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Episode #98: The Phantom Burp: The 2023 Year-End GamesCast
Manage episode 395822913 series 1337771
Featuring:
Merve
Science is Bad
Wolfman Jew
The Kappa
LittleMac
Bloomed Wings
3rdstringhero
Editor:
The Kappa
Timestamps:
0:15 – Introduction
3:05 – The Game Awards 2023: Discourse
32:25 – The Game Awards 2023: Announcements
1:02:20 – Layoffs and the State of the Games Industry
1:30:25 – LittleMac’s Top 3
1:38:05 – Bloomed Wings’s Top 3
1:40:35 – 3rdstringhero’s Top 3
1:45:05 – Our Favourites: Honourable Mentions
1:52:25 – Our Favourites: #5
2:05:05 – Our Favourites: #4
2:23:35 – Our Favourites: #3
2:56:25 – Our Favourites: #2
3:14:20 – Our Favourites: #1
3:52:15 – Our Disappointments and Least Favourite Games
4:49:00 – Our Surprises
5:07:20 – Conclusion
Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep98
Podcast header image from Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Major spoiler warning for Viewfinder. Minor spoiler warning for Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. Linkdump, including specific segments with spoiler warnings, after the jump.
Introduction (0:15)
- itch.io page for Butterfly Soup.
- Steam store page for Wilmot’s Warehouse.
The Game Awards 2023: Discourse (3:05)
- Official website for The Game Awards.
- Grant Theft Auto VI Trailer 1. (Source: Rockstar Games on YouTube)
- Official webpage for the D.I.C.E. Awards. (Source: Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences)
The Game Awards 2023: Announcements (32:25)
- Announcement trailer for Marvel’s Blade. (Source: Marvel Entertainment on YouTube)
- Teaser trailer for Kemuri. Clarification: The description on the YouTube video does provide some information concerning what the game is about, but this information was not delivered at The Game Awards. (Source: UNSEEN on YouTube)
- Official trailer for the Dave the Diver/Dredge crossover DLC. (Source: MINTROCKET on YouTube)
- Official reveal trailer for No Rest for the Wicked. (Source: Private Division on YouTube)
- Power Surge: Sega reveal trailer – TGA 2023. (Source: SEGA on YouTube)
- Pony Island 2: Panda Circus announcement trailer. (Source: GameSpot Trailers on YouTube)
- The character whom SungWon Cho played in Lost Judgment is Tesso. (Source: Wikipedia)
- Reveal trailer for The Casting of Frank Stone. (Source: Behaviour Interactive on YouTube)
- Reveal trailer for Jurassic Park Survival. (Source: IGN on YouTube)
- Community Wiki article on the episode “Investigative Journalism.” (Source: Fandom)
- Wikipedia article on The X-Files episode “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat.”
- Official release date trailer for Black Myth: Wukong. (Source: IGN on YouTube)
- Rebekah Valentine and Khee Hoon Chan’s report on sexism at Game Science, the developers of Black Myth: Wukong. (Source: IGN)
- Announcement trailer for The Rise of the Golden Idol. (Source: PlayStation on YouTube)
- Light No Fire announcement trailer. (Source: HelloGamesTube on YouTube)
- Cinematic trailer for Exodus. (Source: Archetype Entertainment on YouTube)
- Reveal teaser for Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. (Source: PlayStation on YouTube)
- Announce trailer for Visions of Mana. (Source: Square Enix on YouTube)
- Trailer for Usual June. (Source: Finji on YouTube)
Layoffs and the State of the Games Industry (1:02:20)
- A list of video game layoffs in 2023. (Source: Game Industry Layoffs)
- Wikipedia article on PM Entertainment.
- Report on layoffs and their circumstances at Bungie. (Source: IGN)
LittleMac’s Top 3 (1:30:25)
- Nintendo Store page for Disney Illusion Island.
- Nintendo Store page for F-Zero 99.
