Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, November twenty eighth, twenty twenty three. Welcome
to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and seventeen, powered by NZXT.
I am your host, Jan Ochoa. I you know I was thinking about
this. Here's my pitch. Here's my early cut, the check pitch,
James Gun. If you're listening out there, and I know you are because
you listen to God's favorite podcast, the Taylor Swift Podcast, The Giant BombCast.
This podcast. He loves this pod. True, no one has ever
succeeded trying to kill the Batman. Let's try and bang the Batman. Let
me introduce my villain that I'm willing to play because not pro bono, but
pro bono. Instead of trying to lure the Batman with a bunch of riddles,
I'm just gonna use a bunch of pickup lines and and and bed the
Batman to bang the bat You're just pitching a classic honeypot. Are you going?
Are you going to achieve anything from it? Or is your only goal?
I haven't thought that far ahead. Uh So, instead of using a
bunch of riddles, I'm gonna use a bunch of pickup lines. And from
now on, I want everyone to call me the Rizzler anyway, co captain
of the ship, steering it as always, keeping the news on board.
He's he's our own king Shark. Because he wears fun little hats. You
just don't see it sometimes because he keeps that private. Yes, Jeff grub
Yeah, I'm gonna steer the ship right into the rocks. So let's just
let's ground this thing. I've got no idea what we're doing here. He's
gonna be a it's gonna be one of them podcasts. Jan you think you
think it's gonna be one of them episodes. I don't remember how to podcast.
I was telling you this yesterday. There I went a couple of days
without talking in front of a microphone, in front of a screen. I
don't know what to do with myself. The turkey make you forget. It's
the chemicals or whatever. Yeah, the fan turkey turkey make you forget.
It makes you sleepy and not know how to do podcasts anymore. Exactly,
exactly, King of Turkey and all other avian birds to consume our own Jeff
Backler, Well, that way, I get that. Do you not want
that? Do you not want to that turkey king. I'm gonna be afraid
of the Turkey King. Turkeys are terrifying. What about if I want that?
He what about the ham Man? What about the ham Man? Well,
that just feels anti Semitic. Yeah that is that tree. That's tray,
motherfucker. No, yeah, I mean I could own that. I
like chicken. Chicken's probably my favorite animal to eat. You know, I'm
a boring guy. You know. What can I say? I like fried
chicken. You know that's my thing. Listen, Turkey's bullshit. Though.
I had brisket for Thanksgiving this year, because turkey is the most mid poultry
you can possibly ingest. It's just silly and plain. Chicken is a blank
canvas. We all know this to be true. My Thanksgiving was great.
Thanks for asking. We didn't finish introducing everyone. Sorry we can't talk about
the about I too have turkeys. You do want to know how the King
of the Turkeys is doing things on the docket here? Yeah? I thought
I was the guy and I meant to was meant to speak about turkeys,
but I guess not last, but certainly not least, our favorite guest here
on the Giant Bomb Cast, Shitley Myers. Everyone, it's my new name.
I love it. I'm reclaiming it exactly exactly. They can't hate on
you claming it and then immediately reclaiming it exactly. Yeah. No, I
it's like, come up with the come up with a different one. This
one's mine because I love it now, shitly sh I love that. You
know, sometimes you see something you're like, wow, the hate male game
here is so strong. And sometimes you see something like he didn't even try.
That's so fucking funny. This makes it better. Mix some Yeah,
I've had people on Twitter suggesting like legitimately good puns. I'm like, no,
these are getting hurtful. I like the other one. Yeah, let's
just stick with Shitley. Yeah, that's the one. I like this.
This is gonna Yeah, Bailey and I are going to spin off and do
our own villain podcast, Hitley and the Rhy, where we we rate your
your advice for any and everything. I hate to punch up your name after
making suggestions about mine, but I do feel like if we're going to do
like a Buddy Cup show title, it should be Shipley and the Riz.
All right, I'll take it. I'll take it, and then we need
like Grub or bacclar just pounding a handle on the tables, like get me
the riz and Shipley, Well you're the one with ratings Backlar, how is
your Thanksgiving? No one else tell me about their Thanksgiving. I don't want
to know. Thanks for asking. It was it was fine. It was
fine. You know, whenever I go down to Virginia for Thanksgiving, I
know I'm gonna be playing a lot of Nintendo Wii, the original Nintendo Wi.
God, that thing's starting to just look like absolute dog shit bad,
ye what it's like for a while. It's been bad for a while.
But like my brother in law got like a bigger TV and he's like,
I'm still hooking up. You know, he's probably he's probably hooking it up
like with old cable. You can probably make it it look a little bit
better. But I bet they're like stretching it and ship I bet that being
stretched. Have you heard have you heard the song from the Nintendo we store
recently that ship pops off? It's still good, like the men, like
the Timy kind of like ethereal Menual music is like Star Wars prequels, where
it's memes are very powerful, like it's like a very memorable console, just
just free with just yes and whatever you need to do, appreciate it.
Yeah, yeah, that's right. It's the lowest common denominator of video game
consoles, so it's very easy to mean because memes are the lowest common denominator
of Internet content. Yeah. No, you're right, very true, very
true, very correct. So whenever I'm down in Virginia, I'm always like,
oh, what food are we gonna eat outside of the house? What's
gonna happen? And the first thing to do, like you want to go
get pizza? And I'm like, abs fuckingly not, no, do I
don't want pizza? Like why would I want pizza? Down here? For
people that don't know and that have never seen Jeff Backlar in person, he's
in a perpetual state of his hands in his pockets, just kicking sand ye
no saying and I'm saying rats. I'm just like rats, rats. You
know a lot? Uh And look it's fine. We did the thing.
I just I was drunk as long as I possibly could be, which is
pretty great as so my goal while I was down there was bowl of three
hundred in we bowling, and I couldn't do it? You do it overhand?
Overhand? What fuck it up? Video games for Escape Overhead. It
wasn't even like on the table as this dryd get so mad at me.
I keep winning, pulling over him. Look, I god, I got.
The best I did was eleven strikes in a row and I just missed
the twelfth and obviously the thirteenth, and like, I just couldn't be happy.
But what I did do a lot in general or just in the we
Bowl, like no, just like for the for the for the thirty six
hours I was there. Also, I had two things that I thought was
really I experienced two new things that I thought was very interesting. The first
one was an actual hoverboard. I had never been on one, and my
niece got one for her birthday and I didn't know anything about like being on
one. I was like, what could this be? Will I be naturally
good because I have the balance of a mediocre Beer League hockey player? Is
that gonna work out? No? That did not translate at all. But
my kid but Dib hops on it and he's just skating around the whole room.
He's like, what's up, Dad, what's up? I'm like,
do you know how to ride? One of these. He's like, yeah,
it's super easy. Motherfucker's going front words backwards. He's spinning around doing
like seven twenties and shit. I'm just like, damn dude. So I'm
gonna get one of these and We're going to enter our hoverboard arc here in
the back of our house. Uh. Number. The second thing I experienced
was peanut butter whiskey. Oh they ever had? Yes, is screwball or
screwball? Yeah? Ok, do a shot of that with like a floater
of shamp or you get a peanut butter and jelly. Oh that's neat.
Uh, they didn't offer that at the house. I was at just the
spot for the future, just so you know, for me to you,
that's good to know. It was hitded to me as like a novelty,
like, hey, you want to drink some of this, and I'm like,
sure, shit's like fucking candy I did. I wasn't expecting how sweet
it is. Holy shit, O my god. Anyway, that was my
thanksgoing how many shots of this did you did you have? Then go on
the hoverboard? Very peanut butter whiskey sounds more insane than a shot to me.
I'm sorry that actually sounds crazy. What are you talking about? All
right? You're really supposed to do it as a shot. You have to
know that, like that's a novelty drink. So here's what I did,
and you can judge me. I don't care. I will a little bit
though. I put it in like a double shotglass and I just sort of
sip the chot class like the double shotglass, because I was like, I
didn't know what to expect, and I wanted to taste this. When you
shoot something, you're basically like attempting to get it into your body as quickly
as possible. And I was like, I want to see what this is
all about. And I was like, oh, this is specially candy,
you know, So anywere just thinking, I'm just thinking of how you can
mix it with goodval liquor. You can mix oh my sugar, but yeah,
I'm in sure if you wanted to make it a mixed drink like a
lunatic, you could put it in some cream soda, call it a fluff
or nutter. Yeah, So that was the thing. As soon as I
tasted, I'm like, I would prefer this be poured on like a Sunday
because that's like it tasted like a syrup. It tasted like some were popping
you would put on a Sunday. So I think you're in the right frame
of mind there, Bailey. I've noticed on my street every single day there's
a new abandoned buzzball on the street, and it's a different buzzball. It's
You're delightful, No, Bailey, you're itch. I can see you're so
sorry that I know about all the alcohols. Apparently, Buzzball is proudly advertised
as a woman owned company. It is a beverage that is roughly the size
of a grenade and shaped like one. And then when you pull the pin,
something similarly bad happens. Where you then drink the buzzball and whatever happens
next is on you, I suppose. But you know, they they outlawed
for Loco, so we had to get creative out here. And okay,
they also make a giant buzzball backlar. I mean, can I get this?
I live probably, I've never seen this. Ever, it looks very
you need to you need to hang out at a gas station these things they
have. Okay, I did not realize buzz balls has three z's in it.
Oh sorry, it has three Z. You absolutely should have assumed I
should have. You're right, I'm slipping over here. Yesterday you called me
a dumb slut. I'm going to say it back, bro, Absolutely right.
This one looks like Dejon Honey mustard. No, I don't think it
tastes like it too. Who knows, it won't matter after your second one.
It's the name of this buzzball is chock Tease. Wait, chok teas.
These are at my local store. I'll be back. I get it.
Choco chiller, peach chiller, and strawberry rita chiller. All right,
buzzballs as I've only ever had them because I was already drunk, so it
seemed like a good idea, and rarely, if ever, a good idea.
Yeah, sponsor, sponsor the podcast. They are shaped like alcohol would
be shaped in a sci fi video game, like yeah, like Prey,
Like this is what alcohol would look like in pray. Yeah. I'm convinced
you don't actually drink it. You just like squish it in your hands and
you consume it that way. Yeah. Yeah man. Yeah, I'm trying
to dance next week, I'm trying to I'm trying to drink a little bev
next week, y'all because dancing. Have you ever got gone out dancing?
Like for dinner and dancing? I don't think the Giant BombCast has ever gone
out dancing. I'm gonna definitively say that. Listen, I who who amongst
you would you say is the best at throwing it back drinking or dancing?
Because I mean I mean throwing it back dancing. Yeah, it's definitely Giannacho.
I'm from the area. I would have guessed that before, but after
watching Dan's moves in Warrior, where I'm not sure that man can almost can
almost do a split? Yeah? I can split? Yeah, you can
do a split? Chin, I could do a split. That's part of
the rich Janler, you want to be a goalie, you won't be a
goalie today. Both ways, it doesn't matter. Okay, wait, wait,
Jan, when's the last time you did it? Did a split?
Last week? All right? I will because even though I've gained some extra
jam splits on stage in l A. Okay, well, all right,
I have a follow up. Why can you do a split? Like?
How are you? Are? You? Just like everything? Now do the
splits? So I so this gets on my best friend's nerves because my best
friend is a break dancer. We'll eventually talk about video games, folks,
eventually, I'm sure we will. I've always been like a little have a
little extra jam around me, you know, little chubbers my whole life,
you know, you know what, Okay, But for whatever reason, I've
always been oddly flexible. And I attribute this to my seventh grade elective teacher.
Sixth grade elective teacher when we had karate at a Catholic school, which
sounds weird, where we were doing the butterfly stretch right, So it's when
you're sitting not quite Chris Cross apple sauce, but your feeter touching, You're
supposed to bend forward, right, get as close to the ground as possible.
She just full all of her weight pushed me all the way down to
the floor and I heard something crack, and I'm like, you know what,
okay, cool, and then I kind of just stayed there and then
everyone around me was like, man, Jendrome's like, I know that he's
like a little chubby and stuff, but he still has a great personality and
everything, and he's fun to be around and he's funny. But that's just
like a chubby thing. Anyway, But anyway, look at that guy fucking
stretch. Oh my god, she separated your bu Yeah yeah, so since
then, since then? Yeah, I can? I can? I can?
I could do the basket thing or the scorpion where my feet touched the
back of my head. It's great. Damn kata karate sounds wild. Dude,
Yep, you beat up a nun or what's the deal? No,
they beat me up about private God's Greatest Warriors, shouts out to HISSTERI lean,
she made a great lemon bar. Anyway, video games, we made
it. We made it, folks, and we already did we bowling.
Oh there we got, we got, we already got a game in uh.
I did try and look at it like they had a bunch of other
Wii games, and I'm like going through the things, every single jewel case
is empty. I never asked anyone about it, but every jewel case was
empty. I was like, that's just the normal state of a week election
and you wanted to play. I wanted to show Dibb Mario Galaxy. I
mean, that's an understandable thing. Was it meant to be? Really?
Those discs are not still good at this point. Right, don't last forever.
