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It might be hard to believe, but we found a Silent Hill game that Gary likes slightly more than Kaye. Townfall is another side game in the Silent Hill international tour, taking place on a Scottish island where something horrible has happened and our protagonist Simon must figure out how he’s involved. It’s first person, it relies on outmoded stealth elements, and has some extremely memorable imagery. And if the series continues in this direction, that would be… fine?

Second verse, nearly the same as the first! Stone of Madness’s second and notionally longer campaign, “The Gate of St. Jerome” starts out with a promise that it will be spookier and more intriguing than the prior chapter. Engravings left by an engineer gone mad talk of horrible thing beneath the abbey, but it turns out you’re doing more of the same things, and learning more of the same things you did last time.

Highlighted Project: Wow Okay Cool and their album “If This is Where it Got Us, What Good Is It?”.

Things are not going well at a secluded monastery in the Pyranees mountains of Spain. The Inquisitor and the Mother Superior treat the mentally ill people in their care like prisoners, and they’re starting to disappear one by one. It’s up to Father Alfredo and a team of misfits to use their complementary skills to investigate what’s happening and bring it to a stop. The result is a board game-like real time stealth and strategy game that runs out of tricks well before either of its campaigns finish.

This episode covers the generalities, Prologue, and the “Corrupt Hand of the Church” campaign.

Cultic is a boomer shooter unlike any that we’ve played, being equal parts Blood and Resident Evil 4. You play as the Detective, who woke up in a cult’s mass grave and must now go on a rampage to stop them. What results is one of the best games we’ve played this year.

Highlight Project: The Woods at Blight’s Hollow

As we answer your questions and read your responses about Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, The Saboteur, and Pacific Drive, we take some time and use our topic slot to reflect on the recent changes we made and give some insight into what’s going on at the network right now.

We’re doing a fundraiser to recoup some legal expenses! You can help by giving to our GoFundMe! We are also throwing a streaming party this Saturday, September 26, from 12:00pm to 8:00pm Pacific time to draw some attention to the fundraiser. Be sure to tune in at twitch.tv/duckfeedtv!

October’s Games:

• Cultic

• The Stone of Madness (two parter)

• Silent Hill: Townfall

November’s Games:

• Shining Force

• The Incident at Galley House

• 007: First Light

Do you love cars? Are you ready to be forced to love a very specific car? That’s what Pacific Drive is all about, you and your car against a bizarre zone of anomalous chaos. It’s not quite horror, and the survival mechanics aren’t everything you’d expect them to be, but this roguelike will challenge you to take care of your station wagon so it will take care of you. It’s just too bad that the story and tone are a shade too cartoony for the gravitas the developers were aiming for.

This is a premium episode! To hear the full version, back us at patreon.com/duckfeedtv.

Pandemic Studios really knew what they were doing, and it’s a real shame their style of destruction-based open world games didn’t become the norm. That’s how you’ll feel when you play the Saboteur, the studio’s swan song. You are Sean Devlin, an Irish racecar driver who joins the French Resistance during World War II to get revenge on the Nazis. You may only be aware of this game because of its black and white-to-color visual trick, but there’s so much more to recommend it.

Hey folks! This will be a longer post detailing some changes that are coming up for Duckfeed in the next few months. When we ask listeners what they like about the network, they'll often bring up our transparency. It's one of our main values, so that's why we will be providing the rationale for each announcement so you know why we're making the changes.

There will be a TL;DR at the end for those who just want to see what's changing.

Big TL;DR at the top: Nobody's prices are raising. Quite the contrary. If you're grandfathered you're still grandfathered, and you'll be getting more stuff.

If you've paid attention this summer, you've noticed that we've been doing some new stuff... like actually promoting ourselves on social media. This is the result of conversations we're having about the future of the network, what's working, what isn't, and most of all how we can grow. We've taken information we gathered in the most recent surveys and making these changes to hopefully get bigger as a network.

In order to grow, we are simplifying our Patreon, offering more, and changing what it means for shows and episodes to be premium or public. Additionally, we are removing self-imposed limitations on our most popular shows in order to plan more effectively and intentionally and ultimately make a better product.

With all of that in mind, here we go:

Splitting show offerings across multiple tiers sucks to communicate about! It's muddled. If you come to Duckfeed and want to give us money, we want it to be easy to understand what you're getting, and the most valuable thing we can offer is content.

