Grunt Free Press Podcast

It's the Zelda Edition of Grunt Free Press Podcast, where it gets super nerdy and embarrassing. And that's saying a lot. Topics - The Zelda Episode, Mutant Football League, lowest common denominator aka mobile games, whatever, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, adventure log, a day in Hyrule, how open?, dialogue text, shut up Princess Zelda, shrine distractions, horses, wind, eatin' meat, enemy camps, surprise giants, sparkly rocks, toenails, Dark Souls DNA, stop trying to rape Link, combat, gadgets, ancient knowledge, mechanical giraffe, Amazon women, races, The Lost Woods. Music - The Mamas and The Pepes - Teh Ballad of Stickman, Hatebreed - Destroy Everything, Johnny Cash - Cry, Cry, Cry

Why publishers decided to release a half dozen games back to back, I don't know. I do know that it's a blessing and a curse, as we jump around game to game in a schizophrenic smorgasbord of discussion. Have fun making sense of it. Topics - All games for once, Xbox Game Pass, Halo Wars 2, turtle missions, RTS conundrum, For Honor battle report, low bar skill cap, Viking victory, "community" rules, Horizon: Zero Dawn, full game orgasm mode, pretty tradeoffs, crossing the tree, noun soup, The Feral Kid, retarded midgets, Berserk: Band of the Hawk, "Y" if you're feeling fancy, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Wii U review, painful downloads, fuck the Gamepad, Vasoline smears, towers, spider climbing, systems, cooking animations. Music - The Clash - Clash City Rockers, Little Shop of Horrors - Feed Me (Git It), Lamb of God - The Subtle Arts of Murder and Persuasion

We branch out into some new segments this week, including weather reports and the Weekly Podcast Review.  Then we talk about the same games we've been playing for weeks.  Unsubscribe.    Topics - Grunt Free Press Weather Report, bees, trash walk, MST3K reboot, cringy funny, unsubscribe, For Honor is pretty good, suckin' the Viking dick, the Nioh loop, recycled maps, old school Japanese PS2 era game, Friday the 13th: The Game: The PAX South Panel, car trolling, throwing knives, Halo Wars 2, strategy faggots, shit blows up, juggling controllers.   Music - Cheap Trick - Surrender, For Honor - Wolves Among Sheep, GG Allin - Bite It You Scum

White people. Am I right? Topics - Ass swamped with games, footsies, brainfucking, Apocalypse Now wants your money, PewDiePie recruits Hitler Youth, anti-Semitic Indian kids, telephone journalism, For Honor, mechanics, rock-paper-scissors-throw, combos, special moves, meta-Risk, retardeder story for some reason, party problems, confusing currency, Sniper Elite 4, openish worlds, hiding in bushes, controller garbage. Music - System of a Down - P.L.U.C.K., Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie, Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell

Warning: I may have inadvertently dropped an F-bomb or two. Sowie... Topics - Shitty snow, NightCry, bad Kickstarters are hilarious, half assed Clock Tower history, Shenmue is terrible, pixel hunting, running in high heels, rope on window, soda machine wood chipper, "fuckin'", bad news roundup, Bloody Boobs, pants, Nioh, Dark Souls plus Tenchu, tanky, stances, axes, active stamina reload, gamey, boss fights, confusing crafting, Valentine's Day dump. Music - The Black Dahlia Murder - The Blackest Incarnation, Horse the Band - A Rusty Glove, Tool - Anema

Woke up. Got out of bed. Smiled, knowing a hot redhead owes me head. Topics - Banter, Pats won, Lauren Phillips' asshole, blowjob logistics, back to Forza Horizon 3, I hate drifting, fistjail?, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, living ammo, checkpoints, chicken people, high pitched gibberish, boss fights, full murder mode, spoiler twist, Captain Planet bullshit, 15 year old PTSD, tripping/trapping, Steam brain, Hard West review, dusting off the PS4 Music - Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Theme, Pantera - Sandblasted Skin, The B52's - Private Idaho

