Mmmm, it's the final Tuesday. That's not actually true at all. Yeah,
that that is true, bide. Yeah, they originally started as calling
it the final Tuesday, and then they're like, you know, it just
doesn't really make a lot of sense. Also, technically not the final Tuesday.
There's gonna be one next week. Oh that's right, So we're still
good. Okay, Yeah, one more Tuesday and twenty fifteen. But this
is the last time will be in this room. It is ever ever No,
not, no, that's at some point there will be in at some
point in twenty sixteen, there will be well, let's assuming twenty sixteen.
If you'll get to work, yeah, I'm working on I mean, you
know, it's been a rough couple of weeks, man, lots of moving
and stuff. You don't have anything going on, No, not not at
home, not at work. Always been a lazy man, I am always
said about Jason. Yeah, yeah, just doesn't doesn't like to move.
No, not at all. When you asked him, he's just like,
yep, I put on a good show, like, yeah, I got
a rep to protect, right, right, that's a good call. I'm
Jeff, this is the Giant Bomb cast, and yeah, I'm he joined
by Jason Nastrecker. Are you doing yo, how's it going good? Yeah?
Yeah, I had a good weekend. Yeah yeah, we'll talk about
it in a bit though. Fantastic Drew Scanlon this year, I am here.
He also had a weekend I did. Yeah, time past. It's
true, Dan Rockerd, did you have a weekend? I had a fantastic
weekend. All right, I don't I don't want to hear about it.
I had a weekend. Also, technically I think everyone listening did too,
Unless I don't want to make any assumptions. The only people listening that haven't,
yeah, are new babies that were born in the last Hello, all
new babies, Welcome to the show. Yeah. If this is your first
time listening, and it is, it's gonna get wed at that. You
mightn't want to go back and listen to one from the last month or so,
because that'll be more indicative of a regular podcast. This being kind of
our year end extravaganza, there's a lot of email, a lot of uh
submissions from the folks at home. That's cool because there's just not that much
news going on. There's not much other stuff going on. Well, so
let's let's shoot it around real quick. What's what's been going on? Jason?
What what are the what have you been doing? What's up? I've
been taking care of baby. Seemed very excited about this, so excited because
I got ken. Yeah, I guess you do things that I did not
think that I was gonna be able to do because of the baby. Number
one, I actually got to go out and see Star Wars with the baby
you brought. You brought a newborn to a to a movie, to a
Star Wars. That is bold, is How did that go? Uh?
So we went to a drive in theater? Smart? Okay, Yeah,
it's the only way to do that, because I would not not bring a
newborn. Was he You know what? He got a little fussy a couple
of times. But the reasoning like why why in a situation like that?
He was one of those guys, especially the younger generation, tends yeah for
the prequels. Yeah, but I mean like in a comfortable car. So
it wasn't a hot or a cold car, right? No? Was he
well fed? Yeah? He was well fed. I'm just trying to understand
babies, So, like, what is going on in that baby's head at
that moment? Where what is it fussing about? Is there poop in his
pants? Yeah? Okay, so he's like eight weeks old now and he's
starting to move into more solid poops. Is it just not so for a
while? So it's like there's not a lot of pooping going on. Does
that make it easier for you? He's got to learn how to poop.
Previously, the poop would just kind of come out, Okay, it's un
volition, not always gotta work at it. Always got like muscles, yea.
And we're doing like legs, stretching muscles, and I'm kind of folding
him in half and stuff to try and force out the poop. He hasn't
pooped in like two days, so I'm a little worried about that. But
huh yeah, anyway, I'll figure it out. Yeah, he was the
end of fussing. You know, if he gets hungry, you know,
he'll fuss a little bit. I've gone three days before, man, don't
yes, let you start worrying that. Just sometimes you get out on the
road and just you know, your schedule changes and everything gets weird. Yeah.
Yeah, when you fall out of that schedule, it's it's it's real
tough. To the minute I hit a hotel room. It's all bets are
off. You just never know what's gonna happen. That's chaos every time we
go to packs. It's just like, no, I don't know, I
didn't poop for the duration to pack. That's probably not okay, right,
Oh well, so he fussed, I mean a little bit, but actually
he got super excited during like really exciting scenes. He was looking at it
like his baby eyes can see screens and stuff. Yeah, like I know
it takes a while for eyes to form or whatever. He totally Yeah,
his eyes are fully formed and they're starting to focus now and he can see
stuff. So he can see lightsabers. Yeah, he can see lightsabers and
X wings in particular. He got super excited. Yeah. I don't know
a spoiler or anything, but trailer there's some space battles that happened in the
Star Wars. I'm just saying, yeah, there's some some ships and yeah,
fucking man, I've been trying to Sorry, sorry, all right.
No, he thoroughly enjoyed it, and man, that is the way to
do that with a with a baby. So, yeah, it was a
nice comfortable car. Do you tune in a radio station, so it's an
FM station. The tune in a very short range, of course, and
we initially started getting a little bit of feedback, so it's like, oh,
fuck, this is the worst idea ever. We moved the car up
one foot and it was crystal clear. Wow. So I mean it was
like another station coming in. Like no, it was just like country tunes
drifting across your store. That would have been great, but yeah, no,
it was just just static. But yeah, it was fun, like,
you know, we went up, we got supplies, we got snacks.
I got the best. I got a Mike's Hard lemonade with Deadpool on
it because I thought that would be awesome and work in your car to drink
in my car. That would be super easy to just buy the you know,
normal price snacks yep, on the outside world. That yeah, you
know, that's also a huge myth about standard movie theaters too, is that
you can you can totally just bring in like no one's ever going to stop
you from bringing in your own food. It's not like you have to be
all sneaky, and that's that's not true at all. Really. Yeah,
I worked, I was a supervisor for years. I know that you've proven
on timeless accounts that you were probably not the best man. I just say
at all, that's oh, I was terrible at my job. But real
managers that were suits and made important decisions would tell us like, yeah,
it's just this huge urban legend that you can't bring your own food. Like
somebody could bring in a giant tub a popcorn, somebody could bring in a
whole birthday cake and we wouldn't stop them. Yeah, like that, that
was like a company thing, they said. That's my manager said. It's
like, yeah, everyone thinks they have to sneak it in, but no,
just there's no rule against. So I managed a movie theater for you
know, a couple of years, right, and I know i'd get no
in in Walsa, Wisconsin. Okay, Roger's Theater. It's not a nightclub
anyway. I never caught anybody, But man, I would be so pissed
if people actually snuck food in because that's that's where we made our money rising
on ticket sales. That's going to use. It's not going to Buena Vista,
going right in my pocket. Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's
I've I've definitely seen people go like, hey, you can't bring that in
here really, yeah, and I don't think they were informed correctly. Why
I've I've worked, like my time at a movie theater was mostly behind the
scenes in the film delivery end of things. Oh yeah, yeah, I
remember a very dark business, very lucretive. It is. It was lucrative
because we were yeah we were charging yeah well I know, yeah, no,
we were, but we also that we also blew out the suspension in
my mom's bronco I think by feeling it full of film cans. But yeah,
those tins are heavy. Yeah, that's heavy. And we were delivered
to like five six different theaters, so we'd have like five six theaters worth
of movies, dear God, in the back of this thing. Yeah,
because it's probably the usually at least like, you know, four tins.
Those are probably at least twenty eight pounds. Ye're huge. Yeah, and
then you'd have to swil them together and stuff, splice them and stuff.
Man, I miss that, you don't you don't. Yeah, everything's digital
now, yeah, So do they do they do you download it from like
they send a hard drive. Oh, it's a physical hard drive. It's
hard drive, and it's in the big like Pelican case as well. So
it's it's hard case with foam and stuff. And yeah, it's a drive
that you put, you know, uh into your rack essentially, and it's
all encrypted, all encoded and stuff. Interface. Uh, it's a there
is a doggle. Yeah. I think in some cases, I was wan
say, don't they do I want to say, they do online authentication,
now I wouldn't have to decrypt stuff. I think that's true. It's like
a Steam preload. How big is a two hour movie? We're talking like
five hundred gigs, eight terabytes? Well, I don't know. I don't
know, because I just wonder what the resolution of those files end up being
or how that. I don't know enough about the science of that. Yeah,
especially like an imax. Yeah like that. Yeah, I really don't
know, but I you imagine it's just fully uncompressed some kind of terabytes of
stuff. I mean, you figure a blue ray holds about fifty gigs and
that looks pretty good. Yeah, this is probably bigger than that. Our
pro raises a gig a minute. Yeah that's seven Yeah, that's just god
damn. Yeah, he figures. But yo, drive ins are cool,
dude, Like there there was a there was a guy inside of me that
actually rented like a U haul pick up to go see a Star Wars.
There was a guy inside of you. Don't it is what it sounded like.
You said. Okay, all right. Alongside of things like that probably
can happen. You can drive get up to whatever you want in your own
car, man, not all. That's pretty true. Yeah, you know,
you bring lawn chairs and stuff. The one in Atlanta i'd loved going
to because we could grill out there. So we would just get a bunch
of people together, set up a grill, coolers full of beer, and
just watch shitty movies. And you get to take in like two three movies
at a time. It's fantastic. The last time I went to a drive
in was probably like twenty years ago, and I want to say it was
either Drop Dead Fred or The Rocketeer. I want to go see a drive
in, it'll seem great, like great choices, right, Yeah. But
I was there with my family and the audio thing that you get from the
booth or whatever was only playing the audio from New Jack City which was playing.
So I think I was watching like The Rocketeer with New Jack City dial.
So I haven't seen those like it stakes up perfectly weirdly enough. Yeah.
Yeah, it's like a dark side of the Lone situation. Not a
lot of people know that. They haven't done the speaker, you know,
hanging things for all. So it's a radio thing, yeah idea. Yeah,
but it's pretty cool. So you're losing a little bit of fidelity off
obviously, but that yeah, bandwidth is not I mean maybe if they could
get into HD radio, I think HD radio kind of cool, but I
would actually work. But there are not enough drive in movie theaters to even
WARNT further developing that technology. Yeah, they're they're a dying braid, like
maybe one hundred or a few hundred left I think across the US. But
this is actually part of a chain, like the West Wind, Like there's
three or four of them in the Bay Area, Oakland. Uh no,
this is one I conquered. Yeah, there's a couple down south, they
think, But yeah, I really, yeah, I just I just love
drive in theaters. I think it's cool. Like normally I would not go
and see a you know, a really cool movie like Star Wars at a
drive in because I want the theater experience. Yeah, the sound and whatnot.
But yeah, I got a baby stuff. So yeah, but yeah,
dude, we made it happen. I'm really happy that that worked out.
We didn't have to fight for tickets or anything, worry about its selling
out. Great and no spoilers here or anything. I know three of us
saw it, and Jeff doesn't care about spoilers, but thumbs up. Yeah,
across the board here. Yeah. I liked a lot too. Yeah,
I had a great time with it. I wasn't expecting anything more than
just like, you know, really fun Star Wars movie. It is definitely
better than all the prequels. Yeah, there's no question about that. That's
the bar these days. Yeah, and it's downtrodden people got well, at
least it wasn't, you know what. I watched all the Star Wars movies
again before this one came out. Cleared that low bar, and now is
the highest selling. It's also better than ever for movies. Also better than
the Holiday special, which are you talking about? Oh boy, that was
I think I think you're just lying. I didn't know, Jefferson. Starship
was on the gosh what they are? Yeah, but have you not seen
it? I've not. I've tried and b Arthur. Yeah, like b
Arthur was at Asna on it and it's some weird like creepy family. Yeah,
Like I got to the first Grandpa puts on like a VR helmet and
there's some like stripper on the inside. This is like holiday special mind you.
Oh, it's really happy life Day, Drew. But I'll say the
Prequels are bad movies. They are objectively bad movies, but they were fun
to watch like it and kind of make fun of way. And I wasn't
nearly as like offended as most people. I just kind of said, there's
been this dark trend that's been happening over the past, like I guess maybe
since this movie came out, or maybe a little bit before, of people
suddenly going like, oh, Prequels weren't that bad, which I was a
fuck. Three was not that bad. Three is a pretty okay movie.
One and two are pretty abysmal, but still fun to watch in a real
dumb way. It's just in how the fuck, Like I just watched the
entire making of the fans people got all excited about Star Wars because this one's
good, and now like they're letting their like Star Wars fan boner go like,
no, these movies were all right. Now it's still Star Wars,
guys. Guys, it's still Star Wars. It's the Ascension and it's the
rise and fall of Darth Vader. I mean that's still important stuff. Guys.
It's Cannon, but it's still important stuff. It's fascinating watching the making
of The Phantom Menace, which the whole thing is on YouTube. It's like
an hour long, and just seeing them make it and send it in an
hour explain yeah, yeah, yeah, And just seeing Lucas and then the
producer and everything just look over all the storyboards and stuff and like they really
think they're making something awesome, Like they think they're making something just very very
special, and like there's one quick moment of doubt or George Lucas is like,
I don't know, I don't know if we're gonna beat Titanic, and
that's the only kind of like, oh, maybe this won't be the biggest
hit ever type of thing. Like they seem to be way like he said,
like, oh, jar Jar is clearly the funniest character we've ever had
in a film. I mean, you know, it's I think that has
to come along with the realization that they make this stuff for kids an empire.
Yoda's pretty funny when he's trying to piss off Luke. I'm degaba.
See yeah, he's funny, okay, But you know, like that's it's
the thing where when we played Disney Infinity and saw that jar Jar Binks was
in that thing, it was like that realization of like, oh, wait,
right, they need to cut their losses with that guy. But I
don't understand what he's still around. But because kids dig it, because kids
dig it, because kids are because because Star Wars is for kids. I
mean was it always because like yeah, like they're constantly chopping off arms and
ship and start. Kids were fucking cooler in the late seventies early eighties.
Yeah, you could show them shit. I saw shit that Like if if
the media that I consumed in the like as soon as I was able to
consume media, if you showed that to kids now, they would take your
kids away from you. Uh, the sort of stuff. But fo PG
thirteen, it seems like PG was way harder. Yeah, but like Jaws
is PG, and like the Poulter guy is PG. I've never seen Poulter
guys. There's some there's some scenes. That sounds more spooky than violent though.
Yeah, yeah, that's but they're here, thing right right, thing
a little girl? Yeah, okay, what's one of the needles. The
guy tears his face off, that's oh okay. I saw Hell Razor as
at a somewhat young age, like, not not that young. It didn't
come out that not long ago, but uh yeah, And I don't know,
I went and saw three D movie where parasites caused people to explode inside
out. Oh god delicious. I think it was like Demi Moore's first and
I'm guessing as well. It was all practical effects and they looked real fucked
up. I don't know, you know, it was all all that's left
in my memory is the scars. At this point. That was Killer Clowns
Matter Space. For me, that was my childhood movie that really scared the
shit out of me. So in sixth grade, I had this sweet ass
Hell Razor jacket. It was like a baseball jacket, had a New Line
Cinema on it, and then it's just a a Hell razor on the back.
I thought I was the biggest badass. It sounds like you were.
Yeah, I kind of was with that jacket. Explains a lot, Yeah
about everything that was to follow for so much badassory since then, any video
game business that you got into, Yeah, totally. I actually beat Earth
Defense Force, uh four point one, everybody. I just lost every colon
The Shadow of New Despair. Hey man, there's lots of bugs in that
game. There's lots of rob Yeah, there's fucking dragons. There's even giant
or robots. There's big giant robots that turn into a bigger robots. It's
there's a lot of fun to be had. Despair seems like a good word
to describe an EEDF game. Yeah, I could see that, And I
know I'm not going to sell anybody on this franchise, but I will say
that there's a lot of like B movie style fun to be had. I
have a real good time with that series watching you play it on the quick
Look today, Like I haven't played any since the original one. Like it
seems like they do kind of lean into the silliness of it. Just the
constant chanting of EDF and everything, like the chant and the music like that
stuff is heartwarming. Yeah. Yeah, it's very novel, very charming.
I dig it a lot, and they've dialed that up in this version as
well. It's just like a constant thing that's pretty good. So would you
say that they've realized that that's the appeal of their weird dumb thing, is
that it's a weird dumb thing they have not Wow, I can't believe it,
because, yeah, because it seems like that that's last time I kind
of checked in on this thing. It just seems so self serious in addition
to being garbage. Yeah, and I think that was kind of part of
the appeal at first, Like, you know, back in uh, well,
the first one that was released over here is a Earth Defense Force twenty
seventeen or something like that, right, two. Uh, the first one
was on three sixty That's what I played it on. So in Japan it
seted off as like a different name like Busters shoot him Up or something like
that. It was like a budget title. It was like the Shooting Yeah,
something stupid like that. Yeah. And then yeah, it eventually slowly
but surely, but yeah, now it's at the point where it's like,
you know, there's different classes and stuff, and there's so many different types
of weapons, and you're not you're not seeing the same stuff, uh as
much, you know, they've got lots of new enemy types. There's a
you know we showed in the Quick Look, just ridiculously large set pieces,
completely bombastic, lots of fun giant robots, giant lizards, Godzilla type stuff.
It seems like in those old games they would they would find the line
of like where the hardware can handle what we're giving it, and then step
over it just yep, just enough, just on the other side of it.
Yeah, And now that with the PS four, which is what you
were playing it on, they have a lot more room to work, but
they still step over the line, totally do but they make it count,
like the amount of giant robots and monsters that earned the Quick Look so much
more. Yeah, you have to sacrifice just a ton of frame rate stuff
and like trees popping up when you're ten feet away from him, and if
you walk cool stuff, that's what you gotta do. Oh yeah, I'm
not arguing that like really adds to the tension though, because when you're surrounded
by like all these enemies and you can't see anything but their guts splattering and
the explosions and the lasers and shit, and it starts to like chug like
that and you're like, oh my fucking god, what is going on?
See this? This sounds like this sounds like that late game sequence and Fallout
four I ran into. Okay, this sounds almost except that that was the
opposite of the fun, opposite the fun. But it's a lot of fun
with with Laser and his explosions. And I don't know, I like that
series screen multiple done that. Yeah, there's a split screen local. Yeah,
the frame rate takes a dive. Yeah, I mean really lean into
it, right, they really really so they played a little bit of twenty
twenty five, which was actually that was part four, and yeah, like
the online was considerably worse as well. I haven't tried this one out yet,
but like, you know, just going into some of the normal missions
that are like, Okay, this run's fine locally, but as soon as
you play it online, it's wow, it's a horrible mess. So I
don't know if that's improved yet. I gotta check that out. I imagine
having that many like discrete entities on screen and then trying to sink all of
that across multiple machines made it damn near unplayable. Yeah, before and that's
why I dropped out of twenty twenty five. But I'm glad that I came
back to this one because you know, it's kind of a first time,
you know, experiencing that one for me. And they they've added like the
Kaiju stuff and you know, the big giant robots, so that stuff's kind
of cool, and it runs a little bit better. There's some really cool
lighting effects that they use, and like the underground caverns and stuff, and
you know it's just the yeah, just a little bit better, still just
as fun if you're into that kind of thing. So cool, I dig
it. Yeah, Yeah, man, life a DF for life indeed,
Drew Scanlin, what's up? What's up? I've been messing around with the
steam link? What's up with the steam link? It kind of works?
So you did buy it? Yeah, I bought one. So I tried
Jason's out, and I think I was on this podcast when I said the
dude wasn't really working very well. I think that may have been something to
do with my router or maybe just because I was playing fall Out four.
Uh, but it like did not. It was significantly laggy. Uh And
with my own It's fine, really, I was able to play. Yeah,
Jason got the shitty one. Yeah, I guess. So I rebooted
my router and everything's fine. Everything's fine. But yeah, so I'm plugged
into my router is plugged into steam Link with a wire, and my computer
which is streaming the game is a wireless to my router. Oh boy five
yego hurts wireless n still, but it works. I was, yeah,
dirt rally? What else did I try? Metro? So a dirt rally
like a driving game was was playable totally, Yeah, and it seemed to
hold up. That was always the on Live thing is they would show it
running like a need for speed game or something, just be like that's that's
not it's not so great. Mm hmm. But that worked out for me.
