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Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we complete our series on 1999's Outcast. We talk a bit about the end of the game, the challenge of plate-spinning, gadgets we missed out on for much of the game, and other topics. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Finished (Brett)... some more (Tim) Podcast breakdown: 00:47 Discussion 54:07 Break 54:36 Takeaways/Mailbag Issues covered: getting captured and losing your stuff, getting some ammo from your subquests, some of the other weapons, the silenced sniper tranquilizer, not fulfilling stealth, a difficult puzzle in the tree world, the deep sound puzzle of the forest world, getting one key from a complicated puzzle and then a physics puzzle, doing what you think is right for your goals, modest budgets vs today's indie and AAA, the lower development cost and the challenge of readability, making big hard decisions to collapse away a problem, market size, the delusion of ship when it's ready vs making what you can by the deadline, the podcast exposing us to some really great games, plate-spinning and tendrils spreading out, imagining the flowcharts, getting to the end of the Motazaar gauntlet, "your key is in another castle," the F-Link gadget and speeding play, the other gadgets, quest system being per-zone, story bits that cover the length of the game, "rules are meant to guide people, not contain them," narrative niceties, memorable and understandable NPCs, the two fishermen, NPC depth, greater empathy vs snark in Cutter Slade, describing the time shifty stuff, running through the story at the end of the game, a bold world structure, motivating and leveraging the connectivity, the voxel terrain, dynamic systems in play, the depth of the narrative space, legacies. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Indiana Jones, Beyond Good and Evil, Anachronox, Unreal, Nintendo Switch, Breath of the Wild, Shadow of the Colossus, Assassin's Creed (series), Tomb Raider (series), Uncharted (series), Team Ico, Fbrccn, Infogrames, Appeal, Blizzard, Warcraft (series), Dwarf Fortress, The Last Express, The Crying Game, John Carter/A Princess of Mars, Delta Force, Anthony Gallegos, Rebel FM, mysterydip, Pong, Belmont, Mark Garcia, Jedi Starfighter, Republic Commando, Castlevania, Dark Souls 2, BioStats, CalamityNolan, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers. Next time: TBA! Links: The Ghost Racing Article Twitch: timlongojr Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com
It's a slower week of releases, but that's ok, because Monster Hunter Wilds has sold more than basically every other game combined so far this year probably, plus we chat about a few more games and read some of your emails. This week's music: Sleep Token - Chokehold
We're here and we've got a bizarre menagerie of stuff to talk about, including Abiotic Factor, Civilization VII, more Avowed, Doom 3 (yes, that Doom 3), and plenty more. This week's music: Cathedrals - Ooo aaa
We've returned with the most romantic games imaginable, including A Game About DIgging a Hole, Dawnfolk, Monster Hunter Wilds, Avowed, and more - and we read some emails, because we love you. Probably. This week's music: Lacuna Coil - Never Dawn
We're here and talking about video games because what else are we supposed to do, I guess? We've got The Stone of Madness, first impressions of the Lenovo Legion Go S handheld, the new movie Companion, plus lots more, including your emails. This week's music: Knocked Loose - Slaughterhouse 2 (feat. Chris Motionless)
The onslaught of games is chanting in the distance, and we've got a look ahead with some talk about Assassin's Creed Shadows. But it turns out the future is already here, as we talk about why you specifically shouldn't buy or feel bad about being unable to buy an RTX 5090, how good Ninja Gaiden 2 Black is, Star Wars Outlaws, Marvel Rivals, and more, plus we read some of your emails. This week's music: Beth Gibbons - Floating on a moment
This week we're all atwitter (abluesky?) about the Switch 2 and talk a lot about what we thought, what we still don't know, and speculate a lot about a very possibly stacked first year for Nintendo's upcoming handheld - plus we talk about The Roottrees are Dead, Heroes of Hammerwatch, and a lot more. This week's music: Gravecreeper - The Black Curtain
CES has come and gone and we're here to talk about the GPU news that was and wasn't there, the gaming handhelds that came to the show, robots, AI, Nosferatu, The Pitt, and a lot more. This week's music: Hole - Malibu
