Hello, Hello, everybody, welcome. We are back after a couple of
weeks hiatus. Feel like I feel like it's been even longer for me for
like a month back here live in the studio near the end of the year
to give you another episode of Game Spot After Dark episode to twenty. Oh
wow, we was on nineteen. Was when we was on the couch like
three weeks exactly. Yes, do we not episodes and stuff? No?
No, no, so uh, last week we were at the Game Awards
in uh in l A, which we're going to talk about. Uh.
And then the week before that, no one was around, so it would
have been a podcast of one. And let me tell you, nobody would
want I can talk. I mean you could do it. It would have
been me. No, no one wants that. Yeah I want that.
Listen. Uh, we'll talk about game Wars. But there were several people
went up to me and was like, yo, I really fun after Dark.
I got a couple two yeah, yeah. I was like hell yeah,
yeah, Like there's very specific people totally, and there was like,
no, I you know what I'm saying, I got some real one.
So if you hoier at any of us, Yeah, in l A,
a game Awards, and he said, Gameslot after Dark is the number one
video game podcast in the world. Your real one, thank you, thank
you. Uh that lovely voice you're hearing is, of course Michael p The
stands for Pino him. Yeah, ship, and of course we have Jake.
No one came up to me, but I tried to keep a grumpy
demeanor the entire time exactly, although I people if people were saying, uh,
they like games would after Dark and I knew that was coming, then
I'd probably not be grumpy. But you know, so it did come up
to you about uh the fire Escape though, So someone did come up about
fire Escape. Ye, so you got that. Yeah, they broke through
my grumpy No, I don't think I was that grumpy. I'm just shy
people. A couple of people told told me. I don't know why they
told me, but they were like, yeah, that's eypunk documentary by Jake.
I did a lot of people did did say nice things about that,
which which made me feel very, very happy and sketch of props for that.
That was took a part of me. I think, yeah, that's
right, you give Jake as props. I talk about that too, because
we did we haven't really teased wanted to talk about that, and then again
we didn't get a chance to. Oh right, well we'll do that a
little bit. But yeah yeah, so uh yeah, I mean, well,
okay, first off, three is dead again. That's just dead as
fun. This is like twenty again. I remember doing an episode of the
pod cast titled E three is Dead. I didn't had a thumbnail of me
and E three. Earlier this year we did another like E three is dead
again. This is like the third or fourth time we have uligized E three
on this podcast. So, uh, you want to bring it back to
life? Yeah, I don't really got much else to say about that,
to be honest. I mean, I saw a lot of people sharing pictures
and it made me miss E three, and I really like you three all
that. I mean, I enjoyed E three, uh minus you know,
all the docs saying and the uh long lines and all that kind of stuff.
I will say, Summer Game Fest this year felt like a better version
of E three, So I think I'd be a lot more depressed, uh
had there had Summer Game Fest not been a thing and three got canceled and
it was just these sort of digital showings better for our end. I don't
know if like publicly it was like I think, if you're looking for that
specific like hype, yeah you're not quite get that. So I understand that
angle because I mean, like sure, but like I feel like, like,
yeah, there was a lot like some years E three was closed.
I feel like the last couple of years of E three it was open and
people were able to visit. But even then, like what did you see?
Because yeah, there was like sorry to anyone who went, I hope
you had a good time, but dude, that ship made it made it
worse for sure. As far as doing our jobs specifically, Yeah, yeah,
energy wise is great. Sure, Like it's great having all those people
there, but I did even the people who were there for fun, did
you really get to play a lot? Probably not because the lines are so
long, but hey, that's probably not what you're there for. You know,
you're there to see people hang out network. You know, here's the
thing about public E three. Motherfuckers came by our stage. You know a
lot of people we do live stage show every year when we were at E
three, So then when we had a budget, we had yeah, when
we had a budget and we had a large enough staff. But that was
that was dope. When people come through, like I think there's some fool
came by, Like I had like a sign books like yo, the only
real one who talks about Miku on on in any games, Like dam you
know what I'm saying. I do miss that. Yeah, I miss doing
live stuff like that. Oh yeah, oh yeah. And I talk about
this all time, Like having Jean Luke in the in my ear piece.
I just like everything's gonna be okay as long as I got Jean Luke in
my ear When we're doing a live show, I'm like, I'm good.
It's like a soft, warm hug. Meanwhile, you're not hearing me,
like yelling at people in the back, like yeah, what'd you doing?
Yeah? M three, get your shit together. Damn. Jean Louck is
a motherfunk boss. When when we're running the run of the live show,
so it was like you went into a different mode. I feel like all
of us went into a different work mode when we was out there, turn
up karaoke at night, hit the show floor. It's a done deal.
Uh people are at eight am. God. Yeah. The war room was
cold as shit too, God damn. And no more ham duets. I
mean, we haven't had a ham duet in four years, I guess,
but I miss a ham duet. I at your boy, you know what
I'm saying. If you make those, you can cater my wedding. No
imagine, I went to my wedding and handwe it's anyway three yeah on the
E three Yeah yeah, I mean that as fuck. Uh you know,
I think once it becomes normalized, when you do it as a job,
maybe some of the magic wears off. But you know, uh definitely like
going into like when I first started, like that's like the thing, right,
You're like, dude, I want to go to E three. It's
the big one Gamer Christmas, like you just you know, so like uh
yeah, I I never stopped. I had I had fun, Like I
mean, fun is a whole word, but like, man, every single
year I had a blast, Like I yeah, that was my favorite time
of the year. That felt like Gamer Christmas all the way till the end,
you know, And I hope and Summer game Fest kind of seems like
it's heading that way. I feel like I liked Summer game Fest didn't have
like yeah, like you're saying, like the big hype the announcements that we'd
see it e three, But I felt like it had way more of a
community, which sounds kind of cheesy to say, but it's true. I
mean everywhere we'd like, you'd walk out of my appointment, you'd see a
bunch of people, you know, rather than a bunch of like randos and
suits. So that shows outdoors and that was nice. The food selection I
thought was better they saw it. They just brought in trucks instead of well
yeah, I mean if I guess you liked him duet, maybe not,
but to make a hand a truck, yeah, just for nostalogist say yeah,
yeah, so as shef is cool because like, yeah, it's like
a campus. Viole I described this before as like a college campus where yes,
you're going from one appointment to another's like going to one class or the
other, and on the way you're dapping people up, taking photos and ship
catching up real quick before you add to the next one. But I mean,
who knows what direction is going to take, because it's only going to
get bigger, and whether or not that gets open to the public. I
don't know what mister Keeley's plans are. Yeah, he's he's I'm curious if
he'll change his mind, but I know he's kind of spoken about he like
isn't trying to like turn it into E three necessarily, or he's not trying
to replicate like exactly what three was. So what that means and the scale
of it, who knows. Yeah, well, I mean, I mean,
you're not going to get the same size as old E three because no
big hitters like sent Sony and Nintendo, they're never going to sign on to
like a third party to show their ship anymore because they don't have to.
