Featuring:
Merve
The Kappa

Editor:
The Kappa

Timestamps:
0:15 – Introduction
1:15 – What We’ve Been Playing, Part 1
35:00 – This Year’s Console Launches
44:40 – Marvel’s Avengers
1:11:20 – What We’ve Been Playing, Part 2
1:18:00 – Games that Influenced Us
3:05:55 – Conclusion

Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep72

Podcast header image from Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Linkdump and spoiler warnings after the jump.

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• Wikipedia article on the Xbox Series X.
• Wikipedia article on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
• Clarification: Assassin’s Creed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla were indeed all built on the same engine, AnvilNext 2.0. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Wikipedia article on the Breath of Fire series.
• Article on the giant children bug in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. (Source: Gamerant)
• Confirmation: Flyting was indeed a real thing. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Wikipedia article on Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
• Clarification: Merve was not counting spin-off games (aside from Judgment) in his tally of Yakuza games. Moreover, many of the spin-off games were never released outside of Japan. (Source: Wikipedia)
• A screenshot of Yakuza: Like a Dragon’s protagonist using a vibrator as a weapon. (Source: Merve’s screenshots on Steam Community)
• Wikipedia article on L.A. Noire.

• American department store Kohl’s, not to be confused with Canadian bookstore Coles. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Wikipedia article on Sackboy: A Big Adventure.

• Wikipedia article on Marvel’s Avengers.
• Article on Avengers’ poor sales. One analyst estimates it only sold 3 million copies. (Source: Screen Rant)
• Wikipedia article on Anthem.
• Wikipedia article on the upcoming Gotham Knights.
• Correction: Square Enix’s HD Games division reported a loss of ¥6.5 billion. (Source: @gibbogame on Twitter)
• Ishaan Sahdev’s retrospective on Monolith Soft. The name of the Nintendo exec who handled Monolith was Hitoshi Yamagami. (Source: Kotaku)
• Why Polish securities law affected the announcement of Cyberpunk 2077’s delay. (Source: Game Informer)

• Steam store page for Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
• Wikipedia article on Halo 4.
• Wikipedia article on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019).

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR DEUS EX. MINOR SPOILERS FOR DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS.

• Wikipedia article on Warcraft: Orcs & Humans.
• Wikipedia article on Marble Drop.
• Wikipedia article on the Incredible Machine series.
• Wikipedia article on Final Fantasy Tactics.
• The “twelve X” game The Kappa was referring to was Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings. (Source: Final Fantasy Wiki on Fandom)
• Wikipedia article on RollerCoaster Tycoon.
• Destructoid’s review of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. Correction: Merve meant “review,” not “interview.”
• Wikipedia article on Halo: Combat Evolved.
• Wikipedia article on Deus Ex.
• The name of the religious faction in Deus Ex: Invisible War is the Order. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Wikipedia article on Fallout 3.
• Correction: You drive on the right in Grand Theft Auto, because it was set in the United States, not the United Kingdom. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Wikipedia article on Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4.
• Wikipedia article on Persona 5.
• Wikipedia article on Dragon Age: Origins.
• Wikipedia article on The Walking Dead.
• Wikipedia article on Anthem.
• Wikipedia article on Super Mario 64.
• Wikipedia article on Undertale.

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