Hello, and welcome to a very special of the Giant Bomb Cast, Episode
eight hundred and three. Howard by n z XT. This is God's favorite
podcast and continues to be God's favorite podcast. I'm your host today, ready
to give a special message. Jan Ochoa joining me, co captain of the
ship. Ready to talk to you about the birds and the bees and everything
above. Jeff Grubb, I have Christopher Maloney saying ten gigs of women's butts
playing on repeat in my head, and I'm sorry, that's just gonna be
all I can think about today. Ready to explain, explain what gigs and
memory are and personal computer components. Jeff Beck. Well, when two podcasts
love each other, they get married in the woods and nobody comes. Well,
we weren't saying that word anymore. Thank you, Jan, and our
very special guest and our dear friend also here to help deliver the special messages
of I'm leaving. I assume it's me, isn't me? There's there's no
one else else here that I haven't introduced yet. Bailey, Bailey Myers,
it's me. Hello, right when I'm back. That's right, Hello,
everyone? What's up? Haters? Bails? Who's the haters here, haters
here. I only said that because there are no haters. Funny, there
are haters. Haters get fucked. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I
don't know is gonna go with like the special PBS intro. I was hoping
one of you would derail it, and then of course you did do derail
it. So it's great, it's fantastic. How is everyone doing? I
lied when you said earlier. I hope everybody's ready. I don't feel ready
for this podcast. I don't feel ready at all. It's okay, you
put news in. That's enough. I did. I mean, I did
my job, like yeah, for sure, it's all right, that's all
right. I'm looking at the time. We got space to vamp real quick,
you know, and then we'll talk about games for a bit. You
know, how's everyone? This is where we vamp for a bit. I
want a vamp. I'm happy to vamp. I need help. I need
help, is what I do? What's wrong? So you know I'm going
away for a little while, going away, Yeah, leaving town. I'm
leaving on a job plane. Yeah, I'm telling you where I'm going.
But I'm you're now in charge of Giant Bomb. It's right, I'll send
you the sword you have to carry with you the sentence, just like the
fortune teller told me it would be Yep. She was like really specific,
and I was like that seems improbable, and she's like, no, no,
it's gonna happen. Trust me. There will be a jet plane and
it's a long trip. I'll be gone for a while. And I'm just
it's kind of a mess with packing, Like I don't know what to do.
Really. I tell myself, I'm gonna pack like four days in advance
and less than that now till we leave. And I haven't really done anything.
I have like seven lists in eight rooms of my house, and I'm
not like what I just forgot. I forgot how to travel, I forgot
what to do. I'm a grown man with little boy problems. They don't
know what to do what I do. And just you know, go through
your day and as you're like doing the stuff for your normal day and be
like, oh do I need to bring this Yes to No, and then
then definitely forget a couple of important things and buy it when you get there.
Nope, where I'm going, you can't buy anything. Just got just
having going to jail yeah, well themissary you can buy stuff. Yeah,
you can. You can bar danger. It's shit, yo, people stream
still from prison. You could do that. You could still be on this
show. People stream from prison? Yeah, oh yeah big on TikTok.
That's cool. I guess barely stream from my house. That's really amazing,
man, that's good stuff. You know, Like, like I said,
gonna be gone for a while, I want like a good like content streaming
thing. And I'm like, do I just bring my Roku? Like do
I bring a chrome cast? Do I bring in just an iPad with like
an HDMI adapter? And then it's like, well I might be on like
Hotel Wi fire lit up for a little bit, then like air b and
b Wi Fi for a little bit, and it's like there's all that.
Then it's like how many keyboards do I bring? No keyboards? However many
days you're going one for each day and then just one extra just in case.
And then it's like how many different variety of right do I bring?
Hey, it's just thought about loads to bring, you know that I'll buy
in jail, I'll buy Yeah, do you think they provide those? Were
you there? Actually? Yeah, it's gonna be fun. SPF is a
relevant topic. I'll bring I'll be bringing more than any human could possibly need.
Although I look, I did a little bit of research and one of
the places I'm going, I'm going to a couple of places. One of
the places I'm going has like this thing where you stand in a device and
you just like don't move and various sprays like lather you in sunscreen. It's
like has Matt Decontaminators? Are you going to hedonism too in Jamaica? Where
what are you doing here? No, I'm going to like I'm going to
one tropical place and then one American place in the most American ass place.
Are you going to like the Olive Garden in Times Square and then not the
Circle of Hell? Yeah? So so that so like, but I when
I'm on the beach, I wear pretty much long sleeves and everything, so
maybe that's not gonna just getting sunscreen all over my clothes. There's a resort
and you make it called he hedonism too. I don't think there's a hedonism
one. Yeah. I really like it when there's like places that are named
as sequels. Anytime there's a bar that's like yeah right, yeah here,
Yeah, My favorite tak area in Oakland, uh is called El Paisa at
dot com. There's no website, but it's like at sign dot com.
It's great. That rules. Oh my god, I just wanted there.
So we're gonna get the tech bros in on with this. We just put
some some stuff they say all the time, and we'll trick them into come
and getting our tacareas. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Uh. I just
want to put it out there because I saw it in the YouTube chat there.
I am not going on a fucking cruise. I am not a psychopath.
Okay, I'm sorry. I want don't want to cruise. You cruise
people will enjoy your fucking jail on the seas and just do whatever anything is
there. It's like you're you live on a mall. You live on a
mall on water. That sounds great, look the old. I've been on
two cruises and they're both in the worst experiences of my life. The only
time I would maybe think about going on another cruise is like maybe up to
like Alaska where it's like super cold and everyone there is just like, I
don't know, I feel like they're more normal than than the hot cruise people.
But I don't know. It's just because like like you can definitely get
like norovirus is just gonna be like, dude, you are getting something horrific,
and all sixty thousand of you are stuck on this floating hotel. You're
like, it doesn't make sense anywhere, not on paper, not in a
fantasy. It's insane. It's insane. It sucks. Thank you everyone in
Chad grees. I'm glad that there's an unanimous feeling about cruiser. You know,
you're you're pulling a dan By by gaslighting the audio listeners, right,
I'm sorry. Cruise cruise hate is like the safest gas lighting you can do,
because it is not like a fifty fifty. It is like a ninety
ten in favor of hating on cruises because they're so insane. Were cruise in
March on a cruise, my dad wanted to spend his birthday with Captain Mickey,
so we did. Oh that's adorable, shouts out, yeah. Would
you say no to him backlar if he was like, come with me on
this cruise. I want to see Captain Mickey on my birthday. Would you
really look that man in the eyes and say no? Fuck cruises. I
wouldn't say fun cruises. I would just be like, I'm not joining you
on this vacation. Thank you for the invite. You were close like that.
I don't think I've ever hurtful. I don't think i've ever met him,
actually, but you've received an email from him before. I'm sure I've
gotten the corresponding emails from death through electronic mail. I'm sure can't be.
It can't be on an episode of this up bringing him up, but he
comes up a lot. It's not my fault. Yeah, I got two
emails from him the other day. I was like, yeah, he's just
there in the top of everyone's mind. Yes, exactly, top of mind
all the time. I want to give a special special shout out preemptively to
the shout out section. Also, hey, new rules, because you jerks
just like just fudge everything up, just ruin everything. We're only okay,
the shoutouts will start as soon as email segment starts. But we're only going
to fifty, So squabble amongst yourselves, all right. Whenever we get to
fit hard cut off at fifty okay, you guys will fight until then,
but anyway, brawl in there as you are as you're reading it, there's
gonna be a brawl to be the top fifty. Uh. Special shout outs
to the newlyweds, im run and rep lovely wedding. What a great wedding.
Congratulations game a king and a prom King and queen. Absolutely yes,
congratulations to them both. Uh, how do we feel about anyone else?
Got some random jazz to talk about or get off their chests? You want
the cruised pole report? All right? Yeah, I kind of fifteen?
Okay, overwhelming? That's what a goddamn landslide. What a goddamn landslide?
Okay, how many people a landslide is? Yeah, that's considered a landslide
for sure. Yeah, it gives more than twice either, Okay, how
many cruises that voted on? This is what i'd be because I mean,
to me, it's like the idea of going on a cruise. It's like
maybe like twenty percent of people ever go on a cruise. I've never been.
Go go No, I don't. I don't want to. I don't.
Yeah, of course we're going to go on a cruise. Well,
I don't want to go on a tropical cruise. I would go on like
one of those retirement cruises like along the scene in Europe or something. I
would do that, like that that goes all the different cities in Europe.
I might hit that. Oh that would go on. I would go on
a very small uh like giant bomb booze cruise. Yeah, I would do
that. That's gonna be nothing but diseases. Actually, so I would be
very It's really open and there's no like lodges, no like mess hall.
You'll be fine. You think we can cond people to do that though a
large draft? Yeah, you think we can see all right? You know,
someone that doesn't know how to swim, I would have to be wearing
a life jacket at all times. Okay, I mean I feel like the
odds of you going overboard or slim, but if you want to feel also,
how many life jackets could we put on jan It's a question I think
we answer all of a sudden, cruising back on the table, I think
we get fifty on him. I think we get fifty life properly or just
like hung everywhere anywhere in any way it counts. I think we get fifty
on there. He'd just be a ball of safety. I think it depends
whether or not he still has his hair, sure of course. Yes,
Okay, okay, well let's buoyant, he's let's point, let's talk about
games. Okay quick? No, quick, Zelda? Check is why?
Uh? Uh? Yes? I still like you? Planning on a plane
soon quick, Zelda? Check for folks, if you missed it last week,
I made an unwise decision to make a large declarative statement on a podcast.
It gets listened to by at least two dozen people. You know what
you did? I made have been But if I do not finish Tears of
the Kingdom by the beginning of the Saturday panel at packs this guy, I
would shave my head. Would you expect? You know? I got the
hard thing out of the way. I recorded that yesterday with grub. That's
out of the way. Yes you're yes, You've got the big work thing
done, so you could like get back into it. But where are you
at? And Zelda? Have you gone back to play? Zelda? Oh?
Yes, I was playing last night and then I finally got the last
tower that I didn't get. Uh. Did I do any of the mainline
story stuff? No? I just kept running around what is you? Is
it? Saying? Hey, go check out what like what's going on with
Zelda at the at the castle. Oh no, no, it doesn't say
that anymore. I'm past that. I'm like, God, okay, then
you're good. Yeah, good because if you like, I mean, you
got to do the big thing. But other than that, you'll you'll crush
it. You'll be done soon. Yeah. What are shaving your head?
Gives you like, uh, some sort of cool fucking superpower or something?
What would that? Because powers? Yeah? And are you doing do we
say if you're bicking it or if you're doing We're not. We're not bicking
it. So you're like a number zero or a number one, we're doing
like a one or two. You know, we could do it too,
he'll before. I mean, it's gonna be so short compared to what it
is, like even like a two or three would be Yeah, it just
it would count as a buzz cut at that point. That's what we're talking
about here. Yeah. But see, we're all talking like, I'm not
going to finish this game. I'm gonna finish it. Can take somebody,
no, no, no, that I've got to finish this game. What
you're talking about? Who can I bet? Does anybody think on the panel
here does anybody think that he will do it as well? Like, does
any body else also think he'll do it? Because I would like to bet
you money that he will not. Yeah, I think he's gonna do it.
Oh yeah, money, I'll bet money. I don't have any,
But well that defeats the purpose of what I'm gonna win. So let's just
do it, and then if i'll just wel yeah, yeah, I'll load
this. I'm dunk. Yeah. If I could get grub money by him
winning a bet on me, I'll do it. Yeah. Let's go realistically,
like how many hours are you from finishing? You know, a good
hundred probably? Oh oh oh, what can I do? You shave your
head again and I'll grow my hair out? No, no, here,
here's here's prodigy. I would love. I'll just concentery real hard Backlar just
has to have a mustache. He just shaves everything else except the stash.
See that's I haven't been I haven't been clean shaven since the day of my
wedding day. So like eleven years, happiest day of your life, it's
pretty funked up. I think that's a bet that's more fucked up than your
bed. Jan I just gotta say, hey, you know, I want
to make good on another promise. I made it at one pack, so
like I think it was the last packs. The Giant Bomb was at Backlard.
Do you think it's okay with the people at packs if I throw a
bucket of chicken into the audience? Uh? Is it? Is it like
wrapped? You know? Like okay, I could individually wrap the chicken shore.
I feel like right backs West, Yes, I feel like if I'm
if I'm like sitting in from row and I get there and I'm all happy
to see my my Giant Bomb, you know people that I'm here to see,
and then I get it's cooked. It's cooked. Yeah, I realized.
But like you also definitely know if you're at a Giant Bomb panel that
chicken crumbs are very likely to get you like yeahs, So you will get
chicken crumbs. You may get soaked in chicken crumbs. So it's basically a
Gallagher show. Yes, yeah, I don't you have to hand and clutch
because then you can turn the dial down on the chicken you get must chicken,
let me get full wet you go? Man? If I if I
went to a panel and walked away very greasy, I'd be up I'd probably
be upset. I'd be like, oh man, if it was a really
good time, you know, if you started greasy, just maybe individually wrap
him in tinfoil or something. I don't know. I thought, well with
you and individually wrapping stuff in tinfoil, I'm just very to look like that.
I don't like things getting very dirty, So I'm a bad person to
ask. Like if my kid rolls around outside, like I literally have to
walk away because I don't want to tell him not to do it. Because
he's a kid. He should do it, he should get dirty. But
it fucks me up inside so much when I just have to like walk away,
and yeah, so that's who I am. Okay, I feel as
long as you have a vegan option, so if you throw stuff in the
audience, you gotta chicken. And then it's like one part of the crowd's
like, we're vegetarian. You throw some I don't know, tofu at him
with it. Yeah, act this sealery. Could you imagine you're vegan and
you go to a giant bump panel only to get slapped in the face with
a drumstick, and like, what the with all the random food talk we
have here with me talking about that I could probably eat one hundred nuggets in
one sitting, the hot dog discourse of the past year, the cheese pizza
gate, of pizza gate, that we need to Okay, I need to
read you know who knows what we'll be talking about in Q three, right
right? You're right? New food product will cause us distress exactly, Bailey.
