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Hello, and welcome to Pete versus
side Quest. This is our weekly video

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game show. I am your host, Bill Muss, and I am joined

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but Kirklan Patzer. How's it going? My friend? Very good. I

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decided not to do a nickname.
I don't know, it's just didn't feel

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right, you knowing clean today going
last couple of days of the year.

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I don't know, I like it. Yeah, I'm very excited. This

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is a just gonna be a fun, chill classic episode. We're gonna talk

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be talking mostly about just the games
we've been playing. And yeah, I,

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me and Kirkland haven't caught up in
a long time in that way.

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You know. We had our Winter
ranking episode, we had our Game of

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the Year episodes released over the last
few weeks. Yeah, it's been a

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while since I, me and you
have just sat down to talk about some

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of those games have been playing.
So that'll be that'll be fun. And

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yeah, other than that, really
not too many shutouts here. Discord Join

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the Discord's good time hanging out there. And Patreon, Uh did you know

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that you can get a trial on
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it's like. You don't have to
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you can just you can just try
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like the feel. And we're confident
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check out our patreon. You can
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if you want to stick around.
And that's pretty much it. The here's

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what side Quest is gonna look like
the next two weeks. Next week is

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gonna be the video game preview.
Uh so we're just going through the year,

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are on the games coming out this
year, and then the week after

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that we will do the video game
Draft where we all pick five games that

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yeah, we're gonna see who who
has the highest rank rated games by the

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end of the year. So should
be a fun cup week's content here.

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But yeah, let's get into it
before we talk about the game's been playing.

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I want to ask you about this, Kirklan, because this news dropped

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and we haven't had a chance to
talk about it yet. But our beloved

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Arcane studios, specifically Arcane leone yea
is making a Blade game. What do

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you think about that? That is
so crazy to me? I uh,

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you know, I wasn't with you
guys there on the Game of the Game

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of the Year Game Video Game Video
Game Awards there you got it, Yeah,

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on that cast there, so I
listed you guys episode later and yeah,

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I read that, and I don't
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at first, especially just because we
you know, we're coming off our Arcane

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retro. So it's like perfect timing
in that regard. And I mean,

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not only is it a studio that
you know, we both love, but

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also just like an ip that we
both love, like Blade, you know,

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still waiting for that movie whenever it
will eventually come out themc we'll see.

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I'm not holding my breath there,
But just I don't know, like

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the fact of pairing up like yeah, what Arcane can do, and just

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their world design, their level design, how fun it is to play their

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games and then pair that it's funny, I'm like, and pair it up

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with a vampire setting. But then
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so let's just not mention that for
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like sticking to like an actual story
that is blade Like that's just super super

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exciting to me, and I can't
wait to see what they what they do

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with that. And I don't remember
all the details around it. Was it

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the third person? Yeah game?
So the first's pretty Darkane will ever have

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done that. There's not really too
much other information. It seems like it

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seems like there's a chance that this
game is actually like just starting development like

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now or soon, and therefore that
there might actually be like a different Arcane

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Leone game to come out before it. So I don't know if maybe if

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that is the case, it's like, well, why would they do that

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before they've even announced what their other
game would be, if like a Death

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Loop two or something. But you
know, maybe it was just like because

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of the Marvel connection. Maybe Marvel
wanted to do that get ahead of any

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leaks or get the info at the
early so that people can know what to

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expect. I guess. So I
don't know how I feel about that part

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of it. We really don't know
any info, but yeah, we know

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it's the third person then we also, I believe got confirmation just through like

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people looking through LinkedIn and stuff.
That this game is definitely being made in

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the Void engine, so that's a
good sign. That's the same engine of

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Death Loop and dishonor two, so
not the same engine as Red Fall or

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anything like that, which you know, I wouldn't expect any different, but

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with them switching from first person a
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maybe there's a chance they would switch
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you can expect that same engine,
which to me is like a really good

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sign in terms of the game feel, in terms of the blanks and tele

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important is always feeling great in those
games. So yeah, the third person

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is definitely an intriguing part of the
piece of the puzzle. But I'm I'm

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very excited to see them just do
something a bit different in that way.

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And I think it makes sense for
a Marvel character where you want to see

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your character popping off and Blade such
a cool character. So yeah, yeah,

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man, I can't wait. That
is that is like top my pile

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now for excitement for yeah, one
hundred percent. And like I love the

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stories that they do make for their
own games obviously, just I mean coming

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off the retro things like Dishonored,
like that's just peak in my mind for

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gaming. But like, I think
it's a really cool idea of pairing it

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with like a known franchise, like
like what Marvel has with Blakee, because

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they can still tell their own story
even though they have like a character that's

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already set. So yeah, I
just can't wait to see what they do

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with that and where in the world
it's set. Did they make? Oh

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it is Paris? Okay, that's
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it's you know, obviously not they're
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at least, So I think that'll
be fun. It'll probably be very accurate

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and all that. But then also, like just the structures of the buildings,

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we talked about this Dishonored and dishonor
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they kind of take these European style
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steampunk kind of twinge on it.
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very much the same thing here.
I'm very very excited to see maybe the

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weird hyper version of Paris that we
get with with vampires on the loose and

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all yeah stuff and superpowers and whatnot. I'm hoping to see like a like

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a lot of gothic type of like
in inspirations of like just like the Church,

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and I feel like it really well, you know, there's gonna be

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a big church level or two.
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gonna be. I want to want. I want the bells to toll.

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If the bells aren't toll, and
then I'm gonna be Venom wherever he is

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in the world. He's quivering in
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off. So that's very exciting.
Speaking of Marvel, are you still still

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snapping it up? Still repping the
snap? It's funny. I feel like

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I took like a little mini hiatus. I don't know if it was just

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from the like the last battle pass
or whatever, or if I just kind

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of hit a wall on my my
current run or whatever that I was doing,

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But so I wasn't playing for that
battle pass, and then I came

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back actually like a week and a
half ago and just messing around with what

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was just my old decks and tweaking
some things here and there. I feel

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like I haven't done any like mass
deck reworks or anything like that. Have

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you got any new cards recently,
any the well the like the previous Battle

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Pass season. I got the Death
card, that's the one. I think

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she's just called death where it's like
just death depending on how many people have

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been discarded, like her power has
been boosted in that sense. So I

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had fun adding her to just like
that chaotic discord discard destroyer type deck that

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I was already running. And it's
funny as you're talking, I was just

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checking my I still haven't chose my
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I feel like quick Man because it's
gonna roll over on Tuesday. I guess.

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I know. I'm pretty hesitant right
now. Is Juggernaut and I don't

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know, I exciting not the most
exciting new card. In two hours,

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I'll check again there, but yeah, I definitely have to to cash it

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in before then. But uh,
I mean, nothing like crazy has been

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going on. I feel like I've
never really messed around with the what is

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it called, like the Conquest where
it's like a versus thing there, So

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I was thinking about jumping in there
fun here pretty soon because do you get

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like a lot of different rewards in
there or yeah, if you if you

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open up you can click on like
the shop tab, and there's a bunch

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of things, and they kind of
open up to week because conquests, like

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you can do the Silver and maybe
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like the first week or two,
and then like the Gold tier unlocks later

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on in the season, and then
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the Infinity Tier opens up, which
is like you have to get a whole

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bunch more wins before you can move
on to the next tier. So they

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kind of layer it that way,
but you can like still like pile up

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a bunch of tickets to get ready
for those weeks and whatnot. But then

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yeah, like also the rewards will
unlock week to week more of them.

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I usually just at least plain enough
to get because there's you can get like

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a variant, just like a random
variant as one of the rewards. I

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think there was two variant rewards this
season, so I made sure to play

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enough just like get my two variants. But then also like essentially you can

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get like nine if you get nine, if you cash in nine rewards just

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over the course of the season,
you get just like a variant of a

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card. So this one's like a
thor or do you have Thor right now

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as a card. I don't have
Thor No, so actually it probably you

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might might be too late now,
But this would have been a good season

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for you to actually play a bunch
of that because you could have just got

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a new card of Thor. Yeah, getting a variant, But I didn't

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really care much for the variant,
so I didn't end up doing much of

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it this month. But last season
I really loved the sidewalk variant they had

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there, and they're heading there,
so I played a bunch of conquests.

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So it kind of just depends on
the rewards for me. I'll play a

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little bit of it or you know, right now, if i'm I'm up

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with there like eighty something on the
ladder, and I don't think I'm gonna

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get to infinite this season, but
I want to get to ninety so I

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can get the reward for hitting that. You know, every ten you get

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a reward. But the decks that
I'm kind of being forced to use for

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challenges and whatnot aren't really that good. So I'm like, well, I'm

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just gonna go on conquest because I
don't want to dip my ranking playing this

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bad deck. So it's a good
way to just differentiate your ranking too,

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So I recommend it. It's it's
fun. It's not something I'm playing every

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day, just because of the more
time commitment potentially of it. So it

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can take like fifteen minutes against one
person battling them back and forth, which

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can be good. But yeah,
I don't know, it kind of varies.

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I don't don't play it super often. Yeah, I'll definitely give it

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a try, though, I mean
no promises I'll be able to get to

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that final reward, but I at
least give it a go because I have

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played it in the past, but
it was so long ago and I feel

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like I just was probably getting bopped
and because you are locked facing one person

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for like you said, around that
fifteen minute time. So yeah, I

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just want to do the quicker matches. Yeah, sometimes they do end up

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being quick, Like especially in that
first tier, people like if you get

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if you get an eight cube win
on someone, most of the time they'll

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just retreat because it's not even worth
them playing it out, and because you

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can only then like your max are
a winning two cubes and it would just

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take forever. So most people just
quit it out at that point. So

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yeah, it kind of depends on
the stakes of it, all right,

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But yeah, now I've had a
lot of fun playing this season. I

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really liked Sebastian Shaw was like the
battle Pass card, and he's super fun.

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I really like his ability, And
then Havoc was added, and he's

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like a very chaotic card that I've
had a good time with. Blob was

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fun as well, though he's like
super fucking overpowered. I don't not know

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how they can justify that being a
balanced card. He's so fucking broken.

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What does his ability He like takes
the power of everything or something. Yeah,

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he destroys your deck and then like
he gets his powers equivalent to how

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like the total power of all the
cards he discarded. So people will just

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put in like you know, Giganto
and like Red Skull and all these cards

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that have a ton of power,
and then they'll do it with like Thanos

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as well, because he adds a
bunch of Infinity stones to your deck,

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So then your deck's like even bigger. So it's like, at worst you're

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probably getting a Blob of like twenty
power, but most of the time it's

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like forty or fifty, Like,
yeah, that's insane like, and you

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can get that amount on you know, some specific culminations of like Suri into

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Red Skull and stuff, but all
of those require some sort of setup.

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No setup required for Blobby, just
easy fucking fifty power. It's so broken.

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Of course, you can hit him
with shunk Chi or you could like

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play Cosmo and he's a non reveal
so it wouldn't work. But he's just

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so fucking broken. He needs to
be tuned down. In my opinion.

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I mean I got him and I
was using him too, but after a

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while I was like, I just
feel sick to my stomachs to people he's

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so strong. Yeah, what's his
like energy costs? Is he here's a

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six' four, so he starts
out with four power, but then he

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obviously gets you know, that number
changes way harder. But he is a

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six cost so that's fair at all, but yeah, it makes it.

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Yeah, I feel like harder though
to counter, like if if I had

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shunk Chi in my deck, Like
that's the thing, right, yeah it

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alviously you came out sooner, which
a lot of people will do, like

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uh a wave to play him on
like turn four or five, I guess,

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because then ideally you can play Blob
and then play task Master to like

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copy that damage so you can get
like the fifty power in two separate lanes.

