XP Quest

XP Quest podcast

S02E02

Streaming on: April 24th, 2020

Guests: Draculetta

Show topics: 

Board Games advertised as Single Player due to the pandemic

Lord of the Rings LCG Descent, Journey into Darkness App as DM and it sucks Journey to Middle Earth Still requires dumb app Is technology and impertinence ruining the experience? Board games are just not true board games anymore

Minor topics:

DJ: HBO Max is here. Finally something that I might not openly pirate. Chad - Lotro Legendary Servers DJ - I have played more D&D since starting the quarantine than I have the last 2 years

XP Quest News:

We are finally on iTunes again! Go download that.

Finding time to grind:

What are you playing this week?

Drac: Retro games - Gauntlet, Castlevania, Dragon’s Liar, Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara, Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom,Golden Axe, Altered Beast,  ESO, DDO, Xbox One Vampyr Board Games - Opened up Gloomhaven and said Hell No. Planning on playing Lord Of The Rings Journeys In Middle-earth this weekend.. RPG- D&D, Four Against Darkness

DJ: D&D, Farming Sim 2019(...an unhealthy amount), Super Mario Party on Switch

Chad: Most of this is included in the above -- LOTRO, Divinity 2, Elder Scrolls: Arena, Animal Crossing (not an RPG).

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Looking back and laughing at home little we all played down our piles of shame during the pandemic

Thanks for listening and find time for that grind!

XP Quest podcast

S02E01

Streaming on: March 26th, 2020

Show topics: 

Moved podcast to https://anchor.fm/xpquest  Dude, where’s my game (car)? Catch up on all the games worthy of discussing over the last 2 years we have been off the air?

XP Quest podcast Episode 22

Streaming on: Feb 1st 2018

Show topics: Torchlight series

Torchlight is an action role-playing game developed by Runic Games and published by Perfect World, released for Windows in October 2009. The fantasy-themed game is set in the fictional town of Torchlight and the expansive caverns and dungeons nearby, which adventurers explore to collect valuable loot and battle hordes of monsters. Following the October 2009 digital distribution release, a Windows retail box version was released in the U.S. in January 2010 by Encore, Inc, and JoWooD Entertainment published a retail box in Europe in April 2010. A port for OS X was developed by World Domination Industries and released through Steam[10] on May 12, 2010. Runic Games and World Domination Industries developed a port for Xbox Live Arcade which was released on March 9, 2011.[11] A Linux port was released as part of the game's inclusion in the Humble Indie Bundle 6.

Development of the game was led by Travis Baldree, designer of Fate, joined by Max Schaefer and Erich Schaefer (co-designers of Diablo and Diablo II), and the team that worked with Baldree on the original incarnation of Mythos. In September 2012, Runic Games released a sequel, Torchlight II, for Windows.

Minor topics:

Holy crap Persona 5 isn’t kidding around Are there any games that resemble the movie plot of Groundhogs Day movie? With repeating cycles.

XP Quest podcast Episode 21

Streaming on: Jan 18th 2018

Guests

Swearing in session for Chad “Not the Body” Van Alstin

Show topics: RPGs on Console vs PC & Returning to MMOs after a long break

Convenience vs improved input  (Couch vs Keyboard) New year: new gaming goals? Crushing a mobile game - Or how I made Fallout Shelter my bitch Steam controller and Steam Link feedback LOTRO - You can now walk into Mordor? Update - The NES games are gone

XP Quest podcast Episode 20

Streaming on: March 17th 2017

Guests

Randark

XP Quest podcast Episode 19

Streaming on: May 10th 2017

Guests

Scott

Show topic: Where we are going kid we don’t need topics

Nintendo Switch AMD vs Intel Shadows of War What is Dark Cloud?

XP Quest podcast Episode 18

Streaming on:July 7th 2016

Guests 

Raetac

XP Quest podcast Episode 17

Streaming on: Nov 1st 2016

Guests

Raetac

XP Quest podcast Episode 16

Streaming on:Oct 20th 2016

Guests

Branick 

Show topic: Neverwinter Nights

Neverwinter Nights is a third-person role-playing video game developed by BioWare. Interplay Entertainment was originally set to publish the game, but financial difficulties led to it being taken over by Atari. It was released on Microsoft Windows on June 18, 2002. BioWare later released a free Linux client in June 2003, requiring a purchased copy of the game to play.[1] MacSoft released a Mac OS X port in August 2003.

Neverwinter Nights is set in the fantasy world of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, with the game mechanics based on the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition rules. The game engine was designed around an Internet-based model for running a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), which would allow end users to host game servers. The intent was to create a potentially infinite massively multiplayer game framework. This game was named after the original Neverwinter Nights online game, the first ever graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG),[2] which operated from 1991 to 1997 on AOL.

XP Quest podcast Episode 15

Streaming on:Oct 6th 2016

Guests

Sir Vyper

Show topic: 8bit vs 16bit rpgs

Clown lives matter: http://uproxx.com/webculture/clown-lives-matter/

XP Quest podcast Episode 14

Streaming on:Sept 29th 2016

Guests

Sir Vyper

Show topic: Stuff and things - Show about nothing

The grind, it's real Struggle with choosing a game Juggling multiple RPGS? When to give up and throw in the towel Comfort food RPGs - Which ones can you always just pick up and play over and over? Is it worth playing more than 2 mmos and paying for them?

