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December 15, 2016Episode #12: The Pokémon Extravaganza
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Featuring:
Merve
Lord Stoneheart
Operetta
Wolfman Jew
Editor:
TheKappa
Timestamps:
0:15 – Introductions
3:05 – Yay! Commercialism!
7:35 – What Got Us into Pokémon
20:05 – Pokémon that Merve Hasn’t Heard of
22:30 – Pokémon Sun and Moon
54:30 – Pokémon Sun and Moon… With Spoilers!
1:20:35 – Where Does Pokémon Go Next?
Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep12
Linkdump after the jump. This one contains a few pieces by our very own Wolfman Jew!
Introductions (0:15)
Butterfree and Beedrill. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Bunnelby, Buneary, and Lopunny. (Source: Bulbapedia)
The Rabbit video chat app.
Jigglypuff. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Emboar. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Cubone and Marowak. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Yay! Commercialism! (3:05)
Gears of War 4 launch trailer. (Source: Xbox on YouTube)
Announcement trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask on 3DS (Source: Nintendo on YouTube)
Steam store page for Dishonored 2.
What Got Us into Pokémon (7:35)
Wikipedia entry on the cancelled-before-its-time 1990s drama EZ Streets.
The Shrek fighting game Operetta mentioned is called Shrek: Hassle at the Castle. Good Lord. (Source: Wikipedia)
The infrared port on Nintendo handhelds has been used in a variety of ways in the
Pokémon franchise, not just for trading mystery gifts. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Pokémon that Merve Hasn’t Heard of (20:05)
Klefki is a fucking ring of keys. Come on, Pokémon. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Carbink is a rock fairy, I think? (Source: Bulbapedia)
Meganium, the final form of Chikorita. (Source: Bulbapedia)
The theme for Magnum Force, by Lalo Schifrin. (Source: lethalpanther2’s channel on YouTube)
Pidove and Staraptor. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Zapdos, one of the Legendary birds of Kanto. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Fletchling. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Pokémon Sun and Moon (22:30)
Alolan Exeggutor. Look at his neck! (Source: Pokémon Sun and Moon official website)
Clarification: Cubone doesn’t have an Alolan form. However, Marowak does. (Sources: GameFAQs and Pokémon Sun and Moon official website)
Mimikyu, the weird Pikachu imitator. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Marill, the water-type Pikaclone. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Mimikyu is actually terrifying in the anime. (Source: Kotaku)
The oddly disturbing Mimikyu song. (Source: Tobias on YouTube)
Samson Oak, Professor Samuel Oak’s cousin. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Professor Kukui, the main professor in Sun and Moon. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Golisopod. (Source: Bulbapedia)
The Rotom Pokédex, which is inhabited by the Pokémon Rotom. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Climate data for Hilo, Hawaii. (Source: Wikipedia)
Wishiwashi, the crappiest Pokémon, at least until level 20. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Pokémon Sun and Moon… With Spoilers! (54:30)
Guzma, the leader of Team Skull. (Source: Bulbapedia)
The religious cult that Merve referenced was the Peoples Temple. (Source: Wikipedia)
Ultra Beasts. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Digimon Tamers is the third season of the Digimon anime, widely regarded for its Lovecraftian themes and imagery. (Source: Wikipedia)
Lusamine, the head of the Aether Foundation. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Plot summary of The Fly. (Source: Wikipedia)
Drampa. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Cosmog, the adorable little nebula. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Looker, the International Police officer. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Gumshoos, the Trumpian Pokémon. (Source: Bulbapedia)
As far as I can tell, Alolan Ninetales still has nine tails. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Where Does Pokémon Go Next? (1:20:35)
Pokémon Stars is rumoured to be coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2017. (Source: IGN)
A change.org petition to get Danny DeVito to voice Pikachu in the English
version of Great Detective Pikachu. (Signing it is probably a waste of time.)
A Mimikyu plushie will be coming in March 2017 (Source: Siliconera)
There is no Subreddit for Greninja in general, but there is a Subreddit for people who use Greninja in Super Smash Bros.
The main Goomy Subreddit is kinda culty.
Additional Links
For further reading, check out these articles by Wolfman Jew for Source Gaming:
Holism: Pokémon and Choice
The Forgotten, the Maligned: Pokémon Colosseum
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1 hr 41 min
December 04, 2016Episode #11: A History Lesson
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Featuring:
Merve
Ben
Admirax
PT
Editor:
TheKappa
Timestamps:
0:15 – Introductions
2:00 – What We’ve Been Playing
25:10 – Delayed Games
39:00 – The Business of Making Games
49:30 – Cancelled Games
56:10 – Obsidian and Scummy Bethesda Behaviour
1:00:35 – PC Ports of Japanese Games
1:03:40 – Team Bondi and the Australian Development Scene
1:12:00 – The Voice Actors’ Strike and Failed Segues
1:22:25 – The Backlog
1:49:45 – Gaming in the ‘90s
1:55:35 – The Backlog, Pt. 2
2:09:25 – Nü-Metal and Gaming (We’re Sorry)
2:14:30 – Conclusion
Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep11
Linkdump after the jump.
Introductions (0:15)
There is actually a surprising amount of erotic Suikoden fanfiction. Read at your own risk. (Source: Archive of Our Own)
Yuri!!! On ICE is available for your viewing pleasure. (Source: Crunchyroll)
Team Bondi is a now-defunct Australian video game developer. (Source: Wikipedia)
What We’ve Been Playing (2:00)
Wikipedia article for the Devil May Cry series.
The development history of Resident Evil 4. (Source: Wikipedia)
Gloria’s introduction in Devil May Cry 4. (Source: MADEBYShonexX on Youtube)
Wikipedia article on video game designer Kim Swift.
Steam store page on Sid Meier’s Civilization V.
Bruce Wayne from Batman: The Telltale Series. Michael from Grand Theft Auto V. You decide. (Sources: PC Gamer and The GTA Place)
Steam store page for Shadow Complex Remastered.
Steam store page for Sid Meier’s Civilization VI.
Steam store page for Batman: Arkham Knight. Buy at your own risk.
Steam store page for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.
Origin store page for Titanfall 2.
Some Titanfall 2 screenshots: a sideways pre-fab neighbourhood; a happy robot; and a sad robot.
Delayed Games (25:10)
Persona 5’s Western release was delayed from February 14th, 2017 to April 4th, 2017. (Source: Persona Central)
Final Fantasy XV’s global release was delayed from September 30th, 2016 to November 29th, 2016. (Source: Kotaku)
Both Hello Games head Sean Murray and Jason Schreier of Kotaku received death threats for (reporting on) No Man’s Sky’s delay. (Source: Kotaku)
Prototype was delayed from mid-2008 to mid-2009. (Source: Engadget)
Gravity Rush 2 was delayed from early December, 2016 to January 20th, 2017. (Source: Polygon)
Here’s Kotaku misreporting the release date of Gravity Rush 2 after the delay was announced.
Beyond Good & Evil 2 teaser trailer, released back in 2008. (Source: Machinima on YouTube)
The bugs in Assassin’s Creed Unity were so egregious that even the BBC reported on them.
The Business of Making Games (39:00)
A translated interview with Keiji Inafune after his departure from Capcom. (Source: NeoGAF)
The Jimquisition on how Square Enix meddled with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
Evolve’s DLC bullshit. (Source: PC World)
The Wikipedia article on Death Stranding contains most of what we know about it so far, and it’s not a whole lot.
Plot summary of The Engima of Amigara Fault. (Source: Wikipedia)
Cancelled Games (49:30)
Wikipedia article on BioWare’s cancelled Shadow Realms.
Mega Man Universe’s debut trailer. (Source: XboxViewTV – Gameplay & Trailers on YouTuber)
Wikipedia article on Bethesda’s cancelled Prey 2.
Backspace, a sort of sci-fi Skyrim with time travel,
was under early development at Obsidian. (Source: Kotaku)
Obsidian and Scummy Bethesda Behaviour (56:10)
Clarification: Pillars of Eternity was at one point the most-funded video game software
Kickstarter. Now it is fourth behind Shenmue 3, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, and Torment: Tides of Numenera. (Source: Kickstarter)
Paradox Interactive published Obsidian’s Tyranny. (Source: Wikipedia)
Bethesda’s new review policy is to send out review copies one day before release. Fuck Bethesda. (Source: Polygon)
PC Ports of Japanese Games (1:00:35)
Modder Durante’s fix for Dark Souls. (Source: Nexus Mods)
Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII on Steam.
Team Bondi and the Australian Development Scene (1:03:40)
Wikipedia article on Whore of the Orient. (We apologize for the title.)
Correction: Pandemic Studios was bought by Electronic Arts. Ben may have been thinking of Blue Tongue Entertainment, which was acquired and then shuttered by the now-defunct THQ. (Source: Wikipedia)
Correction: 2K Australia and 2K Marin are different studios, the latter being California-based. Both worked on BioShock 2.
The Voice Actors’ Strike and Failed Segues (1:12:00)
Michael Hollick, the voice and mo-cap actor for Niko Bellic in Grand Theft Auto IV, complained about receiving no residual pay for his work on the game. (Source: The New York Times)
SAG-AFTRA’s strike demands. (Source: SAG-AFTRA)
The rumour for why Persona 5 was delayed. (Source: Reddit)
The Backlog (1:22:25)
Official website for the PlayStation Plus service.
Launch trailer for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. (Source: Ubisoft on YouTube)
All the non-mainline Assassin’s Creed games. (Source: Wikipedia)
Steam store page for realMYST.
Steam store page for Honey Rose: Underdog Fighter Extraordinaire.
Steam store page for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
The Witcher, the first game in the series, was built on the Aurora Engine. (Source: Wikipedia)
Steam store page for XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Steam store page for Clannad.
Steam store page for Bastion.
Steam store page for Inside.
