Stand, you're busy and let's do this. Still so loud is like a
third week? Don't I'm turning you down? Which thing? He goes out
of here? Some podcasts decide everything blah blah blah, Jeff crab with me?
Is the music is still loud? Oh? Now was just turned off?
Hi, I'm Mike Manati. How you don Mike fantastic? It's great.
They'll complaints at all. Yeah, that's good stuff. Why are you
Why are you so wrong about Final Fantasy? I completely right? Yeah,
Jeff, you you're the expert fas. Here's here's the thing with that.
Literally, every time someone brings up like the like the creative team behind the
game, it is always they always yell at me, Oh like tactics ogre,
Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant story all the evil is scam. Well,
I don't know about tactics ogre, but two of those I know what everyone
definitely not evils. Vagrant story is. I don't know why. There's there's
a couple final ways. Tactics is not tactics is I said tactics Ogre isn't.
Yeah, I know that's the one that said, yeah, that isn't
the two other ones are Vagrant Story, the the Evilist games all right,
or Vagrant Story, although that's kind of like confidence done after the Effect twelve
Tactics the other Tactics games also, and then there's an evil East in fom
Fancy fourteen, but it's not like the Evilies. Okay, Oh that's I
definitely got that definitely threw me off a long time ago. That was like,
yeah, I mean it is confusing, but you should also just trust
me. No you're wrong, right, Okay, then you need to go
argue with every person in my mansion mentions. I'm sick after sewing at you
about like it's similar to that in tone stuff. I don't think they really
not in tone. It's like they're talking about the art director and there's like
what you said, so you said the team Okay, I meant like the
creative leads. That's what I meant. That that's a couple of them,
yes, right, a few, Right, that's what matters. That's what
I meant. I just want to get super caught up on Tactics comparisons.
They the Hunt board from twelve, and that's exciting. I like the Hunt
Board. Yeah, there's I mean, obviously they're just gonna be taken from
all a bunch of different final fantasies for this one. I have you played
that demo demo? Have you played the demo? I have not played.
I have actually not played anything yet still because it's just since, like,
I mean, the whole time we were gone, it was kind of like,
man, I was sure it wasn't Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo Flour
and Street Fighter of six. It's kind of abubber to be missing those.
And let's say I was to review a game coming out imminently and it was
a long game, and I got code for it before I was gonna be
gone for eight days. Anyways, I mean, do I even bother trying?
Like what am I gonna do? What I'm not gonna do? I
know what you mean. It's it's hard to like get back in the flow
of things. I did play a little bit as All the last night,
and that was nice to I get back to that because that games still very
everything. I got to finally play more ved at Lax actually because I had
a couple of hours to kill before my plane arrived, So it was actually
very easy just to get back into that. Yes, run around and start
doing some what I did the Four Temples and now I'm like trying to get
my armor better before I really start going to the final stretch there, whatever
that is. And doing that means kind of finding more strong enemies, more
of those kind of world bosses, and getting some more rare materials. As
I'm looking around for those, I'm discovering more you know, temples and not
temples, a shrine and little other hoosie what sits here and there. So
yeah, yeah, it's it's a still really good game. I want to
I want to beat it because everyone just keeps talking up that ending. Everyone.
I got to see Breath of Will, Breadth of Wild's ending was it's
kind of a wet fart. Just wasn't much of one, just kind of
right. I like the vibes of it, But you're right, there's not
like there's much. I mean, I think the final boss like looks cool.
You're not doing very cool things to it. No, it was kind
of but it looks it looks amazing. It's such a cool look that like
Fiery Pig thing was just incredible looking. Um. Yes, but yeah,
I'm ready for this game to whelm me. But yeah, I don't know
how's I was getting back for Summer game Fest and all that. It was
fine. It seems like everybody had almost some kind of an issue now they're
getting back. I know Dan had a nightmare with with flight stuff. I'm
not sure exactly how that ended. I just had like we had an hour
delay on the ground before we took off because like they had to swap out
a computer, which was honestly fine because it was a red eye. Anyways,
I knew I was just getting back home the next morning, so I
was like, I'll just fall asleep now, that's fine. I don't care.
Yeah, it was no big deal, but uh yeah, you know,
it was a little weird getting home, like from the red Eye.
So I tried to work a little bit when I got back, and I
was just so tired. But I still have like two meetings, so I
had to like sleep between the meetings a little bit. But today I got
to like sleep in and stuff and get a little work done but mostly take
it a little easier. So I'm feeling pretty normal again. Yeah, I
um, I was kind of pretty similar where it was like that red eye
really shot me and then we'll be you know, working non stop also gotten
mean. So I got back and just slept a ton, just slept so
much all throughout the day. The day got back, we did go the
aquarium and then I got back and slept even more. Um but like those
kids excited to see you. Yeah, yeah, everyone was really happy.
It was really nice. Grandma was here where we all hung out with to
the aquarium and that was fun. And the kids have been hanging out with
me down here, like they've clearly were like, we're missing games because I'm
usually the one that gets it on for them. So they've been really getting
through sack Boy, and they're like getting through those levels without me. I
thought like, okay, we'll just keep going back. Yeah they know sens
right, they know sack Boy. Uh. And they went back to the
first level and I'm like, you're just you'll probably just do this over and
over because it's the one you get beat. And no, they just keep
beating level after a level and figuring stuff out. And yeah, there's some
like mechanics I need to help him with, but that's been a lot of
fun to watch and like help here and there and then and then yeah,
it's been like just trying to just trying to get back in the swing of
things and finally feeling like I'm there. But uh, we'll talk about Summer
game Fest itself, like going to the events attend. Do you guys hear
any weird like noises? Like my dog's been a little offee since I picked
her up at the boarding she was doing, barrettle just now, I might
to take her to the vet tomorrow, Dougy Covid, I hope not.
But you know, it's almost like she's trying to cough something up, so
I don't know what it is, and you know, I don't know what
she's doing. She was actually better until just now. Now she's up.
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and of course all of our shows add free all right, Mike, Summer
Gamefest we went to that. I would say that we conquered it. You
pretty much destroyed it. Yeah, I think so. I think you know,
I think you were kind of, at least of the gaming dress world,
perhaps the king of Summer Game Fest. Jeff and you were prom queen
absolutely Courtchester Jester thing like that. Yeah, man, it was nuts.
I mean, part of it was my own fault, but I was gone
longer for this than I ever was for any three. Actually, Yeah,
I m listen. I liked it. I had a really good time,
that they really figured out a way to make Summer Game Fest feel valuable to
us. It's something we talked about over and over. In the end,
I think that was sort of the the sort of the the opinion, the
wide opinion of most people I talked to, and yet it went on for
way too long. We were gone way too long. It was too much,
too many days. It's like the one thing I did kind of miss
from, like especially the etheris of old, before you had people like Ea,
Microsoft kind of place you're doing their own thing. I didn't miss when
it really was just here's everybody in this one big convention center, and there's
gonna be some pains with that, and you're gonna to like go to their
press conferences on certain days, but generally everybody is just kind of at the
one thing. So, I mean, it's weird because I both liked the
current size of Summer Game Fest. It felt really nice this time. Yeah,
and yeah, it also seems inevitable that it's going to grow, which
will be good in some ways worse than others. I mean, I saw
Jeff Healey walking around Phil Spencer, right, and what do you think that's
about it's about trying to get him on boord for next year, right.
I think I'm sure he's doing the same thing to other people, So we'll
see if any of them, you know, kind of bite on that,
I guess. But I mean, like a Nubisoft, Ubisoft is just doing
their own thing. Why not. Daga had a thing and it was there,
Yeah, summer getting there was another company though other than you. Maybe
it was it was it Capcom. Maybe it was Capcom. Yeah. I
didn't go to it, so I don't know. Oh, you mean like
a thing, Well Microsoft did, Microsoft obviously, Mike, Yes, obviously
Microsoft did. But on those final nights, it was like Ubisoft had a
thing that people could go to, and then there was another third party Fantasy
sixteen like launch of it, more like a spectacle, less of like a
useful dalism thing. Yeah, we had that video on in the office when
we were kind of getting ready for those night shows that night, and it's
like, man, this thing is weird. It's like this really long break
that Yeah, that's that final Fantasy stand. Um No, Jeff, I'm
getting a storm coming in, Jesse, just warm me about it. I
heard it rolling in. So if you suddenly lose me. That's what it
is. I'm just it rolled over us. It just rolled over us.
So yeah, it's good. I was just so thunder and lightning. It's
all good. Um yeah, I don't know, list, I guess we
could talk about, like, you know, attending the show itself. It
was useful. Like we said, I, um, the show floor,
it's not very big. It's the size of it's not even like half the
size of an E three hall. It's like not even a quarter size of
one. But man, it was much much bigger than last year. We
kind of telling you how it was bigger. And yes, even though it's
like in that same place, it was just taking up a lot more of
the surrounding area. So it's very it's very useful. But man, I
mean it's interesting, Jeff, I remember doing those early E three minutes.
We were really you know, kind of under the radar there, like of
course we were younger starting up, but even for a while when we had
been doing it for six years, seven years, like even that stuff before
the pandemic, like those last E threes still relatively flying out of the radar.
It was a it was kind of neat to have so many people like
coming up and saying hi, like putting names of faces and people I never
knew before come up and say hi. Uh, all that stuff was really
fun real quick. I guess it was Banda Namco that also had a separate
booth off of Day three. Yeah, I didn't even know that. Well,
what are they doing at that booth? No idea? I Steven Tatillo
mentioned it, and uh and he's like he was off in Banda Namco both
had one. I'm like, Dge Racer, Ridge Racer was Yeah, actually
unfortunately it was Rage Racer. I'm sorry. Actually, so I'll take it.
I'll fucking take it. Jip, which one's the bad one that that
would actually be real bad racer? I think I don't think it's very good.
I mean I think there's like that weird, like more realistic when they
released for like Gamecuban stuff that's not particularly good. But hey, why don't
we say this real quick because chat's freaking out. I want to think we
don't know. But as we're going live, they did announce that fire Emblem
aka fire Them The Blazing Blade the game, the first Fireman game we ever
got released in North America. It's on the Game of Advance is coming Uneatown
Switch Online Expansion Pack on June twenty third. Jeff, we kind of had
a string of like and so releases. This is a big Boy one.
This is I think a lot of people's first fire on one game. It's
a relief from what I remember, a fun one. This is that era
where those Gameboy Vance games had incredible pixel art that still looks amazing, especially
those battle animations. Lynn is there and she just shows so much thigh.
It's fantastic. So I'm excited for this. Are you sure it's the Blazing
Blade? Yes? I actually we went over this very heavily with Show.
It's not the Binding Blade. I thought it was the Binding Blade. Apparently
that's the one that came up before this with Roy. I thought the one
of Roy was the Blazing Blade, the Blinding Okay, so the Binding Blade
will also come to Game Boy Advanced Switch on the expansion back on the Japan
side next time. So kip both man, Ye can't they? I know
it's a it's a lot of text, but I wish you would translate that.
You know that fan translations out there was fun talking to uh To Drake,
John Drake over Disney and he's like he'd be like, can't we just
take fan trans like you would like something equivalent to that, for like there
are games, there's someone out there just doing it, and like, well,
here's a bunch of lawyers telling me why we can't do it, and
I don't listen to them. It's like yeah that, I guess they these
companies just can't do that. It's sometimes like those like I know what they
did the Trails from Zero Church from Majore. I think that was actually built
off of the fan translations right every once in a while, but everyone's in
attending Christian like we'll just yeah, yeah, we'll just use the Mother three
fan translation. They just well. I loved harassing John Drake by the way,
all week and long about quack shot. Yeah, that was really fun.
He's a good sport by time. I saw him all week like,
hey, remake quack shot. That was like do you think that would make
money? And I was like, remake quack shot, quack shot you stupid
so a bit I don't know, job, but that was I mean,
that was the vibe where it's like you would you would just keep running into
people. It really was like a college campus. They called it a campus.
We had time to have running gags of people exactly, and you would
just see the same people over and over because it wasn't twenty thousand people here
for E three, It was maybe four hundred five hundred people in this smaller
venue. Uh, And you would go back to the same like rest areas
over and over again. You didn't have like a million people like coming in
from game stop right because they can get in or you know, the little
I know and they're they're really looseif who can get in stuff like that.
It really was pretty much the people who actually should be there needed to be
there. Yep, it's it was Yeah, So it was cool. The
event itself worked really well. Um, I don't know, I guess,
do you want to go over some of the games? I do? But
first, like, well, I got it. We got a super check
from a Pucci here who said, dude, dope seeing you at smash Burgers.
This pass the name Mikey. Thanks for the pick. Yeah, I
ran. I ran to him at a smash Burgers at LA Live because the
yeah, Microsoft wasn't serving anything I could eat at their left cheeseburger. I
guess let's ask I mean, you get recognized a couple of times. It
was kind of fun to like kind of have your profile raised up a little
bit. Yeah, yeah, it was you know, I'm not gonna lie.
It was nice. It was good nice, and I really appreciate it,
you know, people coming up and saying hi. It was really fun.
It was definitely, um the one where the most like not just pure
people but developers, like basically at every single appointment, they're like big fan
of Giant Bomb listen all the time, and they would like they would make
like jokes knowing like oh no for real, Like uh, guy showing us
Moral Kombat was like do I get podcast points if I help you? And
it's like that's one of Jan's running bits over there. It was. It
was it was cool and cute and I really appreciated it. And it was
the one story. I'll tell this one no names, and he definitely doesn't
work. They definitely don't work for for From or Bandai or anyone one over
there anymore. But it was very funny to hear from someone who at one
point had worked with From like relationships stuff a little bit during elder Ring and
like all that stuff. We were saying was like always causing a headaches.
He's like, all this stuff is true, it's just out of date.
I'm like, fucking knew it. Fuck it, I fucking knew it.
But it was just funny to hear them like be pretty good sports about that
and stuff. So and that was like kind of every single point it was
people mentioning, oh yeah, we either know you're from Giant Bomb or from
Game mess or all this other stuff. And it was nice. It was
it had not been like that in previous years. No, right, like
yeah, getting comments even from like some of them more to combat people like
oh we liked the podcast. Even even the Disney people were like, oh
we like nineties Disney loves listening to it. Like that tickled my fancy.
Yeah yeah that's cool that. Uh I guess that that Disney events something we
can That was a lot of fun. Yeah, that's the first thing we
did. I mean, because you've never been to Disneyland before, n No,
And that was I was really impressed. I was not expecting it to
be that impressive. I was kind of I always heard Disneyland's a smaller place,
and so in my mind of like, you know, this thing's gonna
feel tiny. It did not feel tiny. It feels amazing. The castle
smaller. Otherwise, it's a gigantic park, especially with that Star Wars stuff.
And we have a ton of time because we only kind of got in
at five pm. And then we did the Disney Lousion Island Prevent, which
was a really nice, low key preview event that they held at the old
Arcade. It's to Marland. Those are you know, we'll talk about the
game itself here and yeah, and I've been right to those people a bit,
but yeah, but Disneyland was fun. We basically had enough time to
do just about everything in Galax's Edge of a Star Wars area and I was
I had never done that, so excited to get you on Rise of the
Resistance the big ride there, and Land handed me the three sixty camp for
that, So you're gonna there's probably gonna be a video of me like just
cheeseing through most of it, especially when I liked us to drop or whatever
all the other stuff I guess I would spoil for people haven't been on it,
But so many cool things that happened during that ride, and you're just
gonna see me grinn and ear to ear I'm gonna look like a real goober
and I can't wait. Yeah, we got to do that. We all
get to do the Millennium Falcon ride and we went to the Cantina, so
we Yeah, we did Galaxes is really good. I really like the cantina.
Those drinks were really fun. The fuzzy Fazzy ban the fuzzy I made
sure they got fuzzy tonton one with like the numbing foam, right, so
like you get a big like sip of that and it numbs your mouth,
which like actually has a purpose because that changes the flavor right what your tongue
works. But it's it's also really funny to watch people like Dan, what's
going on? Uh? Yeah, it was great. We also had got
to do the new Mickey and Mini ride that they have their very cute ride.
Um and then uh did we even do because you guys had to make
your bust out eleven. I tried very hard to pressure you into staying.
So yeah we should have because we should. Exire bus didn't come till eleven
thirty. We had plenty of time to do a couple more things, so
yeah, I was trying to get we we did because we didn't get to
do. Indiana Jones is probably the best ride you didn't get to do.
