Retro Rebel Podcast – Boss Tactic Tropes in Gaming

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:11:39 — 83.0MB) | Embed

In this episode of the Retro Rebel Podcasts, we are discussing Boss Tactic Tropes in Gaming. We will also be covering gaming news surrounding the death of Streamer ‘Reckful’, Amazon pulling Crucible off the market and stats on loot boxes, and in purchase gaming.

Retro Rebel Podcast is hosted by Amanda Rosowski and Stacy Bishop. Each week they take a deep dive into the gaming industry and discuss news stories, the current games they are playing as well as the topic of the week.

Do you like this episode? Wanna complain about something we got wrong? Let us know what you think by dropping a comment below or emailing us at info@templeofgeek.com. We really want to hear your opinions!

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Google Play / Stitcher / iHeartRadio / Spotify

Intro Music – Final Impasse By Ground is Lava

WHAT THE REBELS ARE PLAYING

Amanda – I’m playing Halo 5 this week. To be honest, I was doing the first mission thinking who are these people. It’s not Master Chief you’re playing as and I was a bit irritated. Who plays Halo NOT to play MC. But thankfully the second mission, he’s there and I’m glad for it. I haven’t gotten beyond that point but I was relieved. Not gonna lie.

Stacy – Playing the Last of Us 2 and determined to finish it!

Gaming News This Week

Ofcom – 6% of UK kids and 4% of UK adults have bought loot boxes. That’s thankfully lower than anyone else suspected. However, the figures for overall in-game content purchase make much more sense with 31% of adults buying in free games and 25% in premium games plus 47% of kids guying in free games and 33% in premium games. That shows that this product directly appeals to children overall.

Amazon pulls Crucible off the market – Crucible is now back in closed beta after poor reviews. They’ve committed to making the game better but this is not a good sign for the new game dev who has other projects in the works.

Streamer ‘Reckful’

Streamer ‘Reckful’ Dies, Aged 31- Cause of death is still unknown but the WoW and Twitch legend has passed away. Social media has lit up with tributes to the late streamer and Champion. He was working on his own video game, Everland.

Boss Tactic Tropes

Bosses in a video game just have some key things they all seem to like to do, don’t they? Today we talk about some that we just always seem to come across or what has been seared in our memory.

When the floor goes lava or fire patches appear like with Deaths Head in Wolfenstein’s new order.
When you have to attack body parts like the Deathwing tentacles in WoW
When there are cycles of aoes you have to avoid like nearly every ESO dungeon boss
When they are regenning to full health like werewolves in the Witcher
When they move the whole battle’s location like Diablo in Diablo 3 and the shadow realm

CHECK OUT OUR LAST FEW EPISODES

Retro Rebel Podcast – Review bombing, Petitions and The Last of Us 2

The Rebels Breakdown Epal.gg – The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

The Rebels Share Their Thoughts On The Playstation 5 Reveal

You can help support our Podcast by shopping at our Teepublic or Redbubble shops.

This episode was edited by Monica Duarte

Amanda Fox

Amanda cut her teeth on her dads old Tandy before graduating to SNES and beyond. An accomplished guild leader in multiple titles and sucker for console RPGs; Amanda spends most of her free time with a bit of tech in her hands. With a life philosophy derived from a Spock quote and more passport stamps then shoes; she is a well-traveled nerd with the urge to pontificate.