Sun, 6 March 2016
Tonight we ended up recording a pretty strange episode as far as our normal AggroChat episodes go. We talked about the weirdness that happens when you play a game that requires a very special controller, and that manufacturers future is up in the air. We delve into the feeling of rehashing old content, and when exactly that stops being fun. That leads into a lengthy discussion about the pitfalls of Early Access... and gives us the title of this episode. Belghast talks a bit about his experiences with the Master of Orion reboot early access, and Kodra talks about the newish trend of persistent board games as he and some friends start Kingdom Death. Topics
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Sun, 28 February 2016
Tonight we welcome back Grace to the fold as she has returned safely from her trips out into the hinterlands. Additionally it was a little close but we actually got Tam this week who finished his Infinity Tournament in crazy record time. As a result we talk a little bit about the new Infinity Tournament scoring system and his experiences. Then we delve into a length discussion about crafting systems.... but more importantly the way Warframe seems to make a mad amount of grinding seem completely reasonable. Then I finally manage to understand why people are so enthralled with Dragon Age Inquisition.... because I absolutely hit my click point. We also get into a long discussion about when grinds feel bad, talking about Limited Time Chase items in MMOs that stop dropping after a period of time. Finally we get into a discussion about Sleeping Dogs as Tam revisits it on his backlog list. Topics
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Sun, 21 February 2016
And just like that… we are back! Belghast once again has a voice, and without really intending to we have recorded what is almost a double episode. The whole November/December Fallout 4 extravaganza has caused us to get woefully off schedule when it comes to the AggroChat Game Club. We didn’t end up recording the Fallout 4 show until mid January… and then Aquaria was technically the January game but we didn’t actually record the show until now. What happened in the meantime is there was another game that sprung up and has become a bit of an unofficial “Game of the Month”, namely Warframe. As a result we record a contorted show that doesn’t really follow the traditional GameClub show format. Join us as we talk about…
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Sun, 7 February 2016
Tonight was a bit of a struggle to record. Going to leave this as a disclaimer that Belghast is pretty sick, and somehow managed to come home with the Pax Pox from Pax South. As a result there are several points during the show where his voice kinda falls apart. Additionally we are down a handful of people this week, with Grace being busy and Ashgar being worked to death on call this weekend. In any case Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo and Thalen talk about a bunch of stuff, namely Pax South, the Vancouver Magic Grand Prix, and MMOFPS Progression contrasting Destiny and Warframe.
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Sat, 30 January 2016
Once again it is time for us to record our “Games of the Year” show, and this time around we did it slightly differently. Last year we tried to come up with some title that represented the podcast as a whole, but it ended up being pure madness to get us all to agree on something. This time we instead each picked three games to add to the list and now we are recording a show about all of those games. Of note… this is not necessarily show about games that were released in 2015, but instead a show about games that were important to us during the calendar year. This is being divided into two parts to cover the gap as myself and several others will be attending Pax South. In this second part we talk about:
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Sun, 24 January 2016
Once again it is time for us to record our “Games of the Year” show, and this time around we did it slightly differently. Last year we tried to come up with some title that represented the podcast as a whole, but it ended up being pure madness to get us all to agree on something. This time we instead each picked three games to add to the list and now we are recording a show about all of those games. Of note… this is not necessarily show about games that were released in 2015, but instead a show about games that were important to us during the calendar year.
This is being divided into two parts to cover the gap as myself and several others will be attending Pax South. In this first part we talk about:
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Sun, 17 January 2016
We realized that it had been a really really long time since we've had a normal show. With the holidays and a handful of theme shows... it has been amazing to have all of these special guests hanging out with us, but it had been far too long since we just did a normal "games we are playing" type show. This week also is the return of our normal lineup of Ash, Bel, Grace, Kodra, Tam and Thalen. Tonight we talk about....
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Sun, 10 January 2016
Firstly let me lead off this post with a quick note... I screwed up. We had a discussion last week about potentially switching to the Season/Episode format for our show numbers. After the discussion we decided to go with continuing the bigger numbers is better format. Before the show I go out and double check to make sure what episode we are on... and apparently I look at the wrong episode. As a result I absolutely announced this week as 89 when it should have been 90. I feel strange about edits... largely because the format of our show is intended to be like listening in on an existing conversation. So for the time being I've decided to let my screw up stand... feel free to mock me. On the week of Star Wars the Force Awakens release we actually had planned on recording a show on our feelings about the movie. The thing is... that we all for the most part loved the movie so much that we did not want to add to the spoilers on the internet. As a result we put off the show until a point where we felt it was "fair game". Upon coming back to work after New Years it seems like the internet has declared Star Wars spoilers open season, so as a result we decided to go ahead and record the show. What ended up happening is a show really unlike what I expected. It was far more critical than the hour and a half gush fest that I expected... but still from the point of fans talking about fandom. Tonight we also welcome back Dallian and Neph for yet another "big show" which are starting to seem far more common this year. |
Sun, 3 January 2016
In November AggroChat decided to try a new experiment. There was a game coming out that month that all of us wanted to play, so when Tam went to make his choice he opted to go with Fallout 4. That said we all agreed that we would need more than a month to play the game, and ultimately we spend a little over two months with the game. Any Bethesda game is massive, and simply takes a sheer volume of hours to sift through the content… and even then there is pretty much no chance you will ever experience all of it. For this show we once again pulled in Inkybrushes who we had on the recent Villians show, and called back a regular host from our early days Dallian. The majority of the cast had beaten the game with at least one ending, and a few managed to get multiple endings. The funny thing is… for a game that we all universally liked, we all had a bunch of negative comments as well. I guess that is the nature of our podcast, that we end up focused on the things that frustrated us and often miss some of the things we really enjoyed. This is a full spoiler deep dive into the storyline and various game elements, so if you have not played the game and intend to, I highly suggest you skip this show until a later date. |
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