Ep. 197 - Myst Opportunities, with Chris Remo and Mathew Kumar
Added 2021-08-09 06:11:54 +0000 UTCGame designer, composer, and co-creator of Idle Thumbs Chris Remo joins the panel along with Mathew “Agent of Chaos” Kumar to cover the Honda Prelude, Crossword of the Dead, and live on-air cat noises.
Questions this week:
- Jeff Gerstmann asks: What’s the coolest vehicle to ever appear in a video game? (04:54)
- Are the Myst games still good? What should people play instead? (10:55)
- What kind of feeling does acoustic guitar give to a game? (16:41)
- What’s better in a video game, an elevator or stairs? (22:45)
- What six C-list video game villains would you recruit for a government black ops team? (28:20)
- Dirtbag Gaagaagiins asks: What’s the best autoscrolling section in video games? (33:08)
- When and how do games successfully recontextualize frustrating tropes? (40:28)
- Review the concept of crossword puzzles based on their graphics and mechanics. (44:57)
- What are some of your favorite harmless video game hoaxes? (50:41)
- What is the Waiting for Godot of video games? (56:48)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - Jodi Picoult (01:01:44)
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Dennis Miller action figure
- Musee Mechanique
- Warthog
- Pale Wing
- Vic Viper
- R-90 Ragnarok
- Sonic mine cart
- Honda Prelude
- Tokyo Highway Battle
- Fortnite Vehicles
- Kung Fu Rider
- Dolphin Blue
- Nier Boar
- OutRun
- Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
- Myst
- Riven: The Sequel To Myst
- The Witness
- Michael Brough
- Stephen's Sausage Roll
- Habitat
- Firewatch
- Elevator Action
- Snake's ladder climb
- Mickey Mania
- Ys: Book I & II
- Batman: The Telltale Series
- The Suicide Squad
- Rez
- Peter Molyneux
- Zool
- Battletoads
- The Adventures of Batman and Robin
- WTF: work time fun
- I Wanna Be The Guy
- Chris Remo's YouTube channel
- The Bobby Kotick image
- Ermac
- Missingno
- The Blue Box Studios thing
- Waiting For Godot
- SNK VS. CAPCOM Card Fighters DS
- P.T.
- Jodi Picoult
Recommendations:
Brandon: To Kill With Intrigue (1977), Walker (1987)
Mathew: Gold Ninja Video fundraiser
Chris: Police Story (1985)
Comments
Oh man, those ladders in Nier you mentioned are absolutely ridiculous! Any ladders you can't slide down suck and it should be standard practice nowadays.
Andrew O.
2021-08-10 04:51:12 +0000 UTCAwesome, that's great to hear if that's the case. Hopefully he won't be (needlessly) intimidated by his (perceived) lack of esoteric games knowledge and will appear on the show again!
Shaneus
2021-08-10 04:03:44 +0000 UTCwe don't know but I (brandon) had a lot of conversations with him in the past about how he'd like to live there one day! so it might have just been the culmination of that!
insert credit
2021-08-10 03:45:30 +0000 UTCYeah, that was great to hear Chris on something again. Looking forward to watching his crossword videos too. Anyone know what prompted his move to the UK?
Shaneus
2021-08-10 00:07:24 +0000 UTCHeck yeah! Good to see Chris on a podcast again
Tracy McGrath
2021-08-09 13:21:42 +0000 UTCoh i've heard about this perk before
Anders O.H Moberg
2021-08-09 11:10:00 +0000 UTCOne day early!?
frankie coleman
2021-08-09 06:12:21 +0000 UTC
