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Hey everybody, and welcome to the
Giant BombCast. Happy holidays, Welcome to

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the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred
and twenty. Holy smokes, that's a

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fun number to say. The Giant
BombCast is powered by nzi XC and I

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am your host Chiana Choa Coke Captain
of the ship, King of Cozytown Jeff

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Grubb. That's right. What number
was it? Eight twenty eight twenty,

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Yes, smoke them smokee you got
him? That's right. You gotta smoke

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them twice. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that'd we know. Sorry,

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I'm in a math kick this week. Ambassador of Math litigator of the

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Smoke Jeff Beckler is also here.
It's true. I'm the weeds are we'ed

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sezar? Yeah, we I'm wearing
our joggers and they're they're really comfortable too.

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How comfortable these joggers, Like listen, I am trying to always be

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closing clothing and closing. Yeah,
but they're really good. They're super comfortable.

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I put them on and I was
like, well, I'm not taking

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these off for like two days.
I'm really proud of us. We made

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we made these with our hands.
Yeah, and they came out really cozy

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like, So get yourself some joggers. Pro tip. Definitely tie a knot

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in the end of the drawstring so
that Detroit drawstring doesn't get like pulled into

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the pants. Yeah, that's a
jogger pro tip coming in. Just do

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that right away. Need that hot, hot, hot jogger strat. Jagger

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strats? What's your jogger strat for
twenty twenty four? Click blow? We

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are underwear under them? Okay,
Uh, I gotta backler. I'm gonna

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ask you about the code for my
thing because I don't think I've replaced an

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order. But anyway, that is
besides the point. Uh. You can

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get your own joggers and other assorta
Giant Bomb stuff store, Giant Bomb dot

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com. But hey, it's the
holidays. This isn't live, this is

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pre recorded. What's happening? How
is the how is how do you think

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Christmas is gonna go? How do
you think the Holidays are gonna go?

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Oh? By now I'm long dead? Oh shit, oha, wow dark

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man, No, it's gonna go
great. Let's see what one of people

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listening to this? Is it the
day after Christmas? Twenty six? Yeah?

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Okay, so by then you've had
Uh, let's see here. Uh

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top ten lists from people like Jesse
Fortelli. Go read the one from Dan

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Schue that's on the site right now. There's a bunch of great guest lists

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on the site. Go ahead and
read that stuff. That's more, more,

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more coming in the days to come. Yeah, let's Steve Kim.

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There's a list of his is on
the site. Drew Scanlon, we give

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that to you as a Christmas present
on Christmas Day, So yeah, go

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read those. Read so nice of
us that we did that. Yeah,

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I think it's really nice of us. We're so nice. And the content

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doesn't stop there, folks. More
stuff slowly, periodically drippy dropping as the

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holiday week progresses as we are away
on holiday break. Uh, Christmas was

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great. Yesterday, or as I
call it, Monday. Sorry, I

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just got my double Express, so
thank you Staph. Thanks. It was

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a lovely Monday. I do not
say thank you. I say no,

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uh would I? Oh, I
will have gone skiing. I'm going we're

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recording this, so you're long,
Dad. Never mind whoa chill till chilly

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bad omens into the first day.
If you're guarantees your safety, No,

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that hard. I don't go that
hard. I'm not like a double black

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diamond guy anymore. I'm like maybe
single black at the hardest. You you

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probably wear a helmet. What do
you, of course I wear. I

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don't know. In the early two
thousands, we absolutely were not wearing helmets.

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Okay, we definitely have had this
conversation before something happened in skiing culture

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where literally, overnight, I'm not
joking, overnight, the entire winter sport

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community all universally agreed that we were
all gonna wear helmets. Like, yeah,

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something happened on the Thursday and Friday, everyone on the hill was wearing

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that's how we'd in hockey where someone
got hurt and like we should have maybe

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wear a face mask. I think
neck guards kind of overnight are popping up

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in a way like that, but
not as explicit as the helmets on the

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mountain. Like straight up, I
think it was a celebrity dying, I

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really do. I think like a
celebrity hit a treey bone, like someone

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hit a tree started, not Spano
died and not like we made joggers and

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then we killed bottom, no,
like something. I'm telling you. It

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happened in like six or eight or
something like that. And then the next

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season, everyone on the hill wearing
wearing a helmet. And I also think

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snowboarding is also going the way of
the buffalo. I think, saying it

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back in a big way, skiing's
like the people are just like, no,

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I don't need to like try to
look cool. I still really like

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snowboarding. But there was a time
where like you didn't ski because snowboarding was

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the cool thing to do, And
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Well, it's just a snow Snowboarding
is like so uncomfortably inconvenient on a

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mountain, Like, yeah, it's
cool going down, but like every other

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element of like getting up the mountain
and all that bullshit. It's like the

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hardest thing to do on a snowboard
is dismounting from the ski lift. Yeah,

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like it's you have to It's an
art that literally no one could teach

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you. You have to fall down
twenty five times, and you're like,

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Okay, I guess if I hang
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toest here and I dig my heel
into the snow a little bit, there's

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like an eighty percent chance I'll still
be standing when I ski, When I

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still work five feet away. It's
absolutely crazy. I love you guys are

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really selling me on holiday winter sports. Wait, but you don't do any

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of that, you know, ski
you don't snowboard, you know no,

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no, yeah, my body,
you're closed to tahoe, You're you're closest

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to time. What do you guy
saying about this? Snow biking like snow

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bike Michael? Apparently that's like a
thing where you sit on a bike that

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has skis on them and you ride
down the hill on Basically it's a bike,

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but it's got two little skis for
the wheels. Listen, mountain biking

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already sounds terrifying. Adding snow and
removing the wheels from the equation. No,

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thank you. Yeah, what are
we doing down and doing extreme sports?

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Very much jibs with me. If
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I'm gonna do it. So this
sounds like my jam. You know

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what's actually fun? Going snowshoeing?
Done it a couple of times, snow

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Isn't it just walking up a mountain
with tennis rackets on your feet? Yeah?

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But then like you fall back,
you fall back, and then like,

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oh man, I could have died
in the oh geez, because it's

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so deep, Like it's so deep, but your weight's being distributed and everything,

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you know, Like I like weight
distribution. I do think about that

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a lot, how like, hey, yeah, if you're on a bed

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of nails, but you put your
whole body across it, it's not gonna

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hurt. I'm always me too,
I really am why I have because it's

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weird. I have a cousin who's
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he's a big, hardcore like backcountry
ski guy, and he's getting a little

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up there in age and it's sort
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longer I can do like the completely
like ungroomed terrain of backcountry hell skiing.

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And he's like, yeah, last
time I went, they made me carry

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a beacon and they said if I
fall, and I fall and I don't

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know where I am, the first
thing I should do is drool. And

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I was like what. He's like, yeah, you drool after a big

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crash because then you know where the
ground is. And I was like,

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wait, why drooling for like a
of gravity right like you could be that's

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deeply upsetting. I do think about
like if I suddenly found myself, like

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if someone put me in a coma
and then and then took me one hundred

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feet underwater and woke me. I
don't know, And they take me one

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hundred fet underwater and woke me up, and I had like no oxygen or

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whatever. Would I know which way
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which way to start swimming to get
back to the surface. That's such a

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weird thing because when you're in a
coma, you are most certainly breathing.

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And yeah, yeah, so like
how did they put the face mask on

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there? And then they take it
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and they're like, okay, we
got them, release release them. Yeah

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exactly, And now does he know
which way to swim? Is like to

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go up? And I'm like,
I would probably start panicking before I would

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be able to do a thing where
like just relax and see which way you

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start floating. It would be the
path of least resistance to go up,

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Like diving would come a lot harder
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you know what to do, can
we do ten feet feet? But at

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midnight? All right, that's the
best thing. Someone's pool, not the

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ocean. Yeah, I found myself
on a boat last week that I forgot

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to talk about this and it was
probably the most honest it was the most

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oddest thing in the world. My
partner's teacher friends were like, let's go

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have a turner on a boat.
I'm like, that sounds terrifying. I

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don't want to do that. But
then I wound up doing it and it

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was buffet style, right, And
it's been a while since I've been to

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a buffet. And seeing people operate
at a buffet, I just love I

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love it. It's like it's like
someone's boat, or it is like a

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boat you go to. It's like
a boat you go to. I was

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under the assumption we would just be
on the boat and I was thinking like,

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oh, that sounds fun, but
then it was a whole bunch of

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different groups of people on this boat. It's like a restaurant. H yeah,

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yeah, yeah yeah. And man, it's been it's been a minute

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since I've been to a buffet,
right, and just seeing people just like

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the the greed that kicks it automatically, and then seeing people finish, you

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know, they go through the line, they get their sal they get their

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bread, proteins, et cetera.
Et cetera. They'll put their plate down,

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they'll immediately line up again and like
continue to re feel and restock.

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I do that for my kids,
and I never would be able to do

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it just for myself. But I'm
like, okay, I went. I

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went up for my kids first,
and now I'll go up for me,

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and even then I feel bad.
It's it's one of the two situations where

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a human raw emotion is on display. It is a buffet and also at

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a music festival, well, and
you're playing lethal company right exactly, the

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rawest of human emotions are on display. Where you claim territory, you claim

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ground, and you eat like you're
never going to eat ever again. Yeah.

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Getting your your spot at a music
festival is truly is my blanket.

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My blanket died is the perimeter of
my area. It is now jeff Tonia.

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The more the other terrifying aspect of
finding your spot at a music festival

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are the people that just sit down, right, They sit down in a

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very heavily traffic area and like,
I don't want to step on you,

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so I'm gonna do my best to
avoid you, but I'm gonna step on

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your blanket. And oh I'm sorry, I may have kicked your drink over,

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But then other people know, no, they no care in the world.

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We'll just march over where you guys? Where are you guys at?

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With? Like when you're walking in
a like a crowded sidewalk and you're walking

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forward, and you're on your side
of the sidewalk, and maybe you're with

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friends, but you're you know you're
going, you're using up the appropriate mount

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of the sidewalk, and then a
group of like five people are coming at

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you the opposite way. Someone's gonna
have to move. I'm at a point

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now where I'm like, I'm just
gonna keep walking because I know we're doing

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like we're on the right, and
I'm gonna let them move around me.

