Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Game Spot after Dark podcast,
specifically the one hundred and ninety ninth episode. We are on the precipice of
a great milestone two hundred and what do you have planned? You know what,
it's a good question. I have to think of something. I mean,
hopefully people will be here next week, because guess what, no one's
here this week. Oh yeah, I mean we've got DeVante hair Town,
which is great that everyone was not going to be here this week, and
he said, guys, I'm gonna stay still in It's fine. I'll just
hop on a plane. That's your fly, and now you're here next week.
I don't know. I know if people are gonna be people will be
here. People make comment, I'll make them. So mark your calendars,
you know, no big promises, but market your calendar. You will either
get an amazing extravaganza celebration of the games. We're going to get a bunch
of guesses, or you will get a completely normal podcast. Yeah, those
are two ends of the spect Some really dumb ideas out of my head that
maybe I'll think about it. Yeah, make it happy. Put your ideas
in the chat. Yeah, put your ideas on what you want to see
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I am your Hostiel saying, joined as always by Jean Looks Hello and
DeVante, Hey, are you doing doing great? It's weird I say your
full name and everyone else. You're the only one who I think I say
full name for, and everyone else gets their first names. I've never noticed
that. I think it's because like your name has got really good momentum,
Like once you started, you can't like you can't stop it, you can't
pull up on that. Yeah, it's it's weird, but glad to have
you both here. What has been going on? What have been people have
been playing? I feel like I've been I couldn't even tell you if I
was on the last episode. Was that on the last episode? I don't
think I was last episode. I don't remember what's happening, Like it's going
on. It's like the quietest period of the year so far, and yet
I have known it's just me and Jakin, him and High. Yeah it
probably was. Yeah, the last couple of episodes I've watched. Yeah,
that's all. Yeah, it's it's chaotic, but also there's no games coming
out, but at the same time, there's a lot of stuff happening.
Yeah. I mean I'm playing the same like five games that I've been playing
at this past month at this point because gaming podcast Industrial Complex, it's just
recycling the same games over and over year. So it's like, oh,
you guys want to hear about Final playing that game. Yeah, I am
still playing that game. Yeah, let me too. I haven't touched it
at all. Oh, I'm interested. I played the remake of seven and
that finally gone back to it because like fifteen, I wanted, I wanted
to get into fifteen, but it just didn't hit right. So I have
been interested in sixteen. And after doing like a recent video for game Spot
the lore of like History of the Summons. If you haven't seen that video,
go check that out. After doing that and learning more about the Summons,
now I'm extra and and everything just looks pretty cool. But I'm so
just weighed down by one Diablo four Tears of the Kingdom, and I'm still
maybe thirty minutes into Jedi Survivor. I think like I'm a good few hours,
So like that's it's actually a good question, Like are you the kind
of person that moves from one thing to the other constantly. Or do you
are you able to commit and just really go for something, because I've got
ADHD brain where I'm like, I'll play this for thirty seconds and then I'll
play that for three hours, and I'll play that for a minute and a
half. That's me. Yeah, I definitely jump around two different games.
That's I could probably be even a way higher level in Diablo four, but
it's like I kind of play for an hour, maybe an hour and a
half, and I'm just like, Okay, i gotta do something else.
Yeah, So that's that's been great. PC or console or so. Yeah,
I'm playing on PC and managed to work I do. I have one
there and I got it, managed to get it working on the Steam deck.
It's just I have, well, the the SD card I have in
there, it's like it's eating up that whole thing. So I need to
get like a bigger one. It's really interesting because it runs well on there.
Like just knowing I can't play that game on the Steam Deck in the
same house is my PC. Because just knowing that there's a better way to
do it. It's not like I'm just I'm getting slightly. I would rather
I would if I'm sitting in bed and then my choices are play to play
Diablo on steam Deck or go to sleep. Yeah, I'll go sleep.
I'm just gonna sleep. I'd rather like do that. And if it's like
during the day, I'm like getting up and going to the the computer and
sitting down and playing it. Yeah, but the moment I stepped outside of
the house, I'm absolutely fine with it. Yeah, I can't play games
in the bed, like I've tried to do that multiple times. I'm like,
I'll get cozy and all, like, I'll go to bed an hour
early so that I can like have time to play themselves. At the second
I'm in bed, I'm like, I'm going to go to sleep. Yeah,
that's not the way I thought it was going to go. I've been
having an issue where even with the the I, it's like my hand falls
asleep. But the way it's like hitting my body switch is basically a razor
blade like hand for extended periods of time. Yeah, the switch is not
great that Weirdly, the steam deck feels good to hold, but after a
while, like you get fatigued from the weight of it. Yeah. Yeah,
yeah, but that's real, real good on on steam deck. So
if you're able to work playing, what do you what do you think of
Diablo enjoying it? I mean, yeah, presumably I'm enjoying it a lot.
It is my first Diablo, a little bit of the like resurrected version
of two, but this one kind of took me by surprise, and I'm
like fully into the grind of it. It's almost the first game of this
kind. Yeah, they like Torchlight or something like. No, yeah,
the first game of this kind too, And it's it's really wrapped me up
in it. And I bought a copy for my brother in law, who
was kind of on the fence about it, even though Diablo two is like
his favorite game of all time. That's weird. Yeah, but he was
just kind of like, you know, he didn't like some of the changes
to follow, but it was just like, no, you're playing it with
me, So, you know, his birthday was coming up, of like
perfect bought it for him, and you know we've been questioning, you know,
running downs together. But yeah, yeah, it's it's it's been a
good time. I'm having a lot of fun with it. I haven't watched
what they announced about season one though, Yeah, so that was not yet.
