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Hey, what's up, losers?
HiT's your motherfucking boy? Come to you

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alive from the Bay Area of Games
Wide after Dark is back with me.

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I know I've been out for a
while, but I am Michael Higham.

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I guess I am hosting this week
with my good friends Jehan Luke Sipki,

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Hey, how do you do?
And Jacob Decker. I think you should

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make an alternate leading animation that's like
three minutes long, so when you're not

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on this episode, you just play
it and then everyone silently waiting for randomly

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generated countdown for you never know.
It could be it could be ten seconds,

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it could be thirty seconds. Like
keep you know what I'm saying.

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Oh man, it's I do eventually
want to make like a cool custom intro

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animation which is just dust off the
lobby one. H It's funny. I

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had like a couple of ideas and
one of them was a lobby idea,

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and I was like, oh,
I can't just bring it, just bring

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that back. It's been I feel
like the statutes of limitations are up on

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reusing assets that we had what seven
years ago at this point, bring that

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back. But though with the Rocket
League car jumping over. It's like San

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Francisco. That shit was sick man. No, no, no, here's

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what you do. You get a
CRT, you play that intro on the

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CRT and film it. Whoa,
then that becomes the intro too after dark.

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Whoa, that's crazy. See what
I'm saying. That was also an

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idea. I had no idea involving
using a CRT and having it like you

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zoom in and then it like into
into reel and then it would like zoom

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into. I was I was trying
to think of all these tricks would be

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like, well you look at us
on the CRT and then it zooms in

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and then it's us actually live.
Well you put way more thought. The

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old one, the old one.
Ah, you know what time it is?

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It is? This is the episode? What two? Is it?

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One o'clock? Four four? It
is? It is always wine o'clock.

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I'm scared about how how much I
need wine, But it's games one after

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two oh four. We I'm back. I've been. I went out to

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fan Fest a couple of weeks ago
and then I got sick, and then

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I missed the episode before that just
because I was like very busy. So

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it feels good. To finally be
back. He didn't get COVID though,

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right do. I'm built different.
I never had Rona before. You see

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that thing going around yesterday? What
thing going around? Okay, we new

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Rona just dropped. Someone made like
a like a like a cute little comic

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talking about how they got Rona at
fan fest. Oh, and we're like,

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yeah, I was feeling ill,
and but I still went the first

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day and then I realized I had
COVID and then I went home and they

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were like, aren't I great?
And everyone's like, no, no,

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really not. And they made a
comic. They made a whole ass like

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ten page comic about it was real
weird. Everyone's like, that's BIZ.

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Didn't have to do this. Did
they not reveal that they had COVID till

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the end? Because that's like bearing
the lead quite a bit there. I'd

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say, no, they revealed they
had COVID right away, But why did

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you make this? It was very
weird anyway, Yeah, Well, we

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are feeling greats over here at the
Game Spot offices. There's plenty of talk

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about this week because you know,
you know what time it is, man

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Balder's gate threes popping. We're gonna
talk about a little bit about evil.

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We'll talk a little bit about fan
Fest Balder's Gate three o'clock, way right

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at Baldins Gate, three pm.
You know what I'm saying here on Pacific

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time, I twitched, dot TV, Slash Game, spot watch US Live,

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but we also are on audio on
pause pop podcast podcast services such as

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Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Damn,
I'm rusty Dong. I'm gonna keep a

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rill with you. But let's start
talking about video games, man, Like,

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well, listen, Balls Game three
is probably the I know y'all talked

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a little bit about it last week, but I don't listen to the show,

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so like, I actually do listen
to the show. But I think

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that we've had enough time with it
to the point where we can start to

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explore a lot of the deeper elements, I suppose, and some of our

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some of our experiences, because it
feels like everyone on my timeline, on

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very social platforms as such as the
platform formerly known as Twitter, everyone's having

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very different experiences. And I think
that's part of the larian RPG DNA,

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you know, have being so rooted
in D and D with that that sweet

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nice D and D license, so
it's fascinating to see how all the different

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people who are playing this game,
what they're getting out of their quest lines,

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how they're building their party, their
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party, and yeah, everyone's been
playing it. Man, it is the

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hottest game on the block. It
is absolutely one of the best games of

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the year. Oh look at that
sweet zoom. Hey this listen. This

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is the reason why I should be
watching the video version. Man, Like

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I appreciate y'all listen to the audio. D Look it is Chrispy clean boy

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right here. Actually, but yeah, Balder's Gate three, it's taken the

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world by storm. And I kind
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predict who I predicted course of Balder's
Gate three is gonna be huge. But

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based off of Larian's history with Divinity
Original Sin two, it doesn't surprise me

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that people have taken a liking to
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it still is impressive, even though
it's like, oh, yeah, Larian's

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they're gonna kill it. Of course, and through the early access program they

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had for Bald's Gate three, the
evidence was there. It kind of feels

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like they're their fallout three moment.
You know what I mean by that is

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like, all right, let me
explain. You're gonna have to have to

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riel me in with that. Think
about this, okay, So so,

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uh like Bethesda, you know,
beloved studio be making RPGs for their own

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franchise forever you know, had its
fans. Uh Oblivion that's the one that

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like really pops off right. Yeah, Divinity two that was the one that

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really popped off right. And then
they're like, and now we're gonna make

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the third entry in the beloved classic
RPG series and then that game is gonna

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blow the fuck up fall three for
uh Bethesda, for Obsidian. Yeah.

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So not not in terms of sorry
for Larry Obsidian wow, uh yeah,

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anyway, obsiding uhoul to make the
Bouldersgate four collapse continue the pattern of Obsidian

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then makes the next thing and it's
way better than anyone else's. But I

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met more in terms of not necessarily
like structure, because you know, Fallow

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three kind of let's say, dumbed
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where I feel like, if anything, this is like enhancing and even

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it's always enriching. You know,
uh what Boulderstgate used to be. But

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I meant more in terms of like
studio trajectory of like this is like their

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their breakout moment. Sure, you
know, we're like, oh, look

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at all this attention Larry and suddenly
getting in the same way that Fault three

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kind of did that for. Yeah, it's definitely launched them into like a

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critical mass kind of Yeah, exactly
where Yeah, I mean Diny Divinity Originals

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into was nothing to scoff out,
of course. I mean if Sweet ten

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out of ten on GameSpot back in
twenty seventeen, baby, but this is

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the one where I think they're they're
reaching audiences they wouldn't have reached otherwise because

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of the official D and D license
of course. But also Balder's Gate is

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a massively, massively influential franchise that
hasn't been around in what twenty years,

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the super renowned to Like I've never
played a Balder's Gate game until three,

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but like that was always the game. I'd hear people talk about everything that

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came between the mass effect and everyone
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Balder's Gate or public. Yeah,
but Balder's Gate it's for boomers. Yeah,

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that's how as a kid, I
was like, I'm not playing that

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shit now. I should probably go
back and play it, But at the

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time, i'm I don't think you
need to, because Jacob Decker, you

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are still and I you've told me
from the oh you know, the reports

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that you gave me is that you're
still an Act one seventy hours. In

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seventy hours in still an Act one. It's a couple seventy hours to beat

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the game, that's what they said. A couple of caveats here, I

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would say about twelve of those hours
from early access, so you can wipe

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that clean, all right, Okay, we're down fifty eight down to fifty

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eight, but then that is split
across like six different campaigns. Oh,

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so you can kind of like I
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one campaign is twenty hours, okay, day, and I am still in

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Act one and all those although I
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technically I could go to Act two. I think whenever I want.

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I imagine you just travel through the
mountain pass or go through some of the

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other areas and then it begins Act
two. Don't know, I think that's

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how it works, but I haven't
done that yet, because there's just so

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much interesting stuff in that first area
I want to see, and apparently you

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can still go back to that first
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on. Yeah, it's not like
thing's gonna be like, oh, this

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is the point of real return.
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seemed that way, Like you go
there, and it's like, don't go

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unless you are ready. Enemies will
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like, oh, okay, I'm
backing out. I'm not going there yet,

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So I think you could probably get
to act too much sooner. But

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I've been taking my sweet time.
I said this this morning, but I

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think this might be one of my
favorite games of all. Obviously I need

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aficiate, and I'm super curious to
see how they managed to wrap up all

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these desparate threads, including the threads
that I've like cut off and thrown in

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a fire and like are just gone. Like, I don't know how they're

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gonna wrap things up in some of
these more interesting ways. But as it

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is now, I'm like constantly blown
away by this game. The things I've

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been doing, the reactions to different
quests I've done, the different builds i've

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come up with the different situations I've
found myself in the way I've been able

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to talk my way out of certain
things, but also just kind of be

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like, you know what, fuck
it, I just want to kill this

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thing. Yeah, there's just so
much flexibility to what is here. And

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I've heard that Act two is even
bigger than Act one, and I'm just

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like, oh my god, I'm
gonna be playing this game for a very

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very long time, and it does
the thought of it doesn't exhaust me.

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I yes, yeah, you know, like I'm looking forward to Starfield.

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I think I'm gonna play Starfield a
long time, but the thought of that

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game exhausts me already. Right,
Like thousands of planets in late game you

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get your spaceship customization or whatever,
and I'm like, that sounds cool,

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but I feel like there's gonna be
a lot of those moments in Starfield,

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and I'm like, Okay, let's
just hurry this along. But this I'm

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in it like every step of the
way. To be fair, I probably

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shouldn't compare bathers Gate and Starfield very
different RPGs, but I don't know,

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man, I just want That's all
I want to do. I'm just gonna

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keep playing balls Gate. We should
and this podcast really a second damn.

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I mean you said you think you've
had multiple different campaigns, Like what are

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you seeing differently through those different You're
just like making different choices. You're just

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like trying to see which build sticks
with you and then like, Okay,

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this is the one, I'm going
to take it to Act two or whatever.

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Okay, It's it's a bit of
both. I have I've tried.

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I've never done a repeat class so
far. I think I've done John Luke

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and I the first one we started, I think I was doing a Warlock.

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I started a Barbarian with a friend, which which has been a lot

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of fun. I'm purpabed how much
I'm enjoying Barbarian really like Fighter is well,

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been playing a good amount of Fighter. The one I'm furthest on is

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Sorcer, which I'm having a great
time with because of metamagic and you can

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kind of adjust how you want to
cast spells for some interesting, interesting outcomes.

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And then plus I'm using wild magic
there, which means every time I

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call something wacky happens, and sometimes
it's great, like sometimes I get to

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teleport after each spell I casts,
and I'm like, fuck, yeah,

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this is awesome. Other times I
put a just a field of thorns underneath

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me and my entire party, and
I'm like, well, we're just flux

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for the next But yeah, I
like, I find all the classes I've

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picked to feel really deep and satisfying
and and and I want to see each

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of them through a lot of the
narrative decisions that I come up to like

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seem vastly different, Like some very
surprising things happen, like Carlac, one

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of my favorite party members. You
get. I was playing with a friend

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of mine and I go over and
he's holding Carlac's head. She's in a

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cut scene he killed her and I
was like, how did you do that?

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Why did you do that? And
he was like, well, I'm

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a paladin and I wanted to side
with the Paladins who are hunting her,

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So now she's dead. And I
was like, all right, I'm not

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continuing this campaign. And then we
restarted, and that's that's a whole chunk

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of the game that just doesn't just
disappear. This and like in like Carlac

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even like it, so she you
can also just piss her off if you

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treat the druids poorly, the druids
and teeth things poorly in Emerald Grove,

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and then you can be there.
And I don't think she'll join you,

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at least in the moment, John
you shouldmight join you later, but that

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can also lead you to the killer, and like that happens with everything,

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I mean, the Dark Urge we're
talking about last week. Or you can

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just bite Gale's hand off and then
he disappears, like I don't know what

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happens to him. I really hope
he shows up without a hand, because

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I think that would be amazing.
So I have his hand in my inventory

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still and I'm just holding on to
it, like have you. I'll give

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it back to him if I run
into him. I tried to talk to

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talk with the dead with his hand, because apparently you don't need the person,

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you just need a body part.
But Mike bugged when I tried it.

