Episodes
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Episode 82 - Extra Life 2021, and the Release Gauntlet
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Hosts on Deck: Al, Nick
Games in Play: Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC, Forza Horizon 5, Ziggurat 2, JP: Evolution 2, Superliminal
On This Episode: We are back, we are boosted, and totally swept up in the Fall release gauntlet cycle. Al participated in Extra Life Game Day 2021, and we recap the fun from that. Nick has been having fun with some Game Pass hidden gems. We gush over Dune, and how it is a real visual and audial masterpiece (even if the story has a lot of loose ends for Movie 2 to hopefully wrap. We also get a call from our pal Los! Host of @thetalkingplace podcast and a good friend of ours!
- Release Highlights
- Age of Empire 4
- Forgotten City
- Halo - Dec 8th
- Dune
- Battlefield 2042 hits 11/11
- Forza Horizon 5
- JP Evolution 2
- Many good games hitting GamePass
- Icarus full launch Dec 4th
- News
- Played Prison Simulator. Basically like being a guard at Shawshank
- Kids played Kill It With Fire
- Extra Life 2021 this past weekend. Plenty of FH5 and Snowrunner with DK
- Control and Tomb Raider available through twitch/amazonprime get those free games!
Come hang with us!
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Monday Oct 11, 2021
The Retro Rents -- EP081 -- CitizenCon, Foxhole, Thanks BadFodderFigures!
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Hosts on Deck: Al, Nick
Games in play: Foxhole, Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (and Trails of Cold Steel 2!), Icarus Beta 4, Forewarned (Phasmophobia with Mummies!)
On this Episode: We are now entering the Q4 new release game deluge! Far Cry 6, Hot Wheels Unleashed, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, Metroid Dread, Alan Wake Remastered ALL RELEASED SINCE OUR LAST EPISODE! GAH!
In the news, we discuss more Tommy Tellerico and Intellivision hijinks, the massive leak of Twitch's source code...and probably the hardest news I've ever had to discuss on our cast:
The BadFodderFigures Podcast have announced they are hanging up the mics on their weekly show. They started around the same time we did, and are a group of freaking all-stars from several other previous casts. I've shouted them out often on the show, and for good reason. They were definitely my favorite show in my podcast listening pile, and I really looked forward to the show each week. I also had the fun chance of being one of their regular voicemail callers! That's actually how I hooked up with the amazing regular caller Fred French, who calls into their (and our) show often. We not only carve out an appropriate chunk of the show to thank them (CapnMikeM, Glovebox, Hoody Ninja and DeviousMrMatt) for the years of friendship, technical help, shout outs, and really just being some of our favorite people on the internet. In our usual funny cuts in our show opener, I had to do my part to immortalize the "Stacking Paper" episode as I told the story (probably again) to Nick. Thanks fellas, will miss hearing your show, and look forward to anything y'all do next!
Don't Forget! Nick and I will both be streaming for Extra Life Game Day this year! Keep an eye out on our Twitch Feeds, Twitter, and here as we get closer to November 6th, 2021!
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Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
The Retro Rents -- EP080 -- The Skin of the Onion
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Hosts on Deck: Al, Nick
What's up y'all! On this episode, Nick gives us an update on his progress in Hades. We also deep dive into the newly released Diablo 2: Resurrected remaster and what makes it the kind of remaster any game should aspire to. We also talk about the reveals at the latest Nintendo Direct, and what we're looking forward to seeing there. Come hang out, leave us a voicemail, have fun, play games, and don't be di*ks!
- Release Highlights
- Castlevania Advance Collection
- D2: Resurrected - a masterpiece in remasters
- News
- Nintendo Direct
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land
- Nintendo Switch Online expansion pass - adding N64 games. I’d happily pay a couple bucks more for that
- Mario movie - kinda wish they’d use more VAs
- Bayonetta 3
- Splatoon 3
- Monster Hunter Rise expansion
- Animal Crossing and Smash bros getting their own directs
- Nintendo Direct
- Where you can reach us
- Facebook (tiny.cc\savepoint)
- Email (theretrorents@gmail.com)
- Twitter (@theretrorents, @RetroRentsAl, @BlackEagleOps) - fuck twitter :)
- Twitch (@RetroRentsAl, @Kibbis, @BlackEagleOps, SodaXBread)
- Voicemails: 610-810-1654
Monday Sep 13, 2021
The Retro Rents - EP079 - S--t Shacks and Hades
Monday Sep 13, 2021
Monday Sep 13, 2021
Hosts on Deck: Al, Nick
Things we're Playing: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Icarus beta, HADES (again...and again)
Release Highlights
- Wrath of the Righteous
- Tales of Arise
- Life is Strange: True Colors
News:
Wargaming continues to crap on their community and self destruct
Game releases hitting stride in fall, lots of great stuff coming
Sony Playstation Showcase (FINALLY). What we liked, what we're pumped for.
Where you can reach us
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- Email (theretrorents@gmail.com)
- Twitter (@theretrorents, @RetroRentsAl, @BlackEagleOps)
- Twitch (@RetroRentsAl, @BlackEagleOps)
- Voicemails - 610-810-1654
Friends of the show (other casts, check em out!)
