Why It’s the Best Time to Get Into Fighting Games - Beyond 762

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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On this week’s episode of IGN’s PlayStation show, Podcast Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Jada Griffin and Mitchell Saltzman to talk about the latest news in the world of PlayStation, and the excitement of EVO and why it’s the best time to get into fighting games. First, the cast runs down some of the big news in the world of PlayStation, including the new PlayStation Plus extra lineup, including Yakuza games, Monopoly, and more; the casting of new and familiar characters in The Last of Us HBO TV show, Marvel Midnight Suns’ delay out of October, and the Call of Duty Modern Warfare II beta. Then, we dig into some thoughts on fighting games. With EVO having recently concluded, the first time since PlayStation acquired a stake in the tournament. Mitchell offers some of his thoughts from actually competing in and attending EVO, Jada offers her thoughts on watching as a fighting game fan, and Jonathon discusses his experience watching as someone who has never really been into fighting games. The cast talks about why now is perhaps the best time to get into fighting games, given the positivity and support around the scene, the success of free-to-play fighters like MultiVersus, which the panel has all been playing, and what upcoming and older fighting games might be good starting points for players who want to get into the fighting game scene. Then, Jonathon speaks with two of the developers behind Cult of the Lamb, which hits PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 this week. Julian Wilton, Massive Monster Creative Director, and Jay Armstrong, the studio's Design Director, join Jonathon to dig into Cult of the Lamb’s development process, the joys of it’s combination of game genres, and whether the team always knew it had to be a lamb at the center of it all. The cast then discusses some of the comments we received from last week’s show, the games we’ve been playing, including MultiVersus, Cult of the Lamb, and Nobody Saves the World, and Jonathon reads a wonderful Memory Card. And we do it all while accidentally creating like six portmanteaus. Want to be part of the show? Write in to beyond@ign.com. 00:00:00 - Intro & News! 00:14:45 - Mitchell Attended EVO 2022! 00:27:53 - Multiversus’ Success & Jumping Into Fighting Games 00:40:54 - What’s the Best Fighting Game to Start With? 00:52:13 - Cult of the Lamb Dev Interview 01:21:13 - Memory Card & Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.9	Beyond and Hello, everyone. My name is Jonathan Normusch and this is podcast Beyond.
0:15.4	IGM's weekly PlayStation show covering all the latest and greatest in the world of PlayStation,
0:20.4	including the tournaments PlayStation has purchased in the recent past and how they went as well as some other updates we'll be talking about this week.
0:26.9	I am very thrilled because I can hear myself so well.
0:29.4	That I'm just going to stop talking now. I'm joined this week by Mitchell Saltsman, Mitchell Hello.
0:34.9	Hello, hello.
0:35.7	It's good to see you. Thank you so much for joining us this week.
0:38.8	Thanks for having me. I'm excited to talk about Evo. I've been, I've been itching to, uh, you know,
0:44.3	talk about my experience for ever since, you know, I got back. So this is, this is gonna be awesome.
0:48.9	Happy to have you on and we're also joined this week in studio by Jada Griffin. Hello.
0:52.4	Hello. Happy to be here. I'm really mad that you didn't throw to me first because I was gonna make a joke about Mitchell being stuck in at Evo still.
0:58.8	Uh, because he didn't win out of his brackets. Yeah. So I was gonna really just gonna just, you know, now the joke is there.
1:03.6	Oh, yeah. This is, this is actually the Mandalay Bay Hotel room. I've, you know, been here for about a week.
1:09.3	I feel like I should make it my home. That's fair.
1:11.3	You're dropping all your stuff. I mean, Jada, you can at least joke about the fact that Mark isn't with us this week.
1:16.4	I mean, yeah, even he, he called us like or message us like 10 minutes before the show is like, hey, I can't go because
1:22.6	they're shooting the pilot for chainsaw man out front my house. Um, and we're like, that's an anime. So that doesn't make sense, Mark.
1:28.1	But all right, whatever. It's what you get from Mark. That's how you know that Mark has been replaced by the body snatchers.
1:33.8	I mean, we all know he's still stuck at the top of Splash Mountain.
1:37.8	I think they still please send pictures of Splash Mountain to Mark once again.
1:41.4	Please do that again. Thank you to everyone who played along. Please do it again to that man while he had to ditch us this week.
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