That One Gaming Podcast

This week we’re looking back at 2023 and all of the games that we played over the course of the year and once again counting down our top five games that we each played! Additionally, we will be looking back at our 2023 predictions that we made in our “Best Games We Played in 2022” episode, seeing how accurate we were, and then offering a brand new batch of predictions for gaming in 2024! --------...

This is it, the year is finally coming to a close. 2023 was a phenomenal year for video game releases and because of that we thought this would be a great opportunity to look back at years past that also stood out among the rest and have a chat about them and the games that came with them. --------------------------------- That One Gaming Podcast website https://thatonegamingpodcast.buzzsprout.com...

This week Colin, Lucas, and Neal get festive since it’s that time of year and talk about something most gamers tend to…hate? That’s festive, right? …Anyway, this week’s episode introduces a new recurring episode format titled “On the Level”, where we shift the focus to a specific type of level in video games and talk about the aspects that we do and don’t enjoy about them. So to kick it off we’re...

Listen to your mom and go get dressed, and don’t forget your baseball bat and trusty red cap because this week Colin, Lucas, and Neal explore the quirky cult classic RPG That One Game Earthbound for the Super Nintendo. Released in Japan on August 27 of 1994 and later in North America on June 5th of the following year, Earthbound centered around Ness and his group of 3 friends who have all been cho...

In this episode Colin, Lucas, and Neal turn the focus to those characters that you DON’T play as in video games - the NPC’s, or non-playable characters, if you will. --------------------------------- That One Gaming Podcast website https://thatonegamingpodcast.buzzsprout.com Join the official TOGP Discord! https://discord.gg/2UZBf9wAZ5 Find all our links...in the trees! Colin: https://linktr.ee/De...

This week Colin, Lucas, and Neal get a little spooky and take a look at the latest CG-animated Resident Evil movie - Resident Evil: Death Island - which was released over the summer. A direct sequel to Resident Evil: Vendetta, Death Island takes place in 2015 as Leon S. Kennedy of Resident Evil 2 and 4 fame finds himself tracking down a researcher and engineer by the name of Antonio Taylor who is...

In this episode Colin, Lucas, and Neal take you all the way back to episode 15 where last year we weighed in on the state of video game collecting, with a bit of an update of sorts. Some big things happened this year, with the Wii U/3DS eShops closing, Microsoft announcing the 360 store closing early next year, etc, so we're gonna take another look and see what's changed in the last year...

This week Colin, Lucas, and Neal dive into the world of video game TV shows. Over the years they’ve certainly been hit and miss, more often leaning toward the “miss” category, but more recently things have begun to take a more positive turn with examples such as Netflix’s Castlevania and Cyberpunk Edgerunners shows, and HBO’s The Last of Us. So today we’ll be having a chat about some of our favori...

In this episode, Colin, Lucas, and Neal travel to the 22nd Century with the legendary 1993 action-platformer Mega Man X. Rather than simply bringing the classic Blue Bomber into the 16-bit era, series creator Keiji Inafune decided a much more radical change was necessary and set the game 100 years after the events of the previous Mega Man games, and in doing so introduced a whole new cast of chara...

This week Colin, Lucas, and Neal have got boss fights on the brain once again. But this time, rather than Boss Fights That Wrecked Us™️, we're talking about some of our absolute favorite fights! We've each picked a few of our favorite scuffles with video game bosses to chat about today! --------------------------------- That One Gaming Podcast website https://thatonegamingpodcast.buzzspr...

Hope you brought your appetite because this week Colin, Lucas, and Neal are joined by fellow Discord member and friend of the show Nathan aka Lord Kirov to talk all about food in video games! Over the years food has been portrayed in games in a variety of different ways - from grotesque pixelized blurbs all the way up to photorealistic dishes of cuisine so delectable you can't help but notice...

This week we're introducing a new style of episode dedicated specifically to indie games titled Indie Sample Packs. In these episodes, the 3 of us each have chosen one indie game for us all to play just enough to gain an early impression, then we offer those impressions to you! As such, we are not reviewing these games in their entirety, but instead discussing whether or not they'd be wo...

