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- November 29th, 2018, 10:20 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10014
Re: Our next podcast recording (3.12.18) - 348: Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner
As the second-best Zone of the Enders game - behind the fascinatingly committed strategy RPG/visual novel Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars, which I could talk about for so long that it would legally become a crime - The Second Runner feels to me like both a real step forward from the first game ...
- October 17th, 2018, 6:13 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Final Fantasy VII
- Replies: 37
- Views: 28415
Re: 350: Final Fantasy VII
Alright folks, congratulations, we've finally got an episode for the greatest game ever made, the podcast can stop now. Our work is finished. It's hard for me to consider Final Fantasy VII outside of its massive formative impact on my personal tastes and cultural touchpoints. It was the first game I...
- April 12th, 2017, 8:17 pm
- Forum: Play Together
- Topic: Come see me give a talk about video games and world politics!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3869
Come see me give a talk about video games and world politics!
Hey all, I'm going to be at the next VIDEOBRAINS conference at the end of the month giving a talk on the history of video games trying and failing to tackle issues of politics and political history, alongside a whole load of other interesting and informative speakers. If you're in the central London...
- February 18th, 2017, 4:30 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Whatcha Been Playing?
- Replies: 11716
- Views: 7050270
Re: Whatcha Been Playing?
My post-Christmas list (aside from keeping up with podcast games) has mostly been me getting to know my new Playstation 4. I've finally cleared Uncharted 1, I'm making headway into Bloodborne (Just beat the Blood-Starved Beast and loving this game so much even though I was never sold on Dark Souls) ...
- February 18th, 2017, 4:25 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: All things The Legend of Zelda
- Replies: 252
- Views: 188217
Re: Our next Zelda podcast recording (18.3.17) - The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Easily my favourite of the handheld Zelda games. Approachable, beautifully designed, lovely to look at and a really great evocation of Link To The Past. The thing that always stands out to me the most is that its audio design really is wonderful, and really gives the world a lot of sense of place. D...
- February 18th, 2017, 3:45 pm
- Forum: Play Together
- Topic: Community Gamertags and other online ids
- Replies: 189
- Views: 290208
Re: Community Gamertags and other online ids
PSN - AMMask
I don't really play any PC games online
I don't really play any PC games online
- February 11th, 2017, 11:45 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Undertale
- Replies: 18
- Views: 15511
Re: Our next-but-one podcast recording (11.2.17): Undertale
Undertale is one of the most cohesive games I've ever played, even in its wildest moments. When Toby Fox wants to be funny, everything from the writing to the graphics to the mechanics contribute directly to that. When he wants to explore an aesthetic affectation, he does so in ways that constantly ...
- February 4th, 2017, 12:34 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: The Order: 1886
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12186
Re: Our next podcast recording (4.2.17) - The Order: 1886
This game is a weird collection of interesting affectations around a very conventional centre, so I think we can clear the first part of this by saying that the shooting in the game is perfectly competent, if uninspired, and the length, I thought, was perfect, with great pacing throughout. That said...
- January 27th, 2017, 9:14 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: The Street Fighter thread
- Replies: 592
- Views: 385193
Re: Our next podcast recording (27.1.17): Street Fighter III
Street Fighter 3, for me, is a weird game: obscure, having mystifyingly never arrived on the Playstation 2 in the PAL region; unfashionable, having arrived in that brief period where Namco's fighters were far more in vogue; alienating, having eschewed most of the previous popular characters from the...
- January 13th, 2017, 11:14 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: All things The Legend of Zelda
- Replies: 252
- Views: 188217
Re: Our next podcast recording (14.1.17) - The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
First off, let's get this out of the way; trains suck, boats are way better. Everyone who likes trains is a dork and I will personally wedgie them. Going places on tracks is less fun than sailing there, and creating a train-centric world for this game is very slightly less lame than the waterworld t...
- January 3rd, 2017, 11:09 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Dear Esther and Everybody's Gone To The Rapture
- Replies: 59
- Views: 39430
Re: Our next podcast recording (7.1.17): Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
So first off, a disclaimer: The Chinese Room are based locally and I’ve hung out with at least one of the people who worked on Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture a couple of times at local game dev meetups. I don’t think that’s enough to affect my judgement of it significantly, but just take note. Eve...
- January 3rd, 2017, 8:18 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Dear Esther and Everybody's Gone To The Rapture
- Replies: 59
- Views: 39430
Re: Our next podcast recording (7.1.17): Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
So while I'm writing up my "What I Thought" post, gotta ask: what are everyone's "Small Rural English Village" bona fides? Spent a lot of time in Gloucestershire (Gloss-tersheer, yanks) myself.
- January 23rd, 2016, 12:27 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Street Fighter Zero/Alpha series
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5728
Re: Our next-but-one podcast recording (28.1.16): Street Fighter Zero/Alpha series
I was actually too young to play this at the time, though I was a HUGE Street Fighter EX+a fan. I remember reading a solid 9/10 review in Official Playstation magazine at a time, back when that was an incredibly impressive thing, but I only got a copy myself several years later when the GBA version ...
- January 5th, 2016, 7:29 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: All things Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban) series
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12231
Re: Our next-but-one podcast recording (16.1.16): Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
I have way more affection for Phoenix Wright than I feel like the game deserves; in fact I can't think of a game with which I have a more skewed quality:affection ratio. I have a history of being visual novel-adjacent - played a lot of games with visual novel bits, read a lot of visual novels over L...
- December 7th, 2015, 11:09 pm
- Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
- Topic: The videogame music thread
- Replies: 1260
- Views: 1609564
Re: The videogame music thread - share your favourite tunes here
Slightly tenuous but I was listening to the Silent Hill podcasts (yes, I'm still catching up on old episodes!) and I was reminded of the very heavily Silent Hill-inspired work of black ambient band The Axis Of Perdition. If anyone knows their metal, it's in a similar vein to bands like Blut Aus Nord...
- December 7th, 2015, 11:03 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
- Replies: 52
- Views: 34717
Re: Our next podcast recording (12.12.15): Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
This game is a great example of how one mechanic can change everything. For the most part, the game is okay, if a touch boilerplate - the mechanics are derivative, the art direction is fine, the story is pretty much exactly what you think it's going to be, and not nearly what you hoped. But that Nem...
- December 5th, 2015, 9:35 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Games for my mum!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15864
Re: Games for my mum!
So my mum found this thread while searching for the feature of mine on the main site, and she just wants to thank you all very much for the well-wishes and for your suggestions!
- December 4th, 2015, 10:46 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Games for my mum!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15864
Re: Games for my mum!
"Y'see Mum, the idea is that you play this over and over until Stockholm Syndrome convinces you that you're having fun."dezm0nd wrote:That's usually a reply for most videogame questions, it seems but probably not this one!Alex79uk wrote:Dark Souls?
- December 1st, 2015, 12:54 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Games for my mum!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15864
Re: Games for my mum!
Lovely! Also, there's a "free-to-start" Pokemon themed picross game for 3DS if she wants something with, I dunno, Pikachu on it? :) Best wishes for your mother! :) Oh god, can I really not just pay outright to get a regular premium-price experience? Pokemon Picross sounds awesome but I'm ...
- November 30th, 2015, 9:15 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Games for my mum!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15864
Re: Games for my mum!
Picross on the DS is about all my mum wanted to play. That's not to say that all mums are the same but hey, who doesn't love Picross! :D This is actually a solid plan just because I already own every available Picross game as far as I know. More than enough to get her through the recuperation proce...