Ep. 358 - Soak the Hippo, Save the World, with Ash Parrish
Description
Reporter for The Verge Ash Parrish guests hosts our panel as they correctly guess the discourse around Zelda and Dragon Age, briefly review Megalopolis, and develop a free exclusive phrase you can use! Hosted by Ash Parrish, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
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SHOW NOTES:
Portland Retro Gaming Expo
Atari
Jeff Minter
Llama
Alpaca
What Is a ‘Beige Flag’?
Nosferatu
Lumetri scope
r/Vexillology
Gadsden flag
Honey badger
Rainbow flag
Purdue University
Indiana University
1: Are there any games that take heavily from Jewish mythology? (11:01 )
Dante’s Inferno
Inferno
Castle Wolfenstein series
Noah’s Ark
Exile
Raji: An Ancient Epic
Black Myth: Wukong
Journey to the West
Dream of the Red Chamber
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Water Margin
One Thousand and One Nights
Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom
Golem
Kabbalah
Sefirot
Sephiroth
Final Fantasy VII
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Lost Odyssey
Fantasian
The Last Story
Blue Dragon
Etrian Odyssey HD
Seinfeld Scene It?
2: How do you feel about the direction Dragon Age is going? (19:16 )
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Dragon Age series
Baldur’s Gate III
Lego
Playmobil
Oliver Twist
Star Wars
Brown paper bag test
the image of Veilguard on Steam tim mentions
Mass Effect series
Avowed
Saints Row: The Third
Forspoken
Final Fantasy XIV Online
Cyberpunk 2077
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
1-2-Switch
Metroid series
Space Channel 5
Nana
Ai Yazawa
Ai Yazawa’s art of Ulala, with Nana and Hachi
Bloodborne
3: What is the Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (2024) of video games? (36:56 )
Megalopolis (2024)
Francis Ford Coppola
Mike Drucker’s tweet
Hideo Kojima
SimCity
Metropolis (1927)
Metropolis (2001)
Cosmopolis (2012)
Casshern (2004)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Tomorrowland (2015)
Will Wright
Spore
Stupid Fun Club
The Sims
Raid on Bungeling Bay
The Conversation (1974)
Flash Gordon
Jerry Rice & Nitus’ Dog Football
Alien Hominid
The Godfather (1972)
Death Stranding
Tim Burton
Laurence Fishburne
4: Design a serious triple-A video game about Moo Deng (44:45 )
Moo Deng
The Last of Us
God of War: Ragnarök
Heroes
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)
Screamboat
5: How can Nintendo make a well-rounded all-ages video game with a female protagonist that isn’t Samus? (48:34 )
United States
