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Welcome to episode 150 We kick off with some annoying news, thanks to our hosting provider missing up, we've lost our domain. Thankfully we now a new domain. www.randnerds.co.uk We then move onto games we've been playing, first with how were all blind and can't see crowbars in Payday 2, Skazz has a promise to play Ys for next time. TheSuffolkRam has been finding random items and trying to unlock a...

Welcome to episode 149 We've both been playing Ex-Nerd, Bard, favorite game: Payday 2. Sk4zzi0us and TheSuffolkRam along with Game Night nerd Zaber have proven themselves as the worst criminals taking on a number of Heists when stealth is never an option and mowing down the most well equipped police force in the world. We talk about the different heists, stealth, weapon customization and the compl...

Welcome to episode 148 We start up with discussing our ongoing Fall Guys gaming, and how the experience has been somewhat soured with a sudden inrush of cheaters. We then move onto a VR centric episode with Sk4zzi0us now having got a headset and TheSuffolkRam now upgrading to a Rift S. Skazz discuss his first VR experiences and the strange way to interact with the world with VR, Ram talks about th...

Welcome to episode 147 Skazz kick us off with talking about Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered, the classic Game Cube game with awkward hardware needs. He talk about the co-op changes that have made it worst, including lack of local co-op and limitations to player progression. TheSuffolkRam has been playing a frustrating game with Running with Rifles, annoying AI and poor tutorials lead t...

Welcome to episode 146. We do try to stay relevant to gaming but ended up going down a rabbit hole of old school internet and a short 2003 German indie film. Skazz has not been having a good time playing the new Kirby game. His kids however disagree We discuss Apple remove of google stadia and Microsoft steaming services. as well as having a very uninformed option on the removal of epic and fortni...

Welcome to Episode 145 TheSuffolkRam kicks us off by player the recently released early access game Grounded, survival game meets 90s Saturday morning cartoons. He finds himself shrunk down to the size of an Ant, talks about the game play and the trouble with his arachnophobia. This week Skazz has actually played a game, the most recent Doom game, Doom Eternal. He not a fan of the recent changes a...

Welcome to episode 144, now with new graphics (if you watch our YouTube channel) This week TheSuffolkRam has broken his sea legs by joining Skazz and Zaber on his first voyage sailing the Sea of Thieves . We talk about the mechanics and some of the interesting tactics you can do in ship to ship combat.  TheSuffolkRam revisit a game hes previously discussed with The Light Keeps Us Safe a Proce...

Welcome to episode 143 We're still obsessed with Hunt: Showdown, with Skazz rushing ahead of TheSuffolkRam in rank. We discuss the extra features we've found out, how we're still bad at PvP, the recent twitch event, and the new trial mode. We also talk about some of the problems with the Game including its matchmaking issues.  Ram talks about the upcoming new release of Warhammer 40k 9th Edit...

Welcome to episode 142, We're still locked down, so sorry for any audio problems. TheSuffolkRam has been trying to find a lost boy in The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. You have to solve a series of murders using some strange supernatural abilities Skazz has revisited Ys on the TurboGrafx-16, But mainly he and Ram have been playing Player Unknown: Battlegrounds. Turns out we are the best players curre...

Welcome to episode 141, Kicking off with discussing of our preferred lockdown supermarkets, and negotiation with Covid-19 Skazz kicks off with discussing the now western relase of Phantasy Star Online 2. A games that has been out in Japan for appormently 8 years. They’ve made a number of changes to the game, which Skazz is less then please about. TheSuffolkRam has been playing very Deus Ex feeling...

Welcome to episode 140 Continuing with the lockdown podcast, excitement comes in many ways, first with Skazz having KFC, and TheSuffolkRam has purchased a new HOTAS joystick. Skazz has been shooting and spamming grenades in space with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. The scrappy child of the CoD series. TheSuffolkRam has revived a old space strategy game he previously talked about on the podcast. G...

Welcome to episode 139 Skazz has been going old-school with playing the early Call of Duty’s, we discuss the impact of CoD on the gaming scene, it good and bad points and scripting as a story telling tool. TheSuffolkRam has been reliving classic Half-Life 2 style game with the Mod/Stand alone game Transmission: Element 120. he talks about getting back into half-life, dodgy AI and half-life Alyx. W...

