WEBVTT 1 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:28.920 Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, October thirty first, twenty twenty three. Happy 2 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:34.600 Halloween and happy last day of Filipino American History Month. I'm your host, 3 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:39.479 Jiana Schoa, the Internet's favorite Kuja. Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode 4 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:43.560 eight, one hundred and thirteen. I'm joined by a bunch of Muggalo babies. 5 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:48.000 Jeff Grubb can't believe you. Couya zwing zoned us. Yeah, that's 6 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:52.920 right, I kua zoned these three gentlemen, my favorite Kuyas, honorary Kuyas. 7 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:58.439 That's right, Honorary Kuya. And Uh a dealer of all things Halloween. 8 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:03.759 Jeff Beckler, that's right. Happy holidays everybody. It's the spooky day. 9 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:07.719 Get your Halloween plates ready to go, because I need to escape my 10 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:11.000 house. Uh, it's bad. This is a call for help. This 11 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:15.000 is a call for help. I've I've broken cafe. I'm being serious right 12 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.239 now, get me out of my house. It's a Halloween nightmare. Thanks. 13 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:23.200 Yeah, Halloween, you have you have four hundred children who are gonna 14 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:25.400 be in your house for an hour and a half this evening. Yep, 15 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:29.000 you're gonna break allween. Yeah, they're gonna break all my pinball machines. 16 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:34.400 It's gonna be great. But at least we've got the beetlejuice on loop out 17 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.760 of the old CRT TV. That's That's honestly the only thing I needed to 18 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:40.959 do, and I got it done, and we're gonna have a happy, 19 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:42.959 hollow week. Speaking about beetle juice, we have our own beetle juice here, 20 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:52.079 our dear friend and yours. Oh so like naughty Dan Jan Jan trick 21 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:56.040 or treat? Is this like a riddle? Are you like sphinxing me round? 22 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:57.079 That's a question. That's a one to pick one or the other. 23 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:01.200 You know, we all hear tricking in the streets, So I'll take a 24 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:12.599 treat today, Mike Man, naughty Mike, Mike, Mike, you can't 25 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.840 feel yourself like that, Mike. No, if it was a trick, 26 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:17.759 I would have tore off my mask and would have been Bailey under here or 27 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:24.080 something like I hate good candy. Uh, I've got some good news in 28 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:28.960 my household. My kids are into Ghostbusters suddenly. I didn't even try. 29 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:30.680 I don't try to force these things on the kids, but uh, Steph 30 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:35.039 was watching yesterday. It's one of her favorite movies and the kids were like, 31 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.520 who's this Slimer guy? We are way into him. And we have 32 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:42.199 like this little play backpack Ghostbusters backpack that we've had for forever, and we 33 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:46.520 have a Slimmer standee that holds the candy bowl. Cute Halloween. Yeah, 34 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:47.639 and they got both out and they were just running around. One was being 35 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:51.680 Slimmer, the other one was being a Ghostbuster and they were playing all night 36 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:53.319 last night. I'm like, oh man, that that just happened. Suddenly 37 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.840 they're into Ghostbusters. So yet another thing from my childhood I could share with 38 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:00.879 my kids until they get bored of it and destroy my heart. Now it's 39 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:05.080 not going to happen because the generations are holding Ghostbusters up. They are passing 40 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:09.919 the baton generationally. Because I just got back from a elementary school Halloween parade 41 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:15.759 and by far, by far, the most popular costume is a ghostbusting. 42 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:23.120 Now, is that by choice of the child or the parents of the world 43 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:27.759 making your kids stress up? Yeah? I didn't interview four hundred little fucking 44 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:30.000 kids, Okay, seven to eight year old. Like, if you met 45 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:32.319 a seven eight year old, you know they're not going to do the ship 46 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:37.199 their parents ask them they have an idea of what they want to be and 47 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:39.000 they're going to be it. Okay, you're like seven eight year olds, 48 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:44.800 they wouldn't respect you, but maybe other kids maybe it's very free. Yo. 49 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:50.800 So this is my TikTok check of the week. Apparently Spirit Halloween Stories 50 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:55.759 wherever else they sell costumes are selling out of the scream mask because people be 51 00:03:55.800 --> 00:04:00.759 getting mad soussio, because adults be having a built time. Yeah. People 52 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:03.639 like the idea of like a horny guy in that mask. Right, They're 53 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:08.919 like that, do you think that's That's what I've seen some stuff on TikTok 54 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:11.879 I have. They're like, oh, this person's here to murder me. 55 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:14.960 Just kidding, it's time for sex. Yeah yeah, yeah, it's like, 56 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:16.360 oh no, they're here. Let me just show you a little bit 57 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:20.000 of my butt, you know what. I've turned around on the matter. 58 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:29.920 I'm in y'all gotta y'all got a favorite Halloween costume from days past. My 59 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.560 friends and I did a Jurassic Park group cost once and I was the old 60 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:41.600 Michael Crichton. Michael Crichton, John Hammond. That's it. Yeah, So 61 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:49.519 you're Peter Jackson and Lord of the Rings and doctor Hammond. He's got a 62 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:53.399 thing that he does. Yeah. The best part was, like, you 63 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:56.040 know, there's like there's you know, a girl in the friend group. 64 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.560 We're like, okay, so you could be the girl from Jurassic Park and 65 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:02.160 she rightfully got bad and I just sewn together a t Rex like costume. 66 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:06.319 Hell yeah, hey, that t Rex is a girl too though, so 67 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:12.959 she as far as we know, Yeah, yeah, I guess you could 68 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:15.279 have spontaneously changed sex. And they did. They do that in the movie 69 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:23.600 DNA. I was Raccoon Mario or tok Mario. Oh that's cool. Third 70 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.399 or fourth grade or something like that. My mom helped me build the costume, 71 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:28.920 and that one was a big winner. A lot of the kids are 72 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:30.319 a big fan of that, and I loved it because I like Raccoon Mario 73 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:35.040 a whole bunch. Was a period of time where I made cardboard costumes, 74 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:39.680 Like one year I made a giant not giant, but like a pretty big 75 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:44.879 like cardboard Kirby. My favorite cardboard costume is I made the Magic school Bus 76 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:47.480 one year. It's great, Oh that's fun. My kid's doing a cardboard 77 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.120 She's she's going as Nyon Cat. And we had to build that out of 78 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:55.639 Carl. That's really smart, except for no one knows who nion Cat is 79 00:05:56.680 --> 00:05:59.120 explain that. Sorry, I had to do it. I had to do 80 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:00.879 it. Yeah, of a lot of her day is going to be explaining 81 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:05.040 it. That's okay, though. I have a lot of good memories of 82 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:12.240 my mom making like a custom Ninja Turtles, uh costume, the Ghostbusters Ninja 83 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.240 Turtles. I feel like we we alternated for a couple of years there. 84 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:19.160 And not to say like, you know, there's just all there's there's just 85 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:24.160 it's so easy to just get like a twenty dollars Amazon costume now and they're 86 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.639 good, Like they're good costumes. It's not like I'm uh, I'm saying 87 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.839 back of my day, costumes used to mean something. They didn't They look 88 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:33.480 like shit compared to what they do now. So good for you. Uh 89 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:39.319 yeah that, But I there's nothing like getting on that belt, you know, 90 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:42.079 with the m on it, and you're like, I'm I'm fuck today, 91 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:47.240 I'm fucking Michelangelo. Well, I am Michael Ninja. I'm not whoa 92 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:53.240 whoa whoa you were assuming the person? Hey am I right? Cowabunga. 93 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:56.920 So I do miss that those days. And then when you're I was a 94 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:01.000 gangster inexplicably and I just had the guy what kind of gangs? Yeah, 95 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:10.240 I was like a mafia. Wow, how dare you? That is Italian 96 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:17.560 discrimination, the Italian discrimination, thanks Sylvia. Yeah, you know, like 97 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:19.680 I was. I was doing that for a while, and like the I 98 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:24.120 just remember the gun being like it would he would rat tat tat in a 99 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:28.720 way that yeah, yeah, it's a Tommy gun of practical gun. How 100 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:31.279 come we don't like I'm not sure that the gun people use anymore. But 101 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:36.160 the clip drums, I think they didn't. They jam like constantly, I 102 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:41.680 would imagine jam constantly. They were really unreliable. Yeah, they're only good 103 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:45.800 for video games, they do. Look, really, that's some warn that's 104 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:49.079 some like Dick Tracy bullshit right there. It's Dick Tracy or Angels with dirty 105 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:59.399 soulstional movie from Home I don't know why leave. Yeah, oh yeah until 106 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:03.800 fairly, Jeff, Yeah really yeah, not like okay recently, it's in 107 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:07.639 like probably like ten years ago when I started watching Home alone again and I'm 108 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:09.519 like, okay, I get that this is not real, but for a 109 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:13.879 very long portion of my life that that's a real movie in my brain. 110 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:18.240 It's still still a real movie to me, Dick Tracey is still fucking amazing, 111 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:20.560 by the way, Like, go watch that movie. That movie's fucking 112 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:24.639 wild, log wild. It's really so of course it's good, is it? 113 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:28.040 Oh that's Disney straight up. I thought I thought Warren Baty's holding onto 114 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:33.440 that license. Literally he the rights. He does actually have that, but 115 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.080 produced the movie. But Disney made the movie. Yeah, all right, 116 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:39.000 Well it was a good fucking movie, man, Yeah, hell yeah, 117 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:43.360 hell yeah, all right. Well, I mean here, here's the thing, 118 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:46.840 Halloween being on a Tuesday. It's stupid, right, oh, very 119 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:50.639 stupid. You do the adult celebration on the weekend. When is the trunk 120 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.120 or treat or little stuff treat was on the weekend? That was the weekend. 121 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:56.960 I had a wedding on Saturday, and on our way to the wedding, 122 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.279 we're like navigating through a sea of pirates, ands and goblins. And 123 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:05.919 well that's classic New Jersey tonight here. Yeah, yeah, and yeah. 124 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:11.320 I also there's there's trunker treating thing where like people go out to like parking. 125 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:15.879 Yes, uh, but trigger treating is is tonight here? What that 126 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:18.919 reminds me? I want to say, hey, Uh, watch out when 127 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:22.080 you're driving tonight. If you're driving, those kids aren't gonna be looking out 128 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:24.200 for you, You look out for them. If just like five of you 129 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:28.879 listen to that, we can probably save some lives tonight. So the down 130 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:33.600 just slow down and look out for them, please. And then yesterday it 131 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:39.600 was my wedding anniversary because if I couldn't convince you that my wife was upsetsed 132 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:43.159 with Halloween, I got married and motherfucking mischief night. Okay, that's what 133 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.279 happened. That's what happened in it's called Devil's Night. Please, right, 134 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:50.360 it's only mischief night, I think in in Jersey and New York as far 135 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:52.639 as I'm aware, the regional thing. But yeah, uh it's great. 136 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:58.799 Things are really over the top here. I'm not you know, like there's 137 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:01.200 there's a couple of houses in down you guys that are just like, I 138 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:05.080 don't know what they're gonna do with all this stuff tomorrow. What are they 139 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:07.320 gonna do? Are they gonna burn it all? Where's it gonna go? 140 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:09.000 The house isn't that big. I don't under the storage. Do you think 141 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:13.600 they have like storage, like dedicated storage things that they rent for that stuff? 142 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:16.679 So help me figure this out, guys. Okay, I'm here to 143 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:20.840 help you. There's two houses on a street, okay, near my home. 144 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:26.679 Beginning of October. They started off pretty sparingly, pretty sparse, right, 145 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:31.159 A couple of like mummies in the yard whatever, as it got told 146 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.639 to Like this week, things were slowly but surely ramped up. And I 147 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:43.440 passed by on Sunday and you can't even see the lawn. Okay, they've 148 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:46.440 done, they've like and it looks like they look like stores. I don't 149 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:50.879 understand what happened. Were they like keeping up with the the the what is 150 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:56.759 it? The Benjamin's? Is that the all right? Keep it on? 151 00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:00.440 And like they just went tit for tag back and forth, and I feel 152 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:03.360 like it just got crazy. One of them got a like a you know, 153 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:09.000 the thing from Stranger Things, and then the other people got the Stranger 154 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:11.440 Things, and then one person got these cool which is now David, and 155 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:15.120 then like the witches now that look like they're floating. Have you seen those? 156 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:16.840 Those are sick? Those are those are like the new skeleton things. 157 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.879 It's just crazy and you I don't know what they're gonna do with their stuff 158 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:24.200 now. And they've ramped it all the way up to like now it's just 159 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:28.120 psycho Bill. Do you think they're gonna sell this stuff? Or I think 160 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.360 you just if you have that much stuff, you have to just get a 161 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:33.879 rent a rent a center thing or whatever, rent a center, better, 162 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:39.080 rent a shelf. You're renting a storage locker for ten months? Like, 163 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.360 what the what the fuck's going on? I mean I think they probably just 164 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:43.600 keep it and then like you just probably all year around, Yeah, and 165 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:46.279 you keep your Christmas stuff in there and your Halloween stuff and you get it 166 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:48.720 out of it. I guess it is so much. I gotta take a 167 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:52.279 photo of this. It is. It's psychotic. You can have too much 168 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:54.960 of a good thing, you can you honestly, again, I mean that's 169 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.200 us every Tuesday. You know, too much of a good thing. And 170 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:03.559 that's why I'm happy to announce. If you didn't hear this earlier, and 171 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:05.600 if you only listen to the Giant BombCast, I'm happy to tell you, 172 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:11.440 folks at home, that's starting Friday. This Friday, we'll be starting another 173 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:18.399 episode of the Giant BombCast. Yeah, titled Giant BombCast Revengeance. We're gonna 174 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:24.200 splice you off some more. BombCast machines. That's right, Yeah, nano 175 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:28.039 machines. Forget AI. We're jumping all the way into nano machines. The 176 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:31.919 technology is not there. But we're going to record a podcast anyway, on 177 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:37.200 framing for it to be like an hour ninety minutes more condensed podcast talk about 178 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:41.080 the games that we missed earlier in the week on Tuesdays, because sometimes embargoes 179 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.639 are a little bit odd. But also sometimes there's a you know, we 180 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:46.480 want to chat about some stuff more, maybe we dive deeper into stuff, 181 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:52.519 yes, grub like. Also, we're planning on having like a topic specific 182 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:56.600 topic like a magazine. Magazine to this show is kind of like, oh 183 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:58.600 we're catching up on the news that kind of stuff. Yeah, it'll be 184 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.720 same for you. So it'll just pop up. If you're already subscribed, 185 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:05.600 you're gonna get it and you'll see the different name on it, Revengeance, 186 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:11.120 and we're gonna keep the numbering system, so the main podcast will be the 187 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:13.759 number and then this will be the Number plus Revengeance. But yes, we're 188 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:16.960 gonna try to bring some interesting topics each week to talk about and that'll fill 189 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:20.240 up most of the time. After we talk about in any games we might 190 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:24.080 have missed. This can be where like spoiler discussions live and that sort of 191 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:26.519 thing in the future, so this will afford us a lot more opportunity to 192 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:31.240 talk even more about games. This also affords us the opportunity, since it's 193 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:35.799 gonna be on Friday afternoons, to extend the invite to Tam and Lucy, 194 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.759 who are always super busy during the week, but also Emma and Bailey as 195 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:43.000 well. And you know, Mike's always here. Hey, Mikey maybe and 196 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:48.120 maybe he's not. I don't know, not this Friday anyways. But yeah, 197 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:54.080 I'm very much looking forward to BombCast Revengeance. I'm just thinking BCR in 198 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:58.320 my head and just sounds. It just feels really good. Yea, all 199 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:05.879 right, let's talk about some games. I'm just out there. I'm just 200 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.799 planning to see for this. Maybe we get some new new seg music. 201 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:13.799 Surements, I can do it. How does that happen? I don't know. 202 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.080 Okay, Mike says it, and it happens. Mike, You're gonna 203 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.720 make some tunes. You to make some segues can whistle? No, it's 204 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.080 just saying my name is tough some more. Oh yeah, that's what we're 205 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:30.279 looking for. That's Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, 206 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:33.440 Mike, Mike, Mitch, Mitch, Mike. People listen. Sometimes 207 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:37.639 I wonder why, why why we bring Mike around? This is Bailey, 208 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:45.519 This is Bailey's free week. We could have just grabbed Wow that Bailey play 209 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:50.360 Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. You're right, You're right. I know, I 210 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:54.960 know on our list, on the list. That's why I'm here. That's 211 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:00.720 right. Well, now I no longer wonder, but I still super Mario 212 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:05.440 Brothers. Wonder we've been playing this across the board. Did we talk about 213 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:07.039 this last week? I don't even remember we did? We did? I 214 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:11.799 think we did? I can't remember Dan Dan talked about it. Yes, 215 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:16.120 Dan had played it right, but by then, yes, Well where are 216 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:20.399 we landing on the wonder? Now? It's a fantastic game. It shot 217 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:22.559 up to the to near the top of my game of your list, if 218 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:26.360 not the top. A big, big part of it is it is amazing 219 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:33.360 to play. But every single little element of regarding the game is really well 220 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:37.200 done. I think it has the best multiplayer for the way I play games. 221 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:41.840 Uh these days where it's like, hey, play this together, separate 222 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:46.960 and you can hang out online and whether that's with strangers kind of journey style, 223 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:48.000 we're just gonna perry up with these random strangers. You guys, can 224 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:50.879 play through a level and you're gonna end up helping each other because the way 225 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:56.600 that the game is rigged up, it is impossible to do anything but either 226 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:58.960 help each other or ignore each other. There's no detrimental thing you could do 227 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.559 to someone else. It is just positive experiences you can have. And so 228 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:07.480 you're looking for something you can't find it, and then someone's like, oh, 229 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:11.399 I think this person's looking for the thing I just found. I'm gonna 230 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:12.960 go hop over there and jump in that place and kind of maybe put a 231 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:17.159 standy down. And then I'm realizing, Oh, this person's trying to communicate 232 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:18.279 to me. I'm gonna go, oh, look, it's right here. 233 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:21.879 I just jump up this little corner I missed. I'm gonna hit the thing 234 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:23.960 and thank you so much. I found the thing. And it doesn't feel 235 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:30.679 like cheating or spoilers because it feels like part of the experience and it's magical. 236 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:33.639 And that's just the random people I'm playing with. You guys. When 237 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:37.679 we played online, that was amazing too, the fact that we could just 238 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:41.919 kind of be exploring this stuff together, the first experience of like getting into 239 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:44.960 the game and learning how to play and be like, Okay, you know, 240 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:47.799 let's share some ideas. Look at this. There's this little hitting thing 241 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:49.600 on the overworld map. Now I know to look for hidden things on the 242 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:55.480 overworld map. And then obviously the racing is just so my stuff. I'm 243 00:16:55.559 --> 00:17:02.639 so into that. I think for me, the package itself is so refined, 244 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:04.799 so well done that I'm just I'm in love. There are a couple 245 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:08.400 of things I wish that there was a batch of even more difficult levels, 246 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:12.880 yes, but I'm not really holding that against the game so much because I'm 247 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:15.799 now kind of getting to a point with it where I'm like, I can 248 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:21.039 make these levels more difficult by trying to run them even faster or using something 249 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:23.240 like one of the badges that makes it so you kind of are always running 250 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:26.480 this one of the League game badge. I won't spoil too much about like 251 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:29.480 what it actually does, but it can make things more difficult, but it 252 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:32.000 can also speed things up, and then you can do these really awesome like 253 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:33.920 speed runs of these levels. And so I'm like Oh, okay, I 254 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:38.000 can kind of force my way into making this game more difficult by actually treating 255 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:41.680 it like a speed Runner, and then it's just a blast all over again. 