New this week at Rooster Teeth, besides episode 4 of Red vs Blue, is a new mini-series Supreme Surrender using the Epic RTS Supreme Commander. Anyway, lets get into the recap.

RvB: Recon Chapter 4 The Recap:

The Director reads his newest message to the Chairman, telling him that they the freelancers have the situation under control, and that his recovery agent (Washington) is already closing in on it. The Director expects that this matter will be taken care of shortly and that he will be able to return to his research without further interruption from the Chairman.

Washington and Caboose arrive at a blue base, where one of the original blue team is stationed. Caboose mentions that when they got their new orders "He tried to hide his from me" to which Washington replies "Really? I cant imagine why." Caboose reveals to Washington that the soldier they are about to encounter "knows the most. He know all about your AI game, He dated Tex." Washington is a bit confused as to how someone could actually date Tex, but this train of thought is interrupted by a sniper shot hitting the ground between Caboose and Washington. Washington retreats behind the nearest rock, while a familiar voice says that "That was your warning shot. The next one is going right between your eyes." Caboose does not follow Washington and instead stand there is one more sniper shots completely miss him, Caboose recognizes Church's voice. Church continues to try and shoot Caboose and misses him completely. Washington, from behind a rock, questions Caboose about Church and why he is shooting at Caboose. Caboose explains that it is a game they play, where Church "Pretends he doesn't like me."

The shooting stops and Church, from atop the base tells Caboose to leave. Caboose brings Washington up to Church, to which Church says "You brought a Freelancer here? Whats wrong with you?" Washington demands that Church open the gate, Church refuses till Washington points out he could just walk through the gaping hole to their right. Church grudgingly agree to open the gate. It turns out Church has been stationed there, alone, for over a year, of which Church says "Its been ummm... great, really great." Command radios Washington and he informs them that he has found "blue team members that have extensive experience with Omega." Church doesn't not like the sound of this, Command then tells Washington to head to Outpost 17B. While this is happening Caboose looks up and we are given a few seconds of someone camouflaged perched atop the team spying on them.

Washington begins to move out, but Church refuses to which Caboose also refuses. Church then goes off on caboose about why he did not upgrade Mark VI armor and still has his Mark V armor. The argue about it, to which Washington goes "How do you ever get anything done if all you ever do is argue with each other?" Church replies "We don't. That's part of our charm, quit fuckign it up." Washington pleads with Church and Caboose to help him, Church however says that "If its killing freelancers I want to start a fan club for it." Washington reveals to them that they found Tex's ship, Church's tone changes and he agrees to go with Washington.

As the three star to leave the area, the camouflaged soldier is revealed to be the same Soldier in white armor that we saw after the credits of episode 3. He scrambles the conversation between Washington and Command and sends it to Sarge, the new message saying "This Command calling Red Base... Agent Washington has reassembled the blues... Gather your team we want you stop Agent Washington at all costs..." End....


After the Credits, just like in the last episode, one more thing is revealed. The soldier in white sees someone sneaking around the base. Turns out to be none other than South who has been following Agent Washing all this time. The episode truly ends with the Soldier in White going up to South presumably for a confrontation.



Another great episode, Church returns and that alone for me gives it a 10 out of 10, but the episode is actually quite funny. Aside from that, the visual trick used for the message scrambling scene is well done and one would never think you cant Actually do that in Halo 3. Overall this episode gets 10 elite skulls out of 10





Heres the link to the episode, ya dumb bastards.
http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/home.php



And for the sheer hilarity that is Sterling's contest.....
ITS OVER NINE FUCKING THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!!!!!!

Another Tuesday, another RvB: Recon episode. On a side note, I have decided that I will be doing this every Tuesday as long as there is a new RvB episode out on Monday. The blog will contain the recap and my opinion on the episode.

RvB: Recon Chapter 3 The Recap: A narrator relates a message to the man known only as the Director. The message states that they will be interviewing members of the Directors staff since he is apparently always s busy. The message then mentions outpost 17B and something called Meta, and then asks about what Meta is and what the Directors plans are with it. Washington arrives at Blue Outpost 28: “Rats Nest” and meets Lt. Miller. Washington is there to take one of Miller’s soldiers for a “secret mission”, Miller is not too happy about this since he says he has “Reds coming out my ass here.” Washington then states that Miller should worry more about getting his vehicles back to working order and stop worrying about troop assignment. Miller argues that it is commands fault for sending them a guy who “… said he was good with vehicles. But all he does is talk to em…” Washington gets a bit annoyed and tells Miller “I need Pvt. Caboose and I need him Now.” To this Miller’s attitude completely changes and he becomes extremely cooperative with Washington. Miller gives the duty of fetching Caboose to the British Pvt. Jones, whom they call Joe-e-ness because they have never heard the name Jones. Pvt. Jones argues that his names is pronounced a different way, but gives up and goes to fetch Caboose, whom Miller reveals is tied up in the brig. Jones is apprehensive but eventually does what he is told. Moments later we hear a gun shot, and Caboose walks out of the base, saying that Jones has somehow shot himself. Washington tells Caboose he needs him to with him to command. Caboose freaks out and wants Washington to tell him who in his family has died. Washington replies that no one has died, at that moment one of the blues tells Miller that Jones has died, to which Washington restates wash the just said, saying “Ok, no one, besides him.” Washington explains to Caboose what is going on and tells him he has to go to command with him. Miller requests to talk to Caboose before they leave. Miller tells Caboose to “Never, ever, come back here again.” And makes Caboose promise to do so, Caboose promptly says “Don’t ever go backwards.” Miller sighs and lets him go with Washington.


