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Hello, The Listener! Welcome to a very special podcast special; it's the one hundredth DLC episode! That's right, the century mark! Triple digits! The Grand Hundo! We are so very thankful for the support and we sincerely hope that we can continue to entertain and maybe help teach and foster a more generally positive community around games. Failing that, the world can always use more fart jokes. In the episode, Jeb illustrates just how A Lot Ni No Kuni 2 is, we talk about the previous 99 episodes, there's some hockey sidetracking, and a special Retro Gaming News special looks back at where it all began.
Another month and we are back again The Listener! Personal and scheduling conflicts have messed with the recording opportunities but we made time to do a Podcasting just for you! We start off with a diversion about board games and their unpleasant relationships with colonialism before catching up on another month of videos game. For anyone interested in that thing what Jeb is on about, you can check out the FF4 Free Enterprise website here! http://ff4-free-enterprise.com
Hello and apologies for the delay, The Listener! You may have been worried about our absence but we are back, and the only thing to worry about is Talen's French speaking. In this episode we discuss the missing month of games, which surprisingly enough is only in part about Monster Hunter World. A strange series of events lead us to talking about Gex, and well, you can see where that led us.
Happy new year, The Listener! Yes, we are back, no, December didn't happen. Don't worry about it, December isn't real anyways. What's important is that it's January and you know what that means - a retrospective of all the everything that was 2017 was and a naming scheme that makes barely any sense even in context.
It took a minute, but we are back with the 96th episode of the Downloadable Concept Podcast! To celebrate, Fox and Jeb made the incredible joke for this episode title. In the episode proper, Fox talks about her fashion forwarding, while Jeb reveals their long-running fondness for the .hack series. Then lag happens and a lot of it. Multiple attempted recordings later, we then answer some Real The Listener Questions from Real The Listeners!
Please give Talen infinite thanks for piecing together an episode out of all the technical problems.
Happy November, The Listener! We've got a special treat for you, as we sorta discuss current gaming news in the form of World of Warcraft Classic. There's some talk about rage quitting, Jeb is back on their Neptunia kick, and Fox gets surprised by a dog. Retro Gaming News pays respects to the Kinect, which is more than we can say about its launch titles. Spoilers - There's a Sonic.
Hello, The Listener, we are back! So it turns out every time we try to record in October, we get slightly sicker. But we managed to get something together for y'all. A very quick run-through of what we played for the past while (made quicker by some technical issues) precedes a very thoughtful letter from a special boy, and a look back at what came out ten years ago that wasn't quite so enduring.
Hello, The Listener! We're back with a brand new edition. After a brief run of nostalgia, we take a dabble in the realm of asymmetrical games and talk about a few choice titles. Then in Retro Gaming News we... Well, that's a bit of a surprise, isn't it?
Hello there, The Listener. This week, lag happened! Hooray! We were all ready to go and have topical discussions but technical whatsitproblems happened and caused Jeb to live further in the past. We pushed on through to deliver The Content, so please bear with us. Retro Gaming News was a lovely little 2016 September Sampler, which I believe is when Jeb was actually speaking from.
Welcome The Listener to September! Accidentally a topic emerged as we got sidetracked to talk about games that started out not so good but got much better. Meanwhile Fox catches everyone up on Yuri Jam Swans, as well as a little more talk about Sonic Mania - you may have heard of it. In a Retro Gaming News twist, we look back at what Microsoft promised at E3 in 2014.
Welcome back, The Listener! I hope you are feeling well. You are important and you matter. Fox and Talen are back from a conventional weekend, so it's time to catch up! Immediately the plan gets thrown out in favour of talking about our favourite hedgy-wedgy. Retro Gaming News is a little bit of 2015 to cleanse the palette after the haphazard episode, wherein Talen forgot the most important release of the month.
