Video game season is here! [The Resties]

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The annual video game deluge has begun. This week, we played not one, not two, but three inventive new games. Arcade Paradise asks players to split their time between running a laundromat and launching a local arcade. Rollerdrome mixes Tony Hawk's Pro Skater with Max Payne. And Drainus is to R-Type what Stardew Valley is to Harvest Moon. What does that mean? Listen to the show and find out!

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, my name is Christopher Thomas Plant.
0:11.6	My name is Ross Frostick.
0:13.0	Welcome to the resties where the rest of the best discuss the best of the rest.
0:17.8	This week we are talking about a grab bag of fantastic indie games.
0:23.8	I think these count as Indies, right?
0:26.2	They're all relatively good.
0:28.0	Yeah, oh yeah, no definitely.
0:29.5	Yeah, not from big studios, but arcade paradise, roller drone and drain-ass.
0:36.5	All three I think are somewhere between good and absolutely fantastic.
0:41.7	Yes.
0:42.7	So I am looking forward to digging into those.
0:44.7	But before we do that, we have a debate between you and I.
0:49.7	And I think we should turn it to the audience.
0:51.3	Yeah, I'll give some background.
0:53.0	So I was writing a piece about Curse the Golf for Polygon, which, you know, obviously
0:58.3	we just talked about Curse the Golf on Besties.
1:01.5	And the headline I came up with was Curse the Golf has history's hardest video game golf
1:07.9	course.
1:10.0	And Chris Plant piped up and said there is a grammatical error in that headline.
1:15.6	And I read it about five or six times.
1:19.0	And for the life they couldn't come up with where the grammatical error was in that headline.
1:23.9	Plant, please tell the people where the grammatical error is.
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