It's the Internet. You're busy, let's do this. Welcome to the Game
Mess Decides Podcast. So this is the podcast where we decide everything about the
world of games, so you never have to think for yourself. I'm your
host Jeff Grubb and with me is Hey j Manatti aj Manati. In today's
episode, game passes many tears, confuse me? Who the fuck is Ameo?
And we're gonna do a draft of sports games because college Football twenty twenty
five is coming out and I'm getting pretty excited about that looking forward to it.
But first, Ash guy, how are you doing. I'm good man.
I just got back from a very nice vacation for Jessica and I are
having our tenth anniversary at the end of the month. Well, yeah,
we had a little trip to Milton, Delaware and rehob With Beach and then
DC. She actually had a work thing, says kind of let's spawned this
trip. So all she did that I went to the Smithsonian. Ooh,
good deal. Yeah, we we have that like kind of fall anniversary and
we usually do something because that's also pretty close to Steph's birthday, so we
kind of bundled that up and take a trip this year that we're not because
we got Disney coming, so yeah, we kind of can justify a little
bit. So we took a summer trip instead and we just can't got back
as well. It's a good time, a good time of year to travel.
I think, how was it where you were at? Was it like
really hot and nasty or what? It was very very hot, But we
had a nice time because we Jessica turned the first leg of our trip into
like a brewery tour, so I didn't know it, and like, so
we booked them at Milton, Delaware is where dogfish Head Brewering is? Is
it really? And I know that I didn't either until I looked at a
map and I was like, we have to here. So that freaking rulled.
And we found this amazing home old restaurant called Somewhere on Rehobeth Beach that
had like the best fish crab and shrimp tacos I've ever had, really good
cocktails. I love finding like little places like that, like yeah, we
just have That's where we parked the car to go to the beach, as
like, oh, this restaurant's cool, let's go in there. Oh convenient.
It is the other thing that's happening right now is a lot of different
sales on stuff. Steams to summer sale I think is still happening, if
not just ended today, it just ended, Okay, just ended. Then
there's still a lot of other sales. But Prime Days coming up soon,
a lot of things are starting to go on sale because of that thing included.
Do you see, uh, what game they're given away for free Prime
Day? No, what are they giving away for Prime Day? Suicide Squad?
Ah, that's what all it's the children crave. Finally the suicide squads
will be accessible to the many and the all. Oh boy, that's rough
already for that game. Huh right, isn't that like bizarre like that?
Yes, it's I mean I think just got put through the ringer and here
we are. It's as summers, so now it's already on its death march.
We were talking before we got started about some of these EPE dough controllers.
I think I don't know. I have plenty of controllers, but I
think I wouldn't mind having more APE dough controllers. I also know that I
think they pronounced it a bit do and I'm not going to do it.
I was never sure someone said they had a h a bluetooth speaker from a
bit dough that like would say its name when you turn it on, and
those pronounced eight bit do. But I'm like, even that doesn't fully convince
me, because it's like, well, that's just some like you know,
voice actor in a booth who probably didn't double check how to say it and
doesn't know it's a reference to. I'm just not gonna do it, though.
I don't care even if they say that's how you pronounced it, it's
a bit dough to me. Yeah, some of these controllers you were pointing
out one hundred dollars golden and silver controllers. I'm not going to grab one
of those, but you know, even if they weren't wired. Yeah,
yeah, but I could use a couple more ultimates. I have one for
the switch, one for my PC, and honestly, maybe getting another one
just for the switch might be pretty good. I don't know you're gonna pick
up anything not right now. I might come the holidays get some for the
kids, because one thing they don't do with their switches a lot is they
don't dock them. Because we have a pro controller. But like for the
kids, the whole pairing and unpairing process of pain. But since it's just
that receiver that's plugged in and so whatever switches docked connects to this controller,
that would be good. I'm trying to get them to do that more because
it just kind of spread them around the house a little better for their Minecraft
sessions, which are very intense these days. She actually, my daughter Livia
is complaining her world was getting bugged because there's too much stuff in it.
Oh really was like that, can I send my world to Mojing so they
can fix it? I was like, I don't think they do. I
can. Phil Spencer fixed my Minecraft world my daughter just the other night for
the first time, and she like holds up to me while she's doing this.
She's like, I'm gonna try this and it's roadblocks. I'm like,
wait, wait, what's happening why? She's like, I never thought I
would try it, but I'm gonna have the kids in my class always talk
about it. I've never been interested, but it's summer, so I'm bored.
I'm gonna try some recreational dangerous games. So the truth, I don't
get that game. I truly don't because there is so much IP infringement that's
not hard to find. I don't know how they don't get the pants suit
off of them. My son plays this game that's like a knockoff of Teen
Titans with like music from Sonic to Hedgehog, sound effects from Mega man X.
Like, I don't know how it happens. It's out of the DMCA
where it's like, well, no, a user uploaded that, so if
you ask us to take it down, we'll take it down. But otherwise,
I mean, who could say what's happening inside the game? Right?
Yeah, it's it's really strict. I mean, we've seen some companies be
a little bit more proactive about that, but that's when it comes to like
certain companies that are known to sue. So I wonder if Roadblocks is a
little bit more on on the ball. If there's like a lot of Nintendo
stuff says so much Mario stuff in there, right, that probably does get
a squashed. They don't don't want to draw the eye of sore on there.
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right, aj, I have some news from the past week I want to
discuss with you. Are you prepared, I mean I prepared as I'll ever
be. All right, let's hop into it. Microsoft is making significant changes
to Xbox Game Pass introducing a new tier and implementing price increases and shifting things
around. Basically, it is kind of a rebrand, a kind of setting
things up for the future, setting things up for call of duty, kind
of taking advantage of maybe the tail end of hyperinflation where they can get away
with another price increase while they can. There's a lot of factors at play
here, but the bottom line is game Pass Ultimate, unchanged in terms of
features, will now be twenty dollars per month instead of what was it before,
eighteen dollars per month seventeen ninety nine. There is a new standard tier
which will be fifteen dollars per month. This includes the Xbox of Back Catalog
and Xbox Live Gold, but it does not include day one games or cloud
gaming. Then that's going to launch in September twenty twenty four, and there
is now I think the core tier will be eleven dollars per month or something
like that, basically, though day one games are no longer part of standard
tier. This new thing. If you have Xbox game Pass console right now
and you keep it, I think that will also be fifteen dollars per month
or something like that, but that will continue to include day one games.
So as long as you don't cancel your grandfathered in but new users that does
not include online multiplayer, right exactly, So you have a reason to go
up to Ultimate still for sure. Yes, And to be fair, most
people already have Ultimate, Like there's very little reason to know there's reasons to
have game Pass console without Xbox Live Gold, but there's not a lot of
reasons. So many of those games do require Xbox Live Gold to get the
most out of them at the very least, and with Call of Duty coming
up, that's definitely going to require So it's it's a strange set of things
that when you look at it kind of closely, it's it can feel,
I think a little bit more confusing than what it is. When you step
back, you kind of you see what's happening here. It is them trying
to get away with the price increases that they can before Call Duty comes out,
and trying to set up a future where game Pass is still an option,
still something that people want, but will not necessarily be this thing where
it's like, oh no, just ten dollars per month and you get every
game that we released day one. That's not the truth anymore. They've completely
changed that. How did you view all this when it went down? Insane?
I think this proves game Pass wasn't working. The fact that they have
stepped away from the blanket day one game concept proves that that was not viable
anymore. That people were playing out the game pass core was like, oh,
that already didn't include day one games, but that was just a renamed
Xbox game Pass corey. It was just which again was also a bad idea.
Xbox Live Gold was like, it's like changing Twitter to x You had
something recognizable, everyone knew what it meant, and you changed the name to
something more confusing. Because game pass never meant playing online. It always meant
a library, and now it's suddenly meant both the kind of and like,
core is not an intuitive word? Was core mean? Standard? Also isn't
very helpful either. It should be called like Xbox game Pass library would be
a better word, or something like that, you know. I think it's
also illustrative though, right because the standard is no longer games in game Pass
or day one games in game Pass like that, you can't say that's the
standard future of game Pass anymore when it's not in the standard tier. But
that's insane because a month ago we just had this universally adored showcase, and
how many of those trailers ended with played day one on game Pass. Yeah,
that's just not true anymore. It's just not true. Yeah, and
it could be played day one with game Pass Ultimate, Like, is that
going to be the new voice line? Yes, yes, it will be,
Yes will be. Uh that's interesting. I want I want to go
back because I at the time, I do remember feeling that it's like,
sure, they're mentioned in game Pass, but it's like it feels a little
bit more subdued than they've done in the past. I remember feeling that I
don't know exactly what that is. I'd have to go back and watch that
show. But now I'm curious, like how they actually mentioned game Pass in
that? Did they just flash playable with game Pass and they had the Ultimate
on there? So I don't think it had Ultimate And I'll pull them on
something up. Take a look. Now. What I think is telling though,
is PC game Pass, which is getting a price increase, right,
I think it's twelve dollars per month when it was ten dollars per month.
Yes, but it is still keeping day one games. Yes, makes me
wonder is their growth opportunity there that they see that they want to keep that
enticing. Yes, they are still in the gathering phase on PC because I
think they see untapped opportunities for growth, like say game Pass on Steam something
like that, where that makes sense. I mean like other things dropped from
Standard was like EA play like they are trying to They're like taking features away.
You know, sure, it's a new tier, so it's like you
technically are not taking anything away. This is a new offering quote unquote,
but we know what's happening here. When you move the prices around, you
could have put your paying the same for less or you're paying more to try
to get the same. Like, yes, what was happened What has happened
here is pretty clear, so so real quick. So like I just pulled
at the Xbox Showcase. I went to the end of the Doom the Dark
Ages trailer and there's the logo coming twenty twenty five two game Pass Xbox Series
xs PC. Yep, Like they just say game Pass, it'll come to
game Pass eventually, right now. That's that's the other thing. People are
like, well, when will it come to game Pass Standard? In that
back catalog, and it's Microsoft's favorite phrase, case by case basis, you
know, could be six months, a year, or longer than a year
in some cases. I think they were asked and they said it would be
case by case. Yeah, I get here here South of Midnight. It
ends with a big green splash screen and it says played day one with Game
Pass. Now, to be like fully clear, this stuff had been rumored.
