Tom Towers maintains a New Year tradition by hosting Aarny to discuss the games they have played this year.

A show not to be missed\, a truly amazing traipse through games old and new.

Tom Towers returns for our 80th episode where we discuss new releases Yakuza 5, Pro Evo Soccer MyClub and Resident Evil: Revelations 2.

Phil Fogg fights back (rather enimically) with his own 30 minute solocast.  In it he disses Valve, gives impressions of Prison Architect and Blues and Bullets and waxes nostaligic on how The Game Under Podcast began.

Tom and Phil are back with final scores for The Witcher III: Hearts of Stone, The Graveyard and Sunset.  We also give first impressions of the recently released Darksiders II: The Deathfinitive Edition and some ongoing commentary on Fallout 4.

First impressions of the Retron 5 as well as some news and Trademark Banter.

Thanks for listening.

2:52: The Sand Table’s Irrelevance of Game Design

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH4Utjypxlg&list=PLxP2lws1RkuUwMm1XFHEMrN_Rin7O_eiZ&index=3

Anything said by anyone working at Naughty Dog is carefully composed enough that it is ultimately meaningless, so one cannot draw any real inclusions from such statements: an artist primary and only motivation in their public discourse is to promote their own commercial work, after all…

But when I can confuse the writer of The Last of Us and Uncharted, while noting their differences, it does raise certain questions...about my literacy, and Naughty Dog's authenticity.

16:28:

Or simply that they did not like the ending because that made dude a dick, and they never woulda done that themselves because they’ve lived a very sheltered life.

17:07: A Disingenuous Vision of Games Journalism

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/11/a-price-of-games-journalism/

Watergate…I mean, that’s just like leaking the script to a game in production, right?

Running over Devolver Digital without checking e-mail and article dates, because I’m a videogame journalist. Just don’t sue me for slander, please. I’m a journalist! I have rights!

Critical of its own fictional bullshit in a story that then did not yet exist…in the public domain—wait, I’d inadvertently leaked the Hotline Miami 2 script? Fuck me, no wonder it was banned in Australia.

25:00: Post-Script

I have an acrimonious relationship with the English language, journalists, the English and Americans. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi! oi! oi!

42:38:

I dabble in sensational journalistic incompetence.

45:36:

I share my delusions of grandeur, inspired by The Sand Table.

This week we give first impressions of Fallout 4, Witcher 3: The Heart of Stone and Lisa, (another auteur indie game).

We give our highpoints of the latest Nintendo Direct, an also talk about an Australian company that is already using VR combined with lasertag as pubic entertainment.

We quickly resolve which is the better console (Retron 5 vs. XBOne).

Tom Towers and Phil Fogg give final thoughts and scores for MGSV, Life is Strange, and The Beginner's Guide. Fogg goes alone to score Undertale.

Plenty of discussion about themes in games and also a conversation about the status of XB1.

Undertale, MGS5 Online, Driver: San Francisco, Shovel Knight: Plague Knight and So much more.

Tom Towers checks in on Metal Gear Solid 5, both hosts examine Blues and Bullets for PC and then a spoiler free discussion between the hosts about the first four episodes of Life is Strange. A gloriously spoiler-full segment is at the end of the podcast, which is abundantly flagged.

This show, Phil and Tom talk abuot Ernest Cline's new book Armada, Rocket League, Splatoon (final scores), Amnesia: Memories, Return to Obra Din, The Westport Independant and Mike Bithell's new game Volume.

Tim Keenan's candid insights, coloured by his days at Disney, Rainbow Studios and his prior indie development, are a rare glimpse into the pain and passion involved in releasing a game that aims to be a commercial and critical success without compromise or dilution.

