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

It’s time for the blood to flow. Brian, Kris, Will, and Lucas bring their top 40 games of 2024 and then brutally cut each other's choices until only the 10 best remain. Enjoy!

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:

• Intro - 0:00 |
• Format Explanation - 1:39 |
• Kris’ Top 10 - 4:57 |
• Will’s Top 10 - 5:40 |
• Lucas’ Top 10 - 6:17 |
• Brian’s Top 10 - 4:57 |
• Building The List - 9:16 |
• Protected Games - 11:16 |
• V Rising - 13:36 |
• Metaphor: ReFantazio - 14:29 |
• The Axis Unseen - 23:06 |
• Marvel Rivals - 27:09 |
• Read Only Memories: Neurodiver - 32:22 |
• Inkbound - 35:25 |
• Indika - 40:10 |
• Metal Slug Tactics - 45:00 |
• Rise Of The Ronin - 51:04 |
• Earth Defense Force 6 - 59:05 |
• Wizardry - 1:08:56 |
• Indiana Jones & The Great Circle - 1:16:20 |
• Lorelei & the Laser Eyes - 1:25:52 |
• Yars Rising - 1:30:00 |
• Fate/Stay Night Remastered - 1:37:20 |
• Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred - 1:43:33 |
• Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance - 1:50:50 |
• Neva - 1:53:55 |
• SMTV (Full Discussion) - 2:00:05 |
• MechWarrior 5: Clans - 2:09:20 |
• Pacific Drive - 2:18:50 |
• Dustborn - 2:28:05 |
• Shiren The Wanderer - 2:32:02 |
• Helldivers 2 - 2:39:53 |
• Narrowing It Down To The Top 10 - Part 1 |
• More Helldivers 2 - 2:52:53 |
• Wizardry Part 2 - 2:58:38 |
• Like A Dragon - Infinite Wealth - 3:04:44 |
• UFO50 - 3:11:20 |
• MechWarrior 5: Clans - 3:21:55 |
• Ordering The Top 10 - 3:26:38 |
• Tekken 8 - 3:27:32 |
• SaGa Emerald Beyond - 3:35:07 |
• Skald: Against The Black Priory - 3:46:24 |
• Balatro - 3:53:38 |
• Will’s Proposed Top 10 Order - 4:01:19 |
• Mouthwashing - 4:06:08 |
• 1000xResist - 4:10:44 |
• The Final Ordered List & Honorable Mentions - 4:15:45 |
• Heart & Critic Picks - 4:17:49 |

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

• John Platformers |
• ++Torso Like A Dr. Mario Level |
• ++Paint Me Like One Of Your French Turtles |
• I Cut My Own Game In Solidarity |
• A Weird Hill To Die On, But At Least You’re Dead |
• Stockpiling Social Capital |
• How About That Invisible Woman, Though? |
• +Man Cannot Live On Metroid Alone |
• We Solved The Action Game 20 Years Ago |
• +If This Is Being Sick, I Don’t Wanna Be Well |
• Amazing Hot Dog |
• When You Don’t Want The SMT Cake |
• I Was Trying To Be Reasonable |
• +Send It Into The Great Emerald Beyond |
• What If We Remade Cuneiform? |
• Allowing Yourself To Be Consumed By The Darkness |
• +I Want You To Tell Playstack It Was Me |
• +Hair to Hair, Sphere to Square, 6 to 1 |
• +In The Company Of Three Very Long Men |

The Platformers Top 10 Games of 2024

1. 1000xResist
2. Mouthwashing
3. Skald: Against the Black Priory
4. Tekken 8
5. LAD: Infinite Wealth
6. SaGa Emerald Beyond
7. Pacific Drive
8. MechWarrior 5: Clans
9. Balatro
10. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• V Rising |
• Metaphor: ReFantazio |
• Marvel Rivals |
• Read Only Memories: Neurodiver |
• Inkbound |
• Metal Slug: Tactics |
• Rise of the Ronin |
• EDF 6 |
• Indiana Jones & the Great Circle |
• Lorelei & the Laser Eyes |
• Yars Rising |
• Fate/Stay Night Remastered |
• Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred |
• Indika |
• Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance |
• The Axis Unseen |
• Dustborn |
• Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island |
• Helldivers 2 |
• Neva |
• UFO 50 |
• Power Rangers Rita’s Rewind |
• Castlevania Dominus Collection |
• Harold Halibut |
• Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven |
• Shadow Generations |
• Tactical Breach Wizards |
• Cataclismo (Early Access) |
• Thank Goodness You’re Here |
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard |
• Arranger |
• Marvel VS Capcom Infinite & Beyond (Mod) |
• MvC Collection |

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

In this episode, Brian, Kris and Lucas talk about a bunch of roguelikes involving cars. We also talk about Inkbound, Sportsball, Star Wars books, the SaGa franchise, and a smattering of other topics. Brian also makes ASMR. Enjoy.

TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS

• Intro - 0:00 |
• Sportsball and Life Balance - 0:41 |
• Steam Deck - 7:02 |
• Helldivers 2 - 14:57 |
• SaGa: Emerald Beyond - 20:26 |
• Inkbound - 47:10 |
• Audrey's Book Corner - 57:14 |
• Heading Out - 1:02:17 |
• Pacific Drive - 1:14:49 |
• Brian Barnett ASMR - 1:27:30 |
• Conclusions - 1:29:07 |

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

• This Sounds Like A Sportsball Thing, Is This A Sportsball Thing?
• The Closest I Get To Understanding Baseball Is Like A Dragon Minigames
• +I Don't Wanna Face The Wrath of Kendrick
• +So Naturally, As The Helldivers Community Is Wont To Do, They Deployed The Memes
• +Sony Takes One Of The Biggest, Most Surprising Ws of the Year and Turns It Into A Massive L
• +The Helldivers 2 Devs Remain Undefeated... Except Joel, Fuck Joel
• I Dunno Man, That Sounds Like Treason
• +SaGa Games Are Like Taking A Final Fantasy, and Ripping It Inside Out
• +You Have To Bash Your Head Against Systems Until They Make Sense
• You Had To Stick to The Script, But Instead You Had To Get Cute About It And Ruin Everything
• +What If, Instead of Punching This Guy, I Kick Him! YEAH!
• Take Four Individual Final Fantasy Levelling Systems, Put Them Together? You Have A SaGa Game
• ++The Lobster Is Very Good At Martial Arts
• +Just Go Full Aggretsuko
• +Oh Darth Bane, You Are The Biggest Jobber in Star Wars
• On A Scale of One to Mortal Kombat One, How Graphic?
• You Can Very Easily Crash in a Way That's Fatal... Just Like Real Life!
• +Real Life Tip: Don't Crash Your Car
• +He's A Full On Degenerate Whose Opinion I Really Want To Hear
• +When It Rains, It Pours For The Car Sickos
• ++At The Moment, My Car is Haunted
• ++I'm Reading People An Audiobook, With A Raging Erection
• +We Almost Made It To The End Without Any Sort of Perversion

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

In this episode, Brian, Kris, Will and Lucas talk about Final Fantasy minigame related trauma. We also talk about Handheld PCs, Hades 2, Pacific Drive, and a smattering of other topics. We're quite unhinged and degenerate about it. Enjoy.

TOPIC AND TIMESTAMPS

• Intro - 0:00 |
• Brian's Steam Deck - 2:45 |
• Final Fantasy Related Trauma - 5:13 |
• Steam Deck and other Handhelds - 9:46 |
• Hades 2 - 27:47 |
• Degeneracy - 39:20 |
• Shogun and Black Sails - 45:39 |
• Unicorn Overlord (and Fire Emblem) - 49:47 |
• Star Wars: Thrawn - 53:20 |
• Pacific Drive - 55:30 |
• Mods and Steam Workshop on Deck (ft. Balatro) - 59:10 |
• Conclusions - 1:05:00 |

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

• +Steam Deck +1
• +So Many Lightning Bolts To Dodge Before You Get The Best Steam Deck
• +We Don't Use RPG Sickos In Place Of Something Else, We Use It Because You're Actual Sickos
• +I Call Myself a Sicko Because I Understand the Depravity To Which I Will Go
• +FFXIII, Not Even Once
• +I Would Simply Be Correct And Choose The Right Option
• +The Gang Discovers Their Least And Most Favourite Final Fantasy Games
• +Card Games Make A Man Do Strange Things
• +Todd Howard Has Never Made Anything That "Just Works"
• +"It Just Works" - Todd Howard, Creator of Some of The Buggiest Games Known to Man
• +It's Hard To Be This Funny, But Not Hard When You're This Talented
• +I, Too, Am Deck Ready
• +Consoles Nowadays Are Just Bad PCs
• +Reject Modern Game Console, Embrace the Handheld
• +We Could Be More Unhinged; Many of Us Are, In Fact, Too Hinged
• +The Sticks Are Stiff, But They Don't Resist
• +Supergiant Games Don't Miss
• +Hades is For Everyone, Because Everyone Can Find A Character They Find Attractive In That Game
• +Girl You Look Like You Could Crack Me In Half, Let Me Buy You A Drink
• +Nice To Meet You, Please Fucking Kill Me
• +Karlach.txt
• +My Sexuality is Karlach
• +We Are Not Worthy of Supergiant's Character Designs
• +This Isn't A Public Space, This Is A Private Show, I Run This Place, And I'm A Fucking Pervert
• +I Reserve The Right To Be Thirsty About Anyone
• +The Platformers Reserves The Right To Be Horny, In Places You Can Hear Us
• +Nobody Here Is Barking Like A Dog... Yet
• +That Is A Load-Bearing "Yet"
• +"I Do Not Want To Be Shogun", Says The Man Who Very Much Wants To Be Shogun
• +I Have The Internet, The Internet Will Provide
• +The Show Is A Little Too Horny For Kermit The Frog
• +I've Never Been More Disappointed; That's Actually Not True, I've Played Perfect Dark Zero
• +I Liked Fire Emblem Before It Was About Tubes of Colgate Toothpaste
• +The Rise, Fall, and Animeification of Fire Emblem
• +I'm Holding Off on Touching Balatro Mods, Because You'll Never See Me Again
• +Card Games? That's A Young Man's Game
• +The Cardboard Crack Is No More
• +Y'all Got Any More Of Those Booster Packs?
• +Skator Gator Is A Game You Play on Fridays, IYKYK
• +Keep Our Name In Your Mouth, But Do It Respectfully

