Ash Parrish rejoins the panel to cover Final Fantasy XIV’s superiority, the Screaming Idea, and G4M3R5.


Questions this week:

Previously on Insert Credit 86: What games not originally designed for arcades would best make the transition to arcades? (01:58)
What specifically makes Final Fantasy XIV the best MMO game? (05:17)
Which games have benefitted the most from changing course during development? (10:37)
What game features the greatest distance of quality between how good the music is and how bad the game itself is? (15:42)
The pandemic is over, and each of you is opening up a barcade. What do you name it? (20:44)
Patreon Supporter THX Deep Note’s #1 Fan asks: If you could design a startup jingle for a video game console, what would it sound like? (28:28)
What are some things that video game fans THINK they want, but won’t actually enjoy? (33:36)
What is the longest you’ve ever struggled with a particular challenge in a video game? (38:44)
Topher “Docfuture” Florence gives this challenge: Design a singular controller to be put into a time capsule that will be the only controller to play all console games. It can have any button or stick configuration, but is arbitrarily limited to only 3 “gimmicks.” (44:07)
Who is the Meghan Markle of video games? (49:31)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Guess That Fanfic (54:29)


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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Michigan J. Frog

Push Up

Push Pop

Push-Up Bra

Ribbit King

Hades

Blitzball

Flappy Bird

Scribblenauts

Firewatch

Ring Fit Adventure

Super Mario Run

Stupid bad Rayman ad

Final Fantasy XIV

Clash Royale

Deadly Premonition

Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida

Yoshi’s Island

Plok

PachiPara series

Disaster Report

Okami

Sunsoft Games

Hover Strike

Picross

Final Fantasy XIII

Dirge of Cerberus

Original Pokemon cave theme

Crank Yankers theme

Dreamcast startup jingle

Gamecube startup jingle

Playstation startup jingle

Xbox startup jingle

Xbox 360 startup jingle

That tall vampire lady in the new Resident Evil

Extra-Dimensional Biological Entity

Nier Automata “Idiot Savant” sidequest

Exile: Wicked Phenomenon

Ouendan

Fullmetal Alchemist theme

Celeste

Area 51

Seaman

Meghan Markle

Glu Mobile

Clementine

She’s Gone Gone Gone Rewrite

From Which All That Was

Pizza Date

Among the stars we fell in love

Acts of God

The Confession of a Lifetime

Game Boy box art Frank drops in the chat after the show

Recommendations:


Brandon: Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar (2021), Frankie Rose’s Cage Tropical, Crazy Samurai 400 vs 1


Ash: Kotaku Splitscreen


Jaffe: The Tobolowsky Files


Frank: The Video Game History Hour


Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

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