WEBVTT 1 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:39.079 Hello, everybody, Welcome to Game Spot After Dark, Episode two hundred and 2 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:42.280 thirty five. I am your host, John Exact. Join this week by 3 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:46.880 Jacob Decker. Hello. My shirt looks very orange. It looks extremely I 4 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:50.359 was also looking at this orange until I saw this. I was like, 5 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:53.439 oh my gosh, she's got HDR. You're gonna have to You're gonna have 6 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:57.479 to watch the video version on Twitch. I guess to see how fucking break 7 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:00.679 that? Do that dynamic range? You know. We're also joined by Michael 8 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:03.480 p. This stands for pinot O. Hi. Hey, what to do? 9 00:01:03.599 --> 00:01:07.840 Baby? Hah? Your shirt too? You got you got the my 10 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:10.159 try gun shirt. You know what I'm saying, Oh g try gun. 11 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:12.840 Yeah, thanks for having me. You know, it's it's an honor. 12 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:17.840 It's a privileged to be on this, this beautiful podcast. Ye don't get 13 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:19.920 used to it though. Yeah. No, I got to take these opportunities 14 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:25.159 when I get them, you know. Well, that's it. That's the 15 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:27.040 episode. Okay, thanks for joining us everyone. We'll see all next week. 16 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:34.799 Bye. Hey, It's it's not a big week for games, but 17 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:40.439 it is a big week for video game culture. You're gonna say games, 18 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:45.519 you know, video games, video games, follow out TV show. Yeah, 19 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:49.760 that that premiered. Uh. It is out to the world on Amazon 20 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:53.159 Prime. I have seen half of it, Jake, you saw seen three 21 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:57.239 every episodes. Michael, have you watched it? Saw? I saw the 22 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:00.480 first episode, okayatched it last night? Ye? Great. Cool. So 23 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:06.159 we're all give our thoughts. Will keep it relatively spoiler free. Bomb explodes, 24 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:09.639 bomb explodes, shit man? What yeah? Multiple lots of them? 25 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:15.639 Yeah, fuck fallout boys. I thought the first episode was very good, 26 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:17.879 particularly that first scene, or that may not that first scene, but that 27 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:22.759 first setup it takes place before the bombs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 28 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:25.280 I thought that was very good. I rewatched this has cut the review today. 29 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:29.360 I rewatched that particular scene and I was like, this is very well 30 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:30.560 done. I don't know if I can say the same for all of it, 31 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:34.360 or at least based on what I've seen. There's a lot of like 32 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:43.599 awkward choices with the cinematography and some weird set design choices. I'm having fun, 33 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:46.599 but I don't love it. That's how I feel about it. I 34 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:50.280 should clarify that we did review it over on GameSpot dot com by one Philip 35 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.960 Hornshaw. He gave it a seven out of ten. On his His kind 36 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:59.240 of summary was fun, characters kind of meanders in the story for a little 37 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:02.560 bit. It's very like side like side Quest almost ish, and it's in 38 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:07.960 like its style, but does kind of pick up at the end. And 39 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:09.639 I mean I obviously got to the end, so I can't comment on that, 40 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:15.840 but I I think it's just kind of fine, you know. I 41 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:19.800 also really liked that first episode. I thought, like, because the first 42 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:23.639 episode primarily takes place in the vault, and so it's like your classic Fallout 43 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:27.840 set up, and it's like they they do the thing that you you kind 44 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:30.400 of want and expect where it's like, wow, they really they nail the 45 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:36.319 look and the vibe and the like kind of the the tone. Then I 46 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:40.280 really fucking hated that second episode. I did not like it at all. 47 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:45.159 And then I thought the third episode was slightly better, and then I thought 48 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:50.960 the fourth episode was better or so it's like it's picking up steam. But 49 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.759 like, man, that is that second episode, for whatever reason, just 50 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:54.879 like did not work for me at all. And I think part of it 51 00:03:54.919 --> 00:04:02.159 is that, like I really hate Maximus as a character the Brotherhood of Steel 52 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:08.879 initiative guy. He's like one of the three characters the other being Lucy the 53 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:15.680 vaultdweller, and uh is he just called the ghouls? Who is the best 54 00:04:15.720 --> 00:04:19.079 part of the show. By the way, that man is amazing. But 55 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:25.199 I really did not like Maximus's character at all, and so like every time 56 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:27.879 he was on screen, I was like, I don't like this guy. 57 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:31.240 He sucks. And that's also why I like the fourth episode the best, 58 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:34.600 because he wasn't in it, Like I didn't realize it, but like we 59 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:38.480 finished it and me and Georgia were like, it was a pretty good episode. 60 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:40.920 We're like, yeah, they're like, wait a minute, Maximus never 61 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:46.000 showed up. That's why. That's also the episode with Matt Barry though, 62 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:49.240 So that's that's a pretty good one. Michael, what do you think, 63 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:54.759 because I mean, Jacob kind of talked about the cells just based off that 64 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:59.480 one. I don't want to say that Fallout is an easy thing to adapt. 65 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.480 Thing is easy to create or adapt, but I feel like the blueprint 66 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:09.199 is pretty strong already. I would agree for us who've played pretty much like 67 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:13.600 every Fallout game, there are things that we expect, and this, at 68 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.160 least in the first episode, it delivers that classic Fallout opening. So to 69 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:19.319 me, I'm watching it, I'm kind of like, okay, cool, 70 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:23.839 like this is well if someone does not have context for Fallout watches, I 71 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:27.959 feel like it's a similar vibe when I watched The Last of Us, where 72 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:30.680 yeah, I know what they're trying to do. I played these games many 73 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:35.079 many times, so nothing surprises me. Well done, for sure, But 74 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:39.920 I don't want to say I'm not the target audience for it, because like 75 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:44.000 it's exciting to see, like a good adaptation of something that you're very familiar 76 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:47.399 with. But I'm just I'm more curious to hear what people who have no 77 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:50.439 context for what Fallout. Yeah, because I watch it, I'm like, 78 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:55.279 yeah, this, this is hitting every note that I expect from the first 79 00:05:55.519 --> 00:06:00.000 quest that you do in Fallout, the blog where you're in the vault. 80 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:03.240 Yeah, yeah, the bombs drop, shit changes you're in the vault. 81 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:06.360 Then you have that coming out of the vault moment. It's a mysterious intrigue. 82 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:10.800 Not everything is as it seems in the vaults, you know, like 83 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:17.480 having hundreds of hours in New Vegas, which is the most like thought provoking 84 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:21.079 is probably more a pretentious way to frame it, but now you can say 85 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:25.959 the most complex, the most complex take on the on a post apocalypse and 86 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:30.000 specifically Fallout. That's like the thing that I hold in a high regard and 87 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:31.319 like that's not what the show is going to do. That's not what the 88 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:33.839 aim of the show is. But that is what Fallout is to me. 89 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:39.800 Yeah, like to be reductive, it's more in line with like Bethesda's idea 90 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:43.560 of versus Obsidian, which, like I'm not trying to be like a pathesta 91 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.720 hater about it. It's just it's just more New Vegas show. Come on. 92 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:48.519 I mean, I also fucking want New Vegas to show. Are you 93 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:54.519 kidding me? But like there is a very different approach to between those two, 94 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:57.480 you know, as as it would be, so I I mean, 95 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:00.120 I respect it. I think yeah, like I said, I think I 96 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:01.600 think it's well done. Based off that first episode, I'm going to continue 97 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:04.399 watching it just because like everyone's talking about it, and it's like I want 98 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:09.720 to be aware of about I haven't seen what it is, but I heard 99 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:15.000 some New Vegas fans where I guess there's like a weird continuity air with New 100 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:16.720 Vegas that people are made about it, and I'm like, I don't know 101 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:19.399 what it is, so I'm not gonna. I'm like, okay, well 102 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:26.800 it's different timelines. Whispers Yeah, whoa fucking whispers are out here with mister 103 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:32.600 House conspiring. Uh yeah, I mean Georgia has uh never played Fallout. 