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AggroChat #212 – Respect Your Time

May 21, 2019July 15, 2018 by AggroChat

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

Tonight we continue our recent tradition of picking up on topics that we did not quite have time for on the previous episode. First off we discuss our general feelings about “cheating” and by cheating we are talking about relying on guides, maps, and walkthroughs in additional to other more traditional cheats and mods. From there Bel talks a bit about his experiences with Orsinium and how playing through all three factions of the original Elder Scrolls Online content is paying off. From there we discuss long games that have a very clear failure state and how generally lousy that feels when it occurs. Finally we talk a bit about the recent ArenaNet community issues and share some of our feelings about it.

Topics Discussed

Walkthroughs Guides and Cheats
- Respecting our Time
- Enhancing the “Fun Loop”
- When we would not use them
Elder Scrolls Online
- Finishing Orsinium
- Payoff for finishing all original Content
Long Games with Failure States
- Kingdom Death
- Civilization
- Battletech
- Sim/City Builder Games
ArenaNet Issues
- Emboldening Bad Actors
- “Other” on the Internet
- The Stress of Game Development
- Bel’s Brain Broke

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AggroChat #211 – Under the Sea Elves

May 21, 2019July 8, 2018 by AggroChat

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

Tonight we record a normal show… and by normal I mean one that starts off completely derailing Belghast. We have a new way of trying to make sure topics that don’t actually make it on a weeks show roll over to the next week… and as a result there are a bunch of topics that have been sitting in limbo for awhile that we dig into.

Topics Discussed

Evoland 2 Reprised
Warhammer Age of Sigmar
- Idoneth Deepkin
- Stormcast
- Nighthaunt
- Games Workshop New Management
Disappointing Sequels
- New Gundam Breaker
- Deus Ex Invisible War
- Master of Orion 3
- Mass Effect Andromeda
Gloomhaven
- Premium Board Games
- Kingdom Death
Elder Scrolls Online
- Current State of Game

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AggroChat #97 – Fallacy of Early Access

May 21, 2019March 6, 2016 by AggroChat

Tonight Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, and Thalen talk about a bunch of things including the pitfalls of Early Access.

Tonight we ended up recording a pretty strange episode as far as our normal AggroChat episodes go. We talked about the weirdness that happens when you play a game that requires a very special controller, and that manufacturers future is up in the air. We delve into the feeling of rehashing old content, and when exactly that stops being fun. That leads into a lengthy discussion about the pitfalls of Early Access… and gives us the title of this episode. Belghast talks a bit about his experiences with the Master of Orion reboot early access, and Kodra talks about the newish trend of persistent board games as he and some friends start Kingdom Death.