WEBVTT 1 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:36.280 Welcome Ember one, the episode one seventy seven of the jsb UH Street Fight 2 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:40.039 or six podcast. I am your host, Rob Akas and uh joining me 3 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:44.320 the only other person in this call, Uh, Drew, how are you 4 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:49.000 hi? I'm doing all right? How about yourself? Rob? I'm doing 5 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:53.840 okay. Um. We we are we are man down, men down. 6 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:58.560 As it were, we are the only people operating this ship. I am 7 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:03.679 on on the controls, was on lookout. We're probably gonna crash into some 8 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:07.040 random podcast island, but we're gonna we're gonna try our best. We're gonna 9 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:12.239 try our best. Today. Back after a pretty long break. Um, 10 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:18.400 it's been like three weeks, so hopefully that that gave both of us some 11 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:23.840 time to play some video games, some videoegas, um in chat about them. 12 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:27.480 I know one very important game dropped U during the downtime that we'll definitely 13 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:34.760 get into. Um, but some some quicks housekeeping stuff right. Um, 14 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:38.400 this being the first episode we're back in a while, we'd like to announce 15 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:44.560 that we are moving the podcast to it bi weekly UM really schedule, so 16 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:49.159 it'll be every two weeks, right, um, figure that gives everybody a 17 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:52.319 little bit more time to do things right, we're all working adults and trying 18 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:59.159 to fit things in can be kind of difficult right time is life can be 19 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:06.159 very exhaust so figure moving too. The two weeks sedule probably does better for 20 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:09.199 everyone. Uh, and I think it'll be a pretty pretty good and healthy 21 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:19.199 move. Um So that's that. Um. I did record the JSP anime 22 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:23.120 cast earlier today, so if you're listening to this, the new episode will 23 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:28.240 be out on the YouTube channel. UM we covered the anime called My Life 24 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:35.560 as a Villainous. It is an Issa Kai Harem picked by one Asher, 25 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:40.719 which is two genres that I am not known for liking. Um. Same 26 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:45.360 with Jenny, the other host of that podcast. Uh did we like it? 27 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:47.719 Yeah? No, you have to tune in to find out. It 28 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:52.719 does have a very interesting premise. I'll say that. Um So, if 29 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:58.719 anything could have hooked me, it would be this one. So definitely give 30 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:02.520 that a look. See. Um So, with with some of the housekeeping 31 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:08.159 stuff out of the way, I think we should talk about some video games. 32 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:14.080 Um. Are we just gonna jump right in the Street Fighter six? 33 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:17.759 Or have you done anything else? Is? What is this show going to 34 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:23.800 be? Well? Okay, so I think the big one is is street 35 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:25.919 Fighter, but I have played some other stuff. Okay, still playing an 36 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:34.719 Octopath. I'm still well. Trudging is not accor I really yeah, I've 37 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:39.240 just been stone walled by tree Fighter six. Well traveling in three Fighter six. 38 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:46.039 Originally my plan had been to beat this game this week before street Fighter 39 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:51.759 six drops. However, my uncle at Capcom got me a copye of sree 40 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:57.479 Fighter six early. Uh, and that did not happen. Um, I 41 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:00.400 don't have anything new to add about Octopath oh right now that I haven't already 42 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:04.360 stated it before. I really love that game. It's definitely on my Game 43 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:09.439 of the Year like candidate list. I think the game is incredible. It's 44 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:14.199 amazing how much they improved from the original. I'll have like a final report 45 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:17.240 once I finally beat that game. But uh, still have not beat it. 46 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:23.360 Uh. When I was traveling though, I did start Zelda Tears the 47 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:29.160 Kingdom. Yeah, Tears of the Redacted. We can we can talk a 48 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:32.800 little bit. We can talk a little bit. Um. I haven't gotten 49 00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:38.319 too far into it, partly because I wanted to beat an Octopath before I 50 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:42.839 like really dug into it. The other part is street Fighter six, and 51 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:50.160 the other part is that game overwhelms me. It's a lot. Um, 52 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:54.879 I don't even much like the game. I don't even know where to start. 53 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:01.399 You are you are you still like in the early areas or have you 54 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:05.160 finished what you feel is the tutorial? Well, I got through the tutorial 55 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:09.600 area. I am in the greater area. Okay, okay, so you 56 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:13.399 have touched down, you have touched down, Okay, all right, I've 57 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:17.480 touchdown. I got my paraglider, which is apparently missible. I talked to 58 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:24.279 Tiger actually last weekend when I was on my way back, and he told 59 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:27.839 me he just missed it because like once he got into Greater High Rule, 60 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:30.480 he was just like, I'm gonna do what the story tells me. And 61 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:33.439 just what I did too. I didn't have the paraglider for like the first 62 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:39.879 several hours of me touchdown. Oh yeah, and there's a lot there's a 63 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:44.480 lot of missible things. Um. And like when you touch down, you 64 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:47.240 don't even have all the mechanics yet, like that radio wheel. They're still 65 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:53.319 missing things that you could just not get. The last thing I got was 66 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:59.279 a recall recall yeah. Um, so there's still like four powers or something. 67 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:05.920 And I'll say, like probably follow like the story a little bit like 68 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:12.040 that is going a little bit right, like fill up that radio wheel, 69 00:06:12.040 --> 00:06:15.399 because like every everything can be like missable, which I found to be very 70 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:19.319 interesting because like there were things, there was abilities I didn't have that, 71 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:23.680 Like I was listening to like other podcasts talk about the game, because after 72 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:25.399 a certain point, I'm just like, you know, let me hear other 73 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:28.680 people's experiences, and that's how I learned about new things in this thing in 74 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:31.240 this game to go check out right, similar to how I did elden Ring, 75 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:36.199 And like people are talking about like an ability they found and I'm just 76 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:42.920 like I don't have that, but I've put in more hours what happened you 77 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:45.839 though, It's just like these things can be completely miscible. I'm like, 78 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:53.319 that's a decision. I mean, like as a person who likes to not 79 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.759 tread the beaten path as it were, like, especially in an over the 80 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:00.279 World game, I don't want to do what the game tells me to do. 81 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:03.279 I want to go find whatever that shiny thing is off in the distance. 82 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:11.120 In the Zona games, it's a bit different because um, you know, 83 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:16.920 I'm by how they do rewards and whatnot. In both Breath of the 84 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:19.480 Long and Tears of the Kingdom. I don't know, it's weird. I'm 85 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:24.560 not sure what compels me to explore, but I'm still do it. Um. 86 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:30.000 I know what drives honestly is like at least for like Tears of the 87 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:34.360 Kingdom, right, because I think the reward structure for the games are similar, 88 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:41.480 right, but I feel it's more rewarding in Tiers of the Kingdom for 89 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:46.560 a few different reasons, one being like lower purposes for one, like there's 90 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:51.480 a much more like so exhesive story being told here. Um, there's a 91 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:56.160 lot of like little tidbits that doesn't just fill out like the current story, 92 00:07:56.199 --> 00:08:01.199 but like fills out the entire world in its history. And like there are 93 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:03.879 places like how Elder and Ring if you go to like Kalid or something, 94 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:09.000 right, like the battlefields you see in Kalid are telling a story that happened 95 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.639 here, and like the items that you find are like giving flavor text on 96 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:16.160 like what happened in this spot, right, Like there there's a consistent story 97 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:20.079 being told about this area. And I think there are not maybe to like 98 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:26.959 that degree because like from soft is on some shit with that, but there 99 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:30.160 there is something there, and there are areas that I get to that I'm 100 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:33.440 like, oh, there's there's a thing that has happened in this place, 101 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:35.720 and I'm curious about what happens here, and you get like little information about 102 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:39.600 it that is very interesting. So that compels me to go. And then 103 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:45.360 because of the mechanics, I think the shrine puzzles in this game are a 104 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:50.399 lot more clever in most cases, um and like actually forced me to like 105 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.840 think a little bit more and I and I'm a sucker for puzzles, right, 106 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:58.080 so like that is some of my favorites. So that still pushes me 107 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:03.399 forward, you know, like actual maybe like item rewards aren't quite there, 108 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:05.840 but there has been some stuff that I found out. I was like, 109 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:11.120 Okay, that's kind of cool. Yeah. I like playing with like the 110 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:16.440 fuse mechanic and see like what kind of stupid thing I can create that keeps 111 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:22.519 