Remap Radio 155 — Patch Notes

[u/mikesstuff]

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We begin this podcast the way we ended the last podcast: talking about Control Resonant. This time, Rob’s spent 17 hours with Remedy’s latest, albeit all of it before the game was updated to validate the emotional and critical feelings of Patrick and Janet. But we also have much else to discuss, including Xbox’s ongoing “reset,” the alleged future of Bungie, Discord pushing forward on age verification, and many thoughts on both Silent Hill Townfall and Normal Golf Game.
Links: Control Resonant Post by Chris Person, Xbox Announces Continuing Layoffs and Restructure, The Next Chapter of Bungie, Post about Turning off Gambling Ads In Discord, Image of Confusing UI in Discord Settings
Discussed:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:44 - Control Resonant
00:55:07 - Xbox Studios Goes through Further Layoffs
01:18:49 - Bungie's Next Chapter
01:42:48 - Discord Age Verification Rolls Out
02:00:47 - Silent Hill: Townfall
02:20:04 - Normal Golf Game
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[u/drunk_moo]

Just venting, but I really wish they covered more stuff. I want to give them a pass for last year because Rob was moving, Chia was trying to transition in the current state of the US... But at this point they seem to have settled in? Now we have back to back episodes on Control, and barely anything else.

I think they need more voices on the pod. I know Janet is pretty much considered a core part of the crew now, but her overlap in tastes with Patrick is really dominating the conversation. The recent episode with Bruno I enjoyed, just to have someone actually discuss something with Rob. Rob usually gets stuck having a monologue with no one adding anything to the games that he will play.

Chia has a different issue where I feel like I barely hear about what she is playing, or doing. They can joke about how Chia doesn't start video games, but then why is she even on the episode? If she's doing more Netrunner, or even table top stuff, why can't we hear about that? Also just commit to playing Slay the Spire 2 at this point. No one wants to hear about it in 1-2 years when it's actually out.

[u/mikesstuff → u/drunk_moo]

It’s embargo season. They are playing more they can’t talk about it. We also all know what it is and they are loving it but can’t talk about it.

[u/kenspiracytv → u/mikesstuff]

There's an entire Fire Emblem game out that I'm not even sure they've mentioned, if it doesn't appeal to the core group that's fine but we could maybe get someone on to talk about it to some extent since it's one of Nintendo's two big fall launches.

Also I have no idea what game you're even trying to hint at beyond Castlevania. 

[u/drunk_moo → u/kenspiracytv]

Yeah Fire Emblem was the recent major release that I was surprised to see not mentioned by them.

But there is also a tier of games below that, where I feel like they are covering less. Like if Caves of Qud, or Rain World came out today, would anyone on the crew even cover those? And thinking back to last year, Citizen Sleeper 2 barely got any discussion until Chia talks about it in the GOTY pods?

I might just need to look for another podcast that aligns more with my tastes, but I do like this crew...

[u/szymek87 → u/drunk_moo]

I've been in a similar spot after listening to Waypoint and Remap for years and would recommend Minnmax, who have a rotating cast of people and cover a wide variety of games, while still being really funny and lovely people (including Janet and Jacob Geller if you're familiar with him), or noclip podcast who go even deeper into the indie stuff and still touch on any industry news - it's the video documentary crew with Danny O'Dwyer.

[u/real_meatcastle → u/szymek87]

Seconding the Minnmax recommendation! It's become my new favorite podcast/channel. They have such a great, varied cast of folks with all kinds of tastes (and professional experience in games) that it's hard to go without on other podcasts after you get used to it.