What's what's going to be the food? Just just what the fortune tellers
say? Soup. We're gonna have to figure out what soup is to find
as fuck. Yeah, it's it's just crunchy water. Yeah, it's cereal
is soup? We have to think about this. Ah, we can't.
Shit, I can't. I can't deal with this. I can't deal with
that. H for next quarter? Okay, next quarter? All right?
Everyone four to put it away? Put it away, not a lot.
Put a pin in that has cyril ever come in? I can't never mind?
Oh oh no, that's a that's a cool thing though to ask like
that's not controversial. That's just like a fun thought experiment, right, yeskay?
But would it be wet like corn anyway? Like dog food? I
need to we can't have tangents on the show anymore. We just need to
talk about video games. Hey, Tears Is the Kingdom is a fantastic game.
It's great. I have a stupid smile every time, like I find
something new and stupid. It's like, you idiots, all right, cool,
lets go help you out. Uh huh. I beat I beat it,
and I felt I still felt the same way, where it's just like
every time I would stumble across something, it was like, yeah, that's
amazing, that's end. Even in here. I spent a solid hour last
night taking selfies with gorons because they were just adorable. I'm like, what's
up? How you play the game and wind up shaving your head in eleven
days? Yeah? You know, I'm training. I'm training, and I'm
gonna spend a lot of time training. So I'm just gonna I'm gonna beat
this game. I'm convinced. I'm convinced you're not You're not all right.
So I am like, I'm like, what is your main mission right now?
Do you know? Off two of the fuck nos grub Okay, Okay,
I'm not gonna because that's a spoiler. I'm trying to like figure out
a way you're like he would have to scroll so far up he'll never get
up there. Exactly. I've just talked to so many people and then I'm
like, you know, I'm gonna help you out. I forget Zelda.
We don't need, we don't need right now, right? Have you been
finding the tears the different tiers and stuff, like you've got to find them
all? Did you get all the tears? Okay? Yeah, that's really
so critically important lemonade right there? Yeah, okay, oh no, that
also already exploring the depths more in depth though, see, okay, you're
doing okay, you're definitely not finishing this game. Yeah, that's what I
did, and I now I've actually fully one. There was like two little
spots I couldn't get too because I didn't go to didn't beat the game.
And then once I did that, that made it easier. That ending jan
is very very good. It's very good. So I would try to see
it like it's like, yeah, make it happen, No, I'm gonna
make it happy. I made me cry real human tears out of really yeah,
human tears. Yeah, emotional too, but this will made me cry
in a different way. Yeah, exactly, not not to make it all
about me. But like I wonder when I'm gonna finish this game, like
I will I'm going to experience really human tears. Yeah, like what are
what? Am I going to be able to cry with my son? Yeah,
you're playing with But like you guys are going at your own pace,
Like you'll probably get there maybe fifty fifty five hours I think though, Yeah,
you'll probably get there by dissimil Oh we're gonna we're Oh, I can't.
I just can't wait to do like the monitor on the plane, Like
I think that is gonna be the dopest thing. I'm super gonna look like
the coolest people on that plane. For sure. People are gonna stop in
the aisle. It just be like, can I shake your fucking had congratulate
You're definitely gonna be the next president of the United States. Easy say to
you. Easy love it, Bailey. I need to ask you if Balder's
Gate three, Act three has brought tears to your face. Well, let's
see, I've already had to lose two hours of game progress and I'm at
the beginning of act three. This is not my first time doing this in
this game. I here's here's the thing is I needed to get footage of
them fucking the bear for the honest game trailer that's coming out in thirty minutes,
and I still have not achieved getting this footage. I don't think I'm
gonna make it at this point. Game itself, yeah, the game itself
did not make it easy for me at all, because I was like blasting
through Act two like okay, wholes and won't join your party until Act three.
Got it, got it, got it, he's the Bear, And
so I'm like blasting through Act two. I meet JK. Simmons. It's
rad seeing him, No for you, just going right to it. Absolutely,
yeah, I'm like focus power through it, get get to the bear
sex And then you get to the end of act two having done this,
and Hawson is like, it's a shame you didn't break the Shadow curse and
now you never will, so I cannot join you on your quest and like,
oh and find the stupid broken loot or whatever, and oh, and
I had a save where like I knew where the loot was, and I
had a save where I definitely killed that guy, but I couldn't find the
loot for like an hour, And it turned out he's in my traveler's chest
in my camp, so I don't have I didn't meet the footage, is
what I'm saying. It does sound like bad DM problems again right where it's
like you will like if you had a good DM, they'd be like,
remember it's in you, you have it in your camp, like you have
this already, and but no, the game is just like you're on your
own good luck. Game has thrown hundreds of items at me and expects me
to remember all of them so that Halston will come with me so I can
have sex with a bear. And it's hard. Yeah, I've had weekends
like this as well. You know, are you enjoying other than not being
able to have intimate relations with the bear? Are you enjoying your time with
Balder's Gate three? Still? Yeah, it's great. Sometimes it's really good.
Most of the time it's really good. It's the parts when it's mind
numbingly frustrating that make me so angry because it's like so close to being a
perfect game, and then there's no like there's an autosave feature, but in
name only, certainly not in spirit, and like all the times I've had
to just undo three hours because I missed one item that I can never get
back because I want to have sex with Halston in the game. So the
bear sex is the one thing that seems like there, you're definitely doing the
saves coming for a going so hard. Of course they're sex, but you're
just doing your job here, like you're just doing you just a few delicial
yes, of course. But are there other situations where you are doing saves
coming because you're like, oh, this isn't the perfect run or I don't
I was trying to get this thing for a very long time and I screwed
one thing up and now we won't be able to get it. Or is
it just the bear sex. It's I mostly try to avoid saves coming,
but god damn, in this game, it is hard not to do.
Yeah, of course, Like I have a My character is a rogue.
Her whole thing is, you know, the big guys do the fighting,
and then she sneaks in and undoes all the traps and like unlocks all the
locks, and she broke her last lock pick on a really important door with
a critical failure the million fights scene that day, and I wait, you
know what today, and so I gave up. I gave up. I
dropped all by dignity and my pride, and I went, no, I'm
gonna win this game, whether the game likes it or not, Bailey,
I gotta ask how many acts are there in Boulder's Gate? Is Act three
the last act? Or? Okay? So since you're near the end,
ish who knows? Have to restart? You don't know if I am,
Because here's the thing, is I am? I just opened Steam to look
too so I could tell you an accurate number. I am sixty three hours
into the game, okay, and I just started Act three, Soda,
and I'm pretty sure Act three is the longest one, and that's in the
titular gate of Boulder Boulders. Are you at all tempted to once you complete
the game, start a whole new character and go on the ride all over
again? Yeah? Absolutely? Really? Huh yeah? I want. I
think that there is no way to play this game the same way twice,
especially if you just go with a different character class. And my goal for
the next one is to make a little stinker like my microL currently is very
like like neutral good is sort of the way she's been like making all her
choices because I want Halston to fall in love with me. Uh, but
if I want to get a Starian, I have to be a little bit
of a stinker, So you're gonna go back. I'm going to be a
stinker and maybe a spellcaster. Starry doesn't go for any goody two shoes like
you. No, no, no, You're down to yeah, down to
literally clown. Yes, exactly, there you go. Yeah, the big
Starian, big ICP fan definitely absolutely Loveago. Yeah washes that silver hair in
Fago Jan. We've played more on Friday and I had a really good time.
Yes, that game is fun. There's a lot like I want to
spend more time with it. I'm playing like five other things and most of
them we can't talk about yet then, so I'm not trying to tease it,
just kind of playing the situation a little bit. But I'm like,
I'm after that Friday session that we played for UPF, I'm like, definitely
gonna make some time for this game after some of these review games get out
of the way. Yeah. So yeah, it was it was just like
it was cool to be like, Okay, somehow I'm waiting around for my
turn and you like that would be the real big reason I would think a
multiplayer wouldn't work with a turn based RPG like this, And yet it was
fun to watch you guys come up with ideas and have time to think about
what I was gonna do, and not just like buffoon it like I normally
do in those situations. It's like, oh, no, I'm gonna go.
I have a bone arrow, I'm kind of a rogue. I can
sneak around and get up high and have some advantage there. And it was
like, once that stuff started falling into place for me, I could see
how the combat itself very fun and then all the wacky stuff that can happen
in between. I was beginning to get the hang of it. Like I
kept just I want to go see the thing, even though they told me,
if you like step up to this thing, bad things will happen.
I'm like, well, I just want to get a little bit closer.
It's like, Nope, you can't do that. Every time it went really
bad, it would either start a fight or we'd end up killing a baby
an Albert. An Albert baby, to be clear, but I haven't even
seen a Albert. So we went in the cave and we found an Albert
and uh, for some reason, I took a potion to talk to the
to the thing. Uh yeah, sure, obviously right, But then I
stepped up close after she wore me away and she's like, no initiative.
We're fighting, and I'm like, well, I guess we gotta find our
way out. I'm gonna to target this baby and to kill the baby,
and then the mama Albert screams in English, what did you do? And
I've never felt more terrible about anything in my entire life. There's a lot
to unpack there. Yeah, it was messed up, but I'm like,
man, I'm glad that game one like makes this possible, and two accounts
for like those emotions from the Albert. So yeah, there's something going on
there that I definitely want to dig deeper into in three minutes and did a
war crime immediately, That's just who I am. I gonna tell you,
Yeah, I kreb I'm also compelled to play more of it, but again
caught up in the review code season of big Titles, and uh, it's
I feel like I only want to play that game with people because for some
reason, it lowers the stakes versus sure having to devote so much time like
hearing Bailey's say that she lost two three hours, just like, oh shit,
I lose two three hours in my regular life. Like I can't.
I can't do that in a game. But like just goofing around with with
y'all was was was fun, But man's I can't. I can't imagine trying
to wrangle a group of friends outside of work hours for a stream to hey,
can you play boulders Gate three reasons please boulders Gate with you. I
haven't gotten to play a multiplayer with anyone. I've had to just babysit three
NPC's at a time. I think we'll do we'll do one more stream of
that. I think probably eventually you'll have to decide if you want to take
over doorf on Golf, which is Dan's character, or or who's the other
one because you're block Glass in there. I'm I think did Tam oh you'd
take over? Or you could take over TAM's character, which is okay,
we'll make that. We'll make this decision offline. It seems really important.
Something I don't someone to watch me process throw the thing here is like I
could continue that save and just keep playing it and then you guys could just
jump back in like you know, hot seat it, and it's like that,
that's nice that it works that way that I can, like, if
I'm interesting continuing that story, I could play on my own, and then
when people and friends are available, they could just hop in take over their
character again and just keep it going forward. I don't know if it's a
well thought out game, and I just wish I had more time for it.
We'll get there, well, we'll eventually get there. They would call
you it comes out, and I don't play that. I'll just play this,
uh something that the day has got there because Greb, you've been playing
it and I forgot this came out completely. You've been playing Bomb Rush cyber
Funk. Yeah. So I was never much of a jet jet set radio
guy. I was too busy playing Tony Hawk and like Tony ok fit with
like the kind of way I wanted to play those kinds of games. But
I was always like I always admired it from a distance, like I like
the way it looks like its style, like the music, and and then
I would like try it here or there and be like it's not clicking with
me. I don't necessarily think I liked the way it plays. This game
has the the look, the style on the music, and I think I
like the way it plays and feels. A big part of that is they
just really make the act of doing cool tricks and keeping combos going pretty simple.
It's pretty easy to do, so the difficulty comes from like looking around
the world and spotting these places to actually perform these long tricks. And usually
they will provide like markers, like like literal markers, like places where you
could do graffiti a big part of jet Set Radio a big part of this
game. And then also pride like little pickups here and there that that'll kind
of say, hey, go in this direction and you'll see maybe a path
to pull off these neat combos. And once I was able to like start
putting together really long combos where it's like i am grinding, then I'm going
into a manual, and then I'm I'm wall writing, and I'm doing a
double jump and a dash into another grind on a wall, and then I'm
coming down and I'm like landing a trick there. It's like, Okay,
that was pretty cool, And there's a lot of It's pretty similar to Tony
Hawk, where it's like the combo pick up where it's like you can got
to get combo in one combo. They have stuff like that, and it's
like, that's the what I come to these games for. Just challenge me
to do a couple of cool things, pull off some cool maneuvers, and
make me feel gnarly I guess or whatever. And this game is definitely hitting
that stuff. And also I think the story is relatively good. You play
as a character who who gets decapitated in the first like couple of minutes of
the game. Uh. Yeah, the guy this is like the Evil DJ
throws a vinyl record. Yes, of course, and well this one is
specially I think this is king Evil DJ. And he throws a vinyl record
at you like you know, like a frisbee, and it just swoops in
and catches your neck and your head pops off, and it's like, what
the hell is going on? And then happened to me last time I played
Frosby, right, which is why he gets replaced with a robot head like
this character. And uh, and then you just keep going and now you're
like, oh, we're gonna go. We gotta find your head. Things
like that. It's like it sounds absurd, but they're just like you know.
The first group of characters that you run into are called the Franks,
and they're like these piece together monsters like Frankenstein's. They play basketball and every
time you talk to them, they're doing a dance to the music. And
it's like, that's that's what this game is. It's all vibes, it's
all about good feelings, and I'm actually pretty impressed with it. I'm having
a pretty good time with it. Yeah. I tried playing one of it
was either Jet Grind Radio or Jets Set Rate Grind Future Boys Yeah Radio Future
Yeah something, whatever it's called, and I could just never get the feel
of it. But hearing that, it feels slightly different, but the vibes
are still there. Yeah. There's no time to play this game though,
grub I right, Yeah, I like uh so, the many of the
games I'm playing like they're coming up in the next couple of weeks. I
can't play on my handheld computers or stuff for one reason or another. So
it's like, this is the game. I put on the Roger ally and
I've been playing on there and it works. Of course, it works really
well on there. I will say the game doesn't always make it clear what
you're supposed to be doing. Occasionally, like one of the characters, I
talked to one of the Franks, and he's like, hey, go do
this combo right here, and I'm like, okay, I kind of see
it, and then like after it cuts back from the cut scene of him
performing that, showing you what you're supposed to do, I'm like disoriented.
