Video Gamers Podcast
The Truth About Gaming: John & Ace Answer YOUR Questions! - Gaming Podcast
Wed, 19 Mar 2025
Gaming chat is unlike just about anything else, and we’re making it even more fun by answering YOUR questions. In this episode of The Video Gamers Podcast, John and Ace take on listener questions, revealing surprising insights and hilarious stories along the way. Whether you're deep into gaming or just love hearing about video games, this episode has something for everyone! It’s another can’t miss indie gaming episode from your favorite video game podcast Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Ol’ Jake, Disratory and Gaius Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/ Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who are the hosts of the Video Gamers Podcast?
Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. I am your host, John, and joining me is the only person whose favorite game you've definitely never heard of, is my co-host...
Ace. Hey, man, everyone's going to know about Ender Magnolia, Bloom in the Mist, by the time I'm done on this show.
Bro, I got to tell you, man, listening to the indie episodes is like such a treat for me, man. I've picked up... Actually, it's kind of a double-edged sword, dude. I've picked up more games than I know what to do with at this point, but I love it, bro. I love it, man. Like, where you find these games is like just... It's like magic to me. Hey, it's a good problem to have as a big backlog, man.
Yeah, absolutely. Dear listeners, you've had so much time to get to know our hosts, Josh and Ryan. Their interests, their pet peeves, and what gets them excited about gaming. Ace and I, well... We're the new kids on the block.
Chapter 2: What is the listener AMA about?
And while we are so incredibly flattered with the reception that we've received from the awesome community so far, we wanted to give you the chance to get to know us a little better. So we opened up an AMA Ask Me Anything on our Discord, which, by the way, BTW, if you aren't in it, please do yourself a favor and join. It's the very best community in gaming.
We got a lot of really fun questions, which are hoping might give you some idea as to how Ace and I operate. It certainly gave us a little insight into you, the listeners. But we wanted to go ahead and read some of these. And right out of the gate here, we got a hot one. Gamble asks, keep trade cut.
pizza tacos and hamburgers john your answers here are going to affect how i see you for the rest of my life i hope you know well what do you what do you got i say let me go first because uh i'm just gonna come out the gate and say i'm keeping pizza i'm not getting rid of pizza anytime soon i guess i'll trade hamburgers because i guess can i trade them for cheeseburgers i mean
Ooh, that's a good qualifier, yeah.
Yeah, and then I'm cutting tacos. I'm just not a big taco guy. That's so interesting, man. Like, I don't know why. I've just never been, like, super into them. Like, pizzas are super customizable. You can put whatever the heck you want on it. Heck, I put blueberries and bananas on my pizza once because I could, and it tasted perfectly fine. That is sacrilege.
I don't even want to understand what you just said to me. That's terrible, bro.
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Chapter 3: What are the hot food takes on pizza, tacos, and hamburgers?
Are you afraid of a little fruit on pizza?
Oh my God. I am definitely one of those staunch no pineapple on pizza guys. As a matter of fact, my wife and I were just in Italy visiting some family out in the kind of Verona area. And we asked them about pineapple on pizza out there. And they said, this is a quote from my cousin Lucia, by the way. This is why people don't like Americans. So I see. I'm not welcome in Italy, I guess.
That's the official answer. Although we did have AZ Food Guy on the show recently for a bonus episode. And he is a food aficionado. And he gave us the definitive answer of yes, pineapple can belong on a pizza. There you go.
Take it from the pro.
So, yeah. So I'll allow it. I think... If at any other point in my life you would have asked me to rank those...
man up until probably about two years ago pizza would have been at the top but i have to say the same versatility that you find in pizza i find in tacos my man oh really you can do so much with tacos and you can they have the benefit of you being able to make them healthy as healthy as you want or as unhealthy as you want whereas pizza pizza you're kind of you know you're kind of just like
Forget about tonight. Do better tomorrow. I don't know.
There's cauliflower crust. That's always an option. If you want healthy pizza.
Yeah. Yeah, I guess that's true. Have you ever had cauliflower crust, though?
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Chapter 4: What was the first game to pull an all-nighter?
That's awesome.
Man, it used to be so easy to stay up like that. But like now, I need something a little stronger.
You and I have the opposite problem, Ace. Unfortunately, I'm like plagued with insomnia. I sleep two to three hours a night like crazy.
for for months and months at a time man you poor soul and go yeah what are you gonna do my game and this is going to be super obscure i am i'm wondering if anybody in this listener community has even heard of this game but it was a game on genesis called herzog zwei have you ever heard of that no you have lost me sir i have no idea what you're talking about
I figured I might. I figured I might lose you.
So you've played like real-time strategy games like the original Warcraft or Command & Conquer, that type of thing. Yes, I'm pretty sure that Herzog Zwei was the very first real-time strategy game. Oh, wow. Okay. It was awesome. It still holds up, by the way, man. I mean, there's a lot of those retro games, especially from the 16-bit era that...
man they're they're just hard to play now as much nostalgia as i have from they're just really really hard to play and uh this one still holds up man i mean the graphics are blocky or whatever but the gameplay is fantastic all right um and uh consequently this is going to be one of our hidden gems that we talk about in a upcoming episode all right nice did it ever get like a remaster anything
No, I'm just kidding. I know with a catchy title like Herzog's Why. Really rolls off the tongue, huh? Really rolls off the tongue, yeah. It means second general, by the way, in German. I don't know. Somebody's great idea. It was a brilliant game at the time. Still holds up. Nobody's ever played it.
Well, OK, so on that same note, Josh asks, what's the first game that you can remember playing and enjoying?
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Chapter 5: What game genres would you combine for the ideal game?
Did adding the voice acting really enhance the game for you?
It did, actually. It was really nice to see not only the voices I initially imagined in my head, but what they actually sound like was very similar. It was just kind of funny.
Interesting. Yeah, that's actually been a barrier of entry for me for the Kingdom Hearts games. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm a huge Disney fan, huge Square Enix and Squaresoft fan before that. The aesthetic, the visuals, the concept of the game. I love them, but man, I just can't read all that text, dude. I need voice acting in my games.
Oh, man, I love Kingdom Hearts. I have a Kingdom Hearts tattoo. I love Kingdom Hearts to death.
What do you have, a Keyblade?
No, actually, I have a Claymore from one of the members of Organization XIII, and my spouse has the Chakrams from the other members.
Very cool.
It was our anniversary tattoo. It was really cool. Nice thing we did. We both love Kingdom Hearts, man.
So what's the good, what would be the best entry point if I were to start?
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Chapter 6: What embarrassing games do the hosts enjoy?
You actually turned me on. My wife and I were between Mario Party games and I asked you for a recommendation just for like, you know, kind of a fun little easy to pick up party game. And I think you you gave me a recommendation for Kiwi. Yeah. Yeah, Kiwi. It's a great little game, man. Yeah, you get to run a little post office as Kiwis. It's great. Yeah, it's awesome. It's hard.
Yeah, it gets hard for sure. It's hard, but I loved it. Yeah, it got hard, but it was a fun little game for Sarah and I to play. If I had to choose my animal, man, that's an interesting one. I'd probably have to say something cool like an orca or something like that.
Okay, I got you.
They're real social and they're also apex predators. Like, Kiwi's cool, man, but I'm getting stepped on as a Kiwi.
Well, Kiwis don't have any natural predators. Where they live, they're completely safe where they live. The only thing that bothers them are people.
That can't be true. There's no predators.
I don't think anything hunts the Kiwis.
Are there, like, no land carnivores in New Zealand? I would have to look it up. I'm not sure. That is really interesting. Yeah, I mean, in Hawaii, for instance, the largest carnivore is a house cat.
Oh, yeah, yeah. I remember hearing that from my brother, actually, because he was stationed there for a while.
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Chapter 7: What character would you put in a different game?
Yeah. Awesome. AceLogan0188 asks, what is your favorite game that you never finished?
You might have heard of this one. I'm not sure. Are you familiar with the Oddworld franchise?
Yes.
Yes, I love them. So my favorite game from that franchise is Stranger's Wrath. Which is the one where you are a bounty hunter.
Old West, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
He talks like, gotta get to town and bag that pack rat palooka. That's like, I love that game to death. And I've never finished it because it's actually a really hard game to play on modern consoles. Why is that? The camera. The camera fights you the whole time.
Because I played it on Steam a while back, and first I couldn't get the controller to connect, and playing it on mouse and keyboard was a no. It was not going to happen. Then when I finally got the controller fixed, because I went to Reddit and found a little solution or whatever, the camera fought me until I got like a two-thirds of the game, and I was like, I can't do it anymore.
I'm getting one shot.
But I absolutely love everything about that game. I love the world. I love the fact you have to gather your ammo yourself, and that you can upgrade it to be more effective or less lethal. That way you can get the stun on the enemy and bag them alive and get way more money for it.
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Chapter 8: What creative ability would you choose to have?
Fair. Dude, I couldn't even tell you the difference, man. I try to kill with all of them and I die with all of them. So it's the exact opposite result that I'm going for. Let's see. I don't have the author of this one. I must have deleted that on accident, but asked John Tacicon, when will you build a gaming PC? And, you know, I'm really struggling with this one.
You're primarily a PC player, right?
Yes, I am primarily on PC nowadays. I do have other consoles, so I'm flexible, but I mostly do everything on my PC nowadays. It's easier to capture recording footage and things like that. So it's just like better for me.
yeah and it's interesting because like logically i can recognize that anything a console does a computer can do better and can plus some add-ons to do better yeah but um yeah i i don't know what there's just something about the keyboard and mouse to play a game that's not attractive to me.
And I know that you can play most computer games on a controller, but I'm like, I got consoles for the, I think it's just the old school gamer in me, man. There's, there's something about having like the dedicated console that is attractive to me. I get that.
So I get not wanting to give up the old brick and mortar basically.
Well, and there's just kind of like a whole vibe with it. You know, I think there's like, do you collect records or do you know anyone who collects records? yeah i have an aunt who does like vinyl yeah i mean like it's like a clearly dead technology but there's just something endearing about it you know if you grew up with it there's like
i don't know uh it you'll have to evolve someday john we'll be here waiting with open arms the pc master race yeah maybe maybe when we push the button and silk song yeah maybe that's what'll happen we push the button you build a pc like like just like a lego game just yeah you're tickling something for me the lego thing that could be it if they make lego pcs i could maybe get behind that
uh let's see and then also ask what video game world would you love to visit this is for both of us oh this was easy for me uh i'd love to visit the world of super mario sunshine isle isle delfino or whatever heck yeah it's a freaking island shaped like a dolphin of course i want to go there
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