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But I think there's a time where
I would been like, well, I

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guess I'll make myself really small and
screwed over the side so these people can

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be more comfortable. I don't know, where are you guys at? With

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that, I'll do either the scoot
to the side. I'll I'll also gauge

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where I'm going, and if I'm
closer to my destination, then I will

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take precedent and keep walking, or
I'll throw my hands up and be like,

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excuse me, and just make a
big deal out of it. Make

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a big deal out of it.
That's good, that's good. I'm now

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I'm just like looking straight ahead,
not moving and let them sort of scoot

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around me. No one. The
person who's walking on the on the right

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side of the sidewalk, to my
understanding, has the right of way.

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That's how I'm viewing it. Yes, I think you're right. Yeah.

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Sometimes they'll do a fun little spin. I'm gonna interfuse everyone though, sure.

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Yeah, sometimes I will jump over
them and leap frog all five feet

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in the air over a person.
You're up, really impressive. You know

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what I love doing. The side
of TikTok that I've loved seeing is people

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posing with people for a picture and
just seeing what they do. You know.

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So they'll walk up to a bunch
of strangers, right, and then

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they'll suddenly pose for a camera and
then like, I just love seeing the

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stranger's reaction of like, am I
gonna pose? What the fuck is this?

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I'm just gonna walk away. Yeah. It's a tough position to put

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somebody in, but it's it's mostly
harmless and fun. Yeah, mostly.

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Yeah. What's the go to post
if someone suddenly like be like, oh,

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take a picture. Is it like
a peace sign of thumbs up or

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it's muscles? Yeah, muscles peace
sign, heavy metal horns pointing, you

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know, all the go tos.
Okay, okay, my go to whenever

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someone says take make a funny face
for a picture, I just turn around

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and show them the back of your
head. And how's that for a funny

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face? Yeah, it's a mystery
now, like what was I doing?

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All right, folks, it's gonna
be a short BombCast because it's a holiday

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week and somehow we've already gone ten
plus minutes. When when we decide,

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it's gonna be a little little little
small boy today shouts out to the short

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kings out there. We see you, all three of you. Anyway,

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they're all they're all in a trench
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It's an a you know, a
proper bobcast. Today. Grub came

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up with the idea of looking at
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games we're excited for. So we
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sorry, no, no, no, go ahead, grab go ahead.

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Uh yeah. It was like there's
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it seemed to have most of them, and I kind of just picked it,

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picked and chew and chose some of
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I'm at least aware of to the
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it out and then we can talk
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if we want. But I figured
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dates. And then there's a list
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probably are coming out next year,
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just don't have an exact date.
But yeah, let's let's start here in

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January. This is actually one of
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Prince of Persia the Lost Crown.
I had a really good time of this

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at Summer game Fest, and that's
coming in fast. It's like, oh,

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no matter of weeks. Actually,
we'll probably get this as soon as

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we get back next year. We
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I'm really looking forward to play this. Coming to PS five, PS four,

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Xbox Series X and S, Xbox
one and P Did you guys ever

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get a chance to touch this one? I did not nice very jelly.

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of Persia, it's got a new
Prince. I'm really interested in sort of

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the what they do with the setup
where it's like, you're, Okay,

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you're playing this this cool dude Prince
who's on a team of other people who

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are like going through these excursions in
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sudden, like things go bad,
and now those dudes who of your friends

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are now going to be the bosses
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I like that setup. That's always
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We like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth. This is the franchise I am most

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like, I need to be into
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of Like a Dragon. I liked
what I played of Yakuza Zero. I

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don't know, how are you guys
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I'm pretty pumped. I feel like
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the series to reintroduce all other people, and some folks just don't jive well

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with the brawler nature of the original
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And I'm glad that this gives people
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of like a Dragon infinite wealth and
the Yeah, it seems like there's gonna

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be yo. Like a Dragon is
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of side stuff, like all the
parlor games you can play and crap.

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But this one, like the specific
farming island management aspect of it, it

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seems like they're going all the way
in. I also need to know what

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that Palm Tree freaks deal is.
Yeah, I want to find out all

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about that. Uh. Absolutely,
Uh, this is a I'm just like

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appreciative of any game that keeps turn
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that they're like, no, we
this is going to be like a Dragon

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going forward turn based combat. I'm
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Uh, then techn eight on January
twenty six, fighting games are in

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a good place. I am very
excited to see what tech and eight is

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going to be doing that. This
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there in terms of like actually being
able to move around in a three D

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environment. Virtual fighters not really going
Soul Caliber is not really going. Yeah,

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Battle Arena toshin Den was never really
going. Uh, I'll be checking

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out the ring exactly. We did
get our guys back. Yeah, I'll

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be checking this out looking forward to
it. Yeah, I want to see

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who's gonna get thrown into a volcano
this time? Absolutely? Yeah, right,

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there's a ton This will have a
ton of good story stuff, or

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at least fun absurd story stuff.
So that's good to get. I've been

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trying to just care about that.
I did all those techn ending ranking stuff.

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We think that we'll have to update
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some point they just I think they
attempted to like stop being so absurd,

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and they kind of they're like,
you know what, this is actually a

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serious story we're trying to tell here. Uh and that's when it became a

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little less fun, I think.
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really plan on playing this game,
but I will certainly watch the cut scenes

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at the end. Yeah, hopefully
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There's a chance just do that.
We might have influenced Harada. Who knows,

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Yeah Heradas listening right now. February
we get Suicide Squad killed the Justice

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League on February second, This is
actually happening. I'm sure it is.

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This is you know, it's rock
Steady. At a certain point, it's

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just gotta be fun to play,
right listen? Well, yeah, listen.

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I think I may have been one
of the most vocal people on this

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website about how dog shit I thought
it looked. Yeah, that's right.

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I don't know why I am suddenly
taking a turn and why am I excited

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for this? No? No,
what are you doing? What are you

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doing? I don't know. I'm
squad curious. I'm curious. I suicide

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squad deep, I am deeply uninterested
in suicide Squad. I don't care.

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I don't care about like the bad
guys ganging up. I don't think that's

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fun. Well, hey, what
if? What if this time Superman is

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a bad guy exactly like Look at
the same time, I am a bit

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of a mark for Batman. But
whatever, It's just if the game is

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fun, right, then I care. And that is the the sort of

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glimmer of hope I'm holding onto with
the pedigree of rock Steady going into this.

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That's what I like a lot of
their games. I like the best

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majority of their games. Let's let's
have a rock Steady game that just happens

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to be a suicide squad. Uh
being a Batman? Mark, did you

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watch that The Littlest Batman Christmas movie
that's on Amazon Prime. It's about Damian

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Wayne, right, and then his
dad is a Batman obviously, and it's

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Luke Wilson. And it's a really
sweet movie. And it's like a full

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actual Christmas movie. Now like some
short, it's like a full movie.

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Would love. My girls do not
care. I think it seems like it

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might have been like a comic book
at some point that they adapted it like

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feels very much like a children's story
turned into a Christmas movie. My kids

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don't really care about Batman. They
have watched it four times. It's called

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The Littlest Batman. I think that's
what it's called. It is, Mary

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Little Batman. Sorry, Mary Little
Batman. There we go, thank you?

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Yes, yeah, I got it
all right, I will check it

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out. This looks very cute.
Yeah, so you'll you're gonna you're gonna

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dig it all right. February second, also persona three reload. Let's go,

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I'm gonna I am gonna check this
out. Although let's see, like

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a Dragon. It's only like a
week before. I wish I had a

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little bit more time. It's messed
up, but yeah, that's that's kind

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of super messed up. I want
to get in the persona. Uh it's

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not exactly for me, but I
think there's a world in which I can

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make I could force it to happen. I want to force it. Yeah.

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I've only checked this out like a
couple of hours, and I've had

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some friends say that Persona three has
always been their favorite amongst the the newer

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Persona games. Yeah, I don't
know. There's just a certain vibe to

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it. I kind of like how
they summon their personas where they just hold

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up a gun to their head and
like, you know, it's like that's

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pretty metal. It's metal. Yeah, it's cool. It just is and

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it looks really good. It's like
a full on remake. They're putting a

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lot of work into it. I'm
ready to check it out. Then February

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eight, Hell Divers too. We
had a good time with Hell Divers.

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I know people who played a ton
of Hell Divers and really enjoyed it.

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Hell Divers two is going to be
sort of that kind of upgrade where people

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don't know. Hell Divers is like
a four player cooperative action game where you

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go into these instances and you have
to accomplish something and then get to the

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exit. And it's a top down, top down like dual stick shooter sort

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of thing. Hell Divers two kind
of brings the camera in close, makes

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it look look more like a modern
day PlayStation game, and so it's like,

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okay, like there's improved presentation,
but it looks like the core gameplay

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is still the same. I think
this could be one that really wins us

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over if we go in there and
play something together. So yeah, and

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I think the appetite for like a
four player game, like there's just more

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of the gaming community is more well
versed than when the original Hell Divers came

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out right agreed, we're just we're
very much accustomed to, like we're going

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from game to game as like groups
of friends in a way that we weren't

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even back then. A big part
of that is discord. But I console

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gamers now are like, yeah,
you have PlayStation Plus and you have game

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Pass, so like a lot of
these games you're just going to get let's

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just play it together. And even
if it's like Okay, well this one

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isn't on those services. We already
played games together because of PlayStation, PlayStation

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Plus and game Pass. Let's just
all buy this one and have a good

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time. We know that when we
do that, we have a good time.

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So that's definitely been a big thing
in gaming recently. I also think

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the benefit of Hell Divers too,
and the original Hell Divers is that despite

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the kind of future space marine ish
vibe of it, it's still it's still

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funny, right, it doesn't get
help from seriously, Yeah, it's very

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similar to Lethal Company right where in
tert lyast in terms of the possibility for

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high jinks to ensue. You know, we had those experiences with the original

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Health and I think they know that
that's part of the magic of that of

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that series. Tomb Raider one through
three Remastered is coming out when on lawer

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Cross's birthday Valentine's Day, February February
fourteenth. I don't know, I listen.

