It's the Internet. You're busy, Let's do this. Welcome to the Game
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host Jeff Grubb with me is in today's episode, good thing we're getting Avatar
because you've beself just delating some of its other games and the best games to
two thousand and six. But first, Mike, how are you doing?
Yeah, I'm good. I just it's like it's occurred to me that while
I'm on vacation, I'm not going to be able to play baby cho games.
Like that's basically like a like a like an eighth of the rest of
the year that's left, right, or it's like, oh, that's not
good. So then there's other trips. I think I'm I'm at a point
where I gotta be pretty realistic about what's gonna get beaten. Uh, Like,
you know, well, you're on your way to beating Boulderskate three,
right pretty close to it, pretty close. I think you're Then you're like
pretty good, Yoh, Spider Man two, I'll beat in that. But
Spider Man two is easy to beat. That'll be easy. I'm definitely have
to play out like two. I was going to, but that is some
time. If I don't be fomp May sixteen, I'll ever hear the end
of it. So I better do that. And then, like basically anything
else I've beaten that, everything else is fine. Like I don't know,
I can't imagine what's a heavy hitter that I'm not going to be able to.
I'm gonna have like nothing to say on like a real heavy hitter.
Yeah, that I haven't at least beaten or play a lot of more so
than other years because I felt so. I think I felt so much pressure
from this year. I ended up playing a ton I did same a pretty
small amount of retro gaming compared to a lot of other years. It's the
same. I like, like I have the Steam deck ready to go,
a bunch of old games on there, and I haven't really been able to
play any even and I'm like keep seeing like, oh I should play this
and that, and then just haven't done that at all because there's no time
for it. There's one that might suffer. Like I was enjoying Lies of
P. I'd like to beat lies of P. It might not be a
priority of all this other stuff going on, we'll see I'd like to.
It's surprising it's a surprisingly long game, and that throws me off. That
feels like a game that should be like ten hours to me. Apparently it's
more like twenty or something. Yep, it's that's one that's probably not going
to happen right away from me. I've moved that it is still of these
games that are out happening probably Oh no, no, no, I would
like to that. I'm probably honestly, I'll probably play that game for myself
over the holidays once all this is behind us. That all good. That'll
enjoyed my own time exactly. Yeah. I I boulders Gate three, it's
the one I want to go back to the most. It's the one I'm
like still have on the ally and here on the PC now and when I
don't have other stuff, I'll be playing that. But it is alan Wick
two next. That is what's happening now. So you know, we all
we thought like, oh, we'll see Bordersgate three at that Xbox third party
thing, and that was kind of like the one thing I thought, I
don't think that's actually coming out for Taxbox this year, maybe early next year.
It would be my guess, I mean they said that, they said
it would be this year. But if it's not gonna be a that thing
where I mean, I suppose the game's big enough to announce on its own,
I guess they could announce in November they're releasing in December. That could
totally happen. But why not just release it next year if it's not ready.
If it's not ready, just wait and then then we'll see, all
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a Q and A this weekend, everybody, so look out for that.
Got a lot of chatters saying that they have apparently re affirmed BORDERSK three is
on Xbox this year thing recently? So oh really think we cond from that?
Interesting? Okay, cool, that's that's exciting. And again that game
is big enough to announce on its own time frame. So but wouldn't be
surprised if we hear about it like next week. That'd be cool, Mike,
I got a bunch of big topics I want to get into you ready,
Okay, all right. Ubisoftist delayed a large game thought to be Star
Wars Outlaws to next fiscal year. Ubisofti's postponed the release of a large game
that was expected to launch by March twenty twenty four. The game is likely
to be Star Wars Outlaws in open world games set in the Star Wars universe.
Ubisoft says it wants to maximize the value creation of the game and confirms
its guidance of strong growth and operating income from the fiscal for the current fiscal
year. Obviously, I mean that goes without saying because Avatar the Blue People
game is still coming out, so they're going to be just fine, is
going to be raking in money. I was not even did not even register
in my brain that we could be playing Star Wars Outlaws by like March.
That was that's a banana's thoughts to me. But I mean, obviously I
was like, I'm still trying to deal with We just talked about it catching
up on games from this year, so like the stuff that's happening in early
twenty twenty four already isn't really registering with me all that much. I'm like,
yeah, there's a couple of things. I'm a few things from Nintendo.
We we talked of those directs. I know that stuff's happening, and
now it looks like, oh, the rating for Watch McCall just went through.
Super Mario the thousand year door that just went through in Korea and Brazil,
so it's like, okay, yeah, maybe that's happened in early twenty
twenty four, but outside of that, it's like, yeah, games are
moving to that part of or they're talking about releasing that timeframe. This one
never really hitting that same way. I was always like, I'll get to
that when we get past all this stuff. So I'm completely fine with this.
I imagine most people are, because there's been so much to play.
I never recurred to me that this game might come out in the first half
of twenty twenty four. Yeah, at earliest. Holiday always made more sense
to me. I mean, we've only really ever seen it that one time
in a pretty like you know, linear guided hands off demo showcase thing.
It looks like a very big, ambitious game. Yeah, I thought that
was a ways off, Jeff. Yeah, and I'm trying to remember I
Ubisoft fhiscal quarter might go through the beginning of summer is when it might actually
begin, So the second half of the year. Uh yeah, that sounds
that always sounded right. I always thought I'd be playing Outlaws in the second
half of next year, and yeah, take your time. That said,
we are We're on a streak of several years now where you'd be Soft is
kind of delaying everything almost constantly. And they're not alone in that, they're
not, but it does seem pretty extreme with U be soft, right,
it always seems to hit not just one of their games, but a batch
of their games all at once. Well, the problem is they have like
a few perpetually delayed games with Skull and Bones and Beyond Good and Evil too,
right, they say, they say Skull and Bones will be out before
the end of their fiscal year, right, And like the stink of that
is kind of just everywhere, isn't it even you know, even next to
biand got delayed? Recently, seems like everything that isn't Assess's creed has kind
of been a weird spot right now. Yep, we'll see. Hey,
they just really just dance though, So that's happening still. How much is
that? I know the those always do well, but it's not like like
like what are we talking here? Like I always assume it was like when
I'm like when I watched that documentary about Planet of the Apes, the original
Planet of the Apes movies, where they were just like, hey, this
movie made this much money, and so well, here's the budget for the
next one. It's less than that, And they just kept going down and
down and down until they've got to a point where it's like show movie,
yeah, exactly exactly now, then they're done. I think Just Dance seems
like it's it's safely staying above that line. But I got to imagine it
mostly goes down year after year. Then again, I don't know what I'm
talking about. I mean, who knows, Maybe there is some huge audience
that is constantly growing for those games. I want to make a Beneath the
something, something like Beneath the Last of the nintend Dogs. I like that
as a title convention me too. Video game doesn't have a video game is
afraid of that one. They they they'll use origins and a whole bunch of
other bullshit, go the route of the Planet of the Apes movies and have
a Beneath the Blank video game, Beneath the tomb Rader, no that sounds
sexual, Beneath the Last of Us and then you have you get a bomb
worship people in that game too. That'd be cool. Many vide games that
are named after are places. How many videos are named after a location beneath
the Lost Planet, beneath Detroit, beneath the Detroit, neath Detroit. Too
human, too human, exactly three human? Uh yeah, the bottle.
No, yeah, you do what you gotta do, Mike, we understand.
Okay, he's got podcast kick. Oh yeah, I got you know
that one time we were asked about that at packs and it was clearly Lucy's
topic to handle. But I'm pretty good at picking stuff up with my toes
too. I want you to know, and now I do know because you
do. You answer the question and I'm well aware of it. Now.
Hey, I'll play All Outlaws when it's here. I think that game looks
pretty good. Yeah, I'm excited me too, But then again, I
still have Jedi Survivor to get through, so maybe they'll play that when this
game was supposed to come out, and then I'll play this and then we'll
gets up me and you to the probably bigger Fallen Order. Fan just didn't
come out when Zelda came out, Like it's Zelda, right, I mean
Zelda kind of a million other things. Bad timing, yep. Yeah,
And for me, like at that point of the year, I was I
don't know, I was so busy that it took me obviously, like weeks
months to beat Zelda, and I was playing a little bit here. I
played through all of Pickman four in that time, but it's like still,
I was just so hung up on Zelda and then also busy, and then
it's like I look back, I'm like, okay, I'll get this.
I'll go back to jother Survivor after Zelda. And then by the time that
was done, literally Starfield was here and it was that was the rest of
the year, like just game after game after game from that point. So
yeah, Xbox is reorganizing its leadership with promotions for Sarah Bond and Matt Booty.
Xbox has made changes to its leadership team. Sarah Bond is now that
the president, the president of Xbox overseeing hardware and software platforms. Matt Booty
is now the President of Game Content and Studios, overseeing Zenny Max and Bethesda.
Zenny Max and Pathesta will continue to work separately, but will report to
Booty. Uh. Hey, I think I'm sorry. It's funny you say
like that. Yeah, report to the boy. Everybody report to the Booty,
all right, if you say so? Hey, uh, Pete,
He's probably left for this reason. Huh do you think so? You think
that's what? I mean? He just announced he was even last week,
and then this gets announced this week. M Yeah, I guess I didn't
even put that together. That's interesting, huh. I mean there's some link
there. Maybe it's not as obvious as it seems that. Like listen,
I don't think he was necessarily fired. I bet he had a position in
this new hierarchy, but maybe he thought this should have been his position.
You think there was a terse phone call, yes, behind about red fall?
Oh, surely, yeah, But I also sure you're you were over
You're overseeing this, aren't you. Why don't you do something? Yeah?
And I think at the same time, uh, I think Microsoft's probably the
way they probably framed that phone call is, look, hey, you were
overseeing this, but you know what, it's our responsibility. We should have
been more hands on. And guess what now we are more hands on and
here's how it works going forward, and we want to just you know,
we're not going to tell you what to do with everything, but we're going
to be more involved. And maybe that doesn't work for Pete. Heines,
that's not gonna work for me, brother, it's kind of a sense of
Okay, it's in here. Hey, look we said that this probably needed
to happen. There probably should be a little bit more oversight now that they're
getting even bigger. I don't know if you could just let all these individual
companies, especially now that some of your new companies have had pretty bad workplace
problems in the past, right, or oversight is probably going to be needed.
Yeah, I think for the FANBOYE tapped into this stuff a big storyline
of Mike. As always, Microsoft leadership doesn't like have the same ability to
get the best out of their teams as Sony leadership. They're not hands on
enough. Do you see this as a solution to that or would or do
you does that even wreck like register for you? I don't know. It's
hard to say, because all of Sony studios right now they have either owned
or have had long standing relationship with for quite a while, except for Bungee,
which is a weird thing. So that situation just feels very different than
what Microsoft's doing with with Bethesda and now definitely Activision Blizzard. Right, companies
that have a long long history pre dating Microsoft, not just as developers,
even as publishers. It's pretty different than Sony's relationship with Insomniac and Naughty Dog.
Yep. I do get the sense that this is a little bit about
taking a little bit more control. But Microsoft's standing, like relationship with most
of its studios, is you do what you want, you guys know best,
and we're here for you. But I think the idea is we are
actually going to be here for you now. It's not going to be a
red Fall situation ever again. And really that's the way it should be.
Red Falls shouldn't have happened. That should have been impossible game to come out
like that. And if they are addressing this with these changes, great,
we don't really know what that looks like. Well, we're gonna have to
see when the games come out in the next the next several years if if
it feels like there's a quality improvement over time. It's funny because like,
this is a year of so many good games, but Radfall may have maybe
the game that has like the biggest impact on the industry or at least at
Microsoft. Right. Yep, it definitely feels like it could be the case.
Just a couple more news stories, Super Mario Brothers wonders or portly Japan's
fastest selling Mario game on switch, and in Europe it's the fastest selling Mario
game period. Not too surprising. Two D Mario very popular, coming off
a lot of excitement for Mario in general. I think it was it could
have been pretty easy to predict this, and yet I'm a little surprised that
how well it's doing well. You know, it's the first new, brand
new mainline Mario games since Odyssey, and Odyssey was pretty early in the switch
there weren't a ton of switches out. There are so many switches out now.
Yep. Ario is more popular than ever because of the movie and all
these other things. Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. This is
just an easy pickup, the easiest pick up in the world for so many
people. It's going to continue to do well. It's going to destroyed the
holidays. It's going to be a high seller for years to come. Yep.
And then Microsoft says Starfield's release was game passes biggest ever new subs day.
