WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:14.320 Hello, and welcome to episode forty nine of Game Spot After Dark. We 2 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:18.079 are getting really close to fifty. We have nothing exciting playing for the fiftieth 3 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:21.120 episode, at least not that I know of. Uh, but yeah, 4 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:24.039 thank you all so much for stopping by and joining me. This week is 5 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:32.280 Lucy James, Hello to more Hussein Hi, and that's when the blessings comee 6 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:38.359 blessings, Kali Blessing. Yeah, j it's me. What's up, guys, 7 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:43.719 So hold on? What's what's the background of that? I was told 8 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:51.039 that is? That is a viral video clip of let me let me actually 9 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:56.159 get the name of the video, but we use it frequently because Blessing myself, 10 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:00.600 Lucy and a few of us play overwatch friend in the podcast Simon Cardi, 11 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:10.920 group of various other folks, and whenever Blessing joins our party, he 12 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:17.879 plays that. Yeah, it's it's actually an excerpt from a video called ah 13 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:23.680 is it called be a Funnel. It's be a Funnel And of course that's 14 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:27.560 what it's called. And it's just like, uh, it's the description is 15 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:33.959 River Kids preaching and there's this kid with a mic and she's doing the whole 16 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:42.040 evangelical get hype because God's about to speaking tongues and people to speaking tongues. 17 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:49.040 It's seven minutes and thirty seconds long. It is the most clenchingly awkward thing 18 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:55.560 you will ever see. It's this little girl just being like speaking in tongues 19 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:59.079 and it's just this one bit where she says the phrases brush lah blah blah. 20 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:01.920 That's when the blessings come. Man. Yeah, yeah, there's more. 21 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:05.920 I'm trying to find other ones because there's like great quotes in there, 22 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:13.599 like yeah, I think it's this one. Hold on why And I know 23 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:15.719 a lot of you guys be blessed in here, and honestly, like it's 24 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:21.400 made like watching this video has made my life ten times better, this quarantine 25 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:24.680 because it makes me feel wanted, it makes me feel loved. So there 26 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:30.560 you go. Yeah that's the story of it. Well, thank you Blessing 27 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:32.800 for joining us. I think you're the first guest to have joined to have 28 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:36.319 been on the show twice. Now, Okay, that was gonna be my 29 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.560 next question actually, because I was gonna I was gonna ask, like, 30 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:40.759 you know, am I am I in the lead for the lead about after 31 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:46.719 darks appearances? Okay, you're probably the most most probably like requested as well, 32 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:52.520 Really, I don't know. I made that up. Yeah, most 33 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:55.560 requested by the game Spot team. Now can I say I do have a 34 00:02:55.639 --> 00:03:00.199 complaint. There's the second time I'm on the show and Michael Hyam isn't here. 35 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:01.879 Where is Michael Hyam? Well, we're not good enough for you. 36 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:06.680 I mean, you guys are great. I'm just saying I just love Michael 37 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:09.039 Hyam. You know the other day show, actually stopped listening to the show 38 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:14.199 because MAM's on on and enough the past couple episodes. The other day on 39 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:16.560 I wouldn't know because I stopped listening on a PS I love you. You're 40 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:21.000 talking about game Stop and said game Spot and you don't hear me giving you 41 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:23.240 share about it? Yeah, damn, that's that's a bull faced lie because 42 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:27.080 he splids my d MS the other day about it with the exact clip with 43 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:30.520 the video, and I watched recorded it and I sent it to him and 44 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:32.080 what's up? And I was like, where you're going to is jail? 45 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:40.439 Blessing? Well, thank you for joining us this week, and it was 46 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:45.319 it was pretty last minute. I was like, we should get Blessing on. 47 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:47.759 It's been a while and like I don't know what four hours ago, 48 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:51.120 five hours ago, I messaged and you're like, well, I got another 49 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:54.080 podcast, but I think we should be able to make that work. Sodann 50 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:58.159 Man, for sure. Yeah, it feels any It feels any other podcast. 51 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:00.080 I'd probably say no. But Game Game Game Spot after Dark almost said 52 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:06.879 you guys, games stop after Game Spot after Dark. Of course, like 53 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:10.960 I gotta, I gotta lend you guys my time. Because I joke that 54 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.120 I stopped listening to the podcast. That's mainly because I ran out. That's 55 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:16.439 mainly because I don't have time in the day anymore, because I'm a podcaster 56 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:20.480 now. But if I was listening to podcasts as regularly as I was, 57 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:26.199 oh, you guys would be on top of the list. I'd be after 58 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:30.800 Dark m hm, Giant beast Cast, and then BombCast and then all the 59 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:33.120 other ones in that order. That's a good order. That's good order. 60 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.519 I will say, I get where you're coming from. I used to listen 61 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:39.160 to podcasts all the time until I started working at Game Spot, and now 62 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:43.360 it's like I listened to one a week if I'm lucky. Well, I 63 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:46.600 mean, also, no one has a commute anymore, that's true. That's 64 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:50.240 another big reason not commuting has done that too. I listened to so many 65 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:55.959 podcasts still, I'm always a podcast just always. I don't work. If 66 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:59.120 I'm listening to someone talking, I can listen to music. I can't listen 67 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:02.040 to no when I'm working. Like if I got up from to go from 68 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:05.199 here to go downstairs to get myself some water, I would put on a 69 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:11.519 podcast. Like that's the level of just because I don't like silence silence. 70 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:15.040 I need to like always have some sort of sound going, and I don't 71 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:19.079 like listen to music unless i'm If I'm at home, i'll listen to like 72 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:24.120 a podcast, so I listened to it a lot. Well, anyway, 73 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:27.480 should we talk about what we've been playing? Lucy, do you wanna? 74 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:31.720 Do you wanna kick it off? I have been playing Ghost of Sushima. 75 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:38.839 I can't talk about that until the embargo lifts next week. That's like not 76 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:43.439 a humble brag that I've been playing it, but it's literally consuming my life. 77 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:47.519 So that's what I've been playing. But also I downloaded the SIMS four 78 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:53.000 again for a play for all stream to do a goof Tim and I are 79 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:58.600 playing with Elisa and James Williams from Funhouse earlier today. And that's that's James 80 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:03.279 and Barbara duncoman for you, blessing. Oh yeah, oh yeah, no, 81 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:08.800 yeah, I love James and Barbara. It was actually Elisa's birthday at 82 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:12.759 least, of course from rustive her birthday a bout a week ago. I 83 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:16.560 say, yeah, wow, yeah, hang on. That took me a 84 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:23.160 second there to remember the goof. So it was playing yesterday to set it 85 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:27.519 up, we did a challenge. So things that have changed so differently from 86 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:30.519 when I played the SIMS, Like I knew of the exchange, and I 87 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:35.160 knew our ways to swap custom content and people would post stories and storylines and 88 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:40.000 storybooks and stuff. And then with the SIMS four, I didn't realize just 89 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:46.319 how much they'd leant into the community created stuff, and the fact that it 90 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:50.519 has this huge audience now online with like so many SIMS YouTubers. I knew, 91 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:55.800 like Clash Yvonne and a couple of other people and like sim Goo sim 92 00:06:55.879 --> 00:07:00.839 Supply I didn't realize it had this whole sort of giant culture like I think 93 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:06.040 everyone most gamers have experienced with the SIMS, but I didn't realize just how 94 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:10.920 strong it was and how much it changed, I guess. And so yesterday 95 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:13.720 I was looking into what we could do on the stream to make it a 96 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:15.000 bit more fun and not just hey, let's just make a seventh film, 97 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:20.160 and I found this big list of challenges and so some of them are like 98 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:26.959 gold Digger challenge, where you have to try and like marry and get as 99 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:31.680 rich as possible. These in game challenges are these challenges okaya, oh no, 100 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:34.319 no, So in gamers in like you play them, but the rules 101 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:38.439 are set up by the community. Okay, I see. So there's obviously 102 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:42.120 like one hundred baby challenges very popular. There's the black Widow challenge, which 103 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:46.199 I really liked, where you make a femme fatale sim and then just get 104 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:50.360 married and kill your husband as much as possible and like do that a bunch. 105 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:55.879 And so the one that we settled on yesterday was the Three Little Sims 106 00:07:55.959 --> 00:08:00.680 challenge, where you have three separate sims who all live on the same lot, 107 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:05.360 three separate houses, and the rule is that you only control one sim 108 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:09.639 per day, and the others have autonomy to do everything they want to do, 109 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:13.279 so you basically just like try and keep them on track and see how 110 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.759 they go off and do their own thing. And so today when we were 111 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:24.680 playing, I downloaded the vampire pack and the Magic pack so and the pets 112 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:28.160 one. So we had like one woman who's obsessed with cats. We had 113 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:35.360 a slacker teen called Liam who eventually became a wizard. And then we had 114 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:41.799 a vampire called rhese Lemon I really enjoyed, who would never walk anywhere. 115 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:45.399 He would only turn into a bat and walk and then reappear, So it 116 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:48.120 was hilarious to see him like move three steps but disappear and then reappear in 117 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:52.440 But then, I mean, the thing that really got me about because I 118 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:56.519 played the Sims so much when I was younger, just like an impossible amount, 119 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:01.399 is the way that they've changed builds and by mode I mean like build 120 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:03.759 mode and buy mode are one mode now. And the fact that like you 121 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:11.399 don't have to the way that you can just pick on a pre furnished room 122 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:15.799 and just drop it in is crazy to me. It's like incredible. Because 123 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:18.559 I'm not great at interior design or anything. I would be the person who 124 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:22.799 would spend hours and hours in build and buy mode. But then the way 125 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:26.759 that it's so easy just to drop in the pre made stuff or even go 126 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:30.519 on the gallery and just download it and put it straight in. Incredible. 127 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:33.679 And so I was only supposed to spend you know, half an hour yesterday 128 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:37.120 setting everything up, and I spent like two hours just playing the SIMS and 129 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:41.519 then we played for a couple hours again today. And I have next week 130 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:46.639 off, and so part of me is kind of thinking, well, well, 131 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.120 what could I do? So I'm excited about that. It's it's kind 132 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:54.360 of nice to it's a kind of comfort game, sort of revisiting a lot 133 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:56.960 of things about it that are so familiar. But it also has this kind 134 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.919 of sheen of being new because I haven't played it properly and at least a 135 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:03.200 couple of years. I think last time I put some serious time into it 136 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:09.039 was the Cats and Dogs stuff that came out when I had a household with 137 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:13.919 me and Oscar Isaac Connecticut. But that didn't save so it wasn't on my 138 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:18.399 PC. Whant I boot it up? So rip that relationship? But yeah, 139 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:22.039 SIMS four man, because it was shite when it first came out. 140 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:24.919 I think that was the only time I played it. I think I played 141 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:31.200 it when it came out briefly, and I was like in which, yeah, 142 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:33.759 the console version was on PS plus a couple months ago. But the 143 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:37.480 thing about SIMS four when it came out, and it's something like SIMP base 144 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:43.080 SIMS games suffer from, is that you're coming off the heels of the previous 145 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:45.960 SIMS game, which has all the expansion packs, all the stuff packs, 146 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:48.679 everything, and then you have to start fresh and you kind of have to 147 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:52.039 put some elements of that in the base game. The SIMS four, though 148 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:56.559 didn't have it had very two very weird omissions, one of which was swimming 149 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:03.120 pools, but the other, which was toddlers. An entire life stage which 150 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:05.879 was so crucial before, was just gone, and that was really weird, 151 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:09.000 and it just felt very very limited. And then they've gradually patched all that 152 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:13.519 stuff in and had all these packs and everything, and yeah, it's in 153 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:16.679 a great place anyway. That's what I've been playing SIMS four. I love 154 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:20.679 listening to people talk about since four because at a certain point, like something 155 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:24.519 will be said and I don't know whether or not they're being serious or not, 156 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:26.200 Like whatever, somebody's like, oh, yeah, there was a new 157 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:31.279 DLC and it basically like expands out on the island, experience and you get 158 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:33.720 to have an island and have a tropical finger and I'm like, okay, 159 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.440 that sounds reasonable, and then like another person be like, oh yeah, 160 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:39.600 also there's cats and dogs YLC. And then I'm like, oh no, 161 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:43.960 no, no. If you want to know the most ridiculous DLC for SIMS 162 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:50.919 four laundry Day stuff that was voted on by the community. The community voted 163 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.759 to put laundry Day stuff in. There's like eco living, I think apartment 164 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:01.799 life. There's a surprising amount because I feel like I heard about knitting recently 165 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:03.759 being a thing, and in SIMS, I don't want to see this. 166 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:09.600 This is that's the good life. That's like, that's where the gaming industry 167 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:13.879 as a whole should be. Because we're out here people out here complaining about 168 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:18.840 Lost of Us two's ending needs to be changed and certain characters need to have 169 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:22.120 different fates. Meanwhile, SIMS communities like, can we get laundry please? 170 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:28.200 And we get laundry So this yeah, actually I didn't realize that this had 171 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:33.799 even happened. The SIMS four Nifty Knitting Stuff is the upcoming seventeenth stuff pack 172 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:39.639 for the SIMS four. It marks the introduction of knitting, as well as 173 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:41.399 the return of the Rocking Chair. This is right. This is the kind 174 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:45.519 of stuff that I live for, so I'm very, very into it. 175 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:48.279 The return of the Rocking Chair. It's got a nice I don't have a 176 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:50.440 nice read to it, like the Rocky piece out of the game for a 177 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:54.200 while. These are the battles I can get behind. Well. This is 178 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:58.080 by the community stuff practice developed as a result of a series of votes for 179 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:03.320 themes built by and create same assets and icon slash titles similar to laundrier stuff. 180 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:07.080 Remember, right, the rocking Chair, Return of the Rocking Chair, 181 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:11.480 Revenge of the Rocking Chair. That's the only place my brain is going right 182 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:15.639 now. When I worked in retail, we used to have like cabinets behind 183 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:20.799 the the cashier's desk and they'd have like a bunch of games in there, 184 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.960 the most popular. We used to have one entire bay dedicated to Sims and 185 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:31.039 SIMS Expansions because they were they were an absurd amount of them, and they 186 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:35.480 were just selling all the time, non stop. It was like always Sims. 187 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:37.840 Like people would come in and buy a game and then just be like, 188 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:41.000 you know how you pick your your sides in a on a meal. 189 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.840 Like, should I get friessh I get like mashed potato? Should I get 190 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:46.679 Cole's Law? People are like, I'll take that copy of The Lost of 191 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:50.639 Us and I'll get a sim stuff back on side. Please. That's awesome. 