Ep. 298 - X-Commies, with Lucy James
Added 2023-07-31 02:52:24 +0000 UTCGiant Bomb, Gamespot and Friends Per Second’s Lucy James joins the panel to cover video game convention panels, Oppenheimer, and getting Americans to care about 4X games. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Lucy James. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
Questions this week:
- Is there a meaningful distinction between a minigame and a game within a game?
- How do you make a really big game without overwhelming players?
- What are the practical reasons to set a video game in the post-apocalypse?
- What are the pitfalls to avoid when organizing or participating in a video game panel?
- The Adaptation Game: Adapt Oppenheimer (2023) into a video game.
- Tom Arrow asks: What are video games that best exemplify tragedy, comedy and romance?
- What kind of video games do Americans not care about, and is there a way to change that?
- What is the “You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today” of video games?
LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As - Mortal Kombat
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Super Mario Land
- Ace Attorney series
- Puyo Puyo~n
- Captain Marvel (2019)
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
- Kojima’s Twitter
- Resident Evil 4
- Metal Gear Solid
- NieR series
- Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series
- Virtua Fighter series
- BioShock
- Pipe Dream
- Save Room
- Harmful Park
- Stardew Valley
- Ōkami
- Sonic Frontiers
- Final Fantasy XV
- Evony: The King's Return
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- Dreams
- Roblox
- Fallout games
- Warriors of the Wasteland (1983)
- Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)
- Pitfall series
- Nvidia Broadcast can now deepfake your eyes to make you look at the camera
- Leisure Suit Larry series
- Monkey Island series
- Budweiser Frogs
- Pepsiman
- Oppenheimer (2023)
- Curran Walters
- Batman Begins (2005)
- Fallout Shelter
- X-COM series
- Game of Thrones
- The Godfather: The Game
- Cyberpunk 2077
- The Sims 4
- Peter Molyneux
- David Cage
- Omikron: The Nomad Soul
- Detroit: Become Human
- Elder Scrolls series
- Ribbit King
- There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
- The Stanley Parable
- Disco Elysium
- Football Manager series
- FIFA Manager series
- Pro Evolution Soccer / Winning Eleven / eFootball series
- Diner Dash
- Tapper
- FarmVille
- Train Simulator series
- PowerWash Simulator
- Lawn Mowing Simulator
- Animal Crossing series
- Wall Street Kid
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Everything (game)
- Everything (windows software)
- You Need a Budget
- Bubsy series
- Gex series
- Blasto
- Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude!
- Normy's Beach Babe-O-Rama
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Batman Begins
- Batman Begins
- Cool Spot
- Grimace's Birthday
Recommendations:
Frank: Everything, send your full video game interviews to the Video Game History Foundation
Brandon: Kimimi The Game-Eating She-Monster, try using your own website for once if you’re one of the people who make Ko-fi
Lucy: The New York Times Mini Crossword, The Design Behind Immortality's Occult Secrets, JeffJeff's Bizarre Adventure S03E01: Oh, those aren't bullets, Baldur’s Gate 3 boss on Xbox Series S and “Redefining The RPG” I Friends Per Second Episode #26
DIRTBAGS: You can submit your questions to the show using this form. And, thanks!
Comments
One of your better sign offs, Jaffe. Great episode!
Waltimedes
2023-08-03 13:37:55 +0000 UTCLucy was such a great guest and really fit right in on the episode! Not to mention the show stopper in the lightning round haha One thing that almost always becomes the tipping point for a game is when there are items that can be broken down or any kind of robust crafting. If it's a two item makes one item situation, I can handle that. Anything beyond that my thought shuts down and my eyes glaze over. Totally recognize that it is a ME thing and not necessarily the game's fault.
Dustin Reno
2023-08-02 19:28:41 +0000 UTC