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I put it on the ground because
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I've gained the system. I want
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and then the hand disappeared. Okay, I gotta try it and see if

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that works. But I'd be curious
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thing. Like you could think you've
like ruined a quest line and then you're

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like, oh wait, I have
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beginning that lets you talk to the
dead, and you put it on and

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then you talk to the character and
then they're like, you can ask them

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five questions or whatever and they'll continue
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of cheating because it's like, Okay, I killed the guy, but I

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can still talk to them. But
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in the world and that's a thing. And you can also just talk to

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like a bunch of people who are
dead. Yeah, and if you kill

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that person and then try to talk
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because you killed them. That's crazy, man. Yeah. The I think

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if you're not familiar with D and
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just how flexible and how fluid this
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you think of this maybe might be
a stupid comparison, but you think of

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Tears of the Kingdom's building mechanics,
where it's just like fluid and anything you

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can come up with, as long
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with it and the game doesn't care. It's like applying that concept to a

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one hundred hour RPG campaign. Like
you can do almost anything if you can

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think of it, and the systems
are so reactive and so fluid to what

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you're doing with it that it's it
really does feel like you're creating your own

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kind of D and D journey through
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you know, if you followed Larion's
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know how much they are, how
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just how much care they've put into
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like this doesn't get pulled off.
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there's there's bugs and there's like,
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happens. Happens when you have like
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campaign. But I think the way
they've pulled it off, from what we've

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seen so far, is nothing short
of amazing. But but John, you've

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been you've been playing too, well, what kind of kinds of things are

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you seeing in your campaign? Admittedly
I haven't played as much because everyone I

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haven't played seventy hours. I haven't
played okay, good, we'll talk about

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it. But I was at Eve
over the weekend that's on that mad fomo

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watching everyone talk about it, and
I was like, well I had mad

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FuMO watching Evo was a loser list, Yeah, pretty much. It felt

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good that I was like I was
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I was like watching Evo and Ship
so it's like, ah damn yeah man,

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dig he was like wild, like
coming back and then just like checking

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the because we have like a slack
channel where everyone's like talking about it and

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then like it's just it's just like
fifty pages long now and Aaron and Max

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are just like talking about like how
you can create you can make sati charges.

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Have you heard about this? So
in the game you can get like

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little satchel bags and they're like you
can throw the bags so you can fill

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that bag up with like explosives and
like all like potions and all this stuff.

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Throw the bag, the bag will
break and all the potions will be

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on the floor. You just shoot
one and it causes his like chain ration

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explosion. And Max showed me this
footage where he did like one hundred and

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sixty damage. Yeah, and like
completely nuked an enemy and also like almost

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crashed his game course Max would do
that shit. The funny thing is Aaron's

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the one you figured it now,
Oh damn, because he's like, how

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can I get battlefield? Yeah,
he's taking his battlefield mentality to this game,

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which I think it is great.
It's so much fun to see you

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though, right, And it's cool
to see both of them, Like talking

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to both of them, they're like, yeah, well I really wasn't sure

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about this game. It wasn't on
my radar. And they're like, I'm

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so into this, like they're they're
loving it, and I'm just like,

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yeah, Like it's you know,
seeing the the r the CRPG sickos winning

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out here, right, because it's
like, I don't know, like I've

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I've loved games like this since I
don't know, like Dragon A Georgians and

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games like Hours just like man,
like I love games like this, So

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it's it's so cool to see it
thriving. Yeah, I don't know.

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I mean, I'm still still really
early and I'm kind of bouncing between my

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character and then I'm also like making
a character with I gotta play through Georgia.

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We're seeing through and that one's like
we're going really slow because I'm kind

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of like trying to really like take
the time to intro mechanicster because like,

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damn, it is a DUNS game, a lot to go through inmidating for

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sure, intimidating for sure. But
uh yeah, I think I'm trying to

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currently figure out who I'm gonna ron. I was gonna ask you, like,

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who are you trying to smash?
Though? No, man, there's

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so many options. I mean,
I think Carlac is. Uh, she

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she's hot. I like her a
lot. Shadow Hearts cool, although apparently

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she's like mad racist is uh Eric
van Allen who treated Yeah, the conflict

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in my head I can fix her
or can she fix me? And it

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was it was Shadow Hearts like this
is how I've been feeling, been torn

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between the two. But also apparently
Shadow Hearts really easy to smash. No,

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I found I found lizel is the
easiest to smash really yeah, because

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because she did get did you get
the role when you try to smash her?

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I don't know. This was in
a co op character, so I

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was being egg done by other people
be like do it apparently, but she

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like threatens to kill you and then
you can be like, are you coming

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on to me? And then she'd
be like, maybe I am. And

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then then and then like a couple
of nights later, she like takes you

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from your bed and then either she
dominates you or you dominate. You have

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to roll to see who's the top
and who's the bottom, which is incredible

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this game. You don't see it, but you see a lot surprising.

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Oh yeah, they got dog choices. Yeah, and some some some some

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illicit, some melicit graphics that you
can see as game No. Bers G

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three is mad horny too, like
it is. It is wild how much

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it people are ready to plow.
Oh yeah, shit, they're bald HER's

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gate. I barely know her a
game. Man, You you practiced this

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before? Did I tried in I'm
just really happy for all my my Dragon

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Age fans out there who've been waiting
for full or they've been thirsty for years,

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you know what I'm saying. Uh
yeah, that's that's that's part of

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the role playing aspect of this game. Man. Like, I think it

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is also a wild seeing how everyone
is approaching romance in this game, because

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it is it is a very dynamic
sort of system where like I mean,

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everything in this game is like super
way more dynamic than you what you see

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from like other I guess big name
RPGs, sure, and it's no slight

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against them. It's just the nature
of Balder's Gate three in D and D

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is so uh it's so dense and
fluid in that way. But that how

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seeing how that plays out in Romance
is also kind of wild too. I

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do wish there was maybe I guess
I haven't done all the romance stuff,

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so I don't know, but like
Lazelle in particular, there was like there

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was no slow burn. It was
just like zero to one hundred, and

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like even Shadow Hearts to some extent, was all of a sudden, like

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we're dating now, and I'm like, okay, are we? When did

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this happen? Yeah? Man,
Like especially because like I'm still an Act

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one and I feel like in Massive
it's like they save that stuff for the

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third third, the third act,
and this it's like, oh shit,

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we're we're getting steam now. They
we have to level it up by the

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end. Yeah, there's gotta be
I don't know, there's gotta be some

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insertion. I want to see some
insertion. And in Act three, you

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know, what's like the bare romance
comes in. Look up a guide on

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that one. If you're interested in
you're interested in that. I think we

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do explicitly happen. We do,
Yes, yeah, we do so for

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I mean, I ain't going to
judge, you know what I'm saying.

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What else about? Oh, hey, Nola for Hysterian No, oh,

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I like him and yeah, yeah, I let him bite me. Hey,

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there you go. That's I might
romance in my my solo play through

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because I'm that's from the Dark Urge
and he's down with, you know,

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my violent tendencies. Yeah, he
wants. I feel like we're best buds.

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That's up. Probably probably smash hell
yeah. Oh man. But Ball's

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Gate three. It seems like this
is it's gonna be one of those games

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that folks are gonna be talking about
for a very very long time, just

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because of the nature of the game, for sure, but also it is

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an absolute banger from everything else I
have heard, and I like, listen,

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I barely I barely touched the game, you know, I said.

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I spent like two hours streaming over
the discord with the homies and I was

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like, okay, so Warlock Sorcerer, No I'm gonna go Bart. Bart

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seems really dope, but I'm gonna
go Warlock. I really liked that Eldritch

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Blast and I created my character and
I was like, I'm just creating the

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same character I do for every other
game. Yeah yeah, And I'm like,

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but I love my character. She
always looks like she's extremely sad,

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like something about her eyeballs are very
shiny, and she looks always like perplexed,

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And I'm like, oh, what's
wrong? Everything okay, it's really

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concerned all the time. And I
didn't mean. I didn't mean to make

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her like that, but some sort
of accidental reflection on I guess yo.

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I was like, I'm I was
like, oh, she looks like one

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of my friends. I do think
for folks who've never played D and D

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before, I do recommend making a
couple saves and like listing out different classes,

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different races, see which one you
like the most, rather than making

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one and sticking with it. Like, even if you're not someone who likes

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to restart and do that kind of
stuff, I would like, maybe do

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the tutorial and like the first couple
encounters with a class, and if you're

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not one hundred percent feeling it,
just restart, try something else, or

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or get the guy at the beginning
who lets you change classes, or get

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him soon. Yeah, there's that. You can get him like pretty early

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if you want, and then it
just cost one hundred gold, which isn't

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that hard to get, and then
you could just like say before that,

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yeah, respect and you can just
like mess around that way. But if

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you do that, you don't get
starting equipment for those classes, that is

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true, but it's not great equipment
anyway, so you'll probably find better stuff

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pretty quickly. Yeah. Anything else
on balls Gate three at the moments,

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man, I've got a lot of
videos up on it, sure, Yeah,

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guides what you've done a lot of
those, right, Yeah. We

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did a class guide X things you
should do for ten things you should do

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first or something combat guide. Uh. Max is working on things you didn't

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know. It's kind of in the
vein of a sort of a Zelda style,

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Yeah, which will be a banger, I'm sure. Uh, I've

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I've there's lots of cool stuff that
he's already figured out, multi classing if

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that's something that interests you, working
on that right now, there's a lot

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there. I got to get to
act two, so we can do stuff

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to do an act too, because
I think that's gonna be pretty big,

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especially if that is Balder's Gate proper
that you go to, because it seems

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big at least when I went to
the preview, they like, give us

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a little two or Balder's Gate,
and there's just every corner. It seems

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like there's something like and once you're
solving a you're solving a murder with like

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some flying elephant man, and then
all of a sudden you're at a circus

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ripping off people working there. It's
hell. Seems like there's a lot.

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I'm super excited to continue. That's
also robbery. Oh hey anything, anything

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is possible in the world of D
and D and Balder's Gate three apparently,

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and Dave Duet also did a lore
recap for Balder's Gate one and two,

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which I watched when I was fucking
blazed, so my bad, I don't

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remember much. I watched it sober, and I was like, I have

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no idea what I was talking about. Highly recommend that because I heard from

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someone that when you get to Balder's
Gate, like it actually starts to introduce

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some like characters and stuff from those
past games that becomes so you're you'll experience

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will be more enriched if you're familiar
with them. So good use of that

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word again, you know rich.
There you go. Yeah, So that's

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a sweet little twenty twenty minute video. Lets you go check out on YouTube

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dot com, Slage game Spot.
You know the vibes man and all the

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other content that we have now and
will have in the near future on Balder's

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Gate three. But there's, like
I said, we're gonna be talking about

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that game for months, probably months
and months and months. But I think

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the event of this month, the
physical event that we were all hyped about,

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what I mean most of us were
hyped about, is EVO Evolution Championship

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Series twenty twenty three, the premier
fighting game tournament of the year. Jean

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Luke, Veasy, Vegas. Jean
Luke, you went to it? I

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was so. I was so heated. First off, I should have been

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at Evil Man. I went in
twenty nineteen, twenty twenty two, and

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I have said on record that EVO
is the most fun I ever have at

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like an annual gaming Yeah, Like
I love the E three's in the summer

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game Fest, the paxes and shit. But EVO is so special and I'm

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so glad that you've Like Jean Luke
and I have been playing fighting games together.

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Yeah, here again Spot for many
many years, but you'd never gone.

