Bucket List Gamers

Us, jumping on a bandwagon? Never! 

We'd ALWAYS planned to take a look at Minecraft this week... honest!

Yes, Minecraft, if you don't know what it is then I'm amazed you're even reading this at the moment to be honest. The game needs no explanation, but does it deserve to be on the Bucket List? We'll decide!

Plus we discuss the movie that coincidentally came out earlier this month, and the Switch 2 release date and price anno...

This episode we're looking at one of the best and one of the worst from two separate franchises, as we cast our gaze over Rayman Legends and Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze!

Plus we talk about 'Thank Goodness You're Here', what's (relatively) new on Gamepass and PS Plus, and in an as-yet-unnamed feature we discuss what we've been playing this week!

Enjoy!

P.S. We still haven't found out what the Encyclopedia game was... b...

We're back with a bang as this episode we look at arguably one of the greatest games ever made in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild!

But we're not alone! To look at a game of such epic magnitude (and to provide an alternative opinion to 'weapon degradation is bad') we've brought in a Guest! Trevor from Birdworks, creator of Governor of the West, joined us for this one and we had a good old chat.

Enjoy!

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Why did the chicken cross the road? To listen to this awesome episode of the Bucket List Gamers Podcast, of course.

Sorry, we immediately feel bad for writing that... but this IS a decent episode, if we do say so ourselves.

We're looking at FOUR different mobile games this time, of varying degrees of quality, plus we talk a bit about the Switch 2 Announcement, Flappy Bird, EA shutting down a load of servers and the Until Daw...

Happy New Year Bucket List-ners, and welcome to the 2nd Annual Bucket List Gamers Awards!

We've taken the same categories from last year's Christmas extravaganza and made our Awards show a New Year special!

It's bigger, it's better, it's not QUITE as long, and unlike last year both Jay and Eddie recorded using decent quality microphones, so even though they might be talking absolute nonsense, it doesn't sound too bad either.

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Merry Christmas everyone!

'Tis the season to be merry and treat yourselves, so this week we've given ourselves a week away from the list and instead we're talking about games with a Christmas theme, or a Christmas element... it's all quite vague but I think it's become apparent over the past year and a half that we wouldn't have it any other way!

We've got our Naughty and Nice lists to go through, so grab a tub of Roses (not...

It might be our most 'EXPLOSIVE' episode yet as we take a look at Super Bomberman R!

Does it set off Jay's already short fuse, or do we think it's 'the bomb'? One thing's for sure, it can't be as bad as Bomberman: Act Zero.

We also discuss some of the nominees for this years Game Awards and accidentally reveal how we completely missed the mark with last year's surprise indie hit!

Enjoy!

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We're crashing back into a regular schedule by taking a look at two stone-cold Playstation classics, remastered for a new generation!

Yes, in this episode we're revisiting Crash Bandicoot and Spyro, but specifically their respective Trilogy remasters!

Do you prefer the slightly unhinged bandicoot, or the plucky young purple dragon? We discuss our favourites, and whether the remasters help or hinder their franchises.

We also h...

We're back to Pokemon again as we look at a selection of games from the famous Nintendo franchise!

Is Pokemon Yellow just a shameless cash in? Does it differ from Red and Blue? Is Pokemon Go worse than having a job? Why did people walk into a lake en-masse?

Find out the answers to all these questions and more. Plus we have Milking It, and some updates about what is next for the Podcast!

Please bare in mind we recorded this ep...

oOOOOoooOOoo! It's our second Halloween and that means another spooky-scary-special!

Yes, we're fashionably late this year thanks to some technical issues when putting the episode together, but hopefully you're all still in the mood for a creepy video game or two!

No games from the list this time, just discussions about horrifying Remakes, overpriced beat-em-ups, games that really need not exist and a couple of gems that are...

Because we know you love a good rant, this episode we're looking at the worst games we've ever paid cold, hard cash for.

The beeping machine went into overdrive on this one, with a whopping 44 beeps! However if you want to hear it in it's (almost) completely uncensored form, you can head to www.patreon.com/bucketlistgamers and subscribe to any tier Bucket Kicker and above!

We did have to censor one bit right at the end, but ...

That's right, this bumper episode sees us look at FIVE games! Why? Because we didn't think we had much to say about them.

As it transpires, we did... and that's why this episode is almost an hour and a half long! BUT even though the games might be fodder, the episode isn't!

Whether it's churning out the same thing every year, making something more complicated than it needed to be, failing to live up to potential, having no p...

On this episode of the Bucket List Gamers we're once again addressing childhood trauma, as we discuss 1996's PS1 'classic' PaRappa the Rapper.

Touted as the first true rhythm game, PaRappa the Rapper sees a paper thin dog rap his way through five gruelling levels in order to impress a sentient Sunflower called Sunny Funny.

Believe us when we tell you this BARELY scrapes the surface of just how weird this game truly is... but...

Damn you to Hades!

Prior to September of 2020 that would have been a worrying phrase to hear,  but now I don't think we'd mind it!

Yes, this episode we are talking about SuperGiant Games Hades (and also Hades 2 quite a lot, actually!)

Described on Steam as 'a god-like rogue-like dungeon crawler' (so that settles the lite/like debate) players take on the role of Zagreus, son of the titular Hades, a teenager hell-bent on escapi...

Cowabunga Dudes!

This episode we've grabbed our Bo Staffs, Sai's and Nunchakus, donned our favourite colour masks and dived head-first into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Shredder's Revenge!

Is Shredder's Revenge the perfect homage to the TMNT arcade games of old, or is it a shameless, cheap cash-in looking to rake in money based purely on nostalgia? You'll have to listen to find out.

Plus we talk a little about Gamescom, and ...

That's right, in this episode we'll teach you how to do... precisely none of those things!

We will discuss the 2023 smash hit Hogwarts Legacy though, as well as more 'Milking It', and review of a film we haven't even seen (and have no intention of doing so.)

Plus a few of the usual tangents and technical difficulties thrown in for good measure... it wouldn't be the Bucket List Gamers podcast without them!

This episode we bring back memories of the Paris Olympic Games by discussing Mario & Sonic's various adventures at the world's most prestigious sporting event! Oh, and the gaming phenomenon that is Wii Sports.

THE two most iconic gaming mascots of all time finally brought together in a single title... and it's a button mashing Olympic crossover? Was it a waste, or did it do something truly special?

Wii Sports took the wo...

Grab your shovels and your watering cans!

This episode we are discussing two life simulators that approach the genre from very different angles, in Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley!

Animal Crossing is the quintessential cutesy Nintendo time-sink, where you wile away the hours catching bugs, fishing, gardening, decorating and paying off crippling amounts of debt to a shifty looking racoon... but is it actually any fun, or ...

This episode we dig into the history of The Last Guardian! First announced in 2009, with work having started in 2007,  it took NINE whole years and a whole change in console generation for Trico and The Boy's story to come to fruition.

Did the delay make for a much-improved experience, or did Team ICO end up with a case of the 'Duke Nukems'?

Listen in and find out!

We also talk about the Odyssey Gaming Festival that recently...