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AggroChat #255 – The Ish of E3
Featuring: Ammo, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo and Thalen
Tonight I completely butcher the intro because my co-hosts decided to get clever with it. Tonight we talk about a lot of stuff that is coming out ahead of E3… which in truth is the only time that matters given that the only people who care about the actual show are the ones attending in person. We talk about the Google Stadia presser and Destiny 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3 news that came out of it. We talk about the only thing from EA that matters… the progressively less vaporware Jedi Fallen Order. We talk the weird case of the Magic the Gathering Animated Series and then on to Pokemon Goodest Boy Edition. Lastly a brief topic about how Ubisoft is dumb.
Topics Discussed:
- Google Stadia
- Netflix for Games
- Xbox Cloud
- Destiny 2
- Season of Opulence
- Free to Play and Cross Save
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Jedi Fallen Order
- Magic the Gathering
- Netflix Animated Series
- Pokemon Sword and Shield
- Good Boy Edition
- Ubisoft is Dumb
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AggroChat #239 – Sticking the Ending
Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo and Thalen
Tonight we have a bunch of not entirely related topics, but there is at least a minor theme of how you end something is extremely important. Bel talks a bit about his experiences with the latest brand name beta in the form of Division 2. From there he also shares some frustrations with the way Assassin’s Creed Origins is ending which leads its way into a larger discussion about what makes a satisfying game ending. We talk about what this means for passive media and how it might be different for interactive media. We then get into a discussion about progression systems and why fixed ones often times feel better than completely random ones. Finally we have some assorted digression about us looking forward to Anthem as a non-PVP mmo that somehow leads its way to FFXIV housing?
Topics Discussed:
- Division 2
- Military Fantasy Fallout but no Nukes
- Worthy Successor to Original
- Assassin’s Creed Origins
- Great Game… But
- Forced Character Swaps
- End of Game Without “Your” Character
- Satisfying Finales
- Twist Endings
- Mass Effect 3
- Resolution Endings
- Plot Twist Ending
- Plot Twist at Beginning of Final Chapter
- Fixed Length Shows
- Anime
- Babylon 5
- Russian Doll
- Revisiting Choices From Game in Ending
- Twist Endings
- Fixed vs Random Progression Systems
- Warframe Blueprint System
- Destiny Random “Powerful Gear” Frustrations
- Warframe Economy
- Excitement over Non-PVP MMORPG
- Anthem
- Free PVP Gear from FFXIV Retainers
- Lacking Money Sinks in FFXIV
- House Reclamation
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AggroChat #233 – Games of the Year 2018
Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo and Thalen
This evening we do our traditional Games of the Year show, and apparently we are way less verbose than we used to be. These shows used to get chopped into two roughly hour and a half long shows… but this year we managed to do it in pretty much two hours straight. What makes this even more interesting is the fact that we churned through nineteen games in the process. Ultimately we each pick roughly five games that were important to us during the calendar year, and some overlap always occurs. This year less overlap happened than is normal.
Games Discussed
- CrossCode
- Destiny 2 Forsaken
- Dragon Quest XI
- Fallout 76
- Subnautica
- Gloomhaven
- Heroes of Hammerwatch
- Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2
- Diablo 3 on Switch
- Magic the Gathering Arena
- Night in the Woods
- Super Smash Bros Ultimate
- Hitman 2
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Spiderman
- Hollow Knight
- Dragalia Lost
- Monster Hunter World
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