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I've never gone, and I'm so
happy you got to see banger of

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a first year to go to experiencing
such a banger of an evil, right,

404
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yeah, man, dude, it
ruled. I totally agree. Like

405
00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:56.160
we're I'm just like, yeah,
I think I think that's maybe my favorite

406
00:26:56.240 --> 00:27:02.599
to go to. I think it's
because everyone's there for like a shared purpose,

407
00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:06.240
you know, like they all had
there's a there's a reason why they're

408
00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:08.920
all here is because we all love
fighting games, and so it's it's a

409
00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:14.240
good like everyone was just so nice
and welcoming. It was a very pleasant

410
00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:18.960
event to be on. They did
a really good job with like the show

411
00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.079
floor and put it on. It
was cool. So uh yeah, I

412
00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:27.240
went there with Georgia, which was
fun, and ran into one Ben Janka

413
00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:33.799
who was there as well, which
was great. We both entered into street

414
00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:37.400
Fighter six. Oh really, I
didn't know that. Yes, I immediately

415
00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:41.440
lost right, Uh yeah, I
went oh two, first round, I

416
00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:45.799
got perfected by a guy. Uh
he was he was running JP and I

417
00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:51.680
was like, oh you get Yeah. I was like, yeah, I'm

418
00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:55.200
absolutely screwed. But it was cool. It was like, I mean I

419
00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:56.839
didn't really care because I was like, I knew that was gonna happen.

420
00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:00.440
I was there for the experience,
like you got to. It's what it

421
00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:03.640
was like to get ready for pools. Yeah, to like kind of break

422
00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:06.119
that seal and be like all right, let's cool. So you know,

423
00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:08.160
I definitely like feeling that itch of
like okay, but what if I like

424
00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:12.319
and then go to like a like
a like a smaller thing or something.

425
00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:15.839
Locals? Yeah, maybe win a
local or well not win a local,

426
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:22.519
but when win a match. Yeah, that's very especially here in the Bay

427
00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:27.039
Area. The scene is very strong
here. Yeah seriously. But yeah,

428
00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:30.440
I mean like while you're there,
you're just like, man, I want

429
00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:34.559
to play more fucking fighting games,
which is weirdly difficult to do if you're

430
00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:41.839
not prepared because like everyone's there specifically
for the tournament. So like there was

431
00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:42.839
a lot of like, man,
I want to Oh, man, look

432
00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:45.200
there's like Marl Verus Capcom three.
I want to play that. And I'm

433
00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:48.279
like, oh, I don't got
any way to do that though I didn't

434
00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:51.400
like bring my you know, PlayStation. I gotta keep that thing on you

435
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:52.839
man. Yeah. Yeah, so
I'm kind of like thinking about, like,

436
00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.839
oh maybe next year I'll like try
and bring some extra stuff so I

437
00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:00.440
can actually pack the snackbot play games. Yeah, I bring my box.

438
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:03.759
Yeah, they do have. It's
so in like the middle they have where

439
00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:10.359
everyone has the pools like Saturday.
Yeah, well on Saturday that those tables

440
00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:14.319
start to not get used because they
kind of like branch out more into just

441
00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:17.799
like oh now it's just winner finals
and there's less people, and so by

442
00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:19.759
the end of it, there's just
a bunch of empty tables with like PlayStations

443
00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:22.039
there that if you want to,
you could just go up and start playing.

444
00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:26.119
You just need to burn your stick. So yeah, I think next

445
00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:30.119
year I'll try and do that.
Uh. But yeah, let's see,

446
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:36.039
I got to walk around the artist
alley. Cool things artists alley at EVO

447
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:41.240
is different. Yeah, it's uh, I mean it reminded me a lot

448
00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:45.279
of the artists ally at a Crunchy
Roll and that's just hell horning. Oh

449
00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:48.720
sure, yeah, you know,
definitely saw a couple of the same artists

450
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:51.720
there as well. But yeah,
artist. How was cool? I bought

451
00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:56.799
a couple of things from that.
Bought about a nice translucent case for my

452
00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:02.480
snack box. Snack box booth checked
out a couple of cool finals. I

453
00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:06.279
gotta see that that one blind gamer
who was playing Street fightery six. I

454
00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:07.480
don't know if you saw that that
was going around. Yeah, I forget

455
00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:11.200
his name, but there's a guy
who was playing the game blind and I

456
00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:15.680
got to like watch that on in
on stage, and that was really cool

457
00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:22.279
got to watch. So for finals, we watched Dragon Ball Fighters caught that,

458
00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:29.000
which is good. The problem with
that game uh long. It's so

459
00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:32.960
long, and it's the same problem
with Marl versus Capcom three, where it's

460
00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:37.799
like you're kind of just waiting.
It's the interesting part is just who's going

461
00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:41.240
to get that first hit? Yeah, and then it's like and now you're

462
00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:44.319
just gonna watch them juggle for the
next of course, like thirty seconds and

463
00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:48.039
then like and each individual hit maybe
doesn't quite feel as impactful because it does

464
00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:52.519
so little because it's about like those
really long like commos and damners scaling versus

465
00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:55.640
something like a tech and we're like
one hit in Tech and you're like,

466
00:30:55.799 --> 00:31:00.240
oh, this whole match is completely
changed now, right or something, So

467
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:06.000
I find those inherently less interesting to
watch. Also, this year the year

468
00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:10.079
of mirror matches in Grand Finals.
It's crazy, right, dude matches.

469
00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:14.720
Yeah, Dragon Ball had a mirror
match, MK had a mirror match.

470
00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:21.960
Uh uh no, I don't think
there was any mirrors in Street Veter didn't

471
00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:27.880
have a mirror match, but uh
Marvel did, obviously Marvel. That's the

472
00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:30.599
thing about Marvel. I'm glad they
brought it back, but I'm also like,

473
00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:36.400
yeah, the meta has not changed, guys. Like it's just like,

474
00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:38.559
heyy I got let me, let
me hit you with something. What

475
00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:44.480
if my party was zero donte virtual
zero? Yeah, dote virtual zero is

476
00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:48.599
just like that's just the meta.
It's like there's some games that the player

477
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:52.720
base has just like downloaded totals and
just like this is how you play the

478
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:56.880
game. Otherwise, what are you
doing here? Yeah? Yeah, I

479
00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.599
think I inherently also, just like
I personally find it more interesting when somebody

480
00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:05.880
picks a player that or picks a
character that isn't just like the obvious meta

481
00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:09.839
choice. Like yeah, like seeing
Blanca, seeing Mena use Blanca again,

482
00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:12.920
it was like hell, yeah,
let's go well, that was the thing

483
00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:16.720
that was interesting about Street Fighters specifically
was that it kind of wasn't fully clear

484
00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:20.960
who was going to be who is
like the meta pick, Like I think

485
00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:23.720
the two closest was like JP and
Ken, That's what most people were running.

486
00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:28.440
But there were no JP players in
the top six at all, and

487
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:31.279
sworn there was one JP player there
one, I think there was one,

488
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:36.680
maybe one, but I for Street
Fighter, I only caught oh maybe the

489
00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:40.880
first round was JP, but no, but like JP had like I think

490
00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.000
the highest amount of like people playing
and overall winners, like the winners like

491
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:47.680
ninety six or something like that.
As someone broke that down. So I

492
00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:52.400
thought it was interesting that there wasn't
actually much JP in the finals. It

493
00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:55.200
was like a good mix of characters, which I think it speaks to like

494
00:32:57.200 --> 00:32:59.920
how well made that game is.
Yeah, like that game is in a

495
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:04.440
good state. It speaks to like
the finals, because god damn, I

496
00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:08.039
don't think there's ever been a set
of finals that beautiful, fucking good,

497
00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:14.079
like every match banger, And I
really think it's partly like obviously all those

498
00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:15.359
players are like, you know,
a top form, but I do think

499
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:21.000
part of it is because like that
game isn't a place where it's like anyone

500
00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:23.480
can like turn it around, like, so it doesn't it doesn't feel one

501
00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:27.400
sided in the way that maybe some
other games have kind of settled into.

502
00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:30.519
Yeah, there's like the push and
pull of a match. Like there's some

503
00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:31.839
games where you because like, oh, this match is over, like you

504
00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:36.680
can before it's like someone gets one
combo off, it's all right, well,

505
00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:38.119
we know how the rest of this
match is gonna goe. But Tree

506
00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:42.880
Fighter six has a really good I
mean presentation wise, it's it's very fun

507
00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:45.279
to watch. But also I think
the dynamics of that of the actual combat

508
00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:52.640
system in that game make it so
that players have a way to like they

509
00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:54.119
have a lot of tools that they
use. And we talked about this when

510
00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:58.000
Tree Fighter six was coming out and
we had got hands on with it,

511
00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:01.480
is that there's so much at your
dispose well that you know, you never

512
00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:05.079
feel like if if you figure out
the game, if you're good enough,

513
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:08.599
there's a way out of sticky situations
with your character. And I think that

514
00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:13.719
you saw that a lot, especially
just in the Grand finals alone between Anger

515
00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:17.360
Bird and Mena, and there's like
incredible players too. Seriously, Yeah,

516
00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:24.480
the story of Anger Bird coming up
through FDC and Meno who's been he's been

517
00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:30.599
making a splash at other tournaments too, the top three Fight six players right

518
00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:35.360
off the bat, and also shouts
out to hall folks in DR. You

519
00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:40.239
know, okay Loka Mena's out there
representing DR. And it's it's really cool

520
00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:45.320
to see like all these different countries
come to the come to the plate too,

521
00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:50.440
because I think Street Fighter and techn
are both kind of one of the

522
00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:52.679
two of the games. I mean
they're the most popular games, sure,

523
00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:57.920
but I think the diversity you see
in the countries that are represented in Top

524
00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:00.480
sixes and like top twe fours and
Shade, it's like, oh wow,

525
00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:05.400
this is uh it makes for some
really exciting storylines and you get to know

526
00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:08.400
about people who you just never see
otherwise because they don't go to like locals

527
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:14.119
or like any of the most many
of them can't make it to US based

528
00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:16.679
tournaments, so we never necessarily hear
about them, and uh so it's you

529
00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:20.800
get stories like that like arcelan Ash
back in twenty nineteen when he first came

530
00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:23.280
onto the scene was like a huge
deal and he'd been treating it, treating

531
00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:27.079
training in Pukstan for a long ass
time, one of the best players in

532
00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:30.599
that region, and then he shows
up and now he's the four time techn

533
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:34.079
Evo champion and what a legacy.
Yeah, good lord, oh man,

534
00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:37.719
Techen's great. I love that I
got to see arslan ash win it again.

535
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:42.559
That's beautiful. So was I was
the smash scene. Smash scene non

536
00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:46.639
existent, although, man, dude, so I did catch the Guilty ger

537
00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:52.159
Strive finals, which were good.
The winner was Leffen, who if you're

538
00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:58.760
all familiar with, and uh yeah, not the biggest fan of Leffen.

539
00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:01.519
I mean I think he's I think
he's very skilled. He's extremely good.

540
00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:07.559
It's very good. I will not
deny his skill, but yeah, I

541
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:12.159
was kind of yeah, yeah.
The audience was pretty pretty whelmed about it.

542
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:14.440
He was. He was getting a
lot of I don't know if you

543
00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:16.199
could hear it, but if you
watched it, but he was getting a

544
00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:20.800
lot of booze whatever. He would
come out like people were. If you

545
00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:23.079
were not a big left left and
fans, let's just say, yeah,

546
00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:25.920
I was voting for my girl Humi
show. Yeah we showed up again.

547
00:36:27.159 --> 00:36:30.920
She took fourth, but I was
like, ah ya, still still represent

548
00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:32.519
She still made it to the top. Yeah, watching it was watching it.

