"I just like seeing the ocean filled with trash" - Frank Howley

Whenever the crew shows off their random swag to the camera I look around my desk for something cool and pretend to show it off as well

if the lads are reading the comment, please ask Jeremy to play Indika. I would really want to know his opinion on that game :)

@dannyodwyer

2 ай бұрын

I've passed it along!

@ThePumpkinhead13

2 ай бұрын

@@dannyodwyer thank you!

@dannyodwyer

2 ай бұрын

@@ThePumpkinhead13 Jesse already mentioned it to us earlier in the week. We're talking about a Quick Look for next week.

@ThePumpkinhead13

2 ай бұрын

@dannyodwyer horaaaay! looking forward watching that one :) thank you for taking the time to reply

Just for anyone who hasnt played Manor Lords and wants to try (it is on Game Pass, so an easy try). The combat right now is pretty basic. You pretty much can have two opponents. The easier one are bandits. They are roaming around the map, steal stuff and if you want to use other regions, you have to get rid of the bandit camps. The other opponent is an off map baron. He claims other regions on the map and if you want to use one of these regions, you have to battle him in bigger battles than the bandits. For the battles itself you can use your townfolk (which then do NOT do their work in your town, meaning you are losing resources) or you hire mercenaries. In general I would say the city building is the way more fleshed out part right now, but it is still only like a third of what is planned for it. It has enough content in it right now to build cities and learn how the economy works, but you will hit a point where there is nothing more to do and you just build for the sake of building. Why are city builders popular? I think its mostly because they are usually pretty chill games where you can do things like listen to the crewcast and watch things your city grow. If you want a really complex one, Anno 1800 is probably the most complex you can get. Oh, Slavic Magic is really another solo developer btw. Pretty cool that people can do things like that alone now. Disclaimer: He had some help with sound, music and the historical accuracy afaik. Edit: No idea how the drugs discussion will be seen by KZread, but back in the day in the 90s in Germany, at most Techno parties we actually had mobile testing stations. Whatever you got you could test right there on site which made it much safer. Unfortunately because these drugs arent a national treasured drug (alcohol), the testing on site was banned. People will always try drugs, no matter what is allowed or not and I think its a shame that we arent allowed to make it safer just because of prejudices.

Great talk. Love crabslike having a blast and the tone is awesome

I enjoyed the podcast and the FO4 fat play session was a ton of fun, it's always nice seeing games you like from a fresh perspective and Jeremy comparing FO4's Boston to the real place was cool too. As a pretty big Fallout fan, you've touched on one of the main reasons I found Fallout 4's world to be a real disappointment compared with that of Fallout 3 and New Vegas; It feels like a theme park. Before I continue, I want to make it clear that I really like Fallout 4 - it's a good game and they got a lot right with the approach they took - it's a big improvement mechanically, the settlement system was a great addition, the tweaks to the aesthetic were an interesting direction to go in too and the glowing sea was a brilliantly designed area. But coming in as a fan of the earlier games it felt like a case of missed potential, it had so many good ideas that felt like they weren't explored or developed fully and took one step forwards and two steps back in a large number of ways - a lot of the positives seemed to come at the cost of a number of things the two games before it did so, so well. Fallout 3 was rich in atmosphere and felt like a desolate wasteland with pockets of civilization tucked away wherever they could just about survive with some explanation for how they exist present - usually big walls or being well hidden. For all the criticism it got, the sectioning off of parts of the city with the metro system created a greater illusion of size and made the city feel like it was a ruin. Fallout 4's world feels too tightly packed together, the sense of scale is off and walking through the city is chaotic but rarely in a good way and it's poor implementation of 'random' events and radiant quests makes it's flaws stand out much more obviously than they otherwise would - e.g constant hostile 'random' events in the same spots with an extremely short (if any) cooldown and radiant quests sending you to defend a farm from a pack of ghouls on the other side of the city while they live a stones throw away from a gang of raiders or super mutants. I'm also surprised at how densely packed the city is given how poorly it runs on console versions too (the PS4 version at least is rough in most of central Boston). There a lot of 'set piece' interactions that you either have to engage with or that feel strange to skip past and the first half of the main story is very strongly signposted and near impossible to ignore, combine that with the density of the world - especially contrasted with it's lack of empty spaces and it makes it feel more like a theme park than a lived in world. The 'major' settlements of the world feel tiny - it was similar in Skyrim too; cities that would've been fairly sizable locations if they were in previous games in the series feel more like shrunken down facades of what they're supposed to be, only adding to that theme park effect. A lot of the smaller locations felt like they were there mainly for gameplay reasons more than places that should exist in the world too - most of the smaller farmsteads just have two unnamed settlers who exist only to throw a radiant quest at you before letting you build there. There are a handful of exceptions to that but a lot of what would've probably been interesting little towns in FO3 (Andale, Girdershade, Arefu etc) end up as just another settlement that needs your help...

