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Episode: 4074
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Title: HPR4074: Jade Empire
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4074/hpr4074.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 19:16:47
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This is Hacker Public Radio episode 4,074 for Thursday the 14th of March 2024.
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Today's show is entitled Jade Empire.
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It is hosted by Daniel Person and is about six minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is my experience playing Jade Empire.
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Hello Hacker, let's talk about another game I played one more game during the holiday
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break.
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I played through Jade Empire by Bioware and I really love these kind of story based games
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where the main part of the game is that you get a rich story.
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You talk to a lot of people.
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You get involved in the actual happenings in the game.
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You have a rich world where there are a lot of things that goes on and so on.
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Jade Empire, even though it was built by Bioware, it felt like it was a very early game in
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their series and they probably haven't really involved by then and done a really good
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game but it was still a good game.
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It was a little bit strange.
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There were some kind of tones in the game that didn't really work today but still very
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fun, very interesting and so on.
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The game mainly starts by you being some kind of martial art student at school and you
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have a teacher.
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That teacher ends up being kidnapped and you need to hunt down that teacher.
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So that is pretty much the start of the game and what is setting up your journey.
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You meet a lot of people during your journey and you do a lot of interesting stuff.
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All things from trying to help ghosts finding rest too, helping people with their daily
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problems and so on.
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So there is a dynamic in the game but I felt that it was very much on rails.
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You had some side quests that perhaps were not required to do.
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You have some moral choices that were very blunt.
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Like either you do this which will probably hurt a lot of people but you can get a lot
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of money or you don't.
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Those kind of moral decisions or you help that particular person but it will be your
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really bad for this person or you try to help some people but if you didn't do it well
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enough then you will fail that.
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So for instance one of the things where a ghost that were searching for a son that had
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died you needed to find his grave and I didn't figure out which grave was the right one.
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So that was a really strange quest and you needed to do a lot of detective work and figuring
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out how it could be that way.
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But I still think it was a good game.
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There were some twists and turns and there were a lot of interesting players, game characters
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in the game.
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Sadly there were like ten male characters that were very different and diverse and interesting
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than you had one child and two women.
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So it was not that diverse in the story but there were some differences between the different
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characters at least.
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So yeah it was interesting but I think there could be even more diverse and find characters
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with a little bit more flavor and I think they have done that later years.
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So I think they have solved that problem already but this was a very early game and because
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I love all the other Bioware games I had to play this one too.
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One thing to look out for in the future is actually some people that have been working
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at Bioware and also been working on Mass Effect and other really great games that still
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want to tell these kind of epic interesting stories have branched out and created their
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own game studio now.
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I think Bioware has been bored by Microsoft and that might have been the reason why they
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actually branched out but games company to look out for in the future is worlds untold.
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They have not released a game yet but the people that has started is really interesting.
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So I'm really looking forward to see what kind of game they might release 2026 or 2027.
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So these games take a lot of time to do and I don't think that they are even close to
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releasing something but I will keep an eye on this gaming company.
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So this was the Jade Empire, it's an old game.
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You actually meet John Cleese at some point he is having a wonderful character that he
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voices in this game which was a really fun experience that were too.
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There is a lot of really good voice actors in the game, sadly the story and so on was
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a little bit lackluster so yeah it was an early game but still a good game.
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Have you played a Jade Empire, leave a comment about that.
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If you want to discuss any of these parts you could make in your own episode or just leave
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a comment to me and I will read those and perhaps talk about them in another episode.
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So this was this episode, I hope that you liked it, see you in the next episode.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public Radio does work.
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Today's show was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself.
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out how easy it really is.
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Hosting for HBR has been kindly provided by an onsthost.com, the internet archive and
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our sings.net.
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On this otherwise status today's show is released under Creative Commons, Attribution 4.0
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International License.
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