Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly video game show
here at Geek First, and I am your host, dyl Musk. I
with me two guests today, the clown Prince of Secrets, Travis Snell.
How are you doing, my friend? Good? Good to be back on
side Quest. I can't remember last time I was on. It's been I
think it's been a quick a long minute, not a quick minute, so
I don't know. I think like two weeks, three weeks maybe. I
guess. The X Men thing is that it yeah, that wasn't that long
ago. It was the start of the season of X Yeah. But now
we're on episode five of X Men, so that's a month ago. I
was there as well. So it's I'm like, you can't get enough of
me. This guy, he'll never do side with us. There's a rule.
Most like he just wants just doing alone, you know. Yeah,
he wants me to get alone in that room. And we also have with
us the rogue Kirkland Patzer. Of course, as we just mentioned, how
are you doing, my friend, I'm doing very good. I'm happy to
be here. It was too bad we weren't able to get together last week.
But you sounded much better now, So I'm excited to talk some some
quests on the side, some quests on the side. Yeah, last week's
episode got a little delay because of my sickness, and then me and Kirklan
are scheduled didn't line up, and so I just did a little solo episode
where I talked about Blotrow for a half an hour, which is a really
great game that you guys should check out because you both like poker, so
I think you would like it. I gotta I gotta get the I gotta
make that, gotta sign into that app, that app you guys talked about
letter Box for games. I gotta make it because my oh yes, backlogged
down. I gotta make a attack plan here soon. So mm hmm.
That's good twenty dollars game. But it's it's just eating up the hours out
of my out of my day. It's really really great. Other shout outs.
Make sure to check out the Patronic episodes early and ad free, leave
a review, join our discord all that good stuff. You can wish list
my game on Steam. It's called Potion Problem. I'm gonna announce their release
date very soon. Isn't that exciting? Oh wow, that's fiy's gngratulations sir,
very soon, so stay tuned to the feeds. Also relevant to this
is that we will be reviewing the Fallout TV show. We're actually recording it
right after this. Travis, Right, you finished the season. Yeah,
I think that was bad, but yeah I didn't No, I did.
I did finish it, so so yeah, that's very exciting. I'm yeah,
So we'll break down all of that. All is all at one,
because of course they dropped the season all at once, which is funny.
So they of course that show came out, and there's been a lot of
speculation last few months, like Okay, what is Bethesa gonna do in anticipation
of this show? What kind of release are you gonna do? Not much,
but they announced that they're finally doing like the current Gen upgrade for the
game, which is like, Okay, the game came out in twenty fifteen.
For fallow four, I'm talking about the game came out twenty fifteen.
Then current Gen consoles came out in like twenty twenty, so it's like it's
four years old at this point, so I don't know, it's it's kind
of a weird thing. But also like that gets me excited to want to
jump back in. I didn't realize that they hadn't done that update yet,
but I definitely want to jump in with those sixty frames looking all good on
the series X there. But the thing that also then kind of killed my
hype a bit is I was very looking forward to this big Fallout four mod
that was gonna come out this month called Fallout London, which is just this
huge community mod of like just a new Follout game in London using the Fallout
four engine and everything. But they delayed that because this huge next gen curringing
up update. It's gonna fuck with a bunch of things that I'll probably screw
there, so it's smart. I know. I feel bad for those people
making the mod, but hopefully it's not too much is screwed over and they
can release it pretty soon. I cursed it because the next Piequest is on
that was the title. I said, what's yes, well London, and
now that's not the title of that episode. Yeah, I got nuked into
the now, says you. I've been thinking about, like I said,
That's why I've got to make an attack plan. There's still a couple of
games i'd like to finish, I may want to do elm ring, but
yeah, I thought this definitely when we do the review, got the fault
juice is going of? Man, I'd like to take a couple of strolls
in the wasteland sees what going on and where would you go? Would you
go followut four again or would you go to one you haven't played yet?
Well that's a good question. That's why I needed the tack plan. I
think if I just wanted to get a taste of Fallout, then it would
be fault four. But if I made a plan where like I should try
some new then it would be one of the ones I hadn't played before.
So I think come all depending on the scheduling. So I think fault four
would be more likely because I got you know, I'm already set up like
a path I'm going on. There's some side quests I'm sure I was working
on, so that'd probably be the route, but stuff on my calendar more
because I will totally review, but definitely good job at like capturing that ore
of the games. Yeah, check out the review because I feel like games.
Sure we'll be making lots of comparisons, so yeah, any other shout
outs from you guys because we have know a news newscast the season bax ing
X Men, but any other shout outs, No, yeah, just x
Men. There's lots of reviews the next couple of weeks with for movie Side,
Fallout Plan, The Apes, Me and Kirkland, jump Back, and
Rebel Moon this week. Yeah. Yeah, lots of lots of fun little
reviews coming up. But I'm trying to think if anything, And I guess
the next series for the Patrons is the Alien series is starting up this weekend,
so look out for that for movie Wise. But yeah, that's it.
Okay, let's get right into it here. First off, I have
a little secret segment for you guys, which is that, like about a
week and a half ago, you guys did a monkey Man review, okay,
and on that review you talked about how, first of all that we
should name are like different GV combos okay, which I think is fun.
But then also you were talking about a Mario game that had like certain tag
teams to it, which you know, Travis, I appreciate you always give
me so much credit as a that I know everything, but I did not
know what you were talking about. I thought it sounded cool, but I
didn't know what you're talking about. But I looked into it, and apparently
a handful of Mario Party games have had this feature, which is that if
you like you're playing this tag team mode, and if you pick certain character
combos, it comes up with a fun name that each of them have,
and it's like a bespoke name for each combo. So in my defense,
I've never maybe i've played some of these Mario Party games, i never owned
any of them, so I never jumped into like this tag team mode to
experience it. But I thought, you know, this is a video game
show, why don't we make a little game out of this. We're gonna
do a little little battle between you guys to see if you guys can guess
what the I'm gonna give you the team name, and you have to guess
who are the people that make up this team. And I think it'll be
harder than you expect, So I'm gonna give you guys. You can have
each three hints, and if you ask for a hint, I'll give you
one of the two people on the team and hopefully that helps you find it.
So we'll go back and hints just the answer. No, no,
no, like, you get three hints overall, I'm gonna I have twenty
team names here. But then you said, oh, you said one of
the hints is the other team. You have three hints each. Okay,
so you have three that you can use across your question, and one of
those hints is half the equation, right, Yeah, okay, I thought
you said, but you know, if it's if it's one way, I'm
gonna give you like whatever. I think the more easy of the two would
be. So I I just I just think it's gonna be a lot harder
than you expect, which is why I want to give some hints in that.
Can we and you can say no, can we have any frame of
reference for which era this Mario Party game is in? Like the decade all?
I believe it was like Mario Party six, five, six, seven
and eight or some week we are. We gave Cuberra late game, who's
on the cover of the Wii. That's the one I'll be thinking of now.
And yeah, no characters that like, I'm trying to think of the
newest Mario character that would exist. No new characters don't make it in the
Mario though. Mario party is always just the classics, right, like other
than I feel like he usually is, and maybe a toad like that's like
an exclusive club. There's a couple of freaks in this in these lists,
so be prepared to do some deep cut hunting here. I'm trying to think
of like certain villains that might be yeah, the dry bones. Yeah,
I start thinking about some characters. But here. So here's what's gonna work.
I have twenty I have twenty team names, and whoever wants whoever else
to go first. So you'll you'll, I'll pick you, you'll, I'll
give you the team name. You have to guess. If you don't get
it, the other person can steal for that round, okay, and then
we'll go to the next person, and then we'll do that down and then
we'll see who has the best score when it's all said and done. Okay.
So here's the big prime example is if you pick Mario and Luis on
a team, you get the Mario Bros. That's the name. Pretty simple
stuff, right, But that's as easy as it gets. There's a couple
in here that are pretty easy. Who wants to go first? I'll volunteers.
Kay Kirkland I think I think you get an easy softball here. Who
are the sweetest couple, the sweetest couple, the sweetest couple. I feel
like there's an easy answer to this, but I'm really focusing on the sweetest
uh part of that. I don't want to overthink it. I'm just gonna
go Mario Peach and Mario Peach. It is good there at one point for
you right there, Travis, who are the nice couple. It's gonna be
like his uncle was, Joe Junior, The nice couple, the nice couple.