So everyone who wants premium content will back at the Duck tier at $7 monthly, or $77 per year, and you'll get everything. This includes everything that is currently premium, even things that are currently at the Eagle tier. We want people to hear Adaptation Decay and QuakStak! You'll also get anything we cook up for Duckfeed Presents, or limited run seasonal series like Future CIA Torture Songs.

This will be in addition to a Free Tier which gets you access to our Discord community. There will be higher tiers that are strictly suggestions for people who want to support us more out of the kindness of their hearts.

We will be leaving your pledges in place as they are, just changing what is available at the available tiers. If you are currently grandfathered at the $5 tier, you will still get the extra content.

Our most popular shows, the ones featuring Gary and Kaye hosting together, will all be moving to the same premium model that Watch Out for Fireballs! is on. That is, the shows will be public but one episode per month will be premium.

Specifically, this change affects Abject Suffering, Real Lich Hours, Unfilmable, and Bonfireside Chat (when it comes back). Everything to Guppy, The Level, Adaptation Decay, and QuakStak are unchanged.

It makes the most sense to us to spread the WOFF! model across the network to make things more uniform. And it works better with the aforementioned Patreon tier changes. We understand that it will be awkward for a public listener to have those gaps, but if they like the show we want them to patronize us... and we're sick of pretending we don't want them to!

What this means for Real Lich Hours: The timeframe for Real Lich Hours episodes going (mostly) public is ASAP.

What this means for Abject Suffering: One Abject Suffering episode per month will be premium, and this will be communicated.

A Note on Bonfireside Chat and the Duskbloods: We do not know if Bonfireside Chat is coming back for the Duskbloods. The network test made it feel like more Nightreign and thus resistant to our treatment. There are changes coming to the full version that might make it more suitable. Keep an ear out.

Content that was released as premium previously will remain premium unless we opt to make it public for promotional reasons.

Unfilmable is consistently the most popular show on our Patreon that doesn't somehow relate to FromSoft. We're very proud of it, we love doing it, we want to do more of it, and we want more people to hear it.

To that end, Unfilmable will be released weekly, with one episode per month being premium. This will necessitate some changes in format. Do you remember our episode on The Substance? A looser conversation rather than a play by play? More episodes will follow that format. Going weekly also opens the door for more easy coverage of a TV show (multi-part coverage goes down easier weekly, we find).

We're also going to broaden the scope of what's covered. We've already gone from strictly horror to the Feel-Bad Rainbow, with some real genre bends (American Movie, Gremlins 2). We're going to have genre bends more often now, as a treat. Unfilmable will be the steady parade of bleakness and terror you love, but sometimes we might talk about, I dunno, Total Recall or Wayne's World or something. Think Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. We gotta talk about Large Marge somehow. Unfilmable will be a place for media talk that doesn't fit Adaptation Decay.

With this, we're retiring our "TV slot" with the end of Best Quality Vacuum. Promised coverage of Review will happen under the Unfilmable banner (We would argue it's extremely bleak TV), at a non Episode by Episode pace.

This is a hard decision! We like talking about TV, but the truth is it's not a very popular show on our network, and covering a single TV show alienates a big group of our audience who has no interest in that show. By rolling such coverage into Unfilmable, we'll be able to talk about stuff we love but not commit to an entire show that comparatively few people will listen to.

Timeframe: Unfilmable will go weekly once Best Quality Vacuum ends. However, it will become a public show earlier than that, basically as soon as possible.

Also on the Unfilmable tip, we are raising the price to $300 for a sponsorship in order to accommodate demand. This comes with a widened scope for what we'll accept as a sponsorship. Sponsoring works like The Terror is no longer untenable.

The changes we're making to Watch Out for Fireballs! are more procedural on our end, but we believe they will result in a better show. Specifically we will be changing sponsored episodes and relaxing about game length in order to do more two-parters. Our goal is to be able to plan further in advance and to do so more intentionally.

We are going to be limiting sponsorships to 3 per quarter, at $450 apiece. This change comes with increased scope for what your sponsorship money will get you. This doesn't mean we'll do everything, but we will be more open to longer games under this new schema.

We will be opening up each quarter's sponsorship sales a few months in advance, for planning purposes. That means when you are reading this, Q1 2027 sponsorships are open, and when they're sold they're sold.

We are also divorcing specific types of games from specific seasons. Having a Summer JRPG and a Winter WRPG were both comforting rhythms for us, but they would be an awkward fit for how we want to plan out a better variety of long and short games of different genres and profiles each quarter.

Premium WOFF! episodes aren't going anywhere but occasionally the month's premium will be Part 2 of longer coverage, which is something we've avoided doing in the past.