We've got a treat for you, The Listener! In this episode, we spoilers, and spoilers, before discussing Arbitrary Decisions and in doing so, spoilers. Retro Gaming News is, of course, Spoilers.
Welcome to August, The Listener! The most August of months. In this episode, we talk about a few series that may have gone on a little longer than necessary in a not at all self-aware fashion, followed by a discussion of the importance of capitalism as the world is literally ending around the entreprenuering individuals. Retro Gaming News looks back at some choice selections from August 2016.
We're back, The Listener! Two of us have escaped the Mimic Invasion. The Munchlax Brigade is recovering, so it's just Talen and a Jeb this go around. After the Mimic times, we realized games are no longer fun, so after talking about the game experiences of the week, we talk about a really fun thing - merch and feelies! In Retro Gaming News, we travel to the far off world of 2015 and the re-release heavy month of July.
Beware, the Listener! In this episode, not everything is quite what it appears to be. A theme occurs organically after accidentally connecting a common thread in what we've been playing.
After that, Retro Gaming News goes to 2012 for some games that are... strangely familiar.
After last week's episode totally didn't disappear into the aether, the crew is back and arguably better than ever. This week includes Jeb discussing Poi, which he mispronounced as Pio, before an actual topic emerges. Retro Gaming News travels to the far flung past of 2016, where we all take time to realize "Wait that came out last year?"
We're back, thanks to the contributions of you, The Listener, on our Patreon! Jeb has been able to circumvent the desk-based plight that befell the previous episode and I hope Talen doesn't read these because he'll rip his hair out over that pun. I'll level with you, The Listener, I don't know exactly what has and hasn't made the cut because we were even more a rambling mess this time. But we do talk about MMOs and Mobile Games, before heading to Retro Gaming News to celebrate some important 25th Birthdays!
A short one this week, on account of a desk-related incident in the Canada Division of DLC. But we do manage a brief discussion of Star Ocean 3, starring Fayt Leingod, the second-best Star Ocean game. In Retro Gaming News, we examine the Golden Age of Fox as we look back at May 2001. Talen was there too, don't worry. We locked him in THE OTHER ROOM.
Hello The Listener! A whole lot of everything happened over the past, like, month, but after ten thousand years we're free. In this episode, Jeb tells us about a month's worth of RPGs, while Fox and Talen regale us with tales from their conventional life. In Retro Gaming News, we take a look quick look back at the distant past of May 2016, which sure was a month.
This week: Hello The Listener! We almost talked about Full Throttle Remastered but had to get sidetracked because our brand is strong. Then we take time to talk about some overlooked titles from 2007, where something magical happens.
This week: Hello The Listener! It's been a minute, so time to catch up on what the crew has been up to over the past few weeks. We rehash some old jokes, and before hitting up 1995 in Retro Gaming News, we inadvertently announce a new segment.
This week: Despite the concentrated efforts of everything going wrong, The Listener, we have managed to cobble together an episode for this week! We talk a bit more about the games we'd talked about before, and then we stumble haphazardly through a meaty 1993 in retro gaming news.
This week: Hello again again again again, The Listener! This week, our entire crew has been playing recent titles, even Talen, so we're slightly relevant! In the land of retro gaming news, we look at 1989 for game releases as well as interesting industry information from that particular year.
This week: Team Australia had some business to attend to, so we had to look deep in our hearts for the immortal words of Sonic M. Hedgehog - we had to go fast. But we did get in some talk about Torment, both the Planescape and Numenara varieties, and an insufferable number of callbacks. In Retro Gaming News, we may have returned to March 2007 but forgot enough about it to make better jokes.
This week: While thunderstorms in the world of Jeb threatened to delay the podcast, your favourite DLC crew persevered and delivered an episode to you, our dear The Listener, in back-to-back weeks! Join us as we talk about Fire Emblem, a few sidetracks, and in Retro Gaming News, we explore the distant past of 1985 by special request. Also Gregg rulz ok.