Another thing. It's like, yeah, not too surprising. I think
I would have expected that to be exactly the case. Overall. This comes
from them reporting their earnings where console sales down seven percent, but overall of
sales for Microsoft and Nextbox stuff in general up thirteen percent. Like we talked
a little bit about this on game mess but yeah, this is right in
line with what you would expect from Starfield and game Pass, right right.
It's a little concerning that there wasn't a console sale boost from that, but
maybe the other factors. But yeah, obviously Starfield's been selling really well and
it being a boost for game Pass is probably more than anything what Microsoft wanted
from it. I just hope it has more of those in the future.
Yep. Uh, those are the topics I brought. But we do got
a lot of super chats coming in for people who have topics they want us
to touch on, and let's get to those right now, Mike, and
then we'll take a break after that. So what do we have in the
super chat super chat bucket? Well, wait a second now, before we
do that. You know, I did I Hey, look, I did
have that like that click baity Allen way two real game of the Year thing.
It's the name of our podcast. You don't want to talk about on
like two. I do want to talk about on like too. I put
it in actually been playing it. I've been playing it. But we can
talk about it right now. You want to talk about it right now.
Yes, I don't have anything. Takes a day. I got good reviews
and that's it's not crazy. But man in eighty nine, Like, gosh,
that's good. Even though I can it's got to be Remedy's best ever.
Y I mean control, what was control? Oh? Control was not
an eighty nine? No, it was no way eighty nine's a really tough
score to get. It's funny like it just because it's this year's part.
There's almost a part that's like whoa, oh gosh, is it at a
ninety two? Now? What the hell? No? Now it says an
eighty eight depending on what I click. Okay, I don't know better critics.
Oh PC is in ninety two places five is in eighty eight on metacritics,
So okay, depends what platform you can get. Yeah, gosh,
that's just that's that's pretty nuts. That h they I mean, going into
this year, all on way two felt like something of an afterthought, and
they didn't. Anticipation four just kind of kept building to the point where we're
here, it's out or it's coming out imminently, and people are really high
on it. I'm really excited as somebody who just discovered out on Wake last
year, and you know, like you know, Jan was saying it,
this is like another game of your Contender out of nowhere. I mean enough
from for all these games of You're contended, What we gonna do? It's
it's really not it's we're fucked. To Mike, we're fucked, ma,
God fucking damn it. Reservol four is not getting nominated. Shit. I
was trying to tell you, buddy, because it's no because because people are
gonna look for any excuse. So the fact that it is a remake that
is gonna you're not gonna fuck. Yeah, you know you're right now,
there's nothing wrong with what you just said. They're going to two, which
is a similar game. Is this good? There, ship, How about
this? If you play two and and you like it as much as Resting
Evil four, I don't have to play Resent Evil for like a minutely I
have to say something that's not cool to pay I didn't mean it. I
didn't even mean it. I didn't really mean it when I said it,
but said he pixelated himself with how many how many Games of the year norms
are there for this for some thing? Six? All right again now for
Game of the Year. Yeah, yeah, there's six spots, but not
that we think a way two might be in there, Like so like Tears
of the Kingdom, Borters Get three? Are the two shoe ins actual shoe
insan Wake two looking like it has a really good chance to pust recency bias.
I'm going to say Super Mario Brothers Wonders pretty close to a shoe in,
right, and then like Spider Man two because of the newness too,
and like now we have one spot left. Uh oh, what about Armored
Course six and Street Fighter six? A couple of six is there? That's
interesting? Pickman four, like High Fight Rush, Resident Evil four, Cyberpunk's
Phantom Liberty has a chance of getting that, Okay, Like I don't of
course it's eligible, but I'm gonna be like, we're gonna really nominate DLC.
Yeah, people, yeah, I said, I'm telling you. People
are gonna want to I don't care. Yeah, the people I was with
some the people who thought see if Stars had a chance for a bit there
and probably not. Remember when High Fi Rush came out and We're like,
this is definitely going to be nominated in that spot? Chance? No chance?
In hell, no way chance? And how it's so wait did we
mention your final Fantasy sixteen? I mentioned it. I don't think I'm going
to get nominated. I don't know it happened. No way. It's a
tough year. It's a tough year. It's a toughie. It's uh,
do you do you think Starfield is in one of those six spots? No?
I don't think so either. I think enough people don't like it,
right, I mean, yeah, yeah, it's too divisive. I know
a lot some people really do. Right. Yeah. I think it's like,
uh, deserves to be on some people's top tens for sure. God
no, but I don't think Starfield is gonna be in that top six.
For jazz, just a super sap, which we'll say that more detailed jazz,
said Diabo four, And like, man I liked Dabo Four's no way,
yep, just no way. What just a Bonker's Banana's year. Yep.
I mean this will be the year where there I don't think there's an
indie offering like there has been almost every year. It would have been stars
maybe or Cocoon David Diver, I know, not really in the game,
but you just know what I mean. No, like Cocoon maybe would have
had a chance. What's upon time now? Like yep, uh, it's
it's wild out there. It could be a blood back. People are gonna
get sacked because they're gonna there's gonna be like five games that don't get on
for the Game of the Year. Yeah, the final say sixteen fans will
just to finally start stop killing each other and then they'll just get mad at
everyone else and not nominating it. Yeah, as long as we get Ben
Starr nominated for best well that's happening. He's one million percent winning, Like
he's just gonna win because he's too too charming not to and good and good
being of course. Yeah, enjoy, Thank you Ben, Thanks Ben.
We appreciate it that we Sorry I had a derail there. Did you want
to do the supertens now or do you want to take no, let's take
a break, just I mean, yeah, okay, but real quickly,
Alan Wick, if you will get up metacritics best Games of the Year so
far, like a lot of the ones we talk about are on like the
second page they're the high eighties. But that ninety two from Allen Wake on
the PC version does put it like a just behind Resident Evil four, say
it behind Residuvil Force. Where what's it it is? Yes, yeah,
it's crazy that it's an underdog. Yeah, but Reside Destroid Primary Master which
is right as well. So, but I don't know much Like if you
go by the Metacritic, it is Balder's Gate three, Zelda, Resident Evil
four, Wonder and Street Fighters six and the Cocoon Cocoon very very good,
right, but like then you got to start throwing in the popularity. You
may it may be a chance, but not like you look at Allen Wake
two right there. I know Allan Wick two doesn't make the cut with those
six and Allen Way two feels like it is going to be a force in
the actually Game of the Year. So well, I guess we'll see,
we'll see, we'll see what happens. All Right, we're gonna take a
quick break when we get back. We got some super chats we're going to
talk about it's going to happen. And then yes, so for spoken for
Game of the Year, what do you think, Mike, I was like,
what was that the fucking cough game, the topoff game. Holy shit,
that game came out this year. Yes, fine. I had this
same response a week and a half ago when someone mentioned for Spoken came out
this year. I was like, no, no, what, all right,
We'll be right back everybody, and we're back. Mike, go read
those super chats. I will. I'm about to. I was like about
to faint just remembering we're Spoken. But I think I'm better now. Big
Fresh thirty seven says going through a rough time right now, which makes me
appreciate things that make me spoty more. Thanks for doing your show, boys,
and then Big Fresh said, busy season, but if you can't,
try to check out Endless Dungeon, fantastic twin stick shooter roquelake with three player
coup, don't sleep on it. Thank you, Big Fresh, And you
know times are going to turn around, don't worry, buddy. Absolutely.
Adam GC says love seeing good Michigan players do bad things to the Red Wings,
Go Jets go. Yeah, I'm not feeling too great about that.
The ROTI says, can't stop playing that damn watermelon game. What watermelon game?
I don't fruit game a new disgusting Fruit game out there, I hope,
so I'll make you play it. Mike, I'm surprised you. I
know it's big wall the YouTubers. Yeah yeah, it's a sweet exclusive in
Japan. I think it's like, oh okay, yeah, I justinely talk
about some mornings. I think, okay, right, yeah, it's like
twenty forty eight, but with fruit that falls into a jar. You wouldn't
like it. Nah Casual says, here's a special holiday super chat dedicated to
my favorite parasocial relationship, Alan Wake Me Up, Ichi Bond in the Cabana.
There you go, Alan Wake me Up, Wake me Up, and
can't wake up? Al Greg says, as someone who can't remember anything about
Ellen Wake, likes remedy games as a whole. Would I'd be missing something
if I jump into Alan Wake two? It might be missing something, but
not enough to like actually justify worrying about that. Does that have a previously
on Allen Wake thing? Because because you play as like a new character who
I assume is learning about all this stuff all right, so it doesn't have
a previously on and but instead they just set up new mysteries tied in clearly
into those old mysteries and it works for well. So yes, that new
character being the surrogate for the audience is ideal. And I'm just hopping in.
I played a little bit of Allen Wake bounced off. It wasn't really
my thing, didn't hate it, But this one I'm I'm I'm playing and
really enjoying, and it's a lot of it comes down to being really intrigued
about the writing and the story. So you're gonna be completely fine. So
you're saying you might solve a mystery, spoilers, rewrite history. Fuck buck
tails uh geo who we flow? Says, Have y'all heard of the game
Slay the Princess? It's a horrid venture game that just released where instead of
saving the princess, he's slay her. I mean, I think i've heard
of it. Beyond that, got nothing, yep, I think I've heard
the name. And that's it. Alma. Rickole says, going through some
rough stuff as of late, and think and y'all have brought a smile with
all you do. Thanks boys. Also, if Mike at any point can
do his robber yoll randomly, the threatening shrill brings Jill, I'm not gonna
do everybody, get the fun's a fucking stick up. Get on the fucking
ground. I'm gonna shoot a fucking hole inside of your fucking skull right able
to identify you at the fucking marg down svolume down there. This is this
is why I gotta get that compressor back on him. Yeah, for your
consideration, so I thought, the gamer, says Jeff the Wise. What
is the latest you've heard about upcoming superhero games? Uh? For the announced
ones Wolverine, wonder Woman, et cetera, and the unannounced the thirty A
Marvel you Warner Brothers EC game, rumored places five, Marble game. Give
us some Marvel update, Jeff, thank real quick. Just just did a
bunch of gift memberships and chat. Shout out to you, Jazz jazz Is,
because I swore said a lot. Almost certainly you scared of me.
Just it wasn't even it was a dark pattern you He didn't mean to hit
the button. You made them listen that those things are really early. Everyone's
excited about it. They would rather do this than start a new IP because
they think more people will be excited about this, And that's from EA's perspective.
Anyhow, there's not many details to go on yet. I think there
was a report a little bit ago about like kind of what was happening with
Black Panther in terms of like the setting, and I'm trying to remember all
the details I was able to get out of it, and I think it's
like, hey, yeah, you're going to be taking over the role of
a new Black Panther, which probably means that the Black Panther that was your
dad before that just died and things like that, and then you're going to
carry on the mantle and the setting is going to be not anything to do
with the World War two Black Panther game that's the features Captain America from Amy
Hennig. But beyond beyond that, it's again, yeah, very very early,
so I think a lot of things just aren't settled yet, so not
a lot of details to come out of those things quite yet. Anything.
Is there any chance there shook a little bit by some of the cracks the
MCU has been seeing lately, I mean a little bit, but I think
the are hoping to just kind of do more of what Spider Man's doing in
gaming. I think they're hoping to like get some of that you know,
fire for them Jerry says, forget puddle Gate, where the f is Alan
Wake's tweet jacket slash hoodie out fit. How could Remedy betray us like this
hashtag hoodie gates? Right, he had it and he used it on American
Nightmer as well. This is messed up, actually fucked that game play American
Nightmare, and I assume I'm gonna be fine, So yeah, you'll be
fine. Aero Do Gao says, only two is a nice surprise. Did
Xbox not what remedy to make it when they still had it? Because this
looks leagues more interesting than Quantum break Man I forgot. Yeah. Yeah,
everyone was like, no, Alan Wake didn't do as well, Let's try
something new. Absolutely, this is one of those things where over time people
are like, no, we really like Alan Wake, and the people that
made it were like, we would like to go back to that, and
it kind of all just worked out. And Epic Games was looking to do
something that wasn't just spend a bunch of money to keep a game off a
platform, so they came in as publisher and yeah, it all kind of
worked out. Well, it didn't. Quantum Brie had like a like an
episode thing where you like, don'tload the TV episodes between their dream Yes,
it's like one hundred gigabytes worth the TV episodes. Yes, absolutely, that's
when they went whole hog on the the live action stuff in a way that
was like maybe a bit too much crouching Boomer hitting Zoomer says bug bug,
there you go, Connor, what's this? Japan sales? Mario sold six
hundred and forty K, Sonic sold k. I thought people love four K.
