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Front Seat Gamer

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Hang out with Paul, Blake and Nick as we talk about video games.

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  1. #210 - An 80 Hour Tutorial

    Paul and Nick run a guild, buying and selling heroes, and hoping they don’t die 10 times while arguing over the Red Rift. Blake has spent 80 hours playing a game that he can’t tell if he even likes

  2. Donut Pizza - 209

    It’s the return of the Hot or Cold Pizza question and the return of some real Path of Exile talk. Nick plays through for the first time since beta launch. We discuss the new league and the new end game.

  3. Mouthfeel On Your Ears - #208

    Get ready for the biggest Sifi word salad you’ve ever heard! Nick and Paul have been hooked for months on the game CiFi. Blake cannot understand a word they say about it.

  4. Bellwright or Bell Wrong? - 207

    Nick defends his Zelda and Doom comparison. While Blake defends his purchase of another Early Access Survival, Village Management Game. But this time Nick and Paul don’t hate it!

  5. Slorm!

    Episode #206 Does buying a game based on a promise always end in disappointment? How important is a developer Road Map? Should every Zelda be a Breath of the Wild? How much Slorm is too much slorm?

  6. #205 - Fruit Go In Hole

    This week, AI is still taking our jobs. Paul spends his nights in a dungeon while putting fruit in a hole and filling a room with gnomes. Blake loses his mind while Nick and Paul explain a mining game.

  7. #204 - Bunker’s Island

    Ever wondered about the NZ Education System in the early 2000s, or if AI will take your job, or when cannons were invented, or when the Dodo Bird went extinct. Well, we talk about it all, on this video game podcast

  8. 203 - Inbreed All The Cats

    AI in games seems inevitable. What do we think about it? What do we think about big companies replacing people with it? Also what happens when your cat goes mad and keeps pooping out rocks?

  9. #202 - Short That Baby

    It’s a new year and we’re talking about the failure of NFT games. Gambling on babies in space. Breaking our legs on ladders. Finding murder dens. Creating wizard empires. And evolving little slime people.

  10. #201 - Two Hundred Of One

    Blake makes a PoE easter egg promise to justify his lazy gardening. Nick comes up with a dungeon master run live rpg cryptid hunting game. Paul remembers the good old days or WoW

  11. #200 - Sonic! Gotta Walk!

    Paul falls off Silk Song while Nick falls more in love with it. Blake falls into a medieval simulation and gets annoyed at his teleporting horse. We also have a lot of great listener questions this week.

  12. #199 - I Got Molyneuxed

    Blake tells of how he was Molyneuxed by Fable. Nick tells of how nice the LoL community is now that chat is turned off. And both Paul and Nick tell of their time in the long awaited Silksong!

  13. #198 - Execute Shenanigans

    Nick writes in with his own question this week. Paul is builds an empire of industry, endlessly mining coal. And Blake passively absorbs Scotland. We also complain like old men, how WoW was back in our day.

  14. #197 - Water Rats

    This week we are joined by GGG Artist James Hurlock, who worked a lot on PoE1 Kingsmarch. We discuss how easter eggs can fuel a community and how to grow giant vegetables and raise dinosaurs.

  15. #196 - So I Glassed Him

    Paul’s away this week so it’s just Nick and Blake, complaining about game prices and how hard old games are. They have both been out text-adventuring although Nick has also been using his backpack has a weapon.

  16. #195 - The Comfort Room

    How do we justify buying a new game console? Are triple A games too expensive now? Are there cheaper indi alternatives? Why is Blake buying another early access survival game?

  17. #194 - Have You found…?

    We’ve all been getting our daily steps, opening doors that lead to rooms that lead to doors that lead to rooms. This week we’re discussing Blue Prince. There will be spoilers, but we warn you when.

  18. #193 - How Bazaar

    Another two weeks have passed and Nick and Paul have been busy collecting items and fighting pigmen. We complain about the price of games and consoles and get confused, like old men, by Xbox versions.

  19. #192 - To Make A Sun

    We’re joined by GGG Game Designer Dameo to talk about killing gods, making suns, throwing black holes going to heaven and hell and alternate dimensions and finally just dying in some acid

  20. #191 - Ball Of Arms And Limbs

    Paul is away this week so Nick and Blake go cave diving by themselves. Nick has an even worse fungal infection that sprounds new arms and hands. While Blake discovers he is a bird person cowboy.

  21. #190 - Rogue Not Roguelike

    Nick has a talkative fungal infection and backpack OCD. Paul is running around shanking people with a heavily armoured warlock. While Blake is neck deep in conveyor belts and trunk logistics.

  22. #189 - Two Weeks Later

    Nick does not find Satisfactory satisfactory. Blake loses more time in his factory. Paul says we can buy PoE2 now. And we’ve all been playing the game and have lots to say about it.

  23. #188 - Stick Power

    Blake loses a whole day to organising sticks and researching slugs. Nick loses his mind spraying sticky people and tapping tutorial buttons . And Fabian gives advice on how not to play Monster Hunter.

  24. #187 - Orks Read The Secret

    We’re joined by PoE Artist Fabian to talk about Space Marines and Japanese Gangers. We take our best guesses at Warhammer 40k lore. And we wonder if hyper real graphics are worth striving for.

  25. #186 - Elden Scrolls Online

    Blake goes in search for that classic MMO vibe and rediscovers Elder Scrolls Online. Nick spends three decades exploring the same city. And we all wish we could play as a middle aged Ash Ketchum.