me going. And that actually makes me tolerate the weapon durability mechanic because I 112 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:26.799 want to cycle through weapons just to see, well, what can I fuse 113 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:31.600 this time? What stupid weapon can I fuse this time? Yeah? Now 114 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:37.320 on the flip side, this introduces new problems and this is like one of 115 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:41.480 the first things I noticed when I was playing the game. The fucking men 116 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:50.879 used a mess. It is absolute Paul Man. The fuse mechanic makes or 117 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:54.840 not even just the fuse like I think the Ultrahan mechanic is a bit tedious 118 00:09:54.840 --> 00:10:05.960 too. I wish the ability to move pieces was a little bit more flexible, 119 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:11.279 yeah, and not as rigid as turns of like you know, turning 120 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:15.480 pieces to get them the way that you want them to and then like sifting 121 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:20.879 through the menu to find the monster piece or whatever item you're carrying to fuse, 122 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:24.039 especially on the arrow, like when you get when you can attach literally 123 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:28.480 anything to an arrow and you're like, okay, I specifically want like a 124 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:31.080 bomb flower. You have to pull up this venue and then you have to 125 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:35.200 like go thirty items down and yeah, hopefully you find the bomb flower and 126 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:39.320 like that kind of takes me out of it a bit, which is a 127 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:43.000 bit unfortunate. I don't know how you fix that, to be honest, 128 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:46.759 Maybe not have it on a bar. Yeah, Like if they if they 129 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:50.960 would have just brought up like a smaller inventory screen, right yeah, with 130 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:54.799 a couple of couple of rows. This way you can kind of fit more 131 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:58.799 items onto the screen because it's kind of like quickly get to the thing you 132 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:03.200 want or like a favorite or something favorites would work to right. I know 133 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:07.519 you can sort the list by like most used and stuff like that. So 134 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:13.120 if if there is something that you're constantly like going to right or using a 135 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:16.639 lot of you can hit like, I think why or whatever resources the list 136 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.840 and in one of the options is by most frequently used, and I think, 137 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:26.919 um, like an actual history of what you've used right, last item 138 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:28.519 used. So I've been I've been doing a lot of that to kind of 139 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:33.879 mitigate that because because I've kind of settled into like the things I like to 140 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:39.759 use right, so it's it's not as bad for me now, But I 141 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:43.039 did feel the exact same. I'm like this menu stuff is a little on 142 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:48.080 the clunky side. At the same time, it's like I can understand why 143 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.720 it might be a little difficult to figure out how this works, especially for 144 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:58.000 like the time, but there I feel like there's one out there, right, 145 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.720 So if they're if this is the direction that could continue to go into, 146 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:07.480 I feel like they'll get there eventually, but it's it's definitely a bit 147 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:11.039 messy. Same thing with the controls. I feel too, like in general, 148 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:18.919 why yeah, I've definitely been times where I've accidentally thrown my weapon because 149 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:24.120 I wanted to equip something else or like the button combinations, I'll fumble a 150 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:30.440 little bit, especially in like high pressure situations. I'm like, oh oopstre 151 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:35.799 remap buttons that should be in every video game ever, should be should always 152 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:41.200 be able to remap controls. In twenty twenty three, we should not like 153 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:46.320 miss Quality of Life updates. Listen, our Lord and Savior Shagero Miamoto said, 154 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:52.039 you must play the game my way we can. I would really just 155 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:54.679 want to buy Dash to a Bumper man. That's all I want to do, 156 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:03.159 because every other video game does that. It would be nice. Like 157 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:09.159 what kills me is they have a one like remap where you can swap the 158 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:13.279 jump in the run button And I'm like, so you guys knew, you 159 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:16.639 knew, and you still didn't do it. Yeah, that's even more insulting, 160 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:22.480 right, It's like here, we have gave you another option, it's 161 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:30.480 still not as good because like if I put like throw a weapon on the 162 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:33.320 X button or not the X button, yeah, I think on the switch 163 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:39.320 is the X button. I would never throw my weapon if I didn't want 164 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:43.120 to because I can't accidentally hit it there putting something like throw a weapon on 165 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:48.240 a bumper button. Especially when holding the switch on portable mode, I find 166 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:54.840 myself like rubbing against the bumpers all the time. It's really frustrating. I 167 00:13:54.960 --> 00:14:01.159 just again, I don't understand why map controls are not a normal thing. 168 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:07.480 End up philosophy. Man, it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make 169 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:15.799 any sense. Have you found any fun combinations, like what is what is 170 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:22.919 your favorite sort of concox and you have created so far? I haven't gotten 171 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:26.320 that far yet because as soon as I did like a little bit of storial 172 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:31.399 and I got my paraglider, because the first thing you see when you go 173 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:35.039 to a greater high role after coming down from the sky, you see a 174 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:39.039 giant hole in the ground. And the first thing I did was before like 175 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:41.080 the first thing I got down there, I'm like, let me jump in 176 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:45.039 the hole and see what happened. Yeah, well I died. I died, 177 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:48.080 And I was like, oh, okay, I guess I need the 178 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:50.799 paraglider for I jump out here. And so then when I got the paraglider, 179 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:52.080 I was like, I'm going to go jump in that hole right now, 180 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:56.000 so I jumped in the hole realized there's a fucking underworld, and I'm 181 00:14:56.000 --> 00:15:03.320 like, oh, that's shit. That that I the underworld might be like 182 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:09.720 my favorite part of this game. It's very funny because once again you and 183 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:16.840 Wrong have complete opposite opinions. Or oh he hates it? Does he he 184 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:22.120 hates it? I think part of it. Part of it, like having 185 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:30.159 to shoot bright blue arrows everywhere, is kind of annoying. Um. I 186 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:35.559 like that though, because I like the idea of like I can't see, 187 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:39.679 I don't know what's down here, like there are things of like reddish things 188 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:41.799 or creatures, and I'm just like I am lost in this world that I 189 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:48.440 have no business being here, right, And it like that like is not 190 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:52.679 introduced anywhere else like in this game or a Breath of the Wild for that 191 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:58.360 matter. Um. And then like when you start to do more like quests 192 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:02.480 and stuff that are down there, and you start exploring more stuff down there, 193 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:07.600 like the history of the underground is very fascinating too, and there are 194 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:12.879 connections elsewhere with the underground, Like the more I uncover about the underground area, 195 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:18.440 I am like, I am so surprised. Well, maybe surprise isn't 196 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.960 the right word. But it's fascinating that like Nintendo never talked about this, 197 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:27.559 right, it's always been when you look at like promotion for to the Kingdom, 198 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:32.240 it's always like the Sky Islands, which I have feelings about that, 199 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:38.360 but there's like there was never any mentions of an underground area and it was 200 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:44.159 such a pleasant and weird and strange like discovery to jump down the hole and 201 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.559 be like, oh, there is a whole literally a whole other world down 202 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:57.799 here. That's fair, that's fair. Yeah, I'm curious see where you 203 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:06.119 land like it when you mess around with the sky. But um, it's 204 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:11.799 mostly like I find it very uninteresting. Um, most of like the Sky 205 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:18.839 Islands I have landed on, um is like there's not nothing really interesting is 206 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:21.799 happening up there for me, for me, I should say, specifically, 207 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:29.160 Um, I don't know's it's it's just like maybe there's a shrine here, 208 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:33.759 okay, cool. Um. Narratively it's not like doing much for me up 209 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:40.079 there either, And the like they're all spread out like far enough to where 210 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:45.240 I don't know, there's almost like no cohesion with like the islands that are 211 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.920 just floating there. Um, it's almost like they sprinkled it there, just 212 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:53.079 to sprinkle islands there, right, Like I don't, I don't know it 213 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:57.000 just the stuff that I'm finding up there isn't nearly as interesting as like going 214 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:00.599 into a pitch black area and being like all shit, everything down here is 215 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:06.480 going to fuck kill me, you know. Um, it's something like traveling 216 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:11.279 between the sky islands. It's also not necessarily a pain, but like I 217 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:19.079 don't know, navigating up there isn't all that interesting either. M hmm. 218 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:25.000 Yeah, it's cool though, Like I'm glad they added like another space, 219 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:30.960 right, um, but just it's not doing anything nearly