Episode 308 - More PAX West, Warframe, & Friction in Game Design OR "It Is Statistically Proven That Izuna Dropping Is Fucking Cool"

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

In this episode, Kris, Lucas and Will talk more about the ongoing debate of friction in game design. We also talk about PAX West coverage, Lies of P, Rise of the Ronin, Honkai: Star Rail, Warframe and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy.

TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS:

• PAX West - 1:15 |
• LUCID - 2:58 |
• Heading Out - 5:41 |
• Dragon Is Dead - 10:24 |
• RA RA BOOM - 12:29 |
• Heartworm (and the Horror Genre) - 16:27 |
• Kriegsfront Tactics - 21:34 |
• Slime Heroes - 24:50 |
• Deathbound - 32:15 |
• Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days - 36:49 |
• Lies of P ft. Monster Hunter World - 45:26 |
• Rise of the Ronin - 55:52 |
• Friction in Game Design - 1:04:59 |
• Microtransactions and Game Design - 1:27:21 |
• Honkai: Star Rail - 1:31:33 |
• Sorry We're Closed - 1:48:25 |
• Warframe - 1:57:05 |
• Conclusions - 2:11:16 |

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

• I Came Out Of My Cave To Tell My Editors "I'm Not Dead"
• I'm Working on Stuff, But I'm Also Dying, So If You Could Be Chill For Maybe a Week
• + Playing It You're Like "Yeah. Yeah! YEAH!" And Then Just Progressively More Yeahs
• There Is No Way To Get Me Interested Faster Than To Say "Yeah, We Like FTL: Faster Than Light!"
• + Shining A Giant W In The Sky To Summon Will
• You Are A Group Of Ninja Cheerleaders From Space
• One Thing Leads To Another: Horror!
• + The Overlap Between The Queer Community and Horror Fans is a Circle
• + This House Is Going To Eat Us If We Don't Leave in 15 Minutes, We Can't Stay Here
• If I See Anymore, I'll Want it Immediately And Then Be Sad
• You Have A Tanky Frame, But That Arm Ain't Tanky
• + We Were Tired Of Waiting For Square To Make A New Front Mission, So We Made Front Mission
• + The Vacant Smile of Doom That Is Toriyama's Slime Design
• + We Want You To Live With The Consequences Of Your Animations
• + Nah Man, Fuck It, Big Hammer All The Time
• + It Never Stops Being Cool When You Izuna Drop Somebody
• + It Is Statistically Proven That Izuna Dropping is Fucking Cool
• + Team Ninja Does Not Want You To Have A Good Time
• + Every Time There Was A Choice, You Made The Wrong One
• + See You Losers, I'm Gonna Go Live At The Bottom of the Ocean With My Hot Mermaid Wife
• + I Need Ralph Ineson To Talk Dirty To Me
• + The Angels Aren't Any Better, They Hate You Too
• Oh No, Here Comes The Capitalism
• + Mobile Games Are A Hellworld From Which There Is No Escape
• + Could Not Be More Over Than Mobile Games
• + If I Don't Girlboss Perfectly, My Eyeballs Get Ripped From My Skull
• + I'm Not Sure What Happened To Get Me Into Warframe [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse.]