Aeris dies to the Seinfeld theme. (Source: jaroshbarksdale’s channel on YouTube)
Gaming in the ‘90s (1:49:45)
The now-defunct Cyrix Corporation. (Source: Wikipedia)
Matrox now focuses on niche and enterprise markets for their graphics chips. (Source: Wikipedia)
3dfx Interactive, the now-defunct manufacturers of Voodoo graphics cards.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Some of the bugs present in SiN at launch. (Source: Wikipedia)
We couldn’t find the speedrun PT mentioned, but here’s a speedrun of GoldenEye 007 that uses some of the same tactics. (Source: RayanaIsran on YouTube)
GoldenEye 007 was remade and released in 2010. (Source: Wikipedia)
The Backlog, Pt. 2 (1:55:35)
Steam store page for Rise of the Tomb Raider.
This article about Final Fantasy XV has a lot of pictures of its food. (Source: The Verge)
Steam store page for Undertale.
Correction: Undertale beat out The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to win the GameFAQs poll, not a Mario game. (Source: GameFAQs)
Steam store page for Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands.
Nü-Metal and Gaming (We’re Sorry) (2:09:25)
Stuart Chatwood, a member of Canadian rock group The Tea Party, wrote the
soundtrack for all three games in the Sands of Time trilogy, though he was joined on the third by Israeli-American composer Inon Zur. (Source: Wikipedia)
Godsmack’s “I Stand Alone,” an instrumental version of which was featured in Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. (Source: GodsmackVEVO on YouTube)
Trailer for the Fight Club video game. (Source: GameNewsOfficial)
Fred Durst’s entrance from WWE Raw. (Source: Nuttothawat on YouTube)
Conclusion (2:14:30)
The Matriarch Benezia boss fight from Mass Effect. (Source: IGN Walkthroughs on YouTube)
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2 hr 22 min
November 04, 2016Episode #10: Halloween Spooktacular
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Featuring:
Merve
Admirax
Flaxon Jackson
Lutair
TheKappa
Editor:
TheKappa
Timestamps:
0:30 – Spooky Introductions
1:55 – What We’ve Been Playing: Civilization
9:30 – What We’ve Been Playing: Telltale and Batman
16:25 – What We’ve Been Playing: Fallout
20:50 – The Nintendo Switch, Part 1
26:30 – If Nintendo Went Third-Party…
33:45 – Pokémon GO
41:00 – The Nintendo Switch, Part 2
57:15 – Our Scariest Gaming Experiences, Part 1
1:24:10 – Until Dawn and Quick-Time Event Based Games
1:28:10 – Our Scariest Gaming Experiences, Part 2
Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep10
Linkdump after the jump.
Spooky Introductions (0:30)
Yes, you really can rent space at a light industrial building in Northern Singapore called Admirax. Merve doesn’t make this shit up. Admirax claims that’s not where her name comes from, but we all know she’s secretly employed by Ascendas-Singbridge. Spooky!
What We’ve Been Playing: Civilization (1:55)
Steam store page for Sid Meier’s Civilization VI.
What We’ve Been Playing: Telltale and Batman (9:30)
Steam store page for Batman – The Telltale Series.
The characters in The Walking Dead that The Kappa was referring to were Carley and Doug. No matter what, they die by the end of the game. (Source: The Walking Dead Wiki on Wikia)
What We’ve Been Playing: Fallout (16:25)
Steam store page for Fallout 4.
The Nintendo Switch, Part 1 (20:50)
The Nintendo Switch reveal trailer. (Source: Nintendo on YouTube)
If Nintendo Went Third-Party… (26:30)
To clarify, there are actually several Nintendo mobile applications, five of which are Pokémon-related. The only Nintendo-published one that is currently out is social messaging app Miitomo, but Super Mario Run is on the way this year. (Source: Nintendo Wiki on Wikia)
Correction: Puzzles & Dragons isn’t a Nintendo property. It was a mobile game by GungHo Online Entertainment first before a Mario-themed spin-off was released for the 3DS. (Source: Wikipedia)
Pokémon GO (33:45)
Official website for Pokémon GO.
Clarification: The first person who “caught ‘em all” and the people who were selling their Pokémon GO accounts are different people. The first person who caught all 145 monsters currently available in the game was Nick Johnson, who did so while being sponsored by Expedia. He was not one of the people who was auctioning their Pokémon GO account for thousands of dollars on eBay. (Sources: Venture Beat and Telegraph)
The Nintendo Switch, Part 2 (41:00)
Nintendo will provide details on the Switch on January 12th, 2017. (Source: The Verge)
I couldn’t find any data on recent market share of handheld consoles, but the Nintendo 3DS has sold more than 4.5 times as many units as the PlayStation Vita in their lifetimes. (Source: Wikipedia)
The bizarre “touch both sides for added enjoyment” ad for the PlayStation Vita. *facepalm* (Source: Boing Boing)
Sea of Thieves gameplay footage from E3 2015. This doesn’t look like much fun. (Source: Xbox on YouTube)
Sources have told Eurogamer that the Nintendo Switch has a 6.2’’ 720p multi-touch screen.
Our Scariest Gaming Experiences, Part 1 (57:15)
Full playthrough of P.T. (Source: HarshlyCritical on YouTube)
The introduction of the Flood in Halo: Combat Evolved. (Source: nightrale814 on YouTube)
Prothean vision sequence from Mass Effect. (Source: Gavronen on YouTube)
A couple of Skyrim spiders fighting each other. (Source: Ray Dhimitri on YouTube)
You can download Red Amazon for free from Game Jolt.
Steam store page for Firewatch.
Steam store page for Gods Will Be Watching.
The Dunwich Building in Fallout 4. (Source: Fallout Wiki on Wikia)
The Ascended Sleepers and Slaughterfish from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. (Source: The Elder Scrolls Wiki on Wikia)
Until Dawn and Quick-Time Event Based Games (1:24:10)
Yes, Hayden Panettiere and Rami Malek are in Until Dawn. (Source: IMDB)
Mixing alcohol and pills in Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy. (Source: Azimel on
YouTube)
Our Scariest Gaming Experiences, Part 2 (1:28:10)
Steam store page for Murdered: Soul Suspect.
Game freeze effect in Batman: Arkham Asylum. (Source: Gyoru on YouTube)
You can read all about Denis Dyack in his Wikipedia article.
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1 hr 40 min
October 29, 2016Episode #9: Sexy Batman
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Featuring:
Merve
Lord Stoneheart
PT
TheKappa
Editor:
TheKappa
Timestamps:
0:15 – Introductions
1:30 – What We’ve Been Playing, Part 1
6:40 – Games Other People Play
15:10 – Games We Never Beat
17:05 – What We’ve Been Playing, Part 2
30:05 – Console Hardware Revisions and Console Wars
47:10 – Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Companion Apps
52:50 – Let’s Rant about Steam Again!
1:07:15 – Console Streaming and Weird Console Apps
1:13:45 – 3DS StreetPasses, Other Nintendo Networking Systems, and the NX
1:27:35 – Food and Cooking in Games
2:03:25 – Weird Wii Games
2:06:50 – Telltale Frustrations, Detective Work, and Batman
Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep9
*Please note that since this podcast was recorded before the Nintendo Switch reveal, we make a lot of references to the NX.
Linkdump after the jump.
Introductions (0:15)
Twine is a tool for making text-based adventure games.
Yes, you can still buy Tamagotchis.
What We’ve Been Playing, Part 1 (1:30)
PT wasn’t referring to Fez, but to Persona 3 FES, which is an expansion for Persona 3. (Source: Wikipedia)
Games Other People Play (6:40)
Emerald Weapon is an ultra-powerful optional boss from Final Fantasy VII. (Source: Final Fantasy Wiki on Wikia)
Streamer Benjamin Gwin beat Dark Souls using DK Bongos. (Source: Destructoid)
Official website for Piggyback guides.
A video guide for beating the Capra Demon from Dark Souls. (Source: TerraMantis on YouTube)
Games We Never Beat (15:10)
Far Cry and Crysis were the first and second games developed by Crytek. (Source: Wikipedia)
What We’ve Been Playing, Part 2 (17:05)
Junkenstein’s Revenge gameplay from Overwatch. (Source: TFS Gaming on YouTube)
Lord Stoneheart was correct: Horde mode was introduced in Gears of War 2. (Source: Gearspedia on Wikia)
Console Hardware Revisions and Console Wars (30:05)
Clarification: The upcoming new PS4 model is called the PS4 Pro. Neo was the codename. (Source: Wikipedia)
Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.
Details of the limited “legacy console” support for Destiny. (Source: Bungie)
Xbox Elite Wireless Controller trailer. (Source: Xbox on YouTube)
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Companion Apps (47:10)
Polygon’s review of PlayStation VR mentions some graphical shortcomings.
Oculus did indeed disable Gear VR on Samsung Note 7 phones for fear that people would set their faces on fire. (Source: The Verge)
Let’s Rant about Steam Again! (52:50)
Official website for SteamOS.
It appears that Gears of War 2, 3, and Judgment are not coming to Windows, or at least have not yet been announced for Windows, even under the Play Anywhere initiative. (Source: Wikipedia)
I won’t dignify Steam’s sale of RWBY with a link. Instead, go watch it on YouTube. (Source: Rooster Teeth on YouTube)
Console Streaming and Weird Console Apps (1:07:15)
Review of the Microsoft Xbox 360 Live Vision Camera. (Source: CNET)
GameSpot forum thread about the weird shit people saw playing Uno over
Xbox Live.
Wikipedia article about the Xbox 360 version of 1 vs. 100.
Wikipedia article about PlayStation Home.
Wikipedia article about Life with PlayStation.
Official website for Folding@home.
3DS StreetPasses, Other Nintendo Networking Systems, and the NX (1:13:45)
Wikipedia article about network effects. The 3DS StreetPass system is an example of something that has network effects; the more people who use the system, the more advantageous it is to use the system.
GameSpy shut down in 2013. (Source: Wikipedia)
We now know what the Nintendo NX is: it’s a portable/home console hybrid called the Nintendo Switch. (Source: Wired)
The Nintendo NX subreddit, which is no longer so sad now that the Switch has been
revealed.
Food and Cooking in Games (1:27:35)
Making a recipe from the Pillars of Eternity cookbook. (Source: Leksi Wins on YouTube) Unfortunately, we weren’t able to find a PDF of the cookbook online anywhere.
