That Guy's a Maniac

New Game Plus what does it mean to you? This week the maniacs talk all about new game plus.Where did the term come from? What was the first game you could New Game Plus in. Other ‘exciting’ things like the order of events poorly remembered in such games as Tales of Vesperia, Final Fantasy XIII and Resident Evil 2. 

It is the much anticipated fourth and penultimate part of our quick and easy reference guide to pokemon move type effectivenessses. This week we take down the trio of Rock, Ghost and Dragon types. Why is roadrunner a lie? Why can’t gengar punch your Dad? Why is Fairy immune to Dragon? All this and less covered here readers. Bookmark for the next time you’re at a tournament.

It’s the end of the gaming year and the beginning of a new gaming year! The maniacs look back to their video game resolutions from 2023 and make new ones for 2025. Did Richie download Suicide Squad Death to the Justice League? Did Cunzy1 1 go all in for Tomb Raider loot boxes? What is zero dawn? Did we finally get our hands on GPS-action-RPG Kingdom Hearts mobile? Read on to find out.

It's an XMAS SPECIAL! We do poems and songs for you!

Its really just a whataya playing, we talked about, Diablo 4, Endless Ocean Luminous, Ghostwire Tokyo.

We talk about some of the games we have picked up and are “re”playing whether it's a remaster, remake or just a new one (or emulated in some way). We chat Donkey Kong, Detroit: Become Human, Katamari, two of the Daniel Mullins Games Inscyption and Pony Island , Pokemon GO! and Mario Kart. Keep an ear out for Richie's Scottish newscaster impression

This week the maniacs examine Hiroki Azuma’s thesis on Japan’s Database Animals and think about the aspects of ‘character’ brought out in character and collecting based videogames? Does catering to these atomised aspects lead to character obsessions? How does Moe (萌え) influence modern Western game design?

It’s the halfway point in our mnemonic special. A foolproof way of remembering all the super effective, not very effective and immunity interactions between Pokemon types. This week we talk about how flying type is a buffed normal, why nobody likes gengar, why mosquitos hate Pride and how Forretress resists Professor X. Of course I mean, we cover ground, flying, psychic and bug types. 

Season 5 is the “RE” Season - today we have RE:Volution. We chat the publisher Revolution Games, games that feature the uprising/revolution narrative, but also fumble our way around chatting games that have some kind of spinny element. You said you want a Revolution, we all wanna change the world!

Bump in the night! Ooooh a skellington with a spiderweb pumpkin. Scary stuff. This week the maniacs talk about video game fears IN THE REAL WORLD. Find out what fears grips the maniacs in the wee hours. Where is it not safe to save? 

This week the maniacs continue their tirade of coming up with foolproof ways to remember all the type match ups from Pokémon. This weeks contenders are Ice, fighting and Poison types… and these ones have a lot of unpacking to do.

This week the maniacs have a hot shot Character, Item, Level and then revel, in coming up with foolproof ways to remember all the type match ups from Pokémon. Is your Dad normal type? Familiarise yourself with the elemental triangle (and grass). And does thinking about bugs filled with dry grass really help? Listen to find out all this and morelull. 

One of the four elemental forces (arguably the worst one), this week we’re talking wind in video games. What is wind? We discuss wind as a force, farting in games, games where you play as the wind and a lot of talk about Pilotwings which may or may not have wind in it actually. Oh! We didn’t talk about Windwaker. I’ve only just remembered. Damn.

In this week’s podcast, the maniacs take on the challenge of defining Retro Games. What is a retro game? Are there handy definitions that can be pinched from fashion,music or wider culture? Is it a console generation thing? Can it be defined technologically? Chronologically? They also pick the Definitive Top 3 Retro Games of All Time. May be some dog chat too.

The maniacs are in class this week. RE:Class. You know, religious education classes? No? Okay, well we talk religion in video games sort of and cover the thrilling topic of reclassing. Very exciting. There may also be some dog talking. 

The maniacs are back for their fifth season of video game podcasting. This season we’RE RE:Visiting, RE:Mixing, RE:Classing, RE:Troing. RE. The gimmick is RE words. We introduce to the world new game Character, Item, Level. Have a new skit (that doesn’t get any better readers). Richie enters a new era post-WOW and it’s a weird one. Cunzy plays some indie games where you go right (and sometimes left). 

Season 4 is over but we have one last episode for you! Throughout the series we have been asking eash other questions from the ?Ultimate? Video game questions trivia pack, and for this episode we fire a few more of these at each other!

All good things must come to an end, and here comes our final episode of Season 4! We talk Destruction and about digital conservation, and we discusss the more memorable sequences in games Stay tuned for cheatcodes! And we will be back in the Autum with Season 5!

Get your mind out of the gutter, in this episode we talk the games that get your heart racing and games that suck.

In this weeks extended podcast we discuss the "pokemon killer" Palword, but we also chat through each of the Pokemon generations' starter Pokemon and create our definitive 3 pokemon starters and out rationales around them