Yeah, I've been using the three sixty controller, so I've plugged in
the dongle to the steam Link itself. Okay, it doesn't have to be
at my computer, and it just like worked out of the gate, didn't
it the dole? Yeah? Mine did anyway, Yes, that's pretty great.
Yeah. So when you launch a game that has like one of those
screens like select your resolution or whatever, or like first time installs, sometimes
there are pop up windows you can't use at least that I know if you
can't use like the three sixty joysticks to move your mouse around right like Steam
controller. Yes, so I also tried your Steam controller and didn't really like
it. Nope. So I think what I'm gonna do is get one of
those keyboard and trackpad combos log of techniques one. Yeah, really good one.
Yeah. When I was when I was using when I was running XBMC
in my living room, I had one of those to like navigate it and
stuff. Yeah, I've got it. I'm not gonna just for like a
media server and yeah, we just keep that on our coffee table. Small,
discreet, nice, Yeah, okay, perfect. Yeah, I'm not
going to use it for like playing a real time strategy game or anything,
but I do need it for like cases like that where I just need a
keyboard and mouse. Yeah, because I don't want to have to go into
the room with m PC I don't know. Cool, so future we shouldn't
have to do that. I also think, like I don't know, games
like I don't know, like Dragon Age or something where you can pause it
like that doesn't technically have control or support, but if you had something like
that, maybe you could kind of get by with a controller, Andy keyboard
something totally. Yeah. Sure, there's a lot of games that they have
partial supports, and where where it breaks is that you know men menus like
that where you have to use a mouse. So yeah, that's uh,
that's a good alternative. Also, if you have no idea what I'm talking
about. Steam Link is a thing you plug into your TV that streams video
basically from your PC to your television. Yeah. You can do that with
like another PC or a laptop or like a Microsoft Surface. I've done it
with one of those. Wow, and basically the same. I tried it
with my Mac Mini, which is from like twenty eleven. Yeah, that
didn't really work. H Yeah, I wonder if that's just a straight up
like the networking is not as optimized on the Mac Mini. It's weird name,
like he doesn't even have an HDMI out, Like I have to overwrite
it. Yeah. Gross. Yeah that sounds like no fun at all.
Yeah, steam it works cool at least with my network setup. Yeah,
It's definitely seems like one of things that some people are just going to run
into situations where it's like, oh, this isn't reasonable for me to wire
everything or you know, and the wireless isn't working. I don't know.
I've does it? Do you know? If it supports a C that's uh,
I don't know, because I recently swapped routers for one that does eight
to to eleven AC and I just wonder if that would work, because that's
that's faster. Yeah, if it wasn't going, if it didn't work with
my current setup, I was going to try Internet overpower. Oh right,
you'll see if that dark magic. Yeah, improved things. Use your home's
wiring. God, the power of the Internet over it. I just don't
have anything fucking wireless unless it has to be wireless, you know what I
mean. I don't have anything. The only thing wired is my PC.
Really yeah, nothing else is nothing else is wired? Stop it. Stop
playing online games with people. If you're wired up, it's fine. Nope,
Nope, it's not. It's totally fine. This is fighting game thing.
It's well, yeah, I guess, okay, playing game thing.
But yeah, if I've had I've done fine playing fighting games on wirelessly.
M it's like twenty feet away from the router. I don't care. No
wired God, damn, I have a lot of bandwidth. Okay, yeah,
sure, no, no, I mean no, to be fair,
I do have a pretty I've seen. Yeah, I've heard. We got
a lot of questions into the anonymous tumbler this week asking about that. Yeah,
so that's there's your answer. Anything else true, that's it. They
just you know, same old games. Yeah. I haven't really had a
chance to dip in anything else. Cool. Game of the year time,
you know it is it is game of the year time. I like this
time of year. Yeah, Dan, how's it going great? Good?
Yeah? Yeah, variety of game related things over the weekend. Yeah,
what's what's what have you been getting up to? I guess there's no turning
back because I bought an Amiboh wow, it's my first Ambo I've bought.
Like like you, Jeff, I have an accidental Amibo collection. I have
like nine amibo now. Yeah, like I have a shelf for amibos and
I don't even know how that happened, but yeah, Nintendo likes to send
along like you know, Happy Home Designer comes with two and Will You World
comes with one, and it's like, oh, I guess I have these
amibos now. But finally I realized that, like god damn it, I
can only get that Mega Mushroom and Mario Maker if I have that fucking Pixel
one. I looked on Amazon. It was like sixteen bucks. I like,
see they sent me. They sent me one of those Pixel Mario amibos
with Mario Maker with Marios. Okay, I got offline on that one.
Sixteen bucks and you know what, it's not looking at me. It's not
the money. It's the concept of is this like paying for something in Doda
or is this what I'm You have broken the bad You've broken the seal on
It is not that bad because this will actually do something. Uh. The
one could argue that maybe you should be able to do that thing without spending
the money. I guess it's just a game anyway. I just want to
make sure I can do everything. And it's more than Now that you have
spent money on an amibo, what's to stop you from doing it again?
And you're like a little Magican MegaMan a lot and again and again and again
and again and again and again and again. I kind of like that shelf.
Yeah. I got on my WU and we games on there. I
got some old Ins and Superintendent games on there, and I got a bunch
of Amibos. I got a cheapy robo Amibos. He's adorable. Yeah,
he's got a little plug. He's holding it up. He's like sitting down.
Yeah. Yeah, Miyoshi's made of actual yarn. That one I'm not
taking. That one. I did not take out of the box. So
that is not on my amibo shelf. That's sitting in another room somewhere.
All of mine are on the shelf for sure, prominently displayed. So the
Amibos, I'm I think I'm completely done with because they just really don't offer
enough in game. So oh no. And that's why I justified this one
is because it did very much the game I will play the most for like
the next several years. Probably. It gives me something that I can actually
do in that game. I got a little hot and heavy on those because
I was getting like new costumes and like Mario Kartan, I thought that was
pretty cool, right but right right, yeah, but yeah, a lot
of the new stuff doesn't Yeah, it doesn't carry over to that. I've
been buying a lot of figures, like, yeah, I got all the
new Star Wars stuff and okay, all just all just came out, right,
that's all yeah, yeah, how is that? Have you? Have
you tried to playing it at all? It's it feels a little disjointed.
Yeah, that that new sets like raised talking to BB eights like all the
time, but BB, it's not even there. I don't know what the
hell is going on, and there's some weird audio glitches in between cut scenes.
I'm still pretty early. This one seems a little slapped together though,
I don't know. Yeah, the last one was pretty good, though,
pretty good. A couple other things that did a Steam World heist, right,
Yeah, that game is cool. I like the game a lot.
I haven't had a chance to play much stuff. Definitely Quick Look definitely not
the same type of game of Steam World Dig though totally different. I mean
the same aesthetic and everything. It's all very steam punky, and you know,
the art style is similar. But yeah, and the way I described
it in the Quick Look was like if codename Steam was two D and good.
Okay, it's man, It's it's turn based. It's got kind of
that you know x com type thing where you moving a certain amount of points
and every thing, or if you sprint past this point you can't shoot and
move or whatever. But it's like real time aiming and stuff, and you
can ricochet shots off walls and stuff, and man, it's really cool from
what I've seen so far. Awesome. Yeah, it's I'm maybe like five
hours in or whatever, but I'm still super invested. I keep getting new
people on my team and everything, new weapons, and man, it's it's
a very delightful little surprise. I'm playing it on three DS. I think
that's the only thing that's out on right now. So yeah, it'll be
coming to other stuff later, but I like it quite a bit. Quick
look on the site, yes, just went up. Yeah, yesterday I
looked me a good tactical turn based yes, and this is Yeah, this
is an interesting because it's not the isometric you know over here right right that
I'm so accustomed to. This is straight up two D, which I liked
the idea of different approaches to that, which is why I was kind of
excited about Codenames Team. It's like, oh, this is kind of this
cool like almost like Gears of War view, but it's got that kind of
turn based thing, and I really wanted that to be good. But even
after they fixed kind of the long turn time thing, or didn't even fix
it. They just slightly improved it. It's still the core game and the
mission structure was not that great or is this I have just liked it more
and more as I played it. And it doesn't have any loading. Oh
no, you can just immediately skip all these like enemy and animations and everything.
It's awesome, super Scooby. That's gonna be. Like, I got
a bunch of commute stuff going on this week with going back for the holidays,
and I'm gonna be playing a lot of that for sure. Outside of
that, I did some gift exchange stuff with my lady and she got me
a Xbox Elite controller. When it is fucking awesome, How is that awesome?
I don't get it like well, which okay, so obviously the people
that you know are really going to get everything out of it are the like
guys that are super seriously playing you know, first person shooters and things like
that, because there's the intricate things you can do with the different stick layouts
and stuff and customizations. But on the yeah, the paddles, yeah yeah.
So I played some Halo five and so I set it up like there's
preset settings like for Halo and Gears of war and stuff, or you can
set your own and so I said it, so like the left bottom one
is reload, so that way you don't have to take your thumb off of
the right analog stick to reloads. You just tap it with your pinky.
There. That was a feed behind bumper jumper right right, which is one
of those you know controller maps that no one ever uses except crazy people,
right exactly. So I used it for like a month, right, Yeah.
I never liked that that much. Yeah, and then and then these
this controller is a lot like you know, people have been modifying existing controllers
for years. Companies have been selling stuff like that for a long time.
That add the paddles and all this other weird shit. But yeah, this
is officially Microsoft. Yeah, this is a real Microsoft thing. And yeah,
like bottom right, I've got for jump and so yeah, I can
jump and reload and do like the little dash thing in the air with that.
And then also I love that you can adjust the throw of the triggers.
So there's a little switch on the back you can do independently. You
can make the left So let's say you're playing you know, Fortz or racing
game or something, you want all that space in between, you know,
like like I gradually you bring it down, whereas a shooter or something like
Halo, I pull the trigger I want to shoot, and so you can
flip the switch that makes it so there's really no throw or anything, so
you just barely tap it like it registers any input that like instantly that is
on. Yeah, as opposed to all the way down. You kind of
you can lock it at different positions, right, you pull it part way
and then hit the switch to lock it or I think there is, Yeah,
and the settings, it looked like there were some like trigger setting things
that were pretty intricate, but I didn't really go into I just flipped the
actual physical switches on the back of the controller, which is just like full
on gradual or just tap to shoot type stuff. So there's an Xbox Accessories
app that you download on Xbox one and also on Windows ten and it talks
to each other. Really it was weird, Like my Halo five setting was
on my PC when I went to go play games on Steam, and there's
a switch on the front so you can switch between profiles. I Profile one
can be for Halo and Profile two for whatever. But yeah, that carries
over seamlessly to the PC, which is weird sinking back and forth because it's
the same Yeah, which is weird considering like, you know, I've got
a halo thing on my PC when I play it on there, but whatever,
you know. Yeah, yeah, but you could probably name that profile
whatever you wanted to write. Oh yeah, totally. Yeah, So it's
just but yeah, yeah, the one you wanted to be the same one
the other. Yeah, And it's super easy to swap stuff out. But
speaking of swapp stuff out, the the dpad and the sticks you can pull
those out on the fly. They're magnetics, so it's really easy to pull
those out. And the package comes with like a little you know, zipper
pouch or whatever, and comes with like several variations on sticks and stuff.
So there's like convex and concave normal size sticks. Let's see what concave is
one that goes in like a cave, right, bumps out right, yeah,
and then there's two really tall concave ones. So if you want the
really tall ones, that kind of gives you more kind of dead zone the
right term for that, or its could be more like precisions because it's the
smaller thing. But you can do a very precise little movements, So I
mean, yeah, if you were some like pro level first person shooter guy
or whatever, I could see that being really cool. But like different games,
I liked swapping out different things, like I would have the convex one
on the left stick and the concave one on the right stick. Yeah,
and then the dpad thing you have just the standard kind of any S style
dpad, and then there's like the eight way one. Yeah, that looks
interesting to crazy rocker looking thing yea, which I'm curious to hear, Jason
and Jeff. I know you're a big fighting game guys. Like I loaded
up Ultrastreet Fighter four on PC and thinking that, like, well, I
can use this standard dpad one for like I played Rogue Legacy with that,
and you know, just standard you know, kind of side scrollers and stuff,
and it's awesome for that, depend feels great, But the away one
I was like, oh, this will be better for like street Fighter and
stuff I have to do like dragon punches or whatever. But I tried both,
and I actually liked the standard deepad better when I was playing Street Fighter.
So I'm trying to think that it's not surprising Okay, yeah, I'm
trying to think of what I would use that eight way one four because that's
almost like the old Genesis pad. That a way thing almost feels like like
an nes max or something like that. It's like this weird. Yeah,
I don't know, it's weird. I don't know what I would use that
for either, but I like the standard kind of dpad stuff like that's.
Yeah. Like I played a little street Fighter. I was funning with Sagott
and I was go tranduce some like tiger knee and Tiger uppercut stuff, and
it felt kind of weird with the away one and then I took the standard
one on there and it's like, oh, yeah, this is because that's
I mean I played I started playing that game on Supernintendo and that just felt
natural. So are we beyond the point of padding infringement on deepads? Yeah?
Okay, the cross shaved good D pad is is that's up available?
Okay, but yeah, just nothing but great things to say about it.
It looks cool, it feels really nice and heavy. Everything is just it's
cool how you can just pull those things out on the fly, Like in
between Deaths and Halo, I was pulling out like you know, sticks and
swapping them out and stuff, and it's it's just a real cool thing.
It's like easily my favorite controller. And considering that, like I can do
it on Xbox and PC, I'm going to get a ton of use out
of that. That's yeah, that's encouraging. I thought this was only for
the most hardcore of the hardcore, I mean very specific things. Yeah,
they're the ones that it is for them, but you're you're still Yeah,
there's little things like just being able to reload like that it felt good just
hit it with my left pinky there or whatever, like, yeah, I
absolutely love I always figured if I ever did end up getting one of those,
that I would probably take the bumpers out and not use them. I
think with certain games you would do that. Like I played a little bit
of Rogue Legacy, and I was trying to think, like, are there
really anything you know, outside of just the general good feel of the controller
in the dpad? Is there anything that like the paddles are giving me here
and not really and something like Rogue Legacy. So yeah, it's were easy
to take those out and put them back in and everything. So I just,
yeah, I don't know, like it seems like one of the things
that it seems awesome, but for the price, like I just don't Yeah,
one hundred and fifty bucks wow thinks So yeah, if you can find
it, like it was sold out when she looked forward and she had to
go on eBay. It's starting to get I think it's starting to get restocked
in some spots. Yeah, I think a lot of places held back their
stock for whatever reason. Yeah, Like I just sailent best Buy. It's
like one hundred and fifty dollars for the controller and you get Halo five right
right for free? Yeah, yeah, it's but it's I don't know,
it feels like the price is a little too crazy, Like I just don't
need that much controller or or rather I would probably enjoy it, but I'm
not gonna spend one hundred fifty dollars on that thing, right that I can't
talk repeatedly spent one hundred and fifty two hundred dollars on. But the difference,
Arcade sticks are fucking cool. This is a cool control. Not liking
arcade stick though, Okade sticks are really cool. Like that's the thing that's
like it's you talk about something's gotta wait to it if you're doing it right.
You got this big bulk like you look at that and you oh,
yeah, yeah, this really nice two hundred thing. Look at it.
It's it could be wood grain, you know, it's an it's a nice
set piece kind of thing. You look at you fucking yeah. Whereas like
the controller, it looks like an Xbox controller with a weird dpad. I
guess I've spent a lot on hotas setups too. There you go. See.
But again, like that's tho, those like, yeah, performed the
Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah, they look like you're gonna do some bad
shit with it. Yeah, Hotas, Like you know that's insane. But
also it's for such a specific weird task. Yeah, Whereas like a just
a better game pad, it is like harder for me to wrap my mind
around. Yeah, for whatever reason, Like, yeah, I know,
I'm with you. I've I've spent at least I thought, well, I've
probably you've probably spent way more than I. But I've spent at least a
thousand dollars in arcades sticks over the years. You know what, arcades stick
is pretty good. No one talks about that. Mortal Kombat one that came
out with Mortal Kombat nine with the standard X thing. That was a good
way. I had the padded thing on the bottom so you could rest it,
right. But the one that I got, the one that I got,
the joystick was broken. That was not it's I had one that broke,
and yeah it was. It was like a poorly made piece of shit.
But it opened up and I put all my little like move cards in
there and everything. Okay, that's cool. Yeah, it was fun.
They had the big wire you could put inside the things. That's nice.
It was. I like that one a lot. It was good for Mortal
Combat. I wish that a different company made that thing like that as a
PDP, right right, right, So yeah, if if a PDPs made
some good stuff, for sure, but that was not that was it was
probably not one. Okay, that's great. Can you on the PC?
Can you so if you map one of the paddles to like reload, is
it just duplicating the X button? Yeah? So so you you say,
I want to know if if they are discreet uh separate buttons on the PC
specifically, I guess that's that's the questions like Windows X, the X button
and the thing bound to the X button as different inputs, like is it
is it adding? No, it's it shows you an Xbox controller and it's
as like map upper less paddle two and it shows a bunch of Xbox button.
But that's because you're using the Xbox app. I wonder if you went
into like the Windows Game controller setting, if it would report it as having
four more buttons. Oh yeah, I have not looked into that then,
because if that's the case, then that would be good for things like you
know, Elite Dangerous or like war Thunder other stuff like that. I did
find. I don't think you can make it so like upper left paddle is
X plus A. So if you wanted to make that like a throw in,
you know, soul caliber or something, you can can't do macros or
whatever. It seems like you can now, yeah, but yeah it doesn't
work. Wireless thing. Do you have one wireless Ye? Yep, I
got that wire you need. Okay, yeah it comes with a cable.
But like I've got the wireless thing, so I just got one of those
two. Is it the same as the three sixty one or is this a
specific it's a different dongle, it's a different different than the Xbox three sixty
one. Oh sorry, you're talking about the elite versus the normal. Oh
gosh, yeah, okay, it's different than the three sixty one. Yes,
yes, yeah, it's a whole nude. It's a different wireless technology.
It's not compatible. I upgraded to Windows ten just for that. I
think, Oh you got the Donald Yeah yeah, I think I think people
got that. Donal working on older versions of Window. I wouldn't doubt it,
but yeah, they made it was time. I think they made it
so you can officially do that now went to seven and eight, I think
you can do Yeah, yeah, it's okay. Why why would you go
from three sixty to elite? All right, I'm sorry to h Xbox one
controllers. I really liked the x Xbox one to the three six there's a
it's yeah, I'm using Xbox one controller on my PC now as well,
and it is it's there's like a weight distribution thing. That feels a lot
better about that controller. Obviously, the stick I like triggers. Like the
sticks and triggers a little bit better. I don't know when I go back
to a three sixty controller now and I have one, I just busted one
out that was unused. I had a new wired three sixty controller that I
pulled out of the plastic because the Xbox one controller had stopped working right for
some reason. So I was like, well, fuck, bust this thing
out and a brand new controller. It still just didn't feel right anymore.
Everything felt too chunky, triggers, the just everything about in deep beds.
I guess I never used the deep beds like the deep ad is total ship.
Yeah, like I you know, I feel like we got used to
it plenty well over the course that generation, but it's still I refused.
Not great. Yeah, do bet on. The Xpress one controller is great,
I started. That's that's a thing that I can't bring myself to buy
is a specific one. Oh, I guess I got. If I got
the wireless dongle, then I could just use it on my PC as well.
Yeah yeah I don't. I've got three six four and the the USB
cable works now it's you don't have to go get a wired Xbox one controller.
Yeah yeah, so you just plug it in and it goes. That's
that's how I'm doing it. I don't need I'm close to the PC.
I don't know I don't need wireless, Yeah, but yeah, I don't
know. I I hooked up the duel Shock four to my PC again last
week for about an hour. That's a nice control. Is there an official
driver out for that? Notion enjoy still or it's input wrapper. Input is
the name of it. And it's the kind of the grew out of DS
four Windows or whatever, you know, whatever the other stuff is. And
I don't like the idea of having a program running just keep a controller working.