104 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:36.279 She's familiar with Fallout, so it's not like she's coming in completely blind, 105 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:42.160 but she she she only just knows it on a very surface level, so 106 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:45.879 she was able, like she found the first episode pretty compelling, where she's 107 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:47.680 like, Okay, like I'm able to follow along. Like I think they 108 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:53.160 do a great job of like presenting that world without necessarily giving like the exposition 109 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:57.160 dump for it in a way that I think a lot of shows that are 110 00:07:57.199 --> 00:07:59.879 adapting a thing kind of fall into that trap. It doesn't do that. 111 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:01.240 So like for her, she was like, I'm able to follow along. 112 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:07.759 I'm intrigued. I like the setting. She was like compelled by it. 113 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:11.199 And then the issues that we had with the second episode were less like the 114 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:16.160 world building and more just like ah, like some of the characterization isn't hitten 115 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:20.000 or like the like these scenes just aren't working. A lot of the jokes 116 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.639 fell really flat for us, like like more like TV show issues, less 117 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:30.720 than like adaption. Yeah, understanding the source material issues. That's cool. 118 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:37.240 I think the the the visual presentation of a Fallout universe is pretty striking when 119 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.360 I think about it, Like, like I said, we're so used to 120 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:43.759 seeing Fallout that doesn't really like register that well. But like the when I 121 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:48.000 was watching the first episode, I was like, Oh wow, the they 122 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:54.200 really capture the retro futuristic vie they do there pre apocalyptic world that is in 123 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:58.679 Fallout. I'm like, oh wow, this is for one now watching it 124 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:00.879 as a TV show, I'm like, oh, this is like damn. 125 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:05.039 I hadn't really put that much thought into the way the Fallout world is visualized. 126 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:11.639 Yeah, and the sort of the era of that tech or the tech 127 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:15.799 of that era, and how that's represented with and despite robots, TVs and 128 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:20.200 how people address it's like fifties with all all high tech retrofuturist stuff. So 129 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.039 I'm like, oh wow, I guess I didn't really. I it's gotten 130 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:26.639 so used to seeing Fallout for sure. And I would say despite being a 131 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:31.600 thirty year old property, I do think Fallout is still feels extremely unique of 132 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.960 a setting and a like like that mashup of that like fifties Americana with like 133 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:41.639 post apocalyptic futurism, like not just in video games, which is like in 134 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:45.840 general, Like I don't think you see that that style that finction. Yeah, 135 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:48.399 so like I do think it makes sense, Like it's the kind of 136 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:50.440 thing where you can show it to like a wider audience and it still feels 137 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:54.399 like fresh and interesting. Yeah yeah, yeah, Anyway, I think there's 138 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:58.960 so at this point, there's somebody posts apocalyptic TV shows, movies, book 139 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:05.120 games, and and the fact that Fallout still kind of stands out amongst all 140 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:07.039 those after thirty years, like you're saying, I think is impressive, and 141 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:11.919 I think like it's kind of cool seeing how much they stuck to that original 142 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:16.480 iconography, which you know how like I don't know, like a lot of 143 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:18.080 adaptions they're like, yeah, we're gonna take this, but we're gonna have 144 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:22.399 our interpretation. You know, we're gonna like change the the costume that the 145 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:26.679 superheroes wear slightly in order to fit the movie better or whatever. But this 146 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:30.000 is just like, oh no, that is Vault boy. He looks exactly 147 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.200 the same as he does in the games. That Vault looks identical to the 148 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:39.639 Vault pit boys wearing a pit boy you know, like all that stuff looks 149 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:43.120 just like fun to see. It is fun to see. I will say, 150 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:50.240 like personally, I've hit a point where like that that that is cool. 151 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:52.759 It can only take me so far with the show in a way that 152 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:56.440 I think, like, which is why, like after the first episode, 153 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:58.039 I was kind of like, all right, well, what else do you 154 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:00.559 got? Like how are you gonna compel me through this whole thing? Because 155 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:07.320 like it's it's I think like companies and studios have like pretty for the most 156 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:11.639 part, figured out like how to properly adapt a thing to like make it 157 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:16.600 like look and feel that way. So it's more about like storytelling, you 158 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:20.919 know, like your unique flavor cinematography. I think the cinematography in the show 159 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:26.919 is like kind of pretty whatever at times, like there's like some weird choices, 160 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:30.600 like I dode I thought that slow mo scene in the beginning in the 161 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:35.200 first episode was like kind of weird and like went on too long. These 162 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:37.159 are video producers here, you know, yeah, yeah, and this is 163 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:41.600 like where my like video brain, like I'm thinking about this maybe on the 164 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:45.120 level that other people aren't, but like that's where I start to be like 165 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.759 I kind of wish, y'all I had a little more. Uh, I 166 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:54.000 don't know, like creative stamp on this in a way where where it like 167 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:58.240 it looks good, but it also is like lit and shot the way every 168 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:05.679 TV show is. Yeah, there's like it does feel like netflixified, you 169 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:11.519 know, it's like there's a homogeneity to a lot of how TV prestige, 170 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:16.679 TV is it is nowadays. I guess. So it's like not even Fallout's 171 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:18.200 fault because I kind of feel that way about just like a lot of TV 172 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:22.799 in general. Yeah, but it is a thing where I'm just like, 173 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:24.720 like I kind of wish I'll put a little more effort into it, like 174 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:31.799 like high budget tripple a third person action games. Right, Like I didn't 175 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:33.120 finish watching The Last of Us. I did think the Last of Us was 176 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:39.720 maybe like the more like impressive looking show that's also HBO though, like it's 177 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:46.360 that HBO HBO money money they got like that rep But I would say to 178 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:48.639 the credit a Fallout over Last of Us. One of the reasons I didn't 179 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:54.600 really stick with Last of Us as a show is with a few exceptions aside, 180 00:12:54.960 --> 00:13:00.360 it's it's adapting the game. I have played that game the store like 181 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:03.279 it's the story you know and it's like, ah, I know how this 182 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:05.639 all plays out. So I didn't like it, didn't I didn't really necessarily 183 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:11.320 feel compelled to keep watching where the follow up show like it is its own 184 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.240 original story. It's just in that universe. And I do think that, 185 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:18.960 like, is that's the That's the way I'd prefer because surprised, Yeah, 186 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:26.080 to be surprised to add new elements to to bringing new characters and concepts, 187 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:30.919 like I I find that way more interesting. So like even if this first 188 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:35.600 season you know, isn't isn't like wowing me, Like it's a solid foundation 189 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:39.399 and if, like I think they I don't know if they said they're going 190 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:41.279 to do a second season or that they want to or but like if they 191 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:45.600 keep going with it and like they can build on it and go like bigger 192 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.799 and better, like hey man, good for them. Yeah, you know, 193 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:52.240 I hope they do that. That's up. Oh, I will say 194 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:56.600 I got annoyed by all the needle drops, the old timy music. There's 195 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:00.919 a lot of music they lay it on pretty thick. It's cool to hear 196 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:05.440 a lot of those familiar songs that we hear on every radio station first time, 197 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:07.759 maybe by the ink spots played. You're like, it's like, oh, 198 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:13.000 that's the song from Fall one three but they but then, but dude, 199 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:16.679 and you'll only watched the first episode. They play that specific song. 200 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:20.799 It's like every fucking episode and I'm like, I get it. They play 201 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:26.960 a song from every every sequence change, you know, where it's like just 202 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:31.039 new song, new song. Pretty fair. Yeah, they laid on pretty 203 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:33.720 thick in a way that I'm just like, Okay, I get it, 204 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:35.799 all right, wait, which is weird because there are times where they have 205 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:43.039 the more like uh an actual score that is I don't think it's by the 206 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:46.679 people who did Fall like three and four, but it's very reminisent. It's 207 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:50.879 very reminiscent of that soundtrack in like a good way. And like when that 208 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:54.200 picks up, I was like, oh, more of that, please, 209 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:56.039 Like I would rather there be more of a balance than just being like, 210 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:01.159 hey, they're walking in the desert. Play one of them old timey songs 211 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:07.039 is oh man, so I'm waiting to hear I need three dog man. 212 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:13.120 He's on the other side of the country there, Who's Well, it's it's 213 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:18.960 it's it's it's near the n c R. Because it's a next thing they 214 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:20.840 drop Big Iron though. That's that's the one. Yeah, you got you 215 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:24.039 gotta get some of that. Uh see. That's where I'm like, they 216 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:26.840 could do New Vegas stuff, Like they're right there. But if at the 217 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:30.360 end there's like mister House shows up and says, you know what, I 218 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:33.559 need you to work on the Vegas New Vegas strip? Yes, man, 219 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:39.240 yeah, yes, oh dog, New Vegas has got some fucking characters. 