close to like what 220 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:42.079 the Underground is doing for me. Fair mhmm. Well, I wish I 221 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:47.400 had more to comment on it, but I'm still so like in the beginning 222 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:49.559 yea, yeah, like I can't comment too much. Like I haven't done 223 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:53.960 a dungeon. I've done a couple of shrines so far. They're both of 224 00:18:53.960 --> 00:19:00.519 the wild shrines. Um, like nothing was like too crazy. I did 225 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.880 like make a plane, Oh yeah, that was cool, Like all the 226 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:08.160 technology that the game gives you access to, and there's like there's more collectibles 227 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:14.200 because now there's like I want to level up my battery so I can use 228 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:26.519 more technology or devices. Um so yeah, I mean I think like, 229 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:30.359 especially the earlier shrines are very like tutorial level style right where it's just like, 230 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:34.720 let's get you used to like some baby basic stuff. But I think 231 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:41.799 I have found some shrines that have like really pushed me into like thinking outside 232 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:48.400 of the box, which which I've talked about this before, I think with 233 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:52.200 you in in Asher when we went to lunch one day, or maybe I've 234 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:56.319 talked to somebody else about it. But it's like there are some puzzles that 235 00:19:56.359 --> 00:20:00.680 they have created that I think are like ten out of ten, like fascinating, 236 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:04.119 Like give me an entire game that's just built off of this concept, 237 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:08.440 right, Like, there are some really fucking interesting puzzles in this game. 238 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:14.519 But I also feel like there are times where like the system that is so 239 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:18.240 open ended that you can kind of just bypass them in like the gessiest way 240 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:23.279 possible and not interact with it the way that like it's designed to be interacted 241 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:29.720 with. And that is both like I'm still wrestling with my feelings on it, 242 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:33.440 but like it is both a bummer but also very cool at the same 243 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:37.680 time, because like if you had forced me to interact with the puzzle in 244 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:44.000 this very specific way and make me think about this puzzle like think, think 245 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:48.960 of a solution outside the box that would be I would feel like a fucking 246 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:52.279 genius, right, But instead the game is like, but what if you 247 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:57.279 just made a bridge though, just really long wooden bridge, And I'm like, 248 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:02.400 you know what, what if I just did that in bypass the entire 249 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:07.319 actual, like intellectual part of this puzzle. And the fact that the game 250 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:11.279 lets me do that though, I think is really cool. But at the 251 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:15.119 same time, I'm like, also feels like it's like yeah, right, 252 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:18.039 But but then I heard somebody else talk about it and break it down before, 253 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:22.279 And what led me more to believe that, like, no, this 254 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:26.640 is actually really smart of them is that like, even though I wanted to 255 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:29.839 be challenged more, I could have overst myself to do it the right way. 256 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:37.119 But it also like lowers the bar for people, and that like you're 257 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:42.759 never in a situation where like nobody can complete this thing right, And it's 258 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:48.960 like it's a weird sort of accessibility thing right where it's like, hey, 259 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:52.759 this might be too challenging for some people, So if they can think of 260 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:56.599 like the easy out of like let me just make a giant bridge to do 261 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:00.880 this. That one satisfies the condition of hey, they get to complete the 262 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.920 puzzle, but also makes people like proud of that they thought of this idea 263 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:10.400 to do it right. It's it's it's a fascinating like design choice that they 264 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:15.920 did there. Um and it works. So I'm both like disappointed in some 265 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:22.960 ways but very impressed in others. Um. Yeah, it's I don't know 266 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.880 this game. This game, in my opinion, is like really, I'm 267 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:29.519 excited for you to like keep poking at it, um, because I think 268 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:33.880 it took me a minute to like get over the hump, as it were, 269 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:37.039 because for a little while when I was playing it, I almost felt 270 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:41.400 like this doesn't feel that much different than Breath of the Wild in some ways. 271 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:47.039 Um, And it's very much the sequel to It's very much the sequel 272 00:22:47.160 --> 00:22:52.680 right. Um. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, because personally I 273 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:56.559 love Breath of the Wild and I'm like the game here is good, but 274 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:02.119 like what makes this game Tears of the Kingdom? Right, And after like 275 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:07.559 a certain point I completely bought into the game. Um, It's just like 276 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:11.440 something clicked in my brain and I'm just like, no, everything they're designed 277 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:18.400 here is fucking actually insane and really really good. And I'm wondering, like 278 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:22.319 if there will be a moment in this game that like does that for you 279 00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:25.799 that you just kind of have like this epiphany of like, no, this 280 00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:27.720 game is fucking incredible, or is it going to go the other way and 281 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:32.160 you're just like, yeah, cancel whatever or baby fall somewhere in between. 282 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:40.200 Considering I how about like the switch and the controller and like old, I 283 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:45.599 want this to be like my favorite game of all time, so esthetically that 284 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:49.000 stuff is cool, though, are you right. I'm not the biggest Animal 285 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:52.440 Crossing fan, but I like the Animal Crossing Switch because of the colors. 286 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:59.279 I mean, I'll say this much. The narrative has definitely hold. It's 287 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:04.119 very intrigued by that. I'm very intrigued by that, So I want to 288 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:11.079 see more of that. Obviously, Um, I just need time to like 289 00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:22.960 but maybe mm hmmm, yeah, that that narratively, it's so fucking called. 290 00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:26.839 It might be like my favorite Zelda story. You haven't played car Retard 291 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:30.440 yet, so I have, I haven't, I haven't. That is still 292 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:36.359 my favorite Zelda story. But this is hitting all of the notes that I 293 00:24:36.440 --> 00:24:40.920 need a story to hit. So it's it's good. That's all I can 294 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:47.680 really say. Um, cool man, any any anything else or or other 295 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:51.759 thoughts on it, or yeah, give me a hyperbolic time chamber please, 296 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:53.599 yes, it would be nice. Wayne. I don't think I'm beating that 297 00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:59.680 game before finally succeed. I just don't think it's happening, and do not 298 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:04.079 it's happening. I think I'm probably for what I want to complete out of 299 00:25:04.119 --> 00:25:07.440 that game, because I'm not gonna like one hundred percent, like I'm not 300 00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:11.680 doing all shrines and all core rocks and stuff, but for doing like all 301 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:15.240 of the the main missions and probably like most of the side quest. I'd 302 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:22.279 say, um, I'm probably sitting at like the sixty percent mark. Um, 303 00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:26.920 at least that's how I feel right looking at like what's ahead of me 304 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:32.119 and what I feel like I have left to do. I think I'm there, 305 00:25:32.119 --> 00:25:34.599 like I think a good like another weekend pushed and I can pretty much 306 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:40.559 be at the door. Oh, I'm gonna try to have it done by 307 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:45.200 by sixteen, but we'll see what happens. Never know what what what life 308 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:49.079 throws out at me or us or anybody you know. Yeah, all this 309 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:56.400 traveling I'm doing is really and my game time to be honest, understandable. 310 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:03.839 Well, I think that brings us to the big one. I mean, 311 00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:08.200 let me see, let me knock out something real because we both play three 312 00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:18.480 partoses, right yeah, go ahead and do yours. Yeah yeah. I 313 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:22.480 won't get into spoiler territory or anything of that nature, because I will find 314 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:25.920 you and kill you. You will find me and kill me. I I 315 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:33.279 understand, I understand. I'll write in my journal all of the juicy details. 316 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:40.440 Um. But I did finally start sing Blay Chronicles three um over the 317 00:26:40.519 --> 00:26:48.319 last week, and um, just just like general thoughts on it, um, 318 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:52.680 I went into this game not really knowing anything, right, Um, 319 00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:56.200 Like the only thing I've seen on this game was like the initial like launch 320 00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:59.599 trailer or not not the launch trailer, but like the announcement trailer for it, 321 00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:04.559 right, and then maybe like one video in a random direct like last 322 00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:10.000 year or something, right like it really didn't know anything with this this game 323 00:27:10.039 --> 00:27:12.079 offers. And then of course I think we all got spoiled at least in 324 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:18.960 some small capacity of like the DLC right um, because that was a fucking 325 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:22.279 apparently that was a historical moment and everybody needed to fucking tweet about it. 326 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:30.079 Um. So going into this game completely blind, uh and coming off of 327 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:34.079 Hey Street Fight six in the background, uh, Drew's in training month. 