I guess I'll just go Luigian Daisy, you want to hear the curve
ball here? Well, I'll say it's not that. It's not that Kirkling
you get to steal. OK, so it's not easy. There's a curveball
coming in and already was given. Let's go. That doesn't make sense.
I don't know what are you thinking. Bowser and Peach no opposite. I
don't think Bowser is playable in any Mario party because he always like the villain.
I could be wrong. Maybe the one that does the fucking train.
Whatever that one was, I think he must have been one. I won't
search right now to spoil anything, but the nice couple is Mario and Daisy.
Isn't that weird? Oh? Yeah, weird? Have they ever been
canonically together other than this Mario Party game. I don't think it was,
though. I just thought it was so weird that they would clarify them as
a couple. That's a very strange thing. So no points there. We're
back to uh team name. So if you play as Mario and Daisy,
they're called the nice couple. Yeah, strange, I know. Okay,
here's the next one for you. Kirkland Sugar and Spies. Sugar and Spies.
Uh, I want to say Daisy and Luigi or Wallawigi? Wrong?
Wrong, Travis, chance to steal Sugar and Spies. We should start hint
asking for hints. I don't get hints on three steel right, only are
my first ones. You can go for it because Kirkland didn't use his If
you want sugar and Spy. Okay, So do do I just say hint?
Or do I ask you like is it like the guess who? And
I ask you like a descriptor like this person? That? Yeah? Like
that? Right? Like? Oh no, you just asked for a hint.
I'll give you one of the two characters in it. Okay, and
I got three hints, you get three overall? Yeah, give me Okay,
Sugar and Spies. Warrio is one of Sugar and Spies. Yeah.
I figured Kirkland, you're on the right path of Warrior Luigi because I just
feel like spies, yeah, has to be them, so Sugar. I
could see a case for Peach. I'm not saying that. I was say
final answer. I could see a case like, we should give you that
second hint, give you that second hand you want to use your no,
no, I'm not doing Wait, I only get you can't use a hint
on the same on the the same one. I get to save your hints.
Yeah, oh, I thought it was for each. That was I
was trying to clarify no, no, no, no nos overall, and
then he would just give you the answer. Okay, that's fine. I
can tell you who it's not. It's not I have a repeat of the
name Sugar and Spies. Thank you. I'm gonna go with Peach and Warrior.
You got it, the Sugar and Spies. Okay, Travis, it's
still you here because that was a steal barbecue ribs. These are all legit
by the way, I'm not making the smoke. When they made this week
game barbecue ribs. Oh yeah, I'll say, I'll save my hands now
because me and Kirk tied one one right now, so I gotta say this
for later. I don't want to say my thinking. I don't want to
give krook On a tips here. So barbecue ribs, Barbecue ribs. Oh
yeah, it's good team name. I think this is in multiple games too,
actually, so it's not just like some silly one off. I could
be wrong about that. I'm gonna say this's gonna me wrong. I'm gonna
say thous with Junior and dry Bones wrong? Okay, but it was a
good valiant guest. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna use my I'm gonna I'm
gonna use the Travis strategy here and use my hint. Okay, Travis Driv
Right, yeah, I was like, that's probably you know, so who
would be the barbecue question? Right? That's Jr? Because if Bows is
not playable and Junior, who else is fire? I mean Mario? So
I'll go Mario and dry Bones. You got it, Barbecue ribs, Mario
and Drive can't all be fire if you at the flower power, right,
anybody could have that, but like Dylan, multiple games, so I feel
like, okay, well, if if that pairing is multiple games, dry
Bone has been a multiples in all of them, So okay, we're back
to you, Kirkland. Right, yes, total creeps, total creeps,
Well, Toad definitely has to be one of them, I would hope.
And then for the creep this is where it's like, man, who who?
Which villain is? U is a playable character? It's total not total?
Okay, I thought you had a pun going total creeps. I mean,
feel free to pick up. I'm gonna go Warrior and Wallowigi. Oh
wrong, wrong, I would have thought that too, Kirkland. The only
thing is though, this total creep. So now it's just my question of
like, was Booat playable character? Right? That's when it comes down to
me, is like, because he'd fit the creeps. But that would mean
Boo does appear on some of these. Yeah, so I'm gonna go Boo
and dry Bones. You guys are very close together. It's Walloweg and Boo,
oh God and Boo. That's a weird I like it, but yeah,
I don't like that pain in the name it's a little too Okay,
back to Travis rotten eggs. Okay, So I'm gonna again not finally answer.
I'm saying in my mind, I feel like Yoshi could be good because
he throws eggs. So I feel like that's a a rotten egg. So
then who's rotten? And you got lots of rotten options. You got Warrio,
you got Wallowig, you got Toad. He's alway he's a rotten the
individual. Right, But I'm gonna say Warrio and Yoshi finally answer wrong,
I'm gonna go Wallig and Yoshi the egg. The egg in this equation is
Burno. It's Burno and Warrior. And you're ready for a super hard one
if these ones you've already been hard? I'm ready. Who are the barn
Builders? The barn Builders I'm gonna take believe these are the canon names for
these teams. It's so weird, like something of a Builder character. I'll
take a hint, though, we'll use my second one. Oh, you're
gonna use your hant Okay, I'll be nice here, hammer Bro Oh okay,
I wouldn't have even thought of him. Actually, yeah, that's why
hammer Brow and the Barn Builders, Okay, and I will say, I'll
give you another I'll give you another hint on top of that, which is
okay, I'll pay, which is that this makes no sense in my mind.
That's your hand. I'll go that deterns me from a guest because I
feel like I'm trying to go for like a one that might make I mean,
maybe I'm missing out on some lower that would make it make sense.
But the barn Builders, I'm gonna go dry Bones and hammer Bro wrong.
All right, Travis, you get a steal and you already know one of
them, so, yeah, you can't use your hint for the other answer.
Yeah, I can't get into the Yeah. Ah hmm, this is
what Taylor's missing out on. This is what Taylor misses when an impossible quiz.
Yeah, and did you just take select ones? Ors? Like this
is every team name in the No. I picked the ones that I thought
were the most fun or interesting or weird. Okay, there are some easier,
there are some Honestly, not a lot of them are that easy.
They were they did not have a lot of softball ones. Oh boy,
I'm gonna say d Kay and hammer Bro. No, I don't think d
K I don't think I'm not there, but I wasn't sure because he's in
like one to five. I think, yeah, they'll. I looked at
like I didn't see any d K so I think he was just he's obviously
in like mar Party two and then Superstars and stuff. At least you got
that way because I just saw it. Maybe Bond and building the Muscle.
It's Daisy in hammer Bro. Why Daisy? You know? Maybe she's known
for Bill Barnes in her Maybe maybe I'm losing track. Who are we?
This is Travis now? I think right, lean and mean. I think
this one's easier than previous few rounds. Lean and mean. Is it okay?
I'm gonna say Luigi and Warrior, oh so close, but not close
enough? Say Warrior in wall Owigi you got no, no no no no
no no no no he didn't he didn't yet. No, No, it's
it's it is it Luigi and Wallawigi. It is yeah, damn it.
The second I said, on my so close, so close, Uh,
Kirkling, here's a very hard one. The little guys. Who are the
little guys? Maybe it's not that hard the little guys. I think Toad's
one of them. I hope, I hope Toad's a playable character in these
games. Toad's definitely not in every single one, but some of them.
The other small character this is this is a really hard one. I'll say,
you probably wouldn't even think of this character. We've already mentioned hammer Bro,
who is another short man. So hammer Brow is playable in a Mario
Party game in one of them. Yeah, what, that's crazy? What
were they smoking? I think that's cool. I love how it is,
but just I think it's because Mario Party does have I think a list of
other characters like I don't think did he colnor may it to one? Maybe
did one? But I don't know what's the name, what's the what's the
name again? The little guys? The little guys. I'll go, no,
that's not a playable character. Who are you thinking as a play Who
were you just thinking about? I was gonna say, like a Koopa or
something, But no that I don't think it's ever been Believe in yourself,
I'll say, Coopa. Then I'm gonna give it to you. It's Coopa
Kid's and to well, thank you nice? It was a half hint.
How many we got left there? We're halfway through. I'm just playing out
my hints. You have two hints left, and Kirkland has one. This
one's pretty good, Travis dry Thrones. Sounds like some sort of porn.
There's another one up here that's very poorn, like I feel like that has
bones and Peach, you got it. Way to go, Way to go?