I've been hearing the rumors of this stuff going back well before E three
or some summer game fest. So this is not something where it's like,
well, since then they decided to make some changes. They knew these changes
were coming, So when they were saying when they were flashing Game Pass on
the screen there, they knew that this would be happening before Call of Duty.
So which makes it worse. I feel like a little bit of a
mat and switch. Yeah, a little bit, Yeah, definitely. It's
like they knew it was coming and they had one show kind of built on
a reality that would no longer be the case by the time the vast majority
of these games came out. In fact, pretty much all those games.
Here's why I find so odd still about Game Pass Ultimate in particular, because
there's three reasons upgrade to Ultimate. Either you have an Xbox and a gaming
PC. In the past it was you had game Pass and you want an
Xbox Life Goal that's how you got both. Or you want cloud streaming.
I find the stagnation of their cloud streaming very perplexing. Since twenty twenty two,
at least, we have not gotten much progress in that as a service.
They just released the whole firestick app, which only works on the twenty
twenty three and newer fire sticks. I have a twenty twenty two one,
so I couldn't even use this if I wanted to. They talked about in
twenty twenty two how you were going to get access to your full game catalog
on streaming, not just games in the game Pass library. They completely went
silent on that. Yeah, I always wonder about that. That still has
not happened, and they haven't said anything about it. Right, supposedly I
was. I responded to a thread from Tom Warren and someone in the comments
screenshoted where some just dude in March said something Phil Spencer, and he said,
that's coming soon, But like that's the only thing I've ever heard of
it Against this twenty twenty two because I always have like a like NHL on
the console, and I always want to be able to stream it to my
stuff. Well, you know, like even like you know, you're playing
a game of game Pass. Ultimately, okay, it's leaving the service.
Okay, you could buy it at a discount, great, but if I'm
streaming it, I don't have anywhere to play it after I buy it,
which is odd. Plus it's still ten ADP. They haven't anything to upgrade
it to four K. You're still playing the Series S version of a game,
which they used to say didn't matter, but now, to use Starfield
as an example, the Series S version is thirty FPS. The Series X
version can go up to sixty so there is reason to want that, you
know, hardware upgrades, so to speak. I don't understand why they had
all this momentum and kind of build going off that service for years and then
just stop. I think it still says beta, right probably, I mean,
yeah, I get it to a certain extent with like the stagnation,
because it's got to be expensive to update and maintain those data centers because like
what they say is every single time you are logging into the Xbox cloud.
You are tapping into an Xbox in one of these blades one of these nodes,
and you're playing on a shoot Xbox that's just sitting somewhere, and so
like, you know, those things need to be maintained and taken care of
and probably replaced relatively frequently. I would imagine, I'm not like every week
or something like that, but every couple of years. And it seems expensive.
And I think the the evidence of that is, like, it doesn't
feel like they're investing a ton because they're probably not seeing a ton of return
on that investment because very few people are probably using the service thing. Right,
Yes, it takes forever for the games to load, so I try
it to be like how is this. I maybe let one of the games
load, and I kind of pull my hair out a little bit while waiting,
and then I give up because it's not a great experience. And then
and I have something to compare it to, because I have used Nvidia g
Force now a handful of times, and that works way better, way better.
It's not as great as it once was. There was that magical time
early in the in video shield days where I could play anything from my Steam
library through a g Force now that was pretty incredible. They got rid of
that real fast after some companies complained, but it's still like there's a lot
of games that do support it and work really well on there. Yeah,
GFN covers like ninety percent of the games I wanted to right now, especially
I mean like World of warcrafts on there. If they got Final Fantasy fourteen
on, it'd be incredible. That's like one thing I'm like missing. But
there was that, wasn't there, Like some rumor, I don't know whatever
came of it that like it looked like they were testing g Force now in
integration into Xbox. But maybe that might have been like a face. That's
definitely something that's still in the rumor mill that Steam might come to Xbox or
the next Xbox or something like that. I don't know. I think I
think the next Xbox is going to look very different and we'll see what that
looks like. But in the meantime, game Pass, what do you think
really went wrong here? Because again I don't think this is the death of
game Pass. It's not what I'm saying, but it's clear the game Pass
is not the platform the way it felt like it was once going to be
So what went wrong? Well, I think the problem is they had this
number they wanted to hit, but to hit that number, you ultimately needed
a greater penetration of the console on the market. You were always going to
have a certain attach rate, and I think they hit that ceiling. Yeah,
and they just couldn't get enough Xboxes out there, which I think is
proved in their kind of push to PC and how that has more features,
and you know that's part of ultimate Maybe that's how they're going to try to
push these numbers up ultimately for the cash flow aspect of it. But I
think they just kind of really hit the ceiling on the number of the Xbox
Console subscribers they were ever going to hit. The other thing that's to is
they tested a family plan in what Ireland and somewhere else, New People Country
and they killed it and it never expanded. And I really don't get that
either. Because here's another thing where I have an Xbox Series A S that
the kids use. I have that set as the home console, so they
have access to my full library. They have access to multiplayer features through my
subscription, but they can't cloud stream if they're signed in and I'm not,
and they can't cloudstream on their iPads. For example, if they put out
twenty five thirty dollars a month for Xbox Ultimate Family, I absolutely would shout
out for that because I think they had kids, like you don't have to
fight for the TV anymore. You could stream to your iPad for them.
That would probably be good enough. There's no way in God's green Earth I'm
going to get four separate Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions. They're just gonna have to
make do with BAC not YEP. And I always pointed to like, typically
there is going to be like in a orbit of like five gamers, there's
going to be one person that is like the spearhead that's like, Hey,
I want to go. I want to get us this thing so we can
all play together. What if I just did the family plan and you all
can pay me a certain amount a month, and then those people always forget
to pay and the person's like, whatever, I'll just keep paying like that.
There is a lot of people out there like that that would this would
capitalize on that, but I think they are like, you know, someone
chat says that they think that that game Pass is working and that they're raising
the price because it's working. And I don't fully get that because we kind
of we know what's happening here is that they haven't grown game Pass in terms
of raw number of users in the last year and a half at the very
least. And that's not just according to guessing. That's like analysts looking at
things and Microsoft sort of not talking around things. And they're raising the price
in the way that some of these other companies that have movie streaming services raise
companies after they had like two hundred million users or three hundred million users and
Xbox game Pass has thirty million users. If that and if they were still
trying to grow and gather the users, they would be keeping they would be
adding features, they'd be adding bullet points, they would be aggressive on pricing.
And it's like, no, they're not doing that. So they are
shifting to raising prices and moving around features so they can get the most money
from the same people. So I mean, if if game Pass is working
in terms of they're going to like keep it and keep charging the people that
have a subscription to it, more sure that if that's what working means,
But working in terms of being the key thing that is the future of their
growth, it is obviously not that. Well, here's what's very calculated about
the whole thing to me. So PC game Pass and game Pass Altman each
have gone up two bucks a month. That's enough for me to be like,
that's annoying, Yes, but I can swing two bucks a month five
bucks a month. That's when people are like, do I need this?
Maybe I'll just cancel it. So that's calculated. On the console side,
Hey, you have that good subscription where you get those games day one,
better not cancel it ever, or you're going to lose that. Yep,
because that, like I said, that's hit the ceiling. They're not going
to grow it. They need to keep what they have. I mean,
think about the time their retention tactic. Yeah, think about the timing,
Like what was happening three years ago. Everyone was doing the one dollar deal
and converting three years of Xbox Live Gold into three years of game Pass,
and now all those people are coming up to the point where it's like,
oh, that is starting to run out and I'm gonna have to start paying.
And guess the fuck what if you want to keep that shit, You're
gonna have to keep paying now Again, they many of those people have probably
upgraded to Xbox or Game Pass Ultimate, sure, and they don't have to
keep it. But those are also going to be the most loyal people,
and they are trying to get the most money from the most loyal people because
that is their one option in the in the moment, and they don't really
have the luxury of waiting around and hoping they find some way to make more
money down the road. They got to be making money now. I don't
think this is all doom and gloom across the board, because this is like
a pretty common problem across the industry right now. I think we look at
the price increases that Sony did a few months years when was the PlayStation Network,
like reworking. When they did that, that was about making more money
from the same people as well. Raising game prices was about making more money
from the same people as well. There's going to be a PS five pro
coming out probably this holiday still wildly when that comes out, that's about making
more money from the same people. Once again. This is just how this
industry is working right now. It feels cynical and kind of annoying and like
nickel and diming, and I'm kind of getting over a little bit and it's
pushing continues to push me more towards PC. But that's me, not everyone's
going to feel that. I don't know. I kind of hope we get
to a point where I was. I was getting food for the kids tonight,
Ash Guy and I went to Arby's and they had the two for six
deal, the two for six deals back. I got two classic roast beefs
for six dollars. Those things like normally are like almost six dollars by themselves.
Like one of those things, I'm like, oh my god, there's
a deal at a fast food restaurant. I haven't seen that in literally years.
And it's like, oh okay, the like things are starting to like
pull back a little bit at least on that side of things that when you
go to like a fast food restaurant, everybody has a five dollars deal.
