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Raycevick's Recommendations: Die Hard with a Vengeance

This film has less than 60% on Rotten Tomatoes, and as a result, one of the biggest reasons following critical appraisal is stupid.

Where Die Hard 2: Die Harder (Jeeesus Christ) was a likable but safe sequel, Vengeance feels like a proper follow-up. Abolishing the Christmas disasters, impersonal terrorist's, and rekindl...

Hotwheels Unleashed

For those unware, there's a new Hotwheels game coming out, were this the early 2000s, that wouldn't sound like news at all. The franchise has seen 30+ games released over its multi-decade lifespan. However, due to the place for mass-...

Q&A: April 7th, 2021

The Great Leveler Asks
What's the most beautiful game you've seen and what about it do you like so much?

I absolutely loved the world of Cyberpunk 2077. The art-team were unreal. The character designs (including many of the minor NPC's), the city, the badlands, even the music really added to...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Doorkickers: Action Squad

It's been a long time since titles such as Hotline Miami popularized the pixilated, 80's synthwave shooters to the indie scene. It's long enough to assume the formula's become utterly bland, and to some, I'm sure it is.

It's a shame then that many are likely to ignore what is a supremely made side-scroller in Doorkicker...

Twitter

Facebook, that's the social media platform I first signed up for.

I was hardly an early adopter, it took many, many years until finally the right set of circumstances made me set something up, and then barely use it. That's when then, after I began using Facebook even less, myself, and a good friend, Nick, decided to ma...

Q&A: March 31st, 2021

The Great Leveler Asks
What's a game mechanic/idea that you feel hasn't been fully explored yet? How would you like to see it utilized?

It's interesting someone mentioned Battlefield 2: Modern Combat's Hotswapping feature, because while I would want to experiment with that mechanic in future...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Starship Troopers

It's rare that a film earns belly laughs from me over satire, but Starship Troopers did throughout its runtime, right from the opening minutes. What's refreshing about this futuristic parody of Triumph of the Will however, is that the satire isn't all that stands up.

The CGI is shockingly good for 1997 with immensely br...

Burnout (Not the Game)

You'd think the burnout of making videos would come immediately after finishing a project. That spending days waking up to Adobe Premiere, and going to bed after shutting down Adobe Premiere, would be the motivation behind letting your script document completely empty.

Yet, I find that's often not the case.

In-fac...

Q&A: March 24th, 2021

bluespart Asks
Have you ever had a developer or someone related to a game's development contact you after a video has gone up to give you more information or rectify some details?

Yup! It's not happened a lot, but a couple of times with the Years Later videos, and its always awesome whe...

Status Report (March 23rd, 2021)

Hey everybody,

I wanted to get content out quickly after the Carbon Years Later video, but that's likely fallen through as I've jumped between multiple projects this month.

Originally, I was working on "Why Did Everyone Hate Just Cause 4? (+JC3 Review)." However, as I got into it and started to really enj...

Raycevick Recommendations: Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko is one of those movies I was familiar with aspects of, mainly it's soundtrack, back in the day, BBC shows relied heavily on the OST's of Chaos Theory, The Virgin Suicides, and Donnie Darko, the previous two, I've recommended the soundtracks of.

I'd recommend the soundtrack for Donnie Darko as well, but the ...

Losing

Sometimes, I surprise myself in what I play. Most recently, that game has been Apex Legends. I'm not opposed to Battle Royale, but there's never been one that's truly hooked me since the idea became mainstream with PUBG's debut. Even then, there was an awful load to deal with in that game, technically and "artistically."

Q&A: March 17th, 2021

Sparkie1j Asks
Where are your fingers?

On my keyboard.

Jake Malone Asks
Opinion on present day Rockstar Games?

Difficult to answer as I've yet to play Red Dead Redemption 2, and that's really the only big game present day Rockstar has released. Though...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Cowboy Bebop

I know, I know. Recommending Cowboy Bebop is about as cliché as recommending Nine Inch Nails for Music or Fight Club for film... I've done both of those, but another reason I'm doing this is having rewatched Bebop and come around to it. This was the first Anime I saw, and came away from the experience rather underwhelmed. 2021-03-15 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Booty

At the time of writing, I've woken up to multiple articles about Mass Effect Legendary Editon's choice to remove or alter certain camera angles in its games, most overtly, MIranda's most overt shot of her rear in Mass Effect 2. 

This of course sparked """"""debate"""""".

