It's the Internet. You're busy, Let's do this. Welcome to the Game
Mest Decides podcast. This is the podcast where we decide everything about the world
of games. You never have to think for yourself. I'm your host Jeffrey
Grubb with me is Mike Manati. In today's episode, send you Us sacrifice
some frames for quality because it runs at thirty, PlayStation State, Slash Showcase
soon maybe, and Gear six with apologies six. Mike, First, how
are you doing? Oh, I'm okay. Probably spank to which bunch,
but I'm fine. I definitely. I was having one of those days too
where I was like, I tweeted like five times back to back really fast,
mostly because I was pooping, you know how it is, and that
I did that, I'm like, oh, I should I should just not
tweet for a while. And I got busy doing other things I did and
that was nice, but I try to take a nap and instead was just
on Twitter and see horrendous things and whatnot and getting bummed out. But you
know, it's all very it's all so stupid that at least I had parted
me. He's like, man, why am I even upset? It's all
so dumb, but I don't know that is real. People are actually beating
harressed, so then it's a big bummer again. I don't know, it
sucks, it sucks. I mean for me, it's like I hope the
people that are being harassed to know that I want them here so bad.
I want them to stay around. I don't want to stay around if they
don't want to be around anymore, which I don't blame them, but boy,
whenever I see them standing up and continuing to like fight back, got
it, it fills me with encouragement. I want them here so bad that
this place is so much better with them than without them. I think a
lot of people don't remember when when gamer Gate one happened. We did lose
people, a lot actually did just peace out, and there are a lot
of very different people of mine, Jim Frank, I think that's exactly I
was thinking about. And it's been a major industry was so much better when
Jen Frank was here, and people aren't going to know that name. You
should, uh, because she was amazing and she just left because of chet
fuck's just ruining everything. So yeah, that's definitely when this was getting started.
It was her in my mind. I was thinking about like that you're
going to do so much because you push back and that turns into fuel for
them. So honestly, like the sort of orbital strike you did the other
night, so you know, we don't have to go into it. But
it was like, no, that was perfect because I think everyone's sort of
recognized, Oh, someone's crossing the line here. Let's all just sort of
like point that out and recognize that this is clearly getting out of hand.
And I feel like people are sometimes realizing it. Sometimes that just pushes them
further. There's no great answer here, but you know, I do occasionally
talk to the people who are being affected and let them know that you know
they are I'll want them here when we do Giant Bomb at night. They're
invited, of course, because you know, I want to talk to them
no matter, no matter what. But they have a home with us,
and yeah, it just it bumps me out. I mean, what was
driving me crazy is now this like weird narrative that they have just invented of
how they're trying to do to this stellar Blake character what they did to be
from near Autumata. And it's like, guys near Autumata got an eighty eight
meta critic yep, Like all the gaming journalists that you hate loved it.
But it doesn't matter. Pointing that out to them. It makes me feel
better and it makes other people better because then they just come to me like
they literally think to say. It's like, oh, even a broken clock
blah blah blah, or what was like well in twenty seventeen, like the
woke mind virus wasn't a thing yet. It's like, what do you think
the first game or game happened? What are you talking about? But there's
no arguing with its, argue with it. Well, I know what they're
actually upset about, yes, because I get talk based off the people they
harass, although white and although all the women and all the black people they
come on. That's the thing apparently. And again like I like, sometimes
I see this stuff and I can't help it fall down the hole. Sometimes
I'm too busy. Today I was like mostly too busy. But I saw
someone say they think that SBI went to one of that whatever, myro So
office studio, and I told them to make the characters in South of Midnight
black, and and then like that's a problem, and I'm like Okay,
even if all that did happen, what's the problem. How is that a
problem? That game looks so much better because it's a game in the American
South with black characters. That sounds like something that should have been the case
from the beginning. And if it wasn't, people come in and say it
would be better if you did that were correct. Maybe you're just fucking racist.
I guess you know. You're just racist. That's all it is.
