Fireside Game Chats

Welcome to Episode 24 of Fireside Game Chats! For this episode, I'm covering the Onimusha series...well, the first three. Join me as I make gratuitous sucking sounds and venture through this seminal PS2 series that mixed zombies and samurai. Enjoy!

Welcome to Episode 23 of Fireside Game Chats! Matt returns with his Lover Boy to keep the conversation rolling about The Division series (yes, another Tom Clancy game). We are rootin' and tootin' and talking shootin'. Enjoy!

Welcome to Episode 22 of Fireside Game Chats! Long time friend and gaming partner, Matt, joins me to talk about the entire Assassin's Creed series. That's a lot of hooch! I am not a fan of how the Assassin's Creed games play and Matt knows this, so he chose to torture me to talk all things assassinating. Enjoy!

Welcome to Episode 21 of Fireside Game Chats! For this episode, I'm covering PS2 launch games that I got on launch for the PS2 on Christmas Day 2000. That includes Eternal Ring, Midnight Club: Street Racing, and Summoner. For the first time in Fireside Game Chats history, I'm talking about games I have never actually completed. The PS2 and its launch games hold a special place in my heart and glad...

Welcome to Episode 20 of Fireside Game Chats! For this special episode, I'm talking about my top 20 favorite games of all time. This is certainly my opinion and not a definitive list of the top 20 games of all time. With this list, you can get more of an understanding of my tastes and the types of games that I tend to gravitate towards. Some of these already have their own episodes! Enjoy!

Welcome to Episode 19 of Fireside Game Chats! For this episode, I focus in on finals week of my college sophomore year and the games surrounding that, including Mega Man 9, Mega Man 10, The Secret of Monkey Island, and Lost Odyssey. I took a different approach here of going backwards where I talk about the time period and then circle back to the actual games. I hope you enjoy my endless diet and p...

Welcome to Episode 18 of Fireside Game Chats! I talk about all things MachineGames in this developer focused episode, covering the games I’ve played from this studio which includes Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Wolfenstein: Young Blood, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. MachineGames is a premiere first person shooter developer and their pedigree has been impre...

Welcome to Episode 17 of Fireside Game Chats! Jesse (or Booger42069) once again joins me to talk about our favorite man with goggles. For this second part, we discuss the last three games of the series, Double Agent, Conviction, and Blacklist. Change your smoke detector batteries before the fire gets to you. Enjoy!

Welcome to Episode 16 of Fireside Game Chats! Jesse joins me to talk all things Splinter Cell. I'm still unsure if Jesse is actually in this episode because he's just so damn stealthy. For this first part, we discuss the first three games of the series, Splinter Cell, Pandora Tomorrow, and Chaos Theory. Be careful and watch your back in case someone in a tight suit is crouch walking behind you. En...

Welcome to Episode 15 of Fireside Game Chats! This is THE HIT LIST, BABY! Over the years, there are several games I've completed and some, I don't have enough to talk about for a full episode. This is my chance to talk about a bunch of games that I don't have much to say about. This includes, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Grand Theft Auto V, Persona 5, Far Cry 5, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, Devil...

Welcome to Episode 14 of Fireside Game Chats! Steve returns...or did he really never leave? We sit back down to talk about our next game, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. As the night gets longer, the conversation gets weirder. Hold on tight to your prozac because we're getting real weird. Enjoy! *Apologies for the echoes happening at some points in this episode.

Welcome to Episode 13 of Fireside Game Chats! I bring in my second guest of the show, Steve, to talk about the first game we played together, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. Enjoy this episode full of reminiscing, debauchery, and a weird game offshoot!

Welcome to Episode 12 of Fireside Game Chats! Today, I welcome my next guest, Diablo. I sit down with the big guy and talk about his feature games, Diablo I through IV in a special "Late Night with The Devil". We dig deep into the first two games and pretty much dismiss the later two games, but nonetheless, we talked about them all. This action RPG series was a big part of my childhood and I had w...

Welcome to Episode 11 of Fireside Game Chats! Today, I'm by myself talking about my best buddy, Crash Bandicoot and his four mainline games, Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Crash Bandicoot: Warped, and Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. I love myself a great, precision platformer and Crash Bandicoot is certainly one of my favorites. Enjoy!

Welcome to Episode 10 of Fireside Game Chats! Like five episodes before, we have ourselves a special treat. Today, I talk about how I acquired consoles, mobile devices, and computers throughout my life. This one is certainly a journey from my earliest memories to the day I recorded this one. Enjoy!

Welcome to Episode 9 of Fireside Game Chats! This is the second part of Michelle's guest episode where I bring my pick, The Sims, to the table for discussion. Hide your nude patches and give yourself a money cheat, because this one is a juicy one! *Note: There is some background noise in this episode.

Welcome to Episode 8 of Fireside Game Chats! I welcome my sister, Michelle, for my very first guest episode. For guest episodes, we tried something different by each picking a game and surprising each other with that pick. This first part covers Michelle's pick, Maniac Mansion. Strap yourself in and join the SCUMMettes, because we're traveling back to this point and click classic of the 80s/90s. *...

Welcome to Episode 7 of Fireside Game Chats! Not all games are great and I'm not always playing the best, so let's dive into a few games I consider "bad" from BioWare, including Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Inquisition, and Mass Effect: Andromeda. Digging up sad memories is a part of this show as much as happy memories, it just so happens that the games associated to those these particular sad...

Welcome to Episode 6 of Fireside Game Chats! In this episode, I talk about the very first video game I remember buying, Mega Man 6. The Mega Man series is my favorite and the sixth entry holds a special place in my heart and is one of my earliest memories. Grab yourself a drink (because I certainly did) and enjoy!

Welcome to Episode 5 of Fireside Game Chats! In this intersticial episode, I focus inward and discuss my gaming locations of the past. While most episodes will be about specific games, I want to have episodes, such as this one, focused in on my gaming background and my life around games. These will be tossed in about every ten episodes, though this one came early as I realized, you don't know me a...

Welcome to Episode 4 of Fireside Game Chats! In this episode, I talk about two games from my favorite survival horror series, Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 4: The Room. Silent Hill 2 was the first survival horror game I ever completed and Silent Hill 4 was the last in the series I completed. I know this is my second episode with survival horror games, but it's spooky season and I couldn't resist.

Welcome to Episode 3 of Fireside Game Chats! In this episode, I cover the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time trilogy, well, the trilogy plus the spin-off movie tie-in game. Taking the opposite approach of the last episode, I dive into some of the earliest video games I had completed as I try to recall memories from two decades ago.

Welcome to Episode 2 of Fireside Game Chats! In this sequel episode, I take you through the catalog of video games developed by Tango Gameworks. This includes The Evil Within and its sequel, Ghostwire: Tokyo, and Hi-Fi Rush. All of these games being completed within the past 10 years, so I have a lot on my mind to cover as I continue to get in the groove of these episodes.

Welcome to Episode 1 of Fireside Game Chats! In this inaugural episode, I take you back to one of the first video games I have ever completed, Final Fantasy I, while also recapping the latest in the series, Final Fantasy XVI. This captures the essence of my show of remembering the old and the new and there's no better series which showcases that for me than Final Fantasy.

Welcome to Fireside Game Chats! Let this introductory episode serve as a preview of what's to come, what I plan on covering, and my general vibe. Enjoy!