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A Problem With Gaming Sites

By Raycevick

Last Updated December 17th, 2017

Recently, a Twitter user brought something to my attention. A Steam account with nearly 800 reviews that were positively received.

But in the case of ...

Q&A: February 3rd, 2021

Sandraincloud90 Asks
What are your thoughts on the modern Fallout games since you've now played a bit of them?

Fallout 3's a game I really enjoyed. Completed it multiple times over the years. Just love the atmosphere, quests, and setting. I wouldn't put it on a Top 10 list or anything, but it's a game that's ve...

Raycevick's Recommendations: The Foreigner

If there's anybody who consistently proves a traditional premise can be presented unconventionally, it's Martin Campbell, director of Mask of Zorro, Goldeneye, and Casino Royale. What's advertised here as a Jackie Chan revenge film is actually much more interesting and nuanced.

While there's great action scenes featuring Chan and all of hi...

Illusions

Armthony Chairtano here, the internet's most pretentious game designer, and it's time for the latest pondering session from a Youtuber.

All RPGs are an illusion of choice to some degree. Mass Effect most famously culminated all of its choices into picking three colors. Dragon Age's epilogue alters a slideshow. Outer Worlds makes you choose...

Progress Update

Hey everybody!

Now that I've gotten enough sleep, I've got the energy to inform you as to the current progress of the latest video. All the narration is laid out, so it should be a straight shot of just placing footage, right?

Well, I kind of want to go even more in detail, this is looking to be the longest video yet, though like las...

Q&A: January 27th, 2020

Dominik Jaworski Asks
With things like permacrunch, bad working conditions and unstable employment, a lot of people have talked about game dev unionizing. Do you believe this will solve the problem or make things worse?

Unions aren't going to be a silver bullet that erases the industries problems like it's occa...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Just Cause 3

I think you know you've got a good game, when I merely booted it up to capture five minutes of footage, and end up playing for six hours. I've heard for years that Just Cause 3 is merely Just Cause 2 with prettier graphics, and I couldn't disagree more. I replayed some of Just Cause 2 as well, and the third game is just so much more refined, pol...

Drag & Drop

Here's a sentence I've never said before. BallsiticNG is a really good game. Okay, I lied, I've said this quite a few times. What's interesting however, is one of my favorite things about NG isn't even anything to do with its gameplay.

The game might nail its visuals, physics, unlocks, and racing, but truthfully o...

Q&A: January 20th, 2021

Daniel Anugerah Asks
I know you have a Cyberpunk Script in the works, but I'll ask this anyways. Do you think you experience with a game as buggy as Alpha Protocol influenced the way you look at CP2077?

Absolutely. Mass Effect Andromeda also influenced things. These were also cases of games being absolutely bus...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Sector's Edge

There's often times when games don't give the best of first impressions, but often, it's rare for second chances to be a negative. They either further reinforce why something didn't grab you, or they can redeem something you'd actually enjoy, the latter was the case with Sector's Edge for me.

I've played games like Block 'n Load and Ace of...

The Long Development Cycle

Mass Effect Andromeda started out in life akin to one of the titles most infamously ravaged at launch, No Man's Sky. It would feature procedurally generated planets, a full galaxy to explore, and full planet exploration. This game was in development for...

Q&A: January 13th, 2020

Sponge Dungeon Asks
Any thoughts on Hunt: Showdown?

I'm actually reminded I need to give that game another shot on this new machine. The game's gorgeous with some of the most detailed sound-design I've ever seen, however, I generally don't play Boss Hunters or Battle Royale's very much, and the game's a little ...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Disco 4 :: Part I

HEALTH's been releasing "Disco" albums for years, since their debut in-fact. However, the first chapter in their 4th entry is quite different. The songs featured here aren't just remixes by other artists or HEALTH themselves, but full collaborations with a wide selection of musicians.

Names I'm familiar with such as Perturbator, and a whol...

Second Chances

Deus Ex is a video-game I still think about to this day. It's world, music, voice acting (granted, that last one's often for silly reasons). However, I wouldn't give it any thought at all, had I quit on my first playthrough... or second... or third.

Q&A: January 6th, 2020

Hammiam Asks
How did being a tester for EA change your mindset towards gaming against being an average consumer?

It taught me consumers and creators actually agree on a lot more than I think either of them believes. It's understandable to view the Gaming Industry through a glass ceiling as so much of that is im...

Raycevick's Recommendations: DIRT 3

It's easy to assume with racing games, that they improve in a completely linear fashion. When your genre isn't founded upon story, characters, or complex level design, what is there to improve but the feel and look of the game?

But having booted up DIRT 3 recently shows that outlook doesn't apply. To me (while going to other entries for sp...

2020

Randomly Mine, much like the channel I run, is supposed to be about games. For the opening day of this New Year however, I think we can make an exception.

I think Youtubers in particular have a unique view of 2020, because (at least for those whose content doesn't rely on live action), it's one of the only careers unaffected by the pandemi...

Q&A: December 30th, 2020

OzarkTempses Asks
What do you think is the place of already existing (from albums, single and such) songs on the OST of a game as opposed to a wholly original soundtrack?

This turned out to be a surprisingly tough questions. Mainly because, I don't take issue with games that only use them to immerse people via ...

Status Report - December 29th, 2020

Hey everybody!

We're approaching the new year and while cliché to say, it has been a tough one. I've come from it not knowing exactly what the future will entail for the channel, but I have various goals, specifically more structure and more Years Later videos, the next of which is being made right now.

I've completed the game alrea...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Blue Stahli - Quartz & Copper

For those that don't know, Blue Stahli was one of the many artists I discovered on FiXT ages ago, but he suddenly left the record label a couple months back and has had to go indie since.

I didn't realize looking up Blue Stahli on Spotify would cause such mixed emotions, but none of that conflict has to do with the man's music. Quartz &...

EA vs Take Two

For those unaware, long time racing producer Codemasters was recently on the acquisition table with Take Two Interactive. It seemed to be a done deal when all of a sudden, EA falcon punched Codemasters' executives with an even fatter cheque of $1.2 bill...

Q&A: December 23rd, 2020

Juhana Asks
You asked us to kill you. What would be your preferred method?

Bauman Asks
I think you mentioned that you did beta testing for a Lethal League game in the JSR video.  You come off a...