Brothers vs Backlog

News about February games like Horizon Forbidden West and Elden Ring. Plus our weekly Triangle Strategy talk and an even worse timeline where the bears are running the show.

Timestamps!
1:30 - This episode starts off with some Disney nostalgia
4:48 - BvB has reached Asia!
6:51 - This week's Kojima Minute™
7:12 - What we've been playing
13:02 - The Lion King on SNES is bullshit
14:20 - Time for entomology
NEWS
22:00 - The Best Game Name We Saw This Week
24:40 - Majora's Mask is coming
27:28 - N64 games on Expansion Pass are looking slightly better
34:05 - GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition physical Switch version is coming
37:32 - Horizon Forbidden West has a story trailer
45:43 - If you listen very carefully here, you can hear us both go for the same Key & Peele joke at the same time.
45:47 - Elden Ring's developers talk about game length
51:55 - Triangle Strategy stuff, as is tradition
GAMES
55:50 - Quick updates on Reverie Knights Tactics, Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth, Weird West, The Amazing American Circus
57:47 - Grit
58:33 - Nobody Saves the World getting fairly good reviews
1:03:34 - Airoheart is totally not A Link to the Past
1:08:16 - Banners of Ruin is a very dark Redwall
1:10:46 - Dark Deity is the Fire Emblem you might be looking for
1:13:05 - Jackson is intrigued by Pokemon Legends Arceus

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A big fish has been eaten by an even bigger fish, as Microsoft is buying Activision/Blizzard. Plus: we <3 FFX, we
Timestamps!
1:12 - Our geographical knowledge is questionable
3:19 - The Weekly Kojima Minute (may not be a minute)
3:42 - What we've been playing
9:50 - Brothers vs Backlog (still) demands control remapping
12:19 - Jackson was not a competent Uncharted player
NEWS
19:00 - Our first award of 2022
20:40 - Microsoft is probably buying Activision Blizzard
26:29 - AGDQ raised a big ol' pile of money
30:19 - Hitman Trilogy is coming!
34:40 - The Clickbait Callout™
37:12 - People are finding PS3 games on the PS5 store
41:15 - Steam Decks are actually shipping in February
44:00 - Hogwarts Legacy may be delayed; Jackson wants Avada Kedavra
49:29 - Trails from Zero is heading stateside
51:51 - It's Kirby's 30th birthday
54:40 - Pokemon Legends Arceus finally has gameplay and is already leaked
59:32 - Cuphead is coming to Netflix
GAMES
1:06:04 - Two mediocre looking tactics games
1:08:36 - Excaliburian looks ok, is free
1:10:47 - King Arthur: Knight's Tale is a Bill game
1:14:11 - The Company Man is a Jackson game
1:18:00 - Ocean's Heart is a neat looking 2D Zelda-like
1:20:30 - Rise of the Third Power has us both excited!
1:23:15 - Full disclosure: we go a little off the rails here.

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Is there ever a bad time to discuss Home Alone? No, no there is not. Plus discussion of tactic games, Kirby is coming sooner than expected, and Horizon is making big moves.

Timestamps!
0:40 - Let's start with a tangent! Home Alone stuff
6:27 - Somehow we're now talking about FernGully: The Last Rainforest
8:18 - Weekly backlog check-in
13:01 - What we've been playing
16:36 - Jackson has an ideal pirate game that may or may not exist
19:32 - Our brother Matt has been promoted to BvB Senior Assassin's Creed Correspondent
22:31 - Swimming in games sucks
NEWS
27:37 - AGDQ is currently in progress, unless you listen to this after 15 January
32:47 - A Fallout TV series is coming! Probably.
36:18 - Dying Light 2 has 500 hours of content, but really only 80, but really only 20
39:27 - Sonic Frontiers will have many languages, still lacks gameplay trailers
41:18 - South Park is moving toward multiplayer
43:56 - Horizon Forbidden West plans multiple improvements
50:14 - Triangle Strategy!!
52:09 - Kirby and the Forgotten Land is coming in March!
54:03 - A few more mini news bites
GAMES
1:01:40 - Blacksmith of the Sand Kingdom
1:03:54 - Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling
1:06:07 - Battle Brothers
1:08:11 - Jackson goes off on another tangent on the FX Chip. Spoilers: Star Fox looks awful
1:10:43 - Fez
1:13:47 - BvB demands remappable controls in all games
1:19:27 - Bill feels the latest Elex II combat preview is lacking in information

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We kick off 2022 with a bang! What are we looking forward to this year? Listen and find out! Plus - how many romance options are too many in a game? We have the answer.

