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Welcome to episode 142, We're still locked down, so sorry for any audio problems. TheSuffolkRam has been trying to find a lost boy in The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. You have to solve a series of murders using some strange supernatural abilities Skazz has revisited Ys on the TurboGrafx-16, But mainly he and Ram have been playing Player Unknown: Battlegrounds. Turns out we are the best players currently on the Stadia version.... sort of... We also discuss more Hunt Showdown including Ram's issues with spiders Ram has been watching a terrible film with Jurassic World: Unnecessary sequel, sorry, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom We also discuss horse style hair cuts, t-shirts, and confusing tourists, and how we would run a counter-terrorist organization. Notes: Deduce the clues and find Ethan in The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Think you good at Battle Royal? try and take on Ram and Skazz on Pubg, now available on Stadia Still hunting in crazy monsters in Hunt Showdown Go visit Hope County  Another bad dinosaur mo

Welcome to episode 141, Kicking off with discussing of our preferred lockdown supermarkets, and negotiation with Covid-19 Skazz kicks off with discussing the now western relase of Phantasy Star Online 2. A games that has been out in Japan for appormently 8 years. They’ve made a number of changes to the game, which Skazz is less then please about. TheSuffolkRam has been playing very Deus Ex feeling cyberpunk game with Observer, a mostly walking simulator with some survival horror elements. A really deep dark word involving mind rape, nanobots that eat people, and a big evil corporation. We talk about out newest feature, the Rand(Nerds); Game Night. We’ve played a couple of games. A co-op puzzle game We Were Here in which skazz freezes to death, drowns, and gets stabbed. whilst Ram gets murdered. Plus how we got totally owned in Hunt Showdown. Ram talks about his continuing delve into HOTAS gaming, and his strange key configs. Notes: Rapid leveling in Phantasy Star Online 2. Explore peoples minds as a cyberpunk

Welcome to episode 140 Continuing with the lockdown podcast, excitement comes in many ways, first with Skazz having KFC, and TheSuffolkRam has purchased a new HOTAS joystick. Skazz has been shooting and spamming grenades in space with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. The scrappy child of the CoD series. TheSuffolkRam has revived a old space strategy game he previously talked about on the podcast. Galactic Civilizations 3, a game demanding of your time and computer RAM. He talks about the campaign he playing and also some of things the game is missing, and also some of the strange balance decisions We also discuss the random selection of films Ram has been watching, Skazz “finishing” Animal Crossing and our phone call strategies. Notes: Miss chicken? You can now order KFC! TheSuffolkRam having joy in sims with his new Thurstmaster HOTAS Warthog Spam grenades in space with Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare Take of the galaxy and also your RAM in GalCiv 3 Thanks for Listening, Come watch our next Livestream on the 0

Welcome to episode 139 Skazz has been going old-school with playing the early Call of Duty’s, we discuss the impact of CoD on the gaming scene, it good and bad points and scripting as a story telling tool. TheSuffolkRam has been reliving classic Half-Life 2 style game with the Mod/Stand alone game Transmission: Element 120. he talks about getting back into half-life, dodgy AI and half-life Alyx. We also briefly discuss season two and three of Attack on Titan We also discuss Ram’s office and his impeding spider infestation, as well his life as an essential worker. Dangerous ladders, and what to do in a plane crash. Notes: Skazz has been getting his shooter fix the Call Of Duty 1, 2, 4: Modern Warfare 1 Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3. Ram has rekindles his Half Life 2 itch with Transmissions: Element 120 Thanks for Listening, Come watch our next Livestream on the 23rd May 2020 at 21:30 GMT+1 on our YouTube channel  and Twitch Cheers TheSuffolkRam and Skazz

Welcome to episode 138, continuing lock down Skazz has got round to trying out the Final Fantasy 7 remake and now has a somewhat different opinion to last week. He talks about what they have expanded and added, and how it feels more like busywork than an enjoyable expansion. TheSuffolkRam is still playing Green Hell, the semi-hardcore survival game, now going hunting and exploring more of the world. Plus some of the new neat features hes found in the game. Ram has been surprising himself by watching the Star Wars show The Mandalorian. available on Disney Plus. We discuss Ram’s return to work, Slow mo Max Payne fever dreams, EA’s development cycle Notes: Skazz mixed feelings after playing more of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake Still surviving in Green Hell. A good Star Wars series: The Mandalorian Thanks for Listening, Come watch our next Livestream on the 23rd May 2020 at 21:30 GMT+1 on our YouTube channel  and Twitch Cheers TheSuffolkRam and Skazz

