Bad Playstyle: A video game book club

Ep 29 - Pyre "a reasonable unfounded assumption”

Episode Summary

the boys played pyre in sometimes very different ways. this is a weird game, check it out!

Episode Notes

• It is warm and friendly in this room
• We played pyre!
• A workout week is 6 days and occasionally lines up with a regular week
• ENUNCIATE THY NAMES
• Owen plays no mans sky. Games pretty good sounds like!
• Wildstar has telegraphs.
• Matt played local coop games at school with middle school kids
• This kid was kicking my ass at pyre. Children are so fast.
• Fortnite is banned, it is the new f word
• Keynan “played” eve
• PYRE. wizards NBA jam with a visual novel frostinged on top
• Owen played on hard!?! Owen never plays on hard.
• Matt has a tight running game
• Keynan plays defense to counter punch
• Owen played to lose on purpose to see the systems stretch
• Failure is very infrequently rewarded and you almost never ultimately fail. Owen chose to explore this
• Rukeys mustache: owen kept it, keynan shaved it but felt bad and matt made fun of it until it was gone
• Vagabond girl: matts was shae, keynans was kae and owens was xae.
• Bae is surely not the correct answer
• Reading is illegal. Go to jail now please.
• Sandalwood is a cool dude who gave me my freedom from the downside.
• Oralech can go suck a fart out of his moms ass. He is throwing a years long tantrum.
• Chapstick said that oralech can be slightly less of a dick for a moment if you lose the last match.
• The revolution goes differently based on how you do in the game!
• Bloodless coup!
• Bertrude is bae
• The game did a good job of making me care about the characters.
• Inhuman reflexes and a narrow conceit that there are no game overs
• Matt forgets that its pronounced JO DAR EE ELL not JELL ADD RE ELL
• Literal darren korb lyrics summarizing the plot
• Little cart trundling along
• The voice acting was charming
• The visual novel dragged after a while
• Supergiant makes very focused worlds, very fairy tale
• Your own personal hell/apocalypse
• Supergiant likes tragedy
• Almost every character has some form of unrequited love (good ass point owen)
• (NBA) jam with the gods
• The judge is a super cool character that constantly lets you know the state of the game with his emotional state
• Shameboy likes the word “jam” methinks
• Not real game awards
• 0 todd howards
• It is hard to be an indie game and get todd “map first” howards
• 1 brandon cheungs
• Made up language and unique style
• 3 nina freemans
• It made me feel personal things about the characters
• 0 simon viklunds
• 3 je sawyers
• The world building is compelling
• 0 jeff bezos
• Wrong kind of post apoc nightmare world.
• Shameboy is mad about the annoying ass falcon ron
• 0 tarn adams
• “Bespoke”
• 2 jake solomons
• WRESTLE
• Shania twain kevin owens
• Money in the bank is the best thing in the whole of the wrestling anime fandom
• Shameboy is excited about sam fisher
• Shameboy earned another chicken hat and pulled my tuckus out of the fire.
• Kentucky route zero is next times game
• Magical reals is best reals
• No one likes appalachia keynan
• Underground highway system
• Sam fisher versus:
• Sam has no glory or presence FOR HIS JOB
• Does he keep his gun?
• Sam fisher is not lebron james.
• Would lebron james be good at pyre?
• Jodariel would fucking crater sam fisher.