https://ratherbeplaying.com/ Join Josh, Elliot, and Stevo every two weeks as they work through their endless backlogs three classic games at a time. Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:24:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 https://ratherbeplaying.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-joystick-2-32x32.png https://ratherbeplaying.com/ 32 32 The podcast where we talk about how we'd rather be playing games than... Rather Be Playing yes episodic ©2019 All Rights Reserved ©2019 Rather Be Playing podcast Rather Be Playing http://ratherbeplaying.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/rather-be-playing-podcast.png https://ratherbeplaying.com TV-14 Biweekly 9e0beeac-e531-5a4b-a8d1-4a3879bf823b video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retrocontact@ratherbeplaying.comRather Be Playing https://ratherbeplaying.com/2019/02/20/rather-be-playing-35-i-love-smash/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-35-i-love-smash Wed, 20 Feb 2019 07:30:46 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=3869 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2019/02/20/rather-be-playing-35-i-love-smash/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2019/02/20/rather-be-playing-35-i-love-smash/feed/ 0 <p>That’s right, you’re not hallucinating: we do love Super Smash Bros Ultimate. And also, there is a brand new (old) episode of Rather Be Playing on your podcast app! Why new (old)? Well this is an episode we recorded way back in December! The three of us were actually together in the same room for… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2019/02/20/rather-be-playing-35-i-love-smash/">Rather Be Playing 35: I Love Smash</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> We're back with a brand new (old) episode! We recorded this in December but it’s finally ready for the world! This week, we celebrate the great games 2018 brought us and Super Smash Bros Ultimate! We also look forward to 2019 and a new challenge.
While it's been almost two months since we recorded this, not a ton has changed in the world. So it mostly still holds up. It's also our end of the year celebration episode, and it's before our #NoNewGames2018 pledge ended, so it is kinda timeless in the same way disco is. We think you should be able to hop in and feel right at home.

As for the episode itself, we celebrate the amazing year 2018 turned out to be. We take our victory laps as we look back on the games we finished and the backlog space we cleared. We also talk about recent purchases and near-future plans. Super Smash Bros Ultimate is one we couldn't ignore and we are loving it, if you couldn't guess from the episode title. We also talked a bit about Overcooked 2 and Red Dead Redemption 2, plus a ton more as we gush about the 2018 games we finished and loved.

Going forward you'll start seeing regular episodes again. Just bear with us as we clean out some cobwebs and freshen things up a bit. In the meantime, come join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we’ll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying. See you all in (hopefully) two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Super Smash Bros Ultimate
God of War
Overcooked 2
Red Dead Redemption 2

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Masashi Hamauzu. “The Yaschas Massif.” Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack, Square Enix, 2010.]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 57:47 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/12/18/rather-be-playing-34-i-need-onions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-34-i-need-onions Tue, 18 Dec 2018 13:30:59 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=3508 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/12/18/rather-be-playing-34-i-need-onions/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/12/18/rather-be-playing-34-i-need-onions/feed/ 0 <p>It’s that time of year again! Sales abound, games and new consoles wrapped and quietly sitting under many a tree, and awards handed out. This is when we look back on the year of games behind us, pick up anything we missed at a probably substantial discount (except Red Dead Redemption 2 which isn’t getting… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/12/18/rather-be-playing-34-i-need-onions/">Rather Be Playing 34: I Need Onions!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> Happy holidays and happy game awards! This week we played Red Dead Redemption 2! Then we dipped into The Messenger, Dead Cells, Into the Breach, Dragalia Lost and Hidden Agenda. We also talk The Game Awards and Christmas wishlists.
So in that spirit, we talk about the games we’re looking forward to! If you recall one of our loopholes to the pact was gifting games to one another on traditional gift-giving days. And with the biggest one of the year just around the corner, and even though it’s only a week before the end of the pact, we are ready for some gaming! So we discuss our Christmas wishlists as well as some of the games we did manage to play since the last episode. And then of course, we give our takes on The Game Awards.

Josh and Stevo start us off with a little-known game from a tiny struggling studio, Red Dead Redemption 2! Yep, Stevo got it as a birthday gift and Josh got it cause he has no respect for pacts. But nonetheless, they’ve got great things to say about it with their spoiler-free overview.

Stevo follows up with the recent indie hit, The Messenger, developed by Sabotage. If you’ve played Ninja Gaiden, this game will take you back. Next, Stevo played Dead Cells, the rogue-like/platformer hit that came out earlier this year by Motion Twin. This is one Josh and Elliot are dying to play so we’re all living vicariously through Stevo on this one. And lastly, to complete his Switch indie trifecta, Stevo rounds us out with Into the Breach. This game was developed by Subset Games, who you might remember from FTL fame, and they really did it again here if Stevo is to be believed.

Elliot played a couple games as well! As the only one of the hosts who didn’t play Red Dead Redemption 2, he had to plug his ears and dig into whatever could distract him. First off, he talked about Hidden Agenda by Supermassive Games, the choose-your-own-adventure interactive multiplayer group party game. How’s that for a summary? He played with a few friends and they... weren’t too excited about it, but Stevo maintains that it’s a great time with friends. Next, he played the mobile gatcha game Dragalia Lost, by Nintendo. He’s not usually a gatcha game guy, but found himself having a great time with it.

And to round things out we have a discussion about the The Game Awards 2018, which just aired a couple weeks ago. Did the winners deserve to win? Were the trailers worth the hype? Did the violinists put some clothes on? So many questions and so many answers. Almost as many as there were game streaming awards, which seems to be a thing now.

That should do it for episode 34! Stay tuned in two weeks for our live, in-person recording of episode 35! It’s a rare treat that we’re all able to get together to record and the holidays tends to be when that happens. In the meantime, come join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we’ll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying. See you all in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Red Dead Redemption 2
The Messenger
Dead Cells
Into the Breach
Dragalia Lost
Hidden Agenda

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RSS: bit.ly/rbp-feed]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:09:18 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/11/13/rather-be-playing-33-do-all-the-crimes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-33-do-all-the-crimes Tue, 13 Nov 2018 07:30:35 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=3450 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/11/13/rather-be-playing-33-do-all-the-crimes/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/11/13/rather-be-playing-33-do-all-the-crimes/feed/ 0 <p>Hey hey! Remember us? We’re either back or still here, depending on your proclivities. But here we are with a fresh new episode full of all the mostly latest games. We realize that a certain biggest game of the year recently released, but we’ll get to that later. For now we’re on the previous biggest… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/11/13/rather-be-playing-33-do-all-the-crimes/">Rather Be Playing 33: Do all the Crimes</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> We're back! And we have some lost time to catch up on! Spider-Man is the main attraction this week. We also talk Dragon Quest XI and Beyond: Two Souls. Josh blasts us to the past with Fallout and Diablo 2, and we round things off with a new roulette!
The star of the show is Spider-Man! Both Josh and Stevo have spent copious amounts of time on the game through their own respective loopholes, and they've got a lot of gushing to do on it. If you haven't played it then you can join Elliot in living vicariously through the podcast.

Josh does most of the heavy lifting for the rest of the games this week. He managed to play and finish the original Fallout, Diablo 2, and platinum Dragon Quest XI. Elliot and Stevo didn't stand a chance to keep up with him, but it makes for a lot of varied discussion. The Fallout and Diablo 2 are such timeless classics that are always fun to revisit, and Dragon Quest XI, is the critically acclaimed latest entry in the long-running beloved JRPG franchise.

We wrap things up with a deep dive into our current roulette pick, Beyond: Two Souls. We weren't too hot on it, but we dig in and unpack the layers to figure out where it went wrong. It's a spoiler-free chat, so feel free to hang around for it at the end.

And to top things off, we roll a new Backlog Roulette! Hopefully we end up with something we enjoy this time. In the meantime, come join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we’ll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying. See you all in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Spider-Man
Dragon Quest XI
Beyond: Two Souls
Fallout
Diablo 2
Backlog Roulette

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RSS: http://bit.ly/rbp-feed]]> ratherbecast.com full true 1:08:15 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/09/04/rather-be-playing-32-chrono-heartbreak/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-32-chrono-heartbreak Tue, 04 Sep 2018 07:30:24 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=3343 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/09/04/rather-be-playing-32-chrono-heartbreak/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/09/04/rather-be-playing-32-chrono-heartbreak/feed/ 0 <p>We might be a week late, but we’ve got an extra long episode to make up for it! And you can thank Tacoma for that. That’s right, we’ve finally brought our deep dive spoiler chat of Tacoma with us and it is a doozy. Our thoughts on this one are a bit mixed, so check it… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/09/04/rather-be-playing-32-chrono-heartbreak/">Rather Be Playing 32: Chrono (Heart)Break</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> This week we talk all about Tacoma! Stay tuned after the episode for the spoiler chat. We also played Darksiders, Rime, and Owlboy. And of course we mourn the Chrono Break that could have been. New Backlog Roulette too!
On the chance you have no interest in what we thought about Tacoma, you still get a full hour of classic game chat from all three of us. To start things off, Stevo's back! Woohoo! And he better have played extra games while he was away. This week he talks about the very popular platformer, Owlboy, and has a lot to say about it. It's an interesting talk about how the game got made and what he thought about it.

Back in January, Elliot added Rime to the backlog roulette and it went months without getting picked until he finally replaced it a few weeks ago. So this week, he decided to play it and make it his game of the week. So was it worth all this wait? Find out here.

Josh takes us on a journey into Darksiders via the new Warmastered Edition on PS4. Elliot's been trying to get these guys to play this game for years, so he's very excited to hear what Josh has to say. Have a listen and see if Elliot finally gets his long-sought vindication for his efforts.

