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Barrel Roll! #144 – “Abraham Lincoln: Master Assassin”
On this, the one-hundred and forty-fourth entry in the annals of podcast history, we travel back to do the days of Templars and Assassins fighting over their various creeds. And who can rise up and rule them all? Only one man is brave enough. Only one man is cunning enough. Only one man has top hat enough to accomplish his goals.
This week, Jonah, Jesse, and Adam come together to discuss their likes and dislikes of Super Mario 3D Land, and even spend some time in Bowser’s Zen Garden. Adam goes back to one of his favorite series of this generation with Assassin’s Creed Revelations and gives us the breakdown of the changes from the last game. Jonah, living in the past once again, has been playing a bunch of Ticket to Ride. That’s a German board game from 2004, which shows you how hip that guy is. Jesse tries desperately to bring us back into the future with his initial impressions of Mario Kart 7 and the Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony DLC.
We are joined once again by our “Let’s Play Together” segment, where both Jesse and Jonah have thrown their hats into the modern warfare combat simulator, Battlefield 3. It’s unique take on the military shooter genre has sucked them in even more so than the last entry in the genre they cared about, Rainbow Six Vegas 2.
There is also a hearty discussion of the Vita and its memory card pricing reveal and the upcoming North American release of Xenoblade Chronicles. All of that plus a lot more on Barrel Roll #144, “Abraham Lincoln: Master Assassin”.
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Middle Song – “Two Excellent Italian Siblings (Super Mario 2)” by Armcannon
Barrel Roll #143 – “Spyro the Hedgehog”
Spyro is fast, and a dragon!
With the holiday weekend upon us and everyone traveling, visiting family, or otherwise incapacitated, it’s up to Jonah and Jesse to hold down the fort. But that’s OK, because they both managed to play a lot of games this week.
Jesse reviewed The King of Fighters XIII and gives us the full rundown on this edition’s updates (this time there are modes!). Jonah finished the 3DS version of Sonic Generations and compares it to its big console counterpart. Jesse is about four dungeons in to The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and gives a breakdown of the pacing, mechanics, and most importantly, the 1-to-1 bug catching.
Our Let’s Play Together segment returns for a look at Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure and how it is a surprisingly fun game despite that it wants all of your money. We also talk about the very few new releases for the week and the gaming news. There is also a good chance of Skyrim related anecdotes popping up to round out our Sky-trifecta (skyfecta?). All this and more on Barrel Roll #143, “Spyro the Hedgehog”.
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Barrel Roll! #142 – “Innerspace: The Game”
There is only one way to bring about peace in the galaxy on this week’s Barrel Roll Podcast, and that is to go inside. That’s right, this week Jonah, Adam and Jesse are injected inside Martin Short thanks to a shrink ray experiment gone horribly awry.
While all the news is taken up by Black Friday Sales talk (which we skip), there are some new releases of note that we go over. We also take a good chunk of time talking about Rockman EXE: Phantom of Network and the Mega Man Battle Network games in general. Adam has also played through the 3D Classics version of Kirby’s Adventure and gives us his thoughts on the slight update to the NES classic.
Jonah has still been sucked into the world of Skyrim, but peeked his head out long enough to bust some caps in Saints Row The Third. It turns out the secret to its success? Infinite parachutes. That sounds kind of familiar…
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Jesse completed Super Mario 3D Land‘s main worlds and moved onto the much harder bonus worlds. He also played more on Ace Combat for Babies, or Ace Combat: Assault Horizon as it is better known. There was also some Uncharted 3 punch-time explosions involved.
All this plus more on the latest episode, Barrel Roll #142, “Innerspace: The Game”.
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Barrel Roll #141 – “Draculelf”
Adam Anania returns for our one-hundred and skyrims-skytacular. Skyrim.
Sorry, I was distracted there for a second.
On our one-hundred and forty-first episode of Barrel Roll, we are joined by Adam Anania who has not been playing Skyrim, but has actually been playing Kirby’s Return to Dreamland and Star Fox 64 3D. Jesse has been playing some Otomedius Excellent, which he swears was borrowed from a friend, and we aren’t really sure if that makes it any better. Jonah and Jesse have played Sonic Generations and give their impressions on that, and Jonah has been playing some of The Old Republic beta (don’t worry, he only talks about stuff that is already public knowledge) and, you might have guessed, Skyrim. He seems to be enjoying it.
We also cover the new games dropping this week and the news, all on this, a very beefy and Draculelf filled episode of the show.
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Barrel Roll! #140 – “Smooth Jams”
On a very smooth one-hundred and fortieth Barrel Roll, Jonah and Jesse are once again joined by Wesley for one fine episode. Jesse and Jonah have both entered into free time killing hobbies, what with all the remix contests and novel writing. Wes has been busy too, we assume.
In our games played section, we discuss the return of our heroes from gaming’s past with Kirby’s Return to Dreamland and Sonic Generations. Wes has sold his soul to Uncharted 3 and Jonah actually played a game this time for reals you guys. He grabbed the current Humble Bundle, The Humble Voxatron Debut. From that he has been playing the Voxatron alpha and also the disturbing but addictive The Binding of Isaac.
There might not be a ton of news this week, but the guys do get into a discussion of Resident Evil Chronicles HD having played both Umbrella Chronicles & Darkside Chronicles on the Wii. All this, plus a discussion on the new games dropping this week on Barrel Roll #140, “Smooth Jams”.
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Barrel Roll! #139 – “Which One Do I Shoot?”
It’s a triumphant return to form when Jesse, Wes, Adam and Jonah get together once again to talk about video game related topics.
