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Raycevick's Recommendations: Steins;gate (Anime)

I'm a sucker for time-travel. 

Yes, it's rare the stories make sense when you break it down, and when they do, require four days of rest from the exhaustion of it all, but that's part of...

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What You Don't Consider About Game Pitches

Ideas are easy.

Constructive ideas, are not.

It's easy to say "wouldn't it be awesome if Battlefield had full destructibility" but it's much harder to conceive of the technology, budget...

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Update (Videos for the Future)

Greetings everyone,

I'm typing for I cannot speak at this exact moment, not into a microphone at least. It seems my cable for this thing has met its end, so while waiting for a replacement ca...

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Q&A: September 23rd, 2020

DaCody Asks
You become a reactionary let's play YouTuber.  What is your catchy intro?

"It is Wednesday my dudes!"

(Even when it's not Wednesday.)

The Great Leveler Ask...

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Raycevick's Recommendations: The Outer Worlds

Sometimes, you need to give games a second chance, and that was the case for me with The Outer Worlds. Having completed a majority of its quests, met all its characters, and disposed of many, many ...

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Randomly Mine: I Won't Be Buying an Xbox

I'll likely be buying a Playstation 5.

Why? Because which console I'm buying next year, has nothing to do corporate favoritism, preference, or what my friends are getting. It's a...

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Q&A: September 16th, 2020

Juhana Asks
Has a "Years Later" project ever taken so long that you had to change the year in the title mid production?

Not yet...

I was rather terrified th...

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Raycevick's Recommendations: Live And Let Die

Like many, growing up with James Bond Films, I rented one or two Roger Moore movies and wrote his ability as the character, watching only Connery & Brosnan. However, I've become a lot more open...

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Beta Protocol

So I've finally enjoyed The Outer Worlds, Obsidian's latest RPG romp meant to rekindle the magic of Interplay's Fallout 1&2 in tone and... it does a decent job. I think the reason the game didn...

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Q&A: September 9th, 2020

Ethan McArthur Asks
What is your opinion on Star Citizen? Do you think their vision is achievable? 

I've written about five different answers to this questio...

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Raycevick's Recommendations: Thief II: The Metal Age

For a brief moment in today's video, I put the image above on screen, because I was very much reminded of how good Thief II is while capturing footage for said video. Frankly, the trilogy by Lookin...

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How Much Does Multiplayer Population Matter? (Potential Preview)

Normally I post dedicated articles for this Patreon page, however, I was struck with a bolt of lightning and suddenly wrote up a big chunk of what will most likely be a video in the near future...

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Update & Q&A

Hello everybody,

Whether or not these updates accompanying Q&A becomes a regular thing, I don't know. All depends on my work, and right now, I'm working pretty consistently, however, the ...

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Raycevick's Recommendations: Dead Cities by The Future Sound of London

You ever listening to something (album, radio, playlist) and go "Oh... that's where this song came from"? Well, I know I do, and I did for this album, specifically with "Everyone In The World is Do...

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Two Years

Two years, was the gap between EA cancelling Visceral's five year development of their highly anticipated 3rd Person Star Wars action-adventure (led by many of Dead Space & Amy Hennig of the Un...

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Status Report + Q&A

Greetings everybody,

Those who follow on Twitter might've already seen what happened a few days ago in regards to software, but for the sake of clarity, I'll quickly explain. In January I swi...

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Raycevick's Recommendations: Perfect Dark (Remaster)

Seeing as last Friday's post was about Perfect Dark, I figured now would be as good a time as any to recommend Perfect Dark, and I say that as someone who didn't grow up with Perfect Dark.

Ok...

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A Proposed Perfect Dark

There's many debates about various books/movies/shows head to head. Alien vs Aliens. Terminator vs Term...

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Questions & Answers: August 19th, 2020

Matt Koster Asks
For a while, I've felt like Microsoft (and specifically Phil Spencer) were finally righting the ship moving towards the next generation. However, after recent a...

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Quite a Few Games to Capture..

I'm sure there's something I've missed on this list. Having compiled all the audio together, this video will easily eclipse the 1-hour mark. Whether it's that little bit longer than Modern Warfare,...

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Raycevick's Recommendations: Dying Light

2020 hasn't been the easiest time for Techland, famed developer of Zombie games, during this real life pandemic that thankfully, is quite a bit more boring than the company's work. The recent relea...

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Word of Mouth

Eldewrito was a PC Stand Alone Mod for Halo Online, a Free to Play game based on Halo 3 intended to be ...

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Questions & Answers: August 12th, 2020

The Great Leveler Asks
What is a story telling trope you want to die? Do you have a moment when you realized you were tired of seeing this trope? 

Too many.&...

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Raycevick's Recommendations: Before The Next Wave by Aura Shred

The Anix's new album came out recently, but as I've got a partnership with its publisher FiXT, I'm not recommending it for conflict of interest. Instead, I'm recommending someone I discove...

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New Type of Posts?

Greetings everybody;

I'm currently completing some Patreon documents after another days work on Alpha Protocol (script's coming together, 20 pages and counting), and something occurred to me....

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Controller Support

Not long ago, I wrote positively about Ace Combat 7. Granted, I was under the influence of alcohol, and...

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Questions & Answers: August 5th, 2020

The Great Leveler Asks
What is the most immersive gaming experience you've had and what stood out about it to you? 

Half Life Alyx is the first game that cam...

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Raycevick's Recommendations: The Virgin Suicides OST by Air

I've not seen The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola, so I can't inform you of its qualities, but I know the day I eventually watch it, I'll recognize almost every song in the OST. Not only did Top G...

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Randomly Mine: Speedbump

There's a common piece of writing advice. Writing is in the rewrite. The suggestion being, that when booting up Microsoft Word, you type what comes to mind and don't ...

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Patreon Q&A #30

Ethan McArthur Asks
How do you usually go about finding old devs of games to contact and ask questions yourself? There are quite a few games that I'd love to contact a dev and l...

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