Skies of Arcadia | E3: Earnest Good Stuff [Contemporary Reception & Legacy]

Hi. For our third and final Background Information Episode, Ty and Aidan, the hosts of Fun Factor, join us for an hour to flip through magazine reviews of Skies of Arcadia! All four of us are capping out RPG visuals at 8/10, receiving Golden Man location information, misunderstanding Duke Nukem's wants and needs, running the triple negative olympics, borrowing ideas from Final Fantasy, gibbering like mad fools, doing british accents, lamenting 128 bits, harkening back to early days, forecasting typos signaling prestige, disenchanting sourpusses, teetering on magnificence, creating Scott Steiner, and wondering if Nintendo Power was on the take. The remainder of the episode features your normal hosts hacking out random battles, cameoing in other games, teasing a modern release, learning some optimization tricks, sharing memories, laying out expectations, counting stuff, and wondering if Nintendo Power was on the take. Skies of Arcadia was easily the best RPG in the year 2000 for Dreamcast. Please check out Ty and Aidan's podcast Fun Factor, either here (https://funfactorpod.com) or wherever fine podcasts can be downloaded to the telephone. 00:00:00 Meeting New People 00:02:52 Intro 00:04:30 Contemporary Reviews (Featuring Fun Factor) 01:04:48 Modern Takes 01:07:11 Fan Fiction 01:08:23 MODS 01:12:17 Sequels & Cameos 01:21:44 Memories 01:23:53 Expectations 01:26:32 How Are We Playing This In 2026? 01:30:32 What Are We Counting? 01:34:09 Acknowledgements 01:34:38 Real Net 01:43:38 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com