220 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:41.879 Man, dude. That's the biggest thing about this show is playing it. 221 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:43.159 I'm just or watching it. I'm just like, yo, I just want 222 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:48.279 to play. I just want to Vegas makes me want to go back to 223 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:52.799 even like even like four, which I didn't love. I would say, 224 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:56.519 like seeing those updates coming as well, yeah, like you know I kind 225 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:00.600 of want to play that with my ultra wide monitor. Yeah yeah, yeah, 226 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:06.799 they're adding ultra wide support and an update years later, right. No. 227 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:07.559 I saw that on the bus this morning, and I was like, 228 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:12.159 oh, do I gotta pull up maybe some time to start digging into the 229 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:15.000 mod see what see what people came up with for that game. I was 230 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:18.600 going to say, you've got to give fall Out for a second chance, 231 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:29.840 but you know what that video was second chance a third most peop would be 232 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:34.320 like a third chance we'll have the second time I click on a video that's 233 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:37.879 just like giving Fall four an eighth chance, and you'd be like, what 234 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:44.159 the fuck are you doing this whole time? What happened with the first seven? 235 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:48.120 Yeah? Uh man, let's just let's just go play Fall in New 236 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:52.159 Vegas. Hell yeah that game is That game is good. Yeah, hell 237 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:55.759 yeah, I've I've actually been replaying Fall one for like a video I'm working 238 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:57.600 on. Yeah, I see it on the on the Steam on your Steam 239 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:02.440 Library computers around these parts. Yeah, I've been. I've been playing that 240 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:07.400 dude. That game is pretty good still. Yeah, it's it's it's aged 241 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:08.839 obviously in some ways, which is kind of what I talk about in my 242 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:17.640 video. Like the UI is like it's kind of clunky and and like weird 243 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:19.880 stuff like oh, hey, I want to switch my guns out for my 244 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:22.160 companions, but there's no way to do that, so you have to like 245 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:26.039 steal from your companions and then just like drop a weapon in there and like 246 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:29.839 hope they'll use it, and like we're weird stuff like that. They're like, 247 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:33.559 eh, this stuff is an age great, but the actual just like 248 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:37.400 world building and like vibe and the characters. You're like, man, this 249 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:42.559 this stuff, like thirty years later, still pretty damn good. So yeah, 250 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:48.200 I'm really enjoying replaying Fall one again. And maybe I'll maybe I'll play 251 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:51.759 in New Vegas. I'm trying to convince Georgia to play New Vegas but she 252 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:55.559 wants to, but she's uh, she's got like a massive backlog. We're 253 00:17:55.599 --> 00:18:02.799 trying. We're almost done with Persona three. We we we're on December twentieth. 254 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:06.799 Oh oh wow there yeah, we're almost there. We're like we're really 255 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:11.559 barreling towards that ending. There. She's trying to date Mitsuru right now, 256 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:17.880 you know what, that's the that's the correct choice, the correct choice. 257 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.519 Yeah, you know, you car Car is cool too. Oh yeah, 258 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:23.720 you Car is like best friend. But yeah, Mitsu is canonically thirty years 259 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:27.240 old, so is aka Eko, and shit, like they're all like adults. 260 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:32.799 Yeah, grovelly voices and all these fucking I'm a CEO of a company 261 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:37.799 and I've had many jobs, and I'm a boxing champion and I've a fucking 262 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:41.680 rich ass owner of this electric company and we were we did like one of 263 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:48.119 the episode links with Akahiko where you like fight all those that gang, yeah, 264 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.640 beat their ass, and then you go back to like Akiko's room and 265 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:55.640 you're like talking about this and yeah, like the metal on them and stuff. 266 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:57.480 Oh my god, it was so cute. And then just out of 267 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:04.039 nowhere, Georgia just shouted, what are they gonna have gay sex Atlas? 268 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:11.759 Stop being cowards? Let them touch each other. You know what I'm saying. 269 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:12.759 Oh man, that was a really that was a really beautiful moment. 270 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:15.400 I cried. Yeah, it was good. And then George is over here 271 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:21.200 being like gay sex. Yeah, I respect that. Yeah, I love 272 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:22.599 all that new stuff they add. Yeah, it's really great. It's really 273 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:27.960 well done. Anyway, we talk about every fucking week. Last week Kyle's 274 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:30.480 like, oh I started Persona through, Like, yo, sorry, we 275 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:34.440 did talk about it last week. Fucking Well, don't worry. I'll change 276 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:41.839 the subject because I'm almost done with Final seven, which we also talked about. 277 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:45.240 I think by next week I'll be done with that. Man, what's 278 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:52.400 your hour account? Then sixty seven? Okay, I'm in chapter eleven. 279 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:57.000 I just finished all the side stuff in Nibelheim, and I'm heading up the 280 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:02.720 mountain. So I hear this is where the eels fall off, so not 281 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:06.640 quite Okay. Well, actually Lucy told you no, no, no, 282 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:08.480 no, no, you're right. She told me that, like she was 283 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:12.279 really enjoying it until she got to chapter eleven. So I'm really curious to 284 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:18.400 see the wheels come back on then they kind of fall, you'll know exactly. 285 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:21.480 I'm excited to see where it goes. There's just some shit you're gonna 286 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:22.759 see, be like, what the why the fuck is this in this game? 287 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:26.920 So many moments like that, but especially Yeah, I'm still enjoying it. 288 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:30.440 Though. I will say there was a moment when I first got to 289 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:33.559 Nibelheim and like I saw like all the side quest things pop up, and 290 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:36.920 I was like, oh god, I have to do this again. But 291 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:38.960 that area was much smaller and much more condensed. It was easy for me 292 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:42.599 to, like super easy to once again and like with the choke bo that 293 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:45.000 that flies around and stuff. So they basically said, fuck it, you 294 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:48.839 don't have to do any of those other bullshit, yeah, the Cosmo Canyon 295 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:52.599 and whatever. So yeah, I mean, like, I'm still enjoying it. 296 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:55.839 I just it's it's taken me so long. And to be honest, 297 00:20:55.880 --> 00:20:57.319 I was thinking about it. I think if I had to play this game 298 00:20:57.880 --> 00:21:02.440 in like a week or two weeks review, I think I would have blown 299 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:08.079 my brains out. But the fact that I've been able to like slowly play 300 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:11.519 it over the course of six weeks now has been perfect. I think, 301 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:15.759 like, that's that's how I want to experience this the right way, and 302 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:18.839 I think it's part of the reason why I'm still invested and interested. And 303 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:22.759 I feel like I'm not getting as frustrated as other people did with I mean 304 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:26.319 not everyone, like I know you really liked it, but I know Tam 305 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:27.720 and his review who also really liked it, but was saying that, like 306 00:21:29.799 --> 00:21:32.400 in the middle part, there's like too many mini games. But that didn't 307 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:34.359 bug me, and I think it was because I was just taking it slower. 308 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:37.240 I wasn't really like I need to see what happens next in the story. 