Grunt Free Press Podcast

Once again proving his obliviousness, AbsoluteDeicide forgot this is the last episode before Christmas. All of the Christmas music will appear in the next episode, where it will make no sense. Topics - egg burger, Call of Duty: WW2, fifty matches?, Hardcore Team Deathmatch, Ranked, performance shit pits, reverse auto aim, surviving S-mines, new old map, Gun Game, Super Mario Odyssey, cryptic moons, Raspberry Pi 3, Retro Pi project, Christmas memories, giant list o' games. Music - The Streets - Empty Cans, The Clash - I Fought the Law, Owen Benjamin - Ballad of the Soy Boy

An embarrassing episode (there's a first time for everything) where AbsoluteDeicide reveals that he doesn't know the difference between metal and classical music. Or are they really one and the same? Deeper levels... Topics - Mega Man 11, Atom in Injustice 2, the ya knows, stage transitions, endless battle, Nintendo Switch review, short and stubby sticks, The Game Awards are a joke, Tenchu?, Super Mario Odyssey end game, moon surprise, mood shift, boss rush, Steep Winter Olympics expansion, Call of Duty: WW2 Winter Siege Event. Music - FEAR - SNL Appearance, Excrementory Grindfuckers - Taschengeld, Neil Young - Southern Man

AbsoluteDeicide welcomes a new addition to the family, and it's not a baby or a dog you clown. Of course that means a rambling, confusing narrative about setting up a Nintendo Switch. And stumbling over every joke in the episode. It's another classic. Topics - Offensive Facebook posts that don't exist, Call of Duty: WW2, meaningless status symbols, weapon levels, rocket launchers, shitty shotgun, Injustice 2's story mode is still bad, Nintendo Switch, console puzzle game, cable management, video troubleshooting, Super Mario Odyssey, hats. Music - Slayer - New Faith, Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues, Slipknot - The Negative One

Tales from the frontlines of the Annual Black Friday massacre.  Report: kind of lame.  End report.   Topics - Surviving Black Friday, Burlington Coat Factory sucks, fashion corner, garbage pants, to Switch or not to Switch?, Steam sale search, user reviews get complicated, Call of Duty: WW2; still good, specializing, cheater, Ninja Gaiden Black, maps, spend and use, Total War: Warhammer 2, Lizardmen, artillery dinosaur, 4K lore.   Music - Greatful Dead - Shakedown Street, GWAR - If I Could Be That, B52s - Planet Claire

Gobble, gobble, wink, wink. Battlefront 2 sucks. Topics - Company memo, Call of Duty: World War 2 update, useless suggestions, error code 5, Free-for-All, Injustice 2: still Injustice 2, Star Wars: Battlefront 2's campaign sucks, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Physical Copy, Star Wars: Battlefront 2's multiplayer also sucks, old school lag, star cards, tiny lasers, Ninja Gaiden Black clad ninjas. Music - Jethro Tull - Mother Goose, Ninja Gaiden OST - Iron and Sword, Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut

Still reeling from the shock of a good Call of Duty game, we shake it off and do what we do: Protips and tech reviews you shouldn't take seriously. Topics - Leftover Crack fans are faggots, ironic tolerance, Assassin's Creed: Origins, question marks, third person Far Cry, where's the "run" button?, broad in a cave, sound bar, EA buys Respawn Entertainment, Call of Duty: WW2, challenges and contracts, I suck at sniping, Injustice 2 on PC, Ninja Gaiden Black, cords. Music - Leftover Crack - Gay Rude Boys Unite, Primus - The Rainbow Goblins Chapter 4 (The Scheme), GG Allin - Tough Fuckin' Shit

AbsoluteDeicide gets back to the grind and back to the frontlines with some surprising AAA titles that don't suck. And that one that does. You know which one... Topics - Halloween hangover, Stranger Things Season 2 sucks, whining in a shack, beating the shit out of Shadow of War, defending strongholds, rastlin' War Chiefs, Call of Duty: World War 2... is good?!, old school/no filler, War Movie: The Game, saving Nazi girls, Agon 4K 21:9 monitor review, G-Sync, hooked on multiplayer, Assassin's Creed: Origins, Destiny 2. Music - Spinal Tap - Stonehenge, Combat - The Reign is Over, White Zombie - Starface

