Hey, everybody, it's Tuesday. You're listening to the Giant BombCast. I'm
your host. Jeff Grubb joining me is a cavalcade of just real nonsense.
Dan Reikert is here. Dan Rikert, how are you doing. I'm doing
great. I'm feeling all right. I'm at like ninety plus percent right now.
I'd say I'm running again. I'm good. That's the first time in
a while, right, bub ninety, I think so, I'm bub ninety.
I'm moving around. Just some weird goop in the face, but not
much. It's a it's I'm feeling feeling better, traveling, doing a doing
the things. It's great, Sean Turbo, Sean McDowell, how is your
goop in your face? It's all together and contained in Jesus Christ, I
could never be on a sitcom because Dan just like knows how to break me
so well. So Dan Rekert got a teleprompter and he's using it to stare
directly into Turbo Sean Soul. I mean, he's looking at all of us,
but I think it's mostly getting Sean. I'm just looking away feeling it.
Yeah. Oh whoa this, Oh this is too much power. Sean,
who do you think is going to be more annoying with their new technology
today. Dan Reikert or Mike Manati's also here. How are you doing?
Hi head, No, I'm good. I dreamt about you last night,
Jeff. But oh, okay, what do we do? We were at
EA seeing a fronque of dragon Age the Veilguard, and you were being very
rude and it may be very uncomfortable. Yeah, like what was I like
just like leaking EA stuff to their face or something. No, like the
like the person give me the demo's like how's everyone doing? Everyone's like great,
great, great, And you got to you, Jeff. You're like,
I'm doing all right. She's like, ah, why all right?
And You're like, well, I'm not really enjoying the demo. And then
like later I look over at you and like, for some reason you had
somehow changed your devastation to be playing Modernation Racers because you as you do,
We've all done. You know, I'm like trying to think I'm gonna like
work with a pr person to do this to you in real life. At
some point three years from now, I was like, forgot about this,
you can't do that. I went to a demo mic I went to a
mod Nation Racers pr event, and while I was playing it, I wished
I could modit to play something other than Modernation Racers. What deep recess of
my brain is mod Nation Racers living in right now that I can dream?
Do you think I am probably the last person in your life to say the
words mod Nation Racers to you, like a couple of months ago. Probably
what happened there. There's one neural connection in my brain and like the literally
the electricity zapped them together for this what tree to seek? It's incredible.
We got to do something with this. It's like it's just sitting there.
This is too good to pass the minati. Speaking of press events, it
made my heart feel good to see you and Ben Hanson hanging out. Yes,
I was enjoying that. How that great house at Disneyland again, I
was there for a Star Wars Outlaws appreciated in your defense, that's not that
you need defending. You did try not to go, like you tried to
get like some other people on your staff to go, and then they're like,
no, we're good. What it's like, all right? I guess
how good at Disneyland. Sure, I'm a little tired of making that l
lasherp I will say the third time this summer. But no, it was
a it was a good event. I'm not allowed to talk about that game
yet. I'm not allowed to say when I could talk about it. But
you know, when I can, he'll all be the first to hear about
it. But yeah, we had like a fool day at Disneyland. I
was there even longer than I when I was there with with you two,
like I think, a good sixteen and a half seventeen hours in a heart
hang on, you weren't king about the no, of course not. We
got there at eight am when they opened, and then so the park closes
at midnight, but you can linger for a while before you actually have to
leave. So I probably walked out there about like twelve thirty twelve forty five.
Yeah, and I felt great. This man dead ass was like,
no, no, Sean, what's wrong with you? Of course I was
there for hours. You got to maximize your hours when you're in there.
Yeah, it was the last one standing, for sure. We had a
we had a pretty good group. But yeah, hung out with Ben for
uh for the whole time. That was really nice. Really, you know,
I've met Ben a few times now Dan, but really got to bond
with and it was good stuff. Yeah, and I think you guy,
huh yeah, yeah he didn't. I know, he's kind of he filmed
me a lot, uh, giving kind of a tour and dropping my Disney
nuggets of wisdom. And I know there's gonna be a video over on min
Max about that too. So I like that Dan has stopped describing him as
a serial killer and just says interesting guy. Now, I don't think he's
a serial killer, for I know he stopped. I said, you started
human being. Just think he's interesting, which is like leaves the door open
for so many more possibilities. I think. So that's nice. I know,
I know Disney freaks are more freaks than wrestling freaks now because like you
know, Minati will say for sixteen hours and only leave when he's like kicked
out of the park where he's like, look, I am obsessed with wrestling.
I know Jan loves wrestling. You know, we go to WrestleMania.
Anytime I've gone to the last ten or eleven, WrestleMania is in a row
and every time me and whoever I'm there with, by the end of even
just a couple of days, You're like, there's a lot of fucking wrestling.
This is a lot of this is a bit too much wrestling maybe,
whereas like Disney preaks are just like my mom, I just give me more,
you know. I might argue that there's perhaps a greater variety of things
you could do, and it's the park at a wrestling show that I have
Uncle Howdy VHS tapes exploring death and Greep. I could find PHS tape at
Disney. I have mentioned the Uncle Howdy of Disney like that that how excited
are you boys for twisters? You know? And yeah, me too.
Actually, I'm like I was gonna come in here and do it, be
like, oh, isn't it funny we're excited about twisters? And now I'm
like, actually, just like really excited. We're want to have the same
thing I had with Top Gun Maverick, where I was not excited at all,
didn't care, and then like the buzz was so good that I saw
it it absolutely loved it. So that happened for this one. I'm good
to hear that. I'm glad to hear that, because, like I have
wondered in recent years, whether like in my head Twister is like a movie
event of the nineties. But then I also realized I grew up in Kansas
and saw it in Kansas, so everyone that I'm like, we all related
to it. You know, like it was like we've all been in the
basement a million times hearing the sirens. I've seen tornadoes. You know.
It's like so it's like, wait a minute, do we hold this as
like a very important cinema event And in the rest of the country's like,
oh, yeah, it was that cheesy tornado movie. You know. I
thought the same thing about Major League because it was about the Cleveland Indians at
the time, so it was like, no one else cares about this.
Yeah, people like, actually, I think I think Major League's pretty popular.
I think Twister actually was very like huge. It was big as big
as maybe it was in Kansas. It was a big movie. This one
feels this one feels like it is going to do the top Gun Maverick thing.
Though. Yeah, it was one of those movies like Jurassic Park,
where like the subject matter suddenly became very popular. There are a million TV
documentaries about tornadoes and everything everywhere, just like there was all that dinosaur stuff
after Jurassic Park, suddenly we all know what an F five is. Yes,
exactly, the finger of God. Of course, you guys, ever,
think about how it's weird that other countries in the world don't really have
a tornado alley, Like they don't really have a place in their country where
it's like that's just where tornadoes happen. What do they have like hurricane junction
or yeah, yeah, mostly in earthquake zone. Yeah, what other countries
even do worry about tornadoes? A lot of other countries have tornadoes, but
they're all like very very brief and small and tiny. I looked into this,
I'm like, is God just punishing us? I think that's probably the
most likely scenario. But also it's like the the mountains on one side,
the Golf of Mexico down there, and just flat land right Antarctica up there,
and all these things kind of push against the mountains and it causes this
twisting wind that happens right over the plains, and then there's not a lot
of stuff from the planes to stop that wind. Speaking to yeah, the
plains, I got a real you know, I grew up in Kansas,
so plenty of them. But like this weekend. The last weekend, I
did the drive from Kansas City to like near Oklahoma City there and back for
my sister's wedding. Boy and uh oh boy, Oklahoma. I had not
really spent a lot of time there. There is not a lot going on
there. And I say that as someone from Kansas. Yeah, you say
that. It's like the drive through Kansas. There is nothing going on.
So yeah, I even like Blahoma, let's spend one of them. Well,
No, here's the thing. It seems like it's just boring. Like
boring is fine. Like I'll take Oklahoma over like literal hell on Earth,
which is Missouri. You know. So like Oklahoma is not terrible. Missouri
is a terrible state, of course, but Oklahoma is just very very boring,
and Kansas also very very boring. I'm not acting like Kansas is amazing,
but at least we have Lawrence, a good college sound and Barbaria.
Yeah, Jeff guys cauys you a question. Maybe uh Sean can help out
to the Ohio jokes. I've been ramping up lately, and that's fine.
I always you know, kind of election. It's an election year, right,
and I was gonna get broughtup a lot. It's on the tap of
people's minds. Yeaheah, I laugh along with it, I go haha ha.
But I guess I never actually knew, like, are they serious?
People think Ohio is like a problem? What's the what is the gist?
Why are we the subjects of? Because I lived there my whole life,
I just don't really know what it would even be like to live somewhere else.
I'll say this as someone who is a limited knowledge of Ohio about to
get some more in a couple of weeks here. I growing up had no
thoughts on Ohio. I remember the most interesting thing I thought about Ohio was
there were like the three biggest cities all started with the sea. And my
first time on the ground and Ohio was driving through it when I was moving
back to Minnesota, and I do remember us being in the car for it's
a good chunk, it's a fairly wide state, and just doing a lot
of looking around, just being like, all right, yeah, I guess
there's just not it's I would say, unnoteworthy. It just seems like it
wasn't a Hell on Earth Missouri style. It wasn't it wasn't flat boring planes,
boring, like like Oklahoma or Kansas. It was just like, here's
a bunch of highways and this seems to be some kind of city that we're
driving through. What what are the other states? Like? Do you not
just drive through highways and rural areas and cities? Is there like, uh,
the largest ball of t line is like there something like I don't love
California, but like, you know, I've done that drive from like San
Francisco to l A and like it's kind of interesting to look at. There's
like, you know, vistas and the ocean. Unfair. Yeah, yeah,
Like more like, what what does Ohio have going for it? As
someone who has lived there his entire life, Mike, you tell us was
Ohio have going? I think we have h you know, we have all
four seasons and and that's it's very affordable. I appreciate that about it.
You know, we do have major metropolitan areas that have all the stuff that
cities have in a nice mix of I don't know, I guess it's just
to be so in a nice way. We have a bedroom, we have
a bathroom exactly. It's like but none of that is what the jokes are
about. The jokes aren't it's a noteworthy. The jokes are it is a
problem, And I think what it is is Ohio is a fun word to
say. I think it's ramped up from Ohio's a boring nothing state to just
like, well let me just pick Ohio. Who's gonna care about us picking
out Ohio. It's two things. It's like, Ohio does have three major
cities, so there's a chance that you probably know someone from Ohio no matter
where you live, because we have a lot of exports, a lot of
people that leave Ohio go elsewhere, so you probably know someone from Ohio.
And then you're but then you're like, okay, wait, so what about
Ohio? And then you just the word is funny to say. I think
people just like it's a good pageline the concept. I think the joke would
work a with like Indiana, because who the fuck thinks about Indiana? I
think I think, I think I think we were getting shipped from Indiana.
I think I got shipped from Indiana recently and I was like, you're just
Ohio to what are you? We have the standards Indiana. The only thing
I know about Indiana is that lettermans from there other than that, I don't
know as single pucking. It's like, Ohio, it's like, oh,
you got the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, you got the Easter of
Cleveland, Columbus. You know, I know these cities like Indiana, jack
Ship, their city is called indian Indianapolis, it's city. Well, Kansas
is Kansas City and it's not even in Kansas. That's New York City.
Yeah, come on, give me a break. The polis like Sonapolis,
Minneapolis, Indianapolis. Is that just Indiana metropolis? No, because there's Minneapolis
and Kansas also, like paulis there. It's got to be like the same.
It's got to be etymology of population. Paulis all right out right,
yes, yeah, okay, policy right, yeah, okay, So it's
just the city, right, Greek something like that, yeah all right,
yeah, so it's very uninspired. It was. It was weird though,
Mike bringing it up during a Games Done Quick or the past weekend. Two
weekends ago, they were doing the one of the Mario Romhack ones, and
so like Grandpoo Bear was there because it was what grandpoo World three or whatever,
right, and Poo just he's an older streamer, I think he's you
know, his late thirties or something like that, and the older first streamer.
Anyways, he makes it. I can't do. It's too much because
you know he's looking right act I know he's looking right at me. And
Poo just makes an Ohio joke out of nowhere, and all the kids just
pop in the crowd, like, is what what is this man learning on
his street? This is wild? Why are the Ohio jokes popular? Now?
I don't know. Oh wow, it's all right, you keep making
your jokes. Just don't move here and increase the rate of my mortgage or
something. It's fine to keep saying away in that we are homeowners mic because
that would make our house is worth more so. But whatever, I don't
want them to move here. That's that's yeah. They did, and they
made it suck there, so I can actually know how that works. I
bought a house with time. They're like, give us this bunch of buddy
each But I'm like, okay, whatever you say. Real quick, before
we get into the video games, are you guys going to uh peruse Prime
Day sales? Yeah? Prime Day? Let's go very good, excellent.
He's drinking up on Prime Day, Yes, Okay, very good idea.
Do I need anything DVDs? I didn't know there was a Planet Earth three
that's on sale. I had to. I'm listening to an audio book by
David Attenburrow right now. It turns out that's a very good move, right.
That voice, that's a good One's good at reading stuff. Yeah,
worried about chocolates other right, Yeah, he is Barry Attenborough. Nice.
I think it was Barry cool. He's also Santa Claus in the remake of
mir Kwan thirty fourth Street. Speaking of movies with young children in them,
I've had songs from Annie stuck in my head the last few days. You
it's a hard knock life for us. It's so fucking old boy us.
Yeah. Look, I wasn't actually born when Annie was out. Okay,
that's seventy seven times in Oklahoma over the weekend, I heard a lot of
my dad trying to sing what he thought the musical Oklahoma sounded like, Yeah,
so incredibly accurate. Yeah, Dark Day Leronde just poppy, and Chat
says old. No, he's just weird. Yeah. Yeah, it's funny
because you're you're laughing about calling Benett serial killer. My friends like to do
that to me if I didn't know any better, I think you are a
serial Oh god, Ben handsome. No, I also don't think you're a
serial killer. I don't think I know many serious. The way he says
it as if it was a serious possibility for both you and Ben is the
funniest part of all this now, And I don't think so now. I
wouldn't kill anybody. That'd be mean. I think less weird now than he
was, maybe like ten years ago. I think we all grow up and
become well, did we become less weird? Yeah, I think you could,
definitely. I think a lot of people become more weird as to get
older. So maybe there's like a dip and then we'll like shoot back up
here pretty soon. I'm just I'm so happy that Dan has been because now
you know what it's like to look in a mirror, maybe a funhouse mirrors,
looking at a mirror. No, we're very different, different way,
it's the same thing in a weird angle. Different, but it's cooked to
the same time. There's enough common threads and how we think and what we
like for us to be really good friends. But definitely both of us have
thoughts and things we say that the are you talking about? Dan? I
listened to that podcast you guys did a few months back, just the two
of you. Yeah, and it was just YouTube going back and forth saying
you're the craziest person on Earth, and it was it was hilarious. It
was like having two dance. I loved it. It's been my relationship with
him for like fourteen years. Yeah, all right, I'm not gonna do
a segue. I'm just gonna hit the video game button. That's how I'm
gonna host this ship. Everybody, brace yourself for it. Jan don't you
dare? No way? Yeah, there we go. All right, where
are we going to go? First? Seeding? Meanie miney mo h,
Mike, you were playing Dark Souls last night. Let's talk about that,
because guess what it got me to start playing Dark Souls too incredible. When
did you beat a ring yet? Though? Yeah? Yeah beat all ring?
Yes? Right you did? You did beat that file boss? Okay?
I was at I was literally at the bottle. Like I mentioned that,
you you were like texting me because you were just streaming, and so
when he text Jeff and then you're like, hey, they want me to
tell you that I beat it, and I'm like, oh, man,
he's so far ahead. And then I like went I did the fight where
you fight multiple people, and then the next fight is the final boss fight,
and I'm like, oh, I didn't realize I was here. I
went to go do a bunch more stuff, and then I was on my
vacation. So it's kind of like I don't really have a couple of hours
here dedicated to like figure out this boss. So when I got back and
I had done some skippey tree fragment hunting, I came back and it was
like fifty sixty tries I think god mine was forty three. I'm better than
you. I'm better than you. Yeah. A big part of that was
I was just like going in there doing some like data, but also my
character build was not great for that fight because they're like use a shield.
I'm not going to learn how to use a shield now that game once.
