Hey everybody, it's Tuesday, October seventeenth, twenty twenty three. Welcome to
the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and eleven, powered by NZXT. That's
right, the Goggler is still broke and I'm scared to touch any button on
it, so we're just gonna We're gonna treat it gently. I'm a gentleman,
so I'll be gentle except while I'm yelling during this intro. My name
is Jana Choa, joining me as always co captain of the ship Jeff crub.
If I break up during this podcast, it's because, Uh, Skull
Island, Rise of Kong just unlocked on Steam. I'm downloading. I don't
care, it's worth it. Here we go. That's right, that's right.
Uh, it's Peter Jackson's own calling Skull Island jack Back on his game
tip. Here we go, everybody that's is this a Pjack joint? No?
No, maybe I don't think so. Uh, Officionado and number one
P Jack fan Jeff Backlar is also here. Well that's not true, but
I am here. How's it going, Jack, don't I don't think so.
I think like get Back was very hard to follow, and it was
just like, I'm gonna let this documentary footage just go without really editing it
for a very long time. I don't know. I didn't think that was
Yeah, yeah, I don't think that was like the best. But other
than that, you know, I don't know. I don't give a shit
about Lord of the Rings either, so and I hate him. Finally,
to break the tie, and whether or not this website likes Lord of the
Rings, hates Lord of the Rings, or continues to be ambivalent about Lord
of the Rings, Bailey Bars is out there. Hello, Do I now
need to give my opinion about Lord of the Rings. Yes, I think
we're kind of split dead. Either they were there. I saw the movies
when they came out in theaters. I only saw them once, but I
had an Airgorn poster in my room. I enjoyed Rings of Power his first
season, but I did guess who the bad guy was from the second he
appeared on screen, and I felt very proud of myself. And then the
last time I interacted with Lord of the Rings was playing the Gollum game.
So Lord of the Rings can suck my butt. Okay, all right,
I think it's the appropriate position, and I full hardly agreed with everything she
just said. I should I watch Rings of Power? Should I watch Rings
of Power? The first season was good, but then they were talking about
how they were going to do it without writers during the strike, and I
was like, Oh, that's Jeff Bezos can write it. He'll go in.
He knows what to do. Uh Bailey. I I called upon your
expertise to grace us with your presence on this podcast for one reason and one
reason alone, other than you know, we always need a fourth person,
and this is you're not busy week. Uh. I know you don't have
another fourth person available exactly value not a person as Jesus Christ is why we
keep her around, Just a little jabs everywhere you need someone to get a
little stamp. We got. Someone said it's about time someone took Minati down
a peg or two. Let me tell you back. Are you watch it?
She'll stab you too, Bill or anything you want to know about.
You don't need anyone else for that, That's right true. The Goosebumps TV
show. Have you seen it? What do you think of it? Oh?
My god, I haven't seen it, but I do have this whoa
Oh cool? It's the puppet word Ventroquist. What do they called dummy?
It's a dummy mask that she's holding for audio ers. Thing a lot of
people don't realize about Slappy is that the first book he appears and he isn't
even the bad guy. It's a totally different, separate dummy. So and
then Slappy shows up later and it's unrelated this. So Slappy's just like they're
like observing the stories the uh what's his position in that book? I am
pretty sure that. I mean, like later he becomes sort of a like
spooky like Annabelle of the Goosebumps universe, like conduit to evil, et cetera,
et cetera. But in the first book, he's just a second dummy
that that one of the characters buys because the main characters, annoying sibling found
a different dummy in the garbage and they were like, I want a dummy
too. I was always too spooked as as a kid to read any of
the Goosebumps books because I was a little scaredy cat. And I've been on
a book. Now, you're so brave. I pretend to be. It's
all it's all, it's all work. And also if I pile myself with
other people that are more scared of the ghosting game than I am. It'll
make me look brave by association. Oh yeah, I was very brave.
I don't know what you're talking about. And I've been on a big tip
of rereading old books that I missed as a child, Hence the animals books.
Guys, I'm ten books in. Really I feel like I should eventually
record something. But let me tell you, these books are are legit insane.
Yeah, go places like a good insane where it's like, huh,
maybe everyone should read this book and realize it's more than just these weird covers
about kids turning into animals. It's a lot of fucked up shit, especially
kids. Oh yeah, yeah, I know. It's crazy. They go
places there are people who become trapped as animals forever. There's all kinds of
stuff that goes on, and those things I like goosebumps where things are normal
and people's dads just turn into plants or whatever. Okay, lots of garbage
dummies. Hold on, Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold
on. Animals. Min Max is trying trying to promote an animals podcast.
What Wow, Wow, what stolen valor Wow. What Ben Hanson. Ben
Hanson, you polite man, You polite man. Congrats on your child.
You I'm watching you at the same time. Sarah, Watch out, Leo,
watch out, Janet, Watch out everyone else had been backs. Watch
out Dan you live near them, Watch out. M Let's record something.
Let's get out, Let's get out ahead of this. I'm recording it now
for age games. Guys in book one, let me tell you the main
kid. Uh. We don't need to talk about animals right now. Goosebumps.
Uh, scary books, scary games. It's Halloween season. How is
everyone else doing good? I'm sensed right now. I know I can see
that you'll be fine. I think I've got a fun project that I'm trying
to put together for Halloween and the Halloween spirit in the Spooky season. I
recovered an old CRT television from my parents' house a couple of months ago.
It was a black and white, like little, maybe at best thirteen inch
CRT with like a bunch of like sesame street stickers riddled all over it.
Like literally could not build a more time appropriate prop. And I want to
get like I want to broadcast on Halloween. I want to put like beetlejuice
on it and like put it outside as like set dressing for Halloween. I'm
trying to like figure it all out in that like a VCR. You're gonna
look up to it or no, I'm gonna. I think what I'm gonna
do is I think I'm gonna get like a UHF to coax adapter, okay,
and then do like an HDMI to coaxs a thing out of a laptop.
You what you should do? Tell me because I'm about to make purchases.
Well, this is the insane thing that you should do. You should
say your own pirate like TV, like old style television thing. Oh,
I mean those things, those are definitely parts of the spectrum. They are
being used by like more important things. Right now, just do a small
little but it's gonna look like ship anyway. Like I don't is that.
It's not about looking about like shit. This is just like it would be
fun to run a pirate t wireless thing, I guess. So how do
I do that? How do I broadcast like a micro like okay, chat
and callers and listeners and everyone else who hears this message? Yeah? Right?
How do I make a small pirate radio broadcast with like the range of
o, say ten feet. Well, you know, because like back in
the early days of the iPod, I had like the radio broadcast thing you
would plug into the right back on that and then we could tune into it
on your radio in the car because it didn't have the ports or whatever.
So I wonder if there's like some similar things you can do for video.
Yes, I promise there is, will it? The question is, yeah,
I'll just do that. Question is would that be more expensive than the
current solutions? Certainly? Yes. Yeah. So you know, I'm not
trying to like really make this up just budget. What are you talking about?
Budget for Giant bomb? That is true. Well Bailey helped us do
that today, so yeah, maybe put that money towards some good use.
Bailey's right, So yeah, I'm doing I think it's a cool little trick.
I want to do that. That'll be a nice little spooky thing.
Have it play on repeat. That'll be fun. Like realistic static, realistic
tracking issues because they're actually there because it keeping happening, which is dope.
So I'm excited. Grub How's how's how's everything? Do you do? You
want to share a cinnabon perhaps because I just got a coupon for one.
I definitely I've had cinnamon in a while. I would I would go for
that absolutely. I'm a big fan of cinnamon rolls. That's uh. You
know. We went to get our pumpkins over the weekend, and then we
stopped at the farm right next door because they put farms right next to each
other, and this is the one that has the apple cider donuts and apple
cider, and I got some of that, and that is that's good eating
apple cider donuts. I always like, it's never like the first thing that
pops in my mind when I think of a donut, but I think they're
the ones I'm the most happy with when I'm eating them, Like, this
is a satisfying donut. I like fall stuff, like fall outdoorsy stuff of
like, oh, the kids want to go get pumpkins. I'm like,
oh, that's a good excuse to go out and just put on a scarf
and be outside. So, yeah, scarf. You know you're not wearing
a scarf? Can I still assume it, like the idea of it,
You'll never wear a scarf, Jeff Grub, You simply don't require it,
Okay, I'm gonna say the Jeff Grub will probably wear this is the big
Lebowski cardigan that he's wearing. Right, Yeah, he'll donn a scarf on
for the season. But this man will still be wearing shorts. Oh yeah,
oh yeah. Literally all right, now, look at that time,
eat yeah, look at that. That's right, Look at that sweet time.
That's how I drove the kids at school this morning. Still shorts,
the best, the best weathers now, Okay, suck it up, suck
it in, let it wash over you. Weather is at a barback?
Are you almost at a bar? I know, look, just twenty years
ago, I would have finished, but I can't now because my brain's broken
and I'm bad. Everybody Backler's too old to finish, too old? Can
you? Can you imagine? Can you imagine you had you had ended it
with oh, let me begin, and then just you know, we ended
with swag, right, Yeah? You know? Now I know better for
next time, which will never happen because I'm simply not cool enough. But
I'm very excited. I just don't know if I can get on board with
you grow up with the shorts. I uh, I think shorts in a
hoodie like I think I was more like joggers and hoodie situation. The short.
Yeah, I mean, I'm also doing that, but there are sending
the messages that I'm just not ready to send my Yeah, that's okay.
I'm not proud of it. I'm not proud of it. Like this is
not I'm not going out there and saying this is how people should live their
lives. That's true. I think you should be saying that. I think
we should promote more mobility for people, and pants are just too restrictive.
You gotta get that knee meat out there. If we're in not punching down
era, you gotta keep you got to be mobile, you got to be
able to move fast. You want that fie meat out there for aerodynamics.
It's just like when I see like a dad rock in the hoodie and shorts,
like especially at the ice rink at like seven all the time. I'm
just like one, dude, it's okay, it's okay. I know for
a fact, you are very very cold right now. There's no actually not
cold. Well, I guess I guess certain people hit a point in their
lives where like blood simply does not flow below the waist anymore. Therefore you
know. But yeah, that point was two hundred and fifty pounds. Yeah,
absolutely, yeah, isn't it. Yeah, it's like fat bear week
or something. I keep hearing this. I actually do think about doing the
polar bear swimming stuff. Oh see, I considered Lake Erie's right there.
I drop my kids off and then there's like this hour period where I could
either sleep or I could go jump into a body of very cold water,
and I'm like, what do I do? And guess what I always choose
go back to get in bed for a little bit. So that's not what
I would guessed. Yeah, if I surprising comanded the hoodie in the shorts
hibernation, I think I will. I will try it. This is this
is the one good thing about being on like podcasts and stuff is if I
like make a declaration, people like hold you to it, and then it's
like, oh, it's content now. So by the way, jeah and
so yeah, I might. I might commit to that and jump into the
Lake Erie before like BombCast next week or something like that. We'll see,
okay, right before the so so so I say, it's it's kind of
it's approaching beanie season up here in the Bay right, appropriate beanie season.
So I've been donning the beanie back again, and everyone I run into' is
like, oh, you look normal now, and I think it's because I
think it's because they can't see my shaved ass head. Yeah. Anyway,
I got used to it so fair like that by the end of that night,
this just looks like jan I, as soon as you told me you
were going to do it if you didn't finish the game on time, I
became used to it. I was like, all right, it's happening.
I accepted it in my heart. I never believed in you for even a
second, so it gave me a lot of time beat it. I didn't
do it, though, Bailey, I did do it, But like,
then, then, what was even the point, Chan? I think if
it look like I can identify right as someone who like covers their head more
than not right, I think it's like your default position, you know,
that's like your avatar. That's what people expect you to look like, you
know, normal, like as you spawn. So that's okay. Uh,
you owned it and you you look great. Bailey. A quick question for
you. This isn't the my chat question because this is just we're in the
day wild to do my check? Now, everyone, how do I kill
six hours around Lax before a wrestling event? Is there a good coffee around
there? There is not much around Lax, Like do you mean in the
airport or like it's a pretty cool crime? Okay, oh yeah, I
mean it's it's mostly just budget an hour to get wherever your destination is,
obviously, but I would say you want to find if you want to kill
time, you want to do it closer to your event than to that.
Okay, is there like a I was gonna say a car rental thing like
uber, like you do one of those get a car and just go driving
around? But that's la You don't want to do that. Can you rint
like a dirt bike or something and go like ing up the pier? Is
there a la peer? I don't know. You are romanticizing my ability to
ride a motorcycle? And should you be the kid from the Determinator too?
And stuff? That's what I want. My big secret is I don't fly
out of Lax because unless I desperately have to, because I find it miserable.
I do Burbank every time. Yeah, yeah, he's not great,
but it's airport's pretty good. Yeah, Carr car Well Restaurant. Yeah,
Burbank's the one that was like very excited when I realized how much better that
was to fly in and out of. Yeah, it's it feels like someone's
living room when you're in there, it's very like, Yeah, it's just
like I'm not an airport. I'm just your friend's house that has planes outside.
And you're like, all right, this is a long out. I
have a guy Fair restaurant in it. That's awesome. Look at one of
those little ladder or one of those little staircases that's a car. I like
that. Like that you actually get to do that in the Burbank one,
and like walk across the tarmac. Yeah wait, Bob Hope and the John
Wayne Right, John Wayne is Santa Anna. Okay, never mind. Anyway,
I was saying all this to lead up that Lax occasionally feels like a
dystopian society, just like cyberpunk is whoa you say dystopia? I say utopia?
Really want to I just wanted to yes end a little bit there.