I think that's like just too hacky, Like I just don't want to
suck around with it. And yeah, I don't know. I had hooked
up for a while and then it just it didn't work. It didn't do
the thing I was trying to get it to do, which was play Thug
Pro. By the way, now that I think about it, there's just
actually so there's some specific issues with game pad mapping and that thing that are
just fucked So. Yeah, so I plugged that in for a while and
then it kept it there for a while, like, oh my, well
play some other games, like you know what, this is not working,
right, I don't want to fuck with it. I just went back to
the Xbox One. Controller. It's just not worth it. The more I
think about it, the more I think that like the idea of an official
because if you plug in the dual Shock four it works just not as an
x input controller. So most more and more games are looking for that,
and that's never gonna work like that, because for that to work like that,
it's gonna you know, it's it's Sony riding a driver to make it
show Xbox buttons, which why would they you know, they're not going to
do that. They wouldn't. That's no one, no one involved is gonna
do that. Like, the more I think about it, the more I
thing because we're never going to actually get You're probably the thing that that would
the people would want for this, It'll always be some hacky, fucked up
thing. So anything else, Dan real quick. I was cleaning my apartment
up a bunch this weekend and I found an old nineteen sixty version of Stratego.
Really is real good. I love is a fantastic game I have not
played in like twenty years. I pulled out again. It's easy to pick
up again. It is an awesome game, had all the pieces still just
a hell of a game. So where do you put your where do you
put your bombs? Where do you put your spot? What do you what
do you use a lot of misty stuff? I mean, because like you
could just put a bunch of bombs around your flag, But then as soon
as you starts seeing bombs, the other person that was like, he's got
the flag in there. Yeah. So I put a couple of bombs next
to my flag, usually on top and left. Uh. And then I
put like a you know, a one or two, a marshal or something
to the right of my flag just in case anybody comes my direction, I
can take them out. Uh. But and I like the idea of trying
to get that spy to the marshall. That's fun. Yeah. And then
when you get a miner and you start taking those bombs out, that's that's
a hell of a game. When I was playing a lot of Stratego,
I started running real risky strats flag in the front row type ship. Who
was like, why the fuck? They would never expect it to be off
there, off to the corner, behind the behind the water, and yeah
yeah, And once they penetrate deeper into your ranks, they're never going to
go back to clear out the stuff. That's over there, and if something,
if they even if they notice it has never moved, if it's in
the front, they're gonna be like, well, that's clearly a bomb upfront,
man, Why would you put a bomb behind the water? That's true.
Yeah, yeah, And also at the beginning, a lot of double
misdirect Yeah, people will take scouts though on the front line and just immediately
just dive at whatever's upfront. So I mean, if you got a flag
upfront front the middle, most people will go up front middle. They want
to they want to penetrate in the middle so they can, you know,
break off to the sides and stuff like that. So you put it off
the side a little bit. You know, Hey, it's just over here,
just doing its thing. Okay, just forget about it. I never
said it was a great strategy. It's very risky, but I got to
mix it up though, I did. Yeah, exactly, Like if especially
if you're playing us the same person. Yeah, you get to a point
with that game where you're just like, well, fuck it, I have
to get nuts here for this to work that. Yeah, it's it's man.
There's a versatility to statigo. Why is there an nineteen sixties version of
Statigo in your apartment. No, I don't know. I don't know if
it was like my dad's or my grandpa's or something of it. It was
an item of yours that you had forgotten you had. Yeah, like I've
had a previous tenant just hiding. I've moved it from apartment to apartment over
the last several years, but I haven't played it since like the early nineties,
I don't think. And so I had to read all the rules again.
But that game holds up and people don't talk about it enough. People
talk about their monopolies and their risks all the time. Both find games in
their own right. No, Strtigo, Wow, Stago is awesome. Yeah,
that's a thinking man's game. Yeah, definitely, absolutely, one thousand
percent. I started thinking about playing Elite Dangerous. Oh yeah, and then
went through about four training things. This was like late last night. Okay.
I was like, I need to go to bed. I guess I'll
just create an Elite Dangerous account and start playing that. Uh, and and
launched that. It started going through the tutorials, the playable tutorials. They
were like, you should watch these videos first. I'm like, oh,
fuck it, it'll be fine and start playing the controllers. I'm playing Elite
Dangerous Horizons, which is in early access on Steam right now. It is
they're calling it like their next season of content, and this is the stuff
where you can get out of the ship. Yeah, you can land on
planets and do stuff. Mine, I guess is what you do. Surprise,
surprise, it's more mining stuff. I did not do any of that,
but I figured, if I'm gonna start playing, might as well start
playing with whatever the latest version of it is. Yeah, it's probably a
few hours off, Yeah, I would think, so, I don't know.
I flew around and got comfortable with the controls and targeting and shot down
some AI ships and stuff like that, and now I think the next set
of tutorials is where it's like, Okay, here's how to go places and
here's how here's what to do when you get there. So I don't know
how any hours of my away. How many hours are between me and the
fun quote unquote not that not that many. Yeah, I actually just yeah,
I did the same thing. I seemed success layable ones. Yeah,
and I watched one video tutorial, the one on their site. It's like,
here's how to here's how to Elite Dangerous basically, and it gives you
a good overview of like how all the systems kind of interact at a very
uh macro level, right, things like just reading the uh like trading screen
like that stuff. It's it's a lot like learning Photoshop or something where you're
like, Okay, I want to do this one thing, how do I
do it? And then you uncover the steps to do that and then you
know it right, and then you you just build on it that way.
But as far as like the basics and flying around and like you know,
landing at places and talking to people like that initial stuff is is pretty easy
to pick up. Yeah, yeah, it seems like it's not that deep
or or I guess it seems like pretty excit, I guess I should say,
and very playable with a controller. Yeah. Uh. Though though I'm
like questioning why the X button is, Like why is deploying your hard points
and undeploying them such a big deal in that game that they put it on
a face button? Uh, Like why do you why would you ever want
to not have your hard points deployed? I guess people can detect when your
hard points are deployed. Okay, so it's straight at like a diplomacy sort
of thing of like don't have your guns drawn, right or if you like
meet some like other player out in space, yeah, just oh hey,
and if you're like hard points or out, they're gonna go, h what
you're doing? Yeah? Okay these guns? Right? Yeah, that's a
cool term. Yeah. Yeah, have you gotten uh oh what are they?
Is it incursion? Have you got incurred yet? I don't? Have
you got a light speed? No? I'm not okay. Yeah. So
when you're traveling from planet planet can can get in there and people get off,
rip you out of hyperspace and then fight you. It's awesome. And
while they're doing it, like it doesn't happen instantly, they're like, oh,
you're being in curry. I think that's the name for it. And
then it'll your ship will give you an escape vector to escape their grapple,
and you've got to like line up stuff and like fly back into your hyperspace
and if you fail that, then you get bumped out and you're both like
tumbling through space and as your systems come back online, and once they do,
you better hope that like you've got some good weapons against this guy,
damn. Or he may not even fight you. He may just like ask
you some information. I'm looking for a bounty hunter. It's like that's a
fucked up thing to pull me out. You could have just we've got radios,
man, Yeah, you could just send me an email. That game
is That game is cool. It takes a bit to feel comfortable or like
to establish like this is what I want from this game, and that takes
a little exploration just to like get comfortable with what is around and a available.
Yeah, but once you do, I it does like the world immersion
really well, Like, yeah, you feel like you're just sitting in the
ship, in your ship, living in space. That is your ship.
Yeah, nice ship. Yeah that's cool. Uh yeah, I don't know.
I I messed around with that a little bit on Xbox One or PC
PC. Okay, yeah, the Horizon stuff I think is only on PC
right now. Okay, gosh, what else? I don't know. I'm
still playing a lot of Super Mario Maker. Yeah. I know what I
want to do for my next level. I have some ideas in mind,
but I'm gonna wait until this patch deploys here over the next day or two
Is there a big overarching gimmick like a puzzle. No, no, no,
no no, this is just like I have, Like I could be
building parts of it right now if I wanted to. Just they're just there's
fucked up things, one of which I tested out. Uh, that works,
That's a that's a pretty messed up thing. Is it a bunch of
different messed up things or is it kind of a cohesive one well fucked up
most of if you think think about the levels that I'm making, Yeah,
they are a series of fucked up things. My my least favorite thing you
do in your levels is the hey, let's start start off the level with
something fucked up. Yeah, like that one jump. Yeah, here's the
thing you have to get good at or because you're going to be doing it
a lot. Yeah yeah. Yeah. I'm liking your path to the dark
side with these Mario Maker levels. I really like your the new levels you've
been doing. They're unpleasant. Yeah, that is that is my motif.
It's like making levels that are unpleasant, and you are helping to break down
my opponent too, So I thank you for softening him. I'm not making
levels for him. I make these levels for me. But you get some
joy out of seeing people fail. Oh yeah, yeah, anybody, anybody,
Yeah, seeing anybody bang ahead against this these nightmares. It's a great
joy of that game. It's definitely Yeah, it's absolutely joy and yeah,
yeah, Sha with your family. I'm curious what your thing is. I
don't know if I talked about it. It was one of the it was
something we talked about last week. Oh, doesn't involve Piece Witches. Everything
involves Piece Witches level I think I know, okay, yeah, that that
thing totally works. Fuck, And there are ways and I've thought about ways
to make it way worse than what we discussed as well, because it sounded
really bad just from what we discussed. It's it's a timing thing. It's
very tricky. I mean, it's whatever. It's not like the hardest thing
in the world, but you know, it's a fuck up thing you have
to do. That game is awesome. It is really good. The new
event courses they put out, that's kind of fun. There's some what's that
weird Belty guy. Yeah, it's good from Earthbound? Oh okay, yeah,
because mister Saturn from Earth Yeah, I think both those guys are from
from Earthbounds. Okay, okay, yeah, or some something in that series.
I don't know them, or from the same game or not. Uh
yeah, so I don't know. I've been I pretty much played that game
every day at this point. Yeah, and I've met it for a long
time. So I just I just play levels until I feel like I have
enough bad ideas to turn into some kind of twisted garbage and then pump out
said twisted garbage and then get back to planet. Ye. Uh yeah,
so I don't know. Some news happened. Uh you know, we're at
the end of the year. There's it was a Formula E race this weekend.
Yeah yeah, and how did that go? How did how were the
electric cars doing? Have they started the robot races yet? No? I
think that's next year. Okay, I think they just announced they had ads.
They like, they had banners said robo race along the race track.
Great? Yeah, great. Formula is like the Wild West, right,
isn't like it's some weird shit going on. Yeah, it's where they're trying
all their weird yea ideas. Okay, it's someone if you get like enough
hashtags or car blasts off into space or something. Yeah, fan boost Yeah
yeah, sure, why not. Yeah, so, yeah, we we
are at the end of the year. There's not that much going on.
But that said, some big stuff happened. Hedeo Kojima in the news one
last time for twenty fifteen. Maybe I don't even know. Yeah, I
guess, I guess. I don't know that. I guess Joaquim Mogram could
pop up at any time, any at any moment, that guy's going to
show up and say, no, I'm still working on the Fox Engine over
here. I'm ready. Uh speaking of which is as an aside, the
dude from the Fox Engine is now at Namco. They put out on press
release about that. Uh kind of just says it's going to be working on
some kind of core technology stuff. God, he's gonna be so good.
Yeah. Also Namco bringing some games over h Gundham gonna come over here.
I cannot believe that. Seriously, that was just the Vita version. And
yeah, I'm I'm baffled. I'm pleasantly surprised that they're bringing this over to
the States. That's that's totally get You got Eater games coming over to the
US. Yeah, Oh, I mean yeah, they're remaking. We're not
remaking rereleasing the first one, and then the second one is being ported over
here. So is Gundam famous for being games or for being like little robots
you paint? Isn't that? Was it an anime first? Yes? So
it is most famous probably manga? Yeah, probably at some point. Okay,
so the Manka is very famous, but then the hotama came afterwards.
Right, okay, you're getting hanging us. Yeah, yeah, no,
this is good stuff. You should probably go live in Japan now yeah.
Yeah, I'm ready. Yeah, let's see here Namco. Yeah. They
laid out an announcement on Sony's blog. Yeah uh, new tales game,
Tales of burstsaria as you made that up? Yeah no, now, I'm
no. I'm saying crazy stuff that'll be coming to North America. JoJo's Bizarre
Adventure Eyes of Heaven cool. PS four got either Resurrection and got either to
Rage Burst. Fuck, that's it, says PS four and Vita. I
don't know if that means both games are for both or if it's one of
that. I don't know. I know, got either to your Rage Burst
is four? PS four in right, I don't know about the Resurrection think
I yeah, Resurrection might be I think it's just PS four I don't know,
and Mobile suit gun damn Extreme VI vs Force is it v's Force or
versus Force versus? Okay, that's why I figured. And that's for Vitas.
Yeah, so congratulations to the nine people that still know where their Vita
is. I do, uh, I don't think I know where minds.
I have two Vitas in a PlayStation TV. Ask me anything, where are
they? I have no fucking idea. Yeah. So that's yeah, that's
that's Namco's announcement. That's cool stuff. More stuff coming to the US that
especially stuff that you wouldn't necessarily automatically assume would come over. So I thought
the Gunda game was a doomed especially after like Rise of Incarnates you know,
which is in that same line of gameplay. But it's not a Gundam game.
I mean to be like, you know that's got a license attached to
it, that it has a fan base here even they're fervent. Yeah,
they're they're they're crazy people. Oh yeah, they're crazy for Gundam. They're
still a very niche have you played this game? How many much Gundhams are
in this game? Many many Gundams. Yeah, I haven't played this particular
one, but yeah, is there one hundred gundams? Maybe? Is there
over one hundred gundams wish? I don't know, Actually, zion infinite amounts
of gun dun. I don't know. I don't know what I just said.
I don't know either. It's sounded very haname though. Yeah. Anyway,
Hideokojima is making a game. Oh at Cogima Productions. That's a clever
name for his new studio. Yeah, so that's yeah, that's now a
fun new database thing on our end, where we have two things called Cogema
Productions. One has a sick logo, one does have a six skull logo.
I mean, the old Fox with lightning feet was pretty cool, that
thing. Never the proportions on the that always looked fucked up to me,
where I just looked like a weird, swishy, swirly design. What I
mean, if you'll stare at it, you're like, oh, it's it's
a fox with lightning feet, but it's too tall. The whole thing looks
like a sixteen by nine movie crammed onto a four by three screen. Like
the whole thing that Yeah, the aspect ratio on that patch is dumb,
like he's on stilts and people. Yeah he's he's sneaking. He's sneaking,
you know how like when cats or whatever sneak still their back, still back.
No, the lightning fox is just sneaking because it's a sneaking mission.
If they'd stretched that thing out to a circle instead of it's weird vertical oval
thing, everything about that would look like it would be more readable as,
oh, it's a fox with a lightning feet. Instead I just looking and
go, oh, it's crazy some kind of It took a while for that,
I think, for me to look at it long enough, because I
didn't stare at the that logo that much, unlike you. Apparently I've looked
at that a lot where just like I don't know, some deisign think it's
like, oh, oh it's actually a thing, all right. I'm not
sure. I like the new text. Yeah, typographically, oh production,
it's skull in armor. It's similar to pretty Terminator two super Nintendo font in
Japan. I want to say, uh, let me, let me look
at it again and see if I'm just crazy, but uh yeah, it
seems kind of similar to a font that Nintendo is used. If I'm if
I'm not mistaken him. CoA still publishing Dark Souls, right, yeah,
yes, yeah, that is that is theirs, right. Yeah. So
anyway, that's that was an announcement that came out I guess like the day
after his contract was up, so it was like the sixteenth or something like
that. Like get this video the fifteenth he was on vacation. Yeah,
the sixteenth year on vacation and guy, did you watch the video? Yeah?
And House Yeah yeah, it's just Andy House just spitting game in perfect
Japanese. Yeah really yeah, no, he's he's yeah, he's he's the
head of you know, he's he's been there a long time. He's very
fluent. Does he have a British accent? I don't think so really.
I mean I don't speak Japanese, so I can't really tell you if it's
accented or not. But anyway, just spitting game, but all this stuff,
and there's this great moment where he said like there's you know, he's
talking about this stuff coming and then pans over and it's Kojima. They're sitting
next to him on the couch the whole time. Only he's got a goatee.
Really, yes, yes, yes, and great, it's it's a
it's a great dumb video, just like, man, there were there probably
was a better way to announce all this stuff, but no, this is
actually that's actually pretty good. Guys who made the game sharing video? Right,
yeah? Pretty much. I really like the no wasting time thing.
It's like, all right, I'm out of there here, I am now
immediately. I wonder if he'll make movies. No, he will make a
game for the for the PlayStation family of consoles or I guess actually they're saying
PlayStation four. But it's definitely one of those things where it's like, uh,
by the time he gets so, I mean, they're on the website
for the new Cojima productions. There are a lot of job listings for people
in different roles. It seems like some people are definitely joining him on this
adventure from his former workplace. But it does mean if I worked to Konami,
I would immediately jump ship. Yes, oh yeah, yeah totally.
I mean if you were, if you were part of his crew before,
be like, well yeah no, would we gonna sit here and figure out
more ways to get people to buy MB coins? Fuck now we're getting out
of here. Uh, we're rolling out starting something assuming they've got money,
you know, like you know, who knows what the financial realities of it
are. But they are hiring a ton of people, and they have first
party Sony Studio. No, they are not owned by Sony. Sony is
doing this deal with them. Uh So this is a street Fight or five
situation. Uh No, because Capcom this is probably probably a bit more like
a Grand Terrismo situation. Okay, okay, or something like that. So
I hope it involves him getting a ton of money to do whatever batshit crazy
thing he wants to do. That's what I want. I'm so glad he's
allied with Sony here and not just going immediately the kickstarter Like, yeah,
he's gonna have money and that's the best thing. No, No, I
bet he. I bet he has a more reasonable budget if anything else.
Yeah, definitely, I would. I would think that, and most games
have a smaller budget. IGN has an interview with him that they didn't had
prepped before for this announcement, that they had some kind of exclusive thing with
them for this. I didn't actually watch the interview, but my understanding is
that there's there's a bit of a no we want to get a game out
there kind of vibe to it, wouldn't exclusivity like means he's gonna have more
money to play with. And if he had just gone totally independent with some
Kickstarter thing or something, probably so well, I don't know. That's that's
a good question, Like how much money do you think he could have raised
in a crowdfunding scenario, like probably a recent amount? Is that even completely
written out of the equation? I mean it could be a shinmoo thing,
couldn't it. Well, I think Sony would end up publishing this game,
and I think that would look real crazy, yea for them to do that.
So I'm gonna say probably not. But yeah, I don't know.
It seems like that they are interested in getting a game out there, and
you know, ship and stuff in a way that you know, you you
don't necessarily think of when you think about that guy and metal Gear. So
we'll have to see what this thing ends up being and how it ends up
taking shape. I think that'll be really fun to watch over the next few
years. Yeah, fire Knots. Yeah, Okay, it's just fun to
say fire Knots. There are some people out there kind of putting together.
You know, if you look at the the logo of the skull and this
little kind of stuit of armor thing that there were some some ideas for like
a Zone of the Enders style prequel thing that had a similar piece of concept
attached to it, that maybe you could see them getting into some mech business
and you know, it's good, no idea, who uh, there's there's
are Obviously there's a ton of speculation out there around what this game will end
up being. But yeah, I don't know. I'm excited to see what
that guy does next. I think it's it's interesting, like you have to
wonder like was there a bidding war to get his services? And you know,
like how's that workout? And in terms of just like does that make
money for Sony to do this deal? Or you know it was Microsoft hot
on the heels with a with a counter offer? Was you know who who
was in the hunt for this thing? Uh? And and how to it
all go down? That'd be nice to know about in a public way someday,
but until then we will just wonder. Uh. Let's see here,
wind Jammers, let's talk about it. Okay, there's a guy from Korea.
