T w e n t y S i d e d
So Spoiler Warning season 10 is done. I’ll tell you that our next game is NOT Alpha Protocol. That’s a shame, since Alpha Protocol is a really interesting specimen. Being an Obsidian title, it’s an interesting mix of choice, dialog wheels, unconventional characters, wonky gameplay, and hilarious bugs. Obsidian Entertainment is the mad scientist of the RPG world, constantly doing new things that usually blow up in their face but which sometimes move us forward.
The game has been a candidate for Spoiler Warning since season 4. After passing over the game eight times, it’s pretty clear that if we were going to cover this game, we would have put a ring on it by now.
But!
Someone else has taken up the charge. Some folks you might recognize from the comments on this very site – @Aldowyn @anaphysik and @newdarkcloud – have launched the curiously titled Disclosure Alert show. Here’s episode 1:
Link (YouTube) |
So enjoy that while you’re waiting for the next season of Spoiler Warning. There are four episodes up now, so it’s a good time to give them feedback and tell them what works and what doesn’t. Also you’ll get to hear the voices behind the names, which is always fun.
I’ll be running Fallout episodes this week. In the meantime, I am prepared to reveal that the next season of Spoiler Warning will be Season 11.
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Did you watch the Wasteland 2 gameplay video, Shamus?
Hey, where’d it go? It’s not up on Vimeo anymore!
I found a YouTube clone of it, though.
Thanks for the YT clone. I saw this on PCGamer earlier and saved it to watch later. When I went back it was gone. It’s not up on their Kickstarter update page either.
Got taken down because Vimeo is staffed by idiots who don’t want to compete with Youtube, apparently.
Makes me want to start my own show too… It will be called: Unveiling Remonstrance. :P
Revelation Awareness.
Plot Ruination Affirmation.
Decompositional WATCH OUT!
Ooph, that spoiler is maddening.
I am enjoying the so far one-week-run of Disclosure Alert. A lot of energy in it. I might even say that credit sequence is better than that of Spoiler Warning if only because of the dialogue insertions in it. I’m also quite fond of Aldowyn’s reckless approach to stealth.
Right off the bat, I have to say the game has the biggest Zippo and cigarette I’ve ever viewed in a cutscene.
Also, is it me, or does the protagonist sneak using some kind of Groucho Marx technique?
;)
I spent like 2 hours making those credits, I appreciate the appreciation!
Although inserting the dialogue was Anaphysik’s idea tbh.
In any case, definitely appreciate the feedback!
And I spent like *ten* hours telling him how to make those credits /good/ XD
yeah, I’ll point out the editing isn’t a solo effort here. Both anaphysik and newdarkcloud are there helping me out pretty much all the time, very much a team effort.
As it should be.
Made me think of Airwolf. Ah, those were the days.
The door montage is definitely appreciated.
that was my idea, IIRC. Was fun editing that.
you sir are a true tease
That’s a shame I really like alpha protocol, easily my favorite Obsidian game. It’s definitely flawed but often in interesting ways basically this.
Yeah, that post went up the DAY after an hour-long debate on the merits of AP’s dialog system, quite randomly. The author has a lot of other posts that sounds like he’s listening to my twitter too XD
AP deserves a sequel more than any other Obsidian game to date, IMO – if only because it’s the first really NEW game they’ve made.
Funny the article should mention that. I got DX: HR and Alpha Protocol at around the same time. Deus Ex I played once, doing it stealthily because that’s what I usually do, and I remember preciously little about it apart from Adam being gravelly-voiced and the bosses and much of the plot being utter nonsense. A good game, but nothing memorable.
Alpha Protocol I’ve played through… Ohhhh… Four times? Three? I played one recruit/professional with an assault rifle, one operative/suave/nonlethal martial artist (trying not to kill anyone) and one veteran who was a social chameleon on (hard difficulty), and I had an aggressive SMG user in the works until my hard drive was reformatted. And I still need to see how the shotgun works. (I’ve also spent an inordinate amount of time editing its TVTropes page). I keep coming back to it because while gameplay has flaws, but the plot is more interesting and the characters are way more memorable and there are different ways to play it that Deus Ex really hasn’t got. DX: HR is the objectively better game, but Alpha Protocol is a lot more fun.
I’ve played through the game 8-9 times. I’ve tried quite a few different permutations of the game and I’m amazed by how different each playthrough can be.
I’ve played it a couple of times and every time is the same, I just can’t bring myself to not play a pacifist ^^.
