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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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AggroChat #543 – Helhest Arrives

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

Hey Folks! This week, Grace and Bel start off the show talking about how good Destiny Rising has been now that they have arrived at the endgame.  They also talk a bit about Helhest, the new banner character. Grace shares her initial thoughts about He is Coming a roguelike that they have been playing. Bel shares some of the early spoilers for Path of Exile 3.27 Keepers of the Flame, which we are getting a full reveal for on the 23rd and is starting on the 31st.  It seems like we are maybe getting a Breach expansion league, with a bunch of quality of life changes.  From there, we dive into the topic that got bumped from last week about how there are so many good games… that it makes it really hard to play less-than-excellent games anymore. We also talk about how players are seeing through pointless grinds, and how AA games are back with a vengeance, while AAA games are floundering.

Topics Discussed

  • Destiny Rising
    • Helhest Banner
    • Master and Grandmaster Mode Content
    • Trikora Happened
  • He Is Coming
  • Path of Exile 3.27 Spoilers
    • Keepers of the Flame
    • Breach League
  • When There Are Too Many Games
    • Players Rebelling Against Grind
    • The Rise of AA Games
    • The Floundering of AAA Games
    • Questionable Business Decisions

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AggroChat #542 – Oh, It’s Brat

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

Hey Folks! We start off the show with a discussion about how we all dogpiled on Discord and attempted the pre-release version of the MIT Mystery Hunt… and for those completely lost about the show title, one of the clues to one of the puzzles… was just the specific color of the Charlie XCX Brat Album. From there, Bel talks a bit about the Halloween event in Guild Wars 2 and how some folks take the Mad King’s Labyrinth way the hell too seriously.  Tam discusses what seems to be a complete rework of how the factions work in Infinity, and Bel discusses the launch of World of Warcraft Legion Remix.  We talk a bit more about Hades II, and more specifically playing the game AFTER beating Cronos.  Finally, Bel talks just a little bit about his early experiences in Blue Protocol, where he is trying to find the fun in the game.

Topics Discussed:

  • AggroChat vs Mystery Hunt
  • Mad King’s Labyrinth in GW2
  • Infinity Major Factions Update
  • World of Warcraft Legion Remix
  • Hades II
  • Blue Protocol

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AggroChat #540 – Suck It Grandpa

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

We are down a Grace this week, but carry forward with a handful of topics.  Bel talks about Diablo IV Season 10 after having sat out for a few seasons.  The game is in a pretty good state now.  Bel also goes on a tirade about how much he dislikes the builder/spender architecture in ARPGs and how you usually evolve your build to NEVER hit the builder. Tam, Kodra, and Ash offer their own rebuttals.  From there, we spend most of the show talking about Hades 2, which has been released this week into its full 1.0 version with some significant changes. We wrap the last few minutes of the show talking about a few other roguelikes that released recently, namely Wander Stars and Aethermancer.

Topics Discussed

  • Diablo IV In A Good Place
  • Builder Spender Feels Bad
  • Hades 2 Full Release
  • Wander Stars Full Release
  • Aethermancer Full Release

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