Yeah, I'm still second to boss. I'm probably like twenty thirty tries in.
But quick question, have any of you beat Sekero? Yes? Okay.
I was at Kayla's a couple of nights ago and she's been stuck on
the last boss of Secaro and she showed it to me, and how it
has like Boss four phases, and like just watching her try again and again,
and you can't just like cheese it and level up the way you can
and other from games now, so you really do have to get good.
Well, yeah, and she is incredible at those games. And I'm watching
her straight at games I've seen her, yeah, and I'm watching how bad
she's struggling in and I'm like, there's no like, there's a part of
my brain that for a long time, it's not like maybe I should go
back to second row. And I watched that and I was like, there's
no fucking way I would ever be able to beat this game. Did you
enjoy the final Boss of the Jeff? I did? Actually I was.
I'm glad it was as hard as it was. Yeah, uh, and
it was. It really felt like I was just barely getting by, and
I had to build my character in a certain way that did play with my
style, but where I could take a couple of hits because it was just
so hard to avoid damage in that second phase. So I was taking hits
and then I found the time to either heal up or whatever. What really
helped is I was using the blastamous blade and something about that. Listen,
I only pay so much attention to a game I'm playing. Come on,
was coming to me to regain health every time I would do damage? That
works? Yeah right, so wait wait wait, sorry, when you do
damage or you take damage when I do damage, So when you do that
l thing, yes, yeah, yeah, that's killer exactly so so right,
so that like that's baked into that weapon. So I was like,
you know what, I'm going to strategically kind of think about my health and
not always just go run to the s S flask. I am going to
be like, Okay, no, I took damage, Let's just find some
safety and if I could do an attack, I'm going to get back most
of that life and kind of peppering that in and then also using Millennia's a
big ability that you can get that causes scarlet rot. Oh yeah, that
scarlet rot will just destroy him. So yeah, it doesn't look like it's
doing shit, but if you hit him and the mimic is also doing the
scarlet rot, everything was doing way more damage. And then I got to
the second phase where he is you know, there's a point where you can
grab you Yeah, yeah, he can grab you. I'm not, Yes,
he can grab you, and and they like whisper something. And during
that he had been so scarlet rotted that I was watching his health go down
whispering in my ear. And I got out of there. My mimic died.
I hit him a couple of times with the sword, and I was
about to die let My life was nothing, but the scarlet actually got the
final hit on them the show. I don't think I've gotten to the whisper.
Is it like a I'm sorry, I love you type thing? Kind
of? It's scarlett, I know. Yeah, is the thing I was
using, yes mechanic to dodge, right, because it is kind of like
it's like a big telegraphed one. When you dodged, it feels great.
I haven't even seen that yet. Ship that makes me think of like it.
It doesn't do any damage though, like when when they grab you like
that. No, I don't want to give the mechanic away, but you
don't want to be hugged by sure the emotional damage yeah and maybe real.
Yeah, I'm glad you know it turns out. Really it is just Hey,
get your reps and you're gonna learn those patterns and stuff like that.
It's like every other bus ultimately at the end of the day. Uh yeah,
and I enjoyed a lot, but you know, yeah, so after
like beating that, I haven't actually played through a whole lot of the frum
Soft Souls games really well, which ones have you played? I beat Bloodborne
back when that came out, and no, I don't hate it. I
like Bloodborne, but I am like, I feel like everyone else who plays
through Bloodborn is like, that is one of my favorite video games ever.
And I was like, yeah, I liked that, and I don't know,
I never I didn't think about it a whole lot. I don't know
if it was just me at the time. Maybe I have more appreciation.
Yeah, I'm the exact same as you. I played it, I beat
it, and I think it's one of the only from games I've beaten.
I think it's like that Elden Ring and Armored Cordy, only once I've beaten
like exactly the same. Then yeah, oh wow, Yeah, and I
beat it. I was like, damn, that was Yeah, that's clearly
a very well made game, and I didn't really like think about it much
afterwards. But then then you'll hear people like plenty of people talk about how
it's like one of the best ever, and it's like, holy shit,
I had no idea it was that revered. Maybe, like I don't know,
maybe that whole like kind of gothic Victorian vibe just isn't super my thing.
I don't know as a person who reacted the way he did when he
played cyberpunk, it's too cyberpunk. Yeah, what the graffiti and the cyberpunk
was like you bleed or something. Yeah, yeah, until you die or
something. Oh god, that's realm was hilarious. But just saying they're very
uncover well, he's like, it's all about sex, drugs and rock and
roll. It's so bad, And the rest of us are like, yes,
Mike, that's why old Grandma. Yeah, not to derail you too
much here by I'm curious for both Mike and Dan, what what are your
favorite from soft games? Usually out in Ring Eldon and Armor Core prior to
elden Ring would have been that's the thing, Like I never played it,
really never played a ton more of them, Like say, like I played
a bit of Sekero and I wasn't joying it and then like fell off and
I want to get back to that. But the reason why I'm playing Dark
Souls is I have not really ever played any of them very much. I
played one and two and the Demon Souls Remake, and I really have like
a big appreciation for those games. I just think that like I don't know
if I'm just not good enough at them, or like I always get like
twenty five hours into them and then I just kind of stopped playing. I
did that with Darkles and Dark Souls two and Demon Soul's remake. For me,
it's like a patience thing where it's like, oh, I got to
like really learn the patience here and and kind of bring that throughout the whole
game. And I can bring that for like you said, a good twenty
twenty five hour period, but one thing goes wrong, it's so hard to
rebuild that like patientness and the patients in there. But I'm with you,
Mike, where it's like I haven't played a lot of the Dark Souls one
specifically, so I started with like when you were playing it last night,
and I put on the steam deck real quick. On the steam deck,
I can't tell if there's like something wrong. It's just like, is dark
and a weird way, and I'm trying to are the gama just feels off.
But other than that, which I'm going to maybe restart the steam deck
and see if that does something there, I'm enjoying it. It's like,
hey, I'm glad to have so many from soft games that are in this
vein to go back to because I've never really played Dark Souls one, two,
or three before I forget grabbed. You mentioned your steam deck. I
know we were both having similar issues recently with like the SD card and yeah
stuff like that. Mine is good now I was able to go fight a
bunch of wind Waker again. My save is good and everything is yours back.
Did an update correctly, I've not had the same issue in the last
couple of days, so an update must have fixed it. Okay, cool,
cool, Yeah good good here. But yeah, so, you know,
just kind of my first time playing through it finally, and I alwall
say it playing it on stream helps because they just kind of fun having people
there, like, you know, if I like want a little like advice
or something. Yes, I cast for it for some reason, and people
are I know, this isn't like other things I watched people get really excited
when you say the words I'm gonna play Dark Souls for the first time watching
Last Night, people are excited for it. You know. It's it is
like such an Xbox three sixty game and like a lot of good ways and
bad ways, Like I like the way it looks, but it also like,
oh yeah, lots of browns and kind of like Puke Green playing remastered
edition. No no, no, the remastered one. Well remaster Okay,
so you're right, that's right there company remulous one. I mean, you
know, which is like it runs like sixty phrase per second, and you
know, it's like in four K, which is nice, but it's still
like the color palette is still very Xbox three sixty, and I mean that's
appropriate, right for Dark Souls. It is called Dark Souls. That's not
like something necessarily bothering me. In fact, it's kind of endearing in a
way. But yeah, you know, like a lot of my odoring stuff
does just transfer over to this pretty much. It's all very familiar and comfortable
to me. I do miss having a jump button, but you can still
do a jump attack and things like that. That that is uh b or
that's like dodge and uh are one to do that to do the kick or
in the jump out dodge in R two, it's it's yeah, it's it's
or is it a it might be the sprint, Oh no, no,
it's just push forward on the move forward right, Okay, that's fun because
it likes there's a lot of enemies of show and I fought a lot of
skeletons with shields so far. So you do that kick and they like lose
their shield and then you hit them, so that feels satisfying. I find
those games, like frum games in general, are the only ones where I
want to actually put those back paddles on my Elite controller. It sounds like,
b I'll put on like the back when they're so it's like I can
run or dodge out of the way while still moving the camera and move my
character around stuff like if there's a note or like cycling through all the like
dpad things for like your items and your your equipment and stuff like that.
It's actually really helpful totally. But yeah, you know, it's just yeah,
it's just all feeling good. It's working. It's you know, it
is kind of nice doing a less not linear because the map interconnects and all
those fun ways and playing Bloodborne, I am kind of familiar with that style
and that setup, but it all is working here. There are some like
bullshitty things that, again because I'm streaming, are kind of fun, Like,
oh, I turn a corner and a boulder falls down the stairs.
There's no way I could have possibly reacted to that, but everybody has a
good laugh, right, so why not? And you know, just the
way I play like, I will sometimes come across this like optional mini boss
guy that kills me six times, but I can't. I just can't let
it go, so I kind of throw myself against the wall there. But
then when I kill him, he dumps this really great big sword and I'm
like, oh great, now I can equip this at some point. That
feels good. So you know, turns out Dark Souls is good for the
reasons everybody does think it's good. I've already run into some of those characters,
like the Praise the Sun guy. I'm like, I know him,
he's in a mebo, what's going to be up with that? The bosses
have been fun so far, but yeah, just enjoying it and I'm excited
to kind of go through this one it's going to be a fun time and
then you know, maybe check out some other ones. Like part of me
is like do I play Dark Souls too? Because so many people are weird
about that one. I really want to play Dark Souls too because because of
the weirdness and theirs one playing a lot of people has like a lot of
like really strong defenders and stuff like that, and I kind of want to
play it. In last what if I like played tark Sooles three, I
think I'll like guarantee that you'll end up hating it. Ship Yeah, okay,
but I mean whatever, that's fine, but the three is the one
you hear the least about. Yeah. But it's also like like if you
were to ask frum fans like, hey, I want to go back to
Dark Souls, which one should I play? They'll tell you to go play
Dark SoRs. We talk about two a lot because they want to, you
know, deride it, but they like three was there something like the main
team didn't work on, Like I do like their a team two is the
one that team didn't work on. Okay, mi a Zaki didn't direct to
is how I remember people say that control is feel weird and it's the one
that like it's you know, red headed step child situation, right, but
but like yeah, but like yeah, Austin Walker's a big fan of h
Bomber Guy did a whole video why d S two is like better than the
like the Devil May Cry to thing where everyone's like ship with no caveats right
there. There are people who do defend too, so I kind of I've
never heard the d m C two is good actually defense, I've never heard
of anyone, because no person say that it's a game. I'm a d
MC defender, like the Ninja Theory one that's a good game that gets a
lot of may cry that one. Okay, yes, two two is hot
garbage like everyone Yeah, well, I mean in that comparison, you know,
d MC Don't Make Cry is a good playing game like everything that people
don't like it. But I came down to aesthetics, whereas dm C two
is just busted ship, so heavily on the aesthetics, like I actually really
liked a lot of it, and the fact that it is a story reboost
so that people like this isn't how Dante should be, you know, stuff
like that. Whatever. Lot of those kinds of fans crazy like Box News,
like Level with That Boss credible, very fun, It's very fun' I
am curious, Mike. Do you do you think you specifically are willing to
go back to the old frum Soft games just because you like elder Ring so
much as not even a I want to see what else this developer has done.
It's sort of changed your mindset on the games. Yeah, I think
I think that's a big part of it. Like, I don't know why
I was so disinterested when these games were first popping off, because I do
consider myself somebody who plays a very large variety of games and who will try
to play like whatever the biggest games are of that year. So it's very
weird that I did just completely miss I mean, I played you were You
in like the the bit Mob. I don't know what we used back then,
but like maybe it's email threads where like the editors were all crazy for
Demon Souls and I was just like, what are you guys talking about?
What is this game? Do you want that? I played Demon Souls when
it came out and like got a little bit into it and not you know,
maybe maybe like because I didn't stick around it long enough I just bought
into the hype about how hard it was. It's like, oh, I
guess they're just very hard, and I'm, you know, not good enough
for it, I suppose, so I don't know playing Elt and Ring like
and I understand how this all works now. And again I did beat Blood
Born back in the day, so like I can beat these games. Part
of it, too, is just even still people talk about Dark Souls one
specifically all the time, right when they're talking about their favorite game, the
best games ever. It's like, Okay, I should probably go and experience
that. Then, yeah, I mean, maybe just enough time has passed
that things have changed, Like I think people know by now. I'm a
huge persona fan. I played four when Golden came out and it just was
not clicking at all. And then, you know, several years down the
road, I played five and that one just magically clicked. And I went
back and I was like, oh, Okay, this one is flawed in
this way and this one's lawed this way. But they're both really good games.
I do like them. Getting that experience now it takes time. I
had that with Dragon Quests, where I tried to get in the Dragon Quest
multiple times, and then it was when I finally played eleven that I really
loved it and then was able to go back and play a bunch of other
entries in the series. Yep. Sometimes it just suddenly clicks. Yep,
Sean, you've been playing Kunitsugami. I want to hear about it. I
have specifically played the demo I want to do. Want to be clear on
that, because I know Redrews are out, but yeah, I finally fired
up the demo for the first time. It's uh, it wasn't quite was
what I was expecting because I feel like every time someone plays that, they
say it's a hack and slashy mixed with tower defense, which I think is
an interesting comparison. I definitely see where a tower defense comes from, because
if anyone still doesn't know what the premise is, if you've only seen trailers,
I wouldn't blame you for not knowing what the premise is. Actually,
it's like a brutal legend type situation where it's like got that on the ground,
hack and slides, but also there's this like meta like because you're like
a guy walking around instead of like being a mouse cursor doing the quote unquote
RTS or Tower defense. Right. So yeah, so what this up is
is at the start of a level, you can think of the level as
you know, your typical it's a little bit smaller than an average like character
action game arena. I would actually speaking of the Delamite Cry series, the
original Delimite Cry sort of how those levels are laid out where they have like
a central area and then sort of some branching paths off of a kind of
resident Evil style. It feels like that. I think that's where some of
the comparison to classic capcom comes from. It does feel like sort of that
level design in addition to, you know, the production value in the rtsell
and earthing. At the beginning of the level, you have your goddess.
I forget her name because I play for a couple hours, but she starts
there and then you play as this like Samurai style character who needs to go
forward and basically clear the path for her, the path of the Goddess.
So what she does is she just like slowly walks through the stage and purifies
everything around her, like there's this corruption that's corrupting everything, like demonic power,
whatever it is. And so what you do is you gather up just
this currency orbs crystals wherever they are as you go around the stage helping people
out, like they'll be trapped in this little trap, and then you get
them out, they give you some currency and this can all be fed back
into giving the people you save weapons, pushing her forward along the pass and
get to the goal quicker, and then a couple other things. What happens
is it's a day night cycle. So during the day you are preparing hence
where people are getting the tower defense elements from, and then at night the
demons attack out of this gate at the end of the level, and so
that's where you run in and start hacking and slashing, you know, your
deblement croye, your Okami style stuff. And where the strategy comes in is
those villagers you save during the day, you position them around the map to
take out those enemies as well to help you, because eventually it's a Horde
style, you know, like classic zombie Hord style thing where they are just
coming in droves and you need to get rid of them so they don't attack
the goddess because you need to get her to the end of level. And
in practice it feels more to me a little more like what I think of
as an RTS game as someone who doesn't play rts's like, that's sort of
the vibe I was getting while playing it. It felt like people within Capcom
are strategy fans and they want more people playing like the strategy stuff that they
like, so they put strategy in a game that makes sense to those of
us who don't like that kind of thing. I think it's a really interesting
combination. I'm a little worried about how what the longevity of the formula is
of. You know, in the daytime you get ready and that nighttime you
fight the monsters. Because in the demo at least, which is a couple
hours long, it's a decent demo, that's all I was doing, and
it's basically the same enemy types are coming at you. You only get so
many soldiers. But I did hear that there is more variety as the game
goes on and the difficulty does ramp up, so you need to get your
strategy more on line because there will be more brand pass where they can flank
the goddess and stuff like that. So I'm really interested why I saw to
begin with. I'm I'm curious I'm curious how much longevity the formula has.
For sure, how is it doing with reviews? Because I haven't been paying
too much attention every day some nines following around, so I assume it's somewhere
like the load of mid eighties. Okay, that's that's not too bad.
That's pretty good for you know what. I'm glad is still making like you
know, the Capcom makes a lot of very very big games right now.
