Episode 322: I’ve Seen A Racoon-Man So I’ve Had A Good Time Tonight
Tom S, Chris and Marsh lay themselves bare to discuss the Xbox showcase, sample the tasty-tasty-tasty open world comfort food of Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, unspool tubes in Filament and eye-roll at time-gribblies in Close to the Sun.
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Show Notes
Tom S, Chris and Marsh lay themselves bare to discuss the Xbox showcase, sample the tasty-tasty-tasty open world comfort food of Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, unspool tubes in Filament and eye-roll at time-gribblies in Close to the Sun.
- The XBOX XERIEX X is coming and, if anyone notices, they will be able to play some of these forthcoming multiplatform games with improved loading times! Watch the entire e-event here.
- Or watch individual trailers:…
- We’re trying very hard to make ASS MEAD happen.
- H.R. Giger-inspired scary willy dribbler, Scorn.
- Some sort of space thing: Chorus.
- Spooky Polish walkabout The Medium.
- Newly turnbased gangster-with-a-heart-of-gold (and a baseball bat) game Yakuza: Like A Dragon.
- Potential jankathon, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. Look you’re being evil AND dancing! The most evil kind of evil! That’s storytelling.
- Mutant-dino murdersim Second Extinction.
- Tutu-flower-monster-masher Scarlet Nexus.
- Meanwhile, in the BezoVerse, Amazon’s hero shooter, Crucible has been further revealed – a bit – and looks faintly like its design was led by metrics. But we’ll find out on 20th May.
- They’re also making New World. An MMO. In 2020!
- Open world comfort food in the form of tasty, tasty, tasty orc-chunker Middle Earth: Shadow of War, Aegean murder holiday Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, pants-purloining day-tripper Hitman 2 and replica-lightsaber-lust-inducer Jedi: Fallen Order.
- Unfurl your ass-tube to solve puzzles in Filament.
- Jazz is still allowed, not sure about the rest: Close to the Sun.
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- Gothic 1 and the playable teaser of its “remake”.
- As Warhammer as Warhammer gets: The Horus Heresy books. Also recommended: Dan Abnett’s and Gaunt’s Ghosts series, and Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s novels, The Talon of Horus and Spear of the Emperor. We’ve heard good things about The Beast Arises, too.
- My shirt’s already off so I’ve got nowhere else to go.
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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.