Rather Be Playing 33: Do all the Crimes

Rather Be Playing Episode 33 Do all the Crimes - Spider-Man, Dragon Quest XI, Beyond: Two Souls, Fallout, Diablo 2, Backlog Roulette

Hey hey! Remember us? We’re either back or still here, depending on your proclivities. But here we are with a fresh new episode full of all the mostly latest games. We realize that a certain biggest game of the year recently released, but we’ll get to that later. For now we’re on the previous biggest…

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Rather Be Playing 32: Chrono (Heart)Break

Rather Be Playing Episode 32 Chrono (Heart)Break - Tacoma, Owlboy, Rime, Darksiders, Chrono Break, Backlog Roulette

We might be a week late, but we’ve got an extra long episode to make up for it! And you can thank Tacoma for that. That’s right, we’ve finally brought our deep dive spoiler chat of Tacoma with us and it is a doozy. Our thoughts on this one are a bit mixed, so check it…

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Rather Be Playing 29: Emotional Juices

Rather Be Playing Episode 29 Emotional Juices - Oxenfree, Hollow Knight, Octopath Traveler, Backlog Roulette

Remember when we rolled Oxenfree in the roulette like a million years ago? Then there was E3 and travels, civilizations rose, civilizations fell, eons came and went. And that brings us to episode 29 wherein we finally finished Oxenfree! It was a great little game and we have a few things to say about it…

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Rather Be Playing 27: Happy Belated

Rather Be Playing Episode 27 Happy Belated - Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Crossover Item Randomizer, Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy XI, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, Borderlands 2, Severed, Final Fantasy X, Backlog Roulette

Have you ever forgotten your own birthday? We sure did. Happy belated anniversary to us! Last week was our one-year anniversary and we missed it from all the excitement talking about playing old games. Can you blame us? And this week we’re back with even more. We’ve all been chipping away at our most recent…

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Rather Be Playing 25: The Most Terrible Game

Rather Be Playing Episode 25 The Most Terrible Game - Cuphead, Xenogears, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, #GameStruck4, Backlog Roulette, One Sentence News

I mean not terrible as in bad, but terrible as in ‘hoooooly hell go easy on me!’ Of course we’re talking about Cuphead here. The game you hate to love and love to hate, but that makes you love it even more. And despite how hard and unforgiving it is, we finished it! I mean…

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Rather Be Playing 20: I’m a Weiner

Rather Be Playing Episode 20 I'm a Weiner - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Celeste, Super Mario Run, Dark Souls 3, Streaming, Mobile games

This episode cuts the fat and serves up all the meat. We talk 100% games we’ve been playing this week. Not even any news stories make it in to the discussion. Speaking of those games, remember our roulette from two weeks ago? Uncharted: The Lost Legacy? That’s right, we all finished it in time so…

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Rather Be Playing 18: What Remains of Metal Gear

Rather Be Playing Episode 18 What Remains of Metal Gear - What Remains of Edith Finch, Nintendo Labo, Metal Gear Survive, Dark Souls Remastered, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Night in the Woods, SteamWorld Dig, SteamWorld Heist, The Last Guardian, Demon's Souls, Invisible Inc., Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Backlog Roulette

We are hitting the ground running with our #NoNewGames2018 resolution. All told, the three of us finished five different games! And we played many more, and we’re not even done with January here! We’ve got some overlap in these games, so there’s plenty to talk about. Not the least of which is the game all…

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Rather Be Playing 10: Rabid Mario

Welcome to our milestone 10th episode! What an exciting time! And how did we kick off the celebration? By reading a book! Wait, what? That’s right, Jason Schreier’s Blood, Sweat, and Pixels hit bookshelves recently, and we have a lot of (good) things to say about it. We also had a million backlog games to play…

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Rather Be Playing 6: Self-Inflicted Wounds

We’re back to our regularly scheduled timezones! Everyone’s home from their epic journeys, and we all dust off our controllers after many weeks away. Actually, only Josh hasn’t touched a game in that long because this week he’s the only one of us not to finish his roulette game. WTF man?! The only thing Josh…

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Rather Be Playing 4: Big Box of Fun

We all played the same game! We deconstruct Firewatch with a deep spoilery discussion. Since it’s a relatively recent game, we moved it to the last part of the episode to make spoilers easily avoidable. Not to spoiler the spoiler warning, but we all liked it! So much so that we would like to have…

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