Forgotten Gems: The Battlefield 5 Firestorm Liveplay (Patreon)

Hi everyone, Rich here. We've got a video going up soon where John, Alex and Audi go back to play the original Dead Space on period-appropriate hardware - a Q6600/8800GT PC and an Xbox 360. Watching the content for quality review today, it reminded me of an old series we started but never really took any further - the liveplay.

The joke of the liveplay of course was that it wasn't live. But it was essentially about trying to do a tech analysis in real-time in games where we can share the same space - which inevitably involved John and Alex spending decades looking at ground textures while I got bored and attempted to make thing more interesting, usually by trying to blow up things. And who can forget Alex's detailed exploration of the toilets in Half-Life 2: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/2019-05-15-half-life-2-ray-tracing-live-play-mod-showcase-on-source-engine

The thing about liveplays is that they never actually seemed to get much of an audience, but after watching the Dead Space vid, I was reminded of the Battlefield one and re-watched it through for the lulz and had a great time. Could this be some kind of cool supporter bonus? #LetUsKnowInTheCommentsBelow

This content might be old by the way, but it is still there on digitalfoundry.net: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/2019-04-06-battlefield-5-pc-firestorm-live-play