The Crate and Crowbar

By The Crate and Crowbar

A group of friends who work in the games industry meet up once a week to talk about PC games over a drink. “Off-the-cuff” is a polite way to say “unprofessional”, right?... more

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December 07, 2024Episode 441: Spaff Doubly With A Vengeance
Chris, Jamie, and friend of pod Paul Canavan squat doon in a cundie with a bottle of buckie and some (probably vegan) haggis tae blether aboot Scottish games and games that aren’t Scottish. We talk the excellent thrills, chills, and repeated drops off of oil rigs of fab walking sim Still Wakes The Deep, the hand crafted psychedelia of indie curio Judero, as well as the addictive properties of Xenotilt, the visceral Clinton jump scares of CODBLOPS6 and the ugly, bonkers world of Straftat (Straftat! Straftat!).
Still Wakes The Deep
Judero and its charming making of video.
Straftat
Xenotilt
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6
Music for today’s episode:
Fiddles McGinty by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-…
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Back Gold Teeth, look at Pale Tides, and buy Chris’ books here.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected].
You can also listen to this episode on on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is (usually) by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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1h 35min
November 22, 2024Episode 440: Arcane Mark Versus Evil Greg
Chris, Senior Tom and Marsh convene to talk Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, Diablo 4, Rise Of The Golden Idol, Xenotilt, Destiny 2 and then Chris talks about Dragon Age: Veilguard non-stop for about 45 minutes and it’s kind of incredible.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a game about cutting robots into many bits, or just two bits.
Diablo 4 is a game about killing many things and number go up, but at what cost.
Xenotilt is a pinball game that Jamie is now completely addicted to, thanks Chris.
Rise Of The Golden Idol might be a tad disappointing.
Dragon Age: Veilguard is a game about the Arcane Mark/Evil Greg dichotomy.
Back Gold Teeth, Pale Tides, and buy Chris’ books here.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected].
You can also listen to this episode on on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. 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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1h 56min
November 08, 2024Episode 439: Druckmannocene Mythmulch
In which Tom Senior, Marsh Davies and Jamie Brittain convene on a perfectly normal and entirely non-epoch defining night in early November 2024 to discuss God Of War: Ragnarök at length, as well as providing various witterings about trailers good, names bad, books read and John Wayne movies for some reason. At one point Jamie gleefully imagines Kratos pulling the arms of a sacred deity. A good time is more or less had by all.
God Of War: Ragnarök
Monster Hunter Wild
Caravan SandWitch
Jamie is reading The Great When by Alan Moore, Educated by Tara Westover and In The Days Of Rain by Rebecca Stott
Tom is reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei, Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
Marsh is reading Maclom Gaskill’s The Ruin Of All Witches.
Back Gold Teeth, Pale Tides, and buy Chris’ books here.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
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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1h 46min
October 25, 2024Episode 438: The Sludge of Frome
Tom S, Jamie and Marsh gather, like a drift of dead leaves, to discuss some seasonally spooky games: Alan Wake 2 and Mouthwashing. Also mentioned: Arco and Grunn.
Painshill Park. The crystal grotto is closed on Mondays.
Alan Wake 2
Remember Quantum Break? My sympathies.
Garth Marenghi is a better writer than Alan Wake, and he’s meant to be awful.
Mouthwashing
Arco
Grunn
Youtuber Lazy Game Reviews talks about The Sims
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
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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1h 22min
September 28, 2024Episode 437: Orb, Orb Never Changes
Marsh, Jamie and Chris convene to navigate the bouncy balls of Peglin, the less bouncy but surprisingly solid shooty-bangs of Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2, before failing to enjoy UFO 50 as much as they probably should.
Games Discussed:
Peglin
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2
UFO 50
Back Gold Teeth here!
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at [email protected], or look for the newly added questions forum on our discord. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
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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1h 41min
September 22, 2024Bonus Episode: Gold Teeth, Strange Stories and TTRPGs
Jamie kindly permits Marsh to talk about Gold Teeth, the tabletop roleplaying game he’s Kickstarting, which is just an excuse to ramble at length about roleplaying games more broadly with excellent chums Jim Rossignol and Chris Lackey.
Gold Teeth! It’s a game of piracy and occult horror!
Strange Studies of Strange Stories – an excellent podcast that deftly unpicks literary tales of the sinister, supernatural or simply weird. Well worth a sub. Patton Oswalt thinks so!
