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Games of two thousand and three. We'll get to that in the second half
of the show. For now, Mike, how are you doing. I'm
doing pretty good. Yeah. Actually, yeah, for the first time in
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you drink. Mike. It's been a I don't know, it's been a
weird news week. Lots of stuff happening, lots of games are still happening.
But I don't know how you've been. Yeah, I've been good at
busy. Guested on a couple of things this week, so that's been fun.
Was on the Trivia Tower, I was on game that tune. It's
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Add free Mike, We got some news you want to talk about it?
Yeah, the Division three was announced in a press release. It's interesting,
Yeah, kind of in a tweet, kind of in a tweet.
This makes me think Ubisoft say, hey, I wish our stock price was
doing better. Hey, that's investors think we don't have a lot of stuff
coming. But what do we just tell we have stuff coming. It's like,
that's what this makes me think of. And it was part of like
announcing who's going to be in charge of the Division. Now, yeah,
this person's a charge of all our Division projects. By the way, that
includes the Division three, which surprised who we are making, right, Not
very surprising that they're making another Division, I guess maybe a little surprising.
You've got surprising in terms of like I'm sure they're doing that. I mean
they're making that mobile one which actually played some of them, and it's pretty
fully featured for a mobile game. Division two did pretty well and like got
to Destiny level but not bad. It certainly was like better than an anthem,
better than a lot of these shalooters do. Also, it was a
good game. Actually always liked it when I played Division two. It was
a good improvement from Division one. So I'm kind of looking forward to a
Division three, to be honest. Yeah, and yeah, I'll play a
Division. I've always or would've played a Division. But you know, this
is you we saw going back to one of its franchises and then you be
SAFT that's maybe maybe been going more towards stuff like Star Wars. I mean,
this is massive, the Massive Entertainment, the studio that is working on
Star Wars. It's not just the studio. Julian Garretty, who is who
you mentioned, is overtaking the division Division two and overseeing the Division three.
He is the person responsible for Star Wars Outlaws. So it's like, okay,
yeah, so they're not just like gonna be like, well, we're
all in on Star Wars now. Even if Star Wars Outlaws does great,
we're still gonna make it a Division game as well. It's like, Okay,
I guess I did always expect that to be the case, but it
is. I guess I thought there was a possibility maybe they would lean away
from their own stuff a little bit more since they're so focused on Assassin's Creed
as like that's the thing Youse makes, and then we're gonna do a bunch
of license games. But you know, no, I guess it's actually,
when I think about it, not too surprising at all. Right, And
a couple of things, so Massive also making that Avatar game that's coming out
in December, so a lot of people there winding down on that. I'm
sure a lot of them are helping on Star Wars also, But there's you
know, I assume if they have been typically working on two projects at a
time, kind of three, then, yeah, you can kind of shuffle
a lot of people onto this or slowly. I'm sure this is probably pretty
early pre production stuff, not when you know before Division two kind of had
to go against Destiny two at the height of its power. I know Destiny
Too is still doing well, Jeff, but I feel like there's probably a
pretty good there's probably a better chance for a Division three in a world where
it still doesn't seem like there's really going to be a follow up to Destiny,
Like as someone liked me and I imagine I'm not alone, is much
more likely to try a new game in a Division three than to just jump
back into Destiny Too. Yes, right that, And I mean, I
know that's the audience these days. Are a lot of people who love to
have these forever games, but there's a lot of people out there who I
think who are like us that want to have a fresh start and play it
for a little bit, and we're willing to pay the money to get into
one of the games if that's the case. So I think this is the
right move for the Division to have a new release every great every number of
years and long term support, like and they're promising to continue supporting the Division
two. So the people who are super into that, and there definitely are
people who are, they can continue to be happy with that, and then
they'll probably also jump over to the Division three as it gives them what they
want. Wonder what's setting, because what the first one was kind of a
New New York during New York during during the winter, just after the holiday,
so it had a lot of like Christmas stuff. Two was DC and
that was fun. I remember it's that hot, sticky DC two, which
I like it and had that air and space museum level that I really liked.
So yeah, I hope they have fun with a good setting. Again.
I hope it's not just like Chicago. I don't know that'd be a
little planned, but yeah, it kind of maybe getting out to get out
of the eastern half of the United States, uh, I don't know,
or let's do it, yeah, or go even further south or something like
that. There's there's some fun stuff they could do. I'll look forward to
it as well. Uh more news out of the Xbox League. It's it's
not I don't know, let's recap it, because it's like people continue to
make it sound like it is the biggest thing in the world. And I
just I think Christopher Dreen who said so like the Xbox League, is that
there might be a new console in eight years after the last one. There
will be a midgen hardware update. But this is going to make games and
it's popular franchises, and Xbox is updating their control or three years after they
said they probably would. It's when you put it like that sounds very very
bland in vanilla and kind of like confirmations of stuff we mostly already knew.
Yeah, I think I'm with you on this one. I don't think there's
it's interesting, of course, and of course we're talking about there's not.
I don't think there's anything scandalous or like damaging to them about this, right,
I mean, like even like someone like the stuff like, oh no,
you know, we know Dishonored three is happening, to be honest with
how much can change the video games. If they still told me next week
Division or Dishonored through is happening, I'd still be surprised. Exactly, you
didn't cancel that, okay, right, yeah, exactly, It's totally possible.
Right. There's been a lot of turmoil over at some of those studios,
a lot of turnover at those at those studios, so yeah, that
would be it's still be a nice surprise to see it confirmed that it's actually
coming out. Obviously there's like, hey, they we saw how much money
they're willing to spend on or what they think they would have to spend to
get something like Star Wars Jedi Survivor. It's three hundred or two hundred and
fifty million dollars. And then they estimated Baalder Skate three at five million dollars
for its next runoff of Stadia. That's you know, it's like, ahha,
that's funny because Baalder Skate three is so so big. It's bigger than
anything, bigger than Jedi Survivor, and it's oh yeah, but of course,
like who predicted that at the time, you know, all that kind
of stuff. So it's it's like kind of fun to see the internal internal
workings. And I really appreciate this insight. But at the same time,
if it's like just strict news, it's like it's fun stuff to talk about.
But I mean, yeah, I don't know how you kind of turn
this into anything more than that. And this is before you know, Phil
Spencer got in there and just put every team on a future hex in anyways
of yes, yeah, it's a hex and based economy now, so I
expect that's what they're working on. They you know, they also they did
come out and address it and they said, hey, that the leagues these
things are old, so like at least a year old of some of it's
older than that, and a lot of this stuff has changed. I'll be
surprised if most of it changes. But like the next gen Xbox, the
one that they started talking about, could have a different architecture than the X
eighty six chips they have been using for the last two systems. I would
be surprised if they changed it. But also it's totally possible. Uh.
The reason I think I would be surprised is because it seems like they've committed
to it. And I think that because the backwards compatibility team stopped working on
what they were working on and then we haven't heard anything from them since.
Makes me think the thing that they're working on is a backward compatibility tool to
get their games, the Xbox games that are running on Xbox Series X and
Xbox One now to work on whatever the next Xbox Is, So they have
years and years and years to get that up and running and they might need
that, but they're also very good, So it's like that. I'm like
that kind of all fits together and it's a little maybe a little conspiratorial,
but I don't think it's too far off the mark either. So yeah,
I really though, we're still gonna have to wait for them to come out
and say all these things because we just don't know, like even the revised
controller, something that seems obvious. Well, you know, another thing seemed
obvious that was on in this documentation was that little Xbox Keystone, the little
streaming box. That thing is on fuck at Phil Spencer's shelf behind him whenever
we see him these days, and that the things were supposed to be out
by now, and it just wasn't. They decided against it. They decided,
no, we're not going to release it. So that could happen to
anything in the in these in these documents, So yeah, we're just gonna
have to wait for them to confirm it, all right. Embracer Is it
says it spends more on platform fees than it does on game development, and
this is kind of him talking about how happy is about the new Epic Game
Store policy, where it developers make their games exclusive to Epic Game Store for
like six months or something like that. During that period they'll get one hundred
percent of the revenue share from those games, and then after that it'll go
back to that twelve percent, which is still much better than what happens on
Steam. He says, Obviously, we'd like to pay less fees to platforms.
In reality, we are paying more fees to platforms that we spend on
game development every year, and if you just think about that number, it's
crazy. So there are margins with the platforms that I would preferably have within
building, within building more games, and some more margins. But I think
it's great that Epic is trying is they're trying to build a competitive platform,
and I think that's that's fair that, hey, you want Epic to keep
trying to keep Steam on their toes something that large Wingerforce mentions. But also
I'm like, you probably could just spend more on your games too. It's
like that's an issue. Yeah, I don't know. This is this is
a company that has been laying people off at studios, closing studios, and
now they're also talking about they're looking for outside investments so they can avoid further
layoffs, and it's, oh, come on, it's like, hey wants
to invest We're firing people, our future doesn't look good. Who wants to
give us money? Exactly? So this is this is a company that already
is in in trouble and looks like rotten fruit. And who's gonna want to
go put their money into that when it's like, no one, even if
the games are good, this is not a company that's making money anytime soon.
So we'll see. Do you think Embracer Group is still a thing in
a year? Two years? Year, a year, it would be pretty
pessimistic. Two years, future looks fuzzy, says Magic eight ball. Yeah,
yeah, mic Ball, the Magic Mike Ball, which is our our
new segment here on Gay Messed de Sides. It is the Magic Mike Ball.
I think we kind of keep hearing bad news about Embracer just for the
next several months. Yeah, And honestly, I don't know if that like,
it's hard to see that ever changing. It's like they're not in a
position where a game can be a turnaround, not even talking about that,
They're not saying, oh, we just need a hit. They're saying we
need investment. Yes, good good luck, I don't know kind of to
eat. And that's an investment just to keep people around, not to like
start big new projects. It's to keep what they already have afloat that that
looks rough. Uh finally here Glenn sco Scofield is leaving a Striking Distance.
Glenn Scofield was the CEO and founder of Striking Distance, the studio that made
Callisto Protocol. It definitely failed to meet expectations. We hear when we're the
first couple of weeks we're here and it's just sold about two two million copies,
and everyone was expecting it self closer to five million copies. And the
reason they were expecting that it is because they spent a lot of money on
the game, north of one hundred million dollars. So the game is considered
internally at Crafton the pub G company to be a to be a flop.
And now the leadership and it's not just Scofield, a coup O, the
CFO and the chief operating officer I think also both left and now they're being
replaced by Uh yes, so I'm getting a note here they should have kept
it in the pub G universe. Of course, Famously, this game was
going to be in the pub g universe and then break. A few months
before released, They're like, actually, we're not going to do that anymore.
And I was furious. I was so desperate to like see what that
even looked like. But yes, this is Uh the studio is not closing,
though at least not yet. Uh there is. That's like the chief
like creative director or whatever is taking over the studio. So it's like,
I don't does that mean they're just gonna keep updating this game and then it'll
just fizzle out or is this studio gonna make something else? We honestly have
no idea at this point. Ye, but I don't know the big games
like this. You kind of hope that like a studio like a Striking Distance
could come along and make something that is going to be this successor to Dead's
Face. But we've seen this before where that rarely ever works, and maybe
not rarely, but it's a difficult thing to pull off, right, It
rarely works. I think it's fair enough to say. And I mean the
funny thing here is that it kind of worked well enough, like you got
sevens and you sold too many cops these. The problem here is what were
you expecting. How much did you invest in this idea? It's probably too
much. And part of the pitch was that it had to be this like
real triple a pretty game. I think that's a flawed pitch with a new
studio and a new ip and maybe at the time he said, well,
it's kind of those things, but it's mostly a dead space. But then
it doesn't play like a dead space, right, It doesn't have that kind
of shooter or shoot the limbs off stuff, right, So it kind of
wanted to have its cake and eat it too, calling back esthetically and and
marketing to dead Space as much as possible. The gameplay kind of being this
weird beat them up thing that threw a lot of people off. So yeah,
I think it's punch out right. People compared it to like a punch
out, Yeah, but not in like you know, like that's kind of
how they minute. Man. I mean, come on, two million.
If you show me like that first trailer it told me this game is gonna
sell two million copies, I would say, wow, good for them.
Yes, And I mean I think the problem is it takes that much money
just to get to two million copies, and that's that's rough. But I
mean, I you know, we we also always say on the show,
like new studios come along, and like all those Star Wars games they got
canceled at EA, like it was those who weren't even new studios. A
lot of times some of them were, some of them weren't. But the
reason they got canceled is like, this is new to us, and trying
to pull off a game like this is going to take a lot of money,
and then we might only get sevens and might only sell something like two
million copies, and a company are like, Ea, it's like buck fuck,
no, no way that we're not doing that. But it's like you
kind of have to go through those growing pains to get to the next game
that could be even better. And you know that's not always how it works.