549
00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:36.679
We show last year was yeah,
fucking amazing. Yeah, she went

550
00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:38.920
with a soul bad guy this year
and said she was Happy Chaos. She

551
00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:42.960
want to as Happy Chaos last year. Yeah, yeah, well I respect

552
00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:45.039
that. She intentionally said I'm going
to play just soul and try and like

553
00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:50.000
play the whole tournament as a soul
and see how farc again she got a

554
00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:52.960
top four. She got a top
four and like left and I mean he

555
00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:55.880
won with Happy Chaos because happy Chaos
is the meta pick and it's like yeah,

556
00:36:55.920 --> 00:36:59.280
man, you know of course,
Like so I felt more like,

557
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:01.840
I don't know, like she was
there to challenge herself, where Leffon's just

558
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:05.079
like I just want to win.
Well, you played to win the game.

559
00:37:05.639 --> 00:37:07.000
The games, Yeah yeah, yeah
exactly. You can't really blame for

560
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:10.760
that, but yeah, that was
that was good too. I'll just say

561
00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:14.920
that, like it really does hit
different like being in the actual crowd,

562
00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:17.800
you know, like because because you
get I don't know, it's like it's

563
00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:21.000
like watching it, it's the same
with like a sports game, right where

564
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:22.840
it's just like you get that crowd
energy about it. There was so many

565
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:30.320
like dumb jokes like the big sponsor
for EVA was brought by Ripole, and

566
00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:35.440
every time they would cut to commercial
break, it would always start with a

567
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:38.320
Chipotle ad. And then it just
became this like in joke in the audience

568
00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:42.519
where every time the Chipotle ad came
up, the audience would start cheering for

569
00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:45.039
it and be like, yeah,
Chripole, and like every and then it

570
00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:49.800
just became like progressively more intense as
the night went on, and by the

571
00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:55.159
end, like the audience suggests freaking
the fuck out for Chipotle marketing for your

572
00:37:55.320 --> 00:38:00.360
Yes, the worst part about it
there was no god damn Chapole anywhere near

573
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:06.119
that event. It's probably a good
thing it fucking worked because I was like,

574
00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:08.159
damn man, I didn't really want
to go for some Chipotle and they

575
00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:10.519
didn't have any. So you know
what I got yesterday when I came back

576
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:22.880
because I need some goddamn How was
it? Well? Yeah, that's crazy,

577
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:25.079
though, Yeah, I'm glad you
got to experience it, dude.

578
00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:29.880
Yeah, this is cool man.
Yeah, it's beautiful to like, yeah,

579
00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:31.280
like the all the arcade set ups
they have there. Last year,

580
00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:34.920
I know, I talked about playing
DDR for like half the day. Yeah,

581
00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:37.480
yeah, they had a bunch of
arcades and I mentioned you earlier,

582
00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:42.039
but they had Project L there.
Yeah, they had like a proper booth

583
00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:44.480
like you know, kind of like
packsy three style where you could wait in

584
00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:46.920
line. I went to that line
and was like, I worked for game

585
00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:51.400
Spot. They let you up front. Uh yeah, no, no,

586
00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:54.039
I just I was like that Project
I don't want to wait in line.

587
00:38:54.480 --> 00:39:00.920
Uh so uh. But then I
found out that Riot actually snuck Project L

588
00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:06.960
on a couple of Viewlicks arcade cabs
and snuck it in the retro area and

589
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:08.480
didn't tell anyone, and then we
found out about him. We're like,

590
00:39:08.519 --> 00:39:12.920
yeah, we got to get over
there when everyone finds out, and eventually

591
00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:15.079
everyone did. But yeah, I
gotta play a round of that. It's

592
00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:20.159
really really cool. I mean I
didn't get to play enough to like really

593
00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:24.000
get the grasps on on it.
Fully. I was trying to look up

594
00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:27.639
like the Moveless beforehand because they had
a little QR code, but the service

595
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:29.599
was so shit that it wouldn't load. And I'm just like, damn,

596
00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:31.559
I don't know any of the moves. Fuck fuck hit Corpus circle and punch

597
00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:35.519
Coru circle and kicks. See what
happens. H yeah, pretty much.

598
00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:37.719
But it was fully set up to
do like the two v two like assist

599
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:40.280
mode style play, which is kind
of like the big gimmick of that game,

600
00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:44.760
and that seems really cool. Like
there's like multiple ways you can like

601
00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:46.119
set up the assists, Like they're
like, oh, do you want to

602
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:49.920
do like freestyle or like two exascists
And I was like, oh, okay,

603
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.760
like how do these work? And
Yeah, there's like a lot of

604
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:58.960
really rad potential around that game,
especially like I would be really one.

605
00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:00.679
I just like really want to play
more of it. And I'm like,

606
00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:01.679
oh, this could be like a
good one, like me and Georgia played

607
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:06.719
together or something, because we can
both kind of I feel like we're contributing

608
00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:08.440
and we're playing with each other as
opposed to playing like against each other or

609
00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:13.719
next to each other. But also
I'm just really excited to see what like

610
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:15.199
a proper EVO tournament for look like, like are they gonna have like a

611
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:21.079
proper doubles tournament? That'd be pretty
sick. There's a lot of potential there,

612
00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:25.320
So I'm that game's that came shaping
up to be pretty good sick.

613
00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:30.360
I'm excited. I wish I could
play more, but man, yeah,

614
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:35.079
they haven't even announced, they haven't
really Windows. Yeah, it doesn't.

615
00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:37.239
I still call it project for I'm
just like, hey, hey, right,

616
00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:42.360
if you want to just send over
like the build game Spot, Yeah,

617
00:40:42.599 --> 00:40:45.119
yeah, but just let's fuck around
with it. Yeah cool. Yeah,

618
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:47.400
I mean, well, next I
don't think it's going to be ready

619
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:52.639
for next Evoo. But next EVO
is going to be sick, because again

620
00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:54.800
we're gonna see Street Fight or six. Of course Tech and eight should be

621
00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:59.239
is. I would bet my life
on Tech and eight being out by then

622
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:04.960
as well. So Teching is gonna
get a new revitalization. Under Night in

623
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:10.920
Birth sis Less is gonna be out
early next year as well, might Spot

624
00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:15.360
to take multi Blood Spot. Multi
Blood is still my favorite fighter right now,

625
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:17.960
by the way, and I love
fucking I love so into the Multi

626
00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:22.559
Blood Top six. But under Night
is for sure going to make a comeback

627
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:27.000
onto the main stage next year,
and goddamn right I'm gonna be there as

628
00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:30.760
well. So yeah, I'm I'm
excited for for next year. It's gonna

629
00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:34.679
be sick, and I'm sure a
project that will be further along, if

630
00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:37.039
not playable for well, even if
it's playable this year, but like it's

631
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:40.599
gonna be in a more playable state
next year as well. So EVO is

632
00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:46.800
going to fighting games. Man,
that's just they've been I had every intention

633
00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:50.679
of watching EVO this year. Now
that I'm into Street Fight or six,

634
00:41:50.760 --> 00:41:57.199
you've been playing in both both.
This weekend is Worlds, which is the

635
00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:00.639
Pokemon Championship, which I know if
you guys have ever watched competitive Pokemon,

636
00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:05.159
but it is, yeah, pretty
intense, like it is. It is

637
00:42:05.199 --> 00:42:08.280
good stuff. Probably not as exciting
as EVO or like Street Fighter because it's

638
00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:14.119
not it's not as fast paced,
but like sure seeing the way these players

639
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:19.440
like outsmart each other is absolutely wild. Yeah, and you're you're someone who's

640
00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:22.039
like you're deep in the competitive pugmon
scene too, right, So I mean,

641
00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:25.039
I don't know if I'm that deep, but I like there's definitely an

642
00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:28.840
understanding you need, I guess to
kind of I wouldn't do it. Like

643
00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:30.800
with fighting games, it's easier to
fall to some extent, like I don't

644
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:34.760
want to. But like when I
watch a fighting game, I can be

645
00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:37.400
like, Okay, whoever's punching more
is gonna win? Right With Pokemon,

646
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:40.159
like that's still kind of the same
thing, but there's a lot of moves

647
00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:44.719
that I imagine need to experience.
I would I would definitely want to wash

648
00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:47.000
that with like you or Callie or
or Callie would be the better because I

649
00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:52.199
would like you guys would understand like, oh, like they picked this character

650
00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:55.159
and like with this move set because
it's like a good counter for this like

651
00:42:55.199 --> 00:43:00.639
stuff that I just like wouldn't fully
grasp in like understand like the mind games

652
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:05.400
that are happening. Yeah. Yeah. The interesting thing too about at least

653
00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:10.199
this year or this set of competitive
Pokemon is that they've added a bunch of

654
00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:15.400
new Pokemon, which they normally don't
do until there's DLC, and like there

655
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:19.960
hasn't really been a tournament with I
think it's registration D or variation D or

656
00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:23.719
whatever, so like people don't really
know what you're gonna bring normally in this,

657
00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:27.239
like you know, after the games
are out for a year, it's

658
00:43:27.239 --> 00:43:29.159
like, Okay, people are gonna
bring this Pokemon, this Pokemon, this

659
00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:31.880
Pokemon, this Pokemon. But because
there's all these new Pokemon that no one

660
00:43:31.960 --> 00:43:37.079
has really like tested in a in
a competitive setting, at least professionally,

661
00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:39.639
there's like a lot of room to
shake things up. That sounds exciting.

662
00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:44.199
So yeah, that's this weekend.
That will be what I'm watching. Yeah,

663
00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:50.039
and along alongside Bald Skate. But
I do want to get more into

664
00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:54.519
Evo and because like I've watched Smash
Bros. Competitively and like I'm like half

665
00:43:54.599 --> 00:43:58.360
in, half out on Smash Bros. A lot of it has to do

666
00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:01.320
was just the drama of Smash Bros. So stupid, like and the players

667
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:07.320
something about them, Yes, some
of some of the players are great,

668
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:09.639
but then some of them there's always
like there's something underneath. Yeah, there's

669
00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:15.199
always it's always something like I feel
like every time I go on YouTube there's

670
00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:19.159
a Smash player apologizing for something they
get. It's like, you, like,

671
00:44:19.679 --> 00:44:22.400
how is it this hard? Just
I don't know anyway, Yeah,

672
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:28.320
so I have trouble like getting into
Smash Bros. That way. I find

673
00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:32.280
Pokemon a lot more welcoming. Yes, And I mean I can't speak on

674
00:44:32.599 --> 00:44:36.880
EVO and Street Fight in particulars I
didn't go, but it seems like what

675
00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:39.599
if you do what you've described,
the energy feels a lot more positive for

676
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:44.440
a thousand percent. Yeah, that
was a very drama free event. I

677
00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:47.360
would say I feel like generally like
people aren't immature, and if you are,

678
00:44:47.719 --> 00:44:52.840
I think you will be it's like
ostracizing yourself totally. Like the and

679
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:57.320
there's like there there is drama.
Of course there is stuff, but I

680
00:44:57.400 --> 00:45:00.719
think it's like there's a way it
works. There's a certain amount of drama

681
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:04.320
that's acceptable. And then it gets
to a point where it's like, okay,

682
00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:07.360
at a smash player, like one
punched another smash player in the face

683
00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:13.159
a company because he was mad that
he lost, and it's like, yeah,

684
00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:16.639
there, the FDC had its moment. Sure, we're like I forget

685
00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:19.679
when it was. It was like
five or so many years ago, where

686
00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:22.199
like they kind of the off Scott
too much. Yeah, and they were

687
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:24.599
kind of like, all right,
clean this ship up, and they did.

