Left Behind Game Club: A Video Game Podcast

We get confused and surprised at the very same time in Virtue’s Last Reward.

Developer: Spike Chunsoft | Publisher: Spike Chunsoft/Aksys Games | Initial Release: February 16, 2012

Jacob and special guest CtrlAltNoob write so many notes, gasp audibly and hop through time!

Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt)

Special Guest: CtrlAltNoob (@CtrlAltNoob)

Web: LeftBehindGame.Club | Twitter: @LeftBehindClub | Instagram: @LeftBehindGameClub

SHOW NOTES:

• 0:00 Start
• 1:10 Who is CtrlAltNoob?
• 2:50 Fast Pitch
• 4:30 Time Capsule
• 9:15 Press Reviews
• 11:10 High-Level Review
• 13:40 Describing Virtue’s Last Reward
• 18:00 Setting Up VLR
• 23:40 Spoiler Warning
• 25:30 Main Characters
• 34:35 Branching Narrative
• 37:30 Radical-6
• 43:40 Bombs
• 44:30 Morphogenetic Field
• 49:40 Dio
• 55:40 Timeline
• 57:20 Pods
• 59:55 Tenmyouji & Quark
• 1:01:40 The Old Woman
• 1:02:20 Sigma
• 1:06:40 Jumping (The Chart We Referenced)
• 1:10:30 Where Are We?
• 1:14:15 Luna & K
• 1:16:45 Gaming’s Greatest Story?
• 1:22:50 Setting Up Zero Time Dilemma
• 1:28:55 Secret Ending
• 1:32:50 Wrap-up
• 1:36:20 All About CtrlAltNoob (Noob mentioned Exit/Corners & Jacob mentioned Afterworld)
• 1:40:00 Conclusion

RESOURCES

• Episode 121: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (999)

DISCORD: The Left Behind Game Club is a monthly game club podcast focusing on positivity & community. To talk to members of the community, join our Discord server!

We venture to the forests of Wyoming to watch for fires in Firewatch.

Developer: Campo Santo | Publisher: Campo Santo and Panic, Inc. | Initial Release: February 9, 2016

Jacob, Mike, Moe and special guest Dan from the Greatest Story Ever Played Podcast enjoy some knock-off peanut butter, tell stories about their Boy Scout days and complain about not having firearms.

Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt), Mike Ruffolo (@ruffolom) and Moe Murtadi (@mmurtadi)

Special Guest: Dan from the Greatest Story Ever Played Podcast | Podcast: https://thegreateststoryeverplayed.com | Twitter: @StoryEverPod

Special Thanks: Jarrett McCourt for his voice on the cold open | Website: http://jarrettmccourt.com/

Web: LeftBehindGame.Club | Twitter: @LeftBehindClub | Instagram: @LeftBehindGameClub

SHOW NOTES:

• 2:00 Dan talks about The Greatest Story Ever Played Podcast
• 3:00 The “Fast Pitch” on Firewatch
• 3:40 What is Firewatch + our admiration for Campo Santo’s members (Idle Thumbs, Walking Dead S1, Bioshock 2: Minerva’s Den, Half-Life: Alyx and In the Valley of the Gods)
• 8:50 How did we play Firewatch?
• 10:50 The look of Firewatch (and some Ford misappropriation)
• 16:00 Wildlife and firearms
• 18:10 Okay, describe Firewatch in detail!
• 21:00 Now we get to the opening of the game’s story
• 28:25 How did we play our Hanks?
• 30:05 Voice acting in the game (Cissy Jones & Rich Sommer)
• 31:50 An incident with some terrible teens (aka what did we do with their boombox)
• 36:40 Are we good with maps? Jacob, the ex-Scout, is bad with maps and fire.
• 40:15 Firewatch’s mystery begins to unravel with a broken window, a communications line that has been cut and a wrecked campsite
• 46:10 Unravelling the mystery
• 51:45 The final sequence of the game
• 1:01:10 Question from @ThoughtsFromP1 on Twitter: “did you find the ending was a satisfying conclusion to the story?”
• 1:05:35 Question from @CtrlAltNoob on Twitter: “I see this recommended as one of the best Walking Sims a lot, what is it that makes this stand out more as oppose to others in the genre?”
• 1:10:05 Question from @CommanderNici on Twitter: “would you take a job as a fire watcher and if so, how would you keep yourself entertained?”
• 1:13:20 Our final thoughts and Dan talks about his podcast in detail

NEXT SHOWS

• June 3, 2020 – Kentucky Route Zero, Act 2 feat. Jacob, Mike and special guest Adam Iannetta
• June 10, 2020 – Kentucky Route Zero (The Entertainment) feat. Jacob, Mike and special guest Adam Iannetta
• June 17, 2020 – Shovel Knight feat. Jacob, Mike, Moe and special guest Nathan Brandt

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We run around in a towel for a while in Until Dawn.