Yeah, that that just came out. They announced, wasn't the season
one season of Malignant? Malignant? Yeah, my favorite James One movie.
I don't know why. I love that word. When when I played,
uh, what's that roguelike on on the PlayStation? I think it's elsewhere now
too? Uh? No, oh are you talking about the uh with the
ship with the woman? Yea, oh god, what is it called?
Yeah? Yeah, whenever they like mentioned like malignancy or something in that game,
I was like, oh, I love that word clapping. That game
has got a good vibe. It does, it does. Yeah. I
wasn't able to play it too much because I'm, you know, just too
hard, too hard, but yeah, yeah it was good. Yeah that.
I don't play Diablo in coup ever. It's really weirdly I'm like a
solo Diablo player, but I should give it a go. Yeah. Yeah,
that's how we played. Three was single, but four I've been playing
with Georgia the whole time. It's good. It's also well so the like
leveling stuff is good because it basically like each has their own custom level,
so that never feels like a problem. It does have the occasional weirdness with
the cut scenes where sometimes still start a cut scene and it'll be like,
oh, wait for everyone to show up, and then it plays it at
the same time. Other times it doesn't do that, and then one person
will start a cut scene first and then it'll move on and then everyone else
doesn't get a watch that cut scene. Or sometimes it will start a cut
scene and then nothing will happen for you and you just have to stand there.
So our computers are next to each other, so every time that happens,
like me or Georgia, which is going lean over and just read what's
happening on the other person's screen. Like interesting weird little things like that,
But it's mostly a very of the story stuff in co op. We've just
been kind of like dungeoning, Yeah, dungeons. It's just like, hey,
I really want to aspect over here, you know how people grab this
or like strongholds are another thing that like will like tackle together. The strongholes
are really cool. I like those. I'm surprised. I like all the
stuff that in my head I saw strongholds and I was like, oh,
it's like a thing where I'm just gonna go like beat up a bunch of
dudes in a consel or something like. I assumed it was going to be
more boring. But they're each these like little bespoke mini quests with like a
like cool storyline to them. I was like, Oh, these are actually
really cool. Yeah, I'm surprised. Yeah, I need to get that
game because I played through a decent chunk of it when they gave us early
access to it, and then when the game came out, they wiped the
entire thing so you have to play it again. That really like killed the
momentum for me. But Richard suggested to point it on easy, like I
dropped the World taip, just power through the bit that you've already done and
then swap it back, which is good because you can do it on the
fly. So I might take that approach to it just because, but then
I did start a different class. Originally I played Rogue, and man,
those are hard work, and now I'm playing Necro and like, I think,
like, if I don't have it on the normal, I might not
pick up on the nuances of how to play that character because obviously I'm not
being challenged. If I suddenly like I'm suddenly in hard you know, combat
accounters. I don't have the experience to know, so it's a tricky Cash
twenty two situations. But yeah, I'm excited to play more. Anything else
you play, I'll watching or anything. Yeah. For me, it's when
I when I do have to like break away because like like you were saying,
you know, need to do something else. It's always something random.
Lately, it was the SpongeBob DLC for Power Wall simulator in there meaning to
play that. Yeah, I had a good time with it. I don't.
I just wish it was like music. I was like kind of looking
for like unless I did something wrong, because I know I had to.
I had to slide her all the way down for a decent amount and I
pulled it back up. But I was just like, where's like some like
just kind of iconic music or something. But I didn't get any of it.
It's on KPM. You didn't get the license. I just go to
like YouTube and pull up one of those like looping like playlists just like put
that on and yeah. Yeah. Other than that, it was just a
steam neexs fest like demos. Oh cool. Yeah, that just like ended
not too long ago, so were there any cool ones he checked out,
jumping in there sticking in a similar vein to uh powerwah simulator. House Flipper
two wasn't too bad, Like I played that. There was another one with
I'm blinking on the name, but it was your play as this like fox
or a dog or something on a motorcycle. You're like flipping around, you
have a shotgun, you know, flips reload your shotgun. I'm intrigued.
It's it's a very weird, like Trials type of game, but with like
some combat mechanics mixed in. Pretty difficult, but I had a fun time
playing it. Cool, Okay, I'm trying to find out why it was
cool. It was very difficult to google on motorcycle and it's like, here's
twenty of them them, dude, there's so many games on the team next
best. It's crazy. I feel like I barely got to check out like
the amount I wanted. Yeah, but a lot of cool games they're here.
Yeah, Lives of Peeves was one of them to that. Really,
like if you download those demos, are they inaccessible now? It's so I
don't know. It feels like some developers choose to keep them up, but
other ones don't. It's very weird if that game is called like a Age
through Blood, Okay, okay, and this game has called the most generic
name of it warn. I played war Haven as well. I'm just like
those type of games. There's something about them that like they never really stick
for me. Those like it's and it's going to be free to play anyway.