I'm like I don't even know what direction you went into. And then there's
a lot of little stuff like that, that thing where a cut scene will
end and it'll be like go over here, and now it's like the camera's
pointing off in a different direction. That happens pretty frequently. I get the
maps aren't huge, it's not a huge problem, but it's a little annoying.
But that's similar sort of thing happens. And I got a boss fight
and I just for like five minutes, I'm skating around, like am I
just supposed to be avoiding these attacks because there's no obvious like attack button,
And turned out I'm supposed to be kind of like double jump and just I
kind of ram my body into the boss and it's like that doesn't feel great,
and that wasn't obvious, and eventually I figured it out. And I
tend to do that repeatedly. Uh, and it's like it's not as obvious.
It's like, oh, I have spray paint. Just spray paint the
enemies. You could do that to some like the cops. That works,
but some of these bosses it's like, no, just run into them.
And it's like, okay, I not everything here feels like super polished or
super super like well thought out to be conveyed to the player. But as
soon as I got back into the world, I was having a good time
just skating around and doing cool stuff. Also, you get rollerblades. I
think you also get a skateboard and like the bad guys around bikes, so
it's not all just rollerblading. If anyone has an aversion to that, which
we should all be over, rollerblading is great. Yeah. I was gonna
say, I think the pandemic did wonders for rollerblading roller skating pr Yeah,
I think so Stock on the rest, Yes, there we go. I
gotta play this. Yeah, I think you would like it. Ah.
Man, you know, I noticed the children are getting back into BMX bikes.
It's fun seeing the pegs out there, just children like three p three
kids a bike, just front pegs, back pegs, just hooting and hollering.
Yeah, that's what that's what b Mexican is all about, about hooting
and hollering. I did see that the other day when I was along the
way. Yeah, you know, as soon as I said the word pegs
and it came out of my mouth, I knew somehow we were gonna get
there, and no one disappointed me. Well, there's I can't even think
of a segue. On Guard is a game that I've been playing. It's
also what you say when you're about to peg somebody and we're going, well,
I set that on, I set that one up. You walked right
into that one. I it would be really funny if someone did that.
Though man made himself cry to be clear that he himself. Dude, he
popped himself. Now, hey, that's why we love you. You're not
It's okay, that's sorry, that's all right. Well on Guard. If
folks checked out the Steam Next Fest, was it a UPF or was it
a just miscellaneous stream that we did a couple of weeks ago. We did
a UPF where we did the next fest catchup that sounds try right right right
right. We This is one of the games that we played, and it
is It is a fun This reminds me of like PS two games in terms
of the aesthetics and the vibe of it. Because of the color palette.
It kind of makes me think of gosh, the Road to El Dorado of
like color palette and just how their character designs are. I don't know why
the Road to El Dorado specifically Yo shouts out that child, I'm alright anyway,
but it is I what I think, uh, sword fighting should be
in video games, like specifically, like dueling sword fighting should be, because
this game heavily, heavily relies on parrying and dodging at the right time,
and it isn't in a very brutal way like how Securo or some of the
Souls games will be where there's a giant as far as I know, a
giant monster or a bunch of snakes just attacking you with a big ass sword.
It's just a bunch of dude just dueling you and use the mouse buns
and then the keyboard to properly parry or like sidestep out of the way and
it's very satisfying and and how you get through it. I think the Steam
Next Best demo. I don't know if there's a demo out on the Steam
Store, but pretty much actually once they post those they usually come back for
they win the games out. But I'll check right but if you're at all
curious, check out that portion of the Steam Next vest upf Maybe we'll try
and get a quick look in the can. I really enjoy it. The
mobility is really nice and how they handle the combat. You're not in an
open world roaming around or you're kind of like in lanes just uh, not
scrolling through, roaming through the specific encounters, and it feels really good.
Like I thought I should switch it over to a controller, but then it
just felt better with a mouse and keyboard. Yeah, are you more used
to mouse and keyboard or are you more of a game pad kind of guy,
more of a game pad type of type of fella? Then okay,
But with Wazdi here, it just feels like it fits better with with the
combat style, Like it feels like it was designed this way. I could
be completely wrong. What this actually made me think about in how the combat
feels sometimes is if you've ever played we Sports Resort, which, uh yeah,
what is it called the sword fighting the baton? Sure, it feels
a lot like fencing. Well it's called on guard. Wow, yah know,
like you could be on guard about some some jazz and stuff. But
I really enjoy Yeah, it also reminds me of bowling, but you're just
trying to get a hole in one a bowling term. We're on the green
now sports. But I really enjoy it. I haven't spent too much time
with it. It is. It gets challenging very very quickly. But maybe
just because I'm a scrub at video games. It seems like the kind of
game that would ramp up quickly to me though, because I think the whole
if you're doing one thing, and that one thing is sword combat, how
do you keep that? I mean, I'm sure they can introduce a lot
of fun stuff, but I think the way you actually make that game stay
interesting his like actually introduce a skill increase over time, like have an actual
skill ramp, and so yeah, that sounds promising in a lot of ways.
I always liked the way it looked, and I like how big are
like the Perry windows and things like that, like it's probably relatively bit compared
to a From game, but are they still relatively tight at the same time,
it's let's split the difference from a From game and then one of the
Arkham games where there's like there is a window that you can definitely tell but
if you miss it, you know why you missed it, versus it kind
of been more generous like an Arkham game, and then you kind of not
quite knowing why you missed the perry in a From game. Right, there's
definitely a learning curve. I don't know how much to the game there is
outside of these encounters and like these like traversal. The traversal doesn't feel too
great on a mouse and keyboard unfortunately, just like the swinging and just jumping
around and stuff. But the sword combat great, absolutely great. I would
like to see this get carried over into like another game further down the line.
Speaking about going further down the line, or maybe we should say up
the Spire, Bailey, you continue to slay the Spire. Yeah, I
thought I would lose steam on it now that I'm no longer playing it to
procrastinate on playing the game I'm supposed to be playing. But oh my God,
I'm not losing steam on it. I beat it with I've beaten it
with all four of the different characters. At this point, I do like
better than I thought. I was for sure, but I was. I'm
like in love with the defect character. But I finally figured things out with
all the other characters too, and oh god, it's just so good.
I'm just obsessed with card games now. I'm all card games all the time.
Now that's my whole thing. All these big giant open world RPGs are
coming out, and that's my whole ship, and I'm just like, no,
now I'm deeply invested in this card game. Yeah, that's it.
I bet you're getting a lot of recommendations from like chat and Twitch and here's
fifty other card Yes, you should be playing, Yes, because I started
with Inscription and then I got Slay Spyer recommended to me because of that,
and now they are recommending Monster Train and that's stop on the train station after
Monster Train, Bailey, you should really check out Grift Lands Lands. Yes,
Okay, it's another card down card combatish game, but there's more same
same realm as those other games, right, yeah, right, but there's
more social aspects to juggle as well of like, oh, this person definitely
doesn't like me speaking about card games and card game I wish I wound up
sticking with and I wish I liked more? Was do y'all remember Square Enix's
The Voice of Cards. No, this was a whole JRPG where everything was
done via cards, Like even the dialogue it was just cards talking to each
other and like kind of jumping around. Even like traversing the overworld was just
like moving a chess piece or a marker through animating hair, and they were
like no more in this one, it was I wish I liked that.
That's done so cute. Oh it's not cute, Okay, it's very slow,
nostologic for it until the end there. It's just very slow because you
know, you get used to like the fast paced nature of Slay the Spire
and then like other card games of like, okay, I already know what
my deck build is going to be based off of looking at the overworld map.
This is the route I'm gonna go. This is the build I'm gonna
go. But with like, doing a full on RPG got very tiresome,
very quick because it doesn't move at the Cadence, any of these other run
based card games go. I think that's what happened with me with Hand of
Gilgamesh, that Steam World card game, which was really really well made,
really good. It's just the pace was a little bit slowed down. But
because of the cards, I think it's still I mean, for all the
pieces that it's putting together, it's still actually pretty. It happens pretty rapidly,
but it wasn't. I just could stay attached to it for some reason.
But I think it's probably one you might like as well, Bailey is
because a lot of people do like this game. Please send me as many
card game recommendations as possible. I love to get deeply invested in games that
I cannot make honest game trailers about it. It's so helpful for me and
my productivity. It's really good. That was a Gilga mech Sorry, uh,
that was a fun one. With all this card talk, I need
to put this out into the universe. I need to put this onto the
universe, folks, because my dear friend Kim poisoned my mind because he shared
with me. He was you know, we were at a wedding. It
was like jam this Disney card game, and I was like, oh no,
homie home, no what? Oh no, n look away, look
away, back, Lark backlark this you can get in on this dock like
you meet. Mike Bailey kind of likes Disney. I think you know,
I'm a man many hobby boxes. What are we doing here? I like
Disney and now I like card game, So I'm kind of all in.
You know, Disney put out Disney put out a card game. Lor Kanna,
Lorcana, Lorcana. Oh shit, I know all about na. Yeah
I've heard lor Kana, but I don't know. I guess I've nat really
heard it from. It's a hot commodity. It's like people, people are,
people are buying them up the streets are hard talking about it. Grub,
you could get in on this too, now, come on, well
you can get all the ELSA cards, you can get all the well is
it like is it a set or is it a collectible like trading card game
or you could game? Like, well, I understand it's a game,
but like is it it? Was it like a deck builder where like you
have all the cards and like you just buy this big expensive thing. I
believe it to go, Like that's a little bit more. I could handle
that a little bit more than having to like continue to buy like the booster
packs and stuff. But don't you think the same, But like the vibe
I've gotten from the you know, card collectible weirdos that are even more pervier
than I are, Like, yeah, but everyone's going to be collecting with
this as well. Yeah, that's what I'm asking. So if I buy
Disney lorc Cana Lorcana Lorcana, do I get the entire set in one box,
like a like a tabletop game, Like I can't. I don't know
to whether or not that's true. Okay, all right, it sounds like
if there's collecting elements, probably not, it's probably it seems like they sell
booster paths. But yeah, no, I'm out. I can't. I
can't go there. I can't put on that ren. I think, Well,
look, I wonder if the well, it's the only the only thing
I collect are magnets, fridge magnets, because I know they're worthless when I
go somewhere. Whenever I go somewhere, I go to like the you know,
the aquarium shed aquarium, Well I'll get a magnet because they're cheap and
it's a it's a member of Memento and it won't be worth anything and look
like fish a lot. So they're fun. I like this a lot,
definitely. Let's just say that I might be in a situation soon that perhaps
I don't know. It depends on when these are available. I don't know
if it's the available year round. Actually no, you can get a magnet
any Yes, I'm aware of that. I'm talking about lor Kano. They've
apparently hit small card shops. They're not hitting wide rely suggest yet you think
they're like at the source, Yeah, you gotta go to a card could
comforting with a mouse? Is this what you're suggesting? Oh no, so
here's a weird thing. Sometimes they're not at the sign Magic Kingdom. What's
that? Sometimes they're not at the source, like any other Disney related product
is not available at the source because the source sells very hyper specific things like
fun spirit jerseys. Oh Backlar, you and the fam got to get a
spirit jersey. You know. I don't know what that is, but I'll
look it up. I'll sell them on the cruise. When you're there,
I just ask Captain Mickey. He'll tell you where you can buy them.
Oh God, Okay, keep going tell me more. But man, I'm
looking at this Mickey Mouse, the Brave Little Tailor card. Look at this
little guy. It's got big scissors and everything. What are you going at
him? So what I'm trying to manifest is like, yoll send you boy,
send you boy a box. Please send your boy box. Just just
help with the addiction. You know, this is just me trying to come
clean. Just just just help you. Yeah, nothing like continue to give
me the drug I need. Yeah taste, John Drake, Oh, it's
helping me. Look John Drake, you probably have nothing to do with this
game, but it's Disney, so I think it's you, all right,
the heir to the Disney Empire. John Drake, Yeah, exactly. Send
me to disney Land again so I could play a card game me and Mike.
Well, we'll go. What do they What do they retail for the
booster boxes? Do you know? I don't know what the box is going
for. I might need to hit up the plug. I may need to
hit up my barber. That's where I go for all my narcotic I mean,
trading cards. If I have to shave my head, he's gonna be
so upset with me. He's gonna be mad at you. He'll help you
beat Zelda. Then you tell him what's going on, he'll help. Yeah,
he's like personally invested. You're gonna show it. You are, You're
gonna yeah, exactly, Bailey, You're gonna show up, and dude's gonna
be like, number one, you fucking cheated on me. Number two?
What am I spretty to do with this? Now? He just has my
voice, but just like on a lower register, we're pretty much the same
person. He has a corgy. I have a question, assumed I whenever
you talk about Barbera jan it's just you and my brain, that's all I
imagine. He wears cool, sunning glasses. I can't wear sunglasses because I'm
blind. But anyone got any other games to talk about? I do have
a question. Anyone's gonna play Immortals of a VM. So I watched Dan
play yesterday and I the card, but literally just turned it on and then
I was like, man, I'm too busy. I'll get back to this
maybe before the BombCast. And then that didn't happen. So what was your
takeaway from that? Yeah? I mean without actually getting hands on myself right,
just take that with a grain of salt there. That game is all
about hands though, yeah, it's very much like dual hand like one you
know, one hand shoots stuff, the other does magic kind of thing.
And it just seemed like that was the loop, and you're just sort of
like, you know, unlocking another mission and going forward again. I don't
I don't want to. It's very much cut out of that same cloth that
I feel like where games need to break out of the thing and do something
special for you to remain kind of interested in. This seemed to very much
play in that very safe, repetitive loop. And I think having you know,
played, you know, playing those kinds of games for this what feels
like over a decade now, where like these are just very much the same
sort of thing. It's difficult to kind of like make the argument for why
you would want to stick around, right, Like, something's got to pop
in it. Is it like the really cool you know combat, Is that
like the thing that does it for you? Is it the story? Is
it the just the design of the world and the kind of world building it
within and everything fidelity wise, and that sort of like seemed pretty above average.
