Episode #4: No.

AVoCADo GamesCast

https://avocadogamescast.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/podcast20420edit2011.mp3

Featuring:
Merve
PT
Armando
Snazzlenuts
TheKappa

Editor:
TheKappa

Timestamps:
0:15 – Introductions: We Hate Video Games!
40:55 – Driving in Games
47:40 – Movement in Games
53:35 – We’re Not on Topic Anymore and We Don’t Care
1:00:00 – Movement in Games Pt. 2
1:08:15 – Clichéd Stories and Characters
1:10:05 – Movement in Games Pt. 3
1:13:45 – Fumblecore
1:18:25 – Games with Real-World Movement
1:21:05 – Kinect and Talking to Machines
1:25:10 – Fumblecore Pt. 2
1:28:05 – Games from Our Childhood
1:50:00 – Games that Today’s Kids Will Remember
1:54:40 – Gaming at School and Edutainment
2:03:20 – Typing Games and Music Games
2:06:25 – Gaming Magazines

Download link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep4

Linkdump after the jump.

Introductions: We Hate Video Games! (0:15)

• Reddit thread about problems with Overwatch matchmaking.
• Kotaku article about how the Batman: Arkham Knight PC port is still broken.
• Sorry, PT; PHOENIXZERO on Neogaf beat you to the Poochie joke.
• Batman: Arkham City was released a little under five years ago on October 18^th, 2015. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Kotaku article about receiving death threats over reporting on No
  Man’s Sky’s delay.
• The wacky plot of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. (Source: Super Mario Wiki)
• The Salt and Sanctuary skill tree. (Source: Salt and Sanctuary Wiki on Fextralife)
• If you want to watch all of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End’s cutscenes as a movie, you can. (Source: RabidRetrospectGames on YouTube)
• The Catmancer class from Bravely Second. (Source: Bravely Wiki on Neoseeker)
• The mini game that TheKappa mentioned is called “Chompcraft.” Here’s a video
  guide about it. (Source: New Game Plus on YouTube)
• The “orc captain mode” that TheKappa mentioned is called the Nemesis system. (Source: Shadow of Mordor Wiki on Wikia)
• Amazon product page for Gravity Rush Remastered. At the start of our recording, the price was $21.38. At the end of our recording, the price was $21.24. The price later dropped below $20 before shooting back up into the mid-twenties. When this was posted online, the price had gone back down to $19.89.

Driving in Games (40:55)

• An ode to the Mako from Mass Effect. (Source: PI0n33r on YouTube)
• Merve and TheKappa were mistaken. It wasn’t Forza 2 or Forza Horizon that came out in 2014; it was Forza Horizon 2. (Source: Wikipedia)

Movement in Games (47:40)

• Article about rocket jumping in the Quake series. (Source: Quake Wiki on Wikia)
• Lawbreakers preview. (Source: Polygon)
• Overwatch heroes. Click on a character to see its abilities. (Source: Overwatch Wiki on Gamepedia)
• The second colossus from Shadow of the Colossus. Take a look at its “lumbering” movement. (Source: jacksepticeye on YouTube)
• Scoring a combo worth 36 million points in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3. (Source: etanante on YouTube)

We’re Not on Topic Anymore and We Don’t Care (53:35)

• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 glitch compilation. (Source: Eurogamer on YouTube)
• Why No One Lives Forever can’t be resurrected. The companies involved are Warner Bros. and Activision. Activision merged with Vivendi, which had bought Fox Interactive. (Source: Kotaku)
• A let’s play of 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. (Source: xChaseMoney2 on YouTube)
• A screenshot from Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. (Source: Look, Robot)

Movement in Games Pt. 2 (1:00:00)

• A let’s play of Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition. (Source: Radek Ratel on YouTube)
• A let’s play of Guacamelee. (Source: VintageBeef on YouTube)
• Runner vision in Mirror’s Edge Catalyst. (Source: Electronic Arts)

Clichéd Stories and Characters (1:08:15)

• A satirical review of “Ubisoft Game.” (Source: games.on.net via The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine)

Movement in Games Pt. 3 (1:10:05)

