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Kaye, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists, Aliens: Fire Team Elite 2, struggling with VR hardware, and much more!

The Grind:

Kaye: Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists.

Dennis: Struggling to play iRacing. Succeeding at playing pinball.

Moxie: Aliens: Fire Team Elite 2.

The Multiplayer:

What game’s multiplayer scene would you want to revive?

The End Boss:

Blizzard announces Diablo V.

Wardogs developer creeps your social media to see if you complain about crunch.

Steam Frame pricing an...

Do you love cars? Are you ready to be forced to love a very specific car? That’s what Pacific Drive is all about, you and your car against a bizarre zone of anomalous chaos. It’s not quite horror, and the survival mechanics aren’t everything you’d expect them to be, but this roguelike will challenge you to take care of your station wagon so it will take care of you. It’s just too bad that the story and tone are a shade too cartoony for the gravitas the developers were aiming for.

This is a premi...

For the 100th episode of Unfilmable, and our first public episode of the show, we go all the way back to 1932 to talk about Freaks, a pre-code movie that’s often billed as a horror movie but is in reality a surprisingly compassionate morality tale. Cleopatra is a circus performer plotting to seduce and kill Hans, a little person singer, in order to steal his vast inheritance. But the other performers have something to say about that…

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WHY WILL NO ONE TELL US WHAT THE HOLY TRINITY OF JAMBALAYA IS PUT IT IN THE COMMENTS IF YOU KNOOOOOOW!!!!

Super Morph is a PAL-only puzzle platformer that’s actually pretty neat. A young boy’s neglectful uncle put him into a matter transporter, and now the boy is trapped in flux between different states of matter. He must solve puzzles to find the gears that will fix the machine so he can return to his normal, human form. There are so many 16-bit PAL-only games we never got!

We also discuss the appeal of going dead weight, asking nicely to see airport jail, establishing situational awareness, acquiring paydata, and the rejection of the Order of the Tria...

When Howard sweeps in to give Jimmy the job offer he's waited more than a decade for, Jimmy has a... paradoxical reaction. Meanwhile Kim, Kim enlists his help with the Acker situation, and Gus sacrifices a lot of money to get the DEA off his back. Also, we argue over whether or not Mike was trying to commit suicide by dude.

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about Low-Budget Repairs, Star Wars: Zero Company, some PAX West experiences, and much more!

The Grind:

Jala: PAX Stories. Shining Force 2.

Dennis: Star Wars: Zero Company. Power Wash Simulator. Stellaris.

Kaye: Low-Budget Repairs.

Ben: Marvel Snap.

The Multiplayer:

The most satisfying moments in games.

The End Boss:

XBox to impose cloud gaming rations.

KillZone bring revived.

Valve made a slur leaderboard.

It's time for a very special Adaptation Decay! This August, Gary, Liv, and Kaye packed up and headed to Las Vegas to visit the Resident Evil Interactive Experience, a limited time takeover of Universal Horror Unleashed. Listen to us talk about the scares, the set design, the puzzles, and the food created to honor Resident Evil's 30 year anniversary.

This episode is extra special because we made a video for it, as you can see above! This is a labor of love, because we wanted to capture the experience and relate it to you as we talk about...

Pandemic Studios really knew what they were doing, and it’s a real shame their style of destruction-based open world games didn’t become the norm. That’s how you’ll feel when you play the Saboteur, the studio’s swan song. You are Sean Devlin, an Irish racecar driver who joins the French Resistance during World War II to get revenge on the Nazis. You may only be aware of this game because of its black and white-to-color visual trick, but there’s so much more to recommend it.

Hey folks! This will be a longer post detailing some changes that are coming up for Duckfeed in the next few months. When we ask listeners what they like about the network, they'll often bring up our transparency. It's one of our main values, so that's why we will be providing the rationale for each announcement so you know why we're making the changes.

There will be a TL;DR at the end for those who just want to see what's changing.

Big TL;DR at the top: Nobody's prices are raising. Quite the contrary...

Sorry this one is shorter than usual; blame Gary's nipple.

Some intellectual properties are like PFAS. Once introduced to the environment, they will never go away, just sitting and warping whatever they touch. The Hannah-Barbera archives are a superfund site of these, and no property has stuck around like Scooby-Doo. Night of 100 Frights has the distinction of being a very faithfully created 3D version of something that wasn’t great in the first place, attached to rote 3D platformer gameplay.

