The Never Ending Quest Log

The frank and forward DharmaKarmaStar joins us today to discuss her own personal history with fitness, how she things the fitness scene has evolved over the years, and what she plans to do to make it more accessible for everybody.

Almost 5 years after it's original reveal, the Final Fantasy VII Remake is finally here!RPG enthusiast Kheldhinn and huge FFVII fan TakeOnMe joined me on this fantastic episode to discuss the cultural relevance of the original game, how the remake holds up in comparison, our thoughts on the ending... and whether the game should even have been remade at all.

With every years that passes in gaming, graphics get better, games continue to get more complex, and the scale of the worlds we visit grows exponentially. Technological growth has defined the evolution of the gaming industry since its beginning, and continues to do so to this day. Likewise, not everyone is looking for the most powerful hardware, or the nicest graphics. They want an experience that they can carry around with them, to play their favourite games whenever they want. Portability is everything to them, and has become an increasingly more important element of gaming in recent years.If you want power, you have to sacrifice portability. If you want portability, you have to sacrifice power. The two of directly opposed, and you can rarely get both at the same time... at least not at a price that is reasonable for the average consumer.Which of these options do you think is going to define the market the most going forward? And which do you personally prefer?

Speakers: DeathRacerChevy & Septeques

Music is the unquestionably the greatest connective tissue of any great piece of creative work.Be it the the crazy, eclectic tunes of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, the classical construction of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, or the dramatic orchestral flair of Final Fantasy VII's final battle, a great musical score can come to define a game, movie or TV series almost always as the media itself. What is your favourite soundtrack? That perfect collection of music that your mind constantly returns to as an essential element of the memories that make up your most cherished experiences...

Speakers: DeathRacerChevy & Septeques

A.K.A. A DEEP DISCUSSION WITH A MUPPET ABOUT THE INHERENT VALUE OF HUMOUR IN VIDEO GAMES

LarryIRL, DeathRacerChevy and I discuss the funniest games we've ever played, and why we think humour is such an underrated and underutilised element of game design.

Copying and iterating on ideas is a process that has existed in game design since pretty much the founding days of the medium. A unique idea is created, and turns out to be a huge success.This idea is then expanded upon countless different ways... until the concept runs its inevitable course and something else new and different takes its place.It happened with coin guzzling arcade machines and home consoles in the 80s. It happened with mascot driven platformers and excessive violence in the 90s. It happened with casual games and sandbox titles in the 00's. And the 10s have unanimously been defined by survival games... and battle royales.The argument can be made that the battle royale genre has been over-saturated, drowning in formulaic derivative games that don't really add anything unique to the formula. But battle royale is just one of many genres in need of reinvention...How would you "fix" these over saturated genres? What would you do to reinvigorate and reinvent ideas that have already run their course.

Speakers: DeathRacerChevy & Septeques

The astoundingly entertaining LarryIRL joins us for a show unlike any we've ever done before... an interview with a muppet!What's his life story? What makes Larry tick? CAN HE SING?!

In the second part of our Dumb Questions special, Lotty and Septeques, Lotty and Septeques "help" me to answer even more ridiculous questions from the community, eventually leading to the consideration of us doing a dance number together...

Speakers: LottyTheCat & Septeques

Apologies for the delay in uploads, folks. It has been a hectic and adaptive few weeks due to Covid-19. We're back on track!In part one of our semi-regular Dumb Questions segments, we... answer really dumb questions submitted to us by our Discord community. It does exactly what it says on the tin!

Speakers: LottyTheCat & Septeques

For part 2 of our Strategy Game Showdown, Words presents Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri as his personal choice for the best 4X strategy game ever made!

Guest: BearlyTacticalSpeaker: Septeques

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