Hey everybody, and welcome to the Giant Podcast Episode eight hundred and forty three,
powered by NZXT. I am your host, jan Achoa. Technical malfunctions,
physical maladies cannot stop the Giant Bomb Cast from podcasting straight to your ear
holes on this Tuesday morning or afternoon or whenever you're listening to this. It's
had it straight into your veins. Speaking about veins, we got the vascular
Master, Jeff Crub vascularity brother. I got it all right here for you.
I'm I empowered by this little Mike manatty Head and RB's gift card and
John Leguizamo. The first things in front of me. Are you trying to
summon me? That's Manti worked. Speaking about John Leguzamo, we have our
own John Lgizamo of the team. Oh, I didn't know I was we
were going to go the past. I'll take that all right. I feel
like a career right like, Oh yeah, my brothers movies. I saw
in the theater where Mario. I think I saw the Past twice in the
theater and he was in drive, wasn't he. I think he's briefly in
drive. He works on an auto garage. I know Brian Krantz, John
Wick. Okay, okay, So it's Brian Cranston's in the auto garage in
drive, it's John like Guizamo is the cameo guy in the garage and John
Wick got it? Yeah, and also Romeo and Juliet how good is oh?
And Spawn? I haven't seen Romeo. Yes, and we don't talk
about Bruno. Yeah, was in a show with on Oh sorry, you
introduce me first, our own Bruno of the our own Bruno of the podcast
the Gianpte Bomb. We don't talk about him. He's always here, He's
hiding in the walls. He has a fun little song that becomes super catchy
like Manatti. Yeah, and all my rat friends. Yeah, yes,
yes, my my brother was in a show with John Leguzamo. Oh cool.
No, that was called It's called Kill When I said in it he
was an extra but still you can see his face, uh, pretty clearly
in one episode. So that was yeah, yeah, yeah. It was
filmed in Pittsburgh, very exciting stuff. It was just a bank hostage tank.
I think that's where I got my knowledge to scream at hostages to you
know, stay the funk down, Hue. Yeah. Well, no,
John John is a cop in night. He's a family friend. He was
a bank robber, he was a bank burg. Yeah, it was one
of the It was like one of the other Wallburg's. I think who was
the cop in it? Nor was it even Donnie? I think it was.
I think it was Donnie. I don't care. You're not going that
far down. All right, maybe the check it, but it was probably
Donnie Wahlberg. I went to a Wallburger. It's not bad, by the
way. Okay, cool, cool story fun. Would I just do word
association in my head? How your brand podcasting? Exactly? We hit all
the notes. You hit a Disney one, you talked about your family,
and then we're talking about carried over. It's a game of telephone. Because
you were talking about bank robberies and I was thinking about the time Bobby Lashley
was in a bank robbery and got injured and that's why he wasn't in the
Olympics. So that's run into wrestling in the mind. Wow, podcasts are
easy. It's just talking. You just keep talking your brain. That's it,
your brain. That's my day to day speaking about Romeo plus Juliet God.
I think I brought this up a couple of weeks ago. But man,
Jean likesa was so fucking cool that movie Grub. Don't you want to
see Grub dressed up as leg Asamo in the beginning scene? And then when
I like and Dan just flicks a cigarette and goes peace. I hate the
word peace, and I just like that movie shows it. Uh? Do
you like the Boz What's he do? Uh? Boz Luhrman, what's he
done? Mulan Rouge? Probably not? Yeah, uge, But I remember
looking at the trailer and like, I probably hate this. It's like super
musical, so okaybe actually it could be a net adjacent, but like a
good movie. I think the only musical I un ironically like is the south
Park movie. Uh, there's well, Nett. I kind of ironically respect,
ironically respect Sometimes it's there. Sometimes it's correct. Yes, yes,
I I respect it and like it when I'm forcing it to fund someone else.
Yes, you respect its power? Right? Right? It's power?
Yes? And speaking about power, ladies and gentlemen, Uh, this week
is going to be an interesting week here at giant bomb dot com because Summer
Gamefest begins this week. Ladies and gentlemen, it wouldn't be Summer Game Fest
Jeff Grub, if we if we didn't roll the Couch out to Sunny Los
Angeles. So we're gonna have the Couch Giant Bomb at Night on Friday and
on Saturday, whole whole different cruis of people. But on Sunday, June
ninth, at the Bellweather in Sunny Los Angeles, we will have Night three
of Giant Bomb at Night, hosted by the one and only Jeff Grub.
We got new merch. It's it's fun stuff, y'all. It's it's fun
stuff where I thought, oh wow, cool. Look. We also have
another giveaway from our homies at NZXT giving away a whole big PC rig Jeff
Grub. What else do we got going on? Yeah, we got a
lot of friends coming in. We'll have Jason Schreyer if you know what a
way, a lot of Pierce Paris, Lily, Patrick Kleppik, Mike Naughty,
Elise Williams, Mary Kish, Matthew Rory, and Brad Shoemaker all confirmed
to come hang out with us live. It's it's gonna be good. We're
gonna we're gonna sit down and shoot the shit. It's gonna be a lot
of fun. Get some some people together that haven't gotten together in quite some
time, looking forward to it and just to echo at that new March.
This is the first time anyone's gonna have a chance to see that new March
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we would love to see you there. Hey, if you are hate listening
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You know, show us how much you hate us by buying tickets to the
live show. That would really hurt my feelings a lot. Yeah, it
will. They say never never travel without your gear, even if you're not
booked. So I'm bringing the sparkly jackets. So all right, that's the
case. I put this out today to pack it. There was a part
of me that was like, man, I wish Nintendo would just do that
direct first thing in June, so maybe we could talk them into letting us
have the World Championships game. It's like a segment. So we just do
that live because I remember one packs I did something with Greg and they got
like Super Smash Brothers a little bit early for their competition, and I'm like,
oh, if we could just do that with World Championships, that would
have ruled. But oh well, next time. Yes, that's true.
Nikki and Turbo Shawn are going to be running a hamster wheel in the background.
We've already acquired the hamster wheel. That's how everything will happen. But
yes, shouts out to back all are shouts out to Emma, shouts out
to the whole team and fandom. Oh going on again. Shit wouldn't be
happening without Emma's Let's be honest here. Yeah, It's like I always would
listen to these kinds of shows, and especially around E three time, and
just like wanted to be a part of stuff. This is the best way
to do it. It really is. So come come hang out with us.
It'll be a good time. If you find me on the side of
the stage, I will shoot make you a cup of coffe somehow, and
I'll show you pictures of Scout exclusive pictures. Also, like Jordan Midler got
his tickets and he's gonna be there. You can go yell at him for
being too Scottish. That's something that I think that would really help everybody out
if you just did that for us. Should I walk around with pockets full
of skittles like loose and then if anyone sees me on the show, they
can ask me for them and I can just like dump a bunch of skittles
like Scorpio Scorpio. Well, here's this Dan dancing. Give me some gimmicks
and he'll just give you some skittles. Yeah, I'm gonna unwrap a bunch
of Starbursts and put in my pocket just so they're grocer Dan. Here's the
thing, back like and stimpy like. Cut Away is not here right now,
so we're we're recording this to Wax. So whatever we're saying is law
right now. That's right. I think that's how that works. He can't
stop this, yeh, can't stop it? Yeah, promise. Also,
you know there'll be some very special guests on top of the couch, guests
hanging out the whole live show. Yes, yes, totally. Maybe someone
very red and furry. Perhaps. Oh I've been I realized today I need
to check a bag. Yes, yes, we're gonna roll right through.
Uh, it's gonna be a fun times. Uh. You know, I
love I love analog games, like like board games where uh maybe you put
a bunch of pingball pong balls in something and uh, you know you just
proclaim a word like huzza or something close to that. We like gimmicks,
that's right, and uh, we like foisting. There's a lot of foisting.
It's gonna be word my voice Mcgooberminati while we're there, Hotel mcgrooover,
it's happening. That's right. Let's foist baby. Hotel mcgo is where I
want to die. That's one of my favorite song by Eagles. When you
all ever bought a pizza as a kid, you know, like that little
like white uh box stopper thing in the middle of the pizza. Yeah,
did you ever think that was like a small tap? Yeah? Absolutely no.
No. I thought it was to keep the cardboard box from falling in
in the middle. Mike, I imagine I thought. I never thought of
the actual reason it existed. You never asked me before Manati said that.
I would have said it was like to keep the pizza together and not sliding.
A pro jam was saying that he did describe the reason as well.
So yeah, okay, there's definitely a point in my life where I didn't
know what it did, but I thought it was a little table. Well,
okay, dude, like, did I you first shoot think it was
a table that someone was gonna act like this is just you? Yes,
and no matter the consequences. Yes, Mike, this is how broadcasts work.
No, I told you how podcasts are done. You just keep talking
minus twenty points for Mike. No podcast, No, I keep talking to
That's easy, you know what You're all of your podcast points. No,
I want to be smelling the smell. Yeah. I was going to say,
I'll go through one of those like little pizza tables, because I still
been told I can't go through a table. Can we five hundred of them
and like throw you through all of them? Oh? Yeah, let's do
it. That should be instead of the thumb tack bag or the one that
double one was building pizza tables that hurt. Oh that would hurt with that
ye little pizza tables. Yeah, somebody should. Somebody should, like,
you know, like they dropped, like the thumb tacks or the dice or
whatever. Imagine a bag full of the pizza tables. That'd be rough.
What's happened? We literally just said that, Mike, that's the conversation the
time. We were just saying himself. I think he's embarrassed. You can
read any better? This one is oh, I wasn't listening in the audio
version. Check this out on YouTube and go to those time stamp. Mike
is beat red right now reading chat. Okay, the people here, so
he was waiting to see if Chat was responding to care about what you?
Let's look at the menu thing? Do you remember that? Look? That
one was on me? All right? Okay? A live show June ninth,
Bell Weather l a Hey, if you still buy a ticket, the
VIP ticket or the standard ticket, you still get prem premium. We can't
stop that. You don't have to show up at the show. Yes,
that's right, Yes exactly again that that deals so good? Don't ignore it
about for list kinds of details. How's everyone else doing? Boys? I
think we're all falling apart, aren't we We're like the various levels of like
bouncing around illness and stress. Like I'm like on the upswing, but it's
like I'm gonna be traveling here in two days, so who knows what's gonna
happen by then. Yeah, yeah, I'm worried about my silence is exploding
on a plane. That's gonna be bad. So it's a shorter flight.
That's the thing. I had to cancel the Poland one, which you know
is rough because I would have seen a frostpunk too. Wh I can't ever
shut up about process. You're always time to prostpunk with Dan. I know
my party hates that kind of thing, right, and you know, like
like you know, he's always railing against strategy games or something, but you're
a big advocate for them. That's correct, right, Yes, so yes,
that seemed like a missible trip for me. Uh well, I did
want to go, but it was a long term so summer games tass hopefully,
Okay, get my surgery right afterwards, so I'll be out for a
little bit. But uh yeah, looking forward to someone. I'm on the
pregni zone train with you now, Dan, so we're I'm off. I
wish now that I'm not on the gas, Like, why are you on
it unless it's a personal reason you want to talk? Oh no, yeah,
I've been I've been very mad at the US healthcare system or whatever.
Lately because uh, you know, I have crones. I was put on
a drug that basically fixed it for like, yeah, I know you for
a while there you were like oh yeah yeah, and then I got that.
I got a message from not my doctor but my insurance company like we're
switching your medicine. I was like, fun because they got between you and
your doctor, just the way that the Obamacare death panels were going too weird.
Oh and uh yeah. Then they say switched me to something that was
not like. I was like, is this exactly like the other one.
They're like, not exactly, but pretty close. I'm like cool. Uh
and then like yeah, my symptoms came back for the first time like a
year. Wow, I was traveling the last time in LA. It hasn't
really gone away. So yeah, I'm on that terrible Yeah. I was
first, like you know, e stress and stuff that makes it worse.
So when I sat there think about how I'm mad about the situation that it
gets much, I had to do things to distract myself, like running up
their ice cream trucks and getting that stupid Sonic ice cream pop thing that for
it. I did because I went outside looked right past me as if this
middle aged man couldn't possibly be interested in a novelty ice cream product. So
thankfully for some ice cream guy, he stought for some children up the street.
So then I caught up, like, get out of the way.
Uh, you know, first, did this daddy always eats? First?
Did the sonic gumball eyes? Do they purposely come fucked up when you opened
it? They don't purposely, but they just happened so often that it's part
of the charm. Now, those those gumball eyes were much worse than usual.
They're never good, these ones. Like I took a while to bite
into them, and once I did, they kind of dissolved into this unpleasant,
wet sand thing. It was not good. It was similar to the
long boy you had during WrestleMania. It was pretty similar to my well,
these solidified in like in like the cavities of my teeth. After a while,
that's what you want, that's what you went from, sugar. Yeah,
so I spit all of that out. But the sonic part was was
very good. But yeah, the CRUs has been annoying. Prenison will help.
They're gonna put me on a different drug, not the old one,
because that one's still expensive and scary to them. So I think I had
to try three other generics and see if any of them work before they'll finally
be like fine, I guess you can just be healthy with the thing that
worked already. Uh huh, Mike could be uh proud of me. You're
talking about ice cream. I did a double take at Costco this week and
I saw because I saw a doll whip like shoot dole whip in the freezer
section, and I got two boxes of pineapple doll whip and it is delicious.
Yeah, you like I joke it's better at disney World, and of
course you know part of is because you're at disney World. But don Yeah,
dope is just made by the doll company, right. You can't get
it in a lot of places. I haven't seen it. I've looked at
other places and since I've learned about it, but this is the first time
I've seen it in a store. I I haven't been able to stop eating
shoot pineapples. They're good. Yeah, you've been on a pineapple train this
last couple of weeks. I don't know why. I just ate a whole
pineapple again yesterday and every time I was telling of this. Every time I'm
eating like a fantastic fruit, I just get sad because I think of Mike
Manatti a fantastic fruit. Is that like a genre or are you just saying
it as a descriptor like a descriptorive, It's an adjective. Okay. For
some reason, the way you said it made me think they're like, oh,
what are fantastic fruits? I mean, pineapple was part of the fantastic
New Brandy and I'm Dan Ryker. I love Brandy. All right, we
do. Now, let's brand fantastic fruits. What is in that family of
fruit? Small? Watermelon? Okay, pineapples, watermelons, starburst right,
okay, just the honeycrisp apples. Yep, Okay. I just told you
that stress is bad for my condition. Naming fruits is making use and uh
with a banana, says Christian. I'm sorry. That really got me.
Could you imagine how fucked up it would be to see a straight banana.