This week, Colin, Lucas and Neal take a look at a game that was right at the forefront of the 2000’s indie game boom, That One Game: Cave Story. Developed over the course of 5 years by lone developer Daisuke “Pixel” Amaya, the game first released in Japan as freeware in 2004, and later seeing a worldwide release of sorts thanks to the unofficial translation made by the Aeon Genesis team in 2005. P...

This week Colin, Lucas, and Neal take a look at one of the most popular genres in modern gaming, Open World games. First rising to popularity throughout the 2000's thanks to games like Grand Theft Auto and The Elder Scrolls, Open World games are characterized by their massive sprawling maps with mostly, if not entirely seamless exploration throughout. These games often lean heavily on player...

Be it a gun, a sword, a gun that's also a sword, a common twig or a wooden baseball bat with a giant nail sticking out of it, if there is any form of combat in a video game then odds are you're probably using some form of weapon to fight, and that's what this episode is all about! Though it was no small feat to do so, we've each narrowed down a few of our favorite weapons from...

On this Side Quest, Colin and Neal have a chat and break down that crazy Nintendo Direct that happened on the 21st of June! --------------------------------- That One Gaming Podcast website https://thatonegamingpodcast.buzzsprout.com Join the official TOGP Discord! https://discord.gg/2UZBf9wAZ5 Find all our links...in the trees! Colin: https://linktr.ee/DeliciousMorsels Lucas: https://www.linktr.e...

On this episode, Colin, Lucas and Neal are joined by the podcast's first ever special guest, Max (whom you may recall from the Fire Emblem Engage Side Quest!) to take you 20,000 leagues under the sea as we explore the magnificent underwater metropolis of Rapture in the 2007 masterpiece, BioShock. Developed by Irrational Games and published by 2K, BioShock released on August 21 of 2007 to unan...

This week Colin, Lucas, and Neal are back with another ranking episode, this time focusing on Nintendo franchises! We chose 21 of the top franchises from the big N to weigh in on and things are sure to get spicy as we break them down. As always we each provided our own personal lists and we will be using them to hammer out an official TOGP tier list with rankings from S all the way down to D. ----...

*This conversation was recorded on February 7, 2023 This week, instead of a traditional TOGP episode, we've taken the week off to celebrate Mother's Day and relax. But, in order to still have something for you all to listen to we're finally introducing our new side series, titled Side Quests! These are special, more focused episodes dedicated to deeper dives modern games. For this i...

This week Mario Month concludes with a look at one of Mario's most beloved adventures, his Super Nintendo debut, That One Game: Super Mario World! And yes, we know this episode is going live on May 2nd, but we're recording it while it's still April so it's still Mario Month! Released in Japan on November 21 of 1990, North America on August 18, 1991, Europe on April 11, 1992, an...

* This episode contains spoilers for the Super Mario Bros. Movie! Time stamps are below if you wish to skip around them!* This week Colin, Lucas, and Neal weigh in and give our official TOGP review of the Super Mario Bros Movie which released on the 5th of April. Already as of the time of this recording, the movie has grossed over 670 million dollars after two weeks and has blown tons of records a...

April is Mario Month on That One Gaming Podcast! Enjoy fun Mario-inspired episodes all month long! This week Colin, Lucas, and Neal introduce a new recurring episode theme where we pick a specific genre of games and have a discussion about it. And, to kick off Mario Month here on That One Gaming Podcast, we chose Mario's home genre, Platformers! Arguably one of the most popular game genres of...

This week Colin, Lucas, and Neal celebrate the podcast's first anniversary! Somehow it's already been a full year since we launched the show, and this episode is actually live exactly 1 year after our first episode! We thought it would be fun to take a look back at the past year and talk about some of our favorite moments as well as look to the future of the show. -----------------------...

This week Colin, Lucas, and Neal talk about those characters you love to hate. The baddest of the bad - the princess snatching, hedgehog-chasing, world domination-craving villains that drive our protagonists forward. Video game villains come in many different varieties, from the pure evil, completely irredeemable type, to the guy that's actually a little more relatable than you're comfor...

This week Colin, Lucas, and Neal are back with the latest entry in our That One Game series, with the newest game to be featured in the series so far by quite a large margin - 2018's indie masterpiece Celeste. Recently celebrating its fifth anniversary, Celeste released to nearly unanimous critical acclaim, receiving praise for its difficult but forgiving gameplay and accessibility options, h...