We're at an ebb in the ebb and flow of video game releases. Nice relaxed podcast today. We Played... Euan gives all the updates this week with Mars First Logistics and System Shock Timestamps 00:08:02 - Final Fantasy XVI 00:09:07 - System Shock 00:13:18 - Mars First Logistics 00:21:38 - News - Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't have a release date on Xbox yet, as Larian is having issues getting split-screen working on the Series S 00:24:23 - News - Annapurna rounded off Not-E3 with a bunch of new games, an...
Jul 11, 2023•53 min•Ep. 237
The weather is hot and so are the video games. Actually, not really we've hit the end of the big new releases. There's more to talk about! We Played... Euan talks about several Steam Next Fest demos, and continues to wander around in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Calum talks newest release Final Fantasy XVI. It's the sixteenth Final Fantasy game and I will hear no other arguments at this time. Timestamps 00:08:13 - Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 00:16:57 - Final Fantasy XVI 00:46:08 - Twitch continue...
Jun 27, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 236
It's the start of video game releases. The heavy hitters start now! We Played... Calum talks the two big releases in Diablo 4 and Street Fighter 6. Busy time for fans of ARPGs and fighting games across the land. Euan gives his opinion on Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom . Will it be different from the majority? Listen to find out! Timestamps 00:02:13 - Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 00:11:59 - Diablo 4 00:34:40 - Street Fighter 6 00:58:49 - Quick Destiny check in for the new season 01:02:04 - News - Jas...
Jun 13, 2023•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 235
The conversations went long this week. More to enjoy! MusicIntermission Music Jack Da Funk - Hideki Naganuma - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Side 1 Bandcamp We Played... Euan talks about his Jedi Survivor experience, and playing Dead by Daylight on a Steam Deck Calum talks Idol Showdown , Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and hot game of the moment Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Timestamps 00:04:35 - The New Website is Done! 00:06:11 - Jedi Survivor 00:40:27 - Dead by Daylight on Steam Deck 00:45:29 - Idol ...
May 23, 2023•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 234
Returning from a holiday and games start coming out. What a time to have a podcast We Played… Euan plays Shadows of Doubt , a game with more genres than time I have to type them out here. You’ll just have to listen. We both “played” Redfall and have some thoughts. They are not good thoughts, but they are thoughts. Calum talks at length about Star Wars Jedi: Survivor . As a Star Wars fan, you can imagine this is a long discussion. Timestamps… 02:01 – Holidays & our bodies are getting old. 07:...
May 09, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 233
Shorter catch up this week as we lie in wait for the release hellscape of May/June. Also Euan has holidays to go on so we didn’t want to leave you good people hanging. We Played… Euan played a variety of smaller games, including Drop: System Breach, Dredge, A Little To The Left Calum has a Destiny 2 Catchup as the seasonal story ends and talks massive changes to DOTA 2 (yes he’s playing DOTA 2 again) Timestamps… 0:02:14 – Euan’s Catch-up 0:05:44 – Pistol Whip, and Borderlands OST 0:07:57 – Dredg...
Apr 25, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 232
It’s been a while since we did this. Luckily, there are games to talk about. Intermission Music Photosynthetic Skin – Amos Roddy – Citizen Sleeper (Original Soundtrack) Bandcamp We Played… Calum played in the weekend limited Diablo 4 Beta . Euan played maze building PvP game Meet Your Maker by the creators of Dead by Daylight We both played Resident Evil 4 Remake . As much as we enjoyed the original, it has been a very long time. Timestamps… 00:09:01 – Diablo 4 Beta 00:30:13 – Meet Your Maker 00...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 231
It’s that time of year again. It’s time to talk about Destiny for an inordiante amount of time. Spoiler Warning – We talk about the story of Destiny 2: Lightfall between 16:24 and 22:33. Intermission Music Calling Upon Bravery – Eddie Marianukroh – Chained Echoes (Original Game Soundtrack) Bandcamp We Played… Calum talks Destiny 2: Lightfall , the latest expansion. That’s it, that’s all he talks about Euan talks mech based XCOM-like Phantom Brigade Timestamps… 4:22 – Destiny 2: Lightfall 16:24 –...
Mar 14, 2023•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 230
It’s 2023 and we are back doing what we do best. Making mediocre content. Welcome in. We Played… It’s 2008 again as Euan plays the Dead Space remake, gets in some cel shaded music action in Hifi Rush, and deals with the baffling experience that is Atomic Heart. When not prepping to spend the next few weeks in a Destiny 2 hole with the new expansion, Calum has been putting time into modern retro JRPG Chained Echos Timestamps… 1:49 – Dead Space 12:20 – Hifi Rush 15:52 – Atomic Heart 28:02 – Destin...
Feb 28, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 229
Grab yourself a warm drink and a blanket, shuffle up next to us as we talk about the year gone past in video games. The good, the bad, and the existential crises Spoiler Warning We were pretty good at calling out when we are going to talk about endings and the like, but maybe don’t give a huge amount of notice. You have been warned. Timestamps… Sifu – 0:02:29 Hardspace: Shipbreaker – 0:07:39 Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – 0:15:09 We Are OFK – 0:23:29 God of War: Ragnarok – 0:27:59 IXION – 0:48:47 Citi...
