In which we got lost in Gaming News (in a good way) and then resurface to discuss a WWII table top war game and a dated eastern developer MMORPG. We also get an email from Greg about Might and Magic 3 and his experiences with that game when he was younger.
Games discussed this Episode:
Little Samson for NES
Bolt Action for table top play
Vindictus for PC
World of Tanks for PC
Might and Magic 3 for PC/DOS
Portal 1 and 2 for PC
Cypher for PC
Hexcells for PC
Terraria for PC
Starbound for PC
Stellaris for PC
Octopath Traveller for Switch
Hollow Knight for everything
Dragon’s Crown Pro for PS4
Items discussed in What we Learned this Month:
Nintendo decides to go after ROM sites: https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/15/17693556/emuparadise-roms-shut-down-threat-nintendo
Chris Kohler’s Defense of ROMs and the problems of Copy Right Laws in 2018: https://kotaku.com/in-defense-of-roms-a-solution-to-dying-games-and-broke-1828340811
How video games‘ positive impact research is being cooled because the findings aren’t what those paying for it want: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xb89b/two-researchers-challenged-a-scientific-study-about-violent-video-gamesand-took-a-hit-for-being-right
Jason Shreier’s article on Filip Miucin and Plagiarism: https://kotaku.com/ign-pulls-ex-editors-posts-after-dozens-more-plagiarism-1828357792
What we Learned from You Discussion:
We get an email from Greg about Might and Magic 3.
Shoutouts:
Thanks to Greg for the email!
Thanks to Fred Rojas at Gaming History 101: https://gaminghistory101.com/
Thanks to Joe Gottli for doing our art!
Thanks to Dmitry for doing our intro/outro music!
Episode 032 What We Learned from Brave Frontier and Diablo 3
Episode 031 What We Learned from Diakatana and Infinity the Game (N3)
Episode 030 What We Learned From World of Warcraft
Episode 029 What We Learned From Super Mario World, Civilization and 3rd Party Plug-ins for WordPress
Episode 027 What We Learned From Morrowind and Final Fantasy VI
Episode 026 What We Learned From Syndicate, Death Rally and being Robots
Episode 025 What We Learned From Magic: The Gathering
Episode 024 What We Learned From Watching Others Play and Shouting into Headsets
Episode 023 What We Learned from Playing Games in Hospitals and how Rogue-likes have Legacy
Episode 022 What We Learned From Dead (Star) Servers and Scorched Earth
Episode 021 What We Learned From Maniacs, Mansions and Monster Hunting
Episode 020 What We Learned From Terraria
Episode 019 What We Learned From Heroes 3, Stack Armies, CCG Mechanics and Server Based Games
Episode 018 What We Learned from Farming Sims, Starcraft and the Dark Places of the World
Episode 017 What We Learned from an Age of Wonders and the Fallout that Follows
Episode 016 What We Learned From Rock'n'Roll, Racing, Red Herbs and Typewriter Ribbons
Episode 015 What We Learned From Warmachine and Hordes
Episode 014 What we Learned from Playing Co-Op Puzzlers!
Episode 013 What We Learned From Being Young on the Internet
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