Tanked Up

Somehow we’re already at the end of 2022, so it’s time for our top picks. But first we open with a brief discussion/description of cat wanking, and then move on to our honourable mentions. And then on to the Top 10s, with the usual TUP tomfoolery and tangents. Strap in, its a long one. Aadil had Amundsen’s Hopbliminal Messages NEIPA, then the Wild Beer’s Mile Maker Oat Pale Ale and a cheeky St Ives Zennor Oatmeal Stout. Ben had a couple of collabs, the Newtown Park x Arbor Deep Dive Oyster Stout and then the New Bristol Brewery x Fallen Acorn Salted Caramel Popcorn Stout. Lucy started with the Saint Bernardus Christmas Ale, and then Dupuisson’s Bush de Noel Winter Ale, rounding the night out with De Ranke’s Pere Noel.

The team gets together to discuss a few games and share a few beers. Ben discusses the early hours of Ixion, a newly released, space-based city(ish) builder. Lucy gives brief thoughts on Stacklands, and a more in-depth review on A Little to the Left. To drink, Lucy has the Snickers version of the Naughty and Nice series from Vocation, Ben drinks Northern Monk's Festive Star 2022 and Aadil has Light User Syndrom from North Brewing. Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Join The OOL Community Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork

350 episodes ehh! It seems nuts that we've made it this far. So, to celebrate, we have an entirely normal episode. But Ben has played some games and takes the entire hour to talk about them. He jumped back into OlliOlli World with the Finding the Flowzone DLC and bludgeoned his way into Bloody Ties, the new story DLC for Dying Light 2. To drink! Lucy has a Christmas beer and drinks Lervig's Jule Bock, Aadil skips across the pond for the 10 Year Anniversary Dry Hopped Farmhouse Ale from Jester King Brewery, and Ben has two beers from St Ives Brewery, the Hella pale ale and Meor IPA. What are you drinking, what are ya playing? Let us know. Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Join The OOL Community Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork

Aadil has returned to the land of the internetted… He managed to squeeze a dozen or so games of Marvel SNAP, after hearing the discussion last week. The crew goes on a deep dive from their respective perspectives. Lucy finished "The Case of the Golden Idol", and everyone agreed Aadil should play it and then move on and play Obra Dinn already. Ben has gone back to Resident Evil 8, in anticipation of the new DLC. Ben and Lucy are excited about the upcoming games Faith and Somerville. Ben had the New Bristol Brewery x Left Handed Giant collab Salted Caramel Espresso Martini Stout. Lucy had the Ubaldo Brown Beer from Saint Mars of the Desert. Aadil had the Ursa Imperial Campfire Porter from Wander Beyond.

This week Ben and Lucy both drink collaboration stouts. Lucy has the Attic Brew Co X Protokoll, Empty Cans and Ben drinks Coffee from Brew York X Siren. For the games, Ben chats a little Marvel Snap whilst Lucy is still on a point-and-click binge. She discusses The Plague Doctor of Whippra and Lucy Dreaming. Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Join The OOL Community Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork

Ben and Lucy return for more hot takes on video games and drink a couple of choice beers. They start by discussing Lucy's short time with Dome Keeper, then get interrupted by the latest Nintendo Direct for the Mario movie. Ben chats a little Assassin's Creed Valhalla either side of the Direct, and Lucy finishes the episode talking about two point and click adventures, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow and Return to Monkey Island. To drink they both have a stout. Lucy has Fumapapa from Saint Mars of the Desert and Ben drinks Throwing Shade from Good Chemistry Brewing. Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Join The OOL Community Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork

With her now internet more stable than the pound, Lucy catches us up on all the games she's been playing over the past few weeks. Lucy played As Dusk Falls, Norco, Immortality, Tinykin, The Artful Escape, Lost Words Beyond the Page, Love 3, and Return to Monkey Island. She goes into a bit more depth on Gerda: A Flame in Winter. Aadil updated everyone with his (lack of) moving woes. We also mentioned The Puppeteer, the Paw Patrol game that's on PS+, and Valiant Hearts. Aadil had the Here Comes the Sun Pale Ale from Beerbliotek and Ben had the Arbor x Liquid Light DIPA Sunset Vista.

The Summer hiatus is over and we all played some games. Aadil goes on a deep-dive on TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection. Ben has gone back to Killzone: Shadow Fall, as the beginning of his new approach to gaming, taking advantage of PS++, and Lucy... played some games. Aadil had Siren's Totality Session IPA, Lucy had the Verdant x Weird Walk Ritual Pale Ale, and Ben had the Queen of Summer Hazy IPA from Left Handed Giant.

Lucy played 12 minutes, and things devolved into a spoiler-free discussion likening it to "The Room" of video games. Lucy and Ben have finished Stray, but graciously are waiting for Aadil to cap it off for next week's episode. Ben has been playing Multiversus, and things naturally veer towards what characters are there, and more importantly should be. Johnny Bravo, Johnny Cage, the and no. 1 draft pick Foghorn Leghorn. Ben had a collab from Newtown Park x Lost and Grounded Belgian Pale Ale: Knowledge Divided. Lucy had Cloudwater's Pale Ale: Super Happy. Aadil had one of the collabs that came out of White Hag's Hagstravaganza, a dry Italian Stout made with Brewfist: Gola Secca.

The whole crew is together for one longer episode this week. It may be the height of summer, but free-time is in short supply. Aadil, ever the timely host, interrupts the game talk for some steam deck news. Ben updates us on his PS5 queueing. We talk about spiderman, skyrim, and mods, before Aadil talks a lot about the Affogato demo. It's a reverse-tower defense game, think you are the wave going through the maze of static enemies, with a very anime aesthetic. Lucy has Attic's Intuition Session Pale. Ben and Aadil picked up the 7th birthday Good Chemistry special beers. Ben had the Six States NEIPA. and Aadil had the Seven Goats Dobblebock.