688
00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:27.719
And I think it's on a good
state now. Yeah, And it's

689
00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:31.760
it's some I think a lot of
it has been I guess like self imposed

690
00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:36.000
by the community too. It's kind
of like everyone keeps each other in check

691
00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:38.000
and a way totally everyone has Like
there's there's like there is drama, but

692
00:45:38.039 --> 00:45:42.760
I think it's it's very respectful.
But also just like the display of sportsmanship

693
00:45:42.920 --> 00:45:45.880
is so high. I think like
when even at the highest level, like

694
00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:52.280
when Mena and Angry Bird were like
there's like something happened where they could controller

695
00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:55.639
disconnected, yeah, which should have
meant a disqualification or like they should have

696
00:45:55.679 --> 00:45:59.320
like I mean generally, if especially
if it happens in the middle of a

697
00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:00.480
match at like calls a lot of
problems. But Anger just like, no,

698
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:02.639
no, no, it's all good. It's all good because it's been

699
00:46:02.719 --> 00:46:06.199
as controller or disconnected and he's like, no, no, we're gonna like

700
00:46:06.280 --> 00:46:09.000
we'll take care of it. There's
like gentlemen's agreement, okay. And I

701
00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:12.760
think and when that when that was
over, they were like hugging each other

702
00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:15.239
and like Anger Bird was like in
tears because like this is the one of

703
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:17.519
the probably the biggest moment is life. And then Mena, who's like a

704
00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:20.719
reigning champion, just like, hey, bro, you earn that shit,

705
00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:23.719
man, there's so much love and
I don't want to like there's of course

706
00:46:23.719 --> 00:46:27.440
there's always gonna be problems within the
community, but I think at the higher

707
00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:30.719
level, these kinds of moments set
the example for what the FDC should be.

708
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:35.119
Yea, and also part of that, like I mean as as a

709
00:46:35.239 --> 00:46:37.840
as a viewer from home. I
could tell how Evil's being a little bit

710
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:42.920
more corporatized under the ownership of Sony. Have you got to tell you about

711
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:47.960
Uh yeah, but every TV there
was that Sony PlayStations. Yeah. But

712
00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:52.719
I'm like that's they in a way. It's kind of like that's the concession

713
00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:57.079
you make, right, They're they're
keeping this thing alive. They're supporting it

714
00:46:57.079 --> 00:47:00.840
in a way that has the FDC
hadn't been supported in previous years, and

715
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:04.679
so it's like they're giving them the
equipment they're they're they're putting like yeah,

716
00:47:04.719 --> 00:47:07.960
the Chola ads whatever. But like
that's well, I hope that's funneling money

717
00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:12.119
into the effort, into the into
the FGC a lit more. I mean,

718
00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:15.480
I could talk about like how much
players earnings are for these tournaments and

719
00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:20.239
how that's like extremely low and that
should be better. That's a whole different

720
00:47:20.239 --> 00:47:23.440
conversation, but I think generally that
you see, like the the FGC is

721
00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:27.440
just it's it's a nice place to
be. Yeah. Like even last year

722
00:47:27.559 --> 00:47:29.679
when I was watching the Multi Blood
finals, do sitting next to me.

723
00:47:29.719 --> 00:47:31.360
I didn't I don't know who he
was. He pulled out he had a

724
00:47:31.480 --> 00:47:35.880
tall boy. He had a fucking
steals. Yeah. It was like drink

725
00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:38.280
this shit. And he had like
the little the bottles of like t heal

726
00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:40.559
and shit and just like the ones
you get to the liquor store, like

727
00:47:40.599 --> 00:47:43.800
the little shot bottles. And I
was like, damn dog, where'd you

728
00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:44.920
get that? Did you get that
in here? It's like oh no,

729
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:45.679
no, I brought it in from
the inside, like oh shit. And

730
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:47.320
he's like, hey, you want
you want some? And I was like,

731
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:50.239
oh yeah, I'm down. He's
like here. He gave me like

732
00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:52.440
two shot bottles and I was like, thank you. Can I can?

733
00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:55.079
I like can I like venmo?
Venmo? You like five bucks or something

734
00:47:55.159 --> 00:47:58.559
like no, no, no,
here we take care of each other man.

735
00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:00.719
And he dapped me up and I
never saw him again. And I

736
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:05.199
was like, that's my fucking boy. That's the kind of energy I should

737
00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:07.360
bring next to it is like I
should show up, like put my feet

738
00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:09.599
up, pat like a whiskey ball
and be like hey, yeah I got

739
00:48:09.679 --> 00:48:15.280
you, and then ye shots before
our match. Yeah, And it's like

740
00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:17.760
I'll probably never see that guy in
my life ever again, but I will

741
00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:22.760
always remember that moment. Yeah,
Yeah, that's kind of yeah, that's

742
00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:24.800
kind of energy you get. I
think, yeah, I think it's because

743
00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:30.079
like the FEC from the ground up, like that community is like there for

744
00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:35.000
the love of the game, like
where we're like other esports scenes, I

745
00:48:35.079 --> 00:48:38.440
feel like pop up from the more
corporate like you know, like money signs.

746
00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:42.599
How can this be monetized? Yes, like and that's the that's a

747
00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:45.320
foundation for which a lot of those
scenes are built, whereas the FGC is

748
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:51.079
like it's it's a grassroots effort and
then like like like own and operated by

749
00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:54.440
PlayStation now, but that grassroots is
still very much alive and there I feel

750
00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:59.639
I would I feel extremely confident that
if like you know, say like EVO

751
00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:04.039
and Plow for some reason, Sony
like dump the whole thing, like the

752
00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:07.719
money ain't here, uh, that
community would scraunch together like any either two

753
00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:12.360
in like a months, like they
would make that legally distinct even Yeah,

754
00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:15.639
like it would it would continue in
some form because like those people are there

755
00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:21.079
for summer games fights. Yes,
yeah, Jeff Kee no no, no,

756
00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:23.360
no, that's how you fall down
that rabbit hole again. But yeah,

757
00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:28.320
I am, I'm glad you got
to experience that. Yeah, you

758
00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:30.079
get a crew going next year.
Oh my god, Yes, please,

759
00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:32.559
I know you want to go.
I know Max wants to go Agains.

760
00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:37.239
Yeah, it's different again in that
front and row seats for the finals.

761
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:40.320
Managed it feels good. I got
a couple of games to talk about before

762
00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:44.159
we head off. But Jake,
did you want to deserve? Did you

763
00:49:44.199 --> 00:49:45.239
want to talk about Pokemon? I
know you mentioned a little bit about the

764
00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:50.119
Pokemon Deal city that got revealed at
the Pokemon Presents this week. Yeah,

765
00:49:50.519 --> 00:49:52.440
I guess I don't have a whole
lot to say. There's a lot of

766
00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:55.800
stuff that I feel like we kind
of already knew about. I do like

767
00:49:55.880 --> 00:50:00.840
Dipplin Applin's new break it down for
me, I didn't want Okay, so

768
00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:06.840
you know that there's two DLC's coming. Part of one story, which is

769
00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:09.199
the story of Area zero or something
like that. The first one takes place

770
00:50:09.239 --> 00:50:13.199
in a new region, and the
second one takes place in a new school

771
00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:17.559
exchange student and the other school,
and basically that seems very like Safari Zone

772
00:50:17.639 --> 00:50:22.519
battle Tower esque vibe. For the
second one, well, the first one

773
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:25.400
seems more like a new region you
can explore with. Both have like a

774
00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:30.119
hundred new Pokemon or something you can
catch. Probably somewhere along there. This

775
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:34.079
first one. The thing that most
interests me is that they've added Mochi to

776
00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:36.039
the game, and you can do
I don't know, I think some mini

777
00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:39.639
game to get mochi, and the
Mochi lets you reset a Pokemon stats with

778
00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:45.199
just one, which is something that
people have wanted for a very long time.

779
00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:50.000
I guess there have been ways to
do that. However, this seems

780
00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:52.159
like it would be the easiest.
Like, for instance, right now,

781
00:50:52.880 --> 00:51:00.280
say I take my mountain now Skarata
or whatever through the campaign, and then

782
00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:05.079
I'm like, actually, I don't
like how the ev spread on this.

783
00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:07.920
I'd have to give like a hundred
berries of a specific kind in order to

784
00:51:08.039 --> 00:51:12.519
reset its stats. But with this, it seems like there's one item that

785
00:51:12.559 --> 00:51:14.960
you give to it and then I'll
just reset its stats from there, and

786
00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:19.519
then you can also get mochis that
increase specific stats, which I think is

787
00:51:19.559 --> 00:51:23.840
good. Pokemon games have, like
I feel like probably Sword and Shield were

788
00:51:23.880 --> 00:51:28.280
the first one where they kind of
like pulled that screen back a little bit

789
00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:30.880
and made it a little easier,
and I feel like they're slowly getting easier

790
00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:34.920
and easier, which I think is
good because I feel like the biggest barrier

791
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:37.559
to entry with like high level Pokemon
play is always just those hidden stats and

792
00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:42.480
trying to figure out how I can
level up this Pokemon the way I want

793
00:51:42.519 --> 00:51:45.360
to, and how can I do
that without fucking this pokemon up, Because

794
00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:47.199
in previous times, if you messed
up the stats on a Pokemon, you

795
00:51:47.320 --> 00:51:54.079
just be screwed to start over breed
again. So that excites me. It

796
00:51:54.119 --> 00:51:57.519
seems like it's going to be easier
in that sense. But then I mean

797
00:51:57.639 --> 00:52:01.559
just from a a more or casual
level, like the new area seems really

798
00:52:01.599 --> 00:52:06.920
cool. Uh, they're adding some
good pokemon. I think this one we're

799
00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:13.239
finally getting Melodic and Phoebus, which
are too great pokemon. And then there's

800
00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:15.760
some new evolutions. Like I said
Dipplin, I think the second one has

801
00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:22.360
an evolution for Drollodon, which is
good because Dralodon is is a dragon steel,

802
00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:28.159
which is like the only dragon counter
to Ferry, which is which is

803
00:52:28.559 --> 00:52:34.239
big there. But Drawdon didn't feel
like he it lived up to its potential,

804
00:52:34.679 --> 00:52:38.519
So hoping that'll happen. But yeah, I also story wise, apparently

805
00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:46.960
all this connects back into Area zero
and once you've finished both DLC segments apparently

806
00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:50.400
it all ends at area zero.
So I'm really curious to see how they

807
00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:55.480
tie this up because I mean,
we talk the story is pretty good in

808
00:52:55.960 --> 00:53:00.320
Scarlett and like surprisingly good and it's
amazing, and there's a lot of questions

809
00:53:00.599 --> 00:53:06.480
that are left unanswered, particularly with
the Paradox Pokemon, and it seems like

810
00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:08.639
the DLC is heading in a direction
where it's going to answer those questions.