I don't know if disagreeing is yes ending, but I, like you,
I think it is. It absolutely is. It's a form of it look
at it's closer than just saying no. Yeah. I didn't stop the conversation.
I kept going. I kept it going with something impossible. I'm proud
of Beler. We're only in our Yes era, a utopia. I played
so much Cyberpunk, and I think everything that happens in that game is good
for society. Well now that's half the show in agreement. Uh yeah,
we're in our Yes and punching down era, So that's right. I think
Grimes should be named Lizzie Wizzy, and that's how it's a utopia for me.
Everything else whatever, but that's my political stances. Grimes's name should be
Lizzie Wizzy. Bailey, you've been playing Cyberpunk. I've also been playing Cyberpunk,
and I've been having a hell of a time. Are you starting fresh
or are you going straight into Phantom Liberty? I when I here's the thing,
the honest game trailer for it is coming out in twenty three minutes,
so I have at this point reached the credits on Phantom Liberty, although there's
more to it than that. I started it when it came out three years
ago because I thought it looked cool. Plus my real human roommate. Her
face is on one of the billboards in there, and I wanted to find
her, so that was my goal when it came out three years ago,
and I found her, and then I was like, this is not a
very fun game. And then I uninstalled the game, and so I was
starting it fresh with this and I I was really devoted to spending my every
waking minute playing it, and I was having a great time. And then
I went into the hospital for an eye injury, and then I came back
and then I played more. Uh, and it interrupted my timeline on it.
But anyway, great, I'm so good. I stared at something too
hard and got an eye injury. Anyway, I've been playing a lot of
Cyberpunk. Well that seems good. Really everything, Okay, I'm so good.
The hospital is really nice, you guys. We have great insurance.
So my experience with Cyberpunk is the hospital is really nice. Bailey, can
you take your your plugs off just real quick? We should for real,
yeah, go ahead. We should get her the cheesiest gunner optic glasses.
Yeah, I have them. I think I have them somewhere. Okay,
cool, we should we should get her pro game gases. Because I feel
like this isn't the first time I've heard of this happening. Okay, cool,
Okay. I'm also a proponent of talk. I'm such a proponent now
of telling someone that's live on the show to take their earphones off and talking
mad shit in the chat when I can put it on because I'm trying to
read lips and it's not working. Okay, put it back on. Okay,
Okay, there you go. All right. So that sounds like sounds
like very painful injury. But Cyberpunk's a very fun game. What's making a
fun this time around for you? They it doesn't have any game well,
it doesn't have game breaking bugs. It still has bugs. There was that
was that was getting the way for you last time. We're like this is
this isn't worth it because it was breaking so often. It was breaking so
often, it was borderline unplayable, and there were just mechanical things that hadn't
been optimized for like human enjoyment at that point. But in this one,
you can load load yourself up with so much enhancements and you can just like
ill a bunch of stuff and feel like such a bad ass. The only
anytime I do a bug. My wad into a bug. I only do
it on stream. Apparently. When I was doing it by myself, I
was having the easiest fucking time getting through the game. But when I was
streaming it, I accidentally got into a motorcycle accident because I was like,
I don't need a helmet, and then I got hit by a car and
flew off the car, and then the police officer who hit me got really
mad and started shooting, and then every cop in the area was chasing me
around this like memorial and I was like, I don't know if this is
how this part's supposed to go. But it was a lot of fun.
So even though it was a bug, I wouldn't even consider it like a
negative because I had a blast being like, I don't know why this is
happening. It was great. It was so much fun. The story was
good. I right now cannot, for the life of me tell you whether
or not Itdri's Elbow was trying to do an American accent. I think no.
Hard to say. It's so confusing because then, like the ad that
came out when Fan and Liberty came out, he's just Idris Elba. He's
not even he's like more British in the ad than he is in the game.
Yeah. But I was like, when I was putting together script,
there's a whole section in the script, I'm like, can someone tell me
the answer to this? Because I was watching so much footage from the game,
and then so much footage of him in interviews, and then like footage
from the wire, and I'm like, there's a whole spectrum of what's happening
here. I think the American accent exists on the spectrum. I think that's
what that's That's the truth is like he's saying key it in that well,
so that's it's kind of fun. His best American accent is him as Knuckles.
Oh yeah, and Knuckles famously American. He's from Pittsburgh actually, so
yeah. Yeah, the hands on that guy that track the vie, that
dude watches football so much. Oh definitely defends Ben Roethlisberger in a really problematic
way. Yeah, that's right. That's right, Knuckles is your problematic friend.
I also been really enjoying Cyberpunk. I thought I kind of bounced off
of it because like it's another big, big, ish, open world and
I kind of wanted to just fire a Phantom Liberty because everyone was so high
on Cyberpunk and I mostly just wanted to see like a homie that is a
character in the game. I was like, I just want to just want
to see Susie and then we'll just get out of this game and then start
to continue playing the game. I'm like, Wow, it really is viable
in this game for me to just punch everyone in the face. And I
don't know, it's it's just very I don't mean to continually compare it to
Starfield or anything, but like in in a world where where Starfield has promoted
so much autonomy over the player to do and play as you like, it
hasn't necessarily delivered on those aspects. For me, at least, I know
the people have enjoyed their time with the game and have beat it multiple times.
I'm very curious. It's what why people need to beat it multiple times.
But if you can get through the initial slog of the intro of Cyberpunk,
because I do admit it is very, very slow, and you're saying
they haven't done anything in like, well, I don't know, I mean
to get back to this right because this, like Phantom Liberty is like Scott,
you bring a Phantom Liberty, You're not going to have that problem.
It's my understanding. No, I'm going to restart the game. You're gonna
Yeah, you could restart and you can jump right into Fantom Liberty. But
you can, so you can, but you have to do a bunch of
like main main quests before you can. They need a little before you get
there. But it doesn't take you that long. I mean, I again
was out with an injury for two straight days and I still manage to get
there and get through a significant portion of Fantom Liberty in time to write a
script about it. I can do it anyway, and I can do it
anyone can. No, I know you wrote that script then, just so
you know everyone, I have no jokes in this video. But also I
want to try to contribute though yeah, yeah, I just kept saying access
denied. I don't know what that's about anyway, all I could all I
could ask you, all right, Like what I need to know is I've
heard a lot of stuff about the fact that like, oh, the quality
of life, you know, sort of changes are like noticeable out of the
gate. Am I going to notice a thing? It has been two years
since I played this game, But like, am I going to notice that
tangibly? If I just re respect the whole thing and like start all over,
you think it's I'm going to be right away, not in the first
couple hours, but not even like a little little style. But I don't
think that they didn't change that that much. The beginning is the beginning of
the game. That is what that is. If you're doing that again,
then then it's going to be pretty similar to your experience last time. It's
just been too long since I played. I have to restart it. The
AI is just the AI is better, the fighting is more satisfying. I
don't really I can't put into technical terms what it is they have done,
but they have taken a game that was at best kind of boring before and
turned it into a legitimately fun gameplay experience that like works and again. And
I'm also going back to back with this with Starfield, so like the comparison
was just brutal. Honestly, I immediately uninstalled Starfield, like, oh,
I'm never playing this again. I've got a new favorite game, and this
was never even one of my favorite games. It's it's just it's a game
that runs well, is very compelling and had and it's just a great time.
Like I honestly would recommend it to anyone who likes a single player RBG.
Yeah. Also think it's it feels like the proper fallow up to,
like that Fallout era of stuff at least Phantom Liberty. Yes, it runs
great on the Steam Deck. By the way, it has Steam Deck specific
settings if you just want to plug away. I wish and this is a
selfish desire here, and this is just me wanting to live out my Mega
Man Battle Network dreams. I wish the Steam deck had like an Ethernet cord
that was that like retracted back into it that you could just pull out.
Sure, jam is so good. Yeah, like an actual like an actual
like cyberpunk deck, Like makes a lot of sense. Forget all this like
magnet charging, touch play charging crap. I just want to be able to
jack in everywhere, all right, don't want to be able to do what
everywhere? You heard him? He wants to jack in everywhere and jack off
while he's done. Okay, I'm not gonna and that I'm gonna punch that
joke down. Cannot be disparaged. Also, hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, Cyberpuck, you're listening. Can we be in
the game? Can you put me in? Talking to everybody else? Game?
Hello, you're trying to talk to a video game. I'm trying to
talk to the game and listening right now. Andy Cortes does this all the
time. You know, U uses the play cortest is in that game.
They made him look like a dildo down and they put him everywhere. So
put your boy in. I'll cut that. No, I'm not going to
cut the check. I don't don't come on, I don't have what else
do you want? You be putting the game? They have to pay you,
they have to come and check to you. That's why I stopped saying
the catch. You know. That's that's what we're doing. I don't necessarily
need to be in Cyberpunk. What I do need is for this thing that
I just got in Cyberpunk to be put in me in real life. Because
I just install that thing that make me do a double jump, and I'm
like, can we get my legs and my real human legs? That would
be so sick. So I would use it all the time. You know
what, though, I'm with you Bailey, but also not because I feel
like I can't jump that high as it is, what can I jump like
four feet? Like what are we doing? It's impressive double when your first
jump is twenty four inches, then it's like, well ship, now I
got four feet I'm working with. But like, I can't jump that high,
not a big vertical leap. I don't know. Maybe I haven't.
I'm not going to make I'm not going to make sure that if I could
get up there, I would the crashing down, like the double jump legs
would not support my ankles enough to keep me totally. You got to think
about the rest of the world being able to support it as well, right,
exactly, right, coming down, Oh forget, the world's not built
for double jumping. You know, I don't think the world yield for jumping.
You're not supposed to jump around the world like the Yeah, yes,
exactly. That was the that was the political plight that the song Jump Around
was about. It's like they wanted to do that, the world didn't support
them. It's a terrible thing. Yeah, that's why pulgo sticks never took
off, those moon shoes never took off. That's why they key bounce houses
as houses and not bounce towns. Can you imagine a whole town wherever just
bouncing around. That's why Slamball got taken off the air, because Big Gravity
didn't want it around. Kick it around. We need there's the thing that
we have to deal with. Fuck you, John Mayer, you heard me.
We need to bring back so. No, it's not his best song.
What is? No. I don't want to talk about John May.
I know, but then I did. I'm not gonna guess and it I'm
gonna instead ask Backlar and Jeff Grubb about their I'm in Modern Warfare three and
if their body was a wonderland while they were playing it, well, that
goes out sane. Of course, of course it was, Beckler. I
played a little bit of this maybe like an hour and a half, and
it's cool to be back in those maps from Bottle Warfare two, from forever
ago. That's neat. I don't know. I don't know if I'm still
I don't know if I'm still like call of Duty enough again to it.
Skill issue comes into play, is what it sounds like. It's the skill
of enjoying call of duty is pretty low these days for me. I agree,
I think I was having an okay time. But I used to play
Call of Duty so much. I'd like the modern Warfare two these maps come
from. I'd played that game for easily more than fifteen hundred hours. I
think maybe I just got my fill and going back like there is no going
home. But I don't know, how are you finding it? You are
still enjoying Call of Duty a lot these days? Well, no, that's
not true. I just go back to it when it comes out, like
I have not played the most recent Call Duty in that is not well today
it was that's not true. You're a liar, Jeff grubbing. Fuck yeah,
but I continue talking. I wasn't like back to you grub like like
that, come on, do we need like listen, here's what's happening.
Mar I get excited when the new ones come out and the demo just now,
the beta whatever it is, it got me back excited, like I
think there. I think there is something going on with maybe a bit of
how it's streamlined again. Now, this is what happened the first time with
my with the beta uh in the in last year's game, where I was
like really one over with stuff and then you get into the real thing and
you're like, oh my god, this interface is like completely mishmosh. It's
it. You can't digest it. It does not have any sort of visual
vocabulary that makes any kind of sense. I don't know if I'm like loading
up a multiple it's very difficult to navigate through all that. The beta was
like I'm downloading all of Call of Duty. I'm like, wait, I
thought I was just getting the beta. It's like, no, the beta
is inside here. That's kind of confusing. Sorry, I'm doing this because
it's like a Call of Duty, Like it's almost like a launcher right like
car Yeah, yeah, and like you have to like inject Call Duty monol
Warfare three inside of the I don't want to go down that announce. I
want to yeah, okay, you said it, not me. And that's
frustrating in its own right. But when it comes to like the moment to
moment in play, I did find myself like really enjoying that. I think
what happens with these games is it's tough to like figure out if I'm gonna
get into that loop and the satisfying loop, where like I'm into the weapon
level progression, I'm into the player progression. I'm into all that leveling up
stuff. I don't think you can sniff that out in a fair way based
off the beta, right, Yeah, so at least not sense like the
original beta for Cality four, where it's like, Okay, clearly this stuff
is working because everyone in the world was going gaga for it. Now it's
like, is this a new variation on that that's going to click with me?
It's impossible to tell in the beta. I agree. So I played
maybe ten matches, and you know, I was like, yeah, I'm
feeling it. You know, some of the idiot freak friends played and they
seem to enjoy it. So I have a very unique set of prerequisites of
requirements that need to be checked for this type of game. It's unique to
me and my stupid asshole friends. So it has to like, you know,
groove with us for those reasons. So that's how I kind of like
Seek All Duty. I graded very selfishly. I don't think I'm two different
over world because like the moment, the moment, like shooting a person in
Call of Duty is fun. They yeah, they make it feel very like
it pops, you know, when it hits them. Obviously, the x.
