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Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 247
...Annnd we're black! Topics - Surprise vacation, Doom: Eternal, tuning and dealing, jumping and dashing, parkour master, everything's on cooldown, I'm stuck, Super Pussy Mode, really I need more ammo, I don't know what this multiplayer is, Resident Evil 3, it's more Resident Evil and it's kind of like 2, keys and maps, no loading, dashing and charging, goombas, Nioh, it's kind of like... Music - Sublime - Santeria, Aggressive Express - 'Merica, Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 246
Chainsawing demons because you have to, not because you want to. Topics - Doom Eternal, the year of Our Lord 2016, everyone is still dying, new consoles same bullshit, stealing codes, the constant lack of ammo, upgrades and abilities, Hell Priests, I like it I swear, plasma beats shields sometimes, there's a story somewhere, skins, master levels. Music - Metallica - No Remorse, Pantera - Rise, Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 245
We're all Doomed... Topics - New consoles same as the old consoles, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Triforce, bubble puzzles, sleeping bear, orb hoarder, Doom: Eternal, new streaming problems, karma, it's Doom... Or is it?, spider masterminds, the base and the secrets. Music - Metallica - Leper Messiah, Pisse - Hundegelantine, John Lennon - Isolation
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 244
Whoever wins the semi-annual "Wettest Sneeze in Public" contest wins the old notebook. Topics - Web browser wars, somehow I don't think we'll get out of E3 that easily, Beautiful Desolation, antenna relay, The Dude, fellow tribesmen, spiritual mumbo jumbo, dice games, watering the gaming drought, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, the game is abuzz, mashing X and not using the D-Pad, platforming for the sake of platforming. Music - Nirvana - Drain You, The Black Dahlia Murder - Child of Night, Nine Inch Nails - Reptile (Live)
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 243
Drive-by sniping they did Nazi coming. Topics - Bagged bacon, Neverwinter Nights, poisoned by spiders, almost dead, returning to Sniper Elite 4, open world open wounds, circles within circles within arrows, general mayhem, silenced ammo, Beautiful Desolation, pointing and/or clicking, obscure weirdness, for once I just give up on everything. Music - Jim Morrison - Ghost Song, White Zombie - Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks, and Cannibal Girls, Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 242
The hits keep on missing. Topics - Dreadout 2, the fatal frames, Indonesian folklore and urban legends, Ghost-O-Pedia, Asian School Girl Number 53, Cell Phone Obscura, an app for that, artificially difficult bullshit, black fog, horror shit, The Linda Haters Society, ghost girl gurney, Papa, toxic fights, stunlock garbage, Indonesian Tiger Ghost, fuzzy pictures, broken shit, Neverwinter Nights, it's playable..., turn undead?, "Recommended". Music - Onyx - Betta Off Dead, Bunbury - … Y Al Finale, Slipknot - Eeyore
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 241
A twisted string of tutorials. It's on Sunday now, I guess. Topics - XCOM2: War of the Chosen, Nemesis Enemies, layers of bullshit, covert operations, time sensitive, losing the tactical touch, story mode, Magic the Gathering: Arena, it's not what you think it is, card games are gay, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, 4x, icon anxiety, it made me shit, World of Horror, is it out yet?, complete the ritual, I don't understand things, crashing, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, ninja stealth, everything is complicated and I am an idiot. Music - Otoboke Beaver - Old Fart is Waiting for My Reaction, Nine Inch Nails - Closer, GG Allin - Fuck Authority
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 240
Zombies, zombies everywhere and not a fuck to give. Topics - Oscar recap, In Search of Darkness, horror art, James Rolfe being James Rolfe, Trump talks B-movies, Nazi zombie/alien zombie, another surprise Spooktacular, Zombie Army 4, it was Hitler all along..., ghost Hitlers, harkening back to a time when killing Nazis was just fun and not a political statement for gays, tripping up on tripwires, traps, XCOM2/War of the Chosen, the usual confusion, yeah the episode is late fuck off. Music - The Exploited - UK 82, The Streets - Let's Push Things Forward, Slaves - The Hunter
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 239
The novelty wore off looonnng ago. Topics - Pixels versus voxels... Settled?, Blade Runner remains a mystery, rasters and vectors, trixels, other bullshit I don't understand, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, getting things ten years too late to be cool, scientist bunker guy, invisible vampire creatures, the continuing saga of broken shit, guass rifle gauntlet, that famous ferris wheel that's somewhere, Wishmaster, Zombie Army 4, it's Left 4 Dead but good, X-ray brains and testicles, GFP Radio. Music - Bad Brains - Don't Need It, Tremor - The Proletarian's Teeth, Rage Against the Machine - Guerilla Radio
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 238
All work and no new games make AbsoluteDeicide a replicant. Topics - Sad news, Blade Runner, GOG, black borders, cyberpunk arcade machines, pixels versus voxels I don't know, fat people, Rasta Lady, animal murder, Chinese guy in the freezer with the eyeballs, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, have to mention Fallout and Metro, hubs, floating fire balls, crashy. Music - Jimmy Gutierrez - Me Babi Lo Del Mercado, The Offspring - Come Out and Play, Ska-P - Eurotrama
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 237
The Mongoloidian. Topics - The Surge 2, directional blocking, combat combat combat, the language of the Souls, cyborg zombies, Baby Yoda, nano cults, Doc Ock, Baby Yoda, just go and do shit, for once I want a map, upping Anor Londo, no more games, dealing with delays, Baby Yoda, Blade Runner is out... The old one, dying for Dying Light 2, Frostpunk, coal and wood and steel, I still suck at strategy games. Baby Yoda. Music - The Hookers - Kiss My Fuckin Ass, Pink Cigs - Low Blow, Mick Gordon - The Only Thing The Fear is You
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 236
Rated PG for "Pretty Gay". Featuring special guest: the lovely and talented xJulianaMoon! Topics - Consumer watchdog bites man, beyond PornHub, Chaturbate, dick pics, interactive degeneracy, advanced JO strategies, Globalism in action, Filipinos are pigs, yellow surprise, DLC prices, the bottom half of Twitch thots, tech advice, fuck machine tips, Mortal Kombat with dildoes in the ass, MechWarrior 5 failures, falling back to grinding, The Surge 2 and more Dark Souls comparisons. Music - Anal Cunt - I Respect Your Feelings as a Woman, Cannibal Corpse - I Cum Blood, System of a Down - Welcome to the Soldier Side
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 235
It's not just Mechs and soldiers, it's also soldiers battling robots. And more Mechs. Topics - More MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries but not live, Black Inferno, two Atluses a King Crab and a microphone would have been a better title, dairy voice, LRM carriers, never ending end game, it keeps going and going..., Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, gold Scar, mounting, Terminator: Resistance, Future War, comparing it to Alien: Isolation because that's going to happen, Salvation was shit, reasoning and bargaining with them, film grain. Music - Dishonor - War Victims, Cartilage - Chopped and Churned, Ms Splosion Man OST - Oh Mandy
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 234
New year, zero effort. Music - Dshinghis Khan - Moskau, The Chats - Smoko, Ghoul - Metallicus Ex Mortis
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 233
The Never Ending Christmas. Topics - What I bought myself for Christmas, Red Dragons, numpads, Hyper X, Dolby Atmos maybe, Post Scriptum, "realistic", Cthulhu Saves Christmas, abbreviated JRPGs, in-jokes and getting meta, Christmas puns, Y.U.L.E. love it, poison, MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. Music - Devo - Jerkin' Back 'N' Forth, Sean Kolton - Judgement and Retribution, Otoboke Beaver - datsu, hikage no onna
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 232
The most important person in history was born on this holy day: Ryan Seacrest. Topics - Reaching to not give up on Halo: Reach, linear unlocks, Radio Commander, armchair 'Nam baby murderer, more robotic than the game with Mechs, dumb soldiers, the Gab ghost town, you can't have "free speech" and no porn, masturbation condemnation, it's Christmas, MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, familiar universe different perspective, real tank controls, negative progression, math. Music - Mariah Manson - All I Want for Christmas is the Beautiful People, Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis, Rancid - X-Mas Eve (She Got Up and Left Me)
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 231
Who washes the cock, men? Topics - Halo: Reach is on PC. Kind of. When you find it, smoky haze, mandibles, doomed missions, ripping off Star Wars and Call of Duty or vice versa, MAC cannon, green streak crapshoot, pfft autoaim, a plea for ranks, how MLG ruined Halo, DMR starts, the dumbing down, power weapons, a genuine rant, is it Halo?, Xbox Series X, Hellblade 2. Music - Otoboke Beaver - Don't Light My Fire, The Rocking Dildos - Raincoat Brigade, Primus - Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweakers
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 230
Douchebumps on top of douchebumbs by R.L. Stein. Topics - This obscure indie game called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the M4A1 manufactured by NERF, killing with personality, molotov to the face, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2, space grids circles and lines, fears of a botched campaign, Disco Elysium, do something, Racist Cab Driver. Music - Slipknot - Solway Firth, The Damned - Smash it Up Parts 1 & 2, System of a Down - Deer Dance
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 229
I was fine until I got three Knuckles capsule toys in a row. Topics - Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the best comedy I've seen in years, space fuel and paper, hilarious Nextel jokes, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, holocrons, Vader the slasher, Need for Speed: Heat runs cold, Sunless Sea, menus menus menus, curse mummy, Shenmue, can't fault the port, the big stretch and the long con, thin plot in a long game, the memes are wrong, let's work... in a game. Music - Mclusky - Lightsabre Cock Sucking Blues, Cemican - Mixteco, Shenmue OST - Wish...
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 228
The Thanksgiving Turktacular. Topics - Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, the chop, The GeForce Experience, lightsabering and forcing, planets are big, pushing balls, I suck at children's games, the Wookie homeworld, Debra Wilson has big black titties and fisheyes, cream of sum yung ginger guy, space bugs and dragons, Shenmue 3 is apparently garbage to no one's shock besides cultists, shooting more stuff in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Hardcore. Music - Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (Live 1972), The HU - Black Thunder, Grey - Vegan Thanksgiving
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 227
Cold pressed and cold filtered. Close your window. Topics - Let's strand Death Stranding, I don't have to play it, the Kojima scam, Hell House, planning for next year, The Outer Worlds, what's considered "old school", stealing, fetch quests, tell me your life story random vendor, sleepy time, mixed messages, flaws, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for the true hardcore, Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order. Music - The Black Satans - The Satan of Hell, GG Allin and the Jabbers - Bored to Death, The Exploited - Beat the Bastards
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 226
Where is Zombies? Blizzcon 2019 (didn't watch it), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (the new one), Piccadilly attack, faux outrage, where's the rape?, crossplay, clickity-clackity, the boots are on the ground, in the Ground War the snipers win, The Outer Worlds, Fallout in New Vegas in Space. Music - James Silva - I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES 1N IT!!!1
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 225
The Long Halloween. Topics - Halloween hangover, Silent Hill: 0rigins, HD PS2, PSP was a thing, a trucker named Travis, the gang's all here, The Butcher, red demon, it's Silent Hill, maps and doors, two worlds, hearts in pools, the worst melee system in video game history, Death Stranding came out and no one cares, Fatal Frame 2 is unplayable. Music - Kottonmouth Kings - Bump, Biohazard and Onyx - Judgement Night, Guns N' Roses - November Rain
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 224
Halloween Hootenany Volume 5: The Season of the Werewolf. Featuring: Thrills!, Chills!, The Beast Inside, Werewolves?, House of the Dead 3, Spills!, Rot!, Silent Hill?, Sanitarium, Biff!, Pow!, The Suffering, Slurs!, Spooks!, and maybe more... Music - The Mamas and the Pepes - Eat the Bugs (High Energy Ska Remix), Daemonia - Toccata e Fuga, Job for a Cowboy - Suspended by the Throat. In memory of Shawn "Change" Lawson
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 223
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, you yell at people and their heads explode. Topics - Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Dolphins, someone figured out tank controls suck, Buffy's mansion, clocks, time jumping, keeping your sanity, runes and spells, menu overload, too many portals, Condemned 2: Bloodshot is dogshit, worse than I remember, people have bad taste, edgy/emo Ethan, sexy Rosa, unwanted combos, can't see shit, exploding babies and heads, the doll factory, they fucked it up. Music - Horror Story - Devil Girl from Mars, The Ghastly Ones - Robot Atomico, Blitzkid - Pretty in a Casket
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 222
This is what happens when you cross a loner with a microphone. Not a whole lot. I have kittens. Topics - 360 health checkup, don't play Lost in Vivo, PS1 games look like garbage, famous annoying talking babies, fake glitches/real glitches, Joker, modern historical movies in fiction settings, "acting", justified violence, let's be racist, Taxi Driver?, giving Batman's mother the famous pearl necklace, we're all clowns, theories, Dead Space 2, is it horror?, haunted house etiquette, ghost wife. Music - Condemned: Criminal Origins OST - Main Theme, Angelo Badalameni - The Pink Room, Paddy's Funeral - We Don't Serve Clowns
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 221
Health Advisory: Not for expecting women or nursing faggots. Topics - Hauntingly bad coffee, Gears 5 is still broken, A Nightmare on Elm Street, it's average, sleep but no health, Code Vein, level design and AI, not-quite-Souls, random bullshit, mazey ass maze, Condemned: Criminal Origins MOS, Serial Killer X, live research, Doom: Annihilation, It's better than Event Horizon. Music - Laas Rockit - Leatherface, S.O.D. - Freddy Kreuger, Misfits - Night of the Living Dead
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 220
Okay, NOW it's The Grunt Free Press Spooktacular 2019, a month-long celebration of all things gay. I mean horror. Shit... It's STILL not October? Too late to change now. Boo. Topics - Gears 5 is still broken, School Girl/Zombie Hunter, avocado and watermelon, soothing shooting, Man of Medan again but "co-op" this time, pass the controller, Hunt: Showdown, blue sparklies, I should like it..., more reasons Early Access sucks, Code Vein, anime vampires, blood vials that grow on trees, critters, already in Blighttown. Music - School Girl/Zombie Hunter OST - Track 6, Bad Brains - Don't Bother Me, Mister Monster - Tina N Freddy
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 219
I swear I don't hate everything. Just most things. At least it's the official unofficial start of Spooktober, so I can start playing bad things that I like that everybody hates. Topics - The Friday the 13th curse is real, why the fuck is Nightmare on Elm Street fifty dollars?, retro awesome, Thimbleweed Park, gaming while sick, disjointed storytelling, specks of dust, hot dogs for hamburgers, hint lines, Arrest-O-Tron 3000, toilet paper, Rebel Galaxy 2, generic space shit, feelin' the grind, 3 From Hell, Rob Zombie's illustrious movie career, I want to kick Baby in the teeth, just say "nigger" you faggot. Music - Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gada-Da-Vida
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 218
Maybe I'm sick from the trash fire. Topics - Control sucks, levitate to your death, dark platforms, glitchy health, blue balls, annoying shit, the "Find Something Worse than the Ashtray Maze" challenge, Gears 5, Locust Queen, not of this War, skiffin', tornadoes, it's basically Crysis, Dropshot, fighting Grabboids, Real Talk: Gears campaigns, stuttering and crashing, Friday the 13th: Tips and Tricks that kind of work. Music - Gremlins 2: The New Batch OST - The Big Battle, Hatebreed - As Diehard as they Come, Superjoint Ritual - Everyone Hates Everyone
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 217
It's a sleepy one. Topics - Blair Witch, no fiddly puzzles, bite the Bullet, more tree people, 90's phones, naggy cunt wife, references, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan, QTEs, pirates!, Cold Fear, RE4.5, Deadly Premonition 2, Gremlins in the Gears 5 launch. Music - Eat My Fuk - Slit Lickin' Scumbag, Anaal Nathrakh - "Forward!", Pink Floyd - The Gunner's Dream
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 216
The Labor Day Spooktacular. Topics - My shit, tube TVs, old games if I feel like it, Remnant: From the Ashes, behind-the-scenes head canon, Moonlight Butterfly, more adds, Remnant's very own Cookie Monster, the sedative called Control, the return of Ray Tracing, collectible vandalism, Blair Witch, it's basically Silent Hill. Music - Pink Floyd - Mother, Immortal Technique - Obnoxious, Pantera - Regular People (Conceit)
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 215
Do you like horses? Topics - Gossip time, an "open letter" to they guy who wrote an "open letter" to Respawn, dress up with dollies, Reddit internet people, the reality of monetary transactions, Ion Fury, formerly Ion Maiden, don't use a controller, Duke nostalgia, amazing level design, shotgun/grenade launcher combo, Remnant: From the Ashes, tree people, Dark Souls with guns, adds. Music - Anthrax - Antisocial, Jarkko Rotsten - Access, GWAR - Fuck This Place
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 214
Oh no! Why are you reading this? I don't want to leave my room. I like writing stories. Are you trying to kill me? Oh, you've done it again... Bernie... Topics - Compelling gaming news, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Professor Creepy, dropping dialogue loads, support, character development by attrition, lost items, anime character overload, narrative grinding, Sylvain the Destroyer, Sunset Overdrive: the PC port, no multiplayer? Music - Meat Market - Folding Socks, Dan Sartain - OD Life, Cheap Time - Total Annihilation
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 213
Believe in your own justice. Topics - Storytime: the Vermont Expedition, summary: I'm retarded, Castlevania: the grudge, the ones and twos, Dead or Alive 6: updated, Mai and... Lula?, getting back to average, looks good, Metal Wolf Chaos XD, mech prophecies, highlighting the clown world we live in. Music - The Clash - (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais, Castlevania OST - Final Battle 01 - Nothing to Lose, The Black Dahlia Murder - Of God and Serpent of Spectre and Snake
Grunt Free Podcast Episode 212
The podcast is on Saturday now. Topics - On the road again, Gears 5 beta again, pissed, entitlements, the Locust Dance, skill gaps, Pillars of Eternity, It's Good!, refinements and fixes, The Endless Paths, exponential rewards, Hollowborn, ignore the Kickstarter people, Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Music - Trash Bag Full of Dead Babies - America's Media is Owned by a Handful of Companies, Primus - Too Many Puppies, GWAR - Sick of You
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 211
In the summertime when your penis is hard, that's when you go outside and you find a retard... Topics - I am spam, Gears 5 beta/tech test thing, the darkest tutorial, Arcade MP, It's Gears, The Thing (The Game), the buddy system, cold meter, trust meter, infected, "Where's the sniper rifle?", fire, meat blob, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, the Nintendo Switch is still garbage, Ability Orbs and other free-to-play crap, ISO-8, it's hard. Music - Jethro Tull - Teacher, Nailbomb - Cockroaches, System of a Down - Toxicity
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 210
Lots of positivity for once. HIV Positivity. Topics - Fellow day people, jumping back to Apex Legends, Battle Pass, I suck, L-STAR, Ranked Games, Killer Frequency, Alpha Beta Gamer, mini-Spookfest, Dia, dead bodies, Faith, Spider Demons and Ring Girls, Hacknet, command prompts, hackers, FTPBounce.exe, firewalls and proxies. Music - Puscifer - Potions, Chakan: The Forever Man OST - Main Theme, Wishbone Ash - Jailbait
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 209
The mask slips. I am Tubgirl. Topics - How to Win at Nintendo Games Vol. 3... Part 2, Fist of the North Star, Friday the 13th, where are the screams?, Baldur's Gate, unbalanced bullshit, spiky armor badguy, searching for story, spiders, Chapter 7..., micromanagement, running from guards, notes. Music - Municipal Waste - Sadistic Magician, Ms. Splosion Man OST - Metal Head, Alien Weaponry - Ahi Ka.
