Lapsed Gamer Radio

Hello all and welcome to the latest episode of Lapsed Gamer Radio. This week, it's the regular crew of Mark, Cev and Andy joined by the mysterious team member who lurks around and goes by the name of Chazzee. They find out what he's been up to and what he's been playing since they last spoke many moons ago whilst catching up on what they've been dipping into since the last episode that turns out , in a bizarre twist, to include a couple of the big hitters  "Fallout 4" and "Uncharted 4: A Thief's End".

 

Along with the customary (cursory) glance at the world of gaming news and their usual  sometimes wonky take on that, the gang also make their own wild predictions about the imminent E3 show along with some fun community help.

We still have a few free games to give away and the doc can be found at 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HTHbVerYJ2PF1gTcDMmBL24HeuIrN67896Ncn3R_1l4 

This episode was created by the Lapsed Gamer Radio Team. Edited by Cev.

Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore. For more details about this episode, including any links to relevant material, full music usuage listings and notes, as well as our full contact information and where to go for additional LGR content - please visit our blog: http://lapsedgamerradio.blogspot.co.uk/

You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/ and if you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive.

Thank you for listening and best of luck with your own efforts to pick up the controller and play and more power to your forearms!

Hello all and welcome to the latest episode of Lapsed Gamer Radio. This week Mark, Cev and Andy are here to entertain you with their adventures in video games.

Mark starts proceedings this week with a wee apology before moving on to the main section which is of course, our opportunity to catch-up on the news of what we’ve been playing recently - featuring discussion of FALLOUT 4: AUTOMATON, HITMAN GO, BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS, SUPER STAR WARS, TABLE TOP RACING: WORLD TOUR, RENEGADE, LOCOROCO COCCORECHO and of course OVERWATCH BETA.

We then proceed to have our customary natter about any gaming news stories that have grabbed the team's attention.

We still have a few free games to give away and the doc can be found at
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HTHbVerYJ2PF1gTcDMmBL24HeuIrN67896Ncn3R_1l4

This episode was created by the Lapsed Gamer Radio Team. Edited by Mark & Cev with music selections by Mark.

Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore. For more details about this episode, including any links to relevant material, full music usuage listings and notes, as well as our full contact information and where to go for additional LGR content - please visit our blog: http://lapsedgamerradio.blogspot.co.uk/

You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/ and if you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive.

Hello all and welcome to the latest episode of Lapsed Gamer Radio. This week Mark, Cev, Andy and Stuart are here to entertain you with their adventures in video games.

We kick-off with a mini-topic of films based on games and if you had your pick of which game you could make into a movie, what would it be, who would you cast, and who would direct?

Our main section is of course, our opportunity to catch-up on the news of what we’ve been playing recently - featuring discussion of RATCHET & CLANK, DESTINY, ROCKET LEAGUE, LIFE IS STRANGE, SHADOW OF MORDOR, AFTERBURNER CLIMAX, CIVILIZATION REVOLUTION, TROPICO 5, MASS EFFECT, HEARTHSTONE, THE WONDERFUL 101, and BIOSHOCK. We also mention the CUBE ESCAPE games as a lunch hour game of the week.

We then proceed to have our customary brief natter about any gaming news stories that have caught the team’s interest and cover a couple of listener questions.

The game giveaway doc we mention in the show can be found at

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HTHbVerYJ2PF1gTcDMmBL24HeuIrN67896Ncn3R_1l4

This episode was created by the Lapsed Gamer Radio Team. Edited by Mark Hamer, with music selections by all the hosts.

Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore.

For more details about this episode, including any links to relevant material, full music usuage listings and notes, as well as our full contact information and where to go for additional LGR content - please visit our blog: http://lapsedgamerradio.blogspot.co.uk/

You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/ and if you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive. Thank you for listening and best of luck with your own efforts to pick up the controller and play!

Hello all and welcome to the latest episode of Lapsed Gamer Radio. This week Mark, Andy and Stuart manage to keep the dream alive of picking up the controller more often.

We kick-off with a few quick listener questions covering THE DIVISION: INCURSIONS update and what games we want to complete before the end of the year.

Our main section is of course, our opportunity to catch-up on the news of what we’ve been playing recently - featuring discussion of L.A. NOIRE, BURN IT DOWN, LOST REAVERS Beta, THE DIVISION, DESTINY, DARK SOULS III, SPLATOON, MARIO KART 8, THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE WIND WAKER, GOD OF WAR: ASCENSION and MIDDLE EARTH: SHADOW OF MORDOR.