I would call the cops. I call the cops. I wouldn't. I
would like like take it to my local university to be studied. Like,
oh, I just walk into the police station and put it down. On
the front door. It's put some cuffs on this. Damn twenty five to
life. But anyway, I get sad eating fantastic fruits because I think Mike
will never know the glory of this. I'm fine, okay, all right,
let's talk video games. I'm glad you're thinking about me. Then I
hate how much I think of you a lot too. Yeah that's what I
want. That's my only goal. So good For some reason, like,
you know, I don't watch Twitch a ton. You're the only person out
of everyone I follow on Twitch that I set notifications for on my phone,
like, oh, Mitch is live. I know you're there for my rate
racer stream. I don't know what I pop up. Yeah, it's because
it's that hot, hot content, the Minati effect. I watched you like
rank stuff for a little bit, and I was upset with myself. I
wasn't even actively watching you. I just had you on my phone. Yeah
I did that too. I'll be like putting together legos and ll'll have them
on my phone down there. Yeah, it'll say something crazy and I have
to get in the chat. Yeah, yeah, exactly, I'll have it
on just like yeah, I got get the notifications and then my kids always
like, is that uncle Mikey? Like, yeah, yeah, that'sriz And
whenever I'm not on the screen, everybody should be asking, where's uncle Mikey
There it is. Yeah, That's what my kids ask me all the time.
And then they asked me where have you been dad? Right of course,
Mike Minatti, Uh, You've gotten the chance to preview something, and
that's partially why we have you here. You checked out elden Ring Shadow of
the urg Tree, what, Yes, yes, I did. That was
part of why I was out in La for so long. I got to
attend a preview event for Shadow of the ur Tree in Hollywood, got to
hang out with Tam and Lucy byways, along with Andy Cortes over it kind
of funny. So we had a fun time. Got shaul I talk about
the game or the bird that almost took a crap on before get the Ladder.
The ladder. It was a close thing, I tell you what.
Literally, yeah, walk in to deserve it. She needs no spirit of
all bird poop, I think. No. Yeah, we were walking down
Hollywood Boulevard. We're just stopping waiting for you know, the crosswalk light,
and like there's like a bird on top of like the light pole and guys,
it was a game of of inches not feet. Like I heard this
PLoP sound right, I like look over and like I just it's it is
like this from her shoe. She was frozen in terror. I don't blame
her. It was a harrowing experience. It was incredible. He didn't jump
in the way the bullet it was too fast. I couldn't get down mister
president her. There was an E three where I watched a bird shit on
Ben Hansen's head and I was good for I got him napkins. I didn't
laugh at him, I you know, like nothing like that. I know,
I just cackled the entire time at point that his head covered. It
was amazing. It was great, man. The preview was at a cemetery
by the way. That was fun. Wasn't like the Hollywood cemetery that they
was all they would forever cemetery. Yeah, with the peacocks roaming around and
whatnot. And there was like some weird crips. There was one crypt that
was on a tiny island in a tiny lake. There's a tiny bridge to
get there. I kind of wanted to go over there and see what was
going on with that, what's the deal with peacocks? Why can't they just
walk around like zoos? And they're the one animal that just like doesn't have
a like they just walk around? Do they not fly? I don't know.
Is that the dealer or they're just friendly and don't die. I don't
know friendly. They're just so fabulous. They're great. I think they're awesome.
Yeah, they think maybe they have like strong territorial boundaries, so they
just like kind of always come back to like where they're supposed to be or
something like that. Yeah, okay, so they're giant, right, how
far are they going to go? They're big, they have they're meaty.
You ever think about don't I think about those haunches? You think about eating
a peacock. It's probably frowned up on to eat peacocks, right, I
don't know. I don't want to eat a peacock. Yeah, I adventurous
eater. I wouldn't. I would eat emu before we'd eat. I don't
know if I'm just saying before all right, there was a there's that urban
legend in Disney for a while that the turkey legs are so big because they're
actually EMU legs, Mike, how is how is Elden Ring Shadow? Real
quick? He went from Peacock to Disney, and in my head, I
go, I wonder if I could go from Peacock to wrestling. I was
like, oh wait, got it all right? Yeah they did also service
Turkey legs at the event anyways, yeah that would And Ring Shadow of Urge
we got to play like three hours of it, nice beefy demo. You
know, is there skateboarding? There's no skateboarding. I'm okay, yeah,
well that's like that is kind of like was my big takeaways? Like oh
yeah, this is like more the same and good that's what I want.
I mean, this is you know, this is an elder Ring two or
anything like that. This is the elder Ring Expansion. It's kind of like
discovering a part of the game that made but it feels like it was always
there but only now you're able to access it. Even like the presentation of
that is cool, Like I'm not like some giant outer ring loarhead, but
even I was picking up throughout the game how the concerts talking about Mikola,
right, who's like one of these gods? And Millennia is the sister and
that's the one you fight, and that's a super hard boss fight, and
she's really up. She's like, ah, my brother's awesome. He's so
cool, Like I want to see this guy. How come he's not in
this game? So this is the expansion that's really all about him. Even
like getting to this new area, the Land of Shadow is really dramatic because
like the husk of Mikola's like body is like hanging out of this like cracked
egg thing you gotta touch is weird with her corpse hand, and then you
get teleport. They're like, it's the exact stuff that you want from Eldon
Ring. Is it a big egg, It's a it's a big agg no,
no, gobbly gooker in there. Did you see the big crazy guy
that looks like like a fire pit because I saw the video of that and
that looks crazy. Yeah. So like the first area you're in kind of
big open plane. You know, it's like, no, it doesn't look
entirely different than from stuff you'd see in Out and Ring, but everything's a
bit more ghostly. I think there's a lot more kind of a presence of
death there. Like one of the interesting features was these kind of ghostly grave
markers, which is why I think the event was at Hollywood Forever that would
kind of like phase in and out of existence as you were near them.
And then yeah, there was this giant Yeah, it's like the wick if
the wicker Man had a giant fire pit for a head. Walking around,
it's like, of course you're drawn to that. And I went and like
swung my sword at his ankles for a little bit. Then he like stomped
on me and shout out of fire bolder at me, and I was dead
within within two seconds. Come there, this is like a completely sectioned off,
quartered off area that you have to like warp to or yeah, it's
a completely it's yeah, it's a completely new map area. And I'm you
know, I'm not sure exactly how big it is. It felt like with
my you know, about three hours of exploring and wandering around, I don't
want to say scratching the surface. Maybe maybe I got a good fingers length
in there, but still quite a lot of depth to go. Adding that
to your list of Mike minaudisms or what? Oh no, okay, so
yes, did they describe the size of the map compared to everything else?
Like, I mean, these are things like I'll be happy to discover my
own, but I also am like, you know, I want this to
be pretty big, but I don't want it to be so massive that I'm
overwhelmed by it. How are you it's going to be big? I think
that, you know, I don't know how long it's going to be,
right, I think for me, it's going to be a sweet spot where
you know, it'll probably be as long as many other actual games. Right
in a lot of ways, is this another one hundred hours? Now?
No, I don't. I don't. I don't think so like that.
But it also does feel like its own thing. You know. It kind
of reminds me of remember Oblivion the Shivering Aisles. Yeah, this is kind
of like portal in the middle of the main game that you can kind of
go to where and then it's like a mini Oblivion inside of Oblivion that's going
on there, And it's very similar, but it has its own flavor,
that is, that's kind of the vibe that if from that. And I'm
not like some giant you know, I like from software games, but I'm
not some huge from software ahead. Yeah, I'm not tam so I don't.
I don't know how this compares to like their previous big dealc efforts or
thing like that. I imagine probably similar, but you know, this is
open world, so it's a little bit different how it's all presented. But
yeah, so you know they're kind of wandering around a bit. I did
just find like, you know, the fortress area, right, and again
that's you know, familiar stuff, kind of decayed fortress, but it still
looks very good and it is just that satisfying out and ring combat. And
I'm not somebody who has you know, replayed and replayed and replayed out and
ring with new characters. I played through it when it came out and loved
it, but then moved on. But like coming back to it now a
couple of years later, it's just immediately like, oh yeah, this is
still fantastic. This is still like riding a bike. It's all coming back
to me very quickly. Then, you know, you go through that thing
and there's a boss at the end, and it's some horrible lion demon ghost
thing and he's like cycling through different elemental phases and it's just such an awesome
boss fight that it's such a good looking character like one of the best looking
bosses among all of Ouden Ring already just an incredibly weird, creepy looking monster
thing. And I have to admit I probably spent about an hour of my
demo trying to kill the boss. He kind of like everyone's kind of nervous,
like looking around, like as anyone else, like being the boss,
like you would see somebody did and you're like, I'm a fucking loser.
Somebody you go at it. So that's like you finally, you know,
you know, maybe you get there. Maybe you did it because other people
were smart and like, hey, I only have three hours. I need
to go check out other things here. But I was I was a little
stubborn and stuck with that boss until I beat it. And hey, just
like always in those things, it's like, yeah, it can be frustrating,
but boy, when you get that kill, that feels good. Yeah,
this is one of my most anticipated things this year. It's like Astrobot
in this, so there too. Yeah, I'm right, those are right.
It wasn't until we did the co op elden Ring stuff that I thought
like, well, I don't need to check out a shadow of the ur
tree and then you just pop back into that world even fresh. Yeah,
so it feels just as good now as it did a couple of years ago.
Came out. It really it was like such an immediate like, oh
yeah, this game was really special, wasn't It's the reason why we all
freaked out about this. And again, like you know the story hook here,
like what is Mechla up to? Like is this a friend or foe?
Let's be honest, We're probably gonna fight d right if you well,
but if you fight then kiss was he gonna think about the fact that I
killed his sister and all these things? And there's like a lot of he
gets it, like kind of everybody here, like especially all the you know,
non enemy NPC's. They're also looking for Michela and it's kind of like
almost like a cult forming around him. So there's there's some intrigue there.
I want to see what's going on and where this is all going to end.
And you know how that tie does a tie into the original game at
all, Like just doing all this unlocksome kind of new ending for example or
something else. Right, any O, theres are things like there's new weapons
and you know all that stuff. Although I am I'm a sword and board
kind of guy in out ring And that's pretty much what I was really doing
the entire time, is just kind of what feels comfortable for me. Yeah,
it doesn't seem like it's the kind of DALC where it's like, well,
you know, this specific, specific thing is happening, so you better
have your character ready to deal with that. It's like you can still play
it how you want, right right, Yeah, And there's you know,
there are some new things on. Like one of the weapons that we did
have, it was like a Millennia style weapon and like the kind of like
special ability you got with it put you in her sword stance, you know,
which is kind of like holding out or a sword. You can do
things based off of that. There's also many gauntlets, writer's like Melee fifty
stuff that you can do now, and you could take some of that to
the main game and might you know, give you a different build or different
experience. And I do think it is mostly about this new thing and not
so much about entirely augmenting. No, you would expect a new experience,
right, you know. I think about expansions like Reaper of Souls for Diablo
three, where like, yeah, base team had a lot of problems.
So yeah, the expansion is going to add new stuff, but also we
got to fix a lot of things. A figure fix about Elden Ring.
You think it would be I'd be robbing myself of an experience if I started
a new character for the DLC and kind of just like cheat engine my way
through to stuff. No, you didn't want do whatever you want. I
don't think do you all have characters ready to go? I was just looking
it up because like I don't know who. I don't remember who Mogan,
like like there's columns and he's like a big, fiery guy. He's near
the end as far as I remember playing the game, Lady, I just
beat uh what's your name? Lady with the sword the Florence the machine looking
lady. Yeah, this is so my close to if you could beat Millennia,
then you're able to do anything. Beat the Giant, beat Millennia.
Yeah. Okay, yeah, you're right, you're right there, Yeah,
yeah you should be a yeah okay, so then I'm pretty much ready then
yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, Like I'm just gonna take again.
I have one character that's just the way I play. Take that character into
this yeah, you get my multiplayer character, right. I suppose you could
do the DLC with that, but uh yeah, there is a party after
playing this. It's like to make sure it's good. It would be fun
to make a new character and do all that, but we're gonna do another
multiplayer stream before this game is out, so you come hang out with us
and do that there. That'd be fun. Maybe. Yeah, you can
like have that character character as a separate save was your own stuff? Yeah,
because like I like never messed around with magic very much at all.
Again, was fun, very sword and board and look, it always looks
pretty fun. What is sword and board like sword and shield? Oh okay,
sorry, yeah, my fancy fantasy terms. I got the sword part
like a paddle board of a sixties teacher. Yeah. Well, I'm very
excited about Chadow of the Tree. Oh yeah, we all are. Another
game we have here on the list is Paper Mario one thousand year Door.
Who's on this one? I'm still playing this as well, but I didn't
add to the list, so I was curious who added it. It's me
because I've been playing this. I know, Toby shocked everybody. I've been
playing. I've been playing good amount of this, and again, like when
I was having crones flares up or something like, you know, distractions from
games is a big thing. That can't help with that. You're not just
constantly thinking about some dull ache in your stomach or what have you. This
is such a very good game at that because it is just so charming and
so fun and so engaging. But play this games make me really happy because
I love thousand Year Door. But I also played it twenty years ago,
so a lot of it is like my brain knows I love the game.
I forget a lot of specific details and sometimes it's like, oh is it
really that good? Blah blah blah, and I'm you know, playing through
this again now I'm like, man, it really is that game. It
is so fantastic. It has a nice kind of curve to it where you
know, I'm in chapter or just finished chapter four and like yeah, man,
like you know, these battles are not just an automatic thing. Even
in the Mario RPG remake, which I liked a lot, they added kind
of mechanics there, like a lot more moves hit multiple enemies. There were
super moves that weren't there before, and they didn't really balance the game,
like rebalance it around that stuff. So you know, I loved it,
but it was very easy, and not that this is some super hard game.
I still think this is pretty easy, but it's like at least there's
challenge in how they present the fights exactly, Like I definitely think that I
am doing more with my brain during these battles with all my various resources and
just enemies that like don't take damage from certain kinds of attacks and thinking about
what you need to do there. That sort of thing alone is interesting,
and there were characters there that were unique too. It's like everything about Mario
post this game baffles me, especially the like uh, the stick and all
that stuff, like it's just a billion toads and none of the personality.
Like the writing's fine, but there's no leveling up and stuff like I feel
like that was near Doors, like the Perfect paper Mario game. Yeah yeah,
I mean if if all those other Mario paper Mario games had this leveling
up in this combat system, they would all instantly be like two points better.
Like I really hated Sticker Star. That could have gone up to like
a seven or eight easily if they just would have done the same stuff that
they're doing here. The character designs is a big part of it. You're
right, that's uh, generic toads, generic Goomba's even like or Agami King,
where I thought it had a lot of great characters. I think the
bob Bomb just looked like any other bob Bomb, and it's like that character
is so good, you could have just given them a hat and that would
have been so much more. But yeah, and King, why ever get
into a pike? Why ever engage the bat? The best part of that
game is when you got the hits that could just take out enemies without having
to get into battle and then be able to on the field, and it
just to give an instantly better game. Question. Uh, let's not say
just the switch ones. I was originally gonna ask paper Mario thousand your door
or Mario RBG. Let's say someone is coming in they've never played a Mario
RPG. What is the one you start with? The count the Mario and
Luigi games count, you know, the remake? Sure, everything that start
with. It's hard to be the first one. I think age would matter
if you were younger. I do think Mario RPG, like so much of
Mario ARBG, is my first RPG, and there's a lot of that.
