WEBVTT 1 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:29.839 Hey everybody, and welcome to the Giant BombCast. Happy holidays, Welcome to 2 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:35.000 the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and twenty. Holy smokes, that's a 3 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:38.759 fun number to say. The Giant BombCast is powered by nzi XC and I 4 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:44.119 am your host Chiana Choa Coke Captain of the ship, King of Cozytown Jeff 5 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:48.759 Grubb. That's right. What number was it? Eight twenty eight twenty, 6 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:51.560 Yes, smoke them smokee you got him? That's right. You gotta smoke 7 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:57.920 them twice. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that'd we know. Sorry, 8 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:02.920 I'm in a math kick this week. Ambassador of Math litigator of the 9 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:08.040 Smoke Jeff Beckler is also here. It's true. I'm the weeds are we'ed 10 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:14.799 sezar? Yeah, we I'm wearing our joggers and they're they're really comfortable too. 11 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:19.000 How comfortable these joggers, Like listen, I am trying to always be 12 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:25.079 closing clothing and closing. Yeah, but they're really good. They're super comfortable. 13 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:26.400 I put them on and I was like, well, I'm not taking 14 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:30.799 these off for like two days. I'm really proud of us. We made 15 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.319 we made these with our hands. Yeah, and they came out really cozy 16 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.079 like, So get yourself some joggers. Pro tip. Definitely tie a knot 17 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.120 in the end of the drawstring so that Detroit drawstring doesn't get like pulled into 18 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:47.519 the pants. Yeah, that's a jogger pro tip coming in. Just do 19 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:52.439 that right away. Need that hot, hot, hot jogger strat. Jagger 20 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:57.359 strats? What's your jogger strat for twenty twenty four? Click blow? We 21 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:02.560 are underwear under them? Okay, Uh, I gotta backler. I'm gonna 22 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:06.959 ask you about the code for my thing because I don't think I've replaced an 23 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:09.639 order. But anyway, that is besides the point. Uh. You can 24 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:15.560 get your own joggers and other assorta Giant Bomb stuff store, Giant Bomb dot 25 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:19.039 com. But hey, it's the holidays. This isn't live, this is 26 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:22.479 pre recorded. What's happening? How is the how is how do you think 27 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:24.240 Christmas is gonna go? How do you think the Holidays are gonna go? 28 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:30.719 Oh? By now I'm long dead? Oh shit, oha, wow dark 29 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:35.919 man, No, it's gonna go great. Let's see what one of people 30 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:38.560 listening to this? Is it the day after Christmas? Twenty six? Yeah? 31 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:43.919 Okay, so by then you've had Uh, let's see here. Uh 32 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:49.039 top ten lists from people like Jesse Fortelli. Go read the one from Dan 33 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:51.800 Schue that's on the site right now. There's a bunch of great guest lists 34 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:53.280 on the site. Go ahead and read that stuff. That's more, more, 35 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:57.800 more coming in the days to come. Yeah, let's Steve Kim. 36 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:01.280 There's a list of his is on the site. Drew Scanlon, we give 37 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:05.439 that to you as a Christmas present on Christmas Day, So yeah, go 38 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:08.080 read those. Read so nice of us that we did that. Yeah, 39 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:13.000 I think it's really nice of us. We're so nice. And the content 40 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:17.400 doesn't stop there, folks. More stuff slowly, periodically drippy dropping as the 41 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:23.680 holiday week progresses as we are away on holiday break. Uh, Christmas was 42 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:29.680 great. Yesterday, or as I call it, Monday. Sorry, I 43 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:32.719 just got my double Express, so thank you Staph. Thanks. It was 44 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:38.879 a lovely Monday. I do not say thank you. I say no, 45 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:44.560 uh would I? Oh, I will have gone skiing. I'm going we're 46 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:49.639 recording this, so you're long, Dad. Never mind whoa chill till chilly 47 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:53.719 bad omens into the first day. If you're guarantees your safety, No, 48 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:57.960 that hard. I don't go that hard. I'm not like a double black 49 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:01.520 diamond guy anymore. I'm like maybe single black at the hardest. You you 50 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:05.560 probably wear a helmet. What do you, of course I wear. I 51 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:10.360 don't know. In the early two thousands, we absolutely were not wearing helmets. 