GameEngineStart Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

I'm not going to take the easy joke and do a "the name's podcast, video game podcast" here. I'm not doing it.

Euan continues running for loot in hell with Diablo 4 enters the Dark Pictures archives with Directive 8020 and begins Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. More to come from that.

Calum caved and bought into the early access of Heroes of Might and Magic: The Olden Era. We all knew he would.

We both discuss 007: First Light and if IO Interactive can really pull off a more directed single player game. Spoilers, they absolutely can.

00:10:12 - Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred

00:19:21 - Directive 8020

00:29:06 - Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

00:32:55 - HOMAM

00:50:52 - 007: First Light

01:09:48 - Bungie is releasing the last content update for Destiny 2 on June 9th, so we talk about the long history of the series, and what could happen next with the studio.

01:31:54 - Localization team Hilltop works are releasing a patch for incredibly niche PS1 title Kowloon's Gate, and it sounds like it was a nightmare to work on.

01:33:28 - Steam Deck prices are rising substantially, because AI is screwing us all over.

01:36:33 - Upcoming and Housekeeping

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

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Welcome back to the sad teen zone. We arrive here frequently, so enjoy your stay!

• Euan has a bumper stock of video game discussions. New demons to kill in Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred. Old school sad teens in the finale of Life is Strange: Reunion. New school sad teens (featuring music) in Mixtape, and a classic Zachtronics-like to round off the selection in UVS Nirmana
• Calum roots and/or toots his way through paranormal deserts with Far Far West and looks to the past with Final Fantasy 16

• 00:03:35 - Final Fantasy XVI
• 00:04:32 - Far Far West
• 00:12:56 - Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred
• 00:30:38 - Life is Strange: Reunion
• 00:36:17 - Mixtape
• 00:49:45 - UVS Nirmana
• 00:54:05 - Shapez 2 1.0
• 00:56:41 - News - Sony is not only seeing a drop in PS5 sales after the price hike, they haven't seen a return on investment with Bungie yet
• 01:02:28 - News - The CEO of Monument Valley developer UsTwo hates that their employees want things like "job security" and "pensions"
• 01:06:24 - Calum shares some genuinely exciting news from the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest, in his continual effort to get Euan to play the game
• 01:30:01 - Upcoming & Housekeeping

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

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00:08:40 - Diablo 4

00:28:54 - Chronos

00:53:08 - 2XKO

01:24:35 - News - Firaxis is the latest company to let people go.

01:28:38 - News - Vampire The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will no longer lock some vampire families behind launch DLC, and instead will launch separate DLC later.

01:29:38 - News - Randy Pitchford is tweeting through it again. Joy.

01:39:12 - Upcoming & Housekeeping

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

I write this while I should be playing Destiny so....

We Played...

• Euan plans destructive heists in Teardown, tries to survive hard winter with friends in Project Winter, and tries coop chaos simulator Strange Brigade
• Calum discusses the ups and one massive down of Apex Legends: Season 7
• We talk at length about Watch Dogs: Legion. It gets kind of philosophical.

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• 13:46 - Umurangi Generation
• 14:39 - Strange Brigade
• 21:48 - Teardown
• 26:19 - Apex Legends Season 7
• 54:25 - Music Intermission 
• 56:22 - Watch Dogs: Legion
• 1:26:31 - News - HITRecord and Ubisoft
• 1:29:55 - News - Backwards Compatibility With New Consoles
• 1:34:38 - News - N7 Day / Mass Effect Legendary Edition / New Mass Effect

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com) All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Quick and cheerful podcast this time as we prepare for the coming storm of video game releases on the horizon. We also celebrate a birthday!

We Played...

• We both continue to gush over just how good Hades is.
• Calum plays creative 4X Endless Space 2 and remembers how good Titanfall 2 is in the new Apex Legends Halloween Event
• Euan talks the latest GTFO rundown, and husky based rouge-like The Red Lantern

Want to jump to something specific?...

• 7:20 - Hades
• 15:36 - Endless Space 2
• 32:06 - GTFO
• 46:24 - The Red Lantern
• 59:26 - Apex Legends Halloween Event

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com) All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Want to hear about our hobbies other than video games? We have the show for you!

We Played...

