Ep. 293 - Catch a Wheat! with Felipe Pepe
Author of The CRPG Book Felipe Pepe joins the panel to determine what CRPGs are, how to play them, and what happened with the Gollum game. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Felipe Pepe. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
Questions this week:
What are the top ten video game submarines? (08:07)
What the hell is going on with Lord of the Rings games? (14:36)
What are we going to do about the name CRPG? (20:02)
How do you delineate PC game history? (25:39)
What’s a book about video games you wish existed but you don’t have eight years to write? (32:21)
Mel Stone asks: Using only video game characters that have never appeared in an RPG, create the quintessential four-person RPG party (43:47)
How do you design a video game magic system that doesn’t just rip off Dungeons & Dragons? (51:26)
What’s the best way to get ancient computer games to run on modern PCs? (58:21)
Recommendations and Outro (01:03:28)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
Tales of Game’s Studios Presents Chef Boyardee’s Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa
Space Funeral
Undertale
Ramble Planet
Void Pyramid
The CRPG Book
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
RPG Maker
Pokémon fangames
Pokemon Xenoverse
Dragon Ball: Xenoverse
Dragon Quest series
Nintendo Direct 6.21.2023
In the Hunt
Metal Slug series
Steel Diver
The Hunt for Red October
Sub Rebellion
Prisoner of Ice
Banjo-Tooie
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
Final Fantasy VII
Super Mario Land
The missing Titanic tour sub is steered with a simple Logitech gamepad
California Extreme
Theme: Submarine
Titanic: A Mysterious Undersea Adventure
Periscope
Silent Hunter series
Das Boot: German U-Boat Simulation
Hunt for Red October adaptations
Cthulhu
Subnautica
Shinsekai: Into the Depths
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
Silent Service
Radar Mission
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria
The Walking Dead
Embracer Group Paid $395 Million for ‘Lord of the Rings’ Rights
Gollum developers apologize for the game’s ‘underwhelming experience’
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: Volume One
Melbourne House
Australia
Dave’s Killer Bread
Alvarado Street Bakery
Call of Duty series
Planescape: Torment
Final Fantasy series
Fallout games
Dungeons & Dragons
Baldur’s Gate series
Dragon Slayer
Wizardry games
Etrian Odyssey
Dragon Master Silk
Shining the Holy Ark
Disco Elysium
Pillars of Eternity
Divinity: Original Sin
Street Fighter series
DirectX
Microsoft Windows
Windows 95
FM Towns
PC-8800 series
PC-98
Touhou series
Apple II
Commodore 64
Amiga
ZX Spectrum
Color Graphics Adapter
DOS
Xbox 360
CD-ROM
Cyberpunk 2077
Hardcore Gaming 101: A History of Korean Gaming
Ragnarök Online
Legend of the Red Dragon
Dungeon Fighter Online
Ultima Online
EverQuest
World of WarCraft
The Conclusion of the Amico
Project X Zone series
Advance Wars
Tom Johnson
Shenmue
Wild Woody
Clive Rosfield
Clive Barker
David Cage
Blanka
Brazil
Tectoy
Playtronic
Zeebo
Monkey D. Luffy
Iñaki Godoy
Katy Perry - Dark Horse ft. Juicy J
Shin Megami Tensei series
Octopath Traveler
Bravely Default
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light
Final Fantasy XVI
Devil May Cry series
Immortals of Aveum
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Phantom Dust
Earthsea
The Maimed God’s Saga
DOSBox
MiSTer
Project EGG
Ys series
C64Dreams
Total Replay
AmigaVision
eXoDOS
Exodos On Fire Cutz
Recommendations:
Frank: The Video Game History Hour with Frank Cifaldi and Kelsey Lewin
Brandon: Il Balletto di Bronzo, purchase a physical copy of Hyper Gunsport
Felipe: The CRPG Book
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Ep. 293 - Catch a Wheat! with Felipe Pepe