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This is still insane! Insane! Keep it up. :)

Dan Ryckert is a treasure.

I'm making desperate attempts to finish MGSV before they spoil the story for me in one of the podcasts, but it's hopeless at this point. I'm at mission 30, and usually have about the time to finish three to four of them per week. I also can't bring myself to not play the side-ops, so yeah. It isn't happening.

Devil May Cry 3 -- because it's a great game, challenging (though definitely beatable) and also has enough interesting and outlandish cutscenes, which make it a fun game to watch.

Persona 3 -- which requires no explanation, I think.

Condemned I and II -- excellent games, which are fun to play and feature plenty of brutality to keep things interesting.

The Yakuza games -- they're all worth playing, honestly.

Telltale games -- The Walking Dead, the Game of Thrones game: they would be interesting to watch and allow for group-based decision-making, just like Persona 4 did at the time (which made it perfect for an Endurance Run) or, more recentl, Until Dawn.

The Witcher 1 or The Witcher 2 -- requires little explanation, I think.

I would like for them to make those into podcasts as well. The visual aspect adds very little in that particular case, and they talk about it in a way that's perfectly suited to the podcast format.

I'm in a similar boat. I still play "non-podcast" games every now and again (mostly the Witcher right now) but with the extremely limited free time that my daily life is currently allowing me, I too gravitate towards games that don't require me to be fully invested in them. Specifically, I play matches of FIFA, because they're a short burst of relaxation to me, while listening to a podcast or watching a video by Giant Bomb or similar. I also play lots of online chess blitz matches, which require focus to an extent, but also allow me to get multiple impulses at once. Maybe that's just because I'm about as average a player as they come in blitz though.

I think it's because I've grown so accustomed to having multiple impulses at once, that not having that effectively puts some kind of weird strain on my ability to focus and not get bored, if you will. I think it's similar to the way people look at their phones while they're watching TV. I don't watch much TV, but I do enjoy FIFA and chess. Those two games just don't hold my attention well enough if there's not another "layer" of impulses on the side, though. Thus, I listen to podcasts while playing FIFA. I would not do one without the other at this point. And because these games allow me to jump in and have a quick and gratifying experience in 20 to 30 minutes at a time, they get prioritized over, say, playing the Witcher, because spending half an hour and knocking out two things at once -- a bit of the Bombcast, and a game of FIFA -- is easier to find the time to spend three to four hours a time on an RPG.

Oh man, the new season is here? I would've never known if not for this thread. Thank you, topic creator man!

Off to acquire that right now.

I believe they said (near the very end of this week's Bombcast) that they're working their way up to being podcast-capable right now, and the first one should be available very soon. Or did I dream that? I'm suddenly experiencing a whole lot of doubt.

I think this is correct. If Kojima's team truly wanted to pull another Raiden-esque bait-and-switch on the players, the "voice actors amounting to a clue" thing would have to be pursued with the Japanese cast as well. I think it is just a matter of them wanting a high-profile actor, to further increase the cinematic allure of the game.

I totally get that people are upset over it though, and want it to be something more meaningful than that. Snake is an iconic character, and Hayter did a fantastic job giving him an iconic English voice as well. Personally, I'm thankful I get to play the Japanese version and simply hear good ol' Ôtsuka Akio pulling off that deep growl. If he had been switched out, I would have been pissed as well.

The Secret Theatre is absolutely fantastic. Drew would probably think it was really funny, based on his reactions to the weird stuff in the games so far. They'd have to dig out a PS2 Subsistence copy to play it, though I suppose that shouldn't be much of a problem.

So, basically, I agree. @danryckert, if you're reading this: this is a great idea!