Episode 98: Ugly-Nosed Peasants [Fire Emblem]

Nintendo's lesser known child, Fire Emblem, and its first appearance on our podcast!  Sword some guys, ax some lances, shoot fireballs.  This game's got it all... except telling you how to talk to other people.  I suppose, though, that's a life skill that no game has taught.



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Show Notes

(08:40) Norse mythology is weird!  Also, ShinTen.

(11:30) Bravely vampire!

(16:00) That thing with a 'C' that's Fallen London currency is Cryptic Clue.  Yes, clues and secrets are currency.  As is a Tale of Terror.  This game is weird.

(20:00) Sunless Sea looks pretty good.

(22:00) Fire Emblem is fun, guys!  We attempt to dissect why the combat in this is fun.  We also talk about the general mechanics and how the story (which is "good") is mostly just a frame for some fantasy tactics time.

(29:00) Lyn is a Disney Princess!


Next time on Last Time, Zanac!  Hopefully less construction this time.

Giant balls!  Of energy!

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Episode 76: "Tactics" [Gain Ground]

Some tactical training robots whose purpose is to get people to fight and reinvigorate their fighting spirit... or something... just want to watch the world burn.  Thankfully, vikings are awesome!  Also, there are a lot of fireballs, and that's always cool.



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Show Notes

(01:45) Tyler's final thoughts upon beating Mega Man 3.

(05:15) Flay's pretty much.  Nothing can stop his drill!

(06:00) Don't play Mana Khemia 2.  Ulrika is soooo annoying.  Pepperoni's awesome, though.

(09:30) Payday 2 tales and the horrors of carrying bags.  While fun, the game suffers from a lack of things to do if your heist is going well silently.  Maybe some mini-game things to move things along?

(15:40) Geremy's latest Fire Emblem run.

(20:00) JesuOtaku's got some pretty good reviews on Attack on Titan.

(21:00) Minecraft adventures!

(25:00) Gain Ground is a giant evil computer controller robots and people need to fight the computer.

(29:20) It's like Broforce, but from the 80s!


Next time on Last Time, Solomon's Key!

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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 31: Menu Battle 64 [Ogre Battle 64]

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!



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(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).

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Episode 11: Really, You Should Be Listening to Episode 64 [Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen]

We've been attacked by another guest host!  This week, we talk Ogre Battle, among other things.  This week is pretty heavy on other things, actually, but it's 92% by volume videogame related.  Can you battle ogres with the best of them?



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(00:30) Zach!  We've mentioned him basically every episode and now he's here, like a specter from the ether.  I'm neither confirming nor denying this, but he might be a regular from now on.

(02:50) We hit the wall flying.  Or throwing.

(03:45) What we've been playing.  It's actually different this week!

(05:15) Griefing.  Also, XCOM.

(06:35) More Naruto madness.  This stuff is crazy awesome, regardless of whether you like the show.  Big on style.

(09:30) Pokemon!

(10:50) Pixelmon, the super awesome mod for Minecraft where you play with Pokemon on the map.

(12:40) Myths and legends in games and how they're dead with the Internet.

(15:30) Commensurate rewards for secrets in games and the 3D platformer collection craze.

(20:00) We finally get to the game of the week.

(23:40) A special point here: you are punished for using your best teams.

(25:40) Zach has causality issues.   Also, the Tarot system.

(30:00) We talk a bit about unit promotion that may make you think that this game sounds cool.

 (32:00) Plot!  We were told there was one.

(36:00) TL;DNL: There's some potential here, but it's wasted.  Go play Ogre Battle 64 instead.

Next week, we look at another series progenitor, The Legend of Zelda.  Zach will be joining us again, so expect outbursts of some sort.

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