Happy Valentine's Day. It's a couple of days late, but it's okay.
It's fine. We're on the internet. Time doesn't matter. Welcome to the
Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and twenty seven, BombCast Revengeance. That is
that's right, Scout, let's go damp stumble all right, Okay, Scott,
it's okay, Sorry, we'll calm down here. Well, can you
Scout? Got mad that you blew those petal leaves all over the place?
Is that what that was? Exactly? I was trying to do a nice
thing earlier in the week. I made like a bunch of little paper confetti,
and then she did not like me. She still did not like it.
Can't trust it, can't trust it, can't trust it. Welcome to
the Giant BombCast Revengeance eight hundred and twenty seven, powered by Ensist. I'm
your host, Jana Cholla, joining me as always co Captain of the Ship
and master of Romance, Jeff Grubb. Yeah, come in, lean An,
let me give you a smooch. That's what romance is all about.
The smooching. That's what I'm in it for. And I'm happy to report
I've gotten smooches in my life. Jan happy to be here. Happy to
have you here, sir, And I'm also happy to have the arbiter of
smooches on this website. He's not here all the time, but he's ready
to authorize the smooch when he has to, like Minatti, smoochie, smooch.
I'm a smoochin all right, okay, and happy to have him.
Hear his He's gracing us with his presence here to announce the new type of
Pokemon, which is actually the love Pokemon. Jordan Midler, Hello, John,
how are you finally made it off the substitutus bench of Games Mass morning?
And I'm on the real show. I'm on the main event. I
am thanka doing with this guy the story thing up. I did notice that
when I asked you here, you immediately were like yes, And like when
I ask you you on game last morning, You're like, I'll get back
to you in like seven days. You always ask anything. You always ask
me on my day off, and I'm always doing something or other, but
I come through for you. Whatever you do, come through. Jordan,
did you know that we kind of look alike? No? I mean,
according to Jeff jobs actual children. I am a Mike Manorthy, so I've
been more honored in my life to be called such bald men are. Yeah,
it's like it's like, you know, you get your regular dig lit
and then an a Loland dig Lit. It's like, yeah, it looks
the same, it's a little bit different. Jordan's aloan dig Lit middler.
That's why they call me. Oh god, could someone please photoshop Mike Dan
Reikert and Jordan Midler's gun tree or whatever the hell that is throwing Chris uh
As Well, yeah, there you go, Jordan. I'm happy to have
you here, sir. I realized I don't know if you and I have
had had like many extended conversations, because sometimes when you're on game mess I
will just talk to you while I'm sitting here at my computer and be like,
yeah, a good one, Jordan, Yeah nice. Or I'll pull
up your news story and be like that's a good story, Jordan. John.
When I'm on games mest morning, I'll wait for the forty five minute
mark where you and Mike show up, and I'm like, right now I
can talk to someone. Jeff can continue talking to himself. That show is
just him talking and me going, yeah, you're right, Jeff, You're
right. You're very smart, and I like you get it. That's why
you keep get invited back. But when you guys show up as a party,
Jordan, for the folks that may not be familiar, tell the folks
at who you are and where what you do on the internet. I am
Jordan Medler. I am a writer over at VGC. You might know us
from all of the news on every website and the entire internet, and that's
mostly my boss is doing Andy Robinson. But yeah, I'm over there causing
trouble, making kids cry bro. I'm I'm the one that will say something
on Twitter and immediately get a message on Slack being like that's not really VEGC
brand. Can you stop making it? Man, I'm gonna drag you into
more fights on Twitter. I'm up for it. I'm well up for it.
But you know we've got to do it well. Anty's sleeping, you
know, Joan. I have a question when did you guys become all of
the news Because I was like early on, I'm like, oh, this
site's actually useful for video game news, and I was like all aboard immediately
as soon as I started saying it, and now it is like everyone's adopted
that as well. It's like this is we got one video game news website
we don't need anymore. Yeah. Andy Robinson's a bit of a machine.
Like he did Ceveg, which was an old It was a British magazine that
became a website that the bastards that Future Publishing shut down with very little fanfare.
Andy then went dev side for a while. He helped make Ukulele and
worked at Bamco for a while, and then he was like, fuck this
noise. We need we need a website that's like somewhere between urogamer and gi
dot bez in terms of the tone, in terms of when where the news
is coming from. And since then he's just been fighting out scoops and then
eventually he was like, we need an idiot to review all of these games.
And that's where anytime that grub is out for the BombCast and I have
to go assemble the news, I pretty much just go to and then like
for a spy, spicy life and variety, I'll be like, all right,
let's go everywhere else. Okay, who are you blessing? I O
Junior from kind of funny. This is a call out post man. Sorry
fights. Blessing is man man. I love blessing to death. That Greg
Mallard though, God sorry, I'm sorry to catch up the blessing on that
tech and eight ladder. I see his name up ahead. I'm getting there.
I'm coming for you, Blessing. I don't care how good you're of
that Victor. We should. We should see you guys fight. We should
during the review period. I'm blessing kick the shout out at me taking so
much that I electrially text him and I was like, oh, yeah,
I've got to go and do other stuff. I had nothing else to do.
I was just good. Good move though. That was a good move.
Yeah, I was blessing. Gonna know, yeah, exactly, Jordan.
I do have another question, why did you delay the switch to because
you don't deserve it. You've just been complaining. You've been complaining. You
say this new Mario and Donkey Kong game is a lot of shite. That's
why you don't get Oh that was dead. Yeah, we'll get into it.
But it seems like the Big End was not super confident in its first
party lineup for this year, which probably means that that three D Mario wasn't
ready, so when that's ready, we'll get switch too. And these whispers
have been kind of going about in the in the professional circles for a few
days. Jeff was was all, this the first you've heard of it?
Or you know, I started hearing a little bit, but it was from
people I hadn't heard from before, so it was like, I'm like,
I don't know. And it was like with the direct happening, I was
getting a lot of like extra stuff that it's hard to sort, like sort
through, So like I'll check on that in a couple of days and see
if that's still happening. Turns out, yeah, everyone's been hearing about it,
so it's a bad scene. It seemed like so inevitable at this point,
like it seemed like the whole industry had just decided that it was going
to happen. We heard about a reveal and things like that, but no,
it seems Nintendo the Z when we all wanted to zag and Mike,
where'd you think that's that puts a reveal that is an early twenty twenty five
thing though, I mean that's the thing because the rumor was next month and
it's like, well that seems pretty early now to do a reveal for this
system. Yeah, ahole year ahead of time. I mean what I think,
what I really want to know now and other people is so, what's
gonna come out for the Switch this year? Then? I know the Peach
game? Yeah, Like seriously, okay, look just tell me. Then
it's Mtroy Prime for still a Switch one game? Is that a holiday game
for you? Look? They can find things to still make a decent lineup
this year. From kind of the box of scraps. It's going to be
remake heavy for sure, probably port heavy things like a Pokemon remake of some
kind that fire on them, remake that we know they've been working on I
think. I mean, you still have gamest and other Metroid Prime games that
you could port, so there's stuff that they can do. But it does
seem like we're probably, in terms of first party games, in line for
the weakest maybe week is a bad word, but maybe slowest and least exciting
release of first party Nintendo games in a while. I mean, I'll repeat
the rumor I heard about Metro Prime Ford that I said on the show last
night, Mike, and that's that the people like some people involved say there
were assets being made with a delivered date of around May of twenty twenty four,
which suggested me that the game was always going to be in a showcase
around June, so the June direct Who knows if that changed that. This
is something I've heard quite a while ago, which but I think they probably
do have Metro Prime four on which one for this year at this point.
