Welcome everyone to another episode of The Jays begins. Guys, I'm host Rob
as Angelmie. This is a full house. We have all the players here
today. Ryan, you are making sure things doesn't crash? How are you?
I am doing that. I am trying to make sure things do not
crash. Just still fresh from the Gainesville trip. Yep, yep, yep,
that was that was the thing. And we saw Kirby with legs.
We did see Kirby with legs, and I don't ever want to see Kirby
with legs again. It was very uncomfortable, yes, very cursed, but
on all it was a decent trip. Good trip. But yeah, here
to talk about a few games that I had a chance to play this past
couple of weeks. So yeah, looking forward to the games cast. Hell
yeah, that's cool. Also joining in, Drew, how are you.
I'm doing all right? Video games are a site. I've been actually playing
video games. Oh my god, it's wild, Like this year has been
very productive for video games from me. Oh yeah, I have been playing
a first ton of games and trying to move as fast as I can through
them. H And there's still like so many more games left. And there's
like three months left in the year. So it is October first, Yeah,
it's about that time where like I'm starting to put together the list of
games I want to finish before the end of the year, and that that
list is still longer than I would but the list is ever growing. Like
I'm watching Ron play some Star Ocean six like earlier today. The game looks
tight. It's cool. It's like I've been saying, it's a cool game.
It's not like RPG of the Year or anything, but I had a
great time with it. Yeah, and like now that's now, that's and
then yeah, yeah, Star Ocean one, which is not a good game.
Oh my god, this guy. Look. Star Ocean one is the
most mediocre video game I've ever played in my life. I can definitely point
this to some more mediocre games. There's definitely quite a few Star Ocean one.
Have any of y'all played Stars? Yes? Yes, nope, no,
yes. Star Wars one is just the most generic RBG I've ever played,
the most generic. It's fine. Mm hmm, definitely go to play
Stars. I didn't say it was good. I said it's fine. It's
a difference. Also, I am echoing on your end. It's passable.
Ah. Also on this show, I'm going to move mute Drew for a
second because I hear myself. Uh, Chase right this wee? Yeah,
how you doing. I'm all right, man, I've been uh I have.
I've gotten to that point where I was like, Okay, I'm I'm
kind of cool with just chilling and you know, playing a couple of games
here and there, but you know, I'm kind of just vibing. And
now I'm in that point where just a shitload of games hit me all at
once, and I'm like, man, I gotta juggle like four or five
different games. I hate it. But it's also cool, but I hate
it. Yeah, I understand that. Also on The show Man, some
of the voice says, it's been a long time since you've been like this
crowded cats. Yeah, I am back, all right, yeah all right.
Just like Chase, I'm basically drowning in a mountain of games. Especially
I think September was like the hard hit that like so many games just dropped
almost back to back. So right now, I'm just like you, I
don't have to play so my video games. I just gotta pick the ones
I want to play and actually play. Except them, so you must play
them all. You have to play every single one. It's not humanly possible
to do that. It is absolutely possible. Look, I'm already juggling,
like to gotcha games on the side and one and that that one just got
a huge update. I'm like, now that that's where you're up. Gotcha
games. Yeah you can't, you can't. You can't play games under those
conditions. Exactly. You can't play that many games under any conditions. Nice,
nice, nice listeners out there, don't listen to Roup. He's full
of ship. I feel like that's been the trending days past couple of weeks.
Photo. How I'm managing is that I have phone. I have a
phone I can't play on that. I have the three mone is. I
can probably run three games and one hell doesn't choke. This is optimal gaming.
Also take notes, try this, motherfucker. I have to monitors.
I have this phone, and then we have a steam deck on the side.
That is optimal. Uh uh, you know production, you know what
I'm saying. And the use you know, maybe I feel like you could
use your feet to play play mobile games, right, Yeah, that's that's
that's what we used. The exactly the phone for Yeah, all right,
I got because because you need your arms for other things. Yes, well,
h mm hmmm, let's move on our g rating. Did we ever
have that person? Doesn't It's just started and we've already had like five people
say the word fure we go? We did it. I wish I could
just put as the title all right, that would be Uh. I don't
think it would work. Maybe maybe I'll censor it, we'll say, we'll
see what I do. Uh, just spell like Miko like f A w
K. That just made me a like a lot. Yeah. Yeah,
yeah, I'm gonna throw I'm gonna type that one down w o K right
there. I'm sure we'll get a few more hits by the time this is
over. Yeah, always do all right, And I mean, can we
get this show on the road please? We can try, we can attempt.
Uh. Let's we're here to talk about video games. We're going to
talk about a lot of video games, a lot of voices, a lot
of games. Not enough time. Uh so let's let's get this shindig going.
First up, I want to hear from Chase. Actually, well,
no, say this. No, I was gonna say this because it has
been a lot of time since you've been here. Things off of the Chase
Power Hour. I like it. So, you know, we have the
Channer Power Hour that usually happens, you know, a couple times a year.
So hit me, what have you been doing. I know there's robots
in here. Somewhere there is robots. I'm gonna I'm gonna save the robots
for the end. Hell yeah, So I've been I've been playing a lot
of stuff lately, like one that I want to talk about. I've been
I've been digging into Liza p Yeah, and like that. I was fully
expecting to flush that game in the first like three hours because I played the
demo and I liked a lot of stuff about the demo. But at the
end of the day, I was just like, the movement in this game
feels like shit, Like I don't want to play it. And then they
fixed it. The movement actually feels good. Combat overall feels good, all
of this kind of stuff. Uh So I've been really enjoying it. I
like uh. I like the world building a lot. I like the vibe.
They honed in on their vibe and they got it going. Uh.
I like the I like the weapon customization because like every weapon in the game
is like the actual weapon part and then the hilt, and you can split
them apart and you can like mix and match, Like you could put like
a dagger hilt on a fire axe head and you could just be like poking
dudes with with a fire axe because it uses whatever move set the hilt is.
And that also lets you change like the scaling, right yeah, which
that's a really cool thing. Yeah, And there's also like the usual souls
of infusion stuff, like you could always you could always change the the uh,
you could always change the scaling of something by just infusing it with a
certain thing, but you can actually dump multiple into the same thing and make
the scaling like more pronounced. So you can take like a dex weapon and
change it to a strength weapon, and then you could do it again and
turn it into like B scaling or a scaling or whatever. And I think
that's really cool. It lets you, uh, like, obviously there are
gonna be weapons that will not benefit quite as much from that, where it's
like, yeah, you're gonna have scaling in whatever you're leveling in, but
it's still very clearly designed with this one stat in mind. So you're not
gonna get you're not gonna get a ton out of it, But I mean
you can do it in the first place, and I think that's cool.
Yeah, it just opens more options for people, right, Yeah, even
if it isn't like optimal, it's still an option that you can do,
and more options is never a bad thing. Yeah. And I don't think
that the game is particularly hard, even like like here goes the Souls player
talking about how the games aren't actually hard, but you don't understand us enormis
who are bad at video games, I'm saying, but I don't think it's
I don't think it's that hard of a game by like Souls like standards.
Uh So yeah, if you if you want to go through it with a
suboptimal weapon, that just feels good. Yeah, you can do that.
It works. Uh And I think that the biggest thing is just like the
weapon skills, because there's a skill for the weapon itself and there's a skill
for the for the hilt. So if if you want to make some ungodly
abomination of a weapon, because like the blade has a really cool skill and
then the hilt of a completely separate thing also has a really cool skill you
can make that you could just do what you want, and I think that's
pretty cool. Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah, and overall overall, like
I'm enjoying the game. I think that I'm probably like a little bit over
halfway through, and like even even by Soul's game standards, it's it's like,
yeah, you're not gonna get like upfront story in these games, but
even by Soul's game standards, I feel like it's really drip feeding me.
So that's one negative that I have. But at the end of the day,
it's like I think that they really figured out their like the aesthetic that
they want to go for, and so it's like I don't really care if
the story isn't really there, because like I'm roaming around, running around Crott
and I'm like going through all these shitty back alleys full of puppets and like
eighty bajillion dead people, and I'm like, this looks like shit, I
love it. Like it doesn't really matter to me that much. Yeah,
that game's good. I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Give it a goat on game
pass so it's free. That's one of the games that it's on my list.
That I want to get through before the year is over. Yeah,
it's good. It's pretty high up there on my list, Like I rarely
want to check it out. Yeah, I think that you would definitely enjoy
it, especially like there's so many weapons in that game, Like I was
not expecting this many weapons. It was like, I enjoyed my time with
the demo, but like like you were saying, there were some things with
the controls, things with like rolling and stuff like that that just like felt
off right, and it was like, I don't know, but I'm here
for like everything else that game offered. And then once it released and then
people are like, hey, they took in Pete back, they fixed it.
I'm like, oh word, yeah. And then since then it's just
been like mostly high praise from like anybody that's played through it, Like it
seems like it's a it's a really good one of those like it captures the
essence of that Soul series that you know from somebody that's not from Soft right,
And I'm excited to see like more what they do, Like I don't
know if they'll like dip back into like the style of game going forward,
but it seems like they at least ad they did a good you know.
Yeah, And I'm really I'm really interested in it because like, yeah,
not only is it an indie studio, but it's also an indie Korean studio.
And I think that I think they got some hitters out there. Nothing.
I think some some Korean game devs are what wild. So I think
I think that a game like this having so much attention put on it so
people so more people are like, oh wait, Korean devs actually got it.
I think that that's really cool for sure. Like we always we always
think about Caoreer reach in with in terms of like the free to play stuff,
right or or yeah, like a lot of like the mobile games are
like free to play Battle Royale games come out of career or MMOs, right.
I feel like I don't care a lot about like a console style game,
especially like a Soul's style game, right. Yeah, So that that
is like a huge w in that department. Yeah, I am very I'm
very excited to see what the studio ends up doing. I have also been
playing. At first, it was big grudgingly, but I have grown to
where I have started actually enjoying it. A friend wanted somebody to play through
Tiny Teina's Wonderlands with Ah, so we've been running through that and I have
a very weird relationship with the border Lane series because I really like Borerlanes one.
I did toy that game rules. I think that's that that's out of
all of them. I'm with you, yes the best, Yes, Yeah,
And then like two two had a lot of good things going for it,
but I felt like they kind of started to to drift away a little
bit and then you end up getting to ship like pre sequel and Borderlands three
and it's just it's just me me haha Lolso random ship and there's still a
lot of that in Tiny Tina's. But I think that it kind of it
kind of works for this because it's like, yeah, it's a it's like
a joke about et RPGs. It's like dungeons and dragons and all that kind
of stuff. So a lot of the cringey stuff is intended to kind of
poke fun at that whole thing. And besides besides that, there's a lot
of jokes that I'm like, oh, that's actually good that like, and
that's way more than I got out of Borderlands three. I think I said
that maybe like three times throughout the entirety of Borderlines three man. Uh but
yeah, that games that games surprisingly cool. I like, I like the
writing. The story is kind of whatever, but I mean it's fucking Borderlans.
Who cares. Yeah, Like you're not really there for the overall storyline
of Borderlands, right, You're a lot of like smaller stuff that you end
up platching on too. Yeah. Yeah, and uh, the gunplay is
way cooler than I thought. Like, you know, obviously it's Borderlans.
The gunplay is automatically gonna be cool. Yeah. But because that like that's
the one thing that they've never really gotten wrong, but there they kind of
went crazy with the kind of stuff that you can do because it's it's like
like in my playthrough right now, I have like a pistol that fires sticky
bombs, of course, yeah, and I can like throw that out on
a bunch of dudes and then swap to my ye old assault rifle and pump
a bunch of a bunch of bolts into something and get a bunch of health
back, and then I can cast a spell that just does eighty pajillion damage
and all the while I'm creating and my stats are off the out of the
out of this world, so I get a shitload of damage on my crits.
