GC Podcast #104: ROM - Read Only Monster-Collecting

Published: Jan. 2, 2017, 2 p.m.

It's been a fun year, and we've actually played some videogames! This time around the GameCola cavalcade of Diana Gray, Anna Bryniarski, James Pelster, Alex Jedraszczak, and Joseph Martin take a look at the cult futuristic hit Read Only Memories, which Jeddy just finished. Then we try to talk about monster collecting RPG's, but we mostly just end up talking about the most recent Pok\xe9mon game. If you'd rather see that paragraph in list form...\n\n- Read Only Memories is a great point-and-click adventure game and Jeddy's new game of the year 2015, and it's getting an update!\n- VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a similar game in the visual novel space.\n- What makes a good monster collection game?\n- Pok\xe9mon Sun and Moon have a much more in-depth story and complicated setup than previous games.\n- Dragon Warrior Monsters, Spectrobes, and Monster Rancher failed to capture the Pok\xe9mon magic.\n- We talk about Pok\xe9mon more instead of addressing Jeddy's topic about monster collecting games.\n- We address Jeddy's topic about monster collecting games.\n- What videogames have we been playing?