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What I Learned From Driver SF's Multiplayer

What I Learned From Driver SF's Multiplayer

Teleporting into any car on the road...

How has only one videogame used this mechanic?

Driver San Francisco came out 10+ years ago and it's still a remarkable game for anybody, not just racing game fans. Wh...

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Q&A: October 12th, 2022

Q&A: October 12th, 2022

Juhana Asks
For the rest of your life, the only TV show you can watch is Dexter but only sseason 8 or the only movie you can watch is Driven. You have to watch Dexter twice a year and Driven 5 times a year.

I'll become emotionally dead in both cases, but at least with Driven, I'll have some initial fun along th...

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Recommendations: Cynic EP by Sister Crayon

Recommendations: Cynic EP by Sister Crayon

Sometimes, you'll find a twenty minute EP from nearly ten years ago that you're still playing to this day. I knew nothing of Sister Crayon and honestly, I only just discovered what else she's doing today, which just makes me excited to hear more.

This Cynic EP starts with a beautifully dark and somber title track that manages to build the ...

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Unflattering Comparisons

Unflattering Comparisons

By the time you read this, there's just two days left of the current Steam Next Fest. The semi-regular digital festival where Steam's packed to the brim with demos of upcoming games, dev-streams, and reveals.

While my wishlist isn't tripling like it did last time, I'm still finding lots of interesting games I never would've heard of had th...

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Q&A: Oct 5th, 2022

Q&A: Oct 5th, 2022

Lachlan Manning Asks
Is there any other games (other then Alpha Protocol) that you feel deserve the remake treatment?

Tons.

R-Racing Evolution. Mercenaries. Deus Ex. Cold Winter. BRINK. Nascar Thunder '04. Halo 3 ODST. Rainbow Six. Etc.

There's also tons of niche games I think deserve a sequel to fl...

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Recommendations: Planetes

Recommendations: Planetes

From the people that brought you Cowboy Bebop.

Need more?

Okay, this show was a big surprise for me. It's one starring a wide-eyed naive new recruit in the corporate run world of Space, finding herself working for Debris Section, the lowest and least respected on the latter. So you're expecting her to take the entire season to learn ...

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Use. Right. Click!

Use. Right. Click!

Two years ago, I wrote a Randomly Mine called "A Simple Standard" where I wished more developers would use WASD for navigating menus rather than force the mouse or arrow keys.

Now I'm going to complain about something that's almost identical.

In game menus, you left click to advance, so logically, you'd use the right click to back up...

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Q&A: September 28th, 2022

Q&A: September 28th, 2022

Screenfunfan Asks
What is your favorite Cyberpunk Quest?

Fuck.

That's tough.

Especially since there's so many I didn't have the chance to finish due to lack of time. It's also hard to pick one favorite. What I didn't expect were how many were about Johnny.

The junkyard stands out in m...

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Recommendations: Supernova by Nova Twins

Recommendations: Supernova by Nova Twins

I've had months now to let this album simmer, and it still slaps from top to bottom. I'd be lying if I said I don't prefer bangers like Choose Your Fighter, Antagonist, and Toolbox over more toned down tracks like Cleopatra and K.M.B, but in the context of an album, they do a wonderful job of maintaining a great momentum from start to finish wit...

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Q&A: September 21st, 2022

Q&A: September 21st, 2022

Nathan Tallent Asks
NSYNC or Backstreet Boys?

My brain on the sidewalk.

Juhana Asks
Would you rather eat a pizza without sauce or a cheeseburger without the patty? The burger because thats just a sandwich then, what a stupid question from me. New question time. Pizza without the sauce ...

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Recommendations: Cyberpunk Edgerunners

Recommendations: Cyberpunk Edgerunners

After Castlevania, The Witcher, and Arcane, Cyberpunk Edgerunners is the next prime example in an adaptation done properly. Studio Trigger brought their A-Game in this show's remarkable presentation, the animation, colors, character design, and backgrounds are all top notch, along with their editing and direction.

Meanwhile the story is co...

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I Don't Love Steam, I Just Hate Everything Else

I Don't Love Steam, I Just Hate Everything Else

Gamers.

TM.

Annoying fuckers aren't they?

They'll write essays longer than my videos about puddles in Spiderman, force Arc System Works to protect Bridget's Wikipedia page, and their most traumatic life experience was buying Destiny at...

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Q&A: September 14th, 2022

Q&A: September 14th, 2022

Techdisk Asks
YTV or Teletoon?

I was definitely a Teletoon kid.

Massive respect for the question!

Juhana Asks
Whats your home address? I want to send you a gun with 6 shots.

Don't, my Canadian brain can't process that many shots in one firearm.

dk...

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Recommendations: Driver San Francisco

Recommendations: Driver San Francisco

There's a class of driving games which are for everybody. Need for Speed Most Wanted, Burnout 3: Takedown, Wreckfest, and this...

Driver San Francisco being taken offline now means it's complete abandonware, and you can go about any means of acquiring it, and it's worth it, because the gameplay holds up brilliantly, let alone it's core-gim...

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Best It's Gonna Get

Best It's Gonna Get

Years ago, a friend and I were playing Far Cry 4's co-op mode, as that was part of the game's selling point at launch.

It didn't really have much else going for it.

