Video Game Hangover

It's our Christmas Special! Lots of snow, lots of games? Memories n stuff, yeah.

We celebrate five years of podcasts by answering your questions about PlayStations, questionable roommates, dance hazards, literal game mechanics, regret, and Iron Man. Plus Randy makes the greatest sacrifice of all. But first... (bottle opening noises) Episode Timeline 00:00 - THE FIRST PART 64:00 - THE SECOND PART  

Put on some headphones and join us as we listen to our favorite game music of 2015, including Splatoon, Metal Gear Solid 5, The Witcher 3, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, Bloodborne, Steamworld Heist, and Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 01:25 - Best Game Music of 2015 60:05 - Street Fighter II giveaway 64:00 - Outro  

D.J. has more to say about Soma. Paul plays the wrong Fallout, but maybe he can mod it into the right one. Randy admits to using one of those virtual girl apps. But most importantly: How's that new Assassin's Creed? Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 01:25 - Black Friday post-barricade chat 11:50 - Assassin's Creed Syndicate 32:15 - Lifeline 44:00 - Soma 55:00 - Fallout: New Vegas 71:40 - Outro

As Black Friday looms, it's important to keep your amiibos safe while revolving the screen to locate strange monsters. D.J. does so in REVOLVER360 RE:ACTOR, a video game. Paul enjoys cats and TitS while Randy longs for a time when all crime is legal. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 01:45 - Amiibo hunter/Black Friday barricade tips 16:35 - SOMA 29:18 - REVOLVER360 RE:ACTOR 35:18 - Chibi-Robo: Zip La...

Need a reprieve from the wasteland? You're in luck, because we've been playing all the games that came out last week that aren't called Fallout, like Rise of the Tomb Raider and StarCraft II Part III. Also, how to play Downwell correctly. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 02:05 - Car talk 09:50 - StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void 21:25 - Final Fantasy XIV 23:25 - Downwell 31:05 - Bloodborne 51:55 - Ri...

Last weekend we played games for 24 hours straight! Hear our thoughts about some of the games we played (and the important life lessons we learned). Bonus: This includes the mini show we recorded in the middle of the night. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 00:55 - Extra Life post-mortem 17:35 - Extra Life live show (Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Velvet Sundown) 43:50 - Destiny 54:20 - Galactic H...

Paul adds to his cat collection with the newly translated Neko Atsume. Randy plays a TV spinoff mobile game that's Actually Good. D.J. attends a Final Fantasy concert and manages to not get arrested. And no one can remember the name of that one JRPG. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 01:25 - Final Fantasy: A New World / Halloween recap / Dean Cain 17:35 - Neko Atsume 25:30 - The Walking Dead: No Man'...

Randy and D.J. don't talk about scary games this week, but they do chat about how much D.J. luvs Fantasy Life, Legend of Legacy (DEMO), and other stuff. Also: Randy has a great time playing Zelda: Triforce Heroes whilst wearing a dress and uses weird emoji!!! Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 01:25 - Not talking Halloween stuff or Extra Life 20:25 - Legend of Legacy 29:10 - Fantasy Life 34:50 - Trifo...

Randy gives Chibi-Robo another chance with Chibi-Robo: Zip Lash. D.J. battles spooky blobs and touch controls in the new mobile sensation, Downwell. And Paul plays the latest Additional Content for his The Witcher 3 Video Game Product. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 01:40 - Extra Life 10:30 - Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone 15:25 - Dishonored 17:20 - Downwell 32:25 - Chibi-Robo: Zip Lash 50:45 - Transf...

D.J.'s Dishonored game meets its non-grisly end. For the second week in a row, Paul doesn't transform into a gun. And Randy prays a looming voice actor strike doesn't take Nolan North away. Bonus: A no-spoilers barred discussion of The Beginner's Guide. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 01:40 - Extra Life 11:40 - Transformers: Devastation 24:35 - Dishonored 38:25 - Voice actor strike 59:20 - The Begi...

We play Super Mario Maker and Transformers: The New One and don't talk about movies. Well, maybe a little. Randy takes time off from Animal Crossing but has mixed feelings about his new career as a Happy Home Designer. D.J. lives the Laserlife. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 01:20 - Weather & 90s TV Chat 11:05 - Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker 15:50 - Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer 24:05 - Su...

