FunFactor Podcast

It's FunFactor FUUUUUUUUUUESDAY! Come for the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, stay for games we missed out on and the 5 star review of Sly Cooper, then tag along for the afterparty with, uh, @scalzi.com?? It's Official PlayStation Magazine #62!

Glad they were impressed by the inclusion of the Mark Hamill interview. Aka, 20 of my favorite minutes in life. Actual audio here: youtu.be/p1gSrIZqw_A?...

Fun to see this great podcast about old gaming magazines finally cover an issue I worked on, pretty much smack dab in the middle of my OPM tenure. I can't listen to it all right now, but I'll offer some commentary along the way as I get through it. 🧵

VOD is live! This one's a banger, even if I do spend most of the stream complaining about structural story and character issues, haha.

Going live with Final Fantasy Resonance right now! Come join the fun!

Slight change of schedule! @aidanmoher.com is going to go live at 11:30am PST (about 45 minutes from now). So, half an hour earlier than usual! Come join him!

"Stop talking about how we abused and mismanaged BioWare and get excited for this other thing we're going to abuse and mismanage instead."

If you're a BioWare fan, a developer influenced by its games, or a media person who was impacted by them and want to talk about what the studio's games have meant to you for a Kotaku story, please reach out in a dm here or at kshepard@kotaku.com

Bioware made some of the most beloved stories and worlds in games and had such an impact on RPG that they essentially reshaped public perception of it and what it could be It also, not always successfully but always out of good intentions, was one of the biggest source of AAA queer stories in games

Checked out Final Fantasy Resonance - on nearly every platform. Turns out, it also released on Switch 1 and I didn't even realize and didn't have access to that version! Oh well, the others are mostly excellent!

Yay, our host patched! You may all continue FunFactoring as normal: funfactorpod.com

this is a great one!

I wanted to use the code "FUPA" (FUnfactor Podcast with Aidan), but @tyschalter.com wouldn't let me for some reason.

In 1984, Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris. Then he spent the next forty years making other things and none of them found the same success. They're overlooked, forgotten, and ignored, which is why I wanted to explore what Pajitnov did beyond Tetris. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_L...

VOD is up! And, folks, this game's got the juice. Timeloop metroidvania with killer writing. Don't sleep on it!

Aidan's going live now with Echo Weaver! twitch.tv/funfactorpod

Hey, crew! It's Thursday, so @aidanmoher.com's going live at 12pm PST on the FunFactor Twitch account to stream Echo Weaver—a new Outer Wilds-esque metroidvania from @akuparagames.bsky.social and @moonlightkids.bsky.social. Give us a follow ahead of time and join the fun! twitch.tv/funfactorpod

*stares in @funfactorpod.com*

Hey, crew! It's Thursday, so @aidanmoher.com's going live at 12pm PST on the FunFactor Twitch account to stream Echo Weaver—a new Outer Wilds-esque metroidvania from @akuparagames.bsky.social and @moonlightkids.bsky.social. Give us a follow ahead of time and join the fun! twitch.tv/funfactorpod

the extent of my knowledge of deadlock, which is reportedly the latest biggest game by one of the biggest game companies in the world, is: 1. art of the characters fucking each other 2. screenshots of them saying dumb things this is how I want to interact with all games going forward

Didn't think I'd actually get CV3 USA Alucard route deathless but it made the name of the run really funny I had no hope

Hi! Aftermath is a video games website where the writers own the company. We're almost entirely funded by readers, so if you'd like to join the thousands of subscribers already supporting independent games media, you can learn more/sign up below! aftermath.site/aftermath-subs...

Hello and welcome to @hotcrtaction.pics! This curated collection of photographs by @aidanmoher.com hopes to preserve the timeless experience of playing retro games on era-appropriate CRT displays. The current rotation of CRTs includes a Commodore 1702 (the GOAT), a PVM-1354Q, and a JVC AV-27D201.

Awesome account! Also check out @funfactorpod.com

📺 Chrono Cross // PlayStation // PVM-1354Q via RGB

VOD is live! Many thanks to @boardgamefeast.bsky.social for helping me through the early game friction and not making me feel bad when I died to a rat.

Going live now! Come watch me struggle with Morrowind's interface and suffer through all the Elder Scrolls faces. This is also the first stream I'll be doing with a game on my PC captured through my capture card, so a fun experiment!

Hey, hey! It's Thursday, so @aidanmoher.com will be live on our Twitch and YouTube channels at 12PM PST (about 45 mins from now) streaming some Morrowind! Come hang out and help him understand what's going on. twitch.tv/funfactorpod

Good things come to those who wait! After overhauling his video production workflow, @aidanmoher.com's got a new-look video version of the show, and it's DOOZY of an episode. Come for the Morrowind, stay for the vegemite, and make sure you leave a like or subscribe on your way out!

The weirdest takeaway from this episode was the mid review for Morrowind. Ty and I talk a lot about the game, but also look back on how it was received at the time versus now.

Pretty proud of this one! I completely redid my production workflow, trying to cut as much of Riverside's AI tools as possible and just using raw footage in Premiere, and I'm pretty happy with the result. Show looks better, and, in the long run, should be quicker to produce. Please check it out!

Good things come to those who wait! After overhauling his video production workflow, @aidanmoher.com's got a new-look video version of the show, and it's DOOZY of an episode. Come for the Morrowind, stay for the vegemite, and make sure you leave a like or subscribe on your way out!

It's FunFactor Fuuuuuuesday! The fun guys @tyschalter.com and @aidanmoher.com head down under to check out issue 110 of Hyper—one of the longest running game mags in the world (1993-2019!), consider the crossover of PC and console gaming, then set off for the strange world of Austra— er, Morrowind.

I've been mulling over this for a while, but if you're a game journo who has worked under Valnet and want to confidentially share your views on how the company is managing its publications and treating workers, I am all ears. Signal: kerrblimey.43 Email: chris.kerr@verticalslice.news DMs open

As someone who spends a lot of timing editing and producing the video version of @funfactorpod.com, I like to think the visual aspect of going through a visual medium like legacy media/magazines has a justifiable positive impact in our case, haha.

It's back on AND it has its sound back.

📺 The Legend of Dragoon // PlayStation // PVM-1354Q via RGB (MiSTer)

Check this out! This is possibly one of the most beautiful games on the GBA, with super original and cool designs.

📺 King’s Field II // PlayStation // PVM-1354Q via RGB (MiSTer)

VOD is live! Belmont's Curse is terrific, but the Switch version looks very rough compared to what I played a few months ago. Come watch me finish the demo and chat about what comes next!

Going live RIGHT NOW to play the Castlevania: Belmont's Curse demo and chat about my time previewing the game's first three hours in Paris a couple months ago! Come join the fun on Twitch: twitch.tv/funfactorpod

📺 Harvest Moon 64 // N64 // PVM-1354Q via RGB (MiSTer)