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  • Tander Picks 2020 (Part 2)

    We continue part 2 of our Tander Picks for 2020!

    Your “Babalik ka rin” game

    Game that you previously dropped, but keep coming back to it

    • Matthew: Batman Arkham Knight
    • Colin: Mobile Legends
    • Jed: Baldur's Gate II
    • Rico: Civilization VI
    • James: iRacing
    • Best Tanders purchase of the year

      Hardware purchase that enriched your gaming experience

      • Matthew: Xbox Series X
      • Colin: Thera Gun & PS5
      • Jed: Xbox one Controller
      • Rico: New PC
      • James: Xiaomi Gaming Monitor 34” Ultrawide
      • Your most anticipated game for 2021

        • Matthew: Psychonauts 2 (Mar 2021)
        • Colin: Persona 5 Strikers, Stray
        • Jed: Hitman 3
        • Rico: Mulligan
        • James: Back 4 Blood
        • Best game of 2020

          A game that has a culmination of everything enjoyable and you can overlook the things you did not like

          • Matthew: FF7 Remake
          • Colin: Ghost of Tsushima
          • Jed:Hades
          • Rico: Outer Worlds
          • James: iRacing
          • Sorry for the delay of the episode, we had some scheduling conflicts the past few week, but hopefully for the coming episodes it will be back to our regular programming!

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            Lastly, if you want to help support the show! You can do so by using our affiliate links:

            Lazada - https://bit.ly/tanderlaz
            Shopee - https://bit.ly/tandershop
            Make sure to click on the link before checking out. We will get a small comission from all your purchases, this will go directly to supporting the show.

            Tander Chats Music Credits:

            Transient by Ghostrifter Official https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gv0OSpS2ABU

            1 hr 34 min
          • Tander Picks 2020 (Part 1)

            Here are our categories for our picks:

            Best backlog game that you completed

            A game you dusted away from your backlog and played from start to finish

            • Matthew: Dragon Age: Inquisition
            • Colin: Spider-Man
            • Jayvee: The Division 2
            • Jed: Assassin’s Creed Rogue
            • Rico: Civilization 6
            • James: Ghost of Tsushima
            • Best game that is respectful of your time

              A game that you feel that’s very satisfying to play for very short gaming sessions

              • Matthew: Gears 5
              • Colin: Pokemon Sword and Shield
              • Jayvee: Genshin Impact
              • Jed: Diablo 3
              • Rico: Mobile Legends Chess TD
              • James: R6 Siege
              • Best comfy game of the year

                A game where you can sit back and relax and really keep playing for long stretches of time

                • Matthew: Spirit Fairer
                • Colin: Persona 5 Royal
                • Jayvee: Portal Knights
                • Jed: Satisfactory
                • Rico: Cities: Skylines
                • James: Modern Warfare
                • Best game that you unexpectedly enjoyed

                  • Matthew: Final Fantasy 7 Remake
                  • Colin: Ghost of Tsushima
                  • Jayvee: Snowrunner
                  • Jed: R6 Siege
                  • Rico: Call of Duty Warzone
                  • James: Modern Warfare
                  • We will continue the episode next year and it will definitely include our GOTY for 2020! So watch out for that!

                    Special thanks to our guests for this episode, Colin of Ungeek.ph and Matthew from the Three Point Landing Podcast (please make sure to give it a listen too!) and Toomuchgaming.net

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                    Lastly, if you want to help support the show! You can do so by using our affiliate links:

                    Lazada - https://bit.ly/tanderlaz
                    Shopee - https://bit.ly/tandershop
                    Make sure to click on the link before checking out. We will get a small comission from all your purchases, this will go directly to supporting the show.

                    Tander Chats Music Credits:

                    Transient by Ghostrifter Official https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official

                    1 hr 47 min
                  • Gaming with your kids

                    The Tanders talk about on how to game with your kids or younger members of the family. It could be easy for some and a little rough for others, but nevertheless, play video games with both young and old is definitely fun!

                    Main topic talking points:

                    • How to introduce gaming to your kids?
                    • What were the initial hurdles that your kids faced when first starting out
                    • To non-gamer parents who want to play games with your kids, how to help you get started with video games?
                    • How to successfully rub off our passion of video games to the next generation
                    • Gaming with our kids in the future
                    • Our picks for games to play with the family (can also mention games to avoid):
                      1. Marvel Super Heroes
                      2. King of Tokyo (Boardgame)
                      3. Mario Kart 8 Switch
                      4. Super Smash Bros.
                      5. Mario 3D World
                      6. Minecraft
                      7. Portal Knights
                      8. If you want to leave us a message or interact with us, you can leave a like on our Facebook:

                        https://www.facebook.com/TanderChats

                        Lastly, if you want to help support the show! You can do so by using our affiliate links:

                        Lazada - https://bit.ly/tanderlaz
                        Shopee - https://bit.ly/tandershop
                        Make sure to click on the link before checking out. We will get a small comission from all your purchases, this will go directly to supporting the show.