To wrap up the episode, we have a fresh backlog roulette! Find out what we'll be playing over the next couple weeks. In the meantime, come join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we’ll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying. See you all in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Tacoma
Owlboy
Rime
Darksiders Warmastered Edition
Chrono Break
Backlog Roulette

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RSS: http://bit.ly/rbp-feed]]> ratherbecast.com full true 1:39:06 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/08/15/rather-be-playing-31-stevo-luigi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-31-stevo-luigi Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:00:26 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=3293 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/08/15/rather-be-playing-31-stevo-luigi/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/08/15/rather-be-playing-31-stevo-luigi/feed/ 0 <p>Stevo is dead……… sick this week. So that leaves Elliot and Josh to carry the mantle! The show must go on, after all. So of course we took the opportunity to tell Stevo what to play.  Josh and Elliot have played some great games that Stevo is still depriving himself of and the rest of… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/08/15/rather-be-playing-31-stevo-luigi/">Rather Be Playing 31: Stevo = Luigi</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> Stevo is sick this week. So Elliot and Josh carry the mantle! The show must go on. So we took the opportunity to tell Stevo what to play. There are some great games that Stevo is still depriving himself of and we’re going to set him straight.
What else do we have? Well a whole bunch of Switch port demos came out recently and Josh and Elliot dug into them! Elliot broke into the Dragonball Fighter Z beta and loved a whole lot about it. Meanwhile, Josh played the Valkyria Chronicles 4 demo, so check out what he thought about it! Stevo really missed out on some quality jokes he could have made here. You snooze, you lose!

Aside from that, we talk about the fighting game genre and our histories with it. Why don't we play them more when we have so much fun with other multiplayer genres? Elliot pines for the Okami HD Switch port and both Josh and Elliot hype themselves up about Dead Cells, DOOM Eternal, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. 2019 can't come soon enough! But until then, come join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we’ll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying. See you all in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Dragonball Fighter Z
Valkyria Chronicles 4
Final Fantasy Tactics
Metroid Prime
DOOM Eternal
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Okami HD
Dead Cells
Fighting Games

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RSS: http://bit.ly/rbp-feed]]> ratherbecast.com full true 59:30 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/07/31/rather-be-playing-30-octo-travels/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-30-octo-travels Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:00:02 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=3113 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/07/31/rather-be-playing-30-octo-travels/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/07/31/rather-be-playing-30-octo-travels/feed/ 0 <p>Something special is in the air! Is it a blue moon? A shooting star? Mars at perigee? Even rarer! All three of us were spotted in the same room at the same time! So naturally we decided to play a ton of Rocket League and Towerfall. We may also have recorded our dirty thirty-eth episode.… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/07/31/rather-be-playing-30-octo-travels/">Rather Be Playing 30: Octo Travels</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> We're all together this week after traveling some long, winding octopaths! Josh played Octopath Traveler, Stevo played Nioh, and Elliot got a NES Classic! And we all played a little more Hollow Knight because it’s just the greatest ever.
Okay, how about a hint? Josh is wrapping up his 100% playthrough of Octopath Traveler. Square Enix's old-school-flavored JRPG has hit a soft spot in Josh's heart and he has a lot to say about it. But not just that, Josh ALSO got in on the Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker action. Apparently visiting family nets some people tons of Nintendo eshop cards. As if two games weren't enough for the man, Josh continued on and played Mega Man X Legacy Collection. The guy is a beast and doesn't know how to not play games on his Switch.

Stevo has also been busy these last couple weeks, having finished off Hollow Knight. He still has a bit to go for 100% but the main job his done. His focus, however, was square on Nioh, Team Ninja's take on the Dark Souls formula. How did he like it? Only one way to find out!

And finally Elliot hit up some classic games this week when he came into possession of a NES Classic! Does this violate #NoNewGames2018? It's too close to call, but we'll give the tie to the runner. He's started up with the original Castlevania and loving the nostalgia trip.

That'll do for this week. Next week will be our breakdown of last week's roulette roll, Tacoma. In the meantime, come join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we’ll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying. See you all in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Octopath Traveler
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Mega Man X Legacy Collection
NES Classic
Hollow Knight
Nioh

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RSS: http://bit.ly/rbp-feed]]> ratherbecast.com full true 1:04:19 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/07/17/rather-be-playing-29-emotional-juices/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-29-emotional-juices Tue, 17 Jul 2018 07:00:58 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2992 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/07/17/rather-be-playing-29-emotional-juices/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/07/17/rather-be-playing-29-emotional-juices/feed/ 0 <p>Remember when we rolled Oxenfree in the roulette like a million years ago? Then there was E3 and travels, civilizations rose, civilizations fell, eons came and went. And that brings us to episode 29 wherein we finally finished Oxenfree! It was a great little game and we have a few things to say about it… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/07/17/rather-be-playing-29-emotional-juices/">Rather Be Playing 29: Emotional Juices</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> The game of the week is Oxenfree! We have a spoiler-filled talk about it at the end of the episode. So what about the beginning? Lots of Hollow Knight and Octopath Traveler! Then we close it out with a new Backlog Roulette and a side of emotions!
What else? We're all still hopelessly obsessed with Hollow Knight now! Thanks to a few timely loopholes in our No New Games 2018 pledge, we've all been able to get it. We seriously think this might be one of the best games we've ever played and we can't put it down. Well except for Josh, who's 1000%-ed it of course. But check out Stevo and Elliot as they tweet about their experiences playing through it.

Josh was also able to get a hold of Square Enix's latest JRPG, Octopath Traveler. Since Oxenfree and Hollow Knight are old new for him, he's been going all in with Octopath and thoroughly enjoying it. He gives us a nice detailed breakdown of the game and its mechanics.

And last but not least, it's time for a fresh Backlog Roulette! Oxenfree is done so Stevo gets to pick a new game to toss into the ring and then we roll! What will we be playing for the next two weeks? The answer is in this episode! In the meantime, come join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we’ll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying. See you all in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Oxenfree
Hollow Knight
Octopath Traveler
Backlog Roulette

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RSS: http://bit.ly/rbp-feed]]> ratherbecast.com full true 1:26:16 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/07/04/rather-be-playing-28-ou-est-la-toilette/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-28-ou-est-la-toilette Wed, 04 Jul 2018 09:05:15 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2963 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/07/04/rather-be-playing-28-ou-est-la-toilette/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/07/04/rather-be-playing-28-ou-est-la-toilette/feed/ 0 <p>Happy Birthday America! And happy belated to Canada, our increasingly attractive cousin to the north! Elliot was in Montréal for Canada Day and he spent it playing Switch on la toilette! But now we’re all back in the states for our favorite excuse to grill various meats and set off explosives. Stay safe out there! Actually,… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/07/04/rather-be-playing-28-ou-est-la-toilette/">Rather Be Playing 28: Où Est La Toilette?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> Happy 4th and Happy Canada Day! Between food and explosives, Stevo talks Prey, Josh and Elliot talk God of War, and everyone talks Hollow Knight. It's also Four Job Fiesta season, so check out Josh's FFV stream and help support Childs Play charity!
Speaking of, everyone's chipping away at Hollow Knight.... while we should be playing Oxenfree. But hey at least we're playing! Beyond that, Stevo crushed Bethesda's Prey since last we spoke and he is positively glowing about it. He also managed to snatch Minute, an indie game with a fascinating concept.

Elliot and Josh played God of War thanks to some very fortunate loopholes. Elliot's still playing, but Josh already has a platinum trophy and of course they both can't stop raving about it. Elliot also tried out the mobile editions of Fortnite and PUBG and enjoyed them way more than he thought he would. Josh also played the new Octopath Traveler demo and, keeping with his JRPG kick, went on to play Cosmic Star Heroine.

His gaming thirst still unquenched, Josh also-also started up another playthrough of Final Fantasy V for this year's Four Job Fiesta. Check out his stream when you get a chance, it's for a great cause. Donations this year go to benefit the Child's Play charity, which you can read about at childsplaycharity.org. The goal this year is $25,000, and you can find out more about the 'fiesta' at fourjobfiesta.com.

Next week we'll be talking about Oxenfree and rolling for a brand new game to play! In the meantime, come join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we’ll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying. See you all in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Prey
God of War
Fortnite and PUBG Mobile
Octopath Traveler Demo #2
Cosmic Star Heroine
Hollow Knight
Final Fantasy V - Four Job Fiesta
Steam Summer Sale 2018
Twin Peaks
Same Peaks Y'all

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RSS: http://bit.ly/rbp-feed]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:04:54 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/06/20/rather-be-playing-e3-2018-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-e3-2018-part-2 Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:00:56 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2921 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/06/20/rather-be-playing-e3-2018-part-2/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/06/20/rather-be-playing-e3-2018-part-2/feed/ 0 <p>And we’re keeping the conference party rolling with E3 2018 Part 2! It’s only been a few days, but it’s E3! We had a lot to say and two weeks was too long to wait for the exciting conclusion to our E3 coverage! But that’s not the only thing going on! What’s that? More sports?… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/06/20/rather-be-playing-e3-2018-part-2/">Rather Be Playing: E3 2018 – Part 2</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> It's time for E3 2018 Part 2! And World Cup! It’s a great time to like sports and video games. But today it's all about the games! We discuss the Devolver, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Sony, PC Gaming, and Nintendo conferences to polish off this year's E3.
Aaaand back to video games. Last week we covered, with great enthusiasm, the Microsoft, Bethesda, and EA conferences. So this week we're coming in hot with our brilliant takes on the Devolver, Square Enix, Sony, Ubisoft, PC Gaming, and Nintendo conferences! There were a lot of exciting announcements, jaw-dropping demos, and wackadoodle good times. What more could a young gaming podcast want?

