WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:06.360 Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly video game show 2 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:09.960 here at Geekbverse. I'm your host, the Traveler Dylan Muss, and have 3 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:13.320 with me the keyed kirklen Patzer. How are you doing, my friend, 4 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:17.359 I'm doing really good. Yeah, I had a good Monday and I'm excited 5 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:20.839 to talk some side quests with you. How was your camping trip? I 6 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:23.640 didn't ask you. It was really good. Yeah, I had a really 7 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:29.280 great time. We had some great weather. Yeah, it was potential for 8 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:32.280 rain on the weekend and we got some rain, but I feel like it 9 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:35.079 was kind of the best times we could have got it. Throughout the day. 10 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:37.320 We like, we went for a nice hike and then as we were 11 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:41.119 coming back the rain was rolling in, but like it never really lasted too 12 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:45.679 long. It got pretty windy one of the nights there, but yeah, 13 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:50.119 no it was. It was really nice, like nice eighteen nineteen weather, 14 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:54.479 you know, nothing too hot. We hit up the dog Beach and Marco 15 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:57.359 went for some nice swimming. It was a little bit too cold for any 16 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:00.240 humans to really dive in there, but he sure had a blast. And 17 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.119 yeah, it was good. First campionship of the year, so excited for 18 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:07.599 more. To come if we can tent together sometime here in the near future. 19 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:11.519 I don't think I've ever gone camping with you. When you said tent 20 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:15.599 together, I thought you might like physically be in a tent too. Why 21 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:18.640 not let's do it. That'd be so funny. Go camping MUDs and show 22 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:21.879 you guys can share tent in Kirkland. We got to do this, but 23 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:25.280 no, we definitely should. I have a couple. I don't really have 24 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:29.000 any books that are like close to Koloonna, so it'd be a bit of 25 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.719 a trek. But we should definitely plan one out because there's some good sites 26 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:36.000 kind of midway between Colona and Vancouver, so that'd be fun. Yeah. 27 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.120 Absolutely. One of our favorites is Kentucky Alane. That's definitely. Yes. 28 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:42.359 That place is great. It more on the Colona side than Vancouver side. 29 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:44.519 I will make you a track out there because it was really fun when I 30 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:48.000 went there. Yeah recently. That's awesome. That's great. Yeah. But 31 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:51.120 anyway, this is not a camping podcast, is a video game podcast. 32 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:55.680 Today we have a kind of a random smattering of topics, a couple of 33 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:57.640 surprise things, and then some games we've been playing a little bit of news 34 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.959 as well, but it was kind of a slower news week. We're right 35 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.840 on the cusp of it though, because right now is what is it gonna 36 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:07.040 be? May eighth. This episode comes out June ninth, tenth. That's 37 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:09.599 when a bunch of the showcases and things are happening, so we really don't 38 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:14.039 have much time before it really gets rolling here. Next week's episode is going 39 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:16.560 to be the review for hell Blade two. Me and Travis are playing through 40 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:22.599 that right now, so look forward to that and uh yeah, other other 41 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:24.680 shout outs here, you know, join the discord, jone the Patreon to 42 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:30.280 get episodes early and ad free. Last week did a review of Furiosa you 43 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:32.159 guys recently had a review of Apes and then the rankings coming out this week. 44 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:37.240 My game is out. You can go check it out postion problems Steam 45 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.479 now, which is very exciting, and let me know what you think. 46 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:43.800 Leave a review. Help me get those reviews on Steam. It helps build 47 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:47.560 the circulation of it. Yeah, any shout outs from your end of the 48 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:52.840 woods, nothing really yet, I think you got it all. June is, 49 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:54.560 you know, fast approaching. That's a busy month for us. We 50 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:58.919 had a lot of TV show not so much movies but mostly like TV shows 51 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:04.159 and retros are carrying on. And yeah, I'm not sure if you mentioned 52 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:06.319 it, but Alien that's the one. Yes, that's a good shoutout. 53 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.719 Yeah, Patreon a good place to go now to get those episodes nice and 54 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:13.400 early as we do that many many episodes. That one's going to be the 55 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:16.439 movies as the game one of the games. Well, so yeah, it 56 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:20.520 should be a good time. Yeah, I forgot about the game. I'll 57 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:23.439 see if I got the courage to jump on there. I think I think 58 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:27.080 me and Taylor are for sure on it. Travis is maybe, so you 59 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.479 don't need to, but it would be great to have you along for the 60 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:31.960 ride. If I'm at a joint, I'm not going to say anything until 61 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:38.840 like the day of just like slide. Great love that planning for I know 62 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:40.639 that you love your planning, like to generate some chaos here and there. 63 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:45.639 Yeah. Another thing I love is showing you the things that I buy that 64 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:47.400 I think are cool. And I finally I told you about this, but 65 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:52.120 it finally came in. Is my physical version of c of Stars. Oh 66 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:54.520 gorgeous. Came with this, like, yeah, I came with this case 67 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:59.439 that you can just like put around the switch version of it. It's not 68 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:00.919 like a different insert, but it's like, yeah, just like a little 69 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:04.439 cardboard case. But it looks really nice. You got like the inside there 70 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:09.240 and all that. That's beautiful. You came with a lot of stuff. 71 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:13.039 There's all these stickers for all these different characters. There's one set I'm not 72 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:15.040 showing you because it spoils a character that you probably haven't unlocked yet, but 73 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:18.600 you know, you got all the classics in there, the main squad and 74 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:26.079 all that. A very very detailed instruction booklet that is like really fun to 75 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:30.279 look through and just see like all the different buttons and different characters and explain 76 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:32.920 all the different mechanics. There's even like a notepad section, which is fun, 77 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.800 very reminiscent of the way games used to be, you know, when 78 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:41.800 they would come with like their actual full instruction booklet. Yeah, I miss 79 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:45.000 those. Those those had a special charm to them. And then a little 80 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:50.040 like map worldwide, and then on the other end is like a freaking Wears 81 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:54.319 with all the characters someone I swear, I think I did like almost one 82 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:56.360 hundred percent of that game. There are a couple of characters on here. 83 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:59.279 I don't recognize, so I don't know if there's more I yet to do. 84 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:00.120 I know there's a deal coming, so I don't know if it's like 85 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:04.600 they put them in there kind of for Manning. But yeah, I'm very 86 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:08.120 happy this final they came in. It looks really great. I'm excited to 87 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:13.000 stickers all over some things. The regular cover is very much like JRPG standard. 88 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:15.600 I feel like it. It reminds me of just so many other games 89 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:18.319 that have gone like that Crona Trigger. Yeah, like all those different titles. 90 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:21.879 But like the sleeve that is that is something in and of it. 91 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:26.040 I know, I think that's truly beautiful because I think it's like my favorite 92 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:30.000 of the key art from Steves, like that very blue purple, which is 93 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:32.600 very fitting for the characters. Yeah, and so yeah, it looks really 94 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:34.800 nice. And you have like the name on the side there too, you 95 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:38.720 all notice, so corgeous. Makes me feel just so terrible. I even 96 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:41.639 jump back into that game in a long time. That's why I brought it 97 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:44.600 up to put the guilt in the back of your head, to force you. 98 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:47.680 I have like a note kind of spoiler spoiler notes that I want to 99 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:50.759 talk to you about whenever you get to it. I'm not deleting that note. 100 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:55.879 I'll keep it there until the time comes, no matter how long it 101 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:59.920 takes. So yeah, that was cool. And then I also watched Todd 102 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:02.680 tell you about this, uh you know, Elder Scrolls Skyrim, one of 103 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:04.800 your favorite games of all time tomorrow in one of mine. I love the 104 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:08.560 whole series, and I feel like I had a pretty good knowledge have played 105 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:11.879 like all the spinoffs to my knowledge, but Kirkly, I just realized that 106 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:15.199 there's this whole sub series called the Elder Scrolls Travels, and there's four of 107 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.480 these games. Have you ever heard of these? I know, right, 108 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:23.600 I had never heard of this like two weeks ago, just randomly. But 109 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:28.399 they are essentially a series of mobile games like that. There's there's four of 110 00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:30.879 them. The first two ones called Stormhold and the one's called Dawn Star. 111 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:36.160 And these like look pretty much like identical to like the original first two Older 112 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:40.759 Strolls games, like really old school, like really kind of two d art 113 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:43.560 and it looks like you just dungeon crawling. You play this on like old 114 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.120 flip phones or something like I don't even know how it would work, but 115 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:49.800 like it's very rudimentary. And then there's another one after that it came out 116 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:53.920 called shadow Key, and that one has a bit more of a three D 117 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.360 effect going on, and it actually looks really cool. And I was watching 118 00:06:57.360 --> 00:06:59.240 some footage of shadow Key, I was like, man, I want to 119 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:01.680 go play this, Like it still looks old and dated, and because it 120 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:05.040 was on like a cell phone before cell phones were like, you know, 121 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:10.600 powerful gaming machines. I'm sure it's super janky, but I definitely want to 122 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:13.680 go check it out. And then what blew my mind too is apparently when 123 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:17.480 Oblivion came out, they released a phone game as well of Oblivion and it's 124 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:21.199 like a it's like a top down like isometric looking thing. I'm sure it's 125 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:25.120 looking at it right now. Yeah, but like it's just so cool that 126 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:27.439 it exists. I actually love the art style for it, and like the 127 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.120 kind of color palette is really wild. So I'm just so curious where it 128 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:34.000 falls into, like the story and like the scale and scope of it is 129 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:38.720 really crazy. So yeah, it's crazy. There's just like this whole like 130 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:41.959 realm of elder strolls games that I've never heard of. Because obviously there was 131 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:46.079 a card game. There's Alder strolls online, there's Blades, there's like all 132 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:48.040 these been, all these spinoffs, but yeah, I just these ones completely 133 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:50.319 went under the radar for me. I don't know if I ever had a 134 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:54.360 device that could play them when they first came out, I'm not sure, 135 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:58.720 but crazy that's hidden part of the history of the series, no kidding, 136 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:01.600 especially that it's like the same Oblivion title, Like it's not like some like 137 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:07.319 deviation, so therefore I would imagine it follows the state the same story. 138 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:09.600 And it's just so funny looking at this one image where it shows it on 139 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:13.040 the flip phone. You probably saw it, yes, yeah, Like what 140 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:16.959 was going through their minds were like, yeah, we're gonna target this audience 141 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.759 for the flip phone users. It's gonna be really big for our sales. 142 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.079 That's so strange. I know, like Eldest Girls has always been to me 143 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:26.959 the pinnacle of immersion in games. Yeah, and I feel like that is 144 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:31.040 like the least immersive experience of all time playing on this like two inch by 145 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:35.360 two inch screen or whatever it would be with like janky graphics, probably terribly 146 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:37.159 balanced. I don't know who developed it, I don't think, but does 147 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:41.360 that any hand in making that they were just like license it out for other 148 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:45.840 some other mobile, some phone company to make, I suppose. But in 149 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:50.200 that research I also found that there originally and they announced this was that you 150 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:52.000 three. There was footage and it was just like canceled later on, was 151 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:56.240 that Oblivion was gonna come to PSP back in the day. Really, I 152 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:00.600 am shocked that I never heard about that because I feel like, I guess 153 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:01.679 I didn't play it living rate when it came out, which because I was 154 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.639 a little behind on the tech, I didn't have a three sixty when that 155 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:07.759 game first came out, got it down the line, So I guess that's 156 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:11.360 maybe how it passed me up. But like, I feel like that's something 157 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.039 I would have bought a PSP back in the day just for that game had 158 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:16.480 it happened. And obviously now we have Skyrim on the switch, so you 159 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.000 can you have that portability of it. But yeah, I'm guessing there was 160 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.000 tech issues with it, and I think it was like a smaller game as 161 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:26.000 well, Like it wasn't the full open world. I think it was more 162 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.039 like smaller levels, probably more of a dungeon crawler sort of thing. But 163 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.039 even then, I probably would have bought a PSP back in the day with 164 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:35.159 my meek savings just to access that thing on the go, because it it 165 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:39.039 looks pretty good and like there's files that people have ripped so it's up online 166 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:41.879 that you can play it, like I could play it through an emula, 167 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:46.320 I guess if I want to. But it's it's crazy that that like happened. 168 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:48.799 I just totally I guess it didn't happen. It got canceled, but 169 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:52.039 the fact that it was announced, it was an official thing. They planned 170 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:54.639 it for a long time. It's it's pretty crazy. You know, they're 171 00:09:54.759 --> 00:10:00.600 just part of Elder Scroll's history that completely missing from my brain there, No, 172 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:03.200 Yeah, I had never heard of that before as well. I mean, 173 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.919 for all of this news is brand new to me, which is funny 174 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:09.440 because it's not new news, right, like this is really old stuff then, 175 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.000 yeah, exactly, And especially the PSP. That's hilarious because I actually 176 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:18.759 owned a PSP for the good solid seven days or so with it's a funny 177 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:22.960 little period of my gaming history where a buddy of mine had a PSP he 178 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:24.279 and he was just like telling me about it and I got like super super 179 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:26.720 stoked. So of course it just like begged my mom to take me a 180 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:30.720 Walmart. Spent like all the money I had to get this PSP, and 181 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:33.399 I got a certain God of War game. I don't know what it was 182 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:37.039 what it was, but changed it Olympus maybe, yeah, probably it was 183 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:41.759 whatever one was on PSP, and I bought it and I was playing the 184 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:43.799 hell out of it. And that was in that time when you needed to 185 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:48.480 buy like an SD to like actually save, like there was no built in 186 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:50.879 SD at all, which I don't know if I just didn't do the research 187 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:54.919 to find that out, but I I just I never would turn off the 188 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:58.240 PSP to just save my progress. That was my strategy. So I'd like 189 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:01.159 play it on the city US going to school and then just like keep it 190 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:05.960 on in my backpack throughout the day. Eventually just died and I lost all 191 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:07.399 my progress, and I'm like, I can't do this. I just my 192 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:11.480 mom returned it to Walmart for me. I just just got my money back 193 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:15.200 without actually getting the SD card. Just completely threw in the towel and just 194 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:18.000 got rid of it. But yeah, that was like, why'd you throw 195 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.799 in the towel. I'm trying to piece two and two together. I know 196 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:22.320 it died, but like you could have just got in SD card, right, 197 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:24.759 you just weren't into it. You didn't like the feel of it or 198 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:28.159 something. I'm trying to remember, Like like that probably would have been around 199 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:31.919 the time that I was buying a p S three as well, So maybe 200 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:33.440 it was like, well, like I could get the SD card here, 201 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:37.399 your parents were like you can have one of the other kids exactly. Yeah, 202 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:41.279 like it might have been one of those things. But yeah, like 203 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:43.440 probably just like throwing all my money on it too. It's like, Okay, 204 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.879 maybe that wasn't the best idea. You know, back then you only 205 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.840 had so much money from Yeah, it was probably a better uh yeah at 206 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:54.720 the time, oh one hundred percent. I got way more hours of enjoying. 