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Q&A: December 2nd, 2020

The Great Leveler Asks
What's your favorite game you play to relax or play during VC and chill?

Halo, mostly because I can play it almost on autopilot. Team Fortress 2 is similarly compelling, in that it takes up enough interest for the game to not be boring, bu...

Raycevick's Recommendations: RTPN - Self Titled

Quake II is a legendary gaming soundtrack... that I honestly don't go to much. I'm quite a bit more partial to the DOOM soundtracks, and even NIN's ambient pieces for Quake I (which I recommended in the past). However, I put my issues with Quake II's OST to technical constraints rather than in co...

The Newest Video

I hate it.

But I don't hate it because it says things I don't care for, not because it's horribly executed, not because I'm Sparky1j. I hate it, because it does something unthinkable. Something horrible. Something I vowed to never do.

Reuse a template.

Fuck!

But seriously,...

Q&A: November 25th, 2020

DaCody Asks
What is your favorite place to listen to music?

Bed, or the countryside.

The former's good for me while reading, because that even with a compelling book, I can't keep my focus 100% on the page. My brain's on fire, feeling like that ball from L...

Raycevick's Recommendaitons: Ronin

During my childhood, action films were judged by car chases. So when Ronin was heralded as having one of the best, my Dad let me watch the car chases sequence. Not the rest of this R-Rated spy-thriller, obviously, but I didn't care, I was satisfied with that.

Seeing it on Netflix recently t...

No One Cares About X Game

I read all my comments. Often, I'm questioned why by both fellow Youtubers and even by the commenters themselves. I can't say there's an explicit reason, I don't enter comment sections with a particular goal. It's just a place that's always generating new questions, thoughts, and debates that som...

Q&A: November 18th, 2020

DaCody Asks
What is your favorite halo song that wasn't composed by Marty?

You mean, Marty didn't create everything by the sweat of this brow?

Just kidding; going by childhood nostalgia, Blow Me Away is the definite winner, but I also love the Halo Wars OS...

What I'm Currently Doing

Hello everybody, just here to give a quick update about the Jet Set Radio video. I thought I had the audio all sorted out, but in an attempt to take a shortcut, I've fallen down a pit. Figured I'd take the audio from Premiere and refine it further in Audacity or Audition. However, doing that spaw...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Hover

I don't like MMO's. Their structure of constant loot, repetitive grinds, and lifeless characters, really dampens the enjoyment for me of games that would otherwise excel, especially those with really strong gameplay systems.

So it says something then that despite all of those issues, I stil...

Low Settings

After waiting patiently... well, actually, quite impatiently, the new GPU's have arrived! AMD & Nvidia have both come out swinging with beefy high performance cards at both mid and high-tier, and the winners are consumers, whether they're buying a top of the line 6900, or a last-generation ca...

Q&A: November 11th, 2020

Sandraincloud90 Asks
What are some notable instances of older games that "out-do" their modern incarnations in a significant way? (Whether it's in the same series or largely unrelated yet sets out to achieve a similar goal).

Funny enough, in my latest script her...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Sky Captain And The World of Tomorrow

Previously, I recommended a movie that doesn't have a whole lot to analyze, but has a whole lot of fun packed on-screen. Sky Captain And The World of Tomorrow is very much in the same mold. It's the sort of movie you imagine would've been made in the 1930's if the black & white generation had...

Being a Teenager (About Game Length)

Before the reputation of Platinum Games was firmly cemented by Nier: Automata, I played one of they're games at launch, unware of what was done and what was to come. Vanquish, and unknown to me at the ti...

Q&A: November 4th, 2020

DaCody Asks
With all of the controversy surrounding Halo and Infinite; What is the one thing they can announce that will make you say "Now this game is worth it!"?

That's hard to answer, because I think 343's problem for the last couple years is they've been sac...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Quake OST

So after years and years of waiting, Trent the Reznor at long last released the Quake OST Vinyl from its "Coming Soon" purgatory. Being both a fan of the mans work and the game this specific work of his is attached to, I must admit, it never really hit me how memorable the Quake OST is until list...

Status Report

Happy November everybody!

Hope you enjoyed Halloween, and I'm now reporting to you as a 26 year old. Still haven't processed that yet, and probably won't until the New Year. In the meantime, I'm writing this to say thank you for the continued support, as I've been working, but not as optima...

Underrated Soundtracks

Gaming scores have almost become their own genre. They spark communities, remixes, trends, and styles that drip into dedicated bands. Twenty years ago, it's strange to imagine a band would have a song that becomes forever attached to their identity due to a video-game, but that's been the case wi...

Q&A: October 28th, 2020

Dacody Asks
Amd, Nvidia, or Intel?

Picking between big corporations is a bit like picking between a line of cheap sodas, but if I have to root for anybody, I prefer AMD as they've consistently been smaller than both Nvidia & Intel. At the time of writing, AM...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Payback (1999)

I'm all for mindfuck movies.

But sometimes, I also want something simple, digestible, and fun, which is exactly what Payback from 1999 is. This movie has been dubbed in some circles as the unofficial Max Payne movie, and it's easy to see why. Film noire narration, a character taking bullets...

OSTs in Trailers

Adagio in D Minor might be one of the most overplayed songs from an OST in history. That's obviously, because it's really good, and the movie it comes from Sunshine, was hardly a big hit, so aud...

Q&A: October 21st, 2020

The Great Leveler Asks
Do you think the original halo games will be a good experience for me since I didn't play them at an earlier stage in life?

Very few games have aged as gracefully as Bungie's Halo games, especially console first person shooters. H...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Star Wars Squadrons

When was the last time I recommended a game this early?

Squadrons really has surpassed my hopeful expectations. It's a game that does everything which I desire from a Middle Market title. Satisfyingly a niche market ordinarily left to far less experienced developers and publishers to mainta...

Squadrons

As you might've heard, EA recently confirmed that the recently released Star Wars Squadrons will not be receiving any updates in cosmetics, levels, game-modes, or VR Support such as the Oculus Quest. It'...

Q&A: Oct 14th, 2020

DaCody Asks
What are some your favorite "actually dead" multiplayer games? Bonus question- How would you make them live again?

Lots of games that I didn't get the chance to put as many hours into them as I would've liked too. Dirty Bomb, Lawbreakers, and Hawken ...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Outward

RPGs are probably one of the most challenging genres for the Middle-Market. It's hard to create vast stretches of content when you're budget barely covers the cost of a keyboard. The vast amounts of dialogue required from that budget results in mandated mediocrity in voice, or lines and lines and...

Ford v Ferrari

I originally wrote this entry just after starting the Patreon revisions. I wasn't sure about discussing things unrelated to games, but I already recommend movies, comics, books, and albums, and I've talked about much more personal things here since. So, here's one of my earliest entri...