If the switch to is really first quarter next year, that seems completely reasonable
at this point. Yeah, they put a Metroid Prime and it runs like
absolute shat, and then when the console comes out, it's like, oh,
this is how it was supposed to run all along. Like I think
if you get a Metroid, you get a Pokemon remake. Like it's not
going to be a super strong holiday, But do any of the three have
a super strong holiday? Like what are we really looking at? I mean,
I guess yes, Microsoft, My they're gonna have Indiana Jones and some
other saying so yeah, yeah, Indiana Jones is like December, so that
feels like it's primed for a delay. So I'm like trying not to get
my hopes up for Indy, But you're right, if that does come out.
That does make it look like and it's decent. That's a pretty good
holiday. But uh yeah, it just feels like a transition year. In
the middle of a generation for two of the consoles and at the end of
another console. So it's fair that they're in a transition period. But yeah,
I mean, Nintendo's in a place where they can afford to delay a
console launch until they're ready. Right, the Switch is doing great, so
why rush it? It's better. It's better than them rushing it, right,
because we don't need that. We don't need the console to come out
and be like, oh, where's the software. It'd be better if they
wait for the games. It is going to be yeah, yeah, no,
that's right. It's it's just going to be a little bit weird,
I think because the Switch is starting to feel old, and it is is
old. It just is, and I think it's part of It's my fault.
I was really rapping myself up, like I am ready definitely were talking
about it's like, oh, I'm feeling nostalgic about the Switch. I was
like, go and play some old games because you know, of course the
Switch two is coming, and there's just a partments like oh, a whole
other year probably still huh hm. Man, I didn't want to believe it
when I like, when this stuff was coming to me, where I was
like, man, even that first story breaking, I'm like, oh,
maybe I didn't read it yet and then got done with our show earlier and
it's like nope, yeah, everyone's confirming this. I'm like, Okay,
it's real. The son of a business. Do y'all think, though,
like the the four plus Microsoft games that may be coming out eventually to the
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation five or whatever will breathe a little bit more extra life
into the Nintendo Switch. I don't. I don't think as much as anything
else. I mean, look, it's nice. I don't think assuming these
four games are Petiment, Hi Fi, Rush, Grounded, and cecause I
don't think any of those are going to be like some momentous thing on Nintendo
Switch. It's going to be nice to have on there, for sure,
and I'm glad those games will reach new people, but you know, it's
it's definitely something you'll scoff at it, but you know it's it's definitely not
as good as one New Mario game. This does mean, though, that
if they are able to like cobble together a pretty decent number of releases this
year for the Switch. That thing probably does end up catching up to the
PS two. Now, that seems pretty reasonable. Kind of that matters,
Like I don't know why I care. I just think it's an interesting thing
that could happen. Bollatro is coming out on the Nintendo Switch. Everyone letting
y'all know, by the way, about that Xbox thing. I'm losing my
mind a little bit on that about you know, other people. We're saying,
hey, the Xbox is gonna start releasing more games than other platforms,
and everyone starts freaking out, its drawing their own conclusions about what that means,
like Xbox is out of the console business. And then they make a
video and they say we're going to release more games than other platforms, and
the big takeaway from a lot of people seems to be like, well,
this is why you can't trust rumors or sometimes honestly, sometimes I get mad,
specifically, well, wow, this way you can't trust Jeff Grubb,
And then I get mad and then they bring up like wood Waker from three
years ago, which was my fault, and get I get kind of shoot
hot on just behalf about it. It is like it's been an annoying one,
especially with the director, to where people are like, yeah, this
is like he's covered his ass when he says it was it's getting delayed from
this day, and I'm like, I never said it was the fifteenth.
I said maybe, but I might know, And it's like, but yeah,
the thing of course I come out and say, hey, I heard
it. It might get delayed because of the Xbox thing. That is something
I heard. So it just kind of looks that way if you've only half
heard everything, which is of course what most people are. They're in that
situation where they just kind of half hear these rumors. They're not listening to
the primary source of like our show or whatever. So yeah, it's frustrating.
But I have, like every time this has happened this week, like
like I go see out there like kind of get I'm like, he's saying
exactly what I'm thinking, and I'm like, I just got to stand back
and recognize that these people are fighting or imagining a version of me that isn't
real. It's a character in their head that says these things I never actually
said. I just like it's maybe it is real. Maybe it's out there
and they're manifesting of a different version of you right now. Shit, I
don't know, like even like you know, like like you know, you
said, hey, they're taught a buck years of War, So what you
say is they're they're considering Gears of War even this way, people are like
years of Jeff Grubb says Gears of War is coming to PlayStation. It's just
like not what he said. Yeah, I remember seeing that that float around,
and I'm like, when did he say that? Like I've seen them
all day to day podcast on night. That's how you don't know when when
the pop up. You're like, he said it on the March of the
Friends and I was like, okay too, that makes it sound dumb.
It's Last than the ten Dogs a very cool name. Yeah, I came
up that podcast. That's a high quality. Yeah. I literally did do
four podcasts on Tuesday that was messed up. You're insane. I don't know.
I forgot. It was like I was doing sports with with remap and
then that night I forgot. We were also recording Columbros after Less than ten
Dogs, so I'm like, oh my god, this is a long night.
We got through it. We did good. How do you enjoy the
sports? It was good, It was great. Those guys are awesome to
talk to. Turns out, Patrick Kleppik and Robs at me very good at
podcasting those boys on what they're doing. Yeah, they know what they're doing.
Ye. All right? Uh? Anyone to have any games they would
like to talk about? And by anyone, I mean Jordan, do you
have any games you want to chat about? Crew here? Oh? Well,
all those games I'd love to talk about. Brother. Let me tell
you something, guys, we're not even supposed to confirm we have that game
we have. We're supposed to be careful. That demo though very good,
though unrelated to what we were just talking about. Yeah that's what you're talking
about, Yes, bro, I'm talking about Hell Divers. Hell Divers as
Hell is the is the game over the century in my opinion. Like I
finally got to download it and play through that start bit and I was like,
this is this is so funny, and this is clearly made by people
that absolutely hate Americans. You've got to love that, and the American military
industrial complex is gets shot on constantly, and I'm like, yes, what
a game. But Yeah, that is very good. I want to play
more of that I've got. I've still got the last couple of things in
like a Dragon to Do, I've got more three I want to play like
shit is just going but I want to go play. I have played fifty
five hours of Suicide Squad, and I want to play more of it.
So I want to play more suicides. I think you found the right place
to talk about Suicide Squad fifty five hours. Listen. I thought it would
be fun for like ten, Wow, how is she still fun in fifty
five? Oh? Man? It's like it's just like you know when you
find like a snack or a sweet or something that when you go to the
shops, you don't have to think about what you're gonna get. You're just
like that's that's a banker. It's never gonna be a ten out of ten.
It's like it's like a solid, consistent restaurant. But it is like
a really good bag of Doarita was hitting when you were having a Colorado night.
Yeah, it's exactly as bad and as good as as every other time.
