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Parsely Text Adventures 

Untitled Goose Game (https://goose.game)

People identifying with this game:

• I Am The Horrible Goose That Lives In The Town

• “For some reason, where context was left blank, I filled it in with details that made the goose’s actions even more obnoxious. Over and over, my friends would remind me that this was not a normal or healthy way to approach the game.”

• “Mods I want for Untitled Goose Game”

• Brits in other’s history books… 

• “Everyone wants a revolution, no one wants to do the dishes.”

• “Mess with the HONK…”

Deadpool (video game)

videogamedunkey and jschlatt’s short Goose videos

Push Me Pull You (https://pmpygame.com)

The explainer video: How Four Friends Made Untitled Goose Game by AccidentHonk honk honk Untitled Goose Game honk. Honk, Goose (http://twitter.com/bretonstriped) and Goose (http://twitter.com/kotorcomics) Music by Goose (http://twi...youtube.com

The original Goose

FU: The Occupation

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

Crypt of the Necrodancer 

Why Zelda drops frames

Why The Last of Us does not drop frames

How Oldschool Sound/Music worked

Nintendo’s hedge on one console for all situations 

FU: Stadia and the future of consoles 

“The ability to see, touch and feel products as well as take items home immediately rank highest among the reasons consumers choose to shop in stores versus online, according to Retail Dive's Consumer Survey.” 

Sony’s PlayStation 5 won’t outperform Google’s Stadia. Does it matter?

Universal's Super Nintendo World set to open next spring

Super Nintendo World opening with two rides, interactive console experience

Bastion & Slay the Spire 

Alex sent a PPT

PS3 Backwards Compatibility Model Number List

List of PlayStation games incompatible with PlayStation 2

PlayStation Now

NY Times Report: “How Apple’s Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls”

Spotify finally works with Siri

The Last of Us Launch Editions 

2019 Overwatch League Grand Finals

This episode was recorded on March 31st 2019 and posted 7 months later. Some of the predictions about the future hardware are outdated now, but we had some great thoughts on some great games that it would have been a shame to lose. We’re still getting the hang of this posting thing…

MTG War of the Spark Official Trailer

Really Bad Chess

Apple Arcade

Stadia

Stadia announcement

Wii Mini

Puss in Book

Detroit: Become Human

Red Steel

The Occupation

UNDERTALE

Worst State of the Anything since Trump did his version

Nintendo Direct February 2019

Overwatch League

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Recorded February 8, 2019 and posted exactly 4 months later.

Bandersnatch Flowchart: https://i.redd.it/d0bpn1v1g6721.png

Deltarune

The Witness 

Yearly themes - Cortex

The Pillars of the Earth

You’re watching the Disney Channel

The Inner Game

Shortcuts

Trojan Horse (please click)

Dan’s mood shortcut

Dan’s sleep shortcut

How to integrate google sheets and siri shortcuts

Kingdom Hearts (Series)

Kingdom Hearts Out of Context

why i cant introduce kingdom hearts to my friends

GET UP ON THE HYDRA’S BACK

Red Dead’s 80 second rule

How Long to Beat

Speedrun.com

All the great games!

Recorded 12/4/2018 and posted not That much later.

Pokemon Let’s Go

• Overcooked

• Mini Metro

• “The All-New Apple Pencil”

• “All The Great Shows!”

Red Dead Redemption 2

• Heavy Rain

• The Last of Us

• The Elder Scrolls Online

Tetris Effect

We find Overwatchafter everyone else 

• The Overwatch League

• MTG

• Overwatch Animated Short | "Recall"

• Agonius

• “No Mercy”– The Living Tombstone  

• https://luciomusic.com/

Playstation Classic– “Power” to the Players

Baggate

Recorded 9/16/2018 and posted much much later.

iOS Manifesto

Monopoly (Tony had no idea how many there were on the app store)

Holedown

Mini metro

Flow Free

Desert Golfing (Number 29 in the Sports category on the App Store at the time of recording)

Scalak

Hexalogic

Hearthstone

.projekt

Shadomatic

Riddlestones

The Witness

Really Bad Chess

Flipflop Solitaire

Lifeline

Nintendo Direct

Animal Crossing Switch

Final Fantasy VII on Switch

Mega Man on Switch

Input lag on televisions. Know before you buy.

Pokemon Let’s Go

Town [working title]

Octopath traveler

We Happy Few

Spider Man

List of Spider Man games. The sheer number of them will surprise you.

Superman 64

Lego Island

The PS2 Spider-man game we’re talking about (Car Punching)

Spider-man (1982) (Screenshot)

Adventure for the Atari 2600

The annoying bat

Aaaaand, we’re back to the Switch

Breath of the Wild, unfortunately our 2017 GOTY

Super Mario Odyssey

Senran kagura reflexions

List of Rated M games for the Switch

Sennheiser 506080 Game One

PUBG

Fortnite

https://news.avclub.com/fortnite-has-now-been-cited-in-more-than-200-divorce-pr-1829084255

The Last of Us: Factions MP

Recorded 8/2/2018 and posted much much later.

Switch Follow up

Stardew Valley

Minecraft (with mods)

Breath of the Wild

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Game of the Year

Firewatch

–Contentious Conversation and the Director's Commentary

Life is Strange Before the Storm

Journey

Wolfenstein II

–Heavy.com

–Polygon

–Kotaku

Magic: The Gathering

Red Deck and Blue Deck we used, from the Core Set 2019

Teachers Against Education (http://teachersagainst.education)

Game we’re (Tony and Dan) excited about from E3

Last of Us II

Starfield

Elder Scrolls VI

Spyro Reignited Trilogy

We Happy Few

Fallout 76

Ghost of Tsuchima

Trover Saves the Universe

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Metro Exodus

Biomutant

Death Stranding

Cyberpunk 2077

The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit

Kingdom Hearts III

Accidental theme of gaming past, present, and future.

