I've already ruined it. We're not gonna start again. We're just gonna go
into it. Hey everybody, it's Friday today. Welcome to BombCast Revengeance.
I am your host, Jen Achoa. We are both powered by NZXT.
Welcome to this beautiful Friday, March twenty ninth, twenty twenty four. Everyone
is looking great today. Make sure you're gonna go drink some water if you
haven't. It's speaking about water. We got the wettest man in games media,
Mike Manatiyah. I did it, everybody. I'm the wettest. All
right, thank you, water park over there. I'm a water world on
to myself. And you can't have uh water without perhaps putting a boat on
said water. And most boats have a captain, just like this podcast as
co captain of the ship has always joining me. Jeff Grud I'm devastated.
It's the end of fiscal and we've lost them. Everybody gone. He's no
longer PlayStation Interactive CEO. I'm never going to recover. I'm dying, never
gonna recover. And and I god, I have nothing. I have nothing.
It's in a fiscal chain. Get more energy going to help us celebrate
the end of Fiscal Bailey Myers, everybody, Hello, I feel like my
internet's being bad and laggy, so I'm like being choppy over there. So
if you see me, freeze, I'm not doing that for real. I
need you to know it's my computer. For some reason, I was like,
man, I know I'm off my podcast game this week because I've just
been tired, but damn, I'm just losing everybody today. It's so sad.
I know, I don't know how to podcast. You go away to
a convention for a weekend and you don't know how to do anything anymore.
Yeah. I deeply felt that coming back, where I'm like, oh,
I gotta do those shows. That's much that shouldn't be allowed. I should
be able to just sit in a room quiet and not talk to anyone for
a whole week. That is how I felt after packs. I don't know
how you guys should be allowed to do that. I think you should do
that more. Actually, thank you, And when you say it it sounds
derogatory, but yes, thank you. What right you should sit in a
room by yourself on Women's Day? On Women's Day, I think it would
be better if if none of you, Okay, with that. Yeah,
okay, that's that's very fair. For the life of me, Bailey Myers,
I was struggling with this fact. We went to a brewery and on
the special menu there was special events and one said Women's Day. I'm like,
oh, this will be so funny if I take a picture me and
mic are in it, and then I swear to God that I sent it
to you. I only did you send you yesterday? Well? Yes,
I thought I said it then and there in the moment, and then I
looked through the history of my phone. I sent it to like another friend
that had like a b name, And what did they think of it?
Wow? Very confused because I haven't talken to them in years. It probably
don't a woman. No, why to make you fun of Women's Day?
That's weird. God, Jan, I didn't know you were like this now.
Fuck, it's is crazy? Would crazy? First impression for them?
You are homework? I won ten thousand dollars, did you hear? I
saw your tweet and I feel really happy for you. Thank you. That's
what That's what That's what I was looking for. Yeah, I don't know
weird. I'm still just I'm still just steamed. I wasn't there, Like,
I'm so mad, but good for you. That's ten thousand dollars.
There's a lot of money. That's great. Yeah, it was, it
was. It was nice we did. We did. You would have been
like appreciate it, Like we would have been happier if you were there for
sure, Like it was the typic times where it like we could have used
a Bailey. Yeah, thank you. That's all I ever need to hear.
And you're going next year and the plane ticket and everyone goes wow,
like that what if we presented with a giant check to take it to a
giant is it legal tender? Yeah? Oh god, that was a good
bit we had. But Bailey wouldn't known because we didn't bring in the packs.
We didn't bring her packs for the bit. Yeah, I don't know.
You guys are making fun inside jokes about packs. You're doing it intentionally
to exclude me. At this point, I'm going to be in LA at
the kind of like uh May or yeah, May twentieth, I ish,
so we can we can party at LA. Yeah, I'm going to Disney
World right around that time, but I'll check my calendar, yeah, just
to avoid you. Yeah, because my plant's been a disney World with you
too. That's come to Disney World. Too easy for Mike to just up
and do that. But but we are dead set. Uh, we're gonna
put We're gonna get Nikki, it's gonna be Bailey, it's gonna be Mikey
and myself. We're gonna try and go to Disneyland. It'd be so fun
before. I mean, I'm going to Disneyland. You can try, but
I will be there. Are you saying something's gonna happen to me before?
Then? Now you just seem like not committal. I'm just saying, there's
no try. I will be This is the Yoda of Disney. There is
no try. He will be there. Sorry, did you say mcmnaughty is
the Yoda of Disney. I can't stress enough that Yoda is the Yoda of
Disney. Right, all right, well let's go home, folks. All
right, thanks for joining us, everybody. Wow, how's everyone doing?
How's everyone doing? Tired? Right? The weekend? Ready for the weekend?
Ye? Ready? Ready for Easter? Ready for to bring Jesus back
into our lives? Yeah? What's good about Friday? He died? Well,
that's not is that? What's good about it. Its kind of like
Anton, I'm not gonna but ever know how I feel about it. But
I mean it's good because like he died for our sins. Oh okay,
and like because he did that, we all get to go to heaven.
Well not maybe not all that heaven. Let's talk about it. Go to
Boston, Bailey, you're a fellow West Coaster born and bred. Uh do
you think I was dying the whole time? Any time we stepped outside,
I froze to death. When you guys were visiting or when you were in
Boston. Do you mean Boston? Oh? I see, Yeah. He
ate thirty degrees and I was very ill equipped, not like Danny was cold.
Sorry. Big wind on the first day made it very cold, kind
of like commisery, you know, just like good Show. Yeah, you
know what's commisery. I think whether here was kind of cold too. It
was like sixty degrees sixty five. Maybe the sun was out. It was
nice, nice starting the last day, which is good because I walked around
a bunch. I fucked up some tea real good at the at the Tea
Party Museum US. It was great. They gave me a character card when
I got in there, like we all like got to be somebody who was
actually involved in the tea party and had like details about me. I was
very excited about that. I kind of tested the waters, like really role
playing it, and I got the feeling that maybe I should have shut the
fuck up back up a little bit, but it was fun. I remember
on the way to breakfast one day, Lucy was talking about her her time
visiting a museum and then as soon as she started talking, everyone treated her
very differently. Yeah, she mentioned that I was just gonna say. She
was like, I went to that you sum and then I opened my English
mouth. That's how she sounded me and done. They was same Maine to
me. After I right that triangle, they were so mean to me,
all right, uh talk like that. It would have been fine, actually,
which she would have been fine. I wanted to do a little bit
of show and tell before we talk about any potential games we've been playing.
Yeah, I I shot a bunch of random miscellaneous bu role and who knows
if that'll ever if I will ever have the time to edit that down into
a vlog, but I could have helped but show this off to the crew
when we're at breakfast one day. This is a smartphone cage made by small
rig Man. Let me tell you, look at the ship. Look at
the ship right boom right flips up and then just like a toaster strudle or
a toaster pop tart, slide your phone in. Bam. I don't have
the handles on me here, but you can hold on look comfortable. Yeah?
Good. Yeah. He was like carrying around like it was one of
those like steady cams, and he attached a bunch of stuff, apparently the
new iPhone, Like yeah, you just show up. I thought he bought
a B D S M cag for his phone and I was like, right,
mind has dinosaurs on it. Jan does love the cage his phones?
Yes, and just step on him and I feel like I feel really insecure
about my incredibly boring phone case. Now, yeah, you should have a
cool background though. Have you guys seen al Pacino's phone case? It's Shrek's
yea, If al Pacino can have a Shrek phone case, Mike Manati,
you can at the very least have something better than that. Step it up.
They always have like fancy ones at Disney and they're like you're kind of
expensive and look cheap. To be honest, jan, I see that You're
right. Tell us more about no no, no, no no, and
that I think that's one of the biggest downsides of like the case game at
Disney Parks is they don't look great or you have to get off brand ones
that are also actually cheap. I think looking part of the cool. I
mean, the Shrek one that al Pacino has doesn't look expensive and it looks
great because Al's wearing that's so confidently. But also on the cage here,
the BDSM phone cage is a bunch of like little quarter inch screws across.
