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After a long delay, during which he played a lot of Breakpoint, Tony Coles returns to talk about a much-maligned game that he considers one of the best of its generation and one of the very best of its genre. Tony tries to justify this in a sustained assault on your attention span, but in doing so covers off his history with tactical shooters and gives and awful lot of advice on how to get going in Breakpoint in its most rewarding configuration, and how a pro-spec veteran player gets his shootin' and stealthin' on.Later on, Tony makes outrageous claims about Tesco's retail warehousing and discounting policies and drops a C-bomb in a heated passage about Ghost Recon Wildlands, one of the most accidentally awful videogames ever made.BONUS CONTENT!Watch Tony actually playing the game on his long-dormant YouTube channel: Affectionate Discourse Infinity Stream 1: AD Plays Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Affectionate Discourse Infinity Stream 2: AD plays Ghost Recon BreakpointTony wrote about Ghost Recon Breakpoint here. Read his unhinged attack on Ubisoft's attitude to violence and real-world conflict through the lens of Splinter Cell, Far Cry et al here.Contact him via [email protected] or on Bluesky as tontcoles or affectionatedisco . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Finally, Tony Coles manages to pin someone down and interrogate them at length about Tony's morally grey and legally dubious PlayStation 2. First off it's returning guest Mark Sorrell, who worked on a real and genuine PlayStation 2 magazine in period and therefore couldn't be a better candidate for the format's debut. Suitably meandering, entirely as intended, they talk about lots of gaming things while Tony struggles to maintain the format's structure and in doing so, interrupts Mark far too many times. Still, it's probably all worth it in the end. Please note: our chat is rammed with factual errors caused by age, drugs and incompetence so please feel free to get in touch if you want to add any corrections and I'll issue a full and frank apology for every single one.The Affectionate Discourse PlayStation 2 games list can be found here.Mark's company, Artificial Games, can be found here!If you'd like to do battle with me over my PlayStation 2, please find me on BlueSky or email [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To celebrate the tenth episode of his podcast, Tony Coles inflicts more than ten hours of solid rambling on his audience as he explores the world of videogame magazines. Featuring several tried-and-tested magazine read-throughs of issues that carry colossal personal significance, this absolute monster of an episode will be chopped into more digestible chunks when Tony can be bothered. For now, just soak it up.Issues featured:Commodore User issue 34, July 1986 Timestamp: 01:43:30Zzap 64 issue 21, Christmas 1986 Timestamp: 03:50:16Zero issue 2, December 1989 Timestamp: 05:11:13EDGE issue 9, June 1994 Timestamp: 07:01:46????????????????????? Timestamp: 09:17:15View my long-dormant Tumblr, OMG Barry, here.Blah blah substack, Bluesky and another Bluesky. BLAH. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Tony Coles talks at length about NEC's little wonder-console, the PC Engine. Expect the usual waffles and tangents, with diversions for arcade CPU trends, the two journos who singlehandedly created the UK import console scene and over-frothing the under-appreciated Taito classic, Parasol Stars. It finishes with a run through his HuCard collection and has multiple interjections from Barbarella, a cat.Read Tony's PC Engine piece here. And another about his love of Bubble Bobble here. He wrote about shitloads of emulators in this piece, and learn more about the brilliant Zero magazine here!Go on - buy a HuCard today! From Ebay! You'll feel better for owning one, even if you don't buy a PC Engine console.With immense gratitude to NEC Retro, here's the absolutely glorious Parodius manual in full PDF glory.Get in touch via [email protected] or affectionatedisco on BlueSky! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a refreshing display of bitterness and obstinacy, Tony Coles refuses to enjoy various aspects of Forza Horizon 6, and spends the first hour making himself increasingly angry and unreasonable. Things calm down as he moves on to discuss the history of open-road, open-world racing games and gets hazily nostalgic for Test Drive Unlimited. His deranged and utterly unworkable ideas for how to fix the Forza Horizon malaise are right at the very end, pretending to be bonus content. He forgot to edit out quite few coughs and one burp, for which he's very sorry.Despite multiple attempts and an addendum dedicated to it, Tony also fails to grasp how the Auction House actually works, underlining his point about Forza Horizon's broken economy using the well-worn epistemic device, proof by incompetence. Tony has written about Forza Horizon here and here.Read his Test Drive Unlimited retrospective here!Please consider this episode as deliberate ragebait for Forza heads. Tell him why he's wrong by emailing [email protected], via BlueSky as @tontcoles.bsky.social and don't forget to follow @affectionatedisco.bsky.social. THANKS. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.