Hello, and welcome to episode forty six of GameSpot After Dark Game Spots Official
video game podcast. My name is Jake Decker, your host, and joining
me this week is Lucy James, Hi, John, Luke Syke, Hello,
and Kellie Plaguey. How are you all doing? Hi? Do good?
Ish good. It's a busy week. Yeah, another busy week in
another busy week, decade of busy weeks. It truly does feel like E
three is just getting stretched out over weeks and weeks and weeks. And you
know, in my head at the time, I was like, this will
be better. It'll just be like everything will be spread out and like it
won't be as stressful or can dnse. But I don't know. Like this
last weekend, all those conferences, conferences that we were doing, it was
just it was a lot. There's like no release, right, even even
if like the individual days less busy, there's no like, oh well,
don't worry, like after you know, this week it'll all be over,
because instead you go you have like your weekend and then you're like, I
have another week of this. I have to do more. It's like the
biggest first world problem. Yeah. In the grind scheme of things. I
definitely miss E three too, but it's I don't know, unfortunate, but
like they we're all fortunate we're still working in games and doing something kind of
fun at the end of the day. Totally, yeah, totally, and
it has been fun. Like there's been a lot of cool projects that we've
been on, a lot of cool announcements. Some we can't talk about yet
but we will talk about soon, and some stuff that's already like out there,
Like there are a lot of great games during like the Gorilla Collective and
the PC Gaming Show and all that kind of stuff. Did you guys buy
that Itch EYEO bundle? Yes? I did. Kelly reminded me like an
hour before it expired, and I was like, thank god, will pay
any of those games? Who knows? Maybe? I mean I went to
the office yesterday, so they've changed they completely. We're not allowed in anymore.
So because I'm doing a lot of streaming. They suggested that I pick
up my PC from the office and we Greg very kindly drove Jen and I
and I got it. And I was like, well, I've just bought
over a thousand games. Where do I begin downloading more? And then instead
of doing that, I watched a video of a man repairing a painting,
so oh, I love those bo I'm gotten a restoration represent They're so good,
so good, the ones where he has to like stitch them back together
by taking off little bits of linen and using it as Suitcha's Oh my god,
it's incredible art. Literally. But but as far as the game bundle
goes, I was really interested in a short hike, so I'm excited that
was in the bundle. I haven't played Overland. Night in the Woods was
in that bundle, which I would recommend. So there were a lot there's
a lot of good stuff. I like started to look through it and I
was like, if I keep looking through this, I'm going to be here
all night. But uh, and it raised you It raised eight point one
million dollars. Oh my god. Well they said that as well, because
I was looking through and they said, yeah, we know that these aren't
organized very well. We're fixing it. We're gonna put in some bad catalog,
which I appreciate. Yeah, and I like that the games don't show
up in your library until you've like engaged with them, so you don't have
this like seventeen hundred game Oh, that's good. But I guess we should
say like that bundle was to benefit Justice basically, I think half the proceeds
go to bail funds and half was to the NAACP or something. I think
so, yeah, and yeah, eight point one million dollars is like it
was staggering. It was also the best gaming deal ever ever. Yeah,
like a Humble bundle always has like those great deals, but I don't think
there's ever been I've seen anything like this. But yeah, I'm looking forward
to going through those see what games to play? But speaking of games to
play, games have you all been playing? Or shows have you been watching?
Lucy? Do you want to start? So? I put in Avatar
the Last Airbender because it's not James Cameron's not James Cameron, and it's not
shipe mate. It's actually fantastic and I love it and I'm up to stop
season three. But I also forgot that over the weekend, I downloaded Horizon
zero Dawn because I really liked the look of Forbidden West. I love so
much about that game. Playing it, Alloy talks to herself to an irritating
degree. I want to turn that off. She does. It's it's almost
as if they don't trust the player, like you gave her ping system with
the focus so everything in the environment is highlighted for you. She doesn't need
to go like even that opening bit where she's in that cave and she's going,
I need to get out of here to find rust, and I'm like,
bitch, I know it's the only thing I can do here. You
don't need to repeat this to me. And I'd forgotten that I had repressed
that anger at Aloy's over communication, because I think I had it with Life
is Strange as well. Max in Life is Strange did it a lot,
but not to the extent that Alloy does. Does it? And so is
Ala actually talking out loud or she's just talking in her head? It sounds
like it's out loud, Okay, they don't put any kind of like reverberating
reverberation on it to make it sound like it's in her head. But I
love the movement in that game. I love hunting, I love just running
around, and I think the world design is beautiful, the creature design incredible,
the bow play, the lack of a better term, great, just
need her to be quiet and it but it's I'm kind of basically looking for
a stop gap game before Last of Us, and so a game like I
also haven't played the DLC, so a game like Horizon I can just dip
in and out of. That's what I've been doing. Love the look of
the trailer of Forbin Worst. But sh Alloy and also Jordan was talking about
this in slack earlier today, like the decision to not make Aloi actually native
is weird considering all the native imagery in the game. Yeah, and I
know there's like story, there's like story reasons for that, but it's like
they got all the way there except to just make her native, which I
think is a really good point, or just not use that native imagery.
Like right, we're like, you know, if you want to have her
bead the way she is for the specific story reason, Like I get that,
but then it's like why did you need to make like I don't know
it always like come, it's like that weird thing of like society collapsed and
they rebuilt and they happened to use the exact same imagery as these other cultures
that and it's like what, No, Like that doesn't make wouldn't they have
like their own original look? Like, you know, I don't know.
I always think that's weird that like they just happened to also look a lot
like other specific cultures from long ago. I genuine I didn't even consider that
until I saw Jordan to bring it up early, and I was like,
oh my god, that's so right. But yeah, that's what I've been
doing Horizon and Avatar. I want to go back to Horizon. I do
want to do the DLC. I really liked Horizons zeroed on. I didn't
finish the DLC, but I couldn't tell you what happened in the story of
that game. But all I remember is I thought the combat was so much
fun, just because you were like especially later in the game when you were
taking out these giant machines where you had to switch to the right arrow to
take off the right part and then you'd knock that part off and that would
change the battle, so you'd switch what you were using, or like you
could shoot off a gun on a on a I don't know, metal t
rex or whatever, and just that back and forth and the way that the
time slows when you switch between weapons. Like I thought it all felt super
good, Like I had so much fun just taking down monsters, which is
what I'm most excited for in the sequel. And I'm excited to see what
they do with San Francisco because I saw someone on Twitter like pull a lot
of screenshots of like the Ferry building destroyed and whatnot, and like put those
next to each other, and it looks super neat, Like I'm curious how
they are going to do that, especially when you consider I think they said
the map is supposed to be from like you tak to San Francisco or something,
so like I wonder what the scale is actually going to be in that.
Well, so I think the original games map was also like four different
states kind of compressed into one as well, So that doesn't necessarily mean it's
going to be like crazy huge, but yeah, say it was going to
be much bigger. Though. I want to see what Salesforce tower is,
Like, what's our office? Like? Actually office is going to be,
like it's basically going to be like what it'll be, It'll be it'll be
similar to what it'll be like when we actually are allowed to go back.
Yeah, just reclaimed it. If I get to pillage our office underwater,
that would be incredible. Just get a pile of Cali's plush. He's floating
worried about them. I'm so worried about my tiny figurines. What if they
fell off the desk and got vacuumed up? I won't know for months.
I'm so scared. I'm sure they're all fine. I have many You have
a lot, a respectable collection, jan Nuke, What have you been up
to? Uh? Well, the game I played I can't talk about this
week, unfortunately, but I it was like Cali, he's like thinking.
