Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, July ninth, twenty twenty four. Welcome to
the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and forty eight, powered by NZXT.
I am your host, Jan Achoa, welcoming you to this lovely podcast.
Today. We've assembled some hard hitters because the hard hitters have been hit hard
and they're ready to pod. We're all ready to pod together. Co Captain
of the Ship returning triumphantly returning to the podcast, Jeff Grubb, Hello,
I'm living that m twenty two life. I'm a Michigander once again. I
spent a week there and that's my whole lifestyle now. So just get used
to it. Fantastic, fantastic and something we're all getting used to. We're
getting used to his presence, just being around here all all the time,
constantly, and we welcome it. We have games beat's own like Manati.
Hello, how's it going. Yes, I'm no longer in the pocket of
big theme park. I am now firmly in the corner of small regional amusement
park. That's right, that's right. I've seen some pictures. They looked
fantastic ladies and gentlemen returning to the site his presence has been in the walls.
He is. He is the voice inside your mind and in your hearts
and perhaps in your spirit. Dan Rekert bra what happened? Oh that's very
annoying. Let me let's just do this all right. Yes, I am
not one hundred I'm sorry. I took up the mask audio listeners. It
was me all even my immediate family bought it. When you said you weren't
gonna do it that long, I thought it was going to go on longer.
So it was annoying me that. Yeah, yeah it, Boy,
that was a couple of weeks. That was rough. Don't get your head
scraped out and cut up on the inside a lot. You're gonna have a
real rough four days especially, and then it gets better, but it still
sucks. Wasn't it good that you got your head scooped out though, Dan?
Yeah? I mean, yes, yes, it needed to happen.
And like I can already tell some of the benefits. I can definitely breathe
better and things like that. But I'm still like in recovery mode. I'm
saying I'm like eighty percent those first three or four days honestly, like the
hardest days of my life. I think in terms of just like physically and
like you just can't. I was prepared for it to be bad that you
can't breathe through your nose, but you don't really think about how often you're
breathing through your nose until you can't do it. For my number one way
to breathe, yes, like Mount Rushmore breathing. Yeah, but all the
things that like also like when you're swallowing. You know, I'm trying to
like hydrate and drink water, and every time you swallow and your whole head
is just filled with gunk and you feel everything shifting and clicking around in your
skull as you're drinking, and blood's coming out and stuff, and it's just
it is a nasty, gross thing. Now, Dan, I did you
get you trimmed your beer and got different glasses? Right? Those both also
happened? Yes, Okay, okay, because like there's going to go there's
going to be rumors now that that the surgery actually replaced you and you're a
complete doppel ganger, and there's ultimate situation. Yes, Chris, Yes,
Chris, it's Chris. Yeah. So should we ask questions that only Dan
Ryker would know the answer to. Sure, Okay, what is Yoshi's Island
a mainline Mario game? No, he plays Yoshi Wait I mean yeah,
I mean yeah, yeah, some of worlds on the box right right,
yeah, No, it's World You on the box. But mark Bark Bark.
They tasted different yet, yes, so uh there. I have ups
and downs in terms of like how much I can breathe and how congested I
am. So it ups and downs, but there have been moments glimpses where
I felt totally clear, and my dad was very nice to to come all
the way up here from Kansas and watch after me. Wal Bank was on
on a work trip to make sure I didn't die, and we ordered Taco
Bell at one point. It was the first day after I started being able
to breathe through my nose, and we got Taco Bell and time you don't
like Taco Bell anymore? We don't know. No, no, no,
it's it's the opposite. It's uh something I know very well. The taste
of that nacho cheese with that comes with the nacho fries and the chips and
cheese. It tasted the way I remember tasting when I was a kid.
Oh beautiful, which I've had that so many times scene cheese, I don't
get a reference, but yes, but it tasted like better and like I
love it anyway, obviously, But there have been times I've tasted something to
been like that's a little liper. I'll step outside and I'll smell something about
like nature and like, oh man, I didn't notice that before. Like
so I'm I'm there are flashes of that, and I hope that becomes kind
of the norm. As this heels up, Dan re experiencing all of his
childhood senses, just food flavors. Yeah, I'm so sorry for you to
like drink a coca and of pepsi and maybe even a diet cokein diet pepsi,
it'd actually get a difference. Now, that'll be the same, right,
bar I say, yeah, making that noise? Yeah, when we
when I ask you to clap, you're always like that's what you say?
What I do? Yeah, grub you're also back. How was taking an
actual vacation? It was nice. I did a lot of fun stuff.
Went to the beach a bunch of times. That was great. Went to
a butterfly house and a butterfly landed on me. That was neat. It
was mostly just relaxing. It was. It was cool because we went to
let's explain this. My wife's uncle's wife's family gave her a house. And
it's like like he's like an older guy had an extra house, just like
here, here's the house and that's like in Traverse City. Hey, so
it's like real located. Anyone listening has an extra house they want to give
away right right at me, baby, let's do it. Let's tell me
we should try to court that. You know. The whole thing about how
like Sean Michaels was just giving two million dollars from some fans will and like
you never met the guy ever, and some fans just like I want HPK
to have two million of my dollar. It's like we do we have fans
like that? Can you set that up fans? We probably go at least
one fan like that. Yeah. The house houses houses money, any devil
take it horses? Yeah yeah yeah. Uh. The the butther part is,
uh, the people that lived there before were smokers. They've tried to
like deal with this, and we got there and they're like do you notice
it? I'm like not really, and I didn't notice the whole week.
And then literally the second I got home and got out of the van and
walked in our house and then walked back to the van to get all our
stuff out. I'm like, this van smells like the inside of an ash
tray. It's so bad. So now I'm dealing with that, like,
no complaints. Really, still free place to stay, and it was.
It was a great vacation and we didn't notice it when we were there,
so it was fine. But it's like, now we're dealing with that.
And that was a little bit about bummer because I brought all my new Episode
one t shirts that I just bought from Hot Topic and they all smell like
cigarettes. Now that was my own little like protest. I wasn't like feeling
super patriotic this week, so I'm like, I'll just wear episode one shirts
instead of you know, white and blue shirts. And I felt pretty good
about that. I've gone a love Episode one either. That's the only republic
I stod for. You love it more than America? Exactly what I was
getting at. Thank you for understanding, all right? I understood, because
you know, Episode one really embraces racial stereotypes of all different denominations. Yet
yep I Episode one I didn't it's a bad movie, but the way I
took it in I like cause I worked at the theater at the time.
I was an usher, and so I knew the timing for the Darth Maul,
like when the doors open and you know, and like that part always
got me hyped up. So I would just like every seth as an usher,
I'd be like, all right, we're an hour thirty or whatever,
and I'll walk in there, watch the Darth Mall fight, and leave it
like all right. Yeah. So I have like positive memories of Phantom that
they're definitely more good moments because you have that, You have the pod race,
Like what's the good moment? Episode two, the the ninety second fight
between Jango Fed and Obi Wan. Is it even that long? The crowd
in the theater on opening night marked the fuck out at Yoda getting a light
table yeah my two Yeah, yeah, Crad And then I was like,
oh, maybe I didn't want this. I don't know what I want.
Episode two, there's like the moment where like Padme like jumps down from the
pillar like as a young lad. That was like, oh, oh sure.
The sexual awakening of the prequel trilogy definitely yeah, like middrift slashed.
Yeah, you're younger, so that was your GoldenEye moment that I had.
Okay, okay, Padme squeezes the light out of a drawer on the top
right. It was actually halle Berry and the Flintstones movie. You think about
the Flintstone so much, it's many many reasons. Yeah, it's a bonus.
I went to a flea market over the weekend, Mike, and there
were a lot of Flintstones memorabilia, and that sounds right. I was just
thinking of you the whole time, and I hate how much you've infected my
mind. It doesn't get better. Yeah, I like this. How was
your weekend, Mikey, Yeah, it was great. I got to hung
hangout with Bailey and Jenny at Kenny Wood there in town, so it was
kind of fun to see like people, uh in driving distance like that.
So it's a good time. Kenny One's nice because like there's some coasters there,
but there's also just like a lot of like old stuff, a lot
of like this was the last of it's con sort of thing, so like
that stuff was all really exciting. Like it's this this right, it's called
the Turtle and it used to be real popular, and now it's the only
one, and you just kind of go around in a circle, up and
down these little hills. The big thing there's Noah's Arc, also the last
of its kind. It's like a funhouse, but the funhouse it is like
the size of a building, but it's rocking the entire time, like it's
on the ocean, and there's there are stairs, so like people definitely hurt
themselves. Oh yeah, yeah, so that that is really exciting. When
you walk in, you go through a whale and like they make it all
spongy, so you're like walking on the whales mouth and then for some reason
you're in like a glow in the dark section with boxes of plants and animals.
There's a big apple one I saw immediately and got upset about. Yeah
yeah. Kenny Wood near Pittsburgh. It was a very good time. Shout
outs to them into all the regional amusement parks. This is one of the
few that's not owned by six Flags, which recently merged with Cedar. Oh
yeah, so so yeah, good on them. How much you think it
is to buy a theme park? Do you think we could do a regional
I think we should buy the one in the Six Flags in New Orleans that's
been shut down. I think they tore it down. Ship. It used
to be like, who aren't spooky and you could like sneak in there and
stuff. It's cool, But I think they tore it down. That David
bought a zoo. Right, if you could do that, you could do
this. Let's buy an amusement park and just not do maintenance. Yeahs,
opponents also required maintenance of a freak. It's just like a cathode, right,
that's the worst. This is just an episode of South Park where he
buys an amusement park and then start to start like paying for the upkeep because
it breaks down and eventually he has to let people and it is just an
amusement park Phase one. Forgot about that one that It's pretty funny him just
pissed off riding roller coasters and stuff over. I had a lovely weekend.
Hey special, thank you to whoever you are that helped me out with attending
a show on Friday. I don't know who you are, but who whoever
you are, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Wait what happened?
I don't want to talk about it? Then, why did you bring
it up because I wanted to say thank you. Okay, alright, that's
a tough needle the thread, but I got you. Speaking of the shows,
I went to the Sphere. Yeah, would you go to watch the
NHL draft? Why were you at the Sphere? No? I saw the
Darren Aronowski thing. That would be cool. That thing is fucking crazy.
Yes, I knew it was going to be crazy, but it is.
It's like sixteen K. It's all around you see. It's like it's almost
like a VR thing and that like you know, there's parts where elephants are
walking over and you're like that can work for that. It's called sphere.
Yeah, but yeah, so it's like it's got that like VR effective like
oh, you can turn your head and then everything is moving properly. But
it's you're not wearing anything in your head. It's got actual like wind and
smell and stuff going on. Your seats are That's the thing I didn't realize
because I saw a footage of like you two and Grateful Dead and all that
stuff. But like there is smell, there is wind, and the seats
are like vibrating, so it is everything. It's not like you know VR.
There's all that kind of what they call windshielding or screen boarding or whatever
the fuck it's Windows screening whatever, you know what I'm talking about. Yep,
screen door effect. Yeah, it's just crystal fucking clear, and it's
it's just incredible. The thing that sucked is that it uh, it costs
like billions of dollars. It was like over two billion dollars. I wanted
to say. They couldn't in Las Vegas when you have to wait outside for
this, they couldn't get a tarp. It was one hundred and eighteen degrees.
Yeah, it's really that wasn't heat index. That wasn't heat index.
It was one hundred and eighteen shoot degrees yep. Sun. We were waiting
in line, it was like noon. It was like high noon sun.
Basically, I've never felt like my skin was like boiling the way that that's
what you look different. You boiled away, like literally some of you is
melted. It is. So it was so terrible. So everyone in line
is just like, there's elderly people, there are people that are wearing like
long sleeved things and everything. We heard on the wall. Are you talking
that someone passed out? They made Bianca throw out her water. They like,
yeah, like it's like it was like straight up its dangerous shitty.
But uh yeah, so I got to say that sucked. It was one
hundred and eighteen degrees. I was there this weekend. Uh it was unbelievably
fucking not. But you've been at Disneylands, you now understand the importance of
like a well air conditioned and themed line and how they like that came after
the experience. This is just tensive barriers just looping around and you just wait
and slowly walk forward. I literally like took my shirt and like I didn't
care that it looked like an idiot. I took it up and hiked it
over my head. So my stomach is just bare and everything, just to
try to protect my nug and yeah, yeah, but the thing is ridiculous.
I couldn't help but think of like the I was think about like wrestling
shocking, and like, because you know a lot of people, I wonder,
you know, like what w you would do there or whatever, And
I know UFC is doing a thing, but I don't really know how you
would utilize that. It's like it is like a stage surrounded by seats and
then the sphere kind of like comes up right behind the state. It's not
surrounded by seats, I think like movie things. Yeah, there's a up
front there, so they would be playing the same direction, you know,
and then the sphere is just up and over and around, so there's a
lot of periphery. There's a lot of up things like that. So like,
I don't like, you could do a lot of stuff like the entrance
videos and things like that, but like I don't know what you could do
that wouldn't just be distracting. It almost looked like the Thunderdome, you know,
like more bugs than ever. But oh and I got yeah, maybe
they like bugs. Yeah, the agin red happened there. And the way
the way they used it was like, you know, there would be intro
videos for like some of the people that were getting drafted, and then there
was just like a big board of like, uh, everyone who did get
drafted per team, and then who's coming up next, And it was like
just a visual hood for this live event that is normally pretty you know,
uh stale and like kind of just like a vanilla event, but they found
ways to make it more interesting. I bet most things that don't have like
bespoke ideas of like how to use this one up? Feeling like that,
Yeah, I think it's going to be a lot of like you know,
it's been Grateful Dead, it's been you two. I was asking Bunk,
like, what band do you think would be great here? And she said
Tool and I was like, oh yeah, because they do a lot of
visual stuff that I think could play like a lot of players, a lot
of bands where you want to get high and go watch a bunch of trippy
shit, you know. Yeah. So, but I don't know about wrestling,
you know, like I would be curious what they do with it,
because WN loves doing get mixed with LEDs and all sorts of stuff. But
I just outside of videos, you could just have that giant cgi Roman reigns
spinning the whole time, oh, just ejaculating. Yeah. Yeah, they
could do like an event there, like they could do like Hall of Fame
or something else. Don't know one of their well, I mean, fucking
Mania is there next year, so I don't be surprised if something wasn't there.