207 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.759 I mean that was like the peak MW two era too, so I 208 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.559 wouldn't have had that if I did and you know, swapping the PSP for 209 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:05.440 the PS three. But yeah, it was a funny little chapter of my 210 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:09.320 gaming career. I was a handheld PSB owner for five days or so. 211 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:13.200 I just remember being like like shocked that my mom was just able to return 212 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:16.720 that to Walmart, and it was just it was just completely fine because like 213 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:18.200 I had it for like five days and like didn't have a case for it 214 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:22.000 or anything like, it just had it. Yeah, but I wonder do 215 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:24.879 you think it was a case where it must have been a case where just 216 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:28.559 certain games needed more of that storage paces. I remember that was the thing 217 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:33.080 with GameCube as well, like certain games like Animal Crossing. I think SIMS 218 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:33.919 comes to mind, Like those are games that had to be sold with a 219 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:37.759 memory card because they required more space, and like the one that the console 220 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.600 came with, So like even if you deleted everything off your memory card, 221 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:43.759 it still wouldn't be able to like make a save file for those games. 222 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:46.879 Is that like the case maybe with God of War if like you would think 223 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:50.879 that they would like sell the game with that, But maybe that was just 224 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:54.399 a PSP issue in general. I'd never, I like, used it, 225 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:56.399 but I never owned it myself, so I would never really got in the 226 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:58.600 weeds of that kind of thing. Yeah, I'm not too sure. I 227 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.399 can't quite remember what all the details were around it, but yeah, I 228 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:05.559 just like I do remember playing through the beginning like three or four times, 229 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:11.159 so like it must have reset a few times there and then uh yeah, 230 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:13.639 it was just I mean, same sort of thing happened when I first got 231 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:16.080 my GameCube as well, Like I got it and I didn't have a memory 232 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:18.600 card at the time, so like I remember playing. I think I had 233 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:24.039 like Spider Man Unleashed or something and just like played it, kept it on, 234 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:26.480 you know. I think I also had Super Mario Sunshine, Like I 235 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:28.200 had a couple of games that I just didn't have a memory card. Or 236 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:31.200 I think what happened is I was in Albertasney family when I bought it, 237 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:35.279 and then I didn't have a memory card to like I like came back or 238 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:39.840 something along those lines. But yeah, yeah, it was memory cards, 239 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:43.240 man. I mean now it's a similar issue where I have like a terabyte 240 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:45.840 hard drive or whatever it is, and I still can't even play Call Duty 241 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:50.159 because it takes up like a quarter of the memory just for free to play 242 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:52.120 game, which is crazy. But no, it's funny that you know, 243 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:56.240 things like that, like the memory cards, once we're past the console generation 244 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:00.000 where we don't really need those anymore. After a while, you kind of 245 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:03.000 getting nostalgic for it, like, oh, it's fun to have memory cards. 246 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:05.120 But now, like with my switch, I'm at a point now where 247 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:07.639 I need to switch my SD cards out to play whatever game I went in 248 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:11.679 that moment, and it is so annoying. Plus you know, there's always 249 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:15.799 like updates for these games too, And like if you put if you have 250 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.679 like a physical game in your switch, no matter what SD card you put 251 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:22.279 in, it'll just automatically start downloading all the games on it. So specifically 252 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:26.039 in the case like metal Gear salwid the collection that I've been playing through recently, 253 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:28.399 where that has like six or seven things on it that are all technically 254 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:33.440 like different switch like widgets, like they're all their own little icon So whenever 255 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.320 I like switch my cards out, it just starts downloading all these mental games. 256 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:41.399 And I'm like, I'm doing this to save space. So it's it's 257 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:45.159 just obviously not built for that these days anymore. But I don't know. 258 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:48.559 I still I did like the GameCube system of it. It seems to always 259 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:52.679 work well for me. But yeah, I much prefer these days where I 260 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:54.440 mean, I guess you can still do that with external hard drives, but 261 00:14:54.879 --> 00:15:00.639 I don't know, just with the digital nature of games, I don't like, 262 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:01.600 you know, you always have room for your save files, it's more 263 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:05.120 like the room to have the games on your hard drive right, oh, 264 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:09.159 one hundred percent, And like it's funny just thinking back of first time I 265 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:11.279 went over to a friend's house and they had like two memory cards in their 266 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:15.320 GameCube. It's like, well this guy's rich, Like like memory cards were 267 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:18.039 not cheap as well, like even PS one era PS two, like I 268 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:24.799 memory cards were a thing then, and like even recently, well recently this 269 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:28.240 is peak COVID time. When I was off for like a week because I 270 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.639 had COVID, I just played through Win Win Waker. That was my like 271 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:35.000 dedication. I just like like three days straight. I just played Win Waker 272 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:37.840 and that was it. Just being sick at home and uh, just like 273 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:41.279 looking at my cause I have my same GameCube with the same memory card. 274 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:46.200 Just seeing like my old save files of like Tony Hawk's Underground or like those 275 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:48.320 old titles, and just seeing like the last time I like like the save 276 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:50.480 data. It's just like this is kind of cool. It's like a little 277 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:56.519 uh time capsule sort of these old saves. So I finally have an old 278 00:15:56.639 --> 00:16:00.200 Animal Crossing save on there. I should go back and visit my island from 279 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.799 fifteen years ago. I think Shaye does actually clearly disheveled, there's no one 280 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.399 living in the town, just covered in the meats. Because like, uh, 281 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:11.639 for Super Mario Double Dash, Super Mario Kart Double Dash, that was 282 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:14.360 like Shay's game, and like her memory card is in there because she had 283 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:17.000 like all the save data on there, and yeah, there's some old Animal 284 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:19.960 Crossing saves we've seen on there. And it's funny too just seeing like a 285 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:23.799 certain game that I like rented at a Blockbuster and like I just rented it, 286 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:26.919 but I still have that save data. I'm like, I'm never deleted 287 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:30.519 that. That's just that's just a little memory for me. Yeah, I 288 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:33.519 feel like for me, it's always like gotta have that Melee save, gotta 289 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.120 have I keep all my fire emblem once path of Radiance, I still always 290 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:41.240 saves, definitely Tony Hawk's Underground, and then other ones get lost to time 291 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:44.000 or like those Animal Crossing ones I got. You know, eventually I would 292 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:47.159 delete it because I wanted like that was a big, juicy memory card and 293 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:49.840 I wanted on it, so I delete it for other stuff and being able 294 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:53.360 to copy them or like getting a friend saved, Like that's a big thing 295 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:57.279 in like Melee because people have like mauded versions of the game that has different 296 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:02.000 unlocks and stuff, and see the transfer that between people at tournaments, which 297 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:03.880 is kind of a fun thing that you know still happens in the modern day 298 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:07.319 just because of how the the tech works of it. I yeah, there's 299 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:11.480 some there's something special about that era in time. But I like that I 300 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:14.359 don't have to think about saves anymore. And Steam is really good about cloud 301 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:17.240 saves, and like, oh yea, wherever I'm playing it has my saves. 302 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:21.839 That's much better, much more convenient these absolutely, it's so convenient. 303 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:23.640 Like I remember just building my computer, which is funny, always talk about 304 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:26.000 how it's like, oh, on its last legs now, But just like 305 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:30.720 thinking if I needed to get like a CD ROM and like maybe I don't 306 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:33.440 need one actually now that's just such a thing of the past, like like 307 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:37.240 no one has CBS or anything like that, just the way the technology I 308 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:41.079 am the last bastion I think I do still have are here. But when 309 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:42.880 I do upgrade, I'm probably gonna get a new computer this year and nice, 310 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:47.119 yeah, not gonna get a a disc drive for it. Don't need 311 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:51.640 that anymore. Yeah, times especially come, you can always get an external 312 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:55.279 you know, you always get extra ram if you have those old old discs 313 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:59.640 still laying around. Mm hmm uh. All of that, we're talking about 314 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:02.640 these other Scrolls Travels games. I wanted to bring up that, Like I 315 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:03.680 forget if I've mentioned to you or we talked about it, but like the 316 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:07.920 other the Elder Scrolls Castles is a game that's coming out at some point like 317 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:11.960 this year or next year, and that's like a phone game. I'd compare 318 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:15.359 it's like Fallout Shelter, but for Elder Scrolls, essentially where you're building and 319 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:18.839 like managing a castle. I think it's out in like some region now, 320 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:22.279 like maybe in Europe. They're doing like testing early versions of it. But 321 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:25.640 yeah, I think it's been like a bit since we've had a mobile game. 322 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:29.680 Like there was Blades, which was also on consoles or at least on 323 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:33.359 Switch. The card game must have been on phones, I would imagine maybe 324 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:37.039 it wasn't, maybe that's why it tanked. I don't really even remember, 325 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:38.799 but yeah, I feel like it's been a while since Elder Strolls has done 326 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:42.680 a phone game, So I'm excited for that one, just because follow Shelter 327 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:45.960 was cool and it's still getting support like they added characters from the show. 328 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:48.240 You know, they're still adding stuff to it, and so I think I 329 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:52.400 kind of want something like that with other Scrolls, that I can just quickly 330 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:56.319 jump in and get a taste, whereas you know with Marwin or Oblivion or 331 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:59.160 Scar if I'm jumping in there, like I don't know, usually I'm like 332 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:00.799 getting sunk into it again. But it's nice to do something you can just 333 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:04.319 kind of check in on here and there. Oh yeah, absolutely, that'd 334 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:08.039 be fantastic. I must have known about this Elder Schulls Castle just forgot about 335 00:19:08.039 --> 00:19:11.400 it, but just like looking at it, I don't know what it is, 336 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:14.799 but just the aesthetic just does not scream Elder Schulls to me. Maybe 337 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:17.519 it's just I'm so used to like these recent game engines that they've had, 338 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:22.240 where I mean, it's a very different game obviously, but you're right, 339 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:26.720 it's just kind of like League of Legends or something. Yeah. Yeah, 340 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:33.680 definitely more like an animated type art style, which, like, I don't 341 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:34.799 know, Elder Scrolls is kind of weird in that way. Like even if 342 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:40.319 you just look at the different games like like Arena and Daggerfall, they kind 343 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:44.440 of have a similar look to them, Marwin is like very kind of washed 344 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:47.680 out and it's color, but it still has a lot of like crazy alien 345 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:51.680 these sort of things to it. And then Oblivion's more like really bright, 346 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:55.559 vibrant fantasy, and then Skyrim once again is kind of like dreary, but 347 00:19:55.640 --> 00:20:00.119 a very different dreary than all sorts of different areas. But I but even 348 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:03.480 with that, I still think there is, yeah, some cohesion to the 349 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:08.119 visual style, even like Elder Scrolls Online feels like it fits that mold. 350 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:11.200 Yeah, well, but yeah, when I look at this, You're right, 351 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:15.000 it doesn't really call out to me with the Elder Scroll's visual So I 352 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.920 don't know. Maybe when it's officially out or finished, maybe it'll look a 353 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:22.519 bit different. But I don't know. Yeah, you're right, maybe maybe 354 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:25.160 that won't fill that Elder s Girl's inch for me. Then won't even really 355 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:29.039 look at like it that much. We'll see. It's funny that you mentioned 356 00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:32.640 Fallout Shelter though, because I completely forgot about that, even though like I 357 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:36.200 did dabble in a bit of it when because that was when Fallout four got 358 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:38.119 announced, right, that's when that was out. Yeah, I'm trying, 359 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:41.279 I'm trying to it might have come out like a couple months beforehand. Like 360 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:45.720 I think maybe what happened is that June direct they like, yeah, Shadow 361 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:48.839 dropped Shelter, and then the game came out in the Fall, so they're 362 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:53.200 kind of like it was kind of used as a marketing tool for four I 363 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:59.319 believe. Yeah, but no, just that just that idea of like a 364 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:02.759 like you said, just like a return a phone game that you can return 365 00:21:02.839 --> 00:21:07.480 to without too much commitment, like these main titles really require, you know, 366 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:12.599 I alluded to that. I've been dabbling a certain Bethesda game really that 367 00:21:12.680 --> 00:21:17.160 definitely takes up a lot of time. But to just have something kind of 368 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:21.039 like Marvel Snap where you can just pick up and go and never really not 369 00:21:21.799 --> 00:21:23.440 feel the need to like stay commuted, even if there is like a certain 370 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:26.680 battle pass that you want to participate in, like you don't really have to 371 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:33.400 grind for it to enjoy. Just just a nice little I was gonna say, 372 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:34.319 like Slice of Life game, but it's not really. It's more so 373 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:37.839 you're just taking a slice out of your life to pick it up fun. 374 00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:41.079 Yeah, I guess it kind of depends on your relationship with it. Yeah, 375 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:45.359 but you just mentioned two games that I know you want to talk about 376 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:47.839 today, so yeah, and whatever order you wish it, tell me about 377 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:51.119 what you've been playing lately. Yeah, I'll quickly start off with Marvel Snap. 378 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:55.359 More so just because you know, last time I was talking to you, 379 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:56.640 that was a great discussion by the way that we had on Marvel. 