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Welcome to episode 250 Skazz shares his thoughts on why he preferred the racing elements in the original Gran Turismo for the PS1, highlighting what set it apart from other racing games of its time. We also dive into the unique mechanics of the game, while exploring other iconic racing titles, like Colin McRae Rally . We reflect on the challenges of preserving classic games and the misconceptions...

Welcome to Episode 249 Skazz talks about the technical issues he's been having getting trying to get the PlayStation Vita to work, issues with dying memory cars, whitelisting of games and an internet killing power adapter all stand in his way to replay the Ys games Ram has been playing a game that was seemingly downloaded from creative depths of his brain and made real by a team with a lot mor...

Welcome to Episode 248 For some reason we start this episode discussing world records, getting into the Guiness book of records, and various tv programs based around it. Not having access to his PC at the moment, Skazz has returned to Console gaming with the PS5 and trying out in-home game streaming with the Playstation Portal. He talks about his experience with using remote play and the issues us...

Welcome to Episode 247 Skazz has been hitting mobile gaming on his iPhone with an varitory of emulators that are now available, joined up with the Backbone, a device that attached to your phone and give you controller interface. It does have an and app and subscription services with some bullshit features tied behind it Ram has been playing early 2000s first person shooter Command and Conquer Rene...

Welcome to Episode 246 Skazz kicks us off briefly discussing the emulators that are now available on apple allowing mobile gaming, as well as trying in-home streaming of the playstation 5. He decided to try an old PS4 launch title with Killzone: Shadow Fall. Discussing the changes to the gameplay, adding a less then successful stealth feature to the game. As well as annoying tutorials, psychic ene...

Welcome to episode 245 We kick off this episode with Skazz telling us about his sea exploits by going to see a visiting Spanish Galleon, which has turned up a bit late for the armada We have some disturbing conversations with chat gpt, and discover the truth about sheep military prowess  We discuss a game we had issues actually playing, Dawn of War: Soulstorm, we discuss when we played it in the p...

Welcome to Episode 244 We start off discussing Ram re-wiring techniques after Skazz's wife has an accident with a hedge trimmer. Ram also talks about his visit to the Pig and Poultry fair to see all the pig related sex equipment and tractors. Moving swiftly on, Skazz has been playing Hi-Fi Rush, developed by recently killed off studio Tango Gameworks, a third person platformer with a rhythm st...

We kick off this week with Ram telling us about his rebellious file server and his networking woes, plus window missing up his audio. Skazz talks about infinity generating road driving game s l o w  r o a d s and how enjoyable chill games can be. We discuss other chill games such as flight simulator, Everything and Jalopy.  Ram talks about the recently released netflix version of The Three Body Pr...

We kick off with a bit of a discussion of the history of iPhones models and the ups and downs of the Apple products, and how we feel phone technology has stagnated and the need to upgrade is less required. We also discuss other modern devices.  Skazz has been playing Scarlet Nexus an action rpg with psychic power fighting the strange ‘others’, you play two characters with separate stories with an...

Welcome to Episode 241 We kick off by reveling in the changing weather and talk about our favourite time of year, Zaber has been continuing his play through of Jedi Survivor, we talk about the mechanics and the slight backlash against the game compared to it predecessor. Ram has been watching some TV shows, continuing taking advantage of his free AppleTV subscription by watching Foundation, very l...

Welcome to Episode 240 We talk about our favorite criminal shows including Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and El Camino. Zaber also recommends Sons of Anarchy Zaber talks about Rocket League, a football like game featuring cars and rockets, Also featuring a not often seen split screen mode, It was a favorite in the Zabermoul house, but an update require each player to have a profile and no guest a...

Welcome to Episode 239 Zaber is unfortunately away today, so we once again welcome back Skazz After our normal rambling, we kick off talking about the sad news of the death of Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball and character designer of Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest. Skazz gives a brief talk about the various Dragon Ball series and his opinions on it. Related to above Skazz has also been pla...

Welcome to episode 238 We have problems saying the name of our first game, Tiny Tina’s Wounderlands. A spin off of Borderlands themed around a tabletop RPG board game. It has great voice acting and humour. Still with the Borderland staples of randomised weapons and being very silly, but now featuring an overworld. We also talk about the main Borderlands series, the back story and its up and downs...