We didn't get doll up. But hey, just something for next time,
man, exactly. Yeah, we'll make it. We'll make it back there.
I'm sure it was. The people that hosted us were very very kind
and made it very clear that we want to make something similar happen again in
the future. We probably could. So, Yeah, that game is Actually
I'm really into that McKey Illusion Island. It's it's basically kind of like like
a Raymond Origins or Raymand Legends, but more of a Metroid Vanya uh in
all platform and there's no real combat per se, but it's just you know,
it's a lot of wall jumping mechanics and it just feels really snappy and
like the character animation and all the little personality quirks are really fun. We're
we're having a good time with that. Yeah. That's a Switch exclusive,
which is interesting. Yeah, I mean I think it's it's probably the right
move at least to start. I bet it'll come to everything eventually, but
um to start it off as a Switch exclusive, sure, why not.
That's it's definitely targeting like a kind of all ages group and there they are
the business. But because it's four players, they are sort of doing the
Hey you can use the one joy contin a thing, and it works.
It works fine that way. And it's uh, you know, it's not
heavy on combat, it's not heavy on precise platform and it's and it's like
you know, it's low key and slow paced. Um, but it's a
lot of fun. Stuff can still happen because it's four people doing stuff out
all at once, and and that could feel pretty exciting still, So I
was I was related to it. I think they've nailed what they're going for.
Yeah. Absolutely, I think it's going to be a pleasant surprise for
a lot of people. Um, and then let's see Summer Game Fest itself.
I guess let's start with the like the things you you know at the
show. Did anything stick out to you, I guess, like actual Summer
Game Fest. Yeah, the presentation, I mean, um gosh, I
almost forget what was Like the presentation is almost like a blurred to me compared
to the two days I spent playing the games at Summer Game Fest. Uh,
like, well, there wasn't much in the way of like big and
new announcements, right, it seemed like we just kind of got good looks
games here, and I'm sure I guess Allen Wake two looked pretty good.
Well, Like Allen Wake two is a big winner of the show in general,
just because that's a game that we all knew was coming out this year
and I was like, Oh, they're doing that finally, that's cute.
And I think between you know, the showing at the show and then more
importantly the long gameplay demo they showed the journalists in a theater, like I
got to see that, I think a lot of people were very impressed with
the way Allen Wake two is shaping up. That would from a game that
seemed really low key to now becoming a lot of people's like mostly anticipated games
for the fall season. Yeah, I am, I'm I'm really into what
they showed. I didn't get see that theater. Did. Emma went for
us, but she seemed to be very excited about it, as did everybody.
Lucy was very like, you would not stop about excuse just like I'm
going home right away and downloading Control and Allen Wake one again and gonna play
through all those and it's just perfect for me because like we just played Allen
Wake one this last October for the game Messue Game Club, and it's just
like such good timing, Like I didn't I knew nothing about that series,
and now I'm super excited for this sequel. It's really working out. Yeah,
so there were a lot of shows. I guess, uh, we'll
start talking about some of these games instead of like going show by shall I'll
just ask you what was your favorite presentation and what stuck out to you the
most. Okay, so like Microsoft probably was was the best presentation. Yeah,
and I'm gonna look, Starfield looks incredible. It looks really look even
I got this thing today. I was a target about the control. I
was about to buy it, and then I'm soon mentioned like Microsoft's just giving
them away. So I reached out to PR and they're sending me one.
So shit, damn man, I would have bought one though, I'm right
there with it is a good looking controller. So Mike's holding the Collector's Starfield
controller with the gold dpad and just the parents shoulders, the transparent shoulders and
that amazing like Rainbow Start, like star design. It just looks fine.
Usually do not like the way they're like custom like Steam controllers look for specific
games. Like I was looking at some I saw the Sea a Thieves controller
and it's just like somebody threw up some random colors on it and recently junk
and this is gorgeous. It is the gorgeous. Oh. I kind of
had to have it. I hope the game is good now because I have
this controller remind me of it for it. But that and normally you're you're
gonna tell me you're gonna do an hour long deep dive into one game.
Excuse me, I'm gonna be like, I don't care. Yep, that's
way too long. Starfield is looking so incredible. It really is like looking
like this sort of Bethesda style space game we all would have wanted, with
just everything that you would want from a space game being in an aspect,
like doing the Space Pirates stuff, the expiration stuff, the ship customization stuff
looks really cool. That's when I'm super excited about like recruiting the crew.
Yeah, I am really into it. I am very like super all in
on Starfield right now. Yeah, I am. That's yeah. Easily.
Like of the games I saw and didn't necessarily play, Starfield is by far
the one I'm most excited about. It is just I mean, who knows
if it's going to deliver, but based on what we know, it looks
incredible. And yeah, go ahead, I talk about frame right, Oh
yeah, let's do it. Yeah, I have to listen here as a
subhead of this game, let's talk about it. So it's four K thirty
locked on Xbox Series X and fourteen forty P thirty on Xbox Series sh you
know, I was trying. I was trying to tell you, and I
still think it was fine of you two, like be like it should be
sixty. It needs to be sixty. Sure, it's not going to be
sixty. So how are you feeling now? Look look at it. I
am disappointed. I get it. Like I'm not like I don't believe them
or like their liars or something like that. I get it. It's but
look, I just like sixty franks per second a lot more. And in
general, it's kind of this bummer to me of oh man, like my
my hope that this was just going to be a pure sixty at BS console
generation is just not. That's not happening, like like, because you know,
I like Redfall or some of these other things. It's like, well
that those games were disasters, that's why that happened. Sure, and now
it's like, oh no, it's just that's just how this is going to
be. I mean, we Star Wars, Jedi Survivor, Ye can't really
hit sixty, not in any real way. Um, and it's Unrealentied for
I get it, Like, obviously there's gonna be some improvements, but I
think those improvements will be will come and as a as they like also take,
there will be a give and take and they're like, yeah, Okay,
we got a little bit more power here because of Unrealentied five is a
little bit more efficient, better open worlds or whatever. That that just means
we could do more, and we're gonna do more because we have to do
more to compete with all these other games that are game beggar. Have you
fucking seen Starfield? It is the sixty frames per second like guarantee for this
generation definitely over I think more games will be sixty frames per second than not
for the most part, but a lot of these big games are gonna be
thirty frames per second going forward, starting right now, and right it's just
you know, I do like consoles and I like to, you know,
play in a couch of console. That's how I did most of my gaming
for a very long time. And it is just kind of this like feeling
of I really am going to become more and more of a switch PC kind
of guy. It just makes sense, and you know, it's it's kind
of almost unfair because because Xbox is so much better about day and day PC
and console releases, I'm like thinking less and less about their console like PlayStation.
There's value there because it takes forever for their PC ports yep, which
is technically them being shitty about it, but it makes me like care more
about their box. Yeah, I mean you heard Phil. He doesn't care.
It doesn't care. He's like, yeah, we're growing on PC super
fast and it's a market just like anything else. And so yeah, I'm
gonna play it on PC as well. I saw that show and a lot
most of those things. I'm playin Son of a Bitch right here, and
I'm sixty on my thirty seventy t I I don't know, probably yeah,
yeah, you can do it. You will be able to get it to
I guess that the fidangle things things a little bit. The thirty seventy TI
is gonna be pretty, it's gonna be powerful. So the the consoles are
like twenty seventy soupers, maybe twenty eighties kind of depending on what day of
the week it is. Yeah, I guess. Uh. Again, like
I understand some people like are reacting like so strongly, like thirty thirty piss
is fine and says otherwise is you know, nuts, because there's a lot
of bad people, bad faith people making too big a deal out of it.
I get it. Look, I think everybody would have preferred sixty francs
per second. And of course, and again it is just a bummer,
like, oh man u console generation still, that's a part of the problem
is that this console generation still feels new somehow because games takes so much to
make us because we haven't really had we haven't had the full year of like
they just stopped making games for Xbox One, the Xbox One, which no
no one was asking them to support anymore. No one gave a ship that
was just stopped doing that, and that, I mean, that's really the
reality of the situation of the kinds of games we were getting. They were
games made for the Xbox One or designed in the same exact way because they
were just continuing their budgets and they're using all the same tools. So even
if like a game came out exclusively for these new consoles, they weren't changing
a lot of stuff to like take advantage of the new consoles. That is
going to change and those those like performance budgets will shift pretty drastically here pretty
soon. But look, even like what they were showing at whatever frame rate
that was, I think three frames per second seemed kind of variable. It
didn't seem terrible. But even whatever they were showing it looked very good.
There was definitely especially the animation looked a lot better. Maybe that's so much
when you're like talking to a person that was still very bathetic. Yeah,
yeah, the thing they're still using whatever their their tools are called for that
and it's I mean, it looks better than it's ever looked, but it
still looking familiar again, Gambrieo combat animations looked way better. A lot of
things still looked smoother and what have you. But yeah, it's like,
okay, I'm even though I just bought this controller for it, I am
probably playing this on a PC with keyboard and mouse, But it creation Edgine,
Thank you, Mitchell. It looks it looks amazing unless like some disaster
happens. And look, I mean their last big release was Fallow thirty six's
a disaster and Fallout four. I know, like you know, I don't
want to call you a defender. You like it. It was a popular
game, but I'm ad I love that game. I love it. Okay,
that's it's gonna be. It's weird, ye, everyone thinks it's weird,
but I love it. Yes, okay, uh, I followed forward.
It's disappointing to some people. For a lot of people, that's fine.
Things could both things could be true. I love it. Disappointing to
a lot of people it was so but even still, I am optimistic about
Starfield. It looks like a game that was given a lot of extra time
to bake in the oven, and I'm hoping it's going to feel like that
when we got it. I didn't make Fallout for you. Don't be so
kid gloves around me, like all right, I just respect you too much.
I don't want to come at you here even our chat though, Like
right now, that's a polarizing game because there was admitted and you know,
but that's that's a polarizing developer because they took Fallout and did a lot of
stuff with it. That Fallout was, you know, not known for it
before. But that's the that's a whole thing. I guess even Fallow three,
I don't. To me, Fallow three was such a big turning point
and me liking Western RPGs more. But I don't know. But people a
yeah, exactly, yeah, exactly, so yeah, yeah, boy Starfield,
uh and yeah, just to go back to thirty frames for a second,
we ran a pole for game game mess Warnings, which did you hear
that? Did you finish? The episode's surprise? But because most people said
they don't care if it's sorry for a sec, I think you're right that
maybe some of that is just that game looking so good. Oh definitely don't.
But I don't know. Maybe Hey, maybe everyone was telling me before
that most people don't care about frame right, and I was being stubborn thing
they did. Maybe I'm wrong, I can admit it. I think it's
like anything, um, we focus on cinema sins like oh look at this
loophole, because actually the movie's not delivering on other things you actually care about
like it's that sort of thing, right, I mean, well, you
don't know one cared that Zoda was a three second and yeah, right,
I don't. Yeah, And obviously there's a difference in hardware they are,
that is a factor here. But yeah, hey, if if Starfield is
as good as Tears of the Kingdom, I will care too much exactly for
sure, Yes, for real, if that is the bar we're talking about,
then sure it could be fucking twenty four frames per second. I don't
give a shit. Um, all right, so I do have a list
of games here that I put down. Mike, feel free to throw anything
that comes to mind as we're going through here. We both played Prince of
Persia the Falling King? Is that the name? I think it's The Falling
Can you remember I just calling it? I'm doing it too, That's what
I wrote down here. Fucking rules, fucking rules good. And you know
what's great too, Like first, I played the demo twice, once on
like some consolar PC, and then again on switch. No difference, no
difference. It's a soaky sixty fps on switch. Just play it on switch.
But this is very much like that sort of three D two D metro
based style that we got with Metroid Dread and Um. We also experienced Auto
Wongo again with the Gameless Game Club with that Strider rebuilt a few years back.
Those games both felt great and this is very similar. It's super fun,
a lot of cool abilities, interesting combat, great platforming. There's a
there's a cool boss at the end that I beat on the first try and
was told I was a very special boy for being able to do that by
Ubisoft, and I choose to believe them. Yeah, yeah, I think
so, I think you are I think uh, I mean, I definitely
got close and then I beefed it because I was I just was throwing myself
at because I had him down to a sliver and then Phil Patrick beat him
before me, and so I tried to like rush it and of course died.
But that I mean, it's a good boss fight in terms of like
making you feel cool. Um, it's so funny nailing those perish and then
nailing the blocks on like the tail slide and Paris. Isn't that? I
mean we of that in Dread. There's a lot of Metroid Dread here really,
and just Metroid Dread more Melee Kombat and foof I'm into this is a
great direction for Prince of Persia. I think, you know, if they're
not going to invest in doing a Triple A style Sands a time game again,
you know they're not going to when they have Assassin's Creed right there,
I think, I mean, yeah, yeah, sure, it's kind of
that lineage an you know, they tried. But the Persia they had that
reboot on the three sixty that no one liked at the time. Oddly everybody
suddenly everyone. I don't know where that came from. I played that.
That is one of the most I played that whole game and remember almost nothing
about it. Games of my life. But sure, um and then they
did like they unrebooted the series after that. Remember the Forgotten Sands, Ye,
remember the Forgotten Stands. That's funny. But uh yeah, I'm really
into this. This is definitely one of the best games I played. Yeah,
I think of the games I played, this is it's probably number one,
probably with maybe the exception of Mortal Kombat one Combat so much fun.
Ooper are fun. We all just we all started playing, and we all
immediately were having the best time playing against each other. It was really good.
You lost three times in a row to Emma, I sure like pointing
out, yeah, absolutely for thank you for bringing that up. Sure,
yeah. It is super fun though, I mean that cameo fighter thing,
Like when I saw that, I was like, oh, so assists like
from you know, Marble versus Capcomb one. Why would they make a big
deal of this. It is more than that because they you can do different
moves with them, and it's really good. Well, it's really interesting because
like the different characters have different strengths, Like Jack's had all these antire abilities,
and so you also had this kind of combo starter or extender or she
like can kind of do the sort of like throw thing with her legs and
then it kind of lifts some in the air for juggling. The game seems
prett juggle heavy, which is a lot of fun. But like you can
even use the cameos to do things like throws. They help with those X
ray attacks or fatal blows are called. You can even do a fatality with
the cameo character. So, like we were going into I was like,
Oh, they're going to be in trouble because if they announced a cameo character
and they're not playable, people will be mad. It'll be like the Trophies,
the Trophy Assistant, Smash Brothers. It might there be a little bit
of that, but I don't like not as much. Pretty big, and
they explained the difference between like, the main roster character is going to be
the new identity of these classic characters, and then the cameo characters will be
the throwback versions and her Mortal Kombat two outfit and stuff like that. What
kind about one outfit? And then it was unplayable and two? Remember season
that stage right? Who was in there? So it was it was a
cano, it was the well Jacks. Jacks is an Immortal Kombat one Okay,
so yeah, then it was Jacks, That's who I was thinking of.
Then yes, um, but so we had as cameo characters Jack's Kano,
Sonya Sonya, and then who else was the fourth one? There are
only three cameras, and then playable characters were Ken, She Scorpion, lu
Kang and um Katana and they're all they were all super fun. What I
really like, though, is the color powder of this game is actually a
bit kind of brighter, ye, just a bit more colorful in a way.
That's like, again I saw like Double three with the rainbow, but
just looks distinct, and the stages were like really cool. There's that kind
of um, like that bar set somewhere in the east. I wasn't really
sure where that was the vibe I got from it though, And then like
Johnny Cage's mansion with his indoor pool. Ye, it just looks so cool.
I had a good time. I had a really good time with it.
It was I got I mean maybe played for ten fifteen minutes maybe,
and every single match was competitive and we were pulling off fun stuff and it
was great to get to like figure out how to do son your blades h
A DDT. And it was like, oh, I'll see this over and
over because it just looks so basically almost like almost a straight up our koh
yeah, yeah, she jumps with the absolutely it's uh, it's fantastic.
I I was really having a good time with it. That's that's actually probably
my most anticipated game. I played, um and very good. Yeah I
didn't. I did get the interview ed Boon, which is really fun,
like because I just had interview from Wortal Kombat one slotted and then it actually
was at ed Boon. Was cool it's fun. So yeah, I haven't
had a chance to read because I've like so busy traveling. What what did
he say? Let's just say things to say that you should read on games
from But after like the official interview, I was like, hey, when's
you know you're gonna put my boy smoke in here. I'm not gonna say
what he said, but I'm feeling pretty good, Jeff, Okay, okay,
video feeling good? Did you give you like some body language or something
like me? Just I can't even remember exactly, but he did it.
