RPGFan's Retro Encounter

KOS-MOS isn't a doctor, but she'll die-a-Gnosis.

Retro Encounter recorded episodes on Xenogears, Xenoblade, and Baten Kaitos several years ago, but what about the series that put Monolith Soft on the map? Today one superfan and three newcomers discuss the background, themes, characters, and early story of 2002's Xenosaga Episode 1, the first of a trilogy with subtitles from Nietzsche, the flyest nihilist.

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Peter Triezenberg, Tyler Trosper, Zach Wilkerson; Edited by Anthony Krolikowski

Opening and ending music by Miles Morkri

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It's in the singing of a street corner choir / It's going home and getting warm by the fire / It's true, wherever you find love, it feels like Muppets. 

It's the Muppets episode! Three RPGFan podcast hosts are lifelong fans of The Muppets, so in the grand tradition of A Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island, they are re-casting classic RPGs with iconic Muppets characters. Which Muppet portrays Kefka from Final Fantasy VI? Which crew member of the Normandy is Kermit the Frog? Does anyone else remember Lew Zealand? All of these and more in the most Muppetational episode of Retro Encounter!

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Greg Delmage, Jonathan Logan; Edited by Michael Sollosi

Opening music by Sam Pottle. Ending music by Miles Morkri.

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And now it's time to dive into something a bit meatier. Monolithsoft's latest game, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, finally dropped in July, and we gathered five of our biggest Xeno fans to discuss the gall of Tetsuya Takahashi's new jam. Listen in as we chat about the delightful British-isms, if there's finally a Nopon character who isn't annoying, and whether the game is really as sparkin' good as everyone else seems to think it is.

Choose your future. Listen to this episode.

Featuring: Zach Wilkerson, Gio Castillo, Alana Hagues, Izzy Parsons, Tyler Trosper; Edited by Zach Wilkerson

Opening and ending music by Miles Morkri

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Silversun Strip Apartments. When you're here, you're family. 

Mass Effect 3 was an RPG event when it launched in 2012, and underneath the vitriolic reaction to its ending and multiple waves of DLC both expansive and reconstructive is an excellent shooter RPG. In today's episode of Retro Encounter, three panelists discuss not only Mass Effect 3's resolutions to the Krogan, Geth, and Reaper conflicts, but also the adventure, romance, and legacy of the Mass Effect trilogy. 

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Wes Iliff, Jonathan Logan; Edited by Jonathan Logan

Opening and ending music by Miles Morkri

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I am the very model of a sci-fi shooter RPG! From Omega to Luna I'm the zenith and the apogee! 

2010's Mass Effect 2 continues the story of Commander Shepard's quest to save the galaxy, but with new crew members, new benefactors, and way more planet scanning. An RPGFan away team discusses Mass Effect 2's villains-turned-allies, new alien cultures, and daring final mission in today's episode of Retro Encounter! 

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Wes Iliff, Jonathan Logan; Edited by Anthony Krolikowski

Opening and ending music by Miles Morkri

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Back on our BioWare business. 

Mass Effect was one of the biggest phenomena in video games from the late 2000s through the early 2010s, and all three games in the original trilogy hold up as role-playing games, first-person shooters, and science fiction stories. Through the month of November, Retro Encounter is playing through the original Mass Effect trilogy, starting with the first game (which Retro Encounter also covered in June of 2018). 

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Wes Iliff, Jonathan Logan; Edited by Jonathan Logan

Opening and ending music by Miles Morkri

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Thank you for listening to Retro Encounter for a Quite Interesting seven years!

If you know two things about Retro Encounter, they’re probably that the podcast plays through great RPGs from every era and that its host loves game shows. Today, to celebrate 350 episodes of Retro Encounter, that host emulates a classic panel quiz format to go over a dozen discussion topics. Have a listen and maybe you’ll learn something!

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Alana Hagues, Wes Iliff, Mike Salbato, Zach Wilkerson; Edited by Michael Sollosi

Opening and ending music by Miles Morkri

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This game is from 2022, but horny teenagers getting murdered at a summer camp is Retro as can be.

Happy Halloween! As far as Retro Encounter is concerned, Halloween begins in early September and lasts three solid months. As such, we are celebrating the horror season and providing a coda to Retro Encounter's Autumn of Adventure with The Quarry, the most recent cinematic horror adventure from Supermassive Games, the same studio that gave us Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology. So who lives, who dies, and who's still a werewolf at game's end? Listen and find out! 

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Peter Triezenberg; Edited by Michael Sollosi

Opening and ending music by Miles Morkri

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Broken Age is a stunningly beautiful coming of age story. 

Beyond the narrative itself, its Kickstarter-fairytale-turned-cautionary-tale development cycle has been entertainingly and meticulously documented and helped chart the frontier of large-scale crowdfunded videogame projects. Listen to the Autumn of Adventure panel muse on this, the Double Fine Adventure documentary detailing this game's development, and the amazing characters while we retrace our experience through this incredibly framed story. Which robot pal of Shay's is best robot pal?

Also, plot twist: Broken Age has a wolf! Adventure game month is almost entirely wolf month.

Featuring: Hilary Andreff, Jonathan Logan, Michael Sollosi; Edited by Jonathan Logan

Opening and ending music by Miles Morkri

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Hey there Little Red Riding Hood / You sure are lookin' good / You're everything a Big Bad Wolf could want

Retro Encounter continues their Autumn of Adventure with The Wolf Among Us, a narrative adventure game set in the Fables comic book universe and originally released in five parts in 2013 and 2014. The panel dives into Telltale's unique brand of video game storytelling, The Wolf Among Us's fascinating portrayals of characters from fiction and folklore, and every decision Bigby Wolf makes in this dramatic noir plot.

Featuring: Michael Sollosi, Hilary Andreff, Jonathan Logan; Edited by Anthony Krolikowski

Opening and ending music by Miles Morkri

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