You can't really see it. I mean for audio listeners that the pleasure comes
from. Yeah, and uh, you can attach two handles to any of
these ports and then look at that. But man, it seems like you
like didn't do much to put that in there. Does that feel secure to
you? Yeah, I mean like I'll just wave my phone around, like
have you seen the ads? And like the Io states have like built in
kind of steady cam stuff too, so you don't have to worry about the
wobble as much as you're walking around, right, So we're like we don't
need like expensive video cameras really in it. I mean, like that's been
Like the common thing is like when I'll talk to like video friends or folks
wanting to break out into video or like do content creation. I don't think
you need like a fancy schmancy camera. If you have like a smartphone,
you're fine enough. Yeah, but does this shoot in law? This does
shoot in love death grub and it shoots externally to us to an s SD.
Wow. But the other neat thing is that like there at the lens
part where the camera would be, uh, it has like a magnetic ring
where you just slap on a filter and then now I have a variable n
D filter, which makes me happy inside. And that's that's all I want
to show. Uh, Okay, So a variable n D is a neutral
density filter. So like when you're you know, when something looks blown out
when you're shooting outside because the outside is so much brighter than what you're seeing
is inside because of the suns. This neutralizes the sun, so you can
see outside the neutralized the moon exactly. That's it's it pulls a piccolo and
yeah, you know, smaller, smaller, cut the check, y'all.
It was like free promo for y'all. Come on. Yeah, I was
very excited when you were showing me this. It looked very cool. Also,
the little wireless loves we were using for around packs were actually really really
good. Yeah. I don't think I heard any of the actual footage audio
that you got. It does sound good because I was curious about that because
those seemed really handy. Yeah, it was super clean. Uh. We
were using the road wireless go to I believe that's right, and like those
are set to I had them set to auto records, so those Jimmy jams
were like on the little lav clippy dippies were recording constantly as long as they
were within range of the receiver, and the the mic was actually pretty omni
directional, and it was. It was pretty good. It could pick up
whoever was wearing it, but also whoever was near pretty close close enough.
Yeah, good enough, good enough. I'm thinking. I was like,
oh, maybe I should become one of those like theme park bloggers next time
I go and get this stuff and just walk around and talk about my thoughts
and whatnot. Mike MANAUGHTI I need to say, I need you to hear
these words as insultingly as I mean them. It's crazy to me, You're
not already a theme park flock. I just don't live close. If I
like lived in Orlando or l A, I one million percent would be.
But I'm not there that often. Right, That's the only issue, okay,
is constantly like they live there, they go like multiple times a week.
I just can't wish my phone. Uh you know what I was going
to say, Mike, let's blog the whole time we're there on our little
uh uh fabulous Disneyland. Maybe we'll vlog a little bit of the time that
we're there, That's what I was thinking. Yeah, yeah, we'll make
content expensive baby expense for mikey and hot bowl of Riggi's for Mike, some
riggies, We'll make some proggies. Yeah. I've been playing a lot of
Dragons Dogma too. Yeah, me too. I've I've got that dog in
me and uh and also outside she's sleeping right now. Uh ah h scout
please. The game unfortunately has been performing poorer and poor each time I boot
it up and any and every time I go into a town. Yeah,
towns are rough. Yeah, I don't know how the performance has been for
y'all. But like when I'm going like in the outer world, it's fine,
and I just absolutely adore the shenanigans that happen. I never feel safe
running anywhere. I never feel safe going to going to camp. I feel
like I can never relax in this game. And it's good. It's great.
I love it that way. Yeah, it's the kind of game where
it's like I can't tell how I'm gonna feel about the story or or or
the narrative, the lore, the codex is whatever, but the stories I
come away with after playing it for a little bit, this happened to me.
I did this dumb thing, and then the next dumb thing happened,
and that was really great. Or I was in town and I was just
trying to, like, you know, talk to a merchant, and then
a cyclops came in and started throwing people. That stuff rules and it's not
stopping this game. And uh, the more I play it, the more
I discover it's like, oh that the game is so seamless and to letting
those things happen. That it kind of is. You're always gonna run into
something if you play for any extended period of time, and if you kind
of do just throw yourself into these situations where it's like, you know,
I get that Griffin has way too much health, you should just run away.
I'm like, now I'm gonna go get on its back. Let's find
out what happens. And then dumb stuff happens, and I end up having
a great time and it's a it's a fun game to stream, I think
because of that. But even when I was playing off stream, I just
kept running into scenarios like that and really enjoying it. So I think it's
very much a me kind of game. I'm going to I'm I'm gonna be
interested to see like where it like falls in the next couple of weeks as
people get more time with it, if they aren't getting what they need out
of the narrative, if they start to turn on it a little bit,
or if people sort of get on its wavelength. Because I don't think you
could just come at it and be like, oh, I'm going to play
this the way I want to. I think you kind of have to get
on its wavelength a little bit. Yeah, I think the thing that bothered
me initially about the combat is just like a lack of locking on unless I
drastically miss something and I'm just getting no luck on. It's like poppy combat
in kind of a fun way. Some of the abilities like do do like
kind of like a soft lock on though, So like that's hey, yeah
for sure. But I was telling Mike and Grubb before we started the show
today that I'm constantly tempted by seeing how my ponds have different vocations for me
that I kind of want to try a new class like the Grub. Yesterday,
watching you play the Thief looked like you were having a drastically different experience
than I've been having because you're zipping around all over the place. Yeah,
I've been playing the two handed Warrior build that uses the Great Swords and Hanmer,
and my games are completely so much more slower and like I'm moving around
less than you were, And that made me want to try that class immediately.
And then my pawn, bone Saw is an archer, and bone Saw
is just jumping all over the place drop kicking fools. That's ready, bone
Saw owon Saws. Ready. Yeah. You know, like a lot of
games that have this kind of job system, like the prospect of leveling up
jobs and finding new jobs kind of pushes me forward more so than the narrative
does right, and I do love that this game has that job system.
Also, like is the systems I think are the big draw here. I
think the PONN system is a big part of that. I'm always surprised at
what the ponds are capable of. Like I recently came across this treasure chest.
I was up on this cliff and I couldn't reach it, and my
one pond has the like ability where they can kind of launch you upwards,
and I thought it was just for like, oh getting on like you know,
some troll head. But he was just me was like, oh,
I'll get this, and he like went over there and like did the position.
I just walked out to him and he immediately launched me up right there
and I was able to get the chest. I was like, oh,
that's cool. Yeah, the pawns are the right level. We talked about
this, the right balance of dumb and smart, Like they do stuff like
that kind of on their own, and they'll tell you that they're doing it.
They also tell you when they're learning from something that you did. And
and and then in combat there it's like, no, I'm just gonna spam
flames at this thing and then if you ask for help, I'll help you.
I'm like, yeah, this is kind of what I want. I
want I want everything to feel kind of messy because I think it makes it
feel like, oh, anything can happen in this game. I do you
enjoy that they're kind of just going for it anytime we enter combat, They're
going all out constantly. And then that's makes it really fun to have all
these different kinds of ponds. So it's like I do try to keep that,
like, oh, everyone has a different job. I have my queer
obviously with me all the time, and then my main pond, Dark Mitch,
I think is a fighter. I think he's a fighter, and he's
I keep upgrading him and his billies are getting cooler and cooler. And then
I have usually I bring someone in that is like a high level archer or
high level mage or something like that, and just having someone in like you
know, throwing flames, someone dropping back doing the archer, and then me
and Dark Bitch like getting in there, climbing on whatever and just beating the
hell out of it. It's just a good time. It like feels like
so much is happening. Failure. I think you'd actually really enjoy this game.