Why are we doing this? It's worth noting we're actually going to lose money by reducing the number of sponsorships we take in a year, but we're doing it anyway because we want more flexibility. Right now, we get in a bind, being booked out 6-9 months with sponsorships, and trying to fit small games around large games.

We also want to talk about more kinds of games, including, big games a lot of people have played. We love getting exposed to obscure indies through our audience, but I think in the last year or so we've lost the balance. WOFF! is our flagship program, and we want to make it the best show we can.

That's basically it! This is a lot of changes, but we've thought long and hard about them in relation to the data from the surveys you answered.

Our hope is to make the Patreon more attractive, simple, and comprehensive. We also want to take a firmer hand over our content schedule to cover a wider variety of games on our flagship show Watch Out for Fireballs!, and give you more volume and variety of media covered on Unfilmable.

The timetable for when these changes will take place is currently up in the air (excepting the ones outlined firmly above), but expect the bulk to hit around the beginning of 2027.

If you have any questions, please ask them. There are always little things we haven't thought of, but we will do our best to answer whatever you ask. Because like we said, we want to be as transparent as possible.

With love,
Gary and Kaye

• All of our premium content is being bundled up into one tier, Duck, which will be priced at $7.

  • The Free Tier grants access to our Discord Community.

• Unfilmable is going weekly in the new year and we're going to cover different kinds of media from time to time.

  • We are retiring our "TV Slot" to sometimes talk TV on Unfilmable.

• Most shows will be public, with one premium episode per month, a la Watch Out for Fireballs.

  • This applies to Abject Suffering, Bonfireside Chat when it returns, Real Lich Hours, and Unfilmable (in addition to Watch Out for Fireballs!). This will start immediately for the applicable shows.

• Watch Out for Fireballs! sponsorships are increasing to $450 and we will sell three of them per quarter, and longer games will fit into this.

• Unfilmable sponsorships are increasing to $300 and will be limited to 6 per quarter.
  

We’re running out of Fallout games to cover! Which means we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel to bring you a close look at the memory-holed PS2 and XBox entry into the series: Brotherhood of Steel. It’s a Dark Alliance-like that demonstrates that one of those can actually be a lot worse than the others, and it’s all made worse by how poorly it handles the Fallout setting.

Highlighted project: Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy

Uh oh! Both Gary and Kaye have COVID! So please forgive our voices and our absolute flightiness as we answer your questions, read your responses to Ogre Battle 64 and Dispatch, and talk about what makes an inventory system good or bad.

SEPTEMBER GAMES:

• Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel

• The Saboteur

• Pacific Drive (Premium)

OCTOBER GAMES:

• Cultic

• Stone of Madness

• Silent Hill: Townfall

This week we continue our discussion of Ogre Battle 64, a sprawling and mysterious strategy game that eventually sheds the need for using strategy all together. It’s also a story of revolution that stops being about a revolution partway through. This leaves us in the frustrating position of wanting to like it more than we actually do.

Thanks again Will for executive producing this!

Our highlighted project for this week is the creator Mech Amalia, who reviews Gunpla and plays games on her YouTube channel and Instagram.

Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber was a big game that many, including us, missed out on. It’s a followup to a cult classic RTS for the SNES, and it follows Magnus Gallant, a young noble who ends up leading a revolution against his own kingdom. This is a strange game mostly known for its obscure mechanics, but it’s very much in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre in its story and presentation.

This episode covers the game’s generalities, the prologue, and the first chapter.

Big thanks to Will for executive producing this episode!

We read your responses for Neon White, Grunn, Parodius and Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

Upcoming Games:

August:

• Ogre Battle 64

• Dispatch (Premium)

September:

• Pacific Drive

• Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel

• The Saboteur (Premium)

We spilled these answers everywhere. What a mess. Somebody is going to have to clean this up.

But what if Mario were... surreal? Going back to the original design intentions of the Super Mario Bros., Nintendo delivers a game where Mario gets... a little weird. The only downside is that these little shits talk too much.

Specifically, Parodius! From Myth to Laughter. We've been itching to revisit the Schmup genre and this seemed like a perfect fit. Originally a parody of Gradius, it really just proves that Schmups are really easy to just think about the game in terms of a wireframe.

If it looks like a horror game and quacks like a horror game, it's probably a horror game. Disguising itself (slightly) as a cozy simulator, Grunn is a gardening time loop game about solving micro mysteries in the Dutch countryside. It's neat! It's snack!

