Cissy Jones is one of those actors who's voices immediately transports you into some of the best games of all time. The voice behind characters like Delilah from Firewatch, The Absolute in Baldur's Gate 3, Katjaa in Telltale's The Walking Dead, and Andreja in Starfield - just to name a few - Jones has become one of the best in the industry, so to have her guest on the G+RLS podcast has been a real treat. Even if I am still cross about how Firewatch played out.

"I'm a terrible gamer," she laughs, "but I do love the ability of games to tell stories that you just don't see anywhere else. It's really incredible - and I think it's pretty telling that Hollywood is now turning all these video games into television and movies because the stories are so incredible."

"The willingness for people to tell stories in this space is so incredible," Jones says. "The year Firewatch came out there was another game called That Dragon Cancer, that chronicled the story of two parents and their little child having cancer. They made a game about it, to deal with their own grief. Where else do you see something like that with such a small team on such a small budget and being able to do it so beautifully and pay homage in the way that they felt honored their son."

"Obviously we see a lot of movies and TV shows and things like that but the budgets are typically huge - much larger than a game - and you have to get a star to play it in if you want any funding, and then filming takes however long...

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