Rocky, Tegan and Brian sit down and determine what ten games are most emblematic of Impossible Coin in 2021. Listen in as we pick this year's favorites.
If you were wondering if Tegan would literally put a series of question marks as one of her top five games this year then wonder no more. She did.
We continue to dig through our list of games that meant something to us this year. Most of these games are here because they were special. A few of them should be ashamed of themselves.
We talk about some games that meant something to us over the course of 2021 and we find out that no game meant anything to Tegan this year and we explore her existential crisis.
Game of the year is upon us so Impossible Coin kicks off with a look back at the industry over the last year. Excuse us while we cry in a corner over Bobby Kotick's continued employment.
So Activision Blizzard continues to implode as we find out more about Bobby Kotick. The Mountain Dew Doritos Awards are dumb. Tommy Tallarico is at it again.
This is the time that the Buck Bumble theme almost broke the show.
Tegan, Brian and Baron Bob Tepes are here. Rocky is not. Activision did a thing and we should have appealed to Virginia residents to vote. Video games are real. Anime is real.
Rocky tries out a new segment called "Rant Time". Epic Games is unapologetically awful. CDPR consumes a studio and swears they won't bring their practices there.
Join Baron Bob Tepes as he provides cold, cold takes. The Great Pinewood Derby Crisis of 2021 happens and about two hours in you'll find out exactly what Brian would ask Steven Tyler to do if he had a time machine. Please remember the horse medicine goes in the controller.
It's time for video games on the video game podcast show! Rocky and Tegan talk about video games that they have been playing, video games that they like and news about VIDEO GAMES! Maybe those games are Minecraft, Fortnite, Friday Night Funkin' or Undertale! Let's find out together!
Honestly, these just come out on Thursday now. The team discusses Activision-Blizzard and has very real, serious feelings about Chris Pratt.
It feels fitting that the episode is called "Are you proud of what you've done?" when I am getting it up this late. If we are your primary source of video game news please understand Brian has been incredibly busy at work this week. For your trouble we've sold him to One Direction.
If Impossible Coin had a special or watchalong in the can you would have gotten that instead of this. This episode is about video games. Please understand.
1:18 World Flipper
13:59 Tales of Symphonia / Arise
21:08 Nearing The End of UWU
27:07 How Gaming Will Change Humanity As We Know It
1:01:56 Ruling issued in Epic vs. Apple
1:07:42 Challenger loses $10k MvC2 Money Match to Justin Wong
1:16:56 China’s crackdown on games develops even bigger teeth
1:29:44 Sony Playstation Showcase 9/10/2021
Tegan is out of office so Brian finally gets to talk about 12 Minutes. He has feelings. So does Big Sach. Sach tells us about the hurricane. (That is not an opossum Brian.) Sach tells us about nature's second most critical threat as well, club DJs. In addition to video games there is some AEW talk. All hail Queen Britt.
Kesha is unassailable and we hope she is forever free of Dr. Luke. Rocky, Tegan and Brian must build a catamaran and sail to New Zealand. Once there they will build a boat out of knives. Brian baits Rocky and Brian is proud of baiting him. Joe breaks Brian with a question and the gang spend like and hour talking about his question.
4:20 The Ballad of Tommy Tallarico
8:46 New Saint's Row on the way
11:57 Behind The Frame
19:57 Townscaper
21:56 Hoa
25:27 Baldo: The Guardian Owls
31:04 Skyward Sword ONLY
34:55 Tales of Symphonia Update
39:22 Great Ace Attorney
44:26 My Raid Group Got Through Titan. What up!
52:32 Patron Shoutouts!
54:15 Joe's Questions
1:40:29 THEY’RE SHREDDING EVIDENCE
1:47:15 Unity’s Love Affair With The U.S. Military
1:55:30 THE INTERNET HAS SPOKEN: Niantic reversed their decision
1:59:00 Let’s dig into the complicated and awful world of collectibles fraud!
2:11:28 How long for a refund?: Scrutinizing Steam’s Refund Policy
2:20:23 Streamlabs is going to add a Monthly Tipping Service
Things get heated over Boyfriend Dungeon. Mastercard is evil and Epic is evil. Roblox is an evil sweatshop. We also watched some companies try to sell us video games.
6:01 Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apart
11:33 Boyfriend Dungeon
35:08 Fire Tonight
42:30 Road 96
50:28 12 Minutes, but not really
51:09 Swatch This
54:50 Skyward Sword
58:31 Genshin 2.1
1:00:12 Miitopia Clear!
1:02:10 Sonicfox's EVO 2021 Guilty Gear Strive Run
1:08:46 Tales of Symphonia cont.
1:12:16 Dodgeball Academia
1:13:09 Neo-TWEWY
1:16:10 Call To Action
1:17:23 What is the MATCH list and why does it matter?