They're called neons, sinners plugged from hell to do God's dirty work. But it's hard to believe they're in heaven. Old friends, ex lovers... only one of them can stay in heaven and White has a score to settle.

Producer Gwen joins Kaye to discuss this speed-run focused platforming/visual novel hybrid. We like it! With some caveats.

Questions, questions, questions! You never stop questioning us. So we will never stop answering you.

Upcoming Games:

July

• Neon White (Kaye with Producer Gwen)

• Grunn

• Parodius

• Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Premium)

  August

• Ogre Battle 64

• Dispatch (Premium)

You make your decision to listen a podcast, you listen while you do not move, you die. You make another decision to listen to a different episode. Yet again, you do not move. You die. But at least you have a few of the meta resources you need to live a little bit longer. This is kind of what playing Loop Hero is like.

Ah, the arcade. The once-only home of video games has become a nostalgia center for the old at heart. We explore the still extant arcade scene and see what's out there that we're less familiar with. It's still a fairly robust scene!

We answer your questions... and more. * Wink. *

Upcoming WOFF Games:

June:

• Arcade Book Report

• Loop Hero

• Baby Steps (Premium)

July

• Neon White (with Producer Gwen)

• Grunn

• Parodius

• Super Mario Wonder (Premium)

What would it take for id to make a game that's so unremarkable, we barely remember it exists? Rage is here to answer that question. Chasing so many trends, Rage barely feels like a game at all some times. Paired with it's non-descript name, it was almost destined to be forgotten.

How far are you willing to go to make sure humanity survives on an off-Earth colony? Embracing player empowerment to design their own experience, Rimworld wants to meet you exactly where you're at. Watch the hours melt away as Rimworld invites you into its warm embrace.

And here's Juno's work! https://junoryleejournalism.com/

The Last Spell is an intricate tactical RPG with a roguelite structure that could possibly become your forever game. By day you build a base, and by night to fight to protect it from vast hordes of mutant zombies. We reflect on why something that feels like it was made for us in a lot of ways might fall short of becoming a new obsession.

We empty the backlog! That's it! We're out of questions! That probably means you have to send more.

You're a fan of stuff, but are you a Fan? We hope not. Those people are insufferable.

Upcoming WOFF Games

May:

• The Last Spell

• Rimworld

• Rage

June:

• Arcade Trip Report

• Loop Hero

• Baby Steps

Our (collective) favorite video game series is back! Nine entries deep and we're still having a blast playing as Leon Kennedy and series newcomer Grace Ashcroft. This time we're investigating a mysterious sickness that seems to be haunting the survivors of the Raccoon City incident.

So many master chiefs! Halo returns in this RTS spin-off, where the war against the flood takes a slightly different perspective. Can you stop the primordial forces trying to destroy the universe? Probably not seeing as there's more Halo games after this.

It's true, we loved Katamari! And now it's back, bigger and more sticky than ever. Gary is joined by Liv Butterfield (no relation) this week to discuss the direct sequel to the beloved Katamari Damacy.

Everyone's favorite sci-fi idiot is back and this time there are MORE zombies or whatever. Dead Space 2 iterates on the rough edges of Dead Space 1, but it does it ultimately move the needle? The game remains as dedicated as ever to it's third-person in-world HUD, but we must question whether that actually makes things any scarier.

You got questions and we jump on them in a variety of ways.

Upcoming Games

April:
Dead Space 2
We Love Katamari
Halo Wars
Resident Evil 9 (Premium)

May:
The Last Spell
Rimworld
Rage

It's Diddy Kong's turn to take over the spot light, and he has one advantage that his brother Donkey Kong never had... true love. He is joined by his girlfriend, Dixie, and she can fly! Donkey Kong Country 2 looks a bit ugly nowadays, but it's still a fundamental entry in the 2D platformer genre.

Fight your life in this under the radar train management/zombie survival game, The Final Station. You are the conductor of a train, the world is a dystopia after an alien invasion and you are forced to deal with some real moral dilemmas. Dare you fight on?

We're releasing episodes a little out of order this month in order to accommodate Kaye's move, so please enjoy this Dispatch episode where we answer your questions, read your responses, and talk about the idea of a game being "not for you."

• Mega Man X4

• Mortal Kombat 2

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

• The Final Station + DLC

• Donkey Kong Country 2

• Castlevania Bloodlines

• Dead Space 2

• We <3 Katamari

• Halo Wars

• Resident Evil: Requiem

Mega Man X makes his debut on the PS1! Considered the second best game in the Mega Man X series after the initial entry, what does X4 have to offer that's unique? Well, you get to play as Zero, for one.

