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- A Decent Pizzeria - VECTORMEN - Episode #55D
AKA “Being a Baby,” “The Mega Man Way,” “Yammer On”
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Hosted by Lee Brady (@leepaulbrady // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (@BPR_Lawrence)
Music by Lee Brady
Listen to more episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and all good podcast providers (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vectormen)
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Segments:
00:00:00 — Yammer On
00:00:30 — Lee repents; finish God of War 2018
00:01:01 — No Longer Being a Big Baby
00:02:15 — The worst bandwagon
00:05:33 — FFXVI made me replay God of War
00:12:44 — People who don’t use special moves; “The Mega Man Way”
00:20:19 — Finally, some real problems with God of War
00:27:49 — God of War is a decent pizzeria
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Lee’s RE4 x TLOU comparison: https://www.truetrophies.com/n23021/resident-evil-4-the-last-of-us
Lee’s Final Fantasy XVI Preview: https://www.truetrophies.com/n23401/final-fantasy-16-preview
Lee’s Final Fantasy XVI Review: https://www.truetrophies.com/n23679/final-fantasy-16-review
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Twitter: @VectormenPod
E-mail: [email protected]
Twitch: twitch.com/VectormenLive
32 min - How To Not Enjoy Things - VECTORMEN - Episode #55C
AKA “The Office-Like Manner,” “The King of This Incredibly Small Pond,” “A Lot of Rope,” “You’re An OctoDad”
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Hosted by Lee Brady (@leepaulbrady // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (@BPR_Lawrence)
Music by Lee Brady
Listen to more episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and all good podcast providers (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vectormen)
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Segments:
00:00:00 — The Office-Like Manner
- 00:00:45 — Lee plays The Forgotten City
- 00:01:16 — Creation Engine and Time Loops
- 00:06:55 — The Golden Rule and stabbing fools
- 00:11:58 — Doing Obsidian’s Bethesda, Faster
- 00:13:30 — A Premise Big Enough to Do Better
- 00:21:01 — When a game becomes a novel
- 00:23:08 — Lawrence demands an example
00:34:08 — How To Not Enjoy Things
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Twitter: @VectormenPod
E-mail: [email protected]
Twitch: twitch.com/VectormenLive
35 min - Super Catharsis - VECTORMEN - Episode #55B
AKA “The Worm Squirms,” “No Percolation Required,” “Down Falling From Up,” “Mid-Game Boss Material”
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Hosted by Lee Brady (@leepaulbrady // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (@BPR_Lawrence)
Music by Lee Brady
Listen to more episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and all good podcast providers (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vectormen)
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Segments:
00:00:00 — Lawrence finally beats Super Metroid
- 00:01:16 — Well, still one of the best games ever made…
- 00:03:45 — How to criticise Super Metroid
- 00:08:26 — My favourite Nintendo franchise, probably
00:12:02 — Lawrence finally beats Sonic CD
- 00:14:15 — What sets Sonic CD apart
- 00:17:03 — The Time Travel Mechanics
- 00:23:18 — Sonic CD’s impressive, bad, special stages
- 00:26:20 — Bugs, CD issues, and music that f*cks
- 00:31:14 — Sonic CD has a final boss?
- 00:32:37 — Lee, It’s Such a Sadness
- 00:33:18 — Bad Future
00:34:32 — No Game Gear
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Links: Telephones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0
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Twitter: @VectormenPod
E-mail: [email protected]
Twitch: twitch.com/VectormenLive
36 min - Knights of Capitalism - VECTORMEN - Episode #55A
[New Format — 55B, C, and D to follow!]
AKA “Requiescat in Pace Electronic Entertainment Expo”; “The Perpetual Failures of Activision Blizzard”
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Hosted by Lee Brady (@leepaulbrady // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (@BPR_Lawrence)
Music by Lee Brady
Listen to more episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and all good podcast providers (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vectormen)
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Segments:
00:00:00 — Season 3, baby
00:00:43 — Lee was in Japan
00:05:30 — Follow-Up (P**SY and DRIDERS; Perpetually on the Road to Viridian City; Best game of 2021; The Cat’s Meow; Spy x Hunter)
00:12:37 — The News
00:12:37 — Vectormen change
00:13:50 — Layers of Fears was afeareds
00:18:10 — Metal Gear Solid Triangle Shape
00:23:06 — Overwatch 2 is an Overwatch 2 remake
00:26:10 — Microsoft/Activision/Blizzard rejected
00:37:38 — RIPEEE / Why we will inevitably get big E3 presentations back someday
00:47:02 — Baby Bowser
00:48:08 — Pinkertons The Gathering
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Links:
Games from the PlayStation Showcase: https://www.truetrophies.com/n23515/playstation-showcase-2023-new-games
Lee’s Final Fantasy XVI preview:
https://www.truetrophies.com/n23401/final-fantasy-16-preview
Silent Hill 2 is more than just “a poison chalice” — it’s doomed
https://www.truetrophies.com/n23174/silent-hill-2-doomed
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Send us your thoughts!
