Hopped-Up 64

With everyone either with family for the holidays, or slowly trying to dry themselves out after last week's VERY SUCCESSFUL Metal Gear Marathon, it's a bit of a slower two-man-jam this week, as Kelly and Norris break down last week's nightmare, and then just fancily sip some good good beer. Kelly also lets us know why Uncle Death is making him climb the tower, Norris cant wait to get back to Gears of War 4, and both get really confused by Final Fantasy XV patching in cutscenes. Cutscenes, man! Geez! Hosts: Chris Norris, Kelly Wright Beer of the Week: Field House Brewing's Toasted Coconut Black Lager Music by Sebastian Bender

Why are you even listening to this when The Metal Gear Marathon is going on!? Go here to help support Child's Play and watch us play video games for six days straight! - https://www.twitch.tv/metalgearmarathon Are you still here? Alright fine, we also recorded a podcast for this week. Where we talked about favourite movies from this year, Metal Gear, Pokemon Sun, and more Metal Gear. Also this week we had a fan send in their "2 Real 1 Fake", and so we run through perhaps the most rad Sonic trivia deep-dive any of us have ever gone down. A huge shout-out to Pizzapants for sending us this game, and showing us out as people who have no idea what happened to Sonic. Hosts: Chris Norris, Kelly Wright, David Beebe Beer of the Week: Red Truck Lager Music by Sebastian Bender

I mean, what *should* the minimum drone wage be, really? After discussing this important, soon-to-be topic of our generation, this week we talk about the worst prize giveaways during a video game marathon, our hypothetical Seinfeld episodes, and our agreement that Pacific Rim probably wouldn't have been better in black and white. We also talk more about the Death Stranding trailer, Dave lets us know that the band KISS made a first-person shooter, and Kelly tries to convince us all to watch Grey's Anatomy. Also Kelly's been playing some Let It Die, Dave has some hot Street Fighter 5 updates, and Norris loves sword-wielding robots. Hosts: Chris Norris, Kelly Wright, David Beebe Beer of the Week: Red Truck IPA Music by Sebastian Bender

This week listen to a bunch of strangers discuss Burning Man and Pizzagate in your ear, because we totally forgot what our names were. But first, we have a stirring PSA about the dangers of huffing vodka. And then we learn about the hanky code! Last week was The Game Awards, with a bunch of announcements and trailers and such, most importantly the mind-worm trailer for Death Stranding. We also let our feelings our on Telltale's The Walking Dead Season 3, The Last of Us Part 2, and all that stuff that dropped last week. Kelly loves Let it Die, Norris loves Titanfall 2, and the guys are all excited about the upcoming Metal Gear Marathon. Hosts: Chris Norris, Matt Emery, Mike Parker, Kelly Wright Beer of the Week: Strangefellows Brewing's Talisman West Coast Pale Ale Music by Sebastian Bender

Get your homies together, we've got another podcast episode going! This week we're dipping into some true crime, the career paths of police mediums, and give our elevator pitches for our not new screenplay: Air Bud: Most Valuable President. Dave and Norris also realize they have a super power, they both think Titanfall is pretty dope, and Norris discusses his war with Purolator before he gives the latest on his Dishonoring. Hosts: Chris Norris, David Beebe, Matt Emery Beer of the Week: Kozel Premium Lager Music by Sebastian Bender

We write to our favourite dictators this week, in hopes of finding new penpals, before determining what truly does make up "the gamer lifestyle." It was also an Overwatch free weekend, which was getting us ready for some of these sweet sweet Black Friday deals. Mike also gives us the mystical lowdown on one Steven Strange, and Norris lets us know we should never swing our sword in anger, even if you're living in a whalepunk universe. Hosts: Chris Norris, David Beebe, Mike Parker Beer of the Week: Innis & Gunn Spiced Rum Aged Porter Music by Sebastian Bender

Well, it's been a long week. We came together this week, and because it is difficult for anyone to be thinking about anything else, we start off by talking about the election. As a beer and video game podcast that's maybe a weird choice, but, meh. We do talk about beer, and Titanfall, Mass Effect, and Final Fantasy this week too. So it's not all doom and gloom. Hosts: Chris Norris, David Beebe, Mike Parker, Kelly Wright Beer of the Week: R&B Brewing's Dude Chilling Pale Ale Music by Sebastian Bender

The gang may have forgotten how to open a podcast this week, but they sure didn't forget how to love. Our beer review this episode turns into us discussing the pros and cons of the Vatican City and its basket-based economy, Norris and Dave lay some bets down on the upcoming Hearthstone championship, Dave argues all tax is theft, and Matt explains to us the differences between "Mech" and "Mecha." We also play a long-overdue version of "Some Real, One Fake", this time with the characters of everyone's favourite toy brand/80's cartoon, GI Joe! Turns out, that entire series was absolutely insane! Hosts: Chris Norris, David Beebe, Mike Parker, Matt Emery Beer of the Week: Bridge Brewing's Barrel Aged Belgian Red IPA Music by Sebastian Bender

The spice must flow with this season of the pumpkin, and from pumpkin spiced poutine to homemade PSL's the bois at Super Hopped-Up got your back! Mike also lets us know about his boots-on-the-ground experience from the latest Pokemon Sun/Moon demo, which turns into a horror story about Pokemon with human hair. Dave brings us back to the 80's with his Matrix of leadership, and Norris discusses how much he wants a giant robot friend. We then get real deep this week on the announcement of the Nintendo Switch, explain how we think it's going to work, and try to figure out why Norris is so giddy about it. And we also talk about Bethesda's announcement to no longer give out review copies of their games, and why that kind of sucks. Hosts: Chris Norris, David Beebe, Mike Parker Beer of the Week: Phillips Brewing Crookeder Tooth Strong Spiced Beer Music by Sebastian Bender

With all this talk on potential Blizzard announcements, we've got the scoop: Lost Vikings 3 confirmed! We talk up on Overwatch's upcoming character, get giddy on the Red Dead Redemption 2 announcement, and pour one out for Vancouver game studio United Front Games upon their recent closure. Then the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 trailer gets brought up and everything turns into a sprawling, 40 minute discussion on the current state of comic book movies. Turns out? It's all still dumb! Hosts: Chris Norris, David Beebe, Kelly Wright, Mike Parker Beer of the Week: Parallel 49's Wobblypop Pale Ale Music by Sebastian Bender