256 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:47.400 But still it's like maybe a batch of more slightly more difficult levels would 257 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:49.200 wouldn't be I wouldn't hate that, I would really welcome that. But just 258 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:52.519 overall, I just am in love with this game. Yeah, it's amazing. 259 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:57.559 Yeah, I would also like I am at the very last level, 260 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:00.359 I think the final final level, So that's all I'd love to do. 261 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:04.400 And you know, I'm excited for that because I do want uh to do 262 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:07.680 like some challenge levels, and I do like those ones in the Special world. 263 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:11.200 But yeah, it's like there's a whole other world even of more of 264 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:15.319 those, I would be all about that. I would gobble that up. 265 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.599 If that was d OC even, I'd be pretty happy. How how does 266 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:25.200 Nintendo carry this like positive online interaction momentum to like it should be in everything? 267 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:29.920 This online mode should be kind of a standard thing going forward for so 268 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.960 many other games. Uh, you know, it doesn't have to be implemented 269 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:37.240 in this exact way going forward, but but any game where you can be 270 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:41.960 doing stuff online to sort of have the you know, it's a journey, 271 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:45.559 but also from software right where you see ghosts walking around. Yeah, it's 272 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.799 very much like that. There's a way to definitely have it, which what 273 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:56.319 should definitely do as Lucy's mansion four YEA fantastic yes. And then I think 274 00:18:56.359 --> 00:19:00.079 it encourages them to be even more devious with their design, sort of be 275 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:04.519 like it's okay if we make these things a little bit more challenging or a 276 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:10.160 little bit more hidden, because people will be crowdsourcing the solutions and that again, 277 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:12.000 that's just that feels magical. So and it's optional, right, Mike, 278 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:15.160 you played the game offline, right, did you have? I did 279 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:18.319 for a while, and I played through it offline, but then when I 280 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:22.079 was going back one hundred percent, then I did have that mode turned on. 281 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:23.799 Honestly, I turned it on just when I was playing with you guys 282 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:27.039 for the racing here, and then like never turned off. Agains like, 283 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:30.000 yeah, this is actually kind of fun. I do like this. I 284 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:33.279 think at first I was like I don't want to see these assholes running around 285 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:37.240 whatever, blah blah blah. No, now, especially going back and sometimes 286 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:40.480 I am just like looking for one of those purple coins and I don't know 287 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:42.519 where it is. It is nice just to have a little help. Or 288 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:45.079 if I do fall down and die, instead of having to reset the level, 289 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.880 I can just be a ghost and run to another player get a little 290 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:52.039 help that way. Yeah, there are these really fun moments where you are 291 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:56.359 going through a stage with somebody, You're popping each other's a ghost of bubbles, 292 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:00.960 you're spamming your emos. It's very uh charming, you know what it 293 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:07.319 reminds me of, Like this very positive interactions with playing with people online. 294 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:11.599 Is the first time I booted up Apex Legends and how clever the pinging system 295 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:14.759 was, and like, you know, you're not really chatting with anyone. 296 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:21.599 Maybe we should just shouldn't talk to people. Yeah, absolutely not. Nonverbal 297 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:27.200 communication is like huge with humans and games have like forgotten that or like didn't 298 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:30.440 believe that they could capture that. And it's like, actually, video games 299 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:33.359 would be really good at this, and so now we're getting to a point 300 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:38.960 where that's actually manifesting, which is really nice. I'll just say the big 301 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:44.160 thing for me with this game is it just feels so expressive when you're playing, 302 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:47.240 and you can play in so many different ways, and it's like the 303 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:51.759 game itself is so well animated that it feels alive. But then you can 304 00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:56.640 attach whatever bade you want and play your own style, and it just I 305 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:00.839 think it really speaks to playing can be performance, and this game nails that, 306 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:02.920 or at least you feel like you're part of a performance. Right. 307 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:06.400 You got all these expert players putting together this game, like this awesome jazz 308 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:08.799 band of like we're gonna we're gonna do all this wild stuff. And you 309 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:11.519 now, you hop in and you try to play along with us, and 310 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:15.880 they make it so easy to feel like you are jumping in and an expert 311 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:19.640 player alongside of these amazing developers. That it's that's where I really just feel 312 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:22.680 like, oh, I'm slotting into this one of a kind of one of 313 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:29.119 a kind of experience and I just love it. It's great. You know, 314 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:32.079 I'm not gonna go through everything you guys just said. I agree pretty 315 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:33.759 much on everything though. The only problem I have is is local. But 316 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:37.799 I just don't. I just don't think that's what it really I don't know 317 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:40.880 could be. At the end of the day, I don't really have an 318 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:44.640 answer to how you fix that unless you like literally split the screens. Yeah, 319 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:48.079 you're talking about the camera following one character or another, right, Yeah, 320 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:51.799 and just and having it like switch mid level too, which is sort 321 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:53.920 of Sonic Superstars has the same problem, and anytime a Mario game has the 322 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:59.480 same problem with Sonic Superstars. Yeah, you know, I think outside of 323 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:02.920 which you know, Look, you're talking about how the game plays really well 324 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:07.000 for what you're looking for. Like I've said to myself, not out loud 325 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:08.119 because I don't want to break my kids hard, but like I'm going to 326 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:11.680 play this without you too. I'm gonna play this without you because you you're 327 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:17.640 you suck at this and I'm better right now. You guys have for no, 328 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:23.240 we have one. Okay. I was good because if you if there 329 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:26.519 was a way for you to, like, if you have the game digitally 330 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:29.680 and all that stuff, you could do that the system sharing and maybe play 331 00:22:29.960 --> 00:22:33.039 online together. And that's probably the right way to do it, which is 332 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:37.119 also not a it's not locals should be better. I agree local should be 333 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:41.039 better, but I also you know, I I say, when you complain 334 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:42.880 about something, you should offer a better way to do it. And I 335 00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:45.400 don't have that second part of that. I think, well, they can't. 336 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:48.240 You're right, they can't. I guess split screen is really the only 337 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:51.279 answer, and that's not it, and that's stuff fun that kind of blows 338 00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:53.720 or maybe, like I don't know, I had this idea of like someone 339 00:22:53.880 --> 00:23:03.920 playing handheld and someone playing on the screen system like that here today, Yeah, 340 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:08.440 more screens, more screens please, I'll take more screens. But anyway, 341 00:23:08.519 --> 00:23:15.079 Yeah, like the game. It's so amazingly creative and designed with perfection, 342 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:21.599 Like, it is so great to experience this right here now, where 343 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:27.400 Like I had a lot of high hopes, maybe overly lofty expectations for this 344 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:33.279 game, and to see them all met and more is really super satisfying. 345 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:37.119 So this is easily top top four for me for sure. Oh damn, 346 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:41.720 this is clean specific Most people say top to your top five. Yeah, 347 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:45.640 I like specificity. We're at a point where we're putting together some lists and 348 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:53.880 stuff, right yeah, exactly adults four. Then the adults do the work 349 00:23:53.960 --> 00:24:02.599 here, Mike, Mikey, baby Bunky. Maybe Mikey ad happy, So 350 00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:06.039 give them a list to fill out, baby Mike. I do like list. 351 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:12.599 We all love list. The Internet loves lists. How I really want 352 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:18.160 to eventually find out about how much of the younger members of the team, 353 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:22.960 how much their input weighed in, because I'm curious of like the ghost implementation 354 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:26.960 in this, is that like an idea from a younger member of the team 355 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:33.799 or something that was like a sor we didn't like we learned from what Tam 356 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:38.759 and Lucy talking to Nintendo that younger people and the staff were why we don't 357 00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:42.400 have the timer anymore, right, Yeah, So I'm wondering if if their 358 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:47.519 input also informed some of like the online stuff, because it's got to be 359 00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:52.200 frustrating working at Nintendo, maybe like a younger dev and just hearing the concert 360 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:56.480 Braje from the Internet about how poorly Nintendo implements the Internet when it's like, 361 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.319 guys, we could just do this this way, do it, just flip 362 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:03.559 the internet switch on, we could do it, really make it well. 363 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:10.000 It feels super informed by a lot of recent games and mostly from software games, 364 00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:14.319 and that feels like it's coming from a younger audience and or a younger 365 00:25:14.680 --> 00:25:18.000 development pool and Nintendo that you know, there's no I guess I wouldn't be 366 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:21.359 surprised if Tesaka's like, yeah, I played those games. Yeah, this 367 00:25:21.480 --> 00:25:23.880 was my idea. Sure, Yeah, that wouldn't shock me, but I 368 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:27.440 just think it's more unlikely than it was. Actually some younger people on the 369 00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:32.279 staff speaking about new fresh games, someone put on the list here Super Mario 370 00:25:32.359 --> 00:25:34.519 World. Yeah. As soon as I beat Wonder, I was in the 371 00:25:34.599 --> 00:25:38.079 Mario mood and I went and played through world. And by play through world, 372 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:42.799 I mean I went through Yoshi Island, which is the first world, 373 00:25:44.359 --> 00:25:48.400 and then I did the shortcut through the ghost house in the second world, 374 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:52.680 went to the Special or star Road. I did the star Road levels all 375 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:56.720 the way around, went up to the top, went straight to the last 376 00:25:56.799 --> 00:26:00.599 level, and beat the game, which I have never actually done before. 377 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:02.359 I Oh, in this game, this is the game I was always know 378 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:04.079 I'm just gonna play all these levels or play most of them. When I 379 00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:07.039 first played out, I'll play most of them. I wasn't getting the ninety 380 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:11.960 six or ninety seven whatever the number is of clears, but it was like, 381 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:12.880 oh, yeah, I could just go ahead and beat this game in 382 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:17.079 like probably an hour, and it wasn't even that long really, so but 383 00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:19.079 that's a great game. Still, boy, it feels really good. I'll 384 00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:23.319 say that I think the switch emulation feels there's like a little bit of latency, 385 00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:26.599 I think, which made me really want to get it up and running 386 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:30.960 on the CRT over here. So that's a project I'm working on right now 387 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:33.759 because I want to play some Mario games on a CRT. I think that 388 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:40.039 would make me very happy. Okay, okay, going from jumping a bunch 389 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:42.160 of people jumping to a bunch of I have nothing for this. The blue 390 00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:47.599 people are here, Mike Minati, you played Avatar Frontiers of Pandora, and 391 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:51.480 I'm very jealous. Yeah, I can help right here because there's actually quite 392 00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:56.039 a bit of jumping in this because do the Navy get high, they get 393 00:26:56.519 --> 00:27:02.000 very high. So yes, I actually did a remote hands on preview played 394 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:07.119 a couple hours of Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. The demo kind of jumped me 395 00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:11.839 around a little bit, but I had a good feel for a good amount 396 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:15.720 of the game, including doing some story missions, doing some open world stuff. 397 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:18.200 I think a lot of people looked at this and thought it looked like 398 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:23.119 Far Cry with an Avatar skin, and that is definitely true in a lot 399 00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:27.640 of ways. But I think that Avatar skin makes the far Cry formula a 400 00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:33.359 lot better in a lot of ways. First, and foremost just you know, 401 00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:37.759 looking gorgeous. I love the way Pandora looks. I love all the 402 00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:44.720 floating mountains of the glowing vegetation, like the So the best part of the 403 00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:47.880 demo was the mission to get my ekron. You know, the flying dragon 404 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:56.599 thing. So you have to like ascend a flying space horse. That's right. 405 00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.400 You weren't, Yeah you went to animal Kingdom, but like you, 406 00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:04.599 so you have to like kind of ascend this mountain on foot, and there 407 00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:08.480 you kind of have jumping puzzles. The first person platforming I think is gonna 408 00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:12.799 be divisive because it usually is. I like that stuff because I am so 409 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:18.359 metro based in culture. Jumping pilled, yeah, I like it, and 410 00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:19.680 it's a good jump, Like you can hold down that jump button, you 411 00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:25.160 get some real height. You're like ascending this mountain. You're solving some little 412 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:27.720 puzzles here and there, but just the views as they're going up there some 413 00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:33.480 mountain up Pandora is awesome. But then eventually you do get the ekron and 414 00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:37.839 then it becomes just your mouth and it's kind of skyward. Sword is escororre. 415 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:38.559 Yeah, you can push a button to some in it, but you 416 00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:41.519 can also push the button when you're falling, and then it is just gonna 417 00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:45.079 grab you and then you can start just flying around freely with it. Right. 418 00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:49.119 So there's been flying in Far Cry before. You can get one of 419 00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:52.440 those gyro copters, but here it really is just push this button and you 420 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:56.519 can fly wherever you want. You can shoot things while you're flying. You 421 00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:02.200 can jump off of the Kron onto like some battleship and take that out and 422 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:03.759 jump off it, jump back on the Ekron, that kind of stuff. 423 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.160 I'm like, yeah, it's all this all works for me. This all 424 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:11.400 feels pretty pretty good when you're doing like the base stuff and that's here two 425 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:14.799 like that Far Cry for me, like go to the enemy base and take 426 00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:17.720 that out, and it's like you actually are shooting people with machine gun. 427 00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:22.599 That's when it feels very like the most Far Cry and also maybe the least 428 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:26.480 interesting. It's fine, but that stuff is, you know, that stuff 429 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:30.880 that you have done before in these games a million times whatever. The super 430 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:36.440 Avatar flavorite stuff though, is working for me a lot. Oh that what 431 00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:41.039 a surprise. That's crazy. Are the whales in it? I've not seen 432 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:44.759 a whale yet, but I did get you know, because again the farker 433 00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:47.279 thing. You get a skill tree, and one of them was because you 434 00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:49.839 have to feed your ekron. There's the whole hunting and crafting stuff like in 435 00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:53.359 far Cry. Sure you have to you do have to eat to keep your 436 00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:56.599 stamming up. You also have to feed your ekron. But I got this 437 00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:02.559 skill where if I just sort of skim water, then I eat kron automatically 438 00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:14.400 like fish for itself as hard. Oh my god, I like that a 439 00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:18.839 lot. I hate that Avatar. I became Avatar pilled. This way of 440 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:25.039 water is amazing. It's such literally perfect. So there's nothing wrong with no 441 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:29.680 notes, zero notes. Yeah, you know. I don't want to get 442 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:33.960 like I did enjoy them. I don't want to get people's expectations too high 443 00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:38.559 or anything. But what are we laughing about? What that car is? 444 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:41.799 Just like I have? It is like, but this has no appeal to 445 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:48.880 me whatsoever? What's happening on? I don't understand why these guys are so 446 00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:56.039 high on Avatar. That's it. I just simply cannot understand you. You 447 00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:00.799 are so fucking weird them. Did you get it yet? Of course I 448 00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:03.119 want to get it. Yes, they're not gonna go to animal Kingdom. 449 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:07.119 Of course and going to Animal Kingdom. No, I just don't understand. 450 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:11.359 I don't understand how you three grown ass adults are just like so into Avatar. 451 00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:18.640 It's obviously very big and very important is adjacent, but like nobody I 452 00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.039 know talks about it. Nobody I know talks about it. You're the only 453 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:26.880 three people saying it's important. Like the way you talk about Avatar is the 454 00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:30.279 way I talk about like the Fifth Element, And I just don't get it. 455 00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:34.480 I just don't get it occupy a similar space the fifth wishes. To 456 00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:40.680 be honest, I'll tell dude, I'll take that movie over anything coming out 457 00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:45.400 of Pandora seven days a week on the third one, dude, when they 458 00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:48.519 got to meet a different drive, the fire People. I mean, it's 459 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:52.319 like, how is it so hard to believe that James Camera movie is really 460 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:57.000 good? It's not hard to believe. I've in every way. Let me 461 00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:01.759 be honest, I completely belie believe that this movie is good. That doesn't 462 00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:06.920 change the fact that I don't understand Way of Water. No, I haven't 463 00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:15.240 seen it all right, that movie Scraps Goes. It's literally perfect, is 464 00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:22.359 what he said? Yes, perfect, He's not guy five times and it 465 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:27.240 started again the other night. It's perfect. It's like, there's just something 466 00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:32.000 inherently hilarious about this to me, that you are all such Avatar folks. 467 00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:37.359 See, here's the thing. I hated, avidly hated the first one. 468 00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:39.920 I thought it was so boring, and then I was really hesitant to go 469 00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:45.039 watch the second one, Way of Water with my partner, she loves Avatar. 470 00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:49.920 I sat in there and then I instantly bought in. I consider myself 471 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:52.519 like a movie buff ish. Right. I missed Affenheimer completely when it was 472 00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:58.079 an IMAX, But I've seen Way of Water in theaters at least three times. 473 00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:06.119 That's so much time, the variable frame rate. Man. And this 474 00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:08.079 is just to be clear. This is not just to be clear because there's 475 00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:12.440 been a little bit of controversy about me yucking yums lately. Okay, this 476 00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:19.599 is because I'm totally happy with you. This is not yes, I get 477 00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:23.000 this, you're not. You're just lost. It's like I went to a 478 00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:27.160 museum, stood at a wall and so almost like that's a painting. I'm 479 00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:31.000 like, oh, okay, right like and and I don't and I'm I 480 00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:37.039 can't. I just can't really uh get on board that you think you could 481 00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:44.599 watch Way of Water with an open heart back Yeah, I unclouded by hate. 482 00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:50.279 I will look again. That fucking flight of passage ride is phenomenal. 483 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:54.880 The river Nave terrible, But like that's the thing. I can easily watch 484 00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:58.039 this thing. I know it's like a four hour movie, so I really 485 00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:00.240 got to carve out some time for that. Maybe it's to night or uh, 486 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:05.920 but maybe we should do water. I just think, to me, 487 00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:10.440 it is just hilarious that this thing exists that is so uh sort of special 488 00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:14.679 to you, and I just look at it like I just I just don't 489 00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:16.800 understand how. But that's okay, And that's okay, and that's okay. 490 00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:21.599 That movie makes me want to have a son so that I can be disappointed 491 00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:24.440 in him and then have him like teach me how to hold my breath or 492 00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:29.199 something, because like I think about that scene all the time, like like 493 00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:38.000 I don't know's I can see you, I can see you in the blue. 494 00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:52.519 Make very easy. Oh no, all right, all right, we 495 00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:57.320 gotta we gotta move this on before Okay. Sometimes hey chat, sometimes you 496 00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:01.000 gotta keep that ship to yourself, Okay, keep that ship to yourself. 497 00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:07.320 Oh my, I never noticed that, how have you never noticed that I 498 00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:12.079 don't understand. So yeah, I think this game is actually looking pretty prophisy. 