I mean, you can just look over respond. That's not the trajectory
that the Star Wars Jedi games followed, but a lot of studios probably would
follow that. It's just those games often get canceled. We'll see if this
studio does get a chance to try this again, if they do, though,
it's got to be a much much more affordable project. Right if we
get a Closer Protocol two or some new game from this studio, there's no
way they're gonna get get one hundred million dollar budget, right, No,
there's no way there's gonna They're gonna have to figure something out. They're gonna
to streamline something. I don't know if it's like the game itself or the
fidelity, but something's gonna have to give. Yeah. In the see game
fire and chat mentions, they did light people off a few weeks ago.
They were laying people off at at striking distance. So yeah, Uh,
those are the big stories I have. Obviously, there's other things that happened
this week. But if if you got anything you want to talk about,
you could send in a super chat Mike, did I miss anything you wanted
to talk about? Uh? I don't know. That's that's what I want
to hear. That's exactly what I want to hear. Uh. You know,
I'll say I've been playing Phantom Liberty. Reviews are out for that.
I'll talk a little bit about that and what we've been playing. But I've
been playing Separate Ways. The First Evil for ye see and the Crew motorfests.
We're going to talk about that later, I guess. I mean TGS
has been happening. There hasn't been necessarily crazy news. The Path Traveler two's
coming to Xbox. Uh, yeah, some the first Phoenix, right,
Trilo, did you come to Xbox game Pass? That's coming to the game
Pass? So is some or yeah, CU's the stuff like or like a
dragon stuff? I should say it's those kinds of announcements. I mean,
there was a lot of gameplay for Dragons Dogma two, which I think looks
really good for that, but I never really played much Dragons Dogland. I
kind of want to go back to that and play it, but who knows
when all the fucking time. Yeah, it's it's it's The Traveler too for
PC. It's coming to PC as well. Okay, yeah, cool?
I thought it was already on PC. Wasn't it already on PC? I
think it's already on PC. Christian, I saw x books and window and
announcement threat it's probably yes, it's it's probably game Pass for PC or something
like that. It's already on PC, though, But yeah, you know,
I don't think about the funniest thing from the league was when like people
like rand the news story of well it turns out that Outer School six is
going to be exclusive to Xbox. No, we I mean we talked about
that years ago. It feels like at this point, yeah, it probably
was years ago, like but yeah, early on remember Pool reporting that,
and I don't know people, I think people even then, it's like,
it's not like it's like it was on a spreadsheet for two years ago.
Okay, like, yeah, it's not even really a confirmation. But also
yeah, of course it's going to be. Yeah, it's like, yeah
that they looked at the numbers, you know, just to repeat this again,
they looked at the numbers of what it would cost to make stuff exclusive
to Xbox and PC, and then they looked at the amount of investment that
would return into when it comes to getting people to sign up for game Pass,
and they're like, you know what, this is kind of an easy
choice. We're gonna lose a lot of money and we're gonna get a lot
of game Pass subscribers, and that's worth more to us in terms of the
price of doing business. So that's what they decided with Starfield. Nothing has
changed when it comes to elder scrolls six at least so far. That stuff
could change, but right now it hasn't. All right, Yeah, when
it was some super chats I would want to take. Let's do at firsts
No, let's do a quick quick break and then we'll get the super chats.
We'll be right back everybody, Yes, sir, Like we got a
handful of super chats. I would love for you to read them. Big
Jimbo, Ryan says Sean. Congrats on your new job, Mike, sweet
clean bill of health. Thank you, Christian, You're my favorite. Moud
and Jeff So thoughts on Alucard Call of Duty smiley face, Jim, why
are you mad at me? Now? Man? Thanks Jim, We're getting
close, fan Jesus Nick Wait sorry wait al Cart's in Call of Duty?
What the fuck is that mean? I don't know. I thought you knew.
No, he's he's No, I don't know anything about Alcard Call of
the mean which one? Well, there's multiple alike cards, yes, are
there? Well, not only on the on the gaming world, Like,
this is not the right Alucard. Who is it? It's some dude looks
like a fucking band anime? Yeah? Which which animals from the animate.
Oh my god, Christian put it. I just put it in from health.
Oh my god, it's so much cooler than from the games. Oh
my god. Christian wait, Christian wait. I just want you to know
that nothing was ever more timed more comedically to me than opening up this Jackasses
jack face and hearing you say this is so much cooler. It looks like
a fucking joke. It looks like the characters so much. This guy looks
like Jim. Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly right. Looks like a knockoff
version of the mask. This is okay. This so it's got Jacqueline and
eyes. I hate no, this is this looks like shit. But watch
the anime is so fucking oh yeah, I'll get right on this for fun,
all right. He kills Nazis for fun. He's so good. Yeah.
Next super chant here from Nick. If the switch to is backwards compatible,
do you think Nintendo would do the one tender upgrade path for new versions
of Pass games if you already own them? I read that as one hundred
dollars as well the first time, me too. I don't know why,
it's just brained stuff. If the switch I think, I don't know.
Possibly I just seems so inelegant, but Nintendo's inelegant. I think there's either
just not going to be much in the way of upgrades or that stuff will
just be like a free bonus. If it's there, I'm I'm with you.
Layer says, Did I make it here in time for the Dan Rucker
Cooking watch party? No? I think he finished cooking running went online something.
He didn't burn anything, though, looks like you didn't say anything on
fire. I was on watching him. It's some he had to like reread
the instructions, just like I do when I cook those things. Babba is
Me says If anyone is thinking about a Resume before it's on sale everywhere this
week, I will probably pick it up since I never played the original,
keep up the good work. Thank you, Bob as me, and yeah,
people should buy Resume before. Yeah, I owned that game. You
sure do, and you're gonna have to play it in a couple of weeks.
Yeah, a couple of weeks. Input video here says ordered an iced
pumpkin nutty coffee at Duncan today, loving the three nutty pumps in my drink.
That was the first time. Super Chat from input video here and a
really strong one, really strong guy there all right? Are Jeff j D?
Bev d you Fudd says found you guys from Giant Bom. You're both
amazing. There's a game in the next couple of years. I want to
be po Okay, if if this person has Poe, who can we be
in a teetubties game. I only remember too, No, there's that purple
one. Everyone was afraid of that at real fucked up name. Uh yeah,
I'm just saying I only remember the name of Poe. I mean I
remember the other colors. Well, okay, I know purple, dipsy,
La, La, and Poe. I'm the son. Are you to be
clear? John, you're making fun of us because we don't know the names
of the I am loving my youth in your face. Okay, what do
you grow up? What was her? Like? Parties? Was the preschool
thing? Bart? I know, Barney's old. I'm old. Uh huh
next to way older than that ship. Oh but bar I remember, But
bar was the Rby's kids meal toy for because they had nothing else, so
Arby's rules, they could get no other sponsor. Barlet's you know they don't
need anything else. The strength of their food is enough. What was Babar
Bars? Is an elephant that wore a crown for some reason. I think
it was King of the Elephants. Yeah yeah, Okay, well listen,
I'm not saying it was some fucking like bang at you. I'm not laughing
at you. I'm not laughing at you. You're correct. I just find
the counts of the Babbar really funny. Yeah, but he's not cool.
Yes, I you gotta break back Babar. Yeah, but barring call of
duty, let's go. Fan of twenty three says just went to right in
to tell Mike that a really good eight K version of Fantastic for Disneyland is
going to be posted on YouTube very soon. Okay, I want it is
like official Disney stuff. Is this? Uh, before the Dragon caught on
fire? I don't think they've even been running fantasmic? Is this you talked
about this on one of your episodes of nineties Disney I think recently. But
what you're asking, what is Fantastic? Yeah? I'm trying to replace it.
It's like there's it's like some show you watch and then the dragon comes
down? Is it is Mickey and the robes in this Yeah, Mickey's in
the robes at one point, and he's kind of iconically and his sorcerer robes
in this Yes, okay, okay. El Gregg says what happens first a
two day Zoda or a new Star Fox. Also given the injuries to the
Browns Congress of Jeff winning the football bet from two weeks ago, man that
that was not that was not a feel good happy games. I've still not
seen the injury and I don't want to watch it. Somebody's like showing me
the phone and I saw like a second of it is like instinctively closed by.
I was like, no, you can't say anymore. Already so displaced
his knee and there was so much more video left. I was like that,
I don't want to see how far that's going away from the joint.
I heard the crowd reaction when they watched it live and then and Kraigman was
like, we're not gonna show it there, Joe buck Er, someone said
we're not gonna show it to you, but you could hear the crowd react
and they were just and it's Pittsford crowd and they're like, please don't show
this to us. Oh my God, and I'm like, okay, fuck
it man, Please know anyway, so what's first, new two D's Zeta
or a new Star Fucks. I'm gonna New two D's Zella. I'll say
New Star Fucks. And then to be a contrarian fair enough, Yeah,
you know I both are just as likely. It seems like. Actually,
Jerry says, Hey, guys, just want to remind you that Batman Dark
Tomorrow came out in two thousand and three, so you can play accordingly.
Keep up the great there we go. That's games in two thousand and three.
Let's go. Yeah. Tenderk says the Apollo trailer Apolo Justice trailer was
fantastic. Why are there a ton of games releasing in the last week of
January first week of February time period. I didn't see the new trailer.
I mean I played all those games before. I'm very excited. I mean
I'm not excite. I'm not no, I'm not gonna lie. I'm not
gonna go play those games again. Visual novels, I love them, but
I don't necessarily need to play them again, like maybe like like fifteen years,
like there was kind of what you did with You're ad introducing games.
Yeah, yeah, so I'm play maybe i'll play those games again. You
have a good memory, that's your curse, yes, exactly. So yeah,
it's just just just going through dival options. But hey, I liked
I liked all those. I mean, Apologistice is good. I actually liked
to the three DS. One's a good bit. Uh Dual Destinies and Spirit
of Justice fun stuff. Do you think there's eight chance you're gonna like?
How much of Fix Right have you ever played? Again? Remind me zero,
I think you're like, try Phoenix Right one if it's not gonna be
on game pass. Sure, I probably wouldn't even played on game Pass.
I just I need to sure, I just need a reason to go try
them. I bet I'll like them. I think, you know, I
think I play. I've started one of them once when I like had a
hack to DS at some point, but I just at that point it was
like there was so much on an offer that I tried something else immediately after.
Oh yeah, assume, Mex says, using my first super chick to
say that Ala Cart from Housing is super cool. It is the best version
of al the Cart and let the show what Thank you, Mex well if
you give you guys, say, so, what did Rebecca said? Have
fun? I guess I have fun? I guess. Uh. That's that's
it. Form the supertests for now. Thank you all so much for all
of those. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right, Okay, so
gonna I'm not gonna take this fucking Alucar slander because the fucking cald Duty it's
about to move him. But you need him in here. Huh. He's
getting pretty talky for the guy's just supposed to be in the back recording.
Yeah, if Yousten, Mike, you gotta do what you gotta do.
I understand. I'm trying to look at like, what was the first appearance
of Alucard, like as as as a concept. Oh, I think he
was an official Dracula thing. He's he was definitely and he's definitely in Son
of Dracula. I remember that. Yeah, is he he? Is he
in the books? Is he in the public domain? But it was really
my questions, like I assum I don't know book for him. There were
sequels to Dracula. I think maybe there was just a book called Dracula.
Then we only got sequels when it became a movie. So maybe the movie
Bright of Uh, Right of Dracula, whatever it's called, is the first
time, right, No, Son of Dracula is the one he's in Son
of dra Excuse me, I like I want to watch like some old like
you know, I kind of I am. I've been in the movie for
Universal Monster movies as well. This is this is why it's a shame that
we didn't get the Dark Universe so we could get a whole new series of
monster movies. Yeah, but that new Universal theme Park in Orlando is going
to have a Classic Universal Monsters section next to Nintendo World. Yeah, but
you know I need my con cruise, you know I do? Well?
Yeah, Okay, you know what, Let's take one more quick break while
we get set up for the next half of the show. We'll be right
back after this. We're back. There's my armpit hair. Sorry everybody,
Mike, Mike, Mike. We're got a show here, a show within
a show. I can never wear I can never wear a tank top.
I'm sorry, I had had the top. I think, do you desire?
Do you have desire to ashamed of my arm pits? I'm no,
I have no desires. I'm too ashamed of my art pits. I'd feel
so uncomfortable if people could see my arm pits. What the hell you got
going on under there? I don't know. It's just I just don't feel
like like it feels like it feels like a naughty part. It feels like
personal part the other people shouldn't see. Yeah, that's why some people are
into it. Yeah, right, exactly, That's why Nick Turbot and Chatti
Stain show us again right now. Yeah, Mike, Yeah, it's been
listening. If you wore tank tops, all people would be talking about is
your body hair, Like yeah, I still have incredibly like hairy shoulders.
Jesus Christ, that would happen, and I don't want to deal with that.