Two right now? Back to Kirkland with the damsels in success. Oh,
I'll go Daisy and Peach. You got it. Nice Joe, back
to Travis for tomboy trouble reference. I think you both got a really easy
one there. So that was you know, all things are great, tomboy
Tom, who do you associate is tomboys within the Mario verse? So this
is a tough thing. It's like are they using it literally? Are they
doing like, oh, that's a like a tom like some people refer to
girls as like a tomboy, right, Like yeah, so, oh,
because I send it out, Tom Nook, you know there's no animal crossing
characters and like, off, say, don't think it's it's clarification because he
just did the two ladies, so then it would be probably a lady and
what's that name again? Tomboy tomboy trouble, tomboy trouble. So I feel
like that would be Daisy and somebody else. I'm gonna take a hell Marry
here. I'm gonna go Warrior and Daisy. Wrong, Kirkling for the steel
what tomboys success? What is it? Tomboy trouble tomboys success? I know,
I know it's sound it weird. I think I was gonna go with
Daisy like Travis went with She does Bill Barnes in her free time. So
yeah, I wonder how that factors into this one. I'm not getting much
barn out of the tomboy realm uh my gosh, I don't know Daisy and
Boo. It was Daisy and Yoshi? Oh Yoshi? And what was it
for getting tomboy trouble? Yeah? I know where's Yoshi? Where does the
Yoshi in that? Right? He's trouble trouble? Yes, I don't consider
Yoshi trouble. I feel like he's like anti trouble. He breaks you out
of a lot of situations. But okay, Kirkland, who are the stash
clashers? Stash clashers? I need Mario Warrio, nice job? What Travis?
Who who are the best buds, the best buds. If I'll give
you a free hint. I think one of these characters would think of the
other as their best bud and the other wouldn't. It's like a one sided
best budd ness. That's just my perception. That's Mario and Toad. Nice
job. There, you go, crushed it guys. You guys are ready
for a freaky one when who are green Escort? I'm not kidding, no
good one with the green Escort, Travis for the steel a green escort?
If I was using a hint, but I just feel like it's either Yoshi
or or Luigi's not like hint worthy. So you said Yoshi and Luigi,
Well you cancel one out right, like if if if he gives you one
of those answers. You know, because it is green, that's a big,
big part green, Kirkling that we talked about it, and he'll do
that like that smile, the mustache trouble over there, keeps his secrets over
there. I mean it's I guess who else is green? Because you were
completely right Kirkland on the because Luigi is the green and then she's the escort.
I gotta think, is there another green character, or is there another
character you can ride And I don't think there's another character you can ride per
se what escort is it? I stopped my home, so I'm gonna say
it's Yoshi. And then who would be the next green character? Oh?
I think camera pro has a green helmet if that helps all types of colors
green? Yeah, maybe a shell. You know, fine, I'll do
it. Give me, give me a hint. You want to hint?
Ye, Peach gives you the not greenhnt. There you go. So she's
the escort. It is someone. Look at what escort means other than like,
get the meaning because it must that must be another word for princess.
Right, yeah, don't do it hands on board. I'm just gonna say
green, or I'm gonna say Yoshi. Yeah, then I better call her
escort. Ask yourself. It's not that's like that's really bad. But escort
a person, vehicle or group accompanying another for protection as a mark of rank.
Oh okay, you get to her rank. It's more protecting. Yeah,
say Yoshi beach. Unfortunately it's Peach, Luigi. Are you fucking why?
Why? Because he's protecting the princess. Right, No, he's just
Green, so I thought, at least Escort makes sense. But I really
like this one. I really like this next one, Travis, Who are
the marionettes? Oh, I don't know. I'll give you a hand.
It's not Geno from uh Mario RPG because he is literally a marionette. Think,
oh boy, although they should put Gino in a Mario party game.
That would be very sweet. The marian Antonettes. This is what they are,
the marionettes, not Mary Antoinette. Oh god, Peach Emburdo. Wow,
what a guess? No, Kirkland for the steel Marionettes. I feel
like I don't even know what a marionette is. What's check a puppet?
I think, what's Gino? People don't ask that question for years. I
think you're both down a one hint each at this point. Yeah, I
think there's four more after this, four more, Okay, Kirkland's got what
four to two to me all right now? I think it is five to
three in Kirkland's favor right now, So he's got to lead. I'm gonna
say dry bones boom mm hmm. It's all in the name. Marionette.
Maria is in like Mario, like a Mario net. And then todett.
I would never thought a literal play on the word if I pronounced it differently.
But I think I should have pronound the word correctly, you know.
But I like that one and it was fun. Over to Kirkland for the
bone chokers. Who are the bone chokers? I think dry Bones is in
there. I think's choking them. Orio's got some massive hands. I feel
like he could be a choker. Wluigi's got a certain strangle. I don't
know at tribute to him. Maybe it's his lankiness. The choker, the
choker. If he asks for a hint, you better give him dry Bones
because it's be a little too obvious. The bone chokers, you got it?
The bone chokers bone chokers? Ah? Or is they are they just
choking? Like when it comes down to it, like it's you know,
it's it's playoffs and they're they're just I don't know, I don't know what
they're doing. They're not on the board. Ye, that loses a lot
bone chokers. I'm gonna go. Yeah, I'll just go dry Bones and
Warrior not correct. Travis's got the steal. There any questions about there?
There are three more after this, Okay, I'll just say dry bones and
Walluigi. It's dry bones and birdo oh shit, yeah that makes sense,
always choking on the Yeah, that does make sense. Yeah, Okay,
I think we're up to Travis here for this is my second is it?
Who do we start with? Kirkland? So this is I got two more?
He has one more right because he did the first question. Yeah,
yeah, this is my penultimate one. Okay. Pure evil? Oh fuck,
it's a hard one, I would say. So that's a two for
right because you could either is it pure evil that's strictly like it's just the
most evil people together, or is it someone that's pure and someone that's evil.
Oh that's an interesting thought. And that's tough because these common name has
been all over the place. There's been no pattern. I gotta I can't
really want hint each so I could still tie it. So I'm not gonna
use my hint here. I don't want to help curklem out mm, so
I'm gonna go handle this here. Pure evil like Berto is like a antagonist.
I wouldn't say she's pure evil, but yeah, that's a bit much
for Bird. She's a choker, not a pure evil. Yeah, dry
bones and Cooper Kid. That was close, but not not quite. I'm
gonna take the hint here. Okay, Travis was right about Coopa Kid Cooper
Kid. Okay, so no dry bones right here. Cooper Kid like is
a ghost an evil entity depends on what movie. Casper, Ghostbusters. Boo
is mostly antagonists, usually always followed by some scary tunes, which is never
really a sign of a good character. Fuck it, I'm gonna go Coop
of Kid Boo. You are correct, well done. I completely forgot about
that. Good does give you the win, but we'll play it out here.
Who are the awkward date? Take the trophy again? Love that couple
and steals Awkward date Kirkland awkward Date, I'm gonna go. Okay, so
it was the green escort for Peach. That was Peach Luigi. We've already
done Mario Daisy, so the awkward date Yoshi Berdo wouldn't be awkward. I
don't think. I think they're a match made in heaven, good tongue swallow
action. They're probably just getting bones for once ten ft apart and still have
a good time. Awkward date. I feel like Peach and Toad would have
a different name, So I don't think that's it. I'll go I'll go
Luigi Mario. I'm not strong, I don't. I don't feel good about
this one. But Luigi Daisy wrong, that's the least Yeah, I mean
maybe actually I can say that'd be awkward. But Travis, who you got?
I'll think my last hint here? Okay, Wallowig and Peach, Oh,
Wallowegian Daisy? Come on? What makes I don't know, last one?
Last one? Shopping buddies over to you, Travis? Who are the
shopping buddies? Why is anyone in a Mario game and Mario party named the
shopping buddies? What context does that have at all? Don't spend too much
time on this, because once again it makes no sense. Okay, I'll
just say Mario and Wallowigi. Oh, not quite, Kirkland the shopping buddies.
I'll go Boo and hammer bro Oh. Come on, guys, it's
obviously Yoshi and Todette. Why Toadad forgot about Todad? There you go.
Congratulations to Kirkland. That fun. How fucking weird? Are those names?
Like? That's the best they could come up with? We should? We
should definitely maybe that's what in a couple weeks for a quarternext episode, the
originals. That should be the main topic that we should deem our team names,
but also you should repult that list to showtel But we should just break
down some of those more because yeah, like shopping buddies. Yeah, comes
some better names for them, and come with some names for us too,
for all the different How many combinations can there be? There canna be three
threes and four two's? Is that right? For what are you talking about?
