Active Quest Episode 122: E3 2021 Predictions And Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Takes It To The Next Level

Chris and Joseph go over their totally accurate E3 predictions, answer a question about God of War being overrated, and discuss Insomniac’s open world approach with Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.

• Joseph Yaden – twitter.com/josephyaden
• Josh Nichols – twitter.com/itsjerkjersh
• Chris Penwell – twitter.com/PenwellWrites

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Music

Theme Song made by Novila. soundcloud.com/novila-edm

Chris’ Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart review

Quick News

Bend Studio is working on a new IP that ‘builds on Days Gone’s open-world systems’

Tom Ivan

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/bend-studio-is-working-on-a-new-ip-that-builds-on-days-gones-open-world-systems/

Upcoming Releases/Announcements

News

God of War 2 delayed to 2022

 Jordan Gerblick 

https://www.gamesradar.com/god-of-war-2-delay-2022/

New Battlefield reveal coming June 9

Michael McWhertor

https://www.polygon.com/22463141/battlefield-6-announcement-date-stream

E3 2021 Schedule Details Revealed As Fan Registration Opens

https://e3expo.com/news/e3-news/e3-2021-schedule-and-fan-registration

All summer gaming live stream events – How to watch Summer Game Fest, E3 2021, Ubisoft Forward, and more

Rumor: Square Enix Set to Announce a New Action-RPG Final Fantasy Spinoff

Imran Khan

Rumor: Square Enix Set to Announce a New Action-RPG Final Fantasy Spinoff

E3 Predictions

Joseph 

Chris

Listener Questions

#1 Turner and Hooch Fan

@TurnerandDouche

Hey buckorooni’s, I need some help. Can you send me some cheat codes for The Mummy on PS1? Brendan Frasier is lookin pretty rough and I want to give him a funny hat.

Sterling Silver

@SilverSt3rling

Do you think this is the Switch’s most important E3 since we’re in the consoles second half of its like and its gotten releases for all their major franchises? We get to see where their priorities are with smaller series and if we’re getting sequels to certain games.

Andrew McMahon

@McMahon_BearPig

Convince me god of war isn’t overrated. Like, it’s good, but still sits at a 4/5 for me due to repetition

PlayStacin

@PlayStacin

Why do people gotta complain about cross-gen titles? Its annoying af

What We’ve Been Playing

Joseph:

• Resident Evil Village (review code provided)

Chris:

• Virtua Fighter V Showdown
• Fortnite
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (review code provided)

Active Quest Episode 100!!! Our Favorite Games of All Time

Chris, Joseph, and Josh celebrate Active Quest’s 100th episode by discussing their favorite games of all time.

• Joseph Yaden – twitter.com/josephyaden
• Josh Nichols – twitter.com/Mrjoshnichols
• Chris Penwell – twitter.com/PenwellWrites

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Music

Theme Song made by Novila. https://soundcloud.com/novila-edm

Moonlight Beach by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/6671-moonlight-beach

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Featured Image:

Kingdom Hearts (Disney & Square Enix)
What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo)

Our Favorite Games of All Time

Listener Questions

Voice message from Abram Buehner

Voice message from the Biggest of Average Josh Bois!

Andrew McMahon

My favorite moment is @JosephYaden ‘s collective disgust anytime he reads or is about to read anything from @TurnerandDouche. 

Mass Effect will always have a special place in my heart, regardless of what has happened/will happen to it in the future.

#1 Turner and Hooch Fan

My favorite part of the show is whenever you answer a question from this handsome guy.

My favorite moment was when you guys discussed the game idea I had called Bongerman with a bong peripheral controller

Samuel Guglielmo

Making y’all debate over who Best Sam was.

What We’ve Been Playing

Joseph

• Immortals: Fenyx Rising
• Gears Tactics

Chris

• Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Josh

• Hades 

Active Quest Episode 67: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Looks Like The Dog’s Bollocks, Deliver Us The Moon Impressions, Summer Game Fest Hype

Finally! News! Joseph, Josh, and Chris discuss Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, get hyped for Summer Game Fest, and wonder what is on the docket for the Xbox Series X event. We also have a new theme song by Novila!

