The Crate and Crowbar

Jamie, Tom and Marsh head out into the wild blue yonder (without headphones on like some kind of smug Japanese writer) and talk about 3 open world games, somewhat alike in dignity. * Assassin’s Creed: Shadows is the brand new tiny-sword-up-my-sleeve ’em up, has peerless breezes, great killings, but boy is there a lot of it! * Atomfall is a game that Jamie loves more than just about anyone else he can find, listen to him incoherently try and explain why. * Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is a game in which you play a smelly man who wants to be less smelly and is prepared to save and quit in order to do it. You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

The distant troglodyte descendants of Jamie and Marsh relive memories of the before-times and the joyous videogames that were once played, namely: 1000xResist, Type Help and Pathologic 3: Quarantine. * Pathologic 3: Quarantine is the demo for a larger forthcoming game, and is harrowing in about every way it can be. * 1000xResist is a brilliant game about many things, including generational trauma and big pigeons. Contains mild jumping. * This is a good video deep dive into the game. * Type Help is an information game with a killer discovery mechanic and a wicked mystery. Bloody devil! * Tom Francis, who has the best sheets, and now an IGF Award for Excellence in Design, did a video review of Type Help, here. You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Tom S joins Marsh to be baffled by BAFTA noms, enjoy the chaotic departure from military fiction in Black Ops 6, put on a purple frenzied bone hat in Monster Hunter, and bolster our collection of severed tongues in Avowed like the nimdoots we are. * The BAFTA website has been designed by maniacs. You can just put things in a list! In a text list! There wasn’t a problem to solve there! Why am I expanding subcategories and scrolling horizontally just to see six fucking names, you FIENDS? * Tactical Breach Wizards deserves to win all the categories, but was only nominated for Best Game Design. * Black Ops 6 is the silliest Call of Duty yet, and, not coincidentally, also the best. * Monster Hunter is a series I will never understand, but I will admit that it looks cool to wallop the big lizards in Monster Hunter Wilds. * Fungal fantasy RPG Avowed is a 7/10 (extremely complimentary). You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Jamie and Marsh wallop their way through a sea of fascists in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and enjoy the peaches, pots and permadeath of Shiren the Wanderer 6. * Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is made by Machine Games, also known for the Wolfenstein reboot, its sequels and some brilliant level packs for Quake and Quake 2. * Quinns Quest is a cool Youtube channel about TTRPGs * Shiren the Wanderer 6: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island. You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Chris, Jamie, and friend of pod Paul Canavan squat doon in a cundie with a bottle of buckie and some (probably vegan) haggis tae blether aboot Scottish games and games that aren’t Scottish. We talk the excellent thrills, chills, and repeated drops off of oil rigs of fab walking sim Still Wakes The Deep, the hand crafted psychedelia of indie curio Judero, as well as the addictive properties of Xenotilt, the visceral Clinton jump scares of CODBLOPS6 and the ugly, bonkers world of Straftat (Straftat! Straftat!). * Still Wakes The Deep * Judero and its charming making of video.* Straftat* Xenotilt* Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Music for today’s episode: Fiddles McGinty by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-… Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Back Gold Teeth, look at Pale Tides, and buy Chris’ books here. You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to this episode on on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.

Chris, Senior Tom and Marsh convene to talk Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, Diablo 4, Rise Of The Golden Idol, Xenotilt, Destiny 2 and then Chris talks about Dragon Age: Veilguard non-stop for about 45 minutes and it’s kind of incredible. * Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a game about cutting robots into many bits, or just two bits.* Diablo 4 is a game about killing many things and number go up, but at what cost.* Xenotilt is a pinball game that Jamie is now completely addicted to, thanks Chris. * Rise Of The Golden Idol might be a tad disappointing. * Dragon Age: Veilguard is a game about the Arcane Mark/Evil Greg dichotomy. Back Gold Teeth, Pale Tides, and buy Chris’ books here. You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to this episode on on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

In which Tom Senior, Marsh Davies and Jamie Brittain convene on a perfectly normal and entirely non-epoch defining night in early November 2024 to discuss God Of War: Ragnarök at length, as well as providing various witterings about trailers good, names bad, books read and John Wayne movies for some reason. At one point Jamie gleefully imagines Kratos pulling the arms of a sacred deity. A good time is more or less had by all. * God Of War: Ragnarök* Monster Hunter Wild* Caravan SandWitch * Jamie is reading The Great When by Alan Moore, Educated by Tara Westover and In The Days Of Rain by Rebecca Stott* Tom is reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei, Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo* Marsh is reading Maclom Gaskill’s The Ruin Of All Witches. Back Gold Teeth, Pale Tides, and buy Chris’ books here. You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Tom S, Jamie and Marsh gather, like a drift of dead leaves, to discuss some seasonally spooky games: Alan Wake 2 and Mouthwashing. Also mentioned: Arco and Grunn. * Painshill Park. The crystal grotto is closed on Mondays. * Alan Wake 2 * Remember Quantum Break? My sympathies. * Garth Marenghi is a better writer than Alan Wake, and he’s meant to be awful. * Mouthwashing * Arco * Grunn * Youtuber Lazy Game Reviews talks about The Sims You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Marsh, Jamie and Chris convene to navigate the bouncy balls of Peglin, the less bouncy but surprisingly solid shooty-bangs of Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2, before failing to enjoy UFO 50 as much as they probably should. Games Discussed: * Peglin* Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2* UFO 50 Back Gold Teeth here! You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at [email protected], or look for the newly added questions forum on our discord. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Jamie kindly permits Marsh to talk about Gold Teeth, the tabletop roleplaying game he’s Kickstarting, which is just an excuse to ramble at length about roleplaying games more broadly with excellent chums Jim Rossignol and Chris Lackey. * Gold Teeth! It’s a game of piracy and occult horror! * Strange Studies of Strange Stories – an excellent podcast that deftly unpicks literary tales of the sinister, supernatural or simply weird. Well worth a sub. Patton Oswalt thinks so! * Strange Stories is also soon to be a roleplaying game. * Free League’s Alien RPG * Mothership (and I don’t think it’s too spoilery to say that the time-loop module is Time After Time) * Call of Cthulhu * Marvel Superheroes * Gamma World * Star Frontiers * Broken Compass is the game which inspires the matching-dice mechanism of Strange Stories * Daggerheart is the system developed to replace D&D for Critical Role * Thistle & Hearth – a dice-less game * Starforged – a GM-less game with extremely elaborate world generation * The Quiet Year is a map game in which the Frost Shepherds are coming. * The Burning Wheel, Mouseguard and Miseries & Misfortunes are all games by Luke Crane. You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at [email protected] or tweet us @crateandcrowbar. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.