Dan and Tony are enamored with Horizon Forbidden West and have a lot to say about it. Alex has been enjoying Bowser’s Fury. Also, Elden Ring, comparisons between Horizon and Zelda, Stardew Valley: The Board Game, Elder Scrolls VI, Bungie, and Dynasty Warriors games. Recorded on February 26th, 2022.

Summary

Dan and Tony are enamored with Horizon Forbidden West and have a lot to say about it. Alex has been enjoying Bowser’s Fury. Also, Elden Ring, comparisons between Horizon and Zelda, Stardew Valley: The Board Game, Elder Scrolls VI, Bungie, and Dynasty Warriors games. Recorded on February 26th, 2022.


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Show Notes

0:00:00 Horizon Forbidden West First Impressions
Zero Dawn
Follow up: It's called "Purgewater" not "Purewater" #tonywaswrong
HFW on IMDB
Machine Strike
That Time You Killed Me
The opening of The Witness
Death Stranding on PixelNoiseFM
HFW Skills

0:37:34 Elden Ring, briefly
0:39:57 HFW Vs BOTW
Burger King Pokemon Gold Plated Trading Cards

0:48:28 HFW Story
Undertale
Deltarune
Hades

0:59:42 Stardew Valley: The Board Game
Ten more solo board games

1:04:47 Pokémon Legends: Arceus
1:06:17 Dynasty Warriors
Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition

1:11:15 HFW Combat and Story
1:22:23 "Skyrim II"
Starfield
Deathloop
Redfall

1:25:59 Bungie
Gnop!, a Pong clone (it's Pong spells backwards).
Operation: Desert Storm)
Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete
"The game distinguished itself from other games of its time by including a multiplayer mode that functioned over the AppleTalk protocol or Point-to-Point Protocol."
"The game's tagline was "Kill your enemies. Kill your friends' enemies. Kill your friends". This tagline has reappeared as a description in the multiplayer menu screens for some of Bungie's other games, such as Myth: The Fallen Lords and Halo 3."

Pathways into Darkness
"Pathways was critically acclaimed and won a host of awards; it was also Bungie's first major commercial success and enabled the two-man team of Jason Jones and Alex Seropian to move into a Chicago office and begin paying staff."

1:29:51 Bowser's Fury
Slay the Spire
Bowser's Fury finale on PixelNoiseFM

1:42:39 Feeling Rewarded in Games
Tony beats the final boss in Metroid Dread
Super Mario Odyssey Complete Playthrough on PixelNoiseFM

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