Oh yes! I'm going to watch that Wipeout doc SO HARD!

Against the Storm is such a great time and does also have beavers which appeals to my Canadian sensibilities. The cities aren’t persistent though which may clash with Danny’s preferences.

of course the R*-drug (1:07:01) wasn't MDMA - because it was DMA ! ... I'll consider myself out

I see noclip crewcast and I have no choice but to watch. You could say it’s compulsive, maybe it’s my podcast branded drug!

Activision presents: David Foster Wallace's Highly-Ranked Amateur Tennis Player.¹ 1. Yes, it has footnotes.

I thought I couldn't like you more, Jeremy, then you start talking about pihkal??? a man of culture truly

I have a feeling Danny would enjoy Ostriv- it is a city builder in EA by a solo developer which doesn't have any combat and systems are much more fleshed out then Manor Lords. You can just build your peacefull village and chill.

Cool nearly empty comments for the the algorithm I suppose

againts the storm has many spieces including beavers

I really loved Dredge and will definitely be watching that doc!

The best tennis game is the hidden minigame in Trials where you play with a street sign as a racket

Fun one as usual. Also, I keep wanting to call ML "Manure Lords".

Oh my, an empty comment section. What do I do?!

Yo Frank where do you get your button downs? You always have the dopest threads 👀

@FrankHowley

2 ай бұрын

That one was from a Bucees gas station, I get a lot at anime conventions, and Uchuu Summer make the best ones and sell on their site.

@EricShoe

2 ай бұрын

@@FrankHowley Awesome! Thank you so much

Wow, all my childhood loved games - Commandos and Age of Empires 1&2:) Now realizing I preferred their esthetics I was always so impressed with Baldur's Gate 1's esthetics and I still prefer it over Baldur's Gate 3 for some reason - call us connoisseurs loving the classic 2D-3D style:)

How do they not mention Super Tennis for Super Nintendo!? The absolute granddaddy

Super Tennis!

I bought Manor Lords because for some reason I thought it was the game I always wanted - a city builder that you could play in 1st/3rd person. It does have a 'view' mode where you can walk around your town but you can't interact with anything. It's a pretty good city builder but I think I hate the military aspects more here than in any other game I've played. Thankfully, like Danny said, there are easy ways to avoid combat including keeping out of the game options altogether. It's not bad, I'm having a hard time putting it down for sure.

super tennis snes

I just came here to see the pictures of the non-consentual drugs

Can we get a link to the rest of the drugs, just for scientific purposes.

Ehh, I think stamina maintenance is a crucial aspect to the Souls/Borne genre. A pass for me.

The more I listen to Jeremy, the more he feels like a kindred spirit to me. He has very similar thoughts and taste on media, has a similar interest in drugs and drug history, and also has a Russian mom. It’s almost bizarre for me how much he reflects my own viewpoints and knowledge in these podcast conversations lol.