The Weekly Stuff Podcast #257 – News Galore! Telltale Games, Tokyo Game Show, PlayStation Classic, and Dragon Quest XI

It’s time for another episode of The Weekly Stuff Podcast with Jonathan Lack & Sean Chapman, a weekly audio show that explores the worlds of film, television, and video games. You can subscribe for free in iTunes by following this link. 

We really live up to the podcast’s name this week, covering a wide assortment of stuff, including a large grab bag of video game, TV, and movie news from the past week. From the sudden closure of Telltale Games to trailers and announcements from the Tokyo Game Show to the launch of Nintendo’s online service to Sony’s surprise unveiling of the PlayStation Classic, this week brought a lot of surprising news to parse through. Sean also recommends some Spider-Man comics from the 1980s, Jonathan reviews Paul Feig’s A Simple Favor, and we give some more spoiler-free impressions of Dragon Quest XI, now that Sean has also had some time with this truly amazing game. 

Enjoy!

Time Chart: 

Intro: 0:00:00 – 0:02:07

Stuff: 0:02:07 – 0:21:05

Dragon Quest XI Chat: 0:21:05 – 0:56:41

Telltale Games Closes: 0:56:41 – 1:17:07

Tokyo Game Show News: 1:17:07 – 1:41:17

Movie News: 1:41:17 – 1:55:50

Video Game News: 1:55:50 – 2:33:07

Listener Mail: 2:33:07 – 3:03:01 

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The Weekly Stuff Podcast #256 – Spider-Man PS4 Review & Nintendo Direct

It’s time for another episode of The Weekly Stuff Podcast with Jonathan Lack & Sean Chapman, a weekly audio show that explores the worlds of film, television, and video games. You can subscribe for free in iTunes by following this link. 

This week, we dive deep with one of the best video games of the year: Insomniac’s Spider-Manfor PS4. We break down the story, the gameplay, the open world, the characters, and much more, building on our spoiler-free discussion from last week to explore what makes this a new standard-bearer for the superhero genre in video games. This discussion has spoilers aplenty, but we give fair warning before those begin. We also go through all the news from this week’s Nintendo Direct, including a brilliant Animal Crossing troll, talk a little more Dragon Quest XI, and more! 

Enjoy!

Time Chart: 

Intro & Stuff: 0:00:00 – 0:11:20 

Nintendo Direct Breakdown: 0:11:20 – 1:08:52 

Spider-Man PS4 Review: 1:08:52 – 3:00:46

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The Weekly Stuff Podcast #255 – Revisiting Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3

It’s time for another episode of The Weekly Stuff Podcast with Jonathan Lack & Sean Chapman, a weekly audio show that explores the worlds of film, television, and video games. You can subscribe for free in iTunes by following this link. 

As a special bonus episode this week, we wrap up our recent retrospective journey through Sam Raimi’s original Spider-Man films with our in-depth discussion of the controversial Spider-Man 3. Though a record-breaking commercial hit, the film was widely considered a creative disappointment upon release, and its reputation has only soured more and more in the decade since. Is that reputation fully deserved? The answer is complicated, because while Spider-Man 3 almost certainly isn’t a ‘good’ movie, it’s hard to entirely dismiss it as a mere ‘bad’ one as well. Working through the film’s many problems but also its surprising pleasures makes for perhaps our most fun and engaging discussion of the series yet, and wraps up a rewarding trek back through these classic superhero films. 

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The Weekly Stuff Podcast #254 – Spider-Man PS4 & Dragon Quest XI First Impressions

It’s time for another episode of The Weekly Stuff Podcast with Jonathan Lack & Sean Chapman, a weekly audio show that explores the worlds of film, television, and video games. You can subscribe for free in iTunes by following this link. 

It was an amazing week for video games, as Marvel’s Spider-Man and Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age both launched on the PS4, and after spending an unhealthy amount of time playing as much of them as possible, we’ve got spoiler-free impressions of both. Jonathan gives his thoughts on the early hours of Dragon Quest, Sean sings some more praise for Yakuza Kiwami 2, and we both gush over the incredible achievement that is Insomniac’s Spider-Man game. It may be the best use of a licensed character in a major video game to date, a consistently surprising, endlessly engrossing experience that goes above and beyond being theSpider-Man game of our childhood dreams. We’ll have a full spoiler-filled review next week, but we keep things spoiler-free this time, so feel free to listen whether or not you’ve touched the game yet.

Enjoy, and come back Wednesday for a special mid-week bonus podcust with our retrospective review of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3! 

Time Chart: 

Intro: 0:00:00 – 0:08:36

News: 0:08:36 – 0:19:36

Yakuza Kiwami 2: 0:19:36 – 0:28:37  

Video Game Cover Art Is Weird Now: 0:28:37 – 0:36:14

Dragon Quest XI - Echoes of an Elusive Age: 0:36:14 – 1:02:44

Marvel’s Spider-Man: 1:02:44 – 2:02:51 

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The Weekly Stuff Podcast #253 – Revisiting Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2, Yakuza Kiwami 2 Impressions, and more!

It’s time for another episode of The Weekly Stuff Podcast with Jonathan Lack & Sean Chapman, a weekly audio show that explores the worlds of film, television, and video games. You can subscribe for free in iTunes by following this link. 

After years of incessantly mentioning this movie in top 10 lists and while reviewing other superhero films, it is finally time for a full, in-depth retrospective of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2, the greatest superhero movie of all time. As we did last week with our look back at the original Raimi film, we’re preparing for the launch of Insomniac’s PS4 Spider-Man by revisiting some of our favorite Spider-Man media ever, and Spider-Manmedia doesn’t get any better than Raimi’s 2004 sequel, one of the truly great works of commercial art this century and a standard-bearer for all other comic-book adaptations. We give it our customary in-depth treatment, but we also cover a few other topics this week – including Sean’s impressions of Yakuza Kiwami 2 for the PS4, a few pieces of news including Xbox’s new ‘All Access’ program, and our shared joy at discovering an old Spider-Man concept album from 1975 – in this jam-packed, webhead-heavy episode. 

Enjoy!

Time Chart: 

Intro: 0:00:00 – 0:04:00

Stuff, including Yakuza Kiwami 2 Impressions: 0:04:00 – 0:48:54

News: 0:48:54 – 0:59:43

RevisitingSpider-Man 2: 0:59:43 – 3:23:45 

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