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AggroChat #552 – Games of the Year Show 2025 – Part One

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

Hey Folks! It is that time again, time to roll over into a new season, and time to record our massive two-part games of the year show.  As we roll into Season 13, we have a minor revision to our lineup and two shows stacked with fifteen games each.  As is our tradition, the list was divided into two parts, and the more votes a title got, the later in the show it appeared. It was a great year for gaming, but also a year where we were constantly getting distracted by the next big thing coming down the pipe.  While we played a lot of games… we did not necessarily FINISH a lot of games.

Topics Discussed:

  • Slormancer
  • Sunderfolk
  • Monster Hunter Wilds
  • Hell Clock
  • Grimshire
  • Mercenaries of Trarthus
  • Final Fantasy Tactics
  • Digimon Story: Time Stranger
  • Soulstone Survivors
  • Ball x Pit
  • Guild Wars 2 Fractal Incursion
  • Xenoblade Chronicles X Def. Edition
  • Dispatch
  • Destiny Rising
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

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AggroChat #545 – The Tree Tree

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

This week, we start off with some discussion around Path of Exile 3.27, the Keepers of the Flame league, and how we are doing breach to make things with the tree tree. From there, we talk a bit about the murder of Amazon Game Studios and how New World is essentially a shambling corpse now…  spooky. After that horror story, we needed something chill, so we talked a bit about Powerwash Simulator and its interesting method for delivering a story.  Grace and Bel finally finish the Destiny Rising raid and talk a bit about how good it is at teaching mechanics in lower-level content.  Dispatch is a wildly good game that is being delivered in an episodic method that feels like you are playing a really good television show.  Guild Wars 2 Visions of Eternity launched and we talk about some of our early thoughts, namely around the builds introduced by the new elite specs.  Finally, we talk a bit about Outer Worlds 2 and how it makes good on the idea of Obsidian’s very own Fallout New Vegas that the first game started.

Topics Discussed:

  • Path of Exile 3.27
    • Keepers of the Flame
    • The Tree Tree
  • New World in Zombie Mode
  • Powerwash Simulator
  • Destiny Rising Raid
  • Dispatch
  • GW2 Visions of Eternity Early Thoughts
  • Outer Worlds 2

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AggroChat #544 – Gambling Go Boom

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

Good Morning, Folks! This week we had the entire crew and a stacked list of topics, forcing us to bump several to next week.  Tam starts out talking about Time Flies, leading into Grace talking about Ball X Pit.  Bel shares his thoughts about the Path of Exile 3.27 reveal stream, and Ash discusses the Session Zero for the Critical Role Daggerheart system. Tam has been playing Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2…  and how it is very much not a sequel to the first game. Bel talks a bit about the CSGO Gambling Crash, where the illicit market lost some 3 Billion dollars of value in a single day. Ash discusses playing Entropy Effect, which is set in the BlazBlue universe, and Bel shares some further bad news about the self-destruction of Xbox, with some new updates and Halo officially being announced for the PlayStation 5. We wrap things up with first impressions of Dispatch and Outer Worlds 2, which we are likely going to be talking about next week.

Topics Discussed:

  • Time Flies
  • Ball X Pit
  • Path of Exile 3.27 Reveal
  • Daggerheart Session Zero
  • VtM: Bloodlines 2
  • CSGO Gambling Crash
  • BlazBlue Entropy Effect
  • Halo on PS5
  • Dispatch First Impressions
  • Outer Worlds 2 First Impressions

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