WaffleFest With The B - Part One

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Squidge

Jay

The B

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Content Warning

At roughly 19 minutes, Squidge says:

Call of Duty is a pain in the art

Which whilst nor a swear certainly sounds like one.

At roughly 35, Squidge says:

I’m gonna bloody love it

Show Notes

The B returns and we all decided to talk wrestling in video games, which is something that has been intrinsically linked to video games since Tag Team Wrestling (known as The Big Pro Wrestling in Japan) was released in 1983.

It’s also a subject which brings out the silliness in us - as you’ll hear in this episode.

we also decided to use a whole bunch of inside baseball style wrestling terminology in this ep

check the end of these show notes for a link to a glossary, if you’d like to know what they all mean

We also planned to introduce a slightly new format for the show, in the hopes that there would be slightly less un-targeted waffling

the same amount of waffling, just a little more on topic this time

Jay:

more structured and very well contained waffling

We also mention that AEW wrestler Kenny Omega had recently

at the time of recording, that is

put out a video of him interviewing Yoshinori Kitase about the Final Fantasy VII remake, which we’ll embed here:

Recent Video Games

For those who might be new to the show, this is the part of the episode where we discuss the games that we’ve been playing recently and whether we’d recommend checking them out. These can be retro games that we’re revisiting, brand new games that have just come out, or anything in between.

The B’s Recent Games

• Ori and the Will of the Wisps

The B’s description of Ori and the Will of the Wisps contains spoilers

Check the chapter markings in your podcatcher to skip them, if you’d like

The B really recommends this game, as you’ll hear in the episode. So it’s worth checking out, I guess

I’ve not checked it, or the first in the series, out yet

don’t tell The B, he might fall out with me

especially if you like MetroidVania games.

Because The B mentioned the soundtrack, we’ll put a link to it in the “External Links of Interest” section, so check it out.

In fact, I’ll do one better. Here’s an embedded player for the album.

Squidge:

Ori and the Will of the Wisps: McGuyvering owls since 2020

Before we can get on to any of our other recent games, we have a discussion about whether video games are art or not. Which we don’t really come to a consensus on other than this:

TheB:

Do you want to see how pretty games can look, and how beautiful games can look? … [Ori and the Will of the Wisps] is the game to show them

Squidge’s Recent Games

• Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II

Specifically, Squidge has been playing the GameCube version of this amazing Action-RPG. But this brings up our collective chagrin at the fact that Phantasy Star Online 2 is only just now being released in America, but has been out in Japan for a very long time

like, since 2012

The B:

MMORPGs gonna MMORPG.

The B’s Recent Games: Part Duex

Because I’d interrupted The B by asking what Squidge had been playing, we needed to loop back around to him.

• Apex Legends

We then interrupt him again

because that’s what good friends do, right?

to discuss the dichotomy of high quality graphics, which leads to me referencing this episode of the CodingBlocks podcast - it’s all about the relative size differences in read speed for different hardware. Here’s a snippet of their discussion:

• 1 second for L1 Cache

  i.e. on CPU memory

• 5 days for memory

  i.e. RAM

• 11 days for data center
• 23 days for SSD
• 15 months for HD
• Almost 10 years for internet!

TheB:

People don’t care when it’s there, but notice when it’s not

And after a long detour, we finally get to the remainder of The B’s recent games:

• Days Gone
• Shadow of the Colossus

In a shocking revelation, The B admits to have never played it back in the day

then again, neither did I

And that sends us on a diversion about both DOOM Eternal and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which were just on the cusp of being released as we recorded the episode.

Jay’s Recent Games

After a bit of a tangent about Animal Crossing being a little too much like real life, we finally get to my recent games:

• Final Fantasy IX

which I’d nearly beaten, at the time of recording

• Phantasy Star Online

Where Squidge was playing the GameCube port of the game, I had been playing the Dreamcast version - the OG version, if you will. The main difference between what Squidge had been playing and what I had, is that the GameCube port had loads of extra content compared to the original.

I’d also been playing online via the Flycast emulator.

I then talk about how I’d broken my, self imposed, one-in-one-out

buy one game, and play it to completion before buying another

with the added ‘bonus’ of only being able to buy one game per month

when I bought Warriors Orochii 4: Ultimate. This leads us down a path of how most folks use a Switch - pick up and play a few minutes, rather than sit down and play for hours.

Squidge then talks about the fact that he was going to get Doom 64, which is something that he streamed a few days after recording this episode.

you are subscribed to our Twitch account, right?

Episodic Games & Final Fantasy VII

Because The B had brought up the Final Fantasy VII remake, I decided that it would be a good idea to discuss episodic games. My argument against episodic games is that as soon as interest for the game drops, the incentive to make the other episodes drops and the developers don’t bother.

But will this be something which happens with the Final Fantasy VII remake? The B thinks not, and he cites a number of successful examples as to why

that and the frankly huge download numbers that the demo saw

The most interesting thing being something that Teh B said about the original:

TheB:

if you consider the original, you can think of Midgar being the tutorial and that the game opens up once you’re out. Whereas this episodic release is pretty much just Midgar. So you’re literally just getting the entire tutorial as an entire game

I told you so

Back in October of 2017, too.

Suddenly The B comes up with a million dollar idea:

TheB:

Roleplay as the Goose while playing Resident Evil: Operation Resistance

which sounds an awful lot like the dog ending from Silent Hill 2

Get in touch with us if you end up mocking this up, and use the hashtag #projectHonk to share it.

External Links of Interest

• Support us on Ko-Fi
• Our Facebook page
• Us on Twitter
• The B on Twitter
• The B’s current (at the time of the episode’s release) writing gigs:
  • PlayStation Trophies
  • Xbox Achievements
• Glossary of professional wrestling terms
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps soundtrack
• National Videogame Museum
• Caching Overview and Hardware
• Flycast

Music

Links to the music used in the podcast can be found below. Definitely check them out, because they're amazing tracks by awesome musicians.

• Intro music is Behind the Lines by Ian Sutherland
• Spoiler Break music is Spectrum (Subdiffusion Mix) by Foniqz (BandCamp)
• Pallet Cleanser music is Breath Deep Breath Clear (Wu Chi) by Siobhan Dakay
• Outro Music is I N e e d Y o u 私の側て by G.H (removed from BandCamp)