Harry Potter
AggroChat #228 – Let’s Go Catch Em All
Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo and Thalen
Tonight we talk about a bunch of things starting off with the interesting and also sort of weird experience of watching a movie, and having a live orchestra play the soundtrack. Ash talks about his experiences with the new Spyro the dragon and the practice of modernizing games without really changing the original gameplay. From there we talk about the insanely charming Pokemon Let’s Go game and how it is seemingly way more sticky for a few of us than core Pokemon games. Tam and Kodra talk about how with Diablo 3 on the Switch they finally understand what Grace and Bel see in this game. Grace talks a bit about the new Netflix She-Ra. Bel talks about his disappointment in the newest Hellgate: London steam release. Finally we end up in a lengthy conversation about Fallout 76 multiplayer and how this game does not deserve the grief reviewers have been heaping on it.
Topics Discussed:
- Orchestra Plus a Movie
- Spyro
- Pokemon Let’s Go
- Diablo 3 Switch
- She-Ra
- Hellgate: London
- Fallout 76
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AggroChat #113 – Who Needs Rails?
Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tam and Thalen talk Harry Potter, Steam Sales and LARPing sorta
To say we went off the rails while recording this show is to put it mildly. Not sure what was going on.. If it was just the general slap happy nature of being a long holiday weekend for all of us… or if something was in the water. It starts with me almost botching the introduction… and winds through a long series of tangents that I have no way of really properly mapping without thoroughly relistening to the show and documenting all the topic changes. We talk Harry Potter, and the new American Houses. However we also talk a whole bunch about where we ourselves fit into the Pottermore sorting hat quiz. I am apparently the only one that was surprised I sorted Gryffindor.
From there we get into a lengthy discussion about the Steam Discovery Queue and how sometimes it just gives the equivalent of a shrug emote. We also talk about how Steam is starting to feel like the various mobile app stores, with a slew of clone games for pretty much any genre. We delve into a topic about how MMOs actually make you less of a well rounded player. Namely that when you are playing an MMO… it becomes extremely hard to pull yourself away for those single player experiences. This devolves into brief discussions of Riders of Icarus, ArcheAge and Final Fantasy XIV. We talk about how cool it would be to get the band back together of sorts in that game. Finally we go into a long discussion about LARPing… or more so the kind of LARPing Kodra is used to that doesn’t quite sync with a bunch of the experiences we had with it.
Loose List of Topics
- Harry Potter Stuff
- Ilvermorny
- The Sorting Hat
- Steam Sale
- The Discover Queue
- MMOs are bad for the well rounded gamer
- Riders of Icarus
- ArcheAge
- Final Fantasy XIV
- What Kodra Means by LARPing
- What the rest of us have experienced in LARPing
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AggroChat #108 – Because Morality
Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tam and a super rambly show filled with lots of topics
This week we are down to a much smaller core for the AggroChat podcast with Thalen off exploring Japan and making us all jealous, and Grace needing to deal with some family stuff. The irony is there was a time when three members of the podcast was the norm but it is funny how much smaller the group feels when we are down a few now. For years I wondered if we would ever get used to recording with as big of a group as we often do… and I guess the answer to that is a resounding yes. As far as the show… this is yet another one of those “do we have anything to talk about?” episodes that ends up developing a life of its own.
Topics Discussed
- Tanking in WoW and FFXIV
- Mark of the Ninja
- Ronin
- Tenchu
- Ninja Gaiden
- Nintendo Articles of Incorporation
- Rom Hacks
- Overwatch
- Fan Fiction
- Harry Potter
- Idol Master Xenoglossia
- BabyMetal
- LadyBaby
- Cleveland
- Infinity Showdown
- Uncharted
- Goldeneye
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