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 208
In Zelda II, "If you want to do a fast game-save, hit pause, then simultaneously press the A button and up on the control pad of the second controller. Nice, huh?" - Jeff Rovin Topics - The Sinking City, Oakmont, surprise Lovecraft, Sherlock Versus Cthulhu, The Great Flood, shitty NPCs, research, crafting, Void Bastards, collecting junk and crafting again, rogue-like-lite, fuck Dustwind, Story Time: How to Win at Nintendo Games... Volume 3. Music - Ningen Isu - The Colour Out of Space, Nine Inch Nails - Ahead of Ourselves, The Rolling Stones - Play With Fire
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 207
The start of (yet another) new era of GFPP as we move into the big league chews. Mainly a got a job I can literally roll of bed to get to, so we're recording on Saturday now. You could call it "laziness", sure. Sure. Topics - Surprise "vacation", sunshine and Saturdays, "extra" episode, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, bad map, shards, breaking the flow, explore-the-Castle-vania, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Darth Bad Guy, queueing up combos, the Bioware formula, Sigil... It's Doom. Music - Anal Cunt - I'm Gonna Give You AIDS, Chipmunks on 16 Speed - Walk Like an Egyptian, The B-52's - Give Me Back My Man
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 206
With E3 in the rear view mirror, we can finally catch up with some old friends and old games, and give up on most of them because they're not very good. Back to the grind. Topics - Starving in and rage quitting Pathologic 2, plainspeople, beaten to death by egg people, Jet Set Radio, pixelized pussy, not hitting the broad side of a crane, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, splitting up the crew, pallete swaps, smashing boxes, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Music - Iron Maiden - Running Free, Shadow of Intent - Barren and Breathless Macrocosm, Dead Kennedys - Moon Over Marin
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 205
I survived E3 2019 and all I got was this lousy podcast. Topics - E3 2019: Ubisoft, Devolver Digital, Square Enix, Nintendo, PC Gaming Show. Music - Sweet - Ballroom Blitz, Beastie Boys - Gratitude, Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 204
E3 2019 Part 1 (of 53). Topics - Restream Chat, Lorelai, The Devil Came Through Here, Queen of Maggots, stepdads, piss near the head, stalking Dunkin' Donut girls, shark fin soup, Ice Cube Simulator, ambiguous endings, E3 2019: EA, Bethesda, Microsoft. Music - Owen Benjamin - That Nigger Stole My Bike (Gay Pride Month Edition), Junkie Brush - Sickening, Les Claypool's Duo De Twang - Stayin' Alive
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 203
Some big news this week. But I'm still doing the "What I did on my Summer Vacation" thing, so you're stuck with that, suckers. Topics - Observation really sucks, Simon Says, now I'm the dumb AI, padding, Bloodwake, boat combat, the secret is "A", Enter the Matrix, nostalgia hole, vampires?, focus, driving in circles, consistently inconsistent, making Sewer Shark look like a masterpiece, Pathologic 2, surreal horror, too hardcore for me, thread is gold. Music - Jet Set Radio Future OST - Oldies but Happies, Buckethead - 13th Floor, Bloodwake OST - Song 6
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 202
Improv and story time. My strengths. Topics - John Wick meh, Slayer, fire, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, shitty graphics, the garbage Fallout community, beat them ups, Let's Read: The Prophetic History of Fallout, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the nightmare of PC gaming, Observation sucks. Music - The Ramones - I'm Against It, Cannibal Corpse - Shredded Humans, Slayer - World Painted Blood
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 201
Ragin' until you have a Breakdown. Topics - Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, more realistic plus Terminators, Breakdown, it's a one shot, Derrick Cole, amnesia, alien skinheads, ultimate power, old walkthroughs, eat your rations, Rage 2: it's not as good as Rage, cotton candy, bad racing. Music - Slipknot - Unsainted, Ministry - Just One Fix, J. Giles Band - Must Of Got Lost (Live)
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 200
The Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 200 Spooktacular! Topics - Episode 200!, more like "Gaypoint", journalism is dead, repetition works, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, I'm a shitty fighter, turtling, The Onyx Sword, Dead Space rules, space junk, blobs and tentacles. Music - Hawaii Five O Theme, GWAR - Penile Drip, The Black Dahlia Murder - Funeral Thirst
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 199
Episode 200! Oh, wait... Nevermind. More Xbox games. My bad. Topics - Sonic is a movie and a Hedgehog, MechAssault and everything I know I learned from MechWarrior, no checkpoints, Jaws: Unleashed, be the shark, hunger, mines, Stubbs the Zombie, be the zombie, "puzzles", eating brains, tanks. Music - Rammstein - Radio, The Clash - Tommy Gun, Oranger - Mr. Sandman
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 198
Everything is broken. Topics - Pre-waiting on pre-loads, Subnautica, catching fish, ever-expanding crafting lists, alien eggs, Mortal Kombat 11, another fighting game story mode..., comic book villains, lack of titties, mobile game bullshit, a million currencies, impossible Towers. Music - The Immortals - Techno Syndrome, ALESTORM - Drink, Torsofuck - Raped by Elephants
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 197
Something old and something new. The mid-life crisis episode. Topics - PlayStation 5 sounds okay, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Fuzzles, swapping, shroobs, eggs, OG Xbox rules, garbage third party controllers, a trip to the local retro games shop, Otogi: Myth of Demons, Proto-Souls, Corruption. Music - Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee Theme, Reverend Horton Heat - Marijuana, Cypress Hill - When the Shit Goes Down
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 196
I thought the Bluechew bit would have been much more interesting than it turned out. Sorry. Never rely on dick pills. Topics - Dangerous Driving is bad driving, rubber banding, light speed boosts, Cuphead, the case of the missing DLC, Trials Rising, grinding, Dark Souls 3, The Painted World revisited, ash, The Ringed City, finality. Music - Anabelle Trash!!! - Hellcity, Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown, System of a Down - She's Like Heroin
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 195
You can tell I'm not a real "games journalist" because I beat Sekiro. Topics - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, The Divine Realm, Demon of Hatred, fire-y crosses, just die..., Doom speedrunning is boring, Mobile Legends Bang Bang, Trials Rising, Dark Souls 3. Music - Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, The Cramps - Mad Daddy, Pink Floyd - Us and Them
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 194
Just Sekiro. We Die more than Twice. Topics - Sekiro: Shadow Die Twice, NPCs, prosthetics, cryptic bullshit, Sculptor's Idols, Dragon Rot, bulls and horses, Pro Tips, monkeys, Divine Confetti. Music - The Dead Milkmen - Gorilla Girl, Waylan Jennings - Lonesome, On'ry, and Mean, Flogging Molly - What's Left of the Flag
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 193
Spider-Man is a ninja now? Topics - Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, square Kingpin, comic filter, slapstick, The Division 2, strongholds, level 30, distracted by ninjas, Google Stadia, storefronts, "the future" is still the future, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, posture, deathblows. Music - Reverend Horton Heat - Big Little Baby, Amon Amarth - Raven's Flight, GWAR - Captain Crunch
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 192
Some people say there's a real... Division... in the country. The Conflict between the Dark Zones and the White House. Topics - Master Chief on Steam, Dead or Alive 6, I hate this gay-ass culture, outrage machine, reactive fighting, The Division 2, it's beautiful, lighting, three-in-one, fast travel, gadgets are hard, lethal bullets. Music - Darkthrone - The Pagan Winter, FLESHSTORM APOCALYPSE - Sugar, Iron Regan - Miserable Failure
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 191
Wanted: Dead or Alive. Topics - Dissenter, Dead or Alive 6, all sides..., the anti-DLC brigade, currencies, practice makes average, mercifully short stories, Free Training, DOA 6 Master, whales, Devil May Cry 5 is kind of gay. Music - Dick Dale - Miserlou, Kid Rock - Fuck Off, Six Feet Under - Doomsday
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 190
Core values. Topics - Dirt Rally 2.0, Dark Souls of racing, Trials Rising, Excitebike of racing, mobile game menus, Crackdown 3, what's going on with Microsoft?, cheap deaths, Dead or Alive 6, Super DOA Turbo, the boobs jiggle, mixed graphics, fatal blows. Music - Anal Cunt - Ha Ha Holocaust, AC/DC - Thunderstruck (live), Spinal Tap - Hell Hole
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 189
Legends of Lore Topics - Apex Legends, reader mail, Bangalore, Gibraltar, Caustic, runners, more war stories, Anthem gets hilariously bad reviews, Metro: Exodus, bad ending, spooky spiders, Crackdown 3, jumping. Music - Ministry - Thieves, Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK, The Mamas and the Pepes - Hate Crime Hoax
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 188
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 188 Time comes for us all. Topics - Earth Defense Force 5, The Dualshock 4 is a piece of shit, Starship Troopers roleplay, frogs, more of the same, Apex Legends, retarded teammates, communication, war stories, Metro Exodus, the good jank, Dead or Alive 6 gives jiggle demonstration; Puritans are not amused. Music - Slayer and WHAM! - Tropicana Death Ensemble, Negro Terror - The Voice of Memphis, GWAR - Parting Shot
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 187
Apex Legends is free. This podcast is free. Apex Legends is good. Therefore this podcast is good. It's math. Topics - I hate Mondays, Gris, collecting stars and falling asleep, Hitman 2, Bohemian Grove and climate change, Hitman 1 still sucks, Apex Legends, communication tools, characters and abilities, free is for me, Tom Clancy's The Division 2 beta. Music - X-Men (Genesis) OST - Shi Ar Empire, Resident Evil 2 OST - Looming Dread, Hitman: Blood Money OST - Ave Maria
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 186
Dungeons. Dragons. Zombies. Fighter jets... And some people say video games haven't "matured"... Topics - Pathfinder: Kingmaker - The journey's buggy end, lost in the fog maze, RPG pet peeves, ghost people, crashing dragons, caveats, Resident Evil 2, hardcore noir, Hunk, Metro: Exodus snubs Steam, Dead or Alive 6 gets it's jiggle back, Ace Combat 7 tries to sell you sticks. Music - Nekrogoblikon - No One Survives, Rammstein - Engel, Ghoti Hook - Just What I Needed
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 185
Poop sandwich Topics - Internet etiquette, People who watch other people play games are retarded, Hitman 2, killing Bernie Sanders, Anthem "Demo", The Hong Kong Massacre, Don't say "ass", Raiden V, Resident Evil 2, "Second Run" confusion. Music - Gorgoroth - Carving a Giant, Raiden V OST - It's Name Valbarossa, Ron Thomson - Switchblade
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 184
Man, I hope my internet comes back at some point. Guess I'll watch Cabin Boy on DVD while I'm waiting. Topics - Catherine, anime is still gay, Guacamelee! 2, consistently goofy, overpowered powers, Mortal Kombat 11, clay people, Hitman 2, mission stories, IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad. Music - Catherine OST - Yo, Peter Chapman/Michelle Frey/Rom Di Prisco/Mariachi Entertainment System - Infierno, Horse the Band - Cloudwalker
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 183
New notebook, new you. Topics - Return of the Obra Dinn, learning curves, "It's designed that way", fake ending, mermaids, giving up, new flight stick, Catherine... Classic?, anime-romance-horror, lots of blocks, Katherine sucks. Music - Cannibal Corpse - Scourge of Iron, School Shooter - Bad Vibes, Pink Floyd - Brain Damage/Eclipse
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 182
Sixty souls set out on a cursed voyage of despair. One of them was a luchador. Topics - Return of the Obra Dinn, more nautical terms, magic compass, Guacamelee! 2, comedy chickens, sick of bad pixel art, fake gamer girls, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, the fate of The Pisslands, don't forget to bring some rations. Music - Gang Starr - Mass Appeal, Megadeth - Crush 'Em, Dropkick Murphys - Going Out in Style
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 181
It's (current year) now. Topics - New Year, New You, Christmas is gay, nobody likes Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, mashing buttons on the Retro Pi, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, BP, mislabeled buttons, finding the Goblin Kingdom, The First World, dead birds, Season of Bloom, Varnhold, Mortal Kombat X, Forza Horizon 4: Fortune Island. Music - The Beatles - The End, Slayer - Die by the Sword, Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 180
Mary Casts Greater Virgin Birth Topics - It's Christmas, why do people like Super Smash Brothers Ultimate?, 2B in Soulcalibur 6, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, pen and paper RPGs and does anyone actually understand them?, pathfinding, adventuring, barbarians, resting, managing a kingdom. Music - Justin Kyle - AVGN Christmas Theme, Small Town Titans - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch, Nirvana - Jesus Don't Want to Make Me a Sunbeam
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 179
Twat the pod before Christmas and all over the waves, not a listener was listening not even the gays. Topics - 'Tis the season, plastic shit, Red Dead Revolver, BattleTech Flashpoints, Katamari Damacy, balls, tiny windows, Dusk, The Outer Worlds, Pathfinder: Kingmaker Music - Andrew Hulshult - Mine Control, WARCRAB - Bury Me Before I'm Born, Pink Floyd - Hey You
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 178
We have a SMASHING good time, JUST CAUSE. Truly on the DARKSIDER the moon. I don't think that's a saying. Topics - It's quiet in here..., Darksiders 3, patches, true Ultrawide, killing yourself, no horse for the lady horseman, Why? Just Cause... 4, last gen graphics, some Game Awards or something, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, where are the fighters?, Joy Cons are garbage, no idea what is going on, Red Dead Revolver, does it suck or is there converter lag? Music - The Mentors - My Name is John, Dead Kennedys - I Am the Owl, Kay Kyser - Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 177
DarkSouliders 3. Topics - Zoom zoom, Dark Souls by any other name, straight up action, it's hard..., nonsense words, Fury and hair color, crack that whip, sacks of shit, Sins, purple form, Water Temple, glitches, getting your ass kicked, bad suck, I still hate Friday releases, Red Dead Redemption 2 Online, people are retarded. Music - The Black Dahlia Murder - Threat Level No. 3, Owen Benjamin - Get God, Get a Baby, Chord Overstreet - Hold On
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 176
How the West was won and a house got built. Topics - PC hospital, Red Dead Redemption 2... SPOILERS!, prequels, in service to the original, we're building a fucking house, still a Rockstar game, Hogan's Alley, ripping butts, critics and gamers: split decision, Tetris Effect: it's Tetris, emotional? No, space whales. Music - GWAR - Release the Flies, Louis the Child - LOVE, Red Dead Redemption 2 - House Building Song
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 175
It's the 2018 Grunt Free Press Thanksgiving Spook-a-Thon! Topics - Microsoft buys InXile Entertainment and Obsidian; whatever that means, Fallout 76, Bethesda game launcher, disconnects, secret settings, a SPECIAL of one, perk cards = laziness?, from overwhelming to barren, the tame wasteland, bad AI, inventory fiddling, online concessions, server maintenance, broken tokens, Confederate robots, Red Dead Redemption 2 and the poker showdown. Music - Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk to Fuck, Mastodon - Hail to Fire, Melvins - I Want to Hold Your Hand
