The Platformers: A Video Game (and Nerd Culture) Podcast Brian Barnett

This week, Brian, Kris, and Lucas talk about books and styles of critique before remembering that we're a video game podcast. We also discuss Duck Detective: Secret Salami, Void Terrarium 2, Multiversus, and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:


Intro - 0:00 |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Toys - 1:31 |
Thrawn: Treason & Other Star Wars Books - 8:49 |
Toxic Self-Criticism About Physical VS Audio Books - 18:04 |
Mary Skelter (and its Books) - 26:49 |
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami - 44:24 |
Witch & Lilies - 52:04 |
Void Terrarium 2 - 1:04:01 |
V Rising - 1:12:58 |
The Way We Critique Games (And How Critique is Received) - 1:27:08 |
System Shock Remake - 1:59:41 |
Multiversus - 2:14:29 |
Outro - 2:52:04 |

POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):


Donatello Has Been Whitewashed |
+ Generic 80s Cartoon Bad Guy Name |
You're Reading A Codex Instead Of A Scroll? Scrub |
+ Erotica? In THIS Economy?! |
The Dungeon Is Horny For You |
Shocking News: Lucas Has Been Playing A Dungeon-Crawling RPG |
The Podcast Police Aren't Coming For Us Just Yet |
+ If It's Your First Time in Etrian Odyssey, You HAVE To Dungeon Crawl |
+ Ghost in the Mary Shelley |
+ You Know He's A Hero Because He's Wearing A Scarf |
+ Have A Morbin' Good Time |
Go Morb Over Those Guys |
+ I Want A True Sequel to Morrowind And I'm Not Getting It |
+ And We Didn't Even Mention Castlevania Until This Moment |
Terry Bogard is More Graceful Than Richter Belmont |
[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, & streamed (⁠Twitch.tv/Ribnax⁠) by Brian ‘Ribnax’ Barnett. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse.]

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:


Intro - 0:00 |
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - 6:25 |
Rise Of The Ronin - 49:30 |
Lucas’ Cat Sneezes (& Read Only Memories: Neurodiver) - 1:28:50 |
Hades 2 & WoW - 1:50:00 |
Embracer, Xbox, & Games Industry Discussion - 2:00:00 |
Sins Of A Solar Empire 2 - 2:42:00 |

POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):


Aspiring To The Unfathomable |
Desiring Greater Quintessence |
Jennifer’s Body |
Stage Select On A Fighting Game |
Taking The Door Off The Hinges & Throwing It Down The Hallway |
Nomura: Like Walking Into A Hot Topic, But With More Belts |
A Sexual Feast For Kris Cornelisse |
Car Bombs Are Temporary |
A Devil’s Threeway Where Nobody Wins |
Will It Blend? Don’t Breathe This! |
My Horses Turned Back Into Rats! |
The Takes? Hot & Ready Just Like The Littlest Caesar |
No Innocent Men |[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, edited & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax’ Barnett]

This week, Brian, Kris, and Lucas discuss Star Wars, Hades 2, FF7 Rebirth, and a whole lot more. Cheers!


TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:


Intro - 0:00 |
Star Wars Books and Expanded Universe - 3:26 |
Brian's Steam Deck - 21:29 |
Hades 2 - 26:35 |
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - 38:53 |
Cheap Walmart Finds - 1:01:37 |
V Rising - 1:04:34 |
Castlevania and Konami - 1:37:29 |
Animal Well (and Dunkey) - 1:43:02 |
System Shock Remake - 1:51:55 |
The Fall of Lucas' Amiibo - 1:53:16 |
Beared or Bore - 1:56:03 |
Conclusions (and Multiversus) - 1:58:53 |

POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):


+Richter is Simultaneously The Best And Worst Belmont |
Luckass, The Off-Brand Lucas |
+Save Yourself From Balatro, It's Too Late For Me |
It Was So Artistically Done! |
I'm Showing My Star Wars Nerd Power Level Here |
No-One Hates Star Wars More Than Star Wars Fans |
None of Y'all Are As Cool As Revan |
Speaking of Amelia Tyler's Lovely Voice Lording It Over Me... |
The Worst Supergiant Game is Better Than Several of Your Favorite Games |
Magic is For Nerds (That's Us, We're Nerds) |
Throwing Explosive Skulls Like A Grenade Launcher |
Shut Up, Chadley! |
Chadley is a Good Boy But He Needs To Leave Me Alone |
Chadley is Red Pilled |
Chadley, You're Just Jealous Because You'll Never Be As Cool As Mai |
FF7 Rebirth Has Video Game Disease |
I Clapped When I Saw The Thing I Liked |
++She's A 10, But She Slips on Every Banana Peel |
I'd Buy 33 Of Them For A Dollar! |
The Sun Will Kill You (Very Quickly) |
Hey You Wanna V Rise Up? |
This Is The Shit Room, Where We Go To Shit |
Simon Belmont Wanders Around And F*****g Mercs You |
What Genre is Warframe? Yes |
Save Hades 2 For Later, Play V Rising Now |
+Please, God, Don't Give Castlevania to Mercury Steam Again |
BIGMODE Can Now Retire Undefeated |
If That's The End of My Life, Then So Be It I Guess |
Oh No Lucas, You ARE Dead! |
+Tyrant Raving Mad |
I See Adventure Time in Multiversus And My Vision Goes Red |
+Blondes Have More Fun. Australians Have More Fun. Australian Blondes? Forget About It! |

