Grunt Free Press Podcast Episode 217

...Annnd we're black!

Topics - Surprise vacation, Doom: Eternal, tuning and dealing, jumping and dashing, parkour master, everything's on cooldown, I'm stuck, Super Pussy Mode, really I need more ammo, I don't know what this multiplayer is, Resident Evil 3, it's more Resident Evil and it's kind of like 2, keys and maps, no loading, dashing and charging, goombas, Nioh, it's kind of like...

Music - Sublime - Santeria, Aggressive Express - 'Merica, Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?

Chainsawing demons because you have to, not because you want to.

Topics - Doom Eternal, the year of Our Lord 2016, everyone is still dying, new consoles same bullshit, stealing codes, the constant lack of ammo, upgrades and abilities, Hell Priests, I like it I swear, plasma beats shields sometimes, there's a story somewhere, skins, master levels.

Music - Metallica - No Remorse, Pantera - Rise, Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing

We're all Doomed...

Topics - New consoles same as the old consoles, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Triforce, bubble puzzles, sleeping bear, orb hoarder, Doom: Eternal, new streaming problems, karma, it's Doom... Or is it?, spider masterminds, the base and the secrets.

Music - Metallica - Leper Messiah, Pisse - Hundegelantine, John Lennon - Isolation

Whoever wins the semi-annual "Wettest Sneeze in Public" contest wins the old notebook.

Topics - Web browser wars, somehow I don't think we'll get out of E3 that easily, Beautiful Desolation, antenna relay, The Dude, fellow tribesmen, spiritual mumbo jumbo, dice games, watering the gaming drought, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, the game is abuzz, mashing X and not using the D-Pad, platforming for the sake of platforming.

Music - Nirvana - Drain You, The Black Dahlia Murder - Child of Night, Nine Inch Nails - Reptile (Live)

Drive-by sniping they did Nazi coming.

Topics - Bagged bacon, Neverwinter Nights, poisoned by spiders, almost dead, returning to Sniper Elite 4, open world open wounds, circles within circles within arrows, general mayhem, silenced ammo, Beautiful Desolation, pointing and/or clicking, obscure weirdness, for once I just give up on everything.

Music - Jim Morrison - Ghost Song, White Zombie - Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks, and Cannibal Girls, Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

The hits keep on missing.

Topics - Dreadout 2, the fatal frames, Indonesian folklore and urban legends, Ghost-O-Pedia, Asian School Girl Number 53, Cell Phone Obscura, an app for that, artificially difficult bullshit, black fog, horror shit, The Linda Haters Society, ghost girl gurney, Papa, toxic fights, stunlock garbage, Indonesian Tiger Ghost, fuzzy pictures, broken shit, Neverwinter Nights, it's playable..., turn undead?, "Recommended".

Music - Onyx - Betta Off Dead, Bunbury - … Y Al Finale, Slipknot - Eeyore

A twisted string of tutorials. It's on Sunday now, I guess.

Topics - XCOM2: War of the Chosen, Nemesis Enemies, layers of bullshit, covert operations, time sensitive, losing the tactical touch, story mode, Magic the Gathering: Arena, it's not what you think it is, card games are gay, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, 4x, icon anxiety, it made me shit, World of Horror, is it out yet?, complete the ritual, I don't understand things, crashing, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, ninja stealth, everything is complicated and I am an idiot.

Music - Otoboke Beaver - Old Fart is Waiting for My Reaction, Nine Inch Nails - Closer, GG Allin - Fuck Authority

Zombies, zombies everywhere and not a fuck to give.

Topics - Oscar recap, In Search of Darkness, horror art, James Rolfe being James Rolfe, Trump talks B-movies, Nazi zombie/alien zombie, another surprise Spooktacular, Zombie Army 4, it was Hitler all along..., ghost Hitlers, harkening back to a time when killing Nazis was just fun and not a political statement for gays, tripping up on tripwires, traps, XCOM2/War of the Chosen, the usual confusion, yeah the episode is late fuck off.

Music - The Exploited - UK 82, The Streets - Let's Push Things Forward, Slaves - The Hunter

The novelty wore off looonnng ago.

Topics - Pixels versus voxels... Settled?, Blade Runner remains a mystery, rasters and vectors, trixels, other bullshit I don't understand, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, getting things ten years too late to be cool, scientist bunker guy, invisible vampire creatures, the continuing saga of broken shit, guass rifle gauntlet, that famous ferris wheel that's somewhere, Wishmaster, Zombie Army 4, it's Left 4 Dead but good, X-ray brains and testicles, GFP Radio.

Music - Bad Brains - Don't Need It, Tremor - The Proletarian's Teeth, Rage Against the Machine - Guerilla Radio

All work and no new games make AbsoluteDeicide a replicant.

Topics - Sad news, Blade Runner, GOG, black borders, cyberpunk arcade machines, pixels versus voxels I don't know, fat people, Rasta Lady, animal murder, Chinese guy in the freezer with the eyeballs, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, have to mention Fallout and Metro, hubs, floating fire balls, crashy.

Music - Jimmy Gutierrez - Me Babi Lo Del Mercado, The Offspring - Come Out and Play, Ska-P - Eurotrama