Yeah, Bu yeah, from Germany. He's kind of slow but power.
Yeah, slow but powerful. Uh. This is from Nintendo Life.
They got a trailer here for a game called Power Disc Slam, which is
coming to the three D se Shop early next year from Checkered Cow Games.
It sounds like there's some uh, some staffers on there that were previously at
Argonaut and Supermassive. Okay, and they've got a trailer of what appears to
be this just kind of looks like wind Jammers, but polygonal. I mean
there's a few games. There are a few games there. There are more
and more games. Yeah. I feel like that there's been this ground swell
of support for wind Jammers for some reason over the past couple of years here,
and people are starting to get games ready. But this one's polygonal as
well. It's still the top down yeah, okay, it's still the top
town. Like looking at the trailer, they have played a lot of wind
Jammers. Okay, good. So where's the other games that I feel like,
you know, we've tried that have shown up in Steam, green Light
and some of these other places, Like the roots are there, but they're
taking it in a different directions. Yeah, this one just looks a little
bit more like wind Jammers. So they are on the surface level a disc
throwing, right, but but not look man, wind jammers has depth.
Yeah, infinite depth, infinite infinite depth. So I don't know. I
am curious to see how that, how that comes out. That's uh,
when's that coming out? Early next year? Three D Shop So that's uh
the three DS. Yeah, that's a weird okay, a weird mix.
But that's actually a quote here from uh oh what's the name here? Uh,
David McEwen, who is working on this game, about that. He
says, I've got a huge fondness for working within limitations and with unusual hardware.
So the three DS suits me down to a t. It's like this
weird backhanded like fuck the three DS, but it's fun. Uh no,
that's not really saying. But anyway, which said the best of luck.
I would like to see one of these games actually ship yeah, and be
and be done. So that's be good and be good and be good.
I think that's yes, there's no guarantee that someone's sitting down trying to even
even if they're trying to faithfully remake win Jammers, there's no guarantee that game
is gonna be any good at all. It seems like the path to that
is a hard one, because if you stick too close to it, then
why wouldn't I just play win Jammers Exactly? If you deviate too much,
then I'd rather just play win Jammers. Yep, there's it's it's very hard
to win in that situation. But I think it needs that win Jammers title.
And you think that's that's a part of it. I think that's just
like just like you can't make an unlicensed football game, you can't make an
unlicensed win Jammers name. Yeah, I don't know. I think even a
license win Jammers sequel would kind of be a bad idea at this point.
No, that'd be a great idea because then they would have the name,
and then they would suck it up if they didn't. But if they didn't,
yeah, but I think the way to to not fuck it up is
to put out wind Jammers with good net code done, you know, like
that's that's all that needs to be done. Yet, you know, I'm
not looking for like, hey, we you can jump now. You know.
It's not the things that someone would try to bring to a new Win
jammers, I think gets away from what I would want win jammers. Yeah,
yeah, so I don't know that's that is a weird one. Uh.
Let's see last bit of news here that I've got Destiny. Maybe you've
heard of it, not for a while. Uh. They are for thirty
dollars. You can buy a boost to level twenty five thirty dollars. Thirty
dollars. So I got level that boost ticket or token or whatever. I
enjoyed using that, but it sucks that it was like a one time thing
or whatever. I did realize it was across the whole thing because I used
it to just go from twenty to twenty five with the Tekan King. I
didn't realize that you get one per account, not one per character, so
I wasted that thing. Well, there's thirty dollars you could buy another one.
Do you actually buy that item like that? Same? Probably? So,
I'm not sure. So what it does. It is the way they're
selling it, at least on the PlayStation. I didn't look on the Xbox
side of things, but they have three different thirty dollars purchases, one for
each class. So it seems like you buy a Titan Boost. Okay,
and then that might just come with that item because it comes with some other
stuff here. It also comes with something that boosts one of your subclasses up
to the max huh, and telemetries, which are items you can use to
increase the rate at which your weapons gain experience. Sure it comes with some
of those as well. Basically, yeah, sure, yeah, I guess
it doesn't affect I don't know my enjoyment of it if other people who are
paying the level up, just I think you wanted to raid with people this
is these Yeah, I don't see the problem of that at some point.
It's just like it's not that hard to level in that game once because once
you hit you don't have to play Destiny. Though yeah you do. But
also like they reworked a lot of the early parts of Destiny to make it
easier and more playable, Like someone who has played a lot of Destiny,
which would ostensibly think that would be the audience for something like this, Like
it wouldn't be that hard for them to get there, like I have.
Maybe it's like geared toward people who were like, oh, I have this
sweet Titan, but we already have enough Titans in my raid group. I'm
gonna boost up somebody else or some new players of Destiny that want to raid
with their friends and want to be there faster I think is maybe one of
the others. But like to start the game and immediately want to go into
a raid that I don't know it's but twenty five you would still have to
do like the Taking King right right, storyline stuff. You know, you
still have to hit forty you stull have to do stuff thirty dollars, thirty
dollars. I mean, it's dumb, but if people want to do dumb
things with their money, go for it. The Taking King was forty yeah,
yeah, and came with one of those yeah, so like ah man,
yeah, I don't know. I yes, on on some level,
if people want to buy that dumb shit, they should be allowed to yeah,
and they should be allowed to offer that, like I just yeah,
why that hurts anything. I think it's just one of those things that,
like I think it's really gross when games make you or ask you, hey,
do you want to not play our game? We've got an offee for
you, Like, well, what the what are you buying? So you
just like, like I remember one of the first examples of that was some
Tiger Woods game on three sixty you could just like buy right like stats nine
that one. That one was fucked up because that was an example of paying
for cheats. Would that take you? Oh? You could bring that online?
And yeah, because it was just like, you know, hey,
you can buy pass the whole progression right here, max out your golf,
max out your golfer for this amount of money. Some stuff that used to
be a cheat and Tiger Woods. This is more like uh in World of
Warcraft. Over the years, as they've uh you know, like continued to
trivialize a lot of the older content, they have been like, hey,
we'll give you a free upgrade level seventy if you buy this thing now,
or hey we'll sell you this to do this, and it's just like,
hey, you want a max level character. I guess one of those things
where you're just like this, the structure of these games must be broken.
If that's the solution, that's just I don't play any of this ship just
just buy the thing again. Yeah, I think it's dumb if you buy
it, like, I don't know why you would. If you want to
play a game, you want to play it. You don't want to skip
giant chunks of it. Well, but if again, if you're like,
if you've got a main character and you want to play a different class,
you don't want to go through all that stuff that you already played, right
again, that I understand. And all the friends that you do want to
play with are already at that max level, they're already rating. That's what
you want to hop into, you know, as soon as possible possible to
play with them. But so I have a low level Destiny character that I
play off and on when I get super bored of everything life. Yeah,
and that stuffs all, Like, you know, you can still go play
multiplayer and gain experience and you're just as effective, you know, as you
would be at max level because the way they balance that stuff out, you
know, the racing still works even if you're a low level, Like there's
there's stuff you can do in that game to level up that is not that
much different from the things you would be doing with your max level character.
So that's the thing, is like why not just play it? Like what
do you do? What are you doing? You'll get drops along the way,
maybe you'll get something cool. Actually would you wouldn't get anything cool until
you'll have a forty, but I don't know, it's it's just it's just
a weird thing that it's a weird thing. It's expensive. Also, thirty
dollars is a lot of sucking money. But there's no reason to buy it.
Like, it's not like it's again, it's just not hurting your enjoyment
of it. If you want to play it like you normally play Destiny,
just do it. Yeah, sure, but think about the narrative. I
think about the way Destiny has changed as of late, like post the release
of The Taking King. The things they've added to it, the things they've
they've done are, hey, here's this this racing thing that's not so good.
H By the way, we're not going to issue content the same way
we have. We're just gonna put out more events, and so far the
events that they've had have not been very good. I was underwhelmed by that.
And Halloween things, and yeah, the Halloween thing also and and by
the way, we're adding a bunch of micro transaction based stuff to the game,
like that that's stopping new content coming out. I mean, is they're
not putting any new content out in like story mission content. It's like them
saying, like, I thought, these Christian actions we're supposed to fund.
It's supposed to fund the events team, the events team basically, which is
so far the events of the Halloween and this racing thing, and both of
them are lame. So it's one of tho things where it's like, Okay,
well mate, what what are you doing? It just it paints a
very strange picture. For Jess, You're right, no one ever has to
buy into that stuff, and why would you ever buy fucking wave emots and
also their bullshit like who cares? But at the same time, it just
makes that game seem like it's on like a kind of a negative path again,
which is weird because it felt like they were kind of turning it around.
Yeah, I'm super curiously the next actual gameplay thing they did after King
was awesome, So but maybe it's just one of those things where it's like,
yeah, you know, most people are going to step away from it
and come back, and we actually put real content out. So for you
suckers who were going to play us every day, right, you're going to
be the person that eventually snaps and goes, I want to do the fun
dance. Here's four dollars. You know, I don't know whatever. Okay,
so is that all the news? That's all? That's all the news.
I got. I got something real quick. What do you got?
What you got? Die Goomahara? Uh huh fabled legend street fire fighter player
in the fighting game community. Yes, uh won a bunch of money at
Capcom Cup and he's donating it all. No. Really, the EVO Scholarship
Fund nice, like sixty thousand dollars that He's just like, you know what,
fighting game community has been super good to me. I'm gonna give it
back. So yeah, all his winnings going back to that, and that
scholarship fund is like a game design school in New York or something, so
all the yeah, they pay for somebody's tuition there. They're gonna pay for
someone to go on to make really bad fighting games. Probably, Yeah,
I'm down. Like I don't know how much money you make off of stuff
like that, Like he's I don't follow the competitive fighting scene, but like
I've heard of him. Uh is he rich off of that? Like he
makes a living off of that? Rich? She is like that? I
think he would have like sponsorship money from people or from companies or whatever.
Well, right, yep, yeah, they they flame around, they pay
him a salary and stuff like that. I think so, yeah, I'm
assuming like being able to give aways sixty thousand dollars like that you're probably doing.
Was Capcom Cup run? And was it four? Or was it five?
What are they playing? What the switch Street Fighter did they play for?
Okay? Is it? Is it kind of the last big hurrah for
four? Yeah? This pass Capcom Cup was the last big hurrah for for
four. I think so, and then five is going to start up,
I think and March. I guess at final round. I guess it's fitting
for Diego to take it shut it down. Super cool of him. Yeah,
I think I mean sixteen grand Man. Yeah awesome, Yeah, good,
good on him. That's my nimes cool. Uh. Let's get into
some emails. These came into bomb cast at giant bomb dot com, which
is an email address that you can send things to. Okay, I pulled
a lot of stuff here, good and I and I ignored a lot of
stuff. A lot of people are sending a lot of stuff because a lot
of it is terrible. Is that from the tumblr? No, that stuff
was actually ignored a lot of stuff there Okay, all right, but there
you go. Uh, let's see, let's just get into it. Aaron
writes, and it says, would you guys consider doing a fan event in
VR when those social programs come out? I imagine it would be like a
shared VR space where we can all watch and comment on a live stream,
or maybe you could even host something that sounds weird when we all we all
used to get together in a PlayStation home that was fun. I was gonna
say that last home stream I thought was really funny where Jeff you were playing,
and sure a bunch of random people, like when there's some Doctor Pepper
vending machine chasing around or something. Probably, Yeah, I want to see
what weird stuff would happen from that lot. Yeah, it's just I guess
it's just one of those things we'll potentially have to think about at some point,
like if should that stuff become available? I think they'd be pretty fun.
Yeah, yeah, or a nightmare or both. I don't know.
Public event makes I don't know that that's kind of an intimidating thing. We'll
do a stream and then we'll see what happens. That's kind of way up,
but like a public event in VR right, Like, so everyone has
to put on their helmets and then we walk around. Okay, that sounds
awesome. Yeah, I'm totally down for the idea. Yeah yeah, oh
god, that's going to be scary and then we kiss. Patty in Australia
says I saw a lady in line at Target with a copy of Tony Hawk's
pro Skater five, presumably buying it for her niece or son. The price
was forty dollars Australian, which is discount prices here. So soon after the
game's release, should I have said something? I don't want to be the
guy who spews out his gaming tastes to complete strangers. But this kid is
going to have his Christmas ruined. Maybe the kid will learn a valuable lesson
to never trust adults, or maybe that kid is a piece of shit and
deserves that games. I don't know. I think it's always fine to step
in to those type of decision like this happened to be numerous times and targets
specifically yeah, or like you know, it's apparent you know that, it's
like audibly asking someone like I don't know, is it supposed to be this?
Or this? Does a three DS game playing a DS like like I
will step in and those, but actually this and this and this and that's
just being helpful. I think anything with matter of opinion, even though Tony
Hawk five is objectively terrible, Uh, it's opinion, and that kid might
have asked for it, so I'd say you don't step in there. It
might be a young kid, and young kids can overlook a lot of terrorists.
I think. Yeah, it's one of those things where if if people
are kind of loudly asking or loudly I might I'm gonna go like nah or
something, you know, just just real quickly. Yeah, like if the
mom someone that controller is not going to work with that, yeah, or
if the mom was like, hey, is this game good? If my
kid likes skateboarding games, well it's no, it's not very good. No,
it's not. It's bad. So I should I get Well, it's
not really call skate three. Yeah. M hmm. Yeah, yeah,
I don't. I don't like to don't. Yeah, don't be that guy.
Yeah, yeah, that's that's that. Yes, that goes weird places
fast. Uh. Yes. Josh Risen says I like to group my games
together by genre, but there's a certain group of games that I don't know
how to classify. It's a somewhat subjective grouping, so I hope you understand
why they why they all seem related to me. The games are, among
others, Eco Shadow of the Colossus, Legend of Zelda, and similarly structured
games like Ocami, Dark Siders, et cetera, Journey Brothers, Beyond Good
and Evil, Enslaved Bastion, Cave Story, The Swapper, and La mu
Lana. I can see what you're going for here. At the beginning,
I got it the kind of action adventures. You had console style adventure like
action adventure games there for a while, and then like The Swapper, and
there are a couple there that they totally lost me on. Yeah, more
of a puzzle game. Yeah. Cave Story and La Mulana are kind of
like they put that in the Spilunkey section. I don't know. The best
term I found for the grouping is adventure, since that is what the movie
genre would be, but adventure games is already a term obviously, Maybe pulp
or question games. Help me, You're my only hope. This is why
it's alphabetical all the fucking my My wife tried to organize our DVDs by genre,
and it was the most nightmarish thing you could think of. Yeah,
that sounds awful. It was alphabetize or color I want? Yeah, yeah,
what some people do? Color? Color code? You're like, yeah,
you're they're usually the same, aren't they necessarily? That sounds maddening.
But you want to go find Burnard Parise, you go for the white one.
Nope, I don't. I don't know that that's white on the spine.
Outside of like like when we was doing the Red Mario games, it's
very rare that it would be like different colors entirely, like the fonts and
the title treatments. Yeah, but yeah, it works better for books.
Oh yeah, I can see that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
you know, a lot of these games are just kind of the kind of
console style action invent like they were the games that you used to call adventure
games back when consoles lived to completely separately from the PC, you know,
because adventure meant very different things on the PC than it did on consoles.
Yeah, but usually like point and click, right, Yeah, we have
an adventure tag in our database, right, we do, but it's primarily
for the PC, a take on adventure games. So kind of what happened
is the games we thought of as adventure games on console, you started referring
to those as action adventure in most cases. Okay, so that's what the
majority of these games are. An action adventure typically separates from pure action in
that action adventure might deal with a larger world and larger scope, and also
an inventory stuff like that, perhaps even stats, yes, perhaps even stats
light RPG elements. What do you call games like God of War, Devil
May Cry, Heavenly Sword, character character actions? Okay, remember the old
classification, but you would just call that action stylish hard actions. See,
yeah, I reserved that mainly for just Devil Might Cry. Yeah, Banata
yeah yeah yeah. Oh man, that is in Smash. That should have
been a news story. Oh right, that's yeah, that's news. That's
cool. Yeah is that out now? It was cloud out? In what
it is coming? We don't know. When there's another character they have a
sword? Do they sell packs of those characters? I haven't gotten any of
the deals the packs are, like, whether you want it on both platforms
or not, they're selling it like game room. Oh you know, it's
so naturally of course, yeah, where if you buy it per platform It's
like, was it six bucks? But if you want both platforms and once
it's seven I think. I think I don't see myself playing a three DS
one anytime soon. I am not gonna play I have a version anytime soon.
I have purchased zero Smash Brothers DLC me too, But I could I
could see myself playing that game in the future. Yeah, I cannot.
H maxim Australia rights and it says I remember watching a game show in Australia
where in one round the kids had to play a Super Nintendo game. They
either had to collect coins in Mario Kart, bananas in Donkey Kong Country,
or whatever the hell the collectible collectibles are in Bubsy? Those are yarn balls.
I mean, come on, don't be crazy cat. Was Bubbsy really
on that sort of level where it was an immediately recognizable game that presumably kids
could pick up and play it because of course they knew the great brand of
Bubsy? Was Bubbsy a big deal when it came out? And what the
fuck went on with Bubsy and that goddamn sequel? Well, those are great
questions, weren't There was another side scrolling Bubzy before three D right, there's
Bubbzy and Bubsy two and okay, and then three three three D was the
one of the worst games ever for sure. I mean one and two are
no like k I never really played those and they're shit fests. Really,
yeah, they're fucking awful. Played them on Friday, Yeah, I played
them on Friday, video on the side, so they just came out on
Steam. Oh in the Bubsy two for okay, and it appears to be
a retackage two hyphen fuf you are yeah for because he's a podcast cat.
Do you remember the subtitle of the first game clause Encounter of the Furred Kind.
That's pretty good. Bubbsy you know, was one of these like sad
attempts to make a Sonic the Hedgehog game, because like there were some fast
moving moments in it, or you get on these like water slides that would
kind of take you around a level and you'd be like, oh, like
sonic, but shitty. Was it like one step above Awesome Possum in terms
of quality? Yeah, okay, awesome I mean in terms of animation and
playability, yes, yeah, but because Awesome Possum is like a choppy,
fucked up mess on top of that. But I think I prefer things about
awesome possum because you learned something along the way. It's about recycling, right,
Bubbsy, you just learned to hate Bubbsy primarily. An awesome possum is
awesome. He's awesome. He says so right at the start of the game,
and he kicks Doctor Machinos. But this whole song, there's a whole
song, this Bubbsy thing that just came out on Steam. It appears to
be Super Nintendo rom and a packaged up emulator for how much it's like five
bucks or something, Okay, And I think there might be some controversy about
the emulator stuff because it was an open source emulator that is being sold and
the people that gave the permission to do it aren't didn't make all the contributions.
Anyway, There's there's always some kind of controversy when an open source project
goes on goes up for sale, depending on how the licensing goes and all
the other stuff. But you know, whatever, that that's beyond the scope
of this current discussion. I will just say that it's jankie as fuck.
Uh and and it just doesn't Yeah, I remember hearing the name Bubbsy back
in the Genesis era. I had never played it or even seen it until
your stream on Friday. Man, that's hard to look at. It's a
real fucked up piece of garbage. That camera is all over the place.
Yeah, yeah, and it's you know, they're trying to put a lot
of frames of animation onto Bubsy to make him this lifelike cartoonish character, as
was the custom at the time, but like at the sac it sacrifices even
more playability than it would have had without it, which would have not been
that much. Like the character just controls like shit, and the game kind
of looks like shit. Yeah, the camera's all over the place. It's
like impossible to keep track of what's going on. It's just a it's a
really terrible game, and Bubbsy two is somehow even worse. It's just like
this like insane. It's like a crazy person's drug dream or something of just
like I don't even know where I'm going, Like I've Bubsy just teleported into
this thing. Okay, what am I doing now? I don't know?