It's a little awkward for me personall...

Q&A: March 10th, 2021

The Great Leveler Asks
If you could re-experience a game for the first time what would it be and why?

Spec Ops is normally what comes to my mind, though it is one of those games that just gets more and more detailed the deeper you look into its story. 

DaCody Asks
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Raycevick's Recommendations: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? by Billie Eilish

It occurred to me when the Keanu advertisements for Cyberpunk 2077 were playing, that I never actually heard anything from Billie Eilish. No idea what her music entailed other than the beat of Bad Guy vaguely in the background of commercials. 

That's hardly the fairest manner in which to judge an artist.

Sitt...

The Little Things

Just today (at time of writing) I said that I love the 2005 Monolith game, FEAR. It's memorable, action-packed, densely atmospheric, it's great, it's one of gaming's classics. Yet, my hours on Steam amount to 8.6. Compared to the amount of I've played various DOOM, Half Life, and Halo games, that doesn't make sense.

Why...

Scripts! (Update)

Hey everybody,

I'm posting this little update for two reasons, both of which will explain themselves. Firstly, this Patreon has definitely proved useful for stirring the creative juices, because I'm currently sitting on not one, two, or three scripts started, but ten. I'm not going to host a poll for which one goes firs...

Q&A: March 3rd, 2021

DaCody Asks
During your carbon video when you panned over your tv I noticed those nice speakers on the side. What are they? (they are also huge).

Being completely honest... I don't know the specific brand. But they're speakers my Dad owned back in the 80's that he spent a good chunk of money...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Donut County

I didn't realize until playing Donut County that destruction and reducing entire neighborhoods to empty voids could be so endearing and charming. The art-style is consistently beautiful, music is easy on the ears, and from a gameplay perspective, DC manages to mix things up enough to endure the runtime.

What I didn't ex...

Perfectly Balanced, Not Everything Should Be

Balance.

It's something people lose when they drink too much, and it's something people lose their minds over when discussing game-design. Go to any multiplayer game's reddit page and every third post is likely related to a Weapon, Character, or Map being over or underpowered.

The reasoning why makes perfect sense...

Q&A: February 24th, 2021

DaCody Asks
In your opinion, what is the worst use case of RPG for a game tag?

I presume by gametag, you mean genre label? Hmm, honestly its hard for me to come up with an answer, probably because I don't put much weight on labels in general. I find the conversation rather tedious as whether...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Baccano!

Large cast of wacky criminals set in the 1930's with magic and murder mysterious told in a non-linear order with charming music? This show could not be more made for me. Growing up on Guy Richie films, the Sopranos, and slap stick comedy, Baccano hits all of my biases.

Buti it's also a great watch in its own right. Woul...

Post Launch Support

CDProjektRED lied.

That much is obvious. 

Boasting the enhancements of social systems. Assuring the performance of last-gen systems. Delay after delay after delay in the name of polish. It was all misguided at best, and malicious at worst.

And I'm saying that as somebody who loved my time with the game....

Q&A: February 17th, 2021

Rose Graham Asks
What games did you warm up to overtime and which ones gave you the opposite effect?

I've expressed before that Deus Ex and Metal Gear Solid were games I started about 7-8 times before they finally clicked with me. What you describe however, is more like my experience with Cy...

Raycevick's Recommendations: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

On the one hand, it's strange to recommend such an iconic film. However, it's one that had I watched at a different point in my life, I probably would've disliked. Since becoming more open minded than when I was a Teenager, I can more than appreciate this film's Western setting, characters, and pacing, because the movie truly...

Effort

At the time of writing, my eyes are the weight of cement; I'm wired tired via the wombo combo of Whiskey and four hours sleep. Not the best combo, I know, but it's nothing to worry about, this is a once a month occurrence, not a once a day occurrence. However, it has brought to light something I don't think about much.

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Q&A: February 10th, 2021

The Great Leveler Asks
What game/games are you the most nostalgic about from growing up?

Definitely Gran Turismo 2. That's the game which got me into video-games, and I still have my memory cards for the PS1. Sadly, my TV is outright too powerful to run the sub 480p resolutions the console o...

Raycevick's Recommendations: Hello Master by Priestess

As expressed before, I'm not one to typically go Metal/Hard Rock for an entire album. It's pretty difficult to maintain that much energy from start to finish, but Priestess does a great job. 

Opening with a song I liked in Need for Speed Carbon, Hello Master features several great songs that straddle the line betwe...