The Used Gamers

Three (not so) young men share their thoughts about video games and gaming culture. Keep up with our adventures outside the podcast by following The Used Gamers on Facebook and Twitter.

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Episode 10: The Calm Before the Next-Gen Storm

We're back - did you miss us? Jared plays host to a discussion of some of the smaller games of the first half of 2013. We drool over the ginormous skill tree of Path of Exile, and marvel at the ambitious and impossible to pronouce upcoming XBLA game Mars War Logs (say it five times fast). Chris and Mike recount their first co-op stab at the adolescent wish-fulfillment title Fuse, Jared gets all mobile with The Simpsons: Tapped Out, and Mike starts down a deep rabbit hole with the open beta of Ne...

Jun 20, 2013•49 min

Episode 9: Spoilers!

So much gamey goodness in one little episode! The boys speculate wildly on the eve of the reveal of Microsoft's successor to the XBox 360, express disappointment with Gearbox's handling of the latest Borderlands 2 DLC, and Mike's review of the latest update to Star Wars: The Old Republic leads to a conversation about free-to-play games, pre-orders, DLC, and season passes. Chris' review of the exceptional PSN-exclusive Guacamelee! turns into a gush-fest over "Metroidvania" games, and we wrap up b...

May 20, 2013•1 hr 8 min

Episode 8: Great New Games vs Terrible New Gaming Ideas

It's a great time to be a gamer! Mike plays host as Chris shares his thoughts on the early hours of BioShock Infinite (it's really, really good!!), Jared and Mike get really excited about the long-awaited level cap increase for Borderlands 2 (more better guns to make more better explosions!!), Jared makes a pitch for why you should play Natural Selection 2 (it's like Aliens: Colonial Marines, only it's good!!), we mourn the passing of LucaArts and discuss Star Wars' video game future (let's all ...

Apr 30, 2013•1 hr

Episode 7: Where's My Horde Mode?

Returning from a 7 week hiatus (our little show now has 50% more spouses - congratulations Mike!) the boys sit down to discuss X-Com: Enemy Unknown, Gears of War: Judgment, Injustice: Gods Among Us, and the recently revealed PlayStation 4. Mike waxes poetic about the minutiae of turn-based, alien-blasting strategy, Jared defends the merits of OverRun mode and a more naive Baird, and Chris remembers way too much off the top of his head about the details of Sony's next gen console. Also, we all th...

Apr 10, 2013•1 hr 6 min

Episode 6: Ready Dead Cave Creed III: Awakening

It's a veritable gaming cornucopia as our heroes recent gaming exploits cover darn near every gaming genre and format out there: cooperative survival horror (Dead Space 3), FPS loot fests (Borderlands 2), brutally punishing platformers (Super Mario Bros 2: The Lost Levels), brutally punishing RPGs (Dark Souls), imbalanced competitive multiplayer (Assassin's Creed III), unforgiving strategy RPGs (Fire Emblem: Awakening), movies masquerading as stealth games (Metal Gear Solid 4), grand fantasy RPG...

Feb 14, 2013•1 hr 8 min

Episode 5: A New Console Generation Draws Near! Command?

Wistful memories of the past give way to an eager look towards the games and (possible) new consoles of 2013. The boys still like making little numbers fly out of bad guys (Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt DLC), staying firmly one step behind the gaming curve (Dead Space...2), and praise incremental improvements to not-quite-free-to-play games (SW:TOR). We discuss the upcoming games of the first half of the new year, and wrap things up with our hopes (and demands) for Microsoft and Sony as time ti...

Jan 24, 2013•1 hr 52 min

Episode 4: A Look Back at 2012

Gas up your DeLorean and fire up the TARDIS - it's The Used Gamers 2012 Year in Review!!!! [INSERT APPLAUSE HERE]. Jared plays host to a discussion of the games, stories, experiences, and controversies that made 2012 a banner year for video games and the people who love them, and we each reveal our personal picks for Game of the Year. SPOILER ALERT: we like creepy things that bite and making things go boom. A lot. Once again, our theme song for this episode is "White Knighting" by Comptroller, w...

Jan 06, 2013•1 hr 20 min

Episode 3: We're back! And we brought guests!

The men are back from a short hiatus to discuss Wreck-It Ralph (we liked it!), to review the new Borderlands 2 DLC "Mr Torgue's Campaign of Carnage" (Jared and Mike loved it!!), to sing the praises of The Walking Dead by Telltale Games (maybe the best game Chris has ever played!!!), and welcome our show's first guests - Chris' young nephews Nick and Gabe - to discuss their experiences with the newly lauched WiiU. We wrap things up with a discussion about cooperative versus competitive multiplaye...

Dec 01, 2012•1 hr 22 min

Episode 2: Game movies, boss battles, and bad endings...oh my!

This week's release of Assassin's Creed III and Wreck-It Ralph inspire a discussion about game-to-movie adaptations, the importance of boss battles, and our picks for some of the most disappointing game endings of recent years. Jared gets angry at Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Chris fawns over Metroid for the NES, and Mike finally says something critical about a Bioware game. Once again our show's theme song is "White Knighting" by Comptroller. Check out more bleepy-bloopy awesomeness at www.cm...

Nov 04, 2012•1 hr 20 min

Episode 1: It Begins...

Your hosts - Chris, Jared, and Mike - sit down at the mic for the first time to discuss our personal gaming histories, review Borderlands 2 and Dishonored, and chat about the upcoming free-to-play update for Star Wars: The Old Republic. This episode's theme song is "White Knighting" by Comptroller. For more great music, check out his website at www.cmptrllr.co.uk.

Oct 29, 2012•1 hr 8 min

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