Timestamps!
5:10 - There is another Zack(ary)!
9:04 - Weekly Backlog check-in
11:22 - What we've been playing
19:30 - Turns out Jackson is dumb
20:55 - What we're looking forward to in 2022
NEWS
36:43 - Triangle Strategy has box art!
39:31 - Top 15 Indie Sellers on Switch
44:45 - Horizon is coming to VR
48:12 - Haunted Chocolatier will have NPC relationships (booooo)
51:27 - Bill asking the tough questions
55:25 - Hideo Kojima still making games
58:42 - Yoko Taro maybe making different games
1:01:21 - Digital sales are dominating
GAMES
1:04:00 - UnMetal
1:06:21 - Flynn: Son of Crimson
1:09:20 - Nobody Saves the World
1:13:44 - Karma City Police
1:16:29 - Weird simulation games
1:21:57 - The "right" way to play open-world games

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This week we say goodbye to 2021 by recounting everything we played this year. Bill also gets a new intro nickname in what may be a new segment!

Timestamps!
00:01:26 - BvB believes spite is a great reason for doing things
00:02:12 - Backlog check-in with Christmas gifts!
00:04:08 - A moment of leek appreciation
00:06:30 - What we've been playing
00:09:30 - In remembrance of Nintendo's Project Dolphin pre-name change
00:16:03 - 2021 Games Played Wrap Up
00:23:15 - Bill fires out a super hot Celeste take
NEWS
00:29:09 - Weird West is delayed
00:31:42 - FF XVI news delayed
00:36:49 - FF VII Remake Intergrade is less expensive now?
00:40:24 - Horizon Forbidden West has a lot of new dinos
00:46:11 - The World Ends With You is only mostly dead
00:48:24 - Brandon Sanderson is making a game
00:50:44 - Triangle Strategy Character Preview #2
00:52:00 - Yasumi Matsuno is doing... something!
GAMES
00:53:35 - Expeditions: Rome
00:55:31 - Elex II
00:58:38 - Dorfromantik

01:01:50 - We go off on a wild tangent about boardgames, Whose Line Is It Anyway, and Russell Westbrook. 

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This week we take a look at the 19 games from Nintendo's latest Indie World Showcase. Plus lots of Switch news, Bill slays some spires, and Jackson makes slightly better money decisions.

Timestamps!
00:03:32 - Backlog check-in
00:06:21 - An in-depth analysis of Overcooked
00:09:33 - What we've been playing
00:19:15 - The Nintendo Indie World Showcase excited us!
Longer previews: Sea of Stars, Aliisha: The Oblivion of the Twin Goddesses, Loco Motive, Afterlove EP, Dungeon Munchies, Figment 2: Creed Valley, Let's Play! Oink Games, Endling: Extinction is Forever, OlliOlli World, River City Girls 2
00:40:26 - Shorter Previews - Parkasaurus, Don't Starve Together, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Baby Storm, Grime, Gerda: A Flame in Winter, Timelie, Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
00:47:30 - Surprise, one more game (Omori)
00:49:56 - NEWS
00:50:07 - New NSO Expansion Pack games
00:52:53 - The Switch Year in Review is here
00:54:29 - Breath of the Wild 2 is sort of confirmed for November
00:56:32 - Triangle Strategy still looks super cool
00:59:00 - Splinter Cell was only mostly dead
01:01:54 - Gran Turismo 7 info
01:04:22 - Ghostbusters! Also, much Milon's Secret Castle discussion
01:07:11 - Horizon Forbidden West has new dino-bots
01:10:25 - GAMES - Stranger of Paradise, Weird West, Have a Nice Death, Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth

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The Game Awards have come and gone. We'll talk about what we saw and what intrigued us. Plus... how many circus games are enough and why aren't there games based on the Redwall novels?

