NQcast18 – Sipping A FOTY

This episode we celebrate one year of No Quarters AND present our 2010 Favorites of the Year or FOTYs. There’s too many Games of the Year out there so we wanted to do it up right and throw down some FOTYs. Before we get to that we review NBA Jam, Call of Duty: Black Ops and BJ enters into the world of Gears of War 2 finally.

Second half it’s all FOTY talk as we break down the best of the year (and maybe last year) as we go through our various made up categories. Enjoy!

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NQcast17 – Fresh Dragonballs

This episode we go crazy with all kinds of talk. There’s the part where we eat a bowl of crow as we enjoy Microsoft Kinect and Sony Move. We talk Rock Band 3, Force Unleashed 2, Fallout: New Vegas, William’s Pinball Collection, and a ton more. Seriously, it’s jam packed with so much  stuff you’ll have to read the show notes to get it all. Oh and this random guy we found on the street joins us. I hear he does some viji game podcast called That Video Game Podcast too. Welcome Knobs to the uncensored MFVGP that is No Quarters!

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NQcast16 – Tom Clancy’s Similization

This episode we cover Dead Rising 2, Civilization 5, Comic Jumper, and DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue in new releases. We talk co-op in Splinter Cell: Conviction. Plus BJ beats Red Dead Redemption and is closing in on the end of Oblivion; the game, not a complete lack of anything.

Plus many more moments of hijinks, demos and value picks at the end.

Also, check out Geeks, Games and Grub (a newish site from a listener) and Gamers With Casts (because we don’t mention them enough).

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NQcast15 – Bringing the Funder

This episode we talk about a multitude of games we’ve played since last recording. Among those are Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Red Dead Redemption, Williams Pinball Collection, Shank, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Dead Rising: Case Zero and plenty more. For a bunch of dudes who rarely have a chance to play games, we brought more than A game to this party.

After the break we talk trial and error games with Splosion Man and Trials HD. Then it’s a demolition blowout with demos of five games. And finally, value picks.

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NQcast14 – Audi

This episode we talk Monday Night Combat, Alan Wake DLC, Splinter Cell Conviction, Forza Motorsport 3 and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands.

It’s also plenty of racing game memories as we attempt to figure out what happened with Gran Tursimo and where the community went for Blur. Then it’s on to Harlo’s deep dark secret and a trip down memories of Blizzard’s attempts at console games. Plus, MOAR BORDERLANDS OMG OMG! as Gearbox announces the fourth and final DLC for our beloved game. And, of course, we wrap up with our value picks.

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NQcast13 – Yahurr

This episode we talk Crackdown 2, Deathspank, and more Red Dead Redemption. Then we discuss our neutral (no really!) feelings on Starcraft II and the continuing love of Diablo II. I hear you get to fight Diablo II at the end.

Then it’s down to some complaints about the NCAA 11 demo and Playstation Network’s slow connections. We’re joined by fan turned contributor Eric aka GreenCapt and contributor turned fan shiny lights TStrel. We’re minus Maki in studio but he joins us via the wonderful world of Skype. It’s just a whole mess of crazy this time around.

NQcast12 – Cougar Hunting

This episode we talk more Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake, Just Cause 2 and a little Blur. Plus, the return of the Borderlands speed round and a review for the fan made King’s Quest-inspired game The Silver Lining.

Then we talk the future of gaming with motion control and 3D. Are Sony and Microsoft getting into a business for which there is no market? Join Harlo and Maki with special guests TStrel and Jeff to replace the absent BJ as they tackle these and other gaming issues.

NQcast11 – 87 Thermoses

This episode we talk the big damn game Red Dead Redemption. Then we collect corporate sponsored thermoses in Alan Wake, wrap up Red Faction: Guerrilla and take to the stars in Neptune’s Pride.

There’s talk of four recent demos and not a real winner among them. We also go down memory road as Maki gets a top loaded NES and a grippe of the most desirable carts from that age. And, of course, value picks!

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NQcast10 – Fanc

This episode we talk Just Cause 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Steam gaming for the Mac, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Star Wars: Force Unleashed, the Rockstar library and a Demolition of Demos.  Then we debate the best single player experience and which current generation platform offers it.

Stay through the end for some outtakes as well because we’re not always the polished professionals we appear.

Scheduling change

As we talked about in the latest episode of BMFcast, we are changing our schedule around slightly. What’s this mean to you? That’s why I decided to break this down.

When we started No Quarters we thought we would just alternate our podcasts weekly with the result of each of them being released bi-weekly. Problem is, sometimes we would not have enough to really generate content for NQ since that requires us to have played some games. A gaming podcast where you haven’t played any games or the same old ones doesn’t make for a lot of fun to listen to.  So we’ve decided to back that down to once a month to allow for us to get some gaming in between.

So what’s this mean for No Quarters? Simple. One less episode a month on average. We’ll now do three weeks in a row of BMF to one NQ. We’re also are on a mission to make the posting time a lot closer to when we record. I take most of that blame as life would come up from time to time and the editing process would always get bumped. Now I am going to attempt to always have casts posted on Fridays. Most of the time first thing in the morning but worst case by the end of the day.

We’d also like to welcome anyone coming from Gamers With Casts as we’ve recently been added to their lineup. We hopefully will use the downtime of now casting monthly to focus on updating the site here with more written content which was a goal all along. Now if you’ll excuse me, there’s some chaos that needs to happen on Panua Island.