This week: Thanks to a stunning array of scheduling conflicts, your favourite Can-Australian Trio has been unable to yell at each other for several weeks. But the wait is over, The Listener, and so catch up with what the crew has been playing, as well as a look at a February that happened several Februaries ago.
This week: The holidays are over and we are back with a brand new edition! In the season three premiere, our intrepid and semi-humorous hosts talk about games played over the break. Meanwhile in wolves hunt in packs, Arisen Retro Gaming News, we discuss the far-flung past of January 2016 wolves hunt in packs, Arisen.
This week: The last episode of 2016 brings our last chance to tell you the Games Of 2016 we enjoyed the most, and recommend you try out! We also talk about games that sadly, passed away, in 2016, and the videogame movies that came out in 2016!
This week: This record was done while Fox was sick, Elli was overwarm and there was just not a lot going on (featuring Devil May Cry's Dante). We delve into the history of games that died in 2015, the investment schemes of Team Skull, and the continued photographic adventures of Final Fantasy XV.
This week: Did you like last week's episode? Well this is more of it. We talk about Final Fantasy XV, we talk about Pokemon Sun and Talen talks more about Dishonored 2. And then, we go back to 1994 and correct all the games that we missed last week because Oh my goodness, 1994!
This week: Talen made an offhanded joke about 1994 in the pre-edit, and that led to him being subjected to a hail of rocks and sneers! So, in deference to this Mighty Good Year, we're talking 1994 music, World of Final Fantasy, Pokemon Sun, Dishonored 2, and for Retro Gaming News - of course - we go back to 1994!.
This week: Scheduling meant we had to record at a different time, which also meant with different prep and that meant that Talen's original idea was washed away in what amounts to one glorious ninety-minute long pile of complete and utter guff. Please, enjoy, laugh, and keep yourself safe.
This week: Spooooky games, odd digressions into inflated babies, October 2014 and the rite that would bring to life Count Wrenchula.
This week: We delve into what we're using Patreon money for (a mystery solving van), what Jeb thinks of Digimon, who cares what Yokai watch is, the rundown of MOAB, Fox is a terrible husband to her butler, and we run down the games that came out in October 2009!
This week: Jeb talks to us about Virginia, the fascinating David Lynch-em-up, Fox talks more about Xenosaga and giant honking robots under late capitalism, and Talen runs us through the arrange of weirdness and wonder that launched in September 2008!
This week: Talen Lee has been hiding a secret from the podcast for a few months now, and now that he's finished playing Dark Souls 1, it's time to admit it, and talk about it - and that's why we recruited an expert on the topic! Meet Amber!
This week: It's been a few weeks, so we catch up, talk about video and card games, and look back on the year of 1996, to see what kind of games celebrated their 20th anniversary!
This week: blows dust off Wordpress inputs Hello! We didn't plan on having three weeks off there, sorry! But now we're back, and we're exactly the same size we were, within system tolerances and local regulations pertaining to the transport of pokemon as cargo!
This week: Well, we threatened to do this - quite a few times, in fact! We told you that whenever we were totally stuck for a topic of interest, we would break the glass on one of those emergency cases, and so, this week's bumper 90 minute episode is a quick-as-we-can rundown of the absolutely amazing year in videogames that was 1998. We don't go in depth on any of these games - this is about providing you a historical note of just how dense this time was for gaming in general! Enjoy!
This week: We talk about Dark Souls III, about Shadows over Innistrad, about Commander Keen and Miitomo and of course, Retro Gaming News!
This week: With stresses from work and game jams and saving New York around them, our intrepid podcasters talk about unpolished, prototype games that Talen got to play at a class event. There's also a discussion about how all videogames named after books share a canon, which sounds legit.
This week: Amidst discussions of heartwarming anecdotes about little kids, hilariously bad interfaces for PC ports and Munchlax archery, we take some time to talk about pizza gaming, games you play on an indulgent level, and return to because it's fun and comforting, rather than because of some Greater Artistic Merit. There's also sound effects.