Did you watch the show? What were your favorite moments? Do you have a Game of the Show award to hand out? Drop us a line and let us know! Whatever you thought of it, we had a great time. It may not have been as explosive as some previous E3s, but we certainly can't complain. In the meantime, leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we’ll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying or our YouTube channel. See you all in two weeks as we return to our regular programming of talking about old games and lamenting that we can't play new ones!

Topics Discussed:

E3 2018
Devolver Conference
Square Enix Conference
Ubisoft Conference
Sony Conference
PC Gaming Conference
Nintendo Conference

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RSS: http://bit.ly/rbp-feed]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:22:30 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/06/15/rather-be-playing-e3-2018-part-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-e3-2018-part-1 Fri, 15 Jun 2018 07:00:04 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2897 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/06/15/rather-be-playing-e3-2018-part-1/#comments https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/06/15/rather-be-playing-e3-2018-part-1/feed/ 1 <p>Right now, with a video game podcast based in Washington, DC, it is an exceptionally exciting time. Our city has its first ever hockey championship, and it’s E3 2018 time baby! We promise not to talk sports too much, but we had to mention it. It’s a pretty big deal for our little town, whether… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/06/15/rather-be-playing-e3-2018-part-1/">Rather Be Playing: E3 2018 – Part 1</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> E3 2018 is here! What more could a gamer want? How about a loophole for the #nonewgames2018 pledge? It's tough, but we're still having a blast. So much so, we're doing it in 2 parts! This week it's about the Microsoft, Bethesda, and EA conferences.
Now that that's out of the way, how about those E3 conferences? So much stuff to go over, and so little time. I don't know how we did this all in a single 2.5 hour episode last year, but this year we've got to split this show up into two long episodes. This is part one and we talk about the announcements and conferences from the first couple days. This includes the EA, Microsoft, and Bethesda showcases, as well as any particularly exciting pre-show announcements and news. Those three conferences were pretty dense compared to the rest, so we feel like it's a good place to split them.

Part 2 will come early next week and feature the Devolver, Square Enix, Sony, Nintendo, Ubisoft, and PC Gaming showcases. It's been one hell of an E3 so far and we can't wait to see what the rest of the show will bring. It's not gonna be easy holding onto this #nonewgames2018 pledge. Can we do it? Come along and find out with us! In the meantime, come join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we’ll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying or send us some nice anniversary flowers. See you all in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

E3 2018
EA Conference
Microsoft Conference
Bethesda Conference

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RSS: http://bit.ly/rbp-feed]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:21:27 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/05/29/rather-be-playing-27-happy-belated/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-27-happy-belated Tue, 29 May 2018 07:05:57 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2853 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/05/29/rather-be-playing-27-happy-belated/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/05/29/rather-be-playing-27-happy-belated/feed/ 0 <p>Have you ever forgotten your own birthday? We sure did. Happy belated anniversary to us! Last week was our one-year anniversary and we missed it from all the excitement talking about playing old games. Can you blame us? And this week we’re back with even more. We’ve all been chipping away at our most recent… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/05/29/rather-be-playing-27-happy-belated/">Rather Be Playing 27: Happy Belated</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> We forgot our anniversary last episode! But we played lots of games. Josh played the Super Metroid-Lttp Crossover Randomizer, Elliot played Final Fantasy XI, and Stevo played Severed on PS Vita. Then Backlog Roulette and more from the mailbag!
Josh has been playing the popular ROM hack that randomizes Super Metroid and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and combines them into a single game. It's called the Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Crossover Item Randomizer. It's ridiculously absurd and Josh is obsessed. He's also put some time into the GBA game Fire Emblem. It's his first foray into the series and he's excited.

Elliot played the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI almost compulsively for the last week. I think we've found his weakness. He jumped onto a free login campaign that started in late May and never looked back. He'd been active in the game for a few years back when it first launched, but hadn't played in a while and it's changed a lot. It's like riding a bike though, right?

Stevo's kickstarted game, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, will be out later this year and the developers have released the spinoff game, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, for free to backers. And he's been going to town on it and loving it. He's also got a glowing review of the somewhat little-known Vita game, Severed. Lastly, he's still chipping away at Final Fantasy X. He's not having the best time yet, but Josh and Elliot leave him with some words of encouragement.

And to round us out we have another letter from beloved listener, Spider. It's a great one, thanks again Spider! Keep them coming. We close out with a couple of Roulettes! It's been two weeks since we rolled Borderlands 2 so it's time for a new one. What will it be? Then Josh decides to let the sacred RNG decide what game he's going to play on his own for the next two weeks. In the meantime, come join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we’ll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying or send us some nice anniversary flowers. See you all in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Crossover Item Randomizer
Fire Emblem
Final Fantasy XI
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Borderlands 2
Severed
Final Fantasy X
Backlog Roulette

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RSS: http://bit.ly/rbp-feed]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:21:42 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/05/15/rather-be-playing-26-red-deadwood-redemption/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-26-red-deadwood-redemption Tue, 15 May 2018 07:30:36 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2808 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/05/15/rather-be-playing-26-red-deadwood-redemption/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/05/15/rather-be-playing-26-red-deadwood-redemption/feed/ 0 <p>What kind of Rockstar gamer are you? Do you beeline from story quest to story quest until the end or do you go for every sidequest, collectible, and achievement? Or do you just see how many cars you can steal and people you can murder before you’re caught? With Red Dead Redemption 2 on the… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/05/15/rather-be-playing-26-red-deadwood-redemption/">Rather Be Playing 26: Red Deadwood Redemption</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> There's a wild west theme in the air this week! We played Red Dead Redemption, Josh confuses us again with more SMT, Elliot realizes something about Xenogears, and Stevo finished lots of games. Then we discuss how we're coping with No New Games 2018.
Josh also played and tried to explain Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse. If you're looking for an ultra trippy, end of the world, heaven vs hell, modern urban fantasy turn based RPG that will make you die a lot, it could be right up your alley. On a lighter note, he also played Hollow Knight and is loving it. As with any metroidvania, how could it not be good?

Stevo finished up his maiden run of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night! It's his latest classic game, and given how much we all love metroidvanias you can guess how he felt about it. And Elliot is still churning away on Xenogears. A letter from our friend Spider illuminated a few things about Xenogears that the fog of memory muddled up, and it's pretty eye opening. Thanks for the letter and for casting one of our favorite games in a new light for us.

Lastly, we talk about how we're doing with our No New Games 2018 pledge now that we're five months in. Elliot wrote a piece about it last week that you can check out here. We discuss the games coming out now that we wish we could play. Stevo closes us out with his own personal roulette to help him decide what to play next. In the meantime, come join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we'll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying. See you all in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Red Dead Redemption
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
Hollow Knight
Fortnite
Borderlands 2
Xenogears
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
No New Games 2018 - 5 Months In]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:14:04 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/05/01/rather-be-playing-25-the-most-terrible-game/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-25-the-most-terrible-game Tue, 01 May 2018 07:30:35 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2728 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/05/01/rather-be-playing-25-the-most-terrible-game/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/05/01/rather-be-playing-25-the-most-terrible-game/feed/ 0 <p>I mean not terrible as in bad, but terrible as in ‘hoooooly hell go easy on me!’ Of course we’re talking about Cuphead here. The game you hate to love and love to hate, but that makes you love it even more. And despite how hard and unforgiving it is, we finished it! I mean… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/05/01/rather-be-playing-25-the-most-terrible-game/">Rather Be Playing 25: The Most Terrible Game</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> We finished Cuphead! Well, only Josh did, but it counts! Then we got nostalgic. Stevo played Castlevania Symphony of the Night and Elliot and Josh played Xenogears. Then we did our #GameStruck4 and talked some news. And we had a new Backlog Roulette!
The rest of the line up is drawn from a well of distilled nostalgia. Stevo is just about through Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Don't you just love it when he plays the old classics and loves them as much as you did when you first played them? And along similar lines, Elliot has been replaying Xenogears for the first time since his first time. How has it aged? Is the text still slow now that we're older and can't read as well? Yeah, it is, but he's loving it anyway. Josh is also tap dancing his way down memory lane with Xenogears, so listen as they share a moment of fanboy gushing. Hope you brought an umbrella.

While we're soaked in nostalgia, we list our own #GameStruck4, the meme from last week that is now long dead. The meme asks you to name the four games that define your love of gaming the best. It's a fun bit and it takes us way back to our fond beginnings.

Then we round out the cast with a boat load of one-sentence news. A lot has happened in the last two weeks! So find out what we think and in the meantime, come join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we'll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying. See you all in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Cuphead
Xenogears
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
#GameStruck4
Backlog Roulette
One Sentence News]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:19:14 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/04/17/rather-be-playing-24-plot-to-kill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-24-plot-to-kill Tue, 17 Apr 2018 07:30:41 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2681 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/04/17/rather-be-playing-24-plot-to-kill/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/04/17/rather-be-playing-24-plot-to-kill/feed/ 0 <p>Have you ever wanted to rule the world? How good do you think you would be at it? Elliot got to find out with a very tumultuous go at Crusader Kings II. How did he do? How many people did he befriend? How many did he plot to kill? Tune in to his epic tale… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/04/17/rather-be-playing-24-plot-to-kill/">Rather Be Playing 24: Plot to Kill</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> Elliot attempts world domination in Crusader Kings II and fails. Josh replays the mitochondria propaganda game Parasite Eve. How does it hold up? Stevo has an important experience in Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice. And we all died repeatedly in Cuphead!
But Elliot isn't the only one playing old games. Josh took another shot at Parasite Eve to see how well it's held up these last few decades. Remember that game? Aside from being the brightest spotlight our favorite powerhouse of the cell will probably ever get, it was also a pretty groundbreaking video game. So if you've played it before, enjoy his trip down memory lane. And if you haven't, you're in for a real treat.

