Ep. 208 - How to Correctly Pronounce Ocarina, with Jackie Cole
Added 2021-11-01 04:31:26 +0000 UTCCommunity Manager for Singularity 6 Jackie Cole joins the panel to cover the dark truth behind convention booths, not letting the gacha getcha, and Call of Looney.
Questions this week:
- Can games be used as tools for mental health? (03:00)
- Why does every MMO feel so bad to play, and can that be fixed? (07:04)
- Are emulation hobbyists saving or destroying video games? (11:26)
- Who are the nicest, most well-adjusted people in video games? (15:53)
- What do most people not know about running a convention booth? (20:06)
- Dirtbag Spencer asks: How can we make gamers care less about brands and more about the people who make video games? (23:57)
- Has a video game ever satisfactorily addressed a complaint you had with it while you were playing it? (29:08)
- Where would be the point in a documentary series about game companies where a still flips to a photo negative and the voiceover goes “And that’s where it all went wrong?” (33:15)
- Is there any way for Call of Duty to redeem itself ethically? (37:29)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Celebrity Gamer Tags (41:57)
Recommendations and Outro (49:18)
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Zero Wing
- Puss N Boots: Pero's Great Adventure
- Swery's The Good Life
- Monster Hunter: World
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
- Stardew Valley
- Depression Quest
- Sky: Children of the Light
- Journey
- Brain Age: Train Your Brain In Minutes A Day!
- The Insert Credit Dot Com Forums
- *Metroid Dread* Is Already Running On Switch Emulators
- Players Have A Ton Of Complaints About Nintendo Switch Online’s N64 Games
- C418
- 2 years of failure by C418
- The World Famous Vincent
- Anita Sarkeesian
- Insert Credit's Own Ash Parrish
- Victoria Tran
- Indie Megabooth
- Noclip Documentaries
- Higurashi series
- NieR
- Destiny 2
- Tomak: Save the Earth, Again
- Tomak: Save the Earth, Again's reviews page on Mobygames, which calculates mostly based on Brandon's 2002 insert credit review
- Gunhouse
- Deadly Premonition
- Star Wars: Battlefront II
- The uncomfortable truth of Call of Duty’s latest marketing campaign by Kazuma Hashimoto
- Battlefield 2042
- Castle Wolfenstein series
Insert Credit Recommends: ACTION BUTTON Reviews Cyberpunk 2077, the 1-6 Route
Comments
Final verdict on ocarina: italians say ahkarina, but the game is decidedly ohkarina
insert credit
2021-11-01 17:44:03 +0000 UTCOne day early?!
frankie coleman
2021-11-01 05:26:48 +0000 UTC
