Haha Alex you crack me up!

Alex79uk wrote: ↑March 13th, 2019, 8:57 pm Not sure if you were joking but there isn't a XIII-2 show planned, same for X-2.

I honestly thought there was going to be a XIII-2 show but sadly you are right, there isn't one scheduled. Not to worry. At least the XIII show is coming soon. I quite enjoyed them both (although I did skip all the cut scenes so maybe that helped a bit).

No X-2 show, not really bothered by that to be honest although some people really did like the game.

There are so many FF games out there that just covering the main entries is probably more than enough for the team.

That’s it, something had to give. However Leah is already lobbying for a future series of FF spinoff podcasts.

Brothers In Arms series?

I think the series eventually ended up going off the rails, but I really liked the original Road to Hill 30 on Xbox. I much preferred its relatively sedate and restrained take on the WWII shooter genre over the likes of Call of Duty and Medal of Honor, which always seemed so over the top and bombastic, and never felt remotely realistic as you always felt like you were playing a one man army. BiA struck a good balance between fun and realism, with more emphasis on using tactics and simple squad mechanics. Imo FPS shooters tend to place too much emphasis on empowering the player when I think they could do more interesting things when making the player feel vulnerable.

Road to Hill 30 is already on the list. Bear in mind it’s taken us seven years to do one Medal of Honor and one Call of Duty though...

CoD 4: Modern Warfare
South Park The Stick Of Truth
The Cave
Grand Theft Auto (PS1)
XIII

(I imagine they're all already on the never ending list!)

Unsurprisingly those are indeed already on there.

Quite a long thread and I'm new here so sorry if I suggest things that have been mentioned a million times.

I'd really like to hear you guys discuss the original Red Faction on PS2. I think this game gets a bit overlooked, it had an interesting story that felt really different from most console shooters at the time and the Geo-Mod tech was completely unique, I mean I think it was, it blew my mind back then either way.

The other game I'd like to see on there would be Timesplitters 2 or Future Perfect because they were awesome!

I would also say Sam & Max or Day of The Tentacle but I'm sure they've already come up many times.

All the above already on the list.

Caligulas Horse wrote: ↑March 29th, 2019, 3:36 pm Quite a long thread and I'm new here so sorry if I suggest things that have been mentioned a million times.

I'd really like to hear you guys discuss the original Red Faction on PS2. I think this game gets a bit overlooked, it had an interesting story that felt really different from most console shooters at the time and the Geo-Mod tech was completely unique, I mean I think it was, it blew my mind back then either way.

The other game I'd like to see on there would be Timesplitters 2 or Future Perfect because they were awesome!

I would also say Sam & Max or Day of The Tentacle but I'm sure they've already come up many times.

All excellent excellent suggestions!

Mario+Rabbids Kingdom battle could be an interesting to descus with the merging of two franchises and how successful if at all it manages to pull it off and the fact it’s a non Nintendo Mario game

It’s already on the big list.

After listening to the Super Ghouls 'n Ghost podcast, one game came to mind and it hasn't been mentioned in this topic. Volgarr the Viking. It is definitely inspired by it with its controls and to get the good ending you have to 1CC it but it presents a very fair challenge.

Volgarr does indeed share some things in common with GnG, it’s actually an almost 1:1 clone of a different coin-op, Taito’s Rastan:



Rastan arrived after the original Ghosts ‘n Goblins so it may very well have taken some inspiration. Either way, both games are on the list for a potential 2 in 1 podcast.

Sim City on the SNES. Probably still the best version of that game, it's just so good.

Alex79uk wrote: ↑April 16th, 2019, 8:35 am Sim City on the SNES. Probably still the best version of that game, it's just so good.

This.

I love that game, the music, the seasonal graphics the massive grant cheat, Bowser abs the scenarios.

Very fond memories.

Awful to go back to.

All the Sim City games are on the list, and whether we did a show on the series or a series of shows, of course the SNES version would be part of the conversation.

Although I can't imagine these would be too popular with the team I wonder if anyone has nominated any of the total war games?

I both loved and hated Medieval Total War 2 - sunk what felt like weeks into it. Starting over more times than I care to admit. When I finally beat the preset conditions I uninstalled the game and gave it away.

Brilliant and infuriating.

I have a friend who is a big fan, but not sure that anyone among the podcast crew plays this series - I will add the rest of them (three titles already down) to the spreadsheet to find out though!