380 00:21:56.640 --> 00:21:59.960 So we gotta do that again soon because the june's all right around the corn, 381 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.640 so we'll do the next month preview or something. Yeah, No, 382 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:06.200 that's that'd be fantastic because I was going really hard after after we talk, 383 00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:08.920 more so just because you you had kind of got me pumped on certain strategies 384 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:12.599 that I could use with my current cards, and I think that was probably 385 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:17.519 right before I was I acquired Ultron and then I just like made like a 386 00:22:17.599 --> 00:22:22.000 heavy Ultron deck I've like only been using. Yeah, I've like only been 387 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:23.200 using that deck, and it got to the point where, like I was 388 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:26.960 having a lot of success with it. I think I grind like my peak 389 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:30.680 rank, which is like platinum era, which like I don't think i'd ever 390 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:34.119 gotten over gold before. I wasn't really like going hard in the past was 391 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:37.240 mostly just like trying on different decks, but this one I was like, 392 00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:40.039 well, this deck is just amazing and I just keep winning, so let's 393 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:42.240 just keep going. And now I'm encountering things that I just don't have that 394 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:47.319 I just getting completely bobbed by. Like there's certain instances where I'm like, 395 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:48.319 I got this guy, It's so easy, and then he plays like an 396 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:52.240 arnhem Zola and it's just like, yeah, well, what the hell am 397 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:53.400 I supposed to do with this? Like I can encounter this, I need 398 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:56.960 like, uh, who is it that? Uh? Is it Cosmo? 399 00:22:57.119 --> 00:23:03.200 That on reveals like I you need to like rethink my counters in a certain 400 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:07.240 aspect. And it's also like I've played this deck so much that I'm not 401 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:08.759 necessarily bored of it, but I just kind of want to try something new. 402 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:12.960 I haven't been acquiring too many like fun cool cards, so I've been 403 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:17.359 forced to make some just i don't know, trial decks with the cards that 404 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:23.119 I do have, and it hasn't really like hit too much where I've like 405 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:26.519 found that like almost Eureka deck where I'm just like obsessed with the game. 406 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:30.640 Again, I mostly was just grinding for the keys because after we were talking 407 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:33.000 about that, and now you know my name suggests I'm the key. I'm 408 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:36.400 holding on three keys right now. I am ready. I'm ready for someone 409 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:38.200 to drop in. I got a little bit excited when I saw Black Knight 410 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:41.200 on there, because that was a card that I have been wanting to get 411 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:44.920 for a while. But I was like, uh, Nomora, I know 412 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:48.319 I was, I had the same train. I really do want Black Knight. 413 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:49.759 I don't really care about Namora, so I'm gonna wait. Yeah, 414 00:23:49.799 --> 00:23:52.839 and Scar, I think is the other one on there right now, And 415 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:56.559 it's like, yeah, like that's a good it's a good card, and 416 00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:59.400 like like all of them are decent cards that I don't have, but they're 417 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:03.119 just not really screaming excitement for me right now. So I'm just kindahelming too, 418 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:06.440 So I don't think you're I think it was a good call to uh 419 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:08.839 yeah, wait, wait till you have four and then and then start thinking 420 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:12.559 about things more seriously. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Or so that's kind 421 00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:15.559 of where I'm at right now. Like I'm still playing like every day just 422 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:19.119 to you know, jump in those little daily missions or challenges and just stay 423 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:22.519 active on it, not going so hard like I was going in the early 424 00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:26.119 months. And it's kind of like my EBB and flow with the game too, 425 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:30.680 where I do just get those obsessive periods where I am just like constantly 426 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:32.680 it's like, oh, I've done all my dailies, Like, come on, 427 00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:34.000 I need more missions here, I need to get some more currencies. 428 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:37.839 But no, I'm still having lots of fun with it, and I'm looking 429 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:41.039 forward to next month to to see what those with them. Yeah, a 430 00:24:41.079 --> 00:24:45.640 couple of the new cards look pretty fun. It's the Eternals month, which 431 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:48.799 I know you're not an Eternals fan, but the cardibilities are pretty nice. 432 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:52.799 So yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, So that's where I'm at right 433 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:55.319 now. I'm holding on the three keys and uh, I think the next 434 00:24:55.359 --> 00:24:57.720 one is kind of on the horizon. But yeah, that's where I'm on. 435 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:00.279 A Marvel Snap and then my other big game that I've been jumping into 436 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:03.680 pretty much one hundred percent, because you know, Shane and I have been 437 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:08.279 going through the show a Fallout, and we pretty slowly we're going through, 438 00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:11.839 like I think we have one more episode which we might watch, you know, 439 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:14.559 after this episode that I record with you. And it's been really like 440 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:17.519 in the show, but I'm not really here to talk about the show. 441 00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:21.680 I'm here to talk about jump back in a Fallout four and uh yeah, 442 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:26.240 I have not played this game since around the time that we did the review, 443 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:30.599 which is like earlier. Yeah, one of the first episodes. Yeah, 444 00:25:30.039 --> 00:25:33.839 and I like, I, man, what a great game that is. 445 00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:38.400 Like I I wasn't a super Fallout fan like I. I remember. 446 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:41.799 I think Fallout three was a game that I was like really obsessed with, 447 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:45.119 but one that I never had Like I just like when I found out what 448 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:48.400 it was, I was just like watching YouTube to like walk throughs of it 449 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:52.160 or maybe had seen it at a friend's house, and just like the idea 450 00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:55.160 of it was blowing my mind at that time. I probably didn't put two 451 00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:57.440 and two together. They're both Bethesda, and it's like Elder Scrolls and then 452 00:25:57.480 --> 00:26:02.160 fall Out, and that's just probably why they were in the same vein of 453 00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:06.119 games that I really loved because I had played a little bit of Oblivion back 454 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:07.519 in the day, but that was kind of it. And again another title 455 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:11.000 that I just played at a cousin's house or something, so that it was 456 00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:15.839 like a game that I got like an appetizer for, but I never got 457 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:18.319 the full course. So it was just like I was always longing for it. 458 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:22.079 Always wanting it and never got the chance to really play it until later 459 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:25.920 in life, So I never played Follow New Vegas. Probably watched a friend 460 00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:29.000 play it a little bit at then, but I mean, yeah, way 461 00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:30.920 back in the day, we did a review follow four and I absolutely loved 462 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:34.799 it initially, and there's a lot of that game that I just had never 463 00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:37.960 really done, Like I hadn't done any of the DLCs or anything like that. 464 00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:42.240 I have the game. I think I originally bought it on PS four 465 00:26:42.359 --> 00:26:45.160 and I don't know if it's because it's in my games catalog or whatever, 466 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:48.720 but I just had like a free PS five upgrade, which was kind of 467 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:52.640 news to me, So that was nice. And I mean the game runs 468 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:56.960 nice and smooth and looks great and which is fantastic. But in that version, 469 00:26:57.000 --> 00:27:00.920 I also have like all the DLCs, which was kind of surprising to 470 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:06.599 me. Like I think it's like Nuka what is it New World and the 471 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:10.359 NUCA world Far Harbor. Far Harbor was was the big one I remember you 472 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:14.440 tell me about and haven't gotten there yet. On my current playthrough, it's 473 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:18.599 I'm kind of just leveling up my character and kind of a unique way from 474 00:27:18.599 --> 00:27:21.160 where I play in the past. It's funny. I don't know if you 475 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:23.640 do know about the play style for like Elder Schulls games, but like stealth 476 00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:30.680 Archers is just like the scumbag class in my opinion, which I'm guilty of 477 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:33.359 because I've definitely played a lot of stealth Archers where it's just a really easy 478 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:36.680 way to play the game. You're just I feel like I haven't heard the 479 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:38.200 angle of it being the scumbag class. I thought, oh no, we're 480 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:41.519 just like that's what everyone likes to do because it's fun and like it is 481 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:45.160 powerful. But yeah, they had this scumbag new one. That's interesting. 482 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:48.039 Yeah, I mean shuts out to my buddy Carson. He's the one that 483 00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:51.640 first told me about stealth Archers, which is funny because he was telling me 484 00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:53.240 about it while I was playing that play through like on a certain sky This 485 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:57.200 is probably like back in high school or something, but uh yeah, he's 486 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:00.359 telling me about it. I'm like, oh, yeah, what about that. 487 00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:03.039 It's just like everybody that you know, they just they just jump in 488 00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:04.440 there, they just make a stealth Archer. They're not really experiencing the game 489 00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:07.559 like like you should, just trying to And I'm like damn you just like 490 00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:14.000 open my eyes on maybe how I should change my most critical There's nothing more 491 00:28:14.039 --> 00:28:17.920 satisfying than just sniping enemy and the rag doll of them just flying across the 492 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:22.160 rooms. There's reasons, there's reasons why people are attracted with that play style, 493 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:25.880 I think more so than just the the efficiency of it, because it 494 00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:30.559 is, you know, it is very effective and there's no bows and arrows 495 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:33.559 and fall at least to my knowledge, but you can definitely make a similar 496 00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:36.720 play style where you're doing stealth and like snipers, And that's pretty much my 497 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:40.880 first playthrough that I didn't fall out for. But this time around, I'm 498 00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:44.920 really trying to change it up. I'm I'm trying to like really get creative 499 00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:51.079 with my perks. I'm really focusing like most of my perks in ways to 500 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:59.079 access things that so like like maybe hacking or pickpocketing or not pock but yeah, 501 00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:02.519 lock picking like those ones, just so I'm able to access everything in 502 00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:04.960 the world, and then really going hard on like the gun mods, the 503 00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:10.759 armor upgrades, like the science ones, just like things that I can really 504 00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:15.240 manipulate my own weaponry. And it's been really fun, like focusing stats on 505 00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:18.200 like explosives and stuff. I felt like first time I played the game, 506 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:21.279 I probably threw like one grenade or something like, I just never really used 507 00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:26.880 that mechanic. But just like the efficiency of using like a pulse grenade against 508 00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:30.599 since like I didn't even know those were really in the game until this current 509 00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:33.839 play through, and they are so good, just like an emp on these 510 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:37.359 robots likes it works exactly how you had wanted to, and just other things 511 00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:41.519 like that. Just now I'm starting to like get my strength up so that 512 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:47.279 I can get more of like the armor perks and really just get stated up 513 00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:51.079 because I want to be able to make some really buffed up like melee weapons, 514 00:29:51.119 --> 00:29:53.480 because melee weapons is not something I ever really like thought of going into 515 00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:56.400 in a followup game, just because it is so range, like there's guns 516 00:29:56.440 --> 00:30:00.599 that and everything, but it it can be very satisfying. From a few 517 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:06.400 videos I've seen online of just people like mass melee stats and you're reminded me 518 00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:10.319 of one of my most memorable Fallout New Vegas runs. Well, and this 519 00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:11.440 is when I had played the game multiple times. So now I'm like, 520 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:14.920 Okay, what kind of RAIDO build can I do? Now? And the 521 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:18.440 build was just yeah, melee weapons and explosives, so no guns whatsoever, 522 00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:22.799 and just having like, Okay, I have a range option with the explosives, 523 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.400 but usually I'm just using that to like even just a ton of landmines 524 00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:29.319 to cheese people a bit, and then getting like down and dirty with the 525 00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:33.400 melee weapons. That was a very fun, very fun build, uh to 526 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:36.440 use. And yeah, I don't know, that's just one of the favorite 527 00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:37.960 parts about going back to those games. There's just so much of variety to 528 00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:41.480 the weapons and all the other things too, Like there's so many skill sets 529 00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:47.319 outside of just combat stuff too, oh one hundred percent, and like just 530 00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:51.799 the cause like those games are really just playgrounds, like like like with with 531 00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:56.960 How Nutty, some of the just the big explosive guns that you can get, 532 00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:00.200 or just like the more sciencey ones like they're there is a lot of 533 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.400 guns in that game that I just never really even accessed in my first play 534 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:07.039 through, Like I think I just got really comfortable and like I was probably 535 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:11.000 just using like a certain handgun and then like rifles, like that's probably all 536 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:12.559 I was really using on like my first play through of the game, And 537 00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:17.319 now like I'm really trying to go into like like going into it, I 538 00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:18.559 was like my role play aspect that I was bringing to the game. It 539 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.000 is just like a really heavy science ye type character, So like of course 540 00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:26.160 that's what influenced all, like the hacking and like just like tweaking out my 541 00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:30.519 gun mods and stuff like that. And then once I've started to level up 542 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:33.119 a little bit more, it's like, man, this could be like incredibly 543 00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:36.359 strong if you are able to get some of these science mods and some of 544 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:40.640 these guns and really just spending time like on the workshow like the workshop table 545 00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:45.880 even like the chems that you can make can really buff your character like quite 546 00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:48.319 strong, especially if you get a few perks in it. So just things 547 00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.960 like that, I think it's making me look at the game entirely different from 548 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:56.200 what I kind of saw it before. And it's I mean, it's been 549 00:31:57.440 --> 00:32:00.359 refreshing jumping back to it, just because I'd been so long since I played. 