Based off of what I recollect you digging last year, I feel like
there's a lot of opportunity for dumbness. I that's what it sounds like.
I've been reading a lot about all the stuff that's been pissing people off,
and I'm like, that sounds so fun, actually though, yes, Like
I'm just I'm deep in like a dragon right now. And when I'm not
playing like a Dragon, I'm playing blaster or or the new Stardew Valley update,
which is great. Oh snap, oh, I kind of want to
start another farm and there's just absolutely no time, no time. I feel
that, I feel hard. One of the things in the new update is
multiplayer. You can now do up to eight people. Just in fact,
I was only able to marry one person. Okay, like like a multiplayer
game. They have a Meadowlands farm now where they start you with a chicken
coop and two chickens and so like you start the farm with that and then
it's like fancy blue grass that the animal's love and crave and there's like so
you can make an animal farm. Yeah basically yeah, there's new crops and
and new events and it's so fun. It's so fun and cute. We
have more a multiplayer game, no no, no, no no no.
Started. Valley is what I'm always thinking about going back to as well.
I would like to like check that out and do some multiplayer games in that.
Yeah I've never starred, dude, really really yeah yeah you never never
never? What wait what I've never started? Dude? Start start I never
started? And Valley I'm making Channy happen. Do you know what's so cool?
Speaking of animal handling, I just watched goose pee on my new comforter.
Just now try to bury it. Dumb. Animals are so dumb.
Hold on in one second setting the animals just pee on things. Yeah,
they're just kind of mean. I got Penny on the pea pads only recently
because he's getting old and like even worse than before. So I have the
pads for her now and sometimes you like will find like because I have two
of them and the spot shacks that go and she will sometimes somehow find that
one sliver of carpet and just go on there. Anyways, animals, I
have like a handtel like one of those bissel like little green like steamer things,
because simply loves to do crys. So I'm gonna steam clean my bed
after this, I guess on Friday afternoon. Does anyone has anyone else been
playing anything else you'd like the chat? I played the Stellar Blade demo that
did you see? Yes, we saw body parts be encased in another skin
and then still jiggle very much like quite a lot. And then the camera.
Yeah, the camera doesn't do the modest thing where it's like we're not
going to let you look at the butt crack. This game is like,
look at the butt crack. It's right there, very butt crack central.
Yeah, butt crack heavy game. It is a decent action game. It's
what it feels like. It feels like a pretty good action game. Uh,
and one that if you are a normal person you're gonna have a normal
time with and you want to turn into some culture war thing, have at
it. I'm going to ignore you starting now. But but actually playing the
game itself, it's like, yeah, it wants to be sort of I
think in between a Devil May Cry and a from Software action game where they
the parry is the big thing, not the dodge. You get the dodge
as the first thing in the skill tree. So it is early on and
the perfect dodging is also part of the combat, but they emphasize perrying first,
and so it's like, to me, that feels more like Frumsoft.
And so I'm like trying to like every enemy I fight, standing right at
them, trying to let them come right at me, and then trying to
see I can figure out the perry window. And I think for a lot
of enemies, you're like astually they get more difficult and bigger. It seems
like that's going to be a necessity the more you play. I was playing
through obs, so it's getting a little bit of delay, So I think
that was kind of messing up the window for me. I'm gonna go play
Native on the PS five. I bet it's gonna feel a lot better that
way, because I'm a little surprised that they would have a difficult timing window
on that. Like the kind of game it is, it doesn't feel like
it's trying to be exactly like Secero, but you know, the very least.
I think once I give that a shot, i'll see how I feel
about all that. But as it is, the game is is pretty decent.
I think most people are gonna find it to be a time. Yeah,
the game looks uh okay, so it's computer crash. Realy got swarmed
by cats, one of whom pete on her bed and then like computer crashulta
injury. Yeah, I like to imagine one of the cats un blooded.
They're just she texted me, goose's fault. I assume. I assume too.
Yeah, yeah, it looks it also looks really good, like,
yeah, I guess what. I like that. The character's attractive. That's
cool. That's fine with me, Like, yeah, they did a good
job of designing that stuff. People brave of you, I know, thank
you. I want to stand up and people should applaud me. It is
certainly to the point of being like so ridiculously t that it's like, of
course, it's not not like the word isn't pathetic, but it is like,
okay, eye roll. Yeah, yes, I don't mind looking at
it, but it is a little bit like I want to point and laugh.
Yeah, of course I do, and I'm do that as well,
Like I'm like, okay, fine, she's an attractive character. Design cool.
It is also kind of absurd. How about you are putting the butt
in my face all the time, and I'm gonna make fun of that too,
we can. Yeah, Like I'm a Disney fan, obviously I love
being pandered too, but like I don't feel great about it, Like I'm
not proud of myself, right, like eating up the pandering. Yeah,
that's that is the and that is the thing that's kind of happening with this
game is like people, I am proud to be pandered too. Wow,
that's the weird thing about it. Are because you're a big boy? Is
that? Like you're a big, big baby boy. Yeah, okay,
chill out over there, yes, go ahead. It looks so much like
near I don't think it's a problem, but it is. Again, it's
a little bit like of a slight peg against like, oh, you didn't
have like much of your own ideas esthetic. That's that's correct. I think
that's exactly what this game was, even more so than like like Liza p
obviously looked a lot like uh, the blistered souls like blood blood Born,
but it was like, but like there's a twist here, kind of like
I don't even know if there's a twist here. It is at least what
we saw in that demo, which isn't a lot. It could go in
other places. It just was Near yep. And again, like that happens
a lot of times when the game like Near comes around and it's influential,
gets a whole dev team like, hey, we should make one of those.
And then so that's what they did. They made one of those.
And I bet it's not gonna have the depth of storytelling or the high quality
of music or even like the quality of characters that Near did, But I
bet it's gonna be a decent time. I bet it's gonna be just fine.
Like yeah, and I had a good time with what I played so
far. It's just, uh man, the more we were talking about the
how the Internet is treating that game, and not the whole Internet, but
certain pockets of the Internet, it's like Jesus Christ, guys, it's not
even a joke anymore. To go touch grass literally fucking go outside and talk
to another human being in person, you fucking dumb funny. And it's like
annoying because it does erase games like Beyonetta and Near, like those games are
not that old. In fact, Beynetta came out like what a year ago,
two years ago was like a year or so ago. Yeah, these
games existing are out there, and you guys ad like you're like parched in
the desert and this is your first oasis you've seen in twenty years. Yeah,
we don't need to make it this Culture Wars Savior. I think that
is doing a disservice to this game. They are also, they're not thinking
to you. They're just thinking about like the horny folks out there. They
just want to play an action game. And yeah, and thank thanks y'all.
Anyone else got anything? Half of all of them are yeah, yeah,
yeah yah behalf of all of them are your representative, an ambassador of
sorts. Here. I am to share the good word. What'd you guys
think about South Park game? Let's talk about here so we don't talk about
on BombCast next week. I guess it wasn't. I feared it might have
been worse. I was shocked that it is a co op thing, like
a co op mission based, maybe run based game. I just assumed that
it was some kind of PvP experience, and I'm still not sure why it
isn't that it was pretty simple the south Park humor. Mostly it worked.
Okay, I actually think it looked fine. I wasn't that thrown off by
like the three D south Park. Look, I think they may look Okay,
it was really simple and it was on normal difficulty. It felt like
very mindless. It is like the most five out of ten maybe like okay,
yes, this is like the baseline. This is the new most middle
game I could possibly think of. Yeah, I think that's completely fair.
It's kind of how I felt coming out, Like I did not hate it.
