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Paranormal Destination & Buggy Video Games

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We are almost done. This is it folks, the end is near. Of course I am talking about the end of the year and not the show. We wouldn’t do that to you, unlike some shows would…*sniffle*…Sons of Anarchy. Anyway, we are getting down to the wire and with this week’s episode we get into the recent trend of crossover movies, broken video games (because that’s a trend now) and the current state of JRPGs and Square Enix. We’ve only got two more episodes to close out the year and then it’s the end…of the year. So take a break and listen to our show about stuff…and sex, but not really.

Let it begin… the show now!

What we’ve been checking out:
Shawn: Sons of Anarchy Finale
Earl: White PS4 controller, Breaking Bad special edition

Audio notes: (1hr. 3min. runtime)
0:04:15 – Movie crossovers, 21 Jump Street X Men in Black, and Paranormal Destination
0:08:55 – Other crossovers, slasher movies, and horror in Christmas
0:15:45 – Defective games, AAA games, and hesitating to buy games
0:26:45 – FF7 trolling, Square-Enix, what’s a Lacie?, and RPG fundamentals
0:40:50 – What if companies produced others’ IPs?
1:00:25 – What are we checking out?

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CSI: Coruscant & Blacklight Tattoos

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In the Coruscant justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the Jedi, who investigate crime, and the Federation, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.

Welcome back returning guest Keith Mcnally in this week’s installment of AKOP. We talk about so much stuff that we cannot even list it all in the show notes. For example: Star Wars, Turbo Grafix 16, Judge Dredd, CSI, Gilligan’s Island, Dune, etc. We also play a new game called the Metagame. What is the Metagame you ask? Well, you know what to do to find out so without wasting more time:

Let it begin… the show now!

Guest:
Keith McNally (@keithmcnally) – Keith Courage, Vinyl Countdown

What we’ve been checking out:
Keith: Elliot Hulse on Youtube
Shawn: Bayonetta, Sunset Overdrive, and Binding of Isaac
Earl: The Guest, and Birdman

Audio notes: (1hr. 16min. runtime)
0:02:10 – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars, Keith the comic book store guy, and the secret history of Lucasarts
0:14:40 – PS1 games haven’t aged well, IP mashups, blacklight tattoos, and CSI: Coruscant
0:28:05 – Blockbuster & Netflix, the Dune franchise, Gilligan’s Island game, and Chrontendo
0:41:40 – Nintendo, the WiiU, Tiger Woods 2009, controllers, RTSes on consoles, and Keith’s Korean friend
1:01:25 – Metagame – What is a sign of the apocalypse: E.T. or Coca-Cola?
1:09:55 – What’s everyone checking out?

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Herpes & Super Virgin Book Club

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Welcome back. Now that Halloween is officially over Shawn and Earl take some time out to get real. How real? SUPER FUCKING REAL! Our hosts get into herpes, feminism and gamergate. It’s not all serious though as our intrepid two-fer also talks upcoming JRPG Persona 5, Nintendo and and sex (but not really sex). Please join us for another exciting episode of ALL KINDS OF PHILLER-but who knows, it may be our last.
Spoilers…it’s not.
Let it begin…the show now!

What we’ve been checking out:
Shawn: Nightbreed, Halloween Loot Crate, disappointment
Earl: Homeland season 4, and Brooklyn 9-9 season 2

Audio notes: (1hr. 19min. runtime)
0:05:25 – Persona 4 talk, headphones & iPods, real-life social links, and “phoning a friend”
0:19:00 – Herpes!, girls we had crushes on in high school, and what happened to Gamer Earl?
0:28:00 – Earl’s favourite game genre, game times, Super Virgin Book Club, and bad analogies
0:38:45 – Contra, the Hatred game, Gamergate, and wanting different kings of games
0:49:55 – Stanley Parable v. Gone Home, Bastion & Transistor, and voices
1:01:25 – Spending a lot of money on games, The Evil Within, and PS4 games
1:09:55 – What’s everyone checking out?

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Growing Up Gaming

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Our first guest on the new format, Curtis Roberts, joins Earl and Shawn to talk about growing up gaming! They get into their favourite RPGs, accidentally breaking consoles, blocky controllers, switching to PCs, and their thoughts on RPGs these days. They also discuss Final Fantasy, Curtis’ ignorance of Aeris’ death and gender, Mass Effect, the Sopranos finale, getting a Nintendo on the holidays, and c-notes.

Guest:
Curtis Roberts

Supplementary notes:
Team Teamwork- The Ocarina of Rhyme (Jay-Z meets Legend of Zelda)
Youtube – Crash Course
Death From Above 1979 – Trainwreck 1979

Audio notes: (1hr. 9min. runtime)
00:10 – Introducing Curtis, gaming degrees, consoles & c-notes, and breaking a PS2
11:50 – Moving away from consoles, modding, XCOM, and Final Fantasy
26:35 – Favourite RPGs, Nintendo, JRPG vs. Western, and LAN parties
38:50 – Current RPGs, Mass Effect, The Sopranos ending, The Witcher, and game choices
55:10 – Anticipated games, and what we’re checking out

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E3 2014 & The State of Video Games

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Tony Gao returns for another round of E3 discussion! We discuss our issues with the bombastic conferences, the latest game reveals, Nintendo turning the tide again, and the deluge of sequels and remakes being announced. We also get into Uncharted, getting a WiiU or a 3DS, no women allowed in AC: Unity, and Kojima’s self-indulgence. And somehow, Earl manages to turn The Last Guardian’s death into a fitting symbol for the lack of innovation in the industry.

Guests:
Tony Gao – “Electronic Excrement Expo”

Audio notes: (1hr. 1min. runtime)
01:10 – The conferences, Sunset Overdrive, Aisha Tyler, and The Division
09:05 – Assassins Creed, Unity & no women characters, Watch Dogs, Mass Effect, LittleBigPlanet 3, and Metal Gear Solid
21:40 – Nintendo, “the plague of Call of Duty”, Splatoon, getting a WiiU or 3DS, Xenoblade, and The Last Guardian
34:00 – Bloodborne, Grim Fandango & remakes, Uncharted 4, and No Man’s Sky
48:35 – Sequels, indie ideas in AAA games, what Last Guardian means for the industry, and Nintendo’s creative niche

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