You know those are the shot mark pops up on the screen, and
the sound effect is so good. The sound design is still top tier and
all that stuff is working. I'm just like, maybe part of it is
like, I know what's happening here where they're like that this is a mat
pack. It's a glorified mat pack that they put into Modern for two and
they're calling it Modern War for three and they're selling again for seventy dollars.
But I guess when I'm actually playing it, I'm mostly having a good time.
I just have thought about that the last last past call of duties,
and I'm I've not stuck with any of them, and so I'm like,
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna end up doing the same thing here where I don't
actually end up playing this very much. But it's the little things too,
right. I think there's a lot of stuff that, you know, all
the best things that happen, you know, when they all fire off in
the in rhythm and all the stars line up like they're not necessarily it's not
necessarily a very specific characteristic about the game. It is a lot of little
things that all work together that like move the needle on an evolution of this
game. So I haven't seen any of that yet in a big way.
But like you said, I enjoyed those matches. That game still performs very
well, and it's like, yeah, it's just air tight in a lot
of ways. So we'll see, we'll see, how you know, I
haven't played a ton of Call of Duty on PlayStation dual sense ConTroll over for
that pretty good they got they pretty good, pretty good, better than most
games, I would say, in terms of getting those haptics to feel like,
Hey, I shot something and that feels like I'm really shooting something.
Yes, And it's it's leading credence to the to the the fun. It's
like making the fun even more visceral in a way a lot of other games
don't get. They're just like, hey, we're you're you're walking, so
we're going to do footsteps and like, okay, that's not really doing anything
for me, but here it really works. I have a question regarding Modern
Warfare three. Sure will my Nicki Minaj carryover? Yes, your Nicki Minaj
does carry over. It's basically the same exact game they released last year.
They just want seventy dollars again, Like, hey, we'd like to have
your seventy dollars, please just give them only be impressive. Nicki minaj is
backwards compatible. So did they did? They Like they made a decision at
some point where they're just like, I think we can get away with charging
full part. Like they did that, right, they did. The storyline
here was that this was going to be the year where we didn't get a
new, brand new Call Duty on the shelves, but they were gonna do
an expansion for Modern Warfare two and it was gonna have Modern Warfare three stuff
in it. It was probably gonna have these maps. And at some point
they're like, well, we have the campaign ready to go, maybe we
could just like actually finish that up and put that in a package and sell
this for seventy dollars. And that's what they're doing. So yeah, they
realized they could get away with it, or they think they're gonna get away
with it, and they're probably right. Almost certainly, this is gonna sell
the best to do. It's gonna be the best selling game of the year.
So yeah, fantastic, fan fantastic. Another game that I feel maybe
a little bit overpriced is Sonic Superstars because it was news to me in the
mic check earlier that this game is sixty dollars. You know that game is
sixty dollars. It should not be. I've been playing this mostly because I
have to, because I said I would beat it before Super Mario Brothers Wonder
came out, and me and the gimmicks are making progress in it. We've
been playing together, mostly in multiplayer, and I don't I don't like it
very much. It's okay when I recognize what it is. It is just
trying to be a nostalgic throwback with sort of slightly updated visuals. So it's
it's three D characters on a two D plane. They did a pretty good
job of capturing the two D magic and feel of a sonic character with these
models. It's not as good as as having actual pixels, having actual sprites,
but it's pretty close and they did a good job with that. The
game itself is definitely just like, do you remember that thing? We're gonna
do that thing again, and we're not gonna do it better. We're not
a lot of many cases. I guess in many cases it's mostly just as
good, but it's not a lot of that stuff that they're recapturing wasn't that
fun in the first place. And the example I was using when we played
it this morning on GV plays that videos should be up for people who want
to watch it is the water level where you know, there's the tubes where
you get sucked through the tubes and you're just going along with the currents and
you're grabbing the and you're trying to move yourself around and that stuff's okay,
but you have to get oxygen and there's oxygen bubbles and it's oh, yeah,
I remember that stuff. That stuff was really memorable. It wasn't super
fun when the Genesis Sonic games did that. It wasn't terrible either, but
it wasn't super fun, like oh my god, like every game didn't suddenly
have water levels like that, because it was like, oh, that's a
Sonic thing, and it's not really anxiety. Let's not terrify children. It
is anxiety inducing, and I think that's what makes it memorable. And they
do it here and it's still anxiety inducing and and it's fine for what it
is, a nostalgic throwback, but they don't do anything on top of it.
They don't do any spin on this idea. There's nothing special in terms
of here we're presenting it in a new way. It's just that again.
And then there's a couple other stages that do other things that are that are
throwbacks to previous Sonic games, and they're not as memorable, and they're just
it's just kind of all MUSHes together. I And then there's the boss fights
where hey, you're supposed to be using these Sonic power ups, these Emerald
powers that you get. I'm mostly not getting. The kids are just running
past them and we're missing them. But I got I got one or two
of them now, and they are basically you just selected with the right stick
and you it's something like, oh, you have a ton of Sonics running
across the screen and if they run into a boss, it'll hit the boss
or something like that. And this is like, yeah, it's not there's
not much to it. There's one where you can like dash with fire or
whatever, and that's that's pretty cool, but it like sometimes it either trivializes
the bosses or or it's completely useless. That's kind of your two options there.
And I'm on a boss fight right now where and these boss fights are
really long and dragged out and they're not fun, and if you lose,
you don't there's no like checkpoints in the mid boss fights. You gotta go
all the way back to the beginning. And this is where I'm getting really
frustrated with the game, where I'm like, I'm not having a good time
and you're kind of punishing me for just trying to figure out how to get
through this thing, or I'm waiting for the opening to hit the boss.
I'm just sitting here, hop around the stage of winning obstacles until you give
me a chance to actually do something here, and if I mess up one
thing, I have to start the whole thing over. Now. I know
skill issue, but other games where I'm bad at them could be fun,
and this one's just not really hitting that mark. For the most part.
I think if this game was priced a little bit better and you have a
Sonic super fan, they're going to be mostly okay with this. If you
are someone who's like come to Sonic in the past and then like there's nothing
here for me, there's definitely nothing here for you. So I think this
highlights my own problem with this style of two D Sonic game, where it's
not quite where it's trying to mimic the original Sonic formula and not really do
much on top of that. So it is just doing the old stuff.
Sure to adds some grind rails or whatever, but it pains me as growing
up as a Sonic fan, because in my head, at least now,
it feels more fun to jump into a Mario level and jump around and play
around versus a Sonic game lately where it is just literally just get to point
A to point B and remember nothing about any of the level. Yeah,
because like the Sonic Advanced games, And I'll and I won't shut up about
this ever, because I honestly think the Sonic Advanced games are some of the
more superior two D games close to Sonic Mania because of how much they play
up the movement abilities to it, and like there's a rhythm and it feels
good to get through the level versus just trying to get there as fast as
possible and not hit anything. Yeah, And I think that there's opportunities in
this game to explore the levels a little bit, and I'm just I'm so
I'm pretty confused by that as well, because it's not easy to explore these
levels. Going back is a challenge, not because it's challenging, it's because
the game doesn't really think you're going to want to do that, so offers
no easy way to accomplish that. And sometimes you're going to be locked out
of going back. The doors will close, like literally lock behind you,
and you won't be able to go back. So the game's telling you just
keep running forward. But then you see something, I'm like, well,
that's a big shiny gold coin that I'm want to go jump in, and
obviously you're supposed to seek these things out. That's part of the fun.
I just it's not been actually fun ever. A big part of that is
the level designs are not just uninspired, they're really not helpful. I feel
lost. I feel like this is the same thing I I wasn't I just
here. It's like, yeah, it looks exactly like the thing you were
just at, but it is a different place, and we're not going to
give you any visual indicators to help you place yourself in this in this world,
and the cameras too zoomed in, so I'm always feeling like kind of
lost in these places, and then me too. And then the music's pretty
bad too, which is a shame because I love Sonic music. So there's
some okay tracks, but mostly it's kind of, once again, not memorable
at best and pretty bad at worst. That's unfortunate. That is, that
is very unfortunate. What's also unfortunate is that you're locked into playing this until
you beat it, until you can eventually check out Super Mario Brothers Wonder,
which comes out later this week. Yep, we'll be playing that on this
website in some form later this week, and then there's probably some more stuff
next week. But we're interesting that because we haven't played it yet. Once
we get our hands on it, we're going to look into that. The
online like ghost sharing mode of like hey you can run through Yeah, let's
share ghosts. You can run through a level, and then apparently does something
like okay, now you can send that to your friend and they can race
against you or something like that asynchronous multiplayer. So I hope that works really
well. I hope that is conducive to some fun stuff here, because if
it is, we'll do some fun stuff with it. Grab one more question
about Sonic before we move on to the games week. No online multiplayer at
all. No, So it's they do make a big deal about it being
a multiplayer game, but it is couch multiplayer only, local multiplayer only.
Now these days, that's a little bit less of a problem because you do
have stuff like Steam remote play and PlayStation has that built in as well,
a like let's play together. I think it's what the mode is called,
where you can stream the game just to a friend and they were playing on
your system and could play together. But that's not ideal. Like even Mike
was saying there was some lag for him, so you could do parsek.
That's a bit above what most people are going to do. So yeah,
that's that's a shame. But I think that's like indicative of what this product
is. It is kind of low effort they brought in. This is like
Sonic Team working with us our Zest, who was the team that did Balance
Wonderworld, and they did Yoshi's New Island and a bunch of other games.
They kind of just are a work for hire studio, I think because they
are affordable and they do they do what you hire them to do. Make
a game like that game that looks like that game from a distance, they
will deliver that for you, no problem. It's just if you want anything.
On top of that, they're not going to bring any of that.
They are going to check off the boxes and that's it. So the multiplayer
just being local only, not having online stuff. That feels like the kind
of thing, Hey, you want a multiplayer, but we're not going to
do like net code, are you crazy? So you get that, and
you know, as much as they made a big deal about it, this
is not a great game to play multiplayer. The camera can't decide who to
fall in the middle of, like doing some platforming or trying to run through
obstacles. You know, I'm running the Sonic and I'm out ahead, but
Mike's going to decide to go down over here. Or the kids are are
exploring something else on their own and the cameras like, oh well, I'm
gonna see what they're doing real quick. And you don't get your own camera
because it's all local multiplayer, right, So that's very frustrating. I've been
dealing with it with the kids because they're they're having a good time and they
don't care about that stuff. But I don't. Most people are not going
to have a great experience playing this multiplayer. I think that's that's unfortunate the
bomber because you know, you think you want kids to like Sonic. I
don't know. I mean, that's that's what they keep saying. My kids
do have decided that they are crazy about Sonic, and I don't know how
that happens. Hey, if it's any indicator, they'll turn out cool because
I like Sonic as a kid. There we go. That's that's encouraging.
That's encouraging. And that's really just that like photo of the plane with the
dots on it though, huh, survivorship bias yet a little bit. This
is what they can it shot in the Sonic down and still still survive.
So that's where we've got to put the armor protect Sonic at all costs.
How we're putting the heat on the back of today. Guess what do you
mean today? Like for a change? Is that what I normally don't catch
strays on this program because I'm very nice and everyone's nice to be back.
You don't literally said you didn't catch any strays. Image I referenced implied that
you I don't understand memes anyway. I'm just saying you're the one lately who
has been advertising the site's new model of punching down. I'm just saying we're
everyone else, not at each other. Sh It flows both ways, right,
you know, like that's all. That's a cool uppercut, it is.
I guess the opposite of punching down is like an upper cut uppercut.
What is the opposite of a sure you can eat a ball of energy?
Yeah? There you go intimidate people. Okay, you sit on your balls
or something like that. Yeah, okay, all right, that where I
thought we'd be people. I don't feel anything. Check this out, well,
folks. That brings us. That brings us to our game of the
week, Marvel's Spider Man two. God, I need to if someone can
help me build like just a big box, like a four by four grid
of just arcade buns with like a map sound effects to Pyro built in.
Yeah, pro we should get Pyro back? Or do we have a budget
for Pyro? For Pyro? There we go to blow something up, you
know what I mean? Marvel spider Man two. The review embargoes up and
three of us along with Dan chatted about our impressions and feelings on Spider Man
two yesterday. We put that out on the BombCast feed. If you're curious
check that out before warned we may have spoiled a couple things, uh specific
mission. I don't get it anything a spoiler. They got mad at me
because I said the final boss fight and Tears of the Kingdom was against Gannondorf.
Yeah, like anything is a spoiler. Yeah, exactly. I had
sensitive to a lot of stuff. Yes, And it's like I get that
for sure, but once people play it, they're gonna be like, oh,
this wasn't a spoiler. This is in context. None of that stuff
really is going to be a spoiler. And then since that conversation yesterday,
grub, you were on the money about my actual progress on the game,
because I immediately finished it after we had that little review round up conversation.
And I don't review games on the website, right, I just talk about
them and crack wise occasionally. If I did, I think I would give
this a five out of five, y'all. Yeah, Mike Brad, that's
perfectly fair. I think like this has taken like the Arkham City Arkham Asylum
spot for like favorite Superhero game as well, and I think like this is
definitely laid out like the blueprint of like if you are trying to do it
an open world game in like a bustling city. This is how you do
it, especially if you're gonna take on like a big ip, like like
Spider Man. And the thing that makes me worried is, like, you
know, we have rumblings of like the Wolverine games on the horizon. There's
also like the Black Panther games if those are still in development, and I
just don't know how you nail those after getting something nearly as perfect as Marvel
Spider Man two. And I know that yesterday we were saying it's a lot
more of the same and like the bigger bosses leave a little bit more to
be desired. But it's just because I think Spider Man's strength and this is
his strength as a character and in the video game is the smaller moments where
you're interacting with the people of New York and the city of New York versus
like the wider, bigger thing. Like I'm so tired and this probably speaks
to my own Marvel fatigue, and I'm willing to admit this as a Marvel
fan of like I'm so fucking tired of like the world universe, threat threatening
thing. Just give me like a smaller thing of like a cool bank robbery
chase. Yeah, and like tighter moments like that versus like these bigger,
grandiose moments like we don't need those, we have so many of those.
