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Literate Gamer

OctopusPark's Literate Gamer: a discussion of games, their meaning, and their impact on people and art.

Ranked #1

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Zelda - Breath of the Wild

Zelda - Breath of the Wild

Jonathan and Nick discuss Zelda: Breath of the Wild, arguably the best Zelda game so far. We're back to open world, act... Read more

30 May 2018

53mins

Ranked #2

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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Jonathan and Nick discuss the first half of Sekiro, Shadows Die Twice. It's a little bit of Tenchu, a little bit of Dar... Read more

27 Jun 2019

46mins

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Deep Rock Galactic

Deep Rock Galactic

Jonathan and Nick discuss Deep Rock Galactic, a first-person, instance-based, cooperative, traversal shooter. It's a su... Read more

1 May 2019

40mins

Ranked #4

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GreedFall

GreedFall

Jonathan and Nick discuss GreedFall: proof that you don't need the highest budgets in the land to make a really awesome ... Read more

17 Feb 2020

1hr 2mins

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Nier Automata with Amir Rajan

Nier Automata with Amir Rajan

Jonathan and Nick discuss Nier Automata with Amir Rajan, games, philosophy, and everything. We ended up recording for t... Read more

29 Oct 2019

46mins

Ranked #6

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Crusader Kings II - Trevor Zaple

Crusader Kings II - Trevor Zaple

Trevor Zaple, author of Prospero's Half-Life, joins Literate Gamer to discuss all the best ways to assassinate your fami... Read more

22 Feb 2017

1hr 7mins

Ranked #7

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Conan Exiles

Conan Exiles

Jonathan and Nick discuss Conan Exiles, a server-based multiplayer online game that's quite good, but with some troublin... Read more

21 Aug 2018

49mins

Ranked #8

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Dwarf Fortress - Tarn Adams

Dwarf Fortress - Tarn Adams

Engraved on this podcast is a masterfully designed conversation by Tarn Adams, creator of Dwarf Fortress. Tarn Adams des... Read more

8 Mar 2017

1hr 3mins

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The Division 2

The Division 2

Jonathan and Nick discuss the Division 2 base game (levels 1-30). Mechanically better than the first, but a bit lighter... Read more

17 Apr 2019

53mins

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Kerbal Space Program

Kerbal Space Program

Nick tells Jonathan about Kerbal Space Program, an incredible space simulation game, and apparently training tool for th... Read more

26 Mar 2020

59mins

Ranked #11

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STALKER

STALKER

Jonathan and Nick discuss Russian philosophical science fiction masterpiece STALKER, spawned from the book "Roadside Pic... Read more

10 Dec 2019

56mins

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Fallout - Kevin Mooseles

Fallout - Kevin Mooseles

Nick and Jonathan are joined by returning guest Kevin Mooseles - author of The Resistance is Dead and contributor to the... Read more

8 Feb 2017

1hr 1min

Ranked #13

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Metro 2033 Redux

Metro 2033 Redux

Jonathan and Nick discuss the Metro franchise: Russian sensibilities and culture delivered through a first-person-shoote... Read more

30 Nov 2019

57mins

Ranked #14

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20 years of MMOs

20 years of MMOs

Jonathan and Nick discuss the last two decades of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games, from World of Warcraf... Read more

28 Jan 2020

58mins

Ranked #15

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the Joy of Crafting in FF14

the Joy of Crafting in FF14

Short episode: Jonathan goes on a fan-rant about how awesome the crafting mini-game is in Final Fantasy 14. Honestly, i... Read more

8 Oct 2019

26mins

Ranked #16

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Platformer Short - CastleVania: Symphony of the Night

Platformer Short - CastleVania: Symphony of the Night

Jonathan extols the virtues of the masterpiece Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the mother of the “metroidvania” genr... Read more

26 Aug 2019

13mins

Ranked #17

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NorthGard

NorthGard

Jonathan and Nick discuss NorthGard, a real-time-strategy game with a completely different pace and feel. Definitely ch... Read more

26 Jun 2018

37mins

Ranked #18

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Remnant: From the Ashes

Remnant: From the Ashes

Jonathan and Nick speak with Trevor about Remnant: from the Ashes, a third-person shooter with atmosphere and tendencies... Read more

15 Jan 2020

1hr 6mins

Ranked #19

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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Literate Gamer explores a pastoral, albeit post-apocalyptic, English village in "game" Everybody's Gone to the Rapture b... Read more

11 Jan 2017

2hr

Ranked #20

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Platformer Short - Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow

Platformer Short - Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow

Jonathan describes the new innovations Castlevania takes in, of all places, the Game Boy Advance, with "Castlevania: Ari... Read more

27 Aug 2019

10mins

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