The Pitch

In this episode we take a walk in the park and see some fireworks.

Other Segments:

• Alternate Realities: Early Access

• Legends and Lore: Society of Brilliance

• Fiend Folio: Sahugagin

• Find Familiar: Sparky

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Fear the Spotlight, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and much more!

The Grind:

• Dennis: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl.
• Moxie: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl.
• Ben: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom.
• Kole: Fear the Spotlight.

The Multiplayer:

• Give a game a warning label.

The End Boss:

• Roblox is having a pricing feud with Apple.
• The long and detailed way to 3D print any game character.
• Blizzard is delisting the original Warcraft 1 and 2 to make you buy their new bad remaster.
• FromSoft is not currently developing Elden Ring 2.

Do you have what it takes to survive the streets of Night City? After all was said and done, what kind of game did Cyberpunk 2077 end up being? We loved the Witcher 3 and have been eyeing this one for a while. Come for the aesthetics, stay for the graphics, be astounded by some strange design choices. It's a huge game, so there's plenty to like.

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If you weren’t there, you might not understand that there was a small movement to market the Nintendo DS as a kind of PDA, with utility software being sold as games. This also included self improvement games like Brain Age. Hot on this trend, Ubisoft went all in with a line of “My Coach” games, with none being more baffling than “My Stop Smoking Coach”. It’s admirable to want to help people end a dangerous addiction, but this product shows that a game is not the ideal way to try to do that.

We recorded this on Cyber Monday, hence the opening bit. Two monsters!

Poker Night 2 is a perfectly fine concept for a game, featuring beloved characters playing Texas Hold ‘Em after dark. Brock Sampson, Ash Williams, and Sam from Sam & Max are all delightful in their own right and you wouldn’t be blamed for wanting to hear their quips.

And then along comes Claptrap.

This week we are joined by Sophie Pilbeam of the Sinclair Lore YouTube Channel. We talk about the world and narrative design of Shadow of the Erdtree, and how well it meshes with the base game. Afterwards, we read your responses about the Cerulean Coast and Shadow Keep areas of the game.

In this episode we meet the Murder Tribunal.

Other Segments:

• Legends and Lore: Serevok

• Dieties and Demigods: Bhaal

• Fiend Folio: Hollyphants

In every RPG, you have some shitty friends. What are the best of this shitty friends? If you could only take two to five shitty friends to a desert island to companion you, who would you choose?

Really? Quina from FF9? Okay...

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Saw II: Seen, is a sequel that tries to be bigger, better, and more deadly than its predecessor. It succeeds in two of those. More traps, more victims, surprisingly the same amount of backstory.