Ep. 176 - Gin & Sonic, with Ash Parrish

Ash Parrish rejoins the panel to cover Final Fantasy XIV’s superiority, the Screaming Idea, and G4M3R5.

Questions this week:

1. Previously on Insert Credit 86: What games not originally designed for arcades would best make the transition to arcades? (01:58)
2. What specifically makes Final Fantasy XIV the best MMO game? (05:17)
3. Which games have benefitted the most from changing course during development? (10:37)
4. What game features the greatest distance of quality between how good the music is and how bad the game itself is? (15:42)
5. The pandemic is over, and each of you is opening up a barcade. What do you name it? (20:44)
6. Patreon Supporter THX Deep Note’s #1 Fan asks: If you could design a startup jingle for a video game console, what would it sound like? (28:28)
7. What are some things that video game fans THINK they want, but won’t actually enjoy? (33:36)
8. What is the longest you’ve ever struggled with a particular challenge in a video game? (38:44)
9. Topher “Docfuture” Florence gives this challenge: Design a singular controller to be put into a time capsule that will be the only controller to play all console games. It can have any button or stick configuration, but is arbitrarily limited to only 3 “gimmicks.” (44:07)
10. Who is the Meghan Markle of video games? (49:31)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Guess That Fanfic (54:29)

Think you have better answers than the panel? Politely discuss this episode in the Insert Credit forums

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Michigan J. Frog
• Push Up
• Push Pop
• Push-Up Bra
• Ribbit King
• Hades
• Blitzball
• Flappy Bird
• Scribblenauts
• Firewatch
• Ring Fit Adventure
• Super Mario Run
• Stupid bad Rayman ad
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Clash Royale
• Deadly Premonition
• Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida
• Yoshi’s Island
• Plok
• PachiPara series
• Disaster Report
• Okami
• Sunsoft Games
• Hover Strike
• Picross
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Dirge of Cerberus
• Original Pokemon cave theme
• Crank Yankers theme
• Dreamcast startup jingle
• Gamecube startup jingle
• Playstation startup jingle
• Xbox startup jingle
• Xbox 360 startup jingle
• That tall vampire lady in the new Resident Evil
• Extra-Dimensional Biological Entity
• Nier Automata “Idiot Savant” sidequest
• Exile: Wicked Phenomenon
• Ouendan
• Fullmetal Alchemist theme
• Celeste
• Area 51
• Seaman
• Meghan Markle
• Glu Mobile
• Clementine
• She’s Gone Gone Gone Rewrite
• From Which All That Was
• Pizza Date
• Among the stars we fell in love
• Acts of God
• The Confession of a Lifetime
• Game Boy box art Frank drops in the chat after the show

Recommendations:

Brandon: Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar (2021), Frankie Rose’s Cage Tropical, Crazy Samurai 400 vs 1

Ash: Kotaku Splitscreen

Jaffe: The Tobolowsky Files

Frank: The Video Game History Hour

Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.