XP Quest podcast Episode 13

Streaming on: Sept 14th 2016

Guests Raetac

XP Quest podcast Episode 12

Streaming on:Sept 1st 2016

Guests

Teriadwyn @Teriadwyn  Braxwolf (Beyond Bossfights) Chad Van Alllllllstin (Cinematic Tangent) RAETAC

Show topic: Lotro

Overview:

The Lord of the Rings Online (commonly abbreviated to LOTRO), initially branded as The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows and OS X set in a fantasy universe based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. It takes place during the time period of The Lord of the Rings.

The Lord of the Rings Online was developed and is maintained by Turbine after Jeffrey Anderson secured the rights from Vivendi.[2] Originally subscription-based, it is free-to-play, with a paid VIP subscription available that provides players various perks. Four of the more prominent are access to all game regions and content not part of an expansion pack, the ability to swiftly travel between major towns, the removal of the currency cap that would otherwise hamper the economic freedom of a player, and the ability to send currency through the mail system, and make cash-on-delivery payments.

XP Quest podcast Episode 11

Streaming on:August 11th 2016

Show topic: Final Fantasy 7

Overview:

Final Fantasy VII is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the PlayStation platform. Released in 1997, it is the seventh installment in the Final Fantasy series and the first in the series to use 3D computer graphics, featuring fully rendered characters on pre-rendered backgrounds. It was also the first game in the main series to be released in Europe. The story follows Cloud Strife, a mercenary who joins the eco-terrorist rebel organization AVALANCHE to stop the world-controlling megacorporation Shinra from draining the life of the planet to use as an energy source. Cloud and his allies become involved in a larger world-threatening conflict and face off against Sephiroth, the main antagonist.

XP Quest podcast Episode 10

Streaming on: July 28th 2016

Guests Raetac

Ultima III Exodus and Might and Magic

XP Quest - Ep 8 - Pokemon Go Made Me Do It

Streaming on:July 14th 2016

XP Quest podcast Episode 6

Recorded live Dec 24th 2015

XP Quest podcast Episode 5

Recorded live Nov 26th 2015

Guest
Randark Show topic: Thanksgiving and beer Overview:

Rules of the “Don’t be a dick Gray Thursday Game Giveaway” contest:

Discussion:

Top 25 games this fall

When searching for “Thanksgiving Themed video games” all it returned was a post on 4chan about how terrible N64 South Park game was. Lets discuss this.

Best after thanksgiving games to play:

XP Quest podcast Episode 4

Recorded live Nov 12th 2015

Guest
Layanor Show topic: The Secret World Overview:

The secret world is a buy to play MMO RPG set in modern-day real world where you battle the occult forces.  In the game you join one of three world-controlling secret societies attempting to repel, mitigate, or exploit the attack of Lovecraftian entities, and other immortal being in the coast of Maine, Egypt, Transylvania, and parts of Tokyo.  You also try to advance your societies secret agenda over the others.

Unlike many other MMORPGs, there is no need to stop to use most of a character's attacks and abilities; as a result, combat is faster than many other MMORPGs, and movement-based. The character is free to redevelop their abilities on the go, to better prepare themselves for specific threats or better integrate themselves into a group. Unlike traditional MMORPGs, advancement is primarily through equipment, using experience points to buy additional abilities and more powerful weapons.

XP Quest podcast Episode 3

Recorded live Oct 29th 2015

Guest

Dean Razavi from Razbury Games, creator of Vidar

Kickstarted earlier this year by 467 backers for $19,500, and also Greenlight in the Steam Community. Longtime superuser of RPG maker and frequent conference attendee and speaker lol

Show topic :  RPG Maker and Vidar: The RPG Where Everyone Dies Overview:

Vidar is an RPG-puzzler where everyone dies.

The game takes place in a struggling town beset by a Beast, and every night, a villager is killed. Explore Vidar's past in four unique settings, each filled with puzzles which blend nostalgic dungeon-exploration mechanics (like frictionless ice, mirrors which reflect light, adjustable water levels, and more) with new twists.

With random puzzles and random story telling, Vidar brings a new challenge in every playthrough. The only certainty is that everyone will die.

XP Quest podcast Episode 1

Recorded live Oct 4th 2015

Guest intros

Show topic: Guild Wars 2

Overview:

GW2 is a MMORPG developed by ArenaNet.  Set in the fantasy world of Tyria, the game follows the re-emergence of Destiny's Edge, a disbanded guild dedicated to fighting the Elder Dragons, a Lovecraftian species that has seized control of Tyria in the time since the original Guild Wars. The game takes place in a persistent world with a story that progresses in instanced environments.

The whole game is based upon dynamic event system vs traditional quest system

Lack of subscription fees Sold over 5mil copies up to Aug 2015 at which point it went ftp 5 races and 8 professions Skill based combat system - slot 10(?) skills out of a pool. Can you go Pokemon and collect them all? Heart of Thorns releasing Oct 23 2015 New area - jungle Mastery system New profession - Revenant Elite Specializations at level 80 New PvP and WvW Guild halls Guild teams Guild upgrades Guild missions new raid(s)