Ep. 363 - Love in the Time of Dragons

Your new Insert Credit panel, now including Ash Parrish of The Verge, discusses Dragon Age fanfiction, the best video game music of the last ten years, and a Spice Girls nude code. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Ash Parrish. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

The beginning of this episode features some words from Brandon Sheffield on personal loss, the election, and what we can do going forward. The usual intro begins at (09:01). Thank you.

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• Game Developer Magazine
• Demonschool
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• Gojo Industries
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• The Insert Credit Forums

1: Have video games completely realized the concept of importing your data from one game to the next? (20:59)

• Assassin’s Creed series
• Legend of Zelda series
• Yakuza series
• Golden Sun series
• Mass Effect series
• Pokémon series
• Dragon Age series

2: What do people really mean when they talk about learning curves? (27:46)

• Super Mario series
• Metroid series
• Crusader Kings III
• Sid Meier’s Civilization series
• Warhammer universe

3: What’s up with video games having “Dragon” in the title and then not having very many dragons? (33:41)

• Dragon Age series
• Dragon Quest universe
• Yakuza series
• Drakengard series
• Halo series
• Monster Hunter series
• Dragon Slayer
• Panzer Dragoon series
• Dragon’s Dogma series
• Spice Girls
• Spice World
• The Spice Girls nude in the game Spice World
• Lara Croft
• Double Dragon series

4: Which video game character is tattooed on the most human bodies? (38:47)

• Mario
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Pikachu
• Ribbit King
• 1-Up Mushroom
• Hylian Shield
• Triforce
• Space Invaders
• Pac-Man
• Squirtle
• Bulbasaur
• Snorlax
• Magikarp
• Mew
• Gengar
• Slime
• Shanghai Dragons
• Overwatch
• Genji
• Hanzo

The Insert Credit Quick Break: Puppy Cam! (44:34)

5: Esther Weinbach asks, what is the most important thing you’ve ever learned from a video game? (45:38)

• BioShock
• Bravoman
• Dragon Age series
• Cullen Rutherford
• NieR

6: Can you think of a single piece of memorable video game music from the past ten years? (54:37)

• Undertale
• Sonic Mania
• Yakuza series
• Baka Mitai
• Gunsport series
• Crossniq
• Border Down
• Shoji Meguro
• Persona series
• Metaphor: ReFantazio
• Masayoshi Soken
• Final Fantasy XIV Online
• NieR: Automata
• Weight of the World
• Street Fighter IV
• Indestructible

LIGHTNING ROUND: Celebrity Gamers (01:00:09)

Recommendations and Outro (01:09:00):

• Brandon: Give your coupons to people who seem like they need them, Monoxide Brothers, Megumi Hayashibara’s The Characters Taught Me Everything
• Ash: Get a puppy, the What is White French Dressing? episode of Aw, Would You Look At The Time
• Jaffe: 52 Pickup, the first three seasons of Slayers

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