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The Level 419: Stabbing is Just a Perk

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Super Auto Pets, Snowrunner, the Quarry, and much more!

The Grind:

• Dennis: God of War (2018). Snowrunner.
• David: Snowrunner. No Man’s Sky. Destiny II. Vampire Survivor.
• Ben: Super Auto Pets. The Looker.
• Kole: The Quarry.

The Multiplayer:

• What’s your favorite black character in games?

The End Boss:

• There’s no way to finish KOTOR II on Switch.
• Xbox P...
  2022-06-24 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

About that Pesky Spoiler Wall on Bonfireside Chat

Hey folk, Gary here

A few people in comments have expressed distress at my talking about the spoiler wall coming down on our Elden Ring coverage, so I wanted to talk about that a bit. We'll discuss further on the show when the time comes, but I wanted to say something now to address concerns.

Most of the people who have commented are against bringing down the wall. I first want to say that I hear you! I know that's shitty public figure cliche speak, but we ar...

Watch Out for Fireballs! 361: Vampyr (Premium)

We knew right after its release that Vampyr would be a WOFF! game. An RPG that cites Bloodlines as an inspiration, made by a smaller studio, with a great premise and very high highs that are unfortunately compromised by some very low lows. This bore out on our playthrough for the show. Jonathan Reid, the only vampire doctor in fiction, sets out to try and stop a horrifying epidemic in 1918 London, and learns that the disease is intricately related to the vampiric underground in the city. We d...

Unfilmable 40: The Descent

You can steer clear of a lot of problems by staying above ground. In fact, there are few reasons to go down there. Few reasons worth dealing with the CHUDS for, anyway. Someone should have told that to these thrill-seeking ladies, looking to do some spelunking after their friend suffers a tragic loss.

The Descent is one of the scariest movies out there, even before the monsters show up. But the monsters aren't entirely pointless... they're effective on their own and they drive the incid...

ORB 87: The High Cost of Loathing

Just like every sitcom has the "learning the dangers of credit cards" episode, every cartoon must have the "rich person realizes they're broke" episode. Maybe that's just this and the Simpsons. Regardless, the Monarch learns that he's broke after completely renovating his parents' condemned mansion, and now he has to work the steps to get back on his feet. This involves finding his way back into Dean's life, even though the boy just escaped his father's clutches to live in the dorms at Stuyve...

Everything to Guppy 860: Jupiter - Saturnus - Uranus - The Horny Boys

Everything To Guppy is a weekly comedy/gaming podcast that releases four 15-minute episodes in a single hour-long chunk every Tuesday for reasons that seemed good at the time. Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.

Abject Suffering 459: Nickelodeon GUTS

Nickelodeon's GUTS, later Global GUTS, was a mainstay of the network's "cheaply produced gameshows" that acted as ballast for some of the other, bigger shows. Each episode, a group of kids competed in physical challenges, culminating in a trip up the Aggro Crag, for a chance to win a "glowing piece of that radical rock". From this setup, we get a really anemic minigame collection that's mostly repeats... so Gary talks about a juggler he saw recently.

Bonfireside Chat 214: Liurnia of the Lakes, South

Having killed Godrick and taken his Great Rune, it's time to venture into the sunken basin of Liurnia of the Lakes. First we make a quick stop back to Roundtable Hold to get a glimpse at the Fingers, and then we hit the NPCs and dungeons of the southernmost ridges and reaches of the great swamp that acts as the cradle for the birthplace of Glintstone Sorcery.

Abject Suffrage: July 2022

Hello! It's time to help us pick the topics of next month's premium Abject Suffering episodes. As always, you can click the links below to learn more (three of them are videos, while Dragon's Mandate has nothing on YouTube so it's the Archive link). Place your votes by Tuesday, June 21 and the top two vote-getters will get premium episodes in July.

• Def Jam: Fight for New York (PS2) ...
  2022-06-18 17:56:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Call and Response: WOFF Dispatch June 2022

Hello! The purpose of this post is to call for your questions and prompts for WOFF! Dispatch. Please respond by Monday, June 20 by leaving a comment on this post. (Apologies for the late notice this month).