What's the problem. It was rough for Sonic in Japan, but Sonic
has never been as popular in Japan. So again, it's why I resent
us like having to adopt the Japanese names for Sonic characters randomly. It's weird
about Yeah, I don't know why they do that. Why do you do
you want me to call them Eggman? No, doctor Robot. It's a
great name, much better name than egg Man. It sounds like some like
knockoff easter Bunny. Was it even doctor Eggman? Because did they call him
doctor Egman in the movie? They call him doctor Aigman in the movie.
Is doctor Robonic? He is doctor robonin? Okay? Yeah, is like
a joke. I don't pay attention to that movie. Yeah, I could
tell because you have no respect for it or no respect. Absolutely no.
And then Jesse said the truth you all won't accept. Ye Before is the
game of the year before it went in a Game of the Year award.
I liked y'all before, and at first I first played, It's like,
yeah, this is like really good. I think, what's the percentage chance
of making the top six at the at the keys six get nominated? I
think I think it's like, I'm gonna say it's like fifteen percent, because
I think the Blizzard game thinks these games get Yeah, I'm just gonna say,
these games get played quietly by like a lot of Blizzard people, and
yeah, they're gonna have their complaints, but like, I think they're still
gonna be like, well, that's the one I played the most of them.
I'm still gonna nominate that. Maybe nobody hates Blizzard games more than Blizzard
people. I know for sure, you're right, You're right. I don't
know. Shagar mean Motto says, five dollars for you guys because that kiss
on Tuesday gave you the wowie zowie's and then Mario Mario says wowie Zowie.
It's me, Mario, Jeff, what do you think of wowie Zowie.
I I've heard it like thirty times now, and I think I'm like the
twenty ninth time, I'm like, I'm into it. I am on board
with wowie Zowie. I like it. I felt a little bittray because you
know, I was just playing as Daisy and I thought it was like Daisy's
new catchphrase. Oh she says wowie Zowie. Then I heard Luigi and Mario
say, I'm like, well, that's Daisy's Oh that was special between you
and Daisy. Yeah, I was like, oh, Daisy, so like
Daisy's cute saying wowie Zowie. I don't like it when other people say it.
No, I think it's I think it's this games sort of thing.
Yeah. Ten, Derek says, but what about the Important Game Awards question?
What random non video game celebrity is Kei Lee bribing onto the stage this
year? Ah, he's He's gonna get Charles Barkley for some reason. Yeah,
I'm trying to said there like an obvious celebrity that, I mean,
Idris Elbow will almost certainly be there right Well, sure was he there before
Eutress Elbow I can't remember, but get people sure, yeah, okay,
yeah, mister Worldwide will be there. Jedi Moss's Game Wars only as five
slots. Really, if there's a high what that's fucked up? That's he
should expand it to ten at least six. Okay, well yeah, yeah,
Doubble four has gotten no chance. I'm sorry. Yeah, doublefore has
no chance now. Actually if it's if it's only five, man uh just
says red Fall Game of the Year, not a nominated for a single damn
thing is red Fall. It'll get nominated for something in our awards. I
think we'll see on the giant bomb side of things. Yeah, everyone a
chat. It is not saying it's six, it's six. It's it's six.
I got scared. Yeah, but hey listen, Jeded Mosk gave us
money and none of you bitches did so. True five, it must be
five, tell me it's six. And a super chat and then Goldie says,
do you think Dave Day's gone happened? Because the creator's favorite game and
Troy thirteen was right to help Retribution and the last of us. That makes
sense. Yeah, that's got to be the lineage. There no other explanation
for it. Yep, Burrito says, not game mess, but thanks for
the grub to help Mike tribution stream. I don't think I've heard you all
laugh so hard all almost makes it not a blame game. People are enjoying
that one. Huh, yeah, you really are getting off easy. I
don't think so. That's that's the new favorite Blay club things telling whoever's playing
it at their game while they play some absolute garbage. Uh huh, like
the shooting That game is real bad. Listen, it is. It's probably
the least we're terrible of the ones I played so far. But it's a
bad game. It is a bad game, Jus says. I know Diable
will get naughty, but man, I played diablem more than any other game
this year. Also purchase Horse Armer. Sorry everyone, it's okay, we'll
forgive you. But I just became a member as well, just I wanted
to play that out. Thank you so much. It is but like that's
a game that games like, that's the whole thing there is, Like you
kind of are supposed to play that game forever, which is part of the
problem for me because I'm like, this isn't a year for me to be
playing like one game every day. There's just so much I liked Die Before
a lot. I think the first season was maybe a little rough. I
think a lot of people overreacted to that, and I'm sure I think I
think it's already in a better place for season two. I haven't really been
checking the pulse too much at some point. Probably whenever they add the next
class, I'm definitely gonna go back and play more ye before uh here next
year can win a best ongoing game? There you go? Oh, Greg
says how much money for you guys to eat a can of just as can?
Heines beans on stream, but most points, if it's that bean pizza
that's been going around now, just try to give me a can of beans
during Summer game Fest and I said no, I think I broke broke his
heart. But I said no, get that away from me. I'm thinking
about them beans beans a heines beans on toast cat. Look. Beans is
a relatively new thing for me, even being okay with beans. I've only
started eating beans like two years ago. You gotta do they like getting the
fruit territory for you. I think, I think I didn't understand what beans
were. I think I was confused. I think I assumed that they'd be
more like like like like peas or like more like a Roger. Granted I
eat peas now too. I don't know. I just like I just lumped
it in with all this other plant stuff that I thought would be gross,
and there's out they're more starchy than anything, which surprised me. It's like,
oh, it's almost like eating little baked potatoes. It's weird. Next
one here is some casual says is twenty twenty three one big po pogaccino or
what? What's? Oh? Yeah, it totally is this to get a
load of this guy doesn't know what a pogaccino is. It is a do
you know what cappuccino is? Sure? Yeah? Do you know when when
the kids say pagers like you're pogging now your mind? Oh and we're the
boomers. This is a boomer term. Oh no, ship, this is
casual fucking with you all in congratsy guys, money is where? Thanks?
You got stiff? Yeah, I'm a Ricole says it's actually addressed why they
call him agmant Now and song frontiers. There's audiologs to get a pignant saying
he's embracing names since being called that an adventure. Yes, I did.
Yeah, that's I'm working backwards. Shouldn't. I'm I need a gun and
I gotta shoot myself. I can't. Why would he embrace that? No,
Look, I'm glad that they address it, but what they should have
addressed it by him saying, hey, my name's doctor B call it the
Eggman, and so being like, okay, fun is fun, but I'm
not going to be disrespectful. Audio lugs that actually rules the Zaxy says Lives
of E is an Arkhama Asylum esque underdog to me, A P will be
nominated in some categories like best Action Game. What you could call that.
People are gonna look for like any excuse they can, and the fact that
that game is derivative, which when you're playing it, who cares. It's
just a really fun game, but people use as an if you're trying to
give something, yeah, yeah, it becomes a it's an easy knock against
it in some in that situation. Thank you for that first super chat.
Second was armas my game of the year the year it came out, I
think it was. He was Archimist is two thousand and nine. Yeah,
I don't know, man, Look now, I'm curious as a nine.
Good job, mikey mike Uh, okay, we'll get there in a few
years. We'll figure out what's there. And then Writing on Game says it's
seven nominations. Also, thank you all for the great content you've been doing
lately. Love the content. Thank you Writing on Games. Uh, appreciate
it. Writing that was a ton of super chats everybody. Thank you all
so much. If you want to send in more, we will read them
BEFO for the end of the show. Really appreciate it. Thank you.
Well, yep, all right, we're gonna take another quick break. Guess
we get set up for a game show within a podcast or whatever however Sean
puts it. We'll be right back after this. We're back. We're back,
and it's time to hand the show over to Sean for a little game
show. That's right, it's time once again for everyone's fair game show with
that podcast closest to the messy pin We are on volume nineteen. Video viewers,
you get a nice little spooky theme for a today since for zil in
October. As always, this is present by me Turbo Sean, powered by
Meccrick and executively produced by Benji bobro quick reminder of the rules. Every round,
the boys will be given a certified retro game that's ten years ago or
older. Their goal is to predict the game's macrics score as a sands onmecrick
dot com. We use the closest to the pinn scoring system, so each
point devia that they are from the actual score, they will add one point
to their score. They get exactly right, five deducted though. Therefore golf
roles, you want the lowest score possible at the end. So last time
was one bye? It was Mike friend. No, that was Dan,
one of your friend. One of you destroyed the other. That's right because
we did Dan edition that Yeah, time, that's right, that's right.
And Mike clearly knows all about Dan records. So Jeff, you'll be going
first. Then I need you to tell me what you think. Fewse for
the PlayStation three at least May twenty eighth, twenty thirteen, and thirty five
correct reviews got and has on mecrec dot com. I don't think about FEUs,
that's the thing. Uh So let's see here it's like these games they
get bad, but how bad and how low do reviewers go in twenty thirteen?
Uh? And is it just forgettable? And how much they punish it
for that? I'm gonna go with a seventy five okay, and remember there
being a game named Fuse. I don't remember much about the game named Fuse.
I'll go with a seventy two. Okay. Now the scores are locked
in. I will say, y'all always forget how low bop goes every single
time. Boy, here we go. Anyways, Fuesday is not that bad
a game, though it didn't do that badly. It is in that of
sixty three, so you're a little off there, But yeah, bit wildly
all right. I remember Hayes better than Fuse. Yeah, I remember the
cover of Hayes better than Yeah the risky that did the soundtrack for Hayes.
So what was it? That was nneach Nails Pantero game number two. It's
Mikey's turn, right, New Super Mario Brothers Too, Everyone's favorite game on
the Nintendo three DS. August nineteenth, twenty twelve, seventy Correic reviews to
work with. It's still like it's not it's terrible because it's still too margaining,
but people were like over it. I'm I say in eighty three.
Okay, I'm gonna go within man, I want to go in the seventies.
But Mike's right, and he's not right about not being terrible. It's
a really bad game. But I'm gonna go with eighty Okay. I feel
like that might be slightly high. I feel like it could be upper seventies.
Actually, I think it could be in the upper seventies too. I
do think it could be. It could be like seventy sorry nine, but
yeah, all right, well seventy nine is kind of what I want to
do in my heart, but eighties super Mario Brothers to send that seventy eight?
There you go, all right, they're almost there, but hey,
it means you're tied up at fourteen points, apiece. Let's going to game
number three Jeff Max Payne released on the OG Xbox July twenty third, twenty
one, twenty four correct reviews to work with j smout for the time.
Yeah, let's go with I think this is really pretty well received. Also,
there has to be some described and see here because the original Xbox was
not out July twenty thirty, two thousand and one. So and that might
be the original release day of the original on the PS two. Yeah,
okay, okay, all right, so then I'm just gonna go with kind
of a safe unsure eighty six. Okay, I'm gonna go eighty four,
A six and eighty four from Mikey. All right, Max pay a game
people definitely remember fondly, but what they give it back then they gave it
a eighty nine. Wow, did really like it? Huh? Yeah,
I mean that I'm always surprised to like when the game like that gets eighty
nine. But I'm like, at the time, I guess that does make
sense. Yeah, Benji bous Ah at their new stupid side screwed me over.
I mean, I mean no comment, yeah, no, no,
we know we know that means Jeff is slightly in the lead now. Game
number four back to Mikey, Ratchet and Klank, released on the PS two
November fourth, two thousand and two. Forty three quick reviews people had to
like ratched in clink one, like, how much I'm going to say in
eighty eight? Okay, I'm yeah, I'm thinking, and I think eighty
eight is kind of like right where I am mentally as well, I'm like
waffling between eighty seven and eighty nine, but I'm going to be a little
bit brave and go eighty nine. I think it's in that higher end.
I would have gone higher if anything. Yeah, yeah, okay, it's
good, but I don't know if it's that good. Yeah, I don't
know it. Yeah, I think some of the later ones did a little
bit better. But even though this one did good, as I remember,
so we'll say they were going to be better ones when they reviewed this one.
Well, yeah, I know, I know, I know. I'm
just saying I'm fran scheme things. The original rushing client does sit at Mike
had shit right, Mike shit, Thank you, mister Ratchet, thank you,
mister Clink. Very good. All right, well that means that fourteen,
Jeff sits at eighteen. This is the game. Definitely no blowout here,
as we had to game number five. Jeff's wait and see what happens.
Last game is Cody Rose Allen Wakes American Nightmare Xbox three, sixty February
twenty second, twenty twelve, seventy two critic reviews. All right, I'm
going to say in eighty seven. I think it did better than the game
itself. Okay, really no, I don't think. I mean people were
back then. There's definitely a bit of a like curve for digital things.