[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax’ Barnett, & edited by Kris ‘Delfeir’ Cornelisse]

In this episode, Brian, Kris and Lucas talk about a bunch of roguelikes involving cars. We also talk about Inkbound, Sportsball, Star Wars books, the SaGa franchise, and a smattering of other topics. Brian also makes ASMR. Enjoy.

TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS


Intro - 0:00 |
Sportsball and Life Balance - 0:41 |
Steam Deck - 7:02 |
Helldivers 2 - 14:57 |
SaGa: Emerald Beyond - 20:26 |
Inkbound - 47:10 |
Audrey's Book Corner - 57:14 |
Heading Out - 1:02:17 |
Pacific Drive - 1:14:49 |
Brian Barnett ASMR - 1:27:30 |
Conclusions - 1:29:07 |

POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):


This Sounds Like A Sportsball Thing, Is This A Sportsball Thing?
The Closest I Get To Understanding Baseball Is Like A Dragon Minigames
+I Don't Wanna Face The Wrath of Kendrick
+So Naturally, As The Helldivers Community Is Wont To Do, They Deployed The Memes
+Sony Takes One Of The Biggest, Most Surprising Ws of the Year and Turns It Into A Massive L
+The Helldivers 2 Devs Remain Undefeated... Except Joel, Fuck Joel
I Dunno Man, That Sounds Like Treason
+SaGa Games Are Like Taking A Final Fantasy, and Ripping It Inside Out
+You Have To Bash Your Head Against Systems Until They Make Sense
You Had To Stick to The Script, But Instead You Had To Get Cute About It And Ruin Everything
+What If, Instead of Punching This Guy, I Kick Him! YEAH!
Take Four Individual Final Fantasy Levelling Systems, Put Them Together? You Have A SaGa Game
++The Lobster Is Very Good At Martial Arts
+Just Go Full Aggretsuko
+Oh Darth Bane, You Are The Biggest Jobber in Star Wars
On A Scale of One to Mortal Kombat One, How Graphic?
You Can Very Easily Crash in a Way That's Fatal... Just Like Real Life!
+Real Life Tip: Don't Crash Your Car
+He's A Full On Degenerate Whose Opinion I Really Want To Hear
+When It Rains, It Pours For The Car Sickos
++At The Moment, My Car is Haunted
++I'm Reading People An Audiobook, With A Raging Erection
+We Almost Made It To The End Without Any Sort of Perversion

[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse.]

In this episode, Brian, Kris, Will and Lucas talk about Final Fantasy minigame related trauma. We also talk about Handheld PCs, Hades 2, Pacific Drive, and a smattering of other topics. We're quite unhinged and degenerate about it. Enjoy.

TOPIC AND TIMESTAMPS


Intro - 0:00 |
Brian's Steam Deck - 2:45 |
Final Fantasy Related Trauma - 5:13 |
Steam Deck and other Handhelds - 9:46 |
Hades 2 - 27:47 |
Degeneracy - 39:20 |
Shogun and Black Sails - 45:39 |
Unicorn Overlord (and Fire Emblem) - 49:47 |
Star Wars: Thrawn - 53:20 |
Pacific Drive - 55:30 |
Mods and Steam Workshop on Deck (ft. Balatro) - 59:10 |
Conclusions - 1:05:00 |

POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):