52 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:15.759 Okay, we definitely have had this conversation before something happened in skiing culture 53 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:21.639 where literally, overnight, I'm not joking, overnight, the entire winter sport 54 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:27.120 community all universally agreed that we were all gonna wear helmets. Like, yeah, 55 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:30.279 something happened on the Thursday and Friday, everyone on the hill was wearing 56 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:33.720 that's how we'd in hockey where someone got hurt and like we should have maybe 57 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:39.560 wear a face mask. I think neck guards kind of overnight are popping up 58 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:43.360 in a way like that, but not as explicit as the helmets on the 59 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:46.920 mountain. Like straight up, I think it was a celebrity dying, I 60 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:51.800 really do. I think like a celebrity hit a treey bone, like someone 61 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:59.480 hit a tree started, not Spano died and not like we made joggers and 62 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:03.079 then we killed bottom, no, like something. I'm telling you. It 63 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:08.000 happened in like six or eight or something like that. And then the next 64 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:13.040 season, everyone on the hill wearing wearing a helmet. And I also think 65 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:15.480 snowboarding is also going the way of the buffalo. I think, saying it 66 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:19.240 back in a big way, skiing's like the people are just like, no, 67 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:21.439 I don't need to like try to look cool. I still really like 68 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:26.759 snowboarding. But there was a time where like you didn't ski because snowboarding was 69 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:30.079 the cool thing to do, And now that's just an absurd thing to think. 70 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:34.000 Well, it's just a snow Snowboarding is like so uncomfortably inconvenient on a 71 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:38.160 mountain, Like, yeah, it's cool going down, but like every other 72 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:42.360 element of like getting up the mountain and all that bullshit. It's like the 73 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:46.959 hardest thing to do on a snowboard is dismounting from the ski lift. Yeah, 74 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:49.639 like it's you have to It's an art that literally no one could teach 75 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:53.319 you. You have to fall down twenty five times, and you're like, 76 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:56.879 Okay, I guess if I hang my foot halfway off and I keep my 77 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:59.800 toest here and I dig my heel into the snow a little bit, there's 78 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:02.000 like an eighty percent chance I'll still be standing when I ski, When I 79 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:08.639 still work five feet away. It's absolutely crazy. I love you guys are 80 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:12.519 really selling me on holiday winter sports. Wait, but you don't do any 81 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:14.920 of that, you know, ski you don't snowboard, you know no, 82 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:18.439 no, yeah, my body, you're closed to tahoe, You're you're closest 83 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:21.399 to time. What do you guy saying about this? Snow biking like snow 84 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:25.800 bike Michael? Apparently that's like a thing where you sit on a bike that 85 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:30.439 has skis on them and you ride down the hill on Basically it's a bike, 86 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:32.800 but it's got two little skis for the wheels. Listen, mountain biking 87 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:38.560 already sounds terrifying. Adding snow and removing the wheels from the equation. No, 88 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:42.040 thank you. Yeah, what are we doing down and doing extreme sports? 89 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:45.079 Very much jibs with me. If I could sit down and do anything, 90 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:46.800 I'm gonna do it. So this sounds like my jam. You know 91 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:51.360 what's actually fun? Going snowshoeing? Done it a couple of times, snow 92 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:55.240 Isn't it just walking up a mountain with tennis rackets on your feet? Yeah? 93 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:58.079 But then like you fall back, you fall back, and then like, 94 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.399 oh man, I could have died in the oh geez, because it's 95 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:04.879 so deep, Like it's so deep, but your weight's being distributed and everything, 96 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:08.639 you know, Like I like weight distribution. I do think about that 97 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:10.639 a lot, how like, hey, yeah, if you're on a bed 98 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:13.240 of nails, but you put your whole body across it, it's not gonna 99 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:18.120 hurt. I'm always me too, I really am why I have because it's 100 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:23.199 weird. I have a cousin who's about ten years older than me, and 101 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:28.360 he's a big, hardcore like backcountry ski guy, and he's getting a little 102 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:30.439 up there in age and it's sort of like, I don't know how much 103 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:38.519 longer I can do like the completely like ungroomed terrain of backcountry hell skiing. 