The Platformers: A Video Game (and Nerd Culture) Podcast

This week Brian Barnett and Josh Mobley talk about dead stores, Apex Legends, the private beta for The Division 2, our early jobs, and a whole lot more. Enjoy!

Rejected Episode Titles:

The Iron Dark Zone

Smooth Yoda

Ping Is The Future

The Swiss Army Knife Of Buttons

Those Who Poop Gold

Half Video Game, Half Stanford Prison Experiment

Pulling A Steve Jobs

The Crowncast

Topics:

The Division 2 Private Beta

Apex Legends - 34:41

Respawn & Supergiant Games

Hades

Amazing Game Reveals - 1:00:28

Eve Online’s Black Hole Ship - 1:05:25

Marie Kondo And My Gaming Backlog - 1:11:49

Nintendo Switch Archive VS Delete PSA - 1:13:13

Collecting & Famous Monsters - 1:21:16

The Crown - 1:38:46

Disposable Income & Our Early Jobs - 1:42:24

Halloween Stores - 1:44:47

Video Game Shops - 1:48:21

The Twilight Zone - 1:54:23

The Simpsons - 1:57:54

This week Brian Barnett and Josh Mobley talk about Resident Evil 2, Wargroove, Marie Kondo, strange YouTube comments, and so much more. Enjoy!

Rejected Episode Titles:

Jill Sandwich & The Master of Unlocking

All Of Our Listeners Will Like This Podcast To Heaven

Nesticle: The Icon Was Balls

The F***ing Weather

Don’t Let Your Eyeballs Freeze

Stay Frosty, But Not THAT Frosty

Topics:

Resident Evil 2 (Remake) - 0:42

EA Star Wars games

Next-gen Consoles

Resident Evil 4

Horror games

Baldur’s Gate: The Siege of Dragonspear - 16:37

Metroid games

CRPGs

Hollow Knight - 22:08

Unruly Heroes - 25:54

Anthem Demo - 29:33

Loot & Shooters

Dragon Ball FighterZ Red Bull Final Summoning World Tour Championships - 44:54

Dragon Marked For Death - 51:32

Wargroove - 57:48

YouTube video comments - 1:08:45

Original Xbox Multiplayer

Emulation

Downwell - 1:19:16

Memes

Marie Kondo - 1:23:50

Broom Kid

This week Brian Barnett and Rebecca June Lane talk about microtransactions, Star Wars game news, and some of the most beautiful and incredible games you’ll ever play. Enjoy!

Rejected Episode Titles:

Serious Spider Ickiness (But Not Really)

Star Wars: The Game: The Cancellation

Not-So-Hollow Knight

All The Alliteration

Topics:

Arachnid Horrors

Couch Co-op Games

Rocket League

World of Warcraft - 16:14

Mobile Games

Star Wars game cancellation - 24:37

Chasm

Hollow Knight - 38:40

Gris - 48:00

Pipe Push Paradise - 50:28

Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap - 54:30

Observing environments in games

EA’s Battlefront 1 and 2 - 58:53

Microtransactions in games

Nogalious - 1:08:15

(CORRECTION: Nogalious is made by a studio from Spain, not Brazil)

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition - 1:10:26

Overcooked - 1:15:25

Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition - 1:19:19

Dragon Ball / Dragon Ball Z - 1:24:27

If you want to watch along with the show, check out the video on twitch.tv/theplatformerspodcast

This week Brian Barnett and Andrew Wolf talk about the Sam Raimi Spider-Man suit fiasco, some of our holiday traditions, and some of the biggest omissions from our Game of the Year episode (we’re looking at you, Hades)! Have a few happy holidays, and enjoy the podcast!

