That’s right, you’re not hallucinating: we do love Super Smash Bros Ultimate. And also, there is a brand new (old) episode of Rather Be Playing on your podcast app! Why new (old)? Well this is an episode we recorded way back in December! The three of us were actually together in the same room for… The post Rather Be Playing 35: I Love Smash appeare…

It’s that time of year again! Sales abound, games and new consoles wrapped and quietly sitting under many a tree, and awards handed out. This is when we look back on the year of games behind us, pick up anything we missed at a probably substantial discount (except Red Dead Redemption 2 which isn’t getting… The post Rather Be Playing 34: I Need Onio…

Hey hey! Remember us? We’re either back or still here, depending on your proclivities. But here we are with a fresh new episode full of all the mostly latest games. We realize that a certain biggest game of the year recently released, but we’ll get to that later. For now we’re on the previous biggest… The post Rather Be Playing 33: Do all the Crime…

We might be a week late, but we’ve got an extra long episode to make up for it! And you can thank Tacoma for that. That’s right, we’ve finally brought our deep dive spoiler chat of Tacoma with us and it is a doozy. Our thoughts on this one are a bit mixed, so check it… The post Rather Be Playing 32: Chrono (Heart)Break appeared first on Rather Be P…

Stevo is dead……… sick this week. So that leaves Elliot and Josh to carry the mantle! The show must go on, after all. So of course we took the opportunity to tell Stevo what to play. Josh and Elliot have played some great games that Stevo is still depriving himself of and the rest of… The post Rather Be Playing 31: Stevo = Luigi appeared first on Ra…

Something special is in the air! Is it a blue moon? A shooting star? Mars at perigee? Even rarer! All three of us were spotted in the same room at the same time! So naturally we decided to play a ton of Rocket League and Towerfall. We may also have recorded our dirty thirty-eth episode.… The post Rather Be Playing 30: Octo Travels appeared first on…

Remember when we rolled Oxenfree in the roulette like a million years ago? Then there was E3 and travels, civilizations rose, civilizations fell, eons came and went. And that brings us to episode 29 wherein we finally finished Oxenfree! It was a great little game and we have a few things to say about it… The post Rather Be Playing 29: Emotional Jui…

Happy Birthday America! And happy belated to Canada, our increasingly attractive cousin to the north! Elliot was in Montréal for Canada Day and he spent it playing Switch on la toilette! But now we’re all back in the states for our favorite excuse to grill various meats and set off explosives. Stay safe out there! Actually,… The post Rather Be Play…

And we’re keeping the conference party rolling with E3 2018 Part 2! It’s only been a few days, but it’s E3! We had a lot to say and two weeks was too long to wait for the exciting conclusion to our E3 coverage! But that’s not the only thing going on! What’s that? More sports?… The post Rather Be Playing: E3 2018 – Part 2 appeared first on Rather Be…

Right now, with a video game podcast based in Washington, DC, it is an exceptionally exciting time. Our city has its first ever hockey championship, and it’s E3 2018 time baby! We promise not to talk sports too much, but we had to mention it. It’s a pretty big deal for our little town, whether… The post Rather Be Playing: E3 2018 – Part 1 appeared …

Have you ever forgotten your own birthday? We sure did. Happy belated anniversary to us! Last week was our one-year anniversary and we missed it from all the excitement talking about playing old games. Can you blame us? And this week we’re back with even more. We’ve all been chipping away at our most recent… The post Rather Be Playing 27: Happy Bel…

What kind of Rockstar gamer are you? Do you beeline from story quest to story quest until the end or do you go for every sidequest, collectible, and achievement? Or do you just see how many cars you can steal and people you can murder before you’re caught? With Red Dead Redemption 2 on the… The post Rather Be Playing 26: Red Deadwood Redemption app…

I mean not terrible as in bad, but terrible as in ‘hoooooly hell go easy on me!’ Of course we’re talking about Cuphead here. The game you hate to love and love to hate, but that makes you love it even more. And despite how hard and unforgiving it is, we finished it! I mean… The post Rather Be Playing 25: The Most Terrible Game appeared first on Rat…

