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@Lauren Morton I fell quite behind on the podcasts, so just been catching up on them all in the new year. Was late to hear about the podcast going on hiatus but hope both you and Mollie are able to enjoy the hiatus, and hopefully the pod will be back sometime soon stronger than ever 💪 I'll miss...

A lot of this week's chat gave me flashbacks 😅 I wasted way too many hours playing a lot of the games mentioned. I never did any of the social games, but had a few friends who went into Habbo Hotel. A few other games I recall playing a lot: The Last Stand - a 2D zombie horde game, short but...

Not sure if it counts as bucket list material, but I have been stubbornly waiting for The Last of Us Part Two to come to PC to play it. I do love the first game, and I even have a PS4 but could never bring myself to buy it for console... I mean the writing's been on the wall for some time, all...

I think it's a great list to read through, in spite of all of my personal grievances with some placements ('wait, you put that massively lauded game above my personal niche pick that only I love?!') 😅 As for total omissions, I guess this falls under the 'no more than one from a series', but if...

I would say I'm relatively disciplined when it comes to waiting for games to be either cheaper or more polished, but I have no hard rules around waiting a set length of time; could be 3 months, could be 2 years. I do treat myself now and again to a new release if it's from a franchise or studio...

One of the reasons it can be challenging convincing someone to switch from console to PC, because that first PC is always gonna have those costs that people typically don't account for; a monitor (more than one, perhaps), a set of speakers and/or headphones, keyboard & mouse... all that can...

I remember playing Keep Talking a lot with friends when that came out, that was a great little party game. I also recall asking my wife to print off the manual for the game from uni, as she got free printing as a lecturing assistant (I think I still have that manual sitting around somewhere...

Not grinding per se as this was for a single-player game and not any form of MMO, but in Mortal Kombat 9 (2011), there was a challenge tower which had 300 different challenges of increasing difficulty. At the time I was doing the tower, I had no idea what the reward would be but I was pretty...

Afraid it's a hard pass from me. A short answer but I tend to avoid any game with an emphasis on heavy grinding or relies on RNG/luck based systems, just personal preference - I just don't find it particularly fun or engaging 🤷

In terms of asymmetrical multiplayer, Dead By Daylight is having a pretty strong run, just one game but it's been around 8 years now. There's been numerous competitors over the years (Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, VHS, latest one probably being the Killer Klowns game), but nothing...

It will make me seem like a CDPR fanboy, but the first ones to come to mind are Witcher 3's Blood and Wine expansion and Cyberpunk's Phantom Liberty expansion - they are both stellar examples of huge content additions with expansive new areas with a fully-fledged story and new characters. It's...

I started out as a Valve fanboy, so back in Mar 2006, my first few adds were Half Life Platinum Collection (Half-Life 1, its expansions, Counter Strike, and Team Fortress Classic) which I already owned the physical copy of for a few years but wasn't aware of Steam. Then a few months later I...

@Lauren Morton At 19 minutes into the podcast, your mic goes dead for a minute 😅 Can you give us a rough transcription of whatever anecdote you're giving? On a slight tangent, less gaming slang and now more of an inside joke among friends, but myself and pals used to stream occasionally on...

Right now, the only game I'm playing that remotely fits the bill would be Deep Rock Galactic; it has seasons and battle passes, but it's also the most player-friendly approach I've seen. It's entirely free, any cosmetics not gained through the battlepass would become available afterwards in the...

Probably Dark Souls series. Can't put my finger on it. Dark Souls always felt sluggish to me, never got excitement from the combat. For a long time I thought I just didn't like Soulslikes, but turns out I unexpectedly loved Nioh 2 and went on to enjoy others since. But Dark Souls 1 in...