Welcome everybody to episode two of Drew hosts the JSB Games Cast. I'm happy
to be here and I'm with some of my favorite fellow podcasters today since Rob
is out on site on business. But that's okay. Where we've gathered together
to bring you another show. Today, we have wonderful Cats Cats. How
you doing today? Hello? Thanks? Fine, I'm not doing a whole
lot, Thank you, Thank you for taking time. You know I'm join
us today. We always enjoy having me on the show. And as always,
we have our wonderful man behind the desk, our wonderful producer, our
wonderful Ryan Ryan. How you doing today? Probably doing, guys? Everyone
doing all right? Everyone? Everyone doing good. I know, uh,
it's been a busy a few days for me, getting some stuff thought and
everything, so if I got but hopefully you guys are doing good. I
know I'm doing all right. So just ready to talk about some some video
games this week? Yeah, yeah, I am ready to talk about some
games. I haven't had too much time to put some time into a lot,
but I got some stuff to talk about, all right. But I
think we'll let our special guest Tats you know, Lee the Softcats lately honestly,
not a lot. But I've been on like this weird retro fighting game
bingch as of last month. Okay, I've been playing a lot of rand
random old fighters in fight King, mostly like roos. Uh nice that that
dad was well man? Uh I was so managed to emulate Bassara X on
my phone of all things. Oh really think that game? Yeah, of
course, yeah game game that was um yeah, it was a catcom title
that was made by artsis Yeah, which is really surprising, surprising for me
my first launch. He said, Hey, they did collect one time,
and I can see why I never did it ever again. Access so broken.
But the game feel really nice to play, funny enough, like it
feels good to do something's very familiar as well as if you're like a fan
of Blaze Blue Guilty Year game, it feels familiar to to to me at
least. But god damn that game does not have bricks. It just goes
Yeah, I don't I don't have much found in itself. Yep, Like
if you can find a way to get it, it might be funny everybody
to play with you. I don't, so I just kind of lap stuff
and yeah, like get it gets broken really quickly, I have to use
Yeah, And the funny thing that I found out is that why we don't
get a bigger but Sarah like Niche Communige going was the game is not emulator
possible in a way because the game only existed on the case and there's a
somewhat revised version for the PS two and the hoghway they were running on is
impossible to emitate on PC. That's why we don't get it on fight K.
So class sucks. I can't play. Other people didn't Hope till didn't
Hope till No. Ken run into a similar issue as well, Like I
know there was a PS two port way back when, um, but it
was also arcade and everything, and I think they finally got it to where
it plays on fight K, but it was more the Dreamcast version or something
like that. Yeah, something like that, because he's still running off the
flight Cast simulator for hookin. Yeah, and he run a pretty well like
it works randomly bricks here and it's kind of like CBS two on non Fight
Kid sometimes where he just randomly bricks. Yeah. Speaking of busted fighting games,
hoped on oken Oh we have a guy and telas see stands that game
like I stand Malcolm games as wild. Yeah, well like, oh,
I don't know Kansas like twice this guy's age. Hey look and I was
like why, like what what part of your like short life? You decided,
Yeah, this is the game I need to get behind. Yeah,
Toki in Finish my Gem stuff right, Oh, like no, I can.
I can see the appeal and the white people still play despite being so
comically broken. But it's also like after getting into like like the meme stuff,
so the infinish and stuff like that, right, like Ryan Toky,
good, lord, how do you how do the players do we mend everything?
A links? That all links, there's no cancels, all links.
It's really tight. Yeah, like every jet, that jet, it's a
link. And they almost wanted from more of the time. Yeah, I
don't know how player's doing. It is hot. It's actually a really hot
game, guys. Yeah, it's there's actually a pretty good like execution like
Barrier. That's what that game is. Actually mad. I'm legitimately mad about
that and people that game is people spend time trying to get good at this
game. Yeah yeah, and like rey, uh what are the dribble in
Finnis? Those are links. Yeah, those are not easy. And to
get to a point where you can start dribbling, you have to break break
the combo floor with here by just doing a really long combo at first,
then your transition into it. So now how are you guys doing all this?
And it's funny too, because like the way it works is like the
higher the combo count is, the higher like the character will bounce off the
ground and everything, so like that like some funny stuff that they just have
in that game. This is like it's just hysterically comically just like bad,
but like it's just so funny and like so fun to watch these long ass
infinite combos. And the way they do him is like this is like how
does this even? The thing? Like this is definitely before like Q and
A and balancing change changes were like well before then oh let's speaking of balance.