 

Hosts:

Joseph Yaden – twitter.com/josephyaden

Josh Nichols – twitter.com/Mrjoshnichols

Chris Penwell – twitter.com/PenwellWrites

Info

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Music

Theme Song made by Novila. He did an awesome job, so here’s a shoutout! https://soundcloud.com/novila-edm

Quick Notes

Battlefield is Coming Back In 2021

Matthew Byrd

Battlefield Sequel Will Release in 2021

EVO 2020 Cancelled

Brianna Reeves

Evo 2020 Cancelled, Organizers Plan on Hosting Online Event Instead

Quick Upcoming Releases

PS Plus Games

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2020/04/29/cities-skylines-and-farming-simulator-19-are-your-playstation-plus-games-for-may/

Games With Gold

New Games with Gold for May 2020

Ghost of Tsushima Release Date

Matthew Byrd

Ghost of Tsushima Release Date Delayed Until July

News

Geoff Keighley’s Summer Event Game Fest Announced

Rebekah Valentine

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-05-01-geoff-keighleys-summer-game-fest-is-his-latest-push-to-rally-the-industry

Last of Us Part II Leaker Identified

Jordan Devore

https://www.destructoid.com/sony-figured-out-who-leaked-the-last-of-us-part-ii-spoilers-588863.phtml

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Revealed (featured image from Ubisoft)

Eddie Makuch

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-will-have-male-and-female/1100-6476675/

Xbox Series X 3rd Party Games Reveal Event

Adam Vjestica

https://www.techradar.com/news/xbox-series-x-games-to-finally-be-revealed-next-week

PlayStation 5 Reveal Event Rumored for June 4th

Chandler Wood

Report: PS5 Reveal Set for June 4th, According to Well Known Games Journalist

Listener Questions

What We’ve Been Playing

Joseph

Far Cry New Dawn
Dying Light
Chris

Far Cry New Dawn
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Deliver Us the Moon (review code provided)

Josh

Final Fantasy VII Remake
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Final Mix

Active Quest Episode 66: Our Top 3 Zelda Games and What We Want from the Series

Joseph, Josh, and Chris give their Top 3 Zelda Games and it gets controversial. Plus Final Fantasy VII Remake Thoughts and Red Dead Redemption 2 Joins Xbox Game Pass.

Joseph Yaden – twitter.com/josephyaden

Josh Nichols – twitter.com/Mrjoshnichols

Chris Penwell – twitter.com/PenwellWrites

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Music

LYFO – High -> https://soundcloud.com/lyfomusic/high

TeknoAXE – Edge of Tomorrow: http://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1242

Tracks and sound effects used for fair use purposes for criticism from these games. All published by Nintendo and music composed by Koji Kondo :

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Quick Notes

No WWE 2K21

Aaron Mamiit

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/wwe-2k21-canceled/

Uncharted Movie Pushed Up

Jordan Gerblick

https://www.gamesradar.com/uncharted-movie-gets-new-release-date-as-spider-man-3-and-into-the-spider-verse-2-are-delayed/

Stadia Connect

Wesley Yin-Poole

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-04-25-google-to-reveal-a-few-new-games-during-stadia-connect-on-youtube-next-week

Red Dead Redemption 2 Joins Game Pass

Steve Watts

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/red-dead-redemption-2-comes-to-xbox-game-pass-soon/1100-6476411/

PAX West is Still Not Cancelled

Megan Farokhmanesh

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/21/21230014/pax-west-event-dates-convention-safety-public-health

Top 3 Zelda Games

What do we want from future Zelda games?

Listener Questions

Greysun Morales

As a big Zelda fan, I have a secret to share: Majora’s Mask is the ONLY 3D Zelda game I’ve never finished.

