It's the Internet. You're busy, let's do this. Welcome to the Game
Mesticides podcast. This is the podcast where we decide everything about the world of
video games so you never had to think for yourself. I'm your host Jeff
Grubb and with me is Mike Minati. In today's episode, some tough stuff
with dead Space too, I'm sorry, and who would run a better nineties
arcade? Me or Mike. We'll get to all of that eventually. There's
also some updates on some other stuff. We'll get to that later in the
episode. Meantime, Mike, how are you doing. Yeah, I'm doing
good and real busy today basically been going NonStop. That's all right. They
like that once in a while. It is not the worst thing in the
world, so being productive. I guess, how about you, Yeah,
exact same. I didn't sleep well last night. I didn't get to sleep
until real late, and then had to wake up early to take the kids
to school, and then it's been NonStop ever since. I'm like, I
always like it when we can fill especially the Giant Bomb day, with like
a lot of fun stuff. So you know, we did you know,
we did stuff at Discord Town Hall and we did hell Divers too, and
I was today the Discord town Hall will happened. Discordtown Hall happened. Don't
worry. They asked plenty of questions about you, Mike, don't I missed
it all. It was a juicy lots of juice for fun, Nike.
Do you guys post that later? I want to listen to that. Yeah,
we'll post it. Yeah. But then it was like, oh man,
I got to get stuff ready for UPF tomorrow, so I'm still working
on that, and it's trash day and I got to give the kids a
bath, and then I was supposed to be on someone else's podcast and I
did that for like an hour early here tonight at seven pm, and the
Red Wings are playing, so it's like it's non stop over here as well.
But you're right, it's mostly the good kind of NonStop. It's good
to be this kind of busy. So no real complaints, although I'm looking
forward to like just kind of sitting and staring at some point in my future.
But yeah, yeah, how are things otherwise, Mike, It's fine.
We had a really nice day a couple of days ago. I went
on a walk and I felt really good and it's been kind of rainy and
shitty since then, and you know, I don't mind a little ray,
but it's been great for a while. Now I'm just I don't know,
I'm really ready for summer. I think I'm ready for some warm weather and
to really be outside, really be grilling, doing all that stuff. I've
never been a big spring person. Spring is such a wishy, washy season.
It's it's weird because I love fall. That transition season is great to
me, and Spring is just trashed here for whatever reason. Fair enough,
but let's talk about what really matters. What's your favorite OJ movie? I
guess I guess Naked Gun? Yeah, Mike too? Yeah? Yeah?
Are there more seeing anything else but those? He's definitely in other stuff?
But really for sure, well was he an anything after the trial? Cause
that be incredible. Oh, I'm sure he was in some like European funded
film, like yeah, some Roman Polanski movie. Who knows, Yeah,
that's that guy died. Weird that was that one was not Blake Club or
to Light Club's fault, not at all. Now that one this to do
list, like, oh shit, I left that guy alive. Oh man,
I messed up lifting? Now, so are we saying from now on
on Blake Club. Whenever you do Blight Club, nobody No, I think
I think this is completely outside of that purview. I think the Blake Club
curse is for dignitaries and people a certain stature. So I don't think we've
escaped that quite yes yet, So we'll see, all right. You can
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I was thinking to I, like my little thing at the top, I
just get's a nice way for me to get in the mood of like Santa,
it's the Internet, You're busy, let's do this, and I you
don't, I know, you don't care about it. But I think I'm
at a point where I'm like, I started saying that because like, people
just want to get into something right away. They don't like meandering. And
then I saw a video on YouTube that was thirty eight hours long recapping every
episode of Beverly Hillbillies, And I'm like, maybe do people actually want to
get into something to get out? Maybe that's not true anymore. Maybe I
was wrong all along. I don't know. Hey, look, Jeff,
you know what you gotta do. That's not what I get it on makes
you feel most comfortable. But what is the longest YouTube video you've ever watched?
Oh, there's some pretty long ones, like like part of the meta
now is all the YouTubers will make compilation videos that are like three hours long,
like Sean Seanson has done some long ones on PS one games where it's
like, here's I'm going to talk about every single Namco game for the PS
one, right, And I kind of do love that shit because I am
somebody who like, I'll go in bed and I'll and this isn't the healthiest
thing. I was in that bed for like a few hours at night,
playing stuff on my switch or like fiddling around on my phone before I will
actually fall asleep. So I like having, like to me, just having
one video on instead of like having to like and I have to think about
something else to watch because this twenty minute video. I actually had a point
where I kind of like ten minute videos. I'm like, yeah, I
don't think that's worth my time. I don't think I'm gonna click that,
which is funny because wasn't there a time when videos had to be like ten
minutes or shorter. Ten minutes was the maximum length on YouTube for a very
long time. Yeah yeah, and I'm like, nah, I'm not wasting
my time on that. Yeah, that is the I mean, I've watched
a lot of like deffinitely video essays that are four hours long. I mean
I watch them in chunks most of the time because I don't have uninterrupted time
like that. But yeah, I know what you mean. All right,
let's actually get into it. Just a couple of things I want to talk
with you about this week, Mike. That dead Space two thing happened,
and boy that was weird. That was weird. How that wait down?
Yeah, why don't you recap that for maybe the people who don't know aren't
following what's going on when you were talking about this on Giant Bomb. It's
an interesting saga. Yeah, so dead Space two is not happening. That's
like the big story. That's the big takeaway here. And it was like
some one of those things when the studio that was working on dead Space one
remaster remake that did that he a motive. They are now officially making that
Iron Man game still, but now they're also part of the many teams that
are working on Battlefield. That was like the new announcement there. Of course,
everyone's looking at like this probably means we're not getting another Dead Space And
I asked around a little bit. It's like, yeah, we're not getting
another dead space. This is something that they looked into. They did some
got them like afraid of how to phrase it now, because whoeveryth canna happen.
But they looked into that and that they there were definitely people doing that
work of looking into it, and they put that on the shelf. They're
not doing it anymore. And then, of course, so like someone goes
to the AA, like Jeff crub says, you cancel it so they can
work on battlefield, and he's like, well, that's not right. There's
no validity to that story. And then of course, like more reporting comes
out, Jason Trey does his piece and it's basically like, yeah, it's
exactly what Grubbs said, even though it's like, oh no, it's that
the rumor isn't true. I'm like, what what rumor do you think it
is? I'm so confused here, But whatever, it was very odd and
at this point I'm like, Okay, that just kind of got messy.
I bet ea regrets commenting in the first place, because they just blew it
up and made it even bigger. And at the end of the day,
everyone still recognizes we're not getting dead space two, they're not making that and
it's not really under consideration anymore, right, I mean that was the funny
thing was like the first thing coming out and you know, like, look,
I'm you know, I gotta defend my boy a little bit here.
And this isn't me going out trying to beef with any other journalist. God
please know, everyone's just doing their job and nobody did anything wrong there.
But you know, like the IGN story, it's like, you know,
EA says this isn't true, and you know, corn to our own reporting
or whatever, like a dead Space two was never even considered and it's like
what that that can't be right, I mean, what do we mean by
considered? Where like the ending of dead Space and has like the sequel bait
and also had like the sequel bait that was kind of clearly, hey,
it's not maybe not gonna be that dead Space too exactly, yes, And
then that was kind of like you know, the thing with what that was,
like the one thing with the Shrider thing was like, well, actually
it wasn't really going to be a remake of two, but like a new
game, and it's like everyone knows that, yes, everyone knows that.
Like that that was always part of what was happening with that space because they
were like, hey, we can reconfigure that universe and do something new going
forward from this new baseline. So yeah, it was weird. I mean
that you came out everything you said was true, when people I don't know
got mad and exactly real. Again, it's like the semantics like, well,
what what is really pre production or what is being considered? It's like,
look, you can figure that out. I'm sure EA has their own
idea of what that means to them. It's like, we're a tech game
never even really existed. We didn't cancel anything, and Jeff never said I
don't think you said the word cancel. I think you said shelved. Yeah,
yeah, if I did, it was definitely just like in a colloquial
terms, but yeah, it was never green lighted. Sure, but they
had discussions about it, and it was like what it was the conquest they
did? Yes, of course they did, like that, wouldn't you do?
Of course? Would? It would be insane if they didn't, like
that would be really this industry doesn't think about sequels very often. Jael,
Right, that's that's a rare, rare occurrence these days. I guess.
Really the THEND, the question is, Mike, how are you feeling about
EA's strategy overall? I mean, I don't think it's great that a team
that could have been doing something fun with more dead Space or anything else is
now also working on Battlefield, a franchise that just does not get my hackles
up in any real way. Yeah, I mean, right that space is
this really interesting, uh cool franchise. Uh? And instead of working on
that in the last Desperacer was fantastic, they are now being thrown at the
Superhero machine or being thrown at the Battlefield machine. And man with Battlefield in
this industry the way it is, you have like kind of the one bad
release. It's hard to get back from that. Last two Battlefields have struggled
now, right, Yes, when is the wait? I'm almost shocked that
the thing with Batford is like, well, maybe we should do something smaller
and really go back to basics with Battlefield, and instead it's just seems to
be more throw as many resources at this thing as possible. If we just
keep throwing money at it, maybe someday, somehow it'll be our call of
duty or as close to it as we're going to get. And maybe,
But I just don't know how you really get people excited about Battlefield again when
I mean, honestly, like the word association with Battlefield lately has been failure.
I mean, Battlefield one was the last Battlefield people felt good about.
That was a long time ago, right, And since then we got Battlefield
five and then twenty forty two, Right, that's what happened. Yeah,
okay five, and both of those just did not really hit very well.
