Hey everybody, it's Tuesday, and can you believe that August is almost over?
Because it is August twenty ninth, twenty twenty three. Welcome to the
Giant Bomb Cast, powered by ncxt I. I'm your host, Jan Michella
joining me co captain of the ship Jeff Grubb two twos and pulling on the
ship horn. That's what you do on this ship is pull the horn.
That's right, uh, frantically pulling up the anchor. We have Mike Manatti.
Hey, how's it going. Yeah, we're going around the one.
You could even say, God, here we go, day, let's do
it. And we decided to give them. We decided to give them the
wheel of the boat dan Rykert Boats. It was like the big nautical wheel,
right, the big nautical wheel. Yeah, yeah, like the wooden
spokes and stuff you can share. That seems fun I would do. I
did that. I did that on a boat and it was fun. I
feel like you can get a lot of good spins in it before it actually
like does any damage. I think when you do it for shoot, though,
it's very tiny little motions, like when I did it on a boat
and Boston a couple of months ago. It's like you just do a little
bit of this and then the whole bogus. It's not a lot of like
wouldn't matter there, right, You're probably on a tinier boat. Yeah,
it was a tiny boat. Like I would like to do like a full
on wheel of fortune or Price's right wheel, you know, like that'd be
fun. But you can't do that in a Bob Barker. We've we've lost
too many folks in like the last couple couple of days here. Uh yeah,
the last week, Holy smokes, here's a Google document for folks watching
live gentlemen, A lot of wrestling happened. We were talking about this in
the pre show here, and we were thinking about maybe perhaps getting together and
putting it together a power Bomb cast to talk about all Out. But then
Dan, you enlighten me. There's two more wrestling things happening this weekend.
Two pay per views, I'm sorry, one premium live event and one pay
per view. Yes, Payback is Saturday. All Out is Sunday paybacks in
Pittsburgh. I think I could have gone to that if it wasn't for you
know, the traveling Oh yeah, how far is Pittsburgh from you closer?
Than Cleveland. Actually it's like fifteen minutes. Oh wow, I have no
idea what geography is. The further east I get from past Nevada, even
then Nevada, Like in my head, I feel like Reno and Las Vegas
are really close together, when that is not the reality at all. Yeah.
I was just like Las Vegas just like a half an hour from anywhere
in California, and that's just incorrect. Yeah, my cousin was telling I
mean, like, yeah, I drove from La to La La to Las
Vegas and we're like, oh, how was that six hours? Like,
no, it's two. And then just threw throughout everything I do. I
don't know. And then I was wondering why it took so long to get
from Los Angeles to San Diego when we went for dream Hack, and it
was very confused that that was the traffic jams situation, right, Yeah,
we got traffic jammed. Was that traffic jams? That just normal California traffic?
That one was a little that was a little bit worse than than normal.
So we had time for punch out. We did a punch out run
and then everyone st and looked when they were looking in the car and that's
causing the traffic, I think, right, yes, right, they were
too impressed with your skills exactly. Yes, Oh my god, is that
is that grub that class Joe? That's right, guys. See the new
Summoning Soult videos. He's got the punch out world record. You know,
he does all those spear on videos. But like the new one is about
nigea guy in two and the guy it's following his name, Jimmy Poopins.
Yes, I think it's like he was that shoot name or gimmickname. That's
his birth name, Dan. Yeah, that's his Christian name. Yeah,
Jimmy Government yea absolutely. Boop Running is great because of that. A lot
of the gaming scenes are great because it's like I spent my entire life trying
to overcome Jimmy Poopins, and I assume to write some assultants to do stuff.
Yeah. Uh, he's done some older some newerish things. There's so
I forget if he did a win Wake one. He does some of the
newer Mario karts, he does a lot. He does too many Mario Karts.
I'm just gonna say it, actually too much Mario Kart for my the
Mario Kart. How do you how do you speed run Mario Kart? Oh
well, there's a lot of two breaks where you kind of like, no,
it sliven that sometimes it is, but like Mario Kart sixty four,
post can like accidentally like like break the lines so you can do weird stuff
and go out of bounds and go back to the finishing line and cross that.
Things like that. Cheating fantastic. Yeah, sure. Do you think
it's too late to get like work glass for the packs panel we've done?
I've I've bled from sugar glass before John Drake hit me with the bottle ones
and I had a bloody head, so still got to hit someone right with
that stuff. Yeah, we made uh we were doing backyard movies when I
was like a young teenager. We tried to make the work glass, but
we didn't really know what we were doing, so we just melted a bunch
of pure sugar and didn't add any water to it. So it was just
like this really thick, like uh, you know, gray brown stuff,
and we still tried to use it. It was and it didn't look like
glass at all, but we still smashed our friend's head through it and very
badly. But he was game for it. You can't do all that work
and not use it. I mean, right, exactly, that's a lot
of sugar, you know, yeah, exactly footage of you doing backyard wrestling
stuff. Mananni, No, No, we made a lot of backyard movies
that we're all pretty pretty dumb and also made by thirteen year old So I'd
be terrified to show them to know, that's that's cinema, you know,
that's pure cinema. Yes, I've got a few backyard wrestling videos. I
think I've tweeted eclipsed them in the past. But I looked really cool and
impressive and all of them. Sure I was a coward. I would have
been afraid of hurting myself. Back Clark did some backyard wrestling. I would
really would really like to find some videos of that. Backlark is so the
kid who got into wrestling for two years in the late nineties when it was
popular, and then never thought of again after that. Okay, is that
shirts when he's sixteen? Man, we gotta show dib what a mini DV
tape or like what a VHS would look like. It's like, did look
around your dad's stuff and then send it to us? This. Yeah,
and this is your fault that we have not brought Dib with into into the
fold, weaponized, demonized him against Jib. I thought you bet to like
make content. I know that dad is all about child labor, but that's
about to say I don't know. Well, yeah, of course to make
content. Oh yes, they love his father's brainwashed him against me. I
think it would be hard. I would need it need to be a group
effort to turn him against his father. Okay, well you do it,
pile Gohan. I think initially was scared and hated Piccolo. You could be
the Piccolo to Dib. You piccolo energy. I can't think was afraid of
the monster maid who kidnapped him, and then you know has has attempted murder
on his father multiple times. That yeah, I mean just like real life,
life imitates art here on the Giant bombast. Uh, you guys are
to talk about your caps? Okay, miscellaneous other things you want to talk
about before we get into it. No, no, well you know it's
gonna be a big time pay per view with payback. When the thing I've
seen to advertise the most is the Grace and Waller effects segments starring Cody Rhodes.
That weird. That is just like one of their little weird talk show
segments. Right, yeah, that's when you can tell it, say,
like in between premium live events. All right, we're setting up stuff for
the ones that matter. What is on the card Other than that, I
think Ria versus Raquel. God, I don't think Romans wrestling. Yeah,
that'll be fun. Yeah, yeah. I like what they've done with Knocker
Murra recently. Yes, okay, very cool. Yeah, uh okay.
We got Ray versus Theory. Oh, Miss versus Late Night. That could
be fun. That's that's been fun. That's been a good feud. Uh.
And then we also Tris and Becky in the cage. That should main
event. Oh that should main event. That should have been a Summer's Lam.
But you know, well yeah, definitely. Yes, I guess we
should get together and talk about wrestling maybe next week after all this stuff happens
and yeah, well you're back in town. Let's do it. Yeah,
and then maybe we'll have updates on what has happened with the Jack Perry see
Them Punk situation. Oh man, I like that. We'll talk about it
later. We'll talk about later because we get good talking about here. Okay,
with with hearing things about Punk saying I hate this place and it's just
getting worse and worse and worse. There, I'm going to predict now,
in less than three years, you will see Punk in a debit ae Ring.
Yeah. Yes. As soon as I saw that quote floating around the
dirt sheets, I was like, he's going to go back to WWE,
and it's gonna but it will be the COT but there's money. If there's
money, they will take them. Yeah, it'll be the Cody Roads effect
where uh you know, Cody wasn't necessarily working well in a w but as
soon as he jumps shipped back to WWE Gangbusters, it's like put everything problems
the same problems as always would be worse now apparently, but if there was
money in it, they would absolutely take him back. Yep. They he
would like end Romans Streak. He would end Roman end Gunther Streak. In
the same same night, he realized in three years he'll be like almost fifty.
I guess these days it doesn't matter, does what is AJ styles like
forty six, forty seven? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, all the
old guys really showed up at all in anyways, yeah, yeah, it
was. You know, I know, I kept keep saying we're going to
talk about wrestling next week instead, But I hate yet again another great pay
per view, just kind of sullied by see him punk. I think this
time it's I'm not letting that stuff get to meat too much. I'm just
like, whatever sunk sunk. My big takeaways that it was a it was
a really good pay per view for the most I was just laughing. It's
it's not like when when the brawl out happened. I thought that was sad.
Now I'm kind of amused. Ah. I just want to show my
appreciation to Juice Robinson. Oh my god, Juice, what a fucking weirdo.
He found his thing, didn't he? That guy he's screaming about being
rock hard, just being way too hyped up all the time. I was
gonna be I think. Here he is Wembley Stadium, possibly one of the
biggest wrestling crowds ever, and his entrance is him barking on all fours like
a rabid dog. That's the energy I want to approach everything with. So
let's talk about video games. Uh, Manadi, do you think you could
do it like a good like guns, water spit thing like water spit?
Do want to get some water? Not? Right? Yes? Yes?
Yes? Do you think they mind if we did that at packs? He's
going to ruin his own home. If you're First Amendment you could You could
spit whatever you want on the stage and they can't stop you. Figure,
is he going to do the triple age water spit? Because if it's a
vertical one, I need the camera angle to be up a little more.
I don't know, spit all over his yellow label GameCube games. I don't
know if he's in a position to like change his angle or whatever. He
may have to just back up a bit. Okay, okay, Oh he's
getting what water spit? Are you doing? Are you doing a triple age
or like a guns? You can do on one? Okay here we okay,
alright, you want baby audio listeners. Michael Manati is now ingesting water.
Okay, he's he's gearing up. Oh that was good, That was
real good. That was good. Oh, little bro we kept a little
for the last one. Wow. Okay, but he wasn't he was he
wetting there? This man is what everywhere? Go? Figure? All right?
Well, uh, that reminds me of the first game. We'll talk
about Curse Crackers, for whom the Bell toils nothing but being so sweet.
I'm sorry, everyone's so impressed with me. Thank you. Nothing but water
this game. Every time you see Curse Crackers, like it's I get what
they're saying with it, like, oh, you're cracking the curse, but
like I just keep thinking of like cheese. It's like crackers, you know.
Uh yeah, I mean I honestly, I keep forgetting the name.
That's what happened to me the most, is like Curse Cookies is what keeps
coming to my brain. Do we even I played that game for like three
or four hours now, I have no idea what it's called that. You
know. What I don't either. I was gonna say, is that little
ghost it's following er the Curse? I don't know. He seems it reminds
me looking at it, the color palette, in the size of the sprites
and everything. By the way, this is on switch. I don't know
if it's done other stuff, but it's very much like any ESS inspired platformer.
It reminds me the Green Master, a little Nemo. Yeah yeah,
something about the look of it reminds me of that. Yeah. Shan tas
what I'm getting recently when I was since I've been playing it, yeah,
I could see that too. Yeah, but I love Little Emo. That
game is awesome. Yeah, but the the locomotion in that game, the
move said namely that like sprint, duck, long jump situations like yeah,
yeah, like when you jump off an enemy's head, there is like just
a brief moment of where you can kind of reordence yourself so you never feel
out of control. A lot of like fast based twot platforms, you kind
of feel like you're all over the place. This one, I feel like
it gives you just that like half second to kind of orient yourself every time
you're bouncing off something in the feels great. You can link at all these
all these motions together, so you're doing the lung jump into a jump on
an enemy's head, and then you can do a tall jump where like you
crouch and then jump up without pressing left or right and you do a higher
jump. So it's like a lot of In sixty Ma Mario sixty fourth,
Mooset is actually in this two D platform It looks like a game Boy Color
game, but it's just it's super fast and it's very easy to combo all
these things together. It's not like there's a combo meter or something, but
it is like you are stringing them together in such a way that you feel
like you could just shoot to the end of the level super fast. And
I'm really, I really really dig it. And the levels do get a
little bit more complicated as you get in there, and yeah, that's kind
of my that's been my biggest issue. I've been enjoying the movement of law
and just kind of the feel of the game. I think the level design
is a little it's just wrote. It's it's pretty simple, and I'm not
a in general, I'm not a giant fans. Sometimes of the two D
games, we're like, there's the three things, So you've got to really
slow down now because you want to get all these hidden things, especially in
a game where the movement feels so I'd rather just be running through it,
and like, I know I could, but it really hurts my gamer brain
to like walk by the obvious store with like the room with the thing that
I have to get, or not not checked since I know some walls are
fake walls, or now I'm gonna check all the walls and or at least
the ones that look suspicious that's gonna slow me down. I did find like
a secret exit in world three. I think that took me to a new
world that was much harder, and that's actually been way more enjoyable because it's
like, Okay, now they're really emping off the level design. It's a
little bit more challenging. That actually kind of is making me use a lot
of this move set. Finally, yeah, it's this game has been out
on Steam for a while, so we're talking about now because it's just coming
out to Switch again. It's It's Curse Crackers, for whom the Bell toils,
and that's b E l l E. That's the name of the main
character. And basically the setup is, uh, some which comes and steals
your boyfriend, so you gotta go get them back. I hate it when
that happens. Uh huh. And and then yeah, you play the game
and yeah, yeah, I think if people like can get a glance at
even like a couple of seconds of this game in action, they'll immediately get
why we're excited about it. But my hearing that there are more difficult levels
is exactly what I needed. It's uh. I think that I compared the
levels to like Tiny Tune Adventures, and I still think that's pretty fair,
like kind of simplish levels with not a lot going on, but they're still
fun somehow because you know, the characters kind of moving a fun way.
This I think, But if it also has more difficult stuff in there,
then I'm like, okay, that'll keep me going. I'm about halfway through
the second world right now, I'm playing this amongst five other things. I'm
gonna keep at it though, and it's a really good switch game. Another
ideal. Sorry, no, I was just gonna say I'm agreeing with greb
on like as far as the Switch game, like picking up play a level
or two, it's ideal for that. Another indie game with a massive lord
dump in the beginning, and this one especially, I'm like, why are
we what is all this? Like lore? Oh it hasn't come up yet
for any reason. But I think I think sometimes I think the indie developers
can't help themselves. Yeah, doing their thing. Yeah, you know,
like they say like back in the eighties or like the cheapest special effect is
nudity. I think for video game developers, like the cheapest thing they can
add is story. Like, if we're gonna ad story in characters, that's
gonna get us closer to people like finding us memorable, and so they can't
help it. They should just also add nudity. I was gonna say,
yeah, let's let's do this. If you see my Steam account, you
know that they definitely do that. Let's have new stories, you know,
uh, dude stories. You know what? The most comprehensible lore I know
now is armored cores. Dad. We're not getting there yet. I can't.
I've been thinking about a NonStop the show, trying to do the transitions.
Dan shying to take your job, Jan, there's a whole run of
show I cross out. I'm gonna lay out all right where there's back in
the penalty box. That's the public one I look up to on a show.
I had ad a game, Jan, I had add a game.
Don't forget it. It's in a jam. Put it in crew text in
the channel above this, Dan, okay, if you want to fight.
I was gonna ask a fun question of how do you guys feel about these
two D platformers, like kind of getting their shine back with like Pizza Tower
taking the Warrior Heat and now this. But fuck, it doesn't matter anymore.
Lay, I'm laying out. I'm laying out, plowing up a document.
You guys got so upset that I just want to I just want to
take the chainsaw and rev it up. He's gonna check you out backstage,
Dan, look out, chainsaw chains Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The four of us
played that. Let the pro do it. Yeah, okay, Hey,
that game was pretty okay. I had fun playing with that with you guys.
I enjoy that. Played so much more of this over the weekend.
Really, this is your gate. Wait, aren't you supposed to be beating
I know, honey, you're not beating that. I never jan I mean
this in the nicest way possible. I love you, but I never believed
in you. That's everyone I've ever loved has told me the same thing.
I'm sorry, it's not happening. It's not happening. Hey, okay,
I got all the tears. I got three temples done. I can't have
that much more or left? Right? Four temples? Oh man, No,
there's quite a bit jam. What many hours do you take? You
have? All right? Hang on, I'm gonna make sure it's charge.