They got holes in them now, yeah, I mean they have a
hole. It takes a while. For Yeah, it'll take like fifty years.
Yeah, it'll take a while. Divis is for some people. It
takes for some people it takes thirteen years. Alan Wake specifically thirteen years,
brub you put on the dock here, Alan Wake too. Yeah. Yeah,
I wanted to like do a little check in, so I played a
little bit more on the site yesterday. I am through, well I think
I'm through the first part of Coffee World anyhow, and I am like,
yeah, I get it now, I get what is good about this.
Yeah, I mean it's like it's been it's been a journey for me where
I'm like everyone builds it up so so much, and I'm like, okay,
it's it is the game I thought it was. It is like,
hey, you're gonna be most of the gameplay is going to be poking around
looking for stuff, and then we're gonna throw some of the wildest shit you
ever seeing in terms of storytelling in a game at you and I hope that's
your jam. And it's like once I accept the like, oh I'm here
for that. That's fine. I'm like, okay, I totally get what
this game is, and I'm really enjoying that part of it. It was
actually a little bit difficult coming all right off of Residual four to come back
to this and be like, oh, okay, that rest Bell four just
plays so well, And now I'm like, uh, they're just different things.
They really, I know, they feel similar, they occupy a similar
part in my brain. But now that I'm like taking them as their own
things, it's much easier to just like fully get into what Allen Wake two
is doing. It's it's not even like the gameplay is like I wouldn't say
like boring or anything like that. It's just it's reduced, right, It's
like the dials turned down on what they're what they're asking of you as a
player in these sections. And so it does feel like occasionally like okay,
I'm just kind of waiting to get this next bit, and the combat is
what it is. I don't think that's that's especially great. I do say
I like the puzzles because they're my kind of puzzles where I'm just like,
Okay, observe the world a little bit and go solve this thing and that's
been that's been fun. So yeah, I definitely get it. At this
point, I'm wondering how you guys are still feeling about it, Jan have
you beaten it yet? I decided to put on the back burner and try
and complete a couple of smaller indie games right in the meantime, and then
I quickly realized that we're starting Game of the Year this week, so I
thought, like, okay, I gotta go in overdrive here. I actually
went back and replayed a couple chapters. I rolled back to an older save,
just because I just remember seeing Grub find all these cases and words of
power that I completely missed out on, and not that I was struggling where
I was at in the game, but I felt like I just needed some
extra juice there, and I just wanted to spend even more time than I
was already spending in these levels. So I don't know if I'm just gonna
roll with that older save because I just went back a couple chapters. But
man, I'm still I'm still digging this out of it. I thought a
couple of weeks removed from playing it would kind of take me out of it
and maybe remove the recency bias of thinking it's absolutely amazing. But that was
I was wrong. As I was watching you play play yesterday, I'm like,
yeah, I would still visit the crap out of Coffee World, like
I would live there, well in its current state or like maybe in its
prime, like I either let's do some urban exploring, let's steal an animatronic,
let's go streaking at Disneyland, Let's just do it. It's really hot,
right, genuinely I found out about that because it's all of my friends
were there when it happened. I wasn't just like finding out on the news.
My friend was like, he approached our boat. I was like yeah,
And I'm like, there are very few places where I wish to see
a dick unexpectedly Disneyland, Bottom of the Lands for sure, especially Small World
where your hackles are already raised. Did you know the dolls hair grows?
Jeff, jeffs, Jan and Jeffs. Did you know the dolls hair grows?
Or yeah, what does that mean? What are this is a real
thing? Okay, don't start that because before he gets cool as hell but
also fucked up. Before you explain that, Bailey, because you need to
know to these two. Uh, I got I got beef with small world
because sometimes there's a Filipino dolls. Sometimes they're not Look at the fuck I
see my fellow seasons. Let me bang with the busy, Let me bang
with them. Yeah, I think everyone's some bone to pick with. It's
a small world, depending on every walk of life. I think has a
justifiable bone to pick with. That rid the uh The boring official explanation for
why the hair grows is that it is made of yarn, and yarn loses
its elasticity over time, and so it will stretch out, and so they
have to trim it so that it's the right length and stuff and looks good.
No, the doll's hair just grows. Actually, okay, it fully
grows as haunted by the spirits of children. Right, and then to go
over that guy's body and want to get naked, right, Bailey, have
you stuck around or circled back to Alan Wake too at all? I have
not had a ton of time for it because I had to play Assassin's Creed
Mirage. Watch the Honest Game trailer comes out today, But every every Honest
Game trailer since the Allen Week one we have made multiple references to Alan Wake.
It is constantly in my brain. Now. It's very scary. I'm
a baby. I can't play scary games. My heart's too weak. But
it's so interesting that I want to keep playing it. Plus, I was
really proud of myself because I beat that first boss, like on the first
try, and yes, you did. That's a really good job if you
did that. You did that on the first try, that's really uh like
uh five, And I think it did me like three actually, ye,
something like that, five or eight. I was so afraid and it made
me better at aiming the gun. I think that's a good sign. There
you go. But so how far into it are you, Bailey? Not
terribly far. I just know a lot about what happens later due to just
suresosis. Yeah, I'll say that. I think the frighteningness of the game
dials down pretty quickly after that. I think, like I've done a couple
of sections now where it's like this, they're just having fun and it's more
like weird adult swim instead of horrifying constantly. Yeah, I to equate it,
to equate it to a movie. It's like Shutter Island, and then
it becomes like Zodiac of like, okay, what's happening? Okay, we
cool. It still has a lot of tension. Yes, I think it's
less stressful pretty quickly. So yeah, yeah, I think. Uh,
some of the environments get a little worse where you're just sort of like,
oh no, I don't want to do that. And I think there are
they still do those triggered jump scares, which do eventually kind of get numb
too. I thought I was done with this game, and then it was
like no, we got more and I'm still in it. I feel like
my my in game counter is thirty two hours? What am I doing?
Am I just really a record for you guys? For this guy? Maybe?
Uh, for sure, I don't think I've played any game for thirty
two hours. Maybe I actually I have been doing a lot of the new
Call Duty. Uh we could talk about that maybe a little later I want
to hear. But yeah, I you know, I still think. Oh
and also for people who've made it to I don't want to spoil anything,
but there is like a part where you're this isn't that, but you're in
a movie theater and you can like watch pretty much like a whole movie.
It's not a whole movie. It's probably like a fifteen minute Jimmy jam Jan,
did you watch the whole movie? I I was at war with myself
of like wanting to keep going or just sit there and watch the movie.
LEXI said, it's twenty two minutes. I didn't really that man, okay,
And then I just couldn't. Three times I just couldn't because I was
like, oh man, am I just gonna leave right now? Like I
want to see, like what the real audio actor looks like. I want
to hear that guy a little bit. And it's just fun. It's just
fun. I watched the whole thing and it's it's fucking weird. It's definitely
like a student film week. I played through it really fast, like that
section and watch that movie later on YouTube. Would I be fine? I
think you'd be fine. I wish I like, I mean, I think
it's it's very neat how that movie just starts to play, like you you
know, I still find that game very engaging and very you know. I
I will say this, I'm at the point now where I've like kind of
lost the narrative thread a little bit, and I'm just like, all right,
Sam, you're you're just I'm just gonna have to hear you do a
podcast now, because I I feel like I was there and then the last
i'd say, you know, four hours of my playthrough, I've just been
like, oh, I realized we're in like the third act here, and
we're trying to like, you know, stick the landing, and it's good.
It's it's enthralling and it's and it's it's not dissimilar to any sort of
like cerebral you know, sci fi prestige movie or show where you're just like
I I was following and then all of a sudden, I lost it and
I would really appreciate a recap, but yeah, I'm still I still am
absolutely all tied up in this. I'm still really digging it, for sure.
I'm glad. I'm glad I'm continuing to come back to it because it
is just like, all right, I'm enjoying what they're doing here and all
the all the storytelling stuff, all of the tools that they deploy is impressive
because you just don't you don't see that anywhere else. So I'm very appreciative
of what they're working with. And you know, I grew up like I
didn't. I didn't. I didn't want to say this to you, But
now I think it's maybe there's a little bit of truth to it. I
think the way you played it, where like we were watching you play,
I think that is almost a bit of a disservice to like the experience that
Jen and I individually have probably had and Bailey obviously have had with this game,
right where like a lot of that stuff happening to you by yourself is
a bit more powerful. I think I can see that. Yeah, I
know, I know what you mean. I will say, though, the
other side of that is when something mundane happens or I just walk past them
and then you guys go, oh my god, exactly, thats be like
more curious and more too. Something special is happening with this game. If
they're making connections like that almost constantly, so definitely it makes it feel the
game is really well thought out in a way that I haven't realized yet.
But the promise of that being sewn into my experience has been very helpful.
Right, Like we're giving you like the fan commentary almost right where like you
know you need you sort of need to split the difference with that, Yeah,
and I needed that a little bit. Now. I think I'm out
at a point where I think I'm good. Yeah, And you know what
you talk about with the combat, Like, I do think the combat is
pretty good. I do like that wrong with it. I do there are
times where I'm like, man, I haven't done any of that in a
while. I do think some of that is sort of mitigated with with the
the kind of potentially intense puzzle solving. I do like the majority of the
puzzle stuff. I think sometimes I like stumble over a key that was hidden
in aer and I'm just like, I don't know what chlos do. Well,
not even that we were, just like, who the hell was I
gonna find this? Like I just stumbled upon it? You know that aside,
most of those are super satisfying. Yep, awesome, a good game.
Well, going from one remedy game to a game that is definitely inspired
by Remedy. I've been playing El Paso elsewhere. This came out a couple
I ask amazing things about this one. Please tell us more. Jan You
can tell that I like this game a bunch because I'm constantly while I'm playing
it on Steam just hitting F twelve F twelve f twelve because of the story
beats happening in the game, the actual gameplay I'm not the biggest fan of.
I'll be honest about it. This one is like the max pain,
Like kay, okay, yeah, this is the max pain. Like,
so you have bullet time where you can slow down time, you have a
meter, or do the dive where you slow down time and you'll have like
two pistols. You eventually get shotgun Tommy gun, et cetera, et cetera.
And the gameplay loop is not my favorite because generally you are just dumped
into a level, find the hostages. Once you get all the hostages,
head back to the exit elevator. That formula differentiates a couple of times,
but the levels where I wind up remembering the most is more so where they
fludge around with the environment. You're dumped into like a motel at the start
of the game, and then you just descend down an elevator, and whether
the elevators actually descending down a physical space or whatever is to be determined from
where I'm at in the game, but it'll fudge around with the environment where
like, oh crap, everything's small now, or there's a lamp that's floating
in the sky. Now I'm in a graveyard, and then it'll mix like
the graveyard with the motel you're in, and it does need stuff like that,
and I like it when the game is doing that. I feel like
they could cut down on a lot of the actual levels because they're supposedly fifty
and at this point, I'm kind of tired of the actual gameplay loop and
I would actually just like the story because that is where this game really really
sings. There's a couple of sequences where the music will kick in and then
it's it's pretty just ambient music with like it, like how Silent Hill will
occasionally go like or whatever in the background. El Paso Elsewhere totally does that.
But y'all, it's the fucking story. It's the small cut scenes and
like the pacing and the editing of it that just fucking hits in a certain
way. Shouts out to who I think May May who should maybe get the
best debut of best new character, James Savage. He's just a dude trying
to go after his vampire ex girlfriend. Sure there, right, yeah,
and then like the whole time he's like coming to terms with their their whole
relationship, his own relationship with himself, and like the whole time, it's
like it's fucking hitting, let's fucking go, let's go. So that that
part to try and see the rest of the stories propelling me through the actual
story beats, and there's there's light humor in the game where you know they'll
introduce a new enemy and one of the first new enemies is like a werewolf
and then like the cut see interstitial cut scene in between levels will be like
is that a fucking werewolf in the bathroom? And then hard cut to the
next level, and then it'll it'll have like other introspective moments where when they
introduce a new characters like oh, this is a bride, like we're like
what was your deal? Like were we married? Or you were you getting
married and all that other stuff. And I think the voice acting is very
great. I believe the writer and developer voiced the game himself. Exlavier Lavier
Nelson. I think I'm sorry for mis pronouncing your name. You said that's
pretty awesome. It's there's a lot of vowels in his name. It's true.
Hey, I'll take full onus for man, Like it's just like the
story beats. Honestly, it is what's pulling me through because I am just
very, very tired of the actual game at this point. Yeah, I
was gonna have so for the game itself, how much does like it change
up over time or is it just kind of slow mo shooting and maybe get
different weapons. It's pretty much that, and then you just go to point
A. I was like, oh, now I got to flip a switch
to open this gate, and that maybe fifty levels too is a bit too
much for Yeah, if that's not going to change too much. I feel
like when I was playing that demo when it came out during like what was
the what's like the festival they did next? Yeah, the next fest.
I like was feeling that in what I was playing in only in the demo
where I was like, oh, wow, it's just this a lot,
a lot, a lot. I dug it though. That's yeah, that's
cool to hear that you're you're so into it. Well, yeah, I
mean it seems like it's got a ton of styles. It seems uh.