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 174
Back to "normal". All fucked up. Topics - Grindy sidekick fan returns, Chinese eBay, vacation sloth, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, wingsuit tips, terminal velocity, Quads, Red Dead Redemption 2 and 2018 racism, having fun in video games is offensive, chopping wood. Music - Ennio Morricone - The Trio, Mega Man 11 OST - Torch Man (Instrumental), Blind Guardian - Mirror Mirror
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 173
I had an entire week of rotting/doing nothing to prepare this episode. So, enjoy some vacation slides. Turned out about the same. Topics - Diablo "controversy", PC problems, our new guest host Grinding Fan, Red Dead Redemption 2, Manhunt, Fatal Frame, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Forza Horizon 4, Rules of Survival. Music - Red Dead Redemption 2 OST - Train Heist Theme, Rancid - Wrongful Suspicion, Slipknot - Prelude 3.0
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 172
Grunt Free Press Spook-A-Thon 2018. Boo. Topics - Scary ghosts, Soulcalibur 6, Silent Hill 4: The Room, cum on Eileen, the inevitable decent into madness, answer the phone, Apartment World, black man recap, Manhunt kind of sucks, Castlevania Season 2 on Netflix, Call of Cthulhu is out... Didn't play it, other scary things that go bump in the night. Music - Alice in Chains - Them Bones, Pantera - Cemetery Gates, White Zombie - Children of the Grave
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 171
Three days until Video Game Armageddon aka Red Redemption 2. It doesn't get much spookier than that. Topics - Chinee robots, The Missing, horror?, Swery = Gay?, Generation Zero Beta, Swedish robot dogs, boring fights, Apostle, burning plant ladies, video game influence, Soulcalibur 6: the anti-Street Fighter V, insane single player content. Music - GWAR - A Short History of the End of the World (Part VII) (The Final Chapter) (abbr.), Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs - Little Red Riding Hood, Morbid Angel - Where the Slime Live
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 170
On second thought, Halloween is a Pagan holiday unfit for our Christian values, so instead of talking about horror games let's talk about shit. Literal shit. Topics - The 7th Guest, soup cans, walkthroughs, AI versus AI, cryptic bullshit, dead blue babies, eighteen notes, Alone in the Dark... the good one, Lovecraftian, keyboard tank controls, good puzzles, polygon zombies, push it. Music - The Black Dahlia Murder - Matriarch, Dr. Arthur Krause - Do the Vampire and Dance, The Fat Man and Team Fat - Skeletons in My Closet
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 169
Spooky Spook Fest with a g-g-g-girl survival horror protagonist. It's the usual rambling, half-remembered gaming history and stories no one cares about, just spookier. Topics - The Terrible Tale of Teredo, command prompts, Forza Horizon 4, IPv6, legacy products, Silent Hill 3 and some series history, regretting eBay impulse purchases, nonsensical family tree and British accents, exploration is a death sentence, Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics, The Seventh Guest. Music - Necro - White Slavery, Rob Zombie - Pussy Liquor, Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 168
Hope you brought a second pair of pants, because it's about to get spooky up in this bitch. Or boring. Life is subjective. Topics - The life and work of H.P. Lovecraft: abridged version, Doom 64 EX, goddamn yellow keycard, haunted house effects, Forza Horizon 4, native Windows games, choppy streams, Display Capture, more copyright infringement, EDM is gay, "live" experiences, seasons, like crack, emotes are also gay, new release overload. Music - Doom 64 Intro, Cannibal Corpse - Edible Autopsy, Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 167
We go on a mini-road trip, walking among the yuppies before battling the horrors of boredom in a prelude to Spook Month. Topics - Hangin' with the Chippah, gentrification, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, mud patches, tall grass, witch doctor ladies, Marvel's Spider-Man, jail break, Sinister Six, The Bard's Tale IV: Barrow's Deep, Interplay, Fig, old school adventuring, six degrees of Cthulhu. Music - System of a Down - Revenga, The Rolling Stones - Monkey Man, Type O Negative - September Sun
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 166
Spider of the Tomb Raider. Topics - YouTube gets even gayer, "Buuuu!", IP, Marvel's Spider-Man, Taskmaster, hidden stuff, like Batman, fire escapes, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, little girl Lara, pinging, technical difficulties, high priority, daddy issues, red barrels. Music - Six Feet Under - War is Coming, Kataklysm - Kill the Elite, GG Allin - Don't Talk to Me
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 165
On the precipice of the busiest season of the year for new video games, let's spend an inordinate amount of time talking about a Doom mod that's unfinished. Topics - Therapy is gay, Wolfenstein: Blade of Agony, maze-y, save scum, time limits, push blocks, "!", wind tunnels, bugs, I think I broke it?, mods, Doom 64, Marvel's Spider-Man shoots cum all over the place. Music - Burn the Priest - Inherit the Earth, Larkin Poe - Mad as a Hatter, Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 164
This episode is the greatest thing you've ever heard. It's truly a next gen podcast, like nothing you've ever heard. Before you even listen to it, give this AbsoluteDeicide guy some money to show support. Trust me. You won't regret it. - AbsoluteDeicide Topics - Cyberpunk 2077: It's a cyberpunk game, nobody knows what a "vertical slice" is apparently, Streets of Rage 4, Streets of Rage Remake, Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, Total War: Warhammer 2, Tomb Kings, bone giants, free units, wasting time, Blade of Agony looks better than that shitty "real" Wolfenstein 2 game. Music - Adam Freeland - We Want Your Soul, GWAR - Pure as the Arctic Snow
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 163
Ray Traci Lords Topics - Ray tracing, NVidia RTX cards, Gamescom 2018, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, sinus sickness, The Dark Pictures, Fallout 76, Twitch quadruple dips with ads, Madden gets violent, Dead Cells, Monster Hunter: World, Yakuza Zero, ass sickness. Music - The Doors - Riders on the Storm, Dead Cells OST - Clock Tower, The Dead Milkmen - Stuart
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 162
Madden Hunter: World. Topics - Madden NFL 19, $40 impulse purchases, setting records, sliders, "realism", drills, Monster Hunter: World, Ultimate 3 was horseshit, Josey Wales, palicos, hunting parties, fireflies, crafting, preparation. Music - Dukes of Mumbai - Jack the Ripper, Melvins - Honey Bucket, The Mamas and the Pepes - Fake News
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 161
AbsoluteDeicide gets a first round draft pick which gets intercepted by a shotgun with a spear on the end of it. Most unfortunate. Topics - Menstrual cycles, Yakuza Zero, kinda Shenmue, karaoke, soap opera gangsters, more broken arcade games, The Banner Saga 3, not getting comfortable, desperation, timed storytelling, Doom Eternal: Let's Get Metal, flamethrowers and fatalities, invasions, Dead Cells, the rusty sword (not a sex move), procedural generation, theoretically helping, Madden NFL 19, RPG football, contracts, Tom Brady sucks apparently. Music - Ty Richards - Western Chauvinist, Valmont de Ragondas - Prisoner's Awakening, The Runaways - Cherry Bomb
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 160
You'd think after a week of zero effort, non-game related podcasting this would be filled to the brim with deep thoughts and impressions on the latest and greatest. You'd think. Topics - Funspot 2018: More Broken Shit, the case of the missing Metal Slug, broken torture, arcade racing at home, reminder that I suck at fighting games, future plans I won't follow through with, Mega Man X Legacy Collection, power shot, grinding for E, tired fingers, kicking off The Grunt Free Press Halloween Spook-en-any in August, Conarium, the doors, Stasis, how to use cutscenes, open back surgery. Music - Bubble Bobble Theme (NES), Napalm Death - Necessary Evil, Danzig - Evil Thing
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 159
It's a musical episode this week, and also a road trip episode. Little-to-no video games. I still have no voice after this, so... enjoy some concert war stories, live music, and maybe something about anal sex. I don't know. Was pretty drunk... Music - Canned Heat - On the Road Again, Metallica - ...And Justice for All. (LIVE) Lamb of God - Laid to Rest, Redneck. Slayer - Repentless, Blood Red, Hate Worldwide, War Ensemble, Jihad, When the Stillness Comes, et al.
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 158
Acting. Topics - Randomized shit, 20XX, fake secrets, biomes, double tappin', beginner's traps, Defiance 2050, new and old lag, side mission: impossible, Far Cry 5: Lost on Mars, fuck Hurk, bugs, stay off the dirt, cool guy RPGs, Divinity: Original Sin, bad controller support, brutally slow everything, "whimsical". Music - The Clash - Ghetto Defendant, Anthrax - Caught in a Mosh, Weezer - Only in Dreams
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 157
Games that are like other games, or hybrids of games to make new games that contradict with the design of other games. Topics - 'Nam invasion, origin story, The Banner Saga, turn based tactics, the Dredge, combat injuries, split stories, classes, grids, turn orders, Willpower points, last battle blues, The Banner Saga 2, footsies, buffs, Berserker, The Dredge Strike Back, 20XX, rouge Mega Man, Danger Zone 2... it's Burnout's Crash Mode. Music - Annabelle - Stuck, Austin Wintory - With Eyes to the Endless Sun, Dropkick Murphys - The Auld Triangle
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 156
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 155 Remastered Topics - Remasters of remasters, Crash Bandicoot, collectibles, cool tips, stupid gaming shit, secrets?, Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-Tered, EDF, sand people, shitty GPS, blowing shit up, demolition puzzles, nano rifle, red sandbox, The Banner Saga, storybook Oregon Trail, guesswork, Strength is Health Music - Nine Inch Nails - Shit Mirror, Siberian Meat Grinder - Hail to the Tsar, Van Broussard - Kidnapper
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 155
The calming, lazy days of Summer episode. Everything is broken. Topics - My stick doesn't work, Nasty Tuesdays, IL-2 Sturmovik, keys and axes, flight sim enthusiasts, War Thunder, I hate Platinum Games, Nier: Automata, Borderless Gaming, bad map, invisible walls, donut fries, Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy, collectibles, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, I'm on iHeartRadio lol. Music - Bobo - Do the Daniel Kurlan, Talking Heads - Life During Wartime, Slayer - Sick Boy
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 154
A nice smorgasbord of garbage from the past couple of weeks. I have no idea what this is. Topics - Castelvania: Symphony of the Night, "Metroidvania", RPG stuff, downtime, I'm a Quake Champions pro, Insurgency, "unassigned", controller support lies, episodic Hitman blows, wasted opportunities, Square Enix is racist, random and shitty, fugu fish, Hitman: Absolution rules, beating BattleTech. Music - One Day as a Lion - If You Fear Death, The Cramps - Garbageman, Pantera - Yesterday Don't Mean Shit
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 153
E3 2018 part 2. All E3, only E3, and plenty of "fuckin'" verbal ticks. Topics - E3 2018: Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Devolver, PC Gamer Show. Music - KMFDM - Ready to Blow, Dying Fetus - Panic Among the Herd, Pink Floyd - Time
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 152
The E3 2018 Spectacular... eventually. Part One of (hopefully) Two. Topics - I'm a "spammer", Vampyr with a "Y", looking at people's faces, Souls-like combat, blood pool, talky RPG, mats, Steam policy update, morality police, "trolling", Hitman 2, Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness, three hours of 'Nam, Dead or Alive 6, EA 2018: EA and Bethesda. Music - The Mama and the Pepes - Hate Crime Hoax, Cambodian Space Project - When Are You Free, Owen Benjamin - Tommy Robinson Song (Live)
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 151
Being shaken out of a week of debauchery and returning to the real world turns out exactly how you'd expect. Grumpy and homicidal. Pure Agony. Topics - Blown off, everyone's a sack of shit, Fallout 76, online?, censored Agony, bending the knee to the ESRB, Agony sucks, remember the sigil, possession, vaginas everywhere, a maze of shit, boring demons, Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, I'm hopeless at fighting games. Music - Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon OST - The Brilliant Void, Anal Cunt - You Quit Doing Heroin, You Pussy, - The Ramones - What a Wonderful World
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 150
I made one hundred and fifty episodes of this shit for some reason. Topics - Downfall, hand grenades, comic relief, Total Biscuit died, Steam Link pulled from Apple store, Detroit: Become Human, David Cage games, "our people", Friday the 13th's single player sucks, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, restream.io. Music - Neil Young - Dead Man Theme, Smut Peddlers - Fuck You That's Why, Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - My Tank
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 149
The Steam Episode. Topics - Learning experience, blocked by UMG, Smashing Pumpkins are assholes, pre-E3 delays and cancellations, Boss Key shutdown, Steam is going to shit, lowest common denominator censorship, new guidelines, Battletech still rules, State of Decay 2 is more State of Decay 1, Far: Long Sails. Music - Jack White - Over and Over and Over, The Mamas and the Pepes - Ramadan Bomb-A-Thon, Sex Pistols - EMI
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 148
Pardon our mess as we continue to adjust our levels. Topics - Pre-written improv, fucking with levels, E3 leaks, RAGE 2, jail for dickheads, State of Decay 2 delay, Detention, 2-D Taiwanese horror, The Cat Lady callbacks, holding your breath, puzzles, walking, teacher fucker, Panzer Dragoon Orta, complicated Space Harrier, wasting a boost, bad checkpoints, black screen, Battletech is genius. Music - Primus - Here Come the Bastards, Dying Fetus - The Wrong One to Fuck With, The Smashing Pumpkins - Fuck You (An Ode to No One)
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 147
New microphone really picks up the natural bass-y sexiness of my voice. Doesn't help with the content, unfortunately... Topics - God of War wrap up, anonymous e-mails, Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer, vague news, Battletech... Round 2, salvage, crashing, critical hits, the ultra-wide problem, evasion, The Forest: what is it?, four year old indie game, Total War: Thrones of Britannia, Escape from Tarkov, shoot first. Music - Daron Malakian and Scars Over Broadway - Lives, Toe to Toe - Giant Killer, Jethro Tull - Hymn 43
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 146
Things get personal and intimate as AbsoluteDeicide comes to grips with his sociopathic tendencies and cries like a little bitch. No one is surprised. Also some breaking news that shatters one of the longing running gags on the show. Topics - Falling down stairs, Agony gets censored, vacation plans, cringey Blizzard support, God of War, Greek epic?, glowing blood, manly sociopathic tears, combat tips to ignore, side realms, grinding gear, The Forest out of Early Access, Battletech, lore overload, instant bankruptcy, Fortnite looks gay. Music - The Black Dahlia Murder - Kings of the Night World, Melvins - Don't Forget to Breathe, GWAR - Lost God
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 145
