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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Side-Quest 155. Modern Retro Aesthetics
05/03/2023 Duración: 56minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss retro aesthetics in modern games and our own marked lack of nostalgia for any general time period. Also featuring the Marvel of the beforetimes, the cycle of pixel art nostalgia, and what makes a good beep-boop-bop.
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Episode 158. River City Atelier
26/02/2023 Duración: 56minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Atelier Marie: The Alchemist of Salburg and River City Girls 2 and decide how girly it is to turn your enemies into bugs. Also featuring abs of steel, what's too anime, and playing cozy games with your bro.
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Side-Quest 154. Engage the Dragon
19/02/2023 Duración: 01h09minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss our last six weeks of gaming, and we're back to peak Yakuza-era Madelyn. Also featuring so much Fire Emblem talk, changing hair styles, and absolute betrayal.
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Episode 157. A Pentiment Façade
12/02/2023 Duración: 56minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Façade and Pentiment and what's wrong with melons. Also featuring gamers learning to read, the appeal of food, and a lack of history nerds.
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Side-Quest 153. Friendship Completed!
05/02/2023 Duración: 59minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss relationship systems in games and the mathematical complexities of dating several girls. Also featuring depth vs breadth, lying to people's faces, and gift giving guides.
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Episode 156. Heavenly Vampire Survivors
29/01/2023 Duración: 57minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Heavenly Sword and Vampire Survivors (which Madelyn may or may not be playing as they speak). Also featuring 2007-typical language, no actual vampires, and more mortgages than you might expect.
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Side-Quest 152. Gamercize for Gamers
22/01/2023 Duración: 57minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss fitness games. Exergame? Gamercize? Whatever you want to call it. Also featuring Wii Fit Dogs, our pathetic sprint speed, and lore step rewards.
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Episode 155. Armored Quarry
15/01/2023 Duración: 55minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Armored Core and The Quarry and debate whether the threat of 1000 migrating bears would keep teenagers inside. Also featuring obtuse control schemes, stacked casts, and the appeal of big robots.
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Side-Quest 151. Crisis of the Timeline
08/01/2023 Duración: 01h16minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss our last seven weeks of gaming. That sets this before Thanksgiving. Truly uncool! Also featuring Judgment as an AU game, new voice actors, and wishing for just a little more oomph.
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Special Episode: 2022 In Review
01/01/2023 Duración: 54minIn this special episode, Madelyn and Emma reflect back on the year of 2022 in gaming and brace for the tidal wave of games called 2023. Also featuring our statistical breakdowns, how well we kept to resolutions, and our favorite games of the year.
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Episode 154. Hotline Miami Triangle
25/12/2022 Duración: 59minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Hotline Miami and Triangle Strategy and wonder whether they should be more into David Lynch. Also featuring the wonders of mining, explosive endings, and title choices.
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Side-Quest 150. Talking About Talking
18/12/2022 Duración: 01h11sIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss dialogue in games - how very meta of us. Also featuring the master of lockpicking, speculation about statistics, and the dreaded "wall of NPCs."
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Episode 153. Cult of the Sleeping Dogs
11/12/2022 Duración: 55minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Sleeping Dogs and Cult of the Lamb while Madelyn falls victim to the cult of The Cult of the Lamb. Also featuring undercover work, funny little dances, and deeply troubled development cycles.
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Side-Quest 149. Peace Be With You, I Guess
04/12/2022 Duración: 01h05minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss religion in games - or at least, we get a start on it. We wade into the shallow end. Also featuring holy spirit power, the meaning of Trinity Marks, and the can of worms known as Call of Duty.
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Episode 152. Stanley A Live
27/11/2022 Duración: 57minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Live A Live and The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe and imagine what office work could have been. Also featuring how to tell a joke, the areas of history, and narrating each other to annoyance.
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Side-Quest 148. Season of Death
20/11/2022 Duración: 01h16minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss their last six weeks in gaming and - Emma, we get it, you played a lot of games, this episode will never end. Also featuring going back to skateboarding, muffled name calling, and the unreality of courtroom drama.
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Episode 151. We Are Not Empires
13/11/2022 Duración: 01h01minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Age of Empires and We Are OFK and have a temporary identity crisis. Also featuring what makes something an empire, the logistics of a virtual band, and whether or not there's any murder.
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Side-Quest 147. R.O.B. With A Chainsaw
06/11/2022 Duración: 01h02minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss gaming controllers and peripherals. We love the PowerGlove. It's so bad. Also featuring infrared, cute robo power, and why all controllers look the same now.
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Episode 150. Neon Turismo
30/10/2022 Duración: 01h04minIn this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Gran Turismo and Neon White and continue their campaign for the eradication of real sports. Also featuring John Cena, motorcyles in FF7, and regional soundtracks.
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Side-Quest 146. The Spookiest Season
23/10/2022 Duración: 55minIn this not-episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss horror games, something they have extreme expertise in because they are definitely not scared little babies. Also featuring a real jump scare, movie comparisons, and how hard this all seems.