Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, April sixteenth, twenty twenty four. Welcome to
the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and thirty six. I am your host
today, Jan Oh Shoah. Powered by nzxt. That's right, I myself
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the ship here as always right now, powered by the ice machine located behind
the lobby elevator. Jeff Grubb, Howdy, I I'm living in fear because
I shared a picture of Aladdin on my feet and I'm afraid Mike's gonna yell
at me. Where are you say that alatt It is better on superin I
know that's ridiculous. It's just a mediocre platform. They had the real animators
from the movie working on the Genesis version. You invited him? Excellent?
Okay, great, fantastic joining us today, Herbo Seawan McTell. Yes,
enjoining me is the lovely Bucket Shawn, Everyone's favorite persona sex character. What
I'm gone for like a week and what happens here? They're excited about green,
so you see, Jan, do you have you heard about this green
paint bucket theory? Have you heard about Green. I've heard about Green.
I've heard about like some some hex code with how the people are? You
got it? That's it, that's all our is to it. But Jeff
Grubb is very I forgot you care. Yeah, I forgot bucket. Sean
doesn't like Jeff, so she might have to go away from disrespectful to her.
On the last episode, it's I would never disrespecting women everywhere on the
internet in person. Oh no, it's no longer International Women's Day, but
it's still happening. Should I walk it back? Mike, No, No,
go for it now, let's just do it. Let's just do it.
My Hey, how's it going. I'm disrespectful to women? That's not
true. I can't say that true. I love women, ladies love cool
Mikey. You know that's what we say behind the scenes all the time.
Yes, yes, absolutely, Yeah, how's it going? I'm great.
Can we immediately talk about how Jeff and Shawn are wearing the same exact shirt?
Yeahs with a good shirt, wearing like the same color of clothing right
now. Yeah, honestly it looks like it's like the same. Yeah,
we're like mildly twinning, We're like twin bounding. They're like full on twining
for audio listeners. For audio listeners, they both have a shirt. It's
like the metal Gear NYES cover, but instead of Snake, it is Samus
around you suit Samus. It's a very good, very good cover, and
it's just very Gear instead of metal gear. Very good. It's a very
good shirt. Looking up? Was that yetti joint? Yes? Yet he
was, Yeah, I can't get more exclusive club to anyone who has the
very Gear shirt. Exclusive only the people who were awake that day. Yeah,
couldn't be me, could not be me? Boys, How is it
going? I was here for the dump truck and then I decided I needed
to sleep and rest and look through all of this WrestleMania footie. How's how's
it going? How's it popping? It's good. I didn't give up on
as I had to give up on a YouTube video. It was like an
hour and like thirty minute video about first person shooters on the N sixty four,
and I somehow like felt disgusted and how to leave an hour like one
and fifteen minutes. You think at that point I would just be pot committed,
but the vibes were really off. I don't know how talking about what
was I don't know what what was the tear t here? What? Okay?
So, like, you know, so I was watching, like you
know, like I like to watch really long YouTube videos and this guy was
like, here, every shooter on N sixty four is like that sounds fun,
and like, you know, first he like he had some jabb at
like some old video game journalists from my game Pro and that's always a little
weird to me. These old YouTubers always like still have some vendetta against like
some guys game Pro review from years ago. That's a little bit of red
flag. But then like much later, it was like IGN and he was
like mad about like the review for some newer game or it was like it
was like the review was like negative. He's like, and that's back when
an IGN review used to mean something like them today either a lot of weird
sex chokes. And then just finally when I gave up, was I was
talking about tu Rok too. It was like and then Turak goes to the
Spirit Realm and there's a hot lady there. We all know what we were
thinking. It's just a zoom up on this N sixty four model with this
sound effect. Cool while it's like done. That was the last thing I
was expecting. Oh my god, you know I've done cheeks? Clap?
Is that what he is trying to imply there? I know there's no no
form of it, a form of yeah, Oh my god, go the
fuck outside. Yeah, I mean it was a joke, I guess.
Sound was like, no, no, he's not. I was gonna give
you a hard time, Mike, but no, you're one percent. Vibes
are off. Yeah. At that point, I was just like, there's
fifteen minutes. But I was so populated to this video. I was like,
no, I'm out. Video game cheeks look much better now, Why
are you still obsessed with in sixty four based cheeks? Oh my god,
it's like that yeah, right where I like, ten years after Robocks came
out, it was like one of the most popular categories to sir to search
on, like adult websites and stuff like that. It's we just keep these
things with us forever at a certain point, So in sixty four cheeks,
I get it. Sometimes I want to like rescind a view from like yeah,
you know, it's like, hey, I don't want to keep this
time to them. I don't want the stat to be tracked. No point,
zeros are a one sense of ad revenue either. Yeah take that from
Yeah, yeah yeah, let me rewind the clock there. Boys. Turns
out there's a lot of wrestling happening, and I'm not going to religate that
Dan and I went to Philly. Uh. I think Philadelphia broke Dan.
Honestly. I think it chewed them up and stomped them out. And I
think the vacate this podcast Championship it was. It was really sad. Yeah,
exactly. You know what, No, I'm not going to share that
story because might Yeah. Yeah, there's some some interesting wrestling media people around,
like, oh, okay, I have no idea who you are,
nor do I quite want to learn right now. Please put your flyers away
and your QR code. I don't I don't want to know QR codes.
That's fun. You should again every QR code you see at a wrestling event
that seems safe. Yep. You think there's a lot of hacking going on
at a wrestling event. I think there's a lot of poor security in general.
Yeah. Yeah, I think the people who would do that know that
there are people who would, you know, just throw caution to the win
there speaking, that's a very poor security. Last wrestling thing I swear today,
at least you know, the wrestle con was happening outside of WrestleMania proper
sure, and you had to buy like a three day pass to get in
and then additional photo ops with whoever ex superstars, ex wrestlers you wanted to,
and then Dan and I tried to get media badges for it last minute
the guy said to like, oh no, sorry, we can't do that
for you wrestling. You need to go buy some tickets over there. Dan
and I see the ticket booth and then we see the door to walk into
like the main show floor. Ish is all in a hotel. Dan and
I skip the line to buy tickets and we just walked straight in and just
flashed a miscellaneous lanyard from the WWE that just said media and uh, we
just got it and then walked around. That's great. I like this con.
I like this move this, I like I approve, just not like
you belong. It's fine, no one will stop you. This is yeah.
This is not the same as like cutting in line in the bathroom,
right, people shouldn't be sad about it because like, oh no, no,
no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And you know,
maybe to be frank, some wrestling fans need to be cut in line
to be honest. Yeah, you're probably right, uh speak about cutting in
line. Let's anyone to have any other bands before we get to the games.
Oh yeah, the thing that I brought up during the during the mite
check. So you know, I got my taxes done a little bit ago,
you know, matros By the deadline, a couple of issues I need
to solve there, but we got done Congress, and I certainly didn't get
a refund this year, but I have to pay less than I thought I
did, which is a nice little surprise. And you see, my stupid
lizard brain was like, well I'm paying last night I thought I would.
That's kind of like getting a refund, right, That's not how money works.
But that's where I'm at right now. So I kind of want to
treat myself to some nice because it is it is, you know, the
money I got on the bank there is, you know, it's money in
the bank now. So I can't, you know, treat myself to something
if I want. And so I'm kind of just looking at like some of
the tech and stuff that I've been wanting to pick up and well, one
of the things I brought up was Apple devices because Apple Vision not Apple Vision.
No no, hell no no no no, no no no. But
just like I haven't had any Apple device since the iPod Touch came out.
You know, I was in high school, like that was quite a while
ago. Now I was over a decade ago, and I don't know,
I was like, what if I just like tried one of the iPhones as
my next My myphone's getting a little bit older, Like if you know,
give secondhand iPhone, that might be interesting. So I'm like looking at that
and it reminded me of the state of gaming right now. Tie into the
podcast, because man, I was and Andrew just like the same thing at
this point. Oh yeah, it's being interesting several years ago. The differences
it's the same. That's go ahead. I'm sorry. I MVG just did
a video about that. I don't know if you saw that too, and
we're thinking about that, just like talking about what was special about consoles like
in that N sixty four era, and like how you know now it is
just that there's the you know, it really is the green one and the
blue one, right yep. Yeah, one sort of just agreed on the
best way to do things, and now there's no room for interesting things to
happen anymore exactly, which is why I'm always like, maybe they just get
an iPhone from my next phone, because like if they're kind of the same
thing at this point, well, one's got Apple Arcade and one doesn't.
So maybe I just subscribing the Google Play subscription thing, I know, and
I'm mooching off your family Planet get done a DL man. I signed into
my TV the r day, and so it's like one of these things is
not like the other. Yeah, and those other things I'm looking at just
like smaller things like PlayStation devices. So I'm always a big advocate for emulation
because you know, at this point, like rub mentioned I think last episode,
at this point, software emulators are basically the same thing as real hardware
from most systems. Some are a little funky, though, So I kind
of want to get like maybe a PS two to actually play OG games on,
and maybe a PS three because there's some funckiness there. Would you be
able to get the like how expensive are those PS three's that had the PS
one just also launch PS three? Yeah? Yeah, they're not that bad.
You come secondhand, especially if you get just the console, it can
be pretty cheap. The problem is those actually are starting to die and the
amount of work you'd have to put in it. Maybe is just better to
get a PS two Slim and a PS three Slim. And I'm a sucker
for limited edition consoles. I think, you know, just having a system
that you know has a unique colorway and everything that can be kind of cool.
So I'm looking at for the PS two. I kind of get it,
and I kind of want to just like hump these down organically, sort
of like what Mike is doing with his retro collection. We're like, I'll
go to a store someday and if I see it, that would be really
neat. But I want the pink PS two slim o Bright Did you say
a picture of this? Why do I have this in my brain right now?
I talked about it. I talked about the other day, like in
passing, but something about it, and just like the gaudiness of it.
I kind of Barbie pink. It is Barbie pink. If you look at
the small pink, if you look at the box, it's like Barbie font
the word pink man, oh god, how good bold it is. It's
really cool, Sean wouldn't be enough to get like a custom job or you
want the actual pink PS two Like, I don't care if it's like a
reproduction or anything. But the weird thing is not a lot of people are
making a PS two slim show they're doing for like the PS two fat because
those are easier to do soft model, and there's a lot more out there
of those. Yeah, yeah, exactly so I and they're not that expensive
to get the original, so maybe, yeah, I think that might be
why I just try to track down someday. And then the PS three I've
been looking at. There's a PS three slim, so just the regular slim
that is the black model, and then on top it has the final Fantasy
thirteen to two logo and lightning etched in pink. I'm like, maf I
get those two together, that'd become a cool combination. That'd be kind of
neat. It looks pretty sick. For a long time, I was like
at PS three Xtbox six, that's not really retro in the way I think
of it, and I finally, no, that's pretty retro, and that's
pretty retro those games feel old and like I a nostalgic and like I kind
of like do want to plug in a PS three at some point? Yeah?
Right, it's the launch for those systems is nineteen years ago. Right,
don't say that, Jeff Crouch. I'm bad at Math two thousand and
six. Okay, eighteen for for PS two then yet eighteen years yeah,
nineteen when it came out. Three sixty was one year, two decades.
Man, three six is gonna be twenty years. Perfect Dark zero is gonna
be twenty years in a year. Are we going to celebrate It's gonna be.
It's gonna be twenty years old before the next Perfect Dark comes out,
twenty years between Perfect Darks and then the how many time? How much time
was between that and Perfect Dark? Like original, like ten years not even
not even? Yeah? Perfect Dark was what two? Right? Okay,
what's the commit right now to a full play through a cameo on the anniversary
of the Okay, yeah, it's a million percent choose cameo over Perfect Dark
zero like conquer at this point, God, that's talking about p S Three's
just reminds me of when MythBusters was wrapping up. We were liquidating a lot
of stuff. Folks were able to take miscellaneous things from the office as I
was digging through the missile, any electronics, Like I took home a bucket
of Raspberry pies. Oh yeah. There was like a PS three unplugged and
I'm like, can I have this? And I opened it up and there's
like someone's personal pictures there, but it's no one on the crew, no
one from the crew that I remember had interacted with. And it was like
personal photos that someone was using like their PS three as like a personal hard
drive. No, not news. Well, okay, there was one folder
with some questionable photos. I'm like, who is this anyone from this?
No, it's not. Was it PS three FAT or was it a SLIM?
I believe it was a PS three FAT. Okay, that makes sense
because the FAT had a variety of like card readers off front and everything.
Sony really wanted that to be the your all in one medium device. Okay,
so that makes sense. Oh last thing on the PS three, by
way, so I wanted the Lightning PS three Slam. I didn't know this
only in Japan, I think maybe Europe by specifically in Japan, there's a
super Slam that is the Metal Gear Rising Super Slim. I yeah, it's
not super stylish. It's like a black Super Slam in the middle. Is
that like Cobalt Blue that they were reason for the super Slams and that just
sort of like has text all on it etched and white. That's like Metal
Year Rising and like some characters in Japanese. Yeah, yeah, I see
it now. It's kind of cheat and you know, like me, that's
one of my games, so I think maybe I pivot to that one instead.
But yeah, that's that's why I'm on the hunt floor real quick.
I just want to put this out into the ether because I would like some
tech advice out there. I was actually at an Apple store yesterday and I
wanted to mess around with iPad pro, but of course a gaggle of children
are flooding the iPad so I can actually demo one. I'm tired of bringing
my gaming laptop around when we go to these events and work travel. I'm
looking for something super light. I don't want to use my work laptop,
which is the MacBook, but it doesn't even have like the M two chip
in it, right. I also don't want to have to go through the
process of having to ask it can I install these twelve programs and then telling
me no, and then eventually green lighting it way down the line. So
maybe I get an iPad pro is that, you know, shooting a lot
of video on like the phone and everything, And I feel like, why
do that or one of the newer MacBooks though, because I just don't want
to carry around a MacBook and just as light as possible if you already have,
I want to touch things. Okay, well that's fair because the MacBook
Air those are kind of nice, you know, and I really like mine.