Adam Milecki (aka Adam 2) has been playing an awful lot of Dark Souls and gives us the rundown. He and Jonah discuss the nitty gritty of it versus its predecessor, Demon’s Souls, at least to the extent that someone (Jonah) can, having tried to play it while watching a nine-month-old. As it turns out, that is not as much as he would like. Not having had much time to play anything, Jonah did at least get to start a Titan’s Quest campaign with some friends, and managed to rustle up a four person team of gladiatorial badassery. Which translates to clicking on things.
Jesse started, and completed, Batman: Arkham City between this and the last show. He goes in-depth as to how it managed to become even better than Arkham Asylum without giving away any spoilers, so calm down nerds. Speaking of spoilers, Wes finally played through Bioshock, and that we do go into spoilers on. Why? Because it came out in 2007 and you should have all played it by now.
All this plus news and new games coming out this week on Barrel Roll #139, “Which One Do I Shoot?”
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I Am Error #1 – “When Music & Games First Met”
Shortly over a month ago, the general public was able to feast their eyes on the first edition of my monthly column, “I Am Error.” Those that perused said column knew to expect an accompanying podcast from members of the WingDamage crew approximately one month in the future. Well my friends, we totally delivered.
In this, the first WingDamage-hosted edition of I Am Error, Jonah, Dan and I discuss three instances of not-so-good retro games featuring real-life musicians – Journey The Arcade Game, The Thompson Twins Adventure and Revolution X. We also talk a bit about how real celebrities & musicians are used in modern games.
If you have any thoughts regarding the games we discussed, ideas for future themes, or just random junk you’d like to send us, email us via podcast@wingdamage.com. We’ll also accept any feedback on the theme for next month’s column & podcast, which we announce at the end of the show. Now, download and enjoy!
Barrel Roll #138 – “Jonah’s Ironic Rugby Challenge”
This week on the Barrel Roll Show, Wes joins Jonah and Jesse for some Uncharted 3 multiplayer chat. Jonah and Wes also talk about Diablo 2 and how it holds up.
But before that we get into that, we discuss the games we’ve been playing over the last week. Jesse gave Ace Combat: Assault Horizon a shot to find it a bit of a mixed bag. He also played through Aliens Infestation which it turns out is a pretty good video game.
Wes has once again been sucked into Borderlands and the Zombie Island of Dr. Ned DLC. Perusing the games on his Steam list that he’s never gotten around to trying also prompted him to boot up Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich.
Meanwhile Jonah is flabbergasted by how much fun he has been having with Scribblenauts Remix, even after finishing the game’s 50 levels.
All this plus the new releases for the week and the gaming news on Barrel Roll #138, “Jonah’s Ironic Rugby Challenge”.
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Barrel Roll! #137 – “Now With Bears”
A regular Barrel Roll podcast is no longer enough. But what could we possibly do to up the ante? Bears, and lots of them!
This week, Adam Anania is back again, with more tales of magic and wonder. It appears that his 3DS has become self-healing. Can world domination be far behind?
In our “Games Played Over the Course of the Week” segment, Jonah and Wes played through the Rochard demo and found a pleasant mix of 2D puzzles and gravity guns. Wes discovered that he isn’t into the “constantly punch you in the face” genre, and returned Dark Souls quickly after renting it. He did the same with X-Men: Destiny, but for reasons of suckitude, not difficulty. After his 3DS’s miraculous return, Adam grabbed Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins. Both he and Jesse seem to agree that it holds up well. Jesse finished a playthrough of Hitogata Happa after figuring out its unique mechanics, and continued his questing in Solatorobo.
Not wanting to leave any colossi unslain, Jesse and Jonah finally finished Shadow of the Colossus. It only took them re-releasing it in HD for them to get around to it. Jonah also went back to Rock of Ages and managed to get over the weird difficulty bump on the Pestilence level.
The guys also discuss the new games of the week, and the video game news. All this plus more on Barrel Roll #137, “Now With Bears”!
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Barrel Roll! #136 – “Shadow of the HD Colossus”
On this, the one-hundred and thirty-sixth episode of the Barrel Roll podshow, Adam Anania joins us from Japan with tales of old cell phone games and magic.
It’s not all meat buns and field days though. Jonah, Jesse and Wes are also here to bring you the latest in games for the Playstation. The first one. You know, like Mega Man Legends and Die Hard Trilogy. Speaking of Mega Man, Adam gave Dr. Wily’s Revenge a whirl, and got some time in with Gargoyle’s Quest on the 3DS Virtual Console as well. Jesse brings more Xenoblade Chronicles talk and recommends checking out Michelle’s article about the game. He also talks Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, which it turns out is a baby game for babies, but still kind of fun.
For the MMO fans in the audience (insert crickets here), Jonah gave Rift a try. In a desperate bid to avoid talking more Disgaea 4, which he is still obsessed with, he also started his playthrough of Rock of Ages. Our “Let’s Play Together” segment returns once again for some controller swapping, colossi hunting adventurin’ with Jonah and Jesse’s excursion into Shadow of the Colossus HD.
In the news we discuss the rumors of Yakuza of the End leaving Japan, the possible return of PaRappa the Rapper and Nippon Ichi’s new game The Witch and the Hundred Cavalrymen. All this, plus the new games this week on Barrel Roll #136, “Shadow of the HD Colossus”.
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Videogame Jam of the Day Latest Podcast- Barrel Roll #150 - "I Can't Stop Playing James Brown" January 31, 2012Welcome to our one-hundred and fiftieth episode! This should probably be some sort of milestone, but instead we carry on and talk about video games as per usual. This week we are joined by Mike Bachmann, host of Fistful of Pixels and generally known as a decent sort of fellow. Topics include Dustforce, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Resident Evil: Revelation […]
