Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel

Tony Hawk is back, Mario is still around, the new Xboxes are nearly here, Tommy is nearby, Ben has recently been here and Adam is a little late but that's ok it's just how he is, he's doing his best. The description for this episode is also right here and hey, look at you! You're here too, reading it. What are the chances? I hope you enjoy this episode, it's a good one and the hard time I'm clearl...

Originally released in 1997, Episode 254 of Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo, Ben Vernel and Adam Knox was exclusively available in Japanese. Several fan translation projects were started, but none made it past a few minutes of work, as the translators began to realise that the episode was no in fact in Japanese, but rather a broken form of mock Japanese that was considered edgy, but still genera...

A crazed psychopath with a high, whining voice. A secretive and vengeful billionaire. An alien who blends in with the population of Earth and has lived through things which would destroy a normal man. That's right, I'm talking about Harley Quinn, Batman and Superman who are being discussed this week by Tommy, Ben and Adam. As we come even closer to complete and total loss of our minds, we find the...

Good evening everyone and welcome aboard flight FC252 direct to Podcastopia. My name is Adam and I will be managing your cabin crew for this flight, your captain today is Tommy, and also the name of this plane is Ben. Your flight time today should be around 57 minutes and 19 seconds. Today's flight will also include discussion of Epic's antitrust lawsuit against Apple and Google, first impressions...

Despite the fact that we announced this episode description many years ago, and recently heavily promoted that it would be released alongside Episode 251, our flagship episode, we have made the difficult decision to delay this episode description into 2021. We will use this extra time to make the episode description the best it can possibly be, and we appreciate our loyal fans giving us understand...

In accordance with podcasting tradition, we celebrate our 250th episode with the customary "several lists of things that relate to the number two hundred and fifty". It is a ritual as old as podcasting itself (around fifteen years), and we are proud to follow in the footsteps of our forebears, the first podcast to have reached its 250th episode: Four Bears. It was a podcast where four bears growle...

Completely two-dimensional, horrific and disgusting, and underwhelming in spite of a lot of promise. Am I describing the three things mentioned in the title of the episode there, or is it a funny description of the personalities of Tommy Dassalo, Ben Vernel and Adam Knox? That's right, it's both! I've managed to perform a little bit of wordplay here in this episode description, and the world is al...

Tommy, Ben, Adam Three podcast hosts, not poets Still, they write haikus Maybe they shouldn't Perhaps it's disrespectful But it's too late now This week in review The game Ghost of Tsushima It's okay, not great Find out more right here In this week's episode of Filthy Casuals Patreon - weekly bonus episodes and secret Filthy group Bandcamp Premium Episodes YouTube - including live streams and Let'...

This week the boys are joined in Melbourne lockdown by friend of the show, comedian and radio host Nick Cody! Cody joins the lads to chat about some of his favourite games and his recent descent into regular gaming life, and the boys touch on the Ubisoft Forward event, video game-related topics for talkback radio, and they even talk about little-known Nintendo game Breath of the Wild (briefly)! Kn...

The boys are back in lockdown in old Melbourne town, so it's time to talk Backgammon. Tommy's been playing 51 Clubhouse Games (real name 51 Worldwide Game in Australia but no way we're calling it that), as well as Persona 5 Royal alongside Ben, and Adam's been slugging away at the Souls series. Hope everyone's ok with a few more weeks of Zoom calls from us, because it is the law. Special intro mus...

The boys chat some news this week, including the Night City Wire stream and previews of Cyberpunk 2077, and then give you an hour long sealed section where they go mask off on The Last of Us Part II. It's clearly marked and separated but there are full spoilers in that section, so please be aware of that. They are only contained in that last section though, and we give a lot of warning. Enjoy! Lis...

This week the guys hunker down in an abandoned hospital, gathered around the light of a flickering torch, sharing the crumbs of a half-eaten chocolate bar, rubbing each other for warmth, to give a full and comprehensive review of the new Smash Bros Ultimate DLC character Min Min. Additionally, the boys chat the end of Mixer, Crash Bandicoot 4 and give SPOILER FREE thoughts on The Last of Us Part 2...