We're looking for two kinds of things:

1. Suggestions for our long-form discussion prompt.

2. Q&A about the shows, behind the scenes details, and miscellaneous (including off-the-wall and off-topic questions). Ask us about games or other media, life i...

The Level 418: Cheese Is Not a Vegetable, David

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about The Quarry, Citizen Sleeper, To the Moon, and more!

The Grind:

• David: Destiny 2. No Man’s Sky. Snowrunner.
• Ben: Citizen Sleeper. The Quarry.
• Kole: The Quarry.
• Jala: The Quarry. Where the Water Tastes Like Wine. To the Moon.

The Multiplayer:

• Free Play!

The End Boss:

• The Diablo Immortal monetization scheme is ironically demonic.
• Capcom announces release...
  2022-06-17 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Watch Out for Fireballs! 360: Another World / Out of This World

If you have even a mild interest in old games, your critical acumen will always be caught up in the tension between historical import and modern playability. Few games stress that dissonance more than Another World, which combines an unbeatable atmosphere and tremendous influence with some very outmoded game design. Is it worth taking the plunge? Listen in, buddy!

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Exquisite Suffering 143: Bratz Babyz

Bratz dolls were so hideous that they started a moral panic, and they were also a transmedia property! Movies, TV shows, games, all dedicated to the dolls So Ugly They Made the News. This is one of the more robust mini-game collections we've covered, but we're more interested in the gossip to be found in the comments on the Bratz Wiki pagez.

ORB 86: Arrears in Science

The Morphic Trilogy draws to a close as all of our players converge on the lobby of VenTech Tower. This episode is mostly flashbacks and dream sequences, illuminating some of the most important secrets in the backstory of the Venture Bros. universe.

Special thanks to Joshua Jarett for our cover art, Gwen May for our theme song, and 2022-06-14 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Everything to Guppy 859: Venus - Terra - Mars - Gilded Key

Everything To Guppy is a weekly comedy/gaming podcast that releases four 15-minute episodes in a single hour-long chunk every Tuesday for reasons that seemed good at the time. Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.

Abject Suffering 458: The Curious Expedition

The Curious Expedition isn't a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but it sits at a table set with a lot of outdated tropes that don't look so great nowadays. We're pretty sure this Patron just wanted us to make a bummer episode about colonialism. So we talk about that, along with how people just drown in pig shit and we, as a society, have decided to accept that.

Bonfireside Chat 213: Roundtable Rountable Early Game, feat. Manny Perez

Manny Perez joins us to talk about Elden Ring in general, and we read some written responses from Zullie the Witch. Then we dive into your responses to Elden Ring's early game, up through Stormveil. As a warning, we don't avoid spoilers for the first 61 minutes of the episode, so if you're sensitive to that please skip forward.

Days of Future Cast 330: Messiah Complex: Part 1

In this epsiode we cover: X-Men Messiah Complex #1, Uncanny X-Men #492, X-Factor #25, New X-Men #44 aka the beginning of the Messiah Complex!

Reminder that you can read along with and ahead of the show by subscribing to Marvel Unlimited (we don't get paid for you doing that, so it's not an ad, it's just a cool service). You can also use Comixology, or buy the trades from your local comic book shop (the preferred method, if we're being honest). Be sure to check with your local library to...

The Level 417: Butter Tires

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about Snowrunner, Diablo Immortal, Open Sorcery, and much more!

The Grind:

• Jala: Fire Emblem: Echoes. Open Sorcery: Jingle BEL/S. 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonald’s. Contradiction.
• Dennis: Roller Champions. Diablo Immortal. Snowrunner.
• Ben: Mudrunner. Elden Ring. Monster Train.
• Kole: None.

The Multiplayer:

• What video game sidekick would you like to have?

The End Boss:

Watch Out for Fireballs! 359: Terranigma

The world is waiting to be reborn, and it's waiting for you. Terranigma is probably Quintet's grandest statement on its pet themes... an action RPG that purports to be about the duality of creation and destruction. Over the course of a playthrough you raise the continents, restore the wildlife, bring humanity to its highest peak, and break the cycle of fate to stop its ultimate destruction.