Because like, g because there canna be us and they're gonna be like
a me Kirkland Taylor, me Dylan Taylor and then yeah, I guess they're
gonna is actually four threes. We have to figure that out, rightsion,
But at least there's there's almost ten combinations of pairings between Geek first and stuff,
So we we should do that the same way because Marvel Alliance would do
that too, right when you would have them together like all its Avengers and
then if you had one and be like, oh, it's the ultimate event,
right, cool, so its originals. Look out for that. We're
gonna break down the list and name ourselves. Yes, I like that,
Well, how about we take our first break? We come back and we'll
talk about the games we've been playing. Okay, we are back, so
let's talk about this. So the first thing is this weekend, all all
three of us plus Taylor plus Emily played some Warzone jumping back into Rebirth Island,
which is kind of the remixed version of that map, along with all
sorts of other random stuff. Uh, it's been fun. I've been.
It's been fun to get back in there. And that's like also the map
that I was playing the least I feel like when that was the main era
that you guys were playing a lot of that one, So I for me,
it's less about like, oh, look at all the little changes here
there, and more about just kind of experiencing this new map and figuring out
the new strategies and stuff. But I found it like really hard the first
couple times we played, But then we had a nice wind streak on Saturday
night we had two back to back and then like what like five wins overall
over the course of the night. Yeah, I can't remember. Did we
get another one with Kirk and left, I think we got six. I
think we did get one after he left it. We got six in the
last game was second place, so we were really close to gw WE other
than I don't man how many games we played, but we had one fourth
place and one tenth place because tay, they're almost on purpose made a bad
call, but the rest of the night was either one or two. We
had a really good win rate on that night. So yeah, I feel
like that will be like the lowest my power level will be as well,
because I had zero custom classes. I was coming in level one and now
I'm excited to make some custom classes and feel in the power of the sniper
rifles again. They definitely feel more relevant than they did in the previous iteration
of war Zone and satisfying. You never want to need to be like lining
up a headshot and it's just like and you just like see the armor like
get damage, not even break or anything. It's like, do you mean
specifically on rebirth or just like the mode in general. I think just the
mode in general, because this is the first time I've booted up like this
new Call of Duty, I guess since one where for three's been out.
Probably the size of the map helps a lot with that. I'd imagine just
in terms of true your distances are never really going to be that far apart.
Yea, especially because the map's like so like kind of it's not a
mountain, but it almost has a mountain structure in the middle, so it's
like you can't really see from one end of the map to the other.
I feel like that map goes really well with with like a snipe rifle or
Marxian rifle or something, just because the ranges probably are so ideal and if
you're in like you said, like maybe the more central area, like you
have the high the high advantage over certain players. So yeah, I know
it was. It was a blast getting back into that. Hadn't played Call
of Duty in a very long time, and I'm mitching, I'm mitching to
get back in there again, especially like I was saying, now that I've
actually leveled up. It's so annoying on every time they come up with these
new Call of Duty games, you just like get reset at level one.
Taylor did say, like you get to keep like your your guns. I
guess that you had unlocked in previous versions. But it's like, why do
I have to level up to get that, Like it's the same game.
I'll just even open your load up. You can't make a load out.
Yeah, that's what I mean. It's it's it's it's annoying, but and
you'll unlock it by the end of the night. I'm trying to think,
how, oh, absolutely probably the first game, but like, because we're
just going to the next game, I didn't go to the main menu and
make a class or anything like that. It's pretty minor, especially because like
I won't even know what guns to really choose, because I know the meta
kind of shifts with each one of these new games, so minor that it's
like, why do they even exactly exactly? But no progression from winning one
game when I'm walking, it's kind of I really like the pace of this
Rebirth Island, and even relative to what I remember. I just like the
games go by really quick, like the the zones closed at a pretty rapid
rate, which makes us go by quick, which I really enjoyed. That
was my biggest takeaway, I think, Yeah, any thoughts from you traps
on them? No, it's pretty much what I've said before. There's a
few other little change like you said, but it's all mostly interior stuff of
like, oh, there's like a big group of rocks here now, or
all they've changed the color scheme of this building. One negative it was they
didn't bring construction back. We were all hoping for that and they didn't.
It was control. Construction was like our go to whole place for many moons,
and yeah, that was kind of disappointing. But you can swim now.
You couldn't do that before, so that was interesting. So I do
actually like that addition because there's been a few times, right and I've needed
to, you know, drink up me hardy and jump in there and just
hold my breath for a little bit. So no, it's good. That
map is like I've always wanted you one time we have to do try some
rank because that that map, I just feel like we know in and out.
I've we played it so many times. When we got back there,
it wasn't really a oh, we gotta get situated. It's okay, we
know what we gotta do, what we have to do. And you know,
we got six all the other times, like I said, we were
like second, we could have probably got close to ten wins and stuff.
As I said before, Notoriusly, me, Emily and Tear one time went
nine games in a row. So we that map is just like, I
don't know, there's just something that clicks with this group on it because I
feel like our goal when we played the other reverse like oh if we get
the hat trick, like that's lucky. You know, one win is like
the Okay, we did it, and the hat trick's always the goal.
But that was like we had the hat trick four games in, so it
was like a nice one and done. So Yeah, it's been fun to
keep all the guns and characters because at least that makes you want to buy
a battle pass if there's something interesting notes not gonna go away. I very
much missed my ghost face and especially my Arnold Terminator. I really really wish
I still had that around. But no, it was a good time.
I that's still that to me is like the peak version of the game.
That map. There's all the other ones that are good, but they always
feel like a little lesser than you know, and I don't know why.
It's just just a great time. So it was fun doing that. Yeah,
definitely drives You've been playing anything else lately? A little bit here and
there, But honestly, the only two games I've played is I talked about
a little bit, but I gotta play it still more as your game since
the movie had been completed. So I did that, and then there was
the newest WW came out game that came out, and I played that for
a little bit. It's kind of similar to what Kirk was talking about a
couple weeks ago. Was your f one game, right, we were talking
about the Manager then. Yeah, so like I've talked about this before,
but that's both like I've bought that wrestling game, I've not played a second
of any of the wrestling of the characters, and like that in the ring,
I'm all about that general manager mode. They did a bunch of different
changes this year to do the like free agency signings, and they did these
things where now there's like an RPG level system. It's a very the most
minor, minor thing you can do, but all these characters have a bar
from zero to twenty five, and if you want, you can the more
they win, the more they wrestle, their bar gets to go up.
You can put them in little interview segments and that like trains them. So
if each level it goes from it's in fives, they like unlock a perk.
So maybe it's like, oh, this character every four weeks gets a
power card and that comes to you, or it's something like they get five
percent less injury rate, or they they're more als better than everybody else's or
every time the superstar competes is worth a thousand dollars, you know, so
that that's actually been kind of fun. I don't really love the free agency
before. What you would do is, let's say let's say I have a
roster of ten wrestlers, right, and when your guys goes down, like,
okay, I need to go buy a superstar because I have no you
gotta have four matches, right, and let's say, oh I only got
three matches this week. Before you just go to free agency and it just
lists everybody in the game that's not been bought. This one is you.
You gotta pay like amount, so whichever it is the level from the zero
to twenty five. Let's say you want like a big time superstar, so
you gotta pay fifty thousand dollars just to look at only four superstars. So
it's not like before where you get to pick from anybody. It's like a
random dice roll kind of pack thing where you pay fifty thousand and I May,
I'll probably have to buy the Superstar because I need a match. But
it's like you might get someone you don't want. Their class might not work,
it might not like their promo. It might because there's good guys bad
guys, and if you have good guys or bad guys versus each other,
the fans usually don't like that. They want the clashing of the you know,
the good and evil. So it's like, oh, if I got
just for good guys, now I gotta do that. So there's pros and
cons to my only I guess kind of con again, And I don't know
if it's just because I'm just not trying to brag I'm good at the game
or whatnot. My biggest I guess, my biggest con is they did a
lot of quality of life changes, but a lot of the changes that mean
that people are wanting are a bigger match card, So for it is just
really not enough because you want to like buy a bunch of wrestlers and everything,
but with the only matches, if a person sits out, So let's
say I have like Dylan Kirkland, and I don't have enough room to put
Kirkla my roster, He'll get some stamina back, but his popularity starts to
go down, and if you do that enough, then his matches people don't
want to see him. So I really wish some of the bass game stuff
was bigger. And the other thing is there's still no online. Every year
they're like, oh, we're gonna do that because this year they added an
Extreme AI mode. So before it was easy, medium, hard, and
then I did Extreme, and it feels like, maybe about here's the thing.
