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  It’s hard for me to not be cynical about an upcoming title. Especially knowing the track record of a specific franchise or developer. I’m the guy that started at Combat Evolved. Loved everything about Halo enough to pick up Destiny at launch in 2014. And be monumentally disappointed with it. “No you have to get House of Wolves for the full experience” my friends would tell me. “No man, The Taken King will fix the game for you”. And thus began my disillusionment at the release of unfinished games. Destiny never grabbed me. Not creatively. Not mechanically. Especially not narratively. It felt painfully generic especially in the wake of the genre-defining space shooter that the developer had just left behind. And then for Bungie to say that Destiny would be their WoW. Their decade(s) long supported project. This was something of an unholy trinity. The weapons had no personality. The classes served minimal synergy to each other. Even playing with friends failed to ignite any sort of ...
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What the hell is even BitCrush?

Life comes at you quick huh?

Life is like that second health bar you didn’t know Hades was hiding after you downed him.

One day you’re waiting for the last bell to ring so you can go home and run some Zombies in Halo 3 with the boys - the next day you’re thanking whatever deity you subscribe to for the invention of the baby wipe (they’re so fucking useful, why do we wait to become parents to buy baby wipes??).


The goal with this project isn’t to complain about the current state of the gaming industry - though I have many complaints.

It isn’t to report news - there are entire (sometimes crummy) organizations for that.

It isn’t to sound like a rambling old man - even though I miss not having to balance storage space across multiple hard drives.


I guess if there is goal a for this, it’s to connect to people. Something I’ve never quite excelled at. And use video games as that bridge. It’s the core of my fondest memories. From gaming alone when I was supposed to be in bed to squeezing into a couchful of friends to buying my daughter her first console. I want to talk about and hear from others about those moments that brought you joy when you held the controller. And now that gaming has evolved into a new beast, I’d love even more to discuss what new joy we might have discovered in the evolving landscape. The new moments that transport us back to ordering pizza on a Friday night and going to Blockbuster if we got good grades.


I’ve found that these moments are fewer and farther between now that I’m a father of two. And as much as I love my family, it becomes harder and harder to live in or even remember those moments. I’m sure I’m not the only one. However, this project isn’t designed to solely be for the old heads. Grumpy old men talking about the golden days. I just want to build a community. I just want to talk about what makes us happy.


So I hope you’ll join my friends and I as we focus on the aspects of gaming that make us feel like we did the first time we picked up the controller. We might talk news sometimes. We might talk about the past. We might talk about how much we still hate EA for shutting down Visceral and killing any hope of Dead Space 4.

But we’re here for the players.

The people.

The bond.


We're here to talk to you.

So thanks for being here.


-Trey

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