I'll go watch Top Gun Maverick is for the fourth time. But just this,
it's just so good and like the characterization of both Peter and Miles Backler,
you talked about this yesterday on the lower review, but like the way
they nail the story in this one just absolutely sings versus the first one.
And there are storybists that are recalled from Miles Morales and the original Spider Man
game. Spot put out of lovely video recapping whole story. Check that out.
But man, Miles Morales is just such a cool fucking character. Yeah,
he's awesome, He's really cool. He's by far the best person in
the game. The character to play as Miles Morales is fantastic in this game.
I'm I'm with you. Their relationship is very strong. It's the thing
that carries the story. For me, I think the specifics of the story
are by the numbers for the most part, and sure like it didn't matter
to me because I really enjoyed the dynamics of the characterization that you were talking
about. That's the stuff that really worked. Yeah, And you know,
like I said this on the review cast yesterday, but if you were at
all a fan of any of the Spider Man comics, any of the runs,
there is something. There's a lot of things there for you. Like
one of the specific collectibles. I just spent a good two hours yesterday just
zooming around the map looking for little little collectible ones that are well, I
don't want to spoil what it is, but it's clear that someone placed them
there, and they allude to different Spider verses. Also, man, these
stupid costumes. I fucking hate all of these stupid costumes. Oh my god.
But like I I'm I spend so much time in that menu because it's
like, you know, they do they do all the cool I like all
the all Spidery's more than I like Spider Man proper these days. Just you're
a scarlet spider freak. Yeah, I'm a scarlet spider freak. And that
hooded costume that you get like right away is just so tough to take off.
And I but my gosh. We talked about it on the Vega.
There's there's one level that you unlock, and then below that are like the
variance of that, and it's just like you are giving me what I want
in a way that's it's like, this is the thing I want to be
overwhelmed by, you know what I mean, And it's just super satisfying to
I'm like all that stuff, Bailey, is there any interest at all in
checking out Marvel Spider Man two? I forget where you land on superheroes.
I really I am experiencing that Marvel fatigue as well. I think the fact
that they're going to have shoe runners now might help that for the first time
that'sperible to me. That's amazing. How then might make compelling media? I
don't know, but I loved the first I loved the First Spider Man,
the previous one in this series, And my only question is are you able
to in cut scenes like pause and change the character's outfit yet, because I
kept winding up in like really dramatic cut scenes in the last one where he's
like dressed like the two D cartoon and like someone's actively dying in front of
him. He's like, ah, gee whizz, like that totally if I
can fix this, but it's great game. So I think the suit continuity
works in cinematics, which is like always awesome. It didn't always work for
me, That's yeah. I wasn't sure if this was a bug or not
because I'm not noticed did not keep Sometimes it would stay with me, especially
for like side mission stuff like I'm gonna go talk to this person sitting on
a bench and it's gonna do a small little story, and I would keep
my suit on for that. Then I would get back to the main campaign
and I'm talking to Harry Osborne again and I'm wearing the suit that the story
gave me last game me, And that's I'm definitely not wearing that in the
main game. But when I'm actually playing it, it clicked back for me,
So I'm like, that is that for story important reasons, which I'm
fine with. It didn't bother me too much, actually, but I might
I might even think it's an improvement based on what Bailey's saying, where it's
like this gets it keeps the immersion a little bit better than me being the
little you know, the stuff inspired by Spider Verse or whatever that was in
the first game. So not a spoiler. No, it was like the
retro one, like the old cartoon, so it was really distracting that someone
was dying in front of me, and I was like from the sixties,
like zipping around. But I really I do love those games, and I
do think they do a good job of like balancing out what Marvel has done
with Spider Man, which I don't necessarily love. The thing I love about
Spider Man is those like small moments, the friendly neighborhood Spider Man. I
don't like him as a global superhero. I don't think he really works on
that scale. So having you flying around New York doing little things helping people
has always been like kind of my bag. So I'm really excited to check
this one out, especially based on what everyone's saying. It sounds just really,
really fine. I think the thing that makes it really work is it
leaned into its strengths. Right, It's not. It doesn't despite I'm sorry
for this pun, but it doesn't take any big swings of trying new different
things. It did it, but it flips in the direction of of hey,
we we had some Uh, this is a fun city to explore,
and so we're gonna put We're gonna put sie Quest out there, but we're
gonna do a little bit. It's gonna be a little bit limited, a
little bit fewer of those, but they're gonna be better and more robust,
and they're gonna tell better stories and they're gonna have satisfying conclusions of their own.
It's like, okay, that's that's an improvement. It's not some big
swing, but it's definitely better than what you guys did before. And then
it's like, well, we're gonna make sure that you can we we're gonna
expand the map. We're gonna ma sure youn get around, you can fly.
Basically, you can get the glider. That's our big new thing.
It turns out that was so good that it carries a lot. But man,
this I can't go back to the other ones. I need this now.
So that they knew what would work, and they did that and they
made that as the best it possibly could be. And then they didn't try
to make extept with like a million other things that are going to distract you
from what it's good at. And I think that's a good call. And
you know, we talked about this yesterday as well. And sorry for rehashing
this if you've listened to that as well. But I do like that Insomniac
stuck to their guns with their specific version and vision of Spider Man or the
Spider Men's here, versus trying to fist ham fist in any of the Spider
Verse stuff, any of the mc U stuff, and like stay true to
to their their visions of the characters. Something I kinda I kind of wish
that they did is just just freaking like, get a licensed song, get
like a nice hip hop song, and just like, let me swing to
that ship, let me let me swing along to that like a nice title
card sequence. Give me give me some no, no, not imagine.
I'll take imagine dragons, I'll take imagine the Spider Man two soundtracks still bangs
dashboard confessional indicated, it doesn't it is in one of them, right Nicobec
for one of them. Would I would also prefer Chris Kraba as Peter Parker
in this version because the little boy, the little boy they got doing it
is not working for me. But wait so because I want to just like
a sequence where it's like I hear you man, It's okay, or give
me vindicated again. I think. Look, obviously no expense was spared in
games like this, so licensing music is well within the resk. Sony owns
a music label. It's so I can't I can't give you a reason why
that's not the thing. But yeah, I mean I think, like I
the more I played this, and again I did since we talked about it
yesterday, Like, I just I just don't see how these hooks get un
attached from from where I'm you know, from this position of like how much
I'm really into this more so than even the first two. I really think
this one has refined it and got that formula so perfected that this this game
has slid way up into my list for For the the fast travel system,
we didn't really talk about this, Yeah, it's pretty oppressive. It's insane
how this works. So yeah, as long as soon as you complete enough
crimes in a region of the map, you're able to unlock fast Travel.
And you're like, so you'll see the progress bar, it'll have it like
marked right there in the middle of the progress bars. Once you unlock that,
then you can do this. Yeah, and that that counts as like
the little side missions or the miscellaneous crimes that pop up that all counts to
that progression. But once you get that unlocked, you can pick any place
on the map in fast travel exactly to that spot it And when you pick
it on the map, it zooms in on the map that you're looking at,
and then and then the buildings like you know, manifest and then swide
just right in front of the camera. And it's the fucking coolest thing.
It's so cool looking. Yeah, And like the thing is, if you
were if you don't have the means to play a PC game or whatever,
and you're not a Marvel fan and you only have a console, this is
a no brainer pick up like game one, because this is the thing that
people are going to buy their buy with their PlayStation fives this holiday. Like
y'all know, like I didn't shut up about Spider Man two the movie for
like a good two three months. I probably won't shut up about it for
the rest of the year. This nails that Spider Man two, whatever it
is, is always going to be the best one. Baby. Yeah,
there's a bit that I'll talk about you out the air where I'm like,
I wonder if jam popped for this, Uh, iady, do what you
gotta talk about. Yeah, yeah, so that's that's fun stuff. Uh,
I'm wondering Jan you you so you've beaten it, You've got the credits.
Okay, are you compelled to one? Because I am and I'm not
one game kind of guy. I'm definitely not a platinum trophy guy. Couldn't
care. But I'm like, man, I'm just having a fun time swinging
around here. There are some stuff on the skill trees. I want to
keep moving. I want to keep unlocking a few more things, and it
seems really really manageable. I'm like, I'm finished the game, and I'm
not like seventy five percent completion. I could probably just keep going and clear
out these last few things. Yeah, one hundred percent. I'm also not
a platinum type of dude. Bailey knows I can't finish games, but this
one I think it might be. I think this one might be the second
game I ever finished in my whole life. A one hundred percent Wow,
Liza p in this there it is. But yeah, also I don't want
to the of course, there is an after credit stinger. It's a Marvel
property. There's a couple. There's a couple required by law, It's required
by law if you are a spider freak or a comic book freak like me,
let me tell you, let me tell you boys, girls, nb's
your boy stood up? Sorry clapping. I thought, Oh, I can't
wait for that. I can't wait. I can't wait. Definitely. I
think you'll be very excited about it, and the like there's the mid mid
credits one, and that one's like, if you're paying attention to story,
you're gonna be very excited about that as well, because it's like, Okay,
they're delivering on stuff you want them to deliver on and setting up pieces
you want them to set up. And I'm I'm like, I'm ready and
rare to go for Spider Man three, Like, let's do it, let's
go right away. I want this story. I want these characters to keep
going. I want to I want the villains to keep coming into the story.
I want all the B tier and C tier villains that they always use
in fun ways to come like pop off, like a million more of those.
Let's go and wow, that's that's another great thing. Maybe the last
thing I'll say about Spider Man two is that they definitely allude to the other
smaller members of Spider Man's Rogues Gallery. Yes, nice. They do a
great job of that, and in a way that like the Batman games did
a really good job of as well, where it's like, hey, like
here's this obscure villain from this one comic story. Run here they are.
They do this similar thing. And Spider Man two, it's really great.
I fucking love this game, y'all. It's I tried firing up Assassin's Creed
Mirage and this isn't the disparage Assassin's Creed Mirage, but go ahead. I
just he's just that game. It's fun to run around. He's just after
getting a taste of like Spider Man two, it's it's just hard to go
to anything else. And I know what we should do on Friday, when
we are able to stream this is we should do one of those TikTok streams
where you just play music and have Spider Man swing through the city to myself.
Me too, I've been doing it too. It's like, yeah,
I'm I'm my own TikToker. I am swinger around in New York as miles
of morales playing Noah Kahn slowly crying to myself, and every once in a
while just pop it off that L three R three and you just does that
slow spin and he's all electric. It's great. It's great. God,
Spider Man, he's just a boy. What a great game? Anyone playing
anything else they want to talk about? Before we took a quick brigging break.
If I finished downloading Skull Island King of Kong, so oh congrats.
Yeah, we're gonna be ready for that. Oh great, can't can't wait?
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Uh. One more game to talk about is uh? Was it last
week on UPF? I think it was last week on UPF. Three of
Us and Mike Manatti played Fasmophobia. Hey that game is still good. Yeah?
That was just why does that feel like? That was? Like,
yes, yesterday? I guess it's Tuesday, all right, I'm all right,
Yeah it was. It was very fun seeing my friends get choked out
by a ghost. Yes, so many times, by so many different ghosts.
Chan that clip you posted jan of what it was like from your perspective
for all of us to be like screaming and like really scared because you left
the house for a second. I watched that and cracked up. That was
very funny that you really thought you died. It was one of those instances
where it's like man, games, proximity chat can be good and I feel
like the father of this group somehow, despite two of you being older than
all of you being older than me. That's okay if you want that.
You guys are daddy energy. What can we do about it? Just like
real life how it happens. But let's talk about the news. Ah,
news, let it wash over you, soothing news. Wow, I suppose
that's my cue to read some news. We got a bunch of bigger stories
this week. We'll talk about those. There were some smaller stuff. I
think we'll probably end up just talking about this big stuff starting with but as
the head of publishing, Pete Hines is leaving the company. Pete Hines,
who's been the head of publishing PROTHESTA for a while. He's been with the
company for twenty four years, announced his decision on social media, saying that
he wants to explore new interest and passions. He said, now it's a
good time with them just launching Starfield, that's a long time to be with
the company. I think this is just a natural sort of Oh yeah,
it's probably time to move on, and there's probably not too much else to
it, although I'm sure people will speculate, but as it was acquired by
Microsoft in twenty twenty one, so that might make things easier to like,
Oh, there's definitely gonna be people here and money here to ensure that things
keep going so you can leave and move on with your life. Pete Heines,
I think, is always the guy that held the grudges against places like
Kotaku that was like him. He's like, hey, you reported on a
game before we were ready, and I'm not going to give you video games
anymore. So maybe that will stop now, but who knows, maybe that's
built into be us at this point. You guys ever have any interactions with
Pete Hines? Have ever have a thing where you go a hang times?