550 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:04.480 I mean, like it's damn well been close to a decade now, 551 00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:07.319 so since that game came out, which is pretty wild to think. Yeah, 552 00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:09.559 but yeah, I know it's it's been really fun and just playing it, 553 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:14.799 like I remember the main story, but there's still a lot of side 554 00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:16.559 quests and stuff that I that I hadn't gone through that I'm excited too, 555 00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:21.279 Like like the what is it the Far Harbor Far Coast that one, I'm 556 00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:23.079 really excited. Yeah, that's what I'm excited about because I remember when that 557 00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:27.319 DLC came out, which again is like early podcast you tell me about it, 558 00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:30.559 and it's just it sounds yeah new world. I mean as as it 559 00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:34.039 sounds like, it really is just an amusement park where there's just like tons 560 00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:37.519 of combat trials and it's like a fun setting. But yeah, there isn't 561 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:40.440 like the story element of it isn't that cool. But like Far Harbor introduced 562 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:44.519 a lot of really interesting stuff lowerwise, and like things that tie in to 563 00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:47.440 certain things in experience in the main game. So it's a it's a good 564 00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:51.839 one. What are you doing for quite like are you going down any certain 565 00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:55.039 faction stuff right now? You do more side quests and exploring what's your play 566 00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:59.720 style right now? So for this one, like I have a new character 567 00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:02.319 from my previous one. I think I had the option to like bring in 568 00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:05.720 my previous save data just because I had it on PS four, but I 569 00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:10.079 was like, I'm just gonna start fresh. Yeah, and I'm I'm I 570 00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:14.519 think I did, like like I have Valentine, like I met him, 571 00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:16.240 and that's kind of like where I was at in the main story. And 572 00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:22.920 then now what have I been doing? Not the Brotherhood faction. I think 573 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:25.599 I kind of made the decision going into it. Then I'm just gonna go 574 00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:29.400 like full institute on this play through because I don't I don't think I was 575 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:32.920 with them the first time. You know, spoilers for how that game goes, 576 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:37.440 you kind of choose what faction you are for like the main story or 577 00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:39.200 at least the ending of it. But that's what I was thinking about going 578 00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:44.599 into from the get go. But I haven't really gotten to that point in 579 00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:46.480 the main story yet to really make those decisions. But no, I've been 580 00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:52.519 kind of just like not necessarily free roaming, but doing a lot of the 581 00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:58.720 what are they called the Minutemen, like like settlement fact, I'm not building 582 00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:00.680 the settlements, but just really like going out and like saving them. And 583 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:06.000 I just found it it was a nice way to kind of get all over 584 00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:08.960 the Commonwealth because they do send you at all these various places to get these 585 00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:13.039 settlements up and running. So I'll go here and there, and then on 586 00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:15.119 the route, I'll just find like a random store that I'll go into and 587 00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:20.480 then just like I don't know, just just exploring it. And it's kind 588 00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:24.679 of a way that I've like when I do new runs on Skyron, for 589 00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:29.400 example, like because I have played that game so many times, I kind 590 00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:32.840 of have like a set role play element to like a certain playthrough and like 591 00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:37.480 a lot of exploring, no fast trial or anything like that. And that's 592 00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:40.039 why I'm doing more so on this Like I'll have because of a certain quest, 593 00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:43.159 I'll have an objective and then it's like, hey, how can I 594 00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:45.559 get there in a creative sense, And then I'll get there and then of 595 00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:49.760 course get sidetracked on like meeting like a certain character that brings me on a 596 00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:53.159 side quest, or or maybe I'll go into a store and just get one 597 00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:58.440 shot by like a really high level like Moss that I wasn't expecting. It's 598 00:34:58.519 --> 00:35:00.639 like, oh, wow, okay, I guess I guess I can't go 599 00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:02.559 into there. But then I'll just kind of keep exploring in a certain area, 600 00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:07.639 so I've kind of just been wandering and like it's funny because like as 601 00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:12.119 I was mentioned, like I kind of have a set roleplay strategy. But 602 00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:15.000 then I just totally get like sidetracked and deviated off. But so I haven't 603 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:22.079 really been going down any like major storylines yet. What was the most recent 604 00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:25.360 one I did? It was, Yeah, No, I think my most 605 00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:29.920 recent one I did was actually like the main story one with Valentine when you 606 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:34.760 are taking on catalog like like, that was my most recent mission. And 607 00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:37.239 then I was just doing tasks here and there in Diamond City, which is 608 00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:42.000 just such a great city. I completely forgot about all the certain characters in 609 00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:45.079 there. So yeah, I know, I'm I'm I'm just looking forward to 610 00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:52.800 just wandering and boosting up my character and really just getting maybe overpowered with certain 611 00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:58.039 berks that I can make my character, and and I just I feel like 612 00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:00.920 I never really truly understood the full potential of what you can do when you 613 00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:06.400 like upgrade your weapons and stuff and like really boost up those perks. Like 614 00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:09.519 I think I had like a certain shotgun that I just like improved the max 615 00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:14.000 stat and it went from like sixty one damage to like one hundred and twenty 616 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:15.760 one, and I'm like, wow, I just doubled my damage just from 617 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:20.639 like one simple upgrade. So I can't wait to see what it is when 618 00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:24.079 I'm like max level on a certain ranked or sorry like perks for the gun 619 00:36:24.199 --> 00:36:29.599 mods or whatever the perks are called there. So yeah, yeah, no, 620 00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:32.519 I'm I'm having lots of fun with this play through, and yeah, 621 00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:36.400 I'm excited to kind of give you an update there once I've boost up my 622 00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:38.320 character a little bit more. Perhaps, Yeah, no, I remember, 623 00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:43.760 I really enjoyed the customization aspect of that game. I think that was like 624 00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:46.360 when the game came out maybe one of the biggest things that stood out to 625 00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:50.840 me, especially as like an older Scrolls fan too, where they're usually is 626 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:53.119 like somewhat limited, like you can maybe do an enchantment or something like that, 627 00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:55.400 but just with yeah, with the guns and the visuals too, and 628 00:36:55.480 --> 00:36:59.480 of putting all sorts of weird wonky things on it. I think it like 629 00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:04.400 fed really well back into the exploration too, where you're like, Okay, 630 00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.519 I'm looking for like certain objects in the world because they break down into the 631 00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:09.039 different parts of like oh man, it's not screws and adhesive in it, 632 00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:12.679 and now you need that for the certain part, So like you're kind of 633 00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:15.199 looking out for other things in the world too. In a more meaningful way. 634 00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:20.199 And then yeah, obviously the Armory has that that same sort of customization 635 00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:22.960 to it, so that was like, yeah, definitely one of the biggest 636 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:25.960 improvements I think, uh in formula like from either of their series at that 637 00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:30.320 time, oh, one hundred percent. And like I think seeing stuff like 638 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:35.079 that, whether it's the layered armor system where you have like shoulders, you 639 00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:37.480 know, it's not just like iron armor, it's not just like one thing 640 00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:42.079 that's everything, like those aspects that they brought into those games, or the 641 00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:45.440 customization with the guns. Obviously, if you're translating that to like Elder Scrolls, 642 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:49.599 you probably can't tweak out you know, like you can't put a red 643 00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:52.199 dot on a long sword for example. But but like I'm sure you're again 644 00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:55.840 with to be honestly, yeah, it's true, but like you can still 645 00:37:55.920 --> 00:38:00.280 kind of customize it in some aspects. So I'm really full that they translate 646 00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:04.119 some of those systems into the next Older Schools game, which would be really 647 00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:07.079 Yeah, I'd love to see more of customization like that. Was it Oblivion 648 00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:12.760 that they had so you could like make spells in Yeah, yeah, Marwin 649 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:16.239 and Oblivion had the ability to make spells and Marwin had like Marwin had, 650 00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:21.199 like each pauldron was an armor you had brace or armor you had, like 651 00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:24.199 your chest, your greaves, boots, helmets you had like so much like 652 00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:28.559 more so in that way, you could customize it a little bit more and 653 00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:30.840 you could have like enchantments on each of those things, so you could do 654 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:34.159 some crazy stuff. O. Yeah, the spell making was definitely a big 655 00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:37.800 removal that they had in Skyrim minutes. Yeah, So then I hope that 656 00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:39.480 they would bring back. I don't know if they would. I feel like, 657 00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:43.719 but this is not a big company to go back on things. Like 658 00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:47.639 usually once they make some change, they keep going in that like one direction. 659 00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:52.119 But I'd like to be proven wrong. That's like my biggest fear about 660 00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:54.519 the leveling system, I think because I think initially I love the idea of 661 00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:58.400 what they did with Skyrim, just because I was a very indecisive care like 662 00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:00.800 you know, maker of my cares. I'm like, am I gonna want 663 00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:04.440 to be an archer in twenty levels? Like I don't know, Like like 664 00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:07.960 I like the freedom of it, But now that I've just played so much 665 00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:10.639 of them, Like now when I play that game and I go back, 666 00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:15.519 I like make a character and like self nerve in that aspect, like right, 667 00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:20.039 like if I'm level forty seven, I'm a level forty seven archer or 668 00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:22.400 like whatever my playthrough is, or like just a two handed user, Like 669 00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:27.199 that's all my focus is on it. I understand why they bring it in. 670 00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:29.239 And of course you can always make the argument what's like, well, 671 00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:31.519 you can just do what I do and just like just self limit yourself. 672 00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:35.960 But it's more so than giving the tools. But I think there's there's a 673 00:39:36.039 --> 00:39:42.599 certain there's certain specialty specialness that's not really word, just just a certain zenise 674 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:46.079 qua about when they have those like old school RPG elements in their games. 675 00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:51.360 And how do you feel about the the perk system in Fallout four? Now 676 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:53.320 then, like almost ten years later, how are you thinking of that system 677 00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:57.960 with the uh what I put the putting the stars in a little chart there. 678 00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:01.079 Yeah, I was a lot more or down for back then, and 679 00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:05.840 I you know, don't want to put words your mouth. I felt like 680 00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:10.119 you were pretty against it, like initially just just for how you unlock things, 681 00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:15.119 and I definitely feel that way, Like again just comparing it to Skyrim, 682 00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:19.800 like if I come across a master lock, why can't I try and 683 00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:22.960 pick that master lock and just like get lucky. You know. Now it's 684 00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:25.800 just like, can't crack that lock. That's too tough, like whatever your 685 00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:29.840 character says whenever you come across those, and it's like, okay, even 686 00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:31.159 if I save up my perk points and I want to max that out, 687 00:40:31.559 --> 00:40:35.920 I can't do it until I'm like level fourteen or or you know, like 688 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:38.039 whatever it might be level twenty two to get those master locks. So I 689 00:40:38.119 --> 00:40:44.960 really don't like those aspects to it. And also just okay, or as 690 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:46.599 I was mentioning to you, like I I've been trying to level up like 691 00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:52.920 my armor level or my whatever the perk one is for melee weapons, I 692 00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:58.599 can't get that unless I have certain strength stats, which I kind of forgot 693 00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:00.679 about. So when I was like first making my character, I'm like, 694 00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:02.639 oh, yeah, let's do like two in strength, you know, like 695 00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:07.119 like eight in perception, and like you kind of like I wish I had 696 00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:09.599 the chart there when I was making that, so then I knew which perks 697 00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:14.880 I wanted to get first. Where it's it's a little bit annoying just ye 698 00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:17.079 just how it goes. But those games have never really had a respec in 699 00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:21.599 the way that a lot of other RPGs kind of have these days outside of 700 00:41:21.719 --> 00:41:24.360 like mods and stuff. But yeah, I mean I've always been hard on 701 00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:30.599 like Skyrim's RPG elements just because like I'm a purist, you know, I've 702 00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:32.559 played so much mar Winn Toblivion, but like it is a system that I 703 00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:36.760 can look at now and but yeah, there are a ton of improvements it 704 00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:39.039 made from Oblivion and Marlwin, which, like, I don't know, there 705 00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:42.599 is more fun to like some of this perk system. In other ways, 706 00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:45.840 it's a little bit limited or they took out certain skill types from those games. 707 00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:50.280 But Followed is like the Fall of four is just worse than Followed three 708 00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:52.199 in every way for me, Like there isn't really like a shining light of 709 00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:55.159 how it could be better. Like there's there's other things in the game of 710 00:41:55.239 --> 00:41:59.079 course that are huge improvements, but I feel like the RPG element of it 711 00:41:59.199 --> 00:42:01.880 is signific worse. And then seventy six I didn't really like what they were 712 00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:06.400 doing there either, So yeah, I don't I don't know what the future 713 00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:09.000 of that would look like, but I'm I'm hopeful that like to some extent, 714 00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:13.239 like Elder Girls and followed stay in their own lane in terms of RPG 715 00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:15.079 mechanics. So I'm sure the next Elder Strolls is still gonna have a really 716 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:20.400 good system. Yeah, I hope, even if it's just like a little 717 00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:22.679 bit like even if it's very close to Skyrim Whig's a couple of minor tweaks, 718 00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:27.039 I think I'd be fine with bad. I don't like, I absolutely 719 00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:29.480 love the way that you go to your perk tree, at least in Skyri, 720 00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:30.679 when you just looked at the stars and then they just come up with 721 00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:34.320 the constellations. That is like, oh, that is a chef's kiss, 722 00:42:34.679 --> 00:42:37.960 like the like the look of the chart I think you know. And follow 723 00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:42.119 four but nothing will beat that, uh, the astrological symbols and and all 724 00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:45.239 that and the like that's something that they've had at least since morowin, right, 725 00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:49.199 like just like the different star signs, like when you're making your character 726 00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:52.599 there, it's like you're born prob. I can't remember, yeah, just 727 00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:54.679 because I haven't played deay Er Fall as much, but yeah, ask you 728 00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:59.480 how did the perk system work? And follow three because I can't remember what 729 00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:01.880 it was like, Like obviously you had the same I think it's called the 730 00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:07.599 special is the acronym, but like was there like gun maniac or whatever the 731 00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:12.280 hell they're they're called like like the set perks. Yeah, I'm trying to 732 00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:15.920 remember how much fallout for removed, because that's definitely thing with the elder strollers. 733 00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:21.360 You look at like how many just individual skills there are and like daggerfall 734 00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:22.480 and like I'm making up numbers here, but it's like sixty, and then 735 00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:25.840 Marwin has like forty five, and then up literally has like thirty, and 736 00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:29.960 then Scarrim has like fifteen or something. You know, like they just kind 737 00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:31.960 of simplified and like they streamlined things, like instead of all these different weapon 738 00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:35.480 types, there's just like one hand and a two hand, and then that 739 00:43:35.559 --> 00:43:37.840 breaks out in other things and they like took out mysticism, you know, 740 00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:40.639 other little things like that. So when it comes to that was a big 741 00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:45.199 one I remember in Marwin, right, Yeah, jumping around everywhere, yes, 742 00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:47.360 which is one of the It was an annoying one, like one you 743 00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:51.239 could grind, but also one that would just happen when you don't want to 744 00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:52.880 level it up if you're trying to mindmax things. So it'd be annoying. 745 00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:55.519 But so When I think about followed, it's hard for me to pinpoint, 746 00:43:55.559 --> 00:44:00.199 like what did followut for remove a lot of those, but essentially in followed 747 00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:04.039 three in New Vegas, which kind of have the same system, is you 748 00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:07.199 are, yeah, doing your special stats at the beginning of the game, 749 00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:10.039 and then when you level up, you get like whatever it is, like 750 00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:15.079 fifteen points that you can allot different places, and so you can put those 751 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:19.480 wherever you want, so like by not like by like level five or something. 