I realized, with some horror, that we had not covered Gabriel's perspective on Rainbow Six, which is that it is "bad" and also "not good." What's more, perpetually descending into fortified lairs is not, for him, a scenario correlated with relaxation. What's strange for me is that I hear every one of his arguments on the topic - the shooting is not especially slick, it doesn't really look that great - and not even disagree with them. It's just that in the overall mix, assessed with a kind…
We Need PAX South Q’s!
Otherwise, it'll be the shortest Q&A ever. Here is Robert's magical form you can fill out! (CW)TB
Most of the Heroes of the Storm we played happened in the Alpha, and then the Beta, beginning when it didn't really have anything like a unified interface. The general rule is that Blizzard doesn't release something as a Beta unless another company would release it at retail, and I think that mostly held true here also. Cho'gall is a new character that you already know about, I'm sure - I got in late. He's the "one dude that two players embody simultaneously" guy. I decided that I couldn't…
Just Cause 3, the game that launched a thousand streams, hasn't really been on our radar. There is always more than one game out when a Just Cause drops, which is inconvenient, and we've always been playing the other ones. But God Damn. I think Gabriil has more to say, but if you were wondering what his play loop could possibly look like, here you go. I wanted to play Rainbow Six: Siege a couple nights before I said anything more than the most general, top level things. There's…
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Just Cuz 3
I’m having a blast with Just Cause 3. It’s a sandbox game with a heavy emphasis on the “sandbox”. Like a real sandbox, I’d say that the amount of fun you have in…
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Call For PAX South Enforcers!
One of the the things that make PAX the best show of its kind is the Enforcer corps - a elite cadre that makes the event possible. PAX South is a new show, there has only…
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Child’s Play Strip, By Patrick Rothfuss
We're working through a backlog of Child's Play strips bought at auction, and Pat's got dialed in first. Pat, as rendered here, is our friend Patrick Rothfuss, whose book…
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