104 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.720 And he's like, yeah, last time I went, they made me carry 105 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:46.680 a beacon and they said if I fall, and I fall and I don't 106 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:48.600 know where I am, the first thing I should do is drool. And 107 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:53.160 I was like what. He's like, yeah, you drool after a big 108 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:56.920 crash because then you know where the ground is. And I was like, 109 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:05.120 wait, why drooling for like a of gravity right like you could be that's 110 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:11.000 deeply upsetting. I do think about like if I suddenly found myself, like 111 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:15.639 if someone put me in a coma and then and then took me one hundred 112 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:18.040 feet underwater and woke me. I don't know, And they take me one 113 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:22.759 hundred fet underwater and woke me up, and I had like no oxygen or 114 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:24.040 whatever. Would I know which way was up? What? I wouldn't know 115 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:26.519 which way to start swimming to get back to the surface. That's such a 116 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:30.959 weird thing because when you're in a coma, you are most certainly breathing. 117 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:35.240 And yeah, yeah, so like how did they put the face mask on 118 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:37.799 there? And then they take it off once I was one hundred feet underwater 119 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:43.519 and they're like, okay, we got them, release release them. Yeah 120 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:46.840 exactly, And now does he know which way to swim? Is like to 121 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:50.080 go up? And I'm like, I would probably start panicking before I would 122 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:52.360 be able to do a thing where like just relax and see which way you 123 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:54.600 start floating. It would be the path of least resistance to go up, 124 00:08:54.679 --> 00:09:00.440 Like diving would come a lot harder than this to youbackler, then, since 125 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:05.720 you know what to do, can we do ten feet feet? But at 126 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:09.399 midnight? All right, that's the best thing. Someone's pool, not the 127 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:13.279 ocean. Yeah, I found myself on a boat last week that I forgot 128 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:18.039 to talk about this and it was probably the most honest it was the most 129 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:22.879 oddest thing in the world. My partner's teacher friends were like, let's go 130 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:24.600 have a turner on a boat. I'm like, that sounds terrifying. I 131 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:28.799 don't want to do that. But then I wound up doing it and it 132 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:31.639 was buffet style, right, And it's been a while since I've been to 133 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.759 a buffet. And seeing people operate at a buffet, I just love I 134 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:39.399 love it. It's like it's like someone's boat, or it is like a 135 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:41.279 boat you go to. It's like a boat you go to. I was 136 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:45.120 under the assumption we would just be on the boat and I was thinking like, 137 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:48.399 oh, that sounds fun, but then it was a whole bunch of 138 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:50.919 different groups of people on this boat. It's like a restaurant. H yeah, 139 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:56.320 yeah, yeah yeah. And man, it's been it's been a minute 140 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:58.559 since I've been to a buffet, right, and just seeing people just like 141 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:05.000 the the greed that kicks it automatically, and then seeing people finish, you 142 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:07.320 know, they go through the line, they get their sal they get their 143 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:11.799 bread, proteins, et cetera. Et cetera. They'll put their plate down, 144 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:18.200 they'll immediately line up again and like continue to re feel and restock. 145 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:20.159 I do that for my kids, and I never would be able to do 146 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.519 it just for myself. But I'm like, okay, I went. I 147 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:24.399 went up for my kids first, and now I'll go up for me, 148 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:31.080 and even then I feel bad. It's it's one of the two situations where 149 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:35.200 a human raw emotion is on display. It is a buffet and also at 150 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:39.720 a music festival, well, and you're playing lethal company right exactly, the 151 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:45.080 rawest of human emotions are on display. Where you claim territory, you claim 152 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:48.879 ground, and you eat like you're never going to eat ever again. Yeah. 153 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:56.200 Getting your your spot at a music festival is truly is my blanket. 