Howdy, Nextlanders! Once again it has been a busy week here at Nextlander, and as I'm sure a number of you are gearing up for the Big Super Game Bowl this weekend, seemed prudent to get this recap up ahead of all that footballing so you can catch up! So here ya go with all the stuff we done made this past week.
It's a busy week on this ol' podcast as we get into Sifu, our recent Ghostwire: Tokyo demo, more OlliOlli World, an extensive recap of this week's Nintendo Direct, Intellivision's Amico turmoil, the secret true nature of the Lawnmower Man, and more!
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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:00:34) Nothing should be The Lawnmower Man
(00:05:24) Show Rundown
(00:06:22) GhostWire: Tokyo [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5] on Mar 25, 2022
(00:21:33) First Break
This week's ramble includes us talking about how to survive the death of your (cartoon) heroes, considering the state of the NFL, looking back on a young-ish Burgess Meredith, getting excited about the Dark Universe that never was, running down some Oscar nominations, doing an informal ranking of Draculas, and more!
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(00:00:07) Intro
(00:00:39) Pills Here
(00:04:33) Brad enters the Twilight Zone
(00:09:51) These films belong in a museum, or at lea...
Hey everyone! The video game train rolls on with Sifu and OlliOlli World this week, and we’ll have more about them on the podcast. Alex will also be doing a Sifu stream today if you want to check that out. Later this week we’ve got more Comfy Crew with Mary Kish, Alex is going to be jumping into Mass Effect: Andromeda, and we’ll have a Friday Fun Stream. Get your new Alex-Mass-Effect-series names in now!
--Vinny
All times Eastern
Catch the live stuff here:...
Greetings, Nextlanders! It's time once again to recap all the fun stuff we made over the last week, and this was an especially busy one! So let's hop right to it.
Getting an "E" for "Easily the Best Solution" in Scrap Mechanic
What can we say about Challenge 36? Truly, it was our mos...
2022-02-06 18:28:47 +0000 UTC View Post
As another podcast once said, "games, video games, video games, video gaaaaames, video games." February has a ton of them, and we talk through the Sifus and Horizons and Elden Rings, plus all kinds of smaller stuff like Model Builder and Infernax and uh, About an Elf, and uhhhh, Derpy Conga, right here in this podcast!
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(00:00:00) This music has a very eshop quality to it so let's test it out.
(00:00:06) Intro
(00:02:13) Dying Light 2: Stay Human [ P...
The game industry continues to contract as we ponder Sony's big ol' acquisition of Bungie and, uh, the New York Times snatching up Wordle. Also, we spent time climbing all over Dying Light 2, Vinny and Alex rate the future of Dark Pictures, that Halo TV series sure looks like something, Danny Trejo cracks a rare smile, and more!
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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:00:20) Welcoming back haunting song covers
(00:03:32) Brief podcast rundown before we get into it
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The topics covered on this podcast include: Krispy Kreme versus Dunkin' Donuts, snowstorms of all kinds, what exactly constitutes New England, whether or not to destroy an alien civilization (before they can destroy you), Neanderthals (like, the actual ones), and restroom crimes. Enjoy!
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(00:00:07) Intro
(00:00:17) Grounds for a lot of coffee drinking
(00:03:36) DD over SB
(00:06:41) What filled the Dunkin' Donuts void in NC?
(00:07:27) Living ...
As I’m typing this I’m seeing that Bungie is being acquired by Sony. I get worried when the news is the joke we were making not more than a week or so ago. Never a dull moment I guess. We’ll have that news this week, plus our impressions of Dying Light 2. We’re working on a video for that as well that will go up on YouTube so keep an eye out for it later this week. We’ll also have more Scrap Mechanic, that very cool looking Bloodborne demake, and possibly some cooperative shenanigan...
2022-01-31 19:51:21 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings, Nextlanders! I hope you're having a warm, toasty weekend wherever you are. Not that we haven't been staying indoors for the better part of the last two years now, but we extra stayed indoors this weekend as we got something like a foot of snow dumped on us. I've been using that time to catch up on some games, and if you're stuck indoors, maybe you'd like to use that time to catch up on some of last week's Nextlander shows! Eh? See what I did there? Always bringing it back to the co...