1:25:02 Xbox Indie presentation 8/10
1:43:28 Pokemon Presents 8/18
1:53:06 Nintendo Indie World Showcase 8/11
2:02:16 Like so many other things, Roblox is a system of exploitation. As a bonus, it’s a sweatshop for kids.
2:10:15 Epic is back on their bullshit
2:17:03 Unfortunately, there is news about Boots on the Ground.
This here would normally be locked behind heavy oak doors guarded by a butler named Gableston Worchestshire BUT WE DOING A PATREON PREVIEW!!!!!! If you threw money at us you too could experience the raw power of anime. Let this taste feed your need.
1:07 Digimon Ghost World
11:48 Rocky Dropped The Ball WIth My Hero Academia
36:30 Megalobox S2: Nomad
54:04 The Gospel of Odd Taxi
1:01:15 The World Ends With You: The Animation
1:14:46 The Conclusion of Backflip
1:22:08 One Piece Got Rocky
1:44:24 Digimon 2020
2:01:24 Wonder Egg Priority Special
2:09:10 What are we planning to watch?
Look on some timeline it's still Wednesday night. I acknowledge that it is not this one. But that timeline exists and on that timeline this podcast is HUGE.
0:41 Playdate Pre-order: Success!
7:12 Blaseball
15:54 Neurocracy
23:43 Nier [Re]incarnation
34:36 Tegan explored the Inazuma Region of Genshin Impact
35:50 Tegan is not talking about the expansive Japanese soccer series Inazuma
41:19 Genshin Impact Cafè Collab
50:54 What's The Deal w/ Skyward Sword?
59:30 Shining Nikki
1:10:35 Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
1:19:30 Neo The World Ends WIth You
1:30:36 Call to Action
1:31:58 Activision Blizzard is a hellscape. Then. Now. Forever.
1:40:35 Better wait on the Quest 2, facial interfaces are being recalled
1:51:06 Annapurna Interactive Had A Pretty Good Presentation
Everything is fine at Activision Blizzard and organized crime does not have warehouses full of PS4s. Everything is fine.
COME AND SLAM AND WELCOME TO THE JAM AND BY JAM I MEAN ENHANCED BRAND AWARENESS OF A WIDE VARIETY OF WARNERMEDIA PRODUCTS.
5:16 Commuting made possible by viewers like you!
9:15 Monster Hunter: Legends of The Guild
11:23 Game Difficulty in Game Journalism
20:12 Dark Souls
28:31 What Speedrunning does to your brain
31:52 4 out of 5 doctors recommend Tales of Symphonia
36:26 Rocky's Youngest Brother Always Got The Worst of RPGs
38:55 Tegan got some new gear!
55:33 Shining Nikki is Hunting Tegan
57:55 Is it a loop? Or a circle?
1:01:28 What IS the truth of the Zelda Timeline?
1:17:24 Brian's started Skyward Sword HD
1:21:22 Played thru A Link To The Past Again
1:29:18 Brian is a Halo nerd
1:35:46 What if it ends up like Mass Effect?
1:41:16 What's the deal with Bioware?
1:49:10 Dark Nights With Poe and Munro
1:52:13 Brian loses his shit over Space Jam
2:12:10 Looks like things are getting more serious for Netflix and games
2:21:36 Stadia is updating how they’re paying game devs
2:37:57 Ubisoft has a sexpest problem and it can no longer control
2:41:53 French game workers union sues Ubisoft for 'institutional sexual harassment'
2:56:24 Breaking News: Japanese Copyright Laws are Updating!
3:02:12 Valve announces the Steam Deck
Please enjoy this episode that did not successfully upload to Soundcloud.
Rocky and Brian pick through the wastelands of E3 demos for your amusement. Tegan remains on assignment but will return from the war soon.
2:14 Alekon
3:42 Clawfish
5:02 Coromon
11:53 Deep Night Detective
16:06 Dodgeball Academia
18:22 Kraken Academy!!
20:17 Lifeslide
21:39 Mohism: Battle of Words
24:17 NEO: The World Ends With You
30:43 Norco
36:24 Smutty Scrolls
38:26 Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
41:16 Terra Nil
42:11 Tracks of Thought
43:22 Unpacking
46:51 Unsighted
48:04 Venice 2089
50:55 Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
52:34 Dark Deity
57:49 Sex With The Devil
1:05:04 Larcenauts
1:09:24 Metamorphosis
1:10:40 Paint The Town Red
1:13:13 Wunderling
1:16:23 Miscellaneous: A Tiny Tale
1:18:33 A Juggler's Tale
1:20:44 Beasts of Maravilla Island
1:23:58 Blueberry
1:26:34 Lake
1:31:39 Minute of Islands
1:33:41 Arietta of Spirits
1:35:36 Sable
1:39:30 Unmetal
1:42:32 Doki Doki Ragnarok
1:47:02 Unmaze
1:50:52 Demon Turf
1:53:37 BROK The InvestiGator
1:56:15 Chicory: A Colorful Tale