Now in video form. It's like Stephen Wright without the jokes. Topics - Options, now on video! (kind of...), The Terror bear, Car News Part 2, Castlevania mobile game, new Doom movie, Night Trap on Nintendo Switch, fifteen minutes of Year Walk, Darksiders 2, God of War, slow start, axe throwing, combat basics, mastering chaos, RPG elements, one shot bullshit, comic relief. Music - The Clash - Know Your Rights, Nailbomb - Guerrillas (Live), Black Dahlia Murder - I'm Charming
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 144
Here in my car, I don't feel safe at all. It's a piece of shit, I can't believe it... my car. Do doop. Bah do, do doop... Topics - "Job" offer, Microsoft disappointments, more backward compatible Xbox games, unified accounts, contracts, Darksiders, backseat retroactive game design, too many golems, writing tips from the master, Forza Motorsport 7, gifts, sim racing, zoning out, new (used) car! Music - Operation Ivy - Artificial Life, Horse the Band - Face of Bear, Turisas - Rasputin
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 143
The Year of the Bear has officially begun. Topics - The Terror, Eskimo spirit bear, how ice works, good gore, Year of the Bear, Far Cry 5, bad endings, constant reviving, downer ending, prepper stashes, Arcade Mode, PvP, vomit coffee, a rare (sincere) apology, Darksiders, freeform combat, stick clickin'. Music - Nine Inch Nails - All the Love in the World, Wanda Jackson - Nervous Breakdown, GG Allin and the Murder Junkies - Legalize Murder
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 142
After some impromptu rearranging of his show notes, AbsoluteDeicide throws caution to the wind and puts his reputation on the line by predicting the future and talking about video game remasters. The stakes have never been higher. Topics - Reading the future, cat resurrection, Defiance 2050, Red Faction: Guerilla ReMARStered, Far Cry 5 is badass, no grinding, like Grand Theft Auto but good, Heart of Darkness, smart setups, real Americans, makin' maps, Easter egg?, pirate legend, fuck March. Music - The Road Vikings - The Ballad of Evel Knievel, GWAR - Horror of Yig, Melvins - A History of Bad Men
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 141
A pirate's life for me. We learn that lifestyle choice isn't always as glamorous as the Hollywood movies make it out to be, but sometimes it involves random naked guys so it's not all bad. Plus: New Logo! Topics - Napster grudges, Sea of Thieves, server issues, "better with friends", galleys and sloops, gold for the sake of gold, simulation sailing, caging animals, reputation, PvP, war stories, God of War "One Shot", God of War 3: Remastered, New Logo! Music - Bad Brains - Banned in D.C. (Live), ALESTORM - Fucked With An Anchor, Dropkick Murphys - Shipping Up to Boston
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 140
New format: no long, boring stories at the beginning. I save them until the end. Thoughts? Topics - No Irish, I really like Pit People, beard AIDS, GWAR party?, nets, vampire bat scientist, limited loot, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Consumer Reports, free games, launchers, more meta, Superhot = Supergay, banned games, Japanese pervs, Are cartoons people?, free coffee, Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Music - FEAR - The Mouth Don't Stop, Sola Rosa - Del Ray, The Ramones - Rockaway Beach
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 139
Finally back to modern civilization... Let's kill some rats and burn some bridges! Topics - Pit People, random shit I usually hate, worms, stealth, cosmic bear love, juicy gossip, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, bots, a bile troll appears, advanced strategies?, Dynasty Warriors... with rats, look acceleration, censored again, paywalls, selling out, Michelle Madison is a goddamn baby, VGO: phony motherfuckers. Music - Pit People OST - Overworld Theme, Lamb of God - Walk the Faded Line, Citizen Fish - Money
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 138
Live from an undisclosed location: the same old shit. Topics - The search for Kiwi Bear, I didn't play Into the Breach because it looks like shit, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, Pit People, The Great Gas Wars of 2018. Music - L7 - Mr. Integrity, Shadowrun: Dragonfall OST - Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Dale Hawkins - Suzie Q
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 137
Now with CD quality audio. Topics - Correction, Super Castlevania 4, Dark Souls fans are queers, pissing people off, Castlevania: Bloodlines, questioning progress, Rondo of Blood, CD quality, smart changes, Contra is perfect, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, dyslexic reading, broken horse armor, useless perks, pulling weeds, dove-coat tree? Music - RAS - An Old Fashioned Grindcore Assault Vol. 2 (Full Album), Pink Floyd - The Happiest Days of Our Lives, Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 136
We travel back in time to the 1400s and all the way back to an early SNES game. There is one constant: Dracula. Topics - internet garbage culture: "lol", laughter is a lie, Super Castlevania 4, three buttons, fancy whips, impossible traps, random spikes, System Shock Remastered hiatus, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, controller support?, lockpicking, not good For Honor combat, PC fiddlin', story and simulation modes, lots of "fuckin'", exposition and flashbacks, "realistic" woods, simulation theory. Music - Imperium Dekadenz - Thru the Fog of Time, Sex Pistols - Liar, Reign of Pestilence - Stephanie Tanner Smokes Crystal Meth
Grunt Free Press Podcast
Things get Naaaaasty as we wrap up two difficult games. Brains are fried and there are more Draculas than you can shake a stake at. Topics - Mixer support, streaming services are gay, The Surge 2, Metro: Exodus, ELEX, Chapter 2, sound mixing, Nasty the not black whore, it's never easy, the Ice Palace, The Hybrid, Castlevania 3: Dracula's Curse, crows, doppelganger, random bullshit, blood vomit. Music - Dropkick Murphys - Do or Die, Marilyn Manson - Irresponsible Hate Song, Lords of Acid - Mixed Emotions
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 134
Goddamn Dracula and his sexual harassment... Topics - Work stories, tiny little eyes, Gods of Rome, touchscreen fighting, timers, push notifications, mobile games, Castlevania 3: Dracula's Curse, epic cinematic storytelling, branching paths, filler, falling blocks, waiting, spiders that spit spiders, mummies, ELEX, Seperatists, I'm an Outlaw. Music - Owen Benjamin - It's Time to Give Our Guns to Hitler, Castlevania 3 - Demon Seed, Rancid - Let the Dominoes Fall
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 133
The Nerdy Sci-Fi Episode. Topics - Video game podcasts suck, Anthony Cumia is killing it, Blade Runner 2049, infinite possibilities, Harrison Ford is not a good old man actor, ELEX, brutal start, Albs, Berserkers, mug salesman, Outlaws, shit combat, broken AI, agro, thirty hours to competency, chems. Music - Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker, The Dead Milkmen - Swordfish (Live), Skinless - The Optimist
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 132
Another unintentionally retro episode as two classic games fall to the mighty prowess of AbsoluteDeicide's skills. And then we get a sneak peak of the future of gaming: playing with trash. Topics - I beat a bunch of games this week, Super Metroid, Metroidvania genre, Look for Secrets: The Game, false wall, Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest, ferry rides, retarded bosses, Engrish, hearts, slowdown, NESMaker, makin' games, Nintendo Labo: it's cardboard. Music - GWAR - Meat Sandwich, Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar, Don Felder - Takin' A Ride
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 131
The endless battle between good, evil, Frankensteins, fishmen, and crows reaches it's epic, thirty year conclusion. And some nostalgic stories to warm your heart. All this and more in a new episode of Grunt Free Press. Topics - fruit Pi, retro Puritanism, emulating controllers, Castlevania, the Holy NES Trilogy, offbeat, the Dark Souls link, you can't beat Death, I suck at games, Breaking News!, Dracula's face, wigger knife fight, ol' Homeless Hand, save states, Super Metroid, winter snot tips. Music - Quango - Living in a Shithole, Castlevania - Heart of Fire, The White Stripes - In the Cold, Cold Night
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 130
All Pi and no play make AbsoluteDeicide a bad episode. Topics - Miss Number, Grandpa Tangent, Raspberry Pi marathon madness, ports, Quake revelations, jacked up Marathon, DOS games/DOS problems, ZZZ (NOT A GAME), cycle speed, Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, case sensitive bullshit, disc swap, PSX plug ins, makin' clones, surprise shareware. Music - Now They Are Four - They Don't Play George Jones on MTV, Mayhem - Chainsaw Gutsfuck, Black Knight 2000 - Main Theme
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 129
Grunt Free Press rings in 2018 by repeating the same mistakes made in 2017. And games that are as exciting as melatonin. Topics - Okami HD, Big Picture Mode, inverted camera, gibberish, rules of thumbs, wolf Zelda, brush powers, Zzzzz, Retropie V2, samples, heat sinks, missing OS, partitions, copy and paste scripting, "Error 5", SSH protocols, hidden gems, RetroArch, cores, ports, Robocop Versus Terminator, Chakan: The Forever Man. Music - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) - Main Theme, System of a Down - Know, The Stranglers - No More Heroes
The Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 128
The Half Assed Grunt Free Press Christmas Special. Music - Owen Benjamin - The Twelve Triggers of Christmas, From First to Last - Santapocalypse, The Mamas and the Pepes - Christmas Special
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 127
Once again proving his obliviousness, AbsoluteDeicide forgot this is the last episode before Christmas. All of the Christmas music will appear in the next episode, where it will make no sense. Topics - egg burger, Call of Duty: WW2, fifty matches?, Hardcore Team Deathmatch, Ranked, performance shit pits, reverse auto aim, surviving S-mines, new old map, Gun Game, Super Mario Odyssey, cryptic moons, Raspberry Pi 3, Retro Pi project, Christmas memories, giant list o' games. Music - The Streets - Empty Cans, The Clash - I Fought the Law, Owen Benjamin - Ballad of the Soy Boy
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 126
An embarrassing episode (there's a first time for everything) where AbsoluteDeicide reveals that he doesn't know the difference between metal and classical music. Or are they really one and the same? Deeper levels... Topics - Mega Man 11, Atom in Injustice 2, the ya knows, stage transitions, endless battle, Nintendo Switch review, short and stubby sticks, The Game Awards are a joke, Tenchu?, Super Mario Odyssey end game, moon surprise, mood shift, boss rush, Steep Winter Olympics expansion, Call of Duty: WW2 Winter Siege Event. Music - FEAR - SNL Appearance, Excrementory Grindfuckers - Taschengeld, Neil Young - Southern Man
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 125
AbsoluteDeicide welcomes a new addition to the family, and it's not a baby or a dog you clown. Of course that means a rambling, confusing narrative about setting up a Nintendo Switch. And stumbling over every joke in the episode. It's another classic. Topics - Offensive Facebook posts that don't exist, Call of Duty: WW2, meaningless status symbols, weapon levels, rocket launchers, shitty shotgun, Injustice 2's story mode is still bad, Nintendo Switch, console puzzle game, cable management, video troubleshooting, Super Mario Odyssey, hats. Music - Slayer - New Faith, Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues, Slipknot - The Negative One
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 124
Tales from the frontlines of the Annual Black Friday massacre. Report: kind of lame. End report. Topics - Surviving Black Friday, Burlington Coat Factory sucks, fashion corner, garbage pants, to Switch or not to Switch?, Steam sale search, user reviews get complicated, Call of Duty: WW2; still good, specializing, cheater, Ninja Gaiden Black, maps, spend and use, Total War: Warhammer 2, Lizardmen, artillery dinosaur, 4K lore. Music - Greatful Dead - Shakedown Street, GWAR - If I Could Be That, B52s - Planet Claire
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 123
Gobble, gobble, wink, wink. Battlefront 2 sucks. Topics - Company memo, Call of Duty: World War 2 update, useless suggestions, error code 5, Free-for-All, Injustice 2: still Injustice 2, Star Wars: Battlefront 2's campaign sucks, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Physical Copy, Star Wars: Battlefront 2's multiplayer also sucks, old school lag, star cards, tiny lasers, Ninja Gaiden Black clad ninjas. Music - Jethro Tull - Mother Goose, Ninja Gaiden OST - Iron and Sword, Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 122
Still reeling from the shock of a good Call of Duty game, we shake it off and do what we do: Protips and tech reviews you shouldn't take seriously. Topics - Leftover Crack fans are faggots, ironic tolerance, Assassin's Creed: Origins, question marks, third person Far Cry, where's the "run" button?, broad in a cave, sound bar, EA buys Respawn Entertainment, Call of Duty: WW2, challenges and contracts, I suck at sniping, Injustice 2 on PC, Ninja Gaiden Black, cords. Music - Leftover Crack - Gay Rude Boys Unite, Primus - The Rainbow Goblins Chapter 4 (The Scheme), GG Allin - Tough Fuckin' Shit
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 121
AbsoluteDeicide gets back to the grind and back to the frontlines with some surprising AAA titles that don't suck. And that one that does. You know which one... Topics - Halloween hangover, Stranger Things Season 2 sucks, whining in a shack, beating the shit out of Shadow of War, defending strongholds, rastlin' War Chiefs, Call of Duty: World War 2... is good?!, old school/no filler, War Movie: The Game, saving Nazi girls, Agon 4K 21:9 monitor review, G-Sync, hooked on multiplayer, Assassin's Creed: Origins, Destiny 2. Music - Spinal Tap - Stonehenge, Combat - The Reign is Over, White Zombie - Starface
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 120
Grunt Free Press Scarefest 2017. I dressed up as someone who sounds like he's dying. Topics - Spooky tales, Halloween 3: The Season of the Witch, old man horror mythology rant, kids' heads exploding, Stonehenge, doe-eyed girl, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, remembering The New Order, ads Vs. games, shit starts, whhiiiitteee maaaalees!, B.J.'s daddy issues, Nazi memos, how's the shooting?, pray and spray, "This might sound bad, but...", Debris, Shadow of War: Badass Overload?, Leatherface. Music - Trent Reznor - Halloween Theme, Dead Kennedys - Halloween, Gregorian Lyrics - Ave Satani
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 119
(crickets) Topics - Half assed history of Piranha Bytes, games I'm not playing: ELEX, dirty dollars?, The Evil Within 2... is good?, forced art appreciation, South Park: The Fractured But Whole... is butt?, racial difficulty, safe targets, Shadow of War kicks ass, funnier than South Park, Never Hike Alone, AVGN finds Polybius. Music - Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black, Candlemass - Bewitched, Type O Negative - Love You To Death
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 118
Some people say confusion is really the spirits of the dead calling forth from beyond the grave. Some say it is echoes of a time long past. In a small New England town, confusion is just a way of life... but what happens when you say a show is on Netflix and it's really on Amazon Prime? I'm Aaron Mahnke. This is some bullshit about video games. Topics - Hellraiser sucks, Uncle Frank, fuckin' fuckin', bone stickman, personal hell, rubber monster, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, goo theme, head pops, ADD Elder Scrolls, Nemesis System, uh oh: loot boxes, The Evil Within 2, Why?, open world horror and stealth, technobabble, slow everything, goo animations, Raiden 5: The Director's Cut, cheer. Music - System of a Down - Prison Song, Messer Chups - Curse of Stephen King, The Black Dahlia Murder - The Lonely Deceased.
