Collateral Gaming Video Game Podcast

Title: Red Dead Redemption 2 [Wikipedia] [IGDb] Developer: Rockstar Studios Publisher: Rockstar Games Designer: Imran Sarwar Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows Release date: October 26, 2018 (PS4, XB1) PODCAST SHOUTOUT: Talk Me Into (@talkmeinto) SHOWNOTES: Yee-haw! Collateral Gaming ventures into the Wild West with the latest Rockstar Games action-adventure title Red Dead Redemption II. Featuring special guest Andrew from Brash Binary (@BinaryBrash), this episode we discuss how hyper-realism and slow pacing enhances the gameplay of this 2018 Game of the Year contender, why the fictionalized version of 19th century America's frontier serves as a perfect setting for the story, and in which ways the characters of this western epic captured our attention. We even have time to summarize the Red Dead franchise as a whole, and analyze the value of long development time in the modern game industry. Grab your hat, load your gun, and saddle up for this outlaw adventure! Collateral Gaming is on Apple Podcasts, Chill Lover Radio, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us on Patreon; we will have exclusive Let's Play! commentaries on our favorite games soon! (Collateral Gaming is an LCompany Production. Intro song is a license-free beat composed by Ashley Allen Chancellor in Logic Pro X. News ident is a license-free beat by mansardian. All music and game clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)

Title: P.T. (initialism for "playable teaser") [Wikipedia] [IGDb] Developer: 7780s Studio (pseudonym for Kojima Productions) Publisher: Konami Designers: Hideo Kojima (director), Guillermo del Toro (director) Platform: PlayStation 4 Release date: August 12, 2014 SPECIAL GUEST: Beau Maddox, Collateral Cinema Movie Podcast (@CCinemaPodcast) SHOWNOTES: Happy Halloween, Collateral Gaming fans! This holiday, we have a very special indie game mini-episode focusing on one of the most terrifying titles we've had the pleasure of playing: P.T., the playable teaser for Hideo Kojima's and Guillermo del Toro's cancelled collaboration Silent Hills! As sad as we are to see this project never come to light and to see the 2014 short game removed from the PlayStation Store, Ashley and Dakota relive their fond memories of this extraordinarily frightening first-person psychological horror experience. Joined on also as a special guest for the Halloween Special is our Collateral Cinema co-host and horror fan Beau Maddox, who came into contact with this video game community shortly after the cancellation. We hope you have as much fun listening to this as we did recording it, and have a safe Halloween, everyone! Collateral Gaming is on Apple Podcasts, Chill Lover Radio, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us on Patreon; we will have exclusive Let's Play! commentaries on our favorite games soon! (Collateral Gaming is an LCompany Production. Intro song is a license-free beat composed by Ashley Allen Chancellor in Logic Pro X. All game clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)

Title: Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection [IGDb] [Wikipedia] (remastered collection of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune [Wikipedia] [IGDb], Uncharted 2: Among Thieves [Wikipedia] [IGDb], and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception [Wikipedia] [IGDb]) Developer(s): Bluepoint Games, Naughty Dog (original games) Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment Designers: Amy Hennig (creator; director, Drake's Fortune/Among Thieves/Drake's Deception), Richard Lemarchand (Drake's Fortune, Among Thieves, Drake's Deception), Bruce Straley (director, Among Thieves), Neil Druckmann (writer, Drake's Fortune; Among Thieves), Justin Richmond (director, Drake's Deception), Jacob Minkoff (Drake's Deception) Platform(s): PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 (original games) Release date(s): October 8, 2015 (PAL); November 20, 2007 (Drake's Fortune, NA); October 13, 2009 (Among Thieves, NA); November 1, 2011 (Drake's Deception, NA) PODCAST SHOUTOUT: Nerds Amalgamated (@NAmalgamated) SHOWNOTES: Welcome to Collateral Gaming Season Two! Now podcasting straight from a brand new studio in San Antonio, TX, we kick off the new season with our thoughts on Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection! This 2015 PlayStation 4 port is a collection of the PS3 action-adventure games Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. Ash and Dakota discuss the intricacies of each title—including gameplay, story, and characters; reveal our favor for the series as a whole in its boldly linear gameplay, action movie-reminiscent story, and realism as portrayed through fan favorite protagonist Nathan Drake; and finally briefly talk the sequel Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and its standalone expansion Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, as well as the recently announced prequel movie starring Tom Holland. We hope you enjoy this expedition into a classic polished franchise, and stay tuned for the entirety of Season Two of Collateral Gaming Video Game Podcast! Collateral Gaming is on Apple Podcasts, Chill Lover Radio, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us on Patreon; we will have exclusive Let's Play! commentaries on our favorite games soon! (Collateral Gaming is an LCompany Production. Intro song is a license-free beat composed by Ashley Allen Chancellor in Logic Pro X. News ident is a license-free beat by mansardian. All music and game clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)