But like you know, I know Dan's done with that game for sure,
and looking at it and being like kind of interested in what it was
doing and what it had to say. You know, again, maybe it's
the desire to be overly economical. What's the games we decide to choose and
play at this point in our lives, But like, it probably just falls
a little short of that. But again, watch the quickly from probably take
take away the same you know, realization from it from what I'm debating whether
or not to do an honest game trailer about it. I'm like, is
it bad enough that it's funny? Oh? No, I don't think it's.
No, I don't think see, I think it's very much in the
middle. I like we actually we actually, yeah, we talked exactly about
it because Dan was saying like, oh, it's so you know, it's
so easy to write about a game you love. It's so easy to write
about a game you don't love it. The hardest thing is like middle of
the road shit, and I think this is on the higher end of that.
But yeah, it's just a bit unremarkable. Does it? Does it
lean into the cheese at all? Baccalar of, Like, how do you
think, like yeah, I don't think I could like speak to that specifically,
but it is, you know, like it is the most I mean,
I look like, I think in all the previews and stuff, that
game looked interesting enough for me to sort of be like, well, I
just want to see what that looks like, and I just want to like
know exactly how that get its thing. Just get acquainted with it, because,
like you said, like economic with our time, a lot of games
you could play for three hours and be like I get it, move on
totally. Yeah, I think that with Immortals. Yeah, I think that's
going to be the case for a lot of people. I think we also
said, like, hey, this is like a prime like wait till it's
on sale thing if you are super intrigued, if you're not one of the
first people who have to play, this thing feels like it's it'll it'll,
you know. Possibly you could probably play the first couple hours on game pass
right because it's a EA play usual they have like the game previews, so
you can like just download and play for a couple of hours before that timer
runs up. I could be that could be wrong. Maybe that doesn't apply
to every game anymore. It used to so maybe I'll do that. A
lot of the packaging, like the menu packaging like look a lot like God
of War. And I do think there are aesthetic similarities here and there.
It's first person though, so it's like, you know, obviously not that
kind of action game, but yeah, it's just you know, the half
a dozen things that you know are going to be in there. We're like,
oh, you get warped to a combat are you know where you have
to like take out waves of things you you know, we'll get to an
area where you have like, you know, save a quick and dirty little
puzzle. I just think there's a lot of stuff that everyone's kind of seen
before there. I think that I said this during the quickly like it looks
cool as hell, Like there's cool sort of ideas. And when I saw
the the f and vs or the cinematics, really like they put a lot
of money into those. Yeah, for sure, Like there's polished there.
There's oodles of polish. Yeah. I was gonna say it didn't feel it
felt disingenuous to call it a B game or trying to categorize it there because
it has more budget than your prototypical B game. I think unfortunately. Also
the name of the game just makes me feel like it's going to get lost
in the ether almost immediately, because Immortals of Avum gives me the same vibe
that Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets game. Yeasy, like just
call it Avium like or or you know, or like just do something.
Yeah, I'm with you there for sure. It's name. Yes. The
other the other one that I'm curious about that I haven't had time and I
feel bad about. I wish I could have talked about it on this BombCast
is jump Light Odyssey. This is the spaceship management sim where you know,
kind of like it's similar in a lot of ways to FTL. It seems
where like you're managing ship, but in this one it's much more. It's
like FTL meets the sims, Like there's a lot of people on your ship
walking around and they're doing jobs, and it looks really promising. It's an
early access. It came out yesterday yesterday. It seems like it's doing really
well in terms of like user reviews on Steam, and I just I really
like the way it looks, and I like, I love FTL. So
if it's like, this is another spin on that count me in. It's
like, you know, uh, Star Trek Star Trek Management Salmon's like you
ever wanted one of those. It feels like this is actually doing that.
So I'm gonna give this a try. Probably now that I played enough Bomb
Rush to talk about, I'm like, I'll try this next and see which
one I want to keep going on with. Oh, while we're talking about
games that we haven't devoted too much time to, a game that I've had
my eye on for a long time is finally out. It's a tactics game
called Cantata can Tata. I don't know how to pronounce anything, folks,
U c A n ta ta. It's a tactics cantata. So I think
you were right the first time. Trade Magnifique. It's a tactics game in
not quite like a pixel style. I'm not sure how to describe it here,
but it's a tactics game, and you boy loves tactics. This game
arguably almost has too many tiles and has a bunch of systems impossible. Maybe
art looks so cool? Does it looks really good? Trailers? It looks
very different. Uh, The in game cinematics. It does seem kind of
difficult from the early access Demoi played, but who knows what it's like now
it's giving me. It's giving me like low intentionally low res haites vibes from
like screenshots on looking at or it's just like a sexy pixel man standing in
front of a bunch of sexy pixels. There we go, There we go.
I know what it looks like to me. I mean, it looks
like a totally different game entirely, but vibe wise from the screenshots. I'm
already in all right, I'm looking. I'm looking at this. This looks
okay, yeah, yeah, this looks really good. It seems like a
perfect game to play on a Steam deck if someone wasn't locked into playing Tears
of the Kingdom for the rest of my life. Last thing on the dock
here it says talking about the current state of roadblocks. So I just want
to like chime in on that. I know we've like, okay, obviously
we all know how we collectively feel about roblocks back art real quick. So
I was going through old episodes of the bomb Cast and like uploading them making
sure they're because you know, we're we're going and adding markers because of you
know, some some new bidness, some business talk. Oh yeah, I
was getting I was explaining to that, explaining a lot to the folks at
home, you know, like if they've noticed some stuff, some funky business
with their podcast feeds, if stuff isn't loading properly, un subscribe or subscribe
to God's Favorite podcast. Uh. And then episode seven hundred and seventy you
were talking about Dibb and his Roadblocks problem, and this has been an ongoing
saga. Is DIBs still having trouble with Roadblocks? I mean he's not.
He's not having trouble like anyone who plays Roadblocks. He's having trouble. I
think crisis. I just think, like I pulled a little bit at the
thread of the sweater with these like twenty thirty something. Uh. YouTube streamers,
YouTubers who like have a piece of the development of Roadblocks games and then
use their popularity to like feed the beast and get like the you know under
you know, thirteen year olds who make up the majority of their audience to
just you know, fucking pump uh pump and pump and pump into the micro
transaction hellscape at all. Right, So, like that and like look like
on its face you're like, all right, well that's okay to a very
like certain point, but it's not at all. And in reality, I
think, like you know, I know Patrick's been actually doing reporting on it
with his uh with his newsletter. He should you should check it out it
because it's it really does like yeah, and it I think it's great for
people who just like want to cut through the bullshit of like when you search
for a thing you want to have information about, right, You're like,
is Roadblocks good for my kids? You're just gonna first thing you're gonna hit
is like all the SEO bullshit that like gamed the al Goo to like show
up first and any of the real information. Patrick helps you cut through that
bullshit. So shout out to Patrick. He's star reporting on this. And
like these streamers, right, they like change the name of their Roadblocks games
as well. So there's a bit So there's this like deceptive not a bait
and switch, but like there is this sort of like rejuggling and reshuffling of
the of the loops. So like some some people I imagine feel like they
need to then support this new game that looks similar to the old game and
again like it's all being done by the same developer slash publisher within Roadblocks,
right, like because there's all these you know now that Roadblocks is what it
is. Those's like all these developer teams and houses that put out a dozen
of these games that are just marginally different from one to the next. It's
just it just feels so nefarious and so icky, like you try and you
know, like I look at Candy Crush and I'm like, wow, bastion
of like normalcy, even though it's just a casino with like you know,
fucking uh pay to you know what's it called pay to like grind or whatever?
Right, so you know what, it reminds me of what you just
subscribed. It reminds me of TikTok, where it's like, you know,
people TikTok creators will do like the same video basically over and over, slight
changes to will change an outfit, and eventually one of them will catch the
algorithm, and it's like they're just waiting for that, and it's like I'm
like, I don't know if I hold that against creators, Like that's the
system that they're existing in, and so they're trying to manipulate that. But
I mean, there's not much you can do. We don't have a say
in how the system works. So it's like it's, yeah, this is
the result, and I don't know if that's good creativity. It doesn't necessarily
feel that way. So yeah, I don't know how is did feeling about
roadblocks these days. I think he you know, I think he's still too
young to realize what's really kind of happening. And that makes sense, right,
And that's for me the biggest issue, because there is this sense of
like exploitation there where the vast majority of that audience is so young that the
on it don't appreciate like what what exactly is happening and how their attention is
really being manipulated. So, you know, I don't know, I struggle
with it. I'd be lying if I said that, Like I've seen a
rollbocks game where I'm like, hey, that's actually kind of fucking cool,
right, Like, there's definitely shit out there. Right then It's not a
blanket statement because rollbocks is such a gigantic platform, but I do think there
is a bit of nefariousness kind of going on with some of these developers and
it's just like fuck, it's like you know again, like leave it to
me to be like, yo, play fort play Fortnite. Just play Fortnite,
like have a have a wholesome time. Well, I mean there,
they've introduced the ability to create custom game modes and like I saw a full
on Final Fantasy fourteen style raid inside of Fortnite, which is wild, and
like they made Fortnite look like Call of Duty, absolutely wild. Yeah,
maybe go play Fortnite. I don't know. Yeah, I think what it
does looks insane a good way. They look really stupid. I love it,
but I really do think we need to like all jump into rollblocks once
together, like yeah, you know what I mean, Like we have to
just do this as just more of like an explorer, an informational exploratory mission.
Right, we're like all the submarine us. Yeah exactly, Like we're
just going on this like excursion. We don't really have a guide, but
like maybe we should just go. Maybe DIVI can guide us. I don't
know, but we need to. That would be fun if he was our
z suo. But shit, it's uh, it is really something else and
it feels bad, and you know, I do see signs that maybe he
is on his way to begin to grow out of it a little bit.
You know, it'll probably relapse a couple of times before he gets out of
it without a doubt. And like do you think you know? I was?
I was confidently like, oh, this might teach him a little bit
about like the value of money, right because you know he wants all these
like roebucks and he wants to get the thing. And then I'll like take
real world examples and try and do like a one to one world by like,
look, man, this Pokemon pack is worth that thing that you have,
Like do you see the relation? Like do you see how when you
just asked me for ninety eight dollars in roadblocks? How insane that is?
Right? Like so I think he's learning a little bit with that. Yeah,
but you know what he could do is he could use this the API
that Roadblocks has connect his Roadblocks account to one of these external gambling sites.
Take those robocks, go there, gamble, make a ton of money on
that, take that back in the roadblocks, and now he's got a lot
more money. Something that does happen, and it does work. So I
promise you he has seen videos where like he has been indirectly encouraged to do
something like that without and like and look like at some point, I know
you can say, like, well, hey, we can't blame the people
who are just caught up in the business model of this thing. But like,
I know, but again, it's like it's a it's a very difficult
Yeah, don't you don't have to give in to the to the worst of
course, not, of course not, but like, god damn it,
Yep, roadblocks continues to be terrifying. And I can't wait maybe five ten
years down the line to see the documentary detailing and breaking apart roadblocks, just
like developers in a dark room or people that are now entering their late twenties.
Like you know, I've played roadblocks when I was six and uh bankrupted
my whole family, spent my grandpa's fortune, my trust, I spent my
trust on to adopt people. I can't wait for that, and you don't
have to wait anymore. Okay, yes, back, Look, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. I know you're saying we was gonna kick ass. I'm
sorry. I yearned for the beat him ramping up to it, and I
was just like, hey, can I stand here. It's like interrupted the
DJ right before he's about to drop the beat. What's wrong with you?
DJs are bad? A dab i uh. I yearned for the days of
like him spending all that money on blue acorns? Do you remember that from
Trials? Like I miss I miss I missed those day I was back in
front of him. Yeah, I miss those days. I look back on
them fondly and think, Yeah, you're like, there's something missing from your
life. You know what it is? It's the room the motorcycle fun.
Whenever my wife hears that sound, she gets very upset because because I will
do the same jump a million times trying to hit it, and it's just
like, so you's here or crash, crash a thousand times in a day.
So yeah, that's probably pretty annoying. It's time for I know the
segue new Trials. We we already. We didn't steer into the skid,
We just full and turned around and flipped over. But anyway, you don't
need to wait any more. Are who watch the new Honest game trailers that
is just out now? Bailey Myers thirteen minutes ago. Yeah, I can
do two things at once. There we go get the bare footie. But
it's all right. The new Honest Game Trailers is out now, folks watching
live. We will not be talking over Opening Night Live because it will interfere
with the podcast, but we'll probably do like a trailer trash trailer park enough
round up. Yeah, if there is enough, I mean, Greb,
we'll probably talk about on Game Miss Mornings throughout the week. Anyway, you
have something really big happens during the show, I'll drop it in. It's
fine, but we'll definitely we'll do a round up on Game Mess Mornings and
then if there is enough cool stuff that we'll get the crew together and we'll
do a trailer trash round up. Yes, Tam and Lucy are on the
ground now at Opening Night Live, hanging out with the Beyonce of video games,
Jeff Keeley himself. But I gotta go take quick breaking break and we'll
be back with the news. What's the trailer? What's trailer? And we're
back with the news, Jeff take it away. Yeah, you all right.
I'm not I'm not doing now. I'm upset because Happy trails to Charles
Martiney. Charles martine the voice of Nintendo's Mario for over twenty five years,
will no longer voice the character, and it's transitioning to a new role as
Mario Ambassador. Nintendo announced. In this capacity, Martine will continue to engage
with fans around the world, but we'll step back from voice acting in games.