I'm gonna go charge up the clippers on. How many hours do you think
you have? Jan I don't know, like eighty? Oh no, oh
no, I think I have like eighty because oh left, I don't know.
Yeah, oh you're so done it's over. I don't know. I
guess I have eighty left apparently, I mean depends on how what you want
to do ten hours. See, that's that's all. I'm not trying.
I'll go back and do all the other stuff, right, I'm just trying
to get my way to the finish. Oh okay, here's here's the Tears
of the Kingdom update. And I was talking about this with a grub yesterday.
Uh, would it be frowned upon if I start to exploit the game,
Like if I suddenly am like, all right, I'm just gonna need
hella shit. So I'm just gonna duplicate everything dupe? No, he can't
dupe. Is there a glitch for that? I thought they fixed the dupe
glitchen. There's always like a new dupe. Uh, new dupe glitch that
I see popping up on my TikTok feed. It sounds like they fixed it.
No, Okay, there's definitely an, there's tropic, there's always new
ones. Jan don't listen to these schmucks. You could do whatever you need
to do to finish this game. You could duplicate. You could you played
what how many hours? I had my headphones off? How long can you
play? Eight? You could did eight? But Mike, we did at
seventy, right, like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, go duplicate.
Do what you gotta do, you know appropriate. Yeah, that's why
I'm trying to that thought. What I was trying to say, Yes,
I'm Pickman four and ten hours less than a Dan. Yeah, yeah,
you had more Pickman die well because I am a cold hearted general. I
love saults. I love the Pickman. Noah, they're they're your soul.
I might need a chainsaw to cut my hair because I spent way too much
time playing Texas Chainsaw Massacre after we played it on UPF Were you playing with
the homes or what? You just go match making online? I was just
being a freak and playing by myself. That okay, right, no idea?
Right, do you get to choose if you want to be victim?
Or you can choose? Yeah, you can choose whether or not you want
to be the family or the victims. I forget what they're actually called victims.
Were you like boys chatting with randoms? No, I turn that off.
I made sure to turn all that off and everything because my social anxiety
would start to kick in. But during UPF last week, when we're playing
through Tech has Chainsaw Massacre for folks unaware, it is very very similar,
if not the same type of game as Dead by Daylight. So one of
those where there's like monster characters and then the civilian characters kind of got to
roam around and go do stuff. Someone said this last week and that basically
you were just this is the escape part of a hit Man level, right,
Yeah, I said that. You said that, Okay, Mike,
Yeah, as soon as you said that, the best thoughts, incredible thoughts,
that's right, pro water spitterer. Uh. But as soon as you
said that, Mike, it kind of got the gears ticking in my head
of like, this is just like the escape part of hit Man. And
then like I think I started enjoying it too much and using thinking of it
like that. And then you know how all of the four of us when
we were playing as the victims, we were a little bit too scared about
making noise, right, yeah, I now purpose make too much noise to
fuck up everything, like uh, And and when you're going for a lock
pick, I I think all of us were just kind of getting the one
and finishing up, right, we'd get the one and then run away.
Turns out you can just keep getting lock picks as you need from the same
like little same place. Yeah, from the same place. Okay, that's
good to know. And then it is very very important to level up your
different uh survivor Grandpa your grandpa, Yes, your grandpa, but you can
also kill grandpa or and hurt the family as the victims. And we can
kill him in the chair. Can you just go up and like kick him
in the nuts? You can incapacitate him. Okay, so we should be
able to kill him. He seems very vulnerable. Yeah, he's you know,
he's been through some stuff. You know, he's served his time.
He's he's he's reformed, right yeah. Uh. But like with the bone
fragments that you could use to off like the door hanging sound sound jazz,
you can use that to hide and slightly incapacitate. One of the family members
thought that that made sense, but I'd never that it never popped up when
they walked by me, right, I think you have to be behind them
and like they have to be like in the middle of an action. But
you can also take those fragments and incapacity Grandpa so he can't wake up and
show the family your location. It is very ad incapacitate Grandpa real quick,
just give me a second. I've leveled up my Connie to a point where
i can open up a door uh from like the lock Picking mini game in
like two seconds, and it's great. I'm so quiet. But the thing
is, I will purposely, uh go to a toolbox and just like jam
on it, so I lure the family down to where I'm at and then
I've I hate that I've learned these maps. Now yeah, I'm like,
okay, right, cool, I'm gonna lure the family down here, and
then I'm gonna run up to the house and then I'm gonna get the fuse
box from Grandpa and I'm gonna turn off all these lights and just hide in
plain sight. It's great. This this game is fantastic. The idea of
like leveling up your Connie because it's like she's just like a lady it's not
like like it's not MegaMan. You know her master's degree. Yeah, yeah,
exactly. She's got her ge. She's getting it back together, guys,
She's gonna get the kid back. She's kind of worried. So,
Like I liked when we were playing in and we were all kind of just
scrubs, didn't really know what was going on. I worry what the game
is like when everybody knows level, everybody's like leveled up, and you are
doing things like unlocking doors in two seconds, it kind of becomes a whole
completely different thing. I mean, Dead by Daylight is so popular, and
I think so many those people like know that game backward and forward. They
must have it figured out, so it's still fun at that point, I'm
assuming. I'm just it's like even Counterstrike, right, like I remember start
encounters like no one what they're doing. Then at the end, like you
played Dust and everybody just goes to that one time, one just starts chucking
grenade like everyone just knows, well that's what you do first. Things like
that, but still funs. We played Dead by Daylight on this website.
I probably should, ye should, right, That's that by curious thing where
it's like all these games, they're so big that we want to like check
in on see if we want to give him a chance. I think we
should maybe start up that feature with games like Dead by Daylight. I think
that because I mean, yeah, I if we enjoyed Texas Chainsaw as much
as we did, and that's just kind of like, oh, it's like
this other thing that might be better and bigger, Like maybe we try that
one and do these silly Nicolas cage stuff and all that. It sounds fun.
Yeah, I mean they've they've released a lot of skins and Dead by
Daylight, right, like Alien is coming out, Ripley is going to come
out? Yep? Yeah, which is age? Yeah? Yeah? Oops,
all cages, Oops, all cages? Okay, Yeah, but Texas
Chainsaw Maskery I think it is. It may get close to my top ten
lists, maybe the back part of it, because I've been enjoying just like
the stealth component of it. Let's let's try some of these other ones,
because yeah, there is the Evil Dead one that I was always curious,
Killer Clowns from Outer Spaces one, basic Ghostbusters one. Yeah, is it
one of those asymmetrical like multiplayer, Yeah, all of the ones we just
mentioned are the same exact thing. There's a symmetrical Ghostbusters one. Yeah,
oh okay, yeah, bring back Evolved, please Evolved can finally live in
this world? Can we? I wonder if the devs of Evolved are pissed
off because it's like they were the first kind of big game to do this
thing and it did not work for the license. Yeah it helps. I
mean they did that Predator game too. There was a Predator one with the
license that was similar and that didn't do well, did it. Yeah,
it has its fans. All these things have their fans, but I don't
know. Yeah, well it was the Prider one. Actually these because this
is the Texas change of Masacre is the thirteenth people, and they do Predator
in between these or my game that mixed. That sounds right. Yeah,
I don't know for sure, but that's sounds right. And I had some
people really I knew that really liked that Friday thirteenth one, and you know
for playing Texas Chainsaw grub go aheads. Sorry, No, it was ilphonic.
Yes, that ilphonic. This is ilphonic, right, So they did
Frighted the thirteenth, They did Predator Hunting ground. Yeah, that's right,
Okay, smart again. Batting average is wild today, Mike. Great job,
good job. You're welcome. For folks that are like mildly hesitant to
jump into Texas Chainsaw Massacre because they may not have a group of friends to
party up with, the matchmaking experience wasn't super bad as long as you just
mute the mics and everything like that. It does get really sweaty in terms
of like people insisting that people play their roles or play their classes the further
you get in and just depending on who you're playing with. Actually had a
lot of fun just playing as the victims. I barely played as the family
just because I liked the running around stealth opponent. I've figured out the well
loop as well. Oh really, God, the stupid pressure valve that we
were struggling with, I know what I do now. I just it's it's
great. It's great. Just had to grab a physical valve and bring it
there. You have to grab a physical valve and then bring it to a
different like pressure tank thing, kay, and then that would cause a chain
reaction. There's a lot of stuff that this game just doesn't explain to you
as well, right, I mean, I think games like this are meant
to be like, hey, someone figures out and then they tell their friends
and that's part of the fun, right, And I mean I think it's
very it's fair someone what's called that, Well, that's not fair game designer,
right, I don't think that's very good. But I think that's actually
a pretty good way to do these kinds of games. I think the trouble
I run into though, is that I can quickly fall into the same routines
doing uh, the routines I fall into similar to like Hitman with because the
multiplayer component makes me feel less inclined to spearmint from run to run. Sure,
but I guess with the voice chat turned off, I don't really think
about my other survivors as much. We had. We had like a couple
of randoms with us a couple of times, and they were just doing their
own thing and it didn't ruin our experience. Really. We were all having
we were doing our own thing, and we were fine people. From the
chat though, so it might have been like, you know, kind of
a I think that the collection of people playing right at the point it was.
But I think in like the early games, we were doing it was
just randoms and it was fine. Yeah. I would enjoy playing this game
more with y'all and then, uh, you know, or team teaming up
and maybe trying Dead by Daylight. Yeah, I would love it. Yeah.
So speaking about dead things, goddamn real quick, got coach of that
Ghostbusters game just sitting my email. Stuff. We wanted to do that one
too. We could do that, Okay, speaking about dead things, Mike
Manotti, I'm gonna assume you put this on the list dead or Alive.
Extreme Beach Volleyball, oh where I was desperate for summer vibes. I did
Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball stream. Uh and I have you actually had a pretty
good time. I never really played it but back in the day. But
you know, it's real chill. You just kind of go to the beach,
played the game. I just watched the opening cinematic repeated. Yeah,
that got a bit more risque than I was expecting. Uh yeah, you
know you uh you go to a beach, Dennis Rodman's there, and then
you uh well, I chose to play as like an assassin. I forgot.
I just picked her for other reasons. Uh and and nobody wanted to
be my partner for a while because you know, I killed a lot of
their mothers. But eventually I bought them enough presies that I got up just
like real life. Yeah right. The volleyball is actually pretty fun still.
It's really simple. It's basically two buttons. Uh, you have like the
kind of like shoots to their side or the shoot to your friend thing to
set them up for you know, spikes and stuff worked really well. Go
ahead, Jeff, like quench your thirst for summer for summer, summer for
a summer. Yeah, it really did. Actually it did kind of like
make things feel a bit more summary. It's been a lot of gloomy,
rainy days in Ohio for what feels like weeks now, and it rules.
Yeah. I remember the game and former double cover with sex lies and video
games with BMX, Triple X and Debt or a live beach volleyball back when
sex was cool. Yeah, you know what, I respect this brand more
than like Quiet and Metal your solid five, you know, right, because
it leans into it so hard and doesn't try about it like we were,
you know, justin playing Mortal Kombat nine and watching that and like okay,
yes, yeah, but you know, like if you're gonna be a you
know, a TNA game, and that's just you know, you're a loud
and proud about Sorry, it's Impact Wrestling Now made a video game. There's
a TNA chant at at all in it was fun, uh, I don't
know, I don't. I had a surprising good amount of time with it.
Also, it has an in game casino and I'm just an absolute sucker
for those, So yeah, Jan, yeah, you go. You can
play it on Black and Andreas. Did you do the casino stuff there a
lot. I never played a ton of San andreasby I'm not a giant grand
theft thought o guy. Oh yeah, okay, but any usually any game
that has one of these, Like I played a lot of Texas hold On
or whatever it was in Red Dead Redemption. Actually yeah, I played a
lot of Vegas Dream for my MS. It's probably why I still like the
casino aesthetic now, because I associate it with that. I don't know.
I had a surprisingly fun time with it. I mean, you know,
I basically played through a whole vacation. The whole thing is that you spend
fourteen days on the island and then the game is done and basically all you
get to keep are the bathing suits that you're able to buy with your volleyball
winnings as you're doing it. That's the loop. You make money so you
can buy bathing suits. So a rumble Roses guy, I was not a
rumble Roses hold up, I don't. I don't think they held up.
Then, well, there's second I know there's a newer that are alive,
Like they made Extreme two for three sixty, and there's like a newer one
that you could still get for places and four and switch even there was one,
right, yeah, I believe. Oh, I think Paradise took the
volleyball out and it was just the like lotion stuff, the stuff like moisture,
moisturizer, games, Mike, whatever it is, whatever got me got
me. I think I think the newer one doesn't have Christy though, So
I'm not interesting boom so I was. I was a wee lad when this
game came out. What was what was like the heat on the street was
this like, oh, they're gonna make a scannily clad video games front of
it back then even yeah, you know, it was just like kind of
lame and just kind of like I don't know that was like you know,
the late nineties early two thousands, like you know, think about like wrestling
and the way, like you know, the TNA stuff there. It was
very much that vibe. And I think even like as a teenager, I
remember thinking like this is kind of lame, like the Dead or live commercials.
She kicks high was the big thing. It's like, all right,
look, I'm a horny teenager like everyone, but like I don't need everything
to be like this. I'm a red blooded American. Yeah. It was
always like there would be swimsuit issues of video game magazines occasionally. Then yes,
there would be like an eight page feature on like you know, during
tumb Raider being the big thing, like here's a cost player that kind of
looks like Lara Croft. Here's eight pages of photos of her in like the
middle of e GM. Yes, yeah, man, lad mags. Yeah,
it was was. This was definitely that time. But even then,
yes, it was. There were people who definitely were who showed up for
it, and there's a lot of people who are like, oh no,
I'm like like I like this. This is like a fun, chill vibe
even back then, but most of the critical response was this is absurd.
I feel like I'd be interested for this game to come out now and just
see how it is, like kind of if if it they try to adapt
it at all or just just like lean back in Switch. There's one on
Switch Switch. There's like sixteen thousand games on Switch, so it's impossible to
know for sure. But yeah, I think Mike's right, But I think
the series has gotten you know, there's something pure about this one. It's
basically just the volleyball and some side activities. I think there's a lot of
shenanigans and weirdness you get into Debt or Alive Extreme three scarlet on Switch and
twenty nine dollars. Yeah, because the physical version, I think is only
in Japan. So if you it's rare, it's rare, okay, all
right, Uh, fun fact. I had not fun fact fun observation.
I had no idea how seriously people took volleyball like it is. It is
like a cutthroat sport, if not similar to tennis. Oh yeah, it's
huge. It's one of the bigger summer Olympic sports. Absolutely. Yeah.
Well, going from the ocean to the sea, Mike Manatti, you and
I sorry, sorry, Dan, We're almost there. We're almost there.
I've been playing Sea of Stars. Yeah, it's been. Uh. It's
interesting because I was looking forward to this game a lot because I like the
studio's last game, The Messenger a good bit, which was very different game
from this. Very It's a game that starts out as a Ninja guidance,
like with this eight bit aesthetic, and then you think you beat the game,
and then it evolves into a sixteen bit aesthetic. It becomes a Metroid
Vanya. It's really cool. But this is yeah, this is them making
Mario a Mario RPG, and that stuff all works. The combat and the
graphics, like the pixelart is just gorgeous. But you know, I was
looking forward to this and then you know, this year happened. I was
like, okay, maybe this is when I'm gonna get you later. And
then the reviews came out and they were pretty good. It was still low
nineties, right, yeah, It's like it's hovering right around ninety or something
like that. So at first, for a little bit, it was like
ninety six and it came down to earth a bit. But I was like,
okay, I'm gonna have to jump on this, right, it's a
night on open critic it's a night oh dang, okay, Yeah, but
uh, you know, I got to play like an hour last night.
It's sometimes that's like not much to do anything a game like this, but
I still was having a really good time. Yeah, I probably the first
hour as well. On the on the Roger ally a couple of weeks ago
when we first got these codes and I was like, this is enjoyable.
This is just immediately pretty enjoyable. So I get that. I just people
talk about the combat, uh kind of not evolving throughout the game, and
I'm like, I don't know, as long as it kind of has that
active of like in the middle of the combat, I can press the button
to do more damage, which is my understanding is it does. I think
I'll probably be fine for however long this game is. Yeah, it's straight
up Mario RPG with the timing, the buttons, turning the blocks, and
each special like ability kind of having it's its own little rules and things you
have to do, like a boomerang he kind of to bounce back at folks.