Introduction
0:00:25 Lack of Sponsors, No Body's Goin' Break Our Stride

Trademark Banter Interruptus
0:01:47 Towers Miserably Ill and Hosts Recount Fever Dreams

First Impressions
0:03:44 Tom talks about Fairy Fencer F
0:04:20 Tom Trolls Our Loyal Listeners
0:05:08 A Discussion of Fencing, Sword Play, Drilling Holes etc...
0:07:00 Discussion of Effuu Effuu and Final Fantasy
0:08:39 Back to FFF
0:19:45 Phallic Art, Phil's History With
0:22:20 Back to FFF

Trademark Banter Resumed
0:23:03 The Trouble With Running a Game Podcast
0:24:00 Tera MMO, and General MMO Discussion
0:40:15 Slot Machine Theory
0:45:45 Fake Australians
0:43:00 Gran Turismo 5 AKA: Crack Cocaine
0:55:50 2016 MX-5 (Miata) A discussion of Roadsters
0:57:45 Focus Groups
1:05:04 Dr. Dre's New Album Compton, Rise of the Snoop

Continuing Impressions
1:11:55 Rocket League

Trademark Banter (Did we mention the theme of this Big Show?)
1:16:50 The Ashes (Cricket Talk)
1:28:45 Tom's PC Problems
1:38:45 Sean Price Obiturized

Games in today's show: Her Story, Life is Strange Ep. 4, Duskers,
Rocket League, Splatoon, Drive Club, The Witcher 3 (patch news), Mario Kart 8, Uncharted 3 and more.

Tom and Phil talk Rocket League,

And Yager, and Splatoon, MGS: Ground Zeros, Bayonetta 2, and a bunch of other stuff.

Tom and Phil Go over E3, Witcher 3, Splatoon, VR and so much more.

Witcher 3, Splatoon and some off the beaten path news in this short show.

Witcher 3, Splatoon and Life is Strange, along with special guest from Ireland.

Introduction
00:00:16 Hello.

Trademark Banter
0:01:54 It's called "Trademark" for a reason
0:02:55 Gaming Magazines Update - Hyper's Quarterly Review, GamersTM, EDGE and Game Informer
0:09:19 Features in Games Writing
0:10:59 Modern Criticism
0:13:03 The Problem with Australians
0:14:04 Soccertalk
0:15:10 Australia Gets Netflix
0:16:33 Back to Film Criticism
0:19:27 Games Writing on the Internet - an update
0:22:00 Gaming Forums
0:23:33 P.T and Konami Story

Tom Towers' Aural Review
0:27:26 P.T (and various Silent Hill games)
0:41:46 Tom's Beaten Games of 2015

Tom Towers' Aural Review
0:44:02 Life is Strange Episode 2

Phil Fogg's Final Impressions of:
1:03:33 Bayonetta for PS3

Tom Towers' Aural Review
1:10:09 Bayonetta 2
1:18:25 Story Spoilers for Bayonetta 1 (released 2008)
1:18:59 Story Spoiler Over
1:28:05 General Light Story and Gameplay Spoilers (Possible from this point on)
1:39:55 Hop Scoth and Combos
1:43:35 Torture Attacks in Bayonetta 2
2:15:45 Bayonetta 3
2:20:30 Bayonetta in Smash Bros.?

Tom and Phil provide epic Trademark Banter, Bayonetta, Dangan Ronpa 2 and Costume Quest.

Half an hour of Trademark Banter, then Hard Reset, Shadow Warrior, Hyperdimension, Child of Light, Broken Swrod 5 and a whole lot more.

Return of the Big Show, Tom and Phil reveal their GOTY 2014 selections, including many other categories as well.

Intro
0:00:26 Phil and Tom come out of hibernation.

Trademark Banter
0:01:23 Parental Warning Occurs Here.
0:02:09 Maniac Mansion Talk
0:02:26 Grim Fandango Discussion
0:03:21 Floppies
0:05:12 Tom Duel Weilds Current Gen Consoles
0:23:01 Phil Has No Games for his PS4.
0:23:24 Hyper Magazine is DEAD
0:31:30 Gaming Magazine Scene

Hardware Review
0:06:02 PS4 Controller Hardware Review

Trademark Banter Resumes
0:13:46 Network Speed, The Japanese Decline in Gaming and Toms Impressions on his PS4 Games (Drive Club, LBP3, Infamous: Second Son)

Trademark Banter Ends
0:33:46 Games We've Beaten Since Last Episode

Yakuza Minute
0:35:40 Y5 Coming to the West!

GOTY Precursor
0:36:40 Tom Says Something

Final Impressions
0:37:20 Wolfenstein: The New Order