Feb 07, 2023•2 hr 22 min•Ep. 228
For the last podcast of the year, we have a lot of news to talk about and even some new games. Intermission Music Cloud Nine – Machine Girl – Neon White OST 1 – The Wicked Heart Bandcamp We Played… We wrap up The Game Awards and all the announcements there in We both catch up on our god killing progress in God of War Ragnarok Calum prevents a chaos incursion in Warhammer 40k: Darktide and becomes best friends with marvel heros in Marvel’s Midnight Suns Timestamps… 2:14 – 2023 is already looking ...
Dec 13, 2022•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 227
It’s getting towards the end of the year which means god there are so many games to play. Intermission Music Ember’s Wake – Amos Roddy – Citizen Sleeper Bandcamp We Played… Euan plays PS1 style sci-fi thriller Signalis Calum plays the “perfectly 6/7 out of 10” Harvestella and tells us the story of attending the Scottish Esports League We both become gods once again in God of War: Ragnarok Timestamps… 0:30 – Holy crap it’s almost December 1:33 – Signalis 9:26 – Shadows of Rose – Resident Evil Vil...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 226
One of us went on holiday and still managed to play loads of video games. Isn’t the modern world fantastic? Intermission Music Customer Service – Eli Rainsberry – Wilmot’s Warehouse OST Bandcamp | Itch.io We Played… Calum talks professional DOTA with TI Final , and plays yet another card game in Marvel Snap , and is really presently surprised. Euan checks the rat tech in A Plague Tale: Requiem , and takes a look at dystopian point-and-click turn based RPG (too many genres) Sunday Gold Timestamps...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 225
Real world delivery issues are key to this weeks podcast. Intermission Music Murky Brew – Alberto Sueri and Johnny Moutzouris – Eville OST Steam Also we talk about Brandon Acker before the break, and you should go check out his YouTube channel We Played… Calum played stuff on a Steam Deck . Various games, of varying quality, just had a grand old time. Euan solves puzzles in Egression and hates solving puzzles in Scorn. Timestamps… 0:47 – Ordering a Xmas tree in October 3:20 – Calum got his Steam...
Oct 18, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 224
It’s a short pod as we venture into Autumn, with a good mix of old, new and new that reminds you of old. We Played… Euan finishes We Are OFK, and ventures into some modern nostalgia with Return to Monkey Island Calum is preparing to get a Steam Deck and keeps busy in Guild Wars 2 when not continuing doing Savage Raids in Final Fantasy XIV Timestamps… 0:46 – Guild Wars 2 is still a franchise 4:30 – What’s Out in October 8:40 – We Are OFK 13:09 – Rollerdrome 14:33 – Crimesight 17:50 – Return to Mo...
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 223
Calum took some time off to play one video game a lot. Luckily we have a space to talk about that experience. Intermission Music The Disaster of Passion – AISHA & Arc System Works – GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK VOL.1 Amazon We Played… Euan played tiny platformer Tinykin and the latest Sam Barlow epic Immortality Calum goes in-depth of the ins and outs of Final Fantasy XIV Savage Raiding Timestamps… 2:11 – Hey, people are actually listening to this! 8:07 – Tinykin 14:52 – Immorta...
Sep 13, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 222
It’s finally time to talk openly about one of our favourite games of the year. Calum wasn’t available, so Euan has drafted in friend of the site, and narrative game connoisseur, Vaida to talk about the world of The Eye, the incredible characters we meet there, and just how well this game uses mechanics from tabletop games to add to the storytelling. This is a spoilercast, so we talk openly about the events of the plot of Citizen Sleeper and it’s first expansion. If you have not played the game y...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 221
Euan got COVID, so this is the first podcast for a while. He’s fine now, so we’re back to video games Intermission Music Follow/Unfollow – OFK – We Are OFK E.P. We Played… Calum writes this part of the post so he gets to type such sentences as “Euan plays a new ‘sad teen game'” We Are OFK , and talks about old favorites GTFO and Boneworks with Metal Gear Solid mods Calum plays out his wrestler fantasy in Rumbleverse and starts a cult (in a video game please don’t ban me) with Cult of the Lamb Ti...
Aug 23, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 220
Hopefully you all should be still be able to see this message. Hopefully you can also still hear us talk about video games. NOTE - There are mild spoilers for the ending of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 during the discussions of Xenoblade Chronicles 3. There is a warning before hand. Intermission Music Blueprint For A Slow Machine – 65daysofstatic – No Man’s Sky- Music For An Infinite Universe Amazon We Played… Euan plays hit cat sim Stray . As father to two cats, this is unsurprising Calum starts a 10...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 219
As I type this it is over 30 degrees, and I can't think. So yea, video games. We Played... Euan plays space thriller Deliver Us The Moon, adorable adventure Tunic and, of course, the latest and last Zachtronics joint, Last Call BBS. Calum wishes he could break the actual sun, and instead settles for more Monster Hunter: Sunbreak and watches teens get murdered in video game format in The Quarry Timestamps... 0:30 - Holy crap it's warm 9:10 - Deliver Us The Moon 12:55 - Last Call BBS 16:39 - Steam...
