Radio Active #102: Game-o-Rama

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On this episode of Nuketown Radio Active, I emerge from my winter hibernation to talk about the video games and role-playing games I’m playing (or plan on playing). I talk about the ongoing Ready Player One Replay and my plans to attend GenCon in August 2023.

Nuketown News

• Heading to GenCon in 2023!
  • Haven’t been there since 2014.
  • No idea what I’m going to play.
• Ready Player One Replay continues
  • Recent games include:
    • Space Invaders
    • Star Raiders
    • The Empire Strikes Back
    • Yars’ Revenge
    • Raaka-tu
    • Coming soon-ish: Bedlam, Pyramid, and Madness and the Minotaur

Game-o-Rama: Video & role-playing games I’m playing

• Video Games
  • Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands on PS4 and PS5
    • Borderlands … but with a Dungeons & Dragons skin (sorry, Bunkers and Badasses). Tiny Tina’s the game master, and you’re one of her players. But will she ever let you leave the table?
    • Finished the main story; it was a happy distraction.
  • Cyberpunk 2077 on PS5
    • Started playing 0n Steam via Nvidia’s streaming desktop service, GeForce Now.
    • Turns out, I’m pretty bad at FPS on a desktop computer.
    • Picked it up cheap on PS5 … and still struggled to get into it.
    • Requires a significant time investment to get emotionally connected to the game, but once you do … whoa.
    • The Nomad storyline was great and the game gives you a lot of opportunities to make small (and maybe large?) differences in the world.
  • Fire Emblem: Engage on Switch
    • More of the same Fire Emblem, though this time around we get an “engage” mechanic which lets you merge characters with spirit warriors bound to magic rings.
    • On the back burner right now as I play other games. Fire Emblem’s something I need to be in the mood for; but once I’m in the mood, I’ll likely lose a lot of sleep.
  • Pinball FX3 on Switch
    • Indiana Jones Pinball
    • Aliens Pinball
    • Creature from the Black Lagoon Pinball
  • GoldenEye on Switch
    • Finally … now if only I could map my brain to the control
  • Breath of the Wild on Switch
    • I started playing and never got off the plateau. The kids just got Tears of the Kingdom, so I figured I’d pick it up again.
• Role-Playing Games
  • Ironsworn: Starforged
    • My Lair of Secrets friends got into this game and pulled me in along with them. A Powered by the Apocalypse game with a ton of moves (far more than a traditional PbtA game) set in the future where you decide why your civilization fled its home galaxy.
    • Playable in solo, co-op, or guided mode.
    • Got it in part to learn about oracles. Also, the solo aspect is appealing.
  • Cyberpunk RED
    • Gearing up for the next season of role-playing at Lair of Secrets.
    • I’ll be running a 6-8 episode Cyberpunk RED campaign set in Night City.
    • It’s an old-school, crunchy game, but ran pretty well in our playtests.
    • Taking a while to get off the ground because of myriad family commitments, but we’re getting there.
    • And it inspired me to go back and read William Gibson’s The Sprawl trilogy.
  • CY_BORG
    • Mork Borg … but with cyberware.
    • Just as over-the-top artwork as its predecessor.
    • Doubt I’ll ever run it, but it provides inspiration for Cyberpunk RED. Lots of great charts.
  • Elemental Apocalypse
    • My first new D&D campaign in years.
    • The Temple of Elemental Evil rose … and Greyhawk fell.
    • 20 years later, our heroes are some of the last free people on the planet … and they’re ready to take the fight to their elemental overlords.

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