Now McDonald's has one, right, AMC has one, Like like I feel
like that bubble has versed. The fast food price gouging finally hit ahead where
they were losing revenue because so many people were just not going exactly so,
and I think gaming is looking around being like, oh shit, we're going
to be there real fast. We're going to have to start offering more deals,
so we need to make the price increases that we want to make right
now. We have to reset expectations before Call of Duty comes out, before
pricing, like before price conscious gamers really become the norm and the majority,
and then very soon I'm hoping. It seems like these companies are gonna have
to start like bouncing back and offering better deals, and that will probably be
what it looks like in twenty twenty five. But in the meantime, Microsoft
trying to get away with whatever you can get away with, just like all
these companies are. It's not some Microsoft specific specific thing. If that bothers
you to hear that. I just feel like they could have done this and
made it a lot clearer. It's so confusing. Maybe that's by design,
Maybe they want it to be confusing, right. I just hope you'll just
pay the twenty two bucks a month and be done with it. Yeah,
I mean I can tell you, like, because my sort of proclivity,
my like sort of knee jerk thing here would be boy, that's a fucking
mess. If I want this whatever, I'll just do the twenty dollars per
month. Here's here, Just give me ultimate because that just gets me everything,
right, and of course it gets you everything, and it's all right,
whatever, twenty bucks per month. I don't even I don't even want
to look at the rest those options because that just gives me a headache.
That's probably by design to a certain extent. I don't know if that necessarily
feels great though, because you know, we talk about the medium popcorn thing
all the time. That's not confusing, right, So twenty five cents more
for a large and you're just thinking about what a good deal to is just
pake twenty five cents more when it's like, well, the fucking the'll thing
still cost twelve dollars. What are you talking about? That is simple and
this is no longer that. So yeah, we'll see. I bet we
do get on the other side of this, and they do have to start
offering deals again, and I bet they simplify things again in the next like
two years in some way. But what does that look like. I don't
know. There's still a world where they get rid of Xbox Live Gold or
you know, the remnants of that, and do offer free online because you
know the rumor of Steam coming to Xbox. They're not going to force you
use or Xbox Live Gold to play Steam on on Xbox, are they?
If that's how it works. Nane also like, why at this point you
don't want barriers to playing games on your system. We're so past that as
a as a consumption society. Anything that causes friction is just a bail point.
Yep. All right. There was a weird trailer uploaded in Nintendo's YouTube
channel that was scoe. It was very who is it, Jeff tell me?
It was a man standing in a field I don't know, and he
was wearing a bag on his set of paper bag and that had a smiley
face drawn on it. And his name is Emo Meo something like that,
and apparently in Japanese it means like smiley faced man. I think I think
that's what it is. Either way, we have very few details other than
the game e Meo or Or has apparently been rated in several territories and is
m rated by the ESRB and like, you know, the highest rating by
the Peggy and all that stuff, or you know, not the adults only
rating, but the one below that, and that's all kind of all we
know. There was rumors maybe it was made by Blue Bird. Doesn't seem
like it's made by Blueber. Actually, when people looked a little bit closer,
it's like Blueber's game wouldn't be coming so fast that they're working on with
Nintendo apparently. Uh, what do you make of this? Ash guy?
No, I don't know. It's it came really out of nowhere. Yeah,
I mean Nintendo has dabbled with scary games. I mean, guessarkness,
you'd have to go back to they they they have did they publish the Fatal
Frame games? And at some point they published some Fatal Frame games, right,
So I mean it's not uncharted territory. I guess it's just uh,
it's a it's a weird teaser to drop out of nowhere with very little information
around it. Yes, it is. Uh, it's strange in a lot
of ways. I'll say, if I can bring the trailer up for people
who are watching along with us, I'll turn on volumes. Sorry that you
probably heard a click there, but let's go loop that there we go,
Yeah, it is, it's it's weird. Yeah, the man standing in
a room, it's a fifteen second trailer. You see his hand flash,
right, then there's that the kanji and I hit the kanji is what says
like smiley face man or something like that. Yeah, Nintendo has done M
rated games before, but they've done I think like fewer than ten something like
that. It's they're not even in double digits yet. But we're at the
end of the switch and they do tend to get a little bit strange at
the end of their consoles, So maybe this is going to be an example
of that. At the very least, I think they're doing a good job
of like getting people interested in this. I mean, this trailer has four
hundred and forty thousand views since yesterday. You know, it's not massive,
but that's pretty big by the standards of a random trailer on the Nintendo channel.
Some of those, like you know, some of them will have like
tens of thousands of views. If at best, when do you think we
hear about this? Is this going to be a long drawn out thing?
Ah, maybe it comes back in the fall if we get like a fall
direct, because we just had our summer direct. Maybe this is going to
be some sort of switch to project. And that's why they're being vague about
it, so it wouldn't surprise me if we don't hear about the sand for
a very long time. Yeah. At the same time, like, I
don't think they're going to do like a million teasers or something like that.
I think a way, yes, they if it takes a long time,
it'll just go away. And then if if there is more to it than
that, then I think they'll probably just have something really quick and maybe we'll
find out about it, like hopefully by like next week or something. But
you're right this it could just disappear and we'll see maybe never hear about it
until it actually gets announced for real. It's some other direct Yeah. In
the meantime, we'll be keeping our ears open for emeo emeo. I'm gonna
say, Melio estabez so bad and then here I'll click here it is right
here. Game Boy Advance Update for July twenty twenty four. Nintendo Switch Online
Starfie has been added to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pass. Starfie. I don't
think I ever played a Starfie. I always thought they looked cute and cool,
but I never played that. There's three of them. Yeah, there's
several starfeet. I've never played any of these. I always thought they looked
cool, but I never heard anybody talk about it much. Did they are?
Like all the words here in Japanese. Do these games come out in
North America? Maybe not Japan. Only games that are being released in their
original Japanese on the English service. Okay, very cool, Yes, I'll
read it what it says here, dive into a trio of colorful action games
starring Starfie, the legendary star shaped hero in didn't sets, you know,
Starfee didn't set? You know Starfe's two and then sets you know starfe three.
Previously only available in Japan, these titles are joining the Game Boy Advance
Nintendo Switch Online library and are available for all Nintendo Switch Online plus Expansion Pack
members to play starting today. That fucking cool star drinking a margarita at the
beach. Hell yeah, yeah, this is cool. They've been like keeping
up a little bit of a pace of these releases for Game Boy Advance,
So I feel pretty interesting. Heard it least I'll check them out. That's
pretty cool. All right, let's see anything else. Let me get the
other camera back. You know you gotta play that Planet coaster to make a
water park. I did see that. That looks pretty fun. I might.
I don't know. I've been in the mood for something like that.
Maybe this is the one I should go play. Uh yeah, finally,
very good trailers. So I like their trailers a lot, right, absolutely,
all right, you know we should do. Let's take a quick break
when we come back, let's get into some of the super chats. Right,
all right, we are back, and as promised, we're gonna get
to your super chats as guy, believe you have those in front of you.
Could you read those for me? I can thank you? All right.
Cody Bishop starts us off the messaging play at Day one on Game Pass
with such a simple pitch. It's baffling that they threw set that simple messaging
away for this convoluted mess Like I said, I guess it just becomes play
at Day one on Game Pass Ultimate and that's your simple solution. Yeah,
it's the simplest solution. It is what they will do. But I don't
disagree with what Cody is saying here. In fact, I think this is
like sort of central tube to what we're getting at is they had this very
simple thing that was just applied across the board for the most part, and
they are giving that up because they want to move more people up to the
highest here and make more money from it. So clearly their emphasis is on
not a simple messaging to attract new new users, to attract new people to
pay. It is about getting more money from the same people, and that
is not a growth mindset. So yeah, there's no other way to read
that. Yep, ol Grug says, is Mike an emeo or is he
a starfie? Look? Did you see a little starfie drinking the drink on
the beach. He's Mike is a starfie. Yeah, Starfee's very mic coded.
Yes, see that picture of him on the speeder bike doing his like
serious nerd pose. I said that. When he sent me that, I
said, did you get across the entire planet in four to five minutes?
Hey? There it is all right, Chris Pratt, right sin, He
says, Xbox Plus, PlayStation Game Pass, all of these new services are
distracting us gamers for doing what we do best, stomping the fupas That's right.
I mean. Also, he put a capital G for gamers. Hell
yeah, Chris Pratt, Chris knows what's up? Chris Son, Thank you
so much. Connel Wood says, Yeah, I'm gonna pass on this price
hike. Boom, you got him right right in the kisser. Look at
that big fresh thirty seven, says Starfy with uh maybe three dozen exclamation points.
Yeah, I know this, like there's always been like a little bit
of a cult following for these games, and now I'm realizing it was just
dont I ever heard of them? Yeah, because they're Japan only, I
guess that's why I never actually ended up playing them. But this is hopefully
that you just jump in there and enjoy them. I wonder if there's like
actually English translated rams that would be even better, better way to go.
Yeah, but we'll see, all right. Jhalil Hayman, who is a
Lincoln member for six months, says we need to learn what Chris Samamoto Son
thinks about me O. Very good question. We guess who's guess who's under
that bag. I'm very excited to find out what they think about that.
Slippery Moose Cakes says pr would have been better had they added streaming of all
bought games to Ultimate at the same time as the price increased. See,
so I'm talking about like add something to that service. Besides, you could
use a fire stick. I mean even like said much about like a lot
of the Activision Blizard games. I know, like recently some Transformer games like
started working. Are those in game pass like I don't know. It feels
like they could have just done a big drop at the same time as well.
There was Yeah, there's a rumor that Black Ops three was coming.
I thought I saw, but I don't know if that ever, like what
the timeline of that room was if we missed it. Ye, it seems
like there's easy, low effort ways to sweeten the pot, to put some
honey on this, but they do that the stick of the charac. There's
a lot of stick here. The Inchariton Wolf says, playing Link to the
Past for the first time, and man of this game is a masterpiece.
Do you guys prefer Link to the Past or Link Between Worlds? I mean,
it's hard because there's a lot of nostalgia for Link to the Past,
which in many ways to me is a perfect video game. It's a perfect
between worlds. Is takes that perfect video game and twist sitting really fun ways
and like maybe makes it more fun to play moment to moment, Like it's
right, such good movement and stuff like that. I mean. The thing
that goes against linksing Worlds, I guess is like I think you really do
kind of need to play in three D for it to work, you know,
the way it should. So there's a barrier there, especially good,
you know, if you don't have a three DS and you're trying to play
it otherwise. But I mean gun to head, I'll I'll still take Link
to the Past. I guess. Yeah, I if I were to sit
down and play one of these games, I would be playing Link between Worlds
right now. But Link to the Past is classic and perfect, all right.