Thousand years do a thousand yard door also, but mariopg is very short for
an RPG, and it's even easier than this, So it was like,
you know, somebody under ten, Yeah, somebody under ten that, but
otherwise just go a thousand yard door. It is so freaking charming and fun
inside story up there too, absolutely, but there's there is just something to
this. The writing is fantastic. I know, of course it isn't Superstar
Saga, but there's so much funny stuff going on here. Every time you
talk to Luigi and he just tells you about his concurrent very video amy RPG
adventure, then you talk to whatever buddies with them like this guy sucks.
He's just I'm just here to make sure he doesn't fuck something else up.
And also he owes me money. Is this game the start of the Luigi
sucks like character trait? I think a lot of the paper Mario this this
plays it up a lot, yeah, because he's just kind of green Mario
until he sucks. God Like I love the super like it's Superstar Saga,
where like no one knows his name and they're like I know, mister green
Sash going hard with that stuff here for a while, and I think it
took the year of Luigi to kind of a Sash into something a bit or
Pallada bull bro. He got Gouey, Yeah, got absolutely. But you're
talking about the partners. They are so good in this. Vivian is such
a great character. The baby Yoshi that you get to name, I named
mine, Mitch. That's a lotti. The baby Yoshi always calls you Gonzalez
because that's your ring name. He was born. It's still real to him.
It's still real to him. Damn it, Jeff, what color is
your Yoshi? I got a green one? Oh? I got agree one
the first time I played it, and I had no idea they could be
different colors. Oh wow, that's random, and that's all they could too.
Yeah, it's based off of the time they hatch from when you get
it. So I got a white Yoshi this time. Little things like that.
That's fun, even like the episodic nature of it is fantastic as it
switches things up, like Chapter three is the tournament saga. Yes, very
pro wrestling like, but there's intrigue and it's actually kind of intriguing. It's
great. And then like when you in between chapters you get new abilities,
you go back to Ropeport and it's like a little tiny betrade Venia where you're
like, oh, I get to find like a new shortcut and go here,
and oh, I remember there's that thing now that I can like blow
paper away. I can go there and open up that space to see what's
over there. It's great. I hate the timing of this because it's the
exact same situation as Metrod Prime, where I played Paper Mario two for the
first time during the pandemic a couple of years ago, streamed it, and
now the remake comes out and I don't feel like playing it because I just
played it Prime. I played during the pandemic on stream, loved it.
Did it was made few texture practice and stuff, So I never played this
one. So following that logic, we will get wind Waker HD very soon.
Since I thank you for your service, I know what you want me
to play. If you want to remake of it, I can make it
happen. Yeah, Dave, I gotta get you on Ridge Racer Type four
very soon. Here. I kind of want too. Yeah. The one
last thing I want to say is the stylish moves, which is like every
every attack has like it's like normal command like timing or that They're very easy
to understand and do right, and that's how you do extra damage. But
then each one also has like a much more hidden press eight, a specific
point to do a style kind of pose or whatever, a little flourished and
then the audience likes that and you get more stars, which is a resource
for special moves, and like you kind have to find these out on your
own where they are, and then the timing for them is a good deal
hard to get and pulling them off feels great. So good the game is
it made part of a big part is probably because the remake is look good.
The game is better than I remembered, Yeah, which makes me so
happy. It looks it looks great. They really nailed that. Those those
timing of the of the stylish moves is very similar to how like the timing
worked with just normal attacks in Super Mario RPG, where it's like kind of
mysterious and hard to nail down, and it's like, well, yeah,
that's fine for if there are like bonuses on top of the normal damage and
so like that's like just such a good idea across the board. It is
like a fun little thing, and each time you're in a battle, so
battles are very engaging. The world is amazing, the character is great,
the writing's great. I think that the the time you spend in each chapter
maybe goes a little long sometimes, but it's I'm never like, It's not
that I'm bored, it's just like, you know, I think, oh,
the pacing could be a little bit faster, a little bit brisker,
But other than that, it's just such a good game. I'm stuck deciding
whether or not this is going to be my Plane Slash SGF game or Laura
Lion Laser Eyes. Again. I think you would really like this game.
How many you're bringing notebooks and calculators onto the plane. I just might,
I just might. I finally busted out a piece of graph paper, and
I was so upset with myself. I'm so messed up. I like,
heard about Lurline Laser Eyes, and I was like, I don't know if
I can get to that. Then I saw Bailey playing it yesterday. I'm
like, oh, this has tank controls. I I played a few hours
of Loralai, and I didn't even didn't even cross my mind that it had
tank controls because it just felt so natural with the camera angles. I think
I just started playing like Resident Evil and never even thought like, oh,
tank controls. It just felt so natural, you know, Yeah, that's
what it has to be. Oh yeah, I don't know why I did
this, but I decided to finish. Sendu a saga hell Blake too,
Hey, what's going on? Are you? Are you okay? Jan?
Yeah? I remember Tam saying off handedly a meeting that it's only like five
to six hours, and I thought, well, maybe I didn't understand it.
Let's let's try and understand it. Let's try and get it. Do
you understand it? No, not at all. Did you have fun?
Don't have to be fun? Yeah? God, let's do it just destroying
that straw man? Hell? Yeah? Man a chance. It's a very
very pretty and beautiful game that stays consistent throughout it. I couldn't delete it
off of my computer fast enough. Part of the response. The reason why
I checked it out, besides remembering Tam said it's so short, is I
was doing my hard drive maintenance of like which one of these games can I
delete, and I thought, well, aery put an hour or so into
help a two. If I only have to check it out four or five
hours more, it's doable. And the whole time I was just you know
when a friend shows you a movie that they're very excited about and you kind
of just have to politely smile like, yeah, yeah, it's good,
it's good, it's good. Yeah. That was me the whole game,
just nodding to myself like, yeah, it's good. I just wish that
the combat became more involved, or that there's like some type of tree or
advancement that builds up. It just wants up becoming a bunch of duels after
a while. And then I forgot who has said it here, but someone
said it was like the Order of eighteen with a force letterbox thing, and
I thought, like, normally a mark for letterbox stuff, but like not
not this, and and like I don't know, I think it does a
lot of very neat things with the storytelling. The binaurmal like audio stuff is
really neat. It's cool, but like playing the actual game is just like
walking through mud, and like it was turning me into Guigi parentheses negative and
like the worst Guigi, and I just don't know if I can like wholeheardly
recommend this even if it is on game Pass, like if you are looking
for something like a God of War twenty eighteen, or or if you like
games to be not fun. Yeah, yeah, right right, if you're
looking for like an action game or whatever, like I would rather check out
like other games that this kind of reminds me of, Like I wanted to
check out a Plagu's Tail Requiem instead of this. Two radically different games,
but for some reason they occupy the same headspace or even like you know,
when people talk about the walking simulator thing or whatever, you know, Edith
Bench, Gone Home, like, there are ones that are interesting and doing
interesting things. I just uh, and I don't mean to act like,
look, there are good things about hel Blade, and yeah, you know,
there are well done elements, but for sure, I just think,
I don't know, I've really enjoyed, like you the Bench and Gone Home
way more than I did this. Yea, yeah, I thinkkel Blade gets
in its own way a little bit more than those games. Yeah, I
think at one hundred percent stumbles over itself. And then when someone made the
comparison that like it's not so much a dewey game because you're kind of jumping
through several hoops just to move sometimes. That really took me away from the
game, and I don't know, I I'm so one that really enjoys storing
games, like I'll sit through a visual novel game one and lock in.
I just after this felt like a grudge match after a while, like,
well, I think I'm close to the good I think I'm just going to
finish it now. Is that Ed Randy Orton WrestleMania Performance Center match? Right?
It is exactly like that, where it's like, Okay, we're still
going, yeah, no, no, keep going, just keep going.
We're telling stories, pal like we'll get through this, And I just wish
I enjoyed it more. I think I was just more upset with myself afterwards.
But it's very pretty the whole time. Like I was just hoping like
the set pieces would kind of match up to like how I'm feeling and playing
the game, because like Uncharted does that really well, right, Like here's
a massive set piece, Now go play the game, even though the playing
of the game in those moments feels fairly slight. But yeah, help lay
two. I can definitively say it's not going to make my top ten at
the end of the year. Yeah, I believe that. Another thing we
have here very very similar to Sinuasaga, Helblay Too Tiny, Terry's Turbo Trip.
Yeah, are you playing this? Dand Crub you tweeted about it.
I haven't said a word to you about this. I saw you turn green
Shot. I was like, I'm gonna download this. I downloaded on my
steam deck. I played it in two sessions and beat it. I beat
it last night during raw. I love this game. It's awesome. Okay,
a couple of things. Let's start at the top. Dance that beat
it in two sessions a couple hours. That's awesome. When we were kids
on the nes because you used to just be two hours, like that's just
what that's just what it was. They were two three hours. And this
game is like, uh, what's a long hike or yeah, a short
a short hike where it's like you can beat it in a couple of sessions.
You have a very simple goal and it's This game is best described as
open world sort of Simpsons hit and run with a short hike sort of stuff
happening as well, the crazy thing is it is open world and it fits
so much into like a less than four hour runtime. There are like significant
upgrades to get There are are like collectith on elements, like like a rare
three D platformer. There's like actual like character interactions and we're like, oh,
that's the guy that's Sun Tanning. Oh, I'm trying to impress this
girl that works at the job application place, Like there's kind of interesting.
Oh, she doesn't like the salty price, so I got to find a
new thing. Like it's a really likable game. It's a weird and funny
game, and it does have an open world that is very condensed, but
like there's there's a good amount of stuff to do in there. Yeah,
it's it's jam packed with like activities basically, and it's like you can always
be working on something. You get a pretty lengthy sort of quest log,
and the quest log is, you know, go find four different kinds of
bugs, and when you're on the world, you're like, oh, there's
a bug that looks different than what I've seen before, and they go catch
it. Oh I don't have the thing to catch it with. Okay,
what I got to do to get that so there's a natural progression of just
like building up your abilities and that sort of introduces you to the world,
forces you to go explore, and it's just it's got a really good sense
of humor. The writing is very funny. The character is a kindergartener.
He's got like this droll wit sort of about him, where like anyone someone
asks him something, Hey, don't you think you should do that? And
most times he's like, no, I'm not gonna you're supposed to be in
summer school. Well, I'm not just trying to go to space. He's
trying to go to space, trying to escape the sleepy town of Sprinkle Water,
which makes me sprinkle water on It's uh, it's just a blast.
My kids love it. It's the kind of game where I could just hand
it to them and they they'll just do what they want because it's a playground,
you know. It's there is no sort of enemy coming to attack you,
there is no timer. Uh, there's not really a fail state.
It's just go play around, have fun, mess around, and then if
you want to accomplish the grand goal of go to space, you can work
on that and have a good time as well. There's many games with the
leaderboards like grab I saw you on the Like there's a yoga leaderboard, there's
a bumper cars thing. There's like all these different minigames and stuff you can
do. It is a I can't imagine a better playing game, because you
know, for the whole thing on the Steam Deck, sixty fps was it's
running great, jan It's it's an ideal game for a plane. It is.
It's a blast. I like the look of this dude too, like
this little freak and you can hit B and he just goes like wow,
wow, yeah, he'll just start talking his own language. It doesn't as
far as I can tell, it doesn't. It doesn't really do anything.
No, it's better than GTA, yeah exactly. Oh yeah, it's really
fun. Everything about it is just in my wheelhouse. And uh yeah.
And again I go back to it's not trying to overstay. It's welcome.
It's not like, hey, let's we have this good idea, we have
to make it twenty to thirty hours so we can justify this price tag.
That never happened with this game. So it's just this awesome condensed experience and
I got I come out of the other side like I'm gonna play more.
I'm gonna keep playing this. This is a good time. It's it's just
so well done. It never dragged. You know, when I saw probits
last night, I was just like that was fir. That was just a
great gaming experience from beginning to end. I was having fun the entire time.
Yeah, it's got to you know, you can steal cars and sell
them and stuff you get like a decu leaf like gliders situation, like a
good upgrade. You're you're upgrading, like the boost on your car. It
made me want to like because I don't know why I never played the Simpsons
Hit and Run or Rogue coverage, and like I love Simpsons and I love
that era, and like I feel like I should probably play those games.
Great. Yeah, yeah, I just played. Yeah, I just played
him Run for the first time last year and it's still very good. Oh
speak about older games. Last week on upf for the first half, we
played Rumble Roses and Mike what was the second game? We played a Downhill
Domination up box art, Like, that's different on the three different consoles or
faces going into faces? Is that that? I'm chat? What is that?
Yeah? Jam may have not had a box in front of him.
Yeah, yeah, weird. I just got it used from my local Blockbuster.
Okay, you know, hey, Rumble Roses. Surprisingly I'm fun.
I'm looking at my review of Rumble Roses. What do you think gave it
out? I bet you really stuck your nose up at the horniness of that
game. I think everyone day at the time. And I don't know.
Rubo Roses xx is all about boobs, boobs, boobs. Wow, Okay,
yeah, I do have a paragraph about it here. I give it
a six or five. Yeah, you got naughty nurse, naughty cop.
No. I gave it a six. Yeah, that's like the average score.
And like, I don't know, it's like watching Jim play it.
I'm like, I understand that, I get it. But this game looks
fun and it's kind of doing some things that other wrestling games don't like.
Each wrestler has the story mode with cut seats and stuff, which is really
neat, Like there was some you know, the wrestling itself looks pretty responsive.
That camera angle is fucked up right right, the kind corner from like
the My last line here is this is a title for thirteen year old boys
who apparently haven't discovered the resources of the Internet. You'd be better off watching
scrambled cinema. Yeah I did at that time, right, it was these
games are just going after that audience, and we couldn't. It was impossible
to see past that. In hindsight, it's like, okay, yeah,
everyone does know there's million, millions these things available. Is there still any
sort of redemptiveness here? And it's like, yeah, like this is actually
kind of fun and silly and stupid, and part of me has an affinity
for what I watched you guys play. Yeah, it's it's a competent wrestling
game. Yeah too, you know, like it feels completely fine. But
Downhill Domination though, that also looked great. That was just like an adrenaline
rush the whole time. It actually hitting gym, an absolute hitting jem.
Shout out to whoever recommended it. The best part of this game is the
heat seeking bottles that you throw at other bikers. Hell yeah. And then
yet the courses are really fun. They're pretty diversified. You're just going downhill,
getting to point A to point B doing tricks. Has some type of
monetary bene fit. We didn't figure out what the money does. I'm sure
it just unlocks jerseys and like other bikes and all that jazz. But the
combat part of it was really fun. And when you hit a boost on
a like, uh mountain bike, Oh man, it just you're just going.