That's that was part of the big reason why E three died, is because
all these big vendors are like, no, we're gonna do our own ship,
and so along with the pandemic and you know, the unnecessariness of bringing
it back just like that shit was just getting pummeled. So I mean,
like, and like you said, we talked about this like three times before
E three is dead again for the third time. I think A hard Drive
had a good one that was like Sony and uh, Nintendo, we're going
to skip. It's kind of funny how it was announced, but they just
like tweeted a photo out of the Yeah, like E three is done like
okay, okay, I guess yeah, to a surprise to absolutely nobody.
Speaking of E three, we got E three Winter edition last week the words
sure, yeah, I guess yeah. So we were all there in l
A. Uh we were. We were on the Giant bomb at night.
If you all knew for that. It was a lot of fun. And
then we we had our own uh pre im post show, which was brought
to you by the fine folks at SEGA. Shout out to them for for
doing that for us. Uh, I can say it. I can't say
that. Yeah, I don't know nothing. He's yeah, yeah, this
is all me here. That was cool. Uh Curtain Bailey did that and
that was they killed it with that. So uh shouts out to them.
And then yeah, and then we watched three fucking hours of the game.
Wards, I'll watch that ship live in person. Yeah, you were there
in person? What was that? I'm glad I was fucking faded. Uh
Well, because the thing is, you show up, you show up to
the awards, and I mean you were there, Jay, No, you're
used with us. I'm tripping anyway. You go to the you go to
the war show, and then the vendors. The concessions close at five,
so the pre show says, up four thirty. They closed the vendors at
five because they want everyone to funnel into the Yeah, they want people walking
out, yeah yeah. And because it's an awards so it has to be.
It's not like going to like a concert or some ship. But I
was like, oh fuck, I gotta you can't bring your drinks in.
So I was like, I was chilling with Jeff Backlark. I was just
chilling with Jeff. Jeff's like I'm too cool for this award show. I
don't know, no, no no, And I was just like pounding my
double vodka soda. I was like, eh. I was chilling with alyssamer
Kanti from Kataku and she was like, oh fuck, I need to get
in, but she had a tall can of bud Light. She's like,
all right, here, you take this ship, and I'm like, all
right, cool, free half a bud light from Alyssa so shouts out to
you the swag Lord herself. It was fun though, Like I mean,
honestly, now that I've actually experienced it in person, I think we should
just someone out there should just turn this into like a met gala style thing
where we don't go to the award show, but we have like a watch
party and a red carpet and photos like us. All we do. We
swag out and take fos. Everyone pretends, but then no one actually goes.
Yeah, yeah, because like that sounds about as miserable as actually going
to show. For me, at least, I'm good. I mean,
there's like, I don't know, I don't want to like sit in a
seat for three hours and like shuffler of crowds. I just don't want to
walk on a carpet and dress seeing. That's that's what That's what. That's
the ship I live for, you know what I'm saying. But yeah it
was. I don't know the Award show was. I don't know. I
have a lot of feelings about the Award show itself. Now I saw it
in person. I'm like, I mean, I feel like I feel like
everyone. Yeah, I feel like everyone has already said their piece and there's
nothing left to be said if you pay attention to what other people a saying.
There's many articles out there. I know Nathan Grayson from Aftermath Now put
together probably a good summation of it. Yeah, a lot of people have
covered that, and I think, like, I think it's indicative that both
Tam and Rebecca Valentine both put together like these are the award species that you
didn't get to hear articles. I think that says a lot about what the
award show actually had. Uh it's a three hour commercial and the like you
hear the music playing, and I like, I get secondhand embarrassment from watching
live. I'm like, I feel so terrible that they're they're trying to shout
out their dead homies for working on a game, and then you hear the
walk Off music being playing, like that, shit's fucked up. I feel
like, because like walk off music is the thing they do that for a
bunch of Awards shows, but I feel like you give some leeway to it,
and I feel like that was just very much like all right, your
time is up, get the fuck off the stage. One thing I will
say, though, as uh as as boring as I thought that show was
the Remedy and Alan Wake two stuff was fucking the entire thing that gave me
the energy I needed to sit through the rest of that. And I've watched
that like six or seven times and more. More of that kind of ship
Like that's the shit I like because it's like it's goofy, but it's like
that's a celebration of celebration Alan waye con celebration of those devs. Like that
feels like because it's like, you know, you think, like, oh
what you just want it to be like this boring like handout awards, and
no, there's still cool shit you can do. There's other ways you can
do it that's still respecting those depths. And that is a perfect exactly that
is Yeah, that is the old Gods of Asgar performance. Seeing that live,
ye see, then I would have sat through the entire thing for that,
then it would have been worth it. But yeah, like dipped after
that. Yeah that's how I felt when that and then I was like,
all right, let's pack it up. I'm done. I don't need to
see another a whole another hour and a half. It's funny because Sam Lake
was chilling with us for the night show because he's on the couch too,
and I just like chopped it up when I was like, yo, allo
way two, incredible game. Uh just want to give you your props,
and then jokingly said to him, it's like, oh yeah, you're gonna
be dancing on stage, huh, And he was just like, for those
audio listeners, I'm doing the Sam Lake max pain face. I didn't realize
that he was actually gonna do that, and so yeah, that was just
that that is you can do ship like that because that celebrates games. And
like seeing Sam Lake on stage do that ship, I was like, yeah,
more of that. Less a too many celebrities this year. The celebrity
stuff felt way off. I don't remember that being as big of a thing
past game wards. It reminded me more like the Spike Video Game Awards,
like we've reverted all the way back to that ship come full circles, come
full circle, and I'm just like, okay, Like Matthew mcconughey, sure
he's in a game, even though the trailer didn't have his voice in it,
I was like, what is this? But then like Timothy Shalomey,
who's like a fine dude wherever, but like him giving the gaming YouTuber,
I thought that was kind of funny. Okay, I thought it was I
get I get it, you know, but like him given like Game of
the Year, I'm just like, yeah, that doesn't feel right. This
isn't right. If you could have done something else like that would have been
cool, but like, yeah, so so way too much celebrity stuff that
just didn't feel necessary. Like I was just like, why are we doing
this? I don't get this, so but yeah, I mean you're right.
Otherwise, I think all the the hot takes have been Yeah, these
are We're giving some pretty cold takes here at this point. Yeah, but
I mean, yeah, it was there were there any like cool announcements or
things that you guys saw that you were like, Oh, that's pretty hype.
