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064: Our Top 3 of E3 2019 Special

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We talk about video games on our 2019 E3 Special!

Jacob, Moe and Mike break the Game Club mold by talking about E3 2019!

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Show Notes:

  • 2:00 The Format of our E3 Special
  • 2:45 We head into AnimeLand to talk about My Hero Academia (and Disney’s Sky High)
  • 4:15 Jacob’s #3: Fire Emblem: The Three Houses
  • 7:05 Jacob #2 & Moe’s #1: Pokemon Sword and Shield
  • 9:00 Mike’s Pokemon Defense: Totally Not Mark’s Pokemon: The Devolving Designs (ft. Tom O’Regan)
  • 12:15 Don’t forgot about Pokemon Home, Pokemon Sleep and Pokemon Go Plus Plus!
  • 13:10 Jacob #1: Control (and Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy)
  • 18:50 Mike’s #1: Fable 4 (and signing Peter Molyneux’s wall)
  • 22:30 Mike’s #2: Watch Dogs: Legion (and our love for Driver: San Francisco)
  • 25:45 Mike’s #3: The Opportunity Caused by Sony’s E3 Absence (probably from Microsoft)
  • 30:40 Moe’s #2: An Update to APEX Legends or a new Battle Royale
  • 34:35 Moe’s #3: Surprises!
  • 38:10: Games Gone’s Most Anticipated Games from E3 2019!
  • 39:00 Video Game Rations’s Most Anticipated Games & News from E3 2019!
  • 41:15 Community Voice Clips & Comments
  • 44:35 Wrap-Up

Additional Music:

  • Cold, In My Mind (from Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy)

Our E3 2018 picks:

  • Moe’s Top 3:
    • Super Smash Brothers for Switch
    • Pokemon: Let’s Go Pikachu and Pokemon: Let’s Go Eevee
    • Spider-Man
  • Jacob’s Top 3
    • Ghost of Tsushima
    • The Last of Us Part II
    • Rage 2
  • Mike’s Top 3
    • Anthem
    • Fallout 76
    • Beyond Good and Evil 2

056: Crackdown

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We jump for joy (and orbs) in Crackdown.

Developer: Realtime Worlds | Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios | Release Date: February 20, 2007

Mike and Jacob run very quickly on the streets of Pacific City, shoot so many rockets and kick each other in the face in the pursuit of the greater good.

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Players: Michael Ruffolo (@ruffolom) and Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt)

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Show Notes (spoilers):

  • 1:45 Michael starts with the Halo 3 connection
  • 2:50 Game Informer’s thoughts about the game echo our own
  • 3:55 What is Crackdown, Agent?
  • 7:15 Skills for Kills, Agent? No… good load-outs.
  • 9:45 Who is David Jones, Agent?
  • 12:45 Prototype vs. Crackdown
  • 14:00 What do you like most about Crackdown, Agent?
  • 14:45 ORBS!
  • 17:30 A standout boss battle with Olga Romanov
  • 19:45 Michael and Jacob talk about their favorite open-world games
  • 24:15 Cut-scenes and story bits in the game
  • 26:20 Crackdown 2
  • 28:40 “So much of this game is dumb”, including the ending
  • 32:00 The Crackdown co-op experience
  • 36:00 Jacob and Mike play a game of “This or That”
  • 39:00 Jacob brings up Breakdown
  • 42:25 Crackdown 3 and final thoughts

054: Shadow Complex

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Developer: Chair Entertainment in association with Epic Games | Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios | Release Date: August 19, 2009

Mike, Moe and special guest Kevin Reaburn stomp around a secret military base throwing grenades at every Metal Gear…. i mean…. “mech” they see.

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Players: Michael Ruffolo (@ruffolom) and Moe Murtadi (@mmurtadi)

Special Guest: Kevin Reaburn

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Show Notes (spoilers):

  • 3:00 Metroid/Castlevania similarities
  • 4:20 What is this game? Do we find the Vice-President?
  • 6:52 This story isn’t as good as we were expecting.
  • 9:00 The mechanics of targeting
  • 10:15 Small game? But didn’t Epic Games make it?
  • 12:45 More Fortnite
  • 13:50 Kevin tries to dig into his issues with the game
  • 15:50 How did this get built secretly? There were definitely Instagram and Snapchat leaks
  • 20:50 Weapons were OP; grenades killed everything
  • 26:00 MOE READS (in real life only)!
  • 27:20 MIKE PROVEN WRONG!
  • 31:30 What part of the suit was your favorite?
  • 38:30 The guys cringe
  • 41:00 The ending and story were so random?
  • 43:10 What was Xbox Live Arcade and how did it effect development
  • 46:30 Our final thoughts, is it a great game, should you leave it behind?