Announcing THE PLAYERS CLUB: Felix's New Series!
We are excited to announce Felix's new series, THE PLAYERS CLUB! Ever since the Early Access release of Stick and Hoop, man has pondered the meaning of games. To some, they’re simple diversions. Games such as Spec Ops: The Line have only one medium-specific achievement in mind: to drone out a player’s fears and anxieties with constant titillation and fun. Others have much loftier goals. Seminal works like Detroit: Become Human and certain Hearts of Iron fan expansions that we cannot mention without getting Patreon banned in Germany probe into the nature of our existence, social relations, and fully weigh the virtues of robot nationalism against robot reformism.
The Players Club seeks to once and for all answer the question burning within the hearts of gamers for thousands of years: which kind of game is worse? Each season will concentrate on a series of games, with our first entry being the Metal Gear Solid series, cohosted and produced by Blowback’s Brendan James. Roger Ebert sent us to hell, but we’re going deeper. Jack Thompson, I’m already a fucktard…
Episodes will come out every Wednesday, starting with Metal Gear Solid (1998) tomorrow. The first episode will be free, the rest will be paywalled!
Theme song by Brendan James, inspired by the work of Tappi Iwase, Kazuki Muraoka and Norihiko Hibino. Art by Josh Lynch.
Comments (127)
I doubt it’s your thing but I would kill for a Silent Hill season
Metal Gear?
I don't see this on my paid feed. Only on the free. I am on Pocket Casts. Anyone else w/ this issue?
Same. I had to manually add the series as a separate RSS feed in Pocket Casts.
Hell yeah brother
That line about spec ops the line has to be ragebait
oh hell yes
Want to ask because im a wee lil baby (24) but did anyone here play mgs1 as a kid? Did the psycho mantis stuff break your brain? I feel like having a game character imitate meta-awareness in front of a 9 year old would give you nightmares. Especially as it seems like jt was the first case of this kind back then.
I'm almost 41, played MGS when it first came out. Everything about it was mind blowing. The hallway before the Cyborg Ninja fight was some creepy shit. The fight with Psycho Mantis just brought the game, and video games itself to a whole other level. It didn't give me nightmares, but I thought it was one of the coolest things I'd ever experienced in a video game.
I wonder if the Hearts of Iron mod mentioned is The New Order. Lowkey one of the greatest works of speculative fiction imo. I still play it a bunch to this day. Also has a great original soundtrack, something Brendan may enjoy.
Also lowkey one of the worst works of speculative fiction. It can be both lol.
begging to hear Felix and co speak, at length, on David Cage’s oeuvre.
God damn I’m so happy you guys did this. My inner 9 year old is happy. Probably THE single piece of art that shaped my future tastes and consumption habits of media in general.
have trevor strunk on
i really hope felix and Brendan do Mass Effect. People think that those are woke games when in fact they are insanely reactionary and hawkish. ME1 in particular is basically "what if Bush was right about WMDs in the middle east"
you can be gay so it’s woke
Yes
Let's goooo The whole time i've been playing Metal Gear Solid 3 Delta: Snake Eater i've been manifesting this shit. MGS is so gd peak.
Delta is so good. Can't wait for online mode to go live!
Player’s club? More like the PAYERS club
Hitman series is essential. can't wait!
Everyone who is truly locked in knows felix has been cooking these last few months, this will be a masterpiece and we will be there.
Spec Ops: The Line is many things, but ‘fun’ is not one of them lmao what are you talking about
Damn. I'm simultaneously so pumped for this but also realizing I'm such a fucking dork for being so hype for it. MGS is such a pivotal series for me
How much tha paywall boss im broke but also cannot miss this one
Thank god I am subscribed to this
uh more like the gayer’s chub
I love that Chris took Felix in a hold up Phil Spector style going like okay me, Will and Matt spend a billion hours doing side pods, you have to talk about Halo: Combat Evolved now. The tape is already running. Get talking
I liked the working title, Gooner Mindset
Metal Gooner Solid
I climaxed so hard during this trailer
Ugh boring nerd shit. Talk more about women and food
God, I unironically want him to do Bloodborne so bad!
The La Le Lu Le Lo?!?
