Episode 120: 3 Damage For 1 Red [Pokemon Trading Card Game]

A beloved favorite of all the hosts, how does this week's game hold up? More importantly, how good were the mechanics of the original Pokemon TCG? Follow us through gym battles and meetings with deformed monstrosities while we attempt to become Pokemon (TCG) champion!



I discard 2 energies to retreat Weedle and send in Download!

Show Notes

(01:25) Tool Time with Tyler.  Also, Splatoon is more awesome than it was!

(12:00) Zach's Heroes of the Storm tales!  Speaking of MOBAs, he might have some videos of his shenanigans on League soon.

(16:40) Geremy lauds Persona 3.  It's great!

(25:30) We tackle the actual game!  Thankfully, the current rules are much more convoluted than they used to be.  Our critique basically comes down to excessively simple mechanics and a limited card pool.

(39:45) Conversation about PTCG digivolve into rankings!  Erinaceomorph digivolve to Sonic for the Master System!  That one digivolve into Sonic 2 for the Master System, I guess?  Star Wars digi-unevolve to Super Empire Strikes Back!




Next time on Last Time, Super C!

Pew, Bill, Pew.

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Episode 110: I Hope I Look That Good in My Castle Age [Age Of Empires 2]

Experience with us the sublime joy of collecting massive amounts of resources so you can turn them into units and spread them across the country to find your opponent's last piece of wall.  Somehow, that counts as a stronghold.  Imagine the king of a great nation huddling in a ruined tower while the Mongol horde descends upon him.  Also, a lot of farming.  And building walls.  So, a lot like most of history.  Strategy!



Mongols and Vikings and Downloads, oh my!


Show Notes

(02:30) Analogue: A Hate Story sounds fun.  Salt is definitely amusing if you want more pirates in your Minecraft.

(02:45)  Awesome enough to get its own timestamp note: Towerfall!  This War of Mine is interesting, but gets boring fairly quickly.

(04:00) A brief discussion of the horrible anchors that are online ranking systems.

(11:00) Apparently the city in AoT doesn't have a name; it's just "the Walls".  The various districts do have names, though.

(12:45) Remember, kids, don't be a publicized criminal or you might spontaneously die of a heart attack.

(14:30) Dino D-Day just looks amazeballs.

(16:30) The Golden Grin is definitely not free.

(17:15) Zach's newest pastime: Dynasty Warriors 8 Empires.

(20:00) Batpires!

(26:30) RTS fun times!

(28:30) A quick critique of AoE2's lack of civilization differentiation.  It's there, but it's subtle.

(30:30) This game's 4 resource system.  We discuss the optimal number for a bit, but 0 is a valid options, so it's probably personal preference.

(36:00) While it doesn't look bad, lack of visual distinction between ages can be a problem.  What's the difference between these two ranged units?

(38:00) Win conditions and their relative ease.

(46:45) Rankings?  Have some!  Nobunaga's Ambition, Baseball, and King's Knight all get slotted on the list.


Next time on Last Time: Chief?  CHEEEIIIF!
It's Halo.  Let the flame wars begin.

Pistol OP.

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Episode 89: Japan is Mine [Nobunaga's Ambition]

Join us as we engage in the grand strategy of building a bigger army than everyone else! Conquer Japan, keep the peasants happy, and try to cause the peasants elsewhere to revolt; you've got a lot to do if you want to be emperor. Rather fortuitously, you have a giant menu at your command so you may direct your kingdom.



Our download is mostly divided into cavalry, so you had best have a lot of guns.


Show Notes

(02:00) Yuuki!

(04:45) Jadeite's small business strategies.

(07:30) Holy melonade, Batman, it's new Homestar!

(11:10) Daniel Boringcliffe on Jimmy Fallon.

(15:00) Spirit bomb of cash Kickstarter?

(20:00) Sweet headband, Light.

(23:15) Gihren's Greed isn't actually made by the same company.

(24:30) That story Zach was talking about.  Also, the guy worshiped by cops.

(26:00) Attempting to explain the main menu of Nobunaga's Ambition.  See those tabs at the top?  The each expand to 5-8 options.

(35:00) Cavalry, riflemen, and infantry and the problems with losing troops every fight.  The bottom line: combat is boring and it's the only way to win.


Next time on Last Time, Baseball!  Halftime!

Home run time,

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Episode 51: Alien Budget Crisis [X-Com: UFO Defense]

Ed's first pick on the show!  Do you get the feeling that you're not alone?  That there are other beings out there, watching us?  That they are really terrible shots with laser weapons?  X-Com allows you to experience all of this, and the joys of budgeting a base to do fight the aliens, which is more entertaining than it sounds.



I'm afraid world funding is too low to afford this download.


(02:45) Ed's been playing Bravely Default, which sounds like a JRPG.  Also, Hearthstone apparently kills Wine.  Fortune Street!

(06:30) Apparently WaToad?

(08:20) Golden trains!  Human save state hacking and college speed runs.

(12:00) Zach's in ranked matches in LoL now!

(16:00) Flash games and free games: why are we paying for them?

(19:00) Extra Credits is just generally awesome.  Watch it.

(19:30) Geremy and Ed had some Pokemon battles, while engaged in other activities.

(26:40) Check out the amazing intro to this game.

(34:00) Dogfighting is somehow not very exciting.  Basically, you push unlabeled buttons, discernible by the number of bullets on each one.

(40:00) Combat!  Fairly complex, though rather slow, and you have two resources to burn.  The stats are also uniform, rather than the more realistic (and fair for a game) normal distribution.

(42:30) Base management!  The game is so complex, especially here, it comes with an in-game encyclopedia.

(45:00) Some improvements: automated combat, some sort of tutorial, and it suffers from a negative feedback loop.

(50:00) Turns out, this one appears to be a cult classic for a reason.  General sentiment: pretty good, but the sequel is better.


Next time on Last Time, it's S.C.A.T.!

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Episode 1: Welcome to ActRaiser [ActRaiser]

Hey, folks! It's the first episode, wherein we try to get this show going. Sadly, ActRaiser did not give us much to work with, so there's a bit of fluff. That said, the show notes are at the bottom of this post. Also, I've got an embedded player on this post, in addition to a download link, so choose your poison.



Remarkably useless spells and downloads!


Show Notes

(0:30) What is this podcast and what is it about?

(2:26) Who are the hosts?

(5:00) ActRaiser!

(8:32) The Enemies of ActRaiser (Besides Itself)

(10:00) We try to remember the individual levels of ActRaiser, we talk about the Bosses instead.

(11:16) We discuss the Simulation game within ActRaiser

(13:15) Why the boss fights in ActRaiser suck.

(15:10) We talk about Castlevania instead. We played it prior to ActRaiser, but didn’t record an episode, though both of us gave it very high marks.

(16:25) We play god on playing God, and try to figure out a way to improve ActRaiser.

(20:30) ActRaising Powerups.

(22:30) Your Angel Sidekick.

(25:10) Satan Vs. Dracula

(26:00) Concluding thoughts.


Next week, we play Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis, and see if the Blue Blur fares better than God.

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