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AggroChat #180 – The Destiny 2 Show

May 21, 2019November 5, 2017 by AggroChat

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

This week we are doing some nonsense. Originally Divinity Original Sin 2 was the October game of the month, but we largely decided we needed more time with that game. As a result we swapped what was going to be the November game of the month in… since we were in most part ready to talk about Destiny 2 and primarily the PC release. So this week we are doing that and discussing the game that Belghast has devoted almost 200 hours playing already between both the PC and PS4 releases. He may or may not be a little obsessed about it, and that’s fine because now the other members of AggroChat sorta understand his constant insane ramblings about it. Join us as we dig into the game and talk about whether or not this really is a worthy sequel.

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AggroChat #179 – Shadespire

May 21, 2019October 29, 2017 by AggroChat

Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Tamrielo and Thalen

This week we have a more normal show after last weeks super serious one. We do however have a little bit of a call back in the form of a short discussion about how vocal minorities can negatively impact the press surrounding a game. We talk a bit about the launch of Destiny 2 on the PC and how relatively smoothly it has gone. We touch ever so briefly on the madness happening in Warframe right now with Twitch streams and free loot. From there we delve into Warhammer Shadespire and spend a good deal of time talking about it and past Games Workshop games. This leads to a bit of a discussion about the problem Magic the Gathering has with onboarding new players. Thalen talks about his experiences playing Orwell, and Tam and Ash talk a bit about the Legend of Five Rings Living Card Game. Finally we wrap things up with some talk about clicker games in general and two specifically: Paperclips and Succubox.

Featuring

Vocal Minority in Gaming
Destiny 2 Launch
Warframe Twitch Nonsense
Warhammer Shadespire
Magic the Gathering Onboarding Problems
Orwell
Legend of Five Rings Living Card Game
Clicker Games
Paperclips
Succubox

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AggroChat #178 – Games and Monetization

May 21, 2019October 22, 2017 by AggroChat

Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra and Tamrielo

We admittedly had grand plans and a whole list of things we were originally going to talk about this week. However once we opened the monetization can of worms it sort of dominated the show and a hour and a half later we decided it was probably just best to leave things to being a weird single topic show. This week we are down a Grace and a Thalen and Kodra is recording on different hardware while travelling himself. As a result there are a few rough spots that we attempted to clean up in post production, but corrupted audio is corrupted audio. All in all I feel like this is a really important show because it talks about the whole monetization thing from a series of different angles. I highly suggest you fight through the few rough spots because we unpack a lot of things during the course of this show.

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AggroChat #177 – Extreme Home Makeover

May 21, 2019October 15, 2017 by AggroChat

Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo and Thalen

This is one of those weeks when we seemed to have more topics to discuss than could possibly fit in a single show. We even had to drop one for the sake of time that we will hopefully revisit in a future episode. We start the show off by talking about Shirogane Extreme mode… or the land rush for housing in the newly opened district in Final Fantasy XIV. Ash and Tam took one for the team and sacrificed sleep schedule to get us a brand new house. From there we talk about Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire expansion and some of the things we have noticed so far. Belghast talks a bit about the Iron Banner 2.0 in Destiny, and some miscellaneous discussion about how clans work. Ash and Thalen discuss Dragon Quest Heroes 2 and the Heroes game genre in general. We wrap up with a discussion on Warhammer starting with the brand new stand alone Shadespire game and then talk a bit about Warhammer 40k.

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