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Abject Suffering

This is a podcast that"s nominally about bad games. In reality, every Monday, Gary Butterfield and Kaye Ross choose a game at random from the titles submitted by listeners, play it, and venture off on a freeform discussion that winds between the topic at hand and some dumb nonsense. Public RSS Feed: https://www.patreon.com/rss/80117?show=1702263

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35:07

Episode 440: Duck Game

Abject Suffering ·

2022/01/31

We take this perfectly fine party game and play it exactly the wrong way... Alone! We also talk about hats, the problem of having a head that's too big, and the meanest thing Gary has ever done.

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33:14

Episode 439: Vegas Stakes

Abject Suffering ·

2022/01/24

Hop into a limo with $1,000 and your worst yuppie friends and head to Vegas in order to learn about the hidden horrors of strangers approaching you to ask for things. Also, we learn about the daring exploits of Mr. Colo$tomy, high roller extraordinaire.

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37:10

Episode 438: Ronin

Abject Suffering ·

2022/01/17

It's hard to know what Devolver Digital was thinking when they signed on this one. You may think the idea of a turn-based side scrolling stealth game sounds cool, and it might be, but only if it was... finished. Ronin is not.

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31:05

Episode 437: That's So Raven: Psychic on the Scene

Abject Suffering ·

2022/01/10

What follows is an in-depth report on what qualities someone must possess to be "so raven". This Disney Channel millennial favorite is, honestly, a conceptual 50 car pileup, and the universe it inhabits is so weird we only get a chance to scratch its surface.

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38:52

Episode 436: Desert Bus VR

Abject Suffering ·

2022/01/03

It's the video game version of "The Song That Never Ends", and ironically it ALSO pisses off bus drivers. A joke game created for an unreleased Penn and Teller prank game, Desert Bus has ascended from myth to meme to genuine charity hero. We talk a little about its history, then bag on how terrible road trips are.

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37:06

Episode 435: One Must Fall 2097

Abject Suffering ·

2021/12/27

One Must Fall 2097 is an illustration that the Console/PC gap cuts boths ways, depending on the genre. While the PC exceled at first person shooters and RPGs early on, it struggled with racing games and fighting games... though it's not like they didn't try. An early effort by Epic, this fighting game pits Dorito robots against each other, with different pilots you cannot see.

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35:26

Episode 434: Screaming Mad George's ParanoiaScape

Abject Suffering ·

2021/12/20

You remember this object from your childhood? Now it's covered in blood! That's the 90s industrial touch, baybee. Listen to us talk about this strange first-person pinball game and wrestle with why effort isn't inherently a bad thing, but it can certainly make things worse.

en-US

30:19

Episode 433: Rampage 2: Universal Tour

Abject Suffering ·

2021/12/13

It's a clash of the titans, as we clash about whether this game about titanic animals is any fun. And that makes for an episode that, on the whole, stays on topic! At least in comparison to the other episodes of this show.

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33:28

Episode 432: The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and...

Abject Suffering ·

2021/12/06

What happens when your toilet is also a living creature who produces waste? We talk about this and more, and unsuccessfully try to not make this episode all about how old television was terrible.

en-US

55:35

Episode 431: Corncob 3D

Abject Suffering ·

2021/11/29

A game with an unlikely name has an outsized legacy, weirdly turning into an engine for early 3D first person PC games. But before we hit that, we have to talk about unlikely showbiz rites of passage and a very bad brush with emesis.

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46:44

Episode 430: Treasures of the Deep

Abject Suffering ·

2021/11/22

Odd are you played it on a demo disk back in the day, but this PlayStation game is better and weirder than you'd expect. Also, heads up, there's a gnarly anecdote about a plumbing accident that gets about as bad as it could possibly get. If you're squeamish, you'll know when to turn things off.

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30:02

Episode 429: Goosebumps HorrorLand

Abject Suffering ·

2021/11/15

We can't lie and say this minigame collection is any good, but we CAN talk about how great the Goosebumps books are. And we can gush about how important kids' horror media was to us when we were young.

en-US

42:04

Episode 428: Forbes Corporate Warrior

Abject Suffering ·

2021/11/08

A boring Battlezone clone's hilarious manual sets us off onto talking about business monsters again. You might not believe that Forbes Corporate Warrior exists. You might not WANT to believe that Forbes Corporate Warrior exists. You aren't ready for Forbes Corporate Warrior to exist.

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43:55

Episode 427: Max Payne (GBA)

Abject Suffering ·

2021/11/01

Funny enough, it was the most misguided port I could think of. Which isn't to say that the mini version of Max Payne isn't impressive in its own way... It's just frustrating to always get killed by enemies who are off-screen.

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50:03

Episode 426: Deer Avenger

Abject Suffering ·

2021/10/25

Crass, classist humor can't paper over a thin game long enough for us to not find another truly depressing internet phenomenon. And we can't stress enough: be cool.

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49:29

Episode 425: Monster Garden

Abject Suffering ·

2021/10/18

This game isn't bad, but it's really not for us. You play as a monster who wants to grow his garden, which means going into little pocket dimensions to make friends to bring back home. This turns into a message game about how to be a better friend to yourself... but it's all very basic, and the writing clangs on our taste. So instead, we talk about some strange encounters Gary recently had in Portland.

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48:23

Episode 424: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Abject Suffering ·

2021/10/11

We've only made this mistake once before, but there was a calendar whoopsie. So while we primarily talk about Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, we also get a little bit of Princess Tomato and the Salad Kingdom. A minor misunderstanding gives way to discussions of frightening produce and the ravages of age.

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33:26

Episode 423: Peasant's Quest

Abject Suffering ·

2021/10/04

Kole may not be able to convince Gary that Homestar Runner is funny, but at least we can both agree that the porn game that's also named Peasant's Quest is gross as heck.

en-US

39:10

Episode 422: Eyeballs are your ENEMIES!

Abject Suffering ·

2021/09/27

We got burned by a name again. But can you blame us? "Eyeballs are your ENEMIES!" is a really tempting name for an Abject Suffering game. So we took the bait, realized we don't really have any eyeball digressions, and flounder for a while. Damn you, asset flip games!

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42:44

Episode 421: Pandmeonium

Abject Suffering ·

2021/09/20

A clown, his horrible stick, and a very normal woman end the world and have to try to un-end it. But we mostly end up talking about sex toys and weird Captain Planet villain eggs.

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