Co-Op Button: Recent Episodes
Cania and Milkman
A couple of friends play a game together for a couple of hours, then talk about it for 15 minutes. Hosted by VastleCania (they/them) and Godamn Milkman (he/him).
We have a good time!
Music is generally from the game we are playing AND a bunch of other games. Art by Godamn Milkman.
Welcome back to Season 2 of Co-op Button! We played a bunch of Mortal Kombat XI so we could tell you what we thought about Dragon Ball FighterZ!!
Okay, not really, we mostly talk about Mortal Kombat, including Milkman trying to convince his mom that it was not that violent because there were too many skulls on the screen!!
We're back!! It's season 2, which means a myriad of changes, such as:
- It's longer
Please enjoy! If you want to send feedback, hit us up at CoOpButton on twitter or email us at coopbuttonpodcast@gmail.com.
We're baaaaack, and we're playing an all-time great here. It's Kirby Superstar!
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I know it's March.
You know it's March.
But time is an illusion, and march madness doubly so.
Please enjoy our "year in review" super long episode where we talk about our favorite Co-op Button games from 2021!
The sequel to a game that started development before Dark Souls, but is still somehow a Souls-like. It's good!
A physics-based sword-fighting game that is both comedy and completely serious? Yep, that's Hellish Quart! Unequivocally the best game where grabbing someone automatically decapitates them.
It's Garfield, it's Kart, it's...furryous. Yep!
Honestly this made me far less mad than Synthetik
This is clearly a game for streamers, children, and child streamers. And streamers' children.
We recorded this right after Halo Infinite came out, but someone (cough cania cough) didn't friggin edit it! But as always it has some great music in it.
Milkman has played left 4 dead extensively. Cania has not. What will they discover in this journey of...discovery?
Cania has never played left 4 dead - how the fuck did they avoid it for so long? They discuss their non-impressions prior to playing.
Milkman has played left 4 dead. He talks about his history with the game and other stuff that Cania can't remember because they barely edited this.
We both uninstalled this game immediately before recording this, if that gives you an idea of what we thought of it.
We sort of randomly talked about clicker games while recording, whoops. It's good though and I added some extremely chill music to help you feel good.
Let's play Nidhogg!! It's not exactly co-op but mutually assured destruction is a kind of cooperation, right?
We go over our first impressions of Ghost Wreckin: Bulletproof, including what we think of the writing (surreal and bad), what we think of the island (beautiful), and what we think of the shooting (it has bullets). With a special guest appearance by Not-Whispering Milkman!
We're moving on to Ghost Recon: Breakpoint...but first, we're talking about our previous experiences with Tom Clancy games, and also how cops suck and guns suck. And how much this confuses us while we play these games!!
How much do you like us? In this mega-sized Co-op button, you'll find out how much of us you can deal with as we discuss the recently released PC Gamer top 100 PC games of all time list. Warning: we complain a LOT. But we say some good things too!! I think it's fun.
Here's the list: https://www.pcgamer.com/top-100-pc-games-2021/
Songs used:
- intro Nostalgic - Vintage Story Original Soundtrack
- mid Doom - Imp Song E1M2 - Remake by Andrew Hulshult
- mid Halo Main Theme (Super Metroid Remix _ SNES Remake _ 16-bit Style)
- mid 'Rivellon' - Divinity - Original Sin II
- mid Streets Of Rage 4 OST - Character selection
- outro Vangers theme song
The conclusion of the Borderlands 3 series! We talk about our final thoughts and also...funnels.
I say it's a bonus episode but it's a full episode where we talk about shmups in general. We love them!
It's time for our second score battle, and you'll never believe the results!! This game fucking rules btw
We talk about the concept of loot in co-op games, not just limited to Borderlands 3. How does it affect co-op? What makes it good, or bad? Why do we want to get utterly destroyed by the McElroys? Is it a death wish or what?
Plus we reveal our next score contest!
This week we try something new: a score competition! Listen as we discuss the bullet hell game Hurricane of Varstray, which was Cania's pick.
New: find the playlist of all the music used in this podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmNZeap4JXtPxm2-B81--3cQyNowb_jrs
We continue talking about Borderlands 3, with a focus on what we actually like about this dang game.
Let's play Street's of Rogue, baby! It's like...what if GTA...met Deus Ex...met...RPG Maker?? It's very fucking good, just listen to the episode.
In this slightly rambly episode, we talk about competitive team games, and whether or not they represent the co-op experience. I also left in a bunch of other stuff, like 5 minutes of H2G2 talk. Because I know you want that parasocial relationship!!
Listen to an extremely great episode where we ramble on for a long time about E3! Released, of course, many days after E3 ended. Strike while the iron is cold, I always say.
We play Contra Rogue Corps and try to find something good or interesting to say about this vaguely miserable game. And somehow, we manage it!
We mostly complain about menus TBH, but we'll certainly have more coherent thoughts after a few more hours with the game.
Cania and Milkman discuss the finer points of kicking in doors and accidentally obliterating hostages. And also how SWAT teams can eat shit and die, but not in a fun, playful way. ACAB
Let's talk about Halo 3! Also, the only good use for celery, Morrowind, and data loss.
UPDATE: now without fucked up music cues
We talk about making games into co-op games whether they want to be or not. Also, NFTs? I'm sorry.
We talk about Strange Brigade again, and why we keep playing a game we can't stop criticizing. Also, I have to say "Deep space waifu"
We talk about our favorite recent open world games. Cania forgets to mention Sunset Overdrive like a dweeb.
Matt and Cania talk about Strange Brigade, the game that was released 19 years after what has to be its primary inspiration, The Mummy. We complain quite a bit but we still like the game.
We discuss the hype cycle, pre-ordering games, and regrettable pre-orders we have done ourselves.
This week we talk a a bit about Worms WMD, but mostly we talk about how games and personality are intertwined. Sort of.
Here's the video we reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvjVP56r0BA
And here's that games personality test thing we did: https://apps.quanticfoundry.com/surveys/start/gamerprofile/
We played Dragon Marked for Death but we learned nothing. So instead we talked about Duck Game and party games in general.
When do you stop playing a game forever, and when do you take a break? We took a little break from Dragon Marked for Death, but that won't stop us from talking about it.
In this Very Special and Much Longer Than Normal episode, we talk at length about the early access game 30XX! As huge fans of 20XX, we went to some depth about what we did like, and what might be better about the (day 2!) edition of 30XX.
Featuring music from the 30XX soundtrack used entirely without permission. It's really good, you should go buy it.
Our first official episode! We talk about Dragon Marked For Death...and Israel?? No idea why I thought that would be a good idea. Also, repetition and how it's Sometimes Good.
We played Dragon Marked for Death in our pilot episode, and talked about, uh, some things! Also tried to find an outro phrase, unsuccessfully.