61. I Left Them in My Other Fur
Summary
Dan and Tony are enamored with Horizon Forbidden West and have a lot to say about it. Alex has been enjoying Bowser’s Fury. Also, Elden Ring, comparisons between Horizon and Zelda, Stardew Valley: The Board Game, Elder Scrolls VI, Bungie, and Dynasty Warriors games. Recorded on February 26th, 2022.
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Show Notes
- 0:00:00 Horizon Forbidden West First Impressions
- Zero Dawn
- Follow up: It's called "Purgewater" not "Purewater" #tonywaswrong
- HFW on IMDB
- Machine Strike
- That Time You Killed Me
- The opening of The Witness
- Death Stranding on PixelNoiseFM
- HFW Skills
- 0:37:34 Elden Ring, briefly
- 0:39:57 HFW Vs BOTW
- 0:48:28 HFW Story
- 0:59:42 Stardew Valley: The Board Game
- 1:04:47 Pokémon Legends: Arceus
- 1:06:17 Dynasty Warriors
- 1:11:15 HFW Combat and Story
- 1:22:23 "Skyrim II"
- 1:25:59 Bungie
- Gnop!, a Pong clone (it's Pong spells backwards).
- Operation: Desert Storm)
- Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete
- "The game distinguished itself from other games of its time by including a multiplayer mode that functioned over the AppleTalk protocol or Point-to-Point Protocol."
- "The game's tagline was "Kill your enemies. Kill your friends' enemies. Kill your friends". This tagline has reappeared as a description in the multiplayer menu screens for some of Bungie's other games, such as Myth: The Fallen Lords and Halo 3."
- Pathways into Darkness
- "Pathways was critically acclaimed and won a host of awards; it was also Bungie's first major commercial success and enabled the two-man team of Jason Jones and Alex Seropian to move into a Chicago office and begin paying staff."
- 1:29:51 Bowser's Fury
- 1:42:39 Feeling Rewarded in Games