So instead I actually checked out a couple of demos that came out for some
games, Ultra Kill and System Shock. They were part of the Gorilla collective
over the weekend last weekend, and they both had interesting so it's like,
ah, they have free demo, so I'll check them out. I don't
know if you're familiar with so Ultra Kill, it's it's another one of those
in the vein of like it's trying to emulate like nineties shooters. You know,
your dooms and your quakes. There's been a lot of those recently.
But what makes this one really cool is that it has like a Devil May
Cry scoring system, and it's going for this like very ultra fast, you
know it. I'm trying to think of like another games like speed equivalent,
Like imagine like the speed that you could like get in like Quake Arena,
but then you are expected to do like Devil Make Cryer combos and you can
like infinitely slide like in Apex Legends, and you're it's all about just like
this small rooms where you get in and then these enemies come out and you're
just like doing these fast things like really quick. It's got a a like
a hotline Miami Vibe where if you die, it's just like oh nope,
you're just right back in it and you just kind of keep going. It's
really hard, but it's it's really really like frenetic and fun. The abilities
are like insane and that they're all about just trying to like combo like trying
to be coolest possible. So, for example, there's a hand cannon and
one of the alternate abilities is you flick a coin in the air and if
you shoot the coin, it'll ricochet and immediately hit and kill an enemy.
But you have to actually physically aim at the coin, and the coin has
its own physics, so it like moves, so it's really really hard to
actually like nail that shot, but if you do it, you feel like
the coolest person in the world. Console I cannot imagine. Yeah, so
I have to make the coin a lot bigger, so strict. It's it's
it's just really really fun. Like I don't know, I'm just I've tried
a lot of those those kind of games that are trying to like recapture the
spirit of like you know, all those ninety shooters, and there's been some
pretty good ones. It's kind of been some like or miss, but I
think I like this one because it's more that it's just using the aesthetic to
be as visually simple as possible so that you can just focus on like how
insane the action is. And then the demo takes a really weird turn at
the end because the whole thing is you're you're going through hell. I think
it says something like hell is full and you have to kill one and know
all the demons are here exactly but you so the beginning, it's like there's
like a prologue chapter that you do, which is like the first couple levels,
and then you you do like the first level of Limbo, and it
like takes this complete turn where it's like, you know, very sunny and
uh has like a very different vibe. And then there's suddenly no combat and
you do a bunch of Witness style puzzles, like it straight up has like
the panels and you're doing like the slidey block puzzles. And I just did
that for like ten minutes, and it's like this escalating like like actually like
really good to Witness style puzzles, and I was like, what is going
on in this game? Like I thought you were just like killing things,
and then right after that it just goes right back to that and then the
demo ns and I was like, okay, all right, well interesting.
How long did it take you to finish the demo? Ah, probably like
twenty maybe thirty minutes. Okay, well that's a lot in twenty minutes.
Yeah yeah, yeah maybe like me, yeah maybe maybe just like twenty but
it was, it was It's a substantial demo when it went on longer than
I thought, and it really gives you a good a good sense of the
game. And now I'm just like, I'm so curious if that game is
gonna like have even weirder, weirder shit in it because I was not expecting
there to be like puzzle elements to it. Yeah, So when we were
taking notes and that game trailer came up, it didn't say the name of
the game at a certain point, but it had the website, and the
website was Devil May Quake. So we thought though, those of us on
editorial who were taking notes thought for a minute that it was called Deuvile May
Quake, and we were like, like, I was sitting there, like
can they do that? So low obviously it's not called that. Yeah,
I mean I wish they did call it that, because that's an amazing name.
But I think I think, yeah, they realized they couldn't go ahead.
Can I just do a quick tangent about one of my favorite Tumblr posts
of all time, which is uh, which is Devil May Happy? And
somebody was like, wouldn't it be devil May Smile? And there the opie
says, critique my post again and Devil make Angry. I that's good.
I was gonna say it was was Devil May Quake from like that section where
that guy came on who was like we hate money. Here are games and
like here, no, I don't remember I know it was in the trailer
because it's the website. It's the website you go to, which is just
a link to their Steam page. It just goes right to the Steam page
for it. Because he had a bunch of stuff like go to not fortnite
dot com for this thing and stuff, and it just felt super weird and
out of place. They just bought a bunch of really weird URLs, yeah,
and like directed people to those, and then it ended with him being
like, we hate money, and then it just went back and no,
it was it was before the eleven Bit Studio section. Okay, it was
the eleven Bit Studio that section. All right, Well, anyway, you've
also been playing a system Shock. Yeah, big fan of the original and
you've been. I mean, I think one of your first videos you made
for GameSpot was about this system Shock remake. It was, yeah, so
like this the Nighttime Studios. They're doing a re remake of the original system
Shock And yeah, they made a Kickstarter back in twenty twenty sixteen, and
it came with its own demo that was like a pre demo. It's like
a fifteen minute opening a slice of the game, and it was as Jake
said it was one of the first videos I ever did was comparing it.
So it's real wild going back and playing this new demo where it's now like
the entire first area of the game, it's the entire medical wing. So
it's actually a really long demo. It could take you anywhere from like thirty
minutes to an hour to play, so you're getting a really good, substantial
look at the game. And I don't know, it's so good. It's
like it's system shock. It's an immersive sim It's like exactly what I love.
And like, I think they've just done such like a fantastic job with
it. Like it looks really good, it feels great. They I love
the art style. It uses this uh like it you know it, what's
the word I'm looking for. Like the textures kind of have like a pixelated
look, so it kind of gets like a PlayStation one vibe, but it
feels very modern. It feels like a good compromise to like this is clearly
like you know, could only be made today, but also like play pays
on to the aesthetic of that original game. I not one hundred percent,
but I think they still used all the original voice actors or at least they
sound very similar, like Showdan sounds the exact same. It's it's just a
I don't know, like I don't know if I have anything like to say.
That isn't like been said a billion times about system Shock, but I
think I'm just like really excited because the original system Shock didn't kind of gets
left behind when people talk about all the Shock games, like everyone talks about
like you know, obviously BioShock in those games, but like system Shock two's
the big system Shock game everyone talks about. But it's like system Shock one,
it's not great to play now because the control scheme was terrible. I
don't know if you've ever you guys have ever seen that game, but like
you open it up and it's like it's got like a fifty billion different like
uy menus and you can't even use the mouse to move Originally, like it
was an absolute mess of a game to play, But the actual game is
really really good, like it still holds up, like it still has all
of those like things that you love about BioShock, like you know, the
writing on the wall, the you know, your audio logues of people dying
horribly, like finding different stuff. It even has like you know those Metroidvania
like elements where you pick up an item and then you can go back to
a different area, And that game actually came out before Super Metroid, so
it's like kind of it did Metrodvenia before Metrodvenia existed, which is like really
crazy renamed the genre for us, exactly a system Vania roid that I would
have done. I'm looking forward to playing it because, like you're saying,
as someone who has heard about mostly system Shock two and you know, loves
the original BioShock, it's not gonna play BioShock too, And even like you
haven't played BioShock two, I haven't played BioShock. I got Switch though,
just so I I've Yeah, I've played BioShock one multiple times, and I've
played BioShock infuit in multiple times, and I've tried to a couple of times,
but I never actually finished it. But I do own it on uh
PS four PC Switch. There's probably more, probably three sixty two at some
point, so I really have no excuse to have not played it, but
I really do want to, at least too nervous den it's still completely unspoiled
on BioShock. I'm amazed small BioShock two Tangent. I actually did play that
last weekend. I started it up because I was like, for whatever reason,
I was feeling an itch and I was like, I want to play
BioShock two, like I love that game. I got, and I got
all the way up to the end of uh, not the first level,
like the level after where you're going through like the Andrew Ryan's like museum.