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 117
This was going to be a pure Halo themed episode, because... you know... 117 and all that. But I got distracted with the month long Spook-a-thon. Then I forgot about that, too. Topics - The death of Groove, Cuphead, hittin' the dice, boss gauntlets, The Devil, fin, Pinball FX 3, Universal tables, Paulie Pinball, RPG progression, challenge modes, Total War: Warhammer 2, nerdy fantasy stuff, colonize, The Vortex, rituals, Forza Motorsport 7, VIP credits, mod cards, head shakes, The Satanic Bible for SJWs. Music - Dethklok - Murmaider, Led Zeppelin - Gallow's Pole, iDiG Festival '15 - DIT Traditional Irish Halo Theme
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 116
It's the return of the original AbsoluteDeicide, and the return of the Halloween Spook-a-Thon (again). Plus, was this secretly the best week for game releases... well, ever? Shhhh! Topics - More refunds, in Russia code redeems you, Home Sweet Home, R.I.P. The Black Saint, Asian Dude, ghost jukin', Nintendo and Atlus: double sided dildos, Cuphead, boss fights, Forza Motorsport 7, best week for game releases? Music - GWAR - Techno Destructo, Cuphead - Floral Fury, The Beatles - Rocky Raccoon
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 115
Grunt Free Press gets high brow and introduces a book club segment, a classic rant about Comcast, and the unappreciated brilliance of fighting game stories. Topics - New policies, Mixer, yellin' at Comcast (again), names, low latency mode, VOD, Marvel Versus Capcom: Infinite, roster complaints, another shitty fighting game story, easy Arcade mode, clashing art style, System Shock 2, RPG stats, weapon degradation, issues solved, Tomb Raider movie trailer, Grunt Free Press Book Club, Dangerous Gamers. Music - The Doors - Spanish Caravan, Wolfbrigade - Warsaw Speedwolf, Rancid - The 11th Hour
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 114
They say the early bird gets the worm, so we kick off the Grunt Free Press Spook-a-Thon a few weeks early with a horror themed episode. Although there were horror games last week, too. And there might not be any next week... Scratch that. It's just a normal episode. Topics - Fuck System Shock, Where did you learn to fly?, control mastery, playablility, Whatevertown, humping walls, like Prey only bad, horror theme?, Penumbra: Overture, Frictional Games, Lovecraftian, manual control, physics, demon dogs, levels!, where the goo is, graboids, The Land of Pain, lost in the woods, random goofy Cthulhu, normie Earth dimension, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, FPS lives, refunds. Music - The Misfits - She, Pantera - Domination/Hollow, Iron and Wine - Sick of You
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 113
Just the classics, as usual. Demon boys and homicidal AI. Topics - Vanilla Iced Whiskey, two Bad Ass Babes; one controller, Pinball FX 3, horror time, Lucius, The Omen: The Game, elaborate deaths, speed running murders, walkthrough philosophy, chores, meaningless nail guns, Salt and Sanctuary, Ska Studios, Dark Souls demake, System Shock, '90s cyberpunk, maze game, boxes within squares within quadrants, shock shields, meters and beams, vita chambers, pixelated buttons, clicking puzzles. Music - Patti Smith - Rock N' Roll Nigger, Andrew Hung - Fizzy Barf, The Mamas and the Pepes - SPLC Hate Dance
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 112
Anticipation gets the best of AbsoluteDeicide as he jumps around and installs/uninstalls multiple games and watches the quintessential superhero movie to end all superhero movies. Topics - Warhammer: End Times: Vermintide, cursed dice, nerd stats, bounty board, daily quests, co-op garbage, rat wizard, Sonic Mania, special stages, blue balls, tappa-tappa-tappin', goin' fast, more animations, Wonder Woman sucks, Already Established Scenes and Characters: The Movie, dumb superhero shit, Kona, fuck survival games, freezing mechanics, Canada sucks. Music - Owen Benjamin - Antifa, Sonic Mania - Oil Ocean Zone - Act 1, The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 111
Werewolves and robots and Formula One, oh my... Topics - Gamescom wrap up... I guess, Observer, robot werewolf, jacking into dead people, surprise stealth, AI sons, beta bullshit, Comcast still sucks (for different reasons), slippery slopes, Warhammer: End Times: Vermillion, Rat People: The Game: The Left 4 Dead Clone, because Europe, scarce loot, F1 2017, practice, penalties. Music - Sepultura - Symptom of the Universe, Mary Poppins - Death Metal, Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 110
An in depth look at all of the mind blowing announcements from Gamescom 2017. Psyche! It's mostly more Total War: Warhammer. Topics - News!, Planet of the Apes: The Game, Swery's cat game, Total War: Warhammer, pro Dwarf strats, gyrocopters, "as I understand it"*, cycling, Chaos, geographical advantages, corruption attrition, The Book of Grudges, ignoring heroes, Observer, lots of movie references, bored Blade Runner, headache vision, holograms and trash, Clutter: The Game, Gamescom happened? Music - System of a Down - Attack, Total War: Warhammer - Skirmish, FEAR - I Love Livin' in the City
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 109
What the Hellblade were they thinking? Topics - Hey! Games!, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, meta bullshit, ready for my close-up, artsy, runes, Dark Souls lite combat, ghost people, perma-death, story vs. gameplay balance, SPOILERS!, Javy Gwaltney is a faggot, lazy journalism, semantic breakdown, Batman: The Telltale Game Season 2, stand alone stories, the long slog through The Long Dark, house wolf, Total War: Warhammer Norsca. Music - The Mamas and the Pepes - Diversity is Our Strength, Megadeth - 99 Ways to Die, Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 108
From freezing in the woods and running from wolves, things get varied and interesting this week... but it's mostly about how much I suck at Total War again. Topics - Qualified indie game garbage, more Total War: Warhammer, the crumbling Empire, Stuff that I Like: The Game, play by play, Easy is Hard, Warhammerian economics, flavor text, walking the beast paths, The Long Dark, survival games suck, menu simulators, meters, Story Mode... in chapters, UI sucks shit, find more sticks, a bridge too dark, selective wood. Music - Muse - New Born, The Pogues - Bottle of Smoke, Rancid - Cold Cold Blood
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 107
Do you want... Total War? Yes you want... Total War? I hope so, because that's more or less all I've got this week. Shitty song, by the way. Topics - Total War talk, summer games aka everything, conflation of strategy, watchin' mods, Epic Battle Simulator, Total War: Warhammer, pay for gore, user face, Grand Campaign, mouse over garbage, The Empire, fake fantasy flags, stances, hard counters, Beastmen, Vampire endgame, the long siege, paid assassins, Quake. Music - Dropkick Murphys - Pipebomb on Landsdowne, Aeon - Still They Pray, Sera Percha - Ti Amo
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 106
Vampires versus Werewolves versus the American Revolution. It's kind of like Twilight. Topics - Unanswered trivia, Telltale Games games, The Wolf Among Us Season 2, fake game news, Leatherface: not retarded?, Empire: Total War, blocking my ports, the useless French, shit ships, square formation, rage boners, Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, patches and SweetFX, empty environments, RPG rulesets, fetch quests, garbage combat. Music - Suicidal Tendencies - Subliminal, Okilly Dokilly - White Wine Spritzer, Canned Heat - Let's Work Together
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 105
Send me some jaja, you scummy Votan sack of stucco. Topics - Steam Summer Sale pickups, backlog conundrums, Defiance, post-peak WoW, game/show, shitty servers, loot grinds, head shits, balanced chaos, MMO-ness, explodey grenades, like Destiny but fun, blacklisted from betas?, level scaling, arkfalls, Shadow War, Dark Forces, pixel vomit, Empire: Total War, failed tutorial, Creative Assembly: The Strategy Game Guys, scaling, trade and taxes. Music - Night of the Living Dead - At the Gravesite, Olivier Deriviere - Tracking the Truth, Alex Jones - Indie Folk Song
Grunt Free Press Episode 104
"F"... "U"... In the coffee... Topics - pissing al fresco, Deadly Premonition, launch memories, pure comedy, dark weird, the worst map in the history of video games, NPC routines, hack reviews, real cult following, Swery is a non-shitty Kojima, gun tool, Otherworld, peeping York, womb trees, Pinball FX 2 ADD, Ikaruga, Castlevania Netflix series, Warren Ellis gives a shit. Music - Dead Kennedys - Riot, Seryoga - King Ring, Nine Inch Nails - Down In It
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 103
Grunt Free Press celebrates Independence Day by being held hostage in a room and whispering into a mic, avoiding family drama. Just the way the founding fathers intended. Topics - story time, PC gaming mishaps, the game of getting games to work, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Memory Leak, Syberia 2, cut off dialogue, super secret menus, referencing my own work, Bandicam, Deadly Premonition, kinda soda, years of patches, warm filters, compatibility modes, virtual memory, R.I.P. Xbox Elite controller, Pinball FX for the kids. Music - Dicknado trailer, Messer Chups - Magneto, Frank Zappa - Valley Girl
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 102
We focus on two story heavy games after some shameless self promotion, as well as a couple E3 announcements that went under the radar. Includes some soulful renditions of slave songs. Topics: Fake Atari interview becomes relevant, leftover E3 tidbits, slave songs, Metro 2033 Redux, bullet money, simulated fiddling, Get Even, story games, whiteboard mysteries, corner guns, bass hums and mouth sounds, Black Mirror vibe. Music - GWAR - West End Girls, Nordfront - Hu Ha Antifa, Wheeler Walker, Jr. - Puss in Boots
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 101
The obligatory E3 2017 Spectacular! We get there eventually. Full coverage you'll find everywhere else. Topics - Episode 100: Behind the Scenes, Friday the 13th: The Game: The DLC, Pamela tapes, proximity chat, new mic, technologically retarded, E3 2017, EA Play, Microsoft, Metro: Exodus... holy shit, Bethesda, Ubisoft, "diversity", Sony, Nintendo, no, really... a new Metro game is coming out. Music - Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 99
Tired of Friday the 13th: The Game yet? Uh oh... Topics - Friday the 13th: The Game: The Launch, tiny credits, phlegm, killin' Jason, you suck at looking, Japanese Jason, points and perks, bugs, The Surge, Alien: Covenant, too many couples, Vanquish, meh week, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, jerky hand movements, Tekken 7, more nonsensical anime garbage, gas station fight. Music - Excrementory Grindfuckers - 99 Grindcore Songs, Rancid - 1998, Dee Snider - We're Not Gonna Take It
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 98
Live report from Fun Spot: The World's Biggest Arcade in Laconia, NH. Topics - On the road again, car wash, Fun Spot, guns and churches, bingo hall, toilet cast, cheap classics, broken games, Marble Madness, Zombie Raid, Galaga, pinball, dim lights, blurry monitors, cup o' tokens, '90s games, Mortal Kombat, Walking Dead is Doom 3, shit that moves, Chiller, cuisine report. Music - C.W. McCall - Convoy, Jim Carrey - Dying Fetus, Excrementory Grindfuckers - 99 Grindcore Songs
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 97
Full volume, full vacation mode. Topics - future plans, Destiny 2, mining minerals, The Surge, wheelchair heroes, sever limbs, timed Souls, jumpin' and duckin', Advanced Dark Souls: Third Edition, robot trash, Injustice 2, DC characters are lame, fighting game stories suck, costumes, meters, equipment, Multiverse. Music - Mastodon - Shadows that Move, Stumfol - Prisoner, The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 96
Have you ever listened to Achilles Last Stand and related it to Dark Souls? You're about to... Topics - Family prison, Hitbox takes a bright turn, smashcast.tv, permanent logo, streaming stalkers, Video Game Land, tiny house, pocket change budget, Deadly Premonition: The Board Game, Forza Horizon 3: Hot Wheels Expansion, crashes, orange track, Prey, wandering, killing people, space justice, ending choices, Contra Music - Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 95
In an unusually whiny episode, AbsoluteDeicide rants about people he doesn't like and foot problems. Maybe it's not that unusual. Topics - Let's talk about video games, that guy, Bubble Ghost, limited copies, sales warriors, falling apart, feet, Darksiders 3, horselady, Syberia, hot steamy love triangles, mechanical piano bar, emotional orgasm, StarCraft, RTS genre, paper marines, Prey... 2?, goo spiders, painful choices, pick up the junk. Music - The Melvins - Graveyard, StarCraft - Terran, Six Feet Under - Stepping Stone
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 94
Video game news and boos of the week. Train keeps a rollin' towards Syberia with an unexpected piss stop, and things get cultish in the woods or a swamp or a desert. Topics - Night Trap Anniversary, anti-Kickstarter, timestamps, ProTraps, Forza Horizon 3: Hot Wheels, Zelda's Horde Mode, Outlast 2, warring cults, batteries, jerky, cartoon cacti, chase sequences, slit of a window, veiny walls, fucked up shit, Syberia, adventure game stuff, destroyed beauty, drunken Cosmonaut, fuckin' robots, Jaymer tips. Music - Waylon Jennings - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way, Spice 1 - Born II Die, Syberia - Komkolzgrad, Night Trap - Theme
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 93
In the not too distant future... actually the not too distant past in European cities. Some Japanese garbage goes down and there's robot toys or something. (shrug) Topics - Life hacks, MST3K Reboot, Hodgeson stink, Carrot Top?, rapid riffing, Bayonetta sucks, Witch Time, hot garbage problems, dumb puzzles, anime gay, hair power, gay gay, unavoidable damage, always doing something stupid, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Release Date, random Adventure Island, Syberia, clicking around, proof of cultural regression, brain damage, pulling levers and pushing buttons. Music - Flogging Molly - The Power's Out, Tom Servo - Creepy Girl, Horse the Band - Shapeshift
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 92
Laying some old business to bed, AbsoluteDeicide warms up to an old classic. Then he gives a not-so-classic "classic" a second shot with mixed results. Topics - Future plans, putting Nightcry to bed, flowcharts, Berserk all over the place, goo blobs, skeleton horse, little witch girl, Endless Mode, ROMs Unlimited, '90s websites, Ninja Gaiden, pixel perfect backflips, random hawk, backward progress, 4K Bayonetta, douche bumps, nightmare settings, no HUD, cheesy ass game, desensitized to gayness, character action, arena spurts. Music - The Mamas and the Pepes - Doctor My Eyes, Ninja Gaiden - Evading the Enemy, Dying Fetus - Kill Your Mother, Rape Your Dog.
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 91
The crack smoke of the bat, the pine cigarette tar, the roar of the crowd as they try to jump out of the way of another Muslim truck attack... Must be baseball season. Topics - games I'm not playing, Persona non grata, androgynous high school kids, streaming restrictions, you're not special, MLB The Show '17, exciting baseball history, nightmare installs, pulse pitching, "ready to play", stats versus control, Billy Badass, Berserk, Xbox Scorpio specs/pricing predictions, "premium", selective tech experts, Nightcry snags, Bad Ass Babes 2? Music - GWAR - War Party, First Aid Kit - Sailor Song, The Simpsons - Talking Softball
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 90
Quite possibly the least relevant episode yet. I'm very proud. Topics - 2Dark sucks, crashing and glitches, punching old men, whoops! killed my kids, The Secret World remake/reboot/whatever, Berserk: Retarded Dynasty Warriors, censored nips, Nightcry, jazz loops, Bad Ass Babes, digitized strippers, giant penises, MS paint cum, vagina portals, empowered women smashing the patriarchy. Music - Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. Trailer, Bad Brains - Send You No Flowers, Nightcry Jazz
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 89
Even the king of Hyrule has a hard time getting some granny action, and he has to deal with dead kids. Also, I'm not sure if that's what actually happens. Topics - Zelda forever, Easter eggs?, taking credit, Adventure, cheat codes, OP turning point, cheating memories, the final confrontation, ass kippin', 2Dark, a dead kid extravaganza, "stealth" games, cheese it, midget cartoons, Star Wars: Rogue One, 'Nam Wars, Mass Effect? Music - Immortal Technique - Freedom of Speech, Chris Ray Gun - Punch a Nazi, Six Feet Under - Human Target
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 88
Deeper and deeper into Hyrule... things get either really interesting or incredibly boring depending on how much you care about Breath of the Wild. Topics - A lot of Zelda once again, the case against Achievements, stat-y shit, the horses..., motion control puzzles, ice block bullshit, dying, Fairy Fountains, sand seals, breaking my brain, spoilers, granny porn, just A Touch of Satan, Water Temple, 900 seeds, memories, game gossip, Colin Moriarty on The Rubin Report; still a fag. Music - The Rolling Stones - Mother's Little Helper, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Lost Woods, Scars on Broadway - They Say
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 87
It's the Zelda Edition of Grunt Free Press Podcast, where it gets super nerdy and embarrassing. And that's saying a lot. Topics - The Zelda Episode, Mutant Football League, lowest common denominator aka mobile games, whatever, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, adventure log, a day in Hyrule, how open?, dialogue text, shut up Princess Zelda, shrine distractions, horses, wind, eatin' meat, enemy camps, surprise giants, sparkly rocks, toenails, Dark Souls DNA, stop trying to rape Link, combat, gadgets, ancient knowledge, mechanical giraffe, Amazon women, races, The Lost Woods. Music - The Mamas and The Pepes - Teh Ballad of Stickman, Hatebreed - Destroy Everything, Johnny Cash - Cry, Cry, Cry
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 86
Why publishers decided to release a half dozen games back to back, I don't know. I do know that it's a blessing and a curse, as we jump around game to game in a schizophrenic smorgasbord of discussion. Have fun making sense of it. Topics - All games for once, Xbox Game Pass, Halo Wars 2, turtle missions, RTS conundrum, For Honor battle report, low bar skill cap, Viking victory, "community" rules, Horizon: Zero Dawn, full game orgasm mode, pretty tradeoffs, crossing the tree, noun soup, The Feral Kid, retarded midgets, Berserk: Band of the Hawk, "Y" if you're feeling fancy, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Wii U review, painful downloads, fuck the Gamepad, Vasoline smears, towers, spider climbing, systems, cooking animations. Music - The Clash - Clash City Rockers, Little Shop of Horrors - Feed Me (Git It), Lamb of God - The Subtle Arts of Murder and Persuasion
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 85
We branch out into some new segments this week, including weather reports and the Weekly Podcast Review. Then we talk about the same games we've been playing for weeks. Unsubscribe. Topics - Grunt Free Press Weather Report, bees, trash walk, MST3K reboot, cringy funny, unsubscribe, For Honor is pretty good, suckin' the Viking dick, the Nioh loop, recycled maps, old school Japanese PS2 era game, Friday the 13th: The Game: The PAX South Panel, car trolling, throwing knives, Halo Wars 2, strategy faggots, shit blows up, juggling controllers. Music - Cheap Trick - Surrender, For Honor - Wolves Among Sheep, GG Allin - Bite It You Scum
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 84