Whatever he did, he didn't say yes. He didn't say yes, but
he didn't did. I was walking out, They're like, I'm gonna be
in there getting that. Let's fuck well, you know where there's fire,
there's smoke. Okay. Star Wars Outlaws looks very good. It looks really
I mean, we got like the CG reveal at Xbox whatever, then we
got that longer gameplay it would be soft. Yeah, absolutely, one million.
I am into this. I was happy with a lot of Ubisoft show.
This game looked way better than I was ever expecting. It is a
scoundrel game, something I was I've always wanted that, you know, we've
never had really had a relying to han solo simulator. What's up. They've
been trying to do it a more scoundrel based game forever and it just hasn't
happened. Yeah, once the last thing we had one Dark Forces. I
mean, I guess Shows of the Empire time. Yeah, it's dash Rendar.
It's been a long time in this game just looks really pretty. This
main character, I forget her a kay something. Hey, I think she
has the greatest hair in the world. Yep. And she's got the greatest
sidekick that that little alien pet, that little stitch and yeah, she's got
a little stitch. You're a kind of sending him off to do things and
whatnot, you know. And what they showed too, it wasn't just a
Newbisoft game, right going on. Yes, it's this is not like it's
from the Division team. It's from Massive. It's not just we everyone was
like, oh, the do like, uh Mandalorians and we'll just make a
division with Mandalorians, which whatever, that would have been fine. This is
not that more. It's just than I was expecting. Yes, because you
know, we saw their Avatar game too, and I'm I am actually actually
excited for the act here, but that is very much with Avatar. Yeah,
I'm sure. Yeah, that's good to me. Seven let's go.
Yeah, you know you said far Cry and Pandora. It looks like Pandora
from the movies. Yeah, I think that might actually be good enough.
It's not gonna get you a nine out of ten or ten out of ten
movie Avatar game. Yeah, of course eight out ten, eight out of
ten Avatar game. I'd be so happy. Oh yeah, that would be
a huge win for that. Yeah. So I was that could be really
really good. I mean, it seems like it could be a big boy
Game of the Year contender if it really all came together. Maybe. So
it's, um, that's really hot. You know, it's highly expectations.
But I think what they showed is the kinds of games we don't really get
anymore unless they are like a big license thing and they're taking that Star Wars
license and doing a lot of fun stuff with it. I think, um,
I was a little thrown off like all they're doing with like the Pikes
Syndicate, which is all that weird stuff from from Solo. But I think
it's fine. It's actually not from Solo. That's Yeah, there's stuff in
Solo with the like the pikes indicate although still cannon but hey, I mean
speaking of dash render, the speeder bike stuff that looks awesome. I'm so
excited forth getting in your ship and then she flew through the atmosphere right into
space. It was seamless, just like like the actual space combat stuff too.
Right, It's not going to be full on, you know, like
Rogue Leader, but still just having some of that, Yeah, just just
making that seamless experience feel like even if it's like it feels kind of like
a mini game in between the main stuff. That's fine for the most well,
feel as agreediously like a mini game as it doesn't co tour, yes
exactly, literally just a turd sequence Kingdom Hearts so with the gummy ship or
whatever it is. Um, yeah, I'm kind of blown away back by
that game. I think it's also one that album coming out of this.
Honestly, this has been a really good year for announcements in terms of being
an E three or an E three like just that what we've talked about so
far has been really good and there's quite a few more to go. I
thought Fable also looked really good. Yeah, I mean, hey, by
the way I told you they were it was Fable, They're gonna show you
had some doubts. I had some doubts, Sam, But I heard about
a week before that in persona three remake in the Good Tell when You Switch
Man, yep, I was like, oh, clearly going to be there.
So it's but the main character. So how am I supposed to factor
this? I mean, people do know you make your own character and Fable
a righty No, of course not. Um, people are just fucking weird
that it was a fun trailer. There was, you know, it was
it started off the cinematic, but there's definitely there's actually, when I watched
again, quite a bit of stuff that looks like gameplay. And so it
was all an engine at the very least. I mean that's what the thing
said. I think at the bottom, Um, it's twenty twenty four or
not most of them did, I figured, I forget. No, it's
said it's coming in due time, I think, is what it's says.
This one is maybe. Yeah, so you're right, and like in terms
of it, yeah, maybe being further win pretty far off, Yes,
it's pretty far off. Yeah, but that's fine. I mean, it
looks like they have a handle on it. They do. They're doing a
good job of having the fable humor, like it is a silly game,
you're kicking chickens, but maybe not being it's hard to get too much of
a sense of it from justice trailer, maybe not being super obnoxious about it.
Yeah, I think they know what they're doing. Yeah, it seems
like it's in good hands. Um. And I think that you know,
the bit of the Giant and run around his place, that's a fun idea
for a gameplay mechanic and for opportunities for humor. And they obviously have the
comedian, the guy from the IT crowd in they're doing being the Giant.
Yeah, and I love like this is literally yeah, we're literally doing Jack
and the bean stuck. Like, well, that's the kind of fantasy thing
we are here. We are not like their owns. We're the opposite.
And yeah, we're doing like nursery rhymes and yes, things like that,
which is like, yeah, let's go, that's that's fantastic. Um.
Armard Core six did not play it saw a stage demo with a theater demo
excuse me, where someone did play it in front of me, and it
looks real good. H That definitely has post from souls Borne inspirations to an
extent. And that just means like the stagger mechanic and the lock on is
very aggressive in a way that emissions potions estis flasks basically there you have three
repair kits you use by using up on the dpad, and and that means
almost certainly there are going to be bondfire equivalents throughout these levels. Now,
this is not a game, not an open world, not even a connected
world game, right, It's it is going to be. It'ssion, it's
emissions exactly. But I bet there's still going to be sort of checkpoints through
oute where you refill your flasks and stuff. Um. But it's clearly still
just Armored Core. The focus is on customizing your your your Armored Core and
um and adding different weapons for different scenarios. So if you are going to
go into a thing where it's like a lot of close corridors combat, you
just put four fucking shotguns on your shoulders and just go in there and every
button is just going to destroy the enemy. You could do that if you
want. Um, it looks really good. I think the way that the
Armored Core moves around looks really aggressive and like probably the best part of the
game. Yes, it's just this big fat vehicle just shooting forward because of
its jets, like like clearly something like the guy was like pushing the stick
in and it was just lurching forward and then he'd move to the right and
instead of like you know, doing the animated like you know, smooth motions,
right, it's like noe, We're just now we're just straping as fast
as we can in that direction and it feels like big and heavy. Yeah,
it looks really really fun. I'm gonna I'm gonna try to play some
Armored Core before this. Everyone always recommends I think not five, but the
one before that. I think like three. There's like five, like fives
like a subtitle like expand Alone that people like or something. Yeah, I
forget. I'm gonna try a bunch of them and then I'll pick one to
actually like really play. I think, yeah, the freaks will tell you,
which I also never played them. I've been watching some vedas about it
looks really fun. But yeah, I gonna play the plays fish in one
game a little bit because it looks good. I like that PS one look
for the answer is I think for the answer for yes Ree for PlayStation one
was still that was still Playsation one ever get But I saw the same theater
demo and was also just really impressive, how slick on which fun It looks
like there's clearly some out and Ring money in this thing, right, I
mean, in terms of the art design, it's one of the best looking
games I saw. Yeah, it just and those levels look huge, and
the verticality was really impressive. There's a lot of cool stuff. Yeah,
I'm sorry, we'll get to super tests later if someone someone's losing it very
good. Yeah, no, I'm like, just again, this is August.
I am very excited. I can't wait to plans. So that's insane
a couple months. It's because we didn't get to play it, and because
it's coming out in August, I bet they're gonna like plan A, and
because it's like from and Bandai Napco coming off a big win at Older Ring,
I bet there's like a big thing here coming up soon where they're really
going to blow that game out and get people a chance to play it and
stuff like that. So hopefully that does happen? Can we talk about another
Xbox game next? Yeah? What's up? What do you think about a
VOW because a vout seemed to maybe fly a little under the radar with Starfield
kind of being a similar, much younger, more imminent thing. And I've
seen some people say, you know, that kind of looks okay, what
did you think of about I think I felt much better about it after the
extended showcase where they talked about it and kind of explained their thinking and see
that I think I was streaming it. Yeah, So my understanding is that
they kind of realized that, oh, we Microsoft now owns Skyrim, so
we don't need to make our own Skyrim, which was the original plan.
And instead of doing that, they're like, we're gonna go and still like
big and wide. We're gonna go deep on the mechanics we like at Obsidian,
and I think that is probably the right choice. It sounds like it's
about the same size as the outer worlds. That's probably also the right choice,
and I think that's fine. The game's coming out in twenty twenty four,
A game like getting announced actually coming out in a reasonable amount of time,
if that means it needs to like look a little bit slighter. I
think I'm okay with that, especially when there were so many other options from
the same company. Yeah, I mean I wish it looked a little bit
better, right, I mean, sure, again, it's the Microsoft game
and wishers a bit more maybe like a Microsoft glow Up there as opposed to
it looking basically kind of like what Outer Worlds did. Yeah, but I
like the Outer Worlds. I like but as this games, when they do
them in this style, I think this is going to be a lot of
fun. I mean to it, but I also kind of understand where some
people are coming from maybe not feeling like it was the best shelling for it.
I mean, speaking of glow Up that I mean, I think the
biggest jump from their last game to this game in terms of budget being on
the screen in Exile Clockwork Clockwork Revolution. It's just that that BioShock Infinite looking
game. I wish it was a little bit less looking. It looks a
lot like Bioso Infinite, which is like BioShock Gap. Yeah, I mean,
you know, I get it that BioShock Infinite doesn't own like like steampunk,
but this is so much like that to a point where it's a little
distracting that I wish somebody said, hey, maybe we should find some ways
to differentiate this from this other very famous game. But I am still,
you know, excited for it. I think, yeah, and Exiles are
obviously very good teas coming. It's just wild, like in Exiles making it,
and it is uh, I don't know, like, uh fucking two
k's. I've been working on a Bioshot game forever and this team's just gonna
put out one that looks like for people who are fans of that looks like
another one of those. So it's it's weird. I don't know if it's
for me. I think BioShock Evidence was a fine game, the game that
I've like been fine with ever since I played. At the time, it
was like, oh, I'm really into this. Now afterwards I'm like,
yeah, I think I'm fine. Um, but it looks really nice.
It looks expensive for an inn Exile game, is what I keep coming back
down. Yeah, I mean, it's obviously a bit more to it than
a Wasteland three for sure. Yep. Um, let's see here. I
got other stuff. I think Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven, Phantom Liberty looked really
nice, looks really good. People have played this, not me, and
they were really into it. I'm very happy. I somehow still never played
Cyberpunks, so really, so you're gonna give it a chance this time?
Oh yeah? When this because like there's an update to the main game coming
as part of this, Like it just feels like the definitive addition. Right,
it's like, I play that of all that stuff, but then do
the expansion if I feel so inclined. So it's all working out for me.
Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth probably had one of the funnest trailers. They're
going to Hawaii. I like Hawaii. I like things like said in Hawaii,
So I think that's fun different, you know, different saying change.
Plus maybe you'll see his dick. Yeah, I hope we see his dick.
They should just do that, do we see? We don't see actual
like just dangling dicks too often in games. Still, right, No,
just a couple. I mean there's that rock star d'l see where they had
some dick. Yeah, you're right, you know, the Ballad of gay
Tony. I think so. I don't know if we saw gay Tony's dick,
but we saw someone's dick. Okay, as long as we saw somebody's
dick, that's fun. Uh. I don't know, like a dragon infinite
wealth looks really fun. I don't know. I guess we just want to
talk about the decks. That's where Dick heavy podcast there. Okay, what
was you know what? It was a little surprising in underwhelming even for people
like us who don't really care about it. Was how Blade two's showing.
Yeah, I guess lots was that. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't remember it gonna be I thought, yeah, I thought it
was gold be time for the real big like gameplay, like show me the
UI, even show like somebody's coming out in twenty twenty four. I don't
know if they're gonna show the UI. It probably has a minimal UI,
right, it probably does. But like I was expecting like a chunk of
gameplay instead of an even more cryptic just kind of story beat. And it
was like she's walking the most story beat story. Yeah, she just walked
through a cave and she like looks at a reflection and her voices in her
head go off, and yeah, that's weird. The more at the extended
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I thought we
were going to see more from that thing. I don't blame it was never
my thing, so I think never my thing too. But you're right,
well, I immediately followed this away in okay and then forgot about it.
That's how a lot of people thought. Just see, yeah, I thought,
I think we all thought that this was kind of like the next one.
Honestly, after well, I think it's still Wipe Stars coming out in
twenty twenty four. Maybe a VAT comes out first. Actually that'd be cool,
hope, But I don't know. But we'll see. Um, let's
see Avatar Friend Tears of Pandora. We out a little bit about that.
But I, um, I saw the presentation at that Ubisoft thing and thought
it looks really I think it looks fun. I think it looks good.
I think it's gonna be a good game. Yeah, I mean, you
know, I pooh pooed far Cry before. Even though this isn't the farcright
team, this is a massive who is I think a better team. I
think they are gonna have some more interesting twists in there. And again,
just you know, playing as as in this world is going to be inherently
more interesting getting your ekron and being able to fly. That's gonna be really
fun, Like the way it kind of like does go, like you know,
it zooms out into like that third person thing when you're doing that,
and there's just gonna be so much verticality inherent in that world that I hope
they can translate. I hope I can go swim with the water people.
I better be able to. I want to make some whale friends. Man,
I don't think the way so this takes place on a new continent,
the Western Frontier. I think they said they've got to have their own water
people, though maybe well, what I think is probably gonna happen is if
the game does well enough, they'll they'll do y'lc that has water, that
water DLC. Yeah, I would pay absolutely let me swim the toccoon.
I'm serious, I would pay too. I would pay fifty dollars for that.
DLC. Fucking give me those toolcoon. I fucking love that. Those
goddamn space whales. Wave of water so freaking good, YEA. Would they
delayed the next movie? I like legit, like so sad. Oh it's
gonna be so good, so sad people. How good? How good is
that fire gonna look though? Oh it's gonna look real, real good.
Um, I can go. I got a whole bunch of other stuff here.
I just some highlights see if Thieves the Legend of Monkey Island content.
Yeah, that looks so much fun. I'm like so ready to check out
that game again. Yeah. We tried that parts of the Caribbean stuff and
it was like kind of fun. It was like a good excuse to do
this. But Monkey Island, that's like they just got all the popular pirate
stuff in this. Now going to Melee Island. They even got dominic our
model. It's a guy brush in there. Like this is a full on
Monkey Island thing. Yep, I am super ready for it. I'm very
excited. South of Midnight, which I had kind of a cinematic that was
the US The compulsion one is the bayou where that the black lady comes out
and she's like what's going on and the big guy, the dead guy playing
the guitar I think, comes up behind her and it's got that on the
tree. This is very stylized. I was a little too stuck. Yes,
I mean, I have no idea what this actually is. Listen,
I think if the game looks like that, which is possible because they said
that was like an engine, um um, I think that's cool. I'm
hopeful. Yeah, it's got to stop motion vibes. It has on the
two vibes of Spider Man into the Spider Verse. It is actually what they're
going for, okay, And I think a lot of people are going for
that these days. Yeah, And I think it's a it's a good call,
it's a good look, and it looks very very good. If that's
what's what it's gonna end up looking like, You're right. If it's so
stylized, it's hard to tell, but I kind of want to give them
the benefit of the doubt, at least in terms of them that's what they're
going for. Who knows if it actually the final product looks that good.
But it's got a, you know, an interesting style and an interesting subject
matter. It's about, uh, like people of color from the American South,
something that we just don't get a lot of. So that was that
was pretty neat. Uh. And then Jussant which is that uh that climbing
game that stylisted climbing game. I loved the climbing game. I was forget,
like I see just set and I was like, oh, yeah,
that's something that was announced. Which one was that, Yeah, this is
a uncharted oopso climbing, Yes, exactly, yeah, exactly sure. Uh,
Sonic Superstars, Hey, Sonic the Sonic game we all thought was happening.
