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AggroChat #236 – Pax South 2019 Rundown

May 21, 2019January 20, 2019 by AggroChat

Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo and Thalen

Tonight we have a fairly packed show as Ashgar is recording from Pax South 2019. As such we start off with a rundown of some of the games he played. From there Bel talks a bit about TemTem or a game he backed but forgot to fill out the survey for that is actually a Not-Pokemon MMORPG. We dive into some talk about games that have massively overhauled themselves specifically discussing Stellaris and Warframe. Then we get into a discussion about normal and mundane things happening in games and how it sometimes enriches the experience in ways you don’t at first expect. Finally a quick discussion about Elder Scrolls Online and the Necromancer before we realize we have gone well over time.

Topics Discussed

Magic the Gathering
- Gatewatch Needs to Die
Pax South 2019
- Tunic
- Nelo
- Last Epoch
- Aqua Lungers
- Super Cane Magic Zero
- Plunderbound
- Hermetica
- Days Gone
  - Zombie Bear
- Resident Evil 2
- Ace Combat 7
- Jump Force
- Forsaken Castle
- Gestalt Vanguard
- Dicey Dungeons
- Lapis Labyrinth
- Witchstone
TemTem
- Actual Not-Pokemon MMO
Game Overhauls
- Stellaris
- Warframe
Mudanity and Normality in Games
- Hitman
- Travel Time in MMORPGs
- Tiny Normal Things in Assassin’s Creed
Elder Scrolls Online

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AggroChat #235 – Kickstarts and Kickstops

May 21, 2019January 13, 2019 by AggroChat

Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo and Thalen

There is an auditory warning, but we figured we would throw one out here as well. During about the last 15 minutes of the podcast something went wrong with Bel’s audio where the last bit of every statement got clipped. So you essentially lost the last word he was saying. This weeks show starts with a discussion about Kickstarter projects, which leads into talk of some of the things we have backed and how Bel is that guy that fails to fill out surveys. From there we jump into a discussion about Far Cry 5 and how it is a game where the forced story gets in the way of everything else. This leads into a discussion about Destiny 2, the Bungie divorce from Activision, and even to some discussions about how important publishers actually are now. This also includes a bit about the bidding war for Gamestop between the folks behind Hot Topic and the folks behind Redbox.

Topics Discussed

Kickstarter Projects
- Reliability of Boardgames
- Questionable Nature of Software Projects
- Bel fails at filling out Surveys
Far Cry 5
- Fun Gameplay
- Forced Story Mode Abductions
- Weirdness of Religious Cult Theme
Destiny 2
- Returning Player Experience
- Expectations of Knowing Lore
- Bungie and Activision Divorce
Importance of Publishers
- Bidding War over Gamestop
- Digital Only Standouts
- UbiSoft Abandoning Steam

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AggroChat #234 – A World of Pure Imagination

May 21, 2019January 6, 2019 by AggroChat

Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo and Thalen

This week we set out a plan of some dozen different topics… but only actually made it through two of them. Last we recorded the Games of the Year show and this week we started things off with some discussion of a few of the honorable mentions that didn’t quite make the list. From there we had a discussion about what games interest us for the upcoming year… and the list we gathered up is sorta nonsense. I have no clue what order we actually tackled them in so just sorta going to make an attempt at listing everything out.

Topics Discussed

Games of the Year Honorable Mentions
- Tangledeep
- Spyro Reignited Trilogy
- Celeste
- Civilization VI
- Let’s Go Pokemon
- Starlink: Battle for Atlas
- Tetris Effect
Games Of Interest that “Might” Release This Year
- Hollow Knight: Hornet
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Beyond Good and Evil 2
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- Ghosts of Tsushima
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- In The Valley of the Gods
- Untitled Goose Game
- Kingdom Hearts III
- Digimon Survive
- Tangledeep on Switch
- Anthem
- Dragon Marked for Death
- Chocobo’s Mysterious Dungeon: Every Buddy
- Pokemon 2019?
- Town
- Granblue Fantasy Relink
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
- Onimusha: Warlords remaster
- Metro Exodus
- Far Cry: New Dawn
- The Division 2
- Rage 2
- Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringer
- The Outer Worlds
- Ooblets
- Harry Potter Wizards Unite
- Wolfenstein: Youngblood
- Welcome to Animal Crossing
- Dragon Quest Builders 2
- Psychonauts 2
- Wasteland 3
- Minecraft: Dungeons
- Star Wars Jedi – Fallen Order
- Metroid Prime 4
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

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AggroChat #233 – Games of the Year 2018

May 21, 2019December 30, 2018 by AggroChat

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