Stevo tops us off with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, which he's finally finished. He's got some deep takes about it and the message it conveys. It's an important game for many reasons, to be sure, and something we highly recommend everyone experiences soon. He's got Josh and Elliot ready to boot it up, so this might not be the last you hear of it with us.

And of course, we're all chipping away at Cuphead, our roulette roll from last week. And it's haaaaaaard. We heard it would be. We knew what we were getting into before we started, so why did we do this to ourselves? We do get to hash out advice towards the end of the episode, so maybe our next run will go better and we can have it beat by next episode. Maybe?

Until then, come join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we'll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying. See you all in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Crusader Kings II
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Parasite Eve
Cuphead
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:12:32 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/04/03/rather-be-playing-23-broken-in-some-way/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-23-broken-in-some-way Tue, 03 Apr 2018 07:30:46 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2649 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/04/03/rather-be-playing-23-broken-in-some-way/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/04/03/rather-be-playing-23-broken-in-some-way/feed/ 0 <p>It’s a new fortnight and a new episode! This week we have a lot to cover. Josh is back and has a lot to say about many games. So where was he all this time? Buying a new PS3 and making up for all the lost time since he last had one. On his menu… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/04/03/rather-be-playing-23-broken-in-some-way/">Rather Be Playing 23: Broken in Some Way</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> Josh is back with a new PS3! He talks Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne and Drakengard 3 as Elliot talks Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime and Splatoon 2. Stevo rounds us out with Muramasa and Symphony of the Night. And it’s time for a new Backlog Roulette!
How about the rest of us? Stevo gets to learn a lot from Josh and all the games he’s never heard of. You can live vicariously through his wonder and amazement. But he also did a bit of playing of his own. Splatoon 2 and Muramasa The Demon Blade round out his fortnight and he enjoyed them!

Elliot has also been playing Splatoon 2,and he’s well into the multiplayer modes. He also played a bit of 4-player coop game, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime and is loving it... dangerously :)

So what’s missing from these titles? No one played the roulette game, Observer. Alas, it may have just not meant to be. So this week Stevo makes a fresh pick to replace its spot on the roulette and we roll for a new game! What are we going to be playing for the next 4 weeks? Tune in and find out! In the meantime, feel free to join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we'll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying. See you all in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne
Observer
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Drakengard 3
Splatoon 2
Muramasa The Demon Blade
Castlevania Symphony of the Night]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:06:47 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/03/20/rather-be-playing-22-origin-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-22-origin-story Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:30:09 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2596 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/03/20/rather-be-playing-22-origin-story/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/03/20/rather-be-playing-22-origin-story/feed/ 0 <p>It’s another fortnight, another episode. But this fortnight we’re actually talking about Fortnite! Unfortunately Josh couldn’t make it into the recording booth this week, but in his place we’ve got something we think you’ll enjoy. Elliot’s cousin Carlos stops by on short notice to dish the wisdom on Fortnite, as well as a bunch of… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/03/20/rather-be-playing-22-origin-story/">Rather Be Playing 22: Origin Story with Carlos</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> This fortnight we're actually talking about Fortnite! Elliot's cousin Carlos stops by to dish the wisdom on Fortnite plus Monster Hunter World and Destiny 2. We also learn Elliot's gaming origins and talk Super Castlevania IV, Observer, and more.
It's an episode loaded with games, but we also get to hear some personal stories of Elliot and Carlos growing up. Nothing like family to keep you grounded. Even on your own podcast. Thanks Carlos! So tune in to hear Elliot's video game origin story, Stevo Irish-splain St. Paddy's day, and Carlos talk about all the big games we haven't been playing this year. We might need loopholes to play 2018's releases but he does not, so get it while it's hot!

Hopefully next week Josh will be back, and even more hopefully we'll all be done with our backlog roulette game, Observer. And hopefulliest of all, we'll be rolling a new game to play over the next couple fortnights. Now that we're done with our travels, it's time to get back to the logs. In the meantime, feel free to join in on the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast, or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we'll talk about it on the next episode. You can also check out our Twitch stream at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying and Carlos's stream at twitch.tv/bruticus02. See you all in the next fornight!

Topics Discussed:

Fortnite
Monster Hunter World
Observer
Destiny 2
Mega Man X
Super Castlevania IV
Super Mario RPG
Horror Games]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:03:43 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/03/06/rather-be-playing-21-semicolons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-21-semicolons Tue, 06 Mar 2018 07:00:16 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2527 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/03/06/rather-be-playing-21-semicolons/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/03/06/rather-be-playing-21-semicolons/feed/ 0 <p>Welcome to another week of playing lots of games! Not only that, but we’re shaking things up with our format too. In fact, we’re putting together a few new ideas here so pardon our dust for the next few episodes. Hopefully it settles soon. This week we’re doing the news discussion in rapid-fire one-sentence blurbs.… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/03/06/rather-be-playing-21-semicolons/">Rather Be Playing 21: Semicolons</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> It's time for more games!. We discuss Metroid: Samus Returns, SteamWorld Dig 2, and The Witness. We also played the Metal Gear Survive beta and the Valkyria Chronicles 4 demo. Then we try out a new rapid-fire news format, with lots of semicolons.
Aside from that, we played lots of games! Elliot finished Metroid: Samus Returns and SteamWorld Dig 2! Stevo streamed his triumph over Celeste on the Twitch channel. He's also playing The Witness to help him relax. I suppose there are worse games for calming the mind, but Josh and Elliot are baffled at the choice. And with even more time to spare, Stevo also played Yakuza 0! All three of us are making progress in Observer, the backlog game we rolled last episode. Will we have it done in time? It's gonna be close! Josh played a little Deus Ex Mankind Divided to top it off.

But don't blame Josh for not playing much this week, he was double podcasting! Check out his guest appearance on the next episode of Same Team Y'all! We're excited to see how he fares with Tess and Eric, so check him out on Friday. In the meantime, join the discussion! Leave a comment, tweet us at @rbpcast,or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we'll talk about it on the next episode. Use all the semicolons you want. See you in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Metroid: Samus Returns
Celeste
SteamWorld Dig 2
Yakuza 0
Deus Ex Mankind Divided
The Witness
Metal Gear Survive Beta
Valkyria Chronicles 4 Demo
Mega Man X
Same Team Y'all
ESRB to label in-game purchases
Nintendo Switch Turns 1 Year Old
PS Plus Free Games Will Be Reduced to 2 PS4 Games Next Year]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:05:00 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/02/21/rather-be-playing-20-im-a-weiner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-20-im-a-weiner Wed, 21 Feb 2018 07:00:01 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2487 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/02/21/rather-be-playing-20-im-a-weiner/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/02/21/rather-be-playing-20-im-a-weiner/feed/ 0 <p>This episode cuts the fat and serves up all the meat. We talk 100% games we’ve been playing this week. Not even any news stories make it in to the discussion. Speaking of those games, remember our roulette from two weeks ago? Uncharted: The Lost Legacy? That’s right, we all finished it in time so… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/02/21/rather-be-playing-20-im-a-weiner/">Rather Be Playing 20: I’m a Weiner</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> We finished Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and we discuss its nuts and bolts and what we thought about it. We also played Super Mario Run and Celeste. Then we have a short talk on streaming and mobile games, and wrap it up with a new Backlog Roulette!
But that's not all we played! Elliot polished off his Super Mario Run campaign. It's a pretty short game, but it sparks a pretty big discussion about mobile games, how valid they are in this medium, and what "infinite runner" means. You'll learn a lot. Stevo has started playing Gaming's latest sweetheart, Celeste, and he's got a lot of glowing things to say about it. And Josh has started to die repeatedly on Dark Souls 3, so help him out when he's streaming on twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying and give him some tips.

We've also got a short talk on streaming games! There's many ways to do it, and many people to tell you how they're all wrong. But we think there's no wrong way to do it, and we're going to be shaking up our formula going forward. The good news is this should mean more streaming! So keep checking for us on that Twitch channel!

And lastly, it's time for a new Backlog Roulette! We choose a new game to take Uncharted's place, and then roll for a new game to play! We'll be playing this one over the next episode and then talking about it on the one after! Don't be shy and join the discussion! Leave a comment or shoot us an email at questions@ratherbecast.com and we'll talk about it on the next episode. See you in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Celeste
Super Mario Run
Dark Souls 3
Streaming
Mobile games]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 58:24 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/02/06/rather-be-playing-19-final-fantasy-doo-doo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-19-final-fantasy-doo-doo Tue, 06 Feb 2018 07:00:12 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2256 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/02/06/rather-be-playing-19-final-fantasy-doo-doo/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/02/06/rather-be-playing-19-final-fantasy-doo-doo/feed/ 0 <p>After the last couple of episodes being loaded with all these games being played left and right and up and down, we’re calming things down a bit this week. We’re slowing our roll and taking a more measured approach to these fine delicacies we call the 2017 game lineup. Don’t get us wrong, we did… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/02/06/rather-be-playing-19-final-fantasy-doo-doo/">Rather Be Playing 19: Final Fantasy DOO-DOO</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> It's been a week filled with Dissidia and Dissidia-related things, and we played them all. We also discuss some big news items! Rumors of Microsoft buying EA, Red Dead Redemption 2's delay, and why we have to pay $20 for the rest of Final Fantasy XV.
The main gaming event this episode is mobile gaming! What? Yep! Both Stevo and Josh played some mobile games and they raved about them and are recommending them to everyone. Should we heed their advice? Have a listen and let them sell you on Dissidia: Final Fantasy Opera Omnia and Hidden Agenda! Elliot has begun to die profusely in Demon's Souls, so maybe we'll just leave him in the corner there until he's done swearing at the walls.