We then proceed to have our customary brief natter about any gaming news stories that have caught the team’s interest.

This episode was created by the Lapsed Gamer Radio Team. Edited by Mark Hamer, with music selections by all the hosts.

Music and Audio sampled in this episode:

Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore.

Other excerpts used in this episode include music from HERO QUEST, MASS EFFECT, NO MAN’S SKY, L.A. NOIRE, GOD OF WAR: ASCENSION, LOTR: THE RETURN OF THE KING, DARK SOULS III, THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE WIND WAKER, CLASH ROYALE, LEGACY OF KAIN: DEFIANCE.

For more details about this episode, including any links to relevant material, full music usuage listings and notes, as well as our full contact information and where to go for additional LGR content - please visit our blog: http://lapsedgamerradio.blogspot.co.uk/

You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/ and if you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive. Thank you for listening and best of luck with your own efforts to pick up the controller and play!

Hello all and welcome to the latest episode of Lapsed Gamer Radio. This week Mark, Cev and Lee are joined by long-time listener and LGR community member, the one and only, Master Chief Stuart Cullen.

As is now our custom, we kick-off with a few quick listener questions and chaos soon  ensues as an irresistible force meets an immovable object when sparks fly over sacred cows such as CALL OF DUTY, DESTINY and even our beloved Nintendo comes under attack! Andy Palmer we’re holding you responsible, ha! ha!

Once pleasantries resume we catch-up with news of what we’ve been playing featuring discussion of THE WOLF AMONG US, QUANTUM BREAK, THOMAS WAS ALONE: BENJAMIN’S FLIGHT, TROPICO 5, MORTAL KOMBAT X and the BATTLEBORN open beta.  

We then proceed to have a brief natter about a few gaming news stories that have come to our attention and offer thanks for the community feedback we’ve received of late.

This episode was created by the Lapsed Gamer Radio Team. Edited by Cevin Moore, with music selections by all the hosts.

Music and Audio sampled in this episode:

Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore.

Other excerpts used in this episode are from QUANTUM LEAP (Mike Post), “Breaking the Law” by Judas Priest, THE WOLF AMONG US (Jared Emerson-Johnson), THOMAS WAS ALONE (David Housden) and “My Tears Are Becoming A Sea” by M83.

For more details about this episode, including any links to relevant material as well as our full contact information and additional content - please visit our blog: http://lapsedgamerradio.blogspot.co.uk/

You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/ and if you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive. Thank you for listening and best of luck with your own efforts to pick up the controller and play!

Greetings and a warm welcome to the latest instalment of LGR. After some unforeseen and stubborn editing issues we’ve got this, slightly late, episode ready for release.

We cover a couple of quick twitter queries at the start of this show, but we’d like more listener questions so do Email, Tweet or FB comment LGR and we’ll answer them on upcoming episodes.

There’s the latest updates from Mark, Cev, Andy and Stuart on what we’ve done with the gaming time we have mustered of late, an XBox news update from our very own Adam Ducker and we cover a selection of other recent news stories.

This episode was created by the Lapsed Gamer Radio Team. Edited by Cevin Moore, with music selections by all the hosts.

Music and Audio sampled in this episode:

Original LGR themes, FX and music cues  created and composed by Cevin Moore

Doom Beta Menu Music by Mick Gordon

Assassins Creed Black Flag: Pirates Beware by Brian Tyler & Sarah Schachner

Hand Of Fate: Deal Of The Millennium by Jeff Van Dyck

Doom: Main Title Theme by Mick Gordon

Mitch Murder - Breeze (from the Trackmania Turbo OST)

Silent Scope: Scorpion's Theme

Headhunter Soundtrack: Jack's Theme by Richard Jacques

Hitman Go: Theme 1

Tropico 5: Motika & Pan Con Queso by Carbon

Underworld - Moaner (Relentless Legs Mix)

Breakbot - Shades Of Black (from the Trackmania Turbo OST)

For more details about this episode, including any links to relevant material as well as our full contact information and additional content - please visit our blog: http://lapsedgamerradio.blogspot.co.uk/

You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/ and if you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive. Thank you for listening and best of luck with your own efforts to pick up the controller and play!

Welcome listeners to the return of the LGR PlayList. The nominated game this time is GRIM FANDANGO: REMASTERED and your mortally expired tour guides for this perilous voyage through the Land of the Dead are Mark, Lee and Andy.

