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Episode 51 - AGDQ 2023 Recap

·1 hr 4 min·4 clips

Kingdom Hearts makes Jiminy Cricket the journal keeper because his world is gone.

Chris opens by greeting listeners and bringing Beck into a pretty plain week. Beck says most of it was Games Done Quick, Hades, Tarkov, and Smite. Chris comes back with a small mystery game called I Commissioned Some Bees Zero. It is a free Steam title that plays like a Where's Waldo or hidden-object picture book. You click bees inside JPEGs and they disappear with a bee sound, along with other hidden objects in the images. The two of them spend a little time on the ridiculous simplicity of that setup. After that, the talk turns to Terraria. Beck says they want to play some of those games soon. Chris agrees and says Terraria is still installed on the computer. Beck notes they last played it in August 2021. They clear up that they did not play during the shimmer patch because that came later. From there, the conversation swings back to AGDQ. Beck brings up a Final Fantasy XIV run that pushed them to start playing Final Fantasy XIV again. They had already been talking about the game before the run, but the marathon speedrun was what finally made them pay for the subscription. Beck says they had kept the launcher installed and just needed the push. Chris points out that they never uninstalled it either. The Terraria run gets a quick recap. It finished in one hour, forty-one minutes, and twenty-one seconds. The runner beat all the bosses with explosives and by making kill rooms, which Beck says they have done before, just without explosives. Chris adds that the runner also used a jousting lance later on. The Final Fantasy XIV run gets even more time. It was done by Angelus Demons and focused on Palace of the Dead solo floors 171 through 180. The character was a pianist, and the category was played with two hands on keyboard and no mouse. Beck says they have heard that phrasing both ways. Chris says the detail mattered because the runner explained they were coming from Final Fantasy XI and wanted to play XIV in a similar way. Beck relates to that because they also played XI without a mouse. The conversation then drifts into how a run can be enough to make someone actually open a game they already have sitting there. They also mention that they want to get back to Terraria soon. Near the end, the hosts slide into a side discussion about style and realism in games. Chris says that if you crank the graphics too high on something like Death Stranding, it stops feeling stylistic and starts feeling ordinary. Beck says they dislike games that try to look too realistically styled because it gets boring, and they like World of Warcraft partly because it looks dumb in a way they enjoy. The episode closes with a brief wrap-up, a note that they may talk about Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy XIV, or something else next time, and their usual reminder to do your dailies and your weeklies.

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A loose, friendly gaming chat that moves from Games Done Quick to Terraria and Final Fantasy 14.

The episode spends a lot of time with Games Done Quick, and the back-and-forth works because Chris and Beck keep comparing notes as they move between runs.

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You want a chill Games Done Quick recap with real gamer talk, not polished analysis.

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