Bel is back but still sick and hoping his voice holds!  Tonight we have a short reprise of the Star Wars Rise of the Skywalker discussion from last week since Bel didn’t get to participate.  This tiptoes around being spoiler so your mileage may vary. From there we talk about A Short Hike a charming game about meeting animal friends while trying to get mobile phone reception.  Tam talks about his experience with the Battlefront 2 campaign mode and a bit of him replaying SWTOR campaigns. Bel talks about Video Games being ported to the small screen and how they are more “inspired by” than accurate.  The Witcher however has a shot for shot recreation of a battle from the first game and we dive into that. Bel also has been playing a ton of Witcher 3 and is completely enthralled with the game now. Kodra talks about his experience with Slay the Spire and then we talk some more Pokemon Sword and Shield.

Topics Discussed

• Star Wars Discussion Reprised
• A Short Hike
• • Animal Crossing With a Point
• Star Wars Battlefront 2 Campaign
• Revisiting SWTOR Campaigns
• Video Games Adapted to Screen
• • Witcher Shot for Shot Recreation
• Revisiting Witcher 3
• Slay the Spire
• Pokemon Sword and Shield
• • Merits of Shift vs Set

Tonight we are down several folks including Belghast, so as a result Tamrielo is filling in with the role of leading the festivities.  There is some confusion and this show is announced as 281 only to realize after recording that it is in fact 280. Tonight the AggroChat crew talks about their feelings regarding the final movie in the Star Wars Skywalker Saga.  The opinions run the gambit from enjoyed it quite a bit to absolutely hated the experience and this leads to a pretty balanced discussion about the movie that the future of Star Wars.

Topics Discussed:

• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Tonight we kick off the show talking about the first week of Destiny 2 Season of Dawn and all of the new content that appeared.  From there we talk about the big shadow drop of Warframe Empyrean and the ability to crew giant spaceships. We spend the rest of the show talking about various things that were announced during the fifth Game Awards.  It was a two hour long commercial that confirmed that once again Microsoft is terrible at naming things.

Topics Discussed:

• Destiny 2
• • Season of Dawn
• Warframe
• • Empyrean
  • High Space Piracy
• The Game Awards 2019

Tonight we start the show with Bel talking about Darksiders Genesis and how it doesn’t really fit into the Diablo mold.  Bel also talks about his recent experience with the vastly different Wolcen as it nears entering early access. We talk about the large free update to Mario Maker 2 that among other things introduces the Master Sword powerup.  We discuss the Turn Based mod for Pathfinder Kingmaker which leads into a discussion about Turn Based and the Pause/Action RPGs. Tam talks about his recent journey into Star Trek Online and Ash talks about One Step from Eden. Finally Bel and Thalen talk a bit about the upcoming Season of Dawn in Destiny 2 and the end of the Season of Undying.

Topics Discussed

• Darksiders Genesis
• Wolcen Post Alpha
• Mario Maker 2 Update 2
• • Link In Mario Maker
• Turn Based Pathfinder Kingmaker
• • Turn based vs Action/Pause RPGs
• Star Trek Online
• One Step from Eden
• Destiny 2 Season of Dawn

Tonight we have a show with a running theme about launches of varying degrees of success.  We get the memes out of our system about the Cybertruck and how Bel would absolutely drive one.  We talk about the concerning launch of the Google Stadia and the challenges of cloud gaming in general.  We talk about the announcement of Half Life Alyx… and how we all became way less interesting when we heard it was VR.  We talk about the launch of Pokemon Sword and Shield and how Ash is frustrated about the lack of the eternal PokeDex, but otherwise it is a solid game.  Grace and Bel talk about the rocky start to Diablo 3 Season 19 and the various bugs that they are encountering. Bel and Thalen talk about the Vex Offensive entering the Final Assault in Destiny 2, and how players were expecting it to be something different.  Finally Bel talks a little bit about returning to and playing a bit of the Anthem Cataclysm events.

Topics Discussed

• Cybertruck
• • Object Still Loading
• Google Stadia
• • Challenges of Cloud Gaming
  • Unknown Market
  • XCloud / Playstation Now / Parsec
• Half Life Alyx
• • Half Life 1 ½ 
  • The Failure of VR
• Pokemon Sword and Shield
• Diablo 3 Season 19 Issues
• Destiny 2 Vex Offensive Final Assault
• • Fans Expected Fatebringer 2.0
• Anthem Redux

Tonight we talk about the new Hollow Knight randomizer and also some discussion of games that have randomizers in general.  From there Kodra talks about the return of the DoubleClicks at Geek Girl Con and how chill and awesome of a convention that is each year.  We dive into a discussion about a game we swore was vaporware but actually is freaking awesome… Jedi Fallen Order. We dive a little bit into some talk of the importance of space in games, but it mostly just ends up looping back around to some more Jedi Fallen Order discussion.

Topics Discussed:

• New Hollow Knight Randomizer
• • Randomized Games
• Return of the Doubleclicks!
• • Geek Girl Con 2019
• Jedi Fallen Order
• Importance of Space in Games
• More Jedi Fallen Order Talk

Tonight we talk about the epic conclusion of a two year long D&D campaign and the setting changing ramifications that come about in this Final Fantasy inspired setting because of it.  From there we dive into the recent Warframe Patch and all of the changes brought about by it. We talk about the Blizzard Shadiness and provide a bit of an update in that department before diving into a discussion of the things that came out of BlizzCon 2019.  We talk Diablo IV, Overwatch 2, and that time when the Lich Queen broke Azeroth and sent us all to the Shadowlands.

Topics Discussed

• Two Year D&D Campaign
• • Final Fantasy Theme
  • Epic Boss Conclusion
  • Commissioning Artwork
  • The Future of the Setting Going Forward
• Warframe Patch Update
• • A Rival System 
  • Kuva Lich
• Blizzard Shadiness
• • Bel’s Greater Theory of how we got here
• BlizzCon Updates
• • Diablo IV
  • Overwatch 2
  • World of Warcraft Shadowlands