I was enjoying spending time with you guys, just with shooting, shooting
the shit, playing a video game that was inoffensive, although I think the
game would be would actually be mad to be described as inoffensive because it's South
Park, but it is. It kind of is. It's very Yeah,
it's it's familiar playing people. People say these things that come sometimes like a
little like oh you know, I've heard that before, But it is a
video game, right, How I feel about it? Yeah, it does
feel a little toothless. Yeah, because like that's how to train your dragon?
Oh okay, sorry, just because like they're leading on the same jokes
that we've already heard before. And it is also very odd that they're continuing
the timeline that's been established through the What I think is the better South Park
games with of truth and fractured but whole still the new kid, Like it's
still that timeline you were saying those games. Haven't we known each other long
enough that I'm not the new kid anymore? No? No, not at
all. Yeah, it feels perfectly fine. But even then, grub,
I feel like there are several other games that are feel that niche right,
Yeah, I mean and you, I mean you said it about this game.
It immediately falls to that bucket of we had a good time streaming it,
We're never gonna play it again, and I'm not gonna ever loave that
game up again. You know. Yeah, one day, this specific group
here will we'll have that same conversation about Suicide Squad Better think better one day.
One day, I want to play more Suicide Squad. But for some
reason, when I played on my stream, not as many people went wat
I. As soon as I was done writing the script for that, Like,
once the video went live on the channel, I uninstalled it. I
was like, cool, I'm done with it forever. I did see if
I did that the skull of the Skull and Bones before the video, it
is even ugh, what if we wait until Mike's birthday to play it on.
Oh, it'd be great, bat how much exciting content will be out
by then, So many multiverse jokers will be in the game. I can't
wait break news for the suicide squatters out there. Jokers now available. And
if you're asking yourself, I thought the Joker died in that universe. No,
it's a different universe joker that gets pourted into this timeline we are.
We're really gonna have have a multiverse reckoning here soon. It's getting super out
of control. I think it just fizzles out right, we don't get a
reckoning. We just like everyone pretends they didn't do that, and then they
start making like the next Spider Man movie, they're gonna pretend it was the
last one wasn't a multiverse movie. They might reference it, but mostly they'll
just kind of avert their games. Yeah. Yeah, I think like it's
just gonna be like Man on the Street, like Peter Parker stories from here
on out, hopefully. Yes, I mean after Madam Web really changed the
sure Yeah, yeah, so everyone should watch the Madam Web honest trailer.
By the way, I wrote on that one, Okay, I meant to
ask you also check out Bailey's video that you she put out that you put
out Bailey about your impressions of Madam Web. It was it convinced me to
watch it and my thirteen minute long rant that they did at the beginning of
stream, and I was just like, I'll just put this on YouTube.
It was amazing. Just I didn't believe you. Yeah, I watched it.
I was trying not to spoil it, but I honestly, like I
said it there and I'll say it again. I think kick a talk out
the movie for several hours and there would still be something that would completely take
you by surprise watching it. It's a wonderful movie. Watch it for webing
next us all, No man is an web Island? Yeah, okay.
Any any other games y'all want to talk about before we take a quick break
and get to the hot topic. I'm playing more of that and I'll talk
about that on the Big boy Bomb Cast for sure. Oh. A game
that I can finally say that I have been playing that I'll talk about on
the Big boy BombCast is Harold Hallibit. Oh you've been playing that? Oh?
Yeah, holy ship? How do the fuck does that game work?
Okay? Are you just flabbergasted by the tech and the way it looks,
or are you enjoying the video game? I am curious about this, more
flabbergasted by the tech as as the early stages where I'm at right now.
But just as we all know, I don't like claymation with stop motion,
and how they're able to pull this off just seems like an incredible technical feet
and I hope, I hope uh that there's a lot more to the game
than the early bits and what the trailer suggests. You kind of keep me
hooked because I do want to see all of it, because it seems like
a labor of love that the devil it does did to get this game even
out there or even working. I'm gonna ask hold on, I'm going to
make a poll real quick, and then we'll go to break now, you
know. I'll make the poll and then we'll go to break. Well,
we'll go to break and then we'll go to the pole. Now I need
I need new segment music. I need I need like maybe flames and then
like a sick metal guitar riff so I can like turn on this effect and
go the hot topic. It's good, Thank you, oh God, say
it like the hot pocket theme hot topic thing like that. Oh damn it,
you put in my head Now I can't not say pocket. There was
a food truck at Yes thinking the same thing, saying that we revolutionized the
way you hold food, and then we ordered the food because we need a
little sniky snack. And then I'm looking at it and I'm like, this
is just ananato. What the fuck? Like they had like it was like
the Italian sausage epinod and I was like, this is actually just a hot
pocket. I liked it. Don't get me wrong, but it was a
hot pocket. This week's hot topic rating the Dare I say pocket again?
No? No, you said it right, But but you could tell with
it? Yeah. Yeah, sometimes my mouth don't work. Yeah, absolutely,
I get it. What that mouth that do. I'm sorry everyone,
I'm gonna go take a long nap. This weekend, me to introduced a
segment I Can do It. Game of the Core. We're celebrating the fiscal
end of the fiscal quarter bye by. We're going to unofficially officially crown game
of the quarter game of the year so far. This will have no daring
and no effect on the actual game of the year that happens later in the
year, just or will it. I'm not pulling up an Excel sheet.
I am not pulling up the Eurovision. Yeah, well, two extra points
to whatever wins right now. And we won't tell anyone else that isn't on
this. That's right. Don't even know. We're the smart ones, right,
that's right. Come on, you know we're the fan favorites. Everyone
loves us. We want to get caught up on like a stupid geography quiz.
Right, No, No, We're not going to make everyone feel uncomfortable.
At the beginning of the voicemailed down truck yesterday that whatever happened, I
thought that anyway, if you're watching live, I threw into the chat.
There a link that Greup sent me that the Homies and game Spot put together
of twenty twenty four game release schedule. We're gonna just loosely use that to
build our should we come up with ten? We could totally come up with
ten, right, I think we've probably come up with ten. Let's see,
I bet we can at least come up with five. No problem,
easy, let's see. All right, I'm gonna pull up a word doc.
I'll try and throw that up on screen for folks. But what do
we think so far as the game of the quarter. Should we just go
round and each nominate one real quick? Maybe do two rounds of nominating one?
Yeah, let's let's do that. Do we want to stick around or
just like circle around? Let's circle around and let's start with Bailey Elecha interesting.
Never would never would have predicted that it's so funny. I think I
remember watching your first ballacho stream first your account. I don't know, I
find that it'd be the upset you. I'm sorry. What do you think
Bailey would have said about why she likes Blatro so much? It makes the
brain feel good? Okay, she's gone, she's back, she's gone.
I think she's gone. I think she's gone. Well hear that here.
Belatro is good because the cards you put them in the down and then they
score a long points. And I mean, what else could you really say
about Bilotro at this point that it really is just it feels really good to
play. Uh, yeah, you know, I love a good roguelike,
and this is one of the best ones. I'd love how good of a
drop it does taking those poker mechanics. I think most people are familiar with
and if you are, you learned them pretty quickly here. Yeah, you
know, it really does do a lot of fun things in At first you're
like, oh, I can do this build like basic stuff like oh flush
is you know, three of the kinds, and then you can get real
wacky stuff. The more you play, it does do a good job incentivizing
how you keep playing with the you know, like you know, oh,
I want to be with this deck. I want to beat it on like
this hard mode, and then beating it on that hard mode unlocks this new
deck and then you're unlocking new jokers the whole time. So there's reasons to
keep going back to it. Yeah, and it's like a lot of that
stuff is like the basic Rogue light stuff. Uh oh oh no, okay,
Bailey, we appreciate you. Thank you for making the talk today.
Oh Bailey might sty in restart router mode if you haven't done that yet.
It sucks. I'm glad that only the very angry excavations are getting through.
Yeah, the Bailey and the machine. Yeah, you know what I thought,
I was a I should I should have I saw something, I should
have sund something. As soon as we started in Bailey's video wasn't looking good.
