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Mmm. Hello, It's Tuesday,
May the nineteen, twenty fifteen, and

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you are listening to the Giant Bomb
Cast. Guys, Jeff's gone Yea,

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No he ain't. I'm right here, right here, hellosen, it's a

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two teacher. Hello, Jeff gherst
Man. Hi, Hi, Why why

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do you hate the Winter so much? Because I've only played a couple of

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hours of it? Sir, you're
all fired. I'm getting a bunch of

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new people in here. We're gonna
we're gonna fix this place up once and

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for all. None of you slackers. This Game Informer takeover thing was a

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bad idea. Okay, that's something
he says. You know what that is

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my eyes that I just see,
Jeff, Yeah, that is that is

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very true to life. What's going
on? Not much. Jeff's out doing

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stuff, secret pre e three stuff. So what are we gonna do with

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this newfound freedom? Talking about the
witch stuff? Wait, no, dude,

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when the boss is gone, you
don't do the thing you do when

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the boss is here. We were
talking about credit scores before we were right.

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Yeah, so that's that's what that's
cool. Rebel kids talks about when

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the bossesn't turn this into a financial
podcast, Dan, I had never heard

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of the word finance. It's actually
not true. I might have been kidding

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when I said that. Sorry.
Then we moved on to homeowners associations and

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yeah, really a hum dinger,
all that hot stuff. It seems like

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dicks. Uh huh. Really they
seem like status obsessed dis Yeah. Yeah,

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you're not allowed to have RV's in
front of your eyes. Your grass

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has to be exactly one and half, no more than three quarters of an

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inch. Yeah, your beard has
to be short. You'd never be allowed

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to live anywhere. Wow, my
goodness, it's kind of tramp No.

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No barfing in your front yard.
No o in the backyard, my backyard.

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Okay, we were courteous. That
was a trick question anyway, because

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there on the front yards out here. I've actually fuked in my front yard

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a bunch too. That sounds like
something you would do, Dan Riker.

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It's marking his territory. Yeah yeah, Jason a strikers here. They all

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say it's scooters at the homeowners association. What the hell? What? Yeah,

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scooters. I had a little cheap
scooter and they're like, that's a

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motorcycle. You can't have that.
No way, that's like, okay,

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chopper's fair enough, but like a
little fifty cc thingy or a what about

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an electronic boing? What about wanted? It was like a bicycle with a

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motor, that would probably be fine. Like, I mean he shouldn't be

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allowed to have one of those anyway, because fuck man who who was so

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expensive too? Yeah? Yeah,
that's why, Jason. Last time I

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was at your house, you tried
to sell me a scooter you bought when

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you were drunk for like twenty dollars. I was super drunk, and yeah,

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if you bought it at twenty dollars, I would have made well,

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not made money, I would have
made all my money back like a little

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like a little foot scooter. Yeah. I was back from your neighbor,

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I did. I was looking for
like alternate means of transportation to the barts

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while you were drunk. Yeah,
and you're trying to hawk it all right.

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I don't even know how we got
on the on the topic. Really,

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he was talking about like moving into
the city. He was like,

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Oh, here's my drunk neighbor.
I know, I bet I can sell

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him my push scooter. We got
on the topic. I'm like, you

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know, the one thing I would
never get is one of those stupid little

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push scooters. And he's like,
oh, yeah, I've got one of

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those I share. I'm like,
how much you want for it? Wow?

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Do you just throw your phone away
when insurance companies call it off?

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That's probably it works. It's a
good thing to do with stuff you don't

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want. Go far away from it
as you possibly can. So I've never

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taken it out on the street yet, nor even the sidewalk. But I

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went out and I bought a bike, like a cheap one hundred dollars bikel

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Yeah, bikes are great, man. Like those first two weeks, my

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god, my legs were burning.
But yeah, I'm gotten gotten into scooters

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like your gateway drug to owning a
bicycle. What's next? Start with roller

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blades? Bust out the funny back
kids? The kids do roller blades anymore?

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Golden Gate Park. I don't know
ten kids, Okay, yeah,

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I guess I don't neither. That's
sell some really cool ones to target though.

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But they were really cool kids,
yeah, really cool kids wearing these

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cool like tricycles skates. They're three
wheels, so one of the back and

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then are the back and one of
the fronts, so like your balance to

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be better there. I see these
guys in my neighborhood, and I've seen

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a couple of downtown as well.
They it's like a little ball that you

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stand on and it just like it
looks like a little robot thing you stand

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on. It's around town. I
can get those on Amazon. I don't

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know how that works, Like,
what, what's what are the breaks on

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that? Like this guy was going
down a steep hill in my neighborhood on

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this crazy ball that he was standing
away? Is there like a platform around

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the ball for your feet. It
looks like a dude just standing on a

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ball. And I don't know if
it just drives him around town or like

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how you propel it or how you
stop? It looks pretty cool. I

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was watching I was in bed,
fucking Future's weird, man. I was

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in bed on periscope watching a guy
in Sweden going around on one of these

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fucking things. Nice the futures here, man, I know, futures now.

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It's awful futures the present burn it
all down, and then the president

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Danny Adwiers, Hey, what's up? Sorry? I wasn't Jeff, I

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know, I was a really good
impression. But no, I'm not.

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I'm not away doing secret E three
things. I'm here here because you want

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to hear about the Witcher. Apparently, I get. Yeah, man,

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it's good right into it. Don't
spoil anything. You want to talk with

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the Witches straight away, Let's just
talk about that. You gonna do that

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whole thing where you go ahead and
say, hey, what are you playing

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Dime? Are you playing Jayson?
So it's a formal around here. I

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know. I was looking forward to
talking about Tokyo Jungle for about two hours

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before I got into the Witcher.
But we could bear enough. We could

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do that too. Yeah, but
uh, you know, the Witcher is

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the big order of the day.
It's at today, It's the thing this

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week, I guess, unless you're
into the Destiny. I don't hope,

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no, no, no, please
don't tell me. What's it called?

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House of Shit? Yeah, that's
it. I fired up Destiny for about

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five minutes over the weekend. I'm
saying I should get back into this.

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I haven't played this in months,
and I didn't launch into a mission and

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then I was like maybe not damn
good work, and then I turned it

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off. So I'm still going to
check that thing out. I still want

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to know about it. But maybe
it's hold has been broken, maybe or

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maybe maybe why are you diving back
in? Oh my god, Brad,

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We're gonna lose you again. I
have to know. Somebody around here needs

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to know what the story. What
do you need to know everything? Okay,

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all of you love? Do you
have people you play with? Yeah?

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I know people who play. Yeah, so if they get back in,

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we'll not like encourage you to get
back in because it seems like one

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of those games Misrael Love's Company,
right, Yeah, I guess so and

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boring game Blay that that thing seemed
seems like it might have some good ideas.

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Maybe hopefully we will see. Nobody
has played it as of this recording,

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although by the time this is out
it will be out. Three of

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us was said up not have played. It's probably true, you know,

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but by the time this goes up, I would have played it either,

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because somebody's got to put this podcast
together. I will by the time you

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hear this, I will be checking
it out. Cool, I will see

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what it's about. But I look
forward to hearing it on next week's Vonka

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Yea. But forget all that which
are three. I'm talking about the cher

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which are three is a pretty great
video game. Yeah, and we gave

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it a ten at a ten over
on GameSpot dot com. I was surprised

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that much higher than that. That
wasn't the ninth ever something like that,

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Like I ever ten a T two
is the last one? Yeah, and

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then that's fine, okay, Kevin
Kevin van Ord is not a man who

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gives out tens freely. Nope.
I was actually genuinely shocked to see that

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he gave that score. I was
kind of hoping, or not hoping,

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fron I was optimistic that it might
be a great game after we went to

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Warsaw and played it that CD patch. Look at that you're just slipping that

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full disclosure in there that even yeah, just slip it. Yeah yeah,

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I was really until you called that
act there was real subtle. Yeah.

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Well hey man, look when we
gave it ten out of ten, I've

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never been so happy that we paid
for that entire trick, everything that launches

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the Holster Bank anyways, on the
that was all preview preview nonsense over and

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game spot. They just ago,
but yeah, it's it's really something else.

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When he came in and was sort
of musing over the one thing that

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he's thought about not giving it a
ten for was the technical difficulties. And

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we've got it like a PS four
debug. It was the same one that

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Jeff was playing that had like the
day one patch on US. Yeah,

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a Day one patch on us.
Yes. Yeah. So I've been playing

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the Xbox one version, which I'm
not sure if it does have a Day

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one patch either, and there has
been some technical stuff so like right at

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the gate, like there is some
like frame rate hitching on you know,

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cut scenes and in engine cut scenes. I'm pre random ones, which is

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quite bizarre. And the game itself, open world, looks fine and runs

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fine, but I've had some like
quice s break. I had one or

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two loading screens, like just straight
up loading, loading, loading, nothing

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ever happens. But that's in like
fifteen hours of games. So it's it's

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I've been playing the final version on
PS four and a lot of the same

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stuff actually, Like the FMV hitching
thing was super weird, Yeah, because

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you don't expect like an FMV or
like why is it? Yeah, why's

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outing like no loading screens throughout the
entire development. So that's where they're doing.

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They're loading is during those fmbs.
That's not accurate. That's not definitely

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loading screens. I agreed, but
I had read that, Yeah, they

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were shooting forward loading screens. You're
loading screens between. That's traveling, yep,

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which it turns out is something you
probably could have been doing a lot

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of you. You'll hit a you'll
hit a load once in a while when

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you go into some kind of specific
cut scene or like a scripted questioning or

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whatever. They are not a big
deal. Yeah, they remind me of

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kind of Skyrim level ones, which
are a little bit on the longside.

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But you're kind of fine, you
know, it's fine that there's so few

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and far between that it's it's hard
to get angry about them. That seems

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like a hell of a world that
they've made, though, Oh man,

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I've just now getting out of the
first area. I haven't even seen like

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the openness of the second part yet. But it's intimidating it is. It

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is sprawling. So when I was
I was playing some over the weekend and

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decided to just like, straight up, I'm not going to do any main

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story stuff. I'm just gonna have
a look at like one little peninsula and

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see what I could find there.
And this was like a pretty innocuous part

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of the map, relatively small,
probably about the same size as the prologue

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Are you started, And I had
like two question marks in there, and

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like a like a signpost that said
Harpy Nest or something, and I was

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like, all right, let's give
it a go. And like it looked

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like nowhere else in the world because
it was like off the beaten track,

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and you could tell why no one
had settled there because it was all craggy

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hills and like kind of nasty little
swampy parts. And on the way there,

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I just like wandered into some like
dead lady who had like a note

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on her which may or may not
be a quest And there was like a

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harpy nest that I went in,
and like it was the first time I

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had met them, and I used
like different tactics to try and take them

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down, like using the ards spells
and lock himatit the air and then sometimes

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catching and went an upward swipe like
the hard hit to lock himaded the air.

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And then they know, and there
was a bunch of like like a

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chest with a bunch of crap in
it, and like it's just that like

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the loop of you keep running into
just random crap that you never thought of,

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and you're like getting distracted and getting
dragged into another part of the map.

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Like that stuff keeps happening, and
the quest stuff is where it really

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gets it starts to freak me out. So I went to a notice board

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in that area which had you know
those boards in the town. They're like,

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here's a bunch of quests, good
job board, Yeah, yeah,

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exactly, And some of them are
just like flavor text, Like one of

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them straight up said don't eat cats. Cats. If you eat cats,

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it'll give you bad luck. But
does will sometimes like open up like undiscovered

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locations on the map where yeah,
sometimes it will still like you end up

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being quest, which is yes.
But I got one which didn't but was

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a quest. And that's what freaked
me out is that some of them are

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straight up like you pick it up
and it goes second request unlocked, right,

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take your quest log, yeah,
or like some of them make like

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these little question marks pop up on
your map. I picked up one of

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them which said which was basically this
guy saying, oh my wife went missing.

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I don't know where she is.
She was in the woods x y

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Z, and I always looked at
it and I went, this kind of

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looks like a quest, but it
doesn't say that. It doesn't have that

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like mark, right, So I
picked it up. Nothing happens, and

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then I kind of thought this game
is weird like this. You can never

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really tell what's what's black and white. It's all gray in terms of the

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quest stuff. So I wanted into
the forest to see if there was anything

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there and I kind of parted around. I didn't see where she was,

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and I didn't think get anything off, and I got I thought, you

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know what, that was a bit
too much to ask this open world game,

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so I went away. It be
an hour later I'm flicking through my

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quest log and in like second requests, it has Garralt's wanders to the town

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and rips off this thing off the
noticeboard. I wonder if you'll find something

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in that farest. So it was
a quest, but it never highlighted it.

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didn't react to it, And that
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Because I've had like second request impact
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I've had like like conversations with people
in bars that were just innocuous people that

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then suddenly came up three hours later
in the story mode, where like people

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who were guarding this thing and they're
like they remember that time you bought them

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a pint. Like It's just that
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think that's the most exciting thing about
it so far. Is it the noticeboard?

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What is causing the little question marks
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I want to say, yeah,
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did not see any of those question
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Yeah, I'm finding those to be
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because I'm not necessarily like I feel
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you're describing, which is just like
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some stuff like instead, because they
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interest, I just set way points
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straight to them. I find myself
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map and setting way points over and
over and just going to what they're already

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pointing me out. Because I've gotten
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they highlight the main quest pretty well,

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something like if you wanted to just
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good. What I mean is I'm
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of discovery because I feel like it's
all bet it's kind of being annotated for

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me on the map and then I'm
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have had like instances where it wasn't
a point of interest, there wasn't that

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question mark. Well there's still stuff. There's an old lady like looking into

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a house. I'm like, what's
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my pants in there, and I'm
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yeah, you come to find out
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quest line and it's like, wow, this is this is deep man.

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Yea. Some of them are just
like one off things, and some of

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them are like five six like quest
lines deep. They just keep going and

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you can never really tell, and
like picking those is going to be real

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difficult because you level up, you
don't level up like randomly from like Monster

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and Counters. You can't just like
grind or whatever. So do you get

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no XP whatsoever killing Are you sure? It's very sure. I've got a

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bonus right now that gives me XP
two like Monster. I'd swear if I've

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checked my XP multiple times after battle
and it hadn't moved, I might be

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wrong, but I guess I might
be. I mean, don't it's not

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that much, if it's anything,
I guess I should say. They trickle

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out the XP pretty slowly, because
like some minor quest steps give you like

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ten XP yeah, and I'm like
nothing. Yeah, one quest that required

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me to be not required but recommended
that I was level three and I'm like,

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some other random one and it gave
me like three hundred experience and I'm like

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yeah, yeah. The story stuff
seems to be the thing that levels you

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the fastest, big time, by
far. And the weird thing about that

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is that you can actually out level
some of the side like secondary quests pretty

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easily if you don't keep an eye
on them, which might be disappointing.

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The monster ques seemed to be pretty
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secondary ones that are like level three
and now I'm like going up level six

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and seven, and it's just,
you know, you're kind of like,

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oh, I guess I kind of
missed out on those, and you can

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go back, but it's not the
same. So what's your what's your prior

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experience with the Witcher. I know
that Jason, you've play games the first

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first games of the novel, read
the books well so so. But before

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we went to Poland, I basically
had like zero, Like my experience was

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watching Vinny Okay in video form.
That's a lot of our experience with the

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Witch State. I never touched the
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Poland, I went back. I
played a tiny bit of Assassin Kings and

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I went back and played a couple
of hours of that, like maybe four

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or five hours of that, and
I read the first book before we went

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out to Poland. Two interview Hi
Sho. So I wanted to have like

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some sort of deeper knowledge of the
lower but no in terms of gameplayer like

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I was, I was the quintessential
fresh off the boat man. This new

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Witcher game looks interesting, I wondered, do I need to know about the

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other two to enjoy us. Let's
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Everybody's talking. Yeah, kind of
like they straight up started calling it

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Witcher Wild Hunt, Like they removed
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have like a big three. Besides, like that scratch in the middle the

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wild Hunted. Loo. I noticed
that in the logo treatment on the title

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screen. Yeah, it's not it's
not blatantly apparent that that is a three.

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superstylized. Yeah, and they call

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it Witcher Wild Hunt and like a
bunch of their trailers and stuff. So

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they have very much been like both
in terms of the story the disc sort

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of goes into and in terms of
the treatment gameplay wise, they are making

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this game as much for fans of
the old stuff as they are for people

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who are completely fresh to the series. Yeah, I mean this is definitely

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is you know, based on the
marketing, the way it looks like,

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the way it kind of, I
don't want to say emulates aspects of like

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Skyrim and stuff like that, but
it does drawsome inspiration there, Like all

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those things taken together, like this
is definitely the one that could break big

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for them. It seems like you
know, like it's coming out against nothing,

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like there's no other major releases the
smart time. So Danny said,

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you, I mean you at least
like you know, read the book and

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seven did some research there, Like
I have not really played the previous two

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games, but I'm definitely I'll be
downloading it when I get home tonight.

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But yeah, for me, that
doesn't know anything about the lower or anything,

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like, there's not a lot of
stuff I need to know from one

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and two, like gameplay wise or
lower wise. No, in terms of

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gameplay stuff like, it just depends
how much you enjoy that breed of like

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action like swords play. Yeah,
I love it like I love Skyrim.

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I just didn't like the structure of
the open world. I don't know what

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to expect. Is it kind of
like a Red Dead thing, it's kind

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of like a Skyrim. I'd kind
of say, it's somewhere between the two

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of those. Yeah, that's probably
well, So if I love the ship

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out of both of those, this
might be a good game. So why

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I went back and played some Red
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and said, like, my sort
of what I've the easiest comparison I had

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was like this is like a fantasy
Red Dead Redemption kind of thing. Okay,

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In terms of like actual questing,
it's very much like Oblivion. Like

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Red Dead was relatively linear and narratively, like there was some stuff off the

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beaten path, but it feels like
the main quest stuff is incredible in this,

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like the way in which the second
request split off and they stop but

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you can keep doing them that and
it impacts in the main quest. That's

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amazing. But then there's so like
easily that much content again in terms of

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the side quest stuff, which isn't
the case we're Red Dead, so it's

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kind of like it's like right Dead
in terms of you just exploring the landscape,

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Like it's very much a game about
the protagonist and his relationship with the

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world, like discovering the world and
meeting its people and finding stories. So

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that's kind of what it's like.
But in terms of like the questing and

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it's it's more like Oblivion in that
you will a couple of areas and you're

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going to have a couple of different
like, oh man, where do I

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focus my attention? You know,
is it on this weird quest line or

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is it like the guilds and Skyram
or something. It's like, oh,

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do I want to focus on the
Thieves guild here? Do the Dark Brotherhood

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kind of in terms of like the
length of the quest, but not in

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terms of it's it's a lot less
regimented, I feel than something like Skyram.

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It's a lot more kind of like
dynamic or like natural than than that.

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You don't just have like, you
know, pillars that you're kind of

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attacking at any one time. I
found they they you know, I'm just

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not getting out of the first area. But they tend to weave the like

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the witcher stuff, like the business
of being a Witcher into the main storyline

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like in and out pretty well.
Yeah, like you end up taking contracts

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because you know Whitcher's there's like part
of the Witcher code is like you have

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to get paid for your work,
you know, like you don't you don't

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go around like you're not a You're
not just like a feel good kind of

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do good or are they like like
they're they're like kind of I want to

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say, a interesting kind of a
moral mercenary types, Like are they supposed

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to be killing like assassinating witches?
Is that what which there's a. There's

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a great line in one of the
quests where one of the guys is,

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oh, I thought you were a
witch on her, and he's like,

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no, no, no, I'm
a witcher anyway, Oh they're not the

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same thing. That's pretty good.
I so I uh stand to answer your

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question. I went to U Kataku, who put up like a really good

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concise primer for like kind of you
know, what are what are the power

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structures of this world? Like what
do witchers do and how do they fit

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into it? Like what what are
the events of the first two games?

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Although those apparently don't matter a ton
here, so those are pretty condensed,

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you know, it's just like here's
a couple of paragraphs per game of what

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happened, But it's more like who
are the characters, one of their relationships?

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Who are the kingdoms? And know
how are they warring with each other?

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Right now? And quickly? No, no, no, actually no,

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this all sounds great. I I
would recommend reading over that one or

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something similar that. I'm sure there
are others out there, because like I

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would have had no problem understanding what
was going on, but I don't know

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that any of it would have meant
anything, or like that I would have

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cared about any of it. I
like the idea of this a quick overview

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of just this whole universe before I
dive in there. And they do they

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do a really good job in the
game, but you're doing that. Actually

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they allude back to, you know, previous events and characters and just give

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you just enough filler information to to
let you in on what's going on.

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Is it lower heavy, like long
cut scenes and stuff and dialogue there's a

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lot of yeah, long dialogue secrets, okay, But I would I would

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liken it more to like a good
buyerware game, like like a Mass Effect

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or a dragon Age, where it's
not like like infodonts about lore or not

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the draw here, it's more like
the interactions between the characters that are happening

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right there. You know. It's
like it's the drama between people and how

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they're kind of struggling with each other. That's that's the main of it.

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But if you want to dig deep
into the lore, that's def certainly there

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for you. Well you don't.
But what I like about where the story

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picks off here is that at the
end of the Witch or two, it

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kind of it's kind of like that
story's done in a way, like the

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story of Siri and and Jennifer and
and and Garrett and all that is like

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that's ongoing, but it's not like
they're taking out of baggage from two and

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putting it into three. Not much
like so that's it's kind of a nice

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cut off point. Chris is still
pretty pistic. I actually want to ask

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Jason what's in relation to like the
Witch or two and stuff. I feel

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like the acting and the voice acting
and the writing and this is like so

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much better compared. I wouldn't go
quite that far. I mean, obviously

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it's the same voice actor for for
Garrelton and stuff, but there's not a

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ton of returning characters, so I
don't have a lot to kind of,

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you know, prop that up against. I haven't heard enough to be certain,

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but from what I've heard thus far, it's been pretty damn good.

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I love that. I'm not too
big on like big exposition and whatnot,

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but the dialogue scenes in this,
even just between random characters you meet,

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are just so it's so much it's
really good. Like the writing is what

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turned my opinion on this game,
because I actively was not having a good

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time for the first like two three
really like I didn't like the game for

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about two hours. I actually was
the same way I didn't like the so

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so the stuff you have complained about
with controls is like that's legit worse than

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you think, Like there is a
weird I don't know what was going on

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with their like the design behind the
movement of the character, because like when

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you push in a direction to move, it's like he thinks about moving for

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about a full second before he really
starts. You don't momentum thing and like

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like utterly like fluidly animated. I
guess other game a little like Uncharted other

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other games due to this to an
extent, but this is a really extreme

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case and it's and it's like it's
like he takes about a second to get

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moving, but once he does,
he like goes from zero to full full

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full run in like no time.
It's a really weird thing. And the

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horse is kind of the same way, Like I find the horse getting stuck

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on geometry a fair amount, with
like fences and stuff like that. It's

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easy to just call it bad,
but yeah, did you find yourself getting

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used to it? That's the thing, Like like not that you should have

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to get used to it, but
I did, Like at a certain point,

407
00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:48.640
I was getting so engrossed in the
in the other good aspects of the

408
00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:51.000
game that I just realized I was
like, oh, I'm not really noticing

409
00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:53.039
that anymore. Like I wish it
were better, but it's not. It

410
00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:56.279
just makes a bad first impression,
is what it is. Like you get

411
00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:59.880
over it, but at first,
like combine the movement stuff with like the

412
00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:03.200
jank. You know, there's a
fair fair amount of open world jake here.

413
00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:06.240
I feel like some of the areas
in which the movement is poor in

414
00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:11.039
in terms of like climbing and like
indoor areas, that's pretty like there's a

415
00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:12.839
lot of that. Early in the
game, the very first ladder in the

416
00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:17.400
game, in the beginning of the
tutorial broke for me. I couldn't climb

417
00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:19.319
it, Like I kept hitting X
and he went into the climb onto the

418
00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:22.640
ladder animation, and as soon as
that was over he fell off. I

419
00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:25.720
went over and over and over.
I had to restart it and it fixed

420
00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:26.519
it. But like that was just
a you know, that was a good

421
00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:32.480
early warning sign of like engine,
isn't it like this? I don't know,

422
00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:34.400
Yeah, Red engine doesn't be that
they made just for this open Yeah.

423
00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:38.759
Okay, so I probably for cyberbunk. Jason, You're on Xbox and

424
00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:44.119
you two are on PlayStation four,
right, I have predominantly Xbox one on

425
00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:45.400
thing oh xx one. Okay,
I'm really curious cause I'll be playing on

426
00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:48.799
PC, so I'm real curious.
Like shots of the PC version maxed out

427
00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:52.200
floating around that looked freaking incredible.
But at the same time, like people

428
00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:56.240
are saying that even like a tighten
X can't run it at ultra settings.

429
00:23:56.279 --> 00:24:00.759
It's like second, so you know, it should be a pretty good looker

430
00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:04.119
out there. But I mean all
the recommended spects will keep my fingers crossed.

431
00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:10.079
If it's any indication of like how
I'm enjoying the jank of the Xbox

432
00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:11.799
One version, well, I actually
I bought the PC version last night.

433
00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:15.000
Oh wow. Yeah. But yeah, it's like, you know, move

434
00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:18.759
on kind of starting out like like
movement issues, uh, like some kind

435
00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:19.720
of you know, buggy stuff here
and there, Like I don't think the

436
00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:23.119
combat is amazing, you don't know, so all these things, you know,

437
00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:26.680
taking a different kind of feel.
It's it's like, you know,

438
00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:30.160
maybe I'm doing the game of disservice
by going straight from blood Borne to this.

439
00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:33.440
In terms of third person Maine combat, it's like, let's go from

440
00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:36.960
some of the best of that in
the world to this, which is not

441
00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:40.640
amazing, Like it's okay, it's
just it's got kind of a herky jerky,

442
00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:42.279
like stilted sort of feel to it. You know, Like I feel

443
00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:45.839
like the timing of the moves coming
out is is feels a little unnatural,

444
00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:51.000
Like connecting with enemies doesn't feel great, Like it's just kind of it's kind

445
00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:52.480
of all over the place for me. What I really like about the combat

446
00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:55.960
though, is how tactical it is. But yeah, actually, you know

447
00:24:56.079 --> 00:24:59.359
you need to go into like your
notes to find out what what types of

448
00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:03.319
things that enemy he's are susceptible too. That that was you probably I won't

449
00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:06.160
say side quest, but you probably
know what it is where there's like kind

450
00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:08.160
of a it's one of the first
contracts you take sure where I was fighting

451
00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:11.839
the enemy and the enemy is kind
of an ethereal thing and I was doing

452
00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:15.039
no damage to it whatsoever, And
I was like, do I just have

453
00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:17.319
to use my fire spell on it? Over and over? Like this sucks?

454
00:25:17.359 --> 00:25:19.200
I just kill like I'm dying over
and over and ending, like a

455
00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:23.359
really light handed way of introducing you
to the style of right combat anyway,

456
00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:26.519
right, and so yeah, like
I looked in the Best Sherry and I

457
00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:27.680
was like, oh wait, it
says it's vulnerable to this spell. And

458
00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:30.000
so I used that spell and I
beat it in thirty seconds. You know.

459
00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:33.200
Oh wow, Like that's a that's
kind of a level of detail that

460
00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:36.200
a lot of games like that don't
demand of you. You know, like

461
00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:37.480
you could just hack and slash your
way through that in a lot of games.

462
00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:40.720
Yeah, and that's what I appreciate
it. Yeah. Yeah, So

463
00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:42.759
switching between spells and the fly and
you know, all the different potions and

464
00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:45.960
bombs that you can use. It
took the shackles off a little bit in

465
00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:49.279
relation to that stuff about it's not
as because I guy's the open world nature

466
00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:52.920
of it, and you're not being
able to prepare for battles as much as

467
00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:56.680
you can, yeah, because typically
you'd have to like brew potions and consume

468
00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:00.680
them outside of combat, like during
a meditation states. So b potions now

469
00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:03.920
you can take, you know,
during combat, which is great. So

470
00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:07.920
they've sped that stuff up considerably,
So it's great. All all that stuff,

471
00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:11.519
you know, taken together first two
three hours was just kind of not

472
00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:15.000
leaving a great impression on me.
But then like the deeper you get into

473
00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:19.000
it and the more kind of character
interactions and drama and quest lines and stuff

474
00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:22.519
you see play out, like you
realize, like, this is a really

475
00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:25.960
interesting, well written world that's not
like like it. It feels like it

476
00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:30.400
kind of it subverts or or overturns
a lot of kind of typical like a

477
00:26:30.440 --> 00:26:33.079
lot of the tropes that the fantasy
video games fall back on, you know,

478
00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:37.640
like like the fact that he is
basically a hero, but he's also

479
00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:40.720
a guy who works for hire,
he doesn't do anything for free, and

480
00:26:40.839 --> 00:26:44.279
everybody spits on him, you know, like Witchers are thought of as freaks

481
00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:48.559
and outcasts, and people like literally
and figuratively spit on them as they walk

482
00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:51.920
by, Like like every town wants
a witcher to come do their dirty work

483
00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:52.759
when they need it done, but
then as soon as it's over, like

484
00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:55.759
they want them to get the fuck
out of there and freaks and never come

485
00:26:55.799 --> 00:26:56.559
back, and like then curse at
them as they go. You know,

486
00:26:56.599 --> 00:26:59.720
if someone spits on you, can
you come on? I don't. I've

487
00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:03.400
never you can't. You can like
uh like pull your hand back, like

488
00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:06.240
you can't punch them, and they'll
get they'll get scared shitless off. Can

489
00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:08.079
you attack in PCs? Oh,
they don't, like they don't take damage.

490
00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:11.359
What you can do is that you
can like raise your fist to them

491
00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:12.839
back. You try and cast like
ignory, which is the fire spell at

492
00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:15.960
them. You'll actually make a puff
of flame in your hand just to scare

493
00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:18.920
them. Oh wow, it's kind
of that's cool. But like there's like

494
00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:22.160
there's that stuff, and and like
several of the quests I've gotten into,

495
00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:27.079
I find that like even even what's
initially portrayed as the villain of a quest,

496
00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:30.000
like in a lot of cases,
like that's actually just somebody who befell

497
00:27:30.119 --> 00:27:33.799
some like tragic circumstance, you know, and it's kind of forced them into

498
00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:36.599
a like a bad position, you
know, like they're there are a lot

499
00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:38.440
of shades of great. You know, there are very few absolutes from whately

500
00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:41.119
the lesser of two evils. So
yeah, yeah, like yeah, multiple

501
00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:45.279
cases already in the first few hours
of having to make like two tough choices

502
00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:48.359
like which one of these is going
to do the least damage, you know,

503
00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:49.599
that kind of thing. And I
think for like a fantasy game,

504
00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:55.119
fantasy stuff, like a lot of
people don't like just high fantasy. It's

505
00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:57.400
it's one of those genres that some
people just find impenetrable. But the Witcher

506
00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:02.079
does this really great job of just
not getting involved in the sort of melodrama

507
00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:04.319
you associate with some fantasy, Like
there's this big war going on with this

508
00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:08.400
warfront and the North and the South, and just loads of people just don't

509
00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:11.519
care or they don't care about stuff
that's happening in the rest of the world

510
00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:15.039
because they're like brother died and they're
just like they don't really give a shit

511
00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:18.519
about that, like the beast it's
outside or whatever, because it doesn't matter.