You know, I'm curious about the Hello Games is next game? Sure
right, no fire. I thought that was pretty bold of them to like
have the opening of that trailer like mimic trailer for Man's Sky. I was
like, oh, okay, y'all. You know, I mean pretty much
all their trailers for updates mimic that too. I don't know if you've been
following their update trailers as well the Old Guy, but they like follow that
formula to a team and it works, but I'm doing with this one in
particular, it felt like, let's see what you're doing. It is bizarre
though, to like I'm really curious to see how deep that game goes,
because it's gonna have to go really deep. I would say if the last
game had an entire universe and this one has an entire world, And for
me, it's like, Okay, I'm curious see what they do beyond just
what they've already done with No Man's Sky. But they've already done so much
with No Man's Sky anyway, then I'm like, yeah, I mean,
I'm sure there's a lot. I just I just I'm having a hard time
pitch it, or at least I'm I'm not like as latched onto it as
I was when No Man Sky was announced in terms of the idea of it.
I know what you mean. I think the thing for me is like,
how do they when if you're building a game from the ground up with
a more like concrete vision or or just like with all of that in mind,
because like No Man's Sky, like they built upon that, and that's
different from like naturally like building a game from the ground up to be like
we're going to do this, this, this, and this. So I'm
just I'm curious to see like how that feels. Yeah, I think I
waited a long ass time. Probably, Yeah, I think the multiplayer interactions
will probably be the most interesting thing because it seems, yeah, it seems
like, you know, no man sky technically you can run into other people,
but you're not going to run into anyone else in No Man's sky,
let's be honest, unless you match make with someone, right. So yeah,
that was kind of cool, honestly, my monster Hunter Muscle Hunter,
oh child, that's pretty cool. Yeah, that was dope. That was
the mar Quy anounce. Yeah. Yeah, I wish we saw more or
I wish they waited a little longer before they announced it. But it's plenty
five joint. Yeah, a lot of games for twenty five. Yeah.
Yeah, it's funny. It's like, oh, we're game Wards twenty twenty
three and we're showing twenty twenty five games and that's taken on most of the
time. It's like, all right, I guess I get it, like
O D two, like the Kojima game, which it seems like it's gonna
be a good idea, We have no idea what like really they talked on
stage for like ten minutes. Yeah, chopped that in half and given all
like the award winners like an actually thirty second Yeah, you know a lot
of that time, Like it's cool to see Jordan Peel on there with Kojima,
but I mean, like it's again, it's a bit of a little
circle jerky in a way. Ye oh yeah, oh yeah, And I'm
like, yeah, we don't need to take up an award show time for
this, but yeah, the Tales of ken zeras Ou. I was just
looking it up because I forgot the name of it. But when the dev
was on stage talking about how it's like a passion project, Oh yeah,
yeah, that was cool. Yeah, it's gonna be like a two D
combat side scrolling metro Metroidvania, which drawing from a lot of African influences up
ship like that where you can it's an opportunity to give a platform to developers
who wouldn't have one otherwise, because like you think about like Triple A Studios,
like, don't get me wrong, Manz Hunter is gonna be lit.
We could put that out in any day. Yeah fine. Yeah. So
it's like game boarders have an opportunity to, like, if you are going
to spend time for announcements and new things, Uh, that's definitely one of
the one of the ways in which you can do it. That's uh,
that makes sense for what I think, uh the orchhos should be. I
don't run the numbers, I don't coordinate the tgs. The fuck do I
know? But what I will say is that I can believe they they did
this. Like at the very end of the pre show was the metaphor Refantasio
trailer Dog. Yeah, that was that trailer in the Persona three Echailer were
my favorite trailers, and they were in the pre shown. They must have
some heavy hitters going into this, and then they really did. You watch
the dev video where they like I started, I don't. I don't want
to. It's one of those things where I'm just like I can't bring myself
to do. I saw like a small clip of it. It's like showing
like the like animation from like attack into Battle and it looks, oh,
so sick. I got a while. Okay, I'm gonna watch because that
game is a Fall twenty four. You just need to watch that like one
thirty second clip and be like, oh yeah, It's. It's same thing
with like P three Reload, where I'm like, I'm too attached to that
to it already that I don't want to like, also that one's coming out
real soon. Yeah, like oh uh re Fantasio no reloaded real Realize two
months. Yeah, that's that's kinda assume. But Refantasy is gonna be uh
yeah fall twenty twenty four. That was announced, so uh yeah, I
am I'll make exceptions for Atlas Joints. Yeah yeah, yeah that was cool.
Uh, Pony Island to look cool because I just like the inscription and
oh yeah yeah, and prosy D's in it, and I'm like, cool,
advance, great, he looks like he's having fun. Prozy D's dope.
I love prosy D. Oh. Sega the Sega bomb As, I
mean, oh oh yeah, that was pretty cool. They just dropped like
five dude. For we were like, is is it one game? Like
when we were like trying to figure it out while we were watching it,
We're like, what this is like a thirty second spot well because uh but
like Sega has been teasing what they call like a super game. They're like,
we're working on the first ever Sega super game and we're like, what
does that mean? It's five of their old games and one, so I
think there's the Sega the super game is something different. But for a second,
We're like, is that what this is? This is like a like
a Sega METAVERSEUIL was so long too of like people in real life playing games.
Yeah, like what's what's happening? And then we hear like sonic sound
effects. Yeah, and there's like a Crazy Taxi license playing. You're like,
what the what the fuck is this? But it's like, oh,
that's cool though, Like yeah, you know, there's like five games announced.
I was like, even if if like even in most of these games
like don't hit, but like two of them like hit real hard, like
that'd be great and and uh specifically Jet said and Crazy Taxi. I was
like, yes, oh yeah that is those are probably the ones. I'm
I think just seeing like Sega put yeah, Acknowledge and like fund and back,
these weirder games that Triple A devs probably are publishers probably wouldn't be super
interesting, Okay, is pretty exciting. Cool. Yeah, Like I I'm
not interested in all those, but there's a few I am, and I
and I hope enough pop off or they're like, oh yeah, we got
to keep making these offbeat Triple A sort of classic games. Yeah, So
I was dope, waspe that was probably it Blade. I I I've cooled
on it a little bit, but I was, I was. I was
kind of heated about it at first about Blade, about Blade because I I
am very protective of our cane, okay, and I have I have a
lot of feelings about like, uh, the way uh Marvel games have just
kind of like come in and sort of like swooping up all these big devs,
and it's like, I'm just like, not get the fuck out of
our space. Like I'm just like, like, you know, that's I
mean, that's just me maybe being like, ah, like I if it
wasn't Blade, like if it was one of the big Marvel heroes that we
see, like if they made like a Captain Marvel game. But because Blade
has been like largely ignored, so that's more interesting than why I came back
around it. Where like the more I thought of I was like, Okay,
you know, like Blade, Blade has got a different flavor. Blade,
Blade can stand on its own. Blade can stand on its own.
I think Arcane, like especially Arcade Leon with like you know, Death Loop
and Death of the Outside, like they know how to write black characters really
well. Uh. It takes place in Paris, which is you know where,
like you know, they're French studios, so I know that they can
bring like that specific culture and flavor there. So it's like, you know
what, this game will actually probably be pretty dope. Yea, I am
excited. I just hope it's an immersive sim or something like something like that.