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I never loved the tomb Raider games. I just didn't. Oh sorry,

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what, yeah, I didn't.
I don't know what they weren't good.

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What do you have against women?
Yeah, what do you have against

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triangle boobs? Yeah, listen,
I'm just saying you, a real game

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for real men is what I need. I played a lot of tom Raider

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two. It was it was fine. I just it was like maybe the

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tank controls, but tank controls never
really bothered me in other games, So

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I think it's just like it was
tank controls in a game that overall I

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didn't think was very fun, but
I appreciate it's like place in gaming history.

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Yeah. I mean, look,
it's been a minute. It's been

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a very long minute since I did
all this shit. I'm watching a bit

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of the trailer now, and I'm
like, man, is this it?

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Like? Is this what it's just
gonna look like? Like? Didn't they

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do this right? Didn't they remaster
these games on PN, we re released

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them with some upgrades. I think
I don't really know. I think there

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is something. I have a very
warm and fuzzy nostalgic place in my heart

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for playing tomb Raiders one through.
I'll even say four. What was the

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What was the one that premiered on
Dreamcast? Was that four? There was?

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Yeah, there was like the fourth
one at least there was a pretty

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good tomb Raider on Dreamcast. Yeah, I think, Oh, maybe it

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was the last revelation, yeah,
which is not a numbered one. I

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don't know. I guess ultimately it
does not matter. What does matter is

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the feeling I used to get of, like getting lost in this box.

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Like that was all the tombs,
right, Like all the tombs that you

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rated were just like these weird boxes
with no direction whatsoever, and you just

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had to figure out that, Like, oh, one little ledge is like

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the thing you have to jump off
of and catch. Yeah, and there's

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something awful and terrible but also great
about that. I don't know why I

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played all. I finished every single
last one of those one through four games,

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and yeah, like I don't think
I've done it again since that time

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in my life, but like just
to pick it back up and maybe capture

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some of that once again. You
mean, like those games could only exist

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in that time in that way,
and there's something special about that. At

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the very least. I like,
things change for a reason, but that

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doesn't mean like the way things used
to be, I want to completely throw

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out even if things have gotten better
in gaming overall, some of the squiggliness

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that we used to have to put
up with, quote unquote, there's something

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magical about about some of it.
Now, let's you know, let's not

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ignore the lessons we've learned in the
last few years. Like if you go

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back and play through all of Eternal
Darkness, I think you'll have a worst

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time with this than you even did
with the t A game that is much

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more new than to Raider. Actually, it's like it's like two years later

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one. It's not too Raider one. It's like five years later though,

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it's not that much. Oh okay, all right, it's okay, it's

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in that range. I mean five
to eight years. It was like ninety

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six was Tom Raider one? Yeah, but GameCube was like two thousand.

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Through Tarnal Darkness is oh four,
I think it's always a late GameCube Okay,

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I can't remember. Okay, that's
that's almost ten years fair enough.

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Maybe, I'm wait, when was
the Turnal Darkness was? When the fuck

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were you? Now? I need
to know? Yeah, gohe and look

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it up while I do this one
here. Gun Volt excuse me, gun

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Volt Records, PSI Chronicle. I
like the gun Volt games. Yeah,

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these are uh Mega man X like
games or or you're in that thing.

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Yeah, they will be coming out
for a while. This one's out February

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fifteenth. I'm at least gonna check
it out just because I've enjoyed gun Bolt

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games in the past. It's oh
two, uh oh two, okayness,

404
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,720
I'm trying to look to suck.
I was confused as to why everything was

405
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,519
so anime lady adjacent, and I
thought you put this on here as a

406
00:27:06,559 --> 00:27:11,680
goof to me was successful. Hey, listen, anime ladies deserve rights too.

407
00:27:12,799 --> 00:27:18,759
Mario Versus Donkey Kong is February sixteenth. This is a remaster slash remake

408
00:27:18,839 --> 00:27:22,640
of the Game Boy Advance Mario Versus
Donkey Kong, which is actually a sequel

409
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,559
to Donkey Kong ninety four, one
of the best games ever made. Plays

410
00:27:25,599 --> 00:27:27,880
a lot like that. I never
loved it on Game Boy Advance. I've

411
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,759
tried it a couple of times recently
as well, and it was just like

412
00:27:30,799 --> 00:27:33,599
the visuals on the Game Boy Advance
were weird. I didn't like the way

413
00:27:33,599 --> 00:27:37,359
it looked, but they're redoing them
here, so who knows. Maybe I'll

414
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,640
give it a shot and like it
this time. Final Fantasy seven Rebirth then

415
00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:45,799
is, happened in February twenty ninth. PlayStation five exclusive You guys love remake.

416
00:27:45,839 --> 00:27:48,119
I really liked remake. I never
finished it, but I really liked

417
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:52,640
what I played of it. I
liked remake a lot. Yeah, I

418
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,960
liked it a lot. The combat
was absolutely compastic. Combat's really really good.

419
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,559
It just is so much fun.
Every character he plays in that game.

420
00:28:00,039 --> 00:28:03,680
You have a really good time with
Tifa especially. It's extremely fun to

421
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,359
play as So I'm really you know, I'm looking forward to Rebirth even I'm

422
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,039
like, I'm won't be following the
story that close, so I don't care

423
00:28:11,079 --> 00:28:14,039
too much about it personally, but
at least the presentation is great, and

424
00:28:14,279 --> 00:28:17,279
they're promising forty hours for this one, so we'll see. I know a

425
00:28:17,319 --> 00:28:18,240
lot of this one either. Yeah, I know a lot of people were

426
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:26,000
thrown off by the adjustments being made
towards the final Fantasy seven Remakes story,

427
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,039
but I welcome all of it.
I welcome the Nomora bullshit here, right,

428
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,000
I'm like, this is a perfect
place for bullshit, for Nomura style

429
00:28:33,039 --> 00:28:38,720
bullshit. Like a remake that knows
it's a remake. That's interesting. Yeah.

430
00:28:38,799 --> 00:28:42,720
Let that takes us into March with
Home World three on March eighth.

431
00:28:42,759 --> 00:28:45,200
I was a big home like in
the early days of PC gaming, my

432
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,039
parents would have an e machine from
Best Buy, and I didn't have any

433
00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:52,079
money, so I was pired and
everything, and I pired Civilization and Home

434
00:28:52,119 --> 00:28:56,079
World and I played a ton of
those games, and I'm like, okay,

435
00:28:56,279 --> 00:28:57,359
I'll check back down a Home World
three. Home World three is like

436
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:03,279
a time strategy game, but in
a three D space like so it's like

437
00:29:03,319 --> 00:29:06,519
you can go up, down,
left, right, you know, zxs,

438
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:07,960
y axis, x axis, all
at the same time, and you're

439
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:12,000
controlling these like legions of ships flying
around. It always looked really cool.

440
00:29:14,079 --> 00:29:18,599
Yeah, almost three March eighth.
Then we get yeah, any machine.

441
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,079
Yes, listen, my parents didn't
spell a lot on those PCs. I

442
00:29:21,079 --> 00:29:23,960
got a three eighty six and then
a four eighty six. March twentieth gets

443
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,160
us Alone in the Dark, that
other horror game that's not Allen Wake two

444
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,519
or Resident before or a Dead Space
two or Dead Space remake. I should

445
00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:37,839
say Alone the Dark got delayed.
It's now coming out March twentieth. This

446
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,039
has David Harbor in it and that
other person whose name I can never remember.

447
00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:45,079
But I'm so curious about this.
What why I am too? No,

448
00:29:45,119 --> 00:29:47,680
I am too? What do you
mean? I am, I am

449
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:48,920
too. No, No, I'm
saying, why does it have David Harbor

450
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,319
in it? What did he do? Yeah, I don't know, because

451
00:29:52,359 --> 00:29:56,440
actors need to work. I don't
know. Sometimes people can't say no,

452
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,440
or they have agents that can't say
we're talking about this, right, But

453
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:06,440
like, the strikes must have impacted
a lot of actors to branch out into

454
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,359
video games, right, That's that's
what we saw at the Game Awards.

455
00:30:08,359 --> 00:30:12,160
I think this happened before the strikes, but but at at the Game Awards,

456
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,200
we saw a bunch of actors being
like, I'm in a game,

457
00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:17,359
and so Matthew conne is like I'm
in a game, and it's like,

458
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,519
okay, we know why. That's
because of the strikes. I think David

459
00:30:19,559 --> 00:30:23,799
Harbor likes video games. I think
he's a closet freak about video games.

460
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:30,359
Yeah, he's not that much.
I mean look, also, I kept

461
00:30:30,359 --> 00:30:33,240
thinking this when fucking McConaughey came out
of the Game Awards. I'm like,

462
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,279
video games are not niche, They're
not like, you're not doing something wacky

463
00:30:37,319 --> 00:30:41,240
and kooky and under the radar.
Now, Okay, it's like come on,

464
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:47,359
uh, yeah, I'm sure David
Harbor, who is of our generation

465
00:30:48,359 --> 00:30:52,839
maybe you know, ten years our
senior, give or take. Is it's

466
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,039
entirely possible. He's like, yeah, you know what I'm gonna be in

467
00:30:55,039 --> 00:31:00,880
a video game. I've always be. I've always been this series. I

468
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,000
don't need to know anything about it. Yeah, he's forty eight. David

469
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,960
Harber's forty eight, eight years old. Yeah, there you go, wreating

470
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,480
no sound. Yeah, well in
the dark, I played the game Boy

471
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,079
Color one when it came to nintend
to switch online. That was weird.

472
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:18,359
Oh Jody Comber, I love her? Right? Who's Jody Comber? She's

473
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,400
been in stuff. She was in
that, uh, the Ryan Reynolds movie

474
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,519
that wasn't Ready Player one but was
pretty much Ready Player one. Oh,

475
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,799
free Guy, free Guy? I
thinks, sure, yeah, no problem,

476
00:31:30,799 --> 00:31:33,559
all over it. Yep. Do
you guys, You guys can understand

477
00:31:33,599 --> 00:31:36,599
the pun of that title, right? This was a big conversation at the

478
00:31:36,599 --> 00:31:41,200
time. Free Guy. Yeah,
Why it's called free guy? No?

