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Bet you thought you were rid of us. Much like we thought we were rid of the heat, back it came to bite us. We overcame technical changes, we overcame being down a host, and we brought you an episode all the same.

Hear our thoughts on recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgments on the PS Plus titles for September 2024.

Here we emerge, battered and bruised from another season of fighting over games we bought on the cheap. There have been bad weeks. There have been good weeks. There may even have been great weeks, but you'll have to go hunt them down and tell us where they're hiding.

Without a tie break this season, things are much smoother. Come with us as we discuss our Bottom 3's and Top 5's of the season we've just... experienced? Endured? Survived? Before we decide a top winner for each of our fabled categories.

Another series of our monthly fights has come to a close, and the generator has picked an appropriate topic for us to end on - Only right we choose games where we go through all this work, and then start over again like nothing happened!

Come see which of Enter the Gungeon, Returnal and Risk of Rain 2 gets the furthest before starting from the beginning, and also see who takes home the coveted loser crown - Someone wins too, but who cares about that?

Xbox is on fire, media is on fire, everything is on fire - Including us, but in the good way! We soldier on the only way we can, by avoiding our responsibilities to play a bunch of games and pass the benefits onto you! Hear our thoughts on recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for July 2024.

We personally at Disc Count HQ have been very excited for this one. We obviously love all of our topics equally, like our personal topic children all living their happy lives inside the random genre generator waiting for their day to be chosen. But we can't deny our excitement that a topic as dumb as Fish finally made it out of there. What a great day.

Come along to see which of Maneater, Spiritfarer and Subnautica was the fishiest fish game to ever fish.

Even though E3 is gone (but forever in our hearts), the gaming world still loves to drop a whole bunch of news this time of year. We thought we'd once again awkwardly have it all drop after the May episode was recorded, but a) the last episode was lost to the tech gremlins, and b) the showcases just kept coming so at least one is technically relevant, so we have that going for us.

Hear our thoughts on recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for June 2024.

We had to go outside for this episode. If that isn't enough to garner your pity and warrant a listen, it's hard to say what is. Rather than our usual topics where we look for something in game, for this episode we had to brave the world, go into second-hand game retailers, and train our eyes to the floor in search of questionable titles. It was a time. You're welcome.

Join us as Far Cry Primal, Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair, and Horizon Zero Dawn fight it out to be the most bottom shelf game in CeX, and in our hearts.

This has been a tough test over in Disc Count for this week as no one likes to sell physical rhythm games... even those that were once popular have been booed offstage making it a very difficult task for the hosts to find good games. So take your seats as three white people all try to justify what rhythm is while they all click, tap and bob out of time with one another; one of them is on the beat though as they pretend they are just the best dancer in the Maharaja. Join us as Sayonara Wild Hearts, No Straight Roads and Crypt of the Necrodancer fight it out to be the most on beat as they try to beat each other.

A lot is said of April showers, and while we have seen our fair share, we bring a different kind of April shower. We are showering you with gaming news and content. Good for you. Hear our thoughts on recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for April 2024.

With spring officially in bloom and the sun beginning to poke out from behind its cloud-print curtains, what have we here at Disc Count picked as our suitably springy topic? Snow you say? How perfectly on brand. Join us as Snow Bros., Until Dawn and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves fight it out to be the snowiest game to ever snow.

With the turn of Spring upon us, Disc Count have encountered miracles. Not only is there a bountiful selection of news, we played new games! We played a whole THREE NEW GAMES! We even played demos! All the content you could ever ask for.

Hear our thoughts on recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for March 2024.

We are discussing literature's favourite blood suckers in this episode. On that note, is a mosquito a vampire? If you go solely by the definition of sucking blood, they are perhaps the purest vampire and we should show them some respect. Imagine if Twilight involved her falling in love with a sparkly mosquito. The scenes it would've caused. Magical. Join us as Resident Evil Village, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Code Vein try to be the most vampiric. Do they have vampires? Do they have mosquitos? Tune in to find out.

In classic Disc Count fashion, we wish we had a good spread of news to share with you. What we have instead is a lot of news that happened either one day after we recorded or one day before. Real top and tail scenario. You're so welcome.

Hear our thoughts on recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for February 2024.

