Episode 194: Lucy Lawless Appreciation Moment

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🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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On Waypoint Radio 194, Danielle, Rob, and Patrick talk about games where a major character was enough to pull them through some questionable gameplay. We start in on Assassin's Creed Odyssey giving Danielle some serious Xena: Warrior Princess vibes, talk through some good horror games that maybe ran a little long (like Soma and Alien: Isolation), and discuss Rob's time with the Gabriel Knight series. We have a horror corner, a Lucy Lawless Appreciation Moment AND a bonus dad corner this week, and a brief (and funky) dip into the question bucket to round things out.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Soma, Mass Effect, Dragon Age Origins, Assassin's Creed Origins, Alien: Isolation, Everyone's Gone to the Rapture, Gabriel Knight series, Thimbleweed Park, Deadly Premonition, D4, Remedy games, Alan Wake, Frozen Synapse 2, Xena: Warrior Princess.

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0:00.0	The
0:26.9	Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a perfectly fine game. The combat is okay, running and
0:32.9	jumping and climbing and assassinating is all pretty fun. The birds kind of
0:37.0	cool. It's all pretty, it's all fine. It's the sort of thing I had enjoyed for
0:41.1	a few hours and forget about except for one glorious detail. Playing as
0:45.2	Cassandra the badass mercenary has me feeling like I'm playing through an
0:48.5	entire season of Xenow Warrior Princess. And for those of you not familiar with
0:53.3	the warrior princess first, I'm sorry for you because it was amazing. So
0:57.1	supremely campy and super queer 90s TV show starring Lucy Wallace is very hot
1:01.8	butch badass warrior woman. Forget what she was the princess of and of course
1:06.0	she has some divine blood. Who traveled mythical ancient Greece with her
1:09.5	bard, totally her girlfriend Gabrielle fighting bad guys, solving people's
1:13.1	problems and generally having a great time. Those were actually my words for a
1:18.4	piece that just went up on the site that talks about Assassin's Creed Odyssey
1:22.1	and how I'm still playing it because it makes me feel like Xenow. I'm Danielle
1:25.8	Riendo and this is Waypoint Radio episode 194. Joining me today are patch
1:29.9	eclupic and Rob Zachney. Hello hello. And today we're gonna talk about games that
1:36.5	have characters that really like just truly kept us in it whether the game
1:41.1	itself was any good or not. So of course my framing and my inspiration today is
1:46.9	Assassin's Creed Odyssey which is fine I guess. I didn't even play origins. I
1:52.2	haven't really played an Assassin's Creed since two. I mean I've played a
1:56.0	little bit of bits and pieces of other Assassin's Creed's but yeah they're
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