309 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:44.119 I'm just like, I'm gonna enjoy the the the Golden Saucer for what 310 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:45.480 it is. I'm going to check out all the mini games. I'm gonna 311 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:51.519 play all the fucking Queen's Blood. I can't sure, uh, but yeah, 312 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:53.839 I'm I'm still enjoying it. I'm excited to finish it. Though, 313 00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:59.079 because I've told myself I'm not going to play more Dragons Dogma until I finished 314 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:03.599 Final Fantasy seven. So I'm almost done and it's back to then it's back 315 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:07.240 to TD two. Yeah, Dragon's Dogma cool. Yeah, I hope you 316 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:10.279 finish it. You're almost there. Whenever you think you're almost done with Rebirth, 317 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:11.519 you're not. Yeah, you think you're done with it, but you're 318 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:17.759 actually not. Then chapters right, yeah, yeah, thirteen and then yeah 319 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:19.839 this fourteenth, fourteenth, the finale, because I figure I at least have 320 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:23.799 ten more hours to go. Yeah, ten maybe I rememberteen? Yeah, 321 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:26.759 I say, closer at the pace you're going probably fifteen, Okay, yeah, 322 00:22:26.759 --> 00:22:32.720 I'm going maybe twenty. I remember feeling so confident she was at the 323 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:36.000 end, and then like I came, like a weekend happened and I was 324 00:22:36.039 --> 00:22:37.200 like, oh, what do you think of the ending? And she's like, 325 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:40.240 I'm still not done. I was like what, And she's like, 326 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:42.200 I put it in another six fucking hours and I'm still not done. And 327 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:47.359 I was like, oh, yeah, see, yeah, I've got I've 328 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:49.079 got no responsibilities. I don't need to be I don't need to cut any 329 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:52.519 videos to it. I don't need to be on a spoiler cast doesn't matter. 330 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:53.640 Now, finish it whenever. I want to finish it at your own 331 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:56.640 pace. Man, that's cool. Oh, I'm excited to hear your thoughts. 332 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:03.039 I'm always I always like it when and someone finishes Rebirth, especially when 333 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:06.400 they have the same exact complaints as me and like twenty other people. I'm 334 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:10.960 like, yes, validated, Yes, so you add another one. Yeah, 335 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:12.680 Which doesn't get me wrong. It's one of my favorite games I've played 336 00:23:12.680 --> 00:23:17.359 in recent memory. But it's just one of those things where its flaws are 337 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:22.079 so glaringly obvious. But do you think do you think they can fix it 338 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:23.759 for the third one? Like, do you think that that stuff can come 339 00:23:23.799 --> 00:23:26.960 together or do you think they kind of? I think it can. Okay, 340 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:30.359 I think it can, but they have to be very very meticulous in 341 00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:33.359 how they do it. Have they proven they can though? Yeah? That's 342 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:37.839 because after Remake it's kind of like, oh, wow, they're they're doing 343 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:41.599 something, and then with Rebirth, like y'all are doing too much and I 344 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:45.160 don't know if you know exactly what you're doing with all of this shit. 345 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:48.119 Did you finish it? John? Then? I actually haven't, yeh, 346 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:52.920 because I basically like moved on to other stuff and then I've been playing at 347 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:56.799 that second play through with my brother. I'm actually about to lap my first 348 00:23:56.960 --> 00:24:03.039 Oh yeah. But also we're like fifteen hours like less like ahead versus another 349 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:06.799 one because we're just skipping a lot of stuff. It's cool. But I 350 00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:08.400 mean, dude, like, even even for as fat as that game is, 351 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:12.799 like, it still has like some incredible moment we did the we did 352 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:17.119 this stuff with like Barrett and Dine and oh my, that's that's really good. 353 00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:19.880 My brother was like, fuck, like wow, I mean so far, 354 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:22.920 I like this game a lot more than I liked Remake. Like I 355 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:26.599 like that. I think it's just has a lot to do with the world 356 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:32.920 itself feels much more expanded, bigger, interesting. I think the way it's 357 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:36.640 paced works a lot better in my opinion, even though it is longer. 358 00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:40.000 I just feel like that sort of loop of like going to an open area 359 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:44.519 exploring it, kind of pushing the story along slowly works better than like, 360 00:24:44.519 --> 00:24:49.039 like, I don't feel like this game is padded at least in the story 361 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:52.400 as Remake was, because like Remake, I felt like you go on all 362 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:56.640 these random tangents every now and then yeah, that that I found kind of 363 00:24:56.640 --> 00:25:02.200 annoying. So yeah, I mean like there's obviously more fluff, I guess 364 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:04.279 in this game with all the side content, but like that hasn't bugged me 365 00:25:04.440 --> 00:25:08.400 too much. The fluff of Rebirth feels like it fits the context a little 366 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:11.000 bit better than it did in Remake. Yeah, I think, yeah, 367 00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:15.000 yeah, that was a much better way to say what I was trying to 368 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:18.079 say. Yeah, Like Remake, you just be doing ship. It's like 369 00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:19.799 I'm just doing this ship, But like Rebirth, there's a lot of work 370 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:22.839 to like, Hey, this is why you're doing this thing. Here's the 371 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:26.000 end result of the thing that you did. And then it's like, oh 372 00:25:26.039 --> 00:25:27.200 that adds a little bit more context to the rest of the world. So 373 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:30.079 it's like, all right, I'm doing bullshit, but the bullshit comes back 374 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:33.440 around, yeah, more often than it doesn't. The fucking music is so 375 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:40.119 good across everything. It's like, oh my god, the battle music like 376 00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:45.720 just it's just beautiful ship and I do miss bom bomb. You know that's 377 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:48.200 not a couple of times it does, but it doesn't play as much. 378 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:53.000 Yeah, do that is that the Shin theme? No, it's the wallmarket. 379 00:25:53.480 --> 00:25:56.960 Oh yeah, I know, I just talking about I think they played 380 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:02.240 in when you see Jewels or I don't know. Yeah, Jewels just shows 381 00:26:02.279 --> 00:26:06.480 back up and you do you do sit ups and pull ups again. Yeah, 382 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:11.720 like I hated that many games. Still sucks. It's all good, 383 00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:15.480 that's cool. Wait how much did you too? Have you played? Then? 384 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:19.039 I played like ten hours or so that's why, just because I didn't 385 00:26:19.079 --> 00:26:22.440 have access to my PlayStation for a bit, So that's why I played. 386 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:25.160 And then, oh man, how do you feel about it? So far? 387 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:27.559 I love it? I think it's great. Yeah, uh, it's 388 00:26:29.559 --> 00:26:32.000 definitely. There's a lot of little issues with it. I would say, 389 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:37.480 like just doesn't doesn't run great, Like there's some weird intricacies to it. 390 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:41.000 Yeah, but I think that sense of discovery kind of trumps all of that, 391 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:45.039 you know, where it's just like there are a few games where I 392 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:48.480 actually want to travel from point A to point B, and that is one 393 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:49.680 of those games that I want to do that and I and for me, 394 00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:53.119 that's like if a game makes me want to travel from point A to point 395 00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:56.759 B, I'm like, yeah, this is a good It's a thing that 396 00:26:56.119 --> 00:27:03.119 so few games nail. So this fucking chairs dragon crazy trying so hard not 397 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:07.480 to move, but it is just like you gotta sit you ass still. 398 00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:19.559 Man. I feel like the theme of this year with games is almost like 399 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:29.119 uh like uh flawed masterpieces or maybe masterpieces too strong, but just like compared 400 00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:30.000 to like last year, where I feel like there all these games that were 401 00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:33.200 just like, wow, this game is just like super super polished banger. 402 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:38.519 This a lot of the games are messier, Infinite Wealth, you know, 403 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:41.960 Rebirth, even Dragon's Dogma, you know, instead of It stuff, but 404 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:47.920 they're also like all doing things that are still like super unique and compelling in 405 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:51.480 their own way. So it's like with the exception of of of Reload that 406 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:55.799 Reload, that one's a banger, Yes, Fronts of Back, but which 407 00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:57.960 is why it's it's probably a game of the year right now, say that 408 00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:03.880 ship back around in six seven months, we'll have that conversation. Yeah exactly. 