499 00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:15.280 This comes out this year, Mike, December seventh, right on the 500 00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:21.119 Game Awards. Game that's not getting delayed, like basically right now, this 501 00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:27.119 is gonna be the holiday break game for me. Yeah, this and and 502 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:31.599 RoboCop Rogue City because there's just no time. A game. Another game that 503 00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:37.800 some of us have been playing, keeping in time with spooky seasons real quick 504 00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:44.519 on on upf we played Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed the ECDO edition ECTO. Yes we 505 00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:47.280 did. Yeah. This was another one of those asynchronous games where it's like 506 00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:52.320 a party of four have the ability to go against like another player that plays 507 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:58.719 as a ghost. The ghost is mucking stuff up. The player ghost has 508 00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:02.719 like three it's actually three lives, and the Ghostbusters have to just like shoot 509 00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:07.239 their beams at them, trap them in a the trapper, and then get 510 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:12.920 on with their day. But the ghosts GB you you had the chance to 511 00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:15.119 play as the ghost one time? What is that like? Because none of 512 00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:20.599 us got right. So I didn't do the tutorial for the go I didn't 513 00:36:20.599 --> 00:36:22.039 really do the tutorial at all, So I was like going in there. 514 00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:24.199 I read up on what to do in this game, and it seemed basic 515 00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:28.039 enough as a ghostbuster, so that I felt pretty comfortable going in there and 516 00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:29.760 knowing what to do, and that turned out to be the case. We 517 00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:34.679 kind of figured it out pretty quickly. The ghost I my what I got 518 00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:36.920 from playing it, and I did end up winning, but I was like 519 00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:39.960 mostly just trying to survive you guys encounters with you guys for the most part, 520 00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:44.719 while moving around and jumping into a bunch of objects, which I think 521 00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:49.599 was increasing the haunted level of a room in the game. And eventually I 522 00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:52.239 got to the point where like, this room is completely haunted, and my 523 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:54.880 haunting level of the building jumped up dramatically, and that seems to be my 524 00:36:54.960 --> 00:37:00.760 goal. So and then whenever we I would get an encounter with into an 525 00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:04.840 encounter with you all, I would have all my abilities of like, okay, 526 00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:08.039 here's like dropping some minions or whatever for you guys to fight, or 527 00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:12.679 I can do this big ultimate that turns me into a tornado, which gives 528 00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:15.280 me a chance. It slows you all down and gives me a chance to 529 00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:19.760 get out of the room and go hide. That hiding aspect seems to be 530 00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:22.679 the biggest thing, though most of the time you just want to avoid the 531 00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:25.360 ghostbusters see if you can hide. At least that's how I played it and 532 00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:30.320 ended up winning. I think there's probably some incentive to go in an encounter 533 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:34.679 and like to confront you all, because I think that probably also helps if 534 00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:37.599 I were to slim one of you or something like that, but I was 535 00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:39.800 still figuring that out. I will say that you guys got pretty good at 536 00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:45.400 destroying my portals, which are the lives you mentioned, and that was like 537 00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:47.840 I had a chance to go in there and maybe try to throw you guys 538 00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:51.840 off or or slow you down, but that was like a really risky thing 539 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:53.559 of you are all are there. So if I go there and encounter you 540 00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:57.159 and then I run out of my abilities and I don't have an ability to 541 00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:00.440 have the option to escape, you guys are going to is at me, 542 00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:02.000 trap me, and I'll lose a life as well, and then you'll then 543 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:06.519 you'll be able to destroy the portal, so I basically I'll be losing two 544 00:38:06.639 --> 00:38:08.800 lives. So I made the decision after you guys were like really going in 545 00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:13.159 all in on destroying that portal. I'm just gonna dip. I'm gonna get 546 00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:15.880 out here. I'm gonna do some haunting and see if I can accomplish something. 547 00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:20.239 And I think doing that really helped. Overall it was it was fun. 548 00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:23.480 I had a good time charming. It very charming. I love all 549 00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:28.880 the Ghostbusters accoutrement throughout, Like the experience of like, yeah, yeah, 550 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:31.320 there is Ray and there is Winston and they're hanging out in the ghost house 551 00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:37.239 has all these like fun references and stuff. But it's more like, you 552 00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:38.199 know, this is a cool party game if you guys are gonna have a 553 00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:40.559 game night with your friends, and the discords like, hey, what should 554 00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:44.360 we play now? If this is in the rotation, I think that's the 555 00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:46.000 perfect place for it. Keep it in the rotation. I don't know if 556 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:50.000 it's a game I'm gonna go back to every weekend, but every couple of 557 00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:52.079 weekends when we're looking for something to play, I would totally keep it right 558 00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:55.880 there. The leveling system is interesting because you level up your equipment the more 559 00:38:55.960 --> 00:39:00.400 you use it. So if you wind up using your trapper lot and successfully 560 00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:06.159 trapping the ghosts, your trapper is gonna level up more so than someone else's 561 00:39:06.159 --> 00:39:10.280 because y'all were trapping the most, Dan Bailey, you and I would barely 562 00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:14.239 throw mine out, so mine was still level one by the time we ended 563 00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:16.320 our a little session. Maybe this should be a game of the year category 564 00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:22.719 where it's like the best game to play with my friends online that I will 565 00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:27.400 never touch otherwise. Yeah, I love that, Yeah, totally, because 566 00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:30.119 I think we can throw you some older games in there that are like popping 567 00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:32.559 back off again, because I would put it like Halo Infinite in that list 568 00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:37.400 and stuff like that right now. But yeah, that's definitely a good category 569 00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:42.000 because I think that's a reasonable thing for a game to be. A game 570 00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:44.400 doesn't have to be everything to everyone. It doesn't have to be the one 571 00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:46.800 game you play, although a lot of these asymmetrical multiplayer games turn into that 572 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:52.199 for certain audiences. Obviously Dead by Daylight is that game for a huge audience. 573 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:54.639 But there's a lot of these now, and I think if some of 574 00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:57.559 them are like, no, yeah, hey, if every once in a 575 00:39:57.599 --> 00:40:00.239 while you want to get the friends together to play something like and you're good 576 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:02.719 at that, not like great, not the best thing in the world, 577 00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:07.719 but you're good and serviceable, which is I think this game is like just 578 00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:09.559 a step above that. That's great, that's fantastic. You don't have to 579 00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:14.719 be more than that. Speaking about Game of the Year, we have one 580 00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:19.280 game listed here that may be near the top of some folks's lists, like 581 00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:23.199 manatta, you've beat Balderskate three. Wow? Right, Yeah, isn't it 582 00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:28.599 stupid that I feel like accomplished, like I did something important here? I 583 00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:30.599 beat All this stuff we do is meaningless, but we can't acknowledge it, 584 00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:34.079 Mike, So just keep going, just keep going. That's great, thank 585 00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:36.679 you very much. Yeah, you know, I've been kind of whittling away 586 00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:38.840 at this, putting a lot of time in it, especially the last month 587 00:40:39.039 --> 00:40:44.440 really, after like a lot of like the giant wave of releases that was 588 00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:49.559 happening basically NonStop throughout this year. I always wanted to make sure I went 589 00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:52.800 back and played more balder Skate three and made an effort of beating it because 590 00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:55.159 I do think it's going to be important for Game of the Year discussion. 591 00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:58.760 And yeah, it is going to be important for that, because it's great. 592 00:40:59.239 --> 00:41:02.760 It It is fantastic. I think that it keeps a really nice pace. 593 00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:07.239 I know I used to read that some people thought like Act three dropped 594 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:09.400 off I don't know if I just different opinion from them, or if it's 595 00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:13.960 been patched up bit better than I got. What Like, isn't it possible 596 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:16.639 for you to have a very different experience in Actree than other people? Maybe, 597 00:41:16.760 --> 00:41:21.920 but like such a pro gamer, you can kind of do almost everything, 598 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:25.639 like and I have a feeling I did most of the big quest chains 599 00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:29.679 in Act three. I know there is one involving Rafael that I didn't do, 600 00:41:29.719 --> 00:41:34.440 which is apparently a lot of people's favorite actually, But just in general, 601 00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:36.599 though, what I like about the game is how dense it is. 602 00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:38.960 You know, it has that three act structure, and each act is basically 603 00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:45.119 another area that you're exploring, but each of them are again just so dense, 604 00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:50.840 Like almost every place you go there's going to be something like a question 605 00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:57.519 chain, an interesting encounter, somebody to talk to, some secret to find. 606 00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:01.320 And that's what kind of remind me of something like a koetor I never 607 00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:05.360 played like the older Boulders Gates, but that's what it really is, bring 608 00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:07.480 me back to that kind of thing where, yeah, like maybe this version 609 00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:14.000 of Tattoo Na Kotor isn't some giant, sprawling open world thing, but every 610 00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:17.599 location here matters, and there's something I'm going to find interesting everywhere I go. 611 00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:22.320 And then I think just the cast of characters is really really likable, 612 00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:24.079 really interesting here. I think you're seeing that right, Like these characters are 613 00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:30.039 popping up I imagine a lot of people's social mediat Oh yeah, everywhere, 614 00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:34.000 yestely. Yeah. I saw somebody say like, it's probably the most iconic 615 00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.199 cast we've we've gotten like a game of any sort like this since maybe Fireing 616 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:43.599 in Three Houses right up, Yeah exactly. I think that, well, 617 00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:46.280 this game is doing so much for those by aware freaks who a large part 618 00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:51.360 of what they like is just that kind of This is my found family of 619 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:55.000 slash sci fi freaks, right exactly. And you know, maybe we're gonna 620 00:42:55.039 --> 00:43:00.480 get intimate. Who knows, You're definitely gonna get intimate. You are definitely 621 00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:04.679 going to change any of them. Mike. Oh yeah, shadow Heart totally 622 00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:10.679 saw the light and I saw more of her. You saw the light, 623 00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:15.400 you saw her dark areas? Yeah, yeah, so yeah, no, 624 00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:16.840 yeah, I mean shadow Heart, we're good now, we're we're in love. 625 00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:21.440 I think something like that. I mean, you're still having sex with 626 00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:23.800 all the other people in the party, but your show I did have sex 627 00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:27.280 with Karlac and then Shadowear didn't really like that, so I had a reload 628 00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:32.280 to save. Excuse me, it's Mike monogamy. Please, Oh my god, 629 00:43:32.519 --> 00:43:36.599 my name, man, I have a good name. I just you're 630 00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:39.840 like into your thirties, and I don't understand how all of the names have 631 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:45.119 not yet been discovered. I don't. We're very creative people, that's true. 632 00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:49.480 Yeah, there's some really dark names, but you know those are those 633 00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:55.039 only exist within the Mike illuminatim. All right, all right, cool for 634 00:43:55.159 --> 00:43:59.840 that. Yeah, it's gonna be uh in your top three for the top 635 00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:02.920 four or top your top four for gaming. I mean it's my top five. 636 00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:08.280 I could definitely probably going to be in my top five. And you 637 00:44:08.360 --> 00:44:12.360 know what, I think the ending was very good. I think that could 638 00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:15.159 be hard to do in these games, especially since an RPGs there's often that 639 00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:20.760 kind of reverse difficulty curve. By the end, you just have so many 640 00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:24.039 abilities and so many tools that's kind of hard to make things challenging. And 641 00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:28.920 you almost do feel that a little bit in some normal Act three encounters. 642 00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:31.719 But then the very end stuff they do some interesting things to ramp up the 643 00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:36.679 difficulty to make it an interesting challenge and to still make it a spectacle. 644 00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:39.599 So I was really happy with the last few encounters. They did, in 645 00:44:39.719 --> 00:44:44.840 fact feel epic, which is what you want for the finale of a game 646 00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:49.199 that you've been playing for seventy eighty hours and you have all this investment into 647 00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:52.559 Is that your your game clock seventy eighty Yeah, mine was seventy. I 648 00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:55.920 know that's probably essarily like that's a little lower than some people. I did 649 00:44:57.760 --> 00:44:59.920 a lot of them. Yeah, well, you know, I'm very good. 650 00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:01.639 Yeah or no, no, maybe that is normal. I don't know. 651 00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:06.159 I guess I haven't looked, but I did most side missions, at 652 00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:07.119 least some of the big ones. I know there were some things I missed. 653 00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:10.679 There's something with the Katheki or whatever they're called that I didn't do much 654 00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:15.840 of. And again I somehow didn't really do the whole Raphael chain. But 655 00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:20.239 otherwise I did a lot. I did all this stuff I really wanted to 656 00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:22.599 do. I definitely feel like I had a full experience. So yeah, 657 00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:29.039 Mike, do you think I would still enjoy my time and walk away feeling 658 00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:35.199 good if I just critical path through Balder's Gate three? Yeah, I think 659 00:45:35.239 --> 00:45:38.639 you'd be fine, I'm or you know, like like I was mostly just 660 00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:43.800 concerned with doing the size stuff that involved my party members. That's why I 661 00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:47.679 didn't do a lot of the gith Yankee stuff, because it involved that Lazell 662 00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:52.719 or whatever character who I wasn't entirely feeling. Shouldn't make you horny, right, 663 00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:55.679 Okay it might. It's hard to say that because some of that, 664 00:45:55.960 --> 00:46:00.800 like not critical pathing, like some of those big side quest chains do tie 665 00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:05.440 into the main missions, and also I think make them easier. Oh so 666 00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:07.079 right, it's almost a bit of like a breath of the lofting, like, 667 00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:09.119 yeah, you can go straight to the castle, but it's going to 668 00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:12.920 be harder because you have to fight those bosses there. Not literally that, 669 00:46:13.559 --> 00:46:15.760 but a little bit like that. But you know, I wouldn't worry about 670 00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:16.440 that, Jen, I just say, you know, just play it. 671 00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:19.960 If you want to explore a round more, do that. If you like 672 00:46:20.079 --> 00:46:23.280 don't quite beat it or whatever. That's it's the kind of game where if 673 00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:28.840 like you spend twenty five to thirty five hours in doing anything, whether it's 674 00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:30.960 critical bathing or doing a side quest, you're gonna have a pretty good idea 675 00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:35.519 why people like it and what they what they do like about it. I 676 00:46:35.599 --> 00:46:39.199 feel like I just gotta just lock myself in and just choose to stream it 677 00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:44.119 for some period of time so I'm forced to play it. I'm feeling exactly 678 00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:45.719 the same way. Yeah, streaming it definitely helped me, at least in 679 00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:50.320 the beginning, especially since I'm not super familiar with some of this dungeons and 680 00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:53.639 dragon stuff. I didn't really understand how spells where it's and like what a 681 00:46:53.760 --> 00:47:00.079 long rest does versus a short rest kind of things like that. So you 682 00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:02.159 been get and just having people tell me what this is, what I should 683 00:47:02.199 --> 00:47:05.440 be doing, and the game is. You know, I talked about that 684 00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:07.960 reverse difficulty curve. There is definitely a bit of that here. Oh yeah, 685 00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:12.760 early on, especially depending on your party members. Like that's just uh 686 00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:15.320 why it's a very good thing they locked to at level twelve because basically after 687 00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:19.719 that, Oh my understanding is you become a god comes up the level twenty, 688 00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:22.760 and it's like you can like manipulate time and stuff like that. So 689 00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.840 yes, yeah, and like you know, I had Gale my party, 690 00:47:25.880 --> 00:47:30.280 and I think most magic users at first are just very very weak, and 691 00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:32.360 by the end of the game. Oh Gale is amazing, and uh he 692 00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:37.559 could teleport around the battlefield and do these giant area of effects spells. But 693 00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:39.480 in the beginning, it's like, here's my fireball can trip and it's going 694 00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:45.400 to miss and then I'm going to get hit once and die. So yeah, 695 00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:49.039 uh it's good. So I don't know if yeah, I don't know 696 00:47:49.079 --> 00:47:52.280 if you all think you're gonna spend much more time with it, but like 697 00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:54.639 I have to. I feel like I have to. Yeah, here's that. 698 00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:58.199 It's funny because like, yeah, like that is part of why I 699 00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:00.599 went to it. It's I did sort of feel pressure, and I'm glad 700 00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:02.920 I did because I really enjoyed it, but I was kind of feeling guilty 701 00:48:04.039 --> 00:48:07.000 a bit not playing more of it. No, I know that, like 702 00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:09.679 you, You've been really high on it the last couple of weeks. Tam 703 00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:14.559 Lucy have also been really high on it, so is Bailey. And I 704 00:48:14.639 --> 00:48:17.360 feel like I've tried to restart it multiple times now, all with the same 705 00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:23.559 character black lesno block. I just keep bouncing off of it. I don't 706 00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:28.119 know. Maybe it's just because I whenever I revisit it. Other games are 707 00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:30.599 also popping out. Speaking about games. I don't know who put this on 708 00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:35.840 the list here steam Deck case. I got a new case with the steam 709 00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:42.880 Deck. It's from Satisfy. It's called the stillf Grip. Yeah, st 710 00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:46.079 y l thh stilf. I'm sure they want you to pronounce that stealth. 711 00:48:46.519 --> 00:48:51.199 I'm sure they do, and yet I'm gonna say stilf. Okay. So 712 00:48:51.599 --> 00:48:54.480 this is like the case part of it, and it like it created uh 713 00:48:54.679 --> 00:48:59.280 snaps on and listeners. I'm gonna try to describe it. It looks like 714 00:48:59.320 --> 00:49:00.960 a batter rang you know what it looks like. It looks Yeah, it 715 00:49:01.039 --> 00:49:05.679 looks like when the Batmobile has the armor on and like, was it Batman 716 00:49:05.800 --> 00:49:07.960 returns or something like that. He like, oh's press the button and so 717 00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:12.920 it goes on the kind it has the little the wells for the thumb sticks 718 00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:15.039 to keep them safe and really what it is it looks really bulky. But 719 00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:21.639 compare this to the actual steam Deck case and this is actually really slimmed down. 720 00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:23.960 It makes it easier to like throw into a bag and not worry about 721 00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:28.840 the analog sticks. Yeah it is, man, it's a goofy looking thing, 722 00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:30.639 though, is it not? Like yep, very real? It is. 723 00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:35.119 I do not find this to be aesthetically pleasing. Well you know what 724 00:49:35.320 --> 00:49:37.559 it looks like, goofy in a fun way, I'll say it, sure, 725 00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:43.159 sure, yeah, exactly. And then this snaps onto the front and 726 00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:45.519 then you gotta have like a little grip thing that happens. And I don't 727 00:49:46.039 --> 00:49:51.199 necessarily love this because the steam deck is already so bulky, but I'll say 728 00:49:51.239 --> 00:49:52.760 this doesn't really get in the way too much. It adds a little bit 729 00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:58.800 of extra rubberized grip stuff here on the back, and that's pleasant. It 730 00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:01.159 doesn't make it worse use, for sure. I just don't know if I 731 00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:05.480 already find the steam deck pretty comfortable to hold. My problem was never the 732 00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:07.159 never the way to hold it. It was just like the weight. It 733 00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:12.639 was a little bit heavy for me. Sure, but I'll having this and 734 00:50:12.679 --> 00:50:15.760 then having the snap on front case. I think I actually will keep using 735 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:19.199 this because I'm getting to a point where I'm like, oh man, this 736 00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:22.159 steam I'll be a real bummer. If my steam deck thumbsticks stopped working, 737 00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:25.320 I would probably get it fixed, but mostly I probably just set it the 738 00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:28.480 side to say I'm gonna get a fixed and never use it again. And 739 00:50:28.599 --> 00:50:30.039 I like traveling with it, and I like throwing it in my bag, 740 00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:34.599 and I'm pretty irresponsible, so I'll just like, Okay, we're packing up, 741 00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:36.360 I got to get the kids ready. I'm just gonna throw this in 742 00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:38.400 my bag and hope for the best and having this as a way to like 743 00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:40.440 make sure, ohh no, I have to hope for the best. This 744 00:50:40.559 --> 00:50:43.760 is going to protect it. This is straight up gonna keep it safe. 745 00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:46.239 Yeah, that is really nice to have. So I'm I'm a pretty big 746 00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:51.360 fan of the way that this works. Have you considered just starting to wear 747 00:50:51.719 --> 00:50:55.480 cargo shorts grabbing? Yes? In there on the side, I want to 748 00:50:55.519 --> 00:50:59.079 bring cargo I do. I still do wear cargo shorts. I'm gonna bring 749 00:50:59.079 --> 00:51:00.719 it. I believe that in this sect. Yeah, of course that's great. 750 00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:04.719 And if I had a bigger fanny pack, maybe would go in there. 751 00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:08.719 I want, but it's not. It's the biggest fanny pack I can 752 00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:12.559 get, like a three x fanny pack. That's I believe. That's just 753 00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:15.519 a messenger bag. Yeah, that's not fitting my messenger bag either. So 754 00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:21.639 I agree though, like that that big Honkin valve case that came with the 755 00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:25.400 thing is just like yeah, complete, It's just it's luggage. It's luggage. 