- Steam store page for Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons.
- #3: Chants of Sennaar. (Source: Steam)
- #2: Super Mario Bros. Wonder. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- #1: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. (Source: Nintendo Store)
Bloomed Wings’s Top 3 (1:38:05)
- First pick: Let’s! Revolution! (Source: Steam)
- Second pick: Birth. (Source: Steam)
- Game of the year: Against the Storm. (Source: Steam)
3rdstringhero’s Top 3 (1:40:35)
- #1: Baldur’s Gate 3. (Source: Steam)
- #2: Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. (Source: Steam)
- #3: Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader. (Source: Steam)
- A list of video game layoffs in 2023. (Source: Game Industry Layoffs)
Our Favourites: Honourable Mentions (1:45:05)
- Merve’s #10: Dordogne. (Source: Steam)
- Merve’s #9: Super Mario Bros. Wonder. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- Merve’s #8: Backfirewall_. (Source: Steam)
- Merve’s #7: Hi-Fi Rush. (Source: Steam)
- Merve’s #6: A Space for the Unbound. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s #10: Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s #9: Pizza Tower. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s #8: Quake II remaster. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s #7: System Shock remake. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s #6: Resident Evil 4 remake. (Source: Steam)
- Wolfman Jew’s #8: Sea of Stars. (Source: Steam)
- Wolfman Jew’s #7: Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- Wolfman Jew’s #6: Metroid Prime Remastered. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- The Kappa’s honourable mention: Age of Wonders 4. (Source: Steam)
- The Kappa’s honourable mention: GoldenEye 007 remaster. (Source: Xbox)
- The Kappa’s honourable mention: Hi-Fi Rush. (Source: Steam)
Our Favourites: #5 (1:52:25)
- Merve’s #5: Misericorde: Volume One. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s #5: Sludge Life 2. (Source: Steam)
- Wolfman Jew’s #5: Dredge. (Source: Steam)
- The Kappa’s #5: Marvel’s Midnight Suns. (Source: Steam)
- Wikipedia articles on Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Engage.
Our Favourites: #4 (2:05:05)
- Merve’s #4: Pikmin 4. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- Science is Bad’s #4: Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew. (Source: Steam)
- Report on Mimimi Games’s upcoming shutdown. (Source: Game Developer)
- Wolfman Jew’s #4: Super Mario Bros. Wonder. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- The Kappa’s #4: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. (Source: Ubisoft)
Our Favourites: #3 (2:23:35)
- Merve’s #3: The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood. (Source: Steam)
- The essay Merve wrote about The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood. (Source: Refrigerator Rants)
- Science is Bad’s #3: Alan Wake 2. (Source: Epic Games Store)
- Steam store page for Control.
- Wolfman Jew’s #3: Pikmin 4. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- Pikmin 4 sold 2.61 million copies worldwide (both physical and digital) by the end of September, 2023. (Source: Nintendo Financial Results Explanatory Material, 2nd Quarter of Fiscal Year Ending March 2024)
- Pikipedia article on Louie.
- The Kappa’s #3: Starfield. (Source: Steam)
- Fallout Wiki article on the Dunwich Building. (Source: Fandom)
Our Favourites: #2 (2:56:25)
- Merve’s #2: Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s #2: Chants of Sennaar. (Source: Steam)
- Wolfman Jew’s #2: Resident Evil 4 remake. (Source: Steam)
- Resident Evil Wiki article on the Garrador. (Source: Fandom)
- The Kappa’s #2: Baldur’s Gate 3. (Source: Steam)
Our Favourites: #1 (3:14:20)
- Merve’s #1: Chants of Sennaar. (Source: Steam)
- Wikipedia article on logograms.
- Science is Bad’s #1: Baldur’s Gate 3. (Source: Steam)
- IMDb page for Jennifer English.
