Defend the Podcast

Another year has passed which means it's game of the year time again! Joe and Jamison reconvene to spend way too much time discussing their favorite games of 2021. http://youtube.com/defendthehouse http://fb.gg/defendthehouse2 http://twitch.tv/defendthetwitch http://patreon.com/defendthehouse [00:00:00] Intro [00:05:25] Changes to last years top 10 [00:09:02] This years tops tens are a bit weird 0...

We've all played the Outer Wilds expansion Echoes of the Eye and get into (albeit light) spoiler territory from 10:00 to 38:00. Then, Ben has played a great many games from Into the Pit, Metroid Dread, and not one, but TWO(!!) JRPGs (Scarlet Nexus and Tales of Arise), we've all played varying amounts of Inscryption, and Jamison is snacking on smaller games like Artful Escape and Sable. To wrap up...

00:00:00 Intro 00:02:11 Psychonauts 2 00:53:21 Deathloop 02:19:56 Kena? 02:22:32 The Next Episode

We talk about Halo Infinite again and recap the Playstation showcase. Then we get into some stuff we've played; Pyschonauts 2, Tales of Aries' demo, Joe somewhat deciphered what Terraria is, and then... well... we spend the last 50 minutes of the show talking about 12 Minutes and how no one should ever play it. Content warning for discussions about a game that contains home invasions, domestic abu...

We're back after two whole months with the longest episode ever! We spend a long time discussing our time with the Halo Infinite play test that happened, marveling at Battlefield 2042, then get into some good old "what we've been playing" discussions. We've got Mario Golf, we've got Zelda, we've got Death's Door, Yakuza, The Ascent, and more!  

In a special hybrid episode, Joe and Jamison chat Ratchet & Clank until Ben barges in and all three complain about E3 2021!   00:00:00 Intro 00:02:05 Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart 00:59:40 E3 Chat Begins 01:02:58 Geoff and Hideo's Fun House 01:07:43 ooohhhh Elden Ring 01:14:28 Microsoft's Show 01:15:30 STALKER 2 01:17:45 Battlefield 2042 01:21:14 Forza Horizon 5 01:25:06 Redfall 01:27:17 Starfield 01...

We finally wrangled the boys and recorded for way too long! Enjoy 20+ minutes of us going down memory lane by browsing our files and folders, which is just tremendous radio content. Then we've got thoughts on the Not-E3 happenings so far, including the Horizon State of Play and Battlefield 2042 reveal, yelling about people yelling about cross gen games, and hopes for the upcoming shows of "E3". Th...

Remember these? Even we hardly do! Video games are back on the menu which means Joe and Jamison are back to have far too long review discussions about the latest releases.  00:05:17 Returnal 01:30:15 Resident Evil Village

Friendships are ended when Ben and Joe forget about Jamison's birthday. But then, friendships are reformed with the healing powers of It Takes Two. Ben regales us with tales of playing more DRAGON QUEST XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition S, for the Nintendo Switch (Now on Xbox Game Pass), Joe played a good indie game, a bad indie game, and accidentally beat Loop Hero before taking a...

We're back, again. Another month has passed! We reflect on a year of covid before getting back to complaining about the important stuff - where are the video games!? We chat about all sorts of games, as is evident by the two and a half hour run time, but I really can't remember what we discussed. Valheim? Most likely. A little Loop Hero?? Probably. The Witcher 2??? The original Fire Emblem???? I t...

This episode is brought to you by Manscaped!  Go to manscaped.com and get 20% off + free shipping with the code: DTH #manscapedpod    Have you heard of Valheim? Jamison has been too busy and miserable to get on the viking hype train but Joe and Ben have become thoroughly addicted to it. We also chat about all things Mario, the remarkably lackluster Nintendo Direct and what in the world Nintendo is...

We're back with our first normal episode of 2021! In it, Ben serenades us with not one but TWO top ten lists. He's got his Best of the Generation and Best of 2020. After all that, we chit chat about some video games such as Joe's latest anime school girl game; 13 Sentinels, Jamison played all of Final Fantasy XV for reasons even he doesn't understand, and more!