Nah, just the Shriners this time
You say I have no life? As a gamer, I have multiple extra lives
This would not have happened if Matt was still on the pod.
“No gaming; no anime: that’s my creed.”
Power to the Players 👊😤
I am so stoked for this.
https://youtu.be/I5fqNi_PIJ4?si=zICWg44GLj1Ed-jN
He’s outta line, but he’s right.
can’t wait to hear Felix’s thoughts on madden and the show
Super excited for this ❤️ also I'm gay
100% gay
Amazing! Very excited for this series! Copy edit: It's refered to as the "Player's club" in the title of the post and the "players club" in the body.
Blowback season X: MGS is gonna go crazy
Hell yeah brother
187 like!
no idea what any of these words mean
Me either, my apartment is so clean now
Give us the fucking slop already. U guys are the only people that took labor day off
max payne max payne max payne max payne
Bring on the OxyContin
Struggle session for Microsoft gutting studios like Arkane.
Class critique on the yakuza series when?
EEEEEEYAHHH [echoes, game over music plays]
Lesh gooo
Finally, a chance to hear the boys discuss some real art
Is DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN a seminal work? Or just the least crashy of David Cage's long career of varyingly successful trainwrecks? Nonetheless, looking forward to this, it sounds like a lot of fun (and the Brendan James musical opening is just a bonus). Should've known something like this was on the horizon with MGS Delta's release.
It's a semenal work. Because I'm gay.
Hell yea, stoked for this
Absolutely superb. Let’s go
Get Jake Rockatanzky in the mix here
OH HELL YEAH
HELL YEAH
But where’s our regularly scheduled slop?
Tonight!
GAMERS RUSE UP
perfect timing. the release of mgs delta has me back into my mgs obsession.
I also want to propose the game EYE divine cybermancy
do you think love can bloom on a podcast??
WE EATING GOOD BOYS
was veggin' out to some old ass footage of felix crushing in fortnite and always wondered why they didnt do something about video games. might have to finally play solid snake now. please think about doing one on cyberpunk 2077 and disco elysium!! this series has legs
I wish chapo chat was still alive but just pictures of people's pets again
Movie Mindset is fantastic. This is peak
Sounds fun and you got Brendan on too, nice. ready for some metal gear mindset
YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
felix... hunh... sounds like a name from the old days... MILLER: snake... that's a name that you have to forget. you can't lift weights in a weirdly lib gym anymore.
Ohhh buddy
Spec ops: The Line is a masterpiece
Brendan james heads keep winning
It is insanity timing that I literally just started, with my friends, Detroit become human AND the original MGS? Bless you felix! And respond to my Steve seagall related DM on instagram
When I saw the androids in the back of the bus I knew David Cage is a master of subtext and subtlety. Also robot revolution over robot reform any day
Excellent. This shall surely sustain me through my step brother’s wedding
V has cum too
oh hell yeah brother
So psyched MGS is the first season. Can't wait.
The Player’s Club?
Been waiting for this since Felix first clumsily tried to stream MGS like 8 years ago.
the technology to do a yt let's play series wasn't there yet in 2017 unfortunately
Hell yes
Brendan’s back… Thank you Mr. Chapo 🥲
Can we at least consider a star citizen navy?
I’m so excited! I love games, I’ve never played a single MGS, and this series is the only way I want to learn any information about metal gear.
Metal Gear?
holy shit
Jack Thompson? That's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time...
Getting in my cardboard box and waiting in anticipation
Oh my god been waiting years for this, so excited LFG
FINALLY something I couldn't be any less interested in. You guys were really taking up too much of my time.
Thanks for sharing
That’s what’s up
Hell yeah dude
We’re so fucking back
Hell yeah brother
Metal gear??
Metal… GEAR?
Oh yeah let's Fuckin' go
Hell yeah brother
Lets fucking GO!
Snake! Snake!
I’m surprised this isn’t already a thing.
God this was made for me
a Hind D?
Whats a russian gunship doing here?
Folks we love to see it
Let's gooo
Felix finally getting to do his Magnum Opus
Double magnum opus
Big if true
Keep it real, player. ❤️
Holy based
Paywalled? :(
I assume it means it's part of the normal Patreon subscription. Not an extra paywall
Been waiting for something like this!
Hell yes