The panel convenes to assess the Oofya, share controversial Klonoa opinions, and choose the first five video games to be given the Criterion Collection treatment.
Questions this week:
- What difficulty mode do you start games on? (00:42)
- How do you remedy the tone of Grand Theft Auto while maintaining crass irreverence? (05:53)
- How do you create urgency in a video game without an explicit timer? (16:35)
- What should Roblox replace its iconic “oof” noise with? (20:31)
- Jaffe Guesses the Golden Age of Konami – Round 4 (28:37)
- Tom asks: If the Criterion Collection were to release video games, what might the first five titles be, and what would the ideal special features be for each of them? (30:04)
LIGHTNING ROUND: The Inaugural Criterion Collection of Video Games (01:01:33)
Share your picks for games 6 and onward in the forums!
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Kingdom Hearts series
- Final Fantasy VII: Remake
- God of War series
- DOOM series
- Rockstar Games Cleaned Up Its Frat-Boy Culture — and Grand Theft Auto, Too
- Grand Theft Auto series
- Red Dead Redemption II
- The Sopranos
- The Simpsons
- Saints Row series
- Tim Roger’s Friend Jason Schreier
- Bully
- Sonic the Hedgehog universe
- Penguin Game tweet
- Super Valis IV
- Bio-Senshi Dan: Increaser to no Tatakai
- Celeste
- Castlevania / Akumajō Dracula series
- Roblox
- Roblox’s new ‘oof’ sound is a big oof
- Jeff Gerstmann’s tweet
- Super Mario series
- Intellivision Amico
- Klonoa series (be nice, klonoa is just a little guy doing his best)
- Tomba!
- Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
- The Criterion Collection
- Seanbaby
- ICO
- The Complete Mr. Arkadin (1955)
- Panzer Dragoon series
- The Last of Us series
- Virtua Fighter 2
- SEGA AGES 2500 series
- Gunstar Heroes
- Powerslave
- Quake
- Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- Linda³ Again
- Blizzard Arcade Collection
- Playdate
- Yu Suzuki
- Tokimeki Memorial games
- Myst
- Another World
- Katamari series
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Star Control II
- Elite
- Armageddon (1998)
- Mortal Kombat II
- Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
- Live a Live
- Once Upon a Time in China: The Complete Films
- High Seas Havoc
- Socket
- Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel
- Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt
Recommendations:
Frank: Get some good sleep and poop on the regular
Brandon: If you drink wine buy a wine aerator, and if you live in the Bay Area buy Alvarrado Street bread
Jaffe: The Bear on FX
Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.