811
00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:15.119
Now, I don't get my hopes
up because Pokemon doesn't always I don't want

812
00:53:15.159 --> 00:53:17.159
to say they don't care about story, but a lot of times they're not

813
00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:22.840
as concerned with wrapping up those loose
ends. Sometimes they'll set so I don't

814
00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:25.239
know if it'll be a satisfying ending, but I'm at least happy that they're

815
00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:30.559
continuing to explore that. And they're
adding more Paradox Pokemon too. Oh hell

816
00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:34.199
yeah, the paradox that should tripped
me up. Man. Well, the

817
00:53:34.599 --> 00:53:37.719
ones they're adding are wild, Like
there's the I don't know if you saw

818
00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:40.880
it, but there's the paradox Raiku
with a really long neck. It looks

819
00:53:40.920 --> 00:53:45.280
like a giraffe, but it's an
electric voice tall neck. Yeah, it's

820
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:49.519
yeah, it looks like a tall
neck from Horizon, and then I think

821
00:53:49.559 --> 00:53:53.519
the other one's like one of the
Gen five or six Legendary Dogs or something

822
00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:57.679
like that. I don't know.
I heard that people were disappointed there was

823
00:53:57.719 --> 00:54:00.639
no Gen five remaking out son.
Was that something you were affecting? No,

824
00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:06.199
Okay, people, A lot of
people. People have the dumbest expectations

825
00:54:06.280 --> 00:54:08.440
for these for Pokemon presents. Yeah, I mean, to be fair,

826
00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:13.119
like Pokemon has had a history of
like I feel like there's a while where

827
00:54:13.239 --> 00:54:15.679
like they're putting out like a Pokemon
game every year. Did they did that

828
00:54:15.840 --> 00:54:19.199
for like ten years straight? I
think they took a break in like twenty

829
00:54:19.320 --> 00:54:21.840
thirteen or something, and they've they're
still doing it. I mean, they

830
00:54:21.920 --> 00:54:23.480
put out two last year. I
don't think they're gonna put out one this

831
00:54:23.599 --> 00:54:27.880
year. I think it's just gonna
be DLC focused at least, like like,

832
00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:31.920
yeah, if you look at the
State of Uh was the most recent

833
00:54:31.960 --> 00:54:40.079
one's called I remember, you know, I'm like, I think could probably

834
00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:44.559
take a little longer on their deb
cycle. You know, game Freak is

835
00:54:44.599 --> 00:54:47.480
only such a company, such a
big company. Yeah, it seems like

836
00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:50.920
I think this year we're just going
to get the DLC. I think next

837
00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:53.519
year. Uh, we'll probably are
they get a remaker A New Legends game

838
00:54:54.840 --> 00:54:59.320
is my bad. I think I
prefer New Legends over a remake of I

839
00:54:59.360 --> 00:55:02.119
would it's I mean, I like
Black and White, but also I would

840
00:55:02.119 --> 00:55:07.079
want them to I did not play
the four remakes Diamond and Pearl. They

841
00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:13.840
didn't look very They were pretty disappointing
because they didn't take an account any of

842
00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:15.679
the stuff in Platinum, which,
like Platinum, is one of the best

843
00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:20.400
Pokemon games. Diamond and Pearl,
I think you're kind of middling, but

844
00:55:20.519 --> 00:55:23.599
Platinum is excellent, and they left
a lot of that out, and I

845
00:55:23.760 --> 00:55:29.199
imagine, like I'm sure there were
plenty of complications as to why they left

846
00:55:29.239 --> 00:55:32.000
that out, and I'm sure it
wasn't necessarily nefarious, but that has been

847
00:55:32.159 --> 00:55:36.039
a sort of standard with remakes in
the past, as they sort they've been

848
00:55:36.079 --> 00:55:39.440
like the ultimate addition, ultimate addition
that incorporates you know everything and more you

849
00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:45.559
know. But I think it's okay
if they take a break from these sort

850
00:55:45.599 --> 00:55:50.239
of games. I would be super
excited for a New Legends rsist. I

851
00:55:50.440 --> 00:55:53.039
also am probably in the minority,
but I would really like a Pokemon Let's

852
00:55:53.079 --> 00:55:57.039
go to that takes place in Joe
two. I was surprised they never did

853
00:55:57.119 --> 00:56:00.440
that because I feel like that wasn't
that like really successful. Yeahs, I

854
00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:04.039
mean, I don't think it sold
as much as a mainline Pokemon game Pokemon

855
00:56:04.119 --> 00:56:09.079
games due, but I think it
sold pretty damn well. And I think

856
00:56:09.199 --> 00:56:14.920
Gent two would be great to get
that treatment because that is a fan favorite.

857
00:56:15.320 --> 00:56:19.880
I feel like the remakes for those
are still really good, but there's

858
00:56:20.039 --> 00:56:23.239
a lot of Saul silver Man excellent
Heart Gold, but I think there's a

859
00:56:23.280 --> 00:56:27.760
lot of like modern changes that you
can like really tighten that up, and

860
00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:30.239
then I think with let's go as
mechanics, I think it would really work.

861
00:56:30.719 --> 00:56:34.480
Yeah, but I don't know if
we'd ever get that. I think

862
00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:37.599
I think we'll definitely get another Legends
game at some point. I think it'll

863
00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:39.760
be I don't know, I don't
even want to guess which region it will

864
00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:43.840
take place in. But I don't
think we're gonna get a remake of Black

865
00:56:43.880 --> 00:56:47.320
and White for a very long time. Damn. Yeah, I think they'd

866
00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:51.880
be I think it would be sooner
that they'd revisit Gen two than they would

867
00:56:51.960 --> 00:56:54.679
do Gen five, because that was
one of the lowest selling Pokemon games.

868
00:56:54.719 --> 00:56:58.239
It was also one of the biggest
risks they took, I would say,

869
00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:01.639
because there were no returning Pokemon on
that was like a fresh start. They

870
00:57:01.679 --> 00:57:06.719
tried to make a little more serious
in tone. Obviously it's Pokemons, it's

871
00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:10.559
not like dark or gritty. They
also animated every Pokemon in that game,

872
00:57:10.679 --> 00:57:15.199
yeah, which was crazy, Like
do you know I was watching a video

873
00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:17.000
it's like talking about that where like
that was like the first time where they

874
00:57:17.039 --> 00:57:21.599
animated all the sprites and like how
much work that took and you're like,

875
00:57:21.679 --> 00:57:23.440
oh, okay, well, like
it would have been a foundation for future

876
00:57:23.480 --> 00:57:27.159
games. And then they went three
D right after that, so they did

877
00:57:27.360 --> 00:57:30.320
all that work for one set of
games. It's like, I know,

878
00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:31.480
they did Black and White two,
so they got like a little more use

879
00:57:31.559 --> 00:57:36.320
out of it. But still I
was like, God, damn Pokemon,

880
00:57:36.559 --> 00:57:42.039
like like that's it's a little unsustainable, like a from a development standpoint,

881
00:57:42.119 --> 00:57:45.480
like Jesus Christ, that's Pokemon though, Yeah, that's Pokemon. That was

882
00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:50.159
Pokemon, Pokemon Presents, that's what's
up. Yeah. I was a little

883
00:57:50.199 --> 00:57:53.280
bummed we didn't see the cards because
they announced that. Yeah, that like

884
00:57:54.239 --> 00:57:59.679
fancy set. I want that and
I don't back on my card game.

885
00:57:59.719 --> 00:58:04.119
Bullshit, there you are. Yeah, you cracking packs, dude. The

886
00:58:04.239 --> 00:58:08.639
Magic the Gathering, I know,
I know we still open. And I

887
00:58:08.760 --> 00:58:12.119
was like and I was like,
I'm not going to get back in the

888
00:58:12.119 --> 00:58:14.880
Magic. I'm just gonna do it
for this Lord of the Rings, gonna

889
00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:17.679
be self contained. And then they
were like, hey, this magic other

890
00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:22.559
World's thing is doing so well.
How about this fallout Magic the Gathering?

891
00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:28.159
And I'm like, and then what
was the Final Gathering? Yah, I

892
00:58:28.199 --> 00:58:30.840
need my ID, my holographic tief
of cards. Let's go. That's how

893
00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:36.079
they're gonna get me again. Yeah, came into the office. He was

894
00:58:36.159 --> 00:58:37.360
like, Hey, if we don't
use that box, I'll buy it from

895
00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:44.559
its crazy. Yeah. The TCG
is a it is a it's a hell

896
00:58:44.599 --> 00:58:46.719
of a it's a hell of a
drug. Yeah, it really really is.

897
00:58:46.840 --> 00:58:52.199
Man Like, those things are built
off of you wanting to crack them,

898
00:58:52.239 --> 00:58:54.719
put them packs and get those cards. But real life R and G,

899
00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:59.599
real life loot box. Yes,
Michael, what are you playing?

900
00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:02.559
Uh, let's see, let's go
through some things real quick. Lords of

901
00:59:02.599 --> 00:59:07.440
the Fallen. Oh that game that
they rename or they named it after the

902
00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:12.079
exact same name of the first game
that came out nine years ago. Wait,

903
00:59:12.159 --> 00:59:14.880
wasn't it, Like it was Lords
the Fallen two, and then it

904
00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:16.519
was The Lords of the Fallen,
Well, the Lords of the Fallen,

905
00:59:19.039 --> 00:59:22.400
Lords of the Fallen. Yeah,
I actually got to play it. I

906
00:59:22.519 --> 00:59:24.840
played about two three hours of it
with creative director. He came through the

907
00:59:24.920 --> 00:59:29.639
office and I played an early build
of it. The game's coming out in

908
00:59:29.679 --> 00:59:32.400
October, so it's not like it's
a super early state, but as sure

909
00:59:32.400 --> 00:59:37.159
as a Dark Souls game, and
he played that original one. I played

910
00:59:37.159 --> 00:59:39.960
a little bit of it, and
I was like, I don't think I

911
00:59:40.119 --> 00:59:44.719
was I wasn't really a Souls person
at the time. I only played like

912
00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:46.199
half of one at the time,
and I was like, what is this

913
00:59:46.840 --> 00:59:50.159
Lord's the Fallen thing? And I
didn't really I didn't really dig it.

914
00:59:50.320 --> 00:59:52.599
But at the same time, we
really get what Souls Born was at the

915
00:59:52.599 --> 00:59:54.880
time. Yeah, I didn't really
like it at the time because to me,

916
00:59:55.000 --> 00:59:59.599
it was it felt it was very
early. I think it was like

917
00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:02.440
one of the one of the first, like I guess sort of Souls like,

918
01:00:02.679 --> 01:00:05.440
Yeah, it was one of the
first, like Souls like, so

919
01:00:05.639 --> 01:00:07.119
that's kind of like what I mentioned
in my previews, like that game came

920
01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:13.679
out of time when the that trend
was just starting. But this new Lords

921
01:00:13.719 --> 01:00:17.440
Have Fallen is rebuilt from the ground
up. It has it is nothing like

922
01:00:17.559 --> 01:00:21.400
the first game. It is they
basically said, you know, we're gonna

923
01:00:21.400 --> 01:00:24.760
scrap that entire idea of that first
game and rebuild what I guess what we

924
01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:29.480
wanted to do all along. And
there's like connections with Lauren, so there's

925
01:00:29.480 --> 01:00:34.360
still like if it's system makes sense, but the same thing. It's it's

926
01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:37.400
more of like, yeah, do
over a reboot, and it is really

927
01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:40.519
well made. I will say that
I think the after my time was like

928
01:00:42.519 --> 01:00:45.360
it's hard. It's like I imagine
myself and this isn't like a dig at

929
01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:49.119
the developers or anything, because this
is what they want to do. This

930
01:00:49.199 --> 01:00:52.480
is their vision and they're executing on
it really really well, I think.

931
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:55.440
But it's like this is legally distinct
Dark Souls, yeah, and the same

932
01:00:57.719 --> 01:01:01.440
legally distinct yeah, And you know, it's just it's their interpretation of it.

933
01:01:01.519 --> 01:01:05.599
I think it's the most direct interpretation
of Dark Souls where you have like

934
01:01:05.679 --> 01:01:07.719
you have things like the Surge,
which is a sci fi take on it,

935
01:01:07.880 --> 01:01:12.480
or you have Ashen, which is
like a more like indie low poly

936
01:01:12.760 --> 01:01:15.320
take on it or whatever. So
all and Remnant, it was like,

937
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:16.119
oh, well, what if we
made a shooter. So they have all

938
01:01:16.159 --> 01:01:20.239
these different branches of games that are
taking a lot of the Dark Souls ethos,

939
01:01:20.840 --> 01:01:22.639
but Lord's Fallen Bay says like,
now we're just gonna like we're gonna

940
01:01:22.719 --> 01:01:28.159
do it. Yeah, and they'd
have this cool thing where they have like

941
01:01:28.760 --> 01:01:32.039
parallel worlds, like alternate dimensions that
exist in parallel that you can swap between

942
01:01:32.079 --> 01:01:36.199
it anytime, or we'll not swap
between any time, but there's a dynamic

943
01:01:36.280 --> 01:01:37.960
in which you can go to like
the world of the Undead, which is

944
01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:44.440
the same map but different ration clang
rift apart. Yeah, oh fuck that

945
01:01:44.599 --> 01:01:46.719
damn. I should have mentioned that, And I pretty I compared it to

946
01:01:46.800 --> 01:01:51.719
like how cool because like in the
medium the medium Yeah, oh yeah,

947
01:01:51.880 --> 01:01:54.760
I don't like the medium, but
I think the way that that same idea

948
01:01:54.920 --> 01:01:58.199
of like, okay, well,
there's two versions of the same world that

949
01:01:58.280 --> 01:02:01.320
exist in parallel, and there's literally
know like this, there's no like load

950
01:02:01.360 --> 01:02:06.559
time between the two, and part
of the gameplay dynamic is how you navigate

951
01:02:06.599 --> 01:02:09.519
between those two worlds like alternate paths
open, different enemies exist in there,

952
01:02:09.679 --> 01:02:14.079
like I can't move into the secret
area or I can't move forward unless I

953
01:02:14.079 --> 01:02:16.719
go into that alternate dimension. But
there's risks involved. So I think that's

954
01:02:16.719 --> 01:02:21.800
a cool like twist on the formula. Do you need an SSD? I

955
01:02:21.920 --> 01:02:24.199
don't know. I played it on
I played it on one of their PCs,

956
01:02:24.239 --> 01:02:28.400
which I assume had an SSD,
but I don't know if there's any

957
01:02:28.599 --> 01:02:31.039
system requirements quite yet. I mag
you can play on a hard hard disk

958
01:02:31.159 --> 01:02:34.519
drive. But there was probably gonna
be like kind of a joke because I

959
01:02:34.519 --> 01:02:40.599
remember at the new Gym this this
generation you need an SSD to flip between

960
01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:47.599
these, and then ratchean Clink came
to PC and you don't need an usual

961
01:02:47.719 --> 01:02:53.320
Foundry did do it where they took
a proper PS four like pro hard drive

962
01:02:53.400 --> 01:02:57.159
and that ship and tried to run
it on it could not do it.