+Steam Deck +1
+So Many Lightning Bolts To Dodge Before You Get The Best Steam Deck
+We Don't Use RPG Sickos In Place Of Something Else, We Use It Because You're Actual Sickos
+I Call Myself a Sicko Because I Understand the Depravity To Which I Will Go
+FFXIII, Not Even Once
+I Would Simply Be Correct And Choose The Right Option
+The Gang Discovers Their Least And Most Favourite Final Fantasy Games
+Card Games Make A Man Do Strange Things
+Todd Howard Has Never Made Anything That "Just Works"
+"It Just Works" - Todd Howard, Creator of Some of The Buggiest Games Known to Man
+It's Hard To Be This Funny, But Not Hard When You're This Talented
+I, Too, Am Deck Ready
+Consoles Nowadays Are Just Bad PCs
+Reject Modern Game Console, Embrace the Handheld
+We Could Be More Unhinged; Many of Us Are, In Fact, Too Hinged
+The Sticks Are Stiff, But They Don't Resist
+Supergiant Games Don't Miss
+Hades is For Everyone, Because Everyone Can Find A Character They Find Attractive In That Game
+Girl You Look Like You Could Crack Me In Half, Let Me Buy You A Drink
+Nice To Meet You, Please F*****g Kill Me
+Karlach.txt
+My Sexuality is Karlach
+We Are Not Worthy of Supergiant's Character Designs
+This Isn't A Public Space, This Is A Private Show, I Run This Place, And I'm A Fucking Pervert
+I Reserve The Right To Be Thirsty About Anyone
+The Platformers Reserves The Right To Be Horny, In Places You Can Hear Us
+Nobody Here Is Barking Like A Dog... Yet
+That Is A Load-Bearing "Yet"
+"I Do Not Want To Be Shogun", Says The Man Who Very Much Wants To Be Shogun
+I Have The Internet, The Internet Will Provide
+The Show Is A Little Too Horny For Kermit The Frog
+I've Never Been More Disappointed; That's Actually Not True, I've Played Perfect Dark Zero
+I Liked Fire Emblem Before It Was About Tubes of Colgate Toothpaste
+The Rise, Fall, and Animeification of Fire Emblem
+I'm Holding Off on Touching Balatro Mods, Because You'll Never See Me Again
+Card Games? That's A Young Man's Game
+The Cardboard Crack Is No More
+Y'all Got Any More Of Those Booster Packs?
+Skator Gator Is A Game You Play on Fridays, IYKYK
+Keep Our Name In Your Mouth, But Do It Respectfully

[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse.]

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and Lucas are joined by Thomas Wilde to discuss Pepper Grinder, Balatro, Harold Halibut, and a lot more.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:


Pepper Grinder - 1:10 |
Controller for Lucas PB Tales - Crush - 17:25 |
Harold Halibut - 19:00 |
3, 2, 1, Let's Jam - 28:00 |
Balatro - 29:00 |
Stellar Blade - 31:30 |
Asgard's Wrath II - 45:05 |
Lies Beneath - 55:35 |
Wintermoore Tactics Club - 1:01:50 |
Alpha Protocol - 1:17:00 |
Thomas' Indie Game Corner - 1:49:05 |
Inkbound - 1:59:35 |

POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):


He's Got A Big Pink Head & He Drills Down |
What Flavor Of Crack Would You Like? |
I'm Worried It Will Become Financially Beneficial For Me To Get Back Into World Of Warcraft |
No, We're Not Gonna Tip Mike Ybarra |
Wallace & Grimpet |
Cheese, Grommet! |
Unfortunately, No One Can Be Told What The Music Is… You Have To See It For Yourself |
Friendship Ended With Granblue, Balatro Is My New Best Friend |
+Straw Monolith |
When We Speak, It's With 1,000 Mouths. When We Play Games, It's With 2,000 Hands |
Criticized Based On The Juiciness Of Its Rump |
+I Hope One Day Our Children's Games Will Be Judged Not By The Thiccness Of Their Buttcheeks, But The Thiccness Of Their Character |
+Brian, It's Me From The Future! In 20 Years, You'll Need A Copy Of Magna Carta To Solve A Debate About Korean Ass Cheeks! |
+You Must Gather Your Sandwich Before Venturing Forth |
Measuring The Iced Cream |
One Degree Of Separation From George W. Bush & Two From Mike Pence |
Really Jonesing For ChuChu Rocket! |
It Was A Thousand Years If It Was A Day |
+Inventing Booty Shorts In 1790 |
Assbucket In A Robe |
+Succubus Fuck: My Chillwave Scissor Sisters Cover Band |
+I Hadn't Thought Of Yeoman Chambers As A Sex Vending Machine Before Now |
+Please Put $50 In Quarters Into Your Personal Assistant |
The Outside Was Still Raw, But The Inside Was Burnt |
Alpha Protocol Was Made By Kay's Kitchen |
+My Favorite Part Of Alien Was When The Xenomorph Spent 5 Minutes Humping A Wall |
That Wall Had A Family (And Had Even More Afterwards) |
YouTubers Who Wouldn't Know A Thing About Critical Theory If It Bit Them On The Taint |
With $50 From Me He Can Buy Himself A Fighter Jet |
I Think We All Know How Thoroughly Weaponized The Australian Public Is |
+Lucas White's Twisted Metal Hot Dog Cart |
+Hot Dog Water Oil Slick |
Going Out Trying To Save A Book, Pagemaster Style |
Can You Date The Inkblot? |
+What If You Tried TALKING To The Cyberdemon? |
'Only Show Adult Balatro Mods' |
I Was Really Hoping For Fuckable Cards |
I've Just Realized How Easy It Is To Get Him To F**k Up His Search History, And That's More Power Than I Deserve |
We Need To Rule 34 This Card Game
The Internet Failed You, But It Did It In Defense Of Me (Which I'll Allow) |
Balatro Nude Mods |
Thoughts And Themes And Popcorn Dreams |
Our Hearts Are Not Comprised Of Only Goodness, So Be Nice |