Sun, 15 May 2016
This week we welcome back our sometimes host Inky... and I apparently get her confused with one of the other Pacman ghosts. The title of this episode doesn't really relate to the discussion other than it was a hilarious line that slipped out there somewhere along the way. This week folks played a lot of Stellaris in both single and multiplayer configurations. We delve into this game and its relation to other 4X games, and why this one clicks for some better than the normal fare. We take a whirlwind trip through Fallout 4 and The Sims, before discussing Twitch Streaming. I talk for a bit about my revised experiences with the new Doom reboot, and why I consider it far better than my early multiplayer experiences. Grace talks about her return to Final Fantasy XIV and how much she loves healing butts. This kicks off a conversation about MMOs and Raiding and winds up with Inky and I pining for Hellgate London again. Finally we wrap things up with a discussion about Uncharted and the whole "cinematic game" trend of the 2000s. Topics Discussed
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Sun, 8 May 2016
This evening Ash, Bel, Grace, Kodra, Tam and Thalen talked about a whole bunch of topics... but the largest amount of that time was devoted to Overwatch. Over the last week a bunch of us have played the game and we had commentary on it. Mostly several of us enjoy the game that is... but mourn the game that could have been with Titan. We also talk about looter shooters in general and the problems The Division has been having with both rampant cheating, and bad loot design. We spend quite a bit of time talking about Diablo 3 Season 6 and the rush that Grace and Belghast have been participating in. Tam spent some time playing Always Sometimes Monsters, which lead into a conversation about the Steam Suggestion Queue. Kodra has been playing Elite Dangerous again, which brings up a discussion of Eve Online. Thalen has recently started the Stick of Truth, and we get into a discussion about the arrival of Ryzom on Steam. This spawns a lengthy conversation about dead MMOs and the sequence in which we played various games. Somewhere in there we also had a bit of a conversation about the Marvel Comics Universe. This is one of the most rambling episodes we have recorded... but also the most true to our real life conversations.
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Sun, 1 May 2016
This week we discuss the April 2016 AggroChat Game of the Month title... Gone Home. This was a pick by Grace, and honestly one that probably a handful of us would have never played. However it also holds the special designation as being one of the few Game Club titles that we all universally liked. We talk about the design of the game, and the narrative, as well as the context. This game is the quintessential 90s game. It is set in 1994, the year Belghast graduated from High School and with Grace and Thalen not being far behind that also. For us it was this trip down memory lane that added so much to the experience. In any case, as is always the case if you have not played Gone Home and intend to... spoilers are plentiful. |
Sun, 24 April 2016
Tonight we had a bit of a strange show, that traversed a wide number of topics. First Ashgar talks about a game that he and Belghast played at Pax South called Stories: The Path of Destinies and how it is a good game in spite of largely being overlooked because of the horrible title. Belghast goes into a discussion of the “Sherpa” culture in Destiny and how it shapes player's actions in random groups. Kodra talks about Eterna the logical successor to Folding, which strives to solve the medical problem of properly sequencing RNA… and at the same time being a good puzzle game. We get into a length discussion about level design constructs and what makes a universally good design. Finally we delve into the topic mentioned last week, as we try and decide if there are more good Star Wars games than bad ones. We also get into a discussion about what the best Star Wars story was.