963
01:02:58.519 --> 01:03:00.679
So they were they were a lot, they were they were lying. Yeah,

964
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:04.320
and like the whole the whole point
of like games like this is like

965
01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:08.199
the they have to be seamless,
seamless, because that's that's the whole core

966
01:03:08.280 --> 01:03:13.159
concept. So yeah, it does, it does that. But I mean

967
01:03:13.599 --> 01:03:15.599
I started, like the CREATI director, he like used the dev code and

968
01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:19.119
like kind of like did like a
no clip thing where we were like walk

969
01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:22.559
through the entire cool world and start
to see like different areas just to see

970
01:03:22.599 --> 01:03:23.840
what it was like. And it
is like, oh, yeah, this

971
01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:29.960
is like a dark fantasy where everything
is like dead and decrepit. So and

972
01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:32.400
if someone showed this to me and
it said nothing about it and I didn't

973
01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:36.400
know anything about it to be like
yeah, yeah, I was like,

974
01:03:36.679 --> 01:03:39.800
is this dark Souls. But but
I think to their credit, I think

975
01:03:40.119 --> 01:03:45.199
the comment system is is really really
good because I think they have at least

976
01:03:45.239 --> 01:03:51.079
just I did like two different boss
fights, and I think they understand what

977
01:03:51.719 --> 01:03:57.639
makes Souls game Souls games fun and
good and not like frustrating. But at

978
01:03:57.719 --> 01:04:00.280
the same time, it's one of
those things where I did at least what

979
01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:02.760
I ran into. I didn't feel
like there was any cheap tricks, so

980
01:04:03.039 --> 01:04:06.320
at least there's that. And but
yeah, I'm like, oh, Okay,

981
01:04:06.440 --> 01:04:11.239
this is impressive what they've been able
to do, like replicating that vibe

982
01:04:11.920 --> 01:04:15.000
in that formula. But again,
I only play like two three hours.

983
01:04:15.519 --> 01:04:16.400
I liked what I saw of it. I don't know, like, and

984
01:04:16.519 --> 01:04:18.519
I say this is my preview that
I don't know if I'm in the mood

985
01:04:18.559 --> 01:04:24.639
for that, because honestly, elden
Ring was exhausting, amazing game one hundred

986
01:04:24.679 --> 01:04:27.440
hours. I'm like, I don't
think I want to play a game like

987
01:04:27.559 --> 01:04:30.840
this for another like two or three
years. Yeah, I know what you

988
01:04:30.880 --> 01:04:33.559
mean. Like, I'm kind of
exhausted. And when I saw how expansive

989
01:04:33.639 --> 01:04:36.280
and how big Lords of the Fallen
is, I'm like, damn, this

990
01:04:36.440 --> 01:04:41.519
is sick. Check back with me
and maybe two three years when I'm in

991
01:04:41.559 --> 01:04:44.760
the right mindset. It's kind of
like if like a Zelda Breath of the

992
01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:46.360
Wild or like a Two's of the
Kingdom clone came out next year, I'd

993
01:04:46.360 --> 01:04:51.480
be like, yeah, I'm good. Yeah, And like it's this game

994
01:04:51.559 --> 01:04:56.159
isn't open world, it's not as
like big and sprawling as an elden Ring,

995
01:04:56.239 --> 01:04:59.320
but it's just like it's this.
It's a similar like pacing, it's

996
01:04:59.360 --> 01:05:02.880
a similar like level of effort that
takes to engage with that game in an

997
01:05:03.159 --> 01:05:06.719
in an earnest way, I think
some of the some of the RPG stuff,

998
01:05:06.760 --> 01:05:10.880
the builds, the way you can
build your character is really neat and

999
01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:13.039
really smart. That it's not like, oh, I pick a class and

1000
01:05:13.039 --> 01:05:15.519
that's why I'm going to be It's
you know, it is kind of that

1001
01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:19.800
that CRPG style where it's like you
have a starting set of stats and starting

1002
01:05:19.920 --> 01:05:24.239
gear, but honestly you can mix
and match and do whatever you want with

1003
01:05:24.320 --> 01:05:28.320
your character build and create some wild
shit. So we have to check that

1004
01:05:28.360 --> 01:05:31.559
out. I have a written review
on game spot right now. Whoa no

1005
01:05:32.119 --> 01:05:36.119
written preview preview on GameSpot dot com, and there should be a video version

1006
01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:41.119
which will be up probably during the
weekend. I'm gonna leave a comment.

1007
01:05:41.159 --> 01:05:44.039
This is a great review. Thank
you, thank you, thank you.

1008
01:05:45.079 --> 01:05:48.119
It's my favorite comment. Ah time. Yeah, but yeah, Lords have

1009
01:05:48.159 --> 01:05:54.159
Fallen and I went to FanFest,
so we also went to Vegas. Yea,

1010
01:05:54.519 --> 01:05:57.119
yeah, I went to Vegas.
That's why I wasn't at EVOS because

1011
01:05:57.119 --> 01:06:00.199
I was in Vegas the week before
Ships in the Night I don't yeah,

1012
01:06:00.840 --> 01:06:06.519
cross paths, but there was each
other cross Yeah. All the cowboys were

1013
01:06:06.559 --> 01:06:14.519
leaving, all the smelly fighting games
that goes came through. No, but

1014
01:06:14.880 --> 01:06:17.679
so I was at I was at
a fan fest in Vegas the week before

1015
01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:20.719
EVA And let me tell you something
I will not I will. You'll never

1016
01:06:20.840 --> 01:06:25.559
catch me in Vegas more than four
or five days because it's holy shit.

1017
01:06:25.639 --> 01:06:28.480
Oh yeah, god, what a
what a what a place? That is

1018
01:06:28.559 --> 01:06:31.320
also one hundred and ten degrees outside
every fucking day at night. It's not

1019
01:06:31.519 --> 01:06:35.519
on a walk outside you don't need
to. Yeah, everything costs so much.

1020
01:06:35.800 --> 01:06:40.800
Yeah, Vegas, man. But
yeah, I was a fan fest.

1021
01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:42.840
It was, I mean, it
was, it was. It wasn't

1022
01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:45.880
it's it's I mean, it's not
like a convention per se or a tournament.

1023
01:06:46.199 --> 01:06:49.760
Well, there was a tournament though. The PvP in Final Fantasy fourteen

1024
01:06:49.800 --> 01:06:53.440
has come a long way for sure, and I was getting hype off of

1025
01:06:53.480 --> 01:06:58.039
the PvP matches the tournament. That
was pretty fucking sick. Okay, how

1026
01:06:58.079 --> 01:07:00.960
big is fan fast How many people
usually go to that? I don't know,

1027
01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:01.559
I can I don't know if I
could put a number on it,

1028
01:07:01.679 --> 01:07:06.079
but it is that that was a
pretty big convention hall and that ship was

1029
01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:10.039
fucking packed. Yeah. It's also
two fan fest right, there's like a

1030
01:07:10.119 --> 01:07:12.760
Japanese one. There's one in Europe, there's one in Japan, there's one

1031
01:07:12.760 --> 01:07:15.800
in North three. Yeah, wow, there's three, and it is it

1032
01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:18.239
is massive. And this is the
first physical one they've done in North America

1033
01:07:18.280 --> 01:07:23.440
since twenty eighteen, so there's like
an extra like fervor to be at fan

1034
01:07:23.559 --> 01:07:28.280
Fest, and it's it was very
from the logistical standpoint, is a very

1035
01:07:28.320 --> 01:07:34.159
messy event, especially when it comes
like eighty A compliance lines, just like

1036
01:07:34.239 --> 01:07:38.719
the way things are organized, So
there's definitely a lot to improve there.

1037
01:07:39.320 --> 01:07:43.119
But overall, the I think it
was it was one of those moments where

1038
01:07:43.119 --> 01:07:45.559
I looked around and was like,
Yeah, nothing comes close to Final Fantasy

1039
01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:49.519
fourteen in terms of like a single
game that can garner a community like this

1040
01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:56.000
with such with such passion, I
guess. And I was there for for

1041
01:07:56.079 --> 01:08:00.599
mostly for fun and like being in
the audience to watch the new expand trailer

1042
01:08:00.800 --> 01:08:03.719
dropped Dawn trail like that thing had
not leaked. There was no word.

1043
01:08:03.760 --> 01:08:05.880
I was kind of I was if
you, I'm like, wait, are

1044
01:08:05.960 --> 01:08:09.760
they going to show the next expansion? I hope they do, like,

1045
01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:12.760
but I haven't really gotten inkling one
way or the other. And they went

1046
01:08:12.840 --> 01:08:16.600
deep. They showed a two minute
two minute trailer teaser and then yohp spent

1047
01:08:16.680 --> 01:08:18.920
like an hour talking about all kinds
of new ship that's going to be in.

1048
01:08:19.640 --> 01:08:25.840
I was like, fuck, yes, dude, multiple multiple dies.

1049
01:08:25.960 --> 01:08:30.840
Yeah, that was the big new
reveal. Oh yes, man, Yeah,

1050
01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:31.920
there's a lot of There's a lots
of and like it. There's little

1051
01:08:31.960 --> 01:08:36.640
things like that where people getting hyped
about very specific things that only you would

1052
01:08:36.640 --> 01:08:40.640
get hyped about if you play Final
Fantasy fourteen. And to see that,

1053
01:08:40.760 --> 01:08:42.800
like I always see it online and
I see it in the game all the

1054
01:08:42.880 --> 01:08:45.520
time, but like to see it
in person for reals is like it was.

1055
01:08:45.640 --> 01:08:49.039
It was beautiful, like people costs
playing some of the booths and little

1056
01:08:49.079 --> 01:08:53.880
games that they had set up around
the convention floor. And honestly, it's

1057
01:08:54.079 --> 01:08:58.239
also a it's like a celebration of
the music of Final Fantasy because the first

1058
01:08:58.319 --> 01:09:02.760
night is the Piano const that has
like full piano renditions of a bunch of

1059
01:09:02.840 --> 01:09:08.760
songs and singers coming on to sing
the vocals for those songs as well.