409 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:06.799 But yeah, but yeah, it's just like interesting, how like games 410 00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:08.519 are a little bit messier this year, And I don't mind that actually, 411 00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:15.680 I like I think it makes it for a more interesting experience conversation. Yeah, 412 00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:18.960 this is Yeah, there's just more I think there's like more standout moments 413 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:22.359 in the games. This year, but that has come at the expense of 414 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:26.079 a well rounded Yeah, like Infinewel is a very good example of that, 415 00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:32.720 where absolutely there's some like incredible highs and some real unforgettable moments, but again 416 00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:37.319 there's just like some low, very low lows. Yeah, but that's fine. 417 00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:40.319 It's fine, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, Shi, it's 418 00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:45.200 just different. Mm hmm, it's cool. It's cool. I've been playing 419 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:51.319 a little game came out called Children of the Sun. Oh yes, yeah, 420 00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:55.119 Uh, that game is fucking awesome. Didn't you tell me about it? 421 00:28:55.480 --> 00:28:57.799 I did tell you about it last week. It's so, it's it's 422 00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:00.960 a it's a game made by one guy whose name I don't recall off the 423 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:04.880 top of my head, Devolver Digital Joint app believe it's PC only does run 424 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:12.000 on ground Steam Deck though. Uh. It's basically sniper elite puzzle game where 425 00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:17.519 you play as this woman who doesn't have a name. She's just the woman 426 00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:22.519 who is escaped a cult and is now like I'm gonna murder all these motherfuckers. 427 00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:29.000 So each level is uh, you'll be like in an area like a 428 00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:33.519 like a like a forest, or like run down like motel just like all 429 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:37.440 these like really like gnarly cedy areas. The game has got this disgusting like 430 00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:45.039 dark purple, like overly saturated like color palette, real gnarly vibes. Huge 431 00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:49.359 fan of it. But you'll like get into these areas and basically you you'll 432 00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:53.279 be on like the outskirts of this arena where all of the the cultists are, 433 00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:59.039 and you can circle around like uh, and then you can like ping 434 00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:00.559 them, you know, to like find them and line them up and so. 435 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:04.759 But then when you fire, you can only fire one bullet, and 436 00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:10.559 you kill all of them with one bullet. So the trick is when you 437 00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:15.839 kill someone, you then get to news your Telekinese's mind powers to redirect that 438 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:18.359 bullet to another person. So it becomes this puzzle game where you're like, 439 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.119 I need to fire the bullet at just the right time to line it up 440 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:25.640 where these people are so I can like go from this person to this person 441 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:30.759 to this person to this person. And it's so freaking satisfying to pull off. 442 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:33.519 Yeah, Oh it feels so good. Do they have a slow moo 443 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:37.640 anatomy cam not anatomy, but but it is that slow moo just like pixelated 444 00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:41.839 like blood just everywhere. Oh it's so good man, there's nothing better than 445 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:47.920 shooting the balls off a Nazi and snipers. Uh. And then yeah, 446 00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:51.519 and then you're like they add all these like interesting little like twists and wrinkles 447 00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:53.759 to it. You'll kind of like unlock different abilities where one lets do kind 448 00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:57.079 of like you can kind of curve the bullet a little bit mid flight if 449 00:30:57.079 --> 00:31:03.079 you want to meet types like for example, there is a an armored enemy 450 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:10.039 where in order to hit them, you need to shoot far enough away, 451 00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:11.720 and then you hold down the bullet and you make it go faster and you 452 00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:15.279 like speed it up, and if you speed it up enough, the bullet 453 00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:18.160 can then penetrate their armor. So then it becomes this thing where you're like, 454 00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:21.160 okay, I need to maybe I want to hit that guy first because 455 00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:25.160 I'm far enough away. Or you'll eventually get this ability that lets you like 456 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.119 if you can like build up like a meter where you can then like activate 457 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.480 and move the bullet again without having to hit someone. So you'll like fire 458 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:36.759 the bullet like into the air, let it go far enough away, and 459 00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:40.039 then like hit the button redirect it so then you like have enough distance to 460 00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:45.079 kill the armored guy You can also explode like gas canisters and like cars nearby, 461 00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.839 and that will also let you either just move around or you can use 462 00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:52.359 it to like kill people. You can shoot pigeons in the air as a 463 00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:55.960 way to like give yourself like distance, which is like it's fucked up, 464 00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:00.559 but it's cool because it's just a really awesome little puzzle game. It's super 465 00:32:00.599 --> 00:32:06.000 short. I can I beat in like three hours. It does have replayability 466 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:08.440 because there's like leaderboards and all that stuff. But uh, hey, you 467 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:14.000 know, uh everyone who is like I want uh short games that look worse, 468 00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:16.759 uh you know yeah, uh like and I don't even care, Like 469 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:22.720 that's this fucking game right here, Like it is. It's incredible. I'm 470 00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:24.079 I'm a huge fan of it. I also I just love the vibe of 471 00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:28.759 it, like it's just so gnarly. And in between each level has these 472 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:34.920 like really short but like impactful cut scenes that are like these uh kind of 473 00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:38.640 hand drawn on almost like graphic novel style panels that kind of like show uh 474 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:43.720 like what's happening with the cult or a little bit of like the woman's backstory. 475 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:49.480 Uh. And it's just got this like like heavy industrial noise soundtrack and 476 00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:52.559 like real like guitars where you can just like hear the strum twang, you 477 00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:58.640 know. And and it's just got a fucking vibe. You know, it's 478 00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:00.640 got a vibe to it. Yeah. Like I took one look at the 479 00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:02.720 game. I like, Oh, this game's got a vibe. It's got 480 00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:08.000 a vibe. Big fan of it. I highly recommend. Yeah, it's 481 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:12.279 like fifteen bucks, which you know, I like, I think it's absolutely 482 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:15.599 worth it. My opinion that what hell, Yeah, I'm gonna check that 483 00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:17.319 out. Then, yeah, I think you shall check it out. Jake, 484 00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:22.240 you saw for preview? Oh god, what did I say? Oh? 485 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:25.599 I saw Prince of Persia. You saw Prince of the Dead. Yeah, 486 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:29.400 slogue Prince of Persia, which is a funny, really funny name. 487 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:37.920 Yeah, it is a roguelike. Surprising surprisingly, it is developed by I 488 00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:40.799 think, oh god, what's their team called Evil Empire. I think it's 489 00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:46.519 Evil Empire. Evil Empire who technically didn't develop the original Dead Cells, but 490 00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:53.160 I think Emotion Motion and after the first big update drop, I think they 491 00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:59.000 kind of took over development and have been surprised years including. I think they 492 00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:02.759 also developed like the Castlevania DLC that came out as well. I really likes 493 00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:06.279 all the updates. Yeah, I mean, I mean all the DLC from 494 00:34:06.319 --> 00:34:07.599 what I've heard, is great. I mean, I love the original Dead 495 00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:10.519 Cells game, and I probably would have kept playing if I didn't have other 496 00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:15.599 shit that I had to I had to jump on. So anyway, they've 497 00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:20.159 been working with Ubisoft for a while to make a Prince of Persia roguelike game, 498 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:22.400 and I only got to play like thirty minutes of it, which admittedly 499 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:28.800 is not nearly enough. But it feels like Dead Cells, except it's got 500 00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:34.719 a very different art style that I think jordan Is preview mentioned it's it's inspired 501 00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:40.239 by like French comics and like Persian miniatures or something like that, in order 502 00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:44.559 to kind of give it this sort of I don't want to say water color 503 00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:47.920 because that sounds simplified, but it's got like a very like not washed out, 504 00:34:47.960 --> 00:34:52.760 but like a very confident pastel color palette. Think that's a French word. 505 00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:58.199 Yeah, look, look sure, I'm very intrigued by so visually it 506 00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:01.639 looks great. It feels pretty good, I think in Jordan's preview, because 507 00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:06.440 he also played it, one thing he mentioned that kind of bothered him was 508 00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:10.639 in Dead Cells. You kind of had that role that lets you basically I 509 00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:16.000 frame through enemies and this instead has like a dodge button where like the Prince 510 00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:20.639 will like kind of like if they attack, you like leap off of them 511 00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:22.000 and do a backflip and you do have I frames, but you don't really 512 00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:28.119 like have much mobility to it. Yeah. However, all that said, 513 00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:34.199 I mean it