And if it does seem like it's got a lot of cool stuff happening in
the story, is it how remedy inspired do you get any like live action
stuff and anything like that. No live action stuff, I think besides like
using pain killers and bullet time and diving and then just messing with the geometry
of the levels. That's where I'm getting the remedy lives. I've never played
through Max Pain, so I can't speak to exactly. Wow. Also,
James Savage wears like a trench and like Max Pain, where's a trench?
Oh yeah, yeah, clearly going for that. Uh. I mean they're
not even trying to hide it. It's like this is definitely trying to be
an homage to to Max Pain. Uh. Okay, So the key question
here for this week. You know, Friday we start Game of the Year
stuff. Should and I askee this before, but now that you play a
little bit more, should I be playing this? It's Tuesday, It's Tuesday.
It's really hard to recommend. It's hard. Like the story part absolutely
amazing, but then I'm about like four or five hours in and I and
I'm almost to level fifty and it's quite Some of the levels do feel like
quite the slog where you are messing so much with like not inventory Ammo management.
They do promote like in the game of breaking virtually every wooden object so
you can get a stake to stab enemies with and that's like a one hit
kill. But I've just found myself very frustrated at occasional parts of it because
it just the difficulty ramps up out of nowhere and they just throw a bunch
of enemies at you. There are modifiers that you can fudge around with every
time you boot up the game, so you could have infinite health, infinite
AMMO if you want, or like increase the efficiency of health pickups or how
much you get damaged. So I think if you really wanted to just zoom
through the game, you could turn all those on to your favor interesting and
I don't think you would lose much out on the game. It would just
feel in my opinion, I think it feels like more like a slog.
But like I know, it sounds like I'm harping on the game a lot,
but I'm telling you all, like the cut scenes and just like the
pacing of it, it's just at such a frenetic pace. And I hate
using the word fornetic. I'm probably mispronouncing it. I just feel like it's
overused. There we go boom boom baby. It just speaks to me in
a weird way, and I think the delivery is really on point of James
and your vampire ex girlfriend, and I feel attached to these people, and
like the framing of all the like the little mini cut scenes is tastic as
well, Like there's a lot of attention when it comes to that, and
it's not just like talking face talking face, it's it's beautiful given the kind
of shitty ps one dirty polygon vibe that it's going for. Yeah, I
mean I'm still really into this cool look of taking early PC games or early
three D games of any kind and giving them like good lighting and calling it
a day. Like, yeah, that that works for me a ton.
I think that's a pretty cool look. I I have like like trying to
place elpass Oaks elsewhere in my head, but like, as you've been talking
about it, and I'm like, wait, is it it sounds for some
reason, the name makes it sound like it's a visual novel or something like
that. So I'm like, oh, okay, no, this is the
game I've been seeing on TikTok. It's it is the max paying game that
people have been playing on TikTok so. So it's got enough vibes that people
are like, oh, what is this? What is that game? What
is that game? So yeah, I'm I'm into the way it looks,
and I like the presentation. I might check this out, which I had
a lot more time before Friday, I I grub. I would play up
until the level where you hear the rap track kick in. Okay. That's
always a good sign because like it is it, it hits. It's not
my style, it's not my style of rap that I personally prefer, but
it's just one of those of like, Okay, let's fucking go. And
then like you know, as I'm as I'm playing here in in in the
dark, I'm just like yelling my own like little ad libs to the side
while while they're going off, like anyway, just get a case of buzzballs
and time perfect evening. I guess I'm not gonna judge you, Bailey.
I I invited you onto the podcast not only because we we we need you,
but because I I wanted to brag to you that I have now finished
two more video games in my life. God, I just wanted to I
just wanted to try and impress my friends and have it be recorded for posterity.
So so your list now is Cheers of the Kingdom and lies of p
Lies of p right right right now, Venba, okay and Juson. I
think that's really impressive. Jan thank you, thank you, Bailey, thank
you Shitley, thank you Shitley, thank you Shitley, Venba. Folks may
have seen this pop popping around as well. It's gotten a lot of buzz.
It's a very very quick game. You could definitely be in one sitting,
maybe like two ish hours. So should we really count that as a
full game then? Huh? So it follows a narrative of your immigrant mother
immigrating to Canada with your pops, and then you know, it's a really
sweet game. It's more so about the story they're telling it. It kind
of looks like it is a cooking game, like a cooking Mama, but
really your mom is just putting together recipes and the story is wrapped aroun and
everything, and it if you were a child of immigrants, specifically specifically first
gen, then I five thousand percent not recommend and am telling you you need
to play this because this deals a lot with cultural identity crisis of growing up
whether or not you want to assimilate to the greater culture of wherever you're at.
Here it's in Canada. For me, it was like in the US.
And then just kind of dealing with those like racial stereotypes of like,
hey, I only know this thing about Indian culture, like you like tick
a masala, right, and then realizing like, oh, you know,
I yes, Indian, but there is like different aspects to being Indian and
that's not the only thing that my people eat. And then it's facing the
shame of bringing in like a homemade dish to lunch and everything. And that's
definitely something like I've come across in my life of like having other classmates point
out my smelly food and be like, ooh, what's that? That's not
a chee. So it's really touching in the aspect it deals a lot with
They touch on just being proud of the culture that you come from, and
it really touches on how the first generation immigrant experience can feel like being a
tourist in your own culture where yes, like that is a part of me
and I speak the language kind of and I can read it kind of,
but me being Filipino American and In this instance, the Sun character is Tamil,
a Canadian. Again, apologies, I'm getting that incorrect. It really
echoes a lot of my own sense feelings and like what I've experienced of like,
yeah, like I'm proud of this culture, but I'm also kind of
ashamed of it sometimes, But like why am I ashamed of it? Who's
telling me to be ashamed of it? And deals with the more so with
the parent side of that of like why can't my kid be proud of this?
Why are they ashamed of this? And just like your name is Caven
versus like and you want to anglicize it and be called Kevin and stuff.
Again, if you if you love cooking, if you're a child of immigrants,
or you're looking for a quick game to play or a game with a
hot mom, play venpa, Oh okay, just throw that one right at
the end. Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. That
sounds great, especially for that last bit. Oh yeah, definitely. I
started this, and I will say I found it very pleasant just following the
recipes because it's not like it's written out explicitly. It's like suggested at and
you know, it's you know, pretty close to an explicit show suggestion of
like what you're supposed to do, but it's it's still fun just be like,
Okay, clearly I'm supposed to put this and then this, and oh
there's little holes here, so I gotta let the steam through, so I'm
going to line it up this way. And just going through that those processes
is really satisfying, especially because it's like I am making foods and using like
electronic kitchen devices that I've never seen before, and man, I'm always fascinated
by those things, and it's like a safe space to play around with that
someone else's culture and have them kind of from their perspective. I'll say that
I don't know if this is a lesson that gaming has learned so much as
other mediums, but like specificity is like is like what makes storytelling really work.
And telling a very honed in story about a certain kind of person from
a certain place that's experienced a certain thing, it's like, well, that
actually makes it easier for someone elsewhere that has no relationship to those specific things
to latch on because it's still like the same kind of things that everyone goes
through. So I definitely got that right away right away, where I'm like,
this is something that appeals to me, even though it's completely the opposite
of anything I've ever experienced. Totally Yeah, five thousand percent. And it's
on game Pass if you've got game Pass. Oh cool, easy slam dunk.
Also, Jan you buried the lead. The dad's also hot for everybody.
You know. He's got a stash and he's like almost the same shade
of brown as I am. And I'm like, I see myself as this
guy. Look at this man, Look at this man. There's also a
frame where like, my guy might be smoking a fat duchy you know,
helly, Yeah, seems like a cool day. He can hang. I
gotta play this game. You gotta play this game. The party. Let's
go shitty kids. It's got something for everyone. Also, real quick,
I just want to touch on and quickly talk about juiceant Grub. You you
mentioned this a couple of weeks ago. Now I don't know if you've finished
it, Grub, I not, but I intend to go back to it.
I'm excited to hear that you finished it. I know that the sprint
to Game of the Year is insane with all these other titles popping up,
but again, I implore you, if you have game passed, if you
have access to that, devote maybe three four hours to playing Juiceant. I
got really tired of it, and I knew that I was close to the
end, so I just kind of powered through the climb and continue to climb
in this game, I had a lot of issues with it. To grub.
I don't know if you came across it, but like collision detecting being
super weird, it gets weird, yeah, And like the they telegraph really
well what you can throw on and like, uh, clutch onto to climb
through stuff, and sometimes that just wasn't connecting for me personally, and like,
yep, that's definitely happened to me too. Like the jumping mechanic where
you're jumping to like another handhold or whatever, like would fuck up sometimes for
me. But yo, here here's how to get an easy cheap pop from
me. Throw a fucking space whale in your video game space. What do
you mean space? What is that space? Well, whales and space.
You have a little QT in your backpack, right, the little qt?
Yes? Is he safe? The whole time? I need to know this
before I embark on this mission. There's a there's a moment. There's a
moment Bailey, whether your cute little squishy friend does get hurt. I can't
plan it. I'm not going the beginning part of stray. He only gets
hurt for a little bit and then, like you ammliately get it immediately gets
resolved. There's a there's just like the moment in it, which I think
I need to put that out of the dock for best moment of the year.
It's just like, Okay, let's go shouts out to the space wheels.
Yeah, I've heard the final climb is very exciting, so yeah,
I might check it out. Yeah the you know, I was gonna say
that maybe that's the thing you could just YouTube and fully experience, but like
I I'll just kid, I'm just gonna beat it. Yeah. I like
that game. I appreciate it. It does seem like dope, No,
got to a point where it's like, you know, we could spend more
time perfecting this, but we kind of got it to where we need to
get it, and I think that. I mean, I like what I've
played of it a lot. It does a really good job of evoking emotions
without doing a lot of overt storytelling or throwing cut scenes, and I really
appreciate that. And then I just enjoy climbing games. There's climbing games in
VR. I like just climbing in general and video games, and this is
like really a really good one of those. So I that was probably an
momentum to get me back into it. And hearing that the Indian is very
good. Yeah, I'm gonna check it out. Yeah, I think it
really delivers there. And you can skip the the notes and like the little
pickups and the rock stuff Grub if you just want to like minati critical path
your way through the game, that's right, yep. Speaking about whales and
space whales, Jeff Grubb, this is the last game we have listened to
here. This is quite the whale of the game. Walter's Kick three.
Yeah, Yeah, I've been trying to stick to this game a little bit
more. I I just got out of my depth with my character party where
we were take we were all level two and we were taking on like level
five or six people that were like part of some main quest. Excuse me,
I don't know what's the main question, what's not yet Still, I'm
just kind of like doing things that might characters I like, are asking me
to do for the most part, while also trying to get cured of this
thing that's in our head, and that's just living babies, and that's just
living. That's like we're all dealing with that, aren't we. And I
got to this point where these characters were just wrecking my shit, and everyone's
like, just turned down the difficulty, just turning down the difficulty and get
through all this stuff. And I'm like, oh, yeah, I should
just do that, And so I turned down the difficulty to the easiest setting
to basically like get out of this jam, this pickle I put myself in.
And now I am starting to build up some momentum where I'm leveling up
and I'm getting back over to a place where it seems like maybe I should
have been in the first place. And I'm solving some of these story quests
and they're almost always interesting. I'll say I like it whenever I'm in a
dialogue tree in this game, that's always a good time to be like,
how can we play around with these characters? How are they going to mesh
together? And then we get back to the world and say, oh,
I left my backpack somewhere go look for it, and it'say, well,
this is not very fun. That's why am I looking for this stupid little
thing and this in this world? Yeah, and it's like it's harder to
see these things. I'm like, I found it. It's whatever. But
the game mostly is these cool dialogue options and then a pretty cool combat system
that I'm still getting the hang of. I've heard people really build it up,
like, oh, you know, you can set off these chain reactions
and have all these cool physics interactions that happen in combat, and that's my
I really like those kinds of things, but I just and either having a
difficulty wrapping my head around what is possible in any moment because there's so much
to learn, or I'm just not very creative, which is entirely possible.
So I'm like, Okay, I'm still kind of feeling that side of things
out. But as I get into any situation where I can have characters,
it's like face off in a battle of wits and I'm rolling dice. That
continues to be very exciting. So I'm like, I'm pretty on board with
this game at this point. It's it's not like rocketing to the top of
my Game of the Year list or anything like that. But it's it's been
a very good time, and it's the game that I am playing the most
leading up to Game of the Year. It's the one I want to like
have a good grasp of at this point. And and yeah, it continues
to play really well in the handheld PCs, So yeah, I'm enjoying it.
Are you doing it? That's the thing is like I keep going back
to it too, and I'm just like, yeah, no, I for
me, that's Game of the year thing is, I'm this is the one
I'm still playing like. I just started a darker run and it's been very
fun. I recommend to anyone who uh wants to support women's rights and women's
wrongs, although I guess you're darker character giving a man too or whatever.