192 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:54.039 That's awesome. Other games are like like same my Showdown. It's like, 193 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:56.799 oh yeah, let's collaborate with fur Honor for our DLC. Get a 194 00:13:56.840 --> 00:14:00.679 new character, makes this huge thing. Look, get the action go in. 195 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:03.960 Other games are like, yo, let's let's not whole level packs. 196 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:07.200 Let's let's up the action in sims of like, yoh, fuck it knitting? 197 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:11.039 Can I cuss on the show? Yeah? Whatever you want the sims. 198 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:15.320 The SIMS though, like it's had some incredible times over the years. 199 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:18.639 They had an Ikea stuff packed, they had Hian air. Yeah, Katie 200 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:24.039 Perry had her own pack, like sound like we found like an we accidentally 201 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:28.679 found like a Machino hoodie in in our thing and then carried on scrolling. 202 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:35.559 It's like it's a bobber fat helmet and Darth Maul face. There's no rhyme 203 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:39.519 or reason to it. They're just like, let's love it. I think 204 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:43.480 when the actual world is on fire around you, it's nice just to retreat 205 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:48.519 into the SIMS because they probably do it because it was three on PS plus 206 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:50.840 and February. If you have a PlayStation, yeah, because Dave Drewet I 207 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:54.159 think from our UK team has been streaming loads on his personal account and he's 208 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:56.759 been doing a lot of SIMS stuff. So I've been watching that and it's 209 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:01.639 like it's slowly been making me think maybe I should stall SIMS. And now 210 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:07.720 I'm like, maybe I should install SIMS. Install SIMS that the same setup 211 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:09.960 more. I haven't got my new PC yet, it's going to come at 212 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:13.240 the end of July, sadly, but I do have this gaming laptop and 213 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:16.480 it's yeah, yeah, yeah, I could just like lay on my bed 214 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:22.919 with this gaming laptop warming my crotch, and I mean I would definitely put 215 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:26.000 a tray on or something, because I mean, this this gaming laptop, 216 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:30.080 even though just running Zoom is already Yeah. That's the thing with these gaming 217 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:33.600 laptops. It is like we've created the you know, most up to date 218 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.320 graphics technology in a small form factor, but it's going to scream like you're 219 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:43.000 beating at the entire time to melt through your desk anyway, that's what I 220 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:48.159 have been playing two more? What have you been up to slay this fire? 221 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:54.279 Right? Yeah, I've also been playing Huma. I can't say anything 222 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:58.919 about it again. Good title screen, good title screen, continue screen, 223 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:03.759 sword in the ground and text, well spaced, left, justified text, 224 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:10.639 nice lighting, back lighting good more important, good particle effects. More importantly, 225 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:14.279 when you're lingering on the title screen, doesn't make your fans kicking to 226 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:18.200 overdrive like some games looking at you, Call of Duty, war Zone, 227 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:22.759 Grow Off, Activision, grow Up, Just get rid of get rid of 228 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:27.759 that infinitely walking forward group of people. Just give me just text on a 229 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:32.399 screen that doesn't make my PS four screen. It's the only game I've played 230 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:37.799 where I've said this before where during loading it's actually the PlayStation of put a 231 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:41.240 system level error that says your PS four is too hot. I've seen that 232 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:44.879 once in my life, and it's playing that game, and I was like, 233 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:48.080 I've never seen that in any console ever. It was just like, 234 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:51.159 your your pso was too hot, I'm turning off. It turned off. 235 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:53.519 But I've never gotten that. But I tried playing it about a week ago 236 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:56.919 and it was like, okay, you got to install a ninety gig update 237 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:59.480 and I was like, all right, you know, I'll just let it 238 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:03.039 go overnight. It installs overnight, and then I go on to play with 239 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:04.359 some friends and it's like, you can't play this, so you gotta download 240 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:10.039 the game packs. And then there's like eight different packs that you do install 241 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:14.799 separately. You get rid of those, now, oh really, the multiplayer 242 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:17.240 pack, you can get rid of single play, you can get rid of 243 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:21.680 specificing. I got rid of Special Ops because I was like, yeah, 244 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:22.680 I should probably do that, but yeah, then I just had to install 245 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:25.279 a bunch of other stuff, and I was like, I'm never going to 246 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:29.200 play this game. Yeah, it's weird out how crazy it's gotten as far 247 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:32.559 as like all the different itemized stuff that you I guess have to download but 248 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:36.960 then don't have to have anymore, and like the the fact that Call of 249 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:38.839 Duty has gotten to the place where they're like, oh yeah, hundreds of 250 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:44.000 gigs worth of data is needed to download to play this game. And I 251 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:45.960 know I don't want to like be I don't want to like be the person 252 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:48.319 who's like back in my day or whatever because I'm twenty six. But like 253 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:53.079 Black Ops on PS three didn't have that, Like why why why has it 254 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:56.640 gotten to such its lengths, like why has it gotten to this point? 255 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:00.799 And so it's it's like all the additional mode first of all, but then 256 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:03.759 it's all that in the Battle Earth specifically, it's all that shit they're stuffing 257 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:07.279 in there for the future in it, Like it's that hiden away and and 258 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:11.599 like I think people have said that it's not particularly well optimized or as good 259 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:15.720 as it probably could be. But I hope they figure that stuff out, 260 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:19.160 especially when they transition to the next generation and inevitably have a new version of 261 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:22.519 Wars on there. If it's like one hundred and fifty gigabytes, absolutely not. 262 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:27.119 I mean, wasn't this this cutting the modern Warfare engine was like designed 263 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:30.880 for next gen anyway. Yeah, like they kind of made it ahead of 264 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:34.359 time. So I wonder if that is why you're PS four, is you 265 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:37.519 know, about to catch on fire? Yeah? Maybe so, Yeah, 266 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:42.640 Gossis Shiam has got a good title screen. I have been playing Slayer Spire 267 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:48.799 out for a bunch of platforms for a while now, and a lot of 268 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:52.400 people that I know talk about it, like Cardi we mentioned before he's always 269 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:55.279 been a huge advocate of it, and one of our on Chris Perrera. 270 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:57.640 He loves that game and he's always talked about it, and it came out 271 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:00.559 on mobile, so I was like, yeah, okay, I think it 272 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:03.279 was quite expensive though, I think it's like ten ten dollars or something like 273 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:07.440 that. But I download it and I tried it, and I think I'm 274 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:11.000 playing it wrong. I so we put out I think we should have a 275 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:15.000 review of it soon up. Chris has written a review, and I read 276 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:18.720 the review, and as well as reading the review, I realized that I'm 277 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.480 playing it entirely wrong. Like I was doing the thing where I'm hoarding cards 278 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:23.640 where I'm like, oh, every time it's like, hey, you can 279 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:26.519 have one of these cards, which one do you want, I'm like, 280 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:27.640 oh, it's like you can have this card, you've won this about, 281 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:30.359 you can have this card, you can have the money, or you can 282 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:32.440 get like a boost. I'm like, obviously, I'm going to take the 283 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:36.960 card. But the whole point of that game is to kind of refine a 284 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:41.480 smaller deck that you can employ more frequently, or that's one of the strategies, 285 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:45.319 Like you don't want this deck of ninety cards with one attack in it. 286 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:48.759 Instead, you want maybe a couple of attack cards. And a bunch 287 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:52.359 of cards that will like enhance those attacks and give you more chance of doing 288 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:56.640 special abilities and that kind of stuff. So I've been coming at it all 289 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:02.880 wrong. But so my kind of take on it is flawed from the outset. 290 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:03.920 Because of that. I can see why it was good, but I 291 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:07.599 didn't understand what made it special. I enjoyed playing the card element of it, 292 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:10.920 but I was like, I don't get how this is better than any 293 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:14.440 other deck fielding game. It has the rug like elements where you're kind of 294 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:17.599 working your way up upper tower and you have to make decisions on should I 295 00:20:17.640 --> 00:20:18.839 have this fight or should I try and go around? Should I rest up, 296 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.519 or should I experience use my experience points, and you want to try 297 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:23.359 and make it to the end to fight the boss. Should I fight this 298 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:26.799 mini boss or should I go around? Et cetera like that, And I 299 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:32.240 was like, yeah, that's an angle, but it doesn't seem that interesting. 300 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:36.039 But it turns out I've been playing it in the wrong way. So 301 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:41.160 I'm now getting into it with a more clearer understanding of it, having read 302 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:45.480 Chris's review and spoken to Cardi a bit about it as well. It is 303 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.519 fun. I think the art style completely puts me off. It's kind of 304 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:56.799 loll fire and like dark Dungeenny, but like it's got very rudimentary animations and 305 00:20:56.039 --> 00:20:59.119 art style, Like I want it, I want a bit. I may 306 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:03.759 I'm spoiled like interesting visual aesthetics even in two D, kind of like card 307 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:07.759 games, so I wish it looked a bit better. But ultimately the gameplay 308 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:11.440 is there and it does have some a lot of depth to it, and 309 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:15.079 I'm excited to dig into it. But yeah, it's it's it's definitely something 310 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:18.519 worth playing. I'm enjoying it for how easy it is to pick up and 311 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:22.359 put down, so I'll play it in between sessions of like Sushima or like 312 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:25.079 when I'm just like at the end of a work day, I'll just sit 313 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:30.480 on my bed and cry while playing Slay the Spire. So it's like good 314 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:36.880 for short burst gaming. So I do recommend it even and just make sure 315 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:40.359 you're playing it properly, not like an idiot like me. Nice. Slay 316 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:41.880 the Spire is a game that I've heard so much about, but I don't 317 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:45.279 have the slightest clue of what that game is other than its cards. Yeah, 318 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:48.519 it's pretty much like it's pretty much. You just you're just a little 319 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:52.960 icon moving up this path to the top of a tower where a big boss 320 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:56.359 waits, and then each each little dot is like a an encounter of an 321 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:59.799 enemy, and then you just get a handful of cards. You play the 322 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:03.160 cars, and then you when you lose, you get an item back, 323 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:04.480 and then you move on to the next thing, and you're slowly like making 324 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:08.160 your way to the top. So it's very simple in its mechanics, and 325 00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:12.440 all the depth is in the way you build your deck and understand there's like 326 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:17.160 the other thing is that you have characters who have specific roles, strengths, 327 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:19.039 and attributes and you unlock them all the time. I'm still playing with the 328 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:23.680 very vanilla kind of night style class, so I haven't got to the stage 329 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:27.680 drive on more interesting characters. But it is all in that how are you 330 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:33.200 making your build? Does it work right now? And how do you build 331 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:37.200 that out as you go ahead? Like you don't automatically walk into each run 332 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:40.119 with a fully decked out build. You kind of make it as you go 333 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:42.640 along, so you can and then you can be like, oh, this 334 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:45.960 time, I'm going to try for an incredibly tanky build, so I'm going 335 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:52.079 to focus on minimizing my deck, so it's so it's focused on improving my 336 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:57.519 defendability whilst also kind of like having a small variety of attack cards and I 337 00:22:57.599 --> 00:22:59.880 can tank through it. Or you can be like, oh, I'm going 338 00:22:59.920 --> 00:23:06.119 to focus on entirely building around relics which give me wild buffs and change the 339 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:10.440 way the gameplay works quite right, So you don't you don't create a deck 340 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:12.480 before you enter the spire. You create it kind of as you go. 341 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:15.519 Yeah, so you comment with a basic hand, and then you kind of 342 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:18.720 like, yeah, so you're not spending ages in menus kind of moving things 343 00:23:18.759 --> 00:23:22.480 around odds and that kind of stuff. You kind of look at what you've 344 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:26.079 got and like dispose of things that you don't want and keep add things that 345 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:30.440 you do want on the fly. It's easily the most approachable deck building slash 346 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:37.599 dungeon crawling slash roguelike game. So on that in that regard, that's why 347 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:41.599 i'd recommend it cool. I might have to give that a try. It 348 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:45.960 sounds like like drafting in Magic together. I don't know if anyone's done that. 349 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:48.400 Yeah, it do it every now and then. Where it was like 350 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:51.960 it's kind of like a roguelike, I guess, and that you make a 351 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:55.680 deck on the fly and then you use that deck for the next couple duels 352 00:23:55.759 --> 00:24:00.359 or battle duels. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did some of that 353 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:03.000 magic to gathering stuff as well. Back in the hand. It does have 354 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:04.359 that vibe. But you're just trying to make the most of what you've got 355 00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:07.119 and see how how you can take this limit set of cards and use them 356 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:11.079 in interesting ways to get beyond the video enemies. I want a Yukio rogue 357 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:15.640 Light, That's what I want. That would be interesting. I want it 358 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:18.559 just because I hear people talk about slay this fire and for me, I 359 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:23.279 really like rogue lights. Specifically, games like Dead Cells and Rogue Legacy have 360 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:26.319 really spoken to me in a very heavy way. We're all get very into 361 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:30.119 those games. Uh, But like for the most part, card games that 362 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:34.279 I haven't necessarily done it for me. Well, like specifically card video games 363 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:38.240 haven't necessarily done it for me. Yu Kyo though, is like the what 364 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:41.480 exception where I can get into a yu gi Oh game? And so I'm 365 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:45.160 sure there's somebody out there. Did you ever play the ones for game Boy 366 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:48.160 Advance, which one like the tournament ones or or god, I don't remember, 367 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:51.160 but I had a lot of them and I played a lot of them. 368 00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:55.079 So like I so I the Yuga games that I've played, right there 369 00:24:55.400 --> 00:25:00.880 is yu Kyo Duelists. Of the roses for that was PlayStation Yes two, 370 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:03.319 Yeah for PS two, and that was like more so like a strategy kind 371 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:07.839 of game. Love that game, specifically a soundtrack that still has one of 372 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:10.640 my favorite soundtracks in the game. Yu Kyo do list of the roses. 373 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:14.799 I had u Yo Dark Duel Stories for Game Boy Color that I played a 374 00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:18.039 lot. That was basically this bastardized version of Yugyo where the rules were not 375 00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:22.400 anywhere near what the actual rules were, but it's like a simplified, easier 376 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:25.920 version of it. Got really into that. And then on Game Boy Advance 377 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:29.119 I did have I can't remember the exact name of it, but it was 378 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:33.759 like yu Kyo Dueling Tournament two thousand and six or something like that that were 379 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:37.440 like these are the yu Yo rules, like these are the official this is 380 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:41.000 the official way to play the game, and you would work your way up 381 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:44.400 through ranks with that and had a blast of that game. That game got 382 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:48.200 very difficult because yu Gyo can turn into a pretty hard game if you're playing 383 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:52.240 it casually. But yeah, a Yukio rogue light where it is like quick 384 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:56.480 bursts of Yukyoh sounds like a fun time. There's also a game yu Kyo 385 00:25:56.599 --> 00:26:00.440 Duel Links that was on mobile I probably probably still is on mobile. That 386 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:06.279 kind of was an expedited version of yu gi Oh where it is uh, 387 00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:08.480 smaller decks, smaller hands, smaller like field and all the stuff, and 388 00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:14.720 it's pors like meant to be a mobile version of yu gi Oh that kind 389 00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:18.799 of fits within not necessarily a rogue light, but within like a condensed experience 390 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:22.559 of u Yo. I want that plus a rogue light. Make it happen. 