Video game journalist Jeff Gerstmann sits down at the Insert Credit table to cover video game history, AI, and the return of Violence Island.

Questions this week:

1. Have any of you seen the news lately? (09:58)
2. Let’s examine the evolution of the endless runner. (21:53)
3. Wrestling games. Glorified character creators, or is there something there gameplay-wise? (28:22)
4. Definitively rank tank, healer, and DPS from best to worst. (35:52)
5. Kyle asks: Form a musical super group composed of video game characters. (43:38)
6. Are AI programs like ChatGPT good for video games? (50:44)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Violence Island (01:03:50)

Recommendations and Outro (01:23:49)

Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series
• GDC
• James Austin Johnson
• The Jeff Gerstmann Show
• Service Discontinuation: Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS
• EU's Microsoft-Activision Deadline Delay Puts UK in Driving Seat
• Detroit: Become Human
• Final Fantasy Creator On Why He Thinks 'Quality' Japanese Games Saw A Brief Drop
• Square Enix's NFT game has a new trailer
• Commodore 1571
• https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/03/why-game-archivists-are-dreading-this-months-3ds-wii-u-eshop-shutdown/
• Canabalt
• TikTok is helping games about high heels and long nails go viral
• Jetpack Joyride
• Jetpack Joyride 2
• Idle Slayer
• Holedown
• Tunic
• Pepsiman
• WWE All Stars
• Style Savvy / Style Boutique / Girls Mode series
• Tomodachi Life
• Kingdom Something or Other 3
• Hyper Gunsport
• Super Smash Brothers series
• Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Series
• NBA 2K series
• SaltyBet
• Fire Pro Wrestling series
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn
• EverQuest
• World of WarCraft
• A Healer Only Lives Twice
• Final Fantasy series
• Squall Leonhart
• Duke Nukem
• PaRappa the Rapper
• Linkin Park
• Noctis Lucis Caelum
• Shatterhand
• I-No
• Lord Raptor
• Chaos
• Jack Garland
• Locke Cole
• Sabin Rene Figaro
• Cloud Strife
• Tifa Lockhart
• Aerith Gainsborough
• Zell Dincht
• Wakka
• Gladiolus Amicitia
• Barret Wallace
• ChatGPT
• Fallout 76
• Goat Simulator
• Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT
• Dizzy
• Billy Hatcher
• Machamp
• Goro
• Quiet
• The Quiet Man
• Mario
• Link

Recommendations:

Brandon: the plot of Kung Fu Traveler (2017)

Jeff: Go listen to the Snoop Dogg Call of Duty: Vanguard voicelines

Frank: Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Tim: Croupier (1998)

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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield and Jeff Gerstmann. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.