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Featuring: Ammosart, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Hey Folks! This week we are down an Ash but have the triumphant return of Kodra from Origins.  This week we talk about the self-DDoS of Twitter and Kodra chimes in on the return of P-Speed to a new Super Mario Game.  From there we talk a bit about the newly announced Guild Wars 2 expansion Secrets of the Obscure.  Kodra gives us a bit of a run down on his experiences at Origins and how he has finally played in the most ubiquitous LARP Vampire the Masquerade.  We are somewhat incredulous as for several of us… that is the ONLY LARP we have ever participated in.  Grace gets bit by the Honkai Star Rail bug finally and talks a bit about their experiences.  Nimona is out and we talk a bit about the steps it took to get to this point as well as a bit about the mixed bag that is The Little Mermaid live-action film.  Finally, we wrap things up with a quick topic about Microprose actually still existing in some form and gobbling up former properties like getting back the license to Falcon.

Topics Discussed:

• The Twitpocalypse

• P-Speed Returns

• Guild Wars 2

• Secrets of the Obscure

• Origins Convention

• Vampire LARP

• Honkai Star Rail

• Nimona Is Out

• The Little Mermaid Live Action

• Microprose exists and gets Falcon back

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, and Tamrielo

Hey Folks! This week we have Ammo back and talk about Honkai Star Rail or at least our early impressions.  Grace talks a bit about Horizon Forbidden West and the Burning Shores expansion.  We discuss a better FTL in This Means Warp, and that Vampire Survivors has released a DLC.  Kodra and Ash talk about how if everyone dies but the Tank, you can still win with Middara and this leads to some random discussion of MMORPG.  Tam is the only one of us who has experienced any Redfall so we talk a bit about it and the community reactions.  Lastly we sort of slide into a discussion about Guild Wars 2 without really meaning to.

Topics Discussed:

• Honkai Star Rail

• Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores

• This Means Warp

• Vampire Survivors DLC

• If Everyone but the Tank is Dead It’s Still a Win.

• More fun with Middara

• Redfall Irresponsible Speculation

• Accidentally some Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Good Morning Folks! We start off the show with some random talk about Rick Astley and the history of Rickrolling.  From there Bel talks about getting a Commander tag and going for the obvious best choice…  that Catmander.  Kodra talks about beating Axiom Verge and his struggles with M.A.S.S. Builder not quite being detailed enough.  From there we talk about the launch of the Last Epoch Multiplayer patch and the struggles of instant 8X growth.  We talk a bit about the challenge of a game launch and scaling servers without overbooking capacity.  Then we finish out with some discussion from Tam about the Star Citizen 3.18 patch and its own server capacity issues.

Featuring:

• Superfluous Rickrolling

• Bel is a Catmander in GW2

• Axiom Verge

• M.A.S.S. Builder

• Last Epoch

• Servers Hugged to Death

• Various Discussions of the new patch

• Server Scaling and Massive Updates

• Star Citizen 3.18

• Persistent Entity Streaming

Featuring:  Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Tonight we start off with some light discussion about Guild Wars 2 and more specifically the new patch that dropped on the 28th including a brand new map called Gyala Delve.  We talk briefly about wrapping up Diablo 3 Season 28 and looking forward to the Last Epoch Multiplayer patch landing next Thursday.  We talk a bit about Microsoft getting to subpoena Sony for records about their practice of paying companies to keep games from GamePass.  We also talk about the practice of corporate write-downs and how Wizards of the Coast and Funko have gotten caught throwing massive amounts of product in landfills recently.  From there we have a sort of rapid-fire discussion of a bunch of mech names, namely Mechwarrior Online, the upcoming Armored Core game, and Mass Builder.

Topics Discussed:

• Guild Wars 2

• Gyala Delve Content Drop

• Diablo 3 Season 28 Finished

• Last Epoch Multiplayer Patch on 3/9

• Phantom Brigade

• Beating Wagon World

• Microsoft gets to Supoena Sony

• Wizards and Funko Land Fill Disposals

• Mechwarrior Online

• Armored Core

• Mass Builder

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Hey Folks! This week we accidentally recorded an hour-and-a-half-long show.  I guess this is what happens when you punt a bunch of topics to another week because we were missing the folks attached to said topics.  We start off with the discussion about Theatrhythm Final Bar Line that we hinted at last week.  From there we talk about Media from our Childhood that is not cursed… aka The Princess Bride.  From there Tam talks about his further Steam Deck adventures with Eastward and What The Golf.  Bel talks about his experience buckling down and getting his Skyscale in Guild Wars 2.  We talk briefly about the Valve Honeypot catching over 40,000 DOTA cheaters, and Kodra talks about playing Troll Mario Maker levels, more specifically Super Wagon World.  From there we go down this nostalgic trip about pulling dungeons and the puzzles that they used to present and our niche desire for randomized dungeon runs in MMORPGs.

