Game Under Podcast 90

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Introduction
0:00:21 Hobo and the Narc

Trademark Banter
0:01:09 Hallo and Cześć to Belgium and Poland.
0:01:48 Fogg Uncovers WTO Scheme to Keep the Player Down.

Final Thoughts
0:07:41 Fogg gives impressions of this month's Games for Gold bonus; Sunset Overdrive.
0:21:03 Xbox One Streaming to PC Review.

Final Thoughts - Killzone: Shadowfall
0:25:32 Killzone franchise, Dutch satire and Spec Ops: The Line.
0:38:13 KillZone: Shadowfall impressions start here.
1:00:21 Killzone's Future.

Trademark Banter
1:02:18 Filling the Generation Gap.

Final Thoughts
1:18:21 Gunstar Heroes (Scored).
1:32:12 Metal Slug Series & the NeoGeo.
1:32:42 Tom Answers an Important Question.

Game Under Podcast 89

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Introduction
0:00:20 Prolific Phil & Literate Tom,

Trademark Banter
0:02:49 Naughty Dog Hates Fat People.
0:06:27 Fogg Boycotting Uncharted 4.

First Impressions: Telltale's Michonne (The Walking Dead)
0:10:14 Both Hosts Discuss Michonne.
0:12:40 Larger Discussion of Telltale's prior game, and overall pacing in story based games.
0:19:25 Can Auteur Aesthetic Scale?
0:20:40 Final Fantasy 15, Square and of course... Yakuza.
0:22:20 Let the Michonne Impressions Begin!
0:23:15 The Essence of The Walking Dead.
0:27:17 Aussie, Aussie, Aussie.
0:27:15 Kim Mathis vs Jackie Brown.
0:29:45 Season Two of The Walking Dead - Final Impressions.
0:35:45 Fogg's Pet Peeve.
0:38:08 Towers Points Out "the problem with the French".

Trademark Banter
0:43:57 An E-Bay Mystery.
0:48:52 Fogg Buys Some Games.
0:51:07 Blizzard Trolls Critics.
0:55:30 We Go There.
0:57:23 First Amendment, Games, and Taking Offense.

Final Impressions
0:58:22 Rise of the Tomb Raider.
1:07:04 Female James Bond.
1:10:08 Master of Unlocking is Crystal Dynamics.
1:17:30 Tom and Phi Have a Tiff.

Final Impressions
1:20:20 Both Hosts Give Final Impressions of The Order: 1886.
1:34:18 Use of Setting.
1:37:52 We Go There. Again (GTA IV Alternate Plot).
1:45:33 Towers Predicts A Turn
1:56:37 Towers, "...one of the best thigs about The Order".
2:02:49 Scores? Towers Perplexes Fog
2:04:44 Towers Explains Tension

Game Under Podcast 88.5

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Tom and Phil hope you enjoy this spoilercast, but please do not listen to it until you have finished Life Is Strange. It is certainly a game worth playing, and one whil weighed heavily in our 2015 Game of the Year Considerations.

Game Under Podcast 88

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Introduction
0:00:33 Not BTTF, Just BFFs

Trademark Banter
0:01:02 Metallica Roadie Story.
0:03:08 *Spoilers* Africa and Western Australia Conquered by Game Under Podcast
0:05:43 Gold. Just Buy Gold
0:06:47 Global Under Podcast
0:08:47 Endless Backlog Spoilercast for Life is Strange
0:12:08 What Teenagers Want to Play

Feature
0:17:21 Tom Towers Games of the Year
0:17:55 Giantbomb Wikipedia Award
0:30:09 Tom Has a Stroke, LIVE, on the Show
0:30:55 We Score Stardew Valley... Yes. Like I said, Tom had a stroke
0:33:00 The Order 1886 Introduction to Tom Towers Games of the Year
0:57:30 Carwash Story
1:08:20 TAN TAN
1:17:15 Sausage Talk
1:38:30 "Populations, Degradation, it's Culmination"
1:43:30 *Hotline Miami 2 Scored*
1:45:06 The MLG Olympiad Podium and Honorable Mentions

*No more timeline from here, it would be spoilers*

2:17:45 Analysis of Awards
2:27:45 What Games Tom is Looking Forward to in 2016

Outro
2:43:00 It Continues

Game Under Podcast 87

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Introduction
0:00:14 Dear Esther (Episode 41)

