Total Playtime: Half-Life 3 Review Chat
Total Playtime is a Patreon-supported podcast about videogames, hosted by Alice Bell, Jon Hicks, Brendan Caldwell and Nate Crowley. Jank has partnered with them and we'll be posting new episodes each week.
For the latest Patreon-exclusive episode of Total Playtime - shared of course with the impeccably discerning readers of Jank - there was only one possible topic: the release of Half-Life 3, to which as professional gaming opinion-havers we were granted early access.
It’s a surprising release even by Valve’s eternally inscrutable standards, which makes this a particularly interesting episode as we each share our personal responses to a series of unexpected, nay, unprecedented design choices.
I can’t really describe this without spoiling the episode, so you’ll just have to listen along to discover our reactions to things like Bluto’s Adversary, the high-protein economy of City 18, PodTides and the narrative justification for punching a hole through your own monitor. These are the experiences, and questions, only offered by this calibre of truly next-generation gaming experience.
You can listen to the episode right here, and it's also available on Patreon and Spotify.