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Watch Out for Fireballs!

Watch Out for Fireballs! Extrasode: Earthbound (Part 2)

Watch Out for Fireballs!

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Video Games, Leisure

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2012

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about color in games, linearity, sarsparilla and a little bit about the second half of EarthBound.

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0:00.0

Yeah, and it's getting the point now where you just have noticed where that's an exception.

0:07.0

Like one of the things, like, you know, you play it like just to take a big brown modern game, you know, you play through Skyrim, and most of it is just you know brown and white for the entire game and then you end up in that the area full of mushrooms under underground

0:19.8

his name is escaping me and every you know everyone loves it and I included myself like it looks so neat and the reason why is it just a totally new color palette and everything

0:28.1

whereas this used to be at very least an earthbound is kind of the standard. They do this trick many times.

0:33.0

And it's, there's a YouTube link or an article online about movies and the color orange now and about how everything is orange.

0:43.0

Oh, is it the time to shine?

0:45.0

The blue to orange shift on posters or is this different?

0:50.0

This is like, it's not specifically to posters.

0:54.0

It is a lot of scenes from movies and stuff that are, they're just,

0:58.0

everything isn't orange, like everything has this orange cast to it now.

1:01.0

Right.

1:02.0

And that, like, getting away from that same this can only be a good thing.

1:05.4

Right. So no, the blue to orange gradient like on posters to just kind of like

1:11.1

that, like the FedEx arrow where once you notice that that is a design convention, you're never going to unsee it.

1:17.0

Mm. I will both will end up in the show notes.

1:21.0

So I will investigate that and everyone can investigate all of it.

1:25.0

Yeah, but this is great. It took like screenshots of it. It was so good. That's the nice part about playing

1:31.2

this on an emulator. You can blow it up to a really big size and you can take good screenshots of stuff.

1:37.0

It makes me wish I still, I had a job where I worked for a copier program at the university and something I really frequently do is just find high-res images of things

1:44.8

and print them out. Even at like you and a half by 11, but oftentimes at 11 by 17. I made myself

1:50.1

a couple of really big fallout posters and everything and I wish that I still had that job because I would have tons of moonside and Lumine Hall posters up right now.

2:02.0

Epic level of David Boy in trilogy. Trivia. Epic level David Boye trilogy is a game I want to play.

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