This month we bask in the glow of games. Games like Goat Simulator 2014, Dark Souls, Threes, Titanfall, DOTA 2, Spelunky and Hearthstone. Hardware like the NVIDIA Shield and phones you can see from the International Space Station are discussed. Also, Maki gets an Xbox One with all the games and is mostly indifferent? GOOD TIMES! Stay tuned until the very end for something frighteningly awesome.

NQcast61 – Lay Us On Them

 

First half!

* 1:36 Goat Simulator (Harlo and Maki ragdoll their way to happiness in this True Life™ simulation of being a goat.)

* 10:15 Xbox One (Maki gets one! However, he can’t find anything. ANYTHING.)

* 11:34 Titanfall (We all like it, but we just don’t know for how long we’ll like it. But hey, you’re still getting a giant robot eventually!)

* 18:19 Forza Motorsport 5 (Chuck and Maki give it another shot but its lack of personality almost literally puts them to sleep.)

* 22:05 Dead Rising 3 (It’s goofy, it’s crazy and Chuck and Maki both enjoy it!)

* 28:48 Peggle 2 (Chuck beat it! It’s still more Peggle! That’s not a bad thing!)

* 32:09 Battlefield 4 and Call of Duty Ghosts (Harlo checks in on the DLC for both games and realizes his skills don’t translate between the two somehow. And he STILL hasn’t seen Michael Myers in Call of Duty. Dammit.)

* 35:42 Free To Play: The Movie (Harlo watches this misleadingly titled documentary about a DOTA 2 tournament and it leads to our next topic…)

* 37:15 DOTA 2 (WHY IS HARLO PLAYING THIS EVEN WE DON’T UNDERSTAND)

* 43:35 Diablo 3 (Harlo returns! The loot system is better now that the auction house is gone, too. Is it expansion time?)

* 48:58 Bunch of Heroes (“It’s cute-esque?” -Harlo. There’s your box quote, right there. Only play this game co-op, though!)

* 50:58 PS Plus Corner

* 51:05 Mercenary Kings (You can play it solo, but once again, co-op seems to be where it’s at. But are we over SNES-esque graphics?)

* 56:34 Remember Me (Chuck and Harlo go back to this Capcom joint and love the brain-hacking but kind of hate everything else.)

* 1:02:59 Dead Nation PS4 (Harlo strains to see through the darkness to have a little bit of fun in this zombie shooter game.)

Second Half! (1:05:36)

* 1:06:10 Dark Souls (Maki continues down the rabbithole and finally understands why everyone loves this game as much as they do. Harlo borrows a copy and confirms it’s not designed for how he wants to play games. Ever.)

* 1:20:54 Resident Evil 5 (Maki and buddy Moonpir decide to beat this game on Professional difficulty. This game has held up well, aside from coming out at the height of terrible Quick Time Events.)

* 1:27:44 God of War HD (Chuck returns to the first God of War and realizes everything we hated in the PS2 gen is in it. Yet somehow it works!)

* 1:42:40 spelunky (Harlo keeps coming back, even though he can’t get anywhere. And Maki can only bring himself to play the daily challenge. Just not daily.)

* 1:47:54 Infamous Second Son (Harlo beat it as a good guy and then remembers he beat it as a bad guy, too!)

* 1:51:37 Brothers (Harlo goes back to experience one of the best games of last year. He enjoys the control gimmick now!)

* 1:55:32 FTL: Enhanced Edition (Surprisingly, Harlo prefers the original edition. But then again, he has 300+ hours in that version, so…)

* 2:00:56 Mobile Corner!

* 2:01:04 Nvidia Shield (Harlo actually bought one! You can stream games from your PC to it! Which kind of works! At least it’s well-built.)

* 2:08:20 Threes (Harlo has bought it on multiple devices, but he still sucks at it! Chuck got to the furthest point he felt he could reach. Maki still plays!