512
00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:21.559
It all gonna be dead in two
days. Like it kind of feels

513
00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:25.400
granded, like these are real people
with like their small lives that they care

514
00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:30.079
about. Like the people in Novigrad
are also blissfully ignorant of what's happening in

515
00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:32.200
the rest of the world. They
don't really care, and they're all just

516
00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:37.880
going they're like getting involved in weird
religious rights because they're getting increasingly racist because

517
00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:40.759
of the amount of people are flooding
into Novegrad from outside, Like it just

518
00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:45.240
feels like it's that real good fantasy
where it feels like it's a fantasy world,

519
00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:48.880
but it's kind of reflecting things that
are happening in modern society, not

520
00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:52.599
like in Hobbit society. So it
kind of sounds to me kind of like

521
00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:56.000
game Game of Thronesy, you know, like a lot of shades are gray,

522
00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:59.119
Like there's not a lot of like
heroes and obvious villains and stuff,

523
00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:02.720
and it doesn't feel like I don't
really like fantasy fiction much at all,

524
00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:04.200
but like I love Game of Thrones, and like the way you're describing this,

525
00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:07.279
this world and everything, Oh,
it sounds more like that I skipped

526
00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:11.000
through Skyrim, Like I love Skyrim, but I skipped through quest lines and

527
00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:12.359
not like no one's business, I
don't read it. It was the same

528
00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:15.160
after Winding World of Warcrafter, I
was coming on whenever and I stopped doing

529
00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.960
it, And in these I'm I'm
reading like all the time. This is

530
00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:23.000
over all this feels much more like
in your face and personal with the conflicts,

531
00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:26.480
not there's not a lot of like, oh, like world ending.

532
00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:29.839
Mcguffin needs to be retrieved or whatever. It's just like it's like, oh,

533
00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:32.680
this this kingdom is marching against this
other kingdom and a lot of people

534
00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:36.000
are dying and everybody. Everybody's dick. Everybody's pissed off. Right now,

535
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:38.720
nothing is good. Okay. Yeah, it's been really interesting so far and

536
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:42.400
kind of refreshing in that sense.
And that's a lot different than I think

537
00:29:42.440 --> 00:29:45.680
the second game as well, because
that was, you know, very political

538
00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:49.839
based as well. Also just in
the in terms of like the pacing of

539
00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:52.359
the game, Like two started off
with a bang. Yeah, they threw

540
00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.079
you right into you, like this
huge battle, there's a dragon and everything.

541
00:29:56.160 --> 00:30:00.319
It's it's crazy, whereas in this
game it's much more subdued. Like

542
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:04.279
you have that initial flashback sequence,
which essentially is just a tatoria section,

543
00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:07.359
but once you get out of that, they just kind of throwing in the

544
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:10.440
world. It's like, hey,
go find Jennifer. How are you gonna

545
00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:15.240
do that? Enfer? Should they
just misspell something on the birth certificate?

546
00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:18.200
And no one wanted to change it's
a jay excusally a Jay typically and say,

547
00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:22.440
Jennifer, this is high fantasy,
man. That's crazy. It's crazy

548
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:25.920
fantasy world. It's change one letter. It's kind of interesting that you point

549
00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:27.559
that out, though, because,
Yeah, like at the beginning of the

550
00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:30.920
game, a gigantic battle has just
happened in the area that you're coming into,

551
00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:33.920
but you miss it. You don't
see any of the spectacle of the

552
00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:36.319
battle. You just see all the
people who are still alive. You see

553
00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:40.400
that yet steer clear from Yeah,
and very unhappy with the occupying forces,

554
00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:41.839
and like you know, they've lost
family members or houses burned down, and

555
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.119
it's just a bunch of bad shit
going on. But they're pissed off because

556
00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:48.319
like there's a base built down the
road from them that wasn't there before.

557
00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:52.279
They're like there's they're having an argument
in the pub because they've hung up a

558
00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:56.279
different manner for the new Army.
Like it's that type of thing. Like

559
00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:02.160
it it's like this grand concept distilled
down into what actually fisces people off.

560
00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:04.640
It's it's it's been really good so
far. That that alone makes me want

561
00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:07.519
to keep going with the game,
even with the kind of minor issues.

562
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:11.839
I think that open world Prologue area
is one of the best like design decisions

563
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:15.000
I've seen in like open world gaming
in a long time. That because you

564
00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:18.119
start off in the White Orchard area, and it is an open area and

565
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:22.720
there are side quests and there is
the main like thing with trying to find

566
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:25.640
Jennifer. But that's an open world, like you can just pop around that

567
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:27.359
area, but it's just kind of
like a kiddie pool. And then once

568
00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:30.599
hang on, are you saying that
the rest of the game is like bigger

569
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.599
and opener than that. Yeah,
then White the White Orchard thing, because

570
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:37.279
I haven't gotten had a White world
church. Oh yeah, the rest of

571
00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.240
the game is like fifty times like
White Orchard. Tiny. Well, so

572
00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:42.799
I was looking at it and like
it is open in the sense that it's

573
00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:45.319
just a giant round area and you
can go in any direction, but it

574
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:48.279
did feel a little contained, like
you hit you hit invisible walls, it's

575
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:51.720
like you've reached the end of the
world or whatever. That's that's the kiddie

576
00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:53.759
pool. Yeah, so it gets
more expansive than that. There are two

577
00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:57.960
other open worlds that you go to
that are like easily like I'm literally I'm

578
00:31:57.960 --> 00:32:02.279
saying like fifteen twenty times like they
are big. I was almost literally you

579
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:06.480
know, that first starting area just
had the one job notice board. Yeah,

580
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:08.839
there's another one shortainly after that,
where there's like fifteen Oh my god,

581
00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:13.599
yeah, that's ridiculous, like tons, and then after a while you

582
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:16.400
unlock the Skellag Islands, which are
this like archipelago of islands off of the

583
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:21.200
coast. That's where the fake Vikings
live. Yes, lots of Scottish and

584
00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:23.039
Irish accents in that world in the
world. Yeah, yeah, that's where

585
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:27.599
it gets super scaring me. And
that's this like basically the size of the

586
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:30.599
Vela and Novograd area you're go into. Otherwise it's it's really big and it's

587
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:34.720
dense, what I the way in
which is different to Red Dead as well

588
00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:37.799
as there was a beauty and Red
Dead of the negative like open space between

589
00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:42.799
towns. There is a bit of
that here, but there's also like like

590
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:45.960
there are villages within like half a
mile of another, like it's there's it's

591
00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:51.559
not as what Scanta is that it's
way more dense. Is there stuff to

592
00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:53.160
do in all these little villages or
they just kind of like window dressing most

593
00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:55.680
of them? Yeahst of them.
If there's not, then it's because they've

594
00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:59.920
been like torn asunder by the NILF
Guardian or whatever. Different people just like

595
00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:02.279
a different vibe. Like you'll run
across the villages that are doing well and

596
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:06.119
the kids are outside singing songs and
stuff, and then you know, just

597
00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:08.440
the next town over, everybody's crying
because you know, their their huts have

598
00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:13.079
been burned down to the you know, to the ground. And yeah,

599
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:16.200
it's it's it's a very different feeling
world wherever, wherever you're at. Yeah,

600
00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:19.920
I'd say the world building has been
the best aspect of this by far

601
00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:22.559
yea, so far. It's really
it's really evocative and engrossing. It feels

602
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:27.599
like the towns have been built on
like on on real earth that was there

603
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:30.440
before. Like it doesn't feel like
place shouldery like stuff like when it rains,

604
00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:35.640
like people run indoors like stuff like
that, and like they pack up

605
00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:37.480
their markets in the evening and go
back in and if a storm's coming and

606
00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:39.799
they all go off shit and they
got this stuff together. And like the

607
00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:43.720
wind effects that happen in the game, even if you're in a cut scene,

608
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:45.960
it still happened. Like if you're
inside of a bar and it was

609
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:49.480
having a storm outside and then you're
inside the bar and you're having like a

610
00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:52.759
little chat with somebody, like through
the window in the background you can see

611
00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:54.440
the rain of the storming. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, the stuff,

612
00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:57.839
the stuff they do to bring the
world to life is like from a technical

613
00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:00.680
sense, is is really impressive.
Yeah, like trees being affected by wind

614
00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:04.519
and like the clouds rolling in and
looking insanely ominous and stuff like that.

615
00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:07.160
And then that stuff affects the beasts
as well, so like there are a

616
00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:09.960
certain beasts which if there you fight
them in rain, are like way underpower,

617
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:14.039
and there's other ones that, like
on certain terrain will be better because

618
00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:15.159
of like the type of the spells
they have, and like other ones that

619
00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:20.119
only come out at night times.
Yeah, it's it's pretty clear. It

620
00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:22.800
seems like there's a lot of mechanical
density there with the combat and stuff.

621
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:24.559
I feel like navigating some of that
stuff is a little iffy. Like the

622
00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:30.800
console interface I don't love as far
as like it gives the system, like

623
00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:32.599
you know, you can you can
tell that that was clearly made for like

624
00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:36.679
mouse keyboard again, like it's a
little really hard to navigate. Yeah,

625
00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:38.159
it's a little busy and there's a
little bit too much stuff to kind of

626
00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:40.920
button through on on the console,
I think, But I mean you can

627
00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:43.760
you know, you can get used
to it, but I think it's just

628
00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:45.480
done. But the main like you
know the combat wheel that you pull up

629
00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:47.840
with the like LB or whatever.
Yeah, I think that's pretty interesting.

630
00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:53.960
So you guys haven't had any super
game breaking stuff. I know if any

631
00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:59.800
had this infamous like horse button bar, yeah on Friday. I've had a

632
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:02.880
of weird, weird freaking things.
Like initially when I when I started playing

633
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:06.920
it, I was having lots of
issues. As it turns out, my

634
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:08.880
Xbox One, like the cash was
just like full, Like as soon as

635
00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:14.360
I cleared that, it ran a
lot smoother. Still kind of it's definitely

636
00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:16.440
shooting four or thirty frames for a
second, but it seems like it's trying

637
00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:20.920
to go above that, and what's
happening is we're getting like frames skipping.

638
00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:23.719
Yeah, like during combat. It
looks kind of hitchy, but it's strange.

639
00:35:23.719 --> 00:35:25.880
It's not like tradition will slow down, you know by any means.

640
00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:29.960
Yeah, it's like it's still running
kind of smooth, but it's everyone so

641
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:31.920
it'll start yeah jumping in. I've
had very similar stuff on the PS four.

642
00:35:31.960 --> 00:35:37.079
It's goofy, but like definitely some
AI issues, like I hopped into

643
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:39.960
like this bandit camp and uh,
you know, started pulling a couple of

644
00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:45.280
guys and they would not walk out
past the gate. So they're just staying

645
00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:47.039
there leering at you. So yeah, yeah, it's kind of trying to

646
00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:50.840
attack me. So I would just
walk in and swipe a couple of times

647
00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:53.119
and then walk back out, and
they would never walk walk past that.

648
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:57.719
My favorite thing has happened so far, which I had saved a video of

649
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:00.880
on the PS four. That's why
that feature exists. Uh, there's a

650
00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:02.039
there's a side quest. You get, it's not there's not any kind of

651
00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:06.760
spoiler, but you know the herbalist, yes she helps, she helps you

652
00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:08.440
with some of the main story stuff, but she also has a couple of

653
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:12.639
side quests that start there. I
didn't go back. She's got So there's

654
00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:15.960
a girl that's been attacked by the
griffin that's around and you like this quest

655
00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:17.039
is just like, hey, go
out and brew a potion to cure her

656
00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:21.480
or whatever, but like they're basically
saying like, oh, she's mortally wounded,

657
00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:23.400
Like she's got this gaping like like
stomach wound and she's just lying on

658
00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:29.679
this table in the herbalist huts.
Like bleeding in her head. They say

659
00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:32.320
she's also got internal like bleeding in
the brain or whatever, but she's like

660
00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:35.760
you can see like blood, oliver
and stuff like. Yes, I put

661
00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:37.639
the point is she's like on Death's
door. I came back later to talk

662
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:40.239
to the herbalist about something else,
and it didn't occur to me to look

663
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:45.559
over there. But uh, right
after the conversation was over, I heard

664
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:47.000
the door open behind me, and
then I noticed that that table where she

665
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:51.079
was supposed to be lying was empty. And I turned around and looked,

666
00:36:51.199 --> 00:36:53.679
and here she comes walking through the
door in this like very businesslike manner,

667
00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:57.960
just like making a bee line for
that table, and goes over there and

668
00:36:58.199 --> 00:37:01.440
lies down on it and then resumes
the like clutching her sides of animation and

669
00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:04.880
starts rocking back and forth. It's
just like, all right, yeah,

670
00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:10.119
it's like places everybody in the Witcher
is coming so ridiculous. It seems like

671
00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:13.679
there's probably gonna be a lot of
good videos coming out of this game.

672
00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:17.760
On the flip side of that,
Kevin said he did this action which again

673
00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:22.639
I'll be super vague so it's on
spoilery, but he chose something which basically

674
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:28.360
banished an individual to being lived stuck
on an island somewhere, Like they basically

675
00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:31.039
just banished somebody to an island,
and then something like ten fifteen hours later,

676
00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:36.079
he's on a boat going past an
island and straight up the corpse of

677
00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:38.719
that person is there. Wow.
Yeah, that's cool. It seems like

678
00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:44.000
there's a ton of just little detail
like that scattered around the world for sure.

679
00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:47.239
Uh. Yeah, that games seemed
pretty good. Yeah, it's I'm

680
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:50.760
hooked. Yeah, I am very
much just like sitting here thinking about like

681
00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:53.840
I kind of go home and play
more. I think it's kind of I

682
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:59.000
was playing on the Xbox One and
and enjoying like a sunset and you kind

683
00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:00.559
of have that feeling like with the
start of fall Out of Skyron, where

684
00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:05.840
you're like man possibilities, And then
I thought about that the last open world

685
00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:09.920
game I'd played on that console,
Watchdogs, and like Assassin's Creed, and

686
00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:15.000
like it's so far beyond like any
other open world game that's currently available on

687
00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:20.320
on current gen consoles. And in
terms of like role playing games, like

688
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:23.320
even in terms of like really high
technical kind of what the Witcher two was

689
00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:29.400
more like like that type of genre
on PC it's it's like it's doing stuff

690
00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:31.719
that is like it just feels completely
new. It does feel like a sort

691
00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:36.880
of a step forward for that entire
genre. Yeah, I think this is

692
00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:38.440
it's like the perfect time of year
for it to command as well, because

693
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:42.400
we don't really have that much going
up to E three and kind of beyond,

694
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:45.280
and this is a game you can
easily sink like weeks and months.

695
00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:47.960
Absolutely the next next major release I
can think of as Batman and that's that's

696
00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:52.280
a month away. Yeah, so
yeah, plenty of room for the Witcher

697
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:54.440
here, which seems like it's going
to need it because I think Kevin put

698
00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:58.800
like one hundred hours into it before. Yeah, that two hundred thing isn't

699
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:01.519
isn't a lie, I wouldn't say
it does. Also like whatever that means,

700
00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:04.840
you know, you can. The
thing about it is, you won't

701
00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:07.119
ever one hundred percent this game.
You're gonna have to do multiple play through

702
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:09.679
Steven see everything. But then they've
got the sixteen free DLC things, some

703
00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:14.079
of those requests, and then they're
bringing out two expansion facts and one of

704
00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:16.079
those is straight up a new area, so that whole like overworld map.

705
00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:20.119
You zoom out and you see everything
like they're gonna stick something new in there

706
00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:22.800
as well. So so bleak yeah, which is three man yeah playing out

707
00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:25.199
forwards. It's really ambitious. It
doesn't you know, I don't think it

708
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:30.320
does everything perfectly, but what it's
doing is pretty impressive. Hopefully the PC

709
00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:32.840
version isnt buggy. No one's got
the play fingers crossed. It's weird because

710
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:37.760
Super Weird C Project has been very
vocal over the years about how like PC

711
00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:39.800
focused they are as a studio and
how much they love the PC. And

712
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:43.079
that's what they've been shown off at
like E three, right, like in

713
00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:46.039
PC version you yeah, right,
I'd assume that's the lead platform, right,

714
00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:49.760
you would think, But then like
press wise for review and stuff,

715
00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:54.239
they nobody nobody got PC as of
as of right now. I don't think

716
00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:58.679
the press outlets have still gotten PC. Day before release, I got my

717
00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:01.960
email from those those guys and it
was a goog key which will unlock at

718
00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:07.119
four pm really today, so they
nobody's getting it. So the only people

719
00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:10.199
who are playing on PC right now
are the litany of folks who have downloaded

720
00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:15.039
illegally on our Twitch streaming. Yeah, did you see the email that they

721
00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:19.119
put out or the message board post
where they were like two people who had

722
00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:22.840
downloaded the like tarrented version or whatever. They were like just so you know,

723
00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:27.280
like, we're gonna give you support
for the game anyway, but if

724
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:29.639
you want to give us some money, it's gonna be like these sixteen free

725
00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:32.199
DLC things would be really cool.
That'd be right, Yeah, support us

726
00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:35.800
so we don't go out of business. I love their model. I have

727
00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:39.400
no problem giving them totally. Seriously. Yeah, they have good ethics over

728
00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:44.559
there, CD Project for sure.
All right, well, guys, we've

729
00:40:44.599 --> 00:40:46.800
been so hot and heavy with his
Witcher business. We were so eager to

730
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:51.599
get into the witching that I forgot
about a little bit of housekeeping. There's

731
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:55.400
dynamic beard tech. We forgot that. That's a huge spoiler, man,

732
00:40:57.079 --> 00:41:00.840
dynamic beard tech. That's not really
is it dynamic longer? Like if you

733
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:02.840
go to a different area. Oh
wow, Okay, Well, because I

734
00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:06.039
know, I know you shave at
a certain point. Yeah, I just

735
00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:08.480
got past the part where he's shaves. You have to shave at that point,

736
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:12.360
you do, but apparently it'll grow
back, So just don't download the

737
00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:15.960
DLC. Oh yeah, you know
what you should do. Actually, it's

738
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:17.679
just be careful about what barbie you
go to. Oh yeah, that's all

739
00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:21.000
I'm gonna say. I don't want
to spoil it for anyone, but just

740
00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:25.519
there are some hair dressers in the
world of the Witcher who are more good

741
00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:30.760
at their job than others. Okay, let's say that works at emptor Mother

742
00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:35.880
some some some fly by night fantasy
barber colleges out there, and when they

743
00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:38.559
give you back cut, they will
not be repentant. Put it that way,

744
00:41:38.639 --> 00:41:43.119
all right, Dynamic Beard. Good
to know. Well, so you're

745
00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:45.800
doing it again. Man, Sorry, I got at the stuff talking about

746
00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:50.880
besides, which I wanted to mention
briefly for the sake of our friends in

747
00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:55.199
New York. Boost. Yeah that's
Giant Bomb East has got their podcast starting

748
00:41:55.280 --> 00:42:00.360
up very soon. Yeah. Wow, the Beast Cast is imminent. I

749
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:04.719
believe that's the case. I don't
want to speak for those guys, but

750
00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:07.920
yeah, I believe things are heading
in that direction. But they are going

751
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:10.480
to have like an episode zero posting
this Friday. Just inter Yeah, they're

752
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:13.679
not, they're still getting their feed
set up and all that stuff, but

753
00:42:14.679 --> 00:42:17.840
that will be appearing on the website, I believe, as currently scheduled on

754
00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:22.280
Friday, yeah, you can.
You can. You can find it on

755
00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:24.239
the site and then subscribe to the
RSS there. Yea, will that be

756
00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:29.159
a Friday podcast? Get yourself in
the system. I believe that's the intention.

757
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:31.320
Yeah. Cool, like a we'll
spread out from this thing. Yeah,

758
00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:37.800
give this behemoth room to breathe.
But yeah, stay tuned for that

759
00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:45.960
on Friday. Now back to video
games, I guess Dan, Yeah point

760
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:51.280
pretty much the exact same game as
The Witcher. It's Mario Puzzle and Dragons.

761
00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:54.719
Yea, they both have dragons,
I assumes. Also also a lot

762
00:42:54.760 --> 00:43:00.239
of fucking in Mario. Right.
Oh you've gotten to that part. Yeah,

763
00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:02.960
that part was weird. It's really
yeah, something else this me Nintendo,

764
00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:06.360
man, I fu do an ay
of guys, done the big games

765
00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:08.360
for everybody, all right, the
catered all interests. No, like just

766
00:43:08.519 --> 00:43:12.360
hearing about it, Like when I
heard the announcement about Mario puzzling dragons,

767
00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:15.360
like I just thought instantly like,
well, this doesn't sound like my thing

768
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:16.400
at all. Like I love Mario, but I'm not like a slave to

769
00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:19.880
every weird spinoff they do with Mario
or whatever, you know. I just

770
00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:22.079
kind of like the core series for
the most part. Two places, so

771
00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:25.320
I was charged, so I tried
it, but I think soccer stupid.

772
00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:28.920
So I didn't like that game at
all. You know, like Mario Kart,

773
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:30.400
Mario Tennis, Mario golf and stuff. That's all great tennis and golf,

774
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:32.440
okay, but soccer is not.
Yeah, they're real sports. But

775
00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:37.559
anyway, when I heard about this, I was like, okay, so

776
00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:40.639
it was it's an iOS game.
It's just been downloaded eight hundred billion times

777
00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:44.280
in Japan or whatever, and so
I'm just thinking like, oh, that

778
00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:45.960
sounds like some shitty Monster Hunter thing
or something like. I don't know,

779
00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:51.719
I know when I just hear,
like when I hear like huge in I

780
00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:52.960
don't know. Did you not even
know it was a Match three game?

781
00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:54.960
Well, once I saw the pictures
and so I was like, okay,

782
00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:59.559
it's a Match three Cool. I
mean I like Match three. I talk

783
00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:01.760
about it in the office. Where
did you go from iOS to Monster Hunter?

784
00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:07.000
Because it's just huge and like China
and stuff. Yeah, I don't

785
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:12.199
know. I assume that everything that
falls into the category of things Dan doesn't

786
00:44:12.280 --> 00:44:15.599
like all exist in one bucket in
his brain. Yeah, is my guess.

787
00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:19.079
Yeah, the bucket is my brain. Monster Hunter and Monster Hunter and

788
00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:22.079
shitty iOS. Free to play games
are probably basically the same thing, the

789
00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:23.119
same. All right, yeah,
something sucks, It sucks, right,

790
00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:29.519
Well, do you have different suck
buckets. It's not it's not talking about

791
00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:34.480
Brad Suckucket. That's an appropriate topic
for this. I think Brad suck Bucket.

792
00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:37.760
They're on tour. Yeah, that
podcast is coming on Thursdays. Okay,

793
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:45.519
yeah, we got another bucket podcasts
what sucks this week? Two old

794
00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:50.960
fans? Oh yeah, sorry,
no. So basically I thought that this

795
00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:52.559
game was not going to be for
me, you know, like I like

796
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:57.880
puzzle games fine, but like free
to play I don't tend to like on

797
00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:00.960
like mobile free to play stuff like
this sound like some kind of cash in

798
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:04.639
dumb thing or whatever. And so
I didn't know anything about it. And

799
00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:08.559
so yeah, I got a pretty
released copy and started playing it and instantly,

800
00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:13.599
uh loved it. Like it actually
has some mechanics and stuff that are

801
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:15.840
that are totally different than the typical
match three like you are trying to match

802
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:19.400
three things, but like you get
to drag it around with the stylists and

803
00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:22.960
set up like a billion different little
combos within the bottom screen. Yeah,

804
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:25.039
that's awesome. And so like,
I like that on its own, but

805
00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:29.800
it's the it's the team building thing
that really hooks me. So you basically

806
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.639
just build this team like of goombas
and kopas, but you'll have like you

807
00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:37.119
know, Fox Mario or Fire Luis
or whatever leaders, and then you get

808
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:38.920
these little helpers, so you'll have
like, you know, six guys going

809
00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:44.320
into these dungeons with you, and
uh, you're all like element based too,

810
00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:45.639
right, yeah. Yeah, So
you've got the basic triangle of like

811
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:50.079
you know, fire hurts grass or
wood. You know, wood hurts water,

812
00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:52.559
water hurts fire, whatever. Then
there's also light and how does would

813
00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:54.480
hurt water? Well, it soaks
it up. I don't know, yeah

814
00:45:54.840 --> 00:45:59.920
maybe sure, yeah, all right, fine, you've ever hit a lake

815
00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:05.960
with a baseball bot? Yeah?
Yeah, But yeah, it's the team

816
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:07.920
building things incredible. So, like
all your guys level up individually. So

817
00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:12.639
if you're going into like a water
based level where you're gonna fight a lot

818
00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:14.599
of like cheap cheaps and bloopers and
stuff, it's like, well, I

819
00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:16.800
better bring in a bunch of piranha
plants and goombas and shooting these wood guys.

820
00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:20.880
And then there's some words more kind
of varied, so you need more

821
00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:24.119
of a all around good team.
But yeah, it gets pretty difficult.

822
00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:28.960
You can like it's got some like
Pokemon style stuff, or you're you're collecting

823
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:32.320
all these different things and evolving them
with different items and stuff. You can,

824
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:35.840
like if there's a bunch of shitty
goombas that aren't doing anything, like

825
00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:37.519
a bunch of level three goomas you're
not using, you can like feed them

826
00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:40.079
all to your like you know level
ten goomba that you like a lot.

827
00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:44.440
That's super gross, but okay,
yeah, but man, it's just it's

828
00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:47.000
fucking awesome, Like I really really
like it. Like I can see myself

829
00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:51.880
putting dozens of hours into this game. And then the thing is there is

830
00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:55.000
the Mario thing, and then there's
also an entire like puzzle and dragon z

831
00:46:55.199 --> 00:46:59.079
game which I've just touched a little
bit for the purposes of the quick look,

832
00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:00.119
which if you check it on this
Like Jeff and I were both like

833
00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:02.719
all about this game. But yeah, it's all this like kind of like

834
00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:06.079
light RPG, Like you know,
your mom wakes you up in the morning

835
00:47:06.119 --> 00:47:07.360
and you gotta go learn how to
do shit and walk around to town,

836
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:12.119
which is very stereotypical like you know
JRFG. Yeah, yeah, the beginnings

837
00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:15.119
of such. But it's so different
than you know, the regular free to

838
00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:16.599
play thing. You know, they
don't have those RPG elements. You can

839
00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:20.719
still combine mosters and everything. The
mechanics of that are still the same.

840
00:47:20.840 --> 00:47:23.519
But yeah, it's pretty amazing that
they actually went through and created this little

841
00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:28.320
this little game it's inside of that
game. Yeah, it's too Like at

842
00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:30.440
the beginning, it's like, do
you want to play Mario Puzzling Dragons or

843
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:32.320
do you want to play Puzzling dragon
z And like the Mario one just kind

844
00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:35.960
of leads you around, like it
looks like a new Super Mario Brothers kind

845
00:47:35.960 --> 00:47:37.800
of world map, or like you're
going to toadhouses and you're going to level

846
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:40.199
three four. I know, I'm
gonna fight Iggy at the end of this

847
00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:44.480
airship or whatever, you know.
But then, yeah, there's this whole

848
00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:46.039
like kind of weird RPG thing on
the other one. But I'm not even

849
00:47:46.039 --> 00:47:49.920
going to dive into that until I
finished the Mario one. But yeah,

850
00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:52.199
if you want to see both the
quickliks on the site, I am so

851
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:55.440
goddamn into that game. And it's
such a pleasant surprise, like That's one

852
00:47:55.480 --> 00:47:59.119
of my favorite things in games is
when something that wasn't on your radar or

853
00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:00.800
whatsoever comes out and you're like,
I'll give this a shot, and then

854
00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:06.079
oh, it's fucking awesome. I've
spent countless hours playing the mobile version,

855
00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:07.800
and but it is a free to
play, so there is that wall there,

856
00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:10.760
but they've removed all of that.
Yeah. Yeah, so this you

857
00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:14.320
just buy the cart or the download
and then there you go. You never

858
00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:16.239
have to worry about it a little
bit investment. So what's the hook that

859
00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:20.400
keeps you coming back? Because are
you unlocking new people because there's no endgame

860
00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:22.800
right? Well? Yeah, like
the Mario one, like I think there's

861
00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:24.639
eight worlds, like you beat the
eight Worlds or whatever. There's like a

862
00:48:24.719 --> 00:48:28.960
time attack mode that I don't really
messed with much. But for me,

863
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:31.760
the hook is building these teams and
leveling them up, and like you can

864
00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:35.119
have like six slots for different teams, so it's like, oh, here's

865
00:48:35.159 --> 00:48:37.920
my badass fire team and here's my
all around team, and just figuring out

866
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:42.719
who kind of your all stars are
and feeding other guys to them and leveling

867
00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:45.000
up their skills and shit. Like
there's a lot of hooks beyond just the

868
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:50.079
match three stuff, like for people
that got into puzzle quest and stuff like

869
00:48:50.199 --> 00:48:54.119
that. When they build interesting mechanics
and features around the core puzzle gameplay,

870
00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:57.960
I think that's pretty awesome. And
this is one of the best examples I've

871
00:48:57.960 --> 00:49:00.119
seen. Is this one of these
ones that's not made by Nintendo? Right,

872
00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:04.239
this is now it's a gung ho. Does it feel like a Nintendo

873
00:49:04.360 --> 00:49:07.199
product? I mean the Mario stuff
it, like I said, it looks

874
00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:10.159
like a world map and it's toadhouses
and there's paratroopers and ship so like it's

875
00:49:10.159 --> 00:49:13.840
all these characters and stuff. It
doesn't because like the Nintendo games have that

876
00:49:13.960 --> 00:49:17.599
certain like there's a feel. Yeah, it's like it just feels real good

877
00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:21.239
in your hands. You're like it's
a fit and finish, you know.

878
00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:23.679
Yeah, it's like just a like
you know, everybody hates the word polish

879
00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:28.280
at this point, but it's super
polished. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

880
00:49:28.280 --> 00:49:30.920
for sure. Yeah. I mean
it's hard to you know, compare

881
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:32.199
like how it controls are because you
know, Nintendo doesn't do a bunch of

882
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:35.719
like puzzle games or whatever. Well, I guess doctor Mario. It doesn't

883
00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:38.400
feel like some like flash game knockoff
where they took a bunch of jpags and

884
00:49:38.440 --> 00:49:43.880
then just no and actually like together. Just out of curiosity, I downloaded

885
00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:45.639
the iOS version to try it out, and like, yeah, the gameplay

886
00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:50.719
is there, it's the same basic
like puzzle gameplay, but everything just seems

887
00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:53.559
to be like yeah again that word
polished or whatever. It just feels and

888
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:58.840
looks better on the Nintendo One.
It's a premium experience. Yeah, yeah,

889
00:49:59.159 --> 00:50:00.599
you're paying for it, and yeah, you get what you pay for.

890
00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:05.119
I almost wonder if you could look
at this as like a proof concept

891
00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:07.199
for the Nintendo DNA partnership. I
hope, So, like, here's an

892
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:12.559
example of Nintendo working with a mobile
free to play focused publisher and like what

893
00:50:12.679 --> 00:50:15.559
comes out of that. Yeah,
maybe not necessarily, you know, obviously

894
00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:16.760
not the same people involved. It
could be different in some ways, but

895
00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:20.960
like it's nice to see the kind
of the you know, the Nintendo Seal

896
00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:24.559
of quality, yeah, translating to
something else's because because that thing is so

897
00:50:24.679 --> 00:50:28.559
meaningful at this point, it doesn't
feel cheap at all. It doesn't feel

898
00:50:28.559 --> 00:50:30.800
like they're just slapping these Mario characters
on, Like it's it's a really really

899
00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:35.079
good game. It's cool. Check
that out. So puzzling dragons no longer

900
00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:37.280
exists in your suck buck looking out
of the suck bucket, right, good

901
00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:40.239
to know, right out of the
suck buck right out. Now it's free

902
00:50:40.280 --> 00:50:44.039
to fly. It's in the cool
shit buck like a bird. It's the

903
00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:49.280
cool the cool shit bucket. Yeah. Yeah, down the refrigerator, yeah

904
00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:52.800
yeah, keeps the stink at.
Other than that, I'm just playing through

905
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:55.119
Last of Us again. That game
turned out it is still really really good.