It feels like it's about you can play as long as you want.
So they go in season you play about twenty five weeks of wrestling, and
you book twenty five shows, and by season two, so after I've done
about fifty shows, it feels like I can kind of just destroy the AI,
which I don't like, and I'm on Extreme. I played on Extreme
right away. Once you play enough, it just feels like it kind of
gets too easy. It goes to the point where now I've had to replay
and go, Okay, I'm gonna pick the lowest popularity superstars just to give
myself a challenge to do that, and eventually I still beat, you know,
and then it's been like, Okay, I'm gonna use not this feature.
Like I've tried to do different modes and then I've recently did the last
thing where like I did everything where there's cards where oh your show, your
fan extension rate is like times too. So if you get ten thousand this
week, you use this card, you get twenty thousand. I'm using no
cards, I'm using nothing bonus, and I'm still beating the AI eventually.
So yeah, I wish there is, Like I, me and s pubs
are looking into it. You can do like the streamplay off PlayStation, but
spells listen to this. I don't. I don't. I want to plan.
But at the same time, he still loses to the AI, So
you know, I don't know if it's gonna be a challenge I want.
Like wrestling games has some of the worst spammers online. I never play online
because there's people that are just like embarrassed. You never make you want to
pick up a controller again, Like you won't even get to throw a punch
in because the reverse pretty bad in gear. Yeah, pretty much so,
And so that's my only thing is it's very fun. I love dealing with
contracts and superstars and injuries. It's like a it's almost I don't know why.
I guess I should have realized this earlier. It's like, and I
do my day job, so I don't know why I still like to do
it in a video game, but I guess because it's with pro wrestlers and
and Dylan. You've seen this before in other games in wrestling, like the
Croati community is nuts like who they create, so it's great like all the
other wrestling companies, you can like people do such a good job of creating
them and you can put them all in this general manager modes, so like
you're really playing with any wrestler in the world you want. So that's why
I just would like it to be expanded a little. But yeah, no,
that's my I literally only buy the game for that. If they ever
take it out, I'll stop buying wrestling games. I love general I love
that and mad and I love doing those type of things. I guess I
love also having like three million dollars that is fake and I can do whatever
I want with so but yeah, that's my biggest complaint. I'd love online
because I'd love to bump into that person that just kicks my ass because then
it'd be like, Okay, I got a real challenge then, but it'd
be a very tough thing to coordinate because with a match, you can just
say, hey, I want to fight, don't and then it's like,
oh, Dylan and you pair together GM mode. It's like you can't just
play anybody. You'd have to, like start a season, you have to
be on at the same time like you'd you'd you'd have to synchronize it.
Really, it's not like we're it be like if we could play war Zone
together, but the only way you could play is all three of us have
to be online at the same time. So that's why it's like, I
get why they haven't pushed it to be like online soon. So that's really
it. I'm talking about this because that's what I played about a couple of
weeks ago, but really still not I've been like, oh, I'm gonna
get in a bunch of games once the filming's done. I probably will,
but a lot of the weekends have just been busy or we're trying to do
lots of hikes and everything, and soccer starting up this week. So that's
why I need to make a game plan. Okay, what I want to
tackle here, But yeah, it's pretty much just been that play a little
bit of your game, a little bit of my general manager mode, and
that's really it for the past month, and just call duty in some Outlasts.
So that's it. Because the most game time has been with you,
guys, honestly is on the weekend. I have been with you, so
definitely a lot Outlast and warzonely, Kirklyn, how about you, what have
you been playing other than yeah, my war Zone Adventure this weekend? Nothing,
nothing too impressive. I did get weak and start a new Warhammer campaign
a couple of weeks ago. Nice, mostly because I was just thinking of
Doune Too and how amazing that movie is, and specifically the scenes that was
showing off the harken Ins and like doing their arena battles to the death,
and just the whole esthetic is very close to like the whole Dark Elf aesthetic
from that game, that that whole race in Faction, and they are by
far my favorite just mechanics wise, like they're super aggressive, your whole economy
is just based on going to war and like rating and pillaging and others' lands.
And yeah, I was just playing playing it having so much fun.
It's probably my favorite campaign. I've actually ever played like it's it's going really
well and very different than like your normal path that you'd be going when you
play the Dark Elves. Of course, like naturally their their main enemies are
the High Elves, and I just have not even been like dealing with them
at all. I've just been focusing on the races of men and just bringing
them down to the ground. And no, it's been so fantastic. And
as I was mentioning, just like the similarities to like the Hearkenans, when
you make like a new lord to lead your armies or whatever, they usually
just have like a random placeholder name or or a name like affiliated to the
lore of whatever race that you're playing. And one of my I didn't notice
it at first, but his name is just Ratha, essentially fade Ratha,
just without the fade part. And I'm like, man, this is hilarious.
This is actually like completely on the nose to the point that like you
know that they pulled certain inspirations from Warhammer, like notoriously has just like straight
up stolen like certain like like race or whatever inspired there you go, But
I feel like they're so close. Sometimes it's like Okay, I it's it's
they don't even try and hide it, Like it's clearly just like this orc
from Warcraft or something like just totally rit from that. But I mean it's
good. I like all that in my fantasy world's for sure. But no,
the campaign's been fantastic and uh yeah, and every time I play the
Dark Kells they are so fun. But once you like are really dominant and
you're just like taking out like so many nations and you just spread so far
and like they are just a pure evil race, You're like, man,
this is this is rough. Like I feel like there's no hope left in
the world. I'm just literally destroying everywhere or everyone every path that I go
on. It's just like burning all these cities, and I'm just like,
am I the bad guy? Like like I was like, what you're descripting
this game as? But no, it's been it's been lots of fun.
And but other than that, like I haven't been having anything too different.
I haven't jumped back into Princess Peach since I talked to you last on that
one. Dylan Shay's actually picked up Animal Crossing again after like many many month
hiatus, and she she's gone Like I've described it before, Shay doesn't wanted
to like play a lot of different games, but when she finds one,
she just sinks like hundreds of hours in h Star Dear was was her first
original one. And then yeah, Animal Crossing and she's she's jumped back in.
I was asking her if there's like any new mechanics or anything that like,
She's like, no, not really, but I'm just like she just
is inspired on like something to change on her island. And yeah, she's,
uh, she's a hardcore when it comes to Animal Crossing, but yeah,
no other than that's just some more zone excited to jump back in that
when you brought up the why I thought this play brought up doing what is
your guys's temperature on Doing Awakening right now? Are you guys? Is that
still like you're dipping your toes in there or is that still like a wait
and see sorry Doing Awakening? Is that the that's not the MMO, that's
not the RTS, that's the other the other one. Yeah, yeah,
I mean we talked about it on Side Quest when they had that new trailer.
So I'm doing a temperature check right now. Yeah, I don't know.
I think it does look fun. I think I was more interested in
it after watching that because it seemed more like a co op survivallegue game that
you could just play with your friends rather than needing to integrate with the MMO
stuff. But then again, like, I don't know how much you will
need to be really get into that MMO cycle of it for it to be
enjoyable or how good it'll feel. But like that most recent trailer, I
was pretty impressed by, not necessarily visually, but just in terms of the
variety of things you get to do. So I'm I'd say I'm higher on
it then. I mean, it's not that I was super low. It's
just like we saw that teaser trailer, then found out it was an m
and then there was like nothing for a while. So I think I'm warmer
on it now than I once was. I just feel like that's my timeline.
Recently, is more people warming up to it so nice. I like
the idea of what it is. The MMO is like a big blocker for
me, but yeah, I also want to maybe wait and see like more
gameplay and just what the loop. That's why I entail just the first week
of what people are talking about Yeah, yeah, the word of mouth will
I think go a long way for me. Like that's that's why I'm with
Hell Divers. Like I I really had no interest on that release, but
it was just like the word of mouth afterwards and then talking to certain people
that had played it, and that's what sold me on it. So yeah,
we'll wait and see for sure, but it could be fun, you
know with the boys jump in there. Have you done much Hell Divers other
than when you did that? I still oh yeah, oh yeah. I
me and Tyler played some more games and uh yeah, I know that that
game is fair. I still highly recommend that game. It is it is
super super fun. Yeah, that's been on the like that my game path
of like the next three games I played, but because I just feel like
that'd be a fun game night as well too, getting together on Hell Divers,
I think we could have we could have a couple good session. So
it's intense, it's intense love it. Uh yeah for me, really just
one game. I started a couple of new games on game Pass, but
I think I'll wait till I've played more of them. But the one that
I wanted to show out is that me and MUDs. I bought this game
years ago, but we finally played through untitled Goose game. I don't I
don't know. I don't know why now is the finally the time to do
it. I think we just like one night, wanted to play game.