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You obviously you can't play him too
soon though, because then you're not

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going to draw any more cards.
Uh, So you got to make sure

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you have like enough other cards in
your deck to win a second lane.

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But then you'll people have like living
tribunal who like splits your power between your

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lanes, so then you have like
this huge Blob power, but then it

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splits all the lanes anyway. So
he definitely I'm curious how he's gonna get

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nerved, because if you just reduce
the power he starts with, I don't

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think that will really help. And
then I'll so that would make him like

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easier to play with like a mister
negative deck, and then he's just buffed

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in another way. So I don't
know how they're gonna balance him, but

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they need to do something like maybe
just whatever power he gets, like divided

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by two, that would still be
like pretty strong, but that would that's

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how strong he is right now.
You could half his power, it'd still

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be really good, So I don't
know, I've still been Yeah, it's

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that. And then like a ton
of people are playing in a Nihilis right

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now, which is the card that
like he's an all to reveal all your

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cards that have negative or zero damage, like switch sides, so you can

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just like get a bunch of cards
that have that negative effect and then just

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move them to your opponent's side.
It's just annoying to play again. I'm

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sure he's not overpowered, but he's
just annoying. So the last like month

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or week or two of this month
has been kind of aggravating, but then

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like the first three weeks were really
enjoyable. I really like the new cards,

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but something about this this last week
is just it's been savage hours out

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here, so closing off the month
before moving on. I think scar is

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like the season pass cards he didn't
take, gonna hop in there because he's

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a big scar fan. I don't
know, maybe we'll have the pitch to

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I feel like I always get like
a little ego boost at the start of

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every season because like your rank gets
like chopped right down, so then I

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start at like silver or something.
I'm going against just people with terrible decks

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and I'm like, man, I'm
just getting eight cubes after eight cubes,

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this is easy. And then I
get a little bit back to where I

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was. It's like, oh,
yeah, okay, never mind, I

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don't have a god deck like I
thought I did. Yeah, definitely.

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Uh what have you been playing then
for the last few weeks or what are

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the highlights? I guess I feel
like I haven't been like I've mostly just

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been watching movies this break. I
haven't been gaming as much as I would

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have wanted to. There's a little
period there when I was really like debating

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of getting Balder's Gate because Shane I
had like some time off, but like

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which has been so busy with like
family and stuff. And then I also

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have like some schoolwork to do over
the break. I'm like, okay,

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maybe I should, like, you
know, school's over in February. Maybe

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I'll do that and then and then
get a game like Bulder just sink hours

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into it. But no. A
new game that's been on my my list

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for a while now that I'm I
finally plugged in and played was near replicant,

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like the prequel to Near Automata,
which I've never beaten. Near Automata.

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I feel like I've only gotten a
couple hours in because I borrowed it

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from a buddy back in the day. But then I saw that this was

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on the PlayStation extras Pass or whatever, like the bundle thing, basically the

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game pass PlayStation version, and finally
got in there, and uh man,

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yeah, I definitely I've had like
some mixed feelings with it because I feel

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like there is a lot of things
in this game that it reminds me of

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like an older era of like an
action adventure ORPG type game where there's a

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lot of running and they don't really
like have like a simplified like you know,

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I don't. I really don't like
fast travel in games, Like if

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I can avoid it, I can't
just to get immersed. But there's so

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much running and a lot of like
little mini quests that you have in the

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beginning is like go talk to this
person. You go talk to this person,

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They're like, you know, go
back to the person that you're at,

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and then like running back and your
character can run fast, but still

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it's it's kind I found Automata too, and it's like not the hugest open

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world, but there's nothing in the
open world. It's very it's the thing.

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So yeah, like running those long
distances, it's not like you're bumping

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into super engaging moments like maybe a
small battle or two, no exactly,

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And like there is a lot of
side quests where it is just like going

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to collect things and bringing them back
to people, and I've just kind of

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like told myself, I'm like I'm
just not gonna do these, which is

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which is weird for those games,
cause I feel like I always try and

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get everything done, especially because they
kind of introduce you to these side quests

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and the new area that you go
through, so to like explore, you

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do these quests to kind of go
out and do it, but it's they're

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just so annoying because I have to
like go out collect ten things and then

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go back and there's not like really
obvious quest markers or anything that you have

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to keep checking your journal, and
it's just like I just kind of I'm

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I'm really not interested in being like
an errand boy. I I because your

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whole character is like I just want
to help people and help people as much

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as I can. But I really
just like the idea of just what the

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story is because yeah, like the
boss battles that they have, and the

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story elements are just they're so they're
so amazing, and the soundtrack. I

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don't think it's as top tier as
New Automata, but man, it definitely

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delivers the boss battles and so.
Have you played Near Replicant before? I

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haven't played Replicant. It's on the
list, but someday I'll play it.

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A lot of similar type of mechanics
that that the other games have. It's

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it's it's an older game, so
obviously it's not as in like just extreme

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with like the amount of things you
can balance among like your weapons, and

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you're like you still have like range
attacks and stuff, you know how you

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have like your little robot in Near
AUTOMAA. Now it's like a magical book.

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It's name air Strauss or something like
that. I I forget, forget

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the name of the book, but
it's a really epic name. And the

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voice actor for it, which is
like my favorite part about it, is

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the chap from I forget his name. I don't want to butcher it too.

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I want to say, like Liam
O'Brien, but I'm not one hundred

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percent sure of that. If if
it is, what it is. It's

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he's a very famous voice actor.
He's done so many different video games.

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He's like the voice of Ilodin in
World of Warcraft as well as the voice

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of Yeah Yeah that I've played a
lot in Uh, Lord of the Lord

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of the Ring Legal Legends. He
does his voice actor there, and he's

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also in Vox Mac and A that
just stellar show that I absolutely love from

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critical role the Chaps over there,
so he's like a part of that crew

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and his voice is just so epic, and him just like following my character

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around. This's just floating book that
just comments on things that I do is

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just I don't know. It's a
perfect little travel companion. So I've had

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lots of fun, like frustrating moments
in the game of just like the collectithon

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aspect to it. And there's been
a lot of times when I'm like in

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a city and I have to go
somewhere and I have no idea where I

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can where I have to go to
get this because there's not like an obvious

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quest marker, so I've had to
like google a couple of things on where

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it is. But you know,
when I hear like the little the Little

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Books commentary on what's going on.
Yeah, Liam O'Brien, Okay, it

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is his name, So he's just
he's one of my favorite voice actors.

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He's just so great and he's voiced
some of my favorite characters in video games.

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So that was a big surprise actually
just hearing his voice in the game.

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And yeah, the world is very
dark but beautiful. I curious like

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how it relates to Near Automeda,
right, because I don't know if there's

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like a very clear like jump into
the next game, or if it's just

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the world that's set up that's the
same. But whatever it is, I

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am really interested in what's going on
there. So yeah, I'm I don't

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know how many hours in, maybe
around that ten hour mark, And yeah,

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I'm having lots of fun with it. And really it is like the

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boss battles and the gameplay, I
think that is the peak, and then

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followed by like the storyline and the
characters that are introduced, and yeah,

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I'm just really really digging it because
I do want to jump back into Near

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Automeda. But I'm glad I've finally
got my hands on this one so I

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can kind of work my way there. Yeah, I don't know, because

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you know, with Automina, it's
a weird thing where everyone always talks about

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like all the different endings and stuff, but it's like, really, the

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game doesn't actually end until like the
third ending, Like they're really just kind

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of not even fake outs. It's
like the story is just not finished until

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you've done these like certain moments,
and then there's all those like goofy different

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like mini endings and whatnot, right, and I don't really know how that

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plays, and then replicating I'm sure
there is some goofiness with the endings too,

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but like how much do you think
you're like, is this for sure

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you're gonna see to the credits like
finish this game kind of thing, or

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oh yeah, the game play,
okay, you're gonna at least get to

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that point. There was a moment
when I thought maybe I was gonna have

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to bow out, but then I
just got past that, like collectiuth On

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Aspect and like, I'm just gonna
go for the for the main quest here,

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and I'm really digging the characters that
I've been introduced in and just the

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whole lore with the book that you
deal with, So all of that stuff

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I think definitely has me geared in
for the long haul, but I know

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it does have multiple endings. I
don't think it's as much as near automena

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because I think there's like an ending
for every letter of the alphabet or something

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like yeah, yeah, one of
those like you just like walk off this

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ledge at the game in the game
though, and then just like that you

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die, and that's like an endings. Ok, it's not really an ending,

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yeah exactly. Not all of them
are amazing, you know, maybe

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there's ten really good ones or something, but quantity over quality cool. Any

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other games you wanted to show it
or is it really You said you're not

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playing a whole lot, so that's
fair, Yeah, not a whole lot.

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I did a couple of runs of
Risk of Rain two. That's always

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a game that I like to go
back. It's just a nice comfort game

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and it always makes me think of
Winter for some reason. There is like

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a set level that you go to
that is wintry. But maybe I've just

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played it a lot around like the
Winter Breaks and just go in there and

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do a couple of runs and that
game. They just keep adding to it,

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and I absolutely love it. I
don't think enough people have played it.

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And I actually just found out too. They have risk of rain return

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of something. It's basically just a
remake of that first game, but like

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a proper remake where they've taken everything
from the first game and then introduced like

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new things that they brought into the
second game, which is a completely different

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engine. The first game is like
a side scroller, in the second one

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is a three D engine game.
So they have like all these cool things

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that they've added in the second game
with the new characters, and then added

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it back into the first game.
And I just found out about it like

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yesterday, so I added to my
wish list. I might be picking that

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one up because I, yeah,
I've definitely played the second one a lot

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more, but I did start with
the first game, and I absolutely love

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it. It's just just a great
roguelike, you know, jump in there,

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very easy to pick up and go, just try and survive as much

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as you can. But other than
that, I've been I was playing a

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little bit more Warhammer yesterday for the
first time of the break. I promised

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myself I was gonna be playing a
lot more throughout the break, but you

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know, life happens. Yeah,
So but I was having lots of fun

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with that. And then I've actually
was playing a bit of Warcraft three after

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our Winter cast there thinking about the
Frozen Throne level, and man, I

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absolutely love that game so much.
It is so nostalgic for me. I

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feel like some of the systems in
it are not like the best for an

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RTS, but just the nostalgia factor
just just lifts it so much higher in

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my mind. And yeah, I
just the music too of it. It's

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just everything about it is so nostalgic. I wasn't doing the campaign or anything.

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I was just doing some custom games, and yeah, I truly truly

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love that game so much. I
was playing as the Undead and yeah,

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just really getting into that Frozen Throne
in mindset after our cast, and so

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yeah, having lots of fun with
that. But other other than that,

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like those have just kind of been
the main games. I haven't dove into

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anything too crazy. Shane, I
played a little bit of It Takes two,

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and uh, I don't know if
we're going to keep going on that

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one. Shane doesn't love it as
much as much I thought. I thought

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it was just gonna be digging a
lot more, but I I kind of

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forgot that it has like a very
specific art style, and Shae can be

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pretty picky when it comes to the
artist. No, No, it's it's

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the characters look kind of funky,
and the humor wasn't striking as well as

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I thought it was going to hit. For the humor, I think definitely

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more of a hit and miss thing. I think that it's beautiful though.

407
00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:40,359
Yeah, so I you know,
I tried it. I'm glad, she

408
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:41,599
she, she gave it a go. But I think we're gonna benching that

409
00:23:41,599 --> 00:23:44,839
one for a little while, which
is fine. There's plenty of you are

410
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:49,359
playing that made exactly. That'd be
awesome because I do. I do have

411
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,279
a lot of fun memories playing through
that one with you. Just such a

412
00:23:52,319 --> 00:24:00,279
crazy game that has so many different
creative and endlessly doing new things. Very

413
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,519
fair, yeah exactly, but nice. Yeah. I have a few things

414
00:24:03,559 --> 00:24:10,160
here. One a quick hit kind
of like howl neplicant near replicant popped up

415
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:14,079
on that PlayStation thing. Another thing
that just popped up on game Pass was

416
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,359
far Cry six, like the most
recent far Cry game. Oh yeah,

417
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,839
at some point, like last year. I think they put far Cry five

418
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:25,440
on there, and I always I
love to have just like an ongoing mindless

419
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,160
open world game where if it's like, you know, eleven PM, I'm

420
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:30,240
not quite ready for bed. I
just want to like put a podcast on

421
00:24:30,279 --> 00:24:33,319
and just play a game mindlessly,
Like I need one of those, Like

422
00:24:33,319 --> 00:24:37,279
Hogwarts Legacy was that for me,
you know, even like the Starfield if

423
00:24:37,279 --> 00:24:37,799
I was like, Okay, I
don't want to do any story stuff r

424
00:24:37,799 --> 00:24:41,079
now, I'm just gonna mess around
and I'll put that on. And I

425
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:44,240
always like to have one of those
kind of on on the hard drive installed,

426
00:24:44,319 --> 00:24:45,839
ready to go, and so that
was kind of been the one for

427
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,559
me. Over the holiday break here
has just been ripping some Far Cry and

428
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,359
you know, weirdly a series that
like I've played more of them. I

429
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,440
think I have because like far Cry
two back in the day, I played

430
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,960
a lot of Farry that was a
big one of course, and then yeah,

431
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,799
like Far Cry five last year played
for a few hours, and far

432
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,119
Crise six I've put a few hours
in two now. So you know,

433
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:07,200
it's not definitely not my top series
by any means, but I just love

434
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,759
how there's so many systems in these
games. There's so much to do.

435
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,920
I love driving the vehicles there's so
much like weapon variety, and there's just

436
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,400
like stupid shit happens all the time
in this game where I was just like

437
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,079
walking down this trail and there's like, you know, some some civilian who's

438
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:26,519
like fighting against some soldier, and
so she's just like Molly's this soldier who's

439
00:25:26,519 --> 00:25:29,200
like on a horse, and this
guy on his horse like on fire,

440
00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:33,319
like falling over, like tumble down
this hill and like some fucking pigs run

441
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,440
up from the wilds starry fact,
and I don't know, it's always just

442
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,440
like weird, crazy stuff like that
occurs in these games. So yeah,

443
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:41,640
I don't I don't think I have
any like crazy take on. It's just

444
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,079
a fun, mindless kind of first
person shooting over the world that I've been

445
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:49,039
enjoying getting into. I it's funny
that you said, like you've probably played

446
00:25:49,039 --> 00:25:52,640
a lot more than then you kind
of think about, And I'm definitely in

447
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:56,799
that category. Like I've played majority
of the Farcry games. I've even played

448
00:25:56,799 --> 00:25:59,519
far Cray Primal. That's like the
cave I'm excited to get. I put

449
00:25:59,519 --> 00:26:02,400
it on my wishs recently because I
do want to play. It's actually really

450
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,640
fun, like it is ridiculous.
The far Cries always have those like ridiculous

451
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,559
factors to it. But I don't
know what it is, but like the

452
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:11,799
like the weapon feel like you have
like a bow and arrow and a spear

453
00:26:11,799 --> 00:26:17,079
and stuff you throw stones, but
they're just so satisfying getting like headshots with

454
00:26:17,079 --> 00:26:19,319
like the sling shot thing. They
just did a really good job at like

455
00:26:19,319 --> 00:26:22,599
the feel aspect to it. And
yeah, I I've played a lot of

456
00:26:22,599 --> 00:26:26,160
fark. I've even played a little
bit of Far Cry six because I when

457
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,599
I got my PlayStation Plus game pass, you know, alternative thing whatever the

458
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,279
interest. Yeah, it's like a
Ubisoft catalog, so they have all these

459
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,519
Ubisoft games and I just downloaded uh
yeah, the latest far Cry and I

460
00:26:38,559 --> 00:26:41,599
don't know, I was pretty impressed
actually with it. I didn't know that

461
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,680
it was like visual game is beautiful, Like yeah, the foliage, the

462
00:26:45,759 --> 00:26:49,240
trees blown in the wind, it
looks really really good. And the bright

463
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,480
blue walls. Yeah, it's really
satisfying and like something that I always give

464
00:26:53,519 --> 00:26:57,400
the farcry games credit for is their
openings to their games are always like so

465
00:26:57,599 --> 00:27:02,319
well done. I don't like it's
cinema. It's usually pretty pretty uh like

466
00:27:02,319 --> 00:27:06,359
pretty intense and just really sets the
tone pol where you're like running through the

467
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,640
kind of the burning city and whatnot. Yeah. Yeah, so I always

468
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,680
love at least their openings to their
games. But yeah, I've had a

469
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:17,480
lot of just fun you know,
tackling the like the outposts and just slow

470
00:27:17,599 --> 00:27:18,880
like you can kind of do it
how you want. I usually build the

471
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,279
stealth route to it. But I
think it was far Cry four that was

472
00:27:22,279 --> 00:27:25,599
the one that was set into Pall
and that was probably the one. I

473
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:30,240
want to play that one too,
because yeah, it is just it's beautiful

474
00:27:30,319 --> 00:27:34,440
terrain and yeah, that one.
I feel like there is kind of what

475
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:38,640
you were saying a lot of different
small systems that are kind of like,

476
00:27:40,279 --> 00:27:41,920
I don't know, I don't want
to say ahead of their time. They

477
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,319
just feel like, man, you
can do this as well, Like you

478
00:27:44,319 --> 00:27:47,559
can like disable the breaks on vehicles
that are like parked on the hill and

479
00:27:47,559 --> 00:27:49,599
then they just like roll down and
sometimes they can just completely smush people.

480
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:55,079
So that's pretty cool, especially the
first person view, Like I'm sure you

481
00:27:55,079 --> 00:27:57,160
can do a third person view,
but I always just do the first person.

482
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,440
You can't see you very well at
all, but it makes for some

483
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:04,359
fun chaos. Oh one percent.
It's just like it's so fast and it's

484
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,519
just yeah, it's so chaotic,
and uh the fact you can like jump

485
00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:11,160
from car to car like there's just
you feel like you're in an action movie.

486
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,039
I think throughout those games and they
are just really fun to play.

487
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,240
And uh yeah, yeah, good, good shout out there. I feel

488
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,240
like you brought up a lot of
memories that I didn't think I had.

489
00:28:19,599 --> 00:28:22,480
I know. Yeah, and going
way back, man, like Farkar two

490
00:28:22,559 --> 00:28:26,279
was like a good time I played. So I played on like the WI

491
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:27,880
or something like. It was very
random, but I just played so much

492
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,400
of that game. And then yeah, like Farkart three was huge. I

493
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,519
feel like everyone played that game.
Yeah, it was one of those.

494
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,160
And then this series I feel like, not faded away into obscurity by any

495
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:38,960
means, but I feel like Farkhar
three was like the peak for some reason

496
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,559
when everyone played it, and then
after that was just a new one comes

497
00:28:42,599 --> 00:28:45,160
out over a few years, people
talk about it for a couple of days

498
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,960
and then it kind of like fades
again. But yeah, I don't know,

499
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,240
it's just uh, it knows what
it's doing and it's doing it well.

500
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,440
I would say, like the story
I am holding b I'm skipping every

501
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,319
sing. Yeah, I do not
care it a little bit. That's uh,

502
00:28:57,359 --> 00:28:59,920
I know what, I don't know
what I'm there for him there to

503
00:29:00,359 --> 00:29:03,920
no exactly do some colmbat and mess
around farkray too. I think that was

504
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,279
the first game I ever played that
you could have a gun that like jams

505
00:29:07,319 --> 00:29:11,319
on you, and I just thought
that was like the most realistic effect ever,

506
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:12,880
Like it was just so crazy if
you had like a gun that you

507
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:17,000
picked off of picked up off a
soldier, like it's just lower quality so

508
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,680
it could jam up on you and
like it would suck if you're in the

509
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,839
middle of a firefight. One,
Like this is so cool. I can't

510
00:29:21,839 --> 00:29:25,160
believe that the guns do this in
this game. And even even back to

511
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:29,160
Far Cry Won, I remember playing
that and it had a mechanic that you

512
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:33,920
could like pull a tree branch back
and then like a guard could walk by

513
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,400
it and then like the tree branch
will just like take them out of And

514
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,279
I'm like, man, this is
just future gaming right here, especially like

515
00:29:38,319 --> 00:29:41,519
back then and Far Cry one.
I don't even know what era that was

516
00:29:42,279 --> 00:29:48,799
somewhere around that crazy physics for Yeah, early two thousands game. No totally.

517
00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:51,559
So yeah, definitely, Farcry has
a special place in my heart,

518
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,359
even though I might not see it
as like a top tier game, because,

519
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,839
as you mentioned, you just know
what you're getting. The game engines

520
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:02,279
are usually like the exact same over
over the different games. They fell feel

521
00:30:02,279 --> 00:30:06,599
the same. But yeah, nothing
mine. Let's take our first ad break.

522
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:14,160
We will be right back. Okay, we are back. So me,

523
00:30:14,359 --> 00:30:17,640
you and Taylor did an episode about
a month month and a half ago

524
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,880
where we talked about our video game
backlogs, and in an episode, I

525
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:26,279
mentioned that in this winter, in
this December, I was finally gonna play

526
00:30:26,279 --> 00:30:30,279
two things that have been on my
backlog forever, Earthbound and Metal Gear.

527
00:30:30,319 --> 00:30:34,400
So let's start with Earthbound here.
So Earthbound was, you know, a

528
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,799
Super Nintendo game that came out in
the nineties. Always when I've wanted to

529
00:30:38,839 --> 00:30:41,400
play because I love Smash Bros.
And and Nessa's in there, and I've

530
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,200
always wanted to see, like,
what is his game? Because he's such

531
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,839
an obscure character from the series that
only has like three games. Really,

532
00:30:48,359 --> 00:30:53,200
and I don't want to be too
negative on it, but I've really bounced

533
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,880
off this one pretty quick, and
it was pretty It was pretty heartbreaking,

534
00:30:57,119 --> 00:31:00,880
to be honest, because I've always
it was built up in my head from

535
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:06,200
talking to friends and other people.
Always sounded like it's just a weird series.

536
00:31:06,279 --> 00:31:08,400
And I like weird. I like
all the weird enemy names and freaks

537
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,319
you get in these. I like
the setting of it, where it's like

538
00:31:11,319 --> 00:31:15,359
a JRPG, but it's just set
in like a suburban town. Like that's

539
00:31:15,359 --> 00:31:18,680
really cool. Right, most of
the time, it's like some big fantasy

540
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,160
thing or some far future, and
so I kind of like the setting and

541
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:23,440
I like all that stuff. I
like, I like the vibe, I

542
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,279
like the tone, I like the
setting. But it's just for me.

543
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:33,119
This game is really tedious to play. The combat it sucks, and you

544
00:31:33,119 --> 00:31:33,599
know, I don't want to be
That's where thing I don't want to be

545
00:31:33,599 --> 00:31:37,920
too negative is I played like maybe
three hours of this and I'm putting it

546
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,240
down and I don't think I'm gonna
continue with it. So, like I

547
00:31:41,279 --> 00:31:44,160
haven't seen the whole thing, of
course, but I think I think it's

548
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,039
just not for me. And I
can say that, like it's not just

549
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,640
the datedness of it, because like, like I've talked about many times,

550
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,240
and twenty twenty I went back and
played Chrowachri Growth for the first time,

551
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,759
same era, same generation of game, and that's like one of my favorites

552
00:31:56,759 --> 00:31:59,920
of all time. Earlier this year, played the remake of supermar RPG.