Title: Marvel's Spider-Man [Wikipedia] [IGDb] Developer: Insomniac Games Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment Designers: Ryan Smith (director), Bryan Intihar (director) Platforms: PlayStation 4 Release date: September 7, 2018 PODCAST SHOUTOUT: Capes on the Couch (@CapesOnTheCouch) PROMOS: Podcoin – The Podcast Player That Pays (www.podcoin.com), Bill and Frank Eat Pop Culture (@BFEatPopCulture) SHOWNOTES: Thank you listeners and fellow podcasters, for an absolutely fun and surprisingly successful Season One of Collateral Gaming Video Game Podcast! Finally, we are happy to release our Season Finale episode on Marvel's Spider-Man for PlayStation 4! Welcoming our Collateral Cinema co-host and fellow Spidey fan Robert Ortegon for the first time as a full-on special guest host, the Chancellor Bros. dive into the polished gameplay, mind-blowing attention to detail, unforgettable story, and many featured, fleshed-out characters in Spider-Man PS4. We discuss how this video game truly puts you in the Web-Slinger's shoes, how in its own way it represents the best Spider-Man movie in addition to being a perfect superhero game, as well as why Yuri Lowenthal's performance is the best cinematic portrayal of Peter Parker/Spider-Man! We even briefly talk the three-part DLC expansion The City That Never Sleeps, and what the future could hold for the Spider-Man and Marvel gaming franchises. Grab your web shooters and put on your mask for this thrilling adventure! Collateral Gaming is on Apple Podcasts, Chill Lover Radio, Podcoin, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us on Patreon; we will have exclusive Let's Play! commentaries on our favorite games soon! (Collateral Gaming is an LCompany Production. Intro song is a license-free beat. All music and game clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)

Titles: Subnautica [Wikipedia] [IGDb], Subnautica: Below Zero [IGDb] Developer: Unknown Worlds Entertainment Publishers: Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Gearbox Publishing Designer: Adam Loranger Platforms: Microsoft Windows, macOS, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Oculus VR Release dates: December 16, 2014 (Subnautica, early access, Windows/macOS), January 23, 2018 (Subnautica, Windows/macOS); January 29, 2018 (Below Zero, early access) Welcome to another Collateral Gaming Indie Game Review! Nearing the end of Season One, we decided to visit the open-world survival-adventure title Subnautica (along with its standalone expansion Subnautica: Below Zero), from Unknown Worlds Entertainment! The Chancellor Bros. uncover the massive open underwater map, delve into the many unique mechanics (such as the way this game handles gathering resources and crafting), and discuss the nautical survival gameplay. We even briefly summarize changes with the still-in-development Below Zero expansion, available now for early access! If you enjoy this spoiler-free, mostly unedited mini-episode, don't forget to leave feedback and stay tuned for our Season Finale on Marvel's Spider-Man for PlayStation 4 next week! Collateral Gaming is on Apple Podcasts, Chill Lover Radio, Podcoin, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us on Patreon; we will have exclusive Let's Play! commentaries on our favorite games soon! (Collateral Gaming is an LCompany Production. Intro song is a license-free beat. All music and game clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)