We also discuss exercise games, Scooby-Doo honoring the victims of 9/11, and mourning Dolly Parton and Tim Curry.

The Ripper strikes again! This time, it’s an unlucky someone down at the National Transportation Safety Board warehouse with a chest cavity full of soup. The problem is, there are no witnesses. At least, there are no corporeal witnesses.

Also discussed:

Shadows of North America: The Great Ghost Dance

Under the Hood: Hiring Runners

Grimoire: Spirits

Thank you to Darrin Michelson for our art this season, and to Gwen Static for the music!T

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Star Wars: Zero Company, Aliens: Fire Team Elite 2, Nordhold and much more!

The Grind:

Moxie: Aliens: Fire Team Elite 2.

Dennis: Aliens: Fire Team Elite 2. Stellaris. Star Wars: Zero Company.

Ben: Big Walk. Nordhold.

The Multiplayer:

What games remind you of childhood?

The End Boss:

Zero Company staff put on furlough shortly before the game released.

Even more Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks.

nVidia’s DLSS 5 slop upscaler will cut your frame rate in ha...

Someone call Powerman 5000 because we’ve found out what it’s like when worlds collide. Following a cartoonish affair last episode, Jimmy’s plot and the cartel plot run straight into each other as Lalo reaches out to Jimmy to help clean up the mess with Krazy-8’s arrest.

We’re running out of Fallout games to cover! Which means we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel to bring you a close look at the memory-holed PS2 and XBox entry into the series: Brotherhood of Steel. It’s a Dark Alliance-like that demonstrates that one of those can actually be a lot worse than the others, and it’s all made worse by how poorly it handles the Fallout setting.

Highlighted project: Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy

Searched the name, no obit.

They made a fun Pong game for the PlayStation. ANYWAY, did you know that we both got Covid-19 in Las Vegas? Let’s rank the symptoms!

What harm could deep deep discounts cause? There’s no way they could set off a chain reaction that leads directly or indirectly to the creation of a Heisenberg, right?

Uh oh! Both Gary and Kaye have COVID! So please forgive our voices and our absolute flightiness as we answer your questions, read your responses to Ogre Battle 64 and Dispatch, and talk about what makes an inventory system good or bad.

SEPTEMBER GAMES:

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel

The Saboteur

Pacific Drive (Premium)

OCTOBER GAMES:

Cultic

Stone of Madness

Silent Hill: Townfall

Everything To Jean Anouilh.

DJ Boy is a beat-em-up on roller skates. Roller blades? No, skates. The most hip-hop conveyance imaginable. That’s because this is a game steeped in a very removed Japanese understanding of US hip hop culture, which comes with some extremely uncomfortable racial depictions. Also, it’s time to hear about Kaye’s dental woes instead of Gary’s!

Season five begins with the (legal) creation of Saul Goodman, an alter ego Jimmy creates for his new law practice that lets him finally step out of his brother’s shadow. But Kim isn’t very happy with this, or Jimmy’s more brazen scheming. Meanwhile, Gus and Mike deal with the aftermath of Werner Ziegler’s escape, and Lalo’s new suspicion about their plans.

Editor's Note: Due to an upload error, this is being uploaded out of order. Whoops!

Season five begins with the (legal) creation of Saul Goodman, an alter ego Jimmy creates for his new law practice that lets him finally step out of his brother’s shadow. But Kim isn’t very happy with this, or Jimmy’s more brazen scheming. Meanwhile, Gus and Mike deal with the aftermath of Werner Ziegler’s escape, and Lalo’s new suspicion about their plans.

I like candy.

Balan Wonderworld is so infamous that sometimes you wonder if it could actually ever be that bad. Chat, it’s very bad. It ranks right behind chronically mistreating his workers on the list of worst things Yuji Naka has ever done. It’s so bad that we remain on topic for the whole episode.

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Big Walk, Quasimorph, The Forest, and much more!

The Grind:

Ben: Big Walk.

Moxie: Quasimorph. Diablo IV.

Dennis: Diablo IV. Far Cry 3. EverQuest Legends.

Kaye: The Forest.

The Multiplayer:

What’s your favorite cartridge or other video game packaging?