And just I like the way the guns shoot in that game. I
apologize. The guns feel nice and just there's something about the speed at what
you're in and out of objectives. Excellent. This is like, this is
like the division affication of all games, and I welcome more of it.
Which the characters? Do you like this? Because I'm a big fan of
anybody with a jet pack, so I kind of like dead Shot. I
have played almost exclusively Harley Quinn, and it's not just because I'm a pervert.
I just think her her stuff working for me. Yeah, I'm on
both sides of that camp. I am a perv and I do like how
she controlled Mike real quick. I mean, did you see those the Mandalorian
game news where they they're like making a Response making a Star Wars first person
shooter, which we already knew they confirmed that publicly, but yeah, now
it's like, hey, it's gonna it's gonna be a jetpack game. You're
gonna be able to run around with that. Is that exciting for you?
Oh? That's incredibly exciting for me. Can you tell me about this game
a lot of time ago to oh? Yes, yes, long all the
time ago. Yeah, but again they did confirm that respond was making a
Star Wars first person shooter, but yeah, it is a very like fast,
fast paced, mobility based game. It's going to be a respawn first
person shooter. So pretty cool. I played Vanquish for the first time not
long ago. Oh you should take some those from that. I was talking
to you grub about Vanquish, right, you were like, just like yesterday,
you were like, I mean, I want to play Vanquish again.
I'm like a fun game. You know what, It's a four hour game,
isn't that kind of amazing? Rules? Yeah? I love that.
You know what game? I wish. I wish I was playing right now
after learning about it about an hour ago. Oh yeah, I think I
didn't know about this. I knew somebody was making like a Zoda CDI.
It's bier game. I watched you play this on on professional Fridays. Were
you there from the beginning? Mic? Wow, Yes, I the developer,
Yes, CD I like CD se ed y Oh, I guess that.
I thought that was a goof Yeah. No, yeah, that's how
they spelled the name of it because it's CD I. Yes, it's really
good. I've barely ever played those games. I think about those Zoda CDI
games constantly. I made YTM and d's about the Zoda cd I games.
Okay, that's my problem. So god, they just absolutely like forget about
nailing the assignment. I have never seen anybody pick an assignment for themselves and
then nail it like they're fucking Martin Luther about to do a reformation, like
absolutely killing it with what they set out to do. Like you're at forest
level and like the perspective on the top of the trees is all fucked up.
It's stuff. The bad animation is wonderful. Oh my god, I
love it. I'm so happy for you, Mike play this game. I've
I've already reached out and begged for a code. I'll take twenty bucks if
I have to. But this looks like my jam one million. I was
having so much bud just watching you play this game. It was like surprisingly
more fun than I was even expecting. Obviously, the cut scenes they're going
for what the CDI Zelda game cut scenes are, which is like this really
unhinged animation style that the weird way the characters like move like there's a weird
physical camera, right, It's not like it's not like cell animated, right,
It's like they are doing every hand frame freehand. So it's like they're
just going for it. They're like not anchored to any reality. That's great.
And then like you know, the postal, the platforming and the fighting.
It's but it's not like so bad that it's on fun and it's kind
of bad in a charming way. And then like oh, I'm like,
oh, I know what to do with this, so I'll just go to
town and get that thing, come back here, solve this puzzle. And
it's sort of like low stakes that enables to be like, Okay, well,
I know when I get through this, I'm probably gonna meet some other
new freak that's gonna be an awesome new cut scene. And that's like really
keeping me going. So I was I was having a surprise and the good
time with it. We played it for almost an hour, Yeah, got
pretty close to an hour of that, and we didn't intend to play it
for that long, and I think we were just like all into it.
So it's so wild, like how the original Zelda CDI games looking how they
captured the year and like, to be clear, if you weren't there,
it's not like oh that age badly. I remember being at best Buy at
the CDI demo station. It's seeing that when it was due it like you
know, I was a kid. It's still was like, what the fuck
is it? This is wild? Right? Who? Like? This is
like? At that point, I'm like, I think I started learning about
like a Chinese knockoffs. I'm like, is this some like someone stole the
IP and did this? It's like, no, this was fully licensed.
It was wild. I did run a poll to see if the chat new
about your themannowdog dot com, and about one third of people do not know
what that is. So that's what we're dealing with these days. OK,
that's alright, Okay, that was very early, like user created the proto
web two point zero stuff hymn d uh something I've been playing before we get
to our hot topic here, unless anyone else has anything else up to bring.
I mentioned during the bomb cast that it's rumored the Pokemon Worlds will be
heading to San Francisco in twenty twenty five, twenty six, twenty six,
twenty six. Oh, I got plenty of time to train then, and
then I I downloaded. I downloaded those good old Pokemon because I hadn't really
done competitive that much in uh or VGC the Pokemon Old Testament. Yeah,
yeah, uh, Scarlett Violet, Scarlet Violet, and then uh, you
know, I hop on the ladder. I just get a hot rental team,
you know, from one of my favorite Poka Tube, and I'm like,
all right, all right, I'm maxin and relaxing. And then it
kind of it opened up to me that I think dynamaxing may have been Dynamaxing
from Sword and Shield may have been the best and worst competitive mechanic gimmick in
competitive Pokemon. Z moves they're okay, Mega evolution, they're okay. I
really like to rastalizing my Pokemon, But like dynamaxing, it's like, okay,
you're useful for three turns and then you're gone. Yeah. I think
that the dynamaxon stuff is interesting because I watch a lot of like competitive Pokemon.
I refuse to call it VGC for branding reasons. Oh of course,
the dynamax in kind of it was really interesting at the start of Scarlett and
Violet, just how much it threw everyone off because obviously it adds kind of
endless permutations. But I think people are getting pretty comfortable with it, and
considering this is very likely to be a longer than traditional cycle for Scarlet and
Violet being the primity game, I think people are mostly happy with it,
like and especially in terms of the I talk to some people that play the
competitive and they don't have the they don't have the lst of issues they usually
have. It's like a post note of issues, not like a comedy scroll,
a christianicho scroll of issues. So, yeah, how are you getting
on? What's the metal looking like the now? So I forget the specific
rule set that they have announced now, but there are legendaries allowed. And
let me tell you, Hifu the water type is dominating these. Really,
every single game I go into there is an Ershifu doing surging strikes and I'll
have like a focus band and it's like, Okay, everyone has you,
everyone's using you the same way, yet I'm still losing to you, even
though I know how to anticipate for it. Now. God, oh,
flutter Main is all so everywhere Jordan. It is like setting everything up.
Flutter means an interesting one and the end an upcoming trading card game set.
There is a special flutter Main card that was drawn by the artist from Breath
of the Wild, so that would be a oh, that would be a
nice one. I'm sorry, I don't know their name. They just go
buy artists from Breath of the Wild in my opinion, right, they probably
appreciate that. But John, I'm going to the EU, I see in
London and April, So why don't you come over? Come on? Just
why really? This website can justify it? Come on? Yeah, we
said Dan to Fargo. We could send me to Europe, right, Come
on. The other Pokemon that's a dominating the charts right now. Jordan is
for Rigger raff. Oh yeah, and guys are all just constantly so close
to saying a slur. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I
mean that's what Pokemon is. It's all just a series of slurs, you
know, like all that Giganta Max and z move. That stuff really threw
me off, even when it was just the Mega evolution. I never liked
Boom or Alert. Look, I just don't was like, what what is
all this shit? What like there's gotta be some stupid gimmick that has some
overly long animation frame when it's always just I don't know. I hated all
that crap that never did anything for me. I'd be so happy if the
next Pokemon doesn't have to have some other new bullshit gimmick thing like it's still
going to have them and the last one. But but Mike, what if
you summon your Pokemon and then it has like a crystal hat of like a
balloon? Yeah, stupid, bad, dumb hate it. What if I
gave you a crystal hat of a balloon? Everything should look like CDI games.