Title: The Last of Us Remastered [Wikipedia] [IGDb] Developer: Naughty Dog Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Designers: Jacob Minkoff, Bruce Straley (director), Neil Druckmann (director) Platforms: PlayStation 3 (original); PlayStation 4 (Remastered) Release date: June 14, 2013 (original); July 29, 2014 (Remastered, NA) PODCAST SHOUTOUT: Echo On: A True Crime Podcast (@EchoOnPod) SHOWNOTES: In this episode, Ash and Dakota delve into one of the most celebrated and influential games in recent history: Naughty Dog's 2013 survival horror PlayStation 3 exclusive, The Last of Us... or, well, more technically, we played its enhanced port, the 2014 PlayStation 4 exclusive The Last of Us Remastered. We discuss at length the cinematographic quality of the title, the near-perfect implementation of realism in survival gameplay, and the impact of this PS3-era product on modern gaming. We also briefly discuss standalone DLC Left Behind and reveal our predictions for the upcoming highly-anticipated sequel The Last of Us Part II. Craft a health kit and pump your shotguns for the horde of Infected, as Collateral Gaming analyzes one of the best-selling games of all time. Collateral Gaming is on Apple Podcasts, Chill Lover Radio, Podcoin, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us on Patreon; we will have exclusive Let's Play! commentaries on our favorite games soon! (Collateral Gaming is an LCompany Production. Intro song is a license-free beat. All music and game clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)

*Correction: The title of the second game is LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, not Years 5-8, as we erroneously refer to it on numerous occasions during this episode.* Title: LEGO Harry Potter: Collection [IGDb] [Wikipedia] (remastered collection of LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 and LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7) Developer: Traveller's Tales Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Designers: Arthur Parsons (Years 1-4; director (Years 5-7)), Jon Burton (Years 1-4, Years 5-7; director (Years 1-4)) Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Release date: October 21, 2016 (PS4) PODCAST SHOUTOUT: Trial by Error Variety Show Podcast (@tbevarietyshow) SHOWNOTES: This episode is decidedly lighthearted in our first entry into the prominent family-friendly LEGO video game franchise. This remastered collection of LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 and Years 5-7 was fun to discuss and surprisingly entertaining to analyze. Join hosts Ashley and Dakota Chancellor (as usual along with Collateral Cinema co-hosts Beau Maddox and Robert Ortegon, who occasionally add their own commentary) as we delve into the recognizably unique gameplay, quirky reenacted storytelling, and collection of playable characters in this Harry Potter-inspired series and the LEGO game franchise as a whole! Collateral Gaming is on Apple Podcasts, Chill Lover Radio, Podcoin, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us on Patreon; we will have exclusive Let's Play! commentaries on our favorite games soon! (Collateral Gaming is an LCompany Production. Intro song is a license-free beat. All music and game clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)

Titles: Link: The Faces of Evil [IDGb], Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon [IDGb] [Wikipedia] Developer: Animation Magic Publisher: Philips Interactive Media Designers: Dale DeSharone, Rob Dunlavey, Jonathan Merritt, Vasiliev A., Smirnov V. Platform: Philips CD-i Release date: October 10, 1993 (NA) PODCAST SHOUTOUT: The Cuntry Club SHOWNOTES: It's that time of year again, folks! Yep, Stoner Christmas is here, and Collateral Gaming is pumped to bring you hilarious content this 4/20! In our very first #420day special, Ash and Dakota suffer atrocities to bring you feedback on the infamous Zelda CD-i titles Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon! Collateral Gamers, if you ever come into contact with these disasterpieces, make sure you're completely blazed because there is just no other way to tolerate it. In this double feature, we ask ourselves the most important questions upon playing the games: Are they so bad they're good, or just plain bad? Is it worth it to play these for yourself? We answer these wonders as we discuss the meme value of the notorious animated cutscenes, questionable level design choices, frustrating gameplay challenges (not always intentionally), and the many toils we had to endure not just while playing—but while getting these things to run! Let's just say, it's an episode like no other. Collateral Gaming is on Apple Podcasts, Chill Lover Radio, Podcoin, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us on Patreon; we will have exclusive Let's Play! commentaries on our favorite games soon! (Collateral Gaming is an LCompany Production. Intro song is a license-free beat. All music and game clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)

