AggroChat Podcast

Hey Friends! We made it to 350 episodes!  Which seems like a big number but as Thalen puts it… it is a new record over last week’s new record.  We break into a brief discussion about the era of big box games which brings us into a discussion of the era of pack in “feelies”  From there Bel talks about his return to Final Fantasy XIV and the forming of the Super Dungeon Friends community.  We also talk about the weird events this weekend happening on Cactuar the server we all play on.  We talk about the Co-Op game It Takes Two and the platformer Iconoclasts.  We also talk a bit about D&D Dark Alliance and Mario Golf Super Rush.

Topics Discussed

• Big Box PC Game Era
  • We Miss Feelies
• Returning to FFXIV
  • Super Dungeon Friends
  • Weird Weekend on Cactuar
• It Takes Two
• Iconoclasts
• D&D Dark Alliance
• Mario Golf Super Rush

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Tonight we start the show missing several people and then Kodra sneaks in while recording and claims to have been there all along.  We start out with a discussion of the Windows 11 announcement and the odd requirements it seems are going to be required to upgrade into it.  From there we talk about Grace’s adventures with Subnautica: Below Zero which I legitimately thought was an expansion pack and not a whole new game.  Bel talks about the trend of WoW personalities switching to Final Fantasy XIV and the videos associated with them.  We talk a bit about MMORPG Tycoon 2 and Lum’s delightful tweet thread making us want to play it.  Bel talks about his nonsense setup and how Sony Remote Play is so much better with a PS5…  and how TMACDev REPL4Y is even better than that.  Finally we close out the show with some talk about Ratchet and Clank and Kodra’s observations given this is his first game in that series.

Topics Discussed

• Windows 11 Announcement
  • Leaked Build
  • Scalping TPM Modules
• Subnautica: Below Zero
  • What a difference a story makes
• WoW personalities playing FFXIV
  • The “quitting wow for ffxiv” video trend
  • What has lead to this point
  • Medieval Marty
• Lum plays MMORPG Tycoon 2
  • Make bad MMOs for fun and profit
• Sony Remote Play
  • Better on PS5
  • TMACDev REPL4Y
• Ratchet and Clank Observations

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Be warned, if anything sounds weird…  Bel is recording from a new gaming rig which seems to have brought back the whine for now.  Hopefully he can resolve that in the coming weeks.  We start the show talking about Mechwarrior 5 and the recent Mercs expansion.  We also talk about how it has essentially destroyed the mod that folks were running to get around inconsistencies in the base game.  This has lead to some mixed opinions among the AggroChat crew.  From there we talk briefly about The Outer Wilds and Biomutant before settling into a longer conversation about Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis.  Finally we wrap things up with a discussion about Ratchet and Clank and how Tam and Kodra are not as fluent in this universe.

Topics Discussed:

• Mechwarrior 5
  • Mercs DLC Update
  • The end of Modding
• The Outer Wilds
• Biomutant
• Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis
• Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

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Tonight we have a second show in a row, which given the state of Bel right now is pretty miraculous.  We are down a Kodra for assorted reasons but we have one of our shows where we have only the thinnest of topics and make a show out of them.  Bel talks about experiencing how polarizing Army of the Dead is apparently as we discuss the expectations of genre films.  From there we talk about Diablo games on the phone and more Mass Effect discussion.  We clear the deck of the topics we have had for a while as we go through the limits of accessibility, scaling content and how rough catch up in games can be at time.

Topics Discussed

• Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead
• Phone Diablo Games
  • Raziel
  • Anima
  • Foam Diablo?
• Mass Effect 2
  • Hover Tank Bad
• The Limits of Accessibility
• Scaling Group Content
• Catch Up Mechanics