I was like, what hell, this is Bailey? I think you're
kind of back now. No never mind, No, she's not back.
He's not. He's got to she's got to start Brodies. Well, join
us. Okay, the remainder of the pod, but we'll we'll keep going
talking a lot. All right, I'm just gonna, uh just ruining the
podcast now because of my I think I think we are all getting her in
like fits and starts. I don't even I don't know. Keep talking,
gentlemen, Yes, no problem, okay, So billatro Mike, do you
have another game you want to add on to the list? Final Fantasy seventh
Rebirth would be my first pick. Actually, I love to remake a lot.
I think that Rebirth is actually better. The Skelevet is just absolutely incredible.
I love all the side stuff, like to like, uh, the
stuff it makes me do, and then the stuff that is actually side stuff.
I think all that stuff is fun and goofy and ridiculous, whether it's
like doing the military marches or suddenly I'm playing like a carnival shooting game.
Queen's Blood just an all time incredible mini game. Maybe the best in game
card game ever. Very good boss I still probably the best combat system of
any game. I just love the way fighting in this works. And you
know it was also good in remake. But now we have even more characters
than they all still feel really unique and they're doing weird, wacky things.
Even Kate Sith Kate Sith. It was such a non factor in original bas
simmer Me is a really fun character here and kind of a more interesting character
all time. Great soundtrack, Just love, love, love love the game.
Yeah, I think we can hear you now. I don't have a
Bailey on my end. I have a frozen Bailey. I don't have a
Bailey window. Maybe if I have to go by, I think we'll see
you on the other side. Yeah, if if you want to start the
PC and the modem, that might work. But other than that, yeah,
I guess talk about about all right, I can see him, tell
him, I can she can see you. I see you all right.
Yeah. Final Fantasy seven Rebirth is kind of one that. Yeah, I
know I'm very particular. Okay, okay, Bailey wants me to tell you
all that I am her Patricia Arquette. All right, Yeah, I would
have gone with Patrick Swayze or media right and we'll be Goldberg. Sean,
please keep this audio in for right now because it's gold with this one.
Sean Bailey, she's still there. Bailey is saying, sorry, she clapped
so good this time. He clapped really well, shut this whatever you want,
Chief Lowell microphone, don't keep that in shute Okay, bye, Bail,
thank you. You think she's on Wi Fi or what a baby?
I think she's not hardwired in there's a chance. Yeah, I don't want
to say things. I don't want trying to get mad at her. But
yeah, like a house with other folks, sometimes you don't have a choice,
that's right. Yeah, ship just dro holes and stuff. Yeah,
you're allowed to do that. And when you're rented in place, definitely,
Yeah, I would. I would to put Prince of Persia The Lost Crown
on h That's a game that immediately feels good the second you pick it up.
Moving the character around is fantastic. The combat actually is really engrossing right
away. It feels like you have a lot of control to get in,
do an attack, get out, there's and then it gets Everything gets deeper
the more you play, especially the locomotion, getting around the world. You
have so many abilities at the end of that game to do such cool stuff,
and then you realize you can like sprinkle in like the like the shadow
that you can leave behind that you can then warp to using that in combat
when it's like, oh, that's a no, that's a getting around tool,
like no, that can also be a combat tool, and a lot
of bosses forced you to use it. And once that happens and you can
and you realize you can use that in any fight, it just continues to
open up what's possible in terms of how the combat can feel in that game.
And then that has great challenges to really stress your ability to do platforming
and the combat, and it's just it's great from top to bottom. I
really enjoyed it. It's one of my favorite Metroid Bana games of all time.
Yeah, and I like it just being a throwback to like the two
D Prints of Persia because I was kind of getting I'm really tired and it
felt like they were running out of ideas of what to do with like the
three D Prince of Persia's. They definitely had some struggles there. Yes,
Yeah, I enjoyed that last one with the Prince with the really long scarf
and you had the companion, but not the last one that was the reboot.
Then they unbooted it with that other game. It was Gotten Sands or
something. Yeah, okay, yeah, they did Prince of Persia, Stands
of Times, then the Edgy one, then Warrior Within Warrior Within two Thrones,
then just Prince of Persia, and then that fourth one that went back
to the trilogy timeline. I think about the reboot unboot all the time.
Yeah, this game really stands out though as an early favorite for me this
year. Oh yeah, it is some of the best two D combat and
best two D movement I've ever played game. I love Metro Venias a lot,
and it is absolutely one of the best of them. I'm excited for
that. We're getting some new contact coming out for that not too long for
not I think it is actually like on sale at the moment. I know
some people if all we saw games like I'm gonna wait till it goes on
sale. What's on sale now? Like, so, uh, you know,
do it? I just give you so much dand that you were on
some podcasts you said you played some other Metro you were Zarah zaraz Ow.
Yes, yeah, and you were like, oh, the movement in this
like actually like like like is way better than in uh Prince of Persian.
I got mad at you. Oh yeah, please please. I was like,
I don't believe you, just because I like this game so much,
Like, nah, I can't be right. I hope it is, though,
I'm excited for that game now. Yeah, this this, uh,
I feel like two D platforming for me personally kind of peeked around us Celeste
and just kind of like that white knuckle like gripping the controller just like really
high tense, stressed platforming puzzles. But this game, Prince of Persia really
the levels where that is the main goal. And I was initially frustrated with
some of like the more time sensitive puzzle platforming bits, but they just nailed
this, and just every part of the game just feels so well designed that
like, yo, we got Prince of Persia. Let's actually do this ip
justice by doing the cheat code and making this a castle a Castlevania game,
because that's what just makes everything better. Turns out, it makes it all
better. Yes, it's a cheat code. Jan, I think it's your
turn to pick a game. I'm going to nominate Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth.
Hell yeah, uh hawlly smokes. I really enjoyed the original Like a
Dragon and Ichibon as a character, that whole cavalcade of a bunch of bumbling
bozos, and I thought it'd be a bit challenging and to hopefully recapture that
magic with a second game, especially seeing that they were going to add Kirau
back in because I thought we had reached the end of kirius story. I
thought, maybe is a Sega not showing as much confidence in Ichibon as a
protagonist that they have to go back and lean on kiri You constantly. But
the way that the story eventually winds up evolving with wrestling with Ichibond's growth and
Kiriu's growth as well him as a character. And even if you're not familiar
with the Yakuza story, you can still gleam a lot of emotional resonance from
it. And on top of that, I think, next to you Final
Fantasy seven Rebirth, this is a very incredible twist on like turn based combat
that is super active in a fun way. I think one of the biggest
drawbacks for me in the original, Like a Dragon is that you had no
control at all over positionality. When it came to any of the combat,
you kind of just had to do to make a difference. It was kind
of just this like for show thing. Yeah yeah, like you kind of
dumb lucked your way if like an enemy got hit by a car, if
you got hit by a car. But here it matters so much. I
thought it'd be overwhelmed by the social link style relationships with your friends, but
it winds up really mattering down the line, not just for like adding context
to the story, but really to just level up those relationships so the combat
flows even better, because at first it feels a little bit disconnected that you're
just taking turns with all the characters, but then you slowly start adding in
those different elements and like it is just you and a bunch of friends beating
up a bunch of dumbasses. And there's so much in the game on top
of that, like to try and explore, Like I spent so long on
Dan Doco Island when it was first some lock to me, like there's a
whole animal crossing of this game, which I think is absolutely amazing, And
there's some parts of it that feel better than Animal Crossing that I think it
is amazing that like this could have totally been a standalone DLC mode that they
spin off for like twenty thirty bucks. Even that is all in this game,
and then there's even more with a side quest. I know that the
side quest kind of fell short for a lot of folks, but in my
experience with the ones that I pursued, I really liked it. And ichibon
Jesus Christ, what a fucking character, What a guy that he's a dude's
dude. And I said this when we were initially talking about it. I
think playing games like this, where you have more of an adult cast that
feels real, is ultimately what is hurting my future enjoyment or current enjoyment of
games like the Persona series, completely different games, but just having those relationships
feel adult and having semi real issues that they're dealing with in fantastical ways.