906
00:50:55.800 --> 00:50:58.559
Yeah. I just kind of pick
that up on a one this weekend.

907
00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:01.000
Yes, fo Yeah, got through
the sniper part and the suburbs.

908
00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:05.000
That part's really cool. Yes,
yeah, that was awesome. I ran

909
00:51:05.119 --> 00:51:07.199
Beta Breakers. Oh god, that's
right. I've got to ask you about

910
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:10.760
that. Yeah I did that,
right, I don't you actually ran it?

911
00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:15.199
Yeah. Well that's the thing is, like I had heard people talk

912
00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:17.400
about this like it was some crazy
city event or party or whatever. Yeah,

913
00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:20.800
so set it up for people who
don't live in the Bay Area.

914
00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:22.639
Yeah, as someone who came in
from out of town, like a lot

915
00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:25.760
of people told me, because I
moved here like eleven months ago. So

916
00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:29.519
Beta Breakers had just kind of ended, and they're like, oh man,

917
00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:31.119
you just missed Beta Breakers, just
miss betabrek Man. It's the best party

918
00:51:31.159 --> 00:51:34.599
citywide party. I was like,
what the fuck is this? I oh,

919
00:51:34.639 --> 00:51:37.840
it's like this race, but then
people do weird stuff during it,

920
00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:38.760
and I was like, okay,
is it's like a costume race or what

921
00:51:38.800 --> 00:51:42.280
the hell is it? So I
just showed up like it was a normal

922
00:51:42.400 --> 00:51:44.280
Like I've done a much of five
ks and ten ks, and I just

923
00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:46.519
showed up like it was one of
those. And uh, yeah, I

924
00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:51.159
ran it like a normal person.
But that's not the same strategy a lot

925
00:51:51.199 --> 00:51:55.480
of people have. Don't Most people
turn up halfway drunk. That's kind of

926
00:51:55.519 --> 00:51:59.239
what I heard. Like, I
got on the train at like six to

927
00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:01.320
go to this thing, and there's
a guy dressed as a forty of ult

928
00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:06.440
forty five. He was drinking a
tall boy of Madelo or Modello. I

929
00:52:06.440 --> 00:52:09.400
don't know, but uh, it's
weird. It's like saying a cult forty

930
00:52:09.440 --> 00:52:14.559
five drinking different. Yeah, drinking
forty five is that cannibal? It's weird

931
00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:16.199
though, because they've really cracked down
on it in the last few years.

932
00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:20.039
Yeah, I heard to be complete
fucking bedling. Well, they just have

933
00:52:20.159 --> 00:52:22.880
floats, right, But then they
were just leaving floats all over town.

934
00:52:23.039 --> 00:52:25.519
They were wrecking the whole route,
right. It was like I knew a

935
00:52:25.559 --> 00:52:29.840
guy that lived on right off the
Panhandle on the route, and he fucking

936
00:52:29.920 --> 00:52:32.320
hated it because it was nothing but
drunk people throwing up in his bushes and

937
00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:36.960
like banging on his door all morning
asking to use the bathroom. So that's

938
00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:38.960
what That's what my uber driver said, is that like the Panhandle especially is

939
00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:42.239
where a lot of that happened.
People were puking all over the place.

940
00:52:42.599 --> 00:52:45.719
But there were signs everywhere this year
that said like no alcohol on the trail.

941
00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:49.599
You know, there were cops everywhere. Yeah, they they don't like,

942
00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:52.320
like if they see you with alcohol, they're gonna do something about it.

943
00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:54.320
Now, like it's but people used
to like people would get kegs and

944
00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:58.719
just drag him in wagons behind them
and just like it was just it was

945
00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:00.159
just like booze everywhere, you know. Yeah, I sent to people I

946
00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:04.360
saw zero of that. That's okay. So I saw us. I saw

947
00:53:04.679 --> 00:53:07.920
numerous penises, yeah yeah, and
they were all old dudes. Yeah,

948
00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:12.599
all the naked runners were old men
and they were in no hurry to get

949
00:53:12.599 --> 00:53:15.199
to the finish line. They're just
walking around the penis is hanging out and

950
00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:19.920
there's just cops everywhere. That sounds
great. It's just legal. It used

951
00:53:19.960 --> 00:53:22.159
to be an old naked guy just
walk in front of a cop and say

952
00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:24.559
hi. And you know how I
remember, what's this? You know the

953
00:53:24.639 --> 00:53:29.800
law enforcement officers interpret the law.
Let's say on site. Is it just

954
00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:32.400
because they have bigger fish to fry
than some old guys dick? But I

955
00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:36.480
don't know, it was. It
was just shocking to me. Like again,

956
00:53:36.519 --> 00:53:38.320
I don't know, like I've heard
their areas around town where that's you

957
00:53:38.360 --> 00:53:42.719
know, kind of a common thing
in San Francisco, but coming from Kansas,

958
00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:45.719
I think it's more of a Beta
breakers thing and like a Halloween thing.

959
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:47.519
It's not been every day, like
there aren't naked people walking the streets.

960
00:53:47.639 --> 00:53:51.960
Baker Beach Man on the daily there
beside the Pasdo. I almost ran

961
00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:55.079
into naked Kevin van Ord on Baked
Beach one day. Yeah. Well,

962
00:53:55.320 --> 00:53:58.760
like I I told my dad about
this. I called him like at the

963
00:53:58.800 --> 00:54:00.440
finish line to tell him, like
I talk about all guys dicks, and

964
00:54:00.679 --> 00:54:04.079
he told me, like he's like, no, they can't just be walking

965
00:54:04.079 --> 00:54:06.880
around naked. It's like, yes, Dad, I directly saw their penises.

966
00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:08.199
And he's like, Dave, if
somebody did that in Lenexa, Kansas,

967
00:54:08.480 --> 00:54:12.440
within like ten feet of walking out
their front door, like eighteen cops

968
00:54:12.960 --> 00:54:15.199
down thrown in the cloth, it's
got to be some kind of special allowance

969
00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:17.920
for this event, you know,
Like I cannot imagine, like if I

970
00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:22.119
just walked out of CBS naked right
now, I can't just like walk down

971
00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:23.960
to the Gummer station and get on
the train. He tried. I don't

972
00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:29.519
think, but there were places around
the cost sure up until a couple of

973
00:54:29.639 --> 00:54:32.880
years ago that you could walk around
naked. They just like every day.

974
00:54:34.079 --> 00:54:37.599
Yeah, I assume they were just
like going easy on it for stuff like

975
00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:40.039
Halloween and this where people are out
drinking and getting crazy all the time.

976
00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:44.559
Yeah, they're probably pretty loose about
it. Maybe it's called two years ago

977
00:54:44.599 --> 00:54:46.400
they brought in a thing saying you
couldn't do it. Oh wow, Vinny.

978
00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:50.480
Vinny was just here for the big
live live show stuff and he got

979
00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:52.000
here his hotel. Yeah, yeah, he was neked the entire time.

980
00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:54.000
Actually, if he saw the big
live live show that was on the premium

981
00:54:54.039 --> 00:54:58.280
sho he actually painted his body of
the black it wasn't it wasn't his usual

982
00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:00.920
shirt, right and right. I
know his hotel was right on Howard Street,

983
00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:04.920
which I guess they were doing some
festival called the how Weirdest. Yeah,

984
00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:07.440
I Passeda. That was it was. It was real weird, weird

985
00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:12.400
weird. Yeah. Then he said
like he just immediately upon like landing in

986
00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:15.039
San Francisco and he's like, all
right, that's the citam and just like

987
00:55:15.079 --> 00:55:17.039
a dude twirl on his dick around
like in the middle of the back the

988
00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:20.840
how Weird Festival. It was.
I had just wanted into town to meet

989
00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:22.119
somebody. I didn't know this thing
was going on. It was literally outside

990
00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:25.400
the right outside the office, and
there didn't seem to be any rhyme or

991
00:55:25.480 --> 00:55:30.199
reason of where the weird was coming
from. There was like naked dude weird.

992
00:55:30.519 --> 00:55:34.360
There was like, you know,
I'm wearing leather like all over my

993
00:55:34.440 --> 00:55:37.880
body except from my crotch weird.
There was like I'm an extra in the

994
00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:42.239
first Matrix movie, like dance scene
weird. And then they just had this

995
00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:45.639
like nondescript loud music playing all over
the place. The weird the Second Matrix,

996
00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:47.960
the first Blade movie, it was
true. The weird. The weird

997
00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:51.880
has a way of diffusing itself throughout
the city, you know, from like

998
00:55:52.039 --> 00:55:52.960
like was the worse the route for
this. It goes south of the park.

999
00:55:53.960 --> 00:55:58.519
It started near in Barcadero Station.
It went along Hay Street up that

1000
00:55:58.679 --> 00:56:05.440
what's the full house Hill Square?
Uh no, that is the Victorians.

1001
00:56:05.639 --> 00:56:07.920
Yeah. Actually the actual house is
further up near Steiner. That's just where

1002
00:56:07.960 --> 00:56:10.440
they had a shot on Alamo Square. Oh okay, but yeah. It

1003
00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:14.800
goes right up Hey Street, right
past Alamo Square and then through the Panhandle

1004
00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:16.880
and then through Golden Gate Park and
it ends down there into the park.

1005
00:56:17.039 --> 00:56:22.760
Yeah, okay. Through. I
went to the Safeway near my house north

1006
00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:27.360
of the park yesterday or about noon. That was a mistake. God damn

1007
00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:30.440
it. We were like a block
from the Safeway and there was a guy

1008
00:56:30.519 --> 00:56:35.039
in a full size shark costume peeing
on somebody's garage to work. My god,

1009
00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:37.480
was shark costume totally? It was
the guy. It was the open

1010
00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:42.199
the left shark. Oh wow,
Jesus. And then we went grocer shopping

1011
00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:44.519
and I wanted to punch a bunch
of people in the face. The whole

1012
00:56:44.559 --> 00:56:47.000
time it was just a run with
drunk people in costumes. I bet I

1013
00:56:47.039 --> 00:56:51.480
didn't see a lot of the drunk
people because like they organize you by corrals,

1014
00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:53.360
so it's like elite runners, you're
gonna be seated, like you're the

1015
00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:57.320
first ones at eight o'clock. You
know you you go immediately. But first,

1016
00:56:57.320 --> 00:57:00.159
I mean the first finishers finished in
like thirty five minutes. I was

1017
00:57:00.199 --> 00:57:05.440
insane. Well what distance is it? It's about seven point five change.

1018
00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:07.559
Yeah, yeah, but yeah,
I'm sure that the people that just want

1019
00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:10.079
to like drink and do that shit, like, I'm sure they were in

1020
00:57:10.199 --> 00:57:15.920
like they weren't like trying to get
indie like six minute mile corral or whatever.

1021
00:57:15.159 --> 00:57:17.519
So what was your time? Uh? You know, I don't know.

1022
00:57:17.719 --> 00:57:22.159
I haven't even looked at me.
Suck it did because my leg gave

1023
00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:23.360
out pretty bad on the last mile
and I had to like limp the whole

1024
00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:27.559
last mile. It sucked. What
was you ten k speed? Uh?

1025
00:57:27.679 --> 00:57:29.920
Ten? Guy? I did?
And h was it? It was one

1026
00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:34.000
hour and fifty seven seconds. So
I wanted to get a sub sub hour

1027
00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:37.360
next time. So but yeah,
it was. It was fun. I

1028
00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:39.679
I don't think I expected as much, just like spectacle and pageantry out of

1029
00:57:39.719 --> 00:57:42.639
this thing, like I was kind
of expecting like that. I'm just gonna

1030
00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:45.199
run for a while. But yeah, you see some crazy stuff. No,

1031
00:57:45.400 --> 00:57:50.199
no, it gets nuts and it
used to be even nuttier. Yeah

1032
00:57:50.280 --> 00:57:53.039
it was. It sounds pretty nutty
from what he was talking about. That

1033
00:57:53.199 --> 00:57:58.840
still bad, Still quite thank you. No, I mean there were parties

1034
00:57:58.840 --> 00:58:00.199
and stuff like you saw a bunch
of how and stuff with tons of people

1035
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:04.039
were like sitting on their awnings or
roofs or whatever, just like having beers

1036
00:58:04.119 --> 00:58:06.559
or people dancing and windows and stuff
like that. Like I don't know,

1037
00:58:06.599 --> 00:58:08.199
it's just a really kind of positive
thing overall. Like I liked the all

1038
00:58:08.280 --> 00:58:13.119
vibe of it. That's fun.
It's a good time, cool for many.

1039
00:58:14.440 --> 00:58:19.519
Uh, Jason's up. Thank you
for being here, Thank you for

1040
00:58:19.639 --> 00:58:22.480
having Yah. Yeah you're playing it, hanging out with you guys. I

1041
00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:24.719
love Jason on the bumbcuss. I
love when he pops on. Yeah.

1042
00:58:25.079 --> 00:58:29.800
I'm not gonna listen to this one
though. You're you're listening to it right

1043
00:58:29.840 --> 00:58:31.880
now, boring. I already know
what happened. People hear this, you've

1044
00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:36.639
heard the whole thing. Yeah Don
talked about is what was it suckboxing or

1045
00:58:36.719 --> 00:58:39.480
something? Yeah? Good Jesus Jason, did you play anything besides the Witcher?

1046
00:58:39.559 --> 00:58:42.920
I don't think I did a little
a little more of combat here and

1047
00:58:42.960 --> 00:58:45.320
there. I'm still playing that on
the Ever already talks about that though.

1048
00:58:45.119 --> 00:58:49.880
Blanch you know Blanch right, the
old lady. Oh and yes, and

1049
00:58:49.920 --> 00:58:53.280
the arena background. He's no fucking
brutality. I finish out the round with

1050
00:58:53.840 --> 00:58:58.559
with her like you are burned,
throwing her at the opponent, okay,

1051
00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:01.119
with as the last hit. Yeah, just just try that float or something.

1052
00:59:01.280 --> 00:59:05.480
She does something way fucking cool.
If you're any character, you can

1053
00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:07.320
use her as a brutality. Yeah, she's a stage interaction or was that

1054
00:59:07.400 --> 00:59:10.800
in there from the beginning or is
this like a weird that's that's really awesome.

1055
00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:14.519
Are there any other stipulations for the
brutality or do you can you just

1056
00:59:14.599 --> 00:59:15.239
throw her? Yea, I think
you can just throw it, but you

1057
00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:19.960
have to meet or burn it,
so like a version of it. Awesome.

1058
00:59:20.880 --> 00:59:22.639
I love the idea of them taking
stuff the community has run with and

1059
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:25.639
like just tweaking it out a little
bit. And they've post release. That's

1060
00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:29.159
but they've been needing some of that
goofy shit. You know, I missed

1061
00:59:29.199 --> 00:59:31.960
that from the old Mottle comment.
But yeah, have you have you figured

1062
00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:37.119
out the Kano morph? Yeah no, no, non't okay, the giant

1063
00:59:37.159 --> 00:59:40.519
cage multiple okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I love how they've always

1064
00:59:40.519 --> 00:59:44.079
embraced that, like, you know, from like Scarlett being like an early

1065
00:59:44.199 --> 00:59:47.239
like palette swatch glitch or something,
and just turning her into an actual DLC

1066
00:59:47.440 --> 00:59:52.360
character. It wasn't irmac comes from
like it's error macro or machine okay,

1067
00:59:52.440 --> 00:59:57.079
right, yeah, it's like turning
these like stupid things that happened and new

1068
00:59:57.119 --> 01:00:00.039
actual characters with mac story and like
cut scenes and stuff like I love that

1069
01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:04.960
ship. Ye was like the early
stuff like you know you have to wait

1070
01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:07.480
for like Santa Claus a flat across
the moon or something like right or toasty

1071
01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:09.920
guy in front of the portal and
yeah, did you see him in the

1072
01:00:09.960 --> 01:00:15.559
friendship screen on the on the yes, the South. Yeah, it's pretty

1073
01:00:15.599 --> 01:00:19.639
good. Yeah. Yeah. I
think MK two was kind of the pinnacle

1074
01:00:19.679 --> 01:00:21.840
of that stuff because they put it
out unfinished, you know, like it

1075
01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:25.679
was missing fatalities and like major background
elements and so many different yeah variations.

1076
01:00:25.719 --> 01:00:30.199
They were sending out new boards like
every couple months or what stuff was changing

1077
01:00:30.320 --> 01:00:32.199
so much in that game that it
was easy to believe, like different versions,

1078
01:00:32.280 --> 01:00:36.360
like when when Kano and and Sonia
showed up in that background chained up,

1079
01:00:36.440 --> 01:00:37.760
you know, like in a later
version, it was super easy to

1080
01:00:37.800 --> 01:00:40.440
believe, Like what if you could
turn into them? Yeah, that must

1081
01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:45.960
exist. Uh was it three where
you just randomly play Pong after like three

1082
01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:49.519
hundred versus matches or something like it
just it just turns out. I think

1083
01:00:49.559 --> 01:00:52.639
that's I think that's right. Yeah, that's serious the best. It's pretty

1084
01:00:52.679 --> 01:00:55.760
good series, not bad, Uh, Danny, you played the thing sides

1085
01:00:55.760 --> 01:01:00.360
of the way. Yeah, so
I got into a PlayStation now, which

1086
01:01:00.400 --> 01:01:04.239
is that streaming service? Yeah?
So the nineteen ninety nine a month,

1087
01:01:04.400 --> 01:01:07.639
which is way too much. But
is that a is that like an a

1088
01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:12.880
basic I can play kind of?
I didn't realize opens up everything. Yeah,

1089
01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:15.679
so nine nine you basically get it
all. I think at it all.

1090
01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:19.280
Maybe there's some games like on the
top tier that you then rent.

1091
01:01:19.320 --> 01:01:22.840
I don't know, but basically there
was a large pool of like maybe forty

1092
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:25.039
games, like good games like Buyer
Shock Infidence in there. The Last of

1093
01:01:25.199 --> 01:01:29.480
us Ko and Shout Out of Colossus
are in there. So I'm gonna go

1094
01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:30.760
back, and I've never completed those
games, so I'm gonna go back and

1095
01:01:30.800 --> 01:01:36.960
play those. And the one I've
been playing though is Tokyo Jungle. Oh

1096
01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:39.559
yeah, which I never really played
much at all. And I've been telling

1097
01:01:39.760 --> 01:01:44.000
my my girlfriend doesn't really play games. She kind of plays games. She's

1098
01:01:44.079 --> 01:01:47.039
like, she doesn't like think of
herself as a gamer or whatever, but

1099
01:01:47.199 --> 01:01:52.199
like she completed Mario Galaxy one and
two and we play Mario Card at home

1100
01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:53.199
and stuff like that. She likes
the sims, but she doesn't like,

1101
01:01:53.519 --> 01:01:59.000
like play the games like Tokyo Jungle. But we were in the park one

1102
01:01:59.079 --> 01:02:01.440
day we saw Amaranian and I was
like, oh, let me tell you

1103
01:02:01.480 --> 01:02:06.280
about this really fucking weird game which
I used to watch my fair Patrick play,

1104
01:02:06.400 --> 01:02:09.559
which is this game where you basically
it's like I've just realized now that

1105
01:02:09.559 --> 01:02:15.599
there's it's Bloodborne, but in likes
like that that's kind of what it feels

1106
01:02:15.639 --> 01:02:19.679
like. You're like unlocking all these
characters and stuff. So anyway, I

1107
01:02:19.760 --> 01:02:22.280
went on PlayStation now when loan behol
of Tokyo Jungle sitting there, and it

1108
01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:28.159
has a multiplayer feature where you I
don't even know that it is like ten

1109
01:02:28.360 --> 01:02:30.960
times harder than playing single play because
you have to feed both of them and

1110
01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:34.599
there's about a quarter of the food, so much food to go around.

1111
01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:37.840
Yeah, and they limit it so
it's like hardly any food, and there's

1112
01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:43.239
hardly any like big food events.
It's more like you're unlocking dumb clothes for

1113
01:02:43.360 --> 01:02:46.400
your Pomeranian or whatever. So we've
unlocked it into two of us. We've

1114
01:02:46.599 --> 01:02:51.599
probably spent about fifteen hours of Tokyo
Jungle over the past week. We unlocked

1115
01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:54.800
almost everything in the Carnivore the last
I got the Lion this morning. I

1116
01:02:54.880 --> 01:02:59.639
woke up this morning and played it
at seven am. I have the Witcher

1117
01:02:59.760 --> 01:03:02.639
three you at home and took your
jungle. You got that line, I

1118
01:03:02.719 --> 01:03:06.559
got the line, I got next
one. Up's like this weird velociraptor thing

1119
01:03:07.440 --> 01:03:09.440
and then I gotta then we gotta
do the herbivores. But they fuck suck,

1120
01:03:09.599 --> 01:03:14.119
so whatever schemes messed up, but
it's great, and that that PlayStation

1121
01:03:14.159 --> 01:03:16.880
net thing. Once I've had it
where like i've the needed at at home,

1122
01:03:16.920 --> 01:03:22.480
but only once. If I had
it where it's like it's like pixelated

1123
01:03:22.760 --> 01:03:23.679
and then you're like, oh fuck, yeah, this is actually streaming.

1124
01:03:24.480 --> 01:03:29.239
Forget certain points like the laate like
you know, I'm not playing first person

1125
01:03:29.280 --> 01:03:31.039
ship, so like when I played
Virus Shock given it it felt a little

1126
01:03:31.039 --> 01:03:35.599
bit more like Swimmy or whatever,
like Tokyo Jungle whatever, So it doesn't

1127
01:03:36.079 --> 01:03:38.199
but yeah, you totally forget.
And that was it. I've never had

1128
01:03:38.239 --> 01:03:43.199
a crash during I've never and we've
had long game sessions like four or five

1129
01:03:43.239 --> 01:03:47.239
hours long. I've never had it
like buffer badly and like get badge.

1130
01:03:47.400 --> 01:03:51.239
I just had one time I've played
it where it just didn't want to connect.

1131
01:03:51.239 --> 01:03:53.440
I don't know if the contingency ratio
in my local area was pretty high

1132
01:03:53.480 --> 01:04:00.400
or whatever, but nineteen ninety nine
two forty a year, yeah, like

1133
01:04:00.440 --> 01:04:01.840
a lot of money. Yeah,
yeah, that is awesome just having that

1134
01:04:01.960 --> 01:04:04.480
like on demand whenever, like oh
I want to play you know this game,

1135
01:04:04.599 --> 01:04:08.320
but I mean, like you want
to download it, they need to

1136
01:04:08.320 --> 01:04:11.360
brought in the library, like the
it's it's still just PS three games right

1137
01:04:11.400 --> 01:04:13.800
now, right, Yeah, I
don't have any PS two stuff. No,

1138
01:04:14.079 --> 01:04:15.840
no, no, no, definitely
no PS two stuff. But it's

1139
01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:17.519
it's kind of a wide birth of
like they've got slic stuff in there.

1140
01:04:17.559 --> 01:04:20.079
They have like f one twenty fourteens
in there, so I'm pretty happy about

1141
01:04:20.119 --> 01:04:24.199
that. And yeah, like the
lasts weird having the last of us on

1142
01:04:24.239 --> 01:04:27.159
there, considering you can buy it
on PS four and now. But yeah,

1143
01:04:27.239 --> 01:04:30.280
like there was one of those use
cases. I was I was telling

1144
01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:32.639
my girlfriend about Buyer Shock Evidence,
and then I was like, man,

1145
01:04:32.679 --> 01:04:35.519
I want to go back and like
just play the first twenty five minutes of

1146
01:04:35.599 --> 01:04:39.239
that game. And I don't have
an Xbox looked or Brenning, and I

1147
01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:41.360
just went, yeah, whatever,
and I literally jumped in and played twenty

1148
01:04:41.360 --> 01:04:44.320
minutes and then jumped out again.
Do you doesn't have full like trophy and

1149
01:04:44.360 --> 01:04:47.159
multiplayer support and everything. No,
so there are there are some limitations here,

1150
01:04:47.239 --> 01:04:50.599
Like from on Tokyo Jungle, there
are a significant number of characters which

1151
01:04:50.599 --> 01:04:57.079
are only purchasable via PSNE DLC stuff. Yeah, so like none of that

1152
01:04:57.360 --> 01:05:00.000
because you can drop back to a
cross media bar, but it's like it's

1153
01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:02.960
got like three options on it,
and you know it's super limited, so

1154
01:05:03.119 --> 01:05:06.199
so you just can't, like the
transaction stuff doesn't work. Yeah, I

1155
01:05:06.199 --> 01:05:10.280
can't buy it. I can't buy
it, and so that's that's there.

1156
01:05:10.440 --> 01:05:14.599
So like also with like trophies and
whatnot. Like the trophies, I see

1157
01:05:14.639 --> 01:05:16.960
them pop up, but I don't
think they're on Maybe they're on my camp,

1158
01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:20.480
but it doesn't feel like sure when
we when we when it first came

1159
01:05:20.480 --> 01:05:24.519
out. Yeah, the trophies stay
with you, really, they stay on

1160
01:05:24.519 --> 01:05:27.079
your account. Actually, I guess
the leaderboards stuff is all my friends,

1161
01:05:27.159 --> 01:05:29.920
so I guess it probably must be
bleeding into that. Ok. Yah,

1162
01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:32.480
so maybe it does. But the
DSc stuff that suck because I would easily

1163
01:05:32.679 --> 01:05:38.920
like drop like ten fifteen quid on
some cool like like Tokyo Jungle ass like

1164
01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:42.599
there's a businessman apparently you can download
and stuff, but I just can't access

1165
01:05:42.639 --> 01:05:45.960
that, which it kind of opens
up another like kind of worms in terms

1166
01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:48.159
of game preservation, like why are
we gonna do when that shit's gone completely?

1167
01:05:48.280 --> 01:05:50.960
But yeah, it's it's a cool
service. I just think it's the

1168
01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:53.920
wrong price point. You need to
drop it down. Yeah, well it

1169
01:05:54.039 --> 01:05:56.440
was even more degregious when it first
came out. And this, you know,

1170
01:05:56.559 --> 01:06:00.119
this, this kind of all you
can eat twenty dollars option is better

1171
01:06:00.199 --> 01:06:01.480
than that stuff was because you know
you were paying God, what were the

1172
01:06:01.519 --> 01:06:03.280
prices? Yea, yeah, they
were all over the places I was like,

1173
01:06:03.320 --> 01:06:05.840
Andy were from like six ninety nine
to like what twenty bucksers, I

1174
01:06:06.159 --> 01:06:09.599
say, there's more than six months, right, yeah, the words of

1175
01:06:09.639 --> 01:06:11.639
all. The worst thing was you
can only get it for I think ninety

1176
01:06:11.679 --> 01:06:15.440
days was the longest at the beginning, and there's exorbitant prices for only ninety

1177
01:06:15.519 --> 01:06:16.800
days of access to the game,
you know, and so like they're getting

1178
01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:19.800
there, but it seems like it's
slow going well in some circumstances, the

1179
01:06:19.840 --> 01:06:24.719
like ninety day rental was significantly above
like what you'd pay on Amazon to just

1180
01:06:24.800 --> 01:06:27.400
get the game. Yeah. Wow, yeah, so at that point,

1181
01:06:27.480 --> 01:06:31.079
like I like the way you're describing
it now. The best like the kind

1182
01:06:31.079 --> 01:06:33.039
of the use case for me is
almost just like oh I don't have to

1183
01:06:33.079 --> 01:06:34.960
hook up my PS three to play
this game. I want to play.

1184
01:06:35.079 --> 01:06:38.599
Yeah, And it's kind of the
way it integrates into the PS four is

1185
01:06:38.679 --> 01:06:42.039
kind of cool as well, because
like straight up I have like Tokyo Jungle

1186
01:06:42.159 --> 01:06:45.800
is a button on my PS four
like dashboard or whatever, Like I just

1187
01:06:45.920 --> 01:06:48.079
go do there and it goes authorizing
and it takes like two seconds. Yeah,

1188
01:06:48.280 --> 01:06:50.519
they're they're like they're getting there,
you know, Like it seems like

1189
01:06:50.559 --> 01:06:54.800
it's well thought out in most aspects, just certain like pricing and stuff like

1190
01:06:54.880 --> 01:06:57.760
that. Yeah, so I don't
know about what the rest of the pricing

1191
01:06:57.840 --> 01:07:00.800
is around it. They just had
a big like seven days for if you

1192
01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:02.480
sign up now. So I just
gave him did the twenty bucks a month

1193
01:07:02.519 --> 01:07:04.599
thing. It charged me seven days
later. So you can just go in

1194
01:07:04.679 --> 01:07:08.880
there and try and then cancel after
six if you if you you're not sure.

1195
01:07:09.400 --> 01:07:13.119
But yeah, as like an actual
technical exercise, I really enjoyed it.

1196
01:07:13.159 --> 01:07:15.119
I thought it was It was pretty
cool, and I'm probably gonna use

1197
01:07:15.159 --> 01:07:17.199
it for another month or so over
the summertime. With like shadow of the

1198
01:07:17.239 --> 01:07:21.079
classes and Naiko so and so,
no commitment like six month commitment or anything.

1199
01:07:21.079 --> 01:07:23.639
You can just do it for a
month and then be done. Yeah,

1200
01:07:23.679 --> 01:07:26.239
okay, as far as I'm pretty
sure, I haven't done that.

1201
01:07:26.280 --> 01:07:29.280
I hope not. I hope it's
not like that. What was that EA

1202
01:07:29.400 --> 01:07:31.559
access bullshit that I was on that
They were like six months? Jason,

1203
01:07:31.599 --> 01:07:33.960
are you still in that? I
still can't figure out a way to get

1204
01:07:34.039 --> 01:07:38.039
rid of it. Isn't just billing
you every month? Yeah, it's been

1205
01:07:38.119 --> 01:07:45.159
billing me five bucks the Warcraft subscription. None, damn it. Yeah,

1206
01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:47.800
will get something out of it.
I played yeah, Dragon Age Inquisition for

1207
01:07:48.039 --> 01:07:51.000
a few days before release, and
yeah, that's cost me like fifty bucks.

1208
01:07:51.119 --> 01:07:54.119
Oh great, And about the game, dude, I did it for

1209
01:07:54.159 --> 01:07:58.079
early access to a FIFA demo really
yeah, oh my god. Oh that's

1210
01:07:58.119 --> 01:08:00.519
right. Yeah, because you get
it early access to you a letter titles

1211
01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:02.679
sports. We've all been there.
I think I'm going on my fifth month

1212
01:08:02.760 --> 01:08:05.719
of having a copy of twenty one
Jump Street sitting on my coffee table.

1213
01:08:05.880 --> 01:08:09.960
Nice blue riff. Yeah, I've
looked through the website. I've looked through

1214
01:08:10.119 --> 01:08:13.480
I mean, obviously the console.
There's no real easy way. I'm sure

1215
01:08:13.519 --> 01:08:15.760
there's something on EA's website that I've
got to or someone I can call.