I can't wait. I can't wait for media next year. Vegas.
Oh I want to go now. I think it's important that I go now
that Johnsteen is retired. Oh oh yeah, sure, Hey, I care.
I tuned in and out of NXT a lot. I used to watch
the product weekly and apologize for a mini power BombCast, but I watched whatever
their premium live event was over this weekend wave heat Wave. Holy smokes,
those cats can wrestle. Jesus, I don't see it. It was fantastic,
like top to bottom show. I almost want to say it was.
It was almost better than money in the bank, but money in the bank.
I just love it because it's one of those like Angel is always fun.
My weekend, uh was ruined, though, gentlemen, because I I
drank something that was terrible an Orange Americano on Instagram, and I was I
liked it, but I didn't like it, you know, yeah, yeah,
it was what I I could tell Greb. It was one of those
likes you know, yes, you knew so for folks not in the know.
And Americano traditionally is just espresso over hot water, iced Americano espresso over
ice water. An Orange Americano was orange juice and espresso over it, and
the yellow Russian. I would drink two of those before this. I thought,
I thought an orange Americana was Donald Trump. All right, folks,
thanks for joining us this week. Sorry for the short pod. Realized the
joke suck too. He did that, I know this joke sucks. Voice
way better to come out. And I thought it was gonna be great because
like in front of me, like the last four parties had ordered, I'm
like, oh, let's go step outside the box, let's go do this.
Sure, And then I take it and it's kind of lukewarm because it
was just really hot out. The ice melted, and I'm like, I
don't want to ask for more ice. And then I started thinking like,
wait a minute, should I mix this or should I drink the orange juice
first? And then the espresso goes down, and then I thought, oh,
let's just mix it, and boy, howdy, tummy tummy was one
bley the whole day. Yeah, the acids don't mix there. I don't
think that's And it's funny because I had friends going either that looks like that
looks so terrible or oh my gosh, yummy, where do I get this?
That sounds gross? Yeah, I don't like it. I don't want
to shock anybody, but I'm kind of anti orange juice generally. Anyways,
that's the worst. That's the worst thing about orange juice. What other drinks
would be better if they were banana juice? That's not the thing. But
like even if I get like a little bit of pulp on the shelf just
next to the regular pulpy mountain dew rhymes just filled with logan Paul hair orange
soda that like had a little pulp in it somehow, and I could not
drink the rest of it. I don't know. You figured to be no,
actually orange, like a Banta or like an orgina. It was like,
what's the one that's like spurt or something like that? Squirt? I
think you means squirt, but summer squirt squirt the squirts like a lemon life.
Alright, well, Mike, it's not spurt. All right, you
know what orange crush. I don't know why it was called spur. You
were just thinking of spurting, Yeah, Roman rings, pulping. Okay this
wait, No, that's the wrong. Good video games didn't have pup,
Mike, There's no way. There's no way I had pulp. There was
a particulate in there, and I did not articulate. Alrightctor, it was
particulate. You're a logo. Man, I don't know where I put this
document. Oh there it is, Jeff Grubb. I'm actually curious about how
you enjoy this game you put on the dock here Star Wars Hunters. Yeah,
I played that Star Wars Hunters from the Video Game Corporation founded by Don
Matrik Zinga. Right, Yeah, it's it's okay. It's actually kind of
fun. I think we would have fun playing it. It's very much a
mobile game in terms of I guess it's structure, but then it's still a
real shooter like you are. You're going to pick one of these Star Wars
characters go into arena. It's four before you have kind of it's third person,
but you have overwatchabilities where it's like here's your special and here's your ultimate
that you can build up over time. It's very familiar, but it is
a race to twenty kills team deathmatch, at least in the main mode that
I be playing, that I'm playing, and it's that i'd be playing then
I'd be playing, and and it goes by very fast basically, So that's
what makes it feel very much like a mobile game. And it is available
on Android iOS and then switch. But it's free to play everywhere. I'm
just I haven't spent any money on it yet, but and i'm playing as
luckily, like the free character I got is the one I wanted to play
as. I'll say that the Star Wars miss of it is missing a little
bit for me. Like I'm someone who's like I'll watch some of these Star
Wars shows and I'll keep watching them because I'm like, oh, there's a
droid. Oh there's a ship that looks like it's from Star Wars. I
like looking at that, Like that's the kind of freak that I am about
that stuff. And the design of these characters is mostly like I or in
fiction OC like it's yeah, I don't know, it's it's it's fine,
it's not bad. It's just not hitting my particular like zone of interest all
that hard. So I was a little disappointed by that, but I also
didn't have high expectations for it, So I just want to go in play.
These fast matches have a decent time. The first couple matches are again
spots, so you feel like a god, and then you start playing real
people and it's like this is still pretty okay. I'm just supposed to be
placed anywhere in like the Star Wars timeline or probably, But you know me,
I'm not really paying too much attention to that, Like I'm not I'm
not concerned about that one way or the other. And they don't put it,
they don't throw that stuff in your face. There was a cut scene
in the beginning. I was like half paying attention to that because the kids
were bothered. Yeah right, weird. Huh oh, so the kids weren't
bothering, you would have had your full undivided developers, like, uh,
yeah, it is. I think it's worth like us maybe even playing on
the site Like that's where I'm at with it, where like this could be
fun just to show people what this game is, and it's it's it feels,
you know, to be reductive and kind of be that asshole. It
feels like a real video game. So I'm enjoying. Does Yoda have a
lightsaber? Yoda does not. But there are there are lots of little freaks.
There's this guy that is a little dude that looks like he's sitting on
a toilet, but the toilet is actually an old Droydica. You know those
rolling droids, the wheel ones for Phantom Menace, the ones that like are
early on the attack, you the bigger ones, the big guysation one Phantom
Menace game. Yes that sounds right. They should be, yes, and
they he was like he can like roll in that, but he just sits
there and he's like controlling it with the controller and stuff like that, and
he's a little freak. And there's several other There's a there's one that is
two Jawa stacked on top of one another called trench Coat. Yeah. It's
like Doctor Goomba Tower. Yes. Hell, h that stuff's fun. I
hope that. Yeah, I mean part of They just announced that new Disney
Pixel or PG. We'll talk about that in the news. I had questions
because I only looked very briefly before putting in the news. I had like
thirty people tagged me on that. Thank you sure. So you know,
I guess I'm hoping Disney's putting out some decent mobile games because I would like
for that to be good. You know, they took their time on this.
This guy announced a long time ago before it actually came out. Uh,
and it's here and it feels very you know mobile. In terms of
the monetization, there's a battle pass and lots of skin packs you can download
and stuff like that. The core game is just it's pretty basic, but
it is the kind of thing that I could see myself being, like,
I want a shooter on one of these handheld devices that I can pick up
and play, and this one's like trying to be exactly that nice, and
I think it might fit into that slot that I that I've been looking for
where it's like I was like telling myself, like, I'll just like play
a lot of Titan Fall two on my Steam deck, and I haven't been
doing that because I feel like it requires a little bit more investment than I'm
willing to give in the moment. Or this is like the right bite size
form of that, but that might mean it doesn't last a long time,
like it might not have the legs, But you know who am I I
paid zero dollars for it, so that's not really a complain I was.
I was thinking I needed like a quicker game that's like another pick up and
play versus a Fortnite, because sometimes Fortnite I get too sweaty, and like
I want to play more games. I didn't realize it was not only mobile
for the longest time, I thought there was only Yeah, so yeah,
that's where I was playing. I was playing on the switch. It's yeah,
it's but it's it's just switch and then mobile, like it's not on
any of the other consoles. I don't think it's on PC. So yeah,
it's it's it's a little weird. Danny went pick up and play on
mobile. I'm telling you, Across three D continues to be the most possible
thing to have in your pocket at any time on planes, on any of
the best games made. It's so good. On phone, Scout, there
has been a Scout agrees. Scout really likes Pitcross got please Scot please uh.
I feel like there's a lot of free to play games that have come
out over the past week and a half. One of those games I played
on the website yesterday Zendless Zone zero. This is another Mijo Yo joint and
this is going to financially and emotionally ruined me. Gentlemen, how many do
you get? I got tons of vengins, Tera bought the gout chip Bart
it was very bad. I got like a fancy like shy meek made character
with a pizza cutter sword that was cool. Uh, this is another gotcha
game. This is on ye Peak anime. It's anime, but it's also
kind of like the setic is very jet said radio Yeah looks so there's some
cool stuff. Okay, very very cool stuff. The wrappings of this I
feel like are catered towards my tastes, and I feel targeted and assaulted by
Mijoyo. I need them to get out of my brain. But I already
see the trajectory of my enjoyment of this game, mirroring how I enjoyed Genshin
and then Hanky Starrail where it's a free to play, and then I'll get
the I'll go through the gotcha elements, and I'll tell myself as hard as
I can, don't spend money on it, because there is a comparable,
very good game and satisfying game underneath. Where Gensen was a clone of Breath
of the Wild and Mijoyo was a turn based joint, this ISUNKI sorryal sorry
Zenlezone zero to quote Turbo Sean is a wife who may cry. Where it
is an action action game. It is a hard, hardcore into the combat
each of the characters. And that being said, I only have four of
the characters. They do control differently, so you have a basic light attack,
it goes into a heavy attack. But as you embark on your like
little combat missions, you have a party of three, so you can switch
between any of your characters at any point. But if you do like a
perfect parry, and it's projected really really well, and I think it's done
in such a way so you can do it fine on mobile. And this
I've been playing on PC primarily, but I tried it on my phone last
night. One hundred percent completely fine. And this could be one of those
games where I'm just like laying in bed and I time travel and like,
holy smokes, I should have gone to sleep five hours ago. The story
in it is like very boiler plate. It feels like it's okay, you
are. You were kind of like the guy in the chair operating sending off
like three of your agents into like a reboot style world where they have to
embark on like different combat missions or various other things. It's really it's done
really well. It's super flashy, and I can see myself probably getting like
a good chunk of time and enjoying it not paying anything. And I think
it's interesting that they've structured it that way where I think Mijo Yo is kind
of I don't want to say, perfected the formula of getting their hooks into
you, but I'm like mildly invested, where it's like I could probably be
playing other more substantial, bigger games, or I could just keep going with
like the flash in the pan of this game, and it's like it's doing
enough. The other aspect of this that I really like is that they've pretty
much eliminated roaming around and open world and replaced that with tiles. Okay,
now I see, and like the tile element, you're just moving your little
cursor, your little bang boo. By the way, there are rabbits in
this game, not actual rabbits, but they're called bang boos. Sorry,
yeah, okay, and you move your little bang boo around if you can't
say that bang boo around like the CRT tile screen. And there are some
light puzzle puzzle solving stuff. It's kind of like SOACA Bond style things where
you're moving like a box to hear or you get to find the most optimum
path to get to your objective or get to a pickup or whatever. And
there are enemies along the way there are various different types of currency, and
the part where I am intimidated by the game, and for folks that may
have watched the stream yesterday, there is a lot of currency and it isn't
easily discernible what is what at first. They do a very good job throughout,
like the tutorial phase, which is pretty long, of kind of drip
feeding you all the information you need to know. And folks, if you
just want to play the game, you can skip the story one hundred percent.
You could bun through that crap. You were on that for a while,
it seemed to when I was watched and there was quite a lot of
like, well, we're just talking about stuff. Like I was watching a
stream, I was like, I still don't know what kind of game this
is. After quite a bit. Yeah, I was surprised because I thought
like we would get to the Gosha elements almost immediately, but then Sean tells
me like, no, that doesn't start till like an hour, in which
I was surprised by that. Being sad, I thought they would do the
gotcha thing where they give you the taste and you're like, oh, I
got a good role for a character. I'm gonna keep playing, hoping I
get more. But I was filled with rage. I only got one character
out of ten pulls and uh and then just a bunch of wevengines. No.
I think I did twenty polls uh and and it was bad. It
was it was bad. My odds were poor. So I kind of want
to I kind of want to spend. I haven't spent anything yet, but
I'm getting to the face. I found out that works better than actually just
giving you a good pool right away, So I'll make him feel bad.
That'll make me angry. I think I found a new good way to tell
if someone's old is jan Earlier, you said the phrase it's like reboot,
and I noticed both mine and grubs eyes widened. I made by a computer.
Damn, we can do that. Now. We can do that now.
It's like that episode of Simpsons where he was three D. What was
what was reboot? Actually, because I saw some episodes of it, I
can never tell what it was actually about. I think somebody was a pizza
spazoid, Prigazoid was similar, and that it was a guy pulled into cyberspace.