We would just like some of the other intricacies, like the way MP
works where you generate MP by doing basic attacks and the game just strip tells
you use your skills, like, don't just save them for poss battles because
you have max MP, you're not using a skill. Well, then you're
not regenerating MP, so you're not being optimal because you're also system Yeah,
you're also building up a combo meter. And then it stresses to you very
early in the game of like, just use your combos because these don't carry
over. Just just don't. I don't be shy. Also, the timing
attacks well, because it's like I love the idea of Paper Mario so like,
but like I look at Wrestle Quest and it's some people describe it's like,
oh, it's like Paper Mario combats. Like, no, it's just
kind of a q TE popping. I'm like Paper Mario had like clever implementations
of you know, the button presses. It's okay. I feel like it's
easier to kind of kind of try and project for the blocks than it is
for the hits. But maybe because I'm not a pro gamer. No,
I think I think it's a common complaint I've heard as well, and I'm
sorry. I had to get more time to play with this game to have
an opinion on my own here, But what I've heard is that, uh,
the it's hard to figure out when the timing is correct on attacks,
which, to be fair, I guess is true in Super Mario RPG on
Supernintendo. It was like you were guessing a lot of the time with those
attacks. But you know, at on one point they gave me these kind
of badges that are basically like, turn these on. It will make some
games, it'll big things easier, And one of them is it makes a
star up here. A few time things correctly makes it more clear. I
haven't been having too much trouble with the timings myself. Yeah, but I'm
pretty early on that could change drastically id and maybe three ish hours in you're
the furthest And I don't think I've been enjoying my time as much as everyone
else has. Most you know, there's been a lot of like high scores,
but there's still like a lot of like eights out of tens. Like
we're like, yeah, you know, three hours, it's not enough time,
But like, were you like leaning on like a score. I think
the hardest thing with me with like an RPG lately is just it getting it
hooks into me as soon as possible, and I think the first hour of
this game, Mike, you're alluding to this earlier, but it's very story
and lowre heavy. There's there's a good amount of lore for sure, like
it's a giant lore dump at the top right, and you kind of you
do it to expect it a bit for these uh you know, I think
there it starts out so fast and it seems like it's just going to go
immediately, and then there's very quickly a flashback that's more like, okay,
now we're going to do the Lord dump. For some reason, it was
working with me fine. I think part of it two is I was trying
to play Octopath Traveler too, that they're being guilted into that. And I
still have the big problem with that game that I had with the first one,
where like you're saying, the hardest part of a Jerebog is that beginning,
because it's always still more dump and Octopath's whole structure is here's eight of
those in a row, and it's just so hard because game I fell on
the other side of that this time, where like with Octopath, I was
like, it's gonna like I don't have time to devote to get to know
eight people. I barely know my own friends these days. Uh, but
for some reason I was able to do it. Versus Sea of Stars.
I mean, the combat is fine, and it's it's been holding my attention.
I just think I'm not as interested in the story as I'd like to
be. Don't you hate pixels though, Jan, not pixels of this variety
like the two and a half D, but Octopath. It's just so pretty
that it's like, Okay, this studio does the two and a half D
really? Well? What is the one of the JRPGs is getting remade?
Star Ocean That looks gorgeous? Second Story, Yeah, story, cannot wait
for that to come out. Dragon Quest three fucking looks amazing. Yeah,
we haven't heard anything about that in a while, though probably next year.
I'm being hopeful, but its yeah, I yeah, I'm curious to play
a lot more right now. Like the first impression to me, could not
be stronger. This really seems up my alley, like I pretty much have
Like you know, I don't want to play with you anymore. To Otopa
Traveler too like toy story to me at the moment, I am this is
my game on switch right now. See Stars. I definitely want to dive
in Deep. That's a fun I didn't even realize it because it's a sea.
Yeah, okay, alright, Batting Brand Slam Marooney. There was another
indie RPG that came out either earlier this year that I can't, for the
life of me figure out what everyone told me I was supposed to. Thanks,
thanks, but that I feel I feel terrible. Chain Chain that Coos
had a very very strong start that I wish I spent more time with it
and actually finished it. God, a lot of good RPGs. Stop stop
making games. Everyone, just I feel like for a long time we had
a lot of these like indie studios trying to make their own like Chrono Trigger
or SNS style RPGA always like got some things right and then it just never
really quite works. And they really seem to be actually figuring that out.
And now we're getting some really strong ones here, like with Change that Goes
Supposedly I didn't get to play it, but this definitely feels like it's going
to stand up and I think it's I think it's going to be a surprise
hit of the year. I think coming out later is gonna help it.
I think it's gonna show up pretty well at some end of the year.
Stuff. What's the one that came out like in the last two years.
It was huge and in development forever. It's kind of like linked to the
past style kind of top down, not nic symmetric. You know what's that
gub Tunic? Are you talking about Tunic? No? No, no,
no no, It was indie. It was like kind of anime style art
style with the gun kind of thing. Talk about the one yes Cross Cross
cross Code that I played. I played thirty hours a Cross Code and then
was kind of done with it. It was, it was fun, it
is, it persists. It is. It is not linked to the past,
though it's not trying to what it was. I was playing like ten
hours of it and being like, Okay, this seems really like cross code.
It's good. It's good, it's very ambitious. I liked it.
I did just kind of you know, like the dungeons were actually, excuse
me, they're really well made. They were pretty intense, and I was
actually getting mentally fatigued with them, and at one point I think I had
to do two in a row. And they're like real puzzles, Like it
wasn't It was like, yeah, it was a puzzle design, but also
my brain was tired. It was no joke. I couldn't do is Eastward
you talk about like the JRPT thing. I love the look, I loved
everything about like the aesthetic of the Eastward, But holy shit, let's get
moving with this game. Yeah, it's it's like a pacing thing that I
feel like, I uh, Indie studios may not have like the means and
resources too when it comes to like cutting stuff like that or just like tightening
it up just because like you know, you're so in the thick of it
for so long. Yeah, Like you work so hard on all this stuff,
how do you begin to edit? Yeah, like why don't? Yeah,
in your head it's like why even edit? Like this is my work,
And I think when you're pitching it to people who might spend thirty dollars
on it, it's like, look how long it is, it's gonna be
worth your time and money. So it's hard that it's a tough battle that
those developers are in a lot of times. I think, God, there
was another isometric RPG that I think they came out last year that I really
enjoyed, but I don't remember it for the life of me. God,
I don't remember ship these days. But speaking about RPGs, Grub, you've
been playing perhaps one of the biggest, most hyped up RPGs. Well,
I want to talk about that. Guys. Come on Madden NFL John Madden,
the original role Play. Yeah, I've played a couple of matches of
this. It's still that game. They're big change this year is this like
meter that shows up when you're passing, and it's been you know, they
always have it, like to paint on how you press the pass button for
the for whicheveror receiver you know, guys run along the sideline and he's b
on them. There there be to throw to him, and if you were
to hold be it would be like, oh, it's a bullet pass and
if you're tappy, it's gonna lab And they still have that, but now
there's also a meter that pops up and it's like an accuracy meter. And
this is a when you start the game. It's like they always do this,
like with their big new feature. It's like, do you want to
use it this year or you're kind of want to just do what we did
last year and kind of be stupid. It's like always that, yeah,
they always it's like, all right, I guess I'll use your new thing
you worked hard on. You're already guilt tripping me about it, and I
use it. It's like it's like everything that they've added pretty much since Hit
Stick, where it's just like this is it doesn't change that much. It's
not that fun. It's like it is a redux of QB vision. Those
vision cones they did that one years still around, right, I don't yeah,
I don't think. I don't see it in the game. And it's
like that's the kind of stuff that they always do though, because hit Stick
and truck Stick and all that stuff, we're like actually really popular and they
still do have that in the game, but everything else since then has just
kind of been like this is not a good enough replacement, it's not a
good enough reason to upgrade, and then everything else sort of just feels forgotten
about and just slightly touched up for the next year. Uh. That said,
the lines are gonna be good. Some haven't phone playing as my present
I haven't played a man so long. What's the presentation like these days?
Pretty good, really exciting, really fun, very TV like or it's the
commentary is better than I ever remember it being. It was actually surprising the
good. Yeah, what do they do the super like depth of field camera
with in Madden now that they do in NFL games? They actually I didn't
see a ton of that, like the like in terms of like what the
visuals look like. They I like the sports games when they go very much
like, hey, there is like a certain like ESPN does NHL games,
and we're gonna make this NHL game look exactly like an NHL game on ESPN,
And I like that. Here they're not trying to like look like Fox
Sports or anything like that. It's just Madden's its own thing. So there's
not a lot of mimicking camera movements that you see in real live action football
games, which I would really alike. I would have welcomed that stuff,
and maybe there's options for that. But in terms of like the vanilla experience,
it's like, no, this is gonna We're gonna be mad and we're
gonna behind the thing. You're just we're just gonna give you all the information
and then all of this the special stuff will come from the commentary and the
commentary was like very natural, which I was kind of surprised. I bet
it's been like that for the past couple of years and I just haven't checked
in on it though. Quick question if any of you gentlemen know what is
what do these studios look like? Do they tend to retain the same yeah,
folks, or like Tiberon, Yeah, Tibron's been like you know,
Tibron's in Orlando, Florida. Not a lot of other studios to go work
there, and they kind of just have these teams that rotate around this and
now they're doing nca Double A college football and they do golf and then I
think they might have one other project that is slipping my mind, but they
work on all those things now and it's yeah that that that team is pretty
there's a lot of continuity between the talent that works on those teams. Yeah,
Okay, isn't it wild that we haven't seen Madden kind of go the
Fortnite Call of Duty skinnification of stuff of Like, Yo, I want a
football team full of Nicki Minajes. I feel like that would have to be
like an alternate mode because I think people would freak out about that people would
get really upset about that. I mean, because there's Matt and Ultimate Team,
right, and this is where you get the decks of cards and the
characters. You get like Barry Sanders and he's like a level ninety nine cards
that I can put on my team and then play us him and people really
like that. I wonder if there's space in there for then you'd have be
like, here's my ICP card. Now I have Violent Jay on my team.
Oh yeah, you could legitimately have a team of all gokus. Yes,
I love this idea, but it would probably have to be a whole
other mode separate from Med and Ultimate Team. Is there much of an anime
NFL fan base crossover. I know that anime has been crossing over with every
other fan Yeah, na, huge, definitely. I don't know about football.
So when the when an NFL teams announced their schedule, they're they're supposed
to do like a special presentation on social media, and several teams for multiple
years now have done anime opening sequences for shows to like show who they're playing.
They'll like, here's Seattle Seahawks, and like they'll have an anime take
on the Seahawks or whatever, and that's pretty popular more anime and everything.
Is what I always say. I don't think we can escape it. No,
we can't escape it at this point, especially, he's gonna explode if
he's not allowed to talk about two of us. Uh. Dan, I'll
give you a guess, buddy, what is the game of the week Armored
Carson? May I just say I love the narrator in this raze? Yes,
Handler Walter Walter Walter has no familiary about Armored Core until now. This
series has been going on since nineteen ninety seven. No one, I've been
working in games since two thousand and five. I've not one motherfucker has suggested
Armored Core to me. It is about you. Yeah, it is a
failing of all of us as a society that when you all assumed that I
wouldn't like it. I've asked numerous people, okay, podcast, another podcast,
Oh would I be into this? And I was like, I don't
think so. I think Mitch looked me in the eye on a zoom call
and said, I don't think you're like I told you this. I never
really told you this one. This one. Oh, I think that was
me? Uh And then I think, like didn't Mahardy also say he didn't
think he'd like this either. Okay, yes, what I'm telling people that
know me well are telling me I wouldn't like it. Meanwhile, I play
this and it's making fireworks go off in my brain. I feel alive in
a way that games have never made me feel like. It feels all those
people also never played Armor Cores. I think, like so many people are
coming to this one as their first Armor, like you, and like,
I think we're all like what, I've always liked this and I just never
played these games because for I don't know. I I was talking to Austin
Walker about this. Turns out he's a big Armored Core fan and so he
was excited. We talked a little bit and uh, he was telling me
a little bit about like one through three are like this, four gets weird.
So it sounds like each one of them is kind of different and how
it approaches things and and there's ups and downs and quality and weirdness and stuff
like that. I think it's six. They're like, what if we made
it really good? Well, you can definitely see the elet and ring money
in this game. Is it is gorgeous. I think it very pretty.
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah. There's something like I've always loved like Devil
May Cry Bayonetta. There's kind of like stylish action, like that feeling of
like when you get that perfect dodge which time thing and Bayonetta that's great.
This one is just that, but non stop, especially you get into like
a boss fight and you feel like you are just locked into the game,
like you were connected to the game this. I know it's overused, this
phrase, but like it's a dance of this constant like dodging out of the
way, getting in and doing your pulse blade, you know, and then
you die and then you go back and it's like, okay, so I
needed that shield down, so why don't I do I do a you know,
pulse or plasma missile launchers here and then two pulse guns. Oh that
didn't work. Okay, let's go. I need the blade for this,
like I love. Like I thought the customization was going to be boring.
I thought that was gonna be a thing that drove me off because like you
know, when I play Grant Rismo or a Fortza, they never fuck like,
oh, adjust your drive train, let's have the axles, you know,
two centimeters up. Like, I don't do that stuff. I'm not
like a big like gearhead type. And so when I thought this was it's
like, you do have a lot you can do. You have like four
weapon slots you can do. You've got these like generators, boosters, your
arms, your legs, your core, your head, and it's there are
like weight things, so you do have to consider, like I do want
to do a big bulky guy with like missiles and stuff. Since the missiles
are heavy, I'm gonna need like a less mobile core. But like I
like doing these reverse joint legs because then you can jump up really high and
you're supermobile. So my guns have to be a little more lightweight, so
you kind of have to speck it out. But then you can save these
loadouts. So it's like, all right, this boss, I need to
be fast and have plasma stuff. So I'll go to this load out and
you know this one, I need to be a fucking tank, just do
explosive stuff. I'll do this one literally a tank. Yeah. Last night
I did this boss fight that was it's not the big baltiest one that people
were having trouble with. I beat him. He killed me a lot,
but it was one that people were having trouble with. And on my third
time with him, I did it on stream and it was I fucking had
the last moment. I was one hit away from dying, and I'd use
all my health, kids and everything, and I think all my guns were
reloading and a couple of the guns had run out of AMMO, and he
was about to hit me with some shit, and I just like in the
last moment, realized, oh my god, I've got my one time use
one permission thing where I can hit L three and triangle and it makes this
huge pulse explosion go out and I hit it right before I died. The
boss blew up and it was just the most the kids say the thing I've
fucking felt in a game and four ever, it is so fucking good.
That's that's so fun to hear. I love. I love when people are
just having the fireworks, like you said, Dad, are going off in
their heads. That's that's good. In terms of my adrenalin, I'm trying
to think of what could even like, Like when I was doing the Tyson
speed Run stuff and I had a really good run going, I was fighting
Tyson that type of like physical reaction my body and my brain, like you
know, like you know, Neon White at times could kind of could kind
of flirt with that feeling a little bit. But this is just like I'm
I'm just my brain is doing things while I'm playing. I love. I
think I may have came off too negative in the quick look, and I
just want to reiterate that I do like this game. It is just very,
very different than how he was being billed to me, it being like
a from game and everything, Like I was expecting like mac Perry's and like
it to be Sechi Row, but it is not completely that. I think
that's the thing that, like I heard several people be a little disappointed by
it, And I think that if you went in expecting this to be the
next game from the creators of Elden Ring, and you know, like that's
kind of what you're expecting, I could see this being kind of a surprise,
like, oh, this isn't what I thought it was. But I
went in with no expectations. I literally loaded it up just to say I
tried it. You know, I was gonna do like a little stream to
check my internet here, and I even told people to the beginning of the
stream, like hey, I'm probably gonna play fifteen minutes of this, I'm
gonna hate it, and then I'm never gonna think about this again. And
I was like right away, like, oh, hey, this feels good.
What's saying? Hey? I know whoa Okay, wait, I'm learning
how to do this stuff. Oh that's cool. I didn't know I can
do that. It's uh, if a fucking like Landmark Zelda game didn't come
out this year, there's a world where fucking Armored Core could be my game
of the Well, who knows. The further you get into this, Dan,
it might it might wind up hooking you. You know, I do.