- Wolfman Jew’s #1: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- The Kappa’s #1: Fortnite. (Source: Epic Games Store)
Our Disappointments and Least Favourite Games (3:52:15)
MAJOR SPOILERS: Viewfinder
- Wolfman Jew’s pick: Sea of Stars. (Source: Steam)
- Steam store page for The Day Before. The game is no longer available for sale.
- Steam store page for Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta – Episode 1 – Gold Edition.
- Merve’s let’s play of Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta. (Source: Merve Mervington on YouTube)
- The Kappa’s pick: The Settlers: New Allies. (Source: Ubisoft)
- The Kappa’s pick: Company of Heroes 3. (Source: Steam)
- The Kappa’s pick: Cities: Skylines II. (Source: Steam)
- The Kappa’s pick: Gloomhaven. (Source: Steam)
- Wolfman Jew’s pick: the continued success of Hogwarts Legacy. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s pick: Season: A Letter to the Future. (Source: Steam)
- Steam store page for Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between.
- The Kappa and Merve’s pick: Atomic Heart. (Source: Steam)
- Merve’s pick: American Arcadia. (Source: Steam)
- Steam store page for Viewfinder.
Our Surprises (4:49:00)
MILD SPOILERS: Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
- Merve’s pick: Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. Confirmation: It is indeed set in Sumida Ward. (Source: Steam)
- Wolfman Jew’s pick: Unity’s runtime fee. (Source: The Verge)
- Report on Unity’s revised pricing model. (Source: The Verge)
- Overview trailer for Another Code: Recollection. (Source: Nintendo of America on YouTube)
- The developer of Another Code: Recollection has not been revealed. (Source: Cing Wiki on Fandom)
- The Kappa’s pick: The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria. (Source: Epic Games Store)
- Science is Bad’s pick: Alan Wake 2. (Source: Epic Games Store)
- Merve’s pick: Wyna Liu’s Connections for the New York Times.
- GuessThe.Game.
- Official website for Puzzmo.
Conclusion (5:07:20)
No links here.
104 episodes
Manage episode 395822913 series 1337771
Featuring:
Merve
Science is Bad
Wolfman Jew
The Kappa
LittleMac
Bloomed Wings
3rdstringhero
Editor:
The Kappa
Timestamps:
0:15 – Introduction
3:05 – The Game Awards 2023: Discourse
32:25 – The Game Awards 2023: Announcements
1:02:20 – Layoffs and the State of the Games Industry
1:30:25 – LittleMac’s Top 3
1:38:05 – Bloomed Wings’s Top 3
1:40:35 – 3rdstringhero’s Top 3
1:45:05 – Our Favourites: Honourable Mentions
1:52:25 – Our Favourites: #5
2:05:05 – Our Favourites: #4
2:23:35 – Our Favourites: #3
2:56:25 – Our Favourites: #2
3:14:20 – Our Favourites: #1
3:52:15 – Our Disappointments and Least Favourite Games
4:49:00 – Our Surprises
5:07:20 – Conclusion
Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep98
Podcast header image from Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Major spoiler warning for Viewfinder. Minor spoiler warning for Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. Linkdump, including specific segments with spoiler warnings, after the jump.
Introduction (0:15)
- itch.io page for Butterfly Soup.
- Steam store page for Wilmot’s Warehouse.
The Game Awards 2023: Discourse (3:05)
- Official website for The Game Awards.