It's a new year and we're back, whether we want to be or not, and we're talking ... well, backlogs, honestly, with Farming Simulator 25, The Cabin Factory, the Dead Space remake, final impressions of Indiana Jones and more, including your emails about TVs and PC hardware and more. This week's music: Poppy - the cost of giving up
The year is just about over, the stockings have been emptied, the presents have been opened (the first candle has been lit), and we're here with our annual gift to you: an extended catalog of some of our favorite video game music of 2024. Make sure to use the bathroom now, because it's a long one, and we're NOT pulling over until we get to the end. Happy holidays! And if you feel so inclined, you can tip your editor (me, Arthur) at ko-fi.com/aegies. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (Gareth Coker) Main Theme Wandering in the Palace The FIrst Immortal Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Chihiro Aoki, Keitaro Hanada, Hyd Lunch, Hidenori Shoji, Yuri Fukuda, Saori Yoshida, 83key, Rintaro Soma) Seize the Victory Waikiki Down Beat We are Clean Pirates Final Fantasy VII rebirth (Mitsuto Suzuki; Masashi Hamauzu) Battle theme (final phase) Jenova Emergent With Heavy Heart - A Seabreeze Stroll Hell Divers 2 (Wilbert Roget II, Ross Tregenza) The Right Side of History A cup of Libertea The Terminid Horde The Automoton Legion Balatro (LouisF) Theme 1 Theme 5 Theme 2 Penny's Big Breakaway (Tee Lopes) Bauhaus Breakdown Jig's Up, Penny Tutto Finisce a Tarallucci e Vino Sons of the Forest (Gabe Castro) Main theme Fight Demons End Pepper Grinder (Bartholomew J Robson) Pepper Grinder BugBoss Neon Night The Thaumaturge (Agnieszka Wlazły and Sebastian Syczyński) Devoured by Desire Poet With a Gun Ligia's Lullaby Dragon's Dogma 2 (Satoshi Hori, Hana Kimura, Masahiro Oki, Shusaku Uchiyama, Yoshitaka Suzuki) One Swing for Victory Tale's Beginning Griffin's theme Tales of Kenzera: Zau (Nainita Desai) Zau (feat. Sipho Mhlanga) The Boy and Death The Spirit of Mankind The God of Death Animal Well (Billy Basso) Animal Well Heraldic Mantencore Indika (Mike Sabadash) Amos Ruth Genesis Crow Country (Ockeroid) You Came Back Fairy Tale Town An Act of Mercy Mullet Madjack (Fernando Pepe, Mateus Polati) Jack the Mullet Mad Full Carnage Upgrades Senua's Saga (David Garcia Diaz with frequent collaborations with Heilung) Seidh A Rite of Blood and Fire Who is Changed and Who is Not Rogue Prince of Persia (ASADI) Ravine's Sovereignty Ashes of Knowledge Sacred Fire Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erd Tree (Tsukasa Saitoh, Shoi Miyazawa, Tai Tomisawa, Yuka Kitamura, Yoshimi Kudo, Soma Tanizaki) Death Knight The Twin Moon Knight The Promised Consort Kunitsu Gami (Chikara Aoshima ) Kunitsu-Gami Fierce Foe Still Wakes the Deep (Jason Graves) Dùisgidh e Fhathast na Doimhneachdan Now More Moon Than Earth End Game The Horror Sings Arco (José Ramón "Bibiki" García) Forgotten Memories Riding into the Unknown The Deepest Part of You Astro Bot (Kenneth C M Yount) I am Astro Bot Astro Bot of War Metaphor ReFantazio (Shoji Meguro) Traversing the Wastes feat Keisuke Honryo (Chief priest of Myojoji temple) Virga Island Warriors in Valour Nine Sols (FFXX, Im Baek Hun, Troy Lin, Vincent Yang) Main Theme II Farewell Thank Goodness You're Here (James Carbutt) Amble March Star Wars Outlaws (Wilbert Roget II) Kay Vess, Outlaw Inside an Exogorth (Cody Matthew Johnson - Galaxy Rejects) Kisses and Spochka (Cody Matthew Johnson - Maia and the Dewbacks) Death Mark - Welcome to Toshara The Pyke Syndicate Space Marine 2 (Nima Fakhrara, Steve Molitz) Death is my Duty Machinus Divinatus Combat Voidsong Black Ops 6 Black Ops 6 (Main Theme) Avalon The Canals Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Hanz Zimmer and Lorne Balfe) Main Theme In Entropy's Grasp Not the Chosen One Where the Dead Must Go Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Gordy Haab) The Great Circle A New Adventure Awaits The Path is Revealed Nepal Air
This week we chat about some old-ass games with some new-ass remasters, including The Thing and Soul Reaver, but we also talk about some of this year's big Game Awards announcements, how Naughty Dog is big game development's most prominent ship of Theseus, plus we read some emails. This week's music: Banks - Beggin for Thread (Unplugged)
This week we're surprised that 1) Indiana Jones: The Great Circle is great, and 2) that other people agree, plus we talk about the likely juggernaut of Marvel Rivals, the questionable scrutability of Caves of Qud, how to install a bunch of programs at once on a new windows install, the difference between LG's C4 and G4 tvs, and plenty more. This week's music: Bad Omens - The Worst in Me
The game releases are slowing down but we're not (mostly, we guess), as we talk about STALKER 2, Avowed, Rise of the Golden Idol, Gladiator 2, and plenty more! This week's music: Architects - Whiplash