752 00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:22.760 If you just put literally all fifteen of your stats every level into one 753 00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:25.320 thing, like you could max it out, obviously you'd be majorly lacking on 754 00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:29.400 other things, like usually want to balance it to some extent. And then 755 00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:31.760 after you do that every like I think two levels, you would get to 756 00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:36.039 pick a perk on top of that, and then those perks were based on 757 00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:39.000 what your stats were, so like, once you reach forty and explosives, 758 00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:43.199 you can get this thing or or some of them were like if you have 759 00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:46.360 both explosives, maybe I don't pick up a random thing here like explosives of 760 00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:50.639 big guns. Maybe you'd get like a specific percut unlock at that point, 761 00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:55.000 and then certain perks you could upgrade and then your intelligence stat determined how many 762 00:44:55.119 --> 00:44:58.880 like of those points you would get every time you leveled up, So like 763 00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:02.400 intelligence was really powerful because then you would just like be more efficient every single 764 00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:07.360 level you beget any more things. But then naturally you always have been in 765 00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:10.920 that same way kind of closed off from certain elements of the build because of 766 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:14.960 like, yeah, if you put two in strength, there's certain perks deals 767 00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:16.760 never be able to get until I mean, there is ways in the game 768 00:45:16.840 --> 00:45:21.360 to increase your special stats, but that's very rare that you find those, 769 00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:23.519 Like I forget if it's skill books or related to a bubblehead. I think 770 00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:27.679 maybe it's a bubble head, I think, Yeah, so I think you 771 00:45:27.719 --> 00:45:31.199 can only get like each stat upgraded once from that, right, that's how 772 00:45:31.239 --> 00:45:36.199 it is the followed four from my Yeah, yeah, so so I don't 773 00:45:36.199 --> 00:45:38.519 know in follow four, is it just putting the stars and the things or 774 00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:43.159 because they took all the stat part of like here you get fifteen points to 775 00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:46.360 a lot to different skills, right, yeah, So you choose your specials 776 00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:49.079 at the start of the game, and then every time you level up, 777 00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.280 you get a perk point and you can either put that in to upgrade your 778 00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:54.639 specials so it's funny. I don't know why I remember this so vividly, 779 00:45:54.760 --> 00:45:58.880 but on our review, Travis didn't know that you could like scroll down on 780 00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:01.840 the perk tree, so he literally like maxed out all the specials before he 781 00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:07.440 went to the second layer, which is just hilarious to me. But no, 782 00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:09.639 yeah, so like, although you can kind of put them wherever you 783 00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:13.280 want, if you only have two strength, you can only go two down 784 00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:16.840 that ladder on the strength perks, right, and then of course there's really 785 00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:22.280 strong ones once you get to like level ten or whatnot. But yeah, 786 00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:23.880 that's that's how it's done. And yeah, so it's pretty much just like 787 00:46:24.760 --> 00:46:28.559 less than what you do and fallo up three in New Vegas every level, 788 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:30.159 but then like every level you get a perk, whereas yeah, yeah, 789 00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:34.599 pretty sure it's every two levels in in uh yeah, those games. So 790 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:38.000 yeah, just a I don't I really like really nerding out of the but 791 00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:42.239 like the specific numbers of the stats, yeah, and doing that kind of 792 00:46:42.280 --> 00:46:45.199 thing. So that was definitely a detractor where oh, rather than getting to 793 00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:50.119 do like fifteen fun things every level up, I get to do one like 794 00:46:50.280 --> 00:46:53.519 slightly more powerful thing, yeah, which I guess didn't feel as good for 795 00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:57.760 me. But I guess you know a silver lining as well for this when 796 00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:01.840 we're we're thinking head of Elegric six right now, is that I actually love 797 00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:07.039 Starfield's RPG system leveled up. I thought it was really really good. It 798 00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:13.159 took the elements of Skyrim that I enjoyed and made them even better in my 799 00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:15.960 opinion. So I think that's another good sign of where we could go with 800 00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:22.199 UH with other scrolls interesting. Maybe one day I'll get the experience Starfield. 801 00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:28.280 It's one that I've still been very fortunate to not be spoiled on, like 802 00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:30.360 at all, like I I've to this day. I don't think I've seen 803 00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:35.960 like any gameplay other than what was like the early trailers. I'm I'm just 804 00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:40.199 somehow I'm good at that, like whether it's a show that's until you put 805 00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:44.599 all your you know, your notepads with all your spoiler topics, keep killing 806 00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:46.119 that out because I'm sure one day I'll be able to jump in there. 807 00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:52.920 Yeah. No, that's awesome. I'm so glad you've been because when you 808 00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:55.519 first mentioned that earlier that you have been playing follow I'm like, that's weird. 809 00:47:55.519 --> 00:47:58.840 Everyone else in the world, like watch the show and then has been 810 00:47:59.119 --> 00:48:00.400 playing followed again. I'm like, you haven't watched the show, but I 811 00:48:00.519 --> 00:48:02.840 like that's a little two and one surprise you had for me there. So 812 00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:07.039 yeah, exactly, a little double whammy on you. Good stuff. How 813 00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:14.280 about we take a quick break and we'll be right back. Okay, we 814 00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:21.400 are back. I have three games to shout out today. I'm gonna start 815 00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:28.800 with Wolfenstein the Old Blood. So two reasons why I decided to pick up 816 00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:30.679 this game. I mean, one, this is reason Zero's is not. 817 00:48:30.719 --> 00:48:34.400 One of the two reasons is that it's just on game pass courds, easily 818 00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:37.000 accessible, I can play it. One is I I really was craving just 819 00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:40.320 like a first person shooter campaign. I don't really play those these days, 820 00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:44.039 right, Like if I'm playing the first person shoots, like I'm playing counter 821 00:48:44.119 --> 00:48:46.199 Strike and I'm doing competitive stuff, or I'm playing Warzone with you guys and 822 00:48:46.400 --> 00:48:50.800 that's competitive, or if I do play Halo these days, I'm just jumping 823 00:48:50.840 --> 00:48:52.639 in to play a couple of online matches. And so I feel like it's 824 00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:55.840 been a while since I've done like just a straight up first person shooter campaign. 825 00:48:55.840 --> 00:48:59.159 I've done, like, you know, played arcade games, recently, 826 00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:02.639 but it's differ than just like a straight up single player first person shooter campaign 827 00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:06.679 all about just gunning enemies down and walking through this world, you know. 828 00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:10.800 And then the other reason is because Indiana Jones coming out later this year, 829 00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:14.960 and that's from Machine Games, and I've wanted to go back and check out 830 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:20.280 some of other machine games games. So me, Taylor and Scheffs, we've 831 00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:23.239 talked about maybe doing a one episode retrospective of one of these Wolfenstein games. 832 00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:27.119 Just I know it's not really like maybe it doesn't make a ton of sense 833 00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:30.079 for a Nana Jones, but just to like do some research on machine games. 834 00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:32.840 And so I'm I don't know if we're gonna do that. It kind 835 00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:36.000 of depends on when the game comes out we which we don't have a release 836 00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:38.280 date yet. But I wanted to play, so I wanted to play a 837 00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:42.800 game that wasn't gonna be in way of that. I didn't want to like 838 00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:45.400 play that game early, you know, so I went and played this game 839 00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:49.400 instead. So Wolfenstein the Old Blood is kind of the prequel to the newer 840 00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:52.800 Wolfenstein games, like the reboot of them. But before I talk about that, 841 00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:57.159 I actually want to like dive into the history of this because I went 842 00:49:57.199 --> 00:50:00.119 on a huge rabbit hole just looking through in the similar I was looking to 843 00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:02.599 that rabbit hole of Eldest Girl's travels. I was just looking into Wolfenstein because 844 00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:07.320 I was kind of curious about the series. I got a question for you, 845 00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:08.480 because you know, I love when you go down these rabbit holes, 846 00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:12.360 whether it's a rock climber that or not, a rock climber, a cave 847 00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:15.480 explorer that just goes for terrible track climbing too, is another rabbit hole. 848 00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:19.559 But yes, you like, is there a certain time, like is it 849 00:50:19.639 --> 00:50:21.880 like two in the morning or something you can't sleep and you're just going down 850 00:50:21.920 --> 00:50:23.519 these rabbit holes? Or does it start early and then it gets to two 851 00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:27.880 am because you're just going so deep, or is it like early morning, 852 00:50:28.039 --> 00:50:30.199 like like, is it a set time frame or is it just any time? 853 00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:35.000 Just the curiosity could get anytime of day, man, anytime of day. 854 00:50:35.440 --> 00:50:37.559 You know, it's I feel like a lot of time for video games 855 00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:42.480 specific things. It is maybe I just hear someone say something in passing on 856 00:50:42.559 --> 00:50:44.719 a podcast, I'm like, oh, that sounds interesting, I'll look into 857 00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:46.639 it, and then then the rabbit hole begins. Yeah. Other times it's 858 00:50:46.679 --> 00:50:50.760 like this, right. Yeah, I played through Wolfenstein and I was trying 859 00:50:50.800 --> 00:50:52.079 to pick which game to play, and then I was just looking at the 860 00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:54.199 wikipedo. I'm like, god, damn, there are so many more games 861 00:50:54.239 --> 00:50:58.039 than I ever realized. So then I played the game and then I was 862 00:50:58.079 --> 00:51:00.320 like, Okay, now I want to learn and about what I've missed and 863 00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:04.440 what all these other games are. So it really happens anytime day, and 864 00:51:04.519 --> 00:51:07.800 YouTube will get me too, because YouTube and that goddamn algorithm is so good. 865 00:51:07.079 --> 00:51:10.159 It's too smart. Yeah, did you see that I sent you? 866 00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:13.519 This video is when you were campings. You probably didn't watch it yet, 867 00:51:13.519 --> 00:51:16.119 but the skyrom video, Okay, I saw it on there. I forgot 868 00:51:16.159 --> 00:51:20.199 to come back to it. No, thanks for reminding me watch that, 869 00:51:20.719 --> 00:51:22.719 because this is a This is another rabbit hole. I just discovered this YouTuber 870 00:51:23.159 --> 00:51:28.760 named Anny Austin and he does all sorts of crazy videos. Fifty three PM. 871 00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:30.760 You sent me that video, by the way, So yeah, that 872 00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:34.559 was a late night rabbit hole. But that video is hilarious because he just 873 00:51:34.639 --> 00:51:37.280 goes through and like it's just him trying to He just follows one river to 874 00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:40.320 see like where it goes, and like the different waterfalls that go into it 875 00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:44.880 and like where it splits off, and like it sounds very mundane, but 876 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:47.039 he's just you know, a funny YouTuber guy, so it makes it entertaining. 877 00:51:47.800 --> 00:51:51.480 But then the rabbit hole is that, like his other videos are hilarious, 878 00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:53.960 and he has he has a multiple series of videos Kirkling where he just 879 00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:58.639 goes through and like what is the unemployment rate of White Run? That's the 880 00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:01.320 title of video. And he was through and he just finds every NPC in 881 00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:05.599 the city, determines what their job is, if they have a job, 882 00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:08.119 all this stuff. It's absolute hilarious. So showing with do you remember what 883 00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:13.960 MSIMS is? I'm always cus he definitely, Yeah, he came across him 884 00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:19.000 in the video and he mentioned the Cloud District often so that I can't remember. 885 00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:21.639 I can't remember if he was employed or not. But anyway, another 886 00:52:21.760 --> 00:52:25.960 number, another rabbit hole of mine. But yeah, Wolfenstein. Here's a 887 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:30.360 crazy fact. Wolfenstein, the first game came out the same year that Mario 888 00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:36.039 was invented. Isn't that insane? That first game came out in nineteen eighty 889 00:52:36.079 --> 00:52:39.760 one. Is a old series, one of the new old series, just 890 00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:44.719 because of like the side by side comparison I've seen from like Doom or Quaked, 891 00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:49.159 like that early first person view. But I I like, I knew 892 00:52:49.199 --> 00:52:52.960 it was old. But just when you say the year Mario was invented, 893 00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:55.760 that that's that's shocking to me technically, because you know, Mario is introduced 894 00:52:55.800 --> 00:53:00.719 in Donkey Kong when jumping around there, So technically Wolvestein came up before the 895 00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:02.960 first Mario game even came out, which is insane to me. But yeah, 896 00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:07.280 I had the same perception where oh, yeah, Wolfenstein was like one 897 00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:10.159 of those first first person shooters that came out in the nineties, but no, 898 00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:13.239 it turns out the first game came out in nineteen eighty one and it 899 00:53:13.360 --> 00:53:15.960 was not a first person shooter because this was before that genre even existed. 900 00:53:16.280 --> 00:53:20.719 But it's like a top down very like it's a very old game, so 901 00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:23.239 visuals are very limited. Looks like an NES game. I think it's an 902 00:53:23.239 --> 00:53:27.519 old PC game. And yeah, it's just like a top down kind of 903 00:53:27.639 --> 00:53:30.400 stealth, stealth sort of game. I don't even know if there's really much 904 00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:34.559 action in it, so that's that's crazy. And it was called Castle Wolfenstein, 905 00:53:34.840 --> 00:53:37.719 and there was like a sequel, a very similar looking sequel called Beyond 906 00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:42.519 Castle Wolfenstein. And then after that, in nineteen ninety two there's Wolfenstein three 907 00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:45.639 D Sphere of Destiny, and that's where that's what we think of when we 908 00:53:46.280 --> 00:53:50.440 meet you and we think of Wolfenstein. So that's where that kind of element 909 00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:52.079 of it started. And then there was another one Returned to wolf Castle, 910 00:53:52.119 --> 00:53:57.159 Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. And then in two thousand and eight, I 911 00:53:57.159 --> 00:54:00.679 thought this was hilarious. There's a game Wolfenstein RPG. So there was like 912 00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:05.079 a first person shooter hybrid RPG thing, which I think is more like turn 913 00:54:05.159 --> 00:54:07.199 based but is still a first person shooter. So I don't know how that 914 00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:10.199 works, but it's a game I really want to go back and check out 915 00:54:10.280 --> 00:54:15.960 and hear about. And then there was another game in two thousand and nine, 916 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:21.639 Wolfenstein, and then that leads us into twenty fourteen, which is when 917 00:54:21.719 --> 00:54:24.840 Machine Games, the studio that we were talking about earlier, started working on 918 00:54:24.920 --> 00:54:28.760 it with Wolvenstegin in the New Order. And then the next year they released 919 00:54:28.800 --> 00:54:30.840 The Old Blood, which is what I'm gonna talk about in a bit, 920 00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:35.000 and then Wolfsneide two the New Colossus, and then that takes us into Young 921 00:54:35.039 --> 00:54:37.800 Blood and Cyberpilot, which were like the two kind of spinoff games that came 922 00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:40.119 out in twenty nineteen. So yeah, that's a very brief history. Obviously, 923 00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:44.000 I've only played one of these games, so I'm not a historian on 924 00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:47.159 it by any means, but yeah, like a much wilder history than I 925 00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:50.920 thought. And I think even in that like what is that like ten twelve 926 00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:54.000 games, there's like four or five, maybe even six developers that've worked on 927 00:54:54.119 --> 00:54:58.159 these games, so it's all been all sorts of different people making them. 928 00:54:58.320 --> 00:55:00.039 Like the one that looks like Doom was made the Doom team back in the 929 00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:04.880 day, and then Machine Games was like formed to create this new game in 930 00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:07.239 twenty fourteen. So yeah, some really interesting stuff with this, like very 931 00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:12.679 under the radar series, Like I feel like the name is kind of iconic, 932 00:55:12.760 --> 00:55:15.519 but like it when people talk about this, like I never really hear 933 00:55:15.559 --> 00:55:17.559 them talk about specific games, so I feel like it is kind of a 934 00:55:17.639 --> 00:55:22.280 weird, obscured sort of series that has never been at the forefront of first 935 00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:24.760 person shooters, but it's certainly a big part of the genre's history. So 936 00:55:25.239 --> 00:55:30.440 yeah, I feel like if you showed like specifically Wolfenstein like three D. 937 00:55:30.679 --> 00:55:32.760 I feel like if you showed like an image of that to someone, they 938 00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:36.119 probably would have just guessed it would be like Doom. Like it, it 939 00:55:36.679 --> 00:55:40.239 does seem kind of like the you know, like the like the younger brother 940 00:55:40.440 --> 00:55:44.880 maybe of Doom. I don't know which one came up first. Probably Doom, 941 00:55:45.079 --> 00:55:49.280 I would imagine, yeah, but just yeah, I don't know why 942 00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:52.639 that's I guess Doom is just an easier title to say, Like, I 943 00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:54.920 don't know why that stands out more for people to remember. Maybe just the 944 00:55:55.679 --> 00:56:00.159 the fact you're just battling demons and that's just just what those games are. 945 00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:05.079 But like even the new ones, like they've they look pretty similar to me, 946 00:56:05.199 --> 00:56:08.360 Like when when I'm comparing the two obviously doing there's a lot more crazy 947 00:56:08.440 --> 00:56:14.199 demons and whatnot, but just the overall aesthetic of the characters. And I 948 00:56:14.320 --> 00:56:19.599 haven't played either of the new ones, whether it's from machine games or what 949 00:56:19.800 --> 00:56:23.920 is it? Is it ID software? Yeah, Like I don't know how 950 00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:28.119 they feel, but they they it just looks like they would play pretty similarly. 