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

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 |

In this episode, Kris, Lucas and Will talk more about the ongoing debate of friction in game design. We also talk about PAX West coverage, Lies of P, Rise of the Ronin, Honkai: Star Rail, Warframe and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy.

TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS:


PAX West - 1:15 |
LUCID - 2:58 |
Heading Out - 5:41 |
Dragon Is Dead - 10:24 |
RA RA BOOM - 12:29 |
Heartworm (and the Horror Genre) - 16:27 |
Kriegsfront Tactics - 21:34 |
Slime Heroes - 24:50 |
Deathbound - 32:15 |
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days - 36:49 |
Lies of P ft. Monster Hunter World - 45:26 |
Rise of the Ronin - 55:52 |
Friction in Game Design - 1:04:59 |
Microtransactions and Game Design - 1:27:21 |
Honkai: Star Rail - 1:31:33 |
Sorry We're Closed - 1:48:25 |
Warframe - 1:57:05 |
Conclusions - 2:11:16 |

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


I Came Out Of My Cave To Tell My Editors "I'm Not Dead"
I'm Working on Stuff, But I'm Also Dying, So If You Could Be Chill For Maybe a Week
+ Playing It You're Like "Yeah. Yeah! YEAH!" And Then Just Progressively More Yeahs
There Is No Way To Get Me Interested Faster Than To Say "Yeah, We Like FTL: Faster Than Light!"
+ Shining A Giant W In The Sky To Summon Will
You Are A Group Of Ninja Cheerleaders From Space
One Thing Leads To Another: Horror!
+ The Overlap Between The Queer Community and Horror Fans is a Circle
+ This House Is Going To Eat Us If We Don't Leave in 15 Minutes, We Can't Stay Here
If I See Anymore, I'll Want it Immediately And Then Be Sad
You Have A Tanky Frame, But That Arm Ain't Tanky
+ We Were Tired Of Waiting For Square To Make A New Front Mission, So We Made Front Mission
+ The Vacant Smile of Doom That Is Toriyama's Slime Design
+ We Want You To Live With The Consequences Of Your Animations
+ Nah Man, F**k It, Big Hammer All The Time
+ It Never Stops Being Cool When You Izuna Drop Somebody
+ It Is Statistically Proven That Izuna Dropping is Fucking Cool
+ Team Ninja Does Not Want You To Have A Good Time
+ Every Time There Was A Choice, You Made The Wrong One
+ See You Losers, I'm Gonna Go Live At The Bottom of the Ocean With My Hot Mermaid Wife
+ I Need Ralph Ineson To Talk Dirty To Me
+ The Angels Aren't Any Better, They Hate You Too
Oh No, Here Comes The Capitalism
+ Mobile Games Are A Hellworld From Which There Is No Escape
+ Could Not Be More Over Than Mobile Games
+ If I Don't Girlboss Perfectly, My Eyeballs Get Ripped From My Skull
+ I'm Not Sure What Happened To Get Me Into Warframe
[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 talk about conventions and travel. We also talk about Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Balatro, What The Golf, Super Robot Wars and a smattering of other topics. Pay no attention to the fact that Brian opens the show with the wrong episode number, it's definitely 307. Enjoy.

TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS


Mental Health - 5:30 |
Brian at Capcom Cup - 12:00 |
(PAX West) Visions of Mana - 19:25 |
(PAX West) LUCID - 27:10 |
(PAX West) Freaked Fleapit - 31:37 |
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - 39:39 |
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth - 49:30 |
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - 55:05 |
Balatro - 1:04:02 |
What The Golf - 1:18:47 |
Dragon's Dogma 2 (and Capcom Microtransactions) - 1:21:47 |
Super Robot Wars 30 (and Original Generations) - 1:25:34 |
Conclusion - 1:41:09 |

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


It's Not A Horse, It's A Bicycle
+Getting A Cast For A Broken Ankle While A Spear Is Stuck In Your Chest
You Have An ADHD Butt
+ Fighting A Four-Year-Old on Dynamic Controls
There's Literally Dozens of Mana Fans
A Game Far More Degenerate Than The First Two
+ NEKUTAI!
+ The Horrific Necktie From Disco Elysium Lives On
+ The Only Way I Can Describe It Is "Unhinged"
+ The Good Kind of Degeneracy
+ I Was Today Years Old When I Found Out About Muv-Luv
+ The Balls It Takes For Those Developers To Gaslight Their Playerbase For An Entire Game
+ "It's Edgelord-y" Is Not An Argument
You Can Sit Down And Wait Until I've Recovered From Like A Dragon
+ You Sat Down To Play Poker With A Yu-Gi-Oh Deck
I've Also Been Playing Capcom's Dragon Slaying Game... By Which I Mean Replaying Monster Hunter World
What The Hell Do You Know About Super Robot Wars
+ Can A Series Really Be Trash If They Have Robots In Them?
+ There's Trash, There's Trash With Robots, There's Good Stuff With Robots, It's A Sliding Scale
There Absolutely Is Such A Thing As Bad Pizza
+ Super Robot Wars 30 Is Not A Misnomer, There's 30 Of Them
+ This Is Fan Service, We Know What You're Here For, You Will Be Serviced, It Will Be Great
+ I Need To Kill My Perfectionism, Because It's Killing My Time

