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Slay The Spire II, DLSS 5 Outrage, Portal Writer Erik Wolpaw

3/19/20263 hr 8 min

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Jacob Geller, and Janet Garcia are joined by legendary game writer Erik Wolpaw (Portal, Portal 2, Psychonauts, Half-Life: Alyx) to celebrate the release of Mega Crit's Slay the Spire II and explain how it's the incredible sequel to one of the greatest games ever made. Then we talk about Janet and Jacob's trip to the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, follow up on Mewgenics, revisit The Division II, and share some...

Clips

Showing 10 of 12
A New Verb: Talking
Tool, Not Cost Cutter
Slay the Spire 2’s Momentum
On Portal 3 Realities
AI Can’t Write Like Us
Co-op: Fun, But Friction
Paying To Beta Test? Thank You.
Why Spire’s Strategy Hooks Us
Move Valve To Duluth!
Canon? Have Fun, Move On.

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Ben Hanson· Host0:00

    [theme music] Hello, everybody, and welcome to a new episode of The MidMax Show, a place about games, friends, getting better. I'm Ben Hanson, joined by Janet Garcia.

  2. Janet Garcia· Host0:26

    Hello.

  3. Ben Hanson· Host0:27

    Joined by Jacob Geller.

  4. Jacob Geller· Host0:29

    Huge week for the Janet and Jacob fans.

  5. Ben Hanson· Host0:32

    [laughs] It really is. You guys are everywhere in a good way. [laughs] Joined by Leo Vader.

  6. Leo Vader· Host0:36

    I- I'm getting over being sick, and I didn't sleep at all, but I'm still looking forward to giving a fantastic podcast performance today.

  7. Ben Hanson· Host0:42

    Great. Look forward to it, everybody. Also, we're honored to be joined by the one and only, the writer of Portal, co-writer of Portal 2, co-writer of Psychonauts, a million other things from Valve, Erik Wolpaw.

  8. Erik Wolpaw· Guest0:55

    [clapping] All right. No, you don't have to do that. Uh, as I mentioned, uh, I'm just finding out that I have a big scar down my face that, uh- What- Makes you look grizzled.

  9. Leo Vader· Host1:06

    Makes you look cool.

  10. Erik Wolpaw· Guest1:07

    [laughs] Yeah, compared to the beard, it's probably not, um, not making me look that grizzled. [laughs] Uh, but I do like, I do like scars. When I, I had a, uh, it was, like, 20 years ago now, I had a surgery on my gut, and I have a big Frankenstein scar running up the, the front of me.

  11. Ben Hanson· Host1:24

    Yeah.

  12. Erik Wolpaw· Guest1:24

    And my sister was like, "You know, you should get some scar reducer for that." And I was like, "Dude,

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