It felt great. Uh yeah, it did look like an EA big
sort of game. Oh yeah, No, I'm losing my mind. There's
a fucking game that sounds like Downhill Domination. It was ahead and a head
and I had there's three different motocross unleash let me? Oh is that it?
Let me see? Sorry? This is gonna drive me? No,
that's normal ass, that's got normal stuff. What do you what do you
describe when you say there's so it's like a Russer and nesting doll, but
it's like extreme heads and they're all coming out of each other. But it's
three different ones. One for BS two, one for game one p Xbox.
I was looking at this box art like two days ago. I'm gonna
lose my fucking mind if I can't think of what it is chat chat this
spangle, which I don't think is No, it's not that, it's some
sort of like motorcycle thing sounds like animals. Yeah, it looks like that.
Anamorph shit, it's like that, but with a dude's head, like
an extreme dude's head. Oh my god, No one knows what I'm talking
about. I'm going to lose. You're talking about it? Oh my god.
All I can think about is Iggy's wrecking balls. So I apologize.
It's a PS two game, though, right, damn it's PS two Xbox
and GameCube. Yeah okay, Chad says, I know what Dan's talking about,
and it's making me lose my mind too. You're crazy. This is
fake. Okay, No, no, no, it's real. Damn this
no god, damn okay. All right now, it's like a motorcycle thing.
It'll it'll come to someone, It'll come to someone. Yell. Once
I figured out, I'm gonna be googling you do you talk about like the
fucked up Unforgiven poster with three Steve Boston heads kind of that is a buck
poster, the one where it rotates on the replay. Yeah, all right,
we're talking about Rumble Roses. Let's keep talking about family games New Steam
Family share it. Yeah. So a couple of months back, Steam got
a big update that live for everyone yet unless you go to the beta update.
Freestyle metal acts knock it out at everyone audio listeners. Look it up.
Yes, just I've been freestyle as search images. Oh one of them
is coming out of the dudes. I one of them's his mouth. Look
how fucked up that box art is? That guy looks like pack Yeah,
and this is what I thought it was. I remember, Oh that's so
fucked up. Yeah, like real fucking weird. Isn't any good? Wow?
I don't know. I just remember the box art. It's Midway,
so I had to be decent from the Midway Sports Asylum. Why don't I
know the Midway Sports Asylum. I want to live there. I'm gonna get
some Midway Sports Asylum merch and that's all I'm aware. Yes, I kept
this company went under. Yeah, it's hard to imagine. Oh, man,
that looks like Henry Rowins. I'm sorry, im look at stuff from
this game now. The family sharing is its basically they just updated so like
in the past, what you could do is kind of the way it works
on console, where it's like, well, if you're lugged in on this
one, you could have someone else like like whitelisted, if they're also lugged
into that computer and then they can play like share your games, but if
they're playing any of their games at the same time, it won't work.
So it'll either be unavailable or if they start up a game, like the
owner of the library, if they start a game, it's going to kick
you off and you can't play they are They've changed that so now people can
play multiple games at the same time from one family library, but you just
can't play the same game. That's the one restrictions don't But it's so what
you got to do is you just make a family now and it's like you
name it and you can invite people family. You have to make a family,
yes, right, so sorry, but yeah listen, then I don't
know, you don't want to do that. Yeah, that's not the cards.
But you just name it and then you can invite people and you have
up to six people. I think they have to be in the same country
as you. I think that is one of the restrictions. But other than
that, it's like you can kind of invite anyone and then if you like
kick them out of your family, you don't get that spot back for like
a year. Like it's like you were going to use that spot up for
a year, so you can kind of just like like build a crew.
Like I got my kids all set up because I have that second Steam deck.
So now we were playing. I was playing Tiny Turbo or Turbo Terry
a little bit, and and they were playing something else at the same time,
and it was working flawlessly. I'm like, oh, this is a
big improvement. So is this because when I look at the settings here,
I see the same thing where you have to like authorize on this device.
That is right, So that is the way it used to work. Yeah,
but you would need to do if you want this now before they send
it out to everyone, is that you just go to the option to get
the beta version of Steam. So it's in the beta, it's in the
preview, but you could just get the beta. I think that one's a
little bit more stable and and it'll get it will completely replace that with this
new interface. And I'm I'm like, oh, this is kind of a
game changer for me because it's like, my kids are playing way more games.
It's kind of getting a little annoying not being able to play what I
want when I want, So this changes all that, and it's I'm like,
man, this is also kind of what I'm hoping we get from the
consoles going forward, especially Nintendo. I wouldn't I would really like to have
multiple switches all working at the same time in my house, but I am
going to keep buying digital, and even with like physical it's not like you
can like have multiple versions of the physical game and one the one time,
obviously, but sharing those is a little bit easier. But it's like,
if I have my digital library, just let me be able to share that
with my family right here with a couple of people. I think this system
it works really well, and I think it's some people will find ways to
take advantage of it, but I think it strikes the right balance of you
know, being able to do what you want with your games and not being
able to like to have like, oh, we're just gonna let anyone play
my game, so we're gonna have this huge network of people on a forum
or whatever all sharing. I'm sure people will figure that out, but still,
yeah, it's it's a big improvement, and I really do hope that
the console makers sort of mimic this going forward. Neat neat that is cool,
because like that always is a giant pain in the ass like especially like
you know, with switch and stuff like that, it's like you have to
like do the mental gymnastics of like, okay, so you all set my
primary account as banks switch and then she can play my games. But then
I like get on a plane and my switch isn't the primary one, and
it's like I can't load up my games on a Plane's like, well,
fuck, you don't know to you're on the plane, Like that's happened a
million times a minute. You get game account sixty ninety is what Christian told
me it's called. So it's oh, yeah, yeah, because they're like,
yeah, you got to like put one over there and the other one's
got to kind of reach around over this way. Great way to put it.
Yeah, So it's what it is. And it's like I have that
set up and that is also like it works, but it only works with
two right, and I have two kids, so there's three of us and
if we and there's already been a lot of arguments, so I'm always like,
hey, there's a Steam deck, use that too. But ideally I'd
be like, no, for your birthday, you just get your own switch
and we can all play our games together. That would be the perfect case.
That's man, Okay, that's cool. I was, It's yeah.
So again, you just got to get to the beta. I'm sure they'll
roll it out to everyone here in the next couple of weeks, you know.
A couple quick things before we had to break your break and eventually get
to the news, someone put down a little case of the Golden Idol.
Yes, I god, what started on this is? Somebody was it?
You grew up mentioning it, Tori. It was on some show about it
constantly. It was likely you, I think, or maybe it was Mary.
I don't remember, but someone said something about it and I was like,
you know what, I should give it a try. I think it
might have been Merry Sorry grub uh your planet. Yeah, it's it's cool
because I was talking about how much I like logic puzzles and stuff like that.
I think I was talking about Loralai and talking about how like I love
logic puzzles and stip but Lorlai went really far with it to where it's like,
Okay, I this is a bit overwhelming. And then yes, Golden
Idol was brought up and I was like, ooh, yeah I did.
I thought Obra Den was doing some cool stuff. I never checked out Golden
Idol despite hearing people talk about it and uh yeah, load it up.
I'm like several chapters in now, and it's just like it's exactly the type
of logic thing I like, where it's like, first of all the controls
or the interface. I guess it's just so simple. I'm just kind of
clicking around with the mouse. I'm just like sliding names into things and like,
okay, you here, and like, oh two or more of these
are incorrect, just drag and dropping. Let's bring back and try this again.
Okay, so that guy's this Okay, he set him on fire,
and it's rifling through bags and just seeing like okay, so this guy had
a horse brush, so he must have been cleaning the stables or something like.
It's it is the type of logic puzzle I really enjoy, and it's
I wonder if it's going to be a good playing game, because I'm thinking
of what I'm going to play on the way. But I mean it's so
mouse heavy. Are you just doing a lot of like the screen touching.
I've done that, yeah, but you know, I on steam Deck with
the with the touch pad, I find that's pretty easy to do that one
with the little square Grammick. I have never used that for anything. Yeah,
it's it's ideal for anything that would be like a mousepace game. Yeah
okay, okay, yeah, maybe I'll play that bit on the plane well.
Also considering try and hollow Night again. Oh yeah, okay. Oh,
I don't even know if I can be there. Oh like okay,
yeah, Man at you multiple times about this. I think we're saying that
he doesn't want you to come back and be like I really actually don't like
it and definitively say I hate because I think it hurt. It's it's a
problem, like it's annoying when like you know, other like people have an
expectation for you, like I want you to like this thing, Like what
do they care? And like for some reason it's important for me. Okay,
you throw that, you throw a hollow Night on me, I'll throw
macgoover on you. Okay, fine, that's hollow Night on the way out
there. No, I don't know anyone that likes hollow Night, So no
one's really been talking to me about. Yeah, that's a big thing about
holiday. It's a big problem now that I know Manati likes it. I
will play it on the way to SGF. Manatti, you watch mcgoover with
me in l A okay, yes, somewhere Mary Kish throwing several things she
does weird. Oh oh right, what it says? It looks like a
flash game or something. I don't know. Oh yeah, that was a
problem with Minishoot too. That's right, Okay, she hates Indy's. Yeah.
The other things I have here is Rage Racer. Yeah, that became
a video game. I love this. Have you seen that fucking water bowl?
The box art with the gold lettering. I wasn't even the one who
put them on there. I haven't played in twenty years, but man,
people, yeah I went. I went to the local retro game start,
maybe hoping to find Rumbull Roses or Downhoall Domination. But I didn't have that.
But uh, they did have Rage Racer. And I have gone on
about Ridge Racer Type four a lot and how much I love that, and
it's one of my favorite games. Rage Racers basically Ridge Racer three, it's
the predecessor. So when I saw that, I was excited to go and
give that a whirl. And it is also very good a ton of style.
Yeah, it looks very good and that that it's like a nineteen ninety
seven game, so kind of in the mid there. Uh, not quite
as advanced as Type four, which is a couple of years later and at
the end of PS one, but still this looks very good. Amazing soundtrack
like one. That's one of my favorite things about Type four is the music
A care also incredible. Horny announcer Lady, Horny announcer lady, which looks
like that series is kind of well, it's a it's a dude in the
fourth one. Not that he can't be horny either, but he seems more
like drugg doctor more cocaine than something more Tony Kahan and the that's whatever this
is. Tony has never been horny. The one thing I was throwing off
this was a me problem so much though. I just couldn't get a handle
on the drifting on this one. I will never forgive you. I just
couldn't get a handle on the drifting in this one. I'm very good at
the drifting and Type four and kind of the other ridge racers after that,
I was having a lot of trouble with that on this one. So I'm
still doing all right, but I was having way more accidents on tighter turns
and things like that that I would get a little frustrated. Don't change the
grip on the tires. Yeah, mess, Yeah. So it's not like
in Type four. It's just you have different cars with different properties. You
can get kind of a lot of them. Here you start with one car.
You have to earn money to buy new cars, and it could be
a lot of money, so kind of grinding out races. I don't mind
that. I like the grind, but then also like the one thing you
can tune in the car is the tire grip. Even then, like,
I don't know, it's like I put it, I experiment with a bunch
of different areas, and it's still never quite felt right to me. Maybe
it's just a case of again because like you start off with kind of a
weak car, maybe that gets better. I don't know, but yeah,
I don't know. It reminds me when I played the first Ridge Racer right
because it's drifting also felt very kind of loose and slippery compared to the more
refined version Type four. And this isn't like quite that slippery, but it's
a little bit more on that side and not that a bit more mainstream drifting
that I'm used to perhaps in Type four, but still very fun, ton
of fun to play. It's not going to overtake Type four for me at
all, but I'm very glad to have that in my collection. Waterfall,
Yes, the waterfall that just made me think of a revengeance Mount Rushmore,
idea Mount Rushmore of graphical things you have seen that like left that permanent,
like like I remember like the PS early PS one three D like I just
got a three D c D based system. It was the opening epan B
thing of Tecan and it was the waterfall and rage racer like Mount Rushmore of
just things you look at like holy shit, like a Royal raceway and Mario
Kart sixty four when you go off the thing and it kind of like zooms
out and does that like Dolly zero like that type of shit. Riple H's
hair might be on this. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah for sure,
yep, yep. Maybe it's because you say Mount Rushmore, but I immediately
and we're talking about racing, is immediately thought of like the carved sonic statue
or like thing in the mountain in Daytona, US. Yeah. Yeah,
yeah, looks awesome. It's amazing, Like that's so big and linked to
the past. That was the first thing I saw, my superintendent. I
was like, oh my god, we do rain now and it looks cool
the rain and the tanker mission medal your solid too, Yeah, every well,
look, I think that your Solidude trailer might be the George Washington of
that Mount Rushmore and that'd be fun. Three blew me away to Yeah,
but thirty pms a second. Okay, that's right, Dan, you're right,
oh right. And the last thing I have here on the list is
Unintendo sixty four decompiled stuff. Oh god, that stuff is so cool.
That is that is really awesome. It's I am the last person on the
plan that I should explain how or why this is a thing. I had
something to do with the They scrambled up a bunch of sixty four bits and
bites and it came out looking better. But bas basically, basically they found
a way to yeah, make the inner files and workings of this game turn
into a PC game. But but it like looks like a sixty four game
the way you remember, but it's running at like crazy frame rates. And
resolutions and stuff. So I'm playing Okerena of Time. There's like an opera
of time. I don't know if you call it a mod or version or
something called Ship of Harkennyan. And it is the wildest shit, like if
you just like it has a million awesome quality of life things like oh,
speed this thing up, or do this thing or auto equip this thing or
climb everything. Just weird things like random enemy sizes. So there's like goofy
like game genie type things all over the place that are just checkboxes from the
menu. But then if you just you can't even like make that the King
of the Fish people like Scoot the Zorzura, the kings Aura like Scoop.
Yeah, you can adjust this speed out with a slider for that. You
can randomize colors, sound effects, whatever you want to do. You can
play the actual like randomizer through it. It is so or if you just
want to play normal ass ockerane of time straightforward but in like sixty fps,
one hundred and sixty five refresh rate, you know, widescreen, it is
awesome. I fucking love it. It looks stunning, but like the decompiling
thing makes it so like any game could conceivably get this, So like there
is a working majora version now for this. People are starting to do work
on Mario sixty four with it. And you know, I've got an effenity
for in sixty four for sure, So like I kind of want to see
that library. Just kidding, I mean, and that's what's gonna happen here,
because that's what the tools capable of the kid can do anything. They
did Superman sixty four right away with it, so they're doing Superman sixty four.
Did they did four randomizer? It would just be a different one of
those like in between segments where Superman's like save the cars, random spawns for
cock gobblers, Yeah, find the cock gobblers. Yeah, we have to
go back losses on that flip Now, I'm ready to go back to everything.
We're deep in the dcataricol. We're waiting around in here for what my
drown in that fantasy Yeah, that's right, it's a fantasy game. It's
ancient grease, it's whatever, same thing. It's a I got a maximum
shield in that game now that you can throw and it comes back to you.
