The Stage Select

Welcome to something very different at The Stage Select this week! Julian was out of town on our normal recording date, so instead we recorded some stuff on our own, and enlisted the help of James and JJ from RetroFits to round out the episode. We hope you enjoy it! 00:00 Introduction, HoloCure 10:26 E Sports Godfather, Skald: Against the Black Priory, My Destiny Girls, Justin’s streaming insights...

Well hello! We are light on actual games to talk about this week on The Stage Select, but we still manage to get into some interesting and fun discussions on a lot of video game related topics, so this is still a pretty fun episode, I think. I hope you think so, too! 00:00 Introduction, MultiVersus 18:56 WWE 2K24 on PC, Justin getting into streaming 55:40 Welcome to the Rumor Rodeo (yee hah) 01:19...

It’s another episode of your favorite video game variety show: The Stage Select! This week we’re joined by Bill Tucker of A Gamer Looks at 40. Bill has been a long-time friend of ours, and it’s great to catch up with him on our new show. Lots of Final Fantasy talk ahead! 00:00 Introduction, catching up with Bill Tucker, Final Fantasy 29:40 Streaming Fallout: New Vegas with the missus, Bill comes w...

The Stage Select is a wee bit late this week, but hopefully all the game talk and show announcements make up for it! Enjoy! 00:00 Introduction, show announcements 16:54 Trying to get back to Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Harold Halibut closing thoughts 29:14 Persona 3 Reload (May) 48:35 House Party closing thoughts 01:13:16 Darryl Strawberry facts with Morgun, an unused Fromsoft NPC, Unmetal, School...

Welcome back to The Stage Select! We have a decent amount of games to talk about this week, but a full third of the episode revolves around the recent studio closings at Xbox. This leads to a thoughtful and detailed discussion that is quite different from what you may have heard on other shows. If you only listen to one episode of The Stage Select, let it be this one! Then share it with a friend....

Welcome to the nerdiest episode of The Stage Select so far! We’re joined by James Chin and J.J. Jones from the RetroFits YouTube channel to discuss what got them into gaming, how they met, and why they do video game let’s plays. Also in this episode: the omelet is OP, Suikoden (and Eiyuden Chronicles by extension) is special, and how far can Julian push Justin’s patience with his degeneracy? 00:00...

Welcome back! This episode of The Stage Select was plagued with technical difficulties, and the first hour of the show doesn’t sound as good as it usually does, but after that things should be ok. We’re starting to think that the show is cursed. Already, whispers of a Phantom of The Stage Select are beginning to circulate backstage… 00:00 Introduction 10:35 2024 Video Game Presidential race update...

Welcome back! On this edition of The Stage Select we’re welcomed by the internet’s own Brock Wilbur, who gets very introspective on this thing here that we call video games. Are we using gaming to paper over our deep-seated issues? Probably! Is that revelation going to change our behavior? Almost certainly not! 00:00 Introduction, getting to know Brock Wilbur 17:01 Suicide Squad Kill the Justice L...

Welcome to a breezy and chill edition of The Stage Select that transitions between video game discussion and absolute madness that you likely won’t notice that it’s happened until it’s TOO LATE. MWAH, HAH HA! 00:00 Introduction, we have a Discord now (see linktree in notes) 17:03 2024 Video Game Presidential nominees 21:29 Balatro on console, Open Roads 34:15 Julian did a thing! 55:47 Rise of the...

Welcome back to The Stage Select! This week, we have a new guest: Westen from Big Nerd Gaming. He’s proof positive that there are great people that you can meet and interact with on Twitter still, and he brings a pleasant and balanced view of video games to the discussion. We also have a fun/stupid announcement in this episode that will hopefully become a popular recurring bit this year! 00:00 Int...

It’s a trim episode of The Stage Select this week, as we only have a handful of games to talk about. That doesn’t mean it isn’t chock full of stupidity, though. That’s kind of our whole thing! 00:00 Introduction, Julian and Justin meet James and JJ 04:54 Unicorn Overlord 01:02:01 Invoking dark forces with WWE 2K24’s create a wrestler mode, shenanigans 01:11:05 Dragon’s Dogma 2: the create mode, th...

It’s another episode of The Stage Select, and this time we’re joined by our good friend Mike Fallek, fresh off his work developing the game Troma Presents Poultrygeist. If you’ve listened to our previous podcast you know what you’re in for. If this is your first time hearing Mike, buckle up! 00:00 Introductions 07:30 Mike talks about developing Troma Presents Poultrygeist (and laws around lawncare...

It’s a jam-packed edition of The Stage Select this week, what with big games like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and WWE 2K24 to talk about. We also try some things. We’ll…let you decide how those things went. 00:00 Introductions and thank you to our friends and listeners 12:18 Julian and Justin’s personal 2023 Top Ten list 28:00 Julian’s second 11th birthday 34:12 Minami Lane, Contra: Operation Galuga...

Hello there! Our second episode is very different from our first episode, but that’s kinda the things about The Stage Select: you never know what you’re gonna get each week! This is our 2023 Game of the Year deliberations, and they are a prototype for what we have planned for the 2024 GotY podcast(s). We’re joined by Xavier Krieger, and this is an excellent episode to get a great grasp on the gami...

At last, it’s time for the first episode of The Stage Select! Strap in for the beginning of a truly unique video game podcast journey. We hope you enjoy what we’re putting down here, and there’s much more to come, so please share and tell your friends if you like this kind of independent podcasting! 00:00 Introductions: getting to know us! 17:34 Tekken 8 44:41 Balatro 1:04:04 We have concerns abou...

Every show has to start somewhere, right? Well, this is where we start. Before we start. A pilot, if you will. Will we get picked up by the network for the season? Listen and find out! (Spoiler alert: the answer is "yes") We hope to be back by March 2024 with the whole shebang, but in the meantime please subscribe and find us on that one place @StageSelectPod . See you then!

Introducing The Stage Select: a video game variety show! This is just a taste of things to come. Watch this space in 2024!