                        Tander Chats Music Credits:

                        Transient by Ghostrifter Official https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gv0OSpS2ABU

                        1 hr 12 min
                      9. Remembering our favorite '80s cartoons!

                        The Tanders decide to put a hold on video game talk and decided to do a nostalgia trip with their favorite '80s cartoons! We discuss all our favorites (and sometimes not so favorite) cartoons while we were growing up.

                        Main topic talking points:

                        • Why did 80s cartoons leave such a big impact on us?
                        • Let’s talk about the best of the best:

                          • Giant Robots / Mecha

                            Transformers
                            Gobots
                            Mighty Orbots
                            Tekkaman

                          • Action fighting men with gadgets

                            G.I. Joe
                            Centurions
                            Chuck Norris and the Karate Commandos
                            Rambo
                            M.A.S.K.
                            He-Man

                          • Talking fighting animals

                            Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
                            Dinosaucers
                            Dinoriders

                          • Sci-Fi

                            Galaxy Rangers
                            Captain Power
                            The Real Ghostbusters
                            The Original Ghostbusters

                          • Aimed for girls, but we enjoyed anyways

                            Care bears
                            Rainbow Bright
                            Jem and the Holograms
                            Beverly Hills Teens
                            She-Ra

                          • Other cartoons that don’t fit the main genres

                            Turbo Teen
                            Yogi’s Treasure Hunt

                          • Cartoons of the 80s vs Cartoons of today

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                            https://www.facebook.com/TanderChats

                            Lastly, if you want to help support the show! You can do so by using our affiliate links:

                            Lazada - https://bit.ly/tanderlaz
                            Shopee - https://bit.ly/tandershop
                            Make sure to click on the link before checking out. We will get a small comission from all your purchases, this will go directly to supporting the show.

                            Tander Chats Music Credits:

                            Transient by Ghostrifter Official https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gv0OSpS2ABU

                            1 hr 46 min
                          • What will be truly next-gen in gaming?

                            The Tanders take a deeper look into what makes next-gen, next-gen. With the latest Playstation and Xbox dropping soon, we take a trip down memory lane on some of the consoles of past that got us truly excited.

                            Here are our main talking points:

                            • Remembering major leaps in console generations
                            • Let’s all remember, motion controls was supposed to be next-gen
                            • Next-gen was supposed to be VR, what happened?
                            • What will be truly next-gen for you?
                            • Will you be getting a PS5 or Xbox Series X?
                            • Rico's latest monitor - https://bit.ly/tandermonitorshop (Shopee) or https://bit.ly/tandermonitor (Lazada)
                            • If you want to leave us a message or interact with us, you can leave a like on our Facebook:

                              https://www.facebook.com/TanderChats

                              Lastly, if you want to help support the show! You can do so by using our affiliate links:

                              Lazada - https://bit.ly/tanderlaz
                              Shopee - https://bit.ly/tandershop
                              Make sure to click on the link before checking out. We will get a small comission from all your purchases, this will go directly to supporting the show.

                              Tander Chats Music Credits:

                              Transient by Ghostrifter Official https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gv0OSpS2ABU

                              57 min
                            • An ode to horror games

                              The Tanders literally face their fears and talk about their all time favorite horror games! We discuss why the horror genre is appealing and what games over the years made a horrific impression on us!

                              Our talking points:

                              • Why do you enjoy horror games? If you don’t, why not?
                              • What was the first horror game that left an impression?
                              • What are games that are not horror but got you scared of them?
                              • Exceptions: for horror fans, which horror games did you not enjoy? For non-horror fans, which ones did you enjoy?
                              • Your top picks for must-play horror games?
                              • If you want to leave us a message or interact with us, you can leave a like on our Facebook:

                                https://www.facebook.com/TanderChats

                                Lastly, if you want to help support the show! You can do so by using our affiliate links:

                                Lazada - https://bit.ly/tanderlaz
                                Shopee - https://bit.ly/tandershop
                                Make sure to click on the link before checking out. We will get a small comission from all your purchases, this will go directly to supporting the show.

                                Tander Chats Music Credits:

                                Transient by Ghostrifter Official https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gv0OSpS2ABU

                                Background artwork:

                                artwork by @visualdon – https://instagram.com/visualdon

                                1 hr 1 min
                              • Tander Flash - Our thoughts on: Genshin Impact earns $100M in two weeks

                                We discuss the very successful launch of Genshin Impact. The latest hotness from a Chinese developer called Mihoyo as this is their rookie attempt in crossing into the PC and Console platform.