Did you play this? I did play this. It was hard to
get a read on it because there was some input lag on my setup,
which I think was again I think that's the switch in TV. Yeah.
Yeah, So there was a lot of stuff happening, a lot of switches
set up right, and the switch is really prone to having controller lag if
you don't have the like almost direct line of sight, Like you don't have
to have line of sight. But boy, like my kids run in front
of me, and I notice it sometimes when I'm like ten feet away,
right, and there's like some stuff here where you know, like some of
the technical stuff. The scrolling didn't feel super great. Sometimes the camera was
zoomed in a little two m pretty close. Yeah, and that that gets
to me an old man, Um, that's why game you're moving fast?
Yeah, Like some people really like Sonic Advance and that was zoomed in but
uh, children is fine. Uh, but no, I mean I generally
was pretty happy that. I think there's some cool stuff here, like how
when you get a chios when you get a special power related to it,
So it's not just like all or nothing with Chaos Emeralds, where either you're
getting super psynic you're getting nothing. I'm a big fan of Knack the weasel
slash than the Sniper. I think they actually what the thing the snipers is
a real name now, which it sounds sounds like that's what they have fang
they did go with thing is what thing. I think they're keeping the sniper
bar. But uh, but yeah, I like that little asshole from the
game Gear games. That's good. It's uh. It is from our zaeske
to or developed by our zask favorite developer, developer that worked with Eugen Naka
on Ballad wonder World. They're now working with the Sonic team on this um
that is not necessarily like some like death Warrant. Uh. They're gonna be
as good as the resources that are given to them, and they are working
with the physics engine the Christian Whitehead and his team made for Sonic Mania.
People did a comparison between this and Sonic Mania, for like Sonic running down
a cliffs and it's like spot on exactly the same. Christian white Head was
also pretty coy about that. He said he'll talk more about it when he
can. Clearly he's involved in some way, interesting because I thought maybe he
wasn't involved at all, so that's contorting to know that he exactly so good
good news for Sonic Superstars. Um. And then Persona five tactics. It's
like the last one I have with all this Persona stuff. Really, I
mean yeah, but for me it was tactics. But yes, all the
Persona stuff. Metaphor Day metaphor, Ray Fantasio, yeah, Fantasy Persona,
yes, Fantasy Persona. Uh, you know the Path of the Goddess.
Let's got as well that Capcom's um uh kind of weird Annie Musha successor in
some ways. I don't know if I was into that. You don't you
don't yees student like the color of you, it was too many colors.
I think there's too many colors. I think you're well, I think it
was a. I think that's actually more carefully chosen. Then you're realizing,
and you will, really you will regret your words and these when you play
the final b final game. Okay, let's see then they'll stick with me.
But yeah, I mean, look if metaphor whatever is uh like as
good as a Persona five and it looks a lot like Persona five down to
the menus and stuff, Hey, I can go for that. The Persona
three remake is interesting because you know, it looks really good, and I'm
glad that game is getting a glow up. It needs one. I think
a lot of people are thrown off by it not having the Fez expansion content
or the female main character choice. It's like, I think maybe people can
understand if you had one or the other. I think not having either of
those, what do we? What do we you sell that to me later?
Is that what people are thinking? And well, I almost get it.
With like Fez is basically a whole like new campaign, it's a lot
I understand. But again, like Fez hasn't been available for so long,
I think that would have really gotten people excited if you put it in there
at least say it's coming later. Even if you tell people there at the
bio latter, they might still be at least excited it is coming. I'm
mostly okay with it. I you know, I'm a normy who played Persona
three all the way through the first time on the portable version, just as
the male character. Just having that experience again but with like a much better
presentation, I will still have a good time. Yeah, And it's it's
I think it's going to be a chance for a lot of people to actually
play it and really experience Persona three. Since Persona five was so so popular
in the series has grown so much, people probably did consider going back to
Persona three. But now, like now that it's like, you know,
up the snuff in a lot of ways, I bet most people will be
happy with it. Ye mean, you know, hey, I mean there's
a pretty clear pather too, you think, and just had this team remake
Persona four? Why not? Now? I heard it? Oh, I
heard it over here too. Wait, we're not hearing the same thunder?
Do you hear my thunder? Maybe? I don't think so. It felt
because it felt I felt it, I think, But I don't know.
I suppose it's possible. I think game by Man, but that'll be fun.
It does have a bit of a hardcore spinoff vibe to it, Like
here's the GB characters. Yeah, and it's going to have a story that
you know, is very side story and doesn't really matter like we've seen with
Persona Q and like the dancing games and stuff like that, and the fighting
games even whatever. It could be fun. Yeah. Not surprising though that
they are continuing to do spinoffs because that they do a lot of those,
and this is a good idea for one. Yeah. I mean they did
a zillion PERCENTA four spinoffs before they got the five. They're now doing a
million percenta five spinoffs and you know, it does feel like a percenta six
is longer way than we thought with this stuff coming in again that Fantasy Persona
game, right, so this should tie people over a bit, right all
right. I that's what I have written down here, Mike, I guess
overall, how are you feeling about the games announced? I feel pretty good.
You know, it kind of takes us stood out. I mean it
is funny how how quickly things can sort of shift that they're a good show,
right, Like it was Doom and Gloom for Microsoft and they have that
switch. Yep. Just it's like life back to life. Yep. It
was a good It was a good Eventum, A lot of it will come
down too, because the yeah, for this year, Microsoft really just does
have Forts and Starfield, the games that both those games were supposed to come
out in the last year that they were already supposed to be out. So
it's like, Okay, you are pushing other things back clearly because these games
are still coming. So I guess you're lucky that happened. But Starfield looks
so big, so expansively like the game. It looks like the game,
So if that game hits, they are going to get a lot of leeway
for quite some time. I think to set up the next like big game
after that, and I think if that's hell Blade or Avowed, I think
both those games will kind of get a bit of a rub where it's like,
well, I'm still playing Starfield a lot of ways, so this like
other distraction here that's not quite as massive. That's kind of nice. And
then they got a lot of a lot of games that they didn't show Perfect
Dark Hunreman. Yes, a lot of stuff that like still in the hopper.
We will probably hear about some of those before the end of this year.
Most of those probably would all say for next three though, so I
imagine, yeah, nat Booty was like, oh, there's a bunch of
stuff, like on our couch. You said, there's a bunch of other
places on the calendar where we could talk about the stuff. I don't think
necessarily that means we're gonna hear about Perfect Dark before next D three, but
uh yeah, I don't know. Overall, I've been really happy because there's
just so many games I want to play. It's been playing so many games
right now, and somehow it still feels like this year is just going to
continue to be pre nuts again. We have we have we have Pickman Fops
sixteen and Armored Core like imminent, and then not too long after that you
are going to have Starfield and Aly two, Immortal Kombat one. It's just
there's a ton of amazing games so coming out this year, and like twenty
twenty four it looks like it's going to have some promise with things, um
like like the Star Wars game and you know, some of this other stuff
Microsoft showing off. You know, I'm hopeful. Yeah, me too.
I'm like checking the game browser to see if it's updated. Uh oh god,
you'd like to please? Yeah, it doesn't. It just go through
the first part of it. But now you're talking about the gamer browser.
Why don't we take a break? Faith come back, man. Sat sixth
is the just walk quick Starfield doing that early thing where if you like you
buy the special version you get to get it like a couple of days early
Starfield. I don't know if they are. I'm just trying to I'm trying
to run out the clock here. You gotta go pee, I really have
to go pee. I'm just going to be back to everybody. Thanks,
thanks for listening to us so far. We'll be back after this to talk
about what you think about Summer Game Fest and to answer all your super chats,
which you've been coming in hot and heavy. If you have a super
chat sent in and now we'll get to it right after these messages. We're
back. We're gonna get to what our community, our podcast producers thought about
Summer Game Fest. They have a lot and you know, the stuff that
we did as well. They have a lot of some comments on that,
which I appreciate. We'll get to all of that in a second. I
want to start with the super chats though, Mike, we got a few
of those. Why don't we answer yes, absolutely? I think this first
one might be our front xbot killer, but the name is Flew the lou
Creweight. Three. Jeff, please tell Xbox to fix Fable please. Main
character is so bad. Okay, Yeah, I listened right after I got
DOWNE. I was like, Phil, I'm not horny for this character,
and he is like, Jeff, please leave me alone. I have to
go, and I'm like no. And then I brought Matt Booty over and
I was like, Matt Booty, you understand, you get it? And
he looked at me he said, yeah, I get it. Did any
sane person watch that everything? Think that? Because I thought she looks cool.
I think she looks legit cool in that trailer. I was just looking
in Yeah, absolutely, she looks like a person, and I was super
into it. I don't know, it's weird. Nintenderk says, great work
with the giant bumb content. You have great interviewing skills, Jeff. How
did you go about practicing those skills for the events? I deal with this
jerk off every week? There you go? It was it was. It
was a lot of fun to just kind of like get people on there and
ask stuff that I cared about. That was the key that was the secret.
Thrax says, Hey, guys, just wanted to let Mike know.
I've been on a MegaMan binge. I just started up nine and I've been
enjoying them all except seven. Yeah. Seven's definitely won the worst one.
Which one's the PlayStation graphics one one? Eight eight? I kind of like
eight. I like eight seven was the only Super Nintendo one and it's just
like clearly worse in Mega Man X right, sure it's you know, it's
still Megan games. So fine, man, I'm like really decked out of
MegaMan stuff. I got my shirt on, got my Mega Man eleven fabric
clothing. There you go. We did get kind of a Mega Man announcement
at the Capcom thingy. It was just a mobile game, mobile game,
yeah, okay, dive, I don't know, it was not much yep.
Dominic Harmon says, if all the games releasing in October, could this
be publishers trying to get games out in time for Game awards consideration. I
don't think that's really matters. I think October is just you know, before
holiday. It's though, I mean, Brown Lake, it's also time,
yes, yeah, so what else is October? Si Lake? I was
I was actually just going to look at it. So if you want to
give me a second long Browns Internet Games Database, I'm going to go into
the thing that the Game of Browser draws from, which is the Internet Games
Database. It doesn't just know what's so now it does the Game of Browser?
Is that self self actualized? Yet? So sorry about that? Oh,
Spider Man October forgot about spied Jesus, that's spider that's Spider Man.
I think are the big ones. So yeah, a lot of big games.
But that's that used to always happen in October November. It's weird that
it happened in June this year, right, Yes, that's the weird thing,
all right. Next one is from Big Fresh thirty seven. The best
guess what was with the Hexan shirt? Oh? I mean I think that
he uh? Okay, so Hexon was owned by Bethesda. Do they already
own Hexan or is that? I think it's I can't remember. I was
like, I thought Hexen was part of the Activision deal, but like,
I can't keep it straight. It is. I can't keep it straight.
I honestly can't. I said that like a bunch of times on live stream,
and I wasn't looking at a chat, so I don't remember if anyone
was correcting me. Um, but I thought, because I know Raven,
Raven worked on a Hexan and Raven worked on Heretic, which is the first
game, and I think it's it's all it in Raven, so I think
it was. Yeah, I think he owned his activision. It's either owned
by ABK or Bethesta. Yeah, right, that's how exactly, Lucius.
That's like it's one or the other. So it's it is. Okay.
I think that they are gonna do one, but I don't think they're making
one right now. I don't get something. Also, like you know,
he said as much later somewhere where he's like, you don't have to always
read into my shirts. Sometimes I just wear shirts I like Hexan. So,
yeah, Raven owns the IPE, says Graham Freeman. That sounds right,
Raven. Now that's Activision. The Raven works on the Call of Duty,
Battle Royale stuff, war Zone. Oh right, right, that's right.
Okay, Well there you go. Then you know I should tell Phil
you own Christon Skies right now? You should wear that shirt. Yeah you
should have said that. Yeah, that's why that's my head canon is that
people that you know, they said people can Fly is gonna make a game
for Xbox. I'm just convincing myself. It's Crimson Skies shirts off of nothing.
Why not? Okay? Next one here is from l grug says,
great job with the couch, Jeff, and great job being not as weird
as Dan and Mike the Final Bosses. Here's the Kingdom blows birth while out
of the water. In my opinion, good excite for it. Oh,
I'm a little offended by the way that you said I was weirder than Dan.
Yeah, you're listening close, not even close. You can run a
poll in this chat, and you know how they are with me. I
bet I bet old Dan will win it, you know what I mean?
Dan pulls the mask off in front of me enough that it's like it's like
it's disarming, but then he'll say something legitim and then it reminds me I'm
buried in a taco bell and you wouldn't I would get married in Taco Bell,
don't I think I wouldn't. Jeff, I have to say, you
can judge me. You could call me a snob. I don't think I
would. I absolutely would get buried in a taco bell. So maybe I'm
weirder than you. I'm starting to pull. It's it's hard to tell,
Mike, when you're like in the thick of it, who's weirder. I'm
too close to it, Honestly, I can't. I can't tell. Well,
you're the one who's close to both. You should know. I know.
But it's like like it's like it's different every day. It really is,
all right. Next one here is from Tea Bucket twenty three, who
says, asks, excuse me, is sack Boy a meep? Yes,
sack Boy is very much a meet, Yeah, very Bisha. Emmy has
her dressed up as a punk rock girl. Addie goes in with the vanilla
and they're like little little brother little sister and they kind of play that way,
but they're both meets. Wow. Jackie G says, heard any updates
on the Game Pass Family Plan. No, it's surprising that we came out
of this and like that that extended showcase, Like you think that's the perfect
place to announce it. I think it's still coming, but maybe it's coming
this holiday instead. Real quick to test super Chat Dan thinks you can breathe
in space. I never said Mike was dumber than Dan. I know Mike
is smarter than Dan. Trust me, trust me. H excellent here is
from Rogers og says, thank you boys for all the awesome Naughty three work.
Absolutely it was and maybe we'll just talk a little bit about some of
the fun we had, but we'll talk about it now because we had we
did get to have some fun, uh just hanging out the crew that like
the first night before summer game fests or the day of summer game fests,
I forget what it was. We all got to hang out a little tokyo
for a while. We had a big crew. We got to eat this
uh issa kai. It was something that sounded like isak like Japanese grill kind
of a thing where um, it was great because like Emma and Bailey just
ordered for the table and we got like some of those towers of supporting towers.
Yes, that was so delicious of pouring it and it was this is
a great most of the media. It was so fun for me to be
the beer guy and the food was really good. And then we went to
karaoke, like one of those Japanese karaoke rooms. And it was just we
had a really fun time. I had a great ticket. It was a
lot of fun. Mike did it was belting out some tunes. Curtain Davina
was like kicking hind singing. Emma was a great singer. It was a
lot of singers. Yeah, as doing some duets of people. Yes,
you guys. It was good. Yeah. Marry Gabson first, my first
time medi Mary kish Uh that you did a duet of greed, the one
that I want, Yeah with him and it was incredible. It was a
good way to knock off the night. I was to say Esa Kai the
restaurant Issa Kai Esa k or something like that. Yeah, it's really very
similar to you should you coda put it in there? It's not isaa kai
is an anime genre, right, it's Isaac isaakaia. I can't say it.
I say it has a lot of grow like skewers and just a lot
of good food. It was really good. Reminded me of of Epicot,
of course, but most things do. Next one here is from Big Fresh
thirty seven. After three nights of having the games gamesbe Xegbs gamesby the Giant
Pom at night show on my fiance told me she has developed a crush on
Jeff Grubb. It happens to that. Don't approve of this, I think
of me. I Uh, my wife was watching the first the last segment
on the first night, and then your Feet came out and she's like,
I just feel so bad for that lady. That girl right there. My
Mary's a good sport. It's fine. Mary loved it was funny. She
was having a great time. Yeah, yeah, uh god that. I
mean, all the couches I was on were fun. The last couches of
the day were always weird. That first day, it was really something that
was in that robot cup costume. I was getting all sweaty. There's one
point your Mary tried bading me off of an old EGF and I was like,
jenually like, don't do that. That's a classic da please still bend
it. I think I gave that EGM to Baron. I'm like, Baron,
just take this. Here you go here Baron deserves. That's awesome.
