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Episode 27: Top 10 PS4 Exclusives

The PlayStation 5 is new and shiny, but let's take a moment to look back and appreciate the good ol' PlayStation 4! What better way to do that than to make a list of the 10 best games that are exclusive to the PS4. It had an excellent library of games, so this list was surprisingly difficult to whittle down.

Episode 26: Bloodborne

On this episode of Hey! Look! Listen the discussion is about a very hard game. But just because it is very hard doesn't mean that it also isn't an amazing, seminal achievement in the medium of video games. A hunter must hunt, and we simply must wax lyrical about FromSoftware's 2015 Playstation 4 classic, Bloodborne. And maybe the conversation might also swing around to the company's latest beautiful nightmare, Elden Ring.  

Episode 25: Video Game Movie Adaptations #2

For the second time we take a look at the ropey process of transforming video games into major motion pictures, inspired by two of our favourite franchises, Uncharted and Resident Evil, which both received dubious adaptations recently.

Episode 24: Half-Life

On this episode we take a look at Half-Life, undoubtedly one of the most important, revolutionary games ever made. We discuss the radical method it used to weave its narrative, as well as the overall franchise's fascinating relationship with the growing technology of the game industry.

Episode 23: Nostalgia

This week we are joined by a guest who is not quite as much of a gamer as we are these days, and use this as an opportunity to discuss the power that nostalgia has over gaming as a hobby. We reminisce about our own memories of growing up together playing games, and take a look at the medium from more of an "outsider's" perspective. All our episodes are pretty much driven by nostalgia, but this one's REALLY about nostalgia.

Episode 22: GoldenEye 007

Is there anything quite as 90s as playing a 4-player multiplayer game that's based off of a Pierce Brosnan action movie, and everyone is sitting in the same room, hunched over a single television screen? On this episode, we take a hugely affectionate look back at the game that might just be the king of multiplayer on the Nintendo 64, and discuss whether or not it still manages to hold its title as the greatest game ever made that's based on a movie. 

Top 7 Games of 2021

Seven... That's an oddly specific number... But, yes! Sit back and enjoy a rundown of some of the best games that came out during the year of our Lord 2021. Pretty bad year all around, but it yielded some genuinely fantastic games. And here are seven of them!  

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck‘s Revenge

The 30-year-old Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge has long been regarded as a gaming classic, and a prime example of the "point-and-click adventure" genre. As such, it is the perfect game to examine with a fine tooth comb in order to analyze this always-niche, always-divisive gaming genre, and to pick out all the ways it can stumble and all the ways it absolutely soars. 

 

 

Episode 21: The Uncharted Series

On this episode we talk about Naughty Dog's iconic, rip roaring Indiana Jones homage, Uncharted. We mostly chat about the main four games in the series, from their big action set pieces to their meditative quiet moments. But we also veer into other topics that relate to this expansive franchise. For example, Mark Wahlberg is brought up multiple times for some reason.

Ranking the Final Fantasy Games

Final Fantasy is one of gaming's most enduring franchises, with over thirty years of history. Each game has its own personality, has left its own individual mark, has its own iteration of the giant yellow birds we know and love as Chocobos... So why not sit back and enjoy a foolhardy attempt to rank each entry of this colossal franchise in this jumbo-sized episode of Hey! Look! Listen!