Another good episode, very funny, Miller reminds me a bit of Sarge and Caboose is as always dumb and oblivious which is what makes him funny. Washington’s growing frustration with this mission is beginning to show a bit and that makes for a few funny moments on his part. There are no special effects like there were last episode, but there is a surprise at the end of the episode after the box credits, and box set ad. I wont spoilt so go watch it. This episode gets 10 Elite skulls out of 10





Heres the link to the episode, ya lazy bums.
http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/home.php

As Burnie promised in the post for episode 1, episode 2 was released yesterday. So they kept their promise of releasing on Monday. The episode was good, not great, but very good. They are building up to the story, so its understandable that the episodes are still not great. There were some lulzy moments thanks to two returning characters and Washington attitude towards them. As always though the photo shop and editting is well done and there is one particular scene that is awesomely edited.

Episode Recap: The narrator provides some detail about the conversations between the director of Project Freelancer and someone else. Washington approaches Blue Base to discover that only Sister is left, she offers little help as to information on where the others went and accuses Washington of being a cop. Dissatisfied with Sisters lack of information, Washington contacts command and informs them that he will approach Red Base. As he approaches Red Base however cardboard cut out pop outs of the Red Team warn him, in sarges voice trying to imitate his team members, no to come any further. (THIS IS THE AWESOMELY EDITED SCENE ->) The last cardboard pop out turns out to be Sarge himself faking being a cardboard pop out (which takes fucking skill). Washington then discovers that only Sarge and Lopez, who now has his body back, are left in Red Base Washington the asks where the rest of his team went and Sarge replies that they are all deserting cowards, especially Griff. Sarge reveals that he disobeyed orders from command to relocate with the rest of his team because Sarge will not leave till he defeats the blues. Washington suggests that Sarge is A-Wall to which Sarge is speechless. The episode ends with Sister shouting from the right side road leading to Red Base to Sarge not to say anything to "That cop." to which Washington sighs and the episode ends.

All in all the episode was very good and I rate it 9 Elite Skulls out of 10.


No other RvB news to report today. Enjoy the Episode. http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/home.php

Months ago I blogged about the state of affairs over at Rooster Teeth Productions, the guys behind Red v.s. Blue, The Strangerhood, P.A.N.I.C.S. I am pleased to state that (even if you already know) Red v.s Blue is now back on track with its new series Red v.s. Blue: Reconstrutcion.

Now this new series seems like it will have a bit more serious undertone, and more characters that you can shake a stick at. It is recommended that you watch the mini series Out of Mind and Recovery One in order to know a couple of things about some characters in the new series. "We plan to release RvB:re on Mondays all throughout the Summer, so please stay tuned." said Burnie. So mark your calendars and do absolutely NOTHING on Mondays till you watch RvB:Recon. Rejoice and enjoy friends.


In other Rooster Teeth News "We are also adding another regular feature to the site on Fridays -- Dev Day. Each week, Gus, Ben and Nathan will be bringing you new features to the community site." states Burnie about their new development feature. Their first Dev Day post was about The Goods Highlighting.

"As part of our new weekly Dev Day segment, we've rolled out a brand new feature to the site this morning. The Goods Highlighting. Now whenever you visit a user profile, your similar interests will light up in a bright color" said Ben in his Dev Day post.

In Rooster Teeth Store News, it is the last time for god knows how long that we will be able to get our hands on the original character t-shirts since RT is retiring them. So far Griff has been the only one retired but if you check in the store you can see that the shirts for Doc, Simmons, Tucker and Donut are all on the road to retirement. Also the box set of the original RvB is now for sale in all its awesomeness.


That is all.

Surfing the gaming sites I frequent today, yeilded a news post on GameRevolution about the death of D&D co-creator Gary Gygax.

After reading the story, I could not help but reminisce about the times when me and my friends sat around a table in one other friend's basement exploring dungeons, slaying mythical creatures, and having a lot of fun in the process. Those times were fun and so far in between that each time we got together to play D&D it was not something we just did, it turned into an event. Hour after hour ticked away as we played, leveling our characters, progressing through our story, rolling a whole lot of dice.

D&D is responsible for the modern RPG, all of the underlining of RPGs were practically first present in D&D, such as leveling, classes, and hit points. If it wasn't for D&D who know were the modern RPG would be now?

So I bid farewell to such a brilliant mind and thank him for his work.

So last night I was on the internets, minding my own business, reading a couple of cblogs, downloading some anime, not really doing anything productive. At the time i was not logged into DTOID, then a blog idea hit me, but as the chronic procrastinator that I am I put it off for later, as if the two mouse clicks that were necessary to log in were a task i could not accomplish easily. Anyway, as Necros knows this has happened a couple of times already, I have had an idea for what I think could be a very good cblog, put it off for a couple of hours or days, and when I finally decide to sit down and write it the idea to my disappointment is gone. I hate it, because I want to be a bigger part of the community and blog more than I have.

As a bonus for this completely unnecessary post, I bring you this epic song I found on youtube a few days ago. Pay no attention to the video, listen to the song and you will see why its so epic.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=x8hn4vBZE7A