Like what that thing sucks. They were trying to push Bubsy pretty hard at
the time. I remember when it was coming out. I have a plush
Bubbsy doll that was given out at like early I guess it would have been
C yes, wouldn't even been E three probably, but yeah, he was
just another one of those also ran kind of characters that showed up in platformers
of like Arrow the acrobat quality of like all these different games that we're trying
to dynamite Heady. Yeah, Dan, well, dynam my Heady was cool
game. Yes, that's difference there. James Pond. I love James Pond
really, yeah you don't. He was a fish that was named after James
Bond. He had a tuxedo and a gun. But also the game sucked
ass. Yeah, there was a fish in a tea, the fish in
the like yeah, the character like all that stuff. I'm like yeah.
Also I was like eight when I played it. Sure, like Bob Bobi.
Yeah that games are right, like deeper than you would think it would
be. Yeah, but yeah, I don't know. There was an era
where everyone was trying to get in on that hot Sonic and Mario money,
and so they just came up with like I don't know, what's a random
animal? An earthworm? All right, Okay, what's this Earthworm Okay?
How does it okay? How are we gonna make an earthworm fun as it
as a video game in a man suit? A man suit? Yeah all
right, I guess we could figure out a way make they work. At
least that game was unique and funny, and back then I remember it playing
okay, But then when they did Earthworm HD, It's like, oh this
actually it's not that great. It's the weird dark secret about Earthworm Gym is
that the first level plays okay, and then every level after that is total
shit. I remember in the first game gets real hard. Second game is
a little more even, but man, that first game was which one at
the level where Pete Puppy was walking NonStop and he had to constantly whip him
over, like I hated it was cool and earth from Gym you launched that
cow. Everything after that is downhill comes back. Well yeah, I mean
they pay it off, which is nice, but yeah, that game games.
That game great looking game. Another example of just like like the animation
is like amazing, but or it wasn't the time. Yeah, would you
throw crash into that to a certain extent, I mean it's a couple of
years after that it was, but it was and it was its own game,
but it was also like them very clearly trying to establish like the way
they marketed around it, like trying to like establish a mascot. Yeah uh.
And and so it kind of served the same purpose in a weird way.
And it was a good game. Yeah, yeah, there was a
Yeah, there's a couple of good games there and Crash, I get it's
I still can't get over that dude wearing that did you want you guys watch
the PSX keynote? I saw him walking around PSX with that shirt. Yeah.
Yeah, Sean Layton, head of head of PlayStation US were walking around
with that. Yeah. I got excited at first when it came out,
because, like everything, even if it's bandicoot shirt. Yeah yeah, even
if it's something dumb like Phil Spencer wearing a Battletoad shirt, and it wound
up being like a killer instinct thing. At least that was something. There
was nothing Crash Bandicoot at PSX. Yeah, it just seems like the most
misguided, So like, like I think have that done re releases that?
No? Uh, And someone wrote in and I don't know that I pulled
the email, but someone wrote in and said that they had talked to a
drunk Activision rep, which checks out who hasn't Yeah, And the story was
that Sony owns the rights to the early games but not the character, and
Activision owns the rights to the character but not the early games, and that
that significant business would have to go down. It's it's you know, they
wanted crash Bandicoot for that Smash Brothers rip off they made, but couldn't make
the business work, whether act you know, activism. I think the story
I heard at the Times the Activison was just like nah, but who knows.
Uh. So it's one of those things where it's like, Okay,
you don't wear that T shirt unless you've already businessed up and have something ready
to announce. And then if you if you don't have that done, you
wearing the shirt probably just makes the price of crash Bandicoot go up. Yeah,
because you wore it and about it. People got excited about it.
Yeah. It's like the idea is to not talk about the thing for a
good long time so that the price goes down because nobody remembers that dumb thing
anymore. And then you managed to buy it like that it's I it just
is fucking baffling that that whole thing went through. Yep. Uh, that
that whole keynote went down with him wearing that thing, and then there was
no payoff at the end of it, No one backstage because what you doing?
Hey, come on, don't do that. What are you doing?
Uh? Yeah, that's that's why I wear it. Just Blaine black shirts.
I have no business to announce ever. I don't want to commit to
anything. But if you ever came in wearing something on your shirt, you'd
know, you know something. He would have the announcement by the end of
the day. That's how you knew you were having a baby. Yeah,
just that black shirt that said I'm having a baby on him. I was
like, is that just like a weird like piece of promo work from She's
having a baby, And you were like, no, yeah, it's a
band. I mean, let's like guy walking down the street the other day
with an Eddie Gurrow I'm your Poppy shirt. I haven't seen that in a
while. Did you ask him for it? He looks kind of crazy.
I would have said something if he didn't look crazy. Go figure were wrestling
a shirt from two thousand and two you could have stopped the guy wearing a
wrestling shirt. Nook from South Carolina writes in and says, I bought a
PlayStation Vita TV from best Buy on Black Friday for twenty dollars. Nice.
My question, what the hell can I do with this thing? You can
use, you know, a big Boy controller with those Vida games. If
you don't like how the Vida feels, He goes, I could have to
a team. Okay. I bought it thinking I could use it to something
similar to a Roku box. Turns out Netflix, Amazon Prime aren't either compatible
with it or don't exist on the PlayStation Vita TV looks like you can't really
play most games on it either. Have any of you guys found a use
for this thing, big big, big boy controller with what games? Freedom?
Uh? What the fuck's they called us Cream Moorse Thank You, which
I still haven't really played all that much, but uh huh, yep,
they put out that Persona that's a good game. There we go, and
you could get that game for like, you know, ten twenty dollars right
now, so you could have the best version of that game played with a
big Boy controller for what forty bucks? There you go. It's golden only
out on the Vita. Yeah, that's I feel like that's like you bought
PlayStation don't ever buy a platform for one game. Yeah, but if you
already have it, then the Vita TV has been, i I, you
know, disappointing on so many levels, and they've just dropped it for the
most parts. Yeah, it was like I felt it felt like they were
getting out of the Vita business as that thing was coming out, and then
you know, they brought it to the US for whatever reason, like to
then not support it. I was. I was really excited because I did
have like in it, a pretty big like you know, PlayStation portable library.
You know, I still didn't like playing on my PlayStation Vida because it
feels like shit, but I like using the big controller for it. So
stuff like God Eater I played a lot of after I got my PlayStation TV.
So I don't know. There's a very small segment of people like me,
I guess, but for the most part, I don't know. I
don't know what's going on with that. I've been I've never played a game
at length like we put. We did a video of showing the PlayStation TV
like what works and what works and what doesn't. We did that stream or
whatever it was, and then we did that persona dancing all night video.
Yep, there just there hasn't been anything like it. It felt like just
just when they got a device out that we could use to produce Vita quick
looks, suddenly there were no Vida games worth producing quick looks for ever again
true or almost ever again. And it's just insane. It's insane. Also,
is something that plays like Netflix and stuff even a hot property now because
like everyone has nineteen devices that you know, the original we had that,
Yeah, but a twenty dollars device is kind of yeah, probably, but
yeah, like a chrome cast starts at thirty five, you know, fire
fire sticks another rokus are like fifty or whatever. So yeah, when twenty
dollars for you know, something that potential that'd be great you knows as a
nice bonus or benefit or whatever I guess happened. Yeah, wiredu HDMI out
Yeah, limited to seven twenty I think, but yeah, uh, let's
see. Carson Ryson says, what's the biggest thing you knew about you knew
before announcement that you were excited about? Wait, hang on, wait,
what is the biggest thing you knew before announcement you were excited about? And
maybe anything right now you know, but we don't that you are excited about.
I'm not asking you to leak it. Of course I can't talk about
it. Is there? So okay, Well, well let's let's break this
down into two proper questions. Is there anything right now that you know of
that has not been announced that you are excited about. No, because it's
the end end of the year. I think, like, I don't know
anything too big. How about that, I'm not there's nothing on my shirt.
Yeah he's wearing he's yes, the shirt is yeah. Yeah. I
know about a couple of things, but I don't know that they're twenty sixteen
things. Yeah. I can think of one thing that might not be twenty
sixteen thing. Uh, we hear stuff. We had stuff all the time,
a game in form because since it was print and they were prosbly trying
to like, yeah, people's pitching covers for announcements. I'm sure they would
fly in. This thing about being in Minnesota is they would fly to us
and be like hey, yeah, yeah, but yeah, like GTA five,
all those yeah, the covers months and months ahead before announcement. Everything
is leasing guys out there see if they had to write it, and like
a month for the magazine to come out. So like a lot of times
three or four months before announcement. Yeah, we would have seen you know,
Skyrim or g t if I were these huge, huge games, So
that was a pretty frequent thing. I don't get it nearly as much here.
I don't care with that. It makes sense. I mean the way
print works, I mean that, Yeah, it makes sense. And then
what's the biggest thing that you did? I guess I mean you guys have
in the magazine experience. It's probably something like a GCA or a sky Rim
or something like that, right, the biggest what the biggest thing you knew
about before it was announced that you were excited about. I was super excited
because it was fairly early on me being a GI that we started hearing about
the south Park game The Stick of Truth, and I just you know,
I've always been a big south Park fan. I've always really liked Trey and
Matt, and hearing about the game was awesome. And then getting to do
the cover story, so I like went out to a city and everything got
to interview Tray and Matt and all that, and that was really cool because
I knew it was gonna be a few months before it was announced, and
also seeing it and it looked good. Yeah, that was right. Yeah,
because like there was a lot of talk about whether we should put it
on the cover because it's like, I mean, it's a licensed game,
it's South Park, It's probably gonna suck. But then, like you know,
up sitting was like, no, like Trey and Matt are really writing
this thing. It's going to be a good game. And then like actually
coming to the realization after seeing in production, they're like, oh, this
might be pretty awesome. So yeah, that was That was something I was
especially excited about. Literally, Yeah, I don't know, it's there's no
one thing that stands out to me. I remember like seeing like a bunch
of Mortal Kombat stuff before I got announced and some of that other stuff over
there. Over the years, there's been little things here and there, bigger
things here and there, but nothing that really jumps out. I remember.
Actually I remember Street Fighter for knowing some stuff about that before they've been announced
and being pretty excited about that. That came the same time as information about
the new bion A Commando, and I remember being really really way more excited
about that and that delivered. Oh yeah, no, I'm sorry, Hey,
re armed. Did there are things about they're a look that Bondo game,
the Big one, the Big one. There's some stuff mechanically in there
that's that's not bad. Okay, the swinging, so I mean obviously you
know the weird radiation that he keeps you from swinging too, like the limitations
they put on it to get that out the door? Fuck it up.
Yeah, there are things in that game that are still kind of fucking cool.
The thing I will remember forever from that game is that weird e strig.
Do you remember that? Yeah? Yeah, I just I thought for
sure I was going crazy when I heard that, And then when I looked
it up because it was pre released, and I was like, surely I
didn't hear that. I couldn't replicate it. So there's this giant like worm
Boss, and like you're talking to the lady on the radio or whatever,
it's like, God, it's like a it's a big worm thing. Guess
I'll have to fight it. And then that's what he says, and then
I died during the worm boss. And the second time you go back,
and I could have sworn I heard him say, oh, yeah, it's
a big crazy worm thing. Guess I'll have to fuck it. And I
remember hearing that clearly and being like, no, he didn't say that.
That's a ludicrous thing. There's no way that would happened, and like load
of them again and he said fight it. I was like, Okay,
I'm not going crazy. He didn't say he was gonna fuck that worm,
boss. And then after it came out, it's like, yeah, they
put easter right again where he says he's gonna suck the worm. Boss.
It's the weirdest fucking thing in the world. That's weirder than the hot dog
wife at the end. His arm is a hot dog wife. Hot dog
looks like a bunch of hot dogs, but it's his wife. Okay,
no, I know his wife is his wife is in the right arm,
yeah, armily, but him uh yeah. But him saying that he wants
to fuck that worm is way weirder. Yeah, that there are so many
things they could have done with that retelling of that fiction. Once they once
they got to the point where we're gonna have the spirit of this dude's dead
wife live in the arm. Yeah, you're gonna do that, but have
zero hitlers in it. Yeah, that's fine. They technically took the hitlers
out of the US version of the game anyway, right, Uh, that's
what a weird thing. There's the fucking things like there's off that got cut
from that story that is in that vein that is way fucking that like goes
further down that path, like every character, like a lot of the characters
you fight, Like there's here's this lady with bionic legs. Oh, dad
lived in the legs. Like, there's stuff like that that was written for
that game that didn't make it in the like man, fuck's cut right,
Yes, that's coming Commando HD. That's what you know about. Yeah,
yeah, that's twenty seventeen. Right, Yeah that's the thing. Uh yeah,
I don't know that that game. You know, it's fucked up in
a lot of messed up ways, but it had not that weird end.
We're just like in the fucking air and just like all these angels or whatever,
the whole end. It's a weird fucking game. Fuck everybody. That
game's kind of cool game. It's kind of cool that it came out like
that with those weird such a fucking insane thing. Uh, and like mechanically
it's it's it's close, like there's things about it that are sucked up.
There aren't enough checkpoints, Like there's stuff. There's a better game there if
they had spent more time cleaning some of it up. But m there's I'm
telling you all right, multiplayer not the worst thing in the world, totally
superfluous, not necessary, but still like I don't know, I'm still swinging
around. That's that break that game down, Like I'm still swinging around.
This is still fun. The best swinging is still Spider Man two. Okay,
sure that's not bad. You should play Energy Hook. I saw you
played on UPF and it was like a guy that did the swinging Spider Man.
So I don't have like I didn't play enough Spider Man two to care
about that stuff. And the swinging felt good. So I wonder if if
you having a real love for that game, you'd probably better suited to talk
about it. I want to say the swinging and Disney Infinity is really good
as well. Believe it or not, try it out. Who's got it?
Who can do it? Spider man. Oh, right, of course,
of course I can do it. Actually later on, yeah, quite
a few. I forgot that's the same characters. Uh, let's see here.
Joseph from Atlanta writes in it says I was reading through Paste magazine's article
on Jeff Green, which I haven't seen that. It's an article about Jeff
Green, the last superhero on this planet, and it got me wondering is
Jeff Gerstmann's that's me reluctance to non video gaming related content tied to an industry
wide identity crisis and perhaps personal pride. He goes on, I love all
the Giant Bomb personalities. Thanks, there's something about being referred to as personality
that seems really yeah. I don't either. I don't like them all.
Yeah, some of them, A couple of them, okay, yeah?
Uh and want to see the often demanded food, anime, and other geek
related content alongside Alt f one, wrestling, et cetera. But I also
understand the reluctance if it dilutes the Giant Bomb identity from video games into the
monolithic all things Nerd Dumb website. I feel a similar crisis is happening to
hardcore gamers who feel that their games are disappearing as video games reach much bigger
and broader audiences. Video games themselves are becoming more broad, and I feel
that the media coverage is perhaps changing to be as scattered as the video games
media grows. So can you guys continue to hold onto being video game centric
or do you see a point in the future where you'd have to sell out?
I see it as selling out. Yeah, I think he could put
that quote. He was kind of kidden. I mean that they're the biggest
part of our lives, I think for the most part, and also their
priority where you know, but only so many games come out in a given
weeks, so it's not like there's constantly twenty quick looks that we could do.
You know. Yeah, it's it's weird. It's it's been weird watching
other outlets get deeper and deeper into non gaming stuff because it, like,
I feel like with the way that they present it right along side video game
news, it kind of becomes this tacit admission and of just like, oh,
video games aren't actually big enough to drive our business, so we have
to and knowing some of the business behind it. With some of these sites
of like oh, we put up the trailer to the Marvel movie because then
we can post that to Facebook and it does really well, and then that
helps these numbers go up, and that keeps us afloat. It becomes this
thing of like, oh, video games are not actually doing it for us
anymore, so we have to do this type of thing on social media in
order to drive people to our site in the first place. And it like,
I don't think I don't view it as like a sell out, like,
oh, you guys, it's for me. It's just more of like
like intensely depressing of like oh, to stay afloat, Like video games don't
cut it anymore for some of these businesses, see what you're saying. I
guess I'm getting that impression though. Yeah, but I think there's a big
difference between like, yeah, posting a Captain America trailer and like doing a
original new like we did like a food show or something like that. Like
that's different. That's original content. That's not look at this thing. The
way that it's handled is very important. Yeah, I think, I mean,
I think we handle things pretty differently, you know, and I think
with our stuff it comes from a pretty different place of like This isn't We're
not doing a wrestling podcast so we can post about wrestling on Facebook. We're
doing it because we're idiots and we'd like talking about Yeah, and it's it's
a premium thing that you know, it's for subscribers who have kind of said
that they want more of our takes on wider things. And you know Austin's
writing column now where he'll kind of step outside of video games here and there,
Like I'm kind of toying with the idea of doing something similar, and
you know, like I've floated that idea out there to people online and they've
been like super into the idea. But yeah, I think it's like one
of those things where there's kind of and you know, we were founded on
the original idea and we start a giant bomb was we were going to interview
bands and do all this other shit, which never got around to it,
and then he moved into like energy drinks and beef jerkey pretty much. Yeah,
just launched with energy drink coverage and and then eventually like I guess there's
some video games. Yeah, So I don't know, it's it's one of
those things where for me, it is, yeah, like you said,
I think it's more about the approach that a lot of places are taking that
kind of rubs me the wrong way because it kind of gets presented as like
right alongside the video games in a way that I don't always I don't always
always appreciate, and that's primarily because I just don't give a fuck about most
of those movies. Yeah, and comes across as disingenuine. Yeah, I
guess I think I can. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like I hate
the idea of having to feign enthusiasm for something I don't give a shit about.
Yeah, Like I would hate to have to like be on camera talking
about God, this new civil war, but I don't give a shit.
Like I don't know how people do that, really, I don't know.
It pays the bills, I guess, but I think there are places that
do that about video games. Oh like feign enthusiast. Oh yeah, of
course, yeah, Like that's that's certainly. I just think there's kind of
it's that kind of like entertainment Tonight approach of just like we're excited about everything.
Here's the new thing, excive thing coming out, We've got it exclusively,
like like that type of coverage doesn't doesn't do it for me. I
think if we were to do anything, it would be or anything outside of
video games, those things like wrestling in Formula one, like it would only
work for us if we were actually interested in them. Yeah, it's like,
oh no, no, we're getting into the lucrative F one podcast market.
It's right, that's where the money is. Like, no, but
it actually, I mean, but that has done well for us. I
mean to be clear, it's you know, it's one of those things.
And you know, it's like, I think we may start a music podcast
sometime next year. You know, that's giving a shot. Yeah, I
think that's that's something I would be into doing. Uh kind of shooting it
around a little bit. I don't know. And likewise, it feels like
wrestling has fallen off in a big way because wrestling is so terrible. Yes
it is, but it's it's mainly a season. That's the thing is.
I think we will do another one of those, like after the Royal Rumble,
because that I feel like that's always the thing when wrestling gets bad,
like right after the Royal Rumble, that event is the thing that gets them
on track for the next handful of months. So it's kind of the clearest
like groundhog Day moment of like Roman Reigns see his show at or not.
But then that wound up being good. That's you know, eight more weeks
of fucking people getting injured every week. Uh, that's probably when we have
Drew watched boy. Yeah, oh yeah, we got to do that talent
exchange. That would actually be a good one. You almost had to watch
Survivor series that was close. A rumble is a light. It's fun.
It's fun. It's thirty guys in the ring and throwing each other around,
and it's it's there's goofy things that happen along the way. And we do
some side stuff as well with the rumble, totally legal side stuff. Yes,
yeah, you left your Bingo Hopper in Texas. I know what they're
gonna do. The lady that ran that bar said she's gonna mail it to
me. My Bengo Hopper is still in San Antonio. All right, Well,
we'll see how it goes. But let me just say that I'd love
working for a place that, you know, like these goofy outside interests of
ours are kind of increased for us to explore, and also that we don't
have to do the fainting enthusiasm because I don't think I could do it.
I think it's also important to realize that, like we, like, our
audience are interested in more things. Yeah, that's in addition to total Yeah,
Like I it's very easy to imagine the audience as this, like uh,
this like one person that is just video games twenty four seven, but
like almost no one has just that as their sole interest. There are a
lot of people that I think assigned that their identity gamer. That's what I
do is video games, Like that's the main thing for sure, you know.
