Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Super Auto Pets, Snowrunner, the Quarry, and much more!
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A few people in comments have expressed distress at my talking about the spoiler wall coming down on our Elden Ring coverage, so I wanted to talk about that a bit. We'll discuss further on the show when the time comes, but I wanted to say something now to address concerns.
We knew right after its release that Vampyr would be a WOFF! game. An RPG that cites Bloodlines as an inspiration, made by a smaller studio, with a great premise and very high highs that are unfortunately compromised by some very low lows. This bore out on our playthrough for the show. Jonathan Reid, the only vampire doctor i...
2022-06-23 23:14:10 +0000 UTC View Post
You can steer clear of a lot of problems by staying above ground. In fact, there are few reasons to go down there. Few reasons worth dealing with the CHUDS for, anyway. Someone should have told that to these thrill-seeking ladies, looking to do some spelunking after their friend suffers a tragic loss.
The Descent is one...
2022-06-22 21:13:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Just like every sitcom has the "learning the dangers of credit cards" episode, every cartoon must have the "rich person realizes they're broke" episode. Maybe that's just this and the Simpsons. Regardless, the Monarch learns that he's broke after completely renovating his parents' condemned mansion, and now he has to work the...
2022-06-21 22:00:00 +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...
2022-06-21 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Nickelodeon's GUTS, later Global GUTS, was a mainstay of the network's "cheaply produced gameshows" that acted as ballast for some of the other, bigger shows. Each episode, a group of kids competed in physical challenges, culminating in a trip up the Aggro Crag, for a chance to win a "glowing piece of that radical rock". From...
2022-06-20 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Having killed Godrick and taken his Great Rune, it's time to venture into the sunken basin of Liurnia of the Lakes. First we make a quick stop back to Roundtable Hold to get a glimpse at the Fingers, and then we hit the NPCs and dungeons of the southernmost ridges and reaches of the great swamp that acts as the cradle for the...
2022-06-19 16:09:19 +0000 UTC View PostHello! It's time to help us pick the topics of next month's premium Abject Suffering episodes. As always, you can click the links below to learn more (three of them are videos, while Dragon's Mandate has nothing on YouTube so it's the Archive link). Place your votes by Tuesday, June 21 and the top tw...
2022-06-18 17:56:15 +0000 UTC View PostHello! The purpose of this post is to call for your questions and prompts for WOFF! Dispatch. Please respond by Monday, June 20 by leaving a comment on this post. (Apologies for the late notice this month).
We're looking for two kinds of things:
1. Suggestions for our long-form discussion prompt.<...
2022-06-18 15:19:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about The Quarry, Citizen Sleeper, To the Moon, and more!
If you have even a mild interest in old games, your critical acumen will always be caught up in the tension between historical import and modern playability. Few games stress that dissonance more than Another World, which combines an unbeatable atmosphere and tremendous influence with some very outmoded game design. Is it wor...
2022-06-16 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Bratz dolls were so hideous that they started a moral panic, and they were also a transmedia property! Movies, TV shows, games, all dedicated to the dolls So Ugly They Made the News. This is one of the more robust mini-game collections we've covered, but we're more interested in the gossip to be found in the comments on the B...
2022-06-16 00:52:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The Morphic Trilogy draws to a close as all of our players converge on the lobby of VenTech Tower. This episode is mostly flashbacks and dream sequences, illuminating some of the most important secrets in the backstory of the Venture Bros. universe.
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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...
2022-06-14 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The Curious Expedition isn't a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but it sits at a table set with a lot of outdated tropes that don't look so great nowadays. We're pretty sure this Patron just wanted us to make a bummer episode about colonialism. So we talk about that, along with how people just drown in pig shit and...
2022-06-13 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Manny Perez joins us to talk about Elden Ring in general, and we read some written responses from Zullie the Witch. Then we dive into your responses to Elden Ring's early game, up through Stormveil. As a warning, we don't avoid spoilers for the first 61 minutes of the episode, so if you're sensitive to that please skip forwar...
2022-06-12 20:20:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In this epsiode we cover: X-Men Messiah Complex #1, Uncanny X-Men #492, X-Factor #25, New X-Men #44 aka the beginning of the Messiah Complex!
Reminder that you can read along with and ahead of the show by subscribing to Marvel Unlimited (we don't get paid for you doing that, so it's not an ad, it's just a cool service)....
2022-06-11 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about Snowrunner, Diablo Immortal, Open Sorcery, and much more!
The world is waiting to be reborn, and it's waiting for you. Terranigma is probably Quintet's grandest statement on its pet themes... an action RPG that purports to be about the duality of creation and destruction. Over the course of a playthrough you raise the continents, restore the wildlife, bring humanity to its highest p...
2022-06-09 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You've never heard of this game show, and because it's on Peacock you'll probably never see it. But it's worth talking about because, wow, it's a very bad idea. Imagine sacrificing your bodily integrity to suffer concussions and broken bones on a more boring version of American Ninja Warrior, where every move is "gently jump ...
2022-06-08 21:11:01 +0000 UTC View Post
While the Ventures are trying to solve the curse of the haunted PROBLEM, the Monarch gets in way over his head with Wide Wale. Attempting to cinch the arching rights for Rusty gets the Monarch kidnapped, and it's up to 21 and Dr. Mrs. the Monarch to try and extract him from a delicate situation. Meanwhile, Enrico Matassa is b...
2022-06-07 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...
2022-06-07 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We're not interested in talking about whether or not Joe Rogan is a force for good. You can probably guess how we feel about his show. BUT, we are interested in how wild reality game shows got in the early 2000s, and this is a great inroads to talking about a whole bunch of them. Also, making a video game version of Fear Fact...
2022-06-06 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We've been in the shadow of Stormveil Castle for the entire game, learning of Godrick's misdeeds... and it's time to make him pay. This episode picks up at the courtyard of Stormveil Castle and goes through the Godrick the Grafted boss fight, and we also talk about activating his Great Rune at the tower.
2022-06-05 18:27:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Roller Champions, and the Night of the Scissors.
Sometimes you just want to pick up an entire tanker truck and surf on it into a bunch of SWAT team guys, then rip a car in half and pound a tank with it, you know? This early high point in the sketchy history of Super Hero games isn't without its flaws (most of its flaws start with "M" and rhyme with missile) but it's got a l...
2022-06-02 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The year 1998 brought us a Blues Brothers revival that shouldn't have happened, and which nobody wanted. But Dan Akyroid's face gets itchy without those sunglasses, and he charged ahead anyway. Then they made a game adaptation of the movie, kind of, two years later. Instead of talking about that, we talk about the ways that m...
2022-06-01 21:59:56 +0000 UTC View Post
June is a busy month for us! Check out everything that's coming down the pike, and set your calendars accordingly (your podcast calendars, for listening to podcasts). Let me know if these images help, if you can.
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2022-06-01 17:31:46 +0000 UTC View Post
The seventh season of the Venture Bros. is a weird one in that it begins with what is, effectively, a Venture Bros. movie known as the Morphic Trilogy. The first part, this episode, deals with an apparent haunting at VenTech Tower, the efforts of Rusty's friends to stop it, and the revelation of a horrible secret that goes ba...
2022-05-31 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
