AggroChat: Tales of the Aggronaut Podcast

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Hey Folks! It is that time again for our multi-part episode as we talk about the games that were important to us specifically during 2022. A bit of a reminder for anyone who has not heard one of these shows before, we are not necessarily only talking about games that were released in 2022. If we were late playing a game but it was extremely important to us, it might still get the nod here.

Something that is working slightly differently this year is generally speaking we record a marathon show that runs about 3-4 Hours and then I crudely carves it up into multiple shows. However, what happens is we have one show that is full of short topics and another show that has all of the long discussions. This year I sorted the list so we got a blend of single honorable mention picks and meaty multi-member picks in the same show. We are also recording it two weeks apart so none of us have to deal with the late night that this show always brought on.Hopefully, the changes lead to a better listening experience. So in this episode, we are going to talk about the first half of our games of the year, and next week we will continue with the rest.Topics Discussed:

• Digimon Survive
• Pokemon Scarlet and Violet
• TMNT Shedder’s Revenge
• Trials of Mana
• Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons
• Elden Ring
• Fallout 76
• Star Ocean: The Divine Force
• Wordle
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• Cult of the Lamb
• Path of Exile

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Hey Folks! What happens when we have a few weeks worth of Path of Exile discussion bottled up? Well, apparently we record a two hour long show! Bel was completely oblivious to how long we were recording in spite of the entire crew trying to warn him. First, we have a few quick topics about Return to Oz and the launch of Ooblets on all platforms including Nintendo Switch. From there we dive into a long discussion about our thoughts relating to Path of Exile as a whole and how the Lake of Kalandra league has gone. We have different points of entry from those of us who have been grinding away at maps, and those who have yet to finish the campaign. We also attempt to scare Kodra who thinks he has seen a lot of systems so far... but has yet to unlock half of them.

Topics Discussed

• Return to Oz
• Ooblets Launch
• Path of Exile
• Lake of Kalandra League

Tonight we start the show off with Kodra talking bout Celeste and making it past the Farewell segment of the game. We talk about the conclusion of the Epic versus Apple lawsuit and how it is pretty bad for both companies, but especially bad for Epic. From there we talk about our impressions of the games shown off at what would have been the Sony E3 show if that happened. This leads into a discussion of Tam recently trying out Avengers and how it is still not a good game after all this time. We talk for a bit about Pathfinder Secrets of Magic book and martial spellcasters in general. Finally, we have a bit of a discussion between Thalen and Kodra about Super Mario Maker with children.

Topics Discussed

• Celeste
• • Farewell to Farewell
• Epic versus Apple Conclusion
• • Bad for both
  • Ruling against Epic
• Sony Playstation Play Showcase 2021
• Avengers is Still Bad
• Secrets of Magic
• Super Mario Maker with Kids

This evening we are down a Grace and went through a whole carnival of tech issues before the show, and as such were delated getting started. Bel starts the show off talking about finding a batch of WoW Screenshots he thought were lost, and it turns out that no... he likely deleted them on purpose due to the cavalcade of raid drama documented. The Final Fantasy XIV Live Letter 66 was a seven-hour-long presentation talking bout the new job skills and various other system changes. We spend a good chunk of the night talking through some of the changes including the complete revamp of the Summoner class. From there we talk about Deathloop as Tam shares some of his thoughts about the game while Bel talks about almost refunding due to any sort of a single-player save system. Finally, we share the news that there will be no AggroChat next week due to reasons that involve most of the show’s cast.

Topics Discussed

• Hard Drive of Horrors
• Final Fantasy XIV Live Letter 66
• • Job Actions Trailer
  • The New Summoner
  • Thoughts for Endwalker
• Deathloop
• • Proving we do like Jazz
  • Interesting Take on Genre
  • Bel Bemoans Lack of Saves
• No Show Next Week

Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

We had a bit of a cursed show... Tam lost power and was essentially knocked out of the rest of the show and then Ash disconnects as well and takes a bit to get back in. We push through however as we always do. Bel talks about returning to Fallout 76 and all of the cool changes that have been put in since he last played. Thalen talks about Open Source Star Control 2 aka Free Stars. Ash continues his journey into Roguelikes talking about Anomaly Collapse and Inkbound. Thalen and Kodra share their thoughts about The Sign, the latest episode of Bluey, and Grace shares their thoughts about AFK Journey. Finally, Bel talks a bit about the recent market crash in the Path of Exile Necropolis league, making many chase items more accessible.

Topics Discussed:

• Steamdeck Modification Adventures
• Returning to Fallout 76
• Open Source Star Control
• Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters
• Roguelike Rundown Redux
• Anomaly Collapse
• Inkbound
• The Sign Bluey Episode
• AFK Journey
• Necropolis Market Crash