Bits of Time

Season 3 Game 7

Can Larry Ever Finish an RPG, what makes this game so popular, and even as the years go on you can still learn new terms. A lot to dive in on a little Indie darling called Undertale.

Episode Bits:

(00:00) What to Expect

(01:24) Welcome - Will Larry Ever beat an RPG?

(04:22) How Long - Budget and Indie

(05:40) How We Played?

(07:20) What Kept Michael Going - What Stopped Larry - Funny Moments

(15:56) Old Man Brain Michael

(18:30) Twists of the Heart - Favorite Characters

(21:08) Short RPGs - What Makes Them Worth Playing?

(23:11) Larry Learns a New Term

(27:00) An Ending - And What It Brings with Fandoms

(31:38) What Makes an Indie Game so Popular & Undertale Sales

(36:29) The Quick Bits

(36:56) Designing Special Moves for Each Brother

(39:14) Toodaloo

We ask the simple question, is this game worth your time? Two brothers trying to save you time on video games.

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Season 3 Game 6

Time Stamps:

(00:00) Opening Monologue + Sucking Time

(00:59) Welcome

(02:06) Playtime

(03:51) History Class

(05:54) Favorite Upgrades

(11:15) Favorite Characters + Random Game Moments

(13:03) How Much Should This Game Cost?

(16:19) Create a Sales Pitch for This Game

(18:15) The Allure of Pixel Graphics

(20:26) Good Entry to Rogue-like/lite?

(21:46) Quick Bits

(22:58) Turn a Franchise into Vampire Survivors

(25:23) Outro

We ask the simple question, is this game worth your time? Two brothers trying to save you time on video games.

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Season 3 Game 5. Each brother converts video game titles into generic ones and tries to guess what game they are talking about, it's a great way to end this Monster Train discussion. Lot's to talk about in this shorter episode. Come listen.

Episode Bits:

(00:01) Intro

(01:03) Welcome & How Many Runs and Time

(02:50) Score Incentive

(05:31) Paint Me a Picture of Monster Train

(08:48) The Choices & Predictability

(14:00) Pugs & A New Game

(16:41) More Story Content?

(18:42) The Quick Bits

(19:33) Bad Names for Games & Making Video Game Titles into Generic Titles Challenge

(23:05) Outro

We ask the simple question, is this game worth your time? Two brothers trying to save you time on video games.

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Season 3 Game 4. For a game that struggled so much at release, it's refreshing to see how far it has come. Michael's inability to pilot a helicopter aside, both brothers are having a blast with Battlefield 2042. Though one does have to ask, why are so many games being released in such an unpolished state nowadays? Let's discuss it!

Episode Bits:

(00:05) Intro Monologue

(00:57) Welcome

(01:33) Our History with Battlefield

(05:15) Having Reasons to Grind + Stats

(07:18) Halo Infinite vs Battlefield 2042

(09:30) Battlefields Amazing Comeback

(15:32) History Class

(16:00) What Defines Battlefield 

(17:33) Brother's Skills

(20:36) “Squish”

(21:03)  Revoke Michael’s License to Fly

(22:52) Top 3 Maps

(33:44) How Long Will We Continue to Play?

(37:12)  Map Length Issues?

(37:46) Time to Get Competitive

(44:33) Frustrations Arise

(49:25) Praise or Shame the state of Battlefield

(51:57)  Games Releasing Unfinished (Pokemon + Diablo)

(55:00) Lex Fridman + Todd Howard Topics

1:00:51) Wrap Up

We ask the simple question, is this game worth your time? Two brothers trying to save you time on video games.

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Season 3 Game 3. Both brothers found this game had a lasting effect on them. This is episode goes places, deep talks about life, and what we leave behind. Stay for game talk and keep listening for a truly long wrap-up session about life and what to accomplish before we turn into star dust.

Episode Bits:

(00:01) Intros

(01:33) Spoiler Suggestions - Time to Finish - Development

(03:15) The Sappy Cheese & Story Concept

(04:55) Impactful Barebones

(08:57) Axing Gameplay & More in this Universe

(12:58) A Memory Machine of Malice & No Longer Existing

(19:12) The Story

(36:40) Ending Wants & Tragedies

(39:29) The Quick Bits + a Manly Question

(41:08) Life Ends: Is There Something You Want to Do before you Die?