Developer: Supermassive Games | Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment | Initial Release: August 25, 2015

Jacob and special guest Jessica Fantauzzo talk about teen bullying, take a hike in the snowy woods and lament the theft of land.

PLAYERS:

• Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt)

SPECIAL GUEST:

• Jessica Fantauzzo

Web: LeftBehindGame.Club | Twitter: @LeftBehindClub | Instagram: @LeftBehindGameClub

SHOW NOTES:

• 0:00​​ Start
• 1:30 Fast Pitch
• 2:00 Our History with Supermassive and Games Like This
• 6:00 High-Level Thoughts
• 8:45 Story Setup
• 19:00 Spoiler Wall
• 20:30 Weird Things Happen in the House
• 29:45 The Psycho
• 32:45 Totems
• 35:30 The Mines & Wendigos
• 39:20 Stay in the Basement, Kids
• 41:20 Jacob is a Dummy
• 46:30 The Final Sequence
• 53:00 Beth & Hannah
• 54:45 Closing Thoughts

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We make sure that our Yeti costume doesn’t shrink in the dryer and enter the world of Repugia for Costume Quest: Grubbins on Ice.

Developer: Double Fine Productions | Publisher: THQ, Double Fine Productions and Dracogen (PC) | Release Date: December 21, 2010

Jacob, Mike, Moe and special guest Shay Whiston collect dandy candy and stamps, tell terribly good Dad jokes and lure people away from their relaxing getaways with French Fry smell.

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Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt), Michael Ruffolo (@ruffolom) and Moe Murtadi (@mmurtadi)

Special Guest: Shay Whiston (@ShaelynTai)

Website: LeftBehindGame.Club | Twitter: @LeftBehindClub | Instagram: @LeftBehindGameClub

Show Notes (spoilers):

• 1:40 The crew welcomes Shay to the show and we talk a little bit about her gaming habits (like Pokemon, Fallout 3)
• 3:55 What is Costume Quest: Grubbins on Ice?
• 5:15 Moe didn’t play the base game, just the DLC
• 7:40 Shay shares her love of Double Fine and Psychonauts
• 10:40 Could you play Grubbins on Ice before the main game?
• 14:30 We go deep on the costumes in Grubbins on Ice
• 19:00 What were your ideal loadouts?
• 23:40 Losing to start the game and a difficulty spike to end the game
• 27:40 Using the French Fry costume
• 30:15 Beating the final boss (Araxia and Big Bones)
• 34:10 Jacob shares some details about Amnesia Fortnight and how it ties into Costume Quest and Stacking
• 36:40 The writing in Costume Quest: Grubbins on Ice
• 39:15 Bobbing for eyeballs?
• 40:10 A Costume Quest cartoon?
• 42:05 The PC version that almost didn’t happen
• 43:00 Is Grubbins on Ice a Christmas game?

We create our own versions of the Big Bad Wolf in Telltale’s The Wolf Among Us.

Developer: Telltale Games | Publisher: Telltale Games | Release Date: October 11, 2013

Jacob, Mike and Moe trap toad-men in lies, get knocked out by some Fables and enjoy a double whiskey in a seedy dive bar.

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Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt), Michael Ruffolo (@ruffolom) and Moe Murtadi (@mmurtadi)

Website: LeftBehindGame.Club | Twitter: @LeftBehindClub | Instagram: @LeftBehindGameClub

Show Notes (spoilers):

• 2:30 recap of episode 2
• 4:30 The funeral, The guys decide to give the patrons space
• 5:25 The guys argue whether its wise to leak info to the public
• 8:25 Jacob finds a reason to play the horn.
• 9:45 The tweedles arrive again.
• 11:40 The fight begins and gun shots start flying
• 14:20 Crane has a witch???
• 17:05 does butt monkey matter?
• 20:10 Where did the guys go first?
• 23:30 Skeeter from dug?
• 27:00 Blue beard is destroying evidence
• 29:00 The woodsman and the troll
• 30:20 Info from an intoxicated troll
• 33:30 Off to see the witch!
• 34:45 Jacob gets creepy
• 37:05 do not burn my magic tree!
• 40:10 Crane might be innocent?
• 43:30 Episode over? Mary doesn’t think so!
• 47:00 big Bad WOLF vs a tweedle
• 49:00 Gruesomeness turns up a notch
• 50:20 Silver bullet and we almost lose our wolf
• 51:00 A new crooked character has arrived.