The Eras Tour: Best Historical or Futuristic Setting

This week the Boys try to settle the debate raging across the country: which historical or futuristic period makes the best setting for a game? From early symbolic thought through to space travel across the outer reaches of the universe, gaming covers every era, but which one suits it best?

Before all that, we check in on Glenn to see how he's dealing with the social media backlash to his Crimson Desert comments and discuss perhaps the most impressive listener contribution to date: a functioning version of Pierre's Commander Sexy pitch. Links below.

Pierre continues his quest to get to the bottom of the sandpit, Glenn asks the big questions about The Sims and Sarah attempts to breed on a scale even Elon Musk would be jealous of.

Commander Sexy Dev Log - Sam Kennard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiV23COOrpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEhOa6tONkg

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Thanks again to all those who came to Button Boys Live at Leicester Square Theatre. If you missed it, we're doing another live date on October 15th in Balham at the Cheerful Earful festival. Link below!

⁠⁠Cheerful Earful Festival Live Show⁠

⁠⁠Pierre⁠

⁠⁠Sarah⁠

⁠⁠Glenn⁠

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Games Mentioned in this week's episode:

• Crimson Desert
• Sandustry
• Heavy Rain
• A Game About Digging A Hole
• Factorio
• Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
• The Sims
• Lemmings
• Helldivers
• Mewgenics
• The Binding of Isaac
• Overcooked!
• Into the Breach
• This War of Mine
• Wildermyth
• Cult of the Lamb
• Minesweeper
• Silent Hill: Townfall
• Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
• Atomfall
• Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
• 007 First Light
• The Getaway
• Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny
• Ghost of Tsushima
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Shogun: Total War
• Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
• Like a Dragon: Ishin!
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
• Life is Strange
• Mixtape
• Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
• Lake
• Grand Theft Auto VI
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Bloodborne
• Assassin's Creed Syndicate
• The Sinking City
• The Sinking City 2
• The Sexy Brutale
• Dishonored
• Cossacks
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• The Witcher
• The Blood of Dawnwalker
• Immortality
• BioShock
• Alone in the Dark
• Assassin's Creed Odyssey
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance
• Red Dead Redemption
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Crusader Kings
• Forge of Empires

Produced and edited by Ben Drayton

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