For as much as like it's a good computer, I'm still not used
to mac and even if I do get used to it, I'm not gonna
be like, oh this is better the way steps like, you're never gonna
never gonna want to use another computer again. I'm like, it's that's not
really happening. But the battery is really good. But I think for your
case, Jan, an iPad pro would be even more powerful and just as
like energy efficient and all that stuff, so you get a lot of the
same benefits and then you could do a ton of video stuff on. I'm
a Microsoft surface boy myself. Okay, Now I saw blessing bring that to
Pax East and I was curious about that. Yeah, they're very nice.
I demled one recently. I thought it was really cool, and I was
like, if I ever need a laptop ranting, this might just be the
one that I go with. Maybe I'll think about that, because I as
far as I know, I don't think there's a very good audio editing app
or interface on iPads as of right now, because like there's no audition,
there's some kind of final cut, and there's Da Vinci Resolve available on iPads.
So we'll see. Anyway, I'll tell you I'll take suggestions for folks
out there. One last thing with my not refund but like making money gambling,
I bought myself a pair of roller blades. Oh hell yeah, I
just figure out stop there. That's what I did for myself, a new
pair of roller blades. Johnny, i'm uh is roller blading learning Japanese.
It's a whole new era of like I have always skated because because of hockey.
That's the hockey played was roller hockey. So I just had an old
pair of beat up but to call them blades, I'm in the seas a
pair of blades. They're just beat up. So I'm like, and you
know what, I want to get a new pair, and I just found
some on Amazon. I got that and they're hockey roller skates, so roller
blades. So I'll go out there and have a good time. That's time
I'm doing. I'll quickly. You can explain about US healthcare real quick.
Sure. Oh yeah. Uh so my feet were destroyed after WrestleMania because it
was a lot of walking around and I thought like, hey, I should
go see a pediatrist or my doctor to schedule a pediatrist, and they were
like, yeah, sure, no, no worries, make an appointment.
The appointment to to you know, see my feedies and perhaps get some insols
or diagnose whatever happening is of course like three weeks away, so yeah,
chill cool. Thanks for fixing my immediate problems. Anyway, speaking about fixing
the imediate problems, let's play some video gay Mike Manatti. I may need
your advice here, and that's just in general. I see I see you,
coach, Yeah, big life coach, Mike Manatti. Mike, tell
me about Fallout seventy six because I've been watching the show. I've tuned in
for a bit of your stream. I got the Fallout itch I want to
play. Yeah. I mean it's interesting because I played fall at seventy six
at a preview event and I played a bit when it launched, and like
everyone else at that time, I did not like it. It was really
janky, it felt really empty. It was just not an appealing experience.
Then, obviously, you know it's been years since then, they've been adding
a lot to the game. Yeah, even though I'm not really watching the
show yet, just like all that kind of buzz, the zeitgeist, I'm
also in a Fallout mood even playing a little bit of Fall four the mods.
It's like and I kind of I like Fallout. I'd like to play
another Fallout. So yeah, I thought I checked back in on seventy six.
You started a new character, and it definitely left a much better impression
than when I last played it. You're the biggest thing they did, and
they did a while ago. When the game launched, there were no human
NPCs, right. The whole point was supposed to be like, you're like
the first ones out of the vault, so there's no other humans so that
we don't have to make NPCs. That sounds hard, but you know then
everyone hated that, so they're like, Okay, I guess we should put
some MPCs in. So having them there, first off, it makes the
game feel completely different, but it makes it feel much more like a traditional
Fallout game, and that is just really well. You know, I'm like
walk around and you see a person, you talk to them. There's Jason
Muse voicing a goual and you're having a conversation with him. So sure,
that's fun, you know. So I was wrolloing the quest for a bit
when I really had fun, was like, Okay, I want to just
walk in a direction and see if I find something interesting. That's what the
good Pathesta style games are good at. So I just like went south and
I came across this army camp run completely by robots, and there was like
one human teenager there who was like, oh jeez, y'all, i'm reported
for duty, you know that kind of thing. So I like that guy.
But you know, I found like the master Sergeant robot in charge,
like he's like, you need to like go do the training courses, like
the ones like you know, a shooting gallery. The one was like an
agility course, But then the one was like you have to like sniff out
the communists, and there were three like there are like three mannequins, and
they had like speakers next to them. Each had a room. You had
to like talk to them. They talked to them. They would say things
like the fourth of July is my favorite holiday and things like that. But
like the one was like, yeah, of course, my dad is in
a union. Why do you ask? And it's like like I like stink
around to like hack it to their computer, like fight out, like oh
the dad's laid off, and try to tell all the all all this fellow
workers that they should not work for a dad, like go running back to
guy like comedy on them. I was like, okay, yeah, that's
that's the good stuff. So I was having fun. Now the issue is,
you know, nothing I did required or was plused by the presence of
other players, right, Okay, But to be fair, that's actually pretty
much all momos these days, at least in terms of new player experiences.
Like all the actual multiplayer stuff in a lot of MMOs is just endgame content.
Uh these days, Like they're you optionally like can do things with them.
Sure, like I was even telling Grub because Gubs like, oh,
what should we do for with Fallout? Maybe we should all play seventy six,
Like maybe be fun to watch somebody play seventy six. If four people
start Fallout seventy six together, they're just gonna kind of be walking with each
other to quest like helping shoot you know, rad roaches every once in a
while, I suppose, So you know, it definitely feels more like a
Fallout game with a bit of MMO stuff, But there's nothing wrong with that.
I think it's a it's pretty fun at that and I love the West
Virginia vibes. Right. This is a bit prettier than other Fallout games because
it is like fall and trees actually have leaves, and it's like, you
know, they're red, they're the colors of the changing seasons. So it's
actually a pretty pleasant vibe in this one. There's still an emphasis on like
that basebility stuff, which doesn't do anything for me in this or fall Off
for or in Starfield, but it's whatever I can remind me, Mike,
what is the purpose of the base building? You're just like setting up checkpoints
as you go along, and like this one, you can kind of like
make a camp. So, like the nice thing about it at least is
that it's like a fast travel point, right, and you can't put it
anywhere in the wilderness. And it's a little neat to see other players camp,
right, because some of them do get into it. Although it also
is a little like Second Life YT to me, right, because like you
know, they build really it's very obvious what the things are that are built
by players, and they're kind of loud and tacky and whatnot. It's not
quite like those Mario themed hotels Jeff from that one metaverse video, right,
Yeah, but you know it is of that ilk. But like there was
like a questions like, hey, you need to like build this so to
draw the attention of these people. So I was like, all right,
fine, I'll build that, I suppose, and you have to figure out
how to like put out a power supply and the connect the power to your
thing all that stuff. It's fine. I wonder if maybe a Fallout seventy
six, well I had a lot more time or waited a bit, or
maybe was trying to take on influence from other games, if it could have
found like a Second in Life trying to ape the Valheim experience. So I
feel like I go full survival game. Yeah, go full survival game,
because that could be neat, I think. And there's a little bit of
that here, Like you do have to eat and drink every once in a
while. I'd never had to do it once starting at least. I don't
know if it's like new players don't need to worry about that or what,
but yeah, they don't go super hard into the survival stuff, at least
not in the kind of first few hours that were griefed at all by other
players Mike or well. At at the early levels. You can't even at
one point I did reach like level six or something. I forget where it
was like you can turn PvP on. I think you have to turn it
on. Uh. And my understanding is that community is like, oh,
you want to play Fall at seventy six with us, that's so nice.
Yeah, let's let's okay, you know, roll out the red carpet please
right this way, sir. It is it is weird, and like the
game has like the fact that the game is still around is nice, and
it did kind of slowly build up goodwill and I think it's getting a lot
more than a little bit of goodwill now because a lot of people are coming
back to it because everyone's so excited about the show. But you can't see
a world where if this had launched in a better shape, like this could
be some giant game that we're all talking about all the time, right,
because it's not like a ESO where like there's like some other company you kind
of put that together and it's kind of more MMO than it is Elder Scrolls,
like this was made by Bethesa. Right, this is kind of a
Fallout game and it sort of just kind of came out. Everybody said it
was bad, and a lot of people sort of moved on forever. And
it's nice that I did again find the second wind of sorts and it's still
going. But you can't imagine that world or fall six. Fall seventy six
was some big, big game. Yeah. I wound up buying Fallout three,
Fallout four, and Dow Vegas on Steam because they're super duper cheap right
now, Yes, and I was about to fire up New Vegas, but
then I was like, no, you know what I want to save.
I want to experience it with grub for the first time because Greb. We're
planning on streaming it this Thursday, this Thursday. Nice, Yes, it's
happening. That's awesome. We're gonna flood it with mods like you did.
Yes, at least for this first episode. I'm gonna flood it with mods.
I'll be able to turn some of those off if we keep going with
it and we want to experience some of that stuff, Vanilla. But yes,
there will be a lot of mods on this episode for sure. Okay,
I want to fire it up so bad because maybe three episodes deep into
the Fallout show, and my knowledge of Fallout is just through cultural osmosis.
I just know pit Boys, vaults, the old timey Wymy songs. And
then Walter Goggin. Walton Goggins is in the show. Real real, Jeff
really put me on blast with the wal that I don't know, just really
let me have it, which is fair. Yo. I fucking love that
man, dude, He's so what a great character actor. Hu Yeah,
he's my favorite. I loved him in TV show. Yeah, movie was
good too, fantastic. Oh, Hateful Eight, he's great. He's one
of the Hated Eight. Anyway, I was gonna I'm gonna ask you boys
and the audience at home. After you know, we check out the beginning
parts of New Vegas. Should I like just embark on New Vegas myself if
I want like to scratch that Fallout itch? Or should I go to three
four people are gonna tell you do Vegas is yeah? Generally the one.
Yeah. I always wonder what Bethesta thinks about that that everybody's favorite falloff game
is the only what they didn't make in the last twenty years. I was
listening to a podcast where someone who would be in the no said, oh,
yeah, they don't like that. No they I wouldn't like that.
And also, like I bet Bethesta just thing like scoreboard. We're like,
look at the sales and look at the Metacritic and stuff, because fall Out
seventy six got nailed at the beginning for having a lot of bugs and stuff
more buggy than even Bethesta New Vegas did not New Va. Yes, right,
exactly, like it's that's It's metacret to this day is like kind of
like low eighties or something maybe mid eighties now. But yeah, like at
the time, the main story at that game was this is really buggy,
and it was. But now that's not an issue, and now no one
cares. It's all about like you could do so much more in New Vegas.
So yeah, okay, all right, Yeah, I'm mostly looking forward
to wacky shenanigans that I've been told have happened. Did you see uh this
thing where like the like somebody in charge of Fallout four was like, by
the way, like your player character was this guy in like the Fallout one
intro and it's like some super cop who stands next to another super copy like
shoots the civilian and then like last and like high fives or whatever, and
then everybody's like the guy's a war criminal and we should be like, oh,
you are all taking it too serious. It's like did you begin to
walk it back or something. Well, look it's not like that's not like
really canon, but yes we did, Like I at one point the person
in charge of Fallout four did consider that to be my canon anyways, But
I don't know. I always laugh at it. It's like, oh,
I didn't think you would all take this so seriously. It's like, I
mean they're gonna take you know, they're they're gonna take it a little seriously.
Yeah, going from one jaunty dilapidated World to another. I've been playing
Harold Halibut came out yesterday. This is not quite what I was expecting it
to be. Is it a video game? Gianochow answer the question, I
mean you move Harold Hallibit around. So there's some mini games. You talk
to people and you go in to point A to point B, and sometimes
you got to figure out where the person is, so point B might be
point e instead. So it's a point click adventure kind of No. Is
it a walking sim kind of Yeah. I think it's more walking sim than
a point click adventure. It's more of a walking diorama. Yeah. For
folks that don't know the game we're talking about, this is I think this
was shown at a Summer game Fest two three years ago now, yeah,
and it's been in it's been in the works for something like ten to fourteen
years or something like that. Yeah, And that part shows in the visuals
because this looks like a stop motion movie as you were playing it. I
want to see I want to eventually see the behind the scenes of some of
this stuff because it's absolutely insane how they were able to transport what looks like
stop motion characters, and from the little bits of behind the scenes that the
developers have put out there, it does look like they've taken those models,
scan them into three D, and then just let you loose in the little
dioramas they've made. If you're a fan of Wes Anderson, if you've liked
Fantastic Mister Fox at all, Grand Budapest Hotel, like the little playhouseho,
that's right, Clay specifically, claymation Scott is an m effort to jam yeah,
Gumby, get that dude out of here. I will melt that ship
asap. Fantastic Mister Fox. Wow, I cuss and love that movie.
But Harold halibit not a lot of actual game going on, Grub as you're
alluding to. It is a lot of sitting there listening and then talking to
virtually everyone there. The game does have a lot of character, has a
lot of whimsy fantastical elements. You are Society on a ship that escaped Earth,
not escaped Earth, flat Earth because bad mumbo jumbo stuff was going on
Earth. And then your ship, the Fedora one, has traveled through space
and you're kind of just like a maintenance dude walking around and fixing miscellaneous things.
And that is kind of the game. You were kind of just like
sitting and just like experiencing the story. There's not a lot of point and
clicky interact with the environment stuff, which is kind of a bummer because the
environments look great, like they look like handmade dioramas, Like you can see
the rough edges in some of like the corners or even the painting. Sometimes,
like you know, with with certain stop motion you can see where someone
had just adjusted like a face or like a scene or whatever, and you
can see that as it's going on. But you're kind of just at the
whim of the game to listen to the dialogue take place. And even if
you like button through as you're reading the subtitles, it's still going to kind
of fast forward play the like stop motion dialogue. Right. I mean,
this is what I'm wondering, Like, when you're moving the character around the
world, is like movement? Does that feel like you're holding down the play
button on a video? Uh No, you you have like full control of
character. It is very weighty though, Like, uh sure I could forgive
that, I think to a certain extent, But I think the other thing
that for me would be okay, then these worlds do look immaculate and really
well designed. Yes, what is my interactivity level with that? Can I
go and like mess around with the things that I find interesting when I look
at it? Yeah? Related, I not to just challenge you on this,
but like I brought the trailer here and look at the screenshots, it
looks very lucasartsy to me. So I'm curious for why you would say it's
not much of it. There's limited and there's no puzzles. There's no puzzles.