- Grant Theft Auto VI Trailer 1. (Source: Rockstar Games on YouTube)
- Official webpage for the D.I.C.E. Awards. (Source: Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences)
The Game Awards 2023: Announcements (32:25)
- Announcement trailer for Marvel’s Blade. (Source: Marvel Entertainment on YouTube)
- Teaser trailer for Kemuri. Clarification: The description on the YouTube video does provide some information concerning what the game is about, but this information was not delivered at The Game Awards. (Source: UNSEEN on YouTube)
- Official trailer for the Dave the Diver/Dredge crossover DLC. (Source: MINTROCKET on YouTube)
- Official reveal trailer for No Rest for the Wicked. (Source: Private Division on YouTube)
- Power Surge: Sega reveal trailer – TGA 2023. (Source: SEGA on YouTube)
- Pony Island 2: Panda Circus announcement trailer. (Source: GameSpot Trailers on YouTube)
- The character whom SungWon Cho played in Lost Judgment is Tesso. (Source: Wikipedia)
- Reveal trailer for The Casting of Frank Stone. (Source: Behaviour Interactive on YouTube)
- Reveal trailer for Jurassic Park Survival. (Source: IGN on YouTube)
- Community Wiki article on the episode “Investigative Journalism.” (Source: Fandom)
- Wikipedia article on The X-Files episode “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat.”
- Official release date trailer for Black Myth: Wukong. (Source: IGN on YouTube)
- Rebekah Valentine and Khee Hoon Chan’s report on sexism at Game Science, the developers of Black Myth: Wukong. (Source: IGN)
- Announcement trailer for The Rise of the Golden Idol. (Source: PlayStation on YouTube)
- Light No Fire announcement trailer. (Source: HelloGamesTube on YouTube)
- Cinematic trailer for Exodus. (Source: Archetype Entertainment on YouTube)
- Reveal teaser for Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. (Source: PlayStation on YouTube)
- Announce trailer for Visions of Mana. (Source: Square Enix on YouTube)
- Trailer for Usual June. (Source: Finji on YouTube)
Layoffs and the State of the Games Industry (1:02:20)
- A list of video game layoffs in 2023. (Source: Game Industry Layoffs)
- Wikipedia article on PM Entertainment.
- Report on layoffs and their circumstances at Bungie. (Source: IGN)
LittleMac’s Top 3 (1:30:25)
- Nintendo Store page for Disney Illusion Island.
- Nintendo Store page for F-Zero 99.
- Steam store page for Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons.
- #3: Chants of Sennaar. (Source: Steam)
- #2: Super Mario Bros. Wonder. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- #1: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. (Source: Nintendo Store)
Bloomed Wings’s Top 3 (1:38:05)
- First pick: Let’s! Revolution! (Source: Steam)
- Second pick: Birth. (Source: Steam)
- Game of the year: Against the Storm. (Source: Steam)
3rdstringhero’s Top 3 (1:40:35)
- #1: Baldur’s Gate 3. (Source: Steam)
- #2: Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. (Source: Steam)
- #3: Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader. (Source: Steam)
- A list of video game layoffs in 2023. (Source: Game Industry Layoffs)
Our Favourites: Honourable Mentions (1:45:05)
- Merve’s #10: Dordogne. (Source: Steam)
- Merve’s #9: Super Mario Bros. Wonder. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- Merve’s #8: Backfirewall_. (Source: Steam)
- Merve’s #7: Hi-Fi Rush. (Source: Steam)
- Merve’s #6: A Space for the Unbound. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s #10: Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s #9: Pizza Tower. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s #8: Quake II remaster. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s #7: System Shock remake. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s #6: Resident Evil 4 remake. (Source: Steam)
- Wolfman Jew’s #8: Sea of Stars. (Source: Steam)
- Wolfman Jew’s #7: Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- Wolfman Jew’s #6: Metroid Prime Remastered. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- The Kappa’s honourable mention: Age of Wonders 4. (Source: Steam)
- The Kappa’s honourable mention: GoldenEye 007 remaster. (Source: Xbox)
- The Kappa’s honourable mention: Hi-Fi Rush. (Source: Steam)
Our Favourites: #5 (1:52:25)
- Merve’s #5: Misericorde: Volume One. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s #5: Sludge Life 2. (Source: Steam)
- Wolfman Jew’s #5: Dredge. (Source: Steam)
- The Kappa’s #5: Marvel’s Midnight Suns. (Source: Steam)
- Wikipedia articles on Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Engage.