We have been playing a lot of Mario Kart and Mario Party lately, so
we just wanted something different and kind of went back to that Switch download list
and realized I installed it like a few years ago, and now at this
point, but uh yeah, we we we boot it up and we're already
done with it because it's like a very short game. I think it's like
to us, like two hours to get through the whole thing. We played
through it co op, which they added at some point after I think the
release of the the main game of it. But I also too with that
other with how Househouse. That Studio's next game, Travis, do you remember
the name of it? We talked about it at Summer Game Fest, but
now I can't remember what the heck it was called. But I have like
all those weird like circle creatures with the big nose features and it was like
very funny. Oh yeah, I don't remember. I feel like I had
a not a common name too, not like but then that should be sticking
out right, it should be like big Walk. Big Walk does sound like
a Mario Party tag Ta Battles a game, but but no, that game
looks great, and so I kind of want you know, this game has
been on my backlog ever since it came out, but finally went and played
through it, and I think it was kind of like a so so experienced,
Like it was fun enough time as any co op sort of thing is,
but overall, I just felt like the controls were just very like wonky,
Like it felt like the controls were intentionally annoying, which is, you
know, the whole theme of the games that you're just being this annoying goose,
like harassing people and solving these stupid little puzzles and stuff. But then
I ended up finding it like a bit frustrated to kind of just try and
do the thing you want to do because you're walking through these gardens and then
people are like showing you away and so it's like forcing you to like move
in this direction. Or there was a couple of points where we got a
little lost at like, man, this is such a specific thing of like
you have to throw these tomatoes out of this box and then like bait this
guy over here, and then he'll go get the tomatoes. Then you can
put bucket on his head, Like, how was I ever gonna figure that
out on my own? It just seems like a bit much at times,
But those are kind of the outliers. For the most part, it's just
a fun, good, fun time and it was just kind of short and
sweet, and I really like the visuals of it. I thought the music
was really really interesting and surprising because it was almost like improvised jazz music or
something. I could not tell if it was actually had like these improv elements
into it, where like depending on what kind of actions you take or you
move and like put certain instruments or lines in or whatnot. But it seemed
like, I don't know, if you put go on Spotify, like what
it would sound like and if it would capture kind of the chaos that you're
doing in game. But it was a very surprising soundtrack for what is this
otherwise like very cheesy, silly, lighthearted game. But yeah, at the
end of the day, I think I'm like it was maybe a bit overhyped
for how good it was like I think it was more just like it was
a cool concept rather than like actually playing it wasn't like the best time ever.
And I think if I had played it alone, I would have really
just not cared for much at all. Like as a co op experience,
messing around, having some fun with MUDs, it was a good time,
but like as a solo experience, I don't think I really would have enjoyed
it a whole lot personally. So yeah, I don't think I was much
more to add on that. I'm glad I finally played it, but yeah,
I don't think it really blew me away like I was hoping it would.
But there you go. That's kind of really the only new thing.
Just playing so much more Blottro. I think I've complete a run now with
every base deck and now I'm on like the higher difficulties and unlocking some of
the higher level decks, unlocking some crazier stuff, had some other crazy runs.
It's just such a good time. So once again, go back check
out my little solo cast from last week. But here what that game is
all about. But it's really really good. So yeah, how about we
move into the news section where we just have a couple of trailers to break
down. But also I saw this Travesy puss it in our discord today that
there's an Invincible game in development, and I looked at her. There's like,
not much info yet, but but you guys as the Invincible guys,
Like, what do you want from that kind of game? Like what sort
of genre would you be hoping for? Jelan, If someone had only watched
season one out of two seasons, would they consider the Invincible guys? I
don't know. There's like he's seen half the show. That's pretty good.
That's true. You thank you for defending me. Yeah, it's interesting because
of the one. The meme has just been like, oh, they'd beat
Warm Brothers to Superman game, which is kind of funny because they are because
they're saying it's gonna be Triple A one, and that's been always the thing.
War's like, oh, we just don't know how to do a Superman
game and stuff. So I think there, and you know, Get has
those mods. I think we need a lot more details. This could be
one of those things that actually never even happens, even though Skybne is pretty
good at not just putting it because that's Robert Kirkman, who does Walking Dead
and evinces about a whole slew of other things. I feel like they they
don't really nearly put stuff out there, like, oh, we're doing this,
we're doing this. It's not like the Spawn movie that's been in development
for fifteen years. It's kind of like, oh, we're doing this,
and it's for this song, it's for this amount, or it's only you
know this shorter time. We're gonna try this out and see. So I
think there's lots of potential there. I'm not sure if it be similar to
because this is the thing that I've not read the comic books. If you
want, you can go check out a bunch of Yeah, Gua has read
them, but I've said before I will read them back for the show because
I don't want to spoil. Because the show is falling, it very beat
for beats, So I wonder if the game would do the same thing.
I would actually kind of like that because I think season one or whatever the
volume one is, whether they fall with him an omni man would be kind
of a great setting for a game. But yeah, that's pretty much.
He doesn't have like the laser eyes, but that's the best way to say
it, if they were to pull it off, Dylan, it could be
like similar to Superman. Game guy can fly, super speed, super strength,
all that kind of jazz. He is somewhat invincible. I'm sure there's
something that can kill him, and we haven't got there at least in the
show. But he does. He's invincible, but he's not like Superman,
where Okay, if he takes a punch, it's like, oh, is
that the best you got? If Mark takes a part punch, it's gonna
hurt. So he has like super not healing his durability, like after season
one he he was almost paralyzed, but he's still like healed up, so
it's like a combo. It's like similar to Wolverine, but Wolvering heals a
lot quicker. He would take the same damage as a human, but you
just couldn't kill him. So I think that could be very fun. I
want to wait for more details, but they put it out there for a
reason. I don't know why. I'm not saying it's like, oh,
what from a year from now, we're getting it. No, I just
mean that maybe job blessings or stuff like that would start to leak, so
they would rather just get ahead and say here's what we're doing. And the
invincible hype is I think they made me announce it because they looks like they're
doing like a crowdfunding campaign thing for it, So yeah, there you go,
So yeah, that would make sense. Yeah, I didn't know it
was crowdfunded. So that makes me a little worried about how far we're gonna
go into this because I just yeah, I mean I was looking into the
Skybound and like, I don't think they've developed any games before, Like I
think it most have been like a publisher, but then like it looks like
they're trying to get into game development. Looks like there's a couple other games
announced that they're working on. So I don't know, I don't know what
that really means. So it's kind of hard for me to that. So
maybe I take it back that maybe there is a chance you don't see it
ever, or it becomes just a mobile gaming and they'll say they say triple
A. But in a perfect world, if I could get a even a
couple tears down from an Arkham spider Man adaption, I think there could be
lots of fun that you'd want, Like an open worldise sort of game.
I think you have to. Yeah, I think with this one you'd want
to be flying all over and have those fights in the air with people and
stuff. So I think open world would be kind of necessary and needed.
So nice. Any thoughts Kirkling on this? Do you care about this?
Uh? Yeah, I think I'm allowed to share some thoughts on watching one
season of Vincel. I love this idea. I love what Travis is pitching.
