If the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say this was their finest hour.

We stand for Queen, Country and Video Games.

BRB, UK.

Worst teeth. Better accents.

Hello, hello. Dan's not here. I should really not start with that. I was going to start that again. No, just go for it. No, no, no. That's pretty good. Hello, This is the Big Rebarrel podcast, UK podcast, episode number 49. My name's John, I'm Scottish one. I'm taking over for Dan this week, who's not Scottish. This is totally, like, not showing the regular tone of this show at all. This is really, like, low-key. This is, yeah, this is lovely. This is a hijacking. It's fine. It's like we're sitting at the back of some, like, jazz club, just like, yeah, no, everything's cool. I'm just going to have, like, a small glass of whiskey and just talk about our day. Let's just blow out for a little while. Yeah, it's fine. That's fine with me. Anyway, my name's John.

I am joined this week by... That was Matt, you heard there, who is our special guest. Now, hey, what's up? And our regular Mr. Timothy Hibbs. Hello? That's you. That's me. Yeah, that is you. Yeah. So, yeah, Dan is off this week because his internet is dead, which means we can bring the podcast from 1947 into 2013,

just for this week, his internet is dead, which means we can bring the podcast from 1947 into

2013, just for this week, which is nice. So, um, some stuff's happened this week. A good bit

of it, actually, some old stuff, some new stuff, some stuff is long overdue. That is so informative.

This is, this is the way that we're doing things this week, Tim. You're just going to have a week of stuff and things and that's it.

You know what? I think we should start because the first two things we've got in this agenda here

are things that are either really old and good or are really old and have come out now and they are bad.

We've talked about the one that I can actually talk about. I think we should start with a good one that I can actually talk about.

I think we should start with a good one, yeah. System Shock 2. Ah, System Shock 2. Which... Which......is a game, which was made by Irrational Games way, way, we were back. How old is it now? System Shock 2? I can't even tell you. it was in the 2000s, I think,

like in that kind of

like Deus XE

position.

And it was, yeah,

it was around then.

And it was, can't even tell you. It was in the 2000s, I think, like in that kind of like Deus XE

position. And it was...

Yeah, it was around then. And it was

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