It’s Ben and Lucy this week. Ben has been previewing Scathe, a twitchy bloody FPS. We dip back into Powerwash Simulator and Lucy has continued playing the updated Into the Breach.. It wouldn’t be Lucy and Ben if Tony Hawk wasn’t brought up, this time it was mostly about the remake. Lucy had Finding Air IPA from Little Monster x Pipeline and Ben had the Heavy Blow NEIPA from Attic Brew x New Bristol Brewery.

TUP 339 - Catting about in a cyberdystopia and other Stray details. The whole crew is together and through the somehow busy summer we’ve all only played one game. But its the much anticipated, and talked about all over the internet, play-as-a-cat-game: Stray. Ben has finished the game, and the other two are a couple hours in. A proper discussion of details, the wonders of catting around, and the shift of expectations, amongst many other things. Lucy had Mad Squirrel’s Alfonso Mango NEIPA, and Aadil had Quantock’s English Pale Ale for Flavourly Somerset Levels. Ben had a bang average instant coffee. Good pours were had... Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Check Out Our Website: https://www.outoflives.net Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork #videogames #craftbeer #podcast #beer #stray

Lucy finished “Endling: Extinction is Forever”, and discussed her overall opinions on the whole experience. She also played “Lord Winklebottom Investigates”, a 1920s based murder mystery point and click adventure with a giraffe protagonist. We round the episode off with a chat about what games are on our radars, or just top of the backlog. Spoiler Alert: Stray is definitely at the top of our lists. Aadil had the Moor Nano Cask Session Bitter Olicana. Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Check Out Our Website: https://www.outoflives.net Join The OOL Community Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork

Ben catches us up on the start of Dading round 2. He then treated us to an in depth chat about Rollerdrome, an upcoming third-person action shooter that is also a rollerskating game by the same team who brought us OlliOlli World. Ben had the Super Visions Hazy IPA from Left Handed Giant, and Aadil had the Hilden Session IPA #3 from Hilden x Flavourly. Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Join The OOL Community Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork #beer #craftbeer #podcast #videogames #rollerdrome

Just Aadil and Lucy this week, so naturally we take some time out to talk about the nonsense meme of caring too much about pineapple on pizzas. It’s been a minute and Lucy has played a few games. We talk about her time with “Escape Academy”, as well as how it differs from “Escape Simulator”. Lucy finally got around to taking (previous guest) Adam’s game of the year: “Powerwash Simulator”, thanks to gamespass. Lucy also has spent quite a bit of time with, the very poignant given recent weather in the UK, “Endling: Extinction is Forever”. We both take a sidetrack to talk about no longer acquiring all of the games, thanks to things like gamespass as well as a change in perspective on completionism and our limited time for hobbies like gaming. ENJOY YOUR LIFE We then moved to this week’s topic, the different approaches to development in communication, and trust in the audience, of where to go and what might be interesting and fun in open world games. We talk “Far Cry”, “Assasin’s Creed”, our different

Ben talks Planet Zoo and his life now as an animal husbander, rather than a park designer. He also played some Guardians of the Galaxy. We also touched on “Starbucks pricing” models and PS+. As usual the convo involves things like Gamespass, the Steam Deck, as well as an update on Lucy’s time with the playdate. We also talk about games that got better slowly, like Sea of Thieves and the now time-looping No Man’s Sky. Ben had Polly’s The Lakehouse IPA, Lucy had Brew York’s Mangolorian Mango & Lime Milkshake IPA; while Aadil had another of the Garden Brewery Restore Earth collabs, this time it was the Cherry & Coconut Imperial Stout with Totenhopfen. podcast #videogames #craftbeer #guardiansofthegalaxy

Lucy and Aadil talk about the games they've been playing. Lucy throws away a dagger card to take us on a deep dive on Neon White. Aadil also played a game with cards, but this one is a turn-based strategy RPG: Gordian Quest. Lucy had the Island in the Sun West Coast IPA from Polly’s, while Aadil had the Garden x Var Var collab Oak Aged Vanilla & Chocolate Porter. #podcast #craftbeer #videogames #pollys #gardenbrewery

The whole crew is together to chat the games they have been playing. We spoke about Bugsnax, Cookie Cranker, Kids, the Steam demo festival, Anger Foot, Streets of Rage 4. And then Lucy and Aadil do a deep dive on TMNT: Shredder’s revenge, expect nostalgia. Ben had the Iron Bloke Salted Chocolate Stout from Pomona Island, while Aadil had Garden Brewery x Lervig West Coast DDH IPA, and Lucy took the night off. Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Join The OOL Community Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork #podcast #craftbeer #videogames #tmnt

We touch on beer subscriptions and what can make them special versus stale. This week’s tupic was e3/not e3. We talk trailers vs gameplay and interviews, and all the deadspaces. Inevitably, without Lucy around there was a lot of Final Fantasy 7 talk. Ben gave his highlights from all the shows/announcements. Aadil drank the Garden Brewery x Qajaq Munich Helles. Ben had the New Bristol Brewery x Size? DDH IPA Heavy Duty Beauty. Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Join The OOL Community Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork #craftbeer #videogames #podcast

We talk at length about our time at the Bristol Craft Beer Festival, and beer festivals in general before getting into the annual "Why e3 exist?" conversation. Oh also an argument about the optimal way to get your microsoft rewards points happened. Lucy, Ben, and Aadil had the Brave Noise Lager. The festival beer for We Are Beer festivals. Brewed by Left Handed Giant and in support of Brave Noise (bravenoisebeer.com) Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Join The OOL Community Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork #craftbeer #videogames #podcast #bravenoise #bcbf