That's the only thing I like now, Okay, all right, I
don't think I can do that. But someone else can do that, Tim
Tweeney, he's working on it. Anyone else playing anything they'd like to chat
about before we get to the hot topic. It's more like a Dragon in
Blotcha. Actually, Jordan, you mentioned you got a few things to clean
up in Like a Dragon. I just want to ask you, how about
how many hours did you put into Like a Dragon? Oh Jesus Christ.
I think by the time I reviewed it, I was out like sixty or
something like that. Okay, and I've maybe forty Yeah, I've maybe chucked
like twenty or thirty. Subsequently, it's hard to judge the amount of time
you spend playing a game for review, because like, some of that will
be playing it like a normal person, and some of it will be like
speed run strategies where you're just going A to B missing all that shit that
you would like to do but you physically cannot. Although should say that gives
a lot of time with that, it was just a busy January. So
yeah, that's a hot ass game. I really hope that doesn't get forgotten
when we get done to get time. No, I think it's gonna be
just fine. Yeah. I feel like you could repush that game out during
the summer with some DLC because of the Hawaii setting and like oh summer vacation.
Yeah, the Hawaii stuffs hilarious because I had I had a friend who
was wanting to do some coverage of it, just like get some videos like
decking around Hawaii and they're like, oh yeah, when do you get to
that point? It's like, as like eight hours in the game, You've
got a lot of game to play before you get there. It's like such
a hard thing to tell to people too. It's like this game rules.
It's like, well, what does it get star arted? Okay about that?
Do you mean that get started? Yeah? Yeah, what do you
mean starting? Yeah? Because even when you get to Hawaii, it takes
a while to get started from there. It's so good. It's just so
fun. Yeah, I like that game Aton. Yeah, I think Like
a Dragon has kind of broken me on like JRPG combat, which I love
and I hate anyway, but they should more more. JRPGs should be like
this in terms of their combat. This is just really really good stuff.
Yeah. Maybe I'd like that one game that everyone liked last year that I
hated, Mike, Well, you stars see of Thieves, that JRPG classic.
All right, Jordan, we have you on VCR today because today's hot
topic is inspired by you and you had posited on Gay Mess Mornings this week.
Is cloud Strife a popular character? And I've assembled, with the help
of the Internet, twenty five options here whether or not cloud Strife is popular.
Gonna go through these twenty five We can discuss and deliberate as much as
we want, or it can just be a quick answer. But ultimately,
Jordan, we will defer to you whether or not we will give you ultimate
power here, whether or not cloud Strife is more popular? Did we fight
a war so they wouldn't hold over? You're in the clear this time,
Okay, So I oh god, what the fuck? Oh You're smearing all
right, well and jamming bye bye. I can't feel it, John,
It's this is set up to a dummy battery. I don't know what's going
on anyway. Anyway, all right, you heard you heard me, Mike.
Anyway, first pairing here is is cloud Strife more popular than Miles Tail's
power? Well, at least you look alike. The similar we really have
to establish are we talking? Is this well the man on the street and
know who these people are? Or is it if you get a room fill
of a housing gamers, who are we voting for us? Like that?
That's what's difficult here. It's so different when compared to like my mom versus
like even like an average ish gamer. Right, but even then I think
I, let's say average purely purely because of like the film. I think
Tales like absolutely sweeps this unfortunately, because I hate the Sonic Extended Universe and
all that sale within it. But I think the Tales does when Tales was
the first one, He's fine, right, everybody likes Tales like. Nobody
has a problem with Tales. I actively dislike Tales. I actively disliked that.
I'm right now, I am telling you that I actually dislike Tales,
oh Man, not me. I remember Sonic Tuesday. I remember seeing Tales
Are the first time and being like what six or seven, thinking well,
this is the greatest character I have ever seen. I was a younger brother.
So I guess you played as Tales a lot. Okay, yeah,
that's hard. I think. I don't know, Jeff, what do you
think I mean? If yeah, again it's tough man on the street,
it's gonna be Tails. And I mean I mean, if you if you
stick within, like hey, somewhat savvy audience, I think it's also probably
still Tales. I think there'll be a lot of people in that savvy audience
who like Cloud more. But yeah, everyone's gonna know whose Tails is.
There might be some people like I don't, I don't play NERD RPGs.
Even then, obviously they're probably gonna know Cloud is. But Tails is just
even a little bit more famous. All Right. The next uh person we're
comparing Cloud to character, we're comparing Cloud too is Steve from like Steve Clears.
I'm afraid Steve absolutely clear. Oh yes, come on, no,
make don't say that I know the name. I think you I think because
if you say Okay, well what name these characters? It's gonna be Cloud.
I don't think that's true for like most of the people that are still
alive today, Like I think you get a certain age bracket and it's it's
every way. And look, Minecraft obviously has been played by way more people
than again, like, do do all these kids really go? Like?
Yeah, and I love Minecraft? Steve. Yeah, Minecraft, Steve.
I don't believe you is a Lethoro meme. Why do you think people were
like crying in common when they finally came into Smash Brothers. It was like
the biggest thing ever. Yes, who cares? So that's an interesting point.
Steve is in Smash I mean Cloud is too. But I feel like
I feel like I've seen Steve in a target. I don't think I've ever
seen a Cloud anything other than the game. You're getting absolutely cooked in the
chat here, Mike Unit, you fucking grew up. It's a Steve,
it's a Steve, It's a Steve universe. It's a Stephen universe. Fuo't
I don't agree. I don't agree with it. I think him. I
think Steve personally, Steve, I love clud clude my boy? Is that
the mouth or go tea. Was it even supposed to? Yeahs a goatee.
That's who all these kids are playing as. Yeah, it's that's bad
for the culture. That's not good. I agree that it probably broke Twitter.
I just still you asked them to name him. I think most kids
will be like, that's the minecraft guy. I don't think that. It
feels like it doesn't count. Okay, okay, all right, moving on
the next Some of these, keep in mind are suggested by the folks at
home. Next, why are you addicating responsibility for what's happening here? I
don't know who the the next person is because Bob's and Doug Nut that's one
of the greatest ball players of all time in video games, Bob's and Doug
Nut, Royd's or something. I don't know. This sounds like someone that
like Don would be telling a story about how he played this game with the
DA and like we, oh, we should played about every weekend. Okay,
like someone good is still Dad's lucky charts. That is what all manequins
sound like to me for this that's fair. Yeah, people as people like
I know that this is a real person. But for the longest time I
was like heo, the fuck is Ken Greffy Jr. That's not a real
person. He falls into that that cothically for me, Jane is Pablo Sanchez
one of the characters that that people suggested Backyard Baseball? From Backyard Baseball?
Do you guys think Pablo Sanchez or Cloud Strife is more clouds? Okay?
