Chamberlain and Chance

Yes, this is another game of the year list show. Ours is better. Why? No sponsorships, no external money at all, and very few, if any, fucks given. No Keighley, no Kojima, Alan Wake 2 gets nothing and Spider-Man 2 does not get ignored. It is also less then half the length of the Game Awards, so much more respectful of your time.

You heard us. (Recorded during the first hour of The Game Awards, so be prepared for random outbursts, mostly by Chamberlain) Different things satisfy different people. The Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer more than sated Chance's and Alex's desire for open world, booty filled ultra-violence but Chamberlain was left out in the cold. Chamberlain finds happiness in a game that could have easily co...

With a week off there is much to talk about and unfortunately Alex is not here this week. Instead of making the world a better place, Chamberlain finished up Assassin's Creed Mirage, the first Ass Creed game in ages that had an actual ending. He also died an obscene number of times getting to the end of Ghostrunner 2, yet still says he had a good time. Chance beat people up in Overwatch, watch...

Based on Chance's recommendation, Chamberlain watched one episode of Blue Eye Samurai. Alex watched all of it. You can predict how this discussion will go. This does not meet Chamberlain's complaint quota, so he also says a few choice things about Assassin's Creed Mirage. Chance travels far, far away, back into Star Wars Jedi Survivor and Alex fruitlessly mashes X, trying to get to the...

This week, good Overwatch games stir Chance's creative juices, leaving time for little more than plays of the game and more Spider-Man 2. Chamberlain remembers that, once upon a time, he liked Star Trek, and he liked Telltale Games, and those past proclivities (on top of having nothing else to play) made Star Trek Resurgence inescapable. And Alex tries not to be jealous of the new Steam Deck....

There is a spider shaped hole in all of our hearts and the only thing that can fill it are spoilers. Spoilers of Spider-Man! GET ME SPOILERS OF SPIDER-MAN, PARKER! Ahem. Against their better judgement both Chance and Alex purchased Alen Wake II. While neither can understand the reviews, at least one of them is enjoying it enough to finish it. Chance embraces, or at acknowledges, his inner child wi...

Spider-Man 2 is out, meaning that 2023 has officially peaked and it is all downhill from here. Everyone has played it, Chance and Alex have finished it, and Chamberlain took time out from the new AAA hotness to spite finish Blasphemous 2. Seriously, just go back and play the first one. Mild Spider-Spoilers throughout. Serious Spider-Spoilers next week!

Good news everyone! The soundalikes for Chamberlain and Chance have arrived and they are indistinguishable from the real thing. Without Alex here to defend it, Chance is able to lay into The Fall of the House of Usher, saying it is so slow a burn that it actually goes out before the end. He also returns to Hyperlight Drifter and Dead Space after suffering through a few hours of Callisto Protocol....

SEE! Chamberlain bounce off of another souls-like and then settle for a pale imitation of an excellent game! FEEL! Alex forget enough about Elden Ring to fall in love all over again, then mess up his build in the first 15 minutes! HEAR! Chance enjoying a Dairy Queen blizzard before disparaging Phantom Liberty and talking about a whole bunch of good movies!

It doesn't happen often. Chamberlain, Chance and Alex all consumed the same piece of media, at the same time, and feel roughly the same way about it. Castlevania Nocturne came out, and in a vacuum, it is quite good. Not as good as the first series, but still better than most of the other anime lurking in the dark corners of Netflix. Also this week, Quantic Dream still doesn't know how peop...

We missed a week, so prepare for a double episode! Or 1.5 times, whichever comes first. It is Starfield spoiler season. Chamberlain has yet to finish it, but has suffered through more than enough crashes to have something important to say. Alex has finished it, and started a new game plus, but has left the universe for the friendly confines of Dogtown. Chance has forgiven the nerfing of his favori...

Chance is sick this week, something that can only be explained by him not playing Starfield. Alex is not sick because new game plus mode is so good the endorphins rushing through his system prevent infection (I assume this is a thing). Chamberlain is not sick because the hourly crashes of the console version have increased his cardiac fitness ten fold. What Chance has done is ruin PC players good...

There can be no excuse for what Alex has done. He paid to play a game, a big, important game, early. For shame. This was of course Starfield, a game that Chamberlain is also enjoying. A game that Chance is very much not enjoying, as he has chosen a very specific hill to die on and will not be purchasing it on PC, much less purchasing a new piece of hardware just to play it on his television. He wi...

