FINAL FARCRY: Spurred on by his playthrough of Farcry Primal––a survival first-person shooter with "RPG Elements"––Andrew and D. Bethel examine what this phrase means and what it says about the ever-evolving definition of Role-Playing Games.

RELEVANT LINKS: 

• Asplund, Andrew, and D. Bethel. "Five Years [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes." A Website [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes. 29 May 2019.
• Holkins, Jerry, and Mike Krahulik. "A Fabulous Invention." Penny Arcade. Penny Arcade, Inc., 30 July 2007.
• Maher, Jimmy. "Defining the CRPG." The Digital Antiquarian. 14 Aug. 2011.
• Pepe, Felipe. "1982-1987 - The Birth of Japanese RPGs, re-told in 15 Games." Gamasutra. UBM Technology Group, 10 Oct. 2016.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• Episode 001 - We Don't Know $#!& : The first episode posted on 29 May 2014.

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POLYGONS IN AN AQUARIUM: After years of doubt, SquareEnix released a trailer for Final Fantasy VII Remake that included some actual gameplay footage, which got Andrew and D. Bethel thinking about why a remake for Final Fantasy VII is necessary and why––it seems––the best way to keep PS1/Sega Saturn games viable in a modern market is to do full remakes rather than just porting them to modern machines.

Speaking of which, here's the trailer for Final Fantasy VII Remake.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• AustinSV's overview of the many ports of Final Fantasy VII.

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WEEK IN GEEK: With all that's been going on in the nerd world, our hosts take some time out for themselves this week. For Andrew, he attended the theatrical premiere of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine documentary, What We Left Behind. D. Bethel stayed home to explore the digital recreation of classical Egypt while playing Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Origins.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• Episode 84 - Your Cursor Is My Prisoner (19 February 2016): Andrew plays the final entry in the Assassin's Creed Chronicles trilogy. (Previous episodes of Assassin's Creed Chronicles are Episode 82 and Episode 80).
• Episode 122 - It's a Fake: Where Andrew has D. Bethel watch the classic DS9 episode, "In the Pale Moonlight."
• Shortcast 52 - Double Rhymes (27 April 2018): When Andrew played Assassin's Creed Rogue.
• Wise Captain-Father (19 April 2019): When D. and Andrew talk about the Notre Dame cathedral fire and how Ubisoft's research into the monument for Assassin's Creed: Unity may help ease its rebuilding efforts.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• Head to this episode's page on ForAllIntents.net to see a video of the nightmare chocobo-camel D. Bethel talked about in this episode.

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ENDGAME POSTGAME: SPOILER WARNING FOR AVENGERS: ENDGAME Andrew and D. Bethel have now both seen Avengers: Endgame and, conveniently, the Russo brothers lifted the spoiler ban on Monday; so, our hosts dive right into the soup of scenes, moments, narrative threads, and surprises that make up this landmark movie event.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• Whitbrook, James. "It's Audacious That Avengers: Endgame Even Exists." io9. Gizmodo Media Group, 02 May 2019.
• Various tweets Andrew referenced.
• Ladies and gentlemen, the Thanos-Copter.

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THE NAME OF THE GAME: The first trailer for the upcoming live-action cinematic adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog has––as can be expected––drawn a lot of conversation and criticism...including on your favorite nerdy-geeky podcast. Andrew and D. Bethel have a lot to say about the trailer and, in a larger scope, movie adaptations of video games and what works and what doesn't. But first, the trailer.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• Ben Schwartz's––Sonic's voice actor––bizarre interview with Larry King.
• Rosenberg, Adam. "The Internet is Obsessed with Sonic the Hedgehog's Muscular, Sculpted Sex Legs." Mashable. 10 Dec. 2018.
• Gravity Falls' creator, Alex Hirsch, and his Twitter thread response to the Sonic trailer.
• D. Bethel's Free Comic Book Day video.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• Episode 19 - In It to Win It (03 Oct. 2014): Where Andrew relays his pitch for the Tetris movie.
• Episode 72 - Murphy, the Pilot of Piqued (13 Nov. 2015): Where Andrew and D. Bethel first discussed the nature of adaptations of video games into movies.

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