Spoilers for Spec Ops: The Line from 30:00 to 41:00. Spoilers for Hotline Miami 42:30 to 55:00. Also when we start talking AMCs The Walking Dead, we just talk as if everyone has seen the series up to and including season 3 episode 5. You’ve been warned.
This week, Paul and Nathan discuss the qualities of self-aware violent video games Hotline Miami & Spec Ops: The Line and their respective successes and failures in delivering their intended messages. Paul is somewhat let down by TellTale’s The Walking Dead Episode 4 – Around Every Corner and Nathan finds a renewed interest in Demon’s Souls in between mobile gaming with My Little Pony. The two disagree on Young Adult, agree on Silent Hill Revelations 3D.