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FGC #706.2 Final Fantasy 8 Remastered

Laguna Loire is the best damn character in all of Final Fantasy, and it is entirely because the directors of Final Fantasy decided to flip the script on a decade of scripts. Let us consider the history of plots in Final Fantasy. In Final Fantasy, the Light Warriors, your playable characters, were little more than blank slates that you steered around the world. This was a basic story of swords and…

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Tony Hawkathon 06: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4: Part 1

It’s Tony Hawk’s Whole New World! Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 now features huge, explorable stages that host challenges distributed by NPCs. The new character modeling style is… a little off, but the rest of this universe is amazing compared to the franchise’s premiere just three years earlier. And there are flatland tricks! And something about breaking your own spine! Welcome to Tony Hawk’s Pro…

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FGC #706.1 Final Fantasy 8 Remastered

Screw it! After 26 years, I am ready to say this: Final Fantasy 8 is the most revolutionary game in the Final Fantasy franchise. Don’t believe me? I brought bullet points! Final Fantasy 8 is Watching You Let’s talk about Big Brother in videogames. From the moment Dragon Quest hit the world (and at least one Dragon Lord), we have understood the concept of “leveling” in an RPG. And, from that…

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Tony Hawkathon 05: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 (PSX)

Marvel at this Playstation adaptation of a Playstation 2 game. Created by the developers of Grind Session (check a couple of weeks back), this version of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 tells the tale of “what if Tony Hawk was skating around a world after the activation of a neutron bomb… and at night.” Non playable characters are gone, the lighting is a little dimmer, but it is still Tony Hawk’s from…

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FGC #705 Metal Storm & Hannah's Day

Today we are going to rapidly flip between two games with one central gimmick. And that might lead to some repressed melancholy! You probably have not heard of Hannah’s Day. What we have here is a title that was released on Steam in July of 2024, and then migrated over to the Switch & Xbox X/S a little under a year later. Hannah’s Day is the virgin console effort of Watt Games, and it is an…

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Tony Hawkathon 04: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3

Tony Hawk has landed on the Playstation 2! Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 is one of the most popular games in the franchise for a reason: you can dunk Tony Hawk in molten magma! And there are probably some other reasons, too! Join fanboymaster as he shreds through a game he has played approximately 10,000 times. There are at least two boats in this stream! Two! Go Wolverine(s)! As a special bonus, this…

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FGC #704 Gradius: The Interstellar Assault

I am happy to say that, even at my advanced age, I don’t know everything. Today’s game is Gradius: The Interstellar Assault. To break kayfabe for a moment, it should be acknowledged that Random ROB did not choose today’s adventure. You see, Gradius: The Interstellar Assault recently dropped on the Nintendo Switch Online Gameboy service. And, while Gradius Origins has been announced for a release…

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Tony Hawkathon 03: Grind Session

Welcome back to the Tony Hawkathon for a game not featuring Tony Hawk. Grind Session was released between Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, and it brings its own unique features to the table. For one thing, there’s Pigpen. Additionally, there is Skater’s Eye Mode, which pauses the clock and lets you view the world like a real-life skater (that can see where to perform mission…

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Gogglebob.com: Ten Years of Disappointment

Gogglebob.com officially started with FGC #001: Double Dragon on June 15, 2015. Looking at the calendar, that means this website has been up and running for ten friggen’ years. And I thought I would lose interest sometime around hitting article 60! But here we are! Ten years of Gogglebob.com, containing everything from silly videogame articles, Xenosaga/Wild Arms Let’s Plays, Even Worse Streams,…

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Tony Hawkathon 02: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2

Tony Hawk returns in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2. Shred around the States with fanboymaster, our resident expert and Tony Hawkologist. This week, we beat 90% of the game while fbm explains the nuances of Tony’s second skating adventure. Do you know how many different stats are available to your average skater? Find out here! Let’s Play Tony Hawk’s Games Night 2 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 Playstation,…

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FGC #703 Golden Axe Warrior

More important than anything, you must have community. … Wait. That sounds like the opening to one of my preachy articles about real life crap. Let’s try that again… Communion is what makes the world go ‘round… No… Fight for the people, and you’ll always have people that will fight… Sounds too French… It takes a village? No. No, let’s just go ahead with what’s really on my mind: I miss towns,…

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Tony Hawkathon 01: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater

Full disclosure: I was too cool to be cool enough to play Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. Look! I was a teenager! It was a confusing time! The long short of it is that I was a nerd. The advent of the Playstation was something that happened simultaneously with my becoming a teenager (seriously, a Playstation was my big birthday present when I turned 14), and my first big games for the system were Final…

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EWS: Symphony of the Saturn

We are exploring Saturn this week! The majority of this stream is utilizing Maria Renard and her gun fingas to search up some action through a marginally modified version of the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night that we all know and love. It takes me some time to find the “new” areas of this familiar castle, and… they’re not great. But they are completely new to my Playstation-devoted self, so…

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EWS: MainFrames

Not ReBoot, not Celeste, but something in between. MainFrames is a delightful puzzle platformer… Or maybe twitch platformer… Whatever! It is a game with a lot of jumping where you steer a happy floppy through the dangers of the inside of a computer. I can relate. Enjoy this tech as I venture through about half of the game with fanboymaster, Chromes, Cassandralyn, Caithness, Jeanie, and Ample…

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EWS: Mega Man X2

I picked up a new microphone/headphone setup (it’s wireless!) and wanted to give it a test before a “real” stream. So here is a random Monday’s worth of Mega Man X2! Everything tested fine without any dropouts or alike, so this is just a showcase of the entirety of Mega Man X2. My new headphones are reliable, but my skills in X2 have atrophied since my last playthrough, so there may be a few bits…

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FGC #702 EN-Eins Perfektewelt

Here at the occasion of the FGC reaching a little over 700 articles, I feel it is time to talk about the state of the site again. In looking at previous instances of this kind of essay, I have found that these articles are for my edification more than anyone else. So, with that in mind, I am going to begin with a universal story about pizza. My freshman year of college, I was comically poor.…

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EWS: Whisker Squadron Survivor & Wario Land 4

I know I said I was done with “Potpourri” posts, but these are two videos that happened in one night, so I am going to allow it. First up, we have Whisker Squadron Survivor. I played the game for the first time on this stream, and it is… conflicting. On one hand, the general concept of a Rogue-Like Star Fox is pretty great, and I can understand why this game had a successful kickstarter. On the…