So that's the other thing. When I see like a demo is going
to end up a free to play game, I'm kind of like, oh,
there's no rush from you. Yeah, what is so? War Haven
is a free to play like multiplayer kind of like you know, medieval type
nights and okay, it's like a chivalry Yeah exactly. Yeah, so it's
that type of game. But you know, even after playing the demo and
going into like a match, like I just felt like I couldn't get a
handle on it. I'm like swinging at the air and I was like,
I'll go do something else. Yeah, I mean I I downloaded a bunch
and then got busy and had to travel and just didn't get a chance to
play a bunch of them. I tried to play the Invincible on Steam Deck
and it did not work very well. It was like almost crash my steam
deck. That thing was chucking even on my like beefy desktop. Yeah,
but yeah, there were a few that I wanted to check out, like
Venbo was when I went to play, and then I wanted to check that
game. I performed too bad and I didn't play any lives of Pee.
But I think that it's the same demo that I played sure previously, Yeah,
which is I wanted to play it to see what changes they had made.
I think that one might still be I think that one's still available,
so I definitely want to go. I think Xbox said it's going to be
part of their like indeed next Demo Fest, which starts next week. Good,
it's just that good. I'm definitely up checking it out. But yeah,
anything else, No, not really. I won't go into the you
know, my Disney Dreamline Valley bag, I won't. I won't. I'm
very to deal with that game. How How are they they still updating that
one? All? Right, here we go, everybody where we're jumping in.
We're dropping into the Disney Yes of Disney, Dreamlin Value, Disney Dreamli
Valley, the Appeal and if you don't know what the game is, at
all. First off, it's on game Pass, so if you have game
Pass, just give it a try. But it is a sense animal crossing
with Disney characters with all your you know, usual trappings of you know,
modern games, and especially a game that's on its way to being free to
play. So there is like a battle pass. There is like you know,
seasonal kind of events and you get you do quests and little things.
It's kind of like Nick Miles. There's like a system where you're earning dream
light and it's like Nick Miles, so you're you know, talk to three
people, you know, hang out with Mowanna for an hour, which was
very annoying, but I just left my Steam Decks sitting there with my character
standing next to her for a while the while she sings. But yeah,
it's just those type of uh that that gameplay loop of that you know a
lot of people love with Animal Crossing just mixed in with some characters that you
might love from from Disney. And one of the most recent update did add
a bunch more or quests and story stuff. They added the Fairy Godmother from
Cinderella, who added like a whole nother thread to the story. Surprisingly,
you know, a kind of an involved story, like it's not just like
a throwaway plot or whatever, Like they're actually paying attention to it and carrying
it on. And then there's just a ton of side quests for each character
and you level them up to level ten, So there's a lot of things
to do in this game. Is the appeal for you the gameplay and if
so, what makes it different from something like Animal Crossing or is it the
Disney paw of it. It's a mix of both of them. For me.
The gameplay has definitely kept me coming back just because I like, yeahs
again, both both of them. Because I was about to go into like
I like the things that you can use to decorate your valley, but a
lot of that is like Disney centric stuff. Yeah. Like my whole house,
like the living room is like Pixar and Buzz Lightyear themed, And it's
just like that's a draw to me to you know, go through the battle
the Pixar Battle Pass, get the things I want out of it, you
know, going to screwge shop me find all of you say battle pass.
Yes for this Animal Crossing like game, Yes, I have. It's called
the Star Path, but it is essentially a battle pass isn't even visible to
us anymore. It's essentially a battle pass, and you, like I said,
you just you're doing these little nook mile type quests and you get the
currency for that battle pass and you're able to unlock you know, different things,
and it's like Fortnite in that way unless they've changed it again, but
you have to like unlock three things from one page to move on to the
next. Are you playing this one? I'm paying it on PC, so
a lot on steam Deck yet, But I run into that issue that you
were talking about with Diablo, where if I am playing it on steam Deck
and I want to decorate, I'm like, I can do this here with
them else. Are you I don't know the same question for you guys,
but like, do you like are you the kind of person? It's weird
because like, if I play a game that I really like, like Secure
or any from software game, I don't have the impulse to seek out similar
games. Okay, like I actively sometimes I don't like it because I just
don't feel like I can get anything out of it. Are you the kind
of people who will play a game and then be like, oh, I'm
gonna play a bunch more of these these kind of games, because like when
Metroid came out Dread I was like played Metroid. I was like I could
really go for more Metroid, but there was no more Metroid. But I
was like, I'm done. It's not like I went to like shovel Night
or whatever or like a you know, Holler Night or anything. Like I
guess it depends like what specifically about the game I'm looking for, I asked,
because also there's a Hello Kitty Animal crossing coming out, like you are
you like, damn, I can't wait for that ship because like, like
I played Destiny a lot, and people are always like, oh, this
game is going to be the new Destiny. You should play this, and
I'm like, no, I don't. I don't care a Destiny. Yeah,
Destiny's Destiny, and yeah, I just like there's nothing about like like
the thing I'm specifically looking for from Destiny is like not going to be captured
by even people who are like Diablo is the new Destiny Killer, And I'm
like in the sense that Diablo maybe like that it is also going for a
seasonal model and that it's fighting for your time and like if you prefer Diablo
you might switch over, but like Diablo isn't the specific things that I like
about Destiny are Diapplo is not doing that, so like to me, it's
not the same thing. So yeah, Like in that case, snow,
I still feel like it's funny that people think that they're gonna others are gonna
be like, oh, Diablo is out, now, I'm gonna drop this
game that I've invested ten years into. That's the thing. I have way
too many guns and I can't lose. I can't lose. What about you?
