Story Route Zero

In volume 3, half of the road posse is present to tackle Return of the Obra Dinn, Lucas Pope’s sophomore outing from 2018. Sadly, due to a lot of the real-world events right now, Jason was the only one present to complete the game but Kiel tried his best to do research and bring other things to talk about with regard to the game. He cites what he remembers and this is admittedly slap-dash, but we are indeed trying. Obra Dinn is fascinating.  

Intro Music: “All Time High” by Colin Fraser 

Additional music: “Funky Uncle” by Pop Villains 

Outro Music: “Brightest Hour” by Young President

This week, Todd Oxtra of Secret Friends Unite and Co-op Mode joins the road posse to talk games he’s revisiting and why he might be buying a Wii or Wii-U. Moose has gone full tracksuit drug lord in Animal Crossing, Matt marvels at his wife’s skill in Castle Crashers and Jason platinums some free games. The crew also got together for Risk of Rain 2 co-op chaos this week and Matt’s time in Funkytown may have been ended for him due to save corruption.   

All this and more on episode 21!  

Intro Music: “All Time High” by Colin Fraser 

Outro Music: “Brightest Hour” by Young President

We’ve got a packed clown car of a podcast for you this week. The full road posse is accounted for and joined by the three-headed Cerberus that helms the Phoenix Overdrive Extra Life Team and hosts the recently rebooted (for real this time) Nerd Overdrive Podcast. As large groups of friends go, per their wont, we abandon the rails more swiftly than usual discussing life, games, and the new normal but find time to talk more Animal Crossing, WoW, and a host of other games in this whirlwind of a gathering.   

Intro Music: “All Time High” by Colin Fraser 

Outro Music: “Brightest Hour” by Young President

75% of the road posse showed up to just go off on games for a while. Kiel is back on his bullshit with Animal Crossing and Moose is catching his stride with it. Jason is fully back into WoW with Moose’s interest clearly piqued. Playing to type, as always, Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Divison 2 all get mentions as well as Streets of Rage 4, John Wick Hex, Children of Morta and Void Bastards.  

Settle in for a ride and enjoy.   

Intro Music: “All Time High” by Colin Fraser 

Outro Music: “Brightest Hour” by Young President

In our second installment of our game club, the road posse tackles the latest adventure game from Rob Gilbert & Gary Winnick, Thimbleweed Park from 2017. It’s Twin Peaks meets X-Files clowns, human sized pigeons and a cake shop that only sells vacuum tubes. Not to mention hotels gated by ghosts, a sheriff, coroner and hotel manager that are inexplicably the same person, and there hasn’t even been a mention of curses, hi-tech computers and, of course, those Fed-erinos. It’s absurdity abound in this lovable point-and-click adventure game from Terrible Toy Box.   

Intro Music: “All Time High” by Colin Fraser 

Additional music: “Funky Uncle” by Pop Villains 

Outro Music: “Brightest Hour” by Young President

The road posse is at 100% and, like last week, they have a special guest once again. This time it is Nathan Brandt, one half of The New Entertainment System Podcast. It is not all about the guests as the guys share what they have been playing. Moose caved and joined in on owing everything to Tom Nook, Jason returned to Azeroth for some World of Warcraft, Captain Canada tried out the new XCOM game while Matt finished up Thimbleweed Park and is pumped to talk about it for Game Club on the next episode. 

Also discussed: leaks and spoilers and The Last of Us Part II and Ghosts of Tsushima.  Settle in for a ride and enjoy.   

Intro Music: “All Time High” by Colin Fraser 

Outro Music: “Brightest Hour” by Young President

The road posse is at 100% and brought along some guests. Mutual friends of the crew Justin Das and Michaela from Obilisk.co swing through to have a massive discussion that covers Michaela’s review of Nioh 2 and a shared love of Final Fantasy 7 Remake among the panel as well as a burgeoning interest in playing the game from other members.   

Settle in for a ride and enjoy.   

Intro Music: “All Time High” by Colin Fraser 

Outro Music: “Brightest Hour” by Young President

There were no Matts present so Jason and Moose decided to hold a reunion. With Jeff back, the Nerds Gone Platinum crew was reunited. Good thing Jeff was around because someone needed to talk about Animal Crossing. Jason also jumped in but with the 3DS version and Moose continued patrolling the streets of D.C. and N.Y., even helping a few friends in the process. Also discussed: using controllers for different consoles and why it is so confusing to go back and forth.  

Intro Music: “All Time High” by Colin Fraser 

Outro Music: “Brightest Hour” by Young President

Released in 2018 for all platforms, Moonlighter puts players in the shoes of Will, keeper of the oldest shop in Rynoka. Will ventures into the ever-changing dungeons outside of town in search of treasures, not only for his shop to sell, but to aid his obsession with opening the fabled 5th door of the dungeons, something that has not been done before. Developed by Digital Sun out of Spain and published by 11 Bit Studios and Merge Games, the road posse deep dive into this gem of an indie game.  

Intro Music: “All Time High” by Colin Fraser 

Additional music: “Funky Uncle” by Pop Villains 

Outro Music: “Brightest Hour” by Young President

Road Posse is at full strength this week and we’re all out here trying to survive. Kiel is in his first week back on day shift and still doing Animal Crossing but he also went back to Nioh with Ahmed, the OG Hammer Bro. Jason and Moose revisited Borderlands 3 with a new level cap and DLC dropping this past week. Jason reviewed DOOM Eternal and to no one’s surprise, loved it all while playing several other games this week. Moose is still doing Moose (meaning he played Division 2 and Bloodborne) and Phillips wrapped up all the DLC for Metro: Exodus.   

Also mentioned: Nintendo’s Mini Direct and possible Mario remasters.  

Intro Music: “All Time High” by Colin Fraser 

Outro Music: “Brightest Hour” by Young President