Fu. Yeah, but mine's the hottest woman you've ever seen, and all
she wants to do is murder and her blood. What can we say?
It's one of she's amazing, she's fucking the vampire who loves that she wants
to murder. It's all working out. Okay. Yeah, see that that
right there, that little the anecdote there that sounds amazing, like the fact
that all this stuff is possible in the game. So yeah, I'm gonna
keep messing around in it and see what I can where I come out on
the side. I just don't think I have the time. I'm just going
to defer to the crew and that uh and trust that that everyone else.
Baby. Oh yeah, it's too late for you, fellows. I'm sorry.
Yes, I don't care how long this plane ride is. State not
go go not playing that, not doing it? Go play the dark Horse
that we all don't want to admit is actually the game of the year.
On that plane ride back, go go go play yourself and Pickman four.
Yeah, yeah, I might have to bring along the Nintendo switch that is
basically being held together by du duct tape and dreams at the time. That's
a good reason to get a whole new one. There you go. Yeah,
you're right, You're definitely right. But I long. So someone was
like, which switch should I get? I'm like, none of them,
none of them at all. Wait, wait a year. Listen, anyone
been playing anything else? Played the Modern Warfare? Right, he's talk about
some God, yeah a little, but got the cod boys. Listen,
I had this, I had this Nicki Minaj skin. I wasn't gonna let
it collect dust in the corner, Okay, question I was. I was
gonna ask if you were still playing as Nikki. And I'm so glad that
absolutely, yeah, absolutely, And it's it's injected a whole new breath of
fresh air into the gameplay experience. Let me tell you, because some of
the some of the soundbites that uh Nicky is rocking is amazing, like get
out of my way, dumb ass bitch, like it's so sick incoming grenade.
It's so it's just they just made Nicki Minaj be a call of duty
soldier. It's a fucking phenomenal anyway, Yeah, that game all these old
ass Mapson's played all these fucking maps a billion times. They just slapped a
new fresh coat of paint and all this bullshit. But you know what,
game's fucking really good and it doesn't try and like look very over the top.
Was that like a bullshit jingle? Was I? Sorry? No,
no, no, no no no, that was me. I was trying
to wrap it up. No no, no, no no no. I
was trying to cueue up some Nicki Mina's voice. It's crazy I thought there
was a soundboard, but there's there's just this video. Baby. Oh yes,
tell is where your squads at to the keep going, keep going.
There's so many good ones place. Six six and a half minutes of this.
Yes, they're so good. She was in the voiceover for a while.
Yeah, didn't work. Yeah, an entire morning to the south,
to the southeast, to the southwest, to the west, took out the
animal box, took out their armored boat, took out their recondron trophy systems
up. Trust me, you want this bad bitch on your side. Yes,
yes, there's nothing better. There's nothing better than saying that there's nothing
better. I'm glad that your her. I'm just picturing her doing all of
those lines just like that in the booth, like no breaks or nothing,
just that professional. She gets one take for everything. It's perfect every time.
She's like, I'm gonna knock this out before lunch, let's go.
I'm glad. I'm glad that you can feel like you can girl boss now
and you can tell your your buddies like, I'm glad you can have this
sposs bitch on your squad. Yeah, so cool, Like I just want
to hang out with her and like all her jewelry is on display when you
reload, and you're like, goddamn, she's got like all these diamond rings
on. You're just like this is great. This is so stupid, but
it's so great anyway, that game, like I said, they're they like
they reeled some of it in in a way where it's not as bewildering.
Uh, they like stuck to a lot of like traditional like XP pops and
like you know, different kind of like hallmarks of that game that feel maybe
they're registering in like a very positive nostalgia kind of like way. But it's
working really well. I think that game's a lot of fun. I I
think I think the temperature of like Minormity Friends is that there's less bullshit and
because of that, we're just having a better time. What was the bullshit?
It was just like distractions in like the game trying to get you to
do other stuff you didn't care about. Yeah, I mean, you know
again, like I just think there was it was very busy in a lot
of like needless ways. And I think, like I said, they reeled
a lot of that in and you know, you're not you're not sort of
like juggling some of the mindless minutia that would maybe kind of percolate under the
surface. And I think they do a lot of smart things with like weapon
progression, even though that in itself is like this, you know, never
ending a laundry list of like incomprehensible objectives. But they've done some interesting stuff
where you can like say like, hey, like I want to get this
scope on this gun really bad, and it's like forty eight you know,
unlocks down the line. You can basically like select that and say, okay,
I'm playing for this now and you have to unlock objectives and satisfy objectives
could get that thing. You know. Again, it's still relatively indecipherable and
you have no idea what you're ultimately unlocking, because at the end of a
rematch there's like forty five seconds of screens that are like you did this,
and meters go up and levels go up, and you're like, I have
to did I just lose money? Like I don't know what happened? You
know. It's like video poker where you're like, I don't know if I
want tak my bank account, what happened? Something happened, right, but
it is really good, and they've chosen like the maps that they have in
this game. There, they've been out of rotation long enough where you're just
like, god, damn, these are really really good. There's a reason,
yeah that those games are are are thought about more fondly or than the
newer stuff. Like their maps are just better. The maps are just better
straight up. And yeah, it's good. I'm we're playing it actively.
The I always say this every year. The real true test, the barometer
that we all have to keep our eyes on collectively, the entire game in
community is whether or not Jeff and his normany friends play after the new year.
If we're still playing come middle of January, you know this one stuck.
If we didn't, you know, it's our version of like Groundhogs anyway.
If we didn't, you know, it's a stinker. And six more
months of Call of Duty Winter, Yeah exactly, I'm betting we're still playing
in six weeks. Yeah. Yeah, I've heard good things and it's mostly
about the tweaks to the running around and the gameplay, and then yes,
get the bullshit out of the way, And that's probably the right choice.
If this is how they were going to approach this totally. It's like,
I mean, the wrong choice was all the other stuff they did with like
hey, let's just you know, shit out a really terrible campaign and make
a big deal about that and all this other stuff, and it's like,
okay, actually, if you dig in, it's just a really fun call
anything. But they can't sell a seventy dollars game on that because that does
feel like an update, so they had to like focus on all this other
annoying stuff that didn't matter. But well, that gets you into the car,
and now do you actually like driving the car? It has nothing to
do with it anything we sold you on it, But now that you're sitting
there actually using it, it's really reliable. It does what you expect.
You can understand it. So yeah, I'm uh, I think I'm gonna
pop back in play some more myself, and forgive me. If you hear
some leaf blowers, that's probably what you're here. And there, jan I
think like, uh, you know, look you still play, and all
of a sudden, like Shredder's next to you, and you're like, all
right, well that's that's fucking weird. But what is Shredder doing here?
What's that what is Shredder yelling. I don't know, I haven't heard any
of the He's probably just like you should feel lucky to have a boss pitch
on your team. What does he say? And I hope they're oh my
god, I haven't heard that one. That sounds fun. I hope they
are like soundbites from like the first two movies, but I don't think they
are where he's just like idiots like that stuff like that. He uses grumble
around a bunch, but and then they're skeletor is like up in this game,
spawns up in this game, And that's kind of it. I think,
for like the way I could do stuff and you know what that and
Groot for whatever reason is there, Like, Yeah, lot of players were
saying that Grout's OP because apparently he like blends. His skin is very uh
like translucent and transparent in a lot of like convenient ways, especially in like
the Wooded Maps. He's voiced by Vin Diesel, the most powerful act.
Yes, the range that Vin Diesel continues to demonstrate OP the op human all
of all of us. But yeah, it's it's fucking good, like games
good. Good game is good, and I'm feeling it I'm gonna click on
a random button on a random Nicki Minaj soundboard that I found. Pray to
God that I don't get canceled over this, and we'll take a break.
We'll be back. First wait, but first, but first, but first,
if I could, please, please, can I please say something before
we break? Please? And everyone again, We need to let you know
about Game of the Year tickets. Okay. I was told this morning that
there's a very small number of tickets left. Okay, not going to tell
you how many, but a very small number of tickets. We're not joking.
This is basically last call. There's one left, all right, there's
one left, and yeah you can't bring yeah, no, no more plus
ones. But seriously, very limited number left. I'm assuming by the end
of the week we're done. So this is it. No more venue changes.
We're too close to the point of no return. Get your tickets now
or forever. Hold your piece and you can. You can bring a baby,
but if you do, I get to sign it. I don't think
you can. I think the venue is eighteen and up. Actually I will
sign the baby baby all right, leave your baby Benjamin button. You can
get them in that. Yeah, my nineteen year old baby here, Benjamin
Buttonhole. I got a friend of a friend in LA that keeps saying,
do we want a robot for the show? Yes? Yes, okay,
why you questions asked? All right, hey, if you're going to the
Giant bomb Game of the Year live, the real game of the year,
let's be honest, folks. Hey, bring a sign, let's let's let's
put let's make this, let's put wrestling in this. Bitch, we're about
to upset everyone watching on twitch and YouTube for the live stream because it's one
of those instances where you know you gotta be there to experience the whole juice.
Uh, that's right. Tickets still on sale for now at least three
baby handfuls of tickets, and that's not a lot. Have you seen a
baby's hands? Yeah? Anyway, can't hold ship, Nikki take it away?
Not our Niki, but Nicki minajs lit, Hey, Nikki, should
we keep doing the show? Should we keep doing the podcast? You can't
get rid of me, bitch. I'm not blowing nowhere. I'm not blowing
no fucking aware. Hell yeah, all right, Nicki Mina, I guess
we already keep doing the show, So Jeff Grubb, let's get the news.
So it was early last week I noticed that every single piece of software
I had was updating all at the same time, Like, what's going on?
I realized it's like it was about to be Thanksgiving. So a lot
of places we're just gonna take the rest of the year off. And that
sort of happened with the news. There's not a lot happening. Uh,
the industry is slowing down. There will be some news next week because the
Game Awards will happen, and I'm sure Jeff Keeley will delight us with all
his many pleasures the flesh. But in the meantime, we have a few
new stories here, starting with Sony faces lawsuit over store prices. This is
a weird one. A class action lawsuit accusing Sony of overcharging PlayStation store customers
by up to five billion dollars actually five billion pounds, which would be about
six point two seven billion dollars, can proceed to trial. The lawsuit was
filed in August twenty twenty two by consumer rights campaigner Alex Neil on behalf of
eight point nine million PlayStation customers. The lawsuit alleges that Sony abuses its dominant
position in the market by charging excessive PlayStation store prices. Basically, the argument
is that on top of the cost to produce the game and make a profit
for the developers and the publishers, Sony then takes a thirty percent cut,
and that is way more than it needs to be according to this lawsuit,
and so prices are higher than they need to be, and Sony can get
away with this because you can only get games through Sony on a PlayStation console.
It's kind of like, well, that's everything. It would be pretty
It's hard to see how this goes through and actually has a chance of winning
unless it flips what's upside down the entire industry of digitally distributing software, which
hey, maybe that does happen. That could happen, Yeah, hey,
I would laugh. I do, like, does this make any sense to
you, guys? I kind of see what they're saying, like, yes,
you can only get the PlayStation Store on PlayStation, but they did all
the work to sell those PlayStations, so I kind of I mean at certain
points, like yeah, they get to reap the rewards a little bit.
I don't know, how do you guys see it? Yeah, I mean
they make the store, they make the games. They can kind of call
the shots there, right, Yeah, it feels like that's the way it
should be. But I go to a farmer's market, the guys that grew
the oranges can tell me how much she wants me to pay for the oranges.
Yeah, and like I could say no to paying that. And honestly,
there are other options. You just have to get something other than a
PlayStation, but I think there are. You know, the PlayStation is the
thing that has the most games, and some of these games you can only
get on PlayStation. We'll see. I mean, most of this is going
to be ambulance chasing. This does remind me, though, that there's another
lawsuit happening right now against two K for NBA two K, and that one's
a little bit more compelling. Apparently they are getting sued for stealing people's money,
because what happens is people put money into the virtual currency in an NBA
two K game, and then that NBA two K game gets replaced by next
years and it doesn't stay online for as long as you would think, so
there's unspent currency for many people sitting in those games that just disappears. Forever,
and so a bunch of the players got together and now they're suing two
K for stealing that money. And that one does sound pretty compelling, because
yeah, for what reason wouldn't the virtual currency jump over from one game to
the next, right, exactly, just like my Ubi soft U points right,
you play all your sweet ubcf U points always pro consumers taking their power
back, even if the stony one doesn't have legs. I support it.
I think it's great. Class action lawsuits rock. The other day I got
PayPal two hundred dollars for some random class action lawsuit. Two hundred, two
hundred dollars just in my PayPal for class action lawsuit. I was like,
do you know what? Good? I hope more people get two hundred dollars.
I got to know more than that. Someone. You don't have to
tell me on the show, but I think I might require it in private
for you to tell me what got you two hundred dollars in a class action,
because usually it's about seven dollars. I got like three fifty from Red
Bull once and I'm like, oh, yeah, no, I'm I oh.