756 00:51:27.159 --> 00:51:31.480 It's gonna take up most of that bag. And that's you also kind 757 00:51:31.519 --> 00:51:34.960 of need it if you want to keep this thing like secure and safe in 758 00:51:35.079 --> 00:51:38.480 terms of scratches and the thumbsticks. So having this is an alternative. I'm 759 00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:42.239 a big fan of that. And that's yeah. And I think we're gonna 760 00:51:42.639 --> 00:51:44.599 be with the steam deck for a while, so I'm like, yeah, 761 00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:49.000 I'm gonna keep using this all right. That brings us, folks to the 762 00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:54.079 game of the week. That game being Alan Wake two, Game of the 763 00:51:54.119 --> 00:52:00.280 Week. Hold on, hold Game of the Week, Alana two. Yo, 764 00:52:00.519 --> 00:52:05.639 Okay back. You seem very excited. Please Yeah, Beckard, Jane, 765 00:52:05.679 --> 00:52:07.559 you guys I think have Mike as have played at all. I've played 766 00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:10.199 a little bit. I'll talk about how I'm feeling about it because I want 767 00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:19.039 your guys to help. But you guys seem I'm gonna say enamored. You're 768 00:52:19.039 --> 00:52:23.280 a spooky boy. I'm sure I don't own spookiness, but I am a 769 00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:28.440 spooky boy. Literally have a Jack O Lan T shirt. It's fucking Halloween, 770 00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:37.639 Mike, spooky. Come on, I mean it for you. You're 771 00:52:37.679 --> 00:52:45.360 young, listen, No no one will ever disagree with that list. Uh, 772 00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:51.639 this game is I just cannot I really cannot understand how much I'm enjoying 773 00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:54.199 this game. I just want you all to know I am freaking out over 774 00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:59.320 every minute of this game. It is doing something for me that I didn't 775 00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:04.440 know I could have done to me. I didn't know I would be able 776 00:53:04.519 --> 00:53:09.239 to experience. I obviously was very excited about this game leading into the release, 777 00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:15.880 because you know, the entire Remedy pedigree has treated me very well. 778 00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:21.360 So for maybe quantum breaks here and there, but you know, real great 779 00:53:21.400 --> 00:53:24.880 pedigree, real great track record. I got all caught up in the control 780 00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:30.599 lore bullshit and the DLC and then you know, I loved the original Island 781 00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:35.480 make and I really love the fact that I just didn't quite know what to 782 00:53:35.639 --> 00:53:37.960 expect going into this, right, like you for my money, I'm like, 783 00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:42.320 all right, I'm assuming we're gonna have some like flashlight combat, We're 784 00:53:42.360 --> 00:53:45.960 gonna have some like you know, just spooky pages, and we're just gonna 785 00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:49.760 we're gonna take this to the next level and see what really happens with thirteen 786 00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:53.519 years in between two titles, right, And what they've done to me is 787 00:53:53.679 --> 00:54:02.320 just such a wildly enjoyable and successful mixture of all these different ways of narrative 788 00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:07.480 storytelling. And I think for me, this game has done what a lot 789 00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:15.119 of other heavily narrative and expositionally driven software and interactive mediums have tried to do 790 00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:22.800 right and incorporate a gripping and an engaging story without fucking just like making you 791 00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:25.119 sit there and just let it play out, right, Yeah, a lot 792 00:54:25.159 --> 00:54:28.599 of cutscenes or whatever it is. Yeah, So can we talk about the 793 00:54:28.639 --> 00:54:31.400 specifics of how that works, because I'm like getting on board with that, 794 00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:35.440 and I think I understand what you're saying, what you mean. So I 795 00:54:35.559 --> 00:54:38.920 think this game takes a lot borrows a lot from like True Detective season one, 796 00:54:39.599 --> 00:54:44.000 and certainly like American horror story in a lot of ways, and Twin 797 00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:49.280 Peaks, and of of course Twin Peaks, you know with the original of 798 00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:52.239 course that I can't speak to, will have to get some Disney experts away 799 00:54:52.320 --> 00:55:00.760 in on that a little bit. I just think like they've really it's very 800 00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:04.960 multi dimensional, and how they tell this story with video overlays like they did 801 00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:09.239 in Control, with just really inventive like ghosting effects. I just think there's 802 00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:15.519 so many creative ways that this game is able to like manipulate itself, right, 803 00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:19.320 the illusion of it manipulating itself. Right, I am positive, like 804 00:55:19.719 --> 00:55:22.559 I'm buckled into the roller coaster, right, Like I think it's still a 805 00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:27.199 roller coaster. But sure it makes you feel like you're engaged and you are 806 00:55:27.559 --> 00:55:29.960 you're the one pushing the stuff forward, right, even though you might not 807 00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:34.039 be. That doesn't matter if you feel that way exactly. And like again, 808 00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.639 you know, if you were able to like blur that line for me, 809 00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:42.880 wonderful that you know you've done the same. Like an open world game 810 00:55:43.440 --> 00:55:45.119 strives to be that kind of thing as well, right, and it just 811 00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:50.800 sort of has to hope that you kind of trigger all those checkpoints. At 812 00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:54.159 the same time, I think this is definitely much more you know, forced 813 00:55:54.280 --> 00:56:00.519 and much more spoon fed. But there is something about this game's overall presentation 814 00:56:00.280 --> 00:56:07.239 and how it seems to be this like sort of metamorphosizing organism right where you're 815 00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:12.199 just sort of like I'm playing it. I'm a detective. I'm and I'm 816 00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:15.440 doing the red string and the and the corkboard, and I'm doing that, 817 00:56:15.880 --> 00:56:17.920 and then I'm doing third person horror action, and then I'm doing all these 818 00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:22.039 other things, and I'm just really blown away as how all that stuff comes 819 00:56:22.079 --> 00:56:29.280 together so well and so effectively. I think in a year where like Arisen 820 00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:35.079 Evil four remake comes out, which is regarded as like the king of you 821 00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:37.760 know, survival horror. Yeah, but very much. Look, Mike, 822 00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:39.920 I'm with you there. That's one of my favorite games of all time. 823 00:56:40.440 --> 00:56:45.119 But I think you play this game so many months later and you're just like, 824 00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:51.639 holy fuck, this is a twenty twenty three Survival Hordor successor. It 825 00:56:51.800 --> 00:56:58.760 is a contemporary in the best possible way and such a satisfying like Evolution where 826 00:56:58.760 --> 00:57:01.599 you're just like, oh man and Ari four. It's fucking older than like, 827 00:57:01.880 --> 00:57:05.480 you know everything, right, it's twenty years old, right, is 828 00:57:05.519 --> 00:57:08.480 it not? It's like it's up there. The remake isn't okay, buddy, 829 00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:10.960 But do you understand what I'm saying. Underneath the hood, it's the 830 00:57:12.039 --> 00:57:15.719 same god damn game. It has contemporary look, it has contemporary new gig 831 00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:22.119 But are you wait, are you unable to hear what I'm saying? Like, 832 00:57:22.280 --> 00:57:25.599 yeah, okay, okay, let's yeah again. I'm never gonna pooh 833 00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:30.639 pooh Resident Evil four. But I just think to have a game born of 834 00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:35.800 this era, born of this contemporary is a truly wild thing to see because 835 00:57:35.800 --> 00:57:39.239 it's like, fuck, yeah, survival horror can be this now. This 836 00:57:39.480 --> 00:57:44.320 is the best effort we have now in that genre, because you know, 837 00:57:44.480 --> 00:57:49.239 don't forget like a lot of the story telling devices and the story itself and 838 00:57:49.320 --> 00:57:52.840 all the things that are stuck in that beautiful thing that was Ari four. 839 00:57:52.480 --> 00:57:55.760 Now in allen Wick two, it's like, this is twenty twenty three. 840 00:57:55.840 --> 00:58:00.440 It is so fresh, it is so new it is. It has narrative 841 00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:06.760 nuances and and storytelling devices that are so fresh and feel so new that to 842 00:58:06.880 --> 00:58:13.519 me it is a very like satisfying evolution of the genre for me, for 843 00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:16.440 my money, and I'm really excited to play it. I just you know, 844 00:58:16.480 --> 00:58:21.280 I'm going on a vacation on Thursday, and I'm kind of like I 845 00:58:21.320 --> 00:58:24.000 don't want to. Yeah, don't come back after ten days and try. 846 00:58:24.039 --> 00:58:28.800 That's okay, it You'll be able to do it. You'll you'll be fine. 847 00:58:28.960 --> 00:58:30.840 I'm telling you, do not start this game before your trip. Do 848 00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:37.480 not. And I think as much as horny as Remedy is to like be 849 00:58:37.679 --> 00:58:43.079 episodic and TV seasonal and do all these things this game. They're doing it 850 00:58:43.239 --> 00:58:46.880 the best. They are able to hit these like episodic cliffhangers in a really 851 00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:52.559 really awesome way, amazing original music, just like the whole package. Like 852 00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:55.400 Stays is watching this game, I'm like, you have to. I'm like 853 00:58:55.480 --> 00:59:00.239 doing my favor. It's the spooking time you did. You did Halloween to 854 00:59:00.320 --> 00:59:04.599 be Please let me do this to you and let just experience. And she 855 00:59:04.800 --> 00:59:09.480 is so gripped and engaged to what this whole thing is. God, this 856 00:59:09.719 --> 00:59:15.800 game has skyrocketed on my list. I'm I'm just head over heels for it. 857 00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:19.880 Yeah, how are you finding it? Greg? We talked about this 858 00:59:20.039 --> 00:59:22.519 briefly in How I Felt last week in Game of Mornings, but I think 859 00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:27.119 I can definitively say, as of right now, this is my game of 860 00:59:27.199 --> 00:59:30.320 the year. Oh my god, I mean it's it's and like you know, 861 00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:32.719 I don't. I don't want to keep too much praise on onto it 862 00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:37.239 to build anyone's expectations and they wind up being disappointed. But similar to Backlard, 863 00:59:37.320 --> 00:59:42.599 this is firing off on all cylinders and it feels specifically targeted to me, 864 00:59:43.119 --> 00:59:45.920 and it feels like Sam Blake was like, Jan, this is this 865 00:59:46.079 --> 00:59:49.159 is for you, Bud. This is for you. I know you didn't 866 00:59:49.159 --> 00:59:52.880 you only played an hour of Allan Wake one and you like control and you're 867 00:59:52.880 --> 00:59:58.199 curious about checking out Quanta Break. But this is for you. Everything that 868 00:59:58.239 --> 01:00:04.119 Backlar said times times three. There's a lot of clever storytelling stuff and just 869 01:00:04.199 --> 01:00:09.840 how empowered you feel as the player, specifically as Saga Anderson, and Yo 870 01:00:10.039 --> 01:00:15.119 shouts out, the fucking Saga Anderson. What a character, great name. 871 01:00:15.639 --> 01:00:20.880 I think one of the best characters to come out in recent years. I'm 872 01:00:20.920 --> 01:00:23.559 not saying the best, but like one of the best. The way that 873 01:00:24.159 --> 01:00:32.719 they intertwine live action elements gameplay elements absolutely stunning and fantastic. We haven't really 874 01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:37.400 talked about how great the game looks. Oh my god, I'm playing on 875 01:00:37.440 --> 01:00:43.320 a PS five on performance mode. Absolutely stunning. And hey, you know, 876 01:00:43.679 --> 01:00:46.119 a big mechanic of this game is the flashlight. But the way that 877 01:00:46.199 --> 01:00:51.760 they play with lights or the absence of lights absolutely fantastic. There's an obscene 878 01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:53.800 amount of coffee in this game, so you know, I'm already. I'm 879 01:00:53.800 --> 01:00:58.679 already and the big thought about you coffee, I gotta get you an allen 880 01:00:58.679 --> 01:01:01.920 Wick Thermis or something. Man one right over there. Oh cool, send 881 01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:07.280 it to Jen. That's mine. Okay, bye by Mike. Oh look 882 01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:14.199 at the jamis. Look at those Yeah, I kind of want to grab 883 01:01:14.239 --> 01:01:17.400 one of those. I don't normally buy a lot of gaming memorabilia. Look 884 01:01:17.400 --> 01:01:23.920 at that jump scarecrub. But it's just something about it is just firing off 885 01:01:23.960 --> 01:01:27.519 on all cylinders. And then like you know, the undertones of the story 886 01:01:27.719 --> 01:01:34.800 of Alan trying to grip with the overwhelming pressure of like what happened in the 887 01:01:34.880 --> 01:01:40.000 last thirteen years. Oh shit, I got a right and like the pressure 888 01:01:40.079 --> 01:01:44.480 of being a creative and it's not like, yes, it's a thirteen year 889 01:01:44.519 --> 01:01:50.119 gap from Alan Wake one to two, but this brings in elements from control 890 01:01:50.519 --> 01:01:53.239 very heavily, right out of the gate too, right out of the gate, 891 01:01:53.320 --> 01:01:58.679 And I can't speak to what it incorporates from Quantum Break, but I'm 892 01:01:58.719 --> 01:02:04.639 sure that it heavily considers those bits. I can see where people will get 893 01:02:04.639 --> 01:02:10.440 frustrated with some of the puzzle stuff because it feels like you are given a 894 01:02:12.199 --> 01:02:17.719 pretty long leash to explore, but not given enough information as to where to 895 01:02:17.800 --> 01:02:23.599 go and what to do and how to play within those rules. I do 896 01:02:23.800 --> 01:02:28.280 occasionally get a little bit lost in some of the maps, and I'll give 897 01:02:28.320 --> 01:02:32.679 it that some of the specific little puzzles I've gotten frustrated at, And maybe 898 01:02:32.719 --> 01:02:39.199 that's just because we play games so weird sometimes where we have to like go 899 01:02:39.400 --> 01:02:44.119 find the critical path but also try and explore and speed through the game as 900 01:02:44.159 --> 01:02:47.960 fast as possible. But this is one of those games where just sitting there 901 01:02:49.199 --> 01:02:52.280 watching it and just experiencing, I'm like, I'm trying to breathe this as 902 01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:54.960 much of it in because I just wanted to fill my lungs because I just 903 01:02:55.199 --> 01:03:00.320 love it so much. And you know, if you are a bit fan 904 01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:06.119 of control and didn't really like Alan Wake one that much, there is plenty 905 01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:10.800 for you control freaks out there, yep. And it's there's a lot of 906 01:03:10.880 --> 01:03:17.599 cheap pops built into it, and it really puts over everything that has come 907 01:03:17.639 --> 01:03:22.079 before it in Remedy's wheelhouse, and this is Remedy firing right off, firing 908 01:03:22.119 --> 01:03:25.719 off on all cylinders, and like the budget and the money behind it definitely 909 01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:30.119 shows. Yeah. So I'm definitely in the position where I am afraid of 910 01:03:30.199 --> 01:03:34.639 bouncing off of it. And you nailed exactly what the issue was for me. 911 01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:39.079 Is the X, the navigating the map where I'm feeling a little bit 912 01:03:39.119 --> 01:03:44.920 lost, which I have a pretty short attention span for that sort of thing, 913 01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:46.159 and I think a lot of that is on me. And I want 914 01:03:46.239 --> 01:03:50.239 to like this game, so I'm trying to get in there and get the 915 01:03:50.679 --> 01:03:52.840 hang of things, and I think I'm starting to do that. It's just 916 01:03:53.199 --> 01:03:57.239 there is an order of operations that you need to pay attention to in the 917 01:03:57.320 --> 01:04:00.480 game, and you need to play things that way. So I was supposed 918 01:04:00.480 --> 01:04:02.639 to be finding this object, and so I'm like looking for it, but 919 01:04:02.760 --> 01:04:05.000 it's like, well, no you're not. Don't look for it. Don't 920 01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:10.079 be an idiot. You got to go to your mind place and put some 921 01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:13.000 pictures down first, and then we're basically going to tell you where to find 922 01:04:13.039 --> 01:04:15.199 it. And I'm like, oh, okay. And I had been to 923 01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:17.639 the place where this this object ended up being, and I was right next 924 01:04:17.679 --> 01:04:20.199 to it, and I could have found it if the game would have let 925 01:04:20.239 --> 01:04:23.480 me. But the game's not gonna let me until I do it in it's 926 01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:27.840 certain order of operations, and I think it's it is very much like the 927 01:04:28.519 --> 01:04:32.320 Haunted House, the roller Coaster of You're gonna walk across these thresholds, and 928 01:04:32.559 --> 01:04:34.960 music's gonna start playing. And then if you want to go back and oh 929 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:38.119 I forgot something, let me go get that. You're gonna come back. 930 01:04:38.159 --> 01:04:40.440 You're gonna cross the same threshold. The music is going to be playing the 931 01:04:40.480 --> 01:04:43.079 exact same way, in the exact same spot. And I think for the 932 01:04:43.119 --> 01:04:45.760 most part, that is not a problem. It's like, no, this 933 01:04:45.800 --> 01:04:47.519 is the game they belt You just need to like play along the way the 934 01:04:47.559 --> 01:04:50.719 game needs you to play along. And it's taken me a second to get 935 01:04:50.760 --> 01:04:54.039 the hang of that. Yeah, I think I think I am getting the 936 01:04:54.079 --> 01:04:56.599 hang of it. I am returning to the mind place now every chance I 937 01:04:56.639 --> 01:04:59.599 see the little emblem, now, oh I have something to do in my 938 01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:02.079 mind place. Let me go do that before I do anything else, because 939 01:05:02.159 --> 01:05:05.639 because you need to and like and it just like speaks to what you said. 940 01:05:05.639 --> 01:05:10.360 We're saying backlare the variety of ways that they enable that they tell the 941 01:05:10.400 --> 01:05:15.079 story. It's in all this gameplay. It's in all the traditional remedy stuff 942 01:05:15.199 --> 01:05:17.599 of Yeah, there's gonna be cut scenes, there's gonna be dialogue between the 943 01:05:17.679 --> 01:05:23.440 characters, there's gonna be little snippets of commercials of live action stuff on the 944 01:05:23.519 --> 01:05:26.840 TV. Then those characters are gonna show up and they're gonna have little moments. 945 01:05:26.920 --> 01:05:30.639 They're gonna talk about even more stuff. You're gonna overhear conversations, You're 946 01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:33.159 gonna have a weird little jump scares, you're gonna find the pages. It's 947 01:05:33.480 --> 01:05:39.039 all feeding into the narrative in such a strong way that that is really pulling 948 01:05:39.079 --> 01:05:42.800 me in. They are presenting interesting questions, they are now giving me the 949 01:05:42.880 --> 01:05:45.360 tools to understand how to get the answers to those questions. And as I'm 950 01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:48.039 like feeling my way through that, I'm getting more and more into it. 951 01:05:48.159 --> 01:05:50.679 So I'm no I no longer think I'm gonna bounce off. But there was 952 01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:55.199 a chance there where I'm like, man, this world is pushing me away. 953 01:05:55.480 --> 01:06:00.199 The Beckler go ahead, I was gonna say that. I think I 954 01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:05.880 was very surprised with how well I thought the game taught me to use. 955 01:06:05.960 --> 01:06:10.960 The mind space. Is that what's called the mind place where the mind mind 956 01:06:11.039 --> 01:06:14.679 place, Yes, mind keep calling it the palace. It's based on the 957 01:06:14.719 --> 01:06:21.760 minds, and that is just basically an area inside Saga's mind where she's putting 958 01:06:21.800 --> 01:06:28.519 together all of the you know, red cars, and it's also a way 959 01:06:28.559 --> 01:06:34.039 that the game kind of like cleverly cleverly that word tracks your progress with like 960 01:06:34.079 --> 01:06:38.960 collectible stuff and other things. And I just think it's a really inventive kind 961 01:06:38.960 --> 01:06:41.119 of way to do it. That's what I think. It's what keeps you 962 01:06:41.199 --> 01:06:45.199 engaged, right because you're on the you're on their path. It is defined 963 01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:49.519 path exactly. And this is not like Outer Wilds where you have a board 964 01:06:49.599 --> 01:06:51.960 up there and you're going to be figuring stuff out and now you're going to 965 01:06:53.000 --> 01:06:55.159 go out and like, oh, this makes me think I should try that, 966 01:06:55.199 --> 01:06:56.920 I should do that. No, that's not how this game works. 967 01:06:57.400 --> 01:07:01.519 It is very prescriptive. But because you are going through the act of putting 968 01:07:01.599 --> 01:07:05.239 up the board and answering questions and like just putting a picture on that thing 969 01:07:05.480 --> 01:07:10.000 and then getting an answer and then that gives you a new question, you 970 01:07:10.159 --> 01:07:13.159 feel more attached to what's happening. And I think that's really smart. And 971 01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:16.880 it reinforces this story too, like I think that gets lost so often where 972 01:07:16.920 --> 01:07:19.480 you're just like, the fuck was that guy's name? Why am I caring 973 01:07:19.480 --> 01:07:23.360 about this? Though so many games tell you something once and they're like, 974 01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:25.360 what we told you, You're fucking on your own, and I'm like, 975 01:07:25.440 --> 01:07:28.760 Homie, I have ADHD. You got to tell me three times, and 976 01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:30.800 you got to tell me each time in a different way. You gotta write 977 01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:31.880 it down, you got to show me a video, and we got to 978 01:07:31.880 --> 01:07:34.599 have characters say it. And like this game actually does that. It does, 979 01:07:35.199 --> 01:07:38.599 and it does it in a way that is not like, oh, 980 01:07:38.679 --> 01:07:41.880 we think you're stupid, which I am, but like the game's not treating 981 01:07:41.920 --> 01:07:44.079 me that way. It is very much doing the thing where it's like, 982 01:07:44.199 --> 01:07:46.079 no, we understand that there's a lot going on and there's a lot of 983 01:07:46.119 --> 01:07:50.039 proper nouns, and we are going to make sure that we spoon feed you 984 01:07:50.079 --> 01:07:53.360 a little bit, but in a way that is always going to be different 985 01:07:53.400 --> 01:07:58.480 and interesting every time, for sure. For sure. It's it's very I'm 986 01:07:58.760 --> 01:08:03.920 as engaged in trying to anticipate how this game is going to let me play 987 01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:08.800 it as I am. Like the story moments and the beats and all that, 988 01:08:09.199 --> 01:08:13.440 the the the sort of you know, villainous cult right that you're sort 989 01:08:13.480 --> 01:08:16.159 of tracking down, Like I think that's great, all that stuff's real fun. 990 01:08:16.279 --> 01:08:19.960 But also it's like, man, I really don't know how this game 991 01:08:20.039 --> 01:08:24.359 is gonna treat me next, and I think that to me is equally as 992 01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:27.560 thrilling. The first sort of main boss that you fight in this game, 993 01:08:28.079 --> 01:08:31.720 it's fucking horrifying, Like it is straight up horrifying. Like I'm sorry, 994 01:08:32.399 --> 01:08:35.920 not a lot of games really spook me anymore. This is a scary fucking 995 01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:41.279 game. And I'm loving and I'm just loving, and there's like, I 996 01:08:41.319 --> 01:08:44.479 don't know, I feel like this. Last night, I was like, 997 01:08:44.800 --> 01:08:46.800 is this game doing something that I'm not sure it's doing, Like is it 998 01:08:47.439 --> 01:08:49.920 is it cheating for me? I think it does do that. I think 999 01:08:49.960 --> 01:08:53.800 it does like get easier for you, which is not the first, not 1000 01:08:53.880 --> 01:08:57.079 the first game to do that. But I also think like there's there's some 1001 01:08:57.239 --> 01:09:00.640 slide of hand stuff going on, where like environments in a way that you're 1002 01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:04.760 sort of not expecting and and sometimes lead you back to where you need to 1003 01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:10.399 be without actually cutting off, without stacking the furniture in the hospital, you 1004 01:09:10.439 --> 01:09:12.640 know what I mean. Like there is some of that, But I think 1005 01:09:12.680 --> 01:09:16.520 this game's doing just a lot of inventive things to keep you on the roller 1006 01:09:16.560 --> 01:09:19.079 coaster and to keep you engaged. And like I said, I mean, 1007 01:09:19.760 --> 01:09:26.439 if it's not clear, I am I'm completely smitten. Yeah, I was 1008 01:09:26.479 --> 01:09:31.520 gonna say that. It's also deals with the with exploration and finding all the 1009 01:09:31.640 --> 01:09:38.600 side stuff really well and incorporating that into the greater story, but also making 1010 01:09:38.680 --> 01:09:42.600 sure that it actually matters that you did kind of veer off the critical path 1011 01:09:42.640 --> 01:09:45.079 and like Okay, yeah, cool you are. This will prove to be 1012 01:09:45.239 --> 01:09:48.680 useful down the line, not only from a player perspective, but also from 1013 01:09:48.680 --> 01:09:54.039 a story aspect. Mm. I agree that it is scary. It is 1014 01:09:54.079 --> 01:09:57.319 a spooky game, for sure, but if that is off putting you and 1015 01:09:57.359 --> 01:10:01.079 stopping you from trying to pick up Alan Wake too, I think it being 1016 01:10:02.239 --> 01:10:05.119 other than like the the jump scares, where it's like the static you're like 1017 01:10:05.239 --> 01:10:15.399 a type of stuff. It kind of really uh uh projects to the player 1018 01:10:15.439 --> 01:10:18.039 of like, hey, this is when you're gonna be into combat. Otherwise 1019 01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:24.439 you're chilling, You're cool to explore around. You will come across some spooky 1020 01:10:24.479 --> 01:10:28.079 bits here and there, and like the little jump scariest things or audio design 1021 01:10:28.119 --> 01:10:35.359 will change. But if you're a little scaredy cat, I implore that's a 1022 01:10:35.439 --> 01:10:41.760 jump scare. Mike, haven't you been paying attention? I implore you to 1023 01:10:41.960 --> 01:10:45.399 to try try and be a little, little, little brave buddy of mine 1024 01:10:45.560 --> 01:10:48.239 and check it out, because there is so much under the hood here that 1025 01:10:48.399 --> 01:10:54.520 is absolutely insane. Also, if you're not familiar with Alan Wick one or 1026 01:10:54.720 --> 01:10:59.600 Control, I think the way that they frame the story with Saga Anderson being 1027 01:11:00.159 --> 01:11:03.840 new to this whole world completely yeap works as a great vehicle for someone new 1028 01:11:03.920 --> 01:11:10.840 to the series like myself, where you're finding stuff out just like at the 1029 01:11:10.880 --> 01:11:13.800 same time she is, and you're all piecing this together, and as she 1030 01:11:13.960 --> 01:11:17.159 is exploring her mind place, you are exploring your mind place within this world 1031 01:11:17.279 --> 01:11:23.039 of remedy. It feels like the story isn't starting in the beginning of a 1032 01:11:23.119 --> 01:11:26.760 sequel. It feels like it is starting a media rez which is a good 1033 01:11:26.840 --> 01:11:28.479 thing to pull off. If you could do that, you should do that. 1034 01:11:28.520 --> 01:11:30.960 Where it's like, oh no, this is just a backstory for this 1035 01:11:30.159 --> 01:11:32.560 game. It's not oh, what happened in the last game and it's so 1036 01:11:32.600 --> 01:11:35.720 important, and it is important, but it's important in the way that any 1037 01:11:35.800 --> 01:11:41.079 sort of like, well, hey where we started here, and events happened 1038 01:11:41.359 --> 01:11:44.479 and they affected these characters. But as they reveal these things, they talk 1039 01:11:44.520 --> 01:11:46.479 about it and they explained how it made them feel and then so you get 1040 01:11:46.520 --> 01:11:48.479 filled in that way, and that makes it just feel like, Okay, 1041 01:11:48.560 --> 01:11:55.560 no, we're telling a cohesive story right now. I'll say, like you 1042 01:11:55.720 --> 01:11:58.600 talked a little bit about more about the exploration, I'm not like a huge 1043 01:11:58.640 --> 01:12:01.119 fan of games where it is we're just gonna be kind of walking around and 1044 01:12:01.159 --> 01:12:04.439 we're gonna be looking for stuff in a corner and and hopefully there's something there. 1045 01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:06.960 I'll say that this game, like you said, you mentioned this, 1046 01:12:08.680 --> 01:12:15.159 usually there is something there, and it's not so expansive that you're gonna feel 1047 01:12:15.239 --> 01:12:17.720 really super lost. You're gonna get a little bit turned around, you're gonna 1048 01:12:17.720 --> 01:12:20.640 have to load up the map, and it doesn't load up the fastest, 1049 01:12:20.680 --> 01:12:25.600 but it's it's it's usually fine, and you're gonna to reorient yourself and get 1050 01:12:25.640 --> 01:12:27.800 around. And I'm like, once I started doing that again, I got 1051 01:12:27.840 --> 01:12:30.880 the hang of it a little bit and then I'm like, oh, this 1052 01:12:30.039 --> 01:12:33.000 isn't the worst exploration. There are different games that that, uh, that 1053 01:12:33.279 --> 01:12:36.680 do this worse or push push me away more with the exploration, and I 1054 01:12:36.920 --> 01:12:41.279 and I have found enough of these like little extras in the world that I 1055 01:12:41.319 --> 01:12:43.800 feel like, oh, hey, I'm not wasting my time, and that's 1056 01:12:43.840 --> 01:12:45.119 a big part of it. I've never felt like I was wasting my time. 1057 01:12:45.479 --> 01:12:48.680 Just getting a little bit turned around, that's all. I don't know 1058 01:12:48.720 --> 01:12:54.359 what it is. Yeah, I if anyone can recommend any more literature or 1059 01:12:54.439 --> 01:12:58.920 other pieces of media that are in this whole uh world, or the style 1060 01:12:59.039 --> 01:13:01.439 of storytelling, please recommend it to me. I want to. I do 1061 01:13:01.560 --> 01:13:05.520 want to replay Control now. Yeah, yeah, I never I never played 1062 01:13:05.560 --> 01:13:10.840 the DEALC for Control. Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's probably. I 1063 01:13:10.880 --> 01:13:15.520 mean, I think that tell that that does explain a good amount, especially 1064 01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:19.479 at the beginning. I think the map. I agree, the map is 1065 01:13:19.600 --> 01:13:26.199 not great. It's not Control levels of bad, but it is certainly not 1066 01:13:26.800 --> 01:13:30.039 great. I think, you know, I guess like getting to the map 1067 01:13:30.159 --> 01:13:31.520 is also kind of a pain in the ass too. I mean, I 1068 01:13:31.760 --> 01:13:35.319 I hold down select to go right to the map. Oh that okay, 1069 01:13:35.359 --> 01:13:38.279 that'll do it. Okay, yeah, you hold it. But but it 1070 01:13:38.359 --> 01:13:41.000 does take a little bit longer to load than to go to the right place. 1071 01:13:41.119 --> 01:13:44.920 Mind place load's instantly, which is wild. The especially that first area 1072 01:13:45.239 --> 01:13:48.239 you're in, you know, things are, it's dark, it's rainy, 1073 01:13:48.560 --> 01:13:53.960 you are really struggling to find like that one singular path, like it's I 1074 01:13:54.079 --> 01:13:56.359 get it. I think that does add to it. I think that, 1075 01:13:56.560 --> 01:13:59.800 you know, obviously that's a deliberate choice, uh you know, to get 1076 01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:03.279 turned around a bunch like that. But yeah, that that to me, 1077 01:14:03.439 --> 01:14:05.960 that's been the only thing out of the gate that I've sort of been like, 1078 01:14:06.119 --> 01:14:10.880 oh that that can be tedious and cumbersome. And you know, I 1079 01:14:11.000 --> 01:14:15.520 think occasionally you do find not like full glitching out, but you do find 1080 01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:20.039 a little bit of uh handcuffing with with maybe some movement and stuff like that. 1081 01:14:20.319 --> 01:14:26.039 Early on you getta like understand how the characters move exactly kind of they 1082 01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:29.479 kind of shimmey to the sigh and they're not going to like animate like they're 1083 01:14:29.479 --> 01:14:31.199 walking the right. It's like, no, they're definitely right strafe and I'm 1084 01:14:31.239 --> 01:14:33.800 fine with that. But it's like, oh, okay, figure that a 1085 01:14:33.880 --> 01:14:36.640 little bit. I did play this on the Roger Ally a little bit, 1086 01:14:38.079 --> 01:14:41.159 and it's you have to go into your settings and set the on the on 1087 01:14:41.239 --> 01:14:45.760 the on the ally and set the RAM usage for the GPU to auto. 1088 01:14:45.239 --> 01:14:48.399 And because I think it defaults to four gigabytes and this game will not work 1089 01:14:48.439 --> 01:14:50.439 with that, it just would straight up will tell you, no, there's 1090 01:14:50.479 --> 01:14:54.600 not enough RAM here. Uh so you set to auto and then it will 1091 01:14:54.640 --> 01:14:58.439 warn you there's still not enough RAM. The game runs pretty okay, it's 1092 01:14:58.560 --> 01:15:04.000 just when you are exploring, having that lower fidelity kind of be like, 1093 01:15:04.079 --> 01:15:06.479 wait, am I am I seeing what I'm what I think I'm seeing, 1094 01:15:06.600 --> 01:15:12.119 or it's just kind of just smudgie graphics that could be that can add to 1095 01:15:12.279 --> 01:15:14.399 some of the frustration. And as soon as I was back playing on the 1096 01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:16.920 forty ninety, I had no problem anymore. And I'm like, okay, 1097 01:15:17.079 --> 01:15:21.119 so you can play it on one of these handhelds. I probably wouldn't recommend 1098 01:15:21.119 --> 01:15:24.159 it. And if you are going to play it on there, maybe stream 1099 01:15:24.199 --> 01:15:27.000 it from a real PC instead. That might be the real option there. 1100 01:15:27.119 --> 01:15:30.239 And yeah, we didn't talk that much about the fidelity. I know you 1101 01:15:30.279 --> 01:15:36.039 said Channel Experienced five it is oh man, there is something going on with 1102 01:15:36.119 --> 01:15:42.239 this, with this it's stuff. It's really just taking advantage of all that. 1103 01:15:42.319 --> 01:15:44.600 What's that, Mike, As I said, it's epic games money, 1104 01:15:44.680 --> 01:15:46.199 is what I think. Yeah, definitely helping you. Yeah, yeah, 1105 01:15:46.439 --> 01:15:49.560 you know, I will, I will, I will deal with that horrific 1106 01:15:49.760 --> 01:15:54.159 piece of software. If if, if you know, I want, if 1107 01:15:54.199 --> 01:15:58.760 I have to, you know, control to delete an end Epic Games Store 1108 01:15:58.920 --> 01:16:02.520 fifteen times before or Alan Wade too will launch appropriately. It's worth it for 1109 01:16:02.640 --> 01:16:06.279 the amount of mister ray tracing going on in this thing. And if you 1110 01:16:06.319 --> 01:16:11.840 have a BVS system like we're fortunate to have with those nzx T machines, 1111 01:16:11.880 --> 01:16:16.960 Holy goddamn shit, does this game look absolutely It has the global illumination and 1112 01:16:17.119 --> 01:16:23.279 it's a ray reconstruction three point five. It is, you know, one 1113 01:16:23.279 --> 01:16:26.239 of the first games to take advantage of much of that stuff. And boy 1114 01:16:26.319 --> 01:16:30.800 it works. I mean it's a flashlight game, and they always thought flashlight 1115 01:16:30.880 --> 01:16:33.800 games with ray tracing and raid reconstruction would be amazing. It turns out. 1116 01:16:34.119 --> 01:16:39.399 Yes. I tried it on a thirty eighty and I was like, nah, 1117 01:16:39.520 --> 01:16:44.399 dog like that. I know that sounds. It actually steals down to 1118 01:16:44.520 --> 01:16:45.439 run on the lot of stop. It's good. It scales down and it's 1119 01:16:45.439 --> 01:16:49.239 gonna run just fine. But boy, those extra bells and whistles are not 1120 01:16:49.479 --> 01:16:54.600 just extra bells and whistle They do contribute greatly to the experience. Yeah, 1121 01:16:54.680 --> 01:16:59.680 I mean it. The default settings took off ray tracing on my thirty eighty. 1122 01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:05.680 Yeah, there to enjoy that rate thirty two thousand life. Whatever the 1123 01:17:05.720 --> 01:17:13.159 hell you guys have does the PS five do have very tracing in that quality 1124 01:17:13.279 --> 01:17:16.279 version. I didn't scan through the settings. They said, it's uh by 1125 01:17:16.279 --> 01:17:20.319 the I mean the digital foundry. That's that's what I'm asking about. Yeah, 1126 01:17:20.439 --> 01:17:23.600 I think I think it probably has some I don't know if it has 1127 01:17:23.680 --> 01:17:27.880 global illumination. Yeah, it probably probably has, like shadows and stuff. 1128 01:17:28.560 --> 01:17:31.600 Yeah, it's I mean, look, this is the wettest, flash lightiest 1129 01:17:31.720 --> 01:17:40.319 game you'll ever play. And the reflections and all that ship yo, I 1130 01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:44.199 like it is like that that first thing with Dusk with the with the sun 1131 01:17:44.319 --> 01:17:47.000 going through the trees when you holy You're just like, yeah, I honestly, 1132 01:17:47.119 --> 01:17:50.199 I'm not gonna lie like I have to sit up close playing this game. 1133 01:17:50.239 --> 01:17:53.439 Do you guys find that too? We're like, I don't know if 1134 01:17:53.479 --> 01:17:57.880 you guys play games only on your PC monitor. I'm sitting within like four 1135 01:17:57.960 --> 01:18:00.119 feet of this thing. I need to. I want to be up and 1136 01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:02.000 its ship. I'm gonna connect it to this TV over here, which I 1137 01:18:02.039 --> 01:18:05.600 have pretty close to my my my gamer chair. Yeah, and I'm gonna 1138 01:18:05.600 --> 01:18:08.920 get up and I'm gonna get up in that ass. You gotta get up 1139 01:18:08.960 --> 01:18:12.800 in this ship. Man, there's too much. There's a lot of crevices, 1140 01:18:12.840 --> 01:18:15.680 there's a lot of wounds you want to inspect. Like, you gotta 1141 01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:21.600 get up in that ship. Don't worry about it. Mic even human penises. 1142 01:18:21.800 --> 01:18:27.039 Penises cool. The last thing I'll say about it is I've seen some 1143 01:18:27.159 --> 01:18:30.880 scuttle butt saying like, oh, we should just on Arlan away Charlotte. 1144 01:18:30.880 --> 01:18:33.239 I'm like, no, no, no, you were missing You're missing the 1145 01:18:33.279 --> 01:18:38.479 point completely. And I think I said this about thirteen sentinels during the Game 1146 01:18:38.520 --> 01:18:44.800 of the Year when whatever year that was. But like this is another proof. 1147 01:18:47.720 --> 01:18:54.199 This is another proof of concept where video if like there's some fucking great 1148 01:18:54.239 --> 01:18:58.479 debate about video games being art. This is like example one A and one 1149 01:18:58.560 --> 01:19:02.000 B, because like this is the type of storytelling and type of journey that 1150 01:19:02.319 --> 01:19:06.560 can only be pulled off in the medium of video games. Yeah, Like, 1151 01:19:08.800 --> 01:19:13.439 my wife is watching the current American Horror Story am I, and it's 1152 01:19:13.479 --> 01:19:15.119 like half hour and tell them like too, and she's like this is already 1153 01:19:15.159 --> 01:19:18.800 better than the newest season of American Horror Story. And I'm like that, 1154 01:19:19.760 --> 01:19:23.800 and you know, like she's like I said, she's a horror weirdo, 1155 01:19:25.319 --> 01:19:28.960 I think. But to be fair what you said about Alan Wick two and 1156 01:19:29.119 --> 01:19:33.039 n HBO, I do think Sam Lake would probably love going that happened. 1157 01:19:33.159 --> 01:19:40.079 But yeah, yeah, yeah, the game, the game will dictate the 1158 01:19:40.159 --> 01:19:43.600 show and not the other way around, right, Like that's yeah. I 1159 01:19:43.640 --> 01:19:47.760 think this is the game where I'm like, I don't know if it's for 1160 01:19:47.920 --> 01:19:51.600 me, like proving that games are like I just got Tom playing supermar Brothers 1161 01:19:51.640 --> 01:19:55.359 wonder, I'm like, no, this proves it. What this game proves 1162 01:19:55.359 --> 01:19:58.439 for me though, is, uh, they need to stop trying to make 1163 01:19:58.479 --> 01:20:02.600 games be like movies. Yeah, if you have movie like ideas, you 1164 01:20:02.840 --> 01:20:06.279 make a fucking video game still, because what you end up with is alan 1165 01:20:06.359 --> 01:20:10.760 Wake two and all that stuff just ends up making your video game that much 1166 01:20:10.840 --> 01:20:13.840 more cool if you lean into what makes it a video game. Uh. 1167 01:20:14.079 --> 01:20:17.840 And I think that Remedy seems to be the one studio that really really understands 1168 01:20:17.880 --> 01:20:21.760 that at this point. I suppose, you know, near automata is when 1169 01:20:21.800 --> 01:20:25.640 the people point to a lot as being able to do that with its multiple 1170 01:20:25.720 --> 01:20:28.720 endings and things like that. But this is like, I think this is 1171 01:20:28.760 --> 01:20:30.199 carrying forward that legacy, and we're hearing the new game Plus is going to 1172 01:20:30.279 --> 01:20:32.920 change up the narrative and stuff. So it's like, yep, they're existing 1173 01:20:32.960 --> 01:20:36.159 in that same space, So let's let's go. I can't wait. Yeah, 1174 01:20:36.159 --> 01:20:40.079 I mean, I think it's funny that, for whatever reason, on 1175 01:20:40.239 --> 01:20:45.239 this website and podcast we've we've brought up the concept of in media res several 1176 01:20:45.359 --> 01:20:48.279 times across the board, but that we're much of the Roman Empire and the 1177 01:20:48.399 --> 01:20:54.199 Latin stuff. Yeah, it's that is like such a simple concept to drop 1178 01:20:54.319 --> 01:20:58.960 into storytelling in a video game that works so well, and I don't think 1179 01:20:59.479 --> 01:21:02.479 a lot of game try and use that type of concept of storytelling or that 1180 01:21:02.640 --> 01:21:05.439 that type of narrative device, or if they do, it sucks, like 1181 01:21:05.439 --> 01:21:10.399 the beginning of Metal Gear Solid five well yeah, well yeah, yeah, 1182 01:21:10.479 --> 01:21:12.600 yeah. A lot of people do the thing where it's like, you know, 1183 01:21:12.720 --> 01:21:15.159 they start a game and an exciting actions sequence, then they're like ten 1184 01:21:15.279 --> 01:21:19.079 days earlier, and then it's just completely linear from there until you catch up, 1185 01:21:19.079 --> 01:21:26.159 which is I think this game literally does ten days earlier. Literally ten 1186 01:21:26.279 --> 01:21:29.079 days. I think it's exactly that number. Just a shot in the dark 1187 01:21:29.159 --> 01:21:32.399 there. Man. I love this so much. It's great. It's great. 1188 01:21:33.359 --> 01:21:38.520 Also, the uh, we've got the game spot review cast version of 1189 01:21:38.600 --> 01:21:42.840 this review if you want to check it out. I know the game Spot 1190 01:21:43.279 --> 01:21:45.479 gang gave it a ten. Yep, they're into it, give it a 1191 01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:48.880 ten. So if you want to listen to that review, yes, get 1192 01:21:48.960 --> 01:21:55.479 the podcast. I've been I've been making notes in my own mind palace mind 1193 01:21:55.560 --> 01:22:00.079 place like like I would be making my own review, and I'll just I 1194 01:22:00.560 --> 01:22:03.800 can constantly say if I ever put something together and actually wrote more than a 1195 01:22:03.880 --> 01:22:09.520 paragraph about something or two sentences, easy, five out of five for this. 1196 01:22:09.680 --> 01:22:15.239 Yeah, all the Giant Boss out of twenty. Okay, I don't 1197 01:22:15.279 --> 01:22:18.560 know what he gave resid eval for Calm Down. That's a nineteen out of 1198 01:22:18.600 --> 01:22:21.520 twenty. This is a twenty out of twenty. All right, folks, 1199 01:22:23.119 --> 01:22:25.560 That's been a lot of games, and look forward to more games. Talk 1200 01:22:26.199 --> 01:22:30.600 later this week on Chiabomb Revengeance. But we're gonna take another quick bricky break 1201 01:22:30.720 --> 01:22:32.600 or no, we're gonna take our first quick break and we'll be back with 1202 01:22:32.920 --> 01:22:43.319 the news. Yo. Audible is the place to enjoy all of your audio 1203 01:22:43.479 --> 01:22:46.600 entertainment in one app. You can get a wide variety of audiobooks, an 1204 01:22:46.640 --> 01:22:51.399 original podcast to listen to. Yo personally, y'all. 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I 1221 01:24:14.039 --> 01:24:17.039 used it when I was getting those hornets that turned into that GB animated. 1222 01:24:17.399 --> 01:24:21.119 I was wearing a red lamp so they wouldn't come at the light. They 1223 01:24:21.159 --> 01:24:25.479 still came at me though, it still came. Did they come, Well, 1224 01:24:25.520 --> 01:24:29.159 they came. They came to you, Jeff Grub, because they wanted 1225 01:24:29.319 --> 01:24:43.319 the news. This is okay, all right, first news story is Backlar. 1226 01:24:43.319 --> 01:24:45.640 What are you gonna have for Halloween dinner? I want? I'm just 1227 01:24:45.640 --> 01:24:48.399 curious, I need, I need some help. Halloween dinner were so much 1228 01:24:48.439 --> 01:24:53.359 candy. Like what do you do for it's a it's a pizza night like 1229 01:24:55.159 --> 01:24:59.920 we're doing. I think we're doing three two piles of Buffalo chicken two Grandma 1230 01:25:00.239 --> 01:25:08.039 pies. It's just like rectangular pizza, like thicker cross, rectangle, rectangle. 1231 01:25:08.399 --> 01:25:16.119 That's just young pizza. Cool. No, I don't know, I 1232 01:25:16.159 --> 01:25:19.159 don't it can sounds they could be the strict Here where I live, they 1233 01:25:19.199 --> 01:25:23.399 call it Grandma Pies. I'm sure you have a cute little Midwestern name. 1234 01:25:23.439 --> 01:25:27.520 For it, and yeah, and then probably just like a bunch of salads. 1235 01:25:27.520 --> 01:25:29.880 We'll do like a caesar, we'll do like a house salad will do. 1236 01:25:30.720 --> 01:25:32.800 How would you make a salad? Spooky? You don't, it's just 1237 01:25:33.319 --> 01:25:40.880 you don't. Yeah, No, that's normal, that's normal. Viniagarette, 1238 01:25:40.920 --> 01:25:45.279 Yeah, vegetables, it's a salad. Yet, well that's scary to me. 1239 01:25:46.039 --> 01:25:50.079 I like, we got to feed more people than I'd like to be 1240 01:25:50.159 --> 01:25:53.319 feeding. So it's like, you know, you're just gonna get what you 1241 01:25:53.439 --> 01:25:56.159 get and not canna be upset. You know, get what you get. 1242 01:25:56.239 --> 01:25:59.840 You don't throw a fit. All right, let's get to this news. 1243 01:26:00.479 --> 01:26:03.000 Starting with the bad news. As has been our custom for the last couple 1244 01:26:03.039 --> 01:26:06.640 of weeks, there's been more layoffs, this time at Bungee Bungie, the 1245 01:26:06.680 --> 01:26:11.439 developers of Destiny, have laid off employees. The scope of the layoffs isn't 1246 01:26:11.520 --> 01:26:15.319 currently fully clear, based on the people posting on social media yesterday, seems 1247 01:26:15.359 --> 01:26:21.479 pretty wide sweeping. Though Bungie has also reportedly delayed Destiny's Destiny Too's next expansion 1248 01:26:21.720 --> 01:26:26.399 that's going to come out like later next year, and the Marathon, their 1249 01:26:26.520 --> 01:26:30.439 new game isn't going to come out till twenty twenty five. Now, all 1250 01:26:30.439 --> 01:26:32.520 of these these layoffs, these delays come about a year and a half after 1251 01:26:32.680 --> 01:26:36.720 Sony acquired Bungie for three and a half million dollars. People have pointed out 1252 01:26:36.840 --> 01:26:42.079 that as part of that deal, a million or like a billion dollars was 1253 01:26:42.159 --> 01:26:47.880 set aside for employee retention. And while that's not necessarily kind of where it's 1254 01:26:47.880 --> 01:26:50.800 like, oh, this will avoid layoffs, what it's really there is like, 1255 01:26:50.880 --> 01:26:54.920 oh, this is to incentivize people to stick around, so they don't 1256 01:26:54.920 --> 01:27:00.199 we even we get a brain drain. Still doesn't look great that Hey only 1257 01:27:00.239 --> 01:27:02.600 acquires them. They haven't done much. The Destiny two is in a bit 1258 01:27:02.640 --> 01:27:05.880 of a rut, and now we're laying people off just not even two years 1259 01:27:05.960 --> 01:27:11.720 after that acquisition. But this is also part of a wider trend of layoffs 1260 01:27:11.760 --> 01:27:15.680 over at Sony. They've had a media molecule of the visual art studio, 1261 01:27:16.399 --> 01:27:20.039 a lot of contractors that were working at Naughty Dog stuff. So this is 1262 01:27:20.079 --> 01:27:26.479 a trend. But Bungie seems like one that should have been able to figure 1263 01:27:26.479 --> 01:27:28.439 it out without having to deal with this. And that's kind of what I 1264 01:27:28.479 --> 01:27:32.520 heard a little bit internally, is like everyone knew that Destiny two was kind 1265 01:27:32.560 --> 01:27:35.399 of in this rut, but they expected because they were at Sony they'd be 1266 01:27:35.439 --> 01:27:40.399 mostly mostly protected, So these layoffs came as a big, big surprise. 1267 01:27:42.319 --> 01:27:46.079 How are you guys feeling about Destiny, Bungie's future, Sony's live live service, 1268 01:27:46.159 --> 01:27:49.000 push, all that stuff. Yeah, this is a mess. Paul 1269 01:27:49.119 --> 01:27:54.079 Tassi had some additional info just a little bit ago, and Paul has been 1270 01:27:54.159 --> 01:28:00.600 covering Destinies games as a service reporter on that beat and a big right And 1271 01:28:00.680 --> 01:28:05.199 according to his source, the layout decision came from Bungie management and not Sony, 1272 01:28:05.439 --> 01:28:11.479 which is kind of again shocking. Uh, apparently there's some scuttle but 1273 01:28:11.640 --> 01:28:14.840 with the benefits right, because of employee benefits only less till the end of 1274 01:28:14.840 --> 01:28:17.119 the month if you're let go, so lain people off on the thirtieth means 1275 01:28:17.239 --> 01:28:23.159 a single additional day of coverage, And many employees had unvested shares as a 1276 01:28:23.319 --> 01:28:27.399 result of the Sony purchase. Those shares would be received based on staying with 1277 01:28:27.479 --> 01:28:30.880 the company for a certain number of years following the sale, but those shares 1278 01:28:30.960 --> 01:28:33.960 revert to Bungee if you leave, even if you're fired, which is what's 1279 01:28:34.319 --> 01:28:39.600 happening now to many of those effectives. This is yeah, according to a 1280 01:28:39.680 --> 01:28:45.119 source, Yes, let's just say, uh fuck why? How what that 1281 01:28:45.880 --> 01:28:51.000 fucking man and these layoffs are They're impacting like some of their most kind of 1282 01:28:51.079 --> 01:28:57.479 forward facing public faces on social media, social media managers, community managers, 1283 01:28:57.800 --> 01:29:02.039 composers, like, what's going on here? Bungie was supposed to have things 1284 01:29:02.079 --> 01:29:05.159 figured out? Yeah, of course, Destiny Too's in a rut. It's 1285 01:29:05.239 --> 01:29:10.560 however, many years old. Like we have all these live service games suddenly 1286 01:29:10.720 --> 01:29:13.720 being freaked out that they aren't as popular as they were eight years ago, 1287 01:29:14.439 --> 01:29:16.079 And like, yeah, I know a couple games can manage to somehow not 1288 01:29:16.239 --> 01:29:19.119 fall into that truck. But you have to account that that's going to happen. 1289 01:29:19.439 --> 01:29:23.520 There has to be a better solution to it than just laying a bunch 1290 01:29:23.600 --> 01:29:27.000 of people off, because your next thing isn't happening quite as fast as you 1291 01:29:27.079 --> 01:29:30.399 thought it would. All those years Destiny Too was just making all this money? 1292 01:29:30.600 --> 01:29:35.479 Was there no war chests built up on top of this apparent money set 1293 01:29:35.479 --> 01:29:39.520 aside after the purchase too? How does this happen? What is this? 1294 01:29:39.680 --> 01:29:44.560 What's going on? I mean it feels completely incongruous with the reality on the 1295 01:29:44.600 --> 01:29:47.359 ground across gaming a lot. If we look at the total amount of money 1296 01:29:47.399 --> 01:29:50.640 that the video game industry is making this year, it's up a couple of 1297 01:29:50.680 --> 01:29:54.960 billion dollars from last year. Now, it's down from the height of the 1298 01:29:55.000 --> 01:29:57.000 pandemic. The year before that, when we were in the middle of the 1299 01:29:57.000 --> 01:29:59.880 pandemic, it's down from that. I think most of these companies are like, 1300 01:30:00.680 --> 01:30:02.479 we expected that to last forever? What the fuck? How did you 1301 01:30:02.720 --> 01:30:06.159 ever fucking expect it? What are you talking about? We all knew that 1302 01:30:06.279 --> 01:30:13.199 wasn't gonna last forever. Why did But companies have these short term operating ideas 1303 01:30:13.199 --> 01:30:15.199 where it's like, we are doing this this quarter, and so we have 1304 01:30:15.279 --> 01:30:18.680 to use that money and invest it to make stuff even bigger next quarter, 1305 01:30:18.800 --> 01:30:23.840 no matter what the reality on the ground is. And now who has to 1306 01:30:23.880 --> 01:30:27.319 pay for that? Not Pete Parsons, although he's gonna pay socially because he 1307 01:30:27.359 --> 01:30:30.000 posted a tweet like oh Man's bad rough day of Bungie Man. Who could 1308 01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:33.479 have saw this kind of back to fun I'm looking for the guys this You 1309 01:30:33.560 --> 01:30:36.840 could have saw it coming because it was you who did it. It was 1310 01:30:36.960 --> 01:30:40.560 literally you, not even Sony, Like you can't even pass the buck to 1311 01:30:40.640 --> 01:30:43.920 them. It was you. So uh yeah, he's gonna pay that way, 1312 01:30:43.920 --> 01:30:45.840 but he's not gonna pay any Honestly, it sounds like he's gonna make 1313 01:30:45.920 --> 01:30:50.560 more money because some of those people's the unvested stock come back to Bungee, 1314 01:30:50.760 --> 01:30:56.600 which means I would imagine and part comes back to him. Uh this sucks. 1315 01:30:56.720 --> 01:31:00.239 I don't like. What really is messes me up is people work on 1316 01:31:00.359 --> 01:31:03.800 these games for a long time. Then they come down and say, hey, 1317 01:31:03.880 --> 01:31:06.520 we are We're selling a bunch, We're selling the Sony. We're selling 1318 01:31:06.520 --> 01:31:09.600 the Sony. You have all the stock. All you got to do is 1319 01:31:09.680 --> 01:31:12.399 stick around for a couple of years and you're going to get in on this 1320 01:31:12.640 --> 01:31:16.239 action. All of the work you did to turn us into a valuable acquisition 1321 01:31:16.359 --> 01:31:20.640 target is going to pay off for you personally. And you stick around, 1322 01:31:20.840 --> 01:31:24.960 you and you stay with the company, and you're waiting for your stock to 1323 01:31:25.000 --> 01:31:28.800 best and then you get laid off and now that stock is no longer yours. 1324 01:31:30.119 --> 01:31:32.079 Yeah, this leaves a really bad taste in the mouth. And it's 1325 01:31:32.520 --> 01:31:36.239 a lot of this feels inexcusable, especially for people like you know, the 1326 01:31:36.600 --> 01:31:45.359 composer Michael Salvatory was at the studio for over twenty five years. Listen, 1327 01:31:45.399 --> 01:31:47.560 I get the idea of like having an on staff composer. It's not how 1328 01:31:47.600 --> 01:31:51.800 the video game industry works these days. Wait till there's stock vests, and 1329 01:31:53.119 --> 01:31:56.319 I guess I don't know the individual reality for each person. Maybe in his 1330 01:31:56.479 --> 01:32:00.199 top stock is good because he's been there for so long, but I don't 1331 01:32:00.199 --> 01:32:04.800 think that's necessarily going to be the case. So we'll see. This does 1332 01:32:04.880 --> 01:32:12.680 feel like it is part of a effort at Sony to shift away from whatever 1333 01:32:12.760 --> 01:32:16.119 current strategy they were. Okay, they went all in on this strategy for 1334 01:32:16.239 --> 01:32:20.720 the last couple of years, Like they haven't even waited for it to pay 1335 01:32:20.760 --> 01:32:25.600 off yet. So Sony makes really big games that cost a lot of money, 1336 01:32:26.000 --> 01:32:29.439 and they do sell. They sell really well, so they make some 1337 01:32:29.720 --> 01:32:31.199 money on those games. They don't make a ton of money on a God 1338 01:32:31.239 --> 01:32:34.600 of War or a Last of Us Part two because they're so expensive to make, 1339 01:32:35.000 --> 01:32:38.760 and then they're really expensive to market because they put a lot of marketing 1340 01:32:38.800 --> 01:32:41.880 in there, like hundreds of millions of dollars worth of marketing. So these 1341 01:32:41.960 --> 01:32:45.560 big, big projects are you know, we always say loss leaders. It's 1342 01:32:45.600 --> 01:32:47.840 not technically true because they aren't actually losing money, but they are in that 1343 01:32:48.079 --> 01:32:53.560 vein. And so Sony has always been looking for some other option here, 1344 01:32:53.680 --> 01:32:57.119 or recently they've been looking for another strategy that took them to games as a 1345 01:32:57.199 --> 01:33:00.960 service and now they look like, hey, maybe that's not gonna work, 1346 01:33:00.960 --> 01:33:03.520 even though they have those twelve games in the work in production. Uh, 1347 01:33:03.560 --> 01:33:08.399 there's rumors right now and they're unverified, but someone like reset Erro will say, 1348 01:33:08.399 --> 01:33:10.840 hey, I'm pretty familiar what's going on. People seem to believe this 1349 01:33:10.920 --> 01:33:15.479 person that Sony is now reconsidering that like, oh, all twelve of those 1350 01:33:15.479 --> 01:33:17.920 games are actually gonna come out. It seems like they're going to cancel or 1351 01:33:18.079 --> 01:33:25.000 at least indefinitely delay less or the last of US factions and something similar could 1352 01:33:25.079 --> 01:33:28.159 happen to a lot of those games. And so Sony's maybe backing away from 1353 01:33:28.159 --> 01:33:30.680 the games as a service strategy. Where does that leave them, Well, 1354 01:33:30.680 --> 01:33:33.920 they're going to go probably get more third party exclusives, but but that this 1355 01:33:34.000 --> 01:33:36.680 has been a major effort, a lot of money put into this, and 1356 01:33:38.720 --> 01:33:42.319 again, who's going to pay for this miscalculation? It's going to be people 1357 01:33:42.359 --> 01:33:46.680 getting laid off and not to people the top. Although I know Jim Ryan 1358 01:33:46.800 --> 01:33:49.960 leaving might have nothing to do with this, it's hard for me to imagine 1359 01:33:50.199 --> 01:33:57.359 that Jim Ryan leaves and then this this parade of the layoffs and bad news 1360 01:33:57.439 --> 01:34:00.479 happens and they're unrelated. There is no don't know for sure that they're connected. 1361 01:34:00.560 --> 01:34:04.439 I'm some like grain of salt with my speculation that I'm putting out there. 1362 01:34:04.600 --> 01:34:08.000 It is speculation, but for me, I have a hard time not 1363 01:34:08.079 --> 01:34:13.399 seeing as connected. Uh, it's it's, it's it's a fucking big ass 1364 01:34:13.479 --> 01:34:16.920 bummer. I mean it's it's such an amazing year of game releases, but 1365 01:34:17.079 --> 01:34:24.119 for the actual industry itself, it's very incredibly fucking depressing. Yep. On 1366 01:34:24.439 --> 01:34:27.680 on another side, like, what do you think is the future of a 1367 01:34:27.760 --> 01:34:31.359 destiny to I mean, it sure feels today, especially with all this boy, 1368 01:34:31.760 --> 01:34:35.319 it feels like that's running out of us. Like it it is from 1369 01:34:35.359 --> 01:34:41.880 an outsider's perspective, it has always felt near impenetrable to get into right like 1370 01:34:42.039 --> 01:34:45.720 you need and I don't think shopsiders. There are people who's stuck with that 1371 01:34:45.840 --> 01:34:49.039 game for a very long time who got burned by one of the recent not 1372 01:34:49.279 --> 01:34:53.560 very good expansions, who are now like, I think I'm gonna wait for 1373 01:34:53.600 --> 01:34:57.199 a Destiny three. And if you those people are saying that, and I 1374 01:34:58.000 --> 01:35:00.880 yell at me when I said, I'm not gonna back into it till a 1375 01:35:00.920 --> 01:35:03.000 Destiny three. And I've been on board with Mike saying that the entire time, 1376 01:35:03.039 --> 01:35:04.560 like, yeah, that sounds right to me. That's when I would 1377 01:35:04.600 --> 01:35:06.600 check it out again. I mean, maybe, you know, with Giant 1378 01:35:06.640 --> 01:35:10.520 Bomb, maybe we'll go play it sometime. Eh, well, I'm gonna 1379 01:35:10.520 --> 01:35:14.000 wait till a Destiny three. That's where I'm at. And they seem against 1380 01:35:14.039 --> 01:35:16.840 doing that, but the reality now might be they can't avoid shifting in that 1381 01:35:16.920 --> 01:35:20.800 direction because that might be the only thing that gets people to feel, oh, 1382 01:35:20.880 --> 01:35:25.800 this is a fresh chance to feel good about this game again. Yeah. 1383 01:35:26.279 --> 01:35:30.039 Uh Marathon. Also, it's a we don't that's an extraction shooter. 1384 01:35:31.399 --> 01:35:35.840 That's a tough genre to crack. In general, there's a few big successful 1385 01:35:35.880 --> 01:35:40.239 ones, including people I think like the Mode and Call of Duty that does 1386 01:35:40.359 --> 01:35:44.920 that stuff. But you're going to spend in a couple extra years developing that 1387 01:35:45.039 --> 01:35:46.720 game, and so it's going to be even more expensive, and that's going 1388 01:35:46.760 --> 01:35:49.319 to put even more pressure on it, and it's going to come out, 1389 01:35:49.359 --> 01:35:53.840 And are people going to care about extraction shooters in twenty twenty five. That's 1390 01:35:53.960 --> 01:35:57.920 a tough thing to know. And I think that's what really they're worried about 1391 01:35:58.000 --> 01:36:01.399 is live service games used to be a much safer beck because you could make 1392 01:36:01.439 --> 01:36:04.479 them a cheaper because you could experiment, you could do something small, you 1393 01:36:04.520 --> 01:36:09.039 didn't have to make a whole campaign. And now these days it's like, 1394 01:36:09.159 --> 01:36:13.399 actually, you are competing for such a limited amount of people's time that if 1395 01:36:13.439 --> 01:36:15.359 you don't put a ton of money into these games to make them big and 1396 01:36:15.520 --> 01:36:19.600 shiny and stick out in every way possible, you don't stand a chance. 