Nothing memorable, but yeah, so you might seem okay, yeah he's a
I think he's a Caps fan, so oh yeah that's right. Yes they
will, Yeah, yeah, good luck. Yeah yeah they had a good
run. I always get them confused because this isn't there a comedian with the
last name Hines as well? Yeah, I think Pete Holmes. Yeah that's
exactly what I'm thinking of, very different guy. It turns out, yeah,
well they're both really white, so I get like, I think that's
pretty close. I get that, but this is gonna be fine. They
got a lot of games coming. I'm sure that this. You probably won't
notice this if you're just a fan of their games, but happy trails to
Pete Hines. Analog is making a Nintendo sixty four FPGA system. Analog,
a retro console manufacturer, has announced the Analog three D, a reimagining of
the Nintendo sixty four. It will play in sixty four games in four K
resolution, support original display modes, and play legacy game cartridges. It will
be released in twenty twenty four and will feature wireless, Bluetooth and two point
four gigahertz technology connectivity, plus four original style controller por its. Pricing has
not been announced. But it's basically like their fallow up to the Super INT
the the Super or just I guess the Analog INT was what it was before,
and then they did the Analog Pocket of course, which is the game
Boy and game Boy Advance version of their FPGA. Now they're taking on the
n sixty four. This is a pretty cool development. It's not like a
shocking development because FPGA people who aren't who aren't aware that's field program programmable gate
array it's basically a really big processor that people can go into in like in
sort a core that tells this processor to behave in a certain way, and
then it mimics how old processors worked and can behave, just like an N
sixty four. The thing with the N sixty four is like that was a
bit too robust for FPGA for a while, but now there's been a lot
of progress made with that with the mister, and there's actually a core coming
along there that's that's making a lot of progress. But it sounds like right
alongside that, Analog's been working on their own core for N sixty four for
three years, and it's gonna have a ton of cool features. It's gonna
i have the ability to like turn off graphical features in the game. Games
will run exactly like they did on the in sixty four, but then it's
gonna have overclock options to run even better. So some of those games that
were like twenty frames per second, maybe now you can get them to thirty,
maybe even sixty. I'm probably not. I'm not too hopeful about that,
but we'll see. I'm excited about this, except for the possibility of
it being like five hundred dollars. Oh, it's going to be like,
yes, it's probably gonna be pretty expensive. Yeah, and FPGA processors are
expensive, that's the true. Like the Mister One, I think is subsidized,
which is why it's somewhat affordable. And even that's like two hundred and
fifty three hundred dollars to get started, So yeah, I'm not expecting anything
below four hundred here and probably five hundred. I'm a big in sixty four
guy, so that's why I'm into this. I know in sixty four is
kind of showing its age these days. It's the Atari of three D gaming.
Wow, wow, wow. I don't think anyone's ever said that before,
and I don't think that's mean. I think I love it when I
hear like a sentence that has never been said. Yeah, he was just
like huh, I think, but I think that's fair. I think that's
what they were figured. They were still figuring it out back then, and
I think that like a lot of those games were foundational, but you're gonna
play better versions of them on the very next console, right, So uh,
you know, maybe it's somewhere between an Aatarian anys of three D gaming,
but that I love the N sixty four. I'll play a ton of
that stuff, So I'm looking forward to this. But I don't know,
do you guys have any love for the N sixty four. I remember showing
up to a Toys r Us thinking like, oh, maybe we can get
it N sixty four. Today my mom looks at the controller and she just
says, that's ugly Jerome. We're not getting Yeah. Yeah, she's not
wrong. Who among us has not had a parent deny a console because of
the shape of its weird controller. She she thought it was like some perverted
thing, didn't she? I bet she was. She's not wrong either.
It's definitely I gotta say that, young Catholic ulter server boy, No,
everyone knows that controller. You know less than average. Uh, but I
don't know like I this. You would think like I'm a total candidate for
this to be like a very big deal for me, right, someone our
age grub right, like okay, cool? Because I don't. I don't
care. I don't care about this. I I don't care. I liked
the ten sixty four. I don't hold that console in the high regard that
my peers do. But I and I am fascinated. I did get an
analog NT maybe is that the aniest one? That was thenest one? Yeah?
That one's like that was like six hundred dollars that that was very expensive.
Yeah, I was lifted at the scene at office. Well, let's
fucking conduct a heist. Baby, we got to get that baby back.
Come on, let's look pretty dead. Ship is sealed. Yeah, that
place is no longer in existence. But yeah, like cameras, I know,
uh yeah, would they do? Oh you know what? I bet
they? Okay, well I just had a light bulb that I need to
make a note about. But that intrigued me in a way because it was,
like I understood, obviously they're they're treating the sixty four with the same
regard, right like they're they're giving it that same treatment. I don't regard
that a Nintendo console version of one of these is going to perform way better
than anything else they could do it. And it was that that perfect one
to one emulate, not even emulation, right like that, Like you said,
you know, it's not software emulation. It is hardware emulation. A
piece of hardware emulating another piece of hardware. But yes, it's different.
Uh, I guess I cared a little bit more about that, maybe because
I was had a larger fondness for the library, where sixty four I'm just
sort of like, all right, uh and I don't think it upscaled as
high as this one. I think this one is like the NT was like
a ten ADP situation. In this one, they're saying they'll get it to
four K or something like that. Right, Yeah, yeah, that's that's
right. I mean, it just sounds like that those are improvements being made
by uh I can't remember the name of the guy, but there's like they
have basically have a genius who works on these cores, who did a ton
of work on this stuff. Yeah, and I think they still have him
plugging away at these things, and that is that's very cool here, and
I'm excited about it. But again, I am someone who's pretty happy with
emulation software. Emulation at this point totally. Yeah, like the Dan Records
of the world are gonna, you know, buy eleven of these and exactly
yeah, and I'm like, yeah, you knock yourself out. But I
mean I like having all my stuff just set up on my PC and I
can totally just played over on the TV, no problem, and that's fine
enough for me, and I'm not even like fun. It's actually almost perfect
in most cases these days. So it's sixty four is a little bit troublesome,
especially with something like Indiana Jones in The Infernal Machine, the Blockbuster exclusive
video game. Yeah, that one actually has some trouble, but you know,
overall, most of the games are gonna work. Just let me let
me ask you this, what is what is the whole like legality of emulating
hardware, Like how does that so you can do whatever you want? So
it's yeah, if you're emulating hardware in terms of what the software emulator,
perfectly legal. I think that has actually been protected as you're doing in a
clean room environment, right if you aren't using any of the documentation that says
this is how the chip works, you have to be in a clean room,
which means you're not looking into that stuff and you're figuring out on your
own and you're reverse engineering it. For something like the hardware emulation that they're
doing here, most of that's going to be covered under the same rules.
But then there's going to be things like this has the N sixty four controller
parts on the front, that's something that Nintendo might have had patented did,
but that patents only last for twenty years, so that would would it's more
than expired at this point, and then it's just fair game and anyone can
use it. So yeah, that's They're going to be completely in the clear
here as long as they don't include any ROMs that are copyrighted. Copyright is
the is the real thing, so and they should be fine here in terms
of that because they're not going to include that stuff. Cool, Baily,
any interest in revisiting in Nintendo sixty four at all? I mean, I'm
really busy photographing my cat right now, but be it's very cute. I
was. I have a huge amount of nostalgia for that era of gaming.
Uh, the n sixty four MPs one both had a lot of games that
I consider very formative for me, but a lot of the ones that I
feel most nostalgic about for the n sixty four, actually, you don't even
need to emulate third party. Nintendo at this point will let you play Mario
sixty four, Ocarina of Time GoldenEye on your switch as long as you have
a Nintendo Online membership and it plays really well, you can play Mario Party
two for the N sixty four if you're sick of Mario Party Superstars like you
as well. It started off kind of Rocky's and now this will be both
the Pokemon stadiums now. Now, Yeah, I'm like all the stuff that
I Pokemon snap, all the ones that like I played all the time as
a kid, are readily available to me without me setting up finicky hardware that
might explode if I look at it wrong. I just feel like I'd be
very bad at I'm not a Dan. I don't I every I can.
I can't fiddle with electronics and make them work. So these analog consoles are
like the Simplified they just work mode. But I don't. They're very expensive,
and you're not I know what you're saying. I think I'm in the
exact same position where I'm like, yeah, I know that the later the
software emulator is technically worse, but it's been fine and it's good enough,
and I'm am very happy with good enough as opposed to spending a lot of
extra money to get the extra five percent of like now, it's more authentic.
Now, I'm good. Yeah, I don't, I don't necessarily need
that authentic experience. I was like, let me think got it came out
in ninety five, ninety six, ninety five, ninety ninety six. That's
what I want to say, But I could be wrong. Oh kindergarten y
yeah, jams Shita ninety five killing Yeah. I was like five years old
when it came out, Like I have a fuzzy memory of it anyway,
So this is this is my best version of playing it is. It's approximately
the same difficulty level of turning it on as I asked my dad to help
me get the TV to turn on. That's the most challenge I can do.
I was old enough when the N sixty four came out to get in
a fight on the bus about the N sixty four, an actual fistfight,
So what's okay? That's very strange too. Everyone has a weird response to
this. It was not my like initiation. It was like a couple like
bullies being like the N sixty four stupid, Why do you like that thing
so much? I'm like, leave me alone. This is like early on
when the PS one was like the cool thing, and then that they I
was like standing up and then they pushed me and that's when we actually got
in the fight, but the N sixty four was tangentially involved at that point,
so they did have all those cool ads about how like cool people play
PlayStation and losers play in sixty four. Did you see what she was wearing?
Jorts? That's cool? Yeah, it is cool. It's empirically cool.
Yeah. Shape like a doo Dorito shape. Bitch put that on a
shirt. Yeah, please give me that's really good, Bailey, Jesus,
that's my opinion. All right. Let's see here, Disney CEO is being
urged to acquire a publisher like EAU. Let's see your Disney ceo, Bob
Iger's deputies are reportedly pushing him to consider acquiring a major game publisher like Electronic
Arts, the move which transformed Disney from a gaming licensee to a gaming giant
with a major third party publisher. He doesn't want to do this, it
seems like, because he's afraid of doing anything. At this point. Bob
Iger is very noncommittal, is what all the reporting is saying. No,
he's not afraid of that, even though he get him yes. So basically
this comes down to I think Bob Biger and Ganea. I think I've had
you explained this to me. Mike explained this to me now here. She
could probably explain it as well. Bob Iger is like concerned about getting the
succession from him to the next, right, and that's always focused on and
making some big move. Excuse me, some big move equivalent to spending the
forty billion or whatever he did to get Fox would only complicate things. So
I don't think he's interested in being the person that's gonna spearhead this. That
said, do you guys think as Disney fans that Disney would be better off
as like acquiring a big publisher or just continuing to work as a licensee work
as a licensee like it is. It feels like a no brainer. Like
you see Sony winning the Streamer Awards because they don't have a streaming platform because
they're just licensing out all of their movies and series is across the board.
Disney do the same goddamn thing with games. Let John Drake cook, damn
it, yeah, let Drake cook absolutely. Like you know, you think
about like the huge vault of IP that Disney owns and who and what they
could license out, it just seems like a no brainer. Of like different
things to do, Like, I don't know what's a good give the Ace
Combat Team Tailspin, maybe don't, but do it fucking a no, we
definitely do that. That sounds incredible, sick. I would love that,
Oh my god, Like there's so many there's so many, like different developers
that could do a fantastic job with any Disney ip. Like it seems criminal
that we haven't had a very incredibly good three D platformer starring Mickey Mouse,
right, yea, Like how is that possible? Like you we you have
amazing games like Ratchet and clank Jack and Daxter. Mario Games has had it.
Sort of like, no, that was actually good Because I never played
those games. I don't know if it had that, but I remember it
being okay, yeah, I don't know. I think more so the thing
that came out of Epic Mickey was just Oswald the character. Yeah, get
in another chance? Yeah yeah, And then like, okay, cool,
this is the only thing we're gonna monetize or talk about from this game ever.
And then just see the Oswald ears across the park. Yeah, I
mean he was around before that, you know that, right? Oh yeah
yeah, but like brought him back at the problem. Sure, sure,
for sure, Yeah, I mean Epic Mickey, I think almost if I'm
not mistaken on the timeline of it, it's sort of it's thunder was constantly
being being stolen by Kingdom Hearts because all the people who would have loved Epic
Mickey were obsessed with Kingdom Hearts and they didn't have room in their lives for
any other game. If I'm not mistake, that definitely sounds that definitely sounds
right. But I think even the people who I know, I have enough
the only thing I love is Mickey, so I'm going to try King of
Hearts and Epic Mickey. I think people mostly came away from Epic Micky disappointed.
But I mean that was that was that license was that like part of
their publishing efforts at the time, because I know they've had starts and fits
and starts of trying to get a publishing thing going. I think the the
truth here is if they get a publisher, that's just not going to solve
all their problems here. Like here, it's not like it's a magic,
turnkey solution. And now Disney's representation and gaming is growing and it makes a
lot of sense now, like they're gonna get EA and they're gonna still have
to keep making all the E sports games, and yeah, they're gonna slap
ESPN on there, but apparently Mike says they want to get rid of ESPN
as well. I'm sorry. There's been a lot of Mickey questions. You
know. That was my very first press event was the Epic Mickey preview in
Disneyland. What ride did you ride with Warrenspector? Didn't you ride? Made
Warrenspector ride Space Mountain with me? Well, we all went on him.
I made him sit next to me. Yeah, that was fun. Epic
Mickey's big problem was that it was just okay. It was just, uh,
you know that it was hyped pretty heavily as both this big Mickey three
D platformer and as Warre Inspector's game with all of like the immersive stuff that
you expect from that, and you know, it was a three D platformer
for the WI so it can only do so much, and it had a
lot of you know, we stuff like waggle and pointer controls. It was
just only okay. And it was published by Disney. That was when they
were going dig on gaming again for a little bit there there you go.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I see you next time.