328 00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:41.039 No no, I was trying to close out of the stats menu I had 329 00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:47.279 left up and that went to the title many Street and apparently my controller streams 330 00:27:47.319 --> 00:27:56.480 at me. It's it's it's fucking snitching controller. Um I uh. And 331 00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:00.119 then after like playing sting to play Chronicles Too. And We've talked about this 332 00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:03.759 game a lot on the show, especially like when it came out and how 333 00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:07.960 I both love that game to death but also I'm very critical of that game, 334 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:11.799 right, Like both can be true? Um yeah, I think it's 335 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:18.920 okay to lovely flawed game. Absolutely. Um. There are plenty of flawed 336 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:23.240 games that are like my personal favorites, and I will always like preface like 337 00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:26.839 what is bad about it, but then tell you about like what I love 338 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:30.359 about it at the same time. Um, Fimbling Chronicles three out of the 339 00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:37.960 gate, like within the first hour of this game far exceeds my feelings towards 340 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:45.440 Amble Chronicles too. Um, Like it has it has an amazing start and 341 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:52.480 it has been delivering constantly, consistently. I live in the world of two 342 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:56.640 polar opposites. It's amazing. Yeah, because between you and raw, it's 343 00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:06.160 just like it's the wild wild to me. I get both of them. 344 00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:08.119 I get both of them. Like, well, no, okay, I 345 00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:15.599 understand that. But like it is between you and him, it's like polar 346 00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:26.200 Robinson opinion every fucking time, always he is he is my shadow. Uh 347 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:30.720 So I find it very funny when when you say that, because all I've 348 00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:34.200 been hearing from the past like however long I forget how long ago he played 349 00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:37.519 it. Um, He's just like, yeah, I think it's the weakest 350 00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:41.160 story out of all of them. And I'm mind, I'm sure you do. 351 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:44.680 Yeah, sure you do. And that that comes from a place of 352 00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:49.440 like we're coming to these things with like very different like expectations or like what 353 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:57.759 we look for. It doesn't like trigger So that's the context for our audience 354 00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:03.319 that I'm like, I'd be curious there the reasons though, Um, I 355 00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:11.279 wouldn't completely dismiss that opinion though, Um but but but I I I digress, 356 00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:17.000 like I think I could, I could be uh. I would gladly 357 00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:18.319 listen to to so much's reasonings, and I'm like, why they didn't, 358 00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:25.720 like, you know X thing that is like beloved, Right, Um, 359 00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:29.279 I'm sure that there's something in there that's probably a nugget of truth. Uh. 360 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:32.559 In the same way that I'm critical about FSX, Right, I still 361 00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:37.240 like that game. Um, well you're just wrong. Apparently we are all 362 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:42.319 wrong. Um. I'll get to the replay of that game soon. Uh. 363 00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:47.079 But but either way, UM yeah, so so what it's doing it 364 00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:51.799 for me personally? Um, it is a lot of things that I look 365 00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:56.200 for in stories, um, and in in characters in the like their likability. 366 00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:00.960 Um, this is I wouldn't say one of the few times, but 367 00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:07.519 I feel like it doesn't happen enough to where like I love the entire cast 368 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:11.240 of this game, Like it doesn't even take much right, Like from the 369 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:15.559 jump, I'm like, I love everybody here. M it's not taking much 370 00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:21.880 convincing, right, And the scenarios at the presented with is very fascinating. 371 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:25.960 In the world that they've created, I'm like, as it's unfolding, I'm 372 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:29.319 just like I can vibe with this. I am digging this. I want 373 00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:32.039 to see where this goes and and will it pay off in the end. 374 00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:34.880 I don't know. I'm thirteen ish hours into the game at this point, 375 00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:41.160 we're still unlocking battle mechanics. I'll love what Zina Blade does, right, 376 00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:48.079 But I will also say it's probably my favorite battle system out of the games 377 00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:53.720 so far for a bunch of different reasons that I will I will let you 378 00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:57.839 figure out when you get to it, because there are definitely things in here 379 00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:05.039 that I had no idea this game was going to do this or do X 380 00:32:05.640 --> 00:32:08.119 Y Z thing um, And I was just like, how did I not 381 00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:15.720 get spoiled on this thing? This mechanic, this is sick um. I 382 00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:22.039 have said that mechanic you're talking about, because I know of some mechanics mechanics. 383 00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:28.279 Do you want me to tell you you might not have gotten to it 384 00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:37.000 yet? Go for it. The it's basically tales of hysteria. How do 385 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:42.839 you mean like, there's a fuse mechanic? There is that that that is 386 00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:45.400 one that's not the one that I said, Oh this is tight though, 387 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:52.240 Oh really, really, I do think the fuse mechanic, um, it's 388 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:57.559 all right. I think it handles it way better than Systeria. I will 389 00:32:57.599 --> 00:33:00.920 give it. Not sure. A lot of games this area does a lot 390 00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:06.599 better. This is true. Um, It's it's it's that that mechanic in 391 00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:10.000 particularly is very interesting. I'm still learning like how to properly use it, 392 00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:17.119 um, but I am okay with it, and I'm interested in like how 393 00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:22.519 it played until fights going forward. Um, still working through that. But 394 00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:28.119 I do think that mechanics actually pretty cool. But there are several other things 395 00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:30.880 that this game does that I'm like, this is sick. This is actually 396 00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:38.519 really sick. Um. So yeah, that's that's about all I can actually 397 00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:43.000 get into, right, Just like a quick overview of my feelings of what 398 00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:45.839 this game is doing and how it makes me really excited to play through more 399 00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:51.039 of it. Um. It's the game that I'm thinking about a lot lately, 400 00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:52.920 Like when I come home from work, It's like the first thing I'm 401 00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:55.599 doing is like I don't want to plays and over played before anything else and 402 00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:01.079 knock out an hour or two before hopping on like Zelda or something else. 403 00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:05.599 Um, it was fair. You know, it's crazy. You could do 404 00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:07.280 this thing called playing one game at a time and then he plays to lay 405 00:34:07.320 --> 00:34:12.079 three all the time. I could, but then I wouldn't have content for 406 00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:20.400 the show. I gotta I gotta play multiple games, dog, um. 407 00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:23.239 But also like I I you know, I just like playing multiple games, 408 00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:29.119 right, um, and anything that comes out, I want to get my 409 00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:31.360 hands on it. Like even if I've gotten to a place now where like 410 00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:37.360 I am okay with not completing a game like they're they're obviously games like that 411 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:40.599 are very important to me that I will see through to the end, right, 412 00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:45.000 and I will make time for that. But I'm also okay with just 413 00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:49.119 like I just want to touch this thing real quick and see what it's like. 414 00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:52.639 Um, because so many games come out these days that that capture my 415 00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:54.559 interests, and I'm like, I know I don't have the time in the 416 00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:58.320 world to do all of this stuff, but I at least want to be 417 00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.760 like I gave this this shot and I see what it's doing, right, 418 00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:06.840 Um that I think I'm finding more enjoyment out of that, and that is 419 00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:12.679 something that is like really important to me. So like that that's kind of 420 00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:15.760 why I'm always bouncing between games. Um. I'm just like I want to 421 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:19.519 see what this is doing. Um, this just came out. I want 422 00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:22.000 to be a part of that conversation to see what this is doing. Um. 423 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:25.199 And then that just kind of don't. They just kind of helped me 424 00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:30.960 enjoy this hobby more than more than it would if I just stuck with one, 425 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:34.239 because I've done that before, Um, a couple of years ago where 426 00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:38.239 I did focus on like one thing at a time, and I found like, 427 00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:45.159 I found that I was not having nearly as much fun in that. 428 00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:49.440 That also played into a time where like I was focusing hard on like a 429 00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:53.039 single fighting game and stuff like that too. Um, I found like I 430 00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:58.719 was getting like way more irritated by like little things as I'm playing a game, 431 00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:00.920 like I feel like I need like break right and I need to like 432 00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:06.199 break these sessions up with something else. And then that's when I learned, 433 00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:10.480 like, oh, I'm I have more fun when I am constantly bouncing around 434 00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:16.559 between things to just kind of like reset myself. And then I just kind 435 00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:22.840 of like carried that over into like the broader spectrum of like games in general. 