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

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and Lucas are joined by Thomas Wilde to discuss Pepper Grinder, Balatro, Harold Halibut, and a lot more.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:

• Pepper Grinder - 1:10 |
• Controller for Lucas PB Tales - Crush - 17:25 |
• Harold Halibut - 19:00 |
• 3, 2, 1, Let's Jam - 28:00 |
• Balatro - 29:00 |
• Stellar Blade - 31:30 |
• Asgard's Wrath II - 45:05 |
• Lies Beneath - 55:35 |
• Wintermoore Tactics Club - 1:01:50 |
• Alpha Protocol - 1:17:00 |
• Thomas' Indie Game Corner - 1:49:05 |
• Inkbound - 1:59:35 |

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

• He's Got A Big Pink Head & He Drills Down |
• What Flavor Of Crack Would You Like? |
• I'm Worried It Will Become Financially Beneficial For Me To Get Back Into World Of Warcraft |
• No, We're Not Gonna Tip Mike Ybarra |
• Wallace & Grimpet |
• Cheese, Grommet! |
• Unfortunately, No One Can Be Told What The Music Is… You Have To See It For Yourself |
• Friendship Ended With Granblue, Balatro Is My New Best Friend |
• +Straw Monolith |
• When We Speak, It's With 1,000 Mouths. When We Play Games, It's With 2,000 Hands |
• Criticized Based On The Juiciness Of Its Rump |
• +I Hope One Day Our Children's Games Will Be Judged Not By The Thiccness Of Their Buttcheeks, But The Thiccness Of Their Character |
• +Brian, It's Me From The Future! In 20 Years, You'll Need A Copy Of Magna Carta To Solve A Debate About Korean Ass Cheeks! |
• +You Must Gather Your Sandwich Before Venturing Forth |
• Measuring The Iced Cream |
• One Degree Of Separation From George W. Bush & Two From Mike Pence |
• Really Jonesing For ChuChu Rocket! |
• It Was A Thousand Years If It Was A Day |
• +Inventing Booty Shorts In 1790 |
• Assbucket In A Robe |
• +Succubus Fuck: My Chillwave Scissor Sisters Cover Band |
• +I Hadn't Thought Of Yeoman Chambers As A Sex Vending Machine Before Now |
• +Please Put $50 In Quarters Into Your Personal Assistant |
• The Outside Was Still Raw, But The Inside Was Burnt |
• Alpha Protocol Was Made By Kay's Kitchen |
• +My Favorite Part Of Alien Was When The Xenomorph Spent 5 Minutes Humping A Wall |
• That Wall Had A Family (And Had Even More Afterwards) |
• YouTubers Who Wouldn't Know A Thing About Critical Theory If It Bit Them On The Taint |
• With $50 From Me He Can Buy Himself A Fighter Jet |
• I Think We All Know How Thoroughly Weaponized The Australian Public Is |
• +Lucas White's Twisted Metal Hot Dog Cart |
• +Hot Dog Water Oil Slick |
• Going Out Trying To Save A Book, Pagemaster Style |
• Can You Date The Inkblot? |
• +What If You Tried TALKING To The Cyberdemon? |
• 'Only Show Adult Balatro Mods' |
• I Was Really Hoping For Fuckable Cards |
• I've Just Realized How Easy It Is To Get Him To Fuck Up His Search History, And That's More Power Than I Deserve |
• We Need To Rule 34 This Card Game
• The Internet Failed You, But It Did It In Defense Of Me (Which I'll Allow) |
• Balatro Nude Mods |
• Thoughts And Themes And Popcorn Dreams |
• Our Hearts Are Not Comprised Of Only Goodness, So Be Nice |

In this episode, Kris, Lucas and Will talk more about the ongoing debate of friction in game design. We also talk about PAX West coverage, Lies of P, Rise of the Ronin, Honkai: Star Rail, Warframe and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy.

TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS:

• PAX West - 1:15 |
• LUCID - 2:58 |
• Heading Out - 5:41 |
• Dragon Is Dead - 10:24 |
• RA RA BOOM - 12:29 |
• Heartworm (and the Horror Genre) - 16:27 |
• Kriegsfront Tactics - 21:34 |
• Slime Heroes - 24:50 |
• Deathbound - 32:15 |
• Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days - 36:49 |
• Lies of P ft. Monster Hunter World - 45:26 |
• Rise of the Ronin - 55:52 |
• Friction in Game Design - 1:04:59 |
• Microtransactions and Game Design - 1:27:21 |
• Honkai: Star Rail - 1:31:33 |
• Sorry We're Closed - 1:48:25 |
• Warframe - 1:57:05 |
• Conclusions - 2:11:16 |

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

• I Came Out Of My Cave To Tell My Editors "I'm Not Dead"
• I'm Working on Stuff, But I'm Also Dying, So If You Could Be Chill For Maybe a Week
• + Playing It You're Like "Yeah. Yeah! YEAH!" And Then Just Progressively More Yeahs
• There Is No Way To Get Me Interested Faster Than To Say "Yeah, We Like FTL: Faster Than Light!"
• + Shining A Giant W In The Sky To Summon Will
• You Are A Group Of Ninja Cheerleaders From Space
• One Thing Leads To Another: Horror!
• + The Overlap Between The Queer Community and Horror Fans is a Circle
• + This House Is Going To Eat Us If We Don't Leave in 15 Minutes, We Can't Stay Here
• If I See Anymore, I'll Want it Immediately And Then Be Sad
• You Have A Tanky Frame, But That Arm Ain't Tanky
• + We Were Tired Of Waiting For Square To Make A New Front Mission, So We Made Front Mission
• + The Vacant Smile of Doom That Is Toriyama's Slime Design
• + We Want You To Live With The Consequences Of Your Animations
• + Nah Man, Fuck It, Big Hammer All The Time
• + It Never Stops Being Cool When You Izuna Drop Somebody
• + It Is Statistically Proven That Izuna Dropping is Fucking Cool
• + Team Ninja Does Not Want You To Have A Good Time
• + Every Time There Was A Choice, You Made The Wrong One
• + See You Losers, I'm Gonna Go Live At The Bottom of the Ocean With My Hot Mermaid Wife
• + I Need Ralph Ineson To Talk Dirty To Me
• + The Angels Aren't Any Better, They Hate You Too
• Oh No, Here Comes The Capitalism
• + Mobile Games Are A Hellworld From Which There Is No Escape
• + Could Not Be More Over Than Mobile Games
• + If I Don't Girlboss Perfectly, My Eyeballs Get Ripped From My Skull
• + I'm Not Sure What Happened To Get Me Into Warframe [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse.]

In this episode, Brian, Kris and Lucas talk about conventions and travel. We also talk about Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Balatro, What The Golf, Super Robot Wars and a smattering of other topics. Pay no attention to the fact that Brian opens the show with the wrong episode number, it's definitely 307. Enjoy.

TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS

• Mental Health - 5:30 |
• Brian at Capcom Cup - 12:00 |
• (PAX West) Visions of Mana - 19:25 |
• (PAX West) LUCID - 27:10 |
• (PAX West) Freaked Fleapit - 31:37 |
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - 39:39 |
• Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth - 49:30 |
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - 55:05 |
• Balatro - 1:04:02 |
• What The Golf - 1:18:47 |
• Dragon's Dogma 2 (and Capcom Microtransactions) - 1:21:47 |
• Super Robot Wars 30 (and Original Generations) - 1:25:34 |
• Conclusion - 1:41:09 |

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

• It's Not A Horse, It's A Bicycle
• +Getting A Cast For A Broken Ankle While A Spear Is Stuck In Your Chest
• You Have An ADHD Butt
• + Fighting A Four-Year-Old on Dynamic Controls
• There's Literally Dozens of Mana Fans
• A Game Far More Degenerate Than The First Two
• + NEKUTAI!
• + The Horrific Necktie From Disco Elysium Lives On
• + The Only Way I Can Describe It Is "Unhinged"
• + The Good Kind of Degeneracy
• + I Was Today Years Old When I Found Out About Muv-Luv
• + The Balls It Takes For Those Developers To Gaslight Their Playerbase For An Entire Game
• + "It's Edgelord-y" Is Not An Argument
• You Can Sit Down And Wait Until I've Recovered From Like A Dragon
• + You Sat Down To Play Poker With A Yu-Gi-Oh Deck
• I've Also Been Playing Capcom's Dragon Slaying Game... By Which I Mean Replaying Monster Hunter World
• What The Hell Do You Know About Super Robot Wars
• + Can A Series Really Be Trash If They Have Robots In Them?
• + There's Trash, There's Trash With Robots, There's Good Stuff With Robots, It's A Sliding Scale
• There Absolutely Is Such A Thing As Bad Pizza
• + Super Robot Wars 30 Is Not A Misnomer, There's 30 Of Them
• + This Is Fan Service, We Know What You're Here For, You Will Be Serviced, It Will Be Great
• + I Need To Kill My Perfectionism, Because It's Killing My Time