I'm glad that they are still doing something like this. It's a it's a
new ip. By the way, Jeff, you have to update the game
title me. No, never mind, Sean, I'm sorry. I just
assume everything's Jeff's fault, is the right, I mean, he was so
rude to those poor exactly what my wife gets mad at me for stuff I
do in her dreamy absolutely may be very uncomfortable. It's like, Jeff,
we're never gonna get invited again. What do you but yeah, and you
know it's it's a game pass game, so I think don't really quite understand
what this means, uh, and what if they're gonna like it? So
if game pass should be an easy thing to try out on there, it's
also like a forty dollars game, right, Like it's a I think the
price was reduced. I don't think it's your whole seventy dollars. That's fifty
fifty Okay, well that's still the budget price now, yeah, but bucks
more than High Fire Rush. Yeah, I know that was a lot like
word soup that I've saw of just threw at everyone there. So hey,
that's why the demo is there. You know, you can go try it
out for yourself and see what it is. But yeah, it is sort
of that weird Capcom they do kind of miss a little bit, So I'm
glad that we have got, yeah that complimenting, you know, your Residu
Evils and Monster Hunters like man. Capcom is just so back and I love
it as a huge cap Com fan. They're just killing it across the board
even more than ever, right, I mean, like they've always been a
presence and they always had a million franchises. The degree of difficulty that they're
operating at is way higher than they to operate at before. Like having several
massive giant budget games be great back to back is different than having several nes
games straight back to back. Like the level of success they're seeing with like
their big franchises right now, between Resideval and Monster Hunter and everything, it's
like they're fucking killing it. Yeah, they'll be they'll be really back once
they announced that new Mega Man. But they're doing very good. Kind of
the last puzzle piece there isn't it? Eleven eleven is technically the best of
my Mega Man game ever, which means it's so like about two or three
million copies. And I maybe once had a conversation with somebody at cap On
Tolimita believe they weren't super thrilled with with how it did. But I mean,
look with Mega Man, how expensive do they have to be to make?
And you know at least this right, it's like, oh, Bega
Man, none of the games sell more than a one or two million copies,
but a lot of them sell one or two million copies, is the
thing, right, So there's consistency there, Like the Mega Man Battle Network
collection sold a couple million copies, So that's crazy. They'll make They're going
to make a Mega Man game here. Eventually it'll happen or or is Mega
Man's fated of similar to what happened with Mickey Mouse. Mic where it's like,
well, he's a great mascot, but we don't need to keep making
movies with him. It's actually been in games, Mickey Mouse has never been
on TV. So but like with that analogy, like what happened not too
long ago, right, like five, six, seven years ago they made
those the Mickey Mouse shorts, like, oh, we're gonna actually start doing
stuffing and fantastic. They actually made a ride with Mickey Mouse again, right,
so you know these things have been flow. We'll get some Mega Man
stuff here though. Man. Uh. Sean Shohnson, who makes like PlayStation
one videos, released his big six hour long video on every Capcom game on
PlayStation one, which is really fun and people should watch it, you know.
Like that was another era where Capcom was just going nuts, like they
had Resident Evil, but tons of Mega Man games and boy do I want
to play uh Misadventures of Trombon and Mega Man Legends so very badly. Yeah,
you talk about weird Capcom. I'm ready to play More Dead Rising.
Oh yeah, because played sooner or you never played it? Oh, they're
so funny and play I played three because it was a launch game for the
Xbox One, and actually I liked it. I like it too, but
one and two were way weirder and funnier. Like I, I think this
will be the ideal one to get into. It was very anti zombie at
the time, so this was I was too, But this was like good
zombie stuff. This wasn't like Walking Dead, serious zombie shit or whatever,
like this is funny zombie when it's just September. Oh cool. Yeah,
I just don't like zombie games the formula at all. And even I think
there's charm in Dead Rising if nothing else, because it's such a capcom game
and knows it like Frank West puts on a serve bot head and lights up
a z saber like it's so good, but like it's just dumb, half
fun with it. Chad is informing me that tron Bond was Ben Hansen's childhood
crush per their Thirst Council show on Men Max. So tron bon I can
see that, not even not even roll casket, no trombone checks out for
all. Right, let's see, Sean, you've also been playing that stuff
on your iOS device, which is your new purchase recently. Tell me about
that. Well, mostly put this on here as an excuse to talk Apple
products with my fellow Apple hater, Jeff Grupp. I do not hate.
I just let's be real. Let's be real. Come on now, come
on now, for since the dawn of history, all the features everyone always
talks about came to Android eight years. It's true. And you guys are
just like, well that doesn't matter, but it kind of does. Yeah,
yeah, no, no, no, because you and me are in
the same boat where we've been using you know, Windows PCs and Android phones
for the long. I did get the MacBook Air, That's yeah, that's
yeah, that's what I wanted to bring up because we're at a point now
where these ecosystems are open enough and then the hardware is interesting enough that it's
actually like, you know, I look at an Apple product, I'm like,
this just does it better than the equivalent? So yeah, I guess
I will just buy it because now, you know, my iPhone here,
I'm just putting Google apps on it, and I'm not using any of the
built in apps, like I used the clock and I use the calculator and
everything else is Google apps and I'm just using like an Android phone. So
Sean, get Delta and get Warrior worre twisted on your phone, and it
is the best possible way to play warriorword twisted Dan. I did that on
my tablet in Study Hall High School. That's how long ago and right seventeen?
Oh my god, is that even exaggerating? I was trying to go
comically. Wait a second there, try like twenty ten. But cool.
No, well, we'll speak of emulation. I did figure out how to
install alt stores, so now I can just like sideload apps as well.
It turns out Dolphin can't be on the app store. Dolphin can be in
other places. Dolphin on your phone. Yeah wow, Okay, what was
the reason they won't put it in the app store? I can't it doesn't
have jit a Justina. But anyways, specifically, I want to talk about
the performance because it is interesting, like just how powerful these mobile devices are
nowadays, Like I can run a game I want to talk about here in
a sec. But like Zembles Zone zero, I'm running it on my phone
with like, you know, not far off settings from what I'm running on
my like mid range PC. Like that's kind of wild that we're at that
point now. I know it's a simpler game and everything, but it's really
cool that I can. Yeah, I can put it on. I assume
you three have never done this on your phones. But when you fire up
a like high level Triple A game on your phone, they just give you
like PC settings to play with. It's kind of weird to like select okay,
texture quality especially, Yeah sevens on on iPhone fifteen. Resident Evil eight
is on your phone. I can download village on here. Yeah yeah,
Resivil seven that here will burn a new story. Fewer than two thousand people
have purchased Resume Evil seven on ils Yeah. Wow, well yeah, because
it's because it needs the iPhone fifteen pro specifically wants to buy those games on
there. Sean, it's because it's that it's a remake. Yeah, yeah,
the Full Ass game, the Full Ass Game. Yeah. How much
is this get in at purchases? Oh, it's notable with my device.
Okay, it's like sixty or seventy dollars. See it's not comparable with his
device? Yeah, can get it, and then the people who do don't
want to spend sixty dollars out that's why it's not selling, right crazy,
It's kind of wait okay, wait, no, Dan, are you would
you if you could buy if it was compatal with your dice device, would
you spend sixty dollars to play Recule four on your phone? No, exactly
what you're talking about. It's a neat thing, but yeah, no one
wants to do that. That's why games, you know, like you like
your wife, WU gotcha, games are still like the what's big on mobile
right now, because even with all this power, you know, people still
want to play this free to play stuff you got Ashley an Ada though true
anyway, probably probably not, Probably no modes Jeff's Endless Zone zero sean that
I saw this on the Google App Store and I had like, oh like
three point one stars, and then I looked at the other Mihelio once and
they're all the same. And I bet it's the thing where it's like,
this doesn't run on every Android device, so people get like review it low
or whatever. Oh no, it's it gets reviewed bombs gambling. Oh sure,
yes, yes, that definitely seems like it could be it as well.
Okay, but how are you finding it? Are you happy with it?
I know you, I know you've been playing it for a few weeks
now. Yeah, I I haven't a ton of time to play it because
I'm not gonna talk about it here. I'm not gonna bore people, but
the actual game, I've been playing a lot of Final Fantasy fourteen getting caught
up before the news action I just came out, So yeah, in between,
I'll just fire up something else that'spou on my radar, like the Kannitsagami
demo and stuff. But Zeno Zone zero is one that I've been looking for
to a long time because, like I said, our stream of at the
r day, it's just it's so my shit. Just the the art style
of being jet Set Radio mixed with Splatoon, the gameplay being very you know,
just very character action, very deble may Cry or like an action RPG.
And then the music, the soundtrack is being really good. It's just
a fun, as I described it, popcorn experience. You know, you
don't you got to think too hard when you're playing it. There's story stuff
for freaks like me who want the story stuff because it is kind of just
an action RPG, like they're you're just following the story of these characters.
People think like like when Jan was playing you know, Jam being Jan,
he wanted to get to the gotcha. He was playing it like thinking,
Okay, when's the when when's the gotcha happening? When am I gonna you
know, put money in then try to get my wifu. It's like,
no, there's like a whole ass game there. It's just like when gtch
An Impact first came out and people just wrote it off as you know,
Breath of the WIFU, like, oh, this is just some random knockoff
that is going to try to get you with the in that pursues, and
then they play it and it's like, oh, there's actually something here.
The cout just did put out a decent, you know, triple a ish
quality game for free. And then also over here if you want to buy
into the whole gambling aspect, which for the record, I don't support.
I don't spend money on that stuff, but that's how mobile games work and
that's how they're making their money. Yeah, kind of unavoidable in that space.
Yeah, I understanding. Its terrible, that's awful. We shouldn't condone
these kind of things. Anyways. If I told you guys about Disney's Larkana,
you never know what you're gonna get. That's the exciting part. That's
what makes it good. I'm not a huge trading card game. Guy in
Jen, I don't buy packs by the singles. I need to, uh
to play competitively. That's all I've ever done, Sean, Which is your
favorite of the Mahoyo Moisturizer trilogy? The fuck are you talking about? Between
this Zendless Zone Zendless Zone zero gets you an impact and the Train one Star
Star Rail Yeah, uh, Star Reil was actually really good. I put
it down because you know, last year was freaking crazy, but I like
that one a lot. This this is definitely the one for me though,
like the urban setting and just everyone being you know some some The style just
gets you so hard. They know not like that. The style gets you
so good because they know what they're doing with those getch you myself there.
The designs are just they know how, they know how to get people,
they know how to pull them in with these designs. You know, Jan's
obsessed with his Shark Maiden Wi Fu And yeah, you stick around for the
game players there and it's it is legitimately a fun game. You get in
the flow of hacking and slashing, switching to your gun guy, switching to
your one, and there's just these super flashy animations that happened the whole time.
It's fun. Is this is this one on PlayStation? The ways Impact?
Was it that starter? Well that's the thing they yeah, yeah,
that's right. Ginst Impact did launch on PS five Starrail actually did not.
That's how I remember. Like my first introduction to Ginsham was a new story
about a guy in China who was destroying a PS five because they were ripping
off Breath of the Wild. Ye right, I do remember that. Wow,
it barely plays like Breath of the While, right yeah, before it
came out. Yeah, speaking of anime, what's the deal with I'm hearing
people talk about there's an anime Mario party? Yeah, what what's the deal?
There's been a lot of these, which what are you talking about?
Start a link to a YouTube video today. It said it was out in
like April, so it might be out already. And I watched it.
It straight up got hot rope jump, it's got It looks like a straight
up Mario party, And I'm curious they're making a Demon Slayer Mario party.
What the hell is this? It looks like it might have party come out.
I'm not sure. Maybe that was like an old trailer something came out
on Switch. Already, multiple Devin Slayer games are showing up on Steam,
and I'm not sure when Mario Party style Demon Slayer game for Nintendo, like
it's over he Wheel or something or what. That came out April twenty six.
Okay, sweep the board, yes, yes, sweep the board.
Yeah. I'm going to try to get some coach for that. That came
up today. Oh really on Steam's Steam. It's on Steam today right now
with sixty bucks, so we can if it doesn't have online play, which
it might, but if it doesn't, we can do Steam remote play together
to play. We should do that. I don't know. I don't know
the characters or the anime, but like its Mario Party, this is online
PvP, is what it says on Steam. All right, great, oh
ship, we have to do that. This is perfect for us because I'm
the only one who knows the story of this game on this website. That's
gonna be a big advantage. Garottee, you come in last, actually if
any of these because Demon Slayer is oftentimes a very serious anime about, you
know, slaying demons that are trying to rule the world, but it also
does have these moments of levity, so that if any anime was going to
do this, I guess, is this the one that makes sense? Sure,
let's maybe do that like next Friday or next week or something. I
would love to get Churt the gang together and do that. Yeah, sure
that On the board, I played a bit more concord. Dan, your
keyboard is so loud that he's the one I was writing down. Play anime
Mario party next week. Yeah, right, there we go. Yeah,
I played a bit more concord yesterday during the day before the thing shut down,
they extended a little bit. I'm like, Okay, I guess I
should play a little bit more. And I did find a character that I
was more that more clicked with me than any of the other ones had before.
It was the Knife Lady, which does give because if you're especially if
you're not communicating yeah knife Fou, if you're not communicating with your team,
which you might not be if you're randomly matchmaking, this is a good one
because she's supposed to be a lone wolf. She can crouch and see through
walls, and she has knives so she can like and she has a pretty
good moment movement, so you can get around behind people. So I was
I was doing a lot of that and it felt really good. And she
has this you know, kind of leap stab attack that you could do that
felt pretty good, and yet it's like just pretty good. None of it
still really clicked with me where I'm like, oh, this is super fun.
I think the game is. It's fine enough. Had it come out
several years ago and also was free to play, I think it would stand
a much better chance with me personally, But as it stands right now,
it's like, I think this game is solid in a lot of ways.
It's I don't love the way it feels, but I'm also at a point
now where I don't hate the way it feels. Uh but it's just not
winning me over to the point where I can imagine being like, let's let's
set up a game night to play Concord. I just don't have that inside
me for this game. Yeah, I want to try it. I didn't
do the uh Close beta because I don't want to play it on PlayStation.
I'm not going to pre order it so I can play on PC. Open
Beta starts soon, I think on the nineteen, so I'll check it out
there because like, I man like, I had so much fun with Overwatch
back in the day, and I really do just feel like I can't go
back to that. I don't really want to. I don't think it would
feel good too. So like one of these could hit that would be great.
I don't really know if Concord's going to be that, but I'll give
it a shot. Yeah, there is another open beta next weekend and we'll
see. Might maybe I'll play a little bit more, but now I got
a lot of other stuff on my plate, so I'm not sure. And
and this game, you know, out in like a couple of weeks now,
right, it's the beginning of August for this one to your schedule though,
because tomorrow is ANYS World Championships. Oh yeah, no, that is
the rest of my Yes, absolutely, I cannot wait. I'm like losing
my mind. Were traveling this weekend, so I'm going to be in a
hotel room and airplanes, just feversly trying to be all of your times and
upf will be us setting a bunch of times this week everybody, so definitely
tune in for that. It will be a good time. What what what
game do you each think you're going to be immediately the best at Mari.
Did you punch out? Yeah? Do we don't such out? Oh yeah,
yeah there's Yeah when you look up that list of games while we're talking
about it, but yeah, I mean I mostly remember. I mean it's
all the Zelda's, the Marios, kidd Orris, uh, Kirby's Adventure,
Balloon Fight Site Bikes and ice Climbers in there. Yeah, Kidris and ice
Climb. Yeah, I know right, ice Climb is Urban Champion. Uh
no, I'm looking at it now. Also every virtual console. Yeah.
No, punch Out kind of limited, honestly, so I hope there is
enough in this post. There's no third party right like it, you know,
and I get it. But boy, when I think of NYES,
I do think of like Mega Man and Castlevania thing to punch out. I
mean, they don't have to have typs. This outs weird. That's a
weird, to be fair. I think there's a chance they're trading this kind
of how they've been treating their recent sports games, where they'll do an update
with like a new round of games a couple of months. They also just
add like what golf and baseball like something. Yeah, they put the lost
levels in there. That's gonna suck. Star Tropics. What the hell where
is it? But yes, that will be the rest of my week.