Title: No Man's Sky [Wikipedia] [IGDb] Developer: Hello Games Publisher: Hello Games Designers: Will Braham, Sean Murray (director), Grant Duncan (director), Ryan Doyle (director), David Ream (director) Platform(s):PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, Xbox One Release date: August 9, 2016 (PS4, NA) PODCAST SHOUTOUT: Hey everyone, Collateral Gaming is starting a new segment at the beginning of every episode that features a shout-out to a variety of podcasts we feel deserve a mention. Our first featured shoutout is our parent, Collateral Cinema Movie Podcast (@CCinemaPodcast), the only movie podcast that matters, which Ash and Dakota Chancellor also cohost with Beau Maddox and Robert Ortegon. Give us a listen wherever you get your podcasts and on Patreon! SHOWNOTES (April Fools' Joke): Happy April, Collateral Gamers! On this fine first day of April, we are delving into the greatest game ever made, determined by universal consensus: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial! Chill with your hosts, the Chancellor Bros. (joined as usual by Collateral Cinema cohosts Beau and Robert), as we reveal how every facet of the Atari 2600 video game adaptation of Spielberg's classic is truly incredible. By no means are we reviewing or analyzing any other game, no sir or ma'am or non-binary honorific you may prefer. Clearly, THIS is the title we have been alluding to prior. So, mine your resources—er, I mean, collect your Reese's Pieces, start your launch thrusters, and fly off into a procedurally generated universe boasting 18 quintillion planets—dammit, no, sorry, that's another game we are definitely NOT talking about!!! Collateral Gaming is on Apple Podcasts, Chill Lover Radio, Podcoin, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us on Patreon; we will have exclusive Let's Play! commentaries on our favorite games soon! (Collateral Gaming is an LCompany Production. Intro song is a license-free beat. All music and game clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)

Title: Hello Neighbor Developer: Dynamic Pixels Publisher: tinyBuild Engine: Unreal Engine 4 Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iOS, Android Release date: December 8, 2017 (Microsoft Windows, Xbox One) Welcome back, gaming nerds! We're stoked to bring you the first of many mini-episodes focusing on independent game-making. Our featured video game this week is called Hello Neighbor: a stealth survival horror game courtesy of developer Dynamic Pixels and publisher tinyBuild using the Unreal Engine. Our spoiler-free review covers the juxtaposed cartoonish graphics and unsettling fear-ish tones, learning AI behavior, platforming elements, and ambiguous-yet-deep underlying plot. Collateral Gaming is on iTunes, Chill Lover Radio, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us on Patreon; we will have exclusive Let's Play! commentaries on our favorite games soon! (Collateral Gaming is an LCompany Production. Intro song is a license-free beat. All music and game clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)

Title: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Developer: Nintendo EPD Publisher: Nintendo Designers: Hidemaro Fujibayashi (director), Eiji Aonuma (producer) Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Wii U Release date: 03/03/2017 Collateral Gaming is more excited than ever before to share our thoughts with you on the latest title of one of the most revolutionary franchises in the world of gaming! 2017 Game of the Year The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild deserves a place among the most ambitious video games in recent—or total—history. Is it truly as revolutionary as it aims to be within its series, and as a standalone title? Find out on this episode, as we delve into its world, dungeons, story, and placement in the Zelda series! You'll also find out why The Legend of Zelda remains one of our favorite game franchises of all time! Collateral Gaming is on iTunes, Chill Lover Radio, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us on Patreon; we will have exclusive Let's Play! commentaries on our favorite games soon! (Collateral Gaming is an LCompany Production. Intro song is a license-free beat. All music and game clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)