I don't want to have to deal with that on your behalf. That's
that's my should Yeah. Yeah, okay, everyone shave some of my chest
from my sleepap in a test because I like monitor here. But just like,
this part of my chest is weird. I saw that pool side stream
though. One time. I was just like, there's no way this is
doctor this camp. I'm very hairy. He's his hair filly. Like I
said, I was over it. I'm over I don't want to talk about
let's leave Mike's body hair out of this anyways, I'm trying to pass through.
Yeah, what's going on with the middle? Your solid? And this
is not the Trinity one or over the fun they're going for. That's the
Collection one, two, and three. I mean some of this stuff,
I'm like, well, what are you expecting? So when people are upset
that these games like aren't really getting a lot of a boost in the collection,
Like but Ogre Solid one, we just want no matter what's still it's
still thirty fps and it's still gonna be feel like I just want her back?
What I feel like? Should I just won her back? It's it's
a meme, Mike, don't worry about it. But these games aren't on
sale on most digital stores anymore. Like just getting them back is kind of
what we want here, right, are they give? That's what me and
you want. I think a lot of people were expecting, like are they
ruining the games? Mike? That's the four K. No, everything seems
fine unless you're really upset about it not being a four K. The one
thing that is respect Yeah, the one thing that is upsetting me, it
is a bummer, is that the switch versions of two and three on handheld
and TV mode are running at thirty phrase percent. Yes, that's that's that's
unacceptable to me. Those are places you do games. Ye, that's insane.
Absolutely. So part of it is that two and three HD on PS
three three six were so good as collections. It's like, well, why
not just port that work over? Instead they're doing very bare bones emulation and
people are just like, well, we had the good stuff, why aren't
she giving us the good stuff? Yeah? I mean I get that,
But like I do want these versions preserved as well and available, So this
is what it takes to get these versions as well. This is still kind
of what I want, man, I bet, I bet they do that
stuff, but eventually as well, and if that people are frustrated by that,
that's fair. Curious. I guess I'll be curious to see yeah,
kind of yea, I guess I want to see it from U. I'm
not going to get the Switch version now though, which is a bummer.
I guess I'll just get the PC. And like I didn't think that this
was a game, I'm going to be like I had to play this on
Steam set to get an optimal experience from fucking metal gear solid too, but
weird. Okay, all right, Uh, there's the closest to the Messy
Pin. I believe sean podcast within a podcast. Go ahead and shoot absolutely
game show with that podcast, so I won't get too much shit. But
that's right closest to the Messy Pin. Volume sixteen. It's been a hot
minute, but we're back. It's being presented by me Turbo Shawn. It's
powered by Metacric. It's executively produced as always by Benji Bop. Let me
run y'all through the rules here. Every round, the boys will be given
a certified retro game that means it is older than ten years or ten years
exactly. Rarely happens, but it's possible. The goal is to predict the
game's Metacritic score as a stance on metacritic dot com. We'll be using it
closest to the pink scoring system, which means that the Boys will guests each
point deviate they are from the actual score, they will gain one point at
the end of the game. Lowest score wins. It's golf rules, you
know how that works. If the boys guess the exact score correctly in steph
getting zero, they will deduct five points from their total score. Now I
did my due diligences away. Mike won the scared one from our Starfield episode,
so Jeff will be picking first. I need you to tell me,
Jeff, what you think the game has after. What the the hell is
this note from the editor. Hey Metacritic, if you're watching, which i'd
like to think you are, it's bob. Your new website layout is not
very usual friendly and is ten times harder and navigate. It would be super
cool if you could fix the fact that you can't middle click links to a
new tab anymore. But also having one main page it only shows one platforms
information and release state and you bury the rest of the information on our platforms
scores and release info is really super lame. That's probably screwing over Wolf too
in his thing. Huh. I might legitimately switched to open crick over this.
That's how unfriendly your new website layout. It is looks nicer, though
definitely work consider some ui ux improvements. Press their site did already suck.
I actually hated meta. I hate it when you go to metacritic dot com.
You go there to look for like the new release, searching for it.
Yeah, right, So what is going on here? How is that
just not pinned somewhere anyway? Wolf says in a chat, it is very
much screwing him over. They were, they were very proud of it in
the hands meeting. All right, let's keep on anyway, right, that's
here, I need to tell me what you think. Fallout three the PS
three version, mind You, released October twenty eight, twenty eight fifty seven
correct reviews. Has imatcrect dot com. Huh, fallow three October twenty eight,
twenty eight fifty seven credits from on the PS three though that's tough because
that's the game's always fucking sucked on the p S three Skyroomer Meta critic really
differentiating between those two, like I have find artably, fifty seven people reviewed
just the PS three version of this game. Are you sure? I think
that's The scores are different. It's always questions like questionable. I mean,
they're different, They're gonna be different, but this is different. No.
Metacritic definitely, like was dividing them. But whether or not the reviews they
were pulling from were accurately reporting what what platform they were playing on, or
if there was just something to assume there. I have no idea, but
I'm gonna go with saying that they probably did have mostly PS three reviews here,
and I'm gonna say in eighty nine, I think it's still relatively high,
but I think the PS three version wasn't quite as good. Okay,
mikey, I think any nine and this game was very well liked. But
even then, I wonder if the three sixty version was even like in the
nineties. I'm not sure, so I'll be a little bit more concerted to
say eighty seven, eighties seven, all right, still in that ballpark there,
well follow three sits at a ninety Shit, you're very close to Jeff
yep. Pretty sure that game was in the nineties. That's I do.
That was really below right, Yeah, it was good? Right, Like
that was like that's really maybe my first threel go out of Western style RPG.
Honestly, Oh really, you didn't play? That was kind of like
after that was like then I played Oblivion, played Tour even I went back
to Cochur after Oh really, okay, like that whole console generation was when
I finally played those games. I had kind of a I would dabble with
them, but didn't really get it until then. Cool for me. It
was also filled buzz New Vegas, so a bit different there a bit later.
Butt's just all right. Game number two Dishonored for the Xbox three,
sixty October ninth, twenty twelve, fifty six critic reviews. Mike, Yeah,
so not new, not as beloved as a Fault three, but pretty
well liked. I want to say that I know I just said this one,
but now I think we have an eighty seven. Okay, also,
I think we I think I know the theme as well. No way,
let's say I get it. I'm gonna go within eighty eight. Okay,
eighty eight? One upmanship, I see, I see? Okay? Literally,
well, Dishonored sits at what roots? Jeff gets five. Dance it'll
dance, not going my way? Oh boy, it'll dance. Okay,
I'll date for the audio listeners. That means Jeff is in the lead with
negative four points. Mike has four on the board. Kay, number three,
can we can we do freaking still Battalion again? And he'll think it's
the wrong one or something. Oh don't you got a chance, I mean,
you never know. Bob always tries to throw us a curveball. He
use a curveball. Number three is the elder Scrolls five Skyrim. Not much
of a curveball, but it is the PC version. November eleventh, twenty
eleven, eleven eleven eleven. Who could forget? Thirty two craick reviews for
this one, Jeff the PC version of Skyrim. I think I remember moving
my save from Xbox three sixty to the PC because it was even more beloved.
I'm gonna go with a ninety three. God, that's what I wanted
to say. You're kidding me. No, I would never joke with you.
Ninety two God, I wanted ninety three. It's ninety three, so
mad ninety two I'm gonna be mad because then you're throwing a hissy fit already.
M m. This is this is why we would cast Jason Alexander as
Mike. Oh trust me. Anyways, the other Scrows five Skyrim on the
PC got ninety four. Whyn't I go up? I want to call it.
I wanted to say ninety four two, but I was too afraid to
go that high. Okay. Game number four Doom three for the PC August
third, two thousand and four, eighty three correct reviews. Mike, mm
hmm, that's a weird one because like Doom three was liked, but it's
such a weird game. This is a hard one to parse. It is
hard. Yeah, it's hard. I feel like it's probably I don't say
this gives weird I feel like it came out and was like yeah, and
then like almost immediately the opinion lowered, and then it kind of had a
glow up again. It's so different from every other Doom is the problem.
It's so much its own thing. I went eighty six. It was probably
too low. Oh, I don't know. I'll give you a second.
If you watching, let's go with it eighty six. I gotta go with
it now, all right, Jeff, I don't know. I think this
is tough because I didn't I never really played much Doom three, So I
remember working at Subway and waiting for this game to come out, and we're
hearing the reviews and being not so impressed by the reaction, and then I'm
like, I'll save my money. But I think Mike's probably still right that
higher was is safer here, So I'm gonna go with eighty seven. I
think a lot of people were like this. This compares unfavorably to Half Life
two. What I kind of remember? All right, Doom three, the
original I wish I had a flashlight game sits at seven once again, Jeff
gets five points and knocked off the total. Why didn't I say eighty seven?
Oh boy, that's too low? And then with seven on the board,
Jeff is ahead by fifteen points with a negative aids well, I mean,
like, if you want to feel better, I'm just right to comment.
Nick Trbo said I was working at Subway and he was in kindergarten.
So now I'm upset too. No, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm
over. I'm over. I get it. I'm older than all your children.
I get it. Game number five here, no, I can't.
Well, maybe you get exactly rights on the PlayStation two February twenty four,
twenty three, seventeen, Craig re reviews, here's your curveball Jeff uh Nanna
Jones and the Emperor's two month lay Station two. I don't I think I
gotta go with some like the middle of the road number. I'm gonna go
with the seventy seven. Okay, okay, if it's really badly reviewed,
Mike, you could win this one. I know. I think I'm gonna
go more like us A sixty two. Okay, is that enough? Yeah,
Mike's going with sixty two, Jeff is going with the middle of the
road seventy seven, and the Emperor's two replay Station two has a sixty five
Eat my fucking Poopies, which means at the end of the game, Mike
has ten points, Jeff has far Jeff is your winner for the evening.
I thought it. I thought I came back with that. No, absolutely
not, Mike, what are you thinking? Wait, no, you do
the math in your head. You second believe you. But I'm embarrassed.
I told you to eat popes. I thought you were saying it. I
thought you're saying it, eat my poopies partheses negative, not eat my poopies
parthesiason positive. Yes, I was there as a celebration, so okay,
damn it. Uh yeah, I was up by fifteen and you that you
had to get it had to be exactly right for you to have a chance
to win. Yeah, you're right. Well, shit, that was a
good one. That was. I had a lot of fun. Let's your
opinion, man, that was I think we should do that exact thing over
and over again. All right, thanks for that, Sean, I appreciate
it. We're gonna go ahead and get set up now for the best Game
of two thousand and three. We're gonna do that just by clicking this one
button over here. We take a quick break so I can use the restaurant.
We're gonna take a quick break and scream into a pillow, and we're
gonna be right back after this. Mike here, you can redeem yourself by
knowing the best Game of two thousand and three. We're doing Waker Scam of
the Year two thousand and three, everybody. We've been doing this for a
while. Last week was a Game of the Year two thousand and two that
was Metro Prime. We both just screamed that one out. We're gonna go
through this. We're gonna figure out the top five games. I will talk
about more than five games though, starting right now by me putting Bludgers all
to Windwaker right up here on this list. Yeah short was down here,
but still yeah it wasn't. Didn't make it last time because it came out
of Japan in twos two but not in the US two thousand three. Uh,
gosh, I love this game. I loved it when it came out
so much, even you know, I know a lot of people maybe didn't
like the look of it at first and came around to it. I loved
this game from that very first teaser trailer. I love the way it looked.
I loved that style. I loved how expressive Link and all the characters
were. And then it played even better than that. The sailing was just
so interesting to me. Link moves better. That combat just has a little
bit more death here. With some of the dodges, you can do some
really good dungeons. Uh. Just just still my favorite Zelda game. I
keep hoping they release it on Switch as I get played again again, even
though they played through it quite a few times by now. Yeah, it's
it's one of those it's like a timeless game. Yeah, it's when so
many timeless Nintendo games are coming out, and this is maybe the most timeless
of all of them. Oh yeah, breaking news games. Let's see,
Oh really, shit later than normal? Let's way got start time change in
Japan? What's going on? That's the way they do this eleven five times?
Let's say it's just one but a pretty neat one Kirby in The Amazing
Mirror. Okay, is on game Boy Advance. Now this is the weird
Metroid Venia style Kirby game. Actually cool, there you go, I'll take
it. Yeah, sure, I'll book that up. Yeah. Anyways,
Yeah, Winwick are very good. It is. I love the music,
I love the sailing, love of the characters. I uh, and of
course I love the way it looks. It's it's good. Yes, it's
just and god, it's uh it's such a good feel to go back to
that game anytime I do. So. Yeah, I'm looking looking forward to
getting a chance to do it again someday. But yeah, right now,
looking at it, two thousand and three, that's easily one of the top
games of the year. All right. Uh, I have a couple of
things I really like, and I think it came out this year, Star
Wars Knights of the Old Republic. Yeah, that's a two thousand, two
thousand and three year for sure. And uh, you know I said that
I didn't. I went back to this game a little bit later, right
like after I played Follow three is when I finally played Coats Hour and I
loved it then and then when that switch version that Switchport came out. I
started it just for funzies. It ended up just playing through that whole thing
because that game still actually rules. It's still the best Star Wars game.
