I normally like to make the title of the episode the funniest thing we say in the show, so, uh.

In this week's: we talk about comfort being more important than surprise, the difficulty meshing video game conflict with negative commentary (and how Spec Ops fails while Risk Legacy succeeds), how Risk of Rain's too effective as a power fantasy, how games about systems interacting don't benefit from early access because all the systems have yet to be implemented and we reveal a TENYA WANYA TEENS EXCLUSIVE.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Risk Legacy
Desktop Dungeons
Risk of Rain
Pokemon Y
Voltorb Flip
Device 6
Sir, You Are Being Hunted
Negative Space
Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons
Android: Netrunner
Chess 2: The Sequel

RAD LINKS:

Anita Vid
Dead Rising Thing On Kotaku
RPS Interview With The Blizzard Man
Oliver Age 24's Job Application
"so it seems GRID 2 developers completely forgot that women exist"
Steve Hogarty's Call of Duty Women Vid
The KSI Stuff
The Betrayer's Banquet
Golden Balls
Steve Hogarty's Half Life 2 Oculus Rift Vid

Something's... different.

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Minecraft
Knight and Damsel
Tomb Raider
Rogue Legacy
Spelunky

BAD LINKS:

The Indie Custom Cube

We recorded this live! It doesn't sound amazing, but, I dunno! Maybe you'll still like it!

We talk about False Interactivity, the idea of visual consistency allowing for a sense of place, premium prices for rushed content, our woes with early access and HUNK-BASED ANIME.

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Love Letter
Masquerade
Scoop
Batman: Arkham Origins
Device 6/Year Walk
Tetrobot and Co
Jelly No Puzzle
The Swapper
Pokemon Y
Wind Waker HD
Gone Home Commentary

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Swimming Anime
A Video About Design in Megaman X
Wind Waker Black Skinhead
Robert Yang's Level With Me w/ Steve Gaynor
Steve Gaynor's Tone Control w/ Jake Rodkin and Sean Vanaman

SO MUCH POP CULTURE TO CONSUME!

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The Stanley Parable (and Demonstration)
Pokemon X
Beyond: Two Souls
The Misadventures Of Tron Bonne
Spelunky Death Roulette (and Salty Dota)

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Nerds Assemble with Our Martin on it
Dark Souls is the Breaking Bad of Video Games
We did a show about The Stanley Parable mod, once

Hey! We took a long break from recording episodes because of Reasons!

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GTAV/Saints Row 4
Gone Home
Spelunky
La-Mulana
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Pocket Trains
Cookie Clicker
Takenoko
Tzolkin: The Mayan Calendar
Cutthroat Caverns
Libertalia
Wits & Wagers
Story War
Even Cowgirls Bleed
Greedy Wizards
Love Letter
Mascarade
868-Hack
Gyro
Black Bar
Full Boar
Framed
Anima
Beyond: Two Souls
Bear Sterns Bravo

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Our Twitch Page!
Our Youtube Page!
Twine Tasting!
Have Martin Make Music For Your Game!
A Very Important Petition!

Martin, Mike, Emily and Patrick get together to discuss Papers Please, in spoiler-heavy detail.

2SEXY2FURIOUS

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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Gone Home
Hate Plus
Space Hulk
Bliss: The Game For Lovers
Jailbreak: CS Source
Plants vs. Zombies 2
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"Dear critics: Stop sneering at players who don’t buy short games, you’re being assholes" - PA Report
A Good Video
BEE DO DE DO DOOO

This week's best conversation is about games that decide not to ever kill the player! It's a little boring until that point! Sorry!

We also talk about Risk Legacy and we do our best not to be specific about anything, so that might be boring if you've played it and confusing if you haven't!

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Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing
There Shall Be Lancing
Gone Home
Penultima
Donkey Kong '94
Wario Land 2
Risk Legacy
Chillaxian

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The Best Dinosaur

Hello! We talk to Cara Ellison about authored worlds that feel fake, the personal nature of save files, the uselessness of authorial intent and Truth Circles!

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Salty Bet
Shelter
Gone Home
Postmortem
Experiment 12

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Sourcing in Games Journalism Taken To Task!
Steve Hogarty's GTAV Screen Shots
Audio Logs Are Terrible

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Gaurodan!
Spelunky!
Isis!
Super Street Fighter IV AE!
The Last Of Us!
Bioshock Infinite!
Splinter Cell: Blacklist!
Shadow Complex

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Our Livestream!
Infinity Blade review on EDGE Killscreen!
This interview that Cara did with Anna!
OXM's Choose Your Own Review Score!
Kotaku post about the graffiti!
Kayne West Hip Hop T-Shirt!
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head!