Game Under Podcast 45

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Trademark Banter
0:01:00 Self Promotion and otherwise.
0:03:20 VR Hysteria or Justified?
0:04:50 Precise Control Versus Immersiveness.
0:06:40 Tom Says VR Controls are Half-Ass
0:07:55 Kinect 2 the Solution?
0:10:15 No Tomprimises!

News
0:14:00 Oculus Bought for $2 Billion.
0:15:40 Companies as Evil or More Than Facebook.
0:17:45 What if Nintendo Bought Oculus Rift?
0:18:24 I am Error.

First Impressions
0:18:29 Broken Age.
0:18:46 Gaming in the 386 Era.
0:19:34 FAQs Killed Adventure Games?
0:21:44 Patching Games Killed Adventure Games?
0:22:00 Who had more influence on modern adventure games? Sierra or Lucas Arts?
0:23:03 Amatuers Making Games and uncalled for Sessler bashing.
0:24:06 Shiggy is a Fraud.
0:25:03 Why Indy Games are Awesome.
0:25:40 A Hallmark Moment.
0:26:30 Runic Games Breaks Up.
0:27:51 Sony Insider Banned from GAF.
0:31:52 The God of War Curse.
0:33:19 Jesus to Blame?
0:33:47 Back to Sessler - Schafer is a Phony and a Fraud.
0:36:55 Broken Age - The Actual First Impressions.
0:46:40 Back to Deadly Premonition and Shakespear.
0:55:25 Compared to Psychonauts and Grim Fandango.
0:56:03 Scripts Appropriate to Visual Design.
0:57:58 Soundtrack.

Final Impressions
1:01:14 Homefront
1:02:45 Great intro, and straight out of Last of Us.

Game Under Podcast 43

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Introduction
0:00:22 Welcome

Trademark Banter
0:00:40 Trippin' Balls
0:02:37 Australian Podcast? The Thong Song (Jandle Jingle?)
0:07:23 Feetatarian
0:08:00 Titanfall Lack of Scores + Future of Online Only
0:11:35 Tom's Review of EDF 2025 at LaserLemming.com

First Impressions
0:16:52 Tom Yabbers on about Dark Souls II
0:21:48 Found in Translation?
0:29:40 Is Difficulty a Gimmick?

Final Thoughts
0:44:40 Phil on Modern Warfare 3
0:47:45 Tower Records and Guy Pearce

First Impressions
0:51:00 Phil on Resident Evil 6

News
1:01:20 Amy Hennig and Naughty Dog Go into Uncharted Territory
1:10:15 Mafia III Exists
1:12:20 Are you Duke Nukem (a tangent)
1:16:25 Canadians Screwed By Sony
1:19:05 NPD and the Ever-Shrinking Gamer
1:30:25 Aging Gamer - Good or Bad?

Game Under Podcast 42

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Introduction
00:01:00 Tom Towers Fact Checker

Trademark Banter
00:01:14 Retraction
00:04:40 Broken Controllers and Limbs and Karting
00:10:49 Ukraine

First Impressions
00:12:50 Earth Defense Force 2025

Featurette
38:45 Why is the West so bad at making third-person shooters?

News
49:55 Tony Hawk News
56:30 The Development of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
1:02:50 Diablo 3 Interview
1:03:20 XB1 "Pricedrop"
1:13:30 MGS5 Ground Zeroes Pricedrop
1:16:50 SEGA Money Problems? Not Quite
1:18:00 Pokemon Twitch

Game Under Episode 41

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Introduction
0:02:00 Listener feedback
0:03:13 Tom's New Literary Feature
0:03:41 Mary Poppins, Pub Crawler
0:05:44 Singhinig Praises for some d00d
0:08:23 Olympics

Final Thoughts
0:14:30 Tom and Phil play Gone Home (light spoilers throughout)
0:40:20 Tom plays Double Dragon Neon

First Impressions
0:58:12 Phil Plays Guacamelee

News
1:01:59 Speed News

Final Thoughts
1:19:00 Dear Esther

Game Under Episode 40

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If you want a fully fleshed out review of Resistance 3 then you are in luck, but at the same time, you are going to hear the most non-linear review of a video game ever.