This is reading significant by his worth mentioning there's a character name missed the
Hart in the game. He's like this pretty giant fat OBEs guy. Yeah,
he's the worst character playing the game, but him on player two side
is slightly worse than him on him on player one side. Yeah, there's
sometimes there for some reason. So so so it's kind of cute he had.
Yeah, And sometimes it's like that, Like sometimes there's like weird things
where um, a certain character on player two side is like worse or better
and stuff like that. I don't like, it's I don't know how that
happens. There's something like that recently Multi Blood type Lumina Mario Mario was the
same way. Mario was better on player one side than it was player two
side. I thought this would be like a legacy thing. But what Yeah,
certain games where that happens, I think, I want to say the
same thing. But was also some of the like Marvel three, but I
can't remember. In Strive, Bikon has a mix up where on player one
side it'll cross up in the corner, but on player two side it will
not. Yeah, yeah, it's true, all right, don't I don't
know how that funding games are weird, man, Like they're just a name
morphous blob of like mechanics that don't make sense. Uh, that's a sad
way to JoJo's home. All you've been playing Jojo as well. So here's
the thing. I don't know what is a Jojo before this. It's like
I just know the memes, the deos, the time stuffs, the deos
mostly the deals. So I no, no, I have no context on
what's everything. But I have two friends who are like JoJo's dance, and
I randomly told them. One the guys like five kid has like heritage for
the futures like that old that old Jojo game has like really broken like contract
and Jojo let's go. So that's the right. Yep, you all picked
up the game and it got it went south pretty quickly because now comin matter
friends like an Abdomain and my other friends are the normal diomin so we're all
like trying to get good for some reason. H And after like a week,
I just casually beating up each other. But like I just went like,
hey, why why does this character does this thing? Then it's like
do you really want to know? Usually watch the show, so I did.
So now also gotcha okay, like like okay things because in the game,
like the caameters were doing like really odd shit. I'm like why why
really, like why why does this character turn turn people into a kid or
some some stuff like that. And I just kept asking questions, why why
why why jo Jo? And They're like, just watch the show, and
after like a week of repeating the same phrase of just watch the show and
I pull up Netflix and I am now everything in the finding game makes sense
to me. Now pretty funny. So once again I have no idea why,
but leg I say games tends to be railing kV and Toyo is no
different except you have to add negative ating into the game. M Like,
it's almost as if everyone is at all from guilty here. But it makes
sense. Yeah, but not everyone has like a stand stand like some of
them has like weapons for stand, so they're more like stands change characters,
like like one guy named Chaka, he has a sword like he starts with
the sword seef like, then you can press the stand button to take the
sword out and now he's like a record based character. Before they're just like
a poking zony sony guy. It's different like per character. But if you
do have like a stand stand, you can do like coralso go back as
and during the super flash you can input like a like a diesel amount buttons
and then the stand will do whatever you press out the words, so you
can't like program like programming the stand to do something, and then you have
free for movement after that do whatever you want. People use this to stand
with you, and it's really annoying, but it seems to be like the
metal of the game, like if you ever stand, you're probably at least
above average. And as for combos, again that the pretty link hevy as
well as like standing like goes into standing heavy is like cut tree frame link
something like that. Thinking is special, They're going to stand and then yeah,
combo. Sometimes it is infinite. Sometimes it doesn't, however, because
like whenever I think of links, I think of Street four and the Street
the four links are fairly easy, yeah, whereas I didn't think links used
to exist in order legacy games until I realized, oh they do. They're
just really really hard yep. But like links and Shie Fight the Fall,
despite being one frame, you you can still kind of because there's plinking right
play like yeah back, yeah, so it's kind of easier. But these
old games are all rolling, so you just and the worst part you just
need to know. Nothing in the game tells you that these links into this.
You just had to know, and which back to the question, how
do people back then found all these out? Yeah? Finding stuff out for
older games a lot harder. Yeah, and how just how how do people
know and how are these games so optimized today? Easy? Because like it's
already been so long that people have played the shit out there. I mean
yeah, I mean you get people that's played these games forever and stuff like
that and anything, and you know it's just like anything like Super Stupid or
two Turbo or like yeah, like they just played the games forever and like
they just got Obviously they've kept playing over time, so that's why you know
they have stayed as good as they had and stuff I got anything. Yeah.
I also want to mention that her this was the future. It's comparable
to King or Fighter of all things, because you have stuff like role you
have stuff like hops hyper hops. It's very kiofe when it comes to offense.
