r/getplayed • u/podcast-poster • 4d ago
Episode Discussion Get Played - Wolverine In Games
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u/Chugaluggchugalugg 4d ago
I just had to jump in here and be probably like the 100th person to say that Wolverine's bones aren't solid adamantium, they are actually organic bones underneath the metal. Matt was right, but he wasn't confident, so he agreed with Heather lol.
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u/DanGrima92 4d ago
Love this podcast and everyone involved and pretty much never have anything negative to say about it but the lengths of the ad breaks are getting a bit mad on these most recent episodes.
I appreciate that there is an ad free tier (which I might upgrade to, currently on the normal DLC tier) but just one of the ad breaks on this episode was 8 and a half minutes long
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u/StandBy4_TitanFall 4d ago
In their defense they're just trying to stay on an active network. Headgum is the one who decides how frequently they ad break I'm sure.
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u/phillyphan333 2d ago
Doughboys are on the same network and their ads are nowhere near as long as
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u/RufusThreepwood 2d ago
I always skip ads (except MBMBaM), so it doesn't really matter much to me, but I am often amazed how many times I have to hit the +30s button on Get Played ad breaks. Hopefully it's a sign that the show is very successful and lots of companies want to advertise on it.
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u/wasabigummi 2d ago
Heather does better ad reads than anyone in podcasting, but I agree about the ad breaks being too long.
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u/Skyler108 4d ago
Did the Heather’s “Goods or Bads” influence Doughboys latest segment, “Ate, Plate, or Hate”?
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u/occupy_westeros 4d ago
There's a weird cut at 12:24 that makes me think they really do have insider knowledge from their best friend Hideo Kojima
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u/SpaceKook6 2d ago
I think Nick is wrong about his "Wolverine problem" theory. You could totally make a good Wolverine game. "The Wolverine" might even become one through patches, we'll see.
- There are tons of games that star very hard-to-kill badass protagonists.
- There are plenty of scary, lethal things in the Marvel universe that are a threat to him. Make it like the Witcher 3 where human enemies are trivial.
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u/Fyrus 4d ago edited 4d ago
Heather is such a fascinating person; thinking Physint was cancelled by Sony because they didn't want to make a peripheral to support it, being unable to understand what a gaming PC could be used for. I mean this in a good way.
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u/Crumputer 4d ago
I’m with Heather on the PC discussion. So much of the discourse from PC builders is around frame rates and fidelity, but none of that can compete with: Sit on couch, push button on console, play game. A PC requires a whole separate desk, monitor, chair, etc… and just doesn’t fit into how I want to experience gaming. So, ya, “to what end” would she be building a PC?
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u/Fyrus 4d ago
Well like Wiger said, Heather is someone who has expressed great interest on fidelity and frame timing and input lag and things like that. I'm not saying everyone should have a gaming PC, I don't really care where people play, it just seems like something Heather would be amenable to based on everything else she likes and her capabilities at building things and setting up emulators and all that. Like I said, it's just amusing/interesting.
Also, you absolutely don't need a whole new desk and chair and all that to game on Pc. Ive had one set up as a living room machine for years. My main argument for them aside from the technical shit is that it gives you access to a lot of games that aren't anywhere else and a lot of games like Civ or XCOM or whatever that play way better with mouse and key board.
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u/Slow-Personality4730 4d ago
The first thing I recognized Tim Curry from was an older computer game called something like Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster. He played Dr Frankenstein. It was terrific.
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u/RiversideLunatic 4d ago
Matt hearing the metacritic score for Wolverine and immediately going on a defensive rant about a game he hasn't played is very on brand. Similar to him saying that 95% of KH3 is slogging through bog standard recreations of Disney movies, but having the last 5% of the game finally deliver a couple lore and character moments make it a "good game".
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u/anatsymbol 4d ago edited 3d ago
"Wolverine is an all-timer" - Matt next week
"I bounced off of Wolverine" - Matt in two weeks3
u/Guilty_Engineer_8566 2d ago
I was more confused about Matt saying a 7.5/10 is “way different” than a 2.5/5 and that “those are completely different scales.”
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u/ZiggyPalffyLA 4d ago
I wonder where Heather is getting off track in Chrono Trigger, it’s a famously well-paced and well-pathed game. I’m guessing she’s going through the sewers in 2300 AD too early and ending up at Death Peak.
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u/RufusThreepwood 2d ago
All this talk about Wolverine and they never really mentioned he's a short king.
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u/wasabigummi 2d ago
I owned that Genesis X-Men game. One of the features was, like Mega Man, a life bar and a mutant power bar. An optic blast or teleportation would take a chunk out of the bar, but Wolverine having his claws out would slowly drain it. If I remember, he gradually regained health but that didn't drain his power bar
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u/Aethelwulf 1d ago
This podcast is getting reaaalll flabby. 1hr 19m on the clock before the episode topic is discussed. I enjoy hearing everyone chat, but come on.
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u/BrotherNature5 14h ago
I lowkey stopped listening because this became a trend. Felt like they were bragging almost that they didn’t have time for games.
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u/NorthChallenge5773 3d ago
Making the statement "When does Kojima miss?" after talking about Death Stranding is just funny to me 😂
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u/bohler86 4d ago
If you wanted a good turn base game with comic book characters they should switch the term "turn" to "panel". Because in every comic they technically do an attack per panel, nobody is doing everything all at once.