Potluck Stew and toast from Final Fantasy XV. (Source: Final Fantasy Wiki on Wikia)
A cooking contest from Suikoden II. (Source: Mustafa on YouTube)
The Cannibal perk from the Fallout series. (Source: Fallout Wiki on Wikia)
The creator of the SaGa series was Akitoshi Kawazu. (Source: Wikipedia)
Trailer for the Final Fantasy XV VR Experience. (Source: IGN on YouTube) PLAY AS PROMPTO.
Nathan and Elena eating dinner together in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. (Source: Duck360Gaming2 on YouTube)
Food item list for Star Ocean: The Second Story. (Source: RPGC Shrines)
Cooking guide for Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight. (Source: GameFAQs)
Gibier Curry Rice from the aforementioned game. (Source: Neoseeker)
An explanation of chirality. (Source: Wikipedia)
Shadow Broker Dossiers on Grunt from Mass Effect. (Source: Mass Effect on Wikia)
Steam store page for Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Weird Wii Games (2:03:25)
A Game Grumps let’s play of Deadly Creatures. (Source: YouTube)
Telltale Frustrations, Detective Work, and Batman (2:06:50)
Some frustrations with the new Telltale Batman game on PC. (Source: Kotaku) It has issues on PS4 and Xbox One too. (Source: Game Rant)
Trailer for The Lego Batman Movie. (Source: Movieclips Trailer on YouTube)
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2 hr 26 min
October 04, 2016Episode #8: The Trainwreck
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Featuring:
Merve
Otakunomike
PT
Editor:
TheKappa
Timestamps:
0:15 – Introductions (Let’s Explain Jokes!)
1:45 – What We’ve Been Playing
14:35 – Everything’s an RPG!
15:15 – Quality Control on Steam, Pt. 1
20:50 – Virtual Reality and Failed Consoles
25:30 – Quality Control on Steam, Pt. 2
33:35 – Quality Control in Major Titles
53:10 – Tetris and Old Games that Are No Longer Available
56:30 – Retro Gaming
59:00 – Quality Control on Steam, Pt. 3
1:00:10 – Localizing and Releasing Games in the West
1:05:25 – Sega’s Problems and Our Lovely Tradition of Shitting on Sonic
1:09:05 – Superman Games
1:10:40 – Will There Be Another Crash? And When Should You Buy a PS4?
1:14:00 – Wildlife in Games
1:23:35 – Chickens and Cows
1:26:10 – Fictional Animals in Games
1:32:55 – Time Travel and the Mana Series
1:42:25 – Animal Enemies in Games
1:50:00 – Star Fox and Games Merve Hasn’t Played
Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep8
Linkdump after the jump.
Introductions (Let’s Explain Jokes!) (0:15)
Konami is run by the Kozuki family. (Source: Wikipedia)
The “Have you played Atari today?” soundbite. (Source: Gimme The Games Or Else! on YouTube)
Mamoru Hosoda directed such films as The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Wolf Children. (Source: Wikipedia)
How to pronounce Disqus. (Source: Disqus on Twitter)
What We’ve Been Playing (1:45)
Steam store page for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
Dishonored 2 is set to be released on November 11th. (Source: Steam)
Official websites for Warhammer, Bolt Action, and War Machine.
Arkham Horror is an awful board game with confusing rules that takes way too long to play. Merve is not editorializing at all with this comment. (Source: Fantasy Flight Games)
Trailers for Shin Megami Tensei IV and Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse. (Sources: GameSpot and AtlusUSA on YouTube)
Trailer for Dragon Quest VII on the 3DS. (Source: Nintendo UK on YouTube)
The Retronauts Micro episode about Dragon Quest VII.
Dragon Quest VII was released in North America on October 31st, 2001. Final Fantasy X was released a couple of months later in North America on December 17th, 2001. (Source: Wikipedia)
Everything’s an RPG! (14:35)
The Perks system from Wolfenstein: The New Order and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (Source: Wolfenstein Wiki on Wikia)
Quality Control on Steam, Pt. 1 (15:15)
Wikipedia articles on Digital Homicide Studios and The Slaughtering Grounds. I’m not providing official links for either because I can’t find one for the latter and the official website of the former slows my browser down to a crawl. Trust Digital Homicide to load their website with resource-hogging garbage.
Digital Homicide sued 100 Steam users and subpoenaed Valve for their personal details. (Source: VG247) They have since dropped the lawsuit. (Source: Kotaku)
The Kotaku editorial that Otakunomike mentioned, which blames Valve for letting the Digital Homicide situation arise in the first place.
Valve removed Digital Homicide’s games from Steam in response to the lawsuit. (Souce: Polygon)
Virtual Reality and Failed Consoles (20:50)
The HTC Vive was released on April 5th, 2016. (Source: Wikipedia)
The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer launched in 1993 with a suggested retail price of $699 US. That’s in 1993 dollars. No wonder it flopped. (Source: Wikipedia)
Wikipedia article on the Nintendo Virtual Boy.
Gunpei Yokoi died in a car accident on October 4th, 1997. He worked on the Game Boy and the Virtual Boy at Nintendo before leaving the company to work at Bandai and develop the WonderSwan. (Source: Wikipedia)
The Bandai WonderSwan was discontinued in 2003. (Source: Wikipedia)
Quality Control on Steam, Pt. 2 (25:30)
Wikipedia article on Custer’s Revenge, possibly the most offensive game of all time.
Zits & Giggles was the game Otakunomike was referring to. It managed to sell
14 copies at $299.99. (Source: Cult of Mac)
Jimquisition video about Digital Homicide. (Source: Jim Sterling on YouTube)
Merve was way off. Valve employs about 330 people. They really have no excuse for not doing quality control. (Source: Wikipedia)
Quality Control in Major Titles (33:35)
An unofficial list of bugs in Might & Magic: Heroes VI. (Source: Steam Community)
Peter “Durante” Thoman is well known for modding bad PC ports. (Source: Wired)
Durante didn’t make any fixes to the Tales of Zestiria port, but he did praise it. (Source: PC Gamer)
Blinking cursor bug in Might & Magic: Heroes VI. The patch to fix it came about five days after release. (Source: Stack Exchange)
The Trenches comic strip.
Howard Scott Warshaw had less than six weeks to develop E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. (Source: Wikipedia)
The actual Shigeru Miyamoto quote is: “A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.” (Source: The Guardian)
Final Fantasy XV was delayed to November 29th of this year. (Source: Kotaku)
Much of the Final Fantasy XIV team was fired or shuffled around after the game’s initial poor reception. (Source: Tyranny Oasis)
SiN was littered with bugs upon release and required a 31 MB patch, which was huge for a game back in 1998. (Source: Wikipedia)
A summary of The Lion King’s technical issues on Windows. (Source: Wikipedia)
Development history of DirectX. (Source: Wikipedia)
Wikipedia article on the Vulkan API.
Some information on the Mega Man PC games. (Source: Wikipedia)
DarkAge tries to play the first Mega Man PC game. It doesn’t go well. (Source: YouTube)
Total War: Rome II had a lot of technical problems at launch. Correction: Total War: Atilla was released between it and Total War: Warhammer. (Source: Wikipedia)
Yes, Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 does indeed require 6 GB of RAM at a minimum. WTF? (Source: Steam)
IGN demonstrates just how broken Tetris Ultimate was on PS4. Correction: It was not released on PS3, and it was the PS4 version that had technical issues. (Source: YouTube)
Tetris and Old Games that Are No Longer Available (53:10)
There must be some other reason why Tetris-like games don’t always get released in the West, because the Tetris Company only holds the rights for Tetris and Tetris clones. (Source: Wikipedia)
The story behind why No One Lives Forever is stuck in limbo. (Source: Kotaku)
Commander Keen on Steam, which is missing two of the games in the series.
Zombies Ate My Neighbors was on the SNES. (Source: Wikipedia)
Retro Gaming (56:30)
The game Otakunomike was describing was probably Puyo Pop. (Source: Wikipedia)
Quality Control on Steam, Pt. 3 (59:00)
Idea Factory’s games on Steam.
Localizing and Releasing Games in the West (1:00:10)
Valkyria Chronicles III was released in Japan back in January 2011. There still has not been a Western release. (Source: Wikipedia)
The next game in the Valkyria series is Valkyria: Azure Revolution. (Source: Wikipedia)
It took over 3 years for Yakuza 5 to be released in the West after its Japanese release, and Yakuza 6 hasn’t even been announced for a Western release yet. (Source: Wikipedia)
It actually took about 3 and a half years for the localized 3DS version of Dragon Quest VII to come out in the West. A Western release of Dragon Quest VIII has been announced for 2017. (Source: Wikipedia)
Sega’s Problems and Our Lovely Tradition of Shitting on Sonic (1:05:25)
The Sonic game Merve mentioned is actually called Sonic Mania. Sonic Unlimited is a
fan game. (Sources: PlayStation and badog2002 on YouTube)
The Game Grumps’ let’s play of Sonic ’06. Approach with caution if seeing glitches makes you cringe. (Source: YouTube)
Superman Games (1:09:05)
Proton Jon’s let’s play of Superman 64. (Source: YouTube)
Will There Be Another Crash? And When Should You Buy a PS4? (1:10:40)
The upcoming game in the Fate series is called Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star. (Source: PlayStation Japan on YouTube) This is not to be confused with WildTangent’s Fate series. (Source: Wikipedia)
Wildlife in Games (1:14:00)
A screenshot of deer in Total War: Shogun 2. (Source: Dom on Steam)
Steam store pages for Shelter and Abzû.
Fultoning a bear in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
Yep, you do get an achievement for killing all the buffalo in Red Dead Redemption.
