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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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01:33:20

Edging towards X

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/09/08

There can be no excuse for what Alex has done. He paid to play a game, a big, important game, early. For shame. This was of course Starfield, a game that Chamberlain is also enjoying. A game that Chance is very much not enjoying, as he has chosen a very specific hill to die on and will not be purchasing it on PC, much less purchasing a new piece of hardware just to play it on his television. He will instead install and then uninstall a myriad of other games, looking to fill the Bethesda shaped hole

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01:16:27

Not the ending we deserved

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/09/01

Chamberlain and Chance have both at least sampled Armored Cored VI, and neither liked it, just for different reasons. Chamberlain's critique is limited to 'THE FIRST BOSS IS TOO HARD,' but have faith that Chance will have a more nuanced response. Chance has also finally had enough Baldur's Gate 3, as has Alex, who is attempting to not pay for Starfield early access by playing Fallout 4 and pretending it takes places in space. And Chamberlain promises, for realsies, that Immortals of

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01:34:29

Die hardman? Die hard, man.

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/08/25

Once upon a time this was the Overwatch podcast. For a little while recently it was the Diablo IV podcast. For now, and for the foreseeable future, around two thirds of this podcast will be the Baldur's Gate III podcast. So crushed was Chance by the inevitable demise of his tall, red waifu that he started over, this time with a monk. Then he started over again when his save file began to act up. Alex has finally made it to the second act after several intentionally aborted attempts. And

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01:22:46

Shut up baby, I know it

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/08/18

Alex and Chance continue to do the impossible: they are having fun playing a videogame. This in spite of Chance knowing that his chosen romance in Baldur's Gate III will either literally explode or literally go to hell. Not much of a choice but they will enjoy the time they have. And Alex has decided that moving on from Act I is for chumps, opting to roll up a new character and start fresh. Chamberlain has wandered aimlessly through a morass of bad games, finally landing on Everspace 2, and even

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01:03:47

Such foul attaint

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/08/11

Chamberlain finished Final Fantasy XVI, cannot recommend it, and is immediately overshadowed by how much Chance and Alex love Baldur's Gate 3. It is almost cute how hard they, along with the other 630,000 concurrent Steam players, have fallen for it. Be forewarned: there is going to be a lot of D&D themed horniness in the ensuing weeks, centered around very tall tiefling barbarians and goth paladins. Side note - some unfixable audio issues this week around some of us not being able to hear

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01:15:56

Incredible customization options

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/08/04

Check the temperature in hell because Chance is playing a PC game. On purpose. And enjoying it. After bouncing off of Remnant II he was seduced by Baldur's Gate 3. Amazingly, this infatuation has blossomed past a video card driver update into full blown love for his gnomish bard and the seven foot tall red woman he intends to seduce. Chamberlain, on the other hand, is playing a roll playing game with zero player agency or choice, but giant monster fights, pointless but amusing spectacle and

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01:29:15

Done with the grind

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/07/28

Both Alex and Chamberlain have finished their time with Diablo 4 and moved on to other things. No real complaints about the game, just not worth devoting one's life to. Alex has chosen Revenant 2, along with the rest of the Steam community, and has succeeded in wooing Chance along for the ride. Chamberlain opted for Final Fantasy XVI and have convinced no one else that it is a reasonable use of leisure time. Chance continues to love and hate Overwatch 2, but he has also watched a ton of movies,

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01:08:23

Second verse, same as the first

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/07/14

We regret to inform you that A. Alex is missing this week, and B. Chamberlain is still playing Diablo 4 and Chance is still playing Cyberpunk. But there is so much else to talk about! Chamberlain calls into question the isometric viewpoint. Chance gets a cat. Chamberlain laments wielding the same bow for the last ten plus hours. Chance expresses interest in Baldur's Gate 3 while fiercely maintaining that he does not have a bear fetish. And, for some reason, they end up doing the Tom Hardy Bane

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01:09:35

We are all beholden to Kotick

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/07/07

Blizzard has a firmer than usual grasp on our luxury time. Alex, who is good at Diablo, is on his second or third character, efficiently cruising through nightmare dungeons in world tier 3 with his undead entourage. Chamberlain, who is bad at Diablo, is playing it like an Assassin's Creed game, delving every dungeon and visiting every icon he comes across, accumulating aspects that he will never use. Chance tries to avoid Blizzard but still played a bunch of Overwatch 2, this time on PC servers

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01:31:24

Lost in New York

Chamberlain and Chance ·

2023/06/30

Alex returns to us in spite of canceled flights, full New York hotels and old racist Spaniards and brings with him tales of Diablo 4. Chamberlain has also failed to resist Lilith's call and is chasing along, about 50 levels behind, with his beginner level Rogue, screaming 'look at me, I'm a big boy now!' Chance, on the other hand, has principles. He is playing Cyberpunk 2077 in preparation for this upcoming DLC, killing dozens of chooms before the first victim hits the floor. He is

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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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