Ep. 457 - Hey Me, Pikachi
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Your beloved panel covers advances in stealth games, new Pokemon types, and whether or not Marty McFly has a scrote. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
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SHOW NOTES:
- “Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough!”
- Pokemon series
- Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater
- Kotaku
- LeBron James
1: What is the correct amount of time to sit down and play a video game in front of your TV? (05:57)
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- X-Men (2000)
- Thor: The Dark World (2013)
- Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
- The Marvels (2023)
- The Incredible Hulk (2008)
- Black Panther (2018)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- Zack Snyder
- Eternals (2021)
- Kingo
- Kumail Nanjiani
2: Which video games are most responsible for advancing their genre? (13:02)
- Metal Gear Solid series
- System Shock
- Deus Ex
- Street Fighter II
- Spy Fiction
- Resident Evil 4
- Assassin’s Creed series
- Hitman series
- Immersive sim
- Dishonored
- Metroidvania
- Pinball
- John Romero discovers a 1940 first person shooter
- Pong
3: What even is the incentive to make video games commercially? (19:43)
4: Design a new Pokemon type (25:13)
- Water
- Fire
- Ground
- Rock
- Normal
- Ghost
- Fairy
- Grass
- Poison
- Flying
- Dragon
- Dark
- Bug
- Psychic
- Fighting
- Ice
- Electric
- Yu-Gi-Oh
- Steel
- Hey You, Pikachu!
- Mimikyu
- Missingno
- Skylanders series
- Spyro
- Palworld
- Unown
- Rotom
5: Dr. Booperstein III asks, are all video games derivative of the first generation of video games? (32:08)
- Guess Who?
- Pac-Man
- Donkey Kong
- Q*Bert
- Night Driver
- Back to the Future Part II (1989)
- Leslie “Spike” O’Malley
- Entertainment Software Association
- E3
- Summer Game Fest
- Back to the Future: The Game
6: What’s the stupidest playable race in a video game? (39:18)
- Pepsiman
- Mass Effect series
- Asari
- Quarian
- Turian
- Star Trek
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Bajoran
- Vulcan
- Spock
- Dwarf Fortress
- Dwarves
- Blood Elves
- World of WarCraft
- Night Elves
- Orc
- Tauren
- Troll
- Undead
- Pikmin
- Pikmin series
- Zerg
7: What is the Steven Spielberg’s Stanley Kubrick’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) of video games? (46:16)
- Milo
- Peter Molyneux
- Haley Joel Osment
- Berserk
- Dune
- The Wheel of Time
- BioShock series
- Ken Levine
- Judas
- Fallout 3
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Metal Gear: Survive
- Duke Nukem Forever
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Remake
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Sonic CD
- Metropolis (1927)
LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (52:58)
Recommendations and Outro (58:24):
- Brandon: Doom Runners (1997), Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012), Etiene T. Boy - Jealousy, Vintage Obscura Radio
- Frank: Barkin’, Classic X-Men
- Ash: The Blood of Dawnwalker, The Prisoner of Beauty
Hard Truths (XX:XX):
- Jaffe: If you have a work day that ends at 10 PM, you don’t get to do all the stuff you do if your work day normally ends at 5 PM.
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