1216
01:08:15.800 --> 01:08:18.039
I gotta call someone and give them
a face of your mind. I remember

1217
01:08:18.079 --> 01:08:20.199
it, you know every time that
they tell me. It's like, hey,

1218
01:08:20.239 --> 01:08:24.439
we're gonna show you five dollars again, dumb ass, And I'm like,

1219
01:08:24.479 --> 01:08:27.039
oh, I gotta take care of
this tomorrow, and then I forget

1220
01:08:27.159 --> 01:08:30.279
and yeah, that's that's the idiot
tax. Is my five dollars or the

1221
01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:34.479
laziness tax whatever? Yeah, well
the idiot Yeah, mostly dumb one and

1222
01:08:34.520 --> 01:08:39.760
the same. Uh, it's pretty
much the Witcher for me. Yeah,

1223
01:08:39.880 --> 01:08:45.640
it's so all consuming. I haven't
really any Gwent no I played. I

1224
01:08:45.720 --> 01:08:49.119
played the titorial match. I'm afraid
to get into this. Yeah, Gwent

1225
01:08:49.399 --> 01:08:53.079
it seemed kind of cool, but
like the whole like you've only got ten

1226
01:08:53.159 --> 01:08:55.000
cards for the whole match, and
how many do you want to play in

1227
01:08:55.039 --> 01:08:57.640
the first round? Like that seemed
like it could be tough to explain.

1228
01:08:57.720 --> 01:09:00.840
This is the end game card game. There's the triple tryaud of this game.

1229
01:09:00.920 --> 01:09:04.199
It's the little collectible and you're like
you go around buying cards from merchants

1230
01:09:04.239 --> 01:09:08.119
and ship. Yeah. I could
see people getting really obsessive about the GWEN.

1231
01:09:08.279 --> 01:09:11.439
I'm afraid to touch it. They
are like straight up like it's like

1232
01:09:11.840 --> 01:09:15.119
there's a story character I've matched called
the Bloody Baron. You made him.

1233
01:09:15.159 --> 01:09:17.359
He's he there's a lot of stuff
in him, great character. Yeah,

1234
01:09:17.399 --> 01:09:20.680
he's fucking good at GWEN and if
you beat him at Gwent, he's got

1235
01:09:20.760 --> 01:09:25.159
like three super cool Gwend cards and
he's like, if you play with me,

1236
01:09:25.239 --> 01:09:28.079
I'll give you one of my cards. And there's like a straight up

1237
01:09:28.600 --> 01:09:33.399
like tournament in Novegrad like a big
like magic gathering style tournament for Gwen and

1238
01:09:33.479 --> 01:09:36.199
they I tried to go in.
It was like it was in the brothel.

1239
01:09:36.319 --> 01:09:39.000
There's a car And I was like, I want to sign up to

1240
01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:42.359
the Grand Tournament and he looked at
my deck and went, nope, that's

1241
01:09:42.399 --> 01:09:45.159
pretty good. Do you get anything
for winning? Like, so, I've

1242
01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:47.680
only the only NPC I've found who
would play me was the tutorial Guys.

1243
01:09:47.760 --> 01:09:50.600
Yeah, I haven't seen how how
like what the use case is, but

1244
01:09:50.920 --> 01:09:54.960
so I asked CD project when I
was that more so, this isn't a

1245
01:09:54.960 --> 01:09:57.159
spoiler. I don't know when it
happens, but he said. I asked

1246
01:09:57.239 --> 01:10:00.079
him, is there any chance you
know the way in like mass effect or

1247
01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:02.840
I guess in the Witcher where like
sometimes you can just use your spell to

1248
01:10:02.960 --> 01:10:05.760
like get past the story a bit
like speech check speech check. Yeah.

1249
01:10:05.760 --> 01:10:08.720
I was like, is there every
time where you can just go yo,

1250
01:10:09.239 --> 01:10:12.079
let's if I beat you in you
gave me out And he was like,

1251
01:10:12.640 --> 01:10:15.520
maybe, it's pretty awesome. Say
apparently that it does come. If you're

1252
01:10:15.560 --> 01:10:16.680
quint is high enough at the same
stage, you can you can do that.

1253
01:10:16.800 --> 01:10:20.359
That's cool. It's very cool.
Yeah, the game seems pretty good.

1254
01:10:21.199 --> 01:10:25.359
Looking forward to getting out of here
and playing it. But before I

1255
01:10:25.439 --> 01:10:28.560
can do that, we have to
talk about the news. So let's move

1256
01:10:28.600 --> 01:10:31.000
on to the news, which you
get for news. I got some stuff.

1257
01:10:32.199 --> 01:10:35.319
Uh, I'm hearing the news music
playing, I hear no no,

1258
01:10:36.279 --> 01:10:42.439
Okay. So this story blew up
really big last week, and then once

1259
01:10:42.479 --> 01:10:45.760
it got clarified, it seemed like
kind of less of a big deal.

1260
01:10:45.079 --> 01:10:50.880
But the existence of that year's VOORHD
thing is is basically confirmed at this point.

1261
01:10:51.039 --> 01:10:55.279
Cool because people have leaked a bunch
of video from the outpha that's going

1262
01:10:55.359 --> 01:11:01.279
on. He's doing that, Yeah, black seams, all all science points,

1263
01:11:01.319 --> 01:11:04.920
black tusk handling, handling that thing, years Viking. Let's hope that.

1264
01:11:05.039 --> 01:11:08.560
Yeah, seriously, let's hope that
that's not the only Years of War

1265
01:11:08.640 --> 01:11:12.640
product they are currently working on.
Which ones is that? Is? That

1266
01:11:13.199 --> 01:11:15.199
it's straight up Gears of War one
HD. Yeah, so it seems like

1267
01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:18.079
that's where it's going. Like when
these rumors first started, you assumed it

1268
01:11:18.119 --> 01:11:20.319
would be all three of them,
right, But it seems like this product

1269
01:11:20.439 --> 01:11:24.880
is just the first Gears of War
that's downloadable thing. I don't want,

1270
01:11:25.159 --> 01:11:27.479
well, you know, Obviously Microsoft's
not talking about it because they didn't want

1271
01:11:27.479 --> 01:11:30.000
this in phot to be out there. Is this the first HD re rerelease

1272
01:11:30.079 --> 01:11:34.079
of a game that was in HD? Oh isn't this game seven twenty?

1273
01:11:34.199 --> 01:11:38.680
Well, I mean calling it HD? Yeah, I mean they're not calling

1274
01:11:38.720 --> 01:11:44.119
anything. Everybody calls D you know, like all the games from last Gen.

1275
01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:47.640
We're HD in some way. Anyway. Microsoft not thrilled that this footage

1276
01:11:47.680 --> 01:11:53.960
and info was getting out there.
Uh. And as initially reported, they

1277
01:11:54.039 --> 01:11:58.319
were bricking people's consoles for the people
who they identified as the leakers. Wow,

1278
01:11:58.479 --> 01:12:02.039
that we're in this testing program,
we're having their consoles disabled. Everybody

1279
01:12:02.079 --> 01:12:05.520
lost their ship because that's kind of
a terrifying concept, right, that the

1280
01:12:06.039 --> 01:12:10.560
maker of your console could just remotely
kill your console. Yeah, that's an

1281
01:12:10.640 --> 01:12:14.680
NSA nonsense. Yeah. But Microsoft
was pretty quick to come out and say,

1282
01:12:15.199 --> 01:12:18.479
no, we're not breaking consoles.
We're basically banning them from Xbox Live,

1283
01:12:18.560 --> 01:12:21.279
just like we did with the three
sixty. That's way different than bricking,

1284
01:12:21.359 --> 01:12:24.800
which is yeah, which is yeah, that's something they've been doing for

1285
01:12:25.199 --> 01:12:28.640
quite some time, right. That
was that was primarily my understanding. That

1286
01:12:28.680 --> 01:12:31.359
was primarily how they combated mouded three
sixties that people could just trade up pirate

1287
01:12:31.399 --> 01:12:33.880
games on was once they detected you
had a modeed system, they would ban

1288
01:12:33.920 --> 01:12:36.359
it from Xbox Live and it was
kind of useless, you know, and

1289
01:12:36.600 --> 01:12:40.680
rightfully so sure, yeah, yeah, and so that seems like what they're

1290
01:12:40.680 --> 01:12:45.199
doing here, like it's uh,
it's not clear if it's going to be

1291
01:12:45.239 --> 01:12:47.720
a permanent ban or if at some
point they're you know, by their good

1292
01:12:47.760 --> 01:12:50.520
graces they'll say, all right,
fine, you can get back on the

1293
01:12:50.560 --> 01:12:54.119
folks who do this stuff though,
like if they're not doing it on like

1294
01:12:54.279 --> 01:12:57.359
made up a cans that they are
like bought a cans around, Like it's

1295
01:12:57.560 --> 01:13:01.479
like, what's the point and unlocking
some of these you know xx Naruda find

1296
01:13:01.479 --> 01:13:04.680
four twenty x X, who's like
set up just to do this, you

1297
01:13:04.720 --> 01:13:10.119
know, yeah spoken good old smoked
dog. Yeah yeah, you would hope

1298
01:13:10.159 --> 01:13:13.880
they were using burner Xbox Live accounts. But also your box is host you

1299
01:13:13.920 --> 01:13:15.840
know, you can't take it online, so not much you can do with

1300
01:13:15.960 --> 01:13:19.479
video game console that is not Internet
enabled in the day and age. So

1301
01:13:19.560 --> 01:13:23.039
anyway, yeah, yeah, you
know, like like I said, after

1302
01:13:23.119 --> 01:13:26.319
the clarification came out, this kind
of turned into a non story but it

1303
01:13:26.439 --> 01:13:29.119
was like a couple of days of
like, God, we really are in

1304
01:13:29.239 --> 01:13:32.960
like the dystopian video game future.
Anything. You're leasing your correleasing yourself.

1305
01:13:33.239 --> 01:13:38.479
We have all the power. Hey, guess what the most interesting part of

1306
01:13:38.560 --> 01:13:42.319
that story is the fact that they're
breaking consoles. Who gives a ship ben

1307
01:13:42.359 --> 01:13:45.159
an HD make up the first Gears
of War game? Yeah, well that's

1308
01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:46.039
you know, that's what I mean
when I say, you know, hopefully

1309
01:13:46.720 --> 01:13:49.000
that's not the only thing they're doing. You know, yeah, like that

1310
01:13:49.079 --> 01:13:53.159
studio, why are they doing it
anyway? I mean, what the fuck

1311
01:13:53.199 --> 01:13:55.880
you'd like to think it's kind of
a holdover until the new Gears game is

1312
01:13:55.920 --> 01:13:59.760
done. Yeah, the worst Gears
of War. That's assuming Like, oh,

1313
01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:01.319
I don't know about that. Gears
was a great game. You know,

1314
01:14:01.399 --> 01:14:04.640
we're better games Gears of War two
and Gears of War three three st

1315
01:14:04.720 --> 01:14:11.520
judgment, fuck judgment, I fucking
odst Gears game. Fucking side stories,

1316
01:14:12.319 --> 01:14:15.279
the side stories. It's not Cannon. I don't have my d mic moan

1317
01:14:15.479 --> 01:14:21.680
voice grow to the suck bucket.
Yeah, I don't have the fondest memories

1318
01:14:21.800 --> 01:14:25.319
too. I think it was the
best one. I like a lot.

1319
01:14:25.479 --> 01:14:29.279
I don't I didn't like to to
the Best multi Bear maybe, okay,

1320
01:14:29.359 --> 01:14:31.520
fine, I'm talking about campaign.
I did not like the campaign much into

1321
01:14:31.600 --> 01:14:35.199
remember to end boss on Gears of
War one, you fight this guy on

1322
01:14:35.279 --> 01:14:40.720
a tram. Yeah, not bats
at you. Yeah, a ram or

1323
01:14:40.760 --> 01:14:44.800
something was surrounded by bats. But
imagine those bats in HD I always do.

1324
01:14:45.520 --> 01:14:46.800
It was an actually the first I
don't have to imagine it. I

1325
01:14:46.880 --> 01:14:51.199
had it nine years ago. Four
K Marcus Phoenix if you thought his skin

1326
01:14:51.399 --> 01:14:57.840
was popped on the last console generation, what's you out, motherfuckers? I

1327
01:14:57.880 --> 01:15:00.159
don't know. It's all kind of
mood for me because I not really chopping

1328
01:15:00.199 --> 01:15:02.960
at the bit to play another Gears
of War game. But we'll see.

1329
01:15:02.960 --> 01:15:06.960
We'll see what they do. Maybe
they'll draw people back in anyway, don't

1330
01:15:08.039 --> 01:15:12.800
break India's if you get into super
top secret unannounced game testing. Yeah for

1331
01:15:12.880 --> 01:15:15.399
sure. It seems like you know, so it seems like a self evident

1332
01:15:15.479 --> 01:15:19.119
wisdom. But there you go.
And if you have broken NDAs, don't

1333
01:15:19.199 --> 01:15:24.159
contact the news source and say you
should pull that story because we broke NDA's

1334
01:15:24.479 --> 01:15:30.399
right. Yes, that's also kind
of a smoking gun. E three continues

1335
01:15:30.399 --> 01:15:33.720
to approach all too quickly. Some
stuff is starting to come out, you

1336
01:15:33.760 --> 01:15:38.640
know, games are getting announced ahead
of the show, Plans are getting announced

1337
01:15:38.720 --> 01:15:41.840
for the show. Bethesda has come
out, you know, they're having that

1338
01:15:41.920 --> 01:15:45.000
Sunday Night thing forty three. They're
kind of their first big like in a

1339
01:15:45.079 --> 01:15:47.800
theater, here's a bunch of stuff
thing, and confirmed that the New Doom

1340
01:15:47.840 --> 01:15:51.239
will be one of the games being
shown there, which is I saw the

1341
01:15:51.359 --> 01:15:56.119
easiest thing you could possibly today.
Yeah. Oh, with the like two

1342
01:15:56.159 --> 01:16:00.720
seconds I counted like maybe five seconds
or less of actual footage, and then

1343
01:16:00.880 --> 01:16:04.319
it wasn't that. It's a shotgun
cocking shotgun confirmed close up Yeah, and

1344
01:16:04.359 --> 01:16:09.760
then a guy walking and shooting things
from a shoulders res logo. Yeah.

1345
01:16:10.239 --> 01:16:13.560
Very thankful for that feature on YouTube
where you can hit numbers to go to

1346
01:16:13.640 --> 01:16:15.439
like key points in the video,
because I just kept hitting two over and

1347
01:16:15.520 --> 01:16:17.680
over and it would just go back
to the beginning of footage. You know,

1348
01:16:17.680 --> 01:16:24.319
I scrutinize it heavily. Your dude
is wearing like weird robot gloves.

1349
01:16:25.000 --> 01:16:27.479
I don't know if you noticed.
It's like when he's cocking the shotgun.

1350
01:16:27.600 --> 01:16:30.359
Yeah, like these big, thick
looking metal gauntlet things. I don't know

1351
01:16:30.359 --> 01:16:33.520
if those are just gloves or if
you're in some kind of suit. I

1352
01:16:33.560 --> 01:16:40.680
don't know, Titan Doom parkour.
So is it straight up just being called

1353
01:16:40.760 --> 01:16:43.760
Dooms? So I don't know if
they'd even confirmed that, but they ever

1354
01:16:43.840 --> 01:16:46.079
called it Doom four in the past, or they always just called it Doom.

1355
01:16:46.119 --> 01:16:49.039
They haven't got good luck with fours, so I'm trying to stay away.

1356
01:16:49.960 --> 01:16:53.079
I mean, the logo definitely just
said Doom, and then now it

1357
01:16:53.319 --> 01:16:55.680
was yeah. But I mean they've
they've been talking about, like it announced

1358
01:16:55.720 --> 01:16:58.000
that they were making a new Doom
in two thousand and eight. Yeah,

1359
01:16:58.039 --> 01:17:00.800
but I'm sure like an unofficial capacity
is like me know, when they're doing

1360
01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:02.439
speeches whatever, they'll say Doom four. But maybe I've never seen like a

1361
01:17:02.479 --> 01:17:05.520
press release saying Doom four. But
it's it's definitely official that this is just

1362
01:17:05.600 --> 01:17:11.520
called Doom. Now that enemy is
a revenant from Doom to anybody, if

1363
01:17:11.520 --> 01:17:14.000
anybody noticed, Like, I wonder, it makes me wonder if they're gonna

1364
01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:16.720
just go all out, you know, like we are going back to basics.

1365
01:17:16.760 --> 01:17:18.920
We're gonna have all enemies from the
old ones. We're gonna make them

1366
01:17:19.239 --> 01:17:24.199
remake the first You're gonna run around
looking for colored key cards. H the

1367
01:17:24.319 --> 01:17:28.720
remake of the first doom YEP.
Okay, sure, yeah, yeah,

1368
01:17:28.920 --> 01:17:30.960
I'm on board. Who needs to
look up and down? Fuck it,

1369
01:17:31.840 --> 01:17:35.640
let's go. Yeah. It's not
like this wasn't the most predictable thing that

1370
01:17:35.680 --> 01:17:39.439
they would have at this thing,
you know, Like that's like that's kind

1371
01:17:39.439 --> 01:17:42.479
of the only game they have announced
that would show up at this Not a

1372
01:17:42.560 --> 01:17:45.479
huge surprise, but it's still nice
to have it confirmed and see a little

1373
01:17:45.520 --> 01:17:49.000
snippet of footage at that thing.
Just yeah, just buttering us up.

1374
01:17:49.239 --> 01:17:55.039
Yeah, they can hit us with
that fall that four announcement hopefully. Uh.

1375
01:17:55.279 --> 01:18:00.319
Speaking of things getting announced, there's
a new Assassins Creed game. I'll

1376
01:18:00.399 --> 01:18:02.439
let you catch your breath. Yeah
it's it's always a new syndicate game.

1377
01:18:02.560 --> 01:18:10.119
Yeah, no, such luck there
its Asses Creed Syndicate name of the game.

1378
01:18:10.159 --> 01:18:15.000
It's in London. Yeah it's then
I would legally required to say London

1379
01:18:15.039 --> 01:18:19.239
that way. Nah. Yeah,
you play, you play a brother and

1380
01:18:19.319 --> 01:18:24.079
a sister. Yeah. So you
guys have like a big thing on this

1381
01:18:24.239 --> 01:18:27.359
game. Did you guys had like
a big preview? Nah, you'd be

1382
01:18:27.439 --> 01:18:30.920
soft tied one. We just fucking
hijacked it. Yeah, we just did

1383
01:18:30.960 --> 01:18:32.119
a pre and a post show.
Oh is that what it is? Yeah?

1384
01:18:32.199 --> 01:18:35.760
Okay, that's the future game journalism
right there. Yeah, they did

1385
01:18:35.840 --> 01:18:40.319
a big thing for it, showed
it all off. Okay, well I

1386
01:18:40.439 --> 01:18:42.960
was gonna ask you, but maybe
you don't know about the nature of the

1387
01:18:43.000 --> 01:18:45.880
brother and sister thing because they're both
they both have the same parents. Brother

1388
01:18:46.000 --> 01:18:49.000
and sisters were Okay, got it? No, so pan, you can

1389
01:18:49.039 --> 01:18:51.600
swap between the two of them.
Okay, that's what. Yeah, because

1390
01:18:51.600 --> 01:18:56.159
they're both described as protagonists, so
it wasn't I wasn't clear how that was

1391
01:18:56.199 --> 01:19:00.840
going to manifest in the gameplay.
Is the first female protagonist apart from the

1392
01:19:00.840 --> 01:19:02.960
operation? Yeah? Yeah, it's
kind of like a side thing. Yeah.

1393
01:19:02.960 --> 01:19:06.279
That was a handheld game on the
fly, Like you could position one

1394
01:19:06.279 --> 01:19:10.239
assassin like up on this tower and
then flip to this other one and he's

1395
01:19:10.279 --> 01:19:13.680
heard of this track. And I
don't know. They didn't show that in

1396
01:19:13.720 --> 01:19:15.760
the gameplay. It's you were just
playing as the dude. And I don't

1397
01:19:15.760 --> 01:19:19.239
know if it's going to be that
or if it's gonna be like the Unity

1398
01:19:19.359 --> 01:19:24.279
where you're where you're like picking before
each mission, because they were very much

1399
01:19:24.319 --> 01:19:27.880
in like the missions in Unity felt
like Instances almost because of all the weird

1400
01:19:27.920 --> 01:19:30.960
co op stuff they had done.
But yeah, there's like vehicles in this.

1401
01:19:30.119 --> 01:19:35.239
Now there's chariot racings in London,
different Burroughs. Looks like an Assassin's

1402
01:19:35.279 --> 01:19:40.199
Creed game. Yeah, sure does. Yeah. Yeah, new year,

1403
01:19:40.359 --> 01:19:42.720
new game. It's just the one
that I had, like some leaked concept

1404
01:19:42.800 --> 01:19:46.439
heard a few months back. So
this leaked back in November. Detail was

1405
01:19:47.000 --> 01:19:49.640
at that time it was called Assassin's
Creed Victory. Yeah, that's right.

1406
01:19:49.720 --> 01:19:53.680
Maybe it was just a code name
or whatever. Yea, now it's Syndicate.

1407
01:19:54.680 --> 01:19:58.760
No multiplayer in this, yeah,
taking a multiplayer. Yeah. They

1408
01:19:58.800 --> 01:20:02.399
were just kind of generally like very
contrite about the failures of Unity, which

1409
01:20:03.119 --> 01:20:05.800
they damn well should have been.
Did that sell at all? I don't

1410
01:20:05.840 --> 01:20:09.640
know. I don't know that they've
I mean, I'm sure you could dig

1411
01:20:09.680 --> 01:20:14.039
into their earnings or wait, actually
would have had annual earnings reports. I

1412
01:20:14.079 --> 01:20:16.800
would say that with the amount of
studios they are involved in producing any one

1413
01:20:16.840 --> 01:20:20.199
of those games, that it probably
didn't do as well as it needs to

1414
01:20:20.319 --> 01:20:24.319
as they wanted it to. Yeah, it's a it's a funny one.

1415
01:20:24.359 --> 01:20:26.239
I mean it was you know,
it was a. It was a genuine

1416
01:20:26.319 --> 01:20:30.680
public relations Yeah, Boomdoggle it's just
not a fun game. Like, they

1417
01:20:30.760 --> 01:20:34.279
made a bunch of games last year, and Watchdogs was boring as hell,

1418
01:20:34.359 --> 01:20:40.039
Assassin's Creed was boring as hell and
broken, and Fark Cry four was was

1419
01:20:40.439 --> 01:20:43.279
once it's one game. Far Cry
four was great fun, but it was

1420
01:20:43.319 --> 01:20:45.560
basically fark Cry three. But I
feel like the only reason that that was

1421
01:20:45.600 --> 01:20:48.920
the one good Ubisoft game they've kind
of Apartment Child of Light that came out

1422
01:20:49.000 --> 01:20:54.319
last year was because they don't even
repeated the formula once instead of like fifty

1423
01:20:54.399 --> 01:21:00.920
times that they've done with sassed about
the crew. Yeah, there you go.

1424
01:21:00.399 --> 01:21:06.319
Great year for driving games twenty fourteen, enough said Bride Paradise better.

1425
01:21:06.960 --> 01:21:10.880
Yeah, well it's better than most
things. Yeah, to be fair,

1426
01:21:11.039 --> 01:21:13.960
I feel about a bit like being
mean on Assassins Creed. But do any

1427
01:21:13.960 --> 01:21:15.800
of you guys really care about That's? No, not at all? Like

1428
01:21:16.680 --> 01:21:19.800
did you like old Assassins Creed?
Okay, it was okay, Like I

1429
01:21:19.960 --> 01:21:23.479
I admired the ambition of the first
one, even though it was like not

1430
01:21:23.760 --> 01:21:27.079
the best game, like it was, there was a vibe there that was

1431
01:21:27.119 --> 01:21:30.039
pretty unique at the time. I
try them every time, and each time

1432
01:21:30.159 --> 01:21:32.199
I think for something great. Even
the better ones like Black Flag, I

1433
01:21:32.279 --> 01:21:35.039
recognized as better than the other ones. But it's still a boring ass game,

1434
01:21:35.079 --> 01:21:38.880
Like it's a boring ass series.
I loved One, two, I

1435
01:21:38.960 --> 01:21:42.239
loved Brotherhood, Three was okay.
Black Flag I kind of was starting to

1436
01:21:42.239 --> 01:21:44.560
get a little bit annoyed of like
all the question marks on this map that

1437
01:21:44.600 --> 01:21:46.840
I'm gonna have to do. So
I've loved the series, and I'm like,

1438
01:21:47.159 --> 01:21:50.319
man, stop doing this. It's
getting tough. I mean, you

1439
01:21:50.359 --> 01:21:54.720
know last year. Last year was
kind of the peak of that staturation because

1440
01:21:54.720 --> 01:21:57.000
they put two out on one day. You know, it wasn't just Unity.

1441
01:21:57.000 --> 01:21:59.920
A Rogue also came out on the
same day. Like it's just enough,

1442
01:22:00.079 --> 01:22:03.000
man, But no, there's never
enough. It's just that they'd keep

1443
01:22:03.079 --> 01:22:08.399
like taking this assassin's templars like it
was bad enough with all the real world

1444
01:22:08.479 --> 01:22:10.960
nonsense. At least they kind of
rolled into that a bit with Unity,

1445
01:22:11.000 --> 01:22:14.239
with all the fun stuff. But
like it's like, man, can't you

1446
01:22:14.319 --> 01:22:16.399
just tell a story about London?
Why does it have to be everything about

1447
01:22:16.399 --> 01:22:20.319
the fucking templars and SATs ends and
the bed And I'm sure that stuff isn't

1448
01:22:20.359 --> 01:22:24.039
going away, but it sounds like
they are stepping further away from the real

1449
01:22:24.079 --> 01:22:27.159
world or the modern day stuff.
Like they basically said, they're kind of

1450
01:22:27.239 --> 01:22:29.800
doing the same thing they did in
Unity as far as having a modern day

1451
01:22:29.800 --> 01:22:33.079
framing device. Yeah, but your
assassins, simple ard feud is not going

1452
01:22:33.119 --> 01:22:39.079
anywhere. I bet uh you are
going to get Charles Darwin and Charles Dickens

1453
01:22:39.159 --> 01:22:44.439
though. Hey, yeah, get
excited. Great, I guess probably DLC

1454
01:22:44.720 --> 01:22:47.640
or some shit. Are you unlockham
Bree you play? Yeah, play the

1455
01:22:47.720 --> 01:22:54.199
game for ten hours and get off
the dog and the bu play pre ordered.

1456
01:22:55.439 --> 01:23:01.520
Fuck Fagan, I don't know like
this, fam lady. I don't

1457
01:23:01.560 --> 01:23:05.079
even I don't even want to read
the next story after that, but here

1458
01:23:05.159 --> 01:23:10.279
we go. Anyway, it sounds
like The Division, which kind of seemed

1459
01:23:10.319 --> 01:23:13.439
like maybe one of the more promising
new properties yeah that they've got going on,

1460
01:23:13.760 --> 01:23:17.359
is now probably a twenty sixteen game. It is confirmed as its Wow,

1461
01:23:17.439 --> 01:23:19.520
sorry, you're right, it's not
going at this year anyway. They

1462
01:23:19.680 --> 01:23:24.760
also Ubisoft is describing it as a
fourth quarter release, but financially that would

1463
01:23:24.760 --> 01:23:29.119
be the kind of January to March
time frame for them. I don't know

1464
01:23:29.439 --> 01:23:33.600
that that is the least shocking slip
I have seen it. So see like

1465
01:23:33.680 --> 01:23:38.600
that game was on Like they have
shown two little demos of us. Yeah,

1466
01:23:38.720 --> 01:23:42.039
and it sounds by all means like
this is actually something that is going

1467
01:23:42.119 --> 01:23:45.880
to be like take it to the
next level in terms of like world building

1468
01:23:45.199 --> 01:23:48.600
or like you know, interactivity and
the multiplayer stuff. So sure they kind

1469
01:23:48.600 --> 01:23:51.399
of need to show more of that. So, I mean, nobody knows

1470
01:23:51.439 --> 01:23:54.840
for sure exactly what it is,
but the little kind of leaks and rumors

1471
01:23:54.840 --> 01:23:58.560
here and there make it sound pretty
cool, but not this year. Sorry.

1472
01:24:00.000 --> 01:24:03.000
Okay, play Asassin's Creed, No
do it? Play the witchery?

1473
01:24:03.479 --> 01:24:08.239
Okay, Witcher is the best Assassin's
Creed game that's coming in years and thrown

1474
01:24:08.279 --> 01:24:12.079
down the Gauntlet. That's really not
sure? No, that would be a

1475
01:24:12.119 --> 01:24:15.119
shadow more door yeah yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, sure it would

1476
01:24:15.159 --> 01:24:17.600
be. Whitcher three is better than
Mortar. I'm looking forward to it.

1477
01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:21.079
They're both good games. Yeah,
good games. You don't have to choose

1478
01:24:21.079 --> 01:24:24.840
between your children. I can play
both of them. Yeah, I can

1479
01:24:24.920 --> 01:24:27.000
like both of those games. Yeah. Oh man, that's cool. You

1480
01:24:27.039 --> 01:24:30.159
can be like all kinds of different
things. Yeah, man, that's awesome.

1481
01:24:30.560 --> 01:24:32.159
Cool. How big is your bucket? It's a big bucket, good

1482
01:24:32.199 --> 01:24:36.600
ship bucket. Yep, it's cool
ship bucket, cool ship bucket. That's

1483
01:24:36.640 --> 01:24:42.760
right. Uh. Next story,
who remembers Casey Hudson? Yeah? Anybody

1484
01:24:43.159 --> 01:24:49.960
aspect of the head Hudson soft yep, yep. He hails from Adventure Island,

1485
01:24:50.960 --> 01:24:55.479
pym Rude here on the turtle shell. Uh, Casey Hudson. Yeah.

1486
01:24:55.479 --> 01:24:57.239
It was kind of the head guy
of the mass efect series, a

1487
01:24:57.239 --> 01:25:00.840
long time buy Aware guy and then
left by Aware years ago. He has

1488
01:25:00.920 --> 01:25:06.960
finally resurfaced at Microsoft. Resurfaced.
Yes, yes, he will not be

1489
01:25:08.039 --> 01:25:12.359
working on surface. Oh, sorry
about that. Sorry for any confusion.

1490
01:25:12.479 --> 01:25:15.680
The Giant Bomb cast apologizes for any
confusion. He's a Microsoft, he is

1491
01:25:15.760 --> 01:25:19.119
a creative director. It looks like
he's mainly gonna be focusing on Hollow Lens,

1492
01:25:20.960 --> 01:25:26.920
which is some mass effect ship,
not exactly a video games. How

1493
01:25:28.159 --> 01:25:30.520
the thing? Where's the thing they
unveiled? God? When was It's?

1494
01:25:30.560 --> 01:25:34.680
Like realize I Gears of War two
exactly? What it is? The thing

1495
01:25:34.720 --> 01:25:39.479
where you can do like Microsoft paint, but in three D and it's a

1496
01:25:39.560 --> 01:25:44.880
weird augmented reality thing with three D
models floating around in your and your glasses

1497
01:25:44.960 --> 01:25:46.159
or whatever. I kind of worked
on mass effect. Doesn't mean that he

1498
01:25:46.359 --> 01:25:50.239
like knows about it. Yeah,
they're also hiring Martin Sheen to be involved,

1499
01:25:50.359 --> 01:25:54.000
right, he showed up to work
in the Maco on his first day.

1500
01:25:56.399 --> 01:25:58.960
Yeah, you know, Like,
it's not a lot of other info

1501
01:25:59.119 --> 01:26:01.159
out of Microsoft about this other than
that he's mainly doing Hollow Lens, but

1502
01:26:01.239 --> 01:26:04.239
it says he will be quote involved
in driving a creative focus for Xbox and

1503
01:26:04.319 --> 01:26:09.840
Windows gaming as well. Great,
So that sounds vague enough to be a

1504
01:26:09.920 --> 01:26:14.319
hollow promise. Yeah right, I
don't know, Danny. Wait, am

1505
01:26:14.319 --> 01:26:15.439
I to Dad? Am I to
Downer? Am my dad bringing this bomb

1506
01:26:15.479 --> 01:26:19.560
cast? You're bringing some quality.
Hollow Leans is gonna be the best.