I think I think the little boy is wearing an outfit that looks like
a pizza It looks like the outfit that the guy wears in Teenage mut Ninja
Turtles, who is a pizza Boyzoid was a pizza guy, right, Yeah,
that's not what I'm always thinking of. I definitely know. No,
it was about like an evil CPU and and g p U and I don't
know, maybe not GPUs but CPU and Yeah, you had like go defeated
or something. I don't know. Frigazoid was a computer geek and got pulled
into cyber space because he was working on a cyber space. Jesus. Fred
was strong and super quick. He drives up. It's crazy because he's there.
Yes, I'm gonna get super ripped by Halloween and just be freakazoid for
Halloween. Yeah, that's good. We go. I'm gonna do my shoot
hair. But that being said, Douglas Zenles Zone zero, it's a very
it's a very good game. And I'm sad to report that there's your wife.
Is that teacher? No, it's wife, since the teacher wond that
probably is anybody who's kind of like it's it's just like it's like saying,
mister, it's just a thing of respect. Oh, it's like a son.
Okay, usually it's somebody older. Okay, got it. But like
the characters that designs across the board, I think they have something for everyone.
Sean said that I should go do demo. One of the characters,
dann are you okay? Yeah, there's a giant bug on the ceiling.
But it's just like a weird thing, all right. And one of the
characters that we tried out was like a bondage man wolf. Oh yeah,
that was like a butler. And then I'm not into that. But there
are several folks in chat okay, yeah, shouts to Anthracon. Oh gosh,
I don't We're not. Maybe we will talk about that eventually real quick.
Does anyone like part of me with this like zenlessone zero and all the
mijo yo stuff, is like they're just trying to use wife fus against me.
They're trying to get me interested with the life fu and it's like weaponized
weaponized wife wus part of me like bristles against that. But I think I
need to just get over it. Who cares? These games are probably good.
I should just play them. They are good. That's the thing.
Like hon Kai Star Rail was a very good RPG. I think it could
have done without the running around the world and like the space trained ship,
but zenless Zone zero being so contained with the missions and everything. It's right
up my alley. The only like type of exploration you have is kind of,
like Sean said, this best a splatoon like hub world where you just
got to go to like different shops and everything and chat to different NPCs.
The character designs across the board. I can't express that enough. But it's
just so good moisturized that should play more Splotoon, so moisturized, and I
just want I'm saving up all my currency because maybe on a Delight club this
week tomorrow or upf will just spin a bunch for like maybe like five ten
minutes to see if I get. I don't even know what I want.
But Sean did show me. There's this character a maid, right that we've
seen the anime trope around, right, pretty made characters. Yeah, I've
seen I've seen pretty maids on the internet. Yeah, but this one's a
shark. There's all sorts of stuff out there, isn't there. Yeah,
there's all sorts of stuff. People have all kinds of jobs, and people
are into all sorts of stuff. They're gonna be four with this character.
I think what you think four is dan. Well, one of my good
friends is named Brian Vohr, so I have learned through him when all right,
because he found out many years ago, like, oh my name is
also this thing? Oh boy? Yeah, there's it's a it's a it's
a bunch of animals in this game of varying degrees. We saw the shark
made lady like whipper tail around, and I think it activated something in all
of that. Okay, I'm gonna be seeing you at Anthrocon next year,
and I would be there, Mike, you will go together. No,
please not. I'll buy I'll buy you. I'll buy you ears and a
tail. Yeah, Mike bought me ears. I did get your ears.
Yeah, show everybody the ears right in the meat. I wonder if this
is it? Can they support more than three games? Or are they gonna
coast on these for a while? There it is, there's the birthday boy
Brody listeners. It's a Mickey Mouse ears that say happy birthday. This was
a late birthday gift slash late suit. Been here for Disneyland because I wanted
to buy him ears. But he had to leave, really and I didn't
get a chance and also get well. So I really really bundled all of
these things to get the way to do it. Birthday. Yes, thank
you, Mike. You're welcome real quick, jan because I saw the shirt
and I didn't put on the list. I did play a lot more super
monkey Ball Banana Rumble Banana. I was trying to set that up until Mike
Minatti just had to brag about how generous he was. I know it's my
fault. There's animals in this game. There are a bunch of animals.
Speaking about animals monkey Ball, I'm I like it. I know there's like
fans of it that will like have complaints or whatever. I don't. I'm
I'm having a good time with that. I started doing the time trial mode
because we saw that that had a leaderboard and that was fun to like try
to get the perfect run. That has all like at least a decent run
on every course, and some of them are like, Okay, I messed
that up, but if I do this shortcut, it will still faster than
if I went the long way. So I'm gonna try a couple more times,
and it's I really got into it. I do like the time attack
thing. I did it for the first world. The thing that I don't
like about Time Attack though, is because it is just tied to the entire
world that It's like, you know, if you know the last one you
do on World one is that one where you do the skip that I did
at Time Games Fest, Remember, and like if you miss that, it
doesn't matter if you had your best runs ever on one through nine, you
screw up the last one, like I want to end, it makes it
more impressive, right, The game would be better if it had time leaderboards
for every course exactly exactly, like I do think this is a great monkey
Ball. This is a very classic monkey Ball and like you know, going
from point A to point B, no jump button. It's got the spin
dash thing, but honestly, I don't think that inherently changes the game or
what it is or anything like that. The levels are good, It's got
the goofy as story stuff in between. Like the shop element is like I
don't remember it ever being that fleshed out, or you're buying different things and
saving different outfit presets and things like that. It's it's I don't remember if
other ones had different stats for the monkeys. I remember in the old ones,
I would play as Baby, the same not on this one. On
the old one, the previous ones, yeah, and this one, they're
all They do have stats. Yes, I remember. I used to just
pick Baby in the old ones because since it took up the least amount of
space and the ball you could see through and you could see the skinny like
you know, things better right. This game gets hard near the end,
like I'm like halfway through the last world, and like there are some where
I'm just like, man, I've died forty fifty times on this. I
think I only have a few levels left. But they've been great courses.
It's a great monkey Ball. I haven't really messed around with the multiplayer yet.
I've been, you know obviously like out and stuff, and I want
to do I want to do a monkey Ball stream with you guys and do
some some the multiplayer party modes and stuff like that. But no, this
is this is a straight up good monkey ball. You know, you guys
watching the cut scenes, uh yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a legendary
banana and it's surrounded by chaos emeralds. I know, why do they title
these games so oddly, like why not just add a number? It's bad.
Yeah, but even like you know, like I'm all for you,
I just do numbers. That's great. But even here, like you just
released one called Banana Mania Mania the Blitches. We I think Banana Mania was
the switch like remake. I think of the original. We got to use
another word, I get it. Bananas is a big two three three.
You did one and two, just call this three. It's it's very much
in line with those first two. Same way. I want them to do
a fucking super Mario Brothers four and just make it like like an Ne s
or R file because I really wanted to Sonk the Hedgehog back in the day.
Yeah, they protect the business. They protect the business. Brother.
I hope this game gets updates with some of these things that we're talking about.
A leaderboard for every course would be great. Name change, Yes,
I don't like lift, I repeat yeah, yes, could be called uh
what was the original edge of tomorrow? There we go tomorrow. The other
thing I think I would wish for is that like the challenge mode that was
in previous games, where it's like you have a certain number of lives to
get the all these stages that I enjoyed that as well, or a certain
amount of time maybe to get through everything. But yeah, overall, I
just like the way it feels. I like monkey Ball. It's a game
ass video game, and that's what I'm in the mood for. I was.
I tweeted like games should be as fun as flying a kite, because
I was flying a kind of It's like this is nice though, winds just
pulling against me and I got to like just do a little bit to keep
it up in the air. Back, Yeah, some feedback, like just
pull on me in some way, and monkey Ball definitely does that. So
yeah, I was enjoying myself. Yeah. We checked out some of the
multiplayer modes last upf on Wednesday. They're all pretty good. There's a specifically
a robot one that I dig a lot where you the monkeys are weaponized and
they're they're killing robots. Oh that's the next Jurassic World movie is going to
be about monkeys. Yeah, Oh cool, about fucking bugs instead of dinosaurs.
A right, I would rather. I would rather than put a bunch
of monkeys and balls than deal with the bugs again. And sure they have
those balls already. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is just person monkey
ball person. It is food mania. I don't know, Like, what's
that? Would I still have to deal with mania? Would I still have
to deal with Jimmy Fallon talking to me and the ball though? No,
No, you can get a DLC sonic instead. Yeah, but you do
have to watch a woman get torn apart by a pterodact. That was upset
you a lot? Huh. That's every time we bring up that movie that
they remember about that movie. Yeah, it upsets me even more upset.
I think I have like a ethical problem with it, like something should have
been done. Maybe somebody should go to trial to trial whatever his name was,
the guy who was going to do episode nine until his script sucks is
when movie bombed. I think I just also think we're like his episode nine
script was going to be about how like, actually we do need to have
some dark site. Also, it was gonna be like what about both sides?
Guys. Yeah, there's like a lie where Yoda, like Yoda's ghost
state there, like showing us that like we have to have equal parts lighted
dark. Hang On, I don't know if it's true. This is Chad,
so it has to be true. It says Apparently the actress asked for
her character to get fucked up in the movie. So who cares? What
why would that matter if you are the person for draining that and you're like,
hey, I just fuck me up in some hilarious way, like that's
that's fun. Well, why do I have to defer to her judgment?
The first to a woman's judgment. Look, also, I don't believe it.
Do you know how expensive that scene was. It has probably more special
effects things happening than anything else. It was like, well, they did
it because she asked you on the set that day. No, absolutely,
they think for a moment, said Chat said, it's true. I mean
that seems like a very very hard task to, you know, clean everything
up for the movie, just like these boys have been cleaning everything up in
Shadow of the Ar Tree. Oh yeah. So the day I was like
getting ready to go, uh, Mike had one of his people in chats
to have him text me to say he beat Shadow of the Ar Tree.
I'm like, oh, May so far ahead of me. And then I'm
like the next thing I did. I'm like, oh, I'm at the
last boss too. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't beat that thing.
I've been hearing about her that thing or that thing. So I started going
out in the world again. I found some more Scimity Tree fragments and that
led me to you know, Bail the Dread and a bunch of other things,
and I've been cleaning that stuff up and it's it's just been fun.
It continues to be really solid. I like these boss fights. Bail the
Dread was visually incredible. Nothing's been super challenging the way that, uh,
what's the Sandry the fire guy, the fire bosser Mesmer, Thank you Mesmer
was a tough one for me. Everything else has been sort of like three
to five tries. I went. I went in a weird order, I
think because I the Centipede Lady I had beat before i'd even like entered Mesmer's
cat or whatever. And so like I was watching this is like while I
was out basically like first recovering from surgery, I spending a lot of time
just watching like Manati and Kayla stream urg Tree and like I just wasn't even
in a place to really play it. And I saw them getting to Mesmer,
and I would like text Kayla, like I'm having trouble with Centipede Lady.
And she's like, what are you talking about, centipede lady. So
like I think I went into a really weird order and I got back.
Sure, yeah, I get too, yeah a little bit. Yeah.
So yeah, I got to like the gate of the Last Boss, and
I went back and I kind of mopped up, like I looked up all
the different like, oh, here's this puw dress and whatever. Here's the
whole like tinter lands area and the hole, the bail mountain and all that
stuff. So I just kind of like spent a lot of time going around
cleaning up that whole map, beating all the bosses I heard about, and
now I'm at the last Boss. I haven't tried it in a few days,
but like it's fucking hard, you know, and I trammar so I
just couldn't it. It's h It's that second phase where you just get no
breathing room. I I think I've like decided I am going to like rework
my build a little bit to be a little bit more defensive. That turns
out to that I think that's the meta for this last bo. You just
got to be able to take hits. I've been like putting all the heaviest
shit on me, like not worrying about bat rolling at all, summoning as
many people as possible, like trying to summon specifically two people named like you
know, let me solo him or whatever. It's like I'll have two of
you and I'll be a little turtle and I'm just gonna stay away from the
action. I still can't survive that shit. Yeah, I it took me
forty three tries with the you know, after I actually never got mimic here,
and this was fine. It was like, Okay, I guess I
should go get mimicked here a racist. So I finally got in level at
mim teer and it did help. But still it took a lot. And
yeah, people say, like my bill, because I'm very tanky, I
have like a you know, a great shield and a great sword or colossal
sword. You know. Even then, it's just like I got to kind
of like learn these patterns a bit and learn like what hits maybe I can
take or shield. And also you know, there's always like a little bit
of luck like Okay, maybe he's not gonna do this one thing as much.
That kind of always be but like you know, like by the end,
it really I didn't feel like I lucked out. I feel like,
yeah, I just did kind of eventually learn this enough. I was at
skip Tree level sixteen. That's pretty supposed to be, is what people say,
try to get the sixteen for that final boss. Yeah, and that
felt right. See, I thought it was an appropriate challenge for basically the
last thing I'm ever going to do an Elton Ring, Right, I'm glad.