It's it's severely good. Well since me an Armored an Armored Core expert
here now, Dan rycert, I do like I've started it just before the
show. It runs really good on the Roger Outlie by the way, yes,
like surprisingly good. But so I'm playing it there. I'm gonna play
it on the PC two, but I have some questions about let the way
things work the lock on, am I do? I need to be like
looking right at it and then clicking R three and and then the red reddicool
will go over it and then I'm locked on. Yeah, that's a hard
lock. So if you hit AR three while looking at opponent, it'll lock
onto. That way, you can do some really fast like straps around it
stuff. Generally, I did the helicopter. I needed that at times,
like something can move, Oh you haven't luck on. I didn't realize it
did that. Oh that. I thought it was kind of wonky at first,
but I think I think I need to be like looking right at it
to get the lock on to take No, it's pretty generous and like even
like so I just thought this. I just thought this like weird like battle
Bots sender, Carlos senders this boss fight Mike you probably know, and like
there's like a weak spot up front that you can lock onto, and that's
what I was shooting for. But then I realized, like there's almost this
like volcano on her back. And then I just kind of hit up on
the right analog stick and it very smartly just kind of like locked onto it.
Once it's locked on, I think I could do that, Yes,
definitely. Yeah, yeah, And that's what's cool is like you can go
for that front. You can go for that front. Week spot. But
then I started getting a really vertical MEC and I was flying above it and
just like shooting into this volcano thing and it seemed like that was staggering it
faster, and yeah, man, it's just incredible. I shouting to be
aggressive because here that helicopter boss and it was tough. Actually, ibviously it
took me like four or five times, and the time I beat it was
like I just got super aggressive, was going for the blade and was doing
my best to like you know, the game's saying getting the air, getting
the air to avoid these things. It intends per fight. You can't have
to see it works. And that's that's kind of like again a big difference
from a Soul's like, well, that's not different from getting the ass.
I mean no, I mean in terms of you know, when you're starting
an Old and Ring, you could be like, what's my build going to
be for this entire game? Sure, like I'm going to use the magic
and that's what I'm gonna do the whole game, or I'm going to be
a sword and shield guy like you. At first you almost think that and
that was my mindsets, like all right, well I'm gonna be like a
guy with a lot of missiles and then you're going to run across the boss
where that doesn't really work very well, and you do kind of have to
go into the lab a bit and you have to sort of experiment and try
different builds. So sometimes it's kind of obvious, like that Big Boss.
A lot of people have trouble with the Childhood one. Yeah, So much
of it is that it has these energy shield and you need to be using
energy weapons to take down those energy shields. But sometimes you're gonna have a
really fast opponent so you have a different approach there, or a really tinky
one, So being agile and dodgy stuff can be important there. Yeah.
Yeah, and grub keep an eye on that like stagger meter because like as
you attack them, the yellow bar will fill up, and like as soon
as that's down and they're kind of staggered forbid, that's when if you time
it right and all your ship's reloaded and you've got your like pulse blade melee
and everything, that's when it's like, all right, launching both of my
shoulder missiles and then I'm getting in there with the pulse blade. I'm attacking
as much as possible while I've got right, that's when the stagger meters would
Now I was like, okay, I could see that the pulse blade was
doing a ton of addition to the stagger meter and a ton of damage.
So I'm like, I need to get close enough, even though the pilicopter
is kind of like getting out of the way and making that difficult. I'm
like I figured the timing of like once he's done moving, he doesn't move
again for a minute, so I can get in there with the blade do
a ton of damage. And then it was trivial at a certain point.
But the other thing grub is it was just manually reload, like manually reloaded,
stay on top of your your ammo, okay, so how do I
manually reload? About? Call it though? Why whatever the top bun is
and then your weapon? Okay, all right? Cool? Did not know
that, all right exactly? That was frustrating where it's like I don't think
I'm firing anything right now, and I don't know how to reload, so
I need to give a lot of uilements to keep track of. And it's
so important to like to make sure you have something to shoot and when you
stagger at enemy to have to be like aware of like, Okay, they're
gonna be staggers soon, Like do I have something to actually hit them with?
Do I need to kind of hold back here because I don't want to
spend this whole stagger bar just reloading like an idiot. Yeah, and grab.
Have you noticed the yellow like quarter circles that show up that let you
know when missiles are able to be shot? No, So that's critical.
So anytime you're like looking at an enemy, you will see like two quarter
circles and it'll say like two on the left and eight on the right.
If you have like, let's say a dual missile on your left shoulder and
there are an eight vertical missile thing on your right, so as soon as
you see that number, you know you can hit it. But then you
can also see what is it? What is it telling me? Is it's
saying that they're locked on, they're ready to go, They're ready to go,
They're locked on, they're ready. Okay, fantastic, All right,
says four enemies. If there's four enemies there and have an eight missile launcher
thing, you can hold in our one and kind of paint them and they'll
say two two two two to let you know that, like each one of
these guys is getting too all right, So when I'm locked onto the like
the helicopter and I was and I was firing the missiles, we're all the
missiles is definitely gonna hit that or should I've been also trying to hold it
so it would paint it. Oh, if it's one target, just tap
it, okay, all right, because I thought that's what I thought that
that's what was working. Okay, cool, Yeah, it's I mean playing
it. I want to know the answers these things because it's like I can
feel like, oh, there's more to do here. I can get better
and better, and it feels very exciting when I'm pulling these things off.
Like when I did get in the ass and I was like, yes,
we're going to take the blade to this guy, I'm like, Okay,
I have a strategy here and it's working. And studied the blade. I
studied the blade emissions. They are useful and you get free parts. Yes,
that's what they just told me that. So I'm going to do that
next. Yeah. Yeah, And you know, like one thing that was
fun. I didn't really get to do this because I was revealing it with
like an other ring is actually just going online and watching people's videos for tips
how to do thing. I imagine that can help here. But the most
fun thing for me to do lately with this game after review was to go
up online, like on that first week and go with my endgame MEC with
all of these people just jumping into these or whatever. Is it just you
know, it's like those It's like the scene and uh, always sunny kid,
when how how do y'all hold the controller play this game? Because I
wind up having like my pointer fingers on the bumpers and then my middle fingers
on the triggers because I'm just like letting everything go as soon as it's I'm
fully reloaded. Still just rolling, Okay, yeah I was. I was
like, I remember that conversation we had about this jan and so I h
I kind of went back and forth a little bit, but I think I'm
gonna go with rolling unless my weapons are in such a way where I'm like,
no, I need to do all of them at once. But even
then I think I would just probably try to tap a quick I already fun
builds you can do, like is the dual trigger mode or whatever were you
just put like two machine guns or two poles things on there, and so
you're just holding L two and R two and just like do a wielding yep.
Yea. My kind of my kind of final build was like my main
arms were just two like Gatlin guns. We just constant spray. Then I
had like the two best grenade launchers on my shoulders, so they do a
ton of stagger damage and just damage, but they're hard to hit. If
I can kind of get above people and wait for them to be on the
ground, then the splash damage is going to get them enough just to do
so much stagger. So yeah, I really liked the reverse legs because of
the verticality you get, but then I want the reverse joint, and then
I wound up sticking with the tetrapod legs because I just really enjoy the hover
and just like being able to just stay on top of someone. That's good.
It's good. Also Grub you can sell items that you buy for full
price, so spend your money if you don't like it, you can,
So that's nice. Okay, So yes, experiment, So that that kind
of brings me to one of my like very small gripes is that I kind
of wish they just gave you more tools to begin with, because, at
least for me personally, when I was trying to beat the end boss of
chapter one, I wound up having to do a lot of grinding and just
like kind of mix and match all the parts that I wanted to roll.
With that being said, it is very generous with the the currency, the
comb you get at the when you that word comb, it's it's different comber
when you like redo a mission and everything. So it didn't take That's exactly
what I did after when I was struggling. It was like I had to
quit that mission just go grind like one of the easier early ones to get
a bunch of money. And you you know, I always like grinding because
I'm a sicko. But you know, it didn't take too long. You
can just do an old mission you've already beaten, and you can get away.
Yeah, yeah, okay. I love the way they do. Like
when you're in the store, you can just hit Square or AX or whatever
to play video and it doesn't have to load anything. You don't have to
go in and actually try it out. You just hit Square and it's like,
oh, that's a big plasma rocket launchry. That looks pretty cool.
Yeah, I'll buy that. God yeah yeah, I hearing your enthusiasm,
Dan makes me want to go back, circle back and just like try and
beat it. I think I was on chapter three or four now. It's
it's so good that like that BALTI is that Chapter one boss that like I
died so many times, and I remember there's one time I died and I
like I had him down to nothing, and instead of being like upset at
all, all I was was excited because it's like, Okay, well I
know eventually I'm going to beat him and it's gonna feel fucking awesome. And
it did, and that is very from Software ask to have that difficulty spike
boss that a lot of people would never because they'd be like, well,
this is absodly way harder, but no, it's actually really fun to hit
this roadblock that like takes a while, and then again when you do beat
it, it is this like great moment. You feel fantastic. Right,
it's not so it's not a Soulsborn game, but it's definitely a from game.
Definitely. Yeah. The scale though that they play with is so fun.
Like it's one of the early missions when you have to jump onto like
the crawler thing. Yeah, and I was not expecting the giant laser to
come out of it. Yes, and I just got a bit. Times
you just get sucked up in this game. It's like whoa, Okay,
I need to rethink this. Yeah, lots of times. It's been such
a busy year that it's like I was like, okay, man, thanks,
Dan's doing Immortals of Adium, so I don't just even think about that
game. At Jan's handling Armored Corps. I'll sit on the quick look at
that note whatever. And now it's like, man, hearing these games are
good. It's like Armored Core is good. It's like, okay, yeah,
I guess I gotta play that as well as these four other things I'm
playing these. Arma Corps is like a fifteen sixteen fifteen exactly. These days
is short, so some people will criticize you. And I don't have a
lot of other things that are working on the PC handhelds right now, so
it's like this is a really good one to play on there. So I'm
glad to have an option on those right now. It kills me. It
always makes me laugh that, you know, five years ago, six years
ago, whatever it was, when people were making a big stink about like
they're killing single player gaming. It's like everything's gonna be multiplayer. Everything's look
at this year the Kingdom, Starfield Armored Corps, Like, no, I
think we're gonna be fine with single players bad play. Yeah, it's okay,
yep, it's uh. And it always comes from like, you know,
because some one company will like back away from that stuff, and then
they'll have a revelation to look at another company be like man Cap comes making
a lot of money just putting out Resident Evil games. Why aren't we we
have dead space, Why aren't we doing that. It's like it takes another
company to actually succeed at it before they come around to it. But here
we are, and all these companies, I think now realize they can't just
do the Hey, a live service games succeeded. We all were making this
live service games. They know that they'll they'll make the same mistake again with
whatever the next big trend is. But right now they know that live service
is not some magical solution for them. So yeah, it's it's refreshing.
Hey, in the Battle of the remakes? Which one should I start of
this year? Which one are you even asking? Yeah? I realize that
then Mike is here, Okay, but what other one? Were you gonna
even say? That? Space Space? I mean the dead Space, but
it might be, it might be hard. Nos four is like might be,
it's probably get them, but like it might be four A four is
the best remake of all time? Dead Space is that good remake? It's
it's a solid remake. Ari four goes above and beyond the usual, like
good remake stuff. I was listening to the credits song from R four remake
on loop again all weekend. The Bullet or the Blade. It's so freaking
amped up. I love that game. Gosh so jan The answer is Metroid
Prime Remask, All right, that happened? Hey, yeah, well that's
that game is similar too. But that's not like Dead Space or Resume four
where they made a new game. It's not a remake. Before we had
to break here, folks, gentlemen, it's about to be September. Is
there is there anything in the back burner of the of the list of this
that's come out this year that you're curious about? Circling back to any anything.
Here's the one right now this week. Blasphemus two is uh, there's
Metrid being the game that last is getting pretty good. Yeah, Blasphemous too.
It's getting pretty good review scores. It's got like any four and open
critic and I didn't I didn't drive with blast Blasphemous one. But people seem
to really be into this one, so I'm gonna check it out, I
guess. But man, that's just another thing. And from earlier this year,
I can't even think, like honestly four because Micha will fucking murder me
if I will kill you. If you don't give enough any chance before Game
of the Year, we will not be friends anymore. Exactly. Do you
want to to do that on a stream grub? I'm gonna make a stream
of it, yes, exactly. For me, there's like a dead zone.
When I started, I had to have all myself packed up and every
day. Yeah yeah, so it's like right when Diablo four and Street Fighters
six came out. That was right when I was like getting everything packed up.
So I remember thinking like, I can't even start these games in earnest
because I'm not gonna be able to play them so like those are my back,
like anything that came out basically in a couple of months, I was
in transition, Like that's what I need to get back to. I don't
think that Systems Shock remake really got it to do. We did a quick
look. I really liked it. Yeah, I want to play more of
that. I like Octopas River two was kind of my big one, and
I like I just finished the three hours of that freak demo and then paid
the sixty bucks for the full game and then haven't touched again. Then now
I'm playing first I was playing Curse Crackers, so proud of myself remembering that
name, and now I'm playing Sea of Stars. So yeah, here we
are. I this is a very me pick. But Fuga two Melodies of
Steel. This is the load a child into the soul cannon. If you
really moisturized. It's moisturizer adjacent because it's all cats. Okay, thought they
have thought they have famously dry skin cat That's why I said moisture adjacent.
But Fuga two. People have been getting on my case for not talking about
Fuga two, not fupa fuga fuga Uh God, I gotta I gotta load
these children into a spirit canon or soul. Kna do what you gotta do.
I also god children. Today, I've been having a note that has
been burning in my notes app that I need need to talk about Final Fantasy
sixteen, and I don't think anyone is ever going to finish it on this
website. Maybe Tam will I have to finish it. I'm a Final Fantasy
guy and I'm getting a lot of shit for not beating this game. And
it's not like I like the game. I liked it a good bit.
I just don't ever find myself like in the living room to play video games
these days, so it's just always out on the town. I mean,
I'm always partying, but no, I'm always like here or in bad playing
switch like that. That's my two game modes. Basically, it's there's,
there's, just there's. The Only person I've told told my thing about Final
Fantasy sixteen with is is Lexi Chan real quick. I can't you're okay for
audio listeners, Chance holding his cheeks and he's making his face and I can't
tell if it's a thirsty face or excited because it's good face about Benedicta.
No, I just couldn't tell. I couldn't my Yeah, I do have
a very it's a It may be upsetting for fantasy fans, but for the
twisted type of fan that I am, it is exciting. Let's just say
that, okay, all right, right right? Uh, And you know
a lot of folks know my taste in role playing games, so we'll just
leave that there and maybe we'll revisit this conversation in December. There's no tiles
in this yes, yes, yes, I guess what you're talking about.
Surprise tiles right at the end. Surprise anyway, folks, that was a
lot of games Mario wonders this year. Holy, there's a we'll talk about
in the news, but I wonder direct. So I have a feeling some
of us might get a chance to play that. I don't know. I'm
just guessing here. It'll be weird. It wasn't. Oh what the mark
Fire implement Gauge came out this year? Really? I like that game a
lot. I liked it, But come on, Jeff, everything else,
come on, come on, Oh yeah, it's not gonna be in the
top ten. What is the gimmick with the hair? Like, what do
you have to if I don't have to cut your hair. If I don't
beat Tears of the Kingdom by the time the Saturday Giant Bomb panel starts,
I'm oh buzzing the hair off Saturday and then you're gonna be traveling. It's
not happening. Yeah, time for him to play the game. Like shaved
head, not like skin, not mister clean ball traveling, traveling tomorrow.
So don't real question jan how committed? Like if you don't see credits by
the panel, are you gonna do it? Yeah? I'm gonna have to
talk to our packs person and like, is it okay? If I shave
my head at a panel and so much stuff has happening here, they're gonna
say that'll be eight thousand dollars excellent. Okay, well I'd luck with that.
I had to double check of whether or not I could bring clippers onto
a plane, and apparently you can. I shaved my head the first time
at a PAX. Then he shaved my head at a PAX and that's the
first time I ever did that. There you go, man incident. We
cut jess hair in a hot box garage. That's the real reason. You
know, what was it was that like a couple of days after Christmas.
Yeah, yeah, has a late Christmas party. So I finally told my
partner about this. Bet after this story, we'll go take quick break,
folks and get gets here with the news. Uh. My partner's been super
busy, so she hasn't been up to date on like the stupid shit that
I say all the time. And I told her it's like, hey,
uh, there's a chance that I might come back bald after this work trip.