1507
01:26:19.760 --> 01:26:25.760
I can't wait till they integrated into
that hot new Assassin's Creed game. But

1508
01:26:25.960 --> 01:26:30.239
on your hollow LNS, now,
Governor, I don't know. Hollow Lens

1509
01:26:30.279 --> 01:26:33.680
looked to me very much like like
here's this admittedly very cool looking thing that

1510
01:26:33.720 --> 01:26:36.039
came out of R and D.
Now what do we do with it?

1511
01:26:36.760 --> 01:26:45.079
Let's figure it out? Connect sure? Just like that, Yeah, that's

1512
01:26:45.119 --> 01:26:50.960
what CA is doing. Uh?
Who likes need for Speed. Pretty good?

1513
01:26:51.039 --> 01:26:54.960
Yeah? Anybody miss Need for Speed? I could play a Need for

1514
01:26:55.039 --> 01:26:57.479
Speed this year considering last year was
the first time we have not had a

1515
01:26:57.560 --> 01:27:00.359
Need for Speed game I needed.
I don't really miss it in a very

1516
01:27:00.399 --> 01:27:04.720
long time. Great, great,
nice, good job, Thanks specials.

1517
01:27:04.880 --> 01:27:11.560
Couldn't you have like peppered in one
like real hot story in the middle scraping

1518
01:27:11.600 --> 01:27:16.119
the barrel, scraping the suck bucket
here, I've only got I've only gotten

1519
01:27:16.199 --> 01:27:18.920
what news there is to work with
I need for Speed. I believe in

1520
01:27:18.960 --> 01:27:21.159
your bride, you can turn this
into something real. Hey, there's new

1521
01:27:21.199 --> 01:27:25.560
Need Speed game coming. What they're
announcing it on Thursday. I've got the

1522
01:27:25.680 --> 01:27:30.279
need. Do you've done? Yes? The need for what SPEEDE? Okay?

1523
01:27:30.560 --> 01:27:34.479
Great? Deed for Speed? Get
excited. That's kind of all there

1524
01:27:34.520 --> 01:27:36.760
is. They announced on the Facebook
page for Me for Speed that they will

1525
01:27:36.840 --> 01:27:42.880
unveil a lot of announcements for announcements
lately. Great. They announced that there's

1526
01:27:42.880 --> 01:27:47.159
an announcement coming this Thursday where they
will detail what the new Need for Speed

1527
01:27:47.239 --> 01:27:50.920
game is. It's it's coming from
Ghost Games again. What was the last

1528
01:27:50.960 --> 01:27:58.159
one that came out? Was the
one that was It was the launch Piers

1529
01:27:58.199 --> 01:28:00.840
four and x X one. It
was was that call I think, yeah,

1530
01:28:00.960 --> 01:28:04.039
yeah, pick if you're a cop
and pick if you're not a cop.

1531
01:28:04.199 --> 01:28:06.880
It was it was hot Pursuit and
then most wanted than Rivals, right,

1532
01:28:06.960 --> 01:28:11.640
Oh wow, I think that sounds
right. I think Rivals was the

1533
01:28:11.760 --> 01:28:16.039
launch one, so they flag then
was the one afternoon they they the image

1534
01:28:16.039 --> 01:28:19.680
they posted on the Facebook page.
People took into Photoshop and did a bunch

1535
01:28:19.720 --> 01:28:24.800
of leveling on it, some spectrogram
and found yes, and found more image

1536
01:28:24.840 --> 01:28:28.920
there than you can kind of initially
see, which is making people think that

1537
01:28:28.960 --> 01:28:31.600
this is actually gonna be a new
need for Speed Underground game based on the

1538
01:28:31.840 --> 01:28:35.720
types of cars that they had covered
from that image and stuff. Uh so,

1539
01:28:36.079 --> 01:28:40.840
wow, that's that's kind of all
I got for you for Speed Underground.

1540
01:28:42.880 --> 01:28:47.479
I have the need so gameplay at
the EA conference presumably three Chu chat

1541
01:28:47.680 --> 01:28:53.319
yeah, probably probably sooner, maybe
on Thursday. Dans Did you guys here

1542
01:28:53.720 --> 01:28:56.359
there's a new need for speed game? Yeah, Brad just said it,

1543
01:28:56.520 --> 01:28:59.279
did he Yeah, it was.
We're in the news segment needs. Yeah,

1544
01:29:00.279 --> 01:29:02.920
that's what we do here, run
down the news in as business like

1545
01:29:03.039 --> 01:29:11.439
fashion as possible. Speaking of business, what you got oh, I don't

1546
01:29:11.479 --> 01:29:16.319
have mpds for damn. Mpds are
not cheap. I would love to have

1547
01:29:16.359 --> 01:29:20.520
a subscription, but I don't know. Maybe a little hard to just fight

1548
01:29:21.119 --> 01:29:26.760
numbers. I don't have the numbers. I don't have them. Do have

1549
01:29:26.880 --> 01:29:32.760
Capcom making statements about its future business
plans? Say working out for them more

1550
01:29:32.880 --> 01:29:38.039
street Fighters to follow the economy plan. You wish it was more street Fight.

1551
01:29:38.039 --> 01:29:39.840
I mean, yes, there is
more Street Fighter, but you wish

1552
01:29:39.880 --> 01:29:44.000
it was more stuff like that and
not them prioritizing more HD remasters. Oh

1553
01:29:44.119 --> 01:29:46.159
god, they've been doing well with
that. I guess so. And it's

1554
01:29:46.359 --> 01:29:49.119
all our faults because we keep buying
them. Yeah, I guess so.

1555
01:29:49.279 --> 01:29:54.800
Yeah, they've They said they had
a Q and A session during a financial

1556
01:29:54.960 --> 01:30:00.199
report recently where they said that it's
going to be a major pillar of their

1557
01:30:00.520 --> 01:30:03.760
ongoing business activities. This is what
pisses me off is they masquerade as saying,

1558
01:30:04.039 --> 01:30:08.680
well, you know, we'll do
like a rerelease to gauge interest to

1559
01:30:08.760 --> 01:30:11.560
see if people want this series again. Do you know what I mean?

1560
01:30:11.760 --> 01:30:15.159
Like, let's put out resid Evil
again. Then maybe we'll make a new

1561
01:30:15.239 --> 01:30:17.359
Resident Evil. So people are like, fuck, I should support this so

1562
01:30:17.439 --> 01:30:19.800
they'll make a new Reason and Evil, right, and then cap comes like,

1563
01:30:19.840 --> 01:30:25.399
oh my god, these guys really
like HD remakes more doing those This

1564
01:30:25.520 --> 01:30:29.479
is a vicious but I mean I
didn't play it, but they did a

1565
01:30:29.640 --> 01:30:31.560
pretty good job with that last resid
Evil thing, right. Yeah. People

1566
01:30:31.560 --> 01:30:38.239
seem pretty happy it was better than
six, but it was. It was

1567
01:30:38.239 --> 01:30:41.319
definitely better, Like they handled it
with kind of the proper or the sort

1568
01:30:41.359 --> 01:30:44.479
of the respect to do that game, right, Yeah, and the new

1569
01:30:44.680 --> 01:30:48.199
Devil mccraft forward. Right. That
such a weird game to be making an

1570
01:30:48.319 --> 01:30:51.000
HD. It really sounds like they're
doing a lot of crazy shit with which

1571
01:30:51.920 --> 01:30:56.319
a lot of that, yeah,
like tons of different characters and scenes they

1572
01:30:56.520 --> 01:30:59.119
like, playable trition and stuff,
right yeah, and it seems like more

1573
01:30:59.199 --> 01:31:01.720
than just in the palette swaps.
So yeah, they've got their old whole

1574
01:31:01.800 --> 01:31:05.680
new move sets and like a Dynasty
Warriors esque like you're fighting like a hundred

1575
01:31:05.760 --> 01:31:09.840
different dudes all at the same time. It looks ridiculously cool. Yeah,

1576
01:31:10.239 --> 01:31:12.840
that's cool. We'll see. I
mean, it's a bad game at least

1577
01:31:12.840 --> 01:31:15.119
they're doing a good job with that
stuff. But still still but still want

1578
01:31:15.159 --> 01:31:18.520
to see some news though. Have
they mentioned any Uh, what titles we're

1579
01:31:18.560 --> 01:31:21.520
likely to see? You gonna get
some lost planet? No? Yeah,

1580
01:31:21.800 --> 01:31:26.359
let's yeah. He Gears of War
is doing it. Why not? He's

1581
01:31:26.399 --> 01:31:30.279
got Dead Rising one and HD.
No, they didn't go to in in

1582
01:31:30.319 --> 01:31:33.439
any detail. You can kind of
draw your own conclusions there based on what

1583
01:31:33.479 --> 01:31:35.800
they've put out and what they have
coming out. I guess I don't know.

1584
01:31:36.079 --> 01:31:41.439
Dark Void HD, that's yes,
that's what the world is clamoring.

1585
01:31:41.560 --> 01:31:45.640
Was it dark Void? A Dark
Sector had the glave? That was Dark

1586
01:31:45.720 --> 01:31:49.600
Void game? Dark Sector is not
a terrible game. It's actually all right.

1587
01:31:49.680 --> 01:31:53.760
It is pretty funny. You guys
are like not I was about it.

1588
01:31:53.800 --> 01:31:56.520
I was about to call you Dark
Sector apologists. But it's an all

1589
01:31:56.600 --> 01:31:58.720
right game. Yeah. You couldn't
do the thing where you could like you

1590
01:31:58.800 --> 01:32:01.079
could do the first person or laying
the first person to like followed the thing

1591
01:32:01.159 --> 01:32:03.319
as it cut off someone's head or
whatever it was in the glave. Oh

1592
01:32:03.399 --> 01:32:08.039
yeah, you could like flight around
like the like The Redeemer and Unreal Tournament.

1593
01:32:08.199 --> 01:32:11.119
It was kind of fun, little
mechanic thing. It's not bad.

1594
01:32:12.520 --> 01:32:15.279
I should hash it out with Chef
sometime about Dersey. He's not a big

1595
01:32:15.319 --> 01:32:18.000
fan. Oh, no, I
think it sucks. Yeah, all right,

1596
01:32:18.399 --> 01:32:21.319
yeah, it's in my suck bucket. I want to see what I

1597
01:32:21.479 --> 01:32:24.800
reviewed it. I gave it,
you reviewed it. You look up.

1598
01:32:25.119 --> 01:32:28.800
I'm gonna look at up. I
bought that game for ten bucks. That's

1599
01:32:30.039 --> 01:32:32.720
had you ever played? It's still
in the shrink rapp. I don't know.

1600
01:32:33.239 --> 01:32:36.640
I think, don't worry. H
d rerelease run in the corner.

1601
01:32:36.760 --> 01:32:45.159
Bring it on. Who made that
Digital Extremes? I believe sure, HD

1602
01:32:45.359 --> 01:32:48.079
Glave. The game is a game
is remembered as the first next gen game

1603
01:32:48.119 --> 01:32:51.159
that was announced for that generation.
It was like the very first before there

1604
01:32:51.199 --> 01:32:56.800
was even like three sixty NPS three
announced the put this sent out footage of

1605
01:32:56.880 --> 01:33:00.640
that. He was the first game, you know. Yeah, time makes

1606
01:33:00.680 --> 01:33:01.720
fools of us. All yeah,
I don't know. I don't I don't

1607
01:33:01.760 --> 01:33:08.359
remember what that game is for this
generation. Oh the first announced game?

1608
01:33:08.760 --> 01:33:11.720
Yeah, like the first the first
game targeted at the consoles that are not

1609
01:33:11.760 --> 01:33:15.159
announced yet. I mean Watchdogs.
I remember Watchdogs was that thing at E

1610
01:33:15.239 --> 01:33:16.319
three where everyone saw it and it's
like, okay, that's clearly going to

1611
01:33:16.359 --> 01:33:19.000
be on the new contact. I
didn't like super officially say it. I

1612
01:33:19.079 --> 01:33:24.720
think that was the same year as
that Star Wars Bubbafet game. Yeah,

1613
01:33:24.840 --> 01:33:26.920
that wasn't even a Bubbafet game at
that time. Yeah. Yeah, it's

1614
01:33:27.000 --> 01:33:30.039
kind of a weird hun Solo knockoff. Yeah, poor Man's Smuggler type game.

1615
01:33:30.960 --> 01:33:33.760
Yeah, I guess it was probably
one of those. I guess it's

1616
01:33:33.800 --> 01:33:36.960
the oldest thing I can think of. Just find a score. No,

1617
01:33:38.199 --> 01:33:40.680
I can't find it. I'm looking
for it, but I remember kind of

1618
01:33:40.720 --> 01:33:45.399
like, I'm guessing it's a seven. That's my guess. Search faster because

1619
01:33:45.399 --> 01:33:47.479
I'm out of news stories. When
Din didn't know if a game was good

1620
01:33:47.600 --> 01:33:49.520
enough, he just gave it a
seven. Yeah. Yeah, it's a

1621
01:33:49.560 --> 01:33:55.840
safe bet. That's between the buckets. Yeah yeah, one foot firmly planted

1622
01:33:55.920 --> 01:33:58.239
in each bucket. There you go. Yeah, I don't know if I

1623
01:33:58.279 --> 01:34:00.520
can find it, that's fine,
whatever. Sorry, let's move on to

1624
01:34:00.600 --> 01:34:02.840
emails. I guess because that's all
the news I got for this week.

1625
01:34:03.359 --> 01:34:05.039
Kind of a slow week. I
mean, you know, like I said,

1626
01:34:05.079 --> 01:34:09.399
stuff is getting announcements are getting announced, stuff is kind of getting teased,

1627
01:34:09.880 --> 01:34:13.239
but you know, the best stuff
is yet to come. I guess.

1628
01:34:13.359 --> 01:34:16.640
Yeah, hopefully we're on the cusp. If we're lucky three won't be

1629
01:34:16.640 --> 01:34:21.399
a huge disappointment that far. Oh
God, please announce some games fallout.

1630
01:34:23.039 --> 01:34:27.439
Maybe it's probably something I mean,
they have to you know, they've got

1631
01:34:27.520 --> 01:34:29.760
to have a reason for running out
a theater and doing their own thing,

1632
01:34:29.920 --> 01:34:31.479
right. Yeah, it's not just
doom. They're gonna show in our ten

1633
01:34:31.520 --> 01:34:38.439
seconds of doom. Yeah, over
and over for an hour. All right,

1634
01:34:38.600 --> 01:34:41.119
emails, let's talk about them.
Yeah, let's get through them before

1635
01:34:41.119 --> 01:34:45.439
my voice goes I can field slipping
uh BombCast a giant bomb dot com.

1636
01:34:46.920 --> 01:34:51.000
Send the emails to that address.
Ryan from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, send

1637
01:34:51.000 --> 01:34:55.159
an email to that address. He
says, it works. Now, please

1638
01:34:55.199 --> 01:34:59.800
stop. I am emailing you to
confirm that your subliminal messaging has worked on

1639
01:34:59.880 --> 01:35:02.239
me. So it's time to go
catch that ad check from Nabisco and stop

1640
01:35:02.359 --> 01:35:06.720
talking about fig Newtons. Jesus Christ. After what seems like a month of

1641
01:35:06.760 --> 01:35:10.359
your weekly talk about figs, I
broke down and bought a sleeve of fig

1642
01:35:10.439 --> 01:35:14.039
Newtons at my local convenience store.
Dan, don't stop eating fig newtons because

1643
01:35:14.039 --> 01:35:16.159
there might be bugs in them.
Stop eating fig newtons because they're kind of

1644
01:35:16.199 --> 01:35:20.800
gross, kind of plus plus,
think of all the malt liquor you could

1645
01:35:20.800 --> 01:35:24.920
buy with the two ninety nine.
You were not spending on mediocre cookies.

1646
01:35:25.079 --> 01:35:28.600
This is this is where I need
to take an issue with this bullshit email,

1647
01:35:28.600 --> 01:35:30.600
because fig newtons are not cookies,
the fruit and cake, fruit and

1648
01:35:30.720 --> 01:35:36.439
cake. Fig newtons are fruit and
cake fruit in their ada. We're not

1649
01:35:36.520 --> 01:35:39.560
a cookie. We're fruit and cake. Yep, Danny, you're the one

1650
01:35:39.560 --> 01:35:41.520
that ruined it for me. You
brought back those fig newtons. No,

1651
01:35:41.600 --> 01:35:44.479
you that ruined it. No,
you brought it back from my Ireland.

1652
01:35:44.520 --> 01:35:45.279
And as I was eating them,
You're like, oh, you're eating about

1653
01:35:45.319 --> 01:35:47.880
to wasp and I like, never
ate another one. For God's sake,

1654
01:35:48.119 --> 01:35:53.199
I gave you fig rolls. And
then so why last week's body boncays.

1655
01:35:53.239 --> 01:35:57.239
I was like screaming on my phone
on the bus box to OKN like you

1656
01:35:57.359 --> 01:36:00.680
got you got information from brid which
said not wasps. They're like tiny little

1657
01:36:00.720 --> 01:36:04.640
things. And also they're gone,
they're just gone. Like you're not scared

1658
01:36:04.720 --> 01:36:08.720
of wasps, You're scared I am. I was like, definitely afraid.

1659
01:36:08.720 --> 01:36:11.239
I've never been stung by beer washing
and I've been scared of ship about those

1660
01:36:11.359 --> 01:36:14.199
maybe a long time. Maybe Jason
can, because Jason is the one who's

1661
01:36:14.239 --> 01:36:18.359
known you the longest and understands where
this this psychopathy comes from. But I've

1662
01:36:18.479 --> 01:36:23.119
i've I've I've trimmed it down to
one thing. Dan isn't scared of like

1663
01:36:23.359 --> 01:36:26.560
any of these things. He's He's
somebody who like goes out of his way

1664
01:36:26.600 --> 01:36:30.680
to be uncomfortable. Dan is scared
of being proven wrong. No I'm not.

1665
01:36:30.000 --> 01:36:32.399
I always admit when I've been proven
wrong. No, you're like he

1666
01:36:32.520 --> 01:36:38.039
likes being wrong on his own terms, like he's wrong. But that's but

1667
01:36:38.159 --> 01:36:42.000
to to go back to eating figs
and then to be able to be like,

1668
01:36:42.079 --> 01:36:44.800
yeah, I guess they were realized
that I wasn't. It was only

1669
01:36:44.880 --> 01:36:46.119
like tiny little wasper not the same
thing I can do. This is fine,

1670
01:36:46.319 --> 01:36:53.840
Like that's just that uncanny that that's
like beyond he can't he it's outside

1671
01:36:53.880 --> 01:36:56.520
of his comps. No, if
I'm proven wrong about something, I will

1672
01:36:56.640 --> 01:36:59.520
gladly always admit to and be like, no, I was totally wrong about

1673
01:36:59.520 --> 01:37:01.920
that. So it's not good big
in your math right now? I mean

1674
01:37:02.000 --> 01:37:08.399
it imagine No, yeah, there
you go. You're ruining it. Conybody's

1675
01:37:08.399 --> 01:37:12.600
got like beer here is all manner
of nonsense in it. There's a liquid

1676
01:37:12.800 --> 01:37:16.560
wash? Aren't liquid wasps can be
liquids? Would you drink some liquid wasps?

1677
01:37:16.640 --> 01:37:18.640
I'd be able to tell if there's
a ground up wasp in my beer.

1678
01:37:18.760 --> 01:37:20.479
I bet you would. Oh man, would that's what they mean.

1679
01:37:20.560 --> 01:37:24.119
Maybe maybe what we really need to
do is take him out and get him

1680
01:37:24.119 --> 01:37:28.640
stung by some wasps. Why would
I go with you? Why would I

1681
01:37:28.640 --> 01:37:30.479
accept an invitation? You said you
have a choice to your own good.

1682
01:37:31.000 --> 01:37:33.760
No, I know what we're doing
a good podcast in the next year.

1683
01:37:33.840 --> 01:37:36.119
I'm not going three dude, there's
three of us and one of you.

1684
01:37:36.279 --> 01:37:41.920
You're doing this shit. It's only
because we love you. We love you,

1685
01:37:42.000 --> 01:37:44.159
so we're gonna get you stung by
his Take him down to the local

1686
01:37:44.199 --> 01:37:45.760
wasp. Have you don't even stung
by a wasp? Never been stung by

1687
01:37:45.800 --> 01:37:49.039
wasp? Any kind of bee?
No? No kind of ever? Have

1688
01:37:49.159 --> 01:37:53.960
you ever been outside? Have you
seen Jupiter ascending? No? Okay?

1689
01:37:54.479 --> 01:37:56.920
Is that the one with Mela Kunas? Yeah? And I don't want to

1690
01:37:57.000 --> 01:38:00.439
stripper guy, you may actually be
the king of the entire our world.

1691
01:38:00.279 --> 01:38:02.960
If you've never been stung by a
wasp, that's how that works. Yeah,

1692
01:38:03.560 --> 01:38:06.439
Astachowskis, we got an election,
you were coming out, Yeah,

1693
01:38:06.560 --> 01:38:10.359
yeah, okay, I'll run on
that platform. I've never been stung by

1694
01:38:10.359 --> 01:38:14.439
a beech. Twenty six games play
outside as a child, not a lot.

1695
01:38:15.279 --> 01:38:17.640
And actually probably a lot of the
reason was because I was terrified of

1696
01:38:17.720 --> 01:38:20.640
bees. Like, oh god,
Danny asked my dad about that. I

1697
01:38:20.920 --> 01:38:26.319
was. I was not a very
manly, tough guy when I came to

1698
01:38:26.720 --> 01:38:29.239
see a bee. You don't need
to be manly or tough to not be

1699
01:38:29.319 --> 01:38:31.600
scared of tiny insects. I'm not
super scared anymore. Like, I'll go

1700
01:38:31.640 --> 01:38:34.079
down to the beach, but you
won't eat it. You eat cake.

1701
01:38:34.359 --> 01:38:38.560
No, it's gross, super gross. I saw a commercial on Hulu the

1702
01:38:38.640 --> 01:38:41.359
other day about a lady whose job
it is to like grind up crickets and

1703
01:38:41.399 --> 01:38:44.279
put them in the bars that you
eat or whatever. That's gross. That's

1704
01:38:44.279 --> 01:38:47.039
why I asked if you guys saw
snow Piercer last week. They eat crickets?

1705
01:38:47.199 --> 01:38:49.960
Yeah, they eat? Yeah,
Like the protein bars that they eat

1706
01:38:50.039 --> 01:38:54.319
looks exactly like you know, the
inside of a fig Newton, because it's

1707
01:38:54.399 --> 01:38:59.800
it's all ground up bugs. Okay, yeah, yeah, future man futures.

1708
01:39:00.159 --> 01:39:00.960
It's not like I was eating a
shipload of fig Newtons and then he

1709
01:39:01.079 --> 01:39:03.640
ruined him for me. I've had
like maybe twenty big Newtons in my entire

1710
01:39:03.720 --> 01:39:08.479
life, but I know that I've
eaten my last thig Newton at the right

1711
01:39:08.479 --> 01:39:15.039
poldage to thirty many weird in between
buckets. But now they're firmly in the

1712
01:39:15.079 --> 01:39:17.359
suckbuck. Suckbuck. I wouldn't need
it. I wouldn't need food from the

1713
01:39:17.399 --> 01:39:20.479
suck I'd play a game from the
suckbuck, but I wouldn't take food out

1714
01:39:20.520 --> 01:39:27.279
of the sucker. Probably a sea
buckets full of stick to that. Oh

1715
01:39:27.600 --> 01:39:30.680
boy. Next email comes from Brady
and Danton Ohio. I feel like we've

1716
01:39:30.680 --> 01:39:34.119
floated this question at least three times
before, but it's worth coming back to

1717
01:39:34.319 --> 01:39:38.479
until we have an answer. Hey, guys, are we ever getting that

1718
01:39:38.560 --> 01:39:44.800
free drive club? I don't want
it still seriously at this point, I

1719
01:39:44.840 --> 01:39:46.960
mean, no, He's got a
point, right. I could see it

1720
01:39:47.039 --> 01:39:49.720
being like a PS plus game,
and then technically you got a free drive

1721
01:39:50.159 --> 01:39:54.560
just like the whole game. Just
put the whole thing like addition, Maybe

1722
01:39:54.600 --> 01:39:57.199
that's the route at this point.
Once the sales drop off enough, like

1723
01:39:58.479 --> 01:40:01.680
that probably is a lot less engineer
hearing work, and like making the separate,

1724
01:40:01.760 --> 01:40:05.319
standalone free subset of the game like
it. On one level, it

1725
01:40:05.479 --> 01:40:10.199
is completely unforgivable that they haven't done
this yet. Like it's just that they

1726
01:40:10.279 --> 01:40:13.399
straight up led and should be held
a cantable for it. It just so

1727
01:40:13.520 --> 01:40:15.960
happens that Drive Club was not a
very good driving game, like even now

1728
01:40:16.039 --> 01:40:19.119
like Project Cars is by far the
best driving game available on that platform,

1729
01:40:19.399 --> 01:40:21.479
Like it just blows Drive Club out
of the water. But the fact that

1730
01:40:21.520 --> 01:40:26.199
they did that and then haven't been
held the cantable for it to this day

1731
01:40:26.399 --> 01:40:30.199
is atrocious. And even you know, yeah, regardless of quality of the

1732
01:40:30.279 --> 01:40:32.479
game, something that they said that
would happen and then they didn't make it

1733
01:40:32.520 --> 01:40:35.800
happen. But I have a hard
time imagining there are a lot of people

1734
01:40:35.840 --> 01:40:41.199
out there still just you know,
ripping the arms of their chairs going where

1735
01:40:41.279 --> 01:40:45.119
is Drive Clubs? Plus I don't
know any of those people, but they

1736
01:40:45.119 --> 01:40:48.039
should still do something. I like
your ideas, but just put the whole

1737
01:40:48.079 --> 01:40:54.880
thing out that works, try and
make this good. Yep uh, next

1738
01:40:54.960 --> 01:41:00.319
email, come on, phone,
let's do it. Phone. Here we

1739
01:41:00.399 --> 01:41:03.000
go. Stephen from Lincoln, Nebraska, I think that God might be two

1740
01:41:03.039 --> 01:41:06.640
weeks in a row for Stephen.
Here is Stephen. Well, it's so

1741
01:41:06.720 --> 01:41:11.079
it's spelled Stephen, but in parentheses. He writes it out in a way

1742
01:41:11.119 --> 01:41:14.840
that would be pronounced Stephen. So
okay, I'm going with that. He's

1743
01:41:14.840 --> 01:41:17.720
sweet. Maybe that's his last name. He's Stephen Stephen in parentheses. Yeah,

1744
01:41:18.000 --> 01:41:21.720
okay, I'll be a rough deal. Asshole. Parents, pull that

1745
01:41:21.800 --> 01:41:26.520
one off. Could you legally put
parentheses in your name? Ill bet you

1746
01:41:26.600 --> 01:41:30.760
good you find out, okay,
Dan parentheses record. I'll go make a

1747
01:41:30.880 --> 01:41:32.920
kid and I'll see if I can
name make okay great? Yeah, I

1748
01:41:32.920 --> 01:41:38.840
get on. That sounds like Craft
really thought this plan through. Uh,

1749
01:41:39.079 --> 01:41:43.600
he says, if life finds awake
Ken Giant Bomb, I believe we have

1750
01:41:43.840 --> 01:41:46.600
kind of a kind of a hypothetical
here. Let's say Jurassic Park is real

1751
01:41:46.720 --> 01:41:49.960
and it's going to open up like
the movies and books show. It's a

1752
01:41:50.039 --> 01:41:55.640
full fledged island resort slash theme park
chock full of dinosaurs. Each one of

1753
01:41:55.680 --> 01:41:59.840
you gets an invite to stay in
an all inclusive vacation on the opening weekend.

1754
01:42:00.000 --> 01:42:02.920
It sounds great. Let's say this
would be the only feasible way that

1755
01:42:02.960 --> 01:42:05.560
you'd ever be able to visit the
park because of this place did exist.

1756
01:42:05.880 --> 01:42:10.520
Tickets would cost a mint. Let's
say they cost about two thousand dollars per

1757
01:42:10.640 --> 01:42:14.119
day. There's a lot of security, food costs for the dino's crazy super

1758
01:42:14.159 --> 01:42:16.680
scientists on the payroll in general loan
debts to pay off. Would you go

1759
01:42:16.800 --> 01:42:20.439
to Jurassic Park and see living,
breathing dinosaurs for free? There is a

1760
01:42:20.479 --> 01:42:24.640
possibility that the dinos could break out
and terrorize the park goers, like how

1761
01:42:24.800 --> 01:42:28.199
roller coasters gonna have safety failures and
crash exactly. And the reason why I

1762
01:42:28.319 --> 01:42:30.920
stressed that it's opening weekend would be
so you couldn't wait and see how safe

1763
01:42:30.920 --> 01:42:35.520
the park is. You have to
chance it. Absolutely yeah, And that

1764
01:42:35.640 --> 01:42:42.079
last actually I had to make a
similar didn't involve dinosaurs. We're talking about

1765
01:42:42.079 --> 01:42:44.960
being like a guinea pig for something. I got an email this morning from

1766
01:42:44.960 --> 01:42:46.079
a lasic place being like, hey, we got a new laser. Remember

1767
01:42:46.079 --> 01:42:50.119
how we said you you weren't a
medical candidate before since you already had lasic,

1768
01:42:50.199 --> 01:42:51.760
Well, hey we got a new
laser, so you can do it.

1769
01:42:51.960 --> 01:42:55.399
And it's like the brand new laser, and so like I know that

1770
01:42:55.560 --> 01:42:58.279
It's kind of like the first run
risk guinea pick thing. But I was

1771
01:42:58.319 --> 01:43:03.079
like, yeah, I can save
money, Like I from down, I

1772
01:43:03.159 --> 01:43:08.600
got cheaper lasers by haggling. This
was from initially from a fucking group on.

1773
01:43:08.880 --> 01:43:12.159
Yeah, but I handled them down. Why the hell, why the

1774
01:43:12.239 --> 01:43:14.760
hell you watch? I'm gonna have
laser shot in my eyes next Saturday,

1775
01:43:14.760 --> 01:43:16.840
and I'm gonna come back. You
won't need a fucking fruit, but you're

1776
01:43:16.880 --> 01:43:21.880
gonna have them shoot experimental lasers'll come
all down the bobs just count on lasers.

1777
01:43:21.920 --> 01:43:24.640
I'll shoot them in there real good. You'll be seeing all this.

1778
01:43:25.159 --> 01:43:28.319
There wasps in the laser. I
can't go on even laser does the wash

1779
01:43:28.359 --> 01:43:30.279
shooting the laser and stinger? Have
you ever been been by a wasp?

1780
01:43:30.760 --> 01:43:33.680
Are the boss is making you shoot
this laser in my eye? Ah?

1781
01:43:34.720 --> 01:43:39.399
But the point of that story is, yes, I'm not afraid of being

1782
01:43:39.960 --> 01:43:42.640
uh you know, taking a risk
if I'm getting a cheaper deal. So

1783
01:43:42.720 --> 01:43:45.680
yeah, I would one. I'd
be the Alan granted that situation. This

1784
01:43:45.800 --> 01:43:48.720
is like the one thing they're going
to do if they make a real Drassic

1785
01:43:48.800 --> 01:43:53.680
Park is make sure that the dinosaurs
is that they will air so far on

1786
01:43:53.760 --> 01:43:58.079
the side of caution that it's probably
like twenty inch plex a glass between you

1787
01:43:58.319 --> 01:44:01.520
and it's like, I think we
can all agree that the films have been

1788
01:44:01.600 --> 01:44:05.800
quite instructive in this regard. We
know what not to do, no frog

1789
01:44:05.880 --> 01:44:10.720
DNA. Al right, God damn
it. Life will not find a way.