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

In this episode, Kris, Will and Lucas talk heavily about the game's industry and the impending collapse of the triple A video game. We also talk about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and other Final Fantasy 7 media, Shiren the Wanderer, Unicorn Overlord, Last Epoch and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:

• Fort Condor - 0:23 |
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - 4:47 |
• Final Fantasy 7: On The Way To A Smile - 16:51 |
• Narrative vs. Lore - 35:58 |
• The FF7 Remake Project - 42:08 |
• The State of the Triple A Games Industry (ft. Comic Books) - 48:10 |
• Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth - 1:33:17 |
• Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island - 1:39:45 |
• Unicorn Overlord Demo - 2:00:34 |
• Last Epoch - 2:19:27 |
• Conclusions - 2:23:02 |

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

• My Wife is Just As Upset As I am, For Entirely Different And More Sane Reasons |
• Blitzball Remains Undefeated as the Best Final Fantasy Minigame |
• +++ Square Enix Accidentally Made a 150 Million Dollar Dreamcast Game |
• +++ Everywhere is the Gold Saucer, Including the Gold Saucer, But Also the Areas Surrounding the Gold Saucer |
• + Excuse Me, I Heard You Say Wave Race? |
• + It's Like He Did It Just To Hurt Me, and Me Specifically |
• +++ Please Tell Me There's No Tower Climbing, For The Love of God |
• + We Identified The Issue, And Then Left it in to Fuck With You |
• + People Who Do That Should Step on Legos for an Entire Day |
• + I'm Going To Walk Into The Sea, Bro |
• +++ I'm Gonna Use My 18 Inches of Sephiroth as God Intended |
• ++ After 18 Inches of Sephiroth, There Are No More Worlds Left to Conquer |
• + You Die An Eco-Terrorist, or Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become A Capitalist |
• Feeding Tonberries Into A Woodchipper |
• + Kira! Bring Me The Tonberry! |
• + 18 Inches of Tonberry |
• Let Me Just Put My Catatonic Friend Here |
• + Yes, Dirge of Cerberus Will Be On The Test |
• But How Do We Make NFTs Out of This? |
• You're Treating Strep Throat With A Cough Drop, Dude |
• + At All Times, Avoid Becoming Destiny |
• The Face of the Guy Kiryu's Grating Against A Car Bonnet Doesn't Matter |

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

In this episode, Brian, Kris and Lucas dig into the various Granblue Fantasy games. We also talk about Helldivers 2, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, Helskate, Qomp 2, and a smattering of other topics. Audience participation is extensive for this one. Enjoy.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:

• Elden Ring - 2:44 |
• Bandai Namco - 14:18 |
• Brian's Soulsborne Challenge Runs - 16:30 |
• Helldivers 2 - 19:45 |
• Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor - 41:17 |
• Autoshooters/Bullet Heaven - 55:59 |
• Podcast Length ft. A Message Sent to Brian - 59:29 |
• Helskate - 1:02:23 |
• Qomp 2 - 1:29:46 |
• Support Indies, or The Need to Create - 1:36:38 |
• Granblue Fantasy Relink (and the Granblue Franchise) - 1:47:52 |
• Conclusions - 2:24:20 |
• Platformers Podcast: Origins - 2:33:45 |

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

• Sigyl I Am |
• +++ Let Brian Solo Her |
• Waterfowl Dance Can't Kill You If You Just Kill Her Before She Does It |
• It's A Different Story if Gundam Tries to Walk |
• ++ Not Free Damage, Not Free Damage! |
• ++ Don't Do It For The Medals, Do It For The Good of Super Earth |
• Ran Into A Few Bugs... And We Killed Them, As You Do |
• ++ Turns Out You Get Hit By Explosions A Lot |
• +Helldivers Needs an Exoprimal Crossover |
• A Great Faction to Oppose Space Fascists is More Space Fascists |
• Noone Expects The Super Earth Inquisition |
• It's Sony, So It Had To Be a Third Person Shooter |
• ++ Your Peashooter Has Very Little Downtime, But It Also Shoots Peas |
• + I Dig It, Literally |
• + If We Didn't Have Breath of the Wild or Genshin Impact, We Wouldn't Have Sonic Frontiers |
• ++ Mailygis Backwards |
• + All East Coasts Are Created Equal |
• +++ Instead of Manualing Between Grind Rails, You're Killing A Dude |
• + Support Your Indies, They're The Only Ones Doing Anything Worth A Damn Nowadays |
• + Only Support the FICTIONAL Hyper-Capitalist Fascists |
• ++ Tim Curry Was Wrong, It's Capitalist Here Too |
• + Sharknados Will Continue Until Morale Improves |
• + It's Been Ship of Theseus'd Like Four Times |
• ++ Infinite Wealth! It's Infinite! And Wealth! |
• ++ Get Ready To Get Pogo'd On, Baby |
• ++ A2 is Objectively Better Than 2B |
• + Live From The Loser's Bracket |