Also, we go over GTAV and Bravely Default, as well as listener feedback and the usual commentary on video game theory.

Game Under Episode 39

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Trademark Banter
0:1:00 Phil's Mystery Throat Illness
0:2:15 Impressing New Friend With a Game & Big Cows
0:9:48 The Sad Thing is...
0:13:57 Tom Says Sorry to Lara
0:17:17 I'm Just Talking. and Kevin A.M. Lewis

First Impressions
0:19:26 Phil Plays Modern Warfare 3 (more like Modern Borefare amirite?)
0:23:06 How Many Games Before Tom Quits?

News
0:30:04 Tom Catches Up Phil on the News

Final Thoughts
1:21:25 Tom Plays Resistance 2

Game Under Episode 38

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Introduction
0:00:50 No Trademark Banter Again

Final Impressions
0:01:34 Tom Tells The Stanley Parable
0:02:01 Tom Towers is Crocodile Dundee
0:05:28 Back to the Show
0:05:54 In Game Narration
0:09:40 First Person Action or First Person Puzzle Game?
0:16:53 Another One Last Thing - The Script
0:17:00 Creators Get No Credit(s)
0:25:57 SPOILERS FOR ANTICHAMBER AND STANLEY PARABLE

Review
0:27:12 Tom Does Resistance
0:28:00 Phil Reviews Fast & Furious 5
0:38:30 AI is Good

Final Thoughts with Phil
1:25:20 DmC 
1:27:05 DuckTales: Remastered 

Final Thoughts
1:30:20 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Game Under Episode 37

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Introduction
0:01:15 Inroducing David

Trademark Banter
0:01:45 Flying Phil Heats Up
0:02:05 T-Shirt Talk
0:05:00 Introducing "Zazu" the Parakeet
0:07:35 Galah Talk
0:08:25 Famous Birds in Gaming

Feature: Annual Sales Wrap-Up
0:10:20 December Sales (NPD)
0:18:00 2013 Sales (Top Ten)
0:27:15 Lifetime Sales
0:33:00 Dankey Kang
0:53:20 Hardware Sales

Feature: Nintendo
0:55:00 The Sitch
1:01:24 Nintendo Adjusts Estimates Down
1:07:01 Iwata Melts Down
1:09:44 Mario DLC
1:12:30 How to Fix Nintendo
1:26:01 Drop the Wii U?
1:34:55 How to Fix Nintendo Part 2

David's GOTY
1:42:11 Well, GOTY

Game Under Episode 35

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Introduction
0:00:18 How did we get here?
0:01:35 Phil gets some retail therapy.
0:07:37 Robotic parrot protects Phil.
0:09:37 D-oh!
0:11:17 Tom Towers BUYS SOMETHING!

Feature
0:23:56 Types of gamers.
0:25:36 What type of gamer is Phil Fogg?
0:27:44 What type of gamer is Dave Ader?
0:29:18 What type of gamer is Tom Towers?
0:34:54 The problem with appreciating games.
0:38:42 What does a typical gamer like?
0:42:28 Tom Tower's tells tragic truth.
0:47:00 Phil's Hierachy of Sensory Input (He forgets spoken word).
0:52:07 Tom Towers origin story.
0:55:40 Phil predicts demise of technological art.
0:58:20 Tom explains love of games.