So if you have a hot button that's really oppressive, you're probably gonna
be be mixing people out of him, right. Uh. It is a
hard game. I still think JoJo's a game like it's hard to pick up,
but once once you get into like oh I actually have two characters,
then then it's pretty easy. I guess, like if you're used to playing
Zato, you're used to playing characters like Ghost played in DNF. I guess
that's why Jojo clicked with me so much, because I like these style characters
and I have a whole game that's like this. So he appealed to me
really quickly. And Shadow Deo plays a lot like Ghost played. Like she
he does like summon the stand to do like one thing and one thing only
like like his uniqueness sense. He doesn't have, like the recording super he
doesn't have like I can put my stand here and then like remote control him
from like a distance. He doesn't. He just iss closer to coast,
playing the air where you press as the goal, the stand comes out,
does like one punch and that's it all right. There's there's there's running normals
in his game, which is cool to me because the only game that I
played with running normals Will had a Knight. So yeah, yeah, that's
that's like the three games, three retro games. I've been really putting a
lot of time. I mean, like I did try to pick up if
he has two game brook so much that I can't really play it too much.
That's unfortunate. CBS two like is definitely like my favorite fighting game of
all time. I do manage to play enough to form a team though,
So I guess that's good. Which is is a p groove yun Chune and
my Okay, I thought I see that to play Chunne and Mine the same
team, true, yes, yes, so it's been day all alone,
so that's cool. I'd play mine CBS two, so I respect that.
I see My team was K Groove, Cammi, Bison, sagat it though.
I think those are top tiers, right, I don't know. My
CBS is really really low un is Um really qu my cherry. I'm a
very skavy team. Okay, yeah, you're basically okay. I guess I
mixed in a little bit of rock too. I played a little Rock Howard
in that game too, So I wish Dance and K characters were better in
that game. Yeah, yeah, there's yeah, I'm trying to think of
like really any S and K characters stood out, but to be honest,
it was more um yeah, yeah, it was either Segott, um Sigott,
Segott yeah, forgot Blanca, Sakara, uh, Bison in a groove.
Um yeah, I think I think Vega as well, Klaw ve Vegas
pretty good? Yeah, was all right, yeah, trying to think who
is maybe the best SINK character, like tiar wise is the best K character?
Followed by like the sword check from Hibiki? Yeah yeah Hibiki. Yeah,
I tried to pick up Hibiki, but after looking at comodities, I'm
like, why is it weird? All right? Like I see so I
just did it? Like why why is running like almost or Pretzel? Why?
Why? Back then Glad actually doesn't have that anymore? Yeah, So
like the best SNK characters um According to like some community tartly some sn our
Eori, Geese, uh, Hibeki, Rock, and Kio were often regarded
as like the best like SNK characters. Geese is cool, Yeah, yeah,
Geese is really cool. He's probably like one of my favorite fighting villains.
Yeah, Geese is yeah. Geese is like yeah, probably one of
the more iconic ones for sure, Like he and Rugal addictable Man's rule even
legal to play, I mean regular regular regular regal when a Kuma war,
but they were definitely mid tier. The Omega Rugle and Shinni Kuma though they
were definitely they were banned because they had like infidence and stuff, right,
especially Shinnikuma. He had like a he had like an instant air fireball like
infinite It's cute. All right, Yeah, let's there's my venture into all
games because I grew up like playing fighting games, but I had no one
to teach me all learned. So you know what I thought. Told I
was like, huh, now, fight kids of it. But it's basically
a kidd at my own home. It so these legacy titles, and he
does say I'm pretty impressed involved them, Like, I'm also impressed at how
hot they were back then. There's no internet bedding, So how how are
people learning these games? Yeah, aside from fighting games, honestly haven't been
playing much. I did pick up HC. League of Leging story. It's
one of those new spin off the Right trying to do for the League of
Legend universe, and this one tells the tale of Silence and that and his
battle against the people who don't like majors in his city. It's kind of
like a like a like an X Men story where if you if you grew
up having magic powers, you're probably jailed because magic bad. And it's kind
of like criticism in a way, except peaceful magic people and non magic people.
I'm not gone too much into his own. Maybe I'll talk about this
next month. But also hers a fairly short game, so I'll be quick
and appart from mag Seeker. Honestly, I've only been really grinding Omega Strikers
or locals. The game just came out, No magat four days ago.
I would he came out of the twenty seven. Yeah, that was like
Thursday, Thursday, yeah, yeah, And I've been playing the ship because
I've been winning six months for where to come back. I love the game.