I don't know if you remember that. It's and I played it a couple
of months ago. So the game crashed and that game does not have auto
sabs, and I lost an hour of progress and I just went all right,
well, I get I'm done playing by a Shock too. Did you
play the collection? Yes, I was playing on PC, but that's the
it was the remastered version. The collection is not great. No, it's
it's it's it's no. Is it like the PS four version. Oh,
I've heard it's not good. I had not good. So I remember years
ago when it first came out, it wouldn't let me download BioShock Infinite because
Infinite was a separate download. It would let me do Bioshocks one and two,
but I couldn't get Infinite, And then that fixed itself or I assume
it was patched. And then a few months ago, I was playing Bishock
two because I was on Jared Petty's podcast talking about Bishirk two, and I
had the exact same thing happened to me with MI nervous Den, except I
lost three oh no, and I was like, well, let's speed run
this section. I just not. I just knocked it down to easy and
just like blasted through it. But yeah, it's even worse on BioShock though,
because like I was meticulously picking up every little audio log and I was
reading it and I was finding all this AMMO, and I felt so good.
M M. Question for you guys once the longest amount of progress you've
lost to something like that, Mine's eight hours, Oh my god, with
what it was just a game of SIP five that I was playing, and
I didn't say for eight hours on my computer craft. It was like what
that phase where I was just I was just stay in my room, plainsive,
plasive, And yeah, I definitely lost at least four hours playing the
original Mass Effect because had had no I think it was like the mission where
you find the rack Ni Queen or something like I remember, like dying or
something happened, and then like I loaded it back up and it was like
the very beginning of that planet, and I was like, yeah, I
had. I had a similar thing with Mass Effect. I think I played
like five hours. I was exploring everything, talking to everyone. I was
so excited because it was Mass Effect had just come out. I've been waiting
for that game forever. And I was like, you know, I'm going
to just go to a planet. And I went to a planet and a
thresher Maw showed up and killed White Block Party, and I was like,
all right, I'll just reload. Yeah, and then it just like there's
nothing to load, and I was like, are you start a new game?
Luckily, you know, I was in like junior high or high school
or whatever, and I had nothing but time, so I started up and
did it again anyway. But still I remember being like, are you serious?
Mass Effects? God? I remember the auto saves really bad before boss
fights. I remember when you rescue Liara and there are the there's the Krogan
like guy, and if you fail that boss fight, you well say boss
fight. If you fail that fight, you have to do the conversation over
and over and over again. And unfortunately, I got really stuck on that
fight, and so I had to do that over and over and over again,
and it's it was two thousand and seven. Man, we should have
been. But the most I lost was actually that BioShock, and ever's done
because I was conditioned from a younger age because I had a really shitty PC
and I would play the SIMS a lot and if I didn't meticulously save every
ten or so minutes, it would probably crash. Sometimes it would crash while
saving. Jeez. So I'm one of those people who saves and then I'll
just save again just to be I used to be like that, but I
think I've I just haven't played a game where I've needed to do that in
a while, so gone Soft. And then after that, I immediately was
like, Okay, where's the quick save key for Bowershack. The best game
on console, at least for saving was Dishonored Too is Dishonored To. It
had quick save and load in the pause menu on the triggers perfect because I
was saved scumming my way through that game. Chaos Theory had that too.
I remember that being a game changer for the splinter Cell series because like before,
there were just checkpoints, and you know, if you're playing that very
slowly and meticulously and you die, it's like now I got to go back
like four or five encounters. But with Chaos three they added that quick saving.
I think that's the three They added one like on console where if you
like held the back button, because I think because they knew because that was
like such an issue with that series, they were like, we'll add the
thing for console people. I've always been sorry. I was just gonna say
I. I had like eighty hours in Pokemon fire Red and I dropped my
game Boy Advance sp and it landed on the cart and it shut everything down.
And I was like, I hope this saved turned it on. You
know, you get the whole new game thing show up. And I was
like, I was so mad, but you lost it all. Yeah,
it was all gone. Why was that's the worst, Well, because I
didn't think about it until now I was much younger and also liked I didn't
think about like me losing savens. I don't know. Yeah, it was
user error, right, like nothing shut down. I just was a dumb
kid and dropped it on the ground. Cheez, I stress. I was
just gonna say, I've always been really neurotic about saving, and I'm the
kind of person that I'm like, I saved my game, and then I'm
like, did I save? And then I save again. The Zive example
had auto save, but for some reason didn't. It didn't auto save what
I needed. Maybe that was part of the crash. Maybe, but also
I had Mount Fuji as Japan working in Premiere Pro. I don't do so
much editing anymore, but when I first got Premiere, the auto save is
like automatically set at fifteen minutes. I think it was. I think now
it doesn't. If you switch it to like thirty second, however low it'll
go change. I change it to five minutes every time I start fresh,
because five minutes is like I can do that. You want to talk about
real devastating save loss wo Premiere projects? Yeah, work, yeah, work,
Yeah. The whole days day has happened to me, and it's just
you just you just go home, You just go home. Yeah. It'll
be like four point thirty on a Friday, and I'll be almost done with
the review and then it'll crash and for some reason I won't have any backup
saves and it'll be like, well, I'm just gonna throw a bunch of
random clips into this review. I'm sorry, Oh thanks, Well, that
hasn't happened. That hasn't happened a very long time, And honestly, I
was pretty new at GameSpot, so I probably just stayed till like midnight making
sure it was okay, which I don't recommend. Don't stay work till midnight
unless you have to. Anyway, moving on, I guess I'll talk about
one thing I've been playing, and then we can talk a little about Pokemon
Keli, and then we're not gonna talk too much about Last of Us because
we talked about it a lot last week, Jean, Luke and Lucy haven't
played it. And we're also gonna have a spoiler chat go up this weekend
and you can read both my spoiler free review and my review with some spoilers
correct, so have fun with that. So there's a ton of places that
we're gonna be talking about Last of Us or that we've already talked about Last
of Us, so you can check that out now. But anyway, the
other game I've been playing other than Pokemon right now is Persona four Golden on
PC. I don't have a whole lot to say, it's still very good.
I just finished Yukiko's Palace, so I'm still pretty early. But I'm
having a lot of fun with the difficulty settings because I've played like seventy percent
of that game on Vita and I never finished it, so I like made
it as easy as possible so I could burn through all the palaces as fast
as I could. And I did Yukiko's Palace in one day, which nice
isn't super impressive since it's the first palace, but I'll take what I can
get. I'm like hovering on the edge of playing it through again, but
it took me two years because I had a Gnali commute and I had my
Vita and that's how I played Persona four. But also I wonder if Persona
five and all the quality of life improvements in five maybe have ruined me from
going back. I don't think so, at least don't think so for me
I because I played it. I played it last year for the first time
with my girlfriend, which is kind of a bummer because I'm like, oh,
man could have played this version, but that's okay. But I I
think for one I think those games are just mechanically different enough that like it's
more that like I don't know, like the quality life changes don't feel as
it doesn't feel as dramatic. I would say, from like say like three
to four, which felt like pretty dramatic. Also, I think that the
game's characters and story are just like pulled up on their own so much like
Yeah, I don't know, Like I think each Persona game has its own
strengths that make them worth going back to. Except the No, you can't
control your party members directly in three, and that is terrible. It can't.
No, not the original version of three, the PSP version you can,
but it also loves at Oh I'll get into it, but all I'm
saying is there's no definitive version of Persona three, and they need to make
it, and that is why Atlas should remake Persona three. If you're listening,
Atlas, give me Persona three remastered, Well we'll forward this podcast to
them, please. Is it just Atlas at gmail dot com? Right?
That's yeah, yeah, I think so cool. Yeah, it's not JP.
Sorry to whoever has that email address at liss a Gmail, don't go.
But anyway, Yeah, like I said, I don't have a whole
lot to say about Person Before a Golden other than that I am excited to
be playing it again, and I'm happy it's on PC. I hope this
means that we'll see some at list games on PC, maybe even switched.