Welcome to episode 137, still in Lockdown Skazz talks about the first part of the Final Fantasy VII remake, how they’ve changed the game combat, improved the graphics and extra story information Ram has been surviving in the Jungle in Green Hell, building huts and getting poisoned by spiders Ram has also been watching the furry dream Beastars, with bizarre rabbit physiology We discuss Ram’s new cycling hobby, plus a brief refresh on Animal Crossing Notes: Great reboot Final Fantasy 7 Remake Die by spider in Green Hell Do you want a Rabbit in a bikinis try Beastars Thanks for Listening, Come watch our next Livestream on the 25th April 2020 at 21:30 GMT+1 on our YouTube channel  and Twitch Cheers TheSuffolkRam and Skazz

Welcome to episode 136, Our first lockdown episode We discuss how we’re coping with isolation and staving off the cabin fever. Skazz has been completing day-to-day tasks for cute animals in the perfectly timed release of Animal Crossing. TheSuffolkRam has taken a trip back in time with the old-school style game BattleTech , leading a mercenaries mech company in this turn-based game. Plus we talk about Panic buying Warhammer models and magnetization, Ram game-making exploits and how to survive isolation. Notes: Repopulate your deserted island with Animal Crossing Lead your mercenary in Battletech Plus, behold! ram Badly Painted Magnetic Riptide Thanks for Listening, Come watch our next Livestream on the 11th April 2020 at 21:30 GMT+1 on our YouTube channel  and Twitch Cheers TheSuffolkRam and Skazz

Welcome to episode 135, this episode Skazz celebrating his two-week anniversary. We kick off learning about Rams Student days including being locked out and toilet roll chicken. Also a bonus tractor potential injury incident. When we finally get onto games, Skazz admits to returning to the updated Sea of Thieves but only briefly TheSuffolkRam has been conserving oxygen and discovering communists on distance world in Lifeless Planet We also give a brief shoutout to Ai Dungeon, a role-playing text-based adventure where the DM is controlled by an AI. We discuss the very poorly played game of Plague Inc. that we are all living through at the moment, including TheSuffolkRam’s mothers panic buying Notes: Once again, Skazz has been sailing in Sea of Thieves Like jumping puzzles? you’ll like Lifeless Planet Let the AI guide you in AI dungeon Cheesy space marine player, introducing the Kroot Conga Line The scary future of AI with unicorns! Thanks for Listening, Come watch our next Livestream on the 28th March 2020 at

Welcome to episode 134, with wedding bells in the air, as Skazz has got married! To celebrate, we’re joined with two guests. ex-nerd bard, and all the way from Denmark, Zabermoul. The guests start, with Bard talking about Sea of Thieves and some of the changes since we last played. Zabermoul has been rekindling his love of the old Burnout games with Dangerous Driving, created by some of the same devs, with gameplay like the classic entries in the series. Skazz has been playing very little due to wedding distractions, but he’s still playing Final Fantasy VIII and the Nintendo Switch version of Monopoly. He also talks about Neverwinter Nights series of games. Ram has been hitting Zombies with multiples of weapons in Dead Island: Definitive Edtion. We also discuss the complex situation with children not existing after marriage, and are ostrich’s really chickens? Notes: Bard wasn’t dreaming, Chicken Limbo was real Check out Zabermoul channel Online piracy in Sea of Thieves You too can plan your perfect wedding! I

Welcome to Episode 133 We kick off surprisingly discussing farming as a career, and then onto a number of topics before finally getting into a game we’ve been playing. TheSuffolkRam has been trying to find soup and not kill his crew in 60 Parsecs. Skazz has been playing FFVIII for complicated Valentine reasons, He talks about the remaster and the in some cases better mechanics of the game compared to others in the series. Also, we are amazed by sewing machines working, build the quality of various machines. Ram talks about his achievements involving models. Plus, is your child a hacker? Notes: Save your crew, don’t forget the coup and always pack a spade in 60 Parsecs! The underrated gem Final Fantasy VIII Remastered The best thing about Norwich – The Puppet Man now on Youtube West midlands police guide to id young children hacker, now disputed (watch for the autoplay video) Watch a swearing Canadian man pull apart tools with AvE Have your mind blown with how a sewing machine works Thanks for Listening, Come

