Ep. 416 - Impulse Rifle

A game historian, a game journalist, and a game developer discuss Half-Life 3, The Game Awards, and mpreg.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Demonschool
• Mpreg
• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Mr. Mom (1983)
• Junior (1994)
• Joe Pesci
• Michael Keaton
• Beetlejuice (1988)
• Hideo Kojima
• “Welcome to the virtual zone. I hope you enjoy yourself.”
• Kasha varnishkes
• Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Shake Weight
• America’s Test Kitchen: How to Make Brussels Sprouts Taste Good
• Brandon’s Vegetarian Gravy
  • Start with a roux
  • Add milk (oat is probably fine)
  • Add nutritional yeast, soy sauce, herbs like sage and thyme, cumin, beer if you want
  • Just keep cooking it up until it tastes tangy
  • Optional: add a smidge of vinegar
• Ash’s Greens
  • Sautee Turkey necks until kinda brown
  • Add chicken stock, sauteed onions, garlic, whatever
  • Braise meat until tender
  • Add greens (not kale)
  • Add seasonings (bay leaf, thyme, sage, pepper, mustard powder, smoked paprika, garam masala, whatever)
  • Boil another 20-30 minutes
  • Add a little apple cider vinegar but not too much

1: What happens at an independent game development studio immediately after they release the game they’ve been working on for years? (13:18)

2: What are the best possible conditions under which to play a video game for review purposes? (16:22)

• Game Boy Advance
• Vicarious Visions
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• FromSoftware, Inc.
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Game Developer Magazine
• Wired
• insert credit
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

3: What can we say about Rebecca Heineman? (22:28)

• Rebecca Heineman
• PC Gamer: Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
• Interplay Productions, Inc.
• Wasteland
• The Bard’s Tale III: Thief of Fate
• Space Invaders
• Jennell Jaquays
• VCF West: DOOM 3DO: Or How I Survived Hell — Burger Becky
• John Carmack
• Fallout

4: What video game would have the best lipstick and nail polish line? (31:13)

• Bayonetta
• NYX Professional Makeup
• ColourPop Cosmetics
• Hello Kitty Island Adventure
• King of Fighters series
• Ash Crimson
• Promise Mascot Agency
• Forspoken
• Overwatch
• Guilty Gear series
• Dragon Age series
• Space Channel 5
• Space Channel 5 Japanese Sanitary Towel Commercial
• Drew Scanlon
• Space Channel 5: Part 2
• Michael Jackson
• Yakuza series
• Sonic the Hedgehog series
• Sailor Moon
• Pokemon series
• Shadow the Hedgehog
• Ichiban Kasuga
• Ace Attorney series
• Critical Role

5: Low Guppy asks, if you could take the assets of any videogame and make a completely different game with them, which game would you use and what would you make? (36:59)

• ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron
• Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
• WayForward Technologies, Inc.
• Sailor Moon licensees

6: BreadyToDie asks, how hard should a game push a player to play a certain way? (39:08)

• Legend of Zelda series
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder
• Kirby Air Riders
• Aliens (1986)
• Masahiro Sakurai

7: What effect does The Game Awards actually have on video games? (43:47)

• The Game Awards
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
• Call of Duty series
• Hideo Kojima
• Geoff Keighley
• Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
• D.I.C.E. Awards

8: How are they going to one-up the Gravity Gun? (49:22)

• Gravity Gun
• Kotaku: Why The Internet Thinks Half-Life 3 Is Being Announced This Month
• Half-Life: Alyx
• Steam Machine
• Fortnite
• Telltale Games
• Firewatch
• Campo Santo
• Dog
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• Super Mario Odyssey

LIGHTNING ROUND: One Sentence Review but it kind of also becomes Name Design halfway through (54:52)

Recommendations and Outro (01:00:57):

• Brandon: All Those Moments by Rutger Hauer, please review Demonschool on Steam if you’ve bought it
• Frank: Windswept, review the games you like
• Ash: Let the people in your life know you love them, Sailor Moon Abridged

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