Abject Suffering

Why are you doing this to us?

About the show

This is a podcast that's nominally about bad games. In reality, it's about the horror of daily life, GameFAQs Gold, strange combatants in the battle of Good vs. Evil, and a singular patriarch known only as Crick. Every Monday, Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross choose a game at random from the titles submitted by listeners, play it, and venture off on a freeform discussion that winds between the topic at hand, and the absurd.

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Episodes

  • Episode 406: Celebrity Deathmatch

    June 7th, 2021  |  57 mins 27 secs

    It's basically the Super Smash Bros. of cramming as many sexual predators into a game as possible.

  • Episode 405: F-18: No Fly Zone

    May 31st, 2021  |  37 mins 11 secs

    This game is nothing, but it's also a reminder of a forgotten era of Windows 3.1 aesthetics and production values.

  • Episode 404: Timecop

    May 24th, 2021  |  36 mins 57 secs

    Timecop was created out of necessity once someone realized "Time" and "Crime" rhymed.

  • Episode 403: Rescue: The Embassy Mission

    May 17th, 2021  |  35 mins 38 secs

    This cinematic game for the NES is slightly divisive between us, as it awkwardly fumbles to be Rainbow 6 before Rainbow 6 was possible on hardware.

  • Episode 402: The Suffering

    May 10th, 2021  |  37 mins 43 secs

    Torque may or may not have killed his wife and child, and now he's in a haunted prison with plenty of time to sort himself out.

  • Episode 401: Warlocked

    May 3rd, 2021  |  33 mins 45 secs

    The tiny RTS that kinda could.

  • Episode 400: Last of Ass

    April 26th, 2021  |  45 mins 6 secs

    To celebrate episode 400 of Abject Suffering, we dip into some Steam crapware, based entirely on its funny name.

  • Episode 399: Guilty Gear Isuka

    April 19th, 2021  |  40 mins 20 secs

    We believe that Guilty Gear is a good series that just isn't for us.

  • Episode 398: Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death

    April 12th, 2021  |  38 mins 41 secs

    They killed Marlow Briggs on the wrong day with the wrong scythe.

  • Episode 397: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    April 5th, 2021  |  32 mins 27 secs

    Truth time: Buffy is a blind spot for us.

  • Episode 396: William Shatner's TekWar

    March 29th, 2021  |  37 mins 10 secs

    After all, the kids need to learn about TekWar sooner or later.

  • Episode 395: Eternam

    March 22nd, 2021  |  41 mins 40 secs

    The words are funny, but the faces spewing them are nightmares.