People don't like this as much as the original. I'm gonna say more than
eighty four eighty four eighty four four. Yeah, but Mike, I thought
people didn't like this as much as the big I never played it. I
don't pay much attention to it. Okay, that's your fault, and that's
gonna be your downfall. See, this is why you lose because you're stupid,
which is again, well you wouldn't win. You wouldn't win there either.
Yeah, I don't remember. Yeah, all right, well Allen Wake's
American Nightmare sits a seventy six. It was lower, much lower, which
means you blew it. Yet Mike wins twenty two to twenty nine when you
could we've got eighty eight exactly. I was like, oh, man,
poop. I don't get the theme. It just previous games by studios.
They'll put out song recently, Oh yeah, old Alan Wake. You know
pizza that claimed to be the place from that movie in New York. I
don't know if they're lying or not. But if it's a New York pizza
place, they're lying experience, Yes, yeah, exactly. Listen, I'd
have it no other way. But they all lie about being the original this
or being in that or whatever. So hey, pizza, exact fast,
getting myself a fresh New York slice. Congratulations, like he says, this
is real. Thank you, Jeff. It's good to be better than you.
Yeah, absolutely, I can I can tell. I can tell you're
enjoying it. All right, We're gonna take one more quick break to get
all of this undone, and we come back. We're going to be doing
the best game of two thousand and six, actually the top five games,
and we'll discuss that together. Be right back. We're back and we are
going to do the best Games of two thousand and six. We're gonna have
that discussion. But first we've got a bunch more super chats. Mike,
why don't you read though, see what people want to talk about from Chris
Quinton. Really generous super chat. First, superchittle, Thank you Chris.
How much Chris says. With your upcoming journey to dance House, are you
guys planning any hijinks to do to him high noisemakers around the house or stick
at Google eyes on pictures. Love the great work, guys. I don't
know if I want to try to prank Dan on home turf. I don't
know how I'm gonna bring a gift. I'm gonna bring an offering. I'm
gonna get in good graces. I'm gonna be in his house for a couple
of nights. I'm not gonna do anything that's gonna give him incentive to try
to pull some elaborate scheme on me. No way. Yeah, listen,
I think googly eyes might be the right way to go for we were I
think something like that, something fun, something that that you would appreciate,
like as like a joke. It maybe maybe put it in one inconvenience spot.
But yeah, I'm mostly with Mike on this. I don't want to
like be too afraid of Dan, but he does. He would go nuclear
getting a prank war on five immediately. Yeah, and so like we have
to keep that in mind, and I don't. I don't have the energy
for that. I have two kids. I can't keep up with that.
There's no way I would try to try to do something with be a fruit
and not like still not really understanding that that is actually a bad idea and
it's just going to like start a problem. Yep, like we're all going
to be uncomfortable. Uh huh, No one's going to come out and feel
good about that. Yeah, Bob is Me says, I just want to
say thank you for the fun content and look forward to every week. Thank
you, Bob is Me. Super Blastic says, just a random thought.
How great is the opening a super Mario Galaxy. I'm always thinking about so
good another first super chat. Thank you for all of the first super chats,
everybody. Yeah, the opening Mario Galaxy is fantastic, and uh yeah
I love Galaxy two, probably more than one, but presentation has always been
a problem to if two's opening sucks compared to the opening of Mario Galaxy one,
y GAXI One's opening is awesome. It rules. It feels so grand.
There's like that one shot of k Mick like shooting his wand and he
does like a little flip because it's so powerful. It's like, hell,
yeah, this is like epic stuff. I don't know, I think about
that all the time. Ye I like it a lot. Noble says,
Dragon Age Inquisition will win again. God, that had to be the worst
year game we had since they started doing the game awards, like a Dragon
Age Acquisition. Not a bad game, but it was a week year though.
Yeah, so we hear the year that Dragon Age Inquisition one game and
what was uh there was the the next time we had a week year it
was Shadow of Mordor Shadow Mourdor. Also not a bad game, but that
was like one game of the year. I don't know if maybe it didn't
win Kiles Game of the Year, but I think it won our Game of
the Year by like default. When we were doing a games Yeah, okay,
interesting look Willow David says, is p like anything like a soul is
like exactly Willows exactly like that? Oh egg Man Roebotan the same year,
okay, yeah, game of the I think it was just kind of like
there's a lot there are a lot of way good eight out of tens and
then we looked around. I was like, oh, there's no nine out
of tens or ten out of ten. I guess we got to pick one
of these. Pick the not gonna be Dragon sometimes yeah, Dragon, Shadow
of Mordor, egg Man Robotanik says, I'm leaning into a new venture egg
facts. As you know, it takes twenty animals to make one egg bot.
Fascinating. Thank you, doctor Eggman Robotnik, thank you for that.
I thought your first name was Ivo, but that's okay. What do I
know about Alma Rickole. I've been saying that name differently each time because I'm
Yeah, that's fine, he says. Listen, Dan put Mike Maharty in
a Listen, Dan put Mike Maharty in a basement with a camera which looked
like a horror movie, just saying yeah, I did. Do you remember
that where you and chat when he did that? Oh, it was it
was like it was terrifying. I was like scared for bike because it was
like I could it was a completely black Uh and yeah, I don't know.
So we'll probably have to deal with some shit. Great. I just
we should be prepared. We should have something that he needs to do that
he doesn't want to do, so we got to just talk. Yeah,
is what He's gonna be nice to win bag though, right, isn't he
going to be there? Yeah, it'll be nice to win bag, but
that means we'll be the the Whipping Boys. Oh no, I'm gonna be
something nice to him. He's not going to be able to be to me.
That's usually how I got through life. Ext I well that works out
for you. Bud Alex is how scary is new Allan Wake? I really
liked the first one in Control, but I am also a coward. I
mean everything I hear makes it sound like it is scarier than the first Alan
Wake. It's scared. If it's is it you think it's would be unbearable
for anybody? No, man, listen, I'm a I'm a scaredy cat
SOCIU objective. It's hard to say. It's hard to say. I will
say that if when I got done playing, when you guys were watching me
play, I finished up, I went over there and it was kind of
dark, and I'm like, man, I hope I hope an angry naked
man doesn't run at me. That would be still. I was kind of
thinking about that kind of stuff, so like it was like sticking with me
and kind of make me feel a little bit on edge, and I like
that's what I get stressed out with that kind of stuff. But I think
most people are going to be just fine. With it, even though I
do think it's scary. A couple more we just got here from l Grugg
says, tell Dan you're making dinner for him because he's such a good host,
then just take fifty plain hot dogs boiled. That sounds good. Yeah,
Chris Quintin with another very generous Chris, thank you so much. Chris
says, congratuatess to grub on winning the Mario Grand Prix. Good job on
letting Dan win Airquin that way, he thinks he has a chance in the
real race for a Cup. If Mike doesn't choke like he has been in
Jeopardy, it might be a close race. Low, love you, Mikey,
love you, Chris. That was a lot of fun. Yeah,
it was a lot of fun. Do you have like a postgame sort of
like where I went wrong for you in Mario? Was it just like taking
too many chances? Wrong, bad choice? What happened? No? No,
Jeff, I look, I think the problem, Jeff is that you're
better than me. And wow, clear now. But I think because a
lot of times I'll play to tomorrow and I'll take dumb chances, and I
just wasn't today for some reasons. I think I was just in a good
place, So I don't know, I think I got I was playing about
as well as I could have at the moment. I don't think I did
anything wrong, just things weren't really working for me sometimes, you know,
made some mistakes here and there and they would catch up. But man,
we could do something like that again. That's such a good mode. I
almost wish it did have like like courses set up where we could just get
in a room and be like, we want to play like the World one
Grand Prix. Yeah, yeah, totally, yes, that should be DLC
for that game. Yes, absolutely fun. Yep, uh, that's it
for now. I think you get so much, everybody. If we get
more super we will read them problem absolutely. Two thousand and six. It
is a year that happened. It happened that for two thousand and five before
two thousand and seven. Now that we have the history lesson out of the
way. Mike March Too, all right, I'm gonna much too came out
in the US in two thousand and six. It's one of my favorite video
games ever. It's super fun. It's a really good looking PlayStation two game.
You got some really fun levels here. They had Tron before they even
brought Seron back. They put Tron there, we all lost our minds.
You have the really cool steamboat Willie level. The combat in this game feels
fantastic. It's faster paced, you can do a lot of wacky fun stuff.
The team up attacks are so cool in this one, like teaming up
with Tron, teaming up with the Bimbo was r and from Bomp ten.
He's there. For some reason. This was at a time where the Kingdom
Hearts lure was expanding, and that was fun, but didn't get to that
kind of bullshit over wrought stage that it eventually got to. This was the
perfect mix of all that. You still had plenty of the final fantasy stuff
going on too, even though they would shy away from that later. Kingdom
Hearts two was I don't know if it was ever looking more forward to a
game of my life than the Kingdom Hearts two. And then I got it
and played through it and had such an amazing time with it. Just love,
love, love Everything about Kingdom Hearts two makes me happy. Well,
I'm happy for you. I'm gonna say, we sports a game I really
like. The sports always comes up for these things. And I'm always kind
of a bit of a poo poo or about it. I get it,
I understand. I think I would. I've been a poop poo are we
sports in the past. I've come back around to it, though, and
I'm recognizing it. It is a very good video game. It does exactly
what it's trying to do, and it gets everyone involved, and it was
a success for a reason. No, you're right, it absolutely matters.
It's an important game. I get it. I get it. Do you
want what about the other we launch game? This is because we have we
and Places three launching. I really like Twilight Princess. I'll put it on
there. I like twyot Princess. It definitely has some really good dungeons.
There's something about it that doesn't make it my among my favorite of the style
of Zelda games. Yeah, like, I'll take a win Waker, I'll
take you an offer of time over this still. But it's not like it
does anything horribly wrong. I don't know if the wolf stuff is all for
me necessarily, but it is a game mostly about going to these dungeons,
and again, the dungeons are very good. Yeah. Yeah, that's kind
of where I'm at where I'm like the stuff it does that's annoying doesn't really
get my way too much. Now I've I've never beaten this game because we
got stolen when I was almost at the end, I was getting to the
sky Temple, and then we got stolen. And I haven't had the heart
ever to go back and play it again. I will if they were put
it on the fucking switch. But what I did play I really liked.
Yeah, let's let's put it on the short list at the very least there
it is all right, uh right for the number one? Yeah, shoot,
hey beat Hey, hey to leep beat Agents. Baby it is number
one? Is there? It is so freaking good. It's a genius rhythm
Gabe ever, so much fun. Just like there's such a I don't know,
vibe is the word or style is the word, the presentation of it,
the confidence and like yeah, just yes, incredible selection of songs for
it. Yeah, and like really great recreations of those songs to the point
where I know you like a lot of them more than you like the originals.
Say it said, Oh Jumping Jack, Flash and Leap Beat Agents is
better than the version by the Rolling Stones easily that that is the final song.
That's the last level song. And by the way, probably the best
last level in video game history is Jumping Jack Flash in Elite Beat Agents.
Incredible, so freaking exciting, so epic. Dare I say so hype?
Dare I say like, I'll never forget being my grandpa's basement, Like just
grinding that final level out and finally getting in and just it basically did the
portals thing from a Vengers ed game, Like all the kickers from the other
songs show up, let's fucking go on your luck. Leap Beat Agents.
Just what a perfect little piece of software. We almost didn't deserve it.
This was the moment where the DS went from this promising system to oh,
yeah, this thing is incredible. This this game's going to have maybe not
stuff Quaite as good as this other stuff like this, and uh, it's
just the It is the Dyes game for me. Michael Samuel Menatti, Yeah
get it. I can't believe we all agree. I'm so proud of you.
Oh it's so good. I'll tell you that. I was listening to
the podcast back then from One Up, and I remember Shane bett Ais and
saying he was going through the office and Luke Smith, who is now like
the director on Destiny, was playing it. He's just whispering to himself,
this is game of the year. I think this is game of the year.
And so we have also the blessing of the director of Bungie Ur director
of Destiny there as well. A leap beat Agents is perfect. It's so
good. It's god. This is just a male military cheerleaders. I don't
even really know what they are. The little storylines, when you can pay
attention to them, they're great. But even if you can't pay attention to
them, it's just this cool like visual noise happening up here while you are
so dialed in to the little things you got to tap on the screen and
move around. Uh. But and then that gameplay simple and yet perfect for
interacting with music with the screen, and nothing's really kind of touched it when
it comes to like being that good of a not instrument based rhythm game playing
controller playing. No, no, just this kind of conducting this little orchestra
on your screen. It's so good. And you're right like the DS not
even like a promising system, a system people were pretty skeptical of maybe up
until this point, and this is like, no, this is a brilliant
idea. They're gonna be able to do awesome ideas with this with this system,
so yeah, it lead it. Agents is my one with a bullet.