391 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:25.400 The money, make it happen. I know that, I know there, 392 00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:26.400 I know there are developers that listen to this. Make it happen, 393 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:29.920 please, just for me, speaking of do you want to go off with 394 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:33.839 what you've been playing? Bless sure? So I got I got the opportunity 395 00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:37.680 to preview Hyperscape, which I don't know if you guys have talked about Hypercape 396 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:40.759 on the show or not yet. Michael talked about it last week. A 397 00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:45.480 little bit. I was gonna say, because I played with Michael and so 398 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:49.400 yeah, like you invited us over to play Hyperscape, which is their new 399 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:56.559 battery al game that I think just got out of closed beta and it's set 400 00:26:56.559 --> 00:27:00.000 to release during this summer at some point, and it's basically, yeah, 401 00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:03.920 like ninety nine players. Teams of three takes place in the Hyperscape, which 402 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:11.200 is basically this future version of the Internet that is developed by a company called 403 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:14.359 Prisma Dimensions. It's like there's like a lot of buzz terms going on in 404 00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:18.519 this game, but yeah, Prisma Dimensions developed the Hyperscape, which is this 405 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:22.359 version of the Internet that exists I guess like fifty years from now that we 406 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:29.160 essentially jack ourselves into and become one with the digital, uh digital landscape. 407 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:37.839 So it's Internet. Yeah, why, yes, I believe. So. 408 00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:41.119 I'ven't seen Free Surrama on along in a hot second, but I think I 409 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:44.720 remember that episode, yeah something like that, and yeah, yeah, you're 410 00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:47.680 basically in it. And so in that in the Hyperscape, they have what 411 00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:49.599 they call Crown Rush, which is like the name of the actual battle rayal. 412 00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:53.039 It is kind of like basically like what they what what Apex Legends is 413 00:27:53.079 --> 00:27:59.279 to Apex Legends, Crown Rush is to the Hyperscape and so yeah, like 414 00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:02.720 people do for fun. It's ninety nine players, all the different stuff. 415 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:08.400 The thing that really I think makes this game interesting for me is how much 416 00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:12.599 faster it is than any other Battle Royale game I've played, as far as 417 00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:17.039 like the bigger ones. Yeah, yeah, like it is if it feels 418 00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:19.079 like way more of an arena experience than any of the other ones. And 419 00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:23.119 so like I would compare it more so to Unreal Tournament or games like that. 420 00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:30.640 Break Lawbreakers will actually probably the biggest comparison I will make, and like 421 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:34.160 not in a bad way because like I think law Breakers have pros and why 422 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:44.640 did you did you cross? For law Breakers? It's no more, but 423 00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:49.200 like like like evoking Cordon religion to say Breakers. So it's like I'd be 424 00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:56.359 all right if that thing it was in health. But like so Lawbreakers like 425 00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:59.839 wasn't like a bad game by the means, It's just a game. It 426 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:03.599 was a game that kind of didn't take off to me. Hyperscape has a 427 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.200 lot of law breakersy elements in terms of the movement and kind of how quick 428 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:11.279 it is and kind of like this the art style and a bit it feels 429 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:15.000 like it takes a lot of inspiration for this inspiration from that, but for 430 00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.039 a Battle Royale, which I think makes it more interesting because yeah, super 431 00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:22.680 fast paced, it's super vertical, and so the game takes place the map 432 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:26.759 is basically a inspired by Paris, Like it takes place in like an urban 433 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:30.079 environment, and so you'll find yourself on top of buildings and all this different 434 00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:33.359 stuff because there's jumpads and there are different abilities you can pick up, like 435 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:37.960 there's a teleportability that allow you to teleport upwards if you want to or get 436 00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:42.200 to wherever you need to go pretty quickly. There are and they call these 437 00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:45.680 abilities hacks, which are there. There are things that you find on the 438 00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:49.240 map, and so yeah, like you're collecting hacks, you're collecting different guns, 439 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:55.720 and it just feels like way more of a of an unreal tournament Battle 440 00:29:55.799 --> 00:29:59.720 Royale, which has me kind of excited abou at the same time kind of 441 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:03.079 nerves because when I played it, I remember it taking a bit for me 442 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:06.160 to kind of like figure out the flow of it, and once I got 443 00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:08.119 there, I was like, Okay, cool, this feels chaotic, like 444 00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:12.880 it's it's fun and there is like fun strategy to it, and there is 445 00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:17.400 an accessibility to it where you're just like, like, it's not pubgy, 446 00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:21.400 it's not apex where you're having to find attachments for a gun and and different 447 00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:23.440 things like that. It is, Hey, I have I got the gatling 448 00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:26.400 gun. If I want to upgrade my gatling gun, I find another gatling 449 00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:30.039 gun on the map and that'll automatically upgrade it. And I can do that 450 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:33.160 four times. It's like very it's it's simple and clean, it's easy. 451 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.720 The thing is, though, like at certain points, especially toward the end 452 00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:41.440 of the matches, there they have the crown that will spawn on the map. 453 00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:45.839 And what that is is basically in any other any other battle Yale, 454 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:49.319 it's last man standing, last team with all their players alves the team that 455 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:53.160 wins. It's the same here, but with the added crown element, which 456 00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:56.160 I don't know how, I don't know how many players have to be left 457 00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:00.279 for the crown to spawn. But once the crown spawns, whatever team is 458 00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:06.720 able to hold the crown for forty five seconds wins, and so it's a 459 00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:10.319 it's a it's a cool thing. There's no there's not a circle in the 460 00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:12.400 game, which is why I think they have the crown instead of the circle. 461 00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:17.799 What they have is the different areas of the map disintegrate and it will 462 00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:19.400 essentially like if you're if you're left in an area of the map that is 463 00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:22.880 degrading and disintegrating, you'll basically fall off the map. That's how they deal 464 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:27.839 with pushing players together in this huge environment. The crown kind of feels like 465 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:32.160 the last effort of that of hey, yeah, once we once we have 466 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:36.480 people down to like one or two districts, we'll then have it. We'll 467 00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:38.920 then have it be so that like the crown is what's pulling people together. 468 00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:41.240 The crown is gonna be the thing that everybody can see. If you get 469 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:45.079 the crown, everybody sees where you're at. It is now a chase for 470 00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.599 everybody to get to you. And so it's fun in the sense that that 471 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:51.799 is like a strategic thing. That is the thing you have to kind of 472 00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:53.359 think about as a player of like, okay, cool, do I want 473 00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:56.759 to grab the crown real quick or do I want to like camp on the 474 00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:59.920 crownd and like wait for some way to get it so I can try and 475 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:02.839 snipe them or kill them or whatever. And that's fun. The way it 476 00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:05.759 kind of panned out for me, when I was playing, and this is 477 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:08.400 like with Michael and I think colleiaf who were also playing with When it got 478 00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:13.079 down to that, it just turned into a mess of bullets of just gunfire 479 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:17.160 happening everywhere, me tapping whatever button I can find, like what doing whatever 480 00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:21.079 ability that I have on me to like try and stay alive and to try 481 00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:22.839 and like get people off me. It turned into a big mess, which 482 00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:27.400 on one hand was kind of fun. On the other hand, if every 483 00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.000 if every match kind of boils down to that, I can see that becoming 484 00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:34.119 a little bit problematic. But I think that stuff might be fixed with balancing 485 00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:38.480 guns and making basically like balancing like balancing different abilities and all this stuff. 486 00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:45.200 Because the gatling gun when I played was like the thing that was super overpowered. 487 00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:47.440 And you know when when the gatling gun is the thing that is super 488 00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:51.279 overpowered, I think that's the thing, Like, that's what the matches are 489 00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:52.960 going to boil down to, is that gatling gun which causes a mess. 490 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:57.880 And so you know, I'm I'm hopeful for the game. I think it 491 00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:00.920 was pretty fun. It's not my favorite batteryale right now is Apex Legends, 492 00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:05.119 and that's my favorite battle Reyale. Ever, at this point, I don't 493 00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:07.559 think it's an Apex killer. I don't think it's a Fortnite killer, but 494 00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:12.559 I do think that it'll probably have its place in the Batterleyale ecosystem, which 495 00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:16.319 I think is pretty exciting. Do you think people who are kind of like, 496 00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:21.160 I don't know, burnt out on the Battle Royale scene are gonna be 497 00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:24.039 into this game at all or do you think that it's not really really I 498 00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:30.359 think I think there's something there because it's it feels different, like I think 499 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:35.279 when it comes to other Batterle Royals, especially the big ones so like Fortnite 500 00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:38.240 and PUBG and even throw Apex into this, I think the thing that can 501 00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:45.599 maybe get tire some of them is you'll go rounds without action and then die 502 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:49.119 immediately, and you feel like you wasted your time at a certain point, 503 00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:52.039 especially like if you go through all the effort of looting and finding the best 504 00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:57.559 attachment and finding all the purple the purple pickups and all this different stuff like 505 00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:00.000 if you if you if you get your ideal loadout, or if you if 506 00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:04.359 you go down that route and then you die let's say ten minutes in, 507 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:07.480 you know that can be like that could be deflating and you can be like, 508 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:09.800 Okay, well, there there is a mood that I have to be 509 00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:15.280 in order to play this. For Hyperscape, it feels very much like like 510 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:19.639 it. Match is just way quicker in the sense that you'll probably find action 511 00:34:19.880 --> 00:34:22.280 and if you die, it'll probably be pretty quick and you can you can 512 00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:24.840 get back into a match pretty quickly. And also like that's another big thing 513 00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:30.760 is the revival system in this game encourages getting people back into a match, 514 00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:35.920 like getting people back into the same match more so than others, even Apex. 515 00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:38.239 Like Apex is the game that introduced the whole respawn beacon and you get 516 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:43.599 people back into the same match. This game has it so that basically, 517 00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:46.280 if if I die as a player and I still have teammates in the game, 518 00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:50.679 I turn into an echo and I'm able to still run around the map 519 00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:53.000 and scout for my teammates. I can't shoot a gun. I can't I 520 00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:55.880 don't even think other players can see me, like I'm just like an invisible 521 00:34:55.880 --> 00:35:00.559 ghost essentially, but I can scout and help out my teammates in that way, 522 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:07.920 and then for any other player who dies, there the place where they 523 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:12.079 where they get taken out then becomes a respond point to where now me as 524 00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:15.199 the ghost, I can go to that respond point and then my teammate who's 525 00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:19.119 alive can meet me at the respond point and then bring me back to life. 526 00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:24.280 And so they're just like a lot more situations where you're gonna get respond 527 00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:29.840 in this game. Like I remember playing a match with Colleave and Michael and 528 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:34.719 I got them back probably like three or four times each, like back into 529 00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:37.880 the same game, and it's not very good. There's no restriction, yeah, 530 00:35:38.039 --> 00:35:43.159 and so like basically you're going until your whole team dies, and it's 531 00:35:43.559 --> 00:35:45.519 really it's really active because of that, and I think there's I think there's 532 00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:50.360 something there in terms of people keeping keeping people involved and keeping people interested. 533 00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:54.519 So I could see people getting into it for that that sounds neat, like 534 00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:58.760 I I'll probably try it. I don't know how into it all get because 535 00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:01.519 I've gotten super into Battle Royals. Last one I got really into is Apex. 536 00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:07.280 But I'm surprised that you'd be soft And they said they were working on 537 00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:08.840 a Battle Royale. I think I just kind of assumed it would be like 538 00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:13.639 a ghost recon Battle Royale because that world is kind of already built for that, 539 00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:19.079 and like it would just make sense too, Like in my head at 540 00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:21.679 least it made sense, like, yeah, ghost Reetcon, like they can 541 00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:23.880 use that giant map, they can have a lot of characters on that. 542 00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:28.119 There's already vehicle combat, there's all this kind of stuff that's already in place. 