479
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,480
Is it because like a free guy
is like a one up kind of thing?

480
00:31:44,559 --> 00:31:47,559
Yes, yes, exactly, because
it's a like his his character name

481
00:31:47,599 --> 00:31:52,519
is guy, and so the the
like the stated meaning is oh free guy,

482
00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:56,720
but it is a reference to getting
a free guy back in the Arcades,

483
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,279
which would meant you got a one
ups you in an extra life people.

484
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,640
I feel like phrase is kind of
lost on a on a generation very

485
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:07,160
much. It's of its time and
we stopped using it definitely, which that's

486
00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:09,960
probably the only good thing about that
movie. Was that a good movie?

487
00:32:10,039 --> 00:32:14,440
I mean it wasn't. There's a
scene at the end where he gets like

488
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,480
a lightsaber that like got went viral
about how like cheesy it was. Like

489
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,799
in context, this is probably better, but on Twitter it looks like dog

490
00:32:21,839 --> 00:32:25,240
shit. I can't really tell.
All right, then, Yeah, March

491
00:32:25,279 --> 00:32:29,279
twenty second, my birthday, Dragon's
Dogma two, your birthdays this week as

492
00:32:29,279 --> 00:32:31,039
well? Back lar right, what
are you the twenty fifth, twenty four,

493
00:32:31,359 --> 00:32:35,640
twenty fourth of March. Okay,
well, March twenty second, my

494
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,519
birthday. We get three big ones, Dragon's Dogma two, Princess Pete,

495
00:32:37,559 --> 00:32:43,680
Showtime, and Rise of the Ronin
Dragons Dogma two, Catcom is promising big

496
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,920
things with this. It's probably gonna
be a pretty big game. I only

497
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:50,160
played a very tiny bit of Dragons
Dogma. You guys, weren't Dragons Dogma

498
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,039
heads? Were you? No?
It was not a d D boy.

499
00:32:52,079 --> 00:32:54,759
Yeah, so I mean maybe we'll
go into this one. I do want

500
00:32:54,759 --> 00:32:58,720
to check out the first Dragon's Dogma
still before this, But who's going to

501
00:32:58,759 --> 00:33:02,119
half the time? No? Uh, Princess Princess Peach Showtime one of the

502
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:07,160
probably gonna be one of the final
big Switch games. This stars Peach and

503
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,559
she the Showtime mechanic is that she
could take on all these rolls of being

504
00:33:10,559 --> 00:33:14,839
like a chef or a ninja,
and then she has all these other abilities

505
00:33:15,079 --> 00:33:19,119
that will probably be an improvement over
Super Princess Peach, a game where she

506
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,200
had emotional powers like crying oh so
much, she would flood the thing.

507
00:33:23,359 --> 00:33:29,279
Right, So she's not gonna She's
not gonna barge into a subway and start

508
00:33:29,319 --> 00:33:34,440
break dancing around the subway cars.
That's not what this is. That Showtime

509
00:33:34,519 --> 00:33:37,640
is the reference to. Is that
can you imagine like a little toad coming

510
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:44,200
in clapping like a show yeah,
especially with that voice. Is it mes

511
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:49,279
like also this mechanic like very odyssey
adjacent to oh yeah yeah right, yeah

512
00:33:49,359 --> 00:33:52,759
totally. It feels like leftover ideas. This is what you get Princess Peach

513
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,559
to let her wear the bad ideas
from the Mario game that we didn't use,

514
00:33:58,039 --> 00:34:00,599
uh, and then Rise of the
Ronan a PS five game. This

515
00:34:00,839 --> 00:34:05,720
looks really good, look at kind
of a from software software y kind of

516
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,639
thing, but I don't know,
I think it just looks fantastic, So

517
00:34:07,679 --> 00:34:12,400
I'll be curious as we get closer
to it. Then in August, and

518
00:34:12,519 --> 00:34:15,639
there's a big gap there because we
don't have many dates for games. After

519
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:20,559
March. August, we get Black
Myth Wukong. That is that viral Chinese

520
00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:23,159
game that is based on Journey to
the West or Journey into the West.

521
00:34:23,519 --> 00:34:27,039
I can never remember how to actually
Journey to the West. I think that's

522
00:34:27,119 --> 00:34:29,559
right. Most games we're trying to
are based on that, and the same

523
00:34:29,599 --> 00:34:35,400
way that most games in America are
based on sad dads. This is kind

524
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,800
of like an action y again,
a from softwarey sort of thing. But

525
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:44,159
this studio has also had a lot
of news come out about how they might

526
00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:45,679
be a pretty bad place to work
and how they have a lot of bad

527
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:51,079
views. So we'll see. I
wonder if this one's going to come out

528
00:34:51,119 --> 00:34:53,119
and actually be like, oh,
this is what we were excited for because

529
00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:55,679
it just shows off great in gifts, but they're going for a big game

530
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,800
and we'll see if it out there
actually able to pull it off. Hey

531
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:04,800
quick you for you boys? Is
Horizon a play on Journey to the West.

532
00:35:06,119 --> 00:35:09,039
I don't think so. No,
yeah, because it's like like Dragon

533
00:35:09,079 --> 00:35:12,800
Ball is like the one that's like
a really loose adaptation of it, right,

534
00:35:13,039 --> 00:35:15,679
Yeah, I don't Yeah, I
don't know. I don't think so.

535
00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:20,079
So he I have a one of
these, like, I don't know

536
00:35:20,119 --> 00:35:22,519
what it's called. When you conflate
two things and you always mix them up.

537
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,760
What is that? Is there a
word for that? A mixing mix?

538
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,039
A mixing mix? I have a
mixing mix with Black Myth Wu Kong

539
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:39,199
and Phantom Blade zero zero. The
Phantom Blade zero is just another Black Myth

540
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:44,199
Wukong. I don't know. I
don't know how to describe it. Like

541
00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:50,960
they they both are like mysteriously teased
in similar capacities, and they're both a

542
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:55,360
PlayStation or showed up at PlayStation shows. Yeah, they are also like both

543
00:35:55,679 --> 00:36:02,679
Chinese developers. Yeah that sort of
get clouded up in that fog of whatever.

544
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,679
I don't and they seem very similar. Am I crazy? Am I

545
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,719
the other person complaining these? There's
another game that came out this year that

546
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:16,639
I thought was Black Myth Wukong and
it's you're thinking of Wolong oh. Oh,

547
00:36:16,679 --> 00:36:23,639
Like, now what it's happening,
Like what is happening? Because I

548
00:36:23,679 --> 00:36:28,760
think there's a lot of clips happen, like you know, right, like

549
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,119
I don't know, Well, I
think what's happening is a lot of Chinese

550
00:36:31,119 --> 00:36:36,719
developers have looked at the success of
from software they probably very much enjoy from

551
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,559
software games, and they're like,
we're gonna make one of those, and

552
00:36:38,599 --> 00:36:40,800
we're not going to stray too far
from it, and the stuff where we

553
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:45,719
do stray, we're gonna go to
pretty familiar territory of Journey to the West.

554
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,360
So it's you're gonna end up with
a lot of games that are I

555
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,039
mean, this happened like the Chinese
development scene has. I mean, I'm

556
00:36:52,079 --> 00:36:55,519
not joking. There are like twenty
five games that are Journey to the West

557
00:36:55,559 --> 00:37:00,360
in one way or the other.
It is very very popular. So you

558
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:01,480
end up with a lot of games
that do look very similar. So I

559
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:07,719
think that's kind of accepted and normal
in a way that like some games here

560
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,920
like oh we got to try to
stand out. And I think it's still

561
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,800
in China. They're like, no, we're happy. We want to be

562
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,280
like Jurney the West because that's what
the players want. They want more of

563
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:20,159
that. And so I think we're
we're looking from the end from the outside

564
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,039
and going like why all these things
pretty similar? Because well, that's what

565
00:37:22,119 --> 00:37:24,880
sells really well in China. And
I mean, like there's an obscene amount

566
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:31,039
of like Call of Duty mobile clones, League of Legends and like Doda clones

567
00:37:31,519 --> 00:37:36,719
that pop off on mobile. I'm
curious as to why there aren't a lot

568
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,840
of clones of like the first party
Sony games out in China, you know,

569
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:46,800
like where is the clone of Spider
Man or God of War? Yeah,

570
00:37:47,039 --> 00:37:51,639
maybe just don't hit well like on
maybe. Yeah, I don't know

571
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,320
those markets, you know. I
think you know, the one that we

572
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:59,000
saw that was trying to ape some
of the hype for those Sony Sony games

573
00:37:59,119 --> 00:38:02,800
was the day before, which was
very much trying to look like or something

574
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:07,320
like the Last of Us. But
that thing was slapped together by people who

575
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,760
didn't know what they were doing,
and maybe the people that do you know

576
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,920
what they're doing or like that would
be very expensive and we wouldn't be able

577
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,440
to match that making an action game
these days probably feels like something that's easy

578
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:23,679
to tackle. Making a big narrative, cinematic experience probably would require like one

579
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:28,760
hundred million dollars, even in territories
where labor's a little bit more affordable.

580
00:38:30,119 --> 00:38:36,079
Long story short, Phantomly zero feels
like a real game, just maybe a

581
00:38:36,079 --> 00:38:42,079
lot further out than Black Men.
I think my I'm trying to remember,

582
00:38:42,119 --> 00:38:45,199
because again I was conflating these as
well, Jeff. So this happened to

583
00:38:45,199 --> 00:38:49,159
me. There was a lot of
interest in this from the PlayStation community,

584
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,519
and then they were like, why
aren't we hearing more about this? But

585
00:38:51,559 --> 00:38:52,880
this will be in the next this
is going to be the next PlayStation showcase,

586
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,639
This is going to be in the
next state of play. And then

587
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,440
it kept not showing up, and
I think there was news of like,

588
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,280
oh no, that is like super
far off and you shouldn't expect to hear

589
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:07,760
much about it for quite some time. So yeah, we'll see, uh

590
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:13,079
Okay. Then in September Warhammer forty
thousand Space Marine two. Space Marine is

591
00:39:13,079 --> 00:39:15,480
a pretty good game, Space Marine
two. Yeah, I'll check out Space

592
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:21,039
Marine two again whenever Warhammer forty k
comes up. I just love that there's

593
00:39:21,079 --> 00:39:23,559
so many Warhammer games and Warhammer forty
K games because I think that's the right

594
00:39:23,599 --> 00:39:27,960
way to do it with a with
an IP. I am so scared that

595
00:39:28,079 --> 00:39:30,760
I may eventually become Warhammer pilled.
It's gonna yeah, it might happen.

