NQcast69 – Achievements Are Back!

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That’s right, everyone! Achievements are a thing again thanks to Maki’s non-stop marathon of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Elsewhere, Chuck gets Hardline for Battlefield, BJ joins the Final Fantasy cult and Harlo ends up in spaaaaaaaaaaaaaace! We also talk Elite: Dangerous, Dragon Age Inquisition, Pinball FX2, Lastronaut and more. Join us and score!

NQcast69 – Achievements Are Back!

 

First half!

  • 1:45 Battlefield Hardline (Chuck checks in on this cops and robbers version of Battlefield, enjoying it way more than he expected! Especially that part where he gets to be a loose cannon.)
  • 10:37 Dragon Age Inquisition (Harlo bails quickly, but it finally clicked with Chuck, even if it was 20 hours in, even if it was once he stopped retrieving biscuit recipes.)
  • 21:33 Space Run (Harlo begins his trip to space with this hexadecimal tower defense game on PC, and makes some ugly ships!)
  • 24:14 Elite: Dangerous (Harlo impresses us all with this beautiful PC space exploration/attack game. If you loved Wing Commander: Privateer this might be your game.)
  • 33:35 Halo: Master Chief Collection (Maki continues his journey down the Halo rabbithole and learns that he still loves achievements! At least he loves them more than the story of Halo.)
  • 46:04 Warframe (BJ completes his journey into the world of Warframe, realizing that it’s running at too slow a pace for him to stick with.)
  • 50:07 Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (BJ eventually finishes the download and realizes this is much more his MMO speed. About the speed of a chocobo race. Harlo, not so much.)
  • 1:04:44 Pinball FX2: Iron & Steel pack (Maki declares the wild west Steel table as one of the best tables Zen Studios has ever made. Get this pack!)
  • 1:08:11 Resogun Vita (Maki loves this game on Vita. If you already own it, you get it cross-buy, and it’s still great!)
  • 1:09:41 Playstation Plus Corner!
    • 1:09:54 Apotheon (BJ and Maki enjoy the look of this pottery-based game, but eventually get bored of it, unfortunately.)
    • 1:15:27 Valiant Hearts (Harlo doesn’t quite love playing this WWI puzzle scroller, but he loves the rarely-used setting.)
    • 1:17:41 Counterspy (It’s sort of a Shadow Complex game, that turns into a shooter sometimes. Harlo likes it!)
    • 1:19:40 Oddworld: New & Tasty (Maki realizes good memories of Abe’s Oddysee aren’t enough to overcome the clunky controls and timing-based puzzles of this remake.)

Second Half! (1:24:55)

  • 1:25:07 Rock Band 4 (It’s coming! We will buy it! Rock Band! YEAH!)
  • 1:32:31 Wii-U-lapalooza
    • 1:33:04 Super Smash Bros for Wii U (Harlo mashes buttons and knocks dudes off a screen. It’s fun!)
    • 1:34:10 Lego Batman 3 (There are a billion characters in this, and it’s fun swapping guys on the gamepad.)
    • 1:35:42 Disney Infinity 2.0 (Now Harlo has all the Marvel characters they’ve released. Shame the Big Hero 6 guys can’t come into those playsets.)
  • ?1:36:50 Far Cry 4 (We wrap up our Far Cry 4 playing with some platinum trophies and some cynical game endings. And missile launchers and crab rangoon. Of course.)
  • 1:43:25 Never Alone (Harlo gets angry at some events in the game, but enjoys the journey just the same.)
  • 1:44:43 A Story About My Uncle (Cool title, not-so-cool 3D platformer.)
  • 1:47:30 Shadow Warrior (Chuck likes this remake/reboot, but is glad he didn’t pay full price for it. And yeah, there’s some weird, dated, racist-seeming stuff here.)
  • 1:51:03 Spelunky (Harlo gets to the end of this game! But realizes crazy shortcuts aren’t worth going for.)
  • 1:54:46 Rogue Legacy (BJ explains the mechanics of this game again, along with the various facets of rogue-like-like-like-likes. And he beats it twice!)
  • 2:00:29 Forza Horizon 2 (Chuck and Maki return to drive around and roam around the countryside in super-fast cars.)
  • 2:04:44 Q-bert Reloaded (Chuck says stay the hell away.)
  • 2:06:55 Mobile Corner!
    • 2:07:12 Lastronaut (It’s an endless runner with guns! It’s fun. And it’s free!)
    • 2:08:38 WWE Supercard & Transformers Legends (Maki goes cold turkey and quits both games forever. He hopes.)
    • 2:10:40 Pako Car Chase Simulator (BJ has some fun with Harlo’s recommendation from last month!)
  • 2:11:52 E-mail Corner!
    • 2:12:07 Moonpir confirms Rambo is terrible and gives us some mobile game recommendations!
    • 2:14:36 John from Chicago asks us who our best WWE Supercard card was!
    • 2:17:08 Jay from Cali wonders where all the big game releases have gone this year!
    • 2:25:03 Paul wants to know if everyone is still playing their old games on the last generation before jumping to new-gen systems!
    • 2:31:01 Jay from Cali gives us some Zelda knowledge!
    • 2:31:38 Dave aka Robop1g asks us which game we’d play if we only had one quarter left and wanted to stay in the arcade as long as possible!
    • 2:35:33 Jax Arcade Expo! Plan to make it to Jacksonville, Florida on May 1-3, 2015!

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