Never Be Game Over

'Never Be Game Over' is a gaming podcast from Chris Sykes, Mike Kissane and Sam Mitchell where each episode we look back at a video game and discuss its pros, cons - and then score it out of ten in four core areas, eventually giving the game a ranking in our definitive Hall of Fame

39. 'Streets of Rage 2' (1992, Genesis/Mega Drive) 01/20/2024

39. 'Streets of Rage 2' (1992, Genesis/Mega Drive) Grab a roast chicken from a bin and beat a man's head in with a lead pipe. /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/29572213

38. 'Red Dead Redemption 2' (PS4, 2018) 01/06/2024

38. 'Red Dead Redemption 2' (PS4, 2018) Grab your racoon shaped hat, grow your moustache to insane proportions, it's time to get redempted /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/29365923

37. 'Metal Gear Solid 3 - Snake Eater' (PS2, 2004) 12/23/2023

37. 'Metal Gear Solid 3 - Snake Eater' (PS2, 2004) /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/29211103

36. The Series Two Review 07/08/2023

36. The Series Two Review Three impartial outside observers (ourselves) are brought in to assess ourselves /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/27405864

35. 'Ghost of Tsushima' (2020, PS4) 06/24/2023

35. 'Ghost of Tsushima' (2020, PS4) Goats, you say? And Sushi-men? Now this I gotta see! /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/27255012

34. 'Baldur's Gate 2' 06/10/2023

34. 'Baldur's Gate 2' And now for something completely different. Join power mad Sam and special guest @Rooflemonger for a look back at the game some have called 'the predecessor to Baldur's Gate 3' /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/27098493

33. Shit parts of great games 05/27/2023

33. Shit parts of great games They've all got 'em! Even the perfect, most bewdifullest game has a few...blemishes here and there. But do these abberations just increase the beauty of the whole? As they say on my favourite TV show - let's find out! /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/26966214

32. 'Donkey Kong Country' (1994, SNES) 05/06/2023

32. 'Donkey Kong Country' (1994, SNES) Some bastard's gone and stolen our entire very heavy banana horde - and we think the crocodile man surounded by nanas is a top suspect. Time to go on a roaring rampage of revenge the likes of which gaming has never seen /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/26761599

31. Biggest disappointments 04/22/2023

31. Biggest disappointments We face our trauama in a group setting and reveal the biggest disappointments gaming has ever inflicted upon us /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/26619039

30. 'The Last of Us Part II' (PS4, 2020) 04/07/2023

30. 'The Last of Us Part II' (PS4, 2020) It's the day Mike and Sam have long dreaded, as it's finally time to dive into a game that Chris is allegedly quite partial to. How long will his monologues be? Will Mike or Sam murder him by the end? Will they be left with a lust for revenge? What's the worst that could happen? /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/26474400

29. Which game character would you want to help you move? 03/25/2023

29. Which game character would you want to help you move? Moving. It’s a ballache. You know it and God knows I know it. What you need is reinforcements from the roster of the widest trove of freaky characters this side of Marvel comics. But WHO is the character, out of the whole trough of gaming, that you’d ask to help you move house? The biggest question of our time is about to be answered. /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/26337393

'Grand Theft Auto V' (PS3, 2013) 03/11/2023

'Grand Theft Auto V' (PS3, 2013) Brotherly love, eh? There's nothing quite like it. Join us, as we take on the epic tale of two brothers (in crime) and a much less interesting character, and compare it to our own families, along with the many murders and other such crimes we've committed /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/26196231

27. Looking back at the original 'Super Mario Bros.' movie 02/25/2023

27. Looking back at the original 'Super Mario Bros.' movie It was 1993. And a bunch of kids were about to have their minds blown by a look into what the future of cinema held. For 1993 was the year WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH. /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/26041500

26. 'A Plague Tale - Innocence' (PS4, 2019) 02/11/2023

26. 'A Plague Tale - Innocence' (PS4, 2019) RATS - it's exactly what you likely exclaimed when you realised that this damn podcast was returning and you were obligated to keep listening. But fear not, as we return with the fury of a million plague ridden RATS, which you better pray we can control with our mind! RATS. /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/25897512

25. What’s the weirdest thing we’ve done in a game? 10/08/2022

25. What’s the weirdest thing we’ve done in a game? Murdered a baby penguin in front of its mother? Taken a suspiciously large amount of Ellie photos in the ‘Last of Us’ remake? Intentionally let the theme of your hospital be ‘you’re covered in rats and piss’? Let’s face it, gaming has allowed us to all do some pretty weird things over the years, unleashing our darkest inner selves, revealing their Exorcist-like faces to the world. Here’s our weirdest. /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/24625617

24. 'Crash Bandicoot' (Playstation, 1996) 09/24/2022

24. 'Crash Bandicoot' (Playstation, 1996) In a more innocent age, the world was divided in two - Sega and Nintendo. But then a new player entered the game and a new mascot was needed. One who sexually assaults hogs and jumps like a total weirdo /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/24476016

23. Good times with shit games 09/17/2022

23. Good times with shit games Ah, the guilty pleasure. The dodgy satisfier. The tasty turd. Join us, as we look back at our favourite games that are, undeniably, shit. /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/24404055

22. 'Horizon - Zero Dawn' (2017, PS4) 09/10/2022

22. 'Horizon - Zero Dawn' (2017, PS4) When? The future. Who? The red-haired dick who saved Meridian. What horsie? A robot one whose mind you stole. The lads tighten our bowstrings and get ready to start smashing - as we look back at 'Horizon - Zero Dawn'! /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/24333705