1790
01:44:12.119 --> 01:44:15.439
I would say, even if even
if it was better than even odds

1791
01:44:15.520 --> 01:44:17.560
that I was going to die on
the island, what a way to go

1792
01:44:17.800 --> 01:44:23.479
Yeah, yeah, getting eaten by
yeah, the Titanic, pretty good way

1793
01:44:23.520 --> 01:44:26.000
to go out. I guess my
dinosaur is better than going down with the

1794
01:44:26.039 --> 01:44:28.399
titan I mean as long as like
they eat your head first and not the

1795
01:44:28.479 --> 01:44:30.680
other end. Like so, yeah, it's like the toilet whatever, it's

1796
01:44:30.680 --> 01:44:32.760
the toilet lawyer from the first one. It's just you want to go like

1797
01:44:32.840 --> 01:44:35.159
that. Yes, it's just one
big chomp. Yeah, just get it

1798
01:44:35.239 --> 01:44:38.760
over with. Maybe not be on
the toilet, maybe be doing something cooler.

1799
01:44:38.880 --> 01:44:42.039
But yeah, imagine the stories you
leave your grandkids. It's like,

1800
01:44:42.119 --> 01:44:45.239
oh, my dad fought in World
War three. Yeah, my dad got

1801
01:44:45.279 --> 01:44:53.119
eaten by fucking torontosaurus. Rex H. K. Park uh Evan from New

1802
01:44:53.199 --> 01:44:58.279
York has a question that's somewhat directed
to Jeff. But whatever, I'll take

1803
01:44:58.279 --> 01:45:00.840
it. Jeff's not here. I
mean, wait, I'm sorry, Jeff's

1804
01:45:00.840 --> 01:45:06.600
totally here. So Jeff, uh, FMV, that's what this femail is

1805
01:45:06.640 --> 01:45:11.479
about. Don's for full motion video? It does? Man, you really

1806
01:45:11.520 --> 01:45:15.199
do know everything about games. It's
been around. I'm more gammers go to

1807
01:45:15.279 --> 01:45:18.479
know. I can't do a Jeff
voice himsel that's super distinct. No,

1808
01:45:18.640 --> 01:45:23.560
I don't know how you know it's
not. He's well spoken. You guys,

1809
01:45:23.720 --> 01:45:27.600
Jeff especially, all seemed to covet
FMV in games. I have a

1810
01:45:27.640 --> 01:45:30.840
stupid question, what's so good about
FMV? Why is it better than not

1811
01:45:30.960 --> 01:45:34.800
FMV? I've never heard the reasoning
stated explicitly. Also, please note that

1812
01:45:34.880 --> 01:45:40.039
Jason's reactions to Dan are by far
the most entertaining. I really think he

1813
01:45:40.159 --> 01:45:45.159
is channeling Ryan when he is chastising
Dan for not knowing something. I feel

1814
01:45:45.199 --> 01:45:46.800
him speaking through me. That's kind
of looks like it's just only the like

1815
01:45:46.880 --> 01:45:50.359
the barely contained annoyance that you can
only hone after years and years. Do

1816
01:45:50.479 --> 01:45:57.000
you think can be used to bubbling? Putting up with somebody's constantly just bubbling?

1817
01:45:57.079 --> 01:45:59.439
Just you invite me to your house
to beat you more. Don't know

1818
01:45:59.479 --> 01:46:01.279
why that he yes, I invite
you to beat me at mortal time.

1819
01:46:01.479 --> 01:46:08.720
I did, I should just you
should ban uh kung gin? Yeah totally.

1820
01:46:09.039 --> 01:46:10.880
You love me beat you a mortal
kabat. Then you offer to sell

1821
01:46:10.920 --> 01:46:14.039
me a discount of scooter. Yeah
yeah, I was hoping upon none off

1822
01:46:14.399 --> 01:46:16.000
so I could feel better about myself. That's the only way that I keep

1823
01:46:16.079 --> 01:46:20.279
myself. Jason's House fun. You
gave me a rum chatta. That was

1824
01:46:20.319 --> 01:46:24.399
good. Really, it's super good. I never had really dirty in the

1825
01:46:24.439 --> 01:46:27.399
way that you said it. It's
some crazy thing in a little white bottle

1826
01:46:27.479 --> 01:46:30.960
and it gets you drunk. But
it's keep tastes real good. Let's let's

1827
01:46:30.000 --> 01:46:33.319
call it like, you know,
spiced eggnog. Okay, And I never

1828
01:46:33.359 --> 01:46:35.720
tried eggnog, so like now I
want to try eggnog because that was pretty

1829
01:46:35.720 --> 01:46:40.560
good. Wasps in that I can't
say that about everything. Are there washed

1830
01:46:40.600 --> 01:46:45.399
in the witchery in Mexico? There
are actually I'm going to Mexico on Friday.

1831
01:46:45.479 --> 01:46:48.000
There are actually a shitload of bees
nests in the witcher that are real

1832
01:46:48.039 --> 01:46:50.600
painting the air. Okay, I'm
at like inside the game case. I

1833
01:46:50.640 --> 01:46:53.680
just want to make sure. I
wasn't opening it up. Bees we're gonna

1834
01:46:53.680 --> 01:46:56.000
fly out? Okay, probably not. I mean I don't have a box.

1835
01:46:56.079 --> 01:46:59.800
I can't say either way. Take
your chances. If you buy a

1836
01:47:00.239 --> 01:47:03.960
copy of the Witcher, there might
be wasps in there. Uh. I

1837
01:47:04.079 --> 01:47:09.800
think a lot of the reverence for
FMV is a mix of nostalgia and just

1838
01:47:10.079 --> 01:47:15.279
like the possibility for stupidity that FMV
allows. You know, I failed to

1839
01:47:15.520 --> 01:47:18.560
recall any like good FMV. Yes, but there were a lot of like

1840
01:47:18.680 --> 01:47:24.520
sneer quote good FMV games I don't
know and w f rage. In the

1841
01:47:24.560 --> 01:47:27.399
cage for Sega CD at the characterist
like screen, you could press a button

1842
01:47:27.640 --> 01:47:30.039
and see like a super compressed FMV
of like the razors ed or the jack

1843
01:47:30.079 --> 01:47:34.000
Knife power bomb or whatever. Oh
that's Sega CDF was so bad. Yeah,

1844
01:47:34.199 --> 01:47:38.760
I love so bad. But if
we were signed blowing. I played

1845
01:47:38.760 --> 01:47:44.359
a lot of Super Shark myself.
I watched the intro Tocenic CD countless times.

1846
01:47:44.840 --> 01:47:46.640
Is that video? Yeah it's video? Wait it's not. Yeah,

1847
01:47:47.199 --> 01:47:50.800
I mean it's like one eighth of
the screen. Yeah, it is animated.

1848
01:47:51.720 --> 01:47:58.039
Sherlock Holmes consulting detective anybody early FMV
classic, I said, oh god,

1849
01:47:58.159 --> 01:48:00.039
you remember the Three Do had a
bunch of like like, yeah,

1850
01:48:00.119 --> 01:48:02.680
it was a dancer. Yeah,
they end up fighting game and stuff,

1851
01:48:02.680 --> 01:48:08.560
but they had like weird like plumbers
don't wear time like that, like adult

1852
01:48:08.680 --> 01:48:12.800
only video games that were all FMV. You might you might be able to

1853
01:48:12.800 --> 01:48:16.920
find some streams of such dancers,
such fine classics on fairy website. Do

1854
01:48:16.960 --> 01:48:21.119
you remember the name of the Sega
CD fighting game. It was kind of

1855
01:48:21.159 --> 01:48:26.680
like a Mortal Combat rip Fall.
Are you thinking champions Eternal Championship? Yeah,

1856
01:48:26.720 --> 01:48:28.680
are you thinking of maybe it wouldn't
seke a CD, but way of

1857
01:48:28.720 --> 01:48:32.920
the Warrior, I might be thinking
away to digitized fighters. It was probably

1858
01:48:32.920 --> 01:48:36.960
way was to have a try yin
Yang where it was one of them had

1859
01:48:38.000 --> 01:48:41.119
the black, the white and bloody. Yeah, that's where the Warrior.

1860
01:48:41.239 --> 01:48:43.439
Yeah, I remember seeing it in
a magazine before I had dot com.

1861
01:48:43.520 --> 01:48:46.560
Was it nat Sega CD? It
was a three Jaguar, wasn't what way

1862
01:48:46.600 --> 01:48:50.920
the Warriors three? That Naughty Dogs
first game? Wow? Really, Jesus

1863
01:48:50.960 --> 01:48:56.079
had mighty have fallen. That's very
great back when Naughty Dog was like just

1864
01:48:56.279 --> 01:49:00.159
like what three people or something?
That's h Yeah. Ruben did alt like

1865
01:49:00.199 --> 01:49:02.520
digitized actors, like a green screen
in his dorm room or something. Yes,

1866
01:49:02.880 --> 01:49:05.359
there's a there's like a Oh,
I'm trying to think, who's the

1867
01:49:05.399 --> 01:49:09.960
other main Naughty Dog guy, Andy
Gavin. I think as god, he's

1868
01:49:10.000 --> 01:49:14.880
got like pages and pages of like
ancient Naughty Dog history documented out there if

1869
01:49:14.880 --> 01:49:16.520
you if you google for it,
like just all kinds of stuff about the

1870
01:49:16.600 --> 01:49:19.640
early days of that developer when they
were just a few people. Have you

1871
01:49:19.640 --> 01:49:25.720
ever seen the original at Jordan Mechner
VHS tapes of the rotoscoping from Pressure one.

1872
01:49:25.920 --> 01:49:29.439
Oh, it's so good. It's
it's his brother just like jumping around

1873
01:49:29.479 --> 01:49:31.159
in a robe in his back garden, and that's where they took all the

1874
01:49:31.199 --> 01:49:34.399
animation. It's pretty freaky when you
watch it. It's really good. Here's

1875
01:49:34.479 --> 01:49:39.600
my first knowledge of Naughty Dog as
a company. When I was like twelve

1876
01:49:39.720 --> 01:49:43.479
years old. I saw a code
in like EGM two or something, and

1877
01:49:43.680 --> 01:49:47.000
it was it was for a game
called Rings of Power on the Genesis and

1878
01:49:47.119 --> 01:49:49.760
they said, like, oh,
when the Naughty Dog logo comes in,

1879
01:49:49.960 --> 01:49:53.399
And that's the first time I've ever
even heard of the studio. You could

1880
01:49:53.399 --> 01:49:57.439
type in some code on Genesis and
the dog logo would turn into a naked

1881
01:49:57.520 --> 01:50:00.880
lady. I remember, at twelve
years old thinking I want to spend sixty

1882
01:50:00.920 --> 01:50:03.199
dollars on this Genesis game just so
I could have like a hidden the sneaky

1883
01:50:03.239 --> 01:50:05.600
way to see a naked lady without
my parents knowing. Oh, I wish

1884
01:50:05.640 --> 01:50:11.760
you had At the beginning of my
history with that company, nice, I

1885
01:50:11.840 --> 01:50:15.319
wish you had the FMV For examples, I could see I had second CD.

1886
01:50:15.399 --> 01:50:18.359
I never had Jaguar three DIO,
so like Sewer Star Jaguars in the

1887
01:50:18.399 --> 01:50:21.159
Cage. I don't forget Jaguar was
initially a console system. They had the

1888
01:50:21.239 --> 01:50:25.439
CD add on right right right,
Yeah, I remember those commercials saying like

1889
01:50:25.479 --> 01:50:28.680
sixty four bit and wouldn't like there's
thirty two on the console and thirty two

1890
01:50:28.720 --> 01:50:32.640
in the car trade together that it
was marketing. Yeah, with that shitty

1891
01:50:32.680 --> 01:50:38.760
controller. Remember night Trap, Yeah
that was pretty good or dumb. There

1892
01:50:38.800 --> 01:50:41.920
were some boxing game on CDI that
I played a little bit that was all

1893
01:50:42.079 --> 01:50:45.439
FMV and it just fucking sucked.
You wanted to love the idea of it

1894
01:50:45.439 --> 01:50:46.119
because it was just like, oh, this is like real, like this

1895
01:50:46.239 --> 01:50:48.960
is the dream, like this this
is a real images here, right,

1896
01:50:49.039 --> 01:50:51.720
But then I always played like turned
off that nobody had to know how we're

1897
01:50:51.760 --> 01:50:58.640
the production shops or the budget or
anything to do proper video production. Yeah,

1898
01:50:59.119 --> 01:51:01.279
with real activisms stuff. I look
back at it finally, Yeah,

1899
01:51:03.199 --> 01:51:06.439
real weird time like you kind of
Yeah, you have to wonder in this

1900
01:51:06.520 --> 01:51:10.720
day and age if if, like
if use of FMV now can be anything

1901
01:51:10.840 --> 01:51:12.840
other than a love letter to what
it was, then, you know,

1902
01:51:13.039 --> 01:51:17.000
like, can anybody actually like take
the form to a more revolved and kind

1903
01:51:17.039 --> 01:51:20.319
of more respectable level. I don't
know. I don't know, and why

1904
01:51:20.359 --> 01:51:24.399
would you? And you can do
things in animation can do back then?

1905
01:51:24.479 --> 01:51:30.680
You know you're probably right, Eline
Noir, You're probably right. Uh sutanu,

1906
01:51:30.800 --> 01:51:33.279
I believe is how you say this
guy's name writes down about VR on

1907
01:51:33.399 --> 01:51:39.319
consoles? Okay, you guys are
into VR right, yes, dans very

1908
01:51:39.439 --> 01:51:43.680
much. With the recent reveal that
The Rift is going to require a G

1909
01:51:43.800 --> 01:51:45.880
four's nine eighty to run, well, I think they said the nine seventy

1910
01:51:45.960 --> 01:51:49.600
is kind of the minimum. She's
a card for that, which is kind

1911
01:51:49.640 --> 01:51:54.600
of crazy. I started wondering if
that's the case, what's a PS four

1912
01:51:54.720 --> 01:51:57.920
going to do with Morpheus? Obviously? Stuff on the PS four will be

1913
01:51:57.920 --> 01:52:00.680
of a significantly lower quality, which
brings up my question, do you guys

1914
01:52:00.680 --> 01:52:04.079
think the VR on consoles needs to
succeed for VR to catch on? Period?

1915
01:52:04.680 --> 01:52:08.399
If the Morpheus is only capable of
low fidelity mini games, will the

1916
01:52:08.439 --> 01:52:12.399
general public reject it? And if
so, will Dev's bother to make better

1917
01:52:12.479 --> 01:52:15.079
stuff for the Rift or vive?
Basically, is the success of Morpheus the

1918
01:52:15.119 --> 01:52:19.439
biggest key to VR, more so
than Rift or five. Oh, then

1919
01:52:19.479 --> 01:52:23.239
at the end you can call me
stand rather than trying to pronounce my name.

1920
01:52:23.479 --> 01:52:26.279
I think calling a low quality mini
games is kind of selling it short.

1921
01:52:26.319 --> 01:52:29.359
And I talked a little bit about
this on UPF But like I played

1922
01:52:29.439 --> 01:52:32.479
a lot of Half Life two with
an old Oculus devkate just for fun because

1923
01:52:32.479 --> 01:52:34.800
I thought it was incredible, Like
that's a game that, you know,

1924
01:52:34.840 --> 01:52:38.600
the graphics are over ten years old
at this point, and it was still

1925
01:52:38.640 --> 01:52:42.079
like some of the most like striking
memories of my recent you know, gaming

1926
01:52:42.119 --> 01:52:45.600
experiences. It's incredible in VR,
and obviously the PS four specs if it's

1927
01:52:45.640 --> 01:52:48.479
not going to be as powerful as
PC obviously, but it's gonna be a

1928
01:52:48.520 --> 01:52:51.319
lot better in Half Life two and
Half Life two is fucking awesome. So

1929
01:52:51.520 --> 01:52:54.920
yeah, to say that it's just
going to be capable of like you know,

1930
01:52:55.039 --> 01:52:57.159
shitty mini games or whatever, that, Yeah, that's selling it short.

1931
01:52:57.319 --> 01:52:59.760
This guy. This guy sounds like
he's envisioning kind of the worst case

1932
01:53:00.039 --> 01:53:02.000
area of like the what the connect
was? You know, connect was nothing,

1933
01:53:02.079 --> 01:53:04.880
but you know, and that's sort
of the template for add ons on

1934
01:53:04.960 --> 01:53:08.840
consoles at this point. Do we
know the specs of the Oculus, Like

1935
01:53:08.920 --> 01:53:12.720
what the size, like what resolutions? It's uh, I think I'd have

1936
01:53:12.800 --> 01:53:15.880
to look it up, but it's
uh. I think it's like I think

1937
01:53:15.920 --> 01:53:18.119
it's ten eighty by twelve hundred for
each eye, Okay, and then we

1938
01:53:18.239 --> 01:53:23.640
have that twenty one sixty by twelve
hundred. I think, uh, bigger

1939
01:53:23.720 --> 01:53:26.239
than it needs to be. I
don't know if the Morpheus will know.

1940
01:53:26.359 --> 01:53:28.840
I mean, I think oculus kind
of what Oculus has been focusing on.

1941
01:53:29.000 --> 01:53:30.399
It's like, what what resolution do
we need to hit to kind of get

1942
01:53:30.479 --> 01:53:33.279
rid of the screen doors stuff,
the aliasing because the screens are an inch

1943
01:53:33.319 --> 01:53:38.239
from your eye, Like what kind
of refresh rate do we need to avoid

1944
01:53:38.319 --> 01:53:42.479
motion sickness? Like all that stuff
has been kind of a core pursuit I

1945
01:53:42.560 --> 01:53:45.479
think it's not just a numbers games
like we're gonna have the biggest resolution ever.

1946
01:53:45.800 --> 01:53:47.920
No, No, it's definitely.
I think it's it's right now,

1947
01:53:48.039 --> 01:53:50.840
it's such early days. It's very
much like what what's the minimum for this

1948
01:53:50.960 --> 01:53:54.680
to be a good experience? You
know, by the time this stuff actually

1949
01:53:54.720 --> 01:53:58.680
starts getting in the hands of folks
who aren't like super super enthusiasts, like

1950
01:53:59.039 --> 01:54:02.720
the graft Scarred will be in a
much more acceptable like price. Right.

1951
01:54:03.079 --> 01:54:06.640
We like we are years from this
breaking into any sort of mainstream, Like

1952
01:54:06.760 --> 01:54:10.199
I mean we're a year from it
even coming out. Yeah, and it's

1953
01:54:10.239 --> 01:54:13.199
never going to like to a certain
degree, I don't think it's ever going

1954
01:54:13.279 --> 01:54:15.199
to reach like mainstream if people are
looking for any success like what happened with

1955
01:54:15.319 --> 01:54:18.840
like the Wei or like three DS
is like it's never going to the buying

1956
01:54:18.960 --> 01:54:23.239
is too high, like on console
as the buying is four hundred dollars then

1957
01:54:23.319 --> 01:54:26.520
a game and then the morphia is
most consoles, Yeah, on PC it's

1958
01:54:26.560 --> 01:54:28.960
like more it's like a thousand or
whatever, like more one and a half

1959
01:54:29.000 --> 01:54:31.319
ground or like one ground, Like
it's it's never going to get to that

1960
01:54:31.520 --> 01:54:35.079
stage. It's yeah, as far
as like sales initially, but I think

1961
01:54:35.119 --> 01:54:38.760
it's going to have you know,
much longer relevancy, where like the Wi

1962
01:54:39.079 --> 01:54:41.960
was you know, essentially a fad, whereas I think VR is going to

1963
01:54:42.000 --> 01:54:45.079
be around to stay. You know, it might not have this crazy peak

1964
01:54:45.119 --> 01:54:46.279
like right when it comes out of
like crazy sales like the Wei was.

1965
01:54:46.439 --> 01:54:49.039
But I bet VR is gonna be
a thing in ten or fifteen years,

1966
01:54:49.159 --> 01:54:53.319
and you know, we controls really
aren't. I think v VR will be

1967
01:54:53.960 --> 01:54:57.039
a thing in ten or fifteen years, whether or not we're playing it via

1968
01:54:57.159 --> 01:55:01.359
a console or via a p see
is like different in terms of like with

1969
01:55:01.479 --> 01:55:04.800
the Wei, everyone thought that motion
controls would be a thing in the future,

1970
01:55:05.000 --> 01:55:08.159
and they still are. They're just
not what they were when the Wei

1971
01:55:08.359 --> 01:55:10.600
was a thing. They're not emphasized
anymore, you know, and they're like

1972
01:55:10.680 --> 01:55:13.359
they're they're part of a wider thing
than not the focus anymore. I mean,

1973
01:55:13.359 --> 01:55:15.079
I don't I don't think, you
know, virs applicability to kind of

1974
01:55:15.159 --> 01:55:17.960
everyday living is in dispute. You
know, like look at all the you

1975
01:55:18.039 --> 01:55:23.079
know, sporting events, movies,
like conferencing, like art like who knows

1976
01:55:23.199 --> 01:55:26.680
what kind of stuff like what other
applications like come up with besides video games.

1977
01:55:26.760 --> 01:55:32.199
But I'm sorry what I can't quite
hear you. But even so,

1978
01:55:32.399 --> 01:55:35.439
like once this gets stuff gets thrown
out into the mainstream, Like think of

1979
01:55:35.560 --> 01:55:39.520
like do we really want to sit
down and wear a screen on our heads

1980
01:55:39.520 --> 01:55:42.800
when we're watching movies, like the
social aspect of that, the social aste

1981
01:55:42.840 --> 01:55:45.239
they're watching sport, the like,
there's so many unknowns that we're sort of

1982
01:55:45.319 --> 01:55:50.159
like we're willing it into into fashion
that we don't really know of. Like

1983
01:55:50.319 --> 01:55:53.920
in many ways, like when I
was playing while it's on, there wasn't

1984
01:55:53.960 --> 01:55:58.000
anything stopping me from believing that I
was in this world. And like also

1985
01:55:58.079 --> 01:56:01.800
actually like seeing Gerrolds gave me like
a place within this world that I'm controlling

1986
01:56:01.920 --> 01:56:06.399
him within. So like there are
so many functional things about VR which don't

1987
01:56:06.520 --> 01:56:11.199
work the way we consume media that
there are just so many questions to answer.

1988
01:56:11.399 --> 01:56:13.920
Yeah, and the fact that we
get hung up on the technical stuff

1989
01:56:13.920 --> 01:56:16.640
I always think is really worrying because
the reason why like the we are,

1990
01:56:16.680 --> 01:56:21.039
the reason why like fads happen is
because within games certainly is because the software

1991
01:56:21.119 --> 01:56:24.720
never catches up with the idea that
the harder was trying to push forward,

1992
01:56:25.000 --> 01:56:27.560
Like for VR to be a success
reg godless of any of these platforms,

1993
01:56:27.560 --> 01:56:30.079
they need to make a fucking game
that is only play, like the best

1994
01:56:30.640 --> 01:56:33.600
ever experience is on like Whearing when
of these goofy headsets. I have to

1995
01:56:33.720 --> 01:56:36.720
I have to assume the Morphia stuff
is going to be stuff designed specifically for

1996
01:56:36.880 --> 01:56:40.319
that thing. Like it's hard to
it's hard to imagine, like, oh,

1997
01:56:40.399 --> 01:56:43.960
fall Out four is going to have
Morphia support because they'd have to go

1998
01:56:45.000 --> 01:56:46.680
but they'd have to scale it down
in so many ways to make it work

1999
01:56:46.720 --> 01:56:49.840
on that thing, because those consoles
are already like straining under the load of

2000
01:56:49.920 --> 01:56:53.840
current games, right, Like what
would they have to sacrifice to then make

2001
01:56:53.920 --> 01:56:56.520
it work on two screens and like
you know, you'd remove a bunch of

2002
01:56:56.560 --> 01:57:00.800
detail to get the frame rate up
or whatever. Like it seems like Morphia

2003
01:57:00.840 --> 01:57:04.159
stuff in particular is gonna be stuff
made for morpheas. You know existing games

2004
01:57:04.199 --> 01:57:09.279
you guys use Morpheous yet no,
No. I did at GDC. It

2005
01:57:09.399 --> 01:57:12.359
was pretty cool. It was very
the resolution wise, it was great,

2006
01:57:12.560 --> 01:57:15.760
very enclosed areas, and I had
two move controllers in my hands and I

2007
01:57:15.840 --> 01:57:18.840
did that demo you see where you
you're like hiding behind the desk and shooting.

2008
01:57:19.239 --> 01:57:21.680
It was like the one of the
coolest things I've ever really in virtual

2009
01:57:21.680 --> 01:57:25.279
reality. The only problem was the
thing was it's cabled. It's not actually

2010
01:57:25.319 --> 01:57:28.279
wireless, which means it's actually very
light on your head as well. But

2011
01:57:28.399 --> 01:57:30.159
like I was straight up like with
the two triggers on the move controller,

2012
01:57:30.319 --> 01:57:34.399
you like you get transported behind a
desk and you can't really move much around

2013
01:57:34.399 --> 01:57:38.399
the desk because you're like in the
real world. And then guys come into

2014
01:57:38.479 --> 01:57:42.119
this room and you're like frantically like
using the triggers in your hands to like

2015
01:57:42.319 --> 01:57:45.159
open up drawers to try and find
a gun, and then you find a

2016
01:57:45.199 --> 01:57:47.800
gun. Then you find a clip, and you're like in the real world.

2017
01:57:47.840 --> 01:57:50.359
You're like moving your two move controllers
together to put the clip on the

2018
01:57:50.399 --> 01:57:54.359
gun, and then you're like at
one stage, I dove on the ground

2019
01:57:54.479 --> 01:57:58.239
and like fired across like over the
top of the thing. Yeah, and

2020
01:57:58.319 --> 01:58:00.359
that was really cool. But then
you think you got move from behind a

2021
01:58:00.439 --> 01:58:03.520
desk because on you're holding is two
buttons. Right, what does this mean?

2022
01:58:03.760 --> 01:58:08.279
Right? The software the software problems
for these things are pretty pretty big.

2023
01:58:08.960 --> 01:58:11.199
A lot of problems to solve,
but their interesting problems. Yeah,

2024
01:58:11.319 --> 01:58:15.560
sure, which could take us to
a pretty interesting place. Let's hope the

2025
01:58:15.680 --> 01:58:17.199
future. It's gonna be weird AD
three with all this stuff, Like how

2026
01:58:17.239 --> 01:58:20.479
do you show off of VR headset
demo on a press conference the stage?

2027
01:58:20.800 --> 01:58:24.840
Kind of don't like you guys have
a heavy show it off on live stream?

2028
01:58:24.920 --> 01:58:27.399
Yeah, like yeah, god forbid. Yeah, once we get to

2029
01:58:27.479 --> 01:58:29.920
the point where we have to cover
the stuff, what are we gonna do

2030
01:58:29.960 --> 01:58:32.199
with it? Like the footage out
of that stuff doesn't really play very well

2031
01:58:32.279 --> 01:58:40.159
in a two D setting, so
we shall see. Yeah, that story,

2032
01:58:41.720 --> 01:58:45.039
Danny. I apologize. I tweeted
a few minutes ago that you were

2033
01:58:45.079 --> 01:58:46.800
coming on the show, oh Man, for people to send any questions they

2034
01:58:46.880 --> 01:58:49.720
had for you. I've already talked
too much on this one. Uh So

2035
01:58:49.880 --> 01:58:55.479
here's an email subject line ayo Danny. Okay, this person says, don't

2036
01:58:55.520 --> 01:58:58.720
include my name on the podcast.
My life depends on it. What what?

2037
01:59:00.439 --> 01:59:01.600
Who the fuck said? I'll just
read the email? Was this,

2038
01:59:02.000 --> 01:59:04.840
Hey, Danny, do you know
if there have ever been any video games

2039
01:59:04.840 --> 01:59:09.560
about the North Ireland troubles. She
thinks that with the multitude of films plays

2040
01:59:09.680 --> 01:59:12.560
songs, books, and other pieces
of art that exists covering the violence.

2041
01:59:12.800 --> 01:59:16.600
The video games would eventually also make
its mark on the cultural discussion, or

2042
01:59:16.800 --> 01:59:21.479
was Roger Ebert Wright, Thanks Brov. As far as I know, there

2043
01:59:21.560 --> 01:59:27.399
hasn't been. I guess that's probably
a culbination of the sort of the height

2044
01:59:27.439 --> 01:59:32.199
of the troubles was before, like
the sort of like politicide, the political

2045
01:59:32.520 --> 01:59:38.159
like involvement in video games or like
what we're seeing with people like making games

2046
01:59:38.239 --> 01:59:43.880
which make political comments on very specific
like events, political events is very much

2047
01:59:43.960 --> 01:59:46.680
a like early two thousands phenomenon.
This was not something that was going on

2048
01:59:46.800 --> 01:59:50.239
in the eighties and suddenly in the
nineties or whatever. So like you know,

2049
01:59:50.399 --> 01:59:54.239
this was back in the day where
games like games that were called Grand

2050
01:59:54.279 --> 01:59:58.720
Theft Auto were thought to be trivializing, you know, crimes like Mister Minor

2051
01:59:58.760 --> 02:00:01.359
Car like non violent crimes on all
so violent crimes, I guess by extension.

2052
02:00:01.439 --> 02:00:03.920
But so, like you know,
there wasn't any then He's right.

2053
02:00:03.960 --> 02:00:06.960
There are some great movies like this
Bloody Sunday is a wonderful movie if if

2054
02:00:06.960 --> 02:00:11.800
you've ever got to watch that,
or there's been lots of music written about

2055
02:00:11.800 --> 02:00:14.920
as well. And whatnot, and
literature for sure, but no, never

2056
02:00:15.119 --> 02:00:16.760
was I like that stuff that I
like. I like this War of Mine,

2057
02:00:16.800 --> 02:00:20.079
and there were some interesting games coming
out of I was talking to some

2058
02:00:20.800 --> 02:00:25.199
Spiky Snail, the guys who made
the Splatters. They're based in Israel,

2059
02:00:25.239 --> 02:00:29.359
and they were telling us about some
like Israeli developers that were creating stuff.

2060
02:00:29.359 --> 02:00:32.199
I think actually, I think his
game before he made the two guys who

2061
02:00:32.239 --> 02:00:36.199
made that game, the Splatters,
which I really liked on Xbox sixty before

2062
02:00:36.239 --> 02:00:40.640
and he made a game that was
sort of about the Palestinian Club or might

2063
02:00:40.680 --> 02:00:44.760
it might have been at the Gaza
Strip actually, So yeah, like obviously

2064
02:00:44.800 --> 02:00:46.439
that stuff has been done before,
but no, it's far to my knowledge,

2065
02:00:46.680 --> 02:00:49.279
there has not been one done about
the Troubles. Yeah, yeah,

2066
02:00:49.359 --> 02:00:51.720
you're you're right. In the games
feel like they're just now sort of growing

2067
02:00:51.800 --> 02:00:57.119
up and getting the point where they
can comment and even respectfully on stuff like

2068
02:00:57.199 --> 02:00:59.239
this. Yeah, and even so
some people aren't ready for that, you

2069
02:00:59.279 --> 02:01:00.920
know as well. It's it's we're
still in the nascey and sort of days

2070
02:01:00.960 --> 02:01:03.680
of doing that. You're right,
although you know, thankfully the kind of

2071
02:01:03.680 --> 02:01:06.840
the distribution platforms are there now for
that stuff to get out there, even

2072
02:01:06.880 --> 02:01:11.960
if there is a small audience for
it, and so on. Uh,

2073
02:01:13.600 --> 02:01:15.960
man, I pulled a lot of
Danny emails here, Jesus, it's a

2074
02:01:16.000 --> 02:01:20.319
guy from Belfast. Great that Alan
from Belfast. That's that's in Ireland.

