Episode 311 - Inkbound, SaGa, & Driving Roguelikes OR "At The Moment, My Car is Haunted"

The Platformers: A Video Game (and Nerd Culture) Podcast

In this episode, Brian, Kris and Lucas talk about a bunch of roguelikes involving cars. We also talk about Inkbound, Sportsball, Star Wars books, the SaGa franchise, and a smattering of other topics. Brian also makes ASMR. Enjoy.

TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS

• Intro - 0:00 |
• Sportsball and Life Balance - 0:41 |
• Steam Deck - 7:02 |
• Helldivers 2 - 14:57 |
• SaGa: Emerald Beyond - 20:26 |
• Inkbound - 47:10 |
• Audrey's Book Corner - 57:14 |
• Heading Out - 1:02:17 |
• Pacific Drive - 1:14:49 |
• Brian Barnett ASMR - 1:27:30 |
• Conclusions - 1:29:07 |

POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):

• This Sounds Like A Sportsball Thing, Is This A Sportsball Thing?
• The Closest I Get To Understanding Baseball Is Like A Dragon Minigames
• +I Don't Wanna Face The Wrath of Kendrick
• +So Naturally, As The Helldivers Community Is Wont To Do, They Deployed The Memes
• +Sony Takes One Of The Biggest, Most Surprising Ws of the Year and Turns It Into A Massive L
• +The Helldivers 2 Devs Remain Undefeated... Except Joel, Fuck Joel
• I Dunno Man, That Sounds Like Treason
• +SaGa Games Are Like Taking A Final Fantasy, and Ripping It Inside Out
• +You Have To Bash Your Head Against Systems Until They Make Sense
• You Had To Stick to The Script, But Instead You Had To Get Cute About It And Ruin Everything
• +What If, Instead of Punching This Guy, I Kick Him! YEAH!
• Take Four Individual Final Fantasy Levelling Systems, Put Them Together? You Have A SaGa Game
• ++The Lobster Is Very Good At Martial Arts
• +Just Go Full Aggretsuko
• +Oh Darth Bane, You Are The Biggest Jobber in Star Wars
• On A Scale of One to Mortal Kombat One, How Graphic?
• You Can Very Easily Crash in a Way That's Fatal... Just Like Real Life!
• +Real Life Tip: Don't Crash Your Car
• +He's A Full On Degenerate Whose Opinion I Really Want To Hear
• +When It Rains, It Pours For The Car Sickos
• ++At The Moment, My Car is Haunted
• ++I'm Reading People An Audiobook, With A Raging Erection
• +We Almost Made It To The End Without Any Sort of Perversion

[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse.]