Like that whole thing is really cool. The spell casting system is a
lot cooler than I thought it was going to be. I thought it was
going to be pretty surface level, like you know, haha, magic missile
type stuff, but there there is actually some wild stuff that you can do
in this. Like the very first spell that I got was I like pointed
at something and I put down this whole big like ice field, and it
summoned hydras that would just fight for me. So I could just drop them
and then they would just spit at things and I could go off and do
something else. Our spells thing, are they like guns where they just that
you find or yeah, yeah you pick up you pick up like grimoires and
you equip those and they have all their all their own different spells or stats
and requirements and all that kind of stuff. Oh, they also like guns,
where like they're kind of randomize. Yeah, they're slightly unique, Like
no two of the same spell as like the same, or they can be
different. Yeah, it's it's like there are a lot of spells that are
very similar. Like I had one that was. That was kind of like
magic missile, Like I would just charge it and when I fired it,
it would do like a homing shot, and it was it was pretty standard.
Uh, and then I ended up getting the one that I have now,
which functions the same, if fires less. Uh it fires less blasts,
but it does like a shitload more damage because the stats are like something
like a plus plus six hundred and fifty percent spell damage and plus five hundred
percent spell crit or something like that. Deep a high number. Yeah,
basically yeah, yeah, it's it's cool and there's uh, they really kind
of laser focused on it because there are classes that are like, hey,
you can if you pick this class, you can like do wheeld spells and
like things like that. Uh. The classes are a lot more involved than
I thought that they would be, and there's more of them because like the
game just straight up has seven. You could you can just play and play
any one of the seven, and then once you level up to a certain
certain point, you can multi class. Okay, so well you can you
can go like, oh I started with this, but this other class it
seemed kind of cool. So you get up to like level fifteen or whatever,
and then you just mix them. There you go, you can go
crazy. Yeah, I think it's really cool. Like I picked I picked
the Berserker to start off with because obviously I did. But yeah, but
then I was like, you know, I've been spending all this time leveling
up my strength, and strength is like more damage on crits. I kind
of like Stabbomanser too, which is more crits. So I multi class with
that. So so now I'm just creating like every other shot and everything's just
exploding. And yeah, that's that's really cool. Uh. I think that
that game is surprisingly fun, and it's it's like I can turn my brain
off and just play a border Lands but you kind of like junk food or
it's just I just I just ingested and I don't really feel anything afterward.
Yeah, this game is a little bit different. It's like it's it's like,
uh, it's like the junk food is still there, but it's like
the side. Yeah, you know, you got you got some meat there,
you got your entrade, but there's still a little junk there to to
to snack on. Okay, okay, are you playing uh solo? Are
you playing with group? I'm playing with some friends. I'm playing I'm playing
a three man group. Nice. Uh so yeah that game. That game
has been pretty fun. Uh. And I've been playing some other miscellaneous stuff
that I don't feel strongly enough about to really go in on, Like I
dip back into Cyberpunk after the two point zero update, but want to check
out the d L Say. Yeah, I heard that the best time to
play it is when you unlock Act three, and I am not there,
so I I haven't. I haven't even looked at it yet, but I
like I like the changes overall. I think I think it's been a good
place, but it's I've only played a few hours since two point zero,
so I don't really have a whole lot to say about it. Okay,
I would say it's kind of impressive how that's turned around, because people that
have gone back to it, and especially like with the news story like DLC
and stuff like it turned from being like Haha, this meme game to like,
no, it's like an actual incredible game. Now it feels like this
is the game that it should have been right on launch. And then I
hear like this DLC story is like ten out of ten, like fan fantastic.
So yeah, I'm itching to get back in there. Yeah, I've
been I've been hearing a ton of people say, like, oh, you
wanted your like gritty cyberpunk fantasy, go play Phantom Liberty. It's yer.
Yeah, so that's really cool. I'm very excited to get into that.
But uh, all right now and now it's not for the meat. Also,
so I play. I played and finished Armored Corps six Fires of Rubicon
in like a week. Yeah, you blitzed through that shit. I went
hard on that game. And like for for everybody who doesn't know, it
is hard nowadays for me to do that because the the ADHD has been hitting
pretty hard, so it's it's tough for me to kind of like just sit
there and just blitz through a game. But with with games like Armored Corps
six and like Balder's Gate three, I it just grabs me so hard that
I just don't move. And I think that's the mark of a good game
is when it can do that to me. M hm, So, Armored
Corps six, I am a I am an og Armored Corps fan. I
got I got into it back on the PS two. So I waited for
this for a hot minute, and man, this game good it's good game.
It's getting pretty good, man. I think that this is probably everything
that we really wanted after waiting ten years since the last Armor Corps game,
Armor Corps Verdict Date came out ten years ago, and that game was bad,
so we basically waited like twelve years actually, But yeah, that game's
really good. I think. I think all of the all of the story
routes that you go through are really cool, and they're buried enough, like
Routes A and B, they're very similar up until around like the end of
chapter four around there, but that's kind of by design because you can get
both of those on your first play through, so they're not going to change
a whole lot. But once you get to Route See, which is only
accessible on your third play through or above, that's where things start getting really
crazy and like they diverge a lot. I think that the story that they
tell in this game is really really cool. Really need to dig into stuff,
because you know it's a from Soft game. Of course, you got
to like read items, read everything. Yeah, but I think that the
world that they've made with Rubicon, the world that they've made with like all
of the different factions and these characters that you grow attached to even though you
know basically nothing about them. All of that kind of stuff. I think
it is really really good. The actual gameplay is godlike, Like it's basically
like the perfect marriage of everything you could think of throughout every generation of Armored
Corps. Like it feels. It feels grounded like a lot of the older
games. But depending on how how you make your AC, you can make
it a more aerial focused game, like like AC four you got like you
got the boosts and like the assault armor from AC four all that kind of
stuff. It's just you're not jetting around at eighty bajillion miles an hour like
you did in that game. And I think that's good. Even though I
really like four answer it's one of my favorites. I think that the more
deliberate Armored Corps experience, I think that that's kind of the series in a
nutshell. So I think that the doing the combination of all that different stuff
is really cool. The customization is like crazy, You can you can do
literally whatever you want. Like even even if you're like, all right,
I'm gonna pick like the tiniest baby legs and I'm gonna put this giant like
hulking torso on there with like dual gatling guns. Like, yeah, you're
gonna be overweight. You can still do it. Though it's not gonna go
well, but you can still do it if you want to try it.
Buy all means yeah, if you want to be one of those the people
who are way stronger than me, I could not do this. If you
want to be one of those guys who's like, all right, I'm gonna
I'm gonna get like all four of my weapons going. They're all gonna be
really heavy, but like I'm gonna make sure that they run out of ammunition
really fast so I can drop them and lighten my load. Like you can
do that, I'm you've gotta be real strong to do that because if that's
not me, but that that's just kind of stuff that you could do in
that game. And think that now that they have nerved some of the filter
bosses that a lot of people had issue with, Balteus did nothing wrong.
He did not deserve to be nerved. I think that is pretty accessible.
So a lot of people, if they're willing to kind of put the put
the time aside to learn the ins and outs of some of the mechanics and
things like that. Yeah, and just realize that it's a from soft game,
and from soft games are not designed to just pick up and play Botta
Boom. I can just plow through this. If if you realize that,
then it's it's pretty accessible. You can you can go through it, and
you'll you'll probably be fine. I played, I played Last Raven. It's
not anywhere near as hard as Last Raven. You're good. I think.
The only thing I think people when they go in, like you said,
you have to be like kind of open minded and like realize that the game
is going to ask you to like meet on its terms, and like there
are going to be some stages where it's like, hey, you're going to
want to redesign your Mac specifically for this stage or whatever, you know what
I mean, Or these are weapons that you should be using on this stage,
Like you have to change how you approach it. And if you're open
to that, like, yeah, you're going to have a pretty good time.
And a lot of stuff can can feel overwhelming because there's a lot of
stuff. So I would also tell people, like, hey, don't feel
bad about like looking up a guide or looking at like a video or something,
or like asking somebody about it, right, because there's a lot and
it could be very like confusing to know like what I should be doing,
especially from someone that's like from the outside outside, you know, that hasn't
touched one of these games before, that maybe never even touched like a frum
Soft game before. And it's just like interesting because like there's a lot of
buzz around. It's like, you know, use the resources, you know
what I mean, Don't be one of those people that's just like I'm going
to get frustrated and just throw it away. It's like, no, do
a little bit of research into it and then come back to it and do
the things that the game's asking you to do, and you should have a
good time with it, you know. Yeah, And I think that the
AC community is really understanding of that because everybody's like, oh, we finally
got a new game. There's a bunch of a buzz around this because of
like you know, the Soul's Games, Elden Ring, that kind of stuff.
We got new people who are fans of this company that weren't here when
we were here, So you know, you got people like Fighting Cowboy,
you got people like Ora boros who were just making like a bunch of like
detailed build guides and all that kind of stuff. So if if you end
up hitting a roadblock and you're like, okay, I gotta I'm gonna go
on Google and type the Armor Core six optimal Energy Weapon build or whatever,
like, yeah, go for it. Whatever it gets you through the game,
because I think the game's really cool, and if you can kind of
get over that little bit of a hump to actually see it through to the
end, that's dope. I like the game, and I think you should
play it because you you will probably like the game too. Whatever whatever gets
you to that point and doesn't matter as long as you get to that point,
you enjoy it. But yeah, basically everything about Armored Core six,
I I really really like that game. I think everybody everybody should play it
at least give it a little bit of a go. If you don't end
up feeling like you're you vibe with it or like you're not really into mechs
or anything like that, like all right, that's that's fine. But I
think a lot of people should give it a go because I think I think
it's uh. I think once it gets like once it like gets its claws
in you. It'll it's not letting go for a hot minute. So yeah,
give ac six ago. I have like almost nothing bad to say about
this game. And I say almost nothing bad because from Soft, why did
you not let Codo Hooshi No go crazy like he has before? The soundtrack
makes me sad, not a big fan of it. Yeah, it's just
Armored Corps like, like, the compositions in and of themselves are good,
but there was definitely a choice made where there's a lot of like atmospheric tracks
and things like that in this game, which and in a lot of areas
that perfectly make sense, like Rubicon sucks this this place is like desolate and
you should you're you don't You're not from here. You just got dropped in
to do a job, like you you should not be feeling welcome. But
I think that there are a lot of points where the soundtrack could have gone
harder. There was there was nothing that really gave me the same feeling that
like mechanized memories from Armored Corps five for example game, But overall they're good.
It's just I think that there could have been a little bit more of
the patented code hosh, you know, I'm just gonna go crazy and it's
gonna be dope. Gotcha, I say it? Have you have you done
with small complaint? Have you done any of like the multiplayer stuff in there?
I have not since I've been I've been meaning to, but there's just
been so much stuff going on. How many games? Oh, get a
loader? This guy he's more of an Armor core player than I am.
I'm saying, how has that? Then? Uh? So, I I
have some thoughts about it. The first thought is it's really dumb that you
have to unlock it. Yeah, yeah, like that that's a very minor
complaint, But it just is real dumb that you have to unlock it,
and so when you finally do get it, it's pretty like barren in terms
of like what you can do with it. So all it is is like
if you've played Arena, then you kind of know what the deal is already.
It's it's AC's versus Acs. It's you know, your your build versus
other people's builds. And there's like a one v one mode and a three
v three mode, and there's no like random matchmaking at all. I wasn't
expecting like a rank ladder or anything that's probably a little bit too much.