Yeah. I just it's such a tough path forward for Battlefield to not like
matter again, it can matter to a lot of people, but to be
able to play with the biggest other games in that space. And I just
don't see how do you twist this franchise that is this one thing, these
big premium price games that come out every couple of years into this ongoing live
service thing that can have content that's as interesting as anything that's happening then Fortnite
or something else. Like, Yeah, there's gonna be people who want to
play a military shooter that has that vibe, but they're at a point where
it's like, yeah, but like call Duty, Warzone is free, and
I know what to expect from that. I'm sure it's got some wackiness to
it. But I know it's going to be fun, and I know it's
going to be there, and I know it's going to be reliable. It's
actually pretty hard to compete with reliable these days. It feels like, so
I mean, good luck to them. I just I'm bummed that we continually
end up like we sort of circle around, and it feels like the circles
get smaller and smaller each time, where it's like, Okay, everyone's got
to go make the biggest games. Everyone that works for us is working on
the biggest games. It's like, okay, you know what, let's step
back, Let's do more single player games. Let's let's make a new initiative
to like really push on that stuff, try to diversify our portfolio. Oh
god, the numbers weren't astronomical. Circle back, retreat, retreat, back
to that old strategy and feel. You know, we definitely had like with
the time of like Merror's Edge and the games at that time from that interesting
period original dead Space, the original dead Space, right, It's like there
were big attempts then and then they started retreated and well both yeah, and
it was annoying with Beer's Edge because it was good, people liked it,
it wasn't this giant sales hit, so they waited just a little bit too
long, and then when they did make a new one, it was a
reboots and not a sequel really, and it was just confusing about what that
got salty about Beer's zge because Beers was one of my favorite games. It's
so good. Yeah, So, I mean, I don't know. I
think EA is in the same position as all these companies where we just like
look at them, like what is this strategy, And it's a risk adverse
strategy that is trying to find growth in an industry where growth is not just
like hiding around the corner waiting for them. It is something that they are
going to have to gat. It's like you know the concept of peak oil,
right, it takes one barrel of oil to get a barrel oil out
of the ground, so it's not worth it anymore. We're kind of at
peak gaming now where these companies, at least for Triple A publishers and console
manufacturers, where the amount of money it takes to produce a game is about
equivalent to the amount of money they'll get back from selling that video game,
and so they only are going to take risks on the things that are the
biggest and most uh and most obviously can succeed. I mean, is it
not that I mean used to be, Hey, you make a sequel,
at least you kind of save money because you know you're using some similar tools
and stuff like that would be why you can make a dead space too.
But it works like that anymore, right, Like that, like what Spider
Man two costs like ThReD million dollars. Yeah, that doesn't really work at
city. Yeah, like that one's like an obvious one where like, clearly
you could save a ton of time with that, but it's like, uh
no, you have to put so much content in there, and all that
content is so labor intensive that maybe it doesn't work that way. And even
they probably did save money on that game, and yet it still costs that
much. And even if they do save money, it's really at the end
of the day, at the end of the day, it is about growth,
and so saving money is one thing. Finding new money from new customers
is the other, and that's what they're going after. I just I mean,
I'll keep repeating it. I don't see how Battlefield is the solution to
that, but I suppose it's more of a solution to that than more dead
space. I guess. I just that bums me out again, Yeah,
and I mean guess I hope it works out. I mean ice like Battlefield
back at the time. I'm so old that Battlefield nineteen forty two was my
game, really, but if it could hit again, that that'd be nice.
I guess. Let's see. Star Wars Outlaws is coming out August thirtieth.
That is pretty exciting to me. I am like, like kind of
not trying to pay attention to the reaction to this stuff because it feels like
a minefield where people are going to be like, oh, she's not pretty
enough the main character, which definitely has happened. Of course that's happened.
And that is the most egregious case of just you can't get excited about any
girl who isn't just I'll say, all right, kind of like with uh,
I don't know, it's insane. That's a very pretty woman, insane,
yep. Yeah. And and and she like people point out, like,
looks like Ripley from Aliens. It's like, yeah, she looks exactly
like that. And Nat looks exactly like a character who was like a sexy
sex sci fi icon, Derek, I don't even sci fi sirens. Yeah,
sci fi sirens, yeah, heavy Middle two thousand, uh huh.
But ignoring all that stuff, there are there are a couple other controversies here.
People are like, hey, season pass, that's annoying. I'm used
to it. I'm sorry, that's just where I'm at. And then it
requires an internet connection to download the rest of the game if you get the
disc. I'm also used to that. I'm not saying these aren't problems.
People should continue to criticize these things because it does force these companies to at
least reckon with it a little bit. Uh. But they save a lot
of money usually by doing these things, and they make a lot of money
by doing the season pass, and that's sort of how they justify licensing in
IP Like Star Wars. I look at that game, I think it looks
pretty solid, Like I'm not expecting the world from it. But if they
have like that vibe of you actually are in Outlaw just trying to scrape by
in the Star Wars universe, and then the sort of a faction system is
decent, I'm gonna be happy. I think I don't know. How are
you feeling about it? I'm pretty excited for it. I think Massive does
good work. I like the vision a lot. I like their Avatar game
even and I think honestly looks like they're being a good deal more ambitious with
this than they were where the Avatar game. You know, we get a
lot of Jedi based Star Wars games. It's nice to get one of that
of that kind of scale as the Jedi phon and Order titles, but it
is more that bounty hunter rogue kind of character that you're playing. I'm gonna
get my hopes up a little bit for this. I hope it's gonna be
great. And then the other thing is, okay, August thirtieth, this
is like one of the bigger games coming out in the second half of this
year. Things are star and it takes shape a little bit. We get
this, maybe that if if you know Dragon Age that still comes out.
There's a couple of big games that have been announced. Trying to but yeah,
how are you feeling about the second half of this year right now at
this point? Yeah, I mean it seems a little sparse now. I'm
trying to race my brain. Remember what else is coming out, Uh,
you know, definitely Indiana Jones and that's it's a lot of essay is Microsoft
stuff. I think probably a Vowed is more second half, right, Uh
is that year? I think so yes, I hopewait is very soon.
And then I think a Vowed in India Jones are later, but I'm India
Jones certainly is yes, Indiana Jones definitely is yes. Right, so uh
god, two the biggest games this year are gonna be Indiana Jones of Star
Wars. I guess that's not chocking. Yeah, I mean right, I
mean that's what that That is the vestige of the period that we were just
in where it's like you got to be all I P all the time,
and it feels like, well, that's not a guarantee going forward from a
coupley like Ea. Although they are making a lot of of Marvel games,
I think it's definitly gonna feel a lot more sparse than like last year where
you had something like an Assassin's Cree game came out and everyone was basically like,
don't have time to even think about that? Right, yeah, sorry,
chests playing Assassin's Creed Red is probably coming out this year and it's like,
yeah, that a big new Assassin's Creed game feels like it'll do just
fine this year as opposed to last year. So yeah, I mean beyond
the games that we've mentioned, there isn't much. Like frost Punk two is
in July, and I'm excited about that. Yeah, but like these big
like Marquee, Triple A, ras Stalker two, Heart of Chernobyls September fifth
will see Warhammer forty K Space Rae two that is definitely a B game and
that's parenthesis positive for that. Yeah, and that's those I mean, Blackmith
Wukong is also in August. Like that's the level game we're talking about left
for this year. So yeah, we are a month and a half away,
two months away from Summer Game Fest. Things probably will pick up then
we probably will have some bigger announcements. But as it stands right now,
I'm glad that Star Wars is coming in August. That's great, But overall
it looks like it's slowing down and that's just fine. Yeah. Man,
this might be a big MMO year for me again because the fourteen is getting
down trail right, I was getting exit, why I was getting gets expedited
and a lot of content. Like I was on the World Warcraft subreddit,
Jeff, I was on this World of Warcraft subreddit. The vibe is positive.
Yeah, I was. I was. I was noticing that, like
they're like, hey, the remix and stuff. What how does that work?
I mean, give me the short version. Well, so Catechism is
coming to Classic. But then in retail they're also doing this kind of Missipandaria
like like Reducts experience where you can just sort of level through Missipantaria as it
was, and there's like some new gear and whatnot, and then when you're
done with it, it's just a retail character that you can play as.
And the return of the game's returned to China too, So okay, wow,
right, Missia is like a that's even though like at the time people
didn't play it because everyone was burnt out on Cataclysm. That's a very well
thought of expansion in these days, you know, people like the Lax expansion
and the new one's already coming. So you know, Blizzard's been having some
struggles lately, but we're at a Warcraft They really righted that ship in a
big way. Yeah, I mean, and it's for as troublesome as that
project must be for them at the end of the day, where that game
settles in in terms of subscriptions has got to be huge. I mean,
oh, somebody they had that number, somebody like found it not too long
ago, and it was like five million or something for World. Oh okay,
that was way more than I was, even I didn't believe it when
I saw it. And then like other people confer or corroborated that or reported
on that, And I mean, now keep in mind again because now you
have word Warcraft and Classic, so sure we're subscribed for both things. Okay,
it was seven point two five million reported a coupleiks ago. Again,
that is so high I almost don't believe it, right, But but the
point is is like if it's a million, that is still more than a
million. A million at what is it, fifteen dollars a month? It's
something like eleven, So I forget somewhere in that range. Still, like
that is for running one game like that is easily worth it, right,
Oh and the other game would kill for that. And you know what else
they had toward Warcraft recently that everybody seems to like a lot. They added
a battle Royal Mode. They just did that. It's a pirate theme,
but Battle Royal mode called Plunderstorm. People seem to like it. Actually need
to try that out. At some point they said, Jez talked to Blizzard
and they confirmed it. So yeow okay then, I mean, so getting
back to the point is writing the ship is like there's no other option.