154 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:58.600 My blanket died is the perimeter of my area. It is now jeff Tonia. 155 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:03.480 The more the other terrifying aspect of finding your spot at a music festival 156 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:07.679 are the people that just sit down, right, They sit down in a 157 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:11.840 very heavily traffic area and like, I don't want to step on you, 158 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.879 so I'm gonna do my best to avoid you, but I'm gonna step on 159 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:18.200 your blanket. And oh I'm sorry, I may have kicked your drink over, 160 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.120 But then other people know, no, they no care in the world. 161 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:26.000 We'll just march over where you guys? Where are you guys at? 162 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:30.600 With? Like when you're walking in a like a crowded sidewalk and you're walking 163 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:33.240 forward, and you're on your side of the sidewalk, and maybe you're with 164 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:35.360 friends, but you're you know you're going, you're using up the appropriate mount 165 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.799 of the sidewalk, and then a group of like five people are coming at 166 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:43.320 you the opposite way. Someone's gonna have to move. I'm at a point 167 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:45.919 now where I'm like, I'm just gonna keep walking because I know we're doing 168 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:48.159 like we're on the right, and I'm gonna let them move around me. 169 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:50.720 But I think there's a time where I would been like, well, I 170 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:52.679 guess I'll make myself really small and screwed over the side so these people can 171 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:54.639 be more comfortable. I don't know, where are you guys at? With 172 00:11:54.679 --> 00:12:00.879 that, I'll do either the scoot to the side. I'll I'll also gauge 173 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.639 where I'm going, and if I'm closer to my destination, then I will 174 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:07.039 take precedent and keep walking, or I'll throw my hands up and be like, 175 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:11.200 excuse me, and just make a big deal out of it. Make 176 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:13.159 a big deal out of it. That's good, that's good. I'm now 177 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:16.759 I'm just like looking straight ahead, not moving and let them sort of scoot 178 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:22.720 around me. No one. The person who's walking on the on the right 179 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:26.440 side of the sidewalk, to my understanding, has the right of way. 180 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:30.080 That's how I'm viewing it. Yes, I think you're right. Yeah. 181 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:33.159 Sometimes they'll do a fun little spin. I'm gonna interfuse everyone though, sure. 182 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.120 Yeah, sometimes I will jump over them and leap frog all five feet 183 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:41.000 in the air over a person. You're up, really impressive. You know 184 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:43.919 what I love doing. The side of TikTok that I've loved seeing is people 185 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:48.399 posing with people for a picture and just seeing what they do. You know. 186 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:52.279 So they'll walk up to a bunch of strangers, right, and then 187 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:54.120 they'll suddenly pose for a camera and then like, I just love seeing the 188 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:58.000 stranger's reaction of like, am I gonna pose? What the fuck is this? 189 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:01.720 I'm just gonna walk away. Yeah. It's a tough position to put 190 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:05.759 somebody in, but it's it's mostly harmless and fun. Yeah, mostly. 191 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:07.759 Yeah. What's the go to post if someone suddenly like be like, oh, 192 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:11.440 take a picture. Is it like a peace sign of thumbs up or 193 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:18.720 it's muscles? Yeah, muscles peace sign, heavy metal horns pointing, you 194 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:20.879 know, all the go tos. Okay, okay, my go to whenever 195 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:24.759 someone says take make a funny face for a picture, I just turn around 196 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:30.399 and show them the back of your head. And how's that for a funny 197 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:33.519 face? Yeah, it's a mystery now, like what was I doing? 198 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:37.960 All right, folks, it's gonna be a short BombCast because it's a holiday 199 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.559 week and somehow we've already gone ten plus minutes. When when we decide, 200 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:46.320 it's gonna be a little little little small boy today shouts out to the short 201 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:52.120 kings out there. We see you, all three of you. Anyway, 202 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:56.960 they're all they're all in a trench coat and trying to buy a movie ticket. 