Tuesday, March 26, 2019

New Covertape Chaos Season begins soon, and other news!

At the moment, assuming the world doesn't end first or something, I am planning to start Covertape Chaos Season 5 on Tuesday April 2nd, with new episodes every fortnight until we finish off with Power Pack 64.  As you many know, there were actually only 61 official Power Packs, but the Commodore Format blog have produced three more since the mag closed down for good. All of this will take us most of the way through the rest of 2019, but that doesn't mean that I'm not already thinking about what to do with the series after that.  There are several directions that I could go in - I could go through all of the ZZAP Megatapes, I could morph the series into Coverdisc Chaos and look at Amiga demo discs, or I could change it up even more and look at the CD's that came on the front of Official Dreamcast Magazine.  PlayStation demo discs are also a possibility, but I feel that these are already pretty well catered for thanks to Giant Bomb's Demo Derby series.  What do you think I should do?

Other than that I really need to get PS2 Tuesday's Season 5 finished off.  I was doing quite well at the start of the year with three new episodes, but after that there has been a gap again.  I still owe everyone three more. I also need to crack on with The A-Z of Amiga, make some more RetroGrade episodes, and throw in a few other types of video here and there to keep things interesting for myself, such as Time for a Wii and Last Gen Regen.

I am making slow but steady progress through Dragon Age: Inquisition.  I want to explore the last three or four world areas that that I have yet to visit, then I will tackle the end of the main story. After that I'll put together my review, and then get started on the DLC.  Give me another few weeks and I should have something for you.  I've also been spending a considerable amount of time with The Division 2 lately - my character is level 22 right now.  I might be able to to get to level 30, choose my specialisation and get started on the World Tiers this weekend, I shall have to see how much free time I have. I do hope to review the game eventually.

Looking to the future, we have Days Gone coming out next month which I was not terribly interested in to begin with, but having watched a few videos about it I have to say it does look pretty impressive.  2019 is looking a bit thin compared to last year right now, but there are a few games that I'm looking forward to.  Rage 2 could be pretty good, and I love a good kart racer so I am quite excited about the prospect of Team Sonic Racing and Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled.  I don't know if we're likely to see the finished version of Torchlight: Frontiers this year as well, but sign me up for that on day one if it is.  Hopefully it will get a console release, it was disappointing that Torchlight 2 was never ported to anything.

Finally, I want to try and get to back to writing on this blog more often, rather than just making videos on the YouTube channel.  Sometime I end up wanting to talk about a game but I didn't capture any footage as I went along - in these cases a written review makes perfect sense and gives readers something of an exclusive. 


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