They have to do what it takes to write the ship. There is too
much money at stake. That's so that's so impressive because for so long,
I mean, the numbers were going down from like the height of Wrath of
the lich King fifteen twelve or something like that, to the point where when
it got under five million during Warlords of Drain or they just stopped reporting it
because it was kind of always like it's going down, So we and people
just assumed that, like it must be like below three million at this point,
and now like for it to rebound like that, it's very impressive.
All right, there's these Nintendo Switch games ready to go. There's some yes,
are you are you ready? Do you mean to pull it up?
Are you gonna tell me there's a link here. I'm just like Sean didn't
want us to look Sean, do you want us to do anything special reacts
live? Yeah, I just want a live reaction, and I have all
adendum to the story as well. Wants to see what they are? Okay,
all right, I'm going to click it and let's find out what they
are. Tell what it is, alright, So from Nintendo of America on
the Twitter platform, three Super Nintendo Entertainment System classic titles are now live for
Nintendo Switch online members. All right, let's see super our type is the
one I recognized the most. Okay, cool Wrecking Crew ninety eight, which
is a Japanese only release. Oh the jet that was like a tell aview
thing. Really that's kind of nice. Interesting. I'm like, yeah,
okay, that's fascinating. And then the amazing Heberreki hebereki ibaraki h g b
e r e y e. I don't know these look I don't stream shots.
It looks like maybe power Stone but Supernintendo or Powerstone adjacent. Whoa,
okay, that sounds maybe no items but type of fighting. Yeah, yeah,
it's an arena fighter. What the fuck? So an addendum here,
As I mentioned, so amazing Heberak was something that they already had Japan.
So we have a bit of a culture exchange going on here where they're getting
a game that we had already on s O. They're getting battle Toes in
Battle Maniacs, a weird choice for japan ass. But they're also getting a
game that we won't be getting because it would be too much, uh marvelous
a g O Numa's directorial debut com Yeah, that very clearly would end up
inspiring link to the past, that game. So wow, interesting little one
there nuts amazingki, this is very okay. I I guess sure, nothing
crazy. What's up with this? Like different different people get different video games?
God damn it, Like what's going on? What don't they just like
releases like World? Why? What's the weird? Is the real answer?
I mean, you know, there's I'm sure there's a licensing agreements all this
other boring stuff. But the real answer, Christian is Nintendo they're just weird.
I wonder if I was. I'm pretty sure Wrecking Crew NINDI it was
like a teleview thing, only uh it looks like it was a cartridge release,
but it was. I guess maybe I'm making that up. Then,
Yeah, it looks cartridgy Okay, like type. I like our type question
type. Yeah, I had a big shooter phase recently. I mean the
thing is with ur type. If you're really in the art type, there's
probably more interesting art types you can buy for not too much on your switch
right now, but still I'll take it. Yeah, it more of an
art type or Grottius guy, I'm more of an R type guys, Gradius.
You know what I want is Paroti. I want a Parodius collection,
which is just it basically just plays like Graudius. But it's silly, so
it's better. These all just sound like STIs to me. Yeah, all
right. I guess the last thing is I was just on the Moocha's show,
and you know, like like Alaister like, hey, we're uh freaking
out about Xbox. They gotta sell stuff or else we aren't going to care.
I'm like, well, who cares? If you don't care, who
cares? They're They're big thing right now is Hey that next gen hardware that
they keep talking about from from like Sarah Bond and Phil Spencer, Like,
hey, we're going to have next gin hardware relatively soon and it's gonna be
the biggest technical leap. Ever, how are you gonna feel about that thing
if it does come out in twenty twenty six, Mike, are you going
to be someone that's like, oh, yeah, I'll pick that up,
or you're gonna be kind of like, well, maybe I would I should
just take that money and upgrade my PC instead. It would be Look,
I probably will still because I'm a sicko, but it would be like the
first time I'd really feel like, like, how much do I really think
I got out of my last x Box, honestly, and how much would
I've been better suited just say putting five hundred dollars into my PC? Now,
what if they have the handheld Xbox that has a really strong ecosystem,
Yeah, I mean that'd be more appealing to me. Same, honestly,
because like, especially at that point, I probably wouldn't need to upgrade from
like my Roger Ally, which I do that's like my favorite one right now.
And honestly, like, I imagine a portable Xbox would be pretty similar
to a Rock Ally in a lot of ways. Yes, I think at
the end of the day, the improvements that would come to an Xbox handheld
would likely show up in a Roger Ally, in a lot of ways,
although by the time we get an Xbox handheld, it'll be significantly more powerful
and capable than what the Roger can do. Definitely the Steam deck cool.
I was just wondering, I'm curious, because that was a little bit of
the conversation we were having in episode. I was like, at this point,
I just I don't I mostly don't care. I'm fine. They that
these are Xboxes problems, they can solve them, and if they don't,
they don't. If they do, they do. If they come out with
the product that I'm interested in, I'll buy it. I'll tell you why.
Here's the key. Make it good. If they make the games good,
I'll buy them. I'll play them. If they make the system good,
I'll buy it and I'll play games on it. And I think that
they have the capacity capacity to do that. And also I also think they
have the capacity to bungle it, which they've been able to do several times
before. So we'll see. I guess I just I would be so curious.
I mean, like, I know people talk out other asset times.
I'm hoping there's something behind the bravado of like it's gonna be the biggest jump
ever I think there. I think there will be. I just don't.
I'll tell you what. Whatever they're doing, there's a couple of things they
shouldn't do. They shouldn't launch head to head with the PlayStation six, and
they shouldn't release a console that is basically PlayStation six but with fewer games.
Yes, those are both good points. I think as long as they don't
do that, as long as they were like looking at like, we got
to stop doing that, and they're like, okay, well, if we
aren't trying to do that, how can we get creative and approach the the
you know, the console battle from the margins. And I think if they
do that with a handheld and a very powerful system, I think that that
sounds pretty good to me and I'll at least be very interested in it.
So all right, Mike, that does it for the big topics I want
to talk about. Let's take a quick break, and then when we get
back, we will do the superchats. Does that sound good? Sounds fantastic?
Right back after this and we are back and Mike, there's a bunch
of super chats. Why didn't read those to me? Yeah? From Carlos
Lopez. It's a two part question. First thing here, I'm becoming jaded.
I think I've realized this is a first world hobby kind of filled with
toxicity and privilege. Did you see yabara tweet about tips? I feel repulsed
by his idea? Is this how they think of revenue ideas? Alta ring
doesn't need tips? Why do they continue to squeeze the only people consistently buying
games? It's tremendously unserious. Something has to give. Yeah, I mean,
okay, I why I don't Actually, I'm not super sure what this
is a referen to? Why didn't you are a tweet? I don't know.
I'm going to look it up a que But is that you're supposed to
do? Right? My guest here is is that you probably are supposed to
be tipping developers? I guess, Oh god. And he raised the idea
of what if you could optionally tip developers more at the end of a he
said, single player game, so if you felt it deserved more than seventy
dollars, you could obstually tip twenty. It is ten dollars more. It
is. It is incredible. So like that thing that happens to be that's
subbly now where I have to give a tip there. Man, I can't
believe our solution is more more tipping culture. Yep. And I'm someone on
the record like I enjoy tipping culture at places where I have service workers in
front of me and I can pay them to be like make sure, like,
hey, I get it. You're working hard and this company's not providing
it for you. You're a goddamn multi billion dollar corporation. What are you
talking about. It's just so messed up. It's again, no, the
money should come from the bottom, is the top. It's insane. It
is yet and it is. It is actually kind of infuriating for mikey Bar
to even suggest that. Absolutely not, it is. Uh, well,
of course it's a non starter. It's not something that would happen. Well,
I guess, don't say that nothing. Yeah, I know, don't
say it couldn't happen. Uh. But it's a crazy thing to say and
suggest. But here, here, Carlos, I get getting jaded. I
think the best thing to do is get away from these wider scenes, find
your crew, hang out with them, come hang out the discord more.
Carlos. Uh, Well, you know we're good there, people are you
know, we have smaller conversations. Uh, talking to Jan who is just
at WrestleMania, maybe be like, I'm glad I'm in the gaming scene and
not the wrestling scene. Not that he had a good time, but like
the wrestling like coverage people there were like yeah, they were even moored in
a sort of demanding, an abrasive and entitled than any in gaming. And
so okay, at least we're a little bit more mature than that other thing
over there. I suppose, not that that's like a high bar to clear,
but I just think there's ways that you could control your environment a little
bit more to make you feel better. And then at the end of the
day, if that doesn't solve it, so then you're jaded. You go
like other hobbies are there. That's fine, There's nothing wrong with putting gaming
aside for some time. There's no shame in that at all. Alian A
Miracle says, you know, given things as of late, it makes sense
it's the year of shadow. Uh huh, I mean it really does explain
a lot. Big year for shadows man Backlar should have gotten more out of
that. When of the daily eclipse, we tweeted big, big day for
Shadows, I should have gotten in the metal for that one. So see
that this big day for Shadow, like you're tweeting about crying or something,
and I know that he's like out there enjoying it. He does. It's
the brand. Yeah, God, so funny, Chris Pratt says, does
anyone know switch to will have the Mario game in it? Man, I
love stomping for lupas in that game back in the arcades. Please look into
it, Jeff. I'll do what I can for you, Chris Son anytime.
Don't worry. I'm gonna make sure you can get you get your felupa
on. I think Chris either there's a glitcher or Chris Pratts did say at
the time that they accidentally sent it in twice. Well, you know,
Chris Son having a little trouble with the computer there, he's a boomer.
We can leave, we understand. We can just bet a euro O g
gameer, Chris, Chris Son, we get it team money. Oh Jesus,
first souper chat here. Thanks so much. Don't forget to unlock your
very own Jim Ryan commemorative bobblehead and PlayStation Stars before it goes away in a
few days. Thanks for all you guys do. That's real, isn't it.