We also talk a bit about the Dissidia: Final Fantasy NT open beta that recently ended. Elliot spent some time with it when he wasn't being repeatedly killed in Boletaria. He enjoyed it, but it's hard not to enjoy whatever you play after enduring hours of ruthless punishment. So maybe take it with a grain of salt. Or maybe hear what he as to say and decide for yourself!

On the next episode we'll all be done with Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, so get ready for a full discussion on that. We'll also be rolling our next Backlog Roulette game! See you in two weeks!

Topics Discussed:

Hidden Agenda
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT
Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia
Demon's Souls
RUMOR: Microsoft seeking to buy EA
Xbox Game Pass
Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition
Red Dead Redemption 2 delay
Shadow of the Colossus]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 55:27 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/01/23/rather-playing-18-what-remains-of-metal-gear/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-playing-18-what-remains-of-metal-gear Tue, 23 Jan 2018 07:30:16 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2115 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/01/23/rather-playing-18-what-remains-of-metal-gear/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/01/23/rather-playing-18-what-remains-of-metal-gear/feed/ 0 <p>We are hitting the ground running with our #NoNewGames2018 resolution. All told, the three of us finished five different games! And we played many more, and we’re not even done with January here! We’ve got some overlap in these games, so there’s plenty to talk about. Not the least of which is the game all… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/01/23/rather-playing-18-what-remains-of-metal-gear/">Rather Be Playing 18: What Remains of Metal Gear</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> Get ready for a deep discussion on one of 2017's sleeper hits, What Remains of Edith Finch! It's a bit spoilery so we save it for the end of the episode. Before that we have Nintendo Labo, Metal Gear Survive, Dark Souls Remastered, Night in the Woods,
Aside from Edith Finch, we have a bunch of news to cover! How cool does that Nintendo Labo look? Does playing the Metal Gear Survive beta make you feel like you're cheating on Kojima? Are you ready to play Dark Souls on the toilet? We answer all those questions, so if you have any others ask away at questions@ratherbecast.com.

And that's not even all! This week also marks the return of Backlog Roulette! How long has it been? This time we're going to take it a little easy and roll for just one game and that will be the next game that all three of us will be playing. We'll ramp it up later on if we can at least handle this one.

And that should do it for episode 18. See you in two weeks, and until then tweet us at @rbpcast!

Topics Discussed:

What Remains of Edith Finch
Nintendo Labo
Metal Gear Survive
Dark Souls Remaster
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Night in the Woods
SteamWorld Dig
SteamWorld Heist
The Last Guardian
Demon's Souls
Invisible, Inc.
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Backlog Roulette]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:47:33 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/01/16/rather-playing-17-loopholes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-playing-17-loopholes Tue, 16 Jan 2018 08:35:33 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2089 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/01/16/rather-playing-17-loopholes/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/01/16/rather-playing-17-loopholes/feed/ 0 <p>It’s a new year with new games and new resolutions. And those resolutions for us are to… not play any of those new games? What? Why? Don’t we host a podcast about playing video games? Won’t avoiding new games rob us of our content? Not at all! Well, we hope not. We’ve thought this one… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/01/16/rather-playing-17-loopholes/">Rather Be Playing 17: Loopholes</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> Our new year's resolution is to not buy any games in 2018 and focus instead on 2017's incredible releases. Of course we've built in some loopholes to so we don’t miss out on the big ones, but can we make it through a whole year avoiding most new games?...
So come along for the ride as we catch up on some of last year's most acclaimed releases with some older titles thrown in, and perhaps a few new 2018 releases here and there thanks to the loopholes we've allowed. The good news is we're going to be playing mostly recent games that we're expecting to be very good, and we're going to keep on playing and streaming Rocket League, PUBG, and even more multiplayer games. AND we have measures in place to ensure we don't miss the conversations if a new juggernaut or two comes out this year. And the bad news is... actually, there is no bad news! This is a flawless set up and you're going to love it! We're really excited to get into it with the next episode, out one week from today!

Until then, keep on playing!

Topics Discussed:

#NoNewGames2018
Loopholes
Metroid Prime 4
Dragon Quest XI
Mega Man 11
The Last of Us Part II
Valkyria Chronicles 4
Darksiders 3
The Last Guardian]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:06:29 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/01/09/rather-be-playing-2017-game-of-the-year/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-2017-game-of-the-year Tue, 09 Jan 2018 03:52:59 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=2064 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/01/09/rather-be-playing-2017-game-of-the-year/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/01/09/rather-be-playing-2017-game-of-the-year/feed/ 0 <p>It’s finally here: the 2017 Game of the Year as decided by your Rather Be Playing hosts! First off, we owe you all a round of drinks for coming in so late with this. We meant to put it up two weeks ago, but life happened and now it’s been nearly a month since the… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2018/01/09/rather-be-playing-2017-game-of-the-year/">Rather Be Playing: 2017 Game of the Year</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> It's time to reveal Rather Be Playing's 2017 Game of the Year! It was an incredible year for games, and this week we break down our favorite titles that released throughout 2017 to decide which one was the best.
Back to the topic at hand! To say 2017 was a great year for games is a massive understatement. You'd even have a strong case for saying it was the greatest year ever. So how the hell do you decide which one of these jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring, genre-defining games is the best one? With a 1.5 hour podcast episode! It's a long one, but there's a lot to go over to get to our goal. We pick apart the games that made the deepest impressions on us across several categories including music, visuals, and gameplay. We also talk about our biggest disappointments of the year and our personal favorite game we played that didn't necessarily release this year. Remember, we were supposed to be playing backlogs, right? Whoops! Anyway! Sit back, relax, and let's relive the insanely rich output we were inundated with over the last 12 months.

Also Josh got us all bananas.

Topics Discussed:

2017 Game of the Year]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:37:08 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/12/12/rather-playing-16-proud-mode/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-playing-16-proud-mode Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:48:07 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=1978 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/12/12/rather-playing-16-proud-mode/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/12/12/rather-playing-16-proud-mode/feed/ 0 <p>In our penultimate episode of the year, I must say we’ve somehow come up with our best episode yet. It’s a little on the long side, but we cover a wide breadth of gaming goodness. For one, the 4th Annual Game Awards just took place this past weekend and we have many thoughts on it.… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/12/12/rather-playing-16-proud-mode/">Rather Be Playing 16: Proud Mode</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> The 2017 Game Awards have come and gone! This week, we break down the many nominees, winners, and controversies. We also talk about the Destiny 2 fiasco, The Last Guardian, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Star Ocean: The Last Hope, 20XX, Kingdom Hearts,
Aside from celebrating good games, we've all been busy playing many of them as well. Have we said it yet that 2017 has been as insanely good year for games? We can barely keep up (read: we can't keep up at all. Well, maybe Josh can, but even he's struggling). Elliot played Lara Croft GO and Divinity: Original Sin... on VITA! Remote play is a magic that shan't be understated. And, yes we're still on Elliot, he's also playing The Last Guardian and absolutely loving it. Josh got Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5 and is going headlong into the Kingdom Hearts 1 remaster. He's also playing the fresh new Star Ocean: The Last Hope remaster as well as the Mega Man/rogue-like game, 20XX, and he's loving them both. As for Stevo, he's all done with Nier Automata and moved straight on to Horizon: Zero Dawn. So many games!

And that'll do it for us this episode! Next week, get ready for our own epic awards ceremony as we announce the Rather Be Playing GAME OF THE YEAR!

Topics Discussed:

The Game Awards
Lara Croft GO
Divinity: Original Sin
The Last Guardian
Kingdom Hearts
Star Ocean: The Last Hope
20XX
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Destiny 2]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:34:40 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/11/28/rather-playing-15-feedback-loop/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-playing-15-feedback-loop Tue, 28 Nov 2017 08:00:54 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=1950 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/11/28/rather-playing-15-feedback-loop/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/11/28/rather-playing-15-feedback-loop/feed/ 0 <p>Hope everyone had a delightful Thanksgiving! We recorded this before the holiday and kept forgetting that, so mind the time warps! While we all did quite a bit of playing, this week the conversation focuses on the news of late, specifically loot crates. With the tumultuous release of Star Wars Battlefront II now behind us,… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/11/28/rather-playing-15-feedback-loop/">Rather Be Playing 15: Feedback Loop</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> Loot crates! Are they fair? Are the gambling? Are they dangerous? We get into the controversy. We also talk Skyrim for Nintendo Switch, Thimbleweed Park, Pillars of Eternity, Nier Automata, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, and some classic SNES games!
Between debating the big issues and eating nauseating amounts of turkey, we played many games! Stevo finished Golf Story and is working on the 2nd (3rd?) ending of Nier Automata while playing the crap out of his SNES Classic. He also found time for Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. Josh is playing Skyrim again, only this time on the porcelain throne. And Elliot is venturing into brand new games in ages-old genres that he's never tried before. Pillars of Eternity and Thimbleweed Park are holding his attention almost completely this week. Spoiler alert: everyone is loving everything. 2017 has been a pretty astounding year for games hasn't it?