(Source: Red Dead Wiki on Wikia)
Chickens and Cows (1:23:35)
Chicken cucco attack in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. (Source: Wayland Uzumaki on YouTube)
The Bovine Defense Force Initiative from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. (Source: Tech Times)
Beating up chickens cuccos in Hyrule Warriors. (Source: Game Informer on YouTube)
Playing as a Giant Cucco in Hyrule Warriors. (Source: Somewhat Awesome Games on YouTube)
Fictional Animals in Games (1:26:10)
Nugs in Dragon Age. (Source: Dragon Age Wiki on Wikia)
The teacup pigs from Valkyria Chronicles are called porcavians. (Source: Encyclopedia Europa on Wikia)
Chocobos and moogles in the Final Fantasy series. Moogles use
a system called Mognet to communicate with each other. (Source: Final Fantasy Wiki)
Some fanart of a moogle riding a chocobo. (Source: axel-kitty on DeviantArt)
“Crazy Chocobo” from the Final Fantasy XIII-2 soundtrack. Never change, video games. (Source: psychotron502 on YouTube)
The shitty aggro-metal soundtrack for Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. (Source: OVGST on YouTube)
Time Travel and the Mana Series (1:32:55)
The Dino Age ending for Chrono Trigger. (Source: Xygor on YouTube)
The Dog from Secret of Evermore. (Source: Secret of Evermore Wiki on Wikia)
Flammie from the Mana games. (Source: Wiki of Mana on Wikia)
There doesn’t seem to be any character named Cid in Secret of Mana. (Source: Wiki of Mana on Wikia)
Animal Enemies in Games (1:42:25)
Fighting a Great Bear in Dragon Age: Inquisition. (Source: MechaMonkeyz on YouTube)
The giant bear showdown from Yakuza 5. (Source: ParaParaKing)
Ape beasts from the Thief series. (Source: Thief: The Dark Wiki on Wikia)
How to defeat MJ12 Commandos in Deus Ex. (Source: Deus Ex Wiki on Wikia)
Star Fox and Games Merve Hasn’t Played (1:50:00)
Wikipedia article on Slippy Toad.
A stage with birds in Ninja Gaiden. (Source: Turmio1 on YouTube)
A Nintendo 64 ad featuring the “fun machine” slogan. (Source: Andreas Grenasberg on YouTube)
Amusement 2000 Plus in Montréal. (Source: Google Street View)
Wikipedia article on Akihabara, Tokyo. The neighbourhood has a multi-level Sega arcade called GiGO.
Official website for the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.
Official website for California Extreme.
Wikipedia article on Jackson Pollock.
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2 hr 7 min
September 18, 2016Episode #7: Death and Taxes?
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Featuring:
Merve
Lord Stoneheart
PT
TheKappa
Editor:
TheKappa
Timestamps:
0:15 – Introductions
1:05 – What We’ve Been Playing
37:00 – Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
50:25 – Microtransactions and Small DLC
1:07:30 – Story DLC and Season Passes
1:23:00 – Standalone DLC, Spinoff Games, and Quasi-Sequels
1:29:05 – Terrible Spinoffs
1:31:25 – Slightly Better Spinoffs and Spinoffs of Spinoffs
1:38:40 – Challenge DLC and Super Bosses
1:43:50 – Fan-Created Mods
1:47:15 – Games that Feel Like Expansion Packs
1:51:45 – Memorable Video Game Deaths
2:19:20 – Cutscene Deaths versus In-Game Deaths
2:34:45 – Killing Characters
2:38:25 – Death in Video Games versus Other Media
2:48:20 – Silly Deaths
2:53:40 – Purchasing Games and Sales Tax
Download link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep7
Linkdump after the jump. This episode is spoiler-heavy, so spoiler warnings for each section of the recording are included in the linkdump.
Introductions (0:15)
Music video for “Heart of Glass” by Blondie.
What We’ve Been Playing (1:05)
Wii U e-shop page for Jotun: Valhalla Edition.
Steam store page for The White March expansion for Pillars of Eternity.
Wikipedia page for Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War.
Steam store page for Regency Solitaire.
We couldn’t find any official acknowledgment that the AI in Marvel Puzzle Quest was rubber-banded, but we did find a lot of forum threads complaining about it. Here’s one from the official D3 Go! forums.
Steam store page for Faerie Solitaire.
Steam store page for Cibele.
Nina Freeman’s Twitter page.
Steam store page for Final Fantasy XI.
Steam store page for Her Story.
Steam store page for Emily is Away. It’s free!
E3 2013 trailer for Shin Megami Tensei IV. (Source: YouTube)
voidcast’s guide for getting the neutral ending in SMT IV. (Source: GameFAQs)
Launch trailer for Bravely Second: End Layer. (Source: Nintendo UK on YouTube)
Nintendo’s official site for the 3DS’s StreetPass system.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (37:00)
SPOILERS FOR DEUS EX: MANKIND DIVIDED
Steam store page for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
The Jimquisition on how Square Enix handled the Deus Ex franchise.
Microtransactions and Small DLC (50:25)
SPOILERS FOR DEUS EX: MANKIND DIVIDED
Trailer for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s Breach Mode. (Source: Xbox on YouTube)
Downloadable content guide for Shin Megami Tensei IV. (Source: IGN)
Guide for shortcut packs for Battlefield 3. (Source: IGN)
Sebastian Haley of VentureBeat explores what $100 gets you in Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode.
Overwatch loot box prices. (Source: IGN)
Some criticism of Overwatch’s loot system. (Source: The Jimquisition)
Story DLC and Season Passes (1:07:30)
SPOILERS FOR PILLARS OF ETERNITY, DISHONORED, MASS EFFECT 2, AND MASS EFFECT 3
Difficulty settings in Pillars of Eternity. (Source: Pillars of Eternity Wiki on Gamepedia)
Soulbound items in Pillars of Eternity. (Source: Pillars of Eternity Wiki on Gamepedia)
DLC for Fallout 4. (Source: Wikipedia)
Wikipedia article for Baldur’s Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast.
DLC for Dragon Age II. (Source: Wikipedia)
Information about free post-launch DLC for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. (Source: Gematsu)
Trailer for Mass Effect 2’s Overlord DLC. (Source: Machinima on YouTube)
Trailers for Dishonored DLC: The Knife of Dunwall and The Brigmore Witches. (Source: Machinima on YouTube)
Voice cast information for Dishonored 2. (Source: PC Gamer)
Trailers for Mass Effect 3 DLC: Citadel and Leviathan (Source: Mass Effect on YouTube)
Standalone DLC, Spinoff Games, and Quasi-Sequels (1:23:00)
Steam store page for Wolfenstein: The Old Blood.
Steam store page for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.
Steam store pages for Half-Life: Blue Shift and Half-Life: Opposing Force.
Trailers for Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach. (Sources: Machinima and IGN on YouTube)
Trailer for Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse. (Source: AtlusUSA on YouTube)
Terrible Spinoffs (1:29:05)
A list of Resident Evil games. Clarification: Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles and Umbrella Corps are different games. (Source: Wikipedia)
Mortal Kombat action-adventure spin-offs. (Source: Wikipedia)
Slightly Better Spinoffs and Spinoffs of Spinoffs (1:31:25)
The Assassin’s Creed Chronicles series. (Source: Wikipedia)
According to Wikipedia, there are over 130 Mega Man games. Yikes.
A let’s play of Mega Man X: Command Mission, the JRPG Mega Man spin-off. (Source: Turner4590 on YouTube)
A playthrough of Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. (Source: HellfirePlaythroughs on YouTube)
Clarification: Game Dev Tycoon and Game Dev Story are two different games. (Source: Wikipedia)
Challenge DLC and Super Bosses (1:38:40)
SPOILERS FOR STAR OCEAN: THE SECOND STORY
Megami Tensei Wiki article about Ancient of Days. (Source: Wikia)
Gabriel is the final boss of Star Ocean: The Second Story. His more powerful form is called Unlimited Gabriel. (Source: Star Ocean Wiki on Wikia)
Fan-Created Mods (1:43:50)
Website for fan game Red Alert: A Path Beyond.
The Skyrim mod TheKappa was referring to is called The Dark Brotherhood Resurrection. (Source: Nexus Mods)
Games that Feel Like Expansion Packs (1:47:15)
Trailer for Saints Row IV. (Source: GameNewsOfficial on YouTube)
Let’s plays of BioShock 2 and its DLC, Minerva’s Den. (Source: ChristopherOdd on YouTube)
Memorable Video Game Deaths (1:51:45)
SPOILERS FOR THE DARKNESS, FINAL FANTASY VI, FINAL FANTASY VII, FIRE EMBLEM: GENEALOGY OF THE HOLY WAR, RED DEAD REDEMPTION, L.A. NOIRE, THE LAST OF US, BIOSHOCK, AND FAR CRY 4
The Jackie and Jenny on the couch scene from The Darkness.
Saving Shadow in Final Fantasy VI. (Source: McTricky on YouTube)
Saving Cid in Final Fantasy VI. (Source: lethihongchi on YouTube)
General Leo’s death in Final Fantasy VI. (Source: The Gaming Mole on YouTube)
Aerith’s Death in Final Fantasy VII. (Source: ウントアカ on YouTube)
The end of Chapter 5 of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. (Source: Archayanami on YouTube)
Wikipedia article on Om Shanti Om. The plot is even more ridiculous than Merve described.