Like the crazy thing about playing it on PC is that as I was playing
it on PC, this is really dumb. But as I was playing on
PC, I was like, man, I wish this was on switch.
I'd rather play sportively. There's something real weird about having like a graphic settings
and a Persona game and like mouse and keyboard controls. Yeah, you're just
like, this is weird. I did not do mass and keyboard. Immediately
I played in the control, I was like, now I'm not going to
do this. But even on an Xbox controller it feels kind of weird.
A nice little tiny touch this is like so small, but I like when
games do this. It actually changes the button icons depending which controller you play.
I like that small little thing, but I like when games do that.
So the big thing which came out today, well it came out Wednesday.
If you listen to this now it's Friday. But Cally and I have
been playing some of the Isle of Armor DLC. I played about an hour
today. I'm not so much. You got to play cally not much,
but I did a like a preview session last week where I saw the first
forty ish minutes. So we've probably played slash scene the same amount as the
game. I'd say, so, I yeah, I don't. Right now,
I'm very excited and enjoying it just because there are so many more Pokemon
to catch, and like, at the end of the day, that's what
I wanted to do the most, was just catch more Pokemon and have more
Pokemon to build teams with. I can't really speak on this stuse, Like
I said, have only played an hour, but it seems very pokemony,
Like I don't. It's not that deep, but it doesn't really need to
be. Yeah, I mean it's it's cute. You kind of get roped
in in a very anime protagonist style into joining this dojo, and it's run
by a couple named Honey and Mustard and Mustard is he kind of is like
the King Boomy of Pokemon. I understood that reference, Yeah, I did
from Avatar. He's he's like quirky and wacky, but he has a point
to what he's doing, so he has everybody at the dojo kind of doing
these like they seem like otherwise menial tasks, but it's one of those like,
oh, I'm a dojo master and I know what you need to get
better or whatever kind of vibe, and so you have to like catch these
Like slow Poke he's trained to be especially fast, which is really silly and
also like I think, really clever because you can train Pokemon to be faster
or have better attack or better defense, like you can customize the Pokemon that
way within the game, So it's kind of cool that it's like these are
the fastest slow Poke you'll ever see. And they even have salac berry,
which when it's one of those it's called a pinch berry. It's activated when
the pokemon's low on health, and the salac berry increases speed when the Pokemon
eats it, so they're like just fully speeds back to slow poke, which
you would never do ever. That doesn't make make sense, but like it's
cute and it kind of just drives home like this is you can you can
make a Pokemon like the fastest it could be, So I thought that was
clever. You if to go hunting for mushrooms and stuff for him, he
gives you He and Honey give you either a Squirtle or a Buldaslor that can
eventually Giganto maximhen you fully evolve them. So that's kind of like the the
basic like that's the starting point of it, and the level the leveling also
scales to where you're at when you start the DLC, so you can start
it basically. You only have to play the main game for about an hour.
Once you hit the wild area in the main game, you can then
travel to the Isle of Armor, and the Pokemon's levels will be appropriate to
your level the same way they are in the Wild area. So that's pretty
cool. And the Pokemon two aren't locked behind the DLC. Anybody can get
those Pokemon in their poked X. Now there was an update released alongside the
DLC, so yeah, it's it's exciting. I Pokemon doesn't really good DLC,
so that's just exciting. It's kind of unchard territory. Yeah, I
mean, I've been having fun with it. I really like the Wild area,
this new Wild area, because it seems like they've learned a lot from
the original Wild Area and this one's already so much more interesting, Like there
are caves there forests like coastlines. The diversity is there's way more diversity and
it's a lot more interesting to explore so far in my opinion. In like,
I don't know, it's just exciting to walk around and see old Pokemon
again that weren't in the game. Like I caught a rock Rough, which
I've already evolved into a liking rock. I caught a I caught an Abra,
which is one of my favorite pokemon Originally. I'm still trying to find
Shinks because I know there, but I haven't found Shinks yet. But yeah,
as of now, I mean, it's just more Pokemon, and so
far, that seems like a pretty good thing. I will say, the
slow pokes in the wild area when you have to get them, they're like
going so fast, there's a dust trail behind them, and like the sound
they make is really funny, Like you almost have to like you can't chase
them, you just have to figure out their path and cut them off.
Yeah, it's really silly. I was gonna say. The other thing that's
really cool about it is the music. It's like, oh yeah, you
told me this before. So the music really caught my attention because it is
a remix of the the that the stereo I don't know how stereophonics. That's
a joke for British people listening. It's it's the like everybody was Kung Fu
fighting tune bye like that tune who sings on? But and so at first
I was kind of like, oh, interesting choice. But the Japanese people
made this game and wrote the music so interesting. But the remix is like
such a banger. It's like I was just like, let's go, I'm
ready to fight. Like so it's kind of silly, but it's I enjoyed
it a lot. Another cool thing too. I don't know if you saw
that far, but maybe they had already said it, but you can turn
any Pokemon into Gigan to Max. Now, yeah, there's like a it's
super cool. There's a this is just this is the thing with Swart and
Shield is they give you so much to turn any old Pokemon into a Pokemon
you want to use. Like if you have a shiny charze ard, now
you can make that a shiny gigantic Max Charte aard. Like that's so freaking
cool. It's it's Max soup is the like the food item that you that
does it. And that's one of the things when you're looking for the mushrooms
for mustard for I don't know, sense mustard, I don't know. He
is like, oh, I need them to make Max soup. So that's
part of it. You get you get new clothing options, new hairstyles.
Oh now we're talking like like a cute ass bun. Like there's there's like
this like swoopy fade thing going on, Like there's there's a lot of cool
stuff that's all I care about. And this is I mean, I'm finishing
up the Last of Us review, the spoiler version of that, so I
haven't had time yet today to actually play. So there's a lot that I'm
still going to delve into. And I am doing a review of aild of
Armor. I'm gonna do that as quickly as is physically possible for me to
do or mentally possible probably is more accurate, but yeah, I'm it's it's
I mean, I'm still play I play Animal Crossing every day. I'm fully
upseessed with Animal Crossing, so it's a little bit like I will never put
down my switch ever again because now I'm playing Pokemon also, but it's it's
kind of nice. I kind of needed this after the last of us,
so I was gonna say, in terms of tonal whiplash, I don't think
you could get anything more opposite. H Yeah, And it's funny because the
comments I always get comments that are like, just go back to pulling Pokemon.
You don't like violence, you stupid girl, And I'm like, well,
I mean, Pokemon is about making animals fight each other, but but
you know, it's colorful and friendly about it. That's nice, which,
if you think about it, is actually even more disturbing. Yeah. I'm
gonna go call Pete it right now. Well, anyway, let's move on
to topics for this week. The big thing that happened last week that we
tried to guess was the PS five reveal event. I don't remember what I
guessed last week, other than that we'd see Horizon Too, which I was
right. That's what I've been very very surprised if Horizon Too hadn't. Yeah,
yeah, I've been there. I didn't guess anything, so I can't
be wrong. I don't remember what anyone else guessed, and they're not here
to tell me what they guess, so I guess, so we were all
correct. But anyway, speaking of the PS five reveal event, why don't
we just say what our favorite announcement was and we can kind of kick off
a conversation from there because there was a lot of cool stuff. I would
say, John, do you want to start? I love the dumb look
of the PS five. I think it looks so stupid, and I am
so excited to have it on my shelf. I was on the pre and
post show and afterwards I was clearly in a state of hype and I was
talking about like, damn she thick. My boyfriend texted me after and it
was like, do you want to have sex with that PlayStation five? Like
you are describing it in a weir annoying and I was like, I don't
know. I was just excited. She got curves, Man, what do
you want for me? But I like how the the one with the disk
drive is a lopsided too. Well, it's that's just how it's weird.