Speculation about this change had grown since June, when some fans noticed the
difference in Mario's voice in recent trailers for Super Mario Brothers wonder I of course
was like, no, that's impossible. It's always going to be Charles Martiney
and I was very wrong. The decision may also be related to casting Chris
Pratt as Mario in the upcoming Super pre In the previously released Super Mario Brothers
movie, where martine only has a cameo, I think it more likely than
that has to do with him being sixty seven years old ready to retire,
and I think this is a cool thing if he got to, like go
out on his terms and it's still going to get a paycheck from Nintendo to
do fun things like travel and go say hi to fans. Uh. Still,
though it's the it's the end of an era like thing. Eventually things
have to change. I definitely didn't like notice the new voice in the in
the Wonder trailer when I was listening, like, oh, I'm sure that's
just a new recording, new new direction or something like that. Like,
no, that's someone's still trying to sound like what Charles martine made Mario sound
like. So for the most part, you know, yeah, things will
be different, but they're still gonna be mostly the same. I don't know
that Charles Martiney did the a lot of other voices in Nintendo Warrio and like
at all the characters from the Warrior Ware games stuff like that. The New
Dragonball movie, he was fantastic, Was he really? I didn't know that
he was. He was Magenta, he was the bad guy, he was
crazy, he's he's he is an actual Like people are like he just does
that one voice remark. It's like no, he's a real voice actor and
has a huge range and could do anything. I mean, yes, in
the supermar Brothers movie where he's like, here's my just normal accent when I
played his father and stuff like that. But uh yeah, sixty seven time
to retire and do some fun stuff for Nintendo. I think that's that's pretty
cool. So happy trails to him for sure. When you when you said,
uh, when you even mentioned the Chris Prett, Like, where's that
coming from. I mean, that's speculation from some of the reporting, but
I don't think that's real. I don't think that has anything to do with
Uh, it's not Chris Prett's fault. Chris Prett didn't come be like this
is my turf now, bitch, like that didn't for anything. And I
don't think he had anything to do with this. I think he's an innocent
standard and this sixty seven year old successful man being like I'm kind of tired,
I'm done, I don't want to do it anymore. Yeah, that
makes it not me anymore, doesn't do it because he's fucking retired. He's
done. We pay we get an old Mario game. No, we're gonna
get an old Mario game after this at the end of the Switches life and
Mario no'll just be like Logan but Mario, Yeah, it would be great.
He's like, Mario is gonna have to carry Toad around because Toad it
just keeps pooping himself and can't can't keep control of himself. And then he's
gonna get like a little Mario child that isn't his. But maybe is his
It's gonna be great. That sounds very good. I feel like, uh,
you know, I would have liked the scene, or maybe they do.
They make a bigger deal of it for for the guy, right well,
so that they are that's not I don't have it written down here in
the rundown, but that's a good point. They said that him, Charles
Martinet and Miamoto will do a video that will do together where they talk about
this and maybe kind of like look back on his career and kind of give
him a real sendoff in the near future. Today's date on it. He's
not gay to Miomoto space, that's right, He's there's almost always a direct
in September. There's probably gonna be I've heard there's a direct in September probably,
so they will probably do it there, which I think makes it.
And then at the same time, Charles Martineo probably will show up at that
Nintendo Live event in Seattle doing his Mario Ambassador stuff. So cool. That's
stuff that he's been doing anyhow for a long time. I bet that is
the side of the business for him that continues to make sense because a lot
of times Nintendo be like we're just going to use the same recording of you
saying waho from like twenty years ago. We're good. We don't actually need
you back in the booth. So I bet that kind of work was like
inconsistent with Nintendo. So just like getting a regular paycheck to be the Mario
ambassador might even be a better deal in the end than like waiting for them
to be like all right, here's a new contract for some new recordings.
It's like, ah, that's inconsistent, so here he goes, but let's
go. Microsoft proposed a solution to its UK regulatory problems. Microsoft has revised
its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard by agreeing to sell cloud streaming rights for Activision
Blizzard games to publisher Ubisoft. The change aims to address concerns for it from
the UK regulator, the Competition Markets Authority, which had blocked the original deal
over fears of Microsoft potentially dominating cloud gaming. The restructured transaction grants Ubisoft exclusive
worldwide, worldwide streaming rights except in the European Economic Area, for all existing
and future Activision Blizzard games for the next fifteen years. The CMA has reiterated
its original decision to block the deal, but will now assess the restructure proposal
in a new phase one investigation, ensuring the cloud gaming market remains competitive.
So this is their solution to that. That the one hurdle that remained.
Basically, if they get over this, they will be able to close the
deal without any issue. But UK was like, no, we're worried about
cloud gaming. Even though no one else in the world is worried about cloud
gaming, UK is, And so the solution here is Activision Blizzard games for
streaming will go to Ubisoft and Microsoft will be hands off. So we just
in no way could possibly have a monopoly on that on that market going forward.
What does this mean for anybody who's playing games? Not much, It
just won't mean much. It means that you'll see a Ubisoft logo if you're
streaming your games from somewhere. But yeah, the story of of this acquisition
continues to be like the slow march to the inevitable it going through. At
this point, it seems like Xbox is releasing official series X Console raps.
Microsoft has und hey have you guys seen this? Actually think it looks really
good. If you get a chance to look up the tweet where they announced
it. Microsoft has unveiled official Xbox Series X console raps, set to release
later this year, allowing gamers to customize their consoles. The raps will be
available in three styles, a Starfield themed one, Arctic Camo, and Mineral
Camo. The Starfield rap will be available on October eighteenth in the United States,
Canada, and Europe for fifty dollars or forty five pounds, while the
Cambo variants will be released on November tenth and forty pounds. Yeah, I
haven't seen them either. They've blend in and make your Xbox disappear. They
are designed specifically for the Xbox Series X, and they they're made of like
this. They call it high tech fabric with like plastics as well. It
probably would reminds me if you ever had had a fabric phone case. It
seems pretty similar to that, but it wraps around and it fits like perfectly
on there so that it looks like, Nope, that's just a themed Xbox,
but no, it's wrap. I like these kinds of things. I
always want the like, fun looking consoles, but I'm not going to buy
a whole new console. In ninety nine percent of cases, you know,
three DS being the obvious exception there for me where I bought a bunch of
those but wraps in like face plates and the shells on the PlayStation five,
I'm all four of that. Is this something that any of you are considering
doing? Have you guys seen the Starfield one? I think it looks really
good. So I'm watching a gift of the Starfield one being put on an
Xbox right now, and I am utterly mesmerized. I yeah, it's had
an Xbox and then I'll get a wrap for it. And that's my plan
for me. This looks great. I'm just gonna wrap it on, wrap
it. Who needs game exactly? Yeah, it's so satisfying. Yeah,
you know, I forgot that. I also don't have an Xbox, so
I can't get one of these raps. Yet it looks really snazzy, Like,
uh, it seems like a no brainer. They could sell. They
could sell these in droves, y'all, Like, oh my god, the
margins they're making on these fucking stickers. Yeah, y'all remember how wild people
went over face plates? Like, oh yeah, this is just the natural
evolution of this. This makes me wish I just had like a catch all
outfit like a uniform, you know, like just you could just put put
like a cover on here. Yeah, oh man, god, this looks
good. I mean you can look, you can already get stuff like this
already. I mean there's brand there's brands out there that do this, you
know least. Yeah, these are the definitely a little bit different than that,
and that they are they are higher quality material and they aren't there that
they seem reusable to come on and off. And can you watch color forms?
Huh? Are they color forms? No, it's like a hard material.
It's like I said, it's like a phone case kind of thing.
So I guess, yeah, all right, it's now you're you're making me
think of like, like you said, a fabric phone case kind of thing,
like, yeah, a plate almost like an actual plates. Yeah,
basically, Okay. I think that you can differ because I had a third
party case shell from my PlayStation four Pro that made it look like wood paneling,
and those were on the outside it's like faux wood, and on the
inside that it was like it was like sticky material and they get to like
carefully stick it to each little and put it together and it looked great in
the end, but it was like, that was a hassle and there was
a lot of work and I'm not gonna be able to change that. This
does feel much more like face play modular. Yeah, you like you wrap
it around the back. It's like it's like put an underwear on an Xbox.
Honestly, what is it? Looks like you just put it on and
you just take it off. You put on it looks like you're swaddling an
Xbox, right, swaddling good Xbox. You just go to sleep. I
like it. Stick sticker ones always make me nervous. I'm like, what
if I change as a person and regret doing this and right it inevitably?
Yeah, it's gonna tear. That's makes me uncomfortable. I won't even put
a fandom sticker on my work laptop. I'm like, what if I change?
Who cares? This is ideal for me? I love this. I
will keep watching this animation and listening to you. I'm guessing all of you
guys are Camos. Every single one of you guys are gonna get a Camo
one. One looks really nice. Really, I do think the Starfield color
scheme is is super dope. Kudos to whoever fucking put that together, and
you shouldn't design a hockey jersey with those colors. Regrets to your sweet little
art boys girls and them's man, Yep, that's good stuff, all right,
Yeah, go ahead, Beck, what we're gonna say, No,
I'm just gonna say, like, uh, I don't know. I don't
know who all these people are with like their consoles in plain sight, I
hide them away. I think they're stupid and ugly. They're all ugly.
I hate I like talking about us. Yeah, definitely away. Yeah.
You know you don't want clutter. You want you want some kind of like
nice set up. So yeah, but I like a minimalist design. I
think I like havin the shells that show them off. Now at this point,
why not that's what I got. I really want a gaudy one that
is like, I don't know, slim gym branded and just mix the next
box. I want like a g fuel one. I'm at a point now
where I don't want it to be minimalist and cute. I want it to
be just a fucking eyesore. Yeah, appeal to me. I want to
be like, what's that that roadside restaurant? Yo? Hard ease, give
me hard ease, or like just a branded fast food thing. You want
a cracker barrel, cracker barrel, gain cracker berry country let's go. Yeah,
now just like roast beef. Yeah, I have a whole outfit that
looks like that. Hell yeah, yes, RB, send it to me
and here's your Lady Gaga outfit. There you go. Uh. Starfield Opening
has leaked. Forty minutes of leakd footage from the upcoming Starfield game have been
published online, showing early game playing character customization options. Multiple YouTube uploads have
been removed due to copyright claims by Zinnimax Media, but the footage continues to
circulate on social media. Of course, Uh, the game is coming out
here very soon. It will people start seeing it. But basically leaks are
going to be out there. It turns out what happened here is some people
just got it early from Walmart. They just got it weeks early from Walmart,
and they walked out and happening. It's happening. USA is going to
do their best to try to square this. They're not gonna be able to
succeed, so it's gonna be out there. The good news is it feels
a kind of game. It would be difficult to spoil because people are going
to do their own adventures a lot of times. So yeah, it's gonna
be difficult to actually ruin anyone's time with that. Alan Wake two's really oh
yeah, go ahead. No no no no no no no no no,
go go go. Allan Wake two's release date has been pushed back to late
October. Late October, excuse me, Remany Entertainments postponed the release of Allan
Wake two by ten days to October twenty seventh for PS five, Xbox Series
X and S and PC via the Epic Game Store, which is Epics publishing
its White's there. The company explained that the delay would give players more space
to enjoy other game launches in October. Like they just said the thing that
everyone would have realized. Anyhow, October very busy, and games are trying
to get out of way out of the way of each other. This game
was originally scheduled to launch on the same day as Spider Man two and Super
Mario Brothers Wonder I think, or at least around that that same time in
that general area. It would have been real rough. Assassin's Cream Mirage I
think was also coming around that same week. And it moved. It moved
earlier in October, so I'll'm like two, was like, we'll move later
in October. As long as it's before Halloween, will be fine. The
games now coming out October twenty seven for Halloween perfect exactly maximize spookiness. Well
done. Yes, well this gives you all. This gives you more time
to finish the new Alone in the Dark game, which no one will stop
talking about, right what? Yeah, yeah, Alone the Dark coming out
in October as well, that's not the only game coming out, and so
October very busy, Sasson, Screamarage, Super Mario Brothers, Wonder, Marvel,
Spider Man two, Detective Peak Or two, Returns, forts A Motorsport,
Hot Wheels, Unleashed two, Metal Gear, Solid Master Collection, Alone
in the Dark, ghost Runner two. I feel like I forgot some but
Alone in the Dark just it feels like it doesn't stand a chance. I
don't think anyone's gonna play that. Yeah, I don't know. We'll see.
Oh and let's see in Bailey's l Jan's B Day, Jan's B Day.
Excuse me, I didn't know who's right in that. There we go
a potential Tech and eight release date, appears online. The release date for
tech and eight has apparently been leaked online and is slated for January twenty six,
twenty twenty four. According to a reliable leaker, uh, I don't
know, aggio, no MOMENTI lumina. That's my favorite spell in Harry Potter.
That's all what a that's a fucking cool name. All right, all
right, let's all take a stab at saying this real quick. It sounds
like Latin, all right, all right, back of the dead Bailey,
you go first? No, no a journament? That sounds better. Okay
we shouldn't. Yeah, alright, definitely this fallow no you got a released.
Regarding the upcoming fighting game Tekens, director Katsuhiro Harada has acknowledged minor information
leaks, but warned that the source has been mostly identified. Last month,
images from the EVO event appeared to confirm confirm a roster league giving insights into
characters and gameplay. Officially announced in September twenty twenty two, Tech and eight
has planned for release on PS five, Xbox Series X and S, and
PCV esteem. We have not heard of release date up to this point.
A lot of speculation would be early next year. There is the Tech and
World Tour Finals on January twelfth through through the fourteenth in New Orleans. So
that's coming up, and then Tech and eight release right after that. Sounds
pretty plausible, right They finish up Tech and Seven's championship, they talk a
lot about Tech and eight during that event or around that time, and then
they released Tech and eight later that month. That would be very good.
I would like to see that, but you know, who knows. Things
could change. It hasn't been confirmed. Metal Gear Solid Collection won't run at
four k. Coonami has clarified the target resolutions for the Metal Gear Solid Collection,
with most platforms aiming for ten ADP at sixty frames per second, except
for the Nintendo Switch, which will target ten ADP at thirty frames per second
in doct mode and seven twenty P at thirty frames per second in handheld mode.