- Bad Fodder Figures - https://badfodderfigures.podbean.com/
- Tap the Craft - https://tapthecraft.com/
- The Steel Cage Lounge - https://anchor.fm/marino-saveri
Sunday Aug 29, 2021
The Retro Rents - EP078 - Memory of a Goldfish
Sunday Aug 29, 2021
Sunday Aug 29, 2021
Hosts on Deck: Al, Nick
What are we playing/watching?
- Allan - Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (beat pt 1, now on 2), Mount and Blade Bannerlord (again)
- First Look: Marvel: Midnight Suns (XCom marvel!)
- Nick - Tribes of Midgard, Last Oasis; Back 4 Blood Beta
- Marvel - What If? Awesome new animated series; Spider-Man No Way home trailer drop. Bringing in Doc-Oc and Green Goblin?
- Visions Trailer - Matrix Animated Series style shorts but with Star Wars looks AWESOME!
- Release Highlights
- QUAKE REMASTERED
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite
- Psychonauts 2
- News
- Blizzard’s death spiral
- World of Warships CC and player exodus
- GamesCom 21’ Online what’s new or interesting?
- xbox flight sim - later this year the Reno Air Race (Yes this is what I was hoping for. Competitive Air Race)
- Not much else new on xbox showcase more DLCs and teases of Forza and Halo
Come hang with us!
- Where you can reach us
- Facebook (tiny.cc\savepoint)
- Email (theretrorents@gmail.com)
- Twitter (@theretrorents, @RetroRentsAl, @BlackEagleOps) - fuck twitter :)
- Twitch (@RetroRentsAl, @Kibbis, @BlackEagleOps, SodaXBread)
- Voicemails - 610-810-1654
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
The Retro Rents - EP077 - Jimmy The Pause
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Hosts: Al, Nick
What's up everyone! On this episode we reveal our latest obsessions! (seriously, go play Trails of Cold Steel if you consider yourself even a minor JRPG fan, it's amazing). Nick is swept up with the Tribes of Midgard, WATCH OUT JOTUN! We also deep dive into the Activision/Blizzard Lawsuit, and how this kind of behavior is pervasive not just in gaming, but the corporate world itself. Til next time folks, wear your masks, get your shots, have fun, play games and DON'T BE D***S!
- Release Highlights
- Tribes of Midgard
- News
- Frathouse sued by state of California for Activision Blizzard-like culture of discrimination and harassment.
- Mass exodus from World of Warcraft to FF14 so much that FF14 ran out of digital licenses (restocked) but large population transferring.
- Steam Deck debut of Steam’s handheld game system.
- I….may have reserved the top end model
- Nintendo getting a OLED model bigger 7” (up from 6.2) screen 64 GB storage (up from 32)
- What is EA showing next week 22nd? Well they are NOT showing anything with Bioware Mass Effect or Dragon Age. Not showing any Star Wars games. So…. Battlefield and all the SPURTSBAWL?
- Casey Hudson former GM of Bioware announces new studio - Humanoid Studios. No games but something to keep an eye on.
- Nature is healing and CPU hardware is slowly becoming more available and prices returning to MSRP - Normalcy by the fall or end of year?
- ...Unless you’re playing the New World beta...which is frying the brand new vid cards
- Skull and Bones - Article from Kotaku quotes former and current employees, game is a mismanaged disaster, frequent reboots/restarts, no identity, sounds like a mess
E3 PART 2
- PC Game Show:
- Naraka - Ninja/Samurai BR August 12
- dodgeball academia - Soon cartoon dodgeball
- Chivalry 2 - Road Map: Various Medieval periods; New maps; More weapons;
- Rawmen - Battle chef very wacky
- Dying Light 2- Dec 7th 2021
- Humankind - Civ lookalike
- They Always Run - MetroidVania looking side scroller
- Lemnis Gate - Sci-fi shooter 25 sec time loop FPS/Turn based Strategy Game (launch aug 3rd) Open Beta July
- Next Space Rebels - Space Kerbel but with home grown parts (model rocketry) but wacky
- WarTales - Open World RPG (Turnbase) adventure game Fantasy Medeival setting
- Ixion - Maintain spacestation and defend internal/external threats (no game play)
- Far changing tides - Sequel to Far Sails
- MW5: Merc showing off the new DLC out now
- Jurassic World Evolution 2: Park Simulator
- StreamFest - Various releases from stream (No HL3)
- Soulstic - Hack and slash
- Warhammer: Chaos Gate - Trailer in Aug//relese 2022
- Pioner - Stalker like modern world bending chernobyl mess fabric of reality.
- Chernobylite - another stalker like game
- Icarus - Space Survival. Get to launch zone in time - Aug 11 Looking forward to this.
- The Wandering Village - Town on a dino
- Death Trash - Fallout 1 looking crazy looking game
- Songs of conquest - Heos of M&M sucessor
- Future Games Show:
- Instinction - Dino vs Surivors???