Topics Discussed:

• Theatrhythm Final Bar Line

• Princess Bride and Kids

• Media from our Childhood Still Valid for Modern Standards

• Eastward

• What the Golf

• Bel Gets a Skyscale in Guild Wars 2

• Tam is Experiencing Good Crabs Again

• Diablo 3 Season 28

• The Altar

• Bel’s Rough Start

• Valve Crafts a Cheater Honeypot

• Over 40,000 Bans for DOTA

• Super Wagon World

• Troll Levels for Mario Maker

• Xenoblade III is a Pulling Puzzle

• Nostalgic Trip Down Memory Lane about Pulling Dungeons

• Niche Desire for Randomized Dungeon Crawls

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, and Kodra

Tonight we have a bit of a short show as we had to punt several topics to next week since Tam and Thalen were out.  Bel talks about his recent adventures since the beginning of the year with the Library system and the Libby App.  From there Ash shares his experience using Character Questionnaires to drive character development in a tabletop pen-and-paper game.  Kodra talks about streaming a day of Celeste Strawberry Jam and his experiences playing the game with a pillowcase on his head.  Bel talks about what happens when a large Mastodon instance closes and over 17,000 folks have to relocate at once.  Bel also talks about his experiences helping to administrate Gamepad.club. Finally, we talk about times when games decided to break their world or remove large chunks of content and why it didn’t work.

Topics Discussed

• Adventures with the Library System

• Bel gets a Library Card

• The Libby App

• Gideon the Ninth / Harrow the Ninth

• The Last Watch

• Catching up with Dresden

• Character Questionnaires are Amazing

• Using a Questionaire to help build character development in tabletop games.

• Celeste Strawberry Jam

• Beginner Lobby

• Kodra plays with a Pillowcase on their Head

• The Death of an Instance

• What happens when a large Mastodon Instance closes

• Bel helping admin Gamepad.club

• Breaking the World Does Not Work

• Guild Wars 2 Living World Season 1

• World of Warcraft Cataclysm

• Evequest 1 to Everquest 2

• Destiny 2 Removing Content

• FFXIV ARR did Work However

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Hey Folks! It is that time again for our multi-part episode as we talk about the games that were important to us specifically during 2022.  A bit of a reminder for anyone who has not heard one of these shows before, we are not necessarily only talking about games that were released in 2022.  If we were late playing a game but it was extremely important to us, it might still get the nod here.

Something that is working slightly differently this year is generally speaking we record a marathon show that runs about 3-4 Hours and then I crudely carves it up into multiple shows.  However, what happens is we have one show that is full of short topics and another show that has all of the long discussions.  This year I sorted the list so we got a blend of single honorable mention picks and meaty multi-member picks in the same show.  We are also recording it two weeks apart so none of us have to deal with the late night that this show always brought on.

Hopefully, the changes lead to a better listening experience.  So in this episode, we are going to talk about the first half of our games of the year, and next week we will continue with the rest.

Topics Discussed:

• Digimon Survive
• Pokemon Scarlet and Violet
• TMNT Shedder’s Revenge
• Trials of Mana
• Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons
• Elden Ring
• Fallout 76
• Star Ocean: The Divine Force
• Wordle
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• Cult of the Lamb
• Path of Exile

In deze eerste aflevering vertellen Robin, Mathias en Simon over een spel dat ze alledrie al een hele tijd spelen. Guild Wars 2 is een spel waar de drie vrienden heel wat over kunnen vertellen. Ze vertellen over hun eerste aanraking met het spel, waar ze na al die tijd nog mee bezig zijn en waarom ze blijven spelen.

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

We did not record a show last week because the news of our country was a bit too fresh for most of us to talk about video games.  Now another week has passed and the wound has begun to scab over a bit.  Tonight we start down a Thalen and Grace but eventually pick up a Thalen as we go.  We talk about Summer Games Done Quick and have an aside about Wiley Wars coming to the Switch.  From there folks talk about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge and trying to play it six-player on a console that does not support that.  From there Bel talks about falling back into Diablo III and finishing out Season 26…  while also playing a horrible ideas class that is really bad at boosting friends.  From there Bel talks about his recent experience diving down the Path of Exile rabbit hole.  Guild Wars 2 made many changes that were not well received by the most hardcore players, but we largely think they are a good thing and talk about that.  Finally, we wrap up with a quick discussion about Outriders Worldslayer and how it is still a very bleak game, but also a great mechanical experience if you can get past that.

