August 27, 2015

PlayStation Blogcast Episode 177: Armella-li-lu-le-lo

Board games? Card games? And adorable animals?! Yes, Armello has it all, and it’s launching on PS4 next week. We sit down with Director Trent Kusters to discuss this beautiful project. As an added bonus, the Blogcast team can hardly believe that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is out next week (alongside Mad Max). Too many games! Enjoy the show.

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Stuff We Talked About

Armello
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Mad Max
Retro Sale
Arctic Wolves
Super Time Force Ultra

Recent Episodes

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The Cast

Sid Shuman – PlayStation Social Media Manager
Nick Suttner – PlayStation Account Support Manager
Justin Massongill – PlayStation Social Media Specialist
Ryan Clements – PlayStation Social Media Specialist

[Editor’s note: PSN game release dates are subject to change without notice. Game details are gathered from press releases from their individual publishers and/or ESRB rating descriptions.]

Thanks to Cory Schmitz for our beautiful logo and Dormilón for our rad theme song and show music.

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17 Comments

cool_trainer
August 27, 2015 at 5:12 pm PDT

That title though. Pretty goooood.
- Justin Massongill
  August 28, 2015 at 11:54 am PDT
  
  I’m proud of that one. :3 Got Metal Gear on the brain!
Mercenary09
August 27, 2015 at 5:14 pm PDT

YES! Finally some Metal Gear talk. You guys really haven’t mentioned it at all this year so I’m excited to hear what you have to say about it. Great title too!
- jgrizzle358
  August 27, 2015 at 7:37 pm PDT
  
  Bro we are like the main MVPs that listen to this consistently, we need to get together on PSN like weekly or something and play Rocket league or something and discuss the latest episode. lol.
zerokingx
August 27, 2015 at 5:38 pm PDT

I have to comment just to say awesome title. Also wonder with zero being cipher will the patriots origin be revealed.
jgrizzle358
August 27, 2015 at 7:35 pm PDT

Until Dawn was such a fantastic game, I literally played it… UNTIL DAWN *snicker* but seriously, I couldn’t put it down. I have so many good things to say but it would take forever. I humbly request a spoilercast for it in the future.

A question for you fine gentlemen: Justin’s MGS3 posts have gotten me re-hooked on “Snake Eater” and it is now stuck in my head on repeat. My question is, what are your top 5 or even just top 3 LYRICAL songs from video games? Out of all your top lists I’ve never heard you do this one.

Mine would be…

5. Silent Melody from inFAMOUS
4. Honor For All from Dishonored
3. tie between Simple and Clean from Kingdom Hearts and Sanctuary from Kingdom Hearts II
2. Snake Eater from Metal Gear Solid 3
1. Tie between Build a Wall from Bastion and We All Become from Transistor.

Honorable mention to Calling from The World Ends With You.

Yes, I just used all of Sid’s countdown list cheats.
- The_Rogue_Ewok
  August 30, 2015 at 12:54 pm PDT
  
  I agree that a spoilercast for Until Dawn would be great. I played it this weekend and loved it.
bbswarrior_11
August 27, 2015 at 8:46 pm PDT

Haven´t listend to the epidose yet but full line-up with Syd´s return + MGS V talk + most excellent pun title by the ever so ingenious Ryan Clements is a good omen for the show.
Laliluleilo
August 28, 2015 at 5:21 am PDT

In a lot of games I’d play online, most people have trouble even saying it, and only some get the reference itself. My username on PSN is spelled, based on the Japanese MGS1 phonetic pronunciation, since that’s where I first heard it. I have to tell people who can’t sound it out to just call me “Lali” (Sounds like “Lolly”, as in “lollipop”.).^^;
- Justin Massongill
  August 28, 2015 at 11:03 am PDT
  
  That is actually a pretty awesome nickname origin story! I love that you shorten it to Lali. :)
TomHoang
August 28, 2015 at 9:30 am PDT

Some show feedback:

I don’t like it when you guys disrespect some of the more obscure games coming out when you name the week’s new releases. Like for example, before teasing MGS5 this week, you teased it by naming off the games you didn’t know about like Nobunaga’s Ambition, Fat City, and Squares. Surely developers of the games and people interested in playing them don’t appreciate you guys using them as jokes. And you also shouldn’t make fun of the pronunciation of some of these games, either, as the DanganRonpa series is highly regarded by the fans.
- Justin Massongill
  August 28, 2015 at 11:09 am PDT
  
  This is good feedback, and something we should keep in mind. Thank you for commenting.
Kchow23
August 28, 2015 at 11:56 am PDT

Very nice ;)
Claymorecuts
August 28, 2015 at 4:27 pm PDT

I am also playing through Peacewalker for the first time. It’s pretty good so far.
BossmanWil_187
August 29, 2015 at 4:18 am PDT

When are we gonna get our next ps4 system update?
BlueBl1zzard
August 29, 2015 at 1:53 pm PDT

Sid’s totally right on the chicken wing thing! They do (at least here in Florida) call those two types of chicken pieces “flats” and “drumsticks”. Though I gotta disagree with him on which is the superior piece – it’s totally the drumstick.
- cleversignin
  August 30, 2015 at 5:01 pm PDT
  
  “Sid’s totally right”
  first time for everything I suppose. he thought Clue was dumb so his opinions are forever compromised (including thinking any sega console is worth mentioning in 2015- quit trying to make sega a thing, not gonna happen).