• Euan plays an old card game in new ways in The Solitaire Conspiracy and hunts some ghosts in Phasmophobia
• Calum continues to fall with Fall Guys Season 2 and dips a toe into Genshin Impact
• We both play Star Wars Squadrons with varying results.

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• 22:26 - Spelunky 2
• 23:46 - Synth Riders
• 26:37 - The Solitaire Conspiracy
• 32:41 - Fall Guys Season 2
• 39:23 - Destiny 2 Halloween Event
• 44:19 - Music Break
• 46:14 - Phasmophobia
• 1:01:16 - Genshin Impact
• 1:08:20 - Star Wars: Squadrons
• 1:25:09 - News - First Hands-On With Xbox Series X
• 1:27:02 - News - Official Sony PlayStation 5 Tear Down
• 1:31:30 - News - Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access / People Make Boring Characters

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com) All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

This podcast takes a turn from talking about home ownership to video games. Wild swings I know.

We Played...

• Euan talks further about Tell Me Why and speaks vaguely on Othercide, in preparation for a video later.
• We both spend a lot of time talking about the absolute gem that is Hades

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• 13:40 - Tell Me Why
• 20:43 - Othercide
• 24:05 - Hades
• 1:06:00 - Music Break
• 1:21:39 - News - Playstation 5 Date/Price and Communication Failure
• 1:40:15 - News - No More Robots E-Shop Investigation
• 1:41:45 - News - Amazon Luna
• 1:4638 - News - Microsoft Purchased Zenimax

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com) All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

After a week gap, we return and we aren't even talking about the game we took a week off to play! Isn't that something!

We Played...

• Euan inhabits not sad teens in Tell Me Why, surprising for a Dontnod game and is disapointed by the Control: AWE DLC. Also Paradise Killer is a game that you should really just hear about.
• Calum Re-turns to an underappreciated gem in Kingdoms of Amalur: ReReckoning and dies many times in Risk of Rain 2.

Want to jump to something specific?...

• 12:20 - Tell Me Why
• 28:01 - Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning
• 42:20 - Control DLC - AWE
• 52:46 - Music Break
• 57:40 - Crusader Kings III
• 1:06:52 - Risk of Rain 2
• 1:15:56 - Paradise Killer
• 1:36:05 - News - XBox Series S/X Price Details
• 2:17:07 - News - Super Mario 3D All Stars
• 2:22:59 - News - Ubisoft Fails to Address Many Controversies

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com) All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Calum writes this as he's busy looking for gigabit internet so... yea... video games

We Played...

• Euan gets back to Doom Eternal, then a dramatic tone change in Spiritfarer, then is baffled by The Avengers Beta
• Calum talks about the current state of COVID Wrestling, Season 6 of Apex Legends, and does many drop kicks in Dying Light

Want to jump to something specific?...

• 2:24 - Gigabit Internet
• 8:45 - Doom Eternal
• 15:59 - Spiritfarer
• 18:44 - Marvel Avengers Beta
• 37:08 - Wrestling/Summerslam
• 51:13 - Music Break
• 52:43 - Calums Destiny 2 Update™
• 55:35 - Apex Legends Season 6
• 1:04:21 - Dying Light
• 1:14:34 - New DC Games
• 1:21:04 - Epic vs Apple

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com) All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

We return with another fine selection of video games. From the wordy to the weird to the wonderful.

We Played...

• Euan plays a duo of visual novella experiences with Necrobarista and Erica
• Calum betrays and lies to his friends in Among Us. It's not as evil as it sounds.
• We both run, jump and, as the name suggests, fall in Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout

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• 6:59 - Among Us
• 15:28 - Necrobarista
• 25:49 - Erica
• 34:37 - Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
• 54:08 - Music Break
• 56:45 - News - Konami are making (bad) ESports hardware
• 1:02:02 - News - Nintendo launched their absurd Animal Crossing: New Horizons save backup system
• 1:09:49 - News - The "gigaleak" of Nintendo assets and source code
• 1:17:20 - News - Apple are preventing the Microsoft xCloud streaming app from being released on the iOS app store.
• 1:34:37 - News - The makers of Lethal League have finally done the thing and announced a Jet Set Radio game in everything but name
• 1:37:48 - We started playing the Halo series. We don't think it's very good.

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com) All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0