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AggroChat #499 – Pokemon Hearthstonification

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Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Hey Folks! We are all reeling a bit from the past week, but we start off things with the joyful return of Ammo from her trip to Japan.  She spends a bit of time talking about all the arcade hopping and wonderful food that she found along the way. From there we dive into the furious growth of Pokemon TCG Pocket and how it has swept through our friend group.  Ash talks about his experiences with Monster Hunter Wilds Beta and Bel shares his own comfort gaming in the form of the weird Path of Exile Necro Settlers Event League.  Bel also talks a bit about playing the Brighter Shores Early Access, and how it has some core design problems that will keep him from playing for very long.  Kodra talks a bit about GeekGirlCon where we realize…  that he has in fact been talking about it every year since the very first year in 2016.  Our podcast…  is old.  He also talks a bit about his role in the upcoming SudokuCon Stream and some of the nonsense he is going to be doing combining two of his loves: Sudoku, and Celeste.

Topics Discussed:

  • Ammo Returns from Japan
  • Pokemon TCG Pocket
  • Monster Hunter Wilds Beta
  • Path of Exile
    • POE2 Delay
    • Necro Settlers League
  • Brighter Shores Early Access
  • GeekGirlCon 2024
  • SudokuCon Upcoming Stream

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AggroChat #498 – Rogue Missle Command

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Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Hey Folks! We are back after a week off last week due to too many being out. When we do one of those weeks missed we have a truly stupid number of topics to discuss, and this week is no exception.  We start off talking a little bit about Xenoblade Chronicles X getting a Switch release date, and Utopia Must Fall the game that you get when you make Missile Command a Roguelike.  Related we also talk a bit about Nodebuster which is going for a somewhat similar thing.  Bel and Grace talk about their experiences with Wayfinder, a game that completely changed its business model from freemium cash grab to buy the box. Tam talks about an interesting situation of being in a deeply collaborative “competition” and how cool those moments are. Ash shares his thoughts about Windblown the new co-op ARPG from the folks behind Dead Cells.  Tam shares his thoughts about I Am Your Beast and Kodra in a bit more detail about Tactical Breach Wizards.  Bel talks about his recent adventures in Return of Reckoning, a fan-run Warhammer Online server that itself has been up and running for a decade now after the official game closed down in 2013.

Topics Discussed:

  • Xenoblade Chronicles X Switch Announcement
  • Utopia Must Fall
  • Nodebuster
  • Wayfinder
  • Competitions that Aren’t
  • Windblown
  • I Am Your Beast
  • Tactical Breach Wizards
  • Warhammer Return of Reckoning

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AggroChat #497 – Kids on Bikes

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Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Hey Folks! This week we start off with Ash’s early thoughts about Metaphor: ReFantazio.  From there Grace and Bel decide to share some of the great things going on in Diablo IV after last week’s story bashfest. Kodra is Cursed and cannot upgrade hardware without it for some reason going completely off the rails.  From there he talks about Mechwarrior 5: Clans where we are in fact the baddies.  Tam shares his thoughts on Kingdom Eighties where kids on bikes try and save their hometown.  Kodra has hit the credit roll for Zelda Echoes of Wisdom and shares some of his final thoughts.  Tam talks about playing through Adios a game so good that he dealt with it not having an inverted control scheme.

Topics Discussed:

  • Metaphor: ReFantazio
  • Diablo IV Vessel of Hatred Endgame
  • Kodra is Cursed
  • MechWarrior 5: Clans
  • Kingdom Eighties
  • Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom Credit Roll
  • Adios

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AggroChat #496 – Explosive Kitten

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Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Good Morning Folks! This week we had one topic dangling from the previous week so we started out with some discussion about Ravenswatch and their interesting take on the action roguelike genre.  From there Bel and Grace share their thoughts about Diablo IV Vessel of Hatred and how Blizzard largely missed the mark with the story, but that the game is in a pretty good mechanical state otherwise.  From there Tam shares his experiences with the new Rogue Trader CRPG DLC Void Shadows.  Then we wrap things up by talking about UFO 50 a game about a video console from an alternate reality…  and how interesting some of the takes on 8-bit gaming are.  We also talked a bit about the creativity of that era and how it had not really returned until the Indie explosion enabled by Steam.

Topics Discussed:

  • Ravenswatch
  • Diablo IV Vessel of Hatred Expansion
    • What they did wrong
    • What they got right
  • Rogue Trade Void Shadows DLC
  • UFO 50
  • Misremembering Games from the 80s

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