596
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:37,000
Henry Cavill just got like confirmed he's
going to take on the Warhammer forty K

597
00:39:37,159 --> 00:39:42,000
Cinematic Universe with Amazon Prime Video.
Henry, what do you do? We?

598
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,599
So that's that's our that's our gateway
drug right there. I do think

599
00:39:45,599 --> 00:39:51,239
about that music from what was what
was that flour player Warhammer forty K one,

600
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,559
like Necro Death whatever it was,
But that like wor In music,

601
00:39:54,679 --> 00:39:58,719
that that's space organ music that they
played when we were in like the Space

602
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,679
Church. It's like, man,
have some good music, all right,

603
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:08,280
yes, Sperch Church of Space.
Uh all right, we're into the TBD

604
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:12,599
games. Now. I could just
go through these alphabetically. You should we

605
00:40:12,639 --> 00:40:16,480
just do that? Or you yeah? Okay? Avowed? So these are

606
00:40:16,599 --> 00:40:22,760
like there are several Xbox games that
have been announced that either we know a

607
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,960
little bit about or we haven't heard
about since they got announced. Avowed is

608
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,000
in that space of we've heard a
little bit about it in that it was

609
00:40:29,079 --> 00:40:30,639
at the State Are the summer game
fest from them, and they showed a

610
00:40:30,639 --> 00:40:35,920
little bit more gameplay, but people
came out of seeing that gameplay being like,

611
00:40:36,639 --> 00:40:38,559
huh, this is what this game
is. I'm not really sure if

612
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,320
I'm driving with this, I'm gonna
need to play it. And I think

613
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,559
it's fair to say that because I
saw so many people having that response to

614
00:40:45,599 --> 00:40:47,840
it. Do you guys remember that
that trailer? I remember the bear?

615
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,400
Okay, yes, yeah, uh
so avow who knows? But this is

616
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:58,960
Obsidian. It's their sort of like
hand magic fantasy realm game, and they

617
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,199
made it pretty clear that yeah,
it might look like they're doing their Skyrim,

618
00:41:01,199 --> 00:41:05,000
but it's not exactly going to be
their Skyrims. So I'm not really

619
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,840
sure what to expect from it.
Baby Steps is a new game from Bennett

620
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:14,039
Foddy and a handful of other people. But I am I am definitely Foddy

621
00:41:14,039 --> 00:41:19,119
Billed. I love everything that anything
but Foddy does. I love Quop,

622
00:41:19,199 --> 00:41:21,599
I love Girp give me those games. I play them all the time.

623
00:41:21,639 --> 00:41:24,719
Still, I'm so glad that they're
still available online after Flash died. So

624
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:29,880
Baby Steps is okay, let's take
that the idea of quop and put it

625
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,079
in a three D platform or where
you're walking around and said an adult man

626
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:36,679
that walks like a baby, and
it looks very funny. This is another

627
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:38,840
one that was like in a PlayStation
showcase. Yeah, and then people are

628
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:43,199
like, what is this. This
isn't like a real game, Like this

629
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,360
is the realist fucking game I've ever
seen. You People don't know what you're

630
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:50,960
talking about. It popped off like
a long time ago. Yeah didn't.

631
00:41:51,039 --> 00:41:53,880
It has like a very very early
announcement or something like that, right,

632
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:58,960
And then we just got another that
this was in the PlayStation showcase. I

633
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,599
think it was one of the first
in that, or maybe it was a

634
00:42:00,599 --> 00:42:04,679
state of play. It was one
of the first games in the recent one.

635
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,280
And so it's like, yeah,
this is happening next year, Beastie

636
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:14,000
Ball, this is mine, This
is mine. I believe this comes from

637
00:42:14,039 --> 00:42:20,360
the same developer that made Chickory.
But this is a turn based Pokemon like

638
00:42:21,079 --> 00:42:24,159
volleyball game. Oh boy, Oh
that's interesting. It's right up my alley.

639
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:30,480
Very excited for anything involving tiles,
tactics, and little creatures. I'm

640
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:34,360
not so much into the volleyball aspect, But that sounds like a fun twist

641
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,920
on doing the turn based combat is
yeah. Is it like instead of doing

642
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:42,079
attacks on the opposing team, you're
doing attacks on the ball and it's like

643
00:42:42,119 --> 00:42:46,280
elemental stuff. Yeah, yeah,
exactly. That is then it has a

644
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,199
neat look to it. It kind
of does like the two and a half

645
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:52,800
D stuff. I just want more
people to keep trying to attack game Freak

646
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:58,960
to take the Pokemon crown because someone
has to be successful eventually. No,

647
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,639
they don't, but they can.
They should keep trying though. Uh.

648
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:07,440
Contra op Operation Galuga. Uh this
is yeah. Then I love Contra.

649
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:14,559
I hate it is it's g A
l u g A. I'm like Galuga

650
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,880
Galuga. I love Contra. They've
tried to make a bunch of Contra games.

651
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,079
Most of the time they are dog
shit. This one. I think

652
00:43:22,079 --> 00:43:25,360
this one looked pretty bad. But
I hope Konami because listen, I'm just

653
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:30,840
kind of glad that Konami is making
games in these franchises I love again.

654
00:43:30,599 --> 00:43:35,360
Hopefully that means they're also putting some
love into it. That is not a

655
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:37,639
guarantee, though, there's a strong
chance that we won't see quality from this

656
00:43:37,679 --> 00:43:44,360
game. Uh, then cook serve
delicious Remustard and really I just included this

657
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,239
because what is the best sort of
play on remaster in a game? Is

658
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:52,800
it this or is it the uh? What was it? A Red Faction

659
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:58,639
Gorilla remastered edition? I love it's
this. No, Remustard is like that

660
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,719
mean? Come on, says Funny
and Delicious. Yeah, if they do

661
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:07,480
Red Dead Redemption, they can be
a remarstoned edition. Remarked they don't have

662
00:44:07,519 --> 00:44:13,320
to do that. Shut up Jacobs. Game of the Year Expeditions a mud

663
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,079
Runner game. Let's fuck it go. I'm a huge, huge fan of

664
00:44:16,119 --> 00:44:20,960
the mud Runner series. I love
mud I've been a fan of this since

665
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,519
it was called Spin Tires, which
was like this weird little game, yes,

666
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:29,559
because the tires would spin in the
fucking mudd sit there stuck for like

667
00:44:29,599 --> 00:44:34,320
an hour. You got mud boy? Is that my ship? This game

668
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:38,280
looks like the most sort of gamey
ass game version of mud Runner yet,

669
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:42,800
where it's like, Okay, you
and some friends go out in the world

670
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,800
and accomplish these smaller goals. Don't
worry about trying to rebuild the world and

671
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:50,119
rebuild these bridges and taking some logs
to this gas station so they can open

672
00:44:50,159 --> 00:44:52,920
back up. No, it's just
like go drive in any vehicle to this

673
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,039
spot and then that's gonna it's gonna
be like a Ubi Soft game. Now

674
00:44:57,039 --> 00:44:58,599
you're up there, you can see
the rest of the world. Here are

675
00:44:58,599 --> 00:45:01,159
a few more expeditions to go on. It looks very good. I'm very

676
00:45:01,159 --> 00:45:05,159
excited about it. I'm so happy
for you, Grub, thank you so

677
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:08,440
much. Foam Stars. Yeah,
it's coming next year as well. And

678
00:45:08,679 --> 00:45:10,960
did any of us play Fun Stars? I know some people. Okay,

679
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:15,360
you did. Yeah, how are
you feeling about this one? It doesn't

680
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:21,519
quite feel like it's a ripping Splatoon
off enough for my taste. Sure,

681
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:23,400
I did have a lot of fun
with it when I did check it out

682
00:45:23,559 --> 00:45:30,840
at UH Summer Games. Yeah,
it's doing different things where like where Splatoon,

683
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:37,079
when you're splatting the plant paint around, you're just sticking to the surfaces.

684
00:45:37,119 --> 00:45:42,000
Here, they build off verticality with
like the foam bouncing on or building

685
00:45:42,039 --> 00:45:45,000
on top of each other. The
classes felt okay enough. I'm just I'm

686
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:50,199
excited to see where this will go
and if this will actually have legs versus

687
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:55,039
Splatoon since it's only on the switch, right, Yeah, I think twenty

688
00:45:55,119 --> 00:45:59,480
twenty three is going to be or
me, twenty twenty four Jesus is going

689
00:45:59,519 --> 00:46:01,880
to be an interesting year for multiplayer
shooters. I think. I think it's

690
00:46:02,679 --> 00:46:05,599
I think some of these are going
to pop off in a big way.

691
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:07,639
I think Finals is going to keep
getting bigger and bigger if they can that

692
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:12,159
game. Yeah, I think it's
gonna because one of you said it,

693
00:46:12,199 --> 00:46:15,760
I think there is a chance for
them to keep adding new modes to keep

694
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:19,199
things interesting in it, like like
cycling them in and out, and then

695
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:20,960
one of them is going to pop
off and be like, no, this

696
00:46:21,079 --> 00:46:23,760
is just what the Finals is now, everyone's playing this mode and if big

697
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,760
and steward that I think it's going
to end up like by the end of

698
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:30,519
next year. It's yeah, we
played a ton of Finals and everyone did.

699
00:46:30,639 --> 00:46:36,000
It's growing in the charts of like
popular streaming too, Like it's it's

700
00:46:36,039 --> 00:46:38,760
start, it's starting to parcolate,
it's starting to happen. I'm so surprised

701
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:45,840
seeing that some some UH circles that
interact with ours are down on the game,

702
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:49,679
because I just love it a lot. Really yeah, yeah, I've

703
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,480
just seen I've seen some like negative
sentiment about not enjoying it, thinking it's

704
00:46:52,519 --> 00:46:57,880
pretty sparse, when you know,
I feel I feel completely the opposite way.

