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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Episode List
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Episode 271: Angel Adventures
November 12th, 2018 | 44 mins 51 secs
Imported from Norway, it's one of the few iOS games we've covered on the show!
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Episode 270: Techno Cop
November 5th, 2018 | 39 mins 21 secs
From the people who brought you Perish Hard, Last Blood, and Angry Max.
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Episode 269: Sailor Moon: Another Story
October 29th, 2018 | 48 mins 50 secs
This might surprise you, but we think Sailor Moon is cool and good. This game, however, is very very bad.
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Episode 268: The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
October 26th, 2018 | 51 mins 41 secs
The title is a lie. Rocky and Bullwinkle have no friends.
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Episode 267: Overblood
October 15th, 2018 | 37 mins
It's a very strange, little-known survival horror game. And Kole doesn't like it at all, which is strange.
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Episode 266: Nintendo World Cup
October 8th, 2018 | 43 mins 3 secs
Action sports with a martial edge, dropping soccer bombs on an endless goal.
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Episode 264: Our Failing Bodies
September 24th, 2018 | 43 mins 40 secs
An episode of Abject Suffering that's about suffering.
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Episode 263: Donald Duck: Going Quackers
September 17th, 2018 | 51 mins 39 secs
He's too angry to articulate how angry he is, which just makes him angrier. He is the architect of his own perfect Hell.
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Episode 262: Dune
September 10th, 2018 | 44 mins 9 secs
An adventure/strategy hybrid game that's less painful than the Gom Jabbar!
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Episode 260: Dynasty Warriors 3
August 27th, 2018 | 49 mins 54 secs
A beloved series, and a beloved genre of game which doesn't care about making you want to play it.
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Episode 259: Rockin' Kats
August 20th, 2018 | 53 mins 49 secs
The delightful comedian Carolyn Main joins us to talk about an NES grappling hook game.
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Episode 258: Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
August 13th, 2018 | 46 mins 31 secs
This game is actually quite good! As long as you get the DS version.
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Episode 257: Defender (PS2)
August 6th, 2018 | 47 mins 3 secs
For a while in the 2000s we thought there was enough meat on classic arcade game bones to bear this kind of remake.
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Episode 256: Under Development
July 30th, 2018 | 58 mins 34 secs
Special thanks to Andrew for taking us back to the Dickieverse.