She was like what, what? Why? And she's expressly told me
multiple times the part of the reason she likes me so much is my hair.
Yeah, n what are you doing this? This happens, This happens,
they say that, and then you get a new haircut that a little
and they're like, wow, okay, I listen, I was mad at
you, but now I really like this haircut. That's what happened to me.
So you're gonna You're gonna be fine. And then I was told I
was never allowed to cut my hair, and then I did, and while
Mike did, and now here I am. That's how I am with the
beard because my wife loves the beard, and like, that's why I don't
even enter any kind of bets. That's never consequence. It's on the table.
That's not not happening. And and then like I looked at her,
thinking like, oh, she's gonna be really mad. Oh what am I
gonna do. There's no popcorn buckets in Seattle for me to buy at the
needle, right, probably beat the game. And then she was like,
yeah, he's not beating the game. I want to beat the game.
He wants this, He's wanted this in the very beginning jan this. Admit
it. You're never gonna try to beat that game. We were we were
doing a quick look yesterday, and I felt bad because I was quiet because
I didn't want to tell these two that when I was recording the quick click
with that, I was playing Tears of the Kingdom actively because I'm like,
all right, like I think I'm okay, Like I think I could get
there. But these other games, beauty of remote work, Oh man,
that's incredible, And that's just not happening. And then you know, there's
because some people agreed to a stupid idea I had. I'm gonna be no
no no, no, no no no no, I'm gonna be locked in
into a very unique way of getting to packs so I'll have time to play.
He's got He's got a lot of time. A core rock sounds in
the background of the starfield quick look. I actually there was a moment where
I frantically had to like jam on the mute button on my switch. I'm
like, I hope they I hope they didn't hear that. Okay, all
right, cool, that's good stuff. All right, folks. Well that
is the update on Tuesday, Kingdom Armored Core six is absolutely amazing. Dan
is now a MEC person. Just wait till we launch our other, our
twenty fifth anime podcast called gun Danks. That works. That works. We'll
see you after this quick break with the news. I feel like, you
know, when you're in an AA program or some type of recovery program,
you gotta go through all the steps. I feel like, because I may
be on the precipice of cutting my hair, I need to like, I
need to go tell Barber Jan. It's like, hey, can I have
your blessing for someone else to come to me? You need to come and
be right with Jesus. You gotta be right with Barbara Jan. I gotta
be right with Barber Jan. God, And you know this will be news
to him that I'm cutting my hair, just like Grub is bringing news to
us. Wow. Wow Wow, whow wows Match's wants Hello, I have
news here for everybody. The big, big new was off the top here
this morning. Nintendo announced it's September Direct, which is a Super Mario Brothers
Wonder specific direct. It's gonna be fifteen minutes. It's happening in August thirty
first at seven am Pacific time, ten am Eastern. We are let's see
what is is that Thursday? Yeah, let's see. Yeah, okay,
so we will talk over that. But a lot of the guys are going
to be out, so Dan, Mike, we're even later that day,
so we're gonna do a Yeah, what time is it again? It's like
first thing in the morning, ten am, Yeah time Eastern. Yeah,
ten ten am Eastern. That'll be fine. Yes, that'll work. Hell
yeah, okay, So we'll do that and then I'll go right into a
game mess mornings. Fifteen minutes. It said to be fifteen minutes, yep.
Yeah, So we'll talk over that and then but but uh it they
do say it's focused on Super Mario Brothers Wonder. They normally have big directs
in September. Do do we think they're gonna They're not gonna have one of
those this years. I don't know. I see a lot coping like people
like, oh, there's definitely gonna be another one. But I mean I
could totally see them just not really this time. I mean, what else
is there really for them to talk about for the rest of the year.
There's wonder is the big thing, then there's all these other known quantities like
MARPG, the Pokemon DLC has already been talked about. So I don't know,
it wouldn't shock me if not. Honestly, Yeah, Like I wouldn't
mind if they just if they wanted to have a direct it's just being like,
hey, we put out a bunch of good ship this year, go
back and check all that shit out, because like, yeah, if it
wasn't your sam, you know, yeah, what if like early next year
they have a plan for like oh, here's the actual like switch to reveal
like they might have bigger plans that they're saving for. Even if it's like
they just start talking about it, even if they like mention it and say
here's a name, here's a tease, and then we'll have a bigger reveal
for that even later. But yeah, that could happen in a direct.
Yeah, let me you've been you've been saying you you know a director's gonna
happen in September, but you said you never knew what one, Like,
you don't think there's gonna be two, right there. I don't think so
be two. I think this is it. And uh yeah, I don't
think so. I think this is it. But anything can happen. But
that's my opinion is that there won't be another one. This is the direct
for September. That said, I am very excited about Super Mario Brothers wonder
It's been hard to like look past all the games that we're kind of sitting
on, but we're I'm like just getting to the point where it's like,
oh yeah, super Mario Brothers Wonders, super Mario RPG remake, Arioware,
there's a bunch of cool games this year. November. Oh there, Like
it doesn't feel like it feels like next week is game of the year because
like, okay, now we're in November. Now, no, it's August.
Still, it's fucking August. Uh yeah, it is bizarre out there.
I get it. So There's still several months of games yet to come
this year, but Nintendo is definitely on the you know, hey, slow
decline for the switch. Yeah, we're gonna keep selling the thing where it's
gonna it's gonna do very well. These are all game games that we're very
excited about. We already had a direct about most of the games that we
know are coming, and I think we're kind of waiting to see if there's
anything else. If they do have other announcements, I think that they would
probably just announce them like on Twitter or on YouTube like they have in the
past, and that would be fine. We should all still get really all
not damn, but the rest of us should still get well maybe not,
Jeff, Well, I should still get really upset if Hollow Night's Silk Song
is still not at this I'll get upset with you. I I liked that
first one for the two hours I played. Oh yes you all, yes,
yes, yes. I didn't say I didn't like it, Mike,
I just didn't have time and we're not talking about this. Uh yeah,
big big spoon heaven. That's right. That's what Jeff called gave Think of
the day for what does the Hollow Night's silk song. I silk songs sound
like spoon heaven. In my head. It's a spoon heaven. The inner
workings of my brain are inexplicable. And you know what I've I've come to
learn a lot about your brain, so it's not surprising. Yes, it's
all the subflower seeds stuck up there and I couldn't get those out. So
yeah, it's a big problem. My friends mom once kept calling overwatched Space
Grumpers, and that's what it reminded me us, that's we're the Space,
We're the celebration of cynicism. Yeah, we skipped too many trailers, Please
skip too many commercials. All right, games come happened. I'm not gonna
go over everything. Here's kind of a roundup of stuff. There were plenty
of announcements. We talked about those last week. There were a lot of
interviews though as well, mostly Xbox out there sort of on the like sort
of the circuit of answered questions from a bunch of different people. U xbox
is CMO said Starfield is going to be the start of a constant flow of
Xbox first party titles, something that they've been promising for a half decade,
if not longer, maybe like seven years. It's like we've not Okay,
they're gonna get to that point eventually, I guess I want to ask you,
guys, do you believe them now that that Starfield It's like, okay,
Starfold's here, they we're gonna get help like two and then Perfect Dark
and then this and that and Avowed and all these games are going to start
coming out and at a pretty rapid pace. I believe them in principle,
but it's just going to take one or two delays to once again create a
big pocket that people are gonna stare at like that's gonna happen again every now
and then. We see it happen all the time. But in general,
I think it's going to certainly be better than it was these last couple of
years. Have they straight up said that like Starfield is not coming ever to
PlayStation? It's not it's never coming to PlayStation? Yep, wow, okay,
yeah that's true for all six as well. Yes, yeah, so
they're just going on like, hey this is X yes, yes exactly for
Beth's the stuff. Yes, call of Duty. They're not doing that with
when they whenever they get that but yeah, Phil Spencer said he doesn't see
a future where games come to serious X but don't also come to series s.
This became a big thing because of Boulder's gates. We'll have news on
that here in a second. He's committed to supporting the series ask throughout the
rest of this generation. He then also kind of encompassed a conversation about mid
gin up upgrades and like a pro model of the Xbox, and he once
again said like, we're not going to do that, We're not thinking about
to that. We don't think players want that, we don't think developers want
that, and we don't want it. I'm inclined to believe him, And
yet we know that PlayStation is the rumors are anyhow the PlayStation is going to
do a PSI pro next year. Do you guys think that Xbox is Xbox
is strategy is fine if it can keep up, if it doesn't have a
pro model. Do you think we need a pro model? I think it
looks bad if PlayStation has one and they don't. Yeah, I'm a little
worried, you know, And we've heard him talk on the couch Phil Spencer.
There's almost been this de emphasizing of the Box, of the literal Xbox,
and I get it a little bit. And maybe I'm just too gamer
brained, and my ways with the consoles mattering a lot, even though even
as I find myself not playing on the consoles as much as I used to
say, But I just can't imagine it working out well if the best PlayStation
you can get is significantly better than the best Xbox you can get with no
you know, new Xbox on the horizon or something being announced, So do
you think I do you think that they could play it off as well?
You can get more powerful Xbox. It's called a PC. I don't think
that'll play well. I don't think that'll play It works for me with the
Pillars of the World, right, right, exactly, got you gotta deal
with Greg Miller, right and that's all that's our that's our across. Yeah,
yeah, exactly. Yeah. But at the same time, it's like,
what does mid gen refresh mean? I mean, the whole naming convention
of Xbox series, Blake always made it seem like there was gonna be a
zillion of these things. So maybe just in three years we get the next
Xbox a lot faster than we will get a PlayStation six. Maybe we're you
know, the generations thing has already been all kind of mucked up. Maybe
that's gonna continue to get even more mocked up, all right. Phil Spencer
also said that he would love to find a solution so games aren't lost when
the Xbox three sixty store goes offline. Uh, you know, they're they're
shutting down the Xbox three sixty store later this year, next year, next
summer or something like that. They are most games are available elsewhere. A
lot of the games are available through backward compatibility. You would still be able
to buy them through your Xbox One or Xbox Series x RS. But there
are about two hundred and twenty games, according to an analysis by by VGC,
that are not going to be preserved anywhere because they're only available on Xbox
Live, Arcade or some similar sort of thing. And so, yeah,
that would be nice if we could could keep those alive in one way or
the other. Phil Spencer sis, they're aware, they would like to do
that. He even brought up that two hundred and twenty number himself. He's
like, yeah, I was reading that story. I'm aware, but I
don't know how it feels like his hands are cuffed a little bit here where
he can only go as far as like the legal teams at whoever owns the
rights for these games will allow them to go. So it seems like many
of those games probably aren't going to get served upside of emulation, which again
I'm mostly fine with. I would love to see a list of those because
like there were a lot of hidden gyms on the Xbox Live Arcade, Like
I have a lot of fondness for that. VGC did that story, and
I think they have the list of all the games that they were referencing,
So chat once. I'm looking at it right now, and okay, good
July twenty nine. Okay, I'm gonna look for the best ones here.
Oh this is a lot. There was a real hey day, I'd say
it from like oh seven, you know, for like a good five years.
Then we started getting there, like there was like the the higher tier
of like the Limbos and the insides and stuff like that, and and Castle
Crashers, and he was so exciting when like a Summer of Arcade would come
out. Five games I know I'm gonna fuck with and yeah, true,
yeah, Brothers is the biggest one. I've seen so far scrolling through here
Bro you know Brothers, but that's that is available other places now, So
Duke Newcomb three D, How is anyone going to play that? Yeah,
that's impossible, right, I guess I always want to see the list of
games that also aren't already on other platforms Connect. I think I have a
physical fruit and into Connect. Yeah, a lot of it's a lot of
it's preserved forever now, right, Yeah, turt It on a disc once
well is also outswhere so yeah, okay, okay, may maybe not in
its original form, but you can get the remastered version on Steam and stuff.
So that remastered version of Braid that was supposed to come out like three
years ago, it's never gonna come out. He's being weird on section.
He's weird. I know, I love the Witness, so yeah, yeah,
he's been too busy going off about being in jars or something. I
mean a lot of these are just like Xbox Live Arcade versions of like Resident
Evil and you know games that are street Fighter too. You know, it's
a lot of especially vulnerable. Are those Connect games that you were mentioning,
those are the ones that are like those haven't appeared anywhere else for obvious reasons.
So yeah, yeah, like Vigilante eight arcade. You know, there's
a the ways you can play Vigilania. The truth is if if you want
to play those games, you have a year to buy them for your Xbox
three sixty. And that's not I don't love that either, but that's the
solution right now. You can buy those, Go get them. If you
want south Park games, Tenneman's Revenge and let's go Tower Defense. Play those.
You've never made a shitty south Park game. I like the Tower Defense
ones. I think Revenge one was fucking terrible. I was pretty quickly anti
tower defense because there was a time where that genre was getting was going way
too hard and it was everywhere. I got sick of that real fest.
I'm like, I played one and I was like this is great, and
I moved on, and then Mike could be like, hump, I get
so mad that I get it. It was like early days of being you're
working with each other's probably just be screaming. Then they made a Star Fox
Tower Defense for them that separate disc. Yeah, I think that can Finally.
That was one of Miamoto's prepe project pet projects. Right, was that?
I think he's like, I'm going to show people why the WU game
pet is exactly good st zero and then Guard Guard game with zero was progic
hammer around that time or was that before that? Was that a week was
a we game? Oh right, I'll say this here. I think Clash
Royale is probably a top fifty game of all time. Oh man, I'm
glad. I cried myself away from that. That was the one time I
got sucked into the mobile game hole of spending money and stuff and I had
to wrestler spent the most money on Clash Royale. Was it Clash Royal or
Clashans both? And the answer is John Cena on both of course, man
thing going against How are we going to beat Sena when he's literally just like
spending like six figures on ship fucking that rules in it? What's that?
Did you play Sena in it? No? No, I was in your
whatever, so no seeing it. The whole war was Sena because Sina used
to be in Cody's clan, he broke off, got a bunch of the
people on the roster to join his thing, so that war all having Like
when Cody referred to me the war Wascina was already over. They already like
waved the white flag. He's spent too much money. Our wrestlers are so
cool. We're undertakers to see things. Its like, oh, we used
to trap each other, jacker anymore someone comes to John Sina's like, I
bought you a clush card with like credits it's like twenty two and do that
for you. Though he definitely wouldn't know. Let's see. Phil Spencer almost
said John c Sena. Phil Spencer also said current Gin prices for the consoles
themselves aren't going to come down. He said this is due to component prices
being kind of weird, like, oh, the ram that we use,
no one else makes that anymore. So it's like we it's gonna be the
same price, and it's like, yeah, maybe I think the real reason
is the people that they're selling consoles to these days are the people who spend
a lot of money on console gaming and so like, like we've always said
with Nintendo, Nintendo sells the same system to the same people over and over
again with upgrades and revisions, and these other companies are probably gonna do that
as well, and that's going to be their main audience is the people who
are the most excited about the console, and you don't lower the price for
them because you know you can keep adding one or two things and they'll pay
more to get the shiny new things. So h yeah, I believe that
we've already saw we've already seen this, so right, the switch didn't go
down in prices. Uh, even the PS four and the Xbox One they
went down a little bit, but they went down as they got revisions,
and then the revisions replaced them at that price. So this isn't too surprising
to meet you guys. You guys expecting like, oh, eventually you'd be
able to get an Xbox Series Extra Place Station five for three hundred dollars.
I had that expectation, yes, yeah, but it's not like it used
to be. You got the PS one, the lower case of one.
It was like, yeah, now you can get this thing for under one
hundred dollars. Yeah, ninety nine dollars the magic price point. I found
my PS two slim the other day. It was great, the one with
like the fold up of good yeps my PS one and the groom right over
there. I got a screen for it too. Yeah, damn I've been
looking for the screen. It's very expensive now ye, I hope what if
it still works? All? Right? Then, Todd Howard said he wants
to do his job forever like Miyamoto. He also said Indiana Jones is shaping
up well. He says that that team Machine Games has the whole killing Nazis
thing down and they're doing a really great job. That's exciting. And then
he wants Elder Scroll six to be the ultimate Fantasy World simulator. It's gonna
build on the technology that they've been working on with Starfield. Uh. He
also like it was kind He bemoaned how early they announced that game. It's
like, maybe we did announce it too early. I'm like, no,
maybe about it, ye mak, Yeah, you announce that in twenty eighteen.
