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We’re a little late on our new year’s post but we had to peel ourselves off the couch after the holidays for this one. James and Ian discuss 2018’s greatest hits – well sort of. The games we played in 2018 at least. Ian fought off his sickness to get this one to you, and James was there too.

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Later Player

On our hate list:

Stick Fight: The Game (even their website is garbage)

Hello Neighbor

Ghost Recon: Wildlands

Our Greatest Hits of the Year:

Return of the Obra Dinn (Play this game for the love of god)

The Witcher 3 and its DLCs (feel free to write hate mail to James for being so late to this)

Most improved player:

No Man’s Sky – Next Update

What we’re looking forward to this year:

We. The Revolution (Ian)

Cyberpunk 2077 (James)

2018 Year in Review

What a silly title. Definitely our silliest. James is away this week so Ian got the website codes. And he’s going to break something for sure. I mean the title’s not even related to Charmeleon OR Charmillionaire.

Ian takes a moment to lay waste to the snoozefest of No Man’s Sky. It has some good qualities but eventually that negative reputation starts to make sense to Ian, it’s just a shame that he realized it after buying the game. He also takes some time to unpack the steampunk apocalypse title “They Are Billions,” which has given Ian a lot to work on over the last several weeks. It’s a great challenge will tonnes of replay potential.

We also take a moment to discuss a little indie release called “Alien Scumbags,” though Ian for sure calls it Scumbag Aliens once or twice. It’s a charming, fun, and funny game, and it’s clear that a lot of TLC went into its production. Well done to Monster Finger Studios who put it together.

Ian also takes a minute to wade through a real life MMO ghost story as he re-uncovers streamer “Vinesauce’s” video of stepping back into 20 year old MMO title “Active Worlds” only to discover he wasn’t alone. Watch the video, linked below, and enjoy the thoroughly disturbing experience.

We’re starting to play around with some more music in the podcast. This week you’ll find “Battle of Pogs,” by Komiku and “Album Instrumental” by Cheese N Pot. Good stuff you guys.

Discussed this week we’ve got:

Alien Scumbags by Monster Finger Games

No Man’s Sky by Hello Games

Terraria

They Are Billions

Vinesauce’s Active Worlds Ghost Story Experience [VIDEO LINK]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRgATG6PUA0 

Thanks for listening.

Later Player.

Review Reviews

Charbillionaire's Review Review

James is back this week, and Ian couldn't be happy to have his social life preserver back in house. Join in as James and Ian discuss new titles like Return of the Obra Dinn (for the last time we swear... for now), Apex Legends, and Frostpunk. We also take a detour to talk about how much fun it is to play Dungeons and Dragons, provided you have as good a DM as Ian. Ian also reviews James's review, it our most true-to-title Review Review yet.

...We hope you enjoy.

Later Player.

The games we mentioned this week were:

Return of the Obra Dinn
Papers, Please
Apex Legends
DnD
Frostpunk
Guitar Hero
They Are Billions
Surgeon Simulator

Jimmy's Back Baby

We take books from the MIT GameDev list and use them to talk about video games. It's a podcast about video games and the importance of play in a complicated world.

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