Timestamps!
00:02:30 - Bill's in-depth analysis of the economic relationship between Peloton and Sex and the City
00:07:13 - Quick Backlog check-ins
00:09:03 - What we've been playing
00:18:01 - The Game Awards 2021: A (Sort of) Detailed Breakdown
00:22:02 - Senua does not have a great giant killing strategy in Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
00:33:44 - Why did it have to be snakes? Er... spiders.
00:35:50 - A thoroughly poor analysis of LotR orcs
00:38:23 - Cuphead! A game to make us feel bad about ourselves
00:43:04 - Jackson would like Square One TV to be available on DVD, which has nothing to do with anything
00:46:07 - Forspoken was Project Athia (sung to the tune of "Istanbul")
00:51:47 - SteelRising looks intriguing
00:54:00 - Star Trek fans might want to skip ahead a couple minutes here
NEWS
01:02:21 - Sea of Stars has fishing, because reasons
01:03:21 - The Analogue Pocket is here to preserve handheld gaming
01:07:35 - Spiritfarer's final update has arrived (major spoilers)
01:13:45 - More Stranger of Paradise information is coming this weekend
01:17:43 - Nintendo has had another Indie World Showcase
GAMES
01:19:30 - Young Souls
01:23:16 - Tails of Iron
01:28:48 - Circus Electrique
01:32:02 - Reverie Knights Tactics

01:35:05 - Congratulations to The Viper for his victory in the AoE II tournament King of the Desert 4

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In this week's special Thursday Recording Director's Cut episode we talk about Dodgeball Academia, Slay the Spire, and a few other games. We also create even more insane new concepts for games!

Timestamps!!
00:01:42 - Questionable geography
00:02:27 - Backlog Check-in
00:06:09 - We brainstorm Pig Ninjas with very little pre-planning
00:08:24 - What we've been playing
00:17:07 - Dodgeball Academia - you should play it!
00:25:21 - News! The Game Awards were coming
00:30:51 - Sony is going for their own Game Pass
00:36:21 - BioShock 4 details
00:38:19 - Uncharted Legacy being upgraded for PS5
00:41:26 - The future of Smash Bros is unsure
00:46:35 - Another game brainstorm: Grocery Shopping Simulator 2022
00:47:49 - Max the Husky and Cooper the Black Lab decide to go dog crazy
00:50:15 - This week's new intriguing games: Root
00:54:18 - Paper Mario comes to the Switch Expansion Pack
00:59:01 - Xenotheria and husky growls
01:03:34 - Jackson is old and out of touch, Bill insists he is not
01:10:30 - Bill mixes up Apollo 13 with Armageddon (spoilers)

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Both Jackson and Bill went a little Black Friday crazy. Find out what we got along with some new games we're playing, all the news that's fit to print and a couple other games that caught our eye.

Timestamps!
00:02:05 - Blue = good guys, red = bad guys
00:06:13 - We discuss MCU for a while with lots of tasty spoilers
00:10:30 - No more MCU spoilers
00:12:01 - Bill's backlog!
00:17:40 - Black Friday Backlog Explosion!
00:27:00 - Jackson's idea for Airship Syndicate: The Game
00:29:48 - What we've been playing
00:42:53 - The news we found intriguing - The Game Awards is coming soon, Chrono Cross might be getting remastered, NEO: The World Ends With You is not selling well, and Rockstar continues to work on GTA: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition
00:46:25 - A long tangent about Peloton
00:48:26 - Back to the news
01:05:42 - We plead for Triangle Strategy to be good
01:06:43 - New games to discuss: Punk Wars
01:09:59 - Zombie Cure Lab
01:12:12 - Lawmage Academy
01:16:44 - Bill's idea for Harry Potter: Camping Simulator

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Bill only knows one thing: he wants to kill Chaos! We talk about Stranger of Paradise along with several other games. Plus what we've been playing, more talk about the GTA remasters, and maybe even some High School Musical.

Timestamps!
00:03:07 - Bill tricked us!
00:06:27 - Paul Rudd is a cool dude.
00:07:16 - What we're currently playing
00:12:48 - Some news items, like physical Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Sifu, and Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin and we wax nostalgic about Milon's Secret Castle and World Class Track Meet from the NES
00:29:35 - The Games that caught our interest this week! First up: Multiversus
00:32:05 - Loop Hero
00:34:12 - Trash Sailors
00:37:10 - WarTales
00:39:32 - Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One
00:42:24 - Ruined King: A League of Legends Story
00:47:37 - Souldiers
00:50:46 - Sea of Stars
00:53:30 - Super Mario World is great, Yoshi's Island had too much baby crying
00:56:25 - Can we please have Super Mario Odyssey 2?
01:01:30 - Bill makes Pokémon puns
01:02:42 - High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: The Story of This Week

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