Jul 19, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 217
Been a while since we sat down and talked about some video games, so let's fix that! We Played... Euan took the hit for the site and played Elden Ring. A long conversation ensues. Calum hunts continually bigger beasts in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak and selects and makes his first pick in DNF Duel. We both played the fantastic Neon White and Euan gets mad Calum keeps beating him. Timestamps... 0:00 - Public transport can get strange. 4:39 - The Fringe is coming 11:24 - Elden Ring 48:34 - Monste...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 216
We're back to talk all things Keigh3. Summer Game Fest? This was eaiser when it was just E3. Timestamps... 1:22 - Mask assholes exist in Europe too 8:12 - Summer Game Fest 20:47 - Future Games Show 25:20 - Xbox & Bethesda, and a lot about Starfield 1:09:11 - PC Gaming Show 1:15:40 - Round up, Capcom, What's out soon? 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 L...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 215
A new audio quality for the same old podcast! We Played... Euan plays a lot with Citizen Sleeper, Furi, Card Shark and Hunt: Showdown. All at the same time! (not really) Calum hints opinions of Songs of Conquest to be expanded later, and does some vampire killing with Vampire the Masquerade: Blood Hunt Timestamps... 0:30 - Microphone Chat, ASMR and ambient noise 8:14 - Citizen Sleeper 11:20 - Half Life: Alyx Workshop support 15:20 - Furi 17:30 - Hunt Showdown 21:56 - Card Shark 25:00 - Songs of ...
May 31, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 214
With not many video games to talk about we resort to....other things. We Played... Euan talks to the voice in his head in Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, shoots xenos in Aliens: Fireteam Elite and rolls dice in a strange new VN way in Citizen Sleeper Calum talks about F1, apparently? Timestamps... 0:00 - Celebrating 30 with Taco Bell 1:40 - Game Tumbleweed 3:12 - Diablo Immortal, and why people cheat at games 8:56 - Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe 11:08 - Aliens: Fireteam Elite 15:46 - Citizen Slee...
May 10, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 213
We're already starting to hit the dry spell, so we're talking about the games we haven't stopped playing this week. We Played... Euan becomes a ghost hunter in Ghostwire: Tokyo and looks for answers in Norco Calum stands on his soapbox and has a lot of things to say about the Dragon Age series We both started brick based comedy-fest Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Timestamps... 3:56 - Go get vaccinated 11:18 - Horizon: Forbidden West 12:29 - Ghostwire: Tokyo 28:29 - Dragon Age 48:43 - Music I...
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 212
We're already starting to hit the dry spell, so we're talking about the games we haven't stopped playing this week. We Played... Euan continues to play Horizon: Forbidden West and plays to type in cyberpunk narrative character action game ANNO: Mutationem Calum continues his first Fromsoft game Sekiro and gushes over new Destiny 2 raid, Vow of the Disciple Timestamps... 1:53 - Early Morning Podcast Issues 4:07 - Horizon: Forbidden West 8:14 - ANNO: Mutationem 16:25 - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 19...
Mar 22, 2022•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 211
After a one week break there's A LOT to talk about. Well two games, but there's A LOT to say. We Played... Euan explores and is perplexed by the imapct of the story in Horizon: Forbidden West Calum talks at length about the good and bad in Destiny 2: The Witch Queen Euan dicusses the SteamFest Demos Timestamps... 0:30 - This is an Elden Ring free podcast 3:36 - Horizon: Forbidden West 43:56 - Music Interlude 45:46 - Destiny 2: The Witch Queen 1:46:33 - Neon White and Ixion Demos Intro Music - Th...
Mar 08, 2022•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 210
Since everything got delayed last year, the next few months are about to get real busy. We Played... Calum martial arts some fools in Sifu, and confirms that he's pretty good at Final Fantasy XIV After messing with Apex for the first time in 6 months, Euan does some rhythm action John Woo in Pistol Whip, then pilots a steampunk mech with no manual both in and out of VR with Nauticrawl and A Rogue Escape Timestamps... 3:24 - Sifu 22:50 - Sifu Reviews and Critisism The Verge article we talk about ...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 209
It's that time again where we talk best and least best of 2021. We ran a different format this year partially because we felt like it, partially because (as you will hear) we couldn't really fill out our normal categories with the games we had in front of us. Instead we just hit record and talked about what we liked and what we didn't, as well as the happenings in the industry. There is a podcast version of this video available in our normal podcast feed, search GameEngineStart wherever you get ...
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 208
It's that time again where we talk best and least best of 2021. We ran a different format this year partially because we felt like it, partially because (as you will hear) we couldn't really fill out our normal categories with the games we had in front of us. Instead we just hit record and talked about what we liked and what we didn't, as well as the happenings in the industry. There is a podcast version of this video available in our normal podcast feed, search GameEngineStart wherever you get ...
Feb 08, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 207
