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AggroChat #200 – The Meta vs The Game

May 21, 2019April 22, 2018 by AggroChat

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

Tonight we are recording our two hundredth episode of AggroChat and we still have no clue what we are doing. There was a joke floating around this week that “lets make a podcast” is the new version of “let’s form a band” and honestly… it sorta is. April 13th of 2014 I gathered up some of my friends and said, let’s do a thing where we mostly just have the conversations we normally have on voice chat… while recording it. Four years and some change later we are sitting at our bicentennial episode.

Tonight we talk about the Kulve Taroth event happening in Monster Hunter World. Kodra and Bel talk about Magic the Gathering Arena and how this might actually be the answer to Magic for the Hearthstone crowd. Kodra talks about his experiences with the Dominaria pre-release draft event. Finally we settle into a lengthy discussion about games with defined metas and the battle between playing the way you want and playing in a way that supports the meta compositions.

Topics Discussed

Monster Hunter World
- Kulve Taroth
Magic the Gathering Arena
- Preconstructed
Dominaria Pre-release
- Drafting the set
Playing the Meta vs Playing the Game
- Warhammer 40k
- Destiny
- League of Legends
- Heroes of the Storm
- Monster Hunter World

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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 #188 – The Persona 5 Show

May 21, 2019January 28, 2018 by AggroChat

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

This week we are back after an impromptu absence brought on by the Flu. It is time to record our December/January game of the month show… Persona 5. This was Tam’s pick and he went back and forth as to whether or not he should pick such a long game. However considering we recorded two full hours of packed conversation I am guessing it was a pretty great choice. We also announce Grace’s pick for the February game of the month… Pyre a game that surprisingly only one of us has played given just how much we tend to love games from Super Giant.

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AggroChat #186 – Games of the Year 2017

May 21, 2019January 7, 2018 by AggroChat

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

After our long holiday break we return to record the 2017 Games of the Year show. This time around we have sixteen games to talk about. When you get six hosts and ask them what their favorite games were for a calendar year… you are going to get a bunch of answers. Traditionally in the past we have split this into two shows, but this year we recorded it in one go for a show that weighs in a little over 2 hours long. It was a great year for gaming and as always we would love to hear what our listeners favorite picks were.

Games Discussed