Uh all right. Next one here is from Stefendo, who says, uh
high beefee boys, first time super chat. I think you Steptendo literally all
Nintendo ip getting one of three games within their series on the Switch, what
is what are the chances we get a new star Fox in the next year
or two. It should be soon, not necessarily. Star Flox zero was
something of a wet fart for them. I think this, let me look,
it's like the one, it's like the one big Wiu game. Really,
there's maybe a couple other ones that that didn't get a like a direct
sequel or two apport to the switch. It feels like star Fox has kind
of been put on the bench a little bit here. I would expect other
dormant series like f zero to come back before star Fox at this point.
Yeah, I think that's I think that's right. Um. I think they
should have I think you should they should have the faith to do more with
star Fox again, and like I mean, like make a big, full
modern Star Fox game with all that one entail while also keeping the classic star
Fox gameplay somewhere in that loop that I think they're going to take their time
trying to get to that point. I wonder if maybe you do need a
new Switch to do something actually impressive cool star Fox, Like maybe if that
was a game where you can do the kind of fly into a planet and
fly out a planet, like make it a bit more open. Maybe that
would give that new life. I think that'd be very difficult. Yeah,
but you couldn't. I don't know if you could do a current switch.
Yeah, maybe not. Let's see here now. The next one here is
from Burrito, says Jeff. Mike. Good to have you guys back.
Congratulations Jeff Stellar interviewing for a Giant Bomb at Night. Thank you very much.
It was a lot of fun. It is where to be doing a
normal podcast again. Huh Yeah, it's like back to normal life. But
you know, it's nice in a lot of ways, but it's definitely it
definitely felt special to be out there making all that stuff happening. I'm gonna
try to real quick. Sorry. Dan is at sixty six percent, Mike
thirty four percent. Dan officially weirder than Mike. That's you know what.
People are starting to win me over. I think they're probably right. Yeah,
who regrets their words and deeds and now definitely always me. Yeah that's
what I thought. Uh. The Wolf says I can't stop thinking about Starfield
and bought the three hundred Dark Collectors Edition with the watch. What was the
last collector edition you bought. That's I still get set some time to time.
But even if I didn't, I probably wouldn't buy them. I want
that one more. I'm admitting I want that one nice watch I bought.
I did buy like a limited limited run thing for Monkey Allen one, the
Sega CD version once, the one I think I actually know. I actually
did buy the File Bay fourteen and Walker Colletched edition because of course. Yeah,
yeah, so there you go. That's the last one. I thought
I might end up getting that star Field one because I want to watch.
It's a cool watch. Uh. Next one here is from a grug who
says I was playing the Master Chief Collection on PC. My console sales are
still there. Do you think Starfield would allow cross progression also between PC and
console? Next? Yeah, I think it's that standard now for that standard
for them, I mean if you're playing on the Xbox versions both, so
like the Xbox App on PC, if you played that version, you're definitely
like if you go to the game Pass on your PC, it's definitely gonna
have the cross save. Even on Steam. Now for many of their games,
not all of them, but for many of them, they have cross
progression. Big Jimbo Ryan says, boy, would I hate to be the
real gym right now? Dropping Well, this is clearly fab right now,
clearly a work. This is a work, this is this is the real
gym. Just doesn't want to have to come in your answer questions for what
happened with that last showcase? Haha? Is that all you got? Xbox
multi platts and CGI trailers Spider Man two and Ike Up two next year?
Clearly sweep, but I don't know. Uh. Cono Wood said, look
he Forgotten Stands on WE actually rules interesting, that's so for gon Stands was
the unbooted uh game that I didn't even realize had had a version. I
definitely had some Prince of Persian games on WE, but I think I was
like them that one, the Tale of Two Brothers, whatever is the the
god Smack one I think I had on we Know that that Never Know that
never came out on a week. Okay, there was the one where he's
like smokey looking, and I just assumed that maybe that's Forgotten Stands. Okay,
maybe that's what I have for stance. It was hard after a while.
Didk Reppin who actually sent two supertatas he forgot to include his message in
the first said, I'm an idiot. It did type the message on my
first super chat. Anyways, Jeff, have you heard any more chatter about
the Metal Slug Tactics game. Yeah, we haven't heard about that in a
little bit. Huh Yeah, it's been a grip. Uh No, I
haven't. I mean, I know that uh S and K had some you
know, weird stuff when they were invested heavily and by Saudi Arabia, But
I don't think that disrupted the develop development on that game at all. I
don't know. I'll look into it. I'll see what we can find out.
But um, because I would, I'd like to see that game.
I would like it to be good. Flew the Lucue back says Fable one
didn't have character creation. Stop hill Man, stop shilling for the first game
in Fable and deliberate deliberately ignoring the second and third games which exists. But
say, I thought the I mean, I know the first game, your
character only changed based on your decisions. I thought maybe there's character creation like
straight up after that. I don't even remember. I'll tell you what.
Who cares though? Even if that, if you if you could only play
as that girl from the trailer. What the hell? Oh then oh he
came right back. I think people are pointing it out, said Flew.
The gluch Crewe said, Fable two three character creation is limited, it's over.
It's over. Well, if it's limited, I'm assume you could find
some options to find somebody you won't be disgusted and ashamed to factor and they're
somewhere Flew so luck Yeah, you don't. You get about xpot Killer but
the whole like this main character is not attractive enough. Shit, like,
get get over it? Yeah, Like come on, just straight up loser
behavior. It's a lose, straight up loser behavior. Man, I know
you can do better xpot Killer. Next one's from Dream, he said.
My disappointment was no Star Wars Eclipse. Seriously, Quantic Dream and Nuts is
a new indie label, but no news on their projects. Have you heard
anything. I mean, I would almost be happy if there was no Star
Wars ec I do not like Quantic Dreaming. Yeah, I mean neither.
And um, it's not going to be like one of their other games,
but that doesn't mean it's gonna be good. I mean, the one thing
about it is it's a high Republic game. I really like the High Republic
setting. After reading a couple of those books and really enjoying them, I
don't necessarily think that I'm gonna get a lot of fun stuff out of a
Quantic Dream one, though. I bet it's gonna be overwrought and weird and
bad. But that game was like having troubles immediately, and what I always
heard was twenty twenty seven early. It's like, come on, are we
ever really gonna be playing that thing? They're gonna they're gonna run out of
money, I think, and I don't think it's ever gonna come out,
but that's just a guess. No headlines please. Creaky leg said, when
Mike Manady passes on to the Great Beyond, okay, when I fucking die,
what will be his lasting legacy and having his dad's feet dust being the
real boob City Slamba Gemma or top whatever in Neon White Love you guys,
all right, Jeff, If I fucking die tomorrow, what are you gonna
remember me for like ten years from now? Yeah, it's gonna be the
moment you took off the RoboCop mask and it was just whoa. It's every
time. I'm so surprised by how much brighter it is when I take that.
That's a yeah, the surprise of like taken off like continued for a
second. So first it was like relief, and then it's like, God,
it's pride. It's aggressively bright here. That was a very funny moment.
Are just like being in the RoboCop suit next to Mary and you like
lift your feet up and just they're just sticking out like that. And I
look over Dan, and Dan's laughing hard and I've ever seen them laughing,
and I'm laughing harder than I've ever laughed. I'm like, yeah, that's
probably what I'm going to remember it. And port Marry came like really like
dressed uff I put a lot of thought in her appearance. And I'm fucking
a barefoot in a real book, be honest, is like fucking and Jeff,
I will forget those feet. I will. I don't think so,
I don't think that's going to happen. The test says, Dan thinks you
can breathe in space. Yeah, okay, glad, Like I said,
The Tender says, just considered Dan's Mario opinions for a second. That's true.
Was Dan's definitely more annoying than Mike is that's amazing as that annoying to
me. He's dumber than me, but somehow not weirder than he might be
weirder than you, Yeah, it might be. Lucius Augustus says, I
don't make a big deal about this type of stuff, but you did a
great job at bringing people of color on the giant pump couch and making them
comfortable. You did good. Yeah, you. I think you all did
a great job with that, Jeff. I mean, as as a very
white male myself, Like, I don't know, like how much I can
I get to really say about that, Like obviously my perspective is limited,
but it certainly felt like we got to hear from a lot of different voices
and see a lot of different faces, and I think that was a very
good thing. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of cool people in
the industry, so it's very easy if you try, and I think that's
just we tried and it paid off. I think in terms of having diverse
voices and having interesting panels and people coming from a lot of different perspectives,
I think my favorite was getting to asked Rihanna about covering out while being pregnant,
because that's just never something I've ever heard anyone talk about before. And
it was very cool to like have her there while being seventeen weeks pregnant,
just coming and being on her couch and and like doing that, let alone
all the coverage she was doing for What's Good Games. So yeah, that
was definitely a standout moment for me and the Argentinians. Of course, there
are a lot of people who like, you know, because I was talking
to people sort of like you know, in the Phantom office when they weren't
on or a lot of people were just hanging out. But there are a
lot of people who were on the couch who said, oh, this was
awesome that I got to do this always wanted to. Yeah, a lot
of happy people, a lot of people getting to it was I was very
it was very nice to hear that. I was like, I'm it was
important to me. I think it's important to some people to hear, like
how many people it was important to It was very nice, elk Rug says
explained the ramen Mike also obligatory Nintendo Direct question. Okay, I will explain
the ramen because there's no there's no real good excuse for what I got.
Was you came up better than any of us. I think, oh yeah,
like jan got food poison I got. I got spicy ramen in my
eye and just sat there. It was just like I'm dying. Jeff was
such a mess. I didn't even like I was trying not to give him
ship for it. But we were eating at this Raman place for his water
all over jane ye and then two seconds later splashed his spice of robin right
in his hes like oh, like, oh it hurts. It's like,
oh, is it red? I'm like, yeah, you should go wash
it. I was like nah, And it was minutes later He's still complaining
about it. I was like, Jeff, it was like thirty seconds later
and it was clearing up, but you're right. I went to the bathroom
Mic put a little bit of water, and I'm sure that helped a little
bit, but it was like poets. I'm got in the bathroom and it
already felt much better, but I had to spill my water and then it
was like a perfect like I put my you know the soup spoon they give
you for ramen. I put it straight in as I'm like looking over it
because I think I was like lifting up because I just filled my water,
so I was holding it and I'm like looking down at it, and it
was just like that perfect like if you saw a drop of water in a
commercial. It was like that, but in reverse, straight up into my
eye, like a huge glob perfectly into my eyeball. And it hurt because
it was spicy ramen. I asked for the spicies that they had, so
see, so here are excuses about my very bland looking ramen. And look,
they are just excuses. I want to be clear about that. I
don't blame anyone for judging me. One, I eaten not too long before
that, so I didn't want to like get like a whole thing like just
noodles and broth. That sounded pretty good. Two, I can't get the
spicy stuff. I like spicy. It sets my crone so that there's a
lot of the color gone right there. Yeah that. Three, Like,
you know, I like some of that stuff they put on top, but
I also don't like some of it. And a lot of times at these
places when I say like just no bean sprouts or this or that, it
just all comes on anyway, so it's easier to just say none of it
and then I am you generally better. I also forgot just how like gray
regular pork broth looks. Maybe it should chick take a prop way to help
there, because they look they look like poor person's like porridge. It looks
like swope screws shots and Christmas Carol. Yeah, it was not appetizing looking,
I admit it. It's funny though. Uh. Next one here is
from Troy Goals this long time watcher but never comment. There's one to congratulate
Jeff on an awesome week of hosting. It feels like a giant bomb has
some great momentum going. Thanks, we're talking about that. We think we
have some momentum. We're gonna try to turn it into some stuff over there,
do some fun stuff. Hopefully we'll see flew. The Loch Crew is
back, says explained the dislikes on the trailer Dope Dodge. Yeah, people
like fucking clowns like you were like not getting a boner and you're bad at
the universe about it. That explains it. Look, yeah, what do
you want me to do about that? I thought you can't see dislikes on
trailers anymore. Yeah, I don't know either, like going out of your
way to like look at the Xbox trailer dislikes and like some back ends,
Yeah, you like on your Chrome or F what is F tam WHATEVEREF twelve?
Excuse me to look at the dev tools. That's pretty that's pretty loser
behavior tonight dislikes and that printz of Persia trailer and that game is one of
the best things I played. So I don't know. I have game rules.
Look, I mean all you can literally say about Paples that you think
the big character is hugly. Okay, what Cody Bishop says, Jeff,
you hear anything about Crimson Sky's reboot. This isn't fascinating question, Jeff,
No, absolutely not. Why didn't you ask Phil? Because I don't want
to give you what you want. Then you'll keep asking me to do things.
Is there anything you like? Later we're like, because you had a
very comprehensive interview, but there was there anything like, oh I should have
asked them about. Yeah there was Halo or three four three or something like
that. Yeah, I like, there's a lot of follow ups. I
wish I could have just asked, but it was the one that sticks in
mind. I don't know if we ever got around to it, Like we
talked about it in so many terms, like the Japanese development stuff, and
I was like, are you going to do more stuff that like you've done
with Sega Atlas where you just go out and make the deal too, so
that they kind of are forced to be on Xbox instead of having to make
those decisions themselves. Because that's clearly what they've done with Saga and Atlas and
that's worked out really well. And I wish we could I could have got
that answer. There's a whole bunch of other stuff. I had a list
of questions that didn't get the most of them because the conversation just kind of
went where it went, and it was very interesting. We talked about game
pass or too long, but that's how it goes sometimes. Well, it
felt like he I think he had a desire to kind of I'll say defended
a bit right sure, because it is under a lot of scrutiny, So
I think he was kind of I think that was maybe a goal of his.
Perhaps it kind of come out and get some of those criticisms dealt with
on game Pass. I think we got one more here for now from Conno
Wood, who says they're gotten Sands. Wei version is unique basically stands of
time for interesting, so kind of like like we had that with like Star
Wars and Leash. We saw recently they did a lot of that with those
we games where the Weed version was just a different team making a similar but
different. So the game I was thinking of on the Wii two Thrones,
which was on the Wii. It was on the Wheel. Okay, so
that was the third game. Yeah, I didn't realize because I probably also
came out on GameCube, but yeah, it probably would have been late enough
that it had just a straight up wee board. Yeah. Interesting. Okay,
that's it for super chests from now. If you guys have any more,
we will get to them. But Jeff, now it's your turn to
read stuff. Yes, I got the community here, our podcast producers and
the discord which, of course if you sport us on Patreon, you can
get in there and you get to the podcast producers channel and you could be
a part of this. Uh, let's start here with Pablo Cosso, who
answers our question. Hey would ask you if behind us, what were your
favorite moments from the showcases, the streams and everything else. Pablo Coast said
that one time, when Mike Manati left the UBI soft presentation, early pronounced
my name. Yeah, I don't give a fuck. Uh Yeah, that
was Michael Manos. You guys didn't see at the end of the UBI Soft
thing, like the camera's pointing is like shooting a crowd and so that you
just see me stand up my bag and kind of look around with the expression
of it. I literally was thinking, this, why is nobody leaving because
it was just like that bullshit at the end where Yees is like, no,
I'm gonna make all the little I think the reason no one on the
frame was leaving is because they were all UBI soft employees and they're like,
weren't celebrated. Yeah, and Mike's yeah, I don't care about you.
You just make the fight thing. I was like, oh, Mike goes
out of there. I actually really liked UBI Press. I thought it was
actually really good. There was the loss of there I liked. I liked
the what I'm seeing from the Assassin's Creed game, even like I said,
big fan of both of those massive titles and for the Prince of Persia game.
I think you'd be soft. Almost seems like they might turn things around,
which is shocking. But yeah, I was like, look, I
got an appointment to get to in ten minutes. Here I gotta go.
Actually, yeah, it was. It's just it was a very funny look
and then it was very funny. The best was because you guys talked about
it when you were doing lead live reactions and I saw kind of funny.
Also pointed me out when it happened. Did you did you see uh creaky
legs is thing where he had you popping up behind them on stage. Yes,
I didn't see that. That was very very very good. Let's see
Botfield says, Starfield is their standout there and yeah, I think most people
are with you. Christie said, yeah, go ahead. So here's my
question to start, because like everyone's like, oh, what kind of character
you're gonna play? Do you like think about that before you get there or
like me, I usually when I started up, that's what kind of just
happens organically. You're gonna happen around because I think, um, you know,
I'll make some early decisions that I'll regret, and that's fine. I'll
just then I'll figure out what I want to do and start specting my character
that way and start investing in tools and you know, ships and resources in
that direction, just based on what I think is fun with a game.
