Sinopsis
Talk This! is a bi-weekly podcast about video games, old and new. Each episode, hosts Emma and Madelyn Paquette host a lively debate about two random video games (one old and one new) and then subsequently make up their own by mashing the best elements of each.
Episodios
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Episode 81. The Indivisible Valkyrie
16/02/2020 Duración: 59minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma talk about Valkyrie Profile and Indivisible and oh man they should have separated these games, Emma did a dumb. Also featuring aspersions cast on 90s English dubs, nearly impossible boss fights, and perfect blocking.
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Side-Quest 77. We, Too, Are DLC
09/02/2020 Duración: 01h07minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma talk about DLC, its history, its different forms, and what makes it good or bad. Also featuring the $60 threshold, gamers being upset, and what "unfinished" even means.
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Episode 80. Star Fox Legends
02/02/2020 Duración: 52minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma talk about Star Fox and Apex Legends and the famous Rumble Pak. Also featuring getting game ideas from shrines, the trials of being a human-dog, and a true Legend from Madelyn's time playing Apex Legends.
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Side-Quest 76. That Reminds Me
26/01/2020 Duración: 01h12minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma talk about their last seven weeks of gaming and only a third of it is dedicated to ReMind, we promise. Also featuring the wonders of Photo Mode, the cost of Joycons, and getting swole.
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Episode 79. Destroy All Judgments
19/01/2020 Duración: 59minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma talk about Destroy All Humans! and Judgment and write a bit of Yakuza fanfiction. Also featuring Emma actually giving Madelyn a compliment, what makes games mad funny, and Kiefer Sutherland
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Side-Quest 75. This Episode is Redacted
12/01/2020 Duración: 01h04minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma talk about "censorship" in gaming and why that's a misnomer in the first place. Also featuring the removal of some bones, the unsexiness of pants, and why Steam kind of sucks.
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Episode 78. Baba is Quaking
05/01/2020 Duración: 55minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma talk about Quake and Baba is You and, yes, Madelyn did forget her usual microphone and, no, she cannot make one by pushing words around. Also featuring existential dread, trash-talking online robots, and feeling stupid.
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A Decade of Talk This!
29/12/2019 Duración: 01h15minIn this special episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss the past year in gaming AND the past ten years in gaming. Also featuring the math of Pokeball mechanics, desperate SEO chasing, and Robert de Niro
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Side-Quest 74. And Another One
22/12/2019 Duración: 55minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss what makes a good video game sequel and the best/worst naming conventions. Also featuring songs from Veggie Tales, Star Wars exhaustion, and timeline confusion.
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Episode 77. Just Cause of Goose
15/12/2019 Duración: 58minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Just Cause and Untitled Goose Game and revel in being the bringers of chaos. Also featuring promising movie plans, wifi troubles, and Madelyn's traumatic duck stories.
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Side-Quest 73. Gotta Deliver 'Em All
08/12/2019 Duración: 01h02minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma go back through their last six weeks in video gaming and how much their game characters fell off high surfaces. Also featuring pink pants, accidentally marrying goddesses, and that leaked Re:Mind trailer.
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Episode 76. Control over Steins Gate
01/12/2019 Duración: 58minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Steins;Gate and Control and try to avoid getting into the whole silly "what is a video game" discussion. Also featuring what's annoying about time travel, Odd Squad, and Gooigi.
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Side-Quest 72. Yelling at Each Other on the Internet
24/11/2019 Duración: 59minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma talk about outrage culture and why it seems like everybody gets upset over everything on the internet. Also featuring being an informed consumer, ill-advised musicals, and, yeah, impeachment hearings.
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Episode 75. Astral Halo
17/11/2019 Duración: 57minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Halo and Astral Chain and the benefits and drawbacks of console exclusives. Also featuring barking like a seal, the bane of silent protagonists, and Alexa laughing somewhere, somehow.
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Side-Quest 71. Funnin' Around
10/11/2019 Duración: 58minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma talk about what makes a game fun and whether that even matters. Also featuring the importance of defining your terms, Inside Llewyn Davis, and this hip and happening thing called boredom.
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Episode 74. An Hour of Darkness in the Outer Wilds
03/11/2019 Duración: 01h01minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Disgaea and Outer Wilds which are surprising opposites in just about every way. Also featuring feeling stupid, jumping into a geyser, and where replay value comes from
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Side-Quest 70. Finnacles of Romance
27/10/2019 Duración: 57minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma go back through their last six weeks in video gaming and swap their situations from the last time we did this. Also featuring life adjustments, too much team bonding, and excessive button pressing.
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Ep 73. Sea of Solitary Blades
20/10/2019 Duración: 01h01minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Blade Runner and Sea of Solitude and make up the concept for the next Persona game. Also featuring courting a copyright strike, good life advice, and how cool controller vibration is.
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Side-Quest 69. Video Games History 101
13/10/2019 Duración: 01h01minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma talk about current issues in video game preservation and archival. It's very exciting, we promise. Also featuring the usual lack of technical knowledge, a no snitches sign, and the ideal way to preserve theater.
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Ep 72. Panzer Anthem
06/10/2019 Duración: 55minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Panzer Dragoon and Anthem and make childish jokes about planets. Also featuring terrible development processes, expensive rare games, and people in dragon mechs.