436 00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:28.440 Um, yeah, that's just how I consume media. You know. 437 00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:34.760 Oh I am fair, I don't hate Yeah, but um, outside that 438 00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:37.400 I've talked about two is the Kingdom that's still going. I'm I'm like sixty 439 00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:42.920 hours into that game. You think, Um, hopefully I have that done 440 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:45.599 pretty soon. I feel like there's another small thing that I've playing, but 441 00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:47.880 I'm not gonna sweat too hard about it. I'll talk about that another day. 442 00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:52.960 What we're really here for, um is Street far or six. This 443 00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:55.000 is a game that me, you both have been playing a little bit of. 444 00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:57.960 Well, I've been playing a little bit of you've been playing a lot 445 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:01.840 of Uh, tell me about this video game? Is something that you have 446 00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:07.400 been really excited for? Um, So, I have been playing the Street 447 00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:14.679 Fighter six since Wednesday of last week or this past week. A supports um, 448 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:19.159 this game is a really good This game is really really good. Yeah, 449 00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:25.679 Like there there are just so many things that I could like posit towards 450 00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:32.920 this game's credit of My community had like a twenty man tournament on Friday for 451 00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:38.840 day one of Street Fighter six, and like everybody was like happy and having 452 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:45.280 fun, which is not something that has happened in this community four years. 453 00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:51.159 And that is something that has been happening in the broader FTC community as well. 454 00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:58.360 Every everywhere seems to have Everybody is excited for this game. You know, 455 00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:00.280 obviously there are some that don't take to and that's fine, right, 456 00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:07.760 But for the most part, it seems like it's hitting hitting right for basically 457 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:12.880 every subcommunity within the SEC. Like everybody's finding enjoyment out of this game, 458 00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:15.159 which is very cool, especially for Capcom. Right like, it is a 459 00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:21.400 really good win for Capcom, who has been kind of like especially you know, 460 00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:25.800 not releasing anything after Ultra Street for the four. It's weird that they 461 00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:31.079 skipped numbers. But you know what, I say that that's that's the position 462 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:37.199 he takes. I say, no, I mean, look, Street Fight 463 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:45.039 or five just divided my local community in two pieces. That game was just 464 00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:52.000 so unpopular around here that it pretty much killed fighting games in my area, 465 00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:58.400 right like Street Fight, So everybody plays their own fighting game. Everybody has 466 00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:01.320 their own favorite fighting game, and then like when you're in a competitive like 467 00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:08.760 scene, everybody has that fighting game and then go to but grow or not 468 00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:14.880 growing up. But like, as I was becoming more involved with the FGC 469 00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:21.280 as a whole and like competitive fighting games, Street Fighter was always the glue 470 00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:27.559 that brought everybody together, at least in my community. Because back in like 471 00:39:28.280 --> 00:39:32.360 I'm essentially an O nineer, Like I started playing like fighting games like more 472 00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:37.719 more competitively with like Third Strike when I was in high school, like my 473 00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:45.079 buddy like Destroy or like he got the street Fighter Anniversary collection that had like 474 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:52.199 hyper Fighting and Third Strike and he showed it to me and he shared with 475 00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:54.920 me, and then he showed me like Ebo moment thirty seven and like boom, 476 00:39:55.000 --> 00:40:00.679 competitive fighting game Drew was born, and so like I had been playing 477 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:05.360 fighting games since then, and like street Fighter was always on the document. 478 00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:07.559 Right, Like I played street Fighter three, I wasn't particularly good at it. 479 00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:10.480 I didn't understand what it was to play fighting games at the time. 480 00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:15.480 And then shree Fighter four came out, and like we all had, like 481 00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:17.599 street Fighter four was my main game, but like everybody in my community like 482 00:40:17.719 --> 00:40:22.960 had their other game that they played, whether it be like Marvel or Guilty 483 00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:30.000 Gear or Persona or tech In or whatever. Right, everybody played street Fighter. 484 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:35.199 So that like no matter what, when you when everybody got together, 485 00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:37.119 like people would play their own games with them, then they also played street 486 00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:40.599 Fighters. So like everybody played a game together and there was there was like 487 00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:46.079 this sense of community, right, and then like fast forward to you know, 488 00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:52.199 seven years later, I think street Fighter five was twenty sixteen. Seven 489 00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:57.280 years later, street Fighter five comes out and like all of us just don't 490 00:40:57.519 --> 00:41:04.960 feel the same way on day one street Fighter five. Um, Like street 491 00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:08.920 Fighter four is the reason I am the person I am today. The friends 492 00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:15.360 that I have are because of street Fighter. If I didn't have street Fighter, 493 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:17.599 I would not have the life that I have today, right, Um, 494 00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:22.639 And like it's very weird to think that, Like after street Fighter five, 495 00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:28.119 like our community kind of like just sort of went their separate ways, 496 00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:31.760 and like we didn't have the sense of community anymore. And like we're playing 497 00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:37.920 street Fighter six, like this game's finally out and everybody is just so freaking 498 00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:43.280 hype and having fun and we're all like super hype for this game. And 499 00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:50.280 ah, I can't describe how happy this game makes. I think I can't 500 00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:53.960 describe it pretty well, honestly, I think you have described that it means 501 00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:59.199 a lot, right uh, And it's it's done a lot for you and 502 00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:05.760 the community fun you have. You have explained how important it is. I 503 00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:08.159 definitely get I feel it, you know, But what is it about my 504 00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:12.599 game? Like what what what is driving you to this game? Like? 505 00:42:13.199 --> 00:42:20.400 Well, oh, I mean the game just feels right. I don't know 506 00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:23.599 what it is about street Fighter five. That's something about that game because I'll 507 00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:28.519 be honest, there's a lot of things in Street Butter six that come from 508 00:42:28.559 --> 00:42:31.719 five, like mechanics wise and design choice wise, Like street Fighter six is 509 00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:35.960 not just like we'll forget everything we did in five, like this is completely 510 00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:39.960 new, funny. No, it does base itself around some of the design 511 00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:46.159 choices of five. For example, like things like pressure you know, not 512 00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:51.639 being the same as it was in the game like street Fighter four or earlier 513 00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:55.159 street Fighter games, like certain mechanics being designed with the way they are, 514 00:42:55.320 --> 00:43:00.679 Like it is more a kind too street Fighter five, all right, but 515 00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:05.320 something about the game, like the game has an identity. The game is 516 00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:09.440 very pretty to look at. This game has an identity of like this is 517 00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:15.280 street Fighter, whereas like on launch, street Fighter five was so bare bones 518 00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:17.039 it wasn't even funny. You might as well have just gotten like an open 519 00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:22.039 beta or an early access game. I think it's probably more accurate. It 520 00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:27.400 was very incomplete on launch, and they overpromised a lot for that game, 521 00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:30.599 and they focused on the wrong parts of that game, because I was definitely 522 00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:35.639 when Capcom was focusing on like this huge esports initiative and like forgot about what 523 00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:39.159 it took to make a complete good game, right, Yes, it was 524 00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:44.679 definitely bad direction for it, and five eventually got to a good spot, 525 00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:47.559 like the final season of five is considered to be like a very good game, 526 00:43:47.719 --> 00:43:53.480 but it's still like divided a Capcom community, right, yes, and 527 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:57.280 for a lot of people it was too little, too late at though. 528 00:43:57.400 --> 00:44:00.599 Yeah, absolutely, there's only so you can only win back so many people 529 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:06.880 like first impression is the most important thing, um in anything, um and 530 00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:09.920 in six is like there are aspects of five and six, but what I 531 00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:14.519 really appreciate out of six is that it feels like the greatest hits of like 532 00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:21.320 the entire street Fighter like legacy, right, because like there there are mechanics 533 00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:23.239 that they take up from like Third Strike when you think about like Perry's, 534 00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:27.079 right, even though they function differently, right, but like the idea that 535 00:44:27.159 --> 00:44:30.000 Perry's is a universal option is back in this game. Or you have the 536 00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:36.079 Drive Drive Impact, which is like a different take on like what a focus 537 00:44:36.159 --> 00:44:39.800 attack was, right, um in the Drive Rush, which is based off 538 00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:43.280 of that, is like a f A DC kind of deal. Right. 539 00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:47.039 So it's like they take all of these ideas from all previous street Fighter games 540 00:44:47.119 --> 00:44:52.280 as well as giving the characters like tools from like every Street Fighter game as 541 00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:55.119 well, Like these are the most complete versions of every character. Um, 542 00:44:55.719 --> 00:45:00.639 I agree. We talked about it before of like how do you take Guile 543 00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:04.800 and like make him an interesting character? This game fucking did it, right. 