Abject Suffering
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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
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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.
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Episode 404: Timecop
May 24th, 2021 | 36 mins 57 secs
Timecop was created out of necessity once someone realized "Time" and "Crime" rhymed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 397: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
April 5th, 2021 | 32 mins 27 secs
Truth time: Buffy is a blind spot for us.
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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.
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Episode 395: Eternam
March 22nd, 2021 | 41 mins 40 secs
The words are funny, but the faces spewing them are nightmares.
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Episode 394: Dog's Life
March 15th, 2021 | 38 mins 30 secs
The wild swings that developers took on the PS2 are infinitely fascinating, and one that you don't hear too much about is Dog's Life.
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Mystical Fighters
March 8th, 2021 | 40 mins 4 secs
This mediocre brawler about Kabuki warriors fighting generic monsters doesn't provide much fertile ground for discussion, so we default to talking about tragedy and the ways out education failed us.
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Defenders of Dynatron City
March 1st, 2021 | 35 mins 18 secs
In a remarkable bit of serendipity, this game wasn't a hit because you couldn't hit anything in it.
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Episode 391: Lester the Unlikely
February 22nd, 2021 | 28 mins 17 secs
We all know the stereotypical traits of nerds. Thick glasses, nasally voice... narcolepsy?
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Episode 390: Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern
February 17th, 2021 | 37 mins 53 secs
It's a fantasy saga of high flying dragons and alien invasions where nothing at all happpens.