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Final Fantasy VII Remake, ACNH, Horizon's Gate (ft. Austin Walker) Apr 16, 2020

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We break quarantine to hang out with Austin Walker (Waypoint Radio, Friends at the Table) and discuss some of the biggest games of the month - Final Fantasy VII Remake, which captures at least some of the magic of the original, and Animal Crossing New Horizons, which has been softening our brains into mush for almost a month now. We wrap up with some discussion of an indie RPG called Horizon's Gate, the PS5, and videogame journalism as an institution.

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5:59 - Why are so many videogame journalists into wrestling?

13:50 - FFVII Remake

1:00:19 - Animal Crossing New Horizons

1:23:10 - Will the next generation of videogame console tech bring a significant creative leap?

1:34:53 - Horizon's Gate

1:38:40 - Waypoint, Kill Screen, and videogame journalism

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO

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Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO

Animal Crossing New Horizons Quarantine Special Apr 02, 2020

Show notes

We are on lockdown and we are obsessed with Animal Crossing, just like you are (perhaps). Here's us talking about it for an hour and a half. We try to keep the spoilers to a minimum, and do our best to give you a little warning when we're gonna drop the names of objects and functions we've acquired.

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Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO

BAD END is proud to be part of SUPERCULTURE, a network of podcasts and websites dedicated to the underobserved. Tweet us @superculturenet

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO

Animal Crossing New Horizons, Call of Duty Warzone, Ori and the Will of the Wisps Mar 19, 2020

Show notes

Take a load off from your days of isolation and come hang with the BAD END crew as we talk about the new Call of Duty, Ori, and CoD. We're also delving into the specifics of taste and our perspective on videogame crit.

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5:22 - Death Crown

7:23 - Animal Crossing New Horizons

30:27 - Criticizing our criticism / regarding Bad End's taste

56:40 - Ori and the Will of the Wisps

1:12:25 - Call of Duty Warzone

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO

BAD END is proud to be part of SUPERCULTURE, a network of podcasts and websites dedicated to the underobserved. Tweet us @superculturenet

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO

PAX East, Moonlighter, Hollow Knight, Scourgebringer, Noita Mar 05, 2020

Show notes

One of us went to PAX East, one of us is playing a game under embargo, and one of us played a bunch of beloved games that are no longer protected by the sheen of newness. We discuss the Metroidvania frustrations of Hollow Knight, the woes of min-maxing in Noita, and Animal Crossing's influence.

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6:28 - PAX East

17:56 - Hollow Knight

36:52 - Noita

53:15 - Scourgebringer

57:07 - Moonlighter

1:06:32 - Listener questions

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO

BAD END is proud to be part of SUPERCULTURE, a network of podcasts and websites dedicated to the underobserved. Tweet us @superculturenet

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO

Dragonball Z Kakarot, Scourgebringer, Slay the Spire, Ori, TiPZ Feb 13, 2020

Show notes

With one co-host gone this week, the remaining two end up shooting the breeze for like 2 hours straight in this one. We discuss the new Dragonball Z game, we rag on Ori and the Blind Forest, we talk about Slay The Spire and the concept of "perfunctory" game mechanics, and we answer a very, very long list of listener questions. We've also got a fun ~~NEW~~ section lined up for y'all, so stick around in the second half for that.

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2:24 - Ori and the Blind Forest

15:31 - Scourgebringer and games that feel "perfunctory"

23:29 - Slay the Spire

36:34 - DBZ Kakarot

45:13 - TiPZ

1:00:37 - Questions

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by Seiho

Break music is 3 31 from the Persona 3 OST

BAD END is proud to be part of SUPERCULTURE, a network of podcasts and websites dedicated to the underobserved. Tweet us @superculturenet

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO

Kentucky Route Zero, Legends of Runeterra, The Beach, puzzle boxes Jan 30, 2020

Show notes

dramatic voice Wherein lies the magic of videogames? Is it in the understated brilliance of Kentucky Route Zero? Is it in the schoolyard fantasies of Magic: The Gathering brought to digital life? Is it on The Beach being snatched up by the beak of a seagull? Or is it somewhere else? Join us on BAD END 67 as we attempt to find the answer in an unlikely place.

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1:15 - The Beach

6:40 - Magic: The Gathering

17:57 - Legends of Runeterra

33:40 - Outer Wilds

37:08 - Kentucky Route Zero

56:11 - Puzzle boxes and the magic of videogames

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by Seiho

BAD END is proud to be part of SUPERCULTURE, a network of podcasts and websites dedicated to the underobserved. Tweet us @superculturenet

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO

FFVII, Quadrilateral Cowboy, The Witcher 3, AGDQ, influence in videogames Jan 16, 2020

Show notes

A thought: maybe "influential" is not a net positive when assessing a game's quality! We talk about the idea while discussing AGDQ and digging through our backlogs. Kyle enjoys The Witcher 3 despite living in a post-Disco Elysium world, Caty is surprised at how well FFVII holds up, and Josh finally gets to unleash his inner hacker with Quadrilateral Cowboy.

