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Something I Wrote Four Years Ago
Time really does fly doesn't it?A Problem With Gaming SitesBy RaycevickLast Updated December 17th, 2017Recently, a Twitter user brought something to my attention. A Steam account with nearly 800 reviews that were positively received.But in the case of his Rainbow Six Siege review, it seemed oddl...
Q&A: February 3rd, 2021
Sandraincloud90 AsksWhat are your thoughts on the modern Fallout games since you've now played a bit of them?Fallout 3's a game I really enjoyed. Completed it multiple times over the years. Just love the atmosphere, quests, and setting. I wouldn't put it on a Top 10 list or anything, but...
Raycevick's Recommendations: The Foreigner
If there's anybody who consistently proves a traditional premise can be presented unconventionally, it's Martin Campbell, director of Mask of Zorro, Goldeneye, and Casino Royale. What's advertised here as a Jackie Chan revenge film is actually much more interesting and nuanced.While ther...
Illusions
Armthony Chairtano here, the internet's most pretentious game designer, and it's time for the latest pondering session from a Youtuber.All RPGs are an illusion of choice to some degree. Mass Effect most famously culminated all of its choices into picking three colors. Dragon Age's epilog...
Progress Update
Hey everybody!Now that I've gotten enough sleep, I've got the energy to inform you as to the current progress of the latest video. All the narration is laid out, so it should be a straight shot of just placing footage, right?Well, I kind of want to go even more in detail, this is looking to ...
Q&A: January 27th, 2020
Dominik Jaworski AsksWith things like permacrunch, bad working conditions and unstable employment, a lot of people have talked about game dev unionizing. Do you believe this will solve the problem or make things worse?Unions aren't going to be a silver bullet that erases the industries problems ...
Raycevick's Recommendations: Just Cause 3
I think you know you've got a good game, when I merely booted it up to capture five minutes of footage, and end up playing for six hours. I've heard for years that Just Cause 3 is merely Just Cause 2 with prettier graphics, and I couldn't disagree more. I replayed some of Just Cause 2 as...
Drag & Drop
Here's a sentence I've never said before. BallsiticNG is a really good game. Okay, I lied, I've said this quite a few times. What's interesting however, is one of my favorite things about NG isn't even anything to do with its gameplay.The game might nail its visuals, physics, unl...
Q&A: January 20th, 2021
Daniel Anugerah AsksI know you have a Cyberpunk Script in the works, but I'll ask this anyways. Do you think you experience with a game as buggy as Alpha Protocol influenced the way you look at CP2077?Absolutely. Mass Effect Andromeda also influenced things. These were also cases of games being ...
Raycevick's Recommendations: Sector's Edge
There's often times when games don't give the best of first impressions, but often, it's rare for second chances to be a negative. They either further reinforce why something didn't grab you, or they can redeem something you'd actually enjoy, the latter was the case with Sector&#...
The Long Development Cycle
Mass Effect Andromeda started out in life akin to one of the titles most infamously ravaged at launch, No Man's Sky. It would feature procedurally generated planets, a full galaxy to explore, and full planet exploration. This game was in development for approximately 2-3 years until finally the ...
Q&A: January 13th, 2020
Sponge Dungeon AsksAny thoughts on Hunt: Showdown?I'm actually reminded I need to give that game another shot on this new machine. The game's gorgeous with some of the most detailed sound-design I've ever seen, however, I generally don't play Boss Hunters or Battle Royale's very ...
Raycevick's Recommendations: Disco 4 :: Part I
HEALTH's been releasing "Disco" albums for years, since their debut in-fact. However, the first chapter in their 4th entry is quite different. The songs featured here aren't just remixes by other artists or HEALTH themselves, but full collaborations with a wide selection of musicians...
Second Chances
Deus Ex is a video-game I still think about to this day. It's world, music, voice acting (granted, that last one's often for silly reasons). However, I wouldn't give it any thought at all, had I quit on my first playthrough... or second... or third.Deus Ex is a video-game I love, yet, pr...
Q&A: January 6th, 2020
Hammiam AsksHow did being a tester for EA change your mindset towards gaming against being an average consumer?It taught me consumers and creators actually agree on a lot more than I think either of them believes. It's understandable to view the Gaming Industry through a glass ceiling as so much...