With a game like this and there's so much to do, it's like I'm
gonna pick one thing that I think is fun and start there and it's probably
gonna be like just it's gonna be an expliration. And I just really really
hope that piracy is very good because the idea of docking ships, stealing stuff,
fencing that and turning that into a loop, and like going to one
part of the galaxy or the universe with the Solar System, whatever it is,
where this stuff is plentiful and I can get a ship and I can
get a ton of that stuff, and then taking into a part of the
universe where it's rare and selling it. Yeah. Fuck, I hope that's
how it works. I have no idea, but I'm building myself up to
hope that's the way it works. And if that's the way it does,
that's what I'm gonna spend a lot of my time doing. Like in Oblivion,
I would just rob people's houses and then just go sell that ship and
do that over and over and I love that. That was so much fun.
So that's what I wanted to do here. I'm curious because you can
steal the spaceships too, like you it's your fleet. But can you sell
the spaceship because then I assume that would be incredibly profitable just straight up still
I means, and if you can, like, is that like a red
like a huge red flag for like interpole of space and stuff? Get s
Yeah, yeah, like just like you sell one. It's like we gotta
put your name down and you sell something like this was reported stolen and you
gotta like dip. I'm like talking, I'm definitely working myself into a shoot
with this game. But that's fine. Like they have to live up to
it. They are promising a lot. I'm ready for it. Christian says
Jeff slapping Mike's flaky feet was one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen
on the internet. Look, I'm not that flaky, but it wasn't.
I was just trying to say they're it's sweaty. Sure, that's how you
see my feet. You can see they looks pretty good. That's how people
say they're not sweaty. They just say they're not sweaty, they're flaky.
Those are just the flakes that you're seeing down there, crangers. Mcbasketball says
Snowbike Mike's reaction to the egg white story, which me too. It's like
the second that he loses them. Dan loses Snowbike Mike with like the face
where he just like can't stop himself from laughing very hard. Uh, there's
a bunch of good faces. Because Patrick Kleppic's face when you explained what Tolkota
meant was just also a face. Yeah. Absolutely, everyone was cracking up
that good. Every time I saw still Big Mike all week, I'd get
sucks Big Mike, what's up man? You know that energy he always has
at all times, the unmatched enthusiasm. Uh, let's see. Mister Buller
says, we need to talk about Mike's plain ass ramin order. Well,
there you go. He talked about it, it was talked about it.
I got no I got no excuse, and yet many excuses. Bond Bla
just supposed to the picture here of a nude. This is not a curiu
who was each thank you nude? Eachu ban from like a dragon where he
just is cupping his balls. He nicking his balls. Yeah, that's pretty
good. That is very exciting. I'm I'm excited to go to I have
a lot of the your naked in public places dreams. I get those,
not a lot, but I've definitely had one recently. I bet it was
stressed from planning the couch segments where it's like I'm gonna be doing a big
thing and they're like, oh, I gotta have all this stuff in order,
and I forgot my clothes. I think I had one of those dreams
leading up to that. That sounds right, uh Randy says the trailer for
Metaphor ree Fantasia, which, yeah, fantasy persona. Fantasy persona looks very
good. Yep, Yeah, I'm into it. Mary Kiss saying this is
from a low rule. Mary Kiss saying, listen, you've got a lot
of things against you, but you've got some really good pipes. Michael Mike
was very good at karaoke, so I think that set him off on a
good path for the rest of the weekend. Absolutely. Jayn Mania says my
favorite moment was the Skull and Bones musical presentation. They focused more on the
guy making mouse sounds and the trailer for the game, and it was all
just a reveal the closed beta. That game is never coming out, right,
I'll listen. I don't know, but that's been so many false flags.
It's got to come out eventually. It seems like it it's funny that
that game's going to come out after the Avatar game. Yes, that was
a funny moment. There was a lot of couple of those that Pragmata like
at all that is like weird, like we we're so sorry at games than
not on what this game is? Like what's this game again? Like I
remember the announcement, but I still don't like I just remember people who are
like it's this Kojima. I'm like, at Capcom are you? Are you
high? Yeah? Are you? But funny how Capcom is the hottest game
developer in the world right now, but like at a pretty bad show.
And I wasn't shocked that they date Capcom showcase things are usually these are yes,
that's what they are. Like people have kind of have short term memory
about that, and you're setting yourself up for bigg expectations being in this week.
You shouldn't have done that. But yeah, it was the Pragmata things
that was like weird. Let's see bong Loss is the nothing Burger Grasshopper thing
where they announced nothing but got me excited for possibly a fake game called Pistol
Yakuza. Is that gonna be fake? Because I know he was like talking
something up in the background. I don't know that you aren't much for for
Grasshoppers. Yeah, one stuff that's true. That's I've not played, not
really enjoyed many of his games. Uh, the Diabolo, wolf Write,
Starfield, Starfield, Starfield like twenty times here, that's fair, Benji glass
Key, Silk Song at the Xbox Showcase and Mike's Feet okay, which he's
incredible that like amongst all the things that happened this uh this week, no
Silk Song, it is a little bit incredible, like incredulous, like I
cannot believe we still don't have more information, like we don't want to talk
about Oh, Via games takes a long time make now it's kind of weird.
Silk Song is one of these games that's taking like seven years to make
or whatever from Randy. Volve was also my favorite. I haven't watched the
Devolver Digital one yet. I need to. I need to catch up on
that. There, Dan see that. Of course I didn't see the wholesome
game show because who cares about this? U Nick Turbot, Jeff Levy Dolphin
running us computer for the entire time he was gone. On the last day,
I was getting ready, like for one of the segments, and Jance,
just like Jeff, camere and he just points at this cord and he's
like, you know, you've been in Dolphin for like four and a half
days. Are you okay? I'm like, yeah, okay, listen,
I leve my computer on. I'm sorry. And then I didn't you leave
your computer run? Oh? Because I'm a bad person. I mean I
just leave my computer on most of the time. Yeah, we sort before,
but I still keep what you did it? Do it with leaving for
a week long trip. Well, here's the thing. When I'm leaving on
a big long work trip like this, I do leave it on. Because
there's one out of every like three trips I'm like I need to remote into
that PC, grab something or render something. Your wife turn your computer on
for you. Yeah, but I don't want to have to her to worry
about that, like and like, oh, that's a big burden. Yeah,
I usually do leave it on. Actually I haven't set up to turn
off, and it just didn't for some reason, probably because Dolphin was on
now that I think about it, just yet, Okay, listen, Jeremy
Biff, I feel like Mike Manadi is still like Mike, Mary Kish,
Dan Reichert and Mike Mahardi are the real suicide squad. Yeah, me too,
shoot sid suicide squad? What are we still kind of my powers?
I could shoot foot? Does that people would affect their brains? Yeah?
Yeah it was. It was kind of a coming out moment for that whole
crew there. That was very fun. Um the maint Mahardy bet still gets
me, by the way, uh fun set it's hard to decide between Mike's
feet or his shoulder hair. Yeah yeah, we'll get that. Course we
had the on this show. I think we had the time where you like
had a bandage on your arm or something and we had to rip it off
and I think we like raise money for it or whatever. Oh yeah that
was my vaccine back then. Man. Yeah, um, okay, always
be Cordy says all the fun from GB at Night, especially Dan and Mitch
going for the throat trying to convince us which one is the weird one?
Great hosting grab. Thank you so much, Corky. Yeah, it was.
It was the weird off was incredible and it did not stop when we
were off camera either. I gotta get all my cash out of my suitcase
because after that segment we it. I was like, I'm not gonna walk
around about this anymore. There's like a one, but he might try to
bug me. I would like, he's got five I would like to have
five hundred dollars. I would like that a lot. Most people would.
Yeah, uh beef Hammer, Jeff Ruining, Tim Getty's drink and his day.
Yeah right, I know how much Tim Gettys loves his giant Starbucks drinks
in the morning. And I just saw him and we're just going to the
you know, the big bro hug. I'm so happy to see Tim Gettys.
And then we just break apart and my arm comes and he just puts
it right there and I just karate chopped out of his hand and it exploded
everywhere. Thankfully, we weren't. We weren't like in the middle of all
the kiosks. We were over in like the hard ground area, so tim
got someone come up it up real quick, while the rest of the kind
of funny crew was given me a hard time. So I'm good. But
then they dropped like two or three more drinks themselves that later that same day.
So I don't I think, I don't. I don't think I was
on I think it was gonna be not me at all. It's a kind
of funny problem, kind of funny problem. Befammer continues. Also, Starfield
bring back the Adoring Fan gives me hope that we could find Preston Garvey and
he'll tell us about a settlement and the solar system that needs our help.
Yeah, the Adoring Fan deb was very, very good. It was very
nice to see that. Yeah, bench JC just writes, Mike's feet,
man, people really like my feet. People really you gave it away for
free, Mike. That's a lesson learned. Do you think Phil Spezer saw
my feet? Yes? Oh no, I do except me. It was
going around and shake his hand after your segment and he couldn't quite look me
in the eye. He follows me on Twitter and I retweeted a lot of
that stuff, So I bet he's definitely seen your feet at the very least
on Twitter screaming mad and when Robo Mitch became a wiki feet HiCon in front
of a giant bomb, fire Escape Mike and Mahardy and Dan also Dan and
Snowbike Mike. Oh, and my top games were Prince of Persia, The
Lost Crown, and Beastie Ball. That Pokemon slash volleyball game at Day of
the Debs. Yeah, I played that. It was pretty neat. There
was that other game that was just Pokemon but a shooter, and they were
not Pokemon were legally distinct enough of Jeff. It was just straight up like
here's an ev I think we'll find out. But when they when they get
sued here pretty soon, so I'll be a lot of fun. What Power
World, thank you, Sean? Yeah, Power World, Yes to that
name, Like what are we good a car? Pokemon knuckle bo Yeah,
all those games that those companies makers. Yeah, I've always a little surprising
got a slot, like, I get it looks cool, but like you
think, especially if Jeff, what's like Nintendo's help in the future, maybe
they'll take the most blatant Pokemon ripuff thing in yourself. I know there's there's
like one company that does it on a lot of Jeff shows. I don't
know if it's always the same company, but that's a company that had like
that conveyor Belt game where all the cows we're getting put on the cavet belt
into a giant bowl of soup. And that also had like Pokemon elements,
and then Ramen. Yeah, yeah, and the exactly you're playing Ramen,
and then doque ve doke V was something we've seen before Viken, not Dobkin
dokuve um. But whatever, let's see one of us to see ff you.
I thought Star Wars Outlaws and Kunitsugami looked good, and I'm happy to
see Ace Attorney four through six being pourted out of the DS and three DS
playing the Toxic Crusaders demo was my favorite part, though it ain't no teenage
beating nag a Turtle Shredder's Revenge, but it seems good so far. What
was that second game? He said, Uh, kunnit su Gami? Is
that that Capcom game that I don't the cop Com game? Yeah, I
didn't care about that. Oh oh, is this the Path of the Goddess?
Yes? Okay, yes, yes, okay, very good, Yes,
okay, I didn't I did, yes. I think it's Natsu Gami
Path of the Goddess. I think it's like the bull title. Pick a
name, yeah, right, pickola and pick a name. Hosp says,
very pleased. It seemed Fables, sticking true to its ridiculous British humor with
a giant Richard io Ioe character so ugly, who could possibly have fun?
Yeah? I don't, I can't. Did you see the way she like
had a face, yeah, a human face and like human face and teeth
teeth. I don't want to. I don't want to fuck those teeth.
And I think that's some problem. She get her yellow tea, but they
still discussed me for some reason. Maybe I don't know em and Goldie says,
I'm going to say a release date for Party Animals. I played it
three years ago when they had a demo during Steam's first next Fest. It
was great. I think Gang Beast with better controls, weapons at cute animals.
I couldn't stop laughing while I played it. That's right, we've seen
that game over and over. I assumed it was out. I didn't realize
it was at me too. I thought like, oh, this is just
some update, all right, then I'll give a shot when it comes out,
showed Jikdo the entire final couch of Night Night one was the absolute highlight
for me. My stomach was hurting and I had tears in my eyes from
laughing way too much. Although my favorite moment from an event has to be
Starfield. This sounds absolutely crazy for me to say, but it looks to
be a real contender against Tears in the Kingdom for Game of the Year,
assuming it launches in a decent state. Yeah, we'll see, we'll see.
I think it's got a shot if it delivers on everything it's saying.
I'm so excited to be that one annoying guy trying to like beg people to
remember Resident Evil for come Game of the Years. Yeah, with that,
Villa Mac, I really enjoyed hearing from John Davison on the couch, so
to me, and me and my fan boy out geeked out to John Davison
afterwards because we were both such big one up, one up yours one of
the fans and the AGM, so like we kind of geeked out. Was
it a little bit like a beer without you? Definitely said that. I
meant him great. I was a big fan of One Up at One Up
yours, says villain Nakis. So I popped hard when he showed up.
Yeah, it was. It was very nice of him to come out,
and like I told him we were going to talk about like them, the
meme of the four White guys, and he was very like, like,
no problem, we could talk about that. So he was He was great.
Jet Jet binks. The Xbox Showcase had a lot of fun games,
but I loved hearing jeff Lucy and Tam talk with Phil Spencer and Matt Booty
about x Field, Xbox and Starfield on the couch. Yeah, it was
a lot of fun. That was a very cool thing. Kind of still
can't believe it happened. It was pretty pretty neat. Um let's see Matt
rare Monkey, the jan fake out and Patrick quitting GB again and screaming about
remap radio. Yeah, I need to go back and I need to go
see the chat reaction. Actually I wouldn't tell me. I did not know.
I say something wasnathing. I was so scared. Yeah that's fun.
U Now I was messed up. So really I fell in my chest like
you know, we're like oh, like oh no. And then it's like
even chose to remember. He's like maybe me like sad, It's like,
how can do it? Adm's like that was missed up that he couldn't edit
anything. It was Dan's idea and like all the crazy ideas were like Dan's
idea and then he's like pitched it to Jan and Jan's like, fuck,
yeah, let's go. I'm like, all right, here we go.
Uh And I'm like, well, Patrick, just say this, and Patrick
said yeah, I'll do that. Like I'm like, okay, everyone's on
board. I'm just gonna sit back and let this happen. Then I do
glance back and see Mike's face. I'm like, we told Mike he definitely
did it. I was like, oh no, And then I just Jane
was like selling it super hard too. He was like really leaning forward and
slapping his thighs and sighing big. I'm like, oh, he's not trying
to like even be cute about it. It was awesome, Dan, Patty
the what the fuck is happening here? Oh? That was good stuff?
Um all right, clink, says Jan. Reacting to anything, especially Pokemon
with the guns and titles, the what from off screen? It gets me
every time. I'm glad it was so audible because it was it was popping
me too. I was like so much fun to watch him like get excited
about stuff like that. Uh. Donkey Kong says I heard a rumor that
Mike Manatti tried to rise up Jim Ryan at Summer Game Fest's Mike Mnatti the
new drip King. Yeah, yeah, he's he's dripping and Risen I was
dripping everywhere, so that fump is he sixteenth thing? And they did like
the kind of weird like opening remarks that they're written like here is a message
from a special guess that it was just Jim Ryan. I couldn't have got
my foot off faster to take a picture for you. I was so excited
to show you. I was very excited that he was Gray Gracie everybody with
his massive presence on the stage screen. That was very nice, very very
funny. He said like five, yeah, we give him a bunch of
money. Shit better be good service. Can I can't even count how many
times I rewatched a snowbike Mike say say that Dan is the normallest first sit
on this panel right now, followed by a very drunk brick builder screaming no
from off camera. On the video game side, I love the New Roomnant
true trailer and I can't wait to play it. Service can I played it?
That game fucking role, I really regret. That's one I regret not
playing because people really seemed into it and the Depth team was like, very
very nice having it. It was really cool having to show me around,
Like I went their first thing after like missing my appointment the day before and
I was like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm here, please show
this to me, and it was I got to play with him. It
was just a lot of fun. We that's at that three player co op
game. We should crush that for a for a guy, jo Bomb,
that'd be a lot of fun. Uh. Colin says when when b and
the friends in the Secret Channels watched you two absolutely kill it on the couch,
that was my favorite moment and congratulations on an incredibly well done outing.