White people. Am I right? Topics - Ass swamped with games, footsies, brainfucking, Apocalypse Now wants your money, PewDiePie recruits Hitler Youth, anti-Semitic Indian kids, telephone journalism, For Honor, mechanics, rock-paper-scissors-throw, combos, special moves, meta-Risk, retardeder story for some reason, party problems, confusing currency, Sniper Elite 4, openish worlds, hiding in bushes, controller garbage. Music - System of a Down - P.L.U.C.K., Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie, Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 83
Warning: I may have inadvertently dropped an F-bomb or two. Sowie... Topics - Shitty snow, NightCry, bad Kickstarters are hilarious, half assed Clock Tower history, Shenmue is terrible, pixel hunting, running in high heels, rope on window, soda machine wood chipper, "fuckin'", bad news roundup, Bloody Boobs, pants, Nioh, Dark Souls plus Tenchu, tanky, stances, axes, active stamina reload, gamey, boss fights, confusing crafting, Valentine's Day dump. Music - The Black Dahlia Murder - The Blackest Incarnation, Horse the Band - A Rusty Glove, Tool - Anema
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 82
Woke up. Got out of bed. Smiled, knowing a hot redhead owes me head. Topics - Banter, Pats won, Lauren Phillips' asshole, blowjob logistics, back to Forza Horizon 3, I hate drifting, fistjail?, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, living ammo, checkpoints, chicken people, high pitched gibberish, boss fights, full murder mode, spoiler twist, Captain Planet bullshit, 15 year old PTSD, tripping/trapping, Steam brain, Hard West review, dusting off the PS4 Music - Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Theme, Pantera - Sandblasted Skin, The B52's - Private Idaho
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 81
Now with 80% more games and 60% less snot! Topics - The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, The Telltale formula, escalate the violence, Juno bug, Resident Evil 7, back to the roots?, magic box, is it RE?, references, Condemned 3, VR tricks/gimmicks, inconsistent damage, goo monsters, dumb AI, fanboying by proxy, Hitbox jokes, Apocalypse Now on Kickstarter, For Honor For Beta, moshpit, bloody Valentine. Music - Slayer - Angel of Death, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Mystic Cave Zone, Amon Amarth - First Kill
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 80
Experiment: Try to describe a complex puzzle game with philosophical overtones while battling a cold. Results: The rambling gets so convoluted that even I don't know what the fuck I said. Interesting... Topics - snot faucet, Hyper Light Drifter, perspective problems, pixel explosion, bad map, fake artsy bullshit, "like Zelda", The Talos principal, "like Portal", Tetris pieces, meta narrative, SOMA?, trying to explain a puzzle game, the voice of God, QR codes, the Dark Souls mindset, star doors, the tower. Music - Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song, The Talos Principal OST - A Land of Ruin, Municipal Waste - The Fatal Feast
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 79
Continuing the search for interactive entertainment in a barren hellscape, AbsoluteDeicide looks toward the future in a new console, returns to Hell itself, and braves the apocalypse. Spoiler: We're fucked. Topics - Pants, Doom 4 DLC, shit gen, fake news, Nintendo Switch, waitin' on Zelda, launch remasters, hat gimmicks, phlegm, the miserable generation, "creative" people, hack jobs, Pit People... in Early Access, brief history of The Behemoth, The Forest update, Wasteland 2, meat on the bones, blue hair and red blood, twist. Music - Dio - Holy Diver, Anti Nowhere League - Out on the Wasteland, System of a Down - Old School Hollywood
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 78
AbsoluteDeicide digs himself out of a foot of snow, then tries to keep a chain of thoughts straight for more than a few seconds at a time. The results are... mixed. Topics - Grunt Free Press goes social; doesn't know how that works, Party Hard, fake ass 8 bit, bad voice acting, bad podcasts, Welcome to Night Vale, Gab, colored dots, Batman - The Telltale Game, genre fatigue, still Batman, political underpinnings, subversion, Wasteland 2, party based RPGs, RPG game theory, time = reward people, Angela Deth gets a call, messy alliances, Act 2: California, Scalebound cancelled. Music - Anti-Flag - Die For Your Government, Lords of Acid - Rough Sex, S.C.U.M. - Go To War
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 77
With the first podcast episode of 2017, Grunt Free Press lays out it's agenda for massive, sweeping change in the coming year. Mostly rambling and the usual bullshit you should be used to by now. Topics - 777 ?, umm..., Resident Evil 6, nostalgia thing, Wasteland 2, before Fallout, premade party, walls of text, controller garbage, angry and confused, work for pussies, CRPGs, save scums, five second animations, no rest for the Rangers, goin' rogue, hobo with a shotgun, Atari E.T., metalulz, man yells at dog, Party Hard?, Steam Discussion Investigations, Tower of Doom, Halo Wars. Music - Lamb of God - Laid to Rest, Liam Lynch - United States of Whatever, Sluts - I Don't Wanna Be Your Friend
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 76
Friday the 13th: The Game: The Beta: The Podcast: The Episode. Topics - Friday the 13th: The Game: The Beta, brain rot, Resident Evil 6 and Wasteland 2 quick hits, "It's a beta", full disclosure, connection issues, Steam attack, pickin' Jason, stamina, powers, weak Rage mode, Battlefield One quick shit, part 7 Jason sucks, counselor stats, the "metagayme", walking speeds, mini-games, perks, XP, escape, shades of NES, randomness, cops are OP, Tommy Jarvis, shotgun to the face. Music - Dead Kennedys - MTV Get Off the Air, Resident Evil 6 - Separation, Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction
Grunt Free Podcast Episode 75
Attention! Some hipster in San Francisco has decided this is fake news. Listener discretion is advised. Topics - 75 episodes!?, the seasonal spirit, Forza Horizon 3: Blizzard Mountain, stars, Steep, snow, go do stuff, how wind works, G-meter, sucky camera, NDAs, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Beta Codes, free Lost Odyssey, Twitch/White House hosts games... for healthcare awareness, Twitch's Thought Police AI, Internet Archive gets political; Loses money. Music - Run D.M.C. - It's Tricky, Jethro Tull - Up To Me, Kill Baby Kill - Diversity
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 74
This episode goes from zero to sixty in about forty five minutes, then it kind of swerves to the right and gets lost for a little while. If you can parse out the maze and think you have the solution, remember to email podcast@gruntfreepress.com and we'll randomly pick the winner. I also forgot to say that in the episode. Topics - Boycott Burger King, waitin' for burgers, Train to Busan, product placement, Bethesda Pinball, generic fantasy pinball, rules, saving stats, Doom pinball, chainsaw plunger, Dead Rising 4, a brief history of the Dead Rising series, cheat code GTA retards, no structure, non-bosses, wasted skill trees, go do stuff, the downward spiral, botched ideas. Music - Nailbomb - Sicklife, Old Dan Tucker, South Park - Troll Song
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 73
So... Have you played The Deadly Tower of Monsters yet? Topics - Regrets, in depth Game Awards coverage, more Capcom games, Mega Man Legacy Collection, Mega Man 5: More Mega Man, story dumps, M tanks, letters and numbers, N bombs, lack of news, Jeff Cork is a hero, ups and downs of Battlefield 1, in depth PSX coverage, sex doll Mega Man, Mega Man 6, Resident Evil 6. Music - Bob Dylan - It Ain't Me Babe, Dropkick Murphys - Never Alone, Horse the Band - Werepizza
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 72
I ate a bunch of apple crisp before recording, so sorry for the gurgling. Topics - Put it Down! - signs, Black Friday floor report, Mega Man 4, E tank grinding, questionable weapon pellets, charged shots, last minute mechanics, Resident Evil 5, fight the AI, brown games, inventory, agro, game tutorimercials, Black Mirror Music - Lamb of God - Omerta, Rancid - Disgruntled, Frank Zappa - Tinsel Town Rebellion
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 71
This one... this one... is more ramble-y and stutter-y than usual. I give it a 6 out of 10. Wait for a sale. Topics - A day in the life, notebook auctions, bloody tampons, NES mini, Mega Man Legacy Collection, password protips, E tanks, feature creep, RPG elements, shotguns, Battlefield One, Hardcore, games I didn't buy or play, Civilization 6 remains questionable, working ass backwards, Resident Evil 5, podcast games, Clueless Gamer Music - Leftover Crack - Clear Channel (Fuck Off), Mega Man 2 OST - Heatman, Nine Inch Nails - Burn
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 70
Trigger Warning: A straight, white, male devil is about to rant about the US election. Go fuck yourself. Topics - Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, the Metal Gear connection, Comcast continues to suck, data caps, streaming news, the obligatory post-election rant, my so called privileged white life, Dave Chapell, sound bites, Milo Gay Dude, pussy riot, punching presidents, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Hardcore, Civilization 6. Music - Slipknot - Fuck it All, System of a Down - Fuck the System, Dead Kennedys - Stars and Stripes of Corruption
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 69
Its the Halloween Spooktacular: Part Three: Election Day Edition. Topics - hot hermaphrodites, more Doom 4, multiplayer death rumors, demon dancin', Mythbusters: Doom Edition, ass to ass butt buddies, bad references, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, useless reviews, taking control, Tom Clancy's Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Friday releases, brain splatter downer, ship to shit, garbage multiplayer. Music - Doom - Main Menu, Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have, The Clash - Hateful
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 68
What's this? And early Halloween treat? Open up your Ninja Turtles pillowcase and accept an early podcast episode down your gullet. It's full of chills and spills, and raw, sleepy hollow voices and coughing. Topics - "normal", reviews, Old Man Halloween, controversy?, voice over strike, Bethesda's review policy, spot the big corporation, Doom 4 again, classic Doom? Battlefield One, jammin' "X", Titanfall 2, member good FPS campaigns?, Attrition changes, paper titans. Music - The Bomboras - Playa de los Muertos, Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl, Cannibal Corpse - Addicted to Vaginal Skin
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 67
AbsoluteDeicide scares up some thrills and chills for you boils and ghouls in the second annual Grunt Free Press Spooktacular! Those flies buzzing around are actually CGI props that cost thousands of dollars per second. Topics - Vacation smells, more words I can't say, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, bad memory, flies, Alone in the Dark, blinking, OBS revelations, selling out, Rise of the Tomb Raider (again), Year of the Yaga, brutal Lara, Gears of War 4: Still pretty shitty, Nintendo Switch, Red Dead Redemption 2, Red Dead Rewriting History, Battlefield One, shitty campaigns, Goldeneye A.I. Music - The Ramones - Chain Saw, Terminator Theme, GWAR - Whargoul
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 66
Recording on new equipment doesn't necessarily result in a better podcast, as this episode clearly proves. Topics - A long, boring story about waiting around and being a grumpy old man, Gears of War 4, Mafia 3, A long, boring story about PC hardware. Music - GWAR - The Bloody Pit of Horror Part 4, Castlevania Lords of Shadow - Vampires, The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Grunt Free Podcast Episode 65
Shivering and full of hummus, AbsoluteDeicide tackles the real issues the other Illuminati-run news outlets won't touch with a silver spoon. And games! Topics - Grunt Free paranoia, bags, the muffins are secure, Tomb Raider 2013, gritty reboots, garbage shipwrecks, Alien: Isolation, last gen nostalgia, slow burns, Alien A.I., pressin' buttons and pullin' levers, Gears of War 4, Early Access for more money, Gears is Gears, General VRAMM, blurry graphics, playin' it safe, millennial comedy, shoehorned Horde, flat maps. Music - GWAR - The Bloody Pit of Horror Parts 1-3.
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 64
Busy times results in a rushed and shortened episode, but they're all gems in the eyes of our loving God. Topics - Shitty C buttons, hard on outs, Forza Horizon 3 Review, everyone's a winner, filthy casual racing, VRAM, bad ports, Xbox download speeds suck, car porn downtime, locked custom music, staged showcases, rubberbanding AI, bad Forza Motorsport, gimmicks, bad progression trees, foreign languages, Westworld rules. Music - The Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away, GG Allin and Antiseen - 99 Stab Wounds, Dropkick Murphys - The State of Massachusetts
Grunt Free Podcast Episode 63
It's been four days of burning through he desert in Halo Warthogs and Ferraris since we got early access to Forza Horizon 3. Naturally we talk about it for all of thirty seconds and rant about other, less topical garbage. Topics - Impacted podcast colon, For Alpha... For Honor Alpha, Moderate NATs, Weekly Friday the 13th: The Game: The Beta Code update, Resident Evil: Zero: Sucks, random holes, bad design, item dumps, turd blobs, Batman: The Telltale Game: Part 2, The Resolution Riddler, dead parents, Tomb Raider: The Reboot One, Lara Croft puts tears in my eyes, More reasons I hate people, Idle Thumbs makes me delete podcasts, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Virtual Cabin: The Bathrooms, Monster Madness, The Rise and Fall of Palmer Luckey, Twitter Hell. Music - Combat - Ruination, Reign of Pestilence - Break Your Neck, Belphegor - Rise to Fall and Fall to Rise
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 62
Chipping away at an aural backlog, go behind the scenes of Grunt Free Press and hear all of the rants and grudges and hatred in real time. Topics - Behind the Grunt Free curtain, Game of Thrones: The Telltale Game, pandering, forced cameos, Raiden 3, Japanophile FPS casual douchebags, Mass Effect: Andromeda voice over contest, Mike Futter goes away and the people rejoice, surface level stalking, ReCore, robutt buddies, 3D Mega Man, matching sets, lots of cores, objectively wrong reviews, grindin' axes, anti-Windows 10 dufuses, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Weekly Beta Code Update. Music - R.E.M. - Stand (Get A Life Intro), Harry Manfredini - Friday the 13th Part 3 Theme, Serj Tankian - The Unthinking Majority
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 61
The games are on the horizon, so why not join AbsoluteDeicide as he bitches about a Gamecube game? Topics - General Dicking Around, ReCore early impressions, the new B tier, convenience store transvestites, PlayStation meeting/press conference thing, fanboy hypocrisy, 4K snobbery, Friday the 13th: The Game: The PAX West Panel and The Virtual Cabin, Rage, The Flame and the Flood still sucks, review obligations, old Resident Evil games are bad, Resident Evil Zero is the worst, Gamecube war stories, poisonous chess. Music - Alfred Hitchcock Theme, GG Allin - Caroline and Sue, The Black Dahlia Murder - To a Breathless Oblivion
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 60
"We" think this is a good episode, so you have to, too. Don't even listen to it, just tell everyone you know that it's amazing then donate money at gruntfreepress.com. Topics - Random, Sierra games on Steam, Tim Schafer: Still a hack, Police Quest, cop shows, The Night Of, Naz is an idiot, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, small scale stories, crazy cat ladies, punchin' throats, bullshit negative review campaigns, elite combat rifle, the Store, "we", Battlefield One beta, stocking up for the season, rage against the Rage, sports talk experts, The Conjuring 2 sucks, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Kills. Music - Little Shop of Horrors - Dentist Song, Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World, The Dead Kennedys - Pull My Strings
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 59
It's a Grunt Free First as AbsoluteDeicide stays laser focused on games due to time constraints. More or less. Topics - Swimming heads, pure gaming, Full Spectrum Warrior, Rage, Fury Road and Fallout, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, choices, RPG game design: the good, the bad, and the Planescape: Torment, crime scenes, pumpkin muffins, The Church in the Darkness, SJW cults, rushed notes and editing. Music - Slayer - Read Between the Lies, Rage OST - Action, Blind Melon - Skinned
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 58
Things get technical as numbers are bandied about and the nitty gritty of rally racing is dissected. Also, rambling and muttering. Topics - Wolf spiders, The Tick, Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair, random Godzilla, ragdoll, Dirt Rally, cockpit view, banned idiots, night drivin', badly explained championships, missing textures, VR ruins games, magic fixes, Forza Motorsport Apex, in depth Gamescom 2016 coverage, Dreadout, Dreadout: Keepers of the Dark, "Indie"nesian, Z buffering, MS Paint textures, numbers prove that Mike Futter is still an idiot, steamdb. Music - Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4, GWAR - Bloodbath, Frank Zappa - Titties and beer
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 57
AbsoluteDeicide creates an editing nightmare for himself as he travels back in time to the early aughts to dig into an obscure fan made gaming forum. He picks fights, hurls insults, and goes into teenage rage mode. Hilarity ensues. Topics - Review-a-poloza, drudgin' through the sludge, the death of spoilers, trash people, Satanic references, bad music, My Little Journey, retro reviews, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, vagina triangle, shootin' gongs, No No Man's Sky, $60 Early Access, pure marketing, Stranger Things, Wynona Rider kills it, Jessica Jones still sucks and she looks like Michael Jackson. Music - A Clockwork Orange - Theme, GG Allin - Outlaw Scumfuck, Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver
Grunt Free Press Episode 56
Grunt Free Press opens it's first aid kit and stitches together something from nothing. The jury's still out as to why. Topics - The Cold Brew Conspiracy, Preacher Season One, random Watchmen, Tulip at 11, room to improve, Hey... a review!, Mr. Trendy Pants, Blurry Batman/Buggy Batman, Quick Time Asylum, PC secrets, Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Bandicam, ten year old first person stealth attempts, random shootouts, cured exposed bones, straight outta Lovecraft, one hour to dead kid, Fishmom, J. Edgar Hoover is a dick. Music - Weezer - Tired of Sex, Marvel Ultimate Alliance OST - Mephisto's Realm, Twiztid - Die Mothafucker Die
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 55
This is a rebroadcast of a ten year old episode, so if you press play and it doesn't work try playing it from a tape deck. Topics - Updates about updates, Joe Schmoe Xbox User, The Secret World, Anti-FNAF Club, Podcast reads the internet, horror bias, theme park MMOs, I don't know how churches work, Press "B" to Google, MMO PvP, themes, honey puns, Marvel Ultimate Alliance is fucked, Press "X" to "A", pandering, broken simulations, repeatable bugs, Lawbreakers alpha (again), confusing gametypes, 0 or O? Music - Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit, Match Game Theme, The Clash - Police and Thieves
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 54
Sometimes it's about video games, sometimes it's about ten year old TV shows. It's always terrible. That's the Grunt Free Promise. Topics - Hyper X Cloud Headset Review, random updates, headbands and earcups, Deadwood, Wild West Shakespeare, speaking dipshit, BBB, Overwatch changes, Ana, spammier, D.VA buffs, buffed McRee, I suck at Overwatch, Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair, text scaling, dumb fun, Kick Ass Torrents shut down by the authorities, PSA for Ed, Welcome to the Game, Red Room, kidnapped by Russians. Music - Lamb of God - Letter to the Unborn, Curb Your Enthusiasm Theme, GWAR - Have You Seen Me?
