Welcome to the debut episode of Critical Hits, a spinoff series of Games Witticism where we take an in-depth look at specific games or mechanics and concepts within games. For our first

Episode 40 - Masochism and Cancer

Mar 4th, 2016 2h 2m

Now that we're out of the Game of the Year mines, we can finally talk about video games again. So what better way to start the year than with punishment and sadness. I talk about Bloodbo

Episode 39.3 - GOTY 2015 Part 3

Feb 27th, 2016 3h 17m

Oh thank God, we're finally done with Game of the Year discussion. At the end of February. Look, it's fine. Everything's fine. I'll just...make some changes to how this works next year,

Episode 39.2 - GOTY 2015 Part 2

Jan 27th, 2016 2h 28m

It's just me, Luke, Melissa and Shane for this second episode of our game of the year discussions. We manage to get through quite a few more categories this time around, deciding on winn

Episode 39.1 - GOTY 2015 Part 1

Jan 27th, 2016 1h 41m

Welcome to the first episode of our Game of the Year discussions. Just like last year, we have a bunch of categories, so this is gonna take a few episodes to get through. For this part,

Episode 38 - THE BABY

Jan 11th, 2016 1h 57m

On this last Games Witticism of the year 2016, Melissa and I go in-depth on the fascinating changes Pillars of Eternity has made to the classic Infinity Engine RPG formula, Melissa recou

Episode 37 - Please Don't Kill Dogs

Dec 5th, 2015 2h 34m

On this long-delayed episode of Games Witticism, Tyberius joins Melissa, Luke and I to talk about a new indie game called Cibele that reminds us all of our early AIM/MSN-era internet mis

Episode 36 - Kept You Waiting, Huh?

Oct 20th, 2015 2h 56m

Thanks to the recent release of MGSV: The Phantom Pain, we here at Games Witticism finally have an excuse to talk at length about Metal Gear. Before we dive into that, though, we discuss

Episode 35 - Fantasy Anime Battle High School

Sep 30th, 2015 1h 41m

I'm not sure I've managed to have three Final Fantasy-related episode titles in a row on a podcast where I'm pretty much the only one who really likes Final Fantasy. I guess it just make

Episode 34 - Give Me Moogles or Give Me Death

Aug 26th, 2015 1h 55m

HOLY COW ANOTHER PODCAST EPISODE WITHIN A WEEK! IT'S A MIRACLE! And only happened because I forgot the previous episode even existed. Whatever, still counts. Anyway, we don't really talk

Episode 33 - The Lightning Inception

Aug 22nd, 2015 1h 46m

Turn out I had an audio file sitting in my Recordings folder that I totally forgot about. So, uh, here it is! Like a month late. But hey, it's not like we ever talk about things in a tim

Episode 32 - The E3 Dreams Are Made Of

Jul 4th, 2015 2h 17m

Melissa and I kick off this episode by talking about Invisible Inc., because if we didn't do it immediately it'd get blown away by a typhoon of E3 opinions. Curious about one of Melissa'

Episode 31 - Now With More Diversity

Jun 21st, 2015 1h 19m

Yes, you read that right. Our good friend Melissa joins us for this episode--and hopefully many more--to talk about Dangan Ronpa and the state of LGBTQ characters in video games and othe

Episode 30 - Dingle Rumpus

Jun 12th, 2015 1h 38m

After a long delay that is largely due to us not playing very many games, Luke and Dustin return with special guests Jackson, John and Shane to talk (a whole lot) about Dangan Ronpa. The

Episode 29 - Dragon, Dragon! Min-Max the Dragon!

Apr 10th, 2015 1h 23m

On this episode of Games Witticism, we respond to our first listener question (hooray!) by talking about shooting people in the testicles. And speaking of gratuitous violence, we also ge

Episode 28 - More Like Shit Walker

Mar 11th, 2015 1h 10m

After a short hiatus partly caused by laziness and partly by Luke and I not really playing many games, we've finally made another episode. But since talking exclusively about new games w

Episode 27 - Face To Face

Feb 4th, 2015 55m 25s

It's just me and Luke on this episode of Games Witticism, because we went to PAX South! And we're recording in the hotel room! So there's much better audio quality and no crosstalk! The

Episode 26 - Beware the Time Cops

Jan 22nd, 2015 1h 42m

Once again, John, Huntera and I interrupt Luke's Metal Gear streaming to get some podcasting done. We discuss MGS: Peace Walker, MGR: Revengeance, The Banner Saga, Nuclear Throne, Bayone

Episode 25.2 - 2014 GOTY Awards Part 2

Jan 9th, 2015 2h 38m

We talked for a long time, so we felt it was wise to split the whole thing into two parts. This is that second part. And, uh, that's it. What more do you want me to type here? Just liste

Episode 25.1 - 2014 GOTY Awards Part 1

Jan 9th, 2015 1h 25m

With 2014 now over, it was clear what we needed to do: make a list-type-thing. Rather than try to decide on a comprehensive "best games" list, however, we limited our arguments to very s

Episode 24 - Tip Toppers

Dec 23rd, 2014 2h 10m

On this episode of Games Witticism, Bob talks about Shadow of Mordor, our guests (John and Bluedude/Shane) talk about a bunch of games I can't remember right now, and Luke tries to finis

Episode 23 - Zay Has a Bug Mount

Dec 20th, 2014 2h 3m

Do you like MMO RPGs? Then boy howdy do we have an episode for you. Jon Hamm and I rap about Dragon Age: Inquisition for about 40 minutes. Then we bring Zay on as a special guest to talk

Episode 22 - Let Me Tell You About Seinfeld

Dec 13th, 2014 1h 30m

On this episode of Games Witticism, we being with the revelation that I have never seen a single episode of Seinfeld. Luke takes it upon himself to educate me. Once I've finally been sch

Episode 21 - Live From the Big Shell 2

Nov 30th, 2014

It's Luke's birthday, which means everyone has to endure him playing more Metal Gear! We talk about Binding of Isaac, Dragon Age, Massive Chalice, um... probably some... other stuff... I'm g

Episode 20 - Super Fighting Robots

Nov 16th, 2014 2h 20m

On this episode of Games Witticism, who even cares about video games? They're passe. We'd much rather gush about Battlebots/Robot Wars, Pacific Rim and Real Steel. I mean, I guess we can