Chamberlain and Chance

Neither rain nor snow nor overflowing washing machine basin can keep the podcast from being delivered on time. Chamberlain’s basement may be a bit moist but he still finished A Plague Tale and samples several indies from Xbox Game Pass. Chance did his Overwatch placements and is even better than he thought he was. And Alex does his best to spend Chance’s money by talking about Remnant: From the As...

It’s been two weeks and Chamberlain is back in the States, not necessarily by choice. He also parted with some money to play Magic Arena. Again, not necessarily by choice. Chance took his Switch places and didn’t use it, opting to read instead. And Alex spent his time with another isometric turn based RPG. It’s almost like he knows Bioware is going to be shut down any day now and is longing for th...

Chamberlain is still playing Days Gone. He doesn’t like it, but he keeps playing it, because he doesn’t know what else to do and because complaining about it makes Chance a tiny bit mad. Chance tried the new Fire Emblem and struggled to find the turn based combat in a game about talking to everyone and making sure all your classmates like you. And Alex returned to Torchlight 2 to rub in the fact t...

Chamberlain hates a lot of things. This is not news. He thinks Days Gone is linear and boring. He hates the new Picard trailer and he especially hates The Big Bang Theory. Chance hates Veronica Mars but apart from that he is a font of positivity. He loves Overwatch, is coming around on the 2-2-2 meta and had quite a bit of fun with the first half of Hellboy 2019. Alex operates on a much more even...

Truly, a very special episode with a very special guest. Chamberlain’s significantly better half, Amy, subs in for a discussion of Stranger Things 3. Alex betrays everything Chamberlain stands for and returns to Sekiro when taking a break from old Star Wars based MMOs. Chance is still playing Overwatch entirely to make clip shows of dominating fools. And Chamberlain himself remains unconvinced tha...

This week Alex finds joy in Gwent, the card game in Witcher 3, and then sadness when he can’t play Destiny 2. Chamberlain finds sadness in Samurai Shodown’s online play and a mixture of ennui and elation in Bloodstained. And Chance dispenses sadness to others in Overwatch and had a thoroughly middling reaction to My Friend Pedro.

You know it was a rough E3 when the post show hype lasts less than a single episode. Instead Chamberlain finished up Battlechasers and Bendy and the Ink Machine while continuing to avoid the spiteful gaze of Sekiro. Alex has returned to Dragon Quest 11, this time with better music. And Chance sampled both Cadence of Hyrule and My Friend Pedro. Also, send in phrases for Alex to teach his bird. The...

It was not spectacular this year. Be it the preponderance of pre-rendered trailers over gameplay, the absence of Sony or that this is the tail end of the generation, E3 this year arrived and left with hardly a whimper. Chance thinks Nintendo won, Chamberlain is still in the pocket of Microsoft, and Alex thinks they are both crazy and played the free Borderland 2 expansion.

Chamberlain, Chance and Alex have a lot to say about a disaster this week. A disaster that could have been prevented, that was brought about by both incredible incompetence and rampant corruption. But enough about the Google Stadia, they watched Chernobyl and all enjoyed it. Alex has returned to Fallout 4, Chamberlain beat Devil May Cry 5 on the easiest difficulty and feels no shame and Chance imp...

Chance has finished Days Gone and still has nice things to say about it. Chamberlain went back to Anthem just long enough to understand why people who play it ‘correctly’ are so upset before rolling around in the nostalgia of the Resident Evil 2 remake. Alex has discovered his favorite Obsidian game since Fall Out New Vegas: Pillars of Eternity 2. It has pirates and turn base combat, what else do...

Alex has handed out homework so he, Chance and Chamberlain recount their favorite quests in games. Some are old, some are newer and at least one comes at the expense of all horde players on a specific server. Everything you have heard about Anthem is true, and them some: it is a sad game. And most of you have heard about Days Gone is not. There is a lot of game there, you just have to take the tim...

It’s been two weeks (and the Russo’s said it was okay) so it is Avengers Endgame spoiler time. Chamberlain pretends like he’s seen it, then reveals that he hates time travel as a plot device and violently proclaims that Back to the Future 3 is the best of the trilogy. Chance liked it at first, then didn’t like it later, then liked it again, then went back to Overwatch. And Alex went to go see a mo...