Oh. I really liked the Aladdin game from nineteen ninety two. Yeah,
super Nintendo. Yeah totally. Yeah. Wait, really, you don't mean
the Genesis one. Oh wait, do I mean the Genesis I thought they
were the same one. They weren't one. No, I'm talking about Lock
up, Jeff, Jeff, shut the hell up. The Genesis one is
so much better. God damn it. I don't care you yelled and startled
me in my camera. Defocus. Yeah, no, I definitely met the
Genesis one. I was just a child. I didn't know the difference between
the systems. I just really liked the Aladdin game. Sure, yeah,
I don't actually have a preference on the Aladdin games. The robocops, the
people making RoboCop Rogue City. It's a fantastic demo, by the way,
And give them Gizmo Duck from from Ducktails. But keep all the gore,
yeah, all of the go, keep all the are Wow, all right,
all right. Microsoft has officially completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. This
happened this past week. Microsoft acquired it for six nine billion dollars. It's
done. It's approved. They are now one company. There is like some
early talks about hey, when are a game's gonna start show up on game
Pass. They keep saying, don't expect that anytime soon. Probably gonna be
next year for most things. There's a chance some stuff could pop into game
Pass here in the next couple of days though. Beyond that, though,
it's just this is it that it happened. There's not much else to say.
We've talked about it to death. They can begin operating as one company
though, and regulators have given their approval around the world. So that's that
all wrapped up. Any final thoughts on Microsoft plus Activision. I am so
ready to fucking punt Bobby Cottock out this. Yeah, oh yeah, that's
the outide industry. So he's got about ten weeks left. It was weird
because this gut announced like hey by Kottack is the way he phrased it.
I think he got away with something here where he's like, you know,
kil Spencer came to me and he was just like, baby, we need
you. Can you please stay around? And he's like, so, so
we agreed, I'm gonna stay around to the end of the year. And
so that's like in ten weeks, homie. That's like that's like a normal
amount of time. That's like less than a normal amount of time for a
CEO to do their exit. That's like pretty quick that you're gone. You
are getting booted out of here, aren't you? And he is. That's
what this is. They acquired him and now they're getting him out here by
the end of the year. And was that like she's not gonna be working
on Christmas, So by December he's out of here. It's like like a
month and a half. Like, no more Bobby Kottock at Activision. He's
already not calling the shots anymore. So yeah, that is a small w
like with like, however people feel about the acquisition and consolidation, I think
all those feelings are valid. A good thing is no more Bobby Kttock,
even though of course he's getting very very well paid for all this. Do
you think he's gonna go to the Game Awards? I think yes, he's
gonna sit front row, right in the middle. That makes that makes sense,
right, Give me like Jack Nickel at at all the Oscars for all
those years where he sat up front. Yeah, let's get that or like
that one VMA's where Taylor Swift had just broken up with Joe Jonas and was
singing directly to him, and he was like front row center, the vibes
were off. Yeah, that's what I was about to say, as well.
I'm always no, that's your cultural touchdown. I can relate to that
conversation. You know, my cultural touchdown for the Video Music Awards is when
the guy from Rage Against the Machine climbed up on the set. That's what
I remember from that region. Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to
say. Devs are being incentivized to bring their older titles to Epic GameStore with
one revenue share. Epic Game Store has announced two new schemes to attract developers
Now on Epic, which offers one revenue share for their first six months for
games that were previously released on other platforms. And then there's Epic First Run,
which offers the same deal for games that are exclusive to Epic Game Store
for six months. Mike, how do those two things work in conjunction with
one another, Cause you definitely are going to have more success putting your game
out on Steam first, and then you could release it on Epic later and
get one hundred percent revenue. I guess they're thinking is you'll sell more on
day one if you put on Epic exclusively, and then you'll get one hundred
percent of the revenue. So I do expect some developers to take advantage of
this. Does this move the needle for Epic Game Store being a viable platform
in your guys' minds? I just I know that we're kind of a point
where it seems like it's made all of its best bets and best opportunities to
take some market share and nothing really happened there. But do you guys see
that movement at all? No? Yeah, I just yeah, I don't
know. I just think, like you, I wonder if there's a way
to like take advantage of this, And then like I wonder what the sort
of like agreement is from a developer point of view of like how long do
you have to stay on there? Like if you were to just take advantage
of this kind of for the first run, I think it is six months
officially with the other one of like now on Epic, what is that?
What does that look like? Can you just put something on Steam for a
month get those first month sales from Steam? And then I mean to put
on an epic I don't know's it's weird. The bigger conversation, if I'm
being perfectly honest, is that the Epic Game Store is currently a very bad
product. Yeah, and it has been for a while and no real improvements
recently. And if you are investing in that platform via a super favorable revenue
share incentivizations, that, from my position, is not the way to do
it. I think you fix your product. You are like, you know,
make it. I mean I feel like Steam, I feel like cloud
saves are still like not universal on that platform, Like, please fix the
product, please not have it run like something is terribly wrong with it,
and just make like that is how you get people to sign up on that
platform, is you make that experience competitive with the Steam experience, which it
is currently not. Yeah, so fix that. I think they looked at
it and they're like, now, free games is how we actually get people
on here, And then they did that and that didn't work either. I'm
like, oh, there's probably actually no real way to get Epic Games Story
to be competitive with Steam. That actually is probably an impossible thing unless there's
some implosion on Steam and at which point. Who knows if Epic would even
become the secondary default there or not. Speaking of how people buy games,
best Buy is getting out of physical media at least DVDs and Blu rays.
Best Buys reportedly planning to exit the physical media business. They actually confirm that
to I think Variety or something like that. Basically in twenty twenty four,
they will no longer sell DVDs and Blu rays. People are worried. This
means that they're going to do make the same decision with physical games here pretty
soon. Is anyone here a physical game person. You always kind of end
up having this conversations people like, no, I buy physical physical games.
I go to best Buy all the time. I was talking to Dave Klein
on Game Most Mornings about this, and he was saying that that's how he
does things for me. I haven't been in a best Buy to buy physical
media and problem ten years, But I don't know how about you all.
Every time I've stepped into a Best Buy within the last three five years,
I've always immediately regretted it. Yeah, yeah, I mean they're they're always
selling something like new, like like like a new thing that I didn't think
they would sell like yeah, I'm like, oh, you guys are doing
like toys or something. Now, like are you doing like Funko's Like,
oh you guys are oh you have that now? That's just basically like the
checkout line at Blockbuster Video now? Is that what? It was really hard
with Toys r US closed and then and it was like a bunch of different
stores were like maybe we're toy store now, like Coals CLS is like,
hey we have a toy store. Yoh y'all been in a Coles lately?
Wild? Sh'S one place Wild, there's a there's a Cephora in there.
Now there ye your Amazon packages for return to fucking Coals yo. Yeah,
yeah, it's it's amazing. Oh yeah nothing. Can I share my distillpian
idea that popped up into my head? Please? I see a very near
future where Amazon will open up their warehouses and just call them stores and you
can just go inside and Bobby or not Bobby Cottock Jeff Bezos will be like
I invented brick and mortar stores. Everyone come in. You think your costco
has hell of shit? Just watch me, baby, Get on your Sunday
best kids. We're going to the Amazon store and they're gonna sell hot dogs
for five dollars instead of one fifty. Yeah, what a good deal.
That's the only possible through the power of the capitalist market and Amazon that actually
does it for the news. We'll see if Best Buy actually stop selling games.
Probably won't do that for a couple of years. Jan I'm handing the
show back over to you. I got it. I'm holding it, and
it needs to take a quick nippy nap. So we're gonna take a quick
bricky break and we'll be back with the emails after this short brick You know,
I also have this prediction and that instead of mail physically mailing something and
putting stamps on on on an envelope, we will start sending electronic mail to
each other. Hey, the future is now because we could do that right
now. Here are the Giant podcast some emails we did it. Bomb dot
com emails send send your emails to bombcasta giant bomb dot com. We've actually
been getting a good chunk of emails lately, and I appreciate that. It
warms my heart. I feel good about it. Thank you for sending your
emails. You can write about virtually any and everything and send it into the
show. I read every email, but sometimes we don't get the chance to
put every email on the show. First email comes from Anthony. Uh.
They have a question about our arcade machines and games. They write in,
Hey Duders, I always thought Katamidamasi would be an awesome arcade machine if the
controller was a big track ball. If it doesn't exist, someone should do
it. Which game that's not an arcade already would the duders want? And
what weird controller scheme would make it awesome? And what arcade art would Jan
have a crush on? That was Mike Manatti. Right, it's a really
good call out though, with the track ball Kadamar, I think that's awesome.
Yeah, that'd be great. They also write and also I would buy
a Disney soundtrack where all the songs are Mike Manatti. I don't know if
they mean sung by Mike or no. They just they they are. They've
been manifested as a personification of Mike Manatti. Oh New World Mike Manatti.
Okay, yeah that works, damn it. I just care wait it be
Mike Manotti. Okayama, all right, So you take you go, you
go, you take Nintendo and then you have them go knock on Sega's door
and they're like, hey, Sega in the back, you have a bunch
of those Like I know, it's not really hydraulics, but like basically equivalent
that they're hydraulics arcade installations that they use for like Sega Rally too and all
that stuff. It was amazing. That stuff is really good. But you
do that with wave race, so it's like you're on a jet ski and
as you're hitting all those waves, it's just making you feel like you're actually
moving on there. And as you're taking the turns, it does a thing
where when you turn left, it leans right, so it feels like you
actually have those g forces a little bit. Uh yeah, give me that.
That would be fantastic. I was thinking of like Advance Wars as like
a game out on a physical grid, and then I just realized I was
thinking of Chess or Warhammer. You can get some some of that going there.
Oh yeah, some war Hammer. What about that like WEU game that
came out where you had to learn to sword fight for Zelda or whatever.
Just do that in arcades. Yeah, I would just sword fight in arcades.
They should let me do that. Do that now you'll get the cops
called on you. But you can do it. You can use a guitar
hero controller for anything, that's right. Yeah, you know, I think
you could adapt a lot of Wii and WEU games to like an arcade fairly
easy, because that's just lighting game. Sure. I don't think that would
be that difficult. And I think the major problem is no one wants to
play arcade games in their house. That was the only problem with the WIU.
That's right, that was the only problem they had going there. I
think, Uh, I'm now I'm in sixty four brain right now, blast
core. But it's like that we were going with Sega again, that Sega
hologram game that they had, Oh White Dome tis Time Time Fuelers. Someone's
gonna get it and chet time boys. Yeah, but you see it's like
you can look down on top of the little truck running into the buildings and
the buildings blow up and they're all little holograms. I would dig that as
well, probably, Yeah, Time Fuelers, that's right, that's what it's
called. What the hell was it called? They were like weird like three
D shapes too, like everything was behind a cylinder or something like a like
a very nineties trapper keeper looking kind of thing. I'm gonna have to look
it up. Beau Chat's not Chat doesn't have our back here. This is
a it was right right. It was like it was like that weird it's
just like that dome. It was like a white dome, right, yeah,
yeah, the white the like it was like this white box hexagon thing,
and then it had like what looked like a dome, but I think
it was actually you're like looking down in a concave thing, and then the
mirrors were creating the illusion of the the holograms. Hologram game. I think
it's just called Time Traveler. M M yeah, yeah, there it is.
I'll share a picture, right, have y'all seen? Uh? This
thing was so cool. I was thinking the kids need to get into DDR
in a mad way. But then the kids are playing this other dance game
where I don't understand how any of it works because they're all just shuffling around
a big ass pad and doing fun little tricks. I don't understand it at
all. I saw that too, and I was very confused because it's not
the one where it's like DDR, but it's the diagonal corners, which I'm
also against. That's that's blasphemy. But the just move around dancing freestyle,
well, at least that's what it looked like to me. It didn't make
any sense. Dance Rush, yes, that is what the game came about.
I'm not good at rhythm games anyway. I can kind of do a
guitar hero because I got to use that ten year of violin training somehow.
But I can't move my physical body. The best I can do is my
beat saber machine my oculus too that I want in a raffle. I can
do a beat saber alone in the privacy of my own home. But the
idea of going out in public and moving my body for points, no,
I think we should just get rid of all of them. If I can't
enjoy it, no one can. It seems fair. But this makes me
want to do DDR for extra life. But that's a terrible idea because I
can't do that. I could do it for like an hour and a half
maybe, but if I try to do that for like ten hours, I
would die. I will gladly move my body for points. Yeah, I'm
always looking for an excuse to dance. I don't dance enough in my life,
you know what? Okay, all right, all right, Next email,
let's hear no I want to know what. Oh I was gonna say
that for the end of the show. Okay, cool, okay, okay,
all right, all right. Next email is a fun little quiz.
Are you all ready for this fun little quiz? Certainly quiz I've never been
already. Let's do it, Hey, Bombers, I know you like a
good multiple choice quiz on a silly topic, So here's one for your Tuesday.
Each of the twelve movies listed below stars one of Nicholas Cage, Bruce
Willis or Steven Sagall. Can you assign the correct actor to the movie based
on the title and one sentence summary. I set it up so each question,
each of the actors stars in four of the movies. Man, my
strategy was going to be to say Steven Sagall for all of them. Well,
you'll be right four times. That's a good point, all right,
see, which sounds like it'll make things easier, but it won't. Votus
question and answers are below. I ask everyone looking at the doc right now
not to read the highlighted section. So number one movie title is the perfect
weapon. An elite assassin fails to terminate his target, and he finds himself
on the run from the organization that employs him. I have to go with
Steven Sagall for this one. Yeah, but you know what, like that's
the the I don't think it's Cage. I think we could safely rule out
Cage. But but Bruce Willis then later in his Christianity the like a thousands,
but all side with grub here and I'll err on the side of Segal.