Have you ever wanted to rule the world? How good do you think you would be at it? Elliot got to find out with a very tumultuous go at Crusader Kings II. How did he do? How many people did he befriend? How many did he plot to kill? Tune in to his epic tale… The post Rather Be Playing 24: Plot to Kill appeared first on Rather Be Playing.…

It’s a new fortnight and a new episode! This week we have a lot to cover. Josh is back and has a lot to say about many games. So where was he all this time? Buying a new PS3 and making up for all the lost time since he last had one. On his menu… The post Rather Be Playing 23: Broken in Some Way appeared first on Rather Be Playing.…

It’s another fortnight, another episode. But this fortnight we’re actually talking about Fortnite! Unfortunately Josh couldn’t make it into the recording booth this week, but in his place we’ve got something we think you’ll enjoy. Elliot’s cousin Carlos stops by on short notice to dish the wisdom on Fortnite, as well as a bunch of… The post Rather …

Welcome to another week of playing lots of games! Not only that, but we’re shaking things up with our format too. In fact, we’re putting together a few new ideas here so pardon our dust for the next few episodes. Hopefully it settles soon. This week we’re doing the news discussion in rapid-fire one-sentence blurbs.… The post Rather Be Playing 21: S…

This episode cuts the fat and serves up all the meat. We talk 100% games we’ve been playing this week. Not even any news stories make it in to the discussion. Speaking of those games, remember our roulette from two weeks ago? Uncharted: The Lost Legacy? That’s right, we all finished it in time so… The post Rather Be Playing 20: I’m a Weiner appeare…

After the last couple of episodes being loaded with all these games being played left and right and up and down, we’re calming things down a bit this week. We’re slowing our roll and taking a more measured approach to these fine delicacies we call the 2017 game lineup. Don’t get us wrong, we did… The post Rather Be Playing 19: Final Fantasy DOO-DOO…

We are hitting the ground running with our #NoNewGames2018 resolution. All told, the three of us finished five different games! And we played many more, and we’re not even done with January here! We’ve got some overlap in these games, so there’s plenty to talk about. Not the least of which is the game all… The post Rather Be Playing 18: What Remain…

It’s a new year with new games and new resolutions. And those resolutions for us are to… not play any of those new games? What? Why? Don’t we host a podcast about playing video games? Won’t avoiding new games rob us of our content? Not at all! Well, we hope not. We’ve thought this one… The post Rather Be Playing 17: Loopholes appeared first on Rath…

It’s finally here: the 2017 Game of the Year as decided by your Rather Be Playing hosts! First off, we owe you all a round of drinks for coming in so late with this. We meant to put it up two weeks ago, but life happened and now it’s been nearly a month since the… The post Rather Be Playing: 2017 Game of the Year appeared first on Rather Be Playing…

In our penultimate episode of the year, I must say we’ve somehow come up with our best episode yet. It’s a little on the long side, but we cover a wide breadth of gaming goodness. For one, the 4th Annual Game Awards just took place this past weekend and we have many thoughts on it.… The post Rather Be Playing 16: Proud Mode appeared first on Rather…

Hope everyone had a delightful Thanksgiving! We recorded this before the holiday and kept forgetting that, so mind the time warps! While we all did quite a bit of playing, this week the conversation focuses on the news of late, specifically loot crates. With the tumultuous release of Star Wars Battlefront II now behind us,… The post Rather Be Playi…

It’s Fall and that means the days are shorter and the video games don’t stop coming out. We’re drowning in them this week, but only one has managed to capture all our hearts. We’ve all finished Super Mario Odyssey instead of playing our backlog games! In fact we’re still playing it instead of our backlog… The post Rather Be Playing 14: Chase That H…

Happy Halloween! It’s that time of year again when we all hunker down, dim the lights, and play the crap out of the scariest games in our backlogs, right? Or is everyone playing Super Mario Odyssey? To help us out this week, Mike from the Pod Nerdy 2 Me podcast joins the cast! He’s here… The post Rather Be Playing 13: You’re Going to Die Here with …

