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by Workyticket
August 17th, 2023, 3:17 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Whatcha Been Playing?
Replies: 11699
Views: 6929496

Re: Whatcha Been Playing?

For anyone looking for a non-EA F1 game I've been pretty impressed with New Star GP on Steam. It's a bit more arcadey, but the physics have enough touches of realism to give a bit of challenge and the graphics are full-on Virtua Racer-style polygons. It's got an interesting career mode, where you ad...
by Workyticket
July 21st, 2023, 5:06 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: OutRun 2
Replies: 9
Views: 31598

Re: 594: OutRun 2 series

Despite being a big Sega fan in the late 80s and 90s, for some reason I'd never heard of OutRun 2 until I found a copy of the original Xbox version. Any hype around the game had clearly passed me by, so playing it was a wonderful surprise. The original OutRun, while never my favourite Sega game, was...
by Workyticket
June 2nd, 2023, 2:36 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discourse
Topic: Formula One
Replies: 28
Views: 113145

Re: Formula One

Apparently he's a big sim racer, basically spends all of his time not in a real car on iRacing. So no wonder why he always seems 'on'.
by Workyticket
June 1st, 2023, 4:57 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discourse
Topic: Formula One
Replies: 28
Views: 113145

Re: Formula One

Plus, I think Hamilton is a decent bloke and a great person to hang the sport on, now it's headlined by the most unlikeable driver since young boy Vettel (who has had the greatest redemption arc since Theon Greyjoy). I guess that makes Max the perfect heel - impossible to like, but you can't deny h...
by Workyticket
June 1st, 2023, 4:40 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: What's Out This Week?
Replies: 2653
Views: 1526838

Re: What's Out This Week?

Was going to hold off on SF6, but all the glowing reviews won me over and I pre-ordered. Now have it preloaded on my PS5 and ready to go.
by Workyticket
June 1st, 2023, 4:36 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Replies: 364
Views: 327238

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

it's great to see a game's systems being exploited, and my policy with single player games is play it however you want to play it, but damn, it's strange seeing people take such a stately and beloved franchise and make it feel a Reddit thread. Funny thing is, as entertaining as it's been to see ran...
by Workyticket
June 1st, 2023, 4:17 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
Replies: 3
Views: 24960

Re: 597: Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

While Yakuza 6 does take a while to get going, it ends up having arguably the biggest heart of the series. The developing relationship between Kiryu and Haruka is charming and often hilarious, and the residents of Onomichi are easy to fall in love with, quickly becoming just as much a part of the Ya...
by Workyticket
June 1st, 2023, 3:37 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Replies: 10
Views: 5768

Re: Our next podcast recording (4.6.23) - 572: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

I always expected that KOTOR would become a huge part of my gaming history, though as fate would have it, it would be for more reasons than I was expecting. In the leadup to release, it sounded like my dream game: a marriage of my loves for RPGs and Star Wars. I got an Xbox in large part to play it,...
by Workyticket
March 3rd, 2020, 12:42 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Yakuza / Yakuza Kiwami
Replies: 9
Views: 11340

Re: 447: Yakuza Kiwami

After falling in love with the franchise with Yakuza 0, Kiwami was an enjoyable, if slightly lesser experience. Its roots as a remastered PS2 game are unmistakeable, lacking the depth found in the other games, but it was still worth it for the introduction of Haruka and Nishiki's gut-wrenching heel ...
by Workyticket
April 23rd, 2018, 2:08 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: All things God of War
Replies: 84
Views: 46568

Re: All things God of War

The more I hear about this game, the more interested I get. Was never a fan of the series, but it sounds like they've really struck out with something different. Shame it's coincided with unemployment, so no Kratos for me just yet, but I'll be keeping an eye out for it in sales over the next few mon...
by Workyticket
April 22nd, 2018, 12:22 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discourse
Topic: The "Introduce yourself" thread
Replies: 758
Views: 706038

Re: The "Introduce yourself" thread

Cheers!
by Workyticket
April 22nd, 2018, 3:06 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: The Shenmue trilogy
Replies: 128
Views: 80798

Re: The Shenmue trilogy

Will definitely be grabbing this. My only Shenmue experience was playing 2 on the Xbox. At the time I found it a kind of baffling experience just by dint of how different it was to games of the time, but having fallen in love with the Yakuza series over the last year I feel ready to jump into Shenmu...
by Workyticket
April 22nd, 2018, 3:01 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Space Invaders
Replies: 11
Views: 7649

Re: 320: Space Invaders

My earliest memories of Space Invaders are mainly of the Atari 2600 version, this and the fantastic Asteroids conversion giving me my first realization that you could legitimately have an arcade game in the home. Nowadays it's more a legacy piece and doesn't hold up gameplay-wise as well as other ga...
by Workyticket
April 22nd, 2018, 2:49 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discourse
Topic: The "Introduce yourself" thread
Replies: 758
Views: 706038

Re: The "Introduce yourself" thread

Alex79uk wrote: April 21st, 2018, 2:51 pm Hello! Hey what podcast do you do? I'll give it a listen :)
You can find it here: http://therewillbegeek.libsyn.com/

Hope dropping in a link is OK considering I've just joined...
by Workyticket
April 21st, 2018, 1:01 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Worms
Replies: 10
Views: 7517

Re: Our next-but-one podcast recording (28.4.18): 317: Worms series

My defining memories of Worms mainly centre around drunken, shamblingly hilarious hot-seat sessions with friends at uni in the mid-90s. People forget how revolutionary that first game was at the time, but as a guy who had briefly lost touch with gaming after growing up through the Atari and 8-bit er...
by Workyticket
April 21st, 2018, 12:41 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discourse
Topic: The "Introduce yourself" thread
Replies: 758
Views: 706038

Re: The "Introduce yourself" thread

Hello from Melbourne, Australia! I'm a long-time C&R listener who's finally gotten off his arse and joined the forum. I'm a lifelong gamer, freelance writer and podcaster who's always loved the show as one of the few places that does genuinely in-depth and intelligent game criticism, something t...