Are you? Like Sam? I would say, I'm interested in games
that is similar, but I do need like a break. So with in
the in the case of like Animal Crossing and Disney Dreamlight, I think there
was a decent amount of time between when Animal Crossing was really popping off and
then when Disney Dreamlight was like we're going into the early access. And I
also think that's a good case of like, Okay, Nintendo has given up
on this game, even though it seemed like they loved it, So I'm
gonna go to something that's like, you know, being yeah constantly. That's
the thing with like an Animal Crossing is like Nintendo stopped updating it or like
maybe there's things about animal crossing that you're like, Oh, if only they
like improve that or change that that, like something like a dreamlight could where
I know, like a from software sectro case. No one's gonna do it
better than so, like, what do you have again? It's not hitting,
Yeah, it's That's one of the reasons, like I'm like, I'm
interesting and lives of p because obviously people are like I's blood Born. It's
blood born, but it's really not. But I'm like, I played it
and I was like, oh, it's got its own thing going on.
It is definitely inspired by blood Born. So this is one of the situations
where I'm trying to compartmentalize and be like treat this as his own thing,
which is exactly why I do when there is similarities. But I very really
will be like I want more of this and find the other thing. You
know, Yeah, definitely, but I definitely need like a break, I
need to go to something else. Yeah, so you're not going to play
No, Okay, I don't. I don't think I will. That is
in it. I think I was about to say, yeah, I might
in there, and hello, Kei is a human what No, what that
is something I learned recently. It's not a cat. What's tough. It's
like it's in that universe. It's just like a school girl. No,
that's how that works. It is Hello kitty, Okay, a cat.
Let's see what happens. Hello. Ki is not a cat. She is
a little girl. She is a friend, but she is not a cat.
She's never depicted as a cat. Sees what I'm saying. Man,
But you want to play that now you're fucked up on the island. That's
sure weird. Yeah, I won't be playing that. No, if I
play another farming sem or something, it'll be that Faye Farm, Fay Farm
or whatever that comes out later this year. Start your value going into Apple
Arcade? Wait really yeah? Yeah that's cool. Yeah, I mean weird
Mobile version one is a bit weird, but yeah, Apple Arcade in general
is kind of weird if you guys like mess around. The problem with Apple
Arcade is like it's still uncurated. Yeah, like they've got so much gobble
gobble there. This's like, wasn't that the whole thing? There was the
whole point. But like're like, oh, here's Apple Arcade, here's your
creative thing NBA two K thirteen and so I'm like, what do you think?
How do you think I'm going to play that? Ironically, I did
buy NBA two KA twenty whatever the later one is because I was like,
I like basketball. I've not played a basketball game since NBA Jam on the
Xbox three sixty, which I've loved, I mean wished. So I'm like,
I've not played a basketball game. Salley is only sim basketball games,
but I hear the two K ones are the best ones. But I'll give
it a goal. Maybe I also, like, know a lot more about
basketball, and I'm able to watch it, so maybe I'll be like,
I know how to play as Stephen Curry. What are you playing on?
Though I downloaded it on PC, I've not actually started it. Okay,
do you know the file starts on PC? Because it was on PlayStation Plus
like Terror Bye or something. Yeah, entire And I was like, I
am going to download it and play it. And I saw how huge it
was, like a Call of Duty game size, and I was like,
never mind, I can't remember what other game had that recently as well as
I saw it the other day and I was like, why are you three
it was Jedi Survivor. There's like two hundred gigabytes said, Oh my god,
what you doing here? Crazy? Uncompressed audience or uncompressed lightsaber sounds yeah,
compressed Turgal is it? What's it's not the Final Fancy One. Oh
you're right, No, what you have already forgotten? What the little freak
is called the little frog guy somewhere? It's similar, right, tur Turgle.
I think I just met him before I stopped playing it, And I
don't remember what's his name, because it's right, I got it wrong,
Turgle's He's a very good boy frog thing. Google tur turg This is the
year of Tourgle and Turgle. Interesting that that is wild. That is I
gotta make a note for that for when we start talking about game of the
Area, best best Turgles its Torgl, Turgle and Urgle. For some reason,
I've been playing Final Fantasy still. Yeah. Then I think I've reached
the point in the game where it's like, all right, we're gonna be
real boring for a while now. Yeah, I mean, like a stretch
of back to back side quests and even the main quest is like slowing down
basy work and just killing time and you're trying to make something, and it's
like, I need you to go and tell these three people that you want
them to help you to make it, and then come back. And then
you go back. Okay, now two of you need to go to this
part of the world. Two of you need to go with this part of
the world and bring this thing, bring it back. And it's like,
okay, now you need to ask three people to come and help you put
this. I want to move on with this, And like I have been
warned that there's like a stretch of the game where it's like it really like
slows down and it's dry, and it is it's making the parts of the
game that I don't like more gracious, or the things that I'm missing feel
more gracious. It's not like I don't like it. It's like I wish
there was more items and weapons and outfits and like armor that I could unlock.
There is none. And in this like desert of like good single player
or side story content, I'm just thinking about the things that aren't there as
opposed to that are there, which is not great. Yeah, but the
combat is still like the centerpiece of it. And I'm enjoying it, despite
the fact that playing on the PlayStation gives me crazy RSI and hurts, but
it's still enjoyable. It's starting to get freaky now, it's starting to do
it's starting to do the thing where it's like, yeah, we're it's starting
to become final fancy. Now there's people in Hood's appearing and they're just like,
now it begins, and I'm like, oh God, here we go,
Here we go, buck alot, some bullshit is about to happen,
and they cannot wait. But yeah, I think we're quickly approaching that.