We luckily have yet to encounter critical response to our podcast. We still occupy the niche space where critics have yet to find us, but if they did, they'd obviously provide glowing reviews and generally shower us with praise and love. But back in the real world, these games were not so lucky.

Join us as Cyberpunk 2077, Gotham Knights and No Man's Sky fight to be the most critically panned, which feels backwards but for this episode is pretty on point.

New year, new us. By new, we of course mean completely the same but with very minor differences we will drop by March. See if you can spot them. Bet you won't!

Hear our thoughts on recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for January 2024.

After the embarrassment of last episode (heh), we've decided to become better people. And what better way to be better than to acquire otherworldly gifts and use them to become better than ourselves. We will be super podcasters, and our powers shall be... podcasts?

Join us as Spiderman, Life is Strange: True Colours and South Park: The Fractured But Whole fight using their acquired superpowers to fight a generic bad guy and then an evil version of their own powers, probably.

Happy Holidays, and Merry (insert relevant denominational festival here) to one and all! We're back again after the overwhelming (read: same as usual but we liked it) audience response to our last year in review episode by bringing you each of our top fives of the year, along with other fun stuff such as favourite game we played this year that didn't come out this year - Or something snappier that conveys the same idea.

Embarrassment is totally normal. In fact, we here at Disc Count say you shouldn't be embarrassed for playing the games you love. Be proud of them. Embrace them. Unless it's any of the games on show in this episode, in which case, we condemn you to the gutter of embarrassment you strange, magnificent creature.

Join us as Catherine: Full Body, Lord of the Rings: Gollum, and Megadimension Neptunia VII have a good ol' scrap to be the sensory horror show you least want to glance at.

It is nearly the end of the year, and while much of the world begins to slow down into a nice Christmas haze, we here at Disc Count refuse. Much like the Pokémon franchise, we refuse to slow down even if it would be much to our benefit.

Hear our thoughts on recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for November 2023.

Fighting is hard, we all know that. And what would help to make fighting easier? Fancier limbs, you say? Okay, sounds good. We here at Disc Count are all in favour of fancy limbs, so much so, we based an entire episode around it.

Join us as Devil May Cry 5, Bioshock and Middle Earth: Shadow of War use their fancy, augmented limbs to beat each other black and blue.

Hello, how are you? Sorry we missed you last week, we were busy being hip and cool and whatnot. We know you missed us, and we're sorry, so we've brought you some game talk, hope that smooths things over between us.

Hear our thoughts on recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for October 2023.

Like any good sitcom, we changed everything up from Season 1 and made our way through a much-altered Season 2, and now it's time to ride into Season 3 just hoping everything works and none of our hosts have any skeletons in their closets. Our first fight episode of the new season is coming in strong, and we're all ready for another 11 episodes of arguing and buying reasonably priced games.

Join our little gamer fight club as Yu-Gi-Oh: Legacy of the Duelist, Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Dragon Quest 11 fight, in a turn-based fashion of course, to be the best game mainly based around turns.

Josh says in the episode that this will be a shorter episode. Josh is a liar. Don't be like Josh. That said, we have come to the end of a contested season so why not take our time walking down memory lane if said lane was rife with nettles and other hazards causing pain and suffering galore. Join us as we choose an overall winner for our categories, outline our top 5s and bottom 3s of the season, and then announce our final tie-broken standings to find who is the hero and who is the zero.

While our fighting, competition episodes may be winding down for the season, our off-week episodes keep trucking along like some kind of gaming-themed truck. An 18-wheeler with a Mario hat, perhaps.

Hear our thoughts on recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for August 2023.

It all comes down to this! After 11 weeks of bickering, squabbling and an overall level of fighting that would make a youth karate club feel superior, we've arrived at our final stop - Weird Mechanics!

Join us as Borderlands 2, Death Stranding and Persona 5 have a good ol' roughhouse to work out which is most deserving of the crown of weirdness.

It's summertime here at Disc Count HQ. The rain may be dampening our spirits but that won't stop us from playing games and then talking about them to you, the people. How lucky you all are.

Hear our thoughts on recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for July 2023.

In the past, we've indulged in some weird topics. Death, Horses, Religion, all fun stuff. This week, it's back to ground-level basics as we explore life itself, through a collection of Life Sims!

