How Much Crunch is Too Much? - What's Good Games (Ep. 75)

What's Good Games: A Video Game Podcast

What's Good Games

Games, Leisure, Video Games, News, Entertainment News

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2018

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Get an extra 25% off when you keep all items in your box at http://stitchfix.com/whatsgoodThanks to Stitch Fix for sponsoring this episode! Support What’s Good Games on Patreon! Gain access to behind-the-scenes content, exclusive videos, extra podcast segments and more. http://www.patreon.com/whatsgoodgames This week Andrea and Steimer are missing Britt as she enjoys the spooky festivities at Universal Studios. They chat about Rockstar Games "100-hour work week," Discord's new game store beta, and will Rocket League be next for PS4 cross-play? Andrea spent some time with Bad North on Nintendo Switch, Steimer attempted another run at Celeste, and both are heavily invested in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. 0:50 Hello and welcome! 2:50 TwitchCon Update5:30 Happy Hour Q&A Update9:16 Why does Britt use giant suitcases all the time?12:50 NEWS begins13:15 Ninja is hanging with Ellen14:50 Rockstar Games "100-hour weeks" fiasco21:15 Crazy hours are common in game development25:37 Normalizing crunch35:31 Discord launches their Game Store Beta38:20 Can Discord challenge GOG or Steam?41:34 Steimer loves a good vamp42:47 Psyonix Rocket League up next for cross-play?48:50 Are you going to change your PSN ID?52:53 New mobile game let's you hang with "Saved by the Bell' and "Breakfast Club" characters...and..."Law and Order"?56:50 BREAK59:02 Steimer tries to play Celeste again1:07:11 - Andrea started Bad North on her Switch1:11:17 - Andrea loves her Cayde-6 Destiny t-shirt1:12:18 - Destiny 2 Festival of the Lost is happening1:17:10 - Kassandra is bae1:19:06 - Open world balance in Assassin's Creed Odyssey1:24:15 - Steimer's got people to bang in Greece1:36:57 - Andrea spent real money on microtransactions1:46:51 - Resident Evil 2 demo impressions coming next week1:48:15 - We love you guys Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/whatsgoodgamesFollow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/whatsgood_gamesFollow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/whatsgoodgamesFollow on Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/whatsgoodgamesOur discord channel: http://discord.gg/whatsgoodgamesFollow on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/whatsgoodgamesofficialOur website: http://www.whatsgoodgames.com HUGE thank you and shoutout to our awesome Turbo Patrons and above!Aaron SaxtonAdriane 'Aroc' WilliamsAlberto AndrÃ's VidelaAlex RigopulosAndrew SusenAnthony MurphyAriella FurmanAsh VulcainBeau HierholzerBill StillwellBilly ShibleyBrian HarperBrooke Laree Asia HarrisCarl PedersenCathy LucasCoolRatDaddyCristian RodriguezDale SonDavid IacolucciDominic WellerDonato Sinicco, IIIDustin Lewis E Benjamin CheknisE. IrizarryElizabeth BrookeElmo ShellEmily KentFaris AttiehGeek Heart GamesGio CorsiGregory HortonIvan BejaranoJarryd HowardJason DavisJason EricsonJay MauhayJayson DeMersJesse SpencerJessica SalisburyjoJoe KennisonJoe SchleifJohn DrakeKevin DunkelKevin komakiKia B.Leviathon Masters-BarellaLewis CreechLincoln DavisLucas CheneyMark DrastrupMartha EmeryMartin T. AaserudMatt HowellMatthew GoderreMelanthius OwensMichael ShanholtzMohammed Fahim MohammedMolly BittnerNam BuiNicole HumphreyOzzie MejiaPaige PorterPete ShoemakerProfessor Metal GearPunkdefiedPureBlueOctopusR.J. BrianRegan ImpsonRippedGamersRob LehnertRobert JareroRoland BalaRoss HaineyRyan BSamSimon BergstedtSian StevensonStef WuStephanie FitzwilliamSteven InslerSydney CarrTara BrunoTeresa EhnertThomas JenningsTimothy BennettTommy LarsenTrent PenningtonTrevor StarkeyTyler McCallveritanudaWill HernandezZach Hershey

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0:00.0	Childhood should be fun. Don't let bed wetting spoil that. Dry nights give maximum protection.
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0:54.5	What's good, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the What's Good Games podcast, your
1:17.8	source for video game news, commentary, analysis, and funny stuff. I'm Andrea Renau.
1:22.8	And Andrea Renau. Andrea Renau. You're super friends now. Andrea Renau.
1:29.8	I joined by Ms. Christine Stimer. How are you? Hello, still here. I'm good.
1:35.8	Good. We had a nice little pre-show today with our pre-show patrons, if you guys are ever
1:42.1	interested in having some off-the-cuff conversations with us. You can check out
1:47.3	information on that at patreon.com slash What's Good Games. We do our weekly live streams ahead of the show recording.
1:55.1	And sometimes we just leave the stream going and record this and record the show.
1:59.1	We did it this week because I had to go fix some stuff. But some weeks, it's good to be back.
2:04.1	You guys did a great job. The Britain Steimer show back to back weeks.
2:10.1	I'm holding down the fort.
2:13.1	The good news is that we've got so many games to talk about both in the past weeks and in the coming weeks,
2:21.1	I feel like this is always, you know, prime time. It's actually kind of stressful trying to pick and choose what to play and what to
2:31.1	play. I'm going to get to that eventually.
2:34.1	The only thing that I actually need to play is Valkyrie Chronicles 4.
2:47.1	I was going to call it Valkyrie. I don't think it's Valkyrie. It's got an R&A.
2:52.1	They'll carry a Chronicles 4. I have not touched it.
2:57.1	But I have touched a lot of Greece ancient Greece.
3:02.1	Oh, well, we are definitely going to be talking about ancient Greece and
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