Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast

Welcome to Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast! Playing Favorites is a podcast about making your friends finally play your favorite games. Each month, we will discuss one of the panelist's—or a listener's—favorite games with a focus on thoughtful and insightful criticism.  In this episode, we discuss Nick's first pick for the podcast: Wizardry 8, the 2001computer role-playing game and dungeon crawler from Sir-Tech Canada. How does it hold up after all these years? How many times did Ashton re-roll his party? Who has the best player character names? Listen and find out. And, hot off the presses, check out our new blog over at https://playingfavorites.gg. You can also follow us on Twitter @playmyfave or individually on Twitch: Ashman1986, punchkid, and Nostalgick1. Finally, we have a Discord! Join the conversation here: https://discord.gg/dUSuUMVkFA Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast is produced by Nick Burnham, Cole Delgado, Ashton Herrmann, and Eric Saupe. This episode was edited by Ashton Herrmann. Intro song: Highway 1 - Retro Gaming Version [Royalty Free] -Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic Music used from Wizardy 8's OST by Kevin Manthei "Arnika Theme" "Camping Theme" "Main Menu Theme" "Camping Theme 3" Wizardry 8 is available for purchase on Steam and GOG.  

Welcome to Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast! Playing Favorites is a podcast about making your friends finally play your favorite games. Each month, we will discuss one of the panelist's—or a listener's—favorite games with a focus on thoughtful and insightful criticism.  In this episode, we discuss Eric's first pick for the podcast, Super Mario RPG!! It's a classic SNES JRPG from 1996 that holds up surprisingly-well in some ways and proves lacking in others. Get in here for the fun mechanics; stay for the Yoko Shimomura music! Follow us on Twitter @playmyfave or individually on Twitch: Ashman1986, punchkid, and Nostalgick1 Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast is produced by Nick Burnham, Cole Delgado, Ashton Herrmann, and Eric Saupe. This episode was edited by Nick Burnham. Intro song: Highway 1 - Retro Gaming Version [Royalty Free] -Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic Music used from Super Mario RPG Original Soundtrack, composed by Yoko Shimomura: https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/super-mario-rpg-original-soundtrack "You and Toadofski Create Exquisite Music" "In the Flower Garden" "Fight Against Monsters" "Fight Against a Somewhat Stronger Monster" "Grandpa and the Delightful Tadpoles" "Beware the Forests's Mushrooms" "Long Long Ago..." "The Starlight's Flower Shines on Star Hill" "Fight Against Crystaller" "The Axem Rangers Drop In" "Goodbye Geno... ~ Seeking Dreams Through the Window of the Stars"   -Wahoo!

Welcome to Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast! Playing Favorites is a podcast about making your friends finally play your favorite games. Each month, we will discuss one of the panelist's—or a listener's—favorite games with a focus on thoughtful and insightful criticism.  In this episode, we continue our discussion around The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the kingdom, diving into the game's surprising new gameplay mechanics. Follow us on Twitter @playmyfave or individually on Twitch: Ashman1986, punchkid, and Nostalgick1 Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast is produced by Nick Burnham, Cole Delgado, Ashton Herrmann, and Eric Saupe. This episode was edited by Ashton Herrmann. Intro song: Highway 1 - Retro Gaming Version [Royalty Free] Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic Music used from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: "My Home". Composers: Hajime Wakai Manaka Kataoka Maasa Miyoshi Masato Ohashi Tsukasa Usui

Welcome to Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast! Playing Favorites is a podcast about making your friends finally play your favorite games. Each month, we will discuss one of the panelist's—or a listener's—favorite games with a focus on thoughtful and insightful criticism.  In this episode, we play the 2023 game that we just had to cover--The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. An early contender for game of the year in a year that's stacked the brim with hits, TOTK surprised everyone when it launched this May and answered the question we were all asking: how does Nintendo possibly follow up from Breath of the Wild. We discuss the merits of GOTY conversations as well as the narrative and world building elements of the game with our deep dive into gameplay mechanics coming in Part 2 of this special Zelda series.  Follow us on Twitter @playmyfave or individually on Twitch: Ashman1986, punchkid, and Nostalgick1 Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast is produced by Nick Burnham, Cole Delgado, Ashton Herrmann, and Eric Saupe. This episode was edited by Ashton Herrmann. Intro song: Highway 1 - Retro Gaming Version [Royalty Free] Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic Music used from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: "Main Theme". Composers: Hajime Wakai Manaka Kataoka Maasa Miyoshi Masato Ohashi Tsukasa Usui