It's also like my favorite Star Wars story outside the original trilogy. It's just
a great time. It's a feel good game. Yep, it's uh.
I mean, there's a lot of stuff that are gonna it's gonna feel if
you go back to Over the first time today, it's gonna feel a little
bit weird. But it's still a super super solid game. And in two
thousand and three it was revolutionary and it's set up the future of what like
BioWare games are going to be from that point going forward. Before that,
BioWare was putting all all kinds of stuff out, and then after this it's
like, well, this is what BioWare mix. It's it's the story is
very cool. Your participation in that story is very very neat. There is
a lot of great characters. There's some excellent dialogue from those characters. They
have strong personalities. HK forty seven. Yeah, it's it's a very cool
guy even I even really really like the Dungeons and Dragons rule set it was
using for its combat. It can really feel that Dios rules in this game.
It's funny how that we're kind of coming back to that and how a
little bit right? Yeah, exactly, And I always love that stuff.
So when I first I played Cotour a little bit later as well, I
didn't play in two thousand and three, I probably played it, and you
should, I'll Jen, I'll do it. If you ever want to play
through Cold Tour, you want somebody to sit in there with you, you
let me know, Jen, Yes, this would be a fun one to
play through this right now, I think so of the old Jan Republic,
the Nights of Jan Wars show, uh man, we'll work show, we'll
figure it out. I'll get we have the name in there somewhere. But
yes, I adore Star Wars nuts of the Older Republic. I've never played
those that good. Yeah, there it is, Joe tor God. Oh
yeah. I wanted to play the sequel, but then I was displayed for
that switch version to get that true ending mode or whatever said now we're not
doing that anymore. Yeah. I keep thinking, I'm like, I'll just
install that on the Steam deck can play it that way. I'll do that.
Eventually. But whatever, Star Wars Republic a really really good game?
Is this true? Adam Asleep says that there's a h K Droids reference in
Asoka. Yeah, that's just like a reference. But I would like,
I'm like, everyone's like, what if as Ai starts writing shows? And
Asoka's like, what if Ai watched a bunch of like, here's seventy five
Easter eggs in a Star Wars show and then they wrote a story based on
that. It step bumps me. I'm watching Rebels so I can enjoy a
Soca War. I started watching Rebels. It's a good cartoon, and a
Soka is like quality. But whatever Star Wars nets Public very good, fantastic.
I think it's gonna be on the top five for sure. Yep,
what else you got, Mike m Soul Caliber too? Uh. We liked
Soul Caliber one quite a lot, Jeff, And maybe the impact of this
one is a little bit less, but like it's very similar to one,
just maybe a little bit better in some ways. Plus, the whole multi
console Approacher was really fun, with each console getting its own character, and
of course GameCube won that bow because we had the link in this game,
which was so cool and they made it really neat link for this. Also,
you had that Zelda level with that orchestral Zelda theme playing had this had
a really cool single player mode. Also, I played a ton of Soul
Caliber two of my friends. It was great stuff. Yeah, it was
Soul Caliber one was like that special, like, oh my god, look
this is unbelievable. But then you like, we had a lot of High
Soil Caliber two, and I think I was playing that one on the GameCube.
I think I must have been playing on the GameCube. And and then
it's one that like caught on with like a wider group of friends, and
I'd go over a friendshouse and they were playing it too, and we would
just play it all the time. And I remember it was early on and
I hadn't bought it yet, and a friend had it, and well a
friend of a friend kind of thing, and he were doing like matches and
he was beating everybody and no one could figure out, like me, he's
just that much better. And then I remember realized that because this is the
one we had link right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So
I remember I realized, I'm like, wait, his life bar is filling
up. He was playing custom matches and where like you could have your your
like special gear on, and he had all this special link gear on and
it was like his life was coming back. And I'm like, no,
don't change it. Don't fuck that, don't change it. And I just
like, once I realized what was happening, I played a little bit more
defensively and I was able to beat him. And it was like this huge
cheer, like beating this villain that was cheating against us. So it was
a good time. Sol Caliber two. Very good game, right right right?
Yeah? Absolutely? Do you have one? Yeah? I got a
couple of but I'm gonna go with like a maybe a longer shot, although
I not necessarily because I think this game is fantastic. It's a warrior Ware
Mega micro Games. Oh that came out then, Yes, it's okay interesting.
Yes, I love warrior Ware like I love, love love it.
It's such a a strong idea. It's such a unique thing. It's so
funny. Uh it doesn't what's it? Oh? Really? Even reinvented Warrio
as a character. Yeah yeah, like it like reinvented like him with his
own whole own universe, with all these characters that are still going in Warrio
Ware Games to today, because it's like it was actually really well done and
it's like one of these creative endeavors by Nintendo that comes out of nowhere.
But when you get your hands on, you're like, Okay, this is
just an idea that they worked on and crafted and honed down to this like
nugget of something that's like just fantastic, and then they just took it to
its logical conclusion and it's a great game. Yeah, it's fantastic. I
had a lot of good times clean this one gamble advantage, just the way
you unlaw levels. This is just be testing. If you're listening since last
time I talked about how much I liked the link in soul Cover two,
and then sorry, I turned you asked me if link was in soul Cover.
I was okay, God, God, you are you good? Yeah?
So I'm good. So yes, that's why you were laughing. I
was trying to figure out if soul Caliber two was intercapt or not and I
was struggling, and so I stopped listening while I was like huh, and
I went to my own I went to my mind palace for a second,
like hero, good Hero, just because it's hey, Jeff, Yeah,
what's up? Man? Like, I'm pretty not it's not intercapt it's just
all sorry, you don't know. It's been reckon, it's been reckoned.
It was like back keep changing it. I don't know. I'm not gonna
ever commit that to memory because I'm always just go look it up. But
that's fair day. I went to the Mind Palace and it had nothing for
me. I think, it's like, why the fuck do you think I'm
gonna know? And I didn't. It didn't know. All right, what
else do you got? Prince of Persia, Sands of Time. Yeah,
this was a game that caught a lot of people off guard. This keep
was really charming. I remember everybody sort of thought at the time really innovatives.
It kind of kind of took everything by storm a bit. This is
a big surprise, Yeah, it was. It was a surprise for me.
I mean I remember hearing good things or reading good things at that point
in magazines and stuff. And then when it got the reviews, it was
really highly reviewed, and I got it. I remember I got it right
away because I was so excited about how into it everyone else was. And
I love this game, love, love, love it I would have.
I'd be playing. I remember friends would come over. I'm like, well,
I'm listen, hey, it's cool you're coming over. That this is
back in the day when like friends would just do the pop in and yeah,
and I was just like, you know, yeah, come hang out.
I'm gonna keep playing my game. And like I remember them like getting
into watching me play this game and like really enjoying it because again, you're
right, the character is very charming, but like the action is actually pretty
cool to witness, especially back then, we didn't have a lot of games
with three D wall running and time that made the wall running a thing.
Man, it really did. And it's like what I even at that time,
I knew I wanted it, but it's like no game had really figured
it out, and this game more than figured it out. It made it
feel so cool though. You know, the run, then the wall run,
then the jump, and then the jump to a you know the high
bar where you could do some spins and you jump off of that and you
do another wall run and it's all just and then when you mess it up,
it's like, no, that would be stupid to have you start over,
just rewind, try again, it's oh my god, what a great
concept, and they just made it part of the story and the and the
prince like trying to like win over the princess. All that stuff was excellent.
I think like before this, if you thought like an acrobatic game,
you would probably take more of a three D platform, and just seeing some
that stuff applied to an action first game was really neat. Yep. Yeah,
they really just kind of figured it out first go. It's saying that
I always understood why they went with Assassin's Creed later on, but I'm like,
man, I wish there was a world where we could get Prince of
Persia at the same time as well. I mean, I know it's different,
but that Metroid Veget Prints of Persia game is really I'm no compoints here
so excited that wait that yes, can't wait to play get that full thing.
Okay, let's see here. I really also like f zero g X.
Yeah. Zero g X is kind of a kind of the standard for
that series still in a lot of ways. It's not only is it like
this really good and really fast racing game. There's a lot of fun personalities
here at zero TV. Just the look of the game that like animated CG
cut scenes in the story more actually really cool nipples. Yeah, I guess
got it all. Yeah, the Falcons showed me your boobs. It is
a fantastic game. It's yeah, it's really good. I mean the sense
of speed is I want to say unmatched. There's other games that's seen that
fast, but but maybe not they have that sense of speed and that many
vehicles at the same time where it's like think sixty vehicles, right, something
like that. And I always appreciate that F Zero could be a game that
was fast and like took a lot of it made a lot of effort to
ensure that you could keep going fast even if you were messing up or hitting
a wall. It's like, yeah, that's gonna slow you down, but
it's gonna slow you down like ten percent. And actually that's super punishing in
a game like this, as opposed to something like wipe Out, the game
that I also enjoy, but like, no, like if you had a
wall, let's go, You're gonna come to almost a complete stop. And
then that game has to do other things like rubber banding to figure out the
way to keep it competitive. And it's like, no, it should just
kind of like scrape against the wall a little bit. You keep going and
you're gonna get back to that sense of speed, the whole reason that you're
here. They just really figured out this game with F zero GX and there's
you know, the sort of combat of like trying to knock other racers out
or to take on your rival. They just yeah, it's a really well
thought out game. When I when I enjoy going back to all this time,
I wish they would release this one on the switch as well. I
see a couple of Jeff games. Yeah, there's a couple more on here
for sure. Yeah, I'm gonna say one of them right now. But
NBA Street Volume sues, Yes, this is literally basketball game ever, literally
the game that I wrote Game of the Year four in the Game of the
Year book for Jordan. NBA Street Volume two is just truly a masterpiece.
It's funtouched, yes, yeah, it really, and it's it turns,
you know, basketball into a fighting game, but it also kind of makes
it. It's fun as a single player experience as well, because you can
upgrade your character and upgrade your whole team and and then do all these amazing
moves and figure out how to uh combine them so that you're getting the most
points and you get the most if you get points faster, you build up
your meter faster, and then you can bank that meter and fill it up
again and do this awesome showtime move that like gets you. It's but it's
an approachable way, a clear yeah, as a clear lineage from NBA Jam
which is which is a lot of fun. And they I like the esthetic
that it is like backyard pickup basketball instead of you know, the giant arena,
super pristine, clean ESPN presentation, right, great soundtrack, right,
a big presentation instead, and it's like and they had their own personality and
it was very different, and it's it's a it's a special special game.
It's good, good, good stuff. Yep. Let's see here. I'm
trying to think what other Jeff game you were spotting it? Just just tell
me what else you got there, Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga, Jeff is
your other big one. This is your year. I think actually a lot
of games this year. Oh boy, yes there are, man, Well,
Mario Luigi super Star Saga is so good, just a one of the
funniest games ever made, very charming game. Gave Mario and Luigi a ton
of character without having them talk, just has other other characters talk to them
and for them in a lot of ways. Prince Peasley Fawful are just all
time great characters in different ways. I mean Fawful so much so that they
tried to shoehorn him back into almost all the Mario Luigi games after that.
It never really worked the same. But it worked really well in Mario Luigi
Superstar Saga. And it's just a gorgeous game. What I have just amazing
looking game Boy advanced graphics for this thing. And then uh, and then
you have great, great soundtrack, and of course the combat was great and
all those special moves you could do with Mario Luigi working together, the propeller
stuff, it was just so fun, like, hey, Mario's the A
button, Luigi's the B bunn or whichever order it was, like, Yep,
that just worked so well though so intuitive. Yep, it was a
fun idea too. It's so yeah, I love love loveless game. This
is a my game. I don't even think we had to shortlist this,
Jeff, But I do want to mention that Crimson Sky's High Road to Revenge
did come out this year. I still think it's a shame that we got
this is the last entry in this series, because it's so fun and it's
so creative, this kind of alternate post World War One era thing. So
you still have like that kind of pulp B movie vibe with the airplane,
very underrepresented sort of setting in games, right, and you know, it
kind of have like these small open worlds that you explore. I mean it
basically is like a Rogue Squadron like, but just with a different setting and
a different vibe and a bit more of an open structure. It still plays
really well today. Uh. I would do almost anything to see this idea
taken up again. Yep. I never really played much Crimson S guys,
but I always appreciated the setting and the style that it went for. Beautiful
Joe came out in two thousand and three. It's a very good game.
I don't think it's gonna quite make it actually beat it. For the first
time this year or last year, I finally played through all of it.