I just kind of see it going the route of majority of like the
other anime type games go where they're mostly just fighters and now like you can't
have story in there for sure, as well as world traversal, like even
there's been plenty of dragon Ball games that have done that. Like they do
have an open world element to it, but like it's not like it's an
open world in the sense of like you just come up into some mobs and
you just like start fighting them, like it like it they'll be like a
cutscene or a loading screen before you do the actual fight session. And I
think it would like, I think that would be really good. I can
picture just with how good like some of these dragon Ball games have done their
combat translate that to the world of Invincible, and you can definitely feel the
effect of these powerful characters scrapping on screen, and yeah, I think that
would be fantastic. I think it's just really cool that Invincible is just getting
more and more. I don't know, traction, it's just it's just growing,
it seems if they're doing these other media forms for it. So that's
that's. Yeah, it's great. I really hope that it does. I
don't know, we just get more info soon for something solid or maybe not
soon, but when we do hear it, it is like a wow,
Okay, this is actually a game, you know, like they have a
full on idea of what they're doing. And yeah, I hope that's the
case. I'm excited to catch up. So travil stuff's give me shit and
post me on these things. It's good. It's good because it is only
a matter of time until I get spoiled. So, yeah, she's going
to Victoria for a little a while here so we can I can catch up
on. You're just gonna play more total ward. Yeah they got two screens,
I get thrown up. Yeah, good stuff, and then next up
this is probably gonna be more of a quick hit, but worth shouting out
is that there's a new Prince of Persia game announced just recently called The Rogue
Prince of Persia, which is, yeah, another two D Prince of Persia
game. Funny enough, that's announced coming out just a couple months after the
Lost Crown. But this is from the Dead Sales team, so you know,
makers of one of the biggest roguelikes from the last few years, and
they're making a roguelike Prince of Persia. So yeah, I think this is
a really great idea. I love that Ubisoft is giving the reins of Prince
of Persia to other types of teams and in this case an indie team,
and in this case like they've picked the best of the best because these people
make a two D action based game, so it's kind of like the perfect
combination for them. So yeah, I think this is just really cool.
I'm glad that you is doing this. I wonder if people still have an
appetite for this, especially after Lost Crown, and I'm not sure what the
sales of Lost Crown. I don't think they were good. If I remember,
because I thought that was a big narrative of Oh yeah, because I
thought it was If I did very well, but I think it was very
kind of just a miss in that department because I just it's it's interesting because
I just want I think I agree. Okay, I don't think I agree
with you. I do agree with you on one aspect where like if you
want a team to do it, you know, because I don't. I
don't play these games with like with yourself. And I was talking about people
the game community are happy with these right as far as like, oh,
this is really cool, but it's like I still think, not that there's
a huge base, but it's like I still think there's the gaming community and
then the Prince of Persia community. And I wonder if this would be similar
like year, Let's say Assassin's Screen next year stopped after that jab Japan game,
right, and then a decade later or however many years it was in
between the Prince of per game of the last one to the one whenever last
decade I imagine, right, I don't know what the space was, But
would Taylor be wanting like these versions of Assassin's Screen game And I don't know
if he would. And that's how I wonder, did you find out any
sales on the Prince of Persia one or what I found here is that apparently
it had three one hundred thousand players. But I mean, if that's the
case, like that's not even cracking a million copies sold. So and that's
I just remember from podcasts and I found two million, so I don't know
two million. I have seen the trailer, but no. So it's it's
what I like is because for the first time that I actually saw Wish and
I what I I do agree with people where there's a combination of they were
trying to go for like the old school Disney animation but updated, and I
don't think it always worked for all that movie. I think there was frames
and sections that did, but for the most part it was like a little
bit off. This looks like the perfect culmination. This looks like a game
I remember. It's even old in that, I guess, but like those
Aladdin set games like you know, Sayo games like earthwinm Gym they're based on
that. Like to me, this looks like a throwback but done with today's
like power and effects and it looks really cool in movements. So I like
the look of it. It's a thing like this is a game I would
play if I had no list, but I do have a list. So
that's the tough thing where I think, not even for Prince of Persia games.
I think this and the other one fall in that category of I'll get
to it one day because it looks like a I'll just call it in.
It looks like a smaller version of the other games, which it is,
right, but it almost some people might look at that as like a step
down, like, oh, Prince of Persia doesn't warrant this big thing anymore.
It's this type and it's can be good, but there's also just so
many good games out there now, right. It's much like TV and movies.
It's like people have to be a lot more choosy. And just because
the word Prince of Persa on it doesn't mean And maybe it's just been too
long, but I guess this would sell better than just a game like this
and called like the Sand King, you know, something like that. Like,
I'm sure there'll be a few more people that would check it out.
So looks really cool, but I wonder even back to back if that's a
smart thing. But art style, though, looks like really beautiful. I
love the movement, love the visuals, so yeah, I mean, I
think this one may be set up for like Lost Crown was. I don't
even know what team that's from, you know, and I'm usually clocked in
on these kind of things, but I think that, you know, the
Dead sales is like such a successful game, so all sorts of big dealcs
over the years gained a huge audience, So I think you have two audiences
in one here, plus, like just the roguelike audience in general is pretty
huge these days, so hopefully that works out for them. And also I
imagine these games, these two D games have smaller budget than what my counterpart
be in like a traditional game third person sort of one. But I think
there's potentially for some like good momentum if these Because Lost Crown maybe the sales
weren't amazing, but I think it's one of those games that will sell well
over time, and I think it got really good reviews. People love that
game. I imagine this will have the same thing. And then if that
Prince of Person's Sense of Time remake comes out and is good, which it's
been rocky, but if it comes down it is good because they've given it
more time, I think that'd be a great little kind of one, two,
three, and then would be a good setup for potentially a new like
mainline game or something. But I feel like where this series is, like
it's never been the biggest series in the world. This is like cool that
it's kind of getting these sorts of games, and it's nice that you're getting
something get the name out there. Yeah, he said, definitely keep the
IP alive. Kirklin, what did you think of this or any interest in
this for yourself? I mean, like as soon as you said it was
from the Dead Cells team, and it totally makes sense to me because it's
i mean just not even the gameplay, but the actual look and aesthetic of
it, Like it just totally screams Dead Cells. And I played quite quite
a lot of Dead Cells never beat it. It's a hard game, but
definitely really fun to you know, if you haven't played it for a long
time, like just pick up and do a run here and there. So
just just knowing that definitely appeals to me, and I would definitely want to
pick this up. I think it's also one I could probably just see go
on like that rote you should have like uh, basically PlayStation games past the
equivalent, like those types of rotations. So if I see it on there,
I'll download it right away. But for the price point, which I
don't know what it is, I'm not gonna jump on. Yeah, I
mean, I guess it's probably gonna be like funneled into Ubisoft Plus or whatever
the hell, which is a part of the that's part of the PlayStation,
at least the level that ither. So yeah, that's awesome. Cool.
Yeah. I I also played some Dead Cells and ever beat it. I
didn't love it that much. But I'm also very picky when it comes to
Rogue Lakes, which I funny enough talked about last week on that Blotchro episode
as well. But I love the art, so all of this, I
think it looks great. It looks kind of like Sable or roller Drome.
It has that sort of I don't know something about it. It just smells
like those kind of games a little bit, if that makes sense. And
then I don't know, like the gameplay of it, like you no Dead
Cells as well, like kind of is a slower, sluggish game intentionally,
so it's more about like this slower, heavier combat, and then of course
as you like go through and power up, you get insane so I'm sure
the same thing will happen here. But it did look like the way the
character is running, it looked like it was almost running in slow motion or
something, So I don't know, we'll see how that goes, but it's
definitely on the radar now Lost Crown. I checked out the demo Ford and
it was really really cool. But I'm just trying to be more conscious of
how many games I'm mine on a yearly basis show I'll check it out at
some point for sure, But anyway, there you go. That's the Rogue
Prince of Persia. Next up is Star Wars Outlaw's got a new trailer,
a story trailer. Along with this came a release date of August thirtieth,
which I was not expecting. A very weird kind of release date, but
I think it actually could work quite well for them. But yeah, what
did you guys think of this trailer? Thirty Kirkland First, By the end
of this trailer, I realize I don't think I'm gonna buy this game.
I think this trailer wasn't super impressive for me. Also, I think it
was missing exactly. Yeah, there's just a lot of Star Wars things,
I mean It's kind of what I was gonna say. It didn't really feel
like a super Star Wars story until they would just throw to like, oh,
here's job of the Hut or here's you know, calcified Han, like
like these big landmarks that like brought you to the Star Wars world. I
feel like I should be feeling that just from the world and like the creatures
and stuff. Now, I know we saw some like Twileck's and some other
Star Wars characters in there, but are creatures in there, But there's just
something to it that that didn't really scream out to me. And I think
the story trailer like I'm not super interested in the story as well as it
not feeling like a super Star Wars e type world for me personally. So
I'm you know, maybe world of world, maybe word of mouth, will
you know, change it, But as of right now, I'm not sold
on this first showing. M hm, Travis, how are you feeling about
this one? It was a complete I think that's what sold me on is
that because I guess my problem is so much of time Star Wars is just
throwing in your face that this is a Star Wars thing, like whatever you
want to say about the prequels. George Lucas made some Star Wars movies first
that had some Star Wars stuff around, but it wasn't like, well,
we've gone a lot of the shows and some of the movies where it's very
much of hey, this is this this, And I know that's what maybe
Krookan was referring to, like oh you see Han there and stuff. But
what my hope is is that it's focused more on telling a story about being
its own self. That's said in the Star Wars world, so okay,
throw a landmark there, a character there, but then really it's about your
journey. And what I liked is just a variety of characters seeming emily types,
Like there's certain like just droids locations. And that's the other thing for
me too, is like in the story trail, I felt they showed a
lot but just shows like you're going a lot of different places. I don't
know how many plants, how big that is, but that's why I think
there's something like ten to twelve planets like that, and that's where I fact
that's gonna keep it fresh, and I'm fine if they're the size like what
Jedi Survivor was right where they're kind of open world, but it's like,
uh, I don't know, a two hundred like a football field version of
that, like a bunch of football fields, four of them put together,
and that's your samdbox of Okay, you're landing at Kashik, but you're only
seeing like this slice of Kashik, right, And I would appreciate more than
we're just gonna build this one big world because you can go to these different
locations. So no, I really was enjoying that. I was very surprised
by the date. I thought this was gonna be more of the fall.
