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Join Nirav, Rhi and special guests Elizabeth and Bri as we dive into Animal Crossing, strap ourselves to a desert island, create a socialist utopia with Tom “Bernie Sanders” Nook, join Nirav’s Journey to the Savage Platinum, fight the Nintendo Switch Online App, try to figure out what Reggie Nintended, deny the existence of Amiibo Festival, simp for Japanese toilets and talk about animal crackers for waaaaaay too long. It’s Game Busters: Barnum & Bailey Edition! Every week, Nirav, Rhi and a panel of self-proclaimed experts bust open a game to its component parts with a mixture of large hammers and positive vibes. Come join us! 0:00 Intro 10:20 Hall of Fameluster: Best Video Game Villain You Don’t Fight 20:37 Bust ‘Ems - Animal Crossing 1:01:00 Time for Games - Animal Crackin’ 1:14:18 Wishing Well - What Would You Do With Tom Nook Money? 01:18:29 Closing and Todd Howard
Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we begin a new series on the unique series Animal Crossing. We situate the game briefly in time before turning to some of the ways the game introduces itself and its mechanics, before turning to feedback. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: An hour a day! Podcast breakdown: 0:50 Animal Crossing 1:08:09 Break 1:08:43 Feedback Issues covered: "this is one of my favorite Nintendo series, actually," Tim uses the 'cast to his advantage, trying to think of forerunners, Daddy, an explosive era of design, the variety of games and the PC/console divide, thinking outside the box, a weird kind of buzz, the Nintendo spin on some genres, having a chillout time, being able to meditatively play, the weird concepts at work and conveying that to a potential audience, Nintendo going its own way, having a lot going on in even this first game, daily routine and tranquility obscuring the systems, heading off player aggression, meeting up with KK Slider, setting and subverting player expectations, listening to KK Slider play guitar, that Nintendo touch, hopping the train to town and meeting Rover, the important Rover connection, committing to characters and making them iconic, social propriety and cell phones, contrasting this with character creation, representing everything in the game (with an inventory as well), chibi/big head character design, attitude with their voicing, character design and presentation being economic but expressive, timing phonemes against the spaces between words, spending a lot of time on the speech system, Nintendo's habit of having everyone in the company try the games, anime/manga idioms for expression/emotion, developing an internal language and sticking with it, Rover the cat, we reveal our town and player names, getting a mortgage and job from Tom Nook right away, establishing verbs early, passing by the dump and into the store, learning how to put on clothes, gating progress on activity, being naturally pushed to explore what the game has, atypical goals and tricking you into addiction, talking to the animals, establishing something like a main loop gently, coming up with your own "quests," random towns (a discovery for Brett), shared characters between towns, we introduce our characters and NPCs, review from Finland, some design choices that a 25-year-old game overcame, leaning on the RNG to some degree, remembering getting into Animal Crossing and the draw of NES games, the acquisition loop and its evolution, Tim having not really analyzed this game before, gyroids. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: The Sims, Little Computer People, Tamagotchi, Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley, Alex Neuse, Silent Hill 2, Anachronox, Ico, GTA III, Civilization III, Devil May Cry, Soul Reaver, Star Wars: Starfighter, Jak & Daxter, Final Fantasy X, Halo, Xbox, Metal Gear Solid 2, Advance Wars, Pikmin, Black & White, Max Payne, World of Warcraft, Dark Age of Camelot, PS2, Luigi's Mansion, Peter Molyneux, LucasArts, Starcraft 64, Halo Wars, Resident Evil, Spider-man 2, Satoru Iwata, Wii, Viva Pinata, Pokemon, Happy Home Designer, Amiibo Festival, Mario series (obliquely), Sonic series (obliquely), Final Fantasy (series), Zelda (series), Sailor Moon, Madman, _Dupre/Petri, Commodore 64, Ultima IV, Bitmap Books, Derek from Spokane, Chrono Trigger, Octopath Traveler, Chrono Cross, Sea of Stars, Sabotage Studios, Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, SNES Classic, Final Fantasy VI, Ni No Kuni, Dragon Quest (series), Level 5, Dark Cloud (series), Square Enix, Reed Knight, Metal Gear Solid 4, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers. Next time: An hour a day! Twitch: brettdouville, instagram:timlongojr, @brett_douville, @timlongojr, and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com