Really fun, very strong, creative, absolute personality. I don't think it's
going to be quite tough. Five materials. Yeah, it's one that I
would probably still very much enjoy going back to and playing. But uh,
yeah, it's a tough year. It really isn't a tough year. See
that's uh, you're not much of an SSX guy as three was this year.
I mean, I like sex fine. I don't think I'm going to
Fine two push for it. I like a Fine too. I think it's
a fine game. It's just not I don't think it holds of candle to
ten eighty personally. But I know a lot of people to scree, but
they're wrong. I better taste in them. That's what that is. Beyond
Good and Evil? Did that come out in two thousand and three? That
was this year. I like Beyond Good and Evil. I you know,
I don't. I don't go gaga for it like some people. Yeah,
it's one that I uh, I think if they were to do Beyond Good
and Evil two, that's a lot like Beyond Good and Evil one. I
bet it would be very fun and I'd be probably even more into that than
I ever was in't Beyond Good and Evil game. I played a bunch,
but never beat it. Never really was interested in beating a sorrow. Yeah,
Sylvania Sorrow, that's a great game. That's a very good game.
It's probably it probably is the best of the GBA ones, even though raw
quality yeah, right, and then there's like things about both Circle Moon and
Harmony Descendance. I kind of like, like better, this is probably the
best overall package. Yeah, it's it's also the one that is the most
like, hey, we made a sequel to Symphony of the Night, right,
Like, that's the vibe here and it's really neat yep uh byromblem came
out in Game Boy Advanced. I never played this one much. I liked
it. I think Secrets Stones was better. There's there's a few things,
like you know, we gave Rachel clinks someone the last time going Commandos this
year. I like it, but it doesn't stand out to me as much
as the original for whatever reason. Who is this year? And I like
Jack two. Some people love Jack two, uh Like. I think there's
a split in that community. I think if you like Jack, you like
all of them. But I think some people prefer the style of that first
game, which is much more just a Mario sixty four clone. That's that's
me, and some people really like the weird direction I went to with two
and three, where it has like some GTA elements, and I still like
those games, but I prefer the original. Uh let's see Double Dash did
that come on two thousand and three? Yeah, you know my stance of
Mario Kart, Like even my favorite Mario Karts are early in eight out of
ten and I don't like them. Fine, and I don't. I don't
these days. I guess at the time I thought Double Dash was pretty good,
but these days I don't. I don't really enjoy it playing it very
much. It doesn't play seven and the other ones. The first Call of
Duty came out this year, and it's funny because I remember at the time
it like got surprisingly good reviews. Yes, everybody said it was like the
Medal of Honor killer, which is such a funny thing to think. It
turns out it was very much. It was multiple times it killed Medal of
Honor. No one talks about like the original Call of Dude aname what would
it be like to play? Because it was a PC game? Right?
It was only on PC. Right, So it's like because they made Big
Red one, when they made console versions, it was a different game because
they couldn't just port this over. It was it was kind of like a
fancy thing, yes, and so, but I remember reading those reviews and
wanting to play it really bad and never actually getting the ram to it.
And so when't Call four was popping off at that E three and the beta
codes were going out, and I'm like, oh, I'm gonna go try
this. I got I have an Xbox three sixty. That'll be great.
It turns out it was. Let's see if there's anything else Simpsons Hit and
Run. Do you want to try to get that out on the top like
Simpson in a Run? And I know it just was defending that game loudly.
I don't think it's good. I don't think I need to try to
make a game of a year or anything. Okay, Ninja guide him for
Xbox was that two thousand and three. Let me see, I didn't see
Ninja. Uh, guy, D don't believe, so, don't think it's
a year? Okay, okay? Cool? All right? Well then yeah,
I think we got our list here and we can work at what the
podcast producers. Yeah sounds good. Let me just double check here, see
who is what's what? Was anyone listening to the episode that we did where
we were talking about that bird Board game? Uh? Wings It's called Wingspan.
I was I did an episode something I don't even remember what it was.
But Tam was there and we were talking about this bird bird board game
and Tam was making fun of it, and then he goes, I just
bought it, and I thought he was joking. H He just says,
he just texted me. Why did I buy that fucking bird board game?
I am losing it. I don't even know who I am anymore. I
only like one bird crows. What a funny text message? You like one
bird is? I don't know what to say to you. I don't know
what to say to you. Okay, there we go, say what's it
the same day that you rated a French streamer that was slaying that game.
Yes it was, Yes it was. And nobody was very confused in that
rate. Yeah, I'm sure they were. You know what, I don't
care. It's a rate who cares. Okay, let's see what the community
has to say. And by then, I mean no, I think I
got it ready already. Let's go here. Yes, there we are.
Okay. So our community chimed in and they mentioned, for example, mister
Bowler said wind Waker for best game soul Caliber two for honorable mention, Villain
Max's Mega Man Battle Network three and the best. It's the best in a
great series of games that got much deserved love with the collection released this year.
That collection did very good. This is the one I hear people talk
about battle Now people like the most. Is the one I was playing through
when I started, you know me, I was liking it. It is
still It's definitely a kid's game, Jeff in a lot of ways, but
I was enjoying it. Crange is mcbasketball, says Win Waker, Knights of
the Old Republic, Tony Hawk's Underground Thug is also a very good game,
and then he says Justice for Eric Sparrow, Jedi Academy, and Mario Luigi
Superstar Saga. Oh, Mike you, what do you think about Jedi Academy.
I think you need to say its name correctly. Star Wars Dark Forces
four, Jedi Night for two, Jedi Academys sense, I don't know.
I'm I don't know, Mike. You Sa Wars Dark Forces four, Jedi
Knight three, Jedi Outcast too, Jedi Academy. That's a good game.
Yeah, I like Jedi it plays really well. I don't like the whole
I'm just playing as some oc as much as playing as Kyl Katarn. I
don't know why that throws me off a little bit, but it does,
but still very much rules. Doctor Lynch says, Wow, there is absolutely
no question that for me, Win Waker is the best game of that year.
In my absolute favorite the title I want to throw something out that might
get lost in the mix, and that is so tied to this year for
me. The Lord of the Rings Return of the King game, which is
very good. At a time when licensed games were just so consistently hot garbage
and with Jackson's movies near their near their pinnacle, this game was just so
much fun. I played it over and over and over again while listening to
music and relaxing after school. It felt, looked and sounded fantastic for the
time game. Yes, it was a very fun game. Are those local
multiplayer on the GameCube? Oh? Yeah? Yeah? Two? I think
just two players, but multiplayer. I'm just saying, maybe we could do
something with that with the Dolphins. I have it, yeah me, I
own it. Well, okay, we could also do that. Can you
come here and we'll just play on original hardware? All right? That sounds
great. Alex says Prince of Persa's Stance of Time was pretty cool, and
Return of the King was also sick. Crouching Boomer hid and Zoomer mentions Tonyak's
pro Skater Underground that game is pretty fun. The level design and goals start
to feel stale towards the end, but the overall game gameplay loop is still
Tony Hawk. We should probably talk about Thug. I do like Thug,
but again, again, like my my reverence for the franchise does drop off
pretty sharply after three. I know you like four more than I do.
What do you think about the Thug? Doug was was very It's a very
good game. It's a fun game. It's it's not one of the best
games in two thousand and three though it's not. Yeah, I mean I
think the formula was better with with three and four. Yeah, but Thugs
Thug's fun. Uh. Daniel says very nostalgic year. Nostalgic for a year
for me. We got Pokemon, Ruby, Sapphire, Warrior Ware Inc.
Mega Micro Games, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. Oh shit, that's a very
good game. Hive Extreme Beach Volleyball Tony Hawk's Underground and wind Waker. Uh,
the Remaker is coming any day now, right, Meetbacks says always be
clothing Slash Corgi for Star Wars Nights of the Older Public. I am just
full on and never expecting that remake mode. And I'm like, that's fine
with me, Like I still like the originals so much, but yeah,
I'm not expecting it. Not expecting it either. Uh for Doctor Ryan because
that's like under Embracer Group now right, like fully under Embracer Group. Yes,
yeah, good luck with that. Good have fun. Uh. Doctor
Ryan says two thousand three is the year that breaks my heart too, because
I truly can't choose between wind Waker and Cotour. Win Waker is the perfect
and best is Zelda, but Cotur is the single greatest Western RPG ever made
and BioWare's best creation. I gotta see both on this list. I think
both will be. I think you're good luck, Fluffy cloud Gamer. I
want to submit two entries, neither likely to make it, but SpongeBob Square
paints Battle for Bikini Bottom and the Simpsons Hit and Run. If I was
to play about for Big Bikini Bottom, chat like, what should I play
the original. Should I just play Rehydrated? The Rehydrated one seems completely fine.
I saw some people playing that, and they seem completely fine with it.
Tokyo Game Life says, shout out to Final Fantasy X two, both
the English and Japanese versions of Real Emotion and one thousand Words Still Slap.
I didn't hear either of those songs at the concert, right, Mike.
I didn't hear any Bay ten two songs or thirteen two or Lightning. Okay,
I see what's happening here, all right? You and Sean fight over
the side pass. Bucker Rus says, win Waker and Pokemon were already mentioned,
so I'll go with Rise of Nations. Never played the series. I'm
a friend whose step dad doesn't play any video games, but it has played
Rise of Nations like every day for twenty It seems like a dad game.
It seems like a super super dad game. I don't even I don't know.
I assume it's just a age of Umpire's clone. I'm not sure I
do is it. I can't remember if it's turn based or real time,
but I thought it was real idea. Uh seen as super Cousina, seen
as kitchen seen as Causino. I know you nice boys will do the right
thing and put win Waker on the left, So I'll just leave this here.
Pokemon pinball never played this one? Is this? This is specifically Pokemon
Ruby and Sapphire pin Okay, Ruby and Sapphire Okay did this one ever come
out? Yeah? We said we got this one. Also, he just
put seen us kitchen a showing. But uh, hosp lot of miss games
for me, So let's throw out Cotour my first real interaction with anything Star
Wars related. Interesting that'd be, you know, I bet you're not alone
on that. I bet a lot of people are, like all those games
is getting a lot of love. I should check this out. Interesting,
screaming Madden, says Matt in NFL two thousand and four was first in the
series to let people control a franchise, from hiring coaches to setting hotdog prices.
So game of the year finally, well, if not The Warrior where
Mega Microgames Inc. And Simpson's Hit and Run and Advanced Wars Black Hole Rising
another very good game, and most importantly this was my year, Mike and
most importantly Fox deserve consideration. Fuck, that's a lot of good games from
Slain Mick Awesome, Mario Luigi Superstar Saga and Knights of the Old Republic are
both games I played the shit out of when they came out back in two
thousand and three and have gone back to multiple times. Please don't make me
choose for the choose for the top one. They also mentioned here Dark Force,
excuse me, Star Wars Dark Forces for Jedi Night three, Jedi Outcast
to Jedi Academy. Hey, good on Slave for actually writing it out that
way too. Thank you. See this was this was edited. So do
you think you went back after you gave me a hard time? Oh?
I don't know. Well I'll give him all right, we'll find out once
for all octos. There's a lot of great games two US three, but
I have to give it up for Castlevania Ari of Sorrow at the best of
the game Boy advanced Castlevania's Yeah, uh, Flobotron Helstavarrow's Big Rigs over the
road racing, but that's crossed out. Instead, says I'm talking about a
sequel improving everything about the predecessor, Max Pain. To the Fall of Max
Pain was so fucking good. I never played the mex Pain games Mike,
I play yes, one, I did not never play much of two.
Actually have an unopened copy for my Xbox, which I got excited about when
I saw it. That turns out that's not really worth much. But I
have an unopened copy of Max Pain to the Fall of Mex Pain the original
Xbox for some reason. Uh let's see here Showjikodo says, Windwaker and Cotor
are absolutely incredible and hard to argue against. But with that said, I'd
like to shout out so Calm to you never played or cared much about.
I never quite got it was so can never appealed to me. I think
again, like much of Whales, A snob about gold and I because I
had, like, you know, Quick two or whatever and stuff like that,
Like I had, you know, even at this point, I was
like, freaking Counterstrike from nineteen ninety nine looks a lot more appealing to me
than So Calm deaths Jamie age Christold, Oh yeah, for sure, Jimmie
H. Christmas, who says, my pick goes to the Harvest Moon Friends
of Mineral Town on game Boy Advance and a pre Star Doo Value World.
This was my favorite and go too far in a game man, how much
just the world changed, and now it's like that was the one before Star
Doo Value instead of Starting Value is the one after Harvest Moon. That's that's
wild. But yes, I do remember this being one of the best.
