Video Game Logic Podcast

VGL Podcast Ep 319b: A purposful Franken Monster

Rage and I knew around the Holiday's this year we'd be busy and unavailable. So we Pre-Recorded some Franken Content that was story time themed. This week you get to hear about an issue in my weird Commune house, and we dunked on Starfield a little because that was still more fresh in our minds when we prepped this. We hope you enjoy it, and have a lovely Holiday Season!

VGL Podcast Ep 319: Bratty Bethesda

This week we once again dunk on starfield a bit, talk about some recent games we've played, and talk about a few disasters in the industry.

1. Games We Played
2. Epic Games Defeats Google in Jury Trial Over App Store Monopoly Case
3. Bethesda is an entitled little Brat
4. Community Corner
   1. Doom’s 30th Anniversary Pics Collection
   2. The Day Before Falls apart only a few Days After Launch

 

Games We Played

 

Rage:

Headbangers: Rhythm Royale

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1761620/Headbangers_Rhythm_Royale/

 

F-ZERO™ 99

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/f-zero-99-switch/

Jared:

Tales of Vesperia

https://store.steampowered.com/app/738540/Tales_of_Vesperia_Definitive_Edition/

 

The Last Remnant

https://store.steampowered.com/app/23310/The_Last_Remnant/

 

News Items and sources:

Epic Games Defeats Google in Jury Trial Over App Store Monopoly Case

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/epic-games-defeats-google-in-jury-trial-over-app-store-monopoly-case

Bethesda tries its hand at paid mods in Skyrim Special Edition once again

https://www.eurogamer.net/bethesda-tries-its-hand-at-paid-mods-in-skyrim-special-edition-once-again

Skyrim Together Team Gives Up on Starfield

https://www.gamesradar.com/dev-behind-massive-skyrim-multiplayer-mod-turns-their-hands-to-starfield-gives-up-because-this-game-is-fing-trash-uploads-everything-for-someone-else-to-finish/

Doom’s 30th Anniversary Pics Collection

https://twitter.com/Lord_Arse/status/1733921349356146787?t=Z658HAwCoiZWaQAIFixXWQ&s=19

The Day Before Falls apart only a few Days After

https://www.githyp.com/the-day-before-has-already-lost-80-of-its-players-in-the-first-3-days-on-steam/

https://twistedvoxel.com/the-day-before-sales-50-refunds/

The Day Before dev seems to be deleting evidence it was ever an MMO

https://www.pcgamesn.com/the-day-before/mmo-steam-tags

Franken Episode: Corporate Incompetance

This week Jared's kid had a school event so we couldn't record an episode. Enjoy some franken content that's relatively recent rather than from several months ago. We intend to record again next week, with the only upcoming planned week off being the week of Christmas. 

VGL Podcast Ep 318: November Gameclub NFS Unbound

This week Rage and Shrink go Vroom in the latest entry to a series that is nearly as old as they are. Its also nearly as cringy too. We also dunk on Starfield some more, and talk badly about currency exchange. 

Do you have feedback for the show, have a response for something we said, or something we should know about? Drop us an e-mail at VGLPodcast@gmail.com stop by our Discord, or tweet us @VGLPodcast.

Finally, if you wish to throw us some cash to help improve the show, and for various show related projects, you can do so by supporting our Patreon campaign.

Show Highlights and Timestamps:

1. November Gameclub: Need For Speed Unbound 4:01
2. Next Gameclub: Wartales 30:11
3. Steam's USD currency change for Argentina and Turkey results in game price hikes.32:50
4. Bethesda is now tailoring replies to negative Starfield Steam reviews 45:52
5. Community Corner
   1. Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games 57:55

 

 

News Items and sources:

 

Steam's USD currency change for Argentina and Turkey results in game price hikes

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/steams-usd-currency-change-for-argentina-and-turkey-results-in-game-price-hikes

https://www.pcgamer.com/today-is-the-end-of-steam-argentina-and-turkey-floored-by-new-steam-price-hikes-as-high-as-2900/

 

Bethesda is now tailoring replies to negative Starfield Steam reviews

https://www.pcgamesn.com/starfield/replies-negative-steam-reviews

 

Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games

https://www.techspot.com/news/100953-gamers-enraged-ubisoft-injecting-ads-middle-video-games.html

 

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/94587/ubisoft-calls-full-screen-pop-up-ads-while-playing-assassins-creed-technical-error/index.html

Franken Episode: Turkey Week Tangent

We've got a mishmash of several (mostly) shorter Franken Segments in order to clean up some of the old Episodes hanging in the backlog folder. We hope you had a lovely thanksgiving if you celebrate, and a generally positive week either way. We'll be back next week for the November Gameclub Episode, and look forward to seeing you then!

Franken Episode: Add it in, Take it Out

This week I (Jared) had a planned internet service outage on the only night we could record. So you get a mish mash of an older episode's franken content mixed in with the one from last week since it was still sitting in my editing folder. Enjoy!

VGL Podcast Ep 317: Starfield (October Gameclub)

On today's show we finally get back to it for our October Gameclub. We discuss a couple of news topics and generally had a good time together. We hope you enjoy it too!

 

Topics list:

For Show Date: 11/07/2023 

 

1. October Gameclub 2:39
2. Next Gameclub: Need for Speed Unbound 1:05:02
3. Escapist Mass Resignations 1:08:26
4. Nintendo Announces Live Action Legend of Zelda Movie 1:19:26

Escapist Mass Resignations

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/11/07/zero-punctuation-ends-as-the-escapist-faces-mass-resignations-after-eic-firing/?sh=23736410a349

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-escapist-staff-resign-following-termination-of-editor-in-chief-nick-calandra

https://futurism.com/the-byte/gaming-sites-writers-ai-editor

Nintendo Announces Live Action Legend of Zelda Movie

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/nintendo-announces-live-action-legend-of-zelda-movie-distributed-and-co-financed-by

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-announces-live-action-zelda-movie

Franken Episode: Jesus Isn’t OK With That

Good day again internet friends! We truly were set to record this week and I (Jared) was delivered extremely bad news about someone close to me and it just put me out of it. To that end, here we are with another load of franken stuff. We hope you all had a lovely Halloween, and will see you again very soon. Surely lightning can't strike twice right?......

Franken Episode: We Passed It Around

Greetings listeners! We know there have been many franken episodes lately, but we have all this backlogged content for this reason. We still haven't settled on a regular new schedule yet, but are working on it. Next week is the October Gameclub Episode for Starfield, and we have already committed to recording that come hell or high water, and Rage has informed me he is fairly used to his job now. So, fingers crossed we won't be using as many Franken Shows moving forward. Thank you all for sticking with us through the adjustment period, and enjoy some farther backlog!

Franken Episode: What if you win the lottery?

Greetings folks! We had another week where we needed to run Franken as both our changing schedules and need to rest kept us from recording a fresh episode. So enjoy some content from the franken archives that reaches back to February and March of this year.