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The first half of the show has Rob & Prob talk about some of the games we've been playing - otherwise known as Monthly Games Marmalade on YouTube, because Games Jam, geddit?. Which includes the likes of Katamari Damacy Reroll, Thumper & Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition. Then, we hop on over to a more traditional impossible mission episode for this collected feed. On which we do this. Capitalism! Isn't it great? Join us as we discuss how those sneaky games publishers have put full-blown adverts in our games and in some cases, turned games into the actual adverts. Ah, the 90s, they were the worst. DEBUTED ON OUR YOUTUBE DECEMBER 2020, NEARLY UP TO DATE NOW... If you like the podcast, send some support by visiting our PATREON. Alternatively, give us a 5-star rating and/or review wherever you get your podcasts from, it helps other people find our podcast. The more feedback we have, the more people can enjoy our video games chatter. #podernfamily #gamesjam #katamaridamacy #productplacement #judgment #ps

This week on Impossible Mission, we talk about a simple question but one with tentacles that reach far and wide... Do Genres Matter in Videogames? And then, we talk about the Dual Sense and what it means for immersion in upcoming PS5 games. Leading on from that, we segue into a conversation into VR - which is very much related and totally not a tangent, thank you very much. DEBUTED ON OUR YOUTUBE NOVEMBER 2020 If you like the podcast, send some support by visiting our PATREON. Alternatively, give us a 5-star rating and/or review wherever you get your podcasts from, it helps other people find our podcast. The more feedback we have, the more people can enjoy our video games chatter. #podernfamily #ps5 #cyberpunk2077 #dualsense# #gamingpodcast

This week we talk about something that should be a bigger deal in gaming but it just isn't - games for adults. We don't mean sexy, sexy games either, we mean the way games tell a story. Although, we do stop off for a bit on sexy, sexy games. You know? to cover the bases. Then we talk about something that sounds simple but reaches far and wide within the world of video games. Aesthetics, specifically Art Design Vs Photo Realism. Sounds complex but it really isn't. DEBUTED ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOVEMBER 2019 If you like the podcast, send some support by visiting our PATREON. Alternatively, give us a 5-star rating and/or review wherever you get your podcasts from, it helps other people find our podcast. The more feedback we have, the more people can enjoy our video games chatter. #podernfamily #lastofuspartII #demonsouls #ps5 #gamingpodcast

On this episode, we talk about some of the games we've been playing which include Yakuza-Like detective-'em-up Judgment and Housemarque Bullet hell glee in Nex Machina. Then in the back half of the show, A fairly simple concept as we talk about those games that should by all rights by in a strike zone. Those games that are right up our dirty alley but fail. Or, to put it a less filthy way, games that we should like but we don't. DEBUTED ON OUR YOUTUBE NOVEMBER 2020 If you like the podcast, send some support by visiting our PATREON. Alternatively, give us a 5-star rating and/or review wherever you get your podcasts from, it helps other people find our podcast. The more feedback we have, the more people can enjoy our video games chatter. #podernfamily #marvelsavengers #tonyhawks #judgment #ps4 #videogames

Halloween is upon us so join us on Impossible Mission for a one-two punch of horror crunchiness. In the first episode, we talk about a concept that might sound alien to a lot of people - horror games for kids. This comes from us kids of the 80s and 90s, where movies made horror and horrific movies and TV for kids with frightening and awesome regularity. So, we ask where the same stuff is for games... We conclude our horror-themed double-bill with a chat about games that scares us. Nothing more, nothing less. DEBUTED ON OUR YOUTUBE OCTOBER 2020 If you like the podcast, send some support by visiting our PATREON. Alternatively, give us a 5-star rating and/or review wherever you get your podcasts from, it helps other people find our podcast. The more feedback we have, the more people can enjoy our video games chatter. #podernfamily #horror #halloween #videogames #scarygames

In the first half of this episode, there's no dancing around this one as our eventual opinion may upset some people - so, all we can say is we intended no offence. That being said, we ask the question - Was the PS4 and Xbox One Generation a Good One? Then, in part two. Every time a new console generation rolls around the question is always asked, is this new machine back-compatible? This week on Impossible Mission, we talk about why back compatibility is more important than you think, especially for the future of games.  DEBUTED ON OUR YOUTUBE OCTOBER 2020 If you like the podcast, send some support by visiting our PATREON. Alternatively, give us a 5-star rating and/or review wherever you get your podcasts from, it helps other people find our podcast. The more feedback we have, the more people can enjoy our video games chatter.

