Chris, Tom and Marsh gather to discuss the return of Overwatch, the start of Firewatch and the end of The Witness (no spoilers, mind.) Plus: war is hell in XCOM, the highs and lows of Rise of the Tomb Raider, and a cheeky bit of Rainbow 6.
Then we answer your questions and Tom talks about Ayn Rand for twenty minutes. Objectivism isn’t a videogame, but isn’t it?
Episode 128: I Think, Therefore I’m Probably A Gun
Chris, Tom and Marsh gather to discuss the return of Overwatch, the start of Firewatch and the end of The Witness (no spoilers, mind.) Plus: war is hell in XCOM, the highs and lows of Rise of the Tomb Raider, and a cheeky bit of Rainbow 6.
Then we answer your questions and Tom talks about Ayn Rand for twenty minutes. Objectivism isn’t a videogame, but isn’t it?
Show notes
- PCG talk to Blizzard about the new Overwatch beta.
- YouTuber Serenity17 on a bullshit thing you can do with a crap ability in Rainbow 6 Siege.
- C’mon, get up, get down with The Witness.
- Rise of the Tomb Raider, fall of the dignified art of archeology.
- Go on a depressing holiday in Firewatch.
- Variously bullshit and dramatic and bullshit war stories emerge from XCOM 2.
- Tom’s BioShock review is lost to time (and print), but here’s his article about how the game should have ended instead.
- The Fall, Soma and The Talos Principle: games what make you do the thinky-thinks.
- Chris is wrong about Buck being the only attacker with a shotgun in Rainbow 6: Siege. There’s no link here. He’s just wrong.
- Here’s Mallory Ortberg’s Ayn Rand’s Firefly, part of her excellent Ayn Rand Rewrites series.
- Not mentioned on the pod, but here’s a fun bonus: a best-of-three Dota 2 series between Chris’ Hot Dukes and C&C community team, The Jammys.
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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.