It's twenty twenty three now, friends, they did they announced it when
they did because I think they were worried about announcing Starfield and everybody freaking out
like followed seventy six is. I think they were announcing it like the followed
seventy six was coming out and they're like people are gonna be like, where
is all the stuff we actually want? So we're working on that and I
think also at that time they were worried about people coming in and buying them
at a low price, and so they announced all these things to help make
sure that they were at a higher price, and that took a few a
few years, but then Microsoft bottom after that. So yeah, okay,
boulders Gate three will come to Xbox this year after all. Bald Balder's Gate
three will be released on Xbox Series X and S this year, with split
screen co op, the big thing that was the problem for the Xbox SERIESES
and the reason it hadn't come to the Xbox yet. It'll be on Xbox
Series X and you'll get cross safe progression between Steam and Xbox series systems as
well as PlayStation series s will not feature split screen coop. The game was
originally expected to be released in twenty twenty four, but the release date was
brought forward after Larry and Studios met with Xbox boss Phil Spencer in Europe during
Games comm and then the next day they announced this that they're going to be
able to pull this off. So it seems like Microsoft being a little bit
more lenient on what parody actually looks like between the Xbox Series X and S,
but split screen co op on one of the systems is not a reason
to hold up an entire game like this. I don't think so. Glad
they were able to figure this out. It never should have been like,
it's nice for doing this. It's a little bit like okay, oh well
now that this is like a giant game actually, and we really would in
our system. Now we're definitely going to make sure we can get this working.
You know, I get it. Not everything's going to fall on your
radar, but I wish this fell on the radar a little bit sooner,
and this guy worked out right, and you can tell like why it fall
on the radar afterward when it became the biggest game in the world. So
like, that's that's how sometimes it has to go. You're right, though,
I wish they would have realized it earlier. A top writer is leaving
Rockstar Games. Michael Unsworth, writer for Rockstar Games, has left the company
after sixteen years. Unsworth worked on many rock Stars of major releases, including
Red Dead Redemption. Other high profile departures from Rockstar Games in recent years include
Dan Houser, Laslow Jones, and Leslie Benzi's Rockstar Games parent company Take too.
Interactive has forecast a share jump in sales during the next fiscal year,
which is probably going to be driven by a release of GTA six. Every
time you say Dan Houser saying Dan Housen, I know it's biggle to myself.
Yeah, and I think my brain like wants to say Dan Housing,
so I think it even comes out that way a little bit. But yeah,
Dan Housing never at rock Star, and that's been that company's problem,
I think for the most part. Yeah, I like I have a different
take than a lot, Like I feel like a lot of people in the
here, like vetteran employee leaves a company as long as they're not fired,
that's a different thing. Yeah, when they just when they leave, it's
like, okay, well, now like new people who have supposedly been working
here anyways, they're gonna get their chance. This guy's gonna go do something
else, something new, And like, I don't see any problem with this
kind of thing. Yeah, I'm that doesn't. That series kind of need
a bit of a refresh and it's roll to any house, So you hope
that the young people are already taken over. Anyhow, I'm under the assumption
if you work at a company that long, you may have inadvertently helped train
not your replacement, but other folks to help fill the void after you leave.
Right, And it's like you know where I mean, the vice president
of writing was his title. We talked about this exactly. That was already
a made up thing, right, that's already a thing they just you give
to some but because they been exactly, Yeah, that's Semaya Angelou. Actually
this is uh, I think, Mike, you nailed it. This is
normal. This is someone working at a place for a long time bringing up
the people underneath him that can replace him. And now he gets to go
take all his experience and time and money and probably get a big investment from
some outside company, or go work at another company that already has that big
investment and take on some new challenge where he could be the president of writing,
so just vice president of writing or yeah, he just leaves the industry
altogether. Yeah, he's gonna go work in banking, Like that's I think
that's what developers do. They work in game development and to bank. Yeah,
that's the real pipeline that no one ever talks about. Huh yeah,
yeah, it's it's a high game journalists, games developer, banker, yeah,
high tech finance or whatever it is, Hi Fi, that's not right.
Should a bank successfully? Yeah, the four of us told us.
I mean I know that we could. I wonder like how long we would
we would be able to like live without either killing each other or getting caught.
I've seen point break and Heat So I've seen point Break like eight times.
I watched two days ago. I'm inspired. I kind of always have
heat on, like, yes, I've like I have a half finished heat
save on like whatever appet's on. You know, like how like but the
bookmark when you're watching it and finish because you're telling yeah, your memory my
memory card, I'll bring, Jeff, So just walk it to a bank
with our Blake Club costumes on and just kind of see what happens, yes,
buddy, Yeah, and then you guys will distract them. Will I
do the actual Robin Yeah club costume right now, and I'll see how it
fits tomorrow, Robin, we're going back to work tomorrow. I'm very exerted.
I'm the one working tomorrow. Oh yeah, So I'm just gonna order
some some sheets and be happy to keep to figure out my games sooner rather
than later, so that if like I had to like get assisted, you
know, I'd rather do original hardware if I can, So if I can
get that set, Okay, if anyone at packs wants to come up to
me and recommend something, I will have a sheet ready to go and we
will write down every recommendation. Under twenty hours. Yes, I think it's
gotta be like twenty twelve. Is that what the rule was? What was
the rule? Ten hours spot? I'm pulling up the rules twenty hours,
no longer than twenty on how long to be? That's that's like, I
think those are old rules. That was the rules on them. We might
need to look through us, but look, twenty hours would be doable,
but ten hours is definitely the sweeter spot. Eight to ten I guess.
Yeah. But if you just hand me a blink like Xbox disc like somehow
you like scrubbed off whatever it is, and you want me to just forgive
it to Mike, I might do that. Oh yeah, we'll just put
a label over it, sticky labels. Yeah. The care Bears game here,
it is like buy where is it? Doesn't let's go sure? BioWare
is laying off fifty people BioWare is doing this as part of a restructuring effort
effort, but really this is about EA's bad financials right now. EA Entertainment
different from EA Sports these days. Back in the day, Ultimate Team paid
for the whole business, basically FIFA Ultimate Team. At an Ultimate Team,
they would just make it a ton of money and it would all go in
the same bucket. These days, EA Entertainment, which is where BioWare,
is different than what's happening over there with the A Sports and they have to
be more accountable, which is actually exactly how Andrew Wilson, CEO of of
EA, framed it when they talked about splitting up these two entities indeed,
like two separate businesses under EA. He's like, oh, yeah, and
these leaders will have a more accountability and that's going to be great for them.
Well, it was great for them, and that they had to cut
fifty jobs from BioWare because the other thing at EA Entertainment that was paying for
all the bills apex Legends is on the decline. Officially internally at EA,
they recognize it is on the decline. That's not paying for everything anymore.
So BioWare a studio that has spent a lot of money over the last four
or five years making games that are coming out maybe next year, Dragging a
dread Wolf and the mass effect. Who knows that that's the studio. It's
like, okay, well the accountability is coming right now before you can even
put out dread Wolf, and they're paying the price. They laid off a
lot of people who were senior staff, people who had been at BioWare for
a long time. I think the most galling example of this is in the
month where Balder's Gate three came out and crushed the world. The writer of
the original Balter's Gate was laid off from BioWare. And there's just something kind
of rough about that, where it's like you couldn't figure out that that you
couldn't figure out the thing that you made popular originally or one of the were
one of the progenitors of and now here you are paying the price, and
it's it's pretty bad. Yeah, I mean, it just all goes back
to how incredibly poorly thought out Anthem was in every direction, and even sum
Us up before that within Drameda, right, this is a Biowors was this
amazing team that was on top of the world kind of with Mass Effect too,
and I don't I don't know if there's like the lesson take it for
Mass Effect Too, where it seemed like everybody relid that game because the characterization
and the story and so much of it was working so well, and the
big takeaway was, well, we made this one simpler than the last one,
and suddenly people people like it more. So that kind of was like
the trend they were doing for a while. And then there's just the whole
EA initiative of everything's a multiplayer game. Even the new Dragon Age was going
to be a multiplayer game, was by the kind of fight for that to
not happen. But yeah, now they're in this rough position where you gotta
get this Dragon Age game across the finish line, and surprise, here's a
bad scate three that ended up hitting. Now everyone's expectations for what a good
one of these is has maybe changed. It's going to be rough, and
there's gonna be a lot of pressure on this Dragon Age game. Yeah,
people like looking ahead to Dragon Age. I've said before it could have come.
It was aiming to come out at the end of this year. It
was actually gonna come out in September. That was the original internal release date.
They never talked about any of this publicly, so keep that in mind.
But internally they were looking at September of this year, and that was
a while ago. Earlier this year, it's like, no, clearly,
that's not going to happen. We're gonna go to March of twenty twenty four.
Now they are seeing clearly that's not going to happen. It is summer
twenty twenty four at the earliest. And to help with this, they are
taking people off the Mass Effect team to work on Dragon Age dread Wolf and
get it out the door. That's pushing back Mass Effect even further than whenever
that was going to come out. So yeah, I mean, a lot
of that stuff is normal game death problems, but a lot of it also
is just Biolway has been a little bit lost and now they're within a publisher
that still hasn't found its footing. And really you're looking at the overall EA
picture. We taught about Apex Legends being on the down decline and Madden Ultimate
Team and fee faulting being over there, but really it's about Battlefield. Battlefield
was supposed to be this thing that was like their call duty. It was
gonna make money every year for them and just imperpetuity. And that missed so
hard that all of that fell in Apex Legends, And now Apex Legends kind
of isn't even living up to its own expectation, let on the expectations of
both it and Battlefield. So there's a weird position. There's also a lot
of bone headed quotes that came out of this story, as well as trying
to frame the layoffs as a mildly positive thing and making the remaining employees making
sure that agile and more focused. Yep, oh god, I really don't.
I really really always hated that kind of corporate talk, and I thought
we were past it where it's like that's transparent. Everyone knows what you're doing,
is like you're saving yourself money and then telling us like that the ship
is rank it's chocolate cake, and it's like, okay, please don't do
that anymore, but just be forthright. And I thought a lot of companies
have gotten there, and to hear the age be like, no, this
is about agility, and then the other the other bit about giving studio heads
more ownership of stuff. It's just like you were just continuing to displace blame
like, you're right, Greb. I thought we were in a more transparent
age with what's happening with you know what happens is like these CEOs, they
were a different book every couple of weeks, and it's like, well,
now this is the management style that works, and it's okay, get out
of that. Go read by Angelou. Yeah, go read the president of
writing for once. Go read Animos. Damn it, I did, I
did, I did. All the books are available online at the author's website.
Wow. Someone keeps saying that dragon Age is getting delayed internally a byway,
we just kind of talked about this, but that's just a reiterate looking
for the guy who's doing this. Yeah, we talked about this on Gamess
Mornings earlier this week. You know, we've we've covered most the sides this,
so I guess I'll just ask, are we looking forward to dragon Age
dread Wolf like is there? Yeah, it's I know that. Listen.
I know the dragon Age fans out there definitely are. They want to get
back with those characters. But I was not never really a dragon Age guy.
I like origins a little bit, but then all the other ones didn't
really hit with me. Yeah, I liked Origins a good bit because that
really did. That was the one that almost felt more like, yeah,
here's the you could see the lineage from some of those older Seats RPGs,
but just you know, kind of made a lot more console friendly. Just
you know, just the whole Origin thing was also fun there, right,
you had a different first act just depending on your character. That Dragon Age
two is obviously like clearly like, heck, we make one of these a
lot faster and cheaper. Inquisition was a slight compromise. Some people were like,
Inquisition, It's a game I played through once and just never really thought
about much again. So I am still worried about dread Wolf being Inquisition too.
I mean, like the story definitely is like the dread Wolf is this
guy from Inquisition, So you know, I don't want it to be that
set up again. Though. You have like your one base camp and you
kind of go out to some of these larger open zones like Sonic Frontiers,
and you have a lot of MMO cool down abilities. Basically I need to
be sold on Dragon Age, I guess, is what I'm saying. Yep,
And we probably won't get that hard pitch until sometime deep into next year.
You know, do you accord in the next year, do you think
they're going to look at the success of Balter's E three and like go further
back to the drawing board now though, I mean, I feel like I
feel like developers can't look around like that. You can look around for your
next game to be inspired, but if you are putting out a game next
year, I think it's the best thing you can do is not even look
at Polterskate three. You can't what can you do? Well? Devs don't
want to do that, right, They don't want to look around the current
landscape. But publishers, yeah, yeah, but they they were like what
footing did they have to stand on? Where it's like They definitely would not
have been like, get me Poulterers Skate three, that's where the money's at.
Give me something like that. They would have been like, no,
that's scary, we don't make games like that. You're gonna scare away the
people with the money. And it's like, okay, yeah, so we'll
see the PSP lives. It's not the PlayStation portable though, it's the PlayStation
portal and it's a remote play handheld device and I hate saying its name.
It costs two hundred dollars, has an eight NHLCD screen with ten ADP resolution
of sixty frames per second. It can only stream games from the PS five
console, mostly within your own household over Wi Fi, but is the remote
play app for Android, so you can pretty much stream it anywhere if if
you have the connection strong enough. But they are not promoting it that way.
I am gonna get one. I will not, so you have fun.
Okay, I can't help myself. Yeah, I'm in the middle of
you. Two then sure, like I don't want this? How many PS
portals are you getting? Dan curious every system I tend to get at lunch.
I think going this a system would be generous every video games thing I
like to have, So I wouldn't mind having one. The one I don't,
I'll ever use it. Right. The big missing feature that seems like
it would make a lot of sense is streaming stuff from the cloud through the
PlayStation network. Nope, it doesn't support that just doesn't work. They're not
going to do that. It's weird. They don't really say why, but
again, it probably comes down to like, oh, well, then you
can play that outside the house, and they're like, I made this thing,
might not have strong enough connection, But then like I you do it
on the phone, and this is just no difference, So I don't get
it. Nightdive is bringing back Star Wars Dark Forces in TROC three. Nightdive
Studios is remastering both games. They announced this as part of their stuff over
at Gamescom or whatever they were doing their thing. Both look fantastic. This
is the latest in a series of first person shooters from the classic era that
they are bringing back. They kind of like are two different tracks where it's
like TROC three was this the successor to these first person shooters on the n
sixty four and then was influenced by Half Life and Star Wars Dark Dark Forces
is from that Doom clone era. But Nightdive is good with any of these
things. They always sort of figured it out. So I'm excited to replay
both of these games. This is a fun thing. Switch surpasses we sales.
The Nintendo Switch is overtaken the Wi in lifetime sales in the United States.
The Switch is now less than a million units behind the Xbox three sixties
lifetime sales in the US and less than five million behind those of the PS
two. The Switch had already overtaken the WI in terms of global sales back
in February twenty twenty two. The Switch shipped to three point nine one million
units. During the three month period between April and June twenty twenty three,
Nintendo forecasts it will sell fifteen million consoles during that time. This comes from
these numbers come from sir Kana used to be MPD. They also mentioned that
the PS five is about five percent ahead of the PS four when you align
their launches, and the Xbox series SNX are ten percent hunt behind the Xbox
One, but ahead of the Xbox three sixty. Crazy the Xbox One did
better than the three sixty, significantly better than three sixty, at least through
this point of the generation. As you get a crass going into the launch,
what the fuck yep. But as you get later in the gender generation,
I think the three sixty continues to have a lot of momentum, and
then the Xbox One tails off there. And that's why the Switch, for
example, is only behind the three sixty and the PS two in the United
States. How many react with Switch Lifetime in the United States. I think
we're around fifty million worldwide. Worldwide, it's at like one thirty one hundred
and thirty million something like that. Yes, is it a wild to be
just like living through this, Like the Nintendo just has another banger of a
console. It's like, yep, I mean, I just I think it's
their best console ever. You Switch their best To argue, like I always
people always pointed the Super Nintendo, and I feel like the highs were so
high there with Mario World, Link to the Past and Final Fantasy and stuff,
but like it didn't have the breadth of great games that the Switch has.
Yeah, sich Mario Odyssey. Yeah, I think four four best Pickman
glad we could represent Pickman four here? Three? Ye? Which arms?
Sure? Give me legs? Damn it. H I'll give you Exciteback sixty
four, which is coming to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack in two days,
coming on on Thursday. It's the sixty four game that's joining the expansion pack
this month. They have like two more that have been announced that haven't come
out yet. One of them is eighty is the other one Mario Party three
is three on there yet Three's not on there yet. It must be Mario
Party three then so now so I guess those will hit by the end of
this year. And then maybe I don't know, maybe they at this Nintendo
director with the Super Mario Brothers. Wonder they'll also say, and here's some
other n sixty four games coming. Probably maybe not, but there's some.