543 00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:30.239 So like, as much as that still kind of interested me, I'm 544 00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:35.159 glad that they didn't just kind of turned ghost Reycon more into something it wasn't 545 00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:38.840 just to kind of appeal to what the masses are into right now. It 546 00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:44.039 shocked me that they didn't do Tom Clancy's blank blank as the Battle Oyale, 547 00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:46.320 because I feel like that then has the name recognition they'll probably sell a lot. 548 00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:53.400 But yeah, maybe that they just had the rights to do worldlines and 549 00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:58.639 whatever, and they haven't renegotiated with the tom CONCSTA. I think they own 550 00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:02.639 it now. They can do whatever they want they have, Like because what 551 00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:07.599 there's Tom Claans is the division Tom Clance's Rainbow Succeed. I forgot the division 552 00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:15.679 was Splinter Cell. I guess like half at least half of U Soft games 553 00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:17.639 had to be Tom Clancy at this point. Yeah, Tom Clan is steep 554 00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:27.079 Tom Clance is for honor. Yeah, yeah, I also played iron n 555 00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:31.559 VR. Oh yeah, how's that? I? Oh No, I didn't 556 00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:35.000 find I haven't made it that far, so I've only made it to chapter 557 00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:37.639 two and I think I'm done with the game. I'm not enjoying it that 558 00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:39.599 much. It it seems very fine, Like I don't think it's bad by 559 00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:45.719 any means, but it's one of those ones where I like, if if 560 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:47.880 we're looking at it, like for the story and for the characters and all 561 00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:51.159 that stuff. I keep comparing it to m c U and I feel like 562 00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:53.039 this Iron Man kind of pills and comparison in terms of, like you can't 563 00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:57.800 compete with Robert Downey Jr. As Iron Man and so like whatever. Whenever 564 00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:00.480 Tony Stark talks in the game, I'm like, all right, cool, 565 00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:02.000 I see where this is going. I see your humor, I see your 566 00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:07.719 quips. But you're not Robert Downey Jr. Him, You're not him. 567 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:13.039 You know, Dad, the real one. You're not my dad. But 568 00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:15.960 yeah, like that that's one complaint I have with it. I also feel 569 00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:19.880 like the controls are kind of complicated in a way that I'm maybe if I 570 00:38:19.960 --> 00:38:22.960 played it way more I could get accustomed to. But the way that it's 571 00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:24.639 set up right, like you'll have, uh, you're playing with like two 572 00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:30.000 PlayStation move ones, and so if you want to, like if you wanna 573 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:32.199 leve a tate or not love a tape, I guess, like fly or 574 00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:36.840 whatever, do the Iron Man like jet pack at the hands things, you'll 575 00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:38.679 like hover, yes, thank you. If you want to hover right, 576 00:38:38.840 --> 00:38:43.920 like, you'll press down or you'll point down with your palms and like click 577 00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:46.039 the triggers that'll then like boost you up or whatever. You can like go 578 00:38:46.159 --> 00:38:50.079 forward by pointing back with your palms and doing the same thing, or you 579 00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:54.400 can shoot by like palming upwards toward an enemy and then pressing the I guess 580 00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:58.559 center button on the move controller. But then you can use your wrist rockets 581 00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:01.679 by like putting down on your palm and just like it's stuff that is cool 582 00:39:01.719 --> 00:39:06.119 because it wants to make you feel like you're Iron Man. But for me, 583 00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:09.679 as somebody who likes playing video games and is like so used to using 584 00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:13.559 the PlayStation controller, I'm like, okay, cool, this would be a 585 00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:15.039 lot easier if I can just press triangle to do the wrist rockets and press 586 00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:19.679 square to do this thing. I feel like I'm learning a whole new way 587 00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:22.599 to play, which one hand cool, on the other hand kind of made 588 00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:25.880 me frustrated. And then yeah, overall, it just kind of it was 589 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:30.119 a little bit bland for me, like in terms of the presentation and all 590 00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:31.400 that sort of stuff in the game play, and like the enemies are kind 591 00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:36.159 of all kind of drony kind of enemies. But yeah, again, I'm 592 00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:39.039 only I only just made it to chapter two though, and so like maybe 593 00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:42.760 down the line, like once things get flowing. I know Greg really liked 594 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:46.119 it and shouts to Greg because he has a cameo in the game chapter three, 595 00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:49.280 which I wanted to get to, but I don't think I will. 596 00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:54.159 Yeah, overall, I think it's it's like fine, it's fine. Yeah, 597 00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:59.159 I can't play. I get motions like very easily, and I just 598 00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:04.239 don't even want try it. And this does seem like a motion sick kind 599 00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:07.960 of game. Yeah. Rob in our office was saying that he was getting 600 00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:09.159 pretty motion sick with it, and I was like, yeah, I'm just 601 00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:13.760 not gonna I don't get motions sick, really, But I watched the gameplay 602 00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:15.880 he posted and I was like, yeah, I don't think I could handle 603 00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:21.559 this. I don't think my stomach could handle that game. Yeah I can't. 604 00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:24.079 I had. I just about made it through Batman, and I love 605 00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:28.840 that game in VR, and even then I was like, I'm sick, 606 00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:31.360 got this. I think the game that I can only rely VR game I 607 00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:38.719 can only reliably play without feeling sick is Tetris. So oh yeah, I 608 00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:44.960 can only do the only stuff that doesn't make me motion sick is Vibe makes 609 00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:51.599 me sick. PSBR makes me sick. This Quest not yet. Like, 610 00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:57.800 this Quest has probably been my best instance of VR in terms of like it 611 00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:02.400 working. And so I would say give that a shop, possibly because Greg's 612 00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:07.679 got a indext So I might. I mean, I've got a week off, 613 00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:12.280 I've got space in here, I might set up and play through Alex 614 00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:15.800 finally, yes you should. Oh yeah, we'll talk about that later. 615 00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:21.159 I've been playing. So have you guys heard of Deeprock Galactic at all? 616 00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:27.159 The name rings a bell. Yeah, space junking game, right, spaceship 617 00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:30.320 junko game. No, it's not so I forget what that game is called. 618 00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:32.239 So, so this one is it? I guess the best way to 619 00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:37.320 describe it is kind of like a Left for Dead Payday sort of style of 620 00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:40.599 game, but your Dwarves in space. Basically, it's a four player co 621 00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:44.639 out game. You pick your class. As you play through these areas, 622 00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:47.960 you get experience and resources and you can level up your dwarves. But basically, 623 00:41:49.159 --> 00:41:51.639 like the point of the game is that you and friends go out on 624 00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:54.760 these randomized mining missions that are very much set up like Left for Dead, 625 00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:59.119 and that there's maybe not so much different types of enemies that will like pin 626 00:41:59.199 --> 00:42:02.199 you down or whatever, but there are a lot of different like randomized scenarios 627 00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:09.599 as you dig through these uh the these caves and whatnot to find resources and 628 00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:14.679 then bring it back. It's it's super chaotic. Uh, it's a lot 629 00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:17.000 of fun, especially you have friends, and it's just like a very mindless 630 00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:21.920 sort of not really a looter shooter, but kind of like a resource gathering 631 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:24.760 shooter. It's it's on PC and Xbox. It's it's really good. Like, 632 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:29.360 I'm surprised not many people are talking about it was an early access for 633 00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:34.119 a while, and I think it came out finally in May. Maybe it 634 00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.519 was out like it heard about it, but I don't even remember the context 635 00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:43.000 in which I heard about it. That sounds fun. Yeah, it's really 636 00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:45.559 good. Like there there are kind of a lot of systems in it, 637 00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:49.480 Like when you go to your main base or whatever, your your spaceport, 638 00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:52.880 there's like, I don't know, a million different things you can interact with, 639 00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:57.480 Like here's you can customize your gun, you can customize your character. 640 00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:00.880 Here's a shop, here's here's a here's a bar where you can go and 641 00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:04.239 get buffs for your next mission. Kind of like a monster hunter in that 642 00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:08.039 sense. The lear any cats making you before you go. No, but 643 00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:14.400 there's a robot that serves you beer. And there's like a really fun game 644 00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:19.840 where you kick barrels into this trash can. It's hard to describe, uh, 645 00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:23.639 but yeah, I'm super surprised how much fun this game is. I 646 00:43:23.719 --> 00:43:30.599 was playing with Tim Turry and Mike Maharty and we were having a lot of 647 00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:34.159 fun with it. Did you say it was in game poss I don't think 648 00:43:34.199 --> 00:43:36.760 it's in game pass. But it's on Xbox. It's only on Xbox and 649 00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:45.760 PC. It's cross play between Okay, if you've got it on Windows Window 650 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:47.719 or Microsoft, if you get it from the Microsoft Store, you can play 651 00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:51.280 with people on Xbox. If you get it on Steam. You can only 652 00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:54.559 play with people on Steam, so it's like kind of cross play, kind 653 00:43:54.599 --> 00:43:59.320 of not cross play, but yeah, I mean I highly recommend it. 654 00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:04.800 I think it was on sale during the Steam Summer set, which is when 655 00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:07.880 I first picked it up, and then I ended up getting it again on 656 00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:10.199 the Microsoft Store so I could play with Tim because he was on Xbox. 657 00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:14.119 But like I I've been having a great time with it, Like it's just 658 00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:20.320 you know, mindless fun. But yeah, other than that, I've been 659 00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:24.039 playing Sif six, which I've found is a very good game to play right 660 00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:29.320 now because it's hard to focus on anything else when you're playing Stif six because 661 00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:34.760 it's just like you're always thinking turns ahead, you're managing your units and your 662 00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:38.079 cities and whatnot. But I was also playing that with Mike. We tried 663 00:44:38.159 --> 00:44:43.199 multiplayer for the first time, and like, I don't know, it's it's 664 00:44:43.239 --> 00:44:45.639 a lot of fun. I forgot how good that game was because I played 665 00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:47.679 it when it first came out for a couple hours, and I was like, 666 00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:51.599 I really like this game, but the games take eight hours each and 667 00:44:51.639 --> 00:44:54.800 I don't have time to play more. But I I've been having fun with 668 00:44:54.840 --> 00:45:00.679 that game too. I am surprised at how into it I am, just 669 00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:05.800 because I think it's just because I've got more time right now than I do 670 00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:08.840 otherwise. So it's just like I feel like I can just put my all 671 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:13.679 into it and try to figure that game out. It's complicated as hell though, 672 00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:15.960 as someone who's never been that into the CIEV games, trying to figure 673 00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:22.559 out like the difference between like a religious win or a cultural win or a 674 00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:27.599 military win is a lot. But yeah, I've never really been into SIEV, 675 00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:30.880 but people say a lot of good things about six and five, and 676 00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:36.239 I'm like, I just don't think I can put myself. I just I 677 00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:37.559 don't think i'd have the patience for it. That's the thing. I'm one 678 00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:40.239 of those people that if I don't succeed early on, I will drop off. 679 00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:45.000 Yeah, and that'll definitely happen. Like SIP six does a good job 680 00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:51.119 of acclimating new players. I will say that, Like like when I SIP 681 00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:52.920 six was the first one I played, and I feel like every step of 682 00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:57.639 the way I was getting tutorial and not like the kind of tutorials that was 683 00:45:57.679 --> 00:46:00.599 getting annoying, but it was like useful information that I can opt out if 684 00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:04.400 I want to. But it was never too overwhelming, Like it pretty much 685 00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:07.039 only gave you the tutorials when you when it thought you'd need them, so 686 00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:12.239 it wasn't just upfront telling you all this stuff, which helped a lot. 687 00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:15.239 But like as I'm playing through now in multiplayer where there's no tutorials, I 688 00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:17.559 only have Mike trying to explain things to me, and he's not the best 689 00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:22.239 all the time. Wow, Mike, damn, he's not listening. He's 690 00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:25.840 not although although if it was, if he came back to the fold, 691 00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:30.639 everyone's just like ragging on Mike. He's been he's been helpful. He's been 692 00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:34.440 helpful. There's just been some things where he'll try to explain it. I'll 693 00:46:34.440 --> 00:46:36.400 be like, yeah, no, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna wing it 694 00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:39.320 and see what happens. But yeah, I've been having fun with that. 695 00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:44.800 I'm excited to play more SIEV six uh and then like everyone else to him 696 00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:52.000 playing Ksashima, but we can't talk about that. I'll talk about it though. 697 00:46:52.400 --> 00:47:01.320 That's sword. I do I do want to, I do want to. 698 00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:05.760 I do want to suggest the game spot feature games Yeah, game Spot 699 00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:08.000 feature. Wow, you know I don't think about it, because now every 700 00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:09.760 time I say, every time I say it, I'm like, did I 701 00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:14.840 funk it up? Did watching? I'm watching, I've got your I've got 702 00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:17.719 your message conversation ready, feel feel feel free to steal it. Since I'm 703 00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:21.079 saying this on a game spot product. You know, this is all yours. 704 00:47:21.559 --> 00:47:25.960 Top twenty title screens and video games. Oh, I think I think 705 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:29.559 we might have already done that. Oh really, because I really want to 706 00:47:29.599 --> 00:47:32.239 see that, because I want to disagree. I want to fight number one 707 00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:37.039 super Metroid. Super Metro's got a good one. It's it's it's too good 708 00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:40.440 man, it's the goat. We haven't done that yet, but I know 709 00:47:40.519 --> 00:47:44.559 we definitely talked about doing that as a feature. I think we talked about 710 00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:47.159 it at one point. Yeah, man, mass effect two. Mass Effect 711 00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:51.719 two is is good with the little computer and you go through. Yeah, 712 00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:54.920 it's a good feature. Blessing. We'll take it. We'll take it. 713 00:47:57.280 --> 00:48:00.280 Four count like with the face stretching. That's a loading screen, isn't it. 714 00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:05.239 No, that's the is the tedle screen. Yeah, you get a 715 00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:07.679 presstar. Oh yeah, you got a press I guess that counts. Yeah, 716 00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:10.760 that's a good one because I spent that too much time there just stretching 717 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:16.280 his face, pulling his nose. Mate. Uh. Anyway, moving on 718 00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:21.239 to the topic for this week, Best Games of twenty twenty so far. 719 00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:27.199 I I feel like we're late to do this because it's already July, and 720 00:48:27.239 --> 00:48:29.760 I feel like most people want to do it June, halfway through the year, 721 00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:31.639 but I don't know. The start of July. We're fine. We've 722 00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:36.440 let the We've let the first half of the year completely finish. Yeah. 723 00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:39.960 Yeah, that's a good point. I think it's worth doing because we did 724 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:44.280 it last year, I believe, and I feel like there's a lot of 725 00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:49.760 good games that have come out this year that need to be talked about. 726 00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:52.960 I guess may not need to be talked about, but should be talked about. 727 00:48:53.800 --> 00:48:57.039 I mean, I figured we can just kind of open the floor. 728 00:48:57.119 --> 00:49:01.440 People can shout out games that they think are deserving so far of some of 729 00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:05.199 the best games of twenty twenty, and we can talk about it from there. 730 00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:07.880 I don't know if there's any that jumped to your head. I've got 731 00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:09.199 one that I want to talk about, but I can wait on that. 732 00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:15.280 Go on half life Alex I was gonna says that half Life Alex is Half 733 00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:19.199 Life Alex. Yeah, this is by far my favorite game of this year. 734 00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:22.320 But it's interesting because I don't think it'll get that many awards because I 735 00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:25.039 don't think many people have played it. I like tweeted the other day, 736 00:49:25.079 --> 00:49:28.199 I was like, Hey, what are some of the best games so far? 737 00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:30.599 And not a single person said Half Life Alex. And I had like 738 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:34.239 quote tweeted and I was like, no one said half Life Alex. That's 739 00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:36.800 kind of a bummer, And a lot of people were not mad at me, 740 00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:39.079 but like telling me that how hard that game is to play, which 741 00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:43.559 I agree with, Like, I don't think that game is going to get 742 00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:45.519 a lot of attention, you know, six months from now, because of 743 00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:49.559 how difficult it is to play. But man, it's such a shame because 744 00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:54.000 that game is I brilliant, like people are like Last of Us two was 745 00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:59.840 a fantastic game. I really liked it. But I think I think when 746 00:49:59.880 --> 00:50:04.800 I like Half Life Alex does so much more to push storytelling forward in video 747 00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:07.880 games, and just the way that game is told, the way the characters 748 00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:12.360 are presented, the way you interact with the world, that is just missing 749 00:50:12.599 --> 00:50:17.199 in a game. In a naughty dog style game, which normally is at 750 00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:23.360 the forefront of storytelling. So it's disappointing that that game is going to be 751 00:50:23.440 --> 00:50:27.239 very difficult for people to play. Like I imagine it'll go down as a 752 00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:30.239 classic, like once the price of VR gets cheaper and the barrier to entry 753 00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:35.599 is easier to get in. I imagine that will be a game that people 754 00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:37.840 will like the other Half Life games that will people will constantly look at as 755 00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:40.840 being like one of the greatest. But right now it's in this really weird 756 00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:44.920 position where the people who have played it, no, it's good, but 757 00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:47.519 like no one's really played it, and not because they didn't hear about it, 758 00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:52.039 but because they just simply can't. Yeah, and also it's weird that 759 00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:55.239 it's like the best games of twenty twenty so far. To me, doesn't 760 00:50:55.239 --> 00:51:00.320 even feel like Half Life Alex came out this year because my concept of timearantine 761 00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:05.480 or yeah, like right at the beginning of it, Yeah, it feels 762 00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:07.199 weird, and like, yeah, I do want to play it. I'm 763 00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:09.360 not really a big Half Life person, but I've heard a lot of really 764 00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:12.760 good things about Alex, and I do you want to play it? Neither 765 00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.599 of mine, to be fair, like I hadn't played much Half Life until 766 00:51:16.199 --> 00:51:21.039 Half Life Alex. In fact, I started Half Life Alex and stopped because 767 00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:22.199 it was so good, and I was like, I got to play through. 