Shortcast #1 - Halo: Combat Evolved - Part 1 - Assault on the Control Room
Release Date: 11/09/2019
Golden Sun: The Lost Age - Part 4 - Lemuria (and lots of other places)
RPG Bookclub
This Week: We continue Golden Sun: The Lost Age, playing until we find out what our dang motivations are in Lemuria! Next Week: We play some more! Visit rpgbook.club to pitch in and unlock cool rewards, including a weekly bonus episode! Check out for our Discord server and our socials!
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Most Improved - The Best Video Game Sequels
RPG Bookclub
This Week: We weren't able to finish enough of Golden Sun: The Lost Age, so we discuss our favorite video game sequels! Trish claims Super Mario 3D Land isn't a 3D Mario game! Sam claims Banjo-Kazooie isn't a platformer! Bernard makes no dubious claims because he is always correct! Next Week: We play some more Golden Sun: The Lost Age! Visit rpgbook.club to pitch in and unlock cool rewards, including a weekly bonus episode! Check out for our Discord server and our socials!
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Golden Sun: The Lost Age - Part 3 - Gondowan
RPG Bookclub
This Week: We continue Golden Sun: The Lost Age, playing until we finally, finally get a boat! Next Week: We play some more! Visit rpgbook.club to pitch in and unlock cool rewards, including a weekly bonus episode! Check out for our Discord server and our socials!
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Golden Sun: The Lost Age - Part 2 - Osenia
RPG Bookclub
This Week: We continue Golden Sun: The Lost Age, playing until we find out that Piers ran off! Next Week: We play some more! Visit rpgbook.club to pitch in and unlock cool rewards, including a weekly bonus episode! Check out for our Discord server and our socials!
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Golden Sun: The Lost Age - Part 1 - Indra
RPG Bookclub
This Week: We start Golden Sun: The Lost Age, playing until we get permission to go to Osenia! Next Week: We play some more! Visit rpgbook.club to pitch in and unlock cool rewards, including a weekly bonus episode! Check out for our Discord server and our socials!
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Christmas 2025 Shortcast - Shenmue - Part 3
RPG Bookclub
This Week: We finish Shenmue! Please excuse Sam's audio quality; we've been having some trouble with recordings but we think we have it figured out now. Next Week: We start Golden Sun: The Lost Age! Visit rpgbook.club to pitch in and unlock cool rewards, including a weekly bonus episode! Check out for our Discord server and our socials!
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Christmas 2025 Shortcast - Shenmue - Part 2
RPG Bookclub
This Week: We play Shenmue until we finish our forklift training! Next Week: We finish the game! Visit rpgbook.club to pitch in and unlock cool rewards, including a weekly bonus episode! Check out for our Discord server and our socials!
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Christmas 2025 Shortcast - Shenmue - Part 1
RPG Bookclub
This Week: We play Shenmue until we meet Master Chen! Next Week: We play some more! Maybe we'll finish the game? We're not sure! Visit rpgbook.club to pitch in and unlock cool rewards, including a weekly bonus episode! Check out for our Discord server and our socials!
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Golden Sun - Part 5 - The Venus Lighthouse
RPG Bookclub
This Week: We finish the first game of the Golden Sun duology! Next Week: We take a break from Golden Sun for part one of our Christmas 2025 special shortcast on Shenmue! Visit rpgbook.club to pitch in and unlock cool rewards, including a weekly bonus episode! Check out for our Discord server and our socials!
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Our Games of the Year 2025
RPG Bookclub
This Week: We discuss our favorite games we played in 2025! Next Week: We play more Golden Sun! We'll probably finish the first game! Visit rpgbook.club to pitch in and unlock cool rewards, including a weekly bonus episode! Check out for our Discord server and our socials!
info_outlineWelcome to Shortcast! These episodes are sponsored by our supporters on our ko-fi, and cover games that can't fill a full Bookclub season, and aren't locked to just RPGs!
This Time: We play Levels One through Five of Halo: Combat Evolved, ending after the cutscene where Cortana sends us out of the control room to go stop Captain Keyes.
Next Time: We finish the fight, as well as talk about some multiplayer!
If you'd like to play Halo, and somehow don't have a copy, you can pick up the disk for the OG Xbox (playable on all 3 xbox consoles) for a few bucks, the Anniversary Edition (playable on 360 and Xbone) for about 15 bucks on disk, and 25 bucks on download from the Xbox Marketplace, or the Master Chief Collection, for Xbone and Steam for about 60 bucks, which also gets you the whole series.
There was also an old PC version of Halo 1 available that you can probably find out there somewhere.
If you'd like us to cover more short games, help us get a long game out of the way first, and head over to ko-fi.com/rpgbookclub and donate! All donations go towards unlocking the next Short/LongCast series.
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