Titles: Infamous Second Son and Infamous First Light Developer: Sucker Punch Productions Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Designer: Jaime Griesemer Platform: PlayStation 4 Release date: March 21, 2014 On the inaugural episode of Collateral Gaming Video Game Podcast, the Chancellor Bros. invite you into the world of inFAMOUS Second Son, the third and most recent game of the inFAMOUS franchise, a series of action-adventure platformer games revolving around elemental-powered superhumans known as Conduits. Taking the series onto the latest generation of consoles, this 2014 title stars Delsin Rowe (voiced by Troy Baker) as an empath-type Conduit thrust into the city of Seattle. Chill with us as we discuss Delsin's expansive powerset, the Karma morality system woven into it and the story, and the rich variety of characters entangled in the plot. We also bring up the standalone DLC inFAMOUS First Light, featuring Abigail "Fetch" Walker (Laura Bailey) and her Neon powers. Finally breaking into our regular Season One schedule, we're so excited to be your new favorite gaming podcast! Collateral Gaming is on iTunes, Chill Lover Radio, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us on Patreon; we will have exclusive Let's Play! commentaries on our favorite games soon! (Collateral Gaming is an LCompany Production. Intro song is a license-free beat. All music and game clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)

Title: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Director: David Slade Producer: Russell McLean Writer: Charlie Brooker Starring:Fionn Whitehead, Will Poulter, Asim Chaudhry, Craig Parkinson, Alice Lowe Release date: December 28, 2018 A spontaneous extra for you cinephiles and gamers out there! Before releasing our regular episodes of Season One as per schedule, we wanted to produce a little something in collaboration with our parent, Collateral Cinema Movie Podcast! This is something trending this month that also we feel presents itself as both a movie and a game in many ways—Black Mirror: Bandersnatch! This is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style Netflix original movie, in which the viewer (or player) guides protagonist Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead) through a dark and twisted plot to develop a five-star game. Without spoiling the multiple endings and meta narrative twists in full, we discuss the value of this new interactive media adventure, with Collateral Gaming and Collateral Cinema taking different sides! Give our spoiler-free review a listen and check out the movie/game for yourself if you haven't! And stay tuned for our next regular episode, Sucker Punch Productions' InFAMOUS: Second Son next week! Collateral Gaming and Collateral Cinema are both on iTunes, Chill Lover Radio, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us each on Patreon; we will have exclusive commentaries on our favorite movies and games soon! (Collateral Gaming and Collateral Cinema are LCompany Productions. Intro song is a license-free beat. All music and movie clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)

Title: Fable III [Wikipedia] [IGDb] Developer: Lionhead Studios Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Designers: Peter Molyneux, Josh Atkins Platforms: Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows Release date: October 25, 2010 (Xbox 360) It's finally here! On the pilot episode of Collateral Gaming Video Game Podcast, hosts Ashley and Dakota Chancellor delve into Fable III, developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. We explore the world of industrializing Albion, discuss the progressing gameplay of the series, review aspects such as the morality system and playable character, and predict the potential future of the series. The poll is over now, but go follow our Instagram page (@collateral.gaming.podcast) to vote in future polls and let us know which games YOU want us to review! If you like this pilot episode, stay tuned for the rest of Season One, starting after the New Year! Collateral Gaming is on Apple Podcasts, Chill Lover Radio, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, find us on Patreon; we will have exclusive Let's Play! commentaries on our favorite games soon! (Collateral Gaming is an LCompany Production. Intro song is a license-free beat. All music and game clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don’t sue us; we’re poor!)