Podquisition 464: Rapscallion Behavior of the Nineties

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

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🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

It would take so little to change the tone. Games we played this week include: Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (9:55) Karmazoo (18:40) Alien Hominid Invasion (36:10) Backpack Hero (45:55) Bladestorm (51:05) --- News things talked about in this episode: Call of Duty Modern Warfare III only given 16 months dev time (1:02:05) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-09/cod-modern-warfare-3-faces-bad-reviews-after-rushed-development Strauss Zelnick said a bunch of troubling stuff about AI, pricing (1:08:25) https://www.inverse.com/gaming/gta-6-generative-ai-take-two-ceo https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/gta-6-publisher-ceo-thinks-videogame-prices-are-very-very-low-for-what-they-offer Nintendo continues to suggest Switch 2 coming next year while not confirming its existence (1:14:15) https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/10/nintendo-president-reiterates-switch-software-support-into-fy2425 Layoffs hitting Free Radical, Humble Games, and Unity (1:15:45) https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/9/23954709/unity-layoffs-q3-earnings-runtime-program https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/timesplitters-devs-free-radical-are-reportedly-the-next-embracer-studio-facing-closure https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/humble-games-layoffs-report Sony significantly cuts plans for live service games (1:29:55) https://www.gameinformer.com/news/2023/11/09/sony-has-delayed-half-of-its-planned-playstation-live-service-games --- Buy official Jimquisition merchandise at thejimporium.com Find Laura at LauraKBuzz on Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and Patreon. All her content goes on LauraKBuzz.com, and you can catch Access-Ability on YouTube every Friday. Follow Conrad at ConradZimmerman on Twitter/Instagram/BlueSky and check out his Patreon (patreon.com/fistshark). You can also peruse his anti-capitalist propaganda at mercenarycreative.com.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, hey, time to put your middle to the test now.
0:04.7	Oh, right.
0:23.6	Hello.
0:24.3	Hello.
0:26.0	That's not how I was going to start.
0:27.7	I was going to start by talking about men behaving badly.
0:30.6	No, I'm not talking about the reaction to Hogwarts, not winning.
0:34.7	Oh.
0:34.7	I'm not getting any nominations.
0:37.1	No. No. Oh! Not getting any nominations. No.
0:44.6	I like to go to this disused factory that Byrdette.
0:45.3	You've been there.
0:46.4	Lorraine. Oh, yeah, yeah.
0:47.1	I know.
0:47.7	I know the place.
0:48.9	I like to wander around it when it's like getting dark and laugh like a creepy clown.
0:53.5	Just going, go.
1:00.4	As well. Yeah. around it when it's like getting dark and laugh like a creepy clown just going, go, as well as, yeah, then I hear shabs and then I hide.
1:05.4	The thing about that place is it's so nondescript. I could imagine anything is what that place used to be used for. Yes. I hear that, that clown laughter. I'm going to assume it used to
1:09.9	make clown shoes before a clown burnt it down.
1:12.4	Right. It's very plausible. Like, so long as no one tells you it was just like, what was it? Like a timber yard or...
1:22.4	I think it's like generic plastic, like plastic manufacturing, because of my plastic pallets melted to the floor or something.
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