544 00:45:04.840 --> 00:45:09.920 He still only has character that he's been for the past thirty five years, 545 00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:14.119 but but he has way more, but he has way more interesting like 546 00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:17.039 comba rounding and stuff too. Like, sure, they gave him all of 547 00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:22.719 the cool stuff that he ended up gaining in like street Fighter five as well, 548 00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:24.360 with like the enhanced starting booms. They even gave you a perfect boom, 549 00:45:24.599 --> 00:45:28.719 right. Um, they gave you more things to play around, more 550 00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:30.880 tools play around with that are still within giles kits. So like, functionally, 551 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:34.800 yes, he is still very much I'm going to throw fireballs and I'm 552 00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:37.760 going to flash kick, right, but they gave him more tools and like 553 00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:43.639 normals and stuff like that to play around with. Right, So he even 554 00:45:43.639 --> 00:45:45.320 though he's the same character, yes, but like there there is more to 555 00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:50.000 him in this game than any other previous Street Fighter game, right, which 556 00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:52.840 is really fucking cool. Right, And I feel like they did that with 557 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:55.800 every character, right, even Blanca is like a completely different character. Now 558 00:45:55.960 --> 00:46:00.440 right, it's kind of wild how much stuff they've given everybody. It is 559 00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:07.840 true, I mean every character, Like I've been going through like since I 560 00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:09.480 got the game first. I want I want to point out, like this 561 00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:15.599 game feels very friendly to beginners. This game gives a lot of tools to 562 00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:21.679 people who want to learn how to play fighting games, or they're new to 563 00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:24.000 like street Fighter, or they want to play a character that they've ever played 564 00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:29.480 before. This game gives you like a lot of resources to like sort of 565 00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:34.440 make that venture. Because like these character breakdowns that they did, Like they 566 00:46:34.440 --> 00:46:37.159 include a character breakdowns for every character in the game, and they're not just 567 00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:40.880 like little quick blurbs of like what the character does, or like hey, 568 00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:46.639 this character has this really cool move. They're like straight up actual character breakdowns, 569 00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:52.719 going in depth move by move of like what this character is supposed to 570 00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:55.960 do, and like how they design this character and what they want this character 571 00:46:57.039 --> 00:47:01.440 to do. And I think that that's really cool because at the very least, 572 00:47:02.159 --> 00:47:06.599 um, I can go through all of that, like without having played 573 00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:09.119 any of the other characters, I can get an idea for what this character 574 00:47:09.159 --> 00:47:14.000 wants to do. Right, Yeah, I think that that's really cool. 575 00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:16.559 I think that's awesome, right, Um, that is that is something that 576 00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:22.280 these games needed. And you you've seen games like take a Stab at It 577 00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:28.280 here and there and like to two different varying degrees of success or non success. 578 00:47:28.599 --> 00:47:30.440 Um. But it's it's the struggle trying to figure out like how to 579 00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:35.519 do this right right? Um? Yeah? And I feel like Fighter is 580 00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:39.559 definitely like a very big good step in a direction of like making that onboarding 581 00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:46.679 ramp like easier for people right of like all skill levels um. From you 582 00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:50.119 know, people that have played fighting games before that are just looking to get 583 00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:52.440 into like a new thing they're not familiar with, to like people that have 584 00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:57.079 just picked up a fighting game for the very first time. Um. And 585 00:47:57.199 --> 00:48:00.480 I think their approach to even like the different control schemes is that a very 586 00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:06.280 smart and interesting um to where I have witnessed so many people enjoying this game 587 00:48:06.360 --> 00:48:09.400 that legitimately have never touched Street Fighter before and they're like, Hey, this 588 00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:15.320 is a really cool fucking package. Yeah, And that has been one of 589 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:20.119 the coolest things to see in in my point of view, because I'm like, 590 00:48:20.119 --> 00:48:23.480 how do you like there's just so much content? Yeah, Yeah, 591 00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:29.480 there's there's a lot it's so much content for everybody, which I think is 592 00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:32.079 is great, right, like filling around with like the World's War mode. 593 00:48:32.079 --> 00:48:37.519 I'm like I could see like maybe me personally, I might not go through 594 00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:40.559 all of it, right, but there's a world where like younger Rob does 595 00:48:42.199 --> 00:48:45.400 right in the same way that I went through like all of like Subspace Emissary 596 00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:51.000 and all the Google webs Like, yeah, there is a Rob that that 597 00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:55.599 eats that mode up right, And I've seen people, um or I have 598 00:48:55.760 --> 00:49:01.119 friends that that are in that headspace that loves that mode and it's very, 599 00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:07.199 very fucking cool. And then you have like the other um the well thied 600 00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:15.239 out training mode for people that that are they are but but you, but 601 00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:20.639 they give you everything you need, right, and it takes a while to 602 00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:24.239 learn it. But the person that is trying to be competitive is going to 603 00:49:24.320 --> 00:49:29.320 learn how those menus work and take advantage of what's in there. And they 604 00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:32.239 have all the tools needed to learn this game from within the game, not 605 00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:39.960 having to go like a dust loop or a discord wiki page to get information, 606 00:49:40.199 --> 00:49:43.920 right, Like, it gives you everything, and it even sets up 607 00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:49.239 like some basic fun um like practice scenarios of like here's how to practice anti 608 00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:52.079 airs like, so even for people that are newer, like it can just 609 00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:55.599 set up the scenario like common scenarios for you to practice. Right. That 610 00:49:55.760 --> 00:50:01.480 stuff is amazing, right, Um. And on top of having like amazing 611 00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:07.079 online as well, um, like it feels great. Um, they have 612 00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:10.679 like the goofy game modes as well, like the extreme battle modes and the 613 00:50:10.719 --> 00:50:16.639 tag battle modes and all that stuff is online team battles. Being back in 614 00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:23.519 fighting games after like almost two decades of just not being around anymore, right, 615 00:50:24.079 --> 00:50:27.920 and that's a mode that like, there are a lot of people that 616 00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:30.719 love that mode. It's fun, it's silly, right, and they're just 617 00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:37.360 like, we're gonna throw it in there. Um, it's this This new 618 00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:42.679 age of Capcom is very fucking cool. Yeah. I love this this product. 619 00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:47.280 Yeah, I think it's uh, I think it's quite an incredible package. 620 00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:52.239 Um. I think it's the full package. I haven't been able to 621 00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:55.440 stop playing it since I've got it. Part of that is competitive drive, 622 00:50:55.519 --> 00:50:59.920 which is another aspect I want to talk about. However, there are something 623 00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:02.840 things I do want to point out that I think our needs some tweaking, 624 00:51:05.159 --> 00:51:08.280 just some quality of life upgrades. I'd like to see Capcom Do for example, 625 00:51:08.280 --> 00:51:14.400 there's some kind of weird bug in training mode that during matchmaking, so 626 00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:23.360 instead of tying like a play and record button to the normal control scheme in 627 00:51:23.400 --> 00:51:28.760 the training mode, what they've created is like the shortcut mode, right, 628 00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:35.480 and the trunk cut mode is kind of cool in the sense that like it 629 00:51:35.599 --> 00:51:42.119 lets you like assigned buttons on your controller to like reset training mode, like 630 00:51:42.199 --> 00:51:46.800 record a dummy, play a dummy and all that, but like in actuality, 631 00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:50.639 it's a little bit bugged. Like I was using in a first and 632 00:51:50.639 --> 00:51:55.880 I had to stop using it because the game natively uses PlayStation touchpad to restart 633 00:51:55.880 --> 00:52:00.960 battle in training mode, my stick does not have that, therefore I cannot 634 00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:05.400 utilize that, so I was taking the advantage of the shortcut button. However, 635 00:52:05.559 --> 00:52:09.159 like when I utilize the shortcut button, it's really buggy. When I 636 00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:17.000 use shortcut button to do like play and record, it negative edges my buttons, 637 00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:22.800 even though like you can turn negative edge on and off, and I 638 00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:25.760 have negative edge turned off, so like I'll record a dummy and then I 639 00:52:25.800 --> 00:52:30.639 will hit function button and then because the way I haven't assigned is like I 640 00:52:30.719 --> 00:52:36.400 have an eight button stick and like Normally I would just have like my last 641 00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:38.679 two buttons be play and record, but then I don't have a button to 642 00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:44.239 assign reset. So you use what's called this function button, and I tie 643 00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:46.239 that to one of my buttons, and then I can assign those commands to 644 00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:50.880 like function plus one of my face buttons, so I can do like function 645 00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:54.360 light punches, reset battle, function heavy punch is record dummy, and function 646 00:52:54.440 --> 00:53:00.639 heavy kick is play dummy. But whenever I do that, it negative edges 647 00:53:00.679 --> 00:53:04.280 my button, so I'll record a dummy or I'll play a dummy, and 648 00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:09.760 then my player character will do a move which screws up the timing for the 649 00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:15.559 whole recording. Right. I see, So I just I ended up just 650 00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:21.679 assigning like play and record to just those last two buttons, and then like 651 00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:23.360 I can utilize that, but then like I can't reset training mode, and 652 00:53:23.400 --> 00:53:27.079 I'm like, I'd like for them to take a look at that and see 653 00:53:27.079 --> 00:53:30.440 why it does that, but like that's not the only thing. Matchmaking and 654 00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:35.840 training mode is also kind of bugged because you can't use any shortcuts when it's 655 00:53:35.880 --> 00:53:42.559 matchmaking for whatever reason. Oh, I didn't know that, Like you can, 656 00:53:43.199 --> 00:53:45.840 but like when it's joining, you with somebody and like I have it 657 00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:50.480 to where like I confirm who I'm going to play, so I don't have 658 00:53:50.519 --> 00:53:53.840 like any Wi Fi players. While it's connecting you to that, it just 659 00:53:53.880 --> 00:53:57.760 won't let you do any shortcuts. You can do everything else in training mode, 660 00:53:57.960 --> 00:54:02.280 but you can't like hit record play or any of that. Uh huh. 661 00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:08.719 And I'm like that's really frustrating because that makes it like really annoying to 662 