BAD END is proud to be part of SUPERCULTURE, a network of podcasts and websites dedicated to the underobserved. Tweet us @superculturenet

Special thanks to our Patreon subscribers, and shout out to Wesley Martin and Alyse Stanley for donating at the Bad End Patron tier! Become a contributor at patreon.com/badend

10:30 - AGDQ 2020

19:55 - Quadrilateral Cowboy

28:48 - CODWWII

33:19 - FFVII

38:35 - The Witcher 3

48:14 - Influence and games criticism

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by Seiho

BAD END is proud to be part of SUPERCULTURE, a network of podcasts and websites dedicated to the underobserved. Tweet us @superculturenet

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO

Games of the Decade, ft. Ben Pack Dec 27, 2019

Show notes

To wrap up the decade, we're joined by Ben Pack of Giant Bomb and talking about our favorite games of the 2010s. Listen for our thoughts on some all-time heavy hitters like Dark Souls, The Witcher 3, Mass Effect 2, Breath of the Wild, and more.

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5:38 - Mass Effect 2

13:07 - Titanfall 2

18:23 - NaissanceE

21:10 - Wolfenstein: The New Order

25:24 - Vanquish / Bayonetta

30:00 - Return of the Obra Dinn

40:15 - Spelunky

44:20 - Dead Cells

48:05 - League of Legends, Dota 2, Splatoon 2, PUBG

57:37 - Mario Maker, Mario Odyssey, Mario Galaxy 2

1:05:10 - The Last of Us, Uncharted 4

1:10:32 - The Witcher 3

1:17:55 - Rocket League

1:21:29 - INSIDE, Journey

1:22:28 - Zeldas

1:25:37 - Undertale

1:28:40 - Thirty Flights of Loving, Blendo

1:31:26 - Dark Souls

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO

BAD END is proud to be part of SUPERCULTURE, a network of podcasts and websites dedicated to the underobserved. Tweet us @superculturenet

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO

Game Of The Year Awards 2019 Dec 19, 2019

Show notes

It's the end of the year, and we're celebrating with our annual awards ceremony that includes crowd favorite "Oh Yeah, That Came Out" and "Dope, But Not For Me." We also discuss our top picks of the year. We don't really spoil specific plot points in this episode, but we sometimes discuss *things certain games do* that might be considered spoilers to some. Still, if we're gonna talk specific plot points, we'll let you know. Oh, and don't read the timestamps below if you don't want to spoil this year's categories!

BAD END is proud to be part of SUPERCULTURE, a network of podcasts and websites dedicated to the underobserved. Tweet us @superculturenet

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3:54 - "Probably Shoulda Played That!"

6:21 - "Oh Yeah, That Came Out!"

14:28 - "Game People Told You Was Good That Wasn't That Good"

24:39 - Big Moment Award

34:34 - "Dope, But Not My Thing"

40:00 - "Beautifully Braindead Bastard"

43:46 - "Most Flawed Masterpiece"

47:06 - "Games I Confused For One Another This Year"

48:20 - "LTFD Award For Letdown In Games"

54:33 - "Most Indie BS"

1:01:44 - The Jerky Award

1:02:18 - "Critic Bubble Award For Game That Did Numbers Without People Noticing"

1:03:50 - GAMES OF THE YEAR

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by Seiho

BAD END is proud to be part of SUPERCULTURE, a network of podcasts and websites dedicated to the underobserved. Tweet us @superculturenet

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO

The Decade in Tim Rogers, ft. Tim Rogers Dec 12, 2019

Show notes

You might know Tim Rogers as any number of things: a pioneer of "New Videogame Journalism," a prolific game developer, a video personality, an industry consultant, a friend of Suda51, Mr. Rogers' relative, a CPA. He is all of those things, and that's why he's uniquely qualified to talk about all of the videogame-related things that happened this decade. And the non-videogame related things. Like why rich people are all sick, and why Coke Zero exists.

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11:55 - Tim works on Shadows of the Damned in Japan

20:33 - Tim runs a 5-minute mile, Tim is in a band, Tim goes to E3 2010

23:12 - Tim goes to the Bay Area to "do something good" and meets Cliffy B while experiencing The Industry

34:00 - Tim meets a twentysomething "guru" in the workplace

50:28 - Tim makes a game and breaks down the american dream

1:07:30 - Tim moves to New York to something "shrilly idiotic"

1:20:43 - Tim on haters

1:28:39 - Tim gets a dog

1:43:20 - Tim wants to chill for the next 10 years. And cut the memes, kids.

Intro/Outro music is TABOO by Seiho

BAD END is proud to be part of SUPERCULTURE, a network of podcasts and websites dedicated to the underobserved. Tweet us @superculturenet

Intro/Outro music is "TABOO" by SEIHO