I feel like I'm I'm least familiar with Steven Sigall's overra uh. So
any movie where I'm like, I have no idea what that is, my
instinct is to guess Steven them. I could see the names of all these
movies. Yeah, I've heard of none of these, so I'm guessing.
I think they all are Steven Sagall. I think that we're being lied to,
and you're all correct. Steven Sagall. Uh steven Sagall as the director
who is the head of the organization. It costs six million to make and
got fifteen million in box office earnings this year. That came out a negative,
okay, because I love those ones where he's like older and like it's
stevens Sagall on the cover. But then they just get some random Hollywood like
young dude who's like, you know, dlast celebrity to be the actual star
who does all the running around, and Steven Sagal sits in a chair for
most of the movie. It's great. A good things got going on.
Number two, Hard Kill. The star of this movie hires a mercenary team
to rescue his hostage daughter and recover unspecified advanced technology. Okay, I haven't
heard of this one either, but based on the fact that there is a
daughter being held hostage, I'm going Bruce willis that's a good point. But
for something, I think the advanced technology is very Nick Cage coded. So
I'm gonna go with hard hard kill please, or for Nick Cage for hard
kill Backlar. It does feel like cage is the knee jerk reaction. Here
is what I'm going with. I gotta go with my gut. So it's
a cage situation, Bailey wins. It's a Bruce Willie joint. It may
Bailey. It's made well done. It's just like a lot of a lot
of kids getting kidnapped in his movies. I don't know what to tell you,
right, Yeah, it made one hundred thousand dollars box office against him
the budget, against an unspecified budget. Yeah. Well, when you when
you get played on two screens, I don't think you're exactly uh during Could
you think we could make a movie and put on two b to be yes?
Come on, all right, of course we could? Okay? Cool?
Number three American Siege. A sheriff is put in charge of taking down
a gang of thieves who have taken a wealthy doctor hostage. So I my
gut tells me Segal because he's so horny to be a cop, That dumb
fucking idiot wants to be a cop so stupidly badly. It's like he did
like a whole reality TV show where like some batshit crazy precinct in Florida or
something like gave him a badge, and I almost think they gave him a
gun too, and they're just sort of like, hey, can you just,
like Steven Sagal your ass all around this Alligator County and fucking Florida or
something. I don't know, I could be making some of that up.
I gotta think it's him, and he's like the oh he's got it.
I gotta think it's Segal. I can't see Bruce Willis doing that. Yeah.
The thing for me is American siege, and that makes it sound like
there's gonna be some a patriotism there that I think Steven Saga would be like,
Oh yeah, that's what I'm all about. I'm in agreement with the
Fellas. I could see it being a Bruce Willis though, but I'm gonna
say, Steven Sagal, it is indeed a Bruce Willis joint. Whoa damn
Bruce? I mean, is it a recent one? Yes, it's a
recent one. Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know this is fair
to Bruce Willa. This is bullshit. I even feel I even feel bad
kind of talking about it. But he would definitely be my distance second pick
on that one where I we're like cage. I just don't see doing that
for sure. Its budget was ten million, and it earned one hundred and
twenty thousand box office. All right, cool, very good? All right?
Number four Kill Chain three strangers lives are inevitably entangled any conflict. None
of them are prepared for. Okay, this sounds vague enough and high concept
enough that I'm going Cage actually one million, absolutely cage ding ding ding ding.
Y'all right, yes, let's go kill Chane kill Change. You're right,
Bailly kill. Chain is too complex of a title for the other two
to have participate. Iners lives are dangerous. Stephen would absolutely never share the
stage with two strangers. Exactly complexity that this role demanded could only be satisfied
by Nicholas Cage. Budget was undisclosed and it released direct the video Good for
You Number five, Keep in mining. We have twelve here, a former
de e A and c I, a agent. The same guy is tasked
with stopping a deal between al Qaeda and the Mexican cartel. But that's the
thing, right, The wild card is always Bruce willis right, because definitely
the tragic making choices here. My god, I just saw the name of
the next okay with willis a close second. Okay, uh, this was
Contract to Kill. You're right Steven Seagal, who emailer says, I'm sorry
to say it has a sex scene this movie. Oh any wait? Is
this so someone? I don't know how this started circulating in the giant bomb
community, but like someone sent that Steven Sigal cometown thing around. Have you
guys ever seen that? I have, yes, No, And I think
that movie is the one you're talking about with the sex scene where like they
made some poor young actress have to have like on screens and that's sit in
a chair for most of the movie. Yeah, dude, the way he
like holds a gun is so sick. How he's just sort of like casually.
There's so many amazing things in that fucking video. I highly recommend watching
that. But my god, it can anyone wanted to. Okay, so
I'll tell you all the budget you want to get the box office for Contract
to Kill? Is it okay than a million dollars budget? You can't like?
Okay, go ahead? Twenty thousand dollars budget was five million? Okay,
box office? Any guesses I was going to say, yeah, okay,
sure, yeah, I'll split the difference. Forty seven thousand dollars in
box Oh that's so fucking out of control. Here's the thing though, right,
I wasn't even close. Isn't even real, Like it's not even a
thing. It is a thing, now, I guess, But like I
feel like for movies like this, it's not even a thing. It's like
they're making all their money overseas from some streaming or like some weird rend in
a hotel somewhere like Dollar Tree DVD s exactly straight to Dollar Tree. Baby,
that's what's happening. Number six, end of a gun a d A
agent. This game is not fun by they. I'm no longer having fun
with this. We have one more Quizred, we have another quiz this email.
A DA agent stops domestic abuse via murder and becomes entangled in a plot
to stay two million from the drug lord. So many If this is screaming
Sagall, then I feel like it can't begall right. It's like it's like
a it's a misdirection. Yeah, it's Red harring. I'm gonna go with
Bruce Willis, dude, by the logic of look, by the logic of
like this test and like the way the answers have shaken out like a smart
test taker would probably take Willis based on what's happened before. So I will
side with mister grubby grubb Bailey. It's agent right there. I know,
like the proof's right there, but it's you know, I get it.
Yeah, Bailey is correct again. Wow, no Wing, no financial figures
have been disclosed for the film, but clearly they think two million is a
huge sum of money. Uh Seven Vengeance a love story a police officer that
that okay, I'm just saying. Cigal is out with love. A police
officer goes on a vigilante rampage after the court fails to convict rapists. I
think it's I think it's Cage. This vengeance a love story, screams a
script that Nicholas Cage would pick up. Go absolutely, yeah you could Cage.
Y'all are correct. Vengeance a love story is Nicholas Cage. Hell yeah.
Budget is unknown, but made seventy three thousand dollars box office. I'm
sure it did worth every one of those dollars. Number eight Detective Night Colon
Redemption. Wait wait is it like Detective Night as in Night? Is this
detective's last name? Or is this like Knight, like like kNN An imprisoned
police officer agrees to thwart Christmas theve terrorists to reinstate himself into the force.
This is clearly Bruce Willis. Yeah, this is like the worst version of
Diehard I've ever fucking Oh, audio listeners can't see me by a look that
the answer description and put my hands to my mouth and suck side with the
group. I don't want to know. Yes, indeed it is a Bruce
Willis joint. In the second entry of the Detective Night series. Oh,
budget box office earnings were one hundred ninety two thousand dollars. All right,
then where's the where's the Detective Knight series streets? So we've had we've had
three cigars, three Willises, two cages, y'all, y'all. The Detective
Knight is a trilogy. No, it's trilogy. Yeah, with Detective Night
Independence that came out this year. No, No it didn't. Yes,
two of them came out in the same year. Are doing Yeah, they
probably accorded. They probably filmed most of a couple of years ago. And
then they're just like or they're just like, we can we shot enough,
we have enough coverage, we can make too, Yes, all right,
we need to make sense. Last four here Sniper Special Ops. An elite
sniper gets stuck behind enemy lines while fighting the Taliban. Because I'll tell you
why. It's segal. Because a sniper barely has to move, and that
is exactly why Steven is like, I'm gonna perch my ass up here for
fucking seven days and collect the sixty thousand dollars prey check without having to break
a sweat. That's exactly why this is Steven Siaga. I'm sorry even if
I'm wrong, I'm right. I'm Stevenaga as well. Steven for your service.
No financial figures released, but you'll be happy to know that gives the
Taliban leader an ironic death of the film cot Number one, I don't I
don't feel like I need to investigate that. Yeah, good info, good
info, Yes, yes, yes, I just get it up. I'm
sorry. Just like Steven Segal huffing and puffing while not having to move an
inch behind a sniper scope. I promise he probably like does some like tactical
like rolls on his side or whatever, and he just like moves the side
like a couple of inches. Oh that there. I mean. I'm all
again speaking through the lens of having seen that Cometown video, but like it's
so funny to me, Oh my god, I'm terrified. I don't have
the context for something. You have to see this video. You have to
thank you right now. Number ten stolen A thief must rescue his daughter from
the clutches of one of his former teammates. Yep, I'm gonna go boost
Bruce Willis. Yeah. I like that he does love to rescue his stolen
dog. Yep, Nicholas Cage. Wow, Okay, okay, wild card
Bruce Willis there. We okay, So Nick Cage, Yeah, I could
see Nick Cage doing that one too. Actually, this is one of the
Taken ripoffs. Budget was thirty five, but it made eighteen at box office.
All right, last two here, okay, So one of these has
got to be Nicholas Cage and one of these has got to be Bruce Willis
that he seems like it right. The map checks out. Pay the Ghost.
The star's son is abducted by a ghost and he was solved a mystery
to get his son back before he's gone for good. I like this for
Cage. I like this for Cage just because like Cage, like I've never
worked with the ghost before. I'm gonna go with Willis because I think this
is a six sense sort of thing where they're like, we're gonna get some
of that juice going Bailey. I just I'm looking at this one and the
one after in China. Decide which one feels and which one. No,
it didn't know it isn't. I'm just I'm not looking at the at the
answers, but I'm looking at the two remaining ones and trying to figure out
which one seems more Willis and which one seems more Cage. And honestly,
I think that this one, to me seems more modern day Cage. Okay,
back, I said Cage, grub word you land, I said,
Bruce Willis. It is indeed Nicholas Cage. Oh, the ghost financial figures
were also one truly unhinged. Actually, all right, number twelve? The
fuck is? It's movie title? Cosmic sin. He disgraced martian general known
for dropping a cube bomb in civilians, and now he must stop an alien
invasion. Well, the answer is Bruce Willis. Budget was not released,
but the movie made three hundred and fifty thousand box office. A little bonus
fact here, and thank you you Matt in Colorado for putting this quiz together.
All for steven Sagall movies were released in twenty sixteen. Incredible, then,
God, what a good note God, So Prince has played a Martian
general. Yeah, this looks like what is it called? Sound like a
movie that the person who signed on for like signed on for with agency?
What was it again? Yes? Who is the decision I made there?
Where I was like, I think even Nicholas Cage would pass on this one.
This came out in twenty twenty one. It's available on Netflix right now.
Oh my god, it's a total like the front of it looks like
Edge of Tomorrow. Oh no, wait, what is this again? What
does it? Casmic skin, cosmic sin, Get the fuck out of here,
like Frank Rillo of course, Frank by this ship? Oh dear lord.
Oh this also has c. J. Perry, better known as Lana,
formerly a WWE superstar. They spend money on this, well on the
posters. Oh, it's got all that six percent this. I'm already blown
away at the production value of this thing. It looks like a Sci Fi
Channel original to me. Oh, I think it looks better than that.
I don't know. Sci Fi's got some pretty good originals. I'm blown away.
Uh Jesus, I cannot believe this is real? What is what is
movie making? What is film? What is anything? We're happy to announce
we're releasing our Criterion collection featuring all of these movies. Please buy the box,
do you know who made Cosmic sen the director or no, the production
company. No, Saban, the company. Didn't they do Turtles too?
Saban, I don't know how to say it. Yes they did, but
they did do the Power Ranger stuff. Well, you know after like you
you brought back the Green Ranger? Is the White Ranger? Where else can
you go? That's right? All right, a couple more emails, folks,
if you'll bear with me here, dear bomblins, I noticed this during
last week's BombCast and thought it was worth pointing out. Starting for the first
moment, Jan says, hey, at the start of the show, it
takes Mike four minutes and thirty six seconds to bring up Disney unprompted, but
it only took Dan one minute and eleven seconds to bring up wrestling. Love
y'all, Zach. Interesting? So what do we learn from that? Wrestling
is everywhere? That Mike has a tiny bit more shame? I think?
Is what that is? Just a tiny bit more well maybe not? Well,
yeah, no, because like he occasionally feels scolded, and you can't
scold Dan. No one's ever scolded Dan. That would explain a lot,
though. Yeah, yeah, I feel like I could go a week without
bringing up hockey. You've gone a week's bringing up hockey or keyboards or keyboards?
Right? Yeah? Does that just mean I'm like more interesting or what
do you think? Hmm? I think you have multiple things you're into,
because we also could have lumped in pinball. I don't remember the last time
you brought up pinball, and I just got two new games the other day.
Have not mentioned a word there you go? Okay, what's another vague
thing? Like grub and ironto Bailey goose bumps, your cat hurting your eyeballs?
Listen, I'm so good. I love to talk about all these things,
but I feel like it would be crazy if I didn't talk about my
cats regularly. Look at that little sleep but you can't see is the other
one is asleep right next to him, just out of frame? Okay?
Some even info from Joey Gil's the director of Kasuk Sin also did the Detective
Night movies and American Siege, along with a few more of the recent Willis
movies. That's you think, that's that's kind of money, right, Like?