It's just it is. That's why I think when you say point and
click, and I think that's what you're bringing up, right, Sean,
I think what people assume, yeah, there is there's there is an inventory
system, and you are solving puzzles using that stuff in this game doesn't seem
to have anything. I guess that's not You're right, that is a big
part of what those games are. I guess that's not what I immediately go
to when I think of those games. Mike would be very quick to talk
about. But when I think about stuff like say Monkey Island for example,
that's where I think it's more about the dialogue. Sure, So Mucky Owen
is it's very much like that inventory stuff is still a big component, it's
still there. Yeah, I know this is maybe more of a meving,
but that's just like what I think of when I know, maybe it's more
like that Telltale style of an adventure game, right where it is like just
walking around and talking. Yeah, it is more like that Telltale adventure game,
except you're not really choosing specific dialogue options. There's not a lot of
like choosing for the player to do specifically, and you're not interacting with the
environment a lot. You're interacting more so with the characters. And you can
talk to pretty much anyone and they'll they'll have like different dialogue bits as you
interact with them depending on where you or in the story, So like it
won't just be the same can dialogue of like oh hey Harold, oh hey
Harold. It'll it'll be bespoke to the certain situation you're in. And like
the the comedy is there. It's really it's really quaint. It's really dry
as well, which I kind of get down with. It's very punny.
It has all the things to be a very to be a game or an
experience that really appeals to me just the game aspect, there's not a lot
there. So would you say that's more of like a visual novel then,
like maybe Thirteen Sentinels E is sort of what I'm trying to teenagers. Well,
yeah, definitely not. There's too many in this game. Well like
in Thirteen Sentinels I feel like in those tableaus even like there was more interactivity,
like you're kind of like hunting around of like, all right, which
thing am I supposed to interact with here? Sure? But Harold Holbot,
primarily you were kind of doing like a mini game. Occasionally that mini game
is very sparse, like you're just moving stuff around or you're just just taking
care of menial chores. Because Harold Halibut is like a repair man on the
ship. It's got it. It's oozing character. And my favorite thing about
the game is the most disgusting thing about the game is how you fast travel
or the mode of op transportation. You get flushed in a tube. Oh
yeah, that's fun. I always like Chris. I have a confession.
Yes I've heard. I've been hearing people talk about this game for a while.
I didn't really know what it was and just assumed it was a fishing
game for months now. Oh no, that's fair. Same, it's got
a fish right in the name. Yeah, yeah, that's how I prayed
was well, yeah, clearly it's a fishing game. You just played as
a fish, yeah, like David, David. Yeah, So last this
on the s Fedora. Why is this ship called the Fedora out this game?
I think just because it's like it's funny, ha ha Fedora. You
say malady at some point, No, no one says malady. Okay,
he hasn't hit the horn on the ship that goes lady. Actually, but
like I don't know how, you know, I'm playing catch up on a
bunch of games, right, Like I want to finish Infinite Wealth, I
want to finish Rebirth, and this Harold Halibut seems like a game to just
kind of like you should sink your teeth into when you have the time,
because you're pretty much just experiencing the story. And as far as I have
heard, it goes anywhere from like ten to twelve hours, so it's like
you're you're kind of buckling up for a pretty lengthy experience. I feel like
maybe this could have been an episodic joint and maybe that would have been more
palatable because like Kentucky Roots zero, that's kind of maybe. Oh yeah yeah,
Tailtale Games, Yeah what what like, what's that squareness game? True
Collers True? Oh oh, Gode strange. Yeah. There's not a lot
of drama in the game though, so it's not maybe doing an episodic nature
like that wouldn't wouldn't lend itself well. But like, hey, it looks
fantastic. I feel like the worksmanship coming from the game definitely, and like
the writing is done very well, just like the game aspects. It's just
I mean then, like I do feel like I would also be hung up
in that same exact spot as you jam where I'm like the game aspect,
but for what it's going for. Do you think they execute on that,
because it sounds like they're not going for like Dewey game. It's like,
hey, it's a talkie game. For what they're going for, do you
think they nailed it? Are you happy with the execution? I think they
they nailed it. I think this is it's probably a case of me having
misaligned expectations because when I see something that looks like a diorama and stop motion,
my mind immediately is pouring towards like Wes Anderson inspired stuff, and they're
definitely pulling from like the Wes Anderson camp in terms of some of the aesthetic
presentations and stuff, but it's not it's kind of missing that snappiness that like
a Wes Anderson movie would have because you are kind of trudging along and Harold
moves very slowly and right, like the timing for like the dialogue probably isn't
there. Yeah, yeah, but like all the voice acting is great.
You one of the first people you would inter interact with. I forget his
name, but he's like a set of like triplets, I think, and
they just go by their numbers and you just see them in multiple spots just
doing different. Can't just spring up triplets while Chat is already talking about Huey
Dewey and Louie. Yeah, what is happening? Welcome Mike. We're revealing
to you right now that you've been in a Truman show. Ads about to
get excited, but yeah, Harold, Hall of It. It's out on
PC, it's out on consoles, I hear. Unfortunately, console performance kind
of chugs, but like that very visual heavy game, So maybe that's why
Jan I have one last question on this. Do you do you cond of
just like not have a ton of experience with games like this, Like you
don't have much to compare to. Yeah, I've always been curious about Day
of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, all that jazz, but didn't have a
PC growing up. Definitely enjoyed all the Tailtale games, specifically the Walking Dead
ones. How sad for that guy once I should have stole stuff from his
house. But yeah, like, uh, don't have too much of a
frame of reference. Like when we did of Thieves for Escape from Monkey Island,
I was like, Oh, this is so hilarious. They should make
games like this, just a ton of adventure games, because like you mentioned
last year with Little Goody two Shoes that you sort of like didn't really know
what the game was supposed to be. And when I got around to playing,
because I was looking forward to I checked out, I was like,
Oh, because it's sort of a visual novely adventure game. Maybe Jan just
doesn't play a ton of though, so he doesn't. He's just even turn
I just pressed the button. Let Mike say his thing. Yeah, Secret
of Monkey Eye Jam Okay, Okay, it's growing on me. Grim This
is easier though, grim Jan Dango, That's easy. Oh god, that's
what I was talking with Kurt about how amazing Griffin Dango was on the last
one voicemailed dump Truck. Yeah, and god, I'm I played to Grifford
Dango so many times. When the best games ever game so good, it's
so good, it's it's the pinnacle of that classic style of Mikey. I
feel like I hear you talk about Grim Fandango a lot if I were to,
if I'm at a crossroads here, Grim Fandango. They have the Tentacle.
Oh so my history Day of the Tentacle is intense because that's the first
adventure game I played. It just randomly picked it out from a software et
cetera, because it does you can get a computer game if it's like not
too much. I was like, oh, this one looks colorful and cute,
and I love Data tent that randomly picked it up. That's cool,
Yeah, Data Tentacle that you just triggered me. It's like that right to
me? Mean, just say, Day of the Tentacle I had. I
had a fan site for Data Tentacle called because Data Tancles Dot it's called dot
com. It's pretty good for folks for audio listeners. You can't see it,
but I'm currently shrunk down and I'm on Mike Manati's head like kind of
shifting him to do certain things right now, Like, yeah, so it
works out. I don't have any hair, your headphone cable. There you
go. You have dot com? Did you dot dot com? You didn't
have a dot com? Dot com? There's no way I was able to
afford it. Dot com. It's probably something like bullshit, yeah or something.
Yeah, yeah, Nerd has a dot jay. Would you be talking?
Would you be talking about playing off air or on air? Either?
I mean, because Grim Fandango, I feel like at this point in time
you kind of need someone helping you out with that, and I will be
done that exactly you saying now, Mike would be good for that because there's
some puzzles in there you will never get unless you Yeah, all those games
you did, like trust me, we were all using game facts back then.
You would just get stuck sometimes. But I've played through all these games
multiple times. So Grim and Dango is like a Cosa Blanca parody with a
lot of like fun Mexican like like folklore and stuff like that, and then
Day of the Techacle is more like Texas Avery Saturday Morning cartoon silliness. Oh,
very good, just slightly different flavors. I would probably say do date
Day of the Tentacle first you can experience some of the arc of the Revolved.
I think that's probably the right move. Day of the Technacle has some
Founding Father stuff in it, so it's technically a Wharf of July game.
Oh I like that. There I go Day of Janticle and then playing phant
Division and just having fireworks go off and we'll celebrate the fourth of July that
way. Last thing on the visual novel stuff, Jan, have you played
don Gan Rampa? No? Okay, so I just yeahs brought in the
chat Jang and Rampa. So I've heard that like Dan may also be baffled
by some of the Dungan ropa bullshit. Hear me out here, folks,
Dan, Jan Rompa, Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it,
and I'll be your guide through those fantastic that's the one with like the bear
right yeah, Mana Kuma Okay, there we go. Lovely lovely, uh.
Speaking about Sean playing a guide for all of us here at gb Sean
you put here Hell Divers two still rules, and I agree with you.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm definitely not the guide on this one, y'all.
My guide through this one. Uh yeah, I've just you know, we're
in a at least are into my calendar and the games I'm looking forward to.
We're in like a slight lull here as we get to a couple of
games at the end of the month and then a couple at the end of
next month. We're as slightly slower periods. So I am finally getting around
to finishing some of the games that I want to finish, Like I'm still
trucking through like a Dragon. I might be putting Unicorn Overlord on the shelf
for now, not putting it down, but just shelving it for a second,
because like a Dragon runs really well on steam Deck. That might just
be I might just play it on my TV and Steam Deck when I want
some handheld time. So I think Unicorn Overlord not super clicking with me.
I'm a little bit further still now I'm close to ten hours into it,
and I think, yeah, I might put down for now because it's very
unfocused. I feel it's like all of the Tactics games, the Tactics Game,
and I think it might just be doing a little too much and maybe
I'm just not in the mood for that right now. But as I get
through all these different games at health, Avers Too is the other one that's
really sticking with me. Had game night with friends last night. We just
played three hours straight of More Hell. Yeah, it was so much fun.
Just I love I do prefer games that are a bit more guided,
not super linear all the time, you though, Sometimes I like that.
Sometimes, I like, you know, when Final Fantasy tends to be a
little more linear, not quite till level thirteen, but maybe like a ten,
you know, something like that. Yeah, I like when games are
like that. But here with Hell theres too something about it. I love
that you just need to figure some things out on your own sometimes. Oh
yeah, like we were doing what is the first time that any of us
had seen a mission because my friends are just playing with me. So I'm
a little bit further had im having done that stream last week figuring out how
to destroy the fuel silos on one of those you know, like destroyed the
encampment missions, yep, And we're figuring out how do we do this?
Do we call in the orbital strike? What are we doing? And then
I noticed there's this new stratagem there, like, oh, hell bomb.
Oh okay, this makes much more sense. Call that in, you know,
arm that thing and then run away and the whole thing blows up.
It's so much fun. And she was like, what that game could be
like because like when we played Sean, we definitely used the hell bomb to
destroy stuff like two or three times. But there's so much going on.
It's like you were just worried about your own stuff. So when Mike's like,
I'm getting help bomb, and I'm like, okay, I'll activate it.
I saw you drop it. It's very easy. But like, okay,
they're taking care of their bullshit, I'll focus on my bullshit. I
just wasn't exactly And that happens all the time. You were doing as my
friend likes to call it his faan of reference, you were doing the Warrior
where mini games. Yeah, I was defending the rest of the team from
the robots that were coming in, and so I just wasn't even thinking about
so having to do that myself and made that connection. It's very satisfying and
Max would feel like they're they got their job right, and that's there's a
big, I think, a big appeal there where it's like, Okay,
I can just do my part and everyone else. You know, if your
job is reloading somebody else's weapon, which was stupid, it's actually really fun
very Oh yeah, carrying that supply backpack. You were an MVP on that
team, and Chat pointed out that they got grubbed to blow up a hell
bomb in that stream that we well last night my friend found side like I
was like, oh, what's this? Can I like break it up?
I'm like no, no, no, no no. It's like a nuke
goes off and from us and we're all dead, even though we were a
mile away. It was insane and they nailed it. Yeah. God,
I need I need to find an excuse for us to stream that game so
I can hop in. Yeah, I need to do like hew, like
hell Divers Tuesdays or something I don't want to to Thursdays or something. I
don't know. We'll find a reason to go back the neat thing that I've
noticed too, because I'll get some hell divers to videos popping up on my
my TikTok algorithm. Sometimes I'll notice someone is like super high level in the
game, but they're still using like the beginning machine gun stratagem that you like
drop with and like the supply back. I'm like, all right, if
this person can like be high level and get down with the same thing,
okay, And that shows you, like what kind of a game they're making
as well, where it's that's how like Call of Duty for Modern Warfare worked,
where it's like everyone's like, oh my god, you have to play
to unlock these guns, so people who play longer can have an advantage over
me. It's like, that's not how it works. Those guns are balanced
in such way. All this is really doing is just giving you a chance
to drip feed new stuff so you can learn the stuff that you do have.
And if you learn these basics, you're gonna be fine. And so
really what we're doing is we're just giving you like a step ladder to step
up to like learn the game, and that's the real improvement that you're making,
not getting some new gun. And I think that's mostly true in Health
divers too. There's definitely some weapons that people have favored and they've done some
rebalancing all that stuff, but they rebalance for this purpose because they want everything
to feel valid when you're playing yep, lovely, lovely. Next game I
have here on the docket is a little bit of a preview Tales of Canzarazau
put this down. Yeah, I wrote this down. We talked a little
bit about it on a rev Engines last week I played a little bit more
so I think I'll recapital quick. This is a Metroid Vena. It's got
that African futurism, a sort of a vibe that I think people have been
more and more finding more appeal in recently, and it's finding like it's a
foothold in a lot more media and all that stuff really works for me.
