Welcome to episode 32 of the Rand(Nerds); podcast, this episode Ram’s been playing and once very expensive early access game with Galactic Civilizations 3 a game were you get to nod politely at aliens. Hes also been watching an old anime Cowboy Bebop and had some mixed feelings about it. Bard been looking at a couple of kickstarters, the bringing back of a saga classic game ToeJam and Earl, and the dragons crown inspired The Vagrant. Skazz brings up about Steam Machines and Steam OS and we discu...
Mar 19, 2015•1 hr 38 min•Season 3Ep. 32
This episode starts with disaster, Bard is attacked by his mic stand and Skazz spill his Irn-Bru, Ram has been stranding NPC’s in space in his attempt to reach the Mun with Kerbal space program . We then begin the Bard podcast, who been playing another early access game based on the game Road Rash , A motorcycle racing combat game Road Redemption . He also along with Skazz been watching the Breaking Bad spin off Better Call Saul, Bards also been collecting JoJo figure and look at other JoJo merc...
Mar 05, 2015•2 hr 49 min•Season 3Ep. 31
Skazz has decided to play games again, he been whooping aliens in Nova a Halo inspired Mobile game. Bard has been getting rotten to the core with an early access game Armello, featuring rats, bears, wolves, rabbits, and lions via for the throne. Ram has not been playing games, but had been experiment with electronics with the Arduino starter kit. Bard been watching a greaser in space with a cat being chased by google with Space Dandy. Skazz explore the greatness of the new version of the Raspber...
Feb 19, 2015•1 hr 56 min•Season 3Ep. 30
Welcome to our non-fact filled podcast, Ram has brought himself an Christmas present with Far Cry 4, a game just like Far Cry 3 but better in every way. Bard has been playing a game with scary carrots and traps with Ziggurat, however as of yet there are no confirmed boulders. Skazz brings up Monster Hunter 4, which was not in the notes causing more podcast carnage. We look at the tyranny of the Nintendo Amibos and how demos are in some way ruining games. Notes Rams Christmas present to himself w...
Feb 05, 2015•1 hr 34 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Welcome to what we think is episode 28, Bard kicks off talking about a game to itch you Star Trek captain fantasy with FTL. Ram get mocked for playing ‘Project Eden’ an ps2 port from 2001 by Core Design. Bard looks at Endless Legend a 4x fantasy game which leads onto a discussion about the good and bad parts of 4x game. Skazz update us on his challenge by completing one game already ‘Shovel knight’. Bard who read the book, and Ram who hasn’t, discuss the latest Hobbit film and its excellent moun...
Jan 22, 2015•2 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Welcome to our mini sleep deprived Christmas special, Bard’s been playing Double Dragon Neon, Ram’s been taking on a simple, easy to follow game with Crusaders Kings 2. We look at I Am Bread: Becoming Toast and discuss how toast is a blight on our history. We each pick our Game of The Year, plus further development of Space Barbarian Notes Enjoy a game that was voted against with by the majority of steam gamers Double Dragon Neon Fancy a nice simple game, well steer clear of Crusader King 2 The ...
Dec 24, 2014•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Welcome to the pre-Christmas special podcast, Bards been playing a Japanese translation of Grand Knight History wondering why it never came over here. Skazz has been getting addicted to Pokemon X and revealing how he cursed himself so he wont be playing any games next year at all except one. Ram’s been playing a flight simulator derived FPS with Project I.G.I. We lament about the lack of demos in gaming these days and how modern console have runied games. We talk about the new Star Wars film and...
Dec 16, 2014•2 hr•Season 2Ep. 26
Welcome to the new quality controlled podcast. Rams been playing and getting eaten by mutants STALKER: Call of Pripyat and we look at the painful history of the series. Bards been playing a turn base strategy with Valkyrie Chronicles featuring tanks. Ram finally unleash his inner dictator and hatred of shanty towns with Tropico 4. Bard looks forward to Game Of Thrones: Iron from Ice, the new series from telltale games, and Mordheim: City of the Dammed leading onto a discussion of other GW games....
Dec 04, 2014•2 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Welcome to another well planned and put together podcast. Skazz discuss playing Smash Brother on the 3DS and his through on the Wii U version and controller support on steam. Ram plays Alpha Centauri and shows what would happen if he was to became a dictator. Bard talks about Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and blows Ram minds with the logic of the universe, and then onto more wholesome task with Farming Simulator 15 and how Ram’s hacked it plus further Euro Truck simulator 2 adventures. We disc...
Nov 20, 2014•2 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 24
This episode we start by talking crap from the very beginning including how were all ill with possible cases of ebolia, Bard saves the day by actually playing some games such as Styx: Master of Shadows, a game similar to thief with lots of spitting. And X-com, a game unlike thief and featuring no spitting. We look forward to Portal 2: Tag and the new smash brothers game leading into a discussion on how family friendly Nitendo is. We also talk about the embarrassment of owning an XBox One and wha...