I hope it's not like an action game. You know, it is
third person, which is kind of weird, but I mean, like just
be okay with that. If it's still an immersive sim. It could still
Yeah, it could still be an immersive sim. And like at least from
what Dinga ba Cobb has said about designing of the game, I mean he
seems hype because like it is gonna be hype. He's doing fucking Marvel games,
so that check is probably looking real nice for at Microsoft, I guess.
But like I think there's a level, like a level of enthusiasm and
uh, you know the I don't think. I don't know. Maybe I'm
getting ahead of myself, but Marvel wouldn't choose or they wouldn't choose a developer
like Arcane if they didn't want the Arcane flavor. I guess, you hope.
So yeah, I mean yeah, I mean, that's presumptuous considering when
Marvel went to Crystal Dynamics and said make make an Avengers game. We saw
what happened there. But there's also w's like Insomniac, where a Spider Man
game fits right into their mold. So if that's guard line with that,
I didn't. I didn't funk with the as hard as other people. But
I know a lot of people the Guardians of the Galaxy that that is my
game was good. Yeah, that game was dope. I liked it,
and but I mean, I don't think that the the greatest strengths of Idos
Montreal necessarily shown through in that game exactly. That's kind of my and that
that was sort of like my feelings is like when I played that game,
I was like, yeah, this is good, but I was like,
but this is like not wite what I want from them. Yeah, I
think that's kind of where my feelings are, just where I'm like, oh,
like I don't I don't want Arcanea turn into just like uh like,
oh, we're just making the license thing now. But like but you know,
that's me getting ahead of myself, Like I'm that's me getting worked up
about things that have not come to pass. Yeah, and so like,
I get that, but I mean you're you're working the brain muscles connecting the
dots exactly because we've seen a lot of Marvel games at this point. So
you know what I think it is. I think it's me being really mad
that Machine Games has just been working on Indiana Jones for like five years.
Where the fuck is Wolf and Stein three? I just want that. I'll
give a ship about Indiana Jones ship. I do though, Jones, Oh
I do, I do. I do love Indan Jones. I think the
perfect devs to handle an Indiana Jones game. That said, Yes, I
want like, I think about two all the time. That game is so
damn good. I mean one as well, but New Colossus is different though,
Young shouts out young Blood. Yeah, I like that game. I
actually do want to like giving it a shot and play it. Yeah,
young Blood Defender. I played, we played Cup, Yeah, play cop
I like I like that ship a lot. Really, I don't know,
it's sorry, I liked it, but no. Yeah, it's a lot
of license games going around now and just like so much weight put behind them.
You think about like licensed games from the PS two era, dog.
Oh I didn't get anything out they put anything. Yeah, they really did.
Man talk about some of the best beatier games. Man, its shipped
that ship out. But yeah, it's a we'll see it's gonna blade is
gonna be as out of twenty five joint. Also it's or if that could
be longer. Yeah, it's always out. But yeah, yeah, I
think that was kind of it. I don't really remember anything else. I
think that really stood out for me. But yeah, uh and then oh
man, we were kicking it in l A. It was kicking in l
A for sure. That was cool. It was turning up. She was
nice. Saw a lot of people, Yeah, a lot of people.
That was my first time going to like the Game Awards, even though I
wasn't there at the show. Just like being there period and it's cool to
I like going to those kinds of events where you just get a chance to
see people you don't normally get to see. Yeah. Yeah, I think
the the j W is a has become It's been the spot, but I
feel like we need to find it was certainly the spot when I walked in
and me get into the bar and I laughed at and ordering trinks there,
me and Kurt were like halfway to the j W and then like we're just
like do we really want to? Like it's gonna be a monster. And
then like someone messaged us and was like, Yo, we're at the fig
which is like right across the street, and we were like that spot I
should have went the Figures. Cool And there's are some people there. Yeah,
Yeah, it's cool to like see a lot of people without what's the
word, like not their guard down, but just just chilling. Some people
just chilling. So yeah, you get to talk to them as a normal
human being, you know, and not look at their tweet Yeah, you're
not looking at their tweets. They don't they're not worrying about marketing. They're
tweeting live from the brain to you in person. That's what we're doing,
you know exactly. What isn't like tweeting just talking to people that's crazy,
you know. Yeah that shows sick. But there's like so much, so
much more around it. Because we did the Giant Bomb live show again,
we did we had the couch and the live show that Jake and John Luke
helped produce. You know what I'm saying, Yeah, doing the watch that
and you saw the projector on the back. That was me. Yeah,
projector, I should went smooth. If you were looking out through the right
camera, you know, it's putting that ship in focus. I had an
auto focus. I just had to point out, Oh yeah, well you
got a good shot of Mike Manotti's feet in the cake. Yeah, yeah,
you were the king I was. I was on cake duty. Realized
may make no sense to you watch the vod it's up now. Yeah,
but it's good. That's fun. I love doing live shows like that.
Yeah, I'm I'm a big fan. I think they should do a tour.
Oh yeah, obviously, yo, like six big cities. I don't
know if throughout the United States. That's kind of Los Angeles, Yeah,
New York. I got two there you go show to show the Midwest and
love. Yeah you said Chicago, I didn't, but yeah, Chicago,
Chicago could do. Go down to Mississippi. There's a lot of times.
I don't know. I don't think there's a lot of Gapon fans out there.
I don't know. Yeah, it was. It was beautiful to see
it come together. There's a lot of people there too that I didn't think
there would be. But I just like Yeah, the decency seeing it in
Like, you know, it's one thing for someone to say there's going to
be three hundred people, but then actually being there and seeing a field venue,
you're like, wow, yeah, all right, it's cool. Its
cool. First time I think I've been backstage at like a concert venue.
Same. I was like, oh, this is cool. I'm special,
I'm vi. I p here's where's the drugs? I have a headache,
give me that advill. No, it was it was on though, Like
I walk in there, Blessed sleeping on the couch. He was like a
hungover and I gotta be on do kind of like I'm gonna take a nap.
Yeah, and Nicky and Barley being there. I love the fact that
I get to see Nicky Grayson at all of these things because they are one
of my favorite people in the world. Yeah, the fact like we we
worked at fan Bite together and now we we up. Well we're not really
up, but at least we're not down. But Yeah, to see Nicky
and Bailey hosting together on that, I was like, it's a beautiful thing
to see the see the see the homie come up like that. So yeah,
just a lot of beautiful things and like even if you weren't there for
tga La was popping during that time and I had a beautiful, beautiful time
so many different people. Yeah, it was good. Well, all right
those game awards. Have you all been playing anything, because I have not,
because I've just been Actually I've been playing a little bit. Yeah,
I'm playing on Pokemon. So part two of the Hidden Treasure of Area zero
dropped. It is the final DLC for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. This is
the Competitive Focus DLC, So it is all double battles. Trainers are much
tougher. Uh. It is about challenge. This is i'd say probably the
hardest official Pokemon experience you can get. Uh, since, like I don't
know, maybe Pokemon one or like the original Pokemon games like Red, Blue,
Yellow, Gold, Silver, and I would even argue that those challenges
weren't necessarily based on the battles. They were based on like how often you
were able to heal, like the sort of gauntlets you were put into,
the dungeons you had to go through. While this, the challenge is just
in the battles themselves. I finished it, I've wrote credits, there's a
lot of post game to do. It seems but this is quite good.