And it's a shame because I would have love to have seen them go throughout
the game and like end with the same kind of grounded, kind of sharative
as the start. But it was inevitable in a game where people turn into
giant, monstrous nuclear beings, like eventually you'd have to be like, hey,
I might be time traveling guard or some shit like that. I don't
know. I don't know if that's a thing in there. I just made
that up. I believe that there's a decent change that's what will happen.
Yeah, there's already stuff, but yeah, so that's that's where it's at.
But like I said, the combat enjoyable, still fun. I just
wish there was more of it and also like it was trickier. I had
one moment where I was doing a side quest where I was this is actually
probably one of my favorite moments in the game so far. I was doing
a side quest and I was running to the marker. I was running along
this role and there's like a dude standing in the middle of the road,
and I was like, Okay, what's going on here. It's just like
an scripted NPC event. I actually they walked into a hunt, like an
assassination mission, and it was like an a a level assassination. It was
like some dude named like the Nine of Knives or something like that, and
dude was like agro as hell. The moment we started, he was up
in my ass. I was like, oh my god, this guy's like
he's behaving like no one else and he killed me because he had this like
he was doing air combos like in a way that no one else in this
game does, Like he like sweep to me, launched me, went into
the air, did like a multi hit combo, knocked me back down,
and ended with a with a magic thing. I was like, is this
a different game, Like what's going on? I don't understand, like someone
controlling this guy. Yeah, exactly like that. It's like someone is like
invaded and they're playing like Dante mode. But then the problem was, like
I it was hard for like a second. I was like, oh my
god, I downloaded him within that one fight, and then the next time
I came back, I was like just destroying the shit out of him.
I was like, okay, you were challenging for like a five or ten
minutes, and it was most of the challenge came from like the attrition of
like this dude's health is not going. Yeah, I have to find nail
every like dodge and counter and perry and all that kind of stuff. But
otherwise, yeah, enjoyable game. Still having a good time with it.
And then I started playing a game called Dave the Diver, but I don't
actually know what it is. Yeah, it is really good. It feels
like an everything game, but like it's got a little bit of everything in
it, but done really well. It's imagine, so it's like you are
It's it's a game where like you arrive on the island or you're on an
island and your mates like, help me with this thing. You're ex diver,
you're a bit out of shape now, but you're helping out. And
you've somehow been roped into like exploring under the sea. There's like this area
called the blue Hole, which is like a mysterious entry point into the water
where for some reason it constantly shifts, so it's like roguelike in it.
So you go down there and basically in the phase that I'm in, it's
like you're just collecting resources and bringing it back and trying not to be down
there for too long otherwise you run out of oxygen and a diet, so
you've got to be careful. You've got a little knife so you can like
fight stuff and destroy stuff. You've got like a harpoon which you can use
to fish underwater, so you do that, and there's like, hey,
I need three kelp or I need this kind of fish. Bring it.
And then at the next part of it is you've also been robbed into helping
revive a sushi restaurant where it's like okay, like and then like you're like
this sushi chef is like I need this kind of fish. So you have
to bring him fish, and then there's no one to work at the sushi
restaurant, so you have to work at the sushi restaurant, so you're like
serving the sushi as the chef is like putting it out and giving people drinks.
And it's got like a satisfaction meter and like it's building that up.
So it does that, and then I believe there's a farming component at some
point. And then there's also like I think I saw a trailer where it
had like cosmic horror parts of it, like we like giant in like octopus
months, but it's that, but it's also got like this really like fun
edgy kind of not edgy, like irreverent type of humor, like that kind
of it reminds me of the kind of like Devolver digital Energy. Yeah,
like it feels I'm not sure if it's published by the Divulging, but it
has Devolved digital Energy where it's like, you know, this lad is being
constantly mistreated and people take the piss out of him because he says I'm a
diver and they're like you're very fat, and he's like like that kind of
energy, but like it's it's got a good loop, and it feels like
it's got a bunch of loops that will eventually overlap, and like the vibe
of it is good enough that it keeps me coming back. I really want
to sit down and play more. It runs amazingly on the Steam deck,
so I highly recommend it. But someone in chat said, Dave is my
homie, and I don't know if he's speaking about his real life friend Dave,
but like generally, like I was playing it, I was like,
Dave seems chill, like seems cool. I like him. He's like really
excited about just having sushi on Egeria or something like that, and he's like
not paying attention and that's how he accidentally signs up to work at this restaurant.
It's like, damn, I just wanted to eat this year. I
didn't want to make this stuff. So yeah, it's it's a good restaurant.
It's a good restaurant. That's a good restaurant. It's a good restaurant
and game. But yeah, I was like, wait, I mean it
will be a good restaurant eventually, but you've got to put in the work
to get this. So yeah, David Diver, good game, fun game,
play. Give it a shot. You'll probably find something to like in
there other than that fin offense, I believe. So, yeah, I
don't think it's on anything else. Dave the Diver, Yeah, it's only
on Steam currently. I also found Dave's diving services in the area, which
is great that I must be getting some good business. Do you look at
this picture of Dave. Don't you want to hang out with? Oh?