This week we're talking about some maniac mansion-ass puzzle solving in Rise of the Golden Idol, Half Life 2's big anniversary update, gaming handhelds, CES, NVMe drives, Dragon Age - the works. This week's music: Jerry Cantrell - Off the Rails
Despite current events current event'ing, we're still here, and so are video games, so we're going to talk about them - games like Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Black Ops 6, Amanda the Adventurer 2, Straftat, the PS5 Pro, and more. This week's music: Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight - Piano version
This week we're back to chat about Black Ops 6 (which is better than Black Ops Cold War, which we also talk about), Retrorealms, Fast Food Simulator, and plenty more! We're also doing Extra-life again this year! You can find out more at rebelfm.wtf. This week's music: Ice Nine Kills feat. Shavo - A Work of Art
Somehow we recorded a monster of an episode talking about Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred, Tiny Glade, Dragon Age Inquisition, Thronefall, Kill Knight, and a lot more, plus quite a few of your emails. So enjoy that! This week's music: Better Lovers - At All Times
Somehow a podcasting duo rambles for over two hours this week as we talk Slackers: Carts of Glory, Lonely Mountain: Snow Riders, Starfield: Shattered Space, The Axis Unseen, the new Joker and Salem's Lot movies, and we also read a lot of emails. This week's music: Spiritbox (feat. Tatiana Shmayluk) - Circle With Me
We're here and maybe, kind of, possibly ranting about video game onboarding and how video games won't shut up and let us play them, but we're also talking about Echo Point Nova, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Dale & Dawson Stationery Supplies, Frostpunk 2, Starfield, and a lot more.
This week we get pseudo old-school as we talk about UFO50 and Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit, plus Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, why publishers remake games, and plenty more. This week's music: Scary Kids Scaring Kids - The Deep End
The PS5 Pro was finally announced, and we get into it - why it costs what it does, whether we plan on buying one, and whether we think it will find an audience. Then we talk Space Marine, a bit more Astro Bot, and plenty more. This week's music: FEVER 333- NO HOSTAGES
The fall is upon us, and so are the games - games like Space Marine 2, Astro Bot, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and plenty more! This week's music: Linkin Park - The Emptiness Machine
This week we're surprised to find ourselves talking about the Black Ops 6 multiplayer beta, but we've also got chat about Squirrel With a Gun, Tetris, and plenty of other stuff too. This week's music: PLAIINS - Slow Rotting, Fast Decay
We're a little late on this one, but that's because we're talking about Star Wars: Outlaws (which has an embargo), but we also take time to talk about Tactical Breach Wizards, The Crow (2024), and we even squeeze in a bonus post-show spoiler chat about Alien: Romulus. This week's music: Halsey - Lonely is the Muse
This week we're on the cusp of the big Fall release onslaught, and we've got some inklings of games like Black Myth: Wukong and Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, but we're also talking about plenty of other stuff, including this week's release of Alien: Romulus. This week's music: Allie X (w/Sidewalks and Skeletons) - Weird World
This week the games are a little slow but we've still got plenty to talk about, including the Bungie situation, the new Batman animated series, World of Goo 2, Star Wars Bounty Hunter, and a lot more. This weeks music: Chelsea Wolf & Crosses - Tunnel Lights (††† (Crosses) remix)
This week we're all over the place with new indie games like Clickolding, Home Safety Hotline, and Chained Together, but we also talk about the ROG Ally X, and even Deadpool and Wolverine and our favorite controllers. This week's music: Alice in Chains - Nutshell
This week we're awash in Game Pass releases, starting with the glimmers of hope and general headscratchiness of Flintlock, the cozy hack and slashing of Dungeons of Hinterberg, spooky baking in Magical Delicacy, the misadventures of a unique theatrical experience with Twisters, and more. This week's music: Saosin - It's Far Better to Learn (Live)
It's the dog days of summer and the game releases are sparse, but we've still cobbled together a little show for you consisting of some Star Trek, some Ghost Recon, some Deep Rock, and a little bit more here and there. This week's music: Deftones - Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