Recorded 7/15/2018 and posted about a half a year later.

References

Horizon Zero Dawn

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

The Last of Us

Super Meat Boy

Undertale (Yahtzee review)

Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley 100 Years Video

PSOne  

Gamecube HipGear Screen

Pokémon Games

Smogon University

Nintendo DS

Pokémon Snakewood (Zombie Hack): Pokemon Snakewood GBA Hack Game Official Website

Teachers Against Education

The gang gets together in person once more at the secret Manhattan bunker to discuss Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

What, no notes?? It was an in-person episode, give us a break!

Recorded 1/20/2018 and posted one day shy of a year later.

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REFERENCES
Horizon Zero Dawn
The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Super Mario Bros.
The Last of Us
Undertale
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
South Park: The Fractured but Whole
Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance
Super Mario Odyssey
No Man’s Sky
Rocket League

CREDITS

Tony, Dan, Alex, Sydney

POST-CREDITS SCENE

Welcome back to Alex’s Super Show Notes Show!

...Skyrim...

...Horizon Zero Dawn...

...Breath of the Wild...

    There’s a few ways to objectively determine which game is the best. They’re all wrong, but let’s jump in and see if we can learn something anyway.

    As of Summer 2018, Skyrim is the 12th best-selling video game of ALL-TIME, beating out popular titles such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (16th) and Sonic the Hedgehog (47th).

    Horizon Zero Dawn, available only on PlayStation 4, is just the 2nd-best selling game for that console, behind Uncharted 4. Breath of the Wild, despite winning game of the year in the Switch’s launch year, sold fewer copies than both Mario’s Odyssey, and Mario’s Kart Race ‘14.

    These numbers really make it sound like Skyrim holds an incomparable lead over Horizon Zero Dawn and Breath of the Wild, but unfortunately those numbers don’t tell the whole story. For starters, Skyrim was initially released in 2011(!). That’s a whole six years of sales opportunities more than the other two. Also, as I mentioned, Horizon Zero Dawn was only released for the PlayStation 4. Breath of the Wild is available for Nintendo Switch and apparently the Wii U as well. Skyrim, on the other hand, is available on...

*deep breath*

PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
PC
PlayStation 4
Xbox 1
Nintendo Switch
...plus additional versions for virtual reality devices and amazon home devices.

    Breath of the Wild also faced stunted sales because it released on launch day for the Nintendo Switch. There were only about 4 million Nintendo Switch consoles available worldwide at launch. Considering a game’s most successful selling period is immediately after release, there was literally an arbitrary cap on how many copies of Breath of the Wild could be sold after it’s release. Now, this may have stunted potential sales for Breath of the Wild, but it did set the ground work for one of the most successful marketing campaigns in gaming history (see: Super Mario Odyssey sold 10 million copies in two months).

    Back to comparing subjective works, there was literally a whole committee and ceremony comparing Horizon Zero Dawn and Breath of the Wild. It was called The Game Awards 2017. The two were nominated for Game of the Year 2017 alongside Super Mario Odyssey, Persona V, and Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds (henceforth PUBG).

    Personally, I thought Super Mario Odyssey would take the crown, even though I was secretly rooting for PUBG. Ultimately, Breath of the Wild was named Game of the Year 2017, and the earth kept spinning.

    For the record, PUBG is the 5th best-selling game of all time, beating out popular titles such as The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. For more info on PUBG’s not-entirely-unprecedented success, you can check this short article over at Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2018/06/20/despite-fortnites-rise-pubg-is-the-fifth-best-selling-video-game-ever/#94a2a6a1df61) for more info.

    The last thing I want to look at is an idea called ‘crowd wisdom’. I got this term from NPR’s Planet Money Podcast, episode 644: “How much does this cow weigh?” (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/07/430372183/episode-644-how-much-does-this-cow-weigh) where they also offer a pretty nice description of the concept.
    
    Basically, ask enough people a question, and the average of their answer will be pretty darn close to the correct answer. So I took to scrolling through some “best video games of all-time” lists...

    Wikipedia has a nice list of games, in no particular order, that commonly appear in well-known groups’ rankings. On this list are Skyrim and Breath of the Wild, but no Horizon Zero Dawn. To unpack that with the smallest of sample sizes, IGN has a top 100 list that places Breath of the Wild at 26th, Skyrim at 76th, and no Horizon Zero Dawn. Metacritic has a much lengthier list that places Breath of the Wild at 12th, Skyrim at 34th, and Horizon Zero Dawn... at 632nd (disclaimer: this list differentiates versions, so there are multiple repeats all over this list). Ranker’s list is also quite lengthy, placing Skyrim at 2nd, Breath of the Wild at... 357th, and Horizon Zero Dawn at 367th.

    Personally, I believe Skyrim’s ability to remain relevant after all these years is telling of its quality. Breath of the Wild enjoyed some recency bias, as well as a lack of competition for a while, so I think it’ll be interesting to see if it retains its success. Horizon Zero Dawn, one of the best-selling games on the best-selling console, stood toe-toe with juggernauts Zelda and Elder Scrolls, but has yet to earn it’s place in the “best-of all-time” conversation from the industry.

    That’s all the time I have for today. Feel free to leave your thoughts over at the reddit, if we set that up by now. If not try... our email? Which should be somewhere around here...