It was difficult and it did take a lot of effort, and like
you know, I like, more so than anythinges in the game, when
I did beat it, I did really get that hyped up feeling like oh
yeah, Like it's stupid that I'm like impressed with myself right now for doing
something like I'm pretty cool. Actually I beat this bar king pulls it off
better than and he. Like when you get that, you see that animation
and the life bar goes away and you're like, oh, I did it,
like yeah, or the two guys I summoned. Yeah, it's just
a huge reminder of just how fucking good Eldon Ring was. Like I know,
we know it and we always talk about it. It's like one of
the best games of all time, if not number one, And like just
playing it again and playing new content in it. It's just like, oh
right, fuck, this is like, yeah, I don't this is the
bar this is I don't ever play DLC, but it's just completely sucks me
in immediately, like without missing a beat. Really, I mean it was
obviously a beat. People saw that first stream where I was like playing a
new character that I didn't play before because I had to download a new save
and kind of getting my sea legs back underneath me. Yeah, how la
are you that? What? People? When people actually watched you play this
game, it was you struggling against like that one. Oh. It was
fantastic because it's like, of course, as soon as that's done, I'm
like, oh you know what, oh this and that. Of course I
forge was gritting to do this, and now it's like, oh, I'm
beating these bosses like the City Peak Lady. I beat my first try Dan,
and then Mesmer took me forty tries or something like that. Wow this
uh, and then Bail probably took me like fifteen twenty. You didn't have
the guy helping you with Bail because you killed him, and that's like,
yeah, I I helped me help me with Bail. That's right, I
did kill him. Yes, that was so, that was the mountain.
Yeah, he was whining. He was oh I uh oh my god,
something like shoot people. Oh yeah, yeah I always do that. Yeah,
I will go into every boss fight and nielden ring. I'll look at
it once and be like, oh, yes, I see what this is
doing. It'll kill me, and I will just summon two people every single
time every boss. Yeah, that's the option, that's right, there,
do it. Yes, I was trying to how uh so Mike and Andy
beat that final Bus for a bit there. Actually that was kind of fun.
Yeah, we didn't didn't quite. We didn't trying for a long time.
Like there. It was like, uh yeah there. Mike was like
getting you know, like the magic build. Andy was more a strength build,
but not like as defensive as me. I think maybe decks I don't
know, but yeah, they were like they did it for a while.
They did it for like another like hour, even after I left. And
then when they were done and he's like, I'm gonna do it by mimic
Tier just one time for fuzies and then killed it. Yeah, Mikes,
like, I love you, but I'm so bad, like a great squid
shut down his stream. You were you were their night in Shining Armor,
just like Dan has been our Hollow Night. Oh I beat that. We
know it's a new person, not really Dan Riker. Yeah, get the
get you get get the true ending. No, some work on that now.
I got the thing where it gives you the percentage the completion thing,
and I'm at like seventy eight percent, and so I'm kind of trying to
figure out, Like I know, there's just a bunch of charms everywhere.
I did one of the like uh the uh the Challenge arena or whatever thing.
So yeah, the last one in there is wild Okay. Yeah,
so I'm working on that. Did a lot of that on the flight,
a lot of that while I was recovering. Actually, that was kind of
great like to have. While I was recovering. I had Elden Ring and
I had a Hollow Night, and it's just like I'm just gonna they're both
playing on the steam deck very well. So I'm just laying in bed playing
these all fucking day. Yeah, I can't believe no one told me about
Hollow Night. It is. I love metroid Vania's I love this is such
a like you can see the influence that sat on the genre moving forward,
you know, even things like Prince of Persia and things like that. There.
I was frustrated initially, I think, with things like oh, there's
so much backtracking or I don't know where to go, But then by the
end I just kind of realized, like, well, I kind of like
this because I feel like I'm actually exploring this world and getting to know it
instead of just becoming the master of the world. That's that is metro Vanya.
Y. Yeah, I'm not just following like a blinking thing. Okay
the map says go over here, I'm going over there. Like there are
plenty of times where I'm like I don't know where the fuck to go,
And then it's like I am kind of looking over the map and looking at
the markers I've placed. I'm like, okay, I wonder if I can
get over here now. And then you figure out something you didn't have before.
The charm load out stuff works really well, and then the sub you
unlock later on. Like I was fifteen hours in and I got the Monarch
Wings and I read the description and I was like, wait, is this
a fucking double jump? Like I played fifteen hours of the game a Metroidvania
and was surprised to get a double jump and that then immediately thinking of all
the ways that just blows the map wide open. Just incredible. And then
you get like the Dreamgate thing where you can pass travel and that really pixes
a lot of the issues with like it as one of the best like dashes
in a game. Yeah, is great. You get the Shade Cloak thing
where you can go through hits and stuff like that. It is just a
top tier one of the best Metroid venias of all time. And I somebody
should have told me about it, you know, like the size of it,
because it's definitely the biggest Petroid venue I ever played. It's a huge
map. It is it is long, and I think that like initially can
be a little scary, but it really is amazing how well developed that world
is and how distinct all the different pieces of it are. And you know,
yeah, there are a lot of dead ends you're going to come across
early on, but it really is satisfying to just go back to these places
and keep discovering new things. And there are so many items that you are
gonna want, like those badges and just you know, again, you might
like discover this upgrade even really laying the game, or just this boss that
is optional but a ton of fun. Yeah, it's it's really impressive.
I never checked out Hollow Night. Actually should I? You think? Well,
I mean, Dan, you checked it out now, But I was
gonna ask should I wait for Spoon Heaven to come out? But yeah,
I just play this. You should play this, Jeff should do? I
know I wouldn't. I started it and I just fell off and it was
not like it was not like your thing where you're like, oh this looks
bad, I don't like this. I was just like, no, I
think I probably will like this. I just I didn't get momentum with Jeff,
so I'll go back. I realized why I didn't why I thought it
looked like a flash game. I realized it while I was playing it,
because remember that Alien Hominid game. Yeah, for PS two and GameCube.
It kind of looks like that was just the really thick lines and stuff.
An alien Hominid I think came a flash game right, and back then thinking
like I was weird playing like a flash game on my PS two, and
so as soon as I started Hollid Night I was like, this looks like
a flash games like now it kind of reminded me of Alien Hominid. That's
it. That was a very reductive way. And it is also a very
good game. Oh yeah, sure, yeah, yeah, I think it's
it's worth playing now. It's it's it's really tremendous. And they were on
Switch and on on Steam, Dick, So I played the whole thing in
my Steam deck. I've also tried it on Switch and it plays well there,
but like the combat is so I played on Switch. Combat is so
fucking snappy, like these boss fights where you can start like kind of doing
the like ducktails pogo thing on like a boss's head and stuff, and the
way it just sends you up, like every hit seems like it's got a
real like I don't know, like Metroidvanias frequently have just kind of combat is
not super impactful a lot of the time, and just when I do feel
it's almost it feels more like a soul's game where every time you get a
hit you're like yes, yes, like you feel it. There's some feedback
to it. There's a lot of souls Dean obviously when you die, it
to like go back and like get your currency, so like that's a big
part of it. Yeah, Like the bosses do have a little bit of
that kind of souls, like Field Well, in the healing it takes it,
there's an animation to it, so it's kind of like waiting for the
flask and waiting for your opportunity to heal. It's not just like a press
a button in your heeled. There's definitely a lot of soul stuff going on
there. But it's really really great. No, I didn't put on our
list of it's funny because I finally played through Bloodstained Ritual of the Night and
beat that, and like I had a similar thing where I started that game
and was just kind of not into it. I was like, I think
this, you were thrown off by all the talking in that game that didn't
really seem like it was leading to much. But actually it's whatever, go
ahead. Well no, exactly, Like it's pretty talking in the beginning,
and even like the ds Ega Caslovnia games were kind of like that, why
is there this much lore? I don't really care? You know, right?
You actually, but you can't skip it in Bloodstain too much because there's
like important stuff about what you're supposed to be doing in some of those text
things. That's that's the thing that frustrated me about the game a little bit.
It slowed down after that act. It wasn't that big a deal.
And then I was just like, oh, it's great to just have another
one of these for the first time in forever. And then I got really
into it and play through the whole thing in a week, so had a
good time. You mentioned the old Caslvanias, and it reminds me. We
were in Vegas this weekend, me and Biancole were and I was thinking,
like, you know, I used to gamble a little more. I have
not really, but I was like, hey, I'm in Vegas, might
as well throw a few hundred dollar on a crap stable to see how goes
or whatever. And I was planning on doing that walking around thinking about it,
and uh, I realized, like, man, gamble and I could
lose it and be fine, you know, but like, I could also
just take that few hundred dollars and just buy a complete inbox Aria of Sorrow
and definitely have that. And as I was saying that out loud to Bunk,
we walked by and there's must be a newer casino. I've ever seen
it before. It's literally Aria. Aria is the name, so like I'm
talking about it. We like Round in the Corner, and so I like
Aria Resorting Casino. And I was like, all right, fuck it,
I'm just buying Ario Sorrow right now instead of gambling. You know, that's
that's the universe return on investments, that's exact. Yeah, yeah, that's
fine. I literally just bought a complete in box order of Acclecia is great.
Yeah, I got all the past ones I need great. I need
the GBA ones. Now I need to circle the Moon and Portrait of Ruin.
Then I'll have all the portable castmans. I can't hang out with y'all
too much otherwise I'm going to start diving into this. I was already looking
at just funny CRTs. You're not old enough to want to buy the really
expensive stuff, so man, all your stuff will be affortable. The house
that we were staying at did have a gigantic CRT, Like all week I'm
like, I was like can I can? I I was like I might
ask if I could just have this, And before I left, I'm like,
if you ever go want to get rid of it. Just get I'll
come up. I'll literally drive up and get it because it was so awesome
trip, let's go. It was it was too big, Like take back
on this trip van was two full. I wouldn't have been able to fit
in there, and it's probably like we'dn't even try lifting up. I bet
that thing is like two hundred and twenty five pounds. It was enormous.
It was. It had to be like like near thirty inches for CRT,
which is massive. Yes, yeah, I've got a nineteen inch and that
thing is the beast. Yeah it was. It was enormous, But I'm
like, man, I I kind of want it real bad. So almost
took that home. You know, would be really good to play on a
cr T TV. Would be the original Final Fantasy six, But Mike Benatti,
you've been playing Final Fantasy six Pixel Remaster. Now the hell the original.
I don't like playing that S and E S version of it anymore.
The Woozley translation is like written at a first first grade level. When it's
kind of it, I can't vibe with it as much. I was.
The GBA was my go to for a long time. I thought fom Physy
sixth Advance was very good despite some of the compromises there with audio and visuals.
But now playing the Pixury Master for the first time when all of those
came out on Switch like a year ago, I kind of went through one
through five immediately, and then when I got to six, I was like,
okay, this is like the best one. It's my favorite one of
these. And there was a lot of newer RPGs I had to play first.
I was like, I'm gonna say this for a while, and after
I'd be bud stained, I was like, okay, now's the time.
Actually I went to play Tarock too first because it was on sale. I
almost played Tarrock two. I was like, look at it last night.
Tarrok two's fun. It's levels are insane. They are some of the biggest
maps ever made for a shooter like this, and it's like it kind of
has like objectives, so it's not just we'll get to the end. It's
like, well you gotta like find the six like children trapped in cages first
and like luck with that. The rebuster you could like put some like exclamation
marks on where like switches and stuff are even still, I was like,
on one level, it tear up to you for four hours, like I
just I just can't. You said, you you're playing Bloodstained. Did you
do the thing where you can just absolutely break the character and like you make
all those meals if you fill out the entire cookbook and then you're just the
most broken character of all time. And like any video game, I could
a lot of meals. I don't know if I cooked all you can make
it where you're like flying and invulnerable and you're moving so fucking fast, you
like run across the entire map and seconds. It is like it lets you
break the game in awesome ways. That's fun. Oh, it's so much
fun, like blood saying, I really think it's one of my favorite Mentrod
meanings. It was fun, I enjoyed. I hope that sounds like they're
gonna probab announce something new soon. Yeah, I hope so for a sequel.
But yeah, the pick some Master Fmplay six has been great and it's
I haven't played it since I played Advance. I think I played that back
when I was in college, honestly, so it's been a bit. I
kind of forgot just how fast pay six it is because in my mind,
this is like the really story focused one, so it probably has a long
startup, like you know most games do these days, start and then it
just goes. It just goes. Like I'm only three hours in and I've
already done so many of like big highlight moments in my mind, like you
know, all the stuff in narsh in the beginning and the Figureo Castle going
to the sand. I'm already at the Phantom train, and before that was
was Kafka poisoning Doma. I don't think it's gonna be that much longer,
So I'm just at the opera scene, and like the whole time, there's
still like dungeons and boss fights and all these other interesting things happening, and
constantly getting new party members and all these new songs and everything. So it
is just like, oh yeah, this is absolutely a piece. This is
just one of the best of all time, and just playing this again now
makes me super happy. Mike, is there a Is there a song in
Final Fantasy six that you would say is like an iconic moment in video game
history? Yeah? Yeah, I mean there's the opera. The opera is
the big okay with lyrics that show up on screen. Yeah, yeah,
Okay. I remember arguing with Ben Hanson about this because when we had Gilbert
Godfried voice a bunch of like iconic video game things, we had him do
like Mario jumping around the castle, you know, we had him doing a
liquid snake monologue, had him just doing it, you know, the Dracula
from Castlevania, Miserable, Pile of Secrets, and then Hanson had him read
some song from Final Fantasy six, And my argument was like, hey,
I don't know what this is. B It's text, it's not a voice
he's doing. So if you look up Gilbert Godfried video games on YouTube now,
it's like that is one of them. Is Gilbert Godfreed just reading the
song lyrics for a Final Fantasy thing? Yeah, because that would be incredible
actually going from one Pixel game to another Pixel game. I've continued to play
through until then. And I think last week I said I jumped to this
because I wanted something that wouldn't emotionally devastate me, and I am a stupid
idiot because this has continued to emotionally devastate me. Talked about this a lot
last week, just updates from this is it's really nice to I think it's
really well written to be able to feel like I'm being transported, uh into
a setting that mildly familiar with because it takes place in the Philippines. Mike
broke the news to me that Filipinos are from the Philippines last week. Oh
wow, it turns out, Yeah, man of the world, our own
pitbull Dolla, Nike sam O say what Dolla Dola? Whoa. I've already
thought I got trouble last week when I did do that, Philip. Maybe
I shouldn't have said that. I'm saying a word. I don't know.
