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Chamberlain and Chance

Jim Canapa

Chamberlain, Chance and Alex talk about video games, life, and then more video games.

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01:11:05

Stay awhile and listen

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/06/23

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 Chamberlain finishes up a reasonable indie boomer shooter in Boltgun before wading through Planet of Lana

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01:30:05

Microsoft wins, everyone go home

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/06/16

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 went. Chance has replaced Tears of the Kingdom with Cyberpunk 2077 and is preparing for the expansion

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01:42:03

Tears of the Kingdom spoilercast

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/06/09

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 additions to Chance's hate mail bag. Spoiler warnings for Tears of the Kingdom and Bramble.

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01:21:32

A light at the end of the bokoblin

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/06/02

Last week Chamberlain took a long, hard look at his life, his free time, and what may or may be making him miserable. Then he stopped playing Tears of the Kingdom, picked up several little games that no one else had heard of, and he felt better about everything. Gamer hipster, indeed. Chance continues to have the audacity to enjoy a very well crafted game, playing through epic quests of his own making, loving all of his time in Hyrule. At least he is still mad at Overwatch 2. And Alex jumps through

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01:29:03

You did what with the Zonai artifact?

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/05/26

Sony had a thing. It was mediocre when compared to old E3 offerings, missing both the surprise announcements and arrogant pomp that used to be the norm. There was a lot of Spider-Man 2, which looked great, but we already knew that. Chance and Chamberlain continue to play Tears of the Kingdom, just in very different ways and at different levels of enjoyment. Chance is having grand adventures and Chamberlain swings wildly between board and annoyed. And Alex wisely eschews the entire argument by

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01:25:01

Loofah with Legs

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/05/19

Tears of the Kingdom has arrived and one of our heroes is not exactly pleased with it. He is frankly fed up with what sees as a double standard, that Nintendo is allowed to make 'fugly' games while Sony and Microsoft are not. You get no points for guessing which of them feels this way. Also this week, Alex has finished Jedi Survivor, Chance is called a very strange name in Chance's hatemail bag, and it is Chamberlain. He is the defective one, send the angry tweets to him.

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01:19:56

Zelda-eve is a holiday?

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/05/12

No Zelda yet, what are our heroes to do? Chamberlain was (and is) in a disagreeable mood, so he took his frustrations out on Afterimage by dropping it and then Redfall by hating it before finding surprising solace in a several years old PC RPG that was just barely ported to console. Bards Tale IV is good. Who knew? Chance and Alex are as steady as ever and just as surprised as anyone else that EA has managed to release two single player games, in the same year, and they are both good. First it was

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01:20:36

More bacon than the pan can handle

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/05/05

Surprising: Chance has played two good games in a row that are not Overwatch. This time it is Star Wars Jedi Survivor, a game made better by developers listening to the complaints about the first game. Not surprising: Redfall is bad and Arkane should feel bad. Surprising: Chamberlain had minor complaints about an otherwise good Metroidvania, Afterimage, and they were patched while he was playing the game. Not surprising: Alex could teach a literal class on how to play Borderlands 3. For college

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01:15:18

But LA isn't an island?

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/04/28

Dead Island 2 came out and it's good? No really, Chamberlain and Chance agree that Dead Island 2 is a silly, gory, albeit shallow experience that is far better than either expected from a game that spent more time in development than most Fornite players have spend being alive. Chamberlain is also very late to the party with Roguebook, the sequel to Slay the Spire that never actually happened. Alex still loves Octopath Traveler 2 and refuses to remove the cat girl from his party. And Chance

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01:14:04

Hate playing

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/04/21

Some people play games because they are enjoying them. Octopath Traveler II is what Alex has been looking for from Square Enix for many years. He has only scratched the surface of its content and is looking forward to the long haul. Some people play games as an almost meditative experience. Chance has returned to Red Dead Redemption 2 just for the hunting and experiences profound tranquility while landing head shots on supports in Overwatch 2. And some people, some lonely, angry people, are

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01:27:16

Little game time

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/04/14

Welcome to the space between releases, during which we fill time in just about any way we can. Chamberlain did something very strange: he returned to a game that he felt he did not give a fair chance the first time around. Chained Echoes was abandoned after a scant twenty minutes several months ago. This time he has made it much further, though Alex does promise that in becomes far too pleased with itself eventually. Alex himself is playing Octopath Traveler 2, skipping all of the dialogue and cut