This is very good. He is. It is probably one of my favorite
Pokemon things they've done in a very long time. A lot of it boils
down to the fact that there is just a strong focus on that competitive side.
Obviously, it's not like if you level up all your Pokemon level one
hundred, you're probably still gonna rip through it. But I imagine you'll still
hit some walls every now and then. But what I tried to do is
I brought in a team that matched the level as everything else and I had.
There were some things that really threw me off, like one one of
the Elite four us as a trick room team, which is something that I've
never seen NPCs really use, which is pretty cool. On top of that,
they've added a bunch of weird features like you can control your Pokemon and
you can turn into Charzard and fly around. You can be a rallt and
waddle around. But any po every Pokemon in the game can be controllable as
long as you can put it in your party, which seems absurd because I
don't understand the purpose it serves other than you get to be them. My
best guess is it's something they're testing out for future generations or future Pokemon games.
On top of that, you have a club that you manage a game
kind of, except that you manage trainers, like all the all the important
trainers you've met throughout your journey, like a school club. You can invite
to the club, you can battle them, they'll give you rewards. Not
that kind of club. So there's a lot to it. I'm still going
through it, but uh yeah, I would say like if if you enjoyed
Scarlet and Violet enough to finish the main game and the first DLC, then
definitely play this because you can't play it if you haven't beaten the main game
or the first DLC. I heard the herd the final boss was fucking hard
of the so I guess it depends. I don't know, because the one
I thought wasn't too tough. But there's another secret boss that I haven't unlocked
yet that is called the Secret Boss of the Endigo disc okay, And I
think in order to do that, I have to recruit every single Pokemon trainer,
like important Pokemon trainer in my club, battle them, get their rewards.
At least that's what I can tell On top of that, they've added
a bunch of like ambient quests that you can complete that unlocked battle points that
make it easier to buy important tms, which is huge because now you don't
need to grind materials, which is great. You can use that BP to
unlock new Pokemon that you can find in the tarium, like that's how you
get all the starters. You can use that VP to customize your clubhouse.
You can change the theme. You can use it to change how your character
throws their poke balls, different animations, some different animations. There's just that
there's a lot to it. Like I said, I'm still digging through it,
but right now, super super positive. I like it. I think
story wise, I think I preferred the Teal mask more. I think it
brought the characters to the forefront. This not so much because it is just
like travel to our battle everyone catch this legendary Like it's very like checklisty,
but not in a bad way. I have a question. I have an
answer maybe Okay, so like going into this or like before the DLC or
when the DLCs were first revealed, I think at least one of the things
I was thinking, like, oh, there's so many. There's so many
more stories to tell about Area zero like that. Obviously, Like you ask
most people who actually finished Scarlet Violet, they will probably say that Area zero
was one of the great moments in Pokemon. Ever, at least that's how
I feel. But and then going into the DLC is kind of maybe a
little bit of an expectation that we would explore Area zero a little bit more
in depth, at least like story or lower wise is how many? Yeah,
I mean, it's funny you say in depth because you go to areas
relatively I mean kind of light spoilers they talked about it, or the the
trailer's kind of alluded to it, but you go deeper into areas, so
you score more of Area zero. I would say that moment. And the
DLC is not as good, not nearly as good as it is in the
main game. But I think that's because in the main game, you built
up this relationship with all these characters who are now all grouped up together heading
down there together, and there's a lot of there's a lot of storytelling that
kind of happens at the end that makes it more special, impactful that's not
really here in this but I think more wise, it does answers some questions.
I don't think it answers all the questions that people probably have, but
there are some questions that are answered. And then there's the new type sort
of that they hinted at in the trailers, which is not as game changing
as I thought it would be. But I won't say exactly what it is
because I don't think a lot of people have made it that far time.
But it's not like a type type. It's not like they added a new
type of Pokemon. It's a new tarot type. Oh okay, Yeah,
it's interesting. Yeah. Like I said, don't spoil it, but cool,
it's very good. What's up? I think if if you're one of
those people who have been complaining that Pokemon is too easy for too long,
uh, this is I would give it a go. Hell yeah, yeah,
hop back on that Pokemon. You know what I'm saying. Because I
didn't play it to old mask. You do have to finish that. Yeah,
well, I mean, like, I don't know, I would love
to it anyway. I don't want to play it anyway, but shit,
I might boot up that Pokemon, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
I mean though, I never got past the first gym. Well, too
bad. We've told you the entire yeah twist Pokemon, Hey, there you
go. I don't even no, there's still like the experience. We've talked
about this many times already, but I still can't get over the whole air
zero sequence from Scarlet Violet. That shit, it's still still fucking cool man.
Yeah, Yeah, game's good. I mean, I guess I should
probably talk about the technical side of it too. Yeah, it's sure not
great. Yeah, you know, it's soccer. I to be fair,
I don't think I've run into any slowdowns quite as bad as I had in
Teal Mask. There were a couple of instances in Teal Masks that were pretty
bad. So far, it doesn't seem that bad. But yeah, I
mean there's a lot of pop in the draw. Distance isn't great, Uh
it does. The frame rate does slow down every now and then, so
you know, to be expected. As much as I hate to say it,
like not that that's a pass or anything, but well that's what it
is, you know. With With this one, I'm curious to see where
they go from here, because I do feel like they kind of hit like
a boiling point with this one where like they were kind of like, I
don't know, like people have been complaining about like Pokemon for a while,
and I felt like this one was like the reaction was so negative towards like
the present individuals, like, I'm kind of kind of can't I mean,
they could do it to get away with but but I don't think they could.
So I want to know. I think they can. I think they
will. They I don't think they will. I'm curious. I think I
think the I don't know. I I think it'll be different, and I
think it'll still be open world, and I think a lot of those tools
will probably be more refined, they'll probably be better at It'll probably be smoother
in general. But whether or not that is because the audience was mad about
Scarlet and Violet, I don't know. I think a lot of it is
just them being like, Okay, we're better with these tools now we've made
more. Uh. I. I don't think it's going to be a response
to the audience necessarily. However, I will say a lot of the stuff
we've seen in the DLC feels like a response to the audience's complaints about Scarlet
and Violet, not so much the technical side, but in terms of the
moves they add, the Pokemon that they add, the just small quality of
life things that like people have been wanting that they haven't done until now.
Yeah, so you know, I think they're listening. But the way the
Pokemon Company listens and game Freak listens, I feel like isn't as reactive or
responsive as the community demands, which is understandable because that community can be toxic
as shit. So yeah, that's a tough job, one of the most
Congratulations Pokemon fans. You are in the top one percent of toxic fambas.