So pretty fantasy. Oh god, the sixty four wrestling games would that
make it easier for people to do like the mods and stuff where it's like
modern rosters and trons and shit, and do do that, but it will
probably be easier. Oh man, that sounds great. Yeah, I really
want to. I really want to get into randomizers. I have not touched
that part of like gaming at all yet, and it just seems like such
an amazing way to you know, like I level games. I don't mind
that they're short experiences, but the idea that you can't turn them into something
that could basically be the only game you play for a few years with all
that also changes the entire way you think of it. Like, you know,
I probably beat Linked in the past fifty times before I ever did a
randomizer, And the first time I did it, it was like you open
up the Boomerang treasure chests and it's just like why is this a fire rod?
And it's like and then you have to think about, like take all
that knowledge you know about the base game and be like, wait, now
I could skip that, that and that, and I could just go get
this now, but then that charge of trust is something now else It's like
wait, now I can skip this whole segment, Like It's a really,
really fascinating way to play a game that you know well, you know,
That's why I've always wanted to dig into one of those like modded Pokemon games,
just because I feel like I know those maps in which roots so well
that Almo does a bunch of that stuff. The Pokemon randomizers love young Elmo.
Uh, all right, folks, that about does it for the video
games. We're gonna take a quick bricky break. Sean calmed down, Sean
calmed down. I need to calm down. Real bad's been activated. Shawn
has been activated. Sean's bomb just will come up and send him out an
adventure, folks. We'll be right back with the news after a quick brickie
break, Ty Terry, Yeah, everyone, control your rage. Jeff Grubb
is here with the news. We can all rest easy now. Mike calm
down. Mike calm down, Thank you, Mike furious man, you're just
cussing at us the whole break. Yeah, kind of was that about myself?
Now? It's a lot of rage. Absolutely. The gimmicks are getting
to your brother. Yeah, all right, I got some news here for
you everybody. But let's uh, let's start with summer game mess that is
kicking off this week. You know, there's a calendar if you are like
wondering when everything's happening. Reno, he always does that very handy calendar that's
on He puts it on Twitter and stuff like that. But what I really
want to do is do some predictions with you fellas, and that that will
give us the opportunity to go over some of the bigger shows here. Summer
Games Fest are actually Summer Game Fest. It's a singular game for some reason.
Jeff Keely's show is on Friday. He has been out there this week
saying, you know, maybe don't expect the world, don't expect Kingdom Hearts
four, things like that. What's the point? Yeah, there it is
dark Manti. I know, all right, we've really this arc here.
He's like, you know, it's gonna be a lot of games that have
already been announced that are getting updates about them. There will be a handful
of things that are new, but yes, don't expect the biggest games,
like there's not gonna be a new trailer for for Grand Theft Auto six,
for example. All that said, what do you all want to see from
a Summer Game Fest? Because I'm like, I guess, I don't really
knows. I got us gears, oh Xboxes show. Yeah, we're talking
about the whole encompassing show right, well for this, we're talking about like,
yeah, we'll get to look at the Xbox here in a second.
Yees. Yeah. I got a letter from Capcom and some other people did,
like very specific like come come see our show. We're gonna have announcements.
So I love Capcom. They've been doing good stuff like the bare Minimum
here, I mean like Monster Hunter Rise, like just something new there,
and then probably the next season a street Fighter six characters. But like,
man, are you sending out like this letter to people for for that?
I'm expecting at least they also Gami game, right sure, But again I'm
like, yes, I'm kind of hoping and expecting something new. I'm not
like real, I hope something I'm getting Mega Man or something like that.
But you know, there's been rumors about Residual remakes. Pair have gone back
and forth Residuevil. But whether or not it'll be here this summer, the
latest is it might not. I wouldn't mind like maybe a collection like an
HD collection of some older stuff, bring Back Dead Rising, that's people have
been asking for that thing. Burn in the Chad says that, yeah,
and that like a Dead Rising one remake. I think that's the way you
do that at this point. I think they could like we'll get away with
like a really good remaster of Cold Rising one, like not just like an
up res type well I mean was HD, but like new models new just
making like it's like that, like that like that Ratchet and CLIENTK like twenty
sixteen remake or whatever where it was like, oh, this looks like a
modern game, but it's based on the skeleton of the original. You know,
how wild does it score? How wild is it that Dead Rising ones
setting is just going to be feel so archaic because it's in Allah. Yeah,
definitely, I guess. I guess it doesn't seem that arcade to me
because I live in Minnesota and America. There are a lot of malls here.
I think they were like invented here or something like. This is where
the shops like major like retail chains have headquarters in Minneapolis, right, so
maybe retail there. Yeah, Derek Wae, Yeah, you don't think we're
a little past uh where the remaster treatment is enough for early Xbox three sixty
games. I think. I think everything is on the table just still,
and that's what like. It would have to at least be a Metroid Prime
level remaster. I think it has, like h sure, I mean that
Chrisis score. The reason I said Chrisis score is that one, you know,
it's a PSP game. They did they replaced all the models and then
it's still that basic same game underneath for the most part. Remaster plus remaster
plus exactly Revengeance. Yeah, yeah, you know it's Capcom. They have
the Reach for the Moon engine, So would they try to remake the game
in that engine? I don't know. That sounds like a lot of work,
but maybe they feel like they would have to these days. I just
don't want them to get in their own way to stop themselves from doing stuff
that would probably be cool and we would all like, oh man, I
really wanted I wouldn't mind like a remastered Okami that would look sharp as hell.
Yeah, that's the thing with cap There's a million things that people want
and they could do, Like Dino Crisis always gets brought up. There's freaks
like me who would love to see like MegaNet legends winning too. Question that
one isn't happening planet. It would be interested in like what they would do
with lost Planet, because what if they just turn it into like a monster
Hunter both guns. Yeah, they made three of those games something. Yeah.
The dream for me, aside from anything Megan Magazar so I freak Out,
would be a new versus game cap converses, Yeah, or even like
the rights are well that you don't have to do Marvel, right, you
can cap converses anybody? What did Yeah? Well maybe Sega about we Serra
sites a little bit? Which, yes, game okay, I see yeah,
Capcom versus S and K I just like Sega replacing the S and CBS
or like, kay, the rights are a little complicated, but they've done
it before. If you bring out Mars this Capcom two again with like modern
net coat stuff, that would make a lot of oh oh happy. Do
you think it's Mike? Do you think it's gonna be hard to do Capcom
versus Hannah Barbara? No? I bet those rights are very cheapts go did
anyone else have the fucking demo disc that came with an OXM. I had
this in college. It was Capcom Versus S and K two EO and It
was the entire fucking game. The entire time I put it in, I'd
be like, how is this possible? There's like ninety selectable characters. It
had the whole single player mode. It had like I would always look around
like I don't know if there was like an online mode that wasn't there,
because I probably wasn't messing around with that to have, but I was like,
how did they put why is the entire new game on this OXM demo
disc. I played it all the time in college, so weird, really
weird have versus at two players because we played all the time because like none
of us were like hardcore fighting game guys, and we loved it because I
guess the EO thing was just used the right stick to like you know,
the control, so like yeah, we would just like pre drink and play
that and just throw off every special movie. It was great, Such a
good game. Shout outs to Maki oh, I love that one. I
played it on Ganmecube, which is a little fucked up, like I love
the GameCube, a little weird for like old school two D fighting games with
those face buttons, but it works. It was still a lot of fun
and the Sea stick for a game that you need to stick for the sea
sticks A little funking tiny, No, sure tiny, but you know the
size of the season. Question for you all, what was the in Hannah
Barbera. There was like a horse with a red hat, like a drawmac
graw. Okay, thank you, I see the rest of my time.
I remember remember what type I was watching Cord Network. There's like quick draw.
But I was like, this is interesting, and then I swear to
god, it went for like two or three hours. It was like some
kind of epic Western storry quick drama. It was this whole movie. What
what's everyone's favorite fictional horse? Mine horse from Running Simp go oh, they
that's a really good one click drama. Grass up there. Maximus from Tangled
is a very good horsey. Philip from Beating the Beast also shout outs to
Philip. I like, I like Ed because I watched a lot of Nike
at night when I was growing up. Horse does Pegasus count because it's a
horse? Yeah? Sure? What horse? Hercules? Okay, Okay,
yeah, it's brought up. No one said Agro, which is Ben Hanson's
most interesting video game character of all time. That's what he reads the horse
from Fucking Shadow of the Closs. Ben Hanson things the horse from Shadow the
Classes is the most video. What does he mean by interesting? Because I
like that Hanson broke it is what he means personality goal or character arc?
What's interesting about Torrent is a more interesting horse than Agro And I love horses,
he said, most interesting character. Yeah, like it's like, oh,
it's like Arthur Morgan and a horse. You know, horses. Butto
Octo found this movie that I saw. It's called The Good, The Bat
and Huckleberry Hound. This says it's only ninety five minutes. I was watching
it with commercials though it's is probably why it was three hours on Cartoon Network.
I need to watch this. You don't know, I don't remember the
names, I remember the faces. Okay, sure, sure, yes,
man, he's got so offended I know. I'm like here to defend my
boy Huckleberry Hound. Watch out. Yeah all right, So Keeley Sister's not
gonna be a one more thing at summer game. Best if he's lying,
what do you guys think would be the most likely scenario for there to be
in there? Like, what's the biggest game you could see being at the
show Dragon Age. I can't see a bmg ya. I think that actually
will not be there. Yeah, it's tough, right. I think this
is where we're at, where it's like, man, what could even like
fill into that slide? It would be good enough? Right, I know
it's not. But haven't heard from that in Forever the Silk song. Mm
hmmm, just one more thing I want. I don't know about it.
One more there's so many people. Yeah, it would obviously pop off you
if it's there. God, I hope. I really like Hollow Night and
then I'm like the one Hollow Night band. They're just like, oh,
and I just hop right into saying so song. They will only announce that
game like a release a for it finally after you finally play. I like
that. How long is the Summer Game Fest? President? Summer Game Fest
is two hours? I believe he's eight hours. Yes, so it's a
lot. That's like, it's longer than The Good and Bad and Knuckleberry Hound.
It's longer than the Grover. Yeah, video game movies or movie video
games, if there are, he will find them and he will put them
in the show. The trailer, there is that introduction the Zelda Thingers film
finished King Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Okay, okay, yeah,
yeah, I mean you know, Sega's usually is always a part of
these things. But I'll have Maori, who's the leaker that there's a lot
of Sega stuff, says it sounds like none of those super games will show
up at any of the summer stuff this year, which is I think.
May also said like like tactics don't make those aren't things we're hearing about soon.
Yes, so it sounds like a lot of stuff. It's just not
like in the car metaphor Fantasis brings up a brilliant thing. Order Lands movie
stars will one hundred percent beyond stage. If he can get we're gonna see
so much cross media alone. Jeff, who don't bother her. I want
her to have to deal with this father Jack Black. Yeah, I like
Jack Black. Yeah, I know, but he's game. Make al Pat
stand on the stage the entire time. Don't let him home. Yeah,
put him on like a big pillar that he can't like. There's no ladder.
He's not a prisoner. You don't have to say he's a prisoner.
But he cannot leave. But he would have to jump off like a twenty
five put things. Yes, he would have to hurt himself the bad news
Barrett Riser, Yeah, you know in a poll match bookt god that But
you know what was that the Game Awards or was that Summer Game Fast Awards.
It was amazing range It was during the longest speech to the Chris Judge
one man. Oh that's right. He did just stand there. I heard
his being back al Arts just sitting next to him like he's still just in
the backgrounds ounit like checking his watch. Yeah, all right, the Xbox
Show is happening on Sunday. This one is also sounding like it's gonna be
about two hours and then the Call of Duty show after that is going to
be another hour. Now, maybe expect around thirty games. They did twenty
seven last year, so around that same number probably for this year. But
like, what are the ones that come to mind for you guys first that
you want to see from Xbox at that show? Not Getting and Gears,
not that I want to see it, but Fable has to show up again,
right, yeah, I hope so we can see more, like,
you know, gameplay, right, we kind of had that cute there's some
game play in it, but it was a very product produced trailer last time.
Yeah, Gears, Man, I want to you present Gears now because
it going to be like Gears five. The next one writers it's going to
be well, yes, I get you know what I mean. I wonder
like that, you know, he's got the new parents, Howard Math watch
out. I just don't wonder. I wonder if it's just like the next
Gears or if there's like, I don't know, a little bit more juice
in there, if it's presented as a big deal. I mean, Gears
five did the thing where it's like the chapters or acts two and three had
the kind of open world type stuff. Maybe that was the Bowser's fury and
the next one. Here's what I really want. I wanted to put the
of War back after Gears. That ship drives me crazy. I want them
to fast and furious. This franchise going forward, just have like Gears or
the warl wor War with another funky Just get funky with every chuge it every
time. I respect it. Yes, I agree, it's just Gears six.
What can you do to make it funky? Yeah? I was like
so much would for shoot, like pretty excited about Gears still. So the
thing is, like Gears I always liked a lot. I was never like
an obsessive Gears fan. I just thought they were all good, Like they're
all like nine's out of ten to me pretty much. And then I played
through them all again, like back to back to back to back to back
to back with Kayla a couple of years ago on stream. It's goddamn.
These are still really fun and they're like probably the most fun co op games,
or at least way way high up there for me. Did you ever
play hive Busters for Gears five, which is the dalcne I don't know if
I did. Is the one J Styles and Xavier Woods played underneath the stage?
Yes, yeah I think so. Yeah, I don't know if I
tried that. Yeah we should try that because people really swear by hive Busters
and I've always wanted to check. I would try that. Okay, maybe
we can make a connectivity capadris about that. I would, Uh, if
we get a new Gears, I just want to move a little bit faster,
But you gotta would we weren't chunky. Yes, that's difficult. Fly
around, Give me a give me a knee slide, not a vanquished knee
slide, but like, uh, like a pretty decent If you could just
be like a vanquished dude in Gears, that'd be like just copy n vanquished
dude though, So it's like Giant Rockets pushy. Okay, well, big
boy in Armored Course six, you're yes, this gap should play more like
Armored Core six, as should most games. Yes, okay, other games
worth pointing out avowed yes or no on the excitement meter. Ye, what
that is? See, I'm always a little confused that no one seems to
care about a vowed I'm it's this is like fantasy RPG game. It's like
an Elder Scrolls type thing, right, It's like they're making their own out
of scrolls. And I like Outer Scrolls. I like Obsidian, they make
good games like that. I thought the last trailer was good. I think
I don't know. I think there's a lot of people who see Skyrim style
combat now and like aren't impressed. I still think that was fun. But
I just have a good time, And you know, a lot of it's
because yeah, like I call it two style combat. That's fair. That's
fair. You know. I bet If City is going to make a very
fun World sixplore for a lot of really fun quests, a lot of kind
of go go over there and have fun. I am a little worried.
It's kind of a you know, kind of happened with Hebby a bit right
where. I think the scale is going to be one thing. Not that
I need every game to be big, like does some huge thing, but
with this, I do kind of want something that is like a Skyrim size,
And if it is, you know, a lot smaller than that,
there's a part of me it's gonna kind of throw my hands. I think.