We don't have the first Mario Land on game Boy and oh yeah, I'm
talking about the sixty four ones, but yes, there's and like Golden Sun
hasn't come, and they've announced that as well. There's a handful of Gameboy
and game Boy Advanced games that they've talked about. All right, well,
last couple stories here. Ben Affleck reveals his Valerie Maine because when I guess
I don't know anyone in Valerie Me neither Mike. You guess some twink?
You got it right? I think Ko and raise, he says. He
says he's promiscuous. He goes back and forth between the characters. So yeah,
some twink wonderful. And then finally the impossible pivot from that fifteen year
old studio is shutting down. Me Me Me, the developer of Shadow Tactics,
PLAYE and Showgun has announced that it will be shutting down after releasing its
final games, Shadow Gambit, the Cursed Crew. The studio cited increased financial
pressures and the difficulty of maintaining a healthy work life balance as reasons for the
closure. Mimmi's employees will be supported during the transition, and Shadow Gambit Gambit
will still receive post launch support. That's it's weird, right. We're in
this era where it's like indie games and smaller games and games out of nowhere
can come out and just blow up and become the biggest things in the world,
and then other students like are putting out their games and like, hey,
and we're closing down. We can't. This is not sustainable. I
haven't played that newer game, but that's Parados three was really good. Actually,
well, like, yes, it seemed like everyone who played it like
the law, but just wasn't able to kind of reach that wider audience,
it feels like, and that's a bit of a shame. I kind of
hope more people can go back and find that. But yeah, this is
rough. Is they they made again? If des Paro three is anything go
by, they make really high quality games that you know they don't feel like
games from small teams. They feel very triple A in what they're doing,
that kind of top down tactics and they've been doing for fifteen years. Yeah,
yeah, all right, that does it for the news. So I'm
handing this show back over to Jana Chilla. Wow. This show has been
full of fun surprises and we're just gonna pet it. Lower our blood pressure
just a little bit. Take quick break, and we'll be back with some
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this week, so I appreciate everyone that took the time to write in.
First question comes from Eric from Glendale. Hey, Bomb crew, why is
Marrow the only character who gets to play golf, soccer, baseball and race
carts? Other franchises and characters should get in all this kind of stuff.
More, what character or franchise do you think should get a series of sports
games. Man the Dolphin Medal. You're solid. I'd love a Dragon Ball
Z card. Thanks Eric from Glendale. Mortal Kombat did it. I mean
they at least had like cards and stuff like that as side modes. Yeah,
I'm gonna go with meddle Year. Yeah. Ww did a great card
race, so they should do Uh, they should do one with the tennis
and soccer. I would play at w like, oh that's a car combat.
That's definitely yeah, undertakers, but twist your rockets. Yeah that's right.
Yeah, why don't go sure, Echo the Dolphin is it? Yeah?
You should have a little tennis racket. It'd be cute. Are there
more dolphins other than Echo in that game? I never Well, yeah there's
Echo Junior. He had a little orca friend, and there's others. Bub
yeah, bubb well. Sega did dude, like the son They do like
Sonic and Sega All Stars games, and they actually like the racing games were
very good. They actually they did a tennis game that was supposed to be
very good. I dont't think I played a bunch of it myself, but
I kind of wish they just kept doing that. They should have done a
golf game also, sorry, resident evil, resident evil, Yeah, well
they kind of have. I think I think there should be a resident Evil
extreme beach volleyball. Yes, but oh yeah I want to I want to
lotion up leon. Yeah, I mean, don't we all come on?
Yeah? Put him in the bar at one, you know, yeah?
Yeah, for sure? Good? Was he Chris punching boulders in like one
of those like but the buller butts no, but like the ball has to
be very prominent. Oh okay, of course, yeah right right, that
went without saying. But fair enough. I'm glad we got there with with
the joke, all right. Uh. Ben from Iowa writes in No Wonder,
Jan is addicted to coffee. He spends the energy coffee gives just making
a cup. Do any other giant bombers spend unnecessary energy on something they enjoy?
Thanks Ben from Iowa. I try to avoid spending energy on most day.
If I do love it like that's my big gang, Like are pretty
lazy. Let's be real lazy, like spending a lot of extra energy.
If I have to do a lot of energy, I don't love it,
like I stop loving it. So yeah, okay, okay, ever go
into the same subway for lunch almost every day for a long time now because
guess what's the closest restaurant Mayowa? Is it Subway? It is? Dang,
yeah, I got it. We did it, Okay, all right,
I guess barbecue is a good one win chip. Yeah, Like I
do have like the whole pellet grip, but even the pellet grill makes it
so easy to do barbecue. But like that is one thing where like I'll
have big barbecue days where I'm going to like, you know, okay,
I'm going to season this now, then let it set for a while or
maybe even brind it and that's gonna take overnight, and then when I wake
up, I'm going to do this thing for two hours of prep and you
know, so that's like a thing I will spend two days of careful planning
and spending a lot of energy for the differences I may not even pick up
on. Just just treat yourself, take yourself. Last time, I rendered
out some beef talo from some of the trimmings and like put that in my
rap even because I saw a person on YouTube do that, so I was
like, I'll do that and didn't do anything. I don't know, but
it was kind of fun to do. Cooking other stuff in the fat of
other animals is fucked up, but so delicious. I don't I don't want
to scare Dan. I know that. You know he's having trouble with his
grilled cheese, saying cheese or whatever barely requires six pans for you. Stay
in my lane with that stuff. I know what I don't know, and
I'm gonna not funk around with advanced stuff like grilled cheese. And what's simple
to you? What's the what is the easy stuff? Easy bag? Heat
up of a box of food arrived today and I heat up two of them
a day. Oh your factors? Yes, okay, that is even easier
than a grilled cheese sandwich. Yes, it is all right. Moving on,
You can touch change if it's so conditioned not to engage. You're like,
no, I can't even you're talking about wanting to do a cooking show
with Dan. Are you you could still survive? Yeah? Yeah, I
feel like I am low keyate Dan Whisper. You know, I know I
know how to how to get Dan to get going. You know I would
do it. I got I got a document camera, right, here,
I can put it above a oven. I can. Yeah, we're good
to go. There, we go. All you need to cook a document
camera stove is okay? Sorry, well, I mean yeah, it still
works for me. I get ovens and stoves mixed up a lot. Okay,
all right, in the same unit. It's the same device. You're
right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right. I
used the word interchangeably every once in a while, and you know what's wrong.
The word stove top is makes it a little bit more confusing as well.
I get that. Okay, So when you buy, we go,
not the top of the stove. When you go to best Buy and you
buy that, are you buying an oven? Are you buying a stove?
Yeah? I don't think I've ever been in a position to buy a stove,
so I'll just come with the places I move into. I've never bought
in an oven, so it's the same thing. It comes in the same
device. It stove is an oven, what I mean. But then you
get into like the units where it's like, all right, we got two
ovens over here on top of each other every night, but Dan, no,
there's like scissors and screwdrivers and stuff in there. Oh, one unit
can contain multitudes. Well, it seems to me like the ovens the main
event there, and like that's why I like I would be more comfortable using
an ovens. Stoves are freaky. Ovens are pretty simple. Do you have
a gastric stove? Yeah? I get like, I don't know, it's
scary. Is there fire? I don't know. I've never used it.
I've never used the one of the old house. I have no idea what
not to say. You just moved in. But now I'm okay, no,
I you know I have no I can't at any point in my life,
I can't tell you what type of stove I had. All right,
that's well, that's that's Have you looked at it ever? Really, like
when you walk past your like avert your gaze, so it doesn't like I
think I couldn't. I couldn't point it out in a police lineup right now.
Okay, this is the first time you use that analogy for picking something
out? How favorite analogy of Like it's right in front of you and you're
looking at like five of them and I don't know it's one of the men
and then a stove and They're like, I just can't help you here.
I'm so I don't know usual suspects poster but with a bunch of ovens.
Yeah, and folks, I need you to write in if you have ever
been to a police lineup on either side. I just need to know.
I just need to know how often that hasted A few times. I've never
been in a police lineup. I wish I would have been. That would
have been a fun story. We can a fire stove in Minnesota, because
I remember that story I told about getting too drunk with Mark Henry and then
buying the fake weed from sex World and I was trying to light it by
putting it down into the flame. So I know there was a literal flame
fire stove Dan, Yes, with literal physical flames. Yeah, yeah,
so not guess instead of yeah electric? Where do they get the other people
for the lineup? The police line up? There? They're the actors from
Disney World. Oh, I guess that makes sense. They need other works.
They're all just skippers on the Jungle Cruise. Exactly hundred bucks or something.
I think I think i'd come on, guys, back me up.
I'd be pretty good at that, right, I could be would you try
to seem like like you're a bad guy and so it's like it would be
funny if they's like, I got you, I'm the good guy. You
get paid extra if you fool You mean being a skipper, right, yeah,
it means being a skipper. Yeah, I know you wouldn't suck at
that. You Let's go back to you being in a police lineup. Wow,
Mike, I think you do great all right next to you. Man,
what they're talking about, I don't know what they're talking about. The
skipper is one of the hardest jobs, but what I think might be one
of the funnest jobs at disney World. In Disneyland, you just drive a
boat. No, you have to quip, you have to crack wise,
I'll very good at that. Are you in a costume? Yes, you're
at okay, you're no, no, no, you're wearing what the Rock
wears and jungle cruise. I don't know what that is, okay, person.
Yeah you look like a boatman, Yeah, a good old boatman.
Yeah, this is a job. Yeah, you don't have to worry about
piloting the boat. You just have to we're not allowed to ask that question.
With that, I thought that question was funny, not a lot.
Tomorrow you're gonna be wearing an outfit and playing a bad Sonic game, and
well, yeah, I'm working, I'm earning a living here, You're contributing
to the economy. The GDP is gonna grow incredible. I just look at
some point in my life like once, I'm like even moreover than I am
now hard to believe. I know, like I'm gonna have the prestige to
like make them. Let me like, as a gimmick, be a jungle
cruise skipper for a day. We can do that, probably, we you
know, we just need to pass enough diet cokes to the right guy.
See, this is the only difference between you know, there's a lot of
differences. This is the main difference. Dan would just start doing this and
You're like, no, I'm gonna wait till the time is right now.
You just gotta do it. You know what happen. That's the That's one
of the lessons I've inadvertently learned from the Book of Chor. Just do it.
Just just do it, okay, anything if you don't know any of
the reasons why you can't do it is right. I always say about Davis.
Next time we're going at Disney Park, we're gonna at Jungle Cruise.
You just tackled current skipper of the thing over. Dan doesn't physically hurt anyone
with the dealer the violence. Yeah, you know, he just's turn off
and do the thing. Yeah. Yeah. I taught myself that less than
in like high school. I remember I wanted to skip out of math class
so bad because I think, like Rustle in two thousand, wod just come
out and I wanted to skip And it was like I think, I I
think I knew it was coming in at a certain time, and I was
like, I gotta leave during math class. And I was so up in
my head. I was just like, oh God, he's gonna see me.
There's no way to dose. He's in the middle of doing a lecture.
He's up by the board. I just have to walk in front of
him and not tell him why. And I was so up in my head
and I just told myself, Dan, shut the fuck up, your legs
work, just walk out of the class. And I just got up and
I walked out, and I walked into my car and I drove and I
bought a video game just listens to you, like like whenever I like a
pain these days, I'm like, okay, I get it, I understand
about it. I'm a little bit of pain. Thanks for telling me.
I don't need to hear that anymore. And it definitely like dampens the pain
like a body like we're like, okay, all right, you're on.
I'm listening to you. It's weird. But exactly do you think just doing
it means in this situation, Like I have to contact Disney? Yeah,
yeah, start asking people, yeah, yes, send them on contact you
want, but ask like, yeah, ask anybody. Can I be a
guest skipper, like for like a specific cruise. Yeah, we need to
make content and I have to be a skipper in order for this to work.
You call them, you explain you're on a very big pike. This
is like when I want to do the roller coaster thing U at six Flags.
I literally had the idea that I called six Flags and I was like,
hey, I worked for a website. Well I think I said I
worked for CBS. That was that was a good thing to pull, which
was true. H And I just gotta call them do it all right?
Well, look this is my before I'm forty or maybe run their goals.
I'll be a skipper on the general cruise. I just learned that a an
acquaintance of mine worked on the Star Wars cruise thing or whatever. They're closing.
The hotel they're closing, I don't want to talk about. I want
to go do. It's so bad. They could have got they could have
they could have gone. It could have been an other it's still open.
Yeah, but we so they're all they're all booked up though, so like
they can't even kill someone for that. There's gonna be a special Star Wars
lounge on my Disney cruise I'm doing in November. I'll send you picks,
Jeff, Mike, tell me what that's like, because I've been interested in
going on that cruise. I've never done once. It'll give me my first
one, believe it or not. So yeah, I'm very very excited.
No matter what, Mike, even if you hate it, you got to
come back and just like talk how good it is in front of Baclar.
Yeah. Well I heard his anti cruise rant ud be I'd be shocked if
I didn't like it. One of the things, yes, one of things
I'm doing with my father is there's a barber shop, but like also a
cocktail bar, so they'll like make you an old fashioned to drink while they're
cutting your hair and stuff. I don't know why that is, Like that's
really appealing to like some kind of weird masculine energy. It doesn't usually come
out all the time. But yeah, it's just what alpha males do,
Mike, So I'm not that's that's that's actually what I do. Yeah,
it sounds you could do the Jericho Cruise if if they pay for us to
come, I would one hundred percent would do it. Yeah, yeah,
boy, yeah, that would be that type of fan. Look, I'll
say this about the Disney people. I would a zillion times rather be on
a cruise of all the Disney people than with like a gamer cruise or a
wrestling fan. That's rough. I don't know. I don't know what the
Disney people. I say, Disney people. It's not like it's actually a
bunch of Disney families. Get families on vacation and gamer cruise, Disney cruise
or wrestling cruise. We can agree all of them are above the pinball cruise,
right, that's yeah, great. The boat is constantly tilting and it's
just a gimmicks. It's like, look, it's like the pinball if the
gamer Cruise was set up in a way to take advantage of all these people
together, Like there's big like there's tournaments, there's like a bunch of stations,
like like when you go to a game convention and there's a bunch of
like retro things set up, and here's the RTS with Smash Brothers. Here's
where you can play Mario Party on a big screen and stuff like that.
Like that could be kind of fun because you'd actually have stuff to do,
wrestling, diversify. Come on, guys, you guys got to be thinking
about these things. That's a terrible idea, Mike. We would never do
anything like that. Yeah, God, can you imagine if we had to
run a bet, like we actually had to run the operations of Like all
right, who's the Church of Breakfast today? Guys. Maybe my favorite episode
of Colombo is the one when he goes on a cruise. That's a very
fun The Loos cross over with a love boat. Sadly, No, I
still I keep threatening. I gotta do it. I gotta become a big
love boat person something. Yeah, you're you're the most love boat person for
a person who's never seen love boat. Yes, and you've never seen love
boats, you talk about it. I talked about constantly. I'm thinking about
it all the time. I've never seen a second of it. I don't
really know what it is, what exactly is going on. I don't know
are people falling in love? Is that? Like? Is that? Like?
The point of the boat is that here's a lot of weird Mike things.
This is especially weird, even for Mike. I was gonna say it's
not weird because I can kind of see it. To be obsessed with and
constantly referencing a thing you don't know anything about, Yeah, that's a Mike
thing. Yes, I guess I'm thinking about I'm very curious about the love
Boat. I just haven't gotten there yet. But why if I never shut
up about Bonanza? Like, why would you don't shut up about Bonanza?
I really think we can get you to not talk about on any stuff.
I can't having dreams about the love Boat, and then I talked about like,
I guess I should have just watched the love Boat. And because see
if all these love boat dreams mean anything, Mike Mebodi Okay, Mike Mebodi,
Mike, Mike, all right, you been trying to read for a
good ten minutes, comes from Mike. Uh, what's good? Bomb Shells.
I had an epiphany about this and I need to inflict last share it
with someone. In Spanish, the letters X and jay are pronounced like an
h, so Texas is Tajas, etc. With that knowledge, Javier is
our, Xavier is Javier, meaning that professor Hey and the hex men,
thank you. I'm sorry, Lightning round Jeff, how is the vacation?
