The Crate and Crowbar

Episode 225: It’s What’s Missing

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Tom S and Chris are joined by Alex Wiltshire to discuss Into The Breach’s imminent release, why it’s okay to hunt monsters if they’re bastards, RPG combat design and more.

Plus: a brief return to Subnautica and further musings on the ocean willies therein; the secret missing element to Subnautica’s survival formula; toxicity, Dota 2, PUBG, sport, and why the internet is bad perhaps.

  • Into The Breach is out on the 27th of February!
  • Tom’s new game is Tactical Breach Wizards.
  • Everybody’s playing Monster Hunter World, which is out on PC in the Autumn.
  • Tom has been playing Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age.
  • Alex has been unpicking the fineries of Divinity: Original Sin 2‘s combat design.
  • Here’s Stephen ‘thecatamites’ Gill-Murphy’s talk at Fantastic Arcade, as discussed in episode 216.
  • Alex is hosting a panel on the early British games industry in London on the 12th of February.
  • …and Tom S and Pip will be at the PC Gamer Weekender, also in London, 17th-18th February.

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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.

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