Writing on GamesCast

Your favourite weekly podcast is back! Some of the most anticipated games have come out in the close to four months (!) we've been on break, but instead of getting right to Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom or Resident Evil 4 remake, we make sure to spend a whole bunch of time waxing philosophical about Armoured Core and remembering that Forspoken was a game that actually released. Well, actually it takes us a while to get to games at all—we first have to talk about Jerry Springer and Type O Negative, of course. Also, this podcast is unlistenable. Good to be back. Genuinely, thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

This is it. The second and final day of our Game of the Year deliberations. What game was most momentary? Disappointing? Oldest? Most remade and/or remastered and/or re-released and/or updated? Game of the Year-est?! All this and more answered in a measly... almost seven hours, rounding out to twelve hours total across the two days. Phew. Once again, hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it, and a massive thank you to Nico for editing the first day (I edited today's, sorry for the difference in volume between the two days)/doing all the crazy interludes you'll hear—he's the best. Wait, we actually answer some Bitbusters in a timely manner?! It must be Christmas! Hope you are safe and well this holiday season and we'll see you again in 2023.  CATEGORIES AWARDED AND TIMESTAMPS 10:53 - Best Moment (SPOILER WARNING, PROCEED WITH CAUTION) 2:07:05 - Most Disappointing 3:13:16 - Best Old Game 4:12:26 - Best Remake/Remaster/Re-release/Update 5:01:49 - Game of the Year --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

IT'S HERE. The start of our annual Game of the Year deliberations—twelve hours across two days, deciding between us which were the best and worst games of 2022. Today it's the spookiest, the most musical, the worst, the biggest surprise and, of course, the most strand-type game. Oh, also, there's old Bitbusters to be answered... and new ones to be given out?! Hope you have as much fun listening to this as we did making it. You're the best!  (Also, there's some audio issues—Nico's mic got accidentally turned down for the first thirty minutes, then we corrected it. We tried some stuff with Best Music so you could actually hear the music we were discussing but sometimes the music can momentarily drown out discussion due to Discord compression and the like. Sorry about that—we're figuring it out as we go along, even seven years in!) CATEGORIES AWARDED AND TIMESTAMPS 20:31 - Content Creator of the Year 24:59 - Golden Pumpkin 1:09:22 - Best Looking 2:17:52 - Best Music 3:01:40 - Worst Game 4:16:34 - Biggest Surprise Stay tuned for Day Two! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

If you want to know if we're back or not, search "every Joey's World Tour I'm back" on YouTube and watch the first video that comes up. That is to say, we're back. Playing grindcore festivals in the Czech Republic. Rewatching Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul. The Cyberpunk anime is really good, surprisingly (and Cyberpunk 2077 was always good). Immortality is a fascinating, honest, messy rumination on the place of art in modern society. Metal Hellsinger is a game that people seem to enjoy for some reason but is actually maybe the worst thing I've played all year. JoJo Stone Ocean is surprisingly disappointing. But most importantly... the grand return of BITBUSTERS. DUH SIMPSOOOONS!  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

It's been a while, but honestly it's been a while for the last four or five years. You know the drill. Hamish watched Twin Peaks: The Return. Nico watched Batman. Post-game thoughts on Elden Ring, and returning to Dark Souls. Teardown is the best heist game since Quadrilateral Cowboy. Disco Elysium is one of the best novels you can ever play (also light talk of actual books). Lost Judgment: The Kaito Files speaks to the promising future of the Judgment franchise. Mordhau is the most fun you can have with a playerbase of weirdos. Some other neat little games you may not have heard of otherwise. I *can* get behind that! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

We're back and we're spending the first ten to fifteen minutes communicating entirely in Henry Rollins clips from Get in the Van. The show has come full circle. Oh, we also dive into the most talked about game of the moment... Gran Turismo 7, the best Wikipedia article simulator ever created. I guess we spend a long time discussing Elden Ring as well—that game rules. After that it gets a bit hazy, but we get into Rainbow Six Siege, Tunic, the Tekken story, and we do a long-overdue check up on Tomato Way. Twenty-three years of the Writing on GamesCast now, my god. Thanks for listening!  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

It's been a couple of months but we're back and ready to talk about... well, films and soundboard bullshit again mainly. The new Jackass film is so unbelievably good. The new Matrix is just... bad. The Sopranos is good but the film is bad. Hamish has played through Horizon Forbidden West and it's very good. He's also played Sifu which is really good but seeing as Nico hates Sekiro he'll probably think it's bad. BUT Nico has played Windjammers 2 which is very, very good. The "difficulty in games" debate is very bad. Harsh real time strategy games are good. Hitman VR is bad, but also good. Thank you all for your patience while we get back into the swing of things with the podcast. You're all very good. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