He's not here? Grub, I miss your hair, jan don't cut your
hair Dan, Internet check it seems fine. Grub twenty four check. Yeah.
I finished the second season. I talked about the next snapping, which
is one of the most important things that's ever happened to me. I will
start season three here, probably after I get back from packs because there's too
many games to play and I'm just he's currently addicted to Heroin in between,
so I'm just saying, no, Grub is currently addicted to Heroin or Jack
Power. Who could say not want to? I want to live that Jack
Bower life, so I'll do what it takes. Bailey Bear check, I
don't think Bailey has has gotten to the Barriett. Hi, Mike Bear now
tam street Fighter. Check. Wait, Lucy, always enjoy when you're on
the program. Get out whole, Mike. I'm out, get back in
the Manati slot, Mike, that's the main character. What's going on set?
From my iPhone? God? Can we just like Truman Project Mike one
day? I think Truman show me man. I wouldn't be shocked if I
thought out I've been Truman shows who actually make a lot of sets. I
just ket you're in the real world. Is that why all the events are
in California? That you just get on the plane and the set slowly rotates
to bring Disney Wall there. Yeah. They're working like crazy on this pack
set right now, really working over time. Ed Harris is really sweating watching
this podcast right now. Sorry, Ed, Bob Iker has been sweating.
It's like, oh God, he's figuring out I'm trying to make Oh and
they're tear fine about I Love boat because they're were in the boats because they
think I'm gonna go because the ocean doesn't exist anymore exactly. Don't get too
curious, Mike. Yeah, oh shit, Okay, I'm gonna break my
Truman show bubble. That's be careful. I want the thought to cross Mike's
mind if he ever does get to be a skipper for a day or for
a shift. I'm like, was this? Am I getting true? Mitched?
Like this isn't normal? People don't get to be skippers for no reason?
Why why? I am hashtag blessed backlard next email comes from Alex and
Bendigo, Australia. Backlark going on one of his famed curmudgeon dumps. Is
the first time I've ever heard of seasons not starting on the first of the
month as they do down here in Australia. What's something small and inconsequential you've
found out that still left you against Jeff. Oh no, I want Jeff
to talk about season. Listen. I get it, I get it all
right. You're like, oh, I want to put on my coat on
because it's November first, and that's what the weather man says or whatever.
But like the season's happened because of where the Earth is aligned and and how
it goes around the sun and like that that's just always the same, Like
that's just not that has nothing to do with like, oh, it's the
first of the month. It's like it happens when it happens, and that's
when the season begins, and that's that's That's that simple. But this is
the kind of thing where I'm like, I get like a simple thing where
I get worked up on. I have a couple of these. My other
is the cartridges, Yes, cards and cartridges, like the switch doesn't use
cartridges, is use as cards. People, I think Monday is the first
day of the week. Yes, a lot of people are Monday's first day
of the week. Sunday is the last day of the week. It's like,
no, it's fucking not. It's a calendar exactly. There was a
there's a couple other ones, but I mean that man used to get really
mad at people who I thought Anastasia was a Disney movie and then finally the
Disney Fox and that was kind of is I'm sorry, Mike that you can't
hold under that anger that we can that Russian princess is now a Disney princess.
Oh god, there was something I got curmudginey about recently. Oh h
I got really weird about micro plastics that like at home, I insisted with
my partners, like we want to throw away all of our plastic top of
over. We can't eat this, it's got as I'm like, gott a
glass everything. Yeah, I'll read. I'll definitely like see a TikTok aritos
an article based on like some research, and then I'll get weird about like
plastics or metals for a couple of weeks. Yeah that happens. Oh yeah,
I'll get also very curmudginey about like when I, uh, I don't
know how this is everywhere else, but like at least in California there's like
a compost trash can, recycling trash can, trash trash trash can, and
like I will get so upset with someone just hemming and hanging of like where
do I throw this will away? That multiple times I've taken someone's trash and
thrown it away for them because I'm like, I, you're stalling up everything.
Just no, please just know this. They're stalling up at Okay,
there's coke zero machines taking over the normal things because people will sit up the
fucking coke zero machine because there's only one of them, because they take face
the freestyle freestyle, thank you freestyle machines, yes, and then they'll be
like, well, I have all the options in the world, I better
do some artists free with my drink. Here, go to hell and get
your diet coke. We all know you're gonna get. Oh, you're gonna
put little cherry in there. Fuck off, get your drink. I'm behind
you. I want my drink too. I think we've realized that the freestyle
machines were a mistake because they break out. I'm pro. I'm pro.
No, they're they're good in the drive through when you order to drink and
you don't know that you have all those options. But when you have all
those options, it's not suddenly gonna be so so much better that you have
the options. You're still gonna get the thing you like. They also have
so many options of like just zero, like a Mellow Yellow zero and Sprite
zero and Doctor Pepper zero, and like you know, usually you don't you
have, like diet coke is the option, and there's not a lot of
diet Listen, I don't blame you for that. Yes, but if I
have to wait behind someone for five minutes while they're deciding like some masterpiece that
they're gonna make that's very I'm not really mad when they changed the label for
coke zero. They used to be that nice. Well, they changed everything
though about clear like when that happened. I told him that it was they
were getting rid of coke zero, and he was like devastated because it's his
favorite thing. It is if it tried to drink less. Yeah, well
they changed the formula twice now, and both times the formula change is something
I got over real quick. But I still hate the new cans because it
used to be really easy. Well, these are the black can cokes.
The gray cans is diet black coke zero, red is regular coke. Was
casting free for Grandma's right now cokes. He was just also read for some
reason. But the letters are black, like this looks way worse. It
was a nicer, well designed can like the black og Coke zero. It
was real slick. I have a Christmas ornament of that can. I felt
cool drinking a Coke zero. Yeah, they all felt like chads. Well,
I definitely felt cool drinking Pepsi max until it like I destroyed my throat.
I was doctor pepper Tens. Well, of course, that's why I
stopped drinking pop because all this pops for women. What am I gonna do?
Pepper, I'm secure, I'm good. I need my masculine soda.
Yeah, those are the top two Coke zero diet Doctor Pepper, those are
the best. Sorry, Starry is the new kid on the block, and
it is just it just it's a more fun name and a more fun can
storry a lot more than Serra. Miss I never ever bought Sera, miss.
I buy Starry every time I'm at the story. I agree with everything
you just said. Yeah, I said, want to do these rebrand Good
job. I want to give him, you know, crazy to take my
money. Good job, Starry. Uh. The other time zone stuff,
not time zones, but daylight savings time. So when you get emailed,
they're like, this is gonna happen at seven pm Eastern Standard time, and
I'm like, it's Eastern daylights time right now. You're because Jeff Jeff said
this, and I can never keep tracks, and now I always just write
out Sterner Pacific. Yeah you can just skip it. Yeah. And then
the generations things I saw yesterday, Someone's like, what was the best controller
of the six generation consoles? Shut up, you nerds. We never use
that that's such a stupid thing. You guys have to put everything in your
little buckets. Get over it. It's so confusing, it's useless. I
hate it so much. Just when people describe anything with pixel art as eight
bit style. Yeah, okay, looks like the most fucking detailed like PS
one sprite artists. Oh yeah, it's like pixel e eight bit like Nintendo
Arts Like. Nope, nope, that's a very specific look a bit.
I think we've learned that we're all a little bit curmudgeny. That's fine.
I mean all of us added up don't equal one. Backlar, surprisingly,
I was I was shocked to hear the cruise hate. I thought a nice
cruise vacation is something that Jeff Backlar would enjoy, But I guess not.
Yeah, well, i'll report back when I do my Disney cruise. I'm
looking forward to it. Please. What's the what's the thing during the trailer
round up, it was the live action Starfield trailer that really bug Oh.
I didn't like that. That was dumb. I just hate the most on
the nose rocketman thing, the sad bassard rocket Man like that was stupid.
Yeah, it's like yeah, but like he was like had a strict hatred
for it, and I'm like, okay, yeah, I'm like already forgot
it existed, but yeah, fair enough. Yeah, all right, folks,
we've gone to that part of the show, you hooligans. I've already
copy and paste the fifty so I make sure that you don't keep hell.
Yeah. So let's get to the shout outs, starting with number one,
Jan, you look great and we will miss your hair of parentheses, but
you'll still look great. Farewell, common writer geets Ace with us in equivalent
exchange comes common writer, gotchard grab it the ultimate gotcha? Oh no,
oh no beef and shudder. Boys don't believe it, but I believe Jan.
Now, Dan, I'm a little confused. They did what with pepperoni?
They put the pepperoni in the cheesy bread? Yeah, Jeff Jared for
a song. There's a song they put the pepperoni in the cheesy bread.
Okay, I'll take your word for it, Jeff Jared for allowing us to
be filthy smarks and use rastle terms. And then Jack Barry got choked,
Jan holding up the website on his back. You're the one, You're the
only one. We share the burden here, folks, Jeff Grubb is terrified
of nematodes, Carlack always Carlack, Panda and the Chew Chew Crew and the
Minnesota State Fair. I'm a gb mark because of that. I gladly put
up with all the shooty work wrestling bullshit. You baby face gimmicks have never
once mentioned Hulkster in Heaven. I had to learn about it from a baseball
podcast. I know he is for a shoot piece of shit, but come
on, that song is transcendent. I've never felt these things before. The
world lost another whole comaniac. He won't even acknowledges this. What if I
don't know what that is? Can we out? Can you just play Hulkster
in Heaven? I feel like I need to hear. How about this.
I'll get it all. I'll send it over to Jan he can finish the
things and then we'll watch it and that'll be the end. Yes, please,
okay, yes, please slack that to me, Jeff, Yes,
got it? Who saw Dan being an armored core guy on staff? Mike
Mine Goblin Manati Mine Goblin, des Nuts Sea Punk did nothing wrong? Parentheses?
Whoever wrote this get fucked? No, you get fucked You get fucked,
Infinity Stamp, double staffed, Sea Punk the best in the world.
Being a bitch. Sea Punk is the Elon Musk of wrestling. Oh sure,
yeah, Oh that makes me sad. Yeah, it's real. Glass
crimea river. Take a deep breath before reading number twenty. Oh fuck you
guys, Jan, Holy shit, I got it. What you asked.
Four packs a brick of pure Columbian white Christmas, I got you, man.
You can ride the snake and write that Ernie Reyes Junior and Dave Batista
romcom with him. I'll write the score and be ahead of barbecue, even
though I don't understand music and I'm afraid of pigs and oh shit, to
sneak in it, in it, and it's probably what's going to get stuffed
with the old prison wallet, which is gonna be rough because between that and
the Lorcana booster box. You want want me to wait, make that Make
sure you don't read this out loud. Jan, stop reading Jan shit,
this is this is Dan record being a scamp. Haha. Remember what I
said about pirates and forget about butt cocaine shit Bat Grubb and Robin Lady Flash
and the Blue Combat Club. I can't believe Dan killed Bob Barker Grub twenty
four check edit never mind Mitch love Boat check edit never mind Dan Bonanza check
the best television program of all time? Manati spits not swallows Blake Wow Black
Club Recommendation X two. Wolverinees Revenge A terrible movie time in game dress Mitch
in the bright yellow Wolverine suit. I like that part in Texas Chainsaw Massacre
where leather Face Pat's grandpa on the head after giving a blood. Leatherface loves
his grandpa, Rip bray Wyatt. He got the whole world in his hands.
Shouts out to the Seminole nineteen ninety five movie Classic Hackers, A five
star movie, Dan, five star, brought to you by Barbara, Jan's
broken Heart, bonded by Pokemon, broken by Zelda, betrayed by his brother.
Jan May bring y'all a mailbag at packs Sure, Also, Mike,
what is the best flavor shortbread cookies? Normal? Well, Normal's the best
flavor? The best kinds of you get a Disney World. I love the
taste of normal. It's I don't like the ones with the chocolate, and
I want chocolate. I just want the butter. What is license a thrill
who can say Terry Funk forever, Hey Nos, hugs and kisses, Coral,
Coral, abide and Rubicon. This is from Mike Manatti. It's me
Mike typing this right now. If you see me at packs, please come
up and tell me that y RB sucks. Also tell me, Mike Manatti,
how much Sonic sucks. I think the Hey nos, fuck you guys
in here this week ripped to the streak. Oh shit, did I just
keep it going? The best cruise is the three eleven cruise. Mike Manati
makes us all, makes us all call him Sempie on Reddit. A stove
isn't always an oven and and isn't always a stove. Chuck Taylor want a
wrestling match at Wembley Stadium, Let's fucking go. Maybe my favorite thing about
all it was like Chuck Taylor getting the guy who was like going to retire
eight years ago because no one wanted to book him anymore. Chucky. I
love that he wore a suit before all in also water everywhere, are there
more an Amorse or anime? Black club recommendation? Ball in Wonder World,
make grub dress up as prisoner and be Eugen knock. I can't Blake Club
recommendation Darkened Sky, the Skittles based magic RPG for the GameCube. Make d
pretty Good dressed like berries and cream Guy from that one commercial complete The wig
range versus Stove versus Oven is a really difference. It's a lovely podcast starring
two men with fears of stovetops and apples, ri Ip Mike and Riquez the
real One, Dick the Cock Johnson, Get that last looks at Jan's hair
RP those beautiful locks. Get ready for Jan's Lex luthor era. And that
has been the shoutouts this week, folks. What's happening this week, gentlemen.
Blake Club, Yes, Blake Club. I also sent you Hawkster and
Heavens, so you have that if you need it. Black Sure, Yeah,
Blake Clubs. Tomorrow we have a bunch of things they're happening that we
will be well to talk about. Yeah. But then Starfield Quick Look is
going up on Thursday. We will also most of us will be traveling,
so we'll find time to talk about in the next bodcast as well and find
other places to put Starfield for sure, and then the Nintendo Direct Super Mario
Brothers Wonder on Thursday morning before Game mess Mornings. Look out for that.
We'll do that. We'll go into game US Mornings and I'm gonna go get
on a plane and go to packs then is uh yeah, why because because
we're not Because here's the general overview. It's license games. We've talked about
this before. I wanted to do more like there's so many of those like
PS two, Reservoir Dogs, Sopranos, you know, got the scarface.
Uh and with the recent twenty four stuff, we tried out twenty four the
game, So grub is gonna play that and we recorded that. It'll go
up. It was a Thursday, was that right? Yeah? Moved it
to Friday because yes, right right, So it's gonna be a thing.
We're gonna It's not a weekly thing. It's one where we will try these
out. If any of these games like grab Us, maybe we'll do more
than one episode on him. We'll see how we feel about twenty four of
the game when he watched the vod there. But yeah, it'll be a
thing you see every once in a while of licensed games. Yep. And
we got other things cooking. We'll get like a demo derby going here,
relatively soon Dan settled in now, so a lot of the things that we
were kind of had on on a a pause because of his moves, Like
we're gonna start figuring that stuff out and then yeah, black clubs, black
back and not going anywhere. So lots of stuff happening on the site.
Yes. Also, if you are in Seattle for Packs West this weekend,
we will be part of two panels. Jenni Stover will be moderating a panel
Friday night, that is September first, eight pm at the Blue Jay Theater
and then to the next day Saturday will be Giant Bomb's Voicemail Dump Truck live
with live voicemails whatever that means, and that will be at five to get
a stream up and running on the site with everyone out Friday for Packs,
you'll definitely have the VOD of license to thrill, but I might try to
boot some stuff up and maybe play some Armory cores or something on Friday,
low key upf replacement. So that's on the docket. Yeah, and hey,
your boy is looking for Rex to maybe host an impromptu meet and greet
one of the places I was asking for money when I didn't think everybody should
be exchanged anyway. Fantastic show. I've been Jan, he's been Jeff,
he's been Mike, he's been Dan, and you have been beautiful. I
wish that you go drink a glass of water and wash your face tonight,
wash behind those ears. We'll leave you with the lovely whatever the hell this
is is gonna be. I don't know. We can't play too much of
this stuff. Oh God, I read it in the papers, I saw
it on TV. I guess we'll be when NC. This can't be him
wrestled, don't believe Wait, talk to Wembley Wrestling whenst Wembley. This actually
is him right from the stamps. He's talking about a fan that died.
That's what he says. So I'll see. I'll put it in the chat
right now. All right, I'm gonna pervade the black. We'll listen to
the rest of this. We'll see you next week comes