Also Mike's feet, Yeah, thank you so much. It was It's a
lot of fun. Having Mike and there the whole time was very very great,
special for me. So that was a lot of good stuff. Let's
go. It's just it was bizarre just hanging out with everybody. Yep.
I mean you know, like like all the goofy panels were fun, but
like then, like the one I was on with Ben Starr, the voice
actor of the character in the new Final Fantasy, and I'm like, this
is really cool, and like he's like, man, he was a great
he was a great guy. He and it's like I was risking us out.
He was. He's got the most for his I've ever like, he's
just such a cool dude. And I mean, you know, like you
know, we hung out with him there and I saw him the next day
at that POMPA sixteen preview event. He's like, oh hey, like gave
me a big hug. I'm like, oh my god, this guy's awesome.
Yeah, so I will play Final Fantasy. You say that jokingly.
I'm like, I'm gonna play Final sixty. I even told him, like
good people loved you. They're like people in the chat who are like said
they were not interested in POMP sixteen but want to play it just because they
love you. Now though, same, Yeah, I really feel that way.
He did his job. Well. I got the demo. I'm gonna
go play that here sometime soon. What kind of fun today. I think
he actually played the demo people. Yeah, him and him and him,
I think yeah, I didn't watch that part, but he did a kind
of funny Games Day kind of they have they have a history of fam fancy
there, didn't it? Tim? And I think it was Tim? And
yes, that's right. The release date, Yeah, that was. That
was a surreal moment for me, was having Greg Miller fanning my feet for
me at the end of the night. One yea. It was. He
would come up and get on my mic and I was feeling my phone vibrate,
and it was my wife's text to me, why is that man so
close to you? It was like he's just just trying to get on the
mic. Oh, yeah, of course, come in. It's greig.
Um. Let's see one gifts amidst all of your fancy pants Starfields and Fables.
Is it weird that I was most excited about a collection of Ace Attorney
games that I already owned but just don't want to find and charge my three
ds to play again. Also, Mike's Feet, I mean, it's hey,
it is cool. Seeing it's Turney four is a little weird. It's
still have some really good cases, but some of that stuff's weird. I
liked five and six a lot, actually the three DS ones, but it's
just cool. Like we now have three collections with eight Ace Attorney games.
I think the only ones were really missing now are was one Ace Attorney versus
Phoenix versus Not Phoenix, Right's Attorney versus Professor Layton, and the two Miles
Edgeworth games. I bet we're going to get that Mouse Edgeworth collection someday.
Cool because we never did get too over here, so that will be fun.
I bet that's probably next. I bet they're going to announce a Phoenix
right seven and not too long, so I'm all about it. Fisher make
a Phoenix right versus Colombo? Um, all right? Well, I mean
gum shoes basically dressed as Colombo, right, So that's I think there was
even a Columbo statue, so I might've been making up because like I gote
to Colombo after playing all of them, so I'm sure there's plenty of references.
Fishing Love says that Starfield direct that got me the most excited for an
upcoming game since probably Smash Ultimate counting down the eighty three days, since it's
hopefully in our hands and thanks in Advanced Todd for telling me sweet little lies.
Also Mike's feet just one after the other. Food right now? Okay,
well listen, I didn't know that and I didn't ask super Harmon.
I would for being somewhat interested in Starfield to buying a branded controller an upgrade
pack, going to need the five days early access to there it is,
That's what it is. Is as I'm going to Japan for two weeks on
the nineteenth, so yeah, September one of when that game actually comes out,
so good, God, just all the little like tex and that.
God, if they don't seem to be like in the next week, I'm
just gonna go buy it. I'm so I'm such a fucking mark. This
looks it has like this nice grips here. This is the best like themed
around a game control I've ever seen, like since the chainsaw control for Fresie
before. It's It's very good. Dugan says, I am really excited for
Tower Born, and I am too. It is from the banner saga Debs.
But it looks like a cash of Crafts or slash Brawler. I haven't
seen it get a lot of love yet, so maybe it's a dark Horse.
This is a Project Belfree. We talked about it on this show a
long long time ago. This is the one that I reported on forever ago,
project Project Belfree. Yes, they talked about there's the Bellfree. You
returned to the Belfree and I said, it's like a side scrolling action brawler
sort of thing, similar to two castle Crashers. Yeah, so yeah,
this is this is It seems pretty cool. I'm glad it's happening. It
makes me hope that that woud Tang Clan game gets announced sometimes soon as well
to group. Yeah, the Woutan group, because they those things were happening
around the same time, Laoshan. My two favorite moments are when the Giant
Bomb cast talks about the origin of Mike's user name Tolkodo. Second is the
grub interview with Phil. Thank you so much election. That was a lot
of fun. And yes, I just love telling everybody about Tokodo. I
wish we could have kept it acquired so we could have told more people,
but at a certain point everyone had seen the reaction to Phil or to put
that Patrick had spreading. Yeah, Diogo says every time Mike and Jeff interact
in real life, it's musty content. You guys made s Jeff Weeks super
special. Huge congrats to the amazing stuff you're doing. Thank you so no,
speaking of that, I mean, I'm gonna be a little bit busy
with work for the next week. But after that, we really need to
figure out a Margarita Ville day. I've I've won that. Yes, we've
earned it. You haven't coming your way. We gotta pick a date.
We gotta just pick a date and do it. I would really like that.
That would be a great way. Maybe maybe if we can find a
day where there's also a day game at with the Guardians, we can do
that too. We deserve a day off. I think we'll see absolutely.
Okay, so so we'll do some stuff together here again, sim I'll see
did the yes, big Tony. Best thing this weekend is that I found
out who to rob If I see a guy traveling Jack, I'm not going
to carry that much cash on me everywhere. People, you missed your window.
Okay, seriously, it would be metaphor. Since the Persona games leaked
out early, those games look amazing. Excuse me, Yeah, I think
Metaphor looks great. Absolutely. Do you think surprised? They just don't call
it like persona fantasy, like it is so persona. Persona is such a
name. Now I was watching, and I was I was one listen.
I don't know these games very well, so I was with with him saying
it looked like a Tokyo Mirage sessions a little bit. So I'm like,
this is in. That's the Persona final fire earm bloom, Like, obviously
there's some other stuff happening here. What is that? Well, okay,
no, it's just something different, but it definitely still looks like a persona
in a lot of ways. Um, all right, let's see Monkey Bought
ninety K says my favorite thing on SGF was Guiromo Leo's whom I have the
joy of knowing personally and is a good friend. That's fantastic to hear,
and it was fun to see them see him teach Grub how to say stood
tea, Yeah, the wood Tea. As a fellow Argentinian, I felt
very represented by him. Rippy and Chopper also very cool dudes. They are
very cool dudes. It was how we have this giant Argentinian connection. You
know that happened. It's great. Yeah, I know, right, g
Man Sir. My favorite part was when Mike and Jeff did not did hot
steamy gay kissing. Yeah, of course everyone loved that. That was on
the at night after night show. That was only my only fans. Yeah.
Vision forty nine. I think the highlights was the GB couch. You
got so many different perspectives from Deb's publishers, journalists, content creators, and
biz deef people that it really ended up feeling like a State of the Industry
panel, and Jeff did a great job hosting it, Thank you so much.
Also, Mike Spawning and every time someone turned on the camera is very
funny. My favorite like non couch bit from those nights was Mike, Sam
Lake and Chef Bob from that restaurant, the graff skirt that me and Dan
and wren Chan always put over all on camera together just and like Chef Bob
and Mike are just like, check out Sam Lake and it's Sam Lake.
She turns around, it just starts mugging at the camera. We did our
We had an all hands meeting today at work and Blacklard did some shouts and
that was one of the gifts of Mike and Sam Lake and Chef Bob Moises
Varius on there as well. Actually, I really was. I love that
I had like an evolving relationship with Sam Lake the entire week, because like
Dean introduced me to him at the end of Xboxes Show that we were at
the kind of or the Summer game fest. At the end of that,
we were like, he's excuse me, he was there, And then I
interviewed him about Allen Way two. I'm probably gonna publish it tomorrow, but
then like yeah, and then also like you know, I got to talk
to him a bit there and that was fun. But then like, yeah,
he just showed up at the Fandom office and all of a sudden,
I'm doing a bit with him, so and he he said he just wanted
to come by to hang out, Like you want to come be on the
couch, was on the couch. He's, uh, you know, I
don't know him super well personally, I think, but just was those of
you interactions. I think I like Sam Lake. Sam Lake Game's very cool.
Allen Way two look in a real hot I think I want to replay
Control. Um, I think I'm going to like, yeah, I kind
of I say that I want to play Control and I actually beat it when
the hell. I love control control up playing like old games chef, you
know, I love playing should an Xbox and gank you whatever? Like what
when am I gonna When am I gonna do that? There's just a million
things right now. Yep, Razzle Jazl says, Lots of my favorite moments
already mentioned earlier. So I'll give a shout out to a very tired looking
trail of Jeff, Dan and Chan discussing the various burritos they had during Summer
game Fest on the BombCast. Yeah, that was a fun bomb cast.
We just they're like a not even an hour of power. It was fun
to just kind of talk about the bullshit. So every night I would I
don't like eating a lot when I'm talking a lot. It just my mouth
doesn't agree with it very much. And I would get like post nasal trip
if I had anything dairy or cheesy. So, knowing that was gonna be
talking to people and not want to have in like a ton of saliva or
something, I would eat. I would eat pretty early, and then I
would not eat most of the night, and then we'd get done and it
would be like one am when I get back to the hotel, and there's
this twenty four hour taco place near the hotel, and I went there and
you know, at a taco truck and it was just a disappointing burrito every
single night, but it hit the spot stick. It's like, I'm I'm
starving. This thing actually tastes pretty okay, but it was actually super disappointing.
I like struggled eating in general. I just kept making better. You
know, I am picky when I'm home, like I know where I can
go to eat relatively healthy. I can know where like I can go to
a grocery store and buy things here. I just kind of to like find
something at the moment, right. So sometimes it would I wouldn't eat for
a while because I couldn't find anything. And one time I was like not
feeling good. I was like feeling sick. I was like, oh,
this is my crones. Turned out I was actually just hungry, so I
had to eat something. Then another time, like I'm like, oh,
I had to get something real quick, I'll get these chili cheese fries.
I guess, well that was a big mistake obviously, that was a story
of them getting on your shirt. Oh yeah, then I got I got
some of the chili cheese on my shirt. So that's why I had to
change into my Tommy Bahama Disney shirt, which I was looking real good.
No one could see it, though, because I was dressed up a fucking
RoboCop. DMC depressed me, crying, says the Nintendo Direct, when they
had enough faith in everybody's twelveth switch as their only announcement the entire time.
Oh everyone has one two switch. Excuse me, I'm an idiot. Uh
yeah, yeah, everybody's well yeah, I'm like, I don't know everybody's
swell switch. What is that? I listen, I put everybody's want to
switch out of my memory already. Yeah that happened. Yeah, listen,
Nintendo's doing their own thing. Nintendo's were operating on island time right now.
Did did I skip a super chart though somebody else? I thought somebody sent
in a super chart asking you about it, nintend of Direct. Oh that's
right. It was a two parter when I was accessed blay to Rawman,
and then we skipped a part about Nintendo Direct. Oh, grug did ask
us? I'm glad this happened. Uh, if you talk, I didn't
watch the bunk as did you talk about a summer direct yet not really.
I keep saying, like, you know, maybebe something's happening. Listen,
I think something could happen over the next month, like maybe a couple of
things there could be. Uh. It seems like there's probably gonna be something
soon. Um. Some people are saying next week, Yeah, next week
seems very likely to have something, and then I think there's going to be
another something in July. I think they're going to take what would have been
a real big boy direct, and it's seems to me like they are piecing
them out like they did this. Now maybe it wasn't last I think it
was last summer um where they like spread stuff out. It seems like they
are doing that, but they're still gonna like put some stuff into something that
looks like a direct. I think this next one's going to probably be a
partner direct. So okay, Yeah, they still probably need to do like
a deeper dial up pick Man, and we still have to like get at
least one fall game. Yeah, a mini direct of some story. Yeah,
you're right, let's give us an update on Pickman four and then tell
us all the partner stuff that you like, said, Hey, we will
put you in a direct Well they they're still obligate, obligated to do that.
So yeah, maybe maybe next week, maybe sometime in July, maybe
both, we'll see Hamlet of Texas. I also got the Starfield controller and
just yeah that thing. Oh man, god, it's real nice. This
is like, okay, it's like my New Street Fighters six bad. Basically
is that like reddish on the back. Yes, and they look it's here
for like the like the analog like ball oh yeah, and the well it's
yeah, so looks so good that the like gold ten of the Deep Pets
Control rules. Let's see they say, Hammat Texas said, if you want
to play Starfield and sixty buy it on PC. Yeah, way ahead and
way ahead of dan Park. The mail snail says, this nightmare skit of
a presentation still sticks out to me, referring to the Evolve thing from to
Volver Digital. It sticks out to me more than the actual games in the
showcase, outside of the quap like Baby Steps that was shown there. This
is something I just am catching up on. I think that's a ben at
Fotty game. It's like a three D game where you play someone that could
barely walk and I'm like, if it's a ben At Fotty game, I
am fucking ready to go. I love Benet Foddy so goddamn much. So
that's very exciting from Isaac Clark. My highlight is Jeff looking at Mike and
asking you inhaled your dad's feet. Yeah, that was a very good moment.
Yeah, I guess I never thought of it that way, but I'm
like, I guess I did. Seriously, though, Jeff and Mike,
you killed it on the GB couch. It's obvious that a lot of hard
work win to make can all that happened? Congratulations, Thank you so much,
Isaac, I appreciate that. And foo In Neufai says, Persona three
remake looks amazing. Sad at skipping Switch, but I'll deal the night Show's
rule and you all crushed it. Thank you so much, Thank you.
I come to Switch eventually, right. It took forever for Persona five to
get there. I don't know why it took so long, but yep,
got there. Lenny Cool Dick Denver says, I like how Dan big Brain
Mike into wearing the RoboCop costume so everyone would think that Mike was weirder than
Dan, which led to Mike's feet. That's a that's a good point.
That is really what it's like. This stuff that has revolved around this a
Mike this weekend has been so weird it would be weird for me not to
say that he is the weirder one. But now, like stepping back from
it a little bit, Yeah, that's I think Dan's weirdob it was Dan's
idea. Dan was trying to come up with bits for the Robocohan for a
while. Yeah, what play is trying to get Kenny Omega there? So
can you Meg would like attack me that I would come back out and it
was pretty clock can you begot was in town, we were talking to his
people. He kept saying he would do it, but then he would also
followed up. I was saying, I'm on a bunch of sleeping pills and
I'm really tired for my plane ride. So like, I bet he's not
coming. But the idea of like we were gonna have him do a v
trigger on you and kill you. I'm so excited to sell my first professional
wrestling Someday, someday, someday will make it happen. Uh, let's see
run into Kenny Omega at the Bay sixteenth thing, and I'd like just kind
of went up to him like and they're like, Hi, you know I
work with darn right Curt, you know, being real awkward. Uh,
Jedi MS four, Why did Sony not get the final Fantasy seven rebirth trailer
from Square? Why did they stick the Spider Man release date in the Summer
Game Fest show? What was Sony's reasoning? Fuck? If I know,
man, it's weird. Yeah, yeah, because I really talked about rebirth,
but that I'm very excited for that. Oh sure, yeah of course,
yeah, but it's right. That is weird. That like that would
have helped Sony's Blackluster show quite a bit. Yeah, absolutely, I don't
fully get it either. He got days. Welcome back, boys. I
hope you both had a fun Summer game Fest. Great job, Jeff,
it was awesome to see host for Giant Bomb night after night. Also shout
out to Mike for his wiki feet Now for some games discussion. Did you
see metaphor Ree Fantasio? I can't believe Project Reefantasy is real. No,
I don't think it was available to be seen. Like I saw the trade,
we saw the thing, but it wasn't on the show floor and right,
but we saw what you saw, and uh yeah, I am very
much into it. I don't actually have a wiki feet yep. By the
way, nobody I think has had the courage to make that, so I
think I'm safe. We weren't too many of steps to make the to get
verified. Wasn't the joke? Yeah, yeah, of course it wasn't a
joke. He tried to do it. He tried. That's what he's saying.