It's really unique. It's say for those who don't know Omega Strikers,
it's say what the developers call it a footbawler. So you get a football
part which is closer to air hockey, and then you get the brawler part
which been which they mean is that you get to point the shit out of
your opponents and just knock them out the field. They will respond, but
you get the days an option to just just beat them up because they're probably
beating you up as well. The game is simple to learn, is really
addictive to to play one. Once you get it getting going, can play
solo. It's a tree v three game, so of course it's more funny.
We have like two buddies to help play with you, because sometimes playing
solo in the staff like sports games are like hell honestly like and this game
has almost non communication in an attempt to reduce toxicity, so your communication is
limited to emotes and things, which is a little unfortunate for me, but
I think it's enough in a grand scheme of things. And the best pace
is free to play, so go check it out. It's really not much
to talk about right now because I'm still like trying to gain the groups of
the meta and everything. The game has completely changed from from the better I
played six months ago. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty much on my end,
like the last month. Yeah, it's nice. I mean for someone
who says they didn't play a whole lot, sounds like I played a whole
lot. Fight K. I just lu fight Kid into like like one one
whole thing because there's so many things, so many games, and the one
one little program. So yeah, nice, nice, Well I guess that
means Ryan. I think it's you. It is, and I think I
want to pig you off, piggyback off of what Cats was talking about with
Omega Strikers, because that is exactly what I have been playing has been Omega
Strikers up for that game, and it looks so good. Yeah. Yeah,
So I mainly been playing Juliet. I mean that's the character I played
in the beta as well. With that game and everything. Um but um,
you know, like a cats say, it's a three v three like
you know, basically like field hockey uh style game. Um, it was
very bare bones during the beta. Um, and like it was, it
was fun, um, but people did get kind of bored of it a
little bit pretty quick because it was kind of the same thing over and over,
Like he played this hockey game three v three, first to five you
know, wins or ordered to KCB games were really really quick things like that.
Like, I personally enjoyed how quick the games were and everything, but
I also understood the argument. It's just like, man, there's not really
a lot to it, you know outside of just the the you know,
field hockey style of game and things like that and everything. Right, so
kind of some of the things that they did that have changed up the game
drastically. They now treat it as um as basically like a fighting game set
in a sense, right, so instead of being the first to five,
it's first to three and instead of the game just ending there, it's just
that's the end of the first period, right, So it's basically the deal
where is like the first to you know, score three goals wins that set,
and the team that's the first to win three sets is what decides the
game. So it could be a very quick game that could just goes three
sets of three or whatever, or it can go to distance and go all
the way to the full five sets, depending on like, you know,
how the team's playing everything. And they've added like different things where like you
can pick your own buffs that are available, and it's based off of performance
in the set, right, So if you were like the best player that
set, you'll get the first pick of which buff do you want? Of
eight particular buffs that you get to choose from, and it could be anything
from like enhancing your skills to you know, creating more damage off attacks,
to other players getting more knocked down like like stats or knockout stats, things
like that. And then you also get like buffs at the beginning that you
get to choose from. You know, if you want to make your character
faster, if you want to make your character a little bigger, things like
that and everything. So they really change that aspect to where like as Cattle
was mentioned with the meta sott and everything, where they just throwing a bunch
of different things to like customize at that point of like how you want to
play the game basically, and also based off like what character you're playing as
well and everything. And they have a pretty unique mix of characters that you
get to choose from in the game stuff like at everything. Also, like
the maps or like the fields that you play on are different as well.
