Twitch streamer Casey Explosion joins the panel to talk Resident Evil 4 Remake, Ash Ketchum, and region locked soda machines.

Questions this week:

1. Vincent Diamante asks: What’s the most dangerous thing you’ve ever done to obtain a video game? (03:08)
2. Has the Steam Deck lived up to everything we thought it might be? (11:17)
3. How do you pick what to play next? (17:49)
4. How would you end Ash Ketchum’s story? (25:17)
5. Scoregem asks: What games have a button that lets you roleplay? (30:57)
6. Are there any games that do what BioShock can’t? (38:37)
7. What is the least evil big video game company? (45:22)
8. How’s that Resident Evil 4 remake? (51:30)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Fursona Royal (55:49)

Recommendations and Outro (01:07:18)

Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Resident Evil series
• Acclaim Games
• Midway Games
• Mortal Kombat series
• 100 Bullets
• “Baby Cries” Sketch
• PlayStation 3
• SNK 40th Anniversary Collection
• Ridge Racer 7
• Steam Deck
• Persona series
• Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series
• GPD Win 2
• Pandora
• Slay the Spire
• Horizon: Zero Dawn
• Uncharted series
• Days Gone
• Assassin's Creed series
• MiSTer
• Valis series
• Amiga
• MSX
• The Walking Dead
• The Last of Us
• Asterix and Obelix licensees
• E3 Has Been Canceled
• Summer Game Fest
• Pokémon fans say goodbye to show's Ash Ketchum
• Detective Pikachu (2019)
• The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa
• A Boy and His Blob
• Dog's Life
• The Video Game Soda Machine Project
• Castlevania / Akumajō Dracula series
• Luigi's Mansion
• David Cage
• Dusk
• SnowRunner
• Dredge
• BioShock
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Papers, Please
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Adios
• Doc
• Saudi Arabia Is Now Nintendo's Largest Outside Investor
• Nintendo will close the Wii U and 3DS eShops on March 27th, 2023
• An interesting link for 3DS owners
• Microsoft earns contract worth up to $21.9 billion to make AR devices for the US Army
• Unity signs "multi-million dollar" contract to help U.S. government with defense
• Crunch once again in the spotlight after damning report on The Last of Us 2 developer Naughty Dog
• Splatoon series
• Katamari Damacy
• Keiji Inafune
• God Hand

Recommendations:

Frank: Tune in to a future episode of Insert Credit Show if you’d like to hear discussion about the Criterion Channel of Video Games.

Casey: twitch.tv/CaseyExplosion, Casey Explosion Steam Curator page

Brandon: See if your ceiling fan can go backward for better air distribution, Frankie Rose, Mammoth Volume, Ritsuko Kurosawa

Tim: Fuga: Melodies of Steel

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