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

In this episode, Kris, Will and Lucas do our part for Super Earth! We also talk about Dragon Quest X Offline, Tekken 8, Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and a smattering of other topics. Oh, and Helldivers 2. Enjoy.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:

• Helldivers 2 - 1:18 |
• Playing Games As A Critic After Reviewing - 18:51 |
• Layoffs and Emulation Scene Turmoil - 23:29 |
• Dragon Quest X Offline - 26:25 |
• MMOs Old And New - 35:45 |
• Gaming Friend Groups and the Xbox Live Experience - 38:33 |
• Tekken 8 - 41:52 |
• Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth (and Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise) - 48:42 |

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

• I Was in Chair Two Once, Now They've Got Me Over Here |
• + We Took Operation Super Earth to Eliminate the Palworld Menace |
• +++ The Best Way We Can Defeat the Bugs is a STRONG ECONOMY |
• Bullets Cannot Go Through Cover Provided it is Large and Impenetrable |
• How Bout A Nice Cup of Liber-Tea|
• +++ Sweet Liberty! My Arm! |
• I'm Just Chuckling Because Now I'm a Torso Wearing a Cape |
• +Kill the Bugs and Take Their Oil |
• +++ I'm Taking Off My Critic Hat and Putting on my Dunce Hat |
• + I'm Hoping to Fight the Legally Distinct Protoss in my Legally Distinct Mech |
• + The Layoffs Will Continue Until Morale Improves |
• It's on the Internet, the Internet Doesn't Forget |
• Well You Went Too Far to the Right, Now Everything's Just Going to Murder You in 10 Seconds |
• ++ It'll Delevel Your Ass Without Hesitation |
• I Don't Know Why Anyone Played These Things! I Don't Know Why I Played These Things! |
• + Your Friends Were Weak, They Don't Deserve Diamond |
• + Some of us Are Surprised We Don't Get Beat Up For Our Lunch Money |
• + Do You Know How To Korean Backdash? You Gonna Learn! |
• If You're an RPG Sicko, You're Either Living it Up or Incredibly Stressed Out |
• Yakuza Crossing |
• ++ Driving Out In The Desert in a Buggy and Super Monkey Ball Music is Blaring |
• + A Middling to Bad RGG Game is Better Than Several of Your Favourite Games |
• + Let's Get Out of Here, I've Got Some Helldivers to Play |

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

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and special guest Thomas Wilde discuss a wide range of games and topics, including Spec Ops: the Line, The Last Of Us 3, using Crisper to method act, Jim Ryan leaving Sony, video game and fiction tropes, and much more! Enjoy. It’s unhinged.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:

• Using Crisper To Give Ourselves Mental Maladies For Acting - 2:25 |
• Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes & Tekken 8 - 7:05 |
• Jim Ryan Leaving Sony - 42:00 |
• Spec Ops: The Line Licensing - 46:00 |
• Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth - 58:30 |
• Uncharted: Legacy Of Thieves - 1:25:05 |
• The Last Of Us 3 - 1:35:00 |
• Silent Hill - 1:46:20 |
• Video Game & Fiction Tropes - 2:00:00 |
• Persona 3 Reload - 2:27:20 |

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

• +So Off-Key, It Might As Well Have Been In Another Language |
• I Can’t Do Bob Dylan Without Straying Into Joe Cocker, It’s A Problem I’ve Grappled With For Most Of My Life |
• Co-Host & Self-Proclaimed Witch |
• Still Getting Used To The Vibe Around Here |
• That’s Not A ‘Nice…’ THAT’S A ‘Nice’ |
• +Remember When We Were Young & Had A Number Of Undiagnosed Personality Disorders |
• +Going Through The DSM-IV Like It’s An A La Carte Menu |
• Welcome To The Platformers, A Game About Podcasts & Perusing The DSM-IV |
• +Extreme Method Acting Via Gene Therapy |
• To Be Safe, Let’s Say ‘Direct-To-Video Speed 5’ |
• +Satiya Nutella |
• Satiya, Give Me Some Sugar, Honey |
• +Nuclear Gandhi |
• Karate Guy VS Taekwando Guy VS Occasional Bear |
• Velocipastor |
• I’m So Good At Wrestling, I’m Immune To Bullets |
• I Got Eye-Beamed For Asking Mr. Mishima Which Martial Arts Use Rocket Launchers |
• +The Furries In Arizona Must Have That NASA Cooling Tech |
• Put The Creepy Little Freaks In Top Hats & White Scarves |
• Brian’s Limitless Six Drinks |
• How Do You Convince Someone To Play Like A Dragon? One Bite At A Time |
• +We’ve Got Blitzball At Home |
• Ichiban Wouldn’t Have Let Heihachi Throw Kazuma Into A Volcano |
• Opening With Coke & Gin |
• Harada Is The ‘Syndrome’ Of Fighting Games |
• Found In A Bathtub Full Of Ice |
• Murder Boner |
• +Nathan Drake, Solipsist |
• ++Honey Trap For The Damned |
• You’re Already A Sicko, You Might As Well Be Another Type Of Sicko |
• Persona 3: ‘Oops All Dogs’ Edition |
• Mitsuru Baby, What’s Wrong? You’ve Shot Yourself In The Head Several Times Today |
• The Strange Ketamine-Fueled Ambitions Of A South African Nostalgic For Apartheid |
• +The Pony Factory Is Not As Nice As It Sounds |
• +Keep National Public Radio Alive Or We’ll F$%^ing Kill You | 