553
00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:01,559
It's a remake of it, so
it's a modernized version, but still that

554
00:32:01,599 --> 00:32:05,880
game holds up is super cool,
super weird, super interesting. But this

555
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,759
one just isn't doing it for me. And it seems like from a lot

556
00:32:08,759 --> 00:32:13,119
of research I've done, it seems
like it was I guess people back in

557
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,640
the day really enjoyed it because of
its like countercultural part of it. It

558
00:32:16,759 --> 00:32:20,799
was kind of like a parody on
jerrpgs and made fun of some of the

559
00:32:20,839 --> 00:32:23,119
tropes, and I feel like maybe
I'm just not ingrained enough in that culture,

560
00:32:23,119 --> 00:32:27,440
and I didn't play those jerrpgees and
I'm not super nostalgic for them.

561
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:31,200
So this coming in there as like
a pivot doesn't really feel that meaningful.

562
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,480
But yeah, it's just like it's
kind of slow to move around, it's

563
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:40,640
pretty clunky, the combat is like
really simplistic and not that interesting, and

564
00:32:42,119 --> 00:32:44,079
you know, I was kind of
feeling this way, and so I went

565
00:32:44,119 --> 00:32:46,680
and did a bunch of research and
I just looked up, like there's so

566
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:51,799
many threads from over the years of
people asking the same question of is Earthbound

567
00:32:51,839 --> 00:32:53,279
still fun to go back to you, or like, if I'm not enjoying

568
00:32:53,319 --> 00:32:57,000
it in the first few hours,
am I gonna enjoy the rest of it?

569
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,079
And I found like a thread from
like two thousand and five, there

570
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,160
was some other there from like twenty
fifteen. There was someone from like twenty

571
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,519
twenty one, like a recent one, and all these people asking, like,

572
00:33:05,559 --> 00:33:07,960
I feel like they're in the exact
same shoes as me, just like

573
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,880
if I'm not liking this game this
much, in like, am I gonna

574
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,559
enjoy the rest of it? And
almost everyone was like, no, probably

575
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,240
not. This game is probably not
for you. If you can't get over

576
00:33:15,319 --> 00:33:20,039
like the sluggishness of it and like
the lack of deep mechanics, you're probably

577
00:33:20,039 --> 00:33:22,400
not gonna enjoy it. And so
I think, honestly, maybe the best

578
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,519
way to play this would be like
through an emulator where you can like play

579
00:33:24,519 --> 00:33:28,039
it on like two time speed and
like skip through some of that slower stuff,

580
00:33:28,119 --> 00:33:31,119
or just grind some combat and be
stronger or something. But yeah,

581
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:36,160
Unfortunately, I bounced off of it
fairly quickly, and it's one I might

582
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,640
revisit at some point. Maybe I'll
look up some tips or get some tips

583
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:42,519
from people. If anyone listening out
there is a big fan of this game,

584
00:33:42,559 --> 00:33:45,359
you want to tell me ways that
I could enjoy it, please let

585
00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:49,440
me know. But unfortunately it just
just didn't work for me in the modern

586
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,599
in the modern era, which is
it's too bad. I'm slightly heartbreaking,

587
00:33:52,759 --> 00:33:55,880
heartbroken. It's like when I went
back to Shadow the Classus, this like

588
00:33:55,920 --> 00:34:00,359
all time great game and didn't really
like it that much. Kind of like

589
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:01,559
the same thing here. But you
know, they're not all going to be

590
00:34:01,559 --> 00:34:05,960
for me, and I have to
accept that that's just gonna happen. Sometimes

591
00:34:06,039 --> 00:34:08,880
I think maybe what would be better
for me would be go to Mother three,

592
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:13,360
which was like the Game Boy Advance
one, because I love GBA and

593
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,360
maybe it'll be like a little bit
more modern, and so maybe that would

594
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:20,719
be the one for me. So
I'll have to find a translated version of

595
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,920
that, which I know exists out
there on the internet, and maybe that

596
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:24,840
would be my chance to fall in
love with earth Bound. But unfortunately I

597
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:29,960
couldn't do it. With the original
game, so kind of a SAT update

598
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,039
there, But I had to say
nonetheless, I mean it's always a risk

599
00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:36,360
you run, right when you when
you've had a game on your backlog that

600
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,679
you've maybe been looking forward to for
a long time at least getting your hands

601
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:43,039
on finally and then yeah, as
they say, never meet your heroes,

602
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,000
I know, right, but then
like you'll get your crown triggers, you

603
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:49,559
get your supermarket like sometimes it will
work out and other times it's just like

604
00:34:49,599 --> 00:34:53,599
ah, old game, old and
that's that's the way. Moving on to

605
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:59,239
metal Gear. So yeah, I
bought the metal Gear Volume one collection whatever

606
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,840
the hell it's called, that came
out this year and or last year,

607
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:06,440
I guess twenty twenty three, uh, and in that it has the first

608
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,320
two metal Gear games, like not
metal Gear Solid but just metal Gear and

609
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:12,960
metal Gear two, and then it
has metal Gear Solid one, two and

610
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,519
three. So for the for the
you know, historical element of it,

611
00:35:15,559 --> 00:35:19,159
I went and checked out metal Gear
one and two, which are like the

612
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,039
nes era games, very simple pixel
art, top down stealth games. I

613
00:35:23,079 --> 00:35:25,000
played both of them for like a
half an hour each, and it's kind

614
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,960
of like I just wanted to get
a flavor of it. I didn't think

615
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,960
I would play through most of them
because you know, ANYS was my first

616
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,239
console. I have a NOS soldier
for it. But almost any time I

617
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,159
go back to an ny S game
of like this sucks and it's not fun

618
00:35:37,199 --> 00:35:39,559
and it makes no sense and without
without like the manual, like even playing

619
00:35:39,599 --> 00:35:43,880
the game is confusing. So so
yeah, I checked them out just to

620
00:35:44,079 --> 00:35:46,920
just to say I did. They
were interesting, but nothing too nothing too

621
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:51,559
crazy there. But then yeah,
I've jumped in and I've been playing Metal

622
00:35:51,559 --> 00:35:53,400
Gear Solid one. I think I'm
pretty close to the end of the game.

623
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,639
I probably like maybe an hour or
life if I had to guess.

624
00:35:57,519 --> 00:36:00,000
So plugging through it, I don't
think it's too long, unless there's like

625
00:36:00,039 --> 00:36:01,679
some big plot twist. Maybe,
but it seems like in terms of they

626
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:05,320
set up like here are the people
you're gonna take down in this game,

627
00:36:05,559 --> 00:36:09,000
and I've taken out like almost all
those people at this point. But man,

628
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,000
what an interesting time it is to
go back to mel Gear Solid one.

629
00:36:13,079 --> 00:36:16,440
You know, this highly revered series
from Kojima. I love us stranding

630
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:21,480
and so I I'm so curious for
this stuff. Remind me your Metal have

631
00:36:21,519 --> 00:36:22,920
you played. Which of the games
have you played? Because I know you

632
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,719
talked about three in the Winter ranking, but so have you played like one,

633
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,800
two, and three or have you
dabbled in them at least? Ut?

634
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,119
Sorry, maybe it's four? Yeah. Four was the one that I

635
00:36:31,159 --> 00:36:37,360
played the PA and then I played
the cause the latest one it had like

636
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:42,280
a mini release or something, which
was like a demo or something for like

637
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,159
the actual game. I forget what
it was called, but I played that

638
00:36:45,199 --> 00:36:47,400
one. Was that for like five? Like, yeah, it was like

639
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:52,079
a playable demo sort of four five? So I played that one thinking that

640
00:36:52,119 --> 00:36:54,960
it was an actual full game,
so that that was a bit of surprise.

641
00:36:55,039 --> 00:36:59,199
But no, really, just like
four has been my experience, okay.

642
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,280
And then Metal Gear Rising I think
it's what it's called. That's like

643
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:07,800
the like the raiding Hack and Slash
title. And then just just by like

644
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:12,119
curiosity, I've I've like jumped on
YouTube and like followed some of the story

645
00:37:12,159 --> 00:37:15,920
aspects, so I have like a
somewhat decent idea of at least like the

646
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,239
general story on how it goes.
But no, I haven't played any of

647
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,920
those old titles. It's I don't
know it's been it's been interesting, like

648
00:37:22,679 --> 00:37:24,599
a like a curious thought of like
I wonder how they play, But I've

649
00:37:24,599 --> 00:37:27,960
also seen like the top down kind
of what you're mentioning with, like the

650
00:37:28,119 --> 00:37:30,000
like metal gear and just the nes
style. It's like, I don't know

651
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:35,039
if that would be as fun as
maybe my mind is building up to be.

652
00:37:35,639 --> 00:37:37,679
Yeah, I mean, I think
in terms of the gameplay of this

653
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:42,119
it's very there's a lot of parts
of this game that are very dated,

654
00:37:42,119 --> 00:37:45,320
and it's funny when you boot up
the game, it's like many elements of

655
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:50,079
this game are dated, but we
wanted to preserve the original vision because it's

656
00:37:50,079 --> 00:37:52,679
like a collection, you know,
of these games, and so it has

657
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,360
that disclaimer on there, which I
don't know if it's just for gameplay,

658
00:37:54,639 --> 00:37:59,800
I think it's also having that disclaimer
out there for like story stuff, because

659
00:38:00,519 --> 00:38:04,119
I mean, like the portrayal of
women in this game is like it's just

660
00:38:04,159 --> 00:38:08,599
the cringiest shit ever where it's like
so hyper sexualized and they're just like weird

661
00:38:08,599 --> 00:38:13,159
ass looking polygons too. So it's
like they'll have like this slow most shot

662
00:38:13,199 --> 00:38:15,159
of this girl like running in her
ass. It's like swaying back and forth.

663
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,519
It's like this is so dumb.
But this is the kind of stuff

664
00:38:17,559 --> 00:38:21,960
I expected from this game too,
just hearing people talk about over the years

665
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,480
and knowing Kajima, who's like kind
of a weirdo at times, So I

666
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:29,400
mean that stuff. It doesn't bother
me too much. It's just it's just

667
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,519
funny to go back to it and
see some of that. But in terms

668
00:38:31,519 --> 00:38:36,920
of the gameplay, I I don't
think this game has aged too poorly.

669
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,840
The controls are really clunky, that's
like the biggest thing, but in terms

670
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:42,719
of what you're doing, I think
it actually makes sense. For the most

671
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,519
part. I don't really get stuck
too often, and I think a big

672
00:38:45,559 --> 00:38:49,079
reason for that is because you have
the Kodak right which you're calling people,

673
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,840
which I think is a fun system. You kind of have like this you

674
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:55,599
know radio in your head essentially where
you're contacting different people and anytime I'm like

675
00:38:55,719 --> 00:39:00,159
don't know what to do, I'll
just call my handler dude, He's like,

676
00:39:00,159 --> 00:39:01,280
oh, yeah, you should go
do this thing. So it's perfect.