We're back! Finally! But the games aren't, so we're talking about Galacticare, Elden Ring, Assassin's Creed Nexus, and a handful of other things before reading some emails. This week's music: Chokecherry - Afterglow
This week we dig in to Still Wakes the Deep before talking at length about Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erd Tree expansion, explaining what all those video game production terms mean, what it means to be in the business of making games, plus a lot more, including your emails. This week's music: Bring Me the Horizon (feat. Underoath) - Bullet With My Name
We're finally back, and we've got lots to talk about from Summer Game Fest and the Xbox Showcase, including everybody's surprises from the show, impressions of Star Wars Outlaws, Astrobot, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and so, so, so much more. This week's music: Tanerelle - Let Me In
This week we're talking about all sorts of things, like how movie theaters have gotten out of control, what people should expect out of Summer Game Fest (and PlayStation next week), Hellblade 2, Fabledom, the Fortnite patch, and more! This week's music: Coheed & Cambria - Deranged
This week we go into service games and what success might look like and how Diablo 4 is maybe, finally, thankfully moving away from the forever game mentality with its new update, plus we talk about Mullet Mad Jack, Sunshine Heavy Industries, the Werecleaner, and more! This week's music: The Plot in You - All That I Can Give
We're once again forced to dive deep into the why of video game layoffs and studio closures, and go into the unpleasant realities of video game development and funding in 2024 ... but also there are video games, like Crow Country, and Animal Well, and even the first Hellblade. This week's music: Ari Abdul - Don't
This week it's hard not start off by talking about the Helldivers/PSN/Steam cavalcade of miscalculations, but we also make time to talk about games like Indika, Rotwood, and more. This week's music: Bad Omens W/ So Wylie - The Death of Peace of Mind (So Wylie Patch)
We're back! And we've got a few things to talk about, including Tales of Kenzera, OLED monitors, lots of board games, Death Must Die, and a lot more. This week's music: AFI - The Prayer Position
We're here for an intimate show rubbing each other's shoulders and chatting about the Fallout tv show (no spoilers!), and also Pepper Grinder, The Planet Crafter, Shinkasen 0, whether a new GPU makes more sense than a PS5 Pro, and more! This week's music: Architects - Curse
It's a slow week release wise but we still find a lot to talk about, including Suika game, Dragon's Dogma 2, Autoforge, Interior Worlds, Millenia, and more - including some mild ranting about who's ultimately responsible for game consoles struggling at the moment. This week's music: Nirvana - All Apologies (unplugged)
We're back and mostly intact from GDC as we dig into the industry trends and trajectories that have got publishers, developers, and us nervous, but we also talk about games, including Death of a Reprobate, Darkwebstreamer, Hyper Light Breaker, The Axis Unseen, and a lot more, plus we talk Dragon's Dogma 2 and read some of your emails. This week's music: ZHU, BANKS, bludnymph - Praise
We're late, we're sorry, but we're here now, and we love you. We've got chit-chat about Rise of the Ronin, the new Outcast game, James Cameron's new 4K Blu-rays, and even answer some emails. This week's music: Scowl - Opening Night
We're back! And we've got games to talk about, including Dragon's Dogma 2, Return to Grace, Summer House, and more. This week's music: Amanati/Roniit - Slow
We're here and we're talking about all the service games, like Helldivers, and Enshrouded, and Nightengale, and ... Princess Peach Showtime? Ok they aren't all service games. We also talk about Ripout and the new Contra game, and a bit more. This week's music: Ari Abdul - DFHMPU
It was a week full of news for just about every console manufacturer and believe it or not, it's all probably related. We go deep into Xbox news, PlayStation news, and some last-minute Nintendo news, plus a couple of games to boot. This week's music: Coheed & Cambria - A Favor House Atlantic
This week it's a bit of a shorter show, but we still find plenty of time to chat about Helldivers 2, Steam Next Fest, why building PCs sucks, and, yes, a bit about the Xbox stuff. This week's music: Imminence - Continuum
This week the big topic of conversation is, obviously, Suicide Squad - what's good, what's bad, and how the hell this happened, plus where we think the game is headed. But we also find time to talk a lot about the awesome indie roguelike-strategy game Quasimorph, and plenty more. This week's music: Alkaline Trio - Bad Time