Trademark Banter
0:01:09 This Just In (Breaking NEWS)
0:03:30 Tom Troll SuperBunnyHop
0:06:45 Fogg Predicts Dangerous Golf Will Be a Hit

First Impressions
0:11:37 Xbox One Hardware Review
0:24:17 Nintendo's Differentiation

Trademark Banter
0:28:03 The Turn - The Real Reason Fogg Bought an XB1
0:29:33 Star Wars
0:33:48 Playstation VR Pricing

First Impressions
0:54:45 Stardew Valley

 

 

Game Under Podcast 86

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The High Orange Hobby Horse of the Apocalypse: A Complex Entity Composed of an Almost Infinite Number of Incredibly Simple and Minute Things.

In memory of Leigh Alexander.

The Parts and their Players:
The Ancient Vivisectionist: Alfred Hitchock
Pokie, the Orange Horse of Scurvy: Super Bunnyhop, Ahoy, Matthewmatosis, and Sunder
Tom Towers: Tom Towers
The Ghost of Podcast Past: Phil Fogg.
Hugo: Brandon deWilde
Irene: Diane Dors
The Poets: Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and the vessels through which their words have been transmuted.  

Prologue: Alfred Hitchcock and Super Bunnyhop consider the nature of reality; Tom Towers heeds their words, but the seed which they plant is insidious and toxic…

0:00: Censorship of the Vivisectionist’s Apprentice
1:22: The Internet Atheism Bubble: Richard Dawkins' legacy is the internet meme; coincidentally, Richard Dawkins' meme was originally tongue-in-cheek.

Act One: Tom Tower’s humanity is in its death throes, as the seed begins to sprout for the atheistic bubble has burst, disseminating its poisonous pollen.

16:50: To Science
17:38: How Easily Can One Forgive a Dude Talking?: Ahoy, Super Bunnyhop, Matthewmatosis.
 

Act Two: Tom Tower’s is half man, half machine; lucid but unfeeling—yet signs of his humanity spark like static electricity in the circuits of his mind, expressed as impotent, irrational outrage.

24:58: Au Lecteur
26:04: In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was Post-Modernism: Sunder’s Shovel Knight walkthrough; a Symbol of the failings of videogame criticism in the video format.

Act three: Tom Tower’s descent into mechanical madness is complete, incoherent and frigid he is repulsed by the equally incoherent humanity of others: is man, now, merely a machine posing as a collective pseudo-consciousness in the form of the internet?

41:15: Journey of the Magi: departure
42:31: 9/11: The Event That Revised World History: how to misapply the three act structure, and the myriad ways in which one may be conditioned into misunderstanding another’s or even one’s own culture.
52:05: Journey of the Magi: arrival
53:10: Philosophy: what is it good for?

Epilogue: The ghost of Phil Fogg inspires in Tom Towers one last redeeming glimpse of his own humanity.

58:13: Anecdote of the Jar
58:48: The Ghost of Podcast Past: Tom Towers finds redemption.

Game Under Podcast 85

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Introduction
0:00:16 No wait! There will be Tom!

Trademark Banter
00:06:07 Tom and Phil

First Impressions
00:07:00 Ape Escape

First Impressions
00:15:52 Tom Gets a Wii U!
00:26:51 Phil Gets a Wii U!

Trademark Banter
00:34:30 Paralympics
00:36:10 Podcast Theory

First Impressions
00:39:00 Xbox One Hardware Impressions


 

Game Under Podcast 84

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Intro
0:23:07 John Logie Baird

Trademark Banter
0:02:25 Pokie, Horse of Scurvy

First Impressions
0:03:15 American Truck Simulator

Trademark Banter
0:20:33 Hyper Magazine Check-in and greater Discussion of influence of larger socierty on game development.

Game Under Site Awards for GOTY
0:42:35 The Gundies
1:08:34 Tom Towers Final Thoughts on Undertale

Game Under Podcast 83

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Intro
0:00:47 Witness Pre-amble

First Impressions, Both Hosts
0:05:00 The Witness
0:23:10 The Influence of Myst
0:37:33 How About The Talos Principle?
0:41:55 Is $40 Too Much For This Game?

