Remember The Game? #329 - XCOM 2

Remember The Game? #329 - XCOM 2

Author: Adam Blank April 9, 2025 Duration: 1:54:30
Are you on social media? Of course you are. So follow us!  Twitter: @MemberTheGame Instagram: @MemberTheGame Twitch.tv/MemberTheGame Youtube.com/RememberTheGame Facebook.com/RememberTheGamePodcast TikTok.com/@MemberTheGame And if you want access to hundreds of bonus (ad-free) podcasts, INCLUDING Remember The Game?, along with multiple new shows EVERY WEEK, consider showing us some love over at Patreon. Subscriptions start at just $3/month, and 5% of our patreon income every month will be donated to our 24 hour Extra-Life charity stream at the end of the year! Patreon.com/RememberTheGame XCOM 2 has been lurking near the top of my "someday I'll play it" list for years, and I finally puled the trigger (no pun intended). After over 70 hours of sitting at my PC fighting aliens, I can safely say that XCOM 2 isn't just one of the best tactical RPGs I've ever played, but one of the best games I've ever played, period. If you've never played it, XCOM 2 is a tactical RPG, like Fire Emblem or Final Fantasy Tactics. You move your soldiers around on a board game-esque grid, and take turns with the computer, who's doing the same with aliens and robots. But in between missions, you're traveling the world gathering resources and using them to upgrade both your troops and your ship. Aliens have taken over the planet, and it's up to you to take it back. It's a little tough to pick up out of the gate, but once you're over the hump, it's addictive as hell. My guest this week is the winner of our Extra-Life charity auction from last December, Robert. He picked this game and now I can see why. We get into the meat of XCOM 2, talk about the superb War of the Chosen DLC, talk about our favourite soldier/ability/equipment combinations, and laugh at the bulshit that is missing a 94% shot with your ass on the line. And before we save the world, I put together another edition of the Infamous Intro! This week, we HAVE to talk a little Switch 2. How am I feeling about WrestleMania this year? And will OG Switch games be discounted after the Switch 2 drops? Plus we play another round of 'Play One, Remake One, Erase One', too! This one features 3 of the highest scored tactical RPGs on Metacritic: Valkyrie Chronicles, Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions, and Fire Emblem: Awakening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Comedian Adam Blank invites you to pull up a chair for Remember The Game? Retro Gaming Podcast. This isn't a dry recap of release dates or technical specs. Instead, each episode feels like cracking open a time capsule with a friend. Adam and a guest choose one title from their past-a cartridge they rented a dozen times or a disc that defined a summer-and just talk about it. The conversation meanders through personal memories, the sheer joy of discovering a hidden level, the frustration of a cheap boss fight, and the unmistakable music that’s still stuck in their heads decades later. You’ll hear the laughter and camaraderie that comes from shared, albeit sometimes very specific, experiences. The goal of this podcast is to capture that specific feeling of being a kid again, trading secrets by the lockers or arguing about which game was truly the best. It’s less about critique and more about connection, built on a foundation of pixels and nostalgia. Tune in for a warmly familiar, often hilarious chat that celebrates the games that shaped us, one deeply personal and wonderfully digressive story at a time.
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Remember The Game? Retro Gaming Podcast
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Remember The Game? #362 - Mega Man X4 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:05:54
Many have told me this is in their top 2 X games alongside the original, and now that I've played it for myself, I get it.
Remember The Game? #361 - Mario Kart: Super Circuit [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:40:25
It's been over 200(!) episodes since ww talked Mario Kart, and that just won't do. So this week we're going back to 2001, the flat faced, non-backlit GBA, and the pretty damned good Mario Kart: Super Circuit.
Remember The Game? #360 - Bioshock 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:47:24
I like to end the year on a high-note when it comes to the podcast, and we saved a bonafide gem for the 2025 wrap-up. I've been singing the praises of Bioshock for years, and finally decided it was time to replay and rev…
Remember The Game? #358 - Donkey Kong Country (Part II) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:42:45
It's pretty well known 'round these parts that Super Mario World is royalty in my eye(s), but Donkey Kong Country sits right beside it. This is my go-to Christmas game, it's a masterpiece, and in a lot of ways it's super…
Expansion Pass #230 - Astro Bot Spoiler-Free Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:09:21
It's game award season, and my review of GOTY contender Hollow Knight: Silksong is going live this week, so I figured I'd deep into our Patreon archives and upload my review of last year's Game of the Year, the spectacul…
Remember The Game? #356 - God of War II [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:46:38
My knowledge of the PlayStation 2 library is about as deep as a shot glass, but I've been righting that wrong over the years on this show. And while I've played some GREAT PS2 games for the podcast, God of War II might j…
Remember The Game? #355 - Jaws [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:36:51
Anyone that grew up in the "video game rental" era (that some of you didn't makes me feel old as fuck) remembers renting some mediocre game again and again. And for me and my bro, one of those games was Jaws for the NES.
Remember The Game? #354 - Wreck-It Ralph [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:42:19
It's a rare movie review on RTG this week, and we're talking about quite possibly the greatest video game movie ever made in Disney's Wreck-It Ralph. If you can't find something to enjoy in this movie, I have to question…