Now with 80% more games and 60% less snot! Topics - The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, The Telltale formula, escalate the violence, Juno bug, Resident Evil 7, back to the roots?, magic box, is it RE?, references, Condemned 3, VR tricks/gimmicks, inconsistent damage, goo monsters, dumb AI, fanboying by proxy, Hitbox jokes, Apocalypse Now on Kickstarter, For Honor For Beta, moshpit, bloody Valentine. Music - Slayer - Angel of Death, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Mystic Cave Zone, Amon Amarth - First Kill

Experiment: Try to describe a complex puzzle game with philosophical overtones while battling a cold. Results: The rambling gets so convoluted that even I don't know what the fuck I said. Interesting... Topics - snot faucet, Hyper Light Drifter, perspective problems, pixel explosion, bad map, fake artsy bullshit, "like Zelda", The Talos principal, "like Portal", Tetris pieces, meta narrative, SOMA?, trying to explain a puzzle game, the voice of God, QR codes, the Dark Souls mindset, star doors, the tower. Music - Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song, The Talos Principal OST - A Land of Ruin, Municipal Waste - The Fatal Feast

Continuing the search for interactive entertainment in a barren hellscape, AbsoluteDeicide looks toward the future in a new console, returns to Hell itself, and braves the apocalypse. Spoiler: We're fucked. Topics - Pants, Doom 4 DLC, shit gen, fake news, Nintendo Switch, waitin' on Zelda, launch remasters, hat gimmicks, phlegm, the miserable generation, "creative" people, hack jobs, Pit People... in Early Access, brief history of The Behemoth, The Forest update, Wasteland 2, meat on the bones, blue hair and red blood, twist. Music - Dio - Holy Diver, Anti Nowhere League - Out on the Wasteland, System of a Down - Old School Hollywood

AbsoluteDeicide digs himself out of a foot of snow, then tries to keep a chain of thoughts straight for more than a few seconds at a time. The results are... mixed. Topics - Grunt Free Press goes social; doesn't know how that works, Party Hard, fake ass 8 bit, bad voice acting, bad podcasts, Welcome to Night Vale, Gab, colored dots, Batman - The Telltale Game, genre fatigue, still Batman, political underpinnings, subversion, Wasteland 2, party based RPGs, RPG game theory, time = reward people, Angela Deth gets a call, messy alliances, Act 2: California, Scalebound cancelled. Music - Anti-Flag - Die For Your Government, Lords of Acid - Rough Sex, S.C.U.M. - Go To War

With the first podcast episode of 2017, Grunt Free Press lays out it's agenda for massive, sweeping change in the coming year. Mostly rambling and the usual bullshit you should be used to by now. Topics - 777 ?, umm..., Resident Evil 6, nostalgia thing, Wasteland 2, before Fallout, premade party, walls of text, controller garbage, angry and confused, work for pussies, CRPGs, save scums, five second animations, no rest for the Rangers, goin' rogue, hobo with a shotgun, Atari E.T., metalulz, man yells at dog, Party Hard?, Steam Discussion Investigations, Tower of Doom, Halo Wars. Music - Lamb of God - Laid to Rest, Liam Lynch - United States of Whatever, Sluts - I Don't Wanna Be Your Friend

Friday the 13th: The Game: The Beta: The Podcast: The Episode. Topics - Friday the 13th: The Game: The Beta, brain rot, Resident Evil 6 and Wasteland 2 quick hits, "It's a beta", full disclosure, connection issues, Steam attack, pickin' Jason, stamina, powers, weak Rage mode, Battlefield One quick shit, part 7 Jason sucks, counselor stats, the "metagayme", walking speeds, mini-games, perks, XP, escape, shades of NES, randomness, cops are OP, Tommy Jarvis, shotgun to the face. Music - Dead Kennedys - MTV Get Off the Air, Resident Evil 6 - Separation, Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction

Attention! Some hipster in San Francisco has decided this is fake news. Listener discretion is advised. Topics - 75 episodes!?, the seasonal spirit, Forza Horizon 3: Blizzard Mountain, stars, Steep, snow, go do stuff, how wind works, G-meter, sucky camera, NDAs, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Beta Codes, free Lost Odyssey, Twitch/White House hosts games... for healthcare awareness, Twitch's Thought Police AI, Internet Archive gets political; Loses money. Music - Run D.M.C. - It's Tricky, Jethro Tull - Up To Me, Kill Baby Kill - Diversity