We ask the simple question, is this game worth your time? Two brothers trying to save you time on video games.

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Season 3 Game Two: Yoku's Island Express - Larry struggles with fatigue, Michael destroys a JRPG to create a better game and the brothers discuss the UP's and DOWN's of this unique pinball video game.

Episode Bits: 

(00:05) Intro

(01:16) Welcoming the mixed opinions

(01:58) How long did we play

(02:25) Why does Larry hate balls

(04:07) Traversal Woes

(05:37) Worst Mechanic/Favorite item in the game

(06:34) Mike's pacing issue

(07:15) Larry's creepy concern

(07:40) Boss battles

(08:53) Jolly Characters

(09:53) Music

(11:13) Gameplay

(12:44) What Pushed Michael to the Finish

(14:16) Late History Lesson

(16:15) Steam Reviews

(17:58) Indie Games Receiving Inflated Reviews

(19:25) Short Game Fatigue

(20:29) Remove the Pinball

(24:35) Wanting more Metroidvania?

(26:44) Larry Confuses Michael

(28:13) Quick Bits

(29:12) Transforming a JRPG into a ball

(32:57) Outro Monologue

We ask the simple question, is this game worth your time? Two brothers trying to save you time on video games.

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Season 3 Game One: Elden Ring is here and wow do we have a lot to talk about. A worthy first game to start off the season. So much to talk about, discuss, and dive in deep with some viewpoints. Let's begin!

Episode Bits: 

(00:00) Intro

(00:55) Welcome to Season 3!

(01:35) Thank You & Small Changes

(02:50) Development Time & Influences

(04:01) What Makes Elden Ring Different in it's Open World execution

(09:09) Time Spent & Ranking The Souls Games

(11:58) Class Break Down & How We Played

(17:25) Long Game Fatigue

(19:50) Frustrating Bosses & Top Three Bosses

(37:55) Moments and Zones

(43:11) Quest Design & The World of Elden Ring

(46:11) The Accessibility of Elden Ring

(54:42) What's Next for the Soulsbourne Genre?

(56:37) DLC Talk: Shadow of the Erdtree Thoughts

(59:27) The Quick Bits

(01:01:35) What Franchise Should get the Elden Ring Treatment & One Character to kill them all?

We ask the simple question, is this game worth your time? Two brothers trying to save you time on video games.

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It is our 1 year anniversary!

(00:00) Intro

(00:57) Season 3 Changes

(03:02) Mike’s Tease

(04:06) We Appreciate You, Truly

(04:50) Your Reviews Help

(05:20) Download Numbers

(06:25) Top 5 episodes

(11:35) Top Podcast Apps

(12:01) Top 3 Locations

(12:45) Youtube Channel

(17:00) “It Takes a lot of Work”

(18:14) The Youtube Change That Worked

(22:30) Using Reddit for Promotion

(23:55) Coolest Podcast Discovery

(27:01) What Have We Learned

(30:38) Best Podcast Moment

(32:54) Oblivion or Morrowind

(34:07) Fictional Character Interview

(36:35) Thanking Guest Podcasts

(37:15) What is Success

(38:40) Where is the Guest Podcast

(39:40) The Future

(42:03) Wrap Up

Podcast Bio:

We ask the simple question, is this game worth your time? Two brothers trying to save you time on video games.

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What game franchises need another shot? What game needs a sequel? What game needs to be resurrected from our past? Come and listen and find out our top ten sequel that we really need.

Episode Bits:

(00:00) Intro

(01:20) Larry's Number 5

(06:22) Michael's Number 5

(08:04) Larry's Number 4

(10:33) Michael's Number 4

(12:48) Larry's Number 3

(15:40) Michael's Number 3

(16:40) Larry's Number 2

(20:52) Michael's Number 2

(24:55) Larry's Number 1

(28:33) Michael's Number 1

(33:07) Outro

We ask the simple question, is this game worth your time? Two brothers trying to save you time on video games.

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Starfield could be Xbox's largest property and Bethesda needs to show us quite a bit more of this game at the upcoming showcase to convince the mainstream of its potential greatness.

What do you want to see from the upcoming Starfield showcase?

Episode Bits:

(00:00) Intro

(01:17) Request 1

(02:48) Request 2

(05:21) Request 3

(07:08) Request 4

(10:19) Request 5

(11:22) Outro

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