Join our little life collective as Two Point Hospital, Harvest Moon: Light of Hope and Stardew Valley life it out to be the most lifelike of the life imitation games. Will they bring life to this topic? Who can say...

Is everyone excited? For the first and likely only time, we've managed to record an episode before a big games showcase and we're going to milk it for all it's worth. It had to happen eventually, and we can finally report on the gaming world in a semi-timely fashion.

Hear our thoughts on recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for June 2023.

This week on Disc Count, we have strayed too far. Now, topics like "Same First Letter" and "Non-Human Protagonist" are all fun and games, but Religion? Religion?? We've decided to explore beyond our depth, and will inevitably suffer for it. But before eternal damnation comes to claim our souls, we'll keep the recording running and try to decide the best game at least tangentially related to religion. Join us this episode as The Sinking City, Cult of the Lamb and God of War hold their own sermons to convince us they are the best religious game.

As we tend to our wounds from the last vicious fight episode, we feel its best to sit back and relax with some discussion on what's going on with gaming outside of our usual scrappy, thematically-restrictive outputs.

Hear our thoughts on recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for May 2023.

For the fight this week, we've brought the very first topic ever written. Another in the theme of 'surpassing game genres to be weirdly restrictive', our topic this week is Same First Letter. What this means is that the game must begin with either C, D or J, and that letter must correspond with the player. No buying D games for Josh or J games for Cerys, that would be wildly silly. Join us as Control, Judgement and Doom: Eternal clash for the best game beginning with the letter of the person obligated to play it. Most Accurate should be a hoot. 0:00:00 - Intro 0:01:43 - The Vault 0:04:20 - Into the Genre... 0:16:44 - Fight! 1:00:06 - Topics Top Picks

It's not all fighting and fury here at Disc Count HQ. Occasionally, we like to kick back and enjoy the lighter side of gaming, looking at what's going on in gaming outside of the competition you've all come to love. Hear our thoughts on recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for April 2023.

This week, we've chosen to be more restrictive with our fighting. We're fighting exclusively through our own eyes, without the use of any firearms. Which is to say, this week's topic is First Person Non Shooter, or a FPnS, if you will.

Join us as Bendy and the Ink Machine, Ghostwire Tokyo, and the Talos Principle fight it out to be the best FPnS (we've coined the term and we're sticking with it).

As we put aside the competition for a short while, join your newest harbingers of peace and love as they look at the wider world of gaming, and what has both directly and indirectly affected them.

Hear our thoughts on the recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for March 2023.

No, you haven't clicked on the wrong podcast, we are still a gaming podcast. However, we've felt it's wise to broaden our horizons and as such, have jumped headfirst into the realm of Anime! Anime games, specifically, we don't have time for all anime.

We've searched high, low, and about eye level for the best anime games, so join us as we argue whether Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered or Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise deserves the slightly anime-themed crown.

In this competition off-week, join your guides to living cheap for a delve into what's been going on outside of the competition, both personally and in the wider world of gaming.

Hear our thoughts on the recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for February 2023.

It's a new month, and with a new month comes a new episode, and while every episode we record feels like a celebration, this time around we've fully committed with the topic of Party! And with the topic of Party, we've found the best party games, the real crème de la crème of the party game space, so join us as Heavy Rain, Resident Evil 7 and Lego Lord of the Rings compete for best party game. 00:00 - Intro 01:30 - The Vault 04:09 - Into the Genre... 20:06 - Fight! 58:43 - Topics Top Picks

In this competition off-week, join your navigators in the vast oceans of cheapness to explore what's been going on outside of the competition, both personally and in the wider world of gaming.

Hear our thoughts on the recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for January 2023.

For this episode, leave your humanity at the door! Not in a "completely disregard the developed societal structure we live in" way, but because this week is all about Non-Human Protagonists.  Come along and see which of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon DX, Medievil or Sonic Generations has the best non-human protagonist, and also which is best in the other ways we deem appropriate for judging these games. 00:00 - Intro 02:15 - The Vault 05:24 - Into the Genre... 21:46 - Fight! 55:29 - Topics Top Picks

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! As a special treat to you all this year, we've got you a present, and that present is another hour of our lovely voices and opinions, you are very welcome, no you don't need to get us anything in return, we're just that generous. Join us for this year in review episode, in which we count down our Top 5's of the year before running through some special extra categories including our favourite PS Plus game, just so we don't stray too far from our roots. 

