Watch Out for Fireballs!
A retro and non-current games podcast
About the show
Watch Out for Fireballs! is a game club podcast, focused on retro and non-current games. Every week, we play a game in its entirety, then discuss its merits and flaws at length. Most episodes begin with a short sketch, and we're pretty liberal about keeping tangents in. But it ultimately comes down to: Why do we like (or dislike?) this game.
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Episodes and Blog Entries
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300: Dragon Age 2 (Part 3)
Episode | December 17th, 2020 | 2 hrs 16 mins
Thanks Mitch and thank you everyone for sticking with us this long!
We drag the end of Dragon Age 2 before visiting the mostly good but sometimes just alright DLCs. Act 3 of Dragon Age 2: a triumph of milky useless centrism.
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298: Dragon Age 2 (Part 1)
Episode | December 3rd, 2020 | 3 hrs 10 mins
Our love for the outliers in big games series continues with this look at Dragon Age 2. Changing the scope from Dragon Age 1 was a gamble that paid off, among some others that did not. Kole and Gary discuss generalities and Act 1 of this underrated game.
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Dispatch: Spoilers
Episode | November 26th, 2020 | 1 hr 34 mins
On this month's Dispatch episode, we talk about Spoilers. Why don't they bother us? What benefit scan strategically spoiling things for yourself bring? What's a sensible spoiler policy for podcasts like ours?
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297 Preview: Marathon 2: Durandal
Episode | November 19th, 2020 | 57 mins 9 secs
What was Bungie up to before they bounced back with Halo?
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296: Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons
Episode | November 12th, 2020 | 1 hr 59 mins
Thanks David!
This goofy episode on this ambitious, but somewhat tedious, SNES era simulation game was a balm to record on election day, and we hope it's a balm for you to hear. Follow Joao as he travels from Ibiza to Allentown in search of Atlantis.
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295: No One Lives Forever
Episode | November 5th, 2020 | 2 hrs 35 mins
Very nice! Groovy baby! One million lasers!
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Dispatch: Mobile Gaming
Episode | October 29th, 2020 | 1 hr 46 mins
In this episode, we answer your questions, discuss what makes a good mobile game, read your responses to October's games and announce what we're covering in December.
Please note, there are a couple of audio issues, which are disclaimed at the beginning of the episode.
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293: Resident Evil 5
Episode | October 15th, 2020 | 2 hrs 37 mins
Thank you Ryan!
Beef Golem and Sheva go on a racially insensitive adventure in the 2nd worst mainline Resident Evil game that is, none-the-less, still sort of worth playing? Hear us shed some daylight on this black sheep of the series.
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292: Soma
Episode | October 8th, 2020 | 2 hrs 52 mins
October's horror game parade continues with Soma, a game that questions what makes us us.
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291: Dino Crisis 2
Episode | October 1st, 2020 | 1 hr 46 mins
This goofy action game is a dumb blast and this episode is a breezy start to the best month of the year. Join us as we discuss dino-teens from the year 3000.