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AggroChat #284 – Pax South 2020 Rundown

January 19, 2020 by Belghast

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

Tonight we start off with a discussion about Awesome Games Done Quick 2020 which just concluded and raised a little over 3 million dollars for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. From there we talk about Pax South 2020 and the interesting things Ashgar has encountered while being there. Bel goes into a diatribe about the Witcher games not doing a great job of explaining the cast of characters. 2020 is a year of game delays so far and we talk about a few of them and why we are mostly okay with them. We then close out with a long discussion about Fire Emblem: Three Houses which leads its way into a discussion about Tactics versus Strategy.

Featured Topics

Awesome Games Done Quick – January 2020
Pax South 2020
- Indie Games
- Small Publishers
- Tabletop Gaming
The Witcher Problem
- Related to the Destiny Problem
2020 The Year of Delays
- Wishing it meant no crunch time
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Tactics vs Strategy
- Perfect Information vs Learned Insight

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AggroChat #283 – Decade Tabletop became Normal

January 12, 2020 by Belghast

As we work on our “Games of the Decade” show, one of the things that kept coming up was whether or not to put tabletop games on the list. After some back and forth we decided that really the tabletop show was a show of its own, because this decade changed the status quo significantly. There is a certain amount of hyperbole in the show title, but in truth this is the decade when D&D and Settlers of Catan started being sold at Walmart and Target, and you can’t get much more mainstream than that. We talk about the meteoric explosion of tabletop gaming and some of the factors we feel potentially triggered it. It was a wildly meandering show and we found it impossible to come up with a bullet point list of what we discussed. We almost completely missed miniature wargaming, which may end up being its own show at some point.

Topics Discussed

Pen and paper
Board games
Card games
Pop culture references

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AggroChat #282 – 2019 Games of the Year Show

January 5, 2020 by Belghast

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

It is that time again, time for another games of the year show. As is usually the case we fire up a google form and have each member of the AggroChat cast pick their top 5 picks for the year. This then gets collated into the final list that we talked about during the show. This time around we had thirteen different titles to talk about, with the highest voted title getting 5 different votes from staff members. Since we have talked at length about most of these games, the resulting discussion ends up being more a trip down memory lane than a deep dive.

Topics Discussed:

2019 Games of the Year Show
- Trials of Mana
- Anthem
- The Outer Worlds
- Devil May Cry 5
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- World of Warcraft Classic
- Greedfall
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
- Jedi Fallen Order
- Untitled Goose Game
- Baba Is You
- Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers

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AggroChat #281 – Video Game Adaptations

December 29, 2019 by Belghast

Bel is back but still sick and hoping his voice holds! Tonight we have a short reprise of the Star Wars Rise of the Skywalker discussion from last week since Bel didn’t get to participate. This tiptoes around being spoiler so your mileage may vary. From there we talk about A Short Hike a charming game about meeting animal friends while trying to get mobile phone reception. Tam talks about his experience with the Battlefront 2 campaign mode and a bit of him replaying SWTOR campaigns. Bel talks about Video Games being ported to the small screen and how they are more “inspired by” than accurate. The Witcher however has a shot for shot recreation of a battle from the first game and we dive into that. Bel also has been playing a ton of Witcher 3 and is completely enthralled with the game now. Kodra talks about his experience with Slay the Spire and then we talk some more Pokemon Sword and Shield.

Topics Discussed