It's back to Tommy, Ben and Adam's regularly scheduled podcasting, and that means talking about the news roughly one week after it's happened. We go through and chat PS5 thoughts, as well as a quick round-up of what games we got into during the history of video games series. It's good to be back, baby. Time to pop those collars for an authentic PS5 look, and listen to some Filthy Casuals! Listen t...

It's the final part of Tommy, Ben and Adam's trip down Memory Lane in History Town located in the Past province of rural Oldtopia, and so it's time for them to cover the late 2000s. Thick make-up, bright v-neck polo shirts, those dumb studded belts and awkwardly hanging boot cut jeans are just four of the games that the boys fail to cover, but we do talk through the history of the Xbox 360, PS3, W...

This week it's the next part in our history of video games series, please enjoy a little escapist visit to the early 2000s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the new Willennium approaches, we begin to wind down our pastel colours and enormous suits, let the pop-punk and ska CDs slowly exit rotation, and gradually phrase out our use of the phrase "it is currently the nineteen-nineties". Before the 20th century would completely close out, however, video games managed one final burst of innovation, and Tommy, Ben and Adam are here to recount and record...

Only 90s kids will understand this episode! Or look honestly probably 80s kids will get even more out of it since they were a little bit older in the early 90s so probably remember the era more vividly. And I suppose that goes for 70s kids, too. If anything, 60s kids were probably in the prime of their lives during the early 90s, so this might even be best for them. 50s kids would often have been...

It's time to get totally tubular as the boys hit the mid to late 1980s, a formative and fascinating part of video games history, with the 2nd part of their loose look back at the history of video games. NESessary listening if you like to GAME, BOY do Tommy, Ben and Adam MASTER SYSTEMatic breakdowns of video games in their various forMS-DOS and don'ts of what to play from the 1980s and TURBOGRAFX-1...

We're taking a trip down memory lane for the next few weeks, so far back in this case that we have no memories of this particular part of the lane. Tommy, Ben and Adam go through the early days of video games up until the mid-1980s in this first part of a multi-week special on the history of video games. Enjoy! Listen to our new Bandcamp episode creating a list of games you might want to play if y...

A squad of bulky, musclebound beefcakes with thick armour, big guns, and gruff attitudes, are hosting this podcast about video games. This week Tommy Dassalo, Ben Vernel and Adam Knox take us through news including the Last of Us Part II release date and leaks, reviews of Gears Tactics, Cloudpunk and Help Will Come Tomorrow, and offer "advice" for new "podcasters". Big, thick, beefy hypocrites, it...

As the simulation of our world implodes, our simulations of video game worlds are getting slightly better. This week Adam tries out a bit of ray tracing on his fancy new graphics card and perhaps runs up against the fact that he has a very strong prescription for corrective lenses. Either that or ray tracing is a pretty subtle effect. What's not subtle? Final Fantasy VII Remake and its ending whic...

We really hope you enjoyed games that came out in the 90s for the original PlayStation, because remakes of those games are all you’re getting this year. This week it’s Final Fantasy VII Remake and you know what? It’s actually pretty good. Mostly. You can hear our review right here in this week’s episode, as well as some more chat about that weird Cooking Mama game and news of even more remakes. Ho...

Unnatural shuffling, haunting groans, and nightmarish, deathly husks struggling to draw breath. All these fun sounds and more picked up by our too-close-to-the-mouth microphones as we record this weeks episode of Filthy Casuals. Tommy and Adam have played the Resident Evil 3 remake, Ben’s put a little time into Final Fantasy VII (more to come on that next week), and there’s a surprisingly large am...

After a 13 year wait, a new Half-Life game exists. No joke here, I’m genuinely excited about it. Could it mean more Half-Life games are not far down the track? Could it mean a return to the glory days of Half-Life 1 modding, as enthusiasm and creativity in VR grip talented programmers’ imagination? Could we be a short time away from a revolutionary equivalent to Counter-Strike, built for VR? Half-...

Two complete polar opposites. One is calm, relaxing, charming, peaceful and pleasant and the other is intense, stressful, in your face, over the top and gratuitous. And also Ben and Adam have played Animal Crossing and Doom. Tommy has too, but the little thing I was doing there only fit two people in. See the little thing I was doing there? Bit of fun. Listen to our new Bandcamp episode creating a...