I did, but but I did see JJ. I think it was JJ
Watt, the famous football player wearing a Pablo Sanchez shirt on a Pat mcabee
show like two weeks ago. You can know that JJ Watt also has like
a Materia necklace somewhere, right, You're right, totally all right. Next
character, Krados. This is a good one. I feel like both can
kind of be niche ish, right, I think just because Kratos as the
de facto PlayStation man now I think maybe cadries it. He's also been in
like more games now like well, okay, wow, there's a lot of
weird there's a lot of weird spin offs. God damn it. Yeah,
guys, but like he stars in his games, it's probably as Krados.
This one is very difficult, actually, I think I think if my mom
look at this, you have to like split it into I think PS two,
PS three, Kratoles is pretty far behind, but like Sony Santo Monica,
like boy, Cratos is like right up there. But it's like you
combine it all together though, I think so, it's like I think when
you put all together, probably his Crados. Yeah, Cratos was a popular
When I tweeted us, Cratos was like one of the most popular ones that
people are like as as as as these people and as Kratos and these other
suggestions. I was like, you need to get two thousand and five.
I think these were close. This is like the most interesting one so far
to me. I do. I think that's true? The thing right now?
Yeah, create this is probably right. This might be at the height
of his popularity ever right now, right like I think it's maybe yes,
Like I think it's maybe down. He'll for create us, whereas Cloud might
live on in a better way my age better. I don't know, all
right, gentlemen. Next one is Sonic? Oh is Cloud Strife more popular
than Sonic? The Hedgehog? There's like three things more popular than Sonic,
and one of them is Jesus Christ. Yeah, I mean, look,
if Tales is more popular than I'm absolutely fucking low to say it, but
he has, in fact more popular than Cloude. Yeah, I mean pretty
easily too. Yeah, okay, all right, we're talking about this the
other day, like Sonic arguably gets on the Rushmore. Is that popular?
Not a single good game to his name, but he gets up there like
that's not a single gig you got you? People are so wid out with
the Sonic is never good crazy. Yeah, I would put Sonic on the
most recognizable rush More. Yeah, dahn Mario. Okay, all right,
Next, is this might be similar to credos here master Chief Anymore Anymore show.
I don't think it's very close, though. I think it's weird that
he that there's a Halo show and it seems like people on Twitter like are
trying to convince me to watch it, right, so I think that people
on Twitter are like to despise that show. There's a turn grub oh yeah,
like season two is good and you should watch it. I'm like,
why are you advocating for this? I'm never ever gonna do that. No,
I'm just thought, I don't care how good it is. If that
was the if that was the Twin t Tens, the Master Chief absolutely,
but like Xbox have beaten us mine into the grounds, like, no one
can funk about Halo or master Chief anymore? Is Cloud? Right? You
know what's when the last Halo game came out, oldest streamers that were playing
it were guys in their late twenties that were like teenagers. When Halo three
it was not young people. Young people don't give a shit about Halo.
Yeah. Yeah, the only story anyone's worried about anymore is Cody Roads his
story, and Cloud Strife is close to a Cody Rhodes that's rather than master
Chief. Master Chief had his chance. I think, yeah, this is
this is probably the first one where Cloud actually comes out ahead. Although I
like I said, player right, No, Bob Bobson, Doug Nut Definitely
he's more popular. Come on, okay, next character is Pikachu? Okay,
no, got did you say that Pikachu doesn't go on the Mount rushmore
of most recognizable video game character. I think Pikachu has really transcended. Like
you think people look at Pikachu like video game character. Really, Listen,
that's not what I'm Okay. If you're saying that, then that's fine.
That's a different conversation. It's a video game podcast where even like the people
in the Big Game podcast, forget if the anime or game happened. First,
of course it came from a game. The question is who's more popular.
It's Pikachu. Of course, I'm just saying he's like, yeah,
transcended in a lot of Yeah. If you're saying he's transceatedd that that yes,
that's different, that's yes. I'm just like, if we are saying
a video and character that's the most recognizable, it's Pikachu. But yes,
and that's not even a picture of him from a video game. Even the
picture here is from the cartain. Hey, I just googled and I picked
the first row, all right, criticizing you the way you talk just sounds
like it. Yeah, I indignation of my voice at all times. Of
course, also want to I want to kind of drag one hundred thieves through
the mud because of their Pokemon collab. It looks like they just googled.
They did what I did. It googled like a picture of Pokemon and then
the first result they just slapped on a T shirt. Oh mate. The
meta of the Pokemon collaborative and fashion is so fucking washed that stuff they did
with fending and it was literally just like a Dragon Night PNG on a seven
thousand dollars bag, like fuck you. Like at least Pokemon Center when they're
putting other prod they put are on their T shirts and I was like,
okay, this is fine, I'll buy this. But as you say,
those Charlatans one hundred thieves whatever they do like hold you or whatever, like
oh yeah, chart is Ard put on a hoodie charge seventy dollars. Yeah.
The people that just make a living and just reacting to other people's videos
on the internet are like, yeah, that they're taking the easy route.
Surprising. Do you guys see that we had a bunch of polls for each
of these and do you guys see the results for Cloud versus Pikachu forty seven
to one Cloud? It was all right, Cloud, has Cloud won any
of these Cloud beat pops and Doug Nut and that's yeah. What was the
other one that we gave to Cloud? Was it a master Chief? It
was eighteen to twenty six in favor of master Chief. Oh okay, that's
doesn't know what they're fucking talking about. I apologize, but that's chat's for
old people. Fill a fucking boomerm this this next one may be another sweep
here because it is Cloud strife versus Mario. No way, Apparently Chad picked
a Cloud over Tails, which is they did pick yes twenty five or seventeen?
Yeah, absolutely not. I mean I think it. I thought to
argue about Mickey versus Mario. I don't think Cloud's gonna have the chain.
Sure, Okay, let's change this up. Who is the the highest tier
Mushroom Kingdom character that beats Cloud, Like who gets up the roster? But
Sto Cloud Stowe beats them, Bowser beats Cloud, Yoshi beats Cloud, Peach
beats Cloud. Don't Toad? Which Toad is weird because like because like I
almost anything in Mario Kart is gonna be if you were in in Mario Karta,
especially if're Mario Kart eight. I think you beat cloudy. I don't
think it beats Cloud. Okay, okay, so right there you go.
The the Bowser, Koopa trick Kids or whatever, probably don't beat Cloud.
I don't know if I'm gonna say Burdo is more famous than Clo. Okay,
no, no, just Burdo beat Cloud. Yeah, that's what I'm
saying I don't think so okay, all right, all right, next one?
Next one is my sorry, maybe popular than more popular than Warrior,
but not than Luis Wallawig. Sure for the freaks clip. Sure, Next
one is my personal favorite? Is cloud Strife more popular than the L block
from Tetris? That just looks like a really preemptive review of Final Fantasy se
L game L game. Uh, that's not a character with that attitude.
Yeah, if if we're if we're counting, if it has to be an
actual character not just a concept. Like no one is putting an L block
on their top like five hundred, like they would put yes recognized with the
question answer it cloud as the sort of this and indeed every debate cloud Okay,
yeah, well I'll give the cloud Moving on. I forget which game
he's from, but his cloud Strife more popular popular then Warren from that one
fighting game, Warden, what fighting game is this? Wore something? Warren's
great, it's a giant bomb lore, it's a Warren Ohio near me?