My super-aggressive douche-schnozle playthrough was really interesting. It can get pretty painful to piss off some characters.
On the other hand, some of them REALLY deserved it.
“In the meantime, I am prepared to reveal that the next season of Spoiler Warning will be
Season 11.”…
*Glehrk*
Glorious!
Woah. Woah. Woah. Can you even do a game as recent as
Season 11?Also my vote for the next season is Metro 2033, I think you’d have plenty to talk about there. And if you did Action/adventure/platformer AC2 I think that you can say that survival horror FPS falls under your banner.
I want them to do Assassin’s Creed 3. >:)
You are a bad person and should feel bad.
Well they should do the first half of it.Haytham is an interesting character.Its a shame he isnt the focus of the rest of the game.
Connor’s not bad, either. A very tragic hero, given the ending to his story. I’m also fond of
the old man’s death scene. The Desmond part wasn’t too entertaining, though. Maybe the one level where you’re in the stadium.Yeah but its the events of connors life that are tragic,not himself.He is just so bland.
Give the guy credit he can speak fluent Algonquin which is above most actors to say the least
Late comment, I know, but I don’t consider Connor bland; he’s understated in his speech, but he goes through a stronger arc than either of the previous main Assassin characters (in the numbered games, at least; I never played the non-numbered Ezio games), from vengeful boy to budding Assassin to naive freedom fighter to disillusioned crusader to hopeful yet realistic leader. And he does so while keeping his core principles relatively intact, being in line with what the Assassin’s Brotherhood is supposedly all about: freedom from tyranny.
Also, it was cut from the game, but this monologue really sums up what Connor went through and how he changed.
Being honest, though, Ezio’s my least favorite of the three, for pretty much the reasons the Spoiler Warning crew went into: he’s a blood-drunk, vengeful thug who fell into being an Assassin through his family connections and dumb luck, and who stopped killing when it didn’t feel good anymore (again, only played 2). The twist of 2, with him being essentially irrelevant except as a memory capsule, really tickled me pink.
Jeez, with Josh’s propensity for finding bugs, I imagine he’d render the game unplayable before too long. At least if my playthrough was anything to go by.
AC3 was incredibly buggy, especially compared to the (relative) polish of AC2. Putting Josh in AC3 is akin to putting him in New Vegas (or ANY bethesda game): Weird crap WILL happen.
But AC3 in general is MECHANICALLY really sloppy, even ignoring the story. It’s an interesting thing to look at especially in comparison to what I consider the opposite in AC2 – good mechanics, lousy story.
Here comes the Jacetrain on the opposite end of the track: for me AC3’s combat was very fluid and enjoyable, but the story was an absolute mess.
They introduced Haytham, who at first seems a bit like a Mary Sue (Our hero, he does no wrong and is a polite and suave and intelligent gentleman!) until they pull the “psyche he’s a Templar” twist. At that point I thought they were going to try to go for some sort of “the Templars have changed, their goals are more sympathetic now” angle to the story but then IMMEDIATELY AFTER we get Charles and his mustache-twirling monologue about how stupid Connor and his people are while he chokes a child half to death and then burns his village down for shits and giggles while Johnson and one of the other Templars watch and do nothing. Then we about-face AGAIN and try to paint them in a sympathetic light AGAIN (Johnson buying Shawnee land to protect them, Pitcairn pulling back the Redcoats’ reigns so they don’t just slaughter the Patriots, etc) and making Washington out to be a pointlessly evil douchebag and giving Connor’s childhood friend a serious idiot ball to force the whole “YOU MUST KILL YOUR FRIEND” scene.
Oh, and let’s not forget the insane ludonarrative dissonance between Connor’s primary motivation of “I must keep my people and our lands safe from the white man” and “Hey kids, see how many colonists you can get to live on this frontier homestead right next door to your peoples’ lands!”
I never even finished the friggin’ game so I don’t know how much better or worse it gets (I ragequit when I couldn’t beat the stupid boss fight against Haytham at Chesapeake) but honestly I didn’t care enough to find out. It just felt like the writers were jerking me around with pointless and contradicting plot twists in the name of DRAMA.
Too bad,because when haytham gets reintroduced,you get shown again just how more interesting he is than connor.
As for the whole “These guys are bad,no its these guys,no these guys”,it actually serves a point.It shows that it doesnt matter if you are an assassin or a templar,there are good people at both sects,as well as idiots.
