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

This week Brian, Chris, Josh, and MARTY(!!!) talk all about the 2018 PlayStation 4 God of War.

This episode begins with a spoiler-free discussion and then a full discussion of the entire game, including spoilers for all major moments in the game.

The week Brian, Chris, and Josh talk about mobile gaming, our first experiences in the HD era, whether the Destiny Player Summit will change future developer/gamer interaction, and much more!

Topics:

My Cat From Hell

Jackson Galaxy

So Your Cat Wants A Massage

Pokemon Go

Super Mario Run

Hearthstone

Stormbound

Chaos Rings

Cut The Rope

Where Is My Water

Angry Birds

Snood

Bust A Move

Magical Drop

Meteos

Lumines

Zuma

Collecting Disney Games

Mickey Mouse 3: Balloon Dreams

Gaming on Nintendo Switch

DOOM

Console VS PC Shooters

Halo

El Dorito

Installation 01

Dark Souls

Kingdom Hearts

Destiny

Ultra Rare Rewards

Path Of Exile

Warmind Expansion

Recent Destiny Changes

The Destiny Player Summit

Player Feedback

Blizzard’s Superiority

Blizzard VS Valve

Puzzle Quest

Puzzle & Dragons

Kameo: Elements Of Power

First HD experiences

Halo 3

Dead Rising Achievements

Roommates

Getting Our First HD Consoles

The Room

Wii

Moments Of Epic Scale

Resistance: Fall Of Man

Killzone

Guerilla

Horizon: Zero Dawn

In this special edition of the Platformers, Chris Shriver (@SHRIVES93) discusses the experience of watching Avengers: Infinity War with Devin DeVoue (@DevinDeV35) and Jess Veazey (@VeazeyJ). They discuss the highs and lows of the movie as well as what to expect from the MCU moving forward.

WARNING: This week, things got all timey, wimey, due to an error in the recording program we used for this episode, so there is a lot of cross-talk that didn't exist while we were recording. We fixed as much as we could, but there are still points where one of us reacts to a comment that hasn't happened yet, like a precog from Minority Report. There was a bit of a debate on whether to scrap the episode, but overall we felt there is enough good to put the episode up, and I hope you feel the same way. Enjoy!

The week Brian, Chris, and Josh give their spoiler-free impressions of the first few hours of God of War. They also speculate on what will happen in Avengers: Infinity War, and debate the importance of Rotten Tomatoes.

Topics:

Sith Josh

Haircuts

The Phil and Lil

Having to go to the bathroom

Cooking fish in the microwave

Coffee

Reign of Fire

God of War

Venom trailer

Avengers: Infinity War

Skrulls

Secret Wars

Metal Thanos

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Rotten Tomatoes

Anastasia

Amelia Earhart

Be More Chill

Hawthorne Heights

Nostalgic Bands + Live Shows

Warped Tour

90’s Band Tours

Protest The Hero

The Mystical Zune

The Influence Of Technology On The Modern World

What Will The Future Of Gaming Look Like?

Octopath Traveler

Subsurface Circular

Switch Hardware Hack

Switch Backwards Compatibility

Is PS Vita dead?

Official Manufacturer Support On Long Dead Consoles

Buying And Collecting Old Games

Bedbugs

The Ozone Layer

Will It Blend

Pouring Liquid Metal On Things

Squishing

The week Chris is back! Chris, Brian, and Josh do #GameStruck4 and talk about big Call of Duty changes, third party support and exclusives for Nintendo Switch and Xbox One.

Topics:

Dentist visits

Seussical the Musical

Call of Duty

Infinite Warfare

Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter

Black Ops IV

Single Player Campaigns

Multiplayer

Battlefront II

Red Dead 2

Driving in games

The state of the Xbox

Mid generation consoles

Third Party Support on Switch

Xbox Backwards Compatibility

Hearthstone: The Witchwood

Playing friends in games

Coral Sword

Competitive gaming

#GameStruck4

The week Chris is out again and Brian is once again joined by Andrew Wolf of Nintendeal and Amiibo Alerts and Josh Mobley of Long Time Ago Radio. Strap in, this episode hits the ground running.