203 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:01.159 It's an a you know, a proper bobcast. Today. Grub came 204 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:05.919 up with the idea of looking at the twenty twenty four calendar and seeing which 205 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.720 games we're excited for. So we went, oh, go ahead, I'm 206 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:11.639 sorry, no, no, no, go ahead, grab go ahead. 207 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:15.799 Uh yeah. It was like there's a there's a calendar on game spot that 208 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:16.720 it seemed to have most of them, and I kind of just picked it, 209 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.519 picked and chew and chose some of the ones off of there that like 210 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:22.759 I'm at least aware of to the point where I'm like, I might check 211 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.000 it out and then we can talk about any of these a little bit more 212 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.600 if we want. But I figured we'll just go through the ones to have 213 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.559 dates. And then there's a list of TBD games that haven't had dates and 214 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:35.600 probably are coming out next year, or some of them are confirmed but they 215 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:37.720 just don't have an exact date. But yeah, let's let's start here in 216 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.200 January. This is actually one of my most anticipated games of next year. 217 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:43.879 Prince of Persia the Lost Crown. I had a really good time of this 218 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:48.200 at Summer game Fest, and that's coming in fast. It's like, oh, 219 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:50.720 no matter of weeks. Actually, we'll probably get this as soon as 220 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:52.960 we get back next year. We will probably get code for this, So 221 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:56.799 I'm really looking forward to play this. Coming to PS five, PS four, 222 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:01.440 Xbox Series X and S, Xbox one and P Did you guys ever 223 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:05.159 get a chance to touch this one? I did not nice very jelly. 224 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:07.919 Yeah, so it really is impressive. It's a Metroidvania, but with Prince 225 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:11.639 of Persia, it's got a new Prince. I'm really interested in sort of 226 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:15.679 the what they do with the setup where it's like, you're, Okay, 227 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:18.000 you're playing this this cool dude Prince who's on a team of other people who 228 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:20.639 are like going through these excursions in the world, and then all of a 229 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:24.360 sudden, like things go bad, and now those dudes who of your friends 230 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:26.600 are now going to be the bosses throughout the game. I'm like, oh, 231 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:31.840 I like that setup. That's always pretty cool. January twenty fourth, 232 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:35.320 We like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth. This is the franchise I am most 233 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:39.720 like, I need to be into this. I really enjoyed what I played 234 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:43.440 of Like a Dragon. I liked what I played of Yakuza Zero. I 235 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.759 don't know, how are you guys feeling about Like a Dragon these days. 236 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:50.799 I'm pretty pumped. I feel like Like a Dragon was a good injection into 237 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.919 the series to reintroduce all other people, and some folks just don't jive well 238 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:00.919 with the brawler nature of the original titles. I yeah, that's me. 239 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.679 Yeah, And I'm a big fan of Turn based stuff, as y'all know. 240 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:11.480 And I'm glad that this gives people a different opportunity to explore the hijinks 241 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:15.639 of like a Dragon infinite wealth and the Yeah, it seems like there's gonna 242 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:19.399 be yo. Like a Dragon is always uh infamous for having an obscene amount 243 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:23.919 of side stuff, like all the parlor games you can play and crap. 244 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:30.600 But this one, like the specific farming island management aspect of it, it 245 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:33.840 seems like they're going all the way in. I also need to know what 246 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:37.200 that Palm Tree freaks deal is. Yeah, I want to find out all 247 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:41.759 about that. Uh. Absolutely, Uh, this is a I'm just like 248 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:45.080 appreciative of any game that keeps turn based combat going and strong and the fact 249 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:48.480 that they're like, no, we this is going to be like a Dragon 250 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:52.399 going forward turn based combat. I'm always I appreciate that. Like I said, 251 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:55.679 Uh, then techn eight on January twenty six, fighting games are in 252 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:57.360 a good place. I