Edgar Moreno, with their tenth super on Live, says, can you
show me an a bernick sp You got that handy? Jeff? It is?
Yeah, let me go grab it right over here. I think if
it's pull your shirt before you stand up, trust me, I think good.
Good. Don't give it for a free. I really want one.
If you get to charge guys. Yeah, I'm not standing up unless someone
super chat's at least twenty bucks to day, okay least. Yeah, we'll
see what happens. You know he's coming back. Oh man, that looks
so cool. I want one to throw so bad. Hey, then that
looks like a game Boy ADVANCESP, and that's a game Boy DANCESP by way
of a Bernick. It's Ambernick SP. And then I got my own little
sticker and put the Nintendo sticker on here. Oh heba, yeah, so
I talked about this before if I faced with you with Mike. But like
my attraction all these Chinese handhelds is well, I have a Steam Deck and
it does all that, and I have an analog pocket. But that form
fact that's enticing. Oh Like, it just makes me feel happy to look
at it when I see it, to hold it, to have it in
my pocket. It just gives me the warm fuzzies. And that's a huge
part of it. The somewhat annoying aspect of it is it dies relatively quickly
quickly in standby mode, which I can't remember. I thought the Game Boy
Advanced SP lasted for quite a while when you closed off clamshell, as he
didn't have that. That was the some games had like sleep right, they
had the sleep mode right, So but I would take advantage of whenever I
could, and I would keep it in sleep mode. Still, I would
expect this to have a little bit better, better battery life in that situation,
I think what what has been happening though, is I've been like browsing
in the OS and when I put it in sleep in the OS, that's
what uses more of the battery. And then when I'm in a game,
it actually shuts down in a much more clean way. I gets the battery
still doing pretty good. And I definitely had this on for a day or
two, so uh yeah, I want to like use it more. I
just traveling and elden ringing a bunch of others stuff gotten the way, but
I am glad to have it like this is definitely like my preferred way to
play these games that that work well with this button layout at the moment.
Very nice. Where did I go redacted? And if he chatted another one,
He says with all my soul, I hate the super chat interface.
I like Zelda, that is all. Hell Yeah, Ezekiel, sorry about
the super chats. He didn't have to give us another ten dollars to say,
yeah, but I'll take that time for myself. Yeah, there we
go. There, that's the AJS fee right there, and okod that's good.
I like Zelda to Yes, that is his fifth and sixth super Chat
Live. Illuminati eighty five wraps us up for now with how can anyone deny
GP pays for itself monthly? I mean, I don't think we ever said
it doesn't unless it doesn't, because there are some people who are like,
well, no, I want to play these games, and I'm going to
play these two or three games this year, and instead of getting game Pass
Ultimate, I will just buy them. Now. Of course you have to
factor in the factor in the cost of Xbox Live. You're gonna be playing
anything anything online on the Xbox. I still think Xbox game Pass is a
relatively good deal even now. In many situations, if someone were coming to
me and being like, look, I want to really get into games,
where should I start? I would give them some I would offer them some
options, and I would probably still personally point them to the Steam Deck.
But I'm like, but if that's frightening to you, because PC, maybe
an Xbox Series S and game Pass, because that'd be a good way to
try a whole lot of games real fast, and then you could play all
these free to play games online and have fun with that. All that said,
none of like, none of that changed changed the conversation we had about
like, why are these changes happening, and are they happening because game Pass
is healthy and is exactly what Microsoft needs it to be, and it clearly
no, that's not the case. It's not growing the way it needs it
to be, so that's why they're making these changes. I don't think it
changes anything about what we said. Yeah. I think ultimately though, as
a consumer of any subscription service for gaming, you look at what you pay
per year for that service, and then you look at what you'd pay per
year for those games and which one's bigger, and that's how you make your
decision. You know, I hadn't subscribed to Ubisoft Plus for years, and
then they had a slate of games over the course of twelve months that I
was like, I want all these games, so I may as well do
the subscription. So I played Avatar, I played Prince of Persia. I'm
going to play Star Wars Outlaws. That made sense. And you know,
for a while I had EA Plus because or whatever their their top tier one
is called, because I wanted to play Anthem and Battlefield and now we know
better. But yeah, that's all there is to it. Just value proposition
for you exactly, and everyone can make their choice. And if you really
don't like it anymore because he's price increases, just in sub you can still
complain about it if you want, always say that to feel free to complain
if you want. Yep, all right, that is it for now with
super chats, so you can send in a super chat at any point and
we will read it before the show is over. Okay, excellent, And
of course anyone wants to discuss anything else that's been going on, feel free
to send in those super chats. We'll do another round of those as we
get more in before the end of the show. In the meantime, I
think what we'll do now is we'll go get set up for our draft.
We're gonna do a draft of sports games. Both ash Guy and I will
draft a team of different sports games and face them off against one another.
Looking forward to that. But before we do that, we're gonna take a
quick break and we are back. Let's hop into it, Like I said,
a sports game draft. So how this is going to work is me
and ash Guy will both have our own team. I think let's aim for
ten and if we start to lose steam, we'll go to eight. If
we have plenty of steam, go to twelve. We'll kind of play it
by year on that. We have some other things we'll probably have to figure
out here. Maybe we can have a discussion about the here in a second.
But the general rules are we will pick a team of sports games,
and then we'll have our podcast producers vote on the winner. I'll make a
Twitter pool. If you're listening to this, you want to vote on that,
of course, but that's not binding. What's binding is our podcast producers,
and so we are trying to appeal to their senses. And I think
that's going to be very interesting for something like this. Now, Ash guy,
let's settle it. Should it be any game that is in any way
considered a sport, for example, Tony Hawk. Where are we falling like
extreme sports? I'm tempted to say, yeah, let's do it. Let's
do it. I think so, and then let's do that. Let's try
to go to twelve if that's the case, because I think that I opens
up more than I was thinking initially. Agreed and sports and then should we
do it by franchise or should we have to have the franchise game and the
year that we're talking about. How about this, Like you can if you
just want to claim a franchise, go for it. But if you think
it'll sweeten the pot to specifically call out a particularation. But once you've done
that, it's off the board. Okay, all right, so we don't
like, you know, we're not picking different years of a sports game.
That sounds good to me. Okay. In that case, let's get started,
Ash guy. I think I'm gonna let you go first. Oh wow,
yes, I do. I do? Is it? Does it?
Do? I do the smart thing the podcast producers do. It is screaming
Madden. Here is he listening live? If it's only one vote, sometimes
all it takes is one vote. I guess I got to just start and
take Matt. It's the eight hundred bound Guerrilla, right, NFL. That's
what I'm gonna what. I'm not going to pick like a particular year and
we're just going to say Madden. Right. I think I'm going to do
uh, the other no suggestions in the chat please, that's right. I'm
gonna do the other obvious, similar one, but this time for the rest
of the world, and I'm going to go with well, shit, because
it would ea sports football also becount as FIFA would be FIFA slash EA sports
football Collier, right' it's that lineage. Yeah, okay, FIFA slash see.
I'm not going to pull a fast one on here. See. Yeah,
I think that makes them money. It'd be weird if we try to
separate those, because we know what Okay, okay, back to you.
So this pur is this too boomery? God, this is where I get
in my head now already. But if we have a favorite year, we
will put it in there. But it's like for FIFA and stuff like that,
and Madden, there's probably a lot of favorite years thus have had like
ups and downs, right, I think, well, okay, God,
you know, if we're doing Tony Hawk that I feel like I gotta I
gotta take. I'm gonna take Tony Hawk specifically the one in two HD remaster
one plus two h D, Right, is that how it goes or is
it? Yeah? I think that's right, right, you know me?
Yeah, that's that's right. That's tough because that's like the really big one
of those. And I'm like not exactly sure if I should try to counter
that or if I should Hmm. There's a lot of directions. We could
go with this exactly. I like I like this one because it right.
It's not like the Boss Fight one where there are a lot of like direct
counterpicks, so you could just cry kinds of directions here and I am going
second, which is very easily. I think we see a lot of times
where it's like, well, God, I gotta start countering what he did,
but I need it. Right, we have a lot of directions,
so I shouldn't. Let's just do I think the take the next most iconic
one on the board, which I think would probably be NBA jam. Yeah,
that's how I was debating. Yeah, I think that that that's the
one that's like a lot of people will see that and just have warm fuzzies
for that and probably hitting a similar audience at the same time as well as
the similar to Tony Hawks pro Skater one plus two, the same kind of
people would like both. I'm going to go for another legacy favorites and I'm
gonna say specifically NHL ninety five oh a version so good they re released it
as a bonus content for the current year. I'll help you out. I
think you're you're thinking of probably ninety four. That's ninety four. Shit,
Okay, yes, you're right. See you said that. I was like,
wait, is in ninety four? Ninety four is definitely the one that
people think, Yes, and they did release a new version of that,
and then when they don't do that, fans update that version with the roster
of current players every year, which is very cool. Okay, So now
it's like I'm feeling like maybe I should. There's a couple of options branch
out even more or try to hit some of these really big names. And
then there's a couple that I feel like if I don't take them now,
you could And there's some I think I'm thinking of that. I'm like,
I'm hoping you're not considering at all that maybe I can hold on two for
a while. It's it's complicated, but I think I'm gonna take this one
now because I feel good about it. It feels pretty similar to my last
one. But NFL Blitz, I think I think there are people who like
NBA JAM and I think there are people who like NFL Blitz, and now
I have both of them. So I feel good at that pick NFL Blitz.
It's like I already had football so it's like, Okay, I want
to get, but what I don't have is a basketball, So I will
go ahead and take NBA Street Volume two. You're master. I thought maybe
I can like wait on that since you took NBA Jam Yeah, suck.