Like are you okay? Why you just heard a word? And you're like,
there's a city near me? Name that because that's all I have was
Warren who the fuck is Warren? Okay again, Giant bomb Lord, don't
worry about it. Warren from Let's See Deadly Moves, Deadly Moved Moves.
I'll I'm you know what, I'm gonna be gracious and give this one to
Cloud. I think it's probably although as as fun as my mammity recalls,
I don't think any of the Sadia games were subject to science, So I
think I think a little more popular with that. Yeah, in the fighting
game scientific community. Yeah that's true, that's true. Next character is Billy
Hatcher. Yeah, if you don't like graduations to Cloud all right, easy
one, easy one for Cloud olthough kind of looks like him again, Yeah,
but no one that looks exactly the same. You know this could be
him, though, right, Slap a chicken hat or a chocobo hat on
this guy? All right? Is Cloud Strife more popular than the Red Bird
from Angry Birds twenty twenty four? Yes, twenty seventeen. Fu No,
okay, there's like there's a there's an Angry Barts theme park, and like
Portugal, I think like it's wow. Yeah, Anger Birds had their time.
We all got tired of it. Yeah, yeah, but I still
think you show these two pictures. To most people, they're gonna know the
red bird more than Yeah, I think I just call him. They just
call him angry birds. Though they don't call him red birds. They don't
give you a count. The people that say that aren't gonna know cloud stripes.
They are fucking Cloud. We're talking about a random person on the street.
I think I think I think there's a good chance to know who Cloud
is. No fu this angry bird ry the side. It's not a review
of angry birds. I'm sorry, but I think listen, I think it's
gonna be Maybe it's close, but I still think it's angry, but angry
bird. I'm glad that Jordan's in charge here, exactly fucking Cloud clears and
I think, boys, when I'm in when I'm in l A for s
GF, we get a mic, we go on to the street and we
can do this. We get that's a good idea. Yeah, the ones
that are like really contested here. Yes, that's good, Okay, all
right. Next one on the list is cloud Strife more popular than all one
Pokemon, No, all of them, all of them, maybe more popular
than Tangela is one of them? Voltorb. You know these names. Yeh
was a Gen one freak. I had my poked dextree days a week.
I speaking to tell you what level every Pokemon evolved level they learned their best
to move. Remember, I could tell you when fucking Crabby became Kingler and
learned to crabs. There you go already knows you just said the answer for
this one. Yeah. Yeah, I think the average person would know,
like most of these Gen one Pokemon by name, Oh, definitely, especially
because this was the only that was available when Pokemon Goal was the really hot
ship. So I think that's the put over. What's the Gen one Mount
Rushmore? If you can't include Pikachu or the starters? Oh, ev no
legendaries to be safe, no legendaries, no legend dig Doug or whatever the
hell's name is do? I like Cube and a lot the other people,
like Cubane is very popular. Is definitely Mount Rushmore. I mean like PG
is like a very quintessential Pokemon to me in a lot of ways. But
I think it, Yeah, I think the cut like based on current popularity
and how the Pokemon company merchandised them to like old people, because it's evy,
it's gang are, it's probably godded dose just in terms of that call.
Yeah, that's definitely it. And I don't know, like there's there's
a lot of storax Is. Actually would maybe like we're sleeping on Side Duck
though, because I feel like people should be on there. I think Side
Store the ones that, like, as a more casual Pokemon fan, I
would imagine that Aunt Rushmore be in there, just based on the mess.
Like, there's a lot of good Pokemon here. It's way easier to say
which one aren't good, like that like the thing of eggs and that mine
like and like you know what over there, brother that no one cares about
Golden Goldene was boring because what's the one that's the snake or whatever? The
thing that's yes, and then what's the what's the thing that has come backwards?
I was trying to figure out how to get you to say that,
but you said it for me. Yeah, guy, I'm here for you,
Bud, all right, Yeah, and that one rules that one does
start Pokemon podcast. I think so Cloud wishes he was a genuine Pokemon Yeah,
yeah, sure. Is Cloud Strife more popular than the Dragon quest slimee?
Yes? Yes, okay, yeah, I mean not in Japan.
Yeah, I think well, I mean, I play Cloud's pretty poplar in
Japan. Also, he is pretty popular in Japan. But I think the
slimes like, well, I'm iconic. Right, here's what we have to
do. We gotta send Dan and I to Japan and we just ask a
bunch of people. Is cloud strife more popular than this slime? Yeah?
There it is. You can get an intended controller that's a that's a blue
slime that's like literally just an upturned blue slime with all the sweatch buttons on
it. That was pretty good. You can't do that with You can show
the slime to a bunch of people who play video games in the US.
I think a lot of them are gonna think that's a You're gonna yeah,
it's like, that's ridiculous, mainly because of best fucking website. People know
what is in the US. I like, I'm gonna show this to my
kid. I bet she's gonna say that's a meep Alright, They're gonna think
it's one off Doctor Robotics, bead beans. You go from mean beans.
I would have said Pokemon or something, all right. Anyway, Anyway,
there's a lot of people would think it's a Pokemon that is awesome. True,
it looks like one of those baby digimon. Oh that's a good shot.
That's a good shout. The next one is very spicy, y'all.
Is Cloud Strife more popular than Sora from Kingdom Hearts? I can just sit
back and let this one happens. I mean, okay, this is another
great question of like is it well known or is it well liked? Because
no one fucking likes son people, and I'm glad that there aren't like two
people in my life that I have to deal with liking sorra a Ton.
Yeah doesn't. Sota can't lace clouds boots. People know that, guys,
that guy's name is fucking Disney Kingdom Hearts or something like that. People know
Cloud motherfucking Strife as Clouds in Kingdom Hearts and you beat him. That's not
It's not Canada. I don't acknowledge Kingdom Hearts or anyone that likes like make
them look strong, brother, exactly. Do not show sorta Kingdom Hearts taking
damage or holding a steel chair. I think it might be sa. The
story is just like, hey, what if we like made Cloud Stripe a
Disney character that's like the whole thing here with soa uh sorry make make a
Disney character code word for make them look dumb? All right, gone,
fucking gone. What is it about Kingdom Hearts the songs specifically that makes people
not just dislike just look at it. It's like just like that Cloud shoes
both both Disney and Final Fantasy desire of all the hate they get. So
when they when they put it together, like it's just and I am.
I am someone that loves both of those things, but I get it,
Like, come on. It was funny when we were in We were in
Disney for a Star Wars Jedi trap at some point, and all these sad
fucking game journalists were going about being like, does anyone get any Sora pins?
Is there any Sora merch in the park here? Like I did get
a Kingdom Heart's pin last time was a Disney Sora's face is fucked up that
that brings in a significant factor. Though there's merch of Sora at a Disney
park, it probably is Sora. It is fucking Cloud. It's absolutely Cloud.