This week: Would you believe that we had, at the start of this segment, a plan for a segment? And then Super Hot happened and Mirror's Edge came up and SEGATA SANSHIRO JUDO FLIPPED THE ENTIRE PODCAST and now we're all just going to have a bit of a lie-down.
This week: In our efforts to talk - fairly sensibly - about Tom Clancy's The Division, we go way off the rails. There's Magic The Gathering talk, some gaming history, multiple cut sections of violent vituperation and for some reason we wind up talking about Art-house cinema and classical academic study of art. Really!
This week: Thanks to a technical error and family obligations, the team put together a low-edit podcast, with all the background hum of air conditioners that implies. But we talk about some videogames we've been playing lately and then dive into a particularly weird bit of retro gaming news, while also standing up for the right of Sonic the Hedgehog to not have a live action movie made about him.
This week: This week, we talk about The Blackwell Epiphany, Project Mirai DX, and Jonathon Blow's The Witness, a Jonathon Blow Game By Jonathon Blow. Then, after a rousing game of Retro Gaming News, we move on to talk at length about the really strange history of Sonic The Hedgehog as viewed by Wikipedia category lists.
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This week: Welcome back, The Listener! If you've not noticed there's some changes going on and we're going to be keeping you posted on them bit by bit - because of course, no technical change goes quickly. The podcast will update you on just what should be happening, and we'll update this newspost as it becomes a necessity!
This week: The Christmas Special! We talk about the games we've played this year that we liked, and a little bit about making the podcast! There's a lot of swearing! We had a major record interruption that resulted in an hour of lost audio and reconstructed jokes! There's a lot of exclamation points! Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas and Everything Like That, The Listener! Thank you for listening to our podcast, and we'll see you in the New Year!
This week: Since it's the Christmas Special next week, we trialled the idea of a Phoning It In And Waiting For The Break Special, only to have the theme of an Elli Is A Crybaby Special thrust upon us! We talk about games we've played, including Duskers and Teleglitch, and Fox once again falls for Nintendo's free-to-play wiles.
This week: It's a solemn anniversary, where we talk about City of Heroes, and other MMOs. We discuss, thanks to The Listener asking for it, how MMO play is different, what about it appeals to us and what games have stood out in our mind. Along the way, we make jokes and talk about why these games have appealed to us so much in the past.
This week: Since you, The Listener asked for it, we talk about what the Downloadable Concept Podcast is about. Well, okay, no, we don't, we talk about Sonic The Hedgehog, because we are awful people, but we still try and answer the question. In addition to talk of The Shivah and Nintendo's Coinage Shakedown, we also take some time out to talk about music in RPGs, and we run a Retro Gaming News where we meet the magical time bean.
This week: Where the hell were we last week? Turns out that we were lost in various wildernesses! But good news, this week instead, we have talk about tabletop games, mix tapes, a minimum of edits, Fallout 4 and Cousin Jeb brings us ALL THE HYPE MONEY CAN'T BUY.
This week: We have some talk about Magic: The Gathering, share some tales of Dog Bear and Spooky Bonus. There's a little section where we talk about Lovely Games, games which are nice and comforting, and we do a Retro Gaming News. Then Jeb and Talen talk about Clandestine, which they seem to be Rather Fan of!
This week: We talk about Rune Factory 4, about Final Fantasy 14, about the backstory of Yuri Duelists, and wind up sluicing down November 2010's bizarrely dense release schedule for the Kinect, and there's a special extra bonus chat about Jupiter Ascending.
