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

Hey Folks! Welcome back to the second part of our yearly “Games of the Year Show”.  I have to admit I greatly enjoy this process and probably this year more than many in the past.  We had a wildly diverse set of games that the seven of us collectively chose this year.  Over the course of these two shows, we talk about twenty-six different games.  Often times there are a few big games that most of us played and put on our list, but this year we all had a pretty wild variety of choices.

I also feel like we have set a standard going forward, that we no longer will we do this nonsense where we record for four or five hours and then split it in half.  Recording two normal shows seemed to feel much better and produce a better discussion.  Hopefully, our listeners will agree.  In this show, we tackle the second half of the list and burn through fourteen more games.

Topics Discussed

• Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes
• Peglin
• Stepmaniax
• Unsighted
• Mindcrack for Celeste
• Vampire Survivors
• Stray
• New World Brimstone Sands
• Pokemon Legends Arceus
• Tunic
• Ooblets
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3
• Citizen Sleeper
• Horizon Forbidden West

So much for consistency. Hbomb (@usfhbomb), Jared (@kohaku233), & Matt (@Samus2008) talk their picks for the first half of 2022, their most anticipated games of the second half, Zero Wing, Round 1, lack of a Nintendo Direct, & more. And then I delay editing by 6 months. So have fun.

• Rejected Titles: 
• Solidly Empty
• She Blinded Me With Scions
• It’s Just a Phase, Mom
• Matt Has Other Friends
• All About The Charm

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

We talk about the controversy burning through the Magic the Gathering community of Wizards selling random boosters of unplayable proxies for $250 a pop.  We talk a bit about how this has triggered condemnation from players and the finance community.  From there Grace talks a bit about the Halloween event going on in Ooblets and the costumes you can earn by playing.  Kodra talks about how maybe Mario Odyssey is a bridge too far regarding control scheme complexity for speed run tactics.  We finally have a date for the New World Brimstone Sands patch release and we talk a bit about our plans, and how Amazon is seemingly bungling things again by not having the “Fresh Start” servers ready until November.  We talk a little bit about video game redemption stories and how the tales of FFXIV and No Man’s Sky are seemingly way more common than they used to be.  Finally, we dive into a discussion about Horror Films brought on by Bel’s recent series of top ten lists by sub-genre.

Topics Discussed

• Magic the Gathering Money Grab
• 30th Anniversary Proxy Set
• $1000 for 60 cards
• Ooblets Halloween Event
• Mario Odyssey Control Scheme Complexity
• New World Brimstone Sands on 10/18
• Our reroll plans
• Bungling Fresh Start Servers
• Video Game Redemption Stories
• An Ode to Horror Films
• Bel’s Top Ten Lists
• Science Fiction and Horror

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

Tonight we attempt to record a show that is only an hour in length but fail again overshooting by about fifteen minutes.  We are down a Tam because life happens, and Kodra had to travel to Ash’s house to get internet…  but we get a shot out the door regardless.  We start off with a quick recap on the experience of starting Ooblets from scratch, then dive into a discussion about the next Shovel Knight game from a different studio.  Ash talks a bit about his experiences with PAX West and we discuss games that evoke the style of a specific era in console games.  This dives into a whole discussion about our console gaming experiences throughout the years.  Bel talks a bit about the upcoming patch to New World and how it is completely changing the starting game experience for the better.  

From there we dive into a discussion about Path of Exile and how spending some in-game currency on a build can make a massive difference.  We talk about narrowing down the hunt for Atlas completion as Grace and Bel get close to wrapping that up.  Then we dive into a side topic about how easy it is just to write off bad performance when maybe it is something you did to cause it.  Essentially running Path of Exile on a mechanical drive makes a massive difference, and you really should use a high-quality SSD.

Topics Discussed

• Ooblets
• Shovel Knight Dig
• PAX West
• Retro Styled Games
• New World Revitalization
• Path of Exile
• Spending lots of currency on a build
• Closing in on Atlas Completion
• Dealing with Bad Performance

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We’re back! Hbomb (@usfhbomb), Jared (@kohaku233), & Matt (@Samus2008) talk Steam Deck, OLED Switch, The Superstar Racing Experience, Tony Hawk (twice), Ooblets, FUSER, Xbox Series X, PS5, Jackass, Zelda: Skyward Sword, dongles, Paramount Plus, & more.

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What excitement will 2019 bring? One step closer to the heat death of the universe for sure but in relation to video games there are some more immediate things to look forward to.

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Games discussed: Dreams, Beat Saber, Meditations, Feudal Alloy, Grab Lab, Resident Evil 2, The Messenger, Tetris Effect, After Party, Anthem, Atlas, Atomic Heart, OOblets, Phoenix Point, Far Cry: New Dawn, The Outer Wilds, The Outer Worlds, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

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