I think it'll maybe like the scale could be a little bit less,
if the density is significantly more. If it's like, oh, a smaller
area, but everywhere there is something cool to find, I would be okay
with that. Indiana Jones, uh, very likely to be there because that's
coming out later this year. About also likely coming out later this year.
I would expect that around November. Yeah, Indiana Jones, where you all
at with that one? I think I'm I hope that really is as good
as it can be. Looking forward to that, I'm fully on board the
train, and I do mean that train. From the beginning of Lest Crusade
with the tigers and stuff snakes, Yes, yeah, how do he get
his scar? Was that one of the early examples like well, ye,
yeah, it was cute then and then like this much more into it then
with the River Phoenix thing like people liked that yeah because it was like that,
like because that's a real Harrison Ford scar. Right, it's not even
like a big part of like the story of Indiana Jones. So it's like
that's like cute where it's like this is how Han Solo got his name.
What are you to be clar No one asked that snakes right? It was
also the snakes. Yeah, it's like you're right, yes, on the
box car, yes, definitely. Something about it is still very cute though,
yeah, you know everybody gets one, right. It's it's kind of
an early time for that. All right, Perfect Dark that is I've heard
it a little while back, a couple of weeks ago. It's like I'm
not looking too great. Then since that I've heard it's like, well it's
looking all right according to some people, and it should show up at this
show. Uh boy, I don't know what I want from a Perfect Dark
now. I just want to be excited about it. You are expecting Perfect
Dark at the show? Yes, oh wow, you know I was thinking
about Perfect Dark recently, I think because I'm thinking about sixty four stuff all
the time, and it's like that for it to still have value as a
name, it's like, well, it had one really good game. Yes,
it had one game that was supposed to be the Killer App launch game,
and no one likes. No. I guess there was a game Boy
game, but I don't know. I've never anyone else to play that,
So, like I consider, it's like there's two games. Yeah, yeah,
it was the game Boy Color. Yeah yeah, but yeah, one
good game, one incredibly mediocre game, and then here we are twenty five
years later and we're still like, I mean, what is that going to
look like at this point? Like I want it to be good, just
like I want a Perfect Dark zero to be good, But I'm not like
thinking about it much. I think that they really need to make it almost
more spy game and less shooter. I think maybe that's how you make that
interesting. You look at stuff like no one lists forever or or whatnot,
because I don't know, I think you just come in. Because like that
was when I think about Perfect Dark zero what I think about is like kind
of bad cover shooting stuff, right, Yeah, it's gotta be more interesting
than that. Was Perfect Dark, very talkie game. No the original,
No, yeah, no, it was. It was Golden Eye. It
was like like a sassy alien that said some stuff, but that was pretty
much it. Yeah, Elvis or something. It's weird that every game back
then was like, surprise aliens in this in this second act. Yeah,
I don't know if i'd need the I don't know if I want the aliens.
No, that's honest. Yeah, Elvis is back. Yeah, yeah,
I think that there's like a thing to Perfect Dark with right where it
would introduce the stage and it'd be like, look at this awesome setting and
we're using that for a megapight Ram expansion pack, aren't we, And it
looks really cool, and it's like, I just want like the world to
be dripping with style and not have a lot of talking. But yes,
Mike's also right, they should lean away from me to just being a shooter
campaign. I don't want it to be that. Some of the most fun
stuff and the original was like, okay, this this gun is a laptop
and you can throw stick to a wall and there'll be a turret or here's
a little guy you can fly around and it can like inject things or shoot
darts and little cameras and stuff like that. Stuff is what differentiated it from
Golden Night to me, is like gadgets, which do you think the Bond
would have more? But they leaned into it more with Perfect Dark, and
I thought it was awesome. I don't really want to set myself up here,
but it was kind of like the Hitman games line that you're assassinating people,
but like you're you're in an open space with all these characters that have
these kind of like schedules and you're a spine you have to get like a
certain item or you like a certain piece of information. That would be incredibly
interesting to me. Uh, there is that rumored doom that is going to
go back to medieval times and it's like that sounds so like or like Hexan
or Heretic, but it's gonna go full metal album cover, Like I get
it. But I'm even more excited about this I am. I know,
I'm getting like they make good games. It's going to be a good game,
Yep, totally, And I mean I get one in hext but I
also get why they don't do it like you just I get it got in
my head. I was wanting to charge and I was told, what do
you think is going to make more money called Doom something something or a new
hex and oh yes, okay, yeah with the with the heard tattoo right
right? Yeah? Uh huh uh. You really are just thinking about the
N sixty four constantly? Yes, yea, the logo is spinning and it's
like the Homer brain. But the expansion back perfect dark one that was all
shiny. Oh yeah, that's the power of the expansion stated d K three
could show back up. Dragon Age probably will also have an appearance here that,
okay, seems likely. Hall of Night more likely for this or for
Keeley. You think Xbox, I think Xbox. I mean, like,
you know, two hours, like probably around thirty games. Like we've mentioned
a handful of first party games and Dragon Age. There will probably be some
other like big partner games maybe, but yeah, hellow Night probably shows up
here. I think they make a spot for it, all right, And
then that takes us to you be soft on Monday real quick? Please they
can now it's anything new you think? Or is it just about catching up
because there was a while where they were announcing stuff very far ahead. Well,
you know, Doom would be new, right, Doom would be new
because Gear has been announced that it's just like, hey, we're making to
be new. Okay, you're right. I think there's not a lot of
space for like new new beyond what about double fine? Next thing? That
would be fantastic? We were due right, Psychonatys two is a couple a
couple of years ago. And also they probably were working on their next thing
at the same time, and they could announce it. I don't know that'd
be great. Do we see the image of a master chief helmet at any
point? Oh? Boy? I don't know if they mentioned Halo? Okay,
well maybe a ing maybe, but I don't know if they do.
We're gonna hear more about clock I bet you're more likely to get Fallout seventy
six stuff than Halo, which is wild. That's true. That's true.
And that Clockwork Revolution or whatever revolutions not Song of the South. What's the
uh is this in the Clockwork Night series? Buy You one by one?
Yeah, of course there any game with the word Clockwork in it. No,
it's the one that's like very BioShock sixty four of You Leave the Saturn
to Me Dan, Yes, Song of Midnight, there we go that.
That's it. Yes, a lot of those things should reappear here probably,
Yes, all right, you'd be soft on Monday. You know, Star
Wars Outlaws is out not too far from that. What was the date on
that one? Yeah? Isn't that like September? You're right? Yeah,
that's like, man, so I'm gonna get that in Astro September. It's
gotta be good. Uh, there's what's the Assassin's Creed game called I Cannot
Remember Shadow? Yeah? Shadow? You read? Uh? Do you think
we get that splinter Cell remake? You think they because that's they announced that,
but I don't know if they show it. Yeah, so they're working
on it. Uh No, they're gonna announce that that one's got moved to
a new studio or something. Okay, Then they just said that, like
another studio is helping on the Prince of Person Toronto is now working on Prince
of Persia's Stands of Time remake. Yes, okay, so I mean they
probably don't show that either, but that's fine. They've had two sand Prince
of Persia games this year, so maybe they can take a little break keep
it up set a certain case. I don't know what else I want from
a ub Soft these days. Uh, Star Wars Outlaws sounds pretty good.
I am excited about the Assassin's Creed game, and if they have a Spoonter
Cell remake, I'll be very happy. I don't need anything else from them.
But you guys have any guesses or desires? Rabbits party game? Yeah?
Sure, yeah, I mean, what the hell? Yeah? Yeah,
let's go. I don't think we're getting another Mario plus plus Rabbits.
I would love to get like this proper ray Mann again, probably not just
dance. Yeah, that'll probably be a just dance. What is it?
The the far crid? You guess they would get another far Cry? Oh
yeah, I mean what ever? Like? Now do you think you're here?
Yes? Also here? Okay, sure it'll be seven or I don't
know, some other thingy, I don't know something. It's like that.
They're never bad games with Boy, do I have a hard time getting excited
about Far Cry anymore? Post before what I think prime? What was my
breaking point? What if we see the ultimate olive branch extended and then we
have Mario and Sonics and Rabbits Olympics. Okay, well peace, those Rabbits
parked in the Olympics, not like Silver the Hedge. We were athletes here.
I don't think they could break dance breakdance in the Olympics, now,
is it okay? Okay? Then yes? Then okay, you have an
egg on your face. But Mario is a better break dancer. He's break
dancing and like the cover for Yeah, So there you go. Oh that's
what I want to good point. I probably would like that. It's probably
what they do. Any other thoughts about things that could happen anywhere else and
any other show. You know, there's a bunch of like that list aboves
like oh there's the Gorilla Collective and Future of Play and Wholesome Direct. People
are going to get very mad for no reason. Yeah, PC Gaming Show?
What's that? Then? Chocolate tear thing? You know? Every time
that dude talks about that, he's like has he said? Like, Man,
once I start working on Stardy Valley again, I just work on Started
Valley for a very long time. So I'm not going to get your hopes
up for that. Yeah, I'm probably not. Man, there is a
game that like, again, it hasn't been announced. This tease doesn't meanying
because it's like nothing anyone would know. But I just got it. I
saw it, and I'm like, I can't wait for us to play this
game. It's gonna be a good time. It should be in that PC
Gaming Show. So I have a similar thing, Jeff, where I don't
know if this is kind of a me thing, but I think there's something
happening there that I'm going to be excited about. No, I don't know
about everyone else, but I think I think it'll be because I'm using somebody
the PC Gaming Show. I'm like, I'm probably not even going to bother
watch it. I think it'll be worth watching. Yeah, a New Duke
Newkeom game. They that's not gonna not happen, right, that will eventually
there's going to be a New Duke Newkem game. Yeah, I actually just
actually think No. I mean you're right, but just not that is just
a character. You just can't do it. Well. I think they do
it. They look if I was, if I was creative director of a
New Duke Nukem game. If you're making a picture, if you make it,
He led the return of Maunt Hazard, which is not a good game.
But the idea of it was like we're going to do a satire school
will our network the boys, and like he's actually a name. You know,
here's what you do. You just make it like God of War twenty
eighteen and you just give him a shitty son describing dip Dudeum had a kid
and be Dip Nukem as a sad dad and like kind of as a parent.
I think that's maybe the only direction. Randy Check yep, right,
Oh, my guy's got to teacher said to be better. It's not only
about babes, it's not about where is it? All right, Summer game
Fest that's happening. We'll be there. We'll have stuff to talk about on
Friday because the show will just happen, you know. Of course we'll have
all our nonsense as well. Saturday, we'll have played a bunch of stuff,
so we'll probably do a staff check in around that time. And today
just Saturday, Well it's Saturday, Sunday and Monday. But Sunday we have
a live show, and Monday we're busy. Yeah, important stuff, important
stuff, so yeah, so just say yeah, yeah, all right,
let's get on with the rest of the news here. Google employee was reportedly
behind a number of leaked Nintendo announcements. Hey, Google employee leaked in Nintendo
announcements by accessing private videos in the Nintendo YouTube account. The leaked internal Google
database revealed numerous privacy and security issues, including accidental collection of children's ye data,
leakage of carpool users journeys and home addresses, and YouTube recommendations based on
deleted videos. Google stated that the employee can flag potential products blah blah blah.
The core of this, for as far as gamers are concerned, is
apparently for several years there was someone getting access to Nintendo's private videos and leaking
that out to others. Uh and yeah, that was kind of weird because
people speculated about that for a long time. Turns out it's the case now
it's not maybe not still happening. Google also said they did an investigation.
They're like, it was an accident, but I'm like, I'm not exactly
sure what that means. It doesn't really don't believe that it's going to be
a Nintendo jill on YouTube. Man. Remember they wouldn't sell stuff on Amazon
for a while that was a thing too, so they didn't want to I
remember they didn't want to stuff on Twitch like Mario Kart. I want to
say. When it came out, they're like, you can't stream this and
said it was a very forward looking company. Uh yeah, this is this
is a weird one. But I mean, I don't know about what we
really do with this information. It's just kind of an odd thing that people
think fewer companies are going to like be pre uploading videos on YouTube. Yeah.
Probably it's going to be like become like best practices. Just like now,
once it's done, you upload it in the moment and that's when you
announced it. So someone needs to be there actively doing it. Uh.
There was that State of Play last week. Uh you know there was a
bunch of games in there. Yes, that is the correct sound to make
God wore Ragnrock's coming to PC. Concord. If you guys thought about Concord
at all in the last week, Uh yeah, somebody tweeted something about Concord
and I had to google it to remember what it was. Yeah, I've
been thinking more about Marvel Rivals instead. Yeah, that's the other one that
looks like Overwatch from this thing. Uh, I mean, come on,
it's all about Astrobot concord whatever. You're gonna have to live and fight another
day and see if you can get people's attention. Uh. In the meantime,
Astrobot Boy, that is a breath of fresh air right now. That
game looks so yeah. I can't remember the last time I've been so excited
for a game reveal and trailer and everything like and also with the utmost confidence
that I'm going to love it Like that looks like exactly the game I want
period Right now? Is there any like cameos y'all y'all are hoping for that
we didn't see in like the initial trailer stuff. I think Jammer mix it
in. Yeah, Papa's in there, so probably. Yeah. I do
hope that the Bloodborne guy is in there, just to like really stick it
in the eye of those fans, because they'll that'll be absolutely miserable if it's
an Astrobot and they don't actually get a Bloodborne remaster. There has to be
a sack Boy, right Oh yeah, yeah, sack Boy just got an
Astrobot costume, So yes, I bet there's some crossover love there. No,
it's they're gonna do like a Darth Vader reveal where the head breaks off
of a It's like, like'd be pretty cool. Yeah. Was there any
jumping flash references in uh or ape Escape in Playroom? I can't remember.
I think there were the Escape right, so yeah, and like so people
wondering in case you're hearing this and you didn't watch it. Astrobot is a
three D platformer. Astro's Playroom came with the PS five and you could play
through that and it did a lot with PlayStation's history. Now, there were
like character references, but there was those were like usual like vignettes like uh,
oh, go look in the corner and there are a bunch of the
ape Escape characters, you know, or the bots dressed up as ape Escape
characters kind of just doing something off to the side. In Astrobot, which
is what the new game is called, coming out in September for the PS
five, they are seeming like they're like, oh no, the story of
this game is is like bringing these characters together and like using an Astrobot Kratos
to like get an axe and do something. So it's like it's much more
integrated into the story, which is cool. I think that's a good idea,
right. Well, it's like it is kind of like rescue mission,
right, where like the things you're collecting are right, the astrobots just here.
They are those kind of models that we solve from the playroom where it
is those characters, and yeah, that's a good that's a good star replacement
to have. Following the Mario formula chat mentioning Tale of the Sun, and
I forgot Sony published that if there's a Tale of the Sun reference an astrobot,
I will eleven out of ten, I will ship my pants live on
stream. A Pizza bird man, be very excited. Wasn't there Pizza Burson?