With the news that Bethesda/ZeniMax has been acquired by Microsoft, the internet media have been agog at who the Redmond titan could buy next. We address the theories surrounding Sega and Konami, before looking at some of the other developers out there in videogame land.  After which we talk about the games we've been playing for the last month, which in this case was September. Again, sorry for the long radio silence on this feed. Games that include the likes of Judgment, Night in the Woods and Unravel. Yeah, they aren't very current, but to be perfectly fair... Yeah, I have no explanation. Originally on YouTube October 2020 If you like the podcast, send some support by visiting our PATREON. Alternatively, give us a 5-star rating and/or review wherever you get your podcasts from, it helps other people find our podcast. The more feedback we have, the more people can enjoy our video games chatter.

We are back, 2021 is going to be a year of much change. One of which is ensuring that the podcast version of Impossible Mission and the youtube version has some degree of consistency with one another. As such, we are back to double billing episodes until we've caught up. A new type of topic on Impossible Mission this week, this is a hypothetical discussion. On this one, we ask the question - if you had to play only triple-A games or high profile Indie titles exclusively for a year, which would you pick? This is part 1 of that discussion, in which we look at the benefits of Triple-A Gaming. Originally on YouTube, September 2020. If you like the podcast, send some support by visiting our PATREON. Alternatively, give us a 5-star rating and/or review wherever you get your podcasts from, it helps other people find our podcast. The more feedback we have, the more people can enjoy our video games chatter.

This week we zag where the video game industry zigs. Yeah, you'd think we'd do an episode on PS5 and the pre-order debacle. No, we say. Impossible Mission isn't like that, Impossible Mission is counter-programming. In this episode, we talk about games we shouldn't like but do. That isn't guilty pleasures, by the way, Guilty pleasures are something altogether different that warrants its own episode.

Games are big, much too big. That fact is probably why we all have such big game backlogs. This week we talk about things on the opposite end of the spectrum with short games and why they are much more satisfying as well as some longer games that'd be better if they were shorter.  

What games have you been playing this last month?

We've had chat recently about what a next-gen game is and what a next-gen game isn't, especially you - Gaming YouTube. So, in this episode of Impossible Mission, we talk about what we hope next-gen actually means. Is it bigger and prettier, or does it mean something else? 

A bold prediction this week on Impossible Mission. With COVID affecting every aspect of modern life, the Rob's predict that there's a rather significant games drought heading our way over the next 18 months or so. In this episode, they present their case.

With recent worries of people thinking Cyberpunk 2077 is going to inspire waves of cheap knock-offs, we take to Impossible Mission to say, "yeah, obviously". Well, kind of, anyway. In a grander sense, this new episode is about how Games Copy Games. No need to dress it up as something fancier than it actually is. 

Impossible Mission, so-called because it's impossible to talk about games without making someone angry [on the internet]. It's important to bring this up this of all weeks, as we are talking about Fanboys and the Playstation Bias. Oooh, controversial. 

Following up from last week's episode, where we discussed the recent Xbox Games Showcase - this week on Impossible Mission, we talk about Launch Games. Along the way, we discuss Tetris being the business, Nintendo being the GOAT of Launch titles and Playstation needing more work. For all this and more... Impossible Mission!. 

This week on Impossible Mission, we talk about how we feel the recent Xbox Series X Showcase went and given how much it focused on game pass and how little it focused on the Xbox Series X. From that, we ask whether the idea of Console Wars is now a thing of the past

This time on Impossible Mission, we follow up last week's discussion on the price of games by talking about the future of games ownership. Which, of course, becomes another episode of Prob Predictions. Still, as it's a very interesting time to be a gamer as we discuss in this 'ere episode. Check it out.

With news that Xbox Series X and PS5 could go for £70/$70. We talk about what that could possibly mean for the video games industry going forward.

The title of this episode says everything, really. What is the perfect length for a video game?  We ask this question from two ends of the spectrum, first its the turn of longer, more open-ended games. Then, we look at tighter more linear experiences before we ask you, dear viewer, what games you've played that are perfectly paced and are exactly as long as they need to be. Not as many as you'd think they'd be...