The collections, set to be released on October twenty fourth, includes the
first three middle Gear Solid games, the original MSX two versions, and a
nes excuse me in ans games. Additional content like digital graphic novels and strategy
guides will be included as well. I think it's a little a little annoying
that that the games aren't being up rest to four K, but also at
the same time, none of these games were originally done even at like HD
levels for most of them, so getting them at ten ADP is it's gonna
be fine, it's gonna look fine. Uh, it does feel like the
switch should be able to run like Middle Gear Solid one, it's sixty frames
per second. That's that seems wild and just maybe someone's lazy. Maybe someone
doesn't know how to do it. Yeah, maybe they don't know how to
go into the presets, you know, yeah, because that's what it's like,
right, Yeah, they didn't. They just didn't hit hit the button
in the in retro arch to get the ten A E sixty on the easy
Gods, come on the switch, Yeah, come on, flip the switch
on the switch. Flip the switch switch. That is like that. It's
definitely the case here though. These are just straight up ports. Don't expect
anything more like for Metal Gear Solid, don't expect widescreen four K support of
any kinds. It's going to be that original game just right in there.
But that's that's fine. At least they're like at least these games are back
available for sale for years now, they have not been, so this is
better than nothing, which was the alternative. Here, give me that sweet
four by three. Baby. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm maybe a better ratio.
Actually four by three and sixteen nine I might be going back. I'm
sorry, I'm sorrying, What did you just say? Four by three?
I love four by three? Great? Yeah, four by three in like
a nostalgic like, oh no, you do a fun like the throwback,
because I think it's we're seeing too much, you know. I agree,
because like I don't want like vertical sixteen by nine and of course horizontal sixteen
by nine. I think for four by three is like a good middle ground
where it's like it is both vertically pleasing and horizontally pleasing. I aim to
be vertically pleasing. I disagree. I disagree in every sense of the words.
On all sellar aspect ratio. You're allowed to feel wrong about it.
Yes, you don't have to stop at sixteen by nine, go go go
thirty two by nine, go super ultra back. No, I don't need
it to be like panoramic. I'm just saying sixteen by nine seems to work
well with the position of our horizontal eyes right, like they're laid out that
way. It makes sense. Yeah, again, I think I see too
much. You know, I'm all about tunnels. Yeah, I can't.
I stopped being focused as soon as the world went wide screen. It's the
worst. I mean, you watch those old shows on wide screen and they
just have the edges in there where you can see the equipment and stuff.
That's how I feel when I don't spend enough time with four by three things.
I'm I need more, I need more stuff. That's a little squarer
for me. Yeah, you were all insane people with microphones. I don't
understand the phone away from me. You've been watching movies in the theater.
Your entire lives in sixteen by nine, their entire lives movies. They're not
sixteen by nine. They're like or they're anamorphics, so they're even even condensed
more. What do you mean? Yeah, yeah, they're wider, Yes,
exactly. The most are water. How much more pleasing things that were
almost a square would be, you know posts almost square? Oh? Such,
the such the right shape for stuff. Yeah, it's good. Yeah,
it's the shape stuff pleaser. Think about it. You know, you're
watching a movie or a video on your phone, but you can continue scrolling
and doing other stuff. This reminds me of the fucking argument with the smoothing
n HDTVs at all. This is the magic Quibby, and this is why
we got to bring Quibby back, because you could turn that horizontal or vertical
and it worked in either aspect ration fail. I hear the reason of things
that were barely alive. Remember h Q right the trip. Did you guys
watch the documentary? Someone made a documentary about it. It was really good.
Yeah, it was good. Yeah, I've seen it. Yeah,
talked about it in the film cast. Shouts out to the film cast.
That's neat. I'd like to watch that one day. Where is it available?
Do we know I have? It's on quibble Yeah, No, I
think it's on who. I don't know. I still Hulu. I haven't
canceled it. Yeah, that's right, that's what they call Hulu. That's
awesome, Bailey. Microsoft has ended Connect production, which they were somehow still
making. Microsoft has announced the discontinuation of its Connect hardware production, including the
latest iteration Azure Connect, released in twenty nineteen for enterprise software and AI use.
The Azure Connect featured advanced capabilities beyond the Xbox versions. Microsoft will now
provide the technology to third party partners to create their own alternatives. Although Connect
was known for gaming purph roles on Xbox, it found diverse uses in fields
like academia and robotics, as Your Connect devices will be sold until the end
of October and the companies that own one can still access its development software after
that point. Despite a mixed reception and gaming Connect, Connect technology has been
integrated into products like the UK Skyglass TVs and it's still like medical medical equipment
and all kinds of other things like that. Connect actually popped up in a
lot of weird places like ghost out of the museums, like yeah, like
interactive dance floors, things like that. You know, it showed up in
every place except your living room, right exactly. I always liked the idea
of like Connect getting that second life, but then it's I don't know,
I never really moved second I think only the second life. Now through Connect,
you gotta have a connect that More details arise on Immortals, Phoenix Risings
Canceled Sequel. More details have emerged. Codenamed Oxygen, The project was going
to explore a fictionalized version of the Polynesian archipelago, something we talked about a
while ago on Game mess Mornings, including locations such as New Zealand, Tahiti,
Easter Island, and Hawaii. The protagonist would have had the ability to
gain powers from Polynesian gods and shape shift. Oh, that's cool. Would
have been very cool. A distinct feature feature of Oxygen was to avoid quest
markers, leading players to find their way by tracking animals or studying stars,
which that sounds awesome and Ubisoft Quebec was responsible for the original game canceled the
sequel. Ubisoft canceled the sequel earlier this month, citing challenges in establishing the
IP. The cancelation lines with Ubisoft shift in focus to its biggest ips in
life services after weaker holiday sales. This is a studio that is going to
be one hundred percent on the Assassins screen machine once again, and streaming now
apparently yes, and streaming call duty games. Yet, if any, if
any studio can afford to split their focus, it's the ones that reliably put
games out on time every time. This is uh yeah, I liked.
I thought that first game was okay with a lot of problems, and it
was, but they easily could have taken that foundation. It turned into something
very cool. I think with this and everything seemed to be lining up all
these really good ideas here. But yeah, they you justlf afraid of these
kinds of games. Now they are making eleven twelve Assassin's Creed games. That's
what the excuse me? Eleven Assassin's Creed projects. Many of those are games.
Some of them are going to be like anime. I guess I don't
know. It's such it's such a bummer because you know, we don't see
that setting in a lot of video games, if at all, especially Scout.
I know you're upset about no polynes poly uh representation as well, but
hey, Scout doesn't want Assassin's Creed fifty eight. Like, come on,
how many okay, ballpark many times can we dive off those roofs? How
many? How many Assassins Creed games do you think there are? Just like
ballpark games? I think there's twenty came out. Yeah, I would say
probably like fifteen. Just I think we think we counted this. Actually,
if you're doing like them, if you're doing the main ones, don't don't
count. I'm counting everything. I'm counting like there's like a mobile one,
right, like a PSP one probably right there. There's twelve main games,
seventeen spinoff games, several short films, and various transpia projects according to Google,
I mean according to the random wiki. Sorry, plugging, plugging the
plug. That is an ip that I am like constantly, uh staggered at
its popularity, Like you know, if like the movie was a was dead
on arrival, like what other thing would give you? I mean, obviously,
I mean apparently, look, there's a reason they make the decision.
It obviously sells well enough to invest that kind of money. But like I'm
I'm speechless as to why it continues to be a thing. I'm also so
out of touch with what is currently happening in Assassin's Creed because like the last
time I was paying attention, Kristen Bell was still involved and I don't think
she's popped, not really, you know, like other significant roles. Yes,
yeah, does the animal still matter? Is that still a thing we
worry about? Yeah, it's like takes different forms now, I think,
yeah, wait, what happened in Desmond? I still remember that first game
where you like find out what's going on and just like I remember audibly slapping
my forehead so loud. Yeah, I mean it's a dumb premise, but
at that point it's fine. Look if people want like to play it and
they continue doing it, fine. I think if you feel good that like
the ridiculous like directive of like a publisher developer to remain infinitely profitable forever and
ever forces all this ship to become watered down to the same goddamn thing over
and over again. If you're if that's what you get excited about and you're
happy about that, I don't know what to tell you. You Also,
you're gonna love Drive to your life. You also just described Madden FIFA Slash
Football Club every annual release. Yeah, but I think sports games are in
a different category. Like I realized I just said the whole thing. But
like sports are different. They're they're they just are. There's different players that
come in. There's you know, yeah, Assassins Creed. It's a different
player that comes in. I think they're in Assassin's Creed. Yeah. I
mean, look like you're talking to someone who actively hates and the NHL series,
So like I'm not happy about that, you know, Uh yeah,
Assassin's Creed. I know it's still very popular. They still sell a lot.
They're gonna keep making them. But I'm I'm definitely getting to a point
where maybe I might check out Mirage, but I'm not like like craving it.
And then what you're gonna tell me, there's gonna be like ten more
of these games of different stripes, like in the next ten years. That's
gonna wear it out pretty quickly, I think. So, yeah, yeah,
all right, that does it for the news, Jen, I'm handing
the show back over to you. Well, I'm gonna look at it and
still decide and wonder where Kristen Bell has been for the last ten plus years.
And then we're gonna go take a quick breaking break, be back with
some emails. I can't stop thinking about emails and saying, God, go
to the email section. We did it email timing. Wow, I know
right, I just had a hank in an itch to read some emails from
you, the fine folks at home BombCast at giant bomb dot com is email
address to send those electronic mails too. You can send a whole slew of
things, a wide variety of topics. I'll pick them, I'll answer them,
will answer them. I'll if you write a nice email about someone on
the staff, nine times out of ten, I'll a forward it to that
person. So if you want to give a specific special shout out to someone,
I'll go do it. I'll do it. Also, Hey, have
out at the shout outs up to fifty not just fifty. I see what
you're doing, you jerks. God, Okay, here's here's a wild idea.
Here's a wild idea, because you know I'm full of them, million
dollar idea. Here at the PAXs panel, We're going to pass around a
clipbird that will be a Google doc and that's how we'll read the shout outs.
All right, We'll just have a giant bomb clibbered, pass it around
and all that jazz beautiful. I love it, all right, first email
come just starts. I'm telling you, dude, we could sell a nice
clipberd with like a GB logo on it, a clear clipbord. And then
are you saying clipboard? Yeah, clip clipberd, Bailey. We don't need
to relitigate this, all right? Do you say cupboard when you go to
the cup of board, I don't go to the cupboard. Jeff on a
homes got a pile of cups in your corner. Hell yeah, let's go.
I mean, we don't have time for me to re explain the logic.
It's just like we think about think about it. Why don't we say
Aristotle like Chipotle? You know, just let that ruminate for a bit.
Why don't we say all stuff like other stuff? I don't know exactly.
I say cup ons all the time and people look at me weird. Jeff
from Quebec City writes in Bombers in your Hearts, When do you feel like
autumn starts? For me? It's the first week into October because the best
timing to go road tripping and see all the colors here in Quebec before everything
falls and we collectively freeze. Shout out to shout outs. Jeff from Quebec
City, When does autumn start? Not soon enough? Am I Jesus Christ?
Then it's uh, look, the first week of October's basically when it
does start. Uh man, that's our season's work. It's like, well,
September twenty two, it's like the last thing set. Yeah, you're
basically so yes. If you're talking about like when do people shift mentally that
first week Octobers when it happens. Yes, I had a big fight with
one Vincent James Caravella. Oh did you lose the fight because he's got big
hands. Yeah, well it was a it was a van measuring contest.
No, he fucking he used to think that like summer was like way,
oh no, it was summer or winter. And he was like a month
off, like literally thirty days off to when it started. And he just
like, wouldn't he wouldn't like, Okay, we want to admit defeat,
you know, And what way was he off? Was he saying like he
said it started a month earlier than season? Actually did he said? Okay,
yeah, you know it was winter. You're right because he said Thanksgiving
was winter. I was like, no, dude, you could not be
more wrong. That is very much autumn. It's very much autumn. In
fact, winter is like a couple days before fucking winter. Christmas, Christmas,
Christmas December twenty first, Yeah, that's when it starts. That's how
it works, to be like the guy that well that I'm saying, that's
when, Chris, that's why Christmas is when it's when it when it happens
December twenty fifth. Because dumbasses in the past were like, hey, the
sun keeps going down, We're all gonna fucking die. And then it's like,
why is it not going high in the sky anymore? Is it just
never the Sun's gonna go away forever? And then the sun like starts going
back up, and they're like, okay, maybe it's gonna keep going up
and it goes back all right, are never throwing apart? Let's have Christmas?
And so it's an approximation of what happened a well established Pigan celebration of
the winter sol sysm appropriated by another religion. Sure, yeah, yeahs is
that the world was kind of end and now we got Christmas going exactly and
now I get presents on December twenty five. Rules. Yeah, I mean
like you could just call you know, people call things the unofficial start of
summer, right, which is like, uh, you know, Labor Day,
right or Memorial Memorial Day? Sorry? Uh so like I understand that,
but I mean, look, and it has snowed in November. I'm
sure, I don't know. I just that's uh, there's certain things we
have rules about ladies and gentlemen. The seasons are one of them. You
kind of get people will point out the meteorological seasons and how those are different
than when those like the stars in the moon and stuff aligns. It's like,
can season right that. My heart's still in the school calendar, you
know, when the kids are in class, it's it's autumn. When they're
on winter break, it's winter, okay, But my kids starts school tomorrow.
Shit, it's autumn for you tomorrow. No it's not. She's like,
now, were there, and that's like you're all you're not going to
burn to death, Like these kids are gonna be boiling in that classroom.
We don't have seasons here. It is unreliable. I had a hurricane in
an earthquake two days ago at the same time. What was the earthquake?
When you were becoming something fierce? If guess what's happening to you, what
was the earthquake? Shook? Because I know what an earthquake is. I
mean, what was the what is the Richter sale? I was I was
actively streaming when it was happening. I was playing Slay the Spire. I
was like, oh, we're wiggling, and then we were back. So
I don't know. I didn't look up the number. I was busy slaying
the spire. It was what was important. Okay, all right, you
know it was bad. I did feel it. It was. It freaked
my cats out, Oh no, but I held it together. On stream.