Honestly, I cannot wait. In the meantime, I've been playing E Sports
college football, which is a lot of fun. They I think they nailed
what I want from the college football experience game, which is it needs to
feel really atmospheric, because if people don't watch college football. The thing about
it's just it is brimming with excitement from the stands, from the band,
the just it feels majestic in a lot of ways, and the game does
a pretty good job of capturing that. And then the product on the field
is also a little bit different than the NFL, where everyone is so skilled
in the NFL that there's very few mistakes made, and if our mistakes made,
it is they're very slight, or it just doesn't feel like anything can
happen in an NFL game at any moment. In the college football game,
it does feel that way, and that comes across as well to the point
where, like in the old game, there is just a lateral button where
you can lateral it at any time right there on l one, and you
know there's been a lot of matins where I don't think that's necessarily the case.
And then the athleticism where you know you are not necessarily as skilled as
a team, but your quarterback probably can run really well and at any moment
you could just you know, tuck it down and start running and feel like
you can juke anyone. That stuff is very good as well. So I'm
enjoying Is that a newiest thing in football? Because I feel like when I
was a kid, no quarterback could ever run, and then Michael Vick came
along, and now every quarterback can run like crazy. Yeah, I mean
it's definitely it's newish, for sure, but it's much more popular in college
football than in the NFL, for sure. And then in the NFL now
it's catching on where there's a lot of guys that can be dual threats,
and that well, that did start with Michael Vick. Absolutely, I assume
not. But does the game have like a persona style mode where you get
you at the go to school during the day, and like your relationships impact
how you do and to feel like, oh, maybe your girlfriend broke up
with you and that now you're gonna be there's literally Mike, are you are
you referencing the meme that went around, because literally that does happen. So
there. I have no idea. I know very little about this game,
Jeff, I promise you in the Creative Player, there's a creative player thing.
I haven't done this yet, so but I've seen this where someone's like,
uh, you're doing a creative Player and one of your friends text you
and says, Buddies, my girlfriend just broke up with me. Can we
have a boys night? And like you got to go spend time with them
to keep you like your team a rale high or something like that. So
yeah, that's there, That's what the boys. Let's do it with the
boys. Thatt's backwards, Let's go how far? It's Uh, it gets
my my biggest issue personally, although I don't know how much of an issue
it's going to be for the get this game's audience. Where the two offline
modes are Dynasty, which is the mode that I think most people really like
from these games, and keep them want that's what they wanted in this so
they're getting that. But Dynasty, you are recruiting and you are worried about
the Transfer Portal, which is this time where players from your team if they're
unhappy, can declare, hey, I'm going to transfer, and then another
school can come and swoop them away. This super portal, yes, it's
it is menacing now. It's like kind of a weird thing in college football.
That's kind of making it feel very different. But I don'twas have the
transportal. I don't want to think, yes, the hospital for transporting.
I don't want to think about that stuff too much because it's like, oh,
I got all these players, and now I've got a bunch of like,
you know, computer generated players that I'm recruiting, and I just don't
get too excited about that. But that's a big part of the Dynasty mode.
Then the other one is just to create a player mode, and I'm
like, I think I'm looking for something that is a bit more lightweight where
I can just start the season and my goal is to win the national championship
with the current football team that I'm a fan of, and the only real
way to do that is to I suppose maybe you can go to the Creator
player mode and that would have that. Again, I haven't played with that
too much, but Dynasty it's like, no, you're gonna have to deal
with recruiting and sort of just minimize it, put in the background and not
care if you're not doing good at recruiting because you're only going to play the
one season. But yeah, either way, the game is already massively successful.
It is in early access right now for people who pre or not didn't
pre order but bought the one hundred dollars edition, and Greg Miller posted last
night that were there were six hundred thousand people online last night playing the game,
and so those are all people who paid one hundred dollars for the game,
and those are just the ones who are online at that moment. So
it is going to be massive. I could probably use this right when it
seems like that Apex Legends money is drying out. Huh definitely. Yeah.
And you know, so they're like, hey, a new Ultimate Team.
The game does start with, like before anything else, you're writing ultimate team
for college football, and they're like, hey, you want to so you
want to play this? And they like make the button where you're like,
you're like, no, I don't want to play this. They make that
really small and often the side and all that stuff. But yeah, so
I will probably play some online, but I'm sure, I'll just get wrecked
because I kind of played pretty people saw yesterday. I kind of played pretty
sloppy. Uh, And that's that's how I enjoyed doing it, because again,
it's college football, that's what that's what it's there for. But going
online, I think you have to be a little bit more conservative, and
I'm not necessarily looking for that experience. Boy, I like sports games.
Okay. I don't know there's anything I'd rather do less than play like a
sports game with a stranger. Yeah, that's a big time commitment. I
don't know. And it's like it's definitely for a certain kind of person who's
like, no, I like trash talk, you know, I want to
be trash talk too, and I know that exactly exactly. All Right,
So Mike, you bought a Zoo. Huh? But you were about to
see I was gonna like buy your time and then you like, I muted
microp, Yes, I bought it, Zoo. Why did you buy that
Zoo? I did I buy that Zoo? Frontier announced Planet Coaster too.
I'm excited for that. I like the first Planet Coaster quite a lot.
But they remind me they did also make Planet Zoo, which doesn't get talked
about quite as much as Planet Coaster, but it's a lot of fun.
It is basically just those tools that they have for Planet Coaster, but it
is, you know, we're making a zoo instead. It's some of that
stuff transfers over pretty literally, like making the paths for your park and kind
of the decorating that you can do. But like the simulation stuff here is
very much about you know, buying animals and making the pens and the habitats
for them, and making sure they have the right amount of tree coverage that
they need and has to be trees from their kind of specific biomes so that
they're happy, and making sure you have the right people working in the park
and maintaining all of these things right. So all of that theme park sim
stuff. And because of that, maybe it feels a little bit more on
that sim side. But you do have the sandbox mode that you can do
if you just wanted to like make a zoo and you know, without any
money restrictions worrying about the kind of financial stuff. But I was having fun
playing through the you know campaign where you have the scenarios in At first it's
kind of tutorially, but I did the first one where it was just like
here's a plot of land in Canada and there's a little bit here, but
you know, basically you're building a zoo from scratch, and you know,
try to have several different exhibits and this, you know, try to make
this much money, right, Yeah, And I was having a great time.
I you know, do enjoy these games every now and then. It
was fun making my zoo. You can do things like put the camera on
your animals, just kind of follow them around. I had a hard time
with education. My education rating was bad, so I kept trying to like
put up more like billboards with the Youngstown States. So yeah, it's hard.
You know, It's like, okay, I got to tell people more
about the forestation and whatnot, Like you put like speakers in your part that
tell them about the animals they're looking at. You gotta hire people to go
around. You couldn't even like build whole stands and have like a show of
some kind, and that's intimidating. But I didn't quite dive into that.
There's a lot there. There's a ton of death into the experience, right,
And I probably played six seven hours just doing the kind of the tutorial
and then this first real campaign. She was like the simple way of explaining
that, it's like it is planet coaster, but without designing coasters, or
or he's designing like a lion entrapment as complicated as designing a roller coaster.
Maybe it's it's pretty different, right, And again, I think the management
stuff of it, it feels more important here, right, like like looking
into at the needs of the line and things like that. Did you ever
play Frontier Developments Jurassic World games? Actually, yeah, because I think they
actually get evolution one first, and that's like that is kind of similar.
It's a similar thing, okay, Right, It's like, okay, making
sure we have the stuff to make these animals happy and making sure the guests
can see them and all stuff. And there is also like make sure the
walls are are high enough and make sure that you know, yeah, you're
maintaining the walls because the animals can get out and that's a problem. So
you know, there's it's kind of you're spinning a lot of plates and you're
making sure everything's going well while also trying to expand the park while the complexity
keeps building and building. Right, Okay, it's relaxing. It's a good
time. Yeah. The Planet Coaster too, is that the one that has
the water parks. Water parks is like the big new feature. It sounds
so exciting to me for some reason, Like I'm like, I would love
to design a water slide. Yeah, it looks great. It looks like
kind of like the water park can be in your theme park like some places
have, so it can all be conned. Can you make a lazy river
that kind of goes underneath everything? I mean, we don't know much.
I would almost guarantee it right that, So I like something about that just
really sets me off. I'm like, yeah, that'd be great. Planet
Coaster one is just very good with how much freedom you have with building things,
and then also how much of your own assets you can pull into it,
so you can like bring in your own music and your own kind of
video files for video screens. I mean, people can do wild things in
Planet Coaster one. And you know there's a whole uploading and downloading community service
things, so you can just you know, hey, somebody made Peaches Castle.
You could just go download that and put that into your theme park,
so you can start kind of building your own little Mario Land in whatever theme
park you have, they get through things like I'm gonna, you know,
just upload the Mario theme song, so it kind of plays there as ambient
noise or for my fireworks show. You can snacronize firework shows. There's a
Planet Coaster is very good if you're like me and you really enjoyed Roller Coaster,
Tycoon and Tycoon two back in the day, and maybe even three.
Planet Coaster is absolutely the successor to that series. Are there like Disney mods
for Planet Coaster? I don't think there's official ones, but again official,
Yeah, the community workshop lest Disney is like being real strict about that stuff.
I assume it's there, but I don't know. Interesting all right,
Dan, you finally finished Hollow Night? Did you get the true ending?
No, I'm still working on it, so I think I'm at like ninety
percent. But it's like there is a good amount after you, like beat
the last boss. There's a lot of stuff you can do, and it's
just like it's not the most easily googleable game because it's like it doesn't track
every little thing. It doesn't show you everything on the map, so it's
a lot of like looking at maps online being like, Okay, I don't
think I've got that charm. I don't think I've done there. I haven't
beat this Colisseum thing. So the discovery aspect of it is really good,
and like, I think it's pretty cool that I beat the game, and
I'm you know, I've probably gone five ten hours past that. I'm still
trying to kind of mop everything up. It's an incredible steam Deck game,
of course, so you know, with all the time in the car and
everything going to and from Oklahoma and all that, got some good time in
this weekend on it. But yeah, just again to say I beat it.
You know, probably gonna keep playing a little bit here and there to
finish it off. But yeah, fantastic game, and I'm glad that.
I'm sure Soak Song is pretty far along and I'll get to just hop right
into it afterwards. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, I remember,
I think the big fun things to do obviously getting the True Ending, which
is just like a couple of items you need to sort of find somewhere to
unlock that I believe leave. And then there's the Dark Troop, which was
like DALC that's an optional boss that's very difficult but very fun. And then
yeah, that Colisseum, the last wave of the Colisseum is very difficult about
that because I have the most powerful nail now, so it's fairly easy for
me to beat things now. Yeah. Yeah, oh it's a good game.
You have you felt shamed into going back yet now? Yes? Absolutely?
Oh I feel the shame. I haven't done it yet. I was
debating, like s to do that or Dark Souls, and then you start
playing Dark Soul, so it's your fault. Yeah, that's fair. Usually
is Monkeyball multiplayer? You played some of this, Dan, how'd you find
it? So? Also, while I was back in town, I stayed
at Kala's one night and my sister Katie also came over, and so we
played some multiplayer games and we tried some of the like you know, race
stuff in the Banana Collection and stuff like that, and you know, it
wasn't really hitting for us that much. I know, we did a little
bit of Summer Games Fest and we thought like, oh, well, we'll
play a bunch of this, but like I wanted more like Monkey Target,
like the box and stuff, all that darts, all the weird stuff.
It's mostly like a bunch of race and collection type stuff, and we weren't
super hot into that, but we found this mode that we absolutely love that
I'm gonna recommend to anyone, especially locally. I don't know if you can
do it online or not, but just do the Story mode multiplayer. It's
split screen and you can turn collision on or off. So at first we
started it from the very first level and it's like, Okay, we're just
gonna fuck with each other. We're gonna kock each other off, we're gonna
race to the end and stuff like that. But very quickly you realize like,
Okay, this game gets hard and you're gonna need to kind of like
not necessarily work together because you're all in separate balls. But you're not gonna
be able to actively fuck with each other and get anywhere. You're gonna die
a million times. So it's like, wait, but if you could collide
with each other, is there just one plane of existence that you're all controlling
together? I mean me, moving through the stage isn't like tilting the stage
for others. Everyone seems to have their own, but like, your balls
were knocked in each other, so you can like, oh, you can
do a spindash and accidentally clip someone and some them flying off. So even
when we're all trying to like okay, Kayla, you go okay, then
I'm gonna go, oh shit, she fell. Okay, Katie, you're
the only one to lie, only one you have to finish to go to
the next level. So the entire story mode multiplayer like that, and like
we thought we would just try it out, and we went through like half
the game that way and it was super okay. Yeah, so it was
an on story mode multiplayer. I would I would highly recommend for sure.
The secret monkey ball if anyone didn't know, is that you're not actually controlling
the stage or anything like that. You're controlling the gravity of your individual monkey
ball. So that's why multiplayer. Yeah, it's all a camera trick where
it tellts the camera while you do it to make you look like that.
That's why multiplayer could work. You're affecting your own monkey and interesting their own
monkey boy. Jeff, don't you feel stupid now? Yeah, I'm a
yeah, I don't know that Sean stuff. Huh. We got to do
something about this guy. Yeah, Okay, well that that sounds cool.
Weld. Still I still want to play monkey ball on the site at some
point it might be hard this week with everyone gone, and it's kind of
like championships and parties and a party. I played shoot Mario Party while home.
Yes, okay, how'd that go? Well? So okay, normally
the crew when I go home now for Mario Party is me, my sisters,
and my brother in law. And so you know, Bok was there.
But Bac, I think, I will say, has a active disdain
for the act of playing Mario Party, so that she didn't play it that
much. You immediately realizes someone who very much knows that analyzed video games saw
it like once, it was like, oh, this is complete horseshit.
We decided, okay, so here, we're not going to force Bunk to
play. But there's a new member of the family that I needed to incorporate
into the Mario Party, you know, family tradition here. So she's five
weeks old, yeah, five weeks old, my niece Eva, and so
we legitimately made her a human character. We did random and we're like,
hey, Ava, this is who you're going to be for the rest of
your life, just so you know whatever it randomizes, Like, you know,
I'm always wa Luigi. Kayla is always Luigi, Katie's Yoshi, and
okay, we randomized she got Mario, so that means she's she can play
all the old ones now as Mario. She's yes. So the rule was
we had Bank was playing probably a better game on her Steam deck, and
we had the joy Con next to her, so Bank was kind of surrogate
playing for Ava since the five week old can't you know, press the buttons
when needed. But the rules were though she is a baby, Ava is
so like all she we decided all she can do is hit a so no
thinking is allowed. Literally, the only thing that could happen is when we
said, like Ava, roll the dice, Bank would hit the button.
So that also meant when on like item shops and things like that, you
can't make any decisions. If you get to a pork in the road,
you can't decide left or right. You literally can only hit a no mini
game participation, know anything, She just stood there. Let's see that seems
so unfair. Then she probably wouldn't have a chance of doing well in the
game, because that made this is this game of skill. She was in
first place for a dude chunk of the late game for at least like seven
or eight turns she was in first place. Only now this is this was
amazing to us. Katie, my sister has been playing with us for our
entire lives. She never won once until like she was like twenty seven.
This was like four years ago, and she was like oh. She cried.
She was like, oh my, I can't believe I won. I've
never won me and Kayla always fucked her over so bad, and she went
her five week old daughter almost beat her. And the only reason she didn't
is because we had to hit only a at item shops. Whenever we went
there, she had to buy a skeleton key for four coins because it was
the first one that popped up. She was like, do you want to
buy an item a? Yes, why do you want to buy a skeleton
key? So she was about to buy a star on that turn, and
she went and she had to buy a skeleton key, which made her like
one coin short. Oh my star. That would have beat her mother.
But she's not stupid. She she had like ninety skeleton keys. She had
to keep throwing skeleton keys on the ground to get more. So if she
had not had to buy all those skeleton keys, she would have beat her
mother. The five week old infant. It's incredible. I've been dying to
ask you about this since Society tweet Dan, how was she in the lead?
Wow? What? Well, there was a chance time that went really
bad and like some of Kyla stars went to her. So here's the thing.
This was eye opening to me as someone who's been playing Mario Party a
long time. I've never seen the horseshit so blatantly happen where it's like,
so she would like not be winning any mini games or anything, obviously,
you know, she's just standing there. She did better than you would expect,
but I probably do pretty well by not playing, Like yeah, yeah,
Kayla would like get a star because she would like, you know,
seek it out and go to the star place, buy the star. And
then like once Ava started falling, falling behind a good amount, Oh where's
the star gonna go? Oh it's two spaces in front of Mario. Weird,
Like, hey, that's bullshit. They're just doing that because she's losing.
