Volcano Bakemeat

The Volcano Bakemeat crew discuss their favorite underrated or unappreciated games. We look why some games were ignored by audiences or critics and why that makes us sad. We also look the different kinds of cults. Then, Paige and Connor get incredibly excited about a GameCube era Sega release that neither of them have beaten.

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In this two parter, Volcano Bakemeat Radio looks at playable female characters. We talk about why Portal is a little like Mean Girls, what it’s like when a game chooses your gender (and race) randomly, and which characters we’d like to see gender swapped.

This is part two of a two part episode. You should probably check out the first part as well.

Note: In this episode we use the words “female” and “woman” pretty interchangeably. Although most people’s gender identity is the same as their physical sex and we’re used to using them like they’re the same, we know that’s not the case for everyone. Sorry.

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Links and games mentioned in the show

Correction: Grant said Knights of the Old Republic 2  was a Bioware game. It is not. He realizes his error.

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In this two parter, Volcano Bakemeat Radio looks at playable female characters. We talk about why Fable 2 made Jessica cry, why a X-Com operative code-named Mama Bear might be Jeff’s favorite woman in video games, and why Paige still feels vaguely uncomfortable playing Skull Girls

This is part one of a two part episode. Join us next week for part 2 when Paige lazily puts up this same post for with different audio.

Note: In this episode we use the words “female” and “woman” pretty interchangeably. Although most people’s gender identity is the same as their physical sex and we’re used to using them like they’re the same, we know that’s not the case for everyone. Sorry.

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Links and games mentioned in the show

Correction: Grant said Knights of the Old Republic 2  was a Bioware game. It is not. He realizes his error.

Volcano Bakemeat is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://volcanobakemeat.wordpress.com/

60% of Volcano Bakemeat Radio have been way too into Stardew Valley recently and with the building of Grant’s PC we’re about to bump that up to 80%, so simulators have been on our minds recently.

This week, we devote an hour to everything from Forza to Goat Simulator 2015. We talk about what draws us to simulators, what makes a simulator good, if they’re doomed to be casual (and really is that so bad?), and the deceptively simple question: what is a simulator anyway?

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Euro Truck Simulator: Steam, Website

Game Dev Tycoon: Steam, Website

Goat Simulator: Steam, Wikipedia

Habitica: Google Play Store, iTunes Store, Website

Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Steam (Contains pixel art nudity, but does not make you feel as weird as the name implies)

Stardew Valley: Website, Steam

Surgeon Simulator 2013: Steam, Website

Tomadachi Life: Website, Amazon

Hidden Brain episode about not achieving your goals through positive thinking

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In this episode, the Volcano Bakemeat gang wax nostalgic about the glory days of being able to sit down and play games with a buddy.

We speculate about why local multiplayer has become the exception, rather than the norm, call out some fun and interesting modern examples and then talk about Nintendo a lot.

https://ia600403.us.archive.org/3/items/VBEp31stEdit/VB_ep3.mp3

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Nitpicky corrections and pre-emptive strikes against nitpicky corrections:

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This week, Volcano Bakemeat discuss the whys and hows of telling stories with video games. We talk about the core elements of storytelling in gaming, the advantages (and disadvantages) of telling a story with video games as the medium, how storytelling and game play can complement each other and more.

Please note that in this episode we briefly discuss suicide and children with terminal diseases.

Please also note that in this episode, we may spoil aspects of multiple games including: An early Easter Egg in Psychonauts, an early scene in Baulder’s Gate, a path in The Stanley Parable, a midpoint event in Dragon Age: Inquisition, the ends of the first Bioshock and Kingdom Hearts games, major events in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare I & II, a mission in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and some missions from Metal Gear Solid 5: Phantom Pain. If you notice any other spoilers, please let us know and we will update the list.

References and Links:

Dragon Age: Inquisition: The scene that makes Paige cry (Spoilers for a major event midway through the game)

Hardcore Henry: Trailer, Rotten Tomatoes (the score has gone down since we checked it in the episode, but is still not as low as we expected)

Psychonauts: The Easter Egg

Saints Row: The Third: Steam, Amazon

The Stanley Parable: Website, Steam

That Dragon Cancer: Website, Heartbreaking Wired article, Heartbreaking Reply All episode

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In the podcast’s inaugural episode, the Volcano Bakemeat Radio Crew talk about the games that that turned them into gamers and what makes a game “so simply, very good.”

References and corrections:

Commander Keen – Wikipedia page, Steam

DeliciousCinnamon’s Vientamese Bootleg Pokemon Crystal letsplay (this podcast’s namesake)

Eternal Darkness – Wikipedia page, Ebay

The Floor is Jelly – Website, Steam (Apologies to creator Ian Snyder for not being able to remember his name off the top of our heads)

The Making of Halo 2 – The documentary where designer Jaime Griesemer explains the “30 seconds of fun” we referenced in the podcast.

Nancy Drew #4: Treasure in the Royal Tower – Wikipedia page, Amazon

Riven (The Sequel to Myst): Wikipedia, Steam

Sega Genesis’s X-Men – Wikipedia, browser emulator .

Space Invaders: Browser emulator

CORRECTIONS:

Myst- Myst did come out on CD, not floppy discs as we stated.

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Featured image reference: http://daeurth.deviantart.com/art/Space-Invaders-Invader-1-201215109

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