Twitter: @VectormenPod
E-mail: [email protected]
Twitch: twitch.com/VectormenLive
53 min - Glup Shitto - VECTORMEN - Episode #54
AKA “The Sacred GECK”; “The Oeuvre Obsidian”; “HUDrat”; “What is Star Wars?”, “Put The Vaginas Back in The Witcher”
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Hosted by Lee Brady (@leepaulbrady // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (@BPR_Lawrence)
Music by Lee Brady
Listen to more episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and all good podcast providers (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vectormen)
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Segments:
00:00:00 — Friends and the Dinner Tray
00:00:53 — Follow-Up (SabanMcMan; Christopher Nolan’s Ash Ketchum; Oops; John Carmack’s Predictable Telemeres)
00:05:46 — Lawrence plays Fallout 2
- 00:05:46 — Patched, but is it better than Fallout 1?
- 00:12:14 — The Total Restoration Mod
- 00:16:06 — “Do you play the same guy, or…?”
- 00:21:21 — Pleasing the worms
- 00:23:13 — Maintaining spirit whilst playing a “crushingly dull” genre
- 00:32:12 — What was it all for? // The Call of the Worm
00:39:42 — Lee lightly re-reviews Like a Dragon Ishin!
00:59:53 — Lee has some thoughts on ICO and its grabby hands
01:08:06 — “It is the foundation of our species, Lee — the grabby hand.”
01:11:58 — //BREAK// MAIL TIME
01:13:04 — Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales is all up in the HUD
01:15:19 — Lee’s Best Game of 2022
01:20:45 — Lee plays Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order
- 01:21:47 — More Super Metroid than Dark Souls
- 01:23:34 — Attempting to fix the upgrade tree problems
- 01:28:24 — Avoiding the Metroidvania Lull
- 01:35:15 — Shipping Star Wars characters whose sexual preferences might conflict
- 01:39:31 — Excellent Boss Fights
01:42:15 — The News
- 01:42:15 — Kotick’s embarrassing “Death Valley” speech
- 01:51:08 — Olympic eSports
- 01:57:51 — The Witcher 3: Wild Junk
- 02:00:33 — Beyond Good and Evil 2 investigated
- 02:01:47 — War Thunder Treason
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Links:
Lee’s Like a Dragon Ishin review:
https://www.truetrophies.com/n22918/like-a-dragon-ishin-review
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Send us your thoughts!
Twitter: @VectormenPod
E-mail: [email protected]
Twitch: twitch.com/VectormenLive
2 hr 10 min - The Conflict of the Vampire Person - VECTORMEN - Episode #53
AKA No One Wants To Be A “Vampire Person”; Ham-to-Ham Combat; Eat Your Slop, Piggy; The Path of the Brain Worm; Dark Patterns
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Hosted by Lee Brady (@leepaulbrady // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (@BPR_Lawrence)
Music by Lee Brady
Listen to more episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Anchor and all good podcast providers (anchor.fm/vectormen)
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Segments:
00:00:00 — Merry 2023
00:00:38 — Follow-Up (Another two month absence; Robbed of Future Content; Explaining publisher confidence by way of game numbers)
00:05:08 — Lawrence plays Vampyr
- 00:05:08 — Tenuous Question: What is the most 7 out of 10 game you’ve ever played?
- 00:06:35 — Vampyr, not Vampire
- 00:07:33 — Lawrence, the vampire guy
- 00:09:39 — What is “the eurojank of vampire games”?