Of course, it just hits home harder than trying to tap into that teeny
teeny bopper story so far. And that's why I think like a Dragon infinite
wealth in our top ten, we'll go for a ten. Let's do a
ten. Yeah, we'll make it to a ten. Yeah, that would
have been my next one as well, so and echo everything. I just
think it's such a really fun ride, and then it does a good job
of making you care about those characters. By the end, I was just
so in love with all the characters, and that they're in their endings really
hit. I think the games like ending to its plot wasn't you're fighting this
particular guy and I'm like, I don't really care about this all that much,
But everything else surrounding that was fantastic. And yeah, the combat is
it was fun the entire time I played the game, so just really enjoyed
that. I think the next game I would probably put up there is hell
Diverse too, a game that I've enjoyed every time I've played it with you
all, and then I've played a handful of times now on my own and
continue to have really good time with it. I think it's easily gonna have
a good shot at getting into our top five on this list. Yeah,
despite a lot of us really mostly primarily playing it on stream. I think
for me this recaptures that feeling of jumping into Apex where I don't have to
worry about playing with strangers. I can have a good time playing with strangers
because the tools in the game, and just like everyone's objective is pretty unified,
where ye all right, we're gonna work together because we kind of have
to. Even if you come across players that that aren't on Mike, and
that's fine because I'm rarely on Mike either. Everyone is fairly cooperative, but
if you wind up matching with someone that is super well experienced kind of just
grinding it out, they and they kind of stonewall you. They eventually wind
up having to work with you. Anyway. They just have it okay to
a good time. Yep. I also love how they've been rolling out new
content. It makes the world feel alive, like y'all see all those fire
tornadoes. Like a week ago, I've been able to play ODT. Second,
I feel bad about it because I love the game and I definitely want
to go back and play more of it because every time I do play the
game, I have a fantastic time. Yep. It's one of those where
it's like, you know, one of those PV games where you are going
in there and you have an objective and it's really intense, and yet it
is still also like that fun chat room where you're hanging out and then any
moment now some new things happening, that it's gonna be a fun story.
I mean, I do remember the one time we're trying to evacuate and everyone's
dying around me, and I'm just like kind of jumping up on boxes and
just barely avoiding everything and jumping onto the the evacuation plane at the last second,
and it just felt so cool and fun and intense because everyone's yelling at
me just to survive. So yeah, good moments, good time, I
think, Mike, that means it's back to you. I've I've also asked
Bailey if she's what she wants to give me your second game, so she
throws something at me. I'll let you guys know that totally. Last one
was my turn, but you skip me. But that's okay, Well I
won't say anything. Okay, Well that doesn't matter to me. I do
Teching eight next. Actually, I'm glad you. Yeah. I was excited
because I actually never really played much Techa before, and I was really in
the mood to play a three D fighting game, so I was excited for
this one, and it really delivered. It has like a fun over the
top story mode. I actually really liked the arcade quest mode though, which
is like kind of a tutorial, but also it gives you a chance to
like pick your character and have a kind of story focused thing that gives you
an excuse to play a lot of matches and learn how that works. And
there's like this you know, dumb anime arc about like you know, like
what's it really mean to play tech and stupid stuff like that. But it's
a lot of fun. But even just like climbing the ladder, you know,
picking a character I want with Raina and just like learning to get really
you know, like like decent with her, learning combo strings and all these
mechanics. It was always a ton of fun. It's a very satisfying fighting
game of great characters in there. I think all the new editions, even
Coffee Lady, are a lot of fun. I see a lot of people
playing the new characters really like Victor, Coffee Lady Raina always seem to be
popular choices, and I feel bad calling your coffee as Zusina as you've seen
as you're seeing that, Yeah, I did it. I did it.
Everybody afo tech ND rules, I get it. Yeah, I'm and I
haven't played as much as you, but what I have played, I really
was in love with that game. It's like think you guys described it early
on. It's like a competent game a very confident player and that that comes
across immediately, and I think all the characters look great and it just has
such great juice. It really does. The thing with tech and eight that
I'm most excited for is seeing its presence in EVO this year. Yeah,
I can block. I'm always excited to see the finals in Yeah, and
then just seeing that game looking nicer, performing solid. I can't wait for
that block Jesus Yep, it's gonna be a good time. Jane. I
think it's you again. Even though I've spent pretty limited time in it and
the game has been crashing on me like a motherfucker, there is something about
Dragon's Dogma two that gets its hooks into me, that taps into that feeling
of being playing Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom, and I
tend to bounce off of fantasy games really quickly. Take care. I didn't
really like SKYRIMW just because it just never felt like it was for me.
But I think the ability to constantly have a posse of folks following you around
and all of them to be fairly competent, Like I don't think I've ever
been frustrated with a pawn actually, now that I think about it. And
seeing that extreme example yesterday during your stream grub where you and dark Mitch are
gripping for dear life onto a griffin, dark Mitch falls off. You fall
off eventually, and then dark Mitch is there to catch you, I think
really really wows me in such a special way because I think there is so
much dumb possibilities in this game, with even your tool set kind of feeling
fairly limited, Like I kind of miss being able to reliably fast travel around.
I miss a lot of quality of life things from other games like like
this. I wish I had an ascend for instance. Sure, but pairing
that with the the dumb shenanigans and having like a giant party, and it
just feels like a a weird, terrifying world to live in. Like last
night, I fought what I think was a were wolf giant wolf or something.
Yeah, I thought that guy a war wolf. Uh, And then
you know, I had three pawns with me, my my trustee group with
me, and I felt confident enough to take take it on, even though
it had like a pretty substantial health bar. And then out of nowhere,
four other PCs jump in and join the fray, and there were just like
thieves jumping around a bunch of like sprays of fire and lightning happening, And
it feels so great. The possibilities are endless. And I can tell you
someone that really enjoys story in video games. I don't fucking care about anything
happening within the story here, the game play and the shenanigans, the open
world tomfoolery is enough to like propel me through. I just I just like
having a party in a game like this. Yeah, we're like, oh,
yeah, what if you did have a party in a Skyrim that would
have been really neat. Yeah, and it feels like that here. Yeah
you had you had you have like maybe one retainer in Skyrim, And I
would usually actually never do that because they usually just kind of got in the
way. Yeah, And like you know, uh, Mike and I we
both enjoy the Kingdom Hearts series, but sometimes Donald and Goofy are absolutely useless.
No, how dare you? And then, like, unless it's a
game like Final Fantasy seven Rebirth where you're giving you're given direct control of your
party members, like they can kind of feel perfluous and just like just get
in the way here. The pawns are actually substantial, they're they're doing things
like I don't want to imagine playing the game solo Dollo because then it feels
very very lonely and despite the constant chatter, and I mean constant chat,
there always popping off. I adore it. I absolutely love it. This
is like a goofy ass game that I think a lot of folks should check
out, and it seems like a lot of folks are really digging it and
enjoying it. It's definitely reached a wider audience this time around. Oh yeah,
just doing very well. Yep. Uh, Mike, it's my turn,
but I'll let you go first this time. That's very nice of you,
jeff I. I noticed I noticed Jance Persona Slander earlier, and I'm
not going to abide it because Persona three Reload is absolutely one of my favorite
games still been. I've been playing it consistently almost since it came out.
Like the way I like more than a month, right, Yeah, that's
the way I like to play Persona games. Like sure, I'll just play
like hour of it every night before I fall asleep in bed. It's it
runs fantastic on the rog Ally. I'm you know, like almost into December
now, so pretty far along. But man, this is the best Persona
game now, Like I think it just Person three was always very good.
