Fast questions, sharper game tangents.
Q&A Quest turns listener questions and recent game chatter into sprawling, candid conversations. The panel moves from Switch updates and PAX East impressions to Resident Evil, Digimon, remakes, lighting, and whatever side argument earns the floor.
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Q&A Quest is a listener-question show that behaves more like a standing game-night argument than a tidy news program. Mike Epps aka Wheels leads the conversation, but the value comes from the way recurring voices prod, interrupt, correct, and reroute each other. It is quick. It is loose. It rarely stays inside one clean lane for long. A question about developer pride can turn into Capcom retcons, Tekken balancing, Ninja Gaiden expectations, and the gap between what fans say they want and what studios are willing to change. A casual check-in can become PAX East 2026 impressions of Disgaea Mayhem or a rundown of Nintendo Direct leftovers. The show has a strong RPG and Japanese-games center of gravity. It talks comfortably about remakes, remasters, old control schemes, translation history, problematic legacy content, Switch behavior, and the difference between a flawed port and a design choice that simply aged strangely. The hosts also spend real time on what they have been playing. Recent threads include Resident Evil 9 enthusiasm, Fatal Frame 2 Remake tuning, Mario Plus Rabbids, Monster Hunter Stories 3, Digimon, Hollow Knight Silksong, Metroid Prime 4, and Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Specifics matter here. The show is much more likely to argue over lighting, difficulty, performance, endings, or battle-system feel than to flatten a game into hype or backlash. That makes the messiness useful. Side jokes about soda flavors, Girl Scout cookies, daylight saving time, football, and recording glitches give the episodes a lived-in rhythm without fully derailing the gaming spine. The result is candid, sometimes abrasive, and usually grounded. Q&A Quest works best for players who already know the vocabulary and want a panel willing to say when a beloved thing is weird, busted, overpraised, or still worth playing. It does not chase polish. It trusts the back-and-forth.
Made for: Q&A Quest is for RPG and gaming-culture fans who enjoy candid panel talk, niche Japanese game references, remake debates, and opinionated answers to community questions.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the combination of Q&A structure and tangent-friendly chemistry: listener prompts give each episode direction, while the panel keeps pulling topics back to concrete game details.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Q&A Quest makes gaming technology legible through candid debates about design, pricing, remakes, platform access, and the expectations players bring to each.
Q&A Quest turns listener questions into lively group conversations about games, moving from recent play reports to arguments over design choices, remakes, pricing, and access.
A Yakuza 3 delisting question gets the care your game-library anxiety has been asking for.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose PAX East recap that uses Disgaea and old-game translation debates to tie design details to fan reaction.
Episode 436 is a belated PAX East 2026 catch-up that lands best when it stays close to the details of a demo instead of simply listing what was shown.
A relaxed gaming roundtable finds its sharpest angle in a small Switch 2 docked-mode update.
Q&A Quest 434 works best as a relaxed technology-and-play roundtable, anchored by Nintendo's quiet Switch 2 firmware update. The docked-mode change for forced Switch 1 games is a small systems tweak, but the discussion gives it sensible weight: docked play can run a little…
A brisk, opinionated game talk that treats lighting, length, and Dig Dug canon as serious business.
Community Quest episode 428 starts with a familiar Hollow Knight/Silksong complaint: some Metroidvanias can feel like they ask for too much time, and the talk ties that to Metroid Prime 4 and its 16-hour path to 100% completion.
A Sega delisting discussion centered on Yakuza 3, Kiwami 3, and older-game access.
Community Quest episode 427 begins in a loose, conversational register, with vacation talk, snow, and unfinished games setting the table before the discussion narrows to Sega and delistings tied to remasters and remakes.
A loose episode that moves from flu talk into Digimon history and Survive chatter.
Episode 426 of Gear Request keeps things intentionally slight, with Mike Epps, aka Wheels, fighting off the flu and the show repeatedly signaling that it will be a short one.
A candid community Q&A that moves from cute collecting and a firm seven out of ten to the ownership politics around Yakuza remasters.
Community Quest Episode 427 works best as a relaxed community check-in that gradually sharpens into a thoughtful look at how game ownership can get complicated.
A rough start gives way to a grounded debate about price, convenience, and what feels expensive.
Q&A Quest episode 432 opens on a shaky note, with a genuine mic scramble as the hosts sort out who can hear whom before the talk settles in. Once it does, the episode turns into a steady case for value, moving through a $20 price point, Pokemon Home, Switch games, and the old…
Tech talk with useful detours.
Few questions, long tangents, wherever the conversation goes
Tech skepticism with geek-household fingerprints.
Engineer brain, tech culture, no polish.
Tech culture through working humans.
Tech talk with everyday chaos attached.
Hosts Mike and Joe share personal gaming updates, with Joe praising Metroid Prime 4's design and comparing it to Dark Souls.
Host Wheels and guests David McBurney, Gaijin, and Joe navigate audio issues before diving into gaming Q&A.
Q&A Quest episode 436 includes a special addendum on PAX East 2026, where Mike Epps runs through demos like Disgaea Mayhem, Brigandine Abyss, Crystalmancers, Bubsy 4D, Borderlands 4, and Mad Mojo.
The hosts banter about unusual Japanese soda flavors and debate the best Girl Scout cookies.
Q&A Quest episode 434 opens with a Switch 2 firmware update that lets Switch 1 games run in docked mode, a change the hosts say people requested but Nintendo never promised.
The hosts of CUNYCast debate daylight savings time, with a story about why Japan abandoned it.
The hosts of a podcast experience technical difficulties and banter before starting their Q&A session about Scott Pilgrim and technology.
Hosts discuss a recent Nintendo Direct and NFL playoff disappointments.
Q&A Quest 428 spends most of its time on Japanese RPG remake culture, with talk of Star Ocean 2, Final Fantasy VII, Resident Evil 0, and Yakuza Kiwami 3.
Mike Epps, “Wheels,” opens Episode 426 by saying the flu “kicked my ass” for three days and left him unable to sleep, breathe well, or stop coughing.
Michael Epps and Michael Baker spend much of Q&A Quest Episode 427 on Metroid Prime 4, with Baker saying he is about 10 hours in and expects a 15- or 20-hour run.
The hosts discuss finishing the game Lunar and starting its sequel, Eternal Blue, with light banter.
Mike Epps discusses playing a Switch 2 minigame from the Bravely Default Remaster at PAX East 2025.
The hosts of Q&A Quest banter about time zones and sleeping habits before diving into a Q&A session about the game Silver Star Story.
A humorous gaming podcast episode where the hosts banter and prepare for a Q&A session about Nintendo Direct.