It's all it is. Okay, I'm sorry what I didn't mean to like
start talking about this on the pocket, but to ask me how I was
doing, and I will tell him the truth. And and you know,
reality is we are I'm always thinking about this stuff and it's not it's not
great to go online, and especially me, if I go on there and
do it, it's such a lightning rod for the me. Like telling,
oh, this journalist whose name I recognize says something. It turns into YouTube
headlines and it fuels them, so I have to like be very judicious with
it. My favorite thing is seeing that people with the comments, just like
I've gone on Twitter, we're talking about God. It makes me feel better
because it does just remind you God, it's nothing, and it's it's definitely
real. One that says that, like these people are, you know,
getting harassed, and like, you know, it's it's it's all women in
black developers, content creators, journalists or whatever. And I hate seeing that
and I want to be able to help. But yes, it's good to
know that it is just these fucking weirdos who are on social media with no
social skills and I don't know nothing, nothing going off for them except the
ability to defend a fictional video game characters Honor in the game does not even
out yet. Yep. They are are just fighting shadows and their head.
They are shadow boxing with their own imagination and that's the most important thing to
remember. Yeah, I mean, we're not going to go through and explain
to bat by beat what's going on here. If you if you're sort of
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one more thing, one more thing. I'm sorry, one more thing,
So let's do it. Fucking let's go. Man, It's incredible.
At the moment we started doing a lot more like facial capture stuff in video
games, all these losers who are only ever used to digital and fake representations
of women are suddenly like, why did the women suddenly get more ugly?
Right? Like, all of a sudden, we're actually based off of real
people, and all of a sudden they're fudde is now you know what they'll
say to that, you know, you know what they say to that.
They're like, well, Eve from Stellar Blade is based on a real woman.
They say this with a straight face, And I'm like, they show
the picture of the real woman and doesn't look anything like her. They changed
her. They made it look like an anime character. Yeah, like maybe
they like started there, but they fucking changed her to make her look more
like an anime. Fuck doll. And if that upsets you, what,
it's it's reality. It's what they did. I know, I mean it
doesn't. It doesn't even really bother me. It's just what happened all the
time. Yeah. Again, the idea that people are like furious at somebody
was like, this kind of looks like a sex doll, Like, yeah,
I don't care, it's right, but right, yes it does.
And banded is better because Banetta has very similar sexuality like visual appeal and isn't
a doll. Just clearly it's in no way a sex doll. So whatever,
people can like what they like. We are I ever change anybody.
We just want to make fun of stuff because I grew up watching Mystery Signs
three or three thousand. It's how I react everything. I just made out
of everything. So just get over it, right, yesop being so sensitive?
God yeah, i'd be so fragile. And then in all the stocking
videos, it's just cancel stuff. They're like someone did a ship post I
didn't like where they said you can't be racist against white people, and I'm
gonna cancel them and get them fired from their job. Like I thought you
homeies didn't like cancel culture. You seem to really like it. It seems
to get a woman fired from her job. Yeah, but it's great ah,
okay, all right, got off my chest. God damn pieces of
shit? All right, big topics this week. You're six. It's gonna
be at the Xbox Showcase. I think everybody. I said it on the
x Cast yesterday. That sounds about right based on what I've heard, that's
probably gonna happen. Things could always change. You get mad at me for
saying that, I'll keep saying because it's true. Yeah, God, Mike,
where are you at with gears these days? That's a good question,
Jeff. It's something I've actually been thinking about, right because it's like,
how are we gonna present your six? It's gotta be kind of this big
deal. But man, in a world where the last big Halo seemed like
it could only do so much and I don't want it. I've been I've
been getting yelled at more about Halo than even other things on the internet recently.
But again, to me, it's like, man, I just like,
I wonder what impact the Gear six is gonna have. I bet it
could do very well, especially you know, it's gonna be a very pretty
game. It's gonna be a very good looking game. Yes, I bet
it will be very impressive visually, yeah, so I don't know what are
you I mean, what do you think is going to be the impact of
a Gears impact? I think I'll tell you what I called Gears of War
six and then I'll be happy years. I was waiting for that. That's
why I said Gear six. Yeah, you triggered me. I think it's
gonna have a bigger impact than any recent Gears game has had, mostly because
they did kind of give it some extra time, and I do think it's
going to be probably one of the most visually impressive games that is released in
quite some time, especially from the Xbox side of things. Hell Bake two
is unreal engine. It looks really good now, you know. Combine that
with like an epic scale that Gears can do, and I think it could
be really impressive. And this also gives them, you know, they've had
enough time and enough opportunity here to maybe re establish some new baselines for what
the franchise can look like, what it can feel like. I imagine that
they'll kind of have a lot of the basics there still Cover Shooter. I
mean, why wouldn't you just continue to be that? Yeah, sure,
but especially there aren't a ton of those like there used to be like,
come on, right, but take some chances in a lot of other ways.
