Ep. 287 - Rated L, with Kat Bailey
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English - May 15, 2023 06:24 - 1 hour - 97.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsVideo Games Leisure Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
IGN news director and Axe of the Blood God creator Kat Bailey joins the panel to discuss Metacritic scores, ranked polls, and what the ESRB actually does all day. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Kat Bailey. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
Questions this week:
Frank Cifaldi asks: What are the best British games? (05:11)
Why doesn’t a Sight & Sound-style poll work for video games? (12:22)
How does IGN review games? (25:33)
If ESRB ratings were literal, which games would actually be for everyone, for teens, and mature? (29:43)
Insert Credit Ad Break - Sully: A Very Serious RPG (36:45)
Azurelore Korrigan asks: What medium is best for adapting to video games? (38:29)
What’s something you wished video games would do, they eventually did, and now you’ve had enough? (45:14)
What counts as video game news? (50:12)
Did everyone here always know what IGN stands for? (58:09)
LIGHTNING ROUND: From Yeso - Oblique Game Designs (59:24)
Recommendations and Outro (01:06:54)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
July 4th Best British Games Spectacular, with Bennett Foddy and Mathew Kumar
Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship
Highlander: The Last of the MacLeods
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022
100 best video games, ranked by experts
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Jake From State Farm Is A Character In NBA 2K22’s City
Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City
Legend of the Red Dragon series
The Lord of the Rings Online series
Recommendations:
Brandon: Continue to listen to this if we keep doing it, I Am a Hero (2015)
Kat: Episode 400 of Axe of the Blood God with Felipe Pepe
Frank: Episode 34 of Video Game History Hour with Felipe Pepe
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