But what tells me is that this multiplayer is going to be very short lived
is the fact that like multiplayer is only going to be created by like people
hosting up rooms, right, and in these rooms you can go into like
one v one or three D three if somebody's posting a room, when you
can't just be like, let me join a queue for one v one and
you get matched with somebody, or let me join like let me and a
friend get in a party together and join a queue and then you know,
we we three v three or something like that. Like there's none of that,
which is pretty disappointing in my opinion. But I think the most egregious
thing is that me and my buddy when we went and check it out because
we wanted to check out the three v three, it's like, well,
there's only two of us, but that's fine, We'll get matched with the
random and you know, no big deal. There is no way to pick
your teammates on three D three. As far as that's a huge oversight,
yes, yes, oh now I could be wrong. I could be wrong,
but I couldn't figure out anything. To be perfectly honest, you would
think there's like an easy button to say, hey, I'm on red team,
and then other person like, hey, I'm on red team, and
then it's like all right, cool, y' all on the same team.
It should be something. And like the match making that my buddy and I
did, like we joined a room and we were on a different team every
time. Yeah, that's weird. So but I mean, like other than
that, that's the multiplayer. That's it. There's literally nothing else. Yeah,
so like it's it's pretty bare bones. I mean, the multiplayer probably
really isn't the focus for it. I'm only disappointed on the fact that,
like me and my buddy were excited to use it as a way because he
lives like four states a win, and we were excited to use it as
a way to like just hang out and hop on some armored corps and match
up with some people and either get blasted or blast some people and go on
with her day. But that doesn't happen, yeah, because like we can't
even like guarantee will be on the same team. Yeah, so just as
like a cool buddy co op experiences, it's not there. Correct. Yeah,
that's rough. That sucks. Yeah, I know that they said they
wanted to to put like a focus on on the single player and like multiplayer
was gonna kind of be an afterthought. But man, that's like an after
afterthought, right that that is fairly a thought. It's like it is there
just for the sake of as saying it is there. Yeah, kind of,
and like it's a man disappointing because I'll be honest, my fondest memories
of Armored Corps, which I really only played Armor Corps two and three growing
up, where like me and my buddy is just playing versus mode in Armored
Corps. And I mean, like you can still do that. You can
hit up a friend and host a private room and then you and your friend
can like go at it. But like, if we want to do that,
we could have done that with like Armored Corps two or something right on
an emulator. Over parts, it would be cool if the new game introduced
like this new thing. Also, the stages for multiplayer are pretty lame to
Base. Chase might know that being a long long time Armored Corps fan,
but E told Base was tight and likes, there's nothing like as tight as
far as I can tell. But yeah, it's all pretty pretty basic like
hey you're you're on a space station looking thing, or hey you're fighting in
the desert like that kind of thing. Yeah, I see, I see
that. I wasn't exactly expecting m bond that I was expecting a little bit
more right, right for sure, that feels like a huge mised opportunity because
I feel like this this game is like perfect for like a really sick multiplayer
mode, Like I would actually like dig to see armored Cores six events and
stuff, you know what I mean. Yeah, so the fact that they
make that a struggle is actually like legitimately disappointing for me, just from like
a viewer standpoint of wanting to see cool content like that. Yeah, they
they might work on it, because they did do a lot of things with
Eldon Ring, like you know, adding the coliseums and stuff like that,
and they've already shown that they're willing to do things for a C six Like
there's already there's already been a balance patch buffing a bunch of stuff that wasn't
really getting used, like you know, assault rifles and stuff because they were
pretty weak. So they they can definitely add stuff and like refine. Yeah,
but just as it is. Yeah, that's it. That's a little
bit of a bummer. So that Scott, Well cool, Any any other
thoughts on on A six or anything else on your on your plate? Not
really. I mean just like Armored Core six was was good enough for me
to plow through that game three times in like a week, so that that
should tell you something. The game is good. It does also also justice
for Baltas he didn't he didn't deserve to get nerve. I lost. I
wish I got to fight him pre nerve because I haven't gotten to that point.
Oh true, I'm still very very early on in that game. But
that is also one that like I really want to set time aside because I
think about that game a lot. It's just I don't have the time to
play it. But I will finish it before the year it's over, guaranteed.
Yeah, And I mean it's like going through one playthrough, it's like
kind of kind of whatever. It will take you like fifteen out of fifteen
twenty hours maybe, but then you got to do that two more times,
so I get it. Yeah, I'm gonna make time for it though,
for sure. Once once I tackle Boldest Game three, Oh yeah, once
off your point, like I'm getting there though, I'm getting there. Yeah
you said you said you got like halfway through Act two or whatever. I
finished act too. I mean I just now started actree at the very beginning,
like the moment they give me playable. My character is playable. I
saved it and turned it off. So I'm like right at the side of
it. So give me like another good like week or two. I have
to have that. That that done, and then that plate is finally off
my table, that that three hundred hour plate yond and then I can focus
on some other stuff. Yeah, I mean how many hours am I in?
Yeah? Oh lord, over one hundred and still just thought the actual
and I'm on Act three now. To be fair, there is quite a
few of those hours in multiplayer with Chase and Asher, like you do have
a multiplayer play session going to so that probably accounts for like what fifteen ish
because it was like a couple of hours every couple of days or so,
so take that into account. But yeah, that game is beef. It
is almost as long as you want it to be, right, because like
if you want to just like do a couple of the storylines and just kind
of mainline it sure, but like there's a lot of things that's gonna grab
your attention and then you're gonna be like, oh, here's here's a cave
or something, and then you realize you spent ten hours exploring every fucking inch
of that cave and you're just like, damn, there was a lot here.
Yeah, a lot of good stuff too. It's not like bad in
terms of like, oh I went through this cave and I found nothing.
Whatever. It's like you're gonna get multiple like story beats for like random characters
you don't know, but like you suddenly invested in, or you're gonna find
like some really good encounters that will like challenge you, or there does a
lot there's so much in there. Yeah. I picked it off game the
Game studios that made dvinit. Yeah, Larryan, They're they're incredible. Oh
yeah, like it it is. It is crazy how good that game is.
Like I have I have told people I waited ten years for a New
Armor Corps game. It's not my game of the year because Balder's Gate three
exists. It's there's a masterpiece of a video game. Yeah. It is
actually, like I think a lot of games are fighting for a second place
at this point. Yeah, pretty sent in Stone. Man. It's it's
hard to argue. And even if, like I want to pick like another
thing that was like my personal favorite, it will almost just be like but
objectively Balderskate three though, Yeah, basically I think you can go between that
and Tiers of the Kingdom. To be honest, I think those are the
two. Like, once I finished Tiers the Kingdom that that became my favorite
Zelda game, and I did not think that going into it. But the
story beats in that game is insane. What they do one day I will
find out, hopefully soon before the day. Yeah, also find out,
y'all. I need to fucking scream about that game. I need fu console
for this game I'm playing, but I need video games to stop. I
was so blown away by it. But yeah, Paul, this Gate three
though, is on another level, and it's like this is a genre of
game that, like, I don't particularly care for that much. I don't
play like CRPGs or tabletop style games all that often. But with Larry and
they convinced me. With Divinity Original Sin too, that was the one that
like caught my eye, uh, and I played a hell of a lot
of that game. So when like I saw they were doing the ball to
Gate three, I was like, Oh, this is gonna be pretty good.
I didn't do any of the early access stuff. I was just like,
I'll wait till it comes out. Shame came out and I was like,
Yep, this is more of that studio and better. And then like
I'm getting more used to like all the D and D terms and stuff that
are thrown in here and in all the setting stuff and everything. It's God,
that game is incredible. Yeah, And me being somebody who played the
original Balder's Gate games like Baldersgate two, my beloved I love that game.
That's a great game too. Yeah. I was like, man, this
is a seql ass sequel. They they really got it mm hmm. And
crazy because it's not even the same studio, right, so it's like you're
getting a sequel from someone that didn't do the other one, and it's like,
y'all fucking knock that out of the park. I'm saying, y'all know
what y'all doing. Yeah, I wish I had the the creativity of other
people because like I still feel like I'm very like basic with its systems,
right. But like when I hear about like what other people are doing and
taking advantage of all the options you have in that game and the creative ways
people are solving like the encounters, I'm just like, y'all are on another
level. Y'all just on another plane of existence with what y'all are doing.
Yeah, basically it's almost like so like with the twos of the Kingdom right,
where it's like they have that whole system in place where you can kind
of build and do anything, and like the clips you see of them building
mechs in that game is like fucking wild. Like the tools that that game
gives you is on a whole nother level for an open world game, right,
It's like brol this Gate three does the exact same, but for like
a turn based RPG, right, where they just give you all these options,
this huge toolbox of just like, however you want to tackle this?
Do it? Do you want to put somebody off of a cliff to kill
them by all means? Right? Like, do whatever the fuck you want?
I think it's spitting I think, yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Why not you found the chest that that is locked, but you don't have
a key. Well, just pick it up throwing in your bag and didn't
open it later yet many times? Or are you strong enough to just smash
the box open? Go ahead, smash it, you know, I straight
up like I use my I use my other characters as pack mules, and
like I always I always had Karlac with me, So I was like,
all right, all right, I can't open this thing. You know what
to do? Just just shove that whole, that whole chest into your fannie
pack, like you we'll open it at camp later, you know. Or
you hear about like the people that are playing like a necromancer style class,
right, and it's just like I'm just gonna put dead bodies in my fucking
house because I could just use them for later as zombies. And I'm like,
you know what, that's fucking brilliant, Like, hey, I'm gonna
stuff bodies into my backpack. It's fine. Yeah, And it's crazy that
there's just a game that lets you do that. Yeah, Like if you
think that you can do it, nine times out of ten, you can
do it. You can do it. It will work exactly how you think
it will basically, and then like for the narrative beats as well, like
if characters are killed off, the game just kind of accounts for that,
and the story keeps going, so like you can tackle all these scenarios,
Like your play session is drastically different than mine, which is drastically different than
Asher, And it's like comparing notes on like who does what and what scenario
and how do you get through this? What happens when you choose this dialogue
option, How did that go down? It's it's it's crazy. And then
you can do that from like any character's perspective, or like create a character
if you want to just like completely blank slate and just have your own backstory
and go through it however you want. It's that game. Yeah, man,
I didn't even delve into any of the origin character things, like are
uh not the origin character things, but like the established character things. And
I'm like, bro, there's like a whole ass game that I did not
do. I could play through the whole game with like Carlac or whatever,
and it would be a totally different thing. Like, yeah, that's insane,
and like obviously you get like pieces of that when you play like your
creative character, because you run into those characters. That's party members, right,
So like you get their storyline, but like you can do it from
their perspective, and that's gonna like a drastically different way of telling that story,
you know, Right, boy, I kind of just want to play
bould to Skate three right now. Yeah. I slowly open up Steam and
stare at the play button. I can't wait to finish this game and watch
the speed runs. Yeah, I hear. It's very funny and now,
like I remember last time I made a comment on it, I was like,
I don't know, I don't know how this works, but it sounds
really funny. Now that I have context behind that, and like the whole
Gale stuff, I'm just like, oh, that would be really funny.
Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty good. So incredible game ten out of ten.
Go play bould to Skate three. Please go play Bullder Skate three.
The other things for that game is actually really good too, Like they've been
doing a really good job of just like adding more content to it, like
fleshing out some of the storylines for some of the characters. I know they
added new scenes for like Carlac and stuff. Yeah, it's so crazy.
You can have a game so just chalk full of ship already and go,
let's put more in here? What if we put more in there? Just
like y'all don't have to for free? Like bro, y'all are actually insane.