Welcome to Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast! Playing Favorites is a podcast about making your friends finally play your favorite games. Each month, we will discuss one of the panelist's—or a listener's—favorite games with a focus on thoughtful and insightful criticism. Here's an early one to make up for last month! In this episode, we cover one of Cole's modern favorite games, Lost Judgment! High school bullies, arcade-style mini-games, and flashy kung fu moves abound in this police-procedural-turned-pseudo-open-world-mystery smorgasbord. Join us as we talk through the opening chapters of private detective Takayuki Yagami's second adventure in the Judgment series, where investigating a grisly murder, gang violence, and a train groping are just the tip of the iceberg for this sly senpai sleuth. Niche, flawed, and yet essential, the game proves to be much greater than the sum of its parts and surprisingly engaging. If you've never played a Yakuza game, definitely check this one out! Next time, we'll catch up with Eric's first pick, the esteemed SNES classic by Square, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. We're also still taking listener suggestions for our fifth game, so be sure to send your submissions to playmyfave@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @playmyfave or individually on Twitch: Ashman1986, punchkid, and Nostalgick1 Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast is produced by Nick Burnham, Cole Delgado, Ashton Herrmann, and Eric Saupe. This episode was edited by Nick Burnham. Intro song: Highway 1 - Retro Gaming Version [Royalty Free] Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic Music used from Lost Judgment (Sega Sound Team): "Lost in the Rain", "Finally Said It", "Green Vibes", "Tracer", "In the Groove", "The Love of the Road". 

Welcome to Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast! Playing Favorites is a podcast about making your friends finally play your favorite games. Each month, we will discuss one of the panelist's—or a listener's—favorite games with a focus on thoughtful and insightful criticism. In this second episode, the panelists discuss Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness, Ashton's favorite Quest for Glory (and one of his favorite games of all time). The fourth entry in the Sierra classic point-and-click adventure-RPG hybrid series, Shadows of Darkness is set in Mordavia, a kingdom heavily influenced by Eastern Europe and infested with vampires, werewolves, and Lovecraftian horrors.  Does the game hold up to modern sensibilities? Is it the underrated classic Ashton's always believed it to be? Does it ever run out of puns? Listen and find out. Episode 3 will be our deep dive into Cole's pick: Lost Judgment. Our fifth game will be a favorite game as submitted by our listeners. If you would like to hear us discuss one of your favorites, send an email to playmyfave@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @playmyfave or individually on Twitch: Ashman1986, punchkid, and Nostalgick1 Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast is produced by Nick Burnham, Cole Delgado, Ashton Herrmann, and Eric Saupe. This episode was edited by Ashton Herrmann.  Intro Song : Highway 1 - Retro Gaming Version [Royalty Free] Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic Outro Song: Tanya and Toby - Soundtrack Version (Real Instruments) Aubrey Hodges

Welcome to Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast! Playing Favorites is a podcast about making your friends finally play your favorite games. Each month, we will discuss one of the panelist's—or a listener's—favorite games with a focus on thoughtful and insightful criticism. In this first episode, Ashton, Cole, Eric, and Nick introduces themselves as well as their first four games we will be playing and discussing: Ashton's Favorite: Quest for Glory IV (PC) Cole's Favorite: Lost Judgment (PC, PS, Xbox) Eric's Favorite: Super Mario RPG (SNES) Nick's Favorite: Wizardry 8 (PC) Our fifth game will be a favorite game as submitted by our listeners. If you would like to hear us discuss one of your favorites, send an email to playmyfave@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @playmyfave or individually on Twitch: Ashman1986, punchkid, and Nostalgick1 Playing Favorites: A Videogame Podcast is produced by Nick Burnham, Cole Delgado, Ashton Herrmann, and Eric Saupe. This episode was edited by Ashton Herrmann.  Song : Highway 1 - Retro Gaming Version [Royalty Free] Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic