Hey all!
Just wanted to give a brief update about what's going on.
First: I just got this in the mail! I just wanted to thank all of you for sticking with the show through thick and thin. This means a lot to me. I know it is in some sense just an ...
2017-05-26 00:36:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
If you couldn't guess, I'm holding off on that 0451 video until Prey comes out - it didn't seem to make sense to release it with that game on the horizon, so I want to incorporate it in any of my thoughts.
In the mean time, here's a mostly spoiler-free (ish?) look at Scanner Sombre, the latest title from long-time indie devs Introv...
2017-05-02 01:58:35 +0000 UTC View PostEdit: Not sure what I was thinking; I've updated the link to be a forever-link rather than a 24 hour one. Sorry for the e-mail spam!
Original post as follows:
So taking after my good friend Mumbles, I've decided to mess with setting up a Discord for my Patrons and a few other peeps. I would note that:
A) This is ENTIRELY ...
2017-04-16 04:51:12 +0000 UTC View PostI am not sure whether this episode needed a spoiler warning, so I just sort of put a loose one at the beginning. Still: Everything! A game about all of the things! Pretty neat! And more importantly, closer to on schedule than I've been in a while! Hooray!
2017-04-10 00:48:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Night in the Woods is a really neat game about being a cat! Also about being a 20-something facing the ennui of being an adult. Also it is about Sharkle, who is the best thing ever.
Anyways, I took at look at Night in the Woods, which was a weird game to write about because it's got a ton of stuff to talk about but it wears its thematic con...
2017-03-25 05:24:46 +0000 UTC View Post
So I get into this a little bit in the video, but I've been running behind all month due to various life things (the new job, getting a new dog, and some other personal stuff). That was okay, becasue I was gonna dedicate the last weekend of the month to getting some stuff out there! Then I got a sinus infection and was a zombie for a we...
2017-03-01 02:10:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Apparently I forgot to post this when it went online a few weeks ago! So I'm correcting that now in case anyone hasn't seen it. Be warned, there are big spoilers for the entire game throughout the whole video.
Anyways, I noticed this when getting ready to post the next little thing, so sorry for the in-box spam.
2017-03-01 02:06:16 +0000 UTC View Post
So originally this month was going to be a Dishonored 2 video, and that kind of fell through because I accidentally ballooned the script out into a giant thing that's gonna take a lot more time. So the good news is we've probably got a bit Looking Glass/0451 retrospective coming our way at some point in the next month or two!
The bad news i...
2017-01-30 06:26:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas Eve everyone! To celebrate here's perhaps the most Christmassy episode I've done. Well, Christmassy in a Gremlins/Shane Black/Die Hard kinda way. But at there's snow and lights and some santas!
Anyways, Dead Rising 4 is a frustrating game. It fixes so much of the tonal problems that ran rampant in the ...
Hey all! This time I'm talking about a game where you pick up trash! Sometimes you try to sell it! It's... it's more interesting than that sounds.
Anyways, this week I'm looking at Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor! I'll be back soonish with a Christmas themed episode... well, kind of... you'll see.
2016-12-14 03:28:18 +0000 UTC View Post
This video took far longer than it probably should have to make, and for that I apologize. It was a fun mix of technical and game design issues, but I can bore you about that later. For now: A new episode is up! Yay!
And hopefully now for something a bit shorter, sweeter, and lighter.
2016-11-24 01:42:30 +0000 UTC View Post
October continues with what is probably our first (perhaps only?) really scary episode: a look at Kitty Horrorshow's works and Anatomy in particular. I've been a fan of her stuff for a while now, and I wanted to look at why Anatomy stood out as perhaps the most robust of he games I have played so far. That said, it's far from her only g...
2016-10-23 20:41:50 +0000 UTC View Post
The second Halloweeny episode is out! This time it's a mostly spoiler-free look at Oxenfree, an adventure game that mixes spooky ghost stories and young adult fiction.And despite being a cranky 31 year old guy I mostly liked it, so that's gotta be a statement in favor of either me or the game (I'm not sure which).
Anyways, the next Hallowee...
2016-10-14 09:08:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm kicking off a month of Halloween-y games with Devil Daggers! It's basically Geometry Wars-meets-Quake, and the results are pretty neat!Anyways, I figured that covering a bunch of jump-scare games would get repetitive (and there's like a million YouTube videos on those as it stands) so I'm gonna be looking at a bunch of scary-adjacent game...
2016-10-08 12:41:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
This time I wrote a whole lot about Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. The response to this video has been pretty polarized, and I guess it comes off as more harsh than I really intended it to be?
Like, there are some games I genuinely dislike for how they engage with their themes - Bioshock Infinite and Watch_Dogs are two examples ...
2016-09-22 14:46:20 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode I took a look at No Man's Sky! I feel like discussion of the game proper has been lost in the derailment of the hype train and the kerfuffle about whether its marketing was truthful, and I kind of wanted to step back and look at the game as it stands.
This episode was also produced much faster than normal - a two week turnar...
2016-09-02 14:59:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all! I've put up a video on Firewatch looking at its overall themes and its structure.
2016-08-20 16:45:52 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-07-31 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
New video is up! This time I look at TF2 and Overwatch and how they sculpt their individual communities.
I don't know how common this sentiment in the video will be, though. For a while (this was probably five or six years ago) I was very much involved in a TF2 server - I ran trivia nights and made friends. We had custom mod...
2016-07-11 01:03:59 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-06-30 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The DOOM episode is now up! I try to talk about why I really really enjoyed the game but also struggle to see where it can go from here. Plus: DOOM 3 jokes!
2016-06-13 23:25:25 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-05-31 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
And here we wrap up Dark Souls III. Like I said last time, this was my first Dark Souls game and I'm glad I finally sat down and played all the way through it. It's an interesting game - I really dig the game's defense-oriented approach to combat, the macabre art direction and world building, and the fact that the game isn't afraid to b...
2016-05-22 22:12:16 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-04-30 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
I've posted the first is what looks like is going to be two videos on Dark Souls III. Originally it was going to be a bunch of shorter essays strung together, but this difficulty one sort of spiraled out of control and ended up basically being a full length episode onto itself.
I still have all the footag...
2016-04-26 11:51:17 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-03-31 06:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode went through a lot of rewrites. Part of that was simply the need to keep my meandering writing habits in check - I love this game, and it was pretty easy to go off onto tangents. I had wanted to say something about the evolution of its artstyle (the 2016-03-11 15:59:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you so much for the support this month!
2016-03-01 07:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-01-31 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This time I take a look at The Beginner's Guide in an awkwardly self-aware video!
2016-01-18 04:47:48 +0000 UTC View Post