1397 01:36:19.720 --> 01:36:24.319 So now they're just as expensive, if not more expensive, than a traditional 1398 01:36:24.359 --> 01:36:28.760 game. And I think my personal problem with it is is it does seem 1399 01:36:28.880 --> 01:36:31.399 like the budgets are going up in all these games, and they are be 1400 01:36:32.520 --> 01:36:36.760 they all do look bright and flashy, but they are all also starting to 1401 01:36:36.800 --> 01:36:42.000 look very homogeneous, and I just can't discern them from each other anymore. 1402 01:36:42.159 --> 01:36:45.239 Like when we got the news that X Defiant was going to be delayed, 1403 01:36:45.840 --> 01:36:50.359 I can't tell you or point out on a police lineup what X Defiant looks 1404 01:36:50.439 --> 01:36:54.159 like, yeah, you're gonna I tell you what you see it, and 1405 01:36:54.199 --> 01:36:56.520 you're like, no, that's just Call of Duty, right, like your 1406 01:36:56.600 --> 01:37:00.359 Call of Duty or whatever Hyenas was supposed to look. I don't know. 1407 01:37:00.520 --> 01:37:02.600 Sonic dolls are going to be in that game, though, so you would 1408 01:37:02.640 --> 01:37:08.199 have done that. But the ones I'm able to tell apart, I feel 1409 01:37:08.279 --> 01:37:13.079 terrible because it's all the anime ones, the moisturizer ones. Yeah, yeah, 1410 01:37:13.079 --> 01:37:17.600 the moisturizer games. I don't know. I think that it is easy 1411 01:37:17.680 --> 01:37:23.399 to look at what is happening at Sony Slash PlayStation right now and be like, 1412 01:37:23.439 --> 01:37:27.159 oh, they're in trouble. They're not in trouble. They know how 1413 01:37:27.199 --> 01:37:30.000 to make big games and get people excited about that stuff, and then that 1414 01:37:30.079 --> 01:37:31.800 leads people to buy their console, and that leads people. It leads people 1415 01:37:31.880 --> 01:37:36.159 to subscribe to PlayStation Network and then spend a lot on micro transactions and live 1416 01:37:36.199 --> 01:37:41.239 free life service games like Fortnite and Call of Duty, and Sony's making more 1417 01:37:41.239 --> 01:37:45.600 money than ever. But they do have to grow. That is their mandate, 1418 01:37:45.079 --> 01:37:48.319 and they also have to feel extra pressure because not a lot of other 1419 01:37:48.359 --> 01:37:51.920 parts of Sony are growing, so they're kind of carrying that entire corporation on 1420 01:37:53.000 --> 01:37:57.159 their back, which makes it even more precious to get every nickel and dime. 1421 01:37:57.279 --> 01:38:00.199 And we've seen them sort of nickel and diming people here and there with 1422 01:38:00.239 --> 01:38:01.640 some of these things, raising games to seventy dollars be the first ones to 1423 01:38:01.720 --> 01:38:05.079 do that, and then raising the price of PlayStation network, something that they're 1424 01:38:05.079 --> 01:38:10.840 still out there defending. So they are being forced to make choices that might 1425 01:38:10.960 --> 01:38:14.399 feel like a little bit more aggressive, that might feel like arrogance and pushing 1426 01:38:14.439 --> 01:38:17.840 people away. I think as long as they keep still making these really big 1427 01:38:17.960 --> 01:38:21.479 games that no one else is making and making them high quality, they're gonna 1428 01:38:21.479 --> 01:38:25.720 be just fined. It's just gonna mean that those are gonna be even bigger 1429 01:38:25.840 --> 01:38:29.840 risks where if one goes bad, there could be a toppling domino effect a 1430 01:38:29.880 --> 01:38:31.239 little bit, and that could be a little bit. That's scary for Sony. 1431 01:38:31.399 --> 01:38:34.039 That's why they keep taking these other bets. You know, there's no 1432 01:38:34.119 --> 01:38:40.680 clear answer on what to do next. How can e studio like Sony that 1433 01:38:40.880 --> 01:38:45.640 puts out big, giant triple A games, how can they be super fluid 1434 01:38:45.800 --> 01:38:50.119 or expect to be super fluid when you know, like you can't adapt God 1435 01:38:50.199 --> 01:38:57.600 of War Ragnarok to tap into the current culturals like Geist or whatever else is 1436 01:38:57.640 --> 01:39:00.319 popping off with games at the time, right, you do have to make 1437 01:39:00.399 --> 01:39:05.319 that giant bet because there's stuff that happens in Fortnite or you know when Fortnite 1438 01:39:05.399 --> 01:39:10.319 was really really on a heater where it's like, now we straight up stole 1439 01:39:10.399 --> 01:39:15.560 this from these other games, right, is that because Sony is putting all 1440 01:39:15.640 --> 01:39:19.079 their eggs in the Triple A Blockbuster basket versus Well, but then, like 1441 01:39:19.199 --> 01:39:23.640 you know, I say that, and I'm realizing they made this huge initiative 1442 01:39:23.680 --> 01:39:28.239 to push for games as a service or live service games, where that could 1443 01:39:28.279 --> 01:39:31.600 have been their opportunity to adapt to whatever is super hot right now. Right, 1444 01:39:31.720 --> 01:39:33.479 But it's like what Jeff's say, like that used to be like, 1445 01:39:33.560 --> 01:39:36.079 oh, like live service games, you can make those kind of cheap and 1446 01:39:36.159 --> 01:39:39.600 then if they're a hit, then you invest in them. Now it's not 1447 01:39:39.640 --> 01:39:42.720 even like that anymore. Even just getting any of those off the ground is 1448 01:39:42.840 --> 01:39:46.279 this giant investment that takes years and years and years of development, And what 1449 01:39:46.359 --> 01:39:50.039 I hear is like it's not even just expensive. No one knows how to 1450 01:39:50.119 --> 01:39:54.520 do it, and we've mean, how many times have we seen that? 1451 01:39:54.720 --> 01:39:57.680 Like, oh, Destiny learned those lessons. Now, every game after this 1452 01:39:58.000 --> 01:40:00.640 is going to learn from what Destiny did and they're gonna come out with much 1453 01:40:00.640 --> 01:40:03.880 stronger launches. And that never happens. Every game is still kind of a 1454 01:40:03.920 --> 01:40:08.359 mess at launch and has to go through those growing pants on their own because, 1455 01:40:08.359 --> 01:40:10.800 as it turns out, and I hear this from places like Bungie, 1456 01:40:11.520 --> 01:40:15.560 no one knows how to do it. It's so difficult and and and so 1457 01:40:15.680 --> 01:40:18.880 when when a Bungie shows up at like Naughty Dog and Naughty Dogs we're working 1458 01:40:18.920 --> 01:40:21.359 on the last of those factions. Here's what it looks like, a bunch 1459 01:40:21.359 --> 01:40:26.359 of goes, Oh shit, guys, this isn't gonna work. This is 1460 01:40:26.600 --> 01:40:29.359 gonna be a real big problem. Like the game is fun, so the 1461 01:40:29.439 --> 01:40:31.880 fuck what this needs? You need this, and you need to have seasons 1462 01:40:31.880 --> 01:40:35.359 of content plan and you need to have flexibility in your micro transactions so that 1463 01:40:35.439 --> 01:40:39.319 you could put fucking ari on a Grande in there. And it's like and 1464 01:40:39.520 --> 01:40:42.960 they the game's not prepared to do that. And so Bunch comes in and 1465 01:40:43.000 --> 01:40:45.560 says, this is not great right now, and it's not gonna work as 1466 01:40:45.560 --> 01:40:47.920 a business. And then we're like, well, what does work. You're 1467 01:40:47.960 --> 01:40:51.079 gonna have to completely revamp everything and that's gonna take even longer. And actually 1468 01:40:51.119 --> 01:40:55.760 we don't really know either because we're kind of winging it. So it's games 1469 01:40:55.800 --> 01:40:58.600 of a service as a service. Turns out was never actually going to be 1470 01:40:58.720 --> 01:41:01.319 this answer. It was because it such a roll the dice, and I 1471 01:41:01.399 --> 01:41:03.800 get you know, Sony could roll the dice twelve times and that gives you 1472 01:41:03.840 --> 01:41:06.720 a better chance. But we're even seeing it. I don't know. If 1473 01:41:06.800 --> 01:41:11.039 Naughty Dog can't do it, who can. It's kind of how it's got 1474 01:41:11.119 --> 01:41:14.880 to be feeling coming out of this, and yeah, well look here's my 1475 01:41:15.159 --> 01:41:19.520 naivete and again me not knowing shit about game development. But say, you 1476 01:41:19.600 --> 01:41:24.640 know, you got all this money, you got all these studios. Isn't 1477 01:41:24.920 --> 01:41:29.960 a bit better bet to have the twelve very different things than twelve same things 1478 01:41:30.720 --> 01:41:33.800 and hoping that one of those will take off. I I think it's what 1479 01:41:33.880 --> 01:41:39.039 the thinking was like a year and a half ago, for sure. But 1480 01:41:39.159 --> 01:41:42.800 I think, listen, they're not gonna stop making the very big things, 1481 01:41:43.039 --> 01:41:45.399 so they were gonna do both. They're gonna have a lot of the big 1482 01:41:45.640 --> 01:41:48.600 things that do this the Sony PlayStation house style, and then they were gonna 1483 01:41:48.600 --> 01:41:53.680 have the twelve very different things, or ideally they would have been very different. 1484 01:41:54.600 --> 01:41:58.119 But I think for Sony they know it's actually better. Like if they 1485 01:41:58.159 --> 01:42:00.319 had to pick or choose one or the other. They're gonna keep doing the 1486 01:42:00.319 --> 01:42:02.359 big Sony games that cost a lot of money because they know how to make 1487 01:42:02.399 --> 01:42:05.439 those, and they know their audience is thirsty, thirsty, thirsty for those 1488 01:42:05.520 --> 01:42:11.319 games, so they're gonna keep doing that for sure. It's just those. 1489 01:42:11.560 --> 01:42:14.560 Every single time they go out and they start another one of those big projects, 1490 01:42:14.640 --> 01:42:16.760 it becomes riskier than the last time. And it's not just because it's 1491 01:42:16.800 --> 01:42:20.079 going to be more expensive. It's because you're gonna get diminishing returns and the 1492 01:42:20.159 --> 01:42:25.560 sort of creativity that you can squeeze from these studios we get. I mean, 1493 01:42:25.600 --> 01:42:28.039 they look how good of a job they did rebooting God of War. 1494 01:42:28.239 --> 01:42:30.600 Of course, yeah, they could do that again. It's like, well, 1495 01:42:30.640 --> 01:42:31.720 when we're gonna do a sequel, it's exactly like the last one, 1496 01:42:31.760 --> 01:42:34.399 and people want that and that's good, But then we're gonna do another sequel, 1497 01:42:34.439 --> 01:42:36.159 it's like, exactly like the last one. Well, no, now 1498 01:42:36.199 --> 01:42:40.239 we've got to start changing things up and hopefully people like the ways we're going 1499 01:42:40.319 --> 01:42:45.239 to change it again. So it's it's complicated and risky and they're and they 1500 01:42:45.319 --> 01:42:47.399 should be afraid of that because that is where they, you know, they 1501 01:42:48.279 --> 01:42:51.680 get all their money from, or at least get all the excitement from, 1502 01:42:51.840 --> 01:42:56.960 and they want to maintain that. But they listen, they're still really skilled. 1503 01:42:57.039 --> 01:42:59.600 They're probably going to figure some stuff out. It just might be it 1504 01:42:59.680 --> 01:43:01.119 might mean like a couple of walls like we got this year where there's not 1505 01:43:01.159 --> 01:43:04.039 a ton of first party Sony games and they get Spider Man two and that 1506 01:43:04.119 --> 01:43:10.840 sort of over covers up everything else. But we'll see Sony's not alone in 1507 01:43:10.920 --> 01:43:15.880 this. A lot of publishers are looking around like what is the path to 1508 01:43:15.000 --> 01:43:18.159 growth? And they were all thinking it was live service a little bit ago, 1509 01:43:18.199 --> 01:43:21.279 and now no one's really thinking that anymore. But the scary thing is 1510 01:43:21.319 --> 01:43:25.880 there is no obvious new thing for them to golom onto. Are we going 1511 01:43:25.960 --> 01:43:31.439 full circle in that license games? Maybe the the quick fix? Yeah, 1512 01:43:31.439 --> 01:43:35.680 because like you know, I don't I can't think of a lot of positives 1513 01:43:35.720 --> 01:43:40.800 coming out of ub Soft except this Avatar game. Avatar game, that's Star 1514 01:43:40.840 --> 01:43:45.600 Wars game they're working on. People so excited about that. It's this is 1515 01:43:45.680 --> 01:43:50.159 what has happened. Is Another thing I hear from publishers is is they know 1516 01:43:50.319 --> 01:43:55.880 they need to be making really really big games and starting a new IP is 1517 01:43:56.439 --> 01:44:00.479 very even more risky and just as expensive as going out and renting an I 1518 01:44:00.560 --> 01:44:03.920 P. So yes, I like that, Yes, and that's what that's 1519 01:44:03.960 --> 01:44:09.840 what they're doing. So uh yeah, I think that we can probably expect 1520 01:44:09.880 --> 01:44:12.399 that trend to continue, especially if it keeps paying off, which it has 1521 01:44:12.479 --> 01:44:15.079 with Star Wars and Harry Potter. Now there's not a ton that will pay 1522 01:44:15.079 --> 01:44:19.039 off. Maybe Avatar will. I'm skeptical. I'm probably gonna have a good 1523 01:44:19.079 --> 01:44:24.640 time with that, but I don't know. We'll see that translated like real 1524 01:44:24.760 --> 01:44:28.079 quick. Like I'm sure we could all name off a couple of properties right 1525 01:44:28.239 --> 01:44:31.279 that that could blow up? Call them, well, blow up both of 1526 01:44:31.359 --> 01:44:40.600 those. Pop Eye, No, there there was a pop remember that? 1527 01:44:43.079 --> 01:44:46.479 Too much of it for the children, and I hate the children. I 1528 01:44:46.520 --> 01:44:49.760 don't hate. I still have it installed on my switch. I should play. 1529 01:44:51.720 --> 01:44:55.439 We've gotten to every horror franchise now, right, like those have all 1530 01:44:55.479 --> 01:45:00.399 been used stuff asymmetrical multiplayer games. Absolutely, I don't. No, you 1531 01:45:00.439 --> 01:45:02.800 could probably do an it. Oh you know what I watched. I know 1532 01:45:02.880 --> 01:45:05.239 that the Scotta game on like the places too if people really liked it. 1533 01:45:05.279 --> 01:45:09.039 But I saw that this would be called the thing for the first time this 1534 01:45:09.119 --> 01:45:12.479 weekend. That's really good. They should make a video game about that today. 1535 01:45:12.960 --> 01:45:15.720 They should do all of John Carpenter's movies. They Live, would be 1536 01:45:15.800 --> 01:45:19.239 a would be the game? I think, yeah, I really do think 1537 01:45:19.279 --> 01:45:21.680 that would be great. I was gonna say Skiff for New York, but 1538 01:45:21.760 --> 01:45:26.880 that's just metal your solids. We'll do it anyway, do it anyway, 1539 01:45:27.279 --> 01:45:30.640 get Ka dreaming to do it? He probably would. All right, let's 1540 01:45:30.720 --> 01:45:34.600 let's move along with these stories here. Atari acquires Drew Scanlon's Digital Eclipse. 1541 01:45:35.640 --> 01:45:41.359 Atari has agreed to acquire Digital Eclipse, a studio that specializes in remastering and 1542 01:45:41.479 --> 01:45:45.560 restoring classic games. The deal is expected to be completed in the coming days, 1543 01:45:45.600 --> 01:45:48.520 and it is worth up to twenty million dollars. Atari said the acquisition 1544 01:45:48.520 --> 01:45:54.439 will help it further support its retro focused growth strategy. This is a strategy 1545 01:45:54.479 --> 01:45:59.560 that also led them to acquire Nightdive Night Di Dive, YEP, so now 1546 01:45:59.680 --> 01:46:02.760 night and Digital Clips under the Atari brand, I'm I'm thinking, I think 1547 01:46:02.760 --> 01:46:06.039 I'm pretty down with what Atari's got cooking over there. If the idea is 1548 01:46:06.520 --> 01:46:09.960 let's find a bunch of old shit that we can make feel new again, 1549 01:46:10.119 --> 01:46:13.600 and let's go to the two studios that are the best at that in their 1550 01:46:13.640 --> 01:46:17.279 own respective ways. Digital Clips does these sort of now interact to museums great 1551 01:46:17.319 --> 01:46:23.000 at collecting the surrounding materials and bringing it all into the experience and now that 1552 01:46:23.039 --> 01:46:25.880 you can like read the materials that go right into playing it, and they 1553 01:46:25.960 --> 01:46:28.359 set it up. So I mean, God, I really want to keep 1554 01:46:28.359 --> 01:46:30.720 a space in my top ten for the making of Karatica, which is an 1555 01:46:30.720 --> 01:46:34.239 amazing game actually. And then then on the other side, Night Dive, 1556 01:46:34.239 --> 01:46:39.479 who's like the best at remastering these old PC games. If Atari's strategy is 1557 01:46:39.560 --> 01:46:42.800 this, I think I'm mostly on board. These days, we'll see and 1558 01:46:42.800 --> 01:46:45.199 they say that they're going to keep being able, They're going to keep being 1559 01:46:45.239 --> 01:46:49.000 able to operate mostly independently at Digital Clips and doing the game projects that they 1560 01:46:49.079 --> 01:46:51.479 want to do. It's just now they're going to have I guess maybe some 1561 01:46:51.600 --> 01:46:55.640 extra resources from Atari. We'll see how that plays out right. It's not 1562 01:46:55.840 --> 01:46:58.199 like, oh, they're only going to be able to work on Atari games 1563 01:46:58.279 --> 01:47:00.520 or anything like that. That's not how it's come to ridiculous now, it's 1564 01:47:00.520 --> 01:47:04.800 about Atari branding themselves as a retro gaming company, which I think just makes 1565 01:47:04.840 --> 01:47:08.479 a lot of sense for them sense. Yeah, if you want to do 1566 01:47:08.600 --> 01:47:12.000 that, then man, Digital Eclipse and night Die before that that those are 1567 01:47:12.079 --> 01:47:14.760 the two companies that you want. It's funny you mentioned that, Mike, 1568 01:47:14.760 --> 01:47:17.279 because I've always had that association with Atari, Like you guys make the old 1569 01:47:17.359 --> 01:47:20.600 shit, right, Yeah, people do, so Basewell lean into it, 1570 01:47:21.119 --> 01:47:24.479 agreed. I don't like. I just I'm such a fan of this, 1571 01:47:24.720 --> 01:47:28.800 like thinking up the strategy and then executing on it in a way that I 1572 01:47:28.840 --> 01:47:31.319 guess acquiring Studios isn't executing on the idea. It's still setting up the idea. 1573 01:47:31.600 --> 01:47:35.479 Let's see how they enable the night Dive and Digital Clips to do even 1574 01:47:35.560 --> 01:47:40.119 more. But as our Wolves and Chats says, Digital Clips is already talking 1575 01:47:40.159 --> 01:47:43.600 in its newsletter about how it's working on the next gold Master series game, 1576 01:47:43.880 --> 01:47:45.600 and that's what the making of Krodka is. It's the first time the gold 1577 01:47:45.680 --> 01:47:49.239 Master Series of these Digital museums, So if they can have those coming out 1578 01:47:49.279 --> 01:47:58.000 like once a quarter Boy and I'm honestly Atari would be a very They did 1579 01:47:58.000 --> 01:48:00.800 Atari fifty obviously, so they've done a lot of that history, but diving 1580 01:48:00.840 --> 01:48:04.479 in even deeper on some of those specific games, and then hopefully getting to 1581 01:48:04.520 --> 01:48:10.439 a point where they've established this gold Master series as such a strong way to 1582 01:48:10.800 --> 01:48:15.600 honor a game that maybe then Digital Clips gets to work with Sega or you 1583 01:48:15.680 --> 01:48:19.520 know, Heaven Forbidden Nintendo. That would just be amazing. If they could 1584 01:48:19.560 --> 01:48:23.560 do this for the original Legend of Zelda or something like that, I would 1585 01:48:23.680 --> 01:48:28.039 just I would lose my mind. So you know that's hopes and dreams, 1586 01:48:28.079 --> 01:48:31.640 but we'll see. Uh yeah, go ahead. Just that digital Clips made 1587 01:48:31.680 --> 01:48:35.760 that incredible Disney Afternoon collection and it's still not on Switch, and I would 1588 01:48:35.840 --> 01:48:40.039 very much like that. Please. Yeah, it's weird. Switch Drake, 1589 01:48:40.680 --> 01:48:45.319 Drake Drake. I saw that Drake dressed up as the Genie for a Halloween 1590 01:48:45.399 --> 01:48:47.720 this year. So my first swish is, of course, the uh let 1591 01:48:47.760 --> 01:48:53.239 me get only get three of these Mike Black Shock remake. The second wish 1592 01:48:53.600 --> 01:48:58.600 just for the Disney after You collection on Switch, and my third wish gd 1593 01:49:00.199 --> 01:49:03.760 freedom. It's not how it works. I'm afraid that's not how it works. 1594 01:49:05.720 --> 01:49:11.439 So worked the first movie, I wasted a wish. He the Genie. 1595 01:49:11.680 --> 01:49:14.600 He dressed as a genie, not for Halloween, but because his daughter 1596 01:49:14.840 --> 01:49:17.239 somehow became convinced that the Genie was going to come over and watch Aladdin with 1597 01:49:17.319 --> 01:49:20.000 her. So he's like, I guess I gotta do this. Now, 1598 01:49:20.920 --> 01:49:24.720 that's how it works, hey, I dresses the Genie like when that movie 1599 01:49:24.800 --> 01:49:27.680 was new for Halloween that year. I remember it was that year we had 1600 01:49:27.760 --> 01:49:30.199 a big snowstorm, so I had to wear a coat over it. I 1601 01:49:30.319 --> 01:49:42.560 was mad. So listen, listen, what a captivating tale you Jesus you're 1602 01:49:42.640 --> 01:49:47.079 leaving us for the going vacation right listen, buddy back what I said that 1603 01:49:47.239 --> 01:49:51.399 was? Everyone heard it, Everyone heard it. I need I need to 1604 01:49:51.439 --> 01:49:56.760 see a photo of that. If we're gonna have that discussion, just want 1605 01:49:56.800 --> 01:49:59.680 to put that out there. Please gonna have that photo? And uh yeah, 1606 01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:04.760 thank you? Were you blue? Were you blue? So listen up. 1607 01:50:05.079 --> 01:50:09.119 Here's a story, a story about a guy who lives in the blue 1608 01:50:09.159 --> 01:50:12.600 world, and all day and all night and everything I see is just blue, 1609 01:50:12.720 --> 01:50:18.479 like litter window in a blue corvette and everything is blue for him and 1610 01:50:18.600 --> 01:50:23.920 himself and everybody around because he ain't got nobody to listen. To listen to 1611 01:50:24.039 --> 01:50:33.560 listen, I'm blue that song? You are that song? Yes, Jeff. 1612 01:50:33.760 --> 01:50:38.920 Now you may continue. Dual screen gaming device that could be split in 1613 01:50:39.000 --> 01:50:45.199 half. UH patent for dual screen device and basically they're saying you could in 1614 01:50:45.279 --> 01:50:47.079 this pattern, you'd be able to take it apart and both sides would still 1615 01:50:47.079 --> 01:50:50.680 be able to operate independently. UH. The device resembles a three D s 1616 01:50:51.279 --> 01:50:57.319 UH and would use some sort of wireless gaming display technology between these two sides. 1617 01:50:57.600 --> 01:51:00.119 It also features a touch screen on the outside for interaction even when closed, 1618 01:51:00.199 --> 01:51:02.840 so screens on the inside. You fold it up like a book, 1619 01:51:02.840 --> 01:51:06.119 and then they're still a screen on the outside, so it could continue to 1620 01:51:06.199 --> 01:51:13.960 operate. The patent obviously does not guarantee that will get an actual product released 1621 01:51:14.079 --> 01:51:18.079 like this Nintendo patent stuff all the time. No, they of course that 1622 01:51:18.319 --> 01:51:23.399 said, I don't think I want this thing, even though I described even 1623 01:51:23.439 --> 01:51:29.880 though I described needing something exactly like this earlier when complaining about couch co op 1624 01:51:29.960 --> 01:51:31.640 with one which two was like this, you'd be you don't want it back 1625 01:51:31.680 --> 01:51:35.239 along. No, I just I don't trust wireless display. I just think 1626 01:51:35.399 --> 01:51:39.760 like we're in a bad place with that. I have to see it work 1627 01:51:39.840 --> 01:51:42.880 in any real meaning. I mean, the way you was was mostly fine 1628 01:51:42.920 --> 01:51:48.640 unless you try to go like unless you unless you walked walked in between you 1629 01:51:48.880 --> 01:51:54.720 and the line of sight frequent, that's that happening a lot. I got 1630 01:51:54.800 --> 01:51:57.720 that thing, right, I remember, I got that thing, and I'm 1631 01:51:57.760 --> 01:52:01.399 like, yo, I'm playing Call of Duty in bed and no I couldn't 1632 01:52:01.479 --> 01:52:09.039 because it happened to go through one wall, one hollow ass sheet rocked wall. 1633 01:52:09.359 --> 01:52:13.319 It wasn't concrete, it wasn't brick, it was motherfucking sheet rock. 1634 01:52:15.079 --> 01:52:19.239 The thing sound has no problem penetrating. Yeah, anyway, I yeah, 1635 01:52:19.359 --> 01:52:21.720 So it's just that shit doesn't work. Well, I realized that was a 1636 01:52:21.760 --> 01:52:27.560 long time ago. Maybe wireless video technology has improved in some way, hopefully 1637 01:52:27.600 --> 01:52:30.000 through Wi Fi. I don't know. I just like the DS and three 1638 01:52:30.079 --> 01:52:34.000 DS A lots to the idea of maybe getting some like ports or new ways 1639 01:52:34.039 --> 01:52:38.199 to play those games. Are you know, god forbid like sequels. If 1640 01:52:38.239 --> 01:52:41.600 this is what I need to get a leap beat agents too, then so 1641 01:52:41.840 --> 01:52:45.960 mean, let's see of all the surprise like gimmicks they could do to the 1642 01:52:46.119 --> 01:52:50.920 next switch that like maybe I would assumed I wouldn't want this one. I 1643 01:52:50.960 --> 01:52:56.520 would be mostly okay with because again, stuff is cool. I've been pounding 1644 01:52:56.560 --> 01:53:00.840 this drum for how fucking long now, like every game mornings for like a 1645 01:53:00.920 --> 01:53:03.239 year and a half. Now cut the check, Nintendo, come on, 1646 01:53:03.960 --> 01:53:09.000 I'm with you guys on I would like a dual screen. I think I 1647 01:53:09.039 --> 01:53:13.920 agree with Jeff, like let's avoid wireless display stuff, Like the next switch 1648 01:53:14.000 --> 01:53:16.359 should still have a DOC of some sort. It shouldn't be like here's a 1649 01:53:16.439 --> 01:53:19.319 dongle and then now you just flip this thing on the on the switch and 1650 01:53:19.359 --> 01:53:23.000 now you're beaming the stuff to the TV. I don't really trust that. 1651 01:53:23.279 --> 01:53:27.319 So, yeah, you don't want the thing to go wrong with your system 1652 01:53:27.439 --> 01:53:31.520 to be the thing the system is right, like joy con drifting, Like 1653 01:53:31.640 --> 01:53:40.119 yeah, absolutely widespread malfunction. But you could just replace those like that's let's 1654 01:53:40.199 --> 01:53:44.640 not have the thing that the console is like centered around not work. Well, 1655 01:53:44.840 --> 01:53:49.520 that would be horrible, you problem, Yeah, exactly. I think 1656 01:53:49.560 --> 01:53:53.399 it's probably unlikely that the switch to has anything to do with this. Paton 1657 01:53:53.439 --> 01:53:58.359 probably just clear it's is probably going to be a switch to yes, yes 1658 01:53:58.479 --> 01:54:03.319 exactly. Microsoft is support for unofficial third party peripherals. Microsoft has started blocking 1659 01:54:03.359 --> 01:54:09.039 the use of unofficial accessories with Xbox consoles. This is reportedly related to Microsoft 1660 01:54:09.119 --> 01:54:15.600 expanding its program for approved third party wireless Xbox controllers. Third party Xbox devices 1661 01:54:15.640 --> 01:54:18.439 that are part of the Design for Xbox Partner program should not be affected, 1662 01:54:18.520 --> 01:54:24.720 which is probably what most people have others, but other things might actually be 1663 01:54:24.760 --> 01:54:29.760 affected, and those could include like certain third party fighting game controllers. It 1664 01:54:29.840 --> 01:54:33.520 will definitely include things like some a couple of devices that I have this company 1665 01:54:33.560 --> 01:54:36.560 set me where you plug this into your Xbox and then you plug a mouse 1666 01:54:36.600 --> 01:54:40.840 and keyboard in there, and then it tells the thing you're using a controller 1667 01:54:40.880 --> 01:54:44.800 when you're actually using a mouse and keyboard, so you can cheat in video 1668 01:54:44.960 --> 01:54:47.680 games. Oh wow, coo cool. Yes, right, that's like a 1669 01:54:47.840 --> 01:54:50.039 fun Yeah, I want to I want to cheat in video games that way 1670 01:54:50.079 --> 01:54:55.319 every once in a while. Well, they don't like the idea of these 1671 01:54:55.840 --> 01:54:58.720 faults in the system. I think that that's kind of what they're how they're 1672 01:54:58.720 --> 01:55:01.239 talking. They're saying safety and su security, but I think they also this 1673 01:55:01.399 --> 01:55:04.319 is a weakness in the chain there where like people could cheat that way. 1674 01:55:06.000 --> 01:55:12.479 Really though, it's probably about this approved for Xbox thing, where they maybe 1675 01:55:12.640 --> 01:55:15.880 Xbox gets a little bit more money if they have if everyone has to go 1676 01:55:15.960 --> 01:55:17.039 through them to get approved. At least that's how I read it. I 1677 01:55:17.079 --> 01:55:20.000 don't know. There's people in the fighting game community that are upset about this. 1678 01:55:20.039 --> 01:55:25.720 There's people who are worried maybe about accessibility, although that Xbox accessibly controller 1679 01:55:25.800 --> 01:55:29.920 will obviously still work, so there's some weirdness here. I think it's a 1680 01:55:29.960 --> 01:55:32.680 shame to have stuff work one way to the point where people make purchasing decisions 1681 01:55:32.760 --> 01:55:36.399 based on and then to change it mid stream. But at the same time, 1682 01:55:36.520 --> 01:55:41.039 these are closed systems. This is how they work play games on PC. 1683 01:55:41.199 --> 01:55:44.479 I guess. I don't know. It's not really a great overall. 1684 01:55:44.520 --> 01:55:45.960 I wish they could find another solution here that would be ideal, But I 1685 01:55:46.000 --> 01:55:48.840 don't know. You guys, I just don't think this affects us too much. 1686 01:55:48.880 --> 01:55:55.199 We probably are mostly using official stuff, right, yeah, mostly using 1687 01:55:55.319 --> 01:56:03.199 my freaking Starfield control an amazing controller for a game. Yeah yeah. The 1688 01:56:03.479 --> 01:56:08.119 The upside to this, though, is that more of these third party controllers 1689 01:56:08.159 --> 01:56:11.880 will now be wireless where before like a lot of stuff you get, like 1690 01:56:12.079 --> 01:56:15.319 I got a couple of eight bit does that are for Xbox and they're wired 1691 01:56:15.000 --> 01:56:19.239 because the Microsoft uses proprietary wireless technology. Well, it seems like the whole 1692 01:56:19.239 --> 01:56:24.039 point of this is to expand that stuff into more of these controllers, so 1693 01:56:24.159 --> 01:56:28.800 that'll be something and that will go work for headsets as well. But still 1694 01:56:29.079 --> 01:56:31.479 it seems like you could probably do that without having to cut off all of 1695 01:56:31.479 --> 01:56:34.600 these other devices. Yeah, it seems like it seems unnecessary to be I 1696 01:56:34.680 --> 01:56:40.640 agree. Capcom will have a major title by March twenty twenty four that is 1697 01:56:40.720 --> 01:56:44.920 currently unannounced. It will apparently it's apparently gonna sell millions of copies according to 1698 01:56:44.920 --> 01:56:50.479 the Capcom I think it has to be beautiful, Joe. That's what I 1699 01:56:50.720 --> 01:56:56.520 wrote down here. It's Monster Hunter as hell. It has to be Monster 1700 01:56:56.600 --> 01:57:00.680 High either that or maybe Bresident Evil nine is sooner than we think, but 1701 01:57:00.079 --> 01:57:03.800 probably Monster Hunt. I don't do that to me, you can, dude, 1702 01:57:04.079 --> 01:57:09.560 Why would you even put that in my head? Mike are nine in 1703 01:57:09.800 --> 01:57:12.520 March? Like, what are you doing? Yeah, that's way too early. 1704 01:57:12.640 --> 01:57:15.359 That's absolutely it's it's gonna be Monster Hunter. It could be two things. 1705 01:57:15.479 --> 01:57:18.439 Two things, right, it's probably Monster Hunter. Also, I've heard 1706 01:57:18.479 --> 01:57:23.560 good things about the Niantic Monster Hunter game. Yes, I can't. I 1707 01:57:23.640 --> 01:57:27.399 can't dive back into that world. No, don't do it. Two viewed. 