He's incredible, Bugge Dillo. It kind of got lost in the brag
of game announcements, but I'm hyped about John Carpenter's Toxic Commando game. John
Carpet has to be the coolest old guy gamer of all times. So I'll
give anything with his co sign at try. I agree John Carpet is fantastic.
I will also try anything that he disagree. I did not care for
that. Okay, that's fine. That wasn't really talk about the game.
I said I would try anything you put his name on. You don't like
John Carpenter, you zombie shooter, Okay, yeah, that's fine. But
John Carpenter, Yeah, he made those good movies once upon at the time,
oh wow, Well, yeah, he doesn't like working. That's that
makes him even cooler, that makes him even better. I mean, well
me, look, I mean I'm a coward, but I like John Carpenter
movies that I've seen. What have I seen? I guess I've seen big
trouble, a little China, seen the thing. Because I'm a coward,
I see they live just for no good reason. They live, su fucking
I would like gool later. Mike play control. Mike's play control. I
would love to play control now. It's just a matter of like when,
right, Uh, Yeah, this this picture of Mike looking scared that Jane
is quinn is you just look like a kid who's about to hear his parents
get divorced, like you really do, and it all chet going, No,
it's just my three year plan, right uh. And then Turbo Sean
said, this ship, which is the the the looping gift of Mike putting
down his money and Dan picking it up and counting it. It's this is
really good. And Mike's face really didn't change that entire time, right,
because like what Dicky, Dicky and Michael were like talking about this Walt stuff
like before that, Yeah, and day was like Jaha, Like, I
like, oh, how much of my doing your wad? I'm like it's
too much? And I did it. Then I started. I was like
whoa, this is way more than I thought, was it? And then
Dan was like what is happening? Stopped counting. Now we have to do
this on air. Dan's got a good nose for a bit. I'll tell
you that much always be Coorgy says robbing gardens gaplings, and Jan no longer
enjoying it. Yeah. I like that too. Man, I've been doing
that to my whole family since I've been back. I'm a manning gabbing.
Uh yeah, I've got okay, I have no recollection. What the hell
you're talking about? That was on the boom. That was on the bomb
cast. You see you were busy working like during the bottom, Yes,
I was too busy standing up at we had to. We recorded a quick
for him in a bomb casting like Yeah, we talked about the Britos,
talked about some games, and then we talked about how we're gonna go get
Ramen soon and that's when we got Ramen together. And then me and Dan
we're just going like, come on, Jan, you do it and Jane's
like, hold, I don't want to do it anymore, and it's funny.
All right, uh oh, let's I'll do these last two. Let's
see Dan park the mails. Now someone had to stand up to you be
soft. That's right there you go. Oh, I guess. And then
someone just turned on slow mode, so that might have just timed out everybody.
So no more. That's it. That's gonna do it for From our
podcast producers, Mike, what have you been playing? Or do you need
a time to go to potty again? Break? I guess that's actually I
will be right back after this, all right, Mike, before we talk
about what we've been playing? Actually, do we have any more super chats?
We do? But before that, I had to give a special shout
out. Actually I forgot to do it earlier. Oh really I'm interested to
who my boy? Oh your boy best? Quack? No, god,
damn it. Let's did you see that? Emma put it on the wall
in the studio permanently. That's right, So that's quackg This is actually my
duck that I got from Starts. This is quack Aja Okay, so that's
right. It's named after the Steely Dan album A Yeah, I love this.
I love this, stupid duck. What did you think of film starts
by where there's some plays? Some people are like that was wait, but
I was expecting, and I'm like, yeah, that's a little better than
I was expecting. I didn't get a chance to play it, but I'm
I've always been like, that's probably gonna be fine. That's kind of how
I felt about it for me this entire time. It's gonna be fine.
Yeah, it's gonna be fine. Yeah, put him over here. But
yes, there's quick aja, so we're getting good to go. We did
get some more super Chet that that that, and the last one was crist
Sky. So this one right here from Cody Bishop actually more Crimson skystalk.
I love it, says Crimson Skies High Road to Revenge was the first Xbox
game I ever played. Why do you think the series died? They just
not have enough sales? Yeah, I mean so that Crimson's That Crimson Skies
game came out in the original Xbox, which wasn't a super successful system them
at a time when everybody was really first person shooter heavy, and this was
kind of like a stylized historical set piece action game. That, you know,
it was just it was it was being very creative. I think in
a ways that worked against it. But it's super fun. It's just a
game that's again seems so ripe if you're gonna go back and find something that
maybe doesn't necessarily have this giant nostalgic fan base, but it's just something that
would work really well today. I'm gonna look how good like you know,
Microsoft's you know, with forts of looks, because cars just always look good,
right, or even flight simulator planes just look good. Machines look good.
They could make such a pretty like like playing combat game. Could they
do it as a like something even bigger and have like the flight combat segments,
but then kind of make it they're uncharted. It is the universe like
robust enough for it. Could I mean they were so like Rebel Strike,
right sure? Yeah? Yeah, not obviously not Rebel Strike, but yeah,
I know what you mean. But I mean if he just made it
like kind of go a sing to star Fox, like a big open world
right of one of those like it's kind of what's that it kind of played
like star Fox? Right, yeah? Played more like Rogue Leader honestly,
Oh okay, sure, it plays a lot like Rogue Leader. Okay,
but it's almost like a little open world e like, you know, there's
multiple maps, but it's kind of like, okay, fly route to the
different objective markers here, kind of like that training area and Rogue Leader.
Actually, so it just seems like it would just translate very well to modern
gaming with without much effort. Uh, well as much effort as any triple
akas Fitzer says, how did you get both JRR Tolkien and Shagara Memoto on
the game appon games we get Giant Pomp at the same time. Yeah,
to all time legends, props, deep connections, just long, we go
way back, and Tolki has been dead for a long time, so that's
impressive. Yeah, we have necromancers on the staff. It's pretty cool stuff.
Mat Think really says, very good job with the Summer game Fest Couch.
It there was a lot of fun to put together. Is it weirdest
summer game fest couch about to eat three couch? Yeah, a little bit,
but I mean also definitely by the end it was like, yeah,
this is just the Summer game Fest couch. Yeah, I could tell what's
the new E three because I was definitely E three tired. Yes, by
the end of it, Yes, that was definitely Benji Bob says, fun
fact the writing on the control correlates directly to the actual ship controls and starfie.
Yeah, yeah, it looks like it does. Yeah right, there's
things here that say like throttle yeah, and like power to ship. I
guess I didn't realize does actually work. Maybe I might have to try playing
it with this at some point, because I bet you keep it around for
flying the ship. I bet that would be good. And like you used
the keyboarding mouse for the character controls and then when you get in the ship
you pick up the controller. I think that's a totally good way to play
it. Yeah, that actually makes sense. Then with Dangerous Yeah, yeah,
I've done it with the games like that before. L Grugg says,
you opened the battery compartment on the Starfield control Mike, I did to put
my batteries in, but I didn't guess I didn't pay attention. There's a
naked lady in there for all. Into the starfield just said you're a bitch.
Eat shit, Eat shit. Pekanagi says, if Lucy besmirching the Tolkoto
name, Mike officially has nobody left in his corner for it. Yeah,
she's posting the couch. She came back, Yeah, she came back around.
It was just like, it's so stupid. I'm like, Lucy,
I thought you out of his back and she's like, nope, I can't.
She lied to me. Why. Yeah, I can tell because it
was very much like, oh, that's not like my like my mom exactly.
Nice. Yeah, incredible, Wow, I did tea bucket twenty three
says thanks again for the great content on Giant Bomb, Jeff Killing watching Mike
became the next Dave Ling slash Johnny v Have you ever watched those that segment
of Dave Lang or Johnny Vinyaki on the late night Giant Bomb couches about it?
Yeah, there's uh that's worth going back and watching some of those,
or at least watching the highlights. Um, John Vinyaki doxying Dave Lang or
Dave Lane. You've heard about this doxing thing, like an intentional doxing.
What happened? Yeah, Johnny moves in his feelings and he just wasn't thinking,
uh, and then um, yeah he's crazy. Three twenty fifteen,
Day three. You usually watch it it's like around four hours to any minutes
is crazy incredible, and then the John Vinyaki just being trashed and like,
I think that was the one we was on with Ed Boone, right,
I think so, but it was belligerently drunk, right, So not just
Phil, right, just Phil? Any other super chats. That's that's actually
it for now, everybody. If you want to squeak some more in there,
that was a ton though, thank you. But if you want to
sound onesday, we will read it before the end of the show, which
is fast approaching, so they don't have much time. All right. I
was going to do something and now I lost track of what I was going
to do, so I'll just say, Mike, what have you been playing?
I mean, you know, besides all that summer game fest stuff again,
I was just kind of excited to get home and play more Street Fighters
six, get back into doing my ranked matches, trying to climb that ladder,
being an absolute lily, and finally getting a night to play Diabo before
with my brothers was a lot of fun. I want to spend a lot
more time with both of those games. Still, Yeah, just trying,
Like you know, last night at La played some zode. I played a
lot more less night. Also, I want to beat it before We're doing
our game club discussion on Zelda this month, so I gotta beat it before
the end of the month. I don't have to, but I would like
to, and I know I can. Plus again the Final Fantasy. It's
just it's just right there. Also, it is just absolutely incredible how many
games to play right now. And it was a real weird time to have
to be gone for eight days. Yeah, it was. It's uh,
there's so many games happening and so many things I want to be playing,
and then all of a sudden like that, Yeah, eight day gaps.
And I brought my Steam Deck, gam I switch, and I didn't touch
him. I didn't touch him the entire time I did this. I brought
my I brought my US switch and the same thing. I only played it
at the airports. I guess I'm glad I brought it, but I am
glad I didn't bring my Steam Deck, Like when am I going to play
that? I guess I played the switch on the plane too and from But
yeah, it's um, it's gonna be weird catching up on everything. There's
so many good games so many things I want to actually still get to,
uh and still looking ahead. It's a very good year for games, though,
Mike. It just feels like maybe actually the best year ever, or
at least in that discussion with those two other years of like what two thousand,
nineteen ninety seven and one nine and then two thousand and eight or whatever
or whatever four thousand and seven one of those. Yeah, something like that
made I'm flipping around. But twenty seven three is very good, of course.
Yeah. Yeah, so there's been some good years. But yeah,
I mean if Starfield delivers like it might, and then there's some things that
kind of just seem like, of course Spider Man two is going to be
good, like how is that not going to hit? Like pick but four
it's also probably just going to be good. But you know, like we'll
combat one and I own Wake Deliver and just some of this other stuff.
Yeah, I mean it's already been insane Fantasy sixteen real soon, and I
mean people seem pretty happy at the demo actually, Like I'm you know,
I think almost before this there was like you know, some talk of like,
oh, what's going to happen with this demo? To have solved all
that. I think the demo helped a lot. Yea though, let's see,
yeah, we will see. Uh, all right, I'll go spend
some time with Ben Starr. I'm gonna go do that here, play that
demo here pretty soon. Uh, let's let's get out of here. Let's
wrap this up. Thanks for watching, everybody. I'm Mike. Why don't
you tell people where they can find you on the internet? Twitch and Twitter?
At told Kodo, Hey, finally getting pretty close to that ten thousand
follower account. I wanted to hit before the site blows up, So yeah,
maybe maybe that'll happen. And my Twitter is breaking on my browser whenever
I try to use it, so it is breaking constantly before our eyes.
Then Gaysbee dot com, I've got some fun stories from Summer game Fest and
cleaned that ed Boone interview, and then I'm going to have Sam Lake and
uh some other kind of super chat. Super chest is likeck in here,
Oh kay, it is from Shageramamoto says, why didn't you invite me to
the couch, Jeff for any more years in Joe for you? Well,
I let you on the couch, left the ad. That's that? What
about you, Jeff? You want to say. Yeah, I'm Jeff Grab
on Twitter, which, uh, I'll stream tomorrow nights. But he says
one last super chat. Love you guys, thank you to Rachi. Thank
you to Rachi. I appreciate it and love you too. Shiggy. Um,
yeah, I think i'll stream tomorrow night if I that's the idea,
I'd like to get on there. I'm bite try to beat the minister cap.
I might try to actually continue that, actually get back to that.
Yeah, good to do that dungeon. I love. Yes, I want
to, So I'm gonna keep playing that, try to get through that,
and then I will also just kind of be answering questions if people have about
summer game Fest in the couch and put all that stuff together, So look
out for that. I'll twitch that to be slash Jeff Graub tonight or to
excuse me tomorrow hopefully, and then um then yeah, we gotta we're getting
good. We're gonna get back to normal programming on Giant Bomb next week.
So for this Tomorrow Friday, we are doing a upf where we're just gonna
watch a bunch of the trailers that we missed hard to got a whole list
I asked a bunch of people on Twitter for their recommendations. If you want
to give me a recommendation, recommendations for a game trailer, an announcement that
kind of came out of nowhere where no one's talking about, tweet at me
and we'll see can get it on the show, because I think it might
be me and back Laura, Mike, if you want to hang out,
we'd love to have you, Okay, So look out for that tomorrow and
then again that's normal on jib bomb next week. That does mean I think
maybe a Blake club. We'll see. It's gonna spend on Dan, not
that at b Lanke Club. We'll do something. Oh, Gregg says Mike
is a boomer. Thank you all, Greg, well, not thank you
for thank you, Thank you listening. Bye, everybody, see you next
time. Sponsored enjoy your game and enjoy your gaming, your gaming. A
little piss baby over there, am I? Right? Um? Here is
a great podcasting beverage. It's an excellent chair. I know, right,
yeah, it's not my fault to seat that he's this way. I didn't
tell him to drink that. Um what I was about to say? Oh
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That's why I Toldie was saying sharia chariva. Yeah like he sharifa mate,
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thing. Okay, not not not that much. That was too much.
That was way too much time. I'll tell you what I drink some today.
I think I think it the Rosa Monte. What is the good brand?
Yeah, that's the brand. I just ordered some of that actually separate.
Yeah that's the way. Yeah, okay, I just you just evacuated
the bladder and you feel much better. You can put, you can put.
You can sweet that stuff if you want it, if you like it.
Like I drink sweet nice tea a lot, and it's definitely it's very
similar about your wood tea. Let's get back to the show. Like to
drink wood. I drink the wood. Okay, hang on, let me
get this discord up. It's right here. It's already muted. I'm recording
with obs to see how the recording comes out, so like next time,
we just okay, I just recorded from here. I just want to hear
the music. Who he comes up. That's a good idea. Uh,
this is we are on June fifteenth contributions. Okay, yeah, all right,
this is fun, this is this is good. These are some good
Uh, these are some good things from the community. I like this.
We'll come back and we'll do super chests. That sound good, Mike,
Let's do it, all right? All right, we're on break. There
you go, three acts right there? Yeah, perfect, perfect, Okay,
let's see Gramblins. He asked Roman Gremblin's by the way, I said
Roman Goblin, Dan said Robin romin Gremlin. I was saying Romen Goblin rom
and gay Shore about that. I'm positive I remember in the moment being like,
how dare you Dan? It's Roman Goblin. But I didn't actually say
that because it was very, very way better. Roman Goblin actually rhymes,
you know, it's near rhyme, but it's close enough. I remember,
feel fucking Starfield man, how fucking that sh it looks so cool? In
a fay, I did not go to the Microsoft like show floor that they
might have had. They had some stuff. I mean, obviously feels like
people are playing stuff right now. I heard um. I think I didn't
agree to anything. So I heard people played Starfield. I didn't because I
was busy fucking on a couch. Not fucking on a couch, but what
fucking a couch. I was busy fucking a couch. I knew Greg was
trying getting were missed that stream? Yeah it was again that's the late late
show. Um, but yeah I should. I think I'll stream tomorrow night
on twitch and I'll kind of make it an ama for like everything that like
went into playing in the show. People have more questions about it. We
could just hang out and talk about that stuff. That could be fun.
Why don't you do a multi stream? Also do YouTube? That's the ship
doesn't matter enough. Everybody's a multi stream? Is everyone doing that? Okay,
I'll do it because I don't know, really, I just know one
person and it's like probably everybody's doing it. Maybe we'll see. I don't
know. I guess I guess I could use um restream and then I could
have both chats in there. I guess I bring both chats in the obs,
but that can do it. I don't know, we'll see. I
just restream costs money, so and I don't want to know it does them?
Yeah? I think it does, at least them. Then all right,
Mike, where are we at? You good to come back in?
I'm ready, okay,