Yes, I remember people liking this game a lot when I never really played
like Starting Value a lot though easy Ipsis says in two thousand and three,
I became a man. I was sixteen year old, sixteen years old and
p and O three released for the GameCube, making me into a productive member
of society that I am today. Thank you, Shinji Mikami. I'm gonna
play this game and I can't. Well, you own it, I own
it. I'm ready to go. Long Gift says. I was going to
say wind Waker, then I saw Prince of Persia's Sanse of Time came out
this year and it's really no contest, just a perfect game, probably the
best three D platformer ever made, great puzzles, music, and it has
one of the best story slash romances in gaming. Two years of inferior sequels
can't diminish its importance. No Sense of Time, no Assassin's Creed, and
probably no one Charted. Also, games with Wall Running are just better.
And then there's a picture here of Jake Jillenhall, which of course really streaming
right now. Can we go I'll go in there and ask her, because
she just pit beat this game. I'm gonna let's all go in real quick
and ask her if she thinks this is a game, ask her if it's
one of the best games in two thousand and three. We'll get on that,
Sleepy Dad, I didn't realize how many bangers came out No. Three.
I was eleven and looking at this list, it was really a big
year for me, really discovering my taste in games. Tough choice, but
number one pick has to be Cotour. Cotur is exactly what I want from
Star Wars, a cool story set in the galaxy of Star Wars, far
removed from the Skywalker stuff. I'm with you on that, yep. For
sure. Vision forty nine is Win Wakers, Superstar Saga, and Return of
the King. Also, it was the year of the that The sp came
out, and while it's not a game on this list, it remains the
goat. Yeah, I could almost put the SPD at number one. I
mean, yeah, you absolutely see that we are at the height of the
Game Boy Advances power right now yep, and like a lot of evidence for
Game Boy Advanced being one of the best consoles ever made. For sure,
ye, Jackie Gee, you didn't give me Mature's mask or oral Oracle of
Wages, so I guess third times the charm. Please consider Win Waker please,
all right, we'll consider it. Well, we'll see what we can
do. I think you'll I think you'll be happy. Win Waker is mikey
ask that is one of my top ten for sure tea money, oh gee,
my pick is Win Waker. It is my favorite game of all time.
Superstar Saga and Beautiful Joe are also classics that should be considered. Big
Tony says, SmackDown, here comes the Pain with mister brock Lesnier on the
Rock lesne Rastle Jess says, my Big three help I have already been mentioned,
so I'll shout out Crimson Skies, High Road to Revenge and atchin Clank
Going Commando Bench jc's mentions Mario Luigi Superstar Saga, the Once in Future.
Jason L says, I've never, I've never I've not played it but one.
Alex Navarro had words to say about drink of the ninety nine Dragons keep.
I'm keeping that one of my back pockets some day for one of you
two assholes in the Blake Low. Don't worry. I doubt that's ever gonna
be a problem for me. Monkey bought nine Keg says unpopular opinion, Star
Wars Dark Forces for Jet n I three Jediocast two Jet ecotomy was not as
good as Star Wars Jedi two Jetti Outcast. Star Wars starts Forces three N
two Jedi outcasts. Yep, there it is. Luckily Star Wars Knights of
the Old Republic came out to pick up the goat Star Wars game title.
Don't get me wrong, it probably aged like shit. I haven't played it
since, but the story was incredible. It fit into the universe perfectly,
and the twist was right up there with I Am your Father for the full
Star Wars experience. Yeah, it's incredible. I don't know if there could
ever be another great Star Wars twist again, Like, yep, we had
those two. They're fantastic. YEA in Star Wars doesn't need to be relying
on Twitter, doesn't need it. Yeah, but that's the point. They
shouldn't anymore, like, it's incredible that they pulled it off, right,
amazing that we got two of them in the same series. Yes, absolutely,
bread Fish says A vote Shimmagami Tinse Nocturne. That's a third game in
that series that has a lot of fans. Yes. Joe joy Z says
Cotur best, the Star War the New Vegas Wolf five says I know they
won't make the list, but I wanted to shout out Jack two and Going
Commando. Going Commando improved on literally everything the first Raction game did in every
possible way. Jack two was personally very influential for me, and it was
the first game that showed me how good storytelling could be in video games.
Nine year old me almost puked when he heard Jack say damn. Isaac Clark
says me too well, Uh need I say more from Isaac Clark who dropped
a picture of Mario Luigi Superstar Saga and No, you don't rock Party says
Final Fantasy Tactics advance and I agree, Clink window't agree, that's the one
I'm gonna I would fight back on a bit. I like the Tactics fans
fine, oh yeah, but it's a great game. So you're wrong,
okay, Craig says, win Waker. I don't care if it's been said
one hundred times in this already. Wind Waker is the best Zelda game out
there and the perfect embodiment of going on out on an adventure into the unknown.
If given the choice between this game and all the other games released this
year, let me go, Oh sail, Let me go sail on that
boat and yell at a talking fish. Also shout out to Rayman three.
That game's a jam and hasn't been mentioned yet. See my memory is that
a lot of people thought Raman, there's a disappointment at the Rayman two,
but that was a long time. Again, in consensus is I don't know
either. Punished Rose says, I know it's just an expansion, but Warcraft
three to Frozen Throne was the first time I played in RTS and absolutely hooked
me for the summer of two thousand and three. It's a very expansion.
It's a very good expansion. DMC depressed me, crying. The generation was
filled with wacky titles and cool crossovers. In two thousand and three, Lincoln
Dante were awesome to see in Soul Caliber two and Beautiful Joe respectively, and
Japanese Devil Make Cry Wow Yes, and Japanese icon Gacked started an obscure stylish
action title Boujin Guy The Forsaken City. I'm just gonna give it a moment.
Let's sean yo, Okay, all right, fair enough, You're good
enough. Jet Jet Banks Warrior were inc Mega microgames. This game, with
its addictive gameplay loop, got me into the series. Yeah, definitely,
he got Days forty two, says Mario. Luigi Superstar Saga Sasquatching says wind
Waker, Lenny Cool, Dick Denver says win Waker, F Zero GX Mario
and Luigi, and Advanced Wars two were my jams. However, I would
like to place a negative vote for Sonic Heroes because the theme song still haunts
me and I really didn't like it at the time. That was the game
that actually broke me off of Sonic for a while. I was really I
was like super excited for Sonic Heroes. It was so disappointed how jankie it
was, how often it slowed me down and do boring combat sequences. How
often I would go on a spring and it would just shoot me to my
death by Accident a great theme song. Though, I've been watching a Sonic
game that just seems like the Sonic experience. Yeah, you know, you're
just like supporting Jeff's arguments any time you put this game down, right,
this games bad. Look. I don't say every Sonic game is good,
clearly, I don't like to say is not very good. Matt Rare Monkey
says, Defense of the Agents, which is Doda, Legend of Zelda,
Windwaker, Need for Speed, Underground Ultimate, most the Legends versus New Generation,
definitely a top wrestling game. And Jedi Academy specifically the movie Battle Modes
Star Wars, Star Wars Stark Forces for Jedi Night three, Jedi Outcast to
Jedi Academy. There you go, thank you very much. That was for
memory. At first, I was like, how come I didn't play any
of these games in two thousand and three? And then I remember the worst
best game of all time Doda. Yeah, if you got into Dota back
in two thousand and three, no wonder you didn't play anything. Yeah,
my friend got a Dota back in two thousand and three. Hadn't seemed that
I didn't see much of him that year, But don't worry. Then he
became a ticket dual to Warcraft the next year. Brian Rose says, shout
outs to the final Fantasy Tactics Advance and fire emblem. Yes, correct,
Snubgin. No one mentioned racing games of the decade. I mentioned the racing
game of the decade. As far as Mario Kart, only eight Deluxe can
even hang with Double Dash. It loses Game of the Year only to the
wind Waker. Mex says best games in two thousand and three Meet for me
are Beautiful Joe and Mario Luigi Superstar Saga. Sir Meet Once says, and
Cotur should definitely be in the top five surries Not much Beautiful Joe. I
mean, it's a great game representation. There's it's a very good game.
I'm surprised. I think if you played in two thousand and three you would
have more reference for it because at the time it was like breath of fresh
air. I guess looking back on it in context, it's like, actually,
a lot of games were doing a ton of cool stuff back in two
thousand and three, but that was one of them for sure. Uh.
Turbo Shawn says, well, I know, Bagaman bad on Network three ain't
in the last. So since y'all will put any old Pokemon game on the
list, how about a good one for once, any old pook what you
mean gold and silver? Yeah, just any old horseship. No, we
didn't broken masses of video games. Listen, they're great. I was kind
of paying my mic today, Ruby version and Sapphire version. Shu. I
don't think they're gonna have much a chance until black and white, and then
that might be it. Whoa, why not? What what diamond and pearl?
You think? Just I just find it hard to believe going forward are
going to be five games better than that year's Pokemon game. But we'll see,
we'll see, all right, I'm not going to a chat. Nobody
in Patreon said the NBA Street Volume two. That's interesting. They're they're they're
heathens. We know this by them about that? By now, I guess
all need to get get some Jesus in your life. It's what you need.
Give me your two thousand and three. The short list the Legends Old
to the wind Waker, Star Wars, Knights of the Older. Is it
the wind Waker or Windwaker? I always forget myself and whatever one is I
think it is just Windwaker in look and because that it's going to be the
win right exactly, h Star wars Nutzy, the Old Republic, Soul Caliber
two, Warrior Ware incorporated Mega Micro Games exclamation point. But it is the
Wakes, she said, fucking I heard that ship every time. I yep,
uh, Soul Caliber two, Warrior Wear Ink, Prince of Persia,
Sands of Time, F zero g X, NBA Street Volume two, Mario
and Luigi, Superstar Saga and Castlevania, Aria of Sorrow. Fuck. And
there's only four slots left because I just put the legend of self to the
wind Waker at number one. Now it's probably my number one, are you
like? Also, I'm not super married to that. If you want,
like to me, number one's probably that or Code Tour. So that's where
I'm at. Yeah, if you think strongly should be coaches or I wouldn't
put up much of a fight about that, to be honest. Now,
I think the time listening to self win Waker kind of trumps out Dane else
here. I mean that there's other timeless games on here, but win Laker
truly is very I mean it's very special then, Honestly, like I think
like coaetor should you know, be two or at least on there, and
then I'll give you some deaf Jeff, this is very much a U year
here. Yeah, I'll give you some advice, I'll give you some guidance.
But yeah, I for me, I think, okay, so I
do also want to put a coat or at number two. I love that
game, uh the two and a half times so I've played it in my
life. I've always enjoyed it, never had like a bad moment with it,
even though people like kind of are over it a little bit. I
guess these days some people are, uh. For me, I'm like,
no, I still love Cotur God. This it's tough, but I for
me, I think number three probably is NBA Street Volume two and then Mario
Luigi Superstar Saga and then yeah it's tough. It's real hard, but I
mean I probably still covered two since the time support we are you thinking?
I think sands of times kind of what I leaned towards before. It was
like, yeah, it was good and also important and just interesting and it's
almost the most two thousand and three game in a lot of ways. Yes,
yes it is, man, this is such a stacked year for me.
It's really hard to leave off Sol Caliber two. It's hard to leave
that off. It's hard to leave off Wirio Wear It's Ario Sorrow, just
a fucking another perfect game from a series of games that has multiple perfect games
in it. Uh and f zero g x is it is a true classic,
one of the best racing games with all time. Very good. I
feel like less by leaving that one off for some reason. But yeah,
like there's a shout out, But I'm pretty good with this list, Mike.
Right now, I have the Legend of All the wind Waker at number
one, then Cotour, NBA Street Volume two, Mario Luigi Superstar Saga,
and Prince of Persia Santa Time. I I love every single one of these
games. Are all very good. Yeah, yeah, this is a I
mean, we're reaching some prime gaming years for both of us. I'm I
was always playing games, but like, is your own beating a lot of
games too, and all that stuff, So yeah, yeah, I think
I have a lot of good stuff here. I think, yeah, I
beat every single game on our short list, and this list beat all these
so yeah, yeah, you're good with this. Feel good? Jeff,
All Right, you know what, I put it on Internet? John,
I feel good. How's it feeled to be a dying man? John?
I'm sorry, I'm just doing it from Commando. Oh yeah, one of
the best characters all the time. Sure, oh yes, one million percent.
All right, there's that. I'm going to post this on Twitter right
now, and if you want to yelp me there, feel free. If
you want to yelp me in chat. That's also completely fair engagement. Baby
was last week was our least controversial list by far. I imagine some people
are going to have more thoughts on this one. Yeah, there's some truly
big ones that that aren't making a list. Yeah. Man. In my
memory, I remember two thousand and four being a very good year, So
that's gonna be I think, what's like, what's the first one that comes
to mind for you? Like two Yeah? Sure, yes on Warcraft?