I feel like like those Kingdom Heart games sell okay, like but I
have that same pin there. I can't get his face to focus and it's
blurry sore, looks pretty good. There is there is the factor that when
soda was got introduced into Smash Brothers, people lost their fucking minds. But
like, yeah, cover your face, Mike, I don't yeah, I
don't know. Well not like that eyes, Like just just put your palm
behind the pin and then like come a little bit closer. Cover your He's
gonna fun. Can destroy everything in this office. Watch that's not It's okay,
all right, that's not working. It's not working. It's not working,
all right, tried. Yeah, I could go either way on this
one. This one's hard for me. What's what's Jordan's final What was the
arbiter's final decision here? Cloud? I agree that it is like way in
favor of Cloud. Okay, the clouds, the Cloud pos It's the Colossum
Kingdom, alrightcurate. Next person on the list, is Cloud Strife more popular
than chun Lee? No? No, no, yeah, I think that
well street Fighter Two's and the Bones and Chunnley as Street Fighter, like yeah,
like I feel like I feel like you see chun Lee and you're like,
oh it's chun Lee. Yeah, but do you see Cloud and say,
who the fuck is that? I think I think people see Cloud and
go off final Fantasy guy, what's his name? That's a good point,
I don't, I think because people will see like Chunley is referenced in like
rap songs because of how deep Street Fighter is. NECKI Minage kind of is
the tie break and then that's like NECKI Minaje ever referenced Clouds in a song
she has not. I feel like I feel like Meghan's the Stallion would eventually
reference Cloud. Yeah, Clouds rhymes with a lot. So you guys are
like, oh well, street Fighter too was like a really popular thing.
Did you hear about bom Fantasy seven on the PlayStation one? Yeah, but
in Final Fantasy seven on the PlayStation one, Cloud doesn't look like this?
That could be that? That was this? Is anyone always looked like this?
How much? How much Tony porn? Cloud porners think about why there's
a lot of stuff of Cloud in his his his costume from Wall Street?
Actually okay, all right, uh so where did we land Chunley? I
think culturally Chunley. But maybe if it's a gaming audience, maybe Cloud.
If it's like I'm if it's if it's the culture. Maybe chun Ley,
I'm gonna formally object. Okay, uh, Mike, this next one may
may be hard for you. He is Cloud Strife more popular than Leon S.
Kennedy. Oh he definitely, Yeah, Lee, that's not even the
most popular Resident Evil character. Really he sure he is numbers real quick on
On an archive of our own, which is a fanfic website which has some
spicy fan fix, there is fourteen, two hundred and fifty five things that
reference cloud Strife. Now I didn't put in quotes, so it could be
cloud could be Strife, could be cloud Strife. So but I did Chunley,
and she's at about five hundred. Oh fire, only five hundred.
I would like to I would like to break in my assessed trophy of Tarbo
Shwan. Famously, the most such video game porn term last year was Chunnley
from Fortnite, So all, I don't believe that. How do you know
that porn always sends that thing out at the end of the year. It's
the only pr uh. Yeah. I think Kennedy should be more recognizable.
I love him, but I think like he's more recognizable than Chris just because
they keep changing how Chris looks in every video game, but I think Joe
is even more popular. Even then, I don't think maybe resid evil character.
Oh yeah, Jill and her. Yeah, Jill's probably more recognizable to
most people. The fucking the fucking Big Tet vampires more popular than like any
other resident evil character, Lady Jim Atris. But yeah, this one pretty
solidly in the chat pool. Also, yeah, Cloud's more popular. All
right, uh a baby's handful more folks. And then we're at the end
of the road. Here is cloud strife more popular then Slippy toad kiss,
Yes, look at that fucker. Nobody like Slippy. Everybody's like Slippy?
Could you just can you just pull together? I like Slippy because he feels
like off brand. Kermit has gone spoiled, and that's fun to me.
But I, oh yeah, Cloud's moore Poper Listen, I love me any
type of animated frog, Slippy, Kermit, coroapi. Which one? Which
one is slippy in the sn s is the bit bet bet gambit? Which
one's he? I think it's the first one bit a bit. Yeah that
sounds right. That's that's very frog adjacent. Okay, God playing some absolute
fucking ass video games, Cloud Strife PS two Baby. The next character is
Slippy the Squatter Squidter No, no, Squiter, the spider, Squiter the
spider. I don't know what close d K Country two or three was was
with this fucker. I think he's three, but I don't know for three.
The Elephants two Okay, yeah, yes, gods we're popular. I
do like this guy because he can make platforms in the year out of web
so it was fun. Chat's pretty close. Okay, never mind. Who
is the most famous of the animal Friends with docu conk Countries? The Ostridge.
I think it's the Ostrich. Actually I think you don't. I think
it's I think Ramby's right there. Yeah, it's one or the other.
I just when I think those animals, the one that pops my head first
is the ostrich. But I know the first one you get is the rhinos.
So I bet a lot of people think about right and guard the swordfish.
Oh, the swordfishes. Maybe, yeah, that's probably the most popular
swordfish probably. Yeah, yeah, that'll be the next episode. Everybody.
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna rank rhinos and then you'll get, like Paul
Giamatti, rhino wrestler, rhino wrestler, rhino right up the top. Come
on, I think he might be the most popular rhino. It got to
be. Yeah, all right, Uh, this is a deep cut.
I have no clue who this is. Greg Gates like a un Squadron character,
exactly like it. This is a Squadron character. Good on me,
We'll done. That's some games mess games mess Jeopardy shot when I was like,
oh yeah, who who what was the name of you? And Squadron
character perform? I think this is just me with like an aviator hat.
Oh my god, you can you just do a mustache? I keep I
keep threatening it, and my friends have like straight up Yoda at me.
Yeah yeah, I'm upcit about it because I do want to fast. It's
fine. It girls very fast, but they like they got upset and you
have a lot of hair. Mike, it's Greg Gates. Is this character's
name Greg called the name for a video game character? All right? Next
one is very hyper specific. Is cloud strife more popular than Jury's Feet?
No, man knows there's some detailed feet. Mmmm. Yes, well,
hey, you know this is the Internet. I'm just waiting to hear what
Jordan's gonna Jordan, what is it? Well, I like, personally like
Jordan Jordan's men, Yeah, all right, get them. That's how he
pretty funny. Actually for audio listeners, Jordan's eyes are bugging out and he's
he's pantomiming going, oh the uga. Yeah, his tongue just rolled out
of his face. Conclusive evidence, feet one, feet one again undefeated.
There we go, all right, last four? Here is cloud strife more
popular than Bubbzy. People only know what Bubbsy is because fucking gaming website is
continually bring it up as a joke, and then it's become part of the
culture and people have been like, oh, yeah, let's make let's make
another Bubsy game. And then it got to the point where, like fucking
when when they did the quick click for that Bubbsy retardans, they're like,
oh, this has always been tangible and always I am possibly go wrong.
I'm fairly sure that because of where was Bubbsy Sega adjacent at all? It
was on both sixteen bit platforms, not really Sega or Nintendo. Yeah,
but there's no PS two versions, so you don't know. I think there
was a Jaguar game probably bro. I literally only know. I only knew
what Bobbsey wants to start with because of a review from a YouTuber who is
now like a fart right psychopath who could have guessed that's most of them.
But then it got brought up on American podcasts. It never gets bringing up,
bringing up Jesus Christs. It's late as it's late for me, folks.
I'll see you later on. It never gets brought up by UK people.
It never made it over here. It's like, it's very much an
American thing. But no, it's not more popular than Cloud motherfucking Strife.
Yeah, what is your guys? What is the European equivalent? Is it
game? Yeah, like the it is the Great Guiana Sisters or something like
that. That's good. Yeah, it's it's horfo bothers games like that.
