Chamberlain And Chance

Welcome to the 2nd annual E3 spectacular! Chamberlain, Chance and Alex take you through each press conference, pick out their best of show, biggest surprises and biggest disappointments. There are laughs, tears, and one of them is convinced that Michel Ancel is pure evil.

Are you looking for nearly baseless E3 prognostication? Wish lists? And maybe a well informed opinion or two? Chamberlain, Chance and Alex are here to bring the pre-E3 hype. Chamberlain turns on a game he briefly loved and is quite disturbed by Outlast 2. Alex conquers the world at a higher difficulty level. And Chance gets the greatest Overwatch play of the game ever.

Truly the end times are upon us: Chamberlain enjoyed a game that he played on a handheld. Alex spends some more time with an old friend and Chance continues to spurn the advances of anything that doesn't let him dance on the payload. Overwatch news, pre-pre-E3 musing and less politics, we promise.

This week's episode comes with two warnings and a caveat. Warning 1: Massive Prey spoilers are present. Warning 2: Politics and the state of the world once again invade our nice, calm, videogame podcast. And the caveat: Chamberlain isn't here this week, but Chance and Alex prove that he may not be as important as he thinks he is.

Chamberlain and Chance spoil just a bit of Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and all of La La Land, so be warned. Chance loves Prey but still makes time for his main squeeze, Overwatch and Chamberlain is disappointed that Phantom Dust is exactly what he was told it was going to be. He wants to love it, it's him, not the game.

Alex is back with Chamberlain and Chance and that means it's movie night! Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Wonder Woman and Blade Runner 2049 are all fair game. Prey is more cerebral than expected, Nioh sucked, and Little Nightmares was not worth the price of admission. 

Chamberlain is on his own with Chance this week and gets to eat all of the crow regarding Darksiders III being a real thing. Hype levels are set to cautious. Chance plays a lot of games that aren't Overwatch and Chamberlain run into yet another game that is just not for him before enjoying the single player part of an online only game.

Chamberlain, Chance and Alex guarantee a much cleaner, nicer episode than last week in spite of the giggle worthy episode number. At least there are fewer apologies to be made this time. Chamberlain hates everything because he is done with Tales of Berseria but he at least gets to be right about The Deer God. Alex decided that playing something of quality again is better than playing new, bad games. In other words Persona 5 is just too sexy to walk away from. And Chance played with, and held his own against, some true Overwatch pros.

Storytime with Chamberlain concludes as he spoils the ending of Tales of Berseria. Velvet's outfit is still terrible. Everything else is good. Alex finished Persona 5, no spoilers coming, but he does admit to falling for all of the upcoming DLC. Chance makes it 45 minutes into the episode before mentioning Overwatch, a new record, but also spent some quality time with Flinthook. There is also a very strange conversation about Chamberlain's pants. You have been warned.

Get ready for week 2 of Persona 5/Tales of Berseria discussion. Even Chance stopped playing Overwatch just long enough to sample the stylish JRPG. Alex is missing sixty plus hours from his life and Chamberlain actively roots against the 'heroes'. Headlines, Overwatch news and just a tiny bit of world events to keep things interesting. No gets dragged out of a plane. Yet.

Chamberlain, Chance and Alex may not be able to stream or publish pictures of Tales of Berseria and Persona 5 but they can still talk about them. Chance owns one of these but has fallen directly off the wagon into the warm embrace of Overwatch. Not even Persona 5's rare collectors edition could tempt him away. Come for the news and wait to the very end for stories of childhood wardrobe failures.

Chance loved Gravity Rush 2. Chamberlain hated every moment of it. Alex plays mediator as two grown men argue over the merits of combat lock on and the potential joy of flying around a city as a girl in odd tights. And someone could not stay away from Overwatch any longer.

An episode full of suprises! Alex insists that Mass Effect Andromeda is not terrible, Chance played something other than Horizon and Chamberlain, for a moment, has a softer side. The weekly Overwatch update is not forgotten and the three discuss their favorite games endings of all time.

Early 2017 has seen an embarrassment of quality games released and what do our heroes play? More Horizon, Zelda and Civilization with a dash of Hollow Knight for good measure. Chance wants to live in Alloy's world and hunt robot dinosaurs. Alex gets his PS4 fixed (finally) and Chamberlain is stuck between his begrudging enjoyment of Breath of the Wild and the deep catharsis of Nintendo fans' tears.

Chamberlain has his Switch and is playing a Zelda game for the first time in fifteen years! It's okay. Chance is still playing Horizon Zero Dawn. It's awesome. Alex is back, which is good all by itself, and he is playing Night in the Woods, which he promises has writing that will blow your mind. There may be karma involved with each of their experiences.

Chance got to enjoy a good game between podcasts: Horizon Zero Dawn. His excitement is, as always, contagious. Chamberlain opted to not have fun, instead forcing his way through the second half of Final Fantasy XV. Spoiler: he did not like it and doesn't think anyone else should play it. Games are not supposed to feel like work, right?

Alex rejoins Chamberlain and Chance only to have Chamberlain wound him deeply by saying mean things about Stranger Things. Chamberlain pays for it in the end by playing Final Fantasy XV and Chance continues to cheat on Overwatch by finishing Gravity Rush 2 and starting Night in the Woods. Mercy will not stand for this and refuses to heal Chance untli he reads all Overwatch news he can find and buys two nendoroids.

Chance may be taking a break from playing Overwatch but that does mean he is done talking about Overwatch. Nioh was played in its stead, along with a return to an old friend: Dragon's Crown. Chamberlain actually enjoyed something, Resident Evil VII, but then suffers from Capcom overdose while playing through Dead Rising 4, then has the nerve to complain about having too much to play before the Switch comes out.

Alex rejoins Chamberlain and Chance this week and does his best to keep things on topic, namely, to talk about videogames. It almost works. Topics this week include the tragedy of Mafia III, the genius of Dead Space 2, Overwatch buffs and nerfs, sex bots, unfunny comedians, funny comedians and just a touch of depressing politics.

Chamberain and Chance do the best they can this week. No Alex means no one to keep them in check. Anime is freely discussed along side tea bagging's place in competative gaming. There is news, there is a mediocre open world game in Mafia III and there is, of course, more Overwatch.