Saturday, 20 August 2022

21. Which character should become our fourth podcast host?

Let's be honest, it's clear this podcast is treading water. Taking *on* water. It's time for new blood. Just like sometimes you have to add Danny DeVito to a show to make it the best thing in existence, we're not so proud that we can't admit that our podcast is a real turd - and the only answer is new personnel!

So, join us, as we have a tense roundtable to decide which games character we think has what it takes to join the elite team of Never Be Game Over hosts.

There can be only one.

Friday, 5 August 2022

20. 'GoldenEye 007' (N64, 1997)

Sega may have done what Nintendon’t but it turns out that what Nintendidn’t was shit their business down the pan by not making a weirdly off-brand adaptation of a film franchise about an assassin who smashes cocktails, smashes ladies and smashes the plans of megalomaniacs worldwide.

Yep, we come to a weird granddaddy here, a game that, all things being equal, should never have achieved the level of success and cultural cache it did - but we are where we are, so join the lads on a journey back to the late nineties, when it was apparently okay to release game adaptations of films two years after their cinema release.


Now, pay attention, 007