Ep. 181 - All Six Of Them, with Ash Parrish
The Insert Credit Show
English - April 19, 2021 03:01 - 1 hour - 43.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsVideo Games Leisure Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Game journalist and friend of the show Ash Parrish returns to cover Amiga AI, alien boyfriends, and pynball.
Questions this week:
From Heather Alexandra: What game has the tastiest potions? (03:53)
What’s something you never want to see in a video game again? (08:27)
What are the best achievements in video game AI development? (12:56)
Which officially released video games are most transparently fanfiction of other games? (17:37)
Design the perfect romancable alien RPG NPC, but make them distinctly nonhuman. (22:27)
Dirtbag MoxBagel asks: How would you re-design pinball to be more of a 30 minute game instead of a 3 minute game? (28:40)
Have you ever wished a game challenged you a little more? (34:53)
What are the best liminal spaces in a video game? (39:41)
Has your opinion of a game ever changed after speaking with the developer? (43:53)
What is the Miles Davis “Kind of Blue” of video games? (49:52)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Alphanumerous Characters (55:26)
Think you have better answers than the panel? Politely discuss this episode in the Insert Credit forums.
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden
The Seventh Sign (1988)
Final Fantasy Potion energy drink
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Trypophobia (warning: potentially upsetting)
“Games for which there are two soundtracks, and both are good” on the Insert Credit Forums
Black Athena: How Hades Gets Its Gods Right by Ash Parrish
Recommendations:
Ash: Kotaku Splitscreen, twitter.com/adashtra
Brandon: Fourth Dimension, Melinda’s Hot Sauce
Frank: Shaquanda’s Hot Pepper Sauce
Jaffe: The Unknown (1927)
This Week’s Insert Credit Art Jam Topic: Cheating
Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.