A comparison of a scene from the Swedish comedy Kopps and Akshay Kumar’s scene from Om Shanti Om. (Source: Raafic Yusuf on YouTube)
An explanation of the Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis, which I’m sure all you St. Elsewhere fans love. (Source: PBS Idea Channel on Youtube)
John Marston’s death scene in Red Dead Redemption. (Source: Ninja Bacon on YouTube)
Jack Kelso’s first mission in L.A. Noire. (Source: GTA Series Videos on YouTube)
Sarah’s death scene in The Last of Us. (Source: FusionZGamer on YouTube)
Mufasa’s death scene in The Lion King. (Source: The Lion King on YouTube)
Andrew Ryan’s death scene in BioShock. (Source: Shane Phillips on YouTube)
Far Cry 4’s secret ending. (Source: imperfectplayers on YouTube)
Cutscene Deaths versus In-Game Deaths (2:19:20)
SPOILERS FOR MASS EFFECT 2, TELLTALE’S GAME OF THRONES, TELLTALE’S THE WALKING DEAD, MASS EFFECT 3, DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION, DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS, AND MASS EFFECT 2
Death of Kelly Chambers in Mass Effect 2. (Source: Knight on YouTube)
Plot of episode 1 of Telltale’s Game of Thrones. (Source: Wikipedia)
No matter whether you save Doug or Carley in Episode 1 of The Walking Dead, Lilly kills them at the end of Episode 3. (Source: The Walking Dead Wiki on Wikia)
Sera leaving the Inquisition in Dragon Age: Inquisition. (Source: Teh Nazzy on YouTube)
Zevran’s betrayal in Dragon Age: Origins. (Source: Endolem on YouTube)
Dragon Age Wiki article on Morrigan’s Ritual. No demon babies on my watch! (Source: Wikia)
Mass Effect 2 suicide mission guide. (Source: BioWare forums)
Correction: Mordin wasn’t with the Salarian military, but the Special Tasks Group, which is more like the Citadel’s CIA. (Source: Mass Effect Wiki on Wikia)
Lydia dying in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. (Source: Johnny Ma’boy on YouTube)
Killing Characters (2:34:45)
SPOILERS FOR SPEC OPS: THE LINE
Choosing which of the hanging men to kill in Spec Ops: The Line. (Source: Flounder Box on YouTube)
Firing on the crowd in Spec Ops: The Line. (Source: Video Games Source on YouTube)
Death in Video Games versus Other Media (2:38:25)
SPOILERS FOR STAR OCEAN: TILL THE END OF TIME, HALO: REACH, AND GEARS OF WAR 3
Robert’sdeath in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time. (Source: BuffMaister on YouTube)
“Bitter Dance” from the Star Ocean: Till the End of Time soundtrack. To quote YouTube user shadowagent, “Hey,sorry your dad just died,how about some mood killing phat beats while you go get your revenge?” (Source: HellProclaimer on YouTube)
Dom’s death in Gears of War 3. (Source: WARF3RE on YouTube)
Silly Deaths (2:48:20)
SPOILERS FOR COMMAND & CONQUER: RENEGADE
The Devil Axe from the Fire Emblem series. (Source: Fire Emblem Wiki)
The Mobius escort mission Command & Conquer: Renegade. (Source: Xelger)
Purchasing Games and Sales Tax (2:53:40)
U.S. states without sales tax. South Dakota actually does have a sales tax. (Source: The Motley Fool)
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2 hr 58 min
September 03, 2016Episode #6: Trivial Pursuits
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Featuring:
Merve
Otakunomike
PT
TheKappa
Editor:
TheKappa
Timestamps:
0:15 – Introductions
1:45 – What We’ve Been Playing, Part 1
10:50 – Video Game Performance and Settings
22:05 – What We’ve Been Playing, Part 2
27:30 – Getting Distracted in Nonlinear Games
34:05 – Marketing and Social Issues
46:50 – A Tangent about Japanese Pop Culture
51:30 – Tone-Deaf Marketing
52:40 – Dishonest Marketing and Community Management
1:01:45 – Does Marketing Represent Games?
1:14:10 – Acclaim’s Advertising and Criminal Marketing
1:19:45 – The Trivia Challenge Where We Totally Didn’t Lose 40% of Our Recording and Have to Make Up the Last Six Questions on the Fly
1:37:55 – Conclusion
Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep6
Linkdump after the jump.
Introductions (0:15)
We Googled it. Technically, there isn’t a Suikoden pachinko machine, but there is a Suikoden pachisuro machine (basically a glorified slot machine), which is even worse. Nobody tell PT. (Source: Suikoden Wiki on Wikia)
What We’ve Been Playing, Part 1 (1:45)
A 64 GB PlayStation Vita memory card is available for the low, low price of $107 US on Amazon! (Holy crap, Sony.)
The Dolphin emulator.
Title Defense against Glass Joe in the Wii version of Punch-Out!! (Source: omegaevolution on YouTube)
Sinister1 speedruns Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! blindfolded at AGDQ 2014. (Source: SpeedDemosArchiveSDA on YouTube)
Video Game Performance and Settings (10:50)
MSAA stands for multisample anti-aliasing. (Source: Wikipedia)
DirectX 12 support for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is coming the week of September 5th.
(Source: TechSpot)
The three playstyles in Splinter Cell: Blacklist are actually Ghost, Panther, and Assault,
but TheKappa’s animal names are way better. (Source: Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Wiki on Wikia)
TressFX enabled vs. disabled comparison. (Source: GameKiller346 on YouTube)
What We’ve Been Playing, Part 2 (22:05)
Merve recorded his playthrough of Grow Up for your viewing pleasure.
Getting Distracted in Nonlinear Games (27:30)
The infamous “leave the fucking Hinterlands” Reddit post.
Marketing and Social Issues (34:05)
The “augs lives matter” concept art. (Source: PCGamer)
Gameplay reveal trailer for Hatred. (Source: Destructive Creations on YouTube)
John Romero later apologized for the “John Romero’s about to make you his bitch” Daikatana ad. (Source: Kotaku)
The “sexy nun” trailer for Hitman: Absolution. (Source: PanicPlay.com on YouTube)
The “edgy” Mass Effect 2 trailer for Jack. (Source: Videogamer)
A playlist of the stupid “Your mom hates Dead Space 2” promotional videos. (Source: LookAtThis000 on YouTube)
The embarrassing “she kicks high” ad for Dead or Alive 3. (Source: JuanTommyV’s Channel on YouTube)
The disturbing “seriously distracting” ad for the Game Boy Pocket. (Source: Tiny Cartridge)
The disgustingly racist ad for the white PlayStation Portable. (Source: Blogger’s Block) Weirdly enough, that wasn’t the only PSP ad that came under fire for racist
undertones; here’s one featuring squirrels. (Source: DryvBy on YouTube)
The stupidly misogynist “touch both sides” ad for the PlayStation Vita. (Source: Ads of the World)
A Tangent about Japanese Pop Culture (46:50)
The Sorceress from Dragon’s Crown. (Source: Dragon’s Crown Wiki on Wikia)
Salaries in the anime industry. (Source: Kotaku)
Tone-Deaf Marketing (51:30)
I know it has been featured in previous linkdumps, but it’s getting linked to again. Here’s Mighty No. 9’s infamous “anime fan on prom night” trailer. (Source: Deep Silver on YouTube)
Do you want to watch an NES ad featuring a terrible Zelda rap? Here you go! (Source: Zelda Dungeon on YouTube)
Dishonest Marketing and Community Management (52:40)
The Jimquisition on No Man’s Sky and whether or not Sean Murray lied about it.
Clarification: Unconditional refunds weren’t actually being offered for No Man’s Sky, but it seems like some retailers (Steam included) relaxed their refund policies for it. (Source: PC Gamer)
Clarification: Assets shown off in the E3 presentation were found in the game’s files, but not the actual presentation. This indicates that the E3 presentation was probably pre-scripted, but it doesn’t necessarily indicate that it was pre-recorded. (Source: Techraptor)
DeeJ’s name is David Dague, and he is one of Destiny’s community managers. (Source: Destiny Wiki on Wikia)
E3 2015 cinematic trailer for Dishonored 2. (Source: Constipated Owl on YouTube)
Does Marketing Represent Games? (1:01:45)
Correction: Emil Pagliarulo, the designer of the Dark Brotherhood quest line in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, didn’t work on Dragon Age II. TheKappa probably meant Fallout 3 or Fallout 4. (Sources: Wikipedia, The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages)
The trailer for Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra. (Source: IGN on YouTube)
A pre-release stream for Dragon Age: Inquisition. (Source: BioWare on Twitch)
A pre-release stream for Planet Coaster. (Source: Planet Coaster on YouTube)
A pre-release stream for Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth. (Source: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe on YouTube)
Pre-release gameplay footage for Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness. (Source: Polygon)
Clarification: Merve confused the Portal 2 instructional videos PT mentioned with the more humorous “Aperture investment opportunity” ads. Both are available on Valve’s YouTube page.
Acclaim’s Advertising and Criminal Marketing (1:14:10)
A TV commercial for the “Mortal Monday” ad campaign for Mortal Kombat. (Source: wwwmortalkombatpl on YouTube)
Turok: Evolution’s marketing campaign involved a $10000 reward for naming a kid Turok. It also gave £500 to adults who legally changed their names to Turok. As for Acclaim’s campaign to buy advertising space on tombstones to promote ShadowMan 2, the company claimed it was an April Fool’s joke. (Source: CNET)
Yes, Acclaim did offer to pay people’s speeding tickets on October 11th, 2002, the
release date of Burnout 2: Point of Impact. (Source: Gamasutra)
Watch Dogs’ marketing campaign caused a
bomb scare in Australia. (Source: IGN)
Clarification: The Aqua Teen Hunger Force ad campaign caused a bomb scare in Boston back in 2007, several years before the Boston Marathon bombings. (Source: CNN)
Back in 2000, then-mayor of San Francisco tried to have the event permits for Jet Grind Radio’s graffiti contest revoked, fearing it would inspire vandalism. (Source: Kotaku)
EA tried to market The Godfather II by sending out brass knuckles with their promotional copies of the game. (Source: the fifth item on this list from Kotaku)
If for some reason you can’t get enough bad video game marketing, here’s an entire video about it. (Source: WatchMojo.com on YouTube)
The Trivia Challenge Where We Totally Didn’t Lose 40% of Our Recording and
Have to Make Up the Last Six Questions on the Fly (1:19:45)
Wikipedia article on Ralph Baer. He developed the Magnavox Odyssey, the first commercial home video game console.
Wikipedia list of best-selling video game consoles.
Correction: The PlayStation 2 was discontinued in January 2013, a little over a month before the PlayStation 4 was announced. (Source: Wikipedia)
King Bob-omb boss battle in Super Mario 64. (Source: Check description on YouTube)
A playthrough of Prince of Persia. (Source: OtakuChest on YouTube)
Official website for composer Austin Wintory.
Marukyu Striptease gameplay from Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4. (Source: Kubz Scouts on YouTube)
Stephen Colbert’s dance battle with Rain. (Source: Rainrunway629 on YouTube)
Wikipedia article about Rain, the Mortal Kombat character. Not related to Rain, the Korean popstar.
Wikipedia article about Roberta Williams, the creator of the King’s Quest series.
King’s Quest V was ported to the NES with the religious references edited out. (Source: Wikipedia)
Mario was originally known as Jumpman. (I also would have accepted “Mr. Video.”) (Source: Wikipedia)
Wikipedia article about Carmen Sandiego.
The sad story behind why No One Lives Forever can’t be revived. (Source: Kotaku)
Wikipedia article on “All your base are belong to us” from the English version of Zero Wing.
Wikipedia article on Alyx Vance from Half-Life 2.