That's that's real, Although you have to get one, I know.
But if you pointed a gun at my head and said, go over,
claim something in PlayStation Stars, I wouldn't even fucking know where. I don't
know what is PlayStation I thought that was a type of for the PlayStation in
store, PlayStation Star. It's like a program where it's like you can earn
points by like spending money on PlayStation stuff in the PlayStation store, and then
you can redeem those points for Jim Ryan digital bobbleheads. What the fuck out?
Saying it out loud makes me feel crazy, like I don't know.
I don't know how to get the PlayStation Stars anyhow, So I'm not I
shouldn't be trying to get the Jim Bryan bubblehead, all right. Games Mornings
Tomorrow, Willow Davis says, Can I see what a goatee Mike pod face
looks like? Okay, with a displavorite that the guy who did that face
was is problematic. It has been for a while, right, I think
I definitely use an sport. He's a fighting game guy anymore. Actually,
yeah, that's pretty good. Can you do it without the mic other so
we can get a clean one that's actually really lad perfect. Okay, we
got it. That's good as Mike. Congrats. That will be an EMO
on giant bomb dot com. Okay, the next one here is from Big
Fresh thirty seven arcade hockey game Goons, Legends and Mayhem came out today.
Play it after you finished, captain to there you go. More hockey for
you, hockey freaking let's go. I'll look into this. That sounds Fundones,
Legends and Mayhem. All right, I'm checking it out. Chris pratte
Back says, rest in peace. OJ, you would have been a cool
charging chuck. Oh, that's true. Be does he playing what did?
Because he was a football player. Yeah? Sometimes I forget he was a
football player. I'm killed people I like to tweet today. Yeah, sure
he killed that lady. But he's the only player to run for two thousand
yards in a fourteen season game, and that's what's important. We can't say
that now, we won't get sued. He's then, I mean, he's
he can't suit us anymore. That's right. He better not be able to
sue me. Well, he's simply the INTERI will says, how do you
all get comfortable playing games handheld? I feel like I spent more time adjusting
my position than actually playing the games. I've always been pretty good with this.
I don't know I've been. I don't even have to get like a
case or special handles for my switch like other people. I just sit there
in bed or lay there in bed holding the thing. I'm fine. I
live my life horizontal, baby, So I just lay down on the bean
bag and go to town. Yeah. I actually have more difficulty getting comfortable
with gaming at the desk and at the computer right on the couch for console
gaming, so laying down with a handheld device has always been more comfortable for
me. And then Big Fresh thirty seven says, honestly, do game journalists
all kind of h o the Lake Wrestlers? No? In fact, dup
Boys is all the time, like Twitter is Twitter and it's weird sometimes as
whenever we see people person it's always five. Everything's like great, here's a
peak behind the scene yesterday when all that was happening. I also they re
out to me, both Cat and chaseon Try are going to be on the
Giant Palm couch this this year don't worry. It's Throe the beginning person.
It's like all that stuff, it feels so small. And then really,
once we start talking in any way, it's like, oh, yeah,
this is just everyone's just doing their job. And I think when it seems
kind of acrimonious, it's when we just like let those misunderstandings like take the
floor front. That's all. Got one more here just came in from Dustin
Cox. This says, Hey, guys, I'm being my first kid in
five months. Any advice I'm finding time for gaming as a parent. I'm
planning to buy a steam Deck to help. Okay, the question is gaming
is a parent? Yeah, I mean this and steam Deck is going to
be very helpful. I got my switch right when I had my first kid.
I mean, if it's it's first kid, you're gonna have a ton
of gaming time because the thing just sits there. The kid just is just
going to be a ball a goo and you just got to like PLoP it
down on the chest to make fun faces at it, and then you get
to play your games and the kids can be like, oh, what are
you doing there? So it's it's pretty easy there for the first couple of
months. It's more complicated later on if you have multiple kids or once,
they have responsibilities and they need to be like taking care of constantly, and
they can't just like to shove a bottle in their face. So yeah,
just get a handheld device that you're comfortable with. If the steam deck is
it, that'll be great, and and that should be enough. I think
J D. Camp says, what happened to Mike? I hate change.
Yeah, Mike's gone Dark Mitches here now man, dark Matches. Dark Match
has been so important to me, saved me so many times. I decided
to replace him, replace Mike with him on the show. No, it's
implied I could do weird things with my jowl when this is like this,
Mike, don't give that away for free. People should pay for that,
everybody. If you want Mike to do weird things with his jowl, to
your but now you're looking like the guy for men and black. I don't
like it. Sugar water, sugar water, sugar water. That's different.
Now, everybody, all right, we're gonna take another break and then we
get back. We got some big topics to take care of, including our
nineties arcade draft to look out for. That right, ready to lose.
All right, we're back in it's the nineties. Uh, We're back when
love was still left in the world. We did it? Yeah, yeah,
back when O. J. Simpson was in his prime, in his
prime, and and Bill Clinton was president and everything there was no no penis
is anyone his mouth. I'm sorry, I don't know why. I just
can't think of the nineties without thinking about Bill Clinton's penis. How about okay,
yes, right, think about you're right, all right, we're gonna
pick our Okay, here's a couple of things. So we're gonna do a
nineties arcade draft. We need to figure out a couple of things. I
was thinking maybe like seven games, Mike, but what do you think probably
like to get the time we get to seven first and see if we if
we like really are running on fumes trying to come up with these anymore.
But all right, sounds good. And then we got to figure out who's
going first. We have a solution for that. I can like roll a
dice or something, unless a sean you have something? All right? Did
Mike goes first? A very cool? All right? Anything else we need
to figure out, Mike? Yeah, Look, look some games have like
multiple variations. But yeah, any game that was possible to play in the
arcades in the nineties. So if something came out in the eighties but was
available in the nineties, I think that's fair game. I don't think there's
burner pick any of those because it's like hard because of the various like releases.
I think it's kind of like, I mean to a point, but
like what you want to like make pac Man eligible. That's not really what
I was thinking. More like you know, things that have like terminent edition
and whatnot, Like, yeah, I don't think we need to get that.
Wow, Okay, yeah, okay, sure. I think if it's
like what I mean mostly is like if it's like eighty nine, but like
it came out in the United States in the nineties, I just don't want
to be too strict on that. That's what I meant. All Right,
that's fine, We'll have some buffer, all right, cool, all right?
In that case, Mikey, your first go for it. This is
it is hard. I feel like, like, what is number one here?
I know what I know? It was the most popular arcade game,
and it's just a matter of like is this still gonna work now? Even
though it's all stuff from the nineties, I'll still be called a boomer no
matter what I pick. But I think i'll I think I'll pick NBA Jam
first. Actually, like yes again, like what I mean, yeah,
ternamin Editions like the ideal form, but you know, just right to NBA
Jam, that's probably fine. Okay, Yeah, this is this is tough.
I'm trying to think of games that will get people the most excited,
and it's hard to predict. I think, so I'm gonna go with I'm
gonna go with X Men Arcade. I like it. I get one of
those beat them ups. Yeah, I think people see that and they get
I think they get pretty sited, just kind of like, oh yeah,
I love that game. I played it so much as a kid. It's
I know, I think a lot of people think that, Like they can't
get the beat them Up license because Sony just owns X Men for video games
right now. But God, I hope a deal can happen because with X
Men ninety seven popping off, and with Tribute Games just having done that amazing
like TM and t beat them Up, just please make a new X Men
beat them Up in that style happen. Please. Yeah, I agree,
and I know something. It feels like there's usually exceptions for that sort of
thing, so hopefully they can make it happen. I'm gonna go straight Fighter
three Third Strike specifically, yeah, which is just squeaked in there in ninety
nine. I believe I think that this is the best fighting game to come
out in the nineties. Fighting games are obviously very important for video games,
for fighting games in the nineties, So I'm going with that one. Yeah,
And I'm gonna go in a similar route, but I'm gonna go with
the one that's like I think Splash Year for more people, and that's Mortal
Kombat too. Yeah, that's kind of the other one that was definitely the
one to meet that was like more important at the time, right for sure.
And I think people again like, oh yeah, I love Mortal Kombat
too. I'm like, not sure how far that gets me, but I'm
hopeful. Chat no suggestions. I see all these deleted things. Chat no
suggestions except for you cold, I'll read yours, don't orry, but but
thank you for being so engaged. I'm would go. I'm gonna also do
a beat them up. There's one I know I like more and but you
can guess too, Joe. I think I gotta go with the more popular
one there. I gotta go with T M and T Turtles and time as
by representative here. I think in that case, I will go with because
I'm gonna go I'm just gonna kinda go with the theme of like I think
people will get excited when they see this, I'm gonna go with the Simpsons.
Then. I know it's another beat them up, but I think there's
people who like expand I think there's people like the Simpsons, and this will
cover both of those bases. So I think now I'm worried about the racing
genre, and for me, that's gonna be Daytona USA is my two,
right da? Yeah, that's really good man. I'm like, every time
you like pick one, I'm like, should I be immediately thinking about covering
that genre? And I might, but well maybe not exactly a racing game
though, you know what, I'll go with crazy Taxi. Okay, I
love crazy Taxi. Yeah, absolutely, Crazy taxi has never been one wherehere.
I'm like, I'm gogat for it, but I always have fun and
I know people have fond memories of it as an arcade game. The other
genre I really want to cover here is the gun genre shooting, and for
this I think the best one is absolutely Time Crisis two. That's the one
I would always think of for these kinds of games specifically, all right,
and just going second is kind of forcing me in these situations, and I
want to make sure that I have something to answer to that that I feel
comfortable with, and so I'll go with the House of the Day. Okay,
it's the House of the Dead. I like that. That's good.