Well, here it is. Day One was a resounding success I imagine, and here's Day Two to round it out, presented by Gold Bono. Almost six hours of deliberations taking us through the Golden Moments, the Golden Disappointments, the Golden Oldies, the Golden Remakes/Remasters/Re-releases/Updates and finally, the one you've all been waiting for... The Least Shittiest Ass Award.  A sincere thank you from both Nico and Hamish for your continued support over the last six years and change. This is still immensely fun for us and we hope you get a kick out of it too. Here's to another year of obnoxious soundboard clips. Stay safe over the holidays and we'll be back in the new year! CATEGORIES AWARDED AND TIMESTAMPS: 4:44 - Best Moment (spoiler alert—we list out the games we'll be talking about before the actual moments themselves, so keep an ear out) 2:25:41 - Most Disappointing 3:09:17 - Best Old Game 3:54:33 - Best Remake/Remaster/Re-release/Update 4:22:10 - Game of the Year --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

Quick everyone! Gather round the wireless! It's here! It's finally here! Time to be bombarded by loud soundboard clips as the Writing on GamesCast, for the sixth time, spends hours deliberating our picks for the best and worst games of the year! Day One is almost five hours of Scares, Songs and Strands, as well as being Sad for bad games. Things get chaotic a *lot*. We sincerely hope you enjoy it.  CATEGORIES AWARDED AND TIMESTAMPS 18:22 - Content Creator of the Year 27:51 - Golden Pumpkin (including Top 5 Dread X Games) 56:55 - Best Looking 2:11:50 - Best Music 3:02:12 - Worst Game (AKA Shittiest Ass Award) 3:59:01 - Best Strand Game 4:04:14 - Biggest Surprise Thanks so much for listening! Stick around for Day Two tomorrow where we'll be announcing the Game of the Year! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

We're back after a month of Nico's life basically exploding! Hamish has been subjecting himself to the live action Cowboy Bebop and it is rough. Joe Pera Talks With You is the most earnest show on TV. Limp Bizkit Still Sucks. Shin Megami Tensei V seems to be very good at what it does even though the Switch can't handle it. Forza Horizon 5 is exactly the same as Forza Horizon 4 with even more shite patter, and it's one of the best games of the year. The Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Definitive Edition is the kind of mess that's hard to even comprehend. Nico chops lemons. Call of Duty Vanguard thinks you are the dumbest piece of sh*t on the planet. Putting Never Meant on a mixtape and learning every System of a Down song on guitar to impress girls in high school. Inscryption is weird and cool and we can't really talk about it for spoiler reasons. Reach up and grab a bean! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

It's been a while since the last podcast and there are a ton of games we should probably be discussing, so of course we spend the equivalent of a feature-length film talking about, well... feature-length films and TV shows we've watched. Why Nico was so disappointed by The Many Saints of Newark (as well as Hamish's first full foray into The Sopranos), Spider-Men both Raimi and Recent, Jackass 3D because of course we have to talk about Jackass some more, why Pig is amazing and Nicolas Cage is a fantastic actor, 12 Angry Men's send up of people who don't like sports, Al Pacino going mental in Glengarry Glen Ross, the fraught relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, and Norm Macdonald's comedic legacy.  Oh, I guess we also talk about Deathloop's mediocrity, why Planescape Torment might be Nico's new favourite game, dismantling a car as you're taking The Long Drive in it, the Dread X Collection, and a lengthy reflection on being confronted by the people who made a thing you've criticised.  Don't worry, the soundboard is still here too! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

The Ol' Gamin' Geezers are back to talk about... wait, actually, we do talk about games this time! Hamish beat Lost Judgment, so we have finally got an episode out on time to talk about something pre-release! Nico talks about WarioWare: Get it Together!, has finally started playing Bloodborne properly, as well as "some game made by some guy," Rift Wizard. Skatebird is wildly disappointing in every way except for the actual birds (don't worry, Nico took notes) and I Am Fish is kind of exactly what you expect. We reflect on Bitbusters, discuss the entire Matrix series in detail and make it clear we have not learned our lesson with the dumb sound effects. We would apologise, but we find it too funny. Hope you enjoy our King Diamond impressions! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

There's a new Evangelion movie out, and Hamish has been collecting Japanese gangster blu-rays. Somehow in all the Takehsi Kitano talk we manage to narrowly avoid another hour-long segment dedicated to Fast and Furious, but only just. Twelve Minutes is so stupid that trying to explain it gives Hamish hiccups (spoiler warning from 1:15:30 to 1:42:30 approx). Lotta Yakuza: Like a Dragon talk. Nico has played Lego: Builder's Journey, and has some thoughts on that Quake remaster. Oh, also Hamish got his soundboard working again. Sorry in advance.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

