Ep. 310 - Specdracular 2023

Frightening Frank Cifaldi, Terrifying Tim Rogers, and Bone-chilling Brandon Sheffield rank every Resident Evil game after facing a gauntlet of qreepy questions by Affable Alex Jaffe. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

1. How many different subgenres exist under the umbrella of “horror game?” (04:31)
2. What are the scariest things in non-horror games? (14:58)
3. What is the best kind of zombie? (20:19) Insert Credit Quick Break: See You, Space Cowboy… Cybernetics Catalogue Kickstarter (32:03)
4. Adapt Bobby Boris Pickett’s “Monster Mash” into a video game. (26:11)
5. ThatsSoRevan asks: What are the best ways to do combat in a horror game? (33:33)
6. What is the “My costume is I came as myself” of video games? (40:01)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Ranking the Resident Evil series (45:52)

Recommendations and Outro (57:52)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• ThorHighHeels
• K. Thor Jensen
• Candy corn
• Hanafuda
• Sour Patch Kids
• Resident Evil series
• Lost in Blue
• Don’t Starve
• Dorf Goes Fishing
• Dredge
• Doom
• Corpse Party
• Desolate Roads
• The Path
• Sweet Home
• Choo-Choo Charles
• Yume Nikki
• Corpse Killer
• The House of the Dead
• Death Crimson OX
• Castlevania series
• TurboGrafx-16
• Splatterhouse
• Red Screen of Death
• Winners Don’t Use Drugs
• Phantasy Star
• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin Cartridge
• Wallmaster
• Legend of Zelda series
• Zombie
• The Smoker
• Left 4 Dead
• 28 Days Later (2002)
• White Zombie (1932)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• The Night Eats the World (2018)
• Wyrmwood (2014)
• Oppenheimer (2023)
• 28 Day Slater
• Mario Lopez
• Tony Hawk series
• Simple 2000 series
• Monster Mash
• Rampage
• Frankenstein
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Call of Duty series
• Dance Dance Revolution
• Moonwalker
• Alan Wake series
• Silent Hill 3
• The Last of Us series
• Sonic: Generations
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
• David Cage
• Sonic the Hedgehog 4
• Lemmy

Recommendations:

Brandon: Siege (1983), The Night Eats the World (2018), Wyrmwood (2014), Cargo (2017), The Horde (2009), Republic Z (2018), Blood Quantum (2019), 6/45 (2022), Dorohedoro, Octopus Girl

Tim: The short stories of Edogawa Ranpo

Jaffe: Rain Jerks

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