Get over here! It's time to discuss one of the culturally important games of our lifetimes: Mortal Kombat! While this episode does use MKII as a focus point, this is largely about the series as a whole and it's impact. Get your fatalities ready!

We answer your questions and read your responses to our January Games!

Responses for:

• Legend of Zelda

• Binding of Isaac

• Thief II: The Metal Age

• RoboCop: Rogue City

  
  Upcoming Games:
  February:

• Mortal Kombat II

• Mega Man X4

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Premium)
  
  March:

• The Final Station (Including The Only Traitor)

• Donkey Kong Country 2

• Castlevania Bloodlines

What if a Robot was also a Cop? Well, he's not actually a robot. More like a cyborg. RoboCop is one of the great 80s franchises, and he's back in this FPS with strong RPG elements! It's not a perfect game, but it delivers on the unique humor that is RoboCop.

This information is presented as both a written post, and as a short podcast episode where we talk about our reasoning.

Hello Patrons and well-wishers: we’re here to report that the Duckfeed state of the union is strong, and we have some announcements about changes. Normally we do these in December, but Circumstances conspired to delay things a bit.

Something we really love about this job is that we have the freedom to periodically reevaluate how we do things, and make changes to keep our work interesting and hopefully improve the quality of our output. And we’re fortunate enough that you all are patient and understanding as we do this. So let’s dip into the changes we’re implementing.

These will take effect starting February 1, 2026.

Asking for money is hard, and asking for more money is harder. We’ve kept our tiers priced roughly the same since 2014, no matter how much we packed into them. After 12 years, we’re making our first change to this. But to be clear: if you’re backing us right now, nothing will change for you.

With that said, this is the new pricing scheme going forward, for new members:

• The Sparrow tier is moving from $3 to $4.

• The Duck tier is moving from $5 to $7.

• The Eagle tier is moving from $10 to $13.

• The Condor tier is remaining the same, at $25.

These changes track roughly with inflation since April of 2014, and we have no intentions of touching this again for a long time. Nothing is being taken out of the existing tiers, and nothing that is currently public is moving to premium.

To clarify again: Patrons who are current as of when the pricing takes effect (starting February 1, 2026) will be grandparented in at their old price for as long as they maintain their membership. We want to do this to honor anyone who’s supported us so far. Unfortunately we can’t give you the old pricing if you leave and come back, since that’s not a capability Patreon has.

To offset the above and sweeten the pot, we are adding one extra episode of Unfilmable per month, because Unfilmable is popular and we like doing it. One episode each month will remain a Gary pick or a Kaye pick, and we are opening Unfilmable up to Executive Producers. Because slots are limited, we are piloting the Executive Producer price at $200. 

The procedure for this will be similar to picking a game for WOFF! Because watching movies is different than playing and covering whole games, we will most likely go with your first choice. The only limitations are that the request must be a movie (not a TV show, and especially not a full season of a show), and that it not be hateful (we call this the Custer’s Revenge Clause). This kind of thing is in the eye of the beholder, but if we veto your choices you will get a full refund.

Now that Kaye will be in the same time zone and locality as Gary, we are going to pilot doing more streaming, either on Twitch or here on Patreon Live. More details to come. Something that may happen is the VODs for certain streams may be hosted here for Patrons only.

Starting in February we will be shifting our community chat from Slack to Discord. We’ve deliberated over this for a while, and it feels like it’s time to bring our community chat in line with 99% of other communities and use a service that’s not specifically built for workspaces. Community access will remain gated to patrons.

The transition to Discord will take place over the course of February, with the Slack closing down at the end of the month.

We maintain some reservations about Discord’s direction as a company and will do everything we can to limit annoying features in our server, and will keep an eye out for them deciding that everyone’s childhood memories belong to their AI or something.

(If you notice that you were kicked from the old Duckfeed Discord we used for multiplayer game chat, it's because it's under construction and you can re-join later on).

In addition to changing the prices of our tiers, we are going to make some modest changes to how WOFF! and Abject Suffering executive production slots and demands work.

The price to Executive Produce a Watch Out for Fireballs! episode will be rising from $300 to $350.

We are moving Abject Suffering picks to the store where anyone can buy a demand for $50, though $25 backers will continue to get a demand thrown in for their pledge (you will get a coupon). Because of the way that the store works, it will continue to be one demand per year.

We are going to begin offering individual episodes and collections for sale on the Patreon store, in addition to being available to monthly backers. This is something people have requested. For example, some people just want specific seasons of Bonfireside Chat. Others want to retain access to episodes after they drop their support.