Is the game perfect? Not hardly. But it's got a unique tone and it improves on its predecessors' ...

Adaptation Decay 63: Frogger: The Game Show

You've never heard of this game show, and because it's on Peacock you'll probably never see it. But it's worth talking about because, wow, it's a very bad idea. Imagine sacrificing your bodily integrity to suffer concussions and broken bones on a more boring version of American Ninja Warrior, where every move is "gently jump to another surface and crawl on top of it". And imagine doing so while two hosts with the worst chemistry imaginable take potshots at you. It's a wild experience.

ORB 85: The Rorqual Affair

While the Ventures are trying to solve the curse of the haunted PROBLEM, the Monarch gets in way over his head with Wide Wale. Attempting to cinch the arching rights for Rusty gets the Monarch kidnapped, and it's up to 21 and Dr. Mrs. the Monarch to try and extract him from a delicate situation. Meanwhile, Enrico Matassa is back on the scene...

Special thanks to Joshua Jarett for our cover art, 2022-06-07 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Everything to Guppy 858: Sol - Luna - Mercurius - The Visage

Everything To Guppy is a weekly comedy/gaming podcast that releases four 15-minute episodes in a single hour-long chunk every Tuesday for reasons that seemed good at the time. Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.

Abject Suffering 457: Fear Factor: Unleashed

We're not interested in talking about whether or not Joe Rogan is a force for good. You can probably guess how we feel about his show. BUT, we are interested in how wild reality game shows got in the early 2000s, and this is a great inroads to talking about a whole bunch of them. Also, making a video game version of Fear Factor is a terrible idea.

Bonfireside Chat 212: Stormveil Castle (Part 2)

We've been in the shadow of Stormveil Castle for the entire game, learning of Godrick's misdeeds... and it's time to make him pay. This episode picks up at the courtyard of Stormveil Castle and goes through the Godrick the Grafted boss fight, and we also talk about activating his Great Rune at the tower.

The Level 416: The Pizza Oven of Love

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Roller Champions, and the Night of the Scissors.

The Grind:

• Kole: Hardspace: Shipbreaker. The Night of the Scissors.
• Ben: Elden Ring.
• Dennis: Roller Champions.
• David: Destiny 2.

The Multiplayer:

• Describe your gaming space.

The End Boss:

• They’re still working on getting the Dark Souls multiplayer servers back up for PC… four months lat...
  2022-06-03 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Watch Out for Fireballs! 358: The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction

Sometimes you just want to pick up an entire tanker truck and surf on it into a bunch of SWAT team guys, then rip a car in half and pound a tank with it, you know? This early high point in the sketchy history of Super Hero games isn't without its flaws (most of its flaws start with "M" and rhyme with missile) but it's got a lot to love about it too. Join us as we return to the era where holding R1 to run made sense.

Supp...

Exquisite Suffering 142: Blues Brothers 2000

The year 1998 brought us a Blues Brothers revival that shouldn't have happened, and which nobody wanted. But Dan Akyroid's face gets itchy without those sunglasses, and he charged ahead anyway. Then they made a game adaptation of the movie, kind of, two years later. Instead of talking about that, we talk about the ways that movie revivals have changed, and get really fixated on rebooting the horrible movie "Stealth."

June 2022 Content Schedule

June is a busy month for us! Check out everything that's coming down the pike, and set your calendars accordingly (your podcast calendars, for listening to podcasts). Let me know if these images help, if you can.

You can listen to all of the premium shows by subs...

ORB 84: The Venture Bros. and the Curse of the Haunted Problem

The seventh season of the Venture Bros. is a weird one in that it begins with what is, effectively, a Venture Bros. movie known as the Morphic Trilogy. The first part, this episode, deals with an apparent haunting at VenTech Tower, the efforts of Rusty's friends to stop it, and the revelation of a horrible secret that goes back to the very beginnings of the show.

Special thanks to Joshua Jarett for our cover art, 2022-05-31 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post