Topics Discussed

• Summer Games Done Quick
• Wiley Wars on Switch
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
• Diablo III Season 26
• Bad Ideas Build
• Being a Bad Carry
• Path of Exile
• Bel Goes Down this Rabbit Hole
• Guild Wars 2 Massive Changes
• Outriders Worldslayer
• Still a Bleak Game

Tonight we start off with an apology about missing last week due to severe weather.  We did the thing where we accidentally talked about things we should have talked about on the show…  and roll straight into a discussion about Drizzlewood and Living World Season 5.  From there we talk a bit about the World of Warcraft Dragonflight announcement.  This dives into a topic about how the failed state of Warcraft has helped so many games that are not Final Fantasy XIV and the odd thriving condition of legacy games.  We talk a bit about Flowstone Saga and vampire Survivors.  Then we dive into what ends up being a full spoiler discussion of Outriders that starts with some discussion about the expansion coming in June.  We attempt to wrap things up with the Stanley Parable, but get into an offshoot at the end of the show about Marvel shows.

Topics Discussed

• Guild Wars 2
• Drizzlewood is Great
• Chapter 5 of Living World 5 is NOT
• World of Warcraft Dragonflight
• WoW Failing Helped Everyone Out
• Talk about various MMORPGs that are thriving right now
• Flowstone Saga
• Vampire Survivors
• More Weird Additions
• Outriders Worldslayer
• FULL Outriders Spoilers
• The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe
• Impromptu Marvel Discussion

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Tonight we have a bit of an odd show to usher in sleep theft weekend.  First we talk about Bel’s descent into madness…  that is getting super engaged in Guild Wars 2.  He spent the last week chain running World Bosses and talks about how freaking fun that is.  From there we talk about some of the long grind systems and how there are multiple paths for different playstyles to reach the same ultimate goal.  From there we dust off a topic that has been sitting on the list for a long while, that was originally inspired by Warhammer 40,000 but applies to a lot of different games.  Largely we discuss how the most hardcore players represent the smallest portion of the community, but also are the ones that set the pace that everyone else is forced to live up to.  This covers a wide swath of topics from Magic the Gathering to MMO Chain Pulling to even the death of New World.  It is one wild ride  of a show.

Topics Discussed

• Bel’s further descent into Guild Wars 2
• The Joy of Chain Running World Bosses
• The Good Long Grinds
• Catering to the minority in games
• How the most competitive players set the rules of the community
• Warhammer 40,000
• FFXIV and MMO Chain Pulling
• Magic the Gathering
• Netdecking
• Missing Jank Magic
• Destiny 2
• Death of Skill Based Matchmaking
• New World and how catering to a minority is killing game
• Missing the innocence of being able to be bad

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Tonight we start off talking about the weird game Babylon’s Fall and how it potentially had the worst launch ever of a big budget looter style game.  With a steam launch of concurrent users in the neighborhood of 350 players…  we talk about what went wrong.  From there we discuss Warhammer 40,000 and the release of new Craftworld army lists.  So in a weird turn of events…  Bel apparently likes Guild Wars 2 now?  He finally lands on a class that feels the way he wanted Warrior to feel…  and it is apparently a caster.  We also talk a bit about End of Dragons expansion and how well Cantha appears to be received.  From there we dive into a topic that is sure to anger many listers about what it means for Open World gaming to be done “Right”.  This mainly involves a discussion of Breath of the Wild, Elden Ring, Horizon series, and even some discussion of things like open world Assassin’s Creed games.

Topics Discussed

• Babylon’s Fall
• Worst Looter Start Yet
• Warhammer 40,000
• Craftworlds
• Aspects are Finally Good Again
• Bel Apparently likes GW2
• Necromancer is Caster Tank
• End of Dragons
• Fun in Cantha
• Open World Done Right
• Breath of the Wild
• Elden Ring
• Horizon Series

We start off with a quick update on Elden Ring and how From Software is working on fixing the exploit prior to launch.  From there we spent quite a bit of time talking about the Nintendo Direct that happened last week and the interesting and wildly unexpected things that came out of it.  We talk a bit about the Lost Ark launch and how only one of us is actually playing it.  From there we talk some more about Control and how Grace has beat the main campaign now and Tam is working his way through it.  Bel talks about his fixation on Remedy games and playing Alan Wake and Quantum break.  Kodra talks about replaying Psychonauts 1 in order to prepare for the sequel.  Finally we dive into a topic about how games can make it a net positive to see other players in the open world.

Topics Discussed

• Updates about Elden Ring
• Nintendo Direct News
• Lost Ark Launch
• Control
• Quantum Break
• Bouncing off Prey 2017
• Psychonauts 1
• In Game Events
• How to make seeing other players a good thing

• Control
• Jade Cyberpunk Cantha
• Neon Cyberpunk Kamigawa
• Trials of Mana New Game Plus
• Transparency in Game Dev
• Aka Star Citizen Recent Controversy
• Elden Ring potential exploits
• Celeste.smc and Kaizo Mario

Hello everyone! 

In this episode we talk about hacking in video games and how developers over the years have handled this issue. We also give our thoughts as to how it should be handled going forward. We also discuss content creator burnout felt by the industry, and how every second feels like it needs to be spent building a community which leads to mental health issues. Finally, we discuss E-Sports and its current state and how the industry can continue to build on its momentum to build a viewership parallel to the Superbowl!! Haha one can dream!

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