Like the one on the disc side is lopsided when it's standing up, but
when you put it down it kind of works. When you put the one
without the disc drive down. It then has this my mic has this gap
at the bottom that looks really weird. So it's like it doesn't work perfectly
either way. Like it's such a mess. I'm I love it. I
love it with all my heart, Like I am, I'm such a fan
of like weird ass consoles. It looks huge. I don't know where I'm
gonna put it. I'm just excited for it. Someone's made an ar thing
you can do and you can see because the people have figured out, based
on disk drive size, how big the console would be. And they've made
an ar that you can place the PS five in your house. And I'm
like, I'm just lucky that I have an open top entertainment unit because if
I was trying to fit it into some kind of pre made shelving unit,
don't it will not It will not fit my shelf. So I do need
to figure something out. I asymmetry bothers me a lot, and I don't
know if I'll be able to handle the PS five in its current form.
I don't. I can't. I can't. I can't get the no disk
drive one that's more symmetrical. That is symmetrical, right, symmetrical, I
mean but then it's like, then you won't have a dis drive, which
you might genuinely need for your job. Yeah, if it sends you discode
exactly. So yeah, I don't know. I wasn't crazy about it.
I also I wasn't able to watch the presentation because I was working on the
spoiler free Last of Us review, So I've really only I've seen bug Snacks
and I've seen Horizon and then everyone of the stys with bug Snacks the song
man in our house, like you'll just hear it through the wall sometimes Jennal
Greg going bug Snacks. I was hoping that they would hear me and do
it. Yeah, they are in the kitchen. It just happens like all
the time. There's been a lot of good memes of people putting the bugs
Next song over movie trailers. Someone put it over the Joko on, which
I did. The was pretty funny, but I liked if someone was a
game rant yesterday wrote an article where it was like, what if bug Snacks
is secretly like a horror game where you eat sentient I was expecting the trailer
to take a dark turn because it was like so happy and it's like,
yeah, and there's these bugs and that bugg looks like a taco, and
I'm like, it's gonna get weird, like I mean, like weirder,
and so I don't know, I entertain that theory. Are you, like,
are you picturing like Seth Broken Sausage Party? Yeah, well try and
clear that movie horribly offensive and bad, but like you know, like it
takes like a weird horror turn, like yeah, like when they like,
you know, the game's about to come out and then the ESRB is like,
yeah, this game is rated M and everyone's like, what what mature
themes? Callie, you said you didn't see the presentation as a whole,
but was there anything that any trailers or something that may have stood out or
news? I just really don't like the PS five all right? How about
you? Lucy? Well, I know it was already announced, but death
Loop seeing more of that, I think anything arcane touches, I will be
all over. I genuinely was. It was fun being because we were kind
of on I was on a stream with Michael and Tam and you know,
the reactions to Miles Morales, even though the messaging after that was a bit
all over the place, and Tam can I can easily say that that Demon
Soul's reveal was the highlight of history. Oh well, I think it was
a really good mix of Triple A. There was there was some usual suspects
that I felt were missing, Like I fully expected cod especially because they just
updated season four of war Zone that day and people were saying, oh,
there's clues being left, and I fully expected Cord. But it was fun.
Like, what was that game that looked like Pixar? Kenna, Yeah,
Kenna, Yeah, that looks cute. That looks pretty. It looks
like a mix of Breath of the Wild Pixar and I don't know, like
magic stuff in there too, maybe a bit of Horizon zero Down, not
to be reductive, and just I haven't really seen much else of the game,
but it was cool. Like, I think that's Sony's best conference since
E three twenty fifteen, easily, which was the final fivety seven last Guardian
year. Oh and Rezi eight. Oh yes, oh yeah that's maybe the
game. Yeah, I'm the most excited for out of out of that whole
thing. That game looked incredible. Yeah, I mean, Resney Velate was
definitely mine, but I would probably say Demon Souls as well. If not
more, just because part of it is because I've been replaying Saying the Souls
games, the Souls Boring games recently, and I've never played Demon Souls.
I had no plan to play Demon Souls because I wasn't going to track down
a PS three and yeah, I just figured I'd never play that game unless
there was a remake. So I'm very excited that there's a remake and it
looks great based on the trailer. I'm super excited to see more. I'm
especially curious to see another studio tackle a from software game because I feel like
a from Software games have such a distinct feel to them and like the way
they play, so I'm curious to see if, like I don't know,
I guess, like how much Bluepoint can match that or maybe try something kind
of different. But also it can't be too different, because then it wouldn't
I don't know, that would be a terrifying game to remake if you're not
from Software. But regardless, I'm still excited. I thought it looked it
looked beautiful, and it was definitely like even though I think we all knew
it was gonna happen, it was still exciting to see that I'm so curious
if they're going to add or change anything, because I think they've said that
it's a more dramatic it's not going to be quite like Shadow, where it
was like very faithful. Like I think they said they're going to like change
some things or add some stuff. I know people are speculating, like there's
a whole area of that game that got cut where you go to this like
snow like area that was like home to like the giants, And there's actually
a good Vati video video where he talked about that. I was like,
oh right, I forgot about that. So some people were like speculating,
like what if they put that back in the game. I don't necessarily want
to get my hopes up too much that they're going to do something as dramatic
as that, But I'm really curious if they're actually going to like take the
opportunity to add or change anything because the Shadow, because there was a lot
of when we interview them for Autiologues last year, there's a lot of stuff
in Shadow, you know, A way to Sound originally had ideas. I
think it was twenty four coloss side instead of forty eight at one point.
Yeah, they left some stuff in the game, and there's like the garden
at the top that you can get to if you platform up in a very
specific way, even though there's nothing there. And like there's all these rumors
about the seventeenth Colossus, and you know, they didn't put any of that
in. The only thing they put in was like that new collectible sword,
right, and yeah, and then the sword which was a reference to one
of their community members, Like no mad, wasn't it. So I mean
in terms of like changing things, obviously they changed the control scheme to modernize
it. I wonder how, like you said, I just wonder how much
they would I wonder what From's involvement was. From the sounds of it,
right, the original Shadow team wasn't that involved in the remake aside from handing
over things. I wonder if From has any oversight. And I wonder if
they aren't going to put cut stuff back in. That would be awesome.
And two, like, unlike Shadow of the Clauses, there have been multiple
Souls games after Demon Souls that have refined and added and changed and then all
this stuff. So like I imagine it couldn't just be like they'd have to
do something with the game. They couldn't just leave it as is, otherwise
it would still probably feel dated. Like an easy example is like the role
in that game is much more limited in terms of like how many directions you
can roll in compared to later games, So they could add, like you
know, they could make the role more dynamic. Like that's like a really
small thing that like you would hope they would add just to make it like
feel more modern. But it was a really cool thing from when we were
talking with them that so the Blue Point engine is cool and like it basically
runs their version of the game in the original version of the game at the
same time, and there was a really cool thing that they were saying that,
like some of the coding in the original version of Shadow was so cool
that they just like it. So I think the on Wanders Pon show,
he has these little fringe things around his belt, and that's the original coding
from PS two Shadow that they used in the PS four version. I saw.