[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, Kris, Will and Lucas talk heavily about the game's industry and the impending collapse of the triple A video game. We also talk about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and other Final Fantasy 7 media, Shiren the Wanderer, Unicorn Overlord, Last Epoch and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:


Fort Condor - 0:23 |
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - 4:47 |
Final Fantasy 7: On The Way To A Smile - 16:51 |
Narrative vs. Lore - 35:58 |
The FF7 Remake Project - 42:08 |
The State of the Triple A Games Industry (ft. Comic Books) - 48:10 |
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth - 1:33:17 |
Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island - 1:39:45 |
Unicorn Overlord Demo - 2:00:34 |
Last Epoch - 2:19:27 |
Conclusions - 2:23:02 |

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


My Wife is Just As Upset As I am, For Entirely Different And More Sane Reasons |
Blitzball Remains Undefeated as the Best Final Fantasy Minigame |
+++ Square Enix Accidentally Made a 150 Million Dollar Dreamcast Game |
+++ Everywhere is the Gold Saucer, Including the Gold Saucer, But Also the Areas Surrounding the Gold Saucer |
+ Excuse Me, I Heard You Say Wave Race? |
+ It's Like He Did It Just To Hurt Me, and Me Specifically |
+++ Please Tell Me There's No Tower Climbing, For The Love of God |
+ We Identified The Issue, And Then Left it in to Fuck With You |
+ People Who Do That Should Step on Legos for an Entire Day |
+ I'm Going To Walk Into The Sea, Bro |
+++ I'm Gonna Use My 18 Inches of Sephiroth as God Intended |
++ After 18 Inches of Sephiroth, There Are No More Worlds Left to Conquer |
+ You Die An Eco-Terrorist, or Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become A Capitalist |
Feeding Tonberries Into A Woodchipper |
+ Kira! Bring Me The Tonberry! |
+ 18 Inches of Tonberry |
Let Me Just Put My Catatonic Friend Here |
+ Yes, Dirge of Cerberus Will Be On The Test |
But How Do We Make NFTs Out of This? |
You're Treating Strep Throat With A Cough Drop, Dude |
+ At All Times, Avoid Becoming Destiny |
The Face of the Guy Kiryu's Grating Against A Car Bonnet Doesn't Matter |

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

In this episode, Brian, Kris and Lucas dig into the various Granblue Fantasy games. We also talk about Helldivers 2, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, Helskate, Qomp 2, and a smattering of other topics. Audience participation is extensive for this one. Enjoy.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:


Elden Ring - 2:44 |
Bandai Namco - 14:18 |
Brian's Soulsborne Challenge Runs - 16:30 |
Helldivers 2 - 19:45 |
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor - 41:17 |
Autoshooters/Bullet Heaven - 55:59 |
Podcast Length ft. A Message Sent to Brian - 59:29 |
Helskate - 1:02:23 |
Qomp 2 - 1:29:46 |
Support Indies, or The Need to Create - 1:36:38 |
Granblue Fantasy Relink (and the Granblue Franchise) - 1:47:52 |
Conclusions - 2:24:20 |
Platformers Podcast: Origins - 2:33:45 |

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


Sigyl I Am |
+++ Let Brian Solo Her |
Waterfowl Dance Can't Kill You If You Just Kill Her Before She Does It |
It's A Different Story if Gundam Tries to Walk |
++ Not Free Damage, Not Free Damage! |
++ Don't Do It For The Medals, Do It For The Good of Super Earth |
Ran Into A Few Bugs... And We Killed Them, As You Do |
++ Turns Out You Get Hit By Explosions A Lot |
+Helldivers Needs an Exoprimal Crossover |
A Great Faction to Oppose Space Fascists is More Space Fascists |
Noone Expects The Super Earth Inquisition |
It's Sony, So It Had To Be a Third Person Shooter |
++ Your Peashooter Has Very Little Downtime, But It Also Shoots Peas |
+ I Dig It, Literally |
+ If We Didn't Have Breath of the Wild or Genshin Impact, We Wouldn't Have Sonic Frontiers |
++ Mailygis Backwards |
+ All East Coasts Are Created Equal |
+++ Instead of Manualing Between Grind Rails, You're Killing A Dude |
+ Support Your Indies, They're The Only Ones Doing Anything Worth A Damn Nowadays |
+ Only Support the FICTIONAL Hyper-Capitalist Fascists |
++ Tim Curry Was Wrong, It's Capitalist Here Too |
+ Sharknados Will Continue Until Morale Improves |
+ It's Been Ship of Theseus'd Like Four Times |
++ Infinite Wealth! It's Infinite! And Wealth! |
++ Get Ready To Get Pogo'd On, Baby |
++ A2 is Objectively Better Than 2B |
+ Live From The Loser's Bracket |

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