In which our heroes, scattered across time and space, convene by way of editing to cover The Freak Sword, looking to the One Mode Future, and sexy slutty bunny boys.

Questions this week:

1. What is the ugliest video game ever made? (02:05)
2. Have you formed any habits in video games that have translated into your normal life? (07:50)
3. Should every game have an easy mode? Should every game have a hard mode? (12:20)
4. Imagine that you had the power to create video game mods just by speaking them into existence. What would you make? (18:20)
5. IMPROV ZONE: Game Counselor help line (22:23)
6. What does it take to convince someone to try a video game? (31:42)
7. Design a track in the same a video spirit as any video game character for Mario Kart. (38:26)
8. How have focus groups affected game development? (43:18)
9. What is the worst game that you would still consider the game of the year for its year, considering its competition? (47:55)
10. Knowing that they will probably never listen to this episode, what are your feelings about the other two panelists? (53:09)

Recommendations and Outro (57:28)

Now that you have all the pieces, you can discuss this episode in the forums!

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Garfield and his Nine Lives (Game Boy Advance)
• Ice Cream Cone Pokemon
• Swedish Erotica: Custer’s Revenge
• Hatred
• Goemon’s Great Adventure
• Valis series
• Valis X series
• Coke Zero formula change
• Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3
• Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
• Final Fantasy VII
• Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
• Annapurina Interactive
• Florence
• Hyper Gunsport now wishlistable on Steam
• Red Dead Redemption II
• Final Fantasy VII: Remake
• Madden series (R.I.P. John Madden)
• 2K Sports games
• Portal
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Days Gone
• Yakuza series
• Super Mario Bro