• Some first-person footage in Grand Theft Auto V. (Source: Achievement Hunter on YouTube)
• Music video for “Smack My Bitch Up” by The Prodigy. Warning: NSFW. (Source: Max on Vimeo)
• Some footage of Mirror’s Edge in VR. (Source: TCTNGaming on YouTube)
• The microwave hall in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. (Source: hexen2k7 on YouTube)

Fumblecore (1:13:45)

• Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s fumblecore joke about Duke Nukem Forever. (Source: The Escapist on YouTube)
• A let’s play of Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015. (Source: Game Grumps on YouTube)
• What it looks like to beat QWOP.
• QWOP 2 parody trailer. (Source: Skux720 on YouTube)
• Play 2QWOP! (Source: Foddy)
• A let’s play of 4-player coop mode in Octodad: Dadliest Catch. (Source: The Infamous Gentlemen on YouTube)

Games with Real-World Movement (1:18:25)

• People playing Johann Sebastian Joust. (Source: Node on YouTube)
• People playing B.U.T.T.O.N. Correction: B.U.T.T.O.N. uses multiple controllers. (Source: Rev3Games on YouTube) Fun fact: B.U.T.T.O.N. and Sportsfriends, the compilation that includes Johann Sebastian Joust, were both developed by Die Gute Fabrik.

Kinect and Talking to Machines (1:21:05)

• People playing FRU on Kinect. (Source: GameSpot on YouTube)
• FRU was released on July 13^th, 2016. (Source: FRU presskit)

Fumblecore Pt. 2 (1:25:10)

• A let’s play of Grow Home. Merve was quite mistaken about the control scheme; you actually move the legs with the left thumbstick and the arms with the left and right bumpers. (Source: VintageBeef on YouTube)

Games from Our Childhood (1:28:05)

• Gameplay footage of the arcade classic Defender. (Source: SILKIE’S ARCADE on YouTube)
• Gameplay footage of the Atari 2600 classic Barnstorming. (Source: sloobro on YouTube)
• Gameplay footage of the Atari 8-bit classic Star Raiders. (Source: Electron Dancers on YouTube)
• The Great Deku Tree quest from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. (Source: Games2012x’s channel on YouTube)
• Play Donald Duck’s Playground online. (Source: Play DOS Games Online)
• A let’s play of Cannon Fodder. (Source: JimPlaysGames on YouTube)
• Gameplay footage of the Windows version of Pipe Dream. (Source: buffaloghost on YouTube)
• A let’s play of Clyde’s Adventure. (Source: lingyan203 on YouTube) Merve misremembered: there are no enemies. The game Merve was thinking of was Hocus Pocus. (Source: Daniel’s Game Vault on YouTube)
• Gameplay footage of The California Raisins and the Cereal Factory. (Source: ed1269
  on YouTube) The cancelled NES sequel was subtitled The Grape Escape. (Source: Wikipedia)
• A let’s play of War in Middle Earth. (Source: aulddragon on YouTube)

Games that Today’s Kids Will Remember (1:50:00)

• As of this writing, Achievement Hunter has 220 videos on their Minecraft playlist.

Gaming at School and Edutainment (1:54:40)

• A let’s play of Crosscountry Canada. (Source: Old World Gamer on YouTube)
• Gameplay footage of Math Circus. (Source: lingyan203 on YouTube) Merve was mistaken: the seal mini-game is not at all like a Tower of Hanoi puzzle.
• BuzzFeed “article” about Math Circus. The lion game looks more like the Tower of Hanoi.

Typing Games and Music Games (2:03:20)

• New York Times article about the creation of Mavis Beacon and people who think
  she’s real.
• Demo video for All the Right Type 3 Plus. Fun fact: Ingenuity Works, the people who made Crosscountry Canada, also made All the Right Type. (Source: ingenuityworks’s channel on YouTube)
• Gameplay footage of Mario Teaches Typing. (Source: NintendoComplete on YouTube)
• Wikipedia article about Miracle Piano Teaching System.

Gaming Magazines (2:06:25)

• Game Informer’s April Fool’s “Game Infarcer” feature for 2016.