2075
02:01:20.399 --> 02:01:24.119
Kind does it to give him license
to keep picking your brain? Sure?

2076
02:01:24.600 --> 02:01:28.520
Fellow countryman, I guys was wondering
if Danny has been following the gay marriage

2077
02:01:28.560 --> 02:01:30.760
referendum back. Oh, Jesus,
yeah, I don't think I need to

2078
02:01:30.800 --> 02:01:32.399
ask which side of the debates on. But he wondered how he felt as

2079
02:01:32.439 --> 02:01:36.399
Ireland looks likely to become the first
country to bring in gay marriage via referendum.

2080
02:01:36.560 --> 02:01:40.840
Yeah, we're mad on referendums in
Irelands. Yeah, that we've we've

2081
02:01:40.960 --> 02:01:44.399
stop any straight up will of the
people. Yeah, but we've messed up

2082
02:01:44.439 --> 02:01:47.840
once before. The abortion abortions still
aren't legal in any Ireland Ireland. In

2083
02:01:47.920 --> 02:01:51.039
Ireland, no, no, no, So you still love still of young

2084
02:01:51.119 --> 02:01:56.840
girls having to take trips to England
to if they so choose to do that.

2085
02:01:56.920 --> 02:01:59.720
So like, and there was a
bad case last year about a woman

2086
02:01:59.720 --> 02:02:02.159
who because of they couldn't medically intervene
on her because it would have broken the

2087
02:02:02.239 --> 02:02:05.399
legislation. But yeah, she said
that was that was a catastrophe. She

2088
02:02:05.439 --> 02:02:09.560
wasn't even ire she was I think
she was Indian or Pakistani. Yeah,

2089
02:02:09.640 --> 02:02:12.399
so it looks like the Volks should
win us hopefully, but you can never

2090
02:02:12.479 --> 02:02:14.920
tell. But yeah, I think
it'll be cool. I'll be proud of

2091
02:02:15.000 --> 02:02:17.880
that. Ireland's a country which is
very has changed a lot in the thirty

2092
02:02:18.000 --> 02:02:21.720
years I have been on this planet, and I think this would this would

2093
02:02:21.720 --> 02:02:27.239
be really yeah, prideful moment.
I think form back home. I have

2094
02:02:27.279 --> 02:02:29.520
a lot of gay friends back in
Ireland, and I have a lot of

2095
02:02:29.560 --> 02:02:32.359
gay friends who have left Ireland as
well, and all very sort of happy

2096
02:02:32.399 --> 02:02:34.800
about this, and it looks like
it looks like it will be put through.

2097
02:02:35.119 --> 02:02:40.479
Ireland's is a wonderfully liberal country and
like forward thinking country, but it's

2098
02:02:40.520 --> 02:02:45.800
also a country which is you know, has not fully gotten rid of the

2099
02:02:45.880 --> 02:02:49.079
shackles that the Catholic Church had on
like on institutions like I've no problem with

2100
02:02:49.199 --> 02:02:54.640
with the Thals and running just on
actual government institutions. It was there when

2101
02:02:54.680 --> 02:02:57.359
Ireland was born, you know,
it was the biggest, the biggest society

2102
02:02:57.439 --> 02:02:59.840
in the country. When when Ireland
was made a contr less than a hundred.

2103
02:02:59.880 --> 02:03:02.880
Ye, so yeah, I think
this will be a real positive change.

2104
02:03:03.159 --> 02:03:05.479
It's so by, it's on Wednesday, so it'll beat the day of

2105
02:03:05.520 --> 02:03:09.479
things goes on. So fingers crossed. I don't think anyone's kinding chickens,

2106
02:03:09.520 --> 02:03:13.399
but hopefully it'll be a nice day
and then all everyone, everyone will be

2107
02:03:13.560 --> 02:03:16.000
entitled to get married in Ireland.
Excellent. All right, well this this

2108
02:03:16.119 --> 02:03:19.560
concludes your Irish minute. Cool.
Thanks, Sorry, I think I've already

2109
02:03:19.560 --> 02:03:21.520
talked too much on this. No
no, no, absolute, switch your

2110
02:03:21.520 --> 02:03:25.880
stuff. I mean I hope here
to talk. Yeah, what we do

2111
02:03:26.000 --> 02:03:30.640
on here's what we brought you for? Man? Uh first E three,

2112
02:03:30.079 --> 02:03:33.680
says Chris. Uh. He just
wants to know what was going through our

2113
02:03:33.720 --> 02:03:40.039
heads during each of our first respective
e threes. I went on my own

2114
02:03:41.520 --> 02:03:45.520
through. Yeah, I had a
podcast that I was doing, and yeah,

2115
02:03:45.560 --> 02:03:49.039
we just applied for you know,
press passes. We're like, okay,

2116
02:03:49.439 --> 02:03:53.039
Christ, what do we do now? So yeah, we bought a

2117
02:03:53.039 --> 02:03:56.720
bunch of cameras and stuff and just
yeah, I wandered around the show floor,

2118
02:03:56.840 --> 02:03:59.600
had no freaking appointment. So we
would just you know, walk up

2119
02:03:59.600 --> 02:04:00.680
the desk and say hey, you
guys have an opening, they're like,

2120
02:04:00.920 --> 02:04:04.000
oh, who are you? But
yeah, sometimes we'd get in, sometimes

2121
02:04:04.039 --> 02:04:06.800
we didn't, so yeah, we
would just Yeah, we worked our asses

2122
02:04:06.840 --> 02:04:12.159
off. And I remember trying to
upload videos to our website on a three

2123
02:04:12.239 --> 02:04:15.000
G connection at Hotel and Child.
So this was not that long ago there,

2124
02:04:15.039 --> 02:04:17.479
No, that's see terribly longer.
Yeah, like five years ago or

2125
02:04:17.520 --> 02:04:20.800
something like that. So yeah,
that was that was my first tea three.

2126
02:04:20.880 --> 02:04:24.560
That was a oh wow, that
was. What year was the experience?

2127
02:04:24.600 --> 02:04:27.319
I want to say, like five
years ago. I forgot what year

2128
02:04:27.399 --> 02:04:30.560
it was. I suppose if I
just took five years away from the time

2129
02:04:30.600 --> 02:04:33.960
it is, Yeah, that worked, we could probably don't worry about it.

2130
02:04:34.119 --> 02:04:36.800
But mine was nine years ago.
And yea, I did the same

2131
02:04:36.840 --> 02:04:39.880
thing where there were four years in
a row where I just kind of paid

2132
02:04:39.920 --> 02:04:42.439
my own way out there and went
by myself, where like I don't know

2133
02:04:42.479 --> 02:04:45.920
when you're not going with a you
know, a place in the industry,

2134
02:04:45.000 --> 02:04:47.640
you know, you you don't exactly
know how to do that, Like you

2135
02:04:47.640 --> 02:04:50.439
don't know where the parties are,
you don't know like how like I didn't

2136
02:04:50.439 --> 02:04:53.760
even think to set up appointments half
the time, like I would do it

2137
02:04:53.800 --> 02:04:56.479
with a couple of the like pr
contacts I had through the reviews I was

2138
02:04:56.560 --> 02:04:59.960
doing, but mainly just like walking
around the show floor and just kind of

2139
02:05:00.039 --> 02:05:02.800
taking it all in. And oh
six is my first one, and that

2140
02:05:02.960 --> 02:05:05.000
was the year there was the first
time like you could play if he has

2141
02:05:05.039 --> 02:05:10.199
three and three sixty And I think
I think we was there too, previlease

2142
02:05:10.199 --> 02:05:13.239
because I remember like Metrid Prime and
Mario Galaxy were there, and it just

2143
02:05:13.319 --> 02:05:15.680
the idea of playing this stuff before
it came out was just such a novelty.

2144
02:05:15.760 --> 02:05:18.279
Still, like now it's old hat
for any of us, for sure,

2145
02:05:18.319 --> 02:05:20.119
but like I still remember that,
like, holy shit, like this

2146
02:05:20.239 --> 02:05:24.119
constantly. It isn't even out yet, I can do this motion control thing

2147
02:05:24.159 --> 02:05:26.760
and go home and tell everyone how
crazy this we thing is gonna be.

2148
02:05:26.960 --> 02:05:30.960
And yeah, it was awesome.
But it's also surprising how easy it is

2149
02:05:30.039 --> 02:05:34.279
to get into for something that's technically
supposed to be like industry. You know,

2150
02:05:34.520 --> 02:05:39.439
people, I have no concept now
it's been so long for me.

2151
02:05:39.680 --> 02:05:43.000
Yeah, I guess my last example
trying to kind of get someone in was

2152
02:05:43.119 --> 02:05:45.199
like probably oh eight, and I
was crashing my friend Mike's couch to save

2153
02:05:45.319 --> 02:05:48.479
money and like he does not know
anything about video games. But I remember

2154
02:05:48.560 --> 02:05:51.399
just like going up to the Badge
place and be like, yeah, he's

2155
02:05:51.479 --> 02:05:57.039
my photographer for you know, Lawrence, Kansas newspaper and they're all right,

2156
02:05:57.119 --> 02:05:59.560
there we go. They're just like
let him in. Just no promise officially

2157
02:05:59.640 --> 02:06:01.640
there on newspaper business though, you
were not like fudging that part, right,

2158
02:06:01.640 --> 02:06:03.239
No, no, no, I
was always like actually, you know,

2159
02:06:03.359 --> 02:06:06.199
writing for the newspaper and stuff like, I didn't have to fudge anything

2160
02:06:06.239 --> 02:06:10.680
to get myself in. But like
crashing at Mike's place, I'll try to

2161
02:06:10.680 --> 02:06:13.840
get him into eagree on some bullshit. Super easy to do. That was

2162
02:06:13.880 --> 02:06:15.239
also the year I did that big
prank on John Drake without knowing it.

2163
02:06:15.600 --> 02:06:18.600
Yes, but we'll get to that. Still we still have yet to fully

2164
02:06:19.039 --> 02:06:21.880
we need to get him in here
before we Yeah, yeah, I still

2165
02:06:21.920 --> 02:06:25.640
fully explore that topic. I do
want to hear his side. Don't want

2166
02:06:25.640 --> 02:06:28.680
to hear that. Yeah, it's
something I've never heard the whole thing myself.

2167
02:06:28.720 --> 02:06:30.520
I don't want to be in the
room and that. I love John

2168
02:06:30.560 --> 02:06:33.439
Drakes great, and you had to
put out a lot of fires that way.

2169
02:06:33.520 --> 02:06:36.720
It could be a good knockdown drag
out on that one found of things

2170
02:06:36.840 --> 02:06:41.000
they Yeah, they'd straight up like
oscar idn now like photo idea. Really

2171
02:06:41.239 --> 02:06:43.640
yeah. So I mean, let's
say you just wrote for some you know,

2172
02:06:43.720 --> 02:06:45.199
a little bullshit blog or whatever that
you know, it's like, you

2173
02:06:45.279 --> 02:06:47.960
know, ten or fifteen readers a
month or something. Is that enough?

2174
02:06:48.000 --> 02:06:50.600
Like if you have enough published stuff? Yeah, I don't know. Can

2175
02:06:50.640 --> 02:06:53.600
you show that to them and like, oh, look I've done this many

2176
02:06:53.680 --> 02:06:56.560
reviews or whatever. I don't know. I don't know. There there was

2177
02:06:56.680 --> 02:07:00.800
one year that I had to mix
up when we were at GI. They

2178
02:07:00.880 --> 02:07:03.359
didn't get my registration oh every reason, so they had it under something else.

2179
02:07:03.760 --> 02:07:06.920
But she was just like, well, okay, do you have any

2180
02:07:06.960 --> 02:07:10.159
buy lines on the game before her
website? And I'm like, here,

2181
02:07:10.199 --> 02:07:13.560
you guy, it's a review and
oh really okay that was that was all

2182
02:07:13.600 --> 02:07:15.159
that I needed. But that's a
much bigger publication. Yes, yeah,

2183
02:07:15.279 --> 02:07:17.600
So yeah, I wonder how it
works if like, let's say you're a

2184
02:07:17.680 --> 02:07:20.640
YouTuber, like you know, I
haven't seen what that's like. Yeah,

2185
02:07:20.800 --> 02:07:24.920
I've taken a certain amount of subscribers. I have no idea how the ESA

2186
02:07:25.079 --> 02:07:27.920
is handling that stuff. Yeah,
Like if there's a threshold for that,

2187
02:07:28.199 --> 02:07:30.720
Yeah, exactly, Like scribers probably
seems like the most obvious metric for like,

2188
02:07:30.960 --> 02:07:32.960
if you're ever this number, you
can get in or whatever. Right,

2189
02:07:33.520 --> 02:07:35.720
it's crazy, I don't know.
Yeah, my first E three was

2190
02:07:35.800 --> 02:07:40.800
the ninety seven, the first Atlanta
once damn. Oh, I mean,

2191
02:07:40.840 --> 02:07:43.279
I'll forever be bitter. It just
been all of them. I will forever

2192
02:07:43.399 --> 02:07:45.680
be bitter that I've missed the first
two in LA. But I was just

2193
02:07:45.720 --> 02:07:47.760
too young at that point. Yeah, when I went to the ninety seventy

2194
02:07:47.840 --> 02:07:50.239
three, I was just shy of
eighteen, so I was not like it

2195
02:07:50.279 --> 02:07:54.520
was supposed to be eighteen and up. Wow, I had a free pass

2196
02:07:54.680 --> 02:07:57.399
from the guy I knew on IRC. That's the only reason I went was

2197
02:07:57.880 --> 02:08:00.960
I talked to a bunch of people
on IRC and quake net. One of

2198
02:08:01.000 --> 02:08:03.319
them said, Hey, if you
come to Atlanta in a couple of days,

2199
02:08:03.319 --> 02:08:07.079
I'll have any three pass four years
And I said, okay, I

2200
02:08:07.159 --> 02:08:11.119
was eighteen, drove down seventeen seventeen, yeah, and stayed in a pretty

2201
02:08:11.239 --> 02:08:13.840
rough part of Atlanta, and but
took a bus like forty five minutes to

2202
02:08:13.880 --> 02:08:18.640
get to the show. But also
the lady I bawled me real good when

2203
02:08:18.680 --> 02:08:20.760
she gave me the past and said, are you sure you're eighteen? And

2204
02:08:20.800 --> 02:08:26.720
I was like, yeah, you're
sure you're eighteen Jesus. But I very

2205
02:08:26.760 --> 02:08:28.039
distinctly remember. I mean, this
guy just says what was going through your

2206
02:08:28.079 --> 02:08:31.880
head? Like it was an escalator
was either up or down into the convention

2207
02:08:31.920 --> 02:08:35.960
hall. I can't remember which,
but I very vividly remember just the wall

2208
02:08:35.159 --> 02:08:39.399
of like light and sound that watches
over you when you first walk into that

2209
02:08:39.439 --> 02:08:41.479
thing, you know, Like I
like I remember the moment and thinking like

2210
02:08:41.560 --> 02:08:43.760
I don't ever not want to be
part of this, like this is just

2211
02:08:45.279 --> 02:08:48.279
my home, you know, I've
made it. That also makes it like

2212
02:08:48.319 --> 02:08:52.239
one of the worst places on the
planet to be hungover. Yeah, that's

2213
02:08:52.399 --> 02:08:54.920
that's first year. Like I remember
people telling them about like the parties and

2214
02:08:56.000 --> 02:08:58.119
like all the things you do.
The first year I went to E three

2215
02:08:58.399 --> 02:09:01.560
was only three years ago, I
think, And that's after like some I'm

2216
02:09:01.640 --> 02:09:05.319
my ten year registration on game spots
coming up in August, so I watched

2217
02:09:05.359 --> 02:09:07.640
all you guys doing it since like
oh five or whatever like you that the

2218
02:09:07.720 --> 02:09:11.159
year it was on the SNA Monica
when Rich was on that weird little restaurant

2219
02:09:11.279 --> 02:09:16.479
to like every single year, I'd
stay up and like until like dumb o'clock

2220
02:09:16.560 --> 02:09:18.760
and nighttime in Ireland, like on
watching these streams. So the first year

2221
02:09:18.800 --> 02:09:22.159
I did it, i was hosting
the stage show for Game Spot. I'm

2222
02:09:22.239 --> 02:09:26.560
like all I did was research at
home in the hotel, just constantly like

2223
02:09:26.840 --> 02:09:28.840
everyone who was up on the show
for the next day. It was like

2224
02:09:28.880 --> 02:09:31.119
work, work, work. I
never got to the South Hall. I

2225
02:09:31.239 --> 02:09:33.640
barely walked around the West Hall at
all because I was on the stage so

2226
02:09:33.720 --> 02:09:37.319
much. And when I wasn't,
I was just like, you fucking wanted

2227
02:09:37.359 --> 02:09:39.000
this. Make sure you don't mess
it up now, don't get the guy's

2228
02:09:39.079 --> 02:09:43.960
name wrong. Sure. Yeah,
it's like it's so busy. Yeah,

2229
02:09:43.960 --> 02:09:46.000
I've never had that hungover Ady three
experience either, because we were just working

2230
02:09:46.039 --> 02:09:50.920
our asses off so much that like
any my first year, any free time

2231
02:09:50.000 --> 02:09:52.600
you had, you were going to
sleep because you were getting like four or

2232
02:09:52.640 --> 02:09:56.720
five hours a night. And it's
just like my first year like because it

2233
02:09:56.720 --> 02:09:58.800
because I wrote just like a general
like Lawrence, Kansas newspaper, so like

2234
02:10:00.079 --> 02:10:01.880
they expected like a four paragraph thing
like here's what the three is like,

2235
02:10:03.000 --> 02:10:05.520
So I had no deadlines or anything. But I also didn't know when the

2236
02:10:05.600 --> 02:10:09.079
parties were. But that first E
three I spent the night in Jimmy Kemmel's

2237
02:10:09.119 --> 02:10:11.600
green room and they had an open
bar back there, and I just got

2238
02:10:11.680 --> 02:10:16.119
wasted with Kemmel's band and yeah,
like ridiculously wasted. And then the next

2239
02:10:16.199 --> 02:10:18.000
day of the show, Fos been
like, oh, I need to not

2240
02:10:18.119 --> 02:10:20.800
be the ungoverady three ever again.
Yeah, I will say the ninety eight

2241
02:10:20.920 --> 02:10:24.600
the year that we went to the
Big Sony always used to have their ridiculous

2242
02:10:24.640 --> 02:10:28.600
parties, and I snuck into that
thing and the food Fighters played, and

2243
02:10:28.640 --> 02:10:31.920
then we went across town to where
the Sega Party was happening at a little

2244
02:10:31.960 --> 02:10:37.159
tiny club, and the food Fighters
were playing there too. They'd apparently gone

2245
02:10:37.159 --> 02:10:39.800
across town and just like decided to
play the Sega Party for free wow in

2246
02:10:39.880 --> 02:10:43.640
a club. So saw them twice
in one night. It was kind of

2247
02:10:43.680 --> 02:10:46.800
ridiculous. It's in terms of meeting
famous people we've I was talking to Jeff

2248
02:10:46.840 --> 02:10:48.840
about because he came on the Lobby
couple of weeks ago, and we were

2249
02:10:48.840 --> 02:10:52.319
talking about Tony Hawk post kid five
and like, man, somebody should make

2250
02:10:52.439 --> 02:10:56.800
like the like the documentary about like
the two thousand and one, like when

2251
02:10:58.119 --> 02:11:01.640
THHPS two came out and like have
like skateboarding became big again and like all

2252
02:11:01.680 --> 02:11:05.399
that music was crazy and like sek
why he was taking over MTV and Jackass

2253
02:11:05.439 --> 02:11:09.239
and all that shit. So this
year we've secured an hour with the Birdman

2254
02:11:09.640 --> 02:11:13.079
to like interview him. She'll st
off the show floor and I'm not going

2255
02:11:13.119 --> 02:11:16.399
to interview a bunch of bands and
skaters. And while we're in LA I've

2256
02:11:16.439 --> 02:11:20.119
never try and make that like this
is that moment in time, That's cool,

2257
02:11:20.479 --> 02:11:22.520
that's that game man. That game
was like a culture of getting people

2258
02:11:22.520 --> 02:11:26.600
to skateboard. Absolutely, I've never
heard him referred to as the bird band

2259
02:11:26.920 --> 02:11:31.079
Man. Wouldn't be Larry Bird nope, or that movie that came out and

2260
02:11:31.079 --> 02:11:35.359
won all the Oscars. Oh yeah, nope. I remember being furious that

2261
02:11:35.479 --> 02:11:37.399
year that The Who were playing,
And again like this is before I worked

2262
02:11:37.439 --> 02:11:41.399
in the industry, and so I
just didn't have any knowledge of the parties.

2263
02:11:41.600 --> 02:11:43.000
And We're getting there and talking to
friends on the show flour being like,

2264
02:11:43.039 --> 02:11:46.079
oh, you go to that Who
concert tonight? I was like what.

2265
02:11:46.560 --> 02:11:48.079
I was like, Oh, yeah, The Who is playing this fucking

2266
02:11:48.159 --> 02:11:52.920
like rock band party. I was
like, the who like Townsend, They're

2267
02:11:52.960 --> 02:11:56.920
gonna fucking play a three party and
just feverishly trying to figure out how to

2268
02:11:56.960 --> 02:11:58.000
get into that thing, and I
couldn't. Oh you make Oh no,

2269
02:11:58.119 --> 02:12:01.239
I'm still mad about that. Hey, there's like a Queens of the Stone

2270
02:12:01.279 --> 02:12:03.760
Age party. One of those seas
the only party have been too is the

2271
02:12:03.840 --> 02:12:09.079
game spot after party, which is
in some fucking trashy bar on the side

2272
02:12:09.079 --> 02:12:11.880
of time, which is like,
it has a ping pong table that's so

2273
02:12:11.000 --> 02:12:15.039
broken, you're gonna need to like
beer pong after you make it three three,

2274
02:12:15.279 --> 02:12:18.640
just like slumping in a trashy bar
is about all your capable of,

2275
02:12:20.359 --> 02:12:24.159
uh e three. It'll be all
right, I guess I'm excited for this

2276
02:12:24.560 --> 02:12:26.159
the best. Yeah yeah, bar
Man news wise, Yeah, like,

2277
02:12:26.199 --> 02:12:28.359
I hope a lot of cool stuff
comes out of it. And previously,

2278
02:12:28.520 --> 02:12:31.760
like I would bust my ass trying
to get to all the conferences because I

2279
02:12:31.800 --> 02:12:35.880
was like the soul video guy trying
to take care of those things. I've

2280
02:12:35.880 --> 02:12:39.319
got a half hour window to get
from here to there and set up a

2281
02:12:39.359 --> 02:12:41.800
stream, and shit, I don't
have to do that. Oh You're gonna

2282
02:12:41.800 --> 02:12:43.399
be so happy on that Monday.
You don't understand, no, no,

2283
02:12:43.920 --> 02:12:46.399
no, I know. Last year
was the first time we did it,

2284
02:12:46.479 --> 02:12:50.319
and we like the whole time we
were going into it going like like second

2285
02:12:50.359 --> 02:12:52.399
guessing ourselves constantly, like we go
to the conferences, we should go right,

2286
02:12:52.439 --> 02:12:54.840
like this is crazy not to go. But by the end of that

2287
02:12:54.960 --> 02:12:58.479
day, it was just like because, yeah, that thing is just like

2288
02:12:58.520 --> 02:13:01.840
a twelve hour marathon of run from
one one auditorium to another. Jason,

2289
02:13:01.840 --> 02:13:05.239
I've seen you on those days when
we're doing that with game in four just

2290
02:13:05.319 --> 02:13:07.720
you just look like you needed to
change smoke for like four hours after those

2291
02:13:07.800 --> 02:13:11.279
days, see you guys like you
know, the night before and then you

2292
02:13:11.359 --> 02:13:13.399
know, everyone's like, oh,
I'm gonna go, gonna check this out.

2293
02:13:13.399 --> 02:13:15.760
I'll watch the conference from the hotel, and I'm like, I'm not

2294
02:13:15.800 --> 02:13:18.119
going to see you for two days? Is that entire day I'm running around

2295
02:13:18.239 --> 02:13:22.520
so like yeah, like early in
the morning and then well after nine o'clock

2296
02:13:22.560 --> 02:13:24.920
at night. Fuck that. Wow, I can't do it anymore and I

2297
02:13:24.960 --> 02:13:28.600
don't have to. That's great.
Get ready to hang out in an air

2298
02:13:28.640 --> 02:13:33.000
conditioned conference room for twelve hours.
I guess I'm driving them with Jeff as

2299
02:13:33.039 --> 02:13:37.199
well this year for the mixler.
Oh yeah, experience the live drive.

2300
02:13:37.439 --> 02:13:41.079
Yeah, nexcellent stop off at Del
Taco, hit that hit, that stretch

2301
02:13:41.119 --> 02:13:46.960
of I five where it smells like
calpoof there's a signal it's bad. It's

2302
02:13:46.960 --> 02:13:52.479
a good drive though, all right. Next email comes from Leam Liam in

2303
02:13:52.600 --> 02:13:56.800
London wants to know about biscuits and
gravy. Just waiting for Danny's English accent

2304
02:13:56.840 --> 02:14:01.640
again here we go. I should
let him read this email. Liam says,

2305
02:14:01.720 --> 02:14:05.039
as a brit who listened to last
week's podcast who the hell puts gravy

2306
02:14:05.119 --> 02:14:09.720
on biscuits? As a brit who
looked up what Americans mean my biscuit on

2307
02:14:09.800 --> 02:14:13.640
Wikipedia? Who the hell puts gravy
on a scone? Yeah? So biscuit

2308
02:14:13.680 --> 02:14:18.039
means cookie in the UK's yes.
Oh but also why the fuck? Yeah?

2309
02:14:18.119 --> 02:14:20.319
I I thought that was weird as
well when I first moved here.

2310
02:14:20.399 --> 02:14:22.680
Yeah, yeah, it was like
also like you put you put like you

2311
02:14:22.800 --> 02:14:24.640
put like bacon on pancakes and shat. I was like, what's wrong with

2312
02:14:24.760 --> 02:14:30.840
you? That's still kind of a
weird thing. That's great's bad? And

2313
02:14:30.960 --> 02:14:33.479
then yeah, I don't knock until
you try it is on that to say

2314
02:14:33.520 --> 02:14:35.279
to that person, because I thought
the same thing. I was, Like,

2315
02:14:35.680 --> 02:14:39.239
a scan is like or scone is
like a kind of a posh little

2316
02:14:39.319 --> 02:14:41.880
cheecake, right, you put like
jam and butter on it and fucking knosh

2317
02:14:41.920 --> 02:14:46.760
it down, whereas putting like gravy
is like the dredge of like meat,

2318
02:14:46.880 --> 02:14:52.520
fat and like and like tasty bits
kind of chalk and cheese to get it,

2319
02:14:52.560 --> 02:14:54.479
you know, and cheese. Yeah
what what? Yeah? You know

2320
02:14:54.560 --> 02:14:58.119
belt and braces? Oh yeah,
oh yeah, I know that right.

2321
02:14:58.239 --> 02:15:01.439
Yeah, of course have you had
checking waffles? So it's not just chicken

2322
02:15:01.520 --> 02:15:05.520
and waffles. It's yeah, it's
chicken and waffles. No, it's tofu

2323
02:15:05.640 --> 02:15:07.800
and fucking sesame seeds. What do
you think do you do anything with them?

2324
02:15:09.159 --> 02:15:11.039
No? Okay, you just eat
some fry channing and have some waffles.

2325
02:15:11.119 --> 02:15:15.760
Dan, I'm taking it to Roscoe's
any three. This okay, Roscoe's

2326
02:15:15.800 --> 02:15:18.960
is pretty good, really good.
It should go to Rosco's. Yeah,

2327
02:15:18.960 --> 02:15:22.439
I'm taking it to Rosco's. Chicken
and waffles. We're making that app all

2328
02:15:22.520 --> 02:15:26.960
right. It's my birthday on the
Tuesday eight three birthday. Chicken and waffles.

2329
02:15:26.039 --> 02:15:30.079
That sounds great. Yeah. Wait, that's when those conferences on oh

2330
02:15:30.159 --> 02:15:33.439
shit. Also, I'm thinking I
might be injuring Tony Hawks. Oh can

2331
02:15:33.520 --> 02:15:35.520
he come? Yeah? Tell him
it's my birthday. I guess he has

2332
02:15:35.560 --> 02:15:41.079
met once and everyone. I mean, I know, you know, I

2333
02:15:41.159 --> 02:15:43.199
know, biscuits, scones, blah
blah blah whatever. But does does the

2334
02:15:43.359 --> 02:15:46.880
American concept of a biscuit even exists
in England? I assume it doesn't.

2335
02:15:46.960 --> 02:15:52.720
Like the kind of the fluffy butter
milk like lard filled. It's basically just

2336
02:15:52.840 --> 02:15:56.039
a scone. Yeah, I guess, like a slightly bigger scone. Yeah,

2337
02:15:56.479 --> 02:15:58.760
Okay, scones are really dry though, aren't they deifically? Yeah?

2338
02:15:58.800 --> 02:16:01.920
You're actually there's a bit more.
A good, proper greasy biscuit is not

2339
02:16:03.399 --> 02:16:05.800
dry, is the last thing that
is? Yeah, you couldn't eat a

2340
02:16:05.880 --> 02:16:09.199
scone. Eating a scone would be
like eating like like a half a loaf

2341
02:16:09.239 --> 02:16:13.439
of bread. You can just put
jelly on scone, put it on jam.

2342
02:16:13.880 --> 02:16:16.920
Oh damn, sorry, you bring
the half a loaf of bread thing.

2343
02:16:16.960 --> 02:16:18.960
Today? I tried a thing where
I made a peanut butter sandwich for

2344
02:16:20.000 --> 02:16:22.159
lunch. But I made it a
triple decker. Wow, made a piece

2345
02:16:22.159 --> 02:16:24.960
of bread? Should load a peanut
butter Another piece of bread, peanut butter,

2346
02:16:26.039 --> 02:16:28.840
piece of bread. How's your saliva? Do it? Just? Yeah,

2347
02:16:28.880 --> 02:16:31.000
it just seems like there's a lot
more bread at the end of the

2348
02:16:31.119 --> 02:16:33.799
day. It seems like kind of
a boring lunch. I mean, it

2349
02:16:33.879 --> 02:16:37.159
did the trick man. Then then
you told me there were free hot dogs

2350
02:16:37.159 --> 02:16:41.559
in the kitchen free. There were
like twenty hot dogs just sitting in the

2351
02:16:41.639 --> 02:16:43.879
kitchen because I had one, but
I wasn't sure I made that hot dogs.

2352
02:16:43.959 --> 02:16:46.799
So fine, I'm pretty sure it's
a universal law of corporate culture that

2353
02:16:46.840 --> 02:16:50.639
the food is left out in the
common kitchen area. Yeah, it's up

2354
02:16:50.680 --> 02:16:54.079
for grabs at least, I hope, so for your sake. Yeah,

2355
02:16:54.360 --> 02:16:58.399
hot dog police are gonna come track
again. Jesus h Adam sends on the

2356
02:16:58.440 --> 02:17:05.120
next email about Cojima. Yeah,
of the hedo of right, I played

2357
02:17:05.120 --> 02:17:07.319
PET over the weekend. Me and
Alexis completed it. Oh yeah, so

2358
02:17:07.440 --> 02:17:09.399
I saw like a shot on a
forum or somewhere floating around. If you

2359
02:17:09.440 --> 02:17:13.959
guys playing PT in broad daylight,
it was I was looking at the probably

2360
02:17:13.360 --> 02:17:16.719
have the same effect the camera's overexposed. It was actually dark in the room.