Our Favourites: #4 (2:05:05)
- Merve’s #4: Pikmin 4. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- Science is Bad’s #4: Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew. (Source: Steam)
- Report on Mimimi Games’s upcoming shutdown. (Source: Game Developer)
- Wolfman Jew’s #4: Super Mario Bros. Wonder. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- The Kappa’s #4: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. (Source: Ubisoft)
Our Favourites: #3 (2:23:35)
- Merve’s #3: The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood. (Source: Steam)
- The essay Merve wrote about The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood. (Source: Refrigerator Rants)
- Science is Bad’s #3: Alan Wake 2. (Source: Epic Games Store)
- Steam store page for Control.
- Wolfman Jew’s #3: Pikmin 4. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- Pikmin 4 sold 2.61 million copies worldwide (both physical and digital) by the end of September, 2023. (Source: Nintendo Financial Results Explanatory Material, 2nd Quarter of Fiscal Year Ending March 2024)
- Pikipedia article on Louie.
- The Kappa’s #3: Starfield. (Source: Steam)
- Fallout Wiki article on the Dunwich Building. (Source: Fandom)
Our Favourites: #2 (2:56:25)
- Merve’s #2: Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s #2: Chants of Sennaar. (Source: Steam)
- Wolfman Jew’s #2: Resident Evil 4 remake. (Source: Steam)
- Resident Evil Wiki article on the Garrador. (Source: Fandom)
- The Kappa’s #2: Baldur’s Gate 3. (Source: Steam)
Our Favourites: #1 (3:14:20)
- Merve’s #1: Chants of Sennaar. (Source: Steam)
- Wikipedia article on logograms.
- Science is Bad’s #1: Baldur’s Gate 3. (Source: Steam)
- IMDb page for Jennifer English.
- Wolfman Jew’s #1: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. (Source: Nintendo Store)
- The Kappa’s #1: Fortnite. (Source: Epic Games Store)
Our Disappointments and Least Favourite Games (3:52:15)
MAJOR SPOILERS: Viewfinder
- Wolfman Jew’s pick: Sea of Stars. (Source: Steam)
- Steam store page for The Day Before. The game is no longer available for sale.
- Steam store page for Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta – Episode 1 – Gold Edition.
- Merve’s let’s play of Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta. (Source: Merve Mervington on YouTube)
- The Kappa’s pick: The Settlers: New Allies. (Source: Ubisoft)
- The Kappa’s pick: Company of Heroes 3. (Source: Steam)
- The Kappa’s pick: Cities: Skylines II. (Source: Steam)
- The Kappa’s pick: Gloomhaven. (Source: Steam)
- Wolfman Jew’s pick: the continued success of Hogwarts Legacy. (Source: Steam)
- Science is Bad’s pick: Season: A Letter to the Future. (Source: Steam)
- Steam store page for Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between.
- The Kappa and Merve’s pick: Atomic Heart. (Source: Steam)
- Merve’s pick: American Arcadia. (Source: Steam)
- Steam store page for Viewfinder.
Our Surprises (4:49:00)
MILD SPOILERS: Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
- Merve’s pick: Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. Confirmation: It is indeed set in Sumida Ward. (Source: Steam)
- Wolfman Jew’s pick: Unity’s runtime fee. (Source: The Verge)
- Report on Unity’s revised pricing model. (Source: The Verge)
- Overview trailer for Another Code: Recollection. (Source: Nintendo of America on YouTube)
- The developer of Another Code: Recollection has not been revealed. (Source: Cing Wiki on Fandom)
- The Kappa’s pick: The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria. (Source: Epic Games Store)
- Science is Bad’s pick: Alan Wake 2. (Source: Epic Games Store)
- Merve’s pick: Wyna Liu’s Connections for the New York Times.
- GuessThe.Game.
- Official website for Puzzmo.
Conclusion (5:07:20)
No links here.
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