Nov 01, 2014•2 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 23
In this episode Bard has to go solo in a multiplayer game as no one else has played it despite having copy, Ram get creeped out with Alien: isolation right before we are attacked by aliens ourselves in the form of Skazz’s cat. Bard also looks at Freedom Planet. We look forward to Hotline Miami 2 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance a realistic medieval RPG. We also talk about how Hyperkin have been caught out plagiarizing with the Retron 5 We discuss both bad and good Alien films, the downside to close...
Oct 21, 2014•2 hr 57 min•Season 2Ep. 22
In this episode, which features a new angle for our video viewers thanks to some new hardware, we discuss Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze. Skazz and Ram have a strange game swap when Skazz learns the joy of long distance driving in a big truck and develops road manners, and Ram starts with minecraft and how he performs massive land clearance to increase his sheep empire. Bard looks at the slightly disappointing Hyrule Warriors and a new Gauntlet game. We find out who’s the most obsessed with steam, ...
Oct 08, 2014•2 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 21
In this more spartan episode, TheSuffolkRam talks about his new sim obsession with Euro Truck Simulator 1 and 2, and the courtesy of other AI drivers and how often hes crashed, we also look at what other simulations should (and shouldn’t) be created and how in depth some sim players get. Skazz discuss taking control of managing a band of girls with Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection, Bard and Skazz look forward to Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze and there likes and dislikes of the various...
Sep 25, 2014•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 20
Yea! We’re one year old! We celebrate with cake which almost ends in disaster as is the Rand(nerds); tradition. We look at Metro: Last Light, Dishonored, Monster Hunter, The Wonderful 101, Portal 2 and Minecraft. We talk about how steam is killing the future of the high street. Bard talks about Planet Hulk, other superhero movies and story lines. We look at the new, as yet unnamed 3DS. TheSuffolkRam look back at The Walking Dead season 2 after the release of final episode featuring spoilers. We ...
Sep 10, 2014•3 hr 24 min
With the looming threat of the blue screen of death over our heads we lung forward into episode 18, Bard talks about purchasing a WiiU with Skazz and his experences of it as a new user and where Nitendo need to improve. Ram install a game that’s been sitting on his steam account for a few years with Psychonauts and finds a good game let down by bad gameplay. We have a review by Bard of Gurdians of the Galaxiy and following on with the space theme Ram look’s forward to Doctor Who series 8 and ano...
Aug 28, 2014•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 18
On this episode we celebrate The Bard 29th naming day with ale, tea and courgettes, we discuss a smattering of text adventure, “A Spirited Seven Nights’ Haunting” the latest DLC for Muramasa and ArmA 3. We discuss MMO and our exploit in them and why TheSuffolkRam picked Tauren’s and Dwarf’s as his PC races. We talk at people abusing kickstarter and accessories for the raspberry pi. and look forward to Zelda spin off Hyrule Warriors and find out about how Skazz got started on YouTube. We also loo...
Aug 14, 2014•2 hr 32 min•Ep. 17
Welcome to our mini-reboot podcast where we drop our names and return to the internet world of handles, we talk about hacking Nintendo street pass using the Raspberry Pie and the new model, we also discuss Shantae: Risky’s Revenge, a Deus Ex Lets play and how stealth works in other games. We also look forward to a new Anime with The Heroic Legend of Arslan and the Dawn of the Planer of the Apes and how good Andy Serkis is at films. Plus a disappointment at the new characters in smash brothers. N...
Jul 31, 2014•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 16
We don’t talk about Double Dragon 2, instead we play the really hard game Kid Icarus and the other Nintendo inspire game Tiny Barbarian DX. Bard talks about the latest anime violent feast JoJo Bizarre Adventures: Stardust Crusaders before briefly talking about traitors among friends with The Resistance: Avalon and more in depth with Cheese Cheaty Mage’s. We also go into an E3 Bonanza looking at a huge list of game were looking forward too. We also discover Maoam is highly addictive, and try and ...
Jul 05, 2014•2 hr 31 min•Ep. 14
The Episode, Nick and Luke discuss Watchdogs, agree about everything and then come to completely different conclusions, plus we get to bash uPlay some more. We talk about our ‘studio’ and how we making our podcast more professional. We discuss the latest World Wide Developer Conference from Apple and how its new releases will make us all hypochondriac and lazy. We also look how big scale companies are trolling people, mainly by scaring the crap out of them Notes Here what Nicks friend daughter t...
Jun 25, 2014•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 13
Welcome to our the podcast where everything goes wrong, sound drops out, laptops blow up and we get attacked by Lukes children. We discuss dynasty warriors 8 complete, the last bioshock infinite DLC and a variety of classic games. Luke explains how babies are created and Adam reviles what accent to use to get the best out of your xbox one and how it will lead us to a wall-e style future. We also get scared when one of our listeners found out about us during a discussion on the right to privacy a...