1708 01:57:27.840 --> 01:57:34.199 Yeah, Resident Evil six remake. First, what do you do? 1709 01:57:34.760 --> 01:57:42.920 There's no way they skip five and they're gonna past five because they're not gonna 1710 01:57:42.960 --> 01:57:45.119 want to deal with deal with it. I'm like, because is it the 1711 01:57:45.159 --> 01:57:48.640 five of the one where you punch the boulder? Yeah, but a lot 1712 01:57:48.720 --> 01:57:56.840 of punch a lot of poor African villagers. Yes, they are like six. 1713 01:57:58.119 --> 01:58:00.880 No, just stop, just stop, just stop. We've we fit, 1714 01:58:01.039 --> 01:58:06.039 We've reached the end of the ride with are four Veronica coach? Yeah, 1715 01:58:06.439 --> 01:58:10.840 Coonic. Yeah, they're gonna do I think they're gonna do It's able 1716 01:58:10.880 --> 01:58:14.000 one remake next, that's the next thing, you know. I think you're 1717 01:58:14.119 --> 01:58:16.319 right. No, they are going to do five. They're going to do 1718 01:58:16.439 --> 01:58:19.680 five. There's easiest logical thing for them to do. Then they already do 1719 01:58:19.800 --> 01:58:23.680 one. I know. Yeah, he one twenty years ago for game, 1720 01:58:23.840 --> 01:58:27.039 but that was two thousand and two, but they didn't do like the new 1721 01:58:28.600 --> 01:58:31.399 that was just two and three. Okay right right? Four now, yeah, 1722 01:58:31.439 --> 01:58:34.039 so go do one great. Do one love it? I think they 1723 01:58:34.079 --> 01:58:40.439 will. Yeah, I mean one zero because zero has problems. Make zero 1724 01:58:40.680 --> 01:58:43.600 amazing. Now make zero a good game because zero has got a good concept. 1725 01:58:43.640 --> 01:58:47.520 You're on a train, Chambers, it's cool. Yeah, clearly the 1726 01:58:47.680 --> 01:58:53.479 message is anything but five and six? Okay, anything but five? And 1727 01:58:53.800 --> 01:58:56.600 look I kind of like five. It's a snow I paid five. I 1728 01:58:56.680 --> 01:59:00.560 played five two years ago with Abby, and if it wasn't four, how 1729 01:59:00.720 --> 01:59:03.199 charming we both were, that would have been a complete disaster. That's why. 1730 01:59:03.520 --> 01:59:08.720 That's why they'll make it better now. Yeah, I want to play 1731 01:59:08.760 --> 01:59:12.399 sex. By the way, who wants to play with me? This is 1732 01:59:12.520 --> 01:59:15.840 me not raising my hand if I'll do it. If I don't play, 1733 01:59:17.720 --> 01:59:25.399 what is Yeah, he's just tricking you a little bit with four? Is 1734 01:59:25.439 --> 01:59:30.000 that the thing you don't you don't like? My thing is? I love 1735 01:59:30.600 --> 01:59:32.880 four? And I just say I already played that game though. Okay, 1736 01:59:33.520 --> 01:59:38.760 game Mike. I'll even take your side on that argument because wrong, like 1737 01:59:38.960 --> 01:59:44.840 yeah, yeah, which is which is just as valid. Yeah, what 1738 01:59:44.960 --> 01:59:49.479 if it's a dark Void remake? Well, remake Dark Sector. That's the 1739 01:59:49.680 --> 01:59:55.640 right dark game to make Dark Sector. That is there anything else it could 1740 01:59:55.720 --> 02:00:00.479 be we're not getting a new Devil May Cry yet. No Beautiful Joe three 1741 02:00:00.640 --> 02:00:05.520 confirmed. Yeah, I would not sell millions of copies, but because Monster 1742 02:00:05.600 --> 02:00:09.600 Hunter is like do or like that's it's a one do and it would sell 1743 02:00:09.640 --> 02:00:14.199 millions of copies. And they're they're always making Monster Hunter like they like SU's 1744 02:00:14.279 --> 02:00:16.279 Hunter was the world was done, they started making another one even though Rise 1745 02:00:16.399 --> 02:00:20.560 was also coming. Yeah, so so like they, yes, we're due 1746 02:00:20.640 --> 02:00:24.880 and it's gonna happen soon. So I imagine that's what I just don't want. 1747 02:00:25.159 --> 02:00:29.640 No lost planet now, don't bring that ship back, that Rising planet, 1748 02:00:29.720 --> 02:00:33.520 and I'm going to do that Powerstone them Powerstone ship. It was that 1749 02:00:33.720 --> 02:00:38.159 God. I wish just just give me that Powerstone collection you made for PSP 1750 02:00:38.399 --> 02:00:41.880 on like a switch, that's all. It's a release of Dark Stalkers. 1751 02:00:41.960 --> 02:00:44.920 That's what's gonna happen. But that'd be cool. But they already did that's 1752 02:00:45.039 --> 02:00:47.880 they already did give us the Dark Stalkers a collection and it ruled. Uh. 1753 02:00:48.399 --> 02:00:53.479 David Hater is involved with Metal Gear again. Konami has enlisted fan favorite 1754 02:00:53.479 --> 02:00:58.199 Middle Gear voice actor David Hater to promote to promote its recent series revival. 1755 02:00:58.319 --> 02:01:01.600 This includes the release of Metal Gear so Master Collection Volume one, which includes 1756 02:01:01.600 --> 02:01:05.119 a number of the earlier series entries and a Metal Gear Solid three Snake in 1757 02:01:05.199 --> 02:01:10.880 a remake for PS five Xbox series. PC Haters also teased that this is 1758 02:01:11.119 --> 02:01:15.199 only the beginning and that and that references to other Metal Gear series games have 1759 02:01:15.279 --> 02:01:18.199 been found in the files of volume one, suggesting a second volume could could 1760 02:01:18.239 --> 02:01:21.560 be released in the future. Uh, what if they got him to do 1761 02:01:21.640 --> 02:01:27.560 the voice for, you know, Snake in Metal Gear Solid five. That'd 1762 02:01:27.600 --> 02:01:30.239 be pretty good. That'd be great. I like, hater, I mean, 1763 02:01:30.399 --> 02:01:31.720 I like, you know, we all like Kojima. That was kind 1764 02:01:31.760 --> 02:01:35.680 of fucked up when he you know, his star fucking height, his star 1765 02:01:35.840 --> 02:01:41.319 fucking yeah, taking over his brain like worms. Yea, it was such 1766 02:01:41.359 --> 02:01:45.960 a bad call, like such a story ball Snake, Yeah, for the 1767 02:01:45.000 --> 02:01:48.520 guy that I liked in fucking twenty four. We know you were watching twenty 1768 02:01:48.560 --> 02:01:53.520 four Kojima. Obviously that's high high art. I get it. I love 1769 02:01:53.600 --> 02:01:58.720 it too. We're all in agreement. We're agreement here. But then going 1770 02:01:58.760 --> 02:02:00.479 and like pulling this one that it was a dick move. Yeah, it 1771 02:02:00.560 --> 02:02:04.920 was a dick move. But in terms of like the choice of actor in 1772 02:02:05.520 --> 02:02:09.560 a vacuum. I mean, are we really about to say that, like 1773 02:02:09.680 --> 02:02:15.960 Norman Redis is like uh a cool thing? Like well, like Norman Readis 1774 02:02:15.039 --> 02:02:19.479 wasn't replacing anybody. But but listen, but that's what I'm saying, vacuum 1775 02:02:19.560 --> 02:02:23.520 dead and now I want to put him in a video game. Also totally 1776 02:02:23.760 --> 02:02:30.560 loser behavior is that who sees that as like audition successfuls? Like this is 1777 02:02:30.560 --> 02:02:32.760 a thing with all developers for sure. They see something they want to put 1778 02:02:32.760 --> 02:02:36.159 it by, Like Japanese developers love doing this, They love watching American TV 1779 02:02:36.239 --> 02:02:44.800 and putting kind of I don't think making Foxes in any prestige TV. I 1780 02:02:44.840 --> 02:02:47.119 don't know where that came from. Yes, Edward's just like, uh, 1781 02:02:47.960 --> 02:02:49.840 I don't even know. It's not it's not the same thing. It's the 1782 02:02:50.000 --> 02:02:54.319 same kind of thing. Though Jan won't say it, but I will put 1783 02:02:54.439 --> 02:03:00.800 Walton Goggins in a goddamn book. Let me smile on What are we waiting 1784 02:03:00.920 --> 02:03:06.920 for? He's waiting for gos Uh. He's playing the ghoul in the Fallout 1785 02:03:08.239 --> 02:03:12.880 TV series. She's gonna be TV show. He should play the medieval guy? 1786 02:03:15.000 --> 02:03:19.279 What maybe like from the game from the game for yeah, the skeleton 1787 02:03:19.439 --> 02:03:30.079 night. That's actually pretty good. That person Johnny doesn't speaking mumbles, yeah, 1788 02:03:30.600 --> 02:03:35.359 has got a good mumble voice. Walter would be very charming in video 1789 02:03:35.439 --> 02:03:39.520 games right now. You know, I wonder I want to live in the 1790 02:03:39.560 --> 02:03:44.800 world where instead of uh, what's it not to for Grace who's in twenty 1791 02:03:44.880 --> 02:03:50.000 four, Keifer kee Keefer to for I get it. It's the same you 1792 02:03:50.079 --> 02:03:53.439 think, you think, you think names I get it, Yeah, and 1793 02:03:53.560 --> 02:03:58.079 I get it. YO. Give me a world where instead of Keifer Sutherland 1794 02:03:58.399 --> 02:04:01.399 blowing up and taking off, give me a world where it was David Brianna's 1795 02:04:03.840 --> 02:04:13.640 he Stavy Seal guy Angel from the Buffy verse. That's that's in between generation 1796 02:04:13.840 --> 02:04:18.239 thing there. That's a big forehead gang. I always want to watch that 1797 02:04:18.439 --> 02:04:23.720 US Navy Seals show with David Borriann I honest, which has been going on 1798 02:04:23.840 --> 02:04:27.199 for like ten years now or something like that. I'm always so weirdly curious 1799 02:04:27.199 --> 02:04:30.359 about these shows that are like on network TV and have ten plus seasons, 1800 02:04:30.479 --> 02:04:35.720 right, but what's the what's the hospital show, Grey's Anatomy? How many 1801 02:04:35.800 --> 02:04:40.640 seasons does that have? Like eighty four? She's not on the show anymore. 1802 02:04:40.720 --> 02:04:43.680 Ellen Pompeo is not on the show, but she was on She was 1803 02:04:43.760 --> 02:04:46.319 on it for like dozens of like almost like two dozen seasons or something. 1804 02:04:46.359 --> 02:04:51.079 But the thing is it is called Gray's Anatomy because she is married with Gray. 1805 02:04:51.640 --> 02:04:56.279 I don't understand how you continue to have the show without her. Yes, 1806 02:04:56.479 --> 02:05:00.079 it's wild nineteen seasons, Okay, that is I'm so morbidly curious about 1807 02:05:00.079 --> 02:05:03.000 that, because those seasons have like twenty four episodes per season. They have 1808 02:05:03.159 --> 02:05:08.600 spinoffs as well to tie into to it. I think you need to protect 1809 02:05:08.640 --> 02:05:11.760 yourself from Gray's Anatomy. I'm just gonna say that. You know you're right, 1810 02:05:11.800 --> 02:05:13.880 but I might not what we were gonna say, Mike, Well, 1811 02:05:13.960 --> 02:05:15.319 like Basic Philly is the same thing, right, because he's like beloved, 1812 02:05:15.479 --> 02:05:20.199 like cultiv yes from five and then like his actual careers were first that show 1813 02:05:20.239 --> 02:05:24.199 where he was a writer Castle and then he's been on the rook Rookie if 1814 02:05:24.359 --> 02:05:28.520 with just another network cops show that's like that's where they all find themselves in 1815 02:05:28.600 --> 02:05:31.000 the end. Yep, there's a that's where all the money is, lots 1816 02:05:31.039 --> 02:05:35.640 of money in them. They're cop hills. All right, let's see here. 1817 02:05:36.920 --> 02:05:40.840 Okay, Boulders Kate three is still on track, to hit Xbox before 1818 02:05:40.880 --> 02:05:44.920 the end of this year. They basically just give an update saying latest on 1819 02:05:45.199 --> 02:05:48.520 on the Xbox version is, it's being actively play tested, still on schedule 1820 02:05:48.600 --> 02:05:53.039 for this year. Will announce the exact release state when we're sure it's done. 1821 02:05:54.039 --> 02:05:57.600 Hey, that's that's good news. And there's you know, it's November 1822 02:05:57.720 --> 02:06:00.319 now you feel like, well, you should must have to announce it now. 1823 02:06:00.680 --> 02:06:03.520 No, they could drop this whenever because it's gonna be digital only at 1824 02:06:03.560 --> 02:06:06.239 first. So yeah, I know, we were kind of expecting to see 1825 02:06:06.279 --> 02:06:10.600 it in that Xbox Partner showcase and a little surprise and show up and we're 1826 02:06:10.640 --> 02:06:14.000 maybe a little scared it was gonna miss this year, but it seems like 1827 02:06:14.079 --> 02:06:19.119 it still should be. Okay there yep. And then Remedy is also still 1828 02:06:19.159 --> 02:06:24.319 working on Control Too, Max Pain wanted to remake, and a bunch more 1829 02:06:24.880 --> 02:06:29.119 Ready. Entertainment has provided updates on several upcoming titles, including Control two, 1830 02:06:29.199 --> 02:06:33.039 Max Pay one plus two remake, Condor, and code name Vanguard. Control 1831 02:06:33.079 --> 02:06:39.199 two is in the proof of concept stage let's see here, while the Max 1832 02:06:39.279 --> 02:06:44.399 Pain remake is in the production readiness stage. A Condor, a cooperative multiplayer 1833 02:06:44.479 --> 02:06:47.399 game, has progressed from the proof of concept stage to the production readiness stage 1834 02:06:47.680 --> 02:06:50.960 and then code name Vanguard, a game we don't know much about. Is 1835 02:06:51.319 --> 02:06:57.359 still in the early early planning stages. So obviously they just finished Allen Wake 1836 02:06:57.399 --> 02:07:00.000 two. They are working on a lot of projects, but doesn't say. 1837 02:07:00.000 --> 02:07:02.279 I'm like they're working on them super parallel. It is like an order of 1838 02:07:02.359 --> 02:07:05.720 operations thing they're finishing now in way two, and they will mostly move on 1839 02:07:05.840 --> 02:07:11.520 to one of these other projects. Sounds like Max Paying one and to Remake 1840 02:07:11.720 --> 02:07:15.399 and Condor will be the ones that they're getting to next. Should I play 1841 02:07:15.479 --> 02:07:19.039 those? Well, that's what I'm I've never really played the Max Paying games. 1842 02:07:19.920 --> 02:07:27.119 They're most there shooters like First and Foremasts, but very fun, very 1843 02:07:27.279 --> 02:07:32.880 detmosphere. They get credited with like bullet time. Uh yeah, I played 1844 02:07:32.880 --> 02:07:38.960 those in college in a big way. I just remember you there's something about 1845 02:07:39.319 --> 02:07:43.319 mouse and keyboard with those games, were like, while Max is just parallel 1846 02:07:43.359 --> 02:07:45.520 to the ground, you could just like swing that mouse around and just have 1847 02:07:45.680 --> 02:07:49.359 them flop around and the air like that. It really is great. I 1848 02:07:49.520 --> 02:07:53.640 highly recommend mouse and keyboarding that if you can't, that sounds great. Not 1849 02:07:53.920 --> 02:07:58.399 the GBA version well I'm gonna say no. I'm gonna say no, you 1850 02:07:58.439 --> 02:08:01.800 can play keyboard to do a GB if you really can put your control. 1851 02:08:01.279 --> 02:08:07.760 Control only came out in nineteen yeah, not that long ago, right, 1852 02:08:07.359 --> 02:08:13.079 Does anyone else put remedy in this, like they're just a little developer kind 1853 02:08:13.119 --> 02:08:16.159 of like bog my head yet more? I do. Yes, They've always 1854 02:08:16.239 --> 02:08:20.119 liked because they just put Almack two and they had they were working on that, 1855 02:08:20.279 --> 02:08:24.119 uh what's the shooter that they helped out with. Oh yeah, yeah, 1856 02:08:24.439 --> 02:08:28.680 the thing cross our campaign. So they've like had work for higher projects, 1857 02:08:28.960 --> 02:08:33.680 multiple sequels that they're working on, remakes, you know, Ala two 1858 02:08:33.760 --> 02:08:37.840 obviously a multiplayer game. They have a lot of projects cooking. At the 1859 02:08:37.880 --> 02:08:41.199 same time, they've they've been trying to expand. Seems like it's going to 1860 02:08:41.279 --> 02:08:43.439 work now, especially with this Epic money and allen Wick two money. But 1861 02:08:43.520 --> 02:08:46.560 they got to be way more massive, right, like hundreds and hundreds of 1862 02:08:46.600 --> 02:08:50.720 people, right, Yeah, I have no idea. I would probably put 1863 02:08:50.720 --> 02:08:52.239 them around two hundred people, two hundred, maybe three hundred people at this 1864 02:08:52.279 --> 02:08:58.000 point and probably getting bigger. Wikipedia says three sixty All right, there, 1865 02:08:58.039 --> 02:09:01.880 there you go, three sixty. Good guess, good very good, all 1866 02:09:01.960 --> 02:09:05.439 right, And then Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door has already been rated for 1867 02:09:05.560 --> 02:09:13.199 Switch. The highly praised GameCube exclusive turn based RPG has been rated already in 1868 02:09:13.319 --> 02:09:16.840 Brazil and South Korea. This has happened for a lot of games before, 1869 02:09:18.000 --> 02:09:22.039 and when it has happened, those games usually come out within about six to 1870 02:09:22.199 --> 02:09:26.640 ten weeks after they get rated, So that would put this game as very 1871 02:09:26.760 --> 02:09:28.800 early twenty twenty four, which I hey, I would love that, lie 1872 02:09:28.840 --> 02:09:31.760 welcome it. It would expect a bit of a buffer between this and the 1873 02:09:31.880 --> 02:09:37.520 Mario RPG remake, though, I would you would expect it, unless like 1874 02:09:37.640 --> 02:09:41.079 they're worried about some other big games coming. Then they're like, well, 1875 02:09:41.119 --> 02:09:43.399 no, we got to get this out because you know, Princess of Peach 1876 02:09:43.479 --> 02:09:46.560 games coming out, and then it's all in on switch to later in the 1877 02:09:46.640 --> 02:09:50.079 year. So listen, it is better to get this game out a few 1878 02:09:50.159 --> 02:09:54.279 weeks after a super Mare RPG than anytime after you announced the next switch, 1879 02:09:54.680 --> 02:09:58.600 because these games kind of just go out to die if people are waiting for 1880 02:09:58.640 --> 02:10:03.239 that next system. So saw it happened with Bowser's Inside Story remake on the 1881 02:10:03.279 --> 02:10:05.560 three D because that is exactly the worst selling game ever. Yeah, that's 1882 02:10:05.600 --> 02:10:09.359 one hundred percent of avoid that situation. They've obviously learned the lesson there, 1883 02:10:09.399 --> 02:10:13.600 I think, so I wouldn't be surprised if we get the Super RPG is 1884 02:10:13.640 --> 02:10:16.279 in November. God, how far away are we from that? November? 1885 02:10:16.560 --> 02:10:22.319 I think tomorrow? Right, it's tomorrow and Mario Ware in like three days? 1886 02:10:22.640 --> 02:10:28.479 No what? Yeah? Okay? Yeah, uh so it's happening fast, 1887 02:10:28.520 --> 02:10:31.239 and then you know, I could see this game coming out in January 1888 02:10:31.359 --> 02:10:35.720 or February or something like that. Could be like even like, I guess, 1889 02:10:35.760 --> 02:10:37.840 is there gonna be a physical version of this? I suppose there might 1890 02:10:37.880 --> 02:10:39.760 be. It might not shadow drop it, but at like the next director, 1891 02:10:39.960 --> 02:10:43.079 it's going to be a box game. It better be in sixty phase 1892 02:10:43.119 --> 02:10:45.960 per second. By the way, Oh yeah, right there with you. 1893 02:10:46.000 --> 02:10:48.720 That'll be very frustrating if that thirty frames per second turns out to be the 1894 02:10:48.800 --> 02:10:52.399 case. Uh all right, that does it for the news jam show. 1895 02:10:52.520 --> 02:10:56.119 It's yours again. I feel exhausted, So I got to take a quick 1896 02:10:56.159 --> 02:10:58.079 breaking break. Let's do it, and then we'll read some emails, some 1897 02:10:58.159 --> 02:11:03.760 shout outs back. Calar is going to go tend to I got Halloween, 1898 02:11:03.880 --> 02:11:07.279 I got Halloween affairs that need attention. So everyone have a great holiday, 1899 02:11:07.600 --> 02:11:16.760 enjoy yourselves like, see you next time. Welcome back to the Giant BombCast 1900 02:11:16.880 --> 02:11:22.560 everyone. Jeff Beckler had to go dip to go take care of Dib and 1901 02:11:22.680 --> 02:11:28.199 all of his hoodlums Halloween. So Mike and Greb and I are gonna read 1902 02:11:28.520 --> 02:11:41.680 some emails emails. First email comes from Chris. Oh also, you can 1903 02:11:41.720 --> 02:11:46.600 write into the show by writing to BombCast at giant bomb dot com. BombCast 1904 02:11:46.640 --> 02:11:52.000 at giant bomb dot com. I read all of the emails. I appreciate 1905 02:11:52.119 --> 02:11:54.199 all the emails. There was one funny one that I got to send to 1906 02:11:54.279 --> 02:12:00.359 Backlar about his where he was over the weekend and being spotted had a very 1907 02:12:00.399 --> 02:12:07.079 hyper specific place the strip Club. Yes, yes, spotted him as the 1908 02:12:07.199 --> 02:12:13.159 trichologist. Uh God, that just reminds me of a conversation I had yesterday. 1909 02:12:13.600 --> 02:12:18.119 First email comes from Chris. They write in just finish the series. 1910 02:12:18.560 --> 02:12:24.560 Oh uh, this is an anamorph's check. Just finish the series because the 1911 02:12:24.640 --> 02:12:26.880 only benefit of one hour train rides to and from work is tons of reading 1912 02:12:26.960 --> 02:12:31.159 time. And wanted to see how Jan and Grubb were doing on their animals. 1913 02:12:31.239 --> 02:12:35.039 Read reading the series in my thirties really hammers home that I read them 1914 02:12:35.239 --> 02:12:39.920 entirely too young, missed the crippling PTSD and casual war crimes as a grade 1915 02:12:39.920 --> 02:12:45.760 school kid, but love the animals and PlayStation jokes, Love Chris, Yeah, 1916 02:12:45.840 --> 02:12:48.600 of course, I mean, who's not gonna love the animals and PlayStation 1917 02:12:48.760 --> 02:12:52.560 jokes. I still have only read the first book, but hearing that you 1918 02:12:52.720 --> 02:12:56.319 got onto book ten jam makes me want to continue because I enjoyed myself. 1919 02:12:56.359 --> 02:13:01.119 I had a good time. Well, they're very quick reads. I mean 1920 02:13:01.199 --> 02:13:03.960 it's there. They're YA novels, so they're very thin, and like the 1921 02:13:03.159 --> 02:13:07.840 they're like not like oh YA is like oh Harry Potter's y A. It's 1922 02:13:07.880 --> 02:13:11.479 like no, it's it's younger than that. Yeah, And I think they're 1923 02:13:11.479 --> 02:13:15.600 they're actually legitimately good books, and I think it's it's interesting that no one 1924 02:13:15.720 --> 02:13:20.079 has tried to do it again and try and adapt it yet. I feel 1925 02:13:20.119 --> 02:13:24.399 like it could be very good, but it is very challenging because like, 1926 02:13:24.359 --> 02:13:26.760 you know, you're gonna have shoot animals, you're gonna have c g I 1927 02:13:26.920 --> 02:13:31.840 animals. It's hard for animals to emote, and that's why I didn't like 1928 02:13:31.960 --> 02:13:37.680 The Lion King uh, John Fava, cats can't move their jaws left or 1929 02:13:37.720 --> 02:13:39.600 right. They can only move them up or down. How are you gonna 1930 02:13:39.600 --> 02:13:43.119 make a face when you can't even move your face? It doesn't matter. 1931 02:13:43.079 --> 02:13:50.960 Eat check cats. That's right suck? But is it Lion King? One 1932 02:13:50.000 --> 02:13:56.720 of their biggest blockbuster, that's the highest grossing animated movie of all time, 1933 02:13:58.039 --> 02:14:03.760 the Jon Favreau one, right, but on fab roh one technically an anime. 1934 02:14:05.000 --> 02:14:07.840 Technically it just is an animated movie. That's insane. Apparently he took 1935 02:14:07.880 --> 02:14:13.800 that tech and has made a dinosaur show kind of want to check. Not 1936 02:14:13.920 --> 02:14:18.239 the Mama, not the mama. I'm the baby God? I love me? 1937 02:14:18.399 --> 02:14:20.600 Don't you wish they're warmer of me? I should just got that whole 1938 02:14:20.680 --> 02:14:24.840 song you are? You remind me of the baby from Dinosaurs? I know, 1939 02:14:26.159 --> 02:14:33.920 I know the mikey God. I love me. Don't you wish they're 1940 02:14:33.960 --> 02:14:37.920 warmer of me? Okay, we gotta make a holiday shirt Mike one. 1941 02:14:39.000 --> 02:14:43.399 Okay, one in a millionaire. You gotta love me, you gotta love 1942 02:14:43.479 --> 02:14:48.560 me? All right? Uh We We talked about some oreo tech last week 1943 02:14:48.640 --> 02:14:52.760 on the show, and Adam from Boise, Idaho writes in about their own 1944 02:14:52.920 --> 02:15:00.439 not Oreo quiz oreo tech Uh they write in and tell us the your giant 1945 02:15:00.479 --> 02:15:03.399 bomb perves. That's true. Any way you can buy an oreos and milk 1946 02:15:03.520 --> 02:15:07.520 is probably great. But I think the best way is to stick a fork 1947 02:15:07.560 --> 02:15:11.560 in the cream and then completely submerge the oreo. Takes a little trial and 1948 02:15:11.640 --> 02:15:16.239 air to get the timing, but generally when the initial bubble stream slows is 1949 02:15:16.319 --> 02:15:18.359 the right to take it out so it doesn't fall apart much. I love 1950 02:15:18.479 --> 02:15:24.159 Adam from Boise. I don't like what oreos. I don't do the milk 1951 02:15:24.239 --> 02:15:30.560 stuff. I like a crunchy regular oreo personally, aren't you You're not much 1952 02:15:30.600 --> 02:15:33.520 of a cookie guy at all, though, right that's true, but like, 1953 02:15:33.560 --> 02:15:35.640 you know, not even that much of a chocolate guy. But oreos 1954 02:15:35.680 --> 02:15:41.439 are fucking amazing. If I was the one that says he like doesn't ever 1955 02:15:41.640 --> 02:15:43.880 have cookies, he's right. But I bet if we told Dan like oreos 1956 02:15:43.920 --> 02:15:48.319 are cookies, he'd be shocked to learn that. I think he cookies. 1957 02:15:50.039 --> 02:15:54.159 If I think, if I wonder if telling him asking what flavor he thinks 1958 02:15:54.199 --> 02:15:58.720 an oreo is, what answer that would uh? We'd get it means just 1959 02:15:58.760 --> 02:16:01.520 cook He's a cream. It's like chocolate cookies and cream flavor. But what 1960 02:16:01.560 --> 02:16:05.600 do you say it's chocolate? I think he'd say it's just chocolate. I 1961 02:16:05.680 --> 02:16:09.199 mean that is the predominant flavor is chocolate. I mean the cream fill is 1962 02:16:09.239 --> 02:16:15.199 basically just a sugar filling, sugar chocolate. Yeah, I hope. Oh 1963 02:16:16.039 --> 02:16:18.479 maybe I'm gonna get Maybe I'll get a pack of the Halloween Oreos before I 1964 02:16:18.560 --> 02:16:24.399 go. So, like see my nevity nieces for trigger treating because he's eat 1965 02:16:24.439 --> 02:16:26.920 them all. Yeah, well that's why I watched an addiction for me, 1966 02:16:26.479 --> 02:16:30.479 right exactly. I'd never buy them because I just know, like, if 1967 02:16:30.520 --> 02:16:33.479 I buy a pack of oreos, I live alone. It's just admitting, 1968 02:16:33.520 --> 02:16:35.760 well, all that is going to go inside me at some point, and 1969 02:16:35.879 --> 02:16:39.559 that's a problem. We can't do that. So I'll buy them and bring 1970 02:16:39.680 --> 02:16:41.520 them in a bunch of kids will eat them, and if they don't, 1971 02:16:41.079 --> 02:16:45.840 I have a family, And now I'm a family on to myself. When 1972 02:16:45.879 --> 02:16:48.440 it comes to oreos. Yeah, oreos, they yeah, those are just 1973 02:16:48.520 --> 02:16:52.200 good good lard cookies. Oh yeah, so top top tier lard cookie. 1974 02:16:52.319 --> 02:16:56.079 Oh yeah, they're not vegan, are they? Oreos can't be vegan? 1975 02:16:56.120 --> 02:17:01.159 I thought I sustly just well the cream inside right, Yeah, even the 1976 02:17:01.239 --> 02:17:07.840 cookie has a ton of like fat apparently really okay, So yeah, some 1977 02:17:07.079 --> 02:17:11.360 hard esque product, Yeah, Chris, go okay? Where where where do 1978 02:17:11.440 --> 02:17:18.479 you two fall? On the double stuff regular or the thin Oreo regular regular? 1979 02:17:18.440 --> 02:17:22.639 I think I write most ratio. Yeah, I mostly want a regular, 1980 02:17:22.719 --> 02:17:24.879 but I'm not gonna turn my nose up at any of them. Double 1981 02:17:24.920 --> 02:17:30.280 stuff these days are a bit too much for me, which is do you 1982 02:17:30.360 --> 02:17:33.200 remember you guys have It's gonna happen to you too, you know what I'm 1983 02:17:33.239 --> 02:17:37.520 scared. I talked about headlamps for a little bit today. I used to 1984 02:17:37.639 --> 02:17:43.079 really like those white fudge covered ones. That's a bit much for me also, 1985 02:17:43.319 --> 02:17:46.360 but those are fun. Uh how do you? How do y'all feel 1986 02:17:46.360 --> 02:17:50.840 about the different skews of Oreos? Like the holiday flavor. I'm glad they're 1987 02:17:50.840 --> 02:17:52.239 out there for those freaks that need I'm just giving the give me the regulars, 1988 02:17:52.280 --> 02:17:56.719 give me the I like it better when they just color them, like 1989 02:17:56.760 --> 02:18:01.200 the Halloween ones that are the same flavor. That's good, the cinem the 1990 02:18:01.479 --> 02:18:03.920 there's like a digitar bread cookie one that's okay, But yeah, I just 1991 02:18:03.920 --> 02:18:05.600 give me. I can have so many like those ones. I actually maybe 1992 02:18:05.600 --> 02:18:11.280 I like cause I can stop eating them where Yeah, okay, okay, 1993 02:18:13.280 --> 02:18:15.799 God, I gotta go to the store after this. Yeah, me too. 1994 02:18:15.840 --> 02:18:20.040 I gotta buy some fucking oreos now, damn all of you emailing? 1995 02:18:20.760 --> 02:18:22.840 All right, Well, while we're at the store, Mike, maybe we 1996 02:18:22.920 --> 02:18:28.719 buy some juice because Jeremy from Montreal writes in about juicy games, Hey Bombers. 