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01:06:18

Fishing can be scary

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/04/07

Why submit yourself to the horrors of fishing or being near water when Dredge is happy to give you the same feelings of existential dread in digital form? Alex has braved this angling nightmare and lived to tell the tale. Chamberlain is still not done with the Resident Evil 4 remake, but he has seen more than enough to complain about. And Chance thought about playing many different things. He thought about it. He actually played Elden Ring and Overwatch, but he is NOT buying the next battle pass,

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01:14:45

Different in a bad way

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/03/31

Only two games to talk about this week: Resident Evil 4 Remake and the Diablo IV open beta. Alex made good on his promise to not play it, leaving that duty to Chamberlain and Chance. They liked and disliked it for the same reason: it feels more accusable but shallower, perfect for Chamberlain's drive by gaming style but not the long term relationship that Chance was looking for. Alex loved the RE4 remake, having already finished it and and made it half way through a second time. Chamberlain and

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01:12:16

Caving to the PvP-ers

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/03/24

Chance's Stormveil angel is still on the loose, doing strange things like 'good deeds' and 'helping people.' His only foils are the ravenous PvP players, terrible people who do nothing but terrible things and were (and are) terribly disrespectful to their parents. He doesn't like them very much. Alex bounced around trying to avoid pre-ordering Diablo IV, and was successful, until Chance reminded him of the free beta this weekend. And Chamberlain continues his run of enjoying

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01:05:46

It's never my fault

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/03/18

Have you heard of Grime? Grime is hard. Grime is mean. Grime is seriously disempowering. Somehow, some way, Chamberlain finished it, and now he is going to complain about it. Alex is almost done with his Mass Effect run (and yes, there is a debate over Liara, Tali and Garrus as the perfect romance option) and Chance is still waiting for the Resident Evil 4 remake, passing the time by ruining people's days with Tracer.

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01:12:21

Bea Arthur was a paladin

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/03/10

The Resident Evil 4 remake clock is at about two weeks. Everyone copes differently. Chamberlain bounces off of games that he knew he wouldn't like, the settles directly into Stockholm Syndrome with Grime, a Metroidvania that is far, far more difficult that it needs to be. Alex plays Mass Effect, again, and still believes that Mass Effect 2 is on the short list of all time great games. And Chance pulls out the Stormveil angel, once again doing good deeds in harsh world of Elden Ring. And of course

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01:11:49

Ursa Cocaini

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/03/03

We try new things this week! Chamberlain leaves the house and watches a movie. Granted, the movie was Cocaine Bear, a title almost comically focused on his need for a short run time and frenetic pacing, but it was still an enjoyable evening. A much better time than Atomic Heart was, and it didn't sell any personal information to foreign regimes. Alex read a book! A real life, physical book that exists! He also started another play through of Dark Souls 3, his skills freshly sharpened by Hi-Fi Rush

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01:29:58

In search of the chill

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/02/24

Chance is in search of mellow gaming experiences, or at least a counterpoint to the constant raging dumpster fire that is Overwatch matchmaking. This week the Breath of the Wild replay continues, in which he completes tasks that Chamberlain didn't even know existed. Add to that Sable, or Breath of the Wild with 100% less combat and 100% more hover bikes. Alex finds his chill at the end of Hi-Fi Rush and in his once every four years or so replay of DMC - Devil May Cry. And Chamberlain has no chill

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01:20:18

Open worldliness

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/02/17

It is a tale of two open worlds this week. Alex, thanks to the once in a blue moon occurrence of a first party Nintendo title going on sale, is finally playing Breath of the Wild. He is having a fine, almost meditative time with it. In contrast, Chamberlain played about five hours of Forspoken, because someone had to, and had very little if any fun with it. At least he had a remake of a PSP JRPG to fall back on. Chance is also playing Breath of the Wild, for the fifth or sixth time (he has lost

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01:23:29

No good deed goes unpunished

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/02/10

This week, Chamberlain tried to do a nice thing. He tried to buy Chance a game that he really liked, Hi Fi Rush, so that Chance would give it a try. Things did not go as planned. Instead of shooting robots to the beat of life he shot noobs in Overwatch and werewolves in Resident Evil VII. Alex did play Hi Fi Rush, and liked what he played, but the call of another Persona 5 playthrough was too strong. Chamberlain revisited the Xbox 360 era with Evil West, a game that feels like an escapee from a time

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