Call and Response: WOFF! Dispatch June 2023
Added 2023-06-14 14:01:01 +0000 UTCHello, traveler!
The purpose of this post is to call for your questions and prompts for the next WOFF! Dispatch. Please respond by
MONDAY JUNE 19TH
by leaving a comment on this post.
We're looking for two kinds of things:
-Suggestions for our long-form discussion prompt.
-Q&A about the shows, behind the scenes details, and miscellaneous (including off-the-wall and off-topic questions). Ask us about games or other media, life in general... You name it.
One caveat we've given in the past: If the question is too personal or gross, we may dance around it and not give a direct answer. Looking forward to hearing from you!
Comments
I came here to ask if anyone had asked this. I've fallen down the rabbithole as well!
Shawn Hood
2023-06-22 14:05:42 +0000 UTCUnfortunately a Zelda movie seems all but inevitable. Someone tasks you with making it (not at gun point, you'll be well compensated let's not be hyperbolic). Is Link voiced or silent? Does your answer change if you're prioritizing artistic success (if that's possible) vs commercial success (again, inevitable)
Andrew T
2023-06-18 22:43:05 +0000 UTCWith game production cycles and budgets getting so big over the last decade license games are a lot less ubiquitous. Which movie/TV show/cultural phenomenon of the last ten years would make the best licensed videogame?
Tom Healey
2023-06-18 21:49:33 +0000 UTCAs well-versed horror fans, what horror media has actually scared you the most?
Chapel Collins
2023-06-16 21:57:10 +0000 UTCWith the recent release of Slayers X, what are your general opinions of spin-offs that are a completely different genre than the original?
The BabaDuck
2023-06-16 20:39:31 +0000 UTCAlright, I wanna start off by both thanking and apologizing to you guys, Gary in particular. I want to apologize for bringing up Kojima and Nomura as much as I do, but I also want to thank you for being the only people to not let either of them off the hook for their bullshit. Gary, you in particular are one of the only people I’ve heard (or even interacted with in real life) that is as exhausted by these two creators as me. It’s very refreshing and validating to hear someone express that distaste in such a well-expressed way based on criticism and not just “immature hating”. So, I appreciate the parasocial comradery, but I like you guys too much to keep bringing up their bullshit so I can feel less baffled and annoyed. Your fan, Jonathan Scratch
Jonathan Scratch
2023-06-16 17:17:01 +0000 UTCI would enjoy this also!
Francis Hall
2023-06-15 20:36:51 +0000 UTCI was recently on a trip from Cleveland to Kentucky and had to pass through “Kole Country” which means going past the tourist trap known as Grandpa’s Cheese Barn. So my question is have you ever gone there or will it forever remain just a funny name on a road side billboard?
Ben Sapatka
2023-06-15 19:49:40 +0000 UTCAs big From fans, what is your excitement level for Armored Core 6? Any love for the franchise, or will this be your first one? Or do you plan on being just fans of Souls and leave this one be?
Naveen Sivakumar
2023-06-15 17:08:07 +0000 UTCholy crap
Robert M Fenner
2023-06-15 16:44:03 +0000 UTCGary - I remember you anticipating Cyberpunk 2077 a few years before release. Did you end up getting around to it, and if so, what did you think? The literary genre is very important to me, and as much as I'd relish to walk around a big budget version of that setting, I found little to like. Perhaps a big broken mess made by exploitative labour practices is the cyberpunk game we deserve as a society, but maybe that's a different discussion.
Robert M Fenner
2023-06-15 16:42:47 +0000 UTCWhat are the odds of getting a WOFF episode on Plague Tale: Innocence?
Ben
2023-06-15 16:01:11 +0000 UTCYou are an ancient mad king, mortally wounded by an ungrateful mob. Dying, you curse an object to bring death, misery, and perhaps the possibility of your resurrection. What object do you choose?
Doug Lief
2023-06-15 14:26:15 +0000 UTCI never watched reality TV even though I was in the pocket for it during its ascendance in the 90s and 2000s (Survivor, Big Brother, etc). However, I revelled in making fun of it and labelling it as 'the problem with TV' or 'the end of creativity.' Etc. I was overly confident in my own stupid opinions back then. Fast forward 25 years, and my wife needs to interview a judge on The Great Canadian Baking Show for work, so we watched it. HOLY SHIT. We were clapping like trained seals then entire time. All the manipulative editing, the dramatic tricks, the smoke and mirrors. It was all obvious to us both, yet we still freakin loved it and got really invested -- I teared up when the other competitors raced to help someone who was faltering. It's exactly as bad as I said it was back when I was a stupid little shit, but I freakin' loved it! Is there anything in either of your lives that you wrote off -- either due to a contrarian bent, popular opinion, or societal pressure -- that you then come around on? Any anecdotes to share?