am very excited to see what tech and eight is 253 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:00.159 going to be doing that. This is like the one three D fighter out 254 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.840 there in terms of like actually being able to move around in a three D 255 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:08.359 environment. Virtual fighters not really going Soul Caliber is not really going. Yeah, 256 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:12.799 Battle Arena toshin Den was never really going. Uh, I'll be checking 257 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:18.160 out the ring exactly. We did get our guys back. Yeah, I'll 258 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:22.480 be checking this out looking forward to it. Yeah, I want to see 259 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:26.759 who's gonna get thrown into a volcano this time? Absolutely? Yeah, right, 260 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:30.119 there's a ton This will have a ton of good story stuff, or 261 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.799 at least fun absurd story stuff. So that's good to get. I've been 262 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:38.720 trying to just care about that. I did all those techn ending ranking stuff. 263 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:44.240 We think that we'll have to update it. I didn't realize like at 264 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:48.920 some point they just I think they attempted to like stop being so absurd, 265 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:52.039 and they kind of they're like, you know what, this is actually a 266 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:55.920 serious story we're trying to tell here. Uh and that's when it became a 267 00:17:55.920 --> 00:18:00.119 little less fun, I think. Uh So, Yeah, I I don't 268 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:02.920 really plan on playing this game, but I will certainly watch the cut scenes 269 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:04.440 at the end. Yeah, hopefully they go back to being completely absurd. 270 00:18:04.680 --> 00:18:08.160 There's a chance just do that. We might have influenced Harada. Who knows, 271 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:15.519 Yeah Heradas listening right now. February we get Suicide Squad killed the Justice 272 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:18.920 League on February second, This is actually happening. I'm sure it is. 273 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:22.799 This is you know, it's rock Steady. At a certain point, it's 274 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:26.480 just gotta be fun to play, right listen? Well, yeah, listen. 275 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:30.000 I think I may have been one of the most vocal people on this 276 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:34.079 website about how dog shit I thought it looked. Yeah, that's right. 277 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:40.680 I don't know why I am suddenly taking a turn and why am I excited 278 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:42.359 for this? No? No, what are you doing? What are you 279 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:49.440 doing? I don't know. I'm squad curious. I'm curious. I suicide 280 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:53.799 squad deep, I am deeply uninterested in suicide Squad. I don't care. 281 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:00.440 I don't care about like the bad guys ganging up. I don't think that's 282 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:03.079 fun. Well, hey, what if? What if this time Superman is 283 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:07.240 a bad guy exactly like Look at the same time, I am a bit 284 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:11.839 of a mark for Batman. But whatever, It's just if the game is 285 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:17.000 fun, right, then I care. And that is the the sort of 286 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:21.079 glimmer of hope I'm holding onto with the pedigree of rock Steady going into this. 287 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:22.279 That's what I like a lot of their games. I like the best 288 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:26.680 majority of their games. Let's let's have a rock Steady game that just happens 289 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:30.880 to be a suicide squad. Uh being a Batman? Mark, did you 290 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:41.200 watch that The Littlest Batman Christmas movie that's on Amazon Prime. It's about Damian 291 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:44.559 Wayne, right, and then his dad is a Batman obviously, and it's 292 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:48.000 Luke Wilson. And it's a really sweet movie. And it's like a full 293 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:51.160 actual Christmas movie. Now like some short, it's like a full movie. 294 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:56.200 Would love. My girls do not care. I think it seems like it 295 00:19:56.279 --> 00:20:00.240 might have been like a comic book at some point that they adapted it like 296 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:03.880 feels very much like a children's story turned into a Christmas movie. My kids 297 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:07.880 don't really care about Batman. They have watched it four times. It's called 298 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:11.279 The Littlest Batman. I think that's what it's called. It is, Mary 299 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:15.319 Little Batman. Sorry, Mary Little Batman. There we go, thank you? 300 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:17.240 Yes, yeah, I got it all right, I will check it 301 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:19.200 out. This looks very cute. Yeah, so you'll you're gonna you're gonna 302 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:23.880 dig it all right. February second, also persona three reload. Let's go, 303 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:29.039 