I saw vati speculating because because they I guess at one point there was
a description I forget if it was like in the trailer, like the YouTube
trailer description, like they took it out, but it said like it mentioned
a thing called fractured mode, which is not a thing from the original game
at all, and the fact that they took it out. I don't know
if that means like that they didn't want to talk about it, or if
like that's not correct, like who knows, Like I don't want to like,
you know, say, that's definitely a thing. But he was kind
of speculating like, well, what could that even be? And one of
the things he was saying, like was what if they let you actually switch
between like the og art style like in the new one, like in the
vein of the Halo. Yeah, because you know, some people have been
kind of complaining about how like the new art style loses some of the atmosphere,
and I could certainly understand some of those arguments. It was certain areas,
So that would be cool. I don't know if they would actually do
that. That sounds like a lot of work, and I don't know if
their engine is capable of going that far with it, but that'd be neat
well anyway, the next thing we have here is Pokemon Snap, which was
announced today New Pokemon Snap. Right, did you guys play Pokemon Snap at
all? The original I did oh wearing a god damn Pikachu shit you didn't
have. I didn't mind. The real question is, did you guys have
a Blockbuster that had that kiosk you could go and print out your Pokemon Snap
stuff too. I don't think so. I have definitely didn't. Oh so,
like you could go to the Blockbuster and they had like a machine and
you could like bring your your your memory card and it would like print out
your photos for you. What yeah, oh yeah, that's what I get
for going to a Hollywood video. And because I never owned an N sixty
four, I played the game my friend's South. But I remember like going
to the Blockbuster and seeing it and being like, oh my god, I
wish I had this game because I would totally do that. So I never
actually got to print them out myself, unfortunately, but I did see that
machine and I was like, man, I wish I could do that.
That's awesome. I think I only speaking of Blockbuster and stuff. I don't
think I ever owned Pokemon Snap. I think I must have rented it.
We rented most of our games back then, back back, and back then.
We had to walk thirteen miles to the Blockbuster Video Hollywood video, actually
the Hollywood video in my case, which was actually extremely close to my house.
It would have taken about two minutes for me to go there. Yeah.
So I my memory of it is not very strong. I don't have
the same attachment to it that a lot of people do. I played a
lot of Pokemon spinoff games on the GameCube. That's where like there were some
some real interesting ones like Pokemon Channel, but I didn't do too many.
I had Pokemon Stadium and stuff. But Pokemon Snap I don't think we owned,
or if we did, I don't remember it. But it the it
is actually called New Pokemon Snap, and it looks really good. I'm excited.
So is it a brand new game or is it just a new It
is a new game, and it is inspired by the n sixty four classic
according to the Pokemon Company. Interesting, I'm kind of with you, Kelly.
And then, like I remember playing it as a kid, but I
don't think I ever owned it, so I didn't really have much of an
attachment to it. I do remember from my Nintendo sixty four getting hey you,
Pikachu. Oh yeah, just kind of a mess yeah, oh god,
yeah, but because like you were supposed to talk to Pikachu, but
I had nothing worked. It was I don't know, it was just a
little kid screaming into a headset and thing. Actually just like online games today,
you know. I think the coolest thing about Pokemon Snap is how it
encouraged that sort of like rumor a lot of like the rumor like playground rumor
stuff where because it would be very much like like no, you got to
throw your your apple like right into that you know, like volcano and then
it like explodes and like that's where like you know, Magmar comes out of
and like like it had that kind of like oh, I got to go
home and try this, like to see if I can find that. So
like I'm really excited to like play the game and like see what kind of
like weird inventive like secrets they have, like how you can find some examples
of Pokemon. I saw someone posted a gift. I don't know if it's
real, but it was from it looked like it was from Pokemon Snap of
like going next to a volcano and I think there's like a charm million like
walking around next to it and someone threw an apple at him and he fell
into the volcano. It's like, if this is real, this is hilarious.
I should look into that, but I thought that was pretty funny.
But yeah, I'm excited. I did just to see what a Pokemon Snap
game is going to look like in twenty twenty. Like that alone has me
interested. I I definitely wasn't one of those people asking for Pokemon Snap during
every Pokemon event like many people usually do, so I'm very excited that those
people will finally get a sequel to Pokemon Snap or a new Pokemon Snap called
New Pokemon Snap. Uh say, new Pokemon Snap one more time. I
day New Pokemon Snap. Thank you. Anyway, Jake, I think that
that was totally legit. You do you have to like, yeah, you
can push them. You have to push him in and then he evolves into
uh uh charmillion and then you push him in again and evolves up a charts
ard man. That damn Okay. Yeah, I I don't know. I'm
there is going to be another announcement next week, which is interesting. I
don't know why they saved it. I'm like it like I am one of
the people that asked for Jodo remakes every announcement, so I'm like, when
are we getting a Jodo remake, even though we've already had a Jodo remake
and Jen four hasn't had a remake. But Jen four is the worst gens,
so nobody cares. I forget who it was. But there was somebody
on Twitter who's a lot of people care, just me, who is saying
that, like, I guess all the Pokemon plushies behind, I forget who
They're all all Jodo and everyone's like, those are all Jodah Pokemon. So
the thing about that is there was a very recent, relatively recent line of
Jodo plushies. So last year the Pokemon Company had like this whole Jen one
plushy line where they had a plush for every single Pokemon from the original one
fifty one and they're doing that again with Gen two, so it could just
be related to that. But there was like a let's go ev box and
it was an ev An Espion and a numbry On. So I'm I'm going
to go full conspiracy theorist. I'm like, yeah, I yes, And
they definitely filmed whatever happened next week on the same day, like for sure,
yeah, I yeah, I there's a lot of Jodo Pokemon, Like
it's not even just that one line. There's like a line of it's a
lot of legendaries you see, like the legendary dogs and stuff. But there's
also in the top right or the top left corner there's a bunch of Jodo
Pokemon. So I was like, you know what, I'm going to join
this chorus of people that are like, it's a hint. Do you think
if they made Let's Go Pikachu, Let's Go Evy two that took place in
Jodo, do you think you'd be able to go back to Canto or do
you think they'd cut that? Because that's a question that I was. I
mean, we're so far out here now, but like that's like to Jodo,
like I think you have to have that. That's what makes gent so
special. I do too. I mean, I agree, it's my favorite.
My favorite part of that game originally was finding out that I could go
back to Canto and do all that kind of stuff. But I wonder if,
like maybe the because Pokemon Let's Go had like a slightly different story and
like some of the game was a little bit different, and I'm curious if
maybe they'll do that. And the further we get from Let's Go the less
I think that it would be a Let's Go style remake, just because I
think that while Let's Go was pretty successful, I think it was very much
intended for the Pokemon Go audience to kind of jump on the Pokemon game train
for Switch, being the first Pokemon RPG on Switch. So that's why I
don't think it would necessarily be in the Let's Go style. I mean,
I'm I'm like one of those people. I want the one tam reel of
Pokemon. I want to be able to go to every region I like,
I am, I am too invested in that sort of thing. But if
I had, if like I'm calling it now, if this is my prediction,
I would say it's not a Let's Go style, it is its own
kind of re Like if it is a or remake, it would be its
own kind of Jodo remake, specifically utilizing what the Switch can do. Yodo
being such a popular generation, that would be my biggest wish. That's my
biggest wish to think about, like how they could connect them all where it's
like, okay, well you could take the train from you know, like
this region to this region, and then you could take like the boat over
there to that. Like I I also think about that a lot, about
how you could connect all those I thought about it with with freaking Sword and
Shield. Because there's a train line and it's in Britain, and there's game
I'm messing up my hair so agitated, and there's there's games set in France.
Where's the chunnel? It is right there. We could just go over
there. I want to take the chunnel, the pokea chunnel? You mean
the Channel tunnel? What? Oh? I knowing me? Sorry, am
I I'm spacing now. I'm proud of weird day. I mean when you
said that, when you said chunnel, I was like, do you mean
the Channel tunnel? Is that a thing that people call it? And I
just never knew that because I'm thinking of the actual Channel tunnel in the UK
to friends ignore me that wait, I thought, is it not called the
chunnel, the tunnel that connects the UK to friends. Yeah, I never
heard that, literally over ten years that it was called the chunnel. I
would never ever heard anyone say that. Well, we got a name for
this episode. I thought, secret chunnel. Dude, that's not what it's
called. I like, I've thought since a high school that it was called
that. I honestly never heard anyone ever say that. I think I think
I was being bullied. Dude, you've been tricked, You've fully been drink.