It was like one of those I'll tell you later, But it was
so valid what the thing was. But I wasn't actually negatively affected by it
at all. Don't tell anyone, but I did get two hundred dollars hell
yeah. My favorite one always is Nintendo having to like settle and they're like,
we'll just get everyone a five dollars Q pond so they have to spend
more money on Nintendo stuff. It's like, goddamn, Nindo, why do
you always get away with everything? Well, isn't what was that called when
like mining towns used to do that to their company? Script? Yes,
yeah, yeah, why are they allowed to do that? Yeah? It
was wild. It's like the government's like, oh yeah, we really got
Nintendo for all of their like price fixing and stuff and not working with all
these companies. And Nintendo was like, we just gave everyone a reason to
go spend more money one yep. And that that I mean, that was
why Like early Nintendo of America was like, oh, we hired a couple
of good lawyers like Howard Lincoln, and then they're like, Howard Lincoln,
guess what your president of Nintendo of America now, Because Nintendo of America is
a law firm first and foremost for Nintendo, so true all right, up
next, The Division Heartland could release soon. The Division Heartland has been rated
in Taiwan, suggesting the release date could be close. This is that PvE
VP shooter for Division Listen, I don't know. Yeah, please, let's
do it. Let's all do an exercise here, all right, humor me
here, all right, we're going to google the Division Heartland. Don't do
it right now, folks. Okay, you two can play at home.
I want you. Let's go around the horn here. Let's describe what you
think. What do you think the game looks like? I think it looks
like a dude sitting by a tree with a rifle and he's got his knee
up and he's just thinking, like, man, I love I love the
Heartland. Yeah. Like there's certainly a windmill present in the background, Like
is it a windmill or is it a like water tower? I mean they're
interchangeable, Like, I mean, this is a place where tornadoes happen a
lot. This is I would imagine maybe a white picket not picket fence,
but like a white farm fence to keep some cows and shit in check.
And uh yeah, like silo adjacent material we're talking, you know, and
Uh, yeah, that's the hard Land. That's that's what I'm thinking,
Bailey. Maybe a horse or two. I don't know. I feel like
it's a gotcha game with Anime wifeus who are rifles they turn into boats.
Yeah, I'm sorry blacked out for a second. I heard Anime and wife
foos like what. Yeah, I think I've kind of seen a little bit
of it. It's a close like that Far Cry five game. But what
if it's the Division instead? Sure, you really stretching their legs. If
I can direct y'all to look at the stream real quick, I will pull
up some Marquee art. I also want everyone to know this the first time
I'm hearing about this game, this game that's been like it was right,
we got a water tower. That's a guy dealing with a rifle. I
think, Wow, that's pretty spot on. If you want any of those
characters, you got to pay money and win them in the gotcha game.
Yeah, right, wasn't expecting the foley. Yeah, it's the suburbs in
the Fall, right, that's what So, I don't know if it's Heartland.
Maybe my definition of heartland is different than Ubi sauce. Yeah, they
probably think the Heartland is the Midwest, and they're just wrong. That's a
completely different area. And I just had to play so much Assassins Creed Mirage.
I cannot even think about Ubisoft right now without getting angry. Yeah,
I have a fun game to play. What was the last Ubisoft game I
played? I'm playing, sure, I know, yeah that I played.
I think it might be Mario and Rabbids one of those. Nope, Oh
was it Assassin's Creed Mirage. Nope, on a schame trailer out now,
Creed Syndicate. I'm not joking. I don't know what it is. Have
you played any Tom Clancy again? Did you play Rainbow six Siege with Mike
Maharty. It seems like something you would played Siege. I bet it's Siege
on PC like six years ago. Okay, well, I mean listen,
I know the next thing you saw game you're gonna play? What's that?
Come on this month? Come on? Well you know it, you have
to know you, but you won't stop talking about it. Avatar game?
Come on, baby, let's I'll probably see some of that. I thought
you were getting on. Uh yeah, I bet, And like I yeah,
I don't know. What was the last far cry. I played the
one you were just talking about with the cult, Okay, far Card five
just that was a while ago. Huh yeah, God damn. Their bones
are made out of fiberglass. Think about it every day. I think it's
a reinforced carbon or fiber carbon or whatever. It is not fiberglass carbon,
yeah, carbon fire. It's still wild. Yeah, oh yeah, that's
even more while all right, the Vision Heartland. I I honestly I don't
know what to make of this other than this is what you be soft trying
to get another one of these online shooters to take off other than Siege.
We'll see how they do. I hope it's successful. Yeah, yeah,
sure, I mean whatever, I'll try it. I have nothing against it.
We'll see. I'll play it with you all and then never touch it
again. Jet Force Gemini is the next in sixty four game coming to Switch
Online, and Nintendo confirmed that Jet Jet Force Gemini will be released on Nintendo
Switch Online in December. The game will be available in Japan a little bit
earlier, on November thirtieth. Jet Force Gemini is a rare game, not
in terms of its availability, in terms of the developer they made this,
and that means that once again Nintendo Microsoft andre had to work together to get
this released because I do believe this one is fully owned by Rare, but
yeah, that's pretty cool. This one was not part of the original announced
like package of in sixty four games, and they haven't released the last one
of those yet ten eighties, so they're getting ahead of the curve here and
sort of signifying there will be more in sixty four games coming into Nintendo Switch
Online. I like Jet Force Gemini. It was kind of an early in
sixty four. It's an early shooter, but an n sixty four game.
It looked pretty cool. It was. It has a lot of that Rare
kruft where there's like a million little things to do and it can get kind
of draining by the end, but I enjoy it and it's a pretty good
game. So Killer Instinct is getting a new anniversary edition and a free to
play version on Steam. To be clear, it's been free to play from
the very beginning. This version of Killer Instinct will include one free weekly rotating
fighter, as well as a single player, local and ranked modes. The
thirty dollars Killer Instinct Anniversary Edition upgrade you can get will include all twenty nine
fighters. But what makes this really a big deal for fans of Killer Instinct
is that this is a big balance patch. Iron Galaxy came back to work
on the game, and this is ten years after it originally released. This
game came out it was a launch game for Xbox One. So the fact
that it's getting a lot of attention this far along it's one that's interesting that
normally doesn't happen, And two, it does signify Microsoft still seems to have
some interest in making more Killer Instinct happen, which was what we've heard a
bunch of times now there just was no developer available. When now Iron Galaxy
is coming back to work on this, that does signify they'll probably work on
the next game as well. Although some fans like Turbot Shawn, who's a
big Killer Instinct fan, he mentions that he thinks this is like a trial
run. I bet it's like even more than that. I bet they're already
working on the next game. And then finally, Dragons Dogma two will get
its release date today. They're having that showcase today. It's happening at one
pm Pacific time, so a little bit later this afternoon. But the director
of the game confirmed that they will announce the release date, which they might
not need to do because Steam already has it listed for March twenty second,
which is the release date that we've seen leaked a bunch of times now.
So this game gonna be out in a couple of months and I'm looking forward
to it. Any Dragons Dogma players, you ever do an honest games trailer
about Dragon's Dogma Bailey, You know, it's not on the list right now,
but we'll see if it starts trending anytime soon, and maybe we'll take
advantage of that sweet seo. Hell yeah, uh yeah. That's just for
the news though, Jan hold in the back over to you. There's not
a lot this week. Wait, that's it. Wait, yeah, there's
not much news happening. I mean, there's a couple more lawsuits and if
you guys want to talk about that, but nothing, I mean, there's
the the Festa stuff is who oh, they've been responding to negative reviews on
Steam. Have you not been seeing this? Oh? No, I didn't
see this. What happened? I tell me barely myers. I can't believe
you haven't seen it. Like I wasn't looking at the dog or I would
have suggested it before we started. Well, no, tell us all about
it. They've been responding to negative Steam reviews about Starfield and explaining why,
actually the review is wrong for being negative. Oh boy, I just got
that from Rodo Rouder. They came to look at my water heater and charged
me ninety dollars to get to give me a an estimate for a gas heater.
And I'm like, that's bad because I have an electric heater. So
I just wrote that review and then I woke up this morning. You're like,
you got a response, and I'm like, a bet, I fucking
didn't. I just closed it didn't look so yeah, that's always a good
sign when they're out there doing that instead of updating the game. Yeah,
they're saying stuff like you're actually incorrect for complaining that some of the planets are
totally empty, because the point of the game is to show you how vast
and awesome spaces, and sometimes planets don't have anything on them, like when
they landed on the Moon and I was like, guys, what do you
think this is like? Because this is obviously not mister Howard getting on there
at four in the morning, being on Turkey. Yeah, to get in
there. I think, I think, uh, what do you think?
This is just like people who are so horny to work for Bethesda and they're
like super fans and then they like, I don't know, I mean they
have genuinely don't know the community. Job it is to like tell the people
who run these companies what the sentiment is. And then maybe they're just like
so steeped in it that they break a little bit and they're like, I
got I'm gonna fix this. I can fix this fandom. It's just so
weird. It's just it feels very like pr motivated, but is also maybe
some of the worst pr I've ever seen in anything. Idea, it's a
really bad idea, Like why would they do this? Yeah, it's like
they're so much better off if they just focus on making the game better,
if they just did some updates and and and did that instead. Like that
speaks way more than going going on the defensive. Yes, yeah, I
desperately need to desperately to believe it's Todt himself and he's just so upset that
it didn't get nominated for shit. This feels like that sounds like exactly what's
happening. I got a couple of reviews here if we want to read some
key highlights. Yes, oh they're they're awful. It's it's got to be
someone who like works in there, like you know pr PR community. It's
coming from their official account, right, But that's what I'm saying, Like
some one who like they accidentally hired a fanboy freak and was like, you
know some ship poster like a contractor of a contractor Yeah, yeah, you
can kind of see it. Or somebody is just getting so frustrated with the
public perception of the game. It's like you don't just as actually is.
But there's anyway, some key highlights here and credits to uh juice head thirty
three on Twitter for pulling these. While there may be loading screens in between
fast Traveling, just consider the amount of data for the expansive gameplay that is
procedurally generated to load flawlessly in under three seconds. Oh my god. We
believe that shortcoming will not hinder our players from getting lost in the world we
created. Yeah I did. They're responding to a negative review saying it hindered
their ability to get lost in the world. Uh, we are sorry that
you do not like landing on different planets and finding many of them empty.
Some of Starfield's planets are meant to be empty by design, but that's not
boring. When the astronauts went to the Moon there was nothing there, they
certainly weren't bored. The intention of Starfield's exploration is to evoke a feeling of
smallness in players and make you feel overwhelmed. You can continue to explore and
find worlds that do have resources you need, or hit an outpost to look
through back in my day when we landed on planets throws the planet? What's
fun? Is that? Like? The immediate response after like that very specific
critique to the review is like a s feel that feels like The Steam description
of the game of Starfield is an RPG with hundreds of hours of quest to
complete and characters to meet most questions. Maybe this is dude, If I
be, that's how I combat this bad press. I go your whoops A
I did it? Sorry? Yeah, oh my god. A procedurally generated
game and procedurally generated pr disaster. At that sense, the common and response
are both AI arguing now on a Steam message board. I love the fact
that the response is like, were you around for the moon landing because that
wasn't boring. It's because it doesn't at certain points like oh, you're just
not hearing the criticisms. Okay, we like it would be nice if you
heard the criticisms, because then maybe you could do something about it. But
this just makes it seem like, oh, none of that's getting through,
and you think what you made is is flawless, when it's like the flaws
are pretty evident to just about everyone who plays, and it's like the first
thing everyone says to each other where it's like, well, land on a
planet. It took me way too long to walk to something I cared about.
It's like that's a big problem in a game that's supposed to be fun.
I don't care what realism you're going for. At a certain point there,
they're one more response away from like you should be fucking thankful games even
get made, you know, like, get the fuck at a got one
more, got one more here? Do yes? Thank you for taking the
time to leave a review for Starfield. Exclamation mark. You can fly,
you can shoot, you can mine, you can loot. Starfield is an
RPG with hundreds of hours of quest complete and characters to meet. Most quests
will also vary on your character skills and decisions, massively changing the outcome of
your playthrough. Try creating different characters with backgrounds and characteristics that clash or oppositive
oppositive of your previous character. You will feel like you're playing a totally different
game. Put points in different skills from a character you've previously created, and
now facebook completely different decisions to make and difficulties to encounter. There's so many
layers of Starfield that you'll find things you never knew where possible. After playing
for hundreds of hours, now I know this is AI. Two things.
One, this is the thing I was always worried about with this game.
They made Skyrim, and Skyrim was a game that people play forever and ever
and ever. They did not make that game like they did not set out
to build it be like, oh, people are gonna play this forever.
But then when that game happened and they did have all these people coming back
and it was always in the most played games on Steam, and they started
making a Starfield, we have to build a game that is going to be
able to support play for ten years plus, and they just completely lost the
thread and forgot how to make like the basic stuff work, which and then
everyone else just built all the bullshit on top of it, so they didn't
need to actually focus on that. The other thing is with them like being
like you could do this, you could do that. It sounds like when
Tommy was so is like defending the room and he says you can laugh,
you can cry, but please don't hurt each other or whatever. It sounds
exactly like that. So that's not a good way to start off your defense
of your game. I always so does sound a little like a robot who's
lost control, So that makes sense. Yeah, there's a little man in
his head that's controlling his body. And it was like part of that.