feels like a very solid platformer with the roguelike structure built around 514 00:35:34.199 --> 00:35:37.840 it. I'm very excited to play more. I got to like, I 515 00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:42.360 think we can only see the first boss and it very much feels like Dead 516 00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:45.559 Cells, like all the how the upgrades work when you get to bosses, 517 00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:50.280 Like the bosses feel tough, but they feel like you can beat them, 518 00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:52.599 you know, if you just had a slightly different build, or if you 519 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:55.840 were able to upgrade something a little more. And it definitely is going to 520 00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:59.199 have that like one more run mentality. And like I said, I think 521 00:35:59.239 --> 00:36:02.599 I only had time for two runs in my time and I could have kept 522 00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:07.960 playing more, but it seems good. I think it comes to early access 523 00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:10.920 soon. I don't remember if they gave a release date. I think it's 524 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:15.800 like a couple months or so. It was an early access game, and 525 00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:19.360 they're going to continue like developing, and I think when I was at the 526 00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:23.480 preview, they had mentioned that they haven't finished like the story of the game 527 00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:27.679 yet. There's still like new sections that will be added, but there is. 528 00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:30.760 They wanted to make sure that it felt like even if you're buying an 529 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:34.599 early access it felt like a complete, polished game. And what I played 530 00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:38.079 like it, it felt like it didn't feel like an early access game. 531 00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:42.119 Obviously only played thirty minutes. Though maybe I get to the next area and 532 00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:49.280 it was just busted, But damn, I don't think that. I don't 533 00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:52.000 think that's going to be the case. But no, I had a lot 534 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:55.760 of fun. I'm excited to play more. I'm curious to see if it 535 00:36:55.880 --> 00:37:00.320 will kind of feel like that Dead Cells sequel that I think a lot of 536 00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:05.199 previews, including game Spot we've kind of like hyped it up to be because 537 00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:07.320 it's just so hard to say, but sure, definitely worth keeping an eye 538 00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:12.559 out on. And also it's it's crazy we're getting two Prince of Persia games 539 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:16.159 in a year. Yeah, if they're not getting any for a very decade, 540 00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:21.400 right right, more than a decade. Yeah, it's cools. Someone 541 00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:24.119 on Twitter said this, I forget who, but how they thought it was 542 00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:29.840 like really interesting that like this this almost seems like a smart way to like 543 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:32.960 test the waters with like an old ip that like maybe like like instead of 544 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.199 being like, dude, let's bring it back, let's pour like millions of 545 00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:38.880 dollars big triple A, Like what if we just like hand it to like 546 00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:44.400 a you know, smaller studio that we like no does like awesome shit and 547 00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:46.599 they can like try something else with it, like it's different and we can 548 00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:51.039 kind of gauge with how people feel about it. Like it's like I would 549 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:54.519 like to eventually see like a bigger Prince of Persia maybe make her comeback, 550 00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:59.440 and also whatever the heck is going on with that sands of time remain, 551 00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:05.159 Yeah, but like it's cool to just like see that that like franchise kind 552 00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:07.400 of like still around and there's like smaller ways that we haven't seen before, 553 00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:10.880 but it still feel very Prince of Persia. Yeah, it's like, yeah, 554 00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:15.599 I think this this this action platform or side scroller format, whether it 555 00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:20.840 be Rogue or Metroidvana, that fits what Prince of Persia kind of always was. 556 00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:23.480 Totally. These are really good fits, really good ideas exact to play 557 00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:27.280 with the IP so yeah, and I mean to be honest, like, 558 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:30.280 I think i'd rather see you be soft invest in these smaller, more interesting 559 00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:37.519 style of games than like, like, I don't know, I feel like 560 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:39.719 they've definitely gotten away from it, but for a while there, all you 561 00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:45.360 be soft games are just like open world like very similar structure, and I 562 00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:49.400 don't think i'd want a Prince of Persia game that is just like that. 563 00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:52.840 Yeah, so I almost appreciate kind of the route they're taking, whether or 564 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:57.760 not it like connects with an audience as well as like Dead Cells did I 565 00:38:57.840 --> 00:39:00.000 don't know, Okay, I just had a crazy idea. Remember that game 566 00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:04.320 Mark of the Ninja, Mark of the Ninja, Hell yeah, get that 567 00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:07.760 team to make a Sam Fisher splinter. So, my, can you imagine 568 00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:13.639 that is such a good idea you should get millions of dollars that. That's 569 00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:15.639 fucking cool. Like Mark of the Ninja, although it was a two D 570 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:20.199 game, was such a smart play on stealth. Yeah, fuck man, 571 00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:24.639 that would be ship. That would be crazy, pretty good, goodass idea, 572 00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:28.480 man, Hey, you know, just yeah, hit me up, 573 00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:34.119 I'll direct it direct. Just come up with the ideas and y'all figure the 574 00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:39.760 ship your ideas. Guy, Yeah, sick, Michael, what about you? 575 00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:45.440 Anything you've been checking out? Yes? Two things cool? Uh. 576 00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.159 One is an not old but it's a game that came out I think six 577 00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:52.039 seven years ago. Let me tell you about Everybody's Golf. I don't know 578 00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:57.400 why I've been playing Everybody's Golf, which came out like twenty seventeen. Hot 579 00:39:57.440 --> 00:40:00.760 shots Golf. Is that the one was carrying in one of the Kiri is 580 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:02.960 in one of them. I don't think it was Everybody's Golf, the one 581 00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:07.400 that the most recently. Okay, there's a kru like character skin for one 582 00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:09.760 of those games. Okay, I don't know if that was like a Japan 583 00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:14.360 only type thing. But I've been playing a lot of fucking golf and I 584 00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:16.440 was like, damn, I used to like I don't know. I was 585 00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:22.559 just scrolling through PS plus. So I've been watching Lucy's cats Cat sitting for 586 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:24.280 her, and I was like on our PS five and I was like, 587 00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:28.239 what on PS plus can I do? I want to play? I don't 588 00:40:28.239 --> 00:40:30.960 want to play anything too heavy. I don't want to play anything that takes 589 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:32.840 too much effort. I just want to chill with the cats, just do 590 00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:36.199 something fun. Yeah, And I was like, you know what, I 591 00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:39.559 miss hotshots golf. I'm going to download everybody's golf and I put like twenty 592 00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:45.000 hours in that game in a week. I just zone out and I'm just 593 00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:49.400 golfing. Motherfuck Like, Oh, I love golf. I was on my 594 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:52.000 high school golf team, so I, wow, it's not really good at 595 00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:55.000 everybody. Well, yes, I am good at everybody's golf. I'm not 596 00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:59.119 that great at real going rifles and golf clubs. Yeah, dude, I 597 00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:02.119 do it all. I you know, my life has been crazy, damn 598 00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:08.039 and buses. Those are some some white people. I wasn't gonna say it. 599 00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:13.280 I mean, you're not wrong, but you didn't have to say it. 600 00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:16.119 To be fair. Drill Team has a lot of roots in Pacific Islander 601 00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:22.480 culture. Golf not so much. You got me there. I love golf. 602 00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:25.360 Let me tell you about Koreans and golf, because holy shit, Korea 603 00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:30.039 is very very good at golf. Everybody's golf is fucking sick. Man. 604 00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:35.000 I made my creative character. She is so beautiful. Oh my god, 605 00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:38.679 I am. I am so deeply in love with the character. I created 606 00:41:38.679 --> 00:41:45.960 it. Every white hair. Yes, it's like picture. I have a 607 00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:51.840 bunch of screenshots on my PS and I feel like I already visualized. It's 608 00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:57.400 like, what if to be was Filipino. Uh, that's basically every character 609 00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:00.000 I create. If it's not she a, I create to be a film 610 00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:02.400 panal version of two b Oh god, she's beautiful and she's so good at 611 00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:08.280 golf. Holy fuck, dude, really important. Yeah yeah, oh my 612 00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:13.239 god, that's like a green flag to me. Everybody. Everybody's golf is 613 00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:15.400 really fucking good. Uh. It turns out Hot Shots golf was. It 614 00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:20.079 was always good, and that game has that series has not changed very much, 615 00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:23.000 Like you just put new courses, same mechanics. You don't need to 616 00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:27.599 it's golf. It's golf. You hit, you the meter moves, you 617 00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:30.679 time it and you you hit the ball, and it's like that's it. 618 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:32.639 Uh, it's really goofy. It's a really fun game. It's it's the 619 00:42:32.679 --> 00:42:37.480 perfect It's like my perfect cozy game. It's like there's an island vacation where 620 00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:40.920 everybody golfs. I'm like, fuck, yeah, yeah. You go to 621 00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:45.480 these Hawaiian islands to golf there, and then you go to this really intricate 622 00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:52.199 like city scape and virtual, so you don't feel bad about like the fucking 623 00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:57.320 waste of space, all the money that the city invests into their golf courses 624 00:42:57.320 --> 00:43:00.400 that could go to like solving houselessness. And you know what I'm saying, 625 00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:02.880 these are just like real issues you don't got to worry about. Man, 626 00:43:04.119 --> 00:43:10.159 it's about time we got politics. Oh my god. So yeah, everybody's 627 00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:13.639 golf is the one game that I will be like, you know what, 628 00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:19.000 I don't care about politics here because I'm golfing. Then I realized that the 629 00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:22.840 daily city golf course can be used for much more important things which I live 630 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:24.159 by. And you know what, I think, I want to golf there. 