But whenever asscreed 3 pisses you off,you just need to go back to this scene,and youll be reminded why its the best one in the franchise.
I actually didn’t really care for that scene. I was interested because it looked like Desmond was actually going to show a bit of characterization and growth and then daddy pimp slaps him and says “Stop trying to be a three dimensional character, Nolan North! You will be a hard drive and you will like it!”
Ironically my favorite Nolan North performances are Spec Ops and Alpha Protocol, where he plays complete psychopaths.
I wonder how many bugs josh would of ran into playing Alpha Protocol? Would he even get out of the starting area?
Ill give Disclosure Alert a watch
Not too many BUGS (AP isn’t THAT buggy, although I had a funny one in the practice run where a turret shot me half way across the (small) map), but I certainly do a lot of ridiculous stuff.
Thanks for the watch, make sure to let us know what you think!
That’s not a bug. That’s just you sucking at stealth so extremely hard.
Oh, and I have a theory that recording/streaming actually causes bugs due to additional stresses on the processor, because I DO see more bugs in everything when I’m recording/streaming.
Or maybe you just notice them better when you know other people are watching.
Or the universe is innately sadistic. I tend to lean towards the latter explanation myself…
Josh finds bugs everywhere, is a bug finding machine.
I love this game, watching you play it is giving my urges to start up a new game.
Feel free to play along with us if you wish. While it is far from the best, I’d go so far as to say that Alpha Protocol is my favorite game this generation.
I like the first episode and I’m looking forward to more. The only thing I can give as criticism is that the sound levels of the game made it hard to hear the commentary. Other than that, keep it it.
Yeah, we heard that from several people on the first couple. It should be at least a little better in 2 and good with 3 and 4, from what I’ve heard.
Thanks!
We fixed that in the later episodes (episode 3 & 4 moreso than episode 2). It was a VERY common complaint.
Can you describe the DRM situation in the Steam version. Just download and play, or does it also try to do ruins-your-windows-live?
Just download and play, as far as I can tell. No GFWL BS. I certainly haven’t had issues, and I have before with some games.
Basically, GFWL and Steam use the same save game locations for some games (like Fallout 3). If GFWL is running, it thinks it needs to step in and get passwords and logins and what-not from you. Just shut it off before running a Steam version, and I think you’ll be fine.
Got it during the recent Steam sale. There was no GFWL or anything else, just Steam.
At least as far as I can tell.
I think they released an official patch which removes all DRM from it. Because after I installed it I didn’t even have to type in the product key, never mind GFWL (and on a non-steam copy)
I bought Alpha Protocol well over a year ago during a Steam sale. Never had any DRM I could see beyond what Half-Life 2 has.
Blast, and here I thought I was so original having one of only two let’s plays I’d previously found online.
That said, I did finish mine a year earlier so I’ll just remain on my high horse.
Still, I’m really looking forward to watching through this. Despite its flaws, the more discussion about Alpha Protocol the better I’d say.
Very Cool. Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and while I keep threatening to do a real youtube channel, I never do -so, again, very cool.
Imitation? That implies that we’re ruthlessly coping another well known show seen only on this blog.
We would never* do that. It would be improper.
*By “never” I mean “Yeah, we’re a blatant ripoff”
The original idea basically /was/ ‘Spoiler Warning: Fan Edition’
How DO you cope with that?
watch the show and find out :P
“Also you'll get to hear the voices behind the names, which is always fun.”
If by fun, you mean earsplittingly painful, yes. #EveryoneHatesTheirOwnVoice
#ExceptRonPerlman #AndAlsoLoganCunninghamI should mention that for your convenience, we’ve (I’ve <_<) set up a youtube playlist here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuo0OLsc6SzEjVmR_-8fARY8Mlp7Tm7hx
Additionally, we (I <_<) have a dedicated twitter account for announcements and new episodes, to be found here: https://twitter.com/DisclosureAlert
That'd be better to follow than following us individually, as we, uh, ramble a bit ;D
uhhhhhhh, oops
Shamus, could you possibly maybe pretty please fix that second strike tag for me? Only “#ExceptRonPerlman #AndAlsoLoganCunningham” was meant to be struck. (It won’t let me edit :< )
Well that was false advertising. Heard the first voice, so I assumed from the description that couldn’t be you.
Although hearing people’s actual voices is confusing =D. You assign a personality and voice to someone in your head and then you have to try to readjust to fit the facts
Awww, you like my voice?
…Or, uh, think that Aldowyn’s the one that sounds weird?
