Writer and Video Producer for Polygon Jenna Stoeber joins the panel to litigate whether P.T. is a complete game, milking for sport, and Zapdouglas.
Questions this week:
- K Thor Jensen asks: does your inventory management system reflect your real-world inventory management style? (04:56)
- What is the most incorrect prediction about video games you’ve ever heard or made? (10:25)
- What video game series should be adapted to young adult novels? (15:35)
- Which dormant video game series with three or more entries ended on the highest note? (19:41)
- What twitter account would you start to influence a trend in video game development, a la Can You Pet The Dog? (24:32)
- Dirtbag MVB asks: What are some good games made from reused assets? (30:09)
- What’s some of the juiciest drama you’ve seen in a video game community or message board? (35:16)
- What songs not written for video games do you associate with video games? (39:55)
- How do you make failure in video games fun? (45:28)
- What is the Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho of video games? (50:34)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Pokedexperts (54:03)
Recommendations and Outro (59:05)
I don't see why you wouldn't discuss this episode in the forums, you know?
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Metal Gear Solid 2
- Dead and Buried (1981)
- Evil Dead II (1987)
- Cat People (1982)
- Animorphs TV series
- Unpacking
- Resident Evil 4
- Solatorobo
- Fallout 3
- How accurate were 2009's video game predictions?
- Curiosity: What's Inside The Cube?
- Project Milo
- Insert Credit's Own Mathew Kumar
- (sorry folks, Mobygames went down right at this point in the edit!! the following links will use wikipedia or something else. -Esper)
- Stardew Valley
- Halo novels
- League of Legends
- Injustice: Gods Among Us
- Uncharted
- Sonic Mania
- Silent Hill series
- Can You Pet The Dog?
- Is Something Behind The Waterfall?
- Sega Genesis Development Kit
- Rayman Fiesta Run
- Batman: Arkham Origins
- King of Fighters Dream Match 99
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- I Wanna Be The Guy
- Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure
- Mad World
- All I Want by Offspring
- Greensleeves
- Music of the Fallout series
- Beyond the Sea
- The Ink Spots
- The Beatles Rock Band
- Through The Fire and Flames
- Star Trek Enterprise intro
- GROW series
- Nightshade
- Celeste
- Dangerous Curves soundtrack
- QWOP
- Crime Scene Kitchen
Recommendations:
Frank: The Ink Spots baby, take Frank's file boxes
Jenna: Inscryption
Brandon: Get a buyout from your landlord if you're moving out of a rent-controlled apartment
Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.