Literally just a few days ago, like you know, you're the meaning
in my life, You're the inspiration was playing on the radio and I just
can only think about Leap the Agent's When I hear that song, it was
like, Yep, this is a game I gave to U, eventually gave
to to Stephanie and she played a bunch and then we've gotten to Rhythm Heaven
because of this game. So yeah, yep, just love it. Uh,
I gotta play those because I know it's based off a Japanese game that
also got to see London Wind. Yeah, Whinded is like you're right,
based on like its Leapt Agents was basically localized for us, so very different
with like different characters. I mean it's like the same style gameplay, but
they got a bunch of American songs and stuff like or Western songs. I
guess, yeah, it's it's kind of tough from here for me, not
like I was definitely like I was waiting for the Wii and I got we
Sports and got Zelden. That's kind of what I could afford that year,
was like flush with money, like living with a bunch of assholes on Ohio
State campus or just off of campus. Uh. I would probably go with
like something like even like a super Monkey Ball for for for the Wii that
year, But I don't think it's gonna play. I think maybe, I
think I really like this one Tetris DS, but I'm like, I don't
know if that one's a very good Tetris. It's a very good Tetris.
I like it a ton a ton of ton but even that, like it's
you know, not even like in the top tier of Tetris games these days.
Although I love it, I do love it, but I don't know.
I might throw it up there just to see where it lands. Here's
here's a big one. I always remember this because it actually came out right
around the same time as Kingduhart's too. Here was the outo Scrolls four Oblivion.
Yes, yeah, that's a thing, definitely definitely one of my favorites.
Yes yeah, And this this is a good game. I think this
is the one that this kind of you know, Marow and a Bit started
that format obviously, but this one moved out some edges and I know some
ways that people don't like, but it made it a lot more palatable for
a wider audience. There's a pretty clear lineage from Oblivion even to a starfield,
and there's things that Oblivion still kind of does better than a lot of
those games. It does feel a bit more immersive. It's a very dense
game, really interesting side quest, fantastic expansion it later got with Shivering Ailes.
Yeah, Oblivion is very very good stuff. Yeah, I love Oblivion.
It's with a game where I'm like, oh, I just I'm going
to spend a ton of time just wandering around this world doing crimes and then
finding out there's a whole thing where you can like, oh you know,
you could sell the stolen goods to a fence and get into that whole thing,
and it just blew me away. So Oblivion is almost certainly going to
be on this list for me. Kind of a weird main story. I
think Patrick Stewart died and then Sean Bean turns into a dragon, but what
whatever with that? But yes, right, yeah, And I never really
played through the main story. I didn't need to, so I mean,
I'm really looking forward to that remake. I would like to go back to
this game and experience it. Are you a Gears of War guy? I
wore you ever. I loved the first Gears of War. I thought the
first time was really really cool. I mean, when the first Gears War
came out, it was the best looking console game we had. Oh yeah,
sure, differently gorgeous, and I mean this was the game that basically
took the Residing before celt gameplay and really went full okay, let's just make
a shooter out of that. And then it did the whole cover thing,
which became a big deal. And the co op was super fun, really
good split screen co op on this. I had a very memorable playthrough going
through this with my brother, you know, doing your thing, getting to
that train level at the end, thinking that was the coolest thing in the
world, until we got the train level and then tried it too a little
bit later. Now I love the first Gears of War. I thought Gears
of War one was super interesting. It's a bit a while since I played
it. I bet I would still have fun with it. I think I
would even enjoy in some ways. How it probably feels simpler and smaller than
the sequels, which got very, very big. Right Here's War one was
kind of big enough for me. Yeah, I'm gonna put it up here.
I think there it has a chance. I was. I'm like,
real, I was playing a lot more three sixty this year than I than
I remember it. I'm like, I must have got a three sixty like
pretty early on. I guess three sixty came out in two thousand and five,
but right, this is the first full year of the three. Yes,
definitely a good year for that system. I really liked Dead Rising.
I played a lot of Dead Rising. It's one that, like you know,
in my estimation these days, it's like, I don't know if I
would have as much TRUG going back to that, But I don't know.
Some part of me thinks, having played so many Rogue Lights at this point,
the time system would make even more sense to me, So I'm like,
I don't know. Maybe I do want to put it up there at
least for consideration. It's like Dead Rising I ever played was three because it
was an Xbox One launch game. I kind of yeah, and I liked
it a lot, but it's weird. Despite my capcom love never really played
Dead Rising one very much. Yeah, it's Yeah, it was definitely very
interesting in terms of how it was like presenting itself and having you play through
it and have the time system. Yeah, very cool. Final Fantasy twelve
still one of my favorite final fans. Oh sure. Yeah. And this
was actually this was actually the first Found Fantasy I beat. It was after
beating this, I went back and played one through ten kind of in the
weird six month long quote unquote. Marathon twelve is great. It basically kind
of like borrow some stuff from you know, Kotor and some of those style
RPGs in terms of not really turn based, but you know it is your
turn after a bit, but you're walking around. Just really loved the look
of the world, fun characters, the whole kind of I don't like Mediterranean
fantasy setting. Is that what you would call it? Whatever they're doing with
I, yeah, I had a lot of fun. I think I had
a very good title with Fan Fantasy twelve. I like fun and Fantasy twelve.
I've not played a ton of it, but I played the first tennis
hours and I really like what they're doing in it, and I like the
look of it and the characters, and I definitely feel the Star Wars inspira.
Maybe maybe it was prequels by them, but Star Wars inspiration influence.
Yeah, yeah yeah, And it's like, oh yeah, you could see
that, but they do what they always do and like run with it and
do their except instead of Chewbacca, the kind of roguish guy has a sexy,
tall bunny lady in lingerie. Well that's just better in every way.
Absolutely. Okay, then, so Gears of War. You you enjoyed Gears
of War over on the PS three Resistance Fall of Man? Were you a
Resistance Fall of Man fella? I did not like resistance. I was staunchly
against resistance. I thought resistance was kind of clunky and ugly, and I
don't know, it didn't Resistance didn't do it for me. Maybe I was
harsh on it. I don't know. Maybe I need to go back some
day, but I thought, like I think, I think Resistance Fall of
Man stands out because there wasn't a lot of great stuff happening on the PS
three at that time, so it's like what people had to hold on to.
Sure, It's like other than that, you're like playing some like third
party games and hoping for the best there. Yeah, I mean, should
we even put it up for consideration? I don't think yeah, now if
you were staunchly against it, kind of staunchly anti since I'm afraid there's a
lot. As much as I love and charted a lot of those other PlayStation
three era franchises like Infamous kill Zone, they didn't do a whole lot for
me. Yeah, yeah, there was definitely PS three was like them figuring
some stuff out. The shift to HD was that HD. Uh Yeah,
that was definitely troublesome at first and stuff, but they think, you know,
by the in that generation had some some cool stuff, but it was
obviously they were reloading with the PS four and they had a ton of games.
So we gave Guitar Hero some props last time with five. Targo two
is this year, which is one most people do like more. It is
basically more the same, but it is also very good. I do like
Guitar Hero too. I'll put it up there. I like a Tar Hero
two a lot as well. Did Bully come out in two in two thousand
and six, and have you played it? I've never played Bully. That
is one of my big oops. I should have played that game. Yeah,
I missed it. I only mostly missed that game. So yeah,
I'm i'llso been waiting for them to remake that one. What about Never Winter
Nights too? No? No, In fact, I just recently remember that
this existed. I remember never went their Nights one coming up, but two
I kind of just sort of forgot about. Yeah me, uh, you
know what, let's get We'll see if we have some stuff in the community.
Oh my god, Jeff, it's two thousand and six. Oh six,
you know what we're forgetting, John Madden? Oh seven? Well,
okay, what are we forgetting? Sonic six? Yeah? You motherfucker Sonic
it's right there in the not real name. Yeah, of course Anti Speed
or something not from that game. But here now. But hey, still
can sing the song if you want Castopia. It is the year Sonica six.
Something had to be said, and I said it, So now we
can move on for our lives. All right, there we go. All
right, let's see let me bring this back over here from the community.
Alex says, I'm a fake Kingdom Hearts two fan, thinking it was two
thousand and five. It's my favorite game in a super important series in my
life. I love how it spanned and arguably perfected the Bass Kingdom Hearts gameplay.
Jackie Lander says, Jeff and Micher fools. I just don't I've never
really I had never gotten into Okami. I'm sorry. I like like I
was like like you me, and then I kind of bounced off it.
I know a lot of people love Okami, and I feel kind of bad
about it. At some point I will give it another go. Yeah,
same here, I will go to another one. Yep. Mister Booler says
The Elder scrolls four Oblivying and Okami, and since they're pretty much ties for
him, Adam jud says, agents are go for Elite Beat. Agents introduced
young me to some great songs. I actually prefer the covers to the originals
in some cases tons of charm, humor and replayability with the difficulty modes.
God, I wish we could get like high quality rips of the song files.
Someday'd be awesome. It did not come out in two thousand and four,
but it did awaken something in me. Uh and then he posts let
me come back here for everybody. Uh. The Elite Beat Divas hard Mode
Artist difficulty. Yep, there it is uh, Lenny Cool, Dick Denver,
I'm going to vote for Twilight Princess because I need something to be mad
at. Later today, when Mike says it shouldn't make the list because wolves
are scary or some ship also eb A number one Adam GC says that Twilight
Princess has bloated, poorly paced and pretty drab looking. But man of those
dungeons special? What other game tasks? Uh? It tasks you with exploring
a haunted mansion in the mountains, searching for ingredients to make soup for a
possessed a yetty, I don't have amazing dungeons in this game. I wish
there should be like a dungeon like Gauntlet version of this game. You just
do the dungeons. Did you play the HD version on with you? I
played a bit of it. I didn't play through it. I played maybe
half of it, and then, you know, I wonder if they okay.
I was like hoping they maybe got you to the dungeons a little bit
quicker. But I don't think they did that much editing. I don't.
I don't know, I don't. I don't think it was like I don't
think it sped up a little bit, but it's still pretty opening, you
have. It's not like when they did Dragon Quest seven for the three DS
and they like sped it up by eight hours because I did through so long.
It's still really long. Yeah, it was quite that. Uh.
Shira Shia muro says, I want to shout out Star Wars Empires at War.
I want this new age of non EA exclusivity to give us new RTS
experiences we all deserve. But of all the games of two thousand and six,
I look back on this one the fondest. H shearmro. I will
say, I've heard rumors a Star Wars strategy game, maybe not RTS,
but a strategy game of some sort is in the works. Dropping like that.
Okay, let's trup it. Yeah yeah, I mean, listen,
there's I don't want to give too any details, but yeah, there's it's
worth getting excited about that. That's what the kind of Star Wars games are
gonna be getting soon. Well, you go, we're not gonna, we're
not gonna put your game on the list, subal, but you just got
to a leak out of it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's even
better, right, even better. Velocity Prime one Mike and Jeff are wrong
about O Comedy the clear game of the year, but I'm going to throw
my hat to We Sports, one of the most paradigm shifting and fun launch
games ever made. Paradigm shaking. Yeah, shaking is the right word,
because shake your hand. Okay, all right, I didn't know you were
still gonna POOPHO is all right. Flobo Trun says weirdly good movie ty In
Games Part two. My game of the year for two thousand and six is
Scarface. The world is yours. There's actually a bunch of the movie tying
our TV show ty In Games from two thousand and six. That's when twenty
four of the game came out and the Sopranos wrote to whatever it was wrote
to respect just like people with guns who shot people. Uh oh yeah,
definitely. Villain Max says Gears of War achievements seriously fun co op campaign,
best visuals at the time. In my first online game, it was a
great experience learning how to wreck people with a chainsaw gun. Yeah, it
always felt good. Luigi Mansion Wolf five says, got to give a shout
out to one of my favorite and most underrated rockstar games, Bully I love
the idea of GTA in a school setting, and the overall aesthetic is unmatched
for me. Cranch's MC basketball says, I don't think any games is more
two thousand and six than twenty four of the game. Yeah, it was.
It was a very two thousand and six When I want to go back
to play it a little bit ago. Bugget Delos has two thousand and six
brought four of my favorite games, all of which could use a remaster.