There was Pizza Bird, Pizza Pigs. Yeah, maybe it was Pizza
pigs. Yeah yeah, yeah not an Austria. Yeah. I know you
brought out jipping flash, but you know, se seeing him in playroom was
my biggest pop off. And if he's in this one again and he wasn't
there, yes, yes, sorry, yeah, he was in playroom man,
and I freaked out when I saw a rabbot there. That was incredible.
My the thing that I want to see an astrobot. I want to
see PlayStation Home. Yeah, of course, just a couch, the a
home logo in the last one. Also honest, actually yeah, so yeah,
there's already been home references. I want to full They did say this
game is four times the size of Astro's playroom, it has micro transactions.
They're saying all the right stuff and bro the fresh air, like this is
the game this system needed right now. I think there was there's a lot
of sort of anxiousness about the state of Triple A game development and how long
things are taking, and man, we might go a very long time before
the next Naughty Dog game. In the meantime, here's a new Astrobot game,
and everyone seems to universally be excited about it, especially compared to Concord.
Like Concord on YouTube had eighteen percent up votes. The thumbs up where
it's this had ninety nine percent. So people are just very very down for
this. Yeah, I know you no, go ahead, Mike. I
was just I know you brought up like a little bit earlier, the Concord,
and you know, no one seems impressed. I'm a little surprised,
just how an impressed. Even like the kind of more general gaming audience seems
like everybody is maybe taking a turn against the flood of hero shooters, Right,
why did it take us long? Like Overwatch? I feel like to
me, I feel like the peak of hearing about it was like twenty fifteen,
Like, why is it taking so long for all these to pop up?
It always takes a little bit, right, I think, you know
almost wow, I mean think about longest taken for people to like a lot
more people to get tired of superhero movies and Marvel stuff even right, It's
also like, you know, we don't assume that there's going to be a
continuing parade of these games. So we get to a few years later and
say, oh man, another one of those. Okay, well at least
the next big game from Sony's probably going to be something else. And then
like they're like, okay, no, here's the next new game from us,
and it's one of those, and everyone's like, wait, no,
what the hell? It has been ten years. We're so over this,
didn't you know? So I think it's just pressed more now that people are
like seeing another one of these games. Try that there's like a Star Wars
one that just came out today, right, Yeah, that's that One's like
a mobile game that's on switch. It's so that's a little bit different,
but you know it's free to play like that. That sort of thing is
like, yeah, of course it's still happening on mobile, and like we
can have that going on the switch. But the idea of like this,
you know, Concord's going to have a price, right, it's not a
free to play game. They're talking about pre orders. That's insane, right,
And it's like, man, I'm already not convinced, and you have
to like get over that hump. And I'm like, I'm probably not even
gonna try it because of the price. So yeah, we'll see overall though
most people didn't like that state of play, but I couldn't care less because
Astrobot looks so bot is basically. I went and there's some there were some
other neat looking things. I don't rememb There's a couple of souls like kind
of things that looked fine. Yeah, that's familiar. Was it Ballot of
Antara? Where was it? Where it winds meat? It's impossible to say
a Dynasty orders guy. Yeah, I thought that Dasty Warriors trail actually looks
pretty. I'm not anti Warriors. Your sister would kill you literally screaming the
other room when it got revealed. I'm still mildly curious about Silent Hill too,
me too. Yeah, sure, I just want to see. I
just want to. I also want to feel the tears of the Silent Hill
fan base. I have not peeked into that yet, but I've heard they
are an opinionated bunch. They're not doing there was a lot and look,
I'm not saying they're wrong or right, and a lot of people have had
very strong reactions to like the outfit change for one of the female character.
Have they always been so opinionated about Silent Hill or is it just recent.
It's a passionate, passionate that's what they say, passionate fan base. It's
grown more distraught in recent years as it feels like, you know, yeah,
it's the faint. It's like the you know, the Bob and Weave
of the company is like, hey, we're going to give you something.
It might be bad, I think. I mean they did that weird like
kind of interactive dream game and a lot like that. Yeah, that is
that every economy property. That's just like the last like guy knows how many
years, I mean, metal Gears, that's the thing. Like, you
know, it's it's kind of easy for us to be flipping about sound hill,
wait till they fuck up Castlevania and then we're mad. Right. Oh,
I guess when was the last fucking Castlevania? Sports of Shadow too,
right, and that was not good. I mean there might have been some
hoosy what's it after that, but I think really that was it. I
didn't love the one point five D one. They did that weird six player
uh Harmony of Despair? Yeah, whatever, it's kind of kind of cute.
Where's last? Like Lords of Shadow one? Was that the last good
Castlevania? Like straight unanimous good? I think they made a Pitcross Caslvania game
on mobile that was pretty good, so yeah, yeah, maybe I need
to go back to Lords of Shad. I remember at the time it was
just too I had a terrible second level and a lot of people got a
bad taste their mouths. But like, as you keep going, it's it's
actually a really good game, right. It only attached Kojimasa name to that
one too. At the time, I was like, I don't know how
much he really do. They put the exclamation point in the sound effect in
the trailer and trailer was like the Stinger like, and Kajima looked at it
one set a studio. He pointed at it, not like, yeah,
we got him, he's involved. There we go to be fair. You
know that recent crop Econami rumors is like, oh, so we're going to
get the metal gear solid Delta, We're going to get a handful of other
things. And Cassovenia is one of the games they are apparently working on,
so maybe that does show up at Summer Game Fest. No, that would
be that oh right, right right, yeah, yeah, did his boy
dirty? He'll never treat you the same, all right. I wish the
Kajima apparent's going to be Achille's thing. I'm sorry, God, if it's
If it's another he kind of stands there. It doesn't really have anything to
talk about. We have to give this man his flowers for the five thousand
times. And yeah, probably that a modern a random celebrity talk about how
great he is. Like I like college too, but god, it's gonna
be likel Fanning or lay us a do this time desk straining two? What's
to deal with that? Is that out next year? I don't know if
they said, Okay, that's weird. That wasn't this year. Maybe Okay,
it's out of my heart. Uh. PlayStation VR two PC adapters coming
this August. It's gonna disable a number of the features though it's sixty dollars
August seventh. It will enable you to plug in the ps VR two to
a PC and play Steam VR games with it. But like HDR and I
tracking and just about like haptics, all of these things that are key to
the PSVR two are not going to work. Wow. Wit. What you
do get is the very high resolution screens, and that stuff is pretty high
quality and it's very comfortable. But boy, this just feels like maybe we
could sell a few thousand more PSVR two units. Does you guys get any
other vibes from this? That's all it is the pick. The picture they
tweet with is funny that somebody finally playing half lay flex. Yeah, that
was still weird. I'll just do that to me meta quest with the steamlink
thing that think works great wireless yep. I just can't believe he even bothered
doing a psc R two if you don't have halfway folex on plastation five as
part of that, Like, if you for some reason, it's impossible,
Like I don't know why VOV would care about putting in on there not or
you don't want to pay the money, then just don't even do it,
Like that should be the deal breaker right there. Yep. Take two discussed
decision not to announce Grand Theft Auto six for PC. Basically Strasseelnek just went
out there and it was like, you know, I might get announced,
it might not, but you know, Rockstar does this, and we're probably
going to do it the same way as we always done it, which is
if you think back to Grand Theft Auto five came to Xbox three, sixty
and PS three and every time I say that makes me feel very weird and
old. Yeah yeah, but did that, and then the next year came
to the next gen console, so Xbox one PS four, and then the
year after that came to PC. Red Edward m Shoa two got a very
similar treatment the new consoles, and then PC the year after that. Yeah,
this what consoles, and then it'll come to PC maybe in the next
year. You guys thinket that strategy still works. Yeah, for that it's
gotta work. Yeah, Yeah, it's gonna work for them, are Yep,
I think it probably will be nothing but a benefit for them because they'll
get that secondary launch when they go to PC. That'll give them a chance
to relaunch GT Online two like after having like the initial start on console and
then getting that huge influx when PC players come in. So yeah, it'll
be a benefit to that. And I remember when they did the next gen
console then they actually had like significant like that's for the first person mode and
everything. It was a pretty significant update, right, and you excited about
the console versions again, Yeah, exactly, like each time they do it
more so than any other game, Like it does feel like an event that
we are getting ports in a way that even like something big like you know
this when Spider Man came to PC, right, like it was yeah people
notice, but something like when a rock Star game finally makes that jump.
Let's see here. Take two is also reportedly planning to close or sell its
indie labeled private division. They've shut down most of those studios allegedly like in
Intercept Games, which was working on Kerble Space program to in roll seven,
which did what was that roller skating game that they did roller Drone right,
yes, but they also worked on Ali Ali World or someone in this in
this Private Division. World did. Yeah. Private Division is one of those
examples of these big publishers trying to make an indie label and like it goes
for a little bit of time and then it runs out of gas and then
they shut everything down. That's happened so many times across all these companies.
I can't even remember the name of like the square Enix one from like ten
years ago. Not too surprising, but boy, it's a bummer that they
just can't realize what business they're getting into. You are going to get into
a business of making smaller games. Why do you still have triple A expectations?
And Take Through is like, man, Grand Theft Auto could pay for
the whole party. You have enough money? What is going on here?
So it's frustrating, it's it's very weird. And then I know there's a
little bit of a Moon Studio side that story, right, yes, right,
and that that was in the there was a big IGN report and they're
like, hey, we talked to people who were like saying the Private Vision
was going to like really get close to Moon Studios, the makers of Ori
and now that new game that has like the sentence for an no rest for
the wicked thank you and uh and and people were kind of like hesitant about
that because everything that was in that venture Beat story from several years ago is
true. Everything that was alleged in that venture Beat story was true and worse
than that, and again that's also alleged. Yeah, it's like, yeah,
it took a while for people to kind of catch onto that. But
it seems like people in the know are fully aware that the team over there
is not fun to work with, according to the leaders. I think,
yeah, you know, there's there's two people thought that are allegedly and you
know, you can look at that story on games Beat by Dean and some
of the things that they have said and done, and yeah, a weird,
weird, toxic thing going on there. There's always been a lot of
turnover. Actually found an old story you did, Jeff, like way back
when Orion the Blind Forest came out, and you're like, people who release
this game are talking about it. I was kind of like just like look
into some of these people up on LinkedIn, like yeah, no, no,
no, we're there anymore. And look, turnover happens in the industry.
Sure, it seems to be especially like a problem there. People get
burnt out real quick working for them, and the point there was like,
well that's not the solution because no one that private Division currently was like actually
ended up wanting to work with the people at mun Studios. So it's like
that whole plan fell apart, and now that like it take to you's going
to try to sell what they can of private division and close down the risk.
Basically, last story here, Stellar Blade and PS five top the US
sales chart in April. Stellar Blade was number one, but this is from
the Sircano report. Matt Piscatella did mention that this was like one of the
weaker number ones in in April in like the last decade or more so,
game sales kind of weak. Hardware sells though, especially bad hardware. Cell
were down like more than forty percent year over year. People are just not
buying consoles right now. And that probably does change with Grand Aft Auto six.
I'm hoping it changes with Astrobot. I bet that's the thing. Gets
everyone back in there. We go, Yeah, that's it, We'll see
all right. Uh well, actually, you know one more story. Giant
Bob at Knight June ninth. Tickets are available now. We talked about at
the top of the show. But you know, a lot of reasons to
get this. But you know, if you do get it, if you
get tickets, you get a year of Giant Bomb Premium, you get the
VIP experience for what is it, like one hundred dollars or something like that.
You get Giant Bomb Premium for life for only one fifth of the cubevore.
That's right, exactly how we start marketing it. And that's ad free
podcasts. That's access to the whole vault, access to the exclusive channels distorted
right, Yeah, exactly, So that's worth it right there, Jan,
I'm handing the showback over to you. I'm looking at the show and I'm
realizing tickets are available, So go get go, get the show some tickets,
baby, and we're going to take quick break break and we'll be back
with some es emails. Mike Manati, how's the root beer? It's very
good. This is Hank's genuine Hanks Gourmet Philadelphia recipe diet root beer. I
picked this up at Cast Iron root Beer Bar. Sam, that's like a
fab right iron thing. No, right, the body got reactions, Yes,
chef, Hey, here's a here's a here's a stupid thought, what
if they like what if way back when the first person called him email said
no, they're they're digital males, they're emails. Now he called them dmails
our whole life and got to make a lot of like dick mail jokes.
BombCast Giant bomb dot Com said soon or something. Man, he's been practicing
on me a lot. It's I'm kind of old sometimes I feel like Mike
is constantly working on his tight five with us. Uh huh kill, I
bet I'd killt kill Okay, shoot question for grabbing. Jan Me and Manatti
both prepare ten minutes of open Mike material. We go in front of a
crowd that doesn't know us. Who who's doing better? Mike Ship, He's
got the delivery in the voice. He could pretty much say anything he's gonna
get. He's gonna get a pop because Mike Mike is a very sing songy,
dancing type of guy. I honestly don't think the material would matter too
much. His delivery is too you know what I think I'm on? Yeah,
yeah, I get what he would do is like shuffle thing, you
know, like he does this move a lot, right she does. Yeah,
I'm just yeah, I'm picturing him is like a Sam Kennison eighties coked
up like he's on the Royds No Shows, and yeah, I'm very unintimidating
and self depreciating in that combo. I think works a lot for like people
just laugh and let them more so. Yeah, no, no, yeah,
your personality is good for it. Like you rock a blazer with like
a game T shirt on the inside. It work, It work, Mike.
Yeah, like I'm at a business industry event exactly. All right,
first email, come, yeah I'm wearing I'm wearing a T shirt right now?
Is this sexy bad guy? I am the stand up conversion, sir
humor? Yeah, do you have any T shirts that look like tuxedos?
No? Okay, we can fix that, Mic, I'll dip into the
wardrobe budget. I don't know if I can fix Chris from Va writes in
Hey Bomb Squad, What is an online game you'd give anything to go back
to but can't because the game is shut down or currently unplayable? I grew
up on MMOs. When everyone else was playing Classics on the p S two
in GameCube, I was busy playing Dark Age of Camelot and Planet Side.
I would give so much, just one more day playing Planet side with my
squad. That game was a true defining moment in gaming for me and was
really ahead of its time. Are there any games that you'd love to experience
again but actually cannot because the online servers are gone? I'm scared of my
beloved planet Side one will be lost the time eventually. Fuck the new conglomerate
and the new venue sovereignty real ones, know what I'm saying. Love Chris
from VA Red Alert two. You can make work, but you gotta jump
through a bunch of hoops and it's kind of paining the ass. If they
did a Redtler two remaster, which is like proper online, I would probably
play that a lot. Warhawk for PS three, but I remember a few
years ago I tried it out on PS now and I got into a match
like a little bit pre pandemic, and I was like, what the fuck?