I got scared, good, I got scared. Okay, all right,
let's see here. You did NBA Street Volume two. I just did NFL
Blitz. They have I hadn't already taken. You took NHL ninety four.
All right, well then I'm gonna go with SSX just like, ah,
that's good. A lot of people like they think it's like the other major
major extreme sports game that people think of first. Yeah, and I'll hold
on hold on to some of these other ones for a while. Give me
that wave race. You're gonna steal my wave race. Yeah, I'm gonna
steal your wave race. You left it hanging you. I was hopefully,
hope, hope, hoping you wouldn't think of it and then i'd be able
to get it late. Hell nope, the best water physics and gaming still
still got a wave race is so good. I think about it all the
time. Okay, shit, that's not fun. All right, I'm I'm
gonna go for one that I think is uh that maybe debatable. So I'm
gonna ask you as as I say it, h I think it's a sports
game, but it's not based on a real sport. It is a version
of real sport. Rocket League. Is that a sports game? I will
give you Rocket League? Okay. And there's a soccer ball going into a
goal. Yes, right, that is sports right, It's right. It's
soccer but with cars. And I think if you could say something like that,
it makes it feel like a sports game. A lot of people still
really love Rocket League. I am hoping that because right now I feel so
far behind compared to what you got here. I'm hoping that some of these
audiences will show up for these games that I'm mentioning. I'm hoping some of
the younger players in our podcast producers are going to see some of these and
feel something. So we'll see again. You just said that. It makes
me worried. I'm going to go for another Boom or pick here, but
we're missing a sport and I want to go with what I consider to be
the greatest iteration of it. So I'm going to go with World Series Baseball
ninety five World Series Baseball, because not only did that rule in the Genesis
and the thirty two X, but it had the really good Cleveland Indians roster
on there as well. So right, that was a good game. Okay,
all right, So I think I will go with my Boomer pick,
but it's a very recognizable Boomer pick that I think has nostalgia cross generations.
Mike Tyson's punch out. Ah, very good, very good, two exclamation
points. Yeah, I think that's one that everyone recognizes, and it's probably
still the most famous boxing game. I was gonna say punching game. I
remember, Like, No, I don't want to say stuff because I don't
think you'd pick this. But I'll save a conversation point for later. Ah,
Okay, where am I going next? Right? Do I go?
Oh? I know what I'm gonna take. I'm gonna and I'm gonna be
cheeky too. We're gonna take Mario Golf. Mario Golf is really good shit,
right, because we want a golf game. The Tiger Woods and PGA
games they've been okay to last few years, but they felt really stagnant.
They were like all the rage, like two thousand and five, like the
Xbox generation. But Mario golf has always been consistently fun. You know,
it's it's it's as much golf as I need with a little whimsy thrown in.
And it's a good series. Yeah, and it absolutely I think that's
a really good pick. Boy. Okay, this is tough, man.
I could go even more Boomer and that doesn't feel like a great idea right
now. There's some other ones that feel a bit too Okay. If I'm
gonna go for the younger audience, maybe I think I think this might hit
and I'm hopeful I'm gonna go with WE Sports. Okay, I don't.
I think WE Sports Resort. I'm just kidding. I think all the different
seat of sports. Yeah, and then listen, WE Sports Retort is better
in some ways. But I'm hoping more people just be like, oh,
yeah, of course I played WE Sports. I like that. E Sports
feels like one that is underappreciated now, but enough people will recognize it that
I hope at plays here. How many is that so far? I think
that's seven. Do you want to do a quick little recap here? Yeah?
So with aj Sports guy has Madden, NFL, Tony Hawk's pro Skater
one plus two, HD, NHL ninety four, NBA Street Volume two,
Wave Race, World Series, Baseball ninety five, Mario Golf. And then
I have under Grubball, FIFA, EA Sports, FC, NBA, JAM,
NFL, Blitz, SSX, Rocket League, Mike Tyson's punch Out,
WE Sports, and now we have another five to go. Yeah, I'm
gonna hurt you again. I'm gonna take I'm gonna take ten any snowboarding.
Yeah, I figured that would probably happen after I picked SSX. Yeah,
like I didn't see how you could take it. But I'm trying to also
tilt you a little bit. Yes, it's worked for sure, Like your
list is like I prefer it one percent, Like I hate that. Yeah,
listen what you won't say to Mike? Can he lose it? It
doesn't really, It's always true. Yeah, yeah, right, because like
building a list for me, I don't think is a way to win.
But for the sports games, I honestly have no idea how the podcast producers
are going to take one. I'm trying to be broad. Nintendo bias usually
helps, wait because like there are some games that are massive that we haven't
picked yet that I don't know if any podcast producer actually gives a fuck about
I'll just pick it now because at this point I don't think I think this
is like really my only resort is to go for those I'm gonna go with
NBA two K, which is one of the biggest in the world. In
the world, Yeah, but like it feels like there's like gamers and there's
people who play NBA two K, you know what I mean. Two K
is legit good, but but it's also go Like I think it's held back
in its opinion because it's very like call of Duty in terms of it's everywhere
and it has micro transactions that people hate. But I don't know. I'm
hoping. I'm hoping people will fill in. Well, yeah, NBA two
K seventeen I love that, So I'm hoping people just kind of get them
like that. Yeah, yeah, No, I'm gonna Okay, I had
one in my head. This save it because it's obscure and if it helps
me yet, Uh, starting to get a little stuck. So is it
is it? Okay? I'll leave it to you. Is it is it
too much to say NCAA football? Well? No, yeah, do you
want to? But you like the EA Sports one, right, Like,
is that too close to Madden? Or are we and ship? Yeah?
I should have taken that. What the fuck was I thinking? Yeah,
I'll take it because there always was a certain segment of people who they didn't
like Madden, they liked college football and they've been underserved for a long time,
and that there is an excitement that that's coming back. So I'll try
to ride that wave. Yep, all right, I'm sticking with my current
strategy and I'm gonna go with MLB the Show. That's another one, like
it feels like it comes out of a year. It's a game pass and
it's like yeah, but it's like it's hard to gauge because like the people
who play it play it and no one talks about it. I don't.
I don't love where I'm at with it with this, but it's like it
would I think it'd be weird not to pick them. It would be weird
to pick so many other things before picking NBA two K and MLB the Show.
So I'm hoping mhm, okay, oh, Mario Strikers. What am
I doing? Yeah? I was, I'm thinking I need a soccer game.
Which one do I go for? Duh, the one that everyone talks
about on this show. Uh, what's the name of the one you're you're
selecting or do you want to do? I guess you're doing the whole year
franchise. Yeah, okay, well shit, that's good. Okay, I
am let's see how many we have left? That was three, three,
nine tenths. We have two two left? You have two left. I
have three left. Okay, I'm going to do uh And I think I'm
gonna mention a specific version of these I'm gonna go with Tiger Woods PGA Tour.
I think a lot of people played those games at that time, and
I don't think any of the golf games since then have had the same cultural
impact as the Tiger Woods PGA Tour games. So I'm hopeful they're very good
and they had very good character creators. Yes, it was very into for
a long time. Right, I'm trying to think, like, is therely
some weird sport were missing, just like a sport in general. High lie.
I am going to pick dead or alive extreme beach volleyball. Let's get
the white food the baby. Oh god, all right, there is see
this Manati is smart? Y'all could learn a thing or two from this.
Get the out of here. I know, I know, I'm messed up
bad. Okay, all right, let's see here. I think still a
couple of ways I could go I want to do. Okay, I'm gonna
talk it out because I want to pick a racing game, but I don't
know which one. And so I'm like, consider, are we doing racing
is sport? Well? What do you think? I thought? I think
so, but I don't know. Do we want to like that's that's different,
you know what I mean? I'm I'm okay with separating motorsports out and
then we just don't do motorsports. Yeah, because I feel I feel like
you could do a draft of racing. You're right, because because right,
you're right motorsports, because then there's so many like we could pick up,
like motor bike racing and and uh uh, you know, watercraft and stuff
like that. When you did wave Race, I realized I was thinking to
pick wave races. You gonna say it's definitely a motorsport. Okay, all
right, then I'll give you one. I'll give you one. Yeah,
okay, that seems fair. We did do Rocket League, right, soccer
with cars Okay, well I'm thinking then now I'm back to like having to
pick one, and it's like, I just don't think like stuffing on like
f one does anything. I guess I could do like Sega Rally, I
feel and that feels like very It feels like more like a sport than uh,
rage Racer or whatever. What was Mike like when it was a stupid
game Ridge Racer? Yeah, well there was a Rage Racer too. Uh
okay, well you know what would Mario Kart count I doesn't quite feel like
a sport to me? I don't know. Yeah, that feels more like
a party game. I don't know. Sean Christian, you went away in
here? No you is Mario Karter Sports? Is Mario Karter sport. You're
picking it as a counter to Wave Race. I'm picking it as a as
a motorsport game, not necessarily a counter to Wave Race, but Wave Race
is the reason why we are considering motorsports. Still, Wave Race feels more
like a sport than Mario Kart does. Yeah, I agree, I agree
with that. Which one? Which? Okay, so then you don't what
I am going to go for it, And this is kind of a pick
for myself. Sega Rally Championship, which could yes, I like, I
don't know if it plays with anyone else. Well to this is my twelfth
one, right yep, so I guess to uh to just counter and wrap
it up. I'm gonna go Day two, Daytona USA two. Sorry all
right, uh, I will go with the most boomer pick then at this
point, and this is probably my favorite team sports game that I've ever spent
any time with, and it is Techmo super Bowl. Yeah, how do
we not? You know? I had that in my head earlier and it
completely went out. Boy, I thought that probably should have been in my
list somewhere. I love Techno Bowl a lot. I love Techno super Bowl.
Yeah. Those were some good times, and they've got a lot of
iconic characters like you know, Bo Jackson and Barry Sanders and just running back
to your own end zone and throwing the biggest Hail Mary on every play.
