Play a game, drink some beers, write a review on both.
Myself, along with a brave few others, shall attempt this feat. Will you see a review about classic Contra with a new microbrew? Street Fighter IV alongside an old standby like Coors? A flash game with a flash 40 of Steel Reserve? Will we take requests? Will we get requests?
This post marks the maiden voyage of Games 'N Beer, a site dedicated to the finer things in life and the pursuits therein. We are a group of dedicated gamers with a taste for barleypop, and we aren't opposed to getting hammered at the helm of a controller. Call me a happy drunk, but I think it's a lot easier to accept crushing defeat at the whim of a cold, calculating computer when I'm three sheets to the wind than when I'm stone sober. I regret to inform our potential audience that I'm much more of a gamer than a beer connoisseur, so don't expect any fancy-shmancy terms like lacing, bouquet, balance, character, or depth. I won't rule out using mouthfeel a few times though, because...c'mon, mouthfeel? I reserve similar usage for the term head.
And here's where things get interesting, not because I'm all about the terms mouthfeel and head, but because, as hardcore gamers and casual drinkers, we all speak a similar language. We know a good property when we see it, and we stand by those companies that do right by us. We know that these things are forms of luxury, and though we may be impoverished, especially in these dark economic times, we still pull enough scratch together to indulge in that which enriches and entertains us. We savor our passions and pastimes, and we frequently revisit the intimations of good times gone by. We understand that there is a certain verve in a round of Halo with a few cold ones at hand, that there is a pleasure of Street Fighter with our friends, that even alone, relaxing under the A/C, a honey ale and a few stages of Raiden III are all it takes to make life worth living.
So join us, drink with us, and play with us, and find some games (and beers) that you may have missed the first time around. Who knows what awaits us on this funhouse ride, be it smiles, tears, or vomit covered keyboards, at least when we're done we won't remember it.
Cheers/game on.