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 53
AbsoluteDeicide catches a Shitachu. Topics - Pokémon Stop, C++ dump, normies, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and The Warrior Within, boss tower, controller support?, Godsmack, bad map, hard and long, The Secret World, Travis Bickle, Skinnyfingers, Templar, eatin' bees, H.P. Arts and Crafts, button mapping, Berserk: The Game, Boring PC Hardware Update, First Blood, Overwatch, Ana: The Old Seed Lady. Music - Men Without Hats - Safety Dance, KMFDM - New American Century, The Casualties - Fuck You All
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 52
It's another very special episode as Grunt Free Press celebrates it's one year anniversary. Expect some surprises and special guests. If you've stuck around for the past year, you know the previous sentence was a complete lie. Topics - I'm pretty awesome, One Year Special, quiet contemplation, reflections, Space Hulk, Deadpool, questionable permadeath, arthritis, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, controller support, confusing Prince of Persia retrospective, Lawbreakers Alpha, poor man's Overwatch, Overwatch, competitive issues, questionable complaints, brainstorming, 6 Torbjorns. Music - Dropkick Murphys - Worker's Song, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - The Prelude Fight, Amon Amarth - The Hero
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 51
Celebrate Independence Day with the Early Edition of Grunt Free Press Podcast. I celebrated by just throwing it together and not listening, so if it's jacked up... well, that's the American Way. Topics - The Flame in the Flood, Overwatch competitive, Space Hulk, Inside, probably other stuff. Music - Chuck Regan - Landsick, Pink Floyd - Empty Spaces, Nine Inch Nails - Only
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 50
Catching up on the rudely interrupted last show, AbsoluteDeicide celebrates 50 episodes by getting political and mumbling through words just like Episode 1. Topics - 50th Episode Celebration, Trials of the Blood Dragon, Overwatch Corner, Mei, freeze juice, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Demo, Odin Sphere: Luftrauser, phozons, fruit, fiddly inventory, Steam Summer Sale, Grunt Free Economic life hacks, Buy Condemned, "grey market" games, stolen keys, buy in bulk, "always online", Mike Futter is a hack and a Nazi, Brexit affects UK... slightly gaming, Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Daughter, more dead kids. Music - Leftover Crack - ? (Track 2 from Shoot the Kids at School), Adolescents - Amoeba, The Doors - Gloria
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 49
Wrapping up E3 2016, AbsoluteDeicide summons a phantom sneeze and takes cover as Kojima smites him with dead whale thunder. Topics - E3 2016 Part 2, I'm sick of watching shitty press conferences, PC Gaming Show, Lawbreakers, "Salt", Ubisoft, Mohawk Pandas, edgy, Ghost Recon: Wildlands, South Park: The Fractured but Whole, Ray Charles VR, For Honor, Watchdogs 2, Steep, Dad of War, Days Gone Home to the Rapture, Far Cry: Primal: Horizon: Zero Dawn: Robot Edition, Resident Evil 7, Friday the 13th: The Game: The E3 Alpha, thunder, Halo Wars 2 beta. Music - The Black Dahlia Murder - In Hell is Where She Waits for Me, Skate or Die 2 Theme, Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 48
It's the long awaited E3 2016 Spectacular. AbsoluteDeicide gives his cheers and jeers from the red carpet, where he finds an injured cat and Morgan's Webb's horrible nose job. Topics - The PR Show, birds, Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, blurry betas, techno douchecore, Bastion sucks, E3 2016, EA Play, Titanfall 2, Battlefield One, E Sports, sports stories, Bethesda, Quake Champions, Elder Scrolls?, Prey, Morgan Webb's nose job, Microsoft, Gears 4, bad voice acting, more Forza, Recore, background music, Dead Rising 4, State of Decay 2, Scorpio. Music - Wanda Jackson - Shakin' All Over, Frank Zappa - He's So Gay, The Exploited - Fuck the USA
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 47
From well researched E3 predictions to pro Overwatch tips from an MLG-caliber player, Grunt Free Press continues to be the only podcast you need in your day to day life. Also, birds won't shut the fuck up. Topics - Gaming news, remember VR?, rubes, Sony wins E3, Sony is the new Apple and that's not a compliment, E3 predictions, Overwatch, birds, douchebag teammates, dulled sheen, Overwatch tips and tricks, healing payloads, anti-social online gaming, KBM spazzes, matchmaking, Genji, McRee, controller bugs?, Pharah's gotta jet, bumper jumper, Reaper. Music - Hatebreed - Another Day, Another Vendetta, Pink Floyd - One of these Days, Leonard Cohen - The Future
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 46
Heading back into the real world, an entire day has gone missing, muddled in Lovecraftian horror, gay anime boys, and cartoon gorillas. Topics - Missing time, Berserk, rotoscoping, onion knights, Bloodborne sucks?, The Old Hunters, parry, full Lovecraft, Innsmouth, The Orphan, grinding sucks, dumb regain systems, water is bad for you, Overwatch, insane reviews, shitty teammates, common internet courtesy, "need healz", text chat, "GG", loot box rip offs, Blizzard fanboys, Overwatch: It's Basically Shadowrun. Music - Mastodon - Iron Tusk, Burn the Priest - Suffering Bastard, Romper Stomper Orchestra - Pulling on the Boots
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 45
AbsoluteDeicide takes a deep breath, stretches out, and relaxes as his week long vacation starts. Unfortunately that means it's a week of playing two shitty games. We also get out first call in. Topics - Crack, time travel, wires, Doom hates Steam, Name the Souls contest, Demon's Souls, gargoyles, plague rats, level drain, Demon's Souls servers offline?, Bloodborne sucks, grinding for vials, gray and boring environments, Homefront: The Revolution, run to an icon and press "X", no multiplayer, Doom multiplayer rules, Preacher, vacation Music - System of a Down - B.Y.O.B., Sex Pistols - Holidays in the Sun, Scene from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 44
Before he boards the plane to China, AbsoluteDeicide plays a couple games that don't end in the word "Souls". It's also really Episode 44. Topics - Send help, PS3 streaming, broken controllers, streamin' Demons, kitin' knights, phantom Twitch followers, Comcast still sucks, Uncharted 4: The Goonies 3: More Uncharted, shot in the back, critic bait, nice assets asshole, Tencent Games Platform, Doom 4, Ultra Violent, Doom Nukem. Music - Combat - The Mutant Inside, The B-52's - Rock Lobster, White Zombie - Super-Charger Heaven
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 43
As AbsoluteDeicide's journey through the Souls nears an end, he does some Ebay detective work and reflects on the series as a whole. Then he rants about something. Welcome. Topics - Ornstein and Smough, Gruntus LePress, halberds through the fog door, go for Smough, shoot her!, dead fire keepers, parry and riposte, Bed of Chaos, acid worms, super titanite demons, 5 estus, Battlefield 1, Bloodborne: Easy Souls, ebay PS3, Demon's Souls, B.D.S., fat rolls, shirtless Souls, Overwatch vs. Battleborn, "too game-y". Music - First Aid Kit - Stay Gold, The Misfits - Skulls, The Black Dahlia Murder - Paint it Black
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 42
AbsoluteDeicide gives some hot takes on the latest anime andJRPG news and gives tips on how you can help fight thepatriarchy. Nah, it's more Dark Souls. Topics - Dying SJWs, Dark Souls 3, NG++, OP butcher knives,Boreal Valley, legit dungeons, branding irons and HP drains,suspicious spots, Nameless King, PvP in RPGs sucks, tree seeds, TheInvitation, Nintendo news, The Revenant, Call of Duty: InfiniteWarfare, Ni-Oh Alpha, Dark Souls, Aliens Vs. Pinball. Music - GWAR - Penguin Attack, Darkthrone - Soulside Journey,First Aid Kit - Emmylou
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 41
AbsoluteDeicide cracks a red eye orb and continues to blabber about Dark Souls 3, then rushes through some other bullsht while holding his dick. Topics - Dark Souls 3, PvP, giant butcher knives, sit whips, stat caps, Dark Souls VHS trailer, focus attacks, cryptic musings, cool gimmick fights, The Dancer, Firekeepers' eyes, journey 2, Gears of War 4 beta, Dirt Rally, Mirror's Edge: Catalyst beta, Friday the 13th: The Game: The In-Engine Trailer, PlayStation Flash Sale, Game of Thrones, Ni-oh demo, piss. Music - Green Jelly - Three Little Pigs, Power Glove - Tetris, Motoi Sakuraba - Nameless King
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 40
Digging through the word backlog and fighting the urge to just play Dark Souls 3, AbsoluteDeicide phones in some garbage once again. Topics - Soul crush, Gears of War 4, Trenches, wall bouncin', Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: Fortune, smashmouth volleyball, tan lines, The Park, The Secret World, Dirt Rally, Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne: Shell of Souls, smackin' walls, rafter fights, sword and board, cryptic NPCs, naked guys in wells, small doll Music - Japanische KampfAPrspiele - Verrat Am Metal, Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Pornstar Wisdom, Team America - Everyone Has AIDS
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 39
The one where AbsoluteDeicide really wants to play Dark Souls 3. It's also really Episode 39. Topics - Tom Green, The Walking Dead: Michonne: Episode 2: Give No Shelter, escape from Boat Town, Doom Beta, Halo 5 is missing, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures 2: Assimilation, deep cuts, black and red, Quantum Break, missing codes, fake graphics, FEAR, spammy fights, Hitbox warning, Remember Me, invadin' brains, Alan Wake code giveaways. Music - The Guess Who - No Time, Eminem - Remember Me, Excrementory Grindfckers - Nein, Kein Grindcore
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 38
Just Because... Second Try... Sober uploading this time.
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 37
AbsoluteDeicide goes to the movies. Topics - More Dune, lazy rants, Sci Fi's Dune, Colonel Story, Jungle Hunt, Pirate Pete, The Hate Fellate, Who's Who?, fan edits, Zoe Bell sucks, Heavy Rain, motion controls suck, Press X for Jason, failing dental hygiene, Predator 2 Protips, drug squad, Killer Instinct Season 3, The Windows Store sucks, high specs, Sonic CD, The Daredevil Conspiracy. Music - The Beatles - The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, Dead Kennedys - I Kill Children, 1000 Homo DJs - Supernaut
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 36
Between eating discounted Irish soda bread and contemplating the downfall of the entire video game industry and possibly mankind, it's been a pretty good week. Topics - Taxes, Preacher, The Division, the grind, 2Dark, Gears of War 4 beta, The Deadly Tower of Monsters co-op, Dune on the brain, lubin' gears, physical media sucks, the shittiness is faster, fantasyanime.com, Kega, spice is life, Chrono Trigger sucks, OG Xbox itch, PS4.5, helmets and dildos, bee bombs, Daredevil Season 2, Foggy sucks. Music - KMFDM - Anarchy, Dune - Ornithoper Ride, Slayer - You Against You
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 35
Doom. Arrakis. Virus Planet. Topics - Tom Clancy's The Division, T-shirt review, pickin' missions, civilian protips, UI, Steam hooks, it's not an MMO you tards, dolla dolla flu y'all, environmental storytelling, you know, Doom Beta, Jadorowski's Dune, El Topo, Frank Herbert's Dune, Sega CD's Dune, DOS sucks, Singularity, technology's a cunt, cross platform play, Preacher. Music - FEAR - New York's Alright if You Like Saxophones, Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole, Pink Floyd - Fearless
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 34
Winner of the 2016 Grunt Free Press Awards, Excellence in Audio Engineering and Joke Telling. Topics - Shtty Souls - it works better in writing, shady bit coin transactions, Killer Instinct Season 3 details, Leatherface Vs. Scorpion, NP-376-37-6, Far Cry Primal, Piss Man, vision quests, good base building, headbuttin' tigers, what the uck is going on with consoles?, Nintendo NX rumors, Sniper Elite 4, Fable Legends cancelled, The Town of (Stone and) Light, Masturbation Awards, Strider sucks. Music - Xzibit - Front 2 Back, The Behemoth - Battleblock Theater, Boss Music 01a, Dying Fetus - Shepard's Commandment
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 33
My tribe can kick the sht out of your tribe. We have Rowdy Roddy Piper and Andre the Giant. Topics - I love/hate the '80s, Dead or Alive 5, slutty nuns, The Walking Dead: Michonne: Episode 1: In Too Deep, silence is always an option, Valkria Chronicles, bad anime sht, bad pop ups, MURI, Doom II: Hell on Earth, Zombie Army Trilogy, zombie Hitler, the Leatherface dance, WWI rumors, Grifball, I suck at Halo 5, Forza 6 on PC, Far Cry: Primal, I'm not racist you are. Music - Goonies II - Stage Theme, The Goonies R Good Enough, Charlie Murder - I Vote 4 Chaos, First Aid Kit - Wolf
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 32
Do you like unfinished, broken, barely playable games that charge full price? Well, boy, do I have a deal for you... Topics - Free games, Golden Axe, beats-thems-ups, Street Fighter 5 blows, PC settings mini-games, bad art, PoopyPoopFarts, Golden Axe 2, Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder, Far Cry: Primal, The Witcher, Ultra Weapon X, Super C, MAME Master Race, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, Killer Instinct, Goodbye Tim Turi, Game Informer Dark Souls Super Replay, The Walking Dead: Machonne. Music - The Dead Milkmen - Serrated Edge, GG Allin - Drink, Fight, and Fck, Cyndi Lauper - The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 31
It's a bunch of sit and I don't want to go over my character limit. Lots of XCOM 2 love. Lots of XCOM 2 hate. And spooky sounds in the night. Topics - Martian Gothic Super Replay, Mike Futter sucks, Metal Slug 5, XCOM 2 is kind of difficult, night terrors, Grifball, The Division open beta, Quantum Break on PC, consoles suck, The Walking Dead, dead kids, Sunset Riders, Aliens, Earth Defense Force, Salamander/Life Force, Street Fighter V sucks. Music - Twisted Sister - Burn in Hell, Metal Slug 5 - 05 - Windy Day, Bad Brains - Pay to Cum
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 30
Bah buh bah buh, bah buh bah buh, bah buh wuhnt wah wuhnt whuhnt... Topics - Old man arthritis, Metal Gear: Slug, Metal Slug 2, XB1 Elite Controller, Metal Slug 3, bangin' witches, The Witcher is anti-Bond, hooker party, Doom in May, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 4, Tormentum: Dark Sorrow, Steam Lunar Sale, XCOM 2, I suck at games, Killer Instinct Season 3. Music - Heart - Barracuda, Metal Slug 4 - 414, Desert, Stage 4
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 29
Warning: This episode is mostly about video games. Topics - The Division Beta: It's Kind of Like Mass Effect tm, PC cheating, Doom 3: It's Kind of Like Prometheus tm, Battlefront DLC details, Metal Slug, The Deadly Tower of Monsters, Meta, robot demographics, Sakura Swim Club, I didn't play Darkest Dungeon, The Void, The Witcher, Tormentum: Dark Sorrow, I got a box. Music - The Clash - Know Your Rights, Freezepop - Brainpower (Rock Band Mix), GWAR - Slap U Around
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 28
AbsoluteDeicide explores the triple D's in his life, is baffled by pinky usage, then inevitably slips into torture porn. Topics - Podcast Addict update, Rebel Galaxy, Kholat, walking simulators, Darkest Dungeon, status ailments, controller support, sanity meters, disease lists, clutter, Rouge Legacy, Doom 3, clickin', pinky gaming, flashlight mods suck, I didn't buy The Witness, Martyrs, torture porn, Salo. Music - Slayer - I'm Gonna Be Your God, Tweaker - Doom 3 Theme, The Dead Kennedys - Rawhide.