In this episode we say auf wiedersehen to season 4 by talking about the scant special features and deleted scenes on the DVDs, and we read your responses.

This week we continue our discussion of Ogre Battle 64, a sprawling and mysterious strategy game that eventually sheds the need for using strategy all together. It’s also a story of revolution that stops being about a revolution partway through. This leaves us in the frustrating position of wanting to like it more than we actually do.

Thanks again Will for executive producing this!

Our highlighted project for this week is the creator Mech Amalia, who reviews Gunpla and plays games on her YouTube channel and Instagram.

I just want to acknowledge that Gary says "Cuck Finn" at one point during this episode and I talked over it and it was very funny.

Portal didn’t invent the story about the banal cruelty of corporate super science, but it sure did it better than Whiplash. You play a weasel who has a rabbit chained to you, hopping and bopping to try to escape from a laboratory. And while it promises sweet grappling hook action, all it delivers is disappointment. We also talk about Gary’s evolving battle with, and respect for, the Tree of Heaven.

This week we begin Dead Man’s Switch, the first of the three Shadowrun Returns games. Our runner is at the end of their rope, penniless and without any leads on jobs. Then they get a pre-recorded phone call from a deceased former colleague, promising a life-changing sum of money if they can solve the murder mystery. So, we suit up and head to SeaTac.

Also Discussed:

Essence in Shadowrun

What it means to be SINless

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about MECCHA CHAMELEON, Project: Mist, The Horror at Highrook, and much more!

The Grind:

Dennis: Far Cry 3.

Ben: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Promise Mascot Agency. The Horror at Highrook.

Kaye: Desktop Explorer. Project: Mist. MECCHA CHAMELEON.

Moxie: MECCHA CHAMELEON. Nine Sols. Diablo IV.

The Multiplayer:

What ten year old game should get a new DLC?

The End Boss:

EA is now owned by more villains than usual.

Kid releases joke game...

Whether or not Jimmy actually misses Chuck, or feels bad about what happened between them, is all up for debate. What’s not up for debate is that Jimmy has to put on a big sad smile and stage the biggest display of grief ever. And speaking of grief: we lose Werner Ziegler too soon.

Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber was a big game that many, including us, missed out on. It’s a followup to a cult classic RTS for the SNES, and it follows Magnus Gallant, a young noble who ends up leading a revolution against his own kingdom. This is a strange game mostly known for its obscure mechanics, but it’s very much in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre in its story and presentation.

This episode covers the game’s generalities, the prologue, and the first chapter.

Big thanks to Will for ex...

On Halloween of 1992, the BBC aired a new broadcast that sent the nation into a panic: real life video evidence of a brutal poltergeist at work. At least, that’s what some people thought, especially children. Ghostwatch was fictional, and they said so, but it was so well-done that it remained controversial. This episode has us diving into a cultural phenomenon that we were completely unaware of, though we’ve absolutely loved the things it’s influenced.

Join us next time for an episode on The Blair Witch Project.

We're back, baby! The chefs in this one are terrible.

We understand why you all voted for Flix and Chill 2: Millennials in our episode poll. Look at that title. Little did you know that it’s also a viciously uninteresting adventure game in the guise of a dating sim. Millennials are strange birds, we are led to believe. Also, Kaye invents a fun new game to play with your friends.

Step it up, chummer, we’ve got a whole new season of Real Lich Hours for ya. That’s right, we’re beginning our coverage of the Shadowrun Returns trilogy of games!

But before we get into those, we want to give a little bit of a history an overview of Shadowrun itself, a long-running cyberpunk fantasy tabletop game with amazing lore and obtuse mechanics.

If you want to hear our previous podcast coverage of all things Shadowrun, here are some links:

Monster in My Podcast Season 2: Paranormal Animals of North America

Watc...

Kaye, Ben, and Jala talk about Palworld, Everything is Crab, Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption, and much more!

The Grind:

Jala: Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder. Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption.

Ben: The Incident at Galley House. Palworld.

Kaye: Desktop Explorer.

The Multiplayer:

Tell us some mods you like!

The End Boss:

Amazon’s Warhammer television series is in production.

Platinum is working on a TMNT game, The Last Ronin.

The new CEO of NexusMods is saying some concerning stuff.