AggroChat #559 - Midnight Strikes
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Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen Hey Folks! We started out down an Ace and a Kodra, but picked up a Kodra as we went. Ash informs us that Nextfest is happening, and a few of us realized it. We talk a bit about the various games that have demos right now, or at least will for the first day after this show releases. From there, Tam shares his thoughts about Under the Island, a charming Zelda-like. Tam also talks about attempting to get into some of the later retro gaming consoles like the PS2, PS3, Saturn, and Dreamcast on the...
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AggroChat #558 - Fun with Sandworms
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Featuring: Ace, Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen Hey Folks! This week, we talk about Dune Awakening and how many updates have been made since we last gave it a spin. Shortly after last week's episode, Tam fired up the private server again, and we have been enjoying the changes. From there, we talk a bit about Enshrouded and Ace and Bel exploring the Hollow Halls, which is essentially that game's version of a raid dungeon. Ash, Kodra, and Tam talk about trying to shape their runs in Shape of Dreams, and from there, we talk a bit about Towerbolt. ...
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AggroChat #557 - Recovering Antiquities
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Featuring: Ace, Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen Hey Folks! We have the entire crew this week but have a bit of a rolling start without Tam, as he was finishing something up in Star Citizen. We begin the show with some talk about Relooted a game about recovering antiquities and returning them to their rightful homes. After that, we discuss Destiny Rising and how it appears to be in maintenance mode lately. No one had it on their bingo card, but we talked a bit about the drop of the Warlock class in Diablo II Resurrected and how it is also...
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AggroChat #556 - Gaps In Our Gaming
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Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen Hey Folks! We are down a few people this week as we start up our show. Bel is in the process of trying to reboot “Bel Folks Stuff” and realized that he recorded an episode with Tam that never got released. We talk about this weird pre-pandemic time capsule. We discuss building a table for Infinity and how it is a game that wants something more akin to Mordheim. From there, Ash and Kodra discuss the Rabbit and Steel expansion and unlocking new content. We go down a bit of a continuation of a topic...
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AggroChat #555 - MMOs and PSOLikes
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Featuring: Ace, Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, and Thalen Good Morning Folks! We are down a Tam this week and had some topics that were sitting on our list for a bit. We start off talking about the official end of Anthem and the Mark Darrah video that effectively provides an autopsy for the game. Loosely related, we talk about the impending death of New World in January 2027. This forces us down the path of talking about what the heck even makes an MMO anymore, and how we largely agree that it requires random interaction with other players to count. We...
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AggroChat #554 - Games of the Year Show 2025 - Part Two
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Featuring: Ace, Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen Hey Folks! We are back in full force and continuing our adventure through the second part of the Games of the Year 2025 podcast. We cut the list in half, giving us fifteen games that we were talking about in each episode. This is not necessarily a numerical list, but the titles that appear later in the shows did get more votes. It was a great year for gaming, but also a year where we were constantly getting distracted by the next big thing coming down the pipe. While we played a lot of...
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AggroChat #553 - A Brief Intermission
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Featuring: Ace, AmmosArt, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, and Tamrielo Good Morning Folks! We are running things a bit differently this year. Due to unforeseen reasons, Thalen could not join us this week. As such, we paused our games of the year show to record a brief intermission show. This week, we talked about Star Citizen, Pokémon Legends Z-A, Hytale, OrcaCon, Starfinder, Void Miner, the Amazing World of Retro Handhelds, and Kodra finally enjoying Path of Exile II. We ran a bit longer than normal and, as such, cut the show a bit more abruptly than usual. Pretty...
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AggroChat #552 - Games of the Year Show 2025 - Part One
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Featuring: Ace, Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen Hey Folks! It is that time again, time to roll over into a new season, and time to record our massive two-part games of the year show. As we roll into Season 13, we have a minor revision to our lineup and two shows stacked with fifteen games each. As is our tradition, the list was divided into two parts, and the more votes a title got, the later in the show it appeared. It was a great year for gaming, but also a year where we were constantly getting distracted by the next big thing coming down the...
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AggroChat #551 - Massive Adjacent
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Featuring: Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen Hey Folks! It is that weird time between holidays, and we are down about half of our folks for various reasons. We push forward and record a pretty focused show around a few topics. We start off discussing Q-Up, a game that effectively has a lot of things to say about League of Legends, and also discuss other games like Rabbit and Steel that are themselves commentaries on other games. From there, Kodra takes Bel to task about Path of Exile II, and mostly how the game seemingly has no interest in making sure you can...
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AggroChat #550 - Demon Bear Boom
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Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, and Thalen Hey Folks! We are down a Tam and a Grace this week but push through with a limited crew. Bel gets called out by Kodra for being entirely too comfortable with excessive grinds… this time specifically talking about World Completion in Guild Wars 2. Kirby Air Riders is a weird game and we talk a bout it. Bel shares his extended thoughts about Path of Exile II and its current state as well as the Demon Bear being pretty freaking great. Kodra has been trying to wrap up Clair Obscur: Expedition 33...
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This week, we start off with some discussion around Path of Exile 3.27, the Keepers of the Flame league, and how we are doing breach to make things with the tree tree. From there, we talk a bit about the murder of Amazon Game Studios and how New World is essentially a shambling corpse now… spooky. After that horror story, we needed something chill, so we talked a bit about Powerwash Simulator and its interesting method for delivering a story. Grace and Bel finally finish the Destiny Rising raid and talk a bit about how good it is at teaching mechanics in lower-level content. Dispatch is a wildly good game that is being delivered in an episodic method that feels like you are playing a really good television show. Guild Wars 2 Visions of Eternity launched and we talk about some of our early thoughts, namely around the builds introduced by the new elite specs. Finally, we talk a bit about Outer Worlds 2 and how it makes good on the idea of Obsidian’s very own Fallout New Vegas that the first game started.
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Path of Exile 3.27
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Keepers of the Flame
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The Tree Tree
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New World in Zombie Mode
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Powerwash Simulator
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Destiny Rising Raid
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Dispatch
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GW2 Visions of Eternity Early Thoughts
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Outer Worlds 2