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Radio Active #102: Game-o-Rama
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English - May 29, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes - 35.6 MBGames Leisure Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On this episode of Nuketown Radio Active, I emerge from my winter hibernation to talk about the video games and role-playing games I’m playing (or plan on playing). I talk about the ongoing Ready Player One Replay and my plans to attend GenCon in August 2023. Nuketown News Heading to GenCon in 2023! Haven’t been ... Read more
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On this episode of Nuketown Radio Active, I emerge from my winter hibernation to talk about the video games and role-playing games I’m playing (or plan on playing). I talk about the ongoing Ready Player One Replay and my plans to attend GenCon in August 2023.
Nuketown News
Heading to GenCon in 2023!
Haven’t been there since 2014.
No idea what I’m going to play.
Ready Player One Replay continues
Recent games include:
Space Invaders
Star Raiders
The Empire Strikes Back
Yars’ Revenge
Raaka-tu
Coming soon-ish: Bedlam, Pyramid, and Madness and the Minotaur
Game-o-Rama: Video & role-playing games I’m playing
Video Games
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands on PS4 and PS5
Borderlands … but with a Dungeons & Dragons skin (sorry, Bunkers and Badasses). Tiny Tina’s the game master, and you’re one of her players. But will she ever let you leave the table?
Finished the main story; it was a happy distraction.
Cyberpunk 2077 on PS5
Started playing 0n Steam via Nvidia’s streaming desktop service, GeForce Now.
Turns out, I’m pretty bad at FPS on a desktop computer.
Picked it up cheap on PS5 … and still struggled to get into it.
Requires a significant time investment to get emotionally connected to the game, but once you do … whoa.
The Nomad storyline was great and the game gives you a lot of opportunities to make small (and maybe large?) differences in the world.
Fire Emblem: Engage on Switch
More of the same Fire Emblem, though this time around we get an “engage” mechanic which lets you merge characters with spirit warriors bound to magic rings.
On the back burner right now as I play other games. Fire Emblem’s something I need to be in the mood for; but once I’m in the mood, I’ll likely lose a lot of sleep.
Pinball FX3 on Switch
Indiana Jones Pinball
Aliens Pinball
Creature from the Black Lagoon Pinball
GoldenEye on Switch
Finally … now if only I could map my brain to the control
Breath of the Wild on Switch
I started playing and never got off the plateau. The kids just got Tears of the Kingdom, so I figured I’d pick it up again.
Role-Playing Games
My Lair of Secrets friends got into this game and pulled me in along with them. A Powered by the Apocalypse game with a ton of moves (far more than a traditional PbtA game) set in the future where you decide why your civilization fled its home galaxy.
Playable in solo, co-op, or guided mode.
Got it in part to learn about oracles. Also, the solo aspect is appealing.
Gearing up for the next season of role-playing at Lair of Secrets.
I’ll be running a 6-8 episode Cyberpunk RED campaign set in Night City.
It’s an old-school, crunchy game, but ran pretty well in our playtests.
Taking a while to get off the ground because of myriad family commitments, but we’re getting there.
And it inspired me to go back and read William Gibson’s The Sprawl trilogy.
Mork Borg … but with cyberware.
Just as over-the-top artwork as its predecessor.
Doubt I’ll ever run it, but it provides inspiration for Cyberpunk RED. Lots of great charts.
My first new D&D campaign in years.
The Temple of Elemental Evil rose … and Greyhawk fell.
20 years later, our heroes are some of the last free people on the planet … and they’re ready to take the fight to their elemental overlords.
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