I do. He's like, he's a big boy, he looks happy,
he's got a little hat on, he's got a diving suit. He just
wants to go down there and like get stuff. You've got a knife as
well, And sometimes you'll be like, oh, you're just like, you
know, you're harvesting some seashells, and then suddenly there's a shock and you're
like, oh shit. Do I try and one via one of the shock
with a little knife and a harpoon? Or to get the hell out of
here? And let me tell you, you need to get the hell out
of there and one the shock. It's not gonna end well as in real
life. Yeah. Yeah, I've been eyeing that one for a while.
I left my steam deck at home for this trip purposely to focus on Tears
of the Kingdom whenever, like I have any down time, but if I
had it with me, Dave, I would be hanging out with you.
Yeah. It's described as an adventure RPG management hybrid. So there you go
doing it all. Take that starfield, David, I was coming for your
ass. Imagine that a world where Dave the diver wins over something else.
Yeah, that's why I'm all about. I've also been playing a little bit
of Zilder here and there. You haven't been there, No, it's it's
weird. I really struggle with the Zelda, the new form of Zelda,
because it often feels aimless in a lot of ways, which is, I
know, it's I am the master of my own destiny and I could make
it very aimful or whatever focus, but it's also like to get the most
satisfaction of that stuff, you have to do things that feel like they're quite
meandering a lot of times to me, and like, I have to be
in a very specific mood to enjoy that kind of thing. So like,
I want to like play the game and have a decent amount of hearts and
stamina and that kind of stuff, But to do that, you need to,
you know, do all these shrines and that kind of stuff, and
like I get to the point where it's like I don't really want to do
five shrines. Yeah, And at the same time, I don't really want
to engage in the main quest because I don't feel like I've got, you
know, the hearts or the or the stamina to do it. So in
my brain it ends up just devolving into a bit of a collectorthon. And
it's a fun, cool collectithon that allows you to like manufacture all these crazy
devices and dude ads and gadgets and have fun with that. But it's a
lot of hard work. Ye, Like it's a lot of effort. And
I think the other part of it is like I don't really like the combat
in these twos all the games, like I find them very like I fulfilling,
And I know they can be fulfilling because we've got a dude here who
has made a career out of it, and I should be enjoying it.
But there's something about, like it feels like I'm being pulled in too many
directions where I'm like going somewhere and I see a combat engagement, I'm like,
I don't care about fighting enough to stop what I'm doing to come and
fight you guys and potentially get something out of it. I'm just also,
my weapons are going to degrade. I'm out of here, and I'm just
gonna build a car and drive away. So it's weird. I have to
be in a very specific mood. That's not saying I'm not enjoying it.
There are times where I'll be like, I'm just gonna sit here, listen
to a podcast and do shrines or like roots or whatever it is, and
explore the depths or whatever that is. And it's been fun. But I
think I'm I've now committed to Zolder being like a long term game for me
where I don't think I'm going to finish it, like in the next month
or so. I can't like, I'm not no life in Zolder. It's
too much for me. But yeah, that's that's the kind of main stuff
that I've been playing. I watched all of Jury Duty, which I highly
recommend. Have you seen Jury Duty? I told you about that, you're
telling me about it. It's annoying that I've just I'm like recommended it and
it comes with a caveat that It's on Amazon Prime Video for another six or
seven days, just like stuff comes and goes. I think that I hate
that nine, but I think it's like a show made for two they or
something like that that they licensed twenty minutes and episode nine episodes is a documentary
documentary about a dude who goes through the jury duty process. So you're effectively
following the judicial system. And it's a level of insight that has never been
given before because stuff is private and you're not supposed to know about it,
but these lot have been given cameras. The twist is everyone involved except for
one person is an actor and the entire thing is scripted, but the one
was the other way around. No, no, no, the one dude
doesn't know and thinks this is the real thing. And also James Marsden is
there for some reason, Like the guy who plays you know, Scott Summers
and is in Westworld and is in Sonic, he like is also summoned for
jury duty. So like it's like a complicating factor with a celebrity, and
it's like a bunch of personalities and interpersonal dynamics and it's all about like how
do you like build a relationship with people, and like also try and define
you know how you approach the legal system. And it's really funny at times,
it's also very awkward at times, and it's overall like a really enjoyable
watch. Why I like it's like it doesn't feel like it's not from the
Nathan Fielder kind of it is from the Nathan field the school of like practical
joke reality meets things, sure, but there's a there's a there's like in
Nathan field of stuff. It feels like you're laughing at them and not with
them, so like it feels like there's a malicious quality to that, to
that kind of set up where it's like I gotcha at some point, whereas
just feels like it's not designed to do that. It's like a I hate
to like bring it up, but it's like it feels it gave me the
same vibe as like Brooklyn nine nine, where it's like it's just a bunch
of fun characters that are like or like weird characters are interacting or like I
think of it as like it's the equivalent to that kind of genre of like
uh set up no practical joke series, it's the equivalent of that that Terrace
House is to reality TV. Shows. The Terrace House is a very chill
Japanese reality TV show where no one is like shagging a lot, and no
one's trying to stab each other on a bat, No, no one's screaming
at each other. Like it's just a bunch of Japanese people vibing. Maybe
some of them like fall in love or get into a relationship, but they
can do what they want and it's chill. Like the most dramatic thing that
happens in one of the seasons is like someone leaves their underpants on the floor
and they call a house meeting, figure out who did it, and then
apologize, and that's it. That's done. It's like half an episode.
