Ep. 181 - All Six Of Them, with Ash Parrish
Added 2021-04-19 06:25:36 +0000 UTCGame journalist and friend of the show Ash Parrish returns to cover Amiga AI, sexy aliens, and pynball. Original music by Kurt Feldman.
Questions this week:
- From Heather Alexandra: What game has the tastiest potions? (03:53)
- What’s something you never want to see in a video game again? (08:27)
- What are the best achievements in video game AI development? (12:56)
- Which officially released video games are most transparently fanfiction of other games? (17:37)
- Design the perfect romancable alien RPG NPC, but make them distinctly nonhuman. (22:27)
- Dirtbag MoxBagel asks: How would you re-design pinball to be more of a 30 minute game instead of a 3 minute game? (28:40)
- Have you ever wished a game challenged you a little more? (34:53)
- What are the best liminal spaces in a video game? (39:41)
- Has your opinion of a game ever changed after speaking with the developer? (43:53)
- What is the Miles Davis “Kind of Blue” of video games? (49:52)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Alphanumeric Characters (55:26)
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden
- The Seventh Sign (1988)
- Synesthesia
- A Healer Only Lives Twice
- Phantasy Star
- Bayonetta
- Castlevania Holy Water
- C.C. Lemon
- Final Fantasy Potion energy drink
- Bawls
- Mamotte Knight
- Ico
- The Last Guardian
- Enemy: Tempest of Violence
- Final Fight
- River City Ransom
- X-COM
- Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
- Lemmings
- Yooka Laylee
- Fantasian
- Doujin games
- Melty Blood
- Touhou fangames
- I Wanna Be The Guy
- Freedom Planet
- Project X Zone
- Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
- Inuyasha
- Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
- Elcor
- Volus
- Blue humans
- Babylon 5
- Trypophobia (warning: potentially upsetting)
- Tryptophan
- Misophonia
- 3D Pinball
- Pinball Quest
- Devil's Crush
- Demon's Tilt
- Alien Crush
- Fantastic Pinball
- Pokemon Pinball
- Sonic Spinball
- Metroid Prime Pinball
- Flipnic: Ultimate Pinball
- Yoku's Island Express
- It Takes Two
- The Witness
- Nier: Automata
- Deadly Premonition
- Mega Man 2 ending cavern
- Sonic CD soundtrack
- "Games for which there are two soundtracks, and both are good" on the Insert Credit Forums
- Black Athena: How Hades Gets Its Gods Right by Ash Parrish
- Slap Happy Rhythm Busters
- Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Spec-Ops: The Line
- Wii Sports
- Take Five
- Street Fighter IV
- Mortal Kombat III
Recommendations:
Ash: Kotaku Splitscreen, twitter.com/adashtra
Brandon: Fourth Dimension, Melinda's Hot Sauce
Frank: Shaquanda's Hot Pepper Sauce
Jaffe: The Unknown (1927)
This Week's Insert Credit Art Jam Topic: Cheating