768 00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:27.239 Oh yeah, So I went through and played through all of the originals, 769 00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:30.800 which I didn't think it aged particularly well. I thought they were good, 770 00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:32.960 but I wasn't obsessed with them. And I understand that part of that 771 00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:39.000 is just because I missed out on that time, Like that technical presentation kind 772 00:51:39.039 --> 00:51:43.719 of just missed for me because you know, I'm playing it twenty years after. 773 00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:46.599 But I think it says a lot that I was like a couple hours 774 00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:50.320 in Alex and I was like, I got to stop. I don't want 775 00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:53.280 to know what happens in this game until I know what happened beforehand. Yeah. 776 00:51:57.320 --> 00:52:01.599 My, I think my favorite game of twenty twenty of our. It's 777 00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:07.639 weird because as much as I loved playing Final Fan C seven remake, I 778 00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:10.239 thought that combat system was incredible. I don't think I've had an experience like 779 00:52:10.320 --> 00:52:16.920 The Last of Us Part two in a game probably since the first maybe a 780 00:52:17.039 --> 00:52:20.400 type of boloy to say, since the first Last US. I've certainly had 781 00:52:20.679 --> 00:52:24.000 a lot of experiences in games that have been very profoundly affecting. But I 782 00:52:24.039 --> 00:52:28.519 think Last Was Part two. Didn't expect to love Abby as much as I 783 00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:32.519 did. I really enjoyed that combat loop. I think it dragged towards the 784 00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:40.960 end, but ultimately I really really loved that game, and I would just 785 00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:46.039 I think one pro of Quarantine is the games like Last of Us where you 786 00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:50.719 can't really dip in and out. It kind of demands a bit more of 787 00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:52.199 your time. It's a bit more involved. I think that was the thing 788 00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:55.679 that people had with Red Dead two. It's a game that really excels when 789 00:52:55.719 --> 00:53:00.960 you play it in a long stretch. And so Last of Us I would 790 00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:06.000 be able to put in, you know, like four hour stints on the 791 00:53:06.119 --> 00:53:08.599 regular because I didn't have a commute anymore. I'd be home already, I 792 00:53:08.599 --> 00:53:13.840 could eat dinner pretty early and then just play through until I felt tired. 793 00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:17.199 And so I really enjoyed it. I think the acting in it is phenomenal. 794 00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:22.039 I really enjoyed the writing. I really, I really particularly enjoyed that 795 00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:28.199 gameplay loop. And like I bounced from because Horizon was on sale and I 796 00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:30.320 and I think I told my last time I was on the podcast A few 797 00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:37.320 weeks ago, but it's like playing Oh my God. But it's like, 798 00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:44.519 it's really the difference between the two where Aloy is just unbearable to listen to. 799 00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:47.320 And that's not Ashley Burcher's fault, but it's the fact that she over 800 00:53:47.480 --> 00:53:51.800 explains every single thing that she's doing. Then you go to a Last of 801 00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:55.159 Us game where they it's still a third person and a lot of the time 802 00:53:55.239 --> 00:54:00.440 your character is alone, but it trusts you not to go, not to 803 00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:02.760 have the characters say, oh, I should probably look for an exit. 804 00:54:04.079 --> 00:54:06.880 Oh no, there's wolves. I should probably avoid them. You know, 805 00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:12.199 like it's it's maybe just two different schools of game design, right, And 806 00:54:12.320 --> 00:54:15.079 I guess you know the difference there is the Last of Us is very much 807 00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:19.880 more it's got more open areas, but it's very linear, whereas Horizon is 808 00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:22.360 you know, that big open world. So maybe it's just that. But 809 00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:29.519 yeah, I really really love the List of Us and so a miserable experience, 810 00:54:30.039 --> 00:54:32.840 a very emotional experience, but I think there are moments of levity in 811 00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:37.800 there. I think the I'm not gonna I'm not gonna spoil but everyone else, 812 00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:47.960 the very beautiful mission that makes everyone tear up. I'm just getting emotional. 813 00:54:49.480 --> 00:54:53.480 Oh yeah, of it now, which is like no, o, 814 00:54:53.800 --> 00:54:57.360 can you please send me the fan art? Please please? I would like 815 00:54:57.400 --> 00:54:59.440 to say that, but yeah, the way I kind of look at the 816 00:54:59.480 --> 00:55:02.039 last part, the way I kind of explain it is because I know, 817 00:55:02.199 --> 00:55:06.559 like during the pre pre release period, I know there are so many people 818 00:55:06.599 --> 00:55:08.320 that are like, hey, everything's already depressed in the real world. Do 819 00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:12.239 I want to step into this game? It's gonna be this depressing experience? 820 00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:16.079 And I think the game does a really good job of having like some of 821 00:55:16.119 --> 00:55:21.039 the most dark and grim, like most grim moments I've experienced in a video 822 00:55:21.079 --> 00:55:23.440 game, but also some of the most warm and like you know, personal 823 00:55:23.719 --> 00:55:27.920 and human moments. You know, like there are moments in that game where 824 00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:31.320 you see interactions with Joel and Ellie and these are no spoilers, but like 825 00:55:31.360 --> 00:55:36.039 there's some interactions with Joelanelli that like warmed my heart. There are like some 826 00:55:36.159 --> 00:55:40.000 interactions between even like uh Dina and Ellie or like between quite a few different 827 00:55:40.079 --> 00:55:44.639 characters that like make me go, like, man, this game is this 828 00:55:44.800 --> 00:55:51.440 game is doing in a phenomenal, phenomenal job of displaying humanity and like, 829 00:55:52.039 --> 00:55:55.239 you know, there there was the whole quote towards the release of this game, 830 00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:57.880 right, I think it might have been like a year or so ago 831 00:55:58.119 --> 00:56:00.960 where I think No Drapman was talking about this game and explaining it as being 832 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:04.880 a game about hate, and I think the Lastest Part two is very much 833 00:56:04.880 --> 00:56:07.960 a game about love as much as it is about hate. Also like love, 834 00:56:08.119 --> 00:56:14.760 like love is as much a motivating factor for the characters as hate is. 835 00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:19.800 And yeah, like for me playing through the game, I remember dreading 836 00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:21.840 it. I remember being like, I would like, I would like for 837 00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:24.400 this game not to come out right now, because I just am not in 838 00:56:24.480 --> 00:56:29.639 the mood. I wish that somehow, And this is me speaking early June, 839 00:56:29.719 --> 00:56:30.320 right like, I was like, man, I wish they would have 840 00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:34.880 somehow switched around this game in Ghost Suhima, because Ghost of Sushimi at the 841 00:56:34.920 --> 00:56:36.960 time was a game where I was like, man, I am very much 842 00:56:37.079 --> 00:56:38.679 way more in the mood to play that type of game than to play a 843 00:56:38.719 --> 00:56:42.400 game like the Last Most Part two. And when I was actually playing it 844 00:56:43.320 --> 00:56:46.039 the Lastest Part two, I remember probably be like quite a few hours in 845 00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:52.280 being like man, I am engrossed and I am not having a problem with 846 00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:54.519 this game the way I thought I was gonna have a problem with this game, 847 00:56:54.599 --> 00:56:58.639 Like, this game is doing such an excellent job of feeling like an 848 00:56:58.760 --> 00:57:00.880 escape, Like it's an escap into a world in rim and dark and and 849 00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:06.480 messed up and all these different things, but it still worked and functioned as 850 00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:08.639 an escape because the game is so engrossing and in its story and in this 851 00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:13.199 world and uh and its characters and so I'm with you that like that is 852 00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:16.800 definitely at the top of my my list for games this year, not my 853 00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:24.639 number one. Necessarily it might be of year ends, but hal oh, 854 00:57:24.679 --> 00:57:27.280 I was gonna say, what half for you do? What's in the running 855 00:57:28.199 --> 00:57:30.920 right now? And this could all change, but right now it's Final Fancy 856 00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:37.760 seven remake. I really I love that game, and like I have because 857 00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:42.639 I'm a huge nerd, I have like a running document a Google document of 858 00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:45.639 like all my favorite games of all time, and I will like preface this, 859 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:46.760 you do too, Okay, so I'm not the only one, Thank 860 00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:51.559 god, I will preface this that like as of the day I finish the 861 00:57:51.639 --> 00:57:53.679 lastest part too. I put the lastest part too literally one space right below 862 00:57:53.719 --> 00:58:00.480 Final Fantasy seven Remake, right above last less coincidentally, and so they're very 863 00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:05.199 close and asked me next week it might change. But Final fantas E Remake 864 00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:08.400 was a game for me that that like, I don't know, man, 865 00:58:08.480 --> 00:58:12.760 knock me out. Like I was not expecting to love that game as much 866 00:58:12.760 --> 00:58:15.480 as I did. Because I did not play the original Final Fantasy seven. 867 00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:17.960 I have no affinity for Final Fantasy in general. Like I kind of have 868 00:58:19.039 --> 00:58:21.760 this running thing where I am not able to get into Final Fantasy games. 869 00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:23.760 You know, I've tried playing the original. I've tried playing Final Fantasy thirteen, 870 00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:25.920 which I know is the wrong one to try and play according to many 871 00:58:25.960 --> 00:58:30.280 people. And like I also tried playing Final Fantasy fourteen, which is a 872 00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:34.760 different thing. But like I've tried getting into Final fantasies in the past, 873 00:58:34.800 --> 00:58:37.280 like even Kingdom Hearts, you know, which, which are games that I 874 00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:42.480 like, I've never really fallen in love with those types of fantasy games, 875 00:58:42.800 --> 00:58:47.400 Fantasy JRPGs and Final Fantasy seven remake. Playing it, I was like, 876 00:58:47.519 --> 00:58:53.880 man, I don't it's this combination of the world because it is this fantasy 877 00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:59.840 sci fi meld cyberpunk, like this melted, this melted different, you know, 878 00:59:00.360 --> 00:59:05.119 types of types of I guess sci fi fantasy that they present to you. 879 00:59:05.480 --> 00:59:12.239 It's that plus the characters that are feel so real despite being so anime 880 00:59:12.480 --> 00:59:16.880 and so like over the top. Barrett's speech toward the beginning and even multiple 881 00:59:16.920 --> 00:59:20.840 speeches that he gives throughout the game, as far as him being like, 882 00:59:21.440 --> 00:59:25.280 hey, like you know, Maco is the lifeblood of our world and him 883 00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:29.880 like kind of going on the spiel of why they're eco terrorists and why they're 884 00:59:29.920 --> 00:59:31.840 doing what they're doing, Like I like, I felt that, And I 885 00:59:31.880 --> 00:59:35.880 felt that not only in the writing, but in the performance and in the 886 00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:38.800 face in the facial capture and maybe not facial capture, but in the animation, 887 00:59:39.719 --> 00:59:45.519 Like I felt that all there story moments that happen, Like I don't 888 00:59:45.559 --> 00:59:49.559 really want to point out any of the ones I'm thinking of because of spoilers, 889 00:59:49.599 --> 00:59:52.199 but there are big story moments that happened that for me, I found 890 00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:59.159 really touching and really at times heartbreaking, and like, I don't know, 891 00:59:59.199 --> 01:00:01.360 there's something about that game that felt like magic as I was playing through it, 892 01:00:01.519 --> 01:00:06.320 Like something about it felt like almost it almost felt like a Disney Pixar 893 01:00:06.440 --> 01:00:09.039 ish, Like I can't believe y'all put this pulled this off with such quality 894 01:00:09.320 --> 01:00:14.599 and made me invested in the story in a way that this feels to me. 895 01:00:14.920 --> 01:00:17.440 This five PHAs and seven remake made me feel the way I felt playing 896 01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:22.440 The Last Us on PS three and twenty thirteen, in a way where I 897 01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:24.360 was like, this feels like it's an iconic story that's gonna like sit with 898 01:00:24.440 --> 01:00:30.119 me forever. I and I love the battle system, so I've only played, 899 01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:34.599 like I only really played Final Fantasy fifteen before Stefan, and I think 900 01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:37.159 the thing that stuck out most to me with remake was just how confident it 901 01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:43.079 was compared to fifteen, Like fifteen was like I enjoyed that game for what 902 01:00:43.480 --> 01:00:45.519 it was, but it was it was kind of a mess. Like there 903 01:00:45.639 --> 01:00:52.519 was like it's a kind of interesting open world decisions and like the combat was 904 01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:54.840 kind of okay, but it like it worked, but it wasn't. I 905 01:00:54.840 --> 01:01:00.119 don't know, it was lacking that punch and like right from the beginning of 906 01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:02.360 seven, even though I don't think I liked it as much as you did, 907 01:01:02.920 --> 01:01:07.280 Like there, it's just it's so hard to put down because of that 908 01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:10.159 confidence in the way it just like puts you right in it and you start 909 01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:14.519 going and the combat feels so good and it looks so good, and the 910 01:01:14.679 --> 01:01:19.159 music is incredible music. All that comes together, like it really, it's 911 01:01:19.480 --> 01:01:23.039 it's so hard to just I don't know, Like that's all I was doing 912 01:01:23.159 --> 01:01:27.079 for like three or four days. I was just playing that game. Yeah. 913 01:01:27.559 --> 01:01:30.039 And the way I compare it, because the Found Fantas seven Remake versus 914 01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:34.079 The Lastest conversation is so hard for me because they're two completely different games, 915 01:01:34.440 --> 01:01:37.559 completely different things. It's hard to really compare them head on. But by 916 01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:40.880 the time I finished Found Fantasy seven Remake and I was what thirty five thirty 917 01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:44.719 six hours in, I did not want it to stop. I wanted the 918 01:01:44.719 --> 01:01:47.119 game to keep ongoing. I like, I finished the game and immediately started 919 01:01:47.159 --> 01:01:51.239 a new game. I wanted it to last forever. Whereas with The Lastest 920 01:01:51.239 --> 01:01:52.800 Part two, by the time I got towards the end of the game, 921 01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:54.119 I was like, I'm ready for this bend and it kept going and I 922 01:01:54.280 --> 01:01:58.039 was like, please stop, I can't take this anymore. Please, And 923 01:01:58.159 --> 01:02:00.800 like, I'll still love the Lastest Part too, And I think like the 924 01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:06.440 way in which it kind of stretched served the story, even though I felt 925 01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:08.880 like you kind of did a disservice to some of the gameplay. Like overall, 926 01:02:09.280 --> 01:02:13.920 like I came out of those two experiences feeling such a love for Final 927 01:02:13.960 --> 01:02:19.440 fans in Steven remake and more so like of a fascination and appreciation for the 928 01:02:19.519 --> 01:02:22.880 Last's part too. Yeah, I think for me, like you've pretty much 929 01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:25.119 hit the nail on the head there, Like Last of Us two storytelling is 930 01:02:25.159 --> 01:02:31.559 so sophisticated and like it's it's I think it's it's one of the crowning achievements 931 01:02:31.599 --> 01:02:36.639 of narrative within video games. I feel like, and I say that as 932 01:02:36.679 --> 01:02:40.880 someone who I think in other ways, I don't think it's that all that 933 01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:45.559 great. I found the combat to be good for a while, but then 934 01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:50.199 very quickly became grating and felt like a chore. And I get that there's 935 01:02:50.360 --> 01:02:55.559 narrative and almost like thematic reasoning for some of that, but it's hard to 936 01:02:55.639 --> 01:03:00.159 get over the fact that you're not having a good time to to you know, 937 01:03:00.679 --> 01:03:04.679 appreciate the Oh, it has itselves a purpose and you know, the 938 01:03:04.760 --> 01:03:08.199 monotony of all this is kind of part of its feeling, But there's still 939 01:03:08.280 --> 01:03:13.679 the what it does with its kind of characterization and the themes. The more 940 01:03:13.719 --> 01:03:15.000 It's one of those games where the more you think about it, the more 941 01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:20.000 you can continue to find new things about it. Like you talked about drug 942 01:03:20.079 --> 01:03:22.800 men saying it being a game about hate, and then you talked about saying, 943 01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:25.119 oh, for you, it's a game about love. For me, 944 01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:29.559 I took I walked away with it thinking that this is a game about forgiveness 945 01:03:30.159 --> 01:03:34.119 and and not either of those two things. And like that's something I've been 946 01:03:34.159 --> 01:03:39.480 thinking about for ages, like I've been writing and deleting and writing and deleting 947 01:03:39.559 --> 01:03:44.920 again, over and over various kind of like takes on what it means. 948 01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:50.119 And there's no other game this year that has, you know, is living 949 01:03:50.199 --> 01:03:52.280 in my mind rent free in the way that it is, like it's it's 950 01:03:52.519 --> 01:03:55.360 I think about when I'm like sitting down in a moment, I'll open my 951 01:03:55.480 --> 01:03:59.599 notes AAP and write some thoughts about it and send it to some friends and 952 01:03:59.679 --> 01:04:01.599 see what they think about it, and that kind of stuff. Having said 953 01:04:01.639 --> 01:04:05.440 that, Final Fantasy is a game that, like you said, when I 954 01:04:05.559 --> 01:04:11.320 finished playing, I felt good, I felt like I had a had I 955 01:04:11.400 --> 01:04:15.960 felt uplifted, even though the way it ends is not specifically that's not what 956 01:04:16.079 --> 01:04:18.559 they want you to feel is an element of it, but it just felt 957 01:04:18.639 --> 01:04:24.960 like a good life affirming or gamer affirming experience, if you know what I'm 958 01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:28.920 saying, Like you walk away from that being like you walk in from Last 959 01:04:29.039 --> 01:04:32.320 Us being like, this is the power of video games. You walk away 960 01:04:32.320 --> 01:04:36.280 from Final Fantasy thinking this is why I play video games, This is why 961 01:04:36.639 --> 01:04:40.599 I enjoy video games. This is what I want video games to make me 962 01:04:40.760 --> 01:04:44.639 feel. If every game could make me feel like this game, it would 963 01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:49.079 be incredible. And like I get the same feeling as that. I get 964 01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:53.480 that same feeling from Persona five Royal, which came out this year. Yep, 965 01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:58.519 and it's that. I think those three games are currently leading the pack 966 01:04:58.639 --> 01:05:00.599 for me as my favorite game games of the year. I'm not ready to 967 01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:05.079 entertain and entertain the game of the year discussion because there's still lots of games 968 01:05:05.119 --> 01:05:11.559 coming out, and I feel like game of the year discussions frame the the 969 01:05:11.960 --> 01:05:14.599 the actual discussion itself in a different way, like you know, what's your 970 01:05:14.599 --> 01:05:16.519 favorite game versus what's the most impactful, what's the most important, etcetera, 971 01:05:16.559 --> 01:05:20.239 etcetera. I'm just I do not have the energy to start on picking those 972 01:05:20.280 --> 01:05:26.039 elements of it. But I think Last of Us is a profound experience and 973 01:05:26.199 --> 01:05:30.760 easily one of the best games of the year so far. The same for 974 01:05:30.639 --> 01:05:35.239 Final Fantasy and same for Persona five Royal. The stuff that they do in 975 01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:42.320 Persona five is just fantastic. Like the way obviously we're on record as being 976 01:05:42.400 --> 01:05:47.599 the very Persona friendly podcast. We all have people that love it on our 977 01:05:47.960 --> 01:05:53.559 on our team, and then you know, blessings here and blessings noted Persona 978 01:05:53.639 --> 01:06:00.800 five fans. This is this is this is a crew of noted Persona likes. 