How To Murder Time

What happens when we record after a really bad week? Jon has a rant of course. It’ll not stop him playing the games mentioned, but nobody take it personally!

Godus Wars released suddenly and Rift announced a lot of changes to their free to play model so it’s a very ranty show this week. To make up for it Tim also gets PTSD from playing Tomb Raider and Jon played Firewatch, which might be something quite special.

I’m upgrading all the podcast gear now, so if next week’s episode is an hour of silence then that’s why. You! The one who just said that would be an improvement! Stop heckling!

Each week that passes means another podcast must be made until the end of our sentences, so this week we’ve been looking at 2013’s Tomb Raider, the last Wolfenstein and the latest Homeworld.

Our lawyers have asked us to make it clear that we admit no responsibility for accidentally creating a power leveling machine out of one listener after an off hand comment last week. Sorry. It was all Tim. He’s the monster, not Jon. Which is the kind of thing you can say without disagreement when you write the show notes.

I don’t think anybody actually reads shownotes anyway.

Is there ever a week where Tim isn’t grinding out a new ship or something in a Star Trek Online event, and how are The Division and The Witness?

We’re on a slightly retro feeling theme today with the Lego Dimensions Ghost Busters pack, a modern game based on an 80s film, Bladerunner, a 90s game based on an 80s film and Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, which is a modern game based on a 90s cutscene.

Another week has inevitably passed and with it games have inevitably been played. Is Star Trek Timelines, a mobile game, inevitably bad? Am I bored of typing inevitably already?

We also take a look at Just Cause 3, what happens when a raid is finally failed in Rift, adding quests to Minecraft with Regrowth and Downwell, a game about falling down a well.

We’ve been playing with VR and since it’s in the news it’s time for us to get around to discussing VR and what we think of the games and potential.

If we had spent more than £20 on the headset then we may not have moaned quite so much about our noses hurting.

Yeah, I changed the numbering again. What are you going to do about it?

This week we’re kicking off the new year by over indulging on games, so we’re starting as we mean to go on.

It’s the end of the year show so Jon gets to talk about all the great new games he’s played this year and Tim gets to… Well let’s just say that the three month rule may be understating things nowadays.

This week we’re talking about Rift, Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Star Trek Online, The Old Republic , Sorcery! and Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist. Don’t worry, there are no spoilers for that last one.