Oops Wonder what Matt thinks of Death’s Gambit? Oh well, suppose we’ll never know Is potato salad a salad? (Or, failing that, a video game?) Skye only got into the podcast game to pad his resume He also maintains to-do lists of games instead of

Ep. 34: A Weeping Fridge

Jun 17th, 2020 1h 34m

RetroAchievements.org offers a great excuse to play old games The 7th Saga is hard to recommend but easy to love (honestly it’s pretty rough going) Jurassic World Evolution and the art of the Ungame Guarding the gate at Silent Hill/pushing the

Ep. 33: I Hate This Episode

May 23rd, 2020 1h 29m

*Note: This episode contains GREAT BIG HUGE GIANT SPOILERS for Dying Light: The Following, Lost, The Dark Tower series, and Dragon Quest: Your Story. The spoiler-y stuff starts 8 minutes in and ends at about 43 minutes.* The frustrations of rea

Ep. 32: Mysterious Grandpa

May 8th, 2020 1h 44m

Quick hits! (sort of kind of not really) Dead Cells is great, but is it a Metroidvania? Deck assembly vs. dice rolling in Slay the Spire and Dicey Dungeons Void Bastards is great, full stop Days Gone was better than people acted (Deacon St. Joh

Ep. 31: My Eagle is a Horse

Apr 23rd, 2020 1h 12m

“What are we gonna talk about?” Is pinball a video game? (No, it very much is not) Holes Farming, comedy clubs and flesh reanimation: the high-stress days and unholy nights of Graveyard Keeper Where does YOUR meat come from? The judgment-free z

Ep. 30: No Good at Learning

May 18th, 2018 1h 18m

Matt is hungry Musings on a graveyard; butt A rash of Neverland poisonings Will Adam ever get to talk about Persona 5? [PERSONA CONTENT REDACTED] The thought-provoking, generous, occasionally pointless brilliance of NieR: Automata Seriously tho

Ep. 29: Video Games Should Stop

Apr 4th, 2018 1h 20m

Destiny 2: Why is it like that? Matt has recording troubles (and a phone call) An attempted intervention for a Destiny addict The need for variation within repetition The gauntlet is thrown at Eminem, hastily withdrawn, and thrown again Binary

Ep. 28: Flavor Trash

Jan 29th, 2018 1h 26m

Does Prey spoil its own ending? Mimics and organic jump scares Another interesting crafting system for Adam to hate Inventory management and compulsive leveling Do Bethesda games have a random crap problem? Quest logs and adaptive nonlinearity

Ep. 27: A Beige Room

Jan 12th, 2018 57m 39s

The surprising success of Horizon Zero Dawn’s apocalypse Strong world and setting design sets it apart from other open world games Dynamic, tactically improvisational combat But the game should be harder in a few ways We discover a crafting sys

Ep. 26: Take Disease to the Next Level

Nov 23rd, 2017 1h 17m

Oxygen Not Included is Spacebase DF-9 but better A required build order stifles creativity Complexity turns us on and turns us off “Who among us does not love infrastructure?” Adam’s PixelJunk bias returns Nom Nom Galaxy and the problem with so

Ep. 25 ½: I Hate Pachinko; Pachinko’s Fun, Though; Pachinko’s Kinda Neat

Oct 21st, 2017 38m 37s

Balls.

Ep. 25: I Am Something More Now

Aug 31st, 2017 1h 27m

The Last Guardian: A great and terrible videogame …that we spoil a little Classification of a monster An indirect experience Has development limbo left its mark? Should a remake strive for preservation or improvement?

Ep. 24: That Was Badly Done, Friend

Jun 8th, 2017 1h 28m

Matt returns to Dark Souls Killing friendly NPCs in Souls games Adam is a dirty FAQ user Is equipment in Dark Souls too complex? Is equipment in Bloodborne too simple? Quest-givers and combat allies Time progression and Insight Mechanically enc

Ep. 23: Stop at the Boat

Apr 11th, 2017 1h 50m

Kingdom Hearts is still a bunch of nonsense Final Fantasy XV blah blah blah Hunting anachronisms on a road trip with your buddies The unfinished seams are showing What makes a Final Fantasy game? A lot of XV’s story isn’t actually in the game M

Ep. 22: I Found this Hammer

Feb 25th, 2017 1h 19m

Death Road to Canada: Good game or mere comedy generator? The necessity and frustration of luck and obfuscation in roguelikes The newest Shiren the Wanderer is surprisingly forgiving —perhaps too forgiving? The disappointing UI of the Darkest D

Ep. 21: It’s December 11th

Jan 26th, 2017 1h 37m

Destiny: it got better! …but it’s still an MMO, so, you know; grind Choice and idiosyncrasy versus balance in competitive multiplayer Immediate satisfaction versus participation awards in Overwatch How Overwatch’s varied roster leads to differe

Ep. 20: Maybe Not. Not Really. I Don’t Know. Who Cares.

Aug 1st, 2016 45m 51s

An entire episode about Lightning Returns for some reason

Ep. 19: Battles With Health

Jun 20th, 2016 1h 21m

Discovering the joy of sports with Rocket League Matt is a terrible cartographer Etrian Odyssey is NOT grindy, dammit Trauma Center can be a sloppy operation sometimes Yoshi’s Woolly World: harder than you might think Obsession is the dark side