Watch Out for Fireballs!
Watch Out for Fireballs! is a game club podcast that covers video games from every era, from retro to newer releases, indie to AAA. Each week we dive deep into the game's mechanics and narrative to figure out what works and what doesn't. Hosted by Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross, this show has been going since 2011. New episodes every Thursday. For full versions of our premium episodes, back us at patreon.com/duckfeedtv!
Episodes
May 8, 2025 • 137 mins
How many zombies is too many zombies? Probably about one campaign of Resident Evil 6. Prepare to be worn down until you don't like this pretty good game with the sheer amount of content it offers.
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May 1, 2025 • 142 mins
Do you dare to feel satisfied? Build a dream factory on a mostly uninhabited alien planet. Build it again once you realize how much more efficientiely you could do it.
This week we are joined by special guest Ben Merkel from the Level, since the game takes hundreds of hours to properly play. Rest up, Gary.
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April 30, 2025 • 65 mins
Our cup runneth over with questions. Here are your spilled questions.
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April 24, 2025 • 114 mins
Before listening to this episode, please complete this towers of Hanoi puzzle.
Upcoming WOFF Games:
May:
* Satisfactory (w/ Ben Merkle)
* Resident Evil 6
* Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies
June:
* The Last Door: Season 2
* Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge (w/ Brayton Cameron)
* Lost Kingdoms
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April 17, 2025 • 35 mins
Way back when, when it felt like horror games were few and far between, we would settle for The Suffering. It's a real B-delivery of some A-level ideas. If you have nostalgia, it's justified, if you don't have nostalgia, wow what a weird game. Plus, there's a morality system based on how well you can not hit the NPCs.
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April 10, 2025 • 78 mins
He's not quite a knight, he's not quite a gladiator. He's just Rygar. And he's going to... defeat the Animalized Men Wriggling Eerily. Come join us in this proto-Metroidvania and we see what strange design decisions were made during the wild west era of early console gaming.
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April 3, 2025 • 116 mins
No role-playing today, kids! Just time for that sweet tappa-tappa. Grind for gear, slay some jellied cubes, and enjoy killing some time in this Diablo-clone with a Dungeons and Dragons skin.
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March 27, 2025 • 93 mins
Why? This is the question of religion. Also, how, what, huh, whazzat and bwuh? But how do video games handle these questions religiously? Join us, as we explore this mystery.
Upcoming Games:
April:
-Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (Rerun)
-Rygar
-The Suffering
May:
-Satisfactory (Kole and Ben Merkle)
-Resident Evil 6 (Two-parter)
-Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies
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March 20, 2025 • 71 mins
It's not quite a blobber and it's quite an Ultima, so what is it? Might and Magic is a huge series and number 6 is a strange entry. You can recruit townspeople, tanks are pointless, and there are dungeons scattered about the map like litter. Join us, won't you?
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March 13, 2025 • 120 mins
What do video games and religion have in common? The points don't matter! INDIKA is a walking-sim adjacent indie adventure game that is largely a vehicle for philosophical debates. You might think that sounds a little pretentious, but the writing is actually stellar and we encourage everyone to check this out.
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March 6, 2025 • 73 mins
Have you ever wonder what it would be like to be a pilot who also had to juggle? That's the kind of hard hitting question Hammerfight tries to answer.
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February 27, 2025 • 102 mins
I know we ask for the asks, but the asks just don't stop coming.
Upcoming Games:
March:
* Hammerfight
* INDIKA
* Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven
April:
* Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (Rerun)
* Rygar
* The Suffering
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February 20, 2025 • 41 mins
Skald - n. a composer and reciter of poems honoring heroes and their deeds. While you can't recruit a Skald in your party, oddly, you can hone and craft a party of heroes in this updated retro-style Blobber. It wants to introduce you to a genre that's generally unfriendly to newcomers.
Full episode available exclusively to our patrons at patreon.com/duckfeedtv
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February 19, 2025 • 4 mins
This episode is a quick announcement to let you know that the way you get Duckfeed's premium content is changing.
Patreon now offers individual feeds of all of our backer-only shows. This gives you control over what your podcast player downloads, and what you ultimately listen to. Since Patreon itself has this feature, we will no longer be using the individual show feeds on Fireside for our premium content. Those feeds will no long...
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February 13, 2025 • 82 mins
Stealth games! We've been trying to figure out how to make games anti-action for a long time, and before we ever got to Sekiro, we had a little game called Tenchu Stealth Assassins. My, how the genre has evolved.
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February 6, 2025 • 97 mins
How can a movie also be a game? The sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror tries to answer that with the experimental Bandersnatch, which weirdly feels archaic in many ways even as it tries to break storytelling boundaries. There is some neat stuff in here, but does it add up to anything more than cheap twists?
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January 30, 2025 • 106 mins
Boss Fights! Who needs them? Not us. But the video game industrial complex sure seems addicted to them.
Upcoming Schedule:
February:
* Black Mirror - Bandersnatch
* Tenchu Stealth Assassins
* Skald: Against the Black Priory
March:
* Hammerfight
* Indika
* Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven
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January 23, 2025 • 51 mins
Genre defining, boundary pushing, console selling; Super Mario 64 had it all. One of the defining games of the Nintendo 64 and of the early 3D era left a huge legacy behind, but we can only really talk about it in full if we go back to where it all began. There's a letter, a girl, and a promise of cake. This is definitely not a trap.
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January 16, 2025 • 135 mins
Do Wizards make good cops? Well, "good" cops. How about, would Wizards be efficient cops? That's the question XCOM-inspired Tactical Breach Wizards aims to answer. They can arrest people with magic! Too bad the criminals have magic too.
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January 9, 2025 • 80 mins
How big is a game? How small is it? These questions are a matter of perspective, and Superluminal is here to teach you about perspective.
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