the end.This time we get to the bottom of the power fantasy trope and we contemplate how bad is the power fantasy for t

Follow-up episode where we right our wrongs.

Feb 14th, 2021 27m 51s

Sometimes it is good to stop what you're doing and look back. To rethink something and to admit that things have changed, you might have changed and your perspective changed. This is the episode where we do just that: we try and make things rig

Ion Fury: When games are done with passion

Jan 24th, 2021 31m 4s

You know sometimes the games are done with best practices in mind, with some experience and with some thoughts about making the most marketable products, but sometimes there are games like Doom, like Carmageddon, like Ion Fury, games that are j

Year in games. Duck version

Jan 3rd, 2021 36m 55s

Yeah. It's that one most wonderful time of the year when we all sit around and contemplate what the hell had happened. And this time it's not just me asking myself "what the hell was that" but everyone who survived the year. Was it that bad rea

I have No Mouth And I Must Scream: Author's vision vs the Publisher

Dec 13th, 2020 23m 46s

The game has the same name as the novel by Harlan Ellison! Wow! Could it be that the game is based on the novel? Could it be that we are people of fine culture now? Not so fast, cowboy. How about we chop the game up and make it a really good st

Tales of Monkey Island: Dead monkeys tell no tales

Nov 22nd, 2020 28m 54s

This quacker is back with another rant about how good was back in the days and how bad things are now, right? Wrong! I have proof that modernized installment of the well-established franchise is inferior to its origins. And I can back it up not

What to play and how to play it

Oct 25th, 2020 26m

During these uneasy times when we have to stay for a while in the house and play games with no way of getting to the bar and having a very adult drink to quite adult-ly lose control over the actions till we can’t remember anything the next day

Untitled Goose Game: Goose stole my gameplay!

Oct 11th, 2020 21m 16s

You know how people always argue, that the gameplay is more important than any kind of story, then some degenerate appears that says that the graphics is the thing to go, but they never even anticipated THE GOOSE! The Untitled Goose Game appear

Strategy games and pacing

Sep 27th, 2020 18m 12s

Pacing of the game is important because if you pace your game right, it makes players pay more attention and look for more stuff to do in your game. Also good pacing is benevolent to the game flow in general. Everything will feel natural and no

TeS4: Oblivion. The game that we don't deserve

Sep 6th, 2020 23m 57s

We deserve much better! We deserve more! We should be able to play a game that has more work put into it, that has less unbelievable things that break immersion in it. We deserve more and we deserve it better. And we got Skyrim. Yeah… About th

In space no one can hear you being bored

Aug 23rd, 2020 22m 28s

What is the idea of video games and gaming in general? Excitement, fun, emotions galore! Not boredom, isn’t it? Although there are games, that rely on you having a good time by repeating the same process over and over there are games like Far

The Prey shall come

Aug 9th, 2020 23m 56s

Did you ever play the original Prey? Chances are – you never heard, that there was a Prey before Bethesda’s Prey. And chances are – you may have never seen it. But if you did – you know how good it was and what a journey it sent you off to.

Gamers who play games

Jul 19th, 2020 23m 21s

This is the 50th episode of Duck in Games and this time I tried to make some research about the gamers who play games. I never understood what fun is it for little kid to play cookie clicker or what fun is it for some office worker to play Des

The episode where we take our time to admire smaller games

Jul 5th, 2020 16m 41s

And Dungeon Keeper. Because I have played it. And I have not much info to share. I tried to find something to talk about, to improve and to make my – most valuable – opinion count, but this time the episode is about some indie games and Dungeo

Halo is the pinnacle of millenial shooters

Jun 21st, 2020 25m 50s

All right, my fellow boomers, let’s get that Monster drinks out and have a good little chat about how new generation of people doesn’t appreciate everything ever and how we were the best ever generation that was so good, we sacrificed everythin

In the rhythm of disco!

May 31st, 2020 20m 49s

Disco Elysium is a big game. It has ambitions, it has world, it has everything to grab your interest. In fact, it grabs the interest so much, that only while rendering the episode I thought, that I have never touched the aspect of fights in th

Bethesda became more professional

May 17th, 2020 23m 47s

What if I told you that Bethesda didn’t just turn bad with Fallout 76, they didn’t even make others see what they did all these years? What if I told you, that they were trying their best at building an immersive sim?You wouldn’t believe me, w

Not half as bad as Half-Life 2

May 3rd, 2020 21m 18s

Controversial opinions are something that I usually spill out here but this time I decided to get my honest thoughts about Half-Life 2 story. I grew up with an idea, that Half-Life and Half-Life 2 are the best ever games that humanity can hope

Evolve your games

Apr 19th, 2020 20m 22s

Hey you! Yes, you! You need to make the games to evolve! I know that you don’t make any games and you are here to play them, but you can endorse developers and publishers to make changes to your favorite game franchises. Consider making an obje

The audiolog you have found during your quest

Apr 5th, 2020 22m 28s

This is a strange audiolog you have found during your quest while you were going through that one barren wasteland, that once was our homeworld. You might want to have a listen to it because someone scratched a familiar Duckracy seal on it. Mus

Journey into the mental health

Mar 15th, 2020 29m 15s

Story that taps into the real problem of psychosis, the game, that tried and failed. But still won a video game awards of various kinds. Hellblade: Senua’s sacrifice is a game about something else. I know, that I’m not going to win any friends