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42: Animal Crossing is Basically Destiny

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Don’t let the title of this episode fool you – we’re all about the New Exciting Gaming Devices. All three of them! Yes, three. Count them if you don’t believe us.

In Episode 42, deKay, Zo, Kendrick and Niaz completely fail to discuss Life, the Universe and Everything despite all being massive nerds, but instead talk all about the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 – the hardware, the news, the difficulty in finding one, and oh yeah, the games and why playing Geometry Wars and Sonic Adventure is The Thing To Do on the world’s most powerful games console. There’s some other bits of news too but honestly, it’s mostly that. They did talk games though! These ones:

  • Yakuza Like a Dragon
  • Panzer Dragoon
  • Animal Crossing
  • HYRULE WARRIORS: Age of Calamity
  • Astro’s Playroom
  • Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
  • FIFA 21
  • The Walking Dead (S1-3)
  • Tetris Effect
  • Geometry Wars
  • Marvel Spider-Man Miles Morales
  • Ghost of Tsushima
  • Need for Speed Payback
  • Bugsnax

All bolstered with devations and asides and questions. So much, in fact, there’s a change from the 90 minute run time advertised in some listings.

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New Console – Playstation 5

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Some initial thoughts after playing for a few hours.

The controller really is special and the bundled Astro Playroom really shows off the new features from adaptive triggers to the haptic feedback. The game itself is a trip down Playstaion memory lane with lots of nice touches and nods to classic games.
 
The console itself is heavy & tall but most importantly very silent. Hopefully it will forever stay quiet and the days of PS4 turbine gaming are gone. The dashboard feels very slick, fast & responsive.
 
I've not purchased any other games on launch because I have an extensive PS4 collection to still enjoy starting with Ghost of Tsushima.

Need for Speed Payback (PS4) – Completed

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I've had an itch to enjoy a racing game for a long time and nothing could scratch it until Need for Speed Payback was added to PS+ in October. 



Yes it has a really bad story but where it matters most in the driving it is great fun with four different classes in Drag, Race, Off-Road & Drift. Lots of events for you to complete which follow the main story arc in taking down various car leagues. There are also chips to collect, billboards to smash and tons of challenges from top speed, drift zones, jumps etc. In fact there are too many of these challenges that just litter the map!

To upgrade the cars you can complete events which you can replay if required to earn a card that will upgrade one of six components of your car. You can also visit a tuning shop to purchase these cards using the credits earned during the game. It is not too difficult to get cars up to the max level 18 and 399 rating.

When driving around you may get lucky and find a bait crate. These are great fun, you collect the crate & have to race to the destination with cops chasing you down.

Overall a great fun racing game that I enjoyed playing & it has definetly scratch my racing itch!


Sayonara Wild Hearts (PS4) – Completed

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I wanted to take a break from playing Need for Speed Payback to enjoy Sayonara Wild Hearts, Its a short experience just over an hour to play through this musical album. Game play has different sections on endless running, shooting, flying & driving. There is a score challenge to get gold rank on the stages which is very difficult to do on the first attempt but can be achieved with multiple playthroughs. 

41: Why Don’t They Squirt Games At Me

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With more than three years of episodes in the bag, you’d have thought we’d have said all of the words about games by now, but apparently not as here is Episode 41 to prove it.

This time round, deKay (who is suffering from Man Flu or something, so please excuse his unusual voice), Jaimie, Toby and Luffer throw words about on subjects like the PS5 teardown and digital game transfers, Oculus and Facebook and how Bad Things Happen should you try to separate the two, and The State of Stadia. And some games, because that’s the point of the podcast, I suppose:

  • Star Wars TM Squadrons EA TM
  • Among Us
  • Animal Crossing
  • Super Mario Sunshine
  • Super Mario Galaxy
  • Spider Solitaire
  • Genshin Impact
  • Beat Saber
  • Divinity Original Sin 2

Plus some other things as we get sidetracked as usual. And Listener Questions, of course. It’s a good episode, Brent.

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