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

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and Lucas discuss a wide range of games, laugh at predictive text Harry Potter, and much more! Enjoy.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:

• Void Terrarium 2 - 2:00 |
• 20 Minutes Till Dawn - 5:00 |
• Reigns: Three Kingdoms - 6:40 |
• Wizardry: The Proving Grounds Of The Mad Overlord - 25:30 |
• Why Do We Shy From Certain Aesthetics? - 40:00 |
• Harry Potter & The Portrait Of What Looked Like A Large Pile Of Ash - 57:35 |
• Terra Nil - 1:03:40 |
• Itch.io - 1:13:37 |
• Granblue Fantasy Relink - 1:17:29 |
• Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes - 1:43:30 |
• Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth - 2:11:19 |

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

• Taiyo-ken & Kaio-ken |
• Giving You The Ole’ Solar Flare |
• +++Level 1 Intellect Dumbass |
• What Do You Think Graph Paper Was Invented For |
• +We Went At It For A Long Time |
• And You Can Eat My Entire A$%#%@^ |
• You Got Tinder In My RTS! |
• ++This Whole Time, Brian Was The Real Dynasty Warrior |
• +++The Man Who Decided He Wouldn’t Try To Go After Being The King That One Time |
• +Harry Potter & The Portrait Of What Looked Like A Large Pile Of Ash |
• ++Ron’s Ron Shirt Was As Bad As Ron Himself |
• Multiplayer Writing |
• +Theater Kids Without A Stage |

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

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and Lucas discuss the big hubbub about the modern phenom that is Palworld, as well as deeper thoughts about Baldur’s Gate III! Enjoy.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:

• Palworld - 6:34 |
• Baldur’s Gate III - 55:45 |

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

• +Baldur’s Gatekeeping |
• We’re Not Made Of Any Suspiciously Familiar Parts Or Stolen Assets |
• Not An Asset-Flipped Template Weeb |
• Bespoke Weeb |
• I Have Goku Water |
• Goku Blue Milk, Drunk Straight From The Teet Of The Ocean Walrus |
• +I Cannot, But Also I Will, I Can, & You Cannot Stop Me |
• +We Have Glistening Abs, & The Persian Army Is Right Offscreen |
• Stop Right There, Xerxes, I Have To Podcast |
• +An Eldritch Horror With Lots Of Nipples |
• +I’m Gonna Darkly Urge All Over The Place |
• Is It Sigyliam Or Sigyliam? |
• +When Your Internet Fails Its Dex Save |
• +I’m Gonna Darkly Urge Everyone Off A Cliff |
• Giving Gale A Hand |

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

In this episode, Brian, Kris, Will, Lucas, and special guest Cam Hawkins discuss the best games of 2023! Enjoy.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:

