Spam Spam Spam Humbug 151 – Escort Missions Suck (Mostly)
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Podcast Topic(s)
After the rocky start to the year in Episode 150, the podcast team seem to have again found their stride — more or less — with this week’s discussion. It starts out with some discussion about Chlorthos’ use of cheats when playing the X-Wing games, which morphs into a discussion of the tedious nature of escort missions in flight sims. WtF Dragon notes that the Galaxy on Fire games actually had fairly enjoyable escort missions, which leads to a discussion about mobile gaming — WtF briefly touts his new Backbone One gaming controller for iPhone — and a bit of smack talk about (what else?) Shroud of the Avatar.
A discussion about Stardew Valley — which Chlorthos has been playing with his wife lately — turns into a discussion about actual gardening and yard maintenance, because when did we ever find a topic we wouldn’t merrily abandon? However, things soon get back on track with some comparisons and contrasts between the Gothic series of games and Ultima 9.
Also discussed are the challenges and concerns surrounding letting young children play games online; WtF’s kids have lately taken to playing Among Us and Minecraft against friends, and are asking to also play on public servers. This leads in turn to a discussion about schooling, before WtF brings things back to gaming with some discussion around the concept of CORE Games (by Manticore Games)…which is like ROBLOX with Unreal Engine 4 behind it.
And right at the end of the episode, Golem Dragon shows up to discuss Outriders and some recent power-nerfing changes that the developers thereof have pushed out.
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Music
Ultima V – Stones 2001 Remix by DJ Lizard
Ultima VI Gates of Creation by OC ReMix
Ultima 6 Theme (from Punchfest) by Lorto Dragon
Also some stuff about MMOs, Outriders, and cheating in X-Wing.