Welcome to Episode 132, the return of the table! We start up talking about Outlast, we completed our final part of our let’s play and give our final thoughts on the game. Skazz then talks about Dauntless, the free to play Monster Hunter clone with cross-play, but with some quite bad flaws. He then moves onto the ‘Dark Souls of Run and Gun shooters’ in cup head, he personally doesn’t find it as tough as everyone says and has some issues with the game style. TheSuffolkRam has been playing Kona, a walking simulator set in 1970 rural Canada investigating strange going on’s and looking for a murderer. Moving onto TV, Ram has been watching Amazon Prime’s new series, Picard, 20 years on after the supernova that destroyed Romulus, Picard finds a new reason to go back into space. We also discuss Golfing, Bojack Horseman and Vegans. Notes: Join Ram and Skazz as they take on Mount Massive in Outlast, Part 1 and Part 2 The monster hunter clone Dauntless Run and Gun in Cuphead I see frozen people in Rural Canada in Kona A

Welcome to Episode 131, this episode using battery power so against the clock TheSuffolkRam has been playing Borderlands 3 using Stadia, he talks not just about the game, but also the experience of using the streaming service. He also talks about playing Destiny and how he’s an elite player. After a small stutter with Dragonquest XI, Skazz has been playing a demake of a game he only played recently with the Pocket edition of Final Fantasy 15. Ram has been experiencing bullet time by rewatching the late 90s sci-fi classic with The Matrix We also discuss our listing habits and the various subscription services we partake of. Notes: Guns with legs in Borderlands 3 Both Skazz and Ram have been enjoying Destiny 2 Can you make it further then Skazz in Dragonquest XI A compressed FF game with the Console version of the Pocket Edition of Final Fantasy XV Dodge bullets in The Matrix Thanks for Listening, Come watch our next Livestream on the 1st February 2020 at 21:30 GMT on our YouTube channel  and Twi

Welcome to Episode 130, our first podcast of 2020, and to celebrate the new decade, we’re doing a special episode for the occasion. TheSuffolkRam and Skazz have been picking their games of the decade 2010-2019. The rules being they must new games or series released between those years. They are allowed one cheat game that breaks those rules. For our first games, Skazz kick off with Destiny the multiplayer shooter from Bungee, the markers of Halo and Marathon, saving the universe from Aliens. meanwhile, TheSuffolkRam has been experiencing bleak Russian Sci-fi with his first choice, the Metro series. Moving onto our next choice Skazz has gone for a blast from the past with a game he discussed on our very first Podcast, Hyperdimension Neptunia. Ram follow suit by discussing Dishonored. Midway through our lists Skazz relive his Armored Core fantasy with the 2019 release Daemon ex machina. Ram similarly picks a game series that finished last year with Telltales The Walking Dead adventure game series. We then move

Welcome to Episode 129, our 2019 Christmas Special Skazz has still been fighting the internet and making our favorite dictator Kim in The Sims 4. Turns out he doesn’t like Donald Trump, and has some surprising stories in his Sim Life. TheSuffolkRam has been suffering a pretentious developer in Awkward Dimension Redux. A game that feels like the author watched some Unity tutorials, copied them and published them. We then move onto our Christmas Activities: First starting with ‘letters’ from our ‘listeners/viewers’, plus we look at our Steam libraries and how much of our lives we need to dedicate to finishing them. Finally, we move onto our Game of the Year, We Look through our games list from the previous year and pick out a few Honorable mentions (Skazz has a weird definition of ‘honorable mention’). We discuss our shortlist and make our final choices. Notes: Make your own dictator in The Sims 4 The best of teen pretentious in Awkward Dimension Redux Find out how much of your life you would need to dedicate t

Welcome to Episode 128 After youtube worries, we finally make a start with a beer can opening competition. Skazz kicks us off with a lads road trip in Final Fantasy XV using google Stadia and has been stuck in technical support hell over an annoying save bug. Other then that he been having a grand old time in Top Gear meets Final Fantasy TheSuffolkRam has been saying an emotional farewell to not just one of his favorite games series, but a character he’s been following for many years in The Walking Dead: The Final Season. When we find the end to Clementine’s story, also some reflection on the dead Telltale Studio. We also talk about Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales new social media site WT.Social. its aims and the problems it may face. Notes: Final Fantasy meets road trip in Final Fantasy XV, perhaps wait until Square Enix and Google has stopped arguing over has the bug The end of Clementine’s story in The Walking Dead: The Final Season. Good News, you can still purchase it on various platforms. A possible chall