I'm gonna I am gonna check this out. Although let's see, like 304 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:30.480 a Dragon. It's only like a week before. I wish I had a 305 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:33.920 little bit more time. It's messed up, but yeah, that's that's kind 306 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:38.559 of super messed up. I want to get in the persona. Uh it's 307 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:41.359 not exactly for me, but I think there's a world in which I can 308 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:45.160 make I could force it to happen. I want to force it. Yeah. 309 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:49.799 I've only checked this out like a couple of hours, and I've had 310 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:55.559 some friends say that Persona three has always been their favorite amongst the the newer 311 00:20:56.079 --> 00:21:00.160 Persona games. Yeah, I don't know. There's just a certain vibe to 312 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:03.519 it. I kind of like how they summon their personas where they just hold 313 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:07.119 up a gun to their head and like, you know, it's like that's 314 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:11.640 pretty metal. It's metal. Yeah, it's cool. It just is and 315 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:15.200 it looks really good. It's like a full on remake. They're putting a 316 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:18.839 lot of work into it. I'm ready to check it out. Then February 317 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:21.319 eight, Hell Divers too. We had a good time with Hell Divers. 318 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:25.039 I know people who played a ton of Hell Divers and really enjoyed it. 319 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:27.920 Hell Divers two is going to be sort of that kind of upgrade where people 320 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:33.880 don't know. Hell Divers is like a four player cooperative action game where you 321 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:37.400 go into these instances and you have to accomplish something and then get to the 322 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:40.839 exit. And it's a top down, top down like dual stick shooter sort 323 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:42.720 of thing. Hell Divers two kind of brings the camera in close, makes 324 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:45.880 it look look more like a modern day PlayStation game, and so it's like, 325 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:49.839 okay, like there's improved presentation, but it looks like the core gameplay 326 00:21:49.880 --> 00:21:52.119 is still the same. I think this could be one that really wins us 327 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:55.359 over if we go in there and play something together. So yeah, and 328 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:59.000 I think the appetite for like a four player game, like there's just more 329 00:21:59.039 --> 00:22:03.920 of the gaming community is more well versed than when the original Hell Divers came 330 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:07.319 out right agreed, we're just we're very much accustomed to, like we're going 331 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:11.119 from game to game as like groups of friends in a way that we weren't 332 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:14.960 even back then. A big part of that is discord. But I console 333 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.359 gamers now are like, yeah, you have PlayStation Plus and you have game 334 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:19.400 Pass, so like a lot of these games you're just going to get let's 335 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:22.279 just play it together. And even if it's like Okay, well this one 336 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:26.000 isn't on those services. We already played games together because of PlayStation, PlayStation 337 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:29.880 Plus and game Pass. Let's just all buy this one and have a good 338 00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:30.960 time. We know that when we do that, we have a good time. 339 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:34.839 So that's definitely been a big thing in gaming recently. I also think 340 00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:40.799 the benefit of Hell Divers too, and the original Hell Divers is that despite 341 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:47.759 the kind of future space marine ish vibe of it, it's still it's still 342 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:51.279 funny, right, it doesn't get help from seriously, Yeah, it's very 343 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:56.119 similar to Lethal Company right where in tert lyast in terms of the possibility for 344 00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:59.759 high jinks to ensue. You know, we had those experiences with the original 345 00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:03.839 Health and I think they know that that's part of the magic of that of 346 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:10.240 that series. Tomb Raider one through three Remastered is coming out when on lawer 347 00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:15.480 Cross's birthday Valentine's Day, February February fourteenth. I don't know, I listen. 348 00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:19.000 I never loved the tomb Raider games. I just didn't. Oh sorry, 349 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:22.079 what, yeah, I didn't. I don't know what they weren't good. 350 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:26.519 What do you have against women? Yeah, what do you have against 351 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:29.960 triangle boobs? Yeah, listen, I'm just saying you, a real game 352 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:33.759 for real men is what I need. I played a lot of tom Raider 353 00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:37.079 two. It was it was fine. I just it was like maybe the 354 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:40.839 tank controls, but tank controls never really bothered me in other games, So 355 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:42.680 I think it's just like it was tank controls in a game that overall I 356 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:47.640 didn't think was very fun, but I appreciate it's like place in gaming history. 