We all got our Super NES Classics and we can’t stop playing them. Hopefully everyone who wanted one got one too because it’s a really great piece of kit. We’re all bouncing around trying many games, and entirely unable to stay focused on any one. But despite all of our backlogs suddenly taking on a… The post Rather Be Playing 12: Flick Your Ball On…

Rather Be Playing welcomes its very first guest to the podcast! Eric Variz joins us from the Same Team Y’all podcast to talk with us about what he would rather be playing (spoiler: it’s Destiny 2). We also go into graphic detail about gaming during parenthood and finding time for our favorite hobby when there… The post Rather Be Playing 11: Toilet …

Welcome to our milestone 10th episode! What an exciting time! And how did we kick off the celebration? By reading a book! Wait, what? That’s right, Jason Schreier’s Blood, Sweat, and Pixels hit bookshelves recently, and we have a lot of (good) things to say about it. We also had a million backlog games to play… The post Rather Be Playing 10: Rabid …

We went to PAX West in Seattle and crushed it! What a surreal time! Still buzzing from the excitement after our last day of activities, we went immediately home, opened many beers, and recorded a fresh podcast. This was Rather Be Playing’s very first episode recorded with all three hosts in the same room and… The post Rather Be Playing 9: The PAX A…

We are getting ready for PAX! Next week Rather Be Playing will be recording from beautiful Seattle, Washington, as we attend our first convention as a world-famous podcast. So this week we need to get official RBP t-shirts, funded by our wonderful swear jar, and maybe pack some clothes. In the meantime, we have been… The post Rather Be Playing 8: S…

It’s multiplayer madness this week with a little-known title called PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Let us know if you’ve heard of it. In it, Elliot dies quickly and without hesitation while Josh and Stevo actually try to get things done. It’s a great way to keep the impending Super NES Classic preorder day of doom off our… The post Rather Be Playin…

We’re back to our regularly scheduled timezones! Everyone’s home from their epic journeys, and we all dust off our controllers after many weeks away. Actually, only Josh hasn’t touched a game in that long because this week he’s the only one of us not to finish his roulette game. WTF man?! The only thing Josh… The post Rather Be Playing 6: Self-Infl…

We’re coming at you from the past this week (not unlike Final Fantasy XII’s recent remaster release)! This episode was recorded and banked a month ago to cover us while we went on our various excursions around the world last week. So we tweaked the format a little to keep us from sounding like idiots… The post Rather Be Playing 5: What We Would Rat…

We all played the same game! We deconstruct Firewatch with a deep spoilery discussion. Since it’s a relatively recent game, we moved it to the last part of the episode to make spoilers easily avoidable. Not to spoiler the spoiler warning, but we all liked it! So much so that we would like to have… The post Rather Be Playing 4: Big Box of Fun appear…

E3 has come and gone and left us all with tastes in our mouths. Some bitter, some oh-so-sweet. We had a ton of fun watching each of the conferences and reading about the games on the show floor. The future looks bright (even though our podcast is firmly rooted in the past)! Join us as… The post Rather Be Playing: E3 Special appeared first on Rather…

It’s a Journey kind of show this week. E3 is happening now! But that doesn’t mean we don’t have anything to cover this week. We’re only just getting started, so sit down and strap in for The Last of Us, Chrono Trigger, Doom, and more. I should also add that some of our best jokes… The post Rather Be Playing 3: Don’t Stop Believin’ appeared first on…

Look at that, we made it to our second episode! They say if you can do that as a podcast, you’ll make it big. Right? Yeah, that sounds right to me. Time to celebrate with more backlog blasting! It’s been a productive two weeks hacking away at our backlogs… Or has it? This episode, Stevo’s… The post Rather Be Playing 2: A Little Bit of Schadenfreude…

The first episode of Rather Be Playing, our new gaming podcast, is up and ready for downloading, streaming, and telepathic beaming! Let us know what you think, but be gentle! Stevo is very, very sensitive. Feel free to leave a comment or shoot us an email here. Also check out our iTunes page for more episodes, and our YouTube channel… The post Rath…