- 00:15:59 — The golden rule of vampire fiction: the brood
- 00:19:01 — Vampyr’s Reverse-Nemesis System
- 00:28:03 — Combat and Classism in Eastern European Bloodborne
- 00:36:13 — Permasaving the wrong decisions
- 00:41:15 — The Double A Energy
- 00:47:53 — The Influence of Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines (and summary)
- 00:55:58 — Lee’s best 7/10 game: Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion
01:06:34 — Lee’s genealogical tour of PlayStation rhythm games
- 01:06:34 — Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory
- 01:11:29 — PaRappa the Rapper
- 01:16:00 — Vib-Ribbon
01:22:54 — Lee is stuck in RPG hell: Persona 3, Witcher 3, Final Fantasy VI
- 01:22:54 — The Witcher 3’s 60-hour-long first act and comparisons to Vampyr
- 01:45:30 — Final Fantasy VI, problems with JRPGs, and how VI avoids some of them
- 01:55:18 — Persona 3’s opening vitally lacks a personal hook
02:24:20 — The News
- 02:25:00 — The Game Awards 2022
- 02:30:15 — John Carmack leaves Meta
- 02:32:38 — Square Enix’s Bold Commitment
- 02:36:56 — Ubisoft’s Bold Commitment
- 02:43:20 — Yuji Naka escapes Prison Island
- 02:45:40 — Microsoft’s Bold Commitment
- 02:47:40 — Epic Games’ “Dark Patterns”
- 02:49:45 — Ash Ketchum hangs up his cap
- 02:51:58 — The latest Pokémon Rap
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Links:
Lee: “Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion review — cheap birthday cake”
https://www.truetrophies.com/n22455/crisis-core-final-fantasy-vii-reunion-review
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Send us your thoughts!
Twitter: @VectormenPod
E-mail: [email protected]
Twitch: twitch.com/VectormenLive
2 hr 54 min - Gourdless - VECTORMEN - Episode #52
AKA Claims and Counterclaims; The Flappy Card Clock
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Hosted by Lee Brady (@leepaulbrady // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (@BPR_Lawrence)
Music by Lee Brady
Listen to more episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Anchor and all good podcast providers (anchor.fm/vectormen)
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Segments:
00:00:00 — Without a Gourd
00:00:24 — Follow-Up (Toblerone Pyramid Head; Zaum and the follow-up to the Mega Rich Light-Bending Guy tale)
00:09:21 — Lawrence plays Mother 3
- 00:10:02 — What is Mother 3?
- 00:14:37 — The ramshackle party of Mother 3
- 00:16:24 — These spoilers aren’t spoilers
- 00:17:22 — You have never asked whether Mother 3 plays differently from Earthbound
- 00:21:51 — Mother 3’s esoteric music and Colin’s Bear
- 00:25:58 — Mother 3 > Mother 2?
- 00:33:02 — Mother’s Heart of Darkness
00:36:17 — Lee plays Sonic Frontiers
- 00:37:09 — What is Sonic Frontiers?
- 00:40:44 — The writing of Sonic Frontiers is Lee’s favourite part
- 00:46:26 — Sonic Frontiers’ funniest scene
- 00:48:10 — Sonic Frontiers’ most weirdly moving scene
- 00:52:17 — The Maturation Slipstream and Lee’s blatant autism
- 00:57:47 — The design, the Hedgehog Engine, and the stupid
- 01:07:23 — Challenge is the problem
- 01:12:34 — Sonic’s transitioned a long 3D from Pac-Man // Sonic’s Confidence
01:18:45 — The News
- 01:20:08 — Yuji Naka’s Villain Era
- 01:27:02 — The Mick Gordon thing
- 01:33:42 — Sifu and guessing the TGA most frequent nominees
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Links:
Colin’s Bear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiARsQSlzDc
Mick Gordon’s statement:
https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce
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Twitter: @VectormenPod
E-mail: [email protected]
Twitch: twitch.com/VectormenLive
1 hr 47 min - Scarlet Triangle Man - VECTORMEN - Episode #51
AKA Hallowe’en Spooktacular 2022; Dead People Don’t Send Letters; Like a Snowball Down the Mountain; Obey My Rules
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Hosted by Lee Brady (@leepaulbrady // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (@BPR_Lawrence)
Music by Lee Brady
Listen to more episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Anchor and all good podcast providers (anchor.fm/vectormen)
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Segments:
00:00:00 — Happy 51st!
00:01:05 — Follow-Up (Bio-Mountain Class Issues; Godefroy and Goobles)
00:05:08 — Lawrence plays Silent Hill 2 (spoiler-free discussion)
- 00:05:08 — What is Silent Hill 2?
- 00:15:09 — How scary is Silent Hill 2?
- 00:19:31 — The Forest Path
- 00:21:33 — Do horror games only work on the curious?