I'm expecting them to do exactly that, so I'm hopeful. The thing
is, the thing that makes me worried is is like they seem to have
this game like they want to get it out like very soon, like not
this year or anything like that. And I'm not crazy soon, but soon
enough. That's like, man, how is that thing ready already? My
guess here is like when they were saying, hey, we're gonna work on
these other two games before we work on Gear six, they probably did have
a lot of people always working on gears either then, and it was like
maybe a skunk Works team or whatever, but they probably had it sketched out,
need to go and now now yeah, now those the whole team is
working on it and it's coming. If this Xbox Showcase comes and they have
Gear six and then updates on all the previously announced games, is that enough
for you or do you need some because I don't know, how do you
feel about like a perfect dark and perfect dark and fable and uh, what's
the sword one? Gosh? Now about avowed yes about if we get updates
on all those and they have like real dates, they look like real games.
Would you be pretty happy with that showcase or do you need maybe some
other surprises. I'd be pretty happy. Like a smaller surprise would be nice,
like, you know, not much, something like of the level of
them bringing back Battle Toes at one time, even something of just that level
would be nice enough for me. I don't need them to announce another Triple
A game. And it's funny like, even though it's been so long since
we heard about Perfect Dark, not really expecting to see anything that, but
you know, see something of Fable would be nice. I am curious to
see more of a vowed in Indiana Jones. Yeah, yeah, I think
having just all these things that we do know about know are coming, and
having the debut of Gear six that is almost certainly good enough for me.
Yeah, that's where I'm att. I'm like, I'm not, Hey,
you got to surprise me and tickle me with all these other things that you
have announced, yet I want the things that they've already announced to look good.
That's where I'm at with with Xbox. If that stuff can look good
and you can make some big promises. With Indiana Jones, it's coming out
later this year, I'll be pretty happy with them, and then who knows,
they could still have some surprises on top of that, But that's just
not what I need from that company right now. I wonder how much they're
looking over there at what I wish the Gear Studio called now the Coalition.
I wonder how much the Coalition was looking at Halo Infinite's response and realized,
Man, we got to make sure that we have a road map here,
because like hal and Infinite just got absolutely dragged for not having enough quote unquote
content. Right, Yeah, I guess so much. I guess so much
the battle anymore? Right, Like again, like I was just sweeking,
like, hey, I was like, yours Infinite was always good. I
had a ton of people yell at me about how it wasn't And it's like
the reasons I always get it's so interesting. It's like because it didn't have
this, it didn't have that content this. I'm like, what did you
think the game was fun? Right? It's like that's what the gameplay,
which is really fun, right, and it's there's so much more of that,
and like I I look, things should be criticized, right, Like
you don't like the if you don't like the the micro transactions and dragons song
but two, that should be criticized. That's fine. But I am I'm
always surprised how much like something like that, or like there's no New Game
Plus write something that back in by Day never even thought about New Game Plus
as anything that remotely mattered, And now it's like one of these boxes that
if it's not there, then it's like only it can only be so good
a game anymore. And I mean, I think part of this is just
like we all come to games with different expectations, and you know, in
a couple of stories here we'll get to like, you know, some's some
maybe some criticisms that we hang on to that most people seem to not care
about. We'll talk about that in a second help Bay two. But I
just I'm so with you on on Halo, and I I think when it
comes to Gears, the thing is a Gears five had multiplayer, and it
feel like it feels like it came and went really fast. I think it
did come and go really fast, and very few people were actually engaging with
it. It felt more like a charted multiplayer in somewhere Lay than like something
and I think already even since then, expectations are have changed. It good,
that's what. So that's what I'm asking, Is it like, are
the expectations different now and that game is gonna have to match what all these
other games are doing in terms of service stuff or is gears like, well,
that's the game I go to play for the single player, and then
the multiplayer is a bonus that doesn't really exist anymore. Maybe they might have
a benefit off because if they give sort of focus on the single player and
horn mode, they get those two things maybe looking good, and then people
could be a little generous about like, yeah, it's not like you know
this, you know, five seasons of content promise for the multiplayer out of
the gate. I don't know. I do think the presentation is gonna help,
Like maybe part of what hurt infid it always was the whole infinite thing,
right, Yeah, I think maybe in retrospect it is a lot to
a lot of language of I mean, the same calling the game infinite,
saying that there was a ten year plan setting up a single player with the
seeming promise of finishing that story and then abandon in it. There's a lot
of reasons why people who are super into Halo are feeling sour. And at
the end of the day, it's a really great game. It just is.