The thing that was surprising to me as like, Okay, this is a
Metroid Vena are the choices it makes that aren't Metroid Venua. Like there's no
save silos that you go into like in a Metroid or a Castlevania, So
that like mixes up the feeling of the pacing a little bit and the upgrades
you're getting. It's like you start with a double jump, you start with
a dash, and so the other kinds of upgrades you're getting are feel a
little bit different than a metroid vena. It's like, man, I'm like
not accustomed to this, this scaling up of how my character works, and
so it's like it kind of like put me off on a wrong foot,
I think to begin with. And as I'm getting more into the flow of
that stuff, I think it's like, Okay, I get what they're going
for and it's still really working. And the fundamental aspect of a metroid venue
where it's like, Okay, I know I need to go to this part
of the world and I know what I'm going to accomplish by getting there,
and so that like magnetic pole is still there and that's kind of all I
really need at the end of the day. So I was surprised how it
shifted up the gears on a metro advena genre. Did you guys find that
at all in your preview attempts? So I have just started out of this,
so I played a little bit of it, So don't I haven't really
got far enough to like get a sense of that progression. But you're right,
like you do have more tools to start out with, and like,
so far, I haven't like found some area where it's like, oh,
I can't get through here, and so I get you know, and I've
been playing for about like four or five hours. Nice. But what I
am liking it and what is really sticking out to me is the kind of
dual combat system right where, yeah, you know, you have like the
shooty style, you have the Mega Man style and the zero style. Right,
That's how I think of it. It's like Mega Man X stuff to
me, because like the ones the very melee focused one and the other one
is the ranged one. You can switch between them at will. So that's
what's immediately appealing to me. But otherwise it's just you know, it's really
snappy. The platforming does feel good. I don't know if it frill is
just good as the Lost Crown Jin, but it feels very I let it
cook. But yeah, I'm I'm pretty happy. I'm excited to play more.
Yeah, yeah, I want to dive dive all the way in and
see the other uh movement abilities that might unlock, because I mean, if
a game starts you off with a double jump in an air dash, they
gotta have goodies. The one thing, like like Jeff Betches before, it
is very much like the We're gonna have We're gonna look at two JPEGs talking
at each other a lot kind of metrova, especially the start, and like,
I feel bad being annoyed at that when it is clearly a kind of
emotional and personal story, especially and it's not like it's being told poorly.
It's it seems like a good story. But I am always like, I
bet we could have done this, like in a more classic betray ving a
kind of like background sort of way that I find more interesting than just a
little dialogue boxes and dialogue moments. They still definitely still have that. Later
on, they shift that up a little bit, and again I will talk
pretty vaguely because this is a preview. They shift that up a little bit
later on. So it does mostly happen when you are running around the world,
which is why I had to switch the language from key Swahili, which
they spelled it with a key Swahili, which is the same thing as Swahili.
Apparently I didn't realize that I switched to English so I could play the
game while they're doing the talking. They were doing that so frequently, so
they do kind of lean into that a little bit late later, and then
I will also say I'm finding the story to be pretty moving about like at
the point I'm in, I was feeling the exact same way as you,
Mike early on, and I'm like, oh, they are hitting some of
these moments really well. It's also leaning into the metro a Maana style of
like, oh, this conversation I just had really adds a propulsion to the
action here. It makes me want to keep exploring. So I've been pretty
impressed by that stuff. So you know, we'll talk about yeah, like,
you know, it's a good story, so I mean, you know
Prins of Perssia had. It's not any more than what Prince of Persia was
doing. And obviously I love that game. So it's very far from some
like deal break or even really some like negative. It's just something that at
first I find a little bit like, I don't know if this is the
right way speaking about a gripping story, touching, pulling on the heart strings.
I see this on the dock here, and I was pumping my fist
when I saw it. Treasure playing it for the PS two. Yeah,
I was like, play this. It looked Mike, Okay. When I
watched you play this on your Twitch, I was like, this kind of
looks like just a lot of those other PS two games, maybe a bit
of Jack, maybe a bit of Sly Cooper. What is this game like?
What are they most trying to ape deaf? I think Jack and Dexter
like dek Decks are one is definitely the first reference point. But you know
so. Treasure Planet was a Disney animated movie from the kind of early two
thousands. It's an adventure movie if you're not a sickle like me. Again,
I was getting this in my chat constantly. Everybody gets this mixed up
with Atlantis from also from Disney or titan Ae. It was Warner Brothers,
so Fox. It was real funny because there was Yeah, I think it
was Fox. There was a There were just a ton of these, like
two D animated adventure movies for kind of like older kids or teenagers. It
was a trend instigated by nothing because all of these movies did poorly. There's
also a sindbad movie by DreamWorks that nobody even remembers. They all did poorly,
but they're all very good actually, Tally Yeah, and Treasure Playing in
Atlantis, like all of them have been reconsidered. They're all cult classics now,
but at the time this was a licensed game based off a movie that
very few people had seen, made by Bizarre Creations. I think it's the
Project Gotham racing people the Blur people. Oh yeah, and yeah, it's
it's it's pretty good actually for what for these right, you kind of usually
expect something a little cheaper, but the platforming does feel very snappy and responsive,
and it's a you know, the Collecti font style where you're going to
these levels. There's like five objectives that you can do and you only need
to really do so much to progress, but I like to to do all
of them. And the you know, visuals are pretty nice. This treasure
Planet has that whole like hey, pirates, but in space vibe, so
you know, the old some of the new, and that's being captured here
really nicely. And then there are some levels where you're on your solar Solar
surfer right, hell, yeah you are, it's just there. They're Tony
Hawk levels, and of course it doesn't feel as good as Tony Hawk,
but it's pretty fun and it's faster than that. It's a different vibe,
but it's the character even like starts off as like wow, look, at
all these things you can do here, but you can collect five of the
green energies, or you can go and get a score of you like,
wow, here's the hitting a dress tape. What's that? Right? Is
it light Tony Hawk where you're doing tricks as well, or is it morally
Jack two or some sort of just some means of transportation. Probably it's not
means transportation because like it's just that whole level and you can't get off it.
It's but tricks. The tricks aspect is pretty minimal, but you can
like grind and stuff. Okay, yeah, Mike, is is their voice
acting in it? It is? There's voice acting in it. Seems like
they got most of the people right. So David Hyde Pierce, who's a
major character in this is in here. I think it's Joseph Gordon Levitt as
Jim Hawkins, the main character. Yeah, yeah, so it all sounds
very good. You know. Of course they have the full motion video clips
from the movie You gettulf that. Yeah. I think as far as these
kind of licensed three D platformers, which at the time were such a dime
a dozen rights, so I don't you know, of course not people weren't
paying attention to this game then and now it's like, man, we don't
really get games like this anymore. Playing one of these now really hits.
But I definitely think this is on the upper end of how good those games
usually were. Yeah. Yeah, I'm really happy that people are sort of
people are willing to go through these back caalog of games and look at them
for what they are nowadays, because back in the day we just saw them
as shovel where or whatever, don't even pay attention to it. But now
that people are exploring more classic games that they never checked out, or revisiting
ones that they wrote off, I'm happy to see. I think like a
big one is the Nightmare Before Christmas PS two game. They cry like it's
awesome, Yeah, so cry with musical boss fights. Yeah, it's like
a narrative sequel to the movie. Yeah, just like straight up is,
Like, I think it's canonically a sequel. They got some of the voice
sectors and everything, so I have a lot of voice sectors. Yeah.
I think that that era of gaming is cool to go back to. It's
one of the reasons I'm looking at getting some Moji hardware and doing some stuff
with that. Well, just even like like the idea of like a three
D platform or tie into a movie. It used to be like, because
we can make a video game in like nine months, and I was like,
no, you can't yet. I think that's why people are like looking
back at these things so fondly these days, because I think we'd kill to
have this sort of thing be a regular thing. Now, Now what do
we What do we get? Nowadays? We get like the Way Forward Mummy
game and right, and then we get a lot of mobile games, and
then occasionally Guitar and Star Wars getting and even then, like when you get
like a license game, it's always like, well, it's set in the
world of this but it's kind of its own news thing and that's nice too,
But in its like never comes out the same time as a movie because
that's impossible. I mean, they can't even line up a new Fallout game
coming out. Remember Twisted Metal came out and it was a hit, and
there was just no Twisted Metal game for people to go and buy. There's
nothing people would do with that. Yeah, the Suicide Squad game got delayed.
It feels like because I got the kids, we go to McDonald's get
happy meals, a lot, and the toys in there are always kind of
depressing, and it feels like these games were the happy meal toy version of
video games, and there was something not magical. I don't want to oversell
it, but there was something nice to kind of have, like know and
rely that those things are going to be there if you want to spend more
time in that world. It hit the dopamine. How dare you downplay the
Crash Bash toys that they had? It is weird. The multi versus is
like, was the last toys related to video games that they had A McDonald's
now was very wild. That's wild. I'm looking at a video of a
playthrough of this and this is just Jack and Dexter. There's I mean,
this joint that is all. I love that about these licensed games as well.
On it's like it's just going to be another game. Like I just
started that Hotel Transylvania three with the kid and it's just Pickman. And I
know there's some people are gonna yell at me about Rlow. I don't watch
Arlow. I'm sorry. I didn't know he did a video about that,
so I'm sorry. I had the same revelation that he did in a video,
but uh, it was like this just straight up places like Pickman that
this is the whole game and she's playing it and enjoying it. My Stitch
game on PS one that's just crashed Bandicod. There's a lot that are just
crashed. The l and Stitch on g b A. The Stitch portions are
just metal slug. It's really good. Like, okay, man, I'm
like that. Or Alien Hamid would have been a good fit for that.
Okay. There's also a PS one Treasure Planet that's a different game entirely and
not supposed to be very good. And then there's a Treasure Playing game on
PC that's a RTS real time strategy game. Apparently not only when we get
we get like multiple ones each platform. You could have your own bespoke one
of these. Why not? God? But oh man, I smell a
license to thrill. Yeah, it's time, it's time to bring it back.
Yeah. By the way, it was Crash Team Rumble I was talking
about. I was like, that's crash Bash is not that game? What
is what the hell is? Forgive and forgetting? Nobody nobody remembers Crash Team
Rumble from last year. Not a bad game, but how to keep anybody
asked for? Fortunately, oh Moussata in the chat brings us up that the
early Harry Potter games were also very different. I remember checking it was it
was either the game Boy game Boy Advanced ones, and like, the first
spell you learn is flipendo, And I'm like, what the fuck. I've
read the books, I've watched the movies. No one ever says this fucking
spell? What is flipendo? Really upset about the lore, very upset as
you you know, I up. I think there were Atlantis games too,
right, Mike, Like, I remember an adventure one. There was an
Atlantis game on PS one. Yeah, and then there was a first person
shooter prequel on PC and there was a standalone demo for that that came with
Cereal. I remember. So, yes there were Atlantis games also, hell
yes, uh well, last thing on the dock at I see here,
Shawn, you have a secret project. What are you doing? What are
you doing? So? What happened partners your nose? I'm sorry, no,
no, but why did Mike do the butt clapping sound? You still
not understand what that is? Don't worry about it. I leave. I
thought Sean was into low punny and now he's talking about buckets of pain.
Oh, this is right. We haven't We haven't talked since I outed you
as the Megalopini fan that you are trying to deflect towards me Ja. Don't
worry, everyone knows your secret shame now is that the secret project? No
secret project? What do y'all know about the Virtual Boy? A lot?
Yeah? I had one very excited about it. Yeah. So, uh,
red Viper is this new emulator for the virtual Boy on the three DS?
Yes? Yes, yeah, And this is the thing that's been done
before. I think this is a different project, pretty sure, but this
one has been very meticulously created. You can change a lot of different things
in here. You neednd just how the three D works. It'll change the
what the slider does on your three DS, so you neither get like a
three D effect like the three DS usually has, or basically an even more
intense version that just one to one simulates what it would be like having a
virtual boy up to your eyes. It is wild the work that they put
into this. And you can you can change the color from just I searing
red on the back background to you make it black and white, which is
your one if you' you can change it to there's a there's an RGB color
selector. You can make it the same color as bucketsho if you wanted to.
But I just fired up, like every US Virtual Boy game when I
download this to my three D. How much wan the world? Did you
play? Shit? If I ever think about bike, I played like five
mists. That game is not good, like most games on the Virtual Boy
once't you know? It not that great? Jeff Process pretty okay. T
rod Boxer was neat because it's sort of punched out any first person view.
Uh, there's Galactic Pinball I think it's called, which is just a bad
pinball game. Kind of like it. Jeff Beckler would be offended by this
game because the entire game, Yeah, the entire game is just what if
a pinball board is just the flippers and then the things up top what you
call them, is that the bumpers or whatever? That's that's the board game
three D but in three D exactly. That's what so many these games were,
even the first party ones weren't that great. Mario Tennis does not feel
good on Virtual Boy. Mario Clash is not a good game, very weird.
I like, I liked Mario Clasham. Did you have a Virtual Boy
my Virtual Boy? Hey? Yeah, question why was it red? Because
that was the cheapest led they can make back then? Okay, fair enough,
but like blue was like still very expensive, if not like nascent at
that point, so yeah, they were far away from color. That scale
is good though, Yes, that's the one I was going to bring up.
Is Warrior Land on Virtual Boy is just Warrior Land, and it's way
more fidelity than the Game Boy games because the Virtual Boy actually had a decent
amount of power in it because they were sort of positioning it as a right,
Yeah it was thirty two bit yeah, but yeah, lower power form
factor or whatever. So it's somewhere between a hand held and a console.
It does very basic graphics. But now Warrio Land game it looks great.
It feels just like the Game Boy Warrior Lands, you know, which one
is kind of its own thing, and then two and three are basically the
same, and then four is kind of its own thing. It feels like
two and three. It feels like the slightly more advanced Warrior Land games.
And you know, Warrior Land is a interesting platformer because it's a little slower
paced, or you're not immediately jumping and doing challenging platformers a platforming especially right
away. But it's you know, it's gotten vibe to it. It's kind
of the first Jimmagammy tense game to come out the US. Checks. Yeah,
I played Jack Brothers and that's us. That's that game is weird.
I don't I had a jam moment. What is this game? Was it
supposed to be? I don't know. Yeah, I think it's I guess
it's like a puzzle game sort of, but it's a little unclear what genres
they're combined. There Again, most these games I just played for like ten
minutes, and then warial Land is the way I spent a lot of time.
Wasn't there a Bomberman puzzle game on Virtual Boy? But maybe I don't
know that, maybe a Japan only one or I just got to download it
when I went downline, I'll remember. But there was there was a Tetris.
There was Tetris three D ar yes, yeah, which is weird because,
yeah, you're placing the three D blocks in this not quite cylinder but
sort of a cylindrical shape. It's very odd. There's a R game coming
out that is exactly that, where it's like a cylindrical Tetris mike. You're
saying, you imagine, like the Virtual Boy was around for like three years,
even what kind of weird shit would have been on there, Like there
would have certainly been a Star Fox game. There may have been. Is
that a game on the Virtual Boy? Can you imagine? Guys? That
was the neat thing when I was on a certain website downloading these Virtual Boy
games because lord knows, you can't find them ayar away for a reasonable price
or anything nowadays. Although you can't buy the entire library, I think it
would only be like a few hundred because there's only like fifteen games on the
thing. People have ported other games to the Virtual Boy that wouldn't make sense
for the era, like there is a Star Fox like Fanny port To and
stuff. So yeah, a lot of them are just demos, not complete
games, just fan projects. But it is neat to see that there's this
little community taking advantage of this weird, unique hardware. I think that's I
just think that's cool. I remember going to a Toys r Us and being
super excited to try out a Virtual Boy, and God, bless my mom
tried to make the money move where she could to like help help me buy
games and stuff. But she looked at that and she was like, Jerome,
let me tell you something about uh stuff not lasting. That shit ain't
gonna last. Mom made the right choice. It was that in the thirty
two X. Yeah. Wow, Mama smart. I'm smart, just like
you know what? Just save for a PS one son He right? Cool?
All right, folks, That about it for games. We're gonna take
quick bricky break and we'll be back with some video game news right after this.
And we have returned with the show, and Jeff Grub has come from
the pantry fully stocked with news. Look at that he's bouncing five different types
of pasta, a jar of pickles, and stories all in one arm.
What a dad. First, you gotta eat your stories before you get your
treats. So I got some headlines here for you. This is like more
a recap of stuff that we knew. I guess the confirmation a corroboration if
you will. Sony's PS five pro is real and developers are getting ready for
it. The Verge I was able to get their hands on some more information
that basically lined up with everything we've heard so far. Sony is getting set
to release a more powerful PS five console co named Trinity later this year.
The PS five Pro will feature a more powerful GPU, slightly faster CPU mode,
and improved system memory. The console is expected to deliver better ray tracing
performance, higher resolutions and frame rates in certain games. Basically everything will require
an update though a patch if it's going to take advantage of this, although
I expect that's going to be the big push this holiday. Developers are already
being asked to ensure their games are compatible with the PS five Pro, with
a focus on improving ray tracing. The PS five Pro will also support Sony's
new PlayStation Spectral Super Super Resolution, which is PSSR. That sounds like dls
Yeah, Pit Pizzar, that sounds like d lss tu. That's for a
reason. It is basically their version of that, and that's going to be
a big focus for them as well. I think on improving performance across a
bunch of games. Where we're at with the PS five Pro. We keep
hearing about the hardware, We're not hearing a lot about like other games are
going to go alongside this. You guys have the sense that they are going
to launch this thing and pretty much be like, Hey, all your old
games run better now, and that's going to be the focus, because I
don't think they're going to have like some big marketing game to go along with
it, right, maybe can we have a little astro as a treat at
least that seems guys like, well, because its a pro, it's not
going to be exclusive, right, assuming that they follow the same as PS
four pro, So what that's the thing? On purpose? Would it serve?
I just I also don't know what features, because like the whole idea
of ASTRO for people who are unaware is like, so far these games have
been, hey, we have a little thing that comes with the PlayStation.
Move had something right early on there was like some ASTRO stuff in there.
YEAHS four launch, Yeah, yeah, and then right so you could like
it would be in the controller and you can like have it behind the touch
pad and like it was showing off the touch pad that sort of thing.
And they did that with PSVR obviously, and then and then they did with
PS five as as launch thing to show off the features of the haptics and
the triggers. I don't know what they would need, like you don't really
need Astro to show off ray tracing, but I guess you could. But
if they're doing that, that makes it feel even more tech demoe, and
I think maybe it's just like, hey, maybe there is nothing to shops
like. I guess we just have to make a real, like full blown
Astro game instead. That's why I was assume, Yeah, that's what I'm
hoping for. I'm hoping for that as well. That's probably what is happening,
so okay, but that takes us back to then there's no like PS
five Pro game that like, oh, you have to have that to play
that. It's going to be Last of Us Part two looks better than ever.
I think that's what the PS four Pro was as well. Yeah,
I'm just thinking what this system is going to be usedful. I was actually
thinking about this quite a bit yesterday. I was listening to some other people
talk about because you know, the PS four Pro obviously, the reason to
have that was to make your games targeting ten AP look GOODF four K display,
right, So what is the PS five pro here for? Is based
on the specs that have leaked out or I mean basically confirmed at this point,
because apparently it's come from dev portals, so he doesn't know a lot
of this stuff to be true. It's not going to improve GPU power broadly
speaking. It either will in standard mode just runs the same as the PS
five CPU, or you optionally can like downclock the GPU a little bit,
which makes sense. Says you'll have a PSSR helping out there in order to
give a little bit more juice to CPU. So if people don't know what
that tech jargon means, you're probably not getting better frame rates. You might
get locked to the target frame rates a little bit better if they choose to
use that alternative mode, but otherwise, if a game is CPU bound,
which most console games are nowadays, is why we now have games tarting thirty
fs. I don't know. This whole thing just feels weird because I know
Mike really was hoping that this would be okay. You know, this is
the console. It gets us the thirty FPS games going up to sixty and
seems like at a base hardware level, that's not what we're getting it.
But it sounds like, oh sorry, good continue Sean. Yeah, where
I was going with this is I was thinking this would be a risky move.
What if some developers scale back their games and then rely on PSSR to
bring it up to where it's currently at. If you claw back the resolution
and some of the detail a little bit, maybe that saves you enough computing
power since everything is shared on console, to get some games running at a
higher frame rate while still looking the way that they currently do at thirty fps.
There's a lot of technical stuff going on here that I don't know.
I'm really really curious to see how they position this because there's as of right
now, as far as we can see, it's like ray tracing cool,
right, And that's like just what Jet's saying, like, oh there,
tony developers, like make sure you got raid tracing. It seems like that's
going to be what they're going to try to use to sell it, which
I don't know how excited the average consumer is about ray tracing anymore if they
ever were. No. Yeah, And the hard thing there is the same
thing it's always been difficult for ray tracing. Lighting and games already looks really
good and it's going to keep looking good, and so the comparison shots are
just not going to be stunning to most people and improve reflections. I mean
these things that people have faked that you can now do raw dog and with
ray racing, it's impressive. From a technical level, developers are going to
be curious about it to the point where it will take over eventually. It's
just not something you can explain to the average person. Yeah, but I
mean Devil's advocate. Devs are excited about rag racing because it's once you learn
how to do it, it's easier than absolutely so that's why it will take
over eventually. But right now they have to do both because racing and like
you said, the average consumer just will not care whatsoever. You show them
a side by side, They're like, cool, the reflection looks better.
I don't care. It's I'm not spending that money. Well, do you
all I was going to ask, do you all think the general audience is
tech literate enough with how much like new iPhones, phones in general get pumped
out that like them, seeing PS five pro is not going to entice them
to buy a whole new thing. There are going to be a good amount
of people, especially like the super PlayStation fans, that are just going to
want the new model. Yeah for sure, and maybe like maybe they're hoping
that that will be enough, right, you bundle that up with the holiday
launch. This is a way that you can get people who already have a
place Station five to buy another one, so that will juice up sales a
bit at least. Now when you do that, does that help you sell
more software? Maybe a little bit, but especially when there's not going to
be a whole lot of new software this year anyways, It's like it's like
someone to chat somewhat jokingly point out it is going to be the people who
bought the PSVR two, Like, at this point, there's not really a
reason to buy that peripheral. If you want to get into VR, the
Metaquest three is the way to go, even for PCVR connected to your PC,
even wirelessly and broadly speaking, is a better experience than PSBR two.
But some people are in that ecosystem. They love the exclusives, and you
know, if you have the money, you spend and you just want the
best experience without having to learn the ins and outs of running a PC,
I can see some people going for it. But yeah, it's just it's
never going to hit in the mainstream. Because four pro didn't hit in the
mainstream. It did decently well but I think that's just where Sony's kind of
at right now. Yeah, they just want to at least have that boutique
option to make their entire ecosystem look a little more supreme astrobot rogue like,
that's what's going to happen. That's what they're doing. They don't activate Jeff
like that. People dilated right there because something like, all right, they
made Valhalla. Valhalla is really dope. Just people circle back because there's some
neat story bits in there. We already have Last of Us Part two with
the roguelike thing. What else are we going to have now? I mean,
rather than klank could work well, could work very well. I dope?
Please? All right? Moving ahead here a couple Final Fantasy stories.
Final Fantasy seven Rebirth is quote underperforming sales wise, according to one analyst,
Final Fantasy seven Rebirth PS five exclusive sequel to Final Fantasy seven Remake, has
reportedly underperformed in terms of sales. That's according to Daniel Alghamed, director of
Research and Insights at Nico Partner's Rebirth is telling about half of what remakes sold
in the same timeframe and has a weaker tale. Again. That's according to
Daniel in comparison, Final Fantasy seven remakes sold three point five million copies in
its first three days on PlayStation four, while Rebirth peaked at two point two
to one million days daily active users at launch. Square Inox has not announced
official sales data for Rebirth, so a lot of this is speculation, but
it's based on informed speculation. Daniel knows what he's talking about. Yeah,
I was laughing pretty hard when a couple of people were going hard at Daniel
on Twitter, and I was just like, Wow, what this man does
for a lis? Yeah? Do you It's worse. Even Daniel is like,
look, I'm not I did say that like reburface flopping or like something,
or like everyone calmed down a bit and stop yelling at me specifically.
You know, all people point out there are half as many PS fives out
as there were ps fours when remake came out, so of course it happened.
And there is also like you know, that is the kind of the
problem with doing this three parter thing and Square Nicks do this was going to
be a problem. That's why they were desperately like in the markt be like
this is a great place to jump in found Fantasy seven. Why, like
they knew it was a lie, but like they you know, need to
kind of maybe get that hope and dream out there a bit. But now,
like people generally need to play remake to appreciate Rebirth, and that's you
know fine for the sort of long term, right, people are going to
keep coming to this game. But yeah, it was never gonna be something
that was going to like jump out of a gate and sell five million copies
in a week, even being in the nineties and Metacritic, which you think
would be some kind of a big deal. Right now, it's a it's
just challenging, and it is incredibly ambitious what they're doing, and I'm glad
that they did it right. It's definitely the right move creatively. But yeah,
it always kind of meant that sales are going to be interesting, especially
you're not going to have a PC version right away. Right this entire thing
is kind of just a duh moment. It's a it's a sequel to another
game. It's exclusive to one platform that you know is doing decently well if
you actually look at the numbers. But also not everyone owns it, whereas
everyone owned a PS four by the time remake came out just yeah, like
this just was never going to sell it as well, and I would almost
argue it's doing pretty good all things considered, I would say it's doing pretty
good. Yeah. Yeah, we kind of have to have a reckoning of
like what is a good selling game, because you know, there's such a
weird spectrum of these games that sell forty million copies and they're just they're just
on their own planet, that's their own thing. I mean, yeah,
it also doesn't matter, right because what we think as good or bad,
it's like what the company is, how how are they going to react to
this is always what the reality actually matters, And so I it's Square Enix.
I don't know. I think that they're I mean, they're gonna see
Final Fantasy seven remake trilogy through like that, that's not a question. But
I wonder when they look back on it, if they'll feel good about it.
I imagine that what's actually happening in this like exact moment is what happens
with a lot of trilogies. The second part does the worst financially. That's
usually traditionally how it's worked, not always, but traditionally retires strikes back,
which is like everyone's favorite movie ever made significantly less money than Star Wars did,
and Return of the Jedi returned it. And then I think that once
it's complete, everyone's like, all right, now I could show up for
the whole thing. That's what I imagine. My brain went to Attack of
the Clones as my Star Wars. I think even that young come on,
I'll tare you. Okay, Well, then Final Fantasy sixteen was successful in
attracting younger players. That's according to the DLC director. Final Fantasy sixteen has
successfully attracted a younger audience due to its act based combat system. According to
the DLC director Techio Kujo Roco Cuduraco, Square Enix aimed to appeal to a
wider market by deviating from turn based combat. Survey results indicate that more people
in their teams and twenties played Final Fantasy sixteen compared to previous games in the
series. While future Final Fantasy games might not follow the same direction, this
achievement opens up new possibilities for the development teams. Okay, I believe this.
Do you think it was enough to like sort of be like, well,
this is the answer, because I don't think that's what happened. No,
that's how many of these are, like now lifelong Final Fantasy fans,
right right, It's almost weird, how like you would think, like,
oh, like every fun facing game there's new people playing for the first time.
You almost think there'd be some kind of exponential factor there, Like every
Fann Fantasy is automatically going to be the greatest best festal whenever it's trending down
since twelve or eleven's take, fifteen sold very well, actually, okay,
every single one podcast on so many platforms, right yeah, but like but
you know, like fourteen, right, so people play fourteen. It's like,
well, it's not like those people automatically bought sixteen, even though it
was made by the same team even right, So, I think it's great
that you brought in new players. I wonder if it was worth the mountain.
Maybe you pushed away with such an incredible departure in a lot of ways.
Probably fine, But again, like what's the retention? Right, how
many of these, like you know, eighteen year olds, some things are
going to be back for the next Found Fantasy when you know it. Naville
clearly doesn't even look like sixteen, right, Y're not probably going to do
another character action one. They're probably not even going to do another Medieval Fantasy
one for a while, ten years, probably twenty years. God. I
think the perspective is important here because I try to remind people Final Fantasy often
doesn't do like amazingly amazingly just it has some of the most culturally important games
of all time that people think it's a gigantic series. It's almost like the
Mega Man effect to an extent, where Mega Man actually doesn't sell that well,
we just remember him as iconic character. Now. Granted, f F
seven, ten, fifteen, and like eventually the thirteen series and fifteen are
all so huge that you know, people forget. But there is a good
amount of file fantasies I've done. Just okay, is that is that a
milk? Is that a milk is half empty versus half folks? I think
the way I view it is like they've done in milk. You know the
glass of milk is half empty? That is it? Just because you're looking
at me, ask yes, but also base is it soy? I don't
know, say most people imagine water in the glass, but continue Jeff,
Okay, fair enough, Why do I imagine milk. All right, now
this is back on. We're gonna analyze that later tonight. I think that's
the age old question when you like have those games that have like four games
in a series selling north of ten million copies, to me is like,
okay, well that franchise could be bigger than that going forward. And the
fact that it just it does keep pulling falling back to earth. I'm like,
Okay, what is happening there? I don't know. I think Partner
is also sixteen is the same thing as Rebirth. It's exclusive to one platform.