This episode goes from zero to sixty in about forty five minutes, then it kind of swerves to the right and gets lost for a little while. If you can parse out the maze and think you have the solution, remember to email podcast@gruntfreepress.com and we'll randomly pick the winner. I also forgot to say that in the episode. Topics - Boycott Burger King, waitin' for burgers, Train to Busan, product placement, Bethesda Pinball, generic fantasy pinball, rules, saving stats, Doom pinball, chainsaw plunger, Dead Rising 4, a brief history of the Dead Rising series, cheat code GTA retards, no structure, non-bosses, wasted skill trees, go do stuff, the downward spiral, botched ideas. Music - Nailbomb - Sicklife, Old Dan Tucker, South Park - Troll Song

So... Have you played The Deadly Tower of Monsters yet? Topics - Regrets, in depth Game Awards coverage, more Capcom games, Mega Man Legacy Collection, Mega Man 5: More Mega Man, story dumps, M tanks, letters and numbers, N bombs, lack of news, Jeff Cork is a hero, ups and downs of Battlefield 1, in depth PSX coverage, sex doll Mega Man, Mega Man 6, Resident Evil 6. Music - Bob Dylan - It Ain't Me Babe, Dropkick Murphys - Never Alone, Horse the Band - Werepizza

I ate a bunch of apple crisp before recording, so sorry for the gurgling. Topics - Put it Down! - signs, Black Friday floor report, Mega Man 4, E tank grinding, questionable weapon pellets, charged shots, last minute mechanics, Resident Evil 5, fight the AI, brown games, inventory, agro, game tutorimercials, Black Mirror Music - Lamb of God - Omerta, Rancid - Disgruntled, Frank Zappa - Tinsel Town Rebellion

This one... this one... is more ramble-y and stutter-y than usual. I give it a 6 out of 10. Wait for a sale. Topics - A day in the life, notebook auctions, bloody tampons, NES mini, Mega Man Legacy Collection, password protips, E tanks, feature creep, RPG elements, shotguns, Battlefield One, Hardcore, games I didn't buy or play, Civilization 6 remains questionable, working ass backwards, Resident Evil 5, podcast games, Clueless Gamer Music - Leftover Crack - Clear Channel (Fuck Off), Mega Man 2 OST - Heatman, Nine Inch Nails - Burn

Trigger Warning: A straight, white, male devil is about to rant about the US election. Go fuck yourself. Topics - Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, the Metal Gear connection, Comcast continues to suck, data caps, streaming news, the obligatory post-election rant, my so called privileged white life, Dave Chapell, sound bites, Milo Gay Dude, pussy riot, punching presidents, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Hardcore, Civilization 6. Music - Slipknot - Fuck it All, System of a Down - Fuck the System, Dead Kennedys - Stars and Stripes of Corruption

Its the Halloween Spooktacular: Part Three: Election Day Edition. Topics - hot hermaphrodites, more Doom 4, multiplayer death rumors, demon dancin', Mythbusters: Doom Edition, ass to ass butt buddies, bad references, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, useless reviews, taking control, Tom Clancy's Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Friday releases, brain splatter downer, ship to shit, garbage multiplayer. Music - Doom - Main Menu, Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have, The Clash - Hateful

What's this? And early Halloween treat? Open up your Ninja Turtles pillowcase and accept an early podcast episode down your gullet. It's full of chills and spills, and raw, sleepy hollow voices and coughing. Topics - "normal", reviews, Old Man Halloween, controversy?, voice over strike, Bethesda's review policy, spot the big corporation, Doom 4 again, classic Doom? Battlefield One, jammin' "X", Titanfall 2, member good FPS campaigns?, Attrition changes, paper titans. Music - The Bomboras - Playa de los Muertos, Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl, Cannibal Corpse - Addicted to Vaginal Skin