This week we're pretty bummed out and also pissed off about layoffs and the costs of acquisitions, but we're here, so we might as well talk about some games, including Palworld, Enshrouded, Go Mecha Ball, Lords of the Fallen, and more. This week's music: Sunny Day Real Estate - Novum Vetis
It's a quieter week release wise, but we still find plenty to talk about, including Xbox's upcoming slate (and the rumors that just refuse to die), Turnip Boy Robs a Bank, First Cut: Samurai Duel, and a lot more. This week's music: Chelsea Wolfe - Everything Turns Blue
This week we're back with a lot of CES to talk about, including some hands-on time with MSI's new Claw handheld, lots of up close impressions about new monitors and that fancy new transparent OLED, plus Matt chats about the making of the just-announced Grounded 2 documentary charting the 7 year journey of The Last of Us Part 2's development (and we also talk about Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, The Gnorp Analogue, and more). This week's music: Royal Blood - Supermodel Avalanches
It's that time again (actually a little past, but hush): we're here to chat about our favorite video game music of 2023, so grab a decent pair of headphones and get comfy as we dive into over five hours and almost 90 tracks featuring some of the best scores and soundtracks from a banner year for video games. If you feel so inclined, you can tip for the episode at ko-fi.com/aegies. Happy new year! Pizza Tower (Ronan "Mr. Sauceman" de Castel, pseudonymous ClascyJitto) It's Pizza Time! Oregano UFO Calzonification Dead Space (Jason Graves with additional contributions from Trevor Gureckis) - Zero Gravity Tram Station Wild Hearts ( Junya Ishiguro, Masashi Hamauzu, Daisuke Shinoda. Ippo Igarashi, Modanqing Zhu) Entering Minato Kingtusk/Icetusk Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty (Kenichiro Suehiro) Wo Long Unreal Might and Valor Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon (Aoba Nakanishi, Hitomi Kurokawa, Masahiro Miyauchi, Rina Yugi) Title Friend Together in the Moonlit Forest Have a Nice Death (Caisheng Bo, Yann Cleophas, and Alexis Laugier) Main Menu Addictions Department Arena (Addictions Department) Resident Evil 4 (Kota Suzuki) Baile de la Muerte Shooting Range Save Theme Dredge (David Mason) Main Theme The Twinned Town The Collapsed Town Dead Island 2 (Ryan Leo Williams) Looks Like You're the Star of the Show Now The Bachelorette Party from Hell Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (Stephen Barton, Gordy Haab) The Forest Secret Beneath the Cantina The Campfire System Shock (Jonathan Peros) Containment Failure Warning X22 Interlocks Engaged Demodulation Diablo IV (Ted Reedy, Leo Kaliski) Main Menu Nevesk Jirandai Aliens: Dark Descent (Doyle Donehoo) Desperate Escape Mars First Logistics (Dan Golding) On the Job Anti Gravity Device Dense Matter Final Fantasy XVI (principally composed by Masayoshi Soken, with additional tracks by Takafumi Imamura, Daiki Ishikawa, Saya Yasaki, and Justin Frieden) Land of Eikons No Risk, No Reward Winter's Bound - Shiva Theme Dave the Diver (D'Anthoni Wooten, Jukio Kallio) The Blue Hole Darker Trenches Timeworn Tunnel Oxenfree II: Lost Signals (Andrew Rohrmann/scntfc) Epsilon To the Island Lift Pikmin 4 (Kenta Nagata, Asuka Hayazaki, Soshi Abe) Title Theme Giant's Hearth Remnant 2 (Rob Westwood) - On Our Way to Ward 13 Eastport - Conversation You've Been a Good Friend Disney Illusion Island (David Housden) - Illusion Island Mazzy's Theme Downtown Gizmopolis Venba (Alpha Something) - Nee Dhaane Baldur's Gate 3 (Borislav Slavov) - Main Theme Part 1 Mind Flayer Theme Nightsong Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (Kota Hoshino, Shoi Miyazawa) - Giant Killing Destroy the Ice Worm Starfield (Inon Zur) - Into the Starfield First Flight Death and Crimson Lies of P (Yeakun Yoo) Main Menu Feel Hotel Krat Mortal Kombat 1 (Wilbert Roget, II) A New Era Wu Shu Academy The Flesh Pits Assassin's Creed Mirage (Brendan Angelides) - Ezio's Family - Mirage Version A New World Awaits Body and Soul Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (John Paesano) Greater Together A Second Chance Trouble at Home Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Koji Kondo, Shiho Fujii, Sayako Doi, Chisaki Shimazu) - Welcome to the Flower Kingdom Overworld (Elephant Mix) Piranha Plants on Parade Alan Wake II (Teemu Javanainen, Jussi Tiainen, Sindri Már Sigfússon, Sam Lake) - Follow You into the Dark featuring RAKEL Wide Awake featuring Jaimes Jusant (Guillaume Ferran) Jusant Finisterre 9C+ Thirsty Suitors (Marksye) - What's Your Thirstsona Nylon Empire No Goodbye Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (Pinar Toprak) - The Wildwoods To Be Chosen