357 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:52.799 Yeah. I mean, look, it's been a minute. It's been 358 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:56.440 a very long minute since I did all this shit. I'm watching a bit 359 00:23:56.480 --> 00:24:00.240 of the trailer now, and I'm like, man, is this it? 360 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.000 Like? Is this what it's just gonna look like? Like? Didn't they 361 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:07.039 do this right? Didn't they remaster these games on PN, we re released 362 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:11.960 them with some upgrades. I think I don't really know. I think there 363 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:15.759 is something. I have a very warm and fuzzy nostalgic place in my heart 364 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:22.880 for playing tomb Raiders one through. I'll even say four. What was the 365 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:26.960 What was the one that premiered on Dreamcast? Was that four? There was? 366 00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:29.519 Yeah, there was like the fourth one at least there was a pretty 367 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:33.039 good tomb Raider on Dreamcast. Yeah, I think, Oh, maybe it 368 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:36.960 was the last revelation, yeah, which is not a numbered one. I 369 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:41.440 don't know. I guess ultimately it does not matter. What does matter is 370 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:45.880 the feeling I used to get of, like getting lost in this box. 371 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:48.119 Like that was all the tombs, right, Like all the tombs that you 372 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:53.000 rated were just like these weird boxes with no direction whatsoever, and you just 373 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:56.119 had to figure out that, Like, oh, one little ledge is like 374 00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:02.119 the thing you have to jump off of and catch. Yeah, and there's 375 00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:07.200 something awful and terrible but also great about that. I don't know why I 376 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.960 played all. I finished every single last one of those one through four games, 377 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:18.319 and yeah, like I don't think I've done it again since that time 378 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:22.119 in my life, but like just to pick it back up and maybe capture 379 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:25.880 some of that once again. You mean, like those games could only exist 380 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:30.240 in that time in that way, and there's something special about that. At 381 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:33.640 the very least. I like, things change for a reason, but that 382 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:36.799 doesn't mean like the way things used to be, I want to completely throw 383 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:41.759 out even if things have gotten better in gaming overall, some of the squiggliness 384 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:45.480 that we used to have to put up with, quote unquote, there's something 385 00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:48.839 magical about about some of it. Now, let's you know, let's not 386 00:25:48.920 --> 00:25:52.680 ignore the lessons we've learned in the last few years. Like if you go 387 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:57.640 back and play through all of Eternal Darkness, I think you'll have a worst 388 00:25:57.640 --> 00:26:00.839 time with this than you even did with the t A game that is much 389 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:06.440 more new than to Raider. Actually, it's like it's like two years later 390 00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:11.000 one. It's not too Raider one. It's like five years later though, 391 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:15.319 it's not that much. Oh okay, all right, it's okay, it's 392 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.319 in that range. I mean five to eight years. It was like ninety 393 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:22.079 six was Tom Raider one? Yeah, but GameCube was like two thousand. 394 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:26.039 Through Tarnal Darkness is oh four, I think it's always a late GameCube Okay, 395 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:29.880 I can't remember. Okay, that's that's almost ten years fair enough. 396 00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:33.559 Maybe, I'm wait, when was the Turnal Darkness was? When the fuck 397 00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:37.960 were you? Now? I need to know? Yeah, gohe and look 398 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:41.319 it up while I do this one here. Gun Volt excuse me, gun 399 00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:45.039 Volt Records, PSI Chronicle. I like the gun Volt games. Yeah, 400 00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:48.559 these are uh Mega man X like games or or you're in that thing. 401 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:52.960 Yeah, they will be coming out for a while. This one's out February 402 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:55.880 fifteenth. I'm at least gonna check it out just because I've enjoyed gun Bolt 403 00:26:55.960 --> 00:26:59.599 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. 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