Yeah that's a year. Oh it doesn't for it might be a Mikey year,
yes, totally. Uh okay. I think what we'll do is we'll
take one more break and then we come back. We'll talk about what we've
been playing. See you on a second. We're back, Mike. Before
we talk about what we've been playing. I think we got some more super
chats. Why don't you read those from me? And we got one here
from someone named Christian who says, Hey, guys, I just want to
remind you all that Alec Card from the hit manga series Housing is a great
and deep character that loves killing Nazis is call of Duty's skin is a crime
kids humanity. At least, I'm sorry to hear that, Christian. I
agree with that guy too. Da says, I know both of you aren't
huge Last of Us fans, but Last of Us Days next week. Last
year they dropped the first HBO trailer any chance for factions, Jeff, I'm
trying not to be cynical, and makes some stucky comment about the fact that
there even is a Last of Us Day, But I'm ignoring that too.
My daughter came home from school today and and my wife was complaining about her
job. It's a job, my wife, and at he's like doing something
else, but she's always listening to everybody. And then my wife explains,
like one of these problems it's happening about what fellow co worker, and he's
like, you should use your ignore power, and that's what I'm using right
now. My my powers to ignore something though, and that's that's something is
fucking the last of us day. This is an incredible power, I mean
okay, but also they're not going to drop faction is like it wasn't that
long ago, right they were like trouble, like a little little tug on
the collar about factions. Uh, they're like, hey, we had another
studio come in, bunchy and just fuck us up. So no fence,
but it was not impressed. Yeah, uh, there'll probably be something now,
probably some screenshots from I don't know what, right are they filming yet?
I have no they're going to announce, well, they can't film there's
a strike, right, maybe did they film anything? Honestly, it probably
don't say shit because that's just gonna get people talking about, hey, what's
that season gonna come out? Probably never hung with all the fucking actors striking
so and writers. Okay, Yeah, that's tough, Michael Leary says.
Technically, there was a Dracula sequel co written by Bram Stoker's great grandnephew in
two thousand and nine. The last branch of the Neppo baby tree. Can
you imagine being just the great grandnephew and thinking that gives you the right,
like, I mean, even being even being the son of somebody like with
like what's his name with the fucking simillary online Jara Tolkien. Yeah, his
son like did a lot of that work. He did, like a pretty
okay job. But even that, I'm like, but he didn't do a
lot of he only was liked by trade script and I'm going to edit that.
But even that, Yeah, that kind of gets me a little bit.
But whatever, My whole life is dedicated to working on my dad's trash.
Yeah, yeah, with the stuffy threw on the floor, Yes,
exactly, Yeah, nothing but respect, mister Christopher Tolkien. I actually think
it is quite dead. I think yeah, And you know what, we're
better off for Jesus Christ's token. Jesus did it, and I'm the one
is gonna go to jail just because it was our president. Well hey,
sorry, budd Epic Wallpapers says, playing Reside Evil for remake separate ways,
I'm with mikey Game of the Year. Yeah, uh, when your corner
x courss Mike's cameras off, I think that's back when my camera when you
have me blocked for a second, that never happened. You fix that,
We're all good. Oh yeah, connal Wood says, don't forget two thousand
and three includes the end gauge Lung Games ship, Jeff, we have to
go back. We got to throw it all out, we got to start
over. We forgot about the end gauge, all right. At the end
gage was two thousand and three. For some reason, I thought it was
a little bit later than that. That's what they kept like they did another
launch a few years later. Maybe it wasn't a few year back then.
It probably felt like a few years. Maybe it was like one year later.
But yeah, that was like the side talking thing, and that happened
with like second Yeah, that happened like the second version though, because I
don't think the side talking that was like early Internet meme stuff. But I
don't think like it was like a big relund like I don't know. I
don't know there was, like it was effectively a relaunch back then, but
I don't know if that was side talking or not. Big fresh story sevences.
Should I worry about x Xbox backwards compatibility? Excuse me if they go
arm Yeah, I worry about it, But I don't know if you should
like do a super big worry. What's up there showing us You're I know
that's deliberate. I'm able to educate these fools. Oh what's this about?
Okay? What site is this? This is side talking dot com? Oh
no, is this about the end Gauge? Yeah, it was a serious
There is one hundred percent starring problem Max somewhere on this page. Yeah,
I kind of kind of immediately. Here's here's side talking where everyone would uh
boob yeah, side talking into a boob. Sure, everyone would take their
different devices and pretend to side talking it like their Nokia engauge. Is this
what you thought was funny? Oh this was the thing for a while.
Oh absolutely, yes, I thought this was funny. This is what we
thought. This is what we had back in the depression era of the internet.
Big Fresh thirty seven also asked, also, are y'all going to play
thunder Ray Jeff, that's another punch out like indie thing. If I saw
that, Yeah, I'm gonna try it. But I don't have high hopes
for anything to being able to capture the magic. But if it does,
I will give its props and and shout it from the rooftops. Yea with
so much fire in this fucking web page. I mean Ryan, yeah,
big Jibbah Ryan says you should watch Holsing Ultimate, it's good. What would
Jim Ryan know about anime? Well listen, yeah she did know. Ho'm
crutchy Roll Hughie have said. Hey, random thought, but the villain and
the Princess Peach game looks like a Balin wonder Roll character. That's true.
Yeah, we mentioned that in the talk over because I was frightened for her,
that Balin. And then Tyrant says, grub, what would be your
Nintendo likely never happening game. Mike's pick is clearly Princess Daisy Cinemax. For
me, it would be a new two D Zota with the scope of Metroid
dread also great nuts e is greater than most. I don't know about that.
I feel like a two D Zota game that has that has at least
as much of a scope, especially Drew isn't that much off the table.
Yeah, that's basically what link between worlds was. Yeah, I would tell
a row Boxer two, the sequel to the Virtual Boy boxing game. That's
like, that's definitely not probably not gonna happen, all right, that's set
for super chests from now. Thank you so much everybody. Mike, what
you've been playing? Well? I did start Separate Ways the new DALC camp
paying for Resident Evil for remake. Uh, you know, I was just
so excited to have a reason to play some more Resident Evil for Jeff,
you know how much I love that game. Oh it's interesting though I never
played the original Separate Ways. Uh, like you know, the GAMEP version
wasn't there when I played the game again on the WEA version, I just
didn't go to it. And probably because, like I said, I don't
like eight oh Wong nearly is but just everyone else for some reason. But
you know here, I'm just so happy again to have more Resume before,
just excited to play it. And yeah, hey more Resie before. So
far, just been exploring locations from that first game again. But hey,
along has some interesting things. She has a grappling hook and that's fun.
It's not like you know, Batman Arkham City style. You can do it
anywhere. There's certain points you can use it too, but still that's fun.
You can use it as a melee attack sometimes too, if a person's
further away. But so far, just playing like ninety minutes of it.
It is the basically just more resume before and that's exactly what I want.
Yeah, it's so it doesn't change up the game play too much. It's
just like more of that fun shooting in a different setting with a different character.
Well not even a different setting, right, it's the same, just
basically different characters. I never played a story different perspective. And you know,
it's a lot of cute like, oh she was here when this was
happening to Leon kind of stuff. I got a question, is this a
gizmondo? Was? What a gizmond It's gonna come up on the thing here?
I can't. I think that's man, this guy's highlighted curls. That's
something. Uh maybe it was two thousand and three. Man, we don't.
Yeah, yeah, it's just what it is, what it is.
Yeah, listen, I will probably not play this DLC, but I'll play
the rest of through the rest of the residume before. It's it's definitely not
something you should like play before or instead of the main game. It is
definitely a hey, did you like really like that main game? Well,
here's here's some more you can play, right, Yeah, And I'm glad.
I'm glad it's available. I know people have been excited about it,
but it's like ten dollars, it's pretty reasonable for this. I don't know
how long it is, honestly, but still ten dollars for the DALC campaign
that seems reasonable, right, and remaking the DLC campaign on top of already
remaking the game. It's cool that they did this, Like that's not it's
I mean, because it's something. I bet most people who played Resume before
originally didn't play, and you could have they could have got away with never
doing that. A lot of people worried that they weren't because they didn't announce
it right away, and you know, like Residue Will three remake was missing
just content from the base game. So I think a lot of people were
concerned we would just never get this, and we did get it. So
that's very cool that they did it. Yeah. Absolutely. I've been playing
Phantom Liberty Cyberpunk twenty seventy sevens DLC and it's it's it's very good. It's
very good. What's good about it is kind of what was always good about
Cyberpunk in that uh, pretty good characters, a good pretty good story the
combat's pretty good, although it's better now. They've made a lot of improvements
to the skill tree. I think that there's a lot more options in terms
of being able to have more of these like mods installed, more of these
cyberwars installed, so you could be even more powerful of a of a net
runner, you know, the hacker type, and more body mods and things
like that, and that stuff is all very cool, and I really like
the story set up with It's like the spy political thriller where you are working,
you're helping the president of the United States, are just crash landed in
this new part of the city that you haven't been before in before because it's
it's like blocked off and you got to sneak into it and all that's stuff
is very cool. It also the game just looks so so so good.
It's really visually pleasing. The new ray tracing stuff is incredible DLSS three point
five. This is the first game to support that, and ray tracings never
looked as good as it looks here, So all that stuff is working in
its favor. It's still underneath still cyberpunk. It's still that game. Uh.
That means that you're going to have the kind of I think cheesy dialogue.
The characters said a maze balls today, like V says amaze balls and
I'm like, what why come on? And was like confused because like talking
to a bunch of people are like this has got great writing, Like I
don't think it's got great writing. It's got like, yeah, there's a
cool different things when they say that, right, it's yell. And I
don't know if people necessarily mean the dialogue. I will say that even the
performance is even saying amazeballs actually are selling it pretty well. They're doing a
pretty good job. But that's it's still not selling it enough to like get
me on board with. And that's like the one example I can remember.
There were several examples of like the cheesy dialogue, but whatever, that's not
going to ruin a game for me. And nothing's really ruining this game for
me other than it's like I kind of always imagine Cyberpunk, I say,
I imagine they always promised Cyberpunk kind of like an immersive sim where it's a
very reactive world and you would be able to like kind of pick and choose
your own way through it. And no, it's kind of you're gonna go
in there. You're gonna go to the waypoint. Maybe it'll have you search
for the waypoint inside of a cord enough box. Once you're inside there,
it's like, actually find the point of interest now, And like that's not
exactly exciting or something like that, but it's like, no, if you
want to go in here and experience a cool cyberpunk world, meet some meat
characters, get you know, hang out with a sexy president lady, and
then meet Eat or Selba. All that stuff sounds cool to you. This
is going to deliver for you. And I get why some people are super
into it, but don't expect this to be some completely rewriting the history of
cyberpunk. It's still cyberpunk. So when I play Cyberpunk for the first time,
which I'm going to do here soon, should I just because I'm going
to be doing that two point zero version, right, so even the main
game is a lot different. Now, should I do the main game,
you think? Or should I just head straight to this phantom Liberty stuff?
What I would do is, I mean, you're gonna start a new character,
You're gonna you're gonna have to do it. I would imagine I didn't
restart, even though they recommend restarting. There's just no way I'm doing that
because I don't want to do this beginning stuff again. But you're gonna have
to do the beginning stuff again where you know, you meet Jackie and and
probably do a little bit of a heist and stuff like that. Is Jackie
Keiana Reese. No, Jackie's Johnny Silverhand and he's in your head and you'll
meet him as well. But Jackie's like your best real world friend. Uh,
and you know all the stuff that happens with him. You'll just said,
Jackie's Johnny Silverhan Do you mean Kiano is? Yeah? Sorry, Uh,
Keanu is Johnny Silverhand. Jackie is your best real world friend. And
yeah, so I would I would start. I would do at what kind
of all the stuff that like feels about right in the main story, And
then if you feel like, okay, I kind of want to go see
what that fanom liberty stuff is, go do it because it's it's very good
and from him when it's so it's so beefy that that might be the game
to play at this point, Uh, playing through that might be even better
because I listen as good as people thought. The story wasn't in cyberpunk.
It doesn't end in some spectacular way. It kind of fizzles out, my
opinion a little bit. I remember when I played a Blivy and it was
a few years after it came out, and I was just kind of wandering
around and accidentally stumbled into the Shivering Aisle's expecience. So that was the first
thing I did want to play the game. It's actually really fun way to
do that, And then I did everything else after that. Yeah, I
think you would be if that's kind of what happens here. I think again
you would stumble into it after doing some intro stuff. But if you did
that here, I think you'd be totally fine. And you're gonna get the
call from the MPC like, hey, we need your help out in Pacific
of the President's plans about to go down, And that's pretty compelling, Like,
oh, I want to know what's happening here. Gonna get transported to
an anime world like Nino kun two. Uh no, you know presidents can
be too, Mike, Wow, But yes, that's absolutely what's gonna happen.
All right, all right, I don't know I'm gonna stick with it
because I mean, well, big part of it is like I got this
for in the US, they can't. Well, this is the new United
States of America, so the end of the essay. So that's a little
bit different. Maybe they're better off than we are. It doesn't seem like
the medal compared to normal medal. Yes, it's in you, yes,
oomed out over the you. Yeah. Absolutely, I'm like, I'm gonna
join it. I'm gonna stick with it for at least for a little bit.