I was like, whoa, back to the you know, last time
we had an earthquake up here. It happened immediately after I snapped my fingers,
and that was fun. It was during a podcast. Yeah, yeah,
with high Yeah. Have you ever snapped your fingers before that moment?
No? Never have you? Since? No, too much power. I
can't go to slam poetry readings anymore. It's terrible. My stomach dropped when
that happened because I was like, oh no, My mind went to the
worst place, of course, but also was like, oh god, people
are gonna rewatch this and be like this was a thing. You know,
I don't know, but thankfully for a while. It's a little baby earthquake,
right, it's a little baby earthquake. Wasn't much. It's fine,
It's all right. Next email was about a little Starfield they write in,
uh, Robbie writes him. In recent weeks, lots of outlets have been
hyping Starfield as if it's guaranteed to be a great game that has me wondering
why. Bethesda's last greatest game was Skyrim, and even that was a buggy
mess. Followed seventy six was a travesty of a game. Fallow four was
derivative, bloated and unfocused sequel, full of bugs with a little we've been
as he with a little we've been shown of Starfield. It looks very much
like Fallout four in space and frankly that fills me with a new and thank
you Bailey. It's French Trey magnifique. Uh. You guys seem really high
on Field's promises about what it could be. Is there something you've been you've
seen that goes beyond what has been released? Or is it just blind hope
it'll be good? Help me understand I like those games. Fallow four is
a really good game. Uh well, fat seventy six obviously had problems,
but Skyrim even that was a buggy mess. Yeah, like yeah, but
bugs are fun. Bugs are fun. They're not as long as they're not
like we're causing you loose saved data or causing the progression issues, which they
never did for me in Skyrim. Bugs are fun. They get the game
character and I enjoy it, and that's just how I feel. So if
if that's like if the promise of Starfield is there'll be a lot of that
stuff and it's in space, and like they're doing like the NASA kind of
sci fi that we don't get a lot of. Yeah, that sounds that
sounds great to me. To me, the bugginess is part of Bethesda's charm,
like the bugs are a feature, like it's it's it's sort of who
will I have an easy sideswipe at anytime a game that's not beths does Bucky
watched the new Honest game trailer for baalds Gate. But yeah, I'm I'm
expecting it to be buggy and I'm looking forward to it regardless. I think
we're allowed to hold both of these thoughts one in each hand. Yeah that
said, you know, Skyrim is like, what one of the biggest selling
games of all time. It's available on virtually everything, So like something coming
out of that studio, we'll probably be better than Okay, probably, Yeah,
I mean, yeah, totally. I think I've like Falling Out three
better than four thinking back on it, most people did, Yeah, should
I go play New Vegas at some point? Yeah, Oh I love Vegas.
Yeah, I've I've I played it again recently. I've for for the
trailer. It is so it is. I consider it to be one of
my top games. It is a buggy mess and it's so funky. Are
you playing and writing such mediocre combat? Do you recommend we can't talk about
that? Back lar? Why are you trying to try to blow? Why
I try to blow the bow? You could? All right? Sorry,
put me in put me in jail. I didn't mean to put you in
jail early before your for your trip. Yeah, it'll be an early vacation.
People get excited about things before they come out. People get anxious about
things before they come out. It's I mean, everyone deep down knows you
gotta play it first, or you really not like getting excited about something?
Isn't some dangerous thing? What's the worst thing that happens? You get disappointed
except with the Kingdom hearts? Well, yes, right, king hearts like
yeah, that's a whole, that's a sickness upon itself. Yeah. Oh
man, they played an idium remix of Simple and Clean at this wedding.
You boy almost lost ship. Oh my god, what good for you?
It's amazing did it include the intro We're sore? Is like I have been
having this strange dream lately. No, but it should have, you know,
at the weddings. Off the weddings off, I know it. Redo
this wedding. Make everyone fly back in all right. Next email is about
Gimmick. I'm flashing a helpful image on the screen right now. This comes
from Ken, So Marvel finally went all in with the cool kids. They
named their new character Gimmick. For those not looking at a picture, her
outfit looks like she takes fashion tips from Gambit parenthesis. She gets a new
costume later spoilers. She doesn't seem like a powerful mutant, but she does
have good leadership skills. We're looking at the Zoomer cyclops. Sincerely, Ken.
Yeah it looks cool. Yeah, that's cool. I'm into it all
right. Well, I like the children of the Adam style, that logo
and then the kind of the art style that go for for those kinds of
comics. Always like that. Yo, if you have been out of touch
with the X Men, you should read the current run of X Men.
It's pretty hot and not like hot and like it's like wait real quick,
I'm sorry someone just rushed the stage at a game at Games Come Opening Night
Live, and Jeff Keeley looks fucking pissed on. He just is fuming.
I'll see if I can get a screen shot of his face. Said,
why does this keep happening? He said the same kid. I hope so
I don't. I actually didn't see the run on stage. I just saw
the reaction to it. People are saying it in chat. Oh man,
god, I hope Keiley's okay, like you are so hard to put on
a good showever, rush is the stage is okay after Keiley's done with them.
No, he's going to destroy that kid. Oh yeah, Oh my
god. Some guy trying to say some about g TA six Mike says great,
what, Oh my god? Everyone everyone just you have to Oh there's
girder in those eyes. You have to. Oh it's not letting me rewind
on YouTube. He must have that chained off. I am. I'm gonna
have a hot take here. And I think big events should have better security
than this. I don't think just randoms should be able to run up to
the stage cost dollars security, Like literally, you have enough security there to
keep you from meeting popcorn or whatever, Like, can you hire people to
keep people safe? No, that's against they're not going to do that for
you. Keuperboy, Keiley is safe please, Like he's a he's a nice
man. Yeah that's right, Queen. We've established that he's gonna get off
stage and he's gonna go ape shit. I but like real talk, I
could see I could see a dev that like flew in for this and like,
no, I don't want to do anything anymore because like this is twice
you know, like this. Yeah, right after that, Todd Howard came
on stage, so it's like he's got to be like, all right,
I guess I have to do this still. Well, now I'm definitely not
getting a new sky rim Kelly. I'll lend you Scout. Scout will just
bark very aggressively at someone approaching you that, yeah, that's what you need.
Just a couple cute little dogs that will people won't go up on stage
because it'll be too distracted by the cute little dogs. Exactly. Beautiful Scout
will just have like a little biker vest on her with like studs and be
like the walk around here, buddy. She tripped me the other day.
She's a little butt head. You know when you would like check your friends,
like as you're walking and like kick the back of their knee and then
they kind of like crumble over. She does that a lot. Now it's
she's terrible. Oh no, one of them was wearing an Austin three sixteen
hoodie. Oh no, wrestling's weird again. No, all right, I
have I cannot lend any expertise to this email, but maybe the other folks
on this panel can. Pete from Bristol, England writes in Dear GB crew,
my favorite gaming machine as a kid was my Amiga five hundred. I
have so many fond memories of it, and my favorite games were Speedball two,
Monkey Island, Sensible Soccer, and Civilization. I recently installed an Amiga
emulator so I could share some of these memories with my nine year old son.
Reactions to these games that I showed him were a mixture of horror,
laughter and pity smiley face emoji. I would love to know one. Did
any of you have an Amiga or it's arch rival, the Atarist. If
so, what were your favorite games have you shown your childhood Have you showed
your childhood games to your kids? Niece's nephews and what was their reaction.
Keep doing what you're doing. The podcast is amazing. Best regards, Pete
from Bristol, England. Maga was two. It was a little before my
time. I yeah, I was. Let's say, let's see, I
had the in television and all these like the American consoles, we had an
Atari adapter for the in television stuff like that. But all of these,
like UK computer gaming machines, we missed out on those entirely. I did
not know about even the Commodore sixty four, let alone the Amiga or anything
like that. I played in television at one of my dad's friends house,
like that was the thing we did when we went there, you know,
you like do those trips. And you were like, well, at least
they'll have that weird game box thing that's still connected to the TV in the
basement. When I get sure, Yeah, ok, yeah, so I
do have like experience within television, which I guess is cut from the same
cloth, that's even the same older. Yeah, yeah, that's even older
than I mean. Yeah, but I think, like I mean, I
have shown he hasn't even seen like Atari, you know, he hasn't even
seen that. I don't you know. But like I guess he's seen pac
Man and Space Invaders and that's really all you kind of get. Yeah,
and those like suck really bad on the Atari. So like if we're talking,
we'll talk about that generation of games. It's just like I get bummed
out when they don't even care about any S games. I don't really get
bummed out, but it's like I don't even like, I know they're gonna
get bored with it, so I don't even try. And and so going
back to an era that I don't even care about that much, yeah,
it's not with it. I think the interesting discovery that I've made is that
like where when we were growing up, the thirst was fidelity, right,
it was like better graphics, better sound, better everything like that was the
hot thing that you constantly chased. Obviously, Like now it's not so much
the thing like if you just well, you know, look at roadblocks,
it's it looks like shit, it looks like actual and kids are like,
give me, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not. That's right.
So yeah, it's interesting. I should I'll look into Amiga more because people
have always mentioned that there's some wild stuff on there. And people in chat
are saying that too. I'm like, yeah, maybe it's time to go
back and look at that. Yeah, you know what, I'm curious.
I have no frame of reference for what any of it would look like.
Yeah, it looks like a little computer. Jan, you and I neither
of us had motor skills developed, but by the time this thing was discontinued,
so it makes total sense that we didn't have one. When when did
this come out? Is this is this pre seven and then discontinued in ninety
two? Okay, well that barely. Yeah we were still we were still
soft. Good. Yeah, our skulls hadn't like fully eighty seven. I
feel like it's when I got in an e s that's definitely when this is
the full on little computer. Actually, yeah, wow, look at this.
It's yeah, it's cool. I would rather play Monkey Island on my
own little computer, but like I could see if you didn't have another option,
this looks cute. These these were the things that were like popular in
the UK, these kinds of gaming devices that just looked like little computers,
like that's what we had. Yeah, I wonder if this is what Lucy's
dad used. Yeah, I mean something along these lines for sure. Yes,
I'm always on Commodore. Okay, I'm always wondering what Lucy's dad used
to play games. Uh. Next email comes from Mike, not our Mike
darkcum me here, my partner of almost a decade broke up with me last
week. Oh shit? Is it a blessing in disguise due to Balder's Gate
three on Steam Deck and the eminent release of Starfield Jesus Christ From Mike no
longer from Boston, sent from my own Listen, listen. I don't know
the circumstances of your decade long relationship, but I gotta say, Mike,
your pivot, nonchalant as it were, to just joking about being able to
play video games, leads me to believe that things were not that serious.
Look that's all. That's all I'm saying. Like, maybe maybe you're you
found an excellent way to look at the situation and have a sense of humor
about it. Bless you for it? Sounds like to me, Yeah,
yeah, that means this dark humor here, which means yeah, I'm partner
of almost a decade. Before you start playing all these games, make sure
you take care of yourself first and make sure you're doing all right, and
then go go nex Starfield. Do not take care of yourself forget to eat,
forget to sleep, to shower. Focus your energy on what's important.
Fucking the bear. Bear, Fuck the bear. Yes, make it happen,
nothing except for fucking the bear. So definitely try not to get super
frustrated when the game makes that near impossible. Get back on the horse and
fuck the bear the two things. After a break you can turn into a
horse. There you turn into a horse and the ass. Let's go FB.
This is how you know you gotta get to rock bottom before you start
climbing up. My friend, you know we all have to suffer ego death
to fully be reborn and everything. You get the bare bottom, Well,
all right, get the al right. Next text emails very PGD compared to
where we took someone getting out of a long relationship. But Mike, I
hope you're okay. Uh. This one is about coffee. Hey, bomb
cast specifically Jan because of his coffee fetish, which is a fetish I'm striving
to have. Hey, let me let me show you some books. I
have questions about coffee, specifically espresso. I got a cheapest spresso machine for
Christmas last year, and I love it. It's not the best around,
but it still want to use every day. I have been sticking with the
cafe Bostello good good good, it's good stuff ground being coffee because it is
specifically labeled espresso. Am I to understand that I can really use any bean
provided I grind it fine enough to make a shot of espresso. I could
take a bag of beans from a local coffee shop and use that from my
coffee. I've been under the impression I can only use Espresso labeled beans,
and therefore haven't really tried much other than that. What are other tips of
making good espresso on a cheap machine? I don't think I'm I don't think
I'm legally allowed to take a mortgage out on my apartment to afford a state
of the art machine. I've seen the idea of using a leveler to make
sure it brewis evenly and soon set to measure out how much coffee. I'm
you say that seems like too much work? Help? We'd love save from
Pennsylvania, look like it? I learned in this in this letter, Like
Wow, this guy really knows this stuff about the coffee getting too Maybe I
should measure it like they're probably measuring. It's a great first step even I
know that one, so maybe do that. Yeah, it's like the first
it's got a step this go all right, Sorry, I missed the conversation.
What were we talking about before I abruptly left? Oh, I was
just saying, it's wild that the twist at the end that he wasn't even
measuring his coffee. Continue all right, all right, zay, look me
in the eyes, buddy, or hear me in the ears. Let me
let me channel three. Open your ears, let let me talk to you.
Yeah, espresso is just the label. That's just dark beans, buddy.
You can use any beans. Just grind it. Fine, it's just
the it's just the fineness that's it. It's just espresso is a brewing method,
first of all. Like that's like you're gonna when you're doing this spread
like that's so you can put any bean into that. You don't need espresso
beans especial going to grind it harder and then gets you more fucked up.
Grind it longer, miner, finer, finer, harder, whatever. It's
like, it's not gonna get you more fucked up. I mean it will
get you if you drink a lot more espresso. Yes, but it's like
it's it's still going to be like the same process that it gets you same
amount of caffeine. Basically, yes, all right, but let me hear
what you're gonna say. Jan So espresso beans are just darker roasted beans because
generally people associate espresso with like tasting like mud. It doesn't gotta taste like
mud, y'all. You can floral undertones. It can like cherries maybe like
a dark bar of and everything. You can use any beans. Support your
local roastery buddies also get one of these guys like a vacuum stealer thing right
there, like cherries and the woods. When you were here, I should
have had you done a coffee makeover. That would have been a good video.