I'm sane, dude, actually insane. I didn't mean to talk about
video games this early on, but here here I am. I'm just going
to carry that torch, all right, go for hell. Yeah. Uh
So I've been playing Babs Gay three, as you can tell, I'm in
act three. No, dude, really yeah, let me tell you about
Bonus. That's actually been been consuming most of my time. So, like
my segment here is going to be pretty short since I let that out of
the bag already. I did. I did start the New Trails game Legend
of Naota. Drew was going to talk about that little later, so I'll
tag along with him once he once he does his thing very early on in
that game. So it's like very very like impressions. Anyway, I am
now like four ish hours into Starfield. That game continues to just be like
all right, yeah, yeah, you know, I do. That's a
good disappointing. I'm going to be honest. I was kind of hype for
that game. I do like the gunplay. Oh I think the gunplay is
very good, it's just the story just like I'm not super invested, right,
but I'm curious. Yeah, I want to see where it goes.
But it hasn't quite got its like hooks in me. And one of the
things that I constantly hear about that game, and it's not a great thing,
but it's like, yeah, it's a very slow burn, Like that
game doesn't like quote take up until like ten to fifteen hours the main campaign.
According to what was that dude's name, Oh, Starfield, Starfield doesn't
get good until the main quest is complete. Yeah, yeah, we talked
about that like last week or whatever. Yeah, that was the last podcast
we brought that up. Yeah, yeah, so it takes a while,
but like I'm still yeah behind, but I'm still slowly fully working my way
through. I want to see what that what some of that narrative stuff does,
because I hear it's interesting. Let me let's go through it. Yeah,
let me know how you feel about it, because I was pretty all
right about it. Yeah, like I enjoyed what it had going on.
But at the end of the day, devs, please optimize your ship because
yeah, because like I liked what was going on with that game. I
did not like it enough to dedicate like one hundred and fifty gigs of my
hard drive or however big that damn game is. It is like one hundred
and sixty gigs, And I gotta say, like the PC part needs like
some work. I have had, like a couple of crashes in that game.
You can't be ableize the game without them. Of course, of course
I haven't had any like in game glitches, like anything like stupidly funny in
like Skyrim sense, you know what I mean, but definitely definitely needs a
patch or two for like some of these weird uh crashes that are happening.
But yeah, I'll keep I'll keep plugging away. I'll let you guys know,
once like anything big comes up, I'll probably not really talk about it
much until like something huge happens, you know, But just know I'm slowly
plugging away at that in the background. Yeah yeah, Hey Ryan, ha
ha Hey. I thought I was gonna toss it the cats, but I
came to you through through the odd press pay and I lived. So you
got to tighten up your game, tighten up games up. My My segment's
gonna probably be a little short because you know, I've been still on the
Nique Grind, which I told cats earlier. I now understand the full power
of Modernia. Uh you were telling me yesterday. Now I feel like I
need to get Madernia. Yeah. She uh she melts life spars like very
very fast, and she I haven't and this is just like her base form.
Basically I haven't gotten to dups yet. That enhances her even more.
But like, yeah, her burst skill, like when she activates it,
you just see like everything get destroyed in an instant and like boss life bars
just deplete in seconds. Yeah, she she is. I now see why
she is the best DPS unit in the game, because yeah, she's she's
pretty wild. But yeah, I've been doing that. Of course. You
know, the near campaign ended a few days ago and everything, so you
know, now trying to save all the resources and build all that back up
before the year one banner and probably like what cads like a month or two
or something like that. It's next month, next month. Yeah, so
so yep, gotta start saving those resources again, trying to get me with
Naga or whatever this new character is. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. They put in two characters that are like really good to
like be like, oh yeah, we're gonna make this hard for you to
wait for the banner. So been doing that. The muse Dash DLC dropped
for the Hot to Namiku collab, which they I think they had like fifteen
songs fifteen or twenty twenty songs that they had in total, and they had
like you could be a playable character. I don't know, like there's a
few, like I don't know the titles of the songs. I just know
like a few of them because of playing project obviously, but like there are
some other ones that I don't think I've heard before that are like some newer
tracks that they released there too. So just you can still, uh while
the Justice Planned DLC thing is still a thing before they deactivate it. It
is a free update, so make sure you get that. So just kind
of giving you guys a heads up on that, and then I guess the
game I will spend a little bit of time on. I did play the
Separate Ways DLC for Ari four, which was the eighth Wong side of things
and everything, so true, Yeah, so like it, you know,
I mean, it's Ari four. It shows an't e before just now through
AIDA's perspective of it, Like it shows like what she uh, like how
she's uh handling her business while you know, Leon's trying to save Ashley and
Aneso. It shows what AIDA's trying to do with uh trying to recover like
the amber and everything to deliver to Wesker. And also Wesker has a pretty
I don't want to say, a prominent role, but he has a decent
size role in AIDA's side and everything. Like they made it, They made
it to where Wesker is actually like story wise, like a little more involved
in helping Aida than what you than what you would think. So I was
kind of a little intrigued by that, by the fact that you know,
they had like like it was funny because like Wesker actually like shows up on
the island and stuff like that and everything and like helping her out and stuff,
which I was kind of curious. I was like, wait a minute,
how I thought Wesker was like remote somewhere, Like how is he on
the island helping her and stuff like that? But come to find out,
you know, he's he's on a damn boat that's like right next to the
island. So it's like, oh, that makes sense. Okay, So
yeah, exactly, this is just like this this like ship that's like just
on the outskirts of the island that he's like you know, basically set up
base at and stuff like I that had to be able to communicate with Aida
and all that stuff and everything. So but I was just kind of like,
wait a minute, how why is Wesker on this island? Like what's
going on here? But but you know, I mean there's a not a
lot of like surprise stuff, you know what I mean. Like there's not
like really any jump scares or anything like that. It's just like a straight
playthrough of you know, just going through AIDA's you know perspective of everything she
does. Uh, you know, have more of the tech stuff, so
like some of the puzzles are easy to solve because like she has like you
know, a tech tracker that like traces things as far as like solving puzzles
and stuff. And uh, she has a grapple hook, which you know
gets her around to different spots and everything. Which there's also like a charm
that you can get with Ada that will allow her to use the grapple hook
on the enemies with the shields and they could pull and she could pull the
shields off of them. Yeah, so like and it's also too like she
can melee from full distance too, because she'll grapple hook uh when you stun
them, like show grapple hook in and like kick them and stuff like that
for the melee attack. So she does have like some gameplay differences when it
comes to like how she actually operates. But like outside of that, like
I said, I mean, if you played RA four, you know what
you're getting into. You know, you'll you're playing as Ada and you have
just a few different things that you do and uh just kind of go from
mayor her Her final boss fight is again is uh pretty fun though, I
will say that because it's a you know, you're basically fighting Sadler, but
like it's his human like priest form. So like you murder one part in
ri E four where like she like tries to save like actually Leon, like
when Ashley is about to like be sacrificed or whatever, and like she disappeared
to like save Leon and helped Leon and actually escape when she was distracting Sadler.
It's basically that it's basically that scene where the boss fight takes place.
Okay, yeah, so, but yeah, I mean I've been it was
a it was a fun playthrough, and I know they added Ada and West
here too mercenaries and I've yet to do that, so I'm kind of curious
to see, like how they'll play in mercenaries next time I do boot it
up. But that's been pretty much it as as far as gaming stuff goes.
I really didn't do too much because obviously I was been getting things ready
for U Kirby KHN last last night. You know, a lot of focus
on that. But now that that's done, I get a little bit of
free time, like, you know, a little more free time. So
I'm going to try to hop back into some other games because I want to
get back into Signalis and play that a little more. I want to get
into I want to get back into Sea Stars because I haven't played that game
in about a week. Get back into that game as well, especially since
like I really enjoyed my time with Stars, like for the first three hours
I played, and the way it's going, that might be my personal game
of the year. I would believe it so absolutely so, I will kill
you. I'm not going to say anything but get caught up on like your
nine hundred other games, so I can actually talk about it, you know,
say it were trying to talk about Stars. Yeah, exactly, I
need all I need all your motherfucks to finish it. I have a body.
So game Pass was gonna play. Blame Rob me why we had to
play. You know, that's not my fault. It's not blame Rob anyway.
Oh my fucking god. All right, new podcast. Damn, I
mean priorities that priorities are different. I get it, but I understandable.
But uh yeah, like I said, that's pretty much all that I've done
for the most partner anything. But there are some games I do want to
hop back into and play again so I can, uh, you know,
get caught up and be able to talk about those other games that I kind
of started. I'm like, oh, I haven't had a chance to play
these in a while. So that's uh, that's basically all that I've done
with that fair Before I toss the baton, I just want to let you
know Ryan update. As of three minutes ago, I now own Ustash and
the Justice Clandeal SCEAM. Yeah, yep, yep, yep, they got
me. I realized that it's the Justice pland stuff goes away on the fifth
Yeah, and I was like, all right, well let's let's rip the
band aid off. They added my queen Miku. You know, I have
to get in there, so I expect a impressions of that next time.
Oh one more thing with the Miku collab, you know how like there's like
the quote unquote boss of each like music stage and stuff like that. For
the Meku songs, it's Luca. Okay, good, Yeah, so you
get so you get to see you get to see Luca in the stages and
also like it's cool because like the Meku stages also you get to see like
the other vocaloids in like the background as well, so you see Miko,
yeah, Len and Wren, like they make your appearances and stuff too,
so uh cool. Yeah, So yeah, they definitely hit hit home with
it. So but yeah, I mean again, I've talked about mus Dash,
and I've mentioned before like Musdash is probably of like all the robo games,
is probably like my personal favorite rhythm game to play. But yeah,
I would say, uh, definitely enjoy that because yeah, the Justice Playing
DLC is going to be ending soon, so take advantage of it now yeah.
Sure, So once I get get paid, I'm definitely going to pick
it up. Do it. That's all, that's all. You stash it
up. Yeah, I think because I've had it for a hot minute,
just I didn't realize that the that that DLC was going away, So I
yeah, they they changed their they changed their kind of like their their DLC
plans as far as like all the new like updates and add ons and like
collapse are doing for like the future or anything, which I know, like
Rob and I we talked about that like a couple episodes ago, which is
kind of like I get it. I mean, like if you want to
keep something going and you want to keep adding stuff and everything, and you
know, eventually costs of the production of stuff do go up, and there's
probably gonna be some licenses that you're gonna want to get that's going to cost
you. So that's probably you know, it's unfortunate that there, you know
that it was. It was really a real good thing to have and just
get all these collapse or anything. But you know, unfortunately, I'll think
all good things come to end. But you know, they're still going to
make it, like you know, affordable to get and everything. Hell,
I mean DJ max is what was it? They now have like six hundred
dollars worth of DLC now, so yeah, so you know, I mean,
hey, you know, things cost money, so you gotta gotta try
to balance it out. Bab do baby do? Uh? All right?
Cats? Hello? How are you all right? Same? So we're all
survive. What have you been up to? You seem to have a list
of games you've been going through. I mean, aside from the Gaga games
I've been playing. I mean those recently got huge updates and I've been dealing
with those as a recent So Gainshin has like a new uh what's that thing
called the whole region? The new one. Yeah, it's all right.
The new mchain introduces like underwater swimming, so you're not just exploring on the
ground level. Now you can just dive into the sea and you can explore
underwater. It's pretty cool. It's surprisingly nice, the swimming controls and the
combat and everything. I was gonna say, did they add combat underwater too?
Yes, even like the over wall stuff, but it's just under water
and I think that that's it did did a really good job with it,
so it's not awkward. You don't drown anymore. So, yeah, because
due to low reasons, so you can brief on the water, so you
stay down there. And definitely did they did they add that to all the
older areas too, like can you okay, okay, that was probably that
was probably asking for too much. Yeah, yeah, retroactively. I think
ching's too big too. Yeah. Under water yea, everywhere, so you
still drown out of places. But if you're in totally not Europe, uh,
you don't. You can just breath under water because low reasons. I
have no idea. I've been skipping the story engaging because they have this issue
of just explaining too much, so it just has no most of the time.