There's actually now like different fields that you get to play on, and they
all have their like own like unique attributes and sometimes like the goal won't be
accessed immediately you have to like hit these like bumpers or stuff like that,
like pinball in a sense, right where like you have to hit these certain
bumpers or certain obstacles that would eventually open up the goal that you're trying to
score in and everything as well. So like they've added like a bunch of
different things to kind of add some more I guess, add some more like
game element to explore and have fun with while still playing you know, the
field hockey aspect of the game and stuff. Um so I've definitely been enjoying
the new changes stuff. I guy, I didn't realize I know, like
when Katson told me, like all the changes stuff I got, I was
like I was kind of wondering, like how drastic it was actually changed in
Yeah, I mean it added a lot of different things. Like I was
actually kind of impressed with how much they added. Yeah. Basically, Um,
there's two new characters they added as well. One character is like a
like a short like Samurai like ninja character. Um, I forget what his
name was though, like sorts of this zentaro Yeah. And then another dude
named Rasmus who has liked this like hook thing that he uses in uh in
the field hockey stuff and everything. Um. And then there's a couple of
other characters they added, like Run. I don't I don't see anybody really
playing Run though, Um, so I don't know what he does. Um
that maybe why then? Really? Yeah? So uh so, yeah,
they've added some new characters, new maps, like new ways to play the
game with like choosing your buffs and choosing like what things you want to use
to kind of level up and stuff like that, and then just kind of
go from there. So I've been playing a lot of that. Mega Strikers
has been very fun. Definitely recommend you know, everyone to give it a
shot, give it a try. It is free to play, so you
know you can't beat that. Uh yeah, it is free to play,
so definitely, you know, give the shot. Tried out, you know,
give it, you know, find out for yourself. I personally like
the game. I think it's a lot of fun, but definitely find out
for yourself too. And and then it made the controller functionality, um better
to use as well, um because I know, like Debata, sometimes the
controller was acting wonky, but now there is like full controller support so you
don't have to play on a keyboard amounts if you want, you can play
on controller. Um, I want to. Uh. Is it cross play
as well? Yeah? Everyway? Yeah. Yeah, So that's the other
thing too. It's it's it's act, it's accessible for everything, like you
can think. There's even a multiple version too, so like it's very much
cross play. So definitely give it a shot. It's definitely put a lot
into it. Let's say Trigger made the opening video for it. You know
that's saying something too. Trigger only does quality work. So um, another
game, Yeah, exactly. Another game that I messed around with a little
bit last night. And it's a game I keep saying. I kept seeing
them I recommended, and I had a little bit of money that's been and
it was kind of on sale, but and like, oh, you know
what, I'll give it a shot. You see what it's, what it's
about and everything. Um, but it's a it's a rhythm game called Melatonin.
Yeah, so yeah, so I bought I bought that last night and
was playing it. It's a very different rhythm game because it's not like your
traditional ryth of games where you like see the inputs and stuff like that and
everything and then you, you know, you try to hit the you know,
inputs on the rhythm and things like that everything, although it does contain
that aspect, but it's done differently. So like I just started the game
last night, and everything's hand drawn in the game too, so like all
the animation stuff and everything that's done and stuff like that, it's all hand
drawn and you have to complete like certain stages and stuff like that. Of
like this character, this dude that's like having these dreams when he falls asleep,
and like it give me, there's a random dream where like he's eating
a bunch of food, or like he's doing a bunch of shopping, or
he's playing, you know, a bunch of video games things like whatever,
and like the stages are like when the music's going everything you have to listen
into like actual actual like audio cues for when you hit the input, and
you'll see based off the animation if you get the input right, if you
get it perfect or not. Like for example, there's the one where like
you're going through the food dream right and you have those like box of donuts
it's launching donuts at you and everything stuff like that. You have to time.
You have to time your inputs based off when the donut is approaching for
you to eat the donut. If you if you hidden perfect, you eat
the donut. If you miss time it, you miss the donut. So
like that's kind of like the way the Rhythm game is done. It's like
you got to time your audio cues with the rhythm of the track also being
based off the animation and looking at that too and everything, so you can
time things you know to be able to get like the perfect like animation sequences
and stuff like that. Otherwise, like you said, if you miss it,
you miss the donut, and you see like him, like the character
just float out like try to take a chomp, like catch the donut and
just completely miss it and stuff like that and everything. So like it's it's
unique in that regard where like there's like different little things that you're doing in
this rhythm game while trying to complete like certain tasks and then be able to
unlock other parts of like other dreams stuff like that. There's another one UM
Order dream where like it's like a shopping thing or whatever, and your your
inputs are like swiping the credit card on the like certain beats of when the
items are available to purchase and stuff like that. So it's very it's a
very unique rhythm game, um when it comes to like how they do actually
yeah, very much. So um yeah. So like I'm like I said,
I dabbled with it a little bit. I probably plaid like maybe an
hour of it and stuff like that. But it's definitely probably one of the
more unique like rhythm games I have played, um because of that, so
um, And it was really toubly cheap. It was like fifteen bucks on
on Steam, so I was like, yeah, you know, I keep
seeing this on here, I've seen other people like play it a little bit
and it's been reviewed pretty well, so it's like, I'll give it a
shot and see what I think of it. And it's just like I definitely
want to play more of it, like more of it. But it is
definitely a very much a different experience from what I'm used to as far as
like the rhythm games go and everything, and that's a good thing, so,
you know, something just something that's a little different. So um,
outside of that, that's pretty much it as far as what I've played.