Outrun two thousand and six Coast to Coast is the best way to play Outrun
too, including the additional expansion map Outrun two sp new slipstream mechanics, and
an incredible heart Attack mode, a sort of mini game gauntlet that puts the
game puts you through while racing against the clock to teach you how to optimally
play the game. I want this version, I've been I got out Run
two for my Xbox finally, but I have not tracked down two thousand and
six yet. The other three games from Buggetello, God Hand, Chibi Robo
and Mother three only got a release in Japan, but you guys should play
the Tomato translation. It really is one of the best fans fan translations of
all time. Yes, I got Jibby Robo a great personal cost I got
Jimmy Robo slimebic. Some says this was the year I actually got my first
video game console, though we I'm not that young. I was sixteen at
the time, but I was more of an emulator PC handheld gamer before that.
Interesting. So Twilight Princess got played a lot by me, and eight
point eight was the perfect score for it. Shut up a little high,
Yeah, maybe shout outs to Eba, MegaMan, Battle Network six and the
prequel to Skyrim Oblivion for other games I played a whole bunch of that year.
Dunamal Crossing says two thousand and six has got a lot of games that
are special for me. Metrod Prime Hunters, Oh yeah, Man Excite Truck,
Oh yeah. That's a simple but criminally underrated racing game with a killer
home depot rock soundtrack, weirdly composed by Kenji Yamamoto, who's done most of
the Metroid games. That's right, The Yamamoto like moved around earlier at that
time. But if we were talking top five contenders, definitely have to nominate
the very first Gears of War as well as Prey. I was going to
ask if you ever played the original Prey. Oh yeah, I think everyone
day because it was pretty early in that year. Everybody was kind of in
this weird place with the three to sixty. It seems like every month we
were all playing same like eight out of ten game that came out that month,
So like Lost Planet, we really were. Yeah, and my Priay
was pretty good. There's something super special about it, but it was fun.
Razzle Jazzl says Star Wars Empires at Wars perhaps my favorite RTS game of
all time. Also shout out to Twilight Princess. I much prefer Top Down
Zelda to three D Over the Shoulder Zelda, but I do still have a
lot of love for Twilight Lea. But spook Yer says, I love Okamie,
and I love Final Fantasy twelve and a bunch of other two thousand and
six games. Actually, but I'm going to have to give it to this
lady right here, Cookie Mama. I crave her approval to this day better
than Mama. Remember the one that Cookie Mama came out came out that was
like, yeah, what was it mining for bitcoin or something? Yeah,
something like that. They didn't have the licensers. Yeah, man only on
the switch? Could that happen? That's how franchises die. I can Yeah,
Kariakee Blue is picking up an entire gumball machine and wielding as the weapon
is a vibe and Capcom made that happen dead rising tons of stupid fun in
this game. I hope they decide to revisit this franchise again one day.
I bet Mex, says the lead beat Agents for oozing so much style and
charm. Hammond of Texas says the older scrolls for oblivion my first Bethesda Game
Studios RPG, and I've been playing and loving all of them ever since.
Screaming Mad And says Madden NFL seven was the second game of the series to
have the truck stick, but since Madden has been wrongfully robbed so many times
either, I'll offer We Sports as a Game of the Year contender since it
was the killer packing game that sold so many wis, but also shout outs
to Tetris DS Spoon. Heaven sixty four says the game that one Amazon reviewer
eloquently described as Bobby Hill meets Boarding School meets the Boondocks. Bully Bench JC
Zelda Twilight Princess, one of the best legend of all the games and just
one of the best games of all time. Disposable Content says, I'm going
to pick something that has been mentioned. Rockstar Games presents table Tennis. I've
still never played this game. I don't think I really want to remember if
I have. Yeah, I really, I really want to. I've always
wanted to, but I wish they just put it out on PC or something.
Yeah. So he's got an honorable mention to the Godfather video game by
EA. It's the only piece of Godfather media I've ever consumed. That's perfect.
Crouching Kringle Me the Crouching Kringle hitting Crampus says, we finally can kill
Goofy this year, and we did first thing tonight. So I instead want
to shout out one of the best albums of two thousand and six, Blind
Guardians, a twist in the myth you're a Blind Gardian fan, I'm man.
I I got into Blind Guardian probably even before two thousand, so cool
fucking dragon. I think it's because, like, I was really into Lord
of the Rings and they dis some Lord of the Rings based albums. I
don't know sure so much about Blind Guardians now, I don't know anything about
it, but I always like it when a band based their music on Lord
of the Rings. And I'm not joking. I like that a lot.
No, the euro heavy metal band. Big emphasis on fantasy stuff obviously,
but very melodic. Uh. They have some very good stuff. In fact,
actually my tin whistle lady makes the YouTube videos just did tabs for one
of their songs. That's so weird. Interesting to talk about Blind Gardy forever
and I've had like two Bland Guardian things in my life. This week is
something coming back Blind Guardian? Are they coming back? They must be coming
back on all the kids are getting into them. They have like a ten
minute song based on the Iliad called and then there is silence. I listen
to it all the time. I love Bland Guardian. I'll give them listen.
You said they're melodic and heavy, and I'd like that. Best kind
of metal worth is their probably best the most famous album listen to with time
stands Still at the Iron Hills. There's that's my commentation for you. Good.
So what a show, Riffick says Guitar Hero too. It's say this
is a random choice, but I think it's perfectly valid. Tokyo Game Life
says Twilight Princess is better than wind Waker. Uh, Doctor Ryan, this
is a CTU agent, Jack Bauer, get on the ground, grab.
I'm begging for a full playthrough on GV for any reason you can think of
in the future. I did play the first mission and me and Dan kind
of ran out of steam with it, so we decided not to do a
full play through. But there's always stuff, stuff like Extra Life where we
need something, so we'll see. Jamie h Christmas Eve says it will probably
wind up missing the top five, but I want to shout out Portrait of
ruin another stellar ds Igavina fun two Hero System and like uh like with Soma
in Aria, it was refreshing to not play as a Belmont. Yeah,
this is one of the weaker ones for me, but I still really love
it. I still has a lot of like ties to Castlevania Bloodlines on the
Genesis, right, Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Diogos does say
the Sopranos wrote to respect Uh a lot of these games in two and six.
What the hell? There are a lot of them that we're obsessed with
the mob in two. Yes, I think so well. Sopranos was like
still like the best thing that had ever happened on TV, so like everything
was trying to do that. There was a bunch of movie tie in games
like X Men the Official game and Aragon the Dragon Kids game. Oh yeah,
didn't like a kid write that book too. Yeah. I think it
was like like a teenager or something. You do you ever know a dragon
guy, a guy that was like just so into dragons. Just the guys
into dragons are pretty big. Yeah. I had a guy that in my
school that wrote very graphic poems about dragons. You see did you see the
dragons? I don't know what it was, the dragons like toys. Yeah,
I've seen the dragons, Mike, Yeah, looks like that doesn't look
like that should work. Yeah, but listen, if there's a will,
there's a way, it turns out. I'm glad that we can bring experience
this podcast. Just let people know. And Goldie says, Bully, I
was having such a good time at school, and I remember my mind being
blown when it opens up to the little town that you get to explore.
I want to play, Bully. I wish I played. I wish I
was just stupid as a kid, and I was like, I don't want
to be I don't like Bly is what I want to play? That's what
I thought. Yes, sorry, the game is like you can Bully,
but also you can like bully other boys, right, they like to find
the boys in the cover looks like such a bully that I just oh yeah,
yeah, he definitely. He looks like a shithead. He looks like
a soccer fan. Am I right? I really should play Bully. I
feel very so. Some people are saying it. I feel very bad about
not even played Bully. Uh. Fluffy cloud Gamers says I've not played a
theme park simulator quite like Thrillville except for its sequel. Loved running around the
theme parks, building up coasters, rides and then actually riding them. I
love my role Becaster Tycoon, but I did not play much through. Uh.
You just hate Atari, that's all it is. Oh yeah, obviously,
show g Codo mentions we sports let's see here. Wong Gifts says the
best game of two thousand and six is obviously a lead beat Agents, but
also mentions a shout out to Dreamfall The Longest Journey, a sequel to one
of the best point clicks of all time, Jankie stalupin Combat. I feel
very bad about not, you know, somebody who likes point a click adventure
games. I have not played Dreamfall or The Longest Journey. Someday I'll have
to rectify that, but probably not anytime soon. You were you like,
still on point and clicks by the time this was happening, No, because
the genre had basically kind of died, and that that was why these games
were popular, because people were like, oh, these are finally like new
good ones again. And I don't know, I think I was still kind
of hurt. It was still sad about like basically it kind of it kind
of ended for me with Escape for Monkey Island really was when I sort of
felt like it was over. Clink says Sonic O six. Of course they
think they're very funny. Samkin says Godhand, which is a game I do
like what I've played of it. I haven't played a ton of it,
though, but I do remember being thinking it was very cool. Allan Miracle
says too. I say six had so many fucking good games. Fresh out
of high school and obsessed with the three titles that year. Shimmag me tense.
Uh. Persona three had teens pointing blikies to their head to summon the
demons from s MT three and dds. I thought that was so sick.
There was also the appearance of My now dead wife and Zeno Saga three,
Space Jesus Low lastly and no shame. I played so so, so fucking
much of Mario Hoops three on three on the DS. Game was so good.
Man, Okay, I think Persona three's US release sate might be two
thousand and seven, which is nuts because it's PlayStation two. It is seven.
Yes, yeah, it's really sure. It's really weird because they ramped
up the localisation after that, so we got Persona three, three Fests and
Golden all within like eighteen months on PS two. Not Golden you mean just
four. Sorry, I was just right for that's KMMA say you and make
I'm sorry. It's easy, isn't it easy to slip up there? Okay?
I believe you. Chaos punk a Boo says the Burger King Games sneaking
pocket bike racer, and what was it A big big bumpin' yeah, big
bompin funk. That's what you do with the bad Dragon. This was man,
he was sneaking with it. Please. The Xbox three sixty was just
immediately fun was Oh yeah, they were having a good time. Yes,
God, that was such a good console through three sixties. Uh Boob says.
Gears of Wars one of my one of the defining shooters of the two
thousands. Matt Skaremunkey says, Company of Heroes a truly revolutionary arts game that
had amazing multiplayer. Played so much of this. Yeah, people, the
people I know who play who are Company of Heroes. People are like,
hey, I've I've got eight thousand hours in Company of Heroes, So yeah,
I believe you. Doctor Lynch says this is far from my favorite year
in gaming. I think the best game of the year is definitely Oblivion,
but Gears of War was truly revolutionary, and the Ultimate edition shows just how
great it is today. Medieval to Total War is one of my wife's favorite
games that she still plays to this day. Yeah, those Total War games.
Spurts and then Swinging him five as well, Man Swin went up till
five huh Yeah, I mean it stopped there. That was the last one.
He caes it massively underrated. Yeah, I think most people do,
say it's good. A lot of you felt the series by then. It
kind of had a hard time keeping up with the Joneses when once it went
three D. But people say five is good. Four people didn't look so
I think it's why five had a hard time finding an audience. In FA
excuse me says two thousand and six is a pretty weak year overall, despite
the launch of two big consoles. My favorite game of two thousand and six
is Gears of War. I played so much of that game online and met
people that I still play online with till this day. Willow Davis's guitar Hero
two the Xbox three sixty four had the Explorer controller that I is still the
go to for some casual clone Hero play he got Davis forty two says Oblivion
and Dead Rising. Vision forty nine is the industry has caught up to protesta,
but back in the day there were a few games like Oblivion, especially
on consoles. Also mentions Bullie. What's that it was special back then?
Oh yeah, very special, yep It mentions Buwllie, Twilight Princess, Gears
of War, and Dead Rising. Casual. Also mentions Dead Rising Big Tony
says Persona three. It's a game, it's gonna come. We're gonna talk
about next time we have a year list. Brian Rose says Persona three,
Guitar Hero two, Pokemon, Diamond and Pearl is that diamond bar? Also?
Actually next year? That was first? Okay, Spooky Christian mentions Persona
three, Yeah, and six, I'll forgive you. And then the Legion
Fortune eight says Twilet Princess is my game of the year. But the game
I probably played the most is Rainbow six Vegas. Yeah, that's a good
game. Uh interesting, Yeah it is. I d Kevin says, uh,
Electroplankton, while more of a toy than the game, had a great
vibe and really resonated with me. And then Team says Dead Rising the time
limit was good actually, And I think Electroplankton in that luminous and res area
for me where I'm like, yeah, people are just really excited about things
moving to a beat. Huh yeah. I couldn't get an Electroplankton too much
either. Maybe that must be the same thing there. Well, I like
Medios. I like Medios's all right, do we need to add anything to
the list. Mike, I feel really bad about Bully, I do too,
Yeah, and but it's like that's how it's gonna go. Sometime when
we miss a game and we haven't played it. I will say that coming
out of this year, the one I want to play the most is Bully.