It was just a great time. So, yeah, I meant to pick
Skate. Yeah, I did mean to pick Skate and I forgot you.
Yeah, which one I wanted to find room for my list? I couldn't
because I didn't know. But I like Sega Soccer Slam, Sega Soccer.
I do remember that game. I played a lot of that game. That's
very good, but I don't know if anyone remembers Sega Soccer, Slam,
Golden Tea, Neo Turf Masters. I wish oh NFL two K. I
didn't mean to pick that as well, but I kind of like it,
kind of. I think I went with the NFL Blitz and I didn't need
another NFL game that Christian Dup spin, It's pretty good. Spin is definitely
want to considered. I also was thinking about virtual tennis and stuff like that,
but uh, he did Mario Golf and that made me think about maybe
doing Mario tennis. But I'm like, nothing's gonna play like Mario golf.
I don't hot Shots Golf would have come close. I thought I thought A
J was going to pick Provolution Soccer. After you pick it again, that's
a series I fell from grace though that like that was the top dog,
but now like yeah, but people still I don't know. I don't know
that it's for the bookcast producer you win over, so like, I don't
know if there's much love for that. I don't know if people would be
like, oh, I remember the glory days of pro Evo. Yeah,
I think of it as winning eleven. I think of International Superstar Soccer back
when it was that, which was great. But it's like the fact that
the series had so many name changes also doesn't help it. Right, Muddy's
the legacy? Yeah? All right, well, Jeffer, let's read these
back. Yeah? Can you read them while I get I'm gonna put it
up on Twitter. Okay, let me make the screen bigger. Second.
See, so the scroll up? What's my team? Name? Your team?
Your aj sports A sports guy for the sports guy. Okay, so
edge sports Guy has Madden NFO, Tony Hawk, pro Skater one plus two,
NHL ninety four, NBA Street Volume two, Wave Race World Series,
Baseball ninety five, Mario Golf, TENNY Snowboarding, EA Sports, NCAA College
Football, Mario Strikers, Dead or Alive, Extreme Beach Volleyball and Daytona USA,
and grub Sports or whatever it was, has FIFA Slash, EA Sports,
FC, NBA, JAM, NFL, Blit's s s X Snowboarding,
Rocket League, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, WE Sports, NBA two, k
MLB, The Show, Tiger Woods, PGA Tour, SEGA Rally Championship and
Tecmo Super Bowl. I was muted there we are everybody all right, Hey,
how are you feeling about about the results here so far? I'm feeling
good. Honestly. I think dead or Alive is gonna win it for me.
I think that. I think that was my incredible dark horse pick that
when I when it occurred to me, I was like, oh, I've
got this in the bag. I thought that was inspired choice. Like,
like I said, I mean, I'm a at this point, I'm like,
I like my list pretty good. They're both good lists. They are.
There's a good mix of sports sims and arcadie sports games, which which
is what's fun about sports video games. You know, there's different ways to
get it, and uh, I feel I wish the major sports there are
kadie games or cheated like like we don't have like a like a Triple A
and NFL blitz more or you know in the a street. Yep, we
get like baseball's and what's the is there some other small baseball game these days?
But I want a game that looks like the show. Yeah, I
want a game that looks like MLB the show but plays like Ken Griffy Junior
did on the Super ninten. Yeah, and like EA Sports bought the team
that makes Super Mega Baseball and Super Mega Baseball, Baseball four came out under
EA Sports and it was kind of like missing some features, and I think
all it really had was and we got the license to some old baseball players
and not any MLB teams or anything like that. It's like, Okay,
what is the point of EA being here if they're not going to really like
juice this game up? And but it's a it's still a great game.
It's it's still the best baseball game you could play. Right now, all
right, this is a I'm not feeling very good about my chances. I
think your list is very good. So we'll see. We'll see how it
goes. But we'll get the results from the podcast producers here pretty soon.
I will do a poll in the chat here in a second, and we
will get the result on Twitter in four days. I set the timer for
four days, so I'll probably be torture for me for that whole time.
All right, let's take one more quick break. When we come back,
we'll talk about what we've been playing. We'll get some more Super chats read
and then we'll get the results of who won. All right, all right,
we are back and getting back into the action with what we've been playing
as guy, what have you been up to in the last couple of weeks
on Trail Don Trail, I've been it really is. We're on vacation.
I had my Steam deck and if I had some time do unwined in the
evening, I just hopped in and did some side quests, and uh,
I liked on Trail a lot. It's very good. I like f f
It's fourteen a lot. And uh, I'm just still, you know,
plugging away with the MSQ, the main story quest, and I did the
first kind of handful of quest towards the the Tank roll quest, which they
did a cool thing there where I'm assuming this is how it works, like
each each role is going to a different Old Game region. So for the
Tanks, I'm in ish Gard, which is the setting for Heaven'sward, and
that's one of my favorite zones in the entirety of fan fans fourteen. So
that's working for me very very well. So that's cool. I really like
that conceit that they did there. I like when MMOs find clever ways to
reuse old real estate. Sure, sometimes World of Warcraft does a really good
job with that, and it's always cool. So I was happy to see
that. I mean, usually it's just sitting there, right, so why
wouldn't they find ways to do that. It's great repurpose it puting new content
there, you know, especially if you do have nostalgia for these areas.
It's fun to go back and see, you know, how has this place
evolved since I was last year? And you're getting some of that with this
quest so far. So it's really fun. Like I said, so far,
the just the dungeon and trial design in this game is peak, Like
it's so good. That content is phenomenal in this game. I hear the
complaints about some of the story and the characters. I understand it, again,
I guess, But again it doesn't bother me because you know, everyone's
pointing out that Dantro is the lowest Metacritic of a Final Fantasy fourteen expansion.
It's like, really for it was like out for a week at that point,
Like how do you put a review score after? So I have it?
I think I have it in my fantasy, wasn't it wasn't it like
seventy eight or something. It wasn't. Of course, it wasn't great.
I'll look real quick. It climbed up to an eighty. That's good,
that's okay. I guess that's something. But it's like, man, I'm
like, oh, that's a guarantee. They never had port low review scores
on that because only the absolute freaks or reviewing those games. Right, all
right, well, I guess yeah. The user scores a six zo point
five, which is insane to me, like absolutely insane. I don't know
what people's expectations were. Is it maybe the fact that it's like this is
less continuing all the momentum that the story's had before and now it's starting starting
something new, and people are maybe on something that's part of it, Like
I said, like looking for that feeling they had when the story just kept
ramping up, right I, Like I said, this is I feel like
this is this game's miss of Pandaria moment where it is this kind of reset.
I think by the end of this expansion, we're gonna get a clear
idea of where the threat's going and what the next ten years this story looks
like. And I think ten years from now, everyone will look back at
Dawn Show with incredible fondness. Yeah. I think you're right. I'm sure
that's where we're gonna get with this. By the way, see by the
way, chef, that's on Metacritic and the thing you says, open,
oh yeah, open critical. Yeah, it has an eighty four. Okay,
okay, I'm okay with you. Eighty four. That's pretty good.
That's what makes me happy to seal the deal for me or anything. But
it definitely helps a lot more than well, okay, so okay, So,
like, do you have this like in a tier list with all the
other DLCs. Do you have it like ranked or anything like that, or
you're not feeling yet. I need to finish it first. I mean,
as far as early impressions go, I guess it doesn't have the immediate impact
that a Shadow Bringers or a Heaven's Ward had just because in a lot of
large part because of what they were coming off of was such a big continuation
of the story, you know, the storm Blood, even though that was
still part of the overarching narrative that was coming off of a pretty strong ending
for Heaven's Ward, and we hadn't really gotten the big universal threat yet to
the way it played out, so that one, you know, it was
kind of in a similar situation, just not so concretely. Yeah, I'm
just enjoying it. It's just it's more of my favorite of all time.
I'm not going to be mad about that in any way, shape or form.
Excellent. G Glad it is working out for you. I have mostly
been trying to play more elden Ring, but I'm at the end and I
kind of lost some momentum with my travels, so I've kind of just been
poking around some things here or there, but I've been playing too much.
Really. It is, you know, some stuff on the site. I've
got mods going in eurotruck simulator or things like that. And we tried,
like, honestly a few minutes of that once Human game, and I was
like kind of turned off by it pretty immediately. I'm like, there's just
too much going on, and it's it feels like the kind of jank that
is pasted over with so much sheene of like this like looks this is what
you know, really well made games look like so much polished, and it's
like, yeah, but I could see all the crap underneath. And so
I'm like, I don't know if I want to spend my time getting into
it. It seems like the people that are getting into it are having a
decent time. I'm just not in the mood for that right now. So
it's like kind of seeing all these things pop up. There's the First Descendant
as well, and I'm kind of gazing over at that stuff, being like
I don't know if I really want to be playing that right now. And
so then I just kind of keep going back to elden Ring and maybe a
few things on the switch. Tried out those new NFL games, not the
Starfy ones, like the co Cobra one from Rare and things like that.
Just kind of poking around of these things here or there. But the plan
is I am gonna sit down, I think tomorrow night, and maybe I'll
stream this and try to just beat the final boss in elden Ring. Haven't
really had any real goes at that yet. It is intimidating those times where
I didn't hop in there and kind of see what it was about. It's
like, yeah, this first phase isn't as bad as everyone said it was.
Like, no, people are talking about the second phase, which is
as bad as everyone says it is in terms of, you know, not
bad in terms of quality, bad in terms of this is terrifying and I
have no space to breathe or get past this guy. So I'll try some
things, maybe rebuilding my character a little bit and going there and try that.
In the meantime, though, I am really just continuing to look forward
to NYS World Championships. That's kind of where my brain is really at.
I cannot wait for that to come in C double A or it's not in
C double it's just college football either. They dropped in C double A.
