This Week’s BRP: Brief Delay
Yeah, you guys have had to deal with a lot of delays recently, and for that I apologize. Unfortunately things seem to be coming down on Joe and me at the moment - he had some family things to deal with this weekend and wasn’t able to appear on the show. As for me, I’m still coming off the back of not one but two infections, as well as trying to catch up on all the missed work - which of course has piled up during my time off. So I hope you can forgive the delays, but sometimes there’s not much you can do.
I think, to compensate, we may open Season 8 (which starts next week) with a couple of Co-op Mode episodes to give us more of a chance to get back on schedule, and then try to make up for that with some big belter specials to close the year on. I have a couple of really good specials already planned in my head, and I think they’ll be worth the delays we’re going through at the moment.
I’ve changed the ETA for this week’s show to Wednesday 18th, but honestly I’m not going to make any promises about that. Once it does go up, I think we’ll be putting up a couple of blog posts after it, and then hopefully we can get back on schedule by the end of the month. Thanks to you for your patience, and hope you’re having a better November than we are.
UPDATE: Glad I didn’t make any promises. Given our currently ridiculously busy schedules, we’ve decided the best thing to do is post Episode 30 on Monday 23rd, and then post a Co-op Mode on Monday 30th. We’ll announce the Season 8 schedule the following Monday. Again, apologies for the delays and another week without the show - we’re hoping that pushing things back a week will give us a chance to get back on schedule and concentrate on all the other things in our lives for a short while.
Axel & Pixel: Simple or Too Simple?
Axel & Pixel has the right ingredients. It’s an indie game released on the Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace, a platform which helped Braid achieve commercial and critical success. Like the mind-bending Braid, it has an unusual take on a gaming staple, in its case the point-and-click genre. Like And Yet it Moves - another great indie game we’ve talked about - it features a quirky, endearing art style that draws you in immediately. So why hasn’t this unique, interesting downloadable title caught on with the masses?
Darkest of Days Review
Every now and then, a game will catch you so off guard that you won’t know what to make of it. To that effect, Darkest of Days is one of the most bewildering first-person shooter experiences that I’ve ever had. The plot setup is ace, with a soldier from Custer’s last stand being zapped into the future because he’s the only one that can stop a group of time-dicks from killing key historical figures. While the lack of Rufus is unsettling, the rampant paradoxes that I aimed to cause filled my mind with happy. All that I could think about was assaulting Civil War Confederates with rocket launcher-equipped dinosaurs and driving my flying supercar through the barracks of a Nazi training camp. Of course, Darkest of Days doesn’t let you do any of that, nor does it offer anything remotely entertaining, leaving you with game that packs the fervor and intensity normally reserved for a Sunday afternoon war reenactment.
Check out the audio review below, or hit the jump for the full text review.
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No BRP This Week
Sorry guys, but I’m afraid there isn’t going to be a Big Red Potion episode this week - you’ll have to find your aimless, video game-related rambling somewhere else until next Monday.
Episode 29: The Ballad of Grand Theft Auto
With the release of the latest GTA episode, Sinan & Joe have lassoed the Digital Cowboys, Alex Shaw and Tony Atkins, onto the show to discuss The Ballad of Gay Tony, the maturity of the Grand Theft Auto series, and how the media continues to point at Rockstar’s epic as the cause of all of humanity’s problems.
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