- 00:25:04 — “Pyramid Head is Overrated”
- 00:33:11 — Silent Hill 2’s level design
- 00:38:37 — Invisible ending metrics and the awareness of Team Silent
- 00:45:41 — The franchise killer / don’t play SH2 HD
- 00:49:06 — Troy Baker’s corporate bootlicking statement (AKA “Konami has no fault in this whatsoever”)
00:53:20 — Lee plays Earthbound
- 00:53:20 — What is Earthbound / Lee also plays Earthbound Beginnings
- 01:05:55 — Not knowing what to make of it
- 01:19:00 — Percolating games / Earthbound justifies the JRPG format
- 01:30:56 — Being a Kid: The Game
01:33:58 — The News
- 01:33:58 — The Bayonetta 3 thing
- 01:51:22 — Parasite (n)eve(r gonna happen)
- 01:58:29 — The Witcher 1 is getting remade
- 02:00:22 — Henry Cavill leaves the Witcher
- 02:05:00 — RIP Miniclip
- 02:06:50 — Silent Hill 2 Remake announced, plus other stuff
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Twitter: @VectormenPod
E-mail: [email protected]
Twitch: twitch.com/VectormenLive
2 hr 21 min - Time Dread - VECTORMEN - Episode #50
AKA Under Immediate Effect of Choice; A Sick-Crazy Intergalactic Alarm Bell; [[BIG SHOT]]!!
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Hosted by Lee Brady (@leepaulbrady // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (@BPR_Lawrence)
Music by Lee Brady
Listen to more episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Anchor and all good podcast providers (anchor.fm/vectormen)
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Segments:
- 00:00:00 — Time Start!
- 00:00:36 — Follow-Up (The Newest Format; RE: Netflix is not canon; Kabuki-Cho ni ikimasu; NoJoJo; Nobunaga’s Revenge’s Revenge)
- 00:05:26 — Lawrence plays Policenauts
- 00:33:29 — Elden Ring Cubbyhole #1
- 01:00:38 — The News
- 01:00:38 — Battle on Bio-Hazard Mountain
- 01:02:51 — Hello, Gay Bowser
- 01:03:44 — Farewell, Nintendo Switch tentacle porn
- 01:07:26 — Beyond Good and Evil Forever
- 01:09:09 — See You in Disco Elysium, Disco Elysium
- 01:16:37 — Out Now: Kevin Costner’s Waterworld
- 01:18:27 — [[BIG SHOT]]!!
- 01:22:13 — [[BIG SHOT]]!!
- 01:23:13 — [[BIG SHOT]]!!
- 01:24:13 — [[BIG SHOT]]!!
- 01:25:13 — [[BIG SHOT]]!!
- 01:26:13 — [[BIG SHOT]]!!
- 01:27:13 — [[BIG SHOT]]!!
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Notes:
https://macaw45.itch.io/kevin-costners-waterworld
https://deltarune.com/sweepstakes/
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Send us your thoughts!
Twitter: @VectormenPod
E-mail: [email protected]
Twitch: twitch.com/VectormenLive
1 hr 30 min - Pleasant Apocalypses - VECTORMEN - Episode #49
AKA "A Highly-Curated No-Script Bubble"; "Inspiration Fuel"; "Ammo in the Chamber"; "The Drama Horse"; "Crazy Toboggan Race To The Bottom"
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Hosted by Lee Brady (@leepaulbrady // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (@BPR_Lawrence)
Music by Lee Brady
Listen to more episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Anchor and all good podcast providers (anchor.fm/vectormen)
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Segments:
00:00:00 — Japanese History
00:00:36 — Follow-Up (Flat Earth Holmes, Nier/11, Kabuki-cho; Swagger; Victor Mann; Probably the most wrong this show has ever been)
00:09:19 — Lawrence wraps up Nier Replicant
00:11:47 — Lawrence doesn’t like the Netflix JoJo Binge
00:17:28 — Vectormen assess Indie Game: The Movie and Lawrence talks “inspiration fuel”
00:35:29 — Lee talks a few leftovers from his The Last of Us Part 1 review
00:50:04 — The News
00:50:12 — TEE-EARS/T-AIRS/Tears of the Kingdom
00:51:32 — Nixon Gamestop
00:51:50 — The Game (and other stuff) Awards
00:54:21 — Weird / Baby-lon’s Fall / Resident Evil on Netflix was canon??
00:57:41 — Sakurai and Kojima are our new competitors
01:01:06 — Assassin’s Nioh, Rise of the Yakuza
01:06:25 — “Now These Shirts Can Be Yours”
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Notes:
The Last of Us Part I review: https://www.truetrophies.com/n21779/the-last-of-us-part-1-review
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Send us your thoughts!
Twitter: @VectormenPod
E-mail: [email protected]
Twitch: twitch.com/VectormenLive
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About Vectormen Podcast
From the publisher's feed
Estd. 2020.
We review the games we’ve played, the gaming news we’ve read, and whatever weeb trashery comes to mind.