With Kyle otherwise occupied, Kaz and William talk about the games we played, or didn’t, over the last few weeks. We talk some more about microtransactions and loot crates, as well as implementing difficulty options in video games. To finish up, we talk about some of the games about to come out that we’re looking forward to, and run through a list of Game Informer’s top 10 SNES games. Come pause with us!
Charles Randall, a programmer who’s worked for Ubisoft, Bioware, and Digital Extremes, says that developers aren’t more transparent because gamers and gaming culture is so toxic. Thoughts?
Kaz manages to put some time into WoW and Starcraft II, Kyle wraps up Mario and Rabbids to start up Destiny 2, and William updates his switch and finally finishes (and spoils) Nier. In the News we talk about the recent Nintendo Direct, Mario’s nipples (or shirtless model, if you’d rather), and Nintendo’s recent positive buzz. We finish up with a discussion about PewDiePie, Fair Use, and the future of let’s plays. Come pause with us!
Kaz finally conquers the Tomb of Sargeras, Kyle gives a brief review of Mario Rabbids Kingdom Battle, and William had an emergency and couldn’t join us. In the News we mourn the coming loss of MiiVerse, Discuss Esports and the Olympics, and Bitter Half Life fans taking their rage our on Dota. Then Kaz goes over the Top Ten most interesting Moba heroes!
Join us this week for a face to face cast! Kaz is still busy with Hogger, Kyle is still gushing about Sonic Mania, and William is still finishing up Nier. We also talk about terrible SNES Classic preorders, Blizzard at Gamescom, Biomutant, the Dragon Ball FighterZ Beta, and the sudden ending of the Half-Life saga. To finish, we choose which influential games we would rather sacrifice to the timestream and why. Come pause with us!
The Half Life saga ends. Marc Laidlaw, the writer for the HL series who recently left Valve, posted a summary of what Episode 3 would’ve been to his blog. It’s so good, and makes me really sad that we never got (or will get) to play it.
Warcraft- Patch 7.3 coming next week, lots of new lore and story bits coming out, so excited! Can’t wait for xpac announcement at blizzcon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyfqfjXAGbY
THQ Nordic announced a new IP called Biomutant at Gamescom. Seems to be based on a Swedish tabletop RPG. It looks really neat, even despite being open world
Kaz is done moving and Internet is probably fixed, but will she ever have time for games again as Hogger takes over her life? Kyle shows his true colors as a Sonic Fanboy and William keeps playing the games he always is playing. In the new we discuss cheating vs exploits in fighting games, Blizzards backtrack on naming things, and turning into cats to solve mysteries
Crackdown 3 got delayed until 2018. What does Microsoft have for this holiday season?
Kaz is out again with moving/internet problems, so it’s time for William and Kyle to go off the rails yet again. Kyle gets hooked on Splatoon 2, while William continues Nier and falling into the depths of Fire Emblem Heroes. In news, we talk Nintendo World Championships, microtransactions, Valve’s new game announcement, and Square Enix’s future. We wrap up with the best Top 5 we’ve had to date. Come pause with us!
WB decided to add a bunch of microtransactions to Middle-Earth: Shadow of War for some reason. This trend is awful.
Various fiscal reports came out, Nier: Automata apparently sold well digitally, Persona 5 did ‘well’ with 1.8 million units, and Square gives us their philosophy on the gaming market moving forward.
Kaz may be out this week, but that doesn’t stop William and Kyle from having good video game times. This week, Kyle falls head-over-heels for Has Been Heroes, and William gets into the weird parts of Nier. In news, we talk a lot of Dota 2, yet more SNES Classic, Death Stranding, and Nintendo. Come pause with us!
Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds has overtaken Fallout 4 and is now the game with the highest player count not made by Valve on all of Steam.
Dota 2 will now match new players with people who get commended for good behavior regularly, and will also limit them to 25 easy-to-learn characters. They’re trying to make it user-friendly, is it working?
Kaz continues her labor on Hogger and William binges on Nier while Kyle is off in wine country. In the news we talk about the SNES Classic preorders, the awful pokemon Fest and new Dragon Ball FighterZ characters. At the end, William takes us through his Top five examples of Storytelling through Music. Come pause with us!
Kaz gets a root canal and learns spell racism, Kyle gets hype for fighting games, and William finishes the sort-of-anime Odin’s Sphere. We also discuss EVO, our own ideas for the best fighting game tournament ever, Kingdom Hearts 3, and Activision’s future in digital distribution. Last but not least, Kaz treats us to an awesome podcast game. Come pause with us!
News-
Kingdom Hearts 3 got a new trailer! That game looks real good. Supposedly coming in 2018.