Welcome to Episode 127 TheSuffolkRam kicks off with demonstrating some bad mathematics and a discussion on how we listen to podcasts. Skazz tells us about Google Stadia, the new game streaming from… well um, Google… He talks about the tech, control pad, pricing, game content, requirements, and pricing. we also discuss some of the potential downfalls and complaints. Ram has been killing people in creative ways and dressing up as a pumpking in Hitman 2 We also talk about Tesla Cybertruck Notes: Possibly the future of gaming? Google Stadia Elon Musk loving polygons with the new Tesla Cybertruck How will you kill everyone? explore in Hitman 2 Like programming and music? this is for you.. Thanks for Listening, Come join us on our next podcast live stream on the 7th December 2019 at 21:30 GMT on our YouTube channel or our Twitch Channel Cheers TheSuffolkRam and Skazz

Welcome to Episode 126 We kick off with discussing the game we played for Halloween, Outlast, we discuss how a great story can have poor execution and poor environmental storytelling, and how other games do it better. As well as some of the better animation and moments. TheSuffolkRam starts talking about a game he didn’t end up playing with Bear With Me, an old school style point and click adventure in a Noir style with an interesting premise but some poor writing and design choices. He then moves onto a more interesting game with Inside, an indie game with both and interesting style and story open to interpretation and some beautiful animation and lighting effects. He then talks about I Am Monther, a sci-fi film released this year with some fantastic CGI and an old fashioned storyline Notes: Cliche survival horror game Outlast. Plus check out our let’s play here Very old school style point and click adventure in Bear With Me An excellent example of environmental storytelling in Inside. Low budget but excelle

Welcome to Episode 125 Skazz Kicks off the podcast proper talking about committing bicycle suicide and maiming his polygonal person in Lonely Mountains: Downhill. TheSuffolkRam has been stacking bales badly and bemoaning the lack of interactions with animals in Farming Simulator 19. Skazz has also briefly played some of We Happy Few to Ram surprise, we discuss the differences to our play-styles and where the game went wrong. We also discuss My Little Pony, Rooms of death, lift shafts, the sea, why doors and the most dangerous thing in the world, powering future Rand(Nerd); episodes, our campaign to rename engineers to Tech Priests and Ram’s embarrassing confession. Notes: Polygonal physics fun flinging yourself down a mountain in Lonely Mountain: Downhill Play with crops and animals in Farming Simulator 19 Behold TheSuffolkRam’s stacking David Mitchell explains farming Get terrified of lift shafts with Mr Matt and Mr Chay Thanks for Listening, Come join us on our next podcast livestream but following us on ou

Welcome to Episode 124 We kick off discussing TheSuffolkRam new career as a Bass Guitarist and piss off some violinists TheSuffolkRam kicks us off by discussing toddler simulator Among The Sleep, the beer then kicks in and we end up discussing action films, pubs, placements of washing machines, how to solve Brexit and our global warming survival plan. Skazz has been playing a game needing a re-release in Brutal Legend saving a band by upgrading headbangers, he then moves onto the disappointing Jump Force a limited three-on-three fighting game. With very little background knowledge we take the dangerous move to discuss the ongoing censorship of china related criticisms, featuring Blizzard censorship of the winner of a heath stone tournament and Disney deleting Winnie the pooh We then move onto a film review of El Camino, the Breaking Bad film set directly after the final episode of the series. He also talks about listening to the audiobook Eisenhorm: Xenos by Dan Abnett We also discuss why Skazz is banned from

Welcome to Episode 123 TheSuffolkRam has returned from the muddy fields of his Land Rover show, he talks about how segregation is alive and well in car shows and the new defender and some stupid ‘features’ of his car. Ram has finally moved on from We Happy Few and moved onto underwater survival sim Subnautica. Previously discussed by Bard many years ago, we discuss turning fish to bottles and drowning people. Also how Ram has no idea how to make a room. Skazz gives his final thoughts on Daemon X Machina and how flying ruins everything, and what he wants from a mech game, he also talks about Astral Chain. He then talks about the awful port of Dragonquest to the switch and the quality of the sprites compared to the original We also discuss Jesus’s nationality and who make the tea on Elvis’s private island, region locking plus how mad divers are. Notes: Love 4×4’s? perhaps like Ram you’ll fall in love with the new Defender Avoid the leviathan in Subnautica Fancy being terrified by hydroelectric dams? here a sele