Which character should become our 4th podcast host? 08/20/2022

Which character should become our 4th podcast host? Let's be honest, it's clear this podcast is treading water. Taking *on* water. It's time for new blood. Just like sometimes you have to add Danny DeVito to a show to make it the best thing in existence, we're not so proud that we can't admit that our podcast is a real turd - and the only answer is new personnel. So, join us, as we have a tense roundtable to decide which games character we think has what it takes to join the elite team of Never Be Game Over hosts /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/24116277

20. 'GoldenEye 007' (N64, 1997) 08/05/2022

20. 'GoldenEye 007' (N64, 1997) Sega may have done what Nintendon’t but it turns out that what Nintendidn’t was shit their business down the pan by not making a weirdly off-brand adaptation of a film franchise about an assassin who smashes cocktails, smashes ladies and smashes the plans of megalomaniacs worldwide. Yep, we come to a weird granddaddy here, a game that, all things being equal, should never have achieved the level of success and cultural cache it did - but we are where we are, so join the lads on a journey back to the late nineties, when it was apparently okay to release game adaptations of films two years after their cinema release. /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/23968839

19. Games that made us cry 07/29/2022

19. Games that made us cry You know, you’ve gotta stop bottling things up, dude. There’s no shame in just letting it come out every once in awhile, just letting those tears well up until they flow down your face and cleanse you right to the SOUL. We make the choice to feel our feelings - as we discuss our top moments in gaming that have made us drop a tear (or indeed several) /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/23900607

18. 'Metal Gear Solid 2 - Sons of Liberty' (PlayStation 2, 2001) 07/22/2022

18. 'Metal Gear Solid 2 - Sons of Liberty' (PlayStation 2, 2001) Our 2nd series is here - and naturally it must start in the most obvious possible way, as we start as we mean to go on - with a frankly intolerable amount of references to Metal Gear! We can only pray you'll forgive them in an episode directly about one of the games, so get ready to meet the president-pussy grabber, to need some scissors, and travel naked through the colon. /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/23827301

17. Looking back at the Series 1 scores 06/10/2022

17. Looking back at the Series 1 scores Shame. Regret. Self-reflection. All things that we feel when looking back at our 'distinguished' Hall of Fame for our first series. We cast our eyes back over our rankings, our insane scores and the flimsy justifications for them. Just how much sorrow can three men feel in one sitting? /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/23392553

16. 'Death Stranding' (PS4, 2019) 05/20/2022

16. 'Death Stranding' (PS4, 2019) It was inevitable, really. With at least one of us unable to go five minutes without referring to Metal Gear, we were only ever going to be ending our first series with one game. So, is old Hideo going to come through for us with some weird, charming, nonsensical, compelling, incoherent bullshit? Well, there's a reason he's called 'the man who delivers'! /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/23175653

15. What power-up would you most want in real life? 05/13/2022

15. What power-up would you most want in real life? A toot of cocaine before that big meeting. A belt of whiskey before your child's christening. A tab of LSD before sitting down to watch 'Cats' (2019). Life is constantly being improved by little helpers here and there - but which little helpers, or 'powering-ups', from gaming would we most like to have in our own lives? /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/23106350

14. 'Shenmue' (Dreamcast, 1998) 04/30/2022

14. 'Shenmue' (Dreamcast, 1998) Video games! They allow us to make the impossible a reality. To throw us into worlds we could never previously have imagined. To make us experience things far outside the realm of our own lives. To allow us to distract ourselves from our job as a…forklift driver by…playing darts? /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/22959899

13. 'Super Mario 64' (N64, 1996) 04/16/2022

13. 'Super Mario 64' (N64, 1996) Happy birthday, Mario! Yes, as the title declares, superb Mario is now 64 years old, and much like Tom Cruise in a Mission: Impossible movie, he’s still throwing himself around with the reckless abandon of a 20 year old. Join us as we discuss one of the most important video games of all time and prepare yourself for some truly preposterous scoring on the part of Sam, the new wildcard. /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/22810958

12. Which game character would you most like to publicly slap? 04/05/2022

12. Which game character would you most like to publicly slap? Let's face it - sometimes someone does something, says something, something so outrageous, so beyond the pale, so unnacceptable, that your only recourse is to give them a good hard public slap. Just so they know that that shit is not cricket. So join us, as we ready up our strikin' palm, and let you know which game characters are most cruising for a very public bruising. /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/22688720

11. 'The Last of Us' (PS3, 2013) 03/29/2022

11. 'The Last of Us' (PS3, 2013) Goddamn, get ready to go on a journey with this one, dear listener. Two of the hosts of this podcast are sane, rational men willing to have normal responses to things they encounter. But only one is able to stake out the position of describing encountering a game that he has come to love dearly that he also considers to be almost unplayable. Join us - and reveal the maniac in our midst. /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/22614383

10. What's the worst thing a game has ever made you do? 03/22/2022

10. What's the worst thing a game has ever made you do? Endlessly trot back and forth for bullshit trinkets? Throw you into a battle that you've been given scant instructions for? Literally stab a baby? Let's be honest, games have made us all do some terrible things in our time, both inside of them...and sadly sometimes outside of them. So join us, dear listener, as we turn over the rock and peer into the abyss of wriggling, crawling indignities and ask - what is the worst thing a game has ever made us do? /episode/index/show/neverbegameoverpodcast/id/22531097

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