  26. #185 - Probably Might Play It

    Nick complains about invisible paths and rival Cabaret Clubs. Paul complains about XP boosts while chasing nostalgia. Blake stop complaining about rocks and starts loving puzzles.

  27. #184 - Rocks are Just Rocks!

    Blake plays an amazing game but won’t shut up about the rocks. Paul drowns under the pressure of the ocean and the pressure of running a business. Nick gets into real-estate and karaoke with the Yakuza

  28. #183 - Getting the DLC?

    Paul is sick of games doing story at him. Nick discovers hidden depths in a ocean diving game and also discovers hidden eggs in a cave diving game. While Blake doesn’t finish another game

  29. #182 - Big Swingin Moustache

    Nick and Blake are a couple of cyberpunks, hacking and slashing their way throughout the city. While Paul is back to talk about the real life mega corps hacking and slashing jobs throughout the games industry.

  30. #181 – Mittens Mittens

    Fabian has stayed with us to talk about review bombing and terrible DRM. Blake plays a new early access game where half the systems don’t work but is still the best village management game he’s ever seen

  31. #180 - I Got Nothin

    Paul’s away but we’re joined by Fabian Seager, an Environment Artist on Path of Exile. Fabian preaches the glory of Managed Democracy, while Nick and Blake scratch out a living in an alien wasteland

  32. #179 - Super Poker

    Paul has abandoned everything to play more and more Super Poker. Nick finds an ugly as sin game with no win conditions, janky UI, unintuitive systems, and asks why Blake isn't already playing it.

  33. #178 - Always a Bad Dragon

    Paul is annoyed that Final Fantasy doesn't remember his progress. Nick tries to explain how to have fun in Solitareica, and Blake is ransacking people's houses in Dragon's Dogma II

  34. #177 - Bleach Sandwiches

    Paul gives Final Fantasy 7 another try and is suprised how much story is there is. Blake hates when games give him FOMO and threaten to change the world. And we all wonder how AI can change NPC interactions.

  35. #176 - Survival Survivor

    Nick goes nuclear on Elden Ring again. But has a good time with God of War. Paul is hooked on dopamine from Deep Rock Galactic Survivor. While Blake felt surprisingly emotional seeing Earth in a X4

  36. #175 - Lemon Design

    Blake realizes he prefers lemons. Nick is horrified over how little Paul cares about storytelling. Nick then spends 30 hours in a tutorial at a Japanese school. And Blake has gone mad on survival games.

  37. #174 - Kamil Orman-Janowski

    We're back for 2024 and joined by GGG Lead Composer & Music Director Kamil Orman-Janowski. Kamil talks about his process of creating the amazing music for Path of Exile, and also why Nick is wrong about Dark Souls

  38. 173 - Guessing At Warcraft

    Paul recounts his adventures in WoW Classic, and we all end up on a nostalgia trip to 20 years ago. Blake thinks having an army in BG3 is a good idea and Nick thinks that will just ruin the game.

  39. #172 - Step On Me More!

    Nick has played so much Elden Ring and has so much to say about it. Not all of it is bad.... but most of it is. Meanwhile, Blake starts playing GalCiv IV but ends up in a Stellaris DLC price rant.

  40. #171 - Roll The Dice And Lose

    Blizcon happened and a new mobile game came out that has both Nick and Paul hooked. We reminisce about our days in early World of Warcraft and complain about how difficult the game was back then

  41. #170 - GTA Star System

    After seven years, Nick might finally be interested in playing No Man Sky. Paul has been hunting monsters in a new mobile game and Blake has been cracking a binary code.

  42. #169 - It's Not Early Access!

    Starfield is 1000 planets, so why does Baldur's Gate feel bigger. What makes an open world interesting. What's Paul's build for the new PoE League. Why is Blake not playing Starfield or Baldur's Gate.

  43. #168 - I Get Pretty Murdery

    After the craziness of Exilecon, we are back to talk about meeting awesome fans, conquering the galaxy but getting bored with victory, breaking into crypts and murdering so many goblins.

  44. #167 - Inscrutable Space Sim

    This week we are joined by Grinding Gear Games Level Designer Josiah to talk about an unnecessarily frustrating space sim that has both Blake and Paul hooked. We're talking X4:Foundations.

  45. #166 – Zelda, Baby!

    The day has come. The day Nick has been waiting for. Finally Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is out. Nick is on 4 hours sleep but that does not stop us from talking about Zelda for an entire hour.

  46. 165 - Dark In The Darkness

    Paul goes fishing for Cthulhu. Nick stacks bags within bags within bags and Blake cowers in the dark. We're talking Age of Darkness, Dredge, Tap Wizard, and Nick slips in some Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

  47. #164 - Big Ambisound

    Paul and Blake have been playing the Diablo 4 Beta and Nick has a lot of questions. Paul has also started a business empire that’s taking over the City. While Nick becomes Prey and loves the endless options.

  48. #163 - I Got Hogwarts

    Blake is glad to find some Batman in his wizard game. Nick contacts a dev, and gives actual feedback on an Early Access game. While Paul doesn’t like throwing away his rocks and sticks.

  49. #162 - Talking To The Tie

    Paul finally gets to talk about Disco Elysium and the neck tie the gives him advice. Hell must of frozen over because Nick bought an Early Access game. And Blake is playing lot, and very little, of Hogwarts Legacy

  50. #161 - Reconstruct The Soup

    We’re finally back from holiday break. Nick’s been eating his way around the south pacific. Paul’s been drinking his way into new games. And Blake’s been devoting a lifetime to pressing a button.

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Hang out with Paul, Blake and Nick as we talk about video games.

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