951 00:56:28.239 --> 00:56:30.800 So it's it's funny how even the new versions in my mind seem pretty 952 00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:34.760 similar. But uh no, it's so funny that you jumped into this, 953 00:56:34.800 --> 00:56:37.719 because I'm pretty sure the last time I was on side Quest, I was 954 00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:42.199 mentioning how I saw on the PlayStation catalog they had all the Wolfenstein games just 955 00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:44.679 on there, and I'm like, man, I am kind of looking for 956 00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:49.679 a you know, just a simple shooter storyline, like I think the most 957 00:56:49.719 --> 00:56:52.920 recent one i'd gone through on that was titan Fall two, and I truly 958 00:56:53.039 --> 00:56:57.280 love that game. I think I beat it in one city. That's I 959 00:56:57.320 --> 00:57:00.840 got to do that one soon. Absolutely fantastic game. I never played the 960 00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:02.800 first one. I remember Briggs back in the day was a big titan Fall 961 00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:06.760 fan. Yes, and Wolfenstein fan as well. Oh there you go. 962 00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:08.599 So it goes at hand. So I'm probably gonna love this when I eventually 963 00:57:08.639 --> 00:57:12.239 get to it, because I really love titan Fall too. But no, 964 00:57:12.360 --> 00:57:15.559 I'm it's cool to hear that you jumped in there for that and like starting 965 00:57:15.679 --> 00:57:19.639 on on this one. That's kind of interesting. Yeah, would you recommend 966 00:57:19.679 --> 00:57:22.599 that because it is a prequel? Yeah, I mean, since I haven't 967 00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:25.639 played the New Order yet, I don't know, like it's hard for me 968 00:57:25.719 --> 00:57:30.400 to to recommend it, but I recommend it as like the starting point of 969 00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:34.440 it. So I'll have to report back on that angle of it, but 970 00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:37.159 yeah, once again, yeah, we'll sign a new Order. Then the 971 00:57:37.239 --> 00:57:39.599 prequel came out, and then the sequel came out. I'd hate that it's 972 00:57:39.599 --> 00:57:44.400 called the New Order and the New Clausus, like you call maybe the new 973 00:57:44.440 --> 00:57:46.559 one the New Order, like when it starts the franchise again, but then 974 00:57:46.639 --> 00:57:51.079 you just call it the Big Colossus or I don't know, something else, 975 00:57:51.119 --> 00:57:53.400 like I don't I don't like the idea that there's two news in the title 976 00:57:53.480 --> 00:57:59.480 there. But also I found it interesting that, like I feel like this 977 00:57:59.559 --> 00:58:01.440 could have been to DLC, and I wonder why it wasn't. I wonder 978 00:58:01.480 --> 00:58:05.480 why they decided maybe it just had enough juice in it, but like it 979 00:58:05.559 --> 00:58:08.000 came out the year after, so it must have been in development or like 980 00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:12.480 in the works before that game even came out. It makes me think of 981 00:58:12.599 --> 00:58:15.760 actually coming because back then, back then when this came out was of course 982 00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:20.519 Bethesda is the publisher there, and a similar thing happened with Dishonor Too and 983 00:58:20.599 --> 00:58:23.079 Death of the Outsider, where that could have been a DLC but instead they 984 00:58:23.239 --> 00:58:28.119 made it like a separate, smaller spinoff game. And I feel like that's 985 00:58:28.159 --> 00:58:30.719 kind of what happened here as well. So maybe that was just like Big 986 00:58:30.800 --> 00:58:36.320 Bethesda, the publisher there, was making the decision to rather than doing DLC 987 00:58:36.440 --> 00:58:38.519 for these kind of smaller, mid budget games, maybe they would just do 988 00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:44.039 the a whole new entry in the series. So kind of also an interesting 989 00:58:44.119 --> 00:58:46.800 thing there. But yeah, I had a really good time playing through this 990 00:58:46.920 --> 00:58:51.840 game. I think it was like maybe like eight to ten hours in that 991 00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:54.320 range, so like a pretty it was like the perfect length of what I 992 00:58:54.480 --> 00:58:57.599 wanted, and it was like it was exactly what I was looking for. 993 00:58:57.840 --> 00:59:00.480 Where not a whole lot of story to it. Some of a lot of 994 00:59:00.519 --> 00:59:04.159 the story I was just skipping because I'm like, I don't care about these 995 00:59:04.239 --> 00:59:07.400 characters. These villains are not engaging to me, Like like if the enemy 996 00:59:07.480 --> 00:59:12.159 is a Nazi, that's good enough motive for shoot them down. Like I 997 00:59:12.199 --> 00:59:16.000 don't really need all these other big exposition scenes and whatnot. But yeah, 998 00:59:16.039 --> 00:59:20.199 like just first person shooting mechanics. It's funny. It took like a little 999 00:59:20.199 --> 00:59:22.760 bit for me to get used to it because you're just playing so much war 1000 00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:25.960 Zone lately, which is like the most polished first person shooter of all time. 1001 00:59:27.079 --> 00:59:30.599 Feels so good. Every movement and every crouch, the way the gun 1002 00:59:30.679 --> 00:59:34.159 sways in your hand, all that stuff like feels great. And so it 1003 00:59:34.199 --> 00:59:36.599 took me a bit to like calibrate to like, oh, yeah, this 1004 00:59:36.679 --> 00:59:38.880 is not the biggest budget game in the world that I'm playing right now, 1005 00:59:39.239 --> 00:59:43.840 But it didn't take long before I kind of got clicked into the movement and 1006 00:59:43.920 --> 00:59:45.960 the feeling of it and adjust the settings around to make it feel just right. 1007 00:59:47.039 --> 00:59:49.599 And in that way, it was like, yeah, it was just 1008 00:59:49.679 --> 00:59:52.960 fun. This really harkens back to like the Xbox three sixty era, where 1009 00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:57.239 I was playing all sorts of FPS campaigns, and I just don't really do 1010 00:59:57.320 --> 01:00:00.960 that anymore with games that are just like this is the first person shooter and 1011 01:00:00.039 --> 01:00:04.119 nothing else. But this was perfect for that, and that's one of the 1012 01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:06.960 things I love about this game did not have a single puzzle in it. 1013 01:00:07.079 --> 01:00:10.000 I am so sick of puzzles and games like this that it just feels like 1014 01:00:10.039 --> 01:00:14.039 it's there to slow you down, just to drag it out, or maybe 1015 01:00:14.159 --> 01:00:15.960 just like offer a palate cleanser. But it's like, no, I'm playing 1016 01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:20.119 Wolfenstein because I want to have like a first person shooter, high octane. 1017 01:00:20.239 --> 01:00:23.079 Yeah, set pieces sort of game, and it definitely fulfilled in that sort 1018 01:00:23.119 --> 01:00:29.119 of way, really good variety of locations and level design. There's like hidden 1019 01:00:29.199 --> 01:00:30.840 paths and hidden areas you can find, and like, I don't know, 1020 01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:34.039 it's not like, oh, you can go in STEALTHI or you can go 1021 01:00:34.119 --> 01:00:37.039 in loud, like there is a bit of that, but just in terms 1022 01:00:37.039 --> 01:00:38.840 of like how big these levels are, Like they're just big enough where you 1023 01:00:38.960 --> 01:00:43.719 kind of have a little bit of freedom and how you want to engage with 1024 01:00:43.800 --> 01:00:46.599 them. But there's like huge castle areas, there's a really cool town section 1025 01:00:47.920 --> 01:00:52.320 going through these like underground ruins and whatnot. So yeah, just like really 1026 01:00:52.360 --> 01:00:58.719 good variety there. Really enjoyed that. I actually really enjoyed the like RPG 1027 01:00:58.960 --> 01:01:01.239 Mechanic, the level lipsis them. It's like very simplistic, but there's like 1028 01:01:01.880 --> 01:01:06.360 twelve skills that you can get and you just to unlock them. You just 1029 01:01:06.440 --> 01:01:10.079 have to do a certain thing. So it's like you know, get fifty 1030 01:01:10.159 --> 01:01:15.599 kills like dual wielding, or get your HP like overload your HP to this 1031 01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:19.480 certain amount, kill four enemies with one grenade, and so it's like it's 1032 01:01:19.559 --> 01:01:22.760 little bonus challenges that like Okay, I'm gonna try and find the right spot 1033 01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:24.559 where I can throw grenade and get four enemies and then I'll get some bonus 1034 01:01:24.599 --> 01:01:28.320 out of it. Now I can carry more grenades so they're more powerful, 1035 01:01:28.639 --> 01:01:30.639 and so just little things like that that were really fun and incremental. And 1036 01:01:30.719 --> 01:01:34.239 then I found like I didn't even know it existed for the first like three 1037 01:01:34.320 --> 01:01:36.800 or four missions I was doing. But then when I noticed that, I'm 1038 01:01:36.840 --> 01:01:38.079 like, Okay, cool, I'm gonna try and do these specific things, 1039 01:01:38.159 --> 01:01:40.800 try go for more headshots, trying oh, I see the certain enemy type, 1040 01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:43.559 I need to get stealth kills on them. So it kind of like 1041 01:01:43.719 --> 01:01:45.840 just change the way I would engage with it a little bit to get these 1042 01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:51.920 these marginal little upgrades there, but tons of like good weapon variety. You 1043 01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:53.679 can like dual wield almost every weapon in the game, which is really fun. 1044 01:01:53.800 --> 01:02:00.519 Have likedual wield like AK forty sevens that you're going around with, And 1045 01:02:00.679 --> 01:02:04.239 yeah, I gotta say, like this is that very much had an Indiana 1046 01:02:04.360 --> 01:02:07.800 Jones sort of feel to it, with like crazy set pieces. At one 1047 01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:10.320 point you're like on this huge gondola and then it's getting shot down, so 1048 01:02:10.440 --> 01:02:14.559 it's like falling and you're like just holding on by the edge of your fingers 1049 01:02:14.639 --> 01:02:17.119 and transferring, jumping over some other things. So I feel like it's in 1050 01:02:17.239 --> 01:02:22.440 good hands for this team to be doing the Indiana Jones game. And there 1051 01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:24.800 was certain like sections where he I was in like some underground ruins temple area 1052 01:02:25.159 --> 01:02:28.639 where there wasn't really a puzzle, but like I had to walk in a 1053 01:02:28.719 --> 01:02:30.800 room like the way these fires lit up this big circles, like, oh, 1054 01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:34.480 this is like an Indiana Jones thing going on here too. So I 1055 01:02:34.559 --> 01:02:37.519 feel like when it comes to them like doing that, and I imagine Indiana 1056 01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:39.760 Jones is gonna have puzzles in it, which I would expect it to. 1057 01:02:40.239 --> 01:02:45.679 I think they're gonna hopefully do a pretty good job with that. What else 1058 01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:47.360 do I want to shout out here? One thing that I loved I think 1059 01:02:47.400 --> 01:02:51.480 you'll love too, because it felt like a very arcane thing is like the 1060 01:02:51.599 --> 01:02:52.840 melee weapon you have. I mean you have a knife, but you also 1061 01:02:52.920 --> 01:02:57.559 have it's like a just like a pipe, like a I don't know, 1062 01:02:57.639 --> 01:03:00.880 any sort of random pipe, and you can like click it together to get 1063 01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:02.800 like almost like a bow staff, or you can like unclick it to have 1064 01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:07.719 like two versions. Oh, yuse like bust out walls. You use it 1065 01:03:07.800 --> 01:03:09.920 as like a pick in the wall to like climb up different things and use 1066 01:03:09.960 --> 01:03:13.840 it like pop open all sorts of things in the environment. So it feels 1067 01:03:13.920 --> 01:03:15.960 like an Arcande like a glue gun or something where it's just like is this 1068 01:03:16.119 --> 01:03:20.960 multitool where it does a bunch of different things. So I really enjoyed that 1069 01:03:21.079 --> 01:03:23.239 one. And then I think the part that surprised me, and this maybe 1070 01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:28.000 is more potentially spoilers I don't even know for later on in this in this 1071 01:03:28.199 --> 01:03:30.679 twenty fifteen game, is that like the paranormal side of it, I never 1072 01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:36.280 really knew too much about like the story in a big way, but Wolf 1073 01:03:36.360 --> 01:03:38.280 and Sign what's all about. But like at some point it just turns into 1074 01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:40.880 like zombie fest. All these enemies you take them out and then they just 1075 01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:45.360 like you know, explode into like these zombie versions and you're going through like 1076 01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:47.679 graveyards and stuff, and then you know, big spoil here. The last 1077 01:03:47.760 --> 01:03:53.239 boss fight is like a humongous like mummy underground that's like one of those giant 1078 01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:58.760 like almost like God of War type bosses that is like smash yeah, and 1079 01:03:58.880 --> 01:04:00.480 like swinging his arm you like crouch under him, and it's like, man, 1080 01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:04.159 I did not see that coming when I was playing through ninety percent of 1081 01:04:04.199 --> 01:04:08.000 this game, because like that supernatural stuff just pops up in the last like 1082 01:04:08.719 --> 01:04:12.239 level or two pretty much, so I'm curious we're considering that's like at the 1083 01:04:12.280 --> 01:04:15.280 end of this prequel. I wonder where that stuff is in, like when 1084 01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:17.400 you get into the New Order and you're in that main game, and how 1085 01:04:18.280 --> 01:04:23.800 prevalent the supernatural element of it is. But yeah, overall, just had 1086 01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:26.400 a great time with this game, really really fun time, and I excited 1087 01:04:26.440 --> 01:04:29.400 to jump into New Order and New Colossus. I don't know if I'll get 1088 01:04:29.400 --> 01:04:32.079 to all of those before before Dana Jones comes out, because I don't even 1089 01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:35.119 know when that game's coming out, But yeah, I had a really good 1090 01:04:35.159 --> 01:04:40.400 time with this and Machine Games I'm a fan of them after this one, 1091 01:04:40.519 --> 01:04:44.679 so excited for their newest game coming out later this year. Nice. Yeah, 1092 01:04:44.719 --> 01:04:47.679 you're getting me excited to jump in there. M hm, Yeah, 1093 01:04:47.719 --> 01:04:51.840 you definitely definitely should. And well maybe I'll let you know if I think 1094 01:04:51.920 --> 01:04:56.199 Old Blood or New Order will be a better one to jump into first, 1095 01:04:56.320 --> 01:04:59.159 but yeah, I don't know. This seemed like a pretty good starting point 1096 01:04:59.199 --> 01:05:01.639 for me in terms of like introducing the character and the kind of setting and 1097 01:05:01.719 --> 01:05:04.960 what. Right. Yeah, I know you like you go to Castle Wolfenstein 1098 01:05:05.039 --> 01:05:08.920 in this, and I feel like in most of these games you go to 1099 01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:11.760 Castle Like I'm guessing you go there over and over again. Obviously the first 1100 01:05:11.800 --> 01:05:14.559 game is called that, multiple games are called that. I'm guessing it's just 1101 01:05:14.599 --> 01:05:18.239 a reoccurring area in these games that you would go to. So yeah, 1102 01:05:19.239 --> 01:05:23.119 yeah, I'm curious because, like I was saying, I think all of 1103 01:05:23.159 --> 01:05:25.800 them are on the PlayStation catalog when I saw them on there. Nice, 1104 01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:30.280 maybe I was unaware of a certain title on there, but I think I 1105 01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:34.280 don't know. I think I would just start at like the earliest one just 1106 01:05:34.320 --> 01:05:39.280 to go from there and play them in release order. But h m hm, 1107 01:05:39.360 --> 01:05:42.000 yeah, we'll see. Yeah, there's one of the older ones on 1108 01:05:42.639 --> 01:05:45.400 PC game Pass, like one of the PC only games I think from like 1109 01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:48.440 the mid two thousands, not the RPG one unfortunately, but yeah, one 1110 01:05:48.480 --> 01:05:53.000 of those exists there, and then yeah, everything else is on all the 1111 01:05:53.119 --> 01:05:55.760 new the newer ones are from on game Pass. I guess some of those 1112 01:05:55.800 --> 01:05:58.840 older games, like that original one, I'm guessing that's just one of those 1113 01:05:58.840 --> 01:06:00.159 games kind of lost a time some extent. I don't know if it's been 1114 01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:03.400 like, I don't know. They could do like a remaster collection with all 1115 01:06:03.440 --> 01:06:06.719 these random ass games. Put RPG in there, put those old ones, 1116 01:06:06.840 --> 01:06:10.159 the eighty one, the game from eighty one in there. Like, I 1117 01:06:10.199 --> 01:06:13.320 think that'd be a cool collection to get. But once again, since like 1118 01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:15.320 so many different developers made it, I'm sure there's all sorts of different engines 1119 01:06:15.320 --> 01:06:17.800 that those games are made in. It would probably be a total mess, 1120 01:06:17.960 --> 01:06:21.679 but it would be cool to get like a little historical package version where you 1121 01:06:21.719 --> 01:06:27.000 can try all these older games. But right, Yeah, looks like they 1122 01:06:27.079 --> 01:06:32.199 have four titles New Order, Old Blood, Young Blood, and then Wolfenstein 1123 01:06:32.280 --> 01:06:39.880 two on there. Okay, on on PC game Pass on PlayStations, Oh 1124 01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:42.159 nice, Okay, Yeah, so I think those same ones are on game 1125 01:06:42.199 --> 01:06:45.639 Pass plus that one random like two thousands one, So that's cool. Yeah, 1126 01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:48.920 that's interesting that they're on there still. I mean, I know a 1127 01:06:48.960 --> 01:06:54.159 lot of these deals happened pre Xbox acquisition, but that seems like it's been 1128 01:06:54.199 --> 01:06:57.639 on there for longer than I would expect. So that's cool for the sake 1129 01:06:57.719 --> 01:07:00.519 of people having access to that stuff. Yeah, and I'm like, because 1130 01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:04.920 I have like the highest here of the PlayStation. Plus I don't know which 1131 01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:09.840 ones are like extra or Premium. Maybe maybe a couple are only on the 1132 01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:15.639 Max one. But yeah, right right cool. Next up on my list 1133 01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:19.440 here is this game called Little Kittie Big City, which is a very cute 1134 01:07:19.480 --> 01:07:23.760 game that came out on Game Pass a couple of weeks ago. This is 1135 01:07:23.800 --> 01:07:26.320 a very short and sweet game takes like two hours to beat. I did, 1136 01:07:26.440 --> 01:07:30.000 like I've only got every Xbox achievement. That took me like three hours, 1137 01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:33.519 I think. But this is a game where you play as this cute 1138 01:07:33.519 --> 01:07:40.000 little cat in this kind of cute small Japanese city, and it's pretty much 1139 01:07:40.039 --> 01:07:43.360 like a three D kind of platforming collectithon sort of game. You're going around 1140 01:07:43.760 --> 01:07:48.079 collecting all sorts of different things, collecting money, buying outfits, doing little 1141 01:07:48.159 --> 01:07:54.239 quests for all these different creatures around town. It's kind of similar to untitled 1142 01:07:54.280 --> 01:07:57.480 Goose game in a way that you're like a lot of the objectives or quests 1143 01:07:57.480 --> 01:08:00.840 that you're being given is to pretty much just like troll people. Like one 1144 01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:02.639 guy is like a construction worker and you have to go in there and like 1145 01:08:02.719 --> 01:08:08.760 put your paw prints all over his freshly pored cement. Yeah, exactly. 1146 01:08:08.800 --> 01:08:12.000 You got to like steal someone's phone and bring it to someone else. You 1147 01:08:12.280 --> 01:08:15.239 like take a phone and like drop it in a toilet at some point, 1148 01:08:15.559 --> 01:08:17.560 so all just like these kind of you're like trolling people through this city. 1149 01:08:18.720 --> 01:08:21.039 But yeah, I had like a really good time playing through this. Obviously, 1150 01:08:21.039 --> 01:08:23.920 if I got the one hundred percent, it was like I was in 1151 01:08:24.000 --> 01:08:27.920 there doing all these different collectibles. It wasn't too uh, there's a couple 1152 01:08:27.920 --> 01:08:30.319 of them are pretty tedious at the end to just like do this thing a 1153 01:08:30.439 --> 01:08:33.399 hundred times. But for the most part it was just like one of those 1154 01:08:33.479 --> 01:08:35.960 kind of turn off your brain and just screw around and listen to a podcast 1155 01:08:35.960 --> 01:08:40.079 while you play sort of games. And I really enjoyed it. The movement 1156 01:08:40.239 --> 01:08:42.960 is really good. It was really fast and fluid. You're doing like some 1157 01:08:43.119 --> 01:08:47.079 minor platforming here. But it's interesting seeing this game and then like Stray from 1158 01:08:47.079 --> 01:08:51.119 a couple of years ago and how they both you know, are having you 1159 01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:56.840 as a very realistic ish sort of cat like rather than like an anthropomorphic type 1160 01:08:56.880 --> 01:09:00.239 cat, you're like an actual cat and have that sid sort of move movement 1161 01:09:00.319 --> 01:09:03.000 where Astray was much more like On Rails in the way you did things, 1162 01:09:03.079 --> 01:09:05.600 it felt, but this game is more free form, and I think because 1163 01:09:05.600 --> 01:09:10.079 of that, it ends up being a lot shankier when you're like getting glutched 1164 01:09:10.119 --> 01:09:13.560 in things or like freaking out. And Stray I think probably just had a 1165 01:09:13.640 --> 01:09:15.359 higher budget, more production values, a bit more polished of a game, 1166 01:09:15.720 --> 01:09:18.159 but they're kind of trying to do different things, you know. Stray is 1167 01:09:18.199 --> 01:09:23.600 like a very story focused single player situation, whereas this is more of like 1168 01:09:24.239 --> 01:09:28.760 three D collect collect Athon sort of space obviously. So yeah, I had 1169 01:09:28.800 --> 01:09:30.600 a really good time with it. Like I said, it's on game Pass, 1170 01:09:30.159 --> 01:09:33.920 so definitely an easy one to recommend, and really yeah, my only 1171 01:09:34.279 --> 01:09:39.600 con of it is like, yeah, kind of janky, and then so 1172 01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:42.800 much text in this game, so much dialogue, and it's like, I 1173 01:09:42.840 --> 01:09:46.199 don't think anyone who wants to play this game cares what like these characters have 1174 01:09:46.319 --> 01:09:49.399 to say, Like I was just mashing, but even though I was mashing 1175 01:09:49.439 --> 01:09:53.199 the A button to get through this stuff, they were still like sometimes it 1176 01:09:53.199 --> 01:09:56.680 would take ten to fifteen seconds of just like straight mashing to get through it 1177 01:09:56.760 --> 01:09:59.279 is and saying how much there was in here, But yeah, just like 1178 01:09:59.560 --> 01:10:02.840 the way you're upgrading your character getting better at climbing, and like you get 1179 01:10:02.840 --> 01:10:09.399 to some pretty crazy heights and different locations and like certain hidden locations and unlocking 1180 01:10:09.439 --> 01:10:12.640 shortcuts and whatnot. Like it's just such a well designed city that you just 1181 01:10:12.680 --> 01:10:15.560 get so intimately familiar with is you're going through it. And then it will 1182 01:10:15.560 --> 01:10:17.479 get to a point where you find one thing halfway across the city. You're 1183 01:10:17.479 --> 01:10:19.239 like, oh, I know exactly what I need to do with this one 1184 01:10:19.279 --> 01:10:21.239 item, so you pick it up and take it where you need to go. 1185 01:10:23.359 --> 01:10:26.039 So yeah, big recommend. Really really enjoyed it for anyone looking for 1186 01:10:26.199 --> 01:10:30.720 just a chill, relaxing kind of platforming sort of game. Big recommend for 1187 01:10:30.800 --> 01:10:33.920 me. Nice, Yeah, as soon as you said the title is just 1188 01:10:34.039 --> 01:10:38.520 like such a Dylan game, you can't feel like you told me about so 1189 01:10:38.600 --> 01:10:43.600 many just cute, little whimsical games with with funky titles. And I really 1190 01:10:43.640 --> 01:10:47.399 like the art style of it actually, m you know, it's definitely I 1191 01:10:47.439 --> 01:10:51.680 don't know, like it seems like a smaller studio just from like the aesthetics 1192 01:10:51.720 --> 01:10:54.720 of it. But like I'm I don't mean that in a negative sense. 