On the one hand it was technically a pretty bad implementation because of how fiddly it was, but on the other hand the Suikoden → Suikoden II import was just about the perfect way to celebrate/reward the first game and it’s players.
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I did consider mentioning that one (did I mention it!?) as one of the first big important save moves but maybe we ran out of time? Or maybe I mentioned it.
LOVE me some Curses N’ Chaos. Amazing soundtrack.
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Interesting intro. I’d a similar scenario with my father a couple of years ago. He stayed working with me every day until like the last two weeks just pretended cancer wasn’t happening. We worked in green energy. What’s one of my current projects? Trumps golf course.
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chiming in to say i also had a “similar” scenario (no death is truly similar) and also work in green energy.
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So I live in south coastal MS (near biloxi) and one of the guys at my pharmacy has a gengar tattoo. I cant think of any other person with a pokemon tattoo. triforce ive seen. kingdom hearts. Foxhound.
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re: video game music: anodyne 2 and sephonie, omori (really the only part of this game i liked without reservations), tunic, penny’s big breakaway, and neon white immediately came to mind. maybe it’s because i get more interested in games if they have good/interesting music so i have a biased sample, but i feel like there’s been a lot of great game music over the last decade!
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I just want to boast a little bit because I guessed Gengar immediately and was actually surprised by the panel’s disbelief in Gengar popularity.
Maybe it’s because I live in Japan, where Pokemon stuff is just generally inescapable (I assume it is this way in many/all other parts of the world too, tbh), but the most frequently appearing Pokemon I tend to see are of course Pikachu and whoever the current starter Pokes are. After them, however, it’s always Snorlax, Gengar, and weirdly enough, Mimikyu, who has apparently become canonized!
Now I would have been surprised if people were out there getting Mimikyu tattoos. But hey, maybe give it 10-15 years…
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Had to sign up and just say thanks for that intro Brandon, that was real. Thank you for being vulnerable and the message of hope.
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i correctly guessed gengar (well, i guessed pikachu first, then gengar) when asked by jaffe just before recording, because a friend of mine has a gengar tattoo.
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lollll yeah. That soundtrack does some heavy lifting!!
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Jaffe mentioned Golden Sun early on and those words activate a primal part of my psyche because the Golden Sun games were very special to me during my formative years. They don’t come up a lot, and they’re largely baby’s first RPG but the world and style is so distinct and charming.
I also didn’t have a way to transfer my save. I believe it was either 256 or 512 alpha-numeric characters you had to enter. I did that. It didn’t work. I looked at that mess and decided it was not worth the effort to try and fix. Great game tho.
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I’ve had a hell of a night and I’m so glad I get to put this on at 5am. Can’t elaborate
But
Metaphor refantazio battle theme is almost certainly the game song of the decade
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New host:
→ Glad you found a new permanent cast member cause I think the show’s at its strongest with a full panel. Also good to have one more gaming podcast that’s not all white dudes anymore. Also Ash is cool and brings a fresh perspective to a lot of topics on the show.
Have video games completely realized the concept of importing your data from one game to the next?
→ One example I kind of liked was in the original computer versions of the early Wizardry games. They were a bit crass by today’s standard cause you couldn’t even play 2 or 3 without importing a party from the first game. But in 3 you don’t keep your party as is but instead the game generates their heirs, which have the same classes and some similar stat distribution. I guess it was probably just a ruse to set players back to level 1 for balancing, but could have grown into something more interesting as games got more complex. (I do wonder if games like Phantasy Star III and Fire Emblem IV were inspired by this, given how popular Wizardry was in Japan.)
→ I guess I dodged a bullet with Golden Sun cause I stopped liking JRPGs while I was about halfway through the first (not gonna litigate here whether or not that was the game’s fault) so I never got into the situation where I would want to carry over my data.
What’s up with video games having “Dragon” in the title and then not having very many dragons?
→ Double Dragon is Double Dragon because it has two Bruce Lees. Yakuza is Like a Dragon because he’s tough like Bruce Lee.
→ What a normal person might say instead: Maybe Dungeons & Dragons has primed a lot of makers of RPVGs (role-playing video games, of course) for it?
Which video game character is tattooed on the most human bodies?
→ I don’t do tattoos and I don’t do Pokémon but if I had to choose a Pokémon tattoo or die horribly I’d pick Hoothoot (I like owls)
What is the most important thing you’ve ever learned from a video game?
→ Probably English (sure I would have had to learn it eventually anyway, but I did my first real steps in Gargoyle’s Quest on the Game Boy)
→ There was a German educational game for Amiga called Das Erbe (“The Inheritance”) that taught me a thing or two about how humans are killing the environment. (While also kind of perpetuating the corporate-backed myth that the fate of our globe hinges on individual consumption, but I guess you gotta start somewhere.)
Can you think of a single piece of memorable video game music from the past ten years?
→ Memorable as in I actually remember it: There’s this song in Life is Strange: True colors that’s framed as played by some of the characters in an “improvised” performance. Not necessarily totally the merit of the song itself but more or less tied to its positioning in the story (which is the most common type of video game music I tend to remember anyway).
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So, I know there’s a preference for a community created buzzer noise, but is there a reason the referenced Yakuza 0 guitar noodling couldn’t be used?
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I think we could do that one week, at least
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Looking through what I’ve played from the last decade, here are some games with incredible music (some of these have already been mentioned):
Ori and the Blind Forest
Splatoon
Undertale (which came out in 2015, Jaffe 
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Doom 2016
Final Fantasy XV
Hyper Light Drifter
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2
Persona 5
NieR: Automata
Rez Infinite (I’m counting it, because the new area has new music)
Celeste
Octopath Traveler
Tetris Effect
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Cyberpunk 2077
Doom Eternal
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Guilty Gear -Strive-
Inscryption
Final Fantasy XVI
Hi-Fi Rush
Pizza Tower
Metaphor: ReFantazio
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time is a fake idea
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