Welcome to episode 138, continuing lock down Skazz has got round to trying out the Final Fantasy 7 remake and now has a somewhat different opinion to last week. He talks about what they have expanded and added, and how it feels more like busywork than an enjoyable expansion. TheSuffolkRam is still playing Green Hell, the semi-hardcore survival game, now going hunting and exploring more of the worl...

Welcome to episode 137, still in Lockdown Skazz talks about the first part of the Final Fantasy VII remake, how they’ve changed the game combat, improved the graphics and extra story information Ram has been surviving in the Jungle in Green Hell, building huts and getting poisoned by spiders Ram has also been watching the furry dream Beastars, with bizarre rabbit physiology We discuss Ram’s new cy...

Welcome to episode 136, Our first lockdown episode We discuss how we’re coping with isolation and staving off the cabin fever. Skazz has been completing day-to-day tasks for cute animals in the perfectly timed release of Animal Crossing. TheSuffolkRam has taken a trip back in time with the old-school style game BattleTech , leading a mercenaries mech company in this turn-based game. Plus we talk a...

Welcome to episode 135, this episode Skazz celebrating his two-week anniversary. We kick off learning about Rams Student days including being locked out and toilet roll chicken. Also a bonus tractor potential injury incident. When we finally get onto games, Skazz admits to returning to the updated Sea of Thieves but only briefly TheSuffolkRam has been conserving oxygen and discovering communists o...

Welcome to episode 134, with wedding bells in the air, as Skazz has got married! To celebrate, we’re joined with two guests. ex-nerd bard, and all the way from Denmark, Zabermoul. The guests start, with Bard talking about Sea of Thieves and some of the changes since we last played. Zabermoul has been rekindling his love of the old Burnout games with Dangerous Driving, created by some of the same d...

Welcome to Episode 133 We kick off surprisingly discussing farming as a career, and then onto a number of topics before finally getting into a game we’ve been playing. TheSuffolkRam has been trying to find soup and not kill his crew in 60 Parsecs. Skazz has been playing FFVIII for complicated Valentine reasons, He talks about the remaster and the in some cases better mechanics of the game compared...

Welcome to Episode 132, the return of the table! We start up talking about Outlast, we completed our final part of our let’s play and give our final thoughts on the game. Skazz then talks about Dauntless, the free to play Monster Hunter clone with cross-play, but with some quite bad flaws. He then moves onto the ‘Dark Souls of Run and Gun shooters’ in cup head, he personally doesn’t find it as tou...

Welcome to Episode 131, this episode using battery power so against the clock TheSuffolkRam has been playing Borderlands 3 using Stadia, he talks not just about the game, but also the experience of using the streaming service. He also talks about playing Destiny and how he’s an elite player. After a small stutter with Dragonquest XI, Skazz has been playing a demake of a game he only played recentl...

Welcome to Episode 130, our first podcast of 2020, and to celebrate the new decade, we’re doing a special episode for the occasion. TheSuffolkRam and Skazz have been picking their games of the decade 2010-2019. The rules being they must new games or series released between those years. They are allowed one cheat game that breaks those rules. For our first games, Skazz kick off with Destiny the mul...

Welcome to Episode 129, our 2019 Christmas Special Skazz has still been fighting the internet and making our favorite dictator Kim in The Sims 4. Turns out he doesn’t like Donald Trump, and has some surprising stories in his Sim Life. TheSuffolkRam has been suffering a pretentious developer in Awkward Dimension Redux. A game that feels like the author watched some Unity tutorials, copied them and...

Welcome to Episode 128 After youtube worries, we finally make a start with a beer can opening competition. Skazz kicks us off with a lads road trip in Final Fantasy XV using google Stadia and has been stuck in technical support hell over an annoying save bug. Other then that he been having a grand old time in Top Gear meets Final Fantasy TheSuffolkRam has been saying an emotional farewell to not j...

Welcome to Episode 127 TheSuffolkRam kicks off with demonstrating some bad mathematics and a discussion on how we listen to podcasts. Skazz tells us about Google Stadia, the new game streaming from… well um, Google… He talks about the tech, control pad, pricing, game content, requirements, and pricing. we also discuss some of the potential downfalls and complaints. Ram has been killing people in c...

Welcome to Episode 126 We kick off with discussing the game we played for Halloween, Outlast, we discuss how a great story can have poor execution and poor environmental storytelling, and how other games do it better. As well as some of the better animation and moments. TheSuffolkRam starts talking about a game he didn’t end up playing with Bear With Me, an old school style point and click adventu...