Ep. 176 - Gin & Sonic, with Ash Parrish
Added 2021-03-15 06:55:43 +0000 UTCAsh Parrish rejoins the panel to cover Final Fantasy XIV’s superiority, the Screaming Idea, and G4M3R5. Original music by Kurt Feldman.
Questions this week:
- Previously on Insert Credit 86: What games not originally designed for arcades would best make the transition to arcades? (01:58)
- What specifically makes Final Fantasy XIV the best MMO game? (05:17)
- Which games have benefitted the most from changing course during development? (10:37)
- What game features the greatest distance of quality between how good the music is and how bad the game itself is? (15:42)
- The pandemic is over, and each of you is opening up a barcade. What do you name it? (20:44)
- Patreon Supporter THX Deep Note’s #1 Fan asks: If you could design a startup jingle for a video game console, what would it sound like? (28:28)
- What are some things that video game fans THINK they want, but won’t actually enjoy? (33:36)
- What is the longest you’ve ever struggled with a particular challenge in a video game? (38:44)
- Topher “Docfuture” Florence gives this challenge: Design a singular controller to be put into a time capsule that will be the only controller to play all console games. It can have any button or stick configuration, but is arbitrarily limited to only 3 "gimmicks.” (44:07)
- Who is the Meghan Markle of video games? (49:31)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Guess That Fanfic (54:29)
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Michigan J. Frog
- Push Up
- Push Pop
- Push-Up Bra
- Ribbit King
- Hades
- Blitzball
- Flappy Bird
- Scribblenauts
- Firewatch
- Ring Fit Adventure
- Super Mario Run
- Stupid bad Rayman ad
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Clash Royale
- Deadly Premonition
- Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida
- Yoshi's Island
- Plok
- PachiPara series
- Disaster Report
- Okami
- Sunsoft Games
- Hover Strike
- Picross
- Final Fantasy XIII
- Dirge of Cerberus
- Original Pokemon cave theme
- Crank Yankers theme
- Dreamcast startup jingle
- Gamecube startup jingle
- Playstation startup jingle
- Xbox startup jingle
- Xbox 360 startup jingle
- That tall vampire lady in the new Resident Evil
- Extra-Dimensional Biological Entity
- Nier Automata "Idiot Savant" sidequest
- Exile: Wicked Phenomenon
- Ouendan
- Fullmetal Alchemist theme
- Celeste
- Area 51
- Seaman
- Meghan Markle
- Glu Mobile
- Clementine
- She's Gone Gone Gone Rewrite
- From Which All That Was
- Pizza Date
- Among the stars we fell in love
- Acts of God
- The Confession of a Lifetime
- Game Boy box art Frank drops in the chat after the show
Recommendations:
Brandon: Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar (2021), Frankie Rose's Cage Tropical, Crazy Samurai 400 vs 1
Ash: Kotaku Splitscreen
Jaffe: The Tobolowsky Files
Frank: The Video Game History Hour
PATRONS: You can submit your questions to the show using this form. And, thanks!
Comments
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm we're gonna have to get back to you on that most sonic games idea. Acknowledging that the first 4/5 sonic games were the best ones, the music also got progressively worse!?
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2021-03-25 03:52:34 +0000 UTCFor the bad game/good music question "most Sonic games" was immediately what came to mind, even though I like a few of the bad games. Also Dreamcast might have my favorite start up sound, but I also love the GBA one which wasn't mentioned.
2021-03-21 23:52:25 +0000 UTCI (brandon) think this is what frank was referring to when he said "it would've been resident evil, not resident evil 4" - I think this demo was in the back of all our minds then, though we didn't specifically reference it. I'd be interested in playing this game also! In a way I feel like the RE2 remake is closer to this in vibe... sort of!?
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2021-03-18 22:29:14 +0000 UTCSurprised this RE4 prototype wasn't mentioned. I personally would've enjoyed this version of the game more because it's atmospheric and contains some supernatural elements that are fairly atypical for the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMBfgHLkIMo
Jodeaux
2021-03-18 19:20:59 +0000 UTCwe arrrrrrre kinda leaning in that direction ourselves!
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2021-03-17 21:53:09 +0000 UTCoh nice!! yeah, I (brandon) will keep recommending stuff. I should probably write my recommendations down so I don't have to just try and remember them spur of the moment.
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2021-03-17 21:52:50 +0000 UTCJust dropping in to say this was a really fun episode, Ash should be a regular!
2021-03-17 13:46:59 +0000 UTCKeep em coming with the music recommendations, Brandon! Gathering Swans was my favorite record of 2020 thanks to your recommendation many moons ago.
Ross Hamrick
2021-03-17 00:42:47 +0000 UTCJust gonna post this here - we have one of your REQUESTED GUESTS signed up for next week so look out for that
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2021-03-15 18:39:17 +0000 UTCthanks! ash works well with the crew it seems
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2021-03-15 18:15:16 +0000 UTCoh yeah, that's a good one.
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2021-03-15 18:15:05 +0000 UTCit feels like... they've got one of the most popular franchises in the world, you could try something beyond innocuous background music
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2021-03-15 18:14:32 +0000 UTCfantastic episode
coughsoda
2021-03-15 11:14:19 +0000 UTCWOW! coming down hard on the pokémon score! they've ridden that I-bVII thing for decades! i love the gen 1&2 soundtracks but it's just gotten obnoxious since then
rootfifthoctave
2021-03-15 10:01:29 +0000 UTCIMO the biggest disparity between the quality of a game's soundtrack and the actual game itself is Haunted Castle
GigaSlime
2021-03-15 07:34:38 +0000 UTC
