It's time for some Game Under Podcast Bingo. Check them off as we make references to:
Killzone
Deadly Premonition
Racism
Adam Sessler
Ian Bogost
Shakespear
Jesus
Doom
Half-Life 2
Besides the usual topics we also finally get into Broken Age and the week's news. Never ones to avoid a good old chat about first-person shooters we use Homefront as an excuse to talk about the best and worst characteristics of the genre.
This week we had a plan, well actually we had The Plan, the recently greenlit game on Steam that is free, 200 MB and takes about 10 minutes to beat. In the spectrum of indy games, where Gone Home is a zero and Guacamelee is a 10, I put it in the middle of the spectrum, almost. In any case, it would be worth your while to give it a play before hearing our impressions of it. Sincere apologies for forgetting to mention the PS2 game, KA (Mr. Mosquito).
We also reach back and have a Tom Towers Aural Review of Red Steel 2, which gives us good reason to re-examine the possibilities of alternate controls and the French.
1954 Alcatraz, a new game from German adventure game publisher Daedalic Games is also discussed.
Thanks for listening - Phil Fogg
it's a metaphor man...
Last month Tom Towers was reading again. This month he posted what he read last month again. Next month will he be spontaneous?
You can read what Tom Towers read, here.
You will listen.
Yeah, bro, Tom and Phil are taking the week off, so why not read a radical review instead?
Tom Towers finally sees the light and plays the newest Earth Defense Force game, EDF 2025.
We also go over the week's news as well as a featurette on third-person shooters and Japanese development philosophies.
Thanks for listening!
Phil Fogg's fantastical fantasy.
It's all Indy this week with Double Dragon Neon having recently been released to PC, as well as both of our impressions of Gone Home and Dear Esther. I also give my first impressions of Guacamelee.
Thanks for listening,
Phil
In the first instalment of what may be a quickly abandoned series, Tom Towers reads things, and then writes things about the things he read. He then reads the things he wrote to complete the absurdity of the whole affair, and finally posts them here because who else but his groupie would indulge him so? He may be humoured here.
Tom Towers reading in January.
Tom explains Female Aerial Skiing to me, though sadly it is not as exciting as I thought.
We also go on a divergent review of Resistance 3 (and get into everything about gaming and writing). Finally we get Tom's impression of Grand Theft Auto V.
And for those of you who think this is too short of a show for a BIG SHOW, tweet me and I'll give you a full refund. [Until then, check it out, sports fans.-Tom]
- Phil @gameunderphil
Coaches prepare the slopes before readying their paintball guns.
Without a voice, or an internet Phil Fogg has been in the gaming wilderness for a week, so he puts his tiny hand in that of fatherly Tom Towers and gets caught up on the week's news in gaming.
Also, impressions of Modern Warfare 3 and Resistance 2. But in a good way.
And now, here is a picture taken during the recording.