It was always kind of the first one, so there's some awkwardness there with
the way that it worked, and you know, it was a late PS
two games. Wasn't the most pretty thing. Then. You know, throughout
other releases like Portable, they fix things here and there. Now this game
really does look fantastic. I think a lot of the rougher edges have been
ironed out. There is some new content here, new character moments that are
fantastic. I like Persona five, but there is something about this that is
a bit more streamlined, just not maybe quite as much fat as Persona five
fasts, and I like a lot of that fat fat as flavor. Right,
that's fine, but this is a leanar experience that sometimes is a bit
more digestible. I don't know why I'm making it all about food. I'm
hungry, right, But it's just a very satisfying loop of like, yeah,
for a while, I'm gonna do all this social stuff and that's gonna
feel good. And then you get into Tartarus and I've played enough of these
games now that I can like really have very good long sessions in that kind
of randomized dungeon world now and just constantly making my persona. It's always,
it always has been a good loop. But it feels fantastic here. I
think adding things to the battle system, like the kind of limit break things
that you have now, and the ability to if you get a hit a
weakness, you can pass your turn to a party member that was from five.
I love having that in here. It is just smooth a f I
am loving Persona three relove. I'm waiting for the lull and the year mic
for to eventually circle back, because I feel like I've gone everything from the
Infinite Wealth still in the way to finishing Rebirth and then I just want to
like sink my teeth into Persona. There were a lot of big, very
good RPGs in beginning the year. I have not touched Infinite Wealth yet,
and I feel bad about it, and I still mean to get to it.
I also really want to play Unicorn over Lord. I feel bad that
I want to play that too. I feel bad I can't speak to it
to this list because people do really like it. I haven't touched a second
of that one yet. Yeah, so we have two spots left. That
doesn't mean we have a stop of the tube. We can add a couple
more and then start maybe pairing back real quick. But uh so I figured
I just throw out a couple real quick. Our Z. Oh absolutely,
yes, that's one of my favorite games of the year. I really really
enjoy what I've played of that. I'm on this game spot list. Is
it what the it's it's not here. I'll send you guys another list.
That's what I'll log into their CMS and addict. Yeah, we'll fix it.
Our That's like really, it's really special in that it captures a very
specific time, a very specific feeling of game of these early f and vs
where in early CD gaming, where like we didn't know what was possible and
we were kind of I think I was looking off from the side thing.
Most people were looking off from the sideline at these things and be like that
looks weird and expensive. And I'm like curious, but I will never ever
actually get to play that because it's way too expensive. And what this does
is it gives me a chance to experience that today with people who understand that
feeling, who understand like, like what is going on over there? And
they remade a game basically just like that, with the weird animation style that
has like no rules and the terrible voice acting that is actually terrible in a
super charming way in this game. And then they made an inoffensive, like
little fun platform or game where you go back and forth and do tasks to
be able to meet new characters that are always so fun to meet because they
do have this wild animation and these wild character voices, so they think,
yeah, yeah, they know what they're doing. And they nailed it in,
you know, as someone that has like no reverence and has only ever
seen like maybe the first scene that game. This absolutely is on an acid
trip the whole way through. And if you have no interest in playing this
game, I highly recommend just playthrough, maybe lay through, just just so
you can see the cut scenes because it is cinema yo, Like it's fun
over Scorsese, Like CD controller got one of those cd I controllers from Limited
Run. That's the tom Cast. Well, you just gave it to me
for my birthday. I think, yes, the ruled felt pressured by you.
I love this game. I like admire it deeply. I think it's
so cool what they did here, taking this like infamously bad game and like
like making something that's like kind of a parody but then also like fun and
good to Yeah, awesome. I want to see so much more of right
in terms of like a video game, like having a very specific goal and
then achieving that. This is like way up there with me. I'm going
to be shocked if this isn't in my top ten by the end of the
year. I had a stupid smile on my face almost the entire time I
played this thing. It's like like if you ever had a kid that like
loved an ugly toy, That's what CDI games are, like, just this
ugly thing and having someone like grow up and then be able to express that
love in their own game. It just is so nice to experience. The
other one is gonna say is Expeditions, a mud runner game, which we'll
see if it's gonna be able to make the list. But I have been
enjoying it. It rules a great steam that game, actually, because they
do make it more bite size and just like picking it up and be like,
all right, I was in the middle of this task. I will
I'll go get my other truck and we'll just keep keep going to the goal
here. I see if I can rescue that other truck one on my way
there. It's the quest design's actually much better thought out than any of the
previous games as well, so I'm enjoying it quite a bit awesome. What
about what about Pennies Big Breakaway? Yeah, I like that a lot.
I just haven't liked that. Played enough of it. I feel don't put
it on there, definitely want to play more of it same, that's for
sure. I am liking it. I would want to put on Unicorn Overlord.
I don't know if it's gonna hang on my toph God hang stick around
on my top ten until the end of the year. We'll see. I
also don't think it's gonna probably make its way to the top ten of like
the site's list by the end of the year. I'm gonna play. I'm
gonna try it and we'll see. Well. But that being said, like
I really like the flow of combat and the gameplay. The story is hit
or miss, it's incredibly okay, very middle of the road while we're throwing
out buzz words, but just the way that once you get kitted out,
and once you unlock enough party members and tile sets. I was really disappointed
when I fired up the game and learn that you're not actively controlling your party
members other than guiding them around a map, Like I was disappointed when I've
eventually gone to combat and saw that I'm not direc giving them orders or whatever.
But then that pretty quickly goes out the window once you see like the
depth that is available there in seeing how the different abilities and especially the different
characters and specifically specific units really synergize well with each other. That by the
end or not by the end, but by the time where the gate you're
really into the thick of it with a combat, it's really singing and it
feels incredibly satisfying just seeing the meters tick off and not giving any opponents or
enemies even the chance to attack, Like you're going into encounters where the whole
time the boss is taunting you of like I'm gonna get youall you're not gonna
be able to get past me. I'm a big wall of the person,
and then you eventually get there and completely like thank you. You completely rinse
through them so easily because the way that you have two party groups just synergizes
so well, where you're able to like bash a front line with hammers,
and then your front line is just nothing but thieves so they never get hit.
The demo for this game is incredibly generous. It'll give you a good
sense of whether or not this you'll this will be for you, and whether
or not you want to stick with it. I think it's really special,
and I don't want this to fall into the same spot that deal Field Chronicles
fell into, because I feel like that game also had a lot of neat
things that it was trying to pull off. I think Unicorn Overlord is pulling
off different things. But I think it is such a neat idea to approach
turn based combat strategy combat. And it also has tiles, so you know
it's going to be like I need, I need to experience it for myself.
I have the demo on the switch. I'm just gonna finally play it
this weekend. It runs incredibly well this is the game I want to play
the most that I haven't played, probably once I beat PERSONA three. This
is like my new like nighttime portable gaming thing though. Oh yeah yeah,
even before like a dragonau So I actually want to play this even more than
that. Really excited. I think you could at least put it up on
the list for now, jan yeah's put that up there. Yeah. Oh,
also it's a it's a Vanilla ware joint, so all you Sussio motherfucker's
out there. Those character designs, there is a lot. What are you
talking about. Characters in every vigame had been ugly until Stellar Blake came out.
All right, I'm stupid. Yeah, I'm the beta here, your
beta powers off the charts. Very excited. There's Fox girls in the game.
Yes, I did get a message from Bailey. She said like a
Dragon and she also said that new sheer in the Wanderer game. Oh I
want to play that real bad. The Wonder for people who don't know,
is like the Mystery Dungeon people. It's like the mystery dungeon game they make
that isn't tied to another I p like the Pokemon one or like the Chocobo
Wan. Yeah, I need to check this one out so pretty badly.