Clarification: While the original Half-Life was ported to PlayStation 2 (not Xbox), none of the PC expansions for Half-Life received console ports. However, the PS2 did receive the console-exclusive multiplayer expansion Half-Life: Decay. (Source: Wikipedia)
Ellen McLain played GLaDOS in Portal. She’s also an opera singer! (Source: Wikipedia)
Character page for Maxine Caulfield. (Source: Life Is Strange Wiki on Wikia)
The playable characters in Donkey Kong 64. (Source: Wikipedia)
If for some odd reason you wanted to watch the Donkey Kong Country animated TV series, someone uploaded it to YouTube. (Source: DonutOfWar and ness682 on YouTube)
You can also watch the Legend of Zelda TV series, if that’s more your speed. (Source: GamePlayersUniverse.com on YouTube)
A list of TV series and movies starring Sonic the Hedgehog. (Source: Wikipedia)
Wikipedia article about Elaine Marley from the Monkey Island series.
Conclusion (1:37:55)
No links, but thanks for listening!
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1 hr 42 min
August 19, 2016Episode #5: Metroidsexual
https://avocadogamescast.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/podcast20520edit2023.mp3

Featuring:
Merve
Wolfman Jew
Operetta
PT
TheKappa
Editor:
TheKappa
Timestamps:
0:15 – Introductions: Jokes Are Funnier When You Explain Them!
0:55 – What We’ve Been Playing, Part 1
4:30 – Metroid. So Much Metroid.
19:50 – What We’ve Been Playing, Part 2
35:00 – Games that Are So Bad They’re Good
1:10:00 – Bad Rats
1:13:45 – A Discussion about Mass Effect (Sorry, BannerThief)
1:24:10 – Favourite Characters in Games
1:44:30 – Companion Characters, the Morality of Killing, and BioShock Infinite
Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep5
Linkdump after the jump.
Introductions: Jokes Are Funnier When You Explain Them! (0:15)
The “say the whole word” segment from Community, S1E12 – “Comparative Religion.” (Source: hochsr’s channel on YouTube)
The delightful Crazy Ex-Girlfriend theme song. (Source: racheldoesstuff on YouTube)
A playthrough of P.T. (Source: HarshlyCritical on YouTube)
You can’t download and install P.T. anymore, thanks to Konami. (Source: Polygon)
The Greek alphabet. (Source: Omniglot)
What We’ve Been Playing, Part 1 (0:55)
Hyrule Warriors DLC. (Source: Nintendo)
A list of New 3DS exclusives. We were missing a few. (Source: Neogaf)
Giant Cucco gameplay in Hyrule Warriors. (Source: Somewhat Awesome Games)
Metroid. So Much Metroid. (4:30)
The Project AM2R website. Downloads have been taken down, though technically no cease-and-desist order has been issued.
Trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified, the poorly-received PS Vita shooter.
TheKappa was mistaken: Nintendo didn’t issue C&Ds or DMCA takedown notices for let’s plays; they merely placed copyright claims on them, which under YouTube’s system meant ad revenue accrued to them instead of let’s players. (Source: Kotaku) They then reversed course and allowed revenue sharing in a 70/30 agreement, but for all videos on a let’s player’s channel, not just Nintendo ones. (Source: Game Rant)
Super Metroid at SGDQ 2016. (Run by oatsngoats, sweetnumb, zoast, and Behemoth87; Source: Games Done Quick on YouTube)
Kaizo Mario World (a.k.a. “Asshole Mario”) is a series of ROM hacks for the SNES.
The Shinespark move in Metroid games. (Source: Wikitroid on Wikia)
What We’ve Been Playing, Part 2 (19:50)
Dreamfall Chapters trailer. (Source: GameSpot Trailers on YouTube)
Zero Time Dilemma trailer. (Source: Aksys Games Localization on YouTube)
Rhythm Heaven Megamix trailer. (Source: Nintendo on YouTube)
The Secret World trailer. (Source: Funcom on YouTube)
“Not my fucking tempo!” from Whiplash. (Source: Aleksa Bukvic on YouTube)
Gravity Rush was originally released back in 2012. (Source: Wikipedia)
The Amazon product page for Gravity Rush Remastered.
Abzû trailer. (Source: PlayStation on YouTube)
Trailer for the Fallout 4 “Vault-Tec Workshop” DLC. (Source: outsidexbox on YouTube)
The recently-released trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. (Source: Star Wars on YouTube)
5-year celebration trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic. (Source: swtheoldrepublic on YouTube)
Bravely Second: End Layer trailer. (Source: Nintendo UK on YouTube)
Games that Are So Bad They’re Good (35:00)
Trailer for NBC’s Smash. The show somehow lasted two seasons. (Source: tvafterdark on YouTube)
Two best friends play Deadly Premonition. (Source: TheSw1tcher on YouTube)
Let’s play of Earth Defense Force 4.1. (Source: Rice Digital on YouTube)
Let’s play of Saints Row 4. (Source: theRadBrad on YouTube)
Gameplay footage of the GTA IV “no friction” mod. (Source: linkjy on YouTube)
Here’s a death scene compilation from Jurassic Park: The Game, including the t-rex vs. triceratops scene (Source: PugKanudo on YouTube). If you want to see the kid getting eaten, check out this video (Source: BiscuitDude01 on YouTube).
A video about the “Press X to Jason” meme inspired by Heavy Rain. (Source: GameSpot on YouTube)
Wikipedia has an entire article about Duke Nukem Forever’s development!
The developers pulled Blackroom from Kickstarter to give themselves more time to work on a demo. (Source: Polygon)
A text-based let’s play of Drakengard by The Dark Id. (Source: Let’s Play Archive)
Website for the Manos: The Hands of Fate game.
Some of the “danc[ing] with the angels” lines from the intro of Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation. So much cringe! (Source: AlchemistID on YouTube)
The “conflict of interest” line from Command and Conquer: Renegade. (Source: Rokon on YouTube)
The top 10 most ridiculous things said in Last Alert. (Source: Defunct Games on YouTube)
The intro to Baten Kaitos, featuring some bad voice acting. (Source: omegaevolution on YouTube)
“A bomb!” from Deus Ex. (Source: OetkerMD on YouTube)
“Your right hand comes off?” from Resident Evil 4. (Source: neodarkid on YouTube)
A let’s play of the Game of Thrones RPG. (Source: Vergoagogo on YouTube)
The boss fight against the titular Arkham Knight in Batman: Arkham Knight. You’re better than this, Troy Baker.
A comparison of Peter Dinklage and Nolan North in Destiny. Merve would like to editorialize and say that he doesn’t think one is any better than the other; he doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. (Source: Polygon on YouTube)
Conan O’Brien in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham. (Source: Gnomediva on YouTube)
Conan O’Brien and Andy Richter Easter Egg in Halo 4. (Source: Rooster Teeth on YouTube)
A bunch of fourth wall-breaking jokes in Kid Icarus: Uprising. There’s a comment on the video referring to Pit as “the Deadpool in Nintendo.” (Source: Nicobbq on YouTube)
A let’s play of Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death. (Source: Jesse Cox on YouTube)
Merve recorded Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta so you can watch it in all its hilariously bad glory.
Bad Rats (1:10:00)
The Return of Talking Time forums.
The Bad Rats: the Rats’ Revenge Steam page.
The Bad Rats Show Steam page.
Let’s plays for Bad Rats: the Rats’ Revenge and Bad Rats Show on The Return of Talking Time.
A Discussion about Mass Effect (Sorry, BannerThief) (1:13:45)
A compilation of female Shepard Renegade moments from Mass Effect 2. (Source: Hellhammer111 on Youtube)
Meeting the Illusive Man in Mass Effect 2. (Source: mrcraka on YouTube)
Favourite Characters in Games (1:24:10)
Fire Emblem Fates character creation. (Source: GameXplain on YouTube)
Article about Squall Leonhart from Final Fantasy VIII. (Source: Final Fantasy Wiki on Wikia)
A cutscene from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask featuring Skull Kid. (Source: CountBleck2009 on YouTube)
Singing in the car with Pierce from Saints Row: The Third. (Source: Hathur on YouTube)
Steven Heck from Alpha Protocol displaying his complete lack of subtlety. (Source: PliktSaga on YouTube)
A.V. Club article about Lakitu in Super Mario 64.
Insult sword fighting in The Secret of Monkey Island. (Source: Evan M on YouTube)
Companion Characters, the Morality of Killing, and BioShock Infinite (1:44:30)
Funny Wheatley moments from Portal 2. (Source: Cheapbit)
The game design of Xenoblade Chronicles X and related games. (Source: Gamasutra)
To clarify, Xenosaga Episode III is basicallyfour games compressed into one, since the decision to end the series prematurely wasn’t made until after Episode II. (Source: Wikpedia)
Persona 4: Chie Satonaka and Yosuke Hanamura character pages. (Source: Megami Tensei Wiki on Wikia)
Best HK-47 moments from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. (Source: Shem L on YouTube)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Midna character page. (Source: Zeldapedia on YouTube)
Some footage of Elizabeth in BioShock Infinite from early on in the game. (Source: DaniellllD on YouTube)
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August 07, 2016Episode #4: No.
https://avocadogamescast.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/podcast20420edit2011.mp3
Featuring:
Merve
PT
Armando
Snazzlenuts
TheKappa
Editor:
TheKappa
Timestamps:
0:15 – Introductions: We Hate Video Games!
40:55 – Driving in Games
47:40 – Movement in Games
53:35 – We’re Not on Topic Anymore and We Don’t Care
1:00:00 – Movement in Games Pt. 2
1:08:15 – Clichéd Stories and Characters
1:10:05 – Movement in Games Pt. 3
1:13:45 – Fumblecore
1:18:25 – Games with Real-World Movement
1:21:05 – Kinect and Talking to Machines
1:25:10 – Fumblecore Pt. 2
1:28:05 – Games from Our Childhood
1:50:00 – Games that Today’s Kids Will Remember
1:54:40 – Gaming at School and Edutainment
2:03:20 – Typing Games and Music Games
2:06:25 – Gaming Magazines
Download link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep4
Linkdump after the jump.
Introductions: We Hate Video Games! (0:15)
Reddit thread about problems with Overwatch matchmaking.