Yeah. Yeah, but Okay, to reiterate what we do have,
Leap Beat Agents happens to already be up on the list, and then Kingdom
Hearts two, we Sports Zelda, Twilight Princess, Tetris, DS, Oblivion,
Gears of War, Dead Rising, Final, Fantasy twelve, and Guitar
Hero too. Like at this point for me, I put Oblivion at number
two, and then maybe I'm okay with like Twilight Princess making the list,
but I don't think I don't think it doesn't. It doesn't have to,
So I would be his number two. Yeah, okay, great, fantastic.
I'd love to hear it, right, Yeah, Olivia's number two?
I agree? Great, Okay, Well, then, uh, Kingdom Marts
two, you want to put that up there at three, I'm completely fine
with that because honestly, for me, yeah, eb an't Oblivia list.
So I know what's getting on the list, like I know what's happening here.
Oh yeah, but look how mad nanimous I am. I let Dan
win? Let you win this? Wow? Yeah you astuly having a good
day. All right, yeah absolutely number three, let's go. I mean
at this point, I'm like, yeah, I'm fine, I'm good.
Two thousand and six was a year where I was like, what's going on
with this? This is? This is going to be anything? That's what
I got four games on this thing, and I guess I'll play WE Sports
a ton and uh so, yeah, I don't know I would put we
Sports up there, But at this point now I'm looking at this list.
Well, Jeff, I mean, hey, if you want, if you
really feel that strong about we Sports, but well, I'm interested to hear
what else you would put up there. I think Your's a war belongs up
there where it was really good and important. Cool, that works for me,
that's yeah. And then like is he twelve is definitely a favorite of
mine. I'm not like super intense about it. It has to be on
there. Yeah, I just don't know what else I put up I mean,
I guess I really like Dead Rising a lot, but no phone yeah,
yeah, but not that strong. I just like it a lot.
No, a bunch of good games. Is there anything but below guitarho two?
Is this it? No? I think that' said? Okay, yeah,
I mean which one are you feeling? I mean again, let's just
do that. I'm I'm completely good with that. Okay, thanks buddy.
Wow, no no problem, Like hey, e BA being number one,
that makes my night right there, and we all agree on it, so
what's the Yeah, there's no point, no reason to argue. This is
fantastic. I'm completely fine with this. Also, Oblivion being number two,
that's right, that is the crust. I think that's absolutely right, Oblivion.
Mike, Why do you go ahead and read the list as we have
it now for everybody best games of two thousand and six games that release in
the US two thousand and six number one, Elite Beat Agents number two,
The Elder Scrolls four, Oblivion number three, Kingdom Hearts two, number four,
Gears of War number five, Final Fantasy twelve. So, uh,
man, I almost said this, but you know, Leapid Agency is a
Nintendo game. I was say, wow, we don't have a Nintendo game.
Not really. I know what you mean, though, there's something that
it's like kind of out of nowhere. It's a little different. All right,
there's a big Betal game come out next year. We'll probably be talking
about probably uh okay, uh you know what, Mike, let's just hop
into we got a few more superchats. Yeah, let me see. Hey
what, let's do a small break. We're gonna take a small break.
We'll be right back after this. We're back. We're back, and we
we're gonna we're gonna do the super chats. Let's hit those super chats.
I could go for it. Chuckson nine says, let's go, Mike.
Kinomortes two is still a very solid game. Combat holds up very well.
Remember unlocking Final Form randomly for the first time. Good stuff, Oh that
was great. I one hundred percent that game. So I could see the
secret ending even like we had YouTube, I think, but it was kind
of grainy and bad, so I was like, no, I can't do
that yet. I got to actually play for another thirty hours and you know,
get Pooh's Honey Hunt unlocked and beat that and stuff. Oh, good
times, Matt and Sampson. Was a first super chat. Thank you so
much, Matt, says, Jeff. I appreciate you always digging deep into
the messed up ever changing financial corporate world of gaming. It's a small business
owner myself. Are there resources you listen to or read to stay current on
what's going on? Yeah? Yeah, the big ones are gonna be uh
every morning I wake up and I say, uh, okay, Google Play
Up first, and that's a really good like news program that's gonna get you
caught up every day, and it's not gonna make you mad in too many
ways. It's gonna make you mad with like some of the stories that are
just like it's so frustrating, but they're not going to ruin your day with
like trying to get you upset to so you stay engaged or something like that.
And then I will listen to Marketplace on NPR as well, and that's
going to be your financial news. And then Planet Money also on MPR.
A lot of podcasts I find. That's how I'm pretty good with that stuff.
But these also have like Planet Money has like a newsletter that's very good
and as long as you kind of are paying attention to the themes they always
bring to like each episode, they're like, hey, this is this matters.
If you understand like why those things matter, you're gonna come out of
it kind of understanding what's happening with most decision making for most of these big
businesses. So yeah, those are those are what I use. Chris Quinton
with another very generous a third very generous supertend I think you again so much,
Chris says, I would say, hide some sonic natures around Dan's house.
But this is the guy that almost sent a fifty gallon drum a barbecue
sauce to someone's house. Is a prank and I'm archangel. Mike Oh gave
out some subs on your streams that one of the boys get taste. Thank
you, I happened sending a ton of yes what he is called gifted.
I was, thank you, Chris. Thanks Chris, I really do appreciate
it. Yeah, this is why we're worried because, like Dan did say,
he's like I told someone once that if I send him a picture if
they didn't hang up in their house, if I come to their house and
it's not hanging up, I will send them a bigger one. And he's
like, I will eventually it would be bigger than their house. And I
know he would actually do that. I know we would. Yep. Gotta
be very careful walking on eggshells, walking on egg whites like you, Olari
says, folks, Jack's going to in To Fortnite has weird proportions. I
bet. I mean because they has the same proportions as every other character model,
but Jack's goington is supposed to have long Yeah. Yeah. Do you
want to hear what ruined my wife's night tonight? Yes? Please. She's
been checking home Depot this entire the last couple of months waiting for the twelve
foot Jack Skellington to go on sale, and I'm like, just get it,
just buy it, just buy it, because you know she wants it,
the kids really want it. And then it went on sale earlier today
when she was busy, and by the time she recognized and saw it,
it was sold out. So yeah, worl bummed out. I'm like,
listen, they'll probably have it again next year. They don't always, but
they probably will have that one again next year. Well we'll pick it up
then, so yeah, we'll see. Well, David says forget forgot smack
not versus rocktails and seven the last one with Ben Longe sure the area boy,
yep, absolutely, Hey, thanks for all the super chats. Everybody,
that was incredible, big showing tonight from from the community, and well,
I always appreciate it because I talk about the news in a lot of
places, so it's it's more interesting to hear what you guys want to talk
about, and the super chats are the best way to do that. So
we know you want to talk about it and give us money. Yeah,
yeah, exactly, and they're like, Okay, well then we'll definitely talk
about that. So very cool. Shout outs to y'all. Right back at
you, Mikey. What have you been playing? I've been. We're I'm
pretty hard catching up on Borderskate three. I'm i assume, pretty close to
the end. I've been. I've done a lot in X three, pretty
much everything I can do. Really, there's a couple of things I'm curious
about. A couple like, I don't need to do every character's whole deal.
I just went dude for the people who I've actually been traveling with,
but just the ones you've had sex with multiple times, yes, exactly,
And a few of those seemed like they haven't really gone to the next stage
yet, So I'm hoping that just sort of happens or I'm not going to
miss something. But yeah, I'm getting pretty I'm at the max level right
twelve. Like once your twelve, you don't level up anymore, so I
can't actually get any stronger just by leveling up, so you don't need to
go out and grind things or anything like that. Yeah. Still been really
enjoying that. Been having a lot of fun with just the smaller missions.
I was talking to you about how there's a crooked newspaper that was going to
print something mean about me, so I had to break into their cellar and
I found their printing press, which was sent Chiant. It was talking to
me, so I made a bargain with it, and it was just kind
of good fun stuff there. That sounds like a great campaign for an RPG.
It really is. It's so dense, and it reminds me of that
Code Tour kind of thing, because you know, I never played There's bar
Boulters Gates, so of course it reminds me of Code Tour, which was
you know that's the same people. Yeah, and also D and D rules,
so yeah, right exactly. It's just that's what I that's kind of
what I'm really not tay. I compared to Starfield again, but I do
like the games that are dense. They can still be plenty big, like
this is big even then like I'm in a city. Is it the size
of a city? No, but it's big enough, and it's dense.
I like that every building probably has some kind of quest line associated with it
that feels just as special or important as anything else. And I think,
I mean, you like it because I think it's better. Being dense is
better, like compared it to like what happens when you land on a plane
in Starfield and you walk for five minutes before you get to something interesting,
Like that's actually kind of bad and it shouldn't work that way. That they
should make that better. And the way you make that better is just bring
in most of that interesting shit into like every at the most every ninety seconds,
I'm walking into something and interesting. So yeah, I realized this is
a completely different game than what they made, But boy do I wish it
was. Yeah, But but so Systems, it's right, yes, and
listen, I know there's other way, other things they could have done to
make it better than but it is a problem the way that that works in
Starfield. But again, we don't always have to compare it, and I
know people don't like that. I know, I'm sorry. I can't help
myself. Just yeah, I'm the same. But yeah, palters k three,
I uh really, I'm glad. I kind of gott in the swing
of that when I did get my vacation. I stuck with it, trying
to get it working on my roger ally because I do have a little bit
of momentum with that where I'm like, I can get right back into that
once I get some of the stuff off my plate, and it is going
to want to be It's gonna have to be my November game, I think
in a big way. So gonna play it hard. Probably not gonna beat
it, but I'll play a bunch of it shadow hard and iron love.
And I saw her nipples. Oh do you marry her? It was talking
really not some disgusting mod. Get back in your home, listen. I
have a question. Actually I was a taking questions, but okay, I
had a little people that after playing this game, they kind of want to
play actual D and D. Do you have that, like, oh man,
I kind of want to. Nah, let's work, somebody pays me
to. I really want to play D and D. Yeah, if Giant
Bomb and Jeff pay me to I'll play D and D shirt Okay, well
we'll figure something out. No, it would be fun. But you would
be really good at D and D is the thing. You would be a
really fun person to play with. I would have fun with it. I
guess I couldn't do with the people I actually know, which is what I
associate D and D with. But I know it doesn't actually have to work
like that anymore. So yeah, it'd be fun. I would do it
absolutely. I've been playing Alick too. Uh, I'm still pretty early on,
but I'll say that they's it's got a real strong start. It's you
kind of immediately, you're kind of in this weird situation, and I'm not
I'm gonna try to talk around spoilers as much as possible. I will kind
of like talk a little bit about one thing of like setting up a mystery,
but it is the setup for a mystery, and also it's going to
be it's pretty obvious if you know what kind of games these are. So
yeah, you start start off in this weird situation and it's me, which
is okay, this looks incredible. The vibe is so spooky and and well,
like it's capturing the spooky elements of the Pacific Northwest while also just having
its own sort of signature look and feel, and the game looks and plays
great. And then you get to the mind Place, which is her she
says, my version of the mind Palace. It's her fable three pause menu.
Sure, her fable three pos menu, which she says that as well.
And then you start like piecing together the way that the the the mystery,
Like you get evidence as you go explore the world, and then those
become like little notes. You take them in your mind Place, and then
it's up to you to like placed the notes on the right question. And
then as you kind of complete the question, you have a jump in logic.
You're like, okay, I have now I have a conclusion, and
that can lead to new questions and then you start the process over and over
again, kind of like it is nothing like Obradin because Obraden is you're doing
all that work. Here the game is mostly doing the work for you,
Like you do need to know where to put it, but if you put
in the wrong place, it's just like try again, try again, try
again. And there's only two questions, but so it's like they said it
during development, They're like, yeah, we wanted you to be able to
figure out yourself. We couldn't get it to work. I would have liked
them to have made a game like that. They didn't make that game.
They made this game, and this is still a very cool thing where it's
like you still feel a part of solving the mystery, and it still establishes
Saga as this really cool character who is a detective who is capable of these
really cool logical leaps, and those become like she does that when she's profiling
people too. This is a separate thing that's happening in the mind place.