Strange Stories is also soon to be a roleplaying game.
Free League’s Alien RPG
Mothership (and I don’t think it’s too spoilery to say that the time-loop module is Time After Time)
Call of Cthulhu
Marvel Superheroes
Gamma World
Star Frontiers
Broken Compass is the game which inspires the matching-dice mechanism of Strange Stories
Daggerheart is the system developed to replace D&D for Critical Role
Thistle & Hearth – a dice-less game
Starforged – a GM-less game with extremely elaborate world generation
The Quiet Year is a map game in which the Frost Shepherds are coming.
The Burning Wheel, Mouseguard and Miseries & Misfortunes are all games by Luke Crane.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at [email protected] or tweet us @crateandcrowbar. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
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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1h 16min
September 13, 2024Episode 436: The Silence Of The Winnies
Chris, Jamie and Marsh return to explain where the hell they’ve been, before launching into discussions of effervescent pie-em-up comedy game Thank Goodness You’re Here, following that with some entirely unbiased discussion of glorious turn based tactics game Tactical Breach Wizards. We also discuss cosmetic etiquette in the grimdark future hellwarscape of Warhammer: Space Marine 2, as well as briefly wandering betwixt the fireboys, electro-crocs and Spidermans of Shunt: Hoedown Hunt Showdown.
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Chris’s book for the Black Library ‘Darkoath’
Games Discussed
Thank Goodness You’re Here
Tactical Breach Wizards
Games Mentioned
Warhammer: Space Marine 2
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Hunt: Showdown
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
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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1h 42min
May 17, 2024Episode 435: The Most Liminal You Can Be Is a Flume
Jamie and Marsh reel from Microsoft’s latest layoffs, mismanage time in Hades 2, paddle in the uncanny, chlorinated waters of Pools, devour the bite-sized city-building triumphs of Against the Storm, and indulge their flaws in The Thaumaturge.
The last lay offs of 2024. Thankfully there won’t be any more of those! Phew!!
Nathan Brown’s Hit Points newsletter which I incorrectly namechecked as Bullet Points. Look, there are only so many pithy game-related analogies to go around, ok?
Hades 2, the much anticipated ARPG sequel – perhaps not ideal for the time-poor?
Destiny 2 is unintelligible at this point, but the guns still go bang.
Animal Well is a pixelart indie Metroidvania with notes of Fez and Cocoon.
Knytt and Within a Deep Forest are two excellent pixelart indie Metroidvania’s from yesteryear. You can find them in Nifflas’s archive here.
POOLS is about vibing in weird swimming pools.
Dreamcore is about vibing in weird swimming pools, and then being jump-scared.
Against the Storm is a city-builder for people who don’t have the mental capacity for city-builders.
The Thaumaturge could be the best 7/10 RPG of the year. Terrific character.
The Royal Mob – Jamie’s TV show about orgies and dying of exposure.
Judas is a roguelike shooter from Ken Levine’s studio, Ghost Story Games.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at [email protected] or tweet us @crateandcrowbar. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
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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1h 25min
May 10, 2024Episode 434: Epilogue Blowin’ In
Jamie and Alex show their cards in deck-builders Balatro and Cobalt Core (poker- and space-flavoured respectively), before descending into the chaotic, cavernous depths of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor and finally wrangling Dead Red Redemption 2 into completion.
Balatro
Cobalt Core
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
Red Dead Redemption 2
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at [email protected] or tweet us @crateandcrowbar. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
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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58min
March 01, 2024Episode 433: In the Right Lighting, That’s Chaucer, Baby
Chris and Marsh discuss disappointing children’s entertainment, disappointing sales figures, anti-mnemonic naming choices, the rulebreaking delight of card game Balatro, the dishonourable cheeses of Honor Mode in Baldur’s Gate 3, and return once more to Night Country.
AI wrote cheques that Willy Wonker simply could not cash.
Immortals of Aveum may not have sold well, but it really opens up your pores.
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is fine, probably, but it isn’t Balatro.
Balatro is Balatro, and Balatro is all.
Apart from the large part of all which is made up of repeated, ever stranger playthroughs of Baldur’s Gate 3.
20 Small Mazes and Sheepy: A Short Adventure are free and good.
True Detective: Night Country is on HBO Max or whatever it’s calling itself now for tax reasons.
“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin.
“Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at [email protected] or tweet us @crateandcrowbar. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
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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1h 46min

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