631 00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:30.480 I'm going to be I haven't. I haven't golfed there. I haven't 632 00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:32.519 either. I was supposed to go one time with Nick and Will and I 633 00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:37.960 think they just like maybe made it through three holes and just drank the entire 634 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:40.480 time. Wow, that also sounds pretty good. That's what you were gonna 635 00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:44.039 do. I would have gone because whenever someone's like, oh, we're going 636 00:43:44.039 --> 00:43:46.199 golf, and I'm like, sounds because some man of them have dress codes 637 00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:50.679 too. You have to wear the star polo and yeah, I'm just like, 638 00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:52.039 I don't want to do that kind of stuff, but I'm drinking. 639 00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:55.719 Yeah, that sounds pretty I can do yes, much better at that than 640 00:43:55.719 --> 00:44:01.559 golfing. Oh yeah, so the second one, uh second game I'm playing 641 00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:06.119 this? I played the Stellar Blade demo. Oh I played too. Yeah? 642 00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:07.960 Oh hell yeah, well that's cool. Okay, what'd you talk about 643 00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:10.840 it? What did you think about it? I enjoyed it. I'm surprised 644 00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:14.920 by how much I enjoyed it. And I was also surprised that it is 645 00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:19.079 a soul's like. Well, will surprise me is that it is a soul's 646 00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:23.599 like, but like way more deflecting pairying. Yeah, very securo like. 647 00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:27.920 Yeah, but like a little more I don't want to say purposeful, but 648 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.239 like you know, sec it's like ding ding ding ding, You're like I'm 649 00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:35.039 doing with this. It's very much like hit that one move, which which 650 00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:38.039 I found pretty satisfy. Yeah, there's a satisfying momentum to this game, 651 00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:42.719 like you want to first. I mean I get it because I felt the 652 00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:44.880 same way too when I first saw the reveal of this game, like, 653 00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:47.559 oh, they're trying to do like a Bayonetta or a new Automata. Yeah, 654 00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:51.280 and it's like, esthetically it's it feels like it's going for that. 655 00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:52.199 Then you actually play, I'm like, oh, this is a Soul's like. 656 00:44:52.239 --> 00:44:55.440 But there's a lot of momentum built into its mechanics and systems that I 657 00:44:55.440 --> 00:45:00.519 think helps it stand out from just being another like co Vain or Neo or 658 00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:04.239 what any of the other souls likes out there, like Lords of the Phone. 659 00:45:04.239 --> 00:45:08.400 There's just like a very specific like combo mentality to it. The way 660 00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:12.840 counters work. I think the enemy design leaves a little bit to be desired 661 00:45:12.840 --> 00:45:16.000 in terms of like readability and like that, but it's not bad. The 662 00:45:16.039 --> 00:45:20.519 bosses look cool though. Yeah, you fight on the rooftop and you like 663 00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:22.559 cut it in half, and I'm like, all right, there's this. 664 00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:27.920 There's there's really cool ship in this game, especially gameplay wise. I think 665 00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:30.079 there's a lot of potential there. And I only played the demo. Game 666 00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:32.840 comes out this month, but from the demo, I'm like, oh, 667 00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:37.320 I think I'm more interested in this game than I initially was. So it's 668 00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:40.280 funny I had a and it'd be very like, you know, I think 669 00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:45.199 my I had initially a really bad reaction to it because of it being a 670 00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:49.920 souls like because I think my expectations were just like, Oh, it's gonna 671 00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:52.159 play like Bayonetta or whatever, and then I was like, what the fuck 672 00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:58.239 is I can't where, I can't jump? Where's my combos? Especially because 673 00:45:58.239 --> 00:46:02.679 I think and like, uh, I do think there's a weird disconnect between 674 00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:07.320 what's happening in cut scenes and what's happening in gameplay. Like the cut scenes 675 00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:13.760 are like, oh, she's doing Beyanetta Devil May Cry type shit, and 676 00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:16.920 then the gameplay you're not really behaving like that. So I there is this 677 00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:21.599 weird feels like slower, like the gameplay is still fast, but I know 678 00:46:21.639 --> 00:46:23.920 what you're saying, where like the cut scenes all this crazy flips, yeah, 679 00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:27.679 and then like in game you're kind of like walking around and and I 680 00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:30.760 do sort of have this like right, and I kind of have this like 681 00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:35.239 for me, there's sort of a thing about like I feel like if if 682 00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:37.559 you show the character doing something cool in the cut scene, I should also 683 00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:40.119 be able to do that in the game. And that's something that like Bayonetta 684 00:46:40.119 --> 00:46:45.039 and Definite May Cry nails so well. So like seeing her do stuff in 685 00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:49.039 cut scenes, I'm like, whoa. And then like the gameplay being different, 686 00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:51.920 Like that really threw me off at first. That makes sense, I 687 00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:53.800 will say, I don't know if you battled like the like once you finish 688 00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:58.719 the demo, you unlock like a boss you can do that is supposedly much 689 00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:02.400 later in the game where more abilities, and that felt a little more like 690 00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:07.679 I was like flipping over that and like like writing my blade down its mouth 691 00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:13.280 or whatever is like cutting it open and stuff. And like that teleport ability 692 00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:15.079 where you like, if you hit it at the right time, you teleport 693 00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:19.239 behind them. Yeah, like square, then the triangle you like, it 694 00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:22.639 feels like it builds. And then also like I don't know how much you 695 00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:24.920 dove into this skill tree, but there's like a lot of like combo stuff 696 00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:29.960 yeah, like like like triangle, triangle, square, whatever it might be. 697 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:31.760 Which I was like, oh, this is not more in depth than 698 00:47:31.880 --> 00:47:35.679 Souls because you know, like the depth in the Soul's games is instead of 699 00:47:35.719 --> 00:47:38.119 like weapon all the different weapons you use and stuff, all this feels like, 700 00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:43.119 Oh, there's like a combo system there. It feels like the merge 701 00:47:43.119 --> 00:47:47.119 of both the character action and a Soul's Like sure, and I'm not ready 702 00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:51.079 yet to be like, oh, Yeah, it's nailing it so far, 703 00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:52.360 but I see a lot of the potential where I'm like, Okay, you're 704 00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:58.639 getting ideas from these other games and then adapting them into a more methodical Souls 705 00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:01.079 like structure. I think this can work, and I think I have been 706 00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:05.599 impressed with how it's worked so far. If they can keep that up throughout 707 00:48:05.639 --> 00:48:09.199 the rest of the game, it's cool that they're just not just trying to 708 00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:12.079 kind of be like, Oh, we're just gonna be Banat or we're just 709 00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:15.400 gonna be dark Souls, like they're trying to do something some different. Although 710 00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:20.639 the h I think I know what you're gonna say for the rest of the 711 00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:23.760 game. Yeah, it's kind of it was weird. There's like multiple things 712 00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:28.440 where I'm like, I'm getting like weird near automodivized like we have we have 713 00:48:28.519 --> 00:48:31.800 near at home, we have Near. Didn't the composer do like not all 714 00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:35.119 of the music, but some of the music for this Oh? Did they 715 00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:37.599 I don't know, I mean that makes sense, but yeah, like the 716 00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:42.920 vibes are very near in some spots. I kind of like look at him, 717 00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:47.239 like, I know what you're trying to do. The way voice acting 718 00:48:47.480 --> 00:48:52.440 just always takes me off guard where it's like these like anime characters and then 719 00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:59.559 just these like very serious British accents and like voice acting was bad. I 720 00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:06.119 not like him, Like I think they understand where their priorities are and it 721 00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:09.719 ain't in this particular part. That's fair. But then it's like maybe see 722 00:49:10.039 --> 00:49:14.039 maybe don't Maybe maybe I have less of that if that's not what you care 723 00:49:14.079 --> 00:49:16.920 about. But yeah, like the that stuff wasn't great. And then like, 724 00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:20.360 yeah, Jake, what you said. The faces like there's just like 725 00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:27.000 a weird like no expression on the faces sometimes androids it's deep. I don't 726 00:49:27.039 --> 00:49:30.039 know. It was like all that stuff. I was like, this was 727 00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:35.039 weird, and sure, yeah, you're kind of right. I'm definitely with 728 00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:38.920 you on that. Yeah, I don't expect this game to be Near like 729 00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:45.320 even though it is kind of clearly drawing a lot of inspiration of inspiration. 