And honestly, this mode didn't seem much to rave about either. 

W...

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Post-Mortem: Max Payne "Clones"

Post-Mortem: Max Payne "Clones"

Honestly, writing isn't that hard.

You don't need to put a gun to my head for me to write down enough words that a hardcover would be thick enough to beat goats to death with. Typing on this keyboard is real easy, and complaining or praising things in video games is even easier.

Structuring on the other hand, that's reall...

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Q&A: September 7th, 2022

Q&A: September 7th, 2022

RupertLitterbin Asks
Flashbang?

Thorugh the door.

Juhana Asks
What happens when you give a canadian a gun with more than 5 shots?

Their minds explode.

Jorge Asks
Which F-1 team do you typically support?

I don't support one lone te...

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Recommendations: The Rock (1996)

Recommendations: The Rock (1996)

The amount of mockery Michael Bay gets from viewers and critics alike I think very much stems from that he's clearly talented, and movies like The Rock show how.

The films a majestic balance of action, drama, and camp. It's got a compelling Villain lashing out against the US, a hysterically naïve character played by Nicholas Cage, and mul...

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Instagram (The Tone)

Instagram (The Tone)

The Crew 1 is an absolute joke.

The context for this open-world arcade racing game about driving the fastest cars across the entire United States of America, is avenging your dead brother after being framed for his murder and recruited by the FBI ...

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Q&A: August 31st, 2022

Q&A: August 31st, 2022

RupertLitterbin Asks
Who are you?

Lucas Raycevick.

I was originally going to write a multi-paragraph fanfic about how I was abducted by the CIA as an experiment of what happens when they give a Canadian a Gun with more than five shots, but it's nearly 1am, and you're Rupert, so it's just not worth it.

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NEW VIDEO: Max Payne's 3 Clones (Rough Cut)

NEW VIDEO: Max Payne's 3 Clones (Rough Cut)

I apologize for the long wait, but thankfully, this project is almost wrapped up! Though there's still lots of changes and additions needed to be made to this video, it is in the home stretch, and I hope all of you enjoy it.

Of course, any and all feedback is greatly appreciated as I can incorporate tweaks. Currently my to-do list is... View Post

Gloom(wood) and Doom

Gloom(wood) and Doom

Gloomwood, one of those games I always heard about but never played until the last Steam Nextfest.

I loved it!

Wonderfully atmospheric, obscenely tense, great to control, and wonderfully paced.

It's a game I'm looking forward to playin...

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Recommendations: Sempiternal by Bring Me The Horizon

Recommendations: Sempiternal by Bring Me The Horizon

After recommending Bring Me The Horizon's Post Human Survivor Horror EP, I was encouraged by Patrons to give the band's earlier work a try. My initial reaction to Suicide Season was wanting to vomit, but just like Converge, I steadily became acclimated to Horizon's early Metalcore roots on that album and There Is a Hell.

While there's song...

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A Standout Moment in "Hours of Darkness"

A Standout Moment in "Hours of Darkness"

Far Cry 5's DLC, "Hours of Darkness" is… okay.

Made by Ubisoft Shanghai, it reconfigures Far Cry 5's assets into an open-ended Vietnam game where those assets can't quite create the goal the team was clearly striving for. The weapons all behave ...

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Q&A: August 17th, 2022

Q&A: August 17th, 2022

Kevin Yang Asks
Verstappen on Hard at Baku or Leclerc on Hard at Budapest?

Baku.

In that scenario, I don't need to shake hands with the people who fucked me.

Kizza Lee Asks
Would you ever make another Years Later on another Need for Speed game?

Certainly.

Tho...

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Recommendations: Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team

Recommendations: Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team

The Cyberpunk franchise already meets my biases so hard, and now that I've read a wonderfully written and drawn comic overtly inspired by 2012's DREDD? Come on. How could I not adore this story?

Trauma Team's a great read that I think can work as an eye-opening experience into this side of the Cyberpunk universe, and a complete stand alone...

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Would an Industry Crash Help Gaming?

Would an Industry Crash Help Gaming?

Nope.

The 80s crash happened because there were so many different games and consoles coming out that were practically identical during an age where information was limited, and no customer entering it had any idea nor any interest in it.

Tha...

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Q&A: August 10th, 2022

Q&A: August 10th, 2022

Juhana Asks
If you could run at max speed of 100km/h but would never allowed to drive a car/bike/whatever else again would you do it?

In a perfect world, absolutely yes!

Realistically, I'd end up just recreating the opening of The Boys for several people, I'd become the anomaly of the world, and a bunch o...

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Recommendations: Wallop by !!!

Recommendations: Wallop by !!!

This recommendation's a little different. This isn't industrial, metal, or soundtrack, but Dance Punk... I know! The likely hood of me actually going out to a club to dance to music like this is somewhere within the probability of Bobby Kotick becoming a decent person. 

However, I'll give anything a chance, and this album is one I put...

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So I Can Finally Enjoy This Game… (Again)

So I Can Finally Enjoy This Game… (Again)

We've all got those nostalgic games from our childhoods. One I always bring up, is Gran Turismo 2, another I rarely bring up, is Driver 2, and that's not because Driver 2 matters less to me, it's because it was taken from me!

Yes, while my family ...

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