That makes sense to me. Yeah, but I'm like, I look at
your list. I think it's a Your list is the one I like better
already. So they're both good. Yeah, they're both good. But like
this is how it always goes, isn't it. Yep, your turn,
Mikey. We can clearly go to ten, I think, so, yeah,
we're doing pretty good here, yues Yeah, this would be six.
Uh. I think another kind of co op game, but of a different
style. I'm gonna go with Gauntlet Legends. Now, Wow, that's I
feel I feel like that's what I love. Uh. Do you think it's
gonna play? I Thinklet Legends still plays a bit, but I'm glad to
hear that. Honestly, I love Gatland Legends. Yes, I'm great in
Sean Stance Tran. I'm glad to hear that because I was like, man,
that's one I always think of as a great pick, but I wasn't.
I didn't have confidence in it. Man, is that Should I go
with that arcade version of that one? I don't know. Maybe not.
How many more fighting games do I really want to go with? You know
what, I don't have my answer to that. I'll go with NFL Blitz.
Yeah, that's good. I probably should have picked that one up by
now. Yeah, and I should have done it earlier, I think.
But I'm happy with that that pick. I mean commanded. If it's not
NBA Jam, it's NFL Blitz for a lot of people, and a lot
of people prefer NFL Blitz. So I feel good about that. Gosh,
this is support me. And this was one that was everywhere and I think
people I think people still liked it. It was. I hope it's not
been more picked. But Star Wars trilogy, that Arcade Machine Rule, that
was yep, absolutely Okay. Thinking here again, now, I am kind
of leaning back towards a fighting game. I think, uh, I'm gonna
go with Soul Caliber. Okay, I think I'm gonna go right back at
you. Uh yeah, I think I'll just go tech them three. Then.
Oh that's yeah, that's a good one. All right, So where
are we at? We That means this is our eighth pick, this is
your eighth, this is my eighth. Hey oh, gamer, thank you
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Okay, man, you got Time Crisis. That's a good one.
Huh. Yeah. It's like I'm trying to putting myself into our case and
like trying to walk through. Yeah, and I'm like, I'm like trying
to make sure I'm not like missing any obvious greats that I'll kick myself.
But I'm like, i can't keep I'm not gonna pick another fight game.
That's just I don't feel like that's not gonna help me anymore. You know
what, I'm gonna go with San Francisco Rush. Nice, it's good.
I'm gonna go with Metal Slug that's one that was definitely thinking. I was
kind of wondering if I could get away with that as a last pick.
Now, yeah, it's just smart, right, And and I was like,
we're thinking about S and K as well, Mike. I think that's
the S and K game I would still want. Okay, let's see here.
You know what I I will go with die Hard Arcade. Okay,
okay, ah, god, this is like a big one. I part
of me wonder how it plays now this is my last one, but I
think I'm gonna go with hydro Thunder. Hydro Thunder is fantastic. That is
a really good game. It's definitely when I. It's when I when I
took Crazy Taxi, I was thinking, maybe I should go with hydro Thunder
instead, but I'm like, Crazy Taxi just had that brand recognition that I
couldn't deny. Okay, I'm gonna go with Dance Dance Revolution then for my
last Oh that's pretty good. Oh. I definitely should have gone something from
the music genre. Yeah, like, you know, look, there's a
couple other ones that would be in the play there, but I think Dance
Dance Revolution is correct. All right, Mike, why don't you read yours,
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you can yell at us, what no pinballs on your kaye? Look
like we're doing ninetiades kind of over Yeah. Also, also fuck Jeff Backlar
the episode one Arcade machine with like the hologram screen. That was a pretty
cool. BAH should have spent Top Golf and big Buck Hunters Capella's g Yeah,
I was trying to think about a schmup game and I just like,
wasn't really sure what's put on there? Yeah, Top Golf, that's the
one you said, Yeah, that's top that would have been. I'm not
sure if I even knew Powerson wasn't Arcade game, first Monster, No ski
ball? Yeah, what have I just said? Ski boll See that video
of may Kish, yes in saying it's the one of the craziest things I've
ever seen. It was I've gotten too in a row before and felt like
a god, and she hit every single one in the one. I've never
felt like such a beta in my life. Yes, absolutely, I'm like,
she just cupped me with a ski ball machine. That's crazy. All
right, I'm going to post this to Neo Turf Masters. Would have been
good. I did think about Neoturf Masters when you took Metal Slug, but
I'm like that might be kind of a Bars' capcom too. By the way,
it is like early two thousands drag, like early two thousand. I
think it's literally two thousands, like, yeah, cold, that was Mary
Cash, that was It's just impressive stuff. So do you want to take
a break while we maybe start the pull italiated? Yeah? And then christ
you said yesterday to a break, Yes, okay, yeah, yeah,
I'll see that. I want to talk about the Giins mem planes. There's
something interesting that I played, and then break the next segment and then I'll
get the results out of that. Yeah, and then the end of the
show, we're going to do the recap of the Fantasy League I believe,
right, well, let's do that first and then gives people time to vote.
Let's okay, we'll talk about a second. Know what, We're gonna
take a break. We'll be right back everybody. We're I thought we were
back already. I was real confused. I'm sorry. It's okay. So
that's just in the show now, that's going to be the podcast version,
right back, everybody. Welcome back to our show where we're going to talk
about video games. Mike, what have you been playing? I guess it's
something interesting. I got to play actually a bit of the Rogue Prince of
Persia, which is the recently announced roguelike Prince of Persia. Game being made
by Evil Empire, I believe the name of the Dead Cells studio. This
is coming out in early access later this year, I think sometime the summer.
I can never find that date when I think about it. But yeah,
I got to play like about an hour of this. I got to
do a few runs fifteenth the Way fifteenth and Early Accidents next month, yep,
okay, pretty soon then. So yeah, it's so it is weird,
Jeff. It's weird in the ways I think we thought it'd be weird.
Like, Okay, there's just another new two D print, the Persia
game after we already got one that was amazing, and it's obviously similar because
it's two D and it's about combat and platforming, but it is like,
yes, it's just made from different people. It's like these two teams were
not talking to each other. They aren't connected in any narrative sense or anything
like that, and yet everything here still feels really good. Like that combat
that that definitely is a bit Dead Cells. The Dead Cells was very good
with the two D combat, right, unlike with the you know, Lost
Crown, you are getting different weapons and stuff as part of your build and
whatnot. Then the platforming also feels really good. But the big thing here
is that wall climbing mechanic. Whereas in The Lost Crown you had that kind
of wall climb air dash basically, right, and that was the way they
incorporated it here. A lot of times there is literally a wall in the
background, and if there is one, then you can do a short climb
on it in any direction to kind of help your movement. And that feels
fantastic. That sounds fantastic. So so you're saying you can run wall run
in any direction. Yeah, you can like wall run up if you want
to. Oh, okay, and like diagonal, So it's like platforming exactly.
Like that's like kind of the main platforming hook of it. And now
not there's not always a background there, but like ninety five percent of the
time there is. Okay. So my question is this is a procedurally generated
game because it's a roguelike game similar to Dead Cells. Does the platforming feel
like considered enough that it like reaches your standards as someone who's super into that
kind of game. Yeah, it does. And there are like a part
of what you will find are platforming challenge rooms, which do have like the
really well crafted format segments and then like you do it and there's a chance
of like one of three upgrades kind of a thing. Right, So even
in like the levels of self it feels good. Then when you have those
it is kind of like, Okay, now I'm like really moving and this
is feeling really nice. Kind of like again, how it feels in some
of those sections in the Lost Crown, even though the mechanics are a bit
different here. And then the look of it, how are you feeling about
that? I mean, it looks like slightly rotoscoped, has echoes of a
bunch of different things. But I know you brought up the original Prince of
Persia the cinematic platformer. Does that come across when you're playing, because in
the video, I'm like, this looks pretty good, but I bet it
looks better when I'm playing it. Does that do that way? I can
say, I might throw some people off, right, it is? It
is striking. It is that kind of unshaded style that like I think,
no, I'm thinking if Dan Rekert and like hollow and I think some people
associate that as new ground Z a little bit and maybe consider it as sort
of cheap looking. I think it looks nice and it does have that like
like there's a lot of frames that looks real rotoscopey. I mean, I've
been saying it kind of reminds me of like the original Prince of Persia.
Did you kind of get what I meant by that now that you see it?
Yeah, when I look at it, I see what you mean.
It reminds me of games that were sort of doing that rotoscope style from later
as well, the one I brought up on Games Mornings which I didn't show.
I showed the Revenge of the Sith one for the DS, but Attack
of the Clones for Game Boy Advance has that rotoscoping as well, and it
reminds me a lot of that, But obviously that is informed by Prince of
Persia as well. I don't know, I think it looks really striking.
I think like the beyond, like the technical look, the the style choices,
and like the setting. That stuff really stuck out as well. I'm
like, man, we've had a lot of Prince of Persia games and yet
how somehow this still feels pretty fresh. Yeah, that's what's the it is
need how to stink the still feels from the literal Prince of Persia game we
got eight couple months ago, right, you know, and that was doing
like, you know, Polygons as a two D kind of thing, and
this is doing much more of a drawled art art kind of painterly style.