1997 02:18:30.719 --> 02:18:33.600 In game design, there's a term that describes the extra details that don't 1998 02:18:33.799 --> 02:18:39.840 directly affect gameplay, but instead aim to invoke feelings from that gameplay to make 1999 02:18:39.920 --> 02:18:45.639 it feel better. That term is juice. I've been playing Super Mario Wonder 2000 02:18:45.680 --> 02:18:48.559 over the last week, and while you can argue whether it's the best two 2001 02:18:48.639 --> 02:18:54.000 D Mario platform or there's no arguing it is the juiciest Mario game. Mario's 2002 02:18:54.040 --> 02:18:58.000 new and varied animations, when he jumps the drum roll and crash, when 2003 02:18:58.040 --> 02:19:01.399 Mario butd stomps the enemy faces, when the witnessed the murder of their fellow 2004 02:19:01.520 --> 02:19:05.440 enemy, it all comes together in an explosion of juice. Do you guys 2005 02:19:05.479 --> 02:19:09.920 have any favorite juicy aspects from Super Mario Wonder? And also can you think 2006 02:19:09.959 --> 02:19:13.879 of any other games with this level of juice. Thanks for all you do. 2007 02:19:13.239 --> 02:19:18.479 Love you guys. Jeremy from Montreal. So I started watching some tiktoks 2008 02:19:18.600 --> 02:19:22.600 and some YouTube shorts about Super Mario Brothers Wonder and I would watch them on 2009 02:19:22.760 --> 02:19:28.360 a loop, way longer than I intended to because of this juice. Like 2010 02:19:28.639 --> 02:19:33.159 hearing the it's like a it's like a slot machine almost this game. Yeah, 2011 02:19:33.360 --> 02:19:35.159 like collecting I think my family. The juiciest part for me, I 2012 02:19:35.200 --> 02:19:39.959 think is collecting the purple coins. The sound that those make as you collect 2013 02:19:41.000 --> 02:19:43.760 them, and they're all usually bunched together, so you're getting the even really 2014 02:19:43.799 --> 02:19:48.440 fast. It's really it just lights up my brain. But the whole game 2015 02:19:48.520 --> 02:19:50.920 is that way. So yeah, I'm definitely like a huge part of I'm 2016 02:19:50.000 --> 02:19:56.639 like definitely super down Jesus Christ. Yeah, just like the different pipe animation, 2017 02:19:56.799 --> 02:20:01.719 especially since that's such that's like the biggest point of comparison of the complete 2018 02:20:01.799 --> 02:20:05.360 lack of juice in New Super Mario Brothers. Just nothing happens when they go 2019 02:20:05.479 --> 02:20:11.440 down to pipe except that literal character model just literally moves like down the axis 2020 02:20:11.719 --> 02:20:15.799 into it. There's no animation. It's like just clicking on it and sliding 2021 02:20:15.879 --> 02:20:18.239 it down, like that's all they're doing to it, right. So like 2022 02:20:18.319 --> 02:20:20.559 the fact that there's like animations and all this fun stuff when they're doing pipe 2023 02:20:20.639 --> 02:20:24.680 shenanigans in this game, that's the juiciest part of Wonder for me. Yeah, 2024 02:20:24.760 --> 02:20:28.440 I love that aspect of it too, And I this pains be inside 2025 02:20:28.520 --> 02:20:35.920 as a Sonic fan that Sonic Superstars is devoid of juice. There's very little 2026 02:20:35.000 --> 02:20:37.719 juice. You're correct, there's not much juice, that's for sure. You 2027 02:20:37.799 --> 02:20:41.680 know what was a really juicy game, and I think that it helped it 2028 02:20:41.200 --> 02:20:45.639 pop off so much at first was Overwatch. That was very juicy. Yeah, 2029 02:20:46.000 --> 02:20:50.760 remember how excited people were just about the reload animations and like, yeah, 2030 02:20:50.920 --> 02:20:52.600 that's the kind of stuff that in year five you kind of begin to 2031 02:20:52.639 --> 02:20:56.360 take for granted. That was so much a lie. Overwatch was awesome at 2032 02:20:56.399 --> 02:21:01.520 first. It was juicy as all hell. Trying to think of other games 2033 02:21:01.559 --> 02:21:05.680 as like good juice, I think I think like there's like subtle juice, 2034 02:21:05.719 --> 02:21:09.559 Like Hades has a lot of just extral elms on all the all the attacks, 2035 02:21:11.120 --> 02:21:13.760 and as you upgrade them and unlock more abilities for them, they get 2036 02:21:13.840 --> 02:21:16.520 juicier and juicier the last ration, and Klank has a lot of juice as 2037 02:21:16.559 --> 02:21:22.319 well. Yeah, yeah, it's the parts juicy street Fighter six pretty juicyal 2038 02:21:22.360 --> 02:21:28.840 Combat one literally more juicy. But six Vampire Survivors is a good one. 2039 02:21:28.920 --> 02:21:31.600 Yeah. Oh yeah, that's that's almost too much juice. It's it's your 2040 02:21:31.639 --> 02:21:35.559 bathing and the blood drowning in it. Yeah, it's like a it's like 2041 02:21:35.639 --> 02:21:43.319 a blood rave almost all right. Next email comes from someone and I forgot 2042 02:21:43.360 --> 02:21:48.000 to write their name and I apologize. Feel free to take these forty podcast 2043 02:21:48.079 --> 02:21:54.920 points as a consolation prize. This is about Luigi's mansion. Is Luigi's mansion 2044 02:21:54.120 --> 02:21:58.920 an Alan Wake like? Or is Alan Wake Luigi's mansion? Like? Should 2045 02:22:00.159 --> 02:22:03.159 you refer to games where you have to use your flashlight on enemies before you 2046 02:22:03.200 --> 02:22:07.440 can defeat them as an Allen's mansions? What other Allen's mansions and Alan Manchin's 2047 02:22:07.520 --> 02:22:13.719 lights are there? An like? Uh? Well, Alista mention was definitely 2048 02:22:13.760 --> 02:22:16.840 first, that's for sure, so I guess it gets the bulk of the 2049 02:22:16.920 --> 02:22:22.360 credit. Although like it was first and right compared to Yeah, yeah, 2050 02:22:22.440 --> 02:22:26.360 so that means it would be so actually, then Alan Wake's name would be 2051 02:22:26.399 --> 02:22:31.760 first, like it would be Alan Manchin for sure. Okay, yeah, 2052 02:22:33.159 --> 02:22:39.000 yeahs, you're right. Someone please mod in a Luigi skin into Alan Wake. 2053 02:22:39.959 --> 02:22:43.360 That's got to happen. I mean, that's probably happened the first one. 2054 02:22:43.399 --> 02:22:46.280 At some point people have made this connection, right, that's how to 2055 02:22:46.399 --> 02:22:52.479 have happened. Yeah. Yeah, Three is such a good game. That 2056 02:22:52.520 --> 02:22:56.879 game has juice. Talk about very juicy. The punch out for me from 2057 02:22:58.000 --> 02:23:01.520 from Next Level as well. Yeah, Toad has juice? Well yeah, 2058 02:23:01.799 --> 02:23:07.840 yeah, yeah, yeah, Mario Mario games have juice, but three D 2059 02:23:07.959 --> 02:23:11.360 Mario games and they're spin offs. Definitely a lot of juice until Wonder, 2060 02:23:11.799 --> 02:23:16.520 Yeah yeah, Sunshine, literally a lot of juice. Kirby has juice, 2061 02:23:18.520 --> 02:23:22.360 well, Kirby, uh, Forgotten World, definitely Forgotten Land. Excuse me, 2062 02:23:22.520 --> 02:23:26.440 tons of juice. Kirby has juice is the name of this episode, 2063 02:23:26.479 --> 02:23:30.879 by the way, I thought it was going to be Mike Minave. Okay, 2064 02:23:30.959 --> 02:23:35.319 that's also pretty good. All right, Next emails about cream For reasons 2065 02:23:35.399 --> 02:23:39.479 we don't get into. I once had to research fat percentages in milk and 2066 02:23:39.639 --> 02:23:45.319 cream. This is what I remember. Skim milk. Skim milk is virtually 2067 02:23:45.399 --> 02:23:50.959 fat free. Yes, milk is self explanatory. Whole milk is around three 2068 02:23:50.879 --> 02:23:54.920 three and a quarter percent fat. It's also called whole milk because no fat 2069 02:23:56.000 --> 02:24:00.520 is removed from it. I'm no cream expert, but from what I understand, 2070 02:24:00.639 --> 02:24:05.079 when non homogenized milk is left undisturbed, the fat separates from the rest 2071 02:24:05.120 --> 02:24:07.200 of the milk. This fatty part of the milk is cream. The cream 2072 02:24:07.319 --> 02:24:13.000 does, in fact rise to the top. Cream comes in multiple milk fat 2073 02:24:13.000 --> 02:24:15.959 percentages. Like cream is about twenty percent fat, but can go upwards to 2074 02:24:16.079 --> 02:24:20.479 thirty. Whipping cream, also called light whipping cream, is anything from thirty 2075 02:24:20.520 --> 02:24:22.959 to thirty six percent fat. Heavy cream, also called heavy whipping cream, 2076 02:24:24.120 --> 02:24:28.280 is anything thirty thirty six percent fat or more just for good measure. Sour 2077 02:24:28.399 --> 02:24:35.159 cream is made by introducing lactic acid bacteria to cream, which makes it thickened 2078 02:24:35.200 --> 02:24:37.879 and ferment. Cream is using soups, stews, whipped cream, ice cream, 2079 02:24:39.120 --> 02:24:41.399 and lots of other stuff. Cream is great. Joe from New York. 2080 02:24:41.680 --> 02:24:43.920 I realized we should have saved this for when Dan is around, but 2081 02:24:45.040 --> 02:24:52.200 I don't know he wouldn't. Yeah come in initially surprised that cream and milk 2082 02:24:52.280 --> 02:24:56.799 are similar things, like, what are we gonna do? Yeah, Joe 2083 02:24:56.840 --> 02:25:01.000 continues, PS, here's something you can do at all. Take some heavy 2084 02:25:01.079 --> 02:25:05.159 cream and pour it into a bottle about halfway. Close the bottle tight and 2085 02:25:05.280 --> 02:25:09.200 shake for around ten minutes. Eventually you'll get a big lump of stuff in 2086 02:25:09.239 --> 02:25:15.079 the bottle. That's butter. That liquid that's left is buttermilk. Oh, 2087 02:25:15.760 --> 02:25:20.000 there are better ways to make bitter. There are better ways to make butter, 2088 02:25:20.360 --> 02:25:24.760 but it's still fun. PPS centrifuge, which I have. Of course, 2089 02:25:24.479 --> 02:25:28.360 out of all of us, you know, Backlard probably have a central. 2090 02:25:28.840 --> 02:25:31.120 He definitely would. Yeah, he would have cnuts and just never gave 2091 02:25:31.159 --> 02:25:37.920 it back. Yeah, and they never realized that they had. All Right, 2092 02:25:37.280 --> 02:25:41.760 we'll all end the email segment with a quiz, A TV quiz. 2093 02:25:43.360 --> 02:25:48.079 Oh, let's go, hey gang. Several weeks ago, you talked about 2094 02:25:48.120 --> 02:25:50.760 TV shows you had heard of but never knew nothing about. This made me 2095 02:25:50.840 --> 02:25:54.360 realize how little I knew about a number of shows I definitely watch as a 2096 02:25:54.479 --> 02:25:58.680 kid or young adult. Trying to figure out if I could recall a single 2097 02:25:58.799 --> 02:26:03.760 episode that pursuit. I was surprised how long or short lived a number of 2098 02:26:03.879 --> 02:26:07.239 shows were, so I made a simple quiz about it. Each question is 2099 02:26:07.319 --> 02:26:11.520 a group of three shows associated with a TV network except the last one. 2100 02:26:11.239 --> 02:26:15.879 All you have to do is say which of these three had the most episodes 2101 02:26:15.959 --> 02:26:18.639 produced. Some of them didn't air all of their episodes, but I think 2102 02:26:18.680 --> 02:26:22.719 the correct answer is the same in either case. Answer keys at the bottom. 2103 02:26:22.920 --> 02:26:26.920 Don't worry boys, I did not put the answer key here, great, 2104 02:26:26.959 --> 02:26:31.639 thank you somewhere else to avoid wandering eyes. All right, maybe I 2105 02:26:31.799 --> 02:26:37.760 wasn't he I've opened the doclke once this entire don't worry about me? Okay, 2106 02:26:37.479 --> 02:26:41.600 Now, which of these had the most episodes? Network? ABC? 2107 02:26:43.079 --> 02:26:48.079 The options are better Off Ted, cave Men, cop Rock. Cave Men 2108 02:26:48.239 --> 02:26:52.079 was one for like two episodes or something, so it's not cave Men. 2109 02:26:52.280 --> 02:26:56.600 I don't know about those other two. Yeah, I want to say better 2110 02:26:56.680 --> 02:27:00.920 off Ted, but I think cop Rock got a full season, so I'm 2111 02:27:00.920 --> 02:27:03.840 gonna go with cop Rock. I think people are too upset about CapMan, 2112 02:27:03.879 --> 02:27:05.440 like, oh, I can't believe they're turning a commercial into a sitcom, 2113 02:27:05.760 --> 02:27:13.799 like how dare they? Yeah? Pretty network commercializing network television. Mike. 2114 02:27:13.920 --> 02:27:18.600 Yeah, I said, I'm going with Coprock. What's your answer, Mike, 2115 02:27:18.920 --> 02:27:20.879 I'll go the other one, better off Ted? Mike, you win 2116 02:27:22.120 --> 02:27:26.639 better off Ted had twenty six episodes, Let's go Wow, Caveman had thirteen, 2117 02:27:26.760 --> 02:27:30.239 and cop Rock had eleven, though none of the three shows ended up 2118 02:27:30.280 --> 02:27:33.639 airing its full uh to full completement. Man, that's more for Caveman than 2119 02:27:33.680 --> 02:27:39.040 I thought. Okay, all right, Number two CBS. The shows are 2120 02:27:39.680 --> 02:27:46.440 CSI, Colon Cyber cool. I want to see that now. My big 2121 02:27:46.559 --> 02:27:52.000 fact is and then third is shit. My dad says, aka ship, 2122 02:27:52.079 --> 02:27:58.120 My dad says, start Shatner, all right with William Shatner. I think 2123 02:27:58.399 --> 02:28:01.760 I think Ship my dad has got us season. I think they had, 2124 02:28:01.799 --> 02:28:07.319 They gave that the old College try. I feel like a CSI show like 2125 02:28:07.719 --> 02:28:11.680 just automatically gets a ton of episodes, even if it's not gonna be a 2126 02:28:11.680 --> 02:28:16.799 full Season'm gonna go CSI Cyber Grub You in CSI Cyber has thirty one episodes. 2127 02:28:18.319 --> 02:28:22.399 My ship right, uh sh My dad says, somehow made eighteen. 2128 02:28:22.760 --> 02:28:26.680 In My Big Fat Greek Life had seven episodes. It would it be great 2129 02:28:26.680 --> 02:28:31.280 if we just watch every episode of CSI Cyber. That'd be fantastic. Oh 2130 02:28:31.440 --> 02:28:37.120 my, don't say that. The content the content is that? Is that 2131 02:28:37.200 --> 02:28:43.440 on Paramount Plus? You think it's on dot Org all right, NBC. 2132 02:28:45.120 --> 02:28:52.360 The options are ALF, my Name is Earl, and Suddenly Susan. I'll 2133 02:28:52.479 --> 02:28:54.559 go with my name is Earl. My name is Earl was on for a 2134 02:28:54.719 --> 02:29:00.200 while because that was on because it was like a It was on the same 2135 02:29:00.239 --> 02:29:03.920 time as The Office, so it was like they benefit benefited from Office. 2136 02:29:03.959 --> 02:29:09.879 It was like the same night, Suddenly Susan. I've never heard of Suddenly 2137 02:29:09.959 --> 02:29:13.920 Susan. That's is that the Lily dreyfust one that it's not? I thought 2138 02:29:13.920 --> 02:29:18.000 it was. I've only ever heard of Suddenly Susan when they make jokes about 2139 02:29:18.000 --> 02:29:22.879 it on Mystery Science Theater three thousand. The thing is, my name is 2140 02:29:22.959 --> 02:29:26.479 Earl. It was I don't know how many episodes of season that one got. 2141 02:29:28.280 --> 02:29:31.239 I feel like it was on forever. I thought it was on for 2142 02:29:31.559 --> 02:29:33.440 for forever, but it was on for I mean, ALF wasn't on for 2143 02:29:33.559 --> 02:29:39.000 like a short amount of time. So these ones are all My other guests 2144 02:29:39.000 --> 02:29:43.399 would be ALF here. These are all multi seasons. Yes, so Jeff's 2145 02:29:43.399 --> 02:29:46.440 saying, my name is Earl, right, yeah, and I have to 2146 02:29:46.479 --> 02:29:48.680 beat him, so I'll go. I'll go Suddenly Susan. Actually, Oh 2147 02:29:48.799 --> 02:29:52.440 okay, I like this movie. Our course well, you both are wrong, 2148 02:29:52.920 --> 02:29:56.040 ship shit and it's alf. I wish I could have changed my answer, 2149 02:29:56.120 --> 02:29:58.559 but in the end it's always alf. Alf with one hundred and two 2150 02:29:58.600 --> 02:30:03.879 episodes, my name is earl Uh with ninety six and do you guys want 2151 02:30:03.879 --> 02:30:07.639 to guess how many episodes? Suddenly Susan had five. I'm gonna I'm gonna 2152 02:30:07.760 --> 02:30:13.239 say ninety three. Oh, okay, Dan was close. It was close, 2153 02:30:13.680 --> 02:30:16.719 close race there? All right, Fox, we have Ally McBeal, 2154 02:30:18.040 --> 02:30:22.399 the Bernie Max Show, in the OC. These they are all popular shows. 2155 02:30:24.479 --> 02:30:26.799 I'm i'm gonna say Alan mcbill right now, I feel like that was 2156 02:30:26.840 --> 02:30:31.079 on forever, Allan m'abel. I'll go with the OC. Then, Mike, 2157 02:30:31.319 --> 02:30:35.000 I think you're in the lead here with Ally mcbeil m. That's definitely 2158 02:30:35.040 --> 02:30:39.159 the right. I don't know always. I know what Eleman Bill is because 2159 02:30:39.159 --> 02:30:41.040 people talk about all time. I couldn't tell you a single thing about that 2160 02:30:41.120 --> 02:30:46.079 show. What's about? What the genre is? The baby? What the 2161 02:30:46.200 --> 02:30:50.639 dancing baby? Like that? I remember the Dancing Baby that's from Ally McBeal. 2162 02:30:50.959 --> 02:30:56.440 They like co opted it. Okay, okay, is it comedy? 2163 02:30:56.120 --> 02:31:01.399 No, it's dramedy, right? Does it's star a character? Named Ally 2164 02:31:01.479 --> 02:31:05.760 mcbeil. Yeah, yeah, it's like a it's a it's like a lawyer 2165 02:31:05.840 --> 02:31:09.680 show. Right, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, all right, 2166 02:31:09.920 --> 02:31:13.440 Ally mcbeill one hundred and twelve, Bernie Mack had one hundred and four, 2167 02:31:13.200 --> 02:31:18.600 and OC had ninety two. Right, we'll get this. There's twelve of 2168 02:31:18.680 --> 02:31:24.360 these, so number five tbs. We have ten items or less? Are 2169 02:31:24.440 --> 02:31:31.360 we there yet at the Bill Engvall show? All right? What ten items 2170 02:31:31.399 --> 02:31:39.159 are less? We're guessing who had the most right most episodes? Do you 2171 02:31:39.239 --> 02:31:43.959 mean what are we guessing? This is the fifth one? I was distracted 2172 02:31:45.879 --> 02:31:50.360 the horrifying dancing baby thing. Ten items a less? Probably it's right, 2173 02:31:50.440 --> 02:31:54.440 but I'll go with are we there yet? Mike? What did you say? 2174 02:31:56.479 --> 02:32:01.399 Or less? Grab? Are you even at back up? All right? 2175 02:32:01.520 --> 02:32:05.719 Luck? Cluck, lug luck? Are we there yet with one hundreds 2176 02:32:07.239 --> 02:32:11.399 ten times their last only managing twenty one episodes? Or are these shows and 2177 02:32:11.520 --> 02:32:18.200 then being Bill Engvall hitting thirty? Okay? All right? Next we have 2178 02:32:18.319 --> 02:32:24.040 USA, where characters are welcome the shows to choose from our burn notice Monk 2179 02:32:24.600 --> 02:32:31.479 and White Collar have infinite shows episodes. I think a new Monk special is 2180 02:32:31.520 --> 02:32:33.479 coming out, or it did come out, But I think it's burn. 2181 02:32:33.559 --> 02:32:39.040 Notice. I love me some Shalub. I'll go with Monk. Mike, 2182 02:32:41.440 --> 02:32:45.680 he said burn Notice. Notice this was a dramatic pause. Oh, Mike, 2183 02:32:46.840 --> 02:32:52.639 you are incorrect. No, grub ekes out Monk with one hundred and 2184 02:32:52.680 --> 02:32:56.760 twenty five episodes. Tony has never failed many man, But I knew that 2185 02:32:56.879 --> 02:33:01.280 was on for a while. Jeez, but burn notice very close with one 2186 02:33:01.319 --> 02:33:03.520 hundred and eleven episodes. I knew it also had a lot. Yeah, 2187 02:33:05.079 --> 02:33:09.000 white Collar was the other one, White Caller. I watched white Collar. 2188 02:33:09.319 --> 02:33:13.639 White Collar had eighty one episodes. All right, color is the one. 2189 02:33:13.719 --> 02:33:16.360 It's like, catch me if you can. But the TV show version like, 2190 02:33:16.399 --> 02:33:18.840 oh, a guy that did crime is gonna help himself crime. There's 2191 02:33:20.000 --> 02:33:22.639 too many episodes of Monk to do a watch along show, guys. No, 2192 02:33:24.200 --> 02:33:26.639 uh, you can one of the first few seasons before it begins becomes 2193 02:33:26.639 --> 02:33:33.440 a little route. Maybe uh next the WB the shows are Angel, Dawson's 2194 02:33:33.479 --> 02:33:41.959 Creek and Felicity. Ohy coming up next on that bay. It's another bad 2195 02:33:41.040 --> 02:33:46.000 show that no one appropriation. You're not allowed to do that. I can't 2196 02:33:46.040 --> 02:33:48.879 be that frog with that frog's name, William J. Frog, Right, 2197 02:33:50.120 --> 02:33:56.879 yeah, something like that, Billy Frog, Mike, you have tied with 2198 02:33:56.000 --> 02:34:00.959 grub I believe Dawson's Creek with one hundred and twenty eight episodes. Yeah, 2199 02:34:01.040 --> 02:34:05.200 Austin's Creek was on forever. All right, that's another watch along Angel with 2200 02:34:05.280 --> 02:34:09.319 one ten and Felicity had eighty four. I can't wait for the Felicity cast. 2201 02:34:09.639 --> 02:34:11.959 Angel keeps coming up today for some reason or spike that we talked about. 2202 02:34:13.040 --> 02:34:18.959 Now, Angel, excuse me, Buffy's True soulmate number eight Comedy Central. 2203 02:34:20.239 --> 02:34:26.319 We have John Benjamin has a Van. Lewis Black's the root of all 2204 02:34:26.399 --> 02:34:33.680 evil, and that's my Bush, a loose Black. I'll go with John 2205 02:34:33.680 --> 02:34:39.399 Benjamin has a Van. Mike is eking away now with Lewis Black with eighteen 2206 02:34:39.440 --> 02:34:43.920 episodes, ten episodes to John Benjamin? Sorry, what the fuck was that? 2207 02:34:45.399 --> 02:34:48.959 And that's my Bush with eight episodes? There should have been more. 2208 02:34:48.959 --> 02:34:50.920 If that's my bush, I wonder what now that holds up? That's my 2209 02:34:52.360 --> 02:34:54.920 because that's the whole thing, because they were going to do either a Bush 2210 02:34:54.200 --> 02:34:58.959 or an al Gore show depending on who won. Was the South Park People's 2211 02:34:58.280 --> 02:35:01.959 live action say, oh, I didn't even know that's what that was. 2212 02:35:01.360 --> 02:35:05.440 Okay, yeah, man, I remember what was happening. I watched a 2213 02:35:05.479 --> 02:35:07.959 little bit of it, but I don't remember anything about it. Uh. 2214 02:35:09.000 --> 02:35:13.399 Now we might be in Mikey territory. Number nine, the network being Nickelodeon. 2215 02:35:15.159 --> 02:35:20.479 Okay, the choices are ah, real Monsters, Angry Beavers, or 2216 02:35:20.600 --> 02:35:26.200 cat dog, and these are all pretty equivalent. I feel like, yeah, 2217 02:35:26.000 --> 02:35:28.799 I'm gonna go with the one I'm most familiar with and go ah real 2218 02:35:28.920 --> 02:35:35.479 monsters. I remember Agriy Beaver's last episodes. Man, they made a lot 2219 02:35:35.520 --> 02:35:39.079 of cat dog, though way too much. They added a cat at one 2220 02:35:39.120 --> 02:35:43.600 point. Yeah, a putgesque character. I'm gonna go with cat dog. 2221 02:35:43.680 --> 02:35:48.479 Actually, yeah, I could see it being cat dog. And you're right, 2222 02:35:48.600 --> 02:35:52.440 Mike, it's cat dog. How about that cat dog? Sixty eight 2223 02:35:52.479 --> 02:35:56.760 episodes are Real Monsters? Fifty two episodes Angry Beavers had sixty two. Note 2224 02:35:56.920 --> 02:36:01.680 that each of these shows was usually divide it into two segments per episode, 2225 02:36:01.920 --> 02:36:05.280 which doesn't end up affecting the winner. No. One, Fine Day with 2226 02:36:05.360 --> 02:36:07.840 the Wolf and a purr Baby was born to cause a little sir, how 2227 02:36:07.879 --> 02:36:13.559 do you remember that catchy song? Yeah? All right? Uh. Number 2228 02:36:13.680 --> 02:36:20.319 ten the Disney Channel. Oh it's gonna be like these Twin Girl shows that 2229 02:36:20.360 --> 02:36:24.600 I didn't watch. Surprisingly not say that about these shows. We have Dark 2230 02:36:24.639 --> 02:36:33.120 Wing Duck, Goof Troop, and Tailspin. Oh okay, well, certain 2231 02:36:33.120 --> 02:36:35.959 these weren't Disney Channel shows. These were made for syndication. But I get 2232 02:36:37.040 --> 02:36:41.399 it. That's fine. This is part of the Disney Afternoon. Okay, 2233 02:36:41.600 --> 02:36:45.239 interesting, Dark Wing Duck, Tailspin, and goof Troop. I'm gonna go 2234 02:36:45.280 --> 02:36:50.239 with Tailspin. Bet Tailspin might be last, it might be. I don't 2235 02:36:50.280 --> 02:36:54.360 know anything about this. Yeah, Like these shows are all had relatively similar 2236 02:36:54.520 --> 02:37:01.719 season orders. I imagine. I think dar Queen Duck was popular. A 2237 02:37:01.799 --> 02:37:05.680 goof Troop is easy. I beg go Troop. I'm gonna say, Goose 2238 02:37:05.760 --> 02:37:09.479 Troop. You're both wrong. It was Dark Wing Duck. Yeah, dang 2239 02:37:09.559 --> 02:37:11.559 it, Dark Wing Duck with ninety one Goose troops, seventy eight Tailspin. 2240 02:37:11.920 --> 02:37:16.680 Wow, much less than I remembered was sixty five. You see tails we 2241 02:37:16.840 --> 02:37:18.040 got started earlier, I think. But then, Yeah, I just assumed 2242 02:37:18.040 --> 02:37:22.040 that they probably were just shown the same episodes over and over. Tailspin. 2243 02:37:22.479 --> 02:37:24.280 When you're in it, you can win it in a minute when you spin, 2244 02:37:24.399 --> 02:37:30.600 spin and spin it, so spin it. Tailspin, tail Spin the 2245 02:37:30.639 --> 02:37:33.840 one with what's what's her name Rebecca or something? Yeah, yeah, I 2246 02:37:33.959 --> 02:37:37.280 know, you know Rebecca. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know Rebecca. 2247 02:37:37.399 --> 02:37:41.000 But I be Goose Troop had Pete's wife also, right, yeah, 2248 02:37:41.520 --> 02:37:46.000 yeah, oh yeah, okay, all right, now Darkwing Duck was missing 2249 02:37:46.159 --> 02:37:50.000 of some kind of you know, mommy dommy. Oh yeah, that's its 2250 02:37:50.040 --> 02:37:52.959 big failing and that's what we're all missing really, all right, two more 2251 02:37:54.040 --> 02:38:01.159 boys, two more adults swim. We have Assie McGhee Moral Oral and Xavier 2252 02:38:01.520 --> 02:38:07.159 Renegade Angel Moral Oral. I remember that day Moral Oral. They had more 2253 02:38:07.200 --> 02:38:09.559 seasons. You would think I gotta go with that too, even though it's 2254 02:38:09.559 --> 02:38:15.120 not gonna help me. Well, you both win points for that Moral Oral 2255 02:38:15.200 --> 02:38:20.399 with forty three. Asa McGee and Renegade Angel both had twenty. Moral orl 2256 02:38:20.520 --> 02:38:24.520 was pretty good. Actually no, I was Claimation, So that's why I 2257 02:38:24.600 --> 02:38:26.840 avoided it. Yeah, it's like it was one of those like fake after 2258 02:38:26.920 --> 02:38:31.479 school special kind of things, and it would actually be terrifying. Now this 2259 02:38:31.559 --> 02:38:35.920 one isn't specifically tied to a network, but I guess a concept of Sunday 2260 02:38:35.000 --> 02:38:43.040 comics. So you have Baby Blues, Dilbert and For Better or for Worse 2261 02:38:46.440 --> 02:38:48.639 I don't know what the other two are, so I'm gonna go with one 2262 02:38:48.719 --> 02:38:54.239 of those. I'll just guess for Better or for Worse? No Baby Blues, 2263 02:38:56.959 --> 02:38:58.920 man, I remember, I only remember that Dilbert show. I remember, 2264 02:39:00.000 --> 02:39:01.440 I actually kind of liked it, but it did not last long. 2265 02:39:01.799 --> 02:39:09.000 No, for Better or for Worse, I'm gonna say for family feud is 2266 02:39:09.079 --> 02:39:13.200 not working right now. I guess I'm gonna go Baby Blue. Gilbert was 2267 02:39:13.280 --> 02:39:16.639 not on for long, but maybe these other ones were on for less. 2268 02:39:16.680 --> 02:39:20.000 I at least remember the Dilbert Show. It was like eight episodes, though 2269 02:39:20.000 --> 02:39:24.799 it was just so little. I'll go with what Baby Blue was. The 2270 02:39:24.879 --> 02:39:28.520 other one, Baby Blues, and for Better or for Worse? Uh? 2271 02:39:28.760 --> 02:39:31.040 Well, Mike, I think you would have won anyway, no matter, 2272 02:39:31.399 --> 02:39:37.399 no matter how this shook out. But you were both wrong because dilb Gilbert. 2273 02:39:37.600 --> 02:39:41.799 No, of course, it was thirty episodes. Thirty episodes, man, 2274 02:39:41.000 --> 02:39:45.239 more than I remember. Baby Blues had twenty six. For Better for 2275 02:39:45.399 --> 02:39:50.239 Worse had sixteen. Man, it's a bunch of bullshit, but it had 2276 02:39:50.440 --> 02:39:56.760 seven made for TV specials. Okay, all right, I hope you remembered 2277 02:39:56.799 --> 02:39:58.920 some shows Matt and Colorado. Matt, thank you so much for that love 2278 02:40:01.040 --> 02:40:05.959 and very involved quiz Quickly. We're gonna speed through shout outs, because I 2279 02:40:05.040 --> 02:40:09.840 think my throat is dying. No one think anything, soussio, any meet 2280 02:40:09.879 --> 02:40:11.920 it to it, buddy. Oh it's okay, Mike, it's okay. 2281 02:40:13.000 --> 02:40:16.680 We'll get there. I will call upon your powers when when I truly need 2282 02:40:16.760 --> 02:40:24.719 them, when when I away everybody gets it once. Uh Special shouts out 2283 02:40:24.799 --> 02:40:28.440 to love you, Cheyenne, love you, Lily, love you, Jace, 2284 02:40:28.799 --> 02:40:31.639 hey Nose, Spooky fuck you, to fuck you, to you, 2285 02:40:31.120 --> 02:40:39.120 Eggplant. Grandma Pai is in Minati's search history. That's funny. Beware of 2286 02:40:39.319 --> 02:40:43.239 Army of Darkness, the Jandy Man, the grubbin Head, Richel Myers, 2287 02:40:43.639 --> 02:40:48.959 the Tomorrow one thousand, Jeff of the Back Lagoon, Micula, Lucy Face, 2288 02:40:50.000 --> 02:40:54.120 and the horrifying and deadliest of them all. Bailey shouts out to me. 2289 02:40:54.239 --> 02:40:56.840 Two years and two hundred pounds later, I finally hit my weight goal 2290 02:40:56.920 --> 02:41:03.799 today. Gained or lost, I'm not saying, uh. Starfish spider emoji 2291 02:41:03.120 --> 02:41:09.399 shriek out to thick thigh saving lives. It's a very small far. That's 2292 02:41:09.520 --> 02:41:15.200 not a star face shriek out the thick thigh saving lives, especially in lifeguards 2293 02:41:15.280 --> 02:41:20.159 and mountain plane crash, cannibal situations, Train train Travelog, Train Travelog Travelog 2294 02:41:20.239 --> 02:41:28.719 Pocket Eventually y'all Gasolina by Daddy Yankee Cosmo from Chainsaw Man Halloween Uh sad face 2295 02:41:28.799 --> 02:41:33.840 emoji, egg plant emoji, chicken emoji, eggplant in pain emoji, and 2296 02:41:33.959 --> 02:41:39.520 poop emoji. Happy Halloween. Gosha Douco Gang Giant Skeletons stand forever. It's 2297 02:41:39.559 --> 02:41:41.239 not a like, it's an ocean, shouts out to the backlar X Manati 2298 02:41:41.319 --> 02:41:48.000 yahwe anthology. I'm working on right. I like it. I don't know 2299 02:41:48.120 --> 02:41:54.239 he's gonna. I like fun fear into the hearts. And while it's in 2300 02:41:54.280 --> 02:41:58.920 the bourgeoisie, there's just nothing but like occasional. Like at that show, 2301 02:42:00.040 --> 02:42:05.879 it stainly gets faster and faster. We are all just brains piloting bone mix 2302 02:42:05.000 --> 02:42:09.280 with meat armor. Hey now you're an all star. Whoops, thought I 2303 02:42:09.760 --> 02:42:13.319 thought that, said Shriek. Shrekouts Giant Bomb's extra life coming soon to a 2304 02:42:13.399 --> 02:42:18.879 stream near you, shouts out to Conduit aka Rowena Valentina Kofy Divina. Apex 2305 02:42:18.959 --> 02:42:22.680 Legends is first Filipino Legends which will be playable in a couple of hours. 2306 02:42:22.719 --> 02:42:26.520 I think it's pretty cute. Her first animated trailer showcases her siblings and cousins 2307 02:42:26.559 --> 02:42:30.159 costplaying his other Apex Legends characters, while she coincidentally is costplaying as herself. 2308 02:42:30.559 --> 02:42:33.000 Oh that's sick. Can you costplay as yourself? Is that just you being 2309 02:42:33.079 --> 02:42:39.040 yourself? You just get dressed. It's just dressing variables. They seem intense. 2310 02:42:39.840 --> 02:42:46.079 Uh pourus semi up to the cribby flicky, lucky, locky on me, 2311 02:42:46.200 --> 02:42:48.319 blicky, take a flicky, make a movie with me. Uh, 2312 02:42:48.760 --> 02:42:54.000 take a flicky, make it real drippy. Uh Grub doesn't even need to 2313 02:42:54.040 --> 02:42:56.600 dress up for Halloween since he's a clown all year round. Very true. 2314 02:42:58.000 --> 02:43:03.440 Drive slow head on, swivel chop ski hounk in former blame a licky boom 2315 02:43:03.440 --> 02:43:07.959 boom down, folks, shouts out, it's supposed to be fun. Shouts 2316 02:43:07.000 --> 02:43:09.559 out, why? Why? Why are we taking jabs at each other? 2317 02:43:09.639 --> 02:43:15.799 What a lucky boom boom down? Who's at a job? What is that 2318 02:43:16.799 --> 02:43:20.079 anyway? Folks? What do we got going on for the rest of the 2319 02:43:20.079 --> 02:43:24.360 week? Games, mornings popping off Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, blake club 2320 02:43:24.440 --> 02:43:30.239 tomorrow? H what are we calling it? Ride to grub Jeff Tribution. 2321 02:43:30.639 --> 02:43:35.719 Ride to grub Jeft Jeff Tribution is what we settled on. I think it's 2322 02:43:35.799 --> 02:43:37.920 great. It's great. We're really good at naming stuff. We're the best. 2323 02:43:39.200 --> 02:43:46.559 We're the best. Voicemail dump popping off on Thursday. Gosh, let 2324 02:43:46.600 --> 02:43:48.239 me. I wasn't at the meeting, so I actually don't know what's going 2325 02:43:48.239 --> 02:43:52.840 on this week. H For Friday, we might do a bit of a 2326 02:43:52.920 --> 02:43:56.879 grab bag, but warrior Ware will be involved in some way. I think 2327 02:43:56.040 --> 02:44:01.440 we'll do some Warrio where maybe Boom might make time some of that jack box 2328 02:44:01.520 --> 02:44:03.120 and stuff. We'll see. There will be some fun stuff happening, and 2329 02:44:03.159 --> 02:44:05.559 if it's Warriorware, I want to play it and make a fool of myself 2330 02:44:05.559 --> 02:44:09.760 because it's the most control games. That'd be fine, it says later today 2331 02:44:09.280 --> 02:44:13.959 GV plays Ellen Wake two. Yeah, we'll see. I want to, 2332 02:44:15.079 --> 02:44:16.200 but I'm just realizing that I gotta get a bunch of stuff at Center for 2333 02:44:16.239 --> 02:44:20.840 Halloween as well, So we'll see if we can still make that happen. 2334 02:44:20.000 --> 02:44:24.440 Maybe we could do that tomorrow. Yeah, maybe will shift that around to 2335 02:44:24.479 --> 02:44:26.159 tomorrow. I want to do with that. To do that this week, 2336 02:44:26.159 --> 02:44:28.280 though, I would like to play some of that on this site. I 2337 02:44:28.360 --> 02:44:33.360 would love to watch that. We also have the conclusion of this season of 2338 02:44:33.440 --> 02:44:37.479 Friday Night Forking, Get your Forks out, It's the Fork. In July. 2339 02:44:37.000 --> 02:44:43.360 Dan Reikert will be on Friday Night Forking. Also the premiere episode of 2340 02:44:43.239 --> 02:44:48.000 Giant BombCast Revengeance on Friday as well. Should we just settle what we're going 2341 02:44:48.040 --> 02:44:50.920 to talk about the Switch? Yeah? Yeah, I think we're gonna talk 2342 02:44:50.959 --> 02:44:54.760 about is the Switch the best? The best video game console ever made? 2343 02:44:54.239 --> 02:44:58.159 Well? I won't be there, but my answer is yes, okay, 2344 02:44:58.360 --> 02:45:01.120 fantastic. Well, we'll put that back to that in you can leave some 2345 02:45:01.200 --> 02:45:03.879 notes for us and we'll just read them verbatim. I'm gonna put that in 2346 02:45:03.959 --> 02:45:07.319 an envelope and we'll see. Maybe I'll call in from my phone on the 2347 02:45:07.399 --> 02:45:11.399 boat and scream about Smash Brothers or something. We'll talk about, well, 2348 02:45:11.399 --> 02:45:13.399 talk about Warrior were on there as well, and stuff like that, because 2349 02:45:13.440 --> 02:45:16.079 we'll have played it by then. So yeah, the whole whole idea is 2350 02:45:16.120 --> 02:45:20.040 going to work out just like we were hoping. I'm hoping to have beat 2351 02:45:20.280 --> 02:45:22.319 alan Wick two by then and uh perfect, you know, well, maybe 2352 02:45:22.520 --> 02:45:26.440 there will be time to talk about that there as well. I love and 2353 02:45:26.520 --> 02:45:31.600 appreciate you. I've been Jan, he's been Jeff, he's been Mike, 2354 02:45:31.840 --> 02:45:35.079 and Bacalar was Bacalar. We'll see you next week for another episode of the 2355 02:45:35.200 --> 02:45:46.520 Giant BombCast. Until then, consensual kisses on the cheek oh my, except 2356 02:45:46.600 --> 02:46:05.280 to you. Giant BombCast is now over. See you later,