But what happened and she would get enough coins just through horses. I
don't know how many times the communist bowser shit happened, and like all of
my one hundred and twenty coins, suddenly I have to give a bunch to
the fucking baby, and now the baby has sixty coins and can now buy
some fucking stars. So revolution, Yeah, yeah suck if you're if you're
doing a two B two though, you get stuck with the baby who kid.
That happened several times and it was hilarious. There was somewhere you could
win. There's like the bob sled race where it's like, all right,
if I can just turn real hard here, we're not gonnall out of the
pit, or the one where you're doing the like mind cart things. So
there are ones where the baby could do all right. But yeah, I
literally would have beat her mother if not for the skeleton keys she had to
keep buying. Who did win those full thing? It was probably me?
Uh, congratulations, Kala. Yeah that's about right. It was fun though,
So yeah, it's uh, we'll keep doing that every time and we'll
see how it goes as she gets older and can think more. It's weird
that it's the Bowser Revolution is named after the Communist Revolution, Like I get
the joke that like they're giving everyone the same amount of money, but wasn't
the Communist Revolution kind of like bloody and deadly and stuff Nicholas the Session and
the Bolsheviks and all that stuff. Yeah, exactly a pretty pretty deadly Dan.
If you ever actually played like Mario Party with an actual child, like
like a five year old or like a I mean with my sisters, but
when I was also pretty much a kid, yeah, they they do not
handle it well. No, they cry a lot. They get cry.
So every time we play Mario where I just play against I guess you're the
only children. Can we do a stream where I just play Mario Party against
your children and I'm mean to them? I have to ask my wife.
Folks, they're gonna cry. That's good. And also Backlar's kid, but
back Lar's kid fucking sucks. He would be annoying. Probably I'm lovably annoying
Backlar's kids. Shoot shuts. Okay, Hey, the reviews are in on
Dan Record. Dan Rekert says, lovably annoying. You love me? No
one loves him. Pull on the chat here, Dan or Dib like kids
like age five would laugh in their face like one of those wired video like
white rooms. Just three kids. And then suddenly Dan Record walks in,
Wait, what's that I can't wait to see dad. To do with the
fact that, like, a kid could be winning and something goes wrong and
they still cry. Speaking of a kid could be winning, DIB overwhelmingly more
popular than Dan. Can't imagine why I don't see it? Damn Would it
bother you that the kids were crying because they were losing the game. If
they were strangers or someone else's kids, No, I mean if it was
like I got you know, I got a news, I got neppiers.
Now, I wouldn't want to see them cry. They're related to share them,
they're family, but like like I don't know, like Grub, look,
I well, I get it, Grub. I don't want to make
your kids right strangers that I don't know at all. I think it would
be very funny if they were shoot upset at how I was playing Mario Party
against them. Parents should bring their random unknown choulder to you for punishment.
Basically, yes, yes, and Mario Party jee twenty player me against nineteen
children and I'm bereding the entire time. Let's right there. I saw a
feature Backlark. We need to be able to pay for twenty Kids'm a packet
of gushers or something there is. Yeah, that's that's how you get around
the labor laws recording any of this. All right, well, how did
the future judges when they listen to this? Bye? Everybody? All right,
next video games. We're gonna talk about the news here after a quick
break to hear from maybe Jan talking about sponsors, I don't know what happens.
All right, we are back and and uh, what are you guys
getting on Prime Day? Mike, you're gonna you're gonna go through the purchase
of getting a new microphone. I mean, well, I sound better I
listen. I think I don't think there's any issues with how you sound.
No one's ever complained about it. It does sound fine. Nobody ever I
people complain about how I sound. I don't think they meet my mic quality.
Well, yeah, it wouldn't be a huge step up. But if
you're having that's like, yeah, you don't need it, but it would
be nice to have you. I'm gonna ask chat if I need a new
microphone. I'll start. I kind of feel like I'm cheating here because outside
of there's a bunch of four K blu rays on Prime Day actually buying a
lot of liquid death. Now, oh, what the hell, Dan,
I'm sorry. No, no, no, no, I'm sorry. I
could do I could do prime. You're buying liquid death. Now I will
tell you it was. I'll tell you why I never thought of it.
I'd say the commercials water. Well, that's what I thought too. And
this is not a bit of yes it is back when you it is.
But I'm telling you I was on the road trip. I was on the
way back. We're stopping the man gas stations because, oh boy, you
want to stop at some gas stations. Have Paul Riker drive and you will
pee and see every gas station between Oklahoma City and Kansas City you will stop.
Oh the amount of times we stopped. It is incredible that you are
the one completing about this like not those second like Dan, you have no
no crying to stand on. It's how often does he pee that even you
are annoyed at how often he peas I mean usually like a lot of times.
If he if he drives me to the airport, like a forty minute
drive, it'll be like he'll pee right before. He'll pull over during the
thing if he finds a gas station, and a lot of times, the
amount of times I've seen him pull off under a bridge on the highway to
pee on the side of the road and a forty minute drive. We're talking
like three timesh shit, I gotta go sign for a thing. I'll be
back to sorry, all right, Yeah yeah, we'll keep a bookmark on
Dad's pee there. All right. I guess most people told me that I
do not need a new mic, so I'm gonna say my sign. I
don't think you need any you need it. It's like, if there's an
issue one day, you can get it then and again, do you want
to have it it becomes a problem, that's yeah, exactly, because I
don't think you need to spend the money in case it becomes a problem one
day. That's I think it'd be a right service. Has just bought Summer
Slam tickets anyway, so yeah, yeah, exactly right. That's and that's
why I haven't been looking at Prime Day because I spend a lot of money
on that. So I'm like, I don't need to spend any more money.
But I am curious about any one of these teleprompters. But I don't
do I need to know a Gatto one or can I get like a random
brand on me by teleprompters. Not so it's not another computer screen, you
mean, like no, no, no, So what it is is it?
It's really what it is. It's it's a device, a mechanical device
that has plexiglass on it that's angled so the camera could go right through it
on the back and not see it, but you could see the reflection of
a screen, and then the software that co pairs it with makes it reverse
and backwards so that when it reflects up to you on the on the glass
you could read it correctly. And then there's probably a buttons to make a
up and down right. No, there's not that. So there's a camera,
Like I'm pointing my camera here, I can't really see it because it's
behind the reflective like last thing, the actual monitor thing is down here.
I can see it and it's just kind of flipping and turning it. But
it's cool. It's it's got stuff where you can just like see the twitch
chat and stuff like that, and like built in things like It's I haven't
spent a lot of time messing with it for like Twitch or anything yet,
but so far from just like zoom calls and stuff. It's cool. But
liquid death So my dad peece a lot. So we're stopping a gas station
and how they make with death and listen. I was trying to find prime
X because I'm trying to fill out the treasure map to become a millionaire.
But I'm missing the eleven piece. So if anybody has the eleven piece,
split with me. You can buy another piece of chicken nuggets. I have
so many of all the other map pieces. Uh well, but we're gonna
cash it in for a tech tee and doing monopoly. They're basically just doing
McDonald's Monopoly, and there's one in four. There's four pieces in the world
of this eleven piece that I'm trying to get me. My friends have been
like texting each other eight times a day with pictures of caps, and I've
been filling it in on the treasure chart. Summer of the first McDonald's Monopoly
was so the most important. Yes, it was so important. We didn't
have much going on. One of the girls that had the security like stole
all the pieces in one of himself. They were like, we had O.
J. Simpson, we found out Ellen was gay, then we had
mc Donald's all we cared about. Yes, so thecarago happened there somewhere.
I don't know. They didn't have Prime exim one of these. By the
way, I still love Prime. I got a bridge full and I got
a bunch of Costco packs back there. I love it. But that's my
hydration drink. Now, that's my I just got done with a drink or
a run. So this, now, this character. I saw it on
the shelf and I was like, you know what I've saying, the commercials
and stuff. I don't know what the big deal is. I hear people
talk about it and stuff, and it's it was like mango chainsaw. And
I was like, all right, I'll see what a mango chainsaw it tastes
like. And I tasted, and god damn it if it doesn't taste really
good. I think it's been the same thing Prime does, where it's like
twenty salaries flavored water. Yeah, so this is like water millon and it's
like it's like Seltzer, but it's like it's got some calories, sir,
I just bubbly. Well, so I like Bubby, I like Lacroix,
I like all those Seltzers and everything, but those are zero calorie. I
think the thing is I think there's a doctor pepper tent situation. It's like
ten manly calories. Uh, the one you got, spin Drift is in
that ten calories. Spend Drift is low spendrift. And again, I think
that's why spend Drift is one of the better ones, is because they do
have some calories there, but it's not enough to make you think like,
you know, you drink as more number of calories than zero to be fair.
So yeah, of course it's better. These are all like twenty and
there is like a serious flavor to it, and it's I bought all the
flavors and everything. It's it's very good. Does it doesn't the branding make
you feel ashamed though, you feel like you should be wearing ed hardy while
you drink. Let me read everything on this can water. Let me read
the things on this can. This is the flavor. Yeah, do you
have mm A clips on in the background while you're reading this? The flavor
is convicted mellon in here. It's oh my god, hang on, it
says this ruthless tall boy of flavored sparkling water has a twisted plan to use
natural agave and exploding bubbles to murder your thirst and recycle your soul. My
damnness, Danny, it might be a doctor peppertin situation. This is the
most it's not for women thing I've ever seen a woman. It would evaporate
immediately. I'm just can listen. It tastes good. It tastes okay,
I would like taste good. I would like to go on the record.
Dan, you you realize that the base liquid death is literally just water?
Right? There is just nothing confused me. So I think I did buy
one of those on Prime Day just to confirm it, like this is just
water that's overpriced, right, which probably will be. I did not realize
they had all these fun flavors and that's where they got me. I didn't.
I actually didn't know that watermelon water that tastes really good and like,
so like now legitimately I normally have I normally have a couple like stories like
zero stories with my dinner. I feel like this will replace that. And
also this is water, you know, so like that is a net positive,
right, like going from dietzoda to water, like is that not a
net positive? I mean died soda is also like water. No, I
know, but and I'm not one of those like, oh, diet sodas
are terrible for you, like in types of plans pertain rules, Yeah it's
the best, but this, honestly, it tastes like as good, if
not better than some of that. I the only time I had liquid death,
I was at a Final Fantasy concert with the Minates and I was like,
I got thirsty and I saw it do for the first time. Yeah,
I was thirsty, and so I was like, I'm gonna go order
a water and I'll pay for it. Of course, I know where I'm
at. I'm at a concert. I'll get a bottle of water, and
they hand me this liquid death thing, and I'm like a media, I'm
like, they're gonna give me shit for this. I'm gonna go back and
sit down with the Minates and they're gonna give me shit, just so I
should say. I should say something like diffuse it before they make fun of
me. And by the time I got back to the seat, I had
tucked myself into it, like no, they're gonna know it's I did not
order a liquid death. I just wanted to water. They go, They're
gonna get it, and I sat down. I think immediately Mike's like what
the fuck is that I'm going to start? I would order this at a
place like I'm sure. Yeah, I'll tell you that, try it later.
You're gonna like it. It's good. I'll try it, of course,
I'll try it. How much does the can of that cost? Dan?
I think at the gas station it was like two fifty. Uh,
let me see the course power. This is like what water would be like
in cyber Punch. Okay here an eight pack that I got on Prime Day
was eleven fifteen. That's not terrible if it's a huge, Yeah for twenty
four Okay. The official state water of Idiocracy is what it feels like.
Yes, yes, look I giving that to plants. Yeah, yeah,
I say. I saw Idiocracy once when it first came out, and there
there was stuff like, uh like awl my balls and stuff, and I
was like, it looks like a watch that Yeah, absolutely, I said.
So normally it looks like it's like thirteen bucks thirteen twenty five, like
flavored water, like you know, a dollar something for like a good can.
Yeah, that's that's okay, that's right. Those are tall boys show.
Come on, you looks so cool. Yeah, all right, somebody's
got get this show on track, Jeff, what's the news? Where it
is? There we go, I'm too busy talking about Dad team. All
right, I got some news for everybody, And by that I mean it
was a slow news week, so we got some headlines. Here. We'll
get through and whatever. A fifth Crash Bandicoot game was in the works,
but not anymore. It was apparently put on the shelf or canceled or put
on hold or something. Former Toys for Bob artist Nicolas Cole claims a fifth
Crash Bandicoot game was canceled at the studio the project This is actually confusion here.
There was another project he worked on called Project Dragon that was separately canceled,
and but then Crash five was at the works at Toys for Bob.
They aren't working on anymore. But he said it would be heartbreaking to fans
because apparently it was something that they would all want. This is the kind
of situation where they're not like cancer, there will never be us Crash five.
This is just like they're not going to do a Crash five right now,
right right, So to remind people like kind of the timeframe there is,
you know, they probably would have had some projects they were working on
after Crash four, and a Crash five makes a lot of chance, a
lot of sense. But it was not too long after that where they did
become a call duty support studio under the old Act Division management, right,
so that's what they became, and they did, like still put out that
Crash Team Rumble the Most, which was a game that they were able to
make with a lot of Crash four assets, right, So you see how
that still was able to happen. Probably not a very big risk. But
you know, once they were put on the call of duty mill, they
were not going to have time to make a Crash five, which is very
stupid. Crash Band into four was amazing. Activision was made a ton of
money from the Crash Insane trilogy. Crash Word did make very well. That
did very well. Crash War didn't do that well, but it still sold
millions of copies. There was momentum there. You should just keep making Crash
games every few years so you do have something there instead of just immediately retreating
because the one game didn't make as much money as you think that effort would
have. If there has to be the Meshi returns at some point, but
you're putting more studios there, had it done better, had it done better
than Insane Trilogy. It's like Tony Hawk's pro Skater one plus two remake was
the best selling Tony Hawk game of all time, a franchise known for being
like massive, and then they didn't make a fall up to that. So
at a certain point it's like, no, no matter what happens with these
other games, you're going to go work on Call of Duty. But the
weird thing is, even when Xbox did kind of come in, you know,
twice for Bob, then it's not like they were like, Okay,
yeah, you're with us and you're gonna become you know, Crash and Spiro.
Yeah you can go off on your own instead of us closing you,
I guess yeah. And what's weird is like they are working with Xbox.
Now is the contract some project. It's weird and it's probably Spiral or Crash.
But I'm just like, wind up, why did you just let them
do that as part of like you The whole thing is weird. I hope
we still do get Spiro and Crash games because again, hey, the Spiral
trilogy also sold incredibly well. Yeah, that was very much a good one
because I never played those and then like that was they aided so well.
The actual way they put the trilogy together was great. It looked beautiful,
like I that's one of my favorites, like HD Remake Remaster. It's just
the amount of time they put in, like giving all those like because like
in Spiral one set of Stars, you save dragons, and they gave each
dragon this incredible unique design. They were like the same dragon, right yeah,
and there's like a few different malls. They had different colors and like
each of them had a different design. They were animated, so it looked
so good. Like just yet the Spiral in Crash Remix are great, but
the Spiral ones especially, and that was Toys for Bob. It's not how
much crowing Activision had, and it kind of all just led to more call
duty. That's say, like Toys for Bob. It's so talented and so
incredible. I'm so glad they weren't shut down. It's wold to be.
The Xbox was just like, yeah, you can go be on your own.
Then we'll just like who gets you pro bono or whatever? We guess
all right, I am keeping pro bono. It's fine. I'm thinking about
Tony Hawk a lot lately because I am playing Tony Hawk three on a shoot
PS two lately, and oh man, like, look, I love the
one plus two remake and I love you know, emulating and stuff like that,
but I am just playing with a dual shock in my hand on a
CRT and everything is so fucking snappy, and every song that hurts, like
god damn it. I've been thinking about Tony Hawk a lot lately, and
I just would love more of that. I got that soundcheck on vinyl recently,
son ext pro Skater three specifically, and this and the vinyl is fun
because like, in between tracks, it will just kind of play like the
menu sounds and like stuff like that, which like all sounds like skateboard stuff.
Yeah, that's still That's still my favorite Tony X pro Skater three.