- Red Solstice 2 - xcom but 8 players Jun 17th
- Severed Steel - Crazy time bending FPS with vibes of SuperHot
- StarMancer - Space base building? Aug 5th
- Harold Halibut - Soon - claymation narrative adventure
- Project Ferocious - Soldiers and Dinos?? 2023 release target
- Voicemails, and Plug Voicemail Line - 610-810-1654
- QotBW - Favorite video game soundtrack and go
- Conclusions/Final thoughts/Shout outs
- Fans
- Bad Fodder Figures
- Married to the Games
- Tap the Craft
- Where you can reach us
- Facebook (tiny.cc\savepoint)
- Email (theretrorents@gmail.com)
- Twitter (@theretrorents, @RetroRentsAl, @BlackEagleOps) - fuck twitter :)
- Twitch (@RetroRentsAl, @Kibbis, @BlackEagleOps, SodaXBread)
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
The Retro Rents - EP076 - LockdownCon 2 and E3 2021
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
What's up everyone!
Today's episode is JAM PACKED with a ton of exciting stuff! Nick and Al recap the incredible experience of being on a panel at LockdownCon 2 with some other incredibly talented and fun podcasters! We also recap the highlights (and utter snoozers) of E3 2021. What were some of your E3 favorites? Who do you think fell short? Follow the contact trail and let us know!
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Friday May 28, 2021
The Retro Rents -- EP075 -- That Delicate Dance
Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
What is going on Y'ALL!! It has been quite some time (again) since our last show, and for that I truly apologize, but as you'll see during the show, it's been pretty crazy here in RetroRentsAL land! However, there is some AWESOME news as well! (Like ya boys Al and Nick being on a panel at LockdownCon 2 this year baby!). Lots more to cover as well, so we invite y'all to sit back, kick back with a good drink of your choice, and chill with us on another episode of The Retro Rents!
- Release Highlights
- Let the late Spring/Early Summer release start.
- RE 8
- Hood - Looks great. Road Map will show staying power
- Subnautica 2
- Let the late Spring/Early Summer release start.
- Biomutant. Reviews seem super meh?
- SMT3: Nocturne
- Unreal Engine 5 Demo crazy sharp and interesting to see behind the mechanics.
- DEMEO!
- News
- Ubisoft to switch to more High End Free to Play model (Taking a page from Activision with CoD?)
- Kicking off with Heartland in the same universe as the Division series.
- Vive revealed their Pro2(Pro-sumer level) and Focus 3 (Business Application Oriented) better stats but nothing software wise to propel it forward in the gaming space.
- Paradox announces CK3 Expansion: Royal Court (looks super cool), and finally, Victoria 3, long awaited sequel to the infamous industrial age politics/mercantile sim (super fun game in Vicy 2)
- Star Citizen vs Elite: Odyssey vs No Man’s Sky: Sell me: What is SC going to offer new at this point? Or is it just planning on doing things “better”?
- Neal Hallford invited us to be on a panel at Lockdowncon!!!
- Ubisoft to switch to more High End Free to Play model (Taking a page from Activision with CoD?)
Friday Mar 26, 2021
The Retro Rents - EP073 - Here, There Be Dragons
Friday Mar 26, 2021
Friday Mar 26, 2021
Hosts on Deck: Al, Nick
Howdy folks! It's been another fun week in games! While we've entered what Nick and I have always called the "Spring Doldrums" (not many new games coming out each week), there are still some gems that we're super excited about.
- Century: Age of Ashes - Nick got into the beta and talks about the first game that FINALLY got dragon combat (much less multiplayer dragon combat) done RIGHT.
- Curse of the Dead Gods and Loop Hero - Al's gems of the week. Really enjoying both of these, and they're a steal at their current price!
- We also talk Game Pass, and how it's easily the best thing in games right now if you love to try new games thanks to Microsoft acquiring Bethesda, and providing EA Play. More games than you know what to do with and a steal at the monthly price (psst, go Ultimate, because PC Game Pass is pretty damn sweet too!)
And more! We hope you enjoy the show!
Contact us!
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Nick - @BlackEagleOps on twitter, twitch.tv/BlackEagleOps
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Monday Mar 08, 2021
The Retro Rents - EP072 - If A Tree Doesn't Fall On Your Head
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Hosts on Deck: Al, Nick
Howdy Folks! We're back after a week off! On this episode we talk about our incredible interview with Neal Hallford, reflect on one year since we were at PAX East together, getting creeped out in Medium, the wild ascent of Valheim, Richard Garriott's latest exploration: The Mariana Trench, and MORE!
News:
- Valheim hits 5 million players!
- Richard Garriott is currently at the bottom of the ocean (as of this recording)!
- Subnautica: Below Zero release date announced (May 14th, 2021)
- Hardsuit Labs sacked from Bloodlines 2 (and what this probably means for the game's release)
- Alien's Fireteam trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1GRp19A89A
The SavePoint game of the month:
- The Medium
Contact us!
VOICEMAIL LINE! 610-810-1654
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@TheRetroRents, theretrorents@gmail.com
Al - @RetroRentsAl on twitter, twitch.tv/retrorentsal
Nick - @BlackEagleOps on twitter, twitch.tv/BlackEagleOps
Kyle - find Kyle on The Savepoint! tiny.cc/Savepoint