Yes, here's here's a gamers wrapped. Yeah, but that said, like,
I mean, it would be twenty twenty five, I imagine will be
the next because they do three years usually, so be twenty twenty five would
be the next main line, So that would probably be that would do.
Yeah, that would probably be on the switch to so like by default,
I imagine it'll hopefully run in look better, hopefully, But I bet we're
I mean, next year we're going to get I'm sure a remaker, another
archist or something. Oh yeah, yeah, another archist. I would love
another legend or something. I like that. Style a lot. I thought
that was cool. I mean, according to Pokemon YouTubers, there's going to
be a new Pokemon game for every generation next year, which is bullshit,
but you know that generation. Oh yeah, I mean so some person tweeted
a photo of like four different maps and they were like, hmmm, uh,
these are my predictions. And of course YouTubers were like, we're like,
they're making a new Canto game, a new Joe Too game, Scarlet
and Violet two, and a Gen five game. And it's like, okay,
let's slow down here, let's slow down, relax anyway, Pokemon cool.
That's the last time I'll talk about Pokemon for a while, I'm sure.
But Pokemon Sick, yeah, scarltand Violat I think is very good,
Like if you can get through the the the the technical issues, I think
as a package, especially with the DLCs now, it feels like a complete
game with a robust endgame, with a bunch of things to do, Pokemon
to collect, places to explore, like it is a massive game, and
I think it's very good, especially for you because your mister competitive boy over
here. Yes, I'm curious to check out the competitive stuff. I haven't
really dabbled too much since they added the new Pokemon or since they added the
DLC. Yeah, yeah, that's it, all right, that's all I've
been playing. Yeah, I've been playing too much. I have been playing
Alan Wake to the Final Draft, which is the oh yeah, new game
plus. I don't even know what to say about it, because can you
say anything not? I mean, it's so like I'm halfway through it right
now, and and I hit like a moment that was like really like,
ok we're doing this like another playthrough what like, because you so new game
plus new game plus so the yeah, there's there's there's story reasons why you
would be doing everything okay second time, and there's like some acknowledgment that like,
hey we've been here before. There's some changes. More body please,
Oh my god. Yeah, I play a whole game about Audie. Yeah
that's got some got some lore, he does some unexplored lore. Yeah,
but yeah, it's mostly the same game, but like sprinkled in are just
like a couple of changes, and it's like just enough, we're like playing
through it again. You're like okay, yeah yeah, and then like every
once in a while, like things different and you're like, oh, shit.
You know. It's one of those things where it's like, you know,
if you played through alan Wick one the first or alan Wake two the
first time, and we're like, I'm good. You know, I wouldn't
say this is like you have to play this, but for like the diehard
sickos who are like I can't get enough. I need to know everything.
Mark the Mark Delaney's world where he's like a little tidbit is like enough to
sustain you. Like, man, dude, this is it has given me
some good stuff that I'm I'm already like you're definitely setting up for you know,
maybe control too, maybe like just something else in that you universe,
like who knows, but it's cool. I'm also playing it on the nightmare
difficulty, which I actually don't think is that hard. Okay, I would
know I was because everyone else is like, yeah, man, it's like
kind of tough, and I was just like, like, you're a gamer?
Am I just a gamer? I was actually like double checking to be
like did I really pick it? Because like hard of me, George is
a god this game. No, man, she's too busy playing Bolers.
I was like, I'm gonna play Allen Wake. She's like good, I'm
gonna play Bolarer's kid. Yeah, paying attention to a steering instead of nerdy
ass most difficult Alana difficulty. Yeah. So yeah, that's cool. I
I did get so far. I'm excited to get to the end and see
what the new ending is. Whole debating whether or not I should replay it
or if I should just google the ending. I think I'm gonna wait for
you to get to the ending and then you can. I want to hear
your thoughts before I side. If anyone remedy's listening, don't, don't plug
your ears. But uh, because I played it with my brother over the
break and he's like, he's like, oh, man, like I really
wanted what happens in the new game plus stuff. So I'm capping as I'm
playing. I'm just gonna like cut together all the new stuff and I'm just
gonna send it to him. You can experience it. So uh, if
you want that, I could just I could just send you my video after
I got to keep it on the low. I guess I don't want to.
I want to just like me selling weed in middle school before that,
though, I'm sorry say i'd want the definitive like, take from you whether
or not I should replay it or not. I will say just replaying it
a second time, but you you've already kind of experienced this anyway. Yeah,
I've played it once then saw a second play through. It is cool
replaying it a second time because you just pick up on a lot of stuff,
you know, like the things people say, like kind of like stuff
that at the time was like, what what the fuck are you talking about?
And the like, with context, you're like, oh, that's what
they were saying, like oh my god, or you know, like you
know, characters and the directions they go and kind of like motivations make a
lot more sense. So it's definitely a cool game to play a second time
for that reason because you you kind of get to you to see all the
pieces and how they came together, and you're like, ah, man,
they were they were thinking this the whole time. You know. It's one
of those things where like once you know what happens in the end, it
recontactualizes the things that lead up to it. So I think a second play
through, I would do a second play through. Yeah, I do think
it's worth eventually doing a second play through. You'll do it over break a
good time. That's what's up. So yeah, that's cool. That's about
it. I haven't played it yet, but I am going to uh take
the office's PSVR two home because they put out the Resident of four VR on
Friday. They just like threw that ship out there. Oh there you go.
Yeah, yeah, like they announced it like right after the game wards.
So god, it's out. Oh I see that. No, I
know me too. I was like, oh, okay, PSVR two only
two only three update, which is cool. So it's the first game for
that since it launched, right uh god, damn, I mean the only
game on the ps v R two. Now they did know they did Village
out of the VR mode, which I thought was okay. Yeah, but
that was launch. Wasn't it slightly after? Okay, that wasn't launch,
but it was like slightly after, but I thought that was okay. I'm
kind of hopeful that for is better. I think I think the reason why
Village didn't feel as good in VR is because kind of some of the quirks
of the way Village is designed, where I think like four could maybe like
play better, if that makes sense. So I am excited to see it
dude, you get to like, I want a knife, Perry time knife
Pery look sick knife for and you can throw the knife too. So I'm
gonna throw the knife at people. I'm gonna carry Parry that chainsaw. Oh
I'm so excited. So you know, look forward to that. You're the
You're the o G resident evil VR player. Yep, that's how you.
You got your fame and fortune Hero games play. So yeah, yeah,
yeah, kind of yeah, that's what's up. So anyway, that's that's
me that I don't know. I've been very slowly taking away a bowlders Gate
loot that body. Yeah, just trying to wrap some games. I was
going to play Tears of the Kingdom, but then Jeff Grabs spoiled the entire
Holy Ship dude, so uh that game Now he didn't even need to spoil
it too, like we're coming after you. It didn't add anything to the
argument. He was like, I'm just spoiling it, and then spoiled it
and then went back to the music, and we're like, wait, no,
you didn't need to damn To be fair, he didn't say a lot.