It's over. And that's the kind of vibe that this has. It feels
like I don't feel like I need to be on edge the entire time,
or I don't feel like someone's going to suddenly start screaming or like fighting,
And because of that, it's a very pleasant experience and it's very funny.
So I highly recommend that that's something to download. Yeah, it's good.
Before it leaves. Before it leaves, it's a very easy, breezy watch.
I watched it in one thing that's good. But anyway, that's enough
from me, Jean Luke. We're even up to So I decided to spend
my very valuable time, my heart earned money. This is either going to
be like he's either gonna be playing a game or he's being like I have
constructed did a I know preehouse that would have been way better, have been
way better than what. Oh god, I've I've found an old computer that
I have revived US one million dollars. That also sounds like way better.
What could be on that computer? Who knows? I decided I'm gonna spend
fifteen bucks and I'm gonna play the last transmission the Callista Protocol epilogue DLC that
came out last week. You absolutely hate to see this, you really do.
I saw so. I completely forgot about that DLC that they because they
announced it like, oh yeah, we're gonna have a story DLC as part
of our season. Past that, I had a bunch of other nonsense.
They were like extra execution animations or something like. It was. I was
like the original game. I played that game and I said, I don't
want to think about this game anymore. I did not like it. And
then What's funny is what did it for me was I saw Susie sphere Hunter
on Twitter be like, I just played the last Transmission DLC. It was
absolute garbage. What a terrible ending and what a disappointing finale franchise. And
I said, I'm kind of interested. I want to know how much into
a normal thing and just google it and watch no no, I said,
I want to experience this because I have a strange fascination with like story DLC,
specifically in games, like I think, I think a good story DLC
can be like this, this beautiful thing where like the developers have like figured
out you know, uh, they like you know, when when you're making
a game, it's like everything kind of comes together last minute, and then
when the DLC, it's like, Okay, we know what the game is.
We want to make it so we can we can polish it, and
we can make like the best part of this game. I think, you
know, like the mass Fact DLCs or Blood and Mine, blood and Wine
for the Witcher. You know, it's one of the reasons I've really high
hopes for well, well sure that I mean yes, but I was Fantom
Liberty. I have high hope so because I'm like, they have a reputation
of kind of knowing, you know, like or like being able to sort
of like bring out the best of themselves in their DLC and even in the
case of bad games like uh, dead Space three, a terrible game,
had an epilog DLC not unlike the Callisto protocols epilog DLC that was not amazing,
didn't redeem that game, but was was pretty okay and was able to
kind of like pull out some good qualities from that game. They were actually
able to do some interesting things with the co op that they kind of weren't
able to do in the main game that I remember they talked about an interview,
so like that was an interesting case of like, all right, you
guys actually were able to kind of make something out of this and that was
cool. So I was I was curious, like, what are they going
to do with this DLC? Are they gonna be able to bring something good
out of this thing? It's fucking awful, Like it's so bad from pretty
much the entire gambit, Like the big thing is the ending, which we'll
get to, but just the base game is the most Like it was like
two and a half hours long and like I barely remember any of it because
they're not They don't use any new environments. It's all repeats, like like
they're like or like it's new environments, but it's like it's the same tile
set, it's like everything. I was just like, yeah, I've been
here before, and I've been here, and oh look I'm crawling an event
again, Like isn't that cool? Except they do a twist in this one
where you start crawling an event and then suddenly, like a spinning blade comes
at you and you have to turn around and run away. And I was
like and for a moment, I was excited because I was like, they
played with my expectations. They knew that, you know, everyone got bored
of the events in the original game, so now they did something interesting.
They then repeat that same bit three more times, and I was like,
no, no, no, no, no, no, You're only supposed
to do that once. So that was like a fun little thing. So
this is clearly just this. They needed to fulfill a promise, and we
promised to do a DLC and I think all of the Wind got knocked out
of their sales from the reception of the game, and they just kind of
were like, well, we got to do something. The description on both
the Epic Games Thought and on Steam for the DLC is sorry, DLC dig
deeper into the secrets over the Clysto procol That's it. There's nothing. There's
no secrets, Like Jacob is back and he's ready to punch more aliens.
No oh, and they do that. Oh my god. So they do
this like Dead Space. They just straight up like we're like, well,
well we'll just continue to rip off stuff from Dead Space where they do a
thing we're he starts hallucinating and there's like now there's messages on the wall and
like there's like a monster that shows up, but it's not really there.
And it's the most like they don't do anything interesting that. It's just like,
oh yeah, I remember when Dead Space two did that. It's kind
of cool. It's kind of very unfortunate for the Callisto Protocol that the game
that they were most inspired by literally came out in the same year and was
like we are leagues better than you. Yeah, like that, you mean
the space maybe unbelievably good, Like sure, he's great, and like and
then you could play Resume before it that out of the water rules yeah,
and like this game comes along and I was like, oh, yeah,
this is gonna be cool. They will have like two old hats and a
new comer like yeah, and it was the new guy too, So I
wasn't really rooting for it, you know. I don't want to come across
as like like you know, I mean I played. I spent fifteen bucks
on this thing and it sucked, so like I'm here to tell you don't
play it. But I wanted to probly good, which is part of my
reason why I wanted to play this, because I wanted to be like,
what, is there anything redeemable I can pull out of this? Maybe they
were able to pull something out of it. They don't. Uh, there's
just there's nothing there. Like they have one new enemy type that's just the
robot enemy type, but now it's infected, but it doesn't do anything actually
interesting hallucination. No, it's more just like it's not even interesting hallucinations.