• Missed Connections - 6:00 |
• Brian Missed: Talos Principle 2, Jedi Survivor, Humanity, In Stars & Time, Cyberpunk - 7:31 |
• Kris Missed: Alan Wake 2, Talos 2, Jedi Survivor, Goodbye Volcano High, FF16, AC6 - 22:00 |
• Will Missed: Super Mario Wonder, FF16, Hi-Fi Rush, Baldur’s Gate 3 - 28:35 |
• Lucas Missed: Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society, Long Gone Days, Spider-Man 2, Detective Pikachu Returns, Mon-Yu - 30:48 |
• Cam Missed: Everything that Lucas except Spider-Man 2, Atelier Ryza 3, Atelier Marie Remake, AC 6, DQ: Infinity Strash, In Stars & Time, Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince, Star Ocean SSR - 43:00 |
• Brian Honorable Mentions: Alan Wake 2, Wildfrost, Granblue Rising, Goodbye Volcano High, Season: A Letter to the Future, Sea of Stars, Slay the Princess, Venba - 51:00 |
• Kris Honorable Mentions: Baldur's Gate 3, Diablo 4, Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty, Against the Storm, Rogue Trader, Dredge, Street Fighter 6, Granblue, Hi-Fi RUSH - 1:28:22 |
• Will Honorable Mentions: Diablo 4, SF6, Cocoon, Hi-Fi Rush, Zelda: TotK, Talos 2 - 1:49:55|
• Lucas Honorable Mentions: Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End and the Secret Key, Ebenezer and the Invisible World, Sonic Dream Team, Robocop Rogue City, Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince, Demon Lord Reincarnation - 2:19:34 |
• Cam Honorable Mentions: Honkai Star Rail, Dead Cells Return to Castlevania, Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty, Sea of Stars, Octopath II, FFXVI - 2:49:15 |
• Brian Heart Pick: Baldur’s Gate 3 - 3:21:00 |
• Kris Heart Pick: Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood - 3:30:00 |
• Lucas Heart Pick: Void Terrarium 2 - 3:33:00 |
• Will Heart Pick: Alan Wake 2 - 3:46:46 |
• Cam Heart Pick: The Legend of Heroes Trails Into Reverie - 3:51:35 |
• Brian Critic Pick: The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood - 3:59:38 |
• Kris Critic Pick: Slay The Princess - 4:02:30 |
• Will Critic Pick: Armored Core 6 - 4:05:10 |
• Lucas Critic Pick: Street Fighter 6 - 4:09:46 |
• Cam Critic Pick: Baldur’s Gate 3 - 4:14:51 |

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

• ++Begun The Waifu Wars Have |
• +Heal On X |
• +Square Enix’s Strongest Soldier: Donald J. Duck |
• Talos Principle Sr. |
• ++Ridiculously Over-The-Top Extra-ness |
• ++Beating You Up With The Nostalgia Bat |
• ++The Ghost Of Christmas Beatdowns |
• ++Grinding Monsters Until You Wanna Throw Up |
• +We Like Turn-Based Combat Because We Have Taste |
• +My Gut Started Tingling |
• +The Legend Of Heroes: The ‘One Piece’ Of Video Games |
• Detective Pikachu: The Pinkerton |
• +Clutch Makoto |

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

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and Lucas talk about Baldur’s Gate III, the Analogue Pocket, explore fun in a new segment, and wait until they can play more Granblue! Enjoy.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:

• Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising - 2:55 |
• Analogue Pocket - 17:15 |
• Special Segment: Game Boy ‘Hot Or Not’ - 41:00 |
• Retro Games & More - 1:15:00 |
• Baldur’s Gate III - 1:24:30 |
• Alan Wake - 1:48:00 |

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

• Arbiter Of The Skies |
• Call Me Out For My Persona Partner Predilections |
• +Zetta BEEEEEEEEEEAM! |
• +++This Episode Was Late Because We Played 3 Hours Of Granblue |
• ++On A Scale Of 1 To Karlach, It’s Shadowheart |
• Power Rangers? No, We Get Our Power From Jesus |
• Legacy Of Rhythm TenGoku 2 |

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

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and Will talk about lots of games, including Baldur’s Gate III, Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising, Cocoon, Alan Wake II, and a lot more.

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:

• Armored Core 6 - 6:46 |
• 20 Minutes To Dawn Impressions - 7:45 |
• Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising Impressions - 11:00 |
• Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader - 22:30 |
• Baldur’s Gate III - 26:30 |
• Analogue Pocket Reveal - 26:43 |
• Monty Python & The Holy Grail Sing-A-Long - 44:57 |
• Alan Wake II Final Review - 59:30 |
• Cocoon Final Review - 1:07:30 |
• Analogue Pocket - 1:15:07 |
• Persona 5 Tactica - 1:35:30 |
• Warframe - 1:38:00 |

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

• +Bitches Get Stitches & Stitches Get Bitches |
• 2024 Model Kris Cornelisse |
• 1989 Model Will Borger |
• ++Proudly Refusing To Improve Since 1989 |
• You’ll Find It’s Not An Improvement So Much As The Cost Has Gone Up, Very Little Has Changed & Corners Have Been Cut |
• +I’ve Been Devil Triggered |
• I Just Want To Hold Johnny Yong Bosch In My Arms |
• +$$60 Billion Armored Core |
• ++On Second Thought, Let Us Not Go To Baldur’s Gate. ‘Tis A Silly Place |
• When Danger Reared His Ugly Head, He Bravely Turned His Tail & Fled |
• How Do I Get Out? There Is No Out, There Is Only ‘In’ |
• No Take, Only Throw |
• ++Team Karlach AND Bust |
• Help, Karlach! Now It Burns When I Pee |
• +I’m Happy I Was Proven Right, But Sad About HOW I Was |
• Dungeon Siege Appreciators |

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

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]