Rejected Episode Titles:

Charm Bomb

The Metroid Prime King Is Dead, Long Live The Super Metroid King

You Catch More Flies With Honey

Below MSRP

Eyeballs Deep

“Too Much Water”

If You Are Listening, You Are All Fantastic

Topics:

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey - 2:50

Google Project Stream

The Many Outlets Announce Their Game of the Year

Starfox

The Sam Raimi Spider-Man Suit Controversy - 12:50

Be Good To Each Other

Game of the Year Omissions - 20:50

Hades - 21:30

Epic Games Store

Below - 40:40

Using Speakers VS Headphones (Below, Gris) - 47:15

Gris - 50:15

“Too Much Water”

Guacamelee! 2 - 55:25

Desert Child - 56:40

Holiday Traditions - 57:40

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition - 1:01:13

Brian Wanders, Frothing At The Mouth, Into Talking About The Struggles Of Making Dreams Come True - 1:11:20

This week Brian Barnett, Joshua Mobley, and Andrew Wolf talk about the absolute best games of 2018. Each host gives their top recommendations, their honorable mentions, and then vote to determine The Platformers’ 2018 Game of the Year.

Rejected Episode Titles:

#Shook

Andrew Wolf News Flash: Smashing Feels Good

You Get Smashed, You Smash, Then You Smash

Topics:

Every Major Release of 2018 - 4:38

Andrew Wolf’s Favorite Games of 2018 - 14:49

Brian Barnett’s Favorite Games of 2018 - 20:50

Gris - 20:50

Dragon Ball FighterZ - 26:56

Joshua Mobley’s Favorite Games of 2018 - 31:31

Brian’s Disgaea 1 Complete Accolades surprise - 33:05

Honorable Mentions:

Valkyria Chronicles 4 - 34:50

Chasm - 35:25

Darksiders III - 35:41

Joshua Mobley’s Favorite Games of 2018, Part 2 - 37:05

Celeste - 37:15

God of War - 38:32

Celeste, Part 2 - 41:40

Josh’s 2018 Game of the Year - God of War - 44:39

Brian’s Game of the Year Finalists - 44:50

Marvel’s Spider-Man - 45:37

Brian’s Game of the Year - Dragon Ball FighterZ - 51:14

Andrew’s Game of the Year - 55:47

Summary and The Platformers’ Game of the Year - 58:40

This week Brian and Josh are joined by the delightful Rebecca June Lane, and the trio talk about open world games, campaign length, having sex with all the Dragon Age characters, overpowered spiders, Red Dead Online, Treasure Stack, Chasm, childhood arcades, some of our first gaming memories, and so much more. Enjoy the show!

Rejected Episode Titles:

Drive That Bus Into The Ocean

Everyone Should Read This Video Game

Speaking Of Going Deep…

The Return of Slightly Bigger Luke

Luke Prime

Who Did You Have Sex With?

I Could Stab People In Real Life If I Wanted To

Jumping Spiders are Overpowered

Spiders Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Jump, That’s Unbalanced

Brian Is Not An Arachnocologist

My People Were All Canadian

#NotMyCity

Texas Box

Go In Raw

In An Unreasonable Amount Of Time

Uber Driver: New York

Topics:

Our first PlayStation games

Red Dead Online - 5:30

How Rockstar impacts the industry at large

Open worlds in games

The Return of Slightly Bigger Luke

Brian’s Horse Accident Twitter Account

More Red Dead Online Shenanigans

Ratchet and Clank

Video game campaign length

Dragon Age Inquisition - 29:30

Universe Building

Spiders in games

Eels

Spiders in real life

Jumping spiders are OP

Brian’s Spider Chittering ASMR - 43:01

Conquering your fears

Australia

World of Warcraft - 48:15

The World of Warcraft movie

Treasure Stack - 1:09:10

Chasm - 1:15:18

The Assassin’s Creed Series

Crazy Taxi 1:41:47

Childhood Arcades

Dance Dance Revolution

“Uber Driver: New York”

Our first gaming memories

Scorched Earth

Trolls

Trickle Down Economics

This week contains a special message from Chris about the future of the podcast, and Brian reviews some of the games he has been playing. It’s a bit of a different (and shorter) podcast, so I hope you enjoy!