I suppose, maybe not painterly, but you know what I mean. It's
clearly different than that, and they both look good. But yeah, I
just was surprised that it does play well even though it feels different. The
ruds were feeling good, Like I was fighting up boss at the end and
I get very close to killing them and I get mad at myself that I
did it. I think, just like Lost Crown, you have like a
potion system right where you're like, yeah, you have so many potions and
you know you can use them. Maybe you can refill them here or there,
who knows. So I think that this is going to hit pretty well
when this comes out good. I'm glad to hear that I've mostly been playing
games I can't talk about. I'll be able to talk about them here pretty
soon. Some stuff I'm excited about. So we did check back in on
Hell Divers too today, and that game continues to be very fun every time
we play it. We just have a good time. I'm not playing enough
of it. I wish I was playing more of it, but boy,
it's just a great time to jump in there and do fun stuff and every
moment is exciting or funny and that like not every game has that, so
really really enjoyed ourselves there. I am. I'm still pretty low level,
so I'm using a lot of the basic stuff still, and yet it's like,
you know, figuring out how to make the I can't remember name of
the gun, but it's the one that's the big cannon that I put on
my shoulder and as a backpack of AMMO, and realizing that rifle, thank
you, the recoilist rifle. Realizing that Sean could take the backpack and carry
it for me, and when it was time for me to fire it,
he could be reloading it while I'm firing it, so it's ready to go
way faster than me stopping sitting down on my knee putting the thing in and
being completely helpless, and like he was like, I'm gonna wear this backpack?
How does it work? And he just came out to me he had
a new option, like that that's really neat, Like that teamworkers, like,
Okay, the synergies are obvious here, and and that also has it's
like a give and take. It's like, Okay, we give fire this
very powerful rifle now much more quickly, but now Sean can't wear anything on
his backpack other than my AMO, So there's a given take there. And
I just like thinking about those various synergies and I'm like, I'm also glad
we're not super serious about the game, Like we're like, we are gonna
play the meta. We are gonna like do the thing. We're gonna get
the weapon and it's the best weapon. It's like, no, we're just
having fun experimenting, figuring things out. And I think that's probably where the
game is at its best, where it's like, oh, we're discovering these
new ways of working together. And that felt really cool. So yeah,
big fan of it. Also, we made Christian mad the entire time because
we playing that alone made it worth it exactly anything else from you, Mike,
I'm glad, my my, my suffering brings you joy. So you're
right, absolutely, So the worst thing you could do is is decide you
want to talk and scream out two syllables. They go like a whole second
delay for me to talk. I don't know. I'm sorry. I forgive
you. We got we got to put the mods back in the mod hole.
Look you said it, uh Persona three reload. Finally I did,
finally get through it. I kind of have like that big, like something
magical about like deciding to play to finish the JRPG that you're playing, and
you do that in like four hours or so, right Becau's like, you
know, we're you know, you know you're at the end. You're not
going to leave some of that for the next day. So I had a
big race there to kind of get through it. I was very powerful by
the end. I don't know what I did, but like it was pretty
easy at the end there for me. I was just completely wiping through these
final bosses and everything. But man, it still hits, you know,
no spoilers. Persona three has a very good ending. It's an ending that
really sticks with you. It's just really neat. Because when I played Persona
three Porta Bowl, I was doing that on my Vita. I was like,
that's so long ago. I was like, you know, living in
the basement of my mother's condo at that time, right, so all these
years later, just like you know, situations changed. I'm in my own
house playing this thing on the rock outline now being in a much better place
in life, but like still having that kind of similar experience. There's something
really neat about that. Yeah, I mean, I'm glad you're able to
get through all that too, especially like a busy year already taking that much
time on something like that and able to being able to get through that's great.
Are you, like, what is your plan to attack those games that
we've missed so far this year? Because I'm starting to be like maybe I
don't have to go back and play everything. I mean, I want to
start Unicorn Overlord. And I was going to that. I like was like
organizing my NSO stuff, and it's like, I've not played my Switch very
much last a couple of months because I've been doing Persona. It's like,
oh, hold on my Switch. And then somehow I just found myself playing
Mario Golf on the game and like, I played a few hours of that
last night, and I think I'm probably going to play more of that tonight
before we really dive into Unicorn Overlord. I don't know. Yeah, I
did start Unicorn Overlord. But I do have Mario Golf just sitting on the
Analog pocket and a bunch of nights where I'm like, okay, I got
a track, let me go get the Steam Deck and I'm like, ah,
the Analog pocket's right there. I'll just start playing some Mario Golf instead
and doing that instead Unicorn Overlord. I talked about that on Ninten Dogs everybody,
if you want to listen to it there. That game is very good,
though I'm very into the tactics and I am skipping a lot of this
story and that is making it pretty bearable for me. So Christoph brings up
a point, are you done with Dragons Dogma? I don't. I'm not.
I want to go back to it, but it's like, I like,
it's in the same spot with like Final Fantasy seven Rebirth. I want
to go back to that, And I'm like, I think what I need
to do is acknowledge I'm not going to go back to Final Fantasy seven Rebirth
and that's not right now and just go play Dragon's Dogma two. And but
god, I wish you just ran better on on the Steam Deck or something
better on everything. I should run better on everything, So yeah, anything
else, Mike No, I think I'm ready to be declared a winner hopefully.
Let's yeah, let's do the results right now. For that, I'm
going to end the poll and give Sean a second to collate that and give
us the results one more time though, Mikey, Mikey's Arcade versus Jeff Kaid
are the highlights here NBA Jam versus X Men, Arcade Street Fight or three
third Strike versus Mortal Kombat too. We'll see what people pick. Sean.
Do we have the results? We do, we have the official results.
As a always with these drafts, the patrons of the community over in the
discord ultimately decide who is the winner of the evening. That's right, and
I would like to say I think you both made some good lists tonight.
I think Mike was a little stronger in the first half, Jeff was a
little stronger in the second half. Both good lists, and I will say
the polls on all platforms are relatively close, but interestingly, the podcast producers
did favor one of these a bit more because with sixty percent of the vote,
so not a blowout, but definitely in the lead. Your winner is
Mikey is ourcade. Okay, oh my god. I was like, it's
somehow it's not gonna win because I just went on Twitter. It saw that
somehow I'm losing there, and I was like, what the way I went
with the Twitter audience and it fucked me those you can't ever go for those
sickouts. Yeah, I'm not surprised, Mike. I really would have a
better time in your arcade than of course I have Hydro Center. Yeah,
you have Hydro obviously, Hydro Thunder fucking Rules, Star Wars Trilogy, Arcade,
Gauntlet Legends. I love these games about I think Gatlet Legends was a
good pool for me. I'm glad you. I'm glad you picked it,
and you deserve to win for having the bravery to pick that one, because
I was too much of a coward. So that puts me in my place.
TAYTONA, USA. These are all really great games. I'm like,
I would miss X Men Arcade if I didn't have that inside of miss x
Men Arcade, but the most sure, honestly, your games I think are
better and mine have some Like what I did there was like I'll just try
to get by on name recognition and that wasn't enough this time. So yeah,
yeah, I definitely wish I got Blitz. I think Blitz is a
big guest for you, especially that late. Yes, but Blitz was a
good value pick at that place. I was able to get a lot of
value at that point in the draft, so felt good about that. I
also felt good about Dance Dance Revolution, honestly. Yeah, that's a good
one. All right, that's gonna do it for that. I think we
have one last section here. We need to catch up on what's going on
with the Fantasy Critical League is and we have like a full rundown of that,
right Sean, we do, which I will need one more break to
set up for sounds good, Right, We'll be back right after this,
all right, boys, I just can't wait till the Joker too comes out.
But in the meantime, I'll try to feel something with these Fantasy Critic
results brought to you by Turber Sean, who is brought to you by Benji
Bop. Right, is I empowered by Benji Bop? So I love that
much of like the the voting on the draft that we did before. This
is another thing that we're doing for our podcast producers, which you know,
anyone can't join in if they're a supporter of the show, so Patreon,
dot com, slash Games, or hey, if you're a YouTube member as
well, which some people became tonight and also get over at the discord or
their discord. That's right, you're during the discord now, so feel free
to go over there and join that's right. So anyways, what we have
here is a recap I guess we're doing roughly bi monthly or something of what's
going on in our Fantasy Critic draft game. We like to do a variety
of Metacritic open crick prediction stuff, as listeners of the show know, and
this is the fantasy sports style game that we do with this, and so
here we have from Benji Bob, who organizes all this stuff. Thank you
very much, Bob, as always summary of what's been going on for the
past month and a half or so. Now, just like last time,
Jeff, if you are so inclined, I would like your very special skill
to be used on this next slide here. Yeah, I'll do what I
can, thank you, sir. All right, we are starting off,
and of course Adam Asleep has a huge lead with Nick Turbo not far behind,
but then there is a bunch of people falling behind whoa immediately though,
GameCube Chris takes a big lead, jumps ahead, right ahead of Doctor Ryan,
Nick Turbell hanging lat did that. That was the big Bolotro move.
Bilotro was the best thing to do. And then Final Fantasy seven Rebirth comes
out and that keeps game c Chris in the lead, but then Tyler James
Bay able to get into second place. Expeditions A mud Runner games launches alongside
Unicorn Overlord, and there's a little bit of movement there in the charts,
with Corey Williams going to the top six or seven there, but still at
number one GameCube Chris followed by Tyler James Bay and number three is Doctor Ryan.
Yeah, and it's still moving. There's very little movement, very few
game releases happening anymore at this point. We're getting towards the end of March,
but there's Dragon's Dogma two and big movement there. Doctor Lynch takes the
first place with the movement from Dragons Dogma two. GameCube Chris not far behind
low Rull Legend also in third place, now forty seven point six points.
Tyler James Bay rounding out the top four with forty seven point three points.
RAZI will get some there with Pepper Grinder as well. Yeah uh, and
that's the end of March. I think your graf was, by the way,
is in cropped properly on the obs scene. Oh yeah, let me
fix that for you. Every it's mostly there. It might be a little
low reserent video version anyway. So that's excellent tag team there, boys,
I really appreciate so that that leads Doctor Lyncha so far in the lead at
fifty point three points at the end of March. Now this could this doesn't
mean everything because obvious a lot of people just maybe haven't had games come out
yet. Yes, I got some I guess some more stats for you boys
here too. To expound upon that a little bit. So noble releases of
the period. I won't read the scores for all of them and what it
means and for everything, but we have follow Fantasy Sound Rebirth at the top,
and then in descending order of score. I found out this. This
broke my brain. Apparently it is balatrow that that hurt me. Yeah,
because it's an actual like Latin word. It's a Latin Barb. Yeah,
it refers to like like an actual goof Joker. Yeah. Well, but
then I realized the only people I've heard say it are basically Jan and Grub.