Oh zo oh yeah final three here boys, it's Cloud Strife more popular than
Kirby. No, okay, Jeff, Jeff is quali from this one.
Jeff has been surrounded Kirby. Your kids had the biggest Kirby phase of anybody
in the history of the world. You were just shouted at about Kirby for
like two years there. I'm not saying that. I immediately think Cloud is
we're popular. I just don't think we can trust That would be wrong.
Yes, I think I think genuinely Karby's top ten like so, Yeah,
I think Carby wins super Smash brother Well, Cloud is too start time we've
used the Smash Brothers argument. Slash Brother's this massive. How much has the
best selling Kirby game sold? Does more than was their Cloud Strafe balls outside
of Target? Thank you? Final Fantasy seven remakes sold about five million copies.
Yeah, and the best selling Kirby game is probably like at like four
or five million, probably three or four five. I think Kirby starts to
enter the Pikachu argument, where Kirby kind of transcending the games itself. Maybe.
I still he's still very game heavy for me, He's not in a
whole lot of transmedien This one, this one, I would put money on
you take it to the street, and significantly more people are gonna know Kirby
than Cloud fucking STRIKEE. I think I think you're probably right. I think
you're probably right. I don't know if it's like crazy, but you're probably
right. I think it's like eighty twenty eighty time that's generous to I think
it's generous to Cloud. Okay, okay? Is Cloud strife more popular than
Tifa? Lockhart a popular is an interesting word choice. There now more people
know who Cloud is. I think that people who like really know who Cloud
is. Definitely like Tifa a lot. God, never mind, you were
thinking of the statue, Mike gets all right, we're all thinking of the
statue. I'm not gonna say that, not at all. All right,
all right, Jordan, Jordan as the arbiter. Where do you land here?
Do people know Cloud more? Yeah? People do know Cloud more.
I think that. I think the people rock with Tifa more for obvious reasons.
But yeah, I think I think Cloud more. Well, Ben Starr
hasn't dressed up as Cloud and he has dressed up as Tifa, So what
does that? Yeah? Cloud? They should I where should release Tifa's shoes?
I can't believe they've not done that yet. It's like a sneaker collab
with someone like that seems super obvious. Make a hundred pairs, make them
a million pounds, and they say that some say that some actress stood in
them, and that would be gone immediately. They'll be in my house.
Yeah, I okay, Yeah, they should do a sneaker collab. They
should they should do more of that gaming sneaker beautiful. Yeah, grub ugs
are back hard way. I got to pay attention to the streets more all
right, the you last character for comparison's sake, Sean, please give me
that clip of attention to the streets more mad. Just the streets are happening,
guys, that's the most. That was the most Paul Walker ass Lion
read that has been on this part sometime. Is Cloud strife more popular than
this final video game character? And that final video game character is no death
it off serves more cunt but Cloud that is more than popular. Yeah,
Clouds were popular. Yeah, it's very close. I mean it's not like
they put Seff and Smash first, put Cloud first, Okay, and then
you got as a treat. I was showing my partner a trailer for Rebirth
the other day and she saw seth Roth and she doesn't know anything about Final
Fantasy, but she was like, he's cunting, and that was that.
That's all you need to know. Yeah, Like I will say, like
I feels like if you were talking about the most popular like video game heroes
or villains of all time, you get the sepher off sooner than you would
get to Cloud and their respective lists. Yes, but still, all right,
gentlemen, well we've established you don't have to make me do Megan Man,
I'm happy. I was really worried about that real quick. So after
going through all of that, would Cloud be in the top ten of video
game characters like most recognizable? No? Ten? No, it's like,
well, how about I mean, top twenty. I'm not even sure about
top twenty twenty. I think he's got a good shot. Yeah, he's
got a shot. I mean Spartvik comes on to just how many Nintendo characters
that can get in there first? Just how many Mario characters get to get
in there first? Right, that's where if it's one per franchise, if
it's the main character franchise, he might make it into the top ten even
But if you like, no, we're just talking about recognizable video game characters.
What about this? Is Cloud Strife the most popular and reckonizable Final Fantasy
character? Yes? Yes, okay, maybe even like j RPG, probably
like the most popular Pokemon Pokemon clears. Okay, if we're not counting Pokemon,
sure, yeah, that's a good point. Okay, well, you
know we should because it is a but that's the thing, Like, it's
so funny because the replies to my tweet people were like fucking obviously and other
people were like absolutely no chance. So there was like a like a Lettus
test that it does in your heart. You're like, oh, well,
obviously it's one of like the one of the iconic characters. But then you
go through the audio crew, you go through all the Pokemon that would make
it before Cloud, you go through everyone else. It's like, all right,
it is hard for because like I was there when Like Fantasy it was
the biggest deal ever and like all anyone cared about was Cloud and looming over
Final Fantasy for a long time. Well, folks, thank you for joining
us on this week's hot topic of whether or not Cloud is more popular than
X video game character. And thank you to our special guest and the inspiration
for the hot topic, Jordan Midler. Once again, Jordan, where can
folks find you on the internet? You can find me at Jordan Middler on
Twitter. And then for all your gaming news is VGC. VGC The Video
Game Podcast comes out every Thursday. Last week we had the Big Ben start
on talking all things Final Fantasy eight if that's your vibe, and you can
also find me stock in the halls of this website. Occasionally when Jeff doesn't
have a guest, it's like, oh, for fuck, it's like forty
five minutes to go. Better get me on the morning. Mass should be
done with work by now, let's go. Yeah. Yeah, I mean
I literally don't work. I don't work on a Monday, so it's it's
time to party. Yeah. I'm glad that I came on on a night
where there was just surreptitiously ridiculously big gaming news happening. That was good fun.
But thank you for having me, boys, I appreciate it a lot.
I appreciate exactly. Get we got to get you on a BombCast proper.
Oh sure, I could fucking talk for Scotland and those podcasts go on,
they go on, We do like forty five minutes, and I'm like,
fuck me, I'm done with that ship. I'm done sane words like
you look back at some of those old shows and those guys would go for
like four and a half hours. It's like, don't you guys a fucking
jobs don't have places to be I used to, you know, it's someone
that used to produce those podcasts. When we're all in person in the stew
I was like, man, my butt really hurts. The sweat one must
have been fucking like solid against your deck, Like how did you set from
that long? Like said Dick. Well, folks, the most cunty uh
person on the BombCast Jordan Midler. Everyone, we'll see the one. We'll
see you on Tuesdays. I have a word. Is cunt not that bad?
If you're Scottish? I would I would say cunt to my maw.
I don't really care. It's like I feel like, yeah, I feel
like it used to be a real bad word. And I don't know if
I'm just hanging around too many Europeans. That's just that's just Aneican's like the
listen in America. You can never call a person that, But if you
just use it in a fun way, or you say serv and cunt,
you're gonna be fine. Well it loves that speaking about the sea word.
We will see you next Tuesday. Mike, answer the question cloud or Mega
Man? Fuck you? I wore Bega Man today and yesterday. You think
I can actually answer that? See you next Tuesday for another episode. Of
the podcast. I but Jada Choa. He has been Jeff Grubb, he's
been Mike Manata, he's been Jordan Midler, and you have been beautiful.
Make sure to just serve it, serve it, and I'm not going to
say the word anymore because i feel like I've reached my quota for the day.
People are mad about to see you later.