Douglas
2023-06-15 12:47:50 +0000 UTCWhen I was a kid I watched a Norwegian movie that roughly translates to Chasing The Kidney Stone, in which a young boy gets magically shrunken down by his teddy bear to go inside his sleeping grandfather to fight an anthropomorphic kidney stone. One of the grandfather's red blood cells is the love interest. What's the weirdest movie you saw as a child?
SindrElf
2023-06-15 11:31:53 +0000 UTCDid you guys watch the new trailer for the Venture Bros. movie? If so, any thoughts?
SindrElf
2023-06-15 11:22:32 +0000 UTCYou have the ability to give creative control over the Castlevania franchise over to Shigeru Miyamoto, but with a caveat: control over the OST will be given to Anthony Keidis. Do you accept?
Shane Salley
2023-06-15 03:12:54 +0000 UTCDo you consider yourselves to have good "going to bed at a reasonable hour" habits/discipline? If yes, any tips?
Nina
2023-06-15 02:14:16 +0000 UTCSo, my wife wasn’t too much of a gamer growing up, but she recently has tried getting into trying some games. It started with SpongeBob: Battle for Bikini Bottom and she really enjoyed it. After a few more of those, I had her Try Simpsons Hit and Run. Huge mistake. Too hard and she would sometimes spend an hour plus on missions. After that misstep, any advice for what I should have her try next?
Steven Riddle
2023-06-14 23:44:10 +0000 UTCBeen playing through Death Standing recently and I found the face capture technology really distracting. The fact I could recognise the actors behind the performances only enhanced the uncanny valley feeling to all the characters, not to mention how robotic the performances were in general. Do you think having 'real life' actors in games will ever be the norm or will there always be a disconnect because you recognise the actors from outside the game?
Chris Hales
2023-06-14 20:38:45 +0000 UTCshort one: favorite Noah Caldwell Gervais video?
Randall
2023-06-14 18:39:42 +0000 UTCHave you guys heard about this crazy new custom Doom map called MyHouse.wad?? I've been really obsessed with it lately, watching blind playthroughs and explainer videos discussing the mechanics of it. If you HAVEN"T heard of it I'd recommend trying to play it BEFORE looking up anything else about it. But if not, there's a couple of really good long videos on yt about it.
Randall
2023-06-14 18:39:03 +0000 UTCWhen you guys use emulators do you try to use original controllers or is any controller fine? Do you guys notice emulator input lag that much?
Popofoshosho
2023-06-14 16:26:47 +0000 UTCI think that many of us have remakes and potential remakes on the brain, so what are some games that you want to be remade but don’t believe will ever get a remake?
Elizabeth
2023-06-14 16:13:58 +0000 UTCUh oh! Listenership is down, and the patreon is hemmoraging subscribers! It’s clear you need to do something to save WOFF…so you decide to bring in a sidekick nobody likes and doesn’t fit in on the show. What is your own personal Scrappy-Doo nightmare like?
Lucas
2023-06-14 16:08:38 +0000 UTCFor a long time, there was a good argument to be made for for having both a computer and a console for game playing. Some kinds of games only showed up one platform or another. Now in recent years with the rise of Internet, more powerful systems, and cross-platform games, the age of exclusives (and must buy console for that reason) looks like it's coming to a end. I didn't get a Switch until a year ago, and finally pre-ordered a PS5 bundle with FF 16 cause I wanted to play it....but even that game is only exclusive for six months. Do you think the time is coming when consoles will just vanish since the games will also be released on computer?
Greg Polander
2023-06-14 15:46:47 +0000 UTCI live in Nagano, Japan and saw a poster a couple of days ago for an anime. It featured a generic hiking expedition but the name was "Naked Peak: Climb the Mountains of Madness". The name intrigued me so I followed the QR code and sure enough it's Lovecraft adjacent - apparently inspired by a Call of Cthulu campaign. From what I can gather, this was a kickstarted project and is based here in my prefecture. There's a website with a trailer which is beautifully animated but only briefly shows the horror goods: https://nakedpeak.jp/ I don't really have a question to ask and won't mind if this gets abridged to a passing sentence in the pod, but I wanted to direct y'all towards something that might turn out to be cool.
Luke Summerhayes, visionary host of the excellent Game Game Show podcast
2023-06-14 15:43:37 +0000 UTCDo either of you have any retrospectively heartbreaking videogame trade-in stories? When I was a kid I traded in my entire SNES collection (including several games that now cost more than a hundred dollars) for a Nintendo 64 and snowboard kids 2. As much as I like snowboard kids, I regret this decision so much that even today I am resistant to trade in videogames.
Alvie
2023-06-14 15:29:49 +0000 UTCOn a dispatch roundup from a long time ago, Gary mentioned how he needed to set some time aside for Cyberpunk 2077 since it was releasing soon. I haven't heard either of you mention it so I'm assuming y'all never played it. I'm curious what made you do the 180, since you were both so hot on the Witcher 3.
Matt DiTomaso
2023-06-14 14:09:28 +0000 UTC