I do want to eventually start up Hankai Starrail. I do have it downloaded,
but I have not had a chance to boot it up yet, so
like that's probably gonna be something on my agenda for this week to start up
and play and maybe I'll have a review on that. That's basically the Hoyovers
turn based RPG game yep, So so I definitely want to check that out
and see what it's like everything, but I'll probably do that sometime this week.
So that's pretty much it for me though. Okay, okay, well
I guess that moves on to me, which I'll be honest, I haven't
really had too much time to put into games this week. I've mainly just
been continuing my journey through Octopath two. I still really like that game.
I finally hit the point where, like you start having the crossover chapters in
that game, which I think a really neat. It's like, I like
to see what they're doing, and like it's not perfect. I see what
they're going for, and I think it's really cool. I don't know if,
like if the payoff will entirely be there, but like, I like
what I am seeing, and I am a bit disappointed in the in the
fact that, like it looks like they're just pairing off, so like they're
pairing off the eight Travelers in just pairs, and it looks like those crossover
chapters are just going to be between those pairs. So for example, only
Hikari and Agnea, which is the Dancer and the the Dancer and the Warrior,
are gonna have like their crossover chapters are going to be its own tail.
But you're not gonna see like those characters crossover with anybody else. At
least that is the impression I've gotten so far. I couldn't be wrong,
but again Entrepat two really improves upon that sort of issue with the first game,
where like you have these eight characters, these eight protagonists, but they
feel like complete strangers to each other. So the game, excuse me,
the game doesn't feel like super authentic, you know. Um, so I'm
really happy to see like Octopath too, like really put the steps in to
fix that. And you know, maybe by Octopath four, will u we'll
have like the perfect Octopath game, you know. Um at least that's my
hope. I've not gotten into yet. I need to maybe one day once
I get caught up with some other stuff, maybe to play through the first
one or something. It's it's a really fun time, I think. Uh,
those games really bring h a feel of like retro RPG back that is
something that I miss. Um And like the h G two d is gorgeous.
I love looking at it, uh yas or Nishiki's uh soundtracks are fantastic,
Like I love the soundtracks, like the second boss theme in this game,
like I did live rent free in my head, I'm doing like the
whole cat like Bob and its head type vibe, like every time it pops
on and like I get so white every time I hear it, I'm just
like, oh, the song is so good. So like just the package
of Octropath is just it's it's really good. Like I definitely recommend it.
I think I see the first one on sale on scheme all the time,
So when you get a chance, Ryan, I definitely recommend it. Yeah.
I just have like a bunch of other games I need to catch up
on sure, but yeah, I definitely get it. Unfortunately, we live
in a time where like there's so many games out. I mean it's not
unfortunate that we have so many games, but it's really hard to have every
time. Yes, I think are so long that I want the same time
into them, but I just can. Sometimes. It's like right now,
I just put it up Rise Eye Tree and I played only five minutes of
it. I'm like, there's gonna be a long rise in it, and
I just I just stopped after realizing that time things man suck. Yeah,
like between going through like Trails and like other RPGs. It's just like these
games are so long, and I wish they were. I love, I
love them, I love to connect to the love the story, I love
the gameplay, just don't have the time mm hmm. Yeah, lyescially considering
like all the other stuff I'm doing and stuff I got too. Mm hmm.
It's just hard. Yeah, Well being an adult sucks. Um Like
I I wish I just had time to play all the like video games and
RPGs I want too, and like they never slowed down. Uh, Like
every time you turn around, a new game's coming out, and I'm just
like, frick man, I haven't even beaten like the last five. Now
I gotta beat like two more. And Zelda's in like two weeks, and
I like, bro please bro Zelda in two weeks? Uh. Street Fighter
six in almost a month or like in a little over a month. Final
Fantasy Yeah, Final Fantasy sixteen in about a month and a half. Like,
Yeah, there's a lot that's coming out suit we I mean, hell,
we went over it last week. All the releases that's happened exude.
So this is a lot of Yeah, like June is stacked. Yeah,
I mean we're ring. You know, remember even Diabbo four Like that's gonna
be big too. Yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot of stuff.