And last, but never least, we all got Rocket League for Switch (or rather Elliot got it for everyone)! So now we will never not be able to play each other when we want to! What a dark and unholy time we all lived in before portable Rocket League existed. So if you've got it, look out for us on the pitch and please try not to offer us loot crate trades!

Topics Discussed:

Loot Crates
Star Wars Battlefront II
Skyrim for Nintendo Switch
Thimbleweed Park
Pillars of Eternity
Same Team Y'all
Super Mario World
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Nier Automata
Donkey Kong Country]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:14:55 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/11/14/rather-be-playing-14-chase-that-high/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-14-chase-that-high Tue, 14 Nov 2017 06:00:27 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=1917 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/11/14/rather-be-playing-14-chase-that-high/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/11/14/rather-be-playing-14-chase-that-high/feed/ 0 <p>It’s Fall and that means the days are shorter and the video games don’t stop coming out. We’re drowning in them this week, but only one has managed to capture all our hearts. We’ve all finished Super Mario Odyssey instead of playing our backlog games! In fact we’re still playing it instead of our backlog… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/11/14/rather-be-playing-14-chase-that-high/">Rather Be Playing 14: Chase That High</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> This week we have a spoiler-free discussion on Super Mario Odyssey and then debate the value of art vs technology in game development. We also talk overclocking your GPU, double-dipping on Switch ports and Sega Genesis.
We also go into a deeper discussion about art versus technology in game development. Do the big triple-A publishers need to push bleeding edge graphics at the expense of timeless gameplay and charm? Why does the far-less technically impressive Breath of the Wild stand the test of time better than Call of Duty? Is there a case to be made for toning down the tech, focusing on art and gameplay, and making something that will last?

In between bouts of Mario, Josh and Stevo are playing Golf Story and whatever else they have on the Switch. Elliot is obsessed with overclocking his GPU and cranking out every last ounce of juice for Destiny. But with holiday travels coming up, it's pretty much going to be all Switch, all the time for everyone. And with Rather Be Playing's Official Game™, Rocket League, due out for our favorite hybrid console this week, we might not ever need to sit in front of a TV again! Except for maybe Elliot now that he's got a brand new (old?) Sega Genesis to break into! More on that in the cast!

Lastly, we give out a big congrats to our good friend Mike from Pod Nerdy 2 Me on the successful funding of the Advanced Death Saves Kickstarter! We're all looking forward to getting our copies and checking out your work.

We'll catch you guys again after Thanksgiving, so enjoy the holidays, enjoy the turkey, and enjoy the boat load of games and game sales crashing down all around us.

Topics Discussed:

Super Mario Odyssey
Art vs Technology
Sega Genesis
Overclocking GPUs
Advanced Death Saves
Same Team Y'all
Nintendo Switch ports
Golf Story
Destiny 2]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:09:20 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/10/31/rather-be-playing-13-youre-going-to-die-here/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-13-youre-going-to-die-here Tue, 31 Oct 2017 06:30:59 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=1439 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/10/31/rather-be-playing-13-youre-going-to-die-here/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/10/31/rather-be-playing-13-youre-going-to-die-here/feed/ 0 <p>Happy Halloween! It’s that time of year again when we all hunker down, dim the lights, and play the crap out of the scariest games in our backlogs, right? Or is everyone playing Super Mario Odyssey? To help us out this week, Mike from the Pod Nerdy 2 Me podcast joins the cast! He’s here… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/10/31/rather-be-playing-13-youre-going-to-die-here/">Rather Be Playing 13: You’re Going to Die Here with Mike from PN2M</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> Happy Halloween! This week Mike from Pod Nerdy 2 Me joins the cast to talk about his Kickstarter, Advanced Death Saves. We also played Super Mario Odyssey as well as some horror games to celebrate the season.
A lot has gone down in the last couple weeks so we've got a lot to get through! As we mentioned, Super Mario Odyssey has launched and we are all hopelessly addicted. We haven't gotten too far into it yet, but over the next couple weeks expect it to be fully dissected. In the meantime, check out the Twitch channel and watch Stevo's streams. We've also managed to sneak in a few horror sessions, so Mike and Stevo get to talk about Hellblade and Amnesia, and Elliot cowers into his happy place.

And last but not least, we talk about the NeoGAF meltdown and the birth of ResetEra, a new gaming community hoping to cultivate a space for open discussion about video games on the internet. We have an interesting perspective on how ResetEra came to be and the events leading up to its founding, as our very own Rather Be Playing cohost, Josh, had a front row seat. The community he was most active in on NeoGAF was not only among the first admitted to ResetEra, but also happened to be among those in the early Discord general chat sessions. Josh gives us a rundown as a fly on the wall starting at 48:25.

Until next time, happy horror gaming!

Topics Discussed:

Super Mario Odyssey
NeoGAF and ResetEra
Advanced Death Saves
Pod Nerdy 2 Me
Tabletop Games
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Amnesia: The Dark Descent]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:23:12 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/10/17/rather-be-playing-12-flick-your-ball-on/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-12-flick-your-ball-on Tue, 17 Oct 2017 06:30:51 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=1377 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/10/17/rather-be-playing-12-flick-your-ball-on/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/10/17/rather-be-playing-12-flick-your-ball-on/feed/ 0 <p>We all got our Super NES Classics and we can’t stop playing them. Hopefully everyone who wanted one got one too because it’s a really great piece of kit. We’re all bouncing around trying many games, and entirely unable to stay focused on any one. But despite all of our backlogs suddenly taking on a… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/10/17/rather-be-playing-12-flick-your-ball-on/">Rather Be Playing 12: Flick Your Ball On</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> This week we talk Super NES Classic and all the games we can’t stop playing on it. We also play and love Golf Story and talk about what horror games to play (and stream!) in the lead up to our Halloween episode (lucky #13!).
Aside from all the new games we're also looking anxiously ahead to the next episode, lucky number 13, which will air on Halloween! So we're going to dive into some horror games over the next couple weeks and have a special scare-filled episode. Be sure to check out our YouTube and Twitch channels for some horror streams between now and then as well. Elliot will be in full flop sweat mode, and we're sure Josh and Stevo will be there in full support.

Lastly, but certainly not leastly, we have the full Podcasting Panel recording from LexiCON 2017! If you stick around for the end of the episode, you'll feel like you were right there in the room with us. It starts at the 1:02:50 mark and is absolutely worth a listen. You'll get just a small hint of how amazing the people were at LexiCON and how much fun Stevo and Elliot had there. Thanks again to Eric and Tess from the Same Team Y'all podcast for hooking us up with a booth and for all the help and support they gave us leading up to and during LexiCON! Hope we can do it again soon!

Topics Discussed:

Super NES Classic
Golf Story
Super Mario World
Star Fox
Super Mario RPG
Secret of Mana
Kirby Super Star
Halloween Horror Game Extravaganza!
P.T. / Silent Hills
Until Dawn
LexiCON 2017 - Podcasting Panel]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:37:22 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/10/03/rather-playing-11-toilet-games/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-playing-11-toilet-games Tue, 03 Oct 2017 07:15:10 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=1297 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/10/03/rather-playing-11-toilet-games/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/10/03/rather-playing-11-toilet-games/feed/ 0 <p>Rather Be Playing welcomes its very first guest to the podcast! Eric Variz joins us from the Same Team Y’all podcast to talk with us about what he would rather be playing (spoiler: it’s Destiny 2). We also go into graphic detail about gaming during parenthood and finding time for our favorite hobby when there… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/10/03/rather-playing-11-toilet-games/">Rather Be Playing 11: Toilet Games with Eric Variz</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> Rather Be Playing welcomes its very first guest to the podcast! Eric Variz joins us from the Same Team Y'all podcast to talk with us about what he would rather be playing (spoiler: it's Destiny 2). We also go into graphic detail about gaming during par...
Despite how hard it can be, we did find time to play many, many games this week and we've got a lot to say about them. With the Super NES Classic, Destiny 2, and a long-awaited return to Metroid finally out, there's a lot to cover. And because that somehow still wasn't enough, we went and played even more games. Elliot is in love with Yakuza 0, Stevo enjoyed Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, and Josh and Eric have been pounding away at Destiny 2.

Of course with Eric on the cast, and with LexiCON only days away, we had to get some behind the scenes info on the operation. Eric will not only be there with Tess to promote the Same Team Y'all and Same Peaks Y'all podcasts, but he's also the brains behind the operation. It's only days away now so start making preparations to come see us! We'll be there manning our booth and giving away pins. And Stevo and Elliot will be joining Eric and Tess for a panel on podcasting! Hope to see you there.