;D
Actually, I’m quite curious about this: “You assign a personality and voice to someone in your head and then you have to try to readjust to fit the facts.”
I’ve also heard that different people visualize others differently. E.g. at least one person imagines me as a manta ray flopping its fins against the keyboard.
I still picture Josh as a DragonQuest Demon Knight.
what, you don’t picture him as Teddy Roosevelt? HERESY.
Not after that first picture from PAX I don’t. Demon Knight all the way. (It just makes SENSE.)
Your picture is a manta ray?…oh, I guess it is. My mind always saw it as a blue sail boat sinking backwards.
I definitely always thought it was a boat until I looked closer. the head (which I always thought was the bridge or whatever) is at the top right…
Varewulf saw the same thing.
It helps when it’s bigger than these tiny gravatars:
http://i2.ifrm.com/4614/195/upload/p2838980.jpg
http://i2.ifrm.com/16149/139/upload/p22021301.jpg
‘a manta ray flopping its fins against the keyboard.’
From now on, I choose to believe =D
Aldowyn has always sounded like Ian McKellen’s Gandalf in my mind. Anaphysik had the Bobblehead Einstein voice, and NewDarkCloud is a booming operatic baritone (think Rigolletto).
No. I have no idea where these conceptions come from.
NewDarkCloud having a recognisably American accent was a surprise for me. I guess I give everyone British or transatlantic accents
If you like, I can do a horribly offensive British accent just for you!
Aldy and physik will hate it, but I can do it.
Well, if there’s anyone who’s going to be offended by it…
trust me, I will be offended on their behalf, and so will you.
Eh, the people who speak English the worst are the English.
I’m not going to put it against anymore.
Well, as an actual secret British person…
XD
#IHaveNothingMoreToAdd
Oh oh oh what do I sound like? o:
like a ninja, obviously.
Note: I don’t assign ‘voices’ like that, although I WILL read text in a voice if I know what they actually sound like.
Wait don’t we already heard your voice over at Rutskarn’s Livestream?
John Rhyse Davies in Sliders -though this is because I know someone with the initials JPH who is -for a variety of reasons -associated with Dr. Arturo in my mind.
I do not have voices for everyone on the forum, but some names come up that are just evocative of a voice.
‘some names that come up are just evocative of a voice’
I originally came up with the name expressly aping elvish/Tolkienesque naming customs, actually. Someone asked if I was Welsh once – Sindarin is based on Welsh. Sooo I think I did a good job, especially if that name makes you think of GANDALF.
It’s total accident, but “Aldwyn” is a real Old English name that means ‘old friend’, so… I accidentally came upon a really good name, and I’ve stuck with it for a solid half a decade plus. So there’s the story behind THAT!
I cannot properly express the extent to which I appreciate that comparison. Except a certain LOTR-fan friend of mine suggests that Michael Hordern would be better.
I think we all do that. I have funny and amusing voices I use when picturing everyone’s voice here. Though now that I’ve been meeting a lot of the guys here online, it’s been cool to here people’s real voices.
And morgan freeman.You forgot morgan freeman.He is THE voice,after all.
It’s gonna be Skyrim.
Yeah, that seems to be the most likely thing. It’s gonna be a looooooong season.
Also, this will be SW season 11. Skyrim came out on 11.11.11… Coincidence? I think not.
I’ve spent to much time on Reddit. After seeing all those 11s my first thought was “Half-Life 3 confirmed.”
(I realize that makes no sense, but neither do most of the confirmations on Reddit.)
:| How does HL3 even relate to the number 11?
People on Reddit like to joke about HL3, using the absolute thinnest of Adam-West-as-Batman logic to decide that Half-Life 3 has been confirmed.
“Gabe Newell bought a latte on Tuesday…confirmed.”
Dude! 11 is two ones! If you add a 1, it’s 1 + 1 + 1 = 3!
HALF-LIFE 3 IS COMING OUT!!!
11 is 3 in binary. Binary has 2 unit values. The reciprocal of 2 is one-half. HALF-LIFE 3 QED.
It’s either going to be Skyrim or Dishonored, and either way we’re going to get more hilarious Gamebryo-style bug shenanigans.
Someone should analyze SkiFree.
The in-depth breakdown of the directed freedom presented to the skier versus the deadly inevitability represented by the yeti would be enlightening. Also the implications that holding the F key makes you immortal could rouse some interesting observations.
Wait wait wait…
What’s this about the F key?