Yeah, that's a big part of it, probably, yes, But
I don't know. There's a part of me again like baby the class half
full. It's like, hey, like, ay, a normal Final Fantasy
is going to sell like three million copies or something. That's pretty good.
Again, why I'm saying that maybe we need to be happier about games that's
so a few million copies and every once in a while, for some reason
it'll really pop off and you'll you'll have one that's sells ten million or whatever.
But I think you kind of when you go into it, maybe you
have to be ready with that baseline, like Okay, maybe you know the
normal case here is that we're going to move a few million cops exactly.
Yeah, I think you're absolutely right about that. I do think you're also
right that this is going to be a bit of a one off and related,
Final Fantasy does experiment a lot. Yeah, so them trying on that
is more than an action RPG is significantly more in the character action genre with
just a few little bits of RPG elements. Yeah, this is probably gonna
be the only time that they do that because they know that a lot of
people did not like that. I personally thought it was great. I know
the as a character action game, it's not like The Pinnacle, but it's
fun enough and I really enjoyed it. Uh for the most part, I
have issues with like the story and everything, which is I think much more
important to criticize, especially considering the team that was working at That just really
felt weird. But yeah, if you're hoping that seventeen will be something else,
don't worry. It definitely will. I think it's interesting because you see
the Final Fantasy competitors across the board kind of going back to be being super
heavy turn based like Persona and popping off and then like a Dragon adapting that
and try Drag Quest is the next Dragon Quest? I can't remember that?
Is that the one? The first time they're going to like the departure from
the twelve? They said, like, oh, it's gonna be a departure
and that's all they said. You don't know what they mean by that,
And it might doesn't really mean anything. Based on like the tie screen type
thing that they showed us, it might seem that they just mean tonally,
it's gonna be a little darker. These slimes don't smile anymore. Grubby eleven
they said was going to be an action RPG, and the Japanese audience that
heard that at some event or whoever revolted they're like, no, no,
no, no, no. Dragon Quest is sacred. That is our turn
based RPG. That chill and simple. Yeah, that's the one you don't
mess with. So I I don't know they're going to actually do anything more
than maybe a ATB type of yeah, switch up a question and an observation
here in like a drag infinite wealth. I know you can move your characters
around. Does that matter for the combat? It's position The positioning is important
totally. It can't be very important. It has like as you select an
attack to hit an enemy, it has like a an arrow pointing where they'll
land afterwards, so like you can knock them into something, knock them into
your teammate attack. I think think of it like the one more system like
is sore of how that works. I think the next file Fantasy will be
something like that. It'll feel a bit more turn based, but it will
still have That's just I'm thinking of Dan as my use case here because like
Dan quote quote like hates turn based games, right, but you liked if
in it well for some reason, because I think there's just an active component
to it. Yeah, he likes a rebirth a lot too, right,
and well reburse I would be completely fine that they still if they just use
rebirth. Yeah, the battlesystem, I think basis they should. It's so
good because it is just like this perfect combination of the world's like real time
actiony thing and then like those moments where you stop and you issue commands.
Ooh, I love that. Hear me out here, hear me out here.
Since we are now a pro kingdom Hearts website, yes, beneficially declared
four, we may not get direct control over a Donald and Goofy, but
perhaps other team members. Maybe, Oh interesting, you could directly control a
Donald or Goofy in Kingdom Hearts three hundred and fifty eight over two and now
we're an anti Kingdom Hearts. Websit again everybody we did it. We were
saying, you almost Jay, he doesn't have that power, don't worry.
Yeah, he's out number Yeah. Are you going to go with the news?
The democracy? I guess all right, this isn't how divers there's no
democracy. Yes, it's all it's anti pol last thing here from square Enix.
Screenix hopes to develop Final Fantasy seven remake Part three in about three years.
That'll help, I think, because three years is not that long these
days when it comes to making video games, and you sort of take that
time, the intervening time, get three ready, for sure, but then
you get ready to represent the entire trilogy at that point, and I think
that gives them a lot of leeway to win a lot of people back.
Who were who did I think get turned off by? Like I don't want
to have a cliff finger. I want everything at once. Uh, And
I'll show up then, and I think I think they'll be I think they
will be able to capitalize on that. That would be a quicker turnaround than
rebirth to uh the Reaper, So that would be Hey, Sewan, I
have a I have a bucket chron style question here when you think the reword
will be in part three? Before you say, did you see that?
He They wanted to use reunion for part two, which makes sense because they
say that word constantly, but then Crisis Cord stole it from them, so
they couldn't. I mean, reunion should have been part three. You know
how the story works now, I you know, I I watched Maximilians videos
all the time, and I think I've been poisoned by him saying something along
lines of like reclamation. I don't know how long, but like, like
I know what it does actually start with ari but it's not like the resound
exactly. It's rare. It's a soft Yeah, I I don't know.
I feel like you can't do something. I see some suggests to chat.
You can't just do something as simple as like return or something like that,
or how about revive? What about revenge? Yeah? Yeah, we're just
using it for a podcast and nothing else, right, Yeah, they have
our permission. Yeah, let it be known right now, I'm staking my
claim on Revive. What does that mean, Eric, I guess I won't
say where, but actually yeah, I think yeah. I don't know they're
gonna get crazy with that. But just to cap off the story here,
this makes a lot of sense to me because if you have played f F
seven, you know that there's not a lot of new areas they have to
create, and that was easily the hardest part of making this trilogy is making
these areas that you're going to keep going back to in this game as an
open world game, and in the last game as you keep returning to places
even there you return to Midguar in f F seven and just have Midgar made.
They can just keep using all these assets, all these areas. So
I think, yeah, I think one year ish less than than the turn
around time Rebirth. That that sounds right here. Here's here's what it's going
to be called, or maybe the collection with all three of them that can
rebuy pretty good research. Uh Man, With with how indulgent they got with
the ending of Rebirth, I can't even imagine how uh far up to get
with the last Rejoice going, jan are you going to finish this game.
Are you gonna fish? I have to. I have to because like I
were waiting on you by the way for the spoiler cast. I don't think
we've actually said that. I know, I feel it in my bones.
It's just like I'm just staring at these trun You got good games to play,
man, I don't blame that's the problem the games. Uh. Meanwhile,
over at Star Wars Land, Star Wars Outlaws locks jab of the Hut
mission behind one hundred and ten dollars premium edition. People are people are really
mad about this game? You guys know this? Yeah, well, people
get yeah, may be upset about Star Wars in general, people aren't mad
nowadays, Dude, everyone needs to chill out for a second. But it's
like it's that balance right where I'm like, Okay, I'm not upset about
too many of these things, but people should be able to say their criticisms
because usually I benefit from that. It keeps developers and publishers in check.
Yes, and yet sometimes I'm like, y'all are kind of being a bunch
of dicks. Just chill out. Who cares? Yeah, Like, at
a certain point either by the game or don't get to that point with this,
it's like, look, it's like, yeah, it is scummy.
Of course, They're like they're judging way too much for like the one mission
with the recognizable character. But I'm just like, I don't care. I
don't need to play a job of the Hut mission which clearly isn't integral to
the story, or let's just be the main quest line. And I'm of
the opinion that we don't know based on what they've said so far, if
this is like one job of the Hut mission or the job of the Hut
mission. Is this like of missions and this is an extra one. If
it's that case, I'm like, this is nothing. I don't care about
that at all. If it's oh, Jeba, the Hut as a character
you can interact with is locked behind this more expensive edition, I get that.
Complain, go ahead and complain. That's a completely valid thing. I'm
also just not that worked up about it. So yeah, I think the
game just looks good. I want to play it. That's where I'm at
with this. I don't get what you were so and there is you know,
and I get it, hey Ubi Soft is doing being Ubi stuff,
But yeah, I kind of the hate boner for this game is a little
a lot. I looked out Afress on the chest. And just to be
clear, Job of the Hut is in the base game. It's just an
optional mission. Okay, you know that for sure. Okay, that's yeah.
And just like the way this is, like I've heard some people phrases
like you have to pay one hundred and ten dollars to get a Job of
the Hut mission. I mean it is one thing. Look, hundred ten
dollars for a premi edition. It's a lot of money. You should not
spend that. But there are other things here. It is a part of
the whole ensemble of whatever this stupid expensive addition is. But yeah, like
I don't know, like the special mission for the premium edition, it's been
done before. It's stupid. I agree, I just don't buy it.
And to be clear, like this is this type of thing has come up
on just like seems like every week for a past month or so of this
show. To be clear, what we're saying is it's totally cool to criticize
bad business decisions you all like, but no one's going to take you seriously
if you just are raging on your social media platform. Yes, it feels
like it is coming from that point of it's Ubu Soft game, and I'm
that at youb Soft Games. I am like a little bit like, Okay,
I get it. That feels a good opinion. We just keep to
ourselves now. I don't care if it's like, oh, this game is
doing a very specific thing, and if that thing is this content feels like
it should be part of the game, and you're charging me extra for it
again, yell about that. I just yeah, I'm at a point where
I've accepted this can't be me. Yeah, it kind of can't be me.
Yeah. Just as overused and sometimes misused as a phrase is, do
just vote with your wallet in this case, just wait until later. And
if you don't want to play it all, just don't play it, just
you know you And again, yeah you can't, but you're you're allowed to
criticize it. Just yeah, no, you're not. You're not allowed to
criticize it because yours are ship Stop posting, damn it. Yeah, maybe
that's a good Some people definitely need to do that. Yeah, I'm working
on it, all right, I'm working on it. No, No,
you get twelve podcast points with Jeff Stirred the ship with his pick, but
fos sold better than final fans seven. Rebirth Thing later posted the jip of
him in the backup. That was excellent tweet. Yeah, that's one.
I'm like, this is like purposely steering stirring the ship. But every normal
person is going to get that, and they did for the most part.
Do you know the Super Giant Games just tweeted by Haites too. Would you
like for me to read that to you? Yeah? Actually, do please
read that because I didn't put in the news. We saw that during the
break. Thank you. Uh. We're getting close to launching Haities to an
early access. A key step price of that is our Haites two technical tests,
which we plan to begin shortly, and then it's just like, hey,
you should sign up for that. So Haiti's two technical tests. We
did, come, don't we know and sign up for that because I want
me to get picked. Yes, so don't even So that's even before early
access. Is this technical test? So all right, I guess could be
playable. One step closer they and they have continued to say that the early
access will launch this year. So this is a step towards that I can't
even imagine. I liked Haitis so much. I can't even imagine how much
I'm going to lake a Haites too. I know it's a beautiful thing to
imagine, but it's like at a point where I'm like, yeah, it
doesn't feel real. So the idea of actually playing it, that's going to
be excellent. All Right, a bunch more headlines. We'll get through these
ones. The Fallout TV show gave the Fallout games a huge player bump as
everyone remembers that they actually do like Fallout. This has happened across all the
games. Fallout for a New Vegas and Fallout seventy six. Seventy six especially
are doing very well Throughout anywhere from like fifty to one hundred percent in terms
of daily average users on Steam or daily active users. And that is for
these games that have kept a lot of their audience for years and years and
years now, so they have anywhere from like ten thousand and a per day
on a good day, twenty thousand for some of these games. Now they're
getting like forty thousand, if not more than that. Right, A lot
of these fall games are like heavily discount right now because of this first person
shooter fest happening. So, and seventy six is free with your Twitch Prime
if you have Amazon Prime, right, So, yeah, a lot of
good ways to play it. Yeah, you know, and we said this
before, but boy, I bet they would be happy if there was like
a new seventy dollars game that always fall Out. New Fallout fans could be
buying yep, A lot of other companies and fund ways to take advantage to
that. They missed the opportunity here, But I think just I don't know,
getting people to play these games at all. Selling a few copies here
for ten dollars, they're going to be happy with that as well. Sure,
Fallout for us a lot of dalce and like Fallow seventy six. Of
course, the whole business model there is buy other things. Yeah, just
getting players in there is helpful. All Out Shelter is also popping off,
just like all the pomp off. That's when I'm almost surprised, like they
didn't like, well, let's get a fall Shelter to at least going I
mean an update, right, I think the base was actually still doing decently
well. I heard something about recently being like oh yeah people still play this.
There you go. Cool and then yes, the Fallout four next Gen
patches Hamlet of Texas and chappoints Out eight days from now. That's going to
launch and that'll probably help as well. Put it in front of people once
again. Oh grub, did you see that the PC version of that patch
has some exciting new features like wide screen? Yeah? I was like,
what what do you mean? Uh huh? They said wide screen and ultra
wide screen? Like all right, I think maybe the person who wrote this
didn't quite know is happy, I think, But that's okay. They mean
ultra wide and like super ultra wide, so like that not sixteen by nine
but like twenty four by nine and then thirty two by nine. That's right,
that's so hot. Nintenda won't be attending Games Comp twenty twenty four,
and news that isn't hot. This is mostly just hate them saying, hey,
yeah, Games Comp often, we are there often, we have a
pretty big showing. We're not going to be there and we're not bringing any
games and we won't be like Opening Night Live. People are taking this as
bad news. To me, this feels like that is an indication that they're
holding back something that they were going to want to talk about. At another
place probably, if not right away at that point, but not long after.
How do you guys read this? I don't know. My initial read
is like, yeah, they don't have much to talk about. Sure,
yeah, beat a slow year for them. It's going to be continue to
be a slow year from them. We are going to get you know,
ports and remakes, They're going to get a few more of those announced,
and yeah, maybe we're going to get direct this summer to announce a few
more of those. But yeah, nothing. They don't have anything to spare
for a game's calm right now. They also aren't ready to like do a
ton of backdoor meetings about the switch to at this point, because even that
is kind of far enough away Nintendo can dictate their own cadence of what they
want to do and when they want to do at this point. Oh wait
a second, this is how the switch to info first leaked out as well,
Games Come, Right, so maybe it was like people are talking about
this at games Com last year. This is all your fault to do this
to us, So yeah, we'll see. I mean, okay, so
games Come is in August? Right? Is that normally when they do it?