Rejected Episode Titles:

The Sound Of One Man Podcasting

Brian Talks To Himself

And Then There Was One

Topics:

Chris’ Departure

PlayStation skipping E3 2019

Disgaea 5 Complete - 12:08

Into The Breach - 14:06

The Messenger - 23:07

This Is The Police 2 - 26:42

Reigns: Kings and Queens - 30:15

Windjammers - 35:10

This week we discuss Brian’s trip to Philly and New York City, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, great sandwiches, gas stations, Diablo: Immortal, My Hero One’s Justice, Save Me Mr Tako, Mega Man 11, and so much more. Enjoy!

If you want to watch along with the show, check out the video on twitch.tv/theplatformerspodcast

Rejected Episode Titles:

Benjamin Maintenance and Bruce Supply

“Please, Mr. Maintenance Was My Father”

“I Thought We LEFT The Mutter Museum!”

“My East Coast Is Coming Out”

His Irish Is Up

Secret Mantis

20 DPS And No Tank

There Might Be Bees In My Danimals

Singaporeon

Brian Is A Very Cute Goldfish

United States of Gurl You Tryna Smash

Topics:

Managing your email inbox

Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales - 2:20

“It’s Over 8000!”

Brian’s trip to Philly and New York

Layovers

Starbucks

Bees

Danimals

Cheesesteaks

“The Stuffalo”

Wawa

Buc-ees

Sheets

Joe’s Pizza

The Nintendo World Store

Brian’s First Experience With VR

Superhot VR

Tetris Effect

Batman: Arkham VR

BlizzCon

Diablo: Immortal

Diablo 4

The State Of Diablo 3

Seasons

Blizzard eSports

Collegiate eSports Leagues

My Hero One’s Justice - 1:08:42

Save Me, Mr Tako! - 1:20:26

Tetris Effect

Mega Man 11 - 1:30:34

The KDA League Of Legends Music Video

This week we discuss flu shots, Disgaea 1 Complete, Dragon Ball FighterZ for Switch, some 11 Bit Studio games, Super Mario Party, Venom, and more. Enjoy!

If you want to watch along with the show, check out the video on twitch.tv/theplatformerspodcast

Rejected Episode Titles:

My Only Regret Is Having Boneitis

Sir, This Is Pornography

No More Pixels

Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride

Topics:

Flu Shots

Disgaea 1 Complete - 1:30

Dragon Ball FighterZ Switch - 18:54

Tower 57 - 39:24

Chris Is Over Pixel-Art Games

The Messenger Preview - 47:24

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Temptations

Beat Cop - 51:16

Super Mario Party

Venom

Joker Movie News

LoveKami: Healing Harem Trailer

James Gunn & The Suicide Squad

Frostpunk - 1:30:50

This week we discuss Spider-Man PS4, Spider-Man movies, Spider-Man comics, the upcoming Venom movie (and how poorly it is being reviewed), Star Wars, the Rocksteady Batman trilogy, and so much more. Enjoy!

If you want to watch along with the show, check out the video on twitch.tv/theplatformerspodcast

Rejected Episode Titles:

“You Were Making Out During Schindler’s List?!”

I'm A Big Fan Of Buddhist Westerns

Spider-Men, As Far As The Eye Can See

The Flat Earthers of the Star Wars Universe

Topics:

Spider-Man PS4

Batman: Arkham Knight

Star Wars

Dark Horse Comics

Spider-Man VS Batman punching argument

Spider-Man VS Prototype

Flight of the Concords

Game of the Year Preparations

Platinum Trophies in Spider-Man VS God of War

Spider-Man Comics

Revisiting the Spider-Man Movies

Paul Giamatti In A Onesie

The Joaquin Phoenix Joker Movie

The Chaos of the DC Universe

Gambit

Solo superhero films as genre films

Sam Raimi/Toby Maguire Spider-Man

Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man

Venom Reviews

The Mandalorian film

Mega Man Live Action Film

Mario Party 10

Dragon Ball FighterZ Switch Early Impressions

CrossPlay

Far Cry 5