Born from the innovative mind of Double Fine’s Tim Schafer (THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND, DAY OF THE TENTACLE, BROKEN AGE) GRIM FANDANGO is a critically acclaimed ‘old school’ point and click adventure game from LucasArts in which the player converses with other characters and examines, collects, and uses objects correctly to solve puzzles in order to progress. Groundbreaking in its day, GRIM FANDANGO saw LucasArts use 3D computer graphics overlaid on pre-rendered static backgrounds for the first time.

Our protagonist is ‘travel agent’ for the recently deceased Manual “Manny” Calavera and we take on his role in his quest to save Mercedes “Meche” Colomar, an innocent soul duped out of her deserved seat on the luxury express train the “Number Nine” which offers a much coveted direct-route to the Ninth Underworld.

The 2015 remastered version of the game under discussion today retains all of the storytelling and comedic genius of the original but how does GRIM FANDANGO actually play for us after all these years since its original release in the late 1990s? Would we recommend it to experienced or lapsed gamers? Stay tuned to find out.

This episode was created by the Lapsed Gamer Radio Team. Edited by Mark Hamer and Cevin Moore, with music and audio selections by Mark Hamer.

Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore. Other music and audio sampled in this episode is from the remastered original soundtrack from GRIM FANDANGO composed by Peter McConnell, ‘Drake’s Theme’ from UNCHARTED: GOLDEN ABYSS by Clint Bajakian and “Coffee in the Pot” by SUPERGRASS from their album Road to Rouen.

For more details about this episode, including any links to relevant material as well as our full contact information - please visit our blog: http://lapsedgamerradio.blogspot.co.uk/

You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/ and if you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive. Thank you for listening and best of luck with your own efforts to pick up the controller and play!

Welcome to the latest instalment of LGR. This week we’re truly going international with another addition to the team from sunny Canada: Adam Ducker. 

We’re very glad to have a great e-mail to get our teeth into from Tom Philip who questions some of the graphics on some of the latest AAA titles... We’d like more listener questions so do Email, Tweet or FB comment LGR and we’ll answer them on upcoming episodes.

There’s the latest updates on what we’ve done with the gaming time we have mustered of late, get up to speed with Adam and cover a selection of recent news stories.

This episode was created by the Lapsed Gamer Radio Team. Edited by Mark Hamer, with music selections by all the hosts.

Music and Audio sampled in this episode:

Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore

Far Cry Primal - Trials of the Gwarpati [composed by Jason Graves]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Geralt of Rivia [composed by Marcin Przybyłowicz & Mikolai Stroinski]

Fallout 4 - Main Theme [composed by Inon Zur]

Valiant Hearts: The Great War - War [composed by Ian Livingstone]

That Dragon, Cancer - Calm Before The Storm [composed by John Hillman]

Final Fantasy Type 0 - Rem Tokimiya [composed by Takeharu Ishimoto]

Uncharted: Golden Abyss - Drake's Theme [composed by Clint Bajakian]

Clash Royale - Battle 03

Rocket League - Firework [composed by Hollywood Principle]

The Division - Precinct Siege [composed by Ola Strandh]

The Division - Take Back New York [composed by Ola Strandh]

Lego Batman 2 - The Brave and the Bald [composed by Rob Westwood]

Hearthstone - Tricks of the Trade [composed by Peter McConnell]

The Walking Dead - Main Theme [UNKLE Remix]

L.A. Noire - Main Theme [composed by Andrew Hale and Simon Hale]

Hitman Go - Main Theme [composed by Pixel Audio]

The Wolf Among Us - Opening Credits [composed by Jared Emerson-Johnson]

The Wolf Among Us - Bigby's Apartment [composed by Jared Emerson-Johnson]

Tomb Raider - Overture [composed by Jason Graves]

Assassin's Creed Rogue - Main Theme [composed by Elitsa Alexandrova]

Assassin's Creed Rogue - The Hunter [composed by Elitsa Alexandrova]

You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/

If you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive.

Plus, if you would like to guest on a specific episode or join the regular LGR podcast team - please email us: lapsedgamerradio@gmail.com

We’d love to hear any feedback/ideas for new podcast sections you might have and we encourage you to send in any questions you would like us to discuss on the show.

Come chat with us on Twitter @LapsedGamer and like our Lapsed Gamer Radio page on FaceBook. Search for ‘Lapsed Gamer Radio’ on FaceBook and add yourself to the growing community in our brand new LGR FB Group. For more content, also check-out the ‘Lapsed Gamer’ channel on YouTube.