Steating him was part of that last prompt when they plugged into chat GBT is
like have some of it rhyme. There was a lot I was. Yeah,
I was a little frightened. It was going to keep Ryan Ryman and
like, oh, they're just spitting bars over there, all right, Uh
well, greub if that's it with the news, and that's it with some
beath as the clapbacks and I feel weird even saying clapbacks because they're not really
clapping at anything. No, robots can't clap for starters. That's true.
Robots can't clap, and that's how the universe will be saved. I mean,
I mean the other news is like Jeff Kelley wade in on the day
of the diver indie game debate, and I don't want to talk about that
anymore. So that's what we got. That's that's what That's the number one
news story on VGC right now. Is Kelley has an opinion on indie games.
Hey, that's just where we're at the week after Thanksgiving. Everybody.
You know, we're going to save this for the end of the show,
but let's let's get some news now, and news on Giant Bomb's Game of
the Year, the real Game of the Year awards. Here, let's talk
some scheduling, huh, folks, Like when when you all can expect some
jazz. Day one starts this Friday, nine am Pacific time, twelve Eastern.
We're gonna be live on Twitch. We're going to be discussing seven categories,
seven different fun categories that'll be live for folks at home. Day two
will be next Tuesday. It's gonna be a pre recorded jam. Seven more
categories, to discuss. Some of this will be live, some will be
pre recorded, just due to the nature of all of us having to travel
in all that jazz and get stuff situated. Day three is November seventh,
nine am twelve Eastern nine am Pacific, twelve eastern live on Twitch, and
that is when the whittling begins, folks. That's when we take all the
games of this year and get down to the top twenty from there. Day
four the finale. I'm in person at the Teagram Ballroom and on Twitch.
I'm gonna I'm gonna pray to God that that av person will just look at
me and nod and like, don't worry. So there's good news in that
last email, Jan there's good news. Fantastical. Hell yeah, I love
it, per fact. Because that is when we will also cover a couple
more categories, about three or four. We'll have special guests like our own
Shitley Myers here. Sorry I feel bad because I live here. Yes,
I would have shown you is very affordable. I'm gonna I'm gonna expense the
absolutely. Yes. I don't know who approves your expenses, but I'll tell
them just do it. Uh. But we will crown giant bombs Game of
the Year on Saturday. Well, we'll see and we'll realize oh damn oh
ship it was some sweep exactly. I want to see some predicts right now
on people's individual top tens are what will eventually shake out to be the top
ten of the website. So far we have it that uh uh, myself,
Jeff, Jeff, Tam, Lucy, Dan, and Minatti will will
be finalizing the voting. But who knows what we'll throw in. Maybe we'll
be like, hey, Bailey, here's twelve points. What do you want
to give this to? My God, give me twelve points? You know
what should be the only one that counts? What what would get your twelve
points? Just tell me right now and then I'll decide whether or not you
can actually vote or not if it will help the game I want to win.
Okay, so we're doing this Eurovision style, Bailey, Okay, yeah,
it's science the Pickman for all. Right, there we go, let's
get her in. I didn't see any winking, let's go. I do
have a weird feeling that like Pickman is gonna do, is gonna make some
waves in a weird way. So I got play it. I'll play four.
Yeah, yeah, I'll play. I just don't know when, but
I'll play it before next Saturday. You just got to get through that the
first hour, which is a tutorial, and then after that it's like just
the best looping games. Okay, And I'll definitely vote for it. Hell
yeah, I can be bought too, for the record, like I can
be bought. If you really want to get your game higher up, I
can be bought. Yeah, can I can? I we have another minute.
I guess now that, like we have several minutes, we have another
segments. I need I need a little bit of help, and I'll open
this up to like the extended family, meaning the live chats and obviously you
three my wife the other day and my wife she's like, what do you
I think I talked about this somewhere else, but we got to get into
it now. She goes, oh, what are you wearing? What are
you wearing to the game wards? Oh? I didn't think about that at
all. Last year, I like, I went to suit supply, I
got a jacket, I did a whole thing. This year, I haven't
done ship, and I think it's because I don't care. But that's right,
right, But I can't show you be sitting next to a dude in
jeorts and you don't know that odds are high. It's just so funny,
like the disparity of of attire at this thing is like literally umbros and then
like a tuxedo. So uh yeah, I don't know what to do.
And I'll take anything, any advice or or whatever. Not doing hockey jersey
what, I'm just gonna larp as Kevin Smith, like you know, it's
not there's new Jersey's only big enough for one hockey jersey person, and that
war goes to mister Smith. I don't I don't know what to wear.
I'm not gonna wear a hat, but I don't also want to wear like
I don't want to do like a T shirt thing. Even though I could
have the Starfield dance club outfit. It goes with everything what I do,
like that Starfield. Here's here's what we do. I don't have it.
I don't have it. Backler, here's what we do, Jane. I'll
take you seriously, you're you're serious about fashion, Michael Oriol Michael him,
and I will take you shopping. Oh my god, I think you lately
was like he was like this gentleman. He was a vision. You can't
see the hat, you can't see the looks. Michael him proves that you
can wear a hat to a wedding and look cool. So just wear the
hat back. Are just wear a different style of hat, a little like
Giant Bomb went not to wear episode. No. I just, I just
I don't want the hat doesn't play. The heck could play, but it
does. It's not gonna play for me because I just I was at a
wedding recently and I wore a tux and and like, there's no room for
a hat in that outfit. And I thought I pulled it off nicely.
I thought it was lovely. This year, I'm gonna go hatless. Here's
full like saf pipe. Yeah, I'm sorry what pipe? Yeah grew up,
suggested pork Pie, which I love. But I am also gonna throw
in there just a tall fucking top hat. Yeah. I can't go in
there like fucking breaking down ming like the hatman over here. Yeah, I
don't know, you guys has not been helpful at all. I came out
with a serious I came in with a serious conundrum, and I'm getting deeply
unseerious feed I think the answer is half high. M and Jan take you
shopping. Yeah, okay, we'll go to the fashion district in LA and
quickly realized no, we shouldn't be buying anything here. This is all just
fabric. And then we'll go to a mall. Yeah, I mean,
you know, I just thinking I still need to buy pants in LA because
I ripped pants two years ago down there. Yeah, I'm gonna bring an
alpha. I'm just I'm gonna bring an outpha as a backup, just in
case we strike out with the in person shopping spree makeover yo, But yes,
I would love to do that if you both fellas ladies. If you
want to wear a suit and bees, if you want to wear a suit,
here's what you do. It's fine, go get the black tucks,
go get the dark navy tucks, the great tucks. But what you want
to do if you want to add a little spice to your life, get
a subtle pattern going on. You know I'm going, and then we'll be
like, Oh, you'll stand out from all the rest of the shmo's out
there, rock in a normal ass suit and instead, Hey, who says
you gotta wear a dress shirt? Baby? Backlar go get a turtleneck.
Put that ship under a blazer. Baby. If I wear a turtleneck,
the turtle that collar goes up to the bottom of my nose. I have
no necks to fold it. That's folded, Bailey, hold it, yeah,
fold it, fold it. Then I have like a giant hula hoop
around my neck, laser, no shirt, just a long chain. Oh,
like, what's the ECW manager guy who used to do that. There's
a dude who used to rock that. I don't know the other chain.
The other thing you gotta do, like, forget the shoe game. Throw
your fucking laces away. Get some loafers. Loafers are real hot right now.
Or I've got like some double munk straps. Baby, whatever it's Los
Angeles. Get some sandals. Flicks those toesies. No, oh my god,
there's nothing I hate more than people who wear pants and sandals. I
am not going to become that person. Bareley, Jesus Christ, we have
so much of getting to know each other to do. Now, let's talk
sunglasses and doors, because I say, yes, pro if I had contacts,
I would wear sunglasses all the time indoors. This is gonna be harder
than I thought, you guys, this is gonna be real tough. All
right, we'll see what happens. Or or just wear too much. Patterns.
Patterns, Yeah, that's a thing. Power clashing, that's real power
clash. That's a cool name. I used to think I was a cute
individual for wearing floral shirts and Hawaiian shirts. And then I looked at the
gaming industry and men there and male presenting people. I'm like, fuck,
we all thought the same thing. We had the same thought. A little
pattern on, and you're competing with all the best dressed women you've ever seen.
No one, there's no formal overalls out there. Just wear what every
single dude i've ever seen the Game Awards wears, which is some kind of
gaming T shirt, no laser and jeans, and you're nicest sneakers. First
of all, there's something wrong with sneakers. There's nothing wrong wearing nice sneakers.
That's what all like the kids are doing too. I was at a
third I was at a bot Mitzvah a couple months ago, and like literally
every girl that was wearing Jordan's. It's like the sneakers are like stuck around.
It's like culturally relevant. Oh my god, I don't think they've been
ever been the easiest way to punch down grub wait which by having good sneakers,
so I could having nice kicks to prove like I have a flex on
these hoes. Okay, all right, yeah man, okay, tough,
Okay, alternative plan. But the steaks are low. Let's just be honest.
The snakes are very low. Bailey, I already know that you bought
a dress for the Game Awards. Yes, and it's you did. Yeah,
yeah, and it looks amazing. So we didn't help you with that,
so you gotta okay. Yeah, No, I channeled my inner freak
and I mixed it with my inner friend dresser, and I found I found
a beautiful and you're all gonna you're all gonna see it on the stage that
night. You're gonna know exactly what I mean. You're gonna love it.
Oh my god. And what do I wear to that? Yeah? You
got two things to worry about, yo, Let's get matching sweatsuits. I
could see your track suits. Juice on the ass the ass, Yeah,
that would be tight. What I would be into that? That would be
so easy for me to do the splits in, you know, like I'm
already rocking, so it's like, you know, just like that and ship.
I think I think the Hour Game of the Year is less formal than
the Kili. The other awards more formal. Ours is the more real one.
You really have to dress up. I'm just letting everyone know that I'm
gonna I'm gonna be that snob and gonna wear my nice datum were my nice
all your nice denims. What's the what's the weather like in December? And
it was as cold as fuck last year it was awesome. Okay, hold
on, I'll tell you what the sixties? Just tell me what's the ten
day? And tell you right now what's the today? Phones pulling it up,
it's gonna be in the seventies and then yeah, okay, yeah,
next week is going to be the high to mid seventies. And then what
about at night though, because that's the only time we go out mid fifties
there we go. Now we talk and that's why my dad denim. Then
Jan, what makes it bad? Jenom, it's eye own it. I
have to go get a hair cut because my hair is too long now,
like I'm trying to stunt all these holds. It looks good. I think
it's fine. It's too it's too like it looks like I'm trying to do
a terrible afro. Are you gonna not finish another game first? Or right?
Well, that does it for news. It's very light this week.
Hey, real quick. Embracery is going to shut down the Times, Twitters,
Studio Free Radical. Basically they are in that consultation process, which they
legally have to do in the UK, where I think that's where they're look
at. Yeah, they legally have to do that before they could shut them
down. But it sounds like we're gonna shut them down because it's embracer and
they fucking suck And that's the news. Wow, way to Yeah, that's
that's this news this week. It's like a bunch of like stuff that doesn't
matter and then bad news. I realized what Mine and Bailey's cop show should
be called. It's friendly fire because I'm always catching strays. All right,
well, we'll take another quick breaking break and we'll see you with the emails.
And we're back with emails. This is the emails for the show.
Oh, Nicki Minaj BombCast giant bomb dot com is the email address. To
send your emails to. Yo. They got to put Cardi b in call
of duty because like her, just sounds in general are just so much fun.
Anyway. BombCast Giant bomb dot com is email address to send your emails
to. I love and appreciate every single email. If you shout out a
single person of the crew. If you ever have some kind words you want
to share with someone specific, I don't send it to them, so I
only read them and then I think it's about me instead. That's the way
to do it anyway, So it's stolen valor, but I think it's the
right thing to do. Hell yeah, hell yeah, Alyssa in quotation march
marks here Ali Maricle Elli miracle. Yeah, I'm in chat a miracle.
I'm terrible at reading today. Hey, Cudi's applying this week to SoCal from
Nevada to see my partner and to go to the GB Live event because I'll
be there for two to three weeks. I was considering bringing the PS five
I've currently to play through sixteen and other things with them when I visit,
along with my laptop for work, a personal laptop switch and a monitor.
On top of my first time flying in probably half a decade and change any
advice I can get on traveling with so many electronics. Thanks forks, and
can't wait to see y'all livelis Can I say pre check Elissa? Yeah,
you're gonna want to prediction otherwise you're gonna take all that shit out, do
you. How do you guys feel about expensive electronics? Like a laptop in
checked luggage, you can't, right, they don't let you check what you
can check a laptop game? You're checking a game. You can check it,
like check fucking guns. You can check anything. Wait, check,
you just can't check avabe check like checking uh, putting it under the plane,
yeah, get me check it? Get like letting them take it.