There is a card shaped hole is Chamberlain’s heart. He has freed himself from the abusive rogue-like Slay the Spire and fallen in with the much friendlier Steamworld Quest. Chance has found himself unable to play action games after Sekiro so he has snuggled up to the comfortable ‘pretty good’ warmth of Days Gone. And Alex assures you that Avengers Endgame is three movies in one, that is works, and...

This week Chamberlain can‘t wait to stop watching Kingdom Hearts III and play it, while he can’t wait to stop playing Mortal Kombat 11 and watch it. Sekiro has ruined Chance who had a disappointing time with Katana Zero and Cuphead (for different reasons). And Alex has firmly joined the church of Borderlands, having min-maxed Borderlands 2 to an absurd degree.

Chamberlain is impatiently waiting for Mortal Kombat 11. All he has to pass the time is the Kingdom Hearts 3 drinking game, a nameless bottle and potential liver problems. Chance is waiting for Alex to play Sekiro, which isn’t happening any time soon, so he has gone back to waiting for new Tracer skins, which is also not happening any time soon. And Alex is waiting for something to amuse him as mu...

Chamberlain is strangely disappointed that The Walking Dead’s Final Season is not depressing enough. Take that as your spoiler warning. Chance has finished Sekiro which makes him cooler than most of you. And Alex has split his time between Risk of Rain 2 and teaching his bird to talk. Seriously.

Chamberlain loves you, the listeners, so much that he took two bullets for you this week. He finished Darksiders III, which you should not play, as well as Call of Cthulhu, which you also should not play. Chance deftly deflected those bullets, crushing Chamberlain’s poise, and spent his time getting to know Sekiro on a deeply personal level. And Alex spent all of his time being good at Risk of Rai...

Ninjas appeared in the night and kidnapped Chance and Alex, forcing them to play Sekiro. They seem to be enjoying it, but that could be the katanas pointed at their backs. They at least got a better deal than Chamberlain who was kidnapped by a red headed Nephilim and forced to play the shambling corpse of game that is Darksiders III. He may not survive.

This week, the podcast is on time! Does it really matter what we talk about? Sure, Chamberlain finds small pleasures in Super Mario Bros Wii U Deluxe and Monster Boy and the Cursed Island, Alex confirms our belief that Ninja Theory’s DmC is a tremendous game and Chance is now internet famous for his Overwatch prowess, but you are listening to this episode at least 24 hours sooner than last week. I...

We apologize for the lateness of this week’s episode. Sometimes the tubes just don’t cooperate. Chamberlain slums it with Shadow Warrior 2, the B-est B game to every be a B game. Chance has purchased another AAA titles that he will play for a scant few days, this time it’s Devil May Cry 5. And Alex is a proud dad. Of a bird. No really. And just a few light Captain Marvel spoiler to round out the d...

Chamberlain saw How to Train Your Dragon The Hidden World and remembers that it wasn’t bad, but that’s about it. He also declares Just Cause 4 much, much less than the sum of it parts. Chance introduces the new Overwatch hero and tries to convince everyone that he is not as OP as he sounds. And Alex is one step closer to buying a  bird to keep him company when he plays Resident Evil 2.

A Chamberlain and his money are soon parted, this time by the archaically terrible save system in Metro Exodus. An Alex makes much better use of his money by purchasing the next Civilization expansion. And maybe a bird. And a Chance rarely needs to part with his money, since Overwatch is always there. Unless a seasonal event is on and there are loot boxes to purchase.

The trailer for live action Aladdin is out. That’s bad. The new expansion for Civilization 6 comes out very soon. That’s good! Unworthy? That’s bad. Overwatch? That’s (still) good! Battlefield V? That’s bad. And the trailer for Frozen 2? That’s potassium benzoate.

No politics this week, only games and maybe a movie or two. We promise. It’s been too cold to get worked up about anything outside of our warm, cozy houses. Chamberlain has moved from one mediocre Diablo clone to another. What Shadows Awakening lacked in creativity Warhammer 40,000 Inquisitor Martyr make up in big words and inscrutable mechanics. Alex has returned to Slay the Spire but has yet to...

Fair warning, this week’s episode veers right off the road into  the real world , something we do our best to avoid. We have to talk about something – it’s January. Chamberlain fills the doldrums with a bad Diablo clone. Chance spends a few days away from Overwatch and is getting the shakes. And Alex scrapes ice off his car windshield with a credit card before watching another season of True Detec...