979 01:06:01.920 --> 01:06:05.559 So like Persona five is already a special game to many of us, 980 01:06:05.639 --> 01:06:09.039 but the fact that they did what they did to that game to make it 981 01:06:09.159 --> 01:06:13.079 even better, it's kind of astounding. It's unreal how good that game is. 982 01:06:14.039 --> 01:06:17.119 Like we would have we gave it a pretty high score and speak effusively 983 01:06:17.159 --> 01:06:19.360 about it. But if you have told me, like a few years ago, 984 01:06:19.679 --> 01:06:24.159 they're gonna make this game even better, I would not have believed it. 985 01:06:24.320 --> 01:06:26.440 Well, like, that's the thing they do. That's that's the thing 986 01:06:26.480 --> 01:06:30.599 for me where Persona five Original I played in twenty seventeen, and for me 987 01:06:30.760 --> 01:06:35.880 as somebody who played Persona four Golden in like I think twenty fifteen twenty sixteen 988 01:06:35.920 --> 01:06:39.280 for the first time and absolutely fell in love with it so much so they 989 01:06:39.360 --> 01:06:42.599 became one of my favorite games of all time. I played Persona five, 990 01:06:43.159 --> 01:06:46.280 and I had so many complaints with it, I like, and part of 991 01:06:46.320 --> 01:06:49.400 it was just the fact that, like Persona four Golden, being my first 992 01:06:49.440 --> 01:06:53.480 Persona, I just love the characters more. I love the story in Persona 993 01:06:53.519 --> 01:06:55.800 four more, like I like the soundtrack and Persona four more. And I 994 01:06:55.880 --> 01:06:59.480 know that's like probably a controversial thing to say, but Persona four just did 995 01:06:59.519 --> 01:07:01.639 it for me all in all these different ways. In Persona five, like 996 01:07:01.719 --> 01:07:04.119 I had complaints with like yeah, no, no, no, man, 997 01:07:04.159 --> 01:07:08.559 the characters don't seem like deeper interesting enough. I don't know, man. 998 01:07:08.679 --> 01:07:12.800 Like the dungeons are cool visually, but I have some problem with some of 999 01:07:12.800 --> 01:07:15.159 the dungeon design and some of the combat, and like, I don't know 1000 01:07:15.239 --> 01:07:16.880 how I feel about the balancing of the battle system and all this stuff, 1001 01:07:17.199 --> 01:07:21.119 all the stuff I had complaints with. Jumping into Persona five Royal some and 1002 01:07:21.239 --> 01:07:25.079 I don't know how, but somehow it fixed everything in a way where now 1003 01:07:25.079 --> 01:07:27.480 I'm like, oh, yeah, Persona five rolls now one of my favorite 1004 01:07:27.480 --> 01:07:30.480 games of all time too, Like it's it's it's crazy right, Like with 1005 01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:35.639 just the small things they've added as far as features into the dungeons and the 1006 01:07:35.719 --> 01:07:40.360 battle system, that stuff builds in a way that now makes it flow so 1007 01:07:40.559 --> 01:07:44.360 well for me, like the fact that mixing sp has done oh my god, 1008 01:07:44.599 --> 01:07:50.000 so much, Like it's so huge. Yeah, like that combat was 1009 01:07:50.079 --> 01:07:56.199 already pretty sick. Now it just absolutely sings. Like there's times there's times 1010 01:07:56.280 --> 01:08:00.519 where I'll do a standard enemy and count and didn't save the encounter because of 1011 01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:05.480 how slickly it went, like just the baton pass, the exploiting weakness, 1012 01:08:05.599 --> 01:08:10.079 the rush, all that kind of stuff. It's just like it's the most 1013 01:08:10.199 --> 01:08:15.800 I think it's probably my favorite RPG turn based RPG mechanic system all the time. 1014 01:08:15.960 --> 01:08:18.960 Like it feels so good. And there's others as well that are amazing, 1015 01:08:19.159 --> 01:08:23.640 you know, funnal fansy vagrant story of that kind of stuff, but 1016 01:08:23.680 --> 01:08:27.680 this one is just like top to bottom, it's just buttery, smooth and 1017 01:08:27.880 --> 01:08:31.319 so cool to watch. Incredible game and like, yeah, the new content 1018 01:08:31.399 --> 01:08:35.079 they've added, as well as the quality of life stuff that all being amazing. 1019 01:08:35.159 --> 01:08:41.399 But the new content they added is like considered really well thought out and 1020 01:08:42.039 --> 01:08:46.560 addresses things that were missing from the previous game, like the mental health angle 1021 01:08:46.760 --> 01:08:49.239 is a big part of that, right, Like that was something that people 1022 01:08:49.319 --> 01:08:53.840 came away and were like, it doesn't really explore the impact of that and 1023 01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:57.479 how they deal with that at all. And then they went away and did 1024 01:08:57.560 --> 01:09:00.119 that, which is unexpected because you don't get a lot of these types of 1025 01:09:00.239 --> 01:09:03.600 games doing exploring the angle of I mean, mental health is a big part 1026 01:09:03.640 --> 01:09:08.960 of the Persona and Shimmagami tense series as a whole, but I didn't expect 1027 01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:14.560 them to go back and retrofit it with this much amount of content and address 1028 01:09:14.600 --> 01:09:16.039 that kind of stuff and speak to it. It's just so well done, 1029 01:09:16.039 --> 01:09:19.840 and then there's a new character and all that kind of business. It's just 1030 01:09:19.920 --> 01:09:25.920 like an amazing package for anyone who plays RPGs. I went from someone who 1031 01:09:26.640 --> 01:09:28.600 was not going to play for Soda five Royal because it was like, I 1032 01:09:28.640 --> 01:09:30.000 don't know if I've got the time to dedicate, And then a couple weeks 1033 01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:34.000 ago I bought it on PlayStation. I bought it on the PlayStation Store. 1034 01:09:34.640 --> 01:09:39.239 So I think eventually I'm gonna end up replaying that, hopefully this year, 1035 01:09:40.039 --> 01:09:44.439 just because like I don't know what I was expecting. Like I figured, 1036 01:09:44.560 --> 01:09:45.720 like I knew there'd be a new character. I knew there'd be some more 1037 01:09:45.800 --> 01:09:50.119 story stuff, but I didn't think I would get the urge to play one 1038 01:09:50.199 --> 01:09:54.920 hundred and fifty hour RPG, I mean one hundred and ten hour RPG. 1039 01:09:55.039 --> 01:09:56.640 I don't know. I guess I think it took me like one hundred and 1040 01:09:56.640 --> 01:10:00.159 ten hours. But like hearing everyone talk about it and stuff like that, 1041 01:10:00.479 --> 01:10:05.239 it sounds like it makes some significant, meaningful additions that make me excited to 1042 01:10:05.399 --> 01:10:08.439 jump back into that. Some of them, I like. The interesting thing 1043 01:10:08.479 --> 01:10:11.399 is by some of them, like it took me a while to realize they 1044 01:10:11.439 --> 01:10:15.560 were actually there, because yeah, some of them are like just slight tweaks 1045 01:10:15.600 --> 01:10:18.960 that improve the experience so much that it's almost like they work because you can't 1046 01:10:19.000 --> 01:10:25.840 tell anything more than a new feature. And so like streamline days too, 1047 01:10:26.119 --> 01:10:29.880 like it'll just be like days where God, normally you wouldn't do anything. 1048 01:10:29.960 --> 01:10:30.760 It's just like, all right, we're just gonna jump to the next day. 1049 01:10:33.079 --> 01:10:34.640 Yeah, yeah, that's the thing. You can go out at night, 1050 01:10:34.680 --> 01:10:40.000 and now they've made it so that within your home you can basically do 1051 01:10:40.239 --> 01:10:44.880 do a thing that'll add to your overall like social stats and so like if 1052 01:10:44.920 --> 01:10:47.960 you want, you can raise your your confidence level or your whatever level by 1053 01:10:48.119 --> 01:10:53.279 like doing something that in your in your own home, which was missing from 1054 01:10:53.319 --> 01:10:56.039 the first game and which like makes you feel like you're not wasting time. 1055 01:10:56.039 --> 01:11:00.319 And also you can press the touch pad and that'll then make it so that 1056 01:11:00.359 --> 01:11:02.920 you can it'll then have like automatic suggestions for things you can do. It 1057 01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:06.399 will like essentially teleport you to those things too, which will which streams like 1058 01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:13.319 streamlines it a great amount. That's that's one of those games where you enter 1059 01:11:13.479 --> 01:11:15.319 that flow state or the whatever you want to call it, almost like a 1060 01:11:15.359 --> 01:11:20.439 slipstream of gaming where if you want to tune the world out and just get 1061 01:11:20.520 --> 01:11:25.840 absorbed in the game. The rhythm of Persona five and Persona five Royal more 1062 01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:30.520 specifically is just so like the momentum picks up and then pulls you forward with 1063 01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:32.960 it's so good that you just forget the world exists around you, like more 1064 01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:36.880 so than any other game. You're just so engrossed in it. But yeah, 1065 01:11:38.000 --> 01:11:41.319 I think those three games, Last of Us, Frontal Fantasy seven remake, 1066 01:11:41.399 --> 01:11:44.239 and Persona five are leading the pack. But I do have a list 1067 01:11:44.279 --> 01:11:45.439 of games in front of me if you want me to shout them out, 1068 01:11:45.479 --> 01:11:48.800 and sure, yeah, one came out this year that we forgot about. 1069 01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:51.479 So there's a game that I do want to give a shout out to which 1070 01:11:51.520 --> 01:11:55.279 I've played a ton of in a game that I thought I was done with 1071 01:11:55.359 --> 01:11:58.399 but I've been playing it again. Is Animal Crossing New Horizons. Oh my 1072 01:11:58.479 --> 01:12:00.680 god, that was this year. That was this year. Oh yeah, 1073 01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:04.640 that is a game that I have spent I think like two hundred and fifty 1074 01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:08.800 hours. It's Shane Kelly's not on today because she would she would be the 1075 01:12:08.880 --> 01:12:11.880 one championing this game for sure. But that's a game that I do want 1076 01:12:11.880 --> 01:12:15.880 to give a shout out to because, like a it was such a phenomenon. 1077 01:12:15.960 --> 01:12:19.840 It still is. Like the amount of people who are so invested in 1078 01:12:19.960 --> 01:12:24.680 this game was absurd. Like I'm I know, Nintendo, I'm sure Nintendo 1079 01:12:24.720 --> 01:12:28.399 knew was going to be a success, but like probably not to this extent. 1080 01:12:28.479 --> 01:12:30.960 I don't know how they could have predicted. Like you know, Gary 1081 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:33.319 woitdis talk show which ended up being huge and getting all these celebrities on it, 1082 01:12:33.640 --> 01:12:36.960 Sing Sting was on it. Yeah, Danny Trejo was on it, 1083 01:12:38.159 --> 01:12:43.119 like a recurrent character on it, Yeah, recurring guest, which is which 1084 01:12:43.159 --> 01:12:46.439 is insane, but like even beyond that too, like so many people have 1085 01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:49.399 gotten a switch just for this game, and it is connected with so many 1086 01:12:49.399 --> 01:12:53.960 people who normally wouldn't play games or be interested in and like, but it's 1087 01:12:53.960 --> 01:12:57.439 also connected with someone like me who I've been a fan of all the Animal 1088 01:12:57.479 --> 01:13:00.800 Crossing games. I've played them all, at least all the mainline ones, 1089 01:13:00.359 --> 01:13:05.399 but like this one, it just seems to work so well with how they're 1090 01:13:05.520 --> 01:13:10.800 implementing updates with seasons, Like it seems like a big thing that was missing 1091 01:13:10.840 --> 01:13:15.039 from Animal Crossing and all the previous games, like is now there because of 1092 01:13:15.159 --> 01:13:19.159 this whole Like what are they called lifestyle games where they update as they go 1093 01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:24.840 or live service games, And I feel like just the Animal Crossing formula has 1094 01:13:24.920 --> 01:13:29.319 been perfected. I mean if there even was an Animal Crossing formula, and 1095 01:13:29.439 --> 01:13:30.560 that's a game that you know, like I said, I thought I was 1096 01:13:30.600 --> 01:13:34.680 done with, but I am still playing every single day, even if it's 1097 01:13:34.720 --> 01:13:38.960 just for a couple of minutes, and like it always I don't know, 1098 01:13:39.119 --> 01:13:43.520 like Tomorrow was saying how Final Fantasy made him feel really good and like it 1099 01:13:43.680 --> 01:13:45.039 was a game that made you feel great. And I feel the same way 1100 01:13:45.039 --> 01:13:48.600 about Animal Crossing and that, like even if I play like twenty minutes or 1101 01:13:48.680 --> 01:13:51.560 so, usually I'm walking away in a good mood because I don't know. 1102 01:13:51.680 --> 01:13:56.479 I chatted with one of my villagers where I caught a fish that I've been 1103 01:13:56.479 --> 01:14:00.439 trying to catch for a while, and the writing is super clever and fun, 1104 01:14:00.560 --> 01:14:05.560 Like I got so many good things to say about that game, glad 1105 01:14:05.640 --> 01:14:10.680 to hear it. Let me tell you about a game called Predator Hunting Grounds, 1106 01:14:10.720 --> 01:14:13.840 which I know all you guys are. I know all you guys are 1107 01:14:13.880 --> 01:14:18.039 too cowardly to shout it out. I've played that many times. I've I've 1108 01:14:18.119 --> 01:14:24.880 also fought through motion sickness to play that with Greg and you guys, I 1109 01:14:24.920 --> 01:14:28.319 don't know how you guys get motion sick playing this game. The frame rate 1110 01:14:28.439 --> 01:14:32.880 is and like there's a way that it moves, like there's the there's a 1111 01:14:32.960 --> 01:14:36.800 slight disconnect between what you're doing and on the controller and the way it moves 1112 01:14:36.840 --> 01:14:40.279 that it just makes you yeah, yeah, there is, Yeah, there 1113 01:14:40.359 --> 01:14:45.520 is when he prays that a button man the slide and that kind of stuff. 1114 01:14:45.560 --> 01:14:46.680 It's just like, oh, it's so, it's so, it's so, 1115 01:14:47.199 --> 01:14:50.520 but I love it. It's so yank. I really enjoyed. I 1116 01:14:50.560 --> 01:14:55.319 will say I re enjoyed when we played the beta and a lot of fun 1117 01:14:55.359 --> 01:14:58.399 with it, and it was really yanky. But then I played it when 1118 01:14:58.439 --> 01:15:01.479 it came out and it was just like it was the motion sickness that did 1119 01:15:01.520 --> 01:15:04.199 it for me. Like I just I physically can't play it, which sucks. 1120 01:15:04.239 --> 01:15:09.600 And I don't know what change between Peter and final release, and maybe 1121 01:15:09.640 --> 01:15:13.920 they've fixed it now, but I had such a bad time that that, 1122 01:15:14.159 --> 01:15:16.920 like just after launch and we all played together, that I had to lie 1123 01:15:17.000 --> 01:15:20.600 down for the whole afternoon and just like not look at stuff. They haven't 1124 01:15:20.640 --> 01:15:24.560 fixed that. And on the day that it came out, I got it 1125 01:15:24.640 --> 01:15:27.640 and installed it and I got a bug. The bug was, you know 1126 01:15:27.680 --> 01:15:31.840 on this main screen where it shows you your Predator, that none of none 1127 01:15:31.880 --> 01:15:35.880 of that, none of that was textured for me. So it was just 1128 01:15:35.960 --> 01:15:41.680 a bunch of triangles that look vaguely like the Predator. So it looks awful, 1129 01:15:41.720 --> 01:15:44.359 and it doesn't have any hands, it doesn't have a head. It's 1130 01:15:44.479 --> 01:15:48.720 just like parts of its body floating there. It's one of your favorite games, 1131 01:15:48.760 --> 01:15:53.399 though, Blessing, I don't it to this day. If I load 1132 01:15:53.439 --> 01:15:57.960 the game up, it is still like that, that is permanently my version 1133 01:15:58.000 --> 01:16:00.319 of Predator now on the screen, and like I'm just like, oh god, 1134 01:16:00.600 --> 01:16:04.479 And that's like I enjoy playing that game with you guys, specifically, 1135 01:16:05.239 --> 01:16:10.279 especially with like you know, when You're on and Greg's on and Andy's on, 1136 01:16:10.560 --> 01:16:15.239 and like other folks are jumping in and Nixon. That's fun. That's 1137 01:16:15.319 --> 01:16:19.479 fun to play, and it makes it worth feeling sick to play it. 1138 01:16:19.880 --> 01:16:25.319 But if well, I will never of my own volition go and fire up 1139 01:16:25.359 --> 01:16:29.119 some Predator. Well, And that's actually where I'm at with it too. 1140 01:16:29.199 --> 01:16:30.239 Like I don't think it's one of the best games of twenty twenty by any 1141 01:16:30.279 --> 01:16:34.920 stretch, but it is a game that camound twenty twenty. I will say 1142 01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:40.279 that if I was making a list that was top ten games of twenty twenty 1143 01:16:40.399 --> 01:16:43.479 that I've had the most fun with, I could see it possibly making that 1144 01:16:43.560 --> 01:16:45.359 list. Like it is. It is a good time, especially with friends 1145 01:16:46.159 --> 01:16:48.640 to play with. But yeah, no, I just want to give it 1146 01:16:48.680 --> 01:16:53.760 a shout out as a game make on twenty twenty. If it's okay with 1147 01:16:53.840 --> 01:16:57.279 you, Jake podcast master, host master. I'll shout out some games that 1148 01:16:57.319 --> 01:17:00.399 I've got on a list. Yeah, read them people can. So we've 1149 01:17:00.479 --> 01:17:02.479 done a feature I think it should be up fairly soon or is up, 1150 01:17:02.520 --> 01:17:06.640 which is basically the best games of the twenty twenty so far, And as 1151 01:17:06.680 --> 01:17:10.680 part of that, we kind of put a bunch of games into a spreadsheet. 1152 01:17:10.680 --> 01:17:14.560 So I'm going to read them out and do more more quickly. Maternal 1153 01:17:14.640 --> 01:17:15.399 is on that. That was the first one I was going to say. 1154 01:17:15.600 --> 01:17:17.640 I figured that would be on there, and I want to make sure we 1155 01:17:18.239 --> 01:17:21.239 get to it before. How do you I feel about the conversation around the 1156 01:17:21.319 --> 01:17:26.039 Maternal because I feel like that's a game that everybody expected to come out and 1157 01:17:26.520 --> 01:17:28.880 blow us all away, and then it came out and I think it blew 1158 01:17:28.960 --> 01:17:30.880 us all away. But the ways, well, we talked about it since 1159 01:17:31.319 --> 01:17:34.079 I bounced off that game too, like it felt like it was trying to 1160 01:17:34.159 --> 01:17:39.359 do too much. I went in there. Maybe it's my own fault for 1161 01:17:39.520 --> 01:17:43.359 expecting more of the same, but I wanted I wanted like a slick, 1162 01:17:43.520 --> 01:17:48.319 focused, fast paced shooter that I could play and like almost barrel through and 1163 01:17:48.399 --> 01:17:51.920 get just get like the satisfaction out of and it's doing the thing where it's 1164 01:17:53.039 --> 01:17:56.920 like go to the ship and go back, and these open issue environments that 1165 01:17:57.000 --> 01:17:59.520 you have to platform around. I'm just like, I'm not here for that. 1166 01:17:59.600 --> 01:18:04.000 I just want I just want the ish treading metal music and jumping around, 1167 01:18:04.079 --> 01:18:09.039 firing rockets and shooting guns. And it felt like it over complicated itself, 1168 01:18:09.199 --> 01:18:11.600 like it had a good thing going, and there was like tried to 1169 01:18:11.640 --> 01:18:14.119 be too smart. I was like, and then you add disability, and 1170 01:18:14.159 --> 01:18:16.520 that ability, it's like I don't need it. And also it came out 1171 01:18:16.560 --> 01:18:20.279 the same day as Animal Crossing, which yeah, you know, completely dominated 1172 01:18:20.279 --> 01:18:26.399 the conversation. Yeah, also also another game that's got like motion sickness vibes 1173 01:18:26.439 --> 01:18:29.000 to it. Well, no, they fixed they fixed it for Eternal. 1174 01:18:29.079 --> 01:18:32.359 They actually put especially on the console version, they've added a bunch of more 1175 01:18:32.399 --> 01:18:39.279 accessibility options and you can because I couldn't do Doom twenty sixteen, but Eternal 1176 01:18:39.359 --> 01:18:43.880 I could play. Yeah, so I never messed with the console accessibilities. 1177 01:18:43.920 --> 01:18:45.680 It's this game I want to go back to because I do enjoy playing it. 1178 01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:50.640 Also, it's an amazing case the use case for the Xbox Elite controller 1179 01:18:51.079 --> 01:18:55.239 because oh yeah, you just press all the things and you're doing all the 1180 01:18:55.279 --> 01:18:59.279 things out on the screen, So like I want to use it more for 1181 01:18:59.399 --> 01:19:01.760 that. But yeah, it kind of like came and went really quickly. 1182 01:19:02.319 --> 01:19:05.000 If I if I, if I had one complay with Eternal, it would 1183 01:19:05.000 --> 01:19:10.159 have been the fact that I feel like the game moves faster than like both 1184 01:19:10.279 --> 01:19:13.680 I can handle, and both like the design of the game could handle. 1185 01:19:13.720 --> 01:19:15.319 Because at a certain point, especially towards the end of the game, I 1186 01:19:15.359 --> 01:19:18.680 feel like there's so many enemies I did through through in there with you, 1187 01:19:19.680 --> 01:19:24.520 and especially the marauder. I think it was is the guy that like make 1188 01:19:24.600 --> 01:19:28.239 sure the mad Yeah, that dude was doing way too much. But yeah, 1189 01:19:28.239 --> 01:19:30.279 they would like throw marauders at you. They throw like a bunch of 1190 01:19:30.279 --> 01:19:32.159 different people while the marauders there, And like at a certain point, I 1191 01:19:32.319 --> 01:19:36.000 was like, man, this is going way too fast, Like I cannot 1192 01:19:36.079 --> 01:19:39.520 keep up there. There are too many enemies on screen. There's too much 1193 01:19:39.520 --> 01:19:43.640 happening. That said, I I had an absolute blast with it. Like 1194 01:19:44.319 --> 01:19:47.720 you know, Dune twenty sixteen is one of my favorite, if not my 1195 01:19:47.880 --> 01:19:54.199 favorite first person shooter of this generation, and like I mean that's for I 1196 01:19:54.239 --> 01:19:57.880 think obvious reasons. Right, Like it came out and it it reinvented Doom. 1197 01:19:57.960 --> 01:20:01.359 It was super smooth, super focusing, straightforward in terms of what it 1198 01:20:01.439 --> 01:20:08.079 came out to be and do do. Doom Eternal felt like it saw Dune 1199 01:20:08.079 --> 01:20:11.000 twenty sixteen and was like, all right, let's do that. Let's do 1200 01:20:11.119 --> 01:20:13.560 that. Less up the anty and the ways in which it uped the ante 1201 01:20:13.720 --> 01:20:17.800 might have they might have they might have up it too much down a bit. 1202 01:20:18.319 --> 01:20:20.319 Yeah, That's why I'm like, man, I because I love to 1203 01:20:20.399 --> 01:20:24.399 Eternal, But if they're gonna make another Doom, I would like them to 1204 01:20:24.439 --> 01:20:27.039 be like, all right, let's let's turn it down a little bit, 1205 01:20:27.119 --> 01:20:29.600 let's take a step back. Let's uh, let's go back, relax, 1206 01:20:30.000 --> 01:20:33.840 let's relax and maybe like get more linear. I don't know, I think 1207 01:20:33.840 --> 01:20:36.680 I'm with you there because as much as I did like that game, uh, 1208 01:20:38.359 --> 01:20:41.359 and it'll I mean, I imagine if it is on my top ten, 1209 01:20:41.439 --> 01:20:44.880 it might be on the lower end of it. But like, that 1210 01:20:45.079 --> 01:20:47.960 is a game that it I feel like it demands a lot of you, 1211 01:20:48.840 --> 01:20:51.479 which isn't a bad thing. Like that's probably one of my favorite things about 1212 01:20:51.520 --> 01:20:55.640 it. But like I couldn't just binge that game, like I couldn't just 1213 01:20:55.680 --> 01:20:58.239 sit down and play through it. I'd have to take breaks. And the 1214 01:20:58.359 --> 01:21:00.439 problem with that was that, like as you get further, the more it 1215 01:21:00.560 --> 01:21:03.880 throws at you. Then it's like trying to remember how you deal with every 1216 01:21:04.000 --> 01:21:08.880 enemy type, mostly the marauder, because the Marauder, your strategy is completely 1217 01:21:08.960 --> 01:21:12.560 different, and like, I don't know, I imagine i'd be curious to 1218 01:21:12.560 --> 01:21:15.279 hear your experience is like two more going back to it after not playing it 1219 01:21:15.319 --> 01:21:17.720 for a while, because I feel like that might be not fun. My 1220 01:21:17.840 --> 01:21:21.880 plan is to once I get my new PC play on that and oh yeah, 1221 01:21:21.920 --> 01:21:28.399 that'll problem because I'm way more comfortable with mouse and keyboards with shooters, 1222 01:21:28.439 --> 01:21:31.399 and also specifically that game because like the flick of the risks that you need 1223 01:21:31.479 --> 01:21:35.800 to to move around and you know, react to what's happening around you is 1224 01:21:35.880 --> 01:21:40.239 so demanding and I just can't get it on a controller. There is a 1225 01:21:40.279 --> 01:21:44.279 flow state that you can enter playing that game. Absolutely, it is that 1226 01:21:44.439 --> 01:21:47.439 type of game where once you get into it, like for me, I 1227 01:21:47.520 --> 01:21:50.159 felt like I was entering a new dimension, which I think is the magical 1228 01:21:50.199 --> 01:21:54.399 thing about Doom Eternal is that it kind of transports you into that world and 1229 01:21:54.479 --> 01:21:59.560 you feel like you're like you are uh, what's his name, doom Guy, 1230 01:21:59.640 --> 01:22:01.479 doom Layer, Like you feel like you are him, you are embodying 1231 01:22:01.560 --> 01:22:03.840 him, and you're fucking going a million miles per hour and like yeah, 1232 01:22:04.520 --> 01:22:09.720 and when it does that, it is a blast, And like, I 1233 01:22:10.119 --> 01:22:14.760 like that's honestly, I don't really have like any heavy complaints with the game. 1234 01:22:14.840 --> 01:22:18.640 Like I think the game is overall fantastic, but like it's not that 1235 01:22:18.840 --> 01:22:23.319 much more fantastic than doing twenty sixteen is. And I think that's kind of 1236 01:22:23.319 --> 01:22:26.079 where as far as like the best games of twenty twenty go, that's kind 1237 01:22:26.079 --> 01:22:28.279 of where the conversation kind of ends with it. It's like, yes, 1238 01:22:28.279 --> 01:22:31.239 it's another one of those have you this is a bit of a tangent, 1239 01:22:31.319 --> 01:22:40.439 but have you guys watched any clips of when Joe Rogan interviews Hugo Martin? 