Allow me to introduce you to Ramiro Vazquez. Reader, this is Ramiro. Ramiro, reader. Ramiro is a member of a small nameless organization hidden deep underneath the machinery of government, ...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/08/05/lets-meet-secret-government-member-ramiro-vazquez/
Heavy Metal was a 1981 anthology of very R-rated short animated films based on the sci-fi/fantasy magazine. It was infused with enough nudity, gore, and profanity — albeit animated — to kee...
I didn’t like The Crew 2. At all. But that was two years ago, when it was initially released, minus all the cool stuff that comes with seasons passes, paid DLC, and free updates. Presumab...
Greyhound, a Tom Hanks movie about an ill-fated destroyer captain trying to protect merchant ships from German U-boats in World War II, isn’t terrible because it’s historically loose and absu...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/07/10/worst-thing-youll-see-all-week-greyhound/
This used to be a video. I would ask my $10 or more Patreon supporters to request reviews. Then I would sit in front of a video camera, read the requests, offer a counter-recommendation for e...
There are a lot of reasons to stop playing Shadow Empire. I’ve hit many of them several times over. The most common is that I don’t understand how something works, but I didn’t realize ...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/07/03/seven-reasons-i-keep-trying-to-play-shadow-empire/
Now that we’re officially in the second half of 2020, it’s time to look back at the first half of 2020 and consider which of the games released so far are the best. Because that’s what ca...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/07/01/the-top-ten-games-of-2020-so-far/
I saw a blurb on Steam about a new zombie faction in Civilization VI as part of Red Death, which is some sort of battle royale mode. The zombies have unique horde powers, which sounds about right...
You’d think Jon Stewart would know better. But then you watch Irresistible and you realize he doesn’t. As a director and writer, Stewart seems sadly out of his depth in this facile misgui...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/06/27/worst-thing-youll-see-all-election-year-irresistible/
That’s Apan on the left. She just rode into Children of Morta on a dragon and added herself as a new playable character. When she’s not partaking in the game’s seriously good pixelated acti...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/06/26/a-new-member-of-the-family-joins-children-of-morta/
So you’re sitting at your dining room table and there’s no one else there to play boardgames. What do you do? Glad you asked, because I have ten suggestions. Some of the usual suspects...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/06/26/the-top-ten-solitaire-boardgames-of-all-time/
There’s a point in these movies, usually fairly early, when the protagonist should really just call the police. You know the movies I’m talking about. The ones where a bad decision leads ...
My concern about any follow-up to Turbo Killer, Seth Ickerman’s music video for Carpenter Brut’s song Turbo Killer, is that it will include people talking. At which point, it might collapse...
Tom Chick and Kelly Wand welcome Bruce Geryk for a discussion of this zombie apocalypse movie with a Native American twist. With Geryk’s help, we even figure out the title. The post Qt3 Movie...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/05/18/qt3-movie-podcast-blood-quantum/
You can tell a diver whose mask doesn’t fit by the ring pressed into his face after a dive. The angry red crease along the shallow skin of the forehead, then down around the outer edges of hi...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/05/06/the-torturous-tragedy-of-solium-infernum/
Tony Carnevale joins Tom and Kelly to talk about Netflix’s answer to closed theaters: a summer blockbuster-ish release starring a Marvel level celebrity and a whole lot of fancy action choreogr...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/05/04/qt3-movie-podcast-extraction/
Instead of saddling you with this white elephant, we should have done a podcast on Always Shine, director Sophia Takal’s previous movie. But we couldn’t very well leave a Kellywand synopsis l...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/04/21/qt3-movie-podcast-black-christmas/
And ten years later, we’re not sure if this is a good-bye or the next step. It feels odd either way. But we figured it was better than just leaving everything hanging. The post Qt3 Movie Podc...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/04/06/qt3-movie-podcast-a-long-strange-three-months/
There are lots of issues with Doom Eternal, but only one has been a deal-breaker. It’s probably not even the one you think. It’s not the silly Prince of Persia wall climbing or the sill...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/04/01/oh-the-friends-youll-make-in-doom-eternal/
Look, I’m not necessarily recommending that you watch The Happening again. I wouldn’t do that to you. But I am saying the basic story, which I’ve always thought was intriguing, is especiall...
You don’t see enough Greek choruses anymore. At some point during the last few millennia, the Greek chorus fell out of favor. So one of the first delights in Blow the Man Down is realizing ...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/03/24/best-thing-youll-see-all-week-blow-the-man-down/
Warning: if you haven’t seen Color Out of Space, this review is basically one big spoiler. Colour Out of Space is an odd fit among H.P. Lovecraft’s works. It’s about ordinary people — f...
I don’t have a lot of nice things to say about Tapestry. I guess I could say the artwork is cute in some places. Okay, that’s that. Let’s get on with the rest. Although Tapestry is powe...
