In which we don’t talk about the Time War. Tom returns from Indiecade with myriad thoughts on, er, Myriad, the caveman japes of Tribal And Error – and much more! Chris and Marsh stem the Vermintide and ruminate on the conclusion of Life Is Strange.
Plus: Chris’s further, less effusive thoughts on Overwatch; what cartoons have to tell us about the location of elephant mouths; when football is morally inexcusable; the least appropriate music to play during a global pandemic; much discussion of rods of variously mythical and medicinal kinds; and our favourite in-universe explanations of respawning.
Show notes
- Twitter is basically f♥♥king unusable now, probably.
- The Warcraft trailer’s trailer.
- Tom’s Indiecade rundown in full:
- Robot caveman translation game, Tribal And Error.
- Hallucinatory shmup Myriad.
- VR tea drinking game Ellie The Messy Elephant. Can’t find a link for this. soz.
- Be an angry beetle in Thumper.
- Be very disoriented in the ultimate glitch game, Memories of a Broken Dimension.
- Try and get through dinner without a barny in the timeloop of Twelve Minutes.
- Sweet-natured, superpowered bildungsroman Life Is Strange is finally over! Here’s what Pip and Alice thought of the ending and here’s the analysis Marsh had about previous episodes.
- Left 4 Dead meets Warhammer-themed whack-a-rat in Vermintide.
- Can Blizzard’s team-shooter Overwatch overcome people’s perverse incomprehension of strategy?
- Pandemic is a great board game, but a little too stressful to play it while listening to the soundtracks for either Under The Skin or It Follows.
- Get your Caduceus / Rod of Asclepius facts here.
- “The worm turns” is a reference to Shakespeare. Of course it is. From Henry VI, Part 3. “The smallest worm will turn being trodden on” – i.e., even the meekest creature will eventually retaliate if provoked enough.
- Tom’s proposed alternative Bioshock ending.
- Marsh talks about Dark Souls’ respawning and metaphysics in this video. Plus he did a big playthrough of Dark Souls with loveable pod-chum Rich Stanton. They’re doing some videos on Metal Gear Solid 5 at the moment, dontcha know.
- And remember, kids: love the Paul.
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