The Future is Now: Times When Our Minds Were Blown

Every person who plays video games has had a moment when their jaw drops, their eyes widen and they find themselves dribbling onto their laps the sheer effort of comprehending the paradigmatic shift in front of them.

Ok, maybe not every person. Still, this episode is dedicated to those moments: the times when you just couldn’t believe what a leap forward games had taken; the times when you realised the future was now. From achingly beautiful vistas and hyper-realistic mechanics to dense world-building and the bits where your character, unprompted, scratches their bum, the Boys cover it all.

But before all that, Glenn tells a tale of utter humiliation and we catch up with what everyone’s been playing this week. Sarah's had a slight change of heart since last episode's theatrical hatchet job, Pierre's finally on board with Bond, and Glenn, of course, has found an indie game where he can do two jobs at once.

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Games Mentioned in this week's episode:

• The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• Perky Little Things
• Anime Feet Boys: The Charm Finder Quest
• 007 First Light
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Princess Peach: Showtime!
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
• Venba
• Grave Seasons
• Stardew Valley
• Marvel’s Spider-Man
• Assassin’s Creed
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• Kingdom Hearts
• Assassin’s Creed Mirage
• Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Grand Theft Auto III
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
• MotorStorm
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
• Metal Gear Solid
• The Last of Us
• SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Starfield
• Bubsy
• Crash Bandicoot
• Spyro
• Final Fantasy IX
• The Sims
• The Sims 2
• GoldenEye 007
• Mass Effect
• Mass Effect 2
• Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
• Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
• Tomb Raider
• TimeSplitters 2
• TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
• Killzone
• Call of Duty
• Shadow of Rome

Produced and edited by Ben Drayton

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