You're bad at Wow, you can't do this. We're not mad at you,
We're we're like intimidated by you. You saying dollars. I am a
very intimidating person. But yeah, until then, it's it's it's very well
written. I I've I want to say a couple of chapters in now still
don't know how actually long it is. But they do a really good job
at like making sure that it's not just a talking heads visual novel where you're
kind of walking around, You're interacting with a lot of stuff, and there
are some uh mini games and the thing that wound it really made me miss
was kind of being like in that age of just being in like an obscene
amount of group chats and just like shit talking with your friends and being transported
back to that really got me in my feels and I don't think I'm emotionally
ready for where the story is supposed to go. It's getting into my head
too much. Just like Mike not You've been getting into heads Psychonauts. Yeah,
yeah, over on you beat the meat on Twitch last night? Yeah,
did say, Mike Manati is live. Let's beat the meat. Beat
the meat circus. Beat the meat circus, which is not any better?
Circuits full of us beating our meats. No. Over on over on,
Jeffidies like our Discord channel with just tied to like our Patriot. We have
a game club where we play through games, and Psychonauts one was was the
latest one. So I was playing through that, which is fun because you
know, I played through psycond Notts one back in the day, but I
never finished it. I got pretty far. I don't know why I got
thrown off it. But then you know, played Psychoots two when that came
out and really loved that. It's good to go back to this and play
it. It's interesting how it's actually a lot more like Psychonauts too than I
would have thought, Like a lot of those mechanics and things are just there.
Second, NOTTS two is definitely more refined and more fleshed out. It
also has more platforming. Like there's a lot of gimmick levels in this game,
and a lot of them are really fun and neat, you know.
I think people know about like the Milkman level, where it's almost kind of
more about like solving kind of inventory puzzles, like an old school adventure game.
But I could have done with a bit more pure platforming and things like
that. But the writing's still, you know, so incredibly sharp and funny,
just really likable characters. Yeah, that last level was really hyped up
the Meat Circus as something people had problems with, and apparently it was patched
in at least a PC version at somebody because people had so much trouble with
it. I was playing on game Pass on my Xbox right, and I
don't know if that version's patch because it's just it seems like it's just playing
you know, the Xbox original Xbox version of it, right, So I
don't know, So whatever version I played or not. I didn't have that
much trouble with it. But you know, I'm a pro gamer and I'm
very I mean, you are mounted and good. But now it was a
lot of fun. I was glad I finally got to like go through and
say yes, I beat the meat Circus and the rest of the game.
Good enough work, fantastic. We talked about a bunch of games, not
quickly at all, but Dan Rekert, you have something here you want to
talk about summer games done quick? Yes I did. I was here in
Minneapolis, and it's kind of my first time I felt okay enough to get
out of the house. Was I showed up in person there? Yeah,
I went. I went. They do a great job there, and I
think it's it's one of the reasons it's great to be back here is every
year. Hopefully they keep doing that here and can keep checking it out.
But yeah, I went on the first day and saw a Yoshi's story all
Melon's Run, which was interesting because like, that is a game I was
excited for and played a little bit of and fell off and didn't love,
and so it's interesting seeing like a super super deep dive on that game.
I did learn there's these big fucked up looking enemies at the end that are
these like crazy balls with like jagged teeth and mean eyes. And I was
told that they are named Attackie Sacks, which I like a lot. Yes,
I love that Nintendo Treo like top tier and stuff like that. That's
great. Yeah, that was awesome. And then they had some great stuff.
They had like a coin op room and things like that, and lots
of little side rooms where you could just kind of like check out games and
play. Stuffy had a virtual boy set up and I played the Water World
a virtual boy. Uh yeah, yep, I'm sure that's probably exactly what
my doctor told me to just post sinus surgery, as saying, a public
virtual boy that's thirty years old at a game command the only way to experience
Kevin Coster's vision as was intended. So it is. I have not spent
a lot of time inside the Virtual Boy, and it is kind of a
crazy effect. Like there's a lot of like like the virtual Boy. It's
weird because like like there's like a bunch of characters like floating in the water
in the water World, and it looks like it was like digitized, like
kind of like the Mortal Combat style, but like all red and like with
weird perspectives. So it's just a weird looking thing. But I thought it
was pretty cool. There was a fucked up like I put it on my
Instagram, this picture of this Pringles thing. There's just a lonely CRT sitting
in one of the rooms with just like ros and ros and rows of CRTs,
and you know, people are over here playing Smash Brothers, people are
playing this or that. There's one station with no one at it, just
a big CRT a bunch of different flavors of Pringles on top of it,
a Sega Genesis plugged into it, and it's got like the visual style of
this game playing on this seri T. You could pick it up and play
a little bit of it. I did. It looked kind of like cool
spot. It kind of like looked like how a licensed Genesis game would look
and feel. Sure, but you're playing as the little Pringles head thing,
but it's like the modern Pringles logo and the cartridge in the Genesis is like
it just looks like a Genesis cartridge with a Pringles label on it. So
I don't know if this was some weird stealth marketing thing. If it is
someone at the Pringles Corporation's plucks an awesome game. Is it a fan game?
Yes, it's according to Lexi and Chat, so someone that just loves
Springles made of Pringles display and brings it around to SGDU. There was an
actual Chester cheated game. Yeah. Yeah. To get on the top one
hundred on speed run dot com. For this game, you got to beat
in ten minutes and forty two seconds or faster. The top time is two
minutes and fifty two seconds. Oh okay, so yeah you need downld ok.
Yeah, there's a zip files here on this way paradigm thing or you're
just playing a browser too. Yeah. Just I stopped and I was like,
what the fuck am I looking at? Here? Is like this is
the weirdest marketing I've ever seen or something else. Uh okay, well that
that answers my question there. But that was a weird thing to see.
But yeah, no, it's a they do a great job. I played
some crazy taxi arcade, which I never really did before. Like it's one
of those cabins you actually sit in and you know, it's racing game style,
and that was fun to play it. That way, but yeah,
it's great. Uh you know, uh, next year comes back, hopefully
I'll come some more days. But love what they do there. Yeah,
I got to watch a bunch of the runs. It was good. They
did announce they're coming back to Pittsburgh for awesome games done quick, So are
they really? Yeah? Yes, I'll be able to go again. I
hope maybe you can make it out this time. Ye dam If anybody else
wants to come in, we can all party in Pittsburgh. It'll be a
good time. But yeah, I I love games real quick. I love
what they do. It's it's it's always a fun week for me when those
events are going on. Fantastic, fantastic. We love it. Also,
they hit a gigantic milestone this uh this past point five million right for doctor
stub orders. Yeah, insane, I love it. I love it,
just like I love the news. But I'm gonna have to take a quick
breaking break and we'll be back with video game news. Jeff Grub for the
love of God, please take this news hat back. I don't know how
you do it. Here's your notepad and pencil. I'll go. I'll go
back to the printing press for the video game a bunch of butts on here,
would you just do it with a bunch of butts? It's just what's
and cool asses? Grub what's the biggest thing that happened in the last two
weeks. I've been super out of the loop. Uh well, I've been
gone Dan, So I don't know what's the bigger things that happened the last
two weeks. We're calling me bang boo. Now we're not calling you that.
Mike will call you Mike Michael. He's like, oh, I could
say it now, So yeah, if I don't, it's a problematic of
me to do that. All right, let's get into the news here.
Let's start with the May twenty four US game sales Sircana reports war Ago,
I know what they he actually delayed this May. Well, let's see here
the game paper Mario the One thousand Year Door came out and that was number
two on the charts. But that doesn't include digital sales. And you know,
if you're not looking at this, guess what the number one best selling
game of May was. I know, Mario Kart A Deluxe Still that's then
it was Ghost of Sushima, which got released on PC and jumped from seventy
one the month before, all the way up to number one, so not
too bad, way higher jumped, And I feel like we usually see for
these PlayStation ports, but Ghost of Sushimi has always been like surprisingly popular.
Yeah yeah, it never gets quite talked about as much as you know,
like a Spider Man or The Last of Us are even a Horizon, But
that game did very well, and I'm see how the sequel is going to
do in it and gets announced probably next year. For as much as we
clown on Horizon, I feel like we're just like saturated with so many various
Horizon related things that I'm surprised we haven't gone that with ghosts of Sushima given
how popular it is. Yeah, well it's just the one game right now.
It hasn't had a bunch of spin offs. And like I, you
know, I defend Horizon a bit from you guys by definitely like Ghost of
Sushi more than I like Ye. Yeah, Ghost of Sushima also benefitted into
on this chart from the lack of big new releases. You know. Home
World three was a new release that was number fourteen. F one twenty four
was number eighteen on this list, and that was the only other new release
other than Paper Mario, and then we're like our PlayStation or Xbox gamer.
Yeah, you probably not much new for you, right, and Paper Mario
again doesn't include digital sales. With digital sales, it probably is number one.
So good that game rules. Oh it's so freaking good. Holy yeah,
rap, I loved it. H oh real quick? Yeah, please
go away? Did you kind of bounce off of for a bit to play
out and Ring? Are you going? Yeah, I'm going I'm going back
to it. It helped that I was at the house. There was a
kid there that is super into video games, and he was very impressed that
are you already have the thousand year Door. I'm like, yeah, candicet
it for work, you dumb little baby. So I'm like, yeah,
once I'm done with Elden Ring, once I beat this final boss, it
will be back a thousand year Door. But only got a little bit left
in that game, so I'm looking forward to it. The big maybe the
big news out of this report is that console sales continue to be down across
the board. May video game hardware spending declined forty percent when compared to a
year ago. That's to two hundred and two million dollars and is now thirty
percent lower year to date. So year to date hardware spending is down thirty
percent through May. All current generation hardware platforms are showing double digit percentage declined,
So that means PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch are all down at least
double digit percentage from last year, so it's not like there's just one dragging
the rest down. The Switch, though, is the most significant drop as
you would expect at this age of at this point of the console's life cycle.
You know that said PlayStation five, when you line up the sales compared
to PS four, it is eight percent ahead of the PS four in the
United States, So some of the slowdown can be maybe attributed to there was
that huge rush to get PS fives early on, and now those people got
half PS fives and the rest of the audience is maybe still kind of lagging
behind the rest. Xbox one mean or Xbox series excuse me, is thirteen
percent behind the Xbox one and slightly behind the Xbox three sixty when you line
up the first forty three months, so not great over for Xbox. But
either way, the decline in hardware spending has got to be something that these
companies are looking at and maybe worrying about a little bit. But I don't
get the sense necessarily that they're like, this is all doom and gloom and
this is what it's going going to be like forever. This does feel like
a momentary lull that might be solved here pretty soon. How do you guys
read that? I mean the drop it hardware spending. I mean PlayStation has
clearly not had a whole lot lot of releases this year, especially from PlayStation
studios. That's gonna hurt them. Xbox is gonna ramp up here soon,
but still it's been slow, hopefully too. I don't want to say,
I don't want to say it came and went, but maybe it was never
meant to be some big tent pole thing, even though like when it was
announced, I thought it was gonna be like the closer we got to is
like, oh, clearly it's not. Actually that is just going to kind
of come out and it'll be nice and some people are gonna really like it.
But it was never expected to make some big dent and hardware sales or
something like that, or even game pass subscriptions. No, I think it's
I think a lot of people kind of have like that survived till twenty twenty
five mentality, hear. I think everyone knows it's going to be sort of
a weird year as we wait for the switch to and maybe even wait for
Grand Theft out of Six and some of these other bigger exclusives that come out.
Do you think college Football will make an actual impact on that. I
do think it will have an impact on that. There is a huge audience
of people who have sat down on gaming because they love college football. I
was gonna say, like, I've had numerous people in my life that never
talk talk to me about games, but they know what I do for a
living, and the one going they brought up to me college football. So
it's like, I bet it's anecdotal. But like all these people talking about,
oh yeah, I'm finally gonna get PlayStation five, college Football is coming
out. You know it's going to be enormous that I mean, I don't
know if it will be enormous like annually going forward, it will still be
a very top selling game, just like all sports games are, but this
one feels like it has the chance to be like one of the top three
best selling games of the year. So we should do something with that.
Oh yeah, we talk back to college for a future. Okay, I
never will for the first time this movie, We're gonna move to Lawrence.
We're all going to get in a dorm together. I'm not going to fucking
Kansas. Hey, Lawrence is the one, Thomas Lawrence is all right,
Oh my gosh, God, I mean to school. I'm I'll go to
Michigan. That's Lawrence is the Colorado of Kansas. Okay, okay, Oh
so the cool place. All right, think of all the college Shenanigans we
can all have together. We start gbu Oh god, we all just reverred
to our college ade selves. Jesus Christ, I'd be pretty similar mug shot.
Yeah, I'll be good, all right, This this story is for
this audience. GameCube is getting retro achievements. This might be the biggest thing
that happened in the last two weeks. The initial list of games includes F
Zero, g X, Super Smash Brothers, Melee, Warrior World, Beautiful,
Joe p and O three, Killer Seven, Roast, Rogue Squadron two,
Beton Cato's Chippy Robo, and I didn't reavepen Rogue Squadron two instead of
Roague Leader Psychopaths, and I'm not leading off anything, including Super Mario Sunshine,
which I kind of want to play. Because of that, This fucking
retro achievement stuff has now broken the way I play games on the road because
like I got that Ambernick sp gimmick. So I bought that thing. I
love it. It's great. Been playing a lot of warrior wear and stuff
on it. But it can connect to retro achievements. So this some thing
that is inherently meant to be a thing you can just throw in your pocket
or throw it in a bag for a plane or something like that. It's
not like, well, I'm not gonna if I can't connect to the internet.
