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Ep. 257 - Building the Sandwich While You're Eating It, with Chris Plante

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EIC of Polygon and co-host of The Besties Chris Plante fills in for Frank on topics like the Cyberpunk anime, Anthem, and a Republican poet’s paradise.

Questions this week:

  1. How can game companies draw attention back to their titles after a botched release? (07:07)
  2. How do you make collecting treasure in a game feel significant? (14:14)
  3. What would you put in The Orange Box 2? (20:12)
  4. How would you quantify an experience point? (26:07)
  5. Design a game based on a White House press conference. (32:59)
  6. From PAX 2022: An interview with Starbucks Workers United organizer (37:59)
  7. MoxBagel re-asks: What’s the ideal video game to play over dinner? (41:11)
  8. Has a plot hole in a game’s story ever ruined the game for you? (48:37)
  9. What is the Avengers: Endgame of video games? (58:14)

    10. LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design – Panic! At The Disco songs (01:05:38)

    Recommendations and Outro (01:18:57)

    If you look behind this episode’s waterfall you’ll find people discussing it in the forums!

    A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

    • Disney’s Darkwing Duck
    • The Besties
    • General Chaos
    • Mortal Kombat
    • GoldenEye 007
    • Super Smash Brothers series
    • Cyberpunk 2077
    • Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
    • Starfield
    • Anthem
    • Assassin’s Creed series
    • Silent Hill 2
    • Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series
    • Tomb Raider series
    • Deus Ex series
    • Marvel Avengers
    • Gex series
    • Portal series
    • Half-Life: Alyx
    • Quantum Conundrum
    • Counter-Strike series
    • Team Fortress series
    • Back 4 Blood
    • Crusader Kings series
    • Perfect Tides
    • Hollow Knight
    • Baldur’s Gate series
    • Legend of Zelda series
    • Super Hydlide
    • Demonschool (now wishlistable on Steam)
    • Paper Mario series
    • Samba De Amigo
    • Elite Beat Agents
    • Xanadu (1980)
    • Space Channel 5
    • Papers, Please
    • Gears 5
    • Dark Souls series
    • The Last of Us series
    • Genshin Impact
    • Deadly Premonition
    • NieR: Automata
    • Kentucky Route Zero
    • Persona series
    • Call of Duty series
    • Spec Ops: The Line
    • BioShock series
    • Dead & Buried (1981)
    • One Piece
    • Halo series
    • Avengers: Endgame (2019)
    • Fortnite series
    • Katamari Damacy
    • Hook
    • John Wick (2014)
    • John Wick Hex
    • EarthBound

      Recommendations:

      Jaffe: Watch One Piece

      Brandon: hold the up and down buttons to control those barrels in the Carnival Zone in Sonic 3, don’t watch Austin Powers, don’t watch any of the Bill & Ted movies, Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)

      Tim: Check out Star Trek: Discovery if you want to see David Cronenberg be weird and Michelle Yeoh be weird

      Chris: Subscribe to Shudder or The Criterion Channel

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      Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Chris Plante. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

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