I think college football is coming out pretty soon, So lots of things I'm
looking forward to, and I want to get eld Ring done before those,
so ideally that'll happen. I don't know anything else you've been playing. It
was it just down Trail, just donchaw. I have already created a backlog
after the Steam Summer sales, so I did picked up the Destiny to Expansion
again. It was what thirty five bucks, and it's like, if I
just get a good shooter campaign out of that, that'll make me happy,
and by all accounts, it seems to deliver that. So I'll get to
that here now that I'm back from my trip, and just today I didn't
get Chans fired up yet, but I did end up pulling the trigger in
Pennies Big Breakaway. Okay, cool, I want to try it, maybe,
you know, maybe maybe I'll play for an hour and be like,
now, just get my money back on it. But I like that team.
I looked Sonic Mania so much. I want to see what these guys
are capable of. Is this like the indie three D platformer we've been waiting
for and not? Uh, you know the opinion, I seems to me
it's it's good enough, so I enjoy it from it. Yeah, yep,
I think it's Uh, it's it's pretty good. It's not like the
dream scenario that you know, you're kind of hoping for from some of these
things, and none of these indie three D platformers have really been that.
So I hope we kind of get to a point where any team can make
an Astrobot. But there's a reason I'm so excited about Astrobot, because we
don't usually get that quality from everyone. Uh. The other thing I did
play, and this was also on the stream from Giant Bombs, Super Moves,
which is that Parker multiplayer racing game. Uh, and that was a
lot of fun. It is. It's one of those games it's like we're
definitely using the unreal engine and we're just gonna use all of the realistic assets
and everything's gonna have realistic lighting and all that stuff and kind of looks weirdly
good. Uh. And then it has a pretty simple part core system of
you can run with a stick, you can jump by hitting right trigger.
You could do a front flip kind of like a double jump in mid air
after hitting the right trigger by hitting right bumper, or you do a backflip
in midair by hitting the left bumper, and then you could slide by hitting
the left trigger and that's basically it. And then you just got to follow
these obstacle courses to the end and try to get there. And it looks
like it has it supports up to like forty people. At one time,
we were just like more realistic Fall Guys, yes, and it's like,
you know, so because of that, it's also like a more skill base
to fall Guys, because Fall Guys is definitely skill, but you are working
around the stiff controls that are deliberately obtuse, so that people who aren't as
skilled have somewhat of a chance, because anyone can make a mistake and kind
of beef it here. It's like, no, you need to just get
good and run to the end and be looking for shortcuts or looking for the
shortest path, or taking risks and things like that. Really like that,
And what this got me thinking is I wish every three D platformer had modes
where it was just players racing each other online. That would be great,
But in the meantime, getting games like this where it's like this is the
whole idea and they're just building a game around that, I was. I'm
a pretty big fan of that. So this is a demo that is still
out on Steam. It was part of the Steam Next Best demo, but
it's still live, and I kind of recommend checking it out just to see
what it's got going on there and so something. Once it goes live,
we'll probably play a lot more of it. All right, why don't we
read the super chats real quick? I think we got to get here,
all right? Where do we leave off here? With Adam GC He says
that Anthem game was done, but the combat is underrated. I agree.
It also had very good Iron Man Flying and it's crazy that no one else
has done it better since. Yeah, I just remember seeing that thing at
E three and being like, this fucking rules this. Look at this iron
Man flying. It looks so cool. This game's from I'm gonna rule.
And then I just if I played it a little bit and never got too
into it. They they they messed up the loot system and a looter shooter.
That's what killed that game. I'll do it. Also, I really
hated being in like the towns or the areas with like such stiff in PCs.
It's like, man, I remember Master e fact the characters will be
dancing and stuff, and this guy's just standing there like a corpse. It
was weird. They got better, there were there were some extra good moments
with your core group. Adam GC also says Mike's right about Starfield though sorry,
age guy. Look, I understand Starfield's faults. I just get test
them somehow because I'm a sick Oh there's I love Starfield and step I can't
help, but I enjoyed it greatify for me. Don Can ninety four says,
you think Sony returning to Tokyo game chapter five years means they want to
compete with Nintendo Japan again when switch to launches or other reasons. Jeff,
what's say you? I don't know if I mean like compete with Nintendo in
Japan. And I think what it means is that they recognize there're still quite
a thirst in Japan for these kinds of games, and that the PS five
is doing at least as well as the PS four, which actually didn't do
super duper well in Japan compared to the previous PlayStation consoles, at least not
at first. Maybe that changed over the years, but I stopped paying attention.
But the PS five is not like continuing a downward trend. If anything,
I think it's bouncing back. So I think they're recognizing that if they
can hit that audience with a couple of games, like you know, a
Ghost of Sushima did really well in Japan, it like crushed in Japan.
I think they're like hoping to be there, maybe so that they can get
people excited about some other stuff. And then when Ghost to Sushima two hits,
I think they're hoping that that also crushes. I don't think they're thinking
about we need to like take some market share away from Nintendo, because that's
just not really on the tables the fools there, that's a fool's errand absolutely
all right, Ezekiel Bushitt, I think that's how you say that says.
My first game I can remember is Space Jockey on Atari twenty six hundred.
What's your first bonus if the iPhone YouTube interface, sweet Jesus, it fucks
up every day, isn't me. I've read that prothetically everybody. I think
everyone. I think the the YouTube interface is causing everyone a problem tonight.
It looks like sorry about that. I mean, my my first game I
could remember was Super Mario Brothers. My dad just showed up one day with
the he he went on. I don't know what prompted it from him.
I should ask him. I'm not quite sure why he did it. But
he walked home one day with the nes pack that had the three on one
cartridge of Mario Duck Hunt and Track and Field with the grays apper still and
the power pad, and he also had golf and Mickey Mouskapayes. And it
took us an hour to hook that thing up. Hell yeah, we didn't
know what we were doing. We played Mario, we played golf. He
beat me one. That was the last time he ever beat me in a
video game. And I struggled every time they get track and Field to work
because that power pad was touchy. And that's that's how it all started.
That any s he just randomly brought home one day. The earliest game,
the earliest home game I can remember is I think it was Barnstormer for Atari
twenty six hundred, played on the Atari twenty six hundred adapter for the Calico
Vision, so you would play into the Wild Wild Thing. Yes, wild
Thing, like the Kaleco Vision had a like basically an expansion port on the
front, specifically because they knew they wanted to be able to want you to
be able to play your Atari games because the Atari was the most popular at
that time. You would buy a separate a separate module that would be able
to take these Atari games and then you could play it on there. So
we had some Calico games, definitely, but we had a lot of Atari
games because of that as well. And I remember that little plane flying on
that screen. There were still three other games, but I don't They're like
a mush in my brain. The one that I can distinctly remember is Barnstormer,
which is, you know, basically a plane just flying sideways on a
screen, and that's it. Storm and Barnes Big Fresh thirty seven says at
Comic Con aw is announcing Lawyer Warner Brothers collapses, Kenny Omega going to be
playable and multi versus someday. I can see that being very feasible. Did
you see the wacky Asia Smith versus Bugs Bunny trailer? I didn't. I
know. That sounds incredible to check that out. Those words that just came
out of my mouth are a thing that you can feel. Bizarre. Yes,
listen, I think anything's possible and multi verses if they keep supporting.
And I honestly I thought things were looking up for that game, and then
I mentioned that on a game es morning today and everyone's like, no,
everyone hates it. I'm like, okay, I can't keep tracking, and
frankly, I don't care. I'm never going to really check in on that
game again. It just doesn't appeal to me, and none of the characters
really appealed to me all that much. But I don't know if Kenny Omega
is in there that would be cool. I would fine. He would fit
better than Asian Smith. I think, yeah, definitely, which is weird.
Tyrant says NCAA is going to do huge numbers. Did you say on
Giant Bomb you're a UM fan. I thought you were raised in Columbus with
lame OSU. I think they should give you a Harbaugh option to see what
the other player pits. Yes, I am a fan of the University of
Michigan. I grew up in Michigan. I I was in a McComb township
in the Combe County, twenty four mile north of Detroit, and back in
the nineties, Michigan football was crushing. It was beating OSU every year.
And then, of course, I like the second I became an adult,
they just lost to OSU every goddamn year for like two decades straight. It
sucked. That's changed now though, so feeling pretty good about that team.
But yeah, no, I'm a UM fan. And then I did live
for a long time in Columbus, especially when Michigan was getting their asses kicked
by OSU every year, and that bucking sucked. You know, I don't
think I told you this, chef, But so I've never been a huge
college football guy you and your brother. Yeah right, that was like a
house takes. I live in Ohio, sure, but it's not like I
like watched every week or anything. And my two best friends growing up are
both huge Michigan fans, like Matxly, So like that was like the only
reason. I'm like, it was fun to rib them. You lost,
Like, okay, but after we got into watching Premier League soccer and really
enjoying that experience of like rooting for something together that wasn't a miserable Cleveland experience.
We were doing our annual cook Forest cabin trip this past winter and I
was wearing my big winter jacket. I told them that I had a major
life announcement for them, and I end zipped to reveal a Michigan shirt and
I said, like, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna be a Michigan fan
with you guys, so that we can like share it together, be a
part of it. So, yes, I have some Michigan shirts upstairs,
and I'm ready we'll come in there with you. Look, I blues,
my favorite color. It looks it looks amazed good on me. I thought,
so, yeah, it's fantastic, And hey, and that was the
right time. All right. Yeah, that's what I say. I realized
the timing of this looks very suss. But it's just here we are.
It's Legon's there, and it's the doors are open. Hop a board.
I don't give a ship. I have so little. Yeah, Guardians except
for the ten to one loss they had today, they were all crushed by
the Detroit Tigers. Yeah, that was eight of their last eleven. I'm
like, don't give me hope for this season. I don't need that.
I don't want to be starting to paying attention to that. But I don't
know. If they're doing pretty good the All Star break, that's something mm
hmm, all right, Jess Rex says, miss fight Night round three.
It was great on three sixty again, caught up Yeah, yeah, when
you brought up Yeah, when you when you brought up punch ot like is
fight Night? When I pick like, people remember Fight Night? Right?
