Episode 297 - Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, Alan Wake, & Outrageous Tangents OR "Somehow, Ovaltine Has Returned"

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

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and Lucas talk about lots of games, and go on a (maybe) record number of tangents. I’d say ‘enjoy,’ but I think you would have a harder time not enjoying this buckwild episode.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:

• Fortnite - 0:00 |
• Vampire Survivors ‘Emergency Meeting’ DLC - 10:35 |
• Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora - 19:44 |
• Doing Better With Storytelling - 35:00 (ish) |
• Death By A Thousand Cuts In Game Design - 38:00 (ish) |
• Press Deciding To Cover Games (Or Not) - 40:00 |
• Baldur’s Gate III, Game Of The Year, Jedi Survivor Block - 48:00 (ish) |
• Dragon Quest Monsters - 1:08:00 |
• Persona 5 Tactica - 1:12:20 |
• Alan Wake Remastered Full Thoughts - 1:21:42 |
• Alan Wake 2 Early Impressions - 1:31:46 |
• Diablo IV Season 2 - 1:46:48 |
• Limited Run Collecting - 1:50:00 |
• Metroid, Mega Man, Castlevania, Capcom, & Konami - 1:59:00 |

Our Pitch For A Ridiculous Mega Man AAA Game - 2:13:30 |

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

• A Piece Of S!@# Who Bought V-Bucks |
• Trying To Obtain Unobtainium |
• Playing Pandoran Jai Alai |
• ++The Story Of Indigenous People By Way Of The Smurfs |
• +Democracy Or Else |
• +The Duality Of Man: MLK Jr. In Fortnite & ‘Somehow, Palpatine Has Returned’ In Fortnite |
• Call An Ambulance… But Not For Me |
• Ballin’ Cell, He Is Truly Perfect |
• +You Can’t Be Perfect (Cell) If You Don’t Dunk On The Kids |
• It Is What It Is, & What It Is Is Glorious |
• +Somehow Palpatine Has Been Referenced |
• ++Somehow Ovaltine Has Returned |
• ++Skooma Ovaltine, King Of The Smurfs |
• ++Double D’s Degen December |
• +++Post-Nut Clarity Is Keeping Me From Beating BG3 |
• If You Are Gonna Pull GOTY Out Of Your A##, You Might Wanna Stand Up |
• ++Nintendo Canceled Christmas |
• Nintendo Is Not Playing Second Fiddle To Anyone |
• ++I’ve Got Boxes Of Pepe |
• A Big Ole’ Sick Freak, A Cool Pervert |
• ++Robo-Ky Fans Are A Monolith, & They Are All Degenerates |
• ++You Can Tell Zero Is Serious, Because He’s Pink |
• +++Mega Man, Stoically Carrying The Body Of His Wife Through The Woods |
• +++Tony Hawk, Raised From Death To Be Mega Man, Doing Robot Kickflips |
• +Thank You Listeners… Viewers… Lovers? |
• ++Can Love Bloom In Twitch Chat? |

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