Podquisition 425: The Duke Lives by Jimquisition published on 2023-02-16T13:52:45Z A very special friend returns. Games we played this week include: Redtape (15:45) Wanted: Dead (21:00) Spellcorked (35:00) Inventory Hero (40:00) Satisfactory (44:30) Metroid Prime Remastered (49:00) Commodore 64 Games (59:10) --- News things talked about in this episode: Saudi Arabia believed to have increased investment stake in Nintendo (1:19:00) https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/saudi-arabia-has-reportedly-increased-its-stake-in-nintendo-again/ Metroid Prime Remaster doesn’t credit original Metroid Prime team (1:20:15) https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/02/metroid-prime-engineer-let-down-by-exclusion-of-original-credits-in-remaster Bobby Kotick expected to stay in CEO role at Activision Blizzard if Microsoft merger fails (1:20:15) https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/activision-ceo-kotick-will-stay-in-unlikely-event-microsoft-merger-fails Sony claims Microsoft demands for documents in FTC case are harassment (1:24:55) https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-gaming-5a973220-9675-4245-964a-3476a3e9c4ec.html Square Enix delivers one obvious detail about their first blockchain game and little else (1:26:30) https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/02/15/gaming-company-square-enix-partners-with-polygon-for-nft-art-project/ --- Buy official Jimquisition merchandise from the Jimporium at thejimporium.com Find Laura at LauraKBuzz on Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and Patreon. All her content goes on LauraKBuzz.com, and you can catch Access-Ability on YouTube every Friday. Follow Conrad at ConradZimmerman on Twitter and check out his Patreon (patreon.com/fistshark). You can also peruse his anti-capitalist propaganda at pinfultruth.com. Genre Entertainment Comment by Sheogorath jackson-teller-313667938: You're getting banned because of other people? Are you really going with "look what you made me do" to argue that you're not abusive? See, this is why nobody takes you seriously.: 2023-02-21T07:04:24Z Comment by Samantha @jackson-teller-313667938: Hello new commenter who definitely isn't Michael again evading yet another ban but who for some reason wants to continue all the same arguments he was having before being banned. What's up? New to the show I take it? 2023-02-21T04:28:48Z Comment by Gnome de Plume you heard it here, nobody can have different feelings about something until more than a year has passed 2023-02-21T04:16:57Z Comment by Gnome de Plume oh hey it's Jackson teller from thejimquisition dot com comments section aka Michael as I suspected since the beginning 2023-02-20T05:21:58Z Comment by Adam Bourne Yay the Duke's back! more Duke please! 2023-02-19T10:49:24Z Comment by Sonker Conrad please sort your mic out, you keep peaking. 2023-02-18T12:43:23Z Comment by Gnome de Plume the guy who hid behind a series of different accounts pretending like we didn't know exactly who he was, complaining about gaslighting, how fucking rich 2023-02-18T11:54:33Z Comment by U61856-209 @jake-blades-407759776 it's steph and you know that Michael 2023-02-17T20:01:24Z Comment by U61856-209 corporate instituted organized crime? 2023-02-17T19:50:15Z Comment by U61856-209 the fuck do they think this is, Ready Player One? 2023-02-17T19:40:29Z Comment by U61856-209 was literally going to comment this, lol, Conrad (again) beat me to it 2023-02-17T19:34:12Z Comment by SabeSapien I agree. It was legit one of the best JQ episodes of all time. :D 2023-02-17T15:50:17Z Comment by SabeSapien Without wanting to defend that piece of shit person that you're referring to- the only person who 'took the Wu from us' was the Wu-Tang Clan themselves. If they wanted people to hear that music then they would have distributed it like a normal album. Instead they pressed one copy of the album so they could jack up the price themselves, then got pissed off when they realised they didn't like the guy who bought it. But they have no-one to blame for that debacle but themselves! ;) 2023-02-17T15:36:56Z Comment by SabeSapien Man, this would have been a great game if you made progress by StreetPassing (on the 3DS) rather than buying NFTs. ;) 2023-02-17T15:21:16Z Comment by SabeSapien Geez, I thought videogame buzzwords were bad enough before blockchain was a thing, but now... :\ 2023-02-17T15:18:01Z Comment by SabeSapien I just realised that ABK stands for 'Asshole Bobby Kotick'. ;) 2023-02-17T15:09:47Z