Featurette
0:45:29 ACE Team's Body of Work and Tom's Review of Deadly Tower of Monsters

Trademark Banter
0:53:29 Saint's Row on PSP, Greater Discussion of Sain't Row Franchise

Feature
1:02:20 Phil Fogg's Personal GOTY Awards "The Foggies"
1:46:15 Fogg's Complete List of Games for 2015

Trademark Banter
1:53:11 Endless Backlog GOTY

Game Under Podcast 82

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Introduction
0:00:22 Order is Restored, Podcast Dude is Back

Trademark Banter
0:02:55 DS Styles May Change in 50 Years and Acrylic Chickens
0:05:42 Fogg's Bi-cultural Hardware Union
0:08:01 Fogg's Tales from the Game Store
0:16:42 Steam Sale Pick-ups and Thumbnail Impressions

Final Impressions with Score
0:22:26 Fogg examines the PS4 exclusive The Order: 1886

Trademark Banter
0:39:49 GOTY 2015 Discussion
0:48:51 Bioshock is No Longer Our New Overlord

Final Impressions with Score
0:53:01 Surprising Review of Yakuza 5

Trademark Banter
1:11:03 Oculus Rift - Is VR the new 3D, or a World Changer?

Final Impressions with Score
01:23:56 Grow Home
01:28:41 Ejaculatory Theme?

First Impressions
1:43:14 Octodad: The Dadliest Catch

Trademark Banter
1:46:36 Fogg's Hardware Problems and How He Resolved Them

 

Game Under Podcast 80

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Introduction
0:00:23 Breaking Tradeark Banter (Just In)

Featurette
0:07:37 Tom Dissects Equal Distribution of Media Quality Over Time

Trademark Banter
0:28:15 FFA Fan Ban Update

First Impressions
0:34:41 PES MyClub 2016 (Both Hosts)
0:53:16 Yakuza 5 (and the franchise in general)

Trademark Banter
1:18:25 Son of Shed Builder Outdoes Game Under

Feature
1:26:38 When Media Eclipses the Source Material

First Impressions
1:46:27 Resident Evil: Revelations 2

Game Under Podcast 79

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Introduction
0:00:19 Bam!, Right Into It.

Trademark Banter
0:00:30 How The Game Under Podcast Began.
0:04:05 Trivia Point!
0:04:30 Bad Transition

Video Game Stuff
0:04:31 Valve is a Lie

Lasting Impressions
0:09:41 Prison Architect

Entertaining Interlude
0:16:30 PES Review

Video Game Stuff
0:17:30 Games Are Not Retail
0:21:55 Nintendo's NX
0:27:30 Blues and Bullets

Game Under Podcast 78

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Trademark Banter
0:00:01 Sportstalk
0:15:00 Ebay Still Hasn't Found What I'm Looking For

More Thoughts
0:17:43 Fallout 4

First Impressions
0:27:52 Darksiders II: The Deathfinitive Edition

Tom Towers Final Thoughts and Score
0:35:00 The Witcher III: Hearts of Stone

Trademark Banter
0:51:45 A 24 Year Old Box
0:54:45 Hardware Problems, PS4 and Retron 5
1:02:03 PES Goes Free to Play

Both Hosts Final Thoughts and Score
1:06:42 The Graveyard
1:33:57 Sunset



 

Game Under Podcast 77

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2:52: The Sand Table’s Irrelevance of Game Design

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH4Utjypxlg&list=PLxP2lws1RkuUwMm1XFHEMrN_Rin7O_eiZ&index=3

Anything said by anyone working at Naughty Dog is carefully composed enough that it is ultimately meaningless, so one cannot draw any real conclusions from such statements: an artist's primary and only motivation in their public discourse is to promote their own commercial work, after all…

 But when I can confuse the writer of The Last of Us and Uncharted, while noting their differences in technique, it does raise certain questions...about my literacy, and Naughty Dog's authenticity.

 16:28:

Or simply that they did not like the ending because that made dude a dick, and they never woulda done that themselves because they’ve lived a very sheltered life.

 17:07: A Disingenuous Vision of Games Journalism

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/11/a-price-of-games-journalism/

Watergate…I mean, that’s just like leaking the script to a game in production, right?

 

Running over Devolver Digital in my Journalist Bus without checking e-mail and article dates, because I’m a videogame journalist. Just don’t sue me for slander, please. I’m a journalist! I have rights!