You have your big wall of evidence, and then you have profiling. You
go over to think about a person, and then she sits there and thinks
about a person, puts them in their perspective, and then she comes out
like this person did this, and they're very specific things. So she's got
almost supernatural abilities to like, oh, that person must have picked something up
from the crime scene and they're hiding it and it's like I didn't get that,
but no, she knows it because she's just that good. And then
you so now you can go back out of your mind place ask that person
that question, and I'm like, all that stuff is bringing me in,
it's reeling me in. And then you like you turn around from like that
interview, the thing in the in the diner, and then suddenly you're talking
to this this crazy blond lady who's just who's just like, hey, I
haven't seen you forever, and so IGA's like, I don't know you,
and then she starts crazy blond lady from Alan Wake one. I don't know.
I haven't played Allen Wake one, but I'll tell you what. She
seems to know you, and she seems to know stuff about your family,
and she suggests some things about your family that you're like, oh wait,
what's really going on here? That's really going on here? And I'm like
that is the kind of thing where I'm like, hey, I really want
to know. I want to see what's happening. I want to see how
they staying. And it's like very Twin Peaks. It's a million percent Twin
Peaks. It's a million percent like just the Yeah, they watched a bunch
of those shows, and the game is not trying to hide it. They
got fucking Sam Lake literally just drinking his black coffee in the car right next
to the lady who's also drinking her black coffee. They're making homages to that.
But it's one thing to just be like inspired by it. It's another
thing to like really capture that magic. And it really feels like they're doing
that here. And then you get some like scary bits where you are doing
some stuff with a dead body and of course things happen, and it's like,
this is pretty spooky, and the character model is so detailed that it
is that makes it even more scary, more terrifying. So yeah, I'm
just I'm into everything that they're putting down here. And I personally have not
even gotten to the Alan Wake portions yet, so I think that's probably happening
for me pretty soon. But Jane says he's played about fifteen hours and he's
just loving it. He's eating it up, and so yeah, I'm looking
forward to really playing through this game. Like how much would you compare it
to something like Resident Able to Remake or you know those Resident Evil games.
Yeah, you know, it's it's it's in the zone, but it's not
doing what those games do. Really, It's it's not its own thing.
It feels like its own thing, you know, as much as those are
like the Marquee survival horror games. Obviously, Resident Before is more of an
actual game. Resiine Evil two is also more of an action game than this
a little bit, at least as far as as much as I've played so
far. There's action elements here, and you're going to be struggling for Ammo
and stuff like that. Those hallmarks are going to be here. Uh but
yeah, it's it's kind of trying to establish its own vibe and its own
thing. All right, sounds good, Okay, I'm excited to start this.
Absolutely will probably be doing that tomorrow. Mike. They're senior. Mike's
talk Mike is is cutting out. I tried talking louder. I don't know
if that they're flat by this, Howard. That's why I guess I think
so it's a me problems what you're saying. I think you're like going like
it's louching a little bit, and they'll using your boys, using the diaphragms.
Tiring. All right, mikey Uh, let's get out of here.
I'm gonna hit the button. I feel bad we didn't talk about Spider Man.
Two at all. Let's talk about Spider Man two. It's fine.
I just beat it like a week and a half ago. You that's like
old news. Yeah, Hey, that Spider Man two fucking rules. It's
very very good. I like it a lot. It might be like the
best open world in terms of the actual open world. Uh, of course
it is. It was that world was already good in the Learned two games,
but having just that those, it's better. My kid was playing Miles
Morles Stave because for some reason that's the one she wants to play, and
I was had to help her or something. I'm like, oh, the
city this looks. This does look a little bit like a PS four game
compared to what I was just playing in the new game in terms of just
like the way it looks, and then how alive it is, and then
you're right the outer boroughs. It's it's a really good open world, and
that New York City is so cool. It's just awesome to spend time with
it. Uh. But yeah, I mean I would love to be playing
more Spider Man two. I would love to be I would love to get
the platinum. That doesn't seem that hard. I'm pretty close to it.
But even beyond that, I'm like, I just want to keep playing it.
In general, I would love to be one of those people who streams
Spider Man two on TikTok to music and stuff and just moving Spider Man throughout
the world and having a thousand people watch you or whatever. That's that's my
life and that's what I want it to be. Uh uh uh yeah.
So how far into it are you? Are? You like, I I
haven't met that yet. Okay, all right, so you you'll get it
all and it's it's it's it goes pretty quick once you get the Black Stuite.
That's when the game's like, okay, we are just going to barrow
through this story. Now. They take their time setting everything up, but
I like the way that the story pasts itself out. I had no complaints
there, I think, uh just overall, it was all just little nitpicks,
And at this point, looking back at it, I'm not thinking about
any of those. I'm just thinking about how much fun it is to move
those those characters around that world is so fun. It feels so good,
even like that wingsuit really is just the solution to make going around these areas
that don't have quite as many tall buildings even feel incredible. It's funny that
the game with the greatest fast travel system ever is the game where I don't
want to use fast travel. I never I honestly did not use it once
until after I beat the game, and then I was like, I just
I guess I'll just see it because it looks so people are showing it off
and it looks so cool. I'm like, yeah, that's great cool.
And then I'm like, I don't. I just like flying around in this
game, so I'm just going to do that for sure. Yeah, I'm
sure. Oh the the technical stuff, have you encountered any bugs? People
would kind of become a little bit more of a story, I mean a
little. I definitely have nothing crazy, nothing crazy, Yeah, nothing,
nothing got trosis, nothing where I'm thinking about that and I am like,
oh, that ruined my game. I had a crash. I think once
wasn't a big issue. Just loaded to save. I'd maybe a character t
pose or something similar to that one. Yeah, I think so, I
think I had a t pose. I think I had a handful of audio
bugs. Those were the ones that happen most freckling to me, And I'm
like Okay, yeah, that's that's a bummer, but it's not for me.
It's just not the end of the world. It does not ruin the
experience for me at all. And next cut scene was just fine. So
yeah, okay, Yeah, we're gonna have a lot to talk about Spider
Man two when it gets to the game of the year time, for sure,
because it's in the conversation for me, in that top ten range for
sure, top ten, maybe even top five for me. You know,
we gotta start putting together list of stuff for various things. It's like I
it probably probably does make my top six. I would say probably does.
Well. Okay, Mike, Yeah, now I'm hitting the button. Why
don't you tell people where they can find you on the internet. Yeah,
Tolkoto at all the places. Check out the new Blake Club, Grub to
Hell Jeff Tribution. Is that correct? Yes? Right, I think you
went with Ride to Grub Jeff Tripps. I took Grub Jeff Tribution. Of
course, I'm just gonna call Grub to the bone. Yeah, of course,
just playing a bad motorcycle game. It's funny. Yeah. But then
we also did the Super Mario Wonder Grand Prix today, which was a really
good time. That game's racing mote is a lot of fun. We'll talk
some more about Mario Wonder on Tuesday. Last night Sidas, I'm not gonna
be here next Thursday. My vacation is going to start a week today,
everybody, I'm gonna be gone for a bit, Gonna miss maybe two episodes
of this show in one episode of least than ten dogs. But good AJM,
good John. Yeah, we'll see. We'll get some of these guys
on. I get happy and I'll miss you all very much, but I'll
be happier without you. Yeah, you have fun, you enjoy yourself,
don't get neurovirus, don't you can shit yourself and got my I'm good.
I hope it works out just well for you. I Yeah, I'm on
Giant bomb. Those that ride to Grubb. Jeff Tribution was actually a lot
of fun. You should check it out if you haven't watched it. It's
a good time. I showed it to Step Well. Actual stuff just loaded
upcause obviously did all that work. She wanted to see the fruits of her
labor, right, And that scene, that moment where I try to roll
underneath the truck on my side and then it loads and then it blows up.
She was dying, laughing and so hard. That was the funniest moment.
It was incredible. It was incredible. And in the sex, the
sex scenes, she thought those were very funny as well. And then like
the second girl shows up, she's like, well, I know where this
is going. Like, yeah, you're right, you got it. So
she's having a good time watching that. If she's enjoying it, you all
definitely will. All right, anything else? Yeah, tomorrow, I think
we're gonna play Ghostbusters tomorrow. We're gonna do the not not the new VR
one, We're gonna do the asymmetrical online multiplayer one. So look forward to
that. That'll be fun, kind of a little bit of Halloween spooky stuff.
I might try to find time to play some Alan Mick two on the
website tomorrow. I don't know when. I don't know when. We'll figure
it out. Yeah, why everybody, till next time I ever go to
on Tic Care of Yourself and goodbye. I am an animal. Wait wait
wait wait wait wait wait, they have to poop super let's go my banati
Mike Manadi wearing the break. You can yell Mike, we're spoken. How
dare you come at me with what the hell is that? Fire fire Mumgauge
came out this year? That is insane. That is like a JA game,
But so was High Fight Rush High I Rushing, Like, yeah,
that came out this year, freaking uh fire bomb like, nah, that's
forever Ago, No Man, Turbo Overkill. I'm gonna play that too many
good games. All right, let's take a look here, let's come back
and then super Jets, gotcha, super Chets, let's do this all right,
let me get this going. It's streaming too. By the way,
uh to me exclusive for the Post podcast crew. The fun fact about the
Game Awards is that it was five nominations up until twenty eighteen, where they
expanded it to six. And I don't know, not the first year where
you went solo? When did he go solo? No, it was before
that. It was just before that was like twenty fourteen your games. I
went to the first one, so it was like, I like the first
one where he was solo in Las Vegas, and I'm like, did I
go that long ago? I guess it is, but if you think about
it, I don't know for a fact why they expanded. But you think
about maybe it's because twenty seventeen happened in gaming and they were like, yeah,
givens a lot here, you know what, Here we go, here
we go, all right, at Jeff Keeley, can we have ten games
nominated Game of the Year. I think the beans are good? Do you
like beans? I like mean, I like means? Do you think there
were a him that he said he thought they were kind of p like,
No, I heard the explanation. I just think it's a bad one.
Okay. I didn't say it was smart, you know it fair, very
very fair. Al Right. I am almost ready over here. Just got
to get this framed up proper. If this turn that on, it's just
going to work. It is just going to work you for thirteen minutes into
way too schol all right. I like this countdown on epy game story that
tells you exactly when the game is gonna be on the onike fucking Steam that
Steam does like like does like a fake countdown, and sometimes the countdown's over
and nothing happens. Okay, let's get back into it. You ready,
mm hmm, yes, sir, the bathroom can drink, no problem,
all right, let's turn off the game. Let's get the Mikey back.
M hmm, there's Mikey and then let's do this. What the hell?
Yeah? Oh wow, I can tell if it was the actual song or
it was an episode of Super Beer Brothers. It is Maverick Rising five oh
three, Braven Storm Chill Penguin by Frederick strike On. All right, mm
scroll over here my little thing. I did do that, and they do
that other thing. Oh? Yes, Corn did the song for Hayes.
Yes, people were mentioning that Jonathan Davis. Wow, some corner concert,
like four or five times. Yeah, that's when I went to high school.
What I never saw Corn? Why? Because I was a Corn fan
in high school? It was You've always had bad taste. Well listen,
it was really bad back then, especially bad back then. I have no
hatred towards Corn. I just don't. I'm not a fan anymore. I
don't know one single son of Corn freak on a leash. Anyone knows that
maybe if I hear it, I like, okay, wasn't I didn't realize
that when I when I wagered all my points in Mario today, that people
would would act like I lost instead of just recognizing that really I won.
Oh no, you lost, dude, you but here here we are.
Yes, and now if I've lost, and now I have to deal with
those circuit those those the ramifications of my choices. I don't like that.
Correct. Yes, let the record show that Dan Reichert won the first whether
he won or not, so it might as well just let him win.
And boy did you? I can't believe I forgot that that level is faster
with the wonder seat. Actually, that's the thing I need to remind you.
That was the first one where you beat him by point oh one?
So you did okay, Oh I didn't know? Okay, wow, all
right, geez. And he corrected his mistakes and then brought back man terrible
think it happened. Uh yeah, it's right here. I'm gonna just adjust
it a little bit. We actually make this page taller. There we go
that I fixed it. Oh yeah, that's right. As Matt points out,
that was the level where he was like, man, I stopped for
a second too. I shouldn't have done that. Well shit, okay,
we'll get them next time. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean listens so
good at Mario, how whatever? I'm good to kill her right. Yes
you are. You're all good. We are completely away from that beautiful I'm
bringing us back. And Mike, we got a bunch of more super chats.
Let's read those first and then we'll do this. Find where we left
off, no problem. I'm bringing us back right now though. Yes,