This week on Disc Count, we cook up a storm if a storm was a restaurant-worthy dish, because it's Cooking week! 

Join us as Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Cooking Mama: Cookstar and Final Fantasy XV battle it out. We know it feels like one of these should have it, but tune in to see whether your bets are right.

Join us on this expedition into the bargain bins of gaming as we live up to our format and fight about fighting with fight games! In this episode, Def Jam: Icon, Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Dragon Ball FighterZ fight in their own special ways to try and bring the points home for their respective buyers. 0:00:00 - Intro 0:02:18 - The Vault 0:05:17 - Into the Genre... 0:21:46 - Fight! 0:53:57 - Topics Top Picks

In this competition off-week, join your guides to living cheap for a delve into what's been going on outside of the competition, both personally and in the wider world of gaming.

Hear our thoughts on the recent developments in the world of gaming, our own gaming tales from recent weeks, and our thoughts and judgements on the PS Plus titles for October 2022.

Disc Count Returns! We've swapped out one of our hosts and come back to kick off a brand new season by delving into the world of spooky games of the survival persuasion, better known as Survival Horror! 

This episode, Alan Wake Remastered, Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel and Dead Space bring their best scares to try and secure the points.

0:00:00 - Intro

0:06:35 - The Vault

0:09:22 - Into The Genre...

0:26:13 - Fight!

1:06:25 - Topics Top Picks

Join three little Lego men as they search for the best budget horse and associated horse-based game. Breath of the Wild, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Shadow of the Colossus battle for equine supremacy. 0:00:00 - Intro 0:02:04 - The Vault 0:04:00 - Wii Game, Wii Saw, Wii Conquered 0:21:55 - Into The Genre... 0:46:15 - Fight! 1:33:25 - The Result! 

Come and join 3 Vatican sized boys as they discuss all thing woman. We are battling for best budget game with a female protagonist. Will it be Okami, Shadow of the Tomb Raider or Final Fantasy X2? 0:00:00 - Intro 0:02:21 - The Vault 0:05:17 - Wii Game, Wii Saw, Wii Conquered 0:16:23 - Into The Genre... 0:32:29 - Fight! 1:12:46 - Topics Top Picks

Join the boys who are the little toes of the feet as they discuss being infallible, uncomfortable torture scenes in video games and firing up the SNES. Metroidvania episode is upon us but which will come out victorious from Blasphemous, Axiom Verge or Bloodtained:Ritual of the night. Come be our player 4 and let us know your score. 0:00:00 - Intro 0:02:15 - The Vault 0:06:02 - Wii Game, Wii Saw, Wii Conquered 0:19:17 - Into The Genre... 0:36:38 - Fight! 1:14:05 - Topics Top Picks

Join the tiniest of antelopes as they dikdik about discussing the underutilisation of the WiiU, permanently inking games on you and Bethesda classics. The competition heats up with Death but which game will take the crown; Hades, Flipping Death or Darksiders II? Be our player 4 and let us know your score. 0:00:00 - Intro 0:02:57 - The Vault 0:04:58 - Wii Game, Wii Saw, Wii Conquered 0:19:59 - Into The Genre 0:40:46 - Fight! 1:29:45 - Topics Top Picks

Join 3 boys so small you'd try and put them in a Game cube. They chat about Madden, new Mario and platinums. In this fight episode we throw Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Alien Isolation and Ghost Busters: The Video Game into the ring to battle for victory. Plug in and be our player 4. Intro - 0:00:00 The Vault - 0:02:20 Wii Game, Wii Saw, We Conquered - 0:04:30 Into the Genre - 0:15:20 Fight! - 0:34:40 Topics Top Picks - 1:24:50

Join the 3 boys so small they are Blink-182's muse. They talk 2K, Final Fantasy and their inability to play games. This week we meet on the field as Mutant Football League, Bloodbowl 2 and SSX try to take the crown for best sports game. Plug in, be our player 4 and let us know your score. Intro - 0:00:00 The Vault - 0:02:40 Wii Game, Wii Saw, Wii Conquered - 0:04:16 Into The Genre... - 0:21:30 Fight! - 0:41:16 Topics Top Picks - 1:19:43