I'm like, oh, yeah, okay, okay. Anyways, Balatrow,
Balatro, however youone pronounce it Unicorn, Overlord, Dragon's Dogma two,
Pacific Drive, Penny's Big Breakaway, Raise, La Ronan, Princess Peach,
Showtime Alone in the Dark, and South Park snow Day, all with varying
scores from Reverse ninety two on Open Critic just South Park's sixty one. So
whatever one picked her in this period is definitely going to affect things here.
Here, I'll I'll just read who's at the top of each leader board for
each of the divisions Game mess Critiques, which is BOP's League we U two
featuring Bono Nice from Tiger James bab fantastic name, just absolutely excellent in the
lead there with forty seven points. We have lastly, Critique Dogs that should
be Mikey's League, where Razzle Jazzled is leading with publisher Tycoon forty six points.
Closest to the MESSI Critic thats BOP's League. Gamecub Chris is leading there
with their nin ten Colm publisher forty eight points on the board. Critical jeopardy
is my league where beef Hammer eleven crown pophy Do you acknowledge that is leading
with the jan O Chu Chu Choa Express and his thirty seven points critique bros.
I believe this is Aja's league where doctor Lynch is leading with Doctor Lynch's
mean Fantasy Crik Machine parentheses. Sok is good with fifty points, and that
means that the top ten overall leaderboard looks as follows. Doctor Lynch is in
the lead, as Mike said, with those fifty points GameCube Chris, and
second with forty eight and Low Rule Legend with forty seven. If you want
to see where else people at place, let's just check out the video ors
it for yourself. The captain's leaderboard, on the other hand, heure we
have in order at the top is yours, truly Turbo Shawn with my Crystal
Dynamics Crystal with a K of course publisher twenty five points, zero nine points.
Now why do I have that and everyone else on board? Not so
much because I had Final Fantasy Sound Rebirth in Mina, which did very well
for me if anyone doesn't know if it's any points that a game scores over
ninety on open creak is worth double the points in our league, So big
scores there. Benji Bops BOP's Shadow Drops got twelve point six one points with
a variety of smaller releases Brothers a Tale of Two Sons remake. He got
Expeditions as well and counterpicked Splittoon three side or DLC, which I believe I'm
actually negative points here if we're I'm reading this correctly. Uh. Jeff Grubb
with stunt Race FX on those host gaming guy, Yeah, so good,
that's so good place right Timehart third place with zero points with A. J.
Manati's Adge Games. But interestingly, Mike Manati's Rocket Mike Adventures is in
the whole negative six point two to one points because he counter picked Riiseley Road
in which actually, if my math is done right there, it means that
I scored a seventy six on open correct. Yeah, I guess that just
sport below a seventy for him to gain points, and look, I stand
by that. So yet to yet to counterpick something and better that than something
that's going to be scoring the eighties or whatever, And so my bigger worry
is that one of my games, Like so my games right now are Star
Wars, Outlaws, Visions of Mana, and then unannounced the mainline three D
Mario platforms. So that's my real problems. I don't think that's coming out
anymore. So I have a lot of spots I need to fill up in
this thing pretty soon here, and you're right, like I was forced to
counterpick something too that was kind of I think, pretty late in the game,
and so I had to counterpick Space Marine two kind of hoping maybe that
gets another delay or something, because I think that game could easily be in
the seventies. So I'll be right there with you, losing at least that
many points. I think I have a flight simulator down Trail and Dragon Quest
three h D two D. Man This one's a lot harder because there's so
many peop I'm paying attention, as opposed to the Giant Bomb one, where
I was able to get Bilotro kind of easily for a dollar, but next
time, no one knew. We none of us knew. That's such a
good website Jane talked about on the BombCast, one of the most popular video
gaming podcasts in the world. Yeah, and you got it like right after
the show you anyways, that's going to do it for our summary for this
period. I like I said, this is a nice little thing that we
like to do to say thank you to all the podcast producers. The league
is full, but like with last time, sometimes people drop out if they're
not really feeling the game. And if a spot opens up, I'll let
everyone know in the next update and then you can reach out to BOP if
you would like to pick up that spot and play for the rest of the
year. Because this is this is a battle to the end of the year,
and we were only a third right through, so anything could happen,
anything could change. Who knows where we're gonna end up when it's all said
done. What do I get my super drop? Is super drop to come
come later in the year or do we not have super drops? It's a
super drop. I think we just have them now, don't we. I
thought it says I have zero super drops available in my thing. Maybe I
use about that the logistics there, but we do near gear counter picks by
a certain time too. I believe that's September. September first is when we
get that, Benji, Bob, he says, that's when we get the
super drop. Okay, interesting, right there we go, so you can't
fill it up before then if I'm like wanting to get games between now and
then, interesting? Cool? All right, Well, thank you for that,
Bob, Thank you for that, Sean Uh, thank you for losing
to me so far. And that Mike helps after a r K draft.
I appreciate it, and that's something I'll take it, all right. But
I think what we should do now is get the hell out of here.
What do you say, why don't you read the super chats first? If
we haven't super chats first, that's interesting. That's a good thought. I
guess that's a good idea, all right? From layers, I got a
back bund control from my newist Samsung phone, and like all the streaming and
emulation it can handle. I want to tempt myself to get a steam Deck,
though. Do you think the upgrade is worth it? Yes? I
do. Now, if you're be using the backbone controller on your phone,
you're a better person than I am. I don't think. I don't actually
enjoy doing that. But even in your case, I think the steam Deck
is an improvement I would like. I think I would point to think Greg
Miller used to do the backbone thing a lot. I think he also enjoys
his steam deck quite a bit. So I think for your kind of people,
you will get a lot of use out of it. Jacob Bench said,
is it bad that I haven't played any of these games? Talking about
our ka games? No, but it probably means you're not in your thirties.
Yeah that it just means that you're a younger person, which you are.
Bench right, Yeah, probably. Uh. The Andrews said, how
do you all miss Cruising Usay? And Silent Scope? I thought about Cruising
usas in USA, there's even as popular as that was. There's better racing
games to pick. Silent Scope, I guess might have been interesting. I
don't know Soundscope's fun even. It's probably just something about that made me kind
of uncomfortable, like, oh, this is a real cold, uh soul
swing that can murder people, isn't it? Yep? And then Mike says,
love you guys. I know you guys have been down on a w
I prefer it personally. Last night's show excluded. Is it really that bad?
No? Fifty minute promos low this is the first super tefferent. Mike
think so much. Man, I was such an AW writer die for a
while there, Like I wasn't. The elites got me back into wrestling when
I was out of it. I was at the first all in. I
was so excited those first couple of years of AAW. I wish I remember
did this, But I saw somebody saying this today and it was about them
airing that backstage footage stuff of punk where there was a time where AW felt
like this real premium, kind of prestige product, and maybe it's not as
popular. It was kind of like, you know, maybe AW or maybe
like like WWE, it's Kia and AW is like a Lexus or something.
I don't know, that's always many of them, but there's something premium about
it, and it seems like AW desperately wants to be a Kia also,
and you know, hey, the AW like wrestling is always a bit of
a Carnie show. I get it. But there was something about just showing
that footage as some weird like attempt to get back at cmpunk that felt kind
of trashy and it wasn't successful, right, I mean, I even if
you like it, bumped the ratings a bit, which of course it did.
But well, of course it did that. But I mean, like,
did anyone come out of it looking better? I don't get the sense
that people are like I saw a lot of people like this proves that cmpunk
everything you said was true. I'm like, it was that the problem.
I don't think anyone was like, oh, he was lying about that.
I think the problem is that he choked a person. But right, but
like I think I did. I think a lot of people like, yeah,
that's what sampunk said happened, and it is like you watch it,
and it is it is kind of almost like in some ways, it was
almost not as intense as I was expecting. Right, It's like, yeah,
I mean I guess those two people had to scuffle backstage, and hey,
look cmpunk should have been fired. He clearly was no longer gefit at
AW. But nothing was really accomplished by showing that. I you know,
I missed when AW was really leaning into the quote unquote sports sport based presentation,
right, like even less storyline stuff, you know, like when they
were talking about rank kings and things like that. AW still has a ton
of good wrestlers. When they do like big events. They usually are almost
always good because those wrestlers go out there and they wrestle real good. But
there's just there's just some weirdness with AW right now, especially at a time
when WWE is just kind of doing a lot, right, Yeah, and
wrestling's up and down all the time. So while aw's down at the moment,
like, people are watching t and a impact again. So if TNA
can have a resurgence, AEW certain can, so they'll they you need to
get stuff cleaned up. You know. WW was down in a pretty bad
way not too long ago, and now they're on top of the world.
So these things will come and go. I will be watching AW here and
there, and I'm sure they'll have some sort of resurgence. All right,
Mike, I'm gonna have the button hit it, all right, everybody,
We're gonna get out of here. Mike, what do you got going on?
I think I might be on some stuff tomorrow at BOMB, though I
don't know what it is or what's happening. What's happening? Can you do
the upf thing for me? Yes? I meant to reply, and I
did in my head, and I never did to you directly? Can you
do the Fallout thing? Oh? Yeah, you want me to play your
mods? Yeah, pretty much? Yeah, which which Fallout games should I
install? Nothing? You don't do anything, it's all on my part part.
