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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. While there's lots of reasons for that, from its surprisingly great script, sheer amount of NPC dialogue, and presentation that holds up today, it's primarily because of one mechanic.Taking notes from Battlefield 2 Modern Combat's hotswap mechanic, the team at Ubisoft Reflections b...
Q&A: October 12th, 2022
Juhana AsksFor 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 the way.Alexander AsksWhat type of genre would you like to see a mass effect spin off to be?I want a Garrus game during his Archangel days that'd be Crackdown inspired in structure...
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 momentum of a sprinter, and while the rest of the EP doesn't hit that same energy, it's just as atmospheric yet catchy.
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 this festival not given me the chance to try a whole bunch.The shortlist from me so far is easily OTXO, Wavetales, Potionomics, Gunbrella, Sea...
Q&A: Oct 5th, 2022
Lachlan Manning AsksIs 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 flesh out their concepts. As time's gone on, I think more people have started to appreciate the subtle differences in game design, rather than using blanket terms like First or Third Person Shoo...
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 about the corrupted motivations of this capatilist culture.It happens in the first episode.And the rest of the show is like that with both its themes and chara...
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, right?WRONG.It's the escape key.The furthest possible key from my mouse is used to go back.Now this is because the right click is used for ot...
Q&A: September 28th, 2022
Screenfunfan AsksWhat 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 my mind forever.The atmopshere, the music, Keanu's performance, it was meticulously perfect.Purple.PP AsksWould you rather spend a day with Micah from rdr2 or Steven heck?I've not met Micah fro...
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 without ever becoming overwhelming.I've recommended Nova Twins' singles, and this complete album shows their talent and ability can make...
Q&A: September 21st, 2022
Nathan Tallent AsksNSYNC or Backstreet Boys?My brain on the sidewalk.Juhana AsksWould 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 or pizza without cheese?Without sauce, 'cause that's a breadstick.GiantPurplePen15 AsksWhat are your top 3 food spots in the lower mainland?The one I always hit up when possible is the Downlow Chicken Shak on C...
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 compeltely in-keeping with the excellent writing and storylines found in 2077 and it's expanded material like the comics.More than any other adaptation I&...
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 launch.Because of these children, there's often a movement to counter any opinion vaguely associated with them.Halo Infinite's disappointing?Actually, adding Coop 1+ year after launch is amazing.Witcher 3 is great?Actually, it's always sucked ...
Q&A: September 14th, 2022
Techdisk AsksYTV or Teletoon?I was definitely a Teletoon kid.Massive respect for the question!Juhana AsksWhats 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.dksjournal AsksWill Mercedes win a race this year? And who will be Ocon's teammate next year?I imagine there has to be one weekend where neither Red Bull or Ferrari finish a race, but that's really the only circumstance I see. As for Ocon... only...
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-gimmick of being able to omnisciently takeover any vehicle on the map,It's a game which hasn't been iterated upon since release, and as a r...
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.We just spent an hour talking over casually strolling into base after base after base of baddies, not acknowledging the weapons they fired at us, as we'd typically kill them before they even got a shot off, and this was on the hardest difficulty.Far Cry s...
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 really hard.Something I identified recently, mainly after the Warhammer video is that I'll often spend so much time setting up my script's structure, that the raw t...
Q&A: September 7th, 2022
RupertLitterbin AsksFlashbang?Thorugh the door.Juhana AsksWhat happens when you give a canadian a gun with more than 5 shots?Their minds explode.Jorge AsksWhich F-1 team do you typically support?I don't support one lone team, I just want good races. That being said, I typically like Red Bull, because for all their douchiness, they spend their outrageous corporate money to do Pit Stops in zero gravity and drive F1 cars on the tops of mountains.I guess it's things I'd do if I was a bil...
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 multiple action set-pieces that would set the stage for multiple video-games in the years to come.That I'd never seen it until now and loved it, is a t...
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 to infiltrate a street racing gang.The only reason this wasn't laughed out of the room the instant the intern drunkenly slurred it, is because of the era.The early 2010s were polluted with pho-tough guy serious plotlines. Many blame Fast and Furious,...
Q&A: August 31st, 2022
RupertLitterbin AsksWho 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.Nathan Tellent AsksShould Brink get a remaster?Yes, and no.Yes in the sense that good lord this PC Port is hideous, and even just letting a fan patch it would seriously make my life easier....
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...Find music for the startCapture A2M Game ListCompile Bullet Time Meter GamesMod Halo or GTA to fire RocketsAdd Max Payne ClipShow physical Max Payne 2 CopyAdd ...
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 playing more of the near future, and wish all of its developers the best in terms of their release, and their future.But it's not what people say kept saying it is.Perhaps for simplicity, or because of its over similarities, outlets would constantly label this g...
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 songs from both those albums I love, ultimately, Sempiternal the band's first complete package. The riffs aren't as intense but the producti...
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 exactly like Far Cry 5's modern firearms with no recoil or inaccuracy, your character's abilities render enemies a low threat, and there's not really any compelling locations in this open-ended Vietnam map.It ends up playi...
Q&A: August 17th, 2022
Kevin Yang AsksVerstappen 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 AsksWould you ever make another Years Later on another Need for Speed game?Certainly.Though I don't have any planned at the moment. What's more likely is a more personal video about Porsche Unleashed as I grew up with both the Playstation and PC versions of the game, despite them being vastly different experiences and exec...
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 story anybody could get something out of.
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.That's not really the case today.The problem with Halo, COD, and Battlefield isn't that they're not unique and don't appeal to their audiences, the problem is all the pressures in the market encouraging releases like them.People always point to gam...
Q&A: August 10th, 2022
Juhana AsksIf 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 of scientists would kidnap me to harvest my organs so... I think I'm good.Nathan Tallent AsksWhats your dream car? Without worrying about maintenance (unless you're into that).Defini...
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 on, and let play until it reached the end. The songs are easy, catchy, and rarely overstay their welcome.Sometimes, I don't wanna write to sad depres...
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 were generally cool, they weren't cool enough to let their child play T-Rated video-games, let alone GTA. So when a copy of Driver 2 found its way in my house, it didn't stay there for too long. Honestly, it didn't need too though...