Another episode in social distancing land, this time around we get a nice long talk on Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Doug gets to be sad because he hasn't had time to talk about Doom Eternal ;_(... (Next time, I promise). Questions@AlternativeInput.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alternativeinput/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alternativeinput/support
Dale returns with an acoustic VENGEANCE for this week's show (please accept our apologies) and it's time to talk about GAMES. We've been playing some new ones! Dale weighs in on the gifability of Mass Effect: Andromeda, LeGrande offers himself as tribute in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and Jeremy tries out Has-Been Heroes, and winds his way around town in Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival. Listen in! Intro: "Club Afterlife (Lower Level)" - Mass Effect 2, by Jack Wall and Jesse James Allen Outro: "Board Game" - Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival, by Nintendo Check out our Discord community at https://discord.gg/ZTzKH8y
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Fresh from Black Friday sales and stressful work months, Antony and Michael return with a packed Now Playing. After running through the highlights of the Nintendo Direct, they discuss playing:Rise of the Tomb RaiderFallout 4Star Wars: BattlefrontNew Style Boutique 2: Fashion Forward (Style Savvy 2)Animal Crossing: Amiibo FestivalLife is StrangePokemon ShuffleNintendo Badge Arcade...and much more!Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/nintylovefest or on twitter @Nintylovefest and remember, if you like us, please tell your friends and give us an iTunes review. You can also find us at our home on the web at www.NintendoLovefest.com
In episode 181 Cody leads the team, Phil is pleasently surprised by Creed and Jordan will defend Amiibo Festival to the death!
Breakdown: It’s turkey week in America! You know what that means? Time to gather around your family table and guess what will happen during the game awards. This week we catch up on some games, Fallout 4, Destiny, Tomb Raider and plenty of Undertale talk! We kick it over to news and start things off with some good ‘ol fashioned Game Awards predictions! Feel free to play along at home and guess what you THINK will win, and what you WANT to win! Then we talk about some actual news including the Nintendo eBay store, PS2 emulation on PS4, and some crazy Valkyria-related dreams coming true! We have a lovely voicemail from SilverPR and send him all the love. That’s the show! [youtube id="YefZxxDwkj0" width="600" height="350"] Our site and base of operations: http://IrrationalPassions.com. Be a part of the show and send us your questions: MailSack@irrationalpassions.com & (404) 590-1337 (long distance fees do apply) Follow us on Twitter: Alex - @ALFighter27 Evan - @stickerglue Scott - @wuttehchuz Brian “Nabeshin” Jackson - @Nabeshin186 Tony - @TonyHorvath Greg - @GregoryBlaney The show and website: @IrrationalPod. Please check out our new Youtube channel and subscribe at http://www.Youtube.com/IrrationalPassions. You can watch Alex’s Let’s Plays, the video version of the show and our special Spoilercasts! Please check out our forums over at VGEvo.com! http://Twitch.TV/IrrationalPassions for occassional streams Like us on Facebook! Reviews us on iTunes and Stitcher please!
Ryan and Matt "E3D" Amberg round up their thoughts on day 2ish of E3 2015 with Nintendo's Star Fox Zero, Skylander Superchargers Amiibos, Zelda Triforce Heroes, Hyrule Warriors Legends, Metroid Prime Federation Force and Blastball, Fire Emblem Fates, FE, Iwata with a Banana, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Animal Crossing Happy Home and Amiibo Festival, Yoshi's Wooly World, Yo-Kai Watch, Mario and Luigi Paper Jam, Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, and Mario Maker. The Square Enix got awkward with Just Cause 3, a new Nier, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Lara Croft Go, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Kingdom Hearts Unchained, Kingdom Hearts 3, World of Final Fantasy, the new Hitman MMO?, Star Ocean Integrity and Faithlessness (not even joking), Deus Ex Mankind Divided, and the aptly named Tokyo RPG Factory.