There's so much more context and things that happen that are missing. I
know. That's like one thing that I was like, oh well, now
I know that I think that the best moment because they were talking about best
moment with the Master's word. What happens with the Master's stord? Right?
I heard that he talked about best moment and they talked about like the final
scene. I was without context, but he did say something pretty big.
He said something pretty big that was like, oh, well, now,
fuck me, I guess just funny. Oh my god, So don't watch
the VOD actually, so don't go or skip that part. Yeah, yeah,
that's it for me. Michael. Let me tell you about a game
called Stepmania. Ooh, that is all I've been playing since I got back
because, uh so Fortnite dropped the rocket racing thing and they did the Harmonics
Rhythm game. And the Harmonics Rhythm game in Fortnite is not that good,
unfortunately. I'm sure it will grow and change. So then, but I
was phenan for a rhythm game. I just booted up old Stepmania, and
you know what I did. Don't tell the FEDS, but I downloaded so
many song packs, a bunch of anime openings. I have all of the
Chainsaw Man endings. As Yeah, I love the change. I think all
the time twelve or I think it was like ten or twelve and it was
like one for each for each on. Yeah, they did a special ending
for every episode of Chainsaw Man. So they're official, like like I never
said that you like you you. I mean, it's that's not even it's
not like illegal. They're not selling these things, but you Yeah, you
drag an MP three into a folder and then like a note chart and then
there you go. Oh it's so it's like an audio surf where like an
auto generates does an auto generate, but people have to make this. People
still have to make the step. They make the step chart and then you
can just download it for free. Got it? So, I mean I
guess you get the music, but if you on the met whatever, it's
a it's been sick. And I have so many songs on there too,
uh hell yeah, yeah, I think they had at least one or two
on Chainsaw Man as well. Yeah, and they have a Gundam Jewitch.
Yeah, I guess you got the intro g Witch. The intro, which
is that's idol By is probably like one of the best songs I've ever heard
in like a long time. I agree, So I got like a four
in it Stepmania. I bit the track to that rules in Stepmania. It
is fucking hard. Uh, it's so good, it's so good. But
yeah, I just I've been I go home and I just play. I've
been rating and Final Fantasy fourteen of course, like I usually do. But
after that, I just played Stepmania for five hours and I'm just chilling playing
all kinds of anime opening specially you're not playing Fortnite Festival. No, absolutely
not now when I got step Mania, baby, come on now. But
yeah, I don't want to get back into d DR. Okay, the
way back, I went to Emporium with a blessing a couple of friends not
too long ago. I got like mad Quarters or the tokens that they Yeah,
and there's a really good DDR machine at the emporium in San Francisco.
Here in San Francisco because the the d pad, the dance pad is it's
it's still good. Oh yeah, yeah, like it's I'm like, oh
this is it's uh, it's responsive still and it's a d d R Extreme,
which is like a good like one of the best mixes for the R
three machines. Yeah, and I got twenty dollars worth of tokens. That
was way too much. I had pocket full of gold tokens and ship.
I have them at home just so good, don't even need them. Yeah.
One thing you're like, I'm good, Well it's it's one song for
tokens. It's actually a very good deal. So I'm gonna be back there.
I'm gonna get into good shape. Is there is there a community of
like d DR machine hackers who can like put in custom songs and sideload that
ship into a d DR machine. Y'all will be wild emporium if I could,
like, because because I know that, Like as a kid, that
was always like, oh if you could buy like a like a machine,
it was like, do you have like a d DR machine in your garage,
your baseball or whatever. What you would do is you just get a
PC with Stepmania in it, right, and then you want like the proper
yeah, the machine with you know, the the nice and all that,
because yeah, theyone have like you buy like the you know, the little
pad or whatever. But look kind of like what we do here for our
street Fighter machine, which is like it's just the PC inside of a cabinet,
so you get like a proper d DR machine that you were like rewire
with a PC and you put yes, they put Stepmania on that infinite songs
like I think that's my way, that's my way back into being fit,
marathon running shape. My doctor will be very happy, my cardiologist, what
have you been doing? Stepmania? Like, I don't know what the fuck
that is? Uh? One game actually that John Luke and I we've played
a bit. Is a Lethal Company, yes, which I do want to
play more. Have you played Lethal Company? I know about it. I
haven't played it though it is it is a riot. It is so fucking
funny. Yeah, it's pasmophobia but better, I mean different, but similar
vibes that like, you know, you land on a play or you show
up on a place, there's like a little cabinet of tools that you grab
or you buy more tools and then as a team you go in. But
I think what makes it so good is just the use of proximity chat and
how you've got walkie talkies and you're talking to people and you're like like John
Leaq, where are you over? And then and then John Ley replies and
I'm like, Okay, I'm going through here, and then I just don't
hear him anymore. And then there's this question did he die or did his
walkie TALKI run out of battery or did he drop it? Can he not
answer? What's going on? And and just the way things escalate to a
point where you're like sprinting for the ship and you're carrying your dumb little bolt
to change to exchange the money. S extra funny is when you die,
you're putting like the afterlife like you know, uh, spectator mode, but
like everyone else can talk to each other then yeah, and so you're like,
do what happened? They're like I di have like ten minutes ago.
And then and then like so like me and Jake would be like listening,
we'd be dead. We'd be like hearing mad be like guys, are you
there? Guys, we're just like a figure out. He doesn't want to
leave you because he doesn't want to leave us, but it's just like he's
gotta figured out no. And then just like so many good moments like that,
like couple with Matt Well one where he like Matt like ran off ahead
and we me and Jake were like okay, like you know, we're still
like figuring things out, and then we're like walking by and we're just like
where is Matt? And then we just like turn and look and there's like
a there's a like a lake and there's just a box floating in the middle.
Were just like, I think that's Matt dead, Like, yeah,
he's probably dead or you have to go back to uh you're like the company
building, any building, and like drop off your loot because if you don't,
if you don't deliver enough within the allot of days, you get fired.
And I fired Space. They spaced you out as a commentary on capitalism
exactly, but like the door opens early, so you can technically like leave
while you're still like landing, and so like Jake just like jumps out and
I thought, well, I thought i'd land where you sell it, but
I jumped way too soon and just fell into abyss. Because of the way
voice chat works, I can't tell anyone like no, no one knows here.