Let's do it. Let's do it, you know. Uh? I
also my friend, if you don't want to get a full stand up,
uh, don't trust by the way, the coffee grinders at a grocery store,
they will not grind it fine enough for you. No, don't get
a hand grinder one of these bad boys some elbow. You should do it
exactly how long should the handgrinder takes. I feel like when I use my
handgrinder, it takes forever. Well, you're just playing with it, gus,
I'm not serious. Definitely a very state of the art burr handgrinder.
Well, shouldn't take too long. I'd say up to a minute, max
up to a minute fine? A minute's fine, okay, okay, cool,
all right. The other thing you gotta do, get a level or
say, you gotta get a tamp or tamp the ship down so everything's even,
so the water disperses through everything evenly. You don't. That's why people
prefer rain style showers. It's not just because it's a fun novelty. It's
because all of the water's just dripping onto you evenly. My friend would would
a gigantic leap there. Okay, Next thing you gotta do, you gotta
get a w DT What is a w DDT I forget what stands for,
but it's something dispersal tool, So you gotta get it's here's what you can
do. Get a cork stick, a bunch of toothpicks to it, stir
around your coffee grinds your expresso basket before tampering it so there's no little clumps
we hate clumps. It's like making a good pancake batter, no clumps.
And then say say, look me, are you still listening to me?
You tune out yet? Are you now scared of diving down the coffee hole
with me? Because it's too late, it's too fucking lightered. I think,
get a little scale. Go get a little scale, because you got
to weigh everything. Baking and making coffee is one and the same because it
is an exact science. There's no fun jazz here exactly. It's a specific
sale about coffee because then you got you gotta time it, you know,
because to do a proper extraction and can't take a lot of minute. Got
a lot of single use gadgets. Huh no, it's all to serve one
purpose. I can still waste. That's the definition of single use. And
then hey, if you want to get even even freak ear with it,
you know, go get like a little different uh not gasket, I forget
the word a porter filter. Yeah, you could get a different porta filter
for your cheaper espresso machine and just make it nice. It's great, Like
espresso companies. Why the funck haven't you sponsored? Boy? You know,
it's either give me a Disney or candlebox or an espresso machine. Please.
Seems I've been in d MS. Yeah, totally. I've tried. M
keep trying. It's gonna happen. You're gonna crack that nut eventually. That
about my favorite thing you showed us was the tamper. That seems the thing
to me that could be most easily replaced by just the back of a spoon.
Yeah, that's what I know, you with a spoon. Egnogically,
it's just but like, okay, find of measuring up? How about that?
No, it's machine. It's gonna come with a p. I'm not
not criticizing, I'm not judging. I'm just criticizing and judging a little bit.
It seems like you just got a lot of fun toys for your coffee
porn. I'm gonna make all y'all a cup and you'll be like, oh,
no, I can taste the difference. I'm sort of for making fun
of you for a little bit at least, Joe, No, I don't
doubt it, but I think you would have a tough time telling the difference
between the espresso that's been flattened and espresso that has not been flatt. Oh,
I can tell, I can tell. Don't make me get into the
magic of rostretto on top of espresso. It's that's I can make up words
too, Jan, It's a thing. It's a thing. Fucked up your
boy. I want espresso machine so so desperately, but you've scared me away
at their cost. I got one for Christmas several years ago from my wife.
Used it every day, Thank you very much. Yo. Hey,
hey, I'm not on the espresso side of the internet. That that poo
poos on on Brevil machines. Brevils are completely great. They're great. They're
good home machines. You know, DELONGI whatever, you could make it work.
Any cheap espresso machine you can make work. So don't worries A from
Pennsylvania. You can make it work. I just got a trench to hold
brew with no ice from Starbucks and call it a day work too. You
hate Starbucks coffee, Jan, I don't hate it. I mean it's not
good. I just drink. I'll drink thirty thirty liquid ounces of it,
but I'm not gonna say it's good. How do I like with my travel?
Like? Okay, real quick before we say goodbye, like I need
travel, Like I am anxious about good coffee while I'm away, and I
like freak out that I'm going to be in a hotel that's like just got
trashed here coffee, and I don't know what to do. So like,
do you have like a mcgiver way to deal with that coffee travel advice?
Coffee travel hacks. If you don't want to take up like one tenth of
your luggage, then my advice is going to fall upon deaf ears. Deaf
ears, hey, you know they're in your area. If there is a
third wave style coffee shop, the new hotness is instant coffee and majority of
the it's the coffee not bad. Huh yeah, okay, Yeah, I
didn't really answer my problem, but thank you next time you put a little
bit of it in some in Like if you make a chocolate cake, if
you put a little bit of ground coffee in the coffee and the chocolate cake,
it brings out the flavor more. It doesn't taste like coffee. It
just makes the cough the chocolate taste richer. Put some in your Japanese curry,
same same effects. Oh okay, oh, actually yeah, you know
Dan Dan Underscore City an aero press. It's it's good, but you still
need you still need ground of coffee. That's the other thing. Oh god,
can someone just give me a question? Can espresso machines make coffee?
I know coffee machines can make espresso, but can the special machines make coffee?
They should be able to it? Twins on what you define? Like
you could make like an Americano? Uh, because like mine broke Jan's heart
just here, you know, look at him crasp in his chest and pain
emotional coffee paint of espresso today? How about no? Not enough? Oh
man? What okay? Sorry blacked out for a second. I guess you
can. I guess you can't ask. I guess you can't ask the bad
question possible grub is right? You can just make an Americano. You can.
You can just pull a shot and then add hot water to it,
because yeah, and a lot of the machines are made to do exactly that
because they know people aren't. Most people aren't doing shots of espresso. So
I'm not I'm not calling anyone silly. I didn't mean to make anyone feel
shame. I was just like, except the shame I'm feeling. But thank
you. Make it myself, but I will say a shout out to the
coffee place down the street for me when I want to feel fancy, you'll
put espresso on I with some tonic water and a little bit of orange and
it. Well, that sounds delightful. Oh good, yo, yo,
yo yo. That's the ship right there. Yeah, it's it's my special
little treat form when I wanted a little treat. Uh, don't knock this,
and this is going to sound absolutely disgusting. Put a shot of espresso
and orange juice. No, that's no, that's disgusting. No, I
realized I just said. A little bit of orange is in the espresso drink
that I drink. But it feels like doing the reverse is something that only
a pervert would do. And I am not that because the bear keeps fucking
rejecting me speaking about pervs. Uh, grub you you remember the Mary Poppins
email that I read on armac grubbin yesterday when we read that, should we
real do it? Yes's hit it? Yeah? Okay, all right,
I'm gonna look up Mary Poppins Roule thirty four while you're doing that. Whoa
Stefan and Adelaide South Australia wrote in I just saw Mary Poppins the Stage musical
over the weekend and came to the realization that I'm horny as fuck from Mary
Poppins now, and now that he's reading this, so is Jan. Just
think about it. You got the dommy mommy adjacent role was zero percent incest
and you're not dogging one of your parents for life with a step mom fantasy.
Just think about her lifting up that bustle and sliding down your banister giving
you all kinds of sugary medicine. Wow, well there's more, Jan,
I know you're desperate for that supercalifragilistic expialid to see. I bet medicine ain't
the only thing. Whispering it doesn't make it less bad, makes it worse.
I bet medicine ain't the only thing A spoonful of sugar helps go down,
if you know what I mean. Getting Nanny Pilled Love from Stefan Adelaide,
South Australia and that I wrote that. You wrote that really well,
like that was beautiful. It's poetry. Yeah, yeah, that's fucking ten
out of ten right there. Julie Andrews does look great in that movie,
Like I know we're talking about the stage musical, but that's like a rad
Wigler. Oh no, we're talking Julie Andrews Bai. Yeah, she's hot
in that movie, no doubt about it. I'm always called great ass.
She's also a woman with a job, right, right to vote while you're
object shouts out to Nanny's you know, I think Nanny's just great across the
board. Yes, Bailey, very much against women's suffrage. Yeah, all
right, we've got to the shout outs. Let's see if everyone behaved.
We were only keeping it to fifties. Sean always Sean, thank you for
policing this. I always be clothing. Thank you also for keeping them in
line. Uh. Shouts out too, Jan, you look great today,
an every day am Ron and Red for getting hitched. Love is great.
Let's go the absolute Legend Charles Martine, the People's Mario power Bomb cast at
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This is the CEO of your company, Dave Fandom. These reports here
say that shout out section is the most popular and important part of the BombCast.
No more limitters, We need our hour of shoutouts. One sock cutter
he cut socks. Two sock cutters they cut socks. Three sock cutters they
cut socks. Four sock cutters they cut socks. Nice, nice, Five
sock cutters they cut socks. They all cut socks together. The number the
number, I don't know if that was Jan, the number four Jan.
This is CEO company Dave Fandom. The shout out section is the most popular
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shout outs. Hey, no, it's fuck you. Hey knows I love
you. Don't let your friend hurt you like this. Tommy Telarico, Oh
no, shouts out to him. Actually, full body workout every day?
Is it's safe for a dull body workout every other day. I only have
a limited number of days that I can go to the gym, and lately,
instead of doing upper body a lower body, I just do full body
strength workouts. The Dumbest Boy Alive Pretty Good episode six YouTube and an episode
of Mega sixty four Flame Theater l Paoloko Dahomie Choo Chow Gang Grub twenty four
check. So he got this guy in a headlock in a stadium. You
know the stadium when you like go down your seats and there's like that little
like hallway you walk down. He gets a guy in a headlock and he
runs on the wall, and I think Grub broke his microphone. Broke your
mic What happened? Oh? Did he break everything? The twenty four check
was too wild, Grub, We can't hear you anymore. No, you're
gone. He deleted himself Grub twenty four himself. It happens. He back
bowered, Oh, it's just taught out. Okay, all right, this
is just unfixable. It's over. Okay, all right, we'll just keep
going real quick. We're twenty five now. Did you guys know Jonah Falcon
is a big fan of papers. Please there's legitimately a bridge in Portland called
a tilcome and it's a chinook word. Did he say it? Did Jan
say it? Boom? We got him as Jack Buck Peaches, peach,
peach, peaches, don't lose the hair. Jan's two beautiful. Jonah Falcon
packs West gb colab when come on, Jan, someone has a porn star
interest not a porn star. He fucked many Oscar winners. Slash numbs.
But is Jonah Falcon's penis really nine inches? Flash a m looks like six
inches to me. I think that man is camping hard Grub Colombros check it
out. Oh, we can't do a Colombro's check because he's his Mic just
died back of Laura's early old man, get off my lawn. Energy makes
me feel seen throwing a bucket of chicken into a crowd of people. Can
I get one Dick's Deluxe one fry with two ketchups and a scoop of maple
nut, Carla's Best Girl, Red Devil, Mommy Ladyfish and the Blueeat Crew?
Uh paying extra for on week Let's go? Can I get a uh
Wiki Wiki Wiki Wiki Wild West Gym West Desperado Rough Rider. No, you
didn't want not a Chris Millennius Commissioner Gordon and Harley Quinn animated show Yo.
He's so good. We're high fiving right now. The Colombo YouTube channel started
posting Missus Colombo clips lull from I Show Speed to I Show Meat Rip Brother
less than three, Jenny look fabulous, Baker Bailey, you look great,
Scope Grub, you look grubby? Ohio. I really wish that they would
bring back the original KFC Chicken Snacker sandwich with the Herb Mayo. They were
only a dollar each. Delicious fifty y'all blink, we could have held the
line at all. Fifties worked so well. The week y'all copy paste of
Jan didn't read them all. Freedom or death shout out section and rule followers
only you know what Jan never specified at length of individual shout outs. So
in theory, one could compose a super long shout out that compensates for the
new unnatural elements that have an opposed on the shoutouts. Ecosystem. Life will
find a way and that's it for the shoutouts. I hate all of you,
I love all of you. It seems like grubs microphone works. Now,
what do we got going on this week? Yeah, we're gonna be
playing Labyrinthine tomorrow where me bacalar en Dan. We're gonna go into the labyrinths
of a horror game on Steam and co op. So it seems like it's
gonna be a good times. Tune in for that. That'll be the time
we would normally do Blight Club. Dan literally lost his copy of Sonic.
It's the only thing he lost in his move, right, sure likely story,
So Dan, he needs some form of punishment, So I welcome my
at me on Twitter and come up with ideas. We'll find a way to
punish him. So we'll do Labyrinthine tomorrow, Thursday, what voicemail, dumb
truck up f one Friday, we'll do some fun stuff there. A bunch
of other things this week as well, and then games Mornings all through the
rest of the week. An Honest Game trailers dropped. If you missed us
saying it several times, Bailey, what what else he's working on? Or
else he doing? Oh god, what a great question. A bunch of
stuff I'm not allowed to talk about yet. But next week's Honest Game trailers
should be fun. But I don't think it's I think it's too early for
me to revealable that will be too So just go watch the fruits of my
labor. I cried trying to get footage of this game for all of you.
So I think we really yelled at two in the morning and woke up
my cat. We may be we may be thinking about the same game.
And then I was close to crying for that one as well. H Quick
looks we have in Immortals of Avium. Quick look up. Another quick look
dropping later this week. U folks, we got some stuff. We we
got some games to talk about next week, So tune in next week for
another episode of the Giant Bomb Cast, God's favorite podcast. I have been
and he has been Jeff. He has also been Jeff, and she has
been Bailey. And you at home, just go drink a glass of water.
Just just go stretch, just wiggle your wrists a bit, you know,
just keep going, Just keep going, and we will see you what
packs next week? Actually, right, grub, that's right. Uh,
you know into that weekend. But yes, absolutely, and hey shouts out
to the person that made a little Giant Bomb trading card game. I'm still
on the quest for making cards. We we gotta do it, we gotta
get there. God, my card is so cute. As soon as I
saw it, I was like, oh my god, it's IM so excited.
I appreciate that the there's a there's a d buff if you play me
against Bailey, but there's a buff if you play me and Michael m together.
Of course that's how it'd be. I'll see you next week for another
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