1193 01:10:54.760 --> 01:10:58.079 It's just they're they're doing a lot with with maybe the resource that they have 1194 01:10:58.199 --> 01:11:01.600 to there's and just kind of like the like the zoomed in bug eye camera. 1195 01:11:01.840 --> 01:11:04.359 I don't know if that's always how like the gameplay is, but it 1196 01:11:04.479 --> 01:11:09.319 just seems funny like looking it makes it look like the human characters are a 1197 01:11:09.359 --> 01:11:11.520 lot bigger than they would be, which makes sense. Yeah, through the 1198 01:11:11.560 --> 01:11:15.079 eyes of a cat. So yeah, yeah, that's that's interesting. I 1199 01:11:15.239 --> 01:11:18.119 feel like Stray actually did have more of like a top downy like it felt 1200 01:11:18.119 --> 01:11:20.600 at least more top down than like this game is. So it has like 1201 01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:25.920 a different kind of perspective. I mean that's like not a realistic Japanese city 1202 01:11:26.000 --> 01:11:28.199 in the way that this game is, So it's kind of a different Do 1203 01:11:28.279 --> 01:11:30.600 you like Stray by the way? I really enjoyed it. I had a 1204 01:11:30.680 --> 01:11:34.960 great time with it. Yeah, Like visually it's really good. The music's 1205 01:11:35.000 --> 01:11:41.079 fantastic. I enjoyed the story, the traversal of it, and the different 1206 01:11:41.119 --> 01:11:45.199 things you're doing are pretty engaging. It's like switching it up enough definitely more 1207 01:11:45.239 --> 01:11:47.399 like there's crazy set pieces and stuff and it's like, yeah, it's like 1208 01:11:47.439 --> 01:11:50.760 three or four hours something like that, So okay, Yeah, I hope 1209 01:11:50.800 --> 01:11:54.760 they make a sequel. I mean, that game was very successful, so 1210 01:11:55.079 --> 01:11:58.439 I I'm sure it. I'm sure that studio is working on something cool. 1211 01:11:58.920 --> 01:12:00.760 But I do hope it is a cool I think there's room for them to 1212 01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:03.600 do a lot more in terms of mechanics and stuff. But yeah, like 1213 01:12:03.720 --> 01:12:06.600 just such a weird like playing a cute kab but you're in like this really 1214 01:12:06.680 --> 01:12:12.800 weird under the underground, like cyberpunk setting. Like that was a very wild 1215 01:12:13.000 --> 01:12:15.720 take on like what a game like that could be. So it was a 1216 01:12:15.840 --> 01:12:19.359 it was a good one for sure. Cool. Yeah. So that was 1217 01:12:19.439 --> 01:12:24.039 that one. And then lastly and this one, I've really just started. 1218 01:12:24.039 --> 01:12:26.880 I've only put like an hour and a half maybe into it. I just 1219 01:12:26.920 --> 01:12:30.359 picked it up. It's called Dread Delusion. It came out a couple of 1220 01:12:30.439 --> 01:12:34.079 years ago. It's been in early access, and it just launched one point 1221 01:12:34.159 --> 01:12:38.399 zero, which is why I finally decided to pick it up. But this 1222 01:12:38.479 --> 01:12:44.199 is a game that I've heard described and from the visuals described similar to Marwind, 1223 01:12:44.239 --> 01:12:47.840 which of course my favorite single player game of all time, so of 1224 01:12:47.960 --> 01:12:51.600 course I was in. They also they describe it as acid Fantasy, which 1225 01:12:51.640 --> 01:12:57.079 I think is a really cool description of like the aesthetics of this, because 1226 01:12:57.159 --> 01:12:59.520 yeah, it is a fantasy setting, but like the sky is like a 1227 01:12:59.560 --> 01:13:03.640 bloodshe shot trippy. Yeah, all sorts of crazy giant mushrooms and colors, 1228 01:13:04.079 --> 01:13:06.720 and it has like, you know, it has that Marowin sort of esthetic, 1229 01:13:06.800 --> 01:13:09.960 like it looks like a game that came on in early two thousands, 1230 01:13:10.319 --> 01:13:15.079 but like very intentionally, like really nice shaders and nice like effects in the 1231 01:13:15.159 --> 01:13:18.479 way things move around. So it's very intentional in going for that older school 1232 01:13:18.560 --> 01:13:23.800 design, but it still has some it's not just like a Marwin cop out 1233 01:13:23.920 --> 01:13:26.880 or clone or something like that, Like it's it's creating son sort of setting 1234 01:13:26.920 --> 01:13:29.640 with it. And yeah, like the visuals of it are are great, 1235 01:13:29.800 --> 01:13:32.800 the three D art of it. I really like the kind of low low 1236 01:13:32.880 --> 01:13:36.119 pixel count, Like the textures look really cool, and then like the there's 1237 01:13:36.119 --> 01:13:39.600 certain pixelar for like the icons and stuff in the game, and that looks 1238 01:13:39.640 --> 01:13:41.720 really great as well, like some potions that I'm like, damn, I 1239 01:13:41.800 --> 01:13:45.479 wish my potions looked as good as these potions. To the music is really 1240 01:13:45.520 --> 01:13:48.079 good so far. I don't know how much variety there's gonna be to the 1241 01:13:48.159 --> 01:13:51.119 music, but there's kind of just like this one, one or two songs 1242 01:13:51.159 --> 01:13:56.279 that I've heard so far, and it's really nice. So yeah, it's 1243 01:13:56.359 --> 01:14:00.479 it's kind of a it's hard for me to speak on the overall scale or 1244 01:14:00.520 --> 01:14:02.479 scope of AA because I'm not too far in. It seems like it is 1245 01:14:02.520 --> 01:14:05.760 an open world game like Tomorrow, where you can go around do whatever you 1246 01:14:05.800 --> 01:14:10.399 want. I've already accumulated like five or six side quests in it, so 1247 01:14:10.520 --> 01:14:12.920 it's like, okay, obviously I can go do different things if I want. 1248 01:14:13.439 --> 01:14:15.680 But it's maybe a bit more confined than a regular Elder Scrolls game in 1249 01:14:15.800 --> 01:14:19.560 that, rather than the setting being on in mar when you're on Vardenfeld, 1250 01:14:19.600 --> 01:14:25.039 this huge continent, this takes place in like these sky islands. It has 1251 01:14:25.079 --> 01:14:28.640 a very different esthetic than like a regular sky island because of the trippiness of 1252 01:14:28.720 --> 01:14:31.439 the sky and just the environment in general. But because of that, I 1253 01:14:31.520 --> 01:14:35.039 think they can maybe be a bit more particular about the locations that they're building, 1254 01:14:35.039 --> 01:14:39.000 because it's not like, oh yeah, every little hill and mountain needs 1255 01:14:39.039 --> 01:14:44.039 to be accounted for, like, it's just very particular areas in these floating 1256 01:14:44.119 --> 01:14:46.039 sky islands. So that's that's a cool, different sort of aesthetic to it. 1257 01:14:46.319 --> 01:14:48.920 It seems like there's an element at some point because I was just going 1258 01:14:48.960 --> 01:14:53.439 through the controls and I say that there's controls for a sky ship or an 1259 01:14:53.439 --> 01:14:56.439 airship. So at some point I'm going to get an airship and build to 1260 01:14:56.560 --> 01:14:59.000 maybe explore them on my own. So maybe once I get to that point, 1261 01:14:59.079 --> 01:15:01.720 it'll feel like a truly open world experience. At that point. It 1262 01:15:01.760 --> 01:15:05.439 seems like there's some customization too as well, to uh just the visuals of 1263 01:15:05.520 --> 01:15:08.880 like building out a base or something. So I'm curious to see what that 1264 01:15:08.960 --> 01:15:12.439 looks like. But yeah, it's it's really cool so far, I really 1265 01:15:12.640 --> 01:15:15.840 enjoy it. I like to set up a lot. It's got that like 1266 01:15:15.560 --> 01:15:20.279 jankiness of Marwind, which of course I'm like partial to, but it's like 1267 01:15:20.399 --> 01:15:25.560 not it's it's janky in a data way, but like it feels like a 1268 01:15:25.640 --> 01:15:28.439 very intentional way. So like I'm curious to see how I feel about that 1269 01:15:28.479 --> 01:15:30.920 as things evolve, because like, as much as I love Marwin, I'll 1270 01:15:30.920 --> 01:15:32.680 be the first to admit that it's coming. Bat is not great, you 1271 01:15:32.800 --> 01:15:38.319 know, from the lens of playing Oblivion or Skyrim or any other game really, 1272 01:15:38.720 --> 01:15:42.039 any other action game that's come out since then, does it play like 1273 01:15:42.319 --> 01:15:45.560 Morowin in the sense of like dice rolls for hits and such. No, 1274 01:15:45.840 --> 01:15:47.199 it doesn't. It's uh, yeah if you hit someone, yea, you 1275 01:15:47.359 --> 01:15:50.720 hit them, So in that way it feels good. There is a there. 1276 01:15:50.840 --> 01:15:54.520 So far, there's been a dice roll for the lock picking, which 1277 01:15:54.520 --> 01:15:57.279 I think is funny because it's like literally rolls of dice. It's like, 1278 01:15:57.319 --> 01:16:00.840 you need a four to get this. It feels like vol there's obviously yeah, 1279 01:16:00.319 --> 01:16:01.840 but it so yeah, you need a four to get this, and 1280 01:16:01.920 --> 01:16:04.319 it will like yeah, roll the dice and you can see that there. 1281 01:16:04.520 --> 01:16:09.239 But yeah, the combat itself is uh, there's hit detection. There are 1282 01:16:09.319 --> 01:16:13.199 hip boxes, which is great to see, so that feels good so far. 1283 01:16:13.279 --> 01:16:15.720 The stealth and like the you know, I don't have a bow yet, 1284 01:16:15.760 --> 01:16:20.359 so I can't comment on the stealth archeress of this, but I've been 1285 01:16:20.399 --> 01:16:24.479 trying to, like I cause I picked a stealthy ish sort of class and 1286 01:16:24.520 --> 01:16:26.840 I'm finding like really hard to sneak up on enemies. So far, one 1287 01:16:26.840 --> 01:16:30.159 guy got a stealth attack on one hit kill felt great. But I don't 1288 01:16:30.159 --> 01:16:32.279 know if they're trying to make it really like rewarding because it's hard to do. 1289 01:16:33.279 --> 01:16:35.479 But yeah, like I've found it's just like it's been really hard to 1290 01:16:35.760 --> 01:16:39.720 sneak up on someone yet because of their walking patterns, because of how open 1291 01:16:39.720 --> 01:16:42.920 the areas are, Like there's not a lot of boxes and stuff everywhere, 1292 01:16:42.920 --> 01:16:45.560 I guess, so maybe depends on the area. But then also, like 1293 01:16:45.600 --> 01:16:47.880 I feel like with first person games and stealth, a big part of what 1294 01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:51.720 makes that work is I think of like arcane and how you can peak around 1295 01:16:51.800 --> 01:16:56.079 ledges. You know, you can peak your guy back and forth. Yeah, 1296 01:16:56.439 --> 01:16:58.520 and they make it so like if you're behind a wall, like the 1297 01:16:58.640 --> 01:17:00.520 enemies probably can't see you. But in this game, like if I'm peaking 1298 01:17:00.600 --> 01:17:03.479 my eyes out just a little bit, like enemy will spot me. So 1299 01:17:03.560 --> 01:17:08.560 maybe my stats just suck because it's not RPG. But yeah, I'm curious 1300 01:17:08.560 --> 01:17:12.560 to see how that goes because like I did particularly pick a stealth based class, 1301 01:17:12.680 --> 01:17:15.560 and I feel like it's almost impossible like actually do that yet. So 1302 01:17:15.720 --> 01:17:17.760 once again, I am early on. Maybe I'll get better at it, 1303 01:17:19.239 --> 01:17:25.760 so we'll see how that goes. I like the setup, like building your 1304 01:17:25.840 --> 01:17:29.079 character doesn't take too long. There aren't too many stats in this game, 1305 01:17:29.199 --> 01:17:32.479 so it's not super RPG in that way, but I like the it kind 1306 01:17:32.479 --> 01:17:36.239 of has that Baldersgate element to it where you pick your background in a way, 1307 01:17:36.279 --> 01:17:39.960 and so you kind of pick two levels, like you pick essentially like 1308 01:17:40.159 --> 01:17:45.239 warrior, stealth, magic, or like speech based, and then once you 1309 01:17:45.279 --> 01:17:48.720 pick that, then you pick like a subclass within that, which is cool. 1310 01:17:48.760 --> 01:17:51.000 So like I picked thief, and then there was like, oh, 1311 01:17:51.079 --> 01:17:54.199 do you want to be or I picked like, I guess, like a 1312 01:17:54.279 --> 01:17:56.159 criminal, which is like thief based, and it's like, oh, do 1313 01:17:56.199 --> 01:17:59.319 you want to be like a hug for a thug for hire so you're more 1314 01:17:59.359 --> 01:18:03.000 like strength focused, or you could be like a thief who like dealt in 1315 01:18:04.159 --> 01:18:09.079 magic artifacts, so you have like magic thief and that's kind of the one 1316 01:18:09.119 --> 01:18:12.399 I went with, but like interesting kind of subclasses there. But also it's 1317 01:18:12.399 --> 01:18:14.920 like, yeah, you literally just picked two things for the character creators, 1318 01:18:14.920 --> 01:18:17.520 so it's pretty simple. And then yeah, you have all sorts of different 1319 01:18:17.600 --> 01:18:20.720 like weapon slots and magic slots. So I'm sure it's going to get more 1320 01:18:20.760 --> 01:18:26.600 complicated as time goes on, but yeah, I'm I've been having a really 1321 01:18:26.640 --> 01:18:28.479 good time with it so far, like I said, pretty early on, 1322 01:18:28.520 --> 01:18:30.680 so I'll have to report back on it. But yeah, it's it's a 1323 01:18:30.840 --> 01:18:34.000 really cool game with a really cool aesthetic that I'm glad that. I'm glad 1324 01:18:34.039 --> 01:18:39.520 that there's indie teams making games like this because this just feels like it speaks 1325 01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:44.399 to me as a someone who's nostalgic for Marwin. Of course, I mean 1326 01:18:45.279 --> 01:18:49.560 the sky, like just the aesthetic overall is definitely eye popping, and it's 1327 01:18:50.159 --> 01:18:54.039 I didn't know games like this or even created these days. This is really 1328 01:18:54.079 --> 01:18:57.640 cool and unique, and like the thing that stands out to me the most 1329 01:18:57.760 --> 01:19:01.680 over all of those things is actually the villains and the like the character design 1330 01:19:01.760 --> 01:19:05.520 of certain enemies. It's just it's so unique. It reminds me of like 1331 01:19:06.359 --> 01:19:11.840 maybe a Silent Hill villain or like a Studio Ghibli type character, Like like 1332 01:19:11.960 --> 01:19:15.039 it's just so all over the place on the on these villain designs, and 1333 01:19:15.359 --> 01:19:18.880 uh yeah, this this is really cool. Actually, I'm not gonna say 1334 01:19:18.880 --> 01:19:23.880 I'm gonna jump right into it. It's not quite my game i'd be playing 1335 01:19:23.920 --> 01:19:27.560 these days, but uh no, this is this is really interesting. I 1336 01:19:27.680 --> 01:19:30.279 would be kind of salty if you played this before playing Marwin. I be 1337 01:19:30.319 --> 01:19:38.600 honest, that's one hundred percent how about this, How about this Kirklin Elder 1338 01:19:38.640 --> 01:19:43.479 scroll six we got years still away? What if we do an older Scrolls 1339 01:19:43.600 --> 01:19:49.520 retrospective where we talk about Scott and we do Marwin. Just those three the 1340 01:19:49.600 --> 01:19:53.680 three games. I mean, we could go back and do Arian Daggerfall, 1341 01:19:53.720 --> 01:19:59.279 but I don't know if I want to commit to forty hours. Just seeing 1342 01:19:59.319 --> 01:20:01.000 how some of those games systems play. It's I mean, I tried playing 1343 01:20:01.039 --> 01:20:03.920 the original system Shock and now I couldn't quite do that. Well, the 1344 01:20:04.000 --> 01:20:08.760 remake just came out, well, it came out last yearnd PC only I 1345 01:20:08.800 --> 01:20:11.479 think it's just came out on consoles now, which I'm excited. Okay, 1346 01:20:12.119 --> 01:20:15.680 I'm interested on that. Let's put a pin in that one on the Bethesda 1347 01:20:15.840 --> 01:20:21.199 retrocah make you promise or anything. But it's something like it's like a bucket 1348 01:20:21.239 --> 01:20:25.720 list thing where I like, I do want to experience those stories, especially 1349 01:20:25.840 --> 01:20:29.880 for I mean, because I've played Skyrim obviously they talk about the events of 1350 01:20:30.520 --> 01:20:34.000 history, so I know kind of the main what happens in something like oblivion, 1351 01:20:34.880 --> 01:20:41.199 something like a Moro wind like I know all about Vivek and the legend 1352 01:20:41.239 --> 01:20:44.479 of what that character is. But that would be really interesting to go through 1353 01:20:44.560 --> 01:20:47.199 those fresh, especially in these in this era. I mean I made it 1354 01:20:47.279 --> 01:20:50.199 through arcs. I feel like I can make it true. If you make 1355 01:20:50.680 --> 01:20:55.479 you can have fun with Marowin. I mean, because I've thought about this, 1356 01:20:55.800 --> 01:20:59.880 I think I think the best way for us to do Marlwin would do. 1357 01:21:00.439 --> 01:21:02.640 We should do like a dedicated like actual first, like a pre episode 1358 01:21:02.920 --> 01:21:06.840 that's just like twenty thirty minutes of just like the Marrow and Beginner's Guide, 1359 01:21:06.840 --> 01:21:11.079 and I'll just like if it's and Taylor, for example, I'll just give 1360 01:21:11.079 --> 01:21:13.760 you guys the crash course of like here's what you need to know with like 1361 01:21:13.880 --> 01:21:15.960 the old jank of the game, and then you know, go explore, 1362 01:21:15.039 --> 01:21:18.319 do whatever you want. But like here's like, you know, ten tips 1363 01:21:18.359 --> 01:21:21.239 to survive in varn Felt, Like here's here's the things you need to know 1364 01:21:21.359 --> 01:21:25.800 because some of these systems are pretty archaic. But it's like even the RPG, 1365 01:21:26.279 --> 01:21:29.159 like the randomness of the attack. It's like if you build your character 1366 01:21:29.239 --> 01:21:31.479 right, like that's not actually gonna be an issue. Sometimes you use like 1367 01:21:31.560 --> 01:21:35.760 what your character is, but like certain things are very unintuitive. So yeah, 1368 01:21:35.800 --> 01:21:39.399 I think I think we should definitely do that. So when we have 1369 01:21:39.439 --> 01:21:43.239 any sort of idea of what Ilscroll six is coming out. We'll talk more 1370 01:21:43.520 --> 01:21:46.840 seriously about that, but at least we'll do Skyrim and Oblivion is like an 1371 01:21:46.840 --> 01:21:50.039 easier one, so we should definitely do those at very least. Yeah, 1372 01:21:50.359 --> 01:21:55.079 absolutely, I feel like I would rather do Marrowin and Oblivion most mostly just 1373 01:21:55.119 --> 01:21:57.800 because I play. I mean, I love Skyrim. I play that. 1374 01:21:58.319 --> 01:22:00.199 You don't have to twist maire him to play that game, but we've just 1375 01:22:00.239 --> 01:22:02.680 played it so much that, you know, going through a fresh play through 1376 01:22:02.720 --> 01:22:05.159 of another game, I think that would be more worth my while. But 1377 01:22:05.479 --> 01:22:09.359 yeah, definitely, Damn. I didn't know we're getting a whole new retro 1378 01:22:09.560 --> 01:22:12.640 just popping out of this episode. Well, like I said, it could 1379 01:22:12.640 --> 01:22:16.000 be years away, but it's good all because of Dread Delusion and then tomorrow 1380 01:22:16.479 --> 01:22:19.439 definitely, so yeah, once again, I will. That's definitely a game 1381 01:22:19.439 --> 01:22:21.199 we got to report back on. I feel like me and you we can 1382 01:22:21.239 --> 01:22:26.520 do our Fallout and Dread Delusion upgrade updates every once in a while. I 1383 01:22:26.560 --> 01:22:29.479 don't know how long this game is in terms of Elders scrolls. Of course, 1384 01:22:29.600 --> 01:22:30.680 hundreds of hours long all these games, so I don't know how much 1385 01:22:31.000 --> 01:22:33.960 content is in this one. But yeah, like I said, it's been 1386 01:22:34.000 --> 01:22:36.960 an early access for like two years, adding content, changing things, so 1387 01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:42.600 I'm sure sure there's quite a bit to uh to play. So let's let's 1388 01:22:42.640 --> 01:22:45.520 take our last break and then we just have two kind of shorter news topics. 1389 01:22:45.600 --> 01:22:53.239 We will be right back. Okay, we are back. First, 1390 01:22:53.279 --> 01:22:56.279 I want to mention this, So this was a couple of weeks ago, 1391 01:22:57.000 --> 01:23:00.039 Kirkland. You haven't been on since then, but our favorite arcane studios, 1392 01:23:00.039 --> 01:23:05.359 which you've mentioned today multiple times, Ark and Austin shut down. It's closing. 1393 01:23:05.760 --> 01:23:10.640 It's they said it's officially closed. But then here's the wrinkle whin I'm 1394 01:23:10.640 --> 01:23:14.640 bringing this up today is that technically they said he Red Falls closing, we're 1395 01:23:14.640 --> 01:23:16.840 not doing any more updates, see you later. But then Xbox said that 1396 01:23:16.880 --> 01:23:20.000 actually, we're gonna let Red Fall do their last update. We're gonna let 1397 01:23:20.039 --> 01:23:25.279 them finish what they were working on here. They're still getting shut down, 1398 01:23:25.359 --> 01:23:29.279 but we're gonna at least give them this final update. So I don't silver 1399 01:23:29.399 --> 01:23:32.039 lining feels like way too generous of a term to say here because they're still 1400 01:23:32.039 --> 01:23:36.119 getting laid off. But yeah, I don't know what was your take or 1401 01:23:36.159 --> 01:23:39.560 I don't know. I'm sure it was just sadness. But what did you 1402 01:23:39.560 --> 01:23:43.520 think about when you heard that news that are our great arc in Austin's getting 1403 01:23:43.560 --> 01:23:45.760 shut down? I feel like I was, yeah, like more so just 1404 01:23:45.840 --> 01:23:50.279 kind of in disbelief, like like that can't actually be a thing. Now 1405 01:23:50.359 --> 01:23:55.560 that I've had like some time, I feel like, I mean, Red 1406 01:23:55.640 --> 01:24:00.920 Fall wasn't great to understanding, mostly just the news round it. I never 1407 01:24:00.039 --> 01:24:02.119 got I was gonna say it, never got the chance to play it. 1408 01:24:02.159 --> 01:24:06.960 I never played it. I'll just say that. But it's it's okay, 1409 01:24:08.159 --> 01:24:12.279 yeah, like one one bad, one bad game I don't think is enough 1410 01:24:12.319 --> 01:24:16.680 to really close down doors. And but just in this climate, like it 1411 01:24:16.800 --> 01:24:20.520 does kind of makes some sense in hindsight, but at the same time, 1412 01:24:20.600 --> 01:24:27.439 it's just it just sucks, like knowing that to keep them open exactly. 1413 01:24:27.600 --> 01:24:30.199 Yeah, no, yeah, that's at the end of the day that that's 1414 01:24:30.239 --> 01:24:32.800 exactly what it is. You have like a billion dollar corporation that's just shutting 1415 01:24:32.840 --> 01:24:38.119 down doors on something because they lost some money there, which is super unfortunate. 1416 01:24:38.199 --> 01:24:42.720 And I'm just really hoping what comes out of this is like those super 1417 01:24:42.800 --> 01:24:46.960 creative folks at ARKI and Austin are able to just maybe get a better opportunity 1418 01:24:47.000 --> 01:24:49.960 elsewhere, or maybe deviate and do their own thing, or what other what 1419 01:24:50.079 --> 01:24:54.439 other opportunities come their way. You know, maybe it's something on the Sony 1420 01:24:54.479 --> 01:24:57.479 sphere. You know, as a as a PlayStation owner, I would love 1421 01:24:57.520 --> 01:25:00.640 to get some of those creatives over on that side, just because, like 1422 01:25:00.800 --> 01:25:03.199 I I know, that's like the people that are really great at their job, 1423 01:25:03.279 --> 01:25:05.319 like they will, like they'll keep making games. It's not like this 1424 01:25:05.439 --> 01:25:10.600 is the end of that. It's just I think it's unfortunate looking back on 1425 01:25:10.880 --> 01:25:15.880 uh, just just the greatness that they were able to to to come through, 1426 01:25:15.000 --> 01:25:18.359 and uh, it just sucks the way that it's like I think going 1427 01:25:18.479 --> 01:25:23.359 out because of Red Fall and and and stuff like that, Like it's just 1428 01:25:23.439 --> 01:25:28.560 kind of seen as just a dark like a dark spot. I guess on 1429 01:25:28.720 --> 01:25:30.840 the way they're going out. It's not like they're just going out with a 1430 01:25:30.840 --> 01:25:33.960 big bang and it's just yeah, no, like like ar King Austin is 1431 01:25:33.960 --> 01:25:38.560 still around, but like those creatives ended up dissipating and then the studio just 1432 01:25:38.640 --> 01:25:41.239 kind of fizzles out. It's just like no outdoors or shut that's the end 1433 01:25:41.279 --> 01:25:43.800 of that. So it's unfortunate that it went that way, but uh, 1434 01:25:44.680 --> 01:25:47.800 I'm really glad that we did the retro, you know, in hindsight to 1435 01:25:47.880 --> 01:25:51.239 that. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I mean I think, uh, 1436 01:25:53.199 --> 01:25:55.600 you know. So, so what they announced here is that they're gonna be 1437 01:25:55.600 --> 01:25:59.279 able to do their final update. This is not like they haven't officially on 1438 01:25:59.319 --> 01:26:02.239 hundred confirm this, but it seems like the DLC characters like that part of 1439 01:26:02.279 --> 01:26:06.000 the DLC is not happening still like that part. They're still going to be 1440 01:26:06.079 --> 01:26:11.279 issuing refunds for like that pre order bonus stuff, but they're allowing them to 1441 01:26:11.319 --> 01:26:14.399 finish their May It was supposed to be their May updates, So we'll see 1442 01:26:14.399 --> 01:26:15.560 if it comes out in May. I don't have many days left for that 1443 01:26:15.640 --> 01:26:19.119 to happen. And I think the biggest reason for this is they've said that 1444 01:26:19.359 --> 01:26:23.000 part of this May update is, you know, there's a couple of new 1445 01:26:23.039 --> 01:26:28.159 content things like maybe a couple of new weapons or some changes to certain mechanics 1446 01:26:28.239 --> 01:26:30.119 like nests is one of the things. One of the kind of mini dungeons 1447 01:26:30.159 --> 01:26:33.119 you can do in the game. They were reworked those. But along with 1448 01:26:33.239 --> 01:26:38.520 this as well, they have the single player only mode because this is an 1449 01:26:38.600 --> 01:26:41.720 online only game, even if you're playing a single player. So that's one 1450 01:26:41.720 --> 01:26:44.760 of the things that's going to be patched in with this update. And so 1451 01:26:44.880 --> 01:26:48.119 I think that actually explained a lot for me of why they're allowing them to 1452 01:26:48.159 --> 01:26:53.000 do this update is because actually Dreadfall is a game that they're gonna shut those 1453 01:26:53.000 --> 01:26:57.720 servers off, like maybe even when the studio closes, and with the way 1454 01:26:57.800 --> 01:27:00.399 the game was set up, if they had done that, then the game 1455 01:27:00.399 --> 01:27:03.760 would just be not playable anymore, just like the way I'm so scared that 1456 01:27:03.880 --> 01:27:09.159 someday hit Man World of Assassination will not be playable anymore because it's fucking online 1457 01:27:09.199 --> 01:27:12.520 only for no reason whatsoever. So I think that's a big reason of why 1458 01:27:12.520 --> 01:27:15.399 they're doing this, and I would anticipate that they're going to shut the servers 1459 01:27:15.399 --> 01:27:18.159 off when this update comes out and they have the single player only. So 1460 01:27:18.800 --> 01:27:23.479 it's a good thing because now this game rather than just like let's say they 1461 01:27:24.560 --> 01:27:27.479 close the studio but kept the servers online for like another year or two, 1462 01:27:27.520 --> 01:27:30.119 because like the game is not very popular, there's not really much reason to 1463 01:27:30.199 --> 01:27:32.479 keep it on for too long. Then the game would have just been delisted 1464 01:27:32.560 --> 01:27:35.960 and gone forever, but now it will exist, it will continue to exist. 1465 01:27:36.000 --> 01:27:39.279 For a lot of people that doesn't mean anything. They don't care. 1466 01:27:39.560 --> 01:27:42.720 But for me, that makes me really happy that this game will still be 1467 01:27:42.920 --> 01:27:46.800 playable, it will still exist, and even if it's by far my least 1468 01:27:46.800 --> 01:27:49.800 favorite arcade game, I can still go back and check it out. And 1469 01:27:50.199 --> 01:27:53.680 if I can't do multiplayer, I don't care. I never even really did 1470 01:27:54.000 --> 01:27:56.560 multiplayer whin it. I mean it still is in the game that I'm not 1471 01:27:56.640 --> 01:27:59.359 doing it. I have more care about this from a single player perspective, 1472 01:27:59.399 --> 01:28:00.920 and it is a game I jump back into, and when this update comes 1473 01:28:00.960 --> 01:28:04.239 out, I'm very excited go jump back in and see what's new, see 1474 01:28:04.279 --> 01:28:08.520 what's changed. I've barely even like when they did the sixty frames update. 1475 01:28:08.920 --> 01:28:11.960 I went, I downloaded again and I messed around for a little bit just 1476 01:28:12.000 --> 01:28:14.399 to see how that felt, and it was cool, but I wanted to 1477 01:28:14.439 --> 01:28:16.319 wait until there was the more characters, which I'm obviously not getting now. 1478 01:28:16.399 --> 01:28:18.600 But at this point it kind of makes sense for me to just wait for 1479 01:28:18.680 --> 01:28:21.560 this update to come out and then jump back in and play that. So 1480 01:28:21.680 --> 01:28:25.560 I'll probably save that for an episode that you're on Kirkland, and I'll talk 1481 01:28:25.640 --> 01:28:29.520 to you about how my experience kind of my last steps through red Fall will 1482 01:28:29.560 --> 01:28:31.479 be. But I'm glad that they're getting to do this update. And you 1483 01:28:31.560 --> 01:28:35.159 know what, like it's another few weeks of work for these people too, 1484 01:28:35.239 --> 01:28:39.680 they'll get paid a little bit more while they're trying to find a new position, 1485 01:28:39.760 --> 01:28:43.159 so hopefully that is good for them, helps them, And I'm sure 1486 01:28:43.199 --> 01:28:47.920 they'll still get big severance package on there being laid off here too. So 1487 01:28:48.680 --> 01:28:53.920 so yeah, it's sad, of course, but I'm excited for this update. 1488 01:28:53.960 --> 01:28:56.600 Even if it's not the characters, I'm still excited to see what's in 1489 01:28:56.720 --> 01:29:01.000 it. And then also I like Raphael Cole Antonio, so the creator of 1490 01:29:01.199 --> 01:29:05.439 Arcane originally who did ours Fatalists all the way up to Pray and then he 1491 01:29:05.560 --> 01:29:11.399 left Arkane Austin. At that point he did Weird West with his new studio, 1492 01:29:11.439 --> 01:29:14.479 Wolfi Studios. He's been talking more and more about his next game, 1493 01:29:14.520 --> 01:29:16.279 and it seems like it might be a first person thing. They might be 1494 01:29:16.359 --> 01:29:19.800 going a little bit back to form with the with the Arcane field. So 1495 01:29:19.880 --> 01:29:24.560 that also got me just made me feel hopeful about like man like that is 1496 01:29:24.720 --> 01:29:28.159 a lot of the r Kane Austin team like left with him to make Weird 1497 01:29:28.239 --> 01:29:31.640 West, and so that there may be transitioning back into what the studio can 1498 01:29:31.720 --> 01:29:33.600 no longer make. It makes me happen. It's like, okay, you 1499 01:29:33.640 --> 01:29:36.960 know, at least from my perspective, like I'm gonna get still still going 1500 01:29:38.039 --> 01:29:41.079 to get some of these games in a different light. And I don't know 1501 01:29:41.079 --> 01:29:43.880 if they're going to hire more people to make those projects. I'm sure I'm 1502 01:29:43.920 --> 01:29:46.800 sure they got their eyes on the people leaving Arkane Austin and maybe bringing some 1503 01:29:46.840 --> 01:29:50.039 more of those people into work on that project. So maybe that's maybe being 1504 01:29:50.079 --> 01:29:53.159 a bit hopeful. But I mean, I love Weird West, so even 1505 01:29:53.199 --> 01:29:55.640 if it was just Weird West too, I would be over the moon. 1506 01:29:55.680 --> 01:29:59.279 But it sounds like he's doing something new and different, which is very exciting. 1507 01:30:00.840 --> 01:30:03.359 So there you go. There's that. And then lastly, the day 1508 01:30:03.439 --> 01:30:08.479 this episode drops that May twenty eighth, is the relaunch of Multi Versus, 1509 01:30:09.479 --> 01:30:12.880 which is a game that you know what about offline. I wasn't really playing 1510 01:30:12.920 --> 01:30:15.720 it much anymore, and then in the months and months and months and a 1511 01:30:15.800 --> 01:30:18.720 year that it was away, I was like kind of a weird strategy they 1512 01:30:18.800 --> 01:30:21.159 had for this game to turn it offline for so long, I don't think 1513 01:30:21.199 --> 01:30:27.640 I really care anymore. But then there's been some few exciting announcements actually recently 1514 01:30:27.680 --> 01:30:30.920 in terms of the big relaunch that they're doing. So have you checked out 1515 01:30:30.920 --> 01:30:34.399 any of this stuff? Have you seen any of these characters or modes or 1516 01:30:34.439 --> 01:30:38.720 anything like that. Yeah, I read the article that you shared with me 1517 01:30:38.800 --> 01:30:41.840 there, and yeah I got some new stuff. The new what is it? 1518 01:30:41.960 --> 01:30:45.199 Net my gosh net frame? Nope, improved net code? Yeah, 1519 01:30:45.399 --> 01:30:48.239 that code there you go. I think it has like rollback net code, 1520 01:30:48.239 --> 01:30:54.720 which is like usually the best, best type works best if people have bad 1521 01:30:54.800 --> 01:30:57.840 connections, like it just is the best. So yeah, that's like a 1522 01:30:57.880 --> 01:31:00.560 great improvement. I didn't really have any problems with the online to be honest, 1523 01:31:00.640 --> 01:31:01.920 but if it's gonna be even better, sure, that sounds great to 1524 01:31:02.039 --> 01:31:06.920 me. Another big thing is there is a PvE mode and one of the 1525 01:31:08.000 --> 01:31:11.199 things they showed in a trailer looked a hell of a lot like Target Smash 1526 01:31:11.319 --> 01:31:15.880 Target tests from Smash, which is one of my favorite single player modes from 1527 01:31:15.000 --> 01:31:17.960 those games. So that's really exciting for me, and that's gonna bring me 1528 01:31:18.039 --> 01:31:21.960 back in. Then of course there's four new characters that are dropping with well, 1529 01:31:21.960 --> 01:31:25.640 actually I don't know if they're coming out like the day the drop is, 1530 01:31:25.720 --> 01:31:27.840 but they announce them all, so I'm sure they're coming out pretty soon. 1531 01:31:28.279 --> 01:31:32.359 And those characters are Joker, Jason from Friday the Thirteenth, Agent Smith 1532 01:31:32.479 --> 01:31:36.760 from The Matrix, and then Banana Guard from the Adventure Time, So in 1533 01:31:36.840 --> 01:31:41.199 a very very eclectic group of characters. Of course, Joker, there's already 1534 01:31:41.239 --> 01:31:44.159 like what, four other DC characters that makes a lot of sense. There's 1535 01:31:44.239 --> 01:31:47.239 the two characters from Adventure Time, but then a couple other new ipre getting 1536 01:31:47.239 --> 01:31:49.680 into the fray here. I'm excited to see what those maps are so and 1537 01:31:49.880 --> 01:31:54.439 I think those are great picks. I think they're fun, weird picks that 1538 01:31:54.600 --> 01:31:57.760 I would not have seen coming. Well. I guess Joker was a pretty 1539 01:31:57.760 --> 01:32:00.479 obvious one, considering they've done so many DC characters. But I'm excited about 1540 01:32:00.479 --> 01:32:03.680 these characters and I think it's it's pretty fun and I'm definitely gonna jump back 1541 01:32:03.680 --> 01:32:06.439 into this game now and give it in a few games and check out some 1542 01:32:06.439 --> 01:32:11.079 of the single pair of content too. I think my favorite part about this 1543 01:32:11.239 --> 01:32:15.640 news, I mean I was kind of surprised seeing like Jason on there. 1544 01:32:15.640 --> 01:32:18.359 I think that's the one that stood with the most. But kind of the 1545 01:32:18.399 --> 01:32:23.800 way that they describe the characters, like Joker is a mage fighter if I'm 1546 01:32:23.840 --> 01:32:26.680 not mistaken, or like a Maze like a mage caster, like one of 1547 01:32:26.720 --> 01:32:30.119 those things I was kind of surprised about. And then when they're talking about 1548 01:32:30.159 --> 01:32:35.600 Jason, he's like a tankier type character. They said less like tanky large 1549 01:32:35.680 --> 01:32:40.079 character, but less so than Iron Giant, which of course makes sense because 1550 01:32:40.079 --> 01:32:43.800 he's the Iron Giant. But just like the way that they're describing it makes 1551 01:32:43.880 --> 01:32:47.039 me pretty excited to try them because I don't know, I don't know if 1552 01:32:47.039 --> 01:32:49.199 it's I don't know what it is. But when I whenever I think of 1553 01:32:49.239 --> 01:32:53.920 like Smash and like the heavy characters, I just think that they're most of 1554 01:32:53.960 --> 01:32:56.640 the time just bad guys. And I just when I play those characters, 1555 01:32:56.720 --> 01:32:59.600 I just channel my inner bad guys. So I just can't wait to play 1556 01:32:59.680 --> 01:33:02.560 Jason four He's and just take those those hits. How Jason in the movies 1557 01:33:02.600 --> 01:33:05.680 is just like immortal, Like I just want to feel that way and just 1558 01:33:05.880 --> 01:33:11.399 just have my hits really hit hard. Because when Jason hits he he he 1559 01:33:11.640 --> 01:33:15.479 hits the kill, so that'll be really fun. And then just the different 1560 01:33:15.560 --> 01:33:17.760 traps and whatnot and gadgets that Joker will be bringing that that is cool. 1561 01:33:18.199 --> 01:33:23.520 I did see that it's behind like the premium battle pass, which I feel 1562 01:33:23.520 --> 01:33:28.560 like the whole character unlock, and I should explain that just for Joker, 1563 01:33:28.680 --> 01:33:31.279 I think he's just the like the premium character, right, because I don't 1564 01:33:31.279 --> 01:33:36.199 know if I think I'm pretty sure with this coming back, like them rebooting 1565 01:33:36.239 --> 01:33:41.720 the game, the first battle pass is free to everyone, okay, is 1566 01:33:41.720 --> 01:33:43.880 the way they're framing it, which I guess you could just say is like 1567 01:33:44.239 --> 01:33:47.760 a free progression thing. So I don't know, I'm pretty sure Banana Guard 1568 01:33:47.880 --> 01:33:51.399 is like the easiest character to get, like you just have to like log 1569 01:33:51.560 --> 01:33:55.960 back, right, Yeah, so that's how you get him. And then 1570 01:33:56.479 --> 01:34:00.119 I think Jason might be in that first battle pass thing that you that, 1571 01:34:00.279 --> 01:34:02.359 like the free one. But yeah, I didn't look into Joker agent Smith, 1572 01:34:02.439 --> 01:34:05.640 but so it sounds like Joker might be a more of a paid character, 1573 01:34:05.720 --> 01:34:09.159 I guess, yeah, and can you. I guess you could just 1574 01:34:09.159 --> 01:34:11.760 save your tokens and then buy him out right again like any other Yeah, 1575 01:34:12.279 --> 01:34:16.640 perhaps just just like the way that they like. Even going forward, if 1576 01:34:16.680 --> 01:34:20.760 we get new characters in the game and they're pretty much like a like a 1577 01:34:20.840 --> 01:34:24.239 battle pass roll out, even if you're able to get them later on, 1578 01:34:24.840 --> 01:34:28.039 it just seems like one of those things where the new and I'm just basing 1579 01:34:28.079 --> 01:34:30.840 it off of other like PvP type games in the past, when whenever there's 1580 01:34:30.920 --> 01:34:35.239 like a new something that comes out, usually overtuned, usually usually a little 1581 01:34:35.279 --> 01:34:40.960 ope and if if you're paying money to get that character faster than other people, 1582 01:34:41.199 --> 01:34:44.119 and then I'm just getting bobbed online by a little Jimmy that took his 1583 01:34:44.199 --> 01:34:46.600 mom's credit card, And it's clearly just the character, not the skill, 1584 01:34:46.760 --> 01:34:50.359 you know, air quotes, But like I just feel like that's something that 1585 01:34:50.399 --> 01:34:55.399 would potentially deter me from the game. I'm never gonna be treating this game 1586 01:34:55.439 --> 01:34:58.199 as like one I really want to get competitive with and like really be in 1587 01:34:58.279 --> 01:35:01.720 the top percent. But I just like it is a free to play games, 1588 01:35:01.800 --> 01:35:04.760 so like you can make the argument there that you are getting access to 1589 01:35:04.840 --> 01:35:06.840 it, you just got to play to get these characters. But it's just 1590 01:35:08.359 --> 01:35:10.880 if I'm playing couch co op and I want my friends come over and they 1591 01:35:10.960 --> 01:35:14.199 want to play like Jason or something. It's just like, yeah, sorry, 1592 01:35:14.239 --> 01:35:15.840 I got a grind for that character. Like I just don't love that 1593 01:35:15.920 --> 01:35:18.359 whole aspect to it, and that's something that has been in the game. 1594 01:35:18.439 --> 01:35:23.439 Like it's not a new complaint I think that I've had with the game in 1595 01:35:23.520 --> 01:35:28.039 the past, but I don't know, I think the other like that's pretty 1596 01:35:28.079 --> 01:35:30.319 much my only negative I think that I have about this news, Like I 1597 01:35:30.399 --> 01:35:33.640 am excited to try it again, especially them just talking about how it'll feel 1598 01:35:33.800 --> 01:35:40.079 a lot better because of their net framework code, whatever the heck you called 1599 01:35:40.079 --> 01:35:44.760 it. Just those aspects, I think it is exciting to jump back in, 1600 01:35:44.880 --> 01:35:48.520 especially because it's like what it's been over a year, like almost two 1601 01:35:48.600 --> 01:35:51.520 years ago. Like I know the last time I played that game, it's 1602 01:35:51.520 --> 01:35:57.600 been a while. Song it's been off line at least a year. Yeah, 1603 01:35:57.800 --> 01:36:00.600 my timeline could be off because I only played it for like a couple 1604 01:36:00.720 --> 01:36:03.000 months I think before I kind of jumped out there, which yeah, I 1605 01:36:03.000 --> 01:36:06.800 mean, my biggest complaint with the game is that it just took so freaking 1606 01:36:06.880 --> 01:36:12.880 long downlocked characters and like the weekly rotation had so few in there that it 1607 01:36:13.039 --> 01:36:15.920 was just I don't know, I love in these games to play all the 1608 01:36:16.039 --> 01:36:19.479 characters and check all of them out, and I think you can do that, 1609 01:36:19.520 --> 01:36:21.399 like in the training mode you can see how they all feel. But 1610 01:36:21.560 --> 01:36:24.840 I don't know, it just wasn't the same to me. Call me old 1611 01:36:24.880 --> 01:36:27.680 fashion, but I like, I just want to give them forty bucks and 1612 01:36:27.760 --> 01:36:30.119 get all the characters, you know. Yeah, you know, maybe that's 1613 01:36:30.159 --> 01:36:32.119 the problem. Maybe they want like ninety to get all the characters, but 1614 01:36:32.640 --> 01:36:36.239 yeah, I don't like all the steps it takes to get these characters. 1615 01:36:36.319 --> 01:36:40.079 So at least it sounds like maybe a couple of them will be easier to 1616 01:36:40.119 --> 01:36:43.920 get jumping back in, and then obviously your old account will still be active. 1617 01:36:44.039 --> 01:36:47.000 So yeah, I'm definitely excited to jump back in there and see some 1618 01:36:47.079 --> 01:36:49.680 of that stuff as well. What do you think about Agent Smith as a 1619 01:36:49.760 --> 01:36:56.920 Matrix enthusiast about that character edition? That's wild. I'm excited to try Agent 1620 01:36:57.000 --> 01:37:00.720 Smith. I'm really hoping that they incorporate like the fact that Agent Smith can 1621 01:37:00.840 --> 01:37:04.359 just take take over like anyone. I'm not saying in the sense of like 1622 01:37:04.560 --> 01:37:10.159 he is a like a like a Shank Soung, you know, Moratal Kombat 1623 01:37:10.239 --> 01:37:13.079 character that can like take the form of anyone. I just I want to 1624 01:37:13.159 --> 01:37:16.840 feel like if someone like how do I phrase this, Like if I'm fighting 1625 01:37:16.920 --> 01:37:19.640 you and you defeat me, like he just pops up again, like out 1626 01:37:19.640 --> 01:37:24.159 of nowhere, Like like it's just like an endless wave type type hero, 1627 01:37:24.359 --> 01:37:27.760 which I think could be really unique in the sense that it is like a 1628 01:37:27.840 --> 01:37:33.439 platforming fighter. I really hope it feels more than just like a melee hero 1629 01:37:33.560 --> 01:37:38.439 in a suit, Like I really want them to tap into that Agent Smith 1630 01:37:38.960 --> 01:37:42.479 energy, which I mean, he's he's very capable of a fighter, but 1631 01:37:42.600 --> 01:37:45.079 shown in the game in the movies. But I feel like something that sets 1632 01:37:45.119 --> 01:37:48.600 it out is that just Agent Smith could be anywhere and take over like anything 1633 01:37:48.680 --> 01:37:51.800 and just just feel like you can't escape it. That's what I want to 1634 01:37:51.840 --> 01:37:56.880 feel your characters. Yeah, as somebod who's never really seen Matrix, I 1635 01:37:56.920 --> 01:38:00.439 don't. I guess I saw the new I wanted to jump into bad One 1636 01:38:00.479 --> 01:38:03.039 to jump into just watch the first and leave it at that. Yeah, 1637 01:38:03.359 --> 01:38:05.880 So no, that that's very interesting. Now you've compelled me more than I 1638 01:38:06.359 --> 01:38:10.000 expected. But I think, like I would guess he's more of like a 1639 01:38:10.119 --> 01:38:12.840 range type character, but maybe he's not. But I think that is kind 1640 01:38:12.840 --> 01:38:15.359 of an interesting design space in these games. And like I feel like even 1641 01:38:15.439 --> 01:38:18.279 in like we always had Link who's like more of a range character, I 1642 01:38:18.399 --> 01:38:20.920 guess, and Smash, but I feel like it wasn't until like Mega Man 1643 01:38:21.000 --> 01:38:24.640 and Smash four that we got like, oh, this character, the majority 1644 01:38:24.640 --> 01:38:28.399 of his movies aren't ranged, and that's like such a different play style than 1645 01:38:28.439 --> 01:38:30.920 I'm used to. So yeah, I wonder it'll be something like that. 1646 01:38:30.239 --> 01:38:32.359 When I think of Aiden Smith, I actually see a more of a melee 1647 01:38:32.439 --> 01:38:35.239 fighter. Okay, I thought he would be like using his gun or something. 1648 01:38:35.239 --> 01:38:41.439 He uses a gun a loss. I feel like, like, I 1649 01:38:41.479 --> 01:38:45.039 guess the main quality that they give them is that they're just so fast, 1650 01:38:45.159 --> 01:38:49.640 so like he's able like dodge bullets and whatnot, so like like maybe like 1651 01:38:49.720 --> 01:38:55.399 a like a super almost sonic like level of like speed of a character could 1652 01:38:55.399 --> 01:39:00.279 be interested on who is this guy I don't know's agent? Smith is the 1653 01:39:00.359 --> 01:39:05.039 Matrix So yeah, amazing cool? Yeah, do you think you're gonna jump 1654 01:39:05.039 --> 01:39:08.079 back in with me? You're you gonna be playing it all? Definitely, 1655 01:39:08.279 --> 01:39:11.000 I'm definitely gonna be jumping in again. I mean, it's free to play, 1656 01:39:11.039 --> 01:39:15.399 it's it's easy to jump into and like, yeah, the new characters 1657 01:39:15.479 --> 01:39:17.000 is exciting, but I'm also just excited to play, Like you know, 1658 01:39:17.159 --> 01:39:20.600 Tom the Cat again, got him tattooed on my leg. I gotta represent 1659 01:39:20.720 --> 01:39:26.960 my character and Iron Giant that's one I never got to play, so I'm 1660 01:39:27.039 --> 01:39:30.720 looking forward to that. Yeah, he was really cool. It's just such 1661 01:39:30.720 --> 01:39:34.199 a unique character for a platform fighter, so I really enjoyed him. And 1662 01:39:34.279 --> 01:39:38.960 then I forgot to kind of talk on the PvE element as to it. 1663 01:39:39.039 --> 01:39:44.640 I saw on the article there they're mentioning like certain like thematic type PV levels 1664 01:39:44.680 --> 01:39:49.520 I guess, like whether it's Batman and Velma I think was the pairing that 1665 01:39:49.560 --> 01:39:53.960 they had mentioned in there, and like seeing who's the greatest detective or whatnot. 1666 01:39:54.560 --> 01:39:58.079 Just those things are pretty fun, especially when they're breaking uh you know, 1667 01:39:58.199 --> 01:40:01.039 the multi verse and and like putting certain characters together that you wouldn't picture. 1668 01:40:01.039 --> 01:40:04.279 I think that stuff will be really fun to experience as well. Very 1669 01:40:04.359 --> 01:40:08.920 nice. Yeah. So yeah, like I said, that's out today if 1670 01:40:08.960 --> 01:40:11.760 you're listening to this, So yeah, I don't know, I don't know 1671 01:40:11.760 --> 01:40:14.640 what we'll talk about on side quest might be a couple of weeks, just 1672 01:40:14.680 --> 01:40:17.439 because next week's kind of all the hell Blade, but yeah, tune in 1673 01:40:17.640 --> 01:40:21.560 we will be talking about that stuff. I think that's all for today, 1674 01:40:21.600 --> 01:40:25.760 Kirklan. This is a fun episode, very random set of topics, a 1675 01:40:25.760 --> 01:40:32.000 couple of good tangents in there with travel, every card, every card that 1676 01:40:32.119 --> 01:40:35.640 was a good time. Thank you everyone for listening and we'll see you again 1677 01:40:35.680 --> 01:40:36.600 next time. But bye.