1240 01:22:41.600 --> 01:22:46.479 No, No, painful? It is absolutely painful. What because he got 1241 01:22:46.600 --> 01:22:49.920 him on the show for some reason? Like I was curious because I was 1242 01:22:50.000 --> 01:22:56.000 like, why is Hugo Martin on Joe Rogan? So I like clicked and 1243 01:22:56.079 --> 01:22:58.560 watched a little bit of it. But it is absolutely painful. I'm sure 1244 01:22:58.600 --> 01:23:01.720 I'll get hate from people who listen to this because people love Joe Rogan, 1245 01:23:02.039 --> 01:23:08.039 but like it is so hard to watch. Most of the interview is is 1246 01:23:08.119 --> 01:23:10.720 Joe Rogan being like, but why is why isn't there like multiplayer? Why 1247 01:23:10.760 --> 01:23:13.760 can't we like one V won each other? And and he goes like, 1248 01:23:14.159 --> 01:23:15.760 you know, we just didn't make that kind of game, and he's like, 1249 01:23:16.199 --> 01:23:18.800 but man, that's like the best part of games when I can we 1250 01:23:18.840 --> 01:23:21.359 can do one on ones And he's like, why is he on Joe Rogan? 1251 01:23:21.560 --> 01:23:25.399 I don't know. He was just like it was so confusing, Like 1252 01:23:25.640 --> 01:23:28.399 I was just I saw it and I was like, oh my god, 1253 01:23:28.880 --> 01:23:30.800 that's funny. I want to see Joe Rogan actually never run. I was 1254 01:23:30.840 --> 01:23:33.800 gonna I was gonna say I want to see Joe Rogan interview Jonathan Blow, 1255 01:23:33.840 --> 01:23:36.560 but I actually don't. Yeah, no, I don't want to see Joe 1256 01:23:36.640 --> 01:23:41.560 Rogan interview anyone. Yeah. Another game that camera is, yeah, Streets 1257 01:23:41.600 --> 01:23:45.520 of Rage four. I played that. I want to that good game. 1258 01:23:45.800 --> 01:23:49.600 Fun I'm just gonna shout out to hunt Down is what it's called. I 1259 01:23:49.680 --> 01:23:53.600 think, Yeah, I think it's called hunt Down. Similar kind of game 1260 01:23:53.840 --> 01:23:58.439 like Side scrolling shoot him up, kind of a boss rush ish game because 1261 01:23:58.520 --> 01:24:00.800 what you're doing mostly that games is hospitals. Really really fun game. It's 1262 01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:04.399 probably one of my favorite indie games I played so far this year. Are 1263 01:24:04.399 --> 01:24:10.000 you ready to feel really fill the passage of time? Yes? Dreams came 1264 01:24:10.000 --> 01:24:14.760 out this year. Oh god, oh oh yeah, And I would put 1265 01:24:14.800 --> 01:24:16.319 that up there for me at least. I really like Dreams. Yeah, 1266 01:24:16.359 --> 01:24:21.600 it's a good game obviously called Warzone. A bunch of games that are like, 1267 01:24:23.239 --> 01:24:30.359 perhaps not as got garnering as much attention as like The Lost of Us, 1268 01:24:30.439 --> 01:24:32.920 but like Pokemon, Mystery Dungeons, Rescue Team Days came out, Evans 1269 01:24:33.039 --> 01:24:39.960 Remains came out, It Found Chante and the Seventh Sirens. Xeno played Chronicles 1270 01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:45.439 Definitive Edition. Over to our resident weeb, Jake Decca. That game was 1271 01:24:45.479 --> 01:24:47.159 good. That game was really good. I gave it a nine. I 1272 01:24:47.279 --> 01:24:53.359 liked it a lot. It's hard for me to like think about games that 1273 01:24:53.479 --> 01:24:57.439 came out like that. That's what a two thousand and seven game that got 1274 01:24:57.479 --> 01:25:00.239 remastered. So when I'm thinking of my favorite games of that probably won't be 1275 01:25:00.319 --> 01:25:05.399 on the list, but it is, you know, a superb game. 1276 01:25:06.199 --> 01:25:11.079 Yep. A Resident Evil three remake came out of this year. Yeah I 1277 01:25:11.159 --> 01:25:15.319 did not like it. Yeah, absolutely, I disappointed. I was. 1278 01:25:15.439 --> 01:25:16.880 I didn't play it because I like reson eve a free lot, and I 1279 01:25:17.000 --> 01:25:21.239 was like, I just I'm good in like a in a vacuum. It's 1280 01:25:21.279 --> 01:25:25.720 a really good game, but coming off of Resident Evil to play three was 1281 01:25:25.760 --> 01:25:30.840 such a bummer to me and the will of the wisps I have it. 1282 01:25:31.000 --> 01:25:34.239 I haven't played it yet. It's really good, but also it felt like 1283 01:25:34.359 --> 01:25:39.479 a chore every moment I played it. I think I just I wasn't. 1284 01:25:39.520 --> 01:25:43.439 I don't know if I just wasn't in the mindset for it. But the 1285 01:25:43.560 --> 01:25:46.640 things that I usually love about metro Venues were just really annoying me. I 1286 01:25:46.720 --> 01:25:50.840 can't reach a dead end and be like, oh d that's my thing, 1287 01:25:51.000 --> 01:25:56.239 is like why haven't metro Venus evolved? Like that's my main That was kind 1288 01:25:56.239 --> 01:25:58.720 of my main critique with Oriy in the world of Whist, Like, you 1289 01:25:58.880 --> 01:26:01.640 get to dead ends and I feel like at a certain point somebody should have 1290 01:26:01.640 --> 01:26:04.800 thought of the idea to let us draw on the map and let us like 1291 01:26:04.960 --> 01:26:08.920 or give us icons like they have in Breath a while where you can find 1292 01:26:08.960 --> 01:26:12.319 an x icon and place that on the map, so you know that you 1293 01:26:12.600 --> 01:26:16.520 like you personally know that you're not supposed to go there. Like that interesting 1294 01:26:16.600 --> 01:26:20.960 lineup game velopers making. For think, Yeah, it's an interesting line of 1295 01:26:21.039 --> 01:26:27.079 thought because, like the the evolution of the metrodvenue genre seems to have come 1296 01:26:27.119 --> 01:26:30.640 at the expense of it, because instead of evolving that genre, people have 1297 01:26:30.760 --> 01:26:33.399 just taken the core of it and made new genres, which is like wild 1298 01:26:33.439 --> 01:26:36.279 because like you know, it's since then lists like a roguelike or whatever it 1299 01:26:36.359 --> 01:26:41.399 may be. So like that that genre has just kind of fallen by the 1300 01:26:41.479 --> 01:26:45.159 wayside the core of it, and instead of trying to evolve it, people 1301 01:26:45.479 --> 01:26:49.840 it very quickly went from being this new exciting genre to being a genre that 1302 01:26:49.880 --> 01:26:54.920 you now pay homage to, almost like too quickly, Like instead of doing 1303 01:26:55.039 --> 01:26:59.960 the next evolutionary step, we've got igarashily doing or making a symphony of them 1304 01:27:00.600 --> 01:27:03.199 like game, which is like why Furst of the Moon two is about to 1305 01:27:03.239 --> 01:27:05.640 come out. I think, yeah, like, don't make that same game 1306 01:27:05.680 --> 01:27:10.560 again, make the next phase in that game. And maybe it's maybe we're 1307 01:27:10.600 --> 01:27:13.560 asking for too much by trying to come up with new ways. I feel 1308 01:27:13.600 --> 01:27:15.880 like you can do stuff like that, which is quality of life stuff, 1309 01:27:15.960 --> 01:27:19.600 but you know, instead of just moving on to another genre. But who 1310 01:27:19.680 --> 01:27:23.920 knows, maybe that is the evolution and where we're like not giving it a 1311 01:27:24.000 --> 01:27:28.520 credit at a certain point. And like this gonna sound controversial, but I 1312 01:27:28.560 --> 01:27:30.239 don't mean in a controversial way. I feel like, you know, once 1313 01:27:30.279 --> 01:27:34.199 you play one metric Vania, you kind of played them all in a sense 1314 01:27:34.399 --> 01:27:39.520 that like or in the the Whisp individually is like a very excellent game, 1315 01:27:39.800 --> 01:27:42.359 and like, honestly it's also a very touching game, Like it's a very 1316 01:27:42.359 --> 01:27:45.000 beautiful game. They do such great things with it. But like in terms 1317 01:27:45.039 --> 01:27:48.600 of the rounds I'm going through in my head as I'm playing the game, 1318 01:27:48.600 --> 01:27:50.880 I'm like, okay, cool, Yeah, now I find the new ability. 1319 01:27:51.000 --> 01:27:53.760 Now I'm able to go to this place I haven't been to before. 1320 01:27:54.000 --> 01:27:56.439 Okay, cool, I go there. Oh sweet, I can explore a 1321 01:27:56.479 --> 01:27:59.479 bit all right, dead ends? Sweet new ability found it? Now I 1322 01:27:59.520 --> 01:28:01.279 can go through the that ends. And it's it's that same kind of gameplay 1323 01:28:01.319 --> 01:28:04.840 loop in a way where like yeah, that we've seen Metro Advania is kind 1324 01:28:04.840 --> 01:28:12.199 of adapted and turned into something like adapted in either like turn into another genre 1325 01:28:12.479 --> 01:28:15.399 or I guess adapted in ways where you get games like Batman Arkham Asylum, 1326 01:28:15.720 --> 01:28:19.720 which is pretty much for all intents and purposes of Metroidvania, but it is 1327 01:28:19.840 --> 01:28:25.520 doing it in a way that works for I guess this third person action design. 1328 01:28:27.119 --> 01:28:30.439 We see metro vedeos kind of grow and evolved in that way to where 1329 01:28:30.880 --> 01:28:34.560 to where now, like me playing an actual Metroidvania that is like, hey, 1330 01:28:34.640 --> 01:28:39.039 we're we're making a super Metroid, or we're making a Capfevidia. Something 1331 01:28:39.199 --> 01:28:44.600 in Sympathy of the Night just feels way less exciting to me. Yeah. 1332 01:28:44.640 --> 01:28:46.000 I think a couple of weeks ago, someone had asked us to question, 1333 01:28:46.199 --> 01:28:48.840 like, what are some tropes in indie games that you're tired of? In 1334 01:28:48.960 --> 01:28:54.640 mine was Metroidvania because like like you were saying, like, I feel like 1335 01:28:54.760 --> 01:28:57.520 once you've played a handful of metro Advania games, like you kind of hit 1336 01:28:57.600 --> 01:29:01.319 those same notes every single time. That said, though, Like that word 1337 01:29:01.399 --> 01:29:04.159 always gets me excited when like there's a game it's like, Oh, it's 1338 01:29:04.159 --> 01:29:06.479 gonna have metro at vny elements, I'm like, oh, what does that 1339 01:29:06.640 --> 01:29:10.279 mean? Like that that could be cool? Yeah, that's me and rogu 1340 01:29:10.359 --> 01:29:11.720 Light. Like, if you say Rogue Light, I'm like, oh, 1341 01:29:11.760 --> 01:29:14.399 yeah, that's too Yeah, let's go. But like, rogue Lights are 1342 01:29:14.439 --> 01:29:15.720 kind of kind of have the same thing where a lot of them are doing 1343 01:29:16.199 --> 01:29:19.359 are do have the same kind of gameplay, but they're still satisfying though. 1344 01:29:19.439 --> 01:29:23.680 So all right, I'm okay with it. I'm gonna rattle off some names 1345 01:29:23.760 --> 01:29:25.920 just to get through them because I know we've been running for a bit now. 1346 01:29:26.000 --> 01:29:28.960 We want to wrap it up just so they get mentioned. Yeah. 1347 01:29:29.199 --> 01:29:32.239 So other games that came out that are noteworthy Velorian under Night in Berthy, 1348 01:29:32.359 --> 01:29:36.039 Xue Late cl I'll just call it that. That's probably wrong, yeah, 1349 01:29:36.640 --> 01:29:41.960 Treachery and beat Down City, Tokyo, Marge Sessions, f e on Core, 1350 01:29:42.520 --> 01:29:46.239 Wonderful one to one, Remastered SpongeBob, Battle for Bikini Bottom, Murdered 1351 01:29:46.239 --> 01:29:50.880 by Numbers, Minecraft Dungeons MLB, The Show Kunai Kentucky Root zero, Act 1352 01:29:51.000 --> 01:29:57.960 five, Jennings's Savage Planet. That's when Jake played Grand Blue Fantasy Versus, 1353 01:29:58.000 --> 01:30:01.520 which I reviewed and thought was good, Golf of Mars, Gears Tactics, 1354 01:30:02.640 --> 01:30:08.239 Dragon bo ZrO Desperado three. I think, oh wow, how long is 1355 01:30:08.319 --> 01:30:11.920 this year? Come on? Rag came out. I think that. I 1356 01:30:11.960 --> 01:30:17.279 think that. Come on Bleeding Edge Neo two. Yeah, Bleaning Edge came 1357 01:30:17.359 --> 01:30:20.680 out and died this year. Did you guys play it? I played it. 1358 01:30:20.880 --> 01:30:25.479 It was sent out to die by Microsoft. Yeah. That's a bummer, 1359 01:30:25.560 --> 01:30:29.279 man, because I loved Intero theory. Yeah, I mean that they 1360 01:30:29.319 --> 01:30:32.520 were bought for hell Blade, right, they were bought for Bleeding Edge Neo 1361 01:30:32.600 --> 01:30:40.159 two. And of course the biggest game of the Clubhouse games. Oh actually, 1362 01:30:40.199 --> 01:30:43.039 I was going to bring up Clubhouse Games and like, my what what 1363 01:30:43.199 --> 01:30:45.920 what have I been playing? Segment? I like that game, though, 1364 01:30:45.439 --> 01:30:49.720 that game should have done a lot more, and it's for four person online. 1365 01:30:49.840 --> 01:30:54.000 It's very it's very it's very much a bummer that like only like five 1366 01:30:54.079 --> 01:30:57.880 games are playable for four people online in that game. It's ridiculous. Yeah. 1367 01:30:57.920 --> 01:31:00.399 Those those are kind of like the main the big standouts from the US 1368 01:31:00.439 --> 01:31:06.479 so far that we've kind of identified. So yeah, there is that. 1369 01:31:10.159 --> 01:31:13.159 This is this is a list of games that are not worthy that came out 1370 01:31:13.199 --> 01:31:16.640 not necessarily the best games of the year. One game I don't think we 1371 01:31:16.800 --> 01:31:20.079 reviewed that. I am excited to try out that a lot of people are 1372 01:31:20.119 --> 01:31:24.479 saying is one of their favorites is Sledge Life. Oh yeah, you guys, 1373 01:31:24.479 --> 01:31:27.680 Oh did that come out? It's it's on Epics store again. It's 1374 01:31:27.800 --> 01:31:30.199 free on Epic Game Store, I think, but it supposed to come to 1375 01:31:30.239 --> 01:31:32.279 Switch to it said it was out on Switch. I could not find it 1376 01:31:32.359 --> 01:31:35.239 on the Switch store the other day. Maybe it's been pushing back. Is 1377 01:31:35.319 --> 01:31:39.279 not the game where they no, No, that was. It was one 1378 01:31:39.359 --> 01:31:43.399 game where they announced the Switch version and developers like, oh that was indivisible. 1379 01:31:44.039 --> 01:31:46.800 Oh yeah yeah. Literally last week I was looking up Sledge Life. 1380 01:31:47.159 --> 01:31:50.439 Yeah, I was the other day because like everyone was saying how good it 1381 01:31:50.560 --> 01:31:53.760 is, and I was like, I want to check that game out, 1382 01:31:53.800 --> 01:31:55.640 but I don't want to play it on I want to play it on my 1383 01:31:55.680 --> 01:31:59.960 Switch, and it's not there. This is a This is specifically a reference 1384 01:32:00.159 --> 01:32:02.279 just for Lucy and any other British person. But every time someone says Slush 1385 01:32:02.319 --> 01:32:08.720 Life, I hear it as park Life in my head. Ye shout out 1386 01:32:08.760 --> 01:32:15.880 to jump rope challenge on Switch? What game? What do you? This 1387 01:32:15.000 --> 01:32:17.760 is gonna sound like a joke, but I'm being totally serious. One of 1388 01:32:17.760 --> 01:32:20.960 my favorite games of this year so far has been Star Wars Episode one Racer 1389 01:32:23.399 --> 01:32:27.199 that came that re released this last week, maybe it was two weeks ago. 1390 01:32:27.319 --> 01:32:30.239 On PS four, I heard that it's a great game unless you're you're 1391 01:32:30.319 --> 01:32:34.319 ready bad and can't get the platinum. Yeah, no, yeah, exactly. 1392 01:32:35.720 --> 01:32:40.880 Somebody sneezing by the way. Okay, I was like that news sounds 1393 01:32:40.880 --> 01:32:47.640 really familiar. Yeah a thousand times. Yeah, I was gonna say he's 1394 01:32:47.880 --> 01:32:55.680 he sneezes like five times in a row. He's gone. But yeah, 1395 01:32:55.680 --> 01:32:58.319 I tried to get the platinum an episode one Racer, and the platinum was 1396 01:32:58.319 --> 01:33:01.119 broken for me. I think because I used cheats to beginning my playthroughated. 1397 01:33:04.319 --> 01:33:09.680 I was confused because some of the some of the trophies seem like they wanted 1398 01:33:09.760 --> 01:33:11.720 me to cheat to get it, because it was like a trophy that was 1399 01:33:11.840 --> 01:33:15.640 like win a race in mirror mode, and the way I looked it up 1400 01:33:15.680 --> 01:33:18.000 online and the way to unlock mirror mode was to put in sheets. But 1401 01:33:18.079 --> 01:33:21.039 apparently also if I beat a track, I didn unlocked mirror mode. I 1402 01:33:21.079 --> 01:33:25.800 don't know there were some of the some of the cheats worked to get me 1403 01:33:25.880 --> 01:33:28.680 trophies, is what I'm saying. And the fact that like some of the 1404 01:33:28.760 --> 01:33:34.039 cheats might have locked me off from other trophies. How's that there? So 1405 01:33:35.039 --> 01:33:40.800 again in it ridiculous? Yeah, but I had a blast of that game 1406 01:33:40.880 --> 01:33:44.800 and also Burnout Paradise for Switch. Oh yeah, I've been wanting to play 1407 01:33:44.840 --> 01:33:48.399 that again. Anyway, I know these are old games. But listener questions, 1408 01:33:49.199 --> 01:33:54.439 Yes, all right, before we get into the listener questions, if 1409 01:33:54.479 --> 01:33:57.119 you want us to read your question on the show, you can email us 1410 01:33:57.319 --> 01:34:00.640 at after Dark podcast at GameSpot dot com, or you can in a discord 1411 01:34:00.680 --> 01:34:02.600 by dming anyone. Well not don't d M Blessing. He won't be able 1412 01:34:02.640 --> 01:34:05.560 to get you into the game Spot discord. But tomorrow Lucy or myself can 1413 01:34:05.640 --> 01:34:09.720 get you right into the game Spot discord. And there's a channel right there 1414 01:34:09.760 --> 01:34:12.960 where you can sound off questions or you can just chat with other listeners and 1415 01:34:13.039 --> 01:34:15.640 whatnot. It's a very good community. But the first question here comes from 1416 01:34:15.960 --> 01:34:18.079 Loose and Light. Lucy, do you want to read this first one? 1417 01:34:18.399 --> 01:34:23.720 Hello? Yeah? From loosen Light. Has the been games that you didn't 1418 01:34:23.720 --> 01:34:27.319 play for a long time? Because if your feeling of anticipation was greater than 1419 01:34:27.359 --> 01:34:30.199 actually playing the game. For me, when Breath of the Wild came out, 1420 01:34:30.239 --> 01:34:31.600 I was so excited to play and enjoy the game that it took me 1421 01:34:31.680 --> 01:34:35.600 a while to actually play because that anticipation made me happy and I didn't mind 1422 01:34:35.640 --> 01:34:42.359 waiting even though nothing was stopping me. I did this with Skyrim. I 1423 01:34:42.399 --> 01:34:44.800 mean, I guess I played Skyrim when I first got it. Oh me 1424 01:34:44.920 --> 01:34:46.680 too. I only played a little bit of it, and I knew it 1425 01:34:46.800 --> 01:34:49.359 was gonna be something. I was like, I was waiting for it for 1426 01:34:49.520 --> 01:34:53.840 years, super excited for it, and like, I think like Call of 1427 01:34:53.960 --> 01:34:56.800 Duty Modern Warfare two came out around the same time, or maybe it was 1428 01:34:56.840 --> 01:35:00.039 like Black Ops or something. I don't remember. I don't know. I 1429 01:35:00.079 --> 01:35:06.039 bought it in the with Assassin's Creed Revelations. I stupidly played Assassin Creed Revelations 1430 01:35:06.119 --> 01:35:10.560 first. Then I played Scram even though I had both of them and I 1431 01:35:10.560 --> 01:35:13.960 could have done but at the same time. But I think I did say 1432 01:35:14.000 --> 01:35:15.720 oh no, maybe it was Left for Dead too. I don't know. 1433 01:35:15.800 --> 01:35:17.239 There was a lot of games that came out that year. Yeah, but 1434 01:35:17.520 --> 01:35:20.560 I remember that being a game that I played about twenty minutes of and I 1435 01:35:20.760 --> 01:35:26.159 like stopped not because I wasn't into it, but because I was enjoying how 1436 01:35:26.199 --> 01:35:28.920 excited I was to play it, I guess, and plus there was a 1437 01:35:28.960 --> 01:35:30.159 bunch of other great games that were out, so I just set it aside 1438 01:35:30.840 --> 01:35:33.560 and then you know, a month or two later, came back to it 1439 01:35:33.680 --> 01:35:36.439 and sunk a lot of time into it. But I think even when I 1440 01:35:36.520 --> 01:35:39.359 was done with it, I was like, yeah, I didn't like that 1441 01:35:39.399 --> 01:35:44.079 as much as Oblivion, and just kind of yeah, I had that with 1442 01:35:44.720 --> 01:35:47.680 Xcomb Chimera Squad recently. I was so excited to play it, and then 1443 01:35:48.000 --> 01:35:51.199 I bought it, and the moment I bought it, just every bit of 1444 01:35:51.279 --> 01:35:56.640 excitement dissipated, Like I was just like done. I was more excited for 1445 01:35:56.760 --> 01:36:00.319 the prospect of having Xcomb than actually playing it. I'm sure I'll get to 1446 01:36:00.359 --> 01:36:04.359 it eventually, but I was just like, Okay, I came out Ye 1447 01:36:06.600 --> 01:36:13.039 runs like absolute trash on everything. For some reason, though, Blessing, 1448 01:36:13.159 --> 01:36:15.760 what about you, I feel like Death Stranding might be one for me, 1449 01:36:15.920 --> 01:36:20.119 where like that game I was, I was super excited for, Like, 1450 01:36:20.159 --> 01:36:24.439 I don't think I'd been as excited for many other games as I was for 1451 01:36:24.520 --> 01:36:28.039 Death Stranding, just because I'm a big co jamer person and the idea of 1452 01:36:28.119 --> 01:36:31.199 him working on a New Ip just like seemed very exciting to me. But 1453 01:36:31.319 --> 01:36:36.319 that game came out around the same time as Pokemon Sword and Shield and then 1454 01:36:36.399 --> 01:36:41.520 also Jedi Fall in Order, and like, by the time those games are 1455 01:36:41.520 --> 01:36:44.199 coming out, I was like, all right, I might prioritize Death Straining 1456 01:36:44.319 --> 01:36:47.359 last, because like I'm already excited for it. I could. I'm fine 1457 01:36:47.439 --> 01:36:51.720 with, like, you know, maintaining this this excitement, especially like after 1458 01:36:51.760 --> 01:36:55.600 reading reviews and saying that, like so many people were like, Scheme's actually 1459 01:36:55.640 --> 01:36:59.560 kind of boring. I was kind of fine putting it off for that and 1460 01:36:59.600 --> 01:37:02.520 then yeah, but I actually got to it. Like I'll still like, 1461 01:37:02.600 --> 01:37:06.479 I was still kind of really excited for the game, and I'll still somewhat 1462 01:37:08.079 --> 01:37:11.680 a fan with bit even like with a fan of it, even without necessarily 1463 01:37:11.760 --> 01:37:15.279 having played it. I just like the idea and like the what I had 1464 01:37:15.319 --> 01:37:18.520 seen of gameplay and and the thought of it. I played some of it, 1465 01:37:18.640 --> 01:37:21.119 and at a certain point I kind of like fell off just because other 1466 01:37:21.199 --> 01:37:24.960 things happened, and I've not gone back since, like, and that's not 1467 01:37:25.279 --> 01:37:27.479 that's it's still a game where I'm like, yeah, I had a like 1468 01:37:27.960 --> 01:37:30.279 it was it was. I consider it fantastic. I consider if really cool, 1469 01:37:30.600 --> 01:37:32.239 Like I like a lot, I like a lot of what the game 1470 01:37:32.359 --> 01:37:35.720 is doing, but at the same time, I've just not had it in 1471 01:37:35.840 --> 01:37:40.840 me to kind of go back to it, and I, Yeah, that's 1472 01:37:40.920 --> 01:37:44.199 that's that's kind of where where that answers that for me. I think I'm 1473 01:37:44.239 --> 01:37:46.000 going through that now with a PC version where I'm so hype for the PC 1474 01:37:46.199 --> 01:37:49.560 version and I'm worried that when it comes out it's gonna be like, yeah, 1475 01:37:50.359 --> 01:37:54.319 I am. The biggest surprise of twenty twenty for me is how excited 1476 01:37:54.359 --> 01:37:57.239 I am to play this Standing again on PC because I didn't even like the 1477 01:37:57.319 --> 01:37:59.840 game all. Like, I thought it was great, but it just didn't. 1478 01:38:00.279 --> 01:38:02.840 I was frustrated most of the time playing that game, even though overall 1479 01:38:02.880 --> 01:38:05.520 I did like it. But for some reason, I think it's just like 1480 01:38:06.119 --> 01:38:10.159 seeing that game run on PC. I'm like, I'm like, yeah, 1481 01:38:10.159 --> 01:38:13.439 I'm ready for this. I'm ready to go back and doing do it in 1482 01:38:13.520 --> 01:38:17.640 widescreen and max out the graphics and whatnot, and just you know, to 1483 01:38:17.680 --> 01:38:23.640 read use mods like the Moment has got like Infinite Sprint, mak him like 1484 01:38:23.720 --> 01:38:29.479 the road Runner, you know what I mean. Next question from Depressed Carbon. 