2022-01-30 19:06:23 +0000 UTC View Post
In this month's hot question-and-answer sesh we address such burning Qs as: What exactly constitutes retro these days? Will Vinny ever stream himself coding? What happened to all our outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage over the years? Can we remember our very first Game of the Year? Uh, Satisfactory?!?
2022-01-29 00:54:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This week: a little trip to yesteryear with Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves, Brad and Vinny finished RE Village and just have to talk about it, Windjammers 2 and Rainbow Six Extraction came out, The Rock is definitely for sure playing Kratos (right?), Star Wars games for everyone (except DICE), and... the colon makes all the difference.
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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:01:02) DLC for cars
(00:03:24) I own myself almost everyday.
(00:04:12) Give me the cash opti...
Hello supporters, and happy 2022! Somehow we're already a month into a year that feels like it just started yesterday, but no time to stop and ponder time's inexorable march -- we have a poll to run! Here are some ideas we've come up with for this Friday's stream. Tell us what to play!
2022-01-26 23:23:42 +0000 UTC View Post
One day this podcast will return to the formless ether from which it emerged, so listen while you can to our ramblings about the neverending battle with entropy (and e-waste), Alex's Plex flex, Vinny vs. the UPS batteries, obscure video formats of the past (seriously, go look up CED), a staring contest with Windows 11, and more.
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(00:00:07) Intro
(00:01:07) We Don't Talk About Encanto
(00:02:25) Alex is ready to Plex Flex
(00:08:24) Killing Watts<...
Hello! Hello! January is closing out and as we (or maybe just I) look forward to Dying Light 2, Sifu, and OlliOlli World next month I’m living in the NOW. Well, maybe I’m living in a bit of the THEN because I’m still finishing up RE8. I’m living in the NOW and THEN. I can’t wait to jump back into more Scrap Mechanic and tackle those trials this week. We’ve got another Patron Choice stream coming up, along with the Q&A (get those questions in at the Discord), and of course the ...
2022-01-24 18:52:54 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Hope you're having yourselves a nice, relaxing weekend after what was most certainly a VERY eventful week in video games. I've been working in or around video games for going on 20 years now, and I'm not sure anything quite as earth-shattering as Microsoft announcing its intention to buy Activision Blizzard has happened in video games business during that period. Stuff on this scale just doesn't happen very often in video games for the most part, except for the last couple of ye...
2022-01-22 20:04:00 +0000 UTC View Post
At least half of this podcast is about Microsoft buying Activision, because, well, you know, but we also find time for Nobody Saves the World, OlliOlli World, more Resident Evil Village (World), hamsters with drinking problems, the animatronic fate of Jimmy Hoffa, and more!
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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:00:54) Where does that leave Teddy Ruxpin?
(00:02:33) It always come back to Chuck E. Cheese
(00:05:00) How many stores are fronts?
(00:09:58) Hamsters...
Press 1 for the herring family! Press 2 for anchovies! Press 3 for rambling about domestic spider policies, the fine art of haggling, the brokenest of broken couches, our personalized perfect burger stacks, some off-the-cuff reactions to the Microsoft/Activision news, and more!
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(00:00:06) Intro
(00:00:38) Good morning. Microsoft is buying Activision
(00:08:12) I need a new couch Microsoft!
(00:12:27) The Haggle Economy
(00:23:39) All the broke...
We’ve got a bit of a shorter week but we’re long on content! Somehow that sounded better in my head, but writing it out seems weird. Moving on! This Tuesday I wanted to try out a game that a few people have recommended called Hellish Quart. Looks kind of amazing, but we’ll discover that together. I’m continuing with Resident Evil Village and I really like it so far! There’s a lot of baby stuff but boy, there was a “baby” part that had me both very disturbed and cracking up. Weir...
2022-01-17 17:09:59 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings, Nextlander! I hope that you're having yourselves a terrific weekend. We're midway through a three-day break ourselves, as we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday here in the States. So while that means we'll be off this Monday, that just means you'll have a little extra time to catch up on all the Nextlander content you might've missed over the last week!