Joe and Jamison are back for their 8th annual way-too-long chat about the year in games. Enjoy! 00:00:00 Intro 00:12:59 Jamison #10 00:21:16 Joe #10 00:28:25 Jamison #9 00:37:40 Joe #9 00:42:24 Jamison #8 00:48:57 Joe #8 00:54:05 Jamison #7 01:01:07 Joe #7 01:15:43 Jamison #6 01:22:10 Joe #6 01:23:17 Jamison #5 01:32:01 Joe #5 01:38:38 Jamison #4 01:48:52 Joe #4 01:59:25 Jamison #3  02:06:50 Joe #...

It's time to kick of 2021 with the longest single game discussion in human history! Join Joe and Jamison on the odyssey that is the Cyberpunk 2077 review chat. Despite us saying in the intro that this would include PS5 launch games being discussed, that is false. It's just Cyberpunk. Nothing but Cyberpunk. 4 HOURS OF CYBERPUNK CHAT - oh god.   00:00:00 Intro 00:02:05 The launch disaster, bugs, PC...

The next generation is here! We did it everyone, we survived 2020 long enough to see the release of these new consoles and unsurprisingly that occupies pretty much the entire duration of this episode. PS5 and Xbox Series X, the consoles themselves, the controllers, the games - we go over it all!

Joe and Jamison are back to discuss their favorite games of the past 7 years! Warning, this discussion is longer than The Return of the King. 00:00:00 Looking back on the last 7 years 00:28:02 Joe #10 00:33:09 Jamison #10 00:40:43 Joe #9 00:45:19 Jamison #9 00:52:15 Joe #8 00:56:12 Jamison #8 00:56:32 Joe #7 01:03:32 Jamison #7 01:15:17 Joe #6 01:22:02 Jamison #6 01:28:02 Joe #5 01:33:38 Jamison #...

Video game season is nearly upon us. We spend the first half of this episode covering all the crazy gaming news that has happened in the last month, tell tales of buying new graphics cards, then fight over which roguelite or like or whatever is better - Risk of Rain 2 or Hades, and more!

So uh... we recorded this a couple of days before the Sony show that happened. So we don't know anything about the upcoming PS5 launch/price/dates/games. CLASSIC! Instead we discuss the Xbox and the surprising Series S price, bad PC ports (aka Horizon), the utter gloriousness of Fall Guys, Risk of Rain 2, and more. Maybe we'll record a shorter little mini-episode sometimes soon to chat about the P...

We are back after a few months since the last episode, this time with the final two major Sony PS4 titles of the generation.  00:01:01 The Last of Us Part 2 1:01:39 TLOU2 SPOILERS!!! 2:20:32 Ghost of Tsushima

We are back one again, having just watched the Xbox Game Showcase, we spend an enormous amount of time talking about Halo Infinite and just what in the world Microsoft is up to. After all that, we realized none of us have played much of anything over the past month except the greatest game ever made... Ring Fit Adventure! 

Ok, so this is very late, my bad. It got lost in the shuffle after recording. This was recorded just after the PS5 reveal show a couple of weeks ago. Joe regales us with his experiences of being a shark and a structural engineer (not at the same time, though that would be a heck of a game), Ben's been mining in all sorts of games, and of course... DESTINY!!! We also chat about The Last of Us 2 and...

Recorded right after the RIVETING Inside Xbox, we chat about next gen's slow and annoying reveal roll out along with a whole bunch of random games we've been playing while we wait for literally anything to happen!

We are back for another lengthy review discussion of Resident Evil 3 and Final Fantasy 7 Remake.  We get into some FF7 spoilers near the end, so be aware. As usual, timestamps are below! Resident Evil 3 - 00:00:55 Final Fantasy 7 Remake - 1:04:33 Final Fantasy 7 SPOILERS - 2:19:00

New game releases are back which means it is time to have focused review discussions about them. Joe and Jamison chat for way longer than expected about DOOM Eternal then Ben joins for nearly 2 hours of Half-Life Alyx chit chat. There is a spoiler specific discussion of Half-Life Alyx too so watch out! There is ample warning in the audio though so they won't come out of nowhere and the timestamps...

The DTH office is closed and we are all forced to work from home to bring you important discussion about video games. Uplifting games that definitely aren't about dystopian nightmare futures. Games like Half-Life, Mass Effect, and The Division 2. We also recorded this immediately after the Sony PS5 tech talk, so there are some hot takes on that. It's a crazy time but the podcasts and the gaming wo...