If you press the F key, you’ll go faster than the yetis.
You’ll have to keep dodging the other obstacles though, it doesn’t make you invincible.
You mean to tell me this entire time there’s been a key to outrun the yeti AND I NEVER KNEW ABOUT IT?! All those years of playing that game! All those vain attempts to outmaneuver him, and there was a key to go faster the whole time?!
My life… it’s crumbling before my very eyes… everything I knew was a lie…
http://xkcd.com/667/
That is all…
Shamus, when did you become a part time troll? I can’t remember when it started happening. All I know is it used to not happen. Until I receive evidence to the contrary I’m blaming Josh and Rutskarn.
I’m sure it’ll appear somewhere in the replays of Spoiler Warning.
In other words, blaming josh and rutskarn is a very good idea.
Except now that shamus has converted and mumbles has left (sadface), I dunno who they’re trolling any more. I guess us, even during the show?
*edit* anaphysik just showed me something that in the context of trolls implies that surrounding yourself with them inevitably leads to conversion. This led to a big NOOO from me…
Shamus, don’t be naà¯ve enough to think you’re unaffected. The conversion has already begun.
So I’ve finished watching the first four episodes and I have to say that I’m really impressed and definitely enjoying it. I honestly prefer Aldowyn and co. covering Alpha Protocol because they obviously know what they’re talking about and I was genuinely surprised at the analysis of the story and characters nuances that I completely missed in my time with the game. Good job guys.
Bah, can’t edit the comment.
I’m not implying that the SW crew don’t know what they’re talking about when analyzing games, what I wanted to say that Aldowyn and co. have a really good grasp on the narrative and characters of Alpha Protocol. Weird phrasing on my part. Sorry. :P
That’s great to hear, because I think by our reckonings, we were just calling Darcy an arse and making fun of Yancy’s name.
So, um, keep up the good job us XD
The most comprehensive analysis I have ever heard, to be sure.
TBH we were REALLY worried that this first week would come off as a BAD rip-off, but it seems we actually did a good job.
Imagine that.
Thank you. We hope that we’ll continue to provide good analysis.
As someone who has meticulously scanned the episodes, and noted aldy’s largest analytical contribution by volume to be “yeah,” I take offense to “Aldowyn and co.”
;P
As someone who made those episodes, and noted anaphysik’s largest analytical contribution was ‘do you even stealth?’, I take offense to the implied idea that it should instead be ‘anaphysik in co’.
Besides, I’m driving, I’m allowed to just agree when I’m distracted.
As someone who played the game 8-9 times and thinks both of you could stand to talk more, neither one of you have room to talk. XD
/kidding
Anyone whose actually watched this videos can tell you that it was CLOUD who said “do you even stealth?” (I said “do you even know how to play this game?” and several variations of “LERN 2 WASD!” as well as “Aldowyn… stupid… loser…”)
#AldowynIsDumb
You got through the intro an not one of you screwed up their name?Thats not a good start for a spinoff of spoiler warning.
Part of it is the glory of not using push-to-talk.
signed, anaphys-
We record our audio in Skype, and Skype has a way you can jury-rig push-to-talk, but none of us can be bothered to do that.
I just mute my mic whenever something happens around me and I don’t want it to appear in the audio.
I really hope the next season of Spoiler Warning is something I’ve either already played or don’t care about having spoiled. The Fallout 3 re-release has helped, but it’s been downright painful to have to miss this season because I don’t want it spoiled.
So Disclosure Alert crew: Is there any plan to put each episode up on a blog/forum somewhere or all discussion’s going to happened in the Youtube comment? I’m asking because I know that newdarkcloud and Aldowyn have a blog, not sure about anaphysik though.
If they don’t have plans to do that, we could probably commandeer Roll for Insanity
Currently, there are no plans to put this on a blog. Roll for Insanity has been considered, but nothing concrete.
Actually, upon reflection. I have decided to start posting these on my blog in a completely, pathetically selfish attempt to boost my pageviews.
I’ve already linked to the first episode, so I’ll post the 2nd later today.
The blog is pressstarttodiscuss.blogspot.com
What about blue screen of awesome? You’d have to discuss things with Jarenth & co, but it’d be a good home for it. Either that, or have a “discussion” with Shamus about co-authorship on this site.
I’ll give you some pictures you can use.
That would be much too intrusive. Shamus giving us a one-a-week plug+comments section for people to discuss the eps would be plenty nice, though.