Grunt Free Press Scarefest 2017. I dressed up as someone who sounds like he's dying. Topics - Spooky tales, Halloween 3: The Season of the Witch, old man horror mythology rant, kids' heads exploding, Stonehenge, doe-eyed girl, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, remembering The New Order, ads Vs. games, shit starts, whhiiiitteee maaaalees!, B.J.'s daddy issues, Nazi memos, how's the shooting?, pray and spray, "This might sound bad, but...", Debris, Shadow of War: Badass Overload?, Leatherface. Music - Trent Reznor - Halloween Theme, Dead Kennedys - Halloween, Gregorian Lyrics - Ave Satani

(crickets) Topics - Half assed history of Piranha Bytes, games I'm not playing: ELEX, dirty dollars?, The Evil Within 2... is good?, forced art appreciation, South Park: The Fractured But Whole... is butt?, racial difficulty, safe targets, Shadow of War kicks ass, funnier than South Park, Never Hike Alone, AVGN finds Polybius. Music - Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black, Candlemass - Bewitched, Type O Negative - Love You To Death

Some people say confusion is really the spirits of the dead calling forth from beyond the grave. Some say it is echoes of a time long past. In a small New England town, confusion is just a way of life... but what happens when you say a show is on Netflix and it's really on Amazon Prime? I'm Aaron Mahnke. This is some bullshit about video games. Topics - Hellraiser sucks, Uncle Frank, fuckin' fuckin', bone stickman, personal hell, rubber monster, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, goo theme, head pops, ADD Elder Scrolls, Nemesis System, uh oh: loot boxes, The Evil Within 2, Why?, open world horror and stealth, technobabble, slow everything, goo animations, Raiden 5: The Director's Cut, cheer. Music - System of a Down - Prison Song, Messer Chups - Curse of Stephen King, The Black Dahlia Murder - The Lonely Deceased.

This was going to be a pure Halo themed episode, because... you know... 117 and all that. But I got distracted with the month long Spook-a-thon. Then I forgot about that, too. Topics - The death of Groove, Cuphead, hittin' the dice, boss gauntlets, The Devil, fin, Pinball FX 3, Universal tables, Paulie Pinball, RPG progression, challenge modes, Total War: Warhammer 2, nerdy fantasy stuff, colonize, The Vortex, rituals, Forza Motorsport 7, VIP credits, mod cards, head shakes, The Satanic Bible for SJWs. Music - Dethklok - Murmaider, Led Zeppelin - Gallow's Pole, iDiG Festival '15 - DIT Traditional Irish Halo Theme

It's the return of the original AbsoluteDeicide, and the return of the Halloween Spook-a-Thon (again). Plus, was this secretly the best week for game releases... well, ever? Shhhh! Topics - More refunds, in Russia code redeems you, Home Sweet Home, R.I.P. The Black Saint, Asian Dude, ghost jukin', Nintendo and Atlus: double sided dildos, Cuphead, boss fights, Forza Motorsport 7, best week for game releases? Music - GWAR - Techno Destructo, Cuphead - Floral Fury, The Beatles - Rocky Raccoon

Grunt Free Press gets high brow and introduces a book club segment, a classic rant about Comcast, and the unappreciated brilliance of fighting game stories. Topics - New policies, Mixer, yellin' at Comcast (again), names, low latency mode, VOD, Marvel Versus Capcom: Infinite, roster complaints, another shitty fighting game story, easy Arcade mode, clashing art style, System Shock 2, RPG stats, weapon degradation, issues solved, Tomb Raider movie trailer, Grunt Free Press Book Club, Dangerous Gamers. Music - The Doors - Spanish Caravan, Wolfbrigade - Warsaw Speedwolf, Rancid - The 11th Hour