I can't just play Aria of Sorrow and not get retro achievements for it,
you know, like like that, I will only play my little portable
system if I'm like at home connected to Wi Fi. It's so stupid.
You know you can You can connect it on your Steam deck as well,
so I know you can get it. Well. Sorry quick aside here as
of yesterday my ice Steam deck. I don't know if the system is fucked
up or some update broke everything, but you know, I was almost at
the end of wind Waker and now it wouldn't open it up for a long
time. It seems like it's not reading like the st card right. But
also when I can get it to load, something about the seamooth thing or
whatever, like only touch screen works, and like this the pop ups are
going on screen and won't go away, like all this weird shit that I
have not been able to google. Like, oh, like I can't play
wind Waker now, and I'm always you did you update any of your stuff
in emy deck? Did that? Last night? I went and I said
everything Some of those were bad updates, they were saying, So yeah,
shit, man, that sucks. So it's like I seriously spent like most
of raw last night on my steam deck like trying to figure out how to
get it to work, and could not get there. That is the thing
with these devices is like interropy comes for them really quickly, Like there is
no device for emulation really that I would you feel like recommend to someone who's
like I want it to always just work. It's like, man, it
really is kind of original hardware. And maybe if someone in your life will
set up a mister and then you don't ever touch it, again, maybe
that would be fine, but for a lot of these devices, it's like
one day if they update or get a bad update, it could just stop
working. Yeah. It was very frustrating because I put like a lot of
hours in that Windwaker thing and now I just can't play it. You know.
Yeah, I would like Bungus doesn't chat, I rerun the mu deck
launcher, do do let everything reconfigure out. Oh boy, Okay, I
was having trouble with my steam Deck. I think the update made the SD
card stuff a little weird. It stopped recognizing my sd card until I popped
it out and popped it back. That's's happening with me. Okay, So
I think this might be a steam Deck issue. Actually, I think the
latest steam Deck update might have stuff. It's time that it's time to join
the alliance boys. I'm roger Ally Alliance cards. What are you talking about
for you? Yeah, it's just there toasty. I like the roger Ally
plenty. It's it's good. Use it like every once in a while when
the game doesn't run as well on the Steam guy played Bloodstained on grub Are
you saying that Mario Sunshine does not have achievements? Only does I just I
was afraid to say it because when this comes out, let's play Super Mario
Sunshine and get some retro achievements, and that could be a strange Okay,
No, no, we're not doing that. I'm not doing some weird shenanigans.
You're not putting on the gold jacket. What if you play like Sunshine
Sunshine tomorrow? I don't. I'm not sure the retro. We could just
play Sunshine tomorrow. Okay, listen, I'll play a crazy how we ever?
Have I feel something, I'll give you points. I did do another
specific quack shot play through just to get all those achievements. I've never been
a huge achievement. No, that's the weird thing, is the new achievements.
I don't give a shit about retro achievements. For some reason, I'm
like, this is kind of neat. Now you're activated by that. Piano
three is one of the games I got. I got that one in the
back there, like someday I'm gonna pull up Piano two. Can we settle
it once and for all? Is Pano three trying to say, like trying
to be like Piano No, I've never heard that or thought that in my
life. No, I think all the time, piano three, no piano
is there? Is there any because I've only like looked at the game briefly.
Isn't it like a musical rhythm sort of action? I thought it was
around shooting things. I thought it's like she's got like like dance and like
move around and into the beat and kill things. To that, I thought
it was an action game. People. You're telling me if you say p
n O real quick, it doesn't sound like pm pno three. It's not
like piano three. Piano three, yes, sounds like piano. I'm looking
at my my search. I was about to search it, and it's like
I've already I've already searched this before. All right, whatever, listen,
my brain makes connections where maybe there is nothing that was one of the cap
Com five right, yeah, of course, what's the last? Wait?
Okay, so Killer seven, p and O three, Beautiful Joe Residental four,
and then an unreleased one. Right yeah, yeah, the one that
didn't actually gets Dragon something or deep dive or deep down. That's a kind
of yeah, that's right, Phoenix dead, Phoenix there it is. It
sounds like a game that would never come out. Yeah, that sounds like
a deep down You're right, absolutely. Warrio World on the game Cube is
so underrated. It's so much fun. The only reason people think this is
because it's short in these days. Who cares if you Warrior World. Sorry,
you're talking about Warrior Where party game went. It's a weird treasure game.
Yeah, it's it's a treasure and it is just like, hey,
we took the mechanics from warriol In and put them in three D and it
works and it's real fun. It's fun. The pause me thing is very
very very good. Yes, yeah, that's great, all right. Astro's
Playroom second update is now available, hiding a new special bot in the game.
Astrobot, launching on September six, features a mission to rescue three hundred
scattered bots around the world, including cameo characters from PlayStation history. They have
now updated Astro's Playroom the game that comes with the PS five to hide four
of those bots in the current game, so that now you can do this
little thing to to find those and it's like it is like little puzzles.
One of them. You have to like find a clock and set it to
the appropriate time to find a reference to a game that is never going to
get remade or ported or anything. I don't want to spoil it, but
I think you might know what I'm talking about. So yeah, that that's
pretty cool. I just put this in here because I love anything Astro.
Right now, Yes, I want to go. I want to go back
to Astroom. The updates they did to like include some of the stelic references
to this, and there's like a countdown. It's cool. It was already
neat, so the fact that they're doing even more is great. God.
I was so excited for this. I was just trying to figure when that's
coming out. That's like early September, right September sixth then, and just
think thinking about release dates. I just realized any S World Championship is like
a week right, uh yeah, Holy moly, y it's in nine days
right, yes, rules, Oh my god, it cannot wait. It's
going to take us over. So excited, Oh my god for that.
And then this, Oh it's good. Yeah, okay, yep, So
looking forward to some games right there. Two Ky's BioShock team is recruiting like
Matt for the next series, Entry Cloud Chamber. The BioShock team at two
K Studios is actively recruiting game developers for the next installment in the Enclaimed series.
The studio seeks talent across various disciplines, including animation, art design,
scripting, production management, and writing. Let's See Your Bio Shock four will
feature a new fantastical world, possibly set during the nineteen sixties in Antarctica's fictional
city of Borealis. The development team includes Bioshocked veterans in the original BioShock.
Director Ken Levin is not involved in the new game. I never know how
to take these stories where it's like, I thought this game was like close
to coming out. Does this means we've been hearing about this for a long
time now, right? Does? But does this story mean that it's that
it's not in that state, because I remember Metroid Prime four always had like
the people were like looking for any tidbit on that because we hadn't heard about
it for so long, and then there'll be like, oh my god,
they're only just now hiring for blank. Does that mean they've done no work
on that? And that's usually not what it means. That's probably not not
what what's happening here. But maybe maybe this does mean it's a little bit
further off than I was expecting. I don't know. Yeah, I will
say the idea of setting it in like a city in Antarctica, that sounds
cool. I love that. Yeah. Honestly, most things take they take
place in Antarctica or my jam for some reason. I don't know why,
the isolation down there. Yeah, yeah, all of that. So I
don't know what, like six what would be sixties ish about it specifically,
but hey, well, I mean like you could imagine like a post war,
like in the Cold War, like so much funding was done for various
sort of black ops of military research that you could justify sort of anything in
the nineteen sixties where it's like, oh, if that was happening today,
it's like they wouldn't spend they wouldn't waste money on this dumb shit, but
back in the sixties they would. I sure hope that they don't like double
down or even continue the kind of multiverse aspect from the especially the day,
right. I mean, it's it doesn't like add anything to a story,
Like I'm sure it could be like, well, this is why some of
these things are happening, but it cannot be central to what happens, I
would hope not, yeah, because I don't know. Infinite is such an
infinite is such a weird game in terms of like how like I played and
really liked it, then like a week layers like I don't know if it
was good when I actually think about it, because you know, it's like
it starts off like, oh, this is gonna like be talking about Patriots
in the same way the first game talked about, you know, like the
ann Ran stuff and whatnot, and then like it's like, ah, they
got bored of that, and what if what if? Like uh, what
if there's multiple universes and what if what if this guy was actually your father?
And what IF's standing against fascism was just as bad as fascism exactly?
So I was like, oh, okay, so I hope there's a more
concrete idea with this one that's not quite as multiverse gimmickyar what have you?
BioShock Infinet peaked with the barber Shop Quartet and then it was never his toy
stuff. Yes. When I saw when I saw the Beach Boys and they
did God only knows, I was like, no, I like the barb
where there's like a tear in the universe and Credence is coming out of its
favorite When you got to the movie theater and I said Revenge of the Sith
instead work instead of its BioShock four going to advance the video game porn scene
the same way that Binoshock Infinite. I don't I don't try, but I
don't know porn scene. No, okay. People created whole new programs and
like systems. There's a three D model porn because of Elizabeth. I thought
you were saying there was a scene in the game that was pornographic. I
don't remember that. In so much Steam filmmaker porn on the internet. It
is wild like it. It's hard to explain what you know? Janu the
one that told me about it. Biosoca walks over watch this man, what
the fuck? Uh? Pokemon's okay, this is messed up. Pokemon sleep
tracking app has generated one hundred million dollars in a year. They monetized sleep.
Pokemon Sleep Yeah right. Pokemon Sleep, a sleep tracking app, has
reportedly generated over one hundred million dollars in revenue within a week of its first
anniversary. Japanese users contributed the most in revenue, accounting for seventy three million
dollars, followed by the US with fifteen million dollars in Taiwan with four million
dollars. The Taiwan is big on sleep too. The app has been downloaded
by ten million users, with a significant portion based in Japan, the US,
and Taiwan. Pokemon Sleep allows players to catch Pokemon based on their sleep
patterns and rewards them with a sleep score. Players can upgrade their experience through
a Snorlas minigame and premium passy. But the idea of like they found a
way to charge us during our sleep really is the most upsetting thing I've thought
about. It played some time. Insane. They're min maxing their sleep?
Yeah, yeah, oh my god. Do you think I got to use
that money to make the x mainline Pokemon game? Not app? No?
No, great, shit, absolutely not. They're going to make sleep too,
all right, I'm interested. Uh. The Xbox TV app is now
available on Amazon fire sticks. The Xbox TV app is now available on those
sticks, allowing Game Pass Ultimate members in over twenty five countries to stream Xbox
games to their Fire TV devices without buying a console. Players can install the
Xbox app signing with their Microsoft account and connect the controller to play. Supported
controllers include the Xbox Wireless controller of the Adaptive Controller, and even the PlayStation
dual Sense. Microsoft's shelved Xbox streaming device co named Keystone, was initially announced
in twenty twenty one, but was deprioritized due to cost concerns. Wasn't announced.
Yeah, the people have been pointing to this story a little bit that
we know cloud gaming has been happening for a long time. They've been trying
to make it a bigger deal. Mostly there's an advertising campaign for this and
says no console required, and people are like really honing in on this again
to be like Microsoft doesn't care if it sells Xboxes, and it's like,
yeah, duh, they've been doing that for a while. But I mean,
I don't know, does any chance you guys ever play Xbox games on
an Amazon Fire device? No? I know. I've been so anti cloud
game forever. And it's like there's that last mile problem with cloud gaming that
it feels like we've been on that last mile now for over a decade.
We will be, yes, and we still will be, but there's also
just like it's like even if you are there, there's even just like the
thread of it. I'm just constantly like I'm playing cloud and I'm like thinking,
like, oh, is there late and see or not? Maybe there
is. It's just like that's maybe a me problem that I can't stop even
thinking about it. But it's just not for me, you know, I
hate about it. It takes for everything for the games to start. I
try to start a game on Xbox Cloud streaming and it's like, okay,
we're spinning it up for you, and it's like five minutes or it feels
like five minutes, and I'm like, well, I'm okay, never mind,
I don't want I don't feel like playing anymore. This is crazy because
like the only time I've ever used the cloud gaming, like you through the
shortcut on your phone or whatever it's not an app, is Fortnite, And
like, so, would you be able to just play Fortnite on a TV?
Yeah, definitely you can do this. Yeah. I'm trying to think
of a circumstance where like that would happen, but like that's maybe the one
thing I would do. I think the you know, there are definitely other
other streaming services that are similar or better, and g G Force now is
one that people always point out, like when GPUs are really expensive there during
the pandemic, I was always telling people just go use g Force now instead
of buying a new computer. Right now, you can get all this It
works really well and you get all the benefits of a new GPU. Xbox's
streaming offerings have just not really been up to snuff compared to something like that,
So yeah, I think I probably would not be using this. Disney
announces Pixel RPG or Mobile. Disney Interactive and Gung Ho Entertainment have unveiled Disney
Pixel Rpg, a free to play mobile game available for registration in Japan now.
The game features Disney characters navigating a world disrupted by an unknown program,
with some items requiring payment. Weird. Confirmed characters include Poob, Genie,
Princess Aurora, Stitch, Maleficent, and Ariel. Players can customize avatars using
Disney inspired costumes and classic characters like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, who will
also be present. The game's global preregistration date is yet to be announced.
