Things aren't going quite right for Jacob Singer. He's having flashbacks to the Vienam War and seeing demons all around him. Reality seems to be breaking down as he hops around in time. There's a truth he needs to face, and it might just take an angelic chiropractor to help him see it.
Jacob's Ladder is one of the most ...
2022-10-26 18:16:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episodes: Tinytoma - Brimstone Bombs - 4.5 Volt - Tainted Cain
2022-10-25 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
If I was a kid and I got a Muppet game where I couldn't play as Kermit, I'd be pissed. That's the world that Muppet Monster Adventure forces on us, one where people know who Robin the Frog is. The good Muppets have been kidnapped by an evil monster, and it's up to Robin to rescue them, maybe? This is a bog standard licensed p...
2022-10-24 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's Roundtable Roundtable has a slightly different format, because we are featuring two audio interviews with guests alongside your responses to the Caelid region of Elden Ring!
Our first guest needs almost no introduction. Iron Pineapple...
2022-10-23 17:11:12 +0000 UTC View Post
So you make some very good product, and through no fault of your own you end up with one and a half dead bodies. A worse show would make the bodies disappear conveniently. However, Breaking Bad is about two people who are inept at crime getting into their own way. Walt and Jesse are ready to go their separate ways, but first ...
2022-10-22 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Kole, Ben, David, and Dennis talk about Scorn, Outer Wilds, Echoes of the Eye, Slay the Spire: Downfall, and much more!
Warning: Fluid chat!
It's sort of like limbo, in that you're seeing how low you can go but instead seeing how divorced a grizzled dadtagonist can get.
This is a good ass game despite a nonsense story. The biggest issue is it throws away it's biggest strength half way through, pulling you out of the genuinely in...
One of the major dividing lines in video game history is when optical media became cheaper and more plentiful. That brought great stuff like Myst, and a few great FMV games... but it also brought us stuff like "Who Shot Johnny Rock?", a terrible FMV shooting game that's based entirely on fakeouts. Also, Gary torments Kole wit...
2022-10-19 18:40:15 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode: We're in a corn maze! (And we talk about Magic Skin, Revelation, Consolation Prize, and Polished Bone.)
2022-10-18 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time to cast your vote for the games we'll cover on November's premium episodes of Abject Suffering! As always, the top two vote-getters will get episodes. Click the links below to see some gameplay videos, and cast your vote by October 21, 2022.
Clive Barker's most famous forray into video games is 2001's Undying, but that wasn't his first attempt. Before that, we learned all about the Nightbreed. It's unclear what a Nightbreed is, how you become one, or what they even do, but this Interactive Movie adventure game does its best to get you up to speed, terrible checkp...
2022-10-17 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we set our sights on the big guy himself, Radahn the Star Scourge, a general whose magic is so powerful that he has arrested the stars themselves. But we're not going to do it alone. Redmane Castle's festival is the first event of its kind, where a whole dungeon is changed for a specific encounter which is the cross...
2022-10-17 00:40:47 +0000 UTC View PostHey! I know me, and I know that I'm awful at keeping up with video stuff. But this project presupposes.... maybe I'm not?
Welcome to the first episode of The Gary Butterfield Memorial Library, where I show off weird books and shit I got. I will fix the orientation, I promise.
2022-10-16 23:17:32 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back true believers! This week we're finishing up the Mutant Massacre crossover by discussing Uncanny X-Men #213 and #214. Then, because we both are 90s kids and we love Archangel, we skipped to X-Factor #24-26 to see Warren Worthington's transformation into the edgy (literally!) blue skinned villain.
Reminder t...
2022-10-15 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Kole, Ben, and Dennis talk about Medieval Dynasty, Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye, Ori and the Blind Forest, and much more!
Hello! The purpose of this post is to call for your questions and prompts for WOFF! Dispatch. Please respond by Monday, October 17 by leaving a comment on this post.
We're looking for two kinds of things:
1. Suggestions for our long-form discussion prompt.
2. Q&A about the shows, behind ...
2022-10-14 16:53:23 +0000 UTC View Post
An unnamed man wakes up outside of a macabre circus, and he must set about learning why he is there. This classic-style point and click adventure game tells a pretty standard psychological horror story with a lot of allusions and metaphor, which isn't going to be everyone's favorite thing. However, there is tons of great horr...
2022-10-13 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The Sims is obviously an amazing game series and we wish we could play more of it. From the outside, the Sims community seems like an inclusive and welcoming space where people can be creative and have fun.
And then we have the Sims Spark'd, the product of an ill-advised partnership between EA, TBS, and Buzzfeed Multipl...
2022-10-12 23:50:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episodes: Yuck Heart, Urn Of Souls, Akeldama, and Tainted Magdalene.
2022-10-11 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Listen, it's not great when the way you earn points in a game is to find a lady and have vigorous sex with her before she disappears. That's what happens in Dan Dolme, a game about a man with a large penis whose girlfriend goes missing and he must find her and engage with her sexually. But the whole presentation is so surreal...
2022-10-10 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks! It's time to write in with your responses on the Caelid region in Elden Ring. Submit your response as a comment on this post! As always, keep some guidelines in mind.
1. Keep your responses and stories specific to Caelid, the Dragonbarrow, and Redmane.
2. Please keep your responses brie...
2022-10-09 18:57:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Our quest to defeat Starscourge Radan is near its end as we storm his stronghold, Redmane Castle. This legacy dungeon is quite strange, and not just in the context of Elden Ring. There are two versions of it, one that is full of enemies, and another that is empty and ready for the Festival to kill the rot-blighted demigod. Fr...
2022-10-09 16:22:15 +0000 UTC View Post
We're off to the races as we talk about the first episode of Breaking Bad, the clumsily-named "Pilot". Pretty much everything is here, introducing us to the main cast and showing us Walt's life of quiet humiliation before he reunites with Jesse Pinkman and makes his first forrays into the criminal underworld. Is the tone kind...
2022-10-08 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Kole, David, Dennis, and Jala talk about Catherine Full Body, Deep Rock Galactic, Metal Gear Survive, and much more!
Some days define a generation. For a while it was "Where were you when JFK was shot?" Then it was "Where were you on 9/11?" Now, we will ask: "Where were you when you first heart Chris Pratt's Mario voice?"
The trailer was released during our recording day, so we decided to sit down and spend a few minutes collecting ou...
2022-10-06 22:54:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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Spooky month begins with the ultimate heebie jeebie, a real Boo-riffic blunder! So buckle up boils and ghouls and non die-scary siblings alike.
*Play Devotion before listening to this macabre tale of goof'em ups. Seriously, it's one of the best games we've done for the show and it's only 3...
2022-10-06 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a video version of the audio episode, posted for the embed and convenience.
150 premium Abject Suffering episodes is a reason for celebration. It was a total accident that we happened to end up covering Chak...
2022-10-05 22:49:20 +0000 UTC View Post
150 premium Abject Suffering episodes is a reason for celebration. It was a total accident that we happened to end up covering Chakan: The Forever Man, a cult Genesis game about a man who is cursed to live forever, named Chakan. Chakan is based on an indie comic by a person who goes by the initialism RAK, and 2022-10-05 22:46:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Kole and Jala wrap up their coverage on the main Phoenix Wright trilogy of games by talking about Trials and Tribulations. Story concerned with the pasts of the various characters, it also seeks to wrap up loose ends and give a big fanservice payday to anyone with affection for the cast.
2022-10-05 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a weekly comedy/gaming podcast that releases four 15-minute episodes in a single hour-long chunk every Tuesday for reasons that seemed good at the time. Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the...
2022-10-04 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
