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AggroChat #240 – The UnHollow Knight

May 21, 2019February 17, 2019 by AggroChat

Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo and Thalen

This evening we discuss the Anthem “Launch” and the spreadsheet that is required to understand it. We give a quick summary of our experiences and how it is turning out to be really freaking good. From there we dive into Silksong the Hornet DLC that has turned into its own larger than the original Hollow Knight game. We also talk about the first Nintendo Direct of the new year and all of the games that got announced. Bel tortures Kodra with some brief discussion about Keen Dreams showing up on the Switch. Finally we dive into a topic about playing games for what they are actually good at rather than trying to bend them to our will.

Topics Discussed:

Anthem “Launch”
- Spreadsheet Launches
- Improvements over Demo
- Very Much a Bioware Game in a Good Way
Hollow Knight: Silksong Announcement
Nintendo Direct
- Mario Maker 2
- Link’s Awakening
- Various Final Fantasy Releases
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Captain Toad DLC
- Tetris 99
  - Did Tetris Need Battle Royale Mode?
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
- Boxboy + Boxgirl
- Yoshi’s Crafted World
- Astral Chain
- Deltarune
Keen Dreams on Switch
Playing Games for What They Are Good At
- The Struggle with MMOs

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AggroChat #220 – I Am Gorb!

May 21, 2019September 16, 2018 by AggroChat

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

Tonight we record a show that has almost nothing to do with Gorb… but you are going to get that as a name anyways because reasons. This is another one of those shows that has a bunch of topics that kept rolling over from other shows until we managed to align enough of them that sorta made sense together. Tonight we talk about MMOs an awful lot covering the life cycle of the new player experience, returning player experience and the completely and total nonsense that happens at end game with power creep.

Rough Approximation of Topics

DPS Shortage
- Why We Apparently Only Know Tanks and Healers
The New Player Experience
- World of Warcraft
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Destiny Series
- Warframe
The Returning Character Experience
- All of the Above Again
- How The Secret World did it Poorly
Power Creep
- Why did we stat squish only to be irresponsible again?
- Mudflation the term that actually came from MUDs
Nintendo Direct
- We accidentally talk about stuff coming out on Switch

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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 #187 – Pax South Vicariously

May 21, 2019January 14, 2018 by AggroChat

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

Firstly I feel like I need to lead with an apology. I’ve picked up some crud over the last few weeks and as a result my voice is pretty rough. I manage to make it through the show but there are a handful of long pauses where I went into a coughing fit. Tonight we talk about how jealous I am that Ash is at Pax South and I am not. The timing was horrible and I wouldn’t have wanted to be there in this condition anyways. We talk a bit about Destiny 2 announced changes and Kodra’s recent experiences with Super Mario Odyssey. From there we dive into the recent Nintendo Direct and Tam’s current forray back into Final Fantasy XIV. Lastly we talk a bit about the Total War series, specifically Warhammer 1 and 2.

Topics Discussed