Chamberlain and Chance

Welcome to your favorite podcast about geography, food, movies and the occasional video game. Chance has finished Control and dubs it the best thing Remedy has ever done. He also would the rest of the quickplay players in Overwatch to get their shit together, thank you very much. Alex utters the dangerous words ‘Chamberlain was right’ by enjoying Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. And Chamberlain hates of the Dark Crystal Netflix show before being disappointed in a horror game that no one knew about and had little chance of being any good in the first place.

This week Chamberlain exhibits a shocking level of innocence and naivety before complaining about the weak sounding shotgun in Wolfenstein Youngblood. Alex is on his second trip through Remnant From the Ashes and still is not tired of it. And Chance had to look up some hate mail in Overwatch to make sure it was hate mail. He also played just enough Control to know that it, for better or worse, is a Remedy game. There is also a fair amount of talk about Dave Chappelle’s new comedy special, so someone, somewhere will be offended.

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 Ashes.

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 the good old days.

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 that the console release is still a ways off. Brief spoilers for The Boys and rampant Days Gone spoilers throughout! Also, we’re taking next week off, so see you in two weeks!

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 keel, having sensible fun with Spider-Man Far From Home and weaning Panchito off of fatty nuts. The bird will live forever.

Lots of Overwatch news this week, including a new mechanic so egregious that Chamberlain, who does not play nor has ever played the game, deems it absolute bull shit. He also played Blazing Chrome and found it not near as good as the game it is ripping off. Alex brings Diablo 3 low, breaking its mechanics, and Chance watched a whole bunch of movies before rejoicing at a pulse bomb buff.

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 that long form television is a good idea, opting for mediocre open world shooters and mundane Diablo clones.

No Stranger Things 3 spoiler this week, we promise! Chamberlain spent a solid 90 minutes with Sekiro before giving up on it and From Software forever, opting for another open world game by Avalanche destined to be enjoyed and forgotten. Chance has returned dominating Overwatch with Tracer and Alex drops hot, wicked truth in the last 30 seconds. Wait for it, it will change your life.

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.