It's kind of everything like I want, like, you know, four in
the Thug series when it went more up in the world. It's still fun,
but I definitely prefer the more run based game. Yeah, three or
three? Oh yeah. Can I say my controversial uh Tony Hawk take Tony
HOS pro Skater one is best on N sixty four. That's insane. It
feels better. I am the biggest in sixty four control defender on the planet
for Tony Hawk and also the right the control it right. But if you
played on an emulator these days, now I get hot tailor Yeah, it's
not a hot take, it's stupidity. What are you the oldest thing to
say? The game plays better on the N sixty four than it does on
PlayStation one, Ship and Dreamcast and Dreamcast. If it plays better than that
one too, that's like saying, like, oh no, Super Mario sixty
four. What's the best way to play that is N sixty four is see
the decompilation, Like, yeah, of course pros Skater two on everything felt
more like the N sixty four version, which is why that one started really
getting better. And then then then it didn't matter in sixty four and you
can play Tony pro Skater two X for the Xbox it's very good. Yeah
it's a latch game. Yeah it was. I forget that all right,
everyone's mad at me. That's what I like. Link will be playable in
the Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom in the upcoming game, The Legend of
Zelda Echoes of Wisdom players will be able to assume the role of Link,
as confirmed by US Entertainment Software Rating Sport. Basically, the game got rated
and they're like in the sections where you play is link and everyone's like,
I thought you played a Zelda. Do you think that this is anything more
than the intro section we saw at the game? It would be the fucking
thing in Spirit tracks where every once in a while there's this like side little
section where it's like, oh, every year before you go into ever Dunetin,
you do this link thing to unlock it in a spirit world or something,
you know, like yeah, yeah, I mean it could be that
it could be, yeah, just as little as that intro, because it
specifically says like use this and uh bow and arrow, and I bet like,
yeah, that's probably the extent of his abilities, because it is just
going to be that little intro just using his model and his stuff that they
already had from the Links of Wake any remake. I'm sure this is still
ninety five percent or more playing as Zelda. This isn't like some concern And
also, who gets ah if there's not a big deal, like right,
I don't think at very least it's like definitely not a problem. But it's
like, Okay, is there going to be more than what we saw?
I bet it's not. I think it's just the intro. I bet I
can play the intro as links and that's it. I really hope that there's
some kid out there somewhere who gets a Melgear Solid two experience with this game.
That would be so connection. Yeah. Yeah, just a man on
an island, the last person out there defending the link. All right,
yeah, we'll see. Uh. Resident Evil seven on iOS has proportedly been
purchased by fewer than two thousand people. Resident seven on iOS has had a
slow start, with an estimated eighty three thousand down loads and twenty and forty
dollars in revenue excluding apples thirty percent cut. This suggests that less than two
thousand paying customers have actually converted on the game. Other console ports on iOS
have had similar slow launches, although most are like around ten thousand or so
in terms of people who have bought it. Yeah, that's that's rough.
That's rough. I get why this happens in terms of why these games come
to the iOS in the first place, where it's basically all the same thing
as their computers. So if they make it for Mac, they could just
put it on the phone. But do you think they even keep doing this
in the future. I don't know. I guess they give it a chance
when more people can play it on more devices. Right, Yeah, based
on the way because I did watch wwe DC this year, and based on
the way Apple's talking about gaming and these Triple A games, this feels like
an Apple initiative and not specifically a Capcom slash Ubisoft initially, right, and
those always flame out those role ways like talk about games at one WWDC and
then two years later there's a new initiati or even just so text stuff like
this in general that's a little bit disconnected, like you know, Stadia talking
up some big exclusive or something that's probably Google going to that developer and say,
hey, you know, may we work out a deal here, and
then you know, when it doesn't take off, well obviously, then the
developer just nopes on out and yeah, this is what we were talking about
a little bit before. It's a combination of a lot of these games do
require a newer device. You need either the fit iPhone fifteen Pro or you
need to have a one of the newer iPads, and so that already limits
the market you can address because people upgrade their phones slower and slower nowadays.
So there's plenty of people out there, I'm sure, with like an iPhone
twelve who have slapped a backbone on and might wat check this out, but
they can't, and then only within this newer audience you're gonna charge them full
price for it. That's not what they expect out of mobile gaming. Like
even if it is a triple A quality game like a mijoio game or you
know, any of the art ones similar to that, they expect it to
be free to play the whole way through. Yep, I just remembered that
metal Gear Solid four had an iPhone version in two thousand and nine, and
I just googled to make sure I'm not losing my mind, and yeah,
meddle Gear is like a cover shooter. Well yeah, but it's like I'm
looking at it now, and both the wiki and also this Kataku article,
I guess they put the whole story in there, so like the entire story
of metal Gear, but like the it's just like a shooting gallery thing where
you're just like tapping the screen and like pinch to zoom on the sniper and
stuff like that. But the imagine experiencing the MGS four story on a fucking
two thousand and nine iPhone. Do you still cross through the microwave tube like
he's just tapping? I would imagine like everything I'm seeing it says that I
have the whole story, which is insane. So it's like the it's like
fifteen pocket edition. Yeah, it sounds like okay, okay, I've been
trying for a while, haven't they. Yeah, oh yeah, they keep
wanting to make this work. But yeah, well, the idea is like,
oh, there's a billions of these devices in the world. If we
can get them buying those games, then then we can keep making games like
this, and boys that that's just not gonna happen. Huh No, it's
and it all comes down to the monetization. You know, Someday they'll realize
you can't just take this you know, solo single player experience designed for a
stationary console and then just part it over to a random device expected to work.
Because the reason something like a Steam deck takes off or a switch port
of something is because the people buying those devices are the people who want to
play on a console or a PC. It's the same audience. You can't
just grab this entirely different audience expect them to think the same way that someone
like us might, and it's it's just so far disconnected. Like imagine,
it's the same thing as like you used to pay for a newspaper every day
and now you go to the website and it comes to your house free every
day. Now, what if you had to pay for that website once a
day to read it? And they're just no one can ever imagine doing that
again. And they're not going to do that with these games on devices.
They've just moved past that monetizations game. By the way, just because we
brought up mail your Solid, dude, we need to do Metal Grub Solid
just so Jeff Grubb can experience the story of its entirety. I just I
so badly want you to see that. It's so good. I would do
it. Yeah, I'll do it. I want, I want to so
yeah, I want my missed play through first. Yea, all the name
you dumb bastard. Go ahead, we know what you want to do here.
The fear of missing out Monday mornings missed with Mitch, there's a colon
in there. Why didn't we do this one grub was gone. I don't
know. I know it's a good idea. What time we're on Giant Bomb.
We just need to shoehorn your name into the name of the game.
That's what we do here on YouTube. Rock Stars g t A Plus subscription
service could be coming to Nintendo Switch. Rockstar Games is reportedly planning to bring
its g T A Plus subscription service to Nintendo Switch. As for an update
on its website. Gt A Plus offers access to a variety of Rockstar titles,
including g t A online benefits such as extra cash, cars, cosmetics,
and exclusive events. But GT five isn't on, right, That's what
I was just wondering. Yeah, right, So currently Red Dead, Redemption,
Grand Theft, Auto the Trilogy, The Defenditive Edition, and La nou
R are available and attendant Switch and could be included in the service, which
I think you get as part of your g T A Plus subscription. But
gt A five is not. But you know what be an interesting switch to
launch game though? Uh huh yeah, yeah. Do they still do the
Rockstar Social Club? Then yeah they do? I think right? That was
like that I was trying to play those modded games, the community modded games
where like you drive a car up a hill or something like that, and
it was so confusing how to activate those inside the game. So you got
to go to the website and then go to the app and then activate inside
the app, and then you go in the game and you find certain stuff
inside the game. The amount we had to do to make that GTA Crime
Crew feature back in the day was that seeming insane? Yeah? Absolutely,
But I've never really played much GTN online, so I still kind of want
to go experience out there. It is kind of weird. J keeps talking
about it, and there's new content all the time. Maybe we just go
in there mess around a little bit. We don't have to do a recreation
of the Crime Crew. But it's also would be easier now because back then
no one was doing like remote stuff. But it wasn't as easy as it
is now. Yes, it was well thought out as we have it now.
Yeah, good point. Interesting, that's all bringing hard drives to Vinnie
with like gigabytes of row put it on it for him to go through an
Oh my god. Yeah, that was crazy, Ubisoft says it's actively working
on the Driver franchise. Plans for a live action Driver series have been canceled,
but Ubisoft says it still has plans for the Driver franchise despite no major
game releases in over a decade. Ubisoft Driver related subsidiary hot Rod Tanner,
LLC, which was the name of the character by the way, was dissolved
in January, and that was going to make the show. You're just a
decade. I feel like it's been way longer than that. What was the
last Driver? Now, there was one where you you were a ghost man
that travels between cars. It was awesome. Okay, there was a mobile
one in twenty fourteen, Driver Speedboat Paradise. You all forgot about Driver's Speedboat
the hell? Okay, fair enough? You like the Driver Dan. I
like Driver one. I liked a lot. I like just the mode where
it's just like, Okay, these cops are going to come try to kill
you and see how long you can survive. That was fun. Like a
lot of ramps, A lot of it's in San Francisco. I like ramps.
And then San Francisco had such a goofy ass gimmick of like you're in
a coma, but your spirit can travel between cars and had that crazy tag
mode to the local multiplayer mode that Ben Hanson introduced me to, and it's
one of the weirdest, most like hidden gym. So it's like a tag
mode thing. Did we do this for Extra Life Manati? Does this sound
familiar? No, because I've never played a driver somehow, it's weird.
It's a big series, and I mean the first one predates GTA three in
terms of being like an actual three D open world driving game kind of thing.
It is open, but you're not like getting out of the car and
stuff until Yeah, it's it's so cool that the tag mode though, is
like, Okay, both of us start in this open world and we can
at any point zoom out like zoom the map up like Google Map style,
and then bring a cursor over any other car and take it over. And
it's just a tag mode. So it's like, okay, I'm it,
and so I need to tag grub. But we can be warping between cars
and stuff, so like our souls are leaving cars and this is the most
chaotic, fun local multiplayer thing. We have to do that for the next
Extra Life deal. Yeah, let's do it. That sounds great. What
happened with Drivers three? It's like Dress three three R three Yeah, gvavers
must be okay, but it looks like the console version was rough. Great.
Yeah, all right, I guess so the work on Driver I guess
up. It's not just Assassin's Creed repainted as a Driver game or something like
that. But it sounds better than the Assaustin's Creek. Yeah, it does.
Actually. Double Dragon Revive revealed Yukes is working on a three D revival,
also with the Arc system Works. Double Dragon Revived developed by YUS,
which who's known for the wrestling games, of course, releasing in twenty twenty
five for PS four, PS five, Xbox Series, Xbox one MPC.
Double Dragon Revive features classic gameplay with the refined controls and balance supervised by staff
experience in Arc system Works fighting games, making it but while making it accessible
to new players. It feels like there's a Double Dragon revival every couple of
months. I was just gonna say, they did Neon and then was it
four or something that came out. We had Guiden not too long ago.
Yeah, it was like the Rogue Click one with the pixart and it's good.
Like yeah, me and like both like it and we're the only ones
on earth who ever talked about it. Yeah, it really got slopped on
because that came out last year when it was just like a million other games
were coming out. But it was actually I enjoyed it. I really liked
the way that it looked A had a ton of playable characters. This meanwhile,
it looks like a YUX game. Yes, it's kind of ugly models
everyone street wise like that rarely works. Like turning that type of game into
a three doesn't look as petest street wise, but it does. I don't
even know if it looks as good as Double Dragon Neon did. Don't don't
love the way it looks might still be funny. That's because it's like they're
working with Arc system Works and they're not using arcs Incredible visuals. Arc system
Work is a publisher also, and that's not Yeah, but they're overseeing it,
like yeah, just like that. It looks like it might be some
other TEPO without the Celi shading, which is literally the problem with adapting that
art cell, like you need everything. Yeah, Jeff, I know we
talked about all the time, but there was just a period in our lives
in the ne s era where Double Dragon was one of the big franchises.
It got a movie, Yes, it got a movie. There was a
cartoon. Everyone friends had it. Yeah, yep, everyone had on it.
Like it was like we talked about it diffinitely, like it was cool,
like you I did. There was definitely multiple times during recess in elementary
school where we played Double Dragon. We pretended to be And I like that
idea of games that like back in the day were considered among there with the
top tier, and now they were in the cannon. They were on Mount
rushmore then and not anymore because they're weird ones Like you know. Castlevania was
one of those, and then it had all these like dips and valleys and
stuff like that. But like Double Dragon just kind of fell still yeats yeah
yeah. But what else is like in the Double Dragon tier of like during
the days like Bubble Bubble, I don't know. Well, I mean there's
Battle Toads who went Time, Yeah, met the Double that that series,
Mega man a lot of merchandise Mega Mano joke that disappeared. Venture Island's really
good, yes, that I guess. Contral a little bit like I mean
there was a contral recently, but no one cared about it. Did Adventure
Island die because Hudson just started making Mario party money? Yes, I think
so they killed my baby Adventure. The weird guy that lived on the street,
I guess he wasn't weird, was normal. What's that I know?
Neo graphics? Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, definitely, Yes, there
was a guy who lived on my streets. Like, you just want to
borrow adventurel and I know you like video games and I played that and that's
where I learned about that game. And yeah, you guys are playing Super
Adventure Island too on the s n E S. It's kind of a kind
of rules. It's very good. Yeah, very underrated, uh sn e
S game Super Inventure Island two specifically, it's very cool. That was purely
an NES series for me. Like I rented one, two and three a
million times. I don't think I never made the jump to super with it.
Play play Super Adventureland. I got the big power up as a skateboard,
and it just makes it easier to die. I was going to run
into a rock or but it looked cool. I love getting the skateboard every
time. I saw what he used to be, but he's around. Yeah.
I have been wanting to, like you were talking about street Wise and
that maybe think about Bomberman Act zero. Still to play all the bad glow
up games, every game that was trying to be cool and gritty, and
play all of those back to back. That would be fun, all right.
Riot Games reportedly canceled plans for a Smash Brothers style fighter. Riot Games
canceled the plans for the game. The platform fighter was in development with a
team of around seventy to eighty developers and had evolved to include party game elements
and casual mechanics. Riot executives were concerned about the game's potential success, signing
the citing the performance of Warner's free to play crossover fighter Multi Versus Mike.
Do you think there was a chance for a League of Legends a platform Fighter
to succeed. I mean, maybe, but not much of one. It's
hard. We've seen so many people try to come after that space, and
it's just very difficult to topple Nintendo, even when we are like years away
from the release of the last Smash Brothers, because people will just keep playing
those games. Multi verses seemed like it had a little bit of momentum immediately,
and that died down quick and when they relaunched it, it didn't really
seem like there was that much excitement momentum there. It's also weird because they
are making like the their actual, like normal two D fighting game, so
working on both of those at the same time kind of seems bizarre. Probably
a smart thing just to focus on. I can't remember what's what the two
D fighting game is called anymore? How could I forget? I like that
name. I'm defend it great. You can defend that exactly. You can
chuck it liquid death while you do it. Oh yeah, let's go.
Yeah. I mean look, I mean, pardon me side because I like
those kind of fighting games, and maybe they could have made a good one.
And I'm also sad because I don't play League of Legends, but I
do think there's a lot of fun characters there. I would like to have
a way to kind of interact with that world more, and maybe a platform
fighter would be a good way to do that. But I can kind of
see why you just want to focus on the other fighting game. Yeah,
you kind of don't need two fighting games. Speaking of the characters. That's
why I'm excited for two XKO is because it is a way to interact with
that world without having to play a mobile where you know the chat's going to
be super toxic to you all the time. I think part of the problem
with anyone making a platform fighter is that so many just miss the point.
And that's why any of these, like big, large scale ones are destined
to fail most of the time, is because they try to make super smash
players melee. You don't make super smash players melee. You can't recreate that
magic because the magic of that was people played it casually, liked it so
much that they want to play it competitively, and that's how the competitive smash
community really began to grow. And you can't just replicate that organic growth out
of nowhere. Way now they I think they see, oh, smash cells,
you know, ten million, fifteen million, twenty million copies of the
newest release, They're like, we get in on that. We have IP
we have these characters being put in not realizing that you need to make it
for the casual audience. And the casual audience isn't you know, glued to
your franchises the way they are Mario and Zelda and everything, and they can
just you know, play it casually, whether they're chucking items at their friends
and stage hazards kill you and y'all like laugh about it. That's how you
get people in the door. You can't have this like ultra competitive one v
one, you know, like some flat platform and everything. You'll get a
small core audience, but you're not gonna see a huge grow. That's why
Multi Versus was. It is a good idea in general because it is a
very large portfolio of IP mixed with free to play, and that's the first
time that really happened. But even they, you know, started to struggle
a little bit as players fell off in that first day. Of thirty five
hundred active players right now and it usually has around five thousand coording the Steam
charts sounds right, yeah, I mean to me, at this point,
it's like the idea is Nickelodeon that version where it's like, now, let's
put out a game for twenty dollars, and then here's a sequel a few
years later with more characters and more stuff, and that's also twenty dollars.