But is that a decent gig? Like you think? Yeah? I
mean, clearly they have a business model that's working, that's why they keep
doing it over and over again. And they probably have like a couple of
investors who financed like all these movies, and they get enough on the return
they're finally we're gonna do Dentists love to like just fund movies that are bullshit?
Right? How do I con someone into filming or funding a movie?
Huh? I mean it happens literally every second of every day. Sorry,
I don't mean con uh vincent. Okay, convince convinced, you know the
thing that has nothing to do with the term con confidence. But yeah,
yeah, totally, yeah, baby, yeah, yeah, you know,
you know you're charming enough to pull it off. Jan So yeah, I
just got to have a good pitch. You have to have a good pitch,
man, you know yourself a show Bible, movie, bible, whatever
it is, and go for it. I'll just bring like a blank book.
This also reminds me of my book idea. Anyway, who'd you say?
Did you say you're going to bring a blank book? Which reminds me
of my book idea? Wait? I want to know more about this.
Are you going into publishers and being like, imagine this fulfilled with all right,
free idea, free idea, here and then I may or may not
have been uh low key pressuring our one, our own friend of the side,
friend, friend of the show. I'm a fife of like, Hey,
you know, I know, I know that your partner deals with books
and stuff. What about uh you let me publish a book about the Quiet
Man and it's just two hundred blank pages? Oh okay, boy, cut
the check. Come on, tell me that is afraid it's just a diary.
You're selling a diary. No, no, it's purposely blank with page
numbers. Anyway, everything the question heard. You should actlutely have like reviews
on the back. Yeah, oh yeah, I can do the forward,
rivoting front to back. Yeah yeah, yeah, I'll I'll get Dave Bautista
to write the forward. Alex Bonni yella, oh yeah yeah, uh man,
I wouldn't for my wife's family. Just met Dave Bautista yesterday. What
that's cool? On a ride at Disney World. Did they did they talk
about me? Yeah? I think they mentioned you. They're what's chair up
to? Just hanging out with Jeff mostly and then he said I'm sorry to
hear that. So yeah, they're out there for make the make a Wish
brought people brought him out there, and then they got to uh, they're
on the right, and like it wasn't like, oh, meet Dave Bautista.
He just happened to be on the ride behind him with his family.
Was very nice apparently, So shout out to shout out to Dave. All
Right, my new lofty goal in twenty twenty four, besides getting an actual
company to cut the check, is to just to just take a picture of
Dave Bautista. That's all that we could probably make it. That's doable.
Yeah, the Game Awards. He maybe he will be at the Game Awards.
Culia, Dave, it's you, your favorite, it's your pen Sun,
it's your favorite cousin. We're probably related somehow. We're all related.
God, I just want to shake some ring ropes right now. Anyway,
last email of the show. Once again, you can send your emails to
BombCast giant bomb dot com. This is another quick mini quiz, Hey bombers
right. Cooper in San Jose writes, a lot of games come out,
arguably too many, so it only makes sense for some games to fall out
of our memory too. Well, today is the day you're all being put
to the test. I have a list of ten games for you, all
all released since the PS three three sixty generation, and I want to see
how many of them you can remember. Here's the list, and this is
simple. Do you remember it or not? First game from Dust? Yes,
this is just the one that was like that weird animated one that came
out like just a couple of years ago or recently. I have no idea
know that you're talking about, like the of the visual expositional one. Are
you thinking Dust an Elysian tale? No, I'm not thinking of that.
I would have said Fury's way earlier in my explanation if that was the case.
What is this one? Then? Bechler from Dust was a shooter.
It looks like this is like a top down uh sieve kind of game,
like a flour X Nope, then it's now what I'm thinking of? All
right, all right? Uh when did that come out? When did that
come out? I just had that, remember me from Dust twenty eleven.
Oh see, they're like since the Xbox, since the three six area that's
in the three sixty era. Let's be real, con I thought it was
language you're thinking of the h the Dust five, five, one, four
or whatever. The thing that was based on Eve Online. Oh that's what
that's what you're thinking of? Backla the shooter Dust five four one or yeah,
next game if you remember, I am alive? Oh was that the
uh Grasshopper game? I'm looking. No, don't think I remember this one.
Uh this was twenty twelve. It is a third person shooter. Okay,
don't remember it? All right? All right, next one. It's
not the Taylor Swift album. Folklore my joke. Folklore. No. I
have the vaguest memory of Like, was that like a like a JRPG,
like like yes three era something like that. I have, It's in my
brain somewhere. I don't for the life you remember what it's about. But
it had like a Serift font on the cover, and like yeah, yeah,
yeah, I can visualize the cover, but I never played it.
Yeah. Folklore two thousand and seven action role playing game developed by Game Republic,
published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Alright, win for me that guy that
got a nine like you said grub from IGN Wow City shrouded in Shadow?
No, No, nothing, nothing coming to mind there. No, I
don't remember the scen video game. It This came in twenty seventeen. Okay,
this one I remember Africa, Yeah, Africa, I remember this one.
Yeah. Oh this was like literally that like it was like Safari game
kind of yeah, right, like like pot taking photos on a Safari game.
Yeah, like what animals on the cover? Zebra? Right, yeah
yeah, zebra? Yeah yeah. Next game, Lonely Mountains Colon Downhill.
Literally played this last week. Oh well, then you probably remember it.
I don't, though. This is on my switch, It's on my Steam
deck. I played this game constantly. It's it's a fantastic game constantly.
Okay, Yes, it's awesome. It's like one of my favorite, like
Little Ndcent the last couple of years. Next game, that's cute. Man.
Oh interesting, Okay, I recognized the box art. Okay, next
game in my game of the Year list the year came out? All right,
ship, Next game is vain fuck now Nope, no got It came
out in twenty nineteen. It's a platform or joint. Came out on the
PS four. Last three games here, Godfall. Yeah, yeah, we
will remember that. It came out a few years ago. It was the
beginning of this generation. Yep, what was Godful? That's the one that's
kind of the Diablo like but it had like the cyber Gods, and it's
not it's not Babylon's Fall. It's not Babylon's Faull, not Michael Hims's favorite
game, not Michael Hyams Babylon's Fall. That's right. Now, this is
a It came out at the beginning of the PS five though it was like
an early PS five exclusive okay, okay. Second and last game, The
Tomorrow Children. Y yes, I remember this also being like teased at UH
at some sort of event. I don't think I ever played it, but
it was like this like this did have like the Soviet uh sort of coded
stuff in it? Yes? Yeah, yeah, yeah totally. What's the
team that developed this The Tomorrow Children? Is that conconception? Come? Q
games? Q games, Q Games right, okay? Q games? All
right? Cool? All right? Last game if you remember remember me?
Sure don't nod? Yeah, this is CD four oh four had the hot
redhead lady. Yes, like like lee lu uh leelu fifth element adjacent looking
person for sure, and not the movie version of the not the movie tie
in Robert Pattinson game There We Go. No, no, this one,
but this one also I think remember me? I think I enjoyed that game.
I think it had like really good. I think I remember being like
one of those what do you like still frame but you walk around in it
like like you know, what were those old games like the whole Resident Resident
Evil style or like a fixed camera slowly found. I think it had that.
I remember enjoying it. Yeah, he was nominated for a bath tell
a lot of people liked it. Oh dang well, I'm glad we remembered
some of those games and just further highlights that there's an obscene amount of video
games coming. Thanks Coop. Yeah, Coop, that was dope. Thanks.
Can you do that again for next time? Thank you? Yes,
thank you Cooper in San Jose, And thank you to everyone sent in your
emails to the show BombCast. The giant bomb dot com is the email address
to send your emails too, And folks, we've gotten to the shout outs.
Folks. I'm happy and I'm also sad that we've calmed out, calmed
down on this Google duc. You know, this used to be pure bedlam,
and I think we've all calmed down. I don't have to think of
something to spice it up anyway. I should be grateful. Jan, I
think if I recall you being it used to cause you a great deal of
stress. So hey, you know what you wish for here? But it's
not popping off. But there's pregnant Sonic in here, so I think it's
it's right where it's nothing wrong is always popping off. Shouts out to Young
Elmo, Happy birthday, Big Dog, Truth truth Alert, I'm good enough,
I'm smart enough, and Doug Garnet people like me truth or truth alert.
I don't know if that's referencing something, but I need it to.
Okay, Oh yeah people. Pokemon Mystery Dungeons explores with the sky a secret
top five Pokemon game. How could be Sonic Superstars if we don't have everyone's
favorite superstars like Click Cream the Rabbit, Silver Army b Rouge, the Bat
Chip or Mario Cream the Rabbit, Cream the Rabbit. You say there's Cream
the Rabbit. Oh that's a name, not an act. Got it?
If you're doing it right, it's both uh six or more Crazy Frights Bailey
Edition, please shout shout out. Shout out Bailey's backward compatible joke. We
heard you, We got you. Shout out to game pass forgetting me Dead
Space so I don't need to play Residental four since I did in two thousand
and five. Shouts out to Mike being blessed by a priest dressed as Goofy.
You fuck knows hey, Hey nos, fuck you. Shouts out to
Rich Mitch and Doctor Daddy. Shouts out the Giant Carlac. Shouts out to
Bailey's massive body check to the GB boys and most of the viewer base by
calling the crew old men during pasmophobia, I had to sit down, and
not just because my back hurt. Shouts out to the road to El Dorado's
on Netflix. Sigma Male, el dooll right ahead, let me tell Let
me tell you the road to El Dorado. Uh, Sigma Male. Gaming
tips for your thighs. Thigh high socks will keep your legs warmal gaming if
the weather's hot, high fishnuts stockings bowl all your legs to breathe, keeping
cool well. Gaming skirts also offer superior ventilation. Let's hope Jan can find
good coffee in la ubisofts Just Dance Infinite also Just Dance to twenty twenty four
coming to a store near you on October twenty four. Shouts at to Ubisoft's
I guess marketing team forgetting the chat section. Women Rock Parentheses, Bailey Rocks
plus please watch Starship and or Troopers. Everyone shouts out to twenty twenty three
being the best year of gaming, but not having enough time to play them.
All shouts at defeat God for free. I'm not gonna read twenty one
because we can stop talking about Steven Sigal. Now for a good chunk of
time video though, Yes break twenty two Bailey stream Skull island Rise of Kong
Bailey Stream Skull Island Rise of Bong Uh gos Shaul do kuro gag Unite,
and finally shouts out to it's weird how everything bagel is a flavor now,
like for chips and stuff. No, it's not. It is not weird.
It's delicious. I thought you were saying it wasn't a flavor now and
I was like, no, it definitely is. Yes, I mean you
see it everywhere it's and it's I like it. Yeah, Like what you
have a problem with garlic and onion and poppy seed favor? Seriously, what's
the best flavor all of them? Just doesn't even say it's bad, It
just thays are like it's weird. It's like okay, but it's not.
It's a good thing. I got like cashews the other day that were everything
flavored and they were phenomenal. I think bagel. Sorry, go ahead,
jam, we got too many truffle flavored things. I also a really breast
wrong statement as well. But where were you when we got overloaded on truffle
flavored items? Fok's what we got going on this week? Video games,
many video games. Well, the new Honest game trailer dropped an hour and
thirty eight minutes ago. You should watch it. I worked really hard on
it. You do an injury to write these good, good jokes. Good
job. I'm going to watch this. Yeah, me too, looking forward
to it. I played Sonic Superstars with Mike this morning, and that was
fun in that it was fun to hang out with Mike and have him have
energy in the morning. Because you got a sea pat machine. That's odd,
so you want to see that for yourselves. And then I think there's
a chance that Skull Island Rise of Kong whatever it's called, will happen later
today if you are watching this live, Dan's going to play some of that
that's up in the air, though that might might not happen because I guess
he's having power issues. And then tomorrow, what do we have happening?
God, it's when Major Mitch maybe going for his last tour. I can't
believe we have gone to the end of that game, all right, Blue
that Mitch. There will be a Jeff jeffs this week. Hopefully we had
a bit of a scheduling hiccup, but hopefully by the end of the week
that new episode will be out. And I am still all about Cowboy Bebop.
Word on the Street, Smoke on the Street is that it's about to
leave Netflix, So figure out your shit. That's one that's like actually worth
just getting the Blu rays of go to your local Suncoast and buy it.
Go to your library and rent the Blu rays right now there you go.
Absolutely excuse me. On Thursday, we're doing a Thursday noon Central Time throwdown.
Actually I think it's happening at one pm Central Time, but that's the
name of it for Halo Infinite, So get your Halo downloaded. There's a
new season that is coming out today apparently a lot of fun, so we're
gonna play some of that and then Love Voicemail, Dump Truck and then Friday
Night Forking. For some reason, I'm getting a request to beyond that.
They're saying, hey, show up for that. Oh you know why you
have to be on that. We need to help guide our friend the wind
bag and make sure that he gets home safely. I can archive last week's
Friday Night Forking is going up on the site gay Mess for the rest of
the week. Correct, Greb, that's correct, and then on upf this
week we'll be playing Spider Man two and Super Mario Brothers Wonder a little little
doubleheader for you over there on Friday. As Bailey mentioned, new Honest game
trailers is out. Go watch that, Go go watch the homies across a
game spot as well. Go hug yourself everyone. Hey, you know it's
a it's a really tumultuous time, so go be nice to your friends,
Go be nice to your family members, and you know what, most importantly,
go be nice to yourself. I've been jan she's been Bailey, he's
been Jeff. He's also been Jeff. And you continue to be smoking on
today and I say that with respect. We'll see you next week. We
another episode of The Giant Bobocast