Comment by SabeSapien Despite all the downsides of media conglomerisation that have been discussed in the past, and the fact that MS have their own issues with how they treat their workers (like the recent mass layoffs)... I would rather see ABK in the hands of Phil Spencer than Bobby Kotick. Simple as that. :\ 2023-02-17T15:04:18Z Comment by SabeSapien This is a disgraceful move by Nintendo. When I played the remaster of Shadow Of The Colossus (on PS3), they had the original Team ICO credits and the Bluepoint Games credits (they literally added more music to cover the additional credits). So there's no excuse for anyone else not to do it. 2023-02-17T15:00:09Z Comment by SabeSapien It's a better investment than 'sportswashing' because they know that gamers will forgive literally anything if they like the company. :P 2023-02-17T14:57:41Z Comment by SabeSapien There's a 3DS remake called Boulder Dash XL, in case you're wondering. :P 2023-02-17T14:46:01Z Comment by SabeSapien I find that all open-world games (and even the precursors to the genre such as Banjo-Kazooie) are like that tbh. They seem huge at first, but the more exploring you do the 'smaller' it gets. I remember starting BOTW and feeling like I'd never get to see the entire map, but by the end it felt extremely small and manageable. Maybe that's just a psychological thing though. :P 2023-02-17T13:54:22Z Comment by SabeSapien Spellcorked seems good, but the massive framerate drop when you're stirring the cauldron bothered me a lot more than it should have. I agree that Inventory Hero is one of the better games, but when you get to level 4 it has a 'glitch' environment (which seems to resemble a kill-screen in an arcade game) and just seems to repeat that background and set of enemies for subsequent levels, so I kinda wish there was more visual variety in that game. 2023-02-17T13:24:35Z Comment by SabeSapien Huh. I thought Wanted Dead look like utter shite from the trailers, and the stuff you've said hasn't made it sound any more appealing. Maybe it's an acquired taste. :P 2023-02-17T12:50:56Z Comment by Tonglongninja @jake-blades-407759776: That's incorrect. The hint system has always been there in all three games, including the original Gamecube versions. 2023-02-17T12:02:59Z Comment by Ninian I've always disliked "ally" because it implies and effectively enforces a distance. Sometimes when I get called an ally for another marginalized group (I'm trans myself) I go "that's sweet, but so long as you have troubles I will always consider them my troubles too". 2023-02-17T03:53:56Z Comment by Ninian YESSSSS I MISSED YOU DUKE 2023-02-17T03:37:45Z Comment by Samantha It sure is weird that liberal politicians are so friendly with the Saudis while claiming to be progressive allies of women and LGBTQ people. Oh well, probably nothing. Better make sure we keep gas prices low enough that the "Most Progressive President in History" gets reelected so he can keep selling the Saudi government weapons to use in their genocidal war in Yemen that the Biden administration won't condemn and won't attempt to stop. 2023-02-17T02:24:13Z Comment by Samantha I'm waiting on my copy to arrive in the US and am excited to read it! 2023-02-17T00:53:31Z Comment by Samantha That's the thing. JK Rowling will claim she believes 'trans women are women', she just doesn't actually believe that and thinks that our womanhood is separate and lesser and that it is contingent on her approval. Saying 'trans women are women' is meaningless if you aren't taking action or showing that you believe that fully and all that it entails. And just tweeting out 'trans rights' when there's a story about a prominent trans suicide or murder is just as meaningless unless you do literally anything to make those less likely to happen in the future. 2023-02-17T00:48:52Z Comment by Samantha Exactly this. If you call yourself an 'ally' or 'progressive' and the second a trans person says something you disagree with it's right to insults and dead names for example you are a liar and not of any help to any of us. If you're a commenter here for example who constantly brags about how much of an ally you are but constantly dead names Steph or throws insults at anyone openly trans in the comments or who speaks about trans issues on the show then maybe you don't know what that word means. Same goes for liberal politicians who put on a pride flag pin one month out of the year and then do nothing at all to actually help our community the rest of the time. 2023-02-17T00:45:27Z