Episode 420 - Cosmic Trombone Energy
Waypoint Radio
VICE
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
There’s some big news in this pod! We kick things off with two special announcements, then dive right into the game's we've been playing. Austin’s started the next Waypoint 101 game Super Metroid, Patrick and Cado joined him on stream so they discuss the early hours of the game. Then, Rob and Patrick discuss some of the less convincing moments in Twelve Minutes, an adventure game with some interesting time looping mechanics but questionable plot points. After the break, Austin is getting out of the country on Road 96, a game about teenagers hitchhiking out of a country during a politically turbulent moment. Austin and Cado are then learning the dark arts in Black Book, a deck builder that isn’t a roguelike for once, and has a great atmosphere and interesting mechanics around learning local folklore. Then we take another dip in the bucket for more Christmas lore, and a premonition from pods of Waypoints past.
Discussed: Super Metroid 13:56, Twelve Minutes (Light Spoilers) 21:01, Road 96 54:27, Black Book 1:16:16, The Question Bucket 1:29:19
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| 0:00.0 | What's good internet it is Friday August 20th and you are listening to Waypoint radio episode 420 |
| 0:24.2 | Oh episode 420 are you serious like this is the this is one I am your host Austin Walker joining me today |
| 0:33.3 | You already heard the voice of Patrick clapping the laughter |
| 0:38.6 | That's wrong that me being quiet smartly |
| 0:42.8 | How you doing about to take a massive bon rip and hear this news? |
| 0:46.8 | Okay, you know normally at the end of a you know how I do news you save for the end of a podcast and you go like well |
| 0:56.9 | I was a good podcast everybody |
| 0:59.1 | But now I'm gonna bring it down |
| 1:01.1 | What I left to I found that we'll put it at the end of the last game of the year podcast and then it won't dominate the discussion |
| 1:07.8 | But then it's it's still |
| 1:10.8 | Of course it did well the same thing happened to me the same thing happened to me when I left |
| 1:14.0 | We put it at the end of our E3 night |
| 1:19.5 | I understand I get it yeah, yeah, I think the end of works better on a on a |
| 1:25.6 | An incoming thing like when I join in giant bomb we did a podcast at the end of the podcast |
| 1:31.0 | I'm like and now Austin's is gonna be here. Do you like that guest spot? |
| 1:34.4 | Guess what he's here now, which is like a real shoot your shot baby with point at the stands moment |
| 1:40.4 | Anyway, here is the news out the gate. We're not we got games to talk about we have a bigger and that we have other announcements to say today |
| 1:47.2 | I was not playing destiny anymore. He's retired. Step away. Um the lore is too complicated |
| 1:55.1 | I am leaving way point for real for real for real to do the stupid game dev pivot except in my case |
| 2:01.3 | I think it's brilliant. I think the offer that I got was incredible. I was let's slow down for real |
| 2:07.2 | for us |
| 2:09.2 | It could work for anybody. I really think it could work for anybody if you found a project and a team |
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