What is this? Yeah, I mean it looks like one of those gotscha
kind of turn based RPG games, But you know that's the end, Like
the whole pixel aspect of it. I'm old, so I like that.
It's also cute because it's like, oh yeah, so this is Mickey from
the world of a fantasy RPG. This is Ariel how she would look from
a rhythm game, like very specific. It's very much like Super Nintendo Pixels
right kind of m hm, So it looks kind of neat. Of course,
I'm like, you know, a bit skeptical of it because it's just
you know, mobile RPG gotcha stuff. But the direction of this seems somewhat
promising. I also like that it seems pretty pure like Disney feature animation.
I don't even know if they've like brought up Pixar yet in anything I seen,
but you know, it's it's not like Star Wars and Marvel when we're
fucking ice Age or like from Fox right, it's like the pretty strict,
like the most Disney Disney do you have against ice Age ship? It's bad.
I don't like that. I don't like that little nutfucker what's his name,
scratch sid Sid No, No, I'm not defending ice Age. I
hate I hate Raymond. I hate that everybody, everybody I'm going to who
hates him, especially when He's a wooly mammoth. That really makes me pissed.
H Like a Dragon Studio says fans will be surprised by its next game.
Kotoku Studio tease its next title at anime exposed Essence of Fandom event,
which is a dumb name. The studio hinted that it will surprise fans,
but didn't reveal the game's genre. Fans believe the next game is the next
like a Dragon title, not a different franchise like a Dragon Infinite Wealth.
The latest Entury was released earlier this year to critical acclaim. Basically they just
their teasing. It said fans will be surprised by what comes next. Uh,
really not much more information, but I guess that opens up the table.
What do you guys want from like a Dragon next? Because I kind
of excuse me, I want them to kind of stay on this path that
they've been on with the turn based RPG, but they try something. I
also trust them. So what do you think I want to weird? Just
stay weird, you know, stay weird exactly. Yes, what we're gonna
say, Mike, do you think like they literally mean like a Dragon nine
or another spin off? Because they do quite a few of them. They
do a lot of spinoffs. Yes, I think it'll be I think it'll
be a spinoff, right, because we're probably a ways away from nine.
Maybe it'll be tiles. Jan I was thinking about how how they could incorporate
tiles. But I like what they've done with like the combat and Infinite Wealth
though, because like positioning is positioning matters of course in tactics, but like
you know, I like how they move and stuff. Mm hmm, yeah,
tactics. There was just like you know, face their back, you
know. Yeah, Infinite Wealth. I really love the way they had common
it right. It's like chaining one hit into another and knock and then get
that person it gets gets close to one of your teammates and they go in
and do a fall up attack. And yeah, Mike, you asked me
what my favorite games were earlier, like a few weeks ago, and I
forgot it, but that this game came out this year, this is still
one of my top three games. It gets out there, I wonder what
they could do because, like you know, the later in the game you
get with Kiriu, it's it's almost not as much of a turn based game
in some aspects of it, so it gets right, it's not at all.
What if it's more Dan Doco Island all right, all the way in
real time sun and moons. So yeah, all that Dan Doko City.
Oh man, that ship ruled too. What a good game? All right?
That does it for the news. I'm handing the show back over to
Janachoa, who's running this joint. I'm going to take it and it needs
to needs to It needs to be aired out real quick. It smells like
cigarettes for some reason. Uh. But so it's like that fucker. All
right, we're gonna go to break now emails after this. He really does
want to fuck that nut, doesn't he? He does. I'm looking,
I'm I'm looking at Pano three. I just look at it right now,
and like she's black and white just like piano ps. That's such a stretch.
Maybe we do this tomorrow, Okay, Oh, I'll play Piano three.
Is the sound website piano heavy? Is there any other indication there's only
one way to figure it out. Yeah, we'll play it. We'll play
it on the site and then we'll and then we'll put it. We'll come
to a judgment, Well, we'll come to do it to a decision.
There's just no way. There's just no way, there is no way,
Like, why is it so impossible to piano? It's even just the wordplay
part of it is a stretch. No, No, I think it's there.
Absolutely not. If it is, say the name fast Dan PN three,
that's not oh so slow's ever set piano surgery. It hurts the talk
fast. I get it, I get it. Giant bomb dot com is
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Uh. People write in about any and everything to the BombCast email address,
and I read all of them because I have to unsubscribe to a lot of
lists. First email comes from DW. They write in about the PS two.
DW writs, Hello, Bombinos, my eleven year old nephew wants to
get a PS two for Christmas. Well, I still have mine, cool
kid. Most of my games are kind of hard to find. Jerrpg's and
I don't think that would be his style. So what ps two games would
you get an eleven year old boy in twenty twenty four extra info his favorite
band is Nirvana and he has start to play guitar. My picks turna Man
joan uh Tony Hawk three four in Underground since I think he would like see
soundtracks. Those are incredible choices. Also, an eleven year old middle yar
Solid two Sons of Liberty. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, I mean definitely like definitely the first Jack in Dexter for sure,
and think the sly Cooper games in the rection. Got a War one on
two? Oh what, I'll be good. You're just just slightly slightly higher
age, and I think is appropriate. Damn fall stuff. There's a sex
mini game in God of War, but there's nipples. You would not show
an eleven year old just breast. I was definitely at eleven, I was
nothing but our and adult like combat and you know, yeah, but Daniel,
we're on the internet. You have to say I would not do that.
Real quick for me, just say I would not showed eleven year old
breast please, well no, no, But if I was an eleven year
old boy, yes, I did, yes, same the same here,
Yes, Thomas, that's another good one. Chat, thank you your nephew.
Two things one a booklet full of PS two demo discs and unleashed the
world of demos to this child. Uh, and get the bouncer, Come
on, what are we doing bouncer guitar mister mosquito, Yes, sneaky,
there's gotta be like a like. Just get him a model PS two that
has all the games on all the g T A is the g t A
the three PS two one direction? Oh yeah, eleven years old and could
play Grand Theft. Come on, I was eleven when I played the first
Grand Theft. You could play when the recommends like five thousand p S games,
We can recommend him ones that don't have hookers and drugs, maximos to
know five flipp nick and get really into triple battle rumble roses. Right,
yeah, back down, here comes the pain nb A triple NBA Street.
Oh we played that one time? Downhill, Domination, Amplitude and Frequency or
just guitar hero even those are the Uh? Should we just games tomorrow instead?
Grow? We will do it. We can do one p S two
GameCube generation stream Dan. You don't want to play the p S two version
of long Stuff. It's fine. I reviewed it. I remember saying like
this, I prefer the game won, But yes, the PS two one
is totally fine. Bully x Men Legends to Ship. I want to get
mark of Cree six hundred games on it from ets is three hundred dollars.
I appreciate you not saying the bouncer. I agree the bouncer. First thing
he said, Yeah, I was probably looking at by games. Uh no,
don't play the best play god it's terrible. Which wants the one with
the Mortal Kombat like puzzle fighter clone? Is that the same? That might
be deception have a ton of mini game stuff? Yeah, godhamn moded PS
two. I was just thinking that grub like, because I've got all these
games, it would be nice to just have a modded PS two with everything
on a hard drive. Yeah. Then that's that's the way I would go
if I were to like get back into like original hardware, you know,
in a big way, I would just be getting ever drives and modded systems
that have everything on them. I did. That's my Dreamcast and my game
Cuban. It was awesome, but every time I play out the PS two
one, it's like that's I think, like soldering is involved or something,
right, So I'm just like, yeah, buy one of these offs.
Who gives a ship run is good? Pac Men World two is actually a
very good ice combats on there. I get it today by paying seventy five
dollars if I used Klarna. Oh okay, that's a lot of good PS
two. I definitely think though, for eleven year old like Jack and Dex
are one Wretched and Clanks, the Sly Coopers are going to be your best
dark Cloud too, that I need to play Dark Clubs. It was Rogue
Galaxy good. I never played that. I like, not as much as
Dark Cloud. But Rope, Yeah, you got to play Rope Galaxy sometimes.
Auto Modelista. Perhaps I've been trying to get that for GameCube. Did
I ever get it? I thought you gonna no, Maybe you just mentioned
it. No, I got it. It's over there, all right.
I gotta play it still games I need to play still. It's bad when
you buy something you forget now like the same. I think I got that
the same day as Cube before God got in the Shadow there a little bit
as a bridesmaid huh the best hitcher honestly, I think is they already named
it themselves. Tony Hawk like three specifically, I think like he had his
age so well, do you think it'd be worth it to get his eleven
year old nephew Guitar Hero. Yeah, if he likes guitars that much,
there's gotta be enough Guitar Hero controllers out there used that aren't very expensive,
and the game can't be that much. I'm sure Guitar Hero would be would
go over, well, uh be a weird cool uncle and get them a
DDR pad. Yeah. DDR is great. Yeah. I could just never
feel good on those home DDR pads. It would just slide all over.
That's how I learn, so I got used to it. Yeah, I
could just never figure it out. I never got into DDR because I That's
why I was always playing Sambade and Mega. Yeah, I was playing.
I imported Guitar Freaks for my PlayStation one, which was like the Japanese guitar
game that preceded Guitar Hero. I remember when I first saw a preview for
Guitar Hero GameSpot, I was like, they're making a Guitar Freaks clone.
How trying to think if I played DDR outside of that Mario one, and
I feel like I must have done it on the site at some point,
But I might be thinking of just playing out we go a DDR stream tomorrow.
Oh god, I just got a pad right there, he's ready and
I could plug it in my computer and I have like that d you are
app basically where you can just have any song from all that? Yeah,
I have a can you do? It's a small world? I have done.
It's a small world. Hell yeah, I did a bunch of the
Disney ones because the kids wanted to play. Do they have Creed? I
listen. If you needre i'nna get your Creed? All right? Do you
want to be taken hired? Do you want to show your newborn son everything?
I just want my arms wide open? You know, look at this
photograph. No that's not them, Jason, you can still look at the
photograph. Next email comes from Alex from Colorado. Hey, Bombadier's The subject
read want to feel old? The other day I saw someone say that they
were feeling nostalgic for Undertail. How fuck you? I was about to rebut
that Undertail is hardly old enough for nostalgia. But then I realized it came
out nine years ago, meaning you played Undertail when you were ten, you
would potentially be in college. Now that's fucked up. Yeah, story going.
While I'm being crushed under the treads of time, I thought I would
share existential dread. Hope you all have a swell day. Alex from Colorado,
PS. Sometimes I feel bad that I live in a state with recreational
marijuana and don't partake myself. Is that weird? Nah? No, I
like, say, state where coffee is legal and he doesn't drink that.
So yeah, it's fine. Now you're doing a good thing. You're going
to get to go to heady, right, Yeah, you're not sinning.
Yeah. I was thinking about how, like, you know, my cutoff
for like retro is like I don't consider three sixty and beyond retro. And
then I realized to change some day. But that's the thing. I realized
that like there was almost around the same period of time between like when I
was playing three sixty in college, I remember like the ne s was the
most retro thing I could think, you know, and now it's like between
like the three sixties pretty much as old now as the ans was when the
three sixty was out, which is it is fucking nuts to think about,
jeezus. Yeah, so like hey no, like yeah, like what would
be like a big Xbox three sixty early game Dark zero cameo two? Yeah,
yeah, like Call of Duty two is as old now as like super
Market Brothers was. Wow, it's dead right, so weird, Like yeah,
ten years used to be so denstin essentially all like Medical gar Solid one
through four came out in a ten year window, wow, and like Medical
Solid four was treating Metgarsolid one as like this ancient nostalgic thing, right,
And now like now ten years is just like how long it's going to take
for most of these big franchises in between installments, right, Like it was
like seven or eight years between Zelda's these days. So it's just it used
to just be like oh, after so and many years, it's it's retro,
and like it's changed for so many reasons, like you know, the
diminishing returns of technology and just how long it takes games to get made.
But on that note, you know Dead Rising now being what almost twenty years
old, I realized I fucking loved Dead Rising, and I watched that trailer
for the remake, and I'm like, you know what, I am way
in the mood right now for a new Dead Rising same here, especially remake
of the first one. It's been long enough. I haven't touched that game
in fucking almost twenty years. Yeah, that's gonna rule. I'm also in
the mood for that. Oh, I'm very excited for that. The tone
is amazing of those games. Yeah, I like, I'm with you,
Dan for a while. I'm like, that's my cutoff is like three sixty
PS three, But it's like starting to get there, Like, no,
something that's up is definitely kind of retro. Now Dead Rising one is pretty
retro at this point. Three sixty and Wii and PS three is my cutoff
for retro collecting. And I think I'm gonna keep it that way because well,
first of all, that's also around the time where you start moving more
into digital stuff, and I don't have nostligia for like, oh, holding
this physical copy of this PS four game. No, I probably downloaded it,
you know. Plus plus all the Xbox three sixties and PS three is
broke anyway, so what are we gonna do? Right, They're all destroyed?
Next email, h is there? Request for help from Brian and Westerville,
Ohio. Hey, dudes, I think contemplating picking up a retro handheld
gaming device where I could put all my incredibly legitimate games game backups from older
systems. But every time I look at purchasing one, I'm barraged by a
list of consoles with very stats and abilities. What one is right for me?
And Bernick sells twenty one types of handhelds with different internals that are only
divided up by a giant list of texts? Do we just pick up a
steam Deck instead? Do I pick up their version? Their version of a
Steam Deck? Duds? I love some help if you got ideas, Thanks
a bunch, Brian and Westernville, Ohio said from my desk during work hours,
I went to westerl South. Hello from a fellow Westervil person. God,
yeah, grab this. This is something we're becoming increasingly knowledgeable about.
