The Two-For-One Hot Takes Episode

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04/25/24 • 103 min

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First Gen Gamers is back! We've done a soft reboot. New intro, and new co-host Ashley! On this return episode, Jed and Ash kick it off with a double-header topic; games we love that most people hate, and games we hate that most people love. We're roasting some sacred cows and being the voice for the voiceless. It's a hell of a first episode for Ash and a hell of a return episode for the show!

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February means Valentine's Day, the season of love. Gaming is full of love stories and romance, whether it's dating sims or Commander Shepard sleeping his way through half the galaxy in Mass Effect. But it's way too easy to list off good couples. How about BAD ones? That's right, Mike and Jed are celebrating Valentine's Day the opposite way, by going through gaming history and digging up the worst relationships video games have to offer. Gaslighting, manipulation, power imbalances ... and that's not even close to the worst of it!

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The RAAAAAGE! Episode

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Games inspire all sorts of emotions: fear, sadness, determination, longing. That's not what Jed and Ashley are exploring, though. On this episode, we're going through the console generations and talking about the games that inspired rage. The overly difficult, the tedious mechanics, the games that didn't follow up properly on previous chapters ... there's all sorts of reasons to be mad at a game. Jed and Ashley nominating our picks for the ones that inspired the most rage!