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AggroChat #226 – Diablowing Up

May 21, 2019November 4, 2018 by AggroChat

Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra and Tamrielo

Tonight we have a packed show full of topics to discuss because as we hurdle towards the holiday season… a bunch of stuff is happening. First up we talk about Super Smash Bros Ultimate and the inclusion of the World of Light single player system. From there with similar Nintendo topics we talk a bit about the Diablo 3 Switch release and just how good it feels. Chaining off that we get into a discussion about Blizzcon 2018 and the announcement that the community was not prepared for… Diablo Immortal. We try and break this down a little bit, talk about the positives of it, and explain why the community as a whole freaked the hell out in a very toxic and dangerous manner.

Admittedly somewhere along in here we jump around through a bunch of topics but eventually settle into a discussion of World of Warcraft Classic and all of the things Bel quite honestly didn’t remember from playing on a retro client. Saturday afternoon Bel, Tam and Kodra spent a few hours roaming around in Fallout 76, so there is some talk about how much they are now looking forward to the release. Finally we wrap up with a brief discussion of Deltarune, which honestly happened in a few places during the show… but will likely be reprised next week.

Topics Discussed:

Super Smash Bros Ultimate
- World of Light
Diablo 3 Switch
Blizzcon 2018
- Diablo Immortal
- World of Warcraft Classic
Fallout 76
Deltarune

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AggroChat #199 – Four Years Complete

May 21, 2019April 15, 2018 by AggroChat

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

In a human sense AggroChat just turned 5 years old this last Friday… but in a more correct sense we have now completely four entire years of this podcast. I still feel like we really don’t completely know what we are doing here. As the patron saint of bad decisions… Belghast journeys back into Everquest… not EQ2 but the original and talks a bit about how many of those systems have changed drastically. Grace and Bel talk a bit about their Mythical Nonsense journey in World of Warcraft as they reached Mythic +10 this past week. We go into a lengthy conversation talking about encounter decision with several examples including Monster Hunter World and Dark Souls. We talk briefly about the Dominaria expansion for Magic the Gathering and the release of Standard Ready Challenger Decks. Finally we wrap up with a little bit of discussion about the MegaMan event happening in Monster Hunter World.

Topics Discussed

Four Years of AggroChat
Original Everquest
- Changed Systems
Mythical Nonsense
Encounter Design
- Single Player Encounters
- Multiplayer Encounters
- Variable Number Encounters
- Dark Souls Encounters
- Monster Hunter World Encounters
- Guild Wars 2 Mistakes
Dominaria Magic Expansions
- Challenge Decks
Monster Hunter World Megaman Event

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AggroChat #194 – Cactuar Invasion

May 21, 2019March 11, 2018 by AggroChat

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

This week we have a wide number of topics to discuss starting with the Nintendo Direct from March 8th and the fake out announcement of Smash Brothers. We talk a bit about Monster Hunter 4U and Generations and why maybe one is a better starting place in the series than the other. We talk about State of Decay 2 and the backlash over it being on the Windows Store only. We briefly talk about what it would take to make Desktop Linux a reality. Tam talks a bit about finishing the first route in Nier Automata and Bel discusses his experiences with Final Fantasy XV PC including the source of this screenshot. Finally we wrap things up with a discussion about the Legend of Five Rings Living Card game and that Tam has recently begun playing it online unofficially.

Topics Discussed:

Nintendo Direct
Phantasy Star Online 2: Cloud
Monster Hunter 4U and Generations
Monster Hunter Worlds
State of Decay 2
Windows Store
Desktop Linux
Nier Automata
Final Fantasy XV PC
Cactuar Steam Workshop
Legend of Five Rings Living Card Game

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AggroChat #113 – Who Needs Rails?

May 21, 2019July 3, 2016 by AggroChat

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