By it have a party game, and then maybe we'll have another one in
a few years and then later. I think they put that on game Pass
recently. There's another little windfall for you. It's like, yeah, makes
some money, makes some money. Yeah. Expectations like look you have you
know you have Garfield and SpongeBob squared pants Like okay that, yeah, you're
not that's not ever going to be an EVA let alone. The number one
most entrance is at like a fighting game tournament, the way Melee and the
Ultimate is no exactly all right. Nintendo releases creepy teaser trailer for mystery M
rated Switch game. Nintendo has teased a mystery horror game titled Emeo or Smiling
Man in Japanese. The trailer features a Nintendo Switch logo in m and eighteen
ratings from the ESRB and Peggy respectively. The hashtag who is Emeo is included
in the trailer description and Nintendo's social media posts. The Japanese video description links
to a teaser website. Nintendo recently held a direct presentation, but it did
not include this game. There we still haven't heard anything more about this,
and it really is just fifteen seconds of a man standing around and who is
Emeo? What do you guys expect from this? Is first party? Teasing
it like using it. People are assuming it's first party, and it probably
is because there is no reference to a third party publisher or developer in the
description or in the video itself. And Nintendo, Like, is Nintendo going
to do that for someone else? Are going to put themselves on the line
for another company? I don't think so. I just I assumed it was
Fatal Frame. But if it's you know, first party internal, I don't
know. Maybe it's just a completely new horror game they've done weird way,
like we published one of those Fatal Frames though, right where it's like basically
was a first party game that was made by the third party company or something?
Yeah, I guess it could be that again, but I don't know.
I don't know about Fatal Framed to know if this is a reference to
that. No one's really said that. So yeah, it's just I mean,
it just seems like I guess they're making up a horror game. We
don't know who's making it. We probably won't know him too. We see
the credits like Mansion, Yeah, exactly what we say, a horror game
and we understand like the vibe, but like that could be so many things
like are we expecting a Silent Hill or Resident Evil? Are something completely weird
and different here? It should be a Warrior where mixed with night Trap.
Yeah, with the night Trap. Yeah, have licensed the night Trap song.
They're not doing a new Man's Hunt. And that's why Rockstar Service is
coming to Switch exactly. And you got to play with the wims. You
can actually snap next. Yep, right, I'm going to the microphone.
If you're talking, they can hear you. Yeah. Uh huh God.
Nintendo brings three Japan only GB A Game Boy Advance platformers to the Switch Online.
Nintendo has released three previously unreleased games that were only available in Japan,
Starfee, Starfee two and Starfy three. Starvey Is Cool, The d one
A pretty well did come to North America. You also disappoint and Jeff's lack
of Starfy knowledge over the past week. I feel like you should know more
about Starfy, Like I should know more about Starfy too, Yes, emulate
and everything. Yeah. I feel like if I had not reviewed that game
when it came out on DS, I don't think I ever would have heard
about it. I've never heard anyone else bring it up or anything, so
I could see why it would like I've seen the picture a bunch of times
and I was like, I should play that, and then I just never
did. And part of it was no one was there going, well,
you should definitely make Starfy. No one's ever said that to me. I
like getting Japanese games on the English stores or NSOs. That's fine. These
games are relatively text dependent, though, I don't think you're gonna have a
good experience. There was a moment in the trailer for this where they announced
this where they're like, and here's Starfy too, and it was like thirty
seconds of text from the story and it was all in Japanese. It was
like, what the hell are you doing it. It's like that's it'd be
like, oh hey, here's Mother three. It's not translated. It's not
quite as bad as that. Yes, survey's at least like mostly apply farmer.
So it's like, you know, I gave its one an eight point
eight, and I said, here's hoping for more Starfee titles in the future,
and possibly re releases of the ones we never got to play here in
the States. Age They must have read that review. Excellent I'm sorry I
insinuate you're a bad person for not knowing more about Starfie. No, I
like I said, I think I should know about more about Starfie too.
I agree, Yeah, what you Mike? Was it? Is it literally?
How who did it? By the way, now I'm like, I'm
not I don't know. Is it literally the Kirby people who made Starfie.
It looks a lot like like Kirby, But I don't know. All right,
Well, maybe the people who did ham Taro. Who's better starfee or
rye star uh star starfe r star looks like a European platformer character, and
I mean that like parenthese name like that was like probably definitely Mario pluck,
He's like plot flock plock fucking isn't the egg Disney like Fantastic or something?
Yeah? Those games. Beat's like like the government's like, all right,
here's the government mandated Mario. That's what it feels like. All right,
that does it. That does it for the news. I'm gonna hand the
show back over to Jen. Oh my god, he's not here. All
right, We're gonna take another break. When we get back, we'll answer
some electronic mails. Wow, we are the electronic mails and we're back.
We're gonna we're gonna get some emails here pretty quick. But I don't know,
Dan, you want to show off your your your package or is that?
My goodness, it's your package private, not for free, for free?
It's this I just got this, yah, Pennsylvania? Are you sorrow?
Complete in the box? Now? Game? What is the like?
What's the plane here? You have it? Pleating box? Do you take
it out of the box and play it? Or you know you just go
play on one of your devices? I collect, I just collect. You
want to see it on the shelf? Got things? And this? What
did a bird just fly through Manati's room? Wait? Okay, this just
happened. This is what I was worried about. Doing something he's doing you
hear something? Is he doing bits? Mister? I got to tell a
proper I'm going to stare into your heart. That's just being a professional.
We we might have told him about virtual cam. We might have told damn
it, we might have told him about obs scam. So now you can
control what we see beside him. Look at that smile, right, And
I was like, it's gonna be an arms race between you two with the
dumb technology on this episode. Welcome to my library. It's like your tiny
little mice looking in at me. You can go reach out and grab you.
Get out of there. This guy doing usual jokes on an audio medium,
and I'll consider it. Geez you, oh mister, like just like
you're showing up the game. You did even say the name of it I
had I was talking about on this video game podcast. I'm being a professional.
Get out of my emails. You can email the podcast by sending them
to BombCast at GiantBomb dot com. That is BombCast at GiantBomb dot com.
Let's hop in with this first email. Hey bomb crew, Tyler from Gilbert,
Arizona. Here. When I was in college, the best class I
took was an elect just very distracting whatever you're doing with your hand. It
was. When I was in college, the best class I took was an
elective class called George Lucas and Steven Spielberg Movies. It was a great class
for two reasons. One, it was a full semester packed into three weeks,
uh, where we just dis stuff on Friday night and all day Saturday,
so you had one less class for the rest of the semester and two.
All we did was watch movies, discuss them, and write a few
papers comparing and contrasting the two filmmakers. My question for you all is if
Giant Bomb had to make a similar video game class with only two topics you
could discuss, compare, and contrast for a semmester, what would it be?
Hideo Kajima and Sugara Miamoto games, Yeahcauza and Grand Theft, Auto Street
Fighter, Immortal Kombat. I'd love to hear your thoughts. They nailed it
with That's my three favorite franchise right there. Here's my problem with that.
I think Spielberg and Lucas have a connection that cause Memoto, don't really they
like yes, oh yeah, yeah definitely is documented in my diary. I
feel like for Twin Snakes they have to have like a point like Japanese development
is small? Amought. Both of their pictures are on the Cycomantis wall.
Yeah, so they met in that room. He hasn't met as as frequently
as he met Gott And I can't remember his name. Top complete my joke,
Tommy, Tommy Talla Rica. There we go, the Tommy tell Rico
and Jeff Keeley. We got compare to the boyfriends in this line, Dennis
Dak and Randy Pitchford, that's a good one. It's a nightmare. Yeah.
Uh there was a ps here. I'm watching Better Call Sault right now,
and they did the trick with a shaking can of soda. You will
discovered a few months back. I discovered that also. You've also like a
rebuke. I won't do I retired. It's like I'm like will Ospray with
the Tiger Driver. Yeah, I can't do it. It's it's fucked up.
Yeah. We went back on you once. Who broke a neck?
You fractured a neckbar cocky. You don't you don't let it settle long enough?
I did it was the poker table. Yeah, I think I did
it there and I was like, well, I can just never do this
again, right, okay? Joe from New York, Oh my god,
I can't believe this ship is actually real. I just saw commercial for sky
Rizzy Manati didn't just make that? Shut up? Who let the Zoomer scientists
name the drug? I hate? I hate that the commercial is good.
This long is catching it's his new drug. What's it doing? It's gonna
be my new I get my infusion on Thursday. Very exciting. Do they
like, like dip you in a pool with like cucumbers in it or something?
Jeff Okay, well yeah, get all scientific about it. Jesus.
I was like, I it sounds scary, but like they didn't make it
then't tell me about side effects, like, yeah, just come in,
have somebody drive you. I was like, oh, they're gonna be side
effects. I can't. Let's go. Yes, you are the sky Rizzler.
That's right, sky Wrizzler. I like it. Uh. Rich from
Seattle, I've been listening to the news surrounding Xbox and found myself wondering what
is next for their hardware. I mainly game on Xbox because I'm old and
left PC gaming when kids became a part of my life. I'm not seeing
a good argument forgetting whatever hardware they make next other than the sunk cost in
my library. So is my future a gaming PC or if they're a possibility
of their next console being a low grade gaming PC open to Steam? Oh?
Thanks Rich from Seattle. I mean both of those things could be true
based on what we've been hearing. But yeah, but if someone like,
let's say someone came to you and they were describing themselves this way, like
I was in the PC gaming once I've been playing Xbox. What should I
do next? Bro? Just seeing back in the PC gaming he's seen in
the living room like we it's the safest option. And I've been shoying this
up when you have stories like this on Game of Mornings. I've been chatting
up people in the Bulb Giant Bomb Chat a little bit here and there.
I'm trying to trying to tell people, y'all, you can't just build a
PC for your living room. Like I know you might think, like PC
gaming, Oh this is two thousand dollars, I need all this suff Now
you can buy a PC for the price of console. I know. The
thing is boots into stemos, so you control it like a console and you
just use it like you're right. And I'm sure we've all done that then,
like we know how easy it is and stuff. But I think there
is a large amount of gamers out there who, like, you know,
I think I like, you know, my sister Kayla, she's played games
her entire life. She's never you computers, you know, like when like
when she was starting to stream, might explain to her the difference between like
the monitor and the tower and stuff like that. So the idea of like
all the little things think of you have to do when you're getting stuff that
we do all the time, just oh changing the resolution, different settings and
stuff that they've never heard of. Like, I think there are a lot
of gamers who just don't know the first thing about what Steam is, or
people that play tons of stuff on PlayStation Xbox because they buy the thing,
they put it in and it works, you know, so like run Definitely,
Yeah, I don't say it's as easy as you think it is for
a lot of people. No, No, I am specifically talking about someone
like this who is already into PC gaming, and okay, in that case
that that's the different from someone who's completely outside of it. I would say
like steam Deck is a good gateway to that. It's because it is so
consoleized through and through. But someone in Chelse says, five hundred dollars doesn't
buy you a good game PC. No, it buys you a console.
That's why it buys you. You can just have a console level PC and
that's okay. It doesn't need to be doing ray tracing at native four K
one hundred and twenty f it's okay for you to have a lower grade PC
and run at console settings, and then you just get all the benefits of
having a PC as well. It sounds like this person has like an Xbox
series something right now. Yes, that's what they are right now in the
library on there. Yeah. So look like, if if you're anxious about
what they're gonna do next, I think you you can still wait. You're
gonna be fine with that for a while. Still, like most of the
games you're gonna care about are still going to come out on that console.
You can see what the next Xbox is going to look like. If it's
appealing. If you're antsy, then yeah, you can go and look into
building a PC right now, because that well, that is definitely the most
future proof thing you could do at the moment. But I don't think there's
some urgent rush out for you to make a decision like that, right yeah.
And you also have a bit of a parachute if you are playing on
Xbox because if you build, if you do go back to PC gaming in
whatever form that may take for you, if it is on a Windows machine,
a lot of that will transfer over, like if you're buying stuff,
if you're using game Pass, you can fire up the Xbox. Doesn't you
know, it's not as seamless, but there is that method for you if
you're worried about like controlling in everything like that. You know, just I
have a buried back there somewhere, but like one of those Logitech wireless keyboard
and trackpad combos. It's very easy to like get back to that, but
just in your living room. So you know, if like Mike said,
you know, Xbox isn't just gonna poof vanish overnight. But if you're not
feeling great about the platform and you do want to go back, there are
options for you. And I think it's easier than ever to get back to
that if you want to. Yep, definitely all right Next to email,
good evening, Bombers. This is Joe from Charlotte. This last Sunday morning,
I went to bo Jangles for breakfast and stumbled upon this standy of Biggie
Kofe Kinkson and Xavier Woods promoting the new WWE sandwich combo. Aside from being
objectively hilarious, he got me thinking about celebrity product endorsements in general, what
are y'all's favorites, And I'll bring this episode one could see it real quick,
just give me a moment. Yeah, it's not really celebrity, but
Jeff's uh pod racing shirt is making me think of an episode one came out
and like, like all three of those restaurants owned by Pepsi with Pizza Hut,
Taco Bell, and KFC Giant episode Yeah, and each one represented one
of the three different planets from the movie, and I like, I was
like, this is important. Like I loved going there and getting all the
stupid crap and jar Jar Binks cups you can get and everything like that.
It was good times, like the purflect Ravioli for all Mankind, the Chef
Boyerd. Yeah. I also liked j R. Screaming about Skittles over the
course of like weeks, just trying to make just trying to make Jerry Lawler
Last Voice Party delicious, delicious, just like got more and more with Final
Fantasy X two. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, it's my favorite brought
up. I don't you love Logan Paul whenever he comes out with Prime during
as Popera, Logan, it's good wrestling. H This emailer also said,
mine, my favorite is the Japanese ad featuring Hugh Jackman. Bonus podcast points
for the team if they can guess what the product is before the end of
the ad. I'm just gonna play it. You guys should be able to
hear it. You guys hear it? Yes, yeah, you guys can
see it on the he's ringing a magazine about himself a handsome man. It
looks like it's for lypt and tea or is it not. It's for Lipton
t Mike, you got it? Wow? From him holding the lyptin ized
tea is one that stallone they had the like celebrity death match looking saloon doing
a Lypton brisk. I remember that. Yeah, yeah, that's brisk.
Yeah yeah, that was from back in the day. I don't think that
was Japan like this one. But hey man, all right there he goes,
yeah, yeah, this is good man. Japanese commercials are so much
better. I thought he was gonna walk on the water. That would have
been so sick. Yeah yeah. Do you guys have any other favorites celebrity
endorsements. I hope New Day are getting paid for this, unlike the old
regime where it just went against your downside and they're getting paid since I left.
Yeah, I would hope. So they should be able to make those
deals themselves on their own, Wouldn't that what the whole thing is, all
right, mister knowledge bro from Sweden? Right z in. This is an
update on when we talked about zen on some podcasts. Might have been the
voicemail dump truck. Zen is a form of snooze. Is that how you
say? It's snooze? Snuff snooze, which is who am I asking you?
Guys have probably never done it either, which is deeply ingrained into the
Swedish culture and is like a form of chewing tobacco but you put it under
your lip and look like an idiot. Regular snooze is fucking horrific, but
like thirty percent of all Swedes do it. It is as common as cigarettes.
Zen is like the vanilla version of snooze without all the life threatening stuff,
but only the addiction stuff. Snooze is really big amongst Swedish hockey dudes.
Tell Jeff Baklar that almost every Swedish player in the NHL has been doing
snooze since they were fourteen years old. Yes, a recommendation don't do snooze
ors in it is disgusting. You look like shit, you smell like shit,
your teeth are destroyed, and you are presented to a nice collection of
potential cancers. So do a good amount of out of seven kansas. Oh
yeah, sure, yeah. Write like chewing tobacco like zen is like little
pouches so you don't have to spit anything, and it's like there's no tobacco
in there, okay, And it's become very popular with like finance bros.