 

Critical of its own fictional bullshit in a story that then did not yet exist…in the public domain—wait, I’d inadvertently leaked the Hotline Miami 2 script? Fuck me, no wonder it was banned in Australia.

 25:00:

I have an acrimonious relationship with the English language, journalists, the English and Americans. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi! oi! oi!

 42:38: Post-Script

I dabble in sensational journalistic incompetence.

 45:36:

I share my delusions of grandeur, inspired by The Sand Table.

Game Under Podcast 76

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This week we give first impressions of Fallout 4, Witcher 3: The Heart of Stone and Lisa, (another auteur indie game).

We give our highpoints of the latest Nintendo Direct, an also talk about an Australian company that is already using VR combined with lasertag as pubic entertainment.

We quickly resolve which is the better console (Retron 5 vs. XBOne).

Game Under Podcast 75

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Introduction
0:00:23 Big Show's are Explained

Trademark Banter
0:03:16 Games of the Year
0:04:20 Fallout 4
0:06:23 Skype is Better with Friends

Final Thoughts WITH SCORE
0:08:53 Both Hosts Discuss The Beginner's Guide from Stanley Parable Creator
0:19:00 Spoilers From Here on
0:41:20 Spoilers End Here and Score

Trademark Banter
0:43:35 Legends of Orth

Final Thoughts WITH SCORE
0:47:01 Both Hosts have Spoiler Free Discussion of Life is Strange Episode 1-5

Trademark Banter
1:00:30 Microsoft and the Status of XB1

Final Impressions WITH SCORE
1:07:45 Phil Fogg Wraps up PC RPG Undertale

Back o' the Box
1:17:05 Tom Towers Guesses Games

Additional Thoughts on MGS 5 Chapter 1 WITH SCORE
1:27:40 Tom Gets to the First (real?) Credit Roll

Trademark Banter
2:07:30 Latest Issue of Hyper

Final Thoughts on Life is Strange SPOILER VERSION
2:16:20 We Also See How Our Predictions Held Up

Game Under Podcast 74

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Cold Intro
0:00:00 SAG AFTRA Strike Vote
0:06:35 Game Under Takes a Stand

Intro Song Gets an Intro (For Once, Some Respect)
0:09:16 Song "Sung" By Tom Towers

Trademark Banter Taster
0:10:05 Our Legacy
0:11:25 Interstitial Update
0:13:38 Tom on Prime Minsters, Guessing a Game and Endless Backlog

First Impressions
0:15:58 Undertale (Frog Fractions 2)

Quiz Segment
0:35:00 Back 'o the Box Returns
0:39:59 Game Under Flashback GOLD

First Impressions
0:45:12 Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes

First Impressions
0:52:41 Metal Gear Solid V's Online Mode

Trademark Gaming News Banter
1:08:26 Horizon: Zero Dawn and Killzone Memories
1:15:57 The Continuing Fall of THPS

Final Thoughts
1:21:46 Shovel Knight: Plague Knight

Final Thoughts and SCORE
1:40:35 Driver San Francisco

Game Under Podcast 73

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Introduction
0:00:21 Our Fight Against Annualization

Trademark Banter
0:01:03 Truck Crash Causes Gay Movie
0:04:02 Koala Survives 100 kph Head-on Collision with Car
0:06:25 Fogg Prediction Comes True
0:08:54 Politician is Gameundered, or Gunded
0:09:32 Fogg's New Studio, His Drapes are Baffling
0:10:24 Fogg Quits Caffiene, May God Have Mercy on our Souls
0:11:03 Big Games of 2015, What's Left?

First Impressions
0:12:21 Endless Backlog Pimpage
0:14:35 Towers on Metal Gear Solid 5

Trademark Banter
0:47:08 Ernest Cline's Armarda

Final Thoughts *Absolute Spoilers, but it doesn't matter, trust us*
0:50:53 Both hosts on Episode One of Blues and Bullets
0:51:51 Elliot Ness? More like Elliot MESS

Trademark Banter
1:23:17 Listeners Choose...
1:24:35 Games From the Future Issue of Hyper

Further Impressions
1:28:53 Both Hosts on Life is Strange 1-4
1:50:30 *MAJOR SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 1-4 FOR REMAINDER OF SHOW*