Well, I mean we do what we can, I guess, yeah,
pretty much. I mean at the same time, I'm excited, Um
games have fun to sixteen, I think that's gonna be insane. Games are
fun, games are indeed fun. Yeah, but uh you know, uh
for all, for all the all the complaining about new games coming out,
Like I'll also say I can't wait for exc Atlanta, can't wait for fans
to sixteen, I can't wait for Zelda. Like, these games are gonna
be sick, and I need them right now, even though I am drowning
in a pile of like fifty games I haven't played yet, yeah, pointing
at me, only looking forward to three Fight six. The reason is that
I need a new fighting game. I'm getting really born of love fighting games.
I'm playing right now, Like the only game I'm the only fighting game
I'm like actively grinding is just Plus right now and occasionally Strife, and that's
it. I don't need to play anything else. Hey, listen, listen
this week, this week the Hollow Live Idols fighting game. That's gonna be
dropping it to play that. That game has got a full blown story mode
and everything and stuff like that. Like, im I'm gonna be playing that.
I'm telling you a game of the year right there. If I rightist
brow. I can't too big of a standard for this year for me is
yeah, I believe me. That's another game that's on my list that I
need to play is High High Rush. Yeah. That game is gonna be
tight. That's got That game is like, I really want to get to
it, and I know when I do, it's gonna be tight. Yeah.
Yeah, that's that's kind of my thing, is like whenever I get
the chance to actually sit down and play it and so I get I am
definitely gonna be all for it for sure. Once again, it's just it's
just it's a it's a matter of time. You know. You do what
you can and you try to find in the games that you want and pray
for the best. But uh, I don't video games are cool, I
think, is the point I'm trying to make, uh, while also complaining
that I have no freaking time and it sucks. Yep. But that being
said, in terms of I am on top of optopath. I have been
grinding some strives. I finally made Celestial with my biking, which isn't like
a huge deal like Celestial these days, Like it's not a huge deal,
but it's kind of nice to hit that milestone that I'm making solid progress with
this character that I picked up. And I don't know why I decided to
grind strive now of all times, but here we are. I wish the
play like on and off. It's not really again I can see because they
can just feels really stiff, like combo wise, it feels really stiff.
I kind of selvage or combo so to say, like I can do an
exit plus R. And also because the I don't have like a character I
really really really like in strife like Ada Nizzato. By even then, I'm
getting read both of him Batman, wasn't it he? Batman looked cool in
the trailer, but after playing him that, I have no idea for you.
Yeah, just just kind of just feels kimped. Not everything he does
feels kipped. I have no no idea how how to properly explain. It
just feels mechanic. I think it's really neat, uh a mechanic that Arcis
is going to have to tweak very carefully because it's like borderline busted, like
almost like nell felt pineberry grenade busted um that like, I don't know,
it's weird, but maybe I haven't played against good batman, but right now
the ones that I have played is like Flow nineteen, and they have that
that they're still like struggling to do what they want to do. I have
no idea what they want to do, so I just kind of like oppose
and just lose that those things on them. I don't know. I mean,
I oppose is a difficult thing to deal with to begin with. I'll
be honest, like I have opinions of maybe that move shouldn't exist, but
I'll save that for another day. I see some some very competent bead man
players, and they are quite good. I mean they are quite scary.
And XAR, we had one of the best bed players in the US in
our group, um Jeff like and like, I haven't had a chance to
like ever talk to him later things so I can. But there's part of
me that wonders, like if he's played Strive and if he's been if he
has had a chance to play um bed man, because he used to be
a bad man player. So um, but I remember like in Exar,
like, oh my gosh, fighting his bad Man was a nightmare because of
how like efficient he was with that character. Oh he was insane. He
was one of the hardest players to play against in that game because Jeff was
just naturally good and beg Nan was a very uncommon character. And I honestly
want to say, Jeff lating you know, old school Marble two player um
as well, But I honestly want to say, like, as far as
bead Man players in the US, I want to say, he was like
top three, behind GC Yoshi and um the other one that scapes my name,
but definitely behind GC Yoshi for sure. Um yeah, I definitely agree.
Yeah, he like he was my gosh, he was just incredibly good.
Um Like, I would love to play him in fighting games again.
I don't no, I don't think he really puts any time in this drove.
Maybe he'll come back for Street Fighter six, I don't know. I
keep putting my faith in Street Fighter six going to be the game that saves
fighting games. I think everybody is right now, Like I think you're not
the only one in that camp. I agree. I'm looking forward to project
it'll be more. Yeah, but that game seems like that's like that game
still feels like it's like three years away. What the way you're doing stuff
like they like, like you think by now like you would get more than
what we're getting, but that that game still feels like it's so far away.
