8-4 Play (Tina Carter, Mark MacDonald and John Riccardi) serve as your panel with Brandon Sheffield as host, covering a barrage of questions about localization, the global nature of games, and Sans.
Questions this week:
- How has Japanese corporate culture manifested itself in the history of game development? (03:08)
- What are Japanese arcades like right now? (08:28)
- Design an online multiplayer game where the mechanics are intended to incorporate international time zone differences. (14:04)
- Jaffe’s NieR Automata Dilemma: How is it that sometimes a video game sequel or follow-up can be technically better than the previous one in every way, but you don’t like it as much? (19:08)
- What’s your approach to game localization purity? (25:57)
- Which game studio has produced the most good games without releasing ANY bad ones? (32:03)
- What is the “But doctor, I am Pagliacci!” of video games? (37:12)
LIGHTNING ROUND: First Person Pronouns (39:44)
Bonus Question: Defend your choice of the “I” pronoun you used for Sans in Undertale. (44:03)
Recommendations and Outro (45:46)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- 8-4 Play
- Capcom Five
- UFO Catcher
- Dave & Buster's
- Round One
- Gunslinger Stratos
- Groove Coaster
- Kirby
- Mercari
- Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series
- Ms. Pac-Man
- Pong
- NARC
- Space Invaders
- Phantasy Star Online
- Swatch Internet Time
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- EVE Online
- Resident Evil 4
- Unpacking
- NieR
- NieR: Automata
- David Jaffe
- Alex Jaffe
- Alex Jaffe
- Dragon's Dogma series
- Perfect Dark
- GoldenEye 007
- Saturday Night Live
- Limp Bizkit
- Trouble Bobble, with Mathew Kumar and MoxBagel
- Final Fantasy VIII
- Densha de Go! series
- Final Fantasy IV
- Kotatsu
- Undertale
- Enhance Experience Inc.
- Disco Elysium
- Supergiant Games, Inc.
- Angry Birds
- Valve Corporation
- Vanillaware Ltd.
- Treasure Co., Ltd.
- Stretch Panic
- Mischief Makers
- cavia inc.
- Bullet Witch
- Earth Defense Force series
- Sandlot
- “But doctor, I am Pagliacci”
- Bayonetta series
- The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa
- Undertale 's Japanese Localization Is Causing A Fan Frenzy
- Legends of Localization
Recommendations:
Mark: Enhance Experience Inc.’s games
John: Follow @johntv, listen to 8-4 Play, check out Masahiro Sakurai’s Youtube channel
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Hosted by Brandon Sheffield, with Tina Carter, Mark MacDonald and John Riccardi. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.