Ep. 257 - Building the Sandwich While You're Eating It, with Chris Plante
Added 2022-10-17 07:06:36 +0000 UTCEIC of Polygon and co-host of The Besties Chris Plante fills in for Frank on topics like the Cyberpunk anime, Anthem, and a Republican poet’s paradise. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Chris Plante. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
Questions this week:
- How can game companies draw attention back to their titles after a botched release? (07:07)
- How do you make collecting treasure in a game feel significant? (14:14)
- What would you put in The Orange Box 2? (20:12)
- How would you quantify an experience point? (26:07)
- Design a game based on a White House press conference. (32:59)
- From PAX 2022: An interview with Starbucks Workers United organizer (37:59)
- MoxBagel re-asks: What’s the ideal video game to play over dinner? (41:11)
- Has a plot hole in a game’s story ever ruined the game for you? (48:37)
- What is the Avengers: Endgame of video games? (58:14)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design – Panic! At The Disco songs (01:05:38)
Recommendations and Outro (01:18:57)
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Disney's Darkwing Duck
- The Besties
- General Chaos
- Mortal Kombat
- GoldenEye 007
- Super Smash Brothers series
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
- Starfield
- Anthem
- Assassin's Creed series
- Silent Hill 2
- Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series
- Tomb Raider series
- Deus Ex series
- Marvel Avengers
- Gex series
- Portal series
- Half-Life: Alyx
- Quantum Conundrum
- Counter-Strike series
- Team Fortress series
- Back 4 Blood
- Crusader Kings series
- Perfect Tides
- Hollow Knight
- Baldur's Gate series
- Legend of Zelda series
- Super Hydlide
- Demonschool (now wishlistable on Steam)
- Paper Mario series
- Samba De Amigo
- Elite Beat Agents
- Xanadu (1980)
- Space Channel 5
- Papers, Please
- Gears 5
- Starbucks Workers United
- Sign the No Contract No Coffee Pledge
- The Last of Us series
- Genshin Impact
- Deadly Premonition
- NieR: Automata
- Kentucky Route Zero
- Persona series
- Call of Duty series
- Spec Ops: The Line
- BioShock series
- Dead & Buried (1981)
- One Piece
- Halo series
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- Fortnite series
- Katamari Damacy
- Hook
- John Wick (2014)
- John Wick Hex
- EarthBound
Recommendations:
Jaffe: Watch One Piece
Brandon: hold the up and down buttons to control those barrels in the Carnival Zone in Sonic 3, don’t watch Austin Powers, don’t watch any of the Bill & Ted movies, Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)
Tim: Check out Star Trek: Discovery if you want to see David Cronenberg be weird and Michelle Yeoh be weird
Chris: Subscribe to Shudder or The Criterion Channel
DIRTBAGS: You can submit your questions to the show using this form. And, thanks!
Comments
oh wow, I missed that!! Thanks for letting us know! (~brandon)
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2022-10-18 23:46:00 +0000 UTCThe orange box v2 question was cracking me up I'm glad Alex asked the about games getting a second wind from other media tie-ins. CDPR seems to have done really well with this between Edgerunners and the Witcher netflix series. Curious to see if/how that ripples out in the future for others. Honestly forgot the podcast was wrapping up for so long until Alex had to remind everyone, haha Good conversations are easy to listen to. Nice episode, everyone!
Dustin Reno
2022-10-18 23:07:20 +0000 UTCFun note: as of March 2021, all Color Out of Space revenue is being sent to domestic violence charities instead of the director.
Branwen Shoop
2022-10-18 21:02:38 +0000 UTCHaha yeah the fact it was incongruously rhyming was a point in it's favour, comedically However I definitely have a couple b.worms up top as well!
George 'Kid' Oldman
2022-10-17 22:41:11 +0000 UTC(brandon:) I don't know why that made so much sense to me, beacon doesn't rhyme with typing... but it felt like what it needed to be. if it makes sense to you as well it probably means you have the insert credit podcast brain worms real deep in there!!
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2022-10-17 22:25:11 +0000 UTCBTW any of you who listened to this right away may have missed that there was a segment about Starbucks Workers United in the middle-ish of the episode. Give it a listen if you missed it! It's at 37:59.
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2022-10-17 22:24:02 +0000 UTCGreat Ep! Nice to hear team fortress 2 discussion. In some ways its my favorite game - and I often try and find ways to answer every question in an episode of IC with something related to TF2. I do have a strong opinion about Orange Box 2 - I think they should have some kind of a surfing game in there. There's a community mod called Momentum Mod that is trying to make a standalone surfing game. I do think it is one of the most fun things to do with that Source engine / Hammer tool. Of course it would not work very easily on console so I guess its a moot point. Surfing maps can be super fun to play once you pick up on how to surf and the easy ones are quite relaxing / meditative to playthrough imo. "Mavis Biano Teaches Piano" should have had a standing ovation too, nice one Brandon.
George 'Kid' Oldman
2022-10-17 17:16:58 +0000 UTC