What’s that one game that you guys have played before but always felt bad about not finishing?

Jorsh

With this pandemic, do you think the new Zelda game will end up getting delayed? When do you think we will actually see Breath of the Wild 2?

Alex

What is your emotional connection to the franchises/Why does TLOZ resonate with you?

B.S. Byrley

Which side character (besides Zelda) in the entire franchise would you like to see get their own spin-off game?

Personal favorites: Twilight Princess, Ocarina of Time, and A Link to the Past.

What We’ve Been Playing

Joseph

• Final Fantasy VII Remake
• Animal Crossing

Chris

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Call of Duty: Warzone
• Final Fantasy VII Remake

Josh

• Final Fantasy VII Remake
• Fortnite
• Call of Duty: Warzone
• Kingdom Hearts

OCD Makes Gaming Harder by Default

Pause, start, pause, start, pause, start, pause, start, pause, start. It hits you like a slap on the back of your head. A sense of unease crawls around the brain, manifesting and stewing inside. You answer it. You reason. And then it fades. But it will slither back, maybe the next minute or maybe the next day, and it’s a curse that will never go away.

At worst, I feel like if I don’t answer, something bad will happen to me or the people around me. At best, it’s a mild inconvenience that is satisfying to my brain if I beg to its wishes. I know in my head that it’s silly, but there’s a fear inside me that I can’t shake at times of stress or at random. Having this curse makes consuming media much harder than the average person.

But what is it? OCD, short for obsessive compulsive disorder, has the person fixate on horrible thoughts or negative feelings that aren’t wanted in the mind. But people react to it in different ways. For me, I pause and restart the game a certain amount of times or re-speak a line of dialogue, or even a high pitched shout or grunt. It’s tough and can deeply affect my enjoyment of a video game. 

You must do this. You have to say it. It will make you comfortable.

Sometimes OCD decides the game I can play that day, what character I pick in a fighting game like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (and immediately locks off characters), and what move I can unlock. It’s tough and OCD gets in the way of my enjoyment of a game. I’ve been able to ignore these attacks much more in recent years and think rationally, but sometimes I succumb to the temptation of feeling safe without risk.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Nintendo

It all started when I was a child playing the original Spider-Man movie tie-in game on the PS2, and at a certain point I was frustrated with a mission. Like a spidey-sense, my first case of OCD occurred when I thought I had to defuse a bomb, or something horrible will happen to me. It was terrifying as a kid that if I failed this mission, the people around me could be hurt, so panicking, I turned off the console and never played that Spider-Man game since. That might be why I’m not so much into that trilogy of films anymore.

Something horrible will happen if you don’t prevail.

And it kept coming and coming. Depression began to sprout within and grow inside as I was teased in secondary school and became fearful of death and Judgment Day. Thankfully, both of these faded away as I moved to Canada, but the bullying from the past has left a permanent mark on my image and self-confidence. I’ve been doubting myself since then and even until today.

But I found solace within gaming, essentially story-focused titles. Confident and upbeat heroes, like Sora from Kingdom Hearts, Jade from Beyond Good & Evil, and Yuna from Final Fantasy X, kept me inspired to fight back. They fought through their adversities, and the overwhelming pressure against them. They prevailed and just like any great film or book, these characters connected with me as a kid and as an adult.

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX, Square Enix and Disney

A thought-provoking or character-driven story can keep me hooked and forget about the thoughts, the false threats, and the self-doubt. Unlike movies or books, I find strength in the characters I play, and the power they possess because I’m controlling them.

I have grown stronger. I was able to get over my listening impediment and performed plays, impress the school staff with my foreign language and drama skills, and then a decade or so later get my Communications degree.

While not as often than before, my OCD and depression has set me back from my aspirations and dreams, but I’m fighting now, and if you are too, you’re not alone. We’re all in this together!

Featured Image: Kingdom Hearts 3, Square Enix and Disney