I was being lied. Do it, bully. It's just like when
we told Mike Mahadi that the Channel Tunnel, also called referred to as the
chunnel. Dot com refers to it as the chunnel. This is just for
Americans. The Americans are too stupid to remember two words. Lucy or maybe
or maybe Lucy has just she's no longer British anymore. It's true. Maybe
I'm just chunnel dot org, dot UK that's the website. I'm I'm so
relieved I have. I've genuinely never heard anyone say chunnel. Maybe it's one
of those things where like most locals don't actually say that San fran or anything.
We'd say you get the Eurostar, or you'd go through the Channel Tunnel
so to go to Paris. But like Channel Tunnel is is more like you
drive or you like you get on and then you're taken through and then Eurostar
is the actual train. Huh. See. In America, we also don't
have trains like that. That's true. So where's anything about anything? Where's
where is our anyway train? Let's move on, Let's keep going here.
We got some listener questions. If you've got any questions for us, you
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as possible. First questions from Adam on discord, Lucy, do you want
to take this first one? I was listening to the jet Set Radio Future
soundtrack this morning, and it made me wonder if a new game in an
all but abandoned franchise was announced, what franchise would that need to be for
you to buy day one without a second thought? Hmmm. Splinter Cell.
I just wanted to say splinter Cell on this podcast, and so I included
this is that all but abandoned though they've you know, they put Sam Fisher
in Ghost Recon reimagined it. It's abandoned. Yeah, my man's shown up
in Ghost Recon. They've abandoned it. I feel like this is an easy
one, but anything from Konami, like you know, Yeah, I get.
I guess it depends though I don't know. Maybe I don't know if
it'd be an instant buy though, because I don't know if I would trust
Konami. I don't know, because it's kind of happening for my one I
would love in you BioShock, they have said that I'm making one. What's
it's what's a dead franchise? I mean, originally my go to would be
Psychonauts too and a new Beyond Good and Evil. And they announced the Psychoots
two a couple of years ago. Wich I'm very excited for and they announced
Beyond Good and Evil too. Yes, n I have to say, that's
what I'll say. That's my answer. It's nine Silver Republic that's made.
If they made a new Knights Silver Republic and still that answer does massive account
is that abandoned? I was thinking that it's only been four years. I
think, what's what's limitations on a franchise being banded? Like ten years?
That's an age in game time, I would, so yeah, I would
probably a generation. There hasn't been a whole new game in a generation.
Well, then spinner Cell works for this thing, do because the last one
was on three sixty. Yeah, so does Kotor count then because we have
the Old Republic. Hmmm, I would still say because Old Republic, they
don't. They haven't supported I mean, I think it's still up, but
they haven't like added content to it for a while. I just like MMOs
intimidate me so much that I just couldn't. I was like, it's just
it's not the same I play. I tried playing it, and it's like,
it's not it's not the same. Okay, so co tor Cans is
what we were saying, I have a ship. I have another shitty answer,
Elder scrolls six. That's I mean, they are working on it.
Yeah, it's been almost a decade though. Every time I know. Yeah,
yeah, I guess I'm just fortunate enough that a lot of the franchises
I care about have continued. I mean, I guess like I played a
lot of Tycoon games and they have kind of died off. But there's like
Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo to kind of like replace or like, you know,
I would love for there to be a good SimCity we have city Skyland.
That's another shitty answer. But that last SimCity was Russ Yeah, I
remember getting that day one and very very sad about it. Well, anyway,
all right, I guess we'll move on, Kelly. Do you want
to read the next one? Sure? I love the way this is introed
Shalom after Dark and Solitude Crew. As a thirty six year old gamer dad,
I thought the coronavirus quarantine is the best time to start playing video games
with my three and a half year old son. So I've handed him a
PS four controller, not the five hundred million edition, of course that's mine,
and launched Lego Marvel Superheroes. Beside the tantrum sessions when I tell him
we need to close the game, we're having a great time together. I
know some of you boys and girls grew up to gamer parents, and I
wanted to know what it's like. Any pros con, sad, happy moments
and stories you'd like to share. Keep up the great work and stay safe.
That's from Laran or a lie leron from Israel. PS. The chemistry
between you is something too envy at. Thank you so much for the letter.
Yeah, thank you for writing in. I played games with my dad.
He had He brought an UPC to play a very specific edition of Worms
when it came out we would play tomb Raider Quake, but my like,
actually he was very like. He would play Double seven Night Fire with me,
and we'd play Grantarisma and stuff together. But at the same time,
we'd have a great we'd have a great time. But I do have a
flashbulb memory of him making me cry because we were playing at golf ninety five
and I was so shit at it. I did not I couldn't get the
timing down to hit the swing, and he made me cry. The pros
and cons of a game a parent, I was gonna say, like my
parents pretty much had no interest in video games until my dad found out that
they made video games based on World War Two, and then Medal of Honor
became like a very big thing for a while. Like I remember, like
one day he went and bought all of the Metal Honor Medal of Honor games
he could get on Xbox. And then I remember the main reason I sold
him on the three sixty was I was like, call of Duty two day
one should take a look at this. And we played a bunch of like
split screen and stuff with other friends and like that, I'd say, like
playing World War two games was like, what did the trick. But before
that, my parents were like, this is gonna rot your brain. I've
got no interest in any of this. Well we'll get them for you so
you can, I don't know, talk about him with your friends on the
playground or whatever. But other than that, they were not interested. Both
of my parents played video games. My mom would talk about playing like Arcade,
gainst the Bowling Alley growing up and stuff and my mom. My mom
and dad have very different gaming tastes. I would say, so, like,
my dad is really just into shooters, like that's his number one thing.
He's been playing shooters as long as I can remember. Correspondent our Call
of Duty correspondent Rick, and he, uh, you know, showed me
like Doom and Quake. I remember he had this mod for Quake that put
Simpson's characters into the game on our old like our gateway desktop in the computer
room. Oh yeah, we used to call that the computer room too.
It was technically I think his office, but we call it a study m
Yeah, that's kind of the yeah, same study room. My mom was
really into Galago, which is where I get my love of that game from.
She bought herself a game Boy Advanced sp to specifically play Namco Arcade Museum,
and then she borrowed my brother's DS to play brain Age just because of
the sadoku. But my mom also was really into platformers. We played Banjo
Kazui together, but my mom has never been into the violent stuff really,
And one of my favorite like it was it sucked at the time, But
one of my favorite memories is my dad got GTA three and me and my
brother who's four years younger than me, so he was really young at the
time. We were all playing the PS two was in my parents room and
I had the gamekeep in my room, so we were all in my parents'
room playing and my mom found out that there were prostitutes in the game and
stuff, so she took away GTA three not just for me and my brother,
but also from my dad. And I found that copy of GTA three
when my parents were moving and that was just like, oh yeah, this
was the Troublemaker game. Let me go. My parents never really were in
a games, but my dad was always really into like having like the coolest
new hardware, so he would always be really into like buying like the newest
computer with like the best graphics card and so he would always be like interested
in games from a technical standpoint. So he'd be like, oh, I
heard this game has like the best graphics and like you should get it and
play it, and he like come over. So I'd be like, hey,
Dad, come check this new game out. I got, like,
look how good it looks. And he would always like be excited to just
like see how visually good games would look, which is kind of interesting.
Like he bought a PlayStation three just for the Blue Ray Player. Like I
came home. That's my dude. I came home one day because like I
never owned a console as a kid. It was like PC and I ham
a game Boy. And then like finally, around like two thousand and six,
I like bought my own Xbox three sixty and then like I was like,
yep, this will be my one console. And then like yeah,
well it must have been like a couple months later or whatever when the PS
three came out, Like I just came home one day. My dad just
had a PS three there, and he's like, I bought a PS three.