677
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,880
It like tells you rather than having
like a quest log, you just

678
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,239
like call someone and get the context
that way, which works, and then

679
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,800
you also like call meleean and meleing
and she saves your game. You can

680
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:15,280
call the weapon Expert with whatever equipment
you have equipped right now, and then

681
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:19,639
she'll tell you like how it works
and stuff. So there's some good things

682
00:39:19,639 --> 00:39:22,880
in there that help make the game
make more sense. But yeah, it

683
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,840
is like, for the most part, kind of a top down sort of

684
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:29,360
game, stealth game. You know, you're running around, but then you

685
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,320
can also like go first person and
you can look around in first person,

686
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:35,360
or like certain guns will be like
in first person. So I don't know

687
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,599
how much I need to really explain
this game for people, because I know

688
00:39:37,599 --> 00:39:40,719
this is like one of those greatest
of games of all time or greatest serious

689
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,960
So I'm sure a lot of people
know about these games, but it's interesting

690
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,800
for me. I'm sure there's a
lot of people in my shoes who have

691
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,440
never, you know, never played
these games before, so it's kind of

692
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:51,000
fun to go back to them.
But yeah, I think that the stealth

693
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,519
of it is like pretty simple,
but it works good enough. I think

694
00:39:53,519 --> 00:39:57,679
the main thing is, like the
combat really sucks in this game. It's

695
00:39:57,679 --> 00:40:00,480
just really dated. The controls make
it really clunky. You can't really see

696
00:40:00,599 --> 00:40:05,079
or aim very well. You can't
like see very far, so it's like

697
00:40:05,159 --> 00:40:07,559
if they're be getting shot from like
off screen, and it's like very confusing.

698
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:12,360
But I think that's like to an
extent, it's like kind of intentional,

699
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,480
right, because the idea is that
you're never really getting caught and you're

700
00:40:14,519 --> 00:40:16,840
never really doing combat. Like there's
a couple of sequences where it's like forced

701
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,599
on you, but for the most
part you're supposed to like be stealthy and

702
00:40:20,639 --> 00:40:22,519
avoid combat, So I think it
works. But then also you're giving like

703
00:40:22,599 --> 00:40:25,960
ten different guns in the game,
so obviously if you want to do combat,

704
00:40:27,679 --> 00:40:29,760
you know, you have a lot
of opportunities to do that. But

705
00:40:30,519 --> 00:40:32,800
yeah, I think the thing that
has maybe stood out the most to me

706
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:37,639
is that like the story and how
cinematic this game is, especially going back

707
00:40:37,679 --> 00:40:40,679
and it's like a what PS one
era PS two, I don't even know

708
00:40:40,679 --> 00:40:44,280
what era this this game came out
in, but like, man, just

709
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:49,199
the camera angles are really interesting,
like the pan and like the zoom and

710
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:53,199
all. Like the cinematography part of
it is like really really engaging and really

711
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:57,519
well done, and you know you'll
have just a sequence where it's just like

712
00:40:57,559 --> 00:41:01,440
a thirty minute conversation between these characters. So it's cool to go back to

713
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:05,400
a game like this from this era
to have like that much of a focus

714
00:41:05,519 --> 00:41:08,199
on story, and like anytime you're
introduced to a character, like their name

715
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:12,320
will pop up on screen, and
then also like the voice actor's name,

716
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,960
like under it, even like into
the very end of the game, you'll

717
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:16,280
still get the voice actor's name,
And I think that's so cool because there's

718
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,880
such a focus, and like the
whole start of this game has like so

719
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,880
many opening credits in a way that
makes it feel like more like a movie,

720
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,440
an action movie, than it does
a video game. So that part

721
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:29,159
of it is really cool. And
there's you know, sequences where there's like

722
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,880
live action footage and whatnot to,
but it's like super grainy because it's an

723
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:37,000
old ass game, so I don't
know that part of it is really really

724
00:41:37,039 --> 00:41:39,480
engaging. So yeah, I think
you should go back and check this out

725
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:43,760
too, because I think this game
holds up for the most part, and

726
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,480
it's still playable and still fun and
interesting all these years later, and even

727
00:41:47,519 --> 00:41:52,440
though it's clunky and whatnot, it's
still you can still get get through it

728
00:41:52,559 --> 00:41:54,679
like fairly painlessly, I would say, So yeah, it's been a really

729
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:58,599
fun time going back to it.
That's awesome. I like to hear that,

730
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,960
like the cinematics that Kajima has in
his games, like it's been there

731
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,159
since they Get Go, because he
still has that in something like Destrand right

732
00:42:06,159 --> 00:42:08,280
when it's introduced to character. Obviously, you know, technology is a lot

733
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:12,000
more advanced than what it was back
in the day, but just that creative

734
00:42:12,039 --> 00:42:16,400
style, it never really well,
like it's it's evolved and obviously gotten better,

735
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:21,679
but like he still had that that
style that differentiates it from just an

736
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,480
arcade video game versus like a cinematic
experience, because I feel like, yeah,

737
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:29,679
like some of the best games ever
played, they are of that experience

738
00:42:29,679 --> 00:42:32,079
that you that you're immersed in.
So that's cool to hear that they had

739
00:42:32,079 --> 00:42:37,039
that In the Ogs. There's a
couple of things that are and how we

740
00:42:37,119 --> 00:42:38,119
might be talking spoilers here, but
like, fuck this game came out on

741
00:42:38,119 --> 00:42:40,280
a hundred years ago, I sung
and spoil. There's a couple of things

742
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:45,920
that I found very funny because of
how like meta this game is at times,

743
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:50,320
Like there's a moment where you have
to contact someone on your codec but

744
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,280
you don't know what their number is. And like the solution for that back

745
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:57,880
in the day was to look at
the back of the box that the game

746
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,360
came in, and it has the
number on there, And like I got

747
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:01,880
the physical version of this, so
it's on there, but I'm pretty sure

748
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,960
they just like give you the number
because like you could have just bought this

749
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,599
digitally and you don't have a case, so it's like, okay, they

750
00:43:07,679 --> 00:43:09,880
kind of have to choose that with
this re release of it. And then

751
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:14,920
another thing too, I remember hearing
about this so and I didn't realize it

752
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:15,800
was in this game. I thought
it was maybe in Middle Gear two or

753
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:20,480
three. So it was funny.
Is that for one of the fights,

754
00:43:20,519 --> 00:43:23,079
you're fighting Psychomantis, who's like this
telekinetic guy and he can get in your

755
00:43:23,159 --> 00:43:27,920
head, and like the solution to
fight him because like he can like read

756
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,960
your mind no matter what you do, he'll just like dodge your attacks.

757
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:35,960
So like the solution for the game
originally was that you should move your controller

758
00:43:36,039 --> 00:43:38,000
to like port two and then you
just control the game from port two and

759
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,639
that way he can't read your mind
because you are in this other thing.

760
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:44,480
Like that's so fun and creative.
I love the fourth Wall part of it,

761
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,800
but to do unmost which is kind
of funny where you like go onto

762
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:51,360
the home page, you like go
recalibrate your controller, you like have to

763
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:53,760
plug in your joy con in that
annoying way, and then like click your

764
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,800
controller in port two and like they
kind of give you the solution at some

765
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,400
point, which I think might be
done anyway. It's like, I don't

766
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:01,480
know how you'd ever figure that out
back in the day. That is such

767
00:44:01,519 --> 00:44:05,800
a weird solution to that, And
of course, yeah it's a bit yanky

768
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:07,960
on the switcher version, but it's
still like that is so fucking cool.

769
00:44:08,039 --> 00:44:12,119
I love that. I love that
meta element of it. I love when

770
00:44:12,159 --> 00:44:15,440
like a game like Inscription, like
there's at some point one of the puzzles

771
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:16,920
is revealed about, like going into
the options menu and like, I don't

772
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:22,000
know, I just like things when
we can get like break past the column

773
00:44:22,039 --> 00:44:25,079
finds of how these games are normally
done. So that fight was really cool,

774
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:29,199
and yeah, mine, like every
boss fight in this game is so

775
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,559
freaking hardness to take me multiple attempts, but every time I like learn some

776
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:36,440
new element of it, and then
when I finally overcome it, I even

777
00:44:36,519 --> 00:44:39,079
might take six or seven tries.
It feels so good when I finally figure

778
00:44:39,119 --> 00:44:43,719
it out, even if I've been
like slightly frustrated at times. So I

779
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,960
those even though it's not even just
because the combat is yanky either, it's

780
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,800
just because, like I don't know
the solution, Like they all feel very

781
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,880
much like puzzles, So that's been
fun to go back to as well.

782
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:58,880
I'm trying to think what else I
don't know. It's just such an interesting

783
00:44:59,519 --> 00:45:01,519
game, really fun. It feels
very much like a kind of Resident Evil

784
00:45:01,559 --> 00:45:05,000
e. So I don't know what
came first, like this game or Resident

785
00:45:05,039 --> 00:45:07,719
Evil, but they seems like there's
a lot of inspiration between the two of

786
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,519
them for each other. But yeah, what were you gonna say there?

787
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:15,199
I was just gonna say, like
that's something even I remember coming across on

788
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:20,000
middle Gear cell at four was like
those boss battles were so challenging to the

789
00:45:20,039 --> 00:45:22,639
fact that like I would have to
come back to them after days, and

790
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,679
I remember I put the controller down
like I'm coming back tomorrow. Then I

791
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:30,360
did it first try, which I
remember because I had borrowed the game from

792
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:31,599
my buddy Quinn way back in the
day, and like going to school the

793
00:45:31,599 --> 00:45:34,760
next day, I'm like, dude, like, I can't get by this

794
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:36,599
guy. He's like, oh,
if you tried like your shock knife,

795
00:45:36,679 --> 00:45:37,960
like you gotta you gotta shock him
so he doesn't regenerate. I'm like,

796
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,360
oh my god, I didn't think
about that, and then like getting so

797
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:45,039
excited to go home and like try
the battle with my new my new found.

798
00:45:45,119 --> 00:45:47,719
Uh. Just I don't know idea
of guests on how to tackle it.

799
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:52,239
So that's something that I mean sounds
like they've had that since since the

800
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:54,400
hey Day, and I've always known
about those like super creative ways that you

801
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,480
would have to circumvent, like I
know, I think there's one with like

802
00:45:57,519 --> 00:46:00,400
a memory card in one of the
other games. So I'm curious work on

803
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,559
the switch because I feel like you, they'll just have to. Yeah,

804
00:46:02,679 --> 00:46:06,000
I don't know, they'll have to
come up with some solution because there's no

805
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,599
way that's gonna work properly. Yeah
no, but I mean, hey,

806
00:46:08,639 --> 00:46:13,880
it's creative, right, super super
uh. I mean even today, there's

807
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:15,679
not games that really do that.
I mean, you mentioned uh inscription,

808
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:19,920
so I guess that's. Yeah.
Tunic had like some really interesting kind of

809
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,639
meta solutions too, So there's some
indie games that are doing it, but

810
00:46:22,639 --> 00:46:27,199
you don't see that from like the
Triple A guys. They keep that stuff

811
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,280
pretty straightforward for the most part.
So so yeah, it's it's been really

812
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:34,559
fun going back to Metal Gear Solid
one. I'm very excited to keep going

813
00:46:34,559 --> 00:46:37,440
on this journey. That collection has
Metal Gear Solid two and three in there

814
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:44,159
as well, and then I don't
like what era was four three is what

815
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:47,840
I play. Oh okay, so
I wonder I wonder how easy that game

816
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:52,000
is to find then, because I
know they're doing it like a part two

817
00:46:52,039 --> 00:46:54,599
to this collection, which maybe that
just has four and five or something like

818
00:46:54,599 --> 00:46:59,480
that, and coming to the switch
obviously, because obviously anything on PSD generation

819
00:46:59,599 --> 00:47:01,599
is kind of hard to emulate and
whatnot, so it's not so easy to

820
00:47:01,639 --> 00:47:05,840
find it on PlayStation store. So
but that's kind of far away from now.