This week: This week, we have weird diversions into Talen's incredibly anti-Halloween childhood, answer The Listener's The Question, talk about card games and get generally s̨̫̺̜̣͈̫̠̲̥͑̋̇̐̋̈́́͗̕̚p̛̪̼̬̯͙͍̘̥̭̲̈͑͑̂̔̑̀́͠ǫ̜̜̦̬̜͇̗̟̈̾͑͛̃̎͌̾̌̓ͅō̢̮̙̤͙̜̬̫̟̠̂͋̑̾̍̓͐̂͝k̢͓̪̜͇̳̤̗̞̭̆̀̄̋͆̆̈̾͆͝y̨̨̛͓̱̜͎͉̣̬͓͂́͒̔̈́̈́͐̉̂.
This week: Our dedication to continuing to marinate in the gaming culture we're enjoying, both for good and ill means we wind up spending some time talking about accessability in game design, about suplexing whole rooms full of baddies, and the lure of one-more-day of pumpkin tending. Then something magical happens.
This week: Holy crap we came prepared this week but it doesn't stop us from having digressions that had to get cut like 'the danger of swans' and bootlegging videogames across the border. In the mean time, what is left is talk about Metal Gear Solid V, Run Factory IV, and Hotline Miami II, because everyone was in a Roman Numerals mood I suppose.
This week: This week we finally talk - a little bit - about Kentucky Route Zero, we explain what a Rune Factory is, Talen and Jeb ruminate some on the Uruk-stabbing simulator Shadows of Mordor and there's some references to dogs, for some reason.
This week: There's been a rash of talk about Magic: The Gathering and Saints Row IV and we wind up on a tangent about something to do with a kung fu movie of some description and talk about the Videogame That Shouldn't Exist.
This week: The crew expose their personal relationship with stealth and failure by talking about Saints Row IV, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, and The Swindle. There's talk of Yurijam games, a conversation about some surprisingly great gems from 2011, and as ever always, we get lost on a tangent that concludes with launching Munchlaxen from cannons.
This week: Oh my god we just basically talk about boobs. And JRPGs. In fact we don't really talk about boobs at all? We just talk about talking about boobs. Really, it's just Jeb and Fox giggling about boobs and I just can't any more
This week: Fox has a breast cancer charity to get to work on, so we dive in without a plan, figuring something will emerge. Along the way we talk card game design, travel through time, and Jeb pledges the circumstance under which he'll buy a Wii U.
This week: Inspired by the Ludumdare theme, we decided to talk a bit about games where you play monsters, except we kind of spent more time talking about how messed up it is to vote for an owl. There's a bunch of stuff going on this week, including a bunch of free Visual Novels, and a man out for financial compensation.
This week: On the normal record time, Fox and Talen are going to be a few hundred kilometers from their computers, which means they had to whip up something quick. What you get is this supremely unedited bumper-length Retro Gaming News, where they talk, briefly, about Alphabears and Magic: The Gathering, then dive into 2007.
This week: Thanks to a special guest in the form of Louise (@Cubed2d), of Generic Evil Inc., we talk about procedural generation in games, The Swindle, and of the interesting work of freelancing middle-steps in game development.
This week: It's one part botched audio, one part unstructured mess this week, as Talen came in with a plan and nothing went according to it.
This week: The conversation about board games, card games, the notion of emergent, player-driven stories opposing in-game narrative and the strange doldrums of July and June is not helped by the appearance of an annoying, wandering Canadian Monster that seeks to contribute to the podcast in a most annoying fashion.
This week: After playing Black Flag, Jeb decided what he should try out is playing Watch_Dogs and see if it was quite as bad as advertised. What do you think happened, Listener?
This week: Yo ho yo ho, it's a pirate's life for we! Jeb starts us off on a talk about Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag, which turns into a sprawling conversation about the franchise entirely! And then? Well, some audio goes missing because of Canadians who don't know they're not American and set of fireworks!
This week: It's Final Fantasy Fiesta! Because of that, we talk about Final Fantasy V, and we talk a little bit more about the year that the game came out - the context surrounding what is definitely the Dark Souls Of Being Mentioned On Twitter Right Now.