I wanted the Blu ray Player, but here you go. You can
play some games now. I was like, okay, but one memory I
do have a playing games is My mom is like the huge Stars fan.
It's like her favorite thing of all time. So I I played like she
named you after John Luke Picard's so that's a little confused. Well, she
also loves Star Trek as well. And I also think there aren't any good
uh good, like you know, yeah sype key, yeah, sipe key.
Maybe maybe that was her like way of like doubling up or something.
Yeah, I kind of like Han Luke, but uh I I ended up
playing Night Sealed the Republic with her. It's like like years later after it
came out. I was just like, hey, Mom, do you want
to like play this game, because, like you know, I think it's
like it's such a good Star war story. And she was like, yeah,
I want to try it. So like I actually had her play and
I like walked her through how to play it, and like that's a really
really fond memory I have. Did she love it? She did? She
really really liked it. That's so sweet, very wholesome. All right,
Wait, I have a really quick I told my mom likes platforms and puzzle
games. I told my mom about Candy Crush, right. She ended up
spending some money on Candy Crush. When I was in college. My dad
called me and was like, what the fuck have you done? And uh
my mom's counter point to that was, you buy a new Call of Duty
every year. That's sixty dollars. Why can't I spend money on candy Crush?
And he was like, fair point, and then it never came up
yet Wow got him though she really did, all right. Last question comes
from tricerah Tops from the discord. This is kind of similar to what we
answered before, but is there a game you would love to wish into existence?
It can be anything at all, like a canceled game, a remake
of a game, or even a game of your own imagination. I would
like to wish a new Final Fantasy main series game, but it returns to
the NES roots both combat and graphically. So I guess the only caveat would
be don't pick a dead franchise or something like that. Since we already kind
of answered that, like, I can't say yourselves as much as I want
to say splinter Cell, I know mine already, all right, go for
it. I want a GTA style game, but you play as the sex
worker. That's what I want. I want that you have. I've heard
this pitch, I'd play that. That's I'm gonna keep repeating it until it
happens. It's what I want. I also want my Hideo Kojima dating sim
where you play as Hideo Kojima and you pick from a suite of boys.
Where's that. I know they're all real people, which is why that doesn't
work, but still Hideo Kijima's best friend Similia exactly to my game actually was
Silent Hills, so mm hmm. But I feel like that's an easy one
just because Pet was. But it's when we have to talk about it.
Yeah, my game is in so in Yakusa five, there's a whole arc
of that game where you play as a character who is a upcoming idol and
the whole so instead of like combat, everything in the game is like rhythm
minigames, and it's like you have like street battles where you like dance offs,
and you have like mini games where you're doing like signings and stuff like
that. So I would want a that expanded to a full game where you
play as Hot Sonny Meku and you're like wandering around like a virtual like you're
like virtual Hot snny Meku, who like somehow has the ability to walk around
and you have to like live the life of hot sunny Meiku and do concerts
and signings, and I don't know, something happens, and maybe maybe you
end up fighting people. I don't know. That would kill Michael. That
is Michael's game. I speaking of Yakaza though. I also just want to
put it out there that I would love a standalone cabaret club game. Oh
yeah, like a mobile game. Yeah, just like a mobile game where
I manage the cabaret club. Yeah, I'd pay real money for that.
Yeah. Man, I don't know. I'm thinking, but I can't think
of anything about that Halo game you came up with in your dream. Oh
yeah, that's true. My my Halo Breath of the Wild sort of style
game, which I think would be pretty cool and in VR, but it
didn't have to be in VR. That's that's the game I want. Also,
Jake, I feel like you don't have an answer because Neil Druckman made
a game based on your brain. That's true. And I was about to
say why, but I can't. But you'll find out if you listened to
the Spoiler cast, if you listen to spoiler guest, and when you guys
play it, I'm sure you'll be like, oh yeah when I when I
experience it, I'm gonna be playing this weekend. But like, yeah,
as I was playing that game, I remember texting Cali and I was like,
I think Neil Druckman is inside of my head somehow, because he made
two creative decisions that I would have definitely made. I probably wouldn't have done
it nearly as well as he did, but I was like, yeah,
if I made a game, I would definitely have both of these things in
it, and they're very specific, Like probably I doubt there are many people
who play this game who would like probably be like, oh yeah, those
two things are what I want in a game. I'm gonna I'm gonna message
you because I think I know what one is. I think I saw Greg
playing this moment. I will message you and see if I got it right.
All right, I think that's it though. That's it for episode forty
six. Thank you all so much for tuning in to GameSpot after Dark each
and every week. We're gonna keep going. We're gonna rotate the cast a
little bit. See how that goes We've got some more guests planned too.
I think next week we're gonna try to have Jeff Bakalara on, which would
be fun. I haven't talked to him yet, but apparently to Moore has,
so if he doesn't show up next week, then it's on TAM.
It's a TAM goof. But anyway, Lucy, what are you working on
and where can people find you? I've been doing a bunch of play for
all streams. Been working on that with TAM and Chastity booking six weeks worth
of guests next week. Wants to look out for Thursday. Unannounced, but
it's going to be very big. I'll be promoting that from Monday, and
we have the last podcast on the Left Guys, which I'm very excited about
we have. We were streaming doc Souls with Marcus Parks the other day,
so much fun. So Henry is going to be joining with Marcus and we're
going to do some like what's the game. It's like an f MV game
and you have to guess if people are lying and solve a crime. So
very excited to put that to the tech. It's called like confusion contra contradiction
contradiction contraception contraception the game, so we're playing that with them next week.
Please tune in donate Mata as well as direct relief. And I'm on Twitter
a Lacy James Games Kelly. I'm gonna be on one of the Play for
All charity streams on well today Friday. Yeah, if you are listening right
when this episode goes up, it'll be a little bit later, so check
that out. And then I, like I said, I'm working on the
Isle of Armor review, and then I've also put up the review for the
Last of Us part two that contains spoilers. I would not suggest even clicking
on it if you don't want to be spoiled, because I mentioned a spoilery
thing very very close to the top of the page after the spoiler warning,
so just to be extra careful, the thumbnail isn't gonna have any spoilers or
anything, so don't wry about that. And there Jake cut the spoiler free
video review, which you can watch, and then Evan handled the spoilery video
review. Totally unprecedented thing that we're trying for this just because the game kind
of horns it. So yeah, it's juggling a lot and not too much.
I'm mostly just doing behind the scenes stuff for play for All, both
recording interviews and helping out Tay on the tech side. I think I'm gonna
try and take some weight off his shoulders, hopefully soon. I think that
that man is getting very, very exhausted. He's been putting in so much
work. So huge shout out to to Tay. He doesn't get enough enough
love for how much he does behind the scenes on the tech side of that.
But otherwise, I'm sure in the coming weeks, I'll be working on
some stuff cool, and then for me, we are I'm doing Last of
Us stuff. There's gonna be a couple of Last of His videos that will
go up on embargo and throughout the next couple of days, including the spoiler
chat. So there'll be plenty of Last of Us two stuff going up on
site that you want to check out. And then the other thing John Luca
actually part of this too is I think I could talk about it. This
is we're going to have the creative I guess lead on Skyblivion, that big
Skyrim Mond He's going to be on for a stream with us, and we're
going to check that out, which is super exciting for those who don't know,
it's basically a team trying to recreate Oblivion and Skyrim's engine, and what
they've done so far is super impressive. I think that'll be fun. Make
sure to check that out if you can. That's Tuesday am, right,
yep, yep, Tuesday, nine am. If all things go as planned,
we're going to do a technical test this weekend or early next week and
see. But anyway, that's it. Thank you all so much for tuning
in, and we'll see you next week. By Bhye no