I would love with Warhawk or star I would love a star Hawk,
Jesus Christ, I would love that. That'd be awesome. Man, Morlock
is one of those ones I always wanted to play more of and never really
did because I was a Nintendo guy. So Man, I played a ton
of that PS three Warhawk. Yeah, there was a like nineties god like
very nineteen ninety six two D mmo called Castle Infinity. It's probably the first
mmo I ever played. It was kind of like wacky like it like the
main like story characters were dinosaurs who were dressed up like they were in the
Stonecutters or something like that, you know, and they like, you know,
there's a lot there's a lot of songs involved, but like the gameplay
was like you and your friends, like, you know, you're these two
D characters. You would like collect different heads and torsos and legs and customize
what you looked like. It was just like all these areas to explore.
They're even kind of like boss fights there are in raids. It had a
ton of personality. It was just so cool back then. It's kind of
an interactive chat room because that, you know, that whole idea still seemed
very very new to me. It blew my mind at the time. I
think there is still like a fan server of some kind, like it launched
a twenty eleven. I don't I can't imagine there are a ton of people
on there anymore, because even the freaks in twenty eleven were still very excited
play Castle Infinity in twenty twenty four. I'm not sure how many people are
still doing that. Even I went there, wouldn't be like it was,
and that was a special special game. At at one point in time on
the early Internet, America was online on AOL and there was a development studio
that worked with AOL called Boxer Jam, and they would make things like Strike
a Match out of Order, Napoleon. I played a lot of Strike a
Match, which was like this interactive chat room trivia game where you just like
match things up and Yeah, it was like fast paced, and I would
play a ton of this and it's just not available anymore. There's no way
to play it. It's just completely gone. Yeah, so I would I
would like to. I keep looking for someone like, hey, has anyone
made like a fake version of this and replicated it online for me to play
it? Because I get the urge every once in a while. Man,
interactive chat room trivia made me think one versus one hundred, which also makes
me want to go back to the Xbox predictions and Hopesting announced a new one
versus one hundred a few years ago, but that team that was working on
it like the leadership has left or got fired or something, so I'm not
too hopeful that it's How hard can it be to make a one versus one
hundred for us? I agree, let's just do it? Yeah, why
don't we just do it? Yeah, Dan, Dan, you would be
a better game show host than me for sure. Oh yes, okay,
all right, you do that. I'll do stand up, you know will.
I think you'd be good at stand up by the way I do.
Yes, Yeah, no, I think I get what you're saying, though
I thought Mike would be. He's got the presence. Yeah, presence,
yes, all right. Next email comes from didn't write their name down,
but this one's about hockey. Apologize that doctor Hockey is not on today?
Uh hello bomb crew. Writing this full of adrenaline after watching the Oilers beat
the Stars. I feel like the Jeffs haven't thrown in their opinions yet.
Who do they have winning the Stanley Cup Final? So the Stars were the
team that I was like, I think they're gonna do it now it's it's
Oilers are the team of desk you guys, you guys see this on social
media. The lady at the Oilers game flat Okay, it's all I get
on Twitter now is when they won a lady flashed her breast and it's like
it's like become this exactly, it's become this mass, but it's become this
huge, it's become this thing where where it's like, now, that's all
the oilers, like fans are doing online is just sharing that over and over.
So I can't go two feet on Twitter without seeing it constantly. But
the oilers are now, the oilers are playing very good. And Connor McDavid
is the best player in the world and he's playing like it. So yeah,
that's that's my pick. That's good. I was worried to be a
flash in the pan. Oh boy, all right, I'd be good at
the stand up smile look at them all right? U second part of that
email also have dan is on brain check. Where do potatoes come from?
Oh so, if you're talking wild ones, that's from like the southern US
down to southern Chili domes. Genetic studies there is there's a single origin if
you do genetic studies, that's kind of like present days southern Peru into like
the extreme northwestern Bolivia. Thank you. Yeah, are they in the ground
or what or who can say? Okay, the science is out, all
right. I think the fact that they literally look like dirt is a clue.
It was like dirt. Dirt's crumbly. I mean the color, the
texture they look like they for the ground. Beef Beef is the same color.
Beef doesn't come out of the ground. Beef is Beef's brown? Could
you cook beef? Yes? All right, have meat before I guess it's
red? Then yeah, okay, by the time I'm seeing it, it's
brown. Next email comes from Frank in Massachusetts subduters but mostly Jan. It's
been a while since We've been a while since we've heard some Pokemon TCG talk
on the BombCast. My friends and I have recently been dabbling into the Pokemon
trading game for nostalgia sake. We would like to get into some local events,
but I was wondering how do we start. I, for one,
want to roll up and sling out my ALEC exam and ex cards scare me.
Any advice? Is it? TCG seem cool? Do we need to
play be playing metadecks? Jim Leader challenge seems cool? We'll get stopped by
pro level children. Thanks so much, Love, Frank from Massachusetts. Pro
level children is a terrifying phrase. Yeah, like dib could eventually be that
comes. Yeah, Pokemon, you got getting that Lorkana train, Baby Ursus
returns and new expansion that's out right now. There's even a an adventure set
where you are a Frank and going we could stop Disney give it to me
so it hurts some more. Oh, that's a really good idea. We
could probably make that happen. It would be really funny if we got a
bunch of good Lorcanic cards and got to do a card reveal before Mike and
he opens it incorrectly. If anyone has any super rare Lorcana cards, you
can send them to my po box. Yeah. Absolutely, it'll be cool
about it. It'd be very mad. Uh uh Frank h Just go to
like a local card shop if you have one available. Sometimes they'll set you
up with like a local tournament or just like a game night to play.
Uh. Don't worry about playing meta stuff. If you play non meta stuff,
it will throw people for a loop and it'll be fun. If you're
looking for resources on YouTube, go to Tricky Jim Homeboy over there really good
stuff with Pokemon Jim gymym like gym Jen Jim Jim. Do they ever do
they ever have like tournaments where you can only play the package decks there?
There's some tourneys there or like events where like uh, pre built will come
out and you can only use that. God, how funny would it be
if I had a super rare lorcana that I revealed to Minati on stage at
the show and then I just eat it. Now, no thing I could
do to chew it up and swallow it in front of the face. I
would, I would. I would really like that. That would be very
special. I mean we could, we can. We can pull our money
together to do that, right, make that very funny? Yeah? You
know Baniello will kill you he would, yes, oh right? Two more
emails here today this emails. I remember that that's a that's a callback.
I mean the first time these things start, think something gage Cheetah brought from
l Wow, Canada. Uh, Dear bombers. I saw a video the
other day and it brought up to your conversation about what what if we were
born with our ass cheeks horizontal? And I just wanted to share the funny
observation from it. If our ass cheeks were split horizontally, it would clap
when we round down the stairs. Can be funny. I like that.
Brought from Gulf Ontario in Canada, sent from my iPhone. Fantastic, fantastic
last email of the show. Send your emails to BombCast giant bomb dot com.
I read any and all of them, including the fucking emails that you
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That makes people do it more. No, that's engagement, baby, Okay,
you get my newsletter. Nope, even on mine. What the heck?
Tom P from Florida writes in Hey giine BombCast Crew. Over the past
five years, I have been great, greatly influenced by Giant Bomb and especially
dance stories of him just reaching out to people and getting awesome opportunities because of
it. I tried the Dan Record method of just going for things, and
I've lended my dream job because of just going for things. Yeah, so
my question for you is are there any people who have gratefully influenced you who
you have never met before? Tom P from Florida, Hell yeah, Tom,
good, work on that, Tom, Helly, I mean, I
mean I never met sting which sing which both the right one the singer which
era of sting. I am embarrassed right now. I'm sorry, God,
I feel like an asshole. Yes, hey, Dandy, you think you're
are you gonna get me in that uh the jungle cruise skipper thing on our
Disney trip? Oh, we can't do that making it happen for me Monday.
Yeah, let's talk about it. Yeah. It was an opening day
attraction in nineteen fifty five. It was actually their biggest attraction upon open Get
the work where it started? Yeah, I did. I did ask our
our our friend, and he's like, does is he like a make a
wish? Kid? So like you you got? The crowds has been bad
and I have a broken arm. I feel like I deserve a wish.
You had a wish on Blake Club, all right, Mike, Yeah,
that was a work wish. I deserve a shoot wish. I can't just
be giving out wishes, wishes, just wishes. We don't know if it's
a shoot wish until after the fact. You guys gotta stop saying wishes.
I'm trying so hard not to scream. The song that they played during the
Old Fireworks Wishes make a wish. Wishes make a wish and your drives your
bursting at the scenes to get that outlet him get it out of the system.
You're right, it was it was like you guys like wish. Yeah,
we didn't say that word, that English word. We did say it
quite frequently. Thank you for letting me get out. And you see that
this tech you done, guys making his own mister clone that's going to be
like way less expensive. I saw some some people talking about that, and
I'm curious, but I love my mister. It sounds probably well. He's
working on one that is apparently going to be around like three hundred four hundred
dollars. It's going to be a mister and a cartridge reader and a what's
what's the your upscaler thing called retro tank and a retro tank the old ones
in back lar won't let me expense the current one right, new one apparently
is going to be way less money and it'll be equivalent to a four K.
These are the promises. We'll we'll see if it ends up playing playing
out, but tech you us know their stuff, so okay excited. And
then also hit Man three VR just got announced for Metaquest three. Interesting.
Okay, so they're like taking that mode and improving it and putting it on
Quest. We should do with a rodeo where we're all doing the same mission.
I like that seems cool. I like that you think would be best
for that? Does it have all of them? Or is it just the
hit Man three ones? It's this hit Man three v R. I.
I haven't really looked at it, but weird to not have it, But
yeah, we do the mansion, you know that. Yeah, the vineyard.
Yes, as far as this Tom P's email influences. Guess it's cheating
because I have met him. But Conan, I'd say Conan's career arc and
especially even like going into today where it's like now he's gone post late night
host and he's got this whole other podcast and travel show stuff. It's like,
I don't know, He's always seemed relevant and hilarious to me and incredibly
smart, and uh yeah, I'd say probably Conan or Letterman. Conan more
Letterman more just like the work and the show in the sense of humor.
You know, he was a complicated man. Conan kind of across the board
I kind of look up to. He was like Yeah, he's a great
influence. M M. I said, Walt Disney. A lot of people
will message me again saying he's an anti Semite because they saw a family guy
where they made a joke about that once or something. So I won't.
But it's Walt Disney, everybody, the man, not the animation guy.
Yeah what what move forward? I don't know, it's not a packet.
Let's leave that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's leave it behind
it. I realized I don't know what he actually did for Disney's He just
like the CEO? Or did he draw stuff? Well it's called Walt Disney,
but what was he drawing Mickey Mouse? Or was he just like the
business guy. That's actually I could really get into that, Dan, and
let's just not okay, let's just we're gonna have that conversation in disney Land
at some over dinner. Okay, yeah, more about Walt Dizzy. We'll
go, we'll cod near one of his many statues there. Okay, maybe
maybe a little too many. You know, guys, we get it,
we know he is all right. That about does it for emails once again,
send your emails to bomb cast at giant bomb dot com. Send any
and everything. Someone has been sending their random musings and not signing off on
anything about what they're going through, and hey, I read them and continually
bit fuddled. What have we got going on for the rest of this week?
Conan looked like he's in his cult in this picture with you because he
It was after the show finished and I stuck around for a bit and they
had to shoot a parody perfume commercial thing. We're supposed to be a really
like artsy perfume commercial thing, so he was wearing that while they shot it,
and I talked to him afterwards. Okay, makes nice sense. Fantastic
fantastic grub. We have one more episode of Gay Mess Morning's planned for this
week tomorrow. That's right tomorrow, and then we have a blake club after
that, and between that I'll be over and kind of funny doing a bunch
of stuff everybody. So if you guys want to come check out over there,
do an invasion storyline, be on their ship, I'll just drive over
and hell yeah, yeah. There's probably not enough time now. But since
he is in the ancient Greek episode, maybe we should have like made him
wear a toga or something with the wig now at one day delivery. Oh
for Takatana. Yeah, it is a fantasy game. Now it has to
cover my nipples. I have body image issues. Mm hmm. You know
I have three? Yeah, but we know you have three. Okay.
I just want to make sure that was a long time ago I last talked
about my three amples, So make sure it's the third one. Like a
little guy. It's just a tiny guy down here, all right. And
then Blood Club is gonna be a little bit later than it normally. Fucked
up what we learned. Boy, some things are going to be omitted,
just like real history books. And then later this week we're gonna be at
Summer Fest. Everybody, So no voicemail, dump truck, no more games
mornings after tomorrow because we'll have Giant Bomb at Night on Friday Saturday and Giant
Bomb at Night live on Sunday. Tickets are available. We're gonna be belted
over like Summer Game Fest, and we'll talk over Xbox. You'd be soft.
We won't be talking over because again, we're busy that day. Yeah,
we're busy that day. Plans have been made. We're gonna just have
a fun time instead. Yes, we all need it. We all.
We all need it for sureseas more shenanigans, probably during summer. Game Fest
will be recording things. Stuff will be recorded. Fun times will ensue and
bye shit is grub gonna have it easy with Blake Club With me, You're
gonna have two weeks and me recovering from surgery ship nothing but delight. I
kind of just want to get through it because there's so much ahead of me.
I just want to barrel through this game. So it's not actually that
much of a reprieve? Could I just know it's not. I'm just laying
in bed just like making fun of you and chat on my phone. Well
you have to be you know. But can I pre record a bunch of
just like me, laughing and stuff and have it at the soundboard so I'm
just sitting here and just like soundboarding myself that that would be acceptable song as
you're there? Yes, okay, well we can definitely do. We can
find something else to do too during some of those weeks. We can get
my randomly biotics before I plug the game. Sent back in, folks,
what do we learned today? We learned that Dan won't shut up about frost
Punk and that he is the number one frost Punker. We learned that Mike
is bad at listening. We also learned that Daddy eats first and you can
beat it in just a couple of sessions. We learned that that game with
a freaking box art is freestyle metal X. We learned that going to the
mall can still be fun and that Minnesota maybe the origin of mals. We
learned about our desires to have a chunky vanquish dude. We learned the astrobots
well, Sir, gave us all. We also learned that Tom did the
record method and let's go Tom. And also, folks, make sure to
try and sound board yourself once in a while, keeps the pipes clean.
Triple nipple, and folks, we'll see you not next week. Email no
giant BombCast next coming Tuesday. Maybe we'll do something on Wednesday. Third time,
Uh, do not send me your emails. Send him your third nipples
though, just the mail. You're good. The voicemail dump truck text line
is just flooded with dirty pictures. Please stop, please stop. Anyway.
I've been Jan, he's been Jeff, he's been Mike, he's been Dan,
and you at home should buy tickets the Giant Bomb at night. Get
a lifetime of Premium for that time. Who is We'll see We won't see
you for the BombCast, but we'll see you all through the weekend and summer
game Fest. I love you. Goodbye Bike, oyeyad, Sorry package.
We'll see you a bye