Raycevick's Recommendations: DIRT 3
It's easy to assume with racing games, that they improve in a completely linear fashion. When your genre isn't founded upon story, characters, or complex level design, what is there to improve but the feel and look of the game?But having booted up DIRT 3 recently shows that outlook doesn'...
2020
Randomly Mine, much like the channel I run, is supposed to be about games. For the opening day of this New Year however, I think we can make an exception.I think Youtubers in particular have a unique view of 2020, because (at least for those whose content doesn't rely on live action), it's o...
Q&A: December 30th, 2020
OzarkTempses AsksWhat do you think is the place of already existing (from albums, single and such) songs on the OST of a game as opposed to a wholly original soundtrack?This turned out to be a surprisingly tough questions. Mainly because, I don't take issue with games that only use them to immer...
Status Report - December 29th, 2020
Hey everybody!We're approaching the new year and while cliché to say, it has been a tough one. I've come from it not knowing exactly what the future will entail for the channel, but I have various goals, specifically more structure and more Years Later videos, the next of which is being mad...
Raycevick's Recommendations: Blue Stahli - Quartz & Copper
For those that don't know, Blue Stahli was one of the many artists I discovered on FiXT ages ago, but he suddenly left the record label a couple months back and has had to go indie since.I didn't realize looking up Blue Stahli on Spotify would cause such mixed emotions, but none of that conf...
EA vs Take Two
For those unaware, long time racing producer Codemasters was recently on the acquisition table with Take Two Interactive. It seemed to be a done deal when all of a sudden, EA falcon punched Codemasters' executives with an even fatter cheque of $1.2 billion dollars.To say I was displeased with th...
Q&A: December 23rd, 2020
Juhana AsksYou asked us to kill you. What would be your preferred method?Bauman AsksI think you mentioned that you did beta testing for a Lethal League game in the JSR video. You come off as rather well versed in game design too, so I was wondering, what does your "game industry history" loo...
Raycevick's Recommendations: Teardown
I've said previously that Early Access games aren't typically recommended by me, but 2020 really changed that with Prodeus, and Teardown. This destruction puzzler is a game I followed since its prototype video aired, and the game managed to live up to all that build up.The destruction techno...
"RPG"
In days of yore, the term "RPG" came with it a very specific image. Isometric, D&D rule inspired combat, traditionally fantasy, dense statistics, rows of hotkeys holding special powers, heaps and heaps of text about characters, lore, and quests.This was during the late 90s and early 2000s. E...
Q&A: October 16th, 2020
Brandon AsksDo you think CDPR and Naughty Dog are getting easy passes by some people, be it industry figures and just random types of gamers, for their reported terrible work environments and/or terribly optimized buggy release (this half applies most to CDPR) versus other companies that are always ...
Raycevick's Recommendations: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Last year, I was pulled through two animations I really loved, Avatar The Last Airbender, and Star Wars Clone Wars. So when one of the friends who pulled me through one of the shows said "we're watching Mask of the Phantasm" I rolled with it.Little conversation took place, because in vis...
Heart
Cyberpunk's cynicism is evident from the instant you load. Corporations openly abusing the people that work for them. Crooked cops starting shootings in the streets. Rows of people modified with chrome on the streets, unable to make ends meet. It really does hit a little close to home sometimes,...
Q&A: December 11th, 2020
Here we are, the first delayed Q&A since its launch. I tried to keep the record unbroken as long as I could, but then a little game called Cyberpunk came out, and I haven't' slept since then.Next week's will still be posted Wednesday as usual though.Justin Wolownik AsksDo you believe a d...
Raycevick's Recommendations: Prodeus
It's rare for me to recommend something in Early Access, but Prodeus, in the brief time I've played it, is one of the most memorable games of the year. For old-school shooter fans looking to get their Quake/DOOM fix, this is looking to be one of the strongest products on the market.It doesn&...
Appeal
There's a sentiment I encounter quite frequently. Not here, but on Youtube Comments and occasionally in-person. That being "Why not do X? It's more popular?" or "Why don't you use more ads?"It's quite surprising to say the least. One of the biggest things any sort of ...
