Episode 158: But You Can Build Your Own Coaster [Roller Coaster Tycoon]

Nothing memorializes a roller coaster ride like getting hit in the face by a pigeon right as you ride through the camera!  It's too intense, and likely to induce nausea, so it's lucky that you went to a park staffed by a sufficient number of handy men.  And by that, guys who seem to specialize in mopping up the results of intense roller coaster.  But, what's this?  Giant tweezers?!



10 Gs on this download make it pretty intense.


Show Notes

(03:00) Such Rhythm.  We can fight!

(05:30) Electricity -> Amber -> Ambrose makes sense, I swear.

(09:30) There are apparently some advantages to keeping the idiots alive.

(14:30) Victory conditions, related to loss conditions.

(20:00) Screwing with guests.

(24:00) Not a death trap.

(43:00) The rank is pretty steep.



Next time on Last Time, Shantae!

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Episode 108: KFC Double Denver [Sim City 2000]

Apparently crowd funded games are on our minds this week, but so are a lot of things.  Maybe we should have had better planning?  Zoning, perhaps?  See what I did?  Anyway, we're building cities and exploiting the not-quite-human intelligence of their occupants to make tons of money!



Our download is more effective than Godzilla.


Show Notes

(01:45) Everypony thinks Mad Max is so shine.

(08:00) Sploon!  Turns out it's pretty fun.

(10:30) Cross Code is looking good.  Also, fancy shoes, but that's mostly unrelated.

(27:00) SimAnt was sweet.

(27:30) SimCity 2000!  Zoooones! There are definitely optimal strategies.

(34:00) How this game lacks extra goals that make other open ended games more engaging.

(41:30) GoG Galaxy and Geremy's initial thoughts.

(42:00) Wanna rank?  Super Mario Daisy!  Greyscale Mega Men!  Last (and least) Sonic Chaos.


Next time on Last Time, it's a double with Donkey Kong and Mario Bros.!

Stop!  It's hammer time!

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Episode 79: Only You Can Prevent Building Fires [Ignition Factor]

Like a mighty Squirtle squad, we now rush to extinguish fires! Actually, though, there's very little fire fighting in this game, and a lot of rescuing people who refuse to leave a burning building. Gear up and get ready to ax some tough questions. And by questions, I mean doors.



No!  I won't leave until you rescue Download!


Show Notes

(00:45) Puttin' out fires on Mt. Chi-Chi's Dad's House.  Ox-King?  Why is he called that?

(01:15) He's drinking your arm!

(02:30) Pretty sure this is the Let's Play Geremy mentioned.  It's pretty hilarious.

(04:30) Juri rocks!

(08:30) That X-Men game Zach mentioned might possibly be the one Tyler couldn't remember.

(10:30) Apollo Justice is pretty good, as is Azran Legacy.  Also, the crossover is in the U.S. now!

(13:30) Zach's been playing Civ 5, which is pretty great.

(22:00) P.T.!

(25:20) Five Nights at Freddy's is pretty creepy.

(26:20) Damned if we own, damned if we play it.

(28:45) Run over by a segway.

(29:30) Get paid to save: Ignition Factor!

(34:00) Putting out fires and starting them... with your body!

(44:30) The penalty for losing is very annoying.


Next time on Last Time, Elevator Action!

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Episode 60: Why Don't We Just Talk About the In-Flight Movie? [Pilotwings]

Are you a bad enough dude to fly a helicopter? Well, even if you are, you have to learn a much more important skill first: hang gliding! Also, our hobby flight club has a jet pack. Apparently, one of us is rich. You can wreck as many planes as you want, but we won't give you a shiny new badge until you manage not to. Also, jump out of that plane or something. I'm running out of things you can do in the air, alright?



We're going to drop you from 2,000 feet and see if you can hit our download.


(02:30) A bit of talking about Elder Scrolls Online and its potentially interesting guild dynamics.

(07:00) We totally mean the Bechdel test, a basic litmus test for feminism in a piece of media.  Oddly, though, the Bartle test would probably be more appropriate for this show.  Anywho, we then look at Hinata from Naruto.

(10:00) League!  Tyler started playing.

(10:30) FTL: the Ancestry Quest.  It's super unlikely to happen.

(12:45) One Finger Death Punch.  It's insanely addicting.

(14:30) Homestar Runner, because of course.  What a deal!

(17:00) League tales... from the abyss!

(20:45) FreeSpace 2, a cool game for space.

(21:15) Tyrion is now an anthropologist.

(24:45) X-Men vs. TIE Fighter: The lost gem that never existed.

(28:00) Pilotwings is actually a secret X-Men training school.

(30:00) Totally meant roll, not yaw.

(33:30) Just tossing this out there.

(36:15) Helicopter mode!


Next time on Last Time, Cybernator!

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Bonus Episode 2: Animal Crossing

This week we have a bit of a change of form with what I like to call "The LTOVG Guest Host-apalooza!"  +Katie Smith and +Alex Tift are on the mics with the usual hosts for this episodes, and it's fairly raucous.  This is a bonus episode, so the quality of the audio is less than normal; Geremy did what he could to salvage it.



Shake shake... A download fell out of that tree!

(00:40) An introduction to Katie!  That other game she plays is this!  Also, she's making an edutainment game of some awesomeness: Adventure Girls.

(05:40) Zach leads off our recent games list.  Bolas!  Alex plays some games?  Odin Sphere!  Odette is creepy...

(13:00) Educational games!  A.D.A.M. is apparently a series.  Oregon Trail is in your Interwebz.  SimAnt is a pretty cool game.  Zoombinis and pizza.  Fantastic Contraption and its sequel allow you to create a ton of different machines to solve problems.

(25:00) ActRaiser was mentioned.  Just sayin'.

(26:30) Animal Crossing!  You may have questionable origins.  Kirin is god... thing.  It's mentioned in this show.

(35:00) How you make money in these games.

(39:30) Tarantulas.  Seriously?

(43:45) Fuzzy Pickles!

(49:30) Tyler's totally wrong.  Maybe Morrowind?

(51:30) Humans are gluttons and will play all the games if possible.

(54:30) Rover!


Next time on Last Time, Pokemon Snap!

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Episode 3: Farming Under the Light of a Harvest Moon [Harvest Moon]

You ever get the feeling you'd be better off growing potatoes and corn on you grandfather's abandoned farm to become a millionaire?  No?  Well, in case you have, you can live out that dream in Harvest Moon, everyone's favorite farming/dating/life simulator!  This seems to be a game that everyone has heard of, but few have actually played.  Is it worth trying?  Give us a listen and find out!

A quick note, this was the first one we recorded on Geremy's computer, so the sound quality was... questionable.


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(0:23) The First Games we ever played.

(2:26) Harvest Moon 64, and Geremy’s obsession with it.

(3:30) Why Farm Chore Simulator is fun.

(5:30) Harvest Moon

(8:10) A Hard Day’s Night, time limits in Harvest Moon.

(9:26) The Goals of Harvest Moon

(10:00) Girls!  (In Harvest Moon.)

(11:15) The Not-Girls in Harvest Moon.

(12:40) The flaws of Harvest Moon
(14:40) Multiple Endings!

(15:50) The Golden (Easter) Egg.

(20:20) Best parts of Harvest Moon

(21:16) And the worst parts.

(24:50) Reward structures in Video Games.

(33:30) We talk about Hex Empire.  If you’d like to play it, it can be found here.  http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/486811


Next week, Metroid!  A way better aliens game than Aliens: Colonial Marines.

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