00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:14.239 like try and practice stuff like while you're waiting for matches, right right, 663 00:54:14.880 --> 00:54:16.719 because like that's what you want to do in training mode, Like combos are 664 00:54:16.760 --> 00:54:21.880 really like they don't require like a lot of practice and like even practice confirms 665 00:54:21.920 --> 00:54:24.280 and all that, but like you want to practice situations, especially since like 666 00:54:24.320 --> 00:54:28.519 the game gives you this option to like after you play a match, you 667 00:54:28.559 --> 00:54:31.400 can go into training mode versus the character you just played, So if there 668 00:54:31.480 --> 00:54:36.000 was a particular situation that you wanted to lab out, you'd be able to 669 00:54:36.039 --> 00:54:38.719 do that. But like, for whatever reason, like when it's connecting you 670 00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:45.920 to somebody, it just doesn't do that. That's really annoying. That's pretty 671 00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:49.920 annoying. I'm sure that's something that they'll fix, but that I'm sure it's 672 00:54:49.920 --> 00:54:52.039 a bug. Yeah, I feel like that's a bug, and like they 673 00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:59.360 might fix it. Um because like I typically when I do matchmaking, I 674 00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:04.280 mean training because I'm practicing stuff unless the game doesn't really allow me to do 675 00:55:04.360 --> 00:55:08.800 that. Um. That being said, like you know, these are all 676 00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:12.239 like small things, like it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of 677 00:55:12.320 --> 00:55:16.599 things. All live. The game is still great. Um, I do 678 00:55:16.760 --> 00:55:24.079 wish that it would, let mean just automatically, like just filter out everybody 679 00:55:24.079 --> 00:55:29.679 who's playing on Wi Fi? Does it not? No? I thought that 680 00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:34.320 was an option. If there is, I don't know about it, Okay, 681 00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:38.280 huh, because like you can you can filter out by connection, but 682 00:55:38.519 --> 00:55:43.920 as far as I'm aware, you are connection strength, you can't filter out 683 00:55:43.960 --> 00:55:46.360 by connection? Tight, got you? They only added the the Wi Fi 684 00:55:46.559 --> 00:55:52.719 icon, right, gotta I see, I see, and so like if 685 00:55:52.760 --> 00:55:55.000 it's bars, you can tell that they're on a wire connection, but if 686 00:55:55.000 --> 00:56:05.320 it's like the wave things, so yeah, um so I mean other than 687 00:56:05.320 --> 00:56:07.880 that, like those are minor gripes that I had, But all in all, 688 00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:10.280 like I've been enjoying my time with it, and like I'm using this 689 00:56:10.360 --> 00:56:15.559 game as sort of a different approach to uh, you know, my my 690 00:56:15.679 --> 00:56:20.760 competitive desires, as it were, my competitive goals, Like this game has 691 00:56:21.360 --> 00:56:25.519 prompted me to try and learn a character that I would have never thought to 692 00:56:25.519 --> 00:56:30.280 me, like I'm playing DJ, which I never thought that I would be 693 00:56:30.280 --> 00:56:35.800 playing historically, Like I've been playing fighting games for over fifteen years now, 694 00:56:36.119 --> 00:56:38.440 I'd never played charge characters, like I messed around with Dicapre a little bit 695 00:56:38.440 --> 00:56:44.639 in The Street Fighter four, but like not really, I don't play charge 696 00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:51.840 characters. Charge characters have always been a sort of a wall of sorts, 697 00:56:51.920 --> 00:56:55.320 Like I just I didn't understand the idea of using a charge character in an 698 00:56:55.320 --> 00:57:01.079 actual mass The concept of that just feeled a bit too obtuse to me. 699 00:57:01.800 --> 00:57:06.440 That it's just like why would I want to wait to use my moves when 700 00:57:06.519 --> 00:57:10.039 I can just do a character that is a quarter circle forward button and we're 701 00:57:10.079 --> 00:57:15.599 good. But like, I wanted to keep myself open minded in this game 702 00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:19.079 because I didn't want to fall into the same traffic as that I do in 703 00:57:19.119 --> 00:57:23.440 every other fighting game where I just like, I commit to a character and 704 00:57:24.360 --> 00:57:29.199 I am dead set on this character, Like I'm still dead set on this 705 00:57:29.320 --> 00:57:35.000 dream of someday being on like EVO Top eight stage like, I really want 706 00:57:35.039 --> 00:57:37.800 to make that dream come true, and I'm trying to use street Fighters six 707 00:57:38.159 --> 00:57:44.039 as that vehicle to make that dream come true. And street Fighter six also 708 00:57:44.119 --> 00:57:50.440 gives me the tools to sort of try this new approach because it gives me 709 00:57:50.519 --> 00:57:53.400 the ability to look at these new characters and see what they're about and try 710 00:57:53.480 --> 00:58:00.320 them out. And like DJ wasn't even necessarily on my race it all. 711 00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:05.480 It just happened to like just start messing with him, and I'm like, 712 00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:07.239 yeah, this character is kind of cool. And then like that problemt to 713 00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:09.199 me. I'm like, well, you know, maybe it's time we learn 714 00:58:09.239 --> 00:58:15.079 a charge character, like it only jumps for a few years. And it 715 00:58:15.159 --> 00:58:16.360 was one of those things where we were talking to where I'm like, there's 716 00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:21.159 no better time to just like learn it right where it's like, you have 717 00:58:21.199 --> 00:58:23.360 a new game, you're already learning new systems, might as well learn a 718 00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:27.199 charge character now before you get super comfortable, you know what I mean. 719 00:58:28.039 --> 00:58:30.199 Then it just becomes natural because as part of the learning process, you're in 720 00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:37.039 that learning space. But also you know what the biggest benefit is, Well, 721 00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:43.719 if you ever go back to Persona for you can play meet through fair 722 00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:51.119 Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's cool, man. I'm glad you I'm 723 00:58:51.159 --> 00:58:53.920 glad you're you're expanding your horizons on that. I think a charge character is 724 00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:58.800 definitely like it is a type of character that pushes a lot of people away, 725 00:58:58.960 --> 00:59:01.199 right, because for all the reasons you stated earlier, right, people 726 00:59:01.239 --> 00:59:07.320 find it like on some ways intimidating or in some ways overwhelming or just confusing 727 00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:13.400 complicated when it it's different. It's not as complicated as people make it out 728 00:59:13.440 --> 00:59:15.800 to see, but it is different. But the cool thing is, going 729 00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:21.320 forward, you will never be limited by that again, because when you learn 730 00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:23.280 how to play one charge character, you pretty much know how to play every 731 00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:27.679 other Charge character, right. You just kind of like maybe adjust for like 732 00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:32.679 what the timings are because historically anime games have much quicker charges than like Capcom 733 00:59:32.719 --> 00:59:37.880 games, So I know this one is a little bit better about it. 734 00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:40.800 So like you might feel yourself around that, but now the whole world is 735 00:59:40.800 --> 00:59:45.920 open to you. You can play any character, you know. Yeah, 736 00:59:45.960 --> 00:59:52.920 it's very cool, and like I think like that sort of approach is like 737 00:59:52.920 --> 01:00:04.599 like playing DJ has sort of unveiled some bad habits of myself of like, 738 01:00:04.599 --> 01:00:07.079 like, in a sense, it's a way of improving my fundamentals, like 739 01:00:07.159 --> 01:00:12.679 as a player, because now I have to commit to this sort of like 740 01:00:12.760 --> 01:00:16.000 input type, and like I can't just move unnecessarily, like everything has to 741 01:00:16.039 --> 01:00:22.559 be Um, um, what's the word I'm looking for? God, damn 742 01:00:22.599 --> 01:00:30.400 it, I just had it. Um, what's the word? You got 743 01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:34.480 to be a bit moment thoughtic deliberate, Like every action has to be deliberate. 744 01:00:35.039 --> 01:00:38.880 For example, like when I play a normal, like just an emotion 745 01:00:39.039 --> 01:00:44.119 character in a fighting game, I'll do it like a lot of unnecessary movement 746 01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:46.679 for the sake of I can because I can just react with the quarter circle 747 01:00:46.719 --> 01:00:52.679 whenever I want, right right, Whereas with DJ, I can't do that 748 01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:55.800 because if I'm doing it necessary emotion, I lose my charge and I can't 749 01:00:55.800 --> 01:00:59.760 afford to lose my charge because I need to be able to like do up 750 01:01:00.280 --> 01:01:02.760 or do a fireball or do something. And like it's not like a full 751 01:01:02.880 --> 01:01:07.760 charge character, mind you. Like DJ does have like some motion inputs, 752 01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:13.400 which makes like doing combos with him a lot easier, but like most charge 753 01:01:13.480 --> 01:01:19.719 characters only have like one or two moves anyway, And I think most charge 754 01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:23.239 characters are hybrid characters now, like isn't may a hybrid character. Yeah. 755 01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:28.000 Yeah, I think a lot of a lot of times to find hybrid characters. 756 01:01:28.039 --> 01:01:32.239 Now there's very few characters these days, um that are just like pure 757 01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:39.679 Charge you know, yeah um um, but like you know that this idea 758 01:01:39.760 --> 01:01:45.639 of playing a Charge character, it's it's a new frontier and like True Fighter 759 01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:51.920 six is the perfect game to just the game feels like you can just express 760 01:01:52.119 --> 01:01:53.920 how you want to play fighting games. Yea. For lack of a better 761 01:01:54.000 --> 01:01:58.679 word, No, I think I think it does, um. And I 762 01:01:58.719 --> 01:02:00.400 think a large part of that is because of the drive gameage and how meter 763 01:02:00.559 --> 01:02:06.159 uses is in this game, um, and and how many tools every character 764 01:02:06.239 --> 01:02:09.519 has. Um. There's so many different ways to tackle this game, right 765 01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:13.480 where Street Fight or five had an issue where like a lot of characters were 766 01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:16.239 sort of homogenized and like very like this is how you play them, right, 767 01:02:16.320 --> 01:02:20.920 And it's very little room for creativity. There's some here and there, 768 01:02:21.519 --> 01:02:22.679 um, but for the most part, it's like this is how you play 769 01:02:22.760 --> 01:02:28.719 this character and like yeah, and that's tied to like how strict how restrictive 770 01:02:28.760 --> 01:02:32.880 the system is right on a system level, um. Whereas six, it's 771 01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:37.719 just like you have so many options in front of you that, like how 772 01:02:37.800 --> 01:02:39.400 you're going to utilize these resusces, it is going to be very different than 773 01:02:39.400 --> 01:02:43.599 how somebody else does, and you guys can both end up in like the 774 01:02:43.719 --> 01:02:46.679 right location, you know what I mean? Yeah? Um, And that's 775 01:02:46.679 --> 01:02:51.079 that's my favorite part of this game, and that's what I'm looking forward to 776 01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:54.519 the most. When it comes to like watching tournaments and events going forward, 777 01:02:54.599 --> 01:03:00.280 it's just like, how is everybody going to tackle this? Um? Because 778 01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:02.760 even right now in the early stages, right, there's like a very different 779 01:03:02.760 --> 01:03:08.559 philosophy going on between like the Weston in Japan right when it comes to even 780 01:03:09.199 --> 01:03:15.960 burnout right where it's like we're I need to watch some more, right, 781 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:19.559 but definitely like around the launch and like some of the end of the beta, 782 01:03:19.639 --> 01:03:22.719 it's it's very much like we're a bit more we're thinking about burnout a 783 01:03:22.760 --> 01:03:27.840 lot more, right, and it's like we're like burnout is bat don't ever 784 01:03:27.880 --> 01:03:31.119 get in burnout right where Japan is just like we don't care about it. 785 01:03:31.800 --> 01:03:37.760 We're gonna carry out, We're gonna fucking cash out. Really that's actually I 786 01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:43.559 would have expected the other way around, right. Um. So it's been 787 01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:46.559 very interesting to watch, like towards the end of the beta, uh in 788 01:03:46.679 --> 01:03:51.119 