730 00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:49.239 But yeah, the things that make Near what it is are just are things 731 00:49:49.239 --> 00:49:52.320 that that writing team and Yoko Taro as a direct creative director for that series 732 00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:55.599 only they can pull off. Only they have the mentality to pull out out. 733 00:49:55.639 --> 00:50:00.039 So I don't expect Stellar Blade to do that. But when you're clear, 734 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:04.239 when it's pretty clear you're trying to do that, Like, I'll see 735 00:50:04.239 --> 00:50:07.320 what you got. But okay, like you're kind of setting yourself up for 736 00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:14.559 that comparison, you know. Yeah, and again, like the post apocalypse 737 00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:19.119 sort of setting is reminiscent as well, like going to the city and like, 738 00:50:19.119 --> 00:50:21.719 oh, this looks just like the city ruins. I did pick it 739 00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:28.360 up and he is involved shite. That is like the clearest science, like 740 00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:31.400 we need to be near. I will say that some of the music. 741 00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:36.400 I don't know how much K is involved with the music I've heard so far, 742 00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:42.199 but there's a there's like a like a electronica pop vibe to love background 743 00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:46.400 music which kind of feels a little doesn't necessarily fit the vibe I think, 744 00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:51.000 but it's good music. I agree. That's why it's a weird thing, 745 00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:52.559 like I think with this, but I don't know if this is the right 746 00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:54.599 place for it. I think That's kind of where I'm at with this game 747 00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:59.400 right now. Is I'm just like, okay, like not everything quite fit. 748 00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:02.159 Yeah, yeah, kind of individual things that I like, but it's 749 00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:06.440 not quite gelling with me at least just based on the demo. Yeah, 750 00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:07.559 that's still like, yes, this is just a demo. Like I haven't 751 00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:10.880 played the whole game, but it's like there are individual things that kind of 752 00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:15.039 intrigue me, but I'm not really sure where I land on it. That 753 00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:19.320 makes sense, Yeah, yeah, but I think it's just I think it's 754 00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:22.639 a fascinating thing though, whether it's good, great, not great, whatever, 755 00:51:23.159 --> 00:51:25.840 I want to play through just to see what the hell like the rest 756 00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:30.039 of this game, how it all comes together. It's a PS five exclusive, 757 00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:35.119 right Korean studio, I believe, so shift up yeah something like, 758 00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:38.239 yeah, So it's a it's a very interesting prospect that I will be paying 759 00:51:38.280 --> 00:51:42.960 attention to once it comes out later this month. It's also I remember at 760 00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:45.320 the beginning of this year a lot of people were complaining because Sony didn't have 761 00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:50.360 any exclusives planned until like twenty twenty five or something. But they've had a 762 00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:53.400 lot of like third party exclusive games this year that have been very good. 763 00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:55.559 I mean, I don't know, I haven't played enough Stellar Blade, but 764 00:51:55.639 --> 00:52:00.800 like I was thinking about it because like Hell Divers, which as well, 765 00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:07.400 but like that is only Constant can play it on PlayStation Final Fantasy like this 766 00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:12.000 now, like that's three compared to the Xbox are still yeah, cook still 767 00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:14.880 cooking. The running laps around them a little bit. They're in the kitchens. 768 00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:17.440 I mean, you do have help Bla coming up, you have Stalker 769 00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:22.119 coming up. So Xbox does have things general. Yeah, so there's still 770 00:52:22.199 --> 00:52:25.199 there, but like already, like Somebody comes out the end of this month, 771 00:52:25.280 --> 00:52:28.559 that's already we're not even halfway through the year. And that's three like 772 00:52:28.679 --> 00:52:32.559 pretty high profile games. Two of them have been great and the third one 773 00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:37.440 has potential. So sure, yeah it's cool though, I'm interested, Yeah, 774 00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:40.159 play on when it comes around. Yeah, yeah, I think I'm 775 00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:45.239 gonna. I think I'll wait a little bit, maybe wait for the wait 776 00:52:45.239 --> 00:52:47.199 for the Jake Decker and Michael I Am a way for the opinions on everyone 777 00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:52.159 else, maybe before I fully jump into it. But I'm at least intrigued 778 00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:55.000 by it. It also runs well. I noticed, Yeah, it was 779 00:52:55.039 --> 00:52:58.960 doing like four K sixty pretty flawless, it seemed. I think it was 780 00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:00.960 four K at least, But like I was like, well, this game 781 00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:04.800 is really holding up. Yeah, it's it's consistent, even as below it's 782 00:53:04.840 --> 00:53:07.960 just a demo. It's not like the most like visually intense game, but 783 00:53:08.159 --> 00:53:13.760 I think for that style of game, performance is so important, so important. 784 00:53:13.840 --> 00:53:15.960 Yeah, and they at least they definitely got that. Like I haven't 785 00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:20.480 had any play through the demo and no complaints in terms of like performance or 786 00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:22.880 just the way the game looks outside of like the stiff stiff animations of the 787 00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:27.440 cut scenes. But that's like that's a separate thing. Yeah. Gameplay wise 788 00:53:27.440 --> 00:53:31.199 though, solid, very it feels very throwback, ye like back to the 789 00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:37.920 We're just like the cut scenes and whatever. But you're like, I don't 790 00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:39.760 just get that and get back to the gameplay. Yeah, there's some like 791 00:53:39.880 --> 00:53:45.440 there's some weird platforming stuff in this game too. There was that in the 792 00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:47.079 demo, that awkward thing where if you like jump off the building and like 793 00:53:47.199 --> 00:53:50.800 hit a ladder, but it was like at an angle, so it's very 794 00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:52.119 easy to miss. Yeah, and I like did it a couple of times, 795 00:53:52.119 --> 00:53:54.159 and I'm like, am I supposed to do this? Like it doesn't 796 00:53:54.159 --> 00:53:57.599 seem like I'm supposed to do this? And then I caught it and I 797 00:53:57.639 --> 00:54:00.519 was like, I guess, okay, Yeah, this is just when you 798 00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:05.960 mentioned the throwback stuff like that where I was like swimming underwater, like what's 799 00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:07.880 going on? Ye? Yeah, Yeah, they're just like doing shit in 800 00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:09.679 this game, and I like, I don't mind it. It's like, 801 00:54:10.760 --> 00:54:13.719 in my way, it kind of tickles my brains, like I kind of 802 00:54:13.719 --> 00:54:16.519 missed the janky aspects of respiration in action games, I guess, So I 803 00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:20.119 don't mind that so much. I don't think it like the tracks, Well, 804 00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:24.480 like it might later on down the line, but thirtieth time looking sure, 805 00:54:24.840 --> 00:54:29.360 Yeah, yeah, this game has a lot of yellow paint, so 806 00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:32.880 fu oh yeah, And I think that's great because otherwise I wouldn't be able 807 00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:36.320 to tell where to fuck to go in this game. I think a game 808 00:54:36.360 --> 00:54:37.119 like this, you just you just want to keep moving. Yeah, I 809 00:54:37.159 --> 00:54:39.800 just gotta keep Yeah, that's the most. It's so much more momentum. 810 00:54:39.800 --> 00:54:45.239 I don't want to be like fucking poking around an environment for hours on end 811 00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:49.000 just to find out where to go. Like there's priorities in this style of 812 00:54:49.039 --> 00:54:52.400 game exactly. It seems like they kind of understand that. Yeah. Cool, 813 00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:57.719 Well I think we're uh, we're about time here for the pod. 814 00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:00.880 Yeah, so, uh, what's going on? What's going on? Jake? 815 00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:04.480 Do you have anything you wanna you wanna tease, you wanna plug? 816 00:55:05.039 --> 00:55:09.079 Nope? No, damn cool? You uh you cut you cut the video 817 00:55:09.239 --> 00:55:13.599 review for for the Fallow TV show right. Oh yeah, that's up by 818 00:55:13.639 --> 00:55:19.360 now you haven't seen it, go chalk about out. Jordan's Prince of Persia 819 00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:22.360 Rogue Prince of Persia preview is up as well, so if that sounded interesting 820 00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:28.119 to you, check it out. Cool. My uh followed video will hopefully 821 00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:30.159 be up this weekend if I can get it done in time. Nice, 822 00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:37.360 very good so far. Thank you. If you've ever wanted to no, 823 00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:42.360 I'll leave it as a surprise, I think. Yeah, I got I 824 00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:45.280 got some I got some things lined up for game Spot as well. Nice. 825 00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:49.159 Got some RPG, some real on brand type ship line up for next 826 00:55:49.159 --> 00:55:52.079 week, so maybe this weekend. It depends on again. I need just 827 00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:58.719 need to get it done. So some cool ship lineup. Awesome everyone for 828 00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:01.159 tuning in. See I next Pas