821
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,400
I still have to go finish this
game, play through two, play

822
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:12,360
through three. So yeah, very
fun to go back too. I'm glad

823
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,559
I'm finally knocking these games off the
backlog. Yeah, it's been sitting up

824
00:47:15,559 --> 00:47:20,320
there getting dusty and like it needed
to play, especially after like I said,

825
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,559
loving Death Stranding. I was like, man, I need to see

826
00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:25,960
more of this Kajima stuff. So
it's been Yeah, I'm excited to hear

827
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:31,800
your updates on your journey throughout the
series. Yeah, okay, and then

828
00:47:32,519 --> 00:47:36,679
my last game. I don't know
how much we'll talk about this today,

829
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:40,719
but after I recorded my Game of
the Year episode put it up on the

830
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:45,800
feeds, they pretty much released boulders
Gate three right then and there on the

831
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:49,519
Xbox. So I finally bought it
and I've been playing it and I've played

832
00:47:49,519 --> 00:47:52,559
a good amount of it now.
I've played like about twenty hours on like

833
00:47:52,599 --> 00:47:55,639
a single player save, and then
about five hours on a co op save

834
00:47:55,679 --> 00:48:00,440
with a friend of mine playing some
online there, and yeah, this game

835
00:48:00,599 --> 00:48:02,760
is fantastic. It's I don't know
if I can be on that tier with

836
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:06,440
everyone else yet, just because like
I've only played twenty hours, which feels

837
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,320
like nothing. For how long this
game is. Where I'm hearing people are

838
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,840
still an act too at like hour
one hundred, Like, I'm sure it's

839
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,199
going to take a long time,
and I knew I wanted to take my

840
00:48:15,199 --> 00:48:16,079
time with this one as well,
so I'm not in a hurry to get

841
00:48:16,119 --> 00:48:20,119
through it to either. I'm already
months late to the party. On people

842
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:23,880
praising this game. But yeah,
I've been really enjoying it. I've played,

843
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:25,599
you know, a little bit of
D and D in my time,

844
00:48:25,639 --> 00:48:30,000
played a few campaigns, so I
think that helps a lot in terms of

845
00:48:30,079 --> 00:48:34,159
understanding the mechanics here, because there
is just so much freedom in anything you

846
00:48:34,199 --> 00:48:37,519
do in this game. Like any
point in combat, you just look open

847
00:48:37,599 --> 00:48:39,440
up all your weapon wheels and whatnot, and there's just like pages like you

848
00:48:39,519 --> 00:48:44,599
have maybe sometimes like twenty thirty forty
options of things you could do of like

849
00:48:44,639 --> 00:48:49,079
different attacks, all your different spells, throw anything in your pocket at anyone

850
00:48:49,119 --> 00:48:52,840
at any given time, all of
these things. There's so many options,

851
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:57,360
and it can definitely be overwhelming.
But as I'm playing more and learning more

852
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,920
of these mechanics and having a little
bit of a D and D background,

853
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,639
it's it's working for me. So
yeah, it's just super super fun.

854
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:07,119
I really like the combat. I'm
obviously a big turn based strategy game sort

855
00:49:07,119 --> 00:49:09,559
of guy, and so even though
this isn't on a grid in the way

856
00:49:09,559 --> 00:49:14,360
that Firemblum is, it still makes
a lot of sense for me. And

857
00:49:14,559 --> 00:49:17,159
yeah, so I'm really really enjoying
the combat. Sometimes getting like these freaking

858
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:22,559
huge battles of like thirty plus people
and they're all taking their turns and it

859
00:49:22,599 --> 00:49:25,800
gets so chaotic, but it's so
satisfying when a battle like that comes to

860
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:30,519
a conclusion. But then, yeah, also the stories side of it,

861
00:49:30,559 --> 00:49:32,199
and how just how much freedom there
is even I've seen a lot of that

862
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:36,719
just with having like that co op
save with a friend playing single player and

863
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,719
just taking so many different routes through
these through these solutions. It's one of

864
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:45,920
those things where like I don't know
how replayable this game will be for me,

865
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:49,760
because like it's not as open as
an Elder Scrolls game in that,

866
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,079
like when you boot up a new
saving, you just go absolutely anywhere do

867
00:49:52,159 --> 00:49:53,559
whatever you want. Like in this, like you kind of have to go

868
00:49:53,639 --> 00:49:58,159
do a lot of the same quests. And obviously you would do different things,

869
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,880
maybe you come up with different solutions
or side with different people and whatnot,

870
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,360
But if I feel like you kind
of have to do a lot of

871
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:07,159
the same things over and over again. So I don't know how replayable it'll

872
00:50:07,199 --> 00:50:08,320
be for me. But even then, like I don't know if I get

873
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:12,719
one hour fifty long play through this, Like I'm not gonna go playing like,

874
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,639
that's a lot of good time right
there. I think maybe that enjoyment

875
00:50:15,679 --> 00:50:17,840
would then come from like playing with
friends and doing co op campaign campaigns and

876
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:22,679
whatnot. But yeah, there's I've
already seen like a lot of the butterfly

877
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:27,440
effect of all the different ways that
this these story solutions or I don't know,

878
00:50:27,599 --> 00:50:30,000
just any any encounter can go like
so many different ways of people teaming

879
00:50:30,079 --> 00:50:32,800
up or just killing them on the
spot, or they'll go team up with

880
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:37,000
this guy and come back five hours
a day. That kind of thing is

881
00:50:37,079 --> 00:50:39,000
really really cool. So yeah,
I know you're gonna love this game when

882
00:50:39,039 --> 00:50:43,039
you finally get to Kerklin. I
just know it's a big time commitment.

883
00:50:43,079 --> 00:50:45,639
And I know sometimes for games that
can be a struggle for you to get

884
00:50:45,679 --> 00:50:49,320
through longer games that would be the
only caveat maybe, But otherwise, I

885
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:51,599
think you're gonna love this game when
you finally play it. No, that's

886
00:50:51,639 --> 00:50:53,840
amazing everything I hear about it.
It's just like this is the ultimate game,

887
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:58,559
the ultimate D and D experience through
a video game that I've heard,

888
00:50:58,599 --> 00:51:01,519
and I've only heard positive. I'm
curious though, because I haven't like looked

889
00:51:01,559 --> 00:51:05,599
into anything about it. Obviously,
I want to save as much as I

890
00:51:05,639 --> 00:51:07,440
can before I jump into it.
But like, how does the co op

891
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,760
for some single player element play into
it? Like it is it literally just

892
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:15,159
going through the exact same story,
but you have a buddy with you,

893
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,400
or is the story like written in
a certain way to make sense to have

894
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:21,199
multiple people in it, or is
it just the party that you have or

895
00:51:21,679 --> 00:51:23,400
m M yeah. So I mean
obviously, if you're going into with a

896
00:51:24,119 --> 00:51:30,199
friend, you'd like each create your
character. So I I'm curious how something

897
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:34,559
like a four player campaign would happen, because like the way it works is

898
00:51:34,599 --> 00:51:37,400
you have your party of four at
any given time, So even if I'm

899
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,159
playing single player, it's I'm controlling
my character that it created, and then

900
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:44,719
like three people of the like the
greater party that are just chilling at your

901
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,199
camp and you can like swap them
in and out anytime. Back to your

902
00:51:46,199 --> 00:51:50,400
camp. I'm gonna bring Karlac on
this mission, or I'm gonna bring Gail

903
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,599
here because I gonna go do go
do his quest whatever it is. And

904
00:51:52,679 --> 00:51:55,639
so the co op campaign and playing
with my friend is just the two of

905
00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:59,400
us, and then we bring in
like two people from that party, and

906
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:01,400
so those are like filling out our
party of four, right, So obviously,

907
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:05,840
if you had a party of four
friends and you're all using your player

908
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:09,400
creative character, I guess you wouldn't
get any of those like side characters really

909
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:13,760
like they might be back at camp. Yeah, they wouldn't actually really engage

910
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,360
with the game at all, which
is weird because like any scenario, like

911
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:21,000
any conversation, you go into whoever, like you're controlling in that moment,

912
00:52:21,079 --> 00:52:23,880
Like if I'm controlling my protagonist,
they're gonna interact with the whoever. But

913
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:27,599
then I could play it like as
one of the companions, I could just

914
00:52:27,599 --> 00:52:30,800
play as Carlac and she'll have all
these dialogue options for that scene. And

915
00:52:31,159 --> 00:52:34,800
even if she's not the one that
I engage with, if she's in the

916
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,519
party, she might still like butt
in on this part of the conversation if

917
00:52:37,519 --> 00:52:40,360
she has something to say. So
I don't know, and like only the

918
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:44,559
characters that are in your active party
do that. So yeah, I feel

919
00:52:44,559 --> 00:52:47,079
like I guess it's one of those
things where, man, if you did

920
00:52:47,079 --> 00:52:51,480
a four player campaign with friends,
you'd still want to play this game a

921
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,679
single player to actually engage with all
these other characters that are introduced there because

922
00:52:53,679 --> 00:52:57,920
they're also fun and the voice acting
is so good, and obviously that one

923
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,400
guy won the Game Award over there
for playing Stuf and he's such a fun

924
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:04,039
character. And I haven't even interacted
with him a whole lot because I've had

925
00:53:04,079 --> 00:53:07,639
other people in my party just because
he's more of a thief type character.

926
00:53:07,679 --> 00:53:10,239
I didn't need one of those necessarily. So yeah, it's tricky man,

927
00:53:10,559 --> 00:53:14,679
so excited. Yeah, there's a
lot to it. So yeah, I

928
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:19,000
feel like it's just one of those
games and there's so many facets to it

929
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,800
that I even if you did a
hundred playthroughs, you might still encounter new

930
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:23,800
things. So I guess, no
matter what, you're gonna miss out on

931
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:28,960
something. But then ideally, like
the stuff that you're opting into is gonna

932
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:30,679
be so good that you're gonna have
a great playthrough no matter what. But

933
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:35,760
yeah, it feels like it's gonna
be very different because obviously me and my

934
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:37,559
co op friend, like we brought
in our own characters to only engaging with

935
00:53:37,599 --> 00:53:40,039
two people at the party, where
as I'm playing single player, I can

936
00:53:40,079 --> 00:53:43,480
engage with a whole bunch more.
So Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

937
00:53:43,519 --> 00:53:45,880
I guess it really depends on what
you do, but I think either

938
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:49,239
way, it seems like the story
will work out no matter what you do.

939
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:51,920
And like I said, there's already
so many people that I've just absolutely

940
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:54,719
massacred in my playthrough and so they're
not part of the story anymore, but

941
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:58,760
the story still goes on the greater
story, Yeah, because they already set

942
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,400
it up like the kind of I
guess the main hook of the story.

943
00:54:01,559 --> 00:54:06,320
There's like three or four different people
you can go to to like push that

944
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:08,119
story along. So it feels like
that's gonna be the case for anything that

945
00:54:08,159 --> 00:54:14,760
no matter who's around or who isn't
this the main narrative is still gonna progress

946
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:21,519
forward and whatnot. So man,
that's that's so exciting. It's finding it

947
00:54:21,559 --> 00:54:24,800
hard to hold off not not jumping
in this. Yeah, Like how does

948
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:28,159
the game even play? Because I, like, I literally have not seen

949
00:54:28,199 --> 00:54:30,639
anything like it is? It is
it like an open world like a third

950
00:54:30,639 --> 00:54:32,599
person that you move your character around, because I feel like I've everything I've

951
00:54:32,639 --> 00:54:36,880
seen about this has been as if
it's like a cut scene or you have

952
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:38,800
a character go up. I see
the dice like you know, pop up

953
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:43,480
and oh the dice mechanic. The
dice like animation is so satisfying. It's

954
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:47,039
really good. Yeah, it's it's
a third person action adventury game, but

955
00:54:47,079 --> 00:54:50,679
I'd say it's more of like a
CRPG. Uh, well, it is

956
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:54,880
a CRPG in terms of the movement
of it, so I guess its CRPG.