The hallucinations are like you walk in the hallway and then you open the door
and then suddenly you're back in the same hallway again, and he goes what
and You're like, Okay, they're doing a thing, but it goes on
way too long. We have to go through the hole like five times before
it finally resets, and he and then I'm like and like maybe there's some
like creepy voices, and You're like I'm sitting there being like yeah, I
know, okay, come on, keep going, like let's say, and
then Jacob's like, oh, what's happening And the person on the radio is
like, we just keep going, Jacob like and You're like, okay,
this is clearly a case of like just get it done. Yeah, So
I mean, I might as what we talked about it, I might as
well just spoilers skip ahead. I don't want you to get spoiled if you
plan, I'm playing this the ending of the game. The reveal is that
it was all in his head and he's he's been strapped to this chair or
like this like contraption the whole time, and he's like half dead and they
were like they were in his brain, and so you go, Okay,
so this two and a half hours I spent literally was meaningless. Great,
that's pretty much how I felt, So thanks for confirming that. And then
there's the post and then they do a post credit like goofy joke scene where
it doesn't make anything, where it cuts to him like because he's like mangled
up, he's like missing an arm, how his like half his face is
gone. He looks like Harvey Dent. And and suddenly he starts being like,
hey, where did everyone go? Like what's what's going on? And
then he starts talking not like he's the character Jacob, but like he's the
voice actor in the booth. He even says like it's me, Like,
I'm not Jacob, I'm the guy who whatever his name is, the voice
actor I don't remember, Josh Josh. Yeah, he's like he's like,
it's me Josh Jamal where you where's everyone going? And then it just does
this like weird like zoom out like and then it's like a wapapapapa and you're
like, why why did you do that? It's like, I maybe I
get you wanted to maybe have some fun with it, but that was really
that's the that's the way you're gonna end this this game. Wow, it's
terrible, really weird. That was it. That's it. I think that
was the last of the expansion. I don't think we are going to get
a callister protocol too equal time. No, I think pretty much done with
that. It's uh yeah, it's a real bummer. Used to be in
a pub Geeze universe could have been different, yo, I forgot about that.
I love to have known how that would have. Yeah, they had
gone down. Somebody used to mud the PC version to put a frying pan
in his hand, and that'll be it. That'd been good. Yeah.
Yeah, he hits people with frying pans. I'm kind of surprised I didn't
do that for like a DLC thing or something Easter Egg, but yeah,
that's that was the one big one. I've also been playing a game from
Bargo that I can't talk about. Nice. Yeah, that's kind of it.
Wonderful watching a lot of anime still. Oh, I did finish Oshanoko.
I don't think I talked about with you guys. I think I talked
about with Michael and Jacob. Do not need to go off about it too
much, but uh, that's probably my favorite anime of the year so far.
It's a real damn good Ohanoko Ohanoko. Check it out. Can I
watch that in one sitting? Like during I mean it's only like twelve episodes
in minutes, so yeah, you have to buy a high dive account though.
That's the problem. That's the that's the cost. It's not a good
app. In fact, it's a terrible app. But they actually do have
a lot of really good anime on Like it's a cruel system. It's a
really cruel system. But yes, although I haven't watched, didn't Judicu Kuisins
start today? New season The Judicus cousin starts today, Yeah, which is
what he's doing later watching one episode of Jiu jitsus watch exactly what episode and
then being exhausted and going to sleep. I'll probably have to rewatch half of
that episode again next day. Didn't remember I have to like recall because it's
been like two years since that last season and I didn't read it. So
I'm i'm I feel like half of it's going to be me just being like,
right, who are all of you again? What's going on? You
just need to remember Gojo that's right because he's in the past. It's an
origin like good because he's I love Gojo recap. He's in one reecap.
Anyways, thank you everyone for watching. We're gonna go and watch Kyson now
and don't know about you guys, I'm gonna go play the DLC for you,
so that you sold me. That's why you go back to your hotel
room and bring it PS five. Tell you why guys can of brow a
PS five from the office foot to a couple of days. Look, I
know you wanted to go out and see the sites, but cost interesting things
DeVante. Thank you for joining us, Thank you for having me. Where
can people find you? What you up to? You can find me on
the thread app at devant even talk about that. I just don't want it.
I just don't want to find me on Instagram and thread is it threads
or is it just thread? The thread app the sewing app. You can
find me on there at Devantage. Yeah, I'm everywhere at to more h
on Twitter and Instagram, Twitter, the Crochenger, the crochet app, breads
dot net. That's what it's. What about you? Unfortunately, my whole
thing has been messed up and I have multiple so on at John Ley Psychke
for Twitter, psyche Jail for threads because it pulled for my Inststagram, and
then for blue Sky I got just John Luke, which is pretty pretty good.
I pretty happy to that one. Remember to check out this week's episode
of spot On, we talked about, uh the burden placed on indie game
developers and the responsibility that is being shooked by bigger games develop post. So
that's that was a fun one me and uh no it's Lucy, don't worry
about it was fine. Uh yeah, check that out and we will see
you next time. Bye for two hundred two, big party, a crazy
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