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Grumpy Old Gamer

Grumpy Old Gamer

Grumpy Old Gamer is a podcast for people who remember when games came in boxes, DLC wasn’t day-one extortion, and ‘early access’ wasn’t code for ‘you’re paying to beta test this broken mess.’ We talk about games, the old, the new, the good, the bad, the ugly and everything in between, with the kind of blunt honesty that PR departments hate.

Join us if you remember when games were great (and secret... more

PublishesTwice monthlyEpisodes7Founded7 months ago
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Ian, Tim, and Al have finally had it with the “console wars.” We talk about how exclusives don’t mean a thing anymore, how every console is just a glorified PC in a plastic box, and how Microsoft and Sony have stopped pretending otherwise. We get int... more

Ian, Al, and Tim trace first-person shooters from 1970s NASA research projects to today's microtransaction machines. The genre peaked with single-player campaigns that had character and personality, then corporate greed killed everything good about s... more

Remember cramming four sweaty mates on a sofa, squinting at a quarter of the TV, and screaming over who was screen-peeking? We do. This episode we grumble through the golden days of Halo LAN parties, lugging CRTs across town, and the brutal honesty o... more

Tim, Al, and Ian argue whether Half-Life 2's influence trumps GTA 5's sales numbers, discovering that Steam's $10.8 billion annual revenue makes Half-Life 3 commercially pointless. This episode covers the Source engine's lasting impact on every moder... more

Al, Ian, and Tim dive into the $184 billion gaming industry versus Hollywood's measly $42 billion box office, discovering that respect for source material apparently took 30 years to figure out. This episode covers why early 90s game adaptations were... more

Al, Ian, and Tim launch their complaints about modern gaming with predictable results. This first episode covers the industry's monetization problems, DLC obsession, and live service addiction while questioning whether games were better when they shi... more

Remember when you bought a game and got the whole game? When patches fixed bugs instead of adding microtransactions? When developers finished their games before selling them to you?

Welcome to Grumpy Old Gamer, the podcast for everyone who lived thr... more

Launching Summer 2025. ...maybe.The Grumpy Old Gamer Podcast. Opinionated, sarcastic, and occasionally insightful takes on games old and new. Irregular episodes covering what’s worth playing, what’s not, and why everything used to be better. Or maybe... more

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