For all the points of the compass, there is only one direction. And time is its only measure. –Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead The eye has a powerful thirst. It will dri...
After I finished playing Control, I wrote one of those snooty reviews that talks a lot about subtext and themes and the designer’s possible motivations. Basically, stuff that doesn’t includ...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/02/17/the-2nd-best-game-of-2019-control/
Fighting games are a form of puppetry. You pull the strings, an insensate doll animates, videogame violence ensues. Most of the puppetry has gotten really complex because most of the puppetee...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/02/09/the-3rd-best-game-of-2019-one-finger-death-punch-2/
Sometimes when you’re playing The Swindle, a steampunk heist game with cool steampunky progression to pull you through procedurally generated heists, you get a gimme. A lightly defended compu...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/02/03/the-4th-best-game-of-2019-void-bastards/
It’s been 25 years since I was captivated by Simtex’s Master of Orion and Master of Magic games. Since then, no one has understood Simtex’s appeal to my imagination as well as Triumph Stu...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/01/31/5th-best-game-of-2019-age-of-wonders-planetfall/
As soon as you boot up Field of Glory: Empires, you can tell what you’re getting. Just look at that patchwork map with those little armies standing around. Look at all those numbers and toolt...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/01/21/6th-best-game-of-2019-field-of-glory-empires/
You can play X-com for the first time exactly once. And what a precious time that once. All the mystery and uncertainty, the danger, the discovery, the horror of what those weird little aliens ...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/01/18/7th-best-game-of-2019-phoenix-point/
In modern aerial combat, aircraft fight against blips on screens. Maybe — just maybe — they might fight against a speck far off in the sky. Conflict and technology has advanced in such a ...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/01/14/8th-best-game-of-2019-rebel-galaxy-outlaw/
To some people logistics is a chore. A necessary part of getting to the fun stuff. The vegetables. To others — me, for instance — logistics is a foundation for the fun stuff. Without logi...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/01/09/9th-best-game-of-2019-transport-fever-2/
Boy, do I feel silly about this. A Marvel boondoggle taking up a slot on my 2019 top ten list? I don’t even really like superheroes. They’ve been foisted on to me. They’re shrapnel in a...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2020/01/08/10th-best-game-of-2019-marvel-ultimate-alliance-3/
We’re not going away, but we are going to be on hiatus for a bit. The post Qt3 Movie Podcast: a brief update appeared first on Quarter to Three .
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2019/12/26/qt3-movie-podcast-a-brief-update/
Tom Chick talks about someone else’s game, Bruce Geryk doesn’t have room at the table for a fourth player, and Hassan Lopez loses to an eight-year-old. Black Angel at 1:38, Kingdomino at 21:5...
Kellywand did it. Next: Black Christmas The post Qt3 Movie Podcast: Knives Out appeared first on Quarter to Three .
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2019/12/10/qt3-movie-podcast-knives-out-deleted/
Jason McMaster arrives on a boat that gets shot down, Nick throws some shade on Sam, and Tom Chick gets free stuff when his soldiers die. Generation Zero at 1:00, Halo: Reach at 18:00, and Phoeni...
Cover your ears for this month’s high-pitched 3×3 for the sounds of distress, terror, and surprise. But first, we’ve seen some movies! Annabelle Comes Home at 1:26, Instant Family at 5:35, a...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2019/12/02/qt3-movie-podcast-3x3-screams/
Hassan’s new game, Manaical, is out! If you missed the Kickstarter, you can get it from eaglegames.net. In other news, Tom Chick fights the dumbest villains, Hassan Lopez spelunks with demons, ...
And who by avalanche, who by powderWho for his greed, who for his hungerAnd who shall I say is calling? -Leonard Cohen, “Who By Fire” It’s the summer of 2114. South America ju...
At last, a movie that answers the question, “How can we make Sweden seem scary?” Next: the screams 3×3 The post Qt3 Movie Podcast: Midsommar appeared first on Quarter to Three .
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2019/11/25/qt3-movie-podcast-midsommar/
In ten years, will you remember Norman Reedus, an awkwardly fuzzy antelope, or Cal whats-his-name? Death Stranding at 1:37, Planet Zoo at 16:59, and Jedi: Fallen Order at 39:50. The post Qt3 Ga...
There’s a character in this movie named Rose the Hat. That tells you everything you need to know about Doctor Sleep. Next: Midsommar The post Qt3 Movie Podcast: Doctor Sleep appeared first o...
https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2019/11/18/qt3-movie-podcast-doctor-sleep/
What if you have to learn wargame rules to play a wacky superhero game? What if you don’t have a table? What if the unicorn gets a princess? Tom Chick, Hassan Lopez, and Mike Pollmann consider ...