Yes, I got all setups, so okay, I've done the work
there. I'm gonna do a little bit more work to make sure it all
works and functions, but I believe it does. Uh so yeah, that'll
be fun. Basically, we're gonna have Mike play a very moded version of
Fallout four, So last chance to send your tweets to me with like suggestions
for mods. The sillier the better, of course, but anything really goes.
I think I've already installed like one hundred so god, yeah, it's
gonna it's gonna be messed up. That'll be happening on Giant Bomb tomorrow.
Do you have any plans for the weekend, Bud. I think we're going
going out some friends tomorrow night. There might be something else. I don't
know. I'd like to do nothing, but I think I had to socialize
it and stuff. Yeah, I understand, I'm gonna I think I'm gonna
try to nothing, but I probably have a plan, and you know,
I think Steph's got a trip coming up pretty soon. That's gonna be a
headache. I need to figure out how I'm going to handle work when that's
happening, because then the kids get off the bus. I gotta like leave
shows in the middle of it. So we'll Seah five more thumbs up.
Don't make me force the awkward silence. I'll make Jeff stop the music.
The music. What are you doing. I'm not gonna stop the music.
And we got so far. Mike yells at me that I will. But
yeah, now I believe in them. They're gonna step button. It's gonna
be like, it's gonna be great and give me what he needs. I
tried. I tried playing Mortal Come Mythologies yesterday and it just wasn't happening.
I just couldn't get a run going. I tried for like an hour and
thirty minutes, and I could not get out of stage two yesterday for some
reason. Do you think is that just a bad funk or you need a
break or a little funk. I'm not gonna try to. I think I'm
not gonna speed run it this weekend at least. Maybe maybe don't, Yeah,
maybe take a little bit of a break because I mean, I'm gonna
have to start grinding again as a problem. But it's hard to grind.
Can't get out of stage two. Mike Manati never stops grinding everybody until next
time. I have a good one. Take care of yourself and good bye
it. Wait, you sound like Beaker by Dixie, Jeff. Most people
are beating it right now. Oh good. I don't want to be racist,
but I think he did it. Yeah, all right, all right,
so cool? Have you good, Mike? Yeah, that's okay.
I give you a super much a super all right, let's go back into
it them all right, all right, you get set up on it.
He knows where that reference is from. Isn't it the evil when you have
a goateee? That's a community. Yeah, it's Star Trek. I know.
I love Star Trek. It's a community he got it from. You're
killing it dependent like you. Okay, I'm a major mitch. You was
barely live, eleven loser. It was a good chap. Can't believe you
guys told me to shoot that yellow thing and then I did and then it
exploded. That's hurt my feelings, Jeff. I intentionally looked at that thing
and said, oh, this is a bob and we'll explode. I'm like,
okay, so yeah, let's just move on with our lives. Just
I like, I like I walked, I like left it a bunch of
times. I'm like, you know what, No, I'm gonna go back
and get the goodies. These cowards were too afraid to get Yeah they got
you good. Yeah I got I got the mech. If you want everyone
to use it, I can lend it to you. Yeah. I would
like that. Yeah, I mean I should just keep playing. Now you
you were playing that game. I know for a fact that none of you
want It's just every time I like, here's here's what happens. I get
done putting the kids to bed, and then I'm like, okay, time
to go back downstairs. Oh my god, I'm so tired, and then
I can't do anything other than just they always need on more soldiers. Oh
yeah, it doesn't work on steam Deck, does it? It does work
on steam Deck. I just feel yeah, it's it's you can get it
running on steam Deck. Well enough. It's just I don't know, I
feel like that that would be like if had I played enough to be super
comfortable with the game so that I don't feel like, oh I wish I
had my headset and everything so I could communicate better and all that stuff.
I don't know, I should just don't get about. The antiitute does work?
Interesting? Yeah, you know what? Good on Sony? All right,
cool, Yeah, that's that's pretty cool that they did that. Okay,
am I ready for this console draft? This this one? How many
should we do? Should we do? Five? Ye? Should do more
for a nice council draft? Actually, oh yeah, you usually do,
but it's the two of us we do more. But I'm like, I
don't know how well I feel like five. We're gonna we're gonna do the
fancy correct recap we're doing at the end of the show to make sure that
things are very properly paced because these guys can't control themselves. Yeah, that's
right. You say that like it's a it's an insult. It's like just
facts. It was an insult set ups while I was gone, Were you
just chatting with these fuckers? It's listen, it's like most of the way
there, you're correct. I just gotta turn actually I just got to turn
on the source and them. Oh I was gonna say, Nikki perfectly cut
the clip for Social. At the end, I just say, you shut
the bomb ship cool. That went to Social, wonderful. Yeah, I
got put that on TikTok if they didn't all right, the robots were commonists
boom. But I wasna I was gonna disappointed that they brought back the butt.
I wanted them to like at least like four days without the butts,
they should bring it back. It was the next day, right, yeah,
because I didn't realize how sort of living world that game is. My
fucking game, it's neat. I went back to Destiny. It's pretty good,
pretty good, and you should pretty good. It's well, no,
next month, he'll he'll say it's the worst thing in the world. Don't
you said that? You fucking and ship. I never saw I ever said
that. It's like, it's just like people is too loud, bro,
It's just like it's a bad battle path sometimes. What are you gonna do?
I think that we are good. We just do you know what sucks?
Take a deal? See that just sucks. Don't get me started on
that shin. Do you know that only if you don't buy every delC character,
they don't let you use the replay functioning that that has to be oversight.
No, no, no, but that can't be right. No,
it's by design. They don't. If you don't own like the DLC character,
they don't let you use the RU I know, it just feels so
weird. No, it doesn't feel. It feels very this matter ofacut.
The same people that charge you for frame data. I think there's every fighting
games, like, what are you talking about on purpose? If we found
out that it is on purpose, then yeah and gone. First of all,
we're never gonna find out because now they're gonna say, oh, we're
going to either they change it or they don't. That's how we're gonna find
out. And we're gonna find out the hard one and everyone chat. No
no, no tips. Please. Our ability to remember what games are from
the nineties or not as important on this. I'm gonna deplete this message real
quick. Okay, well, and we don't shoot you forever. I think
that I am ready from are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready. We're
gonna bring it back in me. Yeah, I'll talk about let's go,
I mean, okay, we'll figure it out, all right, now,
talk about it. We should do the fantasy thing as like the last thing.
Yeah, let's do the last fantasy thing first, because then that gives
people time to vote in that and then we'll do it. But we can
talk about our games that we've been playing. Okay, I just think fantasy
should be last. I think that's kind of insider baseball for anybody who's not
involved with that. So right, there's a lot of audience that doesn't participate
in that stuff. Okay, let's see here or what am I? Okay,
so said riders, I should should have done the Moo cow the Moo
Cowboys of Moo Mesa or whatever, the real cowboys of Moo Mesa, whatever
the fuck it's called you in Argentina. You wouldn't win with any of this
list because there's no FIFA game. Yeah game, I guess I don't know
if this is just football, Okay for sure? Sure, Okay, all
right, that's the wrong Okay, were we were told so plank blank would
have been good? I think blank would have been good. Point Blake is
a lot of fun, but it just doesn't feel like most people don't know
about Plint Blake. Yeah, but they should. They should. It's messed
up. Also, Ken Fighter for sure. Yeah, I thought about like
maybe, but I don't know. No. For Argentina, I mean,
oh, Argentina big and the King of Fighters scene, you had no idea.
Yeah, that's that's a Latin America Kino fighter. Mexico is kind of
one of the biggest Kin of Fighters countries. Okay, Uh, the poll
is going right now, and I gotta say, I think I think I
did it. Let's see. I feel good about this one. Yes,
it's really okay about the Beacha games, what you've been playing, and then
we do the results results, right, yep? Cool, all right,
And like Mike, Mike said, this is like inside baseball stuff, so
you know we don't yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're going to
be sending something to me. I'm assuming. But he signed super China and
we'll still read those at the very end, everybody. So, yep,
exactly. The intermode following the release of Destiny Too into the like of the
games, player count on the screen double overnight. We just gotta let him
go once it gets started, you have to just let him go. Yeah,
you're right, glad, you're having fun. I guess I love what
Jeff when you said that about that fucking Joker shows so good. I just
like these people are like, oh my god, they drew a smiley face
on the window. Can you believe it? I'm just in my pants right
now. I'm you mother fucking weird. I can't believe they gave a to
that movie. It's crazy to Yeah, I try to try. I don't
want to be look, I joke about movies being made. I don't really
want to be that cynical, but god, I just can't with these fucking
Joker movies. That movie is so mandiocre. I'm sorry, y'all it was.
It's okay, it's okay if you like it. I just it's not
for me. It's not okay with me if you like it. There was
a tweet today someone's like these movies. It's like someone was brave enough to
wonder what if a guy sucked and made Yeah, oh what if a guy
sucked? But also, no, man's an island? Right, I got
that's like what happens if a man is an island? I think Actually,
me and I asked, you guys actually hate Joker. It's not hate.
This is not hate. Uh, it's ships ship talk. It's like I
did watch it. I was not like entertained, and I was not moved,
but I didn't hate it. When did when did Harley Quinn become like
sexy? Because like in the animated series, she was mostly just I know,
like yeah, sure, I know for some people, but like she
was mostly just a goober. No, there no, always has been people
people did think that she was pretty sexy in the curtains right away, especially
before the transformation and knowing what's underneath the costume is half the battle exactly,
it's a battle, huh okay. I remember playing Arkhama sign for the first
time and seeing like hurts and I'd be like whoa oh and if to me
it felt like that. Like shortly after that was when I started seeing like
everyone's very popular college play around that time after and like that movie happened,
everybody in the world had that little girl costume on that DC realized a long
time ago that they didn't have legs, and they started sexying out their characters
like the two thousands. That's when that all happened. I see, I
have everything up and ready to go. All right, ray, when you
guys are all right, leta bring us back in