705
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,800
I feel like there's a lot.
Yeah, despite the does happen though,

706
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:02,199
like all these games where it's like
this one didn't like hit me right

707
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:05,480
away, it's not exactly what I
was thinking. Then people check back in

708
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:07,639
on later, okay, you know, And now that I understand what this

709
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:12,519
is, I'm down with it.
Hades two that was originally supposed to come

710
00:47:12,519 --> 00:47:15,639
out this year in early access,
Thank god it didn't. Oh my god,

711
00:47:15,679 --> 00:47:17,280
I can actually play other games.
But now it's coming at early next

712
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:21,480
year is what they're promising. Boy, I am going to play the hell

713
00:47:21,559 --> 00:47:23,000
to that. I don't care if
it's Early Access or not. I'm gonna

714
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,719
be all over Haites two. I
cannot wait. Yeah, yeah, what

715
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,800
Harold said exactly, Harold hawibit.
This was yours right back of lar.

716
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:37,320
Yeah. This is another one of
those games that gets announced incredibly early and

717
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:42,159
has a very striking it Trailered really
well, what can I say? It

718
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,880
just trailered really nicely, has a
Wallace and Grom and sort of like stop

719
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:52,199
motion acclaymation vibe to it seems very
narrative based. I'm in it just for,

720
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,360
like, you know, the vibe
of what this thing is teasing to

721
00:47:55,440 --> 00:48:00,599
be. Beyond that, I don't
really know much about it, but I

722
00:48:00,639 --> 00:48:04,960
do recall twenty twenty four being the
year that they are targeting, so definitely

723
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:08,599
a raider a radar looking at for
this one. I looked it up and

724
00:48:08,599 --> 00:48:10,400
I'm like, oh, yeah,
I do remember this, and that's twenty

725
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:15,119
twenty one, and it looks very
cool. I'm man, how have we

726
00:48:15,199 --> 00:48:20,840
not gotten more claymation style games before
Chance fares well? So this one I'm

727
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,360
down with. You know, Okay, this, I think because it's more

728
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:30,480
stop motion than like Walls and Grommet
claymation. Sure, I think, yeah,

729
00:48:30,519 --> 00:48:32,280
I know that that grosses you out
and you don't want to hear that.

730
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:37,000
I think, like the I think
the thing with this that I find

731
00:48:37,119 --> 00:48:42,320
troubling is like a lot of games
take this path where they where they do

732
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:49,440
have a very striking debut and they
have a very clear envisioned art style or

733
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:54,320
whatever it is, and then they
just sort of like can't match the momentum

734
00:48:54,440 --> 00:49:00,760
or hype of how they Yeah,
I do love sable so and that's okay.

735
00:49:01,159 --> 00:49:04,199
Like, that's totally fine. I'm
not like, oh, this is

736
00:49:04,199 --> 00:49:06,559
a bad game. It just wasn't
for me when I ended up playing it,

737
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,400
right, And that's my worry is
that like it has this striking debut

738
00:49:10,639 --> 00:49:16,800
but can never really match or cultivate
the always it is better to have that

739
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:22,239
like strikingness than not. Right,
totally, I'm with you, but I

740
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,920
know exactly that feeling of being like, I hope playing it matches the way

741
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:29,719
I feel when I first saw it
exactly doesn't always work out that way.

742
00:49:30,679 --> 00:49:37,400
What's Henry Halfhead? Henry Halfhead is
another one of these that I when the

743
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:43,960
hell did this get announced? I'm
not sure. I think earlier this year,

744
00:49:45,159 --> 00:49:52,519
and is a just like strange sort
of definitely in the in the same

745
00:49:53,039 --> 00:49:58,159
the thing that reminded me of is
like, who who did like Kutchull?

746
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,519
What was that game? Yes,
chucoll got My kids loved Chuche. Yeah,

747
00:50:01,559 --> 00:50:09,800
like this definitely scratched credits. Yeah. I think it's a Swiss developer,

748
00:50:10,639 --> 00:50:14,480
and it's another one of those Odyssey
games right where you're taking over different

749
00:50:14,519 --> 00:50:19,519
objects. Yeah. So yeah,
I I just remember like seeing the reveal

750
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:23,159
and being like, wow, this
seems really dope. I love crap like

751
00:50:23,199 --> 00:50:27,960
this. Where will it go?
What is it? It's just been a

752
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:32,719
bit radio silence since that first debut, but you know, fingers crossed,

753
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:36,280
you get to see it in some
capacity. It's hard to move around when

754
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:38,920
you're just half ahead, That's right. You know I want to be I

755
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:42,079
want to be a knife and crawl
around on the floor, you know,

756
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:46,159
That's what I want to be.
This This looks like it first popped off

757
00:50:46,519 --> 00:50:51,599
in January, so it will be
at about a year since it got announced.

758
00:50:51,679 --> 00:50:54,360
Maybe we'll hear about it soon.
Maybe not holding my breath, but

759
00:50:54,400 --> 00:51:00,920
we can help, uh metaphor Refuntasio. This is a another game from Atlas

760
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:05,280
that looks, you know, kind
of like in the vein of their Persona

761
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:09,000
games, but it's I think it's
more fantasy. I think it's implied by

762
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:13,719
Fantasio. It looks really good when
we saw the trailer for it at Summer

763
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:15,400
Game Festival. I know a lot
of people have been looking forward to it

764
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,920
for a very long time. What
do you think. I don't know if

765
00:51:19,039 --> 00:51:22,960
I am, because it seems a
little bit too close to the shin Magami

766
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:29,679
tense series, and those are notorious
for being obscenely difficult, and I'm not

767
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:31,360
that I'm not looking for a challenge
when it comes to an RPG, but

768
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:37,039
I would like to have fun and
not feel the need to grind or bash

769
00:51:37,119 --> 00:51:38,960
my head up against the wall.
But that being said, I do like

770
00:51:39,119 --> 00:51:44,480
all of the menu presentation. It's
very stylistic from what we've seen so far,

771
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,400
yes, but also just a ton
of style. Is this a switch

772
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:53,519
only game or am I imagining that
this was the Xbox the presentation? I

773
00:51:53,519 --> 00:51:58,119
think it's on game Pass in fact, Oh okay, yeah, I believe.

774
00:51:58,199 --> 00:52:00,800
I believe that's the case. I'm
completely miss taken then, because I,

775
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:04,079
for whatever reason, I'd conflated that
this was a switch only game,

776
00:52:04,679 --> 00:52:07,119
and hey, you know that thing's
so at the end of its life cycle,

777
00:52:07,199 --> 00:52:12,480
right, mm hmmm, Yes,
it is. Mullet mad Jack,

778
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,840
Backglar. What's with Henry or Held
Harold Halibit, Henry Halfhead, Mullet mad

779
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:19,679
Jack? What's going on here?
I don't know why these two name games

780
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:23,039
come to me, but here they
are. I am inexplicably drawn to them.

781
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:30,760
This is something that got announced earlier
this year as well. I want

782
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:35,400
to say, Oh, I was
just looking at this one and yeah,

783
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:42,039
it's a it's a real small team
has very much like almost like No More

784
00:52:42,199 --> 00:52:46,679
Heroes meets a Finn FPS kind of
anything. Yeah, like one of those

785
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:52,280
recent new Blood first shooter games that
are trying to be a throwback to like

786
00:52:52,559 --> 00:52:59,920
Quaker Duke Nukem. Totally definitely style
first for me for sure, but seems

787
00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:02,599
like it would be a lot of
fun. I don't know, again,

788
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:07,760
going only off of what this thing
looks like, I don't even know if

789
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:12,239
twenty four is a realistic release year
for this one. Theme the release date

790
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,559
says coming soon, which developers do
all the time, and it means like

791
00:53:15,599 --> 00:53:19,760
in the next five years. Yeah, so uh this one. I'm like,

792
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,159
I'm just I think it looks great. And then I'm like, are

793
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:24,840
mullets still like a funny thing or
is that like Chuck Norris jokes. I'm

794
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:30,079
already with that here, Bull and
are seem to be staying Bullets are huge,

795
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:35,320
like huge, yah. I think
bullet's a style. But if mullets

796
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:39,599
is like your default, your attitude, I guess I don't know. I

797
00:53:40,519 --> 00:53:45,920
think the moment, yeah, okay, it's it's emphasis on the mad jack

798
00:53:47,159 --> 00:53:51,960
We'll do here. And also like
developer calls itself a hammer ninety five,

799
00:53:52,119 --> 00:53:54,159
like, okay, sick, I
want to I want to fuck around with

800
00:53:54,199 --> 00:53:58,039
that. And they're younger than me
though, if we're going by like screen

801
00:53:58,119 --> 00:54:05,079
game ages, totally. Oh then
Pacific Drive. This is one I've been

802
00:54:05,679 --> 00:54:09,519
very interested in for a while.
It is a rogue light but you're in

803
00:54:09,599 --> 00:54:14,599
a beat up, old like station
wagon and you drive around the world and

804
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:20,679
it's like wild stuff happening in the
Pacific Northwest, aliens in the sky or

805
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:24,039
big electric clouds, and there's seems
like there's a ton more going on.

806
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:27,679
And I watched Lucy play a bunch
of this. I think we both did

807
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:30,519
drank and we watched a Lucy play
this at PAX. Were you there,

808
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:31,679
yeah, oh Pacific Drive, Yes, yes, yes, yes, we

809
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:35,679
drive. Yes. And I'm like, okay, very into what they showed

810
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:39,199
here. And when I talked to
the developers at the GB at night show

811
00:54:39,599 --> 00:54:42,760
they were on there, they were
like, yeah, we're kind of like

812
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,079
really condensing the loop to that point
just to get to the fund but like,

813
00:54:45,119 --> 00:54:49,559
there's so much more going on in
the world. So very interested in

814
00:54:49,599 --> 00:54:52,519
this one. I love the idria, I love the entire idea of roguelike

815
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:57,000
and being in a beat up ble
cars like the way to explore the world.