Topics Discussed:

Same Team Y'all
LexiCON
Destiny 2
Super NES Classic
Metroid: Samus Returns
Yakuza 0
Project Octopath Traveler
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:08:47 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/09/19/rather-be-playing-10-rabid-mario/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-10-rabid-mario Tue, 19 Sep 2017 07:00:58 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?p=1134 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/09/19/rather-be-playing-10-rabid-mario/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/09/19/rather-be-playing-10-rabid-mario/feed/ 0 <p>Welcome to our milestone 10th episode! What an exciting time! And how did we kick off the celebration? By reading a book! Wait, what? That’s right, Jason Schreier’s Blood, Sweat, and Pixels hit bookshelves recently, and we have a lot of (good) things to say about it. We also had a million backlog games to play… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/09/19/rather-be-playing-10-rabid-mario/">Rather Be Playing 10: Rabid Mario</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> The milestone 10th episode! We talk about how much we're enjoying Jason Schreier's Blood, Sweat, and Pixels. We also discuss Destiny 2, Mario + Rabbids, Wolfenstein The New Order, LexiCON, and have a new Backlog Roulette. Josh finished his Final Fantasy V Child’s Play run, and then went on to play and finish Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle and Destiny 2. Well, at least the main campaign for the latter. Josh and Stevo also finished Wolfenstein The New Order and Spec Ops: The Line. Meanwhile, Elliot… well, he tried. He really did. He promises he’ll have everything done by the next episode. Except for maybe this new Backlog Roulette game, which he will murder Josh for choosing. Take a wild guess what game it is! At least we all read through the first part of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels.
And last but not least, we start gearing up for a booth and panel at LexiCON on October 7 at the Lexington Park Library in Lexington Park, Maryland. We’ll be joining the awesome folks over at the Same Team Y’all podcast to answer all your podcasty questions. It’s still a few weeks away, but if you’re planning to stop by give Stevo and Elliot a shout and send Josh hate mail for not being there.
Topics Discussed:

* Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
* Destiny 2
* Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
* Wolfenstein: The New Order
* LexiCON 2017
* Backlog Roulette

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]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:07:33 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/09/05/rather-be-playing-9-the-pax-album/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-9-the-pax-album Tue, 05 Sep 2017 07:00:31 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?post_type=podcast&p=956 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/09/05/rather-be-playing-9-the-pax-album/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/09/05/rather-be-playing-9-the-pax-album/feed/ 0 <p>We went to PAX West in Seattle and crushed it! What a surreal time! Still buzzing from the excitement after our last day of activities, we went immediately home, opened many beers, and recorded a fresh podcast. This was Rather Be Playing’s very first episode recorded with all three hosts in the same room and… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/09/05/rather-be-playing-9-the-pax-album/">Rather Be Playing 9: The PAX Album</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> We went to PAX West in Seattle and crushed it! What a surreal time! Still buzzing from the excitement after our last day of activities, we went immediately home, opened many beers, and recorded a fresh podcast. We had passes for Saturday and Sunday and made the absolute most of it, sharing the most interesting bits on our Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, so check those out if you haven’t yet. There was so much new information to take in and process in such a condensed window of time, but we do our best to distill the biggest takeaways and impressions in this episode. The first thing we did was the Inside Gearbox panel, and from there moved straight into the Streaming 101 panel. We had a few thoughts on those, mostly Josh of course. And after that we made our first foray onto the show floor and did everything we could to take in everything we saw. We then split off to check out the Indie Megabooth before sitting in on a Vice Waypoint panel at the end of Day 1.
Day 2 started off with grand plans of hitting several more panels, but the only one we did was the Witcher 10 Year Anniversary show, and it was spectacular. From then on, it was games, games, games. We spent most of the rest of Day 2 seeing what new indies were cropping up in the near future and, of course, collecting swag and pics of some truly incredible cosplay.
Other than that, Josh played the FFXV multiplayer mode… by himself, Elliot beat Stevo and another guy 2-on-1 in Rocket League for Switch, and Stevo got very sad about Super Meat Boy Forever.
Topics Discussed:

* PAX West 2017
* Rocket League (Nintendo Switch)
* Divinity: Original Sin II
* Super Meat Boy Forever
* Final Fantasy XV Multiplayer
* The Witcher Series
* PAX Indie Megabooth
* Gearbox vs CD Projekt Red
* Diversity in the Industry
* Conventions Today vs Ten Years Ago
* Cosplay

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]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:43:24 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/08/22/rather-be-playing-8-swear-jar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-8-swear-jar Tue, 22 Aug 2017 06:00:57 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?post_type=podcast&p=757 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/08/22/rather-be-playing-8-swear-jar/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/08/22/rather-be-playing-8-swear-jar/feed/ 0 <p>We are getting ready for PAX! Next week Rather Be Playing will be recording from beautiful Seattle, Washington, as we attend our first convention as a world-famous podcast. So this week we need to get official RBP t-shirts, funded by our wonderful swear jar, and maybe pack some clothes. In the meantime, we have been… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/08/22/rather-be-playing-8-swear-jar/">Rather Be Playing 8: Swear Jar</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> We are getting ready for PAX! Next week Rather Be Playing will be recording from beautiful Seattle, Washington, as we attend our first convention as a world-famous podcast. So this week we need to get official RBP t-shirts, Anyway, back to PUBG! Below is the clip of the match we start talking about at around the 4-minute mark. It wasn’t our best day, but it very much encapsulates the spirit of Rather Be Playing: frantic chaos.  We’ll be posting more streams and clips to that channel, and you can check out our live streams at twitch.tv/ratherbeplaying.
Other than that, we’ll see you at PAX!

Topics Discussed:

* PAX West 2017!
* PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
* The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
* Persona 4

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]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 57:00 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/08/08/rather-be-playing-7-poor-lonely-dead-elliot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-7-poor-lonely-dead-elliot Tue, 08 Aug 2017 13:14:12 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?post_type=podcast&p=628 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/08/08/rather-be-playing-7-poor-lonely-dead-elliot/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/08/08/rather-be-playing-7-poor-lonely-dead-elliot/feed/ 0 <p>It’s multiplayer madness this week with a little-known title called PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Let us know if you’ve heard of it. In it, Elliot dies quickly and without hesitation while Josh and Stevo actually try to get things done. It’s a great way to keep the impending Super NES Classic preorder day of doom off our… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/08/08/rather-be-playing-7-poor-lonely-dead-elliot/">Rather Be Playing 7: Poor Lonely Dead Elliot</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> It’s multiplayer madness this week with a little-known title called PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Let us know if you’ve heard of it. In it, Elliot dies quickly and without hesitation while Josh and Stevo actually try to get things done. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Let us know if you’ve heard of it. In it, Elliot dies quickly and without hesitation while Josh and Stevo actually try to get things done. It’s a great way to keep the impending Super NES Classic preorder day of doom off our minds. In the meantime, Splatoon 2 has arrived!  Not to mention the Mario Kart 8 we still haven’t played together yet.  When will we find time for our poor backlogs and roulette games with all this time spent socializing… with people?  The end is nigh.
But we did make some progress in our own time between spamming F5 on eight different store pages for the SNES. We are too excited about this little thing and talk a bit about why, but where are Chrono Trigger and Donkey Kong Country 2? In the meantime, Josh is tying up FFXII, there was a splash of Wolfenstein, and Elliot played The Evil Within totally unprovoked and of his own free will. And he liked it!  But no one has finished any of their roulette games yet, so our priorities are clear and have little to do with what we should be playing. So what did we get done? Well tune on in and find out.
Topics Discussed:

* Super NES Classic
* PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
* Wolfenstein: The New Order
* Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
* The Evil Within
* Splatoon 2

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]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:07:23 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/07/25/rather-be-playing-6-self-inflicted-wounds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-6-self-inflicted-wounds Tue, 25 Jul 2017 06:38:25 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?post_type=podcast&p=615 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/07/25/rather-be-playing-6-self-inflicted-wounds/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/07/25/rather-be-playing-6-self-inflicted-wounds/feed/ 0 <p>We’re back to our regularly scheduled timezones! Everyone’s home from their epic journeys, and we all dust off our controllers after many weeks away. Actually, only Josh hasn’t touched a game in that long because this week he’s the only one of us not to finish his roulette game. WTF man?! The only thing Josh… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/07/25/rather-be-playing-6-self-inflicted-wounds/">Rather Be Playing 6: Self-Inflicted Wounds</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> We’re back to our regularly scheduled timezones! Everyone’s home from their epic journeys, and we all dust off our controllers after many weeks away. Actually, only Josh hasn’t touched a game in that long because this week he’s the only one of us not t... So what kept him from actually finishing any games? Assassin’s Creed, of course, which went as well as could be expected. We also go over the emotional rollercoaster To The Moon and the wonderfully-narrated Bastion, both of which were actually finished by the far more dedicated Elliot and Stevo. What great guys. But that’s not all!  We also played the Splatoon 2 Splatfest, as I mentioned. And naturally, what would an episode of Rather Be Playing be without a little Breath of the Wild? Since Josh only just got his Switch, we may be talking about this one for a while to come. And to top it all off, it’s time for another Backlog Roulette!  Tune in and see what games we got stuck with this week. Can’t be any worse than Assassin’s Creed has been for Josh, can it?
Topics Discussed:

* To The Moon
* Bastion
* Assassin’s Creed
* Splatoon 2
* Backlog Roulette

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]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:21:49 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/07/11/rather-be-playing-5-what-we-would-rather-be-playing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-5-what-we-would-rather-be-playing Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:03:57 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?post_type=podcast&p=589 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/07/11/rather-be-playing-5-what-we-would-rather-be-playing/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/07/11/rather-be-playing-5-what-we-would-rather-be-playing/feed/ 0 <p>We’re coming at you from the past this week (not unlike Final Fantasy XII’s recent remaster release)! This episode was recorded and banked a month ago to cover us while we went on our various excursions around the world last week. So we tweaked the format a little to keep us from sounding like idiots… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/07/11/rather-be-playing-5-what-we-would-rather-be-playing/">Rather Be Playing 5: What We Would Rather Be Playing</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> We’re coming at you from the past this week (not unlike Final Fantasy XII’s recent remaster release)! This episode was recorded and banked a month ago to cover us while we went on our various excursions around the world last week. This week we talk about the games we’d rather be playing if we didn’t have these backlogs!  So we finally get to cover something a little more recent. Final Fantasy XII and Persona 5 are the general favorites, but there’s a lot more love to go around for the recent releases. We also dig a little deeper into what makes us like or dislike a game, what difficulty we prefer to play on, and why some games didn’t sit well with us even if they were critically acclaimed.  Get to know us better and more intimately in this warm fireside chat about games and yourses trulies.  Shoot us an email or add a comment to join the discussion.  Also this week, Elliot just wants to finish his games, Josh hates artificial difficulty, and Stevo is his own grandfather.
Topics Discussed:

* Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
* Persona 5
* Destiny
* Vagrant Story

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]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:07:51 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/06/27/rather-be-playing-4-big-box-of-fun/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-4-big-box-of-fun Tue, 27 Jun 2017 06:00:58 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?post_type=podcast&p=575 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/06/27/rather-be-playing-4-big-box-of-fun/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/06/27/rather-be-playing-4-big-box-of-fun/feed/ 0 <p>We all played the same game! We deconstruct Firewatch with a deep spoilery discussion. Since it’s a relatively recent game, we moved it to the last part of the episode to make spoilers easily avoidable. Not to spoiler the spoiler warning, but we all liked it! So much so that we would like to have… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/06/27/rather-be-playing-4-big-box-of-fun/">Rather Be Playing 4: Big Box of Fun</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> We all played the same game! We deconstruct Firewatch with a deep spoilery discussion. Since it’s a relatively recent game, we moved it to the last part of the episode to make spoilers easily avoidable. Not to spoiler the spoiler warning, The Steam Summer Sale is officially assaulting our poor wallets. Will our backlogs expand further before the sun sets on the sale? Or will we stay strong in the face of this great temptation? We’re probably going to spend too much and play too little, aren’t we? But the whole point of this podcast is to take care of that second part, right? So maybe we’ll be okay in the long run! Speaking of backlogs, it’s time for another roulette. Find out what games we’ll be playing and gushing/complaining about for the next couple weeks! This week we also finally finish our discussions on Doom and Chrono Trigger.  Elliot learns how to pronounce Magus, Josh goes to Pony Island, and Stevo presents his big box of fun, which is probably the only thing I won’t spoil in this description.
Topics Discussed:

* Firewatch
* Doom
* Chrono Trigger
* Backlog Roulette

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]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:28:10 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/06/20/rather-be-playing-e3-special/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-e3-special Tue, 20 Jun 2017 06:00:21 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?post_type=podcast&p=392 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/06/20/rather-be-playing-e3-special/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/06/20/rather-be-playing-e3-special/feed/ 0 <p>E3 has come and gone and left us all with tastes in our mouths.  Some bitter, some oh-so-sweet.  We had a ton of fun watching each of the conferences and reading about the games on the show floor. The future looks bright (even though our podcast is firmly rooted in the past)! Join us as… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/06/20/rather-be-playing-e3-special/">Rather Be Playing: E3 Special</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> E3 has come and gone and left us all with tastes in our mouths.  Some bitter, some oh-so-sweet.  We had a ton of fun watching each of the conferences and reading about the games on the show floor. The future looks bright (even though our podcast is fir... Since this is a special episode, we’ll be right back next week with the proper airdate of Episode 4. So that’s three episodes, three weeks in a row! Feeling spoiled? I hope so because it’s killing us! We’re only human. In the meantime, Elliot seems to have an axe to grind against Microsoft, Josh likes Devolver a little too much, and Stevo is quite the rapscallion!
Topics Discussed:

* Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017

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]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 2:15:36 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/06/13/rather-be-playing-3-dont-stop-believin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-3-dont-stop-believin Tue, 13 Jun 2017 06:00:56 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?post_type=podcast&p=385 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/06/13/rather-be-playing-3-dont-stop-believin/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/06/13/rather-be-playing-3-dont-stop-believin/feed/ 0 <p>It’s a Journey kind of show this week. E3 is happening now! But that doesn’t mean we don’t have anything to cover this week. We’re only just getting started, so sit down and strap in for The Last of Us, Chrono Trigger, Doom, and more. I should also add that some of our best jokes… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/06/13/rather-be-playing-3-dont-stop-believin/">Rather Be Playing 3: Don’t Stop Believin’</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> It’s a Journey kind of show this week. E3 is happening now! But that doesn’t mean we don’t have anything to cover this week. We’re only just getting started, so sit down and strap in for The Last of Us, Chrono Trigger, Doom, and more. Not only that, due to various travel plans we’re recording the next four episodes in rapid succession! There is just so much going on here at Rather Be Playing. It’s a lot for our precious fledgling podcast to take. But it’s a champ and it’ll fight the good fight. The good news in all this is the show won’t skip a beat while we’re away. See what we do for you? Don’t tell me that’s not love. But the bad news is it means we’ll have very limited backlog blasting. Because it’s hard to play games when you’re flying around the world. So I guess we’re going to have to find a bunch more things to talk about, aren’t we? Good thing we already did. For you, of course. So here goes nothing!  This week, Josh went to Reno, Elliot obsesses over Yasunori Mitsuda, and Stevo jetsets across Europe.
Topics Discussed:

* Chrono Trigger
* The Last of Us
* Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
* Doom

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]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:14:01 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/05/30/rather-be-playing-2-a-little-bit-of-schadenfreude/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-2-a-little-bit-of-schadenfreude Tue, 30 May 2017 06:00:39 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?post_type=podcast&p=191 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/05/30/rather-be-playing-2-a-little-bit-of-schadenfreude/#respond https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/05/30/rather-be-playing-2-a-little-bit-of-schadenfreude/feed/ 0 <p>Look at that, we made it to our second episode! They say if you can do that as a podcast, you’ll make it big. Right? Yeah, that sounds right to me. Time to celebrate with more backlog blasting! It’s been a productive two weeks hacking away at our backlogs… Or has it? This episode, Stevo’s… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/05/30/rather-be-playing-2-a-little-bit-of-schadenfreude/">Rather Be Playing 2: A Little Bit of Schadenfreude</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> Look at that, we made it to our second episode! They say if you can do that as a podcast, you’ll make it big. Right? Yeah, that sounds right to me. Time to celebrate with more backlog blasting! It’s been a productive two weeks hacking away at our backl... Also this week is the very first occurrence of a segment we’re calling Backlog Roulette. In it, the three of us each choose a game that we would rather be playing. And we also choose a game for each of the other hosts to play. It can be any game so long as it’s in the host’s backlog. That’s where it gets fun. Elliot hates horror games, so someone could choose a horror game for him and make him sweat a little during the dice roll. Oh yes, the dice. Well, it’s more of a RNG program that we roll on Slack. Whatever the RNG chooses from the three games, we play. Even if we don’t want to. Even if we’re terrified. Join us and take pleasure in our pain you sickos.
Topics Discussed:

* Super Metroid
* A Link to the Past
* Metroid Prime
* Titan Quest
* Backlog Roulette

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]]> ratherbeplaying.com full true 1:16:32 contact@ratherbeplaying.com (Rather Be Playing)video,games,games,funny,gaming,backlog,retro https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/05/16/rather-be-playing-1-deep-in-the-lore/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rather-be-playing-1-deep-in-the-lore Tue, 16 May 2017 06:03:29 +0000 http://ratherbecast.com/?post_type=podcast&p=148 https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/05/16/rather-be-playing-1-deep-in-the-lore/#comments https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/05/16/rather-be-playing-1-deep-in-the-lore/feed/ 1 <p>The first episode of Rather Be Playing, our new gaming podcast, is up and ready for downloading, streaming, and telepathic beaming!  Let us know what you think, but be gentle!  Stevo is very, very sensitive. Feel free to leave a comment or shoot us an email here.  Also check out our iTunes page for more episodes, and our YouTube channel… </p> <p>The post <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com/2017/05/16/rather-be-playing-1-deep-in-the-lore/">Rather Be Playing 1: Deep in the Lore</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ratherbeplaying.com">Rather Be Playing</a>.</p> The first episode of Rather Be Playing, our new gaming podcast, is up and ready for downloading, streaming, and telepathic beaming!  Let us know what you think, but be gentle!  Stevo is very, very sensitive. here.  Also check out our iTunes page for more episodes, and our YouTube channel for videos, Twitch streams, and also episodes. Last but not least, we’re on Twitter! Follow the official feed with @rbpcast, or follow whichever one of the hosts is your own personal dreamboat: @rbpjosh, @rbpelliot, and @rbpstevo. Just kidding, we would never make you choose.
This week we introduce our lovely selves, and our history with games. This is a gaming podcast, after all. What else would you expect? Much of Josh’s and Elliot’s history is Stevo’s today and he makes the case for that as he plays through the SNES classic, Super Metroid. Can you believe Stevo has never played it? Expect to hear that question a lot in this series. Josh has some words to say about The Order, and, apparently finding himself with not enough to play, also made it through the old PS2 game, Ape Escape 2. So look out for his hot takes on those numbers. Take a shot every time he sighs dejectedly. We round out the gaming discussion with some back-and-forth on 2013’s Tomb Raider, the only game all three of us have played and can actually talk about semi-intelligently.
Also Josh likes pain and beer, Elliot struggles with the definition of ‘lore,’ and Stevo is subconsciously conflicted about the pronunciation of NES.
Topics Discussed:

* Super Metroid
* The Order: 1886
* Tomb Raider
* Ape Escape 2

And a surprise visit from Square’s Unlimited SaGa for some reason.
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