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 27
It's an indie blowout spectacular! AbsoluteDeicide explores two very different games (and starts a third), and still has time for nostalgic ramblings about buying Doom a bunch and delivers a buying guide for games you won't end up playing. Topics - Cat update, Oxenfree, Gone Home still sucks, walking simulators, broken dialogue, censored on Steam?, sales and acquisitions, FMV, Rebel Galaxy, spacescapes, too many choices..., a personal history of Doom, Kholat, EA Access on PC. Music - Amon Amarth - Death in Fire, Rage Against the Machine - Bullet in the Head, The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 26
Things get dark sometimes. Well, usually, to be honest. To stay in your hole or lash out... now that's the real question. Bad moods don't make for good times doing important things like playing video games and recording podcasts. Topics - Grunt Free Expansion, killing space, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, wattage, streamlinin', No Cnts Allowed, tactics in numbers, PC upgrading is easy?, Research is fun?, validation part 1, Part 2 Take 2, Japanese goofy humor, Earth Defense Force is overpriced, the PS Store sucks, Velocity 2x, Erin Esurance art style, Grim Fandango sucks, Tim Shafer sucks, 2016: The first and last year of VR, Gone Home sucks, validation part 2 and 3, Hitbox Q & A, Rebel Galaxy, Halo 5 looks good, Game Informer Illbleed Super Replay, my cat got bit. Music - Robert Johnson - Hellhound on my Trail, Roger Bartlett - Fool for a Blonde, System of a Down - Vicinity of Obscenity
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 25
In space, no one can hear the terror in your voice as you await PC parts to arrive in the mail and contemplate cracking open your $1000+ computer and screw around with wiring. I was electrocuted as a young lad, so messing with power supplies is a true nightmare come true. If this is the last podcast, assume I did not survive. Topics - The Man in the High Castle, Star Wars: Episode VII: The Space Nazis Awakens, Star Wars hipsters, spoilers, robot balls, shtty villains, Snokes looks like arseface, TIE fighter pilot helmets and pockets, everyone's related, the third trench run is the charm, IMAX awakens, Battlefront Strikes Back, Hero Hunt sucks, some game called Fallout, kids and nukes, New Vegas was a mess, Fallout: Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, streaming game manuals, Rainbow Six, etc. Music - Motorhead - Better off Dead, D12 - Fight Music, Johnny Cash - Ghost Riders in the Sky
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 24
Lord, I was born a ramblin' man... tryin' to stay on topic and doin' the best I can. I'm all over the place this week, jumping back and forth with no regard to my well honed script. It went so long I had to take three piss breaks while editing. Enjoy. Topics - The Man in the High Castle, Rainbow Six: Siege top clearance, gun attachments, silenced spraying, tight spreads, DOOM vs. DOOM, DOOM 64, 32X rentals, Star Wars: Battlefront chaos, Siege objectives, shotguns are great tools, lopsided games, Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days, Cait sucks, a heartfelt Piper reunion, playing all sides, the definition of "censorship", synthetic gorilla meat. Music - White Zombie - Welcome to Planet MF, DOOM - E1M1, At Doom's Gate, Leftover Crack - Born to Die
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 23
The first half is blown out. The second half is too cold. Somewhere in between lies the Grunt Free Truth. Topics - Sit be breakin', Polk Audio headset update, nostalgia reality check, back to Boston, destroying bars, losing Piper, Fallout callbacks, ghoul STDs, Sony and Kojima make a perfect game in five years... callin' it now, Resogun sucks, hey... Forge, imbedded Rainbow Six: Siege photography, Dead or Alive: Xtreme 2 is garbage, batteries suck, wired 360 controller?, The Great Comcast Battle Round 3, mom and pop stores suck. Music - Anti-Nowhere League - I Hate People, Rancid - Lady Liberty, FEAR - Fck Christmas
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 22
My heart sinks. She's gone. All those months spent together, picking through trash, bashing people's skulls, bangin' on cots... and she's alone. Maybe dead... Maybe she's behind the Brahmin jam... Topics - Fallout 4, Metal Gear continues to suck from the grave, Fallout 4, building bars, combing the beach, little details, The Silver Shroud, Fallout 4, Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 still thinks you're a whiny pussy, play-asia.com seems legit, mixing business with politics, the PS4 store sucks, The Man in High Castle, Gears of War codes, Ikaruga, Halo 5 packs for wins. Music - Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face, Andrew Jackson Jihad - Hate, Rain on Me, Sublime - Badfish
Grunt Free Podcast Episode 21
Yep, it's a little late. The reason? AbsoluteDeicide and Clay Cuckolds put in some extra rehearsal time to bring you this gem. It's one unedited take and it's brilliant. You can send the award to podcast@gruntfreepress.com. Topics - The Great Comcast Battle, Fallout 4 never ends, cum swappin' tales, trade routes, killin' kids, shootin' babies, The Ripper, gaming journalism is a joke, award shows are gay, breaking employment news, Rainbow Six: Siege is amazing, Battlefront again, Slave Leia boners, Jessica Jones sucks and Kristen Ritter is awful, Francis Ford Coppola's Splatoon Music - Anti-Nowhere League - Streets of London, John Williams - Tie Fighter Attack
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 20
Start up Skype, hit record, hope for the best. AbsoluteDeicide an (low bandwidth) Clay Cuckolds conti (159 dropped frames) ission about their trips to the wastel (attempting reconnect... 5, 4, 3, 2...) maybe Japan? Topics - Comcast eats, Fallout 4, rolling butts, PCs suck, aliens, perks, Tales of a Jerkytown Vendor, dead wives, Pickman's Model, Rainbow Six: Siege, headsets, modems. Music - Dion - The Wanderer, GWAR - Americanized, Robby Roadsteamer - I Put a Baby in You
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 19
Alone in the wasteland, AbsoluteDeicide scavenges for supplies to keep himself from stumbling over his own words and somehow remains a smoothskin. There's one audio hiccup near the beginning. Oh, well. Topics - Goin' solo, Star Wars: Battlefront, space, audio hiccups, glitches/cheats?, $50 season passes, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Big Team Battle, waiting on Forge, social playlists suck, air purifiers, Fallout 4, save scums, puzzles, Swan Lake, bangin' Piper, Bethesda bugs, Jimmy's Grunt Free Press, MST3K returns, Rifftrax riffs The Wizard. Music - Flogging Molly - Speed of Darkness, Municipal Waste - The Thrashin' of the Christ, Karen O - I Shall Rise
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 18
Hope you like Fallout, because this episode is as heavy with it as a Corvega factory after a deathclaw attack. Topics - Lots of Fallout 4, flashlight protips, stabbin' people, bugs?, touring the polymer lab, selling drugs, VATS, fast travel?, let's whine about graphics, level caps, Forza microtransactions, Dark Souls DLC, Star Wars: Battlefront, radiation storms, Fallout Online?, speech options, Friday the 13th: The Funded, Rainbow Six: Siege, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Halo 5 Review Music - The Dead Milkmen - Tiny Town, Frank Zappa - My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mamma, The Doors - Five to One (Live)
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 17
There's a new co-host this week. SlickBunny801001 brings a fresh and less offensive perspective to the Grunt Free Press Podcast as Clay wasn't really working out. There's some explosions at the end, too. Topics - The Wasteland Report, Fallout 4, Halo addiction, PC troubles, console troubles, name changes, XB1 backward compatible games, cheating at RPGs because you're a dumbass, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Kickstarter: The Money Pit, Halo 5 still rules, Ash Vs. Evil Dead, Comcast is on to me. Music - Six Feet Under - Lycanthrope, Dropkick Murphys - Fightstarter Karaoke, The Ink Spots - Maybe
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 16
Deep in the throes of Halo 5 addiction, AbsoluteDeicide and Clay Cuckolds hit record and bring you a completely live, unscripted broadcast as they slay enemy Spartans and commentate Breakout matches. It's probably the worst idea ever, but who listens to this trash anyway? Topics - Halo 5: Missing features, play by play breakdowns, Havoc physics, sixty seconds to railgun, digital suicides, Xbox Elite controller shortages, the beautiful sounds of destruction, opening playlists, Warzone, weekly Friday the 13th: The Game update, the 24 hour stream was a success, anti-ADD. Music - Halo - Main Theme, Slayer - Warzone, Social Distortion - The Story of My Life
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 15
It's Halloween, so here's the early edition of the Grunt Free Press Podcast. Will Clay Cuckolds and AbsoluteDeicide give you a trick... or a treat? I don't know, but you're a pssy. Topics - Back scratchin' forks, City Skylines, NHL '16, fots and pssies, Friday the 13th: The Game update, Twitch pies, Out for Social Justice, The Halo countdown, fk story, Halo 5 on PC? Nope, $150 Elite Controller, Rebel Galaxy, custom soundtracks, slow dashboard, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Obscure, Fatal Frame 5: Maiden of Black Water, suicide woods, Mass Effect 2 sucks, hard drive blues. Music - Type O Negative - Black No. 1, Talking Heads - Psycho Killer, The Cranberries - Zombie
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 14
The end is near. As I look at my backlog and ponder my life choices, time seems fleeting as I prepare to enter the Halo Hole my life will become in less than a week. Clay tortured some prisoners, too. And special thanks to Ralph for closing out the show. Topics - Gayme news, Anime still sucks, Prison Architect, City Skylines, Tropico, Fatal Frame 5, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Uncharted 2, Uncharted 3, The Dualshock 4 is cheap and it sucks, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Kickstarter, "Chi ha" versus "ki ma" debate, NHL 16, zombie disasters, waiting for DOOM codes. Music - The Streets - The Way of the Dodo, Castlevania - Stage 1, Wombstomp - Always Trust the Man in the Van
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 13
We hired the night guy from McDonald's to write and edit this podcast, so any complaints can be directed at Steve when you pick up your pick up your egg and cheese sandwiches. Topics - YouTube stars, The Great Tomb Raider versus Fallout debate, video game bugs, Far Cry: Primal, The new Xbox One dashboard, elastic fixes, Cyberpunk 2077, Halo 5 Forge delayed, Fck Metal Gear, Phil Spencer admits Xbox One probably won't "beat" PS4, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Cut Grinder, Star Wars: Battlefront beta, Halo 5: The Sprint, Forza's still good, The (real) Walking Dead returns, Fake cancer, NBA 2K16's Spike Lee Joint Music - GWAR - Dirty, Filthy, System of a Down - Chik 'N' Stu, Tool - Hush
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 12
Wrap yourself in wires to become a true digital citizen, but beware... someone might hurt your feelings. Then you can go play basketball. Topics - New Xbox One dashboard, physical discs, random achievements, snapping sucks, Forza 6 review, Hitman details, Rainbow Six: Siege beta, Microsoft buys Havoc, Twisted Pixel leaves Microsoft, NBA 2K16, The Metal Gear Solid V Report, Anita Sarkeesian whines to the UN, Rapid Fire. Music - Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill Theme, Primus - Jerry Was a Race Car Driver, Dead Kennedys - Your Emotions
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 11
Video games happen. Sometimes they sneak up on you when they least expect it. Sometimes they just linger on long after you give half a sht. And Clay Cuckolds gives a harrowing live report from the field. Topics - IGN sucks, still playing Metal Gear V: The Phantom Pain for some reason, systematic video game cheating, going back to vinyl, left handed Power Gloves, Fear the Walking Dead is almost done, whooping cough, U2 comes to Rock Band, System Shock, Rainbow Six: Siege beta LIVE report, bellybutton coffee rolls, Hitman delayed, Halo 6, SOMA, Metroid sucks, Hunt the Truth returns. Music - Deep Purple - Space Truckin', Superjoint Ritual - Waiting for the Turning Point, Type O Negative - Kill All the White People
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 10
AbsoluteDeicide and Clay Cuckolds are joined by a special guest from wrestling's past. Is he dead? Does he like video games? Will he ever leave? And what's the Pringle's theme song again? Topics - The end of the world, cults, free horror movies, background fans, SOMA, Fear the Walking Dead sucks, Tokyo Game Show, Japanese silence, Rainbow Six: Siege map count, Tomb Raider, finishing video games, pirate scurvy, Metal Gear Solid V, Forza Motorsport 6, is Konami done with video games?, Hunt the Truth, WWE 2K15, Star Fox delayed, South Park Music - The Clash - This is Radio Clash, The Ramones - Surfin' Bird, South Park - PC Chant
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 9
All the leaves are brown, and the sky is blue. California dreaming. Oh, and fk you, too. Topics - Welcoming the Fall season, torture, The Highwayman, Asians, Fear the Walking Dead is a comedy?, Mad Max... again, Metal Gear, background pon, XCOM, Postal reviews, more deleted comments, femsploitation, Halo 5 map voting, Bloodborne is too simple, Dark Souls... again, Choose Your Adventure books are sexist, 2 Live Crew, Baby Easter Island, Forza 6 Music - Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World, Johnny Cash - The Highwayman, Anal Cut - Hitler Was a Sensitive Man
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 8
AbsoluteDeicide and Clay Cuckolds come to the realization they've been indie hipsters all along. They immediately book an open mic night at their local coffee shop and talk about they're Kickstarted projects. Topics - The cultural wasteland, Black Mass, Sweeny Todd, More Mad Max, hipsters, indie garbage, progressive thinking, Cuphead, Tom Clancy's Humble Bundle, Madden, Metal Gear?, Star Wars: Battlefront matchmaking, Evolve, Uncharted Trilogy, Castle Crashers Remastered, Halo 5's opening cutscene, Piss Poor Steam Sales Music - Slipknot - (sic), Suicidal Tendencies - I Saw Your Mommy, Rancid - Rejected
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 7
Life is balance. You can't drive a car with just a positive charge. Also, how do you feel about gnasher battles? Topics - Adult language, in-depth Gears of War discussion, finding the "Settings" menu, Lawbreakers, Lara Croft's nipples, Mad Max goes on forever, everyone hates Prometheus?, Until Dawn killed Wes Craven, FAQs for getting PS4 sound to stream correctly, Lizard Squad arrests, Mutant Football League, fake heroin withdrawals, Uncharted. Music - The Sex Pistols - Bodies, Clerks - Berserker, Wolfcop - End Credits
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 6
Turns out Dark Souls is a pretty good game. AbsoluteDeicide and Clay Cuckolds discuss the hidden lore of the mysterious series/how terrible MOBAs are and other random garbage. Movin' on up... Topics - Fear The Walking Dead, Madden, Perfect Dark, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, Metal Gear Solid V, iTunes and Stitcher distribution, Smite, Dark Souls, Rainbow Six: Siege, Darkest Dungeon, Pokémon threats, Dead Realm Music - Nailbomb - Religious Cancer, L7 - Stlist, R.E.M. - Mad World
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 5
It's Episode 3... I mean 5. Fking up in the first three seconds of recording is usually a good sign. This was a long one, and some small talk had to edited out for time concerns. If it seems more haphazard than usual, go fk yourself as usual. Topics - Breeding blacks, Mad Max, Banjo-Kazooie, Making game maps, Jet Force Gemini, Killer Instinct, Madden, Mega Man Legacy Collection, The Cloud, Bombing journalists and Gamergaters, Forza 6 leagues, The new Black Dahlia album. Music - FEAR - Let's Start a War, Junkie XL - Chapter Doof, Dying Fetus - Your Treachery Will End With You, Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 4
It's fkin' like Gamescom coverage and st. Clay Cuckolds joins AbsoluteDeicide and there's a record number of rants and unintelligible tangents. Who will emerge victorious in this legendary battle of wits? Topics- Gamescom, Hulkamania, Dark Souls 3, Gun.Smoke, DOS dk sucking games, Crackdown 3, Sad Satan, Steam troubles, Tomb Raider, Lucky Palmer TIME cover. Music - KMFDM - Megalomaniac, Oceano - District of Misery, Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 3
Jam packed with positive energy and tips for purchasing coffee, AbsoluteDeicide and Clay Cuckolds leave no stone unturned in their quest for inner peace. Topics- Rare Replay, Company of Heroes 2, Neverwinter, MAME, Gears of War, physical deformities, Lamb of God, World of Tanks, Windows 10, Gamescom. Music- The Beatles - Helter Skelter, The Black Dahlia Murder - Vlad, Son of the Dragon, Operation Ivy - Take Warning, Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 2
Join AbsoluteDeicide and co-host Clay Cuckolds in an awkward experiment in Skype technology. It's rough around the edges, but the discussion is life changing. Topics- Journey, The Witcher 3, Company of Heroes 2, Madden, World of Tanks, Beware of Mr. Baker, Gears of War, speedrunning, gay pride parades, PS4 controller and storage, Rory McIlroy's PGA Tour, Onechanbara: Z2 Chaos, buttplugs. Music- The Black Dahlia Murder- Statutory Ape, The Misfits- Last Caress, CREAM- White Room
Grunt Free Press Podcast
Join me as I cough, mumble, and grunt my way through over an hour of ranting about stuff in the premier episode of The Grunt Free Podcast! Topics- Podcast and website admin stuff, podcasts (I say it too much...) PC gaming, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, Closure, The Bridge, The Cat Lady, Journey, Uncharted, Batman: Arkham Knight, The Witcher 3, Planescape: Torment, Until Dawn, Shenmue 3 Kickstarter, Mad Max, Rick and Morty, anime, and the like. Music- GG Allin - Hard Candy Ck, HORSE The Band - Murder, Deadly Premonition - (Whistle Theme), GWAR - Fishf