Thank you for listening and best of luck with your own efforts to pick up the controller and play!

In this mini extra episode, LGR alumni Ryan Hamann of the Cane and Rinse podcast gives us his thoughts on GDC 2016, including VR headsets, weird and wonderful games, the GDC and IGDA awards, and various panels.

This episode was created by Ryan Hamann and the Lapsed Gamer Radio Team. Edited by Mark Hamer with music selections by Cevin Moore and Mark Hamer.

Music and Audio sampled in this episode:

Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore

“Coffee In The Pot” by Supergrass taken from their album Road To Rouen. Plus, the  following tracks from FEZ by Disasterpeace: Sync, Glitch, Home, Reflection, Flow, Beacon, Majesty.

You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/

If you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive.

Plus, if you would like to guest on a specific episode or join the regular LGR podcast team - please email us: lapsedgamerradio@gmail.com

We’d love to hear any feedback/ideas for new podcast sections you might have and we encourage you to send in any questions you would like us to discuss on the show.

Come chat with us on Twitter @LapsedGamer and like our Lapsed Gamer Radio page on FaceBook. Search for ‘Lapsed Gamer Radio’ on FaceBook and add yourself to the growing community in our brand new LGR FB Group. For more content, also check-out the ‘Lapsed Gamer’ channel on YouTube.

Thank you for listening and best of luck with your own efforts to pick up the controller and play!

Welcome to the latest instalment of LGR. This week the team are joined by community gent, Stuart Neill who brings a most valued perspective on Steam gaming and the gems to be discovered on that platform. He also kindly offers up some free game codes, so listen carefully and contact us with the name of the game you would like to receive the code for. One code per listener, first come, first served!

We also offer a ramble-shackle response to a listener question sent in by Justin Knowles: Q) Is there a particular game/series/genre that you would like to see make a comeback? If so what improvements should it have?

We’d like more listener questions so do Email, Tweet or FB comment LGR and we’ll answer them on upcoming episodes.

Also on this show, we all chip in with updates on what gaming time we have mustered of late and cover a selection of recent news stories.

What we’ve been playing: Thomas Was Alone (Lee), The Division (Mark), BroForce (Cev), The Order: 1886 (Andy), Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (Andy).

News:

• Diablo II gets a new patch, 16 years after release [as reported by Kotaku]

• Warcraft III is getting a patch, 14 years after release [as reported by Polygon]

• J.J. Abrams confirms that Half-Life and Portal movies are still in development [as reported by IGN]

• Sonic the Hedgehog is finally making his movie debut [as reported by Wired]

• The number of physical stores selling video games jumped up in 2015 [as reported by MCVUK]

• Total War: Warhammer has been delayed [as reported by EuroGamer]

• Must-have Wii U games to join Nintendo Selects range in April [as reported by Nintendo UK]

• SNES games are back: Nintendo brings retro games to ‘New’ 3DS [as reported by Daily Star]

• Why SNES VC games can only be played on a ‘New’ 3DS [as reported by NintendoLife]

• Microsoft to let Xbox One games connect with PC and other console networks [as reported by EuroGamer]

This episode was created by the Lapsed Gamer Radio Team. Edited by Mark Hamer, with music selections by all the hosts.

Music and Audio sampled in this episode:

Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore

THOMAS WAS ALONE - Where Are You by David Housden

THE DIVISION - Precinct Siege by Ola Strandh

THE DIVISION - Take Back New York by Ola Strandh

BROFORCE - Main Theme by Strident

THE ORDER: 1886 - Agamemnon Rising by Jason Graves

THE ORDER: 1886 - The Knighthood by Jason Graves

TOMB RAIDER - Overture by Jason Graves

DONKEY KONG COUNTRY - Main Theme by Dave Wise, Eveline Novakovic and Robin Beanland

You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/

If you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive.

Plus, if you would like to guest on a specific episode or join the regular LGR podcast team - please email us: lapsedgamerradio@gmail.com

We’d love to hear any feedback/ideas for new podcast sections you might have and we encourage you to send in any questions you would like us to discuss on the show.

Come chat with us on Twitter @LapsedGamer and like our Lapsed Gamer Radio page on FaceBook. Search for ‘Lapsed Gamer Radio’ on FaceBook and add yourself to the growing community in our brand new LGR FB Group. For more content, also check-out the ‘Lapsed Gamer’ channel on YouTube.

Thank you for listening and best of luck with your own efforts to pick up the controller and play!