Ep. 287 - Rated L, with Kat Bailey

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:

1. Frank Cifaldi asks: What are the best British games? (05:11)
2. Why doesn’t a Sight & Sound-style poll work for video games? (12:22)
3. How does IGN review games? (25:33)
4. 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)
5. Azurelore Korrigan asks: What medium is best for adapting to video games? (38:29)
6. What’s something you wished video games would do, they eventually did, and now you’ve had enough? (45:14)
7. What counts as video game news? (50:12)
8. 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:

• Final Fantasy VII: Remake
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Final Fantasy XV
• Final Fantasy V
• Sonic R
• Plok
• July 4th Best British Games Spectacular, with Bennett Foddy and Mathew Kumar
• Cannon Fodder
• Batman
• Ste and John Pickford
• Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship
• Equinox
• Tim Follin
• The Bitmap Brothers
• The Chaos Engine series
• Judge Dredd
• Alien³
• OutRun series
• Snake Rattle N Roll
• Battletoads
• Bubsy series
• Slippy Toad
• Star Fox
• Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
• Donkey Kong Country
• Star Fox Adventures
• Slalom
• Highlander: The Last of the MacLeods
• Cobra Triangle
• R.C. Pro-Am
• Sensible Soccer series
• Football Manager series
• Dog’s Life
• Red Dog: Superior Firepower
• 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
• Ernest Borgnine
• Laser Mission (1989)
• From Here to Eternity (1953)
• Seven of Nine
• Wild Arms series
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• StarCraft
• The Last of Us
• Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
• Super Mario Bros.
• Pac-Man
• Final Fantasy VI
• Tetris
• Sonic the Hedgehog games
• Academy Awards
• Goichi Suda
• NetHack
• Dwarf Fortress
• Factorio
• IGN
• Eurogamer
• Edge
• Metacritic
• Hyper Gunsport
• Deadly Premonition
• ESRB Ratings
• Call of Duty series
• Wii Sports
• Diablo II
• Mad Planets
• California Extreme
• Skies of Arcadia
• Koudelka
• Flappy Bird
• Candy Crush Saga
• Grand Theft Auto series
• Mortal Kombat games
• MSCHF’s Tax Heaven 3000
• Star Wars: Jedi - Survivor
• Disco Elysium
• David Cage
• VIDEOBALL
• Baroque
• Neon White
• 2K Sports
• Jake From State Farm Is A Character In NBA 2K22’s City
• God of War
• Marko’s Magic Football
• Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City
• Fire Pro Wrestling series
• Dear Boys
• Captain Tsubasa licensees
• Football Drama
• Dragon Quest series
• Carcassone
• Baldur’s Gate
• Forgotten Realms
• Pathfinder licensees
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Disney’s DuckTales
• Battlefield series
• Legend of the Red Dragon series
• Final Fantasy XIV Online
• Ultima Online
• EverQuest
• World of WarCraft
• Kingdoms of Amalur series
• The Lord of the Rings Online series
• Star Wars: The Old Republic
• The Matrix Online
• Destiny
• Phantasy Star Online
• Monster Hunter series
• GameDeveloper.com
• Thegia

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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