Now I don't care. I just want to I just want to get
the story done so I can playing the whole game properly. Kat said,
too much lower, get the more out of here. I never thought point
too much right now, not not really too much, lawyers and too much
like you guys sit down and listen to a lecture type of war and I'm
not about that. Don't tell you. There's a lot of info dumps and
stuff on there. Yes, yeah, and this seems to be a recent
thing also, so I guess they change the writers or something, and just
playing that game because at this point some calls heal yea for three years and
stopping them soon I understand. Mm hmmm. No. I also still maintaining
Nikki. Not much that Ryan has already been said. So yeah, I
just I super nik I run my own union. So yeah, semi competitive
trying to get those those ranks. Okay, Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Stressful, but pretty cool. Keeps me anytime you do like mobile game like
rankings or guild type stuff, that stuff is always too stressful for me because
because like it depends too much of my time, you know, and a
lot and a lot of that stuff. When I'm playing a mobile game,
I just I just want to do like something quickly and then like not think
about it for the rest of the day exactly. Stuff stuff like that,
or like when Grand Blue Fantasy has the like the guild battles and stuff,
people used to get so deep into that horror God, it was the worst.
It's just like, all right, this is starting to feel like a
second like part time job. Yeah. Thankfully Nikki doesn't really need you to
commit that hot, so it's all right, Like my goal for my union
at least is at least participate, like you don't have to do a lot
a lot of big numbers, just at least tickle the balls if you can.
And people, the people so far has been pretty supportive of there,
so I'm I'm I'm happy. Yeah. And also what else I've been playing?
I tried to run now uh sorry, I'm just looking at the link
Ryan person. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah that's uh that was literally so
if I just stumbled upon like pre pre update my piecing and barely runs bunk.
But now it's just like nah load, I'm like, I get what
you mean, PC. I will wait for a new new graphica and then
Dragon, I get you. I understand, don't have to. Yeah.
But on the nicer out of things, titled for Too got the researchers because
he command stuff so the back it's playable. It was like five dollars,
I think, well, no, it was two dollars like two weeks ago.
Yeah, that's when I picked it up. Yeah, and that that
game that it's probably the last movement shooter they actually enjoyed, because everything everything
new in the shooters shooter side just isn't doing it for me at all it's
just like movements in newer games are pretty limited. In my pinion, I
guess Titan for to get kind of like put these weird high expectations for movement
shooters for me, know, so I just can't try anything that doesn't have
all run or grapple hook already. I think Titan like it is, I
think it's peak. Honestly, like the movement is is some of the best
in any any FPS game. I think it also peaked in terms of like
SPS stories, story modes. We like. A single player campaign of Titan
Fall two is unhinged. It's one of the coolest fucking experiences still. Yeah,
I've ever had the pleasure of playing through and then yeah, now that
they fixed the multiplayer, it's also been like some of the most fun I've
had with a multiplayer suit chewing for the game for half an hour just to
get one no no, I click and I immediately get a measure. I'm
like, yeah, heap hey, heppy boyman, you get to play my
favorite robo game. It was crazy to see the team numbers for that once
they fixed. When they announced that they fixed it, it was just like,
oh ship, everybody's buying it. New people are buying it, and
then it's just like, yo, this game is living again. Yeah they
talks or I don't fall three right now, but it's it's been like debunked
and then it's like reson faced again and debunked again. As I saw,
I'm not sure what to feel. I'll see you and I see it.
Yeah, it'll don't think about it. If it happens cool. I wouldn't
put any stock into it until you until you can actually play it. Yeah,
even if they announce it, I'm like that, that's not real.
It's in my hands. It is not rob credits. That's that's it,
y'all. Y'all heard me say that's plenty of times before. The game is
not real until the credits. Yeah, you can't be playing the game like
like grinding multiplayer and you and it don't exist because you know tomorrow they're got
to shut down the service and the game will link don't exist anymore. Yeah
you know, yeah remember Multiverse Listen game is coming back, all right?
Yeah, that beta that was definitely definitely one hundred always a beta. It
was always they never said that it was the full release. It's always been
a beta. It was always an tended to go down. It's going to
come back what they said early twenty twenty four. Yeah, I think so.
Allegedly. Big things coming, Bro, big, big, big things
coming. They took in all all the feedback from the beta tests for the
beta tests. Listen, it's gonna be a game of the year twenty twenty
four. All right, it's gonna be the Smash killer, Bro, It's
gonna kill Smash. Smash is done. It's over. It's done. Sora.
Who oh my god? Wow meming on multi verses. Yeah, let's
speak of fighting games. I've also been grinding A three, five and six.
I've been playing a lot of that game since Aki dropped. Oh nice,
I'm I'm putting on pretty It depends on getting your needle muscles before I
pick up sobs. Okay, the memory and diamon tree so two more ago.
My god, damn Diamond. The difficulty has shifted to a point where
I'm starting to doubt is a good character by that. I know she is.
It's just it's just getting demoralized. Yeah. I'm glad you quickly aderated
your statement, because I was about to jump out of my chair. I
know, I know, I know, I know you need to. It's
just that I'm getting demoralized right now because Ran rank is pretty canceled to play
against gorillas. Yeah, I mean that game kind of facilitates gorilla play.
You know, it's guerrilla warfare, you h Yeah. I've been playing if
you six, and I've also delve back in with my my my boys and
I don't return. I know we all are not really playing because solos,
and I agree wholeheartedly. I want so back. Yeah, but unfortunately,
to say, the changes in the teams right now is slowly like shifting for
them for the away from a solo game now, like you kind of need
teammates now, which I don't. Come on, I don't know. Yeah,
the balances also shifted, like uh, it's really not the same game.
Maybe you used to play back in early access, like Luke is complete
trash now like like I go in and I die, go in, I
fight and I kind of come over. I know, I go in,
I hesitate to press my QT to fly in again every time now that there's
no more confidence. Wait before before we get further, he's talking about Eternal
Return. Luke Drew, not Street Bro. Why do you hate my son
Lucas just trying to clean up the streets. Man. Yeah, they also
changed up his w Now it's not like an activity like and then you you're
you're get stronger like you have he does like this, this tree succeed spin
now that it has to hit something for the enhanced will come on? Now
is this kind of it fucks with mytal memories. So I can't just press
double camera, you know, I presseduble and I sing nothing like ship that's
whack. They might as well just delay to look from the game. That
sucks it Ultimate doesn't piers anymore, so it just stops at the first thing.
You know, I'm like, why let me kill the whole game?
Oh my god. Yeah. A lot of the things that we used to
know is like so different now. But at least at least go go weapons
the endgame my utdate. And now you don't have awkward awkward weapons where if
you're like a camera user, you don't have like a gold camera anymore.
That every weapon has a goal with government. Now that's there's at least transitioning
is now part of the game, Like like the game actively wants you to
get like a full set of goal items, which is all kind of a
weird change because last time when you see like, uh, let's say a
chiara with like a gold goal saber, and they're like ship God avoided this
girl because she's about to kill everyone. But now it's so common to see
like a whole team full of goals by like day two. Now it's just
expected that you have. Yeah. Yeah, so transit they meet. The
crafting even much more easier. Now you don't have to craft like middle items
like straight like go go to the weapon. It's like, oh you want
Kingba, you just need the rot and the false call. That's it.
You don't have to build like the in between anymore. They removed that.
Yeah, at least they streamlined it then, so like yeah, a lot
a lot more. Yeah, the ass after a while, m hmm.
Yeah, but like oh go ahead, needs are complex anymore at least hm
muh. They also changed up cooking. If you just uh food lighter on
meat, you don't get stick anymore. You got five cooking stations. Now
we also pain yeah go food. They here for like a thousand Yeah it's
pretty good. Yeah. Example is like lighter on meat, you get like
uh, half half cooked stick or something something prothectic. By you're cooking in
a bonfire, you get like a stick dinner, like the potatoes just magically
appear. How does that affect what is that one character that like the character?
Yeah, yeah, is he like no more dependent on the cooking stations
now he got buff because of that, but yeah he's pretty niche still right
now, Like he's never going to return to the days of beta where he
just cooks, like just get it's not that yeah, yeah that was too
much. Yeah, like if it is getting just for cookie being but well,
I think the game is reaching a more healthier state, like it's retaining
players, just not for us because we're lashly like solo focused, right right,
Yeah, they are not like the voice from the idea that oh we're
never gonna reopen solos maybe one day, but right now, they just they
just need players, you know. Yeah, That's what I've always heard from
them, where it's like they they want like multiple modes, right, but
like you don't have the player base to support it, and you don't want
to split the player base, right, so you look at what the most
popular mode is and you just double down on that until like you can get
to a state where it's healthy enough to open it, you know, and
like that's that's cool. Like I'm glad that they're at least still on some
level like successful, and it seems like the game is at least like steadily
in a good spot. So I hope they get to that point because I
would love to play that game again because it was it was a moment for
all of us. Yeah, you know, it was remember fondly staying up
till like five in the morning with Rob. Yeah, I mean we had
four months of eternal return segments we had that we ran the Return Tournament at
one point, which was very fun. We did, we did, you
know, I think about that a lot. Actually, that was that was
one of my favorite things that I think we've ever done. And like we
it was something new for all of us, Right, we've never done like
an event for that style of game in terms of like casting it, like
running it. But it was fun. That was a fun day, man
thinks. Also a new character there's like I guess I don't describing, like
yeah, and artwork for them and they seem cool, Yeah they be.
And Marvin, they are one unit so kind of like stands changing characters and
uh, they're top there. They are quite hard to chill. They don't
do a lot of damage, but they share as can die because they held
back a lot from how they know that naturally built because primarily they are along
so and long, so it has naturally a lot of life still and that's
rare. Now they removed life still across the board. I only did in
the VF items they can get from quick line. Mm hmm. Wow they
change that up. Huh. Yeah, they get their hard like you just
don't randomly get life still from from more weapons anymore except long And that's what
makes being so strong right now. Yeah, mm hmmm, because I look,
man, I need to understand. I have to fight for my life.
Jackie with life steal and when she had her chainsaw, oh Jackie,
Jackie is oh my god. They changed up her skill. They she works
the same, it's just how the effect works now she doesn't have to passive
where if you kill an animal or person you get the blood loss and you
get actual damage, like you don't get that anymore. What it does do
now is that on till your entire skills skills that refreshers. M oh yep,
and your Q is not ac it's not like an auto slash slash like
you as a heck in a slash. Now, it's not hecking slash like
when one word is a heck the hack space slash. Yeah, so it's
kind of a record double for the techn notification like teching keys, it would
be Q neutral Q Yeah, yeah something neutral Q. Get that little star
in there? Yeah? Yeah. Man. For the longest time, the
start confused me. And what is that supposed to me? Yeah? What
is this on my controller? Dude? What the hell the stary? But
you know start, Yeah, you're right in my bad. I had no
idea what the star input was. Yeah, that's basically there's not much log
about the game. Is Slash still still the same in terms of playing?
Some rules have shifted here and there, But yeah, it was still funny
if you have a crew. But even then, the game last I most
two weeks from before my with my boys. Yeah, I know, it's
just not the same, man. But there is a game that I have
been trying to delve deep into, except the game doesn't want me to.
And that's a Wayfinder Way find that. Have you guys heard of the game
way Find It? I have heard of this game it is a dungeon Crawley
grindy character collecting weapons collecting type of RPG. I guess it's the person uh
you essentially players away finder. Basically, the the giust of it. The
law is that the world is now fragmented and people need to find that way
quite literally. So you go into this groom like portal things that basically the
dungeons of the game, and you try and restore the world essentially. And
at the start of the game, you are given a choice of tree.