They say the early bird gets the worm, so we kick off the Grunt Free Press Spook-a-Thon a few weeks early with a horror themed episode. Although there were horror games last week, too. And there might not be any next week... Scratch that. It's just a normal episode. Topics - Fuck System Shock, Where did you learn to fly?, control mastery, playablility, Whatevertown, humping walls, like Prey only bad, horror theme?, Penumbra: Overture, Frictional Games, Lovecraftian, manual control, physics, demon dogs, levels!, where the goo is, graboids, The Land of Pain, lost in the woods, random goofy Cthulhu, normie Earth dimension, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, FPS lives, refunds. Music - The Misfits - She, Pantera - Domination/Hollow, Iron and Wine - Sick of You

Just the classics, as usual. Demon boys and homicidal AI. Topics - Vanilla Iced Whiskey, two Bad Ass Babes; one controller, Pinball FX 3, horror time, Lucius, The Omen: The Game, elaborate deaths, speed running murders, walkthrough philosophy, chores, meaningless nail guns, Salt and Sanctuary, Ska Studios, Dark Souls demake, System Shock, '90s cyberpunk, maze game, boxes within squares within quadrants, shock shields, meters and beams, vita chambers, pixelated buttons, clicking puzzles. Music - Patti Smith - Rock N' Roll Nigger, Andrew Hung - Fizzy Barf, The Mamas and the Pepes - SPLC Hate Dance

Anticipation gets the best of AbsoluteDeicide as he jumps around and installs/uninstalls multiple games and watches the quintessential superhero movie to end all superhero movies. Topics - Warhammer: End Times: Vermintide, cursed dice, nerd stats, bounty board, daily quests, co-op garbage, rat wizard, Sonic Mania, special stages, blue balls, tappa-tappa-tappin', goin' fast, more animations, Wonder Woman sucks, Already Established Scenes and Characters: The Movie, dumb superhero shit, Kona, fuck survival games, freezing mechanics, Canada sucks. Music - Owen Benjamin - Antifa, Sonic Mania - Oil Ocean Zone - Act 1, The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers

Werewolves and robots and Formula One, oh my... Topics - Gamescom wrap up... I guess, Observer, robot werewolf, jacking into dead people, surprise stealth, AI sons, beta bullshit, Comcast still sucks (for different reasons), slippery slopes, Warhammer: End Times: Vermillion, Rat People: The Game: The Left 4 Dead Clone, because Europe, scarce loot, F1 2017, practice, penalties. Music - Sepultura - Symptom of the Universe, Mary Poppins - Death Metal, Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down

An in depth look at all of the mind blowing announcements from Gamescom 2017. Psyche! It's mostly more Total War: Warhammer. Topics - News!, Planet of the Apes: The Game, Swery's cat game, Total War: Warhammer, pro Dwarf strats, gyrocopters, "as I understand it"*, cycling, Chaos, geographical advantages, corruption attrition, The Book of Grudges, ignoring heroes, Observer, lots of movie references, bored Blade Runner, headache vision, holograms and trash, Clutter: The Game, Gamescom happened? Music - System of a Down - Attack, Total War: Warhammer - Skirmish, FEAR - I Love Livin' in the City

What the Hellblade were they thinking?   Topics - Hey! Games!, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, meta bullshit, ready for my close-up, artsy, runes, Dark Souls lite combat, ghost people, perma-death, story vs. gameplay balance, SPOILERS!, Javy Gwaltney is a faggot, lazy journalism, semantic breakdown, Batman: The Telltale Game Season 2, stand alone stories, the long slog through The Long Dark, house wolf, Total War: Warhammer Norsca.   Music - The Mamas and the Pepes - Diversity is Our Strength, Megadeth - 99 Ways to Die, Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding

From freezing in the woods and running from wolves, things get varied and interesting this week... but it's mostly about how much I suck at Total War again. Topics - Qualified indie game garbage, more Total War: Warhammer, the crumbling Empire, Stuff that I Like: The Game, play by play, Easy is Hard, Warhammerian economics, flavor text, walking the beast paths, The Long Dark, survival games suck, menu simulators, meters, Story Mode... in chapters, UI sucks shit, find more sticks, a bridge too dark, selective wood. Music - Muse - New Born, The Pogues - Bottle of Smoke, Rancid - Cold Cold Blood