Ep. 183 - We Need To Talk About The Noid, with Jim Stormdancer
Added 2021-05-03 04:48:20 +0000 UTC(Content warning: this episode features The F-Word in the intro)
Jim Stormdancer, developer of Frog Fractions and host of Topic Lords joins the panel to herald/warn of the return of The Noid, how to craft an ARG, and The Insert Credit Greatest Game of All Time (ICGGOAT).
Questions this week:
- We Need To Talk About The Noid (00:57)
- What game did you have to learn to like before liking it? (06:29)
- Is there a line between surprising players and not giving them the game they paid for? (09:34)
- What do we have to say about NFTs? (15:27)
- Which game series have the most interesting naming and numbering conventions? (20:08)
- Dirtbag Kory asks: What are the best games about electricity? (25:52)
- What are the game design principles behind a good ARG? (31:39)
- What would your video game vanity license plate be? (37:53)
- What’s the best Star Wars game, and how could you make a better one? (40:57)
- What is the Paddington 2 of video games? (46:13)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Adjectivity (51:33)
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- The Noid
- Hatsune Miku <3
- Avoid The Noid
- Yo! Noid
- KFConsole
- Dr. Muto
- Dr. Neo Cortex
- Ys
- Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes
- Warlock
- Frog Fractions
- King of the Hill "Full Metal Dust Jacket"
- NFTs
- Long Blockchain Corporation
- List of Kingdom Hearts games
- NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...
- Driv3r
- Battle Frenzy
- Herzog und Herzog Zwei
- Zwei und Zwei 2
- Megamanx
- 9 Stories 9 Rooms 9 Whatevers
- Shenzhen I/O
- Chibi Robo!: Plug into Adventure!
- Gunpoint
- Elec Man
- Electrician
- Hansha de Spark!
- Pipe Dream
- Frog Fractions ARG
- What's That Game? on the insert credit forums
- Train Hot Dog Podcast
- Sea of Thieves
- GTA2
- Star Wars: Dark Forces
- Star Wars
- Super Star Wars
- Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order
- Battlefront und Battlefront Squadrons
- Star Wars Holiday Special
- Paddington 2 (2017)
- Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
- Kuron and the Jelly Islands
- The Quiet Man
Recommendations:
Brandon: Dance Volunteer by Portable Rock, Pensieri di Nessuno by Words And Actions, Gozu (2003)
Frank: Play video games on easy
Jim: The Hat DLC which is no longer on sale, Topic Lords
PATRONS: You can submit your questions to the show using this form. And, thanks!
Comments
we will try our best!
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2021-05-04 23:45:25 +0000 UTCPlease never stop Inserting Credits. 🖤
Ross Hamrick
2021-05-04 23:01:21 +0000 UTCAt least you weren’t busy fiddling with EPROMs ;)
Kory
2021-05-03 21:52:21 +0000 UTCBrandon says: SHOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what the heck. I sure should have. I was busy explaining the joke to frank.
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2021-05-03 21:42:08 +0000 UTCThank you/I’m sorry re: this week’s question! I was inspired by the tone with which Jaffe (I think?) said “current games?” on the last episode lol. Also, was really expecting Brandon to pull out socket/time dominator for that one 😆
Kory
2021-05-03 12:02:48 +0000 UTCah shoot, sorry to get people’s hopes up. to be honest I work off a template and never got around to updating it. I guess it was close enough that I didn’t even notice this time!! -esper
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2021-05-03 07:26:42 +0000 UTCi got so hyped when i saw that before listening to the episode lol :(
Sam
2021-05-03 05:45:16 +0000 UTCThink you mighta misspelled Jim in the recommendations section down the bottom there 😅
goonbag
2021-05-03 05:02:50 +0000 UTC
