Terrible Times: Who’s Got it the Worst?

We've all had one of those days: just missing the bus, stepping in a deep puddle, pissing ourselves a little bit. But none of us have had the kinds of days that gaming protagonists routinely face. From severed limbs to shipwrecks, we subject our digital avatars to the worst possible experiences.

This week the Boys discuss the absolute worst of it. Crawling through sewers, being flayed alive, catching TB or living under a tyrannical Sims player. All bad stuff, but who has it the worst?

Before that, though, we catch up on what the Boys have been playing. Sarah's finally catching up on a sequel in one of their favourite franchises, Pierre's finding he's not getting the same hit from a cosy classic and Glenn's mildly underwhelmed but not surprised by an emerging sequel.

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Games Mentioned in this week's episode:

• Dredge
• Outlast
• Marvel's Spider-Man
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2
• Baldur's Gate 3
• Alan Wake II
• Starfield
• Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
• Dorfromantik
• 007 First Light
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• HITMAN World of Assassination
• GoldenEye 007
• Marvel's Wolverine
• Big Walk
• Split Fiction
• Star Wars: Galactic Racer
• Gears of War: E-Day
• The Last of Us
• Counter-Strike
• Silent Hill: Townfall
• Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival
• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
• Dead Space 2
• DOOM
• Age of Empires
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance
• Resident Evil 2
• Resident Evil Requiem
• Papers, Please
• INSIDE
• The Sims
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• The Drifter
• Dark Souls
• Luigi's Mansion
• Bloodborne
• Heavy Rain
• Angry Birds
• Little Nightmares
• Tomb Raider
• Rise of the Tomb Raider
• PAC-MAN

Produced and edited by Ben Drayton

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