You are on your own from here :)

Game Under Episode 33

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Introduction
0:00:16 Rob from second-generation.com Joins Us

First Impressions From Rob
0:06:01 Super Mario World 3D
0:13:55 Ducktails
0:21:55 SEGA Arcade Classics 3D
0:27:00 2DS Impressions

First Impressions from Tom
0:30:35 Steamworld Dig (PC)

Turning Point
0:34:02 Skylanders Swapforce
0:39:30 Assassin's Creed: Black Flag
0:41:50 QWOP

First Impressions of Steamworld Dig Continues
0:43:45 Steamworld Dig
1:01:30 How Puzzle Games Get Big

First Impressions from Phil
1:16:00 Antichamber
1:35:30 Metro 2033

News
1:44:45 Al Lowe Takes High Ground 
1:51:15 Mandela Dies 
1:55:45 Pokemon Bank Has Annual Subscription 
1:59:00 Gran Turismo 6 Sales Low in Japan 
2:04:30 YouTube Drops ban Hammer on Gamers 

Game Under Episode 32

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Introduction
0:00:00 Four by Miles Davis Quintet
0:00:15 Guest Co-Host David Ader

Trademark Banter
0:01:00 World Cup Fever

First Impressions
0:02:00 Killzone: Shadow Fall (PS4) 
0:28:12 Battlefield 4 (PS4)
0:32:12 NBA2K14 (PS4)
0:44:31 Need for Speed: Rivals (PS4)
0:50:44 Resogun (PS4)
0:55:65 Contrast (PS4)
0:59:31 The Swapper (PC)
1:06:29 Hyperdimension Neptunia: Victory

PS4 Hardware Impressions
1:25:14 David Talks About the PS4 Itself

News 1:51:10
Ashes Cricket Cancelled After Release 
Dark Souls 2 Update
Gran Turismo 6 Crtitical Reception
VGX
Dragon's Crown Sells 800K Physical

2:08:05 Tom Mulls Over The Last of Us

Game Under Episode 31

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Introduction
0:04:20 The Dawn of the 8th Generation
0:05:55 Vita Direct Streaming
0:07:20 Large Installations
0:10:20 The Good News
0:13:00 New Nintendo Games

First Impressions
0:13:55 The Swapper

Final Thoughts
0:26:25 Papo and Yo

News
0:40:47 Ueda Apologizes for The Last Guardian
0:43:30 Persona 5 Announced for PS3 (Manacles Talk)
0:46:05 Pick Misfits Attic's Next Game

Aural Review
0:48:53 The Last of Us (Spoilers Galore)

Game Under Episode 30

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Introduction
0:00:22 Big Show Six is an FPS Special

Trademark Banter
0:02:00 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Control Scheme
0:04:44 Phil Explains Epiphiny of Ending of Enslaved (STORY SPOILERS)
0:06:58 Tom's Review at Laser Lemming of WWE2K14 
0:08:13 More Enslaved (Last Time, I Promise)
0:11:37 Journey of a Roach 

FPS Feature Part One
0:12:00 The Nominees (FPS Games Phil Beat This Generation)
0:14:00 Stagnation of the FPS Genre
0:17:05 "Mediocre" Games That Are Actually Must-Play
0:22:08 Tom's Honorable Mentions
0:28:12 Journals in Video Games
0:33:25 Cheesing as a Boss Strategy
0:36:20 Old School Elements of FPS Games

Final Impressions 
0:39:30 Tom Revisits His Review of Killzone 3 After Playing Killzone 1
0:43:00 Star Wars Versus Star Trek Spacecraft
1:03:55 Killzone 3's Story (SPOILERS)
1:17:30 Phil Reviews Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
1:19:50 No Russian (STORY SPOILERS)
1:24:50 Is Modern Warfare a FPS?
1:26:40 Aim Assist Inherent in Modern FPS

FPS Feature Part Two
1:32:40 Key Elements of FPS
1:42:50 First Person Action Games
1:57:08 Best Innovation in FPS
2:02:09 Most Disappointing Move in FPS
2:08:40 What Do We Want from Next Gen?
 
Final Impressions (STORY SPOILERS)
2:13:55 Tom Reviews Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (STORY SPOILERS)
2:57:00 Exploitation?
3:05:45 Politics of War in Games
3:07:45 Stormin' Norman

FPS Feature Part Three
3:16:10 Top Five FPS of the Generation
3:28:00 Most Notable FPS of the Generation
3:32:05 Worst FPS Games of the Generation
3:38:00 The History of FPS in Terms of Influence (Poland)

News
3:39:50 Killzone Critical Reception
3:44:45 Tracey Lien

Game Under Episode 29

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Introduction
0:00:47 Introduction Theme Explained.