I don't know. I think you can't slu itself out in my brain with
UFC. I'm like, do I go with UFC your fight right? You're
popular now, but if I know people will Fight Night it was tough.
Definitely considered all of them, right, el Krugg says, Jeff didn't pick
a hockey game. This means that Detroit Red Wings will trade his favorite player
on the team. Again. I came very close to picking NHL ninety four
before he picked it and destroyed my night. Got in there. Yeah,
he put me out. Oh I'm with Dean eight one four nine, who
says MVP Baseball two thousand and five is my favorite baseball game, way better
than the two K games after it. MVP Baseball five was very good.
Yep, that was a very lot of very good baseball games. This is
the thing. Yeah, there was. What was the one I had in
PC in the nineties. It was I just remember it had a really cool
like electric guitar version of Take Me Out to the Ballgame and the menu and
that was like my favorite thing about it. But it was also a good
baseball game. I can't remember which one that was of the thing. It
will come to me like tomorrow. Our final super chat of the night here
from Brono Trigger, who says, who cares about Starfie Arrow the Acrobat is
back? He is, Yeah, I did see this. I almost put
this in a game of Mornings today or yesterday or something. Like that,
and then I was like, no one gives a shit about Arrow the Acrobat.
I give a shit about Arrow the acro Bat. Are you kidding me?
Yeah? You show your horrormouth here the Acress. Yeah, all right,
well here it is, everybody, Arrow the Acrobat is. I'm cooking
the news master collection. Yeah, from eight hours ago on game ran,
Air the Acrobat making surprise return after twenty years. Here I'll read the highlights
from the story. Arrow the Acrobat is getting a re release with modern enhancements
on Nintendo PlayStation Xbox consoles this summer. The retro platform or game will have
new features like safe states, rewind, and a cheap menu for infinite lives
and health. Fans could expect challenging two D gameplay with unique acrobatic skills and
quality of life improvements when the game launches on August second. So there you
go. Everybody that's go enjoys experience of being a circus s bat. I
think I had dream last night. I'm like trying to I'm trying to get
better about remembering my dreams. And I think I had a dream about Buves
three D and that sucks now, yeah, right, And I'm spending.
I'm like, I can't even get away from it in my sleep. That's
a true nightmare. All right, you said that was it for the for
the super chats, that's it. Is it time to check the results?
Well, let's ask sean Sean, have you tabulated the results? Actually dead?
Are alive? Extreme three scarlet? Thank you very much. Sorry to
get one in there, right all right, so let me get this tab
laid here. I'm so getting used to easy Poll's new interface. First of
all, on a personal note, I'm a little surprised you guys didn't lean
a little more into the Mario sports games, like ahs two of them,
but like getting specific with maybe the RPGs or like Mario Baseball or something like
that. Yeah, I was hoping by being vague, I can let people
pick. Do they like the modern ones, do they like the old RPGs.
I just wanted to let them Marioville the very good for that one.
That one, it was like, I think, honestly, I think that
threw me off so hard that I was like, I could say Mario Tennis,
but it's like that's not going to have the same effect, and I
don't want to be on my heels and just trying to counter him and trying
to play catchup because don't think it's gonna be as good as Marho golf.
So that's and like that thinking got me away from the Mario sports games.
I think going with specific ones like saying toadstool tour well have got like a
good pop and so yeah, for sure. Also the discord is wondering,
maybe I missed it because I was doing some our receptor in the show wrestling
games. I think we probably would have said those that could be its own
thing. Yeah, exactly enough wrestling games to do it, that's all right,
sort entertainment sports. You know, maybe that's maybe it's not a twenty
four game draft, but I think we I don't know. I think it
would have came up. I think we would have leaned towards it not being
a sports game. Okay, fair enough, fair enough, Well we do
other results here and the winner with sixty nine percent of the vote, nice
is AJ the sports guy just just a well done. That's two in a
row for you. No, you lost last time, but this time you
just crossed. Yeah, I got destroyed last time when I thought I did
really well, you know what's bad when Jeff Jeff has the games that gave
me the name Turbo Shaw and I still went with a. I mean honestly,
I like, I do say this with my but for real, I
would definitely be voting for your list. By the way, AJ also won
the YouTube poll with He is currently winning the Twitter poll, which is closer
than any of the other ones, but it started to spread a little bit
again. It's fifty three point six percent to forty six point four. When
you lose your own Twitter pol oh list put names on, all right,
they don't know. It's still sad though. You're right. I got three
days left to make a comeback. Maybe maybe Tony Hawk will do something to
get himself canceled, and then that'll help. We'll see that's your best.
Oh, that's my best, hope. I'll see what I can set up,
all right, anything else we got anything else to do? On this
episode? Are we good to get out of here? I think that did
it. I think covered it well. Sometimes you just known you recorded the
worst podcast in the history of humanity. That's right, thank you so much
for that, Ash Guy. I will hit the button which this on this
show takes a minute. So why don't you tell people where they could find
you on the internet, what you have going on and all of that good
stuff. Yeah, you could find more of me a nineties Disney at nineties
Disney dot com, where we just had a very good episode about the mono
rail you can find in real time, as Mike discovers that it's called a
monoail because there's one rail. Very good, Momuch. Yes, it was
really something, and we will be recording a bonus episode probably next week when
Mike gets back. I believe he can say he's in Disneyland for a Star
Wars Outlaws event, which has been in saying Lee Chello's but SKay, I'm
going to Disneyland in August. So that's all good. Uh. And we
have an upcoming episode on Typhon Lagoon where I've actually been in contact with the
company that installed the waveful of Typhoon lagoons. Well really that's my research.
Yeah, I don't know how that happened, but the founder and CEO has
been answering my questions via email, which is wild. So that'll be a
cool episode in August. Jeff, how about you, Yeah, I'll say
that I listened to that Monorail episode on my drive back because everyone was pretty
tired, so I just put in like one of the headphones that has like
the pass through and I was listening to that. It was very good.
I really it was entertained by that. So everyone should go check that out.
Giant Bomb. This week, there was that grab bag episode of Games
yesterday. The BombCast this week was very good. We had a really good
voicemail dump truck today. Go check out all that stuff. As always,
if you're here on YouTube, just go to YouTube dot com slash Act,
Giant Bomb and cook on that live tab. That's where most of that stuff
is. And then tomorrow everybody's interested in that, in that that Concoor game.
What's this Concord game? All the kids won't stop talking about Concord.
The beta starts tomorrow. We are going to be playing that, Sean,
I think you're playing that. You're gonna hang out with us? Ah,
yes, sir, all right. I think we're gonnet it good myself,
Jan Sean and I believe Nikki. That seems to be the plan, and
we're gonna see what it's all about. And then we'll record a really quick
BombCast Revengeance after that talking about our initial impressions of playing that game, so
looking forward to it should be a good time. And then anything else going
on there was the we did get back at the swing of things with less
than the ten dogs earlier, as we check that out, and then we
should be back to normal schedule going forward for the next several weeks. All
right, everyone, thanks for listening, have a good one, take care
of yourself, and by what a weekend? Yeah, I mentioned earlier,
I'm probably gonna do it this weekend. Probably, I'll definitely do it this
weekend, everybody. Yeah, I definitely beat it this time. Jesus take
my pad knife, my good man, I beat it. My Dixie wrecked?
Are coming? All right? Super cool chat, super chats. You
got that one? Yeah you do? Are you? Yeah? Excellent?
Al right, cool, all right, I will bring it back in great
great Greg brother, yep, let me get that set up real quick.
I'm in Argentina. Game pas still huge here. It's She's like that ship
is a sense of one game and it gives me a funck ton of games.
So people, it's like, yeah, even if he goes up that
much, I'm I'm gonna still play that ship because just like, yeah,
imagine good. Yeah, I think the people that are already in are mostly
going to stay. Oh yeah, I'm considering dropping it because I don't use
it very often, but that's because I'm on my steam deck all the time.
If you're paying monthly as it is, you're okay to drop it on
monthsly. You're not totally yes, yeah, that point is more valid for
you because you have a functioning brain, and a little bit less valid for
me. But you're not wrong. All right. Let's see, I have
to do that thing where like I will let it like, I will cancel
it. I will like get it, cancel it, and then the next
time I will pay one dollar again. It's like, oh I cancel it
again. I will do that for like four months in a row. Yeah,
that's my tip to anyone who I can never remember these things. Some
subscriptions don't do that, but the vast majority of it will let you cancel
and then keep the subscription for the whole month. Just sub and immediately on
sub and then you'll you have for the month and then just worry about again
when it comes up. Okay, let me make sure this is like visible
for people launching maybe like a little bit bigger. I never play on them.
I should play on them. I'm a I had to play on them.
I'm I'm the shooter guy. We all know Anthem. Yeah, the
real Anthem fan over here. I think I have almost three hundred hours.
And mister Anthem, you're mister Starfield, no wonder, Mike gives you so
much shit. All right, I think I'm set up over here. Actually,
let me do one thing real quick. I was bad before Anthem came
out. I was like texting like him, Chris and several of our friends.
I'm like, well, classes, everybody picking, we gotta we gotta
prepare to go do the Raids dropped the ball with that one, because that
game it was there was I will admit there was a lot of cruff there,
but there was a very good game in there as well that you could
you could feel the interference of e A and the Frostfight engine holding it back
and do you look through that There actually was a very very good game in
a very cool world. They set up a really cool game where I'll probably
never see again. I always love it's pretty pretty cool logging. Oh Chi
dokey. I am ready to bring it back in let's do it, all
right, break, break, Do you want me to put up that that
pull? Yeah? If you can? Can you make bulls? I can't
remember, I can how it works sometimes it does. Okay, cool,
Yeah, go for it. Then a j all right here, I'll leave
the pull up for now, or leave the teams up for now so that
everyone can see them. There we go, let me fix that. All
right. We can let that play out, and in the meantime, I
got we talk about what we've been playing. That's so good, sounds good.
All right, let's do that.