The Codec Call

Well we didn’t escape the crazy Scotsman who left us a lengthy voicemail.  Thankfully Andy was able to remove about half of it in the edit and even convinced some old friends to introduce it.

Eschewing the standard “best of” highlights reel that usual ends a year, we at Codec Moments tackle things a bit differently by looking at what our surprises and disappointments are from the last 12 months.  Games of the Year are usually fairly predictable (and deserving), and if you only focus on them you might miss out on some gems that don’t get as much coverage.  Equally, that game you’ve been lusting after for 18 months might turn out to be a total lemon.  Here are our picks from 2017, and we’ve brought special guest Ali Cornwall in to lend us his thoughts… Maybe we’ve managed to escape the crazy Scotsman that keeps leaving us lengthy voicemails?!

We’re back on schedule after a mammoth AMA and it’s time to take stock and ask who has finished the game they pledged to complete from their piles of shame in November (hint: it’s not Andy)?  It’s time to delve into the Jiffy Bag of joy and pick a winner from the November 2017 #CodecMomentum page, will it be you?  Tune in to find out that and more in the Codec Moments Podcast.

In this podcast we discuss:

• November’s impressive display of PSVR releases

Want to know more about the Codec Moments team or get their opinions on things?  We asked our fabulous community to pose us questions for our very own AMA (Ask Me Anything), or rather AUA given that there’s two of us answering.  Literally tens of questions came in, mostly from Stuart Neill, so we made sure he had to endure his own unique quizzical style by getting him to guest and ask us them all.  Hit play and learn more about the way we think than you ever wished to know.

In this episode of the Codec Moments Podcast, hear all about:

• Killzone Shadowfall and what happened to Matt’s copy

It’s a time of turmoil with the gaming public… it’s the annual monetisation of one of our beloved childhood franchises.  Never mind that Disney are milking Star Wars for all it’s worth (and who can blame them?), EA have recently placed themselves atop the pointy lightsabre of gamer indignation by daring to make money out of a title they’ve funded.  However, have they gone about it in exactly the wrong way by using the lootbox mechanism to lure in unsuspecting gullible fans?  Or worse still, offered up the chance to shortcut a grind by paying them to randomly provide potentially powerful items?  Whatever the reason, the gaming community is up in arms about it and decided it’s time they acted as conscience and nanny to those who’d potentially fall foul to EA’s nefarious scheme.  Can Matt and Andy give us a new hope?

In this Battlefront II lootbox spectacular of the Codec Moments Podcast, Andy and Matt talk about:

• Lootboxes (there’s a surprise!)