Because they can like get a buzz during the day and not have to go
smoke cigarettes. The only time I ever was like really around a lot of
people who did chooting tobacco is when I worked in the restaurant industry in the
kitchen. It's only everybody was doing it for some reason. I don't know.
That's exactly where I want my chewing tobacco to be is the cops.
Yes, I do not, well know. I don't want to see the
cups. It's like the last thing on earth I want to look at is
someone's chewing tobacco cup. Yeah, I thought I had a bad and where
it's In my welding class in high school, everyone did too, because you
know the kind of guys who would do that, And then where do they
do it? They want to spit it in the buckets of water that we
would dunk our hot metal into, and so the teacher had to like sit
everyone down. Look, guys, first of all, you can't do cho
I'm not saying you can't, but you can't spit in the buckets. Guys,
come on good times. Uh, hey, bombers Jeff from Quebec Grub
mentioned he'd like to talk about everyone's past employment. So here goes. What
was your favorite job and worst job you had before you got in the gaming
slash streaming industry. For me, my favorite was easily movie projectionists back when
there was actual film worst was cleaning kid vomit at the same theater. Uh.
And then Beckler doesn't need answer because he's not here, cheers Jeff from
Quebec, who wants to start, Mike, you want to go? Yeah.
I actually had a couple of friends who were film projectionists, like right
before that stopped being a thing. These a couple of times I would just
kind of go up there and hang out with them, So that was pret
fun. But for me, my best job. I worked at a law
a law from just like like helping file theirs their stuff way me my friend.
It was a very easy job. They just had some like dungeon basement
of a bunch of files. We just put on music. We had to
like go look through each file find out when the case ended it right in
on the front. But mostly just kind of goofed around a bunch. That
was easy. The pizza place I worked at, it was that was like
a busy, tough job, but that was kind of fun. It was
an interesting collection of characters. I worked at a different restaurant where I was
just a dishwasher that was poorly managed and just not very fun and that was
a lame summer. But like, you know, nothing crazy or anything.
But I think that's basically had those three jobs, then like some stupid like
campus jobs like oh I watched the computer labs in the English department, sure,
yeah, and you know the pizza one. Until I started doing this
full time, So just like five jobs or so, nothing crazy. I
had like twenty jobs. Yeah, yeah, but you had a lot of
them. I did quit it and most of them, yeah, And then
I got fired from I got fired from a couple including for my favorite job,
fed X, I worked at the sorting center at the FedEx outside of
Columbus, Ohio. So big like containers would come in off of the planes
with a ton of packages, and then someone was in those containers throwing them
on the conveyor belt career belts. All the containers. There were people of
the containers. They would throw out the gun onto the conveyor belt and they
would all get sent into the center of the building. And that's where I
was. So there's this huge like tray filled with packages, and there's like
ten of us and we would all get our own pile here in front of
us, and then there were several conveyor belts marked with the location that each
box had like labeled on him, and we had to physically pick up the
box and put it on the right conveyor belt so it could go to its
next to the location. And it was four hour shifts of just doing this
pretty much NonStop, and I could like shut my brain off and just go
super fast and just move things, and it was like a good exercise.
And I didn't have to deal with anybody. I didn't have to talk to
anybody. It was awesome, it was perfect. Well, problem was it's
like you were part time for a reason and they weren't going to make you
full time, and so I wasn't making enough money and so I stopped caring
and then I came in late too many times and then they fired me.
So podcasts and stuff or was that during the podcast? It was? It
was it was the very beginning to podcast. Honestly, maybe I wasn't listening
to podcasts. I was probably listening to like music. It might have been
like the iPod was maybe just coming out at this point, because it was
two thousand and one, two thousand and two. When did the i pod
come out, Like two thousand two. Yeah, so I might not have
been able to afford one yet. Yeah. So, but we definitely like
would have music on or some something like that on the shift then show up
late. I probably would have. Yeah. Then. My least favorite job
was Formaggio's Pizza on Ohio State Campus. It was I worked as the pizza
delivery guy, so they paid me less than in one wage because I was
supposed to get tips, but there were very few deliveries. So there's a
sign in the back of the store that the government makes you put it up
that says, if you don't make this much money per hour as a tipped
employee, the company has to make up the difference. And I kept track
of that for a while and I presented it to them, and then they
fired me because I asked for the money that they owed me. So then
I took that to this the Department of Commerce at the Ohio, Ohio government,
and said, hey, they won't pay me, and they're like,
okay, well we'll get back to you. And then they sent me a
check for two thousand dollars like a few weeks later, because they just did
all the work for me. Happy happy ending. But those guys, those
guys sucked. I watched them fire a bunch of people for various reasons like
that, where they like asked the question they're like and they never fired like,
oh, just go home today and we'll call you and let you know,
and then they would never call you back. So I realized, ever
since I was fourteen, I've like always had two jobs. I don't think
I've ever been fired. I've had like a good amount of jobs, but
I usually stayed with them pretty long. But yeah, I've never been laid
off. Or fired. Well, you were like you were You're kind of
a go getter Dan, right, Like that's like the movie job like where
you were like, I'm going to try to become an assistant manager. And
that's when I I started getting I started run I was fourteen. When I
was ten, I started there, and I was at McDonald's and then I
equip McDonald's and when I turned sixteen, it was so that was my favorite
to answer the question, AMC and funkal Land at the same time. So
that was from like sixteen until college. I worked at Yeah, I got
free movies, free video games all through that high school period where I didn't
have a lot of money, but I've worked two jobs and they were across
the parking lot from each other. It was a you know, a Laitha
Kansas. It's one hundred and ninteenth and String Lane. I would like finish
up a Saturday shift at Funko Land, which turned into game Stop while I
was there, and then I would just like change in the bathroom, walk
over to the AMC thirty and just work my night shift there. So that
was awesome. I was just like constantly like hanging out in that parking lot
like playing games at work or going over and just watching a bunch of free
movies, and we would see stuff beforeand like I was working there during the
prequel trilogy and stuff, so we would see that before. Like I remember
like seeing that the night before and you'd walk out and you'd see the line
like wrapped around the building and be like, oh, I know what happened.
Like that was such a like cool feeling as the teenager. So that
was probably my favorite pre gaming industry one is those two. The worst was
Garman the GPS company. It was like post college, I was still writing
you know, game reviews and stuff for the paper and everything, but I
you know, was applying at IgM and Game Informer and game Spot and everything
and didn't get jobs. So I was like, fuck, I went to
college for all this time. I put all my eggs into this like games
review bucket and it's not paying off. I mean, I'm still getting free
games and stuff and I'm not getting paid and I'm just doing like GPS shit
like with it. Like a lout of people that like are just you know,
basically in high school and like here I am five years of college.
I'm like getting paid the same and like helping old people try to like acquire
satellites on their you know, Garmin newbie devices and stuff like, Man,
I fucked up. I really fucked up. Like I really went hard on
this games reviewing thing and it did not pay off. Holy shit. And
then I remember when oh I had that moment for sure. Yeah, and
then that morning McNamara called me and it's like, hey, they want to
move to Minnesota. I remember walking into Garman to give my two weeks with
them. I wasn't shitty about it, but in my head I was shitty.
But I was just like, oh, I'm gonna tell them I'm fucking
leaving this shitty as and I'm gonna go get paid to play video games.
And that was about the best feeling in the world. So yeah, but
that was the worst job was just yeah, call center tech supports should sucked.
Yeah, that's w because you loved working for events, so like at
w W. Of course, a good point I forgot. I worked for
a call center for one week. That was I worked for a call center
for what do you mean you worked at a call center for one week?
After a week, because I turns out I'm not very well equipped to have
people yell at me because I'm you know, forced to bother them. So
yeah, I didn't like that. The call center I worked for was a
call support, so they would call in and ask for help, and I
didn't know they would yell at me still, but I would. I was
able to handle that. If you don't if you don't want help, that's
fine, but I'm here to help. The one I was at in college
was calling the alumni of KU University, Kansas to get the money. I
did that for like four years. I think, like my whole social circle
in college is all from the call center and stuff. Uh and I got
all my friends to work there and everything, and uh yeah, they put
you on like okay tonight you're on the pool of the School for Social Welfare.
So it's people that like graduated, spend a bunch of money, oh
a bunch of money, and are not getting paid well. And you always
had to start with the ask ladder. You had to start with would you
like to join the Deans Club with a donation of a thousand dollars? And
you would just get laughed at and so like. But then you get put
on like the School of Medicine one and you'd see like, oh, every
year since nineteen seventy seven they've given five thousand dollars, Like all right,
easy, night tonight. So just totally depend on have you seen the John
mulaney bit about that where it's like, uh, it's like would you like
to give us more money? Would you like to clothe and feed me and
house me? It's like no, would you stop doing that? It's like
you fell in love with your school, like you just like you fell him
up with the sex worker or whatever. So yeah, it's a good bit,
all right. No marketing though, Yeah, oh yeah, sure that's
right. I knew he's moving off. I was just like, I'm just
still cook for a second. Listen, you're fourteen years old. How many
jobs have you had? Well? I didn't work in school, because when
you're broke as shit, you need to work your ass off in school in
order to just you know, get into college. So I've had just like
a decade issh of odd jobs up until you know, getting this gig.
And easily it's only that you bring up like shipping and stuff, Jeff,
because that was easily My least favorite job was I worn shipping and receiving at
a car dealership, which you know when you when you can manage and it's
just you know, you get a giant like bin of shit and they just
scan it and you put it where it needs to go. That's totally cool.
Problem is I was doing the work of entire team because they refused to
hire anybody else because how you know, the owner, how's a millionaire become
a millionaire not spending money on anything? And so yeah, I was busting
my butt for barely any money, but with stable, full time work.
So I kept doing it. And uh, hey, that's how I learned
how to drive a forklift. So that's on of it. Yeah. Man,
the the other ship in receiving when I did, I did a couple,
but uh the Jcpenny warehouse, that one was rough because it was like
putting away towels or put no picking towels to put for orders for stores,
and it was all towels all the time, and so I was like,
and it was that the towels were stored in cardboard. So this was probably
the driest place on earth, and my whole body would come home chapped because
there was just no moisture in the air. It was all getting absorbed by
the towels and the cardboard and just rose and rose and rows of them.
So it was it was miserable. And that's the that's the job I did
where my friend was like, I gave you a hit of acid, but
I'm gonna take it unless you take it tonight before you go to work,
Like, okay, here we go, I guess. So that was a
good time. I just have I technically been fired if in college I accepted
a job as the Bigs Barbecue Chicken who dressed up in a chicken suit and
stood on the side of Iowa Street in Lawrence, Kansas And it was supposed
to dance for cars with the big sign. But then I woke up my
first day and I was hung over and it was like one hundred and two
degrees outside and I didn't show up and I never heard from them, So
like, does that count is getting fired if I except for the job?
To me, if you don't show up, that count. But to me
that sounds like quitting. Okay, I quit. Yeah, I quit as
the big Barbecue QUI okay, cool? Cool, Yeah, I think it's
on that side of the thing. Cool. Yeah, completely relate to that.
My favorite job would have been to just work out best Buy because like
as far as like retail goes, that's a very really chill environment in there,
you know, like you go and do a best Buy and it's kind
of just like everything's kind of relaxed. Actually, is that way working there
too? What section were you in? I started as a cashier, and
that I did like customer service stuff because you know, I have to deal
with some shittier people but also get paid more money. But it was it
was cool, Like obviously working at a text store, the break room was
ball or Gigantic TV, all the consoles set up with like all the latest
games because yeah we expense one whatever, and that was really cool. So
I was for some reason they put me in digital imaging, like I got
hired. I listen it was injured as cameras. It was like selling like
a three megapixel code and stuff like that, and I was like right across
from the media section I wanted to be in so I would see the guys
over there like giving people recommendations on video games and stuff and just outright lying
to customers like yeah, you know, the next Halo is going to be
on PlayStation, Like it's not public don't tell anyone that, but next Halo's
gonna be I want to run over there. In fact, no, that's
bad relations. Jeff Grubb. Yeah, I don't know. My brother worked
at Best Buy for a while and I had a freend of did too.
I didn't like it that much. I didn't last too long. All right,
Uh, I'm just getting the what we learned? Ready here, give
me a second. Wow, there we go? All right, what we
learned today? I actually know they can't hear it? There they can now?
Uh. We learned that Bailey is the one who claps now. We
learned that Jeff needs Jonathan. We also learned Mike dreams about Jeff Grubb and
embarrassing him. Of course, Ben Hanson and Mike Manatti are probably not serial
killers. And of course we learned Dan only finds pleasure in making rangers kids
cry. Very important, very important. All right, there's that. Okay,
what do we have happening on Giant Bomb This week? We will have
more GB sixteen videos will be going up, those out, and we will
return the side which one hell are you gonna do without anyone here on Friday
show? So yes, yes, I'm gonna get Mike in there. I
heard that there's some people on the staff who are interested in any S World
Championships, so I might bring them on Bailey included, so we'll see if
we can get them on board. But you to play by myself. I'll
play We're friends on Switch obviously, right like me and yes, okay,
well I will certainly be playing it tomorrow and while I'm traveling stuff like that,
so I'll try to make sure any of my times are uploaded and so
like, yes, so I will in spirit be competing with you on Friday,
exactly. Yeah, I can bring my switch with me. I can
do yeah, yeah, just starting certain times, and we'll make it happen.
And while we're playing live, we'll probably just I'll probably just show my
gameplay, but maybe we get Mike's in there and stuff and we can do
some fun competition stuff. It'll be good. Well, speaking of travel though,
speaking of my little being out here over the weekend, right, I'm
going to evo Evo's this weekend, and so if anyone listening is going to
be there, make sure to say hi and not challenge to fight me.
As Jan keeps saying, like, look, maybe may I'll bring my Steam
deck maybe I'll have a dog. Maybe you can fight me anytime anywhere.
Who knows, Maybe that can make for a nice feature. Maybe if you
say hi, you could be part of a certain log of my travels that
I might be working on after the trip. Who could say? All right,
but yeah, looking forward to that. And then I haven't had chance
to talk about this yet, but I just wanted to briefly mention the the
Melgear Scanlon project that you know went up and everything. I'm glad everyone seems
to love that we did that, that we just put all of it up
on this great YouTube channel. So yeah, if if anyone wants to go
check that out, it's all available, its entirety, every single thing.
I made sure to take the files as they were and then just merge them.
There's been no editing, no recompression, no changes. It's just the
videos as you remember them back in the day, just now on YouTube.
And part of why we did that is because now you can share it with
your friends. And I already saw a bunch of comments being like, this
is one of the ways I'm going to get my friends into a giant bomb.
Because we know that it can be difficult to get people into that back
caalog especially. You know, nowadays you show them, you want to show
them Giant Bomb. You say, hey, here's the newest Episolte BombCast,
Here's Black Club, And that's very easy, but you want them to like
see the older stuff. That's been kind of difficult. So now you can
be like, here's the playlist for melgear Scanlon, go have fun with that
on your own time and without specifics and without timeframe. Just know that I
am a big fan of having that stuff, that old stuff easily accessible,
and I've been talking to Sean about it, and I would like to do
more of that in the near future. So yes, it's a It's a
good thing to do, especially on when holidays happened, because it was like,
oh, July fourth, this is the most patriotic thing I could do.
Today's watch Mel where it makes sense. We we have stuff we're cooking.
Yep, excellent, great work. Boys appreciate that. Uh so,
yeah, Tyker Grebble happen, Blake Club and then on Thursday you can expect
voicemail down truck. We will do that. I've got ways to make that
happen. We'll get a crew in there for that. U P. F
we will be the n S World Championships, and then we'll do a BCR.
We'll do a BCR this week. I'll get some super people in there
as well, and maybe circle a week from Priday on your calendar, because
I think it'd be a great time to do the anime Mario party. Let's
let's look into that. Sounds good? You heard it all right? How
does Jen end this show? Does he say buy or something? Does he
have a catch for his He did what we learned here and then yeah,
but I just did it bad so way the music stuff all right, let's
get out of here, everybody. For everyone, A giant bomb for Dan
Reichert, Mike Manati, Sewan Turbo, Shaan McDowell. I'm Jeff Grub,
Thanks for listening. Until next time, have a good one, take care
of yourself. Goodbye,