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Some Thoughts On... The Shrouded Isle
Some Thoughts On… The Shrouded Isle
I’ve recently been promoted! For my hard work and dedication, I’ve taken the step from Ominous Chanter (First Position) to full-fledged Cult Manager! Here are some ramshackle thoughts on my time in charge on The Shrouded Isle. (more…)
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Some Thoughts On... Stories Untold
> Turn on computer > Insert ‘Stories Untold‘ floppy disc > Begin Start Load game > Get spooky (more…)
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Random Tables - d100 Signs and Portents
Looking for some mysterious goings-on to add some flavour to an upcoming event in your Dungeons & Dragons campaign? Need to drop some hints about an impending catastrophe in a Call of Cthulhu investigation? Or are you simply looking for some inspiration or some quest hooks? Random Tables has you covered here with this d100 table of signs, portents and omens! (more…)
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World Map Updated - April '16
World Map Updated – April ’16
World Map Updated is a new YouTube series focussed on exploring the world-design of video games in a more cinematic, personal manner. Here are our explorations for April. (more…)
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Weekly Stream Schedule (8th Feb '16)
CLICK HERE TO TUNE IN! Two schedules in two months. That’s what weekly means, right? This week on the Ramshackle Thoughts streaming channel we’re taking our new channel re-brand for a spin. Join the Expedition playing some Metal Gear Solid V, and an extra special co-op cast on Friday evening! (more…)
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TAKE A HIKE! - Mt. Chiliad Hikers' Trail (GTA: V)
TAKE A HIKE! – Mt. Chiliad Hikers’ Trail (GTA: V)
TAKE A HIKE! is a new weekly show on the Ramshackle Thoughts streaming channel. On Sundays, we take on the ultimate chill-cast, a relaxing exploration of open-world video games and other ‘walking simulators’. To start us off, we took the hiking trail up Grand Theft Auto V’s largest mountain, Mt. Chiliad. (more…)
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Weekly Stream Schedule (14th Dec '15)
Weekly Stream Schedule (14th Dec ’15)
CLICK HERE TO TUNE IN! Got a bunch of free time on your hands this week and no clue what to watch? Lower your standards significantly and swing on by the Ramshackle Thoughts streaming channel for these upcoming shows! Lots of Dragon Age: Inquisition this week because that game is freaking huge! There might be some casual Elite: Dangerous casts swapped in with the release of Horizons on Tuesday!…
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Opinions - The Park
Opinions – The Park
TRANSMIT – initiate amusement signal – RECEIVE – initiate candyfloss frequency – YOU MUST BE THIS TALL – initiate the children’s syntax – ALL WORK AND NO PLAY- round and round and round we go – CHAD CHAD CHAD – helter skelter melter – HAVE YOU SEEN MY MOMMY – the queue from this point is twenty minutes – ALL WORK AND NO PLAY – step right up – PLEASE KEEP YOUR HANDS AND FEET – you’ll never want to…
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Opinions - Planetbase
Opinions – Planetbase
Planetbase is one of the many space games I’ve been pouring all my free time into recently, in between watching Battlestar Galactica and playing Elite: Dangerous. I think I’m on some sort of interstellar-future high. Maybe I’ll sign up for this manned Mars mission. They’ll need people who do… whatever it is I do in space, right? They certainly can’t have me in charge of setting up the colony,…
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Forest, Fur & Fighting - Feist
Forest, Fur & Fighting – Feist
A silhouetted side-scrolling platformer in which a small character runs, jumps and dodges their way through a forest of monsters and traps? If you feel like you’ve played this game before, you’re wrong. Six years in the making, Feist is its own very special animal… (more…)
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LEGO: Worlds | It's Like a Virtual Minecraft!
LEGO: Worlds | It’s Like a Virtual Minecraft!
I love construction games. I love open world games. I love procedural generation. Luckily for me (and maybe you, too!), now there’s a LEGO version of Minecraft out, which was a digital version of LEGO which… My poor brain…. (more…)
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Opinionette - Contrast
Opinionette – Contrast
I really wanted to like Contrast. Everything I saw from the outside seemed like exactly my cup of tea. A beautiful Moulin Rouge-esque world of spinning lights, dancing shadows and art-deco buildings.
Then the game happened…
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**Top Secret - We've Moved!**
**Top Secret – We’ve Moved!**
Due to secret agents infiltrating our previous hideout, Ramshackle Thoughts has had to relocate our base of operations. Our new base is bigger, better, and more shark-and-snake-trap-filled than ever before! That should make those dirty Cabal spies think twice.
Unfortunately, this has meant that we’ve had to shut down our communications network for a short time, to avoid any information falling…
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A Mollusc Amounsc Us - Octodad: Dadliest Catch
A Mollusc Amounsc Us – Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Hey guys! Let me tell you about the most exciting, innovative and downright fun game you’ve never heard about! It’s called Octodad: Dadliest Catch, and you play as an undercover cephalopod trying to raise a family while keeping his true nature under wraps. Hahaha, how quirky!
…wait, what do you mean, been out since January?
…and it was a freeware game in 2010 as well?
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Opinion - Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
Opinion – Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
He towers over me, eight-feet of heavy muscle crammed into a case of scarred, grey flesh. He sports a nasty burn on his face (a gift from me from our first encounter), and a gilded, crown-like helmet (a gift from his superiors, after our second). He leans down heavily on his crude blade, pushing my own honed edge closer to my throat.
“Gravewalker,” the Uruk Captain says, “perhaps this time you’ll…
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I Return to Ramshackle Thoughts
I Return to Ramshackle Thoughts
WORDS. HOW DO THEY WORK?
Hello, lovely readers! As you may or may not have noticed, it’s been a while since I updated here. A long while. Five months to be precise.
That’s far too long, though there have been reasons for the absence. Regardless, I will be rectifying that from now on! First though, let’s talk about what I’ve been up to since I’ve been gone, because gosh darn I pay for this space…
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Ghost Ship - At Sea with AC4: Black Flag
Ghost Ship – At Sea with AC4: Black Flag
It was inevitable. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag had me piloting Edward Kenway and his crew through the perfect blue waters of the Caribbean for days, and it was only a matter of time before I just had to go for a swim.
Unfortunately, this little aquatic jaunt turned out to have a profoundly disappointing effect on my immersion in one of my favourite games from 2013.
I decided a change of…
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