We've emerged from the Game of the Year mines ready to tackle 2022's games, starting with... Resident Evil Village! Also: the psychedelic space sheen of The Anacrusis, some ruminating about PlayStation VR2 and the next Switch, a farewell to John Madden, the epic file-naming clash of hyphens vs. underscores, a quick note on podcast ads, and more!
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(00:00:09) Intro
(00:02:06) What's on the show
(00:02:17) 2022 is the year I start-using-hyphens_instead_...
One of our rambliest rambles to date sees us jabbering about life in the firehouse, cops vs. firefighters, drag soldering, making your own RAM, what exactly is in that deli turkey, how old is too old when it comes to food of all kinds, salami the size of your forearm, and other fascinating subjects!
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(00:00:07) Intro
(00:00:35) Letting the sirens ride
(00:01:01) FFSDSFFDDFFDFDFDFF
(00:01:40) Are the sirens getting louder?
(00:02:29) What is lif...
We’re celebrating January with some new and somewhat-new-to-the-PlayStation co-op PVE! We’ll be playing The Anacrusis and Deep Rock this week, and then on Friday Brad is going to be going through old machines with some new cores on the MiSTer. This week on the podcast we’ll be reVIIIsting some Resident Evil: Village since we didn’t get to it last year and sharing our thoughts there. Things are picking up steam in old video game land. Choo Choo.
--Vinny
All times Ea...
Happy New Year, everyone! As you may have guessed by the abundance of things posted to the Patreon this past week, we are back! Are we better than ever? I'll let you be the judge of that as I take you through all the stuff we posted in the first week of two thousand and twenty two.
Well, what a month/year/decade it's been. If I started in on all the changes and goings-on that took place in 2021, both for the three of us as a business and myself personally, we'd never get to the video games. So let's just get to the video games! I thought back to 2014 a lot this year, also known as "the last dry-spell year for games that happened right after new consoles came out,” and 2021 feels like it’s right up there in terms of a relatively sparse release calendar. That’s hard...
2022-01-07 17:09:09 +0000 UTC View PostI’ll try and stick to gaming here since there’s an entire book I could write about my life in 2021. When I was putting together my list I was looking at a little over 60 games that I had played in some meaningful way. That included games like Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town, Scarlet Nexus, and even Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. That list came down pretty quickly and for a while it had Returnal sitting as my number eleven, but I axed it in the end. Why? Well, for all the reorderin...
2022-01-07 17:08:48 +0000 UTC View Post
God. Where do I even begin?
2021 is one of the nuttier years I’ve ever lived through. Where 2020 felt like an entire year in that Neverending Story depression swamp, 2021 was nothing but peaks and valleys. Highs and lows that bent around every possible angle to avoid anything resembling a middle. The first, ooooooh let’s say around five months of the year might as well be a blank ...
2022-01-07 17:08:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Our retrospective on the games of 2021 comes to a close (OR DOES IT??) with a long consideration of the best stories of the year, a perhaps longer effort to arrive at the 10 best games of the year, then a quick rundown of the games we're looking forward to in the coming months. Thanks to everyone for supporting us last year and into the future!
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00:00:10 Intro
00:02:25 Game of the Year recap so far
00:05:42 There will prob...
2022-01-06 02:13:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Our retrospective on the games of 2021 comes to a close (OR DOES IT??) with a long consideration of the best stories of the year, a perhaps longer effort to arrive at the 10 best games of the year, then a quick rundown of the games we're looking forward to in the coming months. Thanks to everyone for supporting us last year and into the future!
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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:02:25) Game of the Year recap so far
(00:05:43) There will probably be more spoilers ...
New year, new games! Well, and a lot of old games getting ported to new platforms? Herein we do our best to unpack both a curated list and the comprehensive list of January 2022's games. Something for everyone! Possibly!
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(00:00:01) Intro
(00:03:18) Deep Rock Galactic (PlayStation) January 4
(00:04:03) The Ports of January
(00:04:14) God of War (PC) January 14
(00:04:37) Astroneer (Switch) January 13
(00:05:20) Monster Hunter Rise (PC) Janua...