And whenever I've tried to do that with a laptop or an electronic, the
lady at the counter WI always to be like, no, you can't do
that. You done it. No, you can't do anything with lithium batteries.
If I'm not mistaken, Yeah that sounds oh wait, maybe you can
definitely lithianion batteries, so yeah, well then just lie about it. I
suppose you, guys, I'm pretty positive you can do that in the belly
of a plane, like you I've definitely put a battery, but yeah,
mentioned like you and I think I've seen that warning. I'm not always heated,
I suppose, so don't come arrest me. Says batteries cannot go on
check bags. Does that include like that? I guess I don't. I
do it all the time, so I don't know what's happening here. I've
done it a bunch of yeah, but yeah, like those are the bags
they take when you check in for your flight. Jan it seems like you've
done this, You've done you don't care with your arms right. Basically,
what I'm asking is, do you guys? Are you guys afraid of your
expensive stuff and your check luggage' getting stolen? I don't trust. You don't
trust Okay, yeah, my wife doesn't trust, and I'm like whatever.
I've never had anything taken on my bag from check luggain, so I don't
have anything taken either. But I just I feel like the capacity for stuff
to get broken is really high. That makes me nervous. I'm not like
a feared of thieves in my airport. I'm more like, ah, these
things are easy to break, and this plane goes so fast. Yeah,
for me, like well, if it's in the chair or in my carry
on though, and I'm like taking it out at security and stuff, I'm
always afraid it's going to get kind of like broken in the machine, or
I'm gonna drop it when I'm just trying to put it on the thing or
something like that. So I worry about that too. I don't know,
I think, you know, if I could be completely honest, I mean,
I realized two to three weeks is a long time to be traveling anywhere.
But I would also maybe like trim down. I would maybe not like
go all out with the amount of items that you're planning on taking with you.
I would maybe, yeah, I mean, if your bag is more
than fifty pounds, you're gonna have to pay more. Yeah, it be
it'd be a that's going to be a hassle. And with that many electronics
in a bag, like it's that very likely could happen. But if you
need all that stuff, you need all that stuff. I get it right
off the bat, though, Like why do you need a monitor? You
have two laptops with you use the laptop as a monitor. You can't do
that with a switch. I don't think. Oh, I had a portable
switch as a handl fuck it. I look listen. I when I went
on my trip over the summer, I brought a portable monitor, and as
awesome as it was, and as it inexplicable that it worked as it was,
I feel like still I'm not quite sure how that thing is able to
display switch. But anyway, it was a pain in the ass. Like
it was great, but it took like twenty minutes to set it up.
Power is always finicky on a plane. You never really know what you're going
to get. I do think editing is like is the move again? Two
to three weeks is a long time as well. So I just know what
you're Here's what you do. You go to Costco. As soon as you
get here, you buy a p S five, you buy a monitor,
and you return that ship before you leave. Are they aren't they getting like
more knowing with that? No? No, they'll take anything good. Okay,
thank good, damn man. Bat PS five is big. It's a
big giant that I mean. I so are all these things going to be
and carry on? That's gonna be tough. Ali uh ell America, that's
good. Yeah, I would really think about your game plan here traveling with
a PS five is just like you know, you're bringing this anchor with you,
you know, and it's a way and you're gonna have that's it's gonna
have to get jammed into a hoever overret compartment and you're gonna be sitting down
and then some other assholes gonna come to put their bag in there and they're
gonna jam it right next to yours, and all that ship is going to
be in there. Yeah, that this is Yeah, try to trim down
if possible. That I was. I don't know where Ali's flying from,
but they're they're flying from Nevada to Lost Angelist. That's not that. Then
just drive then just drive, okay, just if you rent a car,
Yeah, rent a car, steal a car. I know, Las Vegas
to La Isurs. I mean that feels worth it to keep all your electronics
safe without them. Oh, I didn't realize we were doing Vegas to La
What are we doing? I don't know what we in Nevada, So it's
sorry. Sorry I thought I thought it was Vegas. Sorry, Okay,
could be Reno could ship everything. I thought about that too, you could
try and ship everything. But it is Vegas. Listen, listen out Vegas.
Come on, come on, girls, come on, get get a
car, steal a car, whatever you need to do. I just think
like the value of having that right, even if you need to rent,
the value of not having to go through security, not having to be on
a plane, not having to do all the plane stuff. For me,
I would drive. Renting a car, uh financially does kind of work out
very similar to a plane ticket a lot of the time and all your stuff
safe. But let's say so people don't drive, So okay, if you
don't drive, then how do you about a bus? Like what a John
Candy Martin films? Don't just take the Thanksgiving Yeah, that's when everyone watches
that movie. Didn't fucking wats this ask? Like, make that loop that
goes from l A to no, he didn't do ship. Oh he didn't.
He said a thing and he didn't do it again. Okay, that's
weird, wild lifting out of the dumb motherfucker. Well, folks, if
you're listening live or watching the archive listening to the archive, please send only
some tips potentially of how Ali can bring all the baggage. Report back how
this went the show? Yeah, yeah, all right, all right.
Next email comes from Brian. Brian writes in asking why are people like this?
Hi BombCast this weekend after the Saampunk blowout, I saw multiple people attacking
wrestling journalists aka the Dirt Sheets about Fiel showing up and how they were wrong.
This was, of course, despite the fact that Triple h all but
confirmed most of the reporting by the noted journalist prior to that night as correct.
This reminded me of what I often see with games as well, where
journalists are often attacked and their coverage is misreported by aggregators and people with bad
intentions. I remember grub being attacked over Kajima to Xbox for months. My
question is what is wrong with people? Why are people like this? Is
media literacy dead? Is the rise of YouTubers and social media the main contributing
factor? Or are we just stupid or as a society I'm thinking both.
Yes, yeah, it's all of that, of course it is. Bryan's
all the above. Thanks for all you, Brian, and Lowell, Massachusetts
said for my iPhone, it's getting worse right now because of all the financial
incentives lining up for people who are good at getting people riled up about these
things like you can get paid on Twitter, you get paid on YouTube,
you get paid on TikTok. If you want to go and be a shit
heel and appeal to people's base baser senses there about Oh you like a thing,
Well, what if that other thing was better than the thing you spend
a bunch of money on? Doesn't that make you uncomfortable? It turns out
for a lot of people yes, to the point where they act out and
lash out about it. And yeah, the Kojima thing, that was definitely
all it was. It's like people there was a bunch of Sony fans who
did not want to believe Kuagie you could ever do anything with Xbox, and
they they believe that's so hard. They work themselves into a shoot about that
one game. What was that one horror game that was a scam that that
person said they were going to make. I can't remember the name of it
now, but yeah, it's like they they're like this because they're afraid that
they made the wrong decision and they have a lot of anxiety about it,
and you just have to ignore it. I've to ignore it. It's never
been a better time. And this has actually been true for about twenty years
now, But I don't think it's ever been a better time to be a
complete fucking moronic psychopath. Like. Ye, you are in the best of
company at this point. If that is your emo, like to be a
raging lunatic, the world is your oyster like it's that's just what it is
right now. I think it's never been a better time for grifters or anyone
who uh is just like ready at a moment's notice to just pound on a
perfect stranger for no good reason. Yeah. I don't think grifters have had
such a such a big moment since like snake oil salesman. Yeah, this
is a big moment, crazy yeah moment. Yeah. That being said,
click on this link and get a free eyelash extensions with my t Moulink peddling
Giant Giant Bomb branded patent medicine. Ah. Man, I think about if
I were a terrible more of a terrible person than I am in my real
life, and how I could fleece these motherfuckers anyway. Yep, It's very
easy to fleece people if you're a terrible person. Yeah, I'm off way
there. Uh. Matt from Murfreezburg, Tennessee, Uh asks about desktop setup.
Hey guys, I've been diving deep into the rock Ally reviews lately,
and while I think it's really cool, I may actually just want a desktop
setup. I have a twenty thirteen MacBook Pro and it is still running like
a champ. But I long missed the boat on getting that thing to run
games, not to mention the whole Mac thing. I recently saw a beautiful
curve display setup at best Buy while visiting their display out After starting to look
for deals on PCs, I quickly realize I had no idea what I was
doing. Where should I go? Where do I begin? I know I'll
need a new computer soon, so I consider getting something that might run games
while I'm at it. I'm pretty much much an exclusively Xbox gamer where they
switch title once every few years. I love the look at that curve display,
but is it just a gimmick? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks Matt
from Murphfreesboro, Tennessee. Matt's be an Xbox gamer and a Mac piece and
a Mac user. Matt, you see things don't usually go together. You're
a unique individual there, Maddie. Maddie, Maddie, Hello, Matt.
Have you not been listening. Do you not know? We are in the
pocket of big n ZXT. It's not a bad idea. ZXT does have
some good pre builds. Don't do the thinking yourself, is what the truth
is here, Like, there's communities out there that have done all the thinking
for you about what you should do with the PC. Don't feel like you
have to build one. That period is sort of passed where it's like you
have to build your own PC or else you're gonna spend so much extra money.
It's like, Nah, the costs have come down. There's a lot
of composition in that space. The prebuilds are good. The curve display,
it's not just a gimmick. If it's wide enough, you do need it
to be like kind of curved around you so that it's an equidistant from like
no matter where you're looking at it. But yeah, don't feel like you
need that either. Like, and yeah, if you really just want to
play PC games, one of those handheld computers is still pretty good and you'll
be fine. That will get you started, and it's all in one package.
I still think the Steam deck is a good one for people who have
no idea what they're doing because it's such a consolized version of the PC.
But you'll have a good time with any of those. And if you're gonna
hop in, yeah, just go get a pre built somewhere and you'll be
fine. Yeah, just be wary, Matt. As soon as you explore
down the curved monitor rabbit hole, you may wind up thinking, oh,
maybe I'll just get an ultra wide. Oh you know, I definitely will
think that maybe I'll just get two screens. You know what. Two screens
ain't enough. I need two more. And then you have one that's vertically
aligned so you can just watch Twitter burn down as you go about your day.
All right, that's right. Next email comes from Brian from Illinois.
Brian writes in about handhelds, and Brian is to Brian says, high,
Hi Tom, Tom, giant bomb bomb Badill. Now that we're on what
feels like the cusp of a new generation of handheld hardware, what prior generations
of hardware should someone hold onto for backwards compatibility's sake? For me personally,
I've held onto these handhelds along the way, held onto these handhelds while holding
hands handily. Nintendo DS, the Nintendo three DS, I suppose the three
DS technically covers the DS games i'd want. It's still nice to have analog
pocket, Nintendo Switch, Steam deck. I can't imagine needing anything else to
play almost any game handheld. And after typing this, okay, Nintendo,
haven't I bought enough? Please give us something on the next switch that will
let us play more of the back catalog games. I've always felt burned by
the fact that the we virtual console library of games wasn't Slash isn't fully available
on Switch Slash Nintendo Online. What do y'all think if you're not a collector
and wanted to ditch old hardware, what new devices would you trust to access
classic games? Cheers and happy holidays. Brian from Edwardsville, Illinois, sent
by Pterodactyl. Yeah, I mean the ones you listened to here are pretty
good. I think you analog pocket isn't for everybody like it is pretty expensive.
But the reality is if you were to go try to track down a
three DS these days, those have gotten very expensive as well. And while
you can hacker three DS to put a ton of stuff on it, and
I think you can run some emulators to play stuff like game Boy and game
Boy Advance, and then you would have all the DS games and all the
three DS games if you wanted to really go that route. That's nice,
but three DSS have gotten expensive, so you don't already have one of those.
That could be a hassle. I actually think is pretty good these days.
It's it's that's easy to hack, it's relatively affordable. If the DS
games actually look better on a DS and then they do on a three DS
because it's the right resolution. Game Boy Advanced games just work, work natively.
It's yeah, So I really like having a DS, my analog pocket,
and then something like a Steam deck. If if I have those three
things, I'm set. The reality is most people aren't gonna have want three
things. If you can only have one of these, just get something like
a Steam deck that's going to cover you across the board. Yeah, I
you know, there's a couple things you could do with a Steam deck to
play a DS game. And yeah, the DS actually and the the Steam
input like presets are really good with that with like switching between the screens with
the button press. I was just playing a Link between Worlds for the three
DS on my Steam deck the other day and it ran great and it's yeah,
so it's all that stuff has been done. All that work is just
going to be done for you, and you just install m you deck run
that script and everything will just work. You have to provide your own ROMs,
but other than that, you're good to go. All right. Final
email of the show comes from Michael in Boulder. Hello, Bombers, I'm
getting ACL surgery this week and I'm gonna be bedridden on and off work for
a good while prime gaming time. You all have any memorable gaming experiences while
convalescing. Love you Michael and Boulder. PS. Don't get hit by a
cyclist while you're out for a run. It really sucks. God sent from
my iPhone. I hope you see them. It's probably Dion Sanders. If
you're on Boulder, watch out for that guy. Yeah, I guess you
gotta sue that guy. All right? Yeah, thank you? Yes,
I hope you're okay, Michael. Other than having ACL surgery, you're not.