Kotaku article about how the Batman: Arkham Knight PC port is still broken.
Sorry, PT; PHOENIXZERO on Neogaf beat you to the Poochie joke.
Batman: Arkham City was released a little under five years ago on October 18th, 2015. (Source: Wikipedia)
Kotaku article about receiving death threats over reporting on No
Man’s Sky’s delay.
The wacky plot of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. (Source: Super Mario Wiki)
The Salt and Sanctuary skill tree. (Source: Salt and Sanctuary Wiki on Fextralife)
If you want to watch all of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End’s cutscenes as a movie, you can. (Source: RabidRetrospectGames on YouTube)
The Catmancer class from Bravely Second. (Source: Bravely Wiki on Neoseeker)
The mini game that TheKappa mentioned is called “Chompcraft.” Here’s a video
guide about it. (Source: New Game Plus on YouTube)
The “orc captain mode” that TheKappa mentioned is called the Nemesis system. (Source: Shadow of Mordor Wiki on Wikia)
Amazon product page for Gravity Rush Remastered. At the start of our recording, the price was $21.38. At the end of our recording, the price was $21.24. The price later dropped below $20 before shooting back up into the mid-twenties. When this was posted online, the price had gone back down to $19.89.
Driving in Games (40:55)
An ode to the Mako from Mass Effect. (Source: PI0n33r on YouTube)
Merve and TheKappa were mistaken. It wasn’t Forza 2 or Forza Horizon that came out in 2014; it was Forza Horizon 2. (Source: Wikipedia)
Movement in Games (47:40)
Article about rocket jumping in the Quake series. (Source: Quake Wiki on Wikia)
Lawbreakers preview. (Source: Polygon)
Overwatch heroes. Click on a character to see its abilities. (Source: Overwatch Wiki on Gamepedia)
The second colossus from Shadow of the Colossus. Take a look at its “lumbering” movement. (Source: jacksepticeye on YouTube)
Scoring a combo worth 36 million points in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3. (Source: etanante on YouTube)
We’re Not on Topic Anymore and We Don’t Care (53:35)
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 glitch compilation. (Source: Eurogamer on YouTube)
Why No One Lives Forever can’t be resurrected. The companies involved are Warner Bros. and Activision. Activision merged with Vivendi, which had bought Fox Interactive. (Source: Kotaku)
A let’s play of 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. (Source: xChaseMoney2 on YouTube)
A screenshot from Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. (Source: Look, Robot)
Movement in Games Pt. 2 (1:00:00)
A let’s play of Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition. (Source: Radek Ratel on YouTube)
A let’s play of Guacamelee. (Source: VintageBeef on YouTube)
Runner vision in Mirror’s Edge Catalyst. (Source: Electronic Arts)
Clichéd Stories and Characters (1:08:15)
A satirical review of “Ubisoft Game.” (Source: games.on.net via The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine)
Movement in Games Pt. 3 (1:10:05)
Some first-person footage in Grand Theft Auto V. (Source: Achievement Hunter on YouTube)
Music video for “Smack My Bitch Up” by The Prodigy. Warning: NSFW. (Source: Max on Vimeo)
Some footage of Mirror’s Edge in VR. (Source: TCTNGaming on YouTube)
The microwave hall in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. (Source: hexen2k7 on YouTube)
Fumblecore (1:13:45)
Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s fumblecore joke about Duke Nukem Forever. (Source: The Escapist on YouTube)
A let’s play of Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015. (Source: Game Grumps on YouTube)
What it looks like to beat QWOP.
QWOP 2 parody trailer. (Source: Skux720 on YouTube)
Play 2QWOP! (Source: Foddy)
A let’s play of 4-player coop mode in Octodad: Dadliest Catch. (Source: The Infamous Gentlemen on YouTube)
Games with Real-World Movement (1:18:25)
People playing Johann Sebastian Joust. (Source: Node on YouTube)
People playing B.U.T.T.O.N. Correction: B.U.T.T.O.N. uses multiple controllers. (Source: Rev3Games on YouTube) Fun fact: B.U.T.T.O.N. and Sportsfriends, the compilation that includes Johann Sebastian Joust, were both developed by Die Gute Fabrik.
Kinect and Talking to Machines (1:21:05)
People playing FRU on Kinect. (Source: GameSpot on YouTube)
FRU was released on July 13th, 2016. (Source: FRU presskit)
Fumblecore Pt. 2 (1:25:10)
A let’s play of Grow Home. Merve was quite mistaken about the control scheme; you actually move the legs with the left thumbstick and the arms with the left and right bumpers. (Source: VintageBeef on YouTube)
Games from Our Childhood (1:28:05)
Gameplay footage of the arcade classic Defender. (Source: SILKIE’S ARCADE on YouTube)
Gameplay footage of the Atari 2600 classic Barnstorming. (Source: sloobro on YouTube)
Gameplay footage of the Atari 8-bit classic Star Raiders. (Source: Electron Dancers on YouTube)
The Great Deku Tree quest from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. (Source: Games2012x’s channel on YouTube)
Play Donald Duck’s Playground online. (Source: Play DOS Games Online)
A let’s play of Cannon Fodder. (Source: JimPlaysGames on YouTube)
Gameplay footage of the Windows version of Pipe Dream. (Source: buffaloghost on YouTube)
A let’s play of Clyde’s Adventure. (Source: lingyan203 on YouTube) Merve misremembered: there are no enemies. The game Merve was thinking of was Hocus Pocus. (Source: Daniel’s Game Vault on YouTube)
Gameplay footage of The California Raisins and the Cereal Factory. (Source: ed1269
on YouTube) The cancelled NES sequel was subtitled The Grape Escape. (Source: Wikipedia)
A let’s play of War in Middle Earth. (Source: aulddragon on YouTube)
Games that Today’s Kids Will Remember (1:50:00)
As of this writing, Achievement Hunter has 220 videos on their Minecraft playlist.
Gaming at School and Edutainment (1:54:40)
A let’s play of Crosscountry Canada. (Source: Old World Gamer on YouTube)
Gameplay footage of Math Circus. (Source: lingyan203 on YouTube) Merve was mistaken: the seal mini-game is not at all like a Tower of Hanoi puzzle.
BuzzFeed “article” about Math Circus. The lion game looks more like the Tower of Hanoi.
Typing Games and Music Games (2:03:20)
New York Times article about the creation of Mavis Beacon and people who think
she’s real.
Demo video for All the Right Type 3 Plus. Fun fact: Ingenuity Works, the people who made Crosscountry Canada, also made All the Right Type. (Source: ingenuityworks’s channel on YouTube)
Gameplay footage of Mario Teaches Typing. (Source: NintendoComplete on YouTube)
Wikipedia article about Miracle Piano Teaching System.
Gaming Magazines (2:06:25)
Game Informer’s April Fool’s “Game Infarcer” feature for 2016.
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July 22, 2016Episode #3: Nintendo Murder Resort
https://avocadogamescast.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/podcast20320edit201.mp3
Featuring:
Merve
PT
Wolfman Jew
Lord Stoneheart
TheKappa
Editor:
TheKappa
Timestamps:
0:15 – Introductions
35:55 – Summer Games Done Quick
48:40 – Games We Would Speedrun
52:45 – A Rant about Super Mario Bros. 2
55:35 – Games We Would Speedrun Pt. 2
1:01:30 – Streamers and Let’s Players
1:11:45 – Other Game-Related Video Content
1:15:10 – Changing Games for Foreign Markets
1:17:45 – Video Game Budgets and Sales
1:20:20 – Control Schemes and the Bizarre Saga of Too Human
1:35:00 – Text-Based Let’s Plays, Other Video Content, and Walkthroughs
1:43:20 – Memorable Video Game Settings
2:00:15 – Let’s All Shit on Sonic and DreamWorks! Yay!
2:09:15 – Open-World Games
2:24:50 – Visually Interesting Settings
2:37:40 – Pokémon Settings
2:39:20 – Visually Interesting Settings Pt. 2
Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep3
Linkdump after the jump.
Introductions (0:15)
Wolfman Jew writes for Source Gaming. Go read his articles!
Downloadable content list for Fallout: New Vegas. (Source: Wikipedia) The “Courier” DLC is Lonesome Road.
A let’s play of the Foundry level in Doom. (Source: GameRiot)
A Digital Foundry analysis of Doom’s Vulkan patch. (Source: Eurogamer)
The Dolphin emulator for Gamecube and Wii.
Pokémon Picross trailer.
Hatoful Boyfriend’s true ending, called “Hurtful
Boyfriend”. (Source: PressHeartToContinue) [Warning: contains spoilers]
Go play Frog Fractions right now!
The Frog Fractions 2 Kickstarter, complete with a $2 billion stretch goal to buy Oculus back from Facebook.
We already linked to the now infamous “anime fan on prom night” trailer for Mighty No. 9 in the previous linkdump, so have an anime fan on prom night remix instead. (Source: Blue Renegade The Second)
Overview of the Red Faction series. (Source: Wikipedia)
Mike Cosimano’s review of Pokémon GO for Destructoid.
Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s terrible Pokémon GO jokes. Please, make them
stop. (Source: Destructoid)
News story about Evolve going free-to-play. (Source: Engadget)
Ryse: Son of Rome execution montage. (Source: John TheRenegade)
Summer Games Done Quick (35:55)
The Games Done Quick website.
YouTube archive of SGDQ 2016.
Reddit user suudo’s links to Twitch archive timestamps for SGDQ 2016.
SGDQ 2016: Magrunner: Dark Pulse by MattyIce3131.
SGDQ 2016: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time glitch exhibition by Piticarus.
SGDQ 2016: Bionic Commando by PJ.
A tool-assisted speedrun of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door by Malleo.
SGDQ 2016: Deus Ex by Heinki.
AGDQ 2015: Banjo-Kazooie 100% run by Stivitybobo. (Awesome Games Done Quick is the winter version of SGDQ, benefiting the Prevent Cancer Foundation.) Grant Kirkhope, the game’s composer, calls in during the middle of the run.
SGDQ 2016: Jak and Daxter by Bonesaw577. (It’s hilarious, but it’s a total shitshow.)
SGDQ 2016: Ty the Tasmanian Tiger by Kythol. (It’s one of the rare SGDQ videos with more dislikes than likes.)