But you can delete that jam because we have none of us have played it.
Sorry, Bailey. Yeah, next time, just come to packs and
tell me all how good she're in the Wonder is and maybe I'll play it.
I'm Bailey because I respect women. Oh man, there he is women
woman. Yeah. All right, so we have uh kind of like,
let's see one, get rid of one. Okay, I was about to
count, but thank you counted for me. All right. Well yeah,
let's get rid of one, all right, get rid of expeditions and you
know, I mean I I want to check this out. Yeah, what's
what's the multiplayers acting? Which it might be by now I'll make you assholes
play this game. Uh. I didn't realize how heavy of an RPG year
this was until looking at this now. It's been insane. Here's my question
for for uh, for you two, do you think that we've kind of
peaked in this first quarter because it feels like things are going to slow down?
I mean, I think you're still there's quite a few games I'm still
looking forward to, but it's not like the first quarter was. I mean,
come on, we had suicide Squad I thought about trying to get suicides.
Yeah, listen, it was a first quarter heavy year, which might
make this a bit redundan when we get to the end of the year.
But who knows. Like I, like I said, I keep hearing Dragon
agees coming. Maybe there's gonna be a lot more surprises like that actually coming
out this year. Star Wars Outlaws is still supposed to come out this year,
right, Is that true that that's supposed to be this year? I
think yeah, plenty look forward to then. Yeah, yeah, I'm I
am excited for that thousand Year Door remake. Now it's actually looking pretty good.
I love that game, so I'm excited for that. Yeah. I'm
also I'm growing curious about Dragon ball Z Sparking Zero. I've heard, I've
heard interesting thing. I've got some good news for you. I'll send you
for you an email, Oh, hot Dog. Yeah, yeah, you
know, looking at the order of this list, it's not that uh you
know what, Yeah, listen, I think uh, I would like to
see like a Dragon Infinite Wealth above Fi Fantasy seven rebirth, but I know
that I think it's probably just now. So yeah, I think I'm okay
with accepting at least the first five and then the bottom five looks good?
Actually, can we move our zett up to six right behind hell Divers two?
I would move up as much as you want. All right, let's
move I'll put it above hell Divers too. Let's move it above hell Divers
too. Yeah, that actually rules. Yeah, you know, I would
maybe say it, Mike, put Persona over Dragon's Dogma. We'll do that
for now. We'll do that. Can we can we move Dragons, Dogma
and Persona above tench and eight? Um, sure, I'll back you up
on that. Thank you, Jan, you're in control. Sews upset,
se I objected. Let it be known then, okay. Yeah, there's
there's still a couple of titles this year that I'm fairly excited about. Like
I want to see how Stellar Blade's gonna land. I want to see uh
is metaphor Refantasio that's supposed to be this year. That's this year, Harold
Howlibut is April sixteenth. Yeah, I want to see the whole game Children
of the Sun, that a sniper game I played on the demo Derby.
They're not you have a dimmer thing that is coming out coming out like a
week from now. What is another game I want to circle back to and
maybe convince y'all to do it with me. Is Grain and Blue Fantasy Reeling.
Yeah I did. I just downloaded that on my Steam deck. Okay.
I don't know why because I'm it's not a me game, but I'm
I downloaded on my Steam deck. Uh. Yeah, there's a But there's
a bunch of coming out still, like another Crabs, Treasure, that Teenage
Mutant, Ninja, Turtles Arcade, Wrath of the Mutants, Tales of Kinzera
Zoo. Yeah, there's a lot to look forward to. But Home World
three is the one I was thinking. I'm like, yeah, I'm ready
for another Home World game, But two's coming out in May. Comes out
in May. Yeah. Do you want me to read this list for the
audio listeners? I think we're happy with this list as is right. Yeah,
So Mike, why don't you go ahead and read it, start from
ten and work your way down. So these are our top ten games of
the first fiscal quarter of twenty twenty four. At number ten Unicorn Overlord,
number nine, Tech and eight, number eight, Dragon's Dogma two. Number
seven is Persona three Reload, number six, Hell Divers two Number five is
our Zet, the Jewel of Fairmore. Number four is like a dragon infinite
wealth. Number three is Prince of Persia, the Lost Crown. Number two
is Foo Fantasy seven Rebirth, and number one who could have seen it coming?
It's Bilatro. Yeah. I want to play another quick game here with
you two and the folks at home, if you're listening live, I want
y'all to do a mind exercise of how much some of these items are going
to move by the end of the year. Oh yeah, okay, I
think I would put money now that Blotro is going to win our Game of
the year. Yeah, that was an interesting Pollcuson I saw in the chat.
It's like, is twenty twenty fours game of the year on this list
right now? Blocho's just like, I really like Blocho. It's not gonna
I one if it's gonna be on my top five. I have a little
bit of that snobby important scale thing in me, something importance. I have
a little bit of the best Jeff back in your defense, you're much better
than you used to be about that Mike. You used to be like to
be completely dismissive of games like this, and now you're like, no,
I like these and playment they're great. Yeah, exactly. Uh So,
like Blocho will definitely be in my top ten for sure, and I think
it's going to do very well on our list. But you know, like
my number one out of all these right now is Rebirth. I would not
be shocked if that is just my game of the year when it's all said
and done. Yep, yeah, yeah, I'm I'm in a tough spot
here because I absolutely adore inf Wealth. I'm liking Rebirth well enough. I
think I am kind of in between TAM's feelings on the game and Mike's feelings
on the game so far. So I guess that that's out to a nine.
And then remembering my score of course I remember every score micuh and then
Blotro just geez, it's a good turn your brain off game that you still
have to think about. Uh. I think that Blotro Rebirth will definitely be
on there, and then everything else is has a chance of missing, even
Prince of Persian like a Dragon Infinite Wealth. Although I will be fighting for
both those games, Prince of Persia is probably my number two right now.
I might be fighting for number one. I think a bunch of a chance.
It has the file things. I love that our set is this high
here. I love that game when we put when we post this to social
media, can we blur out everything except for our set? I guess we
will. Should number this too so people can number uh just for my O
C D. Should add the subtitles for our person. Yeah, oh boy,
all right, yeah, well done. Yeah that's the job boys.
Yeah, and thank you once again. Bailey Bailey named the game of the
year, got one and then just pieced out. It was kind of a
baller out from moves. I'm intimidated. Yeah, Bailey Bailey had trained her
cats to right so she could do the peace signs, the deuces, and
then it just turned off. Yeah, I understand why they got their own
day now. Those women. Yeah, finally we've learned the value of women.
It's been a powerful episode, everybody. We've learned a lot, We've
said a lot, and maybe we shouldn't have learned or said anything the story
of gian Bomb. Maybe we shouldn't have. Yet, like everything else,
we persisted. Jeff Grubb, thank you, Mike Manaughty, thank you,
Bailey Master, thank you Google Docs, thank you, Turboshan thank you as
well, and thank you for listening along at home. We unofficially officially crowned
the Game of the quarter. No Game of the year so far, Game
of the year so far. Love to see it, Love love a good
numbered list. Folks. Will see you next Tuesday for another episode of the
BombCast. Next week is going to be an interesting week. The folks are
going to hold down the fort. I don't think there's gonna be a blight
club next week because Danny boy is on his way to WrestleMania. We'll find
out. He might he might be gone already. We'll figure it out.
We'll see how it's gonna go, everybody. I don't think we've officially officially
said anything, but I will be joining Dan Reichert in Philly for an anime
convention. That's right, Marina. Yeah, and videos, wrestling videos will
be abound. I'll make sure that he's his finger. He stay healthy throughout
the whole week. Don't thank you, Jim uh, but we'll see you
next week for another episode. Oh the Giant mom guess into Fiscal whoa else?
Yeah? Goodbye, Jim Ryan, Happy trails, Jim get Jennerman.
I'm glad you're dead,