Your new Insert Credit panel, now including Ash Parrish of The Verge, discusses Dragon Age fanfiction, the best video game music of the last ten years, and a Spice Girls nude code. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Ash Parrish. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

The beginning of this episode features some words from Brandon Sheffield on personal loss, the election, and what we can do going forward. The usual intro begins at (09:01). Thank you.

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The Insert Credit Forums

1: Have video games completely realized the concept of importing your data from one game to the next? (20:59)

Assassin’s Creed series

Legend of Zelda series

Yakuza series

Golden Sun series

Mass Effect series

Pokémon series

Dragon Age series

2: What do people really mean when they talk about learning curves? (27:46)

Super Mario series

Metroid series

Crusader Kings III

Sid Meier’s Civilization series

Warhammer universe

3: What’s up with video games having “Dragon” in the title and then not having very many dragons? (33:41)

Dragon Age series

Dragon Quest universe

Yakuza series

Drakengard series

Halo series

Monster Hunter series

Dragon Slayer

Panzer Dragoon series

Dragon’s Dogma series

Spice Girls

Spice World

The Spice Girls nude in the game Spice World

Lara Croft

Double Dragon series

4: Which video game character is tattooed on the most human bodies? (38:47)

Mario

Sonic the Hedgehog

Pikachu

Ribbit King

1-Up Mushroom

Hylian Shield

Triforce

Space Invaders

Pac-Man

Squirtle

Bulbasaur

Snorlax

Magikarp

Mew

Gengar

Slime

Shanghai Dragons

Overwatch

Genji

Hanzo

The Insert Credit Quick Break: Puppy Cam! (44:34)

5: Esther Weinbach asks, what is the most important thing you’ve ever learned from a video game? (45:38)

BioShock

Bravoman

Dragon Age series

Cullen Rutherford

NieR

6: Can you think of a single piece of memorable video game music from the past ten years? (54:37)

Undertale

Sonic Mania

Yakuza series

Baka Mitai

Gunsport series

Crossniq

Border Down

Shoji Meguro

Persona series

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Masayoshi Soken

Final Fantasy XIV Online

NieR: Automata

Weight of the World

Street Fighter IV

Indestructible

LIGHTNING ROUND: Celebrity Gamers (01:00:09)

Recommendations and Outro (01:09:00):

Brandon: Give your coupons to people who seem like they need them, Monoxide Brothers, Megumi Hayashibara’s The Characters Taught Me Everything

Ash: Get a puppy, the What is White French Dressing? episode of Aw, Would You Look At The Time

Jaffe: 52 Pickup, the first three seasons of Slayers

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