BioWare was on top of the world in the late 2000s. Then it got the bright idea to make a portable game with a certain blue hedgehog, and the internet rejoiced… or did it? Join us along with guests David McBurney and Mike Moehnke as we take a deep dive into Sonic’s first (and last) RPG adventure!  Spoiler alert: Sonic’s first RPG didn’t go well.

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The roundtable returns where they left off, with a recording from last year. The team tackles the question of mature subject matter in RPG, with some skirting around troubling content.

Talking Points:

• Prelude – RIP Mac
• Excrement occurs
• Serious business
• Murder is compulsory
• Mental illness as a crutch/sanity meters
• By what measure is a non-human
• Stakes
• Pacifism is cheap
• Racism
• Sexuality
• Addiction
• Loss

Next time: Friendship.

This show is sponsored by Gamefly

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We get back into the action with a slew of listener-submitted questions, learn about our gameplay habits, soundtrack preferences, kickstarter regrets, and some other secrets.

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Scott is supremely suspicious of nostalgia, Mac is losing his voice, Sam and Trent had it easy as kids all come up in on retrospective on retrospection. And also clones, pirates and clone pirates in this episode.

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Game difficulty is a lot like whiskey, in that most people are going about them wrong. Our panel examines what and how RPGs are hard where the critical value in difficulty.

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Dialogue in games is a bit like the Jazz music in a few ways, mostly in that Scott is way more interested in it than the kids these days, but also in that improvisation is key but also doesn’t matter.

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We examine our personal experiences with the Final Fantasy franchise, how a major anniversary is half gone without publisher support and some E3 stuff.

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The panel goes behind the curtain to explain the RPGamer review process in detail, from solicitation through to comment section. Inside baseball and anecdotes abound.

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Our discussion this month is entirely self directed. Scott tries to throw down a glowing trail for questors to follow but it gets off tangents more than normal.

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Nintendo has always done it’s own thing, and for that we’ve always seen that less than successful. Apple Computers analogies, Swiitch predictions, and yelling at Scott ensue.

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We stand at the cusp of having to buy new consoles (maybe) to get the most of “core gamer lifestyle.” But is that worth anything?

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