So I didn't hear Jake say anything. But I did hear Matt do
that. Yeah, Because I'm like on the console still doing stuff, I
don't even hear Jake like jumps and I just but all of a sudden,
I hear Matt just go nothing, and then I like turn around and they're
both gone. I was like, what the fuck? And then it lands
and I get out. I don't even see the bodies, and I'm like,
I'm just gonna assume they're dead. That's so funny. There's there's so
many ridiculous situations, and I think what also makes it so good is you
can't really fight back with the enemies, and enemies, uh, they like
you usually from what I can tell, the enemies have like a specific sense
that they're really good at. Some are like really good hearing. So if
you're using proximity chat, you have to be like I did not realize that
until like afterwards, until it was too late. I was trying to We
were playing with Cali, and I was trying because there's one creature that lumbers
around that's really big, that shows up at night and Callie's screaming. I'm
like, you gotta no screaming. It can hear. You just chases her
down, and well, tried on you so good. Yeah, a lot
of cool emergent moments. Yeah, And like, because you're always at a
disadvantage, you see a creature and it's like, Okay, you're like slowly
trying to sneak by, and then you turn and it's by run and then
all of a sudden, everything's chasing you run out the door. It's it's
so hectic, it's so funny. It's got like a real low poly goofy
art style, like the way the characters run their little front animation so bad.
That's great, that's the next big hit. Yeah. Everyone on Twitch
is like this is the streamers game, right, Like I look at my
all of people on phone, it's like Lethal Company, all Lethal Company,
all Lethal Company. It's pretty wild. I still haven't given a shot,
but I might. You have fun. It's gonna do a little bit of
that overbreak. Yeah, definitely play it with the proximity chat. Yeah,
don't be on discord, Like maybe if you want to have discord for like
just to learn if someone teaches you. But I would say, like when
you actually get going, it got a mute. Part of the fun is
just not being able to communicate, yeah yeah, or having to very deliberately
communicate. So good. So that's good. Yeah sick sick. Oh,
I did you know what? Actually? Uh, I didn't play enough to
talk about it. But I did very briefly play a little bit of Lego
Fortnite. Oh right, yeah, the Minecraft, the Minecraft mode. People
seem pretty hot on it. How is kind of whatever about it in the
little bit that I played seems pretty basic. I think that's my problem is,
like me and Georgia popped on it because uh uh, we really like
we love Grounded Valheim, like those kinds of games. So when I told
her, like, hey, they like they have like a crafting kind of
surraval mode, she was like, let's play it. I want to play
it so bad. But I think my current issue with it is that like
a lot of kind of like the quality of life stuff for the things that
I think other crafting survival games have done better like it they this game doesn't
quite have yet. So it's like things like you know, oh, when
I when I put in a chest to store, you can like pull from
that when you're building something nearby it Like this doesn't do that, or you
know, you like put a thing down like in Grounded for example, when
you put down like a wall, you can like put it down and then
like everyone can go up and like add resources to it doesn't work that way,
you have to have all the resources, so it's like it's just kind
of like tedious stuff, just like Okay, hey, I need this,
this and this, and it's like all right, drop it in the chest
and then I'll go pick it up. And it's just like just like enough
weird things that at least for us, as like seasoned veterans of that genre,
are kind of like, eh, yeah, I wish this was better,
but I mean like it looks amazing, like like the game looks great,
Like the lego stuff is like super cute. I also think maybe I
just need to try with like more people, because it was just the two
of us and we're just like, yeah, it's okay. But like it
it seems like people really like it. And I've seen people like already like
messing around with the Creator mode where you can just kind of go wild and
people are building like pirate ships and all sorts of stuff like that seems really
rad. But that's I'm more into the like survival mechanic aspect and it seems
okay. So I don't know, I would like to give it more of
a shot because I mean it's just like free to play and can check it
out, but you'll probably avolve. I'm sure the lad more to it.
Finally, they put building in Fortnite. Yep, building in Fortnite. I
think they should add a Save the World bring it back. You should add
a Horde mode, so that would be crazy. They got a Rhythm game.
They got it's like ten bucks. They have to like buy it.
Oh it still exists, like yeah, place in the menu. Dude.
That was my first time loading up Fortnite in like a really long time,
and that menu was giving me like a headache. It's not as bad as
Call of Duty, not as bad as Call of Duty, but like it's
kind of getting there in some spot. Like, dude, the menu now,
like because they're just trying to be roadblocks so bad. So like they're
they have all the like user created like stuff and it just looks like I'm
looking at like the worst like you tube recommended feet. Yeah, like it's
like all these like recommended like you know, do this fast or just like
zombies, and it's got like that fucking font that you see on like all
those kinds of channels. I'm just like, yeah, I mean, hey,
for you know, kids who are with it, that's cool. But
Uh, I ain't here for that. I cannot be so when I launched
Fortnite, actually don't know if I launched it. When I launched it,
this happens anymore. But I have the Radiohead kid A music playing because it's
in the game because Epic did that partnership with Radiohead for that museum exhibit sort
of thing. But now there's all this like weird radio Head stuff in that
game. It's so bizarre. It was like a fever dream, even seeing
like the the Guitar Hero or whatever for festival and just seeing like these like
random ass characters that shouldn't be there dancing. I'm like, is hitting the
gritty in front of his keyboard fucking playing I don't know bad Guy Byace?
Yeah, that stuff's like I like that stuff in theory. But then I
actually find the mode like kind of basic. Yeah, that's why I played
Statmania, and I'm just like, ah, like it's okay, but like,
uh, the notes aren't even different colors. The notes are different colors.
I think the presentation is a little like basic in my opinion. Also,
no controllers support at launch. They're adding it in later, but like,
what are you doing? Yeah, I might still are ready to go
and you're not even giving me that. Yeah, it seems seems a little
preemptive. I think, yeah, but I don't know. We'll see where
it goes. But you know, hey, you can uh, you can
put Thanos in it, So that's cool, I guess, but can you
put in thanosis? Oh you ever seen that? Fools don And with that
that is a games But after dark for this week episode twenty uh, two
hundred more to go? Wow, two hundred more for twenty oh oh wow,
that's a more podcasts at that point, man, we can be Will
the earth even be around that long? Probably not? Anyway, Yeah,
thank you for joining us this week. So we're almost at the end of
the year. We technically go on vacation starting next Thursday, so we're not
gonna have a live episode. We are going to be recording a special episode
that will be going up over the holiday and no promises, but I would
like to if possible, record one more in edition so that we have something
up to go in the new year, especially because we didn't do two in
a row last week, so I feel like, yeah, going on breaking
again, I'd like to give you all something. So yeah, it's stay
tuned for that. Otherwise, Yeah, Michael, where can the fine folks
find you? You find me in all my bullshit at Michael P. Higham
on Twitter if you use that platform, or on Instagram at hiam Michael and
uh, you know what I'm saying, you know the vibes, Jake.
You can find me on YouTube dot com, slash game spot and then search
for the Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven Phantom Liberty documentary and then watch that. You
can, and I've been at John lug Sypeke, you can do the same
thing that Jake said. Go watch that doc if you haven't watched it a
couple of times, a couple of walk watch a couple of times. And
all the complimentary videos that y'all made in addition to yes, yeah pretty good,
those are great too. Yeah. Well, all right, thanks for
watching, everybody, and we'll see y'all next time. Peace, goodbye,