That's six way finance in the game currently one more coming next month. Uh.
You get to pick between the old night dude right now the best character
and again them keep him a shot gun and he's like the best tank for
some reason. You get the assassin chick, pretty technical to play, but
she she's she's good good DPS, just just pretty high execution. You had
to manage combos. And you get the I guess the gadget guy. He
throws bombs, he throws oil, and he mostly uses You get to pick
one or three. You can all as you play the game, need to
farm their fragments and stuff you like. As again suggests you need to find
a way and then if you find their way, you get to something them
and they they're keeping you get to play them. Uhh, so it's way
find there. I think the game also doesn't restrict characters to weapons, so
you can use any weapon on any way finder and he will still be viable
to a sudden degree. Why the night Guy uses a shotgun is like hilarious
because he still gets like the Giant right had Shiel and I have thereage air,
I can think and somehow I still can knew he does everything. He's
a very guy. I still don't have it. When you play with other
people, can like people be the same class. Yes, you can play
up to treat a party right now because this game is largely unfinished and the
unfortunate part is that the Early Excess is paid. There's four tiers like Founders
Pack basically had to bioway Oh, I say yes. The initial launch of
the Early Excess was okay. Everything was fine, except there was a large
q quing issues, Like you can go up to like ten thousand in line
and you just have to sit there for like hours before it came and get
in only for the game to disconnect and you're backing on que again. I'm
having flashbacks to when and Walker came out, Like, yeah, Finder,
thankfully they fixed it. And also also at most you're only queuing like one
on one or two, and then you're in the game a day and you
don't disconnect, so thank god, like finally they fixed the Q issue and
sorry, it's whole gameplay. While it's pretty straightforward grinding dungeon game, like,
this game is meant to grind because uh, unlocking Wayfinder and weapons requires
you to found a lot of pieces. Then you make the pieces and then
you combine them and then and then you can summon it. Thankfully, there's
no crafting timers. You just kind of press it and you get it,
so that's cool. There's no arbortuarity way time like a war frame something like
that, thing like that. Yeah, the game definitely seems like it's definitely
like it's your typical like, well, this isn't a free to play a
game, but it like it has the mechanics of one. Right that's kind
of like how I feel it's free at January when it actually relates. Yeah,
right now, it's essentially a paig. I wanna say it's a bit
because right now the games the more I talk about this gave the less good
things I have to say because the leaders update essentially made me quick exactively the
game is unplayable for strong reason. Actually I'll get to that right now.
Okay, So story whise, you do have story requests, like an MSQ
type of thing. You just can't go through game talking about stuff. You
unlocked dungeons as you play, so it's kind of like like an MMO.
I guess you need to progress to unlock more dungeons to farm even more stuff
as you go. But right now the story is about I want to say,
ten hours long, and it's pretty fast, but there's an arbitrary farming
the head. And so example is like level one to level ten is like
all all MSQ all means requests. You just go through it, right,
You're having fun, and then sudden you's like, okay, you found these
weird boss thing in this one dungeon. You gotta go okay to me,
all right, okay, then but the moment you go into the potter and
you look at your stats, rights that way, my power level is right
anyway, right, and you see the recommended level for this one story boys
at level fifteen. Yeah, and that dylies there's a grind you need to
really there is a grind that I need to do, and granted it.
And now level thirty. Level thirty is the max, by the way,
for each Wayfinder. So is weapons, weapons are like essentially secondary characters,
so to say, like whatever weapon you pick will in combinations the Wayfinder will
determine your place style. A great example is right now, I'm playing way
find a named Venomous. She's by by the name suggest she she's a master
of poison, so everything she does poisons. Her default weapon is a semi
automatic rifle, so she can just stagger poisons on you easily. But I'm
playing the Daggers right now because daggers are faster than the gun, except he
puts me in melee range, so I'm a I'm a die. Yeah,
I'm ana die. Like Venomous has not much mobility other than this this gas
trail she puts out to do and it's really slow. Doesn't really do anything
other than just put from A to B with a trail poison and kind of
Rihanna's oil slick in, don't return and you just put the record and that's
it. That's kind of it. So I don't have a lot mobility by
its text poison much faster than any gun would. So I'm trying my best
to learn. May live anomus right now? Guz is fun and uh,
I was all right, bosses, so kill the boss. Uh, continue
the story and again they did it again the level twenty five. I was
three mm hmm. Yeah, it's not they are not. They didn't really
talk the progressional properly right now, and it's it's a big complaint still unfortunately.
Also, how a character and weapons work. A character has four skills,
three normal skills and one out the big ultimate. I guess you at
level twelve you unlocked skill points, but you would think that you have enough
skill points of maxim everything, right, No, that's where the quote unquote
customization comes in. Right. Every skill has three levels, and they don't
just add numbers, they change how the skill work, sometimes dramatically. You
get several skill points total, so you need to plan out how your bill
goes. And as all right now they say respecting is free, but on
release it's going to cost money, not real money, by in gay money.
So they want you to comment or a bill. We need to because
they always want you changing, changing characters and bills around all the time.
That's kind of like the core design of the game. So I'm like,
that's annoying. Yep. And as for weapons, right now, there's six
types, but within those six types, there's a sub categories, Like for
my daggers right now, there's like an assassin dagger where deal on activation,
you deal extra crip and you're someone like this Virgil Gucci Belk sorting scargole.
And then there's another dagger that is specifically that adds extra poison, So even
if you're not playing Venomous, you still can poison something if should you pay
these daggers for example, another one is something like he has a night and
day function that I don't play with that dagger. I haven't locked it.
But yeah, every weapon is unique, it's cool. But the move sets
are the same, the basic moves that anyways, the commos are the same,
just that the skills are different. Oh what else I gonna talk about
this game? Housing? The housing is how does that work? You put
stuff in it and it looks free. You can't be see if I'm doing
like the double thumbs up. Yeah, very at least serves as something actually
there is something different there. They are funny just called artifacts in the game
where they are notoriously low robberies, like like a point zero one percent.
Why yeah, then they drop from bosses and bosses and mandatory involved faces.
You are the ways or f finding. Uh. But at least when you
craft the artifacts, you're put in your house, right, you have very
distinct bonuses that you can bring in two dungeons afterwards. I have one that
gives me an extra portions. Okay, that's useful. Yeah, there's only
four in a game right now, so there's not much choice like extra go
find extra ability points. And the other one is when I heal you heal.
That's that's always good to go like that. Sc Yeah, stuff like
that. Yeah, there's potential there, like post release, like they could
do a lot of stuff with that if they really a lot of potential in
this game. Right now, the game feels in terms of actual playing,
it's good, but in terms of like you're dealing with the survey issues and
the non optomization stuff, right all the fels ship like my head disappears on
time. Oh no, I just missed. I'm just passing their hair.
I'm not just walking around, and I have seen people in there just a
skeleton. So you just see like a stick figure with like a giants are
walking around. Oh my god. Watch. I will post a picture of
that later. It's really really fine that. Yeah, but they also recently
fixed the bug right where specifically if your rightfle user. So there's also a
sight in this game where you see there is a major character that uses like
a depth like two cast spells, and he's the only one that uses it
properly. No one else can use the site properly. Right, So I
was like, hey, I bought the Founders, but I'm a fuck around
with his weapon. I equipped day, I'm like, wait, I'm still
holding my rifle just like I'm way too easy to fix this and I just
want to farms. I just went to a dungeon and start trying to shoot
my quote unquote rifle. I started slashing with it, all right, So
I was the bug is actually like the model doesn't load when you load in
then you equip the site, so he just stuck the rifles for some reason.
So yeah, I mean I was hitting the whole dungeon with my right
rifle. It was pretty cute rifle. That's appropriate. Yeah. Also Ruby,
I would say, it's just I understand. Yeah, so it was
cute guy fix it's not a goodlock man. So that's what early access is
for. Yeah. Also right now, uh, there are also modifiers you
can farm, like the echoes, so they're just like like stats you can
just put on your character on your weapon, and I think that's the meat
of the game, farming for accessories and echoes. Like you just kind of
go in kill things that hope the right one drops and you just yeh yourself
out for whatever because there's no content that needs you to get out right now.
It's just like once you finish the story at a certain point, you
reach out to the d and that's it. The rest is you find your
own fund. That that's usually how these early access games go, right Like,
there's not a ton there and then it's just kind of like all right,
just around. They are saying that rates are going to be a thing
in the future, so this game is going to be closer to an MMO
the Boy develop but right now it's like almost like a jan Kieer original Warframe.
That's how Okay, you pick it character, you're going dungeon and you
kill stuff you hope to hell the thing you want drops and rings repeat.
It is a very like standard formula, yep, except get the game makes
it high because right now, the low time in this game is hilariously slow
because every time you're loading into the game, the game loads your inventory all
for a character. So it was somewhere as like ten players. They had
to load their entire inventory in as well. So sometimes sitting there staring at
the loan, it's a s pack. Excuse me, yes, it's a
weird issue that they just try to bend it. Fix the game by okay,
guys and all, you'll like farming, but here's a basket. So
what's the basketball? You can have three echoes and horress. That's the reason.
Now what so what I do the rest? Sell it before the next
up they going to be gone. Oh my god, even mean they're gonna
be good. Okay, okay yo, you sucked up forget it. I
a try and sell the stuff. Now you go to the one shop that
actually can sell stuff. There was no ability to sell things before, by
the way, go to the shop and now the shop is packed on anyone.
And that's like panic selling that stuff, right because they can't keep everything.
The UI is so bad that you can only sell one thing at a
time inventory right now. No wow, So the game is effectively unplayable right
now, and every and even the ships and the kids like okay, okay,
we get it sucked up. There's a die. But doing DGS,
what do you mean just doing DGS fix it down? They're still a t
GS. They can't fix it out of the office. That game is on
fire. That's pretty funny, ass, that's pretty fun. It's unfortunate though,
because the combat and this gave it's really really well done, straight casual
fun farming, like you can just hop in do that one that you're out
chet again on YouTube b once you to, so come on, man,
let me play. That hurts. It reminds me of when management on vacation.
So I got and you try to email them and they get their auto
reply saying, yeah, we're currently out right now, we will not be
returning until this day. Please direct your messages elsewhere and something like that,
something like that. Yes, lord, you know you about that. But
I actually did contact the customer support. I bought something from the cashop and
it just didn't credit me, but I took my money on like, guys,
I want my giant bunny so please, and they do not reply even
to this day has been the month. Listen, there a TGS bro.
You know, whenever I get the online store launched officially, I'm going to
create an auto message for whenever I'm at like an event or something like that,
it's going to say, exactly, thats exactly. Is this the rifle
site? Dude? That is hilarious? Literally a stick figure that is hilarious.
B Yeah, it's not by things that all working in his name,
just like, yeah, things are working. This is perfect. This is
the this is the new unrendered Final Fantasy fourteen rock. Oh my god,
I love it. I miss you. Oh this is great. I don't
what is the undered rock. There was a one. There was a single
rock. It was a big gass rock and it was just completely unrendered,
unrendered, and it went it went that way for so long, and like
everybody knew that it was gonna get it was gonna get patched out. So
right before the servers went down for the patch, everybody crowded in front of
this rock and just held a vigil. I wouldn't know I was there,
it was. It's probably my favorite moment in all of my time playing f
F fourteen. It was so good. I missed that rock. Wasn't it
to the point too where like people were like holding like like wedding ceremonies and
other ceremonies in front of that rock too. Yeah, dude, it was
an infamous rock. Missed that bad boy culture is weird. It's very weird,
but sometimes it breaks me great joy like that rock. I do have
to like and and my way sin though, like at least on a summer
positive. Not one cool thing about the dungeons in these games that you get
to imbue it with elements to kind of make it harder to found specific things.