Who is the ambulance chasing lawyer in Denver? But we can get you
Misney out here from Cleveland. Misney makes them pay, so we'll send you
Disney and he'll make this bicyclist pay sorry about that. Sorry her from getting
my wisdom teeth out. To answer your question, I yeah, it was
convalescing. Yes, it was an injury. That's what I like to call
it, my wisdom teth surgery. I was in high school, so we
had all the games and stuff, and I just played Guitar Hero for fucking
hours. Man. I was just high off my ass playing Guitar Hero for
hours with a face full of like puff, like a chipmunk. It was
great. I was just living off of John Bajuice missing every other note.
Yeah, that's my recommendation. I don't remember, like I never had like
really long term bedridden injury that would like give me a chance to do this,
But like playing hooky from school or actually being sick from school and staying
home and playing stuff like techno boal, I finally remember that for sure.
I remember healing from a broken heart and playing Oh my god, that's the
cutest thing I've ever heard, playing a lot of Resident Evil five. Well,
that's one way to get out of that. Alders Gate's really good for
that too. Just for the record, Yeah, nothing's coming to mind,
uh because I just yeah, I haven't been bedridden like that. Uh,
I have nothing to add all I can. My brother broke his leg in
half when he was uh, when he rode a four wheel were into a
tree and half. Yeah, I had care. I had both half.
I mean like the skin was still attached, but the bone wasn't half and
I hadn't him in the van and yeah, it was messed up, and
we were like forty minutes away from a hospital. He had to take a
helicopter, so he when he got out or was this another time he got
evacuated by a helicopter. Yeah, that's this is the time he got out.
That's what he did. He just spent an entire time drinking wine until
he got gout and uh. And then I played video games around him and
he just complained about that out mostly scout. Yeah that's how you like,
Hey, don't drink red wine. He's like, that's you. That's all
I'm drinking my red wines and my patis well, I have a shrimp cocktail.
All the things that are bad for me up upon the trifle and the
organ. Mates. We forgot to tell everyone Friendly Fire, Chile and Riz
it's we're old people. By the way, we're old people cop detectives.
Oh, you guys should run like the early Bird shift. Yeah, you
know that, like half of our scenes are going to be in some like
shitty fucking diner. Yes, yes, Oh I love this show. Coffee
it's in black and reason rhymes. That's yeah, because we've never started or
caused one or done one. Let's solve them. Why did you say it
like like we have. That's the most suspicious way I've ever heard of person
say that they wanted to solve crime. You're big nemesis should be like timor
with with an eye patch, you know, and he's like always your nemesis.
Okay, okay, but either way your nemesis you needn't for the spinoff.
Yeah, either way, Like he's the bad guy and he's always doing
like very mediocre crime. Signe guy Bubbsy is saying that Jan doesn't even own
a brick, and I don't even remember what they're alluding to, not that
I've ever hurled a brick at someone. Manate might be kind of like a
Hamburglar type. No, I don't think Minaate is involved in like deep crime.
No, man Manati Hamburgler is involved in deep crime. Yeah, that's
the definition of felony is what I say. No, I think Manati is
like, you know, worried about cutting tags off mattresses. Yeah, I
guess little two shoes like he would never Yeah, he never, not even
hamburgling. Yeah, when he's not wearing the mask. But when he puts
that, that's another off. Yeah. Manates like the informant that we have.
He's like, he works as like he's not a dog vendor. He's
like, I got some news for you guys. Figment, Yeah is bad.
Do you want me to help you commit a crime when we're in La.
It's not that hard, It's not fair. I feel like crime is
legal. Have you never committed one? Yeah? And you guys are visiting
during the purge a lot easier, wonderful. Okay, murder everything in La.
Uh God? All right, let's get to the shout outs of the
show. Shouts out to I wrote this here. Jake Decker and John Luke
made a cyberpunk documentary that you should five hundred percent check out. Uh Next,
we have sorry Jan Batman's batter. Wang has already been in so many
bat caves that he's more likely to die from chlamydia than Clay face. Oh
okay Bailey for being awesome, and I love when Bay graces us on GB
content. Scopa Ohio for getting us high in the middle and round on both
ends. Shouts out to Catholic karate where rosaries are Nunschucks and sence. Burder's
censor is used as a kill Bill Go Go style chain Mace Janet, everyone
looking Hella good with or without a haircut. The everlasting wish of ultraman Ace,
caring for the week, helping each other in your times of need,
becoming friends no matter where you're from. Please don't lose the feelings, even
if those feelings are portrayed hundreds of times RoboCop Rogue City Check. I played
the demo, I did not start it. I should have, but I
did not. Shouts out to Jeff Keeley, shots out to Bailey's there for
you when the rain starts to pour. Bailey's there for you like she's been
there before. Bailey's there for you because she's part of the GB crew.
What song is that? It's obviously like a song right like you, guys,
I didn't even watch that show, and I knew that. I know
you're in kindergarten. Yeah, I was too young for it. The humor
was inappropriate. They have a naked neighbor, how dare they? Ross Gaellert
is probably the worst character in all of sitcoms. But Turkey is the Starfield
of Thanksgiving only AI defend that mid meat? Would you? Guys Hire Sampunk
when he walks out of WWE, Mike Manati, it's a small world,
after all, Hi, this is the real mic. I do not condone
what happened that it's a small world. Beat Boop Starfield is good. Actually,
beat Boop Animals. I have not been reading animals. I've been too
busy. Grub twenty four Rebel Slash Rebels check? I started watching and Or
again. I'm sorry you started watching the thing you already watched already. I've
watched it like three and a half times now. Sometimes it's good. That
makes sense to me. But the only good TV show that's pretty cool?
All right, all right? Jan Twin Peaks check. I have not watched
Twin Peaks, and I intend to watch the show time version. Suit.
Any truth to the rumor that in the new year, Quick Looks will now
be called Grub one out? Who fucking told you that? Where did you
hear that God, I think I left the wrong dog open. Hey nos,
fuck you you realize your tongue does not have a comfortable place to rest
in your mouth? Fuck you. I hate what someone says that. It's
such a mean, dumb thing to say. Somebody good old Shitley Myers,
slayh Girl Sleigh, far away off in infinity, though they are so distant,
if the light of the stars can reach me, we can communicate,
just as I believe, I reach out and grab it like a blazer bazarre.
The desire to protect someone, your brave soul, your message, a
wish is courage stronger than words. We are the same blaze to illuminate where
life is headed. Oh, light show us the way tomorrow. Uh uh
uh er uh, Dylan, Emmy, Addie, Scout, Goose and Noodle
Jan for encouraging everyone to come come to the Giant Bomb Game of the Year
live in Los Angeles. Tickets are running low, get yours today. And
finally shouts out to Gasolina by Daddy Yankee all the time. I was at
a friends giving and they were like, Oh, let's have a community playlist.
Everyone go add your stuff in. I had Gasolina like twenty times too.
And they're like, who did this. I'm like, I'll try to
find the guy who did this. God, I fucking love daddy. Let's
let's can we go to like a reggaeton like club or something. Anyway,
Absolutely, anyway, that has been the Giant BombCast once again, Folks.
Game of the Year starts this week, starting this Friday, nine am Pacific
twelve Eastern on the Dot. We're gonna be rolling off with seven categories.
I'm not gonna tell you what the seven categories are because we got to prepare
for that shit. And then on Tuesday next week, in place of a
proper bomb cast, we will be having day two Giant Bombs Game of the
Year deliberations. Those will be pre recorded for your ears everybody Wednesday of that
week, Wednesday's Giant Bomb at night Grub. It's gonna get back on the
host and couch and hang out with some industry folks and us. Sorry,
you're gonna be hanging out with us again. Thursday. We got a two
for free of folks, two for for Game of the Year because at the
Game Awards, Bailey Myers and Kurt Indivina will be hosting a pre and post
show on Game Spot, please tune into that, and then us Hooligan's in
the next room will be goofing and gabbing over it. Grub Dan, Mike
and myself Bail if she wants to pop over to that other room right more
than welcome to. And then Friday or no Thursday, that same day actually
of the Game Awards, we will be streaming live the whittling process. It
will not be a whittle stream at all, because we will be taking the
all of the games that came out in twenty twenty three and condensing that down
to the top twenty. Because Saturday, December ninth, we will be having
the finale where we all vote and decide what is Giant Bomb's Game of the
Year and the top ten, as well as having some fun little categories,
some fun, fun, little fun Little Gordy can't wait to award my twelve
points. So I'm gonna do it so hard. Which game it's going to
get it? I don't know the thing is, I don't know where the
what the gimmick is this year. One year it was like taking taking the
straps off, and then it was like defending a game. I don't know
what game to have a fucking monologue for this year. Have monologue for it.
Just got a text that I get sixty points, told you that a
long match. I'm gonna I'm sorry, Hey, next baby, h I'm
going to try and match your coffee intake the whole. Not do that,
and you watched him drink coffee. Please don't do this bad. I've been
playing so much hockey to prep my heart for it. When when I'm dead
and I went to Valve to check out the ol ed steam deck, we
had beef fast beforehand, and then I just like absent, not not even
knowing. I just held my cup out for the kind waitress to fill it
up with coffee, and I didn't even look, and I just kept sipping.
And then I did that at least four times because I'm broken inside.
Wait you had four? Okay, maybe I'll have. You said some shit
you can't take back back. Yeah, very well, all right, we're
not exactly shaving my head, are we. I will match half your cay.
Okay, No, that's normal, that's probably not normal. Maybe a
third is the right way to go. But you were have ye? Yeah,
I mean I like coffee a lot though. Okay, so that's gonna
go great for you then, no, I mean, as long as you
match my pooping, we'll be fun. You know, we'll be all right.
I feel like I'm not allowed to drink coffee then, because I don't
want to break back or no, it's all right. I'll if it gets
too much, I'll bring it down to a quarter. All right, well,
you know, we'll we'll. I'll just we'll have like a fun group
chat. And then I'll just put a coffee emoji each time I drink a
coffee, whether I'm with everyone or not. Okay, cool, I may
I'll intersperse some some spro into that as well. Don't make it a private
discord. That's all ass, Michl, You're gonna be so good at drinking
coffee. This hubres will not buy you in the ass. You might even
be better than the gods at drinking coffee, ye tell you. In a
pinch. Over the weekend, I may or may not have just like thrown
instant coffee in my mouth just to feel something. Oh see, that's okay,
that's like almost some back alley coffee worrying shit that I need to have
an intervention stuffing beans at my butt. I need it so bad, Please
don't support my bad habit. It's honestly a problem at this point that everyone
in my life is concerned. But hey, you know what, you should
also be concerned about tickets selling out to the finale at the Teograph Ballroom because
we only got a few left. So if you've been hemming and haueing,
or you're thinking about going to La, or you're in La or in the
so Cal area, just just go. I'd love to see you. Are
you just like or you're just like buying stuff on Ticketmaster? You should go.
Yeah, it's it's unlikely you're gonna be able to be like, oh
man, I'll just try to drive there and get a ticket at the door.
That. Yeah, do not count on that. Don't do that.
Yeah, do not do that. Don't do that. But you know what
you should do though, You should check out store dot giant bomb dot com
because we got some sick ass new merch o. We got a voicemail dump
truck shirt I think is not new, but we got joggers that are new.
We got a fanny pack, and then it was pod Yes we have
all that. I'm sorry to interrupt you like that, Jane, it's a
new uh sweatshirt version of the dumb Truck. Sure, so that is new.
But yes, Fanny packs a new dad hat. The posters sold out
very quickly. Oh shit, but we but we do. But the we
have the regular version, which I believe there are a couple. Uh,
I think like a dozen or so left of those as well. Whoa minus
one because you're gonna bring me one? Right? Well? I yeah,
don't worry about that. It's almost these inventory numbers they don't want to apply
to you. Okay, don't worry about that. There, there we go.
Like I mentioned at the top of Shadouts, go check out John Luke
Jake Decker's doc that they worked on for Cyberpunk. They follow the devs around
about the launch of Cyberpunk two point zero and Phantom Liberty. But Bailey Myers,
sorry me, Shitley Myers. What else should folks check out? Oh?
Well, I mean, just a mere hour and a half ago,
the honest game trailer for Assassin's Creed Mirage dropped. I worked really hard on
it. But what do you mean I played Assassin's Creed Mirage. Oh I'm
sorry, So please watch the fruits of my labor. And then I don't
know tomorrow. I'm going to be playing Darker boulders Gate on stream until midnightage
after dark, So check that out if you want to on my stream and
tah stick folks. She's been Shitley, I've been the Riz, he's been
Jeff. He's also been Cheff and you are so exciting. Great stuff is
in store. Baby. Let me, let me let you know we're it's
gonna be fine. Don't worry. Don't worry. The hod is it right
around the corner. And it's gonna be a new year, but it won't
be a new U because you are already great. And we'll see you next
week for Game of the Year. We'll see you later this week for Game
of the Year. Baby at the check those beans. Oh no, pink
wig thick ass, give him whiplash, yo, real talk about like Nicki
Minaj's verse on Kanye's monster Fucking All Time Verse of All Time, all Right,