Quality Control
Senior reporter Charlie Hall and guides editor Dave Tach host in-depth conversations each week about the latest games, movies, comics, and gear reviewed and recommended by the Polygon team. Produced by Polygon and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Episodes
January 7, 2019 • 28 mins
After 192 episodes and millions of downloads, Polygon's Quality Control is going on hiatus. To celebrate we brought back creator Justin McElroy. Until the next time we've got a game, a movie, or anything at all to talk about, thanks to you at home for listening.
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December 13, 2018 • 21 mins
Managing editor Chelsea Stark stops by to discuss her review of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
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December 6, 2018 • 18 mins
Just Cause 4 is good. Right up until it isn't.
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November 29, 2018 • 25 mins
Polygon's review of Battlefield 5.
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November 15, 2018 • 13 mins
An audiobook version of Polygon's Pokémon: Let's Go! review.
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November 8, 2018 • 31 mins
This week on Polygon’s Quality Control podcast, we’re joined by Jenna Stoeber and Tara Long. Between the two of them, they’ve spent dozens of hours in the Fallout 76 beta, so who better to bring onto the show to discuss it.
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October 31, 2018 • 21 mins
Charlie Hall sits down with Polygon's senior reporter Colin Campbell to discuss the latest game from indie developer Lucas Pope, Return of the Obra Dinn.
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October 25, 2018 • 53 mins
All about Red Dead Redemption 2.
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October 16, 2018 • 31 mins
In this week’s Quality Control podcast, we discuss the newest edition to the Call of Duty franchise, a battle royale mode called Blackout. It’s available as part of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. At a glance, it looks like many other battle royale games on the market. But, in motion, there’s a lot more nuance to the experience.
I sat down with our Austen Goslin. Between the two of us, we’ve spent hundreds of hours inside PlayerUnknown...
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October 10, 2018 • 23 mins
This week on Polygon’s Quality Control podcast, Mike McWhertor joins Dave Tach to discuss Mega Man 11, which is available now on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows.
In this episode, you’ll learn about Mega Man lore, how Mike played the game — and what Capcom seems to have figured out across a bunch of franchises lately. Much of the discussion centers around what Mike wrote recently in his Mega Man 11 review.
Lea...
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October 3, 2018 • 25 mins
In the latest episode of Polygon’s Quality Control podcast we grapple with the Greco-action game Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Guests include Colin Campbell and Simone de Rochefort.
https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2018/10/1/17920288/assassins-creed-odyssey-review-ps4-xbox-one-windows-pc
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September 26, 2018 • 25 mins
At the beginning of every Pokémon game, players must make a Sohpie’s Choice-like decision to ally themselves with a single, cuddly fighting animal. While their stable will undoubtedly expand, it is that creature who will be their intimate companion on the long road to becoming the very best. Like no one ever was.
Today’s formal debate brings three Pokémon experts to the fore, including Polygon’s Allegra Frank and Ryan Gilliam as ...
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September 19, 2018 • 29 mins
This week on Polygon’s Quality Control podcast, Chris Plante and Dave Tach join host Charlie Hall to discuss Shadow of the Tomb Raider. How did the franchise get to now, and what's it like to play through an introspective look at the narrative roots of Lara Croft herself? You can read Polygon's full review right here.
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September 12, 2018 • 28 mins
This week on Polygon’s Quality Control podcast, Chelsea Stark joins Dave Tach to discuss Spider-Man on PS4.
In this episode, you’ll learn about why Chelsea and Dave like the game so much, even if they come just short of loving it. Much of the discussion centers around what Chelsea wrote recently in her Spider-Man review.
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September 7, 2018 • 41 mins
Ryan Gilliam returns to Quality Control, joining Dave Tach to talk about Destiny 2: Forsaken.
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September 4, 2018 • 34 mins
In this episode of Quality Control, Chris Plante and Charlie Hall explain the future of Polygon's reviews.
Games have changed since we launched Polygon. We’re changing with them.
We believe that a new strategy, focusing on criticism and curation, will better serve our readers than the serviceable, but ultimately limited reviews rubric that, for decades, has served as a load-bearing pillar of most game publications.
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August 29, 2018 • 37 mins
In this week’s episode of Quality Control, Dave Tach and first-time guest and World of Warcraft veteran World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth.
This week, you’ll learn about Ryan’s history with the game, which doesn’t span from vanilla WoW, but still lets him say things like, “back in my day.” A lot of our discussion centers around what Ryan wrote recently in his review, “Battle for Azeroth continues World of Warcraft’s legacy as a...
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August 24, 2018 • 22 mins
This latest incarnation of the Monster Hunter franchise carved off many of the series traditional rough edges, but the console version for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One didn’t always impress fans with its performance. The PC version, which launched more than six months later, has been a fixture on the Steam best seller’s list all month long. Patrick is our resident expert, so we wanted to ask him about his experience and also talk abo...
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August 15, 2018 • 24 mins
In this week’s episode of Quality Control, Dave Tach and Charlie Hall talk about We Happy Few.
Press play to learn about the game’s history from Kickstarter to Early Access (where the original concept changed pretty dramatically) to its recent release on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One (which at launch reflects the changes that the game’s earliest players asked for).
We Happy Few is the story of what comes after the fall o...
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August 9, 2018 • 35 mins
On this week's episode of Quality Control, Charlie is joined by Gamers With Jobs' Allen Cook to discuss Gen Con 2018. Here's all of the very best board games from the largest tabletop convention in the United States.
https://www.polygon.com/gen-con
https://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/1302125
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