Okay? So yeah, they weren't going to have anything ready to go
for August. But that's the real reason. Yes, But do you think
we get news about Switch hardware before December? Before December at least like at
least the n X style teas right exactly, just the barely bearest of blips,
the small yes, Okay, even like a code name set out loud
publicly by them, I think would qualify to a certain extent for me.
I think we're going to get like investory information this year, and we'll give
some kind of reveal trailer at the end to end of the year early next
year. In that case, yeah, Switch. In that case August comes
around, you're like, yeah, let's just stay at home, continue to
work on that marketing campaign because that's going to launch a few months later,
you know, for all intents and purposes. I'm still it's the stupidest theory
that I have, but I'm dead set they're going to have a wearable that
is in the box. Jen I actually, at the end of the day,
a gimmick like that wouldn't surprise me at this point, because that's the
kind of thing where it's like it's optional and it can be like a few
features here and there, and then it goes in a drawer and we can
keep selling you video games on the thing you actually bought. Rob the robot
is something they've always kind of thought about. Sometimes it's just like features they
add on top. Yeah, here have a fun watch. The watch has
like another feature if you want to use it or not. Right, man,
I could see it all right. Nintendo Indie World is returning tomorrow and
Nintendo will host an Indie World showcase tomorrow at three pm UK time, So
that means that's going to be like what nine am and ten Eastern? Thank
you? Uh. The announcements will focus on games coming to the platform in
twenty twenty four. Unlike the main Nintendo Direct presentations, Indie World presentations focus
on smaller indie games. It's the name implies, right, are like I
don't know, Like maybe you should get so excited. I saw Mary Kish
on Twitter get excited about your body. Look normally I want it. Butt's
been getting rated everywhere, and it's like, if not here, then when
Gillard's and coming up as Summer Game Fast and maybe there maybe I think so.
Didn't they do a shadow drop at Summer Game Fast? Yeah? Yeah,
but I don't know it could be there, but it could. It's
it's it's like a twenty percent chance, which is not terrible for this game.
The fact there's a twenty percent chance that is good. It's absolutely possible.
You know, I think you're saying spoon heaven. We know, yes,
to be clear of time, all night silk song. The name.
Jeff thought it was the better name because it's more memorable. Come on,
that is, you know, like Mega sixty four finally put out their game
a little bit. If we ever we make a giant bomb game, it
needs to be spoon perfect. That. Yeah, it'll be up a very
big, hand crafted met and then damn won't like it because it'll remind him
of like a flash cartoon he saw on new Grounds once. Then there will
be a strong gambling component somehow weird some reason. Yeah, all right,
last couple of headlines here. EA's Black Panther game will be open world according
to job listings. Yes, for one, this is this job listing does
just straight up saying you will be crafting stuff in this game's open world.
So this isn't some like suggestion or a thing where a job listing says if
you have experience in this that'd be nice. It's like, no, they're
saying the game has an open world. And then of course this Mike applied
big surprise for a superhero action game, especially one where it's Black Panther,
and you can imagine being in Wakanda and exploring that alone. But even if
they put them in another environment, that would also be very cool. This
is the Black Panther game that we had a trailer out recently. No,
that was a different The one was America. That's a completely different one.
That's nineteen forty three, and that is the one where it is the previous
Black Panther Tachaka and Captain America during World War Two, and that is what
Yeah, that one will not be open war. That'll be like your Last
of Us, the charted style, mostly lining your game. And then this
one is from people who used to work at I can't remember the name of
the studio, but they've worked on a Shadow of Mortor and they did those
two games, and now they have a new studio at EA making this game.
So that's that's the lineage there. And then there's also the Ironman game
from Motive, which Monolith Monolith, Yes, Monolith is the Shadow. Yes,
the Shattle Mortar team. That sounds right. And then yeah Ironman games
so and that's a different as well, all right, and then PERSDA one
and two remix are coming. It's claimed get Yes, they don't have color.
The colors don't matter. It's okay, it's a different time. Bucket
Shoon can change these things. They will tell you what they got remade out.
They would have colors. The help Big Brain Big Brain six is green.
They retroactively make one and two purple and orange. It all comes together.
I go, oh, we're gonna run out of colors though. Oh
boy, and Bucket Sewn had a kid, it would just be called Bucket
Sean. Yeah, don't fuck the bucket Sewan. Bucket shean my best friend
Green into the air. Okay, all right, Hey Sirie Summer Game Fest.
Bucket right, Sean on it. Thank you. This is nice.
Those games are very old. They're very different than what most people expect from
a persona game, very different combat style. It has the old school shimmagami
tense kind of demon negotiations, which I think throws some people off. They
don't have social links, they don't really have the calendar system. It is
still high schoolers. It's kind of the big connecting thing there, So I'd
be curious what this would look like even you know, the leaker here is
like, maybe this is gonna be more of like a remaster, less like
some Big Persona three reload style remake. Sure, so who knows? Also
said like, don't expect this anytime soon, Like clearly they're going to remake
all of them except for five eventually here, and I would even I'd be
shocked if we even got these before four, just because four is the other
PS two one. You just remade one of the PS two. Oh so
you think of timeline, is they six is next? And then a four
remake? And then you're saying it's so weird, Becai, this is definitely
their next project, Yeah, because we know it's in development. Yeah,
okay, that's what you're Okay, that makes sense, but six years very
far away. You guys don't think they could have one and too ready to
go if they're smaller. I'll say, I don't think that any of the
Big Persona teams, either the Fantasia what's that one called? Yeah, neither
neither of them or the people just did reload. I don't think they're working
on Persona one and two. I think they're given that to somebody whoa maybe
ah PEA Studio is really weird, dude. They do not like giving stuff
to other teams, Like even like Persona four Golden, they just made that
in turn or sorry sorry. The re releases, This is where I was
going with this. The re releases of Golden and P three P they did
themselves and then just brought in I forget what his name is, but the
the person who did like the Dark Souls mod tool or whatever big in the
PC mining scene. They just brought that person in to like help them develop
a good PC port And I'm thinking there is that precedent there of they did
just port P four Golden and P three portable. What if they just port
the PSP versions of one and two over that could take some nice cities.
Yeah, it might be more like that. In that case, it's gonna
have to be like the Big because I imagine the main teams, the main
teams are going to be working on Persona six and then Persona for rewatch or
whatever. Yeah, another rething. Yeah, because of the TVs. There
we go, gold Member, what color the buckets at Peace Studios. What
I want to know, here's what I want. I want to throw,
throw the colors out, get them, get them out of here. I
can say that, cover your ears and you don't even say that. I
don't know either PERSONA one and two or seven. Have it be like in
Dune two when you go to the Hearken Ends, it's just like a harsh
black and white that rules god negative? Is that what they did there?
Yeah? You guys know what jessure color is great? Gray? Yeah you
said that. I was like, dude, silver, Like say silver,
you know what's fun is to like something? And then people say that and
then laugh. It's like I is a Kingdom Hearts fan, have no idea
what that is? Yeah, Sonic fan right here not knowing what Jeff rob
is talking about, like popular thing. Okay, so you guys are saying
you don't like gray. I like gray. Difference, I don't like Sonic,
I don't like Kingdom Hearts and I've played both. That's difference. I
just don't think I've ever heard that be somebody's answer before. And I'm laughing
at you for big different. That is that's fair. That that a little
weird there's nothing wrong with it inherently, it's just weird. I need a
further modifier here, grub, do you like the color g r a y
or e g r a y. What is that? There's between the color
silver and the color gray. There's like radiance radiance? What about chrome?
Like? These are just all different versus. That's why I like Greg Mike
manaughty. I need you to imagine in your mind's eye. All right,
think of Silver the Hedgehog. Right, it's black. Ah, I got
I got silver and shadow. Okay, Now think of if instead of calling
him Silver the Hedgehog, we called him Gray the Hedgehog. Very different.
Wow, that's cool, very different, right, m What are you making
them do in your head? Right now? Why are you thinking this?
Slog about it? Stop it? Yeah, it's weird, it's different.
That wouldn't work as well. You're right there, you go. All right,
thank you for anticipating. In the you'll hear about Keanu rees being the
voice of Shadow the Hedgehog. Yeah, what's happening. I wish it was
hating. Christian said that'd be funny, like that star of a little It.
All right, let's get to this last story because it's a wild one.
Japanese Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Hacker has been arrested for selling modified Pokemon.
Yeah. Uh, he apparently made millions of yen doing this. Well that's
not that much money. It's talking at twenty bucks. Yeah, but they
arrested them, they found him. I'm just imagine like running this criminal racket
of selling modified Pokemon. I didn't realize it was that much of a scene
that you can make. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah exactly. Minor state
was like Pokemon company knows when you do this, and you can crack down
on it. So but like are people just like running back like back like
alley games or something, and that's why it's valuable to him. Here's here's
a differentiator. Grub is in Japan, just anything involving modifying stuff is very
frowned upon, to the point of in some and says being illegal. I
believe console modding is straight up illegal in Japan. It's like it's just a
job over there, and so many companies they do crack down on very weird
things, and so I think that's what that's what's happening here is just companies
are seeing a modification of their game and going after someone. I'm sorry,
sorry, good news. The news segment's over. We're done with that,
right. Oh boy, we're learning a lot today about each other. We're
learning something Bucket Sean, my best friend Jeff Beckelar, don't don't miss the
podcast again. This is god. It is like we have substitute teacher energy.
Oh no, it's like grub is gone for a week or I'm gone
for a week, but like back Daddy can't leave. You're the glue because
you make people feel bad when they go with these tangents. Yeah, oh
yeah, so bad. Make me feel like me. He'll do this.
Look to you, He'll be like Mike, is it that he doesn't do
it to you? Or you just don't care, you're just unfazed. But
what are we doing here, folks here? Can you keep that in mind
when we head into the emails, and we'll have to the emails after quick
breaking break emails emails. Send your emails to blombcast giant bomb dot com.
I will read every single one of them. I print some of them out
and then I shred them out of frustration and anguish. And then I send
a couple to my mom and point to her and say hey, people like
me on the internet. And then she smiles, pats me on the shoulder
and goes, you're still not getting that twenty bucks that you need right now,
please go do this menial chore for me. Thank you, son.
And then I smile and I say yes, just like I say yes to
reading this email from someone I didn't write. Oh there we go, Corey
Porter uh film student and k you Okay, all right? Corey writes in
with a blind ranking. Hey, gang, I've seen some blind rankings online
and thought it'd be fun to send you one of one for best controllers.
I will give you five random controllers and you have to rank them one through
five without knowing the next one on the list. So don't pull up the
email. Boys. Yeah, and I strolled away without I saw the first
one. That's it. Once? What's best one or five? Let's say
one? Yeah, okay, in order. Once you decided, you can
move to the next, but you cannot change the place of the previous.
There's a lot of TikTok exactly like this. Yes, okay, I think
it'd be more fun if this were a group decision. But it's up to
you if you want to do them individually. I hope you have fun with
this. Corey a film student at KU. So here's a list. All
right, I'm gonna say the first one, and you three decide where this
goes one through five? All right, boys, gotcha? Okay? The
original Xbox S controller. Oh s that okay? That was okay. I
like a three I would put I'm gonna put it at three the middle of
the road, almost two, a three sixty, which is a much better
controller. But yeah, okay, let's go three. So we're putting it
three. All right. Look, you guys deciding so so quickly together.
I'm proud of you. Uh. Next one, the GameCube keyboard controller.
It has way more buttons than any other controller that they're gonna bring. God,
okay, this is tough because it's like, I like, I would
like using that thing, and it's still like a GameCube controller, just with
a keyboard in between it. Yeah, it's just like gig control that you
can also use to like talk ship to your friends and fancy star online.
Okay, So here's the thing. Jokes aside, I genuinely think you'll be
tiring to have your arms like held out, you know, a time.
That's why you kind of rested on your lappy lap as you I do.
I mean that's why I actually don't have back there that I usually have a
pillow on my chair because I used that to like rest my hands on while
I'm playing games. I see we can. Then we got to do two
because I think we're going to have two that are going to be definitely worse
than the Xbox, and we're not gonna have two that are definitely better.
Maybe not. I think they're going to be all jokey from here. One
like the CD I controller and I don't know control, we need at least
one PlayStation controller. I think every PlayStation controller is better than the gamecuborder controller.
I think there's still gonna be one. I want to put it four.
I want to put it as well. I vote to but the you
know democracy here, that's why we can do four. Then, okay,
you're going to put this at four. We're putting. You're going to regret
your words indeeds. Maybe I'll put it on record. I also don't love
the GameCube controller. I it's a very good controller, but you're a bad
person. We get it, okay, all right, Continuing down the blind
rankings, the Steel Battalion controller. Oh, say, they're all gonna be
joking now here we are. So is this number one? Is this number
five? We also too? Yeah? Right? Is this better than the
original Xbox S controller? I mean, in some ways it is cool.
It's a cool controller. Use cases are limited, right, but when you're
using it, it kind of is number one on any list exactly. I
feel like it's either two or five, Like I wouldn't put that one,
sure, I mean, I'll put it at two. Let's put it at
too. That's fun, all right, we're doing too, Yes, all
right, it's gonna make four and deciding one in five here very hard.
We're gonna a really weird one as the best controller, all right. The
next controller, the guitar Hero controller. Oh, I would put that at
one, easy, all day long. And then controller rules good either the
best or the worst, according to I's just I'm scared about what's the next.
It's not the worst controller, I mean, okay, it's it's got
to be number one because I don't think it should go fine, Yeah,
I'm scared. Does the original Guitar Hero controller have the whammy bar? It
does? Yeah? Yeah, it has all the functionality it is guitar?
Is it guitar Hero one? Specifically? John I just says guitar Hero controller?
Okay, I can choose to think that means the world too, or
a guitar which rips. I mean, even if it was the bass,
it's fine, And I think I think we gotta go with one for this
one. I'm concerned, man, this was the DJ Hero controller, I'd
be like one all day, brother rules, we can put it one.
Is there anything more stylis for someone to kick your ass and guilty you're at
EVO with than the guitar Hero It's pretty exactly, pretty exactly okay? Are
we are we going with number one here? It's number one because this next
one, this next one is totally a dual shock or something. Next controller,
which is automatically number five the Nintendo sixty four controller. Oh yeah,
we did a good job here. I like. I like the style of
rankings. I like, uh steph being random and then having to vy for
a spot. Yes, it's a good that we should do those tiktoks.