1485 01:38:29.520 --> 01:38:31.800 Do you want to take this one? Tomorre Sure has there been a 1486 01:38:31.920 --> 01:38:35.439 game that, even though it's old, you went back and played, Mostly 1487 01:38:35.479 --> 01:38:42.279 speaking about consoles, although playing Half Life been a game that, even though 1488 01:38:42.319 --> 01:38:45.520 it's old, you went back and played. I think I think I think 1489 01:38:45.520 --> 01:38:49.960 they're talking about like replugging in an old console. Oh after the fact, 1490 01:38:50.159 --> 01:38:54.279 I think mine would have to be awkward enough time, which was not of 1491 01:38:54.439 --> 01:38:59.239 my generation. Although it is not that old that it's still graphically outdated, 1492 01:39:00.119 --> 01:39:02.399 I find it to be still visually a pleasing and the music is some of 1493 01:39:02.479 --> 01:39:05.920 my favorite video game music, next to Undertail. I hope you guys are 1494 01:39:05.960 --> 01:39:10.720 doing well and stay safe. So basically going back after a fact, I'm 1495 01:39:10.720 --> 01:39:13.399 playing, this person has good opinions. Yeah, yeah, by the way, 1496 01:39:13.800 --> 01:39:15.520 yeah the press, Corbin, you've got good opinions. Blessing improved. 1497 01:39:16.840 --> 01:39:20.560 Yeah, Super Smash Bros. Melee was one for me that I I guess 1498 01:39:20.560 --> 01:39:23.760 I haven't played recently, but that's the game that I always go back to 1499 01:39:23.800 --> 01:39:26.479 because I did not like Brawl at all, and I got rid of my 1500 01:39:26.520 --> 01:39:29.399 Wii, but I never got rid of my GameCube. I'd always look up 1501 01:39:29.399 --> 01:39:31.199 my GameCube. Well, I've gotten rid of my GameCube since then, but 1502 01:39:31.520 --> 01:39:33.960 like, I kept that for so much longer, and I'd always plug that 1503 01:39:34.079 --> 01:39:41.640 back in just to play Super Smash Bros. Melee. For me, it's 1504 01:39:41.720 --> 01:39:44.520 difficult because all of my old consoles are up at my mom's and I kind 1505 01:39:44.560 --> 01:39:46.640 of left them there when I moved, so I haven't really gone back and 1506 01:39:46.680 --> 01:39:56.720 played anything old in a long time. Yeah, that's why answer sadly dishonored. 1507 01:39:56.920 --> 01:39:59.880 It's not that old, but that's the same console generation, right, 1508 01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:06.319 because I'm playing definitive editions. Well, I guess I did play Mass Effects 1509 01:40:06.319 --> 01:40:13.119 one again last summer, but I played on PC this time. Technically I 1510 01:40:13.199 --> 01:40:15.199 did saw it on I say it started on Xbox I played and then but 1511 01:40:15.319 --> 01:40:19.720 then I changed it to PC. I think that that counts. So I 1512 01:40:20.199 --> 01:40:25.920 do regular play through the Metal Get Solid and Yeah, at this point, 1513 01:40:25.960 --> 01:40:29.720 I'm doing it on the Vita because it's just how's how is it playing? 1514 01:40:29.760 --> 01:40:33.800 Are you playing through like two and three or one? I'm playing through one 1515 01:40:33.960 --> 01:40:40.479 at the moment at the moment, at a moment, I'm playing through one. 1516 01:40:40.640 --> 01:40:43.239 Yeah, have you played? Have you played two and three on the 1517 01:40:43.319 --> 01:40:46.039 Vita? I have played two and three on the Beta it's and it requires 1518 01:40:46.079 --> 01:40:49.920 a little finger gymnastics to get it done properly for stuff like you know when 1519 01:40:49.920 --> 01:40:54.199 you aim first person and then look and then like get on your tippy toes 1520 01:40:54.920 --> 01:40:58.239 like shoot and that kind of stuff. It involves like the touch pad as 1521 01:40:58.279 --> 01:41:00.079 well to get the menus to them up and you can fiddle with it. 1522 01:41:00.199 --> 01:41:04.760 But it doesn't feel elegant, but it feels playable. Sadly, they are 1523 01:41:04.880 --> 01:41:10.199 taking it out of Game Pass fairly soon, I believe, so, are 1524 01:41:10.239 --> 01:41:14.600 they really? Yeah, otherwise that would be the way I'd recommend play two 1525 01:41:15.159 --> 01:41:20.000 and three in the HD collection. But yeah, that's a game that I'd 1526 01:41:20.000 --> 01:41:24.399 go back to a lot, and I always I regularly play the beginning of 1527 01:41:24.479 --> 01:41:28.840 Super Metroid, just like the just until the point where it starts to open 1528 01:41:28.960 --> 01:41:30.600 up, like the opening sequence, and then do a bit of like a 1529 01:41:30.680 --> 01:41:33.720 few of the early areas, just because it feels good to play that game. 1530 01:41:35.079 --> 01:41:40.399 Yeah, those are the probably the two I played most frequently. Yeah. 1531 01:41:40.439 --> 01:41:43.880 I love going back and revisiting old games, especially ones that haven't played 1532 01:41:43.920 --> 01:41:45.560 so like Star Wars. Episode on Racer for the most part, was a 1533 01:41:45.600 --> 01:41:47.800 game that I hadn't played much of as a kid. I played it at 1534 01:41:47.800 --> 01:41:51.079 a friend's house, but that was only like the first few tracks of it, 1535 01:41:51.199 --> 01:41:56.159 and so like actually going through and playing through all the tracks was a 1536 01:41:56.239 --> 01:41:59.439 really fun time for me. I played Benjo Becazi all the way through for 1537 01:41:59.520 --> 01:42:02.159 the first time. I'm in twenty sixteen, towards the end of twenty sixteen, 1538 01:42:02.600 --> 01:42:08.520 and it became like one of my favorite platformers. Trying to think of 1539 01:42:08.560 --> 01:42:11.600 what else. Ocreaty of Time was the game I played for the first time 1540 01:42:11.640 --> 01:42:16.760 in like twenty thirteen and really really enjoyed it. Yeah, I tend to 1541 01:42:16.840 --> 01:42:21.600 regularly go back to games just because I I don't know, there's something about 1542 01:42:21.600 --> 01:42:27.560 older games that I feel like are fun, at least for me as somebody 1543 01:42:27.560 --> 01:42:31.039 who was an NCY four kid and like spent so much time with that and 1544 01:42:31.119 --> 01:42:33.760 the PS two growing up. I feel like for me, I going back 1545 01:42:33.760 --> 01:42:39.720 to those consoles one is kind of nostalgic, but then also I feel like 1546 01:42:39.880 --> 01:42:44.079 they translate well for me in terms of games not aging up well or whatever. 1547 01:42:44.399 --> 01:42:47.079 Like I'm able to play a PS two game kind of almost in the 1548 01:42:47.119 --> 01:42:50.319 same mindset as I would have played it in like two thousand and three or 1549 01:42:50.359 --> 01:42:55.960 whatever, when the PS two was still relevant, all right. Following up 1550 01:42:56.039 --> 01:42:59.399 on the press Carbons question, is there an old game that you enjoyed but 1551 01:42:59.479 --> 01:43:01.399 can't go back to it due to its graphics, controls, et cetera. 1552 01:43:01.640 --> 01:43:06.399 Being older, Jankie, That one's from Robert j first thing that comes to 1553 01:43:06.439 --> 01:43:10.880 mind from me are like Knights of the Old Republic. As much as I 1554 01:43:11.000 --> 01:43:14.000 love those games, I feel like I've tried to play them again a couple 1555 01:43:14.039 --> 01:43:17.119 of times and it just didn't. It didn't hit like it did back in 1556 01:43:17.359 --> 01:43:23.960 two thousand and four whenever it came out. Last of Us Man, Oh 1557 01:43:24.039 --> 01:43:26.439 really, I tried to play. I tried to play that at the end 1558 01:43:26.479 --> 01:43:33.239 of last year, and it just feels so different, Like it feels like 1559 01:43:33.359 --> 01:43:39.560 a very twenty thirteen game, and it just doesn't feel smooth to play at 1560 01:43:39.640 --> 01:43:44.239 all. And that was back before Naughty Dog had really figured out shooting. 1561 01:43:45.079 --> 01:43:47.800 Like I have always said, and I've always believed that the shooting in the 1562 01:43:47.920 --> 01:43:54.079 uncharted games has never felt satisfying up until four and Lost Legacy, I agree, 1563 01:43:55.000 --> 01:43:57.840 And yeah, I think Last of Us was still very much in that 1564 01:43:57.960 --> 01:44:02.800 ballpark, and it just feels I don't know, it just feels very very 1565 01:44:02.840 --> 01:44:08.199 different. But I love I love the story so much that, like, 1566 01:44:09.279 --> 01:44:12.319 and the lead up to two, I decided to just watch a let's play 1567 01:44:12.640 --> 01:44:17.720 through instead of playing it again. It's not even like that it feels bad 1568 01:44:18.000 --> 01:44:21.479 or that it looks bad. It still looks great. It's just it just 1569 01:44:21.560 --> 01:44:26.920 felt different to me, and I just I just felt like I didn't really 1570 01:44:26.960 --> 01:44:29.920 want to go back and play it. It's just like just awkward enough to 1571 01:44:30.039 --> 01:44:34.520 make it not not enjoyable, not not enjoyable, but like it just doesn't 1572 01:44:34.560 --> 01:44:41.039 feel comfortable, Like it feels weird. Yeah, yeah, that's my thing. 1573 01:44:42.680 --> 01:44:45.520 I'm trying to think of one, but I can't think of anything that 1574 01:44:45.319 --> 01:44:49.720 like just to throw it out there. I've been I've been watching one of 1575 01:44:49.760 --> 01:44:53.399 our listeners, Foggy Bear. I've been watching his stream and he was streaming 1576 01:44:53.479 --> 01:44:56.960 Walking Dead season one, and man, but that is the game I could 1577 01:44:57.079 --> 01:44:59.960 never return to as much as I liked it when it came out. Watch 1578 01:45:00.239 --> 01:45:04.479 him play was just like, oh boy, this game is aged a lot. 1579 01:45:04.640 --> 01:45:08.239 Like the writing is still great, writing is still really good, but 1580 01:45:08.439 --> 01:45:12.239 like I don't know, I walk I you know, when they're at the 1581 01:45:12.319 --> 01:45:15.359 hotel and he's like walking around trying to get chalk and he's just like blindly 1582 01:45:15.439 --> 01:45:17.520 walking on. He's like, I've talked to everyone, I don't know what 1583 01:45:17.600 --> 01:45:20.039 I'm missing. And then you find a piece of chalk and it triggers the 1584 01:45:20.079 --> 01:45:23.960 next scene, and it's like, in what world does finding a piece of 1585 01:45:24.079 --> 01:45:27.840 chalk like trigger? I don't know. It's so strange. It made sense 1586 01:45:27.880 --> 01:45:30.000 at the time, but watching it, I was like, Yeah, there's 1587 01:45:30.039 --> 01:45:32.159 no way I can I miss Telltale. Man, I do too. I 1588 01:45:32.239 --> 01:45:41.479 mean Walking Dead season two is happening somehow. Walk Sorry is one that I'll 1589 01:45:41.520 --> 01:45:45.479 definitely play. I love among us, and I really liked Walking Dead too, 1590 01:45:45.600 --> 01:45:47.079 to be fair, like, I don't want to like. I thought 1591 01:45:47.119 --> 01:45:49.600 that game was fantastic at the time, and in some regard I still do. 1592 01:45:50.199 --> 01:45:53.840 But man, watching someone play through that that again, I was like, 1593 01:45:54.000 --> 01:45:58.479 nah, I don't think I could do it. There's like platforms from 1594 01:45:58.520 --> 01:46:01.239 the Nighties or that I would love to be able to play again, but 1595 01:46:01.319 --> 01:46:08.960 I just can't because they feel bad, like even like the Spiral games. 1596 01:46:09.000 --> 01:46:12.520 I mean they've been remastered since and they feel a bit better, but like 1597 01:46:12.680 --> 01:46:16.920 the Crashes of Spirals, and there's various other like platformers from back in that 1598 01:46:17.039 --> 01:46:21.359 generation that I'm like I could try that, but probably it's not I'd rather 1599 01:46:21.880 --> 01:46:29.239 preserve my memory of it than actually replay and potentially tarnish that. That's fair 1600 01:46:29.680 --> 01:46:32.359 for me, I mean, it's it's a game that I'm not I didn't 1601 01:46:32.399 --> 01:46:35.680 necessarily love back in the day because I didn't play much of it back in 1602 01:46:35.720 --> 01:46:39.960 the day. But like every time I try to play Resident Evil four, 1603 01:46:40.239 --> 01:46:43.039 for some reason, I'm not able to get into it, which is probably 1604 01:46:43.039 --> 01:46:45.840 like my most controversial video game opinion. You are coming in here with the 1605 01:46:45.920 --> 01:46:50.199 controversial opinions today. Yeah, my resumel foroetakes about I mean in hot Water 1606 01:46:51.159 --> 01:46:55.399 in the past, but for some reason, that game has never been able 1607 01:46:55.439 --> 01:46:58.600 to do it for me and I and I mainly blame the fact that I 1608 01:46:58.720 --> 01:47:00.640 don't think the controls of age well, like I don't like Oh yeah, 1609 01:47:00.640 --> 01:47:05.199 I mean, I agree with you that I haven't like that game did so 1610 01:47:05.399 --> 01:47:09.079 much, but it does feel very, very awkward to go back to. 1611 01:47:11.039 --> 01:47:14.760 I've finished, I've beatn that game once and I've started it probably sixteen times. 1612 01:47:15.079 --> 01:47:19.239 Like not, I really like it. It's really good, like it's 1613 01:47:19.279 --> 01:47:23.880 the front of my favorite games, but like for some reason, I'm just 1614 01:47:24.399 --> 01:47:27.000 it's difficult to get through that because I think it's because the opening of that 1615 01:47:27.119 --> 01:47:30.840 game, I think it's like incredible, and then when it starts to get 1616 01:47:30.920 --> 01:47:34.399 to the castle areas when I kind of start to lose interest on the PEP 1617 01:47:34.399 --> 01:47:38.600 play Thros. The furthest I've gotten in that game is playing it on the 1618 01:47:38.640 --> 01:47:44.880 Wii, because yeah, like it's surprisingly like I think it controls pretty well. 1619 01:47:45.319 --> 01:47:46.479 But I got to a point where I was like, I am tired 1620 01:47:46.479 --> 01:47:50.239 of pulling my hands up like like constantly. I like, legit, I 1621 01:47:50.279 --> 01:47:53.159 physically got tired of it, and I was like, I'm not playing this 1622 01:47:53.239 --> 01:47:56.359 game anymore. I'm not going to keep doing this. But that was the 1623 01:47:56.399 --> 01:48:00.800 closest I got to actually like playing through that game. Anyway, any last 1624 01:48:00.880 --> 01:48:02.880 minute, last minute games, the shut up before we wrap this thing up. 1625 01:48:04.840 --> 01:48:08.800 No, all right, Well that's been episode forty nine of Game Spot 1626 01:48:08.840 --> 01:48:12.239 after Dark. Thank you all so much for listening. Thank you Lucian Timore 1627 01:48:12.319 --> 01:48:15.760 for joining, and thank you Blessing for guesting on this episode. I know 1628 01:48:15.800 --> 01:48:17.359 it was pretty last minute. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for 1629 01:48:17.399 --> 01:48:21.199 having me. This is an awesome time to me back. If I'd be 1630 01:48:21.239 --> 01:48:25.720 back preferably and Michael hyam will have Michael, thank you, thank you, 1631 01:48:25.920 --> 01:48:29.560 thank you, appreciate it me. He texted me actually something to say to 1632 01:48:29.600 --> 01:48:32.479 you guys. Yeah. No, I had a text back and be like, 1633 01:48:32.520 --> 01:48:35.800 can I say this on the episode, But he told me I can 1634 01:48:35.880 --> 01:48:39.920 say it, and so if this is inappropriate, Michael's in trouble, not 1635 01:48:40.079 --> 01:48:44.600 me. He told me that if I see Jake and Tam, tell them 1636 01:48:44.840 --> 01:48:47.560 to eat his ass from the front. Okay, yeah, okay, that 1637 01:48:47.840 --> 01:48:54.640 that wouldn't be the first time. Okay, Simes told me to s MDFP 1638 01:48:55.119 --> 01:48:59.399 and his ass from the front. Two more. Where can people find you 1639 01:48:59.520 --> 01:49:02.079 on Twitter? You can find me. You can find me on Twitter at 1640 01:49:02.159 --> 01:49:09.159 two more. H I'm working on what the hell am I working on things? 1641 01:49:10.159 --> 01:49:12.600 That audiogs thing tomorrow. Oh yeah, we've got audio loogs. Oh 1642 01:49:12.680 --> 01:49:15.960 yeah, we've got audio logs. We're doing the cherry streams. Charty streams 1643 01:49:15.960 --> 01:49:20.760 are winding down. This be done. There'll be one. The Friday one 1644 01:49:20.960 --> 01:49:27.720 is a kind of alto Dark Live. That's plan anyway, chill stream where 1645 01:49:27.720 --> 01:49:30.159 it's going to be a few of us just chatting and talking about the Playfall 1646 01:49:30.239 --> 01:49:34.319 experience. While we're talking about that. We just launched our game Spot store 1647 01:49:34.479 --> 01:49:40.560 merch store specifically for currently for Play for All, So if you go to 1648 01:49:40.640 --> 01:49:45.640 store dog GameSpot dot com, you'll find a bunch of really cool merchandise there 1649 01:49:45.720 --> 01:49:48.600 that you can buy. There's a T shirt which is really cool. It's 1650 01:49:48.640 --> 01:49:51.800 just like really low key Play for All logo. There's a hoodie there, 1651 01:49:51.840 --> 01:49:57.760 there's a face mask, there's a skateboard deck, there's a touch tool that 1652 01:49:57.880 --> 01:50:00.720 you can press things without actually using your fingers, and a poster that's really 1653 01:50:00.760 --> 01:50:05.600 cool. All proceeds from that until the from June to the end of August 1654 01:50:05.640 --> 01:50:12.479 twenty twenty go directly fifty to fifty split between Direct Relief and Black Lives Matter, 1655 01:50:12.880 --> 01:50:15.399 So any money that you spend there is going for a good court, 1656 01:50:15.520 --> 01:50:16.960 going to good causes, and you also get something cool out of it. 1657 01:50:17.279 --> 01:50:23.439 We've got the T shirts and the poster I've seen we've got ourselves and they 1658 01:50:23.479 --> 01:50:28.600 are super high quality. That's worth checking out. I actually really like the 1659 01:50:28.680 --> 01:50:30.159 T shirts and a lot of the stuff on there because it's like kind of 1660 01:50:30.199 --> 01:50:34.520 minimalist. It's not yeah, it doesn't hit you with like crazy colors and 1661 01:50:34.600 --> 01:50:40.079 logos. It's just very very subdued, which like Lucy how about you. 1662 01:50:40.760 --> 01:50:44.079 I'm on Twitter at Lucy James Games and I've got a week off, so 1663 01:50:45.199 --> 01:50:49.119 peace out, lads. I'll see you in a week this episode as well. 1664 01:50:49.119 --> 01:50:54.239 Actually I keep forgetting that I've also got a week off. You're get 1665 01:50:54.279 --> 01:50:57.920 in this episode of fifty two. I mean it's not like it would go 1666 01:50:58.000 --> 01:50:59.800 in anywhere. I mean, that's it, just yeah, I mean we 1667 01:51:00.079 --> 01:51:03.880 darling text us man. I've like, I've done my taxes this week. 1668 01:51:04.119 --> 01:51:09.039 Next week I have to store out my student finance. I'm organizing my closet. 1669 01:51:09.600 --> 01:51:13.840 I'm cleaning my bathroom like. I've got big plans to take a cracket 1670 01:51:13.960 --> 01:51:19.239 half Flye Alex maybe, but there's nothing that would drop. I've lined up 1671 01:51:19.319 --> 01:51:25.479 Diablo. I'm ready to play some Diablo. Cannot wait. I can't tell 1672 01:51:25.560 --> 01:51:31.720 you something serious, serious serious. He needs to buy cheap. I missed 1673 01:51:31.720 --> 01:51:35.600 the sale. Also, Greg was talking about it the other day, which 1674 01:51:35.680 --> 01:51:40.960 leads me to believe he has it. I mean maybe, Blessing, how 1675 01:51:40.960 --> 01:51:43.439 are you working? People find you? What are you working on? You 1676 01:51:43.479 --> 01:51:46.640 can find me on Twitter at Blessing Junior. That's at Blessing Jr. And 1677 01:51:46.840 --> 01:51:49.680 you can find my content on YouTube dot com slash kind of funny games over 1678 01:51:49.760 --> 01:51:53.079 there. I am a part of kind of Funny Games Daily, which is 1679 01:51:53.119 --> 01:51:56.800 our daily new show that happens pretty much every single day of the week weekday, 1680 01:51:56.880 --> 01:52:00.359 so Monday through Friday, and that happens at ten am Pacific time on 1681 01:52:00.520 --> 01:52:02.560 twitch dot tv. So that's kind of Funny Games Live, and so if 1682 01:52:02.600 --> 01:52:08.159 you like video game news, tune into that. If you like PlayStation I 1683 01:52:09.039 --> 01:52:12.880 host the PlayStation Podcast with Greg Miller, Loose's roommate who you heard sneezing earlier, 1684 01:52:14.039 --> 01:52:15.760 and that also is on YouTube dot com slash kind of Funny Games PS 1685 01:52:15.840 --> 01:52:19.520 Love you xo xo. That's also on your podcast services choice where we love 1686 01:52:19.600 --> 01:52:26.039 listening to podcasts. So PlayStation, video game news and other shenannigans all happening. 1687 01:52:26.239 --> 01:52:32.520 Kind of funny Get Diablo, I don't know, I don't very much. 1688 01:52:32.600 --> 01:52:35.039 Seems like not my GM of a game. How much is it? 1689 01:52:35.199 --> 01:52:44.439 On Amazon? Is the the final Fantasy fourteen update Live that's supposed to listen? 1690 01:52:44.479 --> 01:52:45.640 If I couldn't get into X Men Legends, I don't know if I'm 1691 01:52:45.640 --> 01:52:53.079 getting into days not the same thing. Relax, Day five dollars actually actually 1692 01:52:53.119 --> 01:52:55.399 did kind of get into X Men legends. That was a lie. I 1693 01:52:55.520 --> 01:52:58.880 just like that when I was younger. Uh, you can find me at 1694 01:52:58.960 --> 01:53:01.479 Jacob Deck and and I don't know, I'm working on the podcast, this 1695 01:53:01.680 --> 01:53:06.439 podcast and oh, I know Jean Luke and I are doing. We're gonna 1696 01:53:06.479 --> 01:53:11.239 try to make a cyberpunk video every single week until the game comes out. 1697 01:53:12.359 --> 01:53:14.439 I don't know if we'll hit every week, but we're gonna try to be 1698 01:53:14.520 --> 01:53:17.199 making cyberpunk videos very often. The first one, which the script has already 1699 01:53:17.199 --> 01:53:19.479 written, is a history of Night City. So a lot of these are 1700 01:53:19.520 --> 01:53:25.159 gonna be lore based. So if you're somebody who's super excited for Cyberpunk twenty 1701 01:53:25.199 --> 01:53:28.399 seventy seven and you know nothing about the world, that these videos are for 1702 01:53:28.520 --> 01:53:30.760 you, even if you know a good amount, Like we're gonna try to 1703 01:53:30.800 --> 01:53:33.039 touch on everything from the history of night City to the different gangs, to 1704 01:53:33.079 --> 01:53:38.439 the different districts, to the different characters. So if that's something you're interested 1705 01:53:38.520 --> 01:53:40.760 in, be sure to stay tuned for that. I'm very excited for those 1706 01:53:40.840 --> 01:53:43.680 videos. I think they're gonna be locking money old strategy call on. Let'll 1707 01:53:43.680 --> 01:53:46.560 see if it pays off for them. Yep, all right, see y'all 1708 01:53:46.680 --> 01:54:00.359 next week. Oh long,