Bad Playstyle: A video game book club

Leftist politics and videogames.

much more off topic than usual.

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mild spoilers for the end of Disco Elysium in the first part of the episode

I apologize about the audio quality and forgetting to introduce us and for the bird sounds. 

We instantly get into “what have you been playing lately”

We finish with that part at around 20 minutes

Then we start talking about unpacking

No bad standards this time around, but we do perform an impromptu vibe check, giving a few options for games with a similar energy. 

We welcome each other back

Elden ring discussion, we compare to fable for a second

Elden ring done at about 11 minutes

Owen played super mario world

And pokemon go. Niantic is a fuck

Keynan talks about destiny 2

Frostpunk discussion starts at about 23 minutes

Bad standards at 48 minutes

Next game is “unpacking”

Thanks Zane!

Later!

We start with what we played lately, Matt first, Owen middle, Keynan last.

Actual discussion of the game starts at 26 mins in.

(LINK TO VIDEO OF STARGATE EDIT OWEN MADE) this is the stargate wormhole video Owen made.

The bad standards commence at one hour fifteen minutes.

Next game is FROSTPUNK

Special guest ben

Please stop and go play the game if you haven’t already. Last warning.

We just get right into it. The whole episode is JUST discussion of the game, that’s what a Bad Bonus is!

Episode thousand threads

Owen has an extra for us. It is a wild ride.

Actually show starts at about 9 minutes

Episode 87!

Keynan played deathloop

Genshin impact? Keynan?

Owen has been playing the rimworld ideology DLC. it is really cool

He said ideology so I sniffed. He either refused to get it or it went over his head.

Matt has been playing loop hero. He says its anti addictive

Disco elysium, where did the information come from?

Thousand threads discussion starts at about 41 minutes

Cheat engine can increase the game speed!

BAD STANDARDS AT ABOUT 1:10

Next game is the forgotten city

Before that though we are doing a bonus episode about the outer wilds DLC

Please leave us a review on whatever platform you are on!

Welcome to the show! We played wyldermyth

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PLAY SYNDICATE (unless on ps3)

Owen played the Diablo 2 remake. Is good!

Keynan played dyson sphere program

Matt has some notes on back 4 blood

Will der myth

Cool story engine bro. 

Get ready for the toons bodies to be permanently changed

Not enough music in this game. Loops too much.

Heat signature legacy mechanics in more games please

Matt is a crunch pervert

The UI in this game is a masterclass

The bad standards starts at around 1:10

No one emails us

We’re playing Thousand Threads next time.

Please leave us a review on whatever platform you’re listening to this on.

We played Hired Gun. You gain brozouf!

Mics are way better this time! 

Owen played:

Civ4 beyond the sword. Throw shade on all modern civ games

Keynan played: 

Tarkov wiped

What Matt been playing?

Hitman 3. SASOing some old levels

The best murderpuzzle game all time

Steam needs a “games you can watch tv while playing” tag

18 mins is when we start talking necromunda

Level design in first on the menu

Build discussion

Game is buggy

Keynan suffered from motion sickness during the game.

We show how much of 40k nerds we once were/are

Owen posits a different plothook for the game

Matt says “GIRTHICK”

1hr 3mns for the bad standards

Meditations on how much 40k sucks

NEXT TIME IS WYLDERMYTH

No one emails us

https://www.focus-entmt.com/en-us/games/necromunda-hired-gun

The remote era has ended

Sorry about keynan eating his microphone. @savoryscrimp on twitter. It gets better.

We have played the alien game TENDER

Matt has been playing:

Donut county has a cool 4th wall breaking scene

Star wars gatcha phone game. MOFF GIDEON

https://tinyurl.com/53nwrez4 ASHOKA

https://tinyurl.com/axx589ds LANDO

Vermintide 2 gets better the better I get at it. Chaos wastes is a good update.

OWEN playing:

Craftopia. Videogame stir fry.

Box croculai

Hired gun, seems like a cool game with excellent area design

Keynan has a weird list:

Jeff convinced keynan to play anno 1800, european rimworld

There are colonialist themes

Paradox games give you imperialist brainworms

The Greece anecdote was for ck2 not ck3 sorry.

Slipways is a game about shooting probes into space.

We start talking about the video game at roughly 32 minutes in

Tender is tinder with space aliens instead of real people

Owen disambiguates the fallout 4 dialogue problem from this games dialogue system

Game is horny on main

Are you a human ingesting person?

Keynan brags about how cool his life is and we roast him for it

The person we lie to the most is ourselves

“The office”

Bad standards at about 1hr 6mns

Shout outs to ape escape

Bad standards ends at about 1hr 10mns

Next time we are playing HIRED GUN NECROMUNDA

For all intents and purposes, @theprofounddark

00:00:00 episode begins with a bit of a warmup talking about what games we've played recently. 

00:33:21 warmup finishes and we begin our main discussion of King of Dragon Pass.

01:04:25 Main discussion finishes and we begin  to judge this game by the Bad Standards™ along with some stray closing thoughts about the game.

00:26:55 warmup ends and main John Wick Hex discussion begins!

00:55:37 Bad Standards!

Next week: King of Dragon Pass

Our warmup ends and the main discussion of JFO starts 00:43:22

We talk for a while on this one and only get to the Bad Standards at 02:05:44

Here is the link for Keynan and Owen's Clone Wars skip list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hRX78SALJCaG-RaIhg8QQ8Rpf7rWYVkfFYEN_YheyEo/edit?usp=drivesdk

https://twitter.com/OHerriman/status/1368675462734487552?s=19

∆the Mario clip Ben and Owen mention in the warmup

Warmup finishes 00:30:06

Bad Standards commence 01:01:17

00:23:31 Our Warmup chat ends and the main discussion of the game begins.

01:04:25 our discussion mostly wraps up and we determine how this game shapes up against our Bad Standards.

Incredibly the warmup on this episode ends at exactly 00:30:00 and the bad standards start at exactly 01:00:00 this is of course because we were replaced by Soong type androids for this episode. Enjoy!

Warmup ends 00:19:00

Bad Standards commence at 01:45:05

Our episode warmup ends at 00:30:30

We commence the Bad Standards at 01:20:51

Related links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonoidea