The 'Pick 3' Situation is Crazy

Much like how everything is crab, everything in games seems to increasingly be 'Pick 3'...well, not EVERYTHING, but it sure is becoming prevalent. You level up, 3 options appear, you pick 1, and then play for another minute until you have to pick 3 again. When it's great, it's fantastic, but as it becomes more pervasive will the charm wear off? MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday at 7pm Eastern, with EXCLUSIVE Pre- and Post-Shows Join our Discord ► https://crub.org/join BlueSky ► https://bsky.app/profile/crub.org Come join our Steam group ► https://steamcommunity.com/groups/crubclub Podcasts are available on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms are available at ► https://crub.org SHOW NOTES Here's a free post on our Patreon of us checking out The Spell Brigade, an online co-op Survivors game: https://www.patreon.com/posts/checking-out-157909409 Some of the games mentioned... The Pick 3 Slop Website: https://pick3slop.com/ Gambonanza (they sent us a code, but just linking this because it's a weird name to blind-Google): https://store.steampowered.com/app/3509230/Gambonanza/ Dungeon Clawler (also sent us a code, for disclosure): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2356780/Dungeon_Clawler/ HUNTERxHUNTER NEWxSURVIVOR: https://hunterhunter-ns.bushimo.jp/en/ TODAY'S CRUBCAST HOSTS Brody: https://www.youtube.com/@RACROX Cassandra: https://www.youtube.com/@ThatTravGuy Chris: https://www.youtube.com/@MykonosFan Nicco: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl56kbl3tb-KiGEHT7MUGUg CHAPTERS 00:00 Discord Nitro 3 month is pick 3 05:19 The morphing of the roguelite genre 14:27 Slay the Spire 2, too much game, not enough card 22:01 "Throw it against the wall and hope it sticks" design 29:14 Chris realizes that this entire subgenre is all just Hades 35:13 The synergies absolve all 47:34 Should there be a "try all the cool stuff" room? 55:46 Favorite scene from a bad piece of media? (Urkman1) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★