1060
01:09:09.199 --> 01:09:11.920
Second I is the Primals concert,
And like for me, I've been to

1061
01:09:11.960 --> 01:09:13.960
a lot of punk and metal shows
in my life, so going to the

1062
01:09:14.000 --> 01:09:17.800
Primal's concert was fucking amazing. I
don't know what others may have expected,

1063
01:09:17.920 --> 01:09:24.760
but because it's very fucking loud and
like and it's I imagine some people weren't

1064
01:09:24.760 --> 01:09:29.920
prepared for that. Yeah, but
I absolutely I can't believe. I got

1065
01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:33.960
to see The Primals live, which
is the band lead led by the localization

1066
01:09:34.000 --> 01:09:39.479
director Coachie Fox and the composer Macioshi
Silken. So like seeing them on stage

1067
01:09:39.920 --> 01:09:44.960
play as a actual rock band is
like I always see it online, but

1068
01:09:45.039 --> 01:09:46.520
this is like fucking sick. This
is a band I would come out and

1069
01:09:46.560 --> 01:09:49.800
pay lots of money see, which
I did, and it's like, oh

1070
01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:54.279
yeah, Codi Fox, that's the
localization director for Final Fantasy fourteen and sixteen,

1071
01:09:54.279 --> 01:09:57.840
and oh yeah, Silken is like
probably one of the greatest composers in

1072
01:09:57.920 --> 01:10:00.159
the modern era for video games.
And they're just like a bunch of dudes

1073
01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:05.760
fucking around playing amazing music live on
stage as a band. That it's yeah,

1074
01:10:05.800 --> 01:10:10.079
and it's amazing. And then I
went to the orchestra concert and cried

1075
01:10:10.119 --> 01:10:14.439
my eyes out on night three and
it's like, there's no game that would

1076
01:10:14.439 --> 01:10:18.199
be able to pull this off at
all, not even close. And it

1077
01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:23.439
reminded me of like just how special
Final Face supportsiness. Yeah, and it

1078
01:10:23.600 --> 01:10:27.800
was it was great. I met
so many people as well a lot of

1079
01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:30.680
oofies showed up, so I got
to got the chill with them. I

1080
01:10:30.760 --> 01:10:34.439
met some of my favorite streamers,
some of the folks that I've collabbed with

1081
01:10:34.600 --> 01:10:39.760
on like podcasts and guest videos,
and like people I've rated with for a

1082
01:10:39.800 --> 01:10:44.279
long time that i've and like people
that I worked with at fan Bite that

1083
01:10:44.399 --> 01:10:47.520
I didn't like, freelancers and other
folks that I just never met in real

1084
01:10:47.560 --> 01:10:50.720
life before. It was holy shit, dude, Like this is the one

1085
01:10:50.800 --> 01:10:55.359
place where I was there to be
around people I just never got to see

1086
01:10:55.880 --> 01:11:00.359
and Vnfest was perfect for that.
Man. So yeah, I would love

1087
01:11:00.399 --> 01:11:02.279
to do it again. I'm glad
I've got if that's the only fan fest

1088
01:11:02.319 --> 01:11:06.079
I get to go to. Man, it was amazing, and I'm It's

1089
01:11:06.079 --> 01:11:11.119
one of those things where I always
watched from home and like can't what it

1090
01:11:11.159 --> 01:11:13.800
would it would be like to be
there, and I finally got to experience

1091
01:11:13.880 --> 01:11:17.560
that beautiful, beautiful, beautiful stuff. So yeah, suporteen man throughout it's

1092
01:11:17.560 --> 01:11:21.079
the greatest game of all time.
Who knew? Were happy for you?

1093
01:11:21.279 --> 01:11:26.159
Thank you, thank you. I
got so fucking hype, man, it

1094
01:11:26.319 --> 01:11:31.079
was. It was amazing, But
yeah, it's cool. I can't wait

1095
01:11:31.079 --> 01:11:34.479
for don trail. There was a
lot of a lot of things I'm keeping

1096
01:11:34.520 --> 01:11:40.399
my eye on about that. It's
it's a munch of bullshit that y'all need

1097
01:11:40.479 --> 01:11:43.239
and don't need to know about until
the time comes. It was. It

1098
01:11:43.319 --> 01:11:45.479
was funny having you there. And
then Ben was on vacation, so there

1099
01:11:45.560 --> 01:11:49.640
was like no one at Game Spot
who's like paying attention to Final Fantasy at

1100
01:11:49.680 --> 01:11:54.199
all. Was the one who was
like, hey, guys, they announced

1101
01:11:54.239 --> 01:11:56.880
the new expansion and I put that
in GS news and they're like, oh,

1102
01:11:56.920 --> 01:11:58.840
thanks, cool cool. Yeah.
I was like, damn Warriors,

1103
01:11:59.199 --> 01:12:01.439
y'all. I was. I was
like on that Friday of the real I

1104
01:12:01.520 --> 01:12:03.439
was like in slack, like,
yo, okay, this this isn't that.

1105
01:12:03.600 --> 01:12:09.079
They announced the Xbox version. Fucking
finally you're all Thebox version, Yeah,

1106
01:12:09.159 --> 01:12:12.600
Xbox Team, Yeah, it's coming
out. Spencer, Yeah, Phil

1107
01:12:12.600 --> 01:12:15.680
Spencer showed up. He did.
Yeah. It was Yoshida, the president,

1108
01:12:15.720 --> 01:12:19.760
the new president of Screens and Phil
Spencer showed up. PlayStation finally let

1109
01:12:19.840 --> 01:12:25.039
him do it. Yep, they
let him go. So Jim Ryan had

1110
01:12:25.079 --> 01:12:28.760
to let go of fourteen. What
shirt was Phil wearing? What was he

1111
01:12:28.880 --> 01:12:32.159
wearing? Oh yeah, but what
was the shirt? I wonder if it

1112
01:12:32.279 --> 01:12:38.800
was like there was like blue Dragon
or something like wow, damn, that's

1113
01:12:38.840 --> 01:12:42.279
crazy. But yeah, I was
there to see that live and I was

1114
01:12:42.319 --> 01:12:44.039
like, hit up slack, like, yo, these are details, like

1115
01:12:44.279 --> 01:12:45.159
da da, this is what's important
news to do this. So I was

1116
01:12:45.239 --> 01:12:48.600
like, never really turned off the
work brain just because it's like I didn't

1117
01:12:48.600 --> 01:12:50.800
do I didn't do that with you. They had all sorts of announcements.

1118
01:12:50.840 --> 01:12:55.560
I was like, I ain't saying
someone else can do this Ninja Turtles and

1119
01:12:55.600 --> 01:13:00.319
street Fighter, someone else can get
that. Yeah, uh that's that's that's

1120
01:13:00.319 --> 01:13:05.760
what I did. So, yeah, that's that on that damn. Yeah,

1121
01:13:05.920 --> 01:13:09.600
let's get out of here another.
I know what the fuck do?

1122
01:13:10.600 --> 01:13:15.039
It feels like fucking Vegas, Vegas
booty hole out here. Anyway. This

1123
01:13:15.119 --> 01:13:17.039
has been another swell episode of game
spot After Dark. Thank you all for

1124
01:13:17.239 --> 01:13:20.680
yacht listen. You know what time
it is, Twitch out TV, Slash

1125
01:13:20.720 --> 01:13:26.239
Games out three pm Pacific time on
Thursdays, watch us live bullshitting around you

1126
01:13:26.279 --> 01:13:29.479
know what I'm saying, and hit
us up on those podcast services I had

1127
01:13:29.520 --> 01:13:32.920
mentioned, Apple Podcast, Spotify,
leave the leave them reviews. You know.

1128
01:13:33.000 --> 01:13:36.439
You know what to do, y'all
know what it is. Let's see,

1129
01:13:38.079 --> 01:13:41.039
y'all should check out all like all
those bathers gay videos that Jake had

1130
01:13:41.079 --> 01:13:43.800
mentioned. Peep that ship. It's
the hottest game on the block right now,

1131
01:13:44.600 --> 01:13:47.399
and a new episode or a premier
of a new series called Get Good.

1132
01:13:47.960 --> 01:13:50.880
So if you if you're missing Tam
and Lucy right now, go watch

1133
01:13:50.960 --> 01:13:54.840
that thing where Tam shows Lucy the
waves of street Fighters six. Yeah,

1134
01:13:54.840 --> 01:13:59.520
it's very good. If you were
watched Devo and thought to yourself, oh

1135
01:13:59.640 --> 01:14:01.159
man, should I get in a
street fighter? Is it possible getting a

1136
01:14:01.159 --> 01:14:04.720
street fighter? This video will answer
that question listen, which is yes,

1137
01:14:04.960 --> 01:14:09.119
we got the answers. We have
the answers for you. But yeah,

1138
01:14:09.319 --> 01:14:14.760
that's that's what's going on over here
at game Spot, and where can the

1139
01:14:14.760 --> 01:14:19.319
folks find you? Jean Luke,
I don't want to promote any social media

1140
01:14:19.319 --> 01:14:21.680
accounts. I know, I don't. I don't. I thought it really

1141
01:14:21.720 --> 01:14:24.279
hard about I'm like, I don't
know if I want to do that.

1142
01:14:24.279 --> 01:14:28.000
I don't want to do that anymore. No, I was thinking about that

1143
01:14:28.079 --> 01:14:30.319
because this is a little inside baseball. But like on all our videos,

1144
01:14:30.359 --> 01:14:33.319
we have like our social media accounts, and like I thought about changing into

1145
01:14:33.319 --> 01:14:36.680
my title instead. I was thinking
about, like we we should like officially

1146
01:14:38.520 --> 01:14:41.560
redo that because now it's like it's
like not to win it. I don't

1147
01:14:41.560 --> 01:14:43.479
know if we want to do that. Adn't do that anymore, Like,

1148
01:14:43.560 --> 01:14:46.399
I don't know, So it like
doesn't help anyway, you know, it

1149
01:14:46.479 --> 01:14:50.119
really doesn't. People don't watch a
video on YouTube and be like I gotta

1150
01:14:50.119 --> 01:14:53.560
follow that guy. Yeah, yeah, I mean I guess I can kind

1151
01:14:53.560 --> 01:14:55.560
of if you want to reach out
to someone, but yeah, I don't

1152
01:14:55.560 --> 01:14:59.800
know. You could just google your
name and they'll they'll find that stuff.

1153
01:15:00.399 --> 01:15:02.439
I don't know, Man, hit
me up. I'm street Fighter. I

1154
01:15:02.520 --> 01:15:06.119
think my friend codes. Yeah,
I think my accounts like Stardust Crusader or

1155
01:15:06.159 --> 01:15:10.279
something like that. So go at
Man forty two. I've been trying to

1156
01:15:10.359 --> 01:15:13.399
not use that one for a while. It's stole on xbox THLL. Once

1157
01:15:13.439 --> 01:15:16.680
I find a good name to change
it, all right, I'll take it.

1158
01:15:17.560 --> 01:15:19.319
Well, Jake, where where do
you? Where do the folks?

1159
01:15:19.319 --> 01:15:21.760
Where do you want to find?
Where do you want folks to find you?

1160
01:15:23.920 --> 01:15:27.079
We don't want folks, right,
that's right, Leave me alone.

1161
01:15:27.399 --> 01:15:29.800
Yeah, I got I got a
lot of boulder skate to play. Last

1162
01:15:29.800 --> 01:15:32.720
thing I need to find on me. Oh man, you can find me

1163
01:15:32.840 --> 01:15:39.760
all them out bullshit at High and
Michael on Instagram, da that's crazy or

1164
01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:46.520
brazy Asian on Blue Sky want cat
pis, send me cat pictures and I

1165
01:15:46.640 --> 01:15:51.720
will send you heart emojis every fucking
time. But anyway, that's been a

1166
01:15:51.800 --> 01:15:55.520
gay Spot after Dark. Thank you
all so much for watching live if you

1167
01:15:55.640 --> 01:15:59.439
did that, and thank you all
for listening through your through your ear holes,

1168
01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:03.239
and we will see you again here
in order to find us here again

1169
01:16:03.279 --> 01:16:09.119
Spot after Dark baby peace by see
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