I think they're just trying to get ahead of the other games. I feel
like it could have been not that I want devs to be rushed because you
know, of course, like they have their sanity. I think it would
have been better maybe at the beginning of August, because I feel like right
before school could be a bad time. But maybe this is like I don't
know where the gauge is for Star Wars right now as a hole as a
franchise, right, I just feel like I don't know if it is I
was gonna say, oh, that's the thing, people can maybe even put
in Christmas presents and everything. But I just don't even know if kids are
like asking for that nowadays, right, I don't know, because like my
kids, they like Star Wars, but out of the things I like that
we've watched, it's not the thing that they're always asked about. They enjoy
it, but it's not like, oh, everyone want to get back to
Star Wars, where I hear that about Lord of the Rings or are your
friend Dark or the Marvel stuff or X Men, like, oh, if
we haven't watched the episode, they know, we got to watch that.
But with Star Wars, like all to watch it when I'm around, They
want to watch it me every once in a while. So I don't know
what the factor is. But this trailer, uh no, like I said,
did their verse for me? I like, I'm hoping to fall in
love with this character in the world and then happen to have some Star Wars
stuff around, And it's maybe I like that too because the Dark Times again,
and I don't want too much of just being reminded of the Dark Times
and stuff. So but yeah, it's taking place in between episode five and
six. That was fun to kind of kind of get that confirmed at least,
so kind of annoying. They announced, like the job of Hot mission
it's gonna be exclusive to ub soft Play, which I'm worried. That's the
sort of other things. So I think or like the season's past, you
mean, right for what's ory, like a season the season passed for the
game. No, I think there's a whole mission that's exclusive just to ub
play, like if you got to play it on there. Okay, I
thought it was part of like the season's past thing for the Java specific part.
Hmmm, I'd have to look it up. But either way, I
think it's really grimy to show that in this trailer if it's not part of
the default game. It's like, you know, do it at the end
of the trailer, we're say, like season past content, show picture Joba.
They're sure that's still a little bit grimy, but I think that's extra
grimy. Okay, you're right, You're right. So it's either you play
eventually or the season's past. So okay, but yeah, I do agree
with but that's what games and you'd be soft dude, not saying it's a
good thing, but that's just kind of like, well I expect. I
just think yeah, I put it in the trailer is like super super dirty.
I mean, I guess that's what Jaba would do. You know,
if he were going to do something with his content, he would make you
have to pay extra for it, so I guess it makes sense. Yeah,
but no, August very much surprised me. I thought it would be
fall or early next year, but those kept being the rumors that oh,
it's coming soon. I didn't believe it, but uh yeah, I will
definitely be picking up I usually pick up most stuff Star Wars combook related.
Suicide Squall was like the first thing I skied, and this has showed me
enough good stuff that I'm I am actually excited. I made the joke aout
kirklum, but I'm excited not to be a Jedi. I'm excited to go
do be a scoundrel and they show a couple of Jedis here or there,
but like, I'm excited to get a different slice of the universe because it's
been that or it's been other games where you play as Jedi's Battlefront lego,
which I like, but this is a fully focused Star Wars game that is
a non Jedi one. I think there could be some good potential there.
So yeah, no, I'm probably surprisingly on Travis's side of this too,
or I don't whatever it is about this game, I just think it looks
like a lot of fun. I think definitely one thing that sold me here
on this trailer was just like a variety. It's what you're saying there,
Travis, of all these different locations, different Citio locations, weird little offshoot
towns, crazy different moons and planets, and some known places, some new
places that they've talked about. So I really like that. I like the
variety of it. I like this the character too. I think she looks
fun like she's like a character that I want to play as. I like
the scoundrel angle to it as well. Ninety bucks are justifying on this economy,
so I don't. I highly doubt i'll be picking this up at launch.
It's probably a similar situation where you know, months ago, I borrowed
the second Jedi Survivor game from Travitt or from Taylor. Rather still don't boot
it up, but it's it's back on the shelf somewhere. I'll play it
at some point, and I'll probably hope he gets the physical version on his
Xbox, and I can borrow it sometime down the road some cool case with
like some collector's edition that's pick up, you know. Yeah, But now
I do think it looks it does look like a lot of fun. I'm
sure it's gonna be polly by the end of it, like kind of like
a you know, a kind of mindless classic open world sort of game.
But I think for what they're doing here, if you have enough variety and
you have a good setting and you're sticking true to the IP, I think
that will work enough. I like, you know, I don't if I'm
losing a Jaba mission. It's not the end of the world for you.
But I still think it is interesting. Like I just feel like Jaba is
not a character that shows up in these things ever, right, Like he's
not a character they dip back into to explore. So I think that's kind
of a cool idea. Also saw too apparently Kai Kaira is in this like
Emilia Clark's character from Solo, So to me, that's like, actually a
really cool kind of deep cut poll to bring in here as well. So
that's that's kind of fun. And one thing that they mentioned in this trailer
is the characters like, oh, I gotta build up my crew to go
do this mission whatever she says, And that seems like an interesting idea to
me. I'm guessing it'll be linear, like you get this one guy and
he's like the gun guy. Get this one guy he's the map guy.
But if there is more of an RPG mechanic there where you can go around
and recruit different aliens and freaks and robots and droids to do certain tasks on
your ship or things for you, like, that could be a really cool
idea. So I'm keeping my expectations low on that because I'm guessing it's more
of a linear story thing. Even then, that does seem like a fun
element to the story. But I think that could be really cool, like
just that Starfield mechanic of Starfield, Yeah, but doing that with Star Wars
and all these freaky aliens, I think could be really cool. Since I'm,
you know, not a big story lore guy with the Star Wars stuff
and this is the story trailer, I don't know what do you guys think
of the story hook here and who they're setting up as like this villain or
these other characters in here, like serviceable, like it's something from a trailer
where hopefully it's good, but it's tough because I feel like most even like
Jedi Survivor, they have their high points and lower points. For all this
really cool to I don't really care about this story point here, so I
worry that could be like I worry the outside stuff, we'd be more entertaining
than the antagonists. But maybe it's something that once you're in the game,
it's feeling really well and there's some good twists and turns, but I feel
like it's just gonna be a good mafio. So the type of bad guy's
story set you because that's same thing I don't want to be. Like,
oh, and Darth Vader is after you now for X, Y and Z,
Like, no, I don't want that. So this is kind of
like, even if it is just like the basic old school marvel like b
tier villain that's just kind of there to get bobbed, I'm kind of okay
if it's anything more than perfect, but I find that I hear what you're
saying about not the big bad But I don't know. I didn't like this
this villain. I but like I, I wouldn't even want to say that,
like I would prefer Palpatine being back again here. Yeah, like like,
I don't know what the answer would be to that, but just for
what was showing here, I don't know. I just think overall, I
wasn't super fan of the trailer and the villain was one of the weaker parts
of it for me. But mm hmm, all right, any any other
thoughts on that that one? No, Like I said, surprise it's in
August. I guess you'll hear from Taylor and I yeah, I look forward
to review from Travis and Taylor there on that one, and maybe my thoughts
on it seven months later when I far away from here the Star Wars ketchup.
You know, you can review do a retro survivor and that, you
know. Yeah, yeah, Okay, that's that's all for today. Thank
you everyone for listening once again, go check out that Fallout review, and
I think next week I will have Taylor with me to talk about some more
video game stuff. So thank you everyone for listening, and we will see
you again next time. Bye bye idios.