Team, assemble! You hit him with that thing you always do, and I'll flip a coin to determine which spell to cast! Afterwards, we can walk through town and, if they think exactly like us, we'll free them!
This week, it's Ogre Battle 64, the game of tactics and valor on the battlefield. Join us as we find out just how many soldiers it takes to get to the center of a fighter!
Is your alignment right to Liberate or Capture our download?
(00:55) Games and us. Specifically, ones with which we've interacted lately. DoA is a game about... fighting. Seriously, though, it's got a pretty decent story and gameplay. The 3D fighter with combat damage we mentioned was apparently Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus. If you're in the market for used... anything, 2nd and Charles is pretty awesome. Black & Read in Arvada is a superb books and music store.
(05:30) Anima looks so amazing, it's almost sad that we'll likely never play it.. No, Jean, don't do it!
(08:00) Pokemon Pinball! Tyler's current high scores... there may be a preference there. Nintendo had humble, and quite different, roots. high scores, All the wizard modes. It allows you to play a mean game. Alex's parents own a Xenon table. Read the Notes section. My hobby: replacing hyphens.
(13:00) The mysterious overlap between RPGs and tactical games.
(14:30) OGRES!
(16:45) Tome of Innaccuracy.
(22:00) This game has loooong battles.
(24:00) Pedras hurt them if they hurt you.
(28:30) This game is deep, man.
(31:45) Decision making.
(34:00) The reward pacing of this game is a little odd.
(37:00) This game is somewhat about minmaxing. Also, it has a story? History lesson!
(43:00) A brief commentary on whether a game that is narrative-centric should just be a movie.
(44:30) Some discussion about the necessity for rational humans to justify realistic violence within the game's story. It's a meaty topic that we don't nearly cover. Also, for some reason it seems easier to do this in a tabletop RPG than in a videogame.
(47:40) Spec Ops: The Line deals with the aforementioned subject through our favorite medium!
(50:40) Apparently not feeling weighty enough this episode, we dip into a discussion about videogames as an art form. I would ammend our discussion here that videogames may already be art, but be truly transcendent were they to meet the criteria we outline here.
(51:30) Final thoughts about Ogre Battle 64: It's pretty good!
Next week, Super Metroid! Get read to explore and shoot things (not necessarily in that order).
Morph ball on over to us at
This week, it's Ogre Battle 64, the game of tactics and valor on the battlefield. Join us as we find out just how many soldiers it takes to get to the center of a fighter!
Is your alignment right to Liberate or Capture our download?
(00:55) Games and us. Specifically, ones with which we've interacted lately. DoA is a game about... fighting. Seriously, though, it's got a pretty decent story and gameplay. The 3D fighter with combat damage we mentioned was apparently Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus. If you're in the market for used... anything, 2nd and Charles is pretty awesome. Black & Read in Arvada is a superb books and music store.
(05:30) Anima looks so amazing, it's almost sad that we'll likely never play it.. No, Jean, don't do it!
(08:00) Pokemon Pinball! Tyler's current high scores... there may be a preference there. Nintendo had humble, and quite different, roots. high scores, All the wizard modes. It allows you to play a mean game. Alex's parents own a Xenon table. Read the Notes section. My hobby: replacing hyphens.
(13:00) The mysterious overlap between RPGs and tactical games.
(14:30) OGRES!
(16:45) Tome of Innaccuracy.
(22:00) This game has loooong battles.
(24:00) Pedras hurt them if they hurt you.
(28:30) This game is deep, man.
(31:45) Decision making.
(34:00) The reward pacing of this game is a little odd.
(37:00) This game is somewhat about minmaxing. Also, it has a story? History lesson!
(43:00) A brief commentary on whether a game that is narrative-centric should just be a movie.
(44:30) Some discussion about the necessity for rational humans to justify realistic violence within the game's story. It's a meaty topic that we don't nearly cover. Also, for some reason it seems easier to do this in a tabletop RPG than in a videogame.
(47:40) Spec Ops: The Line deals with the aforementioned subject through our favorite medium!
(50:40) Apparently not feeling weighty enough this episode, we dip into a discussion about videogames as an art form. I would ammend our discussion here that videogames may already be art, but be truly transcendent were they to meet the criteria we outline here.
(51:30) Final thoughts about Ogre Battle 64: It's pretty good!
Next week, Super Metroid! Get read to explore and shoot things (not necessarily in that order).
Morph ball on over to us at
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or LTOVG@lasttimeonvideogames.com.
You can also go to the show page at plus.google.com/+LastTimeOnVideogames or comment on the site at www.lasttimeonvideogames.com.
Also, you can follow our tweets @LTOVG.