This week: With E3 looming large on the landscape, we thought maybe it was time to do a full, deep dive on an older year. We talk about surprises that came up at E3, as we seek to avoid The Hype, and look at the immense output of the year 1995, a year full of games, and stories of games.
This week: Thanks to timely sales, games like Hyrule Warriors, Sunset Overdrive, Hyrule Warriors, the Steam sales, and Hyrule Warriors are all on our podcasters' minds.
This week: A conversation about recent games takes us past old game currencies and an exploration of what it means to be valued in a game space. And since we haven't talked about him too much lately, we drag Sonic The Hedgehog into the conversation again!
This week: We have the amazing Sabriel on, and we talk about upcoming new releases, about games from 2010, and we watch as Jeb's fast-answer to Retro Gaming News gets dunked.
This week: Gongcon postpones the record by a day, and a huge diversion you don't get to hear about sandbars led to this strange little show where we talk about Vanillaware, The Last Express, and there's a cameo by a duck.
This week: We aren't dead! Despite Fox and Talen being sick, and poor Jeb's computer being bricked, we still found time to put together a quick-and-dirty podcast! Hope you enjoy!
This week: We have our special guest JetGrind (@JetGrindFuture) to talk about game music and musical games!
This week: We dig down deep into the systems of a game Jeb was asked to review, Eastside Hockey, and Fox talks for a while about Fire Emblem!
This week: 'A rambling, unstructured mess,' say critics, 'Just talking about games like Ori and Dynasty Warriors,' say others, 'I don't get the Bad Rats joke,' says another.
This week: Inexplicably, between making fun of Talen and the Retro Gaming News, we somehow find the time to talk about accessability and puzzling in videogames!
This week: We have a special guest, FutureFriendSA, who talks to us about awful videogames, Lets Play culture, and delves into what Bad Rats even is.
This week: Thanks to Room 801, Fox and Talen have a massively curtailed schedule, so we just talked for an hour and played Retro Gaming News! But in the process, we celebrated a puppy's birthday, elbowed Bloodborn in the nose over its loading times, and talked about some MMOs!
This week: We talk about Jeb's decision to engage with games more deeply, and the idea of playing games until you're done with them. We talk about how you 'beat' a game, and then move on to a little chat about some of the PSN and 2k sale opportunities!
This week: We ask and answer the question Which videogame character is the worst at his or her job?, and discuss the Ubisoft games - both their good, and their bad - that are on sale right now!
This week: We discuss #NanoRenO, a pile of upcoming visual novels, and the upcoming Magic: The Gathering expansions.
This week: Holy crap, Indiecade! There's a lot of stuff to talk about here, and Compufreak has come down from his icy igloo to share stories about what he saw and played with at Indiecade, including panels, debates, and like, just a whole bunch of neat stuff.
This week: The strange and curious case of the Lords of the Fallen sale, and discuss the histories behind videogames we're losing thanks to opaque development. We talk about Room 801, about Constructor, and about Ultima 8. There's retro gaming news, and a discussion of what games we'd really love to see get sequels!
This week: We discuss Friday the 13th in videogames, with a discussion of spoooky horror games; we talk about bad luck in games; and we talk about romance in videogames, after Valentine's day. Finally, to wrap up - we talk about a day of horror and romance all at once with Majora's Mask.
This week: We dedicate almost a full hour of the podcast to a discussion of point-and-click adventure games, both their history and modern examples that have expanded on and explored the mechanisms of the genre that is, we have been told, dead.
This week: Cat Goes Fishing, The Long Dark, Phone Games, Dog Sled Saga, The Humble Card Bundle, Retro Game News, And the team play 'Four Games That-', like all those cool Twitter people do. Also, Jeb may be a robot.
This week: 2014 Videogames, Dark Souls, Sexing Yoshis, The Worst Dad In Videogames, Retro Gaming News, Swearing In British and the adventures of Crotch Knight.