Ep. 349 - Crab Up, Squad! with Simon Parkin
Added 2024-07-29 02:05:26 +0000 UTCThe New Yorker and The Observer’s Simon Parkin joins the panel to cover a new angle in game genres, the legacy of Segata Sanshiro, and aesthetic crevices. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Simon Parkin. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
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SHOW NOTES:
Question 1: What’s the correlation in game design between fun and player freedom? (03:55)
Question 2: What is the most widely held bad take amongst gamers? (12:12)
Question 3: Come up with a new “Sega Does What Nintendon’t”-style slogan for the Dreamcast 2 (20:29)
Question 4, from CJ Mixy: at what point do games go from being “ripoffs” to part of a genre? (27:36)
Question 5: What is the reading the New Yorker for the cartoons of video games? (37:52)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Their Perfect Console (44:32)
Recommendations and Outro (XX:XX):
Brandon: Orchids are very nice at Trader Joes right now, Black Cat (1991)
Simon: My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin, What Went Wrong Podcast
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Comments
I was driving on the highway late at night while listening, so when Tim said to "pull the car over and look it up on amazon" I did.
ZGATA THE MUSIC
2024-07-30 16:49:01 +0000 UTCI just call them (Nu-) Arcade games, most of them have the same principles down below, it's just they add a progression loop of some sort since they are now games to own and not just to eat quarters
Noah Mittman
2024-07-30 12:32:27 +0000 UTCFor whatever reason, I kept thinking "This is one frisky episode" the whole time haha Great episode and Simon was a delightful guest
Dustin Reno
2024-07-30 04:26:29 +0000 UTCWhich Joker IS bones??? (-jaffe)
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2024-07-30 01:15:38 +0000 UTCThis was one of the funniest episodes to date! Pure Podcast Comedy
Ross Hamrick
2024-07-29 16:50:51 +0000 UTCAesthetic Crevices! Darn Miyazaki where is them crevices???
TheBunk
2024-07-29 14:23:54 +0000 UTCI've been calling Metroidvania games non-linear platformers. (NLP!) Still don't know what to do about Rogue-like/lite. Cyclical?
Andrew O.
2024-07-29 13:18:05 +0000 UTCThere's probably a bonus episode worth of zingers from him that fly over the others heads.
Andrew O.
2024-07-29 13:12:12 +0000 UTC"Hori is an adjective in this case" is the best Jaffe joke no one laughed at this week.
Death_Strandicoot
2024-07-29 12:26:37 +0000 UTC
