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Hey Folks!  Sorry for no show last week but Bel was not able to record.  If you follow him on social media you might have an idea of the weekend he had.  Additionally we should probably talk about how this is going to be our last show of the year.  Time and space has conspired to make it so our recording days for the next two weeks are Christmas Day and New Years Day which yeah…  are not going to be days we record on.  So instead we will see you again in the new year with our traditional “Games of the Year” show.

Tonight however we start off by talking about how generally hard it is to actually play Final Fantasy XIV.  From there Bel talks about the Bungie 30th anniversary event and what he has been doing instead of FFXIV since he finished the MSQ.  From there we talk a bit about Warframe and how the beginning of a new year tends to be when Ash revisits the game.  We talk briefly about the Game Awards 2021 and how Tunic finally has a release date.  Tam talks about his experiences playing Summoner in FFXIV Endwalker.  We then talk about crossing the uncanny valley with the Matrix Awakens Unreal 5 Tech Demo.  Finally we wrap things up talking about how freaking cool the Neon Kamigawa Lands are and how probably hard it will be to get our hands on them.

Topics Discussed

• Not Being able to play FFXIV Endwalker
  • Ceasing Sale of Product
• Bungie 30th Anniversary Event in Destiny 2
• Warframe
• Game Awards 2021
  • Tunic Release Date
  • FFXIV Winning Awards
• Summoner in FFXIV
• Matrix Awakens Unreal 5 Tech Demo
• Neon Kamigawa Lands

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Hey Folks!  Tonight we are down Grace and Ammo but push on with our ever growing list of topics.  We start with some discussion about the Stellaris expansion where you can become the Crisis at the end of the game featuring some interesting asymmetrical gameplay.  From there Bel talks a bit about the current failed state of New World and the degenerative gameplay of “pay for dungeon runs”.  From there we talk about the importance of numbers and whether or not we as players should actually see them.  We wrap things up with a discussion about Game Dev and how what is meant by a beta has changed over the years, specifically with the “very alpha” Star Citizen.

Topics Discussed

• Stellaris
  • Becoming the Crisis
  • Aquatic Races
• New World
  • Failed State of the Game
  • Buying a Seat in a Dungeon Run
  • Patch 1.1 Lost the game over 200k players
• The Importance of Numbers
  • When you want to see them
  • When you maybe don’t
• Game Dev
  • Star Citizen
  • Betas and Alphas
  • Gamer brain vs Dev brain
• Kodra Streaming Speed Runs
• Bel Revisiting Cyberpunk 2077

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Tonight we are down a few people for various reasons and Bel is hanging on by a thread because he managed to schedule his Covid booster on Friday.  We start off with a discussion of the Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker delay and how in theory we would have all been playing the game in another world.  In news we never thought we would cover, Fallen Earth has come back from the dead and is actually better than any of our memories.  From there we discuss Guardians of the Galaxy, that game we all thought would be another Avengers Flop but has apparently turned out to be pretty dang good.  Bel talks a bit about the Outriders New Horizon patch and the changes it made ot the game including a full transmog system.  Finally Tam discusses his experiences with Star Citizen and how it is way more of a fleshed out game than he ever expected at this point.  Additionally we talk about the free trial that is going on right now.

Topics Discussed

• Final Fantasy XIV Delay
• Fallen Earth rises from the grave
  • Better than our memories
• Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Not another Avengers Failure
  • Fjording the Uncanny Valley
• Outriders New Horizon
  • Balance Improvements
  • Cosmetic Transmog System
• Star Citizen in 2021
  • Free Trial Period

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