957
00:54:55,360 --> 00:55:01,079
A CRPG is like the original Fallout
games or like way like those kind

958
00:55:01,159 --> 00:55:06,320
of games where the camera isn't like
a behind the shoulder perspective third person.

959
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:08,360
It's more of like a top down
and you're kind of like walking through the

960
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:12,360
world sort of thing. I guess, like a picture like a diablou camera

961
00:55:12,639 --> 00:55:15,119
as well, so you can zoom
it in more, but you can also

962
00:55:15,199 --> 00:55:20,519
zoom out pretty far. And yeah, it's it's definitely more of like it

963
00:55:20,559 --> 00:55:22,719
definitely feels like lower on the action
side of things and more on like this

964
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:29,159
simulated aspect of it, right of
like all the interactions and like insight checks

965
00:55:29,159 --> 00:55:30,159
are happening when you go into a
new area, right and it's like,

966
00:55:30,199 --> 00:55:32,559
oh, maybe you spotted this trapp
or maybe you didn't, you just walk

967
00:55:32,639 --> 00:55:36,760
right into it sort of thing.
And then but even within that, like

968
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,280
you can split your party of four
up you can like group them all together

969
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:43,000
obviously, and they'll just like follow
the leader, or you can split them

970
00:55:43,039 --> 00:55:45,400
up into four different ones and you
could just send this guy all the way

971
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,760
across the map into different loading zone, and so you can just like be

972
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,920
all over the place too if you
want with this. Obviously, if you're

973
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:52,599
playing with your friends, that's great
because you can go do whatever you want.

974
00:55:52,599 --> 00:55:55,360
I can go have some conversation and
my friend can be off in the

975
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:59,920
middle of a battle turn based battle, which is crazy that that stuff can

976
00:56:00,079 --> 00:56:02,559
kind of happened simultaneously. But then
also as from the single player perspective,

977
00:56:02,559 --> 00:56:05,800
you could play the game that way
too, where you can just send your

978
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,679
characters off into whatever random direction and
do that. So yeah, I would

979
00:56:08,679 --> 00:56:12,599
say it controls in a bit more
of like a what feels like a PC

980
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:15,119
sort of game sort of way,
even if I'm playing in a console.

981
00:56:15,599 --> 00:56:16,960
But then yeah, when you get
into a combin encounter, it goes into

982
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:22,559
that term based and and whatnot.
So yeah, it's definitely like a third

983
00:56:22,559 --> 00:56:25,760
person game, but not not in
the way that like a Horizon or Death

984
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:30,039
Stranding is a third person game.
Yeah, no, that's awesome. One

985
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:31,840
other thing too, that. I
I mean, it's one of the best

986
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:35,599
parts about D and D is the
whole role play aspect. And have you

987
00:56:35,639 --> 00:56:38,840
found that you've really like made a
character that fits true to your normal play

988
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:42,679
style and in that type of setting, like an RPG setting, or has

989
00:56:42,679 --> 00:56:45,000
there been instances where you're like,
ah, I wish I could do this,

990
00:56:45,039 --> 00:56:47,119
but I didn't inspect my character and
that sort of aspect. Maybe you

991
00:56:47,159 --> 00:56:50,440
try it anyways, And I mean, that's the beauty of D and D.

992
00:56:50,559 --> 00:56:52,679
If you get a good dice roll, it doesn't really matter what your

993
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:55,039
multiplayers are, no, I'm I'm, I'm very impressed with it so far.

994
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:59,519
It feels in the way that like
other scrolls or follow out or something

995
00:56:59,519 --> 00:57:02,119
like, if you have a certain
skill or a certain background, like you'll

996
00:57:02,159 --> 00:57:06,079
get dialogue options and it will show
them in brackets, so you know,

997
00:57:06,639 --> 00:57:08,679
you only have that dialogue option if
you're an engineer or something. So in

998
00:57:08,679 --> 00:57:13,880
this game, like in my my
main character, my single player one,

999
00:57:14,159 --> 00:57:19,280
I'm playing a Drow ranger type character
and that's been very fun. And man,

1000
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:22,480
there are so many dialogue options that
are like Drow specific ones, so

1001
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:27,800
Drows like dark Elves like based on
your race because there's like, you know,

1002
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:30,159
there was this big massacre that a
bunch of dark elves came through and

1003
00:57:30,199 --> 00:57:32,079
destroyed this town, and there's like
a ton of dial options there that are

1004
00:57:32,119 --> 00:57:36,400
like either me be like I'm not
one of them that kind of thing,

1005
00:57:36,519 --> 00:57:37,760
or I could like lean into it
if I want in an evil way,

1006
00:57:38,599 --> 00:57:42,320
and then you know your class.
There's a ton of things that pop up

1007
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:45,800
with like this is a ranger specific
option, or I can pick a persuasion

1008
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:49,639
stat and like even if my persuasion
is low, I can still pick that,

1009
00:57:49,679 --> 00:57:52,159
and then my role will just be
worse on how well I accomplished that.

1010
00:57:52,239 --> 00:57:55,119
You know, it'll go into an
indenist roal situation. So in terms

1011
00:57:55,119 --> 00:57:59,239
of that stuff, I'd say the
RPG element of it is like super duper

1012
00:57:59,239 --> 00:58:00,920
good, super sad is fine.
And then in terms of just how you

1013
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:05,039
engage with each encounter, I'm sure
there's a ton of ways you can talk

1014
00:58:05,079 --> 00:58:07,199
your way out of certain battles,
or you could just do it as a

1015
00:58:07,199 --> 00:58:10,280
big battle if you want, as
a sneak attack or otherwise, and that

1016
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:15,599
stuff's really satisfying too. I guess
maybe one con here for me is that

1017
00:58:15,679 --> 00:58:21,679
like your character technically as a voice, and they'll make like like grunting noises,

1018
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,960
and there's like very limited points where
they actually will like speak in a

1019
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:28,840
situation. But for the most part, it is like a tech space thing,

1020
00:58:29,119 --> 00:58:30,719
okay, And so I don't know. It's like, obviously I critique

1021
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:35,880
a game like Fallout four when it
has voice dialoguecause it feels so limited.

1022
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:37,639
But again, like this, I
trust that they have so many options that

1023
00:58:37,679 --> 00:58:40,239
it would be like, man,
I can't imagine how much voice acting work

1024
00:58:40,239 --> 00:58:44,559
would have to go into it.
But it also does feel like my character

1025
00:58:44,599 --> 00:58:47,119
feels a little less part of the
world than the rest of the party,

1026
00:58:47,239 --> 00:58:52,159
Whereas, like I said, if
I go into it a conversation with Carlac,

1027
00:58:52,639 --> 00:58:54,480
all of her stuff is like fully
voice active. But then there's I

1028
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:59,480
guess there's some stuff that aren't for
those situations. I don't know. It's

1029
00:58:59,559 --> 00:59:01,159
kind of weird that way, Like
you'll have a situation where your character talks,

1030
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,599
but then they don't, and it's
like, okay, kind of takes

1031
00:59:04,599 --> 00:59:07,519
you out of it a little bit. It's a that's like a minor gripe,

1032
00:59:07,519 --> 00:59:08,880
if anything. I think for the
most part, it's like the amount

1033
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:13,400
of options that open up just based
on your your race or your class,

1034
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:17,679
or your backstory or all this stuff
is something that I find like really satisfying

1035
00:59:17,719 --> 00:59:22,239
and really fun. And yeah,
you just have like each dialogue option.

1036
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:23,920
Man, you just have so many
things to pick from, which is which

1037
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:29,440
is super duper satisfying. But I
spent a long time in the character Creator.

1038
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:32,880
Oh my character, I really level
the ways you can design their hair

1039
00:59:34,119 --> 00:59:36,960
and all the scars and all that
stuff. And then just like, yeah,

1040
00:59:37,039 --> 00:59:39,360
spending so long looking at all the
classes. If you pick a warlock

1041
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:43,360
or something like picking your spells on
like aut on a level up can take

1042
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:49,000
fucking three years of like picking which
of these fifty spells you're gonna prepare whatever

1043
00:59:49,039 --> 00:59:52,280
it's called. Is that something that's
kind of hard to like like digest because

1044
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:55,000
like the first time I ever played
absolutely for any of the magic, dude,

1045
00:59:55,000 --> 01:00:00,199
the magic system so fucking confusing.
It's as confusing as it is in

1046
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:02,159
D and D. Yeah, so
I'm learning more and more and it's the

1047
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:06,320
visual part of it helps, especially
when the game establishes the rules so I

1048
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:07,920
don't have to know the rules as
the player. But yeah, like,

1049
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,000
especially on a level up, when
you get all these things. It's like

1050
01:00:10,039 --> 01:00:12,360
I don't know what to pick,
and then it's like, oh, I

1051
01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:15,480
have to make sure I'm not getting
too many level two spells. I want

1052
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:17,000
like level one spell slot things because
I only have a certain amount. But

1053
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:21,119
then like you get some stuff back
from a short rest, other things from

1054
01:00:21,119 --> 01:00:25,440
a long rent. It's it's super
duper confusing. But you know what if

1055
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,880
it's if you don't want to engage
with that, just like don't pick a

1056
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:30,960
warlock. I guess. So,
yeah, I don't know pros and cons

1057
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:35,159
of it, barbarian. Yeah,
I think this game like, I'm very

1058
01:00:35,159 --> 01:00:38,000
curious if Travis picked this up,
because I'm curious how confused he'll be with

1059
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:42,119
a system like this, because I
have like some background in D and D.

1060
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:46,119
Not ton but enough to understand spell
slots and whatnot to a certain extent.

1061
01:00:46,159 --> 01:00:50,239
But even then, like all the
rules of it are, it's it's

1062
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:52,679
very confusing. Let's just call it
what it is. And that's like the

1063
01:00:52,679 --> 01:00:55,760
best part about D and D is
it's all key to what your DM wants

1064
01:00:55,800 --> 01:01:00,960
to do. Right, Like every
time I've played, I haven't used encumbrance,

1065
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:02,880
you know, like I'm not carrying
too many items or anything like that,

1066
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:06,920
Like that's never been an aspect to
my campaigns, but that's also like

1067
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:08,920
a base rule across D and D, so I would imagine it would be

1068
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:13,920
in there. And like for the
fact that the spells can be really overwhelming

1069
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:15,840
just to level up, is there
like a like an auto fill thing where

1070
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:20,239
you can just hit it and it'll
just do like a min max option is

1071
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:22,599
that? I'm not sure. I'm
not sure if I've seen that. I'm

1072
01:01:22,599 --> 01:01:23,760
always like, Okay, I'm gonna
spend the fifteen minutes here to like,

1073
01:01:24,039 --> 01:01:28,480
yeah, read through the special is
what I would do. Yeah, uh

1074
01:01:29,239 --> 01:01:31,039
so I'm sure there's something you could
do with that. I'm not sure because

1075
01:01:31,039 --> 01:01:35,239
like even you know, I'm like
obviously loving up my character that career,

1076
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:37,800
but then you also level up everyone
in your party. That's where leveling up

1077
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:42,119
can take a while. If most
of the time the level ups work out

1078
01:01:42,119 --> 01:01:45,760
that there's enough XP being given to
everyone that you're leveling up all at the

1079
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:49,000
same time or like pretty close,
right, And yeah, so obviously if

1080
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:52,079
you're living up four separate classes at
the same time, and if there's like

1081
01:01:52,159 --> 01:01:55,280
multiple wizards or something in there,
like it can take oh a while it's

1082
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:59,159
intimidating, but I love it.
Man. Anytime I get a level up,

1083
01:01:59,159 --> 01:02:00,800
it's super satis because it doesn't happen
that much. Like I've like I

1084
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:05,159
said, twenty hours in on level
five for like most games, you'd be

