Video Game Club (from The Incomparable Mothership)

Mar 04 2022 16 ep. 95 mins 33
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Team Creepy (The Incomparable Mothership 604)

Mar 04 2022 83 mins  
Let’s hold hands and sneak through some eerie city ruins. Video game club is back in session to discuss “Little Nightmares II”, the creepy prequel to the beloved spooky platformer, Little Nightmares. We play as Mono, a bag-faced boy, as he and his companion navigate a world of puzzles and monsters lurking in the dark, only to be led to his own nightmare. Host Tiff Arment with

Sometimes the Drawer is Empty (The Incomparable Mothership 536)

Oct 17 2020 104 mins  
Duck into the prone position and aim your bow, because it’s time for us to talk about “The Last of Us Part II”, the sequel to a beloved apocalyptic video game. We follow the characters on their pursuit of cross-country revenge, filled with flashbacks and the infected. But on this journey, as we trade our adrenaline for tears, we learn that we were the last of us all along. Ho

Let's Talk About Turnips! (The Incomparable Mothership 530)

Sep 05 2020 152 mins  
Hop a flight piloted by a Dodo and leave behind the world you know! Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the perfect escape. Journey to a deserted island to do digital equivalents of chores you’re avoiding doing in the real world! One of the most subjective experiences in all of gaming turned out to be just what millions of us needed this summer. Guest host Moisés Chiullán and his

Floppy Shark (The Incomparable Mothership 380)

Nov 19 2017 78 mins  
Our Video Game Club is back in action as we play two short artsy-fartsy narrative games. “What Remains of Edith Finch” is a game about a young woman returning home to the Pacific Northwest and exploring the mysteries left behind by her family—which sounds an awful lot like other games we’ve played, but it’s very different! We also played “Tacoma”, by the developers of

I Kissed Them Both (The Incomparable Mothership 358)

Jun 17 2017 99 mins  
Our video game club is back in session, having played “Life is Strange”, the story of two young women in a town on the Oregon coast who become enmeshed in the town’s surprisingly dark underbelly. Every choice you make and every fact you uncover could completely change the story… or more likely, change the details a little bit. Plus there’s school politics, young love (or

Creepy Hug (The Incomparable Mothership 318)

Sep 17 2016 103 mins  
We discuss Playdead’s video game “Inside”, a compelling and meticulously realized side-scrolling puzzle game with some amazing surprises along the way. Host Jason Snell with John Siracusa, Tiff Arment, James Thomson and Dan Moren.

Team Bucket (The Incomparable Mothership 290)

Mar 05 2016 91 mins  
The recently released video game “Firewatch,” by Campo Santo and Panic, is the subject of our discussion this week. This is a game that’s got a plot, but so much of the richness comes from characters and dialogue. Also, there are a lot of trees. Host Jason Snell with Tiff Arment, John Siracusa, Brian Hamilton, Serenity Caldwell and Tony Sindelar.

Divorce Mode (The Incomparable Mothership 229)

Jan 10 2015 94 mins  
Hello and, again, welcome to the Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment center. We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one. You are now in possession of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. With it, you can create your own portals. These intra-dimensional gates have proven to be completely safe. You, Subject Name Here, must be the pride

The Good People Are Dead Already (The Incomparable Mothership 208)

Aug 23 2014 133 mins  
Sharpen your shivs and barbecue some rats, because it’s time for us to talk about the apocalyptic video game “The Last of Us.” We talk about the story and the characters in this relentlessly bleak story of a man and a girl trying to survive both zombies and people. If you want even more, stay tuned after the music for an entire bonus episode about gameplay and technical aspec

Peak Crate (The Incomparable Mothership 195)

May 17 2014 117 mins  
Following in the footsteps of our video-game draft, it’s time for us to select some of our favorite computer games of all time. Real-time strategy! Arcade style! Text adventures! From the earliest days of video games up to the present, we’ve got it covered. Now if we could just figure out what was in those crates… Host Jason Snell with Dan Moren, Monty Ashley, Erika Ensign, T