2361
02:17:16.840 --> 02:17:20.040
Yeah, thank you. By the
way, it's everyone who watched,

2362
02:17:20.040 --> 02:17:22.760
because there's a bunch of Giant Bomb
users who were in there as well.

2363
02:17:22.920 --> 02:17:26.600
We raised over twenty and seventy dollars
for Nice Operation supply drop, So thanks

2364
02:17:26.639 --> 02:17:30.760
for watching. Okat's fun. It's
real dumb. We shouted, the ghost

2365
02:17:30.760 --> 02:17:33.799
of Videocajima compels you into it completed. Yeah, did you finish it?

2366
02:17:33.879 --> 02:17:37.280
Yeah, we completed it. Did
you use a guide? I've never finished

2367
02:17:37.280 --> 02:17:39.600
it, but people always said,
you know, like without looking up yeah,

2368
02:17:39.760 --> 02:17:43.159
solutions, it's inscrutable. He to
walk forward ten times, stop not

2369
02:17:43.319 --> 02:17:48.479
touch editing while the baby screams,
then rubbed the PlayStation four controller and shout

2370
02:17:48.600 --> 02:17:50.520
some fucking dude's name in wait and
that it's where it got. It's too

2371
02:17:50.639 --> 02:17:54.479
trying to figure out if this is
hyperpole. Can you imagine us reading the

2372
02:17:54.559 --> 02:17:58.280
Twins shot and saying, okay,
which one of you is bullshitting because he's

2373
02:17:58.360 --> 02:18:01.879
all sound dumb. It's all leg
and I worked what Yeah you can Yeah,

2374
02:18:01.000 --> 02:18:03.879
yeah we did. We did the
same during Extra Life. Man,

2375
02:18:05.760 --> 02:18:07.360
Okay, I can see what they
thought. It would take people weeks to

2376
02:18:07.440 --> 02:18:11.680
figure that out, and not like
a one night or whatever it was.

2377
02:18:11.879 --> 02:18:20.159
Anyway, Adam asks with Inafune and
now Igarashi you doing legacy games through Kickstarter

2378
02:18:20.239 --> 02:18:24.120
after leaving their long time employers.
Should we expect to see Ben Judd hanging

2379
02:18:24.120 --> 02:18:26.239
out with Kojima anytime soon? Uh? And if Kojima worked to do a

2380
02:18:26.319 --> 02:18:31.120
Kickstarter, would anyone want it to
just to be strategic reconnaissance conflict or to

2381
02:18:31.159 --> 02:18:35.959
people want something completely different from him? I would want something completely different because,

2382
02:18:35.159 --> 02:18:37.319
you know, the appeal of metal
ear to me is like these characters

2383
02:18:37.399 --> 02:18:41.600
that you've just known for so long
and you've spent so much time watching their

2384
02:18:41.639 --> 02:18:43.120
heads talk to each other on a
green screen, you know, Like I

2385
02:18:43.879 --> 02:18:48.639
if he just made some new obvious
metal gear thing with some new badass protagonists

2386
02:18:48.680 --> 02:18:50.520
or whatever, like, I wouldn't
feel that connection the way I feel with

2387
02:18:50.600 --> 02:18:54.799
like Snake, like another knockoff Stealth. Yeah, so I would want him

2388
02:18:54.799 --> 02:18:56.520
to do some batshit Kajima thing like
like bak Tie, you know, like,

2389
02:18:56.559 --> 02:19:00.840
oh, you gotta take your game
boy out and olar panels and shit.

2390
02:19:00.959 --> 02:19:03.680
Like. He has crazy ass ideas
that aren't confined within the middle of

2391
02:19:03.719 --> 02:19:05.360
year world, and I'd like to
him to have agency to do whatever he

2392
02:19:05.399 --> 02:19:09.559
want. Surely he is sitting on
the Treasure Trove. Oh yeah, of

2393
02:19:09.680 --> 02:19:15.559
ideas over the last god, what
is it fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years

2394
02:19:15.840 --> 02:19:20.319
since what since Solid ninety eight?
Yeah, but what he needs is a

2395
02:19:20.360 --> 02:19:22.639
lot of money in his massive studio
that's making vision. That's the rub Like,

2396
02:19:22.680 --> 02:19:26.479
He's not gonna get that from Kickstarter. He would have a pretty successful

2397
02:19:26.520 --> 02:19:28.639
Kickstarter though, Yeah, but not
wed his video would be. But imagine

2398
02:19:28.680 --> 02:19:31.719
how weird that pitch video would be. Yeah, I guess so. But

2399
02:19:31.840 --> 02:19:35.840
I mean we're talking tens of millions
if people are getting pissed off at double

2400
02:19:35.920 --> 02:19:39.959
fine with the amount of transparency to
Tim Shafer and that team. I've had

2401
02:19:39.239 --> 02:19:41.920
over what happened with Broken Age,
like grinds that it was late. Can

2402
02:19:41.920 --> 02:19:46.000
you imagine fucking Hideo God Like,
it seems like every Mentleager game has been

2403
02:19:46.040 --> 02:19:50.959
delayed and changed and a budget and
at the end of the day, he

2404
02:19:50.120 --> 02:19:52.399
always does the right I mean,
they're always good. Yeah. I have

2405
02:19:52.559 --> 02:19:56.040
the utmost faith in mister Kajima.
Whatever he wants to do, I'm on

2406
02:19:56.159 --> 02:20:00.440
board. I think Activision eas gonna
be pick him up. Yeah, that's

2407
02:20:00.479 --> 02:20:03.000
I think that's it, or Microsoft
or like he doesn't go down the road

2408
02:20:03.079 --> 02:20:05.520
of I was thinking that that was
that would be a huge kid for like

2409
02:20:05.639 --> 02:20:11.079
a Microsoft or somebody like that.
Yeah, and to like it's you know,

2410
02:20:11.120 --> 02:20:13.000
it's a little dodgy financially, but
just to basically write that guy a

2411
02:20:13.079 --> 02:20:16.920
blank check and say like, all
right, come come hang out under our

2412
02:20:16.000 --> 02:20:18.319
umbrella and make whatever you want to
make here you go like that's that would

2413
02:20:18.319 --> 02:20:22.079
be a huge, huge get.
I'm not sure if like first party exclusive

2414
02:20:22.239 --> 02:20:24.879
is still a thing that they're trying
to do, but they are. That's

2415
02:20:24.000 --> 02:20:28.000
the big one right there. For
sure, getting more, I'm sure he

2416
02:20:28.040 --> 02:20:33.520
won't have any trouble figuring out something
to do, finding somebody to fund his

2417
02:20:33.600 --> 02:20:35.840
games. He'll probably pay the bills, or maybe he'll just go make movies.

2418
02:20:37.959 --> 02:20:43.440
Who knows, uh, Danny Elide, there's one more email. It's

2419
02:20:43.440 --> 02:20:46.760
not quite as a it's not quite
as heavy and dire as the other two

2420
02:20:46.799 --> 02:20:52.319
though. There's a Prime Minister of
Ireland that we have a T shocked.

2421
02:20:52.360 --> 02:20:56.440
You have a T? What a
T shocked like instead of a prime minister

2422
02:20:56.520 --> 02:21:00.360
or president? Or can you have
a shocked? Yeah it's Irish for prime

2423
02:21:00.399 --> 02:21:05.680
minister shocks. That's a kind of
shoe or something. Yeah, what huh?

2424
02:21:05.799 --> 02:21:09.040
You know there's different languages in the
world. Right, Oh, okay,

2425
02:21:09.159 --> 02:21:13.079
so that's just a picture like T
hyphen shot. It's like Tao.

2426
02:21:15.680 --> 02:21:18.440
Okay, God damn it. Yeah, it's like a T shot. You

2427
02:21:18.479 --> 02:21:20.799
put it on. You're wearing a
T shocked right now, right? Yeah,

2428
02:21:22.399 --> 02:21:26.040
this comes from Walter. It's up
Walter, Walter says, Dear Danny.

2429
02:21:26.879 --> 02:21:30.319
Ever since you're overnight stream with Ian
and Alexis, HAVE been a big

2430
02:21:30.360 --> 02:21:31.200
fan of your work on the site, and I think The Point is one

2431
02:21:31.200 --> 02:21:35.959
of the best produced series and gaming
at the moment. As someone who has

2432
02:21:35.000 --> 02:21:37.600
also worked in a country foreign to
his own, I know how difficult the

2433
02:21:37.639 --> 02:21:41.879
process can be. And I had
a question about the challenges you faced going

2434
02:21:41.959 --> 02:21:46.479
first from Ireland to London then further
over to the US when looking to get

2435
02:21:46.520 --> 02:21:48.680
the kiddo of the job at Game
Spot US. Did you need to apply?

2436
02:21:50.319 --> 02:21:52.600
So I got my path. I'll
say I've said this a bunch of

2437
02:21:52.639 --> 02:21:56.680
times on different things. I'll keep
this super truncated. My path to getting

2438
02:21:56.680 --> 02:21:58.479
it, Like, I want you
to work in this office for this company.

2439
02:22:00.159 --> 02:22:03.840
My path to doing so was very
deliberately. I moved to London to

2440
02:22:03.959 --> 02:22:07.680
get a job at GameSpot UK,
so that I get hopefully I'd seen basically

2441
02:22:07.280 --> 02:22:11.719
people like Justin Calvert make the transition
from the UK office to the US,

2442
02:22:13.280 --> 02:22:16.639
and visas are fucking hard to come
by. Like if if you want to

2443
02:22:16.760 --> 02:22:18.920
like get a job in an industry
in the States, you need to be

2444
02:22:20.040 --> 02:22:24.280
either incredibly good, like so specifically
amazingly good at what you do in a

2445
02:22:24.319 --> 02:22:26.079
weird industry, or you need to
like work in finance or something where they

2446
02:22:26.079 --> 02:22:30.479
could basically fudge the books and get
you somewhere for a while. So like

2447
02:22:30.520 --> 02:22:31.600
I wanted to work here, so
like that was my thing, was that

2448
02:22:31.680 --> 02:22:35.239
if I'm on a visa, which
if I worked for twelve months in the

2449
02:22:35.319 --> 02:22:37.319
UK, I was able to come
to GameSpot US. So that was like

2450
02:22:37.360 --> 02:22:39.879
I went over to London, I
got I was working web development, and

2451
02:22:41.760 --> 02:22:45.959
I was leaving London, and then
like an eleventh hour like phone call,

2452
02:22:46.319 --> 02:22:48.440
I was just about to move to
the Middle East, and I got it.

2453
02:22:48.479 --> 02:22:50.319
I got an offer from games by
UK saying come on in, and

2454
02:22:50.399 --> 02:22:54.799
then from there the good people in
the Games by US and UK got me

2455
02:22:54.959 --> 02:22:58.479
over here. When when my shows
were doing good, so much easier to

2456
02:22:58.600 --> 02:23:01.000
justify. Yeah, it's once you're
already part of the company exactly. It's

2457
02:23:01.079 --> 02:23:05.799
it's legally like there were still significant
bullshit visa stuff to do, but it

2458
02:23:05.879 --> 02:23:09.600
worked out in the end. It's
a very cold, calculated plan that you

2459
02:23:09.680 --> 02:23:11.840
hatched. Yeah, when when it
worked out, actually felt like, where

2460
02:23:11.840 --> 02:23:15.959
are you idiot? You put all
your eggs in one basket and you were

2461
02:23:16.120 --> 02:23:18.600
very lucky that the basket ended up
working out, actually worked. Yeah,

2462
02:23:18.680 --> 02:23:22.120
So I'm very very grateful. So
thanks you so much for watching the show,

2463
02:23:22.159 --> 02:23:26.840
because like, ultimately that's why I'm
here. So thank you, totally

2464
02:23:28.000 --> 02:23:30.760
thank you. Brad. Yeah,
sure, you guys at a real raising

2465
02:23:30.799 --> 02:23:33.879
line here. You're reading emails.
Look at GameSpot stuff, backward Day's ancient

2466
02:23:33.959 --> 02:23:37.520
history, all Rich Galb's fault.
At this point, all things come back

2467
02:23:37.559 --> 02:23:43.399
to Rich Gold. It's the most
important man in the industry. Brian from

2468
02:23:43.440 --> 02:23:48.879
Michigan. This actually ties into two
emails ago with Kojima stuff. He writes

2469
02:23:48.920 --> 02:23:54.319
in about the drawbacks of nostalgic kickstarters. After listening to you guys discuss Ukulele

2470
02:23:54.399 --> 02:23:56.239
a couple of weeks ago and the
new Ega game this past week, it

2471
02:23:56.319 --> 02:24:00.959
got me thinking about the nostalgic kickstarter
trend. Do you think it's a drawback

2472
02:24:01.000 --> 02:24:05.120
for the developers to have to trade
on their old materials so much. I'm

2473
02:24:05.120 --> 02:24:07.719
sure some of them have bigger,
newer ideas, but the crowd just wants

2474
02:24:07.760 --> 02:24:11.000
more of what they already know.
Do former Rare employees want to make a

2475
02:24:11.040 --> 02:24:13.520
spiritual successor to Banjo Kazoi or is
that just what they're making because they know

2476
02:24:13.639 --> 02:24:18.600
it will sell Along similar lines,
Jeff said he'd be disappointed if the new

2477
02:24:18.639 --> 02:24:22.280
EGA game is just more symphony of
the night? Will these types of kickstarters

2478
02:24:22.319 --> 02:24:26.000
stifle creativity and just ensure that we're
playing the same games every fifteen years?

2479
02:24:28.120 --> 02:24:33.360
All I know is Boogerman didn't get
fund That didn't. That's good. That's

2480
02:24:33.360 --> 02:24:37.840
a good point, open and shut
case. Neither did that Mutant League Football

2481
02:24:37.879 --> 02:24:39.879
did it? Nope? Really yeah, No, Descent barely made it,

2482
02:24:39.920 --> 02:24:43.280
although that one was a little dodgy
in terms of what they were offering.

2483
02:24:45.799 --> 02:24:50.559
Trying to think they're they're definitely been
like a number of more high profiles.

2484
02:24:50.719 --> 02:24:54.120
Yeah, kickstarters didn't you know,
run by people who made very high profile

2485
02:24:54.200 --> 02:24:56.959
games in the past that did not
get funded. So I feel like the

2486
02:24:56.000 --> 02:25:01.479
people that will make those of the
people who are making those because they because

2487
02:25:01.479 --> 02:25:03.719
they can't or they won't make other
games, Like there are the types of

2488
02:25:03.719 --> 02:25:07.000
people who want to make those.
They have a passion for those games that

2489
02:25:07.159 --> 02:25:11.959
mage years ago, or maybe they're
designers from a bygone era and they're just

2490
02:25:11.120 --> 02:25:13.840
like, you know what, I
was comfortable I made this type of game,

2491
02:25:13.879 --> 02:25:16.680
and I don't want to have to
drag myself into the few the modern

2492
02:25:16.719 --> 02:25:20.399
world of game design, Like I
want to go back and do that.

2493
02:25:20.639 --> 02:25:22.360
And it seems like they find their
audience via cast sure, And I mean

2494
02:25:22.520 --> 02:25:26.159
in almost all these cases, these
are types of games that they haven't been

2495
02:25:26.159 --> 02:25:28.799
allowed to make for a long time, you know, like you guys said

2496
02:25:28.840 --> 02:25:31.239
that, you know, like publishers
told him no, the rare guys have

2497
02:25:31.319 --> 02:25:35.879
not made this kind of platform or
in ages like even all those CRPGs,

2498
02:25:35.920 --> 02:25:39.280
you know, Torment and Waste Land
and stuff like that, Like they're haven't

2499
02:25:39.319 --> 02:25:43.319
been publishers out there willing to support
that kind of thing. So you would

2500
02:25:43.360 --> 02:25:46.159
assume that even though these a lot
of these people made these types of games

2501
02:25:46.200 --> 02:25:48.159
ages ago, that there, it's
been long enough they're probably ready to give

2502
02:25:48.200 --> 02:25:52.399
it another shot. You know,
I would hope that's the case. It's

2503
02:25:52.399 --> 02:25:54.959
not like anybody's like holding a gun
to their heads saying you must make this,

2504
02:25:56.159 --> 02:25:58.760
you know, but like, yeah, the odds of funding something or

2505
02:25:58.799 --> 02:26:01.479
a billion times more if it's hey, remember something, of course, like

2506
02:26:01.520 --> 02:26:03.120
hey, here's a passion project,
let me tell you about. Yeah.

2507
02:26:03.360 --> 02:26:07.479
When I buy that stuff, sometimes
I don't even feel like I'm actually buying

2508
02:26:07.520 --> 02:26:11.159
a product. I feel like I'm
like I'm tipping somebody who when I was

2509
02:26:11.239 --> 02:26:13.959
a child, I wasn't able to
tip them, Like I feel like,

2510
02:26:15.040 --> 02:26:16.399
thank you so much for that thing
you did, somebody who molded you.

2511
02:26:18.280 --> 02:26:20.719
It's really strange, Like sometimes the
game just turns up and I'm like going

2512
02:26:20.399 --> 02:26:24.600
right about that. You're not backing
a project, you're facilitating a dreamy kind

2513
02:26:24.639 --> 02:26:30.440
of backed one Kickstarter and it was
to h John Drake's flight tracker. Oh

2514
02:26:30.479 --> 02:26:33.920
yes, it's me too, actually
worthy good Worthy. I don't think I

2515
02:26:33.959 --> 02:26:39.280
ever actually played that. Just followed
him on Twitter and I think it came

2516
02:26:39.319 --> 02:26:41.799
out. I'll put that out.
Yeah, should you should send him a

2517
02:26:41.840 --> 02:26:46.479
diet coke? Okay, that's an
HD re released coming out. Of course,

2518
02:26:46.120 --> 02:26:52.280
that's what dam is doing. Of
course. Uh. Jack from Williamsburg

2519
02:26:52.319 --> 02:26:56.040
in Virginia. I think this will
be the last email you get. A

2520
02:26:56.040 --> 02:26:58.319
good one, Jack, all right, So it's hello, John Bomb Crew.

2521
02:27:00.840 --> 02:27:03.600
I was just eating my dinner spaghetti
with tomato sauce, when I took

2522
02:27:03.639 --> 02:27:07.000
a bite that was significantly hotter than
I anticipated, causing me to suck in

2523
02:27:07.079 --> 02:27:09.040
my breath fucked up right. For
a moment, it felt like the sauce

2524
02:27:09.079 --> 02:27:13.200
had found its way up my nose, but that passed quickly. A few

2525
02:27:13.239 --> 02:27:16.399
minutes later, however, I found
myself thinking, hmm, feels like there's

2526
02:27:16.440 --> 02:27:20.040
a spaghetti noodle in the back of
my nose. I grabbed a tissue,

2527
02:27:20.079 --> 02:27:22.239
and sure enough, I blew a
spaghetti noodle out of my nose. It

2528
02:27:22.280 --> 02:27:26.479
didn't hurt, I barely felt it
at all. I found the whole situation

2529
02:27:26.639 --> 02:27:30.120
rather humorous, in fact, but
it made me wonder, what's the strangest

2530
02:27:30.159 --> 02:27:33.280
thing any of you have ever blown
out of your nose. Please make sure

2531
02:27:33.360 --> 02:27:35.559
Dan is present when you read this. Just have a feeling he might have

2532
02:27:35.680 --> 02:27:41.520
a relevant experience. Swizzlers for me, like, yeah, what A friend

2533
02:27:41.559 --> 02:27:45.639
of mine and I when we were
probably like I don't know, ten years

2534
02:27:45.680 --> 02:27:48.879
old, we had walk into town, lived very much out of the country,

2535
02:27:48.200 --> 02:27:52.559
and when we finally got into town, we celebrated by just like chugging

2536
02:27:52.680 --> 02:27:54.920
all this like fruit punch, Gatorade, and just chomping on all these fucking

2537
02:27:54.959 --> 02:28:01.360
Twizzlers to the point that we got
physically ill and eventually threw up these chewed

2538
02:28:01.440 --> 02:28:05.799
up Twizzlers and uh yeah, gatorade, And there were so much. It

2539
02:28:05.879 --> 02:28:07.559
was such a high volume of this
stuff that had sorted to come out my

2540
02:28:07.639 --> 02:28:13.319
nose more like chunks of twizzleer I
was. I was envisioning like an entire

2541
02:28:13.360 --> 02:28:16.959
twizzler, just like pulling it out
magic trick style. You could you could

2542
02:28:16.959 --> 02:28:22.000
probably do. This was an involuntary
Yeah. There was a guy in my

2543
02:28:22.280 --> 02:28:26.239
primary school yard that would whenever he
ate cheese that had come out of his

2544
02:28:26.360 --> 02:28:28.520
nose. Yeah, So he used
to get like a superpower. Yeah,

2545
02:28:28.600 --> 02:28:33.120
like a really lame it's like already
shit, superta start a bank stop a

2546
02:28:33.159 --> 02:28:37.799
bank robbery with that nemesis is somebody
who like grossed out intolerant man. Yeah,

2547
02:28:37.879 --> 02:28:41.760
So whenever he like every day at
lunchtime, he'd open up his lunch

2548
02:28:41.840 --> 02:28:43.479
box and we'd all like gather around
to see if it was a cheese sandwich

2549
02:28:43.520 --> 02:28:46.000
and then we'd watch him do it. It's just cheese. Yeah, it's

2550
02:28:46.040 --> 02:28:50.799
just cheese. I don't understand the
mechanics of this cheese would come up.

2551
02:28:50.920 --> 02:28:52.879
Yeah, I think it's just a
way he ate it. I think he

2552
02:28:52.000 --> 02:28:56.440
just sucked it eating. That could
be anyway, Dan, we're all waiting

2553
02:28:56.520 --> 02:28:58.879
over here. I'm thinking about that, and I feel I've told the Trip

2554
02:29:00.159 --> 02:29:03.040
Cheese Kraft mac and Cheese story before
on here, haven't. I Okay,

2555
02:29:03.360 --> 02:29:05.399
it was that probably, I mean, just some new material here. I

2556
02:29:05.479 --> 02:29:07.399
forget what I've told, but like, yeah, it was any one of

2557
02:29:07.440 --> 02:29:15.079
those violent vomit sessions in college,
just the multi weekly vomit sessions, Like

2558
02:29:16.079 --> 02:29:18.280
it always came up through my nose, like the puke always did. So

2559
02:29:18.360 --> 02:29:22.959
like I've had, like you know, Nickelodeon colored mac and cheese shit come

2560
02:29:22.959 --> 02:29:26.000
out of my nose before. Like
so, yeah, lots of food,

2561
02:29:26.120 --> 02:29:28.200
like basically anything I've ingested, tons
of taco bell and fire sauces come out

2562
02:29:28.200 --> 02:29:33.040
of my nose in the form of
vomit, not just like you know,

2563
02:29:33.680 --> 02:29:37.680
dispensing it from my nose or whatever. So lots of food, edible stuff,

2564
02:29:37.719 --> 02:29:39.760
nothing crazy. We got a lot
of emails trying to ruin your enjoyment

2565
02:29:39.799 --> 02:29:43.719
of taco bell They can't because yesterday
the bug stuff. But do you know

2566
02:29:43.760 --> 02:29:46.600
how many bugs might have been in
there? As long as I tell myself

2567
02:29:46.639 --> 02:29:50.799
they're not probably as long as I
believe it. That's the Bella and Nacho's

2568
02:29:50.799 --> 02:29:54.680
Bella Grande ignorance is bliss the Dan
record story. Yeah it works, I

2569
02:29:54.760 --> 02:29:56.799
guess so all right, that's gonna
do it for emails, that's all I've

2570
02:29:56.840 --> 02:30:01.879
got. BombCast a giant bomb dot
com. Thanks to everybody who wrote in,

2571
02:30:01.719 --> 02:30:05.760
and thanks to Danny Dwyer for being
here with Thanks. Thanks man,

2572
02:30:05.879 --> 02:30:09.600
thanks having me. Always a pleasure
long time podcast listeners, time caller,

2573
02:30:09.799 --> 02:30:13.159
Yeah, well I've been on a
couple of times. Really appreciate it now

2574
02:30:13.360 --> 02:30:16.040
listen since Arrow pointing down Man,
So it's an ancient history, man,

2575
02:30:16.120 --> 02:30:20.120
Always a pleasure to be on here, dude. Plug dancers, Oh yeah,

2576
02:30:20.159 --> 02:30:22.840
we've got a pomp bomb you do
it? I talked too much?

2577
02:30:22.360 --> 02:30:26.079
Did I say you can plug your
ship on the show. Sorry, Man's

2578
02:30:26.200 --> 02:30:31.760
tep Giant bomb dot com shit s
fine, promote our other properties on this

2579
02:30:31.799 --> 02:30:33.479
problem. Yeah, man, that's
Irish guy. Do a life advice podcast.

2580
02:30:35.280 --> 02:30:37.360
The premium thing for subscribers. It's
fun a good one this week.

2581
02:30:37.399 --> 02:30:41.120
I thought, Yeah, Stephanie Goldavote, friend of mine who actually works as

2582
02:30:41.159 --> 02:30:43.719
a therapist. She came on and
yeah, it's a good two hour long

2583
02:30:43.760 --> 02:30:46.040
podcasts. It's a new episode on
the site. Yeah, I should be

2584
02:30:46.079 --> 02:30:50.360
live right now. Episode Yeah ninth, yeahs could do something big for the

2585
02:30:50.399 --> 02:30:54.920
tenth excellent. Oh fuck, maybe
we'll actually give some advice. It's useful.

2586
02:30:56.040 --> 02:30:58.159
Okay, and ultime one as well, the podcast about speedy race cars

2587
02:30:58.200 --> 02:31:01.200
on myself and just yeah, you're
in the Shameless show over here. Look

2588
02:31:01.239 --> 02:31:03.799
at this guy. You're in like
you're in like every other podcast on the

2589
02:31:03.840 --> 02:31:09.000
site already. Yeah, I'll be
up again tomorrow's speaking the podcast again.

2590
02:31:09.040 --> 02:31:13.120
Don't forget to look forward. The
Giant Beast cast, Yeah on Friday on

2591
02:31:13.200 --> 02:31:16.760
the website. What else we got
going on this week? I don't know

2592
02:31:16.799 --> 02:31:20.200
if I can commit to Yeah,
I feel like it's every week. We'll

2593
02:31:20.200 --> 02:31:22.559
do some stuff we're not ready to
talk about it. And there's been some

2594
02:31:22.600 --> 02:31:26.719
stuff that have you know, kicked
us in The new technology is being explored

2595
02:31:26.760 --> 02:31:30.799
around here was a big Yeah,
an akis Rift show not work out.

2596
02:31:33.200 --> 02:31:35.719
I thought of another idea for a
feature that Jason's looking at. If we

2597
02:31:35.840 --> 02:31:39.399
can make it happen, well,
it could be cool. Yeah, I

2598
02:31:39.399 --> 02:31:41.479
mean you guys, did you guys
did achieve the coast to coast quick look?

2599
02:31:41.680 --> 02:31:45.280
Yeah? That was cool. Like
if you could do that, you

2600
02:31:45.319 --> 02:31:46.959
could do anything. Jason made it
so I could play punch out by punching

2601
02:31:48.040 --> 02:31:50.319
John Drake in the face. He
can get anything. True. That was

2602
02:31:50.360 --> 02:31:54.440
a lot of fun. We will
take a look at the new Destiny stuff.

2603
02:31:54.879 --> 02:31:56.879
Like it or not. It's here, we're gonna talk about it.

2604
02:31:58.040 --> 02:32:01.120
Uh, it's kind of full,
like God on that one. I'm going

2605
02:32:01.159 --> 02:32:05.440
to Mexico. What. Yeah,
I'm from Mexico on Friday the Moor all

2606
02:32:05.520 --> 02:32:09.040
day weekend, so I'm just streaming
the whole thing. Yeah, periscope Mexico.

2607
02:32:09.120 --> 02:32:11.520
No, I'm not even gonna have
like phone signal that it's gonna be

2608
02:32:11.600 --> 02:32:13.959
in Mexico. No way to reach
the outside world. I think we talked

2609
02:32:13.959 --> 02:32:18.280
about it already, but you're doing
the whole like like bar in the pool

2610
02:32:18.360 --> 02:32:20.639
thing. Yeah, it's all inclusive
this resort. So it's like infinite beer

2611
02:32:20.840 --> 02:32:24.879
and I keeps saying free, infinite
free, But then I remember I paid

2612
02:32:24.879 --> 02:32:28.920
a thousand dollars for this. Did
you get it? Margit pool? That's

2613
02:32:28.920 --> 02:32:31.120
just the last man on Earth thing. Yeah, I don't know. My

2614
02:32:31.159 --> 02:32:31.959
mom has been there a bunch of
times, and I guess you just drink

2615
02:32:33.040 --> 02:32:35.040
all you went, Like you have
a bar in your room and you eat

2616
02:32:35.040 --> 02:32:37.440
and drink all you want. Have
you never been to an all inclusive Nope.

2617
02:32:37.440 --> 02:32:39.520
I've never been to Mexico. I've
never done any kind of like tropical

2618
02:32:39.600 --> 02:32:43.760
type vacation or anything like. I've
never done beachy stuff. It's always been

2619
02:32:43.799 --> 02:32:46.040
like going to cities and stuff.
I did one for a friend's wedding,

2620
02:32:46.079 --> 02:32:48.799
and it's exactly what you think it
is. I'm just like you step out

2621
02:32:48.799 --> 02:32:52.399
the door at nine am and like
somebody sticks a drink in your hand and

2622
02:32:52.440 --> 02:32:54.440
you just kind of don't stop for
the rest of the day. Is it

2623
02:32:54.559 --> 02:32:58.879
like all Americans? Like everyone there
is already much like the one? Oh

2624
02:32:58.000 --> 02:33:03.719
yeah, how many days? I'm
leaving Friday. I'm coming back Monday,

2625
02:33:03.840 --> 02:33:07.440
so I'll be here for the next
podcast. So probably with some stories,

2626
02:33:07.639 --> 02:33:13.479
just short enough that you don't kill
yourself. I don't know if I actually

2627
02:33:13.559 --> 02:33:15.840
read the email, or if it
even was an email, or I read

2628
02:33:15.879 --> 02:33:20.760
somewhere somebody talking about you, talking
about pool bars and how drinking tends to

2629
02:33:20.799 --> 02:33:26.639
lower your inhibitions. I've heard about
rinking also tends to make you need no,

2630
02:33:26.520 --> 02:33:31.000
yeah, and how you're probably just
marinating in a pool full of urine

2631
02:33:31.000 --> 02:33:33.639
when you're hanging out the pool bar. Hey, ignorance is bliss, and

2632
02:33:33.680 --> 02:33:37.000
I'll be pretty drunk, so you
don't care, Okay, as long as

2633
02:33:37.000 --> 02:33:41.600
I don't know about it, all
right, invince myself trying not to swallow

2634
02:33:41.680 --> 02:33:45.280
any Oh, that's a good,
good rule with them for any pool.

2635
02:33:45.319 --> 02:33:48.239
Really, that's okay. Yeah,
yeah, that's fair man. You are

2636
02:33:48.280 --> 02:33:50.440
good, good for giving advice,
right, yeah. Yeah. We have

2637
02:33:50.479 --> 02:33:52.760
a podcast answers every two weeks on
job on dot com. All right,

2638
02:33:52.520 --> 02:33:56.760
that's gonna do it for this week's
edition of the Giant Bodcast. Thanks everybody

2639
02:33:56.799 --> 02:34:00.159
for listening. I'll be back for
more stuff this week and then another there

2640
02:34:00.159 --> 02:34:01.719
adition to the podcast next week