Jun 18, 2014•2 hr 49 min•Ep. 12
This episode we move fully into the 21st century by doing our first livesteam. It will be a cleaner podcast as Luke is banned from swearing. We discuss Final Fantasy 7 with Nick probably being the only gamer in the world who hasn’t played it and managed to miss the Deus Ex: HR homage to it. Luke discusses the Japanese mech game Gundam Breaker. We also talk about how Duke Nukem needs to mature and game for people who like smashing things with Lego Lord of the Rings. We look back fondly at Gamespy...
May 22, 2014•2 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 11
SPOILER ALERT: We discuss the recent series of Jonathan Creek with forewarning of spoilers. This episode we display an inability to move on any new section and going off topic more often then normal, only one of us has been playing a game recently, Nick been recording and pissing off people in Deus Ex: The Fall. We talk about Valve’s new film Free To Play and our dislike for DOTA 2 and how we need peace between all gamers. We look into drinking on the podcast and going to the Red Dragon Inn. We ...
Apr 28, 2014•2 hr 25 min•Ep. 10
Welcome to the new highly professional, PC and positive podcast! To start with we complain about the new Thief game, we discuss four table top games Mice and mystics, Descent, Lords of Waterdeep and Munchkin. A new game to scare you from playing on your PC with Alien Isolation. We also talk the upcoming death of Window Live and EU proposing to ban the term ‘Free to Play’. Plus a bonus feature, hear what happens to thorny as gets slowly drunk over the course of the podcast! Notes If you really mu...
Mar 27, 2014•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 9
This month on the new positive podcast we discuss System Shock 2, Classic NES games, our love of rag-doll effects and the saviors of the game industry, we re-discuss Muramasa, how were not looking forward to Thief 4 and the TV series Sherlock and Vikings. Luke talk about hardware with the hard drive busting Panasonic GH4 and and retro game friend Retron 5. We also talk about saving games from the floods, Nick’s inability to pronounce names and Benedict Cumberbatch parents. we also ask the questi...
Feb 27, 2014•2 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 8
This month we were on a time limit and used a different way of recording, so we may seem a bit rushed and audio a bit rough. We get joined by our new regular Rand(Nerd); Adam Thorn, we discuss how the ‘Promise of Tits’ applies to game making, possible spin off and sequels to Amnesia: A machine for pigs. Games we were meant to playing and didn’t, Super Mario Wii World, the lack of Vikings in game, A decent Capcom game, the first episode of the Walking Dead Season 2 and Dragons Crown. We do our fi...
Jan 28, 2014•2 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Merry Christmas to everyone!, This episode we talk about a small indie film, the Postal series, another farming game, and the PC gamer play some old PS2 games. We also discuss our different play styles, old school multi-player games, digital distribution services. We complete forget ID’s contribution to the game industry and how to keep your real Christmas tree looking its best. Notes See what delayed the podcast recoding, with Ryan Connolly’s short film Proximity Relive the old PS2 days with PC...
Dec 23, 2013•2 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 6
We have a special guest on the Podcast this month, new nerd Adam Thorn joins us to discuss Farcry 3: Blood Dragon, Payday 2, King of Fighters 13, and a varity of Ouya and Gamestick games. We also discuss threatening Garry from Garry’s Mod, making our own game modes, reminisce over the Thief games, the new game consoles and we also continue to insult more countries. Hi all, you lucky people, two podcasts in one month. This isn’t our christmas special, we’re saving that to next month. But you do g...
Nov 26, 2013•2 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This episode we discuss Saints row the third, Superfrog HD, Pokemon X Ghostmaster, Deus Ex: HR – The Director Cut and Walking dead season 2. We also talk about hatred of achievements, failure of audio recordings, translating GTA: San Andreas and the audio book version of the bible. Surprise! We’ve released our podcast early. And we start offending other countrys and groups early. Audio has taken a technical hit but it still quite listenable. Notes Complete Luke’s cursed game Saints Row the Third...
Nov 06, 2013•2 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 4
This Episode we discuss Farcry 3, Thomas was alone, that triple A mainstream game Farming Simulator 2013, Rain, Thief 4 and SteamOS. We also talk about the lack of world war two games, David Cameron upcoming appearance in games, Hatred of squares and Nick gets himself banned from Norfolk. Hi everyone, we’ve made it to episode three and we’ve come in with a bumper long show. We’re still on our slightly worst audio setup so apologies to any audiophiles out there. Notes Get yourself a Tatau with Fa...
Oct 28, 2013•2 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this Episode we talk about Sir, you are being hunter, Watchdogs, Losing wives to FFXIV, reloading guns from 1998, a new style of film making and a Thundercats spin off. We did it! we didn’t fade! So here it is, our second podcast. Sorry for the poor quality of the audio, our pre-amp broke and we had to use a poorer substitute. Hopefully when you download this you’ll also have all the artwork showing, and hopefully it’ll all work through iTunes. Notes You can become the hunted by playing Sir, ...
Sep 28, 2013•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 2
