Every person who plays video games has had a moment when their jaw drops, their eyes widen and they find themselves dribbling onto their laps the sheer effort of comprehending the paradigmatic shift in front of them.
Ok, maybe not every person. Still, this episode is dedicated to those moments: the times when you just couldn’t believe what a leap forward games had taken; the times when you realised the future was now. From achingly beautiful vistas and hyper-realistic mechanics to dense world-building and the bits where your character, unprompted, scratches their bum, the Boys cover it all.
But before all that, Glenn tells a tale of utter humiliation and we catch up with what everyone’s been playing this week. Sarah's had a slight change of heart since last episode's theatrical hatchet job, Pierre's finally on board with Bond, and Glenn, of course, has found an indie game where he can do two jobs at once.
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Games Mentioned in this week's episode:
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales
Horizon Zero Dawn
Perky Little Things
Anime Feet Boys: The Charm Finder Quest
007 First Light
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Princess Peach: Showtime!
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Venba
Grave Seasons
Stardew Valley
Marvel’s Spider-Man
Assassin’s Creed
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Kingdom Hearts
Assassin’s Creed Mirage
Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto III
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
MotorStorm
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Metal Gear Solid
The Last of Us
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Starfield
Bubsy
Crash Bandicoot
Spyro
Final Fantasy IX
The Sims
The Sims 2
GoldenEye 007
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Tomb Raider
TimeSplitters 2
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
Killzone
Call of Duty
Shadow of Rome
Produced and edited by Ben Drayton
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