True does it's only because it's Mark is free to play fighting game days,
like he spots radio so does say so this one. I'm like,
yeah, maybe Project Else the one to save the fec. I'm not saying,
but she fighting six with even Lee I show you in the new the
new generation at least, Yeah, I mean, I'll be honest with modern
controls are viable. Yeah, I'm I'm more or less curious to see how
that's all gonna play out. Um as far as like how that's gonna work
and stuff. I think I'm still gonna stay with the traditional controls because like
that's how I played Street Fighter all my life. Um, So like I
but I am curious to see what the like how the implication of the modern
controls are gonna are gonna work, um and things like that. So because
I even with the modern controls, like, I still think at the end
of the day, the play the better player is gonna win. Um.
But you know, I mean we'll this, we'll just kind of see how
that all kind of you know how that evolves when it does release. Did
you is hope for the best? Yep? But again I have high hopes.
I think we're gonna return to like two thousand and nine, uh,
like Street Fighter four Fighting Game Resurgence, and it's going to be ranned.
Yeah, definitely feels that way. At least at least that's what I tell
myself how it feels that way. We'll see if that's we'll see if that's
actually how it works. Um, but I have high, high, high,
high high hopes, and they can't tell me otherwise. Nothing wrong.
But but with that, I think that that's all I've been playing. Does
anybody have anything else they'd like to add? Or we reached the end of
our short little show. I think I think that's a good stopping point.
I think we I mean, I know, for me, like that's all
I really hit on and everything. Yeah, gotcha, gotcha? Well,
I guess we can start the sign off? So cats, where can people
find John Line? Y'all can find me on Twitter at Kaylin Cat's spelled with
case with for Kalin, nine Cats and two zees. At the end,
play Omega Rights. It's free, It's fun. I really wanted to give
to succeed. I don't want it to slowly die of like don't return.
Still play a game, but both games are amazing. Just just check them
out. They're both free. Mm hm, that is the best price.
I appreciate that. Ryan. Where can people find John Line? Let's see
basically Twitter, which is basically my art account, which is RCB Underscore Draws,
which I guess I can announce this um kind of a new step that
I'm taking um personally and everything. But I am going to do my first
ever art booth in June, June fourth. It's gonna be at Nakama,
which is a like an anime sake karaoke bar that's over in our Orange Park
area. So you know, if you're local to Jacksonville or anything like that
and you want to come hang out and come see some cool artwork, come
on through. Like I said, I'll be doing my first ever art booth
with that, So not quite sure what I'll expect out of it, but
you know, hey, we're gonna we're gonna get to try and see what
and see what happens and uh just kind of go for mary, you know.
So, but yeah, you can just follow me on Twitter account.
RCBUNO score draws. Um. I do stream as well on Twitch sometimes,
which is RCBTV, but that's uh, kind of like whenever I feel like
streaming. It's not like a schedule or anything. It's kind of like,
oh, hey, I got some time, chicole, let's go ahead and
stream type deal. Mainly, but mainly Twitter is the best way you can
find me. Rcb un A score draws. Nice. Nice. I look
forward to hearing successful stories of your boothing adventure. We we shall see,
we shall see once again. I have high hopes. That is the running
thing for the union. We're leaving this episode with positive vibes. Maybe maybe
that's the podcast title, high Hopes, High hopes, High hopes. Indeed,
I'll make sure I know that. And uh, for me, you
can find me on Twitter at JSB totally drew, I don't know. You
can just see me tweeting out video game opinions. Uh. My latest were
my takes on the I do have to bring this up because this is worthwhile
video game news. The new hot take was to complain about how Rematching is
two fasts and tree Fighter six and that has to be the dumbest fighting game
take I've ever heard of in my life. You can't be serious. People
were complaining it's great, it's great. I'm unable to even are you I
mean if okay, I say, I couldn't believe it. But like after
I freed, I was like, yeah, I can't believe it. I
mean, you're not wrong, I mean, but still, like I thought
we were ending this podcast on on a on a high note, you know,
and then you have to go because I can't believe people are that stupid.
Here we are, yeah, here, we are good. But that's
fine. So you can see my takes on making fun of the fighting game
community on Twitter edging speech totally Drew, that's definitely the worst thing about the
about the fighting game community Twitter anymore. It's so bad. Uh. And
with that, I think that's an episode. So thank you all for joining
us, Thank for both of you for joining me. We miss Rob but
he'll be back next week. But for now we will leave you all with
the rest of your week. Y'all. Have a good one bye bye later by