To clarify, monthly memberships are still the primary way to get our content. No back catalog material will be gated behind an additional purchase. The only thing I could think would end up being listed that way was if we decided to do another charity bundle.

• Individual episodes will be $3 (the minimum price that Patreon will allow us to set). 

• Collections will be priced at roughly $1 per hour of premium episode that’s in the bundle, as not every episode in the bundle will be premium in some cases.

These listings will be going up shortly.

Patreon offers the capability to offer annual memberships, and we’re opening those up. If you want to sign up for a year of Duckfeed all at once, you can get a 10% discount. Here are instructions on how to get one of those.

Patreon recently added the capability for fans to gift memberships to other fans. We just want to let you know about this, since it’s hard to discover on the site.

We would like to start a community subreddit, but we don’t want to add moderating it to our workload. We also don’t really know how to do this. If you have expertise in this area, please contact us.

That’s the extent of what we have planned, and we hope you’re as excited about the additional Unfilmable episode, and the addition of streams to our schedule. Kaye being in Portland is going to open up some fun opportunities and we’re really excited for the future.

If you have questions about these changes, please ask them in the comments and we will answer them as best we can.

Thank you so much for your ongoing support!

Returning to the world of Thief, we finally cover the much demanded and beloved Thief II: The Metal Age. Often pointed to as one of the greatest embodiments of stealth in video games, what makes Thief II so special? A lot of has to do with The Fantasy. This game makes you feel like a badass fantasy Thief, with a world of treasures and artifacts to claim for yourself.

How can smart people enjoy a game about a naked boy crying at poop? Binding of Isaac is one of the most chaotic, labyrinthine, and complex games we've ever put multiple hundreds of hours into. Inspired by Legend of Zelda and Rogue, Binding of Isaac sees you grabbing dozens of game-changing items, building a unique Isaac, and descending deeper into the basement than you ever imagined. Gary is joined by his Everything to Guppy co-host, Will Hughes, to break down what makes Binding of Isaac an easy entry in the video game hall of fame.

The Legend of Zelda on the Nintendo Entertainment System is one of the most iconic games ever made. While not every trick it used holds up today's standards, the number of innovative techniques they used to make an adventure feel huge informs game design to this very day. Join us in revisiting this stone-cold classic.

This episode originally aired as off-season episode of Bonfireside Chat.

For more Hidden WOFFs, check out our collection here: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1908383

We hear your thoughts about such as games as Wasteland 3, Wasteland 3 and Wasteland 3.

Upcoming Games:

January

• Legend of Zelda (Bonfireside Chat Rerun)

• Binding of Isaac (Gary and Will Hughes)

• Thief II: The Metal Age

• Robocop: Rogue City (Premium)

February

• Mortal Kombat II

• Mega Man X4

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Premium)

To wrap up the year, December's premium episode of WOFF! is the live panel we did at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo back in October. Bob Mackey and Jeremy Parish of the Retronauts joined us to talk about the best and worst 7/10 games. One score means a lot of different things, and we try to get to the bottom of what's 7/10 (derogatory) and 7/10 (laudatory).

Games we discuss: Shadowrun (SNES). Ghostbusters (2009). Yakuza: Dead Souls. Dragon Quest VII. Clash at Demonhead. The Misadventures of Tron Bonne. Ninja Five-O. State of Decay. Haunting Ground.

To celebrate episode 500, we wrap up the plot of our yearly CRPG, Wasteland 3. We're heading up the mountains toward the north in order to deal with Victory, the Psychopath who is holed themselves up in Aspen.

Continuing our journey into the Wasteland, we need to follow up on a lead about the involvement of a Casino magnate.

Before there was Fallout, there was Wasteland. And after there was Fallout, there was Wasteland. In this combat heavy tactical RPG, we see many of the seeds that blossomed into the flowers of Fallout, while still having a distinct flavor all their own. This game is goofy, cynical, and generally wants you to have a bad time while you laugh.

Upcoming WOFF Games

December:

• Wasteland 3

January:

• The Legend of Zelda (Bonefireside Chat Rerun)

• The Binding of Isaac (Guest-hosted episode with Gary and Will Hughes)

• Theif II: The Metal Age

• RoboCop: Rogue City (Premium)

We love Hitman so much, we had to see where our little, bald, perfect clone with a barcode came from. The levels are smaller, but a lot of the core concepts of what makes Hitman good are still here in the DNA of the series in a more rudimentary form.