816
00:54:57,039 --> 00:55:00,960
That's pretty cool. Papa Mario the
thousand Your Door. They are remastering

817
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:05,880
that one release sooner for the Switch. Definitely in the top three for Mario

818
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,239
RPGs. For a lot of people, it's number one. For me,

819
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:13,719
it's like number it is number three, but it's because I like Mario RPG

820
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:16,519
and then Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga. But no, this game is a

821
00:55:16,519 --> 00:55:20,760
delight and it's really awesome that a
whole new generation is going to get a

822
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,400
chance to play it. It's also
like encouraging because for a while people were

823
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:30,599
worried that Nintendo wouldn't let Mario games. Even the RPGs have kind of expressive,

824
00:55:30,639 --> 00:55:34,480
different kinds of characters, they all
had to be like a default look

825
00:55:34,639 --> 00:55:37,320
model for a goomba or whatever,
and this one has all these like funky

826
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:39,159
characters that look very different, and
it's like, well, if they're going

827
00:55:39,199 --> 00:55:43,000
back to this game again, maybe
they've softened up their position on that.

828
00:55:43,039 --> 00:55:45,480
And when we get new paper Mario
games in the future, if we do

829
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:49,679
they can be more expressive again,
then that would be nice. Goomba's a

830
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:54,079
lady a Lady Goomba. Finally,
Goombat goom Hilda is actually the one in

831
00:55:54,119 --> 00:56:00,960
Super Mario RPG. Actually Penny's Big
Breakaway. This is the three D kind

832
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:06,159
of Saturn dreamcast a looking era platformer
from the team that did Sonic Mania and

833
00:56:06,599 --> 00:56:07,719
bechar you put this on here and
I went to go look at the trailer

834
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:12,119
again. It looks so cool.
I'm very happy with the way this game

835
00:56:12,159 --> 00:56:17,079
looks. Hell yeah, It's like, man, it seemed like he was

836
00:56:17,199 --> 00:56:22,360
the most competent like platformer thing,
right, Like you just sort of like

837
00:56:22,519 --> 00:56:24,239
got that. Is that what we're
talking about? Yes, yeah, yeah,

838
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:28,280
yeah, Penny's Big Breakaway? Yes, yeah, sorry, it seems

839
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:32,519
like the most competent like platformer,
you know, demonstration that you could like

840
00:56:32,559 --> 00:56:38,400
ask for, right, there's something
so I like, buy whatever it's selling

841
00:56:38,519 --> 00:56:42,760
right away, do you know what
I mean? So many other three D

842
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:45,039
platformers, like they get close,
they want to be inspired by that era

843
00:56:45,119 --> 00:56:50,320
platformers, and then it's like there's
something missing. I am confident that this

844
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:54,440
team has the competency to pull this
off after playing Sonic Mania and knowing how

845
00:56:54,519 --> 00:56:59,360
much they understood that game, how
deep into Sonic they got so that they

846
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,519
could extract everything that was fun about
it and make the best Sonic game ever.

847
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:05,239
I am very confident they're gonna be
able to pull that off. With

848
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:08,760
Penny's Big Breakaway, it just seems
like, again, I know, we

849
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:13,119
are inferring a hell of a lot
out of a trailer, but like,

850
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:19,159
there's just something that I just believe
about this game. It's got a great

851
00:57:19,199 --> 00:57:22,119
visual style too, Like the color
scheme is way different than a lot of

852
00:57:22,159 --> 00:57:28,559
other games like this Hell Yet the
Plucky Squire, that one where you places

853
00:57:28,559 --> 00:57:31,000
the little squire who like us around
the world and they can hop into books

854
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:36,000
and hop onto the side of mugs
in the real world. I'm very excited

855
00:57:36,039 --> 00:57:38,280
about this one. It's got It
just has such a good you know idea

856
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:45,400
right, It's real cute. Yep. Absolutely another Xbox game that we've heard

857
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:47,880
about a bunch. We don't have
a date for necessarily, but seems like

858
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:53,320
it could be the next big Xbox
games. Saga is a Sinua or Sinwa

859
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:59,760
Sinua Saga, hell Blade two,
hell Bay two. Listen. I'm not

860
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:01,719
a big hell Blay guy, but
I always think hell By two looks really

861
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:07,599
magnificent. In terms of visuals.
Agreed. I just for the life of

862
00:58:07,639 --> 00:58:10,519
me can't get into these games.
I couldn't play Hillblade. I tried.

863
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:15,639
It was not for me. I
do. When I played hill Blade,

864
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:21,039
I knew that I could do it
if I gave it more time, Like

865
00:58:21,119 --> 00:58:22,960
I saw again, it's an old
game now, it's like, what is

866
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:28,519
it like six or seven years old
now? Yeah, And I just remember

867
00:58:28,599 --> 00:58:30,079
being you know, I never went
back to it for better or worse.

868
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:37,199
For I'll definitively call it four worse. But I I think an inch of

869
00:58:37,239 --> 00:58:42,159
Theory just does something that I am
just They are a developer that I am

870
00:58:42,199 --> 00:58:46,239
like constantly sort of in awe of. And I think their pedigree over the

871
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:52,639
years has just been like maybe undervalued
in a big way. I think it's

872
00:58:52,679 --> 00:58:57,679
gonna be there, Like this has
a chance to be their big statement game,

873
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,599
right, their big breakout in a
lot of yeah, because I do

874
00:59:00,639 --> 00:59:04,679
think this one's going to be more
accessible. Imagine that's the case. I

875
00:59:04,719 --> 00:59:09,239
think I think they'll pivot and maybe
accommodate to a more general audience, uh,

876
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:15,000
without compromising the integrity of like what
the original sort of game dealt with

877
00:59:15,039 --> 00:59:19,920
thematically, and and and kind of
like the spirit of that. You know,

878
00:59:20,719 --> 00:59:23,840
this feels way larger than life of
what they're sort of teasing. I'm

879
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:29,719
I'm deeply excited for it. I
actually I gotta I gotta move the original

880
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:35,559
up to like the top of the
priority list to uh for backlog, like

881
00:59:35,559 --> 00:59:38,039
we came back from breaking Yeah,
to talk about that'd be cool, but

882
00:59:38,119 --> 00:59:42,679
yeah, this feels big. Jan
was it you that had the Phoenix down

883
00:59:42,679 --> 00:59:47,719
moment with this where that's like hell
Blade from the makers of Heavenly Sword Sword

884
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:57,119
now heaven Sword Swords Awesome. Yep, oh yeah, give me some more

885
00:59:57,159 --> 01:00:00,480
Heavenly Sword, Heavenly Sword enslaved forget
the did Odyssey of the West, which

886
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:06,440
is also really fucking good. Uh
A d m C. I mean yep,

887
01:00:06,719 --> 01:00:08,840
that's a yeah, that's a cedigree
right there. And they seem to

888
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:16,000
have like Andy serkis on retainer.
Yeah, they got they're running circ deep

889
01:00:16,079 --> 01:00:21,519
definitely. Uh speaking of running deep
still wakes the deep. Uh. I

890
01:00:21,599 --> 01:00:23,920
think this is the one that uh
had that trailer. It takes place in

891
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:28,039
an oil rig and had a trailer
at Summer Game Fest or somewhere that Dan

892
01:00:28,159 --> 01:00:32,039
saw and Dan was like so extremely
bored by it. Yeah, but I

893
01:00:32,159 --> 01:00:36,880
like, I like oil rigs.
Something about an oil rig? You just

894
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:39,679
like isolation? Yeah, maybe I
do. Yeah, I do like the

895
01:00:39,719 --> 01:00:45,320
idea of just like being alone somewhere. That rules this I don't. This

896
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:49,159
game looks like it could be really
cool. It is a person exploring what

897
01:00:49,239 --> 01:00:53,559
looks like an abandoned oil rig on
the ocean, and that's really cool for

898
01:00:53,679 --> 01:00:58,440
me. Like, I just like
the kind of mystery about that, because

899
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:00,840
I do think that's what this game
is. And also the Chinese Room like

900
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:07,280
does a lot of good stuff.
Like I was really into what the fuck

901
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:12,280
was that? It was like,
Oh, no, they weren't the Swan

902
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,920
game they where everyone's gone to the
rapture? Yeah, yeah they do.

903
01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:19,559
Yeah what else did they do?
And which is also which is a very

904
01:01:19,599 --> 01:01:23,000
strange and fun game they did the
first Was it the first Amnesia game?

905
01:01:23,119 --> 01:01:27,119
No, they did Amnesia a Machine
for Pigs. Oh so that was like

906
01:01:27,159 --> 01:01:30,880
the second one, right, Yeah, yeah, you're sling Okay. I

907
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:36,239
think they have an interesting enough kind
of pedigree that I will check this out.

908
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:38,360
And they are making Vampire the Mass
Great Bloodlines too, which is also

909
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:43,599
coming out next year. Apparently we'll
see though. How does one play Heavenly

910
01:01:43,679 --> 01:01:47,079
Sword in twenty twenty four. I'm
doing it three. I'm doing it on

911
01:01:47,159 --> 01:01:51,320
a steam deck. Oh yeah,
there you go. We'll get you hooked

912
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:52,360
up on your steam deck. Jam. Okay with that, all right?

913
01:01:53,519 --> 01:01:57,920
Squirrel with a gun. It's a
game where a scroll has a fucking gun.

914
01:01:59,239 --> 01:02:01,159
Cool gun too, well. I
mean it's it's a normal sized gun

915
01:02:01,199 --> 01:02:04,840
and a normal size squirrel, So
it looks like a big gun, but

916
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:08,079
he's just carrying it and shooting people
and it boiler. This is the one

917
01:02:08,079 --> 01:02:12,000
where you go like shoot a gun
down and it like pushes you up in

918
01:02:12,039 --> 01:02:15,400
the air, right because you're a
little squirrel, I think. So there's

919
01:02:15,519 --> 01:02:20,280
like part of the platforming that's the
game. Just like I just laughed my

920
01:02:20,559 --> 01:02:22,800
my head off when I first saw
it. I'm just like, oh yeah,

921
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,920
okay, like do this and I'll
check it out. And it's like

922
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:30,800
it's like a kind of like a
realistic looking gun too. You're just like

923
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:35,440
this squirrel get this. It's like
it's got got goat simulator vibes. Yes,

924
01:02:36,639 --> 01:02:39,599
I love that's exactly right, yo. This squirrel can't hear for ship

925
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:45,239
after blowing its ear drums out for
sure. Uh and then thank goodness you're

926
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:49,840
here. Is another one I played
at PAX. I think, oh you

927
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:52,320
did play it, yes, yes, oh guy, this is the one

928
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:55,280
where I played it. And I'm
like, I think I get these jokes.