1085
01:02:05,199 --> 01:02:07,920
like way higher level at that point. Yeah, but you obviously have way

1086
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:10,079
less options at each level. The
other time, you do get a level

1087
01:02:10,159 --> 01:02:15,280
up where you're just given like you
just have more HP and whatever. You

1088
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:16,440
know, like that happens sometimes in
D and D or a level up you

1089
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:20,199
don't unlock a bunch of stuff.
You just get like some more stats and

1090
01:02:20,239 --> 01:02:22,119
so you'll have that too. Or
sometimes the level up will be pretty low

1091
01:02:22,159 --> 01:02:25,800
stakes because you're just getting bonus stats
or maybe you know you can do a

1092
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:30,159
bonus attack or something like that.
Right, And then the other thing I

1093
01:02:30,159 --> 01:02:34,519
was gonna ask is how much of
cause like in D and D they also

1094
01:02:34,559 --> 01:02:38,719
have like something like Xandathar's like bonus
things where it implements like new races and

1095
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:43,000
whatnot, Like how many races can
you pick from? Like do they have

1096
01:02:43,159 --> 01:02:45,440
like the TOBACXI which are like the
cat people? Yeah, no, tois

1097
01:02:45,559 --> 01:02:50,119
no Tobaxis I from what I've played
in D and D. It's all the

1098
01:02:50,199 --> 01:02:55,079
standard it's all the standard ones.
And then I forget if dragon Born is

1099
01:02:55,079 --> 01:02:58,960
one, or if they've just replaced
it, or if it's the same thing

1100
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:00,199
as Get the Yankee. Do you
remember do you know what to get the

1101
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:04,760
Yankee is? If I say that, yeah, like that kind of like

1102
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:08,039
an or dragon born ish and so
I forget if there's a dragon born is

1103
01:03:08,079 --> 01:03:10,840
like a separate one. But that's
to one that was like the new one

1104
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:14,199
to me that I'm like, I
don't recognize that. Get the Yankee.

1105
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:15,559
I feel like that's a bonus one. Okay, Yeah, so you can

1106
01:03:15,559 --> 01:03:19,480
like make it get the Yankey,
or you'll get one in your party who

1107
01:03:19,559 --> 01:03:22,320
joins up like pretty quick and she's
a big, big character in there,

1108
01:03:22,559 --> 01:03:24,199
and then they're like a big part
of the world too. Is that that

1109
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:29,400
race of characters? But then yeah, then it's all like the standard like

1110
01:03:29,639 --> 01:03:32,280
the different versions of elves and subclasses
in there as well. Of course,

1111
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:39,000
uh you have you know, dwarves, you have halflings, gnomes, t

1112
01:03:39,159 --> 01:03:42,280
flean is in there, so you
kind of have all the classic ones.

1113
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:45,360
And then yeah, I was get
the Yankees like the one oddball one for

1114
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:47,679
me, and then all the classes
were ones that I recognized, so nothing

1115
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:52,440
too crazy or new there, So
I'm sure they're adding I mean, I'm

1116
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:54,519
sure there's a ton of original content
for this game, all these characters and

1117
01:03:54,599 --> 01:04:00,320
whatnot, but even something like Balder's
Gate is like an established place, like

1118
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:01,719
the lore of D and D.
I haven't been to bawlers Gate yet,

1119
01:04:01,719 --> 01:04:05,119
and obviously it's like we joked with
this referenced in the D and D movie

1120
01:04:05,159 --> 01:04:08,760
that came out last year and whatnot. So yeah, I don't know,

1121
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:12,360
there's I'm sure there's a ton of
established they're going with, but then also

1122
01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:15,440
a bunch of new things as well. But even like looking through the spell

1123
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:16,719
lists, I'm like, oh,
I recognize a lot of these from my

1124
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:19,280
D and D days, So I
don't know if they've added new ones on

1125
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:23,679
top of that, but uh,
yeah, there's definitely a lot of familiarity

1126
01:04:23,719 --> 01:04:26,800
there for the D n D players
of the world. No, that's awesome.

1127
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:30,199
Yeah, my favorite character I've ever
had was the Tobacxi monk that I

1128
01:04:30,239 --> 01:04:32,920
had, which is a Catla like
character, which was almost God's here with

1129
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:35,880
the amount of movement that you could
have on him. But yeah, no,

1130
01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:40,199
i'd love. I'd love to see
what kind of things they add down

1131
01:04:40,239 --> 01:04:43,519
the road or something, because one
of my favorites was like a frog character

1132
01:04:43,559 --> 01:04:45,440
that I made, which is obviously
not one of like the default races,

1133
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:47,440
but I was like, braz,
you have to let me do this frog.

1134
01:04:47,599 --> 01:04:51,000
Yeah, so we figured out some
rules and whatnot that would make sense

1135
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:55,239
for that campaign. But yeah,
I'd love to get some get some freak,

1136
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:58,840
get freaky with some weird stuff.
Tobaccis would be pretty fun because I've

1137
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:03,039
always loved the kajet as well.
Of course in ye world and the the

1138
01:05:03,079 --> 01:05:05,119
name of the lizard people. Why
can't I remember them what they're called right

1139
01:05:05,119 --> 01:05:10,960
now? They Argnians there you go, Yeah, I know. I my

1140
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:14,400
buddy Denzil, he was our d
M and I was talking with him on

1141
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:17,239
our campaign that we did. I
was thinking about doing a a scaving character,

1142
01:05:17,239 --> 01:05:20,480
which is like the rat like people
from the Warhammer universe, and we

1143
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:24,519
had a lot of fun kind of
speculating with what I was going to do

1144
01:05:24,559 --> 01:05:26,719
there. So again, that's just
like the freedom that you can do in

1145
01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:30,199
D and D is just it's it's
unbeatable. That's that's my favorite thing about

1146
01:05:30,199 --> 01:05:32,559
it. It's as much as your
imagination wants to go with. Man,

1147
01:05:32,599 --> 01:05:35,679
there's yeah, the customizations insane.
Like I said, I love the visual

1148
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:40,519
part of it. You have like
four penises you can pick from the too.

1149
01:05:40,679 --> 01:05:44,679
You could straight up like three vagiantas
you can pick. You can go

1150
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:47,960
pretty hard with the customization of it
too, so you can do something fun.

1151
01:05:48,079 --> 01:05:51,280
Sold me. I'm really fighting off
the urge to purchase Citizens. I

1152
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:54,239
finished off this cast. You do
it, man, I'd love to do

1153
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:57,960
a co op run with you.
That would be so fun, especially if

1154
01:05:57,960 --> 01:06:00,239
we could get like Travis and Taylor
do like a four would be adventure just

1155
01:06:00,239 --> 01:06:02,880
stream it. That could be hilarious. The decisions that we can do.

1156
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:06,960
I'm sure that would be very easy
for us to schedule with those two fathers

1157
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:12,079
over there. Yeah, it's like
there is a campaign. Yeah, I

1158
01:06:12,079 --> 01:06:13,800
think I might keep it there for
today. I think this is one of

1159
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:15,079
those games that I'm going to just
be talking on the side quest for like

1160
01:06:15,119 --> 01:06:17,480
months, because like I said,
I'm only twenty hours in, which is

1161
01:06:17,519 --> 01:06:20,559
like a drop in the hat,
so obviously I'm gonna be playing this a

1162
01:06:20,599 --> 01:06:23,440
bunch more. But I'm also I
don't want to rush through it. I

1163
01:06:23,519 --> 01:06:26,559
really want to take my time with
it and savor it for months and months

1164
01:06:26,559 --> 01:06:29,360
and months. So yeah, I'll
keep reporting back when I have a cool

1165
01:06:29,559 --> 01:06:32,679
story to share or something I think. Oh say, so, when I

1166
01:06:32,719 --> 01:06:36,079
did my ranking of the year of
twenty twenty three, of course I hadn't

1167
01:06:36,079 --> 01:06:39,719
played this game yet. I think
at the moment, with how much I've

1168
01:06:39,719 --> 01:06:43,280
played and how much I've enjoyed it, I would currently put it at my

1169
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:45,719
number seven spot. So it would
it would. I'm not going to spoil

1170
01:06:45,719 --> 01:06:47,199
what my list was, so you
can go back and listen to that.

1171
01:06:47,239 --> 01:06:50,440
But then also wherever my list was, this will jump into number seven and

1172
01:06:50,519 --> 01:06:56,039
kick everything down one space, and
I'm confident that will climb a bit more.

1173
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:58,039
One thing I have to say,
though, I'm playing this on Xbox,

1174
01:06:58,119 --> 01:07:00,239
of course, and I understand that
this just came to this new platform.

1175
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:05,400
This game is crashed probably close to
thirty times. The load times are

1176
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:10,679
horrendous. Anytime you like quick resume
or like boot up the game again,

1177
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:14,079
it almost always crashes. I have
to like load from scratch. That takes

1178
01:07:14,079 --> 01:07:16,000
a long time. I've had a
little bit of issues with the co op

1179
01:07:16,079 --> 01:07:18,639
as well. With my friend.
We just like it was glitched out for

1180
01:07:18,639 --> 01:07:21,840
a bit there, so yeah,
it's really it's honestly, I don't know

1181
01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:27,000
why they released it yet. It's
clearly not ready, Like it's crashing so

1182
01:07:27,199 --> 01:07:30,440
fucking often, and so obviously I'm
saving like all the time now because I'm

1183
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:32,400
concerned. But yeah, I can't
remember the last time I've had a game

1184
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:34,880
crash as much as this one.
Wow, So that's too bad. So

1185
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:39,000
hopefully that gets better. And then
the load times, like it's you know,

1186
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:42,639
I'm so spoiled now in this new
era of the Xbox Series X and

1187
01:07:42,679 --> 01:07:45,360
the PS five stuff, Like,
I'm not used load times anymore. If

1188
01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:46,559
they are, they're like ten seconds
max. In this game, they can

1189
01:07:46,599 --> 01:07:49,960
be multiple minutes long. So it's
kind of brutal to go back to a

1190
01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:54,679
game that's not performing very well.
So obviously it's a new platform and whatnot.

1191
01:07:54,719 --> 01:07:58,960
But yeah, I'm I'm actually kind
of surprised they released it in the

1192
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:01,000
state that it's in. But yeah, I'm sure that stuff will get better.

1193
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:04,639
It's you know, it sucks,
but it's not. I'm not quitting

1194
01:08:04,639 --> 01:08:08,559
the game because of it. So
it's crazy that you have it so highly

1195
01:08:08,599 --> 01:08:11,920
on your like on your list though, like including those options. I feel

1196
01:08:11,920 --> 01:08:14,599
like if I have a game that's
crashed that many times, I would just

1197
01:08:14,639 --> 01:08:16,239
like put it down. But obviously
it's good enough that you want to keep

1198
01:08:16,279 --> 01:08:18,119
going. It is. Yeah,
and like I don't know, the game

1199
01:08:18,199 --> 01:08:25,399
runs really well otherwise like solid sixty
frames, it looks looks beautiful and whatnot.

1200
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:29,039
So like all that other stuff is
doing solid, it's just just the

1201
01:08:29,119 --> 01:08:33,199
crashes are absolutely brutal. So yeah, there you go. There's Balder's Gate

1202
01:08:33,239 --> 01:08:38,039
three for the day. This is
a fun time catching up Krookling. Like

1203
01:08:38,079 --> 01:08:40,279
I said, the next couple of
weeks we're gonna be doing a bunch of

1204
01:08:40,359 --> 01:08:43,520
drafts. Are gonna do it preview
and then the draft of the year.

1205
01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:47,000
So very much looking forward to all
that stuff. Thank you everyone for listening,

1206
01:08:47,199 --> 01:09:17,600
and we will talk to you next
time. Bye bye bye