Ep. 289 - Foamstar Runner

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Ep. 289 - Foamstar Runner

Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers and Brandon Sheffield cover that big Sony event, art styles for games, and the thrilling return of Violence Island. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

How ‘bout that Playstation showcase? (05:13)
Other than “realistic,” “cel shaded,” and “pixel art,” name some video game art styles. (18:20)
Write some of those in-game Elder Scrolls books. (24:44)
What would make those in-game Elder Scrolls books worth reading? (27:50)
Insert Credit Quick Break - Sully: A Very Serious RPG (29:42)
LeFish asks: What is the finding out that Santa isn’t real of video games? (31:26)
Tim Rogers asks: HotB, or sofubi? (35:06)
What car should be in every video game with cars? (43:02)
When do you block, when do you dodge, and when do you parry? (49:26)
Is there a system you’ve played every game for? (53:56)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Violence Island (58:37)

Recommendations and Outro (01:09:47)

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Recommendations:
Brandon: Fight Back to School (1991), PinkPantheress
Tim: Hang out in the discord.gg/actionbutton Goblin Bunker, abandon all social media
Frank: Hear Tim out

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hellomrkearns

esper Hot-B Co., Ltd.

He Is Over There Because

He = misinformation
Over there = Wikis
Because = Brandon

Jaffe

ONE DAY EARLY (so we can all watch the succession finale)

GigaSlime

Did Konami say something about putting Metal Gear Ghost Babel in that new collection? Frank bringing it up is the first I’m hearing about it

DaveedNoo

Whoa I 100% forgot it was even close to Monday

MovingCastles

Buck Bumble did have multiplayer PVP so you could technically mod Mr. Mosquito in duke it out. But gosh darn that multiplayer was not good.

DaveedNoo

Bless you Jaffe for calling everyone’s bluff on knowing what an “extraction shooter” is.

Jaffe

DaveedNoo My job is to be the non-expert

antillese

DaveedNoo Excited to hear this conversation because I had to ask my forum friends what it was too and @sdate came to my rescue.

Jonks

I want to see romhacks/mods adding Shigeru Miyamoto to the credits of every game now. Maybe even doing it egregiously like replacing every reference to Kojima in MGS5 (including the NPC) with Miyamoto.

brillpickle

@Jaffe re: your “not misrepresenting time played” thing

i was playing a psp game on my vita the other day, and put it to sleep, turned it on the next day and saved… it COUNTED ALL THAT TIME. says 15 hours! i played maybe 4!

i considered restarting the game. i feel yr pain

exodus

brillpickle that happened a lot with my. Ps4. I had like 200 hours logged on a game I played a couple times

AlbaTross

Can someone fill me in on Naganuma’s reputation/actions?

Jaffe

AlbaTross Based on what I can tell he’s got a reputation of being publicly horny for 18-19 year old girls

exodus

Jaffe AlbaTross he and I also had a big conversation about whether “normalf*g” was a good and fun term to use (I said it wasn’t, he decided to listen to everyone who said it was just in good fun)

AlbaTross

I fully agree that the PS5 Wii U has very limited use cases. It feels to me like Sony’s just trying to get make a competing “handheld” anyway it can. Going for streaming, which is so laggy and undependable (specially in countries where the internet/wifi quality is not great like Mexico where I live) feels like a weak move.

DaveedNoo

I’m hoping to one day see tim cruising down the beltline on that nice wavy section in his GR Corolla

Jonks

I want to see more painting styles represented in games like Fauvism or Pointillism. Though I guess you can put your face up to a CRT and that’s sort of like Pointillism.

esper

when brandon was describing non-Newgrounds flash art styles my immediate thought was Popcap