Yes, right. The first thing is don't overthink it. Yes, they
sell a million different devices, Find the one that looks good to you,
and then double check with external resources. Retro gamecore, retro dodo go to
their list and make sure that the device you're looking at is relatively recent.
You can cross reference the mode, model number and stuff like that, but
they reuse the same internals basically on a lot of their devices, Like the
last four and Bernick devices have all used the same ship set, so you're
getting basically the same thing in a different form factor. So emphasize the form
factor and make sure it could play the games you want to play. And
you're not gonna be able to do that by going the Amberdick's website, Go
go to Retro Game Corps, and also like decide how much work you want
to put into because like I grab, I know you and I are freaked
about configuring everything and making just everything Like I'm losing my luster for that though.
I'm like I'm at a point where I'm like I kind of just want
things to just work when I get it. I can't tell you how many
times I've looked through like a folder of like any S games and being like,
all right, listen, just the US releases and just this and not
these, and so like, dude, like, if you do like a
Steam deck, yeah you can do a lot with it, but you do
need to like you're gonna have to watch some YouTube videos. It's not that
hard to do. You just follow instructions basically. But a lot of these
things you buy and they come loaded up with a lot of stumber deck that
specifically comes likely around six hundred games or something like that. But it cracks
me up because like I got that sp one and I was looking through everything,
and it's like, yeah, it's got a lot, But then like
any like no Marios, no, Zelda's, no, Donkey Kong's no,
like certain companies that might be litigious, they're not on there. But every
economy capcom Sega you can imagine loaded to the gills. But yeah, so
I mean, but in that case, if you buy something that has a
lot and you just need you just want, you know, your favorite Marios
or whatever, it's easy enough to get a round. The foo is already
there. It's already set up. Now that said, you can get even
more of these devices by going and finding your own uh finding the custom made
oss and stuff like that that exist and are better in some ways. But
I haven't done that on my sp because again, I just got it.
It works, It has a lot of games I want, Like Dan said,
it does, it's missing a few things, but I just grab those
throw them on there real quick and I'm good to go. H But if
you're trying not to overthink this, Ambernick, just pick one that looks cool
to you and you're probably gonna be fine. Yeah. And then it's just
like lots lots of little things where it's like, Okay, there's game room
and then RA game here, and you have to learn, like go to
ra a game because they have retro arts. They all have their own weird
os, quirks and stuff that you just figure out as it's not that hard
really like that. That's yep. The RA game is RetroArch and that's usually
it's just yeah, it's you're gonna have to experiment once you have it a
little bit. But yeah, it ends up just working for the most part.
Yep. Next email comes from Jeremiah. Oh, we're just talking about
the Steam deck for a little bit, but they ask for some hot recks.
Hey, Bombers, I recently got a Steam deck and I'm absolutely loving
it. I can't believe I didn't get the sooner. Do do you have
any favorite games that you prefer playing on the deck instead of a traditional PC.
Yes, so far, my favorite games are Dead Cells, Dretch,
EMU Deck bonus question. Do any of you use a DOC to connect your
steam Deck to your TV? If you do, what kind of DOC do
you use? What's your favorite controller you use it with it? Love the
show? Jeremiah from Michigan, Yes to all this stuff. Yes, so
Hollow Night, you know, I know I was playing in bed for a
long time just because I was recovering, But like now that I'm not,
it's like I still prefer like that's my game where it's like I'll have her
or a pay per view or something and I'll just be playing a Hollow Night
on the steam Deck and that's That's a great way to play it. It's
a good second screen kind of game because you can, you know, if
you're not mainlining stuff, there's just a lot of exploration to do. Yep,
yep. And then the DOC thing. I don't use too often,
but we've recently started. I have one, and they're not that expensive.
I think it's like forty bucks or something, and you can get like a
cheap dock and it'll just work. It's just USBC videos, So don't spend
too much on the dock. Yeah. Yeah, And we have found use
cases for that obviously if you want to travel and hook up to a hotel,
you can. But like you know, Bonk has her gaming PC up
like in her office for like work stuff, but sometimes he just wants to
play on the big screen dow in the living room and it's like, oh,
okay, well here, just log onto your Steam account and your Steam
deck, throw it in this dock and it plays it just fine on the
TV. Yep. So I'm glad this question got asked because this is one
thing I didn't mention what we've been playing because I'm like, it's mostly older
stuff. But I use the dock that I have basically for the first time
really for anything other than like setting up ROMs and stuff like that. We
were traveling, knew a bunch of family we're going to be in town,
and I just basically took the kid that lives at the house had a switch,
so we just unplugged the cables for that. I plug that into the
steam deck dock, put the Steam deck in, and we were playing,
you know, a bunch of the jackbox games and stuff like that. We
did an animal party or party Animals, whatever that one is called, and
keep ho with a seven year old, I just showed them the fart button
and it was just like we basically accomplished nothing after that, and it was
great. It worked really, really really well. There was a couple of
hiccups with some of the controllers not functioning exactly right, but I was surprised.
I'm like, this is just such a good experience. They've really updated
it to kind of just make it very seamless. So I was of the
opinion like, well, no, I have a computer, I'm probably never
going to use the steam Deck for that stuff. But it's like, when
I'm traveling, I'm going to take the steam Deck probably with me anyway.
Why not just take one more little thing instead of like a whole other like
gaming laptop. And it just it worked really really well. And then I
if a game can run on the Steam Deck, I want to play it
on the Steam Deck or one of these other handheld devices that I have because
of work, because it's just so much more convenient for me. So I
played all of elden Ring basically on the Steam Deck and was zero issue.
And yeah, so I when a game does it run on steam Deck these
days, that usually means I'm probably not going to be able to stick with
it. So that's where I'm at, imprising how good Eldenaring runs on that.
Yeah, but I was hearing like horror stories about the DLC and it's
like, well, no, I'm playing. It's fine. It's like,
Okay, there's a couple of things, like the controls stopped working, so
there's these bugs, but other than that, it just runs really well on
there. Any RPG fantastic on this device, oh yeah, like visual novel
style games perfect titled Blatro this the Steam Deck, BLAI Vampire Survivors. God,
there's so many, it really is. I was like most impressed by
Ace Combat seven on steam Deck. I was like, this is running really
well, and this is like, in my mind it's like still like a
real big boy game, like never on the switch, right, So like
eight Combat seven on steam Deck was really cool to me. That's a game
you'll find a game of games. I'm playing a season of Super Mega Baseball
four on there right now, like that sort of thing. The game that
really impressed me on the Steam Deck. I know, we just talked about
elden Ring running really well, but Armored Cores, yeah, performing super well
in that as well. Oh my god. I gotta like the Armor course
six second. It was so fun. Damn, I want to replay it.
I didn't get I didn't like replay it to like get all the Indians.
I'm like, no, I really did just play through it once,
but I loved it me too. We got a bunch of lovely emails,
and I love and appreciate all of them. And I love it and appreciate
everyone that sends an email to the Giant BombCast once again. That email addresses
BombCast at giant bomb dot com. Got a bunch of miscellaneous things about like
collections and mods and Elden Ring and Nintendo Live. Sure, go to it.
Yeah, it's fun. It's oh god, I copied the whole email
instead of the fucking one second. All right. Last email from the show
comes from Anthony in Australia. They write in about seasons. What are seasons?
Whatever? You guys? Note a release window is a season. I
have to do mental arithmetic to figure out what that converts to. In Southern
Hemisphere terms, fall equals autumn minus sixth, autumn to six months equals spring
equals octoberish. Right, anyway, when is the last time you were upside
down? Anthony from in Australia. I'm gonna I'm taking a break from being
upside down currently because if I like bend over to like tie my shoes,
or if I'm even remote, like all this loose goo in my skull right
now, like all these blood clots and everything just like go up in my
brain and feel real bad. Yeah, I could just feel it all this
ship. There's just like a bunch of Nickelodeon ghack in my head and if
it shifts around too much, I just feel it all slide up. You
know. I want to be more like Nickelodeon. Foam bloom looam floam.
Yeah, a little more integrity, yeah foam never. I hope to never
be upside down again. I love being upside down usually, Like I remember
now, I wanted more upside down in Disney World. Like you guys realize
the questions asking have you ever been to the Southern Hemisphere? Oh no,
okay, we could do a bit. I'm all for doing a bit,
but I was just wondering if you guys wanted to answer nowhere. I did
think about that because like I traveled a bit, but it's like man never
been on like that half of the planet. I know there's like way less
like land. There is way less lands down there when you actually look at
it, is it kind of like it is I kind of feel like a
coward where I'm like, the one place in Southern Harmster I want to go
is Australia that I'm most like where I am already read. I would rather
go to like those those spiders. And I guess there's a lot of spiders
in South America too, but that spiders in Australia like get a lot more
headline. And I watched a Red Phobia a lot as a kid, and
I don't know if I want to go where big spiders are. Yeah,
that's that's very scary to me. God. I used to work with a
bunch of Australians at MythBusters, Like it was very weird. They tried making
Janza happen because they would take someone's name and add z a to the end.
Okay, like we had like getting norted by Australians Australian Norded. Yeah,
except they would take like maybe the first two letters close to the first
two letters of your name and ad so it wasn't jans it was Jazza.
It would be dad, Yeah you Daza Grezza. Yeah, very yeah,
not great with unreal engine come track a little bit. Went to the Southern
Hemisphere, but I just was at the line. I went to Singapore,
which is like on the equator. Basically, I don't know hemispheres. I
don't know the close. The closest I may have got was I went to
Disney's Private Island on the CRIZ. That might be the closest I've ever been
to the Southern Hemisphere. Yeah, I don't think that's probably not in the
Southern hemis but it's closest I've been. That's kind of close, right,
Jamaica with Uncle Jesse, the rumors by South America no referenced. Yeah,
yeah, that's that's closest. Yeah, okay, yeah, probably a couple
on her miles from the equator. But yeah, fantastic, fantastic. Well
that about does it for e males. What do we got going on for
the rest of this week? Uh? Game as Mornings returns, grow up?
Yeah, back tomorrow, getting into it. Fantastic, No blight club
tomorrow. We're figuring out we'll do some fun stuff tomorrow. Yeah, assignments.
So you all have a great rest of the week, I have my
sister's weddings, so upf this week we're gonna try and have a BCR,
but you know, as you know, things will be up in the air.
I'm also gone next week going su Japan. Sean, that's right.
Oh yeah, that's what I want to hear about that. SHN just brought
up something good, uh, Middle Year Scanling. Yes, this is something
I'm very excited. We were able to just make happen very easily. Well
I didn't spend all hour, Sean. Yeah, but good work by everyone
involved on this. This is great. Yeah, it's just you know,
ever, I'm always excited about medle Year, but it seems like there's more
Metal Year talk happening because of Delta coming on. You know what. That's
I think one of the best things, uh, at least that I've worked
on personally at Giant Bom, and it's been behind the paywall forever. So
I was like, well, fuck, we just we just put it all
up on YouTube. And I think it was Sean's idea to all have him
as big ass fucking videos like Middle Year five. The scale of five is
like forty three hours long or something insane, So there is a playlist.
I'm sure we're getting links in the chat here soon of all of middle Gear
Scale, including like the bonus episodes the watching peace Walker, so the full
season's oversee season two that Sons of Liberty three is Snake Eater. If you
want to watch the entire series of Drew Scanlon, who had never seen or
knew anything about metal Gear, kind of being coached through it by by me.
It's it's a real, real fun time. So check out that YouTube
link in the chat you can watch all of metal Gear Scanlon for free.
I'd i'd like to do other stuff too, but winn about fond memories of
stuff on the website. John Baum starting sixteen this year and shouts out to
Tom Caswell. Tom Caaswell is helping us lee, uh you know, go
down memory lane. So expect to see on various socials, whether it's uh
TikTok, YouTube shorts, Instagram, on Twitter, the staff and friends of
the staff, friends of the site recounting their favorite memories across the website across
various times of giant bomb history and gentlemen, what do we learn today?
We learned that getting older doesn't mean you have to gamble your money away,
you can throw it ahead games. Maybe you should get your face scooped out
so you can enjoy taco bell for the first time. And maybe we should
respect Phantom Menace more than our own current democracy. Someone should definitely bequeath all
of us a house. Beat the meat attack. He Sacks is a fantastic
name, and I'm gonna name my first child that. Also, we learned
to beat it fast. It's not called spurt. And don't overthink handhelds.
Just get all of them. Get one a month while you're at it.
And we also learned that Mike Manatti does not love Raymond folks. That's what
we learned today. Oh no, god, he keeps doing this thing.
I learned every week. I hate the go ex alard. Know there're we
good folks. That is it for the Giant BombCast. I won't see you
next week and I'll miss you, but uh, these fine folks, these
fine gentlemen will be there. Uh. We got a budget of lovely stuff
gearing up on the website. Across the board. I've been Shanning, he's
been Jeff, he's been Mike, he's been Dan, and you have been
beautiful. See you next week, everybody, I'm soliciting any last minute tips
for Japan apparently supposed to be stupid hot. I'm not equipped for it.
I'm ready to sweat to His name is pronounced Richie Ardy. We see him.
Wait, what dude, this is to me? You actually say it
like piano though? Yes, piano piano? Okay, all right, get
a rivera jacket? Yeah, yeah, this is one of my what I
want to do? You have? Oh my god, I want to both
locations. You gotta go o. Our dear friend Alex Banielo and I are
going to spend too much money together buying jeans. It's going to be cute.
And got a super potato My god, I will though, all right