Sacred Symbols+, Episode 498 | Moriarty x Jaffe: New Year, Same Us
🕑 Added 2026-01-17 17:00:18 +0000 UTCPlease welcome storied game designer David Jaffe to Sacred+ for his first appearance of 2026. Today, I (Colin) invited him onto the show to discuss a bunch of topics in our trademark freeform style, with lots of tangents and interruptions: How we manage the endless choice of 'what game to play next,' the way the gaming industry has been morphed and altered by social media and Discord, what it's like helping to create God of War and Twisted Metal only to see them take on a life of their own, if there's any 'fixing' Call of Duty, the trouble (or lack thereof) with AI art, and more. Please enjoy, and have a great weekend.
Comments
Xemphanis
OMG as an artist I have so much I want to say to Jaffe.
Ryan
It’s genuinely so depressing to hear Jaffe talk about AI… like damn some people are just dumb and you’d never know otherwise
Brent Schafer
I would absolutely tune into a jaffe style radio show!
Mike Maurice
Jaffe knows how to get on base, I’ll be tuning in February 15th.
Anthony Ledesma
Give Jaffe his show!
Kid-Organic
1:35:15 God Bless Mr. Jaffe
Simon Freeman
Colin, thank you for putting smash jt in his place.
DeadMail
I would tune into the Jaffe Variety Hour
Orb Ponderer
Colin should do these Colin x jaffe episodes with an AI avatar that looks and sounds just like Jaffe and can train itself to have the same opinions Jaffe does by all his publicly available streams and videos from YouTube like all these shit AI companies have and then Colin can save himself the fee Jaffe normally gets, maybe he would get the idea that this isn’t a good path for us all to take. Who am I kidding tho
Orb Ponderer
It’s a good thing Jaffe would likely never get the call to come back for more twisted metal or God of War because I would never buy it knowing he would absolutely encourage his team to use genAI given his stance.
Jason Bolla
Why Jaffe hasn't been added to LSM proper (per his streaming suggestion) is bewildering. I love how he always wants to be part of it.
Alan
Love Jaffe, except for his love of AI. Great episode 👍
Gareth Handa
Weekly show would be good but I struggle with the amount of content there already is
Eric
More Jaffe is a great idea. I do think though that 2 times a week is the sweet spot. He also fascinates me because I could not disagree with him more on so many things but I still enjoy him on the show and appreciate his insight.