Yeah, but I don't think at the exclusion of everything else in the
world, right, but there are definitely a lot of people that like that
is their thing. I feel like I'm getting there. I mean, I
don't have TV in my house anymore, okay, you know, canceled cable,
Like it's and I don't really go see movies that often. It's happening
to me, but yeah, I don't know, it's it's Yeah. I
think that it's weird when it seems like a business move. Yeah, yeah,
as opposed to like, well, this is a kind of a natural
outc popping of and I feel like there are a lot of different places that
are kind of doing the same, like like they're going beyond games, all
in the exact same way of just like, well we're gonna you know,
and that means comic book movies, right exactly. It's just like and it's
this like weird blanket, like I don't know nerds stuff. Yeah, it's
stuff forgetting Hey we got news for geeks, and it's just like caffeine flavored.
So like using the terms like that just to make it seem like a
guy in a suit showed up and said, hey, you get into the
nerds stuff. That's where the money is. It used to be so many
of those like gamer culture articles like oh look at this Mario inspired cake,
you know, like that shit, Like I always thought that was dumb,
and it seems like the version of that now is the Superhero trailers and stuff
like that. Yeah, like everyone's doing it. Why is this? I
don't know, Yeah, I don't know. So at this point, like
even I think even if we wanted to go down that road, I don't
know that we could because so many other places are doing it that it's like
not I don't think people that are coming to our side, are really looking
for that? No? Yeah, yeah, and then smell a rat immediately,
because like if all of a sudden we're just like, hey, guys,
we're here with you know, it's it's not us, we with Chris
Bratt. What's your favorite video game? Halo? Oh weird? Yeah,
I mean it's one thing to say that, you know, we want to
be the source of all things nerd entertainment, but that's that's just not us.
Yeah. And again when you're trying to do the same thing that everyone
else is doing it and you can't stand out, Yeah, yeah, I
don't know. It's you know, I think we're in a somewhat privileged position
here of having this kind of subscription thing that funds us able to kind of
do more of If if we were purely relying on the traditional website metrics and
stuff like that, I mean, well, actually, if we were relying
on those metrics purely, we probably wouldn't be around anymore. You know.
It's we wouldn't have gotten purchased if we didn't have the subscription business. You
know, CBS would have been like another small website huh nope. So you
know, it's it's a different thing. We're in a slightly different line of
work than a lot of these other places. I guess Okay, let's move
on. Daniel in North Wales says, hey guys, Happy Christmas. Hope
you all have an awesome holiday. Thanks for everything you do. Just wanted
to share a story my fiance told me this morning about a boy in her
primary school class. Yesterday elementary school, Yeah, okay. Basically, she
was asking the kids, they're about eight or nine, what they asked for
as their Christmas present. When she got to one little boy, he said
metal Gear Solid five. As my better half for just over six years,
she's picked up a lot about games and replied isn't that a bit old for
you, to which he replied, Dan thinks it's great as my name is
Dan and she's told her class about me in the fact I play games.
She thought the child was speaking about me and replied, how do you know
Dan likes it? He replied, he's always talking about it. After a
few more moments of confusions, she said, do you mean my Dan?
No, silly, the boy, said Dan Reicher. The nine year old
proceeded to then tell my fiance in depth about how much Dan loves metal gear
and found out that he thinks that all of Dan's opinions about games in life
in general are absolutely infalliable. Yes, I mean that kid's gonna be prime
minister or whatever Wales has. So Dan, you'll be glad to know that
here in North Wales you're absolutely popping off with the seven to eleven Democrats.
Finally, Oh my god, it took a while, but I got there.
Those children in Wales, you've been at that seven to eleven like age
range Wales. This morning of you arguing with children, well that was that
was my job at that moment. Okay, yes, they threw skittles at
you. They did business. Brother, Come on, I was getting the
n w oh skittles at me. Oh man, Oh that makes me really
heavy. That kid's awesome. Hey, if that kid hears it, you're
a cool kid. Keep doing everything you do and believe in everything you believe,
especially when it comes to things I say, listen to your teacher.
Yeah, no, listen to me. That's your teacher's Oh bet your parents
if your parents put you on this path called whatever the child Protective Services equivalent
is in North Wales plus one yeah eleven, I think is what it is,
I don't know, shaping the youth of Yes, everything's moving the right
direction. Yeah. So we had Mary Kish on the podcast recently and she
had some things to say about Cincinnati, oh more city beef. Huh yeah,
okay, I guess so well, she doesn't like that city's beef.
Yeah, she was there and so the chili was it was a oh no,
she insulted their chili. Oh she she went pretty hard at it.
Yeah, about the Skyline chili. Oh Mary, she didn't talk about gold
Star. She also had something things to say about a pizza place called El
Roses that I'm led to believe his bat right. James formerly of Michigan writes
in it says, whoa I heard Aaron from Ohio calling Ohio a better than
average state, followed by throwing Michigan under the proverbial bus as a great place
to get up on life. This is wrong on so many levels. Michigan
brought you almost every brand of cereal you've ever eaten, Eminem and Big Sean.
It is the motor City, the multi champion Red Wings. Motown.
Detroit is literally minutes from Canada, and let's be honest, Canada is awesome
is that it has not one, not two, but five great lakes.
Ohio brings no culture, no class, no future. The best cuisine they
offer is fried pickles from their endless number of county fairs. They're nothing more
than a desolate farmland. The only positive to Ohio is that it's slightly better
than Indiana. If anyone in Michigan gives up on life, it's only because
they've driven through Ohio, a state where every resident already has. You've been
tricked into giving anyone from Ohio a voice. Everyone from this site of the
Side of the Rockies knows better. All right, thank you, James.
I don't trust James because he named everything in Michigan except Bob Seeger's. Yeah,
that's a super good point. Yeah, well, he says, formerly
of Michigan, so maybe he's kind of okay, okay, all right,
Well we won't have Aaron on again. Yeah yeah. Tim from Arizon Owner
writes in to say Cincinnati is a shit hole compared to Columbus is laughable.
Someone obviously took a random pill from street Overlord to make a bold statement like
that. When someone says my hometown is a shiit hole, it gets under
my skin, especially from someone who only spent two years there and probably hasn't
been back in a decade or two. Mary, I am in the military
and have eaten food all around the world, including plenty of different states.
Each place or state has a local specialty food that competes with other brand names
in the local area. Skyline and gold Star Chili are local businesses and local
favorites. If you don't like it, don't eat it, then this kind
of statement you made is why me and my friends are subscribers to Giant Bomb
and not Game Spot. This is why I put this email in PS.
Columbus is the only place I've ever found a bloody knife just laying in the
street. That makes Columbus sound pretty cool. Yeah, man, I don't
want to get it in on any beef Jordan and Pennsylvania rights since is we
are all looking forward to our VR future. In twenty sixteen, I was
wondering if the Oculus Vibe and PlayStation VR succeed and become popular, what will
happen with the Xbox One. As far as I know, hollow Lens is
not compatible with the console, and it's currently being targeted for business use.
Will Microsoft get left behind in the VR race and will it hurt the future
of the Xbox. I don't think it's going to get that big that quick
to where it's like the main thing that all games are, Like, there's
always gonna be a place for I think the more traditional stuff, at least
in the near future. And people that don't want to spend three Yeah,
I think three hours if they're lucky. I mean, yeah, it seems
like it could be more than that, Yeah, depending on what you're going
for. But yeah, it's yeah, I don't think they're missing a window
just yet. It's nice that these companies are all getting their things out and
starting to test the waters. But I don't think any of these companies are
expecting VR to be some runaway hit in twenty sixteen. You know. It's
like, get the stuff out there, let's see where it goes. Even
Sony, which seems like they would be the ones most focused on trying to
make that thing a successful business, immediately like they feel a little tentative about
it in kind of a weird way. But it's yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I don't feel like they're missing the boat on this stuff,
you guys. No, Yeah, they've already I like when they don't play
me too, Like, I'm glad that they never tried to do like a
portable Xbox or anything like that, because nobody was asking for that. So
they said they had the Windows Phone totally solved all problems. Yeah, and
I guess connect was kind of like connect and move for the me twos to
the weis. So I guess they've done it in the past. But let
you see how well that worked out for him. So yeah, yeah,
yeah, it's it's this isn't some rocket ship right out of the gate sort
of business. You know, they're they've got some time. Eric from Cincinnati
writes in everything said about Cincinnati on the last episode is absolutely true. I'm
thirties years old and have lived here my entire life. Cincinnati is an outright
shit hole. The chili is going, but we still seem to find a
way to fight about who's terrible. Chili is not as bad between gold Star
and Skyline. Our sports teams are the worst in actual play, ran by
clueless owners and managed by inexperienced managers. Larose's pizza tastes like what I would
assume the inside of a gopher's ass. Would taste like. The streets are
filled with trash, old racism, and outright rudeness for your fellow man.
For no apparent reason. People in Cincinnati will go out of their way to
make someone else feel awful or put someone down for no reason except to do
so. Also, I worked in retail for twelve years. That'll do it.
Mark Twain has coined the saying, when the world comes to an end,
I want to be in Cincinnati. It is always ten years behind the
times. No true words have been said in the history of the world.
Any new idea that comes across the government body is typically shot down immediately under
the assumption of it we didn't need it before, why do we need it
now? I hate this city. I wish I could leave. Unfortunately,
my wife refuses to move away from her family, So I've decided to dive
head first into the sane asylum of mental patients known as Buckeyes. But realistically,
it's not just Cincinnati, Dayton, Akron, Columbus, Cleveland, the
entire state of Ohio has nothing to contribute to society except to increase the overall
obese rate and ignorance for the greater good of the United States. That's all
I have to say about that. Thanks Eric, Wow, Eric, thank
you Ohio for contributing for a great nation. Dawn from Orlando rights in its
yeah they do yeah, uh, Dawn from Orlando rights, and it says,
near the stem or top of the orange, use your front four teeth
to bite into the top of the peel. Because it's on your teeth and
not your tongue, you don't taste the bitterness, and it makes it super
easy to start the peel. It's way easier than using your fingers or a
knife. Man, trust me, it's super rad. Okay, I'll try
that. Your top teeth on the tight and to the top of the peel,
just yeah, like the top by the navel. Uh, what's the
top of the peel. It's a round thing. I think I mean that
the outer layer of the peel by the Yeah, they probably knew, Yeah,
probably. Okay, I can try that. Do that. Yeah,
I've seen people do that. It works and then it just starts the peel
and you just start peeling it and then the orange itself kind of sections apart
pretty nicely. Fun. It sounds good. Okay, I'd eat way oranges.
Uh do you do bananas? From the bottom. No, you crack
off the top thing and then you peel it all down. What are you
what are you talking about from the from the bottom. It's got a thing
right up top that you just crack right off. No, no, it
doesn't work that way. No, do it from the bottom. Then you
got to deal with that little thing at the bottom. Uh. You have
to deal with it immediately instead of just ignoring it like it exists. It's
like saying, open a coke can by jabbing a key in the bottom of
it. Like, it's got a thing right up top for doing that.
For opening you know, you have to do both. Oh right, well
yeah, no you yeah, you crack it open, you jab the key
in. You jabb the key in, and then make your and then put
your mouth over where the hole is and then open the can. Shotgun the
banana. Yeah, that's what they call that. Shot down your throat in
like two seconds. A lot of people, a lot of people pay good
money for that action. Judd rights in and says, a few weeks ago,
you had Dave Lang on the podcast and you asked him some industry questions.
During that conversation, Dave dropped some interesting business advice among them, the
one that stood out to me was something along the lines of you don't throw
your business partners under the bus. It's just not good business practice. Yeah,
that seems pretty obvious, but that phrase got stuck in my head.
I'm the president of a multimillion dollar company. We recently had a large meeting
between one of our more demanding clients and our vendor that is producing their products.
As we are the project managers for the project, all communication from the
vendor goes through us to the client. Recently, the client has been unhappy
with the response time of communication and they see this as my company's fault.
However, this issue is mainly due to the slowness of our vendor's responses.
When this issue was brought up in the meeting, my gut reaction was to
explain to the client that our vendor was slow in responding to issues so that
I could protect my company's reputation. However, Dave's advice popped into my head
and instead we took the brunt of the blame, came up with a way
to fix it, and the vendors saw that we didn't throw them under the
bus. After the meeting, the client told me that they were very happy
with the plan up with and how we handled the meetings. We are back
on their good list. Everything worked out for the best. I've been doing
this for years and even I can learn from Dave Lang. Tell him I
appreciate it. Awesome. That's never let it be said that this podcast is
not reach people with the news the information they need. With information yeah,
with from Whales can take life advice from me and business advice from Dave Lang.
Both those things sound like terrible life. Don't switch them up, though.
Do not take life advice from Dave Lang, nor business advice from eleven
year old and oh yeah, yeah yeah, and eleven year old and Whales.
That is good advice though, Man, I mean that's a karma thing
for me too. Sure, I just yeah. Brent writs in and says,
will we ever see games make cut scenes as crazy, weird and funny
as Amped three? Oh? I'm thinking a dark dark Summit? Did that?
Was that the spy snowboarding game? Yeah? What was the amp threes
three? Was like it had a puppet show in the middle of it.
It was like it was fucking all over the place. I'm not familiar amazing
cut scenes. Shit I might say play about. Oh yeah, it's got
a series of pretty dumb video clips in there that are that are worth looking
at. Yeah, uh edf those aren't cut scenes. That's just the end
of the whole game. Incredible crisis. On PS one, Okay, Keith
writes in Dude, I just returned from a work trip to Pittsburgh and realized
I must write in that is imperative this message get out. After traveling to
twelve other cities this year for work, I came to realize one thing,
Fuck Pittsburgh. That is all all right, Okay, I've traveled around a
lot. I don't think I've been to Pittsburgh. I've never run in to
Pennsylvania period. Yeah, I want to go to Philly. Okay, I
was near Philly. Yeah, it's pretty close to like New Jersey is kind
of yeah. Oh, next year, maybe I can stop by. I
went to Atlantic City, the Hershey, Hershey, Pennsylvania. Yea, yeah,
smells real good. You just you just want to run up the steps,
don't you. Yeah. I always get the statue, Like, whenever
I hear the words Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or Pittsburgh, I have to think really
hard about what we're talking about because all those three words run together to me.
Yeah, yep. If I had to choose between running up the steps
or throwing a helmet at the statue, I would pick throwing a helmet at
the statue. I like the steps. I would do both. But that's
seen in Rocky three where it pulls the motorcycle up and throws the helmet alone.
And I think it's cool. I just want to learn how to ride
a motorcycle and do that. Okay, that's cool. That's actually there,
right, just not at the top of the steps. Yeah, I think
I think that's the case. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Did
they ever make that RoboCop statue in Detroit? I don't know. That was
the first kickstarter I ever heard of. Yeah, remember hearing about Yeah,
and I don't know people in Detroit let us know. Yeah, if you
got your RoboCop statue. Well, let's take this next email from Pat in
Detroit. I've noticed a certain amount of Detroit hate from you guys another West
Coast podcasters. Well, this is certainly understand handible and until recently deserved.
I thought i'd clear some things up. Detroit has been going through something of
a renaissance over the last few years and is now a great town to live
in and visit. Sure there are some bad neighborhoods, but they're a long
hike from the nightlife. We've got a huge range of bars, restaurant shops
and other things to do, and the people here are friendly and excited.
Everyone here wants to show the world that we're back and not a ship hole
anymore. Go tigers, slash wings. Let's not talk about the lions.
So we're back. He's obviously lived there. Yeah, he's in Detroit.
I guess says Detroit is back. We're back. A Detroit story. Yeah,
oh it'll be there's more. Okay, ps with that said. Fuck
Cleveland, Okay, I had good ram in there once. Otherwise that place
is a burning record. Okay. I got driven to the Detroit airport once
and the one thing I remember about the surrounding area we've be in the trunk.
Uh no, Okay, on the side of the highway was just this
old barn that looked like it was falling apart and had giant letters, like
fifteen foot letters saying save us kid rock. And I don't know if that
was like the farm was going out of business, Jesus. Kid Rock like
goes around Detroit saves farms or something. But I really liked that barn.
It's a pretty cool barn. Wow. Huh, good message too. Yeah
he gives back. Yeah, yeah, I liked rock kid Rock. It's
a good guy. No talented individuals show that. Man's a showman. Yeah,
he could see. He is a showman. I've seen him play drums
a couple where's furry coats sometimes and jumps around in front of a flag.
That's all right. His showmanship feels borrowed to me. It doesn't feel like
his own showmanship. It feels like he's just kind of doing what the rock
guys did before. It doesn't feel genuine. You think it's like him a
being like seventies styles jumping up, not David ly Roth jump. But he's
not. He's not doing frings off of amps or anything like that necessarily,
but you know he's And I actually have not seen much live footage of kid
Rock. I think I'm just basing it off, like the Bob with a
Bob video or something. Sure, but yeah, that's he seems like he
had his own thing going on. I don't know, man, those coach
are fuzzy and he had hats. Yeah, like he's not gonna argue that.
He's like it's but it's like he feels like he's trying to do the
dynamic frontman thing while dressing up like a low rent pimp. But that's his
own thing. Then who else has done that? No, but I feel
like the mannerisms aren't the mannerisms don't feel like he's not like he's no Freddie
Mercury or anything. But no, he's not. But he sells his material.
I think, yes, okay, yeah, I think his demeanor and
his look and his stage presence fits Cowboy for instance. Sure, okay,
yep, so he's appropriately doing his job. I've got no beef with kid
rodern't either. He does what he does. I'd like to have some beers
with that guy. No, he's he's authentic. Yeah, for sure,
it's indisputable. Joe from New York rides and he says so. The trend
with Nintendo systems over the years has been backward compatibility with the previous system.
The original WE plays GameCube games, the WU plays WE games. The original
DS and DS Light could play GBA games. The three DS can play DS
games with that in mind, do you believe, with Nintendo one wanting to
distance themselves from the WEU, that the NX will be backwards compatible with the
WU games with end the game pad. I would be a little miffed if
they released the next Zelda game and then release the NX soon after. I'm
running out of space to tetris my consoles into I guess I could clean the
cobwebs off my three sixty and put it away. Now we think I'm a
big proponent of backwards backwards compatibility, but I think based on what we've seen
of the NX or what we kind of know, like you know, based
on those patents, if that is going to be indeed the next yeah,
how the fuck does that work? Well? I mean just imagine like the
WU works with the old we controllers. So if they just made it compatible
with the game pad and made it so play the disc and the downloads,
you know, very god. My concern is this Mario Maker, because I'm
not being hyperbolic when I say I want to play that forever pretty much.
I would hate if there was just a time when you can't play those levels
or make levels anymore. Yeah, So yeah, yeah, I agree.
I think that whatever control or they end up with will will be able to
handle WEU games. Okay. I think the patent and stuff with the you
know screen, the free form screen stuff, I don't think necessarily precludes them
from having a touch screen sixteen by nine form factor screen either as a part
of that thing, or yeah, have the game pad sync up yeah to
the NX or or or whatever. I don't know. We have to jump
through a lot of logic coops in a lot of like like speculation speculative hoops
on this one, sure, and kind of say like, oh, we
think the NX is going to be a portable that's also a console kind of
hybrid thing. Yeah, I don't think we know enough about that. I
kind of envisioned it as being something that would be sort of similar to the
WU, except you could just walk away with that game pad and keep playing
games. That'd be pretty great. I think a lot of people assumed when
they first announced the WU, right, Yeah, It's like they sat down
and say like, oh, man, we should have done that and are
now going to do that. Yeah. I think about even the GameCube controllers
were compatible with the first week and the week controllers with. So, yeah,
just make the GamePad compatible with the NX. Okay, there you go,
there you go fixed. Yeah, thanks Dan Rager. Why don't we
think of that? Yeah? Uh all right, then this is the last
email before we shift into tumblr mode. Aaron writes in it says I've been
following the site for a while and have caught a handful of slights against Reno
from the crew, the most recent being on the last live stream of twenty
fifteen. As someone born and raised in Reno, I wholeheartedly agree downtown is
depressing, especially the further you go east, and they have a suckass one
story mall with a bunch of outdoor malls scattered around the city which aren't much
better. The smell is always overwhelming cigarette smoke. The visiting acts are almost
always pretty sad. The one good thing they have is the Truckee River.
