S4 E24 - Where Are My Excel Sheet Games, Goddamnit?!

About this episode

The hosts discuss character creators in video games and various related topics.

On this episode of the How Long To Beat podcast, the hosts discuss character creators in video games. Why are certain hairstyles always so wonky? When are we finally gonna get bladder size sliders? And how many possible combinations does the LEGO Racers figurine designer actually have? In addition to these burning questions, there will also be talk about the decline of Windows default games, the meanest character in all of Tetris, the quality of ice rinks in modern hockey games, what it’s like playing Virtual Boy games without the peripheral, and a Wordle milestone for word puzzle enthusiast Roy! And if you stick to the end of it all, you will even find out why Matt owes former podcast host Abatage a jar of Vegemite. HowLongToBeat forums - https://howlongtobeat.com/forum Discord – https://discord.gg/v5F26Dk Email - hltbpodcast@gmail.com Music – Ian Edward (intro/outro), Abatage (incidental), call me lethargy. (incidental) Graphic design – M4thew and Matt 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:29 - Beaten 00:49:38 - Retired 01:00:19 - Playing 01:52:14 - Discussion: Character Creators 02:25:30 - Really Handsome Shepard 02:26:23 - Discussion: Character Creators 02:32:40 - Collections Game 02:46:02…

People in this episode

Hosts: Roy, Matt, Lia

Topics covered

• character creators
• video game design
• Windows default games
• Tetris
• hockey games
• Virtual Boy
• Wordle

Keywords

• Excel sheet games
• LEGO Racers
• bladder size sliders
• meanest character in Tetris
• ice rinks in hockey games
• Virtual Boy games
• Vegemite

Mentioned in this episode

Products: S4 E24, Virtual Boy, Wordle, Vegemite, Tennis Clash, Mobile, Chess Force, Selenewrecked, Murdle, Spyro the Dragon: Reignited Trilogy

Books & works: Hockey All-Stars ‘, Pee Man - The Game, The Last Piece of Cake DX, Playing With Fire 2 (

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