Plotty Time

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch watched a video game movie about a hidden gem called Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy. It was good. Come hear us talk about it!

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch strap into their space suits and take a trip to Mars where we get to visit a beautiful science installation that is under attack by some sort of Hell dimension. It's not real Hell, it's like a lava level with demon enemies. We didn't actually go to Hell. We didn't go anywhere. We're just chatting on about Doom 2016! Get in here!

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch take a step off the train of life to eat the barbeque of life, which is video games, and on the sides of the plate, are the tracks... I've lost the metaphor but we spent our last week in spooky season talking about a lesser known gem called Ghosthunter! Come check it out with us! 

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch are neck deep into the most frightening part of the year when we wax poetic about scary games and this week is no exception. We are dissecting one of the most underrated horror games of all time with the Coast Guard Russian Boat and Oil Rig monster simulator Cold Fear!

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch take time out of their busy schedules to get together and talk about a hidden gem from the GameCube that told an engaging story through multiple generations while also trying to convince you that the game is broken and you are going insane. Come hither and help us continue the Spooky Season with the classic Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem! 

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch kick off spooky season in the best way possible! By talking about a game where a killer train holds an island hostage because its maker decided that money was more important than the lives of the townsfolk. Luckily the townsfolk have a bunch of scrap metal you can use to create an attack train to take down the Evil train Charles in the seminal cl...

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch dive in and go way back to the early days of Insomniac games and find themselves staring down a light, lovable duology (duoly? Deulilogy? Doggy? Dloggy?) where a small dragon is tasked with rescuing his entire species by himself with only a nightlight as his guide. Does he crush it? Listen in and find out for yourself as we talk about Spyro the D...

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch finally get back to talking about a narrative game from EA Sports! Can you believe it's been this long? This time we at least discuss a game where the career mode was the star feature that the rest of the game was built around instead of a poorly made tacked on game mode that was pasted together at the last minute. Feast your guys on a real attem...

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch dive deep into an Xbox 360 hidden gem that involves Sorcery, demons, holy weapons, and a bunch of other wild shit as you fight your way through a fictional feudal land fighting dragons in order to take down the main bad guy who can remotely tune into your head. Out of guesses? it has to be Dark Messiah of Might and Magic!

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch come to the table to talk about a game where you one man army a bunch of soldiers from the fictional country of Costa Nostra while also thwarting a coup of the United States Government that has taken over a majority of the government. This modern day classic is called Secret Service: Ultimate Sacrifice! Come in here and listen!

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch take a week off of reading book reports about games and decide instead to take a very popular podcast format and steal an episode out of that. This week we're doing a fantasy draft for Beat em Ups'! We talk about a lot of hack and slashers, brawlers, and shat the such from years ago! Listen to it, then go to the reddit to vote on who won the draf...

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch start talking about a brand new trilogy after just finishing up one last week! This time it's less FPS and more third person cover based shooter with heavy 9/11 justification and a rare case where the PMC Mercenaries are actually the good guys. Who knew? Anyways, this week it's Army of TWO! Listen to this! Please!

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch take a break from their usual programming to pay tribute to a very special man who played a key role in their childhood as a strange and eccentric man-child with a house full of friends and puppets. Once he married a fruit salad. We miss Paul Reubens already and we wanted to talk about him this week. RIP Paul.

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch wrap up another trilogy that they started talking about way back in 2019! Which by our count was about a decade ago since the Pandemic destroyed our sense of time and ruined everything. Hop back into this spooky rootin' tootin' and shootin' series with the final installment of the paranormal FPS series in F.E.A.R 3!

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch tackle the impossible task of showcasing a hidden gem from the PS2 era with a loaded voice cast, tons of robot on robot violence, and a way better satirization of war films and video games than that stupid NAM game we did last week. Enjoy the great pacing and stellar voice cast in Metal Arms: Glitch in the System!

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch travel back in time to the groovy 60's!  We will not to talk about peace love and understanding, but to discuss a middle of the road third person shooter set during the war in Vietnam that was clearly more influenced by Vietnam war films rather than the horrors of what actually happened. Have fun! and enjoy us talking about Shellshock Nam '67!

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch get the brain trust back together just in time to talk about the third installment of Uncharted. This is a huge game in a huge series and you all know about it by now! We're doing Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception! come see what we think about it!

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch take a deep dive way back when to the past of PC gaming in the early 90s where the graphics weren't good enough for grand envisions of massive video game wars, the processing power was better than any home console and no one knew what to do so they made FMV games. It was a weird time where they tried to make games into a movie... whatever... It's...

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch talk about a game that used a enigmatic art style to tell a deep soap-operatic spy story involving corrupt armies, backstabbing politicians, and international espionage of the highest order! And they got David Duchovny and Adam West in to do voices! how was this game so bad? Find out along aside us as we discuss the game XIII. 

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch get together to talk about a PS3 game that mostly got lost in the shuffle as a Gears of War Clone back in the everything is brown shooters of 2012 when you couldn't walk 5 feet without running into another shooter trying to be the next Call of Duty. This week we talk about the frantic world shifting cover base shooter Inversion!

This week Chump Slap and Poppascotch need to fill some airtime due to scheduling conflicts, so they decided that watching the 2005 film Doom would be a fun exercise and I think the guys are left with more questions than answers. What did they think about a Doom film where the signature gun never hits a person and now there's an alien chromosome that adds super powers to people who inject it? I gue...

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch close out an original First Party Playstation franchise from the PS3 era by talking about the alien war machine during a terrifying alternate timeline where the Chimera have invaded Earth, started taking over, and we're now on the brink of humanity's extinction in the always uplifting Resistance 3!

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch talk about an under the radar Xbox One exclusive where you fight bad robots as you attempt to terraform a distant planet that will act as humanity's last hope to save their civilization after a Plague. It's not that sad though, you have robot buddies. Get on in here as we talk about ReCore!

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch mull over a hidden PS3 gem with the Nazi killing' French resistance sim that prioritizes killing Nazis and blowing up all their resources so that you can win a car race that is super important to overthrowing the fascists! Because Fascists can go to hell! Enjoy us talking about The Saboteur!

This week Dr. Syintist, Chump Slap, and Poppascotch finally fulfill a fan request to talk about Star Wars by selecting one of the worst possible Star Wars games in existence that requires a big hunk of plastic shaped like a larger version of the Millennium Falcon's cockpit and put that on top of your keyboard just to play the shamed classic Star Wars Millennium Falcon CD-ROM Playset! We also got a...