929
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:58,760
And then I like talked to Lucy
and Tam later and like, yeah,

930
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:00,719
it's from the North. We got
all of them jokes. They are

931
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:02,400
hilarious. I'm like, okay,
good, I'm glad. I'm glad you

932
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:05,840
got them because I think I got
them, but I'm not exactly sure.

933
01:03:06,119 --> 01:03:10,760
It's very cartoony. You explore these
scenes, these like vignettes, and like

934
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:14,679
each one leads to another one and
another one, and then sudden you get

935
01:03:14,719 --> 01:03:17,079
to like a wall and it's like
I need meat from the store and you

936
01:03:17,079 --> 01:03:20,719
have to like go to break into
a deli and get meat out of the

937
01:03:20,719 --> 01:03:22,880
back and give it to a guy
to open up the new scenes so you

938
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:25,599
can keep moving along. A lot
of it's like okay, like go get

939
01:03:25,639 --> 01:03:29,320
some water and you follow a hose
and it leads you down a well and

940
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:32,480
that leads you into like a secret
sewer city or whatever. There's a ton

941
01:03:32,519 --> 01:03:37,960
going on and it looks very nice
and it's got it does have a strong

942
01:03:37,039 --> 01:03:40,239
sense of place and humor. Yeah. I love the look of this.

943
01:03:40,599 --> 01:03:44,199
It reminds me of something and I
can't place it. Yes, No,

944
01:03:44,519 --> 01:03:49,920
we're gonna get to it. It's
like it's Regular Show adjacent, Regular Show

945
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:54,199
adjacent. Yeah, yes, it's
I believe it's called like adventure, like

946
01:03:55,079 --> 01:04:00,679
City Town or something like that,
Big City Green. Is that? Oh

947
01:04:00,719 --> 01:04:03,760
it's like a It's a Max show, isn't it. No, it's I

948
01:04:04,199 --> 01:04:10,360
think it's like some sort of like
Sesame Street adjacent cartoon where like a snake

949
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:13,880
has a hat on and it's teaching
you about math and stuff like that.

950
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:16,800
Oh, I have no idea what
you're talking about. That's just that's your

951
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:21,400
speculats dreams. No, it's a
it's most certainly a thing. Speaking on

952
01:04:21,519 --> 01:04:29,079
Regular Show, we were we were
talking about something that has a Regular Show

953
01:04:29,119 --> 01:04:34,960
alumnus involved in it. Yeah,
that was it. Now, I can't

954
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:40,480
remember anything. We can't remembering.
It was Warhammer forty K, Space Marine

955
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:46,719
two. Of course, it wasn't
Alone in the Dark. It was something

956
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:51,840
figured out. Let's get this last
one that zimless Zone zero. Of course,

957
01:04:54,199 --> 01:04:57,199
there's anime in it. It's a
gotcha game. Oh you know what

958
01:04:57,360 --> 01:05:01,719
This is actually one of those instances
where I think Asian developers may be trying

959
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:10,480
to ape Spider Man, because if
I recall correctly, there is a strong

960
01:05:10,599 --> 01:05:15,400
platforming grappling component to this game.
I could be completely mistaken and be thinking

961
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:19,880
of something completely different, but I
think that's what this is. Yeah,

962
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:25,840
I don't know a visual novel to
me, but that's just because it's got

963
01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:30,480
to look to it. I enjoy
the look. I enjoy the anime and

964
01:05:30,679 --> 01:05:34,280
oh you do, oh this is
this is from ho Yo verse, so

965
01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:39,679
ho Yo verse, a me Hoyo
game to me Hoyo Joint and you know

966
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:43,320
those There is more to those games
than people give them credit to. Oh

967
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:47,119
definitely, Yes, there's a reason
they're massively popular other than the Wi fus.

968
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:50,719
Yeah all right, Uh that does
it. I don't know what do

969
01:05:50,719 --> 01:05:56,920
you guys? What's the what's the
big ones for you? Maybe Final Fantasy?

970
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:00,000
Yeah? Haities two is definitely the
one of my I can't stop thinking

971
01:06:00,039 --> 01:06:06,119
about. I don't think there's anything
that I can't stop thinking about. Definitely

972
01:06:06,119 --> 01:06:12,239
excited for Hades two. I'm a
big dumb asshole because the thing that was

973
01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:16,440
the regular show person was the Littlest
Batman was a Merry Little Batman regular.

974
01:06:16,519 --> 01:06:19,840
Okay, that's the regular show connection. Well that explains the quality of that

975
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:24,639
thing. Okay, there you go. Yeah, I don't know, there's

976
01:06:24,679 --> 01:06:29,480
not like I don't know, is
there anything that like it's like, well,

977
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:30,599
this is kind of a Jeff Backlark
gang because for me, obviously,

978
01:06:30,639 --> 01:06:34,280
that's that's Expeditions, a Mude Runner
game, Like really I will be throwing

979
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:38,880
myself into that that I'm gonna go
wild for that one. No, I

980
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:42,519
don't know. Obviously, twenty and
this year there were like a dozen games

981
01:06:42,519 --> 01:06:46,400
that had me written all over it, and I think this year is hopefully

982
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:49,599
a year that I'm surprised by.
Well, yeah, let's let's talk about

983
01:06:49,599 --> 01:06:51,360
that. Do you like, do
we think that next year is going to

984
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:56,000
be able to like get close to
matching twenty twenty three? Are we worried

985
01:06:56,039 --> 01:06:59,280
about Okay? Yeah, sure.
We have a couple of things from Nintendo

986
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:01,000
that seemed to be send offs to
the Switch, and we have things that

987
01:07:01,039 --> 01:07:05,639
were previously announced from Xbox but not
a ton that are confirmed for next year

988
01:07:05,679 --> 01:07:10,920
and PlayStation kind of crickets. I
mean we you know, we saw the

989
01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:14,840
week that maybe there's going to be
Spider Man two online from Insomniac, but

990
01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:17,679
that's like a new mode sort of
thing. How are we feeling about the

991
01:07:17,719 --> 01:07:21,199
games that are announced next year and
then the games that aren't announced. I

992
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:26,119
love to be surprised and I love
to be wrong. I think twenty twenty

993
01:07:26,119 --> 01:07:30,320
three I was wrong a lot of
the time, and I was pleasantly surprised

994
01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:36,320
and happy about that fact. I'm
also excited about the potential for stuff to

995
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:41,079
get stealth dropped. I mean,
we saw nothing about Hi Fi Rush this

996
01:07:41,159 --> 01:07:45,679
year, and then that's right,
came out of nowhere point and yeah,

997
01:07:45,719 --> 01:07:47,960
just who knows what will pop up
from like the indie scene, what'll blow

998
01:07:48,039 --> 01:07:53,159
up and take over like the cultural
zeitgeist? Right, yep, totally.

999
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:56,159
I'm excited to see how some get
twenty twenty three games are going to grow.

1000
01:07:56,199 --> 01:08:00,199
Like I'm really really excited and hopeful
about the potential of the finals.

1001
01:08:00,599 --> 01:08:03,199
Yeah yeah, and I uh and
for me, it's gonna be the way

1002
01:08:03,199 --> 01:08:06,280
the way this year went was,
Yeah, a ton of huge, massive

1003
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:11,679
games and then some of the most
fun is here's Lethal Company out of nowhere

1004
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:14,440
on Steam, and we're gonna go
play that and have a great time.

1005
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:18,640
I'm expecting that to be even more
the case in twenty twenty four games out

1006
01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:23,319
of nowhere on Steam that take over
the world. That's as long as that

1007
01:08:23,399 --> 01:08:27,439
keeps happening, I'm gonna be good
games. So yeah, that's that's twenty

1008
01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:30,760
twenty four as it stands right now. I guess the next time we talk

1009
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:31,960
to everybody, it will be twenty
twenty four, right, Jim, Yeah,

1010
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:39,359
it'll supposedly be January second is when
we when we come back, I

1011
01:08:39,439 --> 01:08:44,760
may ask for a couple of days
off before or that week, because you

1012
01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:49,000
know, just I could use some
more decompressed time. But hey, gents,

1013
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:54,239
I hope you had a fantastic holiday
break. I hope you at home

1014
01:08:54,399 --> 01:08:59,560
had one as well, RESTful.
I hope you uh stayed warm, stayed

1015
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:03,640
love, played some games that you
missed, or replayed some games that you

1016
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:08,920
love so close and hold dear to
your heart. We a giant Bomb dot

1017
01:09:08,960 --> 01:09:13,079
Com love you, wish you a
fantastic year, and wish you a happy,

1018
01:09:13,359 --> 01:09:15,920
happy, happy New Year as well, and we'll see you then for

1019
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:19,279
another episode of the Giant BombCast.
I've been chaying, he's been, Jeff,

1020
01:09:19,319 --> 01:09:23,560
He's been Jeff and that has been
a fire that's been going underneath Jeff

1021
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:28,000
grab this whole time. My god, we'll see he's he's pretty toasted.

1022
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:31,920
We'll see you. We'll see you
next year. Kisses on the cheek,

1023
01:09:32,039 --> 01:09:35,279
on the mouth, on the forehead, and you know what a good side

1024
01:09:35,359 --> 01:09:45,079
huge yeah, just nestling in right
here that we love you, love you

1025
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:56,119
by because it was busy world,
Richard scary. That's yes, from Thank

1026
01:09:56,119 --> 01:10:03,600
Goodness year. Here the the Giant
BombCast is brought to you by the little

1027
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:08,800
worm guy inside all of us.