The last time I was there, I spent roughly four months nearly homeless in
that glorious state in Nevada with the highest unemployment rate in the country, though
I finally found solid ground in Seattle. Everyone born within Reno thinks of Reno
is the only place there is until someone is the first of their friend group
to leave. Then we celebrate when any of our friends leave, and we
encourage other others to leave. Nearly every time we talk. Geez. However,
I will say I'm a product of Reno. Reno is my home.
I love Reno. Fuck Reno perspect Okay, Jason, did you stay in
Reno when you were driving out here? I stayed to the Circus. Circus
and Reno we stayed. Yeah, outside of Reno. My uncle used to
work there. Really. Yeah, Reno seems like a scheezy Las Vegas.
Yeah, if that tells you anything. Yeah, it seemed to me like
way low rent. Like I wanted to like like visit there for a couple
of nights. But it's yeah, it's super low ren like Las Vegas.
For as scheezy as it is in a lot of ways, actually does have
a certain amount of rits and glamour to it and history. It's not even
rits and glamour. It's like tourist rits and glamours, but I mean the
history of like say Sinatra and stuff like that. There was there were some
legit Renos stuff there. Reno has that big bowling alley where it's like the
Super Bowl of Bowling takes place the World Series of Bowling. What it them
There's a huge bowling stage by the Paba. Reno is more like a skeeezy
Branson, Missouri. Yeah. I've never been to Branson, but they've been
to Branson a lot, so I went to with Atlantic City. I would
say that Reno is scummier than ac Okay, uh cool, And and Atlantic
City has the boardwalk, and the boardwalk got a little weird. Okay,
but for the first springs, I think I want to spend a monopolies from
there. You know, you want to spend how long? Like just a
weekend? Okay, yes, yes that is if you if you want to
spend forty eight hours in Reno, I say go for it. It's got
gambling like. It has all the ship of Vegas with none of the like
hassle cool. We're just like, do you just want to go gamble?
Reno's got it. I prefer you if you want to go to is then
you know you're gonna then yeah, then go to Vegas because I prefer Deadwood
for the if you just want to gamble thing, because Deadwood it's you know,
again the history thing and it's in the Black Hills, which is fucking
awesome looking. And Kevin Costner's got a casino like it's it's a much cooler
version of Reno. Okay, and Deadwood. The show was cool. That
seems like a different vibe though Old West stuff. That's cool. Do you
have I got some shows in Reno. You can see. I don't want
to see your shows in Reno. Sure, take this vuch No, I'll
take. No, take the voucher. You're bound to it now. Now
you have to go. Yeah, good, yeah, no, it sounds
fun. Reno is disgusting. It's not to say that there. I mean,
there are very nice hotel rooms there. Like if you want to go
have a like somewhat cheaper than Vegas experience and get like a big suite and
do what people do in big suits, like you can do it. And
you can still gamble and stuff like that. You can still have, like,
you know, most of the Vegas experience. I don't. They're not
that different, I guess in the ran scheme of things. But Vegas has
higher highs and maybe more expensive lows. Okay, not lower lows though,
no, not lower lows. There's a there's a like, but I don't
know, you get off the strip in Vegas, it gets weird too.
Yeah. Yeah, you know there's fucking whatever you want, you can find
it in Las Vegas. But it seems like all of Reno is like those
parts of Las Vegas. Yes, yeah, there's a lot of like it's
it's it's the most off strip you can get. Yeah, love and heard
anything bad everything. You know that if you want to go to a buffet
and gamble, well, actually, I mean there's a place in runner Park
that does all that. I think now you just drive fifty miles north and
have that. That's been the weird thing is like having all these casinos pop
up over the years around here. When I was yeah, yeah, sort
yeah, but like when I was a kid, it was that was all
super illegal. You wouldn't have been able to do it. Did they not
have like riverboat laws and stuff here it's all reservations. Oh, it's all
Native American stuff. So it's okay, Like that's how the casinos are run
in California. We have some of those in Kansas, but they also had
a riverboat the majority of them. Yeah, I saw it, like two
casina is in uh conquered. Actually that's they are that that is probably falls
under those loss Okay, yeah, because there's the one in that just opened
near me is all also same deal, Gosha. The riverboat thing is a
weird luck because like you've seen those old timey like you know, riverboats right
in the paddle boat type big thing. Yeah, yeah, with a big
wheel and all that stuff shows on it. Where so there's a loss,
so you can have those on rivers, like Saint Louis has a bunch of
those or whatever. But then yeah, like in Kansas City, it's just
a bunch of things that are they just look like a hotel that says Harros
on it, but it's technically like on water, like it's on the side
of the river. Just it's not a boat. It's a hotel that's kind
of on water. Yeah, and so it's technically a riverboat. And that's
what they're all. Like in Kansas got like a pierce like offshore international waters.
They don't, yeah, follow the regular it's so weird. But they've
got a giant parking lot that you walk straight into it. It's not a
boat. Weird. Yeah, man, guys, I have an update from
home just wanted to let you know. I got a text from my wife
that says, I successfully knows suckered that big boogie out of his nose.
What yuck? The big boogies outs? No more wheezing out of his nose.
There's a there's a big suction ball that you can stick up their nose.
So you, yeah, you push out the air and then you stick
it up the nose and then goes God damn it and it sucks boogies out.
That sounds We've been working on this one for a couple of days.
That sounds unpleasant. Bellows. Yeah, yeah, okay, it's gone all
right. Uh So we got some stuff into what is it it's Giant BombCast
dot tumblr dot com. Brad decided to sign up for Tumbler to get to
get some questions like if Reno was a U R if Reno was the U
R L Giant BombCast dot tumbler dot com, it's a good place to die.
I think that's the Reno slogan. Is that that's the slogan for Reno?
Right? Uh yeah. He wanted some questions with a different vibe so
well after so most of these came in anonymously regarding the Nintendo controller pattern you
guys recently talked about, there have been two other strange Nintendo patents this year,
one for the ability to daisy chain consoles together to get more power h
and another for mouse scroll wheels in place where triggers would normally be on a
controller. What either these patents will likely not have anything to do with the
NX or the NX is going to be the weirdest fucking thing ever, those
that both sounds really weird. The idea of a scroll wheel for triggers,
like you imagine it clicked in like a mouse wheel, right, so you
could shoot with it. You could, you could, you could push it
in, you know it. Keep in mind these could be maybe these would
be in addition to regular analog triggers or something like that. You know,
it's not the only shoulder that's the ZR and ZL. Yeah, that maybe
that could be kind of neat. What would you I'm trying to think what
you would if it's on like your middle fingers, Yeah, the back of
a control like the paddles on the Elite. It could be. It could
be a weapon and set like a replacement for like a radial weapons menu.
You know, like you use on it in a shooter on the PC,
like you scroll them out wheel to change weapons maybe like below your but like
below the stick, like imagine the three sixty controller and you just move your
like right thumb down a little more and you can like use a wheel down
there you click it in. I think it's this pattern is I think it's
specifically for where the tigers would be. But yeah, but yes, zooming
the camera in and out. I like scroll wheels on mice. Yeah,
sure they feel good. I don't like clicking them then again, I yeah,
clicking them is not is never precise as nets precise as it should be.
But you know, if you don't put crucial things onto those pushes,
then maybe that would work. I also like the laptop nubs. That's yournority
Jesus Christ. Yeah loves the nubs. Love the nub. Yeah. I
don't know. The NX will be interesting to say the least excited. Wait
and see what those those crazy people come up to. Let's see what we
got here. Uh. People have named their children after video games like Tarrok
and Dovekin. Really, oh my god, Why anybody would look at Turrok
and say, yeah, that's a good video game, and I would love
to name my child after It is not my question if you had to choose,
what video game related name would you choose? And he goes on,
I think Revin from Cotar is a nice choice. Please forgive if you've answered
this before, because I feel you have, and maybe we have. I
don't know. Gordon Freeman, Gordon Freeman, Scanlon, I mean probably Wallawigi.
Yeah, yeah, I gotta stick with it, you know, Carolds,
Carold sounds cool, sonic, yeah, mhmm. Jeff sub Zero okay,
yeah, it's pretty cool. Solid. Yeah. Oh you mean David,
Yeah, yeah, Big after Big the cat, of course, yeah
yeah, Big, the right, Kurt, yes, all right, the
middle name okay, yeah, all right, you can have that one for
free. You go ahead and do this. Oh, Scolemania a striker man.
You fucked up. You had you had a chance to name something recently.
Can you legally change your kid's name after they're born and have a name,
Yeah, you can't. I could just take them into court and tell
the judge like, hey, it's Scolemania. I don't even think you have
to go into the court. I think maybe just a courthouse and you get
like a document of some sort. Okay, we fucked up money we got
yeah, gotta get this, cross it out, get some white out.
True. Yeah, we found out the name we chose is the name of
a racist in our family. We don't want to. You know, there's
all kinds of weird, like, you know, stories you could make up
about why the name needs to be Skull of Mania. That yeah, that
previous name nullified. Griffin's pretty cool. Come on, Griffin Scomania ship.
Yeah, maybe next time. Uh m Hey. I'm an audio person working
in the games industry. I know that most people have games they consider to
be graphically complex or just visually striking through the use of a cool art style,
But very rarely do I hear people describe at game's sound in the same
way. Do you guys have any games you think sound amazing? Bad Company,
Dead Space? Oh yeah, that's good, like anything that's like adaptive
where it just kind of changes, like depending on the context of the game.
You get on Yoshin and the drums kick in, yes, perfect example.
Uh yeah, reb Rebel Galaxy. Yeah. Uh if so, what
about that game's audio stands out for you? I need to know if anyone
appreciates the dope plasma gun reload. I spent a day one another recent example
of Killer Instinct I think has some of the best like soundtracks, sound effects
and adaptive stuff. And then yeah, the actually, yeah, the use
of audio and Killer Instinct is pretty impressive. And it's some stuff where like
what is it it's when you're spinal and you're fucking shooting those skulls and it
just sounds like a tie fighter going from left to right or right to left
on your speakers. Yeah, it's it's yeah, it's like it's loud and
crazy, like that game is loud and crazy in a way that like I
think Bad Company is too, like Bad Company and a lot of those Frostbite
Engine games, but I think that one there was that that period, I
think it was better better for them in some ways. Yeah, where that
shit sounds that the ship doesn't sound like it's a like, oh, here's
some video game gun fire. It sounds like shit, someone is shooting guns
near here. We need to we need to hide. Yeah, I would
say also Halo U does a great job with distinguishing weapons with different sounds.
They're all they're all very distinct. Uh, and they all fit their their
gun really well, so you can like that's just cool because like this is
a unique gun and it sounds the way it sounds and it's cool. But
also like in a multiplayer setting, you know what, Like you can hear
as you're coming around a corner what weapon is going on over there, and
you may maybe don't want to mess with it, but yeah, I feel
like they're you know, like people don't call out great sound as much as
they call it great graphics, and I think some of that is just like
you notice bad sound, but I think good sound is harder to it can
be harder to notice. In some cases, it seems to be fewer standouts.
Yeah, I think that's face did a really good job of being scary
as far as just being in this isolated chip and not a lot of music
going on, and when you just heard stuff like a metal vent cover falling
to the ground, I mean it makes you want to like do a quick
one eighty turn and be like, Okay, what the fuck was that?
Yeah? I thought that was really good, just scraping across the ground.
Damn. Yeah. When it's done well though, it's yeah, superfective.
All right, Uh, what video game vehicle would you want to own in
real life? In this case, we will limit the term vehicle to something
around the size of a car or buy plane. It's gonna say metallyr rex.
That's fine. I mean, now that it's in a video game,
kind of sort of trouble Bubble, Trouble Bubble, Yeah, bubble, it's
it's it's there. It's like a it looks like a kind of helmet thing,
but there's like cheat guns on. It's a big cover from what it's
almost like a hover motorcycle toy soldiers. Oh, it's a joke. I
see, okay man, Yeah, and that'd be trouble bubble. Uh.
He says that the ghost from Halo would be pretty awesome. Yeah. Yeah,
I tend to agree with the nWo whole Cogan monster truck from Monster Truck
Madness with the giant biceps on it. That's a that's another good call.
Yeah yeah, I might just go with a war Dog, your classic classic
war Hog. All my answers are Halo, but I feel like it wouldn't
a ward Hog, and you could you could have a ward Hog right now,
Let's just go get a dune buggy and put a fucking big gun on
it. Yeah, okay, all right, great, let's do that and
then just hit the sand dunes hard. Uh they made a war hog.
Yeah, Sparrows and DestinE they are pretty cool. Yeah, like some kind
of hover bike things, hover speeder thing would be cool to have. Yeah,
totally like the like the ghost I think would be Yeah, those things
roll pretty easy, though, I don't know you'll have power armor, so
come up with it. Yeah. Probably they blow up pretty easy too.
Yeah. How many games in twenty sixteen will feature vaping in some shape or
form? All of them by mandate of law? You're saying five. You
want to put a half on that so we can have a proper over under
five and a half or four and a half four and a half. All
right, okay, I'm gonna take the over all, right, hold me
to it. Yeah, has this I'm just gonna read this as it came
in. Has anyone really been far as decided to even to use even go
want to do? Look more like? Yeah? Yeah, I haven't really
Seriously, you don't want to look more like? Okay, I mean you
haven't even tried, though I don't I don't need to have you tried,
Dan to look more like a couple lives. Okay, see it's not that
hard. Give it a go. Yeah, New Year's Resolution everything. Which
Street Fighter character do you think should go to jail? Oh? Uh?
Fuck that fang dude. He looks sketchy and you can't see his hands.
Who. He's obviously up to something, Seezy probably Yeah, Scott seems like
he's probably a war criminal. Yeah. You look in his eyes and you're
like you, it's big. It's a big Russian guy with a scar and
an eyepatch. Yeah, he's not right, isn't he? Do we say
street fighter general? Just in general? I mean Cody's still dressed for it.
Yeah, but he served his time. Yeah, he's hate his debt
to society. I mean and Bison. Yeah, I'm in and Bison is
probably he could buy this way, yuh. Bison books that that guy from
four with all the oil from Arcade edition. He's up to no good?
Yeah, oiling himself up and slipping around. Yeah, No, he's not
up to stuff. He's got a family to sports something. No, I
don't think so. Cute daughters, beautiful wife. Yeah, uh yeah,
Cody. I hate Cody so much? Why I don't understand the Cody hate.
It's I think that I don't like the design of the character. Like
I like Cody in Final Fight, sure, but like since Alpha, since
he got yeah, since he was turned into a fighting game character in the
Street Fighter way, not in a Final Fight whatever that in Saturn game.
But you know why he's in prison, right he killed the law Yeah right,
yeah, like you know, yeah, that's not a crime. Yeah.
I don't think he should Yeah, I don't think he should have gone,
but but he he also bust out of jails. Yeah, but he
went, and then he became like this grim, gruff character in a way
that fucking shank. Yeah, he throws fucking rocks. Yeah, damn.
I think a lot of cool, A lot of his moods I don't think
they're I don't think they're cool. That whirlwind shit is a painting. I
think Cody's a painting. The ass slight and I don't want to learn him.
You just don't like getting hit with the rocks. I don't. I
don't pick it up. We were like, hey, yeah, yes,
he's just like holding this hand waiting for you to fucking jump, and you're
like, should I jump? No? And then you jump and he's like,
he throws a goddamn rock ahead you and then shakes. Cody was my
favorite to play as I mean, he's no Mike Hagar, but to actually
control in final fight. Yeah, uh it's a good middle of the road.
Yeah, yeah, I liked it. But yeah, I mean,
you know, people like guy Guy Uh Yeah, No, I just I
don't like the change in tone. I think his character arc getting weird dark
because I mean, obviously, you know if you if you get wrongfully accused
and go to jail, you'd probably come out pretty pissed off. No.
He he seemed like kind of a lazy bastard anyway, so I kind of
think he likes it in jail. Yeah. Three hots and a cop.
Yeah, it sounds pretty nice. Now you mentioned it. Let's go.
You gotta do throw rocks and shank people every now and again. I do
that anyway, right, you can get the food for it now, m
go to Columbus for that. I heard. It's the only way to survive
there. Everyone's doing it. So it happens in Reno. I'll tell you
about what happens in Reno. Just show me. No, have you considered
adding a game's price to the game detail detail section of the wiki. I've
often looked up a game on the site wondering the price. It seems to
come up a lot in quick looks as you frantically try and remember the price
or look it up on the spot. It could be quite useful for downloadable
games and games in early access. I mean they fluctuate, yeah, yeah,
yeah, it's it's the sort of thing that you know, so like
this stuff, you know, it comes out on Steam, that's always like
ten percent off, like across the board. PC stuff is sometimes initial press.
Initial price is something we have for DLC, but we don't have it
for games. But it's so I'd like we should probably have like links to
places where you can buy games with their prices, because that technology exists,
and other sites in this building use it. It's just a matter of life.
We just pull in the price, yeah, of connecting our video game
data to those video game prices. And sometimes that's weird for us because we're
organized by game first, platform second. That's harder data to sift through and
connect up than it would be if we went platform first, game second.
Yeah, because then to be like this page is for the PS four version
of this game, so we know what to pull in Instead, a lot
of work behind the scenes would have to be done to get that to work.
You could just do name matches in most cases and be right most of
the time. Yeah, but yeah, this is Yeah, that's something we
should have done by now. Honestly. Is that kind of price feed stuff?
Yeah, that would be a cool metric to have, and it's a
business thing for us. Actually, there's a like, hey, if you
click out to this retailer, we get a referral that used to be that
used to be huge business for game Spot years ago. I could see that
like this whole check prices link and all other stuff. Like. I just
think it would be cool to be able to see the prices of stuff,
whether we make money or not, like whatever. But yeah, I don't
know. I would not be shocked if we got to that sometime next year.
No current plans Okay, uh, we have no current plans for anything
in the next year, so exactly. No. The current plan is to
go home until twenty sixteen. We have a sticky note on the TV reminding
us to check the price. So same platform. Yeah, for quick looks,
we did one today. I got the platform, but halfway through.
Ye completely, it's hard. For some reason, it is hard. I
don't give you guys too much shit about it. Yeah, you just have
a Yeah, it's something that we've actually been meaning to be way better about
us uh in a few different ways. But you know, next year,
man, we'll get to that stuff. Uh. Okay. As the current
crop of game journalists get swapped out for newer and younger talent, it would
be natural to assume that how far back their frame of reference is would be
less than the incumbents. I don't like this. All this whole like replacing
and all this stuff is real savage. Well, many of today's gaming journalists
started gaming during the any Yes Area era or earlier. Do you think that
moving forward we will see an increased emphasis on gaming news sites hiring people who
have purposefully gone back to learn about games that are from earlier eras. No,
we're just gonna have a lot more people that are like Pokemon. I
think, Yeah, I don't know. I think if people are that invested
in games to want to make a career out of it, and you you
know, do the leg work to do that, you know, probably,
But I also think you don't have to it's not necessary, but I think
it adds context to things. And you know, like I was born in
eighty four and I've spent plenty of time playing Space Invaders and Asteroids and Centipede
and stuff like that. Like I think it's important. And we teach them,
we bring them home. It's like, Okay, we're gonna play Resident
Evil this weekend. Fuck that that's happened. Sometimes, that's terrible. Why
would you subject them to that garbage? Well, they need to learn,
all right, they need to know that this ship. I think it's one
of those things that like that's I feel like it's come up a lot over
the years. Is yeah, like are of those old games actually that important?