Topics:

Quad-monthly happenings

How many Thursdays are in a month

Animal noises

Costumed Chris

Perfect albums

“My Chem”

Method Acting

Urine Content in Cheerios

Solo: A Star Wars

Fan Reactions

Movie Trailers

The Hobbit

The Scat Man’s Middle Earth

We want Lord of the Rings comic books

Star Wars novels

“The Dark Times”

Star Wars toy rights

General Grievous

The 501st Legion

DC films

Ranking the Star Wars movies

Throwing cats

Racism and political/social messaging in video games

Mafia 3

Domestic VS International development

FarCry 5

The controversy around FarCry 5

Why does Peach always need to be saved?

Is the Mushroom Kingdom in America?

Overwatch PVE events

PUBG VS Fortnite

Collectible VS Living Card Games

YuGiOh

Star Wars Collectible Card Game

Hearthstone

The week Chris is out and Brian is joined by Josh Mobley of Long Time Ago Radio and Andrew Wolf of Nintendeal and Amiibo Alerts.

Topics:

DOOM 64

Toaster games

Angry Video Game Nerd’s modded NES

Starfox

Bayonetta

Wii U games being brought to Switch

Super Mario Maker

Jungle Strike, the sequel to Desert Strike

Resident Evil

Arcade gun games

On rail shooters

Parkour!

PS VR

Farpoint

Sea of Thieves

Games which terrified us

Ocarina vs Ocarina

Hylian Flat-Earthers

Obligatory Dark Souls and Metroid mentions

Panzer Dragoon

Nintendo Labo

Donkey Conga

Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze

Easy Mode in games

Horizon Zero Dawn

Super Mario Odyssey Assist Mode

Celeste

Assassin’s Creed Origins’ April PC Update

Cheats in games

Canned wine ASMR

Press events

Ready Player One

Reading books

H.P. Lovecraft

Eternal Darkness

Pacific Rim

Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Cowboy Bebop

Gundam

Toonami

Dragon Ball FighterZ

Dragon Ball Z

Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball Z Kai

Batman Animated Series

Batman Ninja

Spiderman

The Emoji Movie

Comics

Star Wars Clone Wars

Star Wars Rebels

Andrew’s Star Wars tattoos

Josh and Andrew are real Star Wars nerds

Far Cry 5

Falling off of Monster Hunter: World

Reviewing games

Smash Bros. Switch

Switch online services

Paying for online functionality

Nintendo voice chat

The week Brian and Chris talk about the upcoming changes to the podcast, Chris’ temporary absence, gun ownership, Human/Saiyan cross-breeding, potential Dragon Ball FighterZ DLC leaks, representation in films, and much more.

Topics:

The podcast’s new direction

Chris’ temporary absence

Herbert The Pervert

Audrey and Brian’s first date

Worming

Warring Gollums

Harley Quinn

The difficulties of being content creators

Birthday drunken axe throwing leagues

Gun ownership

The pros(?) and cons of serial killers

The many movies of Dragon Ball

Voice acting differences between Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Z Kai

Bad anime songs

Dragon Ball FighterZ DLC Leaks

Bardock and Broly in Dragon Ball FighterZ

Human/Saiyan cross-breeding

Isle of Dogs

Pavlovian Movie/Popcorn response

Representation in movies

In this episode, Chris and Brian talk about THQ's potential for bringing back old Nickelodeon games, the Ubisoft/Vivendi battle, standup specials, Braid, The Witness, the lasting value of the Nintendo 3DS, whether Star Fox is good, and GameInformer's Top 300 Games of All Time list. Enjoy the show!

This week the boys dive in deep for a talk about religion before discussing whether Spider-Man 2 is better than Spider-Man: Homecoming. The round out the conversation with Brian's first impressions of the original DOOM and DOOM II before talking about how Disney movies, specifically Snow White, hold up to modern scrutiny. Brian and Chris also discuss Phil Collins, Smash Mouth, Rat Race, Sea of Thieves, Hamilton, Ikaruga, Braid, Zootopia, Wolfenstein 3D, Bingo, Tattoos, and whether or not it is anyone's birthday. Get ready, because The Platformers are GO!