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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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33:56

Episode 380: SCP: Secret Laboratory

Abject Suffering ·

2020/12/14

The best, most expansive creepypasta universe lends itself to an admirable fan game. Problem is, it's multiplayer, and playing games with strangers is the pits!

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35:23

Episode 379: Spud!

Abject Suffering ·

2020/12/07

A game that, for legal purposes, is unaffiliated with the real Santa or Christmas.

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35:57

Episode 378: Crystalis

Abject Suffering ·

2020/11/30

Crystalis is, first and foremost, a pretty good game. There are fun details about its story, and why they still honor the American dollar, but mostly it serves as a good launching point for talking about the absurdities of NextDoor.

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48:56

Episode 377: Baldi's Basics

Abject Suffering ·

2020/11/23

Is there a name for the kind of stealth horror game that's popular with streamers? Things like Hello Neighbor and Bendy and the Ink Machine? Whatever that is, this is one of those, but with a fun, crappy educational vibe. Truth is, this is actually pretty good and fun, so we range far afield on this episode.

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39:05

Episode 376: Ariel the Little Mermaid

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2020/11/16

You may be thinking, "Hey guys! That Capcom NES Little Mermaid game wasn't bad! What gives?" And you're right. The only crime that game commits is being too simple. This week, we're talking about the very bad Little Mermaid game made for the Sega Genesis, which looked at the Dam level from TMNT and said "hold my conch".

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1:01:21

Episode 375: Battletoads

Abject Suffering ·

2020/11/09

Imagine, if you will, a kind of battling toad. Nobody asked for this episode, we just felt like talking about it. Rare's darling baby that launched a thousand memes, about things ranging from its difficulty to its availability in stores. We don't care for it very much! But we only talk a little bit about why the game doesn't work, and spend most of our time talking about the Dark Queen's Pixar ass, horrible holiday memories, and comparative power ratings of the toad boys.

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27:41

Episode 374: Arctic alive

Abject Suffering ·

2020/11/02

This survival horror/survival sim set in an arctic base is notable for one reason: It was made entirely in Blender, which is not a game engine. It would be like somehow making a JRPG run in MS Paint. Other than that, it's got a baffling "barely translated" charm... so instead, we talk about how Gary recently developed hypothermia in his house.

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40:45

Episode 373: Whiteboyz Wit' Attitude: The Pursuit of...

Abject Suffering ·

2020/10/26

We need to re-calibrate what constitutes an "Abject Suffering Emergency". It's hard to tell how earnest the Whiteboyz Wit' Attitude are. On one hand, the music is pretty bad and farcical, but on the other hand, they've been at it for many years. This Steam game is a gussied up sales pitch for their compilation album, featuring some limited rhythm gameplay set to their low production value videos.

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41:35

Episode 372: Rockstar!

Abject Suffering ·

2020/10/19

This is our second rock band management sim this year, and it's by far the superior to "Rock Star Ate My Hamster". The drug fixation aside, this is a fun little Lemonade Stand sim that has a fair bit of complexity and some of the best procedurally generated names we've seen. Special Thanks to Beyond Reason for the theme song remix. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNVv9y63Kkw)

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50:34

Episode 371: McPixel

Abject Suffering ·

2020/10/12

This week we look at a humble, gag-based point and click puzzle game that's a parody of a parody of MacGuyver. We also talk about the 1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito film Junior. At length.

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26:11

Episode 370: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Abject Suffering ·

2020/10/05

They turned a good book into a very frustrating text adventure.

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35:09

Episode 369: Hareraiser

Abject Suffering ·

2020/09/28

Back in the late '70s and early '80s, Britain was overtaken by treasure hunt fever, sparked by a childrens' book called The Masquerade and its promises of a valuable gold rabbit for anyone clever enough to solve its puzzles. The contest ended in allegations of fraud, and this cursed rabbit went on to become the basis for an outright scam called Hareraiser, a duo of games for microcomputers that were little more than unsolvable messes. The gold rabbit was auctioned off when the company was

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47:09

Episode 368: Reisdent Evil 0

Abject Suffering ·

2020/09/21

Warm up your pipes, you opera singing leeches, because we're going to talk about the game that we blame for murdering classic-style Resident Evil experiences. Taking place shortly before the events of the original Resident Evil, STARS Bravo team medic Rebecca Chambers and failed Chili Peppers clone Billy team up to fight through a train and some anonymous facilities full of zombies and leeches, all while being too ineffectual to hold objects.

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38:51

Episode 367: Castlevania Judgment

Abject Suffering ·

2020/09/14

It's very hard to be a Castlevania fan, especially when Konami decides that this very ugly and shallow Power Stone clone is worth releasing. Famously featuring a story line where a little girl wants bigger boobs, it also has hideous costume redesigns for a large number of beloved Castlevania characters, and a pretty lame excuse plot.

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32:16

Episode 366: Swords & Darkness

Abject Suffering ·

2020/09/08

Swords & Darkness, a game you've never heard of, is a very poorly made side scrolling Demon's Souls game released on the 3DS eShop. It's broken in some pretty entertaining ways, so give this a listen and save yourself the $7!

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58:47

Episode 365: It Came From the Desert

Abject Suffering ·

2020/08/31

This week Gary brings a character with a very ill-advised product pitch, then we get into talking about this charming and not-fun Cinemaware game about ants. Please stow your picnic baskets.

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48:12

Episode 364: Kingdom O' Magic

Abject Suffering ·

2020/08/24

Probably one of the most hideous games we've covered for the show?

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51:54

Episode 363: Industrial Spy: Operation Espionage

Abject Suffering ·

2020/08/17

A baffling game gives way to a discussion on obstinate linguistics.

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1:03:53

Episode 362: Blazing Dragons

Abject Suffering ·

2020/08/10

We use this kind of okay point and click adventure game as an excuse to eat stunt food. Warning: Mouth sounds abound.

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55:10

Episode 361: Saban's Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue

Abject Suffering ·

2020/08/03

We head back to the Power Rangers well to learn more about what teens do on the moon.

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