Chamberlain and Chance have both at least sampled Armored Cored VI, and neither liked it, just for different reasons. Chamberlain's critique is limited to 'THE FIRST BOSS IS TOO HARD,' but have faith that Chance will have a more nuanced response. Chance has also finally had enough Baldur's Gate 3, as has Alex, who is attempting to not pay for Starfield early access by playing Fallo...

Once upon a time this was the Overwatch podcast. For a little while recently it was the Diablo IV podcast. For now, and for the foreseeable future, around two thirds of this podcast will be the Baldur's Gate III podcast. So crushed was Chance by the inevitable demise of his tall, red waifu that he started over, this time with a monk. Then he started over again when his save file began to act u...

Alex and Chance continue to do the impossible: they are having fun playing a videogame. This in spite of Chance knowing that his chosen romance in Baldur's Gate III will either literally explode or literally go to hell. Not much of a choice but they will enjoy the time they have. And Alex has decided that moving on from Act I is for chumps, opting to roll up a new character and start fresh. Ch...

Chamberlain finished Final Fantasy XVI, cannot recommend it, and is immediately overshadowed by how much Chance and Alex love Baldur's Gate 3. It is almost cute how hard they, along with the other 630,000 concurrent Steam players, have fallen for it. Be forewarned: there is going to be a lot of D&D themed horniness in the ensuing weeks, centered around very tall tiefling barbarians and got...

Check the temperature in hell because Chance is playing a PC game. On purpose. And enjoying it. After bouncing off of Remnant II he was seduced by Baldur's Gate 3. Amazingly, this infatuation has blossomed past a video card driver update into full blown love for his gnomish bard and the seven foot tall red woman he intends to seduce. Chamberlain, on the other hand, is playing a roll playing ga...

Both Alex and Chamberlain have finished their time with Diablo 4 and moved on to other things. No real complaints about the game, just not worth devoting one's life to. Alex has chosen Revenant 2, along with the rest of the Steam community, and has succeeded in wooing Chance along for the ride. Chamberlain opted for Final Fantasy XVI and have convinced no one else that it is a reasonable use o...

We regret to inform you that A. Alex is missing this week, and B. Chamberlain is still playing Diablo 4 and Chance is still playing Cyberpunk. But there is so much else to talk about! Chamberlain calls into question the isometric viewpoint. Chance gets a cat. Chamberlain laments wielding the same bow for the last ten plus hours. Chance expresses interest in Baldur's Gate 3 while fiercely maint...

Blizzard has a firmer than usual grasp on our luxury time. Alex, who is good at Diablo, is on his second or third character, efficiently cruising through nightmare dungeons in world tier 3 with his undead entourage. Chamberlain, who is bad at Diablo, is playing it like an Assassin's Creed game, delving every dungeon and visiting every icon he comes across, accumulating aspects that he will nev...

Alex returns to us in spite of canceled flights, full New York hotels and old racist Spaniards and brings with him tales of Diablo 4. Chamberlain has also failed to resist Lilith's call and is chasing along, about 50 levels behind, with his beginner level Rogue, screaming 'look at me, I'm a big boy now!' Chance, on the other hand, has principles. He is playing Cyberpunk 2077 in pre...

Alex is away on very important (drinking) business which leaves only two options for this episode: bitching or reminiscing. Never wanting to let you down, Chamberlain and Chance do their best to bring you both. Chance continues his new Cyberpunk 2077 run, crushed by the fact that inflation has invaded the game world and the good motorcycle now costs significantly more than it did at launch. And Ch...

Ok, Microsoft didn't actually win, but they did put on a better not-E3 show than either Sony or Ubisoft did. Starfield looks like an actual game now! Forza has a date! Chamberlain is still the only one who will ever own an XBox Series X! Speaking of selling out, Alex bought Diablo 4 and assures everyone that it is very good and that he doesn't feel at all bad about where his money and time...

One of us finished Tears of the Kingdom but you will need to wait to the end of the episode to find out who it was, what he thought about it, and just how moving it was. In the meantime, Chamberlain endorses Street Fighter 6 but has even more to say about Bramble. Alex fights the good fight (of not giving Blizzard any more money) and gets Diablo 3 running on the Steam Deck, and Chance makes new ad...