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Ep. 12: Strap It to Your Head

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  • The pure logic puzzles of Hexcells
  • Arcade, free-solution, and set puzzle types
  • Digging through piles of puzzles versus getting things done
  • Adam has some kind of problem with PixelJunk
  • It’s okay to not finish games!
  • Time lost as the key component of video game frustration
  • Tower defense round-up
  • How to play Civilization as an utter turtle
  • Virtual Boy, 3DS, and headaches
  • Does VR make you look dumb?
  • Music-generated games
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Ep. 11: Donald Has $0.17

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  • Adventures in cross-linguistic semiotics
  • The containment and storage of paranormal entities
  • Recreational construction and economic theory
  • Privacy concerns in modern retail environments
  • Zoning restrictions in late-20th century Detroit
  • Access to education and social mobility
  • The impact of meteorology upon urban horticulture
  • International missing persons investigations
  • Contemporary travel and cosmopolitanism
  • The citizenship of Testudines
  • Destination desirability among privileged tourists
  • Determinism and chaos in chrononautics
  • Applied transportation methodology for nuclear materials
  • Fabrics appropriation and apparel design transmission
  • Evidence comparison and robotic redecoration
  • Receipt of baked goods
  • Elevated asset recovery
  • The imprisonment of mythical spirits
  • Maritime luxury vessel operation
  • Communication in the digital age
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Ep. 10: He Was Bones

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  • Freedom Wars gets explicit about unlocking gameplay features
  • Dante’s Inferno: Hell doesn’t have to be this boring
  • Adam grows as a person and faces his responsibilities
  • Shirts and skins
  • What’s up, Nick?
  • Destiny takes off-putting lore encyclopedias to a whole new level
  • Xenogears: Disc 2
  • Player level imbalances versus asymmetrical multiplayer design
  • Loving the loot grind or breaking the game
  • RPG real estate
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Ep. 9: I Have a Sword

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  • PlatinumGames and The Wonderful 101
  • Hardcore shape drawing action
  • Player grading systems and mastery
  • So, how’s Evolve?
  • Progression systems and balance in competitive FPS games
  • Getting something from your loss
  • DLC, pre-order bonuses, and season passes
  • “Journalists” and their incessant hype engines
  • Matt, change your goddamned smoke detector battery
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Ep. 8: The King of Spreadsheets

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  • The War in the North is ended
  • Diablo 2 and replaying games for character development
  • Also, Diablo 1 is better
  • How to shoot someone with a tranq dart
  • Missing the boat with older games
  • Forgiving Silent Hill
  • Namco’s loading screen mini-games
  • Resident Evil 6 is an ambitious mess
  • Where have all the quicktime events gone?
  • Saints Row 3 & 4
  • Infamous: Second Son
  • More open world problems
  • Dichotomous morality systems
  • All the games are open world games now
  • “If I jump on a Goomba, it certainly dies.”
  • Mario games: Are they all the same? (no)
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Ep. 7: We’re the Worst

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  • Sony got hacked or something
  • Gaming in social media
  • Middle-Earth: Genocide of Mordor
  • Ubisoft’s radio tower formula
  • Do quest journals ruin open world games?
  • Playing the designer instead of playing the game
  • Wait, no; it’s minimaps that ruin open world games
  • War in the North deserves better than its PC port
  • Payday 2 may or may not be okay
  • DeadCore: regarding limbs and floating eyeballs
  • Final Fantasy X HD Remaster’s Dark Aeons
  • Why do game consumers love companies and hate themselves?
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Ep. 6: Too Many Belts

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  • Papers, Please and the value of the mundane
  • South Park and the psychologically manipulative Freemium business model
  • Don’t Move, DLC Quest, and game satire
  • Costume Quest 2 and overstaying your welcome
  • Repetitive RPG battles and unskippable animations
  • Adam trashes FF XIII and reads Vanille’s wikipedia article aloud
  • Penumbra: Overture, The Evil Within, and the horror of stealth mechanics
  • Silent Hill, Dead Space, and monster design
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Ep. 5: Hype Deficiency

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  • Can anyone tell us how to introduce a podcast?
  • The difference between Rock Band and Rocksmith
  • Adam reviews Shovel Knight
  • Skye played Hyper Light Drifter
  • Matt loves Ducktales, but it’s starting to feel like work
  • Is Spacebase DF-9 done… or “done”?
  • Early Access and the lure of the unfinished game
  • FTL’s secret crystal crew member
  • Sunless Sea
  • Gauntlet is not great!
  • But The Showdown Effect super is!
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Ep. 4: Swarly Guescanbers and The Puzzle Boner

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  • Does Transistor end too soon?
  • Matt takes a dump all over Wolfenstein: The New Order
  • Player freedom versus tight game design
  • Ace Attorney catchup turnabout with Dual Destinies
  • If you’re making a visual novel, hire a damned proofreader
  • Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright invites series comparisons
  • Alpha/Beta roundup: Evolve, The Crew, Distance, and Invisible, Inc.
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Ep. 3: Geniuses Gathered Under the Sea

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  • There’s nothing like your first Souls game
  • Adam struggles to get past structural repetition in Bravely Default’s story
  • Looking back on Bioshock
  • Rewarding nonlethal play styles
  • The perils of extreme black/white morality systems
  • The Wolf Among Us and highlighting important decisions
  • Matt is a bit of a South Park fan
  • Level design in 1001 Spikes
  • The great Resident Evil 4 control debate