D.J. reaches the end of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, and it's about time. Paul climbs tall things in Ubisoft's latest Art™, Grow Home. Nobody plays Super Mario Maker. Randy reads some books. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 02:20 - Randy's existential summer vacation 16:40 - Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer/Amiibo cards 35:40 - Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker 44:15 - Grow Home 58:55 - Outro

Paul and D.J. compare notes on recent Metal Gears and come to the conclusion that maybe The Phantom Pain was Peace Walker all along!? Randy remains strangely silent. Also, how to cheat at Dishonored. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 04:50 - Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain VS. Peace Walker Ultimate Showdown Substance Subsistence VR Missions EXTREME 44:48 - Dishonored 65:12 - Outro  

It's the spiritual sequel to episode 211 that everyone demanded: Your favorite characters return to talk about familiar games--like Metal Gear Solid V, and Ghost Trick, and Until Dawn--but in new and exciting ways. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 05:50 - Until Dawn 22:48 - Qube 29:50 - Final Fantasy XIV and Ghost Trick 36:05 - Anthology sequels 50:08 - Metal Gear Solid V 74:35 - Outro

Paul regales everyone with his Metal Gear Solid V antics, like: Attaching balloons to animals! Improper cardboard box use! Cassette tape theft! Meanwhile, Randy makes questionable vacation plans in Until Dawn and D.J. is still attacking his backlog. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 01:45 - Metal Gear Solid V 28:50 - Ghost Trick 35:30 - Dishonored 46:50 - Until Dawn 70:35 - Outro

PAX Prime is over and we're all still alive! D.J. has early impressions of Dragon Quest Heroes, Final Fantasy Explorers, Thumper, and Star Fox Zero. Randy raids some kind of tomb in Lara Croft GO and Paul is pleasantly confused by Metal Gear Solid V. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 01:40 - PAX Prime 13:25 - Dragon Quest Heroes 16:12 - Final Fantasy Explorers 22:10 - Star Fox Zero 28:30 - Thumper 37...

John de Lancie joins us this week to chat about his favorite games like Dishonored, Tales from the Borderlands, Volume, and updates us on his Backlog. Also: Randy sounds like Bob Ross having sex to Jazz music, whilst eating Fig Newtons. Wat. Episode Timeline   00:00 - Intro 01:40 - PAX Primer 13:25 - Taco Tuesday Update 16:12 - Mark of the Ninja  22:10 - Dishonored 28:30 - Volume 37:40 - Tales fro...

Paul and Randy are stuck in Fallout Shelter while D.J. tap dances on somebody's face in Final Fantasy XIV's Frontlines. Also: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Mark of the Ninja, Dead Rising 3, and Super Mario Maker. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 06:55 - Fallout Shelter 18:58 - Everybody's Gone to the Rapture 31:05 - Final Fantasy XIV 40:45 - Community Backlog Update 49:50 - Dead Rising 3 59:30 -...

The gang discusses the best reasons out of Gamescom to get an Xbox One, none of which are Mafia 3. D.J. wonders what would happen if Perfect Dark and Halo fought each other. Paul binges on episodes of Galak-Z. Randy spells seven words. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 02:30 - Gamescom excitement!!!!!!!!! 06:20 - Crackdown 3 12:20 - What would happen if they made a first-person shooter that was every...

The whole gang is back together so it's time to talk about every video game: South Park, Gravity Rush, Rocket League, You Must Build a Boat, etc. Plus more Guacamelee racism, and D.J. discovers what happens when they put Battlefield into Final Fantasy. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 05:46 - Racist Viewer Mail 15:10 - South Park: The Stick of Truth 24:30 - The Wolf Among Us 29:10 - Gravity Rush 33:...

  D.J. is joined by a mystery guest host who talks him through an Eorzean job crisis. The same mystery host, who is definitely not Paul because he's finished The Last of Us, wonders why Canadians are so racist towards Mexicans, maybe. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 03:30 - Viewer Mail 08:50 - The Last of Us (spoiler free) 12:30 - Guacamelee 22:15 - Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward 47:00 - Gravity Ru...

Damage Dealing Wizard Character can utilize the following abilities: (10MP) Deal Damage (25MP) Enhanced Deal Damage (50MP) Superior Deal Damage   Upon reaching level 30, Damage Dealing Wizard Character can be promoted to Damage Dealing Sage. Episode Timeline   00:00 - Intro 02:40 - Evo 2015 12:08 - Alphabear 29:00 - Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward 41:10 - Geometry Wars 3 54:00 - South Park: The Sti...

On this week's show, we play game music. Beat the summer heat with icy cooldown songs, exit music for games, and the raddest opening stages of the 90s. Episode Timeline 00:00 - Intro 02:50 - Game Music! 65:20 - Outro  

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