I have decided to retract my previous statement and post it on my blog at Press Start to Discuss.
It’s live: http://pressstarttodiscuss.blogspot.com/2013/02/disclosure-alert-alpha-protocol-episode.html
It’s an interesting discussion, to be sure. I’m not sure the multi-blog approach is a bad one, though. It allows us to form separate followings instead of just show followers
So, in other words, more places = better. I’ll definitely be posting weekly roundups at the very least I think.
I am a blogless heathen. (I have some legacy forums where I post my story/RPG stuff.) The easiest way to bother me is through that monstrous devourer of time, twitter.
Hi Shamus, it would be great if you could indulge my curiosity: did you end up giving Crusader Kings II a (second) try?
The link is broken, this should work.
I can’t fix b/c it thinks I’m spam.
Apparently I’m posting a contrary opinion here, but… my roommates and I agree, that was no Spoiler Warning.
I’m not sure how much of it was simply that you guys don’t have 10 seasons under your belts. Ultimately there’s only one way to find out whether that’s the case or not, and it’s going to take a few years.
I see from an earlier post that you apparently got the audio problems worked out, which is good, because half the time all the voices jumbled together and I couldn’t hear anything. I do know that for my own LP series, when I started recording voice and game audio separately it let me make ALL of the audio problems just go away. I also get to mute most of the obnoxious sniffling and mouth noises so nobody gets grossed out listening to me.
I’d say probably the biggest negative I could give is that none of the SW crew would have EVER said “If you’re not playing stealth/pistols, you’re doing it wrong.” Not one single game that Spoiler Warning have done have they ever claimed there was a “right” or “wrong” way to play a game, and in fact they will readily criticise a game if there seems to be anything like that. Half of the fun in the Fallout: New Vegas season was Josh playing the game “wrong.” The fact that he also generally succeeded was simply a bonus.
I will probably finish watching the Disclosure Alert playthrough of Alpha Protocol, but I think a Spoiler Warning version would not be redundant in the least, and I will still be looking forward to it.
Right after Half-Life 3.
Trust me, maybe they didn’t outright said it but they know it’s Aplha Protocol’s biggest weakness. In fact, newdarkcloud make a giant post talking about it. Combat in AP is so broken that the Pistol + Stealth combo put the game into easy mode while other weapon, like the SMG just plain doesn’t work mechanic wise.
The strength of Alpha Protocol lies in its consequences and how most of your interaction with any characters will influence the plot, in the short and long term. Everybody can agree that the gameplay is AP biggest weakness.
I want to talk about that later, once we get into some of the more gameplay heavy segments.
I gotta say, I love that we already have fans that appreciate us enough to defend our position for us. TY Sougo!
That said, it’s not their job, so let me elaborate. anaphysik said this earlier: That's great to hear, because I think by our reckonings, we were just calling Darcy an arse and making fun of Yancy's name.
All of us were pretty worried we didn’t have enough discussion in the first week, but honestly I think we’re pretty set for the rest of the LP. We’ve spent a lot of time since out-of-cameraThe tutorials are always low on discussion anyway. The ABSOLUTE hardest part of Spoiler Warning, and what makes it really tick, is their ability to seamlessly transition from trolling to analysis, and they know when to do which. It’s a careful line to trod and is different for each game. (See AC2 vs TWD seasons)
Annd I wouldn’t be averse to hearing the SW crew’s opinion on Alpha Protocol. Not in the slightest. Stay tuned. ;)
P.S. ‘stating a contrary opinion’ this is NEVER a bad thing in and of itself. The day I reject negative criticism solely because it is negative is the day you should stop following me at all.
Shamus… Why don’t I have permission to edit my own comment? I made a typo and I want to clarify something. (There’s a missing space/period/dash/something and I wanted to say ‘IMO the hardest part of Spoiler Warning is…’)
I’m glad you were able to take the criticism in the way it was intended. The first run is always the worst. Spoiler Warning Season 1 is nothing like the massive troll-and-pun-fest we’ve all come to know and love, and even when Randy took over gameplay he spent more time chasing Asari tail than the incredibly witty “Watch me play the game wrong” that Josh does. Like I said, it’s going to take a few years to find out for sure if it’s just the lack of experience, and if DA lasts that long, you’ll have fallen into your own groove by then anyway.
Also glad to still have a second vote for a SW treatment of Alpha Protocol
Here,I created a thread for you in the roll for insanity,so if you dont like commenting on youtube,you can comment there.