In this week's episode, Vick Eric plays Far Cry 3 and quickly fills up his rucksack with bloody skins, Joel completes Bioshock Infinite but we can't talk about it just yet, Lisa plays Finger Tied sober and ponders aloud what it would be like to play this drunk, and Dave, ever the hipster, talks us through some IGF winners, Dys4ia and Cart Life. They're free games and you can check them out in the links below. We'll also tell you why we haven't been playing SimCity of late. Maybe we'll get back to it when they fix it? We'll see.
As you may already have heard, Disney shuttered LucasArts last week, and in memoriam we do a LucasArts retrospective and talk about the memorable (and ignominious) experiences we've had with LucasArts games through the ages. Along the way we mention point and click adventure games from the SCUMM era like Maniac Mansion, its arguably more famous successor Day of The Tentacle, the awesome Sam and Max Hit The Road, and GrimE era games like the seminal Grim Fandango. Oh yeah, we also mention a slew of generically-named Star Wars® games of varying quality. Whee.
Also, after the credits stick around for our first ever dedicated SPOILER SECTION where Dave and Joel discuss the story of Bioshock Infinite at length. If you haven't yet played this game, we highly recommend saving this for after you've finished the game, because in our opinion Bioshock Infinite is as close to a gaming masterpiece as you can get and you don't want to have the story spoiled for you. Consider yourself warned.
As usual if you have anything you'd like to add to the conversation — maybe a good memory of a LucasArts game, or if you used to work for LucasArts before last week — tell us via email [email protected] or tweet us @StaringScreens.
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Music:
Michael Land — Theme from The Curse of Monkey Island
Garry Schyman & Jim Bonney — Welcome to Columbia
