Trusting these boys to stick to a deadline is a fool’s errand
They are absolutely wonderful boys, lights of my life, but
Let’s just say I have a lot of experience with this subject
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When’s the next episode Cuba.
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I listen to a lot of Duckfeed for, I think, the same reason some folks listen to SNEXploration: Nice background noise, never have to worry about the boys having The Bad Politics
Also I started because of this thread
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that’s true. they also have very soothing voices.
The Duckfeed boys are favorites of mine for the same reasons @VastleCania lists. On a normal night, I like to listen to Abject Suffering before bed (barely even a games podcast at this point, love to just hear their constant digressions about their lives), and on a night where I’m stressed or having trouble sleeping, I’ll listen to Watch Out for Fireballs to zone out to some boring but intermittently mildly engaging game discussion.
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they’re nice dudes. the only other games podcasts i like besides sb’s, and the only “podcast network” i follow/patronize. i like how homegrown it is and everyone involved seems sweet and non-shitty.
i like their crit and think they’re pretty decent even tho they have more vanilla/less esoteric tastes than me or most folks here. woff is best when they do an obscure game or break from received wisdom on a popular one.
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are there any like, animal podcasts around? podcasts about animals? there have to be right?
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definitely agree on this part. i liked their take on Ocarina of Time even when i don’t fully agree with it. and i like it when they devote a whole full episode to something like Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon or whatever.
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I model my release schedule on that of my favorite podcast, The Relentless Picnic
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wow I have not thought about that book series since i was a kid and there was a game of it. huh.
apparently the game is quite good too! i guess this was the era of the works of popular authors being integrated into adventure games ala Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic.
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I just never pictured Spider Robinson being all that popular, but I guess the mid/late 90s were about the right time for “decently popular scifi author” to intersect with “adventure game budget” in a way that would make someone think they could make money on it.
yeah i suspect it’s because the Venn diagram between “popular sci-fi/fantasy novel fans” and “adventure game fans” was just a circle
see also the Discworld games and that rad I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream adaptation (which hey, the duckfeed boys also covered that)
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…and Xanth got a game too! 
Oh god it did didn’t it
Looks like it was Legend, the same dev as the Callahan’s game. and they also did a Shannara adaptation and a Wheel of Time FPS lol
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I’ve played Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon! It has a deeply human core to it that’s hidden under a veneer of cheesy genre tropes. Some of the puzzles are a mix of puns and crossword clues. I’m not a big fan of puns but I love these. Legend Entertainment, born from the ashes of Infocom, seems like it was full of good people.
I don’t know anything about Wheel of Time but that 1999 Unreal Engine game is real solid. It’s almost like the horror-action parts of Thief: The Dark Project fused with Hexen
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that sounds kinda dope yeah
i also don’t know anything about Wheel of Time other than it’s a notorious doorstopper series and was the poster child for “don’t get too invested, he’ll never finish it” before A Song of Ice and Fire came along
man can you imagine a 90s ASoIaF PC game
i kind of wanted to play this game mostly because it looked like a weird bit of 99/2000 FPS ephemera, along with Kiss: Psycho Circus The Nightmare Child and shit lol. also i remember seeing a speedrun of it at some recent GDQ.
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Go for it!
The demo has 2 levels: run through a crumbling, empty fort while chased by a shadowed mass with big sharp teeth, and figure out how to infiltrate the Unreal flyby castle. It’s from that late-90s period where FPS levels started getting massive because they could
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