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The Haps

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 arbitrary milestone, but it's a sign of just how much the show has grown in just six short years. Here's to another 100,000 someday soon. :)Second: There won't be any charges this month. I&...

Scanner Sombre

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 Introversion Software.

Mayhap let's have some Discord?

Edit: 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 EXPERIMENTAL and is not necessarily sure to be around forever, especially if only few people join or it turns into a cessp...

Everything

I 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!

Night in the Woods (Spoilers!)

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 content on its sleeve. Like, some games you have to dig a bit to get to the "What is this even about?&#3...

THOTH (And How I Talk About Games)

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 week, and uh... not much got done.So to try to make up for it I whipped up this little thing. It's a bit u...

Inside Addendum (Spoilers!)

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.

Inside (Spoilers!)

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 is I didn't realize that I wasn't gonna be able to make something that huge until about halfwa...

Dead Rising 4

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 last game, but in the process pretty much finishes the job of converting Dead Rising from a quirky, kinda-broken, but to...

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor (Spoilers)

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.

Mafia III (Spoilers)

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.

Anatomy (Spoilers!)

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 great game - they're all on the small side, but they each have their quirks and charms while all ...

Oxenfree

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 Halloween episode should be up soonish - I've got at least two in mind and they're both finally a...

Devil Daggers

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 games that aren't necessarily straight-up horrifying. More to come soon!

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

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 that pop immediately to mind. But Mankind Divided isn't one of them! I actually enjoyed my time with it once I...

No Man's Sky

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 turnaround instead of my normal month-to-month approach. I kind of feel like it shows, a bit, but I'd like ...