Apologies for the shorter episode today—we were both delirious with the heat and the fact that we started late because we were laughing about stuff off mic. Oh, also we don't talk much about games at all this episode. Why do you listen to us again? Instead we discuss seagull infestation, our pal you don't know, Nico watching all the Fast and Furious films, that Jackass 4 trailer (and the unfortunate fate of our long-talked-about Jackass podcast, at least for now), the unexpected career twists and turns of the Dudesons, Gundam games, and how people talking about art nowadays drives us into deep despair. This was a fun one. He was a crumb of a boy. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

The soundboard was messing up Hamish's audio, so Nico has to pick up the chaotic slack—don't worry, it's still a mess. After an hour talking about the Fast and Furious films, awful Marvel TV shows and IGN reviews of old Simpsons games (let's just say the wellbeing of developers is a *remarkably* recent consideration in the public eye), we actually talk about some stuff we've been playing! Hamish got an Xbox and Nico has been playing a bunch of Game Pass games—Forza Horizon 4, Descenders and, uh... Dungeons and Dragons Dark Alliance. Lego Builder's Journey is maybe the closest a game has come to legitimate photorealism, while Cruelty Squad looks like a complete nightmare (but might actually be game of the year). Oh also Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart is a great tech demo and a fantastic game... for kids. Shame should hang like a... actually nah, I'm not going to do the IGN thing.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

You read that right, we've somehow been doing this podcast for half a decade, and to celebrate, not only are we doing our traditional E3 roundup (breaking down all the big reveals from Microsoft and Bethesda, Nintendo, Square Enix and... Intellivision?!) but we also have a wealth of special guests—including Patrick Stewart, Peter Griffin, Homer Simpson and Winnie the Pooh! Thank you all so much for supporting us for so long!  (also, we only became aware in the editing stage that the audio quality of Hambo's side of the recording was pretty shaky for some reason, with numerous pops and scratches. Rather than record the entire three and a half hours all over again, we figured we'd post it anyway. Apologies for the dip, we've found the source of the problem and it will be fixed for next time) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

We're both just... so sorry. Some new games came out! Resident Evil Village, Pokemon Snap, Nier Replicant Ver.1.22474487139... (with spoiler talk at 1:32:34), Returnal, Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and discussion about Hitman 3! We do discuss these things, we promise. It's just on you to do some digging to find it in amongst the complete and utter chaos of our new soundboard obsession. We promise we'll have more restraint next episode. Baby in a zoo. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

You know the drill by now—nothing new released, so we talk for a frankly weird amount of time about Shaun Ryder's various projects, including one with an ocarina player and questionable album cover. Nico has played nothing and Hamish has been streaming! He dives deep into all things Oddworld, which has put Soulstorm in a new light. He also got a bunch of people to buy Bad Guys at School—making this podcast the biggest advertising drive the game has had. Together BnB is both underwhelming and ridiculously entertaining. The duo get upsettingly deep into the world of early 2000s softcore porn parody films. RIP Prince Philip!  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

Daft politicians are on Cameo now and it turned Nico into the Joker. Video games! The spirit of OG Prince of Persia is alive and well in Oddworld Soulstorm, Genesis Noir is a fantastic animated movie that they shouldn't have slapped a bad game on top of, Narita Boy is a game that looks better than it plays but goddamn it looks good, Nico finally finished Deadly Premonition 2 and is still slogging through Yakuza Like a Dragon. Also certain speedrun communities have the worst patter, neither of us has seen the Snyder Cut and our lives are better for it, we explore the daft games Hamish has been sent via Keymailer, and a conversation about Wacky Races takes... one of the wildest turns we've had on the podcast in quite some time. I gotta tell you, The Big Chungus sends his regaaaards. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support

Welcome to the podcast s̶u̶p̶p̶o̶s̶i̶t̶o̶r̶y DEPOSITORY! As is seemingly going to be the case for a chunk of 2021, basically nothing new released so we start off with a lengthy discussion of 90s grunge, why "The Beatles is a terrible band" is such a tired take, and the golden rule of shreds videos—if you ain't on screen, you ain't making sound. That said we do discuss the recent Square Enix Presents stream (and poke just a little bit of fun at the Life is Strange franchise), the complete nothing that was the PlayStation State of Play, the madness of Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, we realise The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is almost twenty years old, and reflect on how Mega64 has kinda always been the pinnacle of online video creation. Also, the much anticipated debut of Nico's new feature, The Twilight of the Porn Games, as well as your questions!  Also apologies for some of the sound quality on this one—Hamish's computer fans were extremely loud and also he didn't realise you could actually hear him solving a Rubik's Cube at certain points during the podcast. What a dingo! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/writingongamescast/support