Psitanium Mine

Sure you could go a-pirating on the high seas of adventure. But, how about trading sugar and fruit to food deserts at an inflated price? Now that's punk! Come on a trip to the Caribbean with Port Royale 3!

Diablo with Vikings is actually a great idea. In fact, Vikings are an ideal candidate for a hack and slash RPG, so let's just dig into that.

Square Enix made a Destiny! Explore Enoch with your own personal Outrider and enjoy your cover-based shooting galleries. Also, good luck figuring out if there are any legendary weapons in this game.

Say what you will about Bannerlord, because I have never played it. However, I have now played Mount & Blade Warband and I am not amused. Let's go over the janky nature of this throwback title. I bet some bandits are involved!

In this episode, Psitanium gets payback for the first time he tried playing this game. It did not go well and did not take long to get controller-throwing frustrating to a bottleneck. However, returning to the game and getting past that part allowed him to open up the full game world and experience everything Forza... sorry, Need for Speed Payback... has to offer.

If you have a need, a need for speed, congratulations they made a game for you. Actually they made several. Here is the 2015 reboot for the series, featuring full motion video cutscenes and so much drifting.

So, this is one of those games many might not realize even got released because of it's history in development hell. Well, it did. Whether that was good or not is another matter. Psitanium decided to play it since it came at the low low price of free to see if it was worth that price tag.

Since we've covered Yakuza Kiwami and Psitanium has now finished Kiwami 2, it's compare and contrast time! What mini games will we play? What random street fights will we get into? Are there tiny racing cars? Oh, and there's a crime drama going on as well, right?

With Microsoft finalizing their purchase of Bethesda, 20 titles from the publisher dropped onto Xbox Game Pass. Luckily, most of these Psitanium has played so let's go over what these 20 games are and if they are worth your time.

So, Among Us exists and I still don't really know why. Luckily, I was mostly a passive observer to this social deduction experiment. Somehow, this is an improvement.

Kiryu Kazuma, fighting ’round the world. But also racing small cars, bowling, playing darts, singing karaoke. There’s always a lot of stuff to do in Yakuza, but does it work? We dig into that on this episode of Psitanium Mine.

Yes, let’s start the new year talking about a 20 year old game. Psitanium has been playing Deus Ex on stream lately and it feels like many people may not remember what this game was. Moreover, if the long load screens and problems with it upon release were a turn-off, you no longer have those issues on modern PCs. Also, it’s the best type of Cyberpunk experience you can currently get!

A little bit different on this episode of Psitanium Mine, Nathan goes on a rant about CD Projekt Red’s excuse that Cyberpunk 2077 would have it’s problems fixed by the time a day-one patch was released. Newsflash: It did not. Also a newsflash: Day-one patches are lazy excuses.

It’s sort of like XCOM, but with bigger necks. Also, overwatch and mission structure are completely different, but let’s just go with XCOM with bigger necks. Let’s get into the strategy and gameplay of Gears Tactics on this episode of Psitanium Mine.

It’s a game where you make paintings for people. Yep. That’s what you do in this game and overall it works. Traverse the narrative game disguised as an open world game along with Nathan on this episode of Psitanium Mine.

Well, Nathan went and played Resident Evil 7, or at least tried to, as we wrap up scary games for the season. Since this is the final horror game before Halloween, we present you with both a Psitanium Mine episode discussing what worked and didn’t work in this game and others of it’s kind and an Attempting To Play where you can see Nathan play first-hand in first-person for the first-time… and pro...

There are many racing games you could play. This is one of them. Will you be able to outrun the cops and race through the neon streets of Palm City? Join Psitanium as he grabs a Lotus Exige and hits the tarmac.

Hey, we have a big budget game on this episode! Psitanium often plays those, whether it’s obvious or not. And this one is from the Star Wars! And EA… Some mixed reactions shall follow. So, what does Respawn’s attempt at creating a new single player Star Wars game do right and where does it fail? Is it really just space opera Dark Souls or is it actually space opera every game you can think of? Let...

This might be the biggest surprise of the year. Who would have thought that a game about death would make Nathan feel so alive? Jump into the Everlight of Stella and Daffodil as we ferry spirits through the Everdoor on their way to the Afterlife.

Journey to the Savage Planet asks an interesting question: What if Metroid, But in The Outer Worlds? Such a thing should be an instant winner, but as Nathan explains in this episode of Psitanium Mine, some things don’t always go well together.

Supraland takes inspiration from Zelda, Metroid and Portal, but looks and feels more like Grounded. Does all that work? Nathan takes a look at the miniature world of meeples with wooden sword and energy cannon in hand. Bring your force cube, you’ll need it.

Since Nathan can finally get back to discussing normal games, let’s begin by doing a rapid fire of several games he had no real ability to do a larger piece on. This is an episode where we discuss games that Nathan played for short amounts of time before getting bored and explains what worked and what did not. Games discussed include: Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, Ikenfell, Cross Code, Dauntle...

Alien Isolation was a game I played specifically because it’s the scariest time of year and I thought I would play a horror game. But my experience going in was very different than my experience getting out. So what can I say about a six year old game that was likely built with Kinect in mind? Don’t worry, I will tell you in this episode of Psitanium Mine.

While I might not play traditional horror games, sometimes I will play games that have themes of horror or categorized as such. There for, as we approach Halloween, let’s talk about some of these games and why they proved scary for all the wrong reasons. Also, let’s talk about some really good examples of horror in games and a fun title you can play specifically for the holiday.

After talking about other entries in the Saints Row series, it occurred to me that I did not mention Gat Out of Hell, which I recently played again. So join me and Johnny Gat and Kinzie Kenzington down in New Hades for a devil of a good time.