I think that's kind of cool, except it's completely unviable if you're if
you're melee Bilt because the floor is lava. All of them just makes Floyd
flava of different flavors are like, man, let's take the gun gun gun,
funny gun, fishing gun efficient. You're right, And the last thing
is uh. I would say they did the battle pass very well in this
game. That's just that's really really worthy of praise, Like there's no for
more involved. You get a better pay and you can unlock it anytime you
want's. I love that. I love games that do that. Yeah,
this way like any pay for me, but yeah also keeps whenever. That's
fine, just like don't don't make it like time limited, you know what
I mean, Like, let me be able to do it at my own
pace, to unlock the rewards for that stuff. Like, yeah, I
hate feeling like I miss out on stuff because I bought a battle pass or
whatever, and I'm like, well, I don't want to play this game
for this like last couple of weeks of this battle pass, but I got
to it makes it feel like a job at times, right, Yeah,
and then it's just like, yeah, you have those moments where like I
just don't feel like playing this game and you already committed to the battle pass,
and then you start to feel like it's a waste, you know.
And that that's always what kept me away from buying battle passes because I notoriously
never finished. I've only finished like a couple and I'll always wait until like
I'm towards the end of it, and then I'm like, Okay, I
think I'll finish it and then I'll buy it, you know, So that
that feature takes away a lot of the stress from that that that is something
worthy of praise. Yep. And if there's two better paths running simultaneously,
you can also choose when which one you want to continue doing. So I
guess that's that's really well well thought out. I guess it's not totally original,
but it's a good decision because not a lot of games are offering that,
Like some are catching on, but it's still to the point where like
I don't expect it from death yet, you know what I mean? Sure,
m hm. And that's to conclude with if I do I think the
game has a lot potential right now, Do I recommend it? No?
Because the goddamn but they give you to deal with your echoes neccessarily. It's
just like that. So even if you want a farm you can't. Yeah,
yeah, it give its fun. You won't recommend it now, but
when it's free come next year January, I do employ you guys to check
it out. It's also cross play compatible. By the way, every console
besides to Switch has it. Nice Okaya, No, I think the switch
has it, but the game exploded or something. The game switch explode sounds
like a switch switch thing. Switch It looks like a toaster. It acts
like a toast. The game by runs down on TOAs like that is the
switch right, Like the same group I played, he told me, he
was like, Okay, we're gonna buy in this this early access and we're
gonna try to re find it. It was fun for like the first first
few weeks then, but my other guy, my third girl, was like,
can buy on a PSL and it just doesn't work for him. So
he's just like, I can't even get a refund now at all. So
it's kind of stuck with the game and they can't play kind unfortunately, that
is extremely unfortunate. All right, cool, Well that was way find out
check out. I got back in with you in January to see whether or
not SECD came out. I'll keep you guys up THEATD. We need I
need that to stay around. Yeah that did that need to be a feature?
Like just make that a new a new character, uh, Druce the
fir Hello, Hello, finally join Uh it is finally wait no, uh
yes it is your sure. I could have given this to something, but
I didn't want to. So what's exciting it is actually what have you been
up to? So we finally capt Stone Trails in the reverie. We did.
We did finally beat the game as fast as I've ever beat the Trails
game. I'm very impressed. In a while, I still want to do
a spoiler cast with you and Carrie Ron, so not going to go into
too much detail here, but we would be here for another two hours if
we did. That's true. I do want to say that, like,
after our experience with Cold Steel, it's really I'm really glad it's like that
the writing and storytelling seemed to bounce back pretty well. Yeah, Cold Steel
is a long like I'm trying to think how it was like a ten year
journey almost well, okay, i'd say ten year journey, but we got
the first game and I think like twenty eleven, twenty twelve, but we
got the last game and I think like twenty nineteen. It was before the
pandemic, I think. But we played Cold Steel for so long, and
I know you and I were both feeling pretty I don't know, disappointed in
the overall arc as it were, but like that, Yeah, I guess,
like any long running anime, you know, some arcs are going to
be good and some arcs are going to be completely trash. Yeah, and
and and seeing that, like like Trails in a Reverie is a very good
example of like them falcom realizing, Hey, I think we made some mistakes
because they very clearly fixed or at least addressed a lot of the complaints that
Rob and I had in terms of like the writing, the storytelling, certain
like system mechanic decisions and things like that. Like Reverie at its core is
still a Cold Steel game, like in terms of like the battle system and
all of that, but it really fixed a lot of the fluff that was
in Cold Steel, and and where a lot of what you were doing and
like the gameplay loop didn't make sense with the story Cold Steel was trying to
tell, and it just it Reverie just felt as a whole like all right,
Hey, I think we realize we messed up. We're going to wrap
up the stories that we've been telling since twenty ten, because not only is
Reverie a capstone to Cold Steels arc, Whereverie's also a capstone to the Crossbell
arc, which kind of ends on sort of like Crossbel story continues in the
Cold Steel games and then finally gets its revolution to Reverie. So like this
sort of six game story, even though like Reverie is the tenth game,
it serves as this really really good capstone to these arcs to the point where
it really picks up on, you know, interesting storylines that we're told in
Cold Steel. It gives my favorite arc like some really good closure. It
really helps some characters like finish out their story arcs pretty well, and it
sets up the next arc in a way that I'm very excited for. I
feel, so all in all, I think it was a good experience from
from a gameplay wise game, I think that game is really cool in terms
of like, like if you want to engage with that game systems, it
really gives you an opportunity to like explore the like all the different characters that
you can and like make some really broken builds. That for what it's worth.
Because you can raise the difficulty at a certain point, there might be
a point where, like going through the Reverie Corridor on a bit difficulty could
like create some interesting challenges for yourself if you really wanted to. That's all
I'll say on that, because trying to beat the game on a bit difficulty
sounds miserable. I think difficulty in general is just miserable all around. I
don't know. I think there are some ways, like if you wanted to
try and break that game and then like give yourself a challenge. I think
it's cool that the game gives you the tools to sort of experiment with that.
I feel like that's more of like a game mechanic wise than the Trail
series just really offered before. So I think it's really cool. So I
think Reverie is a good step forward and look forward toward spoiler cast. Hopefully
we'll get to that scene, but I definitely I definitely want to spend some
more detail, just like talk about the finer points of that game. So,
after beating U Trails in the Reverie, which I think my final play
time was about one hundred and eighty hours, cleanser, I needed a palate
cleanser. Yeah, So I played The Messenger in order to prep myself for
a Seat of Stars, and that game is incredible mm hmm, Like as
a platformer, that game is really really fun, and having not looked into
that game at all, I was very pleasantly surprised in the direction of that
game. Like the game starts out as as like a pretty basic like platformer,
and you know, you sort of like get new abilities and you go
through these levels, but the setup that it gives you is just a very
standard. Hey, you're progressing through these levels. Here are a couple of
new power ups here and there, and then like you just go and then
once you hit the point where like the game really opens up, you're like,
dang, this is really cool. So you get to a point where
like all to where you're at all those levels. This is an old game.
Most people probably already played it at this point. Then if I care,
if I go into detail, okay, I played to anybody else going
once, go for it? Okay. Well, Divesta starts out pretty standard.
You're going through levels, you go from the beginning, you're giving your
quests, and you have to go to the peak of this mountain to meet
the stages. Very standard, fair as far as like video game plots go.
The writing in the game is pretty good, as most of the writing
takes place on interactions between you, the messenger, and the shop keeper that
you interact with throughout the game. That has probably created some of my favorite
interactions in a video game in quite a while, or has also led me
to very severe existential crisises that I was not expecting from a two D platform
or metro venient Yep, that's that's keep fitten, I'm saying, bro why
I was not ready for some of like the philosophical like conundrums that I would
be presented with. And I feel like I'm a better person for it.
But I really think that the writing in the game is top notch. Also,
the game needs to get out of my head, because that game was
in my head one hundred percent of the time. Anytime I would start to
think of something about the game, the game would break the fourth wall and
be like, yeah, we know, it's okay, yep, I know,
like it is so on point with that too, Like right when you
start thinking about that, it's like, yeah, we know so like mechanic
wise, I think a Messenger like it takes a while to get used to
because there are certain things about the Messenger that feel a bit awkward at first,
like especially coming from somebody who played Ninja Guiden, I'm sure like a
Messenger looks like Ninja Guiden but doesn't play like Ninja Gouden, right, r
right, And there are certain aspects of like about the platforming that I was
like, I don't know if I really care about this. For example,
the first power up you get is the spider Claw, which let's see like
hooked to walls, and okay, that makes sense in an Inja game,
Like you want to be able to like jump all walls and do all that,
and like that aspect of the game. Like I like that that mechanic,
but there are certain aspects where that made the platforming somewhat annoying, because
like your ability to stick to walls was really good for better or worse,
and that made some platforming challenges like somewhat frustrating, but like you can move
past that pretty pretty well. The game acknowledges that that mechanic isn't perfect,
and so I feel like that gives them a pass. I don't know,
I never found it would like that annoying, but like it's it gets in
the way, especially since you have like the optional challenge rooms to get the
green attalions. It made some of those challenges in particular somewhat annoying, but
I mean, like it didn't stop me from doing everything. It's a minor
compant. Like I still think like once you get all the power ups,
in the messenger between like the spider claw, the rope dagger, uh and
the cloud tabby and like you start just zooming through levels like in the second
half of the game. Movement in that game feels really good. I think
the first actually I remember, the first power up you get is in like
the game's tatorial is like the cloud strike step, which is a really cool
way to introduce double jump into again, like a conditional double jump that is
like sort of based on your skill as a player, that mechanic could be
pretty crazy. I feel like there were times where I took advantage of them,
like this mechanic's really cool, right, And like it took me a
while to wrap my head around that mechanic because it's like it feels like it
goes against the green of like well, if I'm going to double jump,
like I jump and then I double jump, and then I strike something and
then I lay back in the ground and like you've got effectively stay in the
air for an infinite amount of time. And so like moving through a like
I imagine a Steter in this game is fucking incredible. Oh yeah, it's
a good time, especially like once you get the rope dagger and like the
rope dagger counts towards you like getting your your cloud strike step back, so
like you're kind of just hopping from lanterns to enemies and you're just boom boom
boom. And like once you get to the second half of the game,
where like you're given like the true path of the game is revealed and you
have to backtrack through the levels that you've gone through in a very cool way
that I'm going to get to. Like it made going like traversing those areas
really fun because like now you're fully powered up, and now like you have
this incredible movement almost akin to like I don't want to say it's like two
D Spider Man, but like that's the best thing I can liken it too,
because like you're just definitely swinging through levels at this point, and I
think that's really cool. Yeah, And I do think that this game created
like some really interesting platforming challenges. Like as a platformer, it's been a
while since, like I've really had to sit down and stick my teeth into
like a really satisfying platforming challenger. Sometimes this game feels like it turned into
celest step points, especially during the later like levels of the first half of
the game, and then like the challenge rooms from the second half of the
game, and I'm like, Okay, all right, that's a new game.
There was definitely like a lot of love put into that game. Yea.
And if you think this game has like one of the coolest time travel
mechanics in a video game, where like you're actively swapping between past and future
as like you're platforming, that was really cool, and the effect is seamless
and like really satisfying. Overall. It's just it's a good game, man,
It's a really good game. I really enjoyed it. It ends like
on a like a pseudo cliffhanger, and that kind of annoys me. Mm
hmm. But then I wonder if that has anything to do with See Stars.
He wonders, he wonders. There was definitely a level in the game.