Final Impressions
0:02:43 Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Spoilers)
0:10:40 Buddists
0:27:50 Steam, Where is the Quality Control?
0:31:00 Where is the Shelf-life for Video Games?
0:33:33 HD Re-mixes and Game Compilations
1:23:20 Retro City Rampage
1:25:30 Journey of a Roach

First Impressions
1:38:15 Driver San Francisco 
1:54:30 WWE2K14

2:11:15 News
Dude Gets XB1 Early 
Sony Multiplayer $50 a year or $10 a month 
Sony Opens Up a PS4 
Call of Duty Critical Response 
MS CEO Will 86 XB1? 

Aural Review
2:40:15 Pigsy’s Perfect 10

Game Under Episode 28

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Introduction
0:00:00 It Happens in Saints Row
0:01:42 Phil Wants To Shoot Things

First Impressions
0:02:56 Back to the Future Eps 2,3 and 4

Adventure Game News Wrap-Up
0:08:25 Walking Dead 2 and Lead Character Choice
0:10:12 Wadjet Eye Free Codes Stolen

Tom Interviews NIS
0:13:08 Phil Thinks The Questions are Too Long

Final Impressions
0:16:05 The Stanley Parable Demo
0:24:55 English Narators

News 
0:31:27 Stanley Parable Removing Controversial Scenes 
0:42:27 Tiger Woods Dropped by EA 
0:46:36 Titanfall Launch and Exclusivity, COD and the Future of Shooters 
0:57:27 Call of Duty? Yes P's 
1:07:15 Nintendo and Sony's Woes
1:16:37 GTAV Sells 29 Million and Retreating Reviewers 

Tom Towers’ Aural Review of Saints Row IV
1:21:26 Will Tom Like It More than The Third?

Game Under Episode 27

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Introduction
0:00:10 Sprechen ze Deutsch
0:02:04 Reader Reviews

Final Thoughts
0:06:31 Dragon's Crown
0:07:00 Can an Influence be Irrelevant?
0:10:47 Can BEUP's Be Described as a Genre?

First Impressions
0:19:40 Ni No Kuni: Wrath of The White Witch

More Final Thoughts
0:25:45 Goodbye Deponia
0:26:34 Metacritic Score/ Critical Response
0:29:50 Similarity to Monkey Island?
0:30:17 Analysis of German Humour
0:33:30 Contextual (Racist?) Humour and the Global Market
0:47:15 Japanese Humour
0:49:10 How South Park and Baseketball Ties Into This

Even More Final Thoughts
0:50:45 Back to the Future: Episode One

Indy Wrap-up
0:57:35 Phil Gets Tom's Thoughts on The Stanley Parable, Gone Home and The Wolf Among Us (Some Lesbian Content)

1:08:42 News
Critical Reception: Beyond: Two Souls
Nude Ellen Paige "Controversy"
Wii Discontinued in Japan and Europe
GTAV Online
Critical Reception: Batman: Arkham Origins
NPD

Tom Towers' Aural Review
1:40:07 Saints Row The Third


 

Game Under Episode 26

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Trademark Banter
0:01:12 Phil Reviews Tom's Review of The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief
0:02:46 The Mystery of Episode 24
0:03:42 Phil Pre-orders a 2DS and PS4 (and some games)

First Impressions
0:09:46 GTA V is... complicated
0:14:23 Ludonarrative Dissonance STOP IT!
0:28:37 Dragon's Crown

Yakuza Killzone Minute (Could this be the end?)
0:55:30 Yakuza 5 Is Not Coming West
1:00:49 Guerilla Games Hates Killzone

Obituary Section
1:08:52 Tom Clancy Has No Japanese Mafia Connections

News
1:14:34 Half-Life 3 a European Exclusive? 
1:16:43 Valve's Steam Machine, OS and Controller 

Final Thoughts
1:35:29 The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief

Aural Review
1:51:20 Saints Row 2