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Sun, 17 April 2016
This past week marked the second anniversary of the AggroChat podcast. For two years we have been coming together every week to discuss whatever we happened to be playing. So this is a great time to thank you our listeners for putting up with our rambling. We still very much feel like we don’t know what we are doing, but keep doing it anyway. This week we discuss the Overwatch Beta weekend that finally some of us managed to get into. Belghast contrasts his experiences in Overwatch with the Doom multiplayer weekend as well. Grace talks about the Wildstar Faction changes and how they are essentially the worst of both worlds. Ash and Bel talk about the Ratchet and Clank reboot, and how this is the way that all reboots should work. Kodra has continued to dig further into the world of Dark Souls and has some thoughts about it as it relates to learning Raid Boss encounters. We all get sidetracked on a discussion about good movie ports, and how we probably need to have an entire show about good Star Wars video games versus bad ones. Finally we wrap things up more or less with a lengthy discussion about how important it is to like the way your character looks in a game. Show Topics
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Sun, 10 April 2016
Tonight we welcome back to the show Inky, and talk a bunch of topics. Tam discusses his experiences playing the latest XCom and how each of the AggroChat facsimiles fared throughout the missions. Inky talks about playing the beta of the upcoming Fallout 4 survival mode. We delve into a discussion about Funko Pops, Disney Infinity and Amiibo. Belghast talks about the upcoming patches for The Division and Destiny and the positive and negative of each. We all share the love of the new Rogue One trailer, and how it makes is happy to be Star Wars fans. Finally Inky talks about a game has has been playing Submerged, which is something in the “walking simulator” genre.
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Sun, 3 April 2016
This week we seem to have worked out the technical difficulties we had last week, and I regret to inform you that Chipmunk Belghast has left the building. Episodes 99 and 100 both had their issues and I believe those are finally behind us. Tonight we talk about both the esoteric and the tangible and lead off with a discussion about Randomized Loot versus Predictable loot... and apparently Belghast really enjoys chasing unicorns. From there we dive into a conversation about the insane grind at was getting the extra bank tab in Diablo 3 Season 5. We press forward into a discussion about Belghast aparently deciding he really likes good PVP and Grace talking about the divisiveness of the latest Wildstar world event. Kodra restarts Dark Souls and with Tam they contrast it with Bloodbourne. We talk about the latest craze that seems to be Nintendo discovering there is an internet and mobile gaming with Miitomo. Finally we talk about Adeptcon and the new Infinity Rule Book, and the Shadows Over Innistrad Magic the Gathering Expansion. All the Topics!
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Sun, 27 March 2016
Last night we recorded episode 100 of the AggroChat podcast, and also wrapped up our Undertale AggroChat game club show. It signified our switch to a new way of recording the show... and is often the case with trying something new. Things wen't horribly wrong. Essentially every voice by my own was recorded sounding great... and when I spoke it sounded like a voice scrambler. At first I thought the show was a complete loss however this morning after copious amounts of edits I managed to get the show at least in a listenable state.... albeit my voice sounds like a hilarious chipmunk voice modulator. So join us for a slightly screwed up show as we talk about UnderTale. Several fans on twitter urged us to release this show in "as is" condition. I posted a snippet of what it originally sounded like on twitter and I think it is a slight miracle that we managed to get it that listenable. Thanks again for sticking with us through 100 shows, and especially being willing to deal with bizarro issues when they arise. |
Sun, 20 March 2016
This week we suffered some setbacks. Firstly we were late getting started by about an hour, and then once we started... we kinda mostly sounded like robots. We muscled through for this week but hopefully by next week we will have acquired a new infrastructure for recording the show that sounds better. The worst part is however.... the conversation this week was really interesting. We dug int the whole Faction Wall question currently happening in Wildstar and how we generally as a group feel like games are better without them. We also delved into everyones continued addiction to Stardew Valley. Ended up being a fairly short show as far as AggroChat episodes goes, but a pretty content dense one. |
Sun, 13 March 2016
This evening we had a pretty strange show as far as subjects go. It feels like we can never just talk about how much we like this or that game without delving into deeper subjects. First up we talk Stardew Valley and how it has seemed to take the internet by a storm... or at least most of our social circles. Next up we talk The Division and instead of getting into a discussion about what we liked about it.... we ended up getting into a discussion about the morality of dispatching extrajudicial executions. Eventually we do however get into a thread about the things we really enjoy about the game. We also talk a bit about the bad news of the week relating to the cancellation of Everquest Next and the severe layoffs at Carbine for Wildstar. This spawns a discussion about MMOs in general and their viability for the future. Finally we talk about the new Flamestrike event going on in Infinity allowing players to participate in a larger campaign through the internet. Topics Discussed:
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