                                He are our talking points for this episode:

                                • Why does this interest us?
                                • Will their success be short lived?
                                • If you want to leave us a message or interact with us, you can leave a like on our Facebook:

                                  https://www.facebook.com/TanderChats

                                  Lastly, if you want to help support the show! You can do so by using our Lazada affiliate link: https://bit.ly/tanderlaz

                                  Make sure to click on the link before checking out. We will get a small comission from all your purchases, this will go directly to supporting the show.

                                  Music Credits

                                  Tander Flash Music:
                                  By Teknoaxe http://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1598

                                  Background artwork:

                                  artwork by @visualdon – https://instagram.com/visualdon

                                  14 min
                                • Tips on managing your videogame backlog

                                  We've all fallen into the trap of buying more games than we can actually play! It's always a good feeling to get to try the shiny new game that came out, but then again so is clearing your backlog! The Tanders try to impart their sage advise on how to help out thin that gaming backlog!

                                  Here are our show notes:

                                  What we've been playing

                                  James: Mario Odyssey, Ghost of Tsushima

                                • Jed: Hades

                                • Rico: Warframe

                                • Jayvee: Genshin Impact

                                  Main topic talking points:

                                  • How did you accumulate your gaming backlog?
                                • Why did the accumulation happen? How to avoid it?
                                • Will games be designed when our age group become senior citizens?
                                • What are your top tips for thinning out the backlog?
                                • If you want to leave us a message or interact with us, you can leave a like on our Facebook:

                                  https://www.facebook.com/TanderChats

                                  Lastly, if you want to help support the show! You can do so by using our Lazada affiliate link: https://bit.ly/tanderlaz please make sure to click on the link before checking out! We will get a small comission from all your purchases and this will go directly to supporting the show. Thank you!

                                  Tander Chats Music Credits:

                                  Transient by Ghostrifter Official https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gv0OSpS2ABU

                                  1 hr 9 min
                                • Free to play games done right

                                  The Tanders have recently fallen in love with Warframe lately and this was an inspiration for a podcast topic! We discuss Free to play (F2P) games that are worth your time and maybe your money if you're willing to spend a bit! Here is a run down of the talking points:

                                  Games we've been playing:

                                  James - Talks about his new monitor! A brief review on the Xiaomi 34inch Ultrawide Gaming Monitor. If you would like to buy the same monitor, please use our affiliate link with Lazada: https://bit.ly/TanderMonitor. For every successful purchase, we get a small comission and this will go towards to supporting the podcast

                                  Jed - Talks about his new toy also, a Retroid Pocket 2! If you want something similar, you can also try the RG350M. Please use this affiliate link also :) https://bit.ly/TanderConsole

                                  Jayvee - Quickly talks about Warframe and then goes into a lot more into Portal Knights

                                  RIco - Trying to fit in with the kids nowadays, takes a crack at Among Us

                                  Main topic talking points:

                                  • What was your first F2P game that got you hooked and invested a lot of time in playing?
                                • What was the worst F2P game you played?
                                • Some F2P mechanics to watch out for:
                                • Grind mechanics
                                • Monetization practices (is it Play to win?)
                                • Gacha / Loot box systems
                                • How will F2P games fare vs Premium games in the Pandemic economy
                                • Why do you play F2P games? Besides the low low cost of Free!
                                • What are your most highly recommended Free to play games?
                                • If you want to leave us a message or interact with us, you can leave a like on our Facebook:

                                  https://www.facebook.com/TanderChats

                                  Tander Chats Music Credits:

                                  Transient by Ghostrifter Official https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gv0OSpS2ABU

                                  1 hr 42 min
                                • Tander Flash - Our thoughts on the Microsoft acquisition of Bethesda

                                  We started another new format called Tander Flash! In this show, we will be doing 15 minute episodes that discuss all the breaking news, events or scandals in the gaming industry!

                                  For our very first epsiode we discuss the behomoth that is Microsft, flexing their big bucks muscles are buying up studios left and right. Their latest acquisition, Zenimax Media, owners also of Bethesda, ID software, to name a few. In this epsiode we talk about the following:

                                  • What are the reasons for the acquisition?
                                • How will this affect releases on the Playstation platform?
                                • Microsoft planning for more studio acquisitions! Who do you think will be next??
                                • Will this be good or bad for the industry in the long run?
                                • If you want to leave us a message or interact with us, you can leave a like on our Facebook:

                                  https://www.facebook.com/TanderChats

                                  Tander Chats Music Credits:

                                  Transient by Ghostrifter Official https://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-official Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gv0OSpS2ABU

                                  Tander Trips Music Credits:

                                  Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

                                  Tander Flash Music:

                                  By Teknoaxe http://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1598

                                  Background artwork:

                                  artwork by @visualdon – https://instagram.com/visualdon

                                  16 min

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                                A video game podcast for those of us who never grew up. Join the Tanders discussing their beloved hobby, video games! Hear stories of struggles and joys of being grown-up gamers of the present and…