What what is the what is the ranking? Then? So from worst here
we have number five the Nintendo sixty four controller. Number four the GameCube keyboard
controller, number three, the Xbox S controller, the second best game controller
of all time, Steel Battalion controller, and the number one with a bullet
the guitar Hero control. Let's stand by this. I like how they started
with a very normal control. That's what and there. The only mistake is
the Steel Battalion controller should be number one. Probably the board controller should be
three. I think I could in hindsight, I could see six box s
should be number one recordarsight, so yeah, I would say you're right there,
jan oh ky dooky. Next email is from Vaness Vanessa Rights and about
destructive media. Hey, Bombers, I just finished playing Celeste and this game
absolutely destroyed me on an emotional level. I really wasn't ready for this because
I just finished playing Persona three for the first time, which also fucking destroyed
me. I also beat Persona three and then got the pressed for a while.
Don't worry, that's normal. Same part of this is probably because I
just started transitioning and the hormones are making me hella emotional. But I want
more. Do you all have any other games you'd recommend in the emotionally going
to destroy you? Genre? Lots of love, Vanessa from Denver. Maybe
it's very specific to my circumstances, but Wolfenstein to the New Clausus, the
scenes there with like the family and then how BJ like responds to all that
stuff really gets me. I don't know if it's gonna destroy you, but
it's definitely the stuff that I think about constantly. In that way I see
Spearfaarer and chat that's a pretty good one to destroy you emotionally. Definitely.
Four had a very similar effect to me. Even though like the ending is
it literally as sad, it's still kind of like it's, you know,
a change, and I get emotional about that. I was gonna say,
do you have one hundred and twenty hours? Because five Royal will do the
same thing to you for maybe different reasons. All these really long arpe uses
are like that because you kind of have this like, you know, it's
like these people for so long and it's like it's like your family, and
then all of a sudden, it's like I never hear from these people again.
That's right, they only exist in a video game. Oh no,
maybe the world ends with you with another original on the original one. But
if you're looking to go outside side of JRPG's I would recommend the Guardians of
the Galaxy video game. Oh yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
Jesus Christ trying to remember if ten was emotionally destroying or actually so confusing that
not really, it was just kind of like what it has, like a
moment when you know what the Oh but font facing nine, yes, fa
facing nine, play fun facing nine if you want to be emotionally chats mentioning
it here And I saw so many people saying this on Twitter. Was on
sale for like two dollars the our day before Your Eyes for your Eyes.
Yes, I haven't sat down to play, meaning from i've heard. Yeah,
the problem is like I really want to play it, but I want
to play it into dr and it's only on PSVR two and I don't have
a PSVR well because they wouldn't need the eye tracking that only PSVR two have.
No, I no, I get it, but I mean I would
played on well okay, right, but if you can play it on your
phone, you can play on your phone, you play your phone, you
can play with a webcam on your computer. I'm just gonna suck it up
and do that. So, uh, if you're into Zelda, I will
say I talked about this in my Game of the yearless last year, Tears
of the Kingdom definitely had moments like that for me where I was just sure,
I was gone, Yeah, if you have a thousand hours to spare,
you can play some fount Facey fourteen get There's some good story beats in
that game, very good ones Oco Dad that made me cry. I also
had a really weird emotional response to being Boga Solid to the first time.
But I can't even explain why. It was like one of those things where
like you beat it in like the middle of the night, it's like four
am, and it plays that really sad piano jazzy song and I'm just like
sitting there thinking about things. And I was fifteen or whatever, and I
don't know that hit Alexi was with some good picks here, Chickory and a
Space for the Unbound, very good, very good cry games. Game of
the Year Chickory, Uh, Griffondego will get you to play Grimpfindego. Everybody
everyone played Grymfindango. We're all gonna play Grymfindango. It's going to be great.
The Red Wings game made me cry last night. That was pretty exciting.
So no losing audio files or video files makes me cry. So just
emory card, you know, just drive down some stairs. Yeah I didn't
hand. I'm not usually much of like an actual tears guy. But uh
the epilogue to the the Sun Arcana in Persona three that you see at the
end of the game, yeah, yeah, like just like that where you're
talking to the person's mother. I was just like I was, was kind
of was. I was definitely choking up at that one. Yeah, that
was. I don't have to talk that. One of the social links in
Persona three is like a kid, a teenager on your age, who was
dying, right, Yeah, that's like one of the first things he says
to you is I am dying and nothing will save me. And that's why
the whole social is actually just like very mature and well done. It's one
of the best series ever had. Yeah, it is still the best social
link I think probably. Yeah, it's also kind of the standard death metal
Dan. That's a good shout. I've heard a lot of people will be
very positive on like a Dragon the Man who erased his name. Yeah,
I've heard good things about that too. To all right, next email U
comes from Jeff from Quebec. Hello, if I play Hello YouTube. If
you had to have a catchphrase, what would it be? I mean it's
mandatory, you'd be that guy that uses his own catchphrase. But at least
you get to pick a real cool one gets on the cheek Jeff from Quebec.
He just said Backler's catch phrase and grubs in that, so they're covered.
Man dance would be my god, yeah, mine, I'm trying to
what I say A lot. I say things. I say the I have
the that's hot now, Mike, no, no, yours is incredible?
Just the word incredible. I do say that a lot, but it was
whattering people. I do just like incredible. I just like to say that.
I do way too make shows with the ig along. Jan dances,
cut the check, Jen has one for sure the check several cut the check.
Hey come here, uh ain't no thing chicken wing. If it can
just be a word, it is respectfully definitely Oh I say my you know,
I don't. I don't like to throw the A hero around. It's
been a lot. I always I always pot myself with that one. I
think I stole actually I stole that and that's so hot from the same real
life friends. I feel kind of bad. Don't feel bad, that's just
that's just language. Because like someone's like, hey, no, look is
Jeff thing. I'm like, it's definitely not. That's something that's like a
Midwest thing almost, but yeah, definitely yeah, look observed Lucy's. Yeah.
Tim is really set with grow up. Oh yeah, that's his brand
at this point. He has like a slap across the Nikki's is one percent
for sure. Uh So I started listening to their comedy podcasts. If you're
driving, close your eyes, close your eyes right, because that's funny.
Uh He's so damn funny, it's for sure, and like, oh hell
yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, that's what's up. Him is just
catchphrases, stitch together to make a man possible. Him says his catch raise
more in real life than in the podcast. Next time Michael Him pops up
on any giant bomb content or you see him on virtually anything. I need
you at home to count how many times he says whimsical. He's been adding
whimsical to his day to day and it is quite whimsical. Okay, a
couple more emails before we get on out here. Uh, let's read this
one. And this one comes from Jorgan from the Arctic. Jorgan writes in
Jeff Backler was talking about Dylan or bring your kid to work day and then
him just bringing Dylan behind him. I guess, dear Jeff Backlar, as
a fellow dad, this is my suggestion for Dibb's day at work. First
of all, disclaimer that naturally, you, as a parent and div will
set boundaries for what you're comfortable doing in front of an internet audience. My
suggestion to you is to have DIB plan out and execute a show for Giant
Bomb. Oh. It can be as simple as Fortnite Duo's with Dad or
Fortnite Pacifist runs or whatever else DIB would like to do. Have Dib come
up with a concept, have him design a simple layout on the stream,
help him set up the scenes for whatever in your Obsdib can write a short
intro to perform at the top of the stream and sign off at the end.
Then have fun streaming with his dad. If performing scripted intros and such
as too much pressure, you can have Dib write them and you execute them
yourself. The point is to give a little bit of insight into this show
to show the job is not just fucking around on YouTube, and getting to
share your work experience as a bonding moment with your son is really awesome.
If you make him sit in on a budget meeting, however, you'll just
murder him his will to ever participate in adult life ever. Again, good
luck with whatever you come up with for Dib's day at work. Take care
and say hello to everyone for me. Okay, bye, Jorgan from the
Arctic. I like this. I approve I love free child labor, so
let's make it happen. Hey, yeah, we totally missed out when did
was on spring break having no play Fortnite with us. We should have.
I kind of want to play Fortnite again based off of all the Avatar stuff.
If you guys, do you guys ever actually go to like a parent's
workplace for take your kid to workday? I would know my mom's office for
like Christmas Eve, but it wasn't like to do work stuff. It just
be to hang out. Yeah, I'll go to my dad's like doctor's office,
and it was like no different than when I was sick and like nobody
was homes. I just went there like so like I went into like the
rooms with them, right, kind of hung out with the secretaries and kind
of annoyed them and played on a typewriter or something. Yeah, all right,
we have one more email about bringing your child to work? And uh,
Dave and Sheffield rights in, Hey they're bombless. Discovery Channel has Shark
Week, so how about for bring your child to work? GB has DIB
Week A whole week back to School's special featuring Dib quizzing jan Why Why am
I? Okay? Are I like him? Boy? Dib does Blake Club?
Does he know how bad Sonic games truly are? Thursday Night throw Down?
Can the community beat DIB at Rocket League Fortnite? And Roadblocks The Very
Online Show teach Dib about why he shouldn't be playing Roadblocks? What Currenter old
GB content would you like to see featured on DIB Week? Lots of Love,
David Sheffield p s give Jana kiss on the lips from me? Okay?
Did play? Oh god? I film in forties with Dib? Back
to School? Does still need to be Dan? And do we just need
those two on content together? Yeah? They'll get nasty. I know he'll
be right. I mean they're having those back in the back back, behind
the scenes scuffles and stuff, so that stuff. You want to see Dan
Riker get taken down by a child with a thing. We're like in a
Kung Fu movie where the guy like drops the floor and like makes some trip
by putting both his legs on his legs doing that to Dan's yeah, he
can mess them up. He'll be great. Dance Hard Drive interview. He
like continued the the dib like storyline, and they're like comments like that's messed
up. Yeah, it's incredible to break every a bit. It's okay.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry to do it, but yeah, it's kind of
cool. It's all cool, not dance, not actually being mean to it.
I'm sorry not here. Oh my god, I can't wait to see
the Reddit thread saying like, oh my god, they were lying this whole
time BombCast. Giant bomb dot com is the email addressed to send your emails
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whatever you want to ask us. We will try and answer if we read
it on air. We got a lot of stuff popping off this week.
Every week, we got a lot of stuff popping off this week in particular,
this Thursday, we're going to have chef reactions from the TikTok on voicemail
Dumpshot now hanging out with Jeff Backler, Mike Manatti, and Dan reichert answering
all of your food related voicemails, so make sure to get those sent in
this Thursday as well. We'll be playing some Fallout New Vegas with a whole
bunch of mods. Blake Cloud returns Fingys Crossed tomorrow. I also might try
to set it up so we can react to that Nintendo Indie World for g
Yeah, let's do that. I get ready for the Soilk song announcement.
Speaking about GMM, we got GM popping off the rest of the week Wednesday
to Friday to tide you over with some video game news mentioned Blake Club upf.
It's looking like we might do some more content warning. Yeah, yeah,
I think the idea is gonna be like Jan, you've seen this,
but you haven't played. Dan as like held back and doesn't know anything about
it, So we're gonna like, hey, let's introduce this game to these
guys. We're also gonna throw Bailey into the fold, so expect Sean.
Let's get that mood going, Yeah, we can finally put that server of
yours to good use, Jeff, if you still got it, okay,
Yeah, I'll see if it work. Yeah, we might have to do
that, no problem, okay, cool. And also we decide, you
know, where are there are some rumblings happening, some royal rumblings happen behind
the scenes here y'all. And then we're thinking we talk about wrestling too much
on this website. Yeah, we got Yes, we're gonna lock it down.
What if we create a containment zone where we have an existing podcast called
the power BombCast that is very infrequently, maybe like two or three times a
year, showing up just as much as Roman Reigns would show up during the
latter half of his title reign. What if, you know, BCR sometimes
maybe it's a little light on game stuff and game discussions. What if they
form their own tag team on Fridays, take turns tagging each other in So
this week we are hot tagging the power BombCast. Later this week, look
forward to the power BombCast and all the original older episodes, including the ones
that were locked behind Premium, going out onto its old feed so you can
hear all the The first episode was in twenty thirteen and that blew my mind.
Oh that's messed up. And there's only been like thirty or so episodes,
So look forward to more wrestling, hopefully in a contained space. Folks,
sore safe. If you're tired of hearing shoot work k fabe, it'll
be too bad. We're gonna keep doing that. But like although the week
to week stuff, the sheets we will be keeping there, look forward to
WrestleMania videos popping off as this week goes by. The tailgating video is almost
ready for public consumption. I can't wait if you if you guys want a
preview, it's all in slack right now. I'll check it out. I'm
not in slack. I'll put in put in discord, right, I can
wait. Sorry I didn't let you go drive eight hours to a tailgating thing.
By the way, Yeah, I like you still resent me for it?
Yeah, you got it. You're right. That was awesome to hang
out. That was great. Two things. One earlier in this episode,
Chance said that it was okay when he's not here, it's not. I
did the episode last week with back of art and it was so long.
And then number two Mike can you do gim in with me tomorrow because I'm
gonna have to lead halfway through to get Addie off the bus. Yeah,
I couldn't do it tomorrow. I'll just stick around after this Nintendo thing.
Sure, thanks appreciate. What else did we learn today, guys? Also,
right when I started talking, music started playing in the background. I
think I'm still logged into the zoom meeting from earlier, so I got what
is that I heard? Also, did you guys heard that I thought I
was being played out or something like that? That's me because we learned that
all less taxes than expected means that you're practically earning money. Sean is a
purb for old consoles, Grub is going to join a rollerblading team of some
sorts, And it's ironic that a multiplayer game can make you feel lonely and
fall out seventy six. We also learned how clapping in different contexts can sound
a little naughty. I'd be really aggressive here a giant bomb. We also
learned that a glass of milk is always full over here, my milk,
Why milk? Jeff? And we also learned that maybe all of us on
the Internet should stop posting why you can't see it. It's still there,
chest folks. I've been Jam he's been Jeff, he's been Mike, he's
been Turboshan and you at home have been very pleasant. We appreciate you,
We love you. We'll see you next week for another episode of the Giant BombCast