like the early early, like first day of Street Fight or six, and 789 01:03:51.159 --> 01:03:54.199 I'm very cresty like where everybody ends up by like EVA, right, because 790 01:03:54.239 --> 01:03:59.039 that can very much change, you know, but you can kind of see 791 01:03:59.039 --> 01:04:02.559 how like both regions start thinking about the game very differently. And that's always 792 01:04:02.599 --> 01:04:05.679 been a very fun part of fighting games in general, like when I will 793 01:04:05.719 --> 01:04:10.480 watch Street Fighter four or like Melody Blood or just like older fighting games in 794 01:04:10.519 --> 01:04:15.280 general, where it's just like everybody has different ideas on like how to tackle 795 01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:19.559 this game, and the game allows for it. You know, it's gonna 796 01:04:19.559 --> 01:04:24.960 be fascinating. It's gonna be really fascinating. I'm excited. I'm very interested 797 01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:28.320 to see how CEO is going to play out, as as I am now 798 01:04:28.360 --> 01:04:33.559 traveling to CEO for this game, I'm very interested to see how it ploys 799 01:04:33.639 --> 01:04:39.960 out. Yeah, yeah, it's I think CEO is going to be very 800 01:04:40.039 --> 01:04:43.199 interesting. It's also going to be very messy, right because it is the 801 01:04:44.079 --> 01:04:46.880 first tournament. I think it's gonna be interesting from a standpoint of like this 802 01:04:47.000 --> 01:04:53.800 is nobody knows what's like like optimal optimal, you know what I mean. 803 01:04:53.840 --> 01:04:56.519 No one has to figure it out right, So it's just gonna be like 804 01:04:56.880 --> 01:05:00.920 what gets through, like what is the early idea of what this game is, 805 01:05:00.360 --> 01:05:05.159 and then seeing what everybody does with that animation after CEO and the adjustment 806 01:05:05.199 --> 01:05:11.199 style will be made for EVO is also going to be really fascinating, exciting 807 01:05:11.239 --> 01:05:15.440 times, just exciting all around. I've been listening to like everybody talk about 808 01:05:15.440 --> 01:05:18.199 this game, like how excited they are for their characters. Like when I 809 01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:23.159 was talking about like Xavior about Honda and in how much he loves Honda and 810 01:05:23.320 --> 01:05:26.320 three Fighter four and like five just completely turned him off, like he skipped 811 01:05:26.320 --> 01:05:30.199 it completely. And now like you can kind of see like the light in 812 01:05:30.239 --> 01:05:35.800 his eyes when he's playing this game, and like I haven't seen that in 813 01:05:36.119 --> 01:05:40.960 so long, you know, And and I'm seeing that out of everybody that 814 01:05:41.000 --> 01:05:45.800 touched this game, and that's so fucking cool. Yeah, you know, 815 01:05:46.559 --> 01:05:54.400 Street Fighter something special, man, Like I love fighting game and Meani Jag 816 01:05:54.519 --> 01:05:57.320 is probably my favorite fighting game of all time. That won't change. Like, 817 01:05:58.519 --> 01:06:01.840 um, I love Guilty Ear Exert also one of my favorite fighting games 818 01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:10.840 of all time. Um street Fighter it has this weird ability to like bring 819 01:06:10.960 --> 01:06:17.679 everybody together, mh. It has that power. It's it's it's that main 820 01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:21.119 game for a reason, right, or or at least the front facing of 821 01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:26.519 fighting game, you know. Yeah, but between that Mortal Kombat for different 822 01:06:26.519 --> 01:06:34.960 reasons. So it's uh, um, I mean I think I think Street 823 01:06:34.960 --> 01:06:42.639 Fighter is the most prolific fighting game franchise ever. Prolific. Yeah, I 824 01:06:42.639 --> 01:06:45.800 think it's up there, right, Like I don't think you can really talk 825 01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:50.039 about with without Mortal Kombat, like you you have to talk about both of 826 01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:55.280 those. Yeah, I don't think you can have one really without the other 827 01:06:55.360 --> 01:07:01.880 because they penetrate like two different sides of the market. Yeah, because I 828 01:07:01.920 --> 01:07:05.440 think from like you know, that competitive standpoint and like you think about like 829 01:07:05.559 --> 01:07:11.199 arcade culture and stuff. Um, you think about like grass froets tournaments. 830 01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:14.719 It's it's a street fighter right when people are like, we want to be 831 01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:16.800 as popular as a street Fighter. But Mortal Kombat in the background is always 832 01:07:16.800 --> 01:07:21.039 like that franchise that everybody has played that is broke through to the casual level. 833 01:07:21.639 --> 01:07:25.639 Right, It's like people that don't play video games, Oh, I 834 01:07:25.679 --> 01:07:29.079 know Mortal Kombat, I know, right, and you know it's like that 835 01:07:29.199 --> 01:07:33.639 level. Um, And I think that is something to think about and commend 836 01:07:33.639 --> 01:07:40.079 as well. So it's I would agree that It's street Fighter is absolutely prolific, 837 01:07:40.719 --> 01:07:43.199 but I don't think it's like the most I think. I think you 838 01:07:43.320 --> 01:07:46.039 have both exist. I don't think you can really pick one over the other. 839 01:07:47.199 --> 01:07:53.000 Sure, but this is definitely a highlight. I will I will say 840 01:07:53.039 --> 01:07:59.079 that I think a lot of games have some a lot of series have some 841 01:07:59.119 --> 01:08:03.599 work cut out for them going forward. I mean, like it's especially repression 842 01:08:03.679 --> 01:08:08.440 coming off like all the issues with Strive that we've been having for like the 843 01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:15.279 past five six months. Um, Like the game works out the box. 844 01:08:16.039 --> 01:08:20.079 Um, I can queue up for like a rank and I can get matches 845 01:08:20.159 --> 01:08:26.600 right away. There's not a lot of connection issues. Um, the game 846 01:08:26.680 --> 01:08:31.760 feels robust. There's a lot of characters. Uh, I don't know, 847 01:08:33.199 --> 01:08:39.960 I don't know, he doesn't know. I don't know how much of this 848 01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:43.640 is the huntingmoon phase, but like how much I'm like, this is just 849 01:08:44.000 --> 01:08:49.560 genuinely made an impression on me. But like strong impression, strong person impression. 850 01:08:49.680 --> 01:08:54.159 Like like we said earlier, first impression is very important. We'll see 851 01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:57.880 where it dost settles, but for now, it's like very exciting times, 852 01:08:58.159 --> 01:09:01.800 you know, and it may not out it might feel all out who knows, 853 01:09:02.479 --> 01:09:08.039 but we can always say and then very least like it is the most 854 01:09:08.079 --> 01:09:11.920 interesting that Street Freder has like been in a very long time, and there's 855 01:09:11.960 --> 01:09:15.239 no arguing like how much it has revitalized things. You know, it's a 856 01:09:15.319 --> 01:09:23.680 breath of fresh air, even if only for a moment um. I'm still 857 01:09:23.720 --> 01:09:27.960 like, I'm still playing around with several characters, like I don't know where 858 01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:30.119 I'm gonna settle right, I've been having a lot of fun with Lily. 859 01:09:30.680 --> 01:09:34.039 Uh. She is just May in this game, and I'm like, hmm, 860 01:09:34.159 --> 01:09:39.800 yeah, that's pretty accurate. Uh. So there's a there's an odd 861 01:09:39.800 --> 01:09:44.000 sense of like comfort and playing that character, giving my background of characters. 862 01:09:44.079 --> 01:09:47.600 But the more I see of like Honda, I'm like, I might shift 863 01:09:47.640 --> 01:09:54.000 over there. Um, well, well we'll see where I land. I 864 01:09:54.000 --> 01:10:00.720 need, I need to play more, that's fair, Yeah, she Uh 865 01:10:00.760 --> 01:10:05.520 anything else to touch on in regards, That's all I got from like gush 866 01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:09.319 from so much. Oh Jesus Christ, he gushed all over the place. 867 01:10:09.880 --> 01:10:15.479 Uh sounds pretty good. Uh. Any any like news items you want to 868 01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:18.199 I want to talk about before we just wrap this up and get out of 869 01:10:18.279 --> 01:10:23.840 here. I'm not even sure what's in the news. Others came out like, 870 01:10:24.000 --> 01:10:30.279 I am fucking my brain is in the whole he is down back is 871 01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:35.439 doing one frame links like I'm telling you, gotcha? I understand it all 872 01:10:35.520 --> 01:10:41.960 right? Well, then we will we will wrap it up there. I 873 01:10:42.000 --> 01:10:44.079 was gonna say another game I've been playing with my son a rise, but 874 01:10:44.079 --> 01:10:47.000 I'm gonna talk about it later. I'm back in on that game pretty hard 875 01:10:47.319 --> 01:10:53.840 actually, Uh, but we'll talk about that time. Uh. For now, 876 01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:56.399 let's let's let's wrap this up. Let's get out of here. This 877 01:10:56.439 --> 01:10:59.720 has been a pretty good show. We lasted an hour in twenty minutes. 878 01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:02.640 We did it. Oh yeah, yeah. I was a little worried to 879 01:11:02.640 --> 01:11:05.000 see how long we will last. But we We've made it work. We 880 01:11:05.079 --> 01:11:10.920 always find a way. Um, let's begin to sign offs. Drew. 881 01:11:11.479 --> 01:11:14.880 Where can people find you? What are you doing all that jazz? Oh? 882 01:11:15.039 --> 01:11:19.800 You find me on Twitter at jsp totally Drew. You can probably see 883 01:11:19.960 --> 01:11:26.439 my whack uh stream under six opinions coming up soon. Are you going to 884 01:11:26.560 --> 01:11:30.319 drop a teer list? Nah? I have no idea where I would place 885 01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:38.520 a teer list. I do think like Kimberly's original costume and DJ's alt costume 886 01:11:38.720 --> 01:11:45.319 are awful and the people that use them are terrible. Beare understandable. Uh 887 01:11:45.079 --> 01:11:47.720 okay, I'm going to ask you a question you have to commit, all 888 01:11:47.800 --> 01:11:53.000 right, who is the best character in the game. Who's the worst character 889 01:11:53.000 --> 01:12:09.359 in the game? Right now on the record? Mm hmmmm, I'll choose 890 01:12:09.479 --> 01:12:12.479 the safe man in the same man and as the best character in the game. 891 01:12:12.760 --> 01:12:15.439 Okay, okay, I think that did yep, very safe. Who's 892 01:12:15.479 --> 01:12:31.960 the worst worst? It's potentially huh YieF gif? Yeah, okay, all 893 01:12:32.039 --> 01:12:42.479 right, I could see it being Gief or potentially, Like I haven't seen 894 01:12:42.560 --> 01:12:47.239 enough of the characters to really say. Well, obviously, everybody feels like 895 01:12:47.399 --> 01:12:54.039 good it has crazy stuff, got it? You heard it here first? 896 01:12:54.960 --> 01:13:02.720 Like I'm just I'm just choosing the grapplers always the worst character, and whoever, 897 01:13:02.880 --> 01:13:08.920 whoever's like the fucking character that everybody's queueing about is the best character. 898 01:13:09.119 --> 01:13:15.399 So that very safe options here, very very safe Manon is broken in Gief 899 01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:18.479 is the worst character ever created. That from that that is from Drew Um, 900 01:13:18.560 --> 01:13:23.760 So make sure to tweet at him about how wrong he is or how 901 01:13:23.840 --> 01:13:28.840 right he is, um, since you know he is the expert here. 902 01:13:29.680 --> 01:13:39.039 I mean the best kind of Uh. You can't be going around saying that, 903 01:13:39.119 --> 01:13:41.159 all right, you can't. You can't. You can't casually say g 904 01:13:41.239 --> 01:13:43.560 to his best character. You got to downplay him so that they buff him. 905 01:13:45.359 --> 01:13:47.279 That's that's You've been around that long enough. You know how this works. 906 01:13:48.439 --> 01:13:53.880 That's fair. Can't wait till Geef gets buffed. I mean, I 907 01:13:53.880 --> 01:13:57.680 mean, that's why cammy players are starting early. Yeah, do you know? 908 01:13:58.199 --> 01:14:03.359 You know it? You heard it? Awesome? Thank you for indulging 909 01:14:03.399 --> 01:14:10.119 me. You can find me on Twitter at senaska z and It's UK where 910 01:14:10.119 --> 01:14:13.560 I'm just tweeting out my random thoughts on random things, be at anime, 911 01:14:13.680 --> 01:14:18.000 video games, Um, what I'm eating, whatever comes to my mind is 912 01:14:18.199 --> 01:14:21.600 what I sent out into the ether. Um. You can follow us on 913 01:14:21.680 --> 01:14:26.520 YouTube at Jack Savage Bass and Twitter at Jack Savage Based for any of our 914 01:14:26.560 --> 01:14:31.119 ongoing stuff. There are some cool stuff in the works that hopefully we can 915 01:14:32.079 --> 01:14:39.119 start pushing out more of, but that relies on other people. So whenever 916 01:14:39.119 --> 01:14:41.800 people are ready to tech condition if we'll have some cool stuff going up. 917 01:14:42.359 --> 01:14:45.960 Um, But for now, you can definitely catch the gamescasts and the anime 918 01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:51.279 casts on day on the bi weekly schedule. So thank you Drew for being 919 01:14:51.279 --> 01:14:57.079 here. I appreciate this. This was very fun. Um. I appreciate 920 01:14:57.119 --> 01:15:00.119 everybody that listens. It's a good time and we're going to get out of 921 01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:13.039 here and probably watch anime so that see y'all next time. Bye, now, 922 01:15:13.319 --> 01:15:36.479 let me not bye.