There's uh other games that I want to keep playing. I'm definitely still
playing Armored Core six now that the same bug is out of my way,
I'm making this progress there. Yeah, and there's other things I want to
play Rescume Bell four in a couple of weeks. But there's stuff coming up
soon. But I think I got a little block right here for it.
If I stick with this, I can probably get through it. You know
what's a shame, No one's No one's gonna play Crew Motorfested. I think
that game is actually really good. Yeah, like that game. I'm surprised
how much I like it. It's like when I'm playing it in a lot
of ways, I think I just like this better than the last Forts the
Horizon. Now, maybe if I really played them back like next to each
other, I would see why Forces the Horizon control is better or feels better.
But I kind of like the setting and motorfests more. It doesn't have
as a bunch of map bar of which I appreciate, and it's really neat
how you can be in an airplane. You can switch to an airplane whenever
and sort of use that to quickly get around the island. That feels great.
I thought you hated when the Ubi Soft games had flying things you can
go into and look a look at the island. No, no, no,
that's different because like the bird is just basically a stupid Yeah, it's
a drone. This is actually during the quick Like, Jeff, you can't
from all right, what else you've been playing, Mike. I mean the
Crew was the one that I would encourage people to check out. I think
it is surprisingly good. The playlist system is a lot of fun. There
a lot of there's a lot of content there in a lot of variety,
but more seros starts still really enjoying that plane that every night, and more
Mortal Kombat one I've still been having fun playing that game just online, getting
good with smoke, feeling pretty good about that. So I'll probably be playing
that for quite a while longer still. But uh yeah, Jeff, I'm
still throwing down the challenge to you from my zero to Hero challenge. Yeah,
let's just do it. We'll do that next week sometime. We'll pick
a day one. Let make it happen. Sean, remind me to talk
about that in the meeting on Monday. Yeah. Other than other than that,
for me, it's been Armor, Course, Sex, a little bit
more Starfield. I'm gonna try, like still want to beat that. But
finally, I did like play Starfield for the first time in a while yesterday
because I dropped it from I'll come at one and like getting back to it,
it was kind of hard to like get into it again. I think
it's gonna be completely fine to not finish that if you're well, I want
to. If I want to fish it, I'm gonna finish it. Like
the mission that was on kind of gone interesting. At least it actually was
doing that like that one Titan Fall two level everyone likes. Yeah, I
was doing that not as well, so well, I just I just keep,
just keep. He having a lot of thoughts about Starfield, and I
don't think I'm really ready to completely divulge them yet. But that's fine because
game mesk Cub's going to talk about it. Yep, probably in about a
week. Yep. Looking forward to that. Uh all right, Mike,
is that it? That's it? Wait? Do we get any more superch
I think we're good. Yeah, we're gonna super chats. I'm going to
I thinks with all the super chats, thinks I everybody tuned in to night.
Thanks for all the likes. We really appreciate it. Uh, shout
outs to y'all. Let's see, who should I watch? Helsing Ultimate?
Fifty one percent say yes, forty nine percent say yes with an exclamation.
It's crazy. That never happened. One hundred percent of people say yes in
a poll. That's crazy. I think you should watch. Uh, all
right, we're wrapping up. Thanks for watching everybody, Mike. Why don't
you tell people where they can find you on the internet? Tolkoto and the
places and yeah, John Giant bombs stuff. Uh, what do you guys
are playing? That party? Animals? It says that was that's called tomorrow
You play party animals to brown upf if you want to get in on that,
Mike. It's eight players, so we're trying to get the whole crew
in. Maybe I think I any more you should want to join us?
Yeah, so be ready to go, all right, Eddie, that will
be a lot of fun tuning for that, everybody. That's gonna be fun.
I'm gonna be. I played some Mortal Kombat X beat that that's fun.
Beat beat a couple of Mortal Kombat games this year. I gotta be
a couple more now, but I'll be I'll be keeping in the going with
that. And then yeah, I don't know. Uh see, the new
Columbroo's episode is out for for Patreon members. Uh, definitely check that out.
We're having a lot of fun with that episode and with that serious as
a whole. And then what else, Oh, I think I will be
doing. I'll do a Q and A this weekend. So if you are
a Patreon member, this Sunday I will probably do because I'll be busy Saturday,
So look out for Sunday with me busy hanging out with Mikey on Saturday.
Or then maybe we could just do it on on my phone or something.
Have a Christian here reporter or something. We'll see. We'll see,
no promises, I'll see what it's like. Uh okay, yeah, Mike,
we got any other plans this weekend and then might go to the local
high school football game tomorrow. Some family we'll see. Trying to get chicks.
No, No, you're disgusting, Mike. I can't believe you said
yes there. Wow. Uh yeah, I'm trying. I think I was
supposed to do something Friday, but now I can't remember. I don't know.
I guess it's bussy. You want to stream son on Twitch? I
would love to stream with someone twitch. Yeah. The problem is, like
all the games I keep playing, I'm like trying to stay on top of
stuff. Everything's fucking embargoed. So even six on the kids soon it wouldn't
be that's a good idea. I'd love to be taught how to play games.
That would be nice. I do want to stream. I will definitely
be doing the Q and A and then maybe I'll time to stream after that.
We'll see. Thanks for watching, everybody, So next time you have
good like to take care of yourself and good bye. Everything right, And
they indicted me. That's fucked up that he eats so many sunflower seeds that
his bottle stock working? What is that from the last? Okay? All
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right, let's hear every ready. Stick with us. We're gonna get right
back to the show. Unless you need to break or anything. Now,
let's go for it. Okay, let's get right back into it right now.
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send me money? Oh? Well no, I actually didn't do it because
I forgot. You need to be paypaled, So I'll do that. Okay,
let's see here. All right, there's that. Sorry everybody, but
that was loud. All right, let's go. I'll forgot to make the
break. I'm useless now there there it is introducing smart Phil. All right,
that's going up there, so good. Oh October, let's go.
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a meaning me. Yeah no, yeah, that included you. Yeah,
we knew that. Just got hit in the fucking chest with those cuts.
And I'm sorry. Move Mikey around a little bit, then we'll be good.
Everybody all right, move around every now and then we get the right
mortis up on o bis, I promise. Does anyone chat know what a
mortis is? Thanks? Sean always makes fun of me for saying the word
mortis. Yeah, it's it's what it's what overlays are called in uh in
obs. Actually they're mortis. Yes, I don't know enough to like counter
that. The only reason I know it is because we had, once upon
a time at gai Bomb had a graphic designer on the team, so he
was very, very trained, very true. You got the right thing pulled
up, Arthur, Thanks, No, I don't know you're right, ship.
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bump, bump, turn that off. And then it almost almost reminds me
of that tragedy almost kind of reminded you of a tragedy more disababium. Okay,
yeah, so Gat you sent me this too. So apparently people are
said about some of this. I don't saw a collection stuff. Yeah,
I saw people complaining about it. Yeah, can, someone said in a
super chest, So I can talk about it now, we can just talk
about it. But I'll just talk about it. I don't. I don't
really know what the issue is. So there's just nothing to be happier,
really depressed. Do they use AI to like up red stuff? That'd be
fuck? I don't. I think it's just because it's bare bones than the
emulations. Well I guess, yeah, but it's just that that's poor.
So let's start the show. Yep, I'm bringing it in right now.
Oh nope, I gotta fix your camera and I'll bring it in. Where
the hell did you go? Just just let's do this. See Mike for
the game? Do we need to see Mike? Also, what do you
have, like show what you had to right click on the thing and say
and unchecked showing non video participants? Yeah? I did? Okay, perfect,
That's that's the whole way this thing works. Yeah, I don't know
what. There's not an option to permally yes, just permanently do it right,
But whatever, we're all right here, we're figuring it out. Okay.
If this score was the health enough Voice Services, it would I think
I'm just seeing the problem. Let me fix my problem real quick. Why
oh why are you? Why did you move? All right? You said
you were moving me that one time. Yeah, it's not your fault.
We're profession it's okay. Yes, I don't tell anybody, but we're professionals.
Leave us alone, all right, there we got Oh. Yes,
it's just kind of like a great piece of software. It's definitely like infallible.
It's like it's doing its job, but like it gives you so much
power that you kind of like you go too far and then you're like,
well I could do that, and I could do this, and I could
make it look a little bit better, and then you end up doing a
million things when you could have just done one simple thing. But whatever,
we're ready to go. I'm gonna bring us back in. Sorry, Mikey,
we have another breaks. This is crazy. They're gonna be four breaks
in the Yeah, congratulations, I hope you're happy. A lot of things
an embarrassment of riches. Yes, okay, let's see ding. Make sure
to account for me dropping a stream ding. I don't want to man,
where are we going there? It is? Okay, I need this one
two up even though it's a three up. I called it a two up,
and I'm never gonna fix that. I'm so distraught I can't get any
more. Still, you still can't get over the all card thing. No,
that's why I was only pulling the war Zone. What is that he
needs to look good next to Nicki Minaje. Oh my god, which,
by the way, y'all aren't y'all don't play Call of Duty? But I
was. I was playing war Zone with the boys there a night and there's
a squad Nicki minajes. And let me tell you when we were loing.
God, damn, they put some effort into the skin. All right,
I'm playing Call of Duty, that's all I need to hear. Yeah,
hell yeah, I want. I want to play as her, and I
want people to play against me. Ask her and step on me. That's
what I want. You think you think we would get squad and convinced Jeff
to get to get the skin. Oh yeah, yeah, if we tell
him we're gonna play it without him, he'll get fomo and he'll do anything.
We say, Hell yeah, yes, so that'll be fun, a
good relationship. Yes, healthy. Uh the Nicki's minage, just the plural,
says connor Wood. That's good. They didn't have my flavor of bubbly
side to get this generic giant eagles sparkling water. Okay about that? How
that's hard today? Is it to make a good fucking Expendables movie? How
could it be so difficult for the mess it up again? It's thirty one
on Metacritics. Come on, it should be the easies. It's the easiest
thing in the world. Well, we'll hang on on Metacritic. How's it
doing on ron Tomato? Is that critic or audience for kind out loud?
No? No, it's important because critics hate these kinds of there's no audience.
The movie's not out yet. He's not out yet. Okay, but
I hate I hate these movies too. Like that's the thing, Like it's
well, yeah, you have no taste. Oh you like Expindables. They're
so boring, you'll like this one. I didn't say that either. Things
can't be true, are we talking about then alright about you tell me that's
fair. All right, we're bringing it back in everybody. Yep, sounds
good. We'll get back. We'll also do super chats everybody, so we'll
get to that. Oh man, well they didn't move in two thousand and
four is another stack to your holy shit, what deeff, I'm surprised at
the time to type that out. Yeah, thank you, chef to what
did really thoughtful message you send you send on chat. I'll really appreciate that.
It's nice that Jesus Christ. Hi, it's me and Jeffrey Michael.
Oh, by the way, you have to send me a recording because Discord
diet on me. OK, no problem, not Christian parentheses. And I'm
here to say that alcart it's a great character and this cod skin is an
insult to the legacy of the Hints series hell saying so, yeah, that's
true. That's how I feel in my heart. Absolutely, I do believe
that Alcar is a great character. Though. Uh in Casuania. Absolutely love
all the Yeah, we love all the alacarts. Oh yeah, no,
no bad alacarts definitely yeah no, yes, no bad Alacart. Yes,
oh, Alacarts are beautiful m You're welcome, Ekunagi. I have your back,
all right, I know the one I from twos and fourth. Then
my long shot. I'm gonna try to get on there, even though this
is a tough year to get a long shot. What's your what's your long
shot? It's kind of Maori de Massis. I don't think you've ever played
played some of it before, thing because I just never played Kateamari and it's
a it's a weird because it seems like a game I like, I never
played it. Tough. There's like, oh it, it might not even
make it. Holy four is insane. I think it gets brought up as
one of the best years. Yeah, there's like so many uh like this
is like there was a lot of good, great stuff happened before this,
but this is a year where it's like a lot of people's games who are
like still their favorite games of all time are coming out. Yeah, oh
my god, I forgot I was getting this ear oblivion yep paper Mario A
thousand near your door, yep. Way, there's no way of believing is
two thousand and four? Wait no, it's a three sixty game. Yeah,
it's a three sixty game. Might we might think, oh no,
I got that, Marlod. Yeah no. Moro Wind came out before this,
but I must be thinking about Moral Wind. Okay, all right,
let's see, let's get back in. Believing is so six, man,
it's so six. It was that early in the remember, because it was
like it was the same. It came out the same month as Keenom Hearts
two, in March two thousand and six. I don't know. I still
remember that. I think, Man, okay, perfect. Uh oh,
Kidoki. Let's see here, Mike, when we get back, we'll do
super chats first. Okay, Oh, get those rating go. We're gonna
go right now.