Ep. 193 - The Gex Hive, with Ian Bogost and Ash Parrish
Added 2021-07-12 09:00:36 +0000 UTCWriter, game designer, and professor Ian Bogost joins the panel along with Kotaku and Insert Credit regular Ash Parrish to cover Hairizon Zero Dawn, Gex vs. Bubsy, and Sonic Actually Being Back. Original music by Kurt Feldman.
Questions this week:
- From Liz Ryerson: Whatβs your favorite romhack? (06:04)
- Which video game metrics and features do critics tend to ignore? (11:17)
- Which games were most affected by ESRB ratings? (16:34)
- What are the best non-Bonk Turbografx platforming games? (21:58)
- Now that Facebook games are mostly gone, how do you explain Cow Clicker to somebody who wasnβt there? (26:23)
- Violence Island: forums.insertcredit.com Submissions (32:49)
- Has a video game ever changed your opinion about something outside of video games? (41:47)
- What was the most ambitious video game to actually deliver on its promises? (47:13)
- Who is the Slavoj Zizek of video games? (51:47)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Dirtbag Driftglass presents: Casting call (55:29)
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Crush 40
- Sonic Shoes
- Peter Piper Pizza
- Grand Poo World
- Sonic 3D Blast Directors Cut
- Super Mario Clouds
- I Shot Andy Warhol
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- Lucio from Overwatch
- Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- Monsters, Inc. (2001)
- Megatextures
- Rage
- Hot Coffee
- Indivisible
- Blanka
- American McGee's Alice
- Let Cloud Strife Pole Dance
- Doki Doki Literature Club Plus trigger warnings
- Grounded's Arachnophobia mode
- Trypophobia
- Chicory: A Colorful Tale
- Keith Courage in Alpha Zones
- Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu
- The Legendary Axe
- Cross Wiber
- P47
- Ninja Spirit
- Rygar
- Cow Clicker
- WIRED's piece on Cow Clicker
- XBLIG
- Parkour
- Tapwave Zodiac
- N-Gage
- Servbot
- Lemming
- DeBlob
- Inkling
- Francis York Morgan
- Raz
- Fred Dukes
- Gex
- Bubsy
- Dragon Age II
- Black & White
- Minecraft
- Death Stranding
- Sonic Mania
- No Man's Sky
- Destiny 2
- Bioshock Infinite
- Inside Out
- Coco
- Slavoj Zizek
- Roger Ebert
- Steak-umm's Twitter
Recommendations:
Brandon: dedeco VGM DJ, Kino Lorber's Cool As Ice blu-ray
Ash: Chicory, Kotaku Splitscreen Podcast
Ian: Drink an Americano, play Psychonauts
DIRTBAGS: You can submit your questions to the show using this form. And, thanks!
Comments
the slavoj zizek of video games is tim rogers.
Daniel West
2021-08-04 15:33:00 +0000 UTCThat's the one (though our wording for academic positions is slightly different here in the UK)! Also not sure how I missed Ash saying 'it's coming home.' To be fair, it's not hard to imagine that it was really the Gex Hive that orchestrated the Wembley break-in.
Ketan Jha
2021-07-18 16:26:45 +0000 UTC(this is brandon) Yes, I believe that's the same Kurt Feldman. I can't remember whether I saw Kurt live in Ice Choir first, or asked him to do music first... but I definitely saw him live in brooklyn once myself, heh heh.
insert credit
2021-07-16 17:58:57 +0000 UTCSo glad to hear the debut of the new Violence Island track! Incidentally, was Kurt in the Depreciation Guild? I saw them live in brooklyn ages ago (with Wild Nothing opening!) before they disbanded, what a great show.
Kory
2021-07-15 20:49:46 +0000 UTCSo many Chicory shout outs! <3
Gwen Sandel
2021-07-15 01:26:30 +0000 UTCyour own profession is... professor, I would guess?
insert credit
2021-07-14 17:33:06 +0000 UTCGreat to see someone from my own profession on the podcast! Piggybacking off of Ian's cocktail recommendations, fans of the Americano might be into the Bicicletta with soda water. Less sugar and goes great with bitters!
Ketan Jha
2021-07-14 02:37:50 +0000 UTCah jeez i sure did not finish music/effects editing the intro before exporting. sorry everyone!! problem will be fixed on the main feedβs copy. consider this an exclusive look behind the curtain of editing/A Blooper/demo version. -Esper
insert credit
2021-07-12 17:42:50 +0000 UTCOne day early?!
frankie coleman
2021-07-12 09:02:03 +0000 UTC
