Super Hopped-up

This week the gang discusses their plans to put together the Bad News Bears of Warhammer 40K, Jack admits his extraction shooter problem, Norris talks on the Resident Evil 4 remake, and we discuss The New Donk City Conundrum inherit to the Super Mario Bros movie. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Steph Fan, Mike Parker, David Beebe, Jack Shirai Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

Momma mia! That's a spicy meatah ball! Fuhgeddaboutit! Spaghetti! Hey folks Pizza Tower is pretty cool and you should check it out. ...Carbonara! Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Steph Fan, Mike Parker, Matt Emery, Jack Shirai Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

You just gotta pursue Lu Bu. This week the gang's all about the god's being crazy, with some deep diving into Pillars of Eternity 2. Norris also gives his early review on RE4 Remake (pretty good!), Dave updates us on his time in The Lands Between, and Jack explains to us that Sea of Thieves is actually an extraction shooter. All this and some hardcore Dilbert on the pod! Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Matt Emery, Jack Shirai, David Beebe Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

It's a small crew this week, and so the gang just goes wild with whatever we want to talk about. So there's sports! Gamecube games! Game preservation! And a whole bunch more! Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Steph Fan, Mike Parker Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

This week the gang figures out a hot new way to make money, some hot new strats for Vampire Survivors, some hot old enemies in Elden Ring, and some hot deflections in Wo Long: Fallen Kingdom. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, David Beebe, Bill McDonnell, Matt Emery Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

We celebrate International Women's Day this pod, by discussing the great women in the Donkey Kong family tree. We also discuss finishing Fromsoft games, what our first multiplayer games  were, and honestly just a whole mess of stuff. Finishing FromSoft games, the DK family tree, first multiplayer games Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, David Beebe, Mike Parker, Steph Fan, Jack Shirai Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

Seriously can someone ship me a bottle of Peepsi? I'll pay for it. This week we find out which of us don't have rhythm on the pod (spoilers: it's the white boys) as we talk about our game of the month, Hi-Fi Rush! Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Matt Emery, Mike Parker, Steph Fan, Jack Shirai Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

But who can? This week the gang learns about sparkling wine, custom keyboard keys, and radio shock-jock voices. On the video game side, we talk about Vampire Survivors addiction, DMZ/Warzone addiction, and some Dark Souls 3 time. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Matt Emery, Mike Parker, Steph Fan, Jack Shirai Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

Applebees needs to bring back the $1 drink menu or this entire world is going to burn. This week, the gang discusses casual chain dining, Dark Souls 3, getting COVID, Modern Warfare DMZ, and what to watch on netflix before cancelling your subscription! Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Steph Fan, Jack Shirai Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

The S stands for vodka this week, as we get in deep on the eldritch spooky that is Signalis. We break down this great indie survival horror, and talk about whether sticking too close to convention is a positive or negative. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Mike Parker, Steph Fan, Jack Shirai, Matt Emery Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

Let's finish the fight! For part two of our GOTY session, we take last week's individual favourites and yell about them, in the process of determining our true Top Ten games of 2022. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Mike Parker, Steph Fan, David Beebe, Jack Shirai, Matt Emery Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

It's time! Where the greatest minds in video games come together to reveal their favourites of 2022. Come hang out with us during the annual 2-episode special, where we discuss our personal favourites, and then violently argue over a general top ten! This week we'll be going through everyone's individual lists, and give our favourite games of the year their spotlight. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Twin Sails Friday Songs Czech Lezak Lager Hosts: Chris Norris, Mike Parker, Steph Fan, David Beebe, Jack Shirai, Matt Emery Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

Gotta do it, it's on the Reward Board. This week we get into the heart of what all good video game podcasts love: local politics and public transportation! We also get into some more DMZ, and talk a bit on Chained Echoes, Signalis, Factorio, and some more gushing on the Steam Deck. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Mike Parker, Jack Shirai, Matt Emery Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

And it's trying to kill us. This week, Norris explains his newest embarrassing addiction (water enhancers), Matt explains *his* newest embarrassing addiction (Factorio), Jack explains *his* newest embarrassing addiction (DMZ), and Dave's all good! Also some talk on God of War Ragnarok, Signalis, the concept of Forever Games, and a whole host of stuff I'm forgetting as I write this up.   Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, David Beebe, Jack Shirai, Matt Emery Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

Hail and well met, traveller! Take up the fire with us as we spin you a tale about...roads! And the wardening thereof! For this month's Game of the Month club we're playing Roadwarden, a wonderful narrative text RPG that manages to do a hell of a lot with a little. And for those of you following along at home, our Game of the Month for January is Signalis! It's available on Steam and all major consoles, and is also on Game Pass! Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Jack Shirai, Matt Emery Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

This week we look forward to the year 2023. Surely it can't get any worse, right? Right? We celebrate Matt's completion of Elden Ring by discussing level-scaling, and Jack lets us know Midnight Suns knows her all too well. We also talk about some New Year's resolutions, some games coming out in 2023, and Matt decides to buy a Steam Deck live on the pod. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Jack Shirai, Matt Emery Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

We go all out this week celebrating that most wonderful time of the year! With some discussions on Seinfeld, Roadwarden, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2: Warzone: DMZ, Darktide, Midnight Suns, and High on Life. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Mike Parker, Jack Shirai, David Beebe Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

Who wants to talk about the Game Awards? No one?  This week we try and figure out what exactly Keighley's "deal" is, before talking about God of War Ragnarok, Darktide, Need For Speed Unbound, and Grounded. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Mike Parker, Jack Shirai Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

We come to you from the shadow realm this week to discus our game of the month: the prequel to Ska: Hellsinger. We talk about our ups and downs with Metal:Hellsinger. We also discuss Powerade flavours, tv criticism, and some other general tom-foolery. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Matt Emery, David Beebe, Jack Shirai Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

Just, like, so much feet talk in this podcast. Come hang out with the very normal folks as they discuss foot pics, Tunic, Vampire Survivors, foot pics, and Pentiment. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Steph Fan, David Beebe Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)