SGDQ 2016: Super Metroid race by oatsngoats, sweetnumb, zoast, and Behemoth87.
SGDQ 2016: Super Mario 64 race by Cheese05, Puncayshun, Biinny, and Simply.
SGDQ 2016: The Goonies II race by Dragondarch and Darkwing Duck.
SGDQ 2016: Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II race by Skavenger216, feasel, Gyre, and JamEvil.
SGDQ 2016: Super Mario Sunshine by BounceyBoy.
SGDQ 2016: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds by Ahamplan.
SGDQ 2016: Demon’s Souls by saintmillion.
Games We Would Speedrun (48:40)
HowLongToBeat, a website that tells you how long it takes on average to complete a game.
The Portal speedrun world record is currently held by D14bl075 with a time of 8:26. Holy crap.
SGDQ 2016: Jet Set Radio by Maxylobes.
SGDQ 2016: Guacamelee by Grimelios.
AGDQ 2015: Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels by GameJ06.
A Rant about Super Mario Bros. 2 (52:45)
The legacy of Super Mario Bros. 2. (Source: Wikipedia)
Dying from a poison mushroom on the first level of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels in a blind run. That mushroom is a jerk. (Source: lecoffeebandit)
Games We Would Speedrun Pt. 2 (55:35)
Apparently you can speedrun Madden. There’s even a world record run for it. (Source: Decon082)
The “Sportz” comic by Penny Arcade.
RPG Limit Break is a charity speedrunning marathon for RPGs that raises money for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
RPG Limit Break 2016: Final Fantasy series relay race.
I already linked to it above, but have the link to it again: AGDQ 2015’s Banjo-Kazooie 100% run by Stivitybobo.
SGDQ 2016: Donkey Kong 64 by 2dos. Here’s where they jump into the multiplayer mode.
SGDQ 2015: Banjo-Tooie by kaptainkohl.
Streamers and Let’s Players (1:01:30)
The Twitch Plays Pokémon Twitch channel.
The weird mythology of Twitch Plays Pokémon. (Source: The A.V. Club)
Ben Kuchera of Polygon praised the sex scenes in Wolfenstein: The New Order. Rich Drummond of Gaming Tech United criticized them. Funnily enough, these pieces appeared one right after the other in the Google search results for “wolfenstein new order sex scene.”
A let’s play of Lollipop Chainsaw. (Source: theRadBrad)
A YouTube collection of Game Center CX videos.
The Battletoads episodes of Game Center CX: Part 1 and Part 2.
A YouTube playlist of Frank Cifaldi playing unreleased games.
A let’s play of Deadly Premonition. (Source: TheSw1tcher)
Other Game-Related Video Content (1:11:45)
The YouTube channel of Jeremy Parish (a.k.a. Toastyfrog).
Playlist of Angry Video Game Nerd episodes.
The Chrontendo YouTube channel by Dr. Sparkle. (Also includes Chronsega and Chronturbo.)
Greg Sewart’s Generation 16.
Changing Games for Foreign Markets (1:15:10)
Merve was somewhat mistaken. It wasn’t the Persona sub-series that faced localization issues due to religious references; it was games from the wider Megami Tensei series (Source: Wikipedia). In fact, many of them didn’t initially get released in North America, and the first two games in the series are only playable in English via ROM-hack translation (Source: GameSkinny). Wolfman Jew, however, was correct. In Revelations: Persona, the first game in the Persona sub-series, the character of Masao was made black and made to go by his nickname Mark for the English release. The PSP re-release reverted this change. (Source: Wikipedia)
The real reason for the Skeleton King’s redesign is unknown. It might have to do with copyright issues, or it may be because of Chinese game censorship regulations. (Source: Gamepedia) However, there is no actual ban on the depiction of skeletons. (Source: Tech in Asia)
2016’s Ghostbusters was denied release in China. (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)
Merve and TheKappa were a little misleading about Red Dawn. To be clear, the Red Dawn remake was about a North Korean invasion, but the original was about a Soviet invasion, not a Chinese one. What they meant was that originally, the remake was supposed to be about a Chinese invasion, but it was changed to North Korean so that the Chinese box office could be secured. (Source: Wikipedia)
Changes made to Diablo III for Chinese release. (Source: Tech in Asia)
The Warcraft movie did so well in China, it broke the record for #1 non-weekend opening in the country. (Source: io9)
Video Game Budgets and Sales (1:17:45)
It’s hard to find actual figures for video game budgets, since companies tend to keep them secret, but Bungie’s devs have denied that Destiny’s budget was $500 million. (Source: Gamespot)
Tomb Raider sold 3.4 million copies in its first four weeks, but failed to hit Square Enix’s internal sales targets. However, what exactly its internal sales targets were is
unknown. (Source: Eurogamer)
Though Mirror’s Edge was initially projected to hit around 3 million in sales, it sold just over 1 million by a few months after its release and has sold over 2.5 million copies to date. It was neither a major success nor a major flop. (Source: Wikipedia)
Control Schemes and the Bizarre Saga of Too Human (1:20:20)
Metal Gear Solid’s bizarre control scheme. (Source: StrategyWiki)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’s less bizarre control scheme. (Source: Konami)
Too Human’s control scheme. (Source: Too Human Wiki)
Article chronicling the changes in Too Human over its decade-long development cycle. (Source: Unseen 64)
A post-mortem on Silicon Knights. (Source: Neogaf)
Some information about Precursor Games’ failed Kickstarters. (Source: Kotaku)
Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance’s control scheme. (Source: StrategyWiki)
Proposal for a better Too Human control scheme. (Source: GameFAQs)
Control schemes for the Pikmin games. (Source: Pikipedia)
Star Wars: TIE Fighter’s control scheme. (Source: StrategyWiki)
Control scheme for MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat. (Source: GL-Chozo4’s MechWarrior Resource Depot. It’s an Angelfire webpage. I’m not joking.)
AGDQ 2015: Batman: Arkham City by cojosao, who switches back and forth between controller and mouse + keyboard.
Silent Hunter’s control scheme. (Source: SubSoWesPac)
Text-Based Let’s Plays, Other Video Content, and Walkthroughs (1:35:00)
The Let’s Play Archive, which includes both text-based and video let’s plays.
Doom secrets locations guide. (Source: Video Games Blogger)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’s cutscenes cut together as a five-and-a-half-hour movie. (Source: GLPtv)
Achievement Hunter’s GO!
Memorable Video Game Settings (1:43:20)
Bloodborne screenshot. An “interconnected world” in Wolfman Jew’s taxonomy. (Source: Fextralife)
Deadly Premonition screenshot. A “novelistic setting” in Wolfman Jew’s taxonomy. (Source: Silent Hill Historical Society)
Super Mario 3D World concept art. A “world explored through movement” in Wolfman Jew’s taxonomy. (Source: Gamespot)
Wikipedia article on Columbo.
Dragon Age Wiki article on Kirkwall from Dragon Age II.
An A.V. Club article on the setting of Chrono Trigger.
Earthbound Wiki article on the Nowhere Islands from Mother 3.
Mass Effect Wiki article on the Citadel. The Asari were the first to discover it.
News reports by Three Dog from Fallout 3. (Source: Vanadium)
The Lord of the Rings Online website.
People on the Division subreddit complaining about vendor dialogue.
Dialogue from Diablo’s Griswold. (Source: NoobsourceReviews)
Lord Stoneheart was referencing Lisa’s “catchphrase” from The Simpsons. (Source:
ThingsICantFindOtherwise)
Let’s All Shit on Sonic and DreamWorks! Yay! (2:00:15)
The “gotta go fast” catchphrase, which is now a target of mockery. (Source: Know Your Meme)
Knuckles, the edgier version of Sonic. (Source: Sonic News Network Wiki)
Shadow, the even edgier version of Sonic. (Source: Sonic News Network Wiki)
The Game Grumps let’s play of Sonic Boom.
A trailer for Shark Tale. Scroll down to the description to see how stacked the voice cast is.
The Simpsons mocking DreamWorks with the fake trailer for Cards. (Source: Gresham Inc)
Wolfman Jew’s piece on Sonic for Source Gaming. It’s a more coherent, better researched, and more detailed version of many of the things we were saying on
the podcast. Go read it, you nerds!
Super BunnyHop’s video essay on the first level of every major Sonic game.
The Sonic Twitter account making fun of Mighty No. 9’s release.
Open-World Games (2:09:15)
Sleeping Dogs map. (Source: Sleeping Dogs Wiki)
Grand Theft Auto V map. (Source: iGTA5)
Vendor extortion mission in Sleeping Dogs. (Source: theRadBrad)
Interview with Sleeping Dogs developers about talking to Triad members and retired Hong Kong cops. (Source: Siliconera)
Saints Row IV “romance” scenes. (Source: xPinrose331x)
Saints Row Wiki article on Saints Row: The Third’s Steelport.
Saints Row Wiki article on Saints Row 2’s Stilwater.
Grand Theft Auto III map. (Source: Warl on the Steam Community)
Visually Interesting Settings (2:24:50)
Screenshot of Killer7. (Source: Moby Games)
Screenshot of Limbo. (Source: Steam store)
Screenshot of Mirror’s Edge. (Source: Steam store)
Screenshot of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. (Source: Steam store)
Walkthrough with screenshots for Burmecia, Realm of Eternal Rain in Final Fantasy IX. (Source: RPG Classics)
Screenshot of Columbia from BioShock Infinite. (Source: Steam store)
Video footage of Main Street USA in the Magic Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World. (Source: iThemePark)
Screenshot of Rapture from BioShock. (Source: Steam store)
Screenshot of Rapture before its collapse from BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea – Episode 1. (Source: Steam store)
Pokémon Settings (2:37:40)
Mehdi Mulani wrote a program to put the entire world map of Pokémon FireRed in a single image. Here’s the result. (Source: Medium)
Kalos from Pokémon X & Y. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Alola from Pokémon Sun & Moon. (Source: Bulbapedia)
Visually Interesting Settings Pt. 2 (2:39:20)
Trailer for Fract OSC. Please play this game so that Merve feels like less of a hipster.
Screenshot of Just Cause 2. Panau is a wonderful “murder resort.”
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