Then I was like, oh, I'm pretty sure I know how this
connects to stars, but we'll find out when I get to see the stars.
We're gonna find out. I look forward to that game, and don't
tell me anything otherwise I will kill you. You've made it very clear that
you will put me six feet under Anything about that game it's been been putting
out there. If I hear anything, it doesn't matter who said it,
I will kill them that you heard it here. Listen. I don't know
nothing, bro, ship see what I had. I haven't played that game.
I haven't seen anything on that game. You ain't. You ain't gotta
worried about me, bro, I'm staying alive. Chase is going the fun
as I see a star basically the stars in the scene. What the are
you talking about? Potentially my game of the year. We'll see, we
will see Ocean of Moons. Yeah, there's there's my title this podcast.
Yeah, Ocean of Moons. Oh, I got it. I understand.
So we we played, uh, we beat wherever we beat? The Messenger.
I already talked about Armored Core six multiplayer. I'm trying to think I
played a puzzle bobble for the first time ever the other day. You've never
played puzzle babble? Yeah, not until I very recently was casual and I
was taking a break from Street Utter six and they have a puzzle bobble or
game there, and I'm like, I remember the Corone video that I watched
recently where she was playing puzzle babble in like football corone form that just brings
me utmost joy. I've never played puzzle Boble. I don't try now,
let me game sick bro Right, did you say, what what is puzzle
Bubble? Yeah? I have not. I have not heard of it or
played it. M It's so it's it's not like it's hard to explain basically
what it is. It's like it's a puzzle game similar to like, oh
I know what this is. I never knew. Yeah, you might know
what bubble okay, yeah, must have move yeah yeah, yeah. Yeah.
That's why I got thrown off because I was like, I've never heard
of this one. But then I looked up images. I'm like, oh,
wait a minute, I know what this is. Okay, yeah yeah
yeah No. That was my first time. I was playing the one on
the a S. It was a a Neogo Cad puzzle mable. Uh.
That game's pretty sick. Yeah, I really like, I've seen puzzle Bubble
before and I thought it would just never interest me, But like actually sitting
down and playing it and like realizing what you're actually supposed to do the like,
there's a lot of cool skill in that game, and I just found
it really addicting. So I play Puzzle Moble now like on the sound.
Hell, yeah, I used to play a lot of puzzle Babble. It's
a good I love I love that game. It's very cool. I want
to check out the new version that Corona was playing. I've just been playing
like the AES version on my Mystery on my cad. But I want to
see, like what the newest and latest greatest version of puzzle Mable offers.
But uh, and and finally, I guess at least means to the last
game I got, which is uh Legion of the Utah Boundless Trails, which
is another game by Falcon Uh, which is like, it's like a Trails
game, but it's not. It is what Falcon says. It's basically like
it's a spinoff game quote unquote spinoff, but it's like Trails story but like
East gameplay. Basically it's basically it's it's an easy game. Yeah, plays
like Oathen Falgona or Argod and Pitched Him or Ease origins that like that game.
It reminds me of the time, It reminds me of like older Falcon.
It is an older well okay, it is it is. It is
originally a PSP game or whatever. Yes, the original release date was like
twenty eleven, twenty twelve. Yeah, and I really enjoy it. Uh.
I was a bit worried at the beginning because, like the game is
interesting in that it's stage based, which I wasn't expecting. Like I went
into zero zero information on this game. All I knew was that it was
an action RPG and it was a Pseudo Trail spin off. It might be
connected, it might not be. I don't know. Falcom's pretty coy about
it. And like you go through the first few stages and I was like,
this seems pretty easy and basic, and I was a little little worried
about that. And I understand that might just be because you're like the game
just wants you to get used to anything, Like it almost feels like my
first EASE game to a degree. I feel like that's a good descriptor.
And then like you get to the final stage of that first area, and
like, I'm not going to say it was hard hard, but there was
definitely a dial turned severely between like the first three area or the first three
stages and then the last stage. What's there. It wasn't hard, like
it wasn't super hard or anything, but it was definitely like there were more
traps, there were more platforming challenges, there were time to platforming challenges.
Yeah, it opens up a bit more, I guess, because I still
see it as like this is still just a very easy game. So like,
I don't know, it opens itself up a bit more, right with
the platforming stuff, but I still know I still think it's just like Babies
First East in a lot of ways. Right. Oh yeah, definitely that
doesn't make it any less enjoyable. Rob confirmed gamer. Yo, I am
a fucking gamer until I'm not true, I am bad at video games.
Don't don't. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. But no, I mean
even though like it's easier than your average easy, like, it's still fun,
enjoyable, Like going through the stages is fun, the platform is fun
and solid soundtrack is really good, Like the last area that I did,
soundtrack is really solid. I mean it's made two thousands Falcon when IMO they
were at their height, so I've been enjoying that. I like the characters
a lot. The cast so far has been pretty like I'm gonna say,
this game feels like a Saturday morning anime, but I feel like it's a
Saturday morning anime. It feels like a two thousand and eleven PSP game.
Yeah anime RG. It's it's like a PS two JRPG like in that vein
in some respect, like it's like a Tales game. Like definitely kind of
goofy. I definitely got like a Mega Man Legends vibe in terms of like
aesthetic and like setting choice. It plays nothing like Mega Man Legends. Please
don't take that like comment out of context at all. It's absolutely nothing like
that. The visuals have a lot of like Mega Maetic Legends aesthetic to it
as well as like the backdrop of like you're exploring ruins. Yeah, so
like there there's a little overlap there. So it kind of evokes that feeling
in some way when you just look at it and just like, huh,
I get this feeling that my boy Data is still stuck on the moon.
Please one day, one day. Nah, he ain't getting saved. It's
true, he's not getting saved. I was just trying to give him hope,
but I believe. But there there's really something we appreciated about like how
uncomplex it is and like to to some degree like that is also sort of
like a palate cleanser is itself. Like as much as I love He's eight
and He's dying, those games have gotten a bit more complex uh as of
late, So like being able to return to a simpler, more focused Falcom
is nice and it reminds me of a time when like Falcom used to experiment
and branch off more. Even though No Da does play like an ease uh,
it still reminds me of like their willingness to experiment a bit more because
like they wanted, like they had this idea and they didn't want to they
could have easily just made it a trails game, where they could have easily
made it an ease game, and they decided not to do that, and
which is like very different from how they do games now, where like even
their other non ease, non trails game, tokyos And is essentially a trails
game like to its gameplay loop, to its quest system, to it's Tom
clancy ism. Get that not the top Tom Clancy perfect video game, but
no to before I digress and get two off topic, I'm only like a
couple hours in. I just got to chapter two, which I think you're
in the same spot. Yep. Literally, like just got chapter two.
I think I did one thing and then stop, so we're pretty much okay,
So we're pretty much the same spot. Yeah, I'm enjoying it so
far. Like I think what's cool is knowing that Nayuta is not a super
long game. I don't get the feeling that will oversee it's welcome. I
think it will be a nice, charming, uh you know, adventure that
feels like a vacation as it were. Yeah, and you know, not
every game needs to be the best game Heaver right. Sometimes you just need
like those those bite sizes, like you no little sweet treat video games,
And I think that's what Neda is. I wish the boss fight was a
little tougher that I did, but it is a very basic it's it's it's
a very simple game, very simple game. And and I'll say this,
it definitely has me really wanting to play some Oath in tal Dona, like
really badly. So that might be a replay of Oath and to Dona might
be on the table sometimes soon understandable. But yeah, that's just what I've
been playing, and I'm looking forward to getting through to New Utah and then
uh after that, I'll have a few more games planned. The next game
after New Yutah or see at Stars and Spider Man My Health Morales. Uh,
A Few Stars is potentially my game of the year. Uh depends on
if it beats out Octopath or not. We will see Spider Man Miles Morales.
I've been meaning to play for like the past two years, I think,
uh, and now time is forcing me to play it before Spider Man
two comes out. Playing Spider Man two right when it comes out, like
to. But I have so much on my plate and I don't want to
put off I don't want to put off The Stars any longer than I already
have because I was really wanting to play that game on launch, and uh
that just didn't happen. Yeah. So that's that's my plans for the foreseeable
future. I like it. It's good plans, good plans. I'm very
excited to get to sider Man too. I'm going to try to get to
that as close to launch as I can hopefully. But yeah, good deal.
We are at like the end of the show. We did pretty good.
We did pretty good. I just want to I want to sell out
one thing real quick that I forgot to mention. I am still playing ever
Crisis, and I just want to say shout out to the young except for
off the young. Yeah, oh you know we're gonna end this on a
good note. But I'm saying listen free young for us so that everybody can
enjoy him on. I think that is true. I can finance that.
Yeah, absolutely, shout out to the Steam version so that my friend here
can finesse through it and shout out to you. Other than that, let's
wrap up, let's get out of here. I have an animator forced Drew
to watch. Oh boy, oh boy, we're gonna get it. Uh.
I don't want to die. Oh boy, uh chase, sign us
off? Please? Where people find you all that good stuff? All right?
You can? You can find me on the tweeters at diver down f
GC. I'd be I'd be saying things sometimes. I'm also on twitch,
same name. I stream thinks sometimes. Where to god, I'm going to
get back to a half decent schedule one day? Please please? Sounds good?
H cats? How about you also just with killing cats, killing a
k and Tuesday's at the end, and to just like pay like a place
for me to ramble don't really post anything much nowadays. I mean that's really
become mm hm dis it Ryan Uh Twitter as well RCB draws. That's where
you could find me there. I've also announced that I'm doing a sale for
all my stuff prints and stickers for the month of October. You can't be
me for them and everything I am in the middle of, like revamping and
online store that I'm hoping I'll be able to launch on Thursday. That's going
to include that sale. But in the meantime, if you want some prints
or stickers, h hit me up just on Twitter, RCB draws. That's
where you can find me as well as all my work. To say the
least. By his ship buy his ship, please, yes, I need.
I need funds so I could keep buying stuff for Nick. So yes,
please, oh lord, I want you to buy his stuff. And
I also don't want to like you know and force support support bubble game practices,
but you know, yeah, yeah, you're making it hard for me
to stick with what I said, not at all as someone that just recently
got got by Nick and I don't know, but support the homie at the
end of the day, please, uh Drew. How about you? Oh
you follow me on Twitter at d SB totally Drew. Uh, I think
greatly. I've just been expressing Street Fetter six opinions. Yeah, it's game.
Yeah, I still like that game. It's still like that game a
lot. But I'm going through some ship. It's tough. Sometimes it's a
hard video game. It's tough. Uh. You can follow me on x
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like when flat people got listened. Uh, oh my god, man,
yo, right yo, hell yeah, uh you know, yeah, y'all
know what to expect when you follow me. There's a lot of liquors recoiler
art that I retweet and then I retweeted afterwards because Rob either I see it
or Rob sends it to me and be like hey, I'm like, yeah,
you're right. I feel like that. I need to start watching that
show too. Please listen. It's just two girls that love each other.
There's there's no guns, there's no violence. Don't worry about it. It's
great. My favorite part I can't necessarily say like, Rob's correct, but
continue, so bubble gum crisis, got it exactly. My favorite thing to
do is to send Drew a picture of liquors recoil and the only thing he'll
reply is in caps, so just say them and I'm like, then we
just carry out with our conversation. Yeah, because it's true. There's nothing
else to say. That's it. Uh So with that being said, thank
you guys for listening, Thank you all for being here. This is a
really fun one and we will talk to you guys again in like two it
is weeks, so bye, y'all later, take it eave. Oh my
god, we have does coming. Yeah, yeah, we got. I'm
not a Nendo enjoyer, but you gotta. I gotta do it. Oh
boy, cut the feet. This is over by my stuff so I can
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