Vidjagame Apocalypse 172 - "Knockoffs" That Surpassed The Originals

Vidjagame Apocalypse

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4.7 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2016

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Friend of the show Bob Mackey (of Retronauts and USGamer) joins us this week to count down five games that took clear inspiration from an established series, but recaptured what made the originals great instead of being pale imitations. Then it's on to Pokémon Go (of course!), Monster Hunter Generations, Evolve going free-to-play, and the game-hero childhoods you'd most like to see.

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0:00.0	This episode of Vigigame Apocalypse is brought to you by GameFly,
0:03.0	and Vigigame Apocalypse listeners can go to GameFly offer.com slash Laser Time
0:06.8	and get started with a free 30-day trial. Oh, Hey everybody welcome to episode
0:38.2	to episode 172 of Vigigam. I as always am your host Michael Rapparis, who else is here with me?
0:47.0	Too busy playing Pokemon Go? What's your name though?
0:50.0	Uh, Pocispero. Got him!
0:52.0	Wow.
0:53.0	Chris Antisse.
0:54.0	Who else?
0:55.0	Uh, briefly not playing Pokemon Go, Dave Rudman.
0:58.0	Excellent. And...
0:59.0	This is Bob Mackey, the Counter-Strike Go gambling kingpin.
1:01.0	I will take you all down with me.
1:03.0	Oh wait, the website gambling for Bob.com, I do not own it.
1:09.0	They contacted me first and I get these checks in the mail so I don't know where they come
1:14.4	from but I do cash them see I thought your name was Bob McKee oh no no that's what one
1:18.7	guy thinks I don't even want to mention his name but I I do want to apologize for that on last week's show. I didn't know the depth of the
1:26.5	Counter-Stryke-Go Lotto situation and I didn't know that this was something that Valve,
1:32.0	while not intentionally could profit on in addition valve
1:34.4	can profit on these services okay on the sale of on the sale of these guns valve can
1:38.6	profit so that's why they have been silent I didn't know that I was not
1:42.4	standing up for these guys or saying they did nothing wrong.
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