Welcome to episode 237 We kick off with discussing Valentine's Day, traditionally a day for spoiling the ladies, and we find out Denmark has a special day to follow up for the guys. it doesn’t quite have the same romantic name, we also find out Zaber would not skip games night for love. Ram gives us a little bit of background on the concept of prepper’s, people getting prepared for the worst c...

Welcome to episode 236 Zabermoul has been rocking out to some concerts going to see US band Periphery with support from Crooked Royals. He followed it up with a trip to see a band he missed at Copenhagen, Architects, with support from Loathe and Spirit Box. Not only talking about the band, but Zaber give some thoughts on the sound design. Ram has been giving out quotes and then ghosting people, as...

Welcome to episode 235, broadcast from a chilly UK and Denmark. We discuss Zaber musical talents and his playing history. And we get a share of music theory from him and his band role preferences. We also learn how modern technology is helping band performance. Zaber has been walking the virtual greens in both Golf It! We discuss trying out the VR mode as well as another VR golf game Walkabout Min...

Welcome to episode 234 In our first episode of 2024, TheSuffolkRam and Zabermoul welcome in the new year by discussing the differences between how the Brits and Danes celebrate Christmas and New Year, as well as some other celebrations involving fireworks. Zaber has been playing the latest game in the Yakuza series, Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man who Erased his name. The plot is set side by side wi...

Welcome to episode 233 Skazz joins once again for our Christmas podcast, to discuss a couple of games as well as our game of the year. Skazz has been playing the original half-life, recently celebrating its 25th anniversary, Valve has patched the game to now have support for the steam deck. Skazz has never been a massive fan, but has gone back and really enjoyed the game on Steam Deck. Ram has bee...

Welcome to episode 232 Zaber is unwell with ‘The Rona’, so we have a special guest: Skazz is back! Skazz talks about what he’s been up to whilst he's been away, discussing his exploit with FGPA’s (Field Gate Programmable Array) emulation. A hardware device that can be used to emulate games instead of software for a more realistic feel. He talks about a couple of devices using it, specifically look...

Welcome to episode 231 We kick off in Rand(Nerds); tradition of going off on a tangent with Ram having a rant about metric vs imperial measuring systems and how the UK half-arsed it. Ram also talks about the joys of a full fibre connection. We get to hear a more sexy sounding danish man as Zaber has purchased a new mic, a shure SM7B with will make you ears enjoy this podcast even more. Ram then ta...

Welcome to episode 230 In this episode we welcome Zabermoul talks about his time at Copenhell, a metal music festival held annually in Denmark, He talks about the bands he saw, getting pissed, and the problems of being an early riser. As well as the costs He also recently took his daughter to see the Five Nights at Freddy's film. After a brief talk about the film and its (lacking) gory content...

Welcome to episode 229 apologies for the audio in the episode, with our new host joining us we’re having to iron out a few issues In this episode we welcome Zabermoul to the podcast, hes guested as couple of times in the past and now back as a regular host. We kick off with Zaber discussing Portal 2, a game which somehow he amazingly hasn’t ever played before. We talk about the gameplay and humour...

Welcome to episode 228 You’ll have noticed that Skazz is not with us for this podcast. Unfortunately life has got in the way and Skazz has had to (hopefully) temporarily step away from the podcast. We still have plan to continual, which will be discuss more at the end In this episode, Ram has a recap of our 24 hour live stream and discusses the games we played including Escape First Alchemist, Gan...

Welcome to episode 227 We discuss Google vs Apple with regards to keeping phones up to date and stopping support and security updates. We also discuss why and when we upgrade our devices. We have a brief discussion on how bad we are at Hunt: Showdown and the many missed opportunities due to panic aiming we also discuss our upcoming 24 livestream, ram going mad over game engines graphics, And his b...

Welcome to episode 226 Skazz is back on the road with his bike after many years of non-riding, we discuss some old planned road trips and possibly of going on one next year. Ram has been causing space based carnage in meeple stations, A game similar to rimworld but with some big drawbacks, and differently not a version 1 game. We learn how many stations Ram has doomed to a horrific death via mis-m...