Like there's something I feel like they're there's information to be gleaned from Superman
for the Atari twenty six hundred, but the only real information that's relevant to
day is like, well that game was shit, just like all the other
Superman games. Uh So it's it's yeah, like a lot of that stuff,
Like you could pick out handfuls of like individual games over the years that
are that are actually probably still important in a historical sense, but in terms
of like do you need to know them to do this job. Like no,
but I think again, those people that are that invested would probably just
want to, you know, like, well, also, it's it's it's
it's now become easier and way less frowned upon to just straight up download all
that shit and emulate it right right, you know, uh, which is
like a weird turn of events, Like stuff that would seem unthinkable is now
like Twitch plays Pokemon, right, Oh okay, so you're just gonna stream
and emulate Okay, all right, No, I guess I guess no one
really cares about that stuff anymore. Great, that's awesome because it makes a
lot of stuff a lot of way easier. Yeah. So I don't know.
Yeah, I think that like old games are accessible in a way as
long as you're willing to jump through those hoops, accessible in a way that
like they've never been before. Yeah. And like if someone's a film buff,
you know, you're watching movies from you know, decades before you were
born. I don't see why, you know, if you're a huge gamer,
Like, why would that be different? I guess I don't know,
Like I its at some point it's like I don't know that I need like
someone showing up is like gonna just drop references to random right old neys games
because they can. But then you said dumb if you don't know you know,
like, but you sound dumb to an audience that is increasingly you know,
it's like the audience, I mean, the vast majority of the audience
that I think we have now doesn't know about any of that stuff. Yeah.
So it's like I'm thinking about you know, I've talked to people who
thought that Banjo Ka Zoo Nuts and Bolts was the first Banjo ka ZOOI game.
It's the first one that mattered. But it's like this, you know,
working in an industry and you're saying things that are just ridiculously wrong,
Like that doesn't look great. Yeah, no, it's a yeah. I
mean the factual end of it, absolutely, you know, people need to
look that shit up and know that sort of stuff for sure. But in
terms of just like do you need to know what the original banjo because we
played like to be able to do this job. No, But again I
think I don't know, man, you like playing well and you kind of
grew up with Yeah, you know, I'm in this weird like area of
like, yeah, I mean, I you know, was born around the
same time as commercial video games. Yeah, yeah, so, but I
don't know. I just know a lot of people are like me where it's
like, you know, like when emulators got big or whatever. I remembering
in college just going back, like I grew up at the NS, but
the big MegaMan's and punch outs and all that stuffy and like I wanted to
play all these obscure things and check them out and go back and go back
further than that. And I know a lot of people that are really in
the games that do the same thing, just the same way film buffs want
to watch Casa Blanker, I bet you know. And you think about like
the games that are getting speed run and all this other stuff. It's like
you've got kids that are like, you know, impossibly young to have cared
about that stuff originally. Yeah, like seventeen year olds, you know,
competing to see who can beat Super Metroid the fastest and stuff like that,
or even further back, you know, it's like weird, just like Japan
only crazy shit and and trying to speed run and all the other stuff.
Like you know, there's definitely an interest in that stuff that wasn't there before.
And I think a lot of that is because that stuff is like three
clicks away, and that's heartening though, you know, it is like I
like that, that's what that appreciation is there, like something like Mario Maker
can it can be a big thing. Now it's totally based on these games
that are like twenty five whatever. Yeah, and it's this weird thing where
it's like, yes, technically all of that is like gray area legality at
best, but everyone involved it just seems to look the other way. Now.
I was talking about this morning like it was it happened, like I've
been thinking about it in the wake of Star Wars coming out and just all
these people just brazenly saying like, thanks guys, I just downloaded the specialized
edition. Of course I'm watching those ones. Naturally, I'm gonna watch those
and like being smarty about it. But that's at the same time they're basically
something like, yeah, I wouldn't downloaded this bootleg fucking copy of Star Wars
and I'm watching that. Yeah, fuck you Disney. Like it's weird.
It's weird that that is something that people just feel totally comfortable just like reporting
publicly and and and yeah, and then like I thought about it in terms
of like Twitch and the number of games that are streamed on Twitch that are
coming out of emulators and all that other stuff and and and Twitch Places Pokemon.
You know, it's like there used to be Nintendo used to send out
press releases about like the fucking Pokemon hosting bromb sites they were shutting down,
you know, and they'd be like, we shut down twenty more sites devoted
to bootleg Pokemon cartridges, and like generally they were focused on the stuff there
was actually like producing physical cartridges. That was the stuff they mainly wanted to
stop. But it would still be like, you know, hey, there's
people were letting people download Alleyway for the game Boy, and we said,
fuck that, we shut them down. And now you know, you have
Twitched talking about like how big Twitch Places Pokemon was for them and their business
and all this stuff, and it's just like, well, like this giant
company owned by Amazon talking about like thing that's emulated. Yeah, money,
it's weird, And I guess it's just one of those things that like,
you know, the world changes and and that sort of stuff is is far
more acceptable than than it ever has been. And I think that's great.
In a way. It's weird because it's like, you know, technically,
especially in an era where everyone just wants to resell the same old games to
you over and over again. Like it's directly at odds with this stuff being
available. But like the cat is out of the bag. You can get
a fucking archive dot org and fucking download full sets of you know, Nintendo
platform rom sets and stuff. You know, It's like archive dot org is
like a legitimate thing. It's not just like fucking Shady's fucking Pokemon rom Palace
dot net slash Geo Citi's party time. It's you know, it's like hey,
it's not like hey, the u r L changes every week. It's
like, hey, no, you need to see this torrent before you can
download these mame ROMs. It's like, no, just fucking they're everywhere.
They're fucking everywhere, And it's kind of awesome from a like a like spreading
the knowledge about video games perspective, yea, even if some parts of the
business end of that are super crazy. Yeah, but it's definitely like,
you know, I think that's affected like my like desire to like collect games,
especially as I run out of room. Yeah, or like or like
play the games I have. Even it's this thing of like you know,
like I plugged in my Retron and dumped all my carts. It would have
been faster to download them, but as like I bought this thing, I'm
like this is kind of cool, Like I'm dumping this, I'm getting my
saved data, like you know, there's like it was something cool about doing
it, and like, I you know, I don't need to pull those
games out ever. Again, It's so at some point it's like, well
then why do I have them? And the answer is because that keeps the
legal baby, But it's but really, what, like, who's you know?
This is crazy? I should get rid of all that stuff? Yeah,
I should. I should take all those video games and pour them and
throw them in the creek because they're just everywhere. That copy of Mark of
the Wolves that I paid eleven hundred dollars for, why do I have it?
You could just buy it in the Humble mental right now. Yeah,
And that's just that's just a rom that's a rom set. Even you can
pull out of that and use in mame or something else. Like it's crazy.
The world is nuts. I'll take it if you don't know I want
it. Also, I saw a copy of it going on eBay for slightly
more than I paid recently. Damn. It seems like maybe the market finally
recovered to a point where, of course I didn't see anyone actually paying that
price for it. But what hey, uh, let's see last few here.
Uh. I woke up this morning and I egged a lot and it
fucking sucked. Man. Anyway, PB and J sandwich or pbean honey?
Tell me now, honey, PB and JA. Yeah, jelly, man,
you need the jelly to like it. Otherwise it's just it's too much
augmented with honey afterwards. Else Yeah, I've had maybe three peanut butter and
jelly sandwiches in my life. Thousands upon thousands of peanut butter. What will
you do? Crunchy too, super crunchy always? I take that you do.
This is what I've been doing recently. On the other piece, you
do either that white chocolate wonderful stuff which Jeff you told me about this podcast.
That's pretty good. You don't even need to make a sandwich to eat
that. You can just get it straight out of the can with the jar
yea or natilla, and then in between yeah, kind of a bunch of
bananas and uh so, yeah, okay, you're non sticky. Yeah,
like the peanut butter and the honey, those are both in the bread,
Like that's all dry and sticky. I mean you can't just eat that.
The sandwiches, you can't eat it as fast as you can a peanut butter
and jelly sandwich. The jelly is the lubricant I've never needed. I'm sorry.
Yeah, that's that's that's where I break. Like I really like honey
roasted peanuts, and I like bit of honey. Yeah, honey is an
accent, but I don't like actual honey on stuff, Like, hey,
do you want to drink a cup of tea and put some honey in it?
Like not maybe, no, a little dab like every every every time.
And I haven't done this a lot, but I did it again relatively
recently, going like because there's this thing of like am I wrong? Am
I wrong? Like just get a little honey on my finger, taste it,
and it's just like, oh no, it's got to be like peanut
butter by itself can be great, but yeah, I don't do honey by
itself. Honey like on like a KFC biscuit or something is great. No,
man, No, they give you the butter for a reason. Yeah,
I've never done that. You wait, I never had butter. I
ever put their but the butter they give you with the Kentucky Fried chicken you've
never liked. I never had used that ship onto the biscuits. I never
had butter on bread until I was like twenty seven. I didn't have visible
butter until like well into my like mid twenties or so. I keep forgetting
that. You're such a weird though, I'm much better now. But it
turns out, yeah, butter, it turns out. Yeah. I actually
like to put butter then peanut butter on my and J sandwich. That sounds
crazy, No, it's not crazy. Want nine out one hundred times.
I just do the chunky peanut butter and that's it. Really there you go
wrong. It makes a little creamy air, doesn't stick to your your stuff
nearly. Have you ever toasted? On occasion? Toast is pretty good?
Yeah, butter, m I have a peanut butter and pickle. Man,
what the fuck are you serious? Is that? I think people are you
kidding me? Huh? That sounds like the worst combination I had almost exclusively
for lunch growing up. The fuck is wrong with you? Yeah, I
just think pickles are not I just don't. I just don't like pickles,
Yeah, I just I just don't like pickless. They're they're their plants.
Does california're running out of water? Worry you do people talk about it or
change their behaviors at all? I don't know. I haven't done a thing
since I've been here. Water still comes out of my tap in my shower.
I have not changed a single thing about my life. I'm sorry.
I haven't always been raining constantly. I haven't. Well, no, I
mean it's they're still dropped. Yeah, you see it when you like,
you know, driving the outlying areas, Like, I haven't done that.
Okay, I have not watered my lawn in two summers. Okay, I
don't have a lawn. But now my lawn is real fucked up as you
might expect. Yeah, I'm not watering it. The city of San Francisco
turns off like sprinklers in some areas, so parks, like the grass turns
to dirt. Yeah. Like I got a ton of stuff over the summer
in my mailbox saying like make sure you're not wasting your water. And then
they were like, hey, water your lawn at night, you fuckers,
or we'll come get you. It seemed like they were just short of like
trying to say like, hey, we're gonna find you if you're using water
irrationally. Yeah. I can see that, but I haven't seen any evidence
of I want to say, in Minnesota, actually there was a there was
a weird drought like one summer where like certain sides of the street were able
to like wash their cars or water their lawns, and if you weren't on
like you know, that specific side of the streets on that week, you
could get fined. Like half the year there's snow on everything, and half
the year it's melting everywhere. There's some weird ship going on the two months
where it's nice and like to lie in August. Yeah, yeah, that's
yeah. The dynamics of water are weird. I mean, in California,
most that water goes to growing almonds that are sold overseas, and like commercial
agriculture steals most of the staces water. You can steal water, I mean
they're just using water and they're paying whatever the rate is. But the rate
should probably be higher considering we're running out of water. Got there does ball?
Yeah, exactly, So they're paying for water and that like it's not
like the rain water is making their crops grow. It's like coming out of
their hose that's coming from the same water tower that goes to your shower.
Basic. That's the basic theory, I guess. Is that why they are
all those signs? Yes, okay, yeah, so I'm not necessarily,
like immediately worried, but I feel like there are a number of things that
could happen to California that would make it incredibly undesirable to continue living in California.
And that's on the list. It's not the highest thing on the list.
But you know this thing to Arena, Yeah, exactly, move it
inland or what will become the new coast when California falls into the ocean,
when the ocean rises or whatever it is, fucking Godzilla. I don't think
it's some land falls. Yeah, massive earthquakes. Oh yeah it does.
Yeah. Uh. Last question, let's count three studios. Ask if you'd
like to see their super secret projects. They're working on Valve, rock Star,
and Nintendo's R and D for the new x console. You can only
choose one. Which do you choose? Valve? Yeah, for me,
it's one of the other two. I don't know, rock Start, rock
Star. I don't think it would be that surprising. I bet they got
Bully two somewhere in some room, Red Dead somewhere doing something. I don't
think they have anything like superb Tennis too. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, Valve, but maybe it is just half Life three something I feel
I would be a disappointment. I feel like your trip to Valve would be
a real bummer. Yeah, I think soots. Whereas, like if you
could go see what Nintendo was working on right now, especially right now,
because they're in a very interesting place with that thing, you know, considering
where they would be likely to start debuting it and all this other stuff,
Like they're in there right now. Yeah, they've got they must have hardware.
They probably have designs of form factors and all this other stuff, like
twenty of them all laid out. Yeah, which one feels which one feels
the best? What's what should look like? Which we call it? That's
the one like that, that's the choice, that's the only definitely the most
interesting, Like Valve, you could go see what the nine different canceled versions
of Half Lie three. Yeah, I would love to see that would be
really interesting to see me, But not on the level of a fucking whole
device, you know. Yeah, a console like Valve will just be like,
oh, I don't know, we got VR stuff over here. There's
a Steam machine, Steam machine downstairs you mean in the basement. Yeah,
yeah, we keep them down there. They try to come up every once
in a while, but we're just like, no, you guys, keep
your desks down there. I just want to go hang out there. Do
you see the Street Fighter five is coming to Steam Os? Yeah, yeah,
they're going to be supporting that. Yeah, weird. What's gonna work
it? It just means they'll be running the game on Linux basically. Yeah,
it's gonna be a weird port. Yeah, I don't understand, and
like, that's a pretty demanding game, but it's it's one of those things
where it's be I guess it'd be open GL at that point, and if
they're doing PS four that's also open GL. Yeah, so it might be
there's probably some work that could be duplicated. I don't know, I don't
know. I don't see the Steam machines, like really no, like it's
getting huge anyway. But yeah, it's an interesting thing. I'm glad they're
doing it. Uh. And that's all I got. But let me hit
refresh on this page one more time and see if any other horrific stuff came
in. It's stumbler, uh something, and uh see what we got here?
What is the mystery of the Druids? I don't know. I'm from
the day. Oh okay, yeah, okay, yeah. Who would win
in a fight? Duke Togo or solid Snake? Solid Snake? Who's Duke
Togo gold Go thirteen? Oh God, Jesus Christ. I saw a really
cool clip with him yesterday. What was he doing or was he shooting people?
He was? Those are the only night things what checked this out?
Like he was in an elevator, okay, all right, and some assassin
came in dressed up like it's like a caterer or some shitlin all right,
all right. So the caterer had his back turned towards him, right,
and he lifted up the you know, the food tray, pulled out a
gun, and then he pointed the gun through his own chest to try and
shoot go Gold behind him shot Google still fucking dodged, still fucking dodged,
so that stupid ass assassin killed himself to try and get at him, but
still failed. I watched The Professional gold Go thirteen over the weekend, which
is a nineteen eighty three animated movie from Japan Japanimation. I think they call
it, and I don't know what that is. They all right, you
know, i'd played the games. I knew a little bit about my man,
Duke Togo and his desire to not speak and his desire to be a
ruthless motherfucker. But that thing, he is a ruthless money It's a cool
motherfuck He just he just keeps to himself, He keeps quiet. He shoots
people for money, and then he fucks. That's all he does. Even
when he's being chased by the US government working for like for eighty three to
some heavy stuff. Man, the whole government's working for this big corporation who
wants gold Go thirteen dead and they can't do it. He is like having
sex with his targets and then they're end up. They He's all over the
place and just he's a gold Go thirteen is a pretty cool motherfucker. Agreed,
solid Snake is all wishy washy and just like I don't know this virus
blah blah blah, I don't know. I'm the soldier. This dude's a
fucking assassin for hire. Solid Snake save the world. It's like a fucking
well, fuck whatever, gold Go thirteen, I don't have to spoil the
end of this thing for The guy jumps out of a window to take his
own life, gold Go thirteen looks out of the window, says, no,
fuck that shoots He shoots him in the head with a pistol as he's
falling out of a building. Just looks out there and shoots him right between
the eyes. Pow done. Should I watch this man? It's it's probably
worth checking out. It sounds pretty cool. Yeah. I had never even
heard of him. I just said Solid Snake because it was it's a it's
a it's a vibe thing more than anything else. It's a stylish vibe thing,
because it's like it felt like it was made by people who like kind
of understood some spy assassin type stuff but didn't really know how to fill in
the gaps, so instead it's just filled in by like gold Go thirteen,
walking looking tough. What was it? Yeah, okay, all right,
where where he shoots people and fucks in the name. Yeah, okay,
you get all your health back? Okay? Yeah? Really yeah, really
okay, Like a woman comes up to him. It's a silhouette in the
window, and then you see the room go dark and you know what's going
on. Okay, and then you come back and you got all your health
back. It's like Sunset Writers pretty much. Yeah. Yeah, it's a
whole bunch of fuck. It's not a great game. There's all this first
person maze stuff and near the end that is just terrible. I have no
idea what's going on that stuffs all. Yeah, it's yeah, you had
to really stick with it to even get to that late game stuff. That
sucked. But it's it's a neat ass game and he's an interesting character.
Anyway. That's gonna do it for us here. Uh So next week,
Game of the Year will kick off, Yeah, Monday morning, nine am
Pacific Standard time. I'm ready, we will, we did it already.
Yeah, it's videos. It's like it's something like eighteen hours of podcast.
Nineteen hours yeah, okay, podcast. So that'll be Monday through Friday,
nine am Pacific is win each day's uh blast stuff. Yeah, yeah,
the Blast from us will go up with our podcast and article were talking about
the winners, yeah, and then a video running through the winners. If
you've never been around for a Giant Bond Game of the Year, it works
like this. Every day we have uh four end of the year awards awarding
things like best looking game, best music, that kind of stuff. To
determine who won each of those things, which game, we sat in a
room and deliberated, yeah, and we recorded that and that is what that
podcast is for fucking hours. Yeah. Yeah. So if you if you
want to hear us deliberate that and then decide which which wins what you listen
to the podcast. If you just want to know, or if you are
have already listened to the podcast, you can go read the article. If
you want to see those games and some other stuff, you watch the video.
Yeah, some fun business in the videos this year and yeah, so
it's kind of up to you, the viewer, which order you want to
take that in. If you if you want the deliberations to have surprises,
then then listen to the podcast first, because then you will listen to the
deliberations without knowing what one right, the other two will tell you what one
or if you just want to watch some stupid video, yeah, if you
just want to, then go, okay, how did they get to that
conclusion? Yeah, then you can back it out into the podcast. Yeah.
And then we'll have our individual top ten lists going up on the site
as articles, and then we have solicited a bunch of guest top ten lists
from various video game industry luminaries. Those will be going up throughout the days
Monday through Friday, but our stuff hits at nine am, so be sure
to check out that. They'll be the coming soonbox on the right side of
the home page that'll kind of tell you what's what's coming up next on that
stuff, and we'll have a hub page that well theoretically show all this stuff
on it. I say that having not actually seen the page yet, but
my understanding is that it's it's gonna work, it's gonna work, and it's
coming along. Yeah. I have faith. I didn't do it. I
don't know faith because I didn't do it. I think it takes over the
home page. It should, it should be replacing the home page. Yeah,
so it would be hard to miss now is a good time to wonder
if the coming soon stuff is on the hub page, because then if the
coming soon stuff is not on the home page, we'll figure it out.
We'll figure it out. The nav bar will still be there, I am
told. Okay, so you can find other things on Giant Ponds, yes,
like yeah, he'll not let it out. Yeah, you won't be
locked out of other stuff. But yeah, so yeah, come back next
week for that stuff. And then we've got some stuff going up this week.
That d F quick Look just went up or yeah, it's up as
of this tomorrow, tomorrow, Wednesday. Today is today, it's Tuesday.
Yes, today it was Devil's Third Ah, okay, yesterday was Steam World
heist. And then there are more things, more things, yea, all
right, so yes, head over to the site for more things, and
thanks everybody. We'll be back with freshly recorded stuff in January. I had
some happy holidays yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, see you guys. Alright,