Episode 437 - Let Me Play With My Comics, Maman!
Waypoint Radio
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4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Rob, Patrick, and Cado are joined by special guest Yussef Cole to talk about Guardians of the Galaxy, a surprisingly not horrible action game that has flown over expectations by being just … fine. Patrick and Yussef break down the game’s workable combat, and the way side stories let these characters breath in a way the movies don’t. After the break, Rob has been enjoying a dip into history, both his own and that of medieval Europe in Age of Empires IV, an RTS that not only throws back the clock with its setting, but some of it’s RTS design choices as well. Cado has finally finished Metroid Dread, and is about as high on the movement and combat as he is low on the overall map structure. This leads us into a discussion over MercurySteam's crediting practices and labor practices across the industry.
Discussed: Guardians of the Galaxy 2:54, Age of Empires IV 54:11, Metroid Dread 1:23:28, Labor in the Games Industry 1:33:55
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rob, what's happening this Friday? Friday? Friday? The thing that we should talk about |
| 0:06.3 | is a waypoint. But damn it. Baring shit at the end of a tour. |
| 0:11.7 | I'll put it back up the front. I'll put it back up the front. I put it at the front |
| 0:15.3 | last time too. People will be will enjoyed it. I'll tell people to find this on |
| 0:19.7 | Twitch at I didn't. No. Twitch.tv slash waypoint. Anyway, that's where you'll find us |
| 0:26.9 | all day long on Friday starting at 10 a.m. playing games with friends of waypoint |
| 0:34.5 | past and present. Everyone's favorite games that they've been keen to hear us talk about |
| 0:39.6 | like duskers. |
| 0:41.6 | You can join us to celebrate five years of waypoint at twitch.tv slash waypoint this Friday, |
| 0:53.1 | October 29th, starting at 10 a.m. Eastern going through the day to 6 p.m. Eastern ish around |
| 1:01.2 | those times, keeping eye out on the Twitter Twitter.com slash waypoint for more information |
| 1:06.9 | as it becomes available. See you then. |
| 1:16.9 | What's good internet it's October 26th and you're listening to waypoint radio episode |
| 1:20.6 | 437. I'm your host Rob Zachney and I'm joined by Patrick Lopich. Hello producer Ricardo |
| 1:27.2 | Contreras you and today we welcome freelance writer bullet points editor and unwinnable |
| 1:32.4 | columnists use of call fresh from the Marvel Cinematic Universe game universe where he |
| 1:37.7 | reviewed marvels guardians of the galaxy for waypoint. Please please please please it is |
| 1:42.5 | marvels Avengers is the formal name of the Avengers game. This is not marvels guardians |
| 1:48.1 | of the galaxy. It is just guardians of the galaxy. Let's please let's get it right. |
| 1:55.1 | Yeah, I guess that's true. I should really know I should have known that is a weird |
| 1:59.5 | work. I'm like obsessed with the fact that it's called marvels the Avengers and not |
| 2:03.0 | and not just the I don't I'm sure there are some branding SEO some explanation for why |
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