It's a lot of fun to play. And these days maybe it's just
because I'm a bit older, Mike. When I criticize and assess games,
I think about them in a long term capacity where I'm like, how am
I going to feel about the game if I were to come back to it
twenty years from now, And I bet if I were to pick up Halo
Infinite twenty years from now, I'm like, man, this game rules.
It is so much fun to play. We got, you know, ten
people in a match and we're all with five on vibe having a good time.
I bet that is going to hold up in a way that like going
back to Mario Strikers holds up. So yeah, it's kind of along these
same lines. PlayStation is probably going to have a showcase in May. This
is another thing I heard. Feel pretty confident about this one as well.
It could be a state of play. Maybe iileen towards the showcase. I
mean it should be showcased. I mean at this point, it should be
a showcase at this point, So so what why do you say that we
haven't we haven't heard much about PlayStation in a while here, Uh, and
I know, like we all think it's going to be a very quiet year.
Even a very quiet year needs to have a game or two. And
we know that's not like going to be a big sequel is something they said
it's not gonna like but like, okay, like is there going to be
an Astro game? Is there going to be some kind of new IP?
I mean, is there even going to be some more partner stuff like how
divers and maybe not partners the word there, or like another big third party
thing like a final fantacy rebirth, and maybe there's there is an unf forgetting
about it. Uh yeah, like you gotta be there's gotta be something happening
this whole. Yeah, so there's so there's probably like that Concord game,
some of these live service games that they've talked about previously probably do happen later
this year, Astro I could you continue here? That's probably gonna happen later
this year. God oh, someone mentioned in chat that Bluepoint IP is supposed
to be an original thing. Maybe that's ready you know these days, that
feels like maybe even's too early for that even but especially I'm like, you
know, ghost Sushiba two could come out this year and no, that's not
ready. Some Bluepoint not having their game ready wouldn't surprise me either, but
it could and that would like still fit with what Sony said about not having
any like legacy follow ups to first party Triple A games, right, that
wouldn't fall into that'd be a new original IP. So maybe they could have
a lot of big stuff. I think you're right. They probably will have
more and and kind of equivalent third party partnerships that are as big as some
of the other ones they've had. And then there'll probably be some of these,
yeah, like h for lack of a better turn, second party teams
that they don't own that make that act you publish first party Sony games kind
of coming out of the woodworks. They won't be massive, uh, but
I don't know if you have you know one in each of those boxes,
right, will have service games Astro Blue Point like you started getting four or
five six things Bloomster like Master sure, yeah, who knows, Yeah,
I mean something along those lines. At the very least, though, like
you get a good remaster, yeah, a big remake announced, and then
and then you have on top of that stuff that we already do know about
metal Gear, Solid Delta, Sound Hill two like these that are like inherently
Sony kind of based, but not Sony first party. So they have the
potential to set up a pretty strong second half of the year, kind of
out of nowhere. Uh, And I think they will do that in May.
I'm not gonna be like, you know, last year, I was
hearing, Oh, they were very excited about their showcase, and then it
came out no one liked it. So again, but at the very least,
it just seems like they could have a lot of cool stuff, even
if they don't have the things that you want from Sucker Punch, from Naughty
Dog, from all these studios that you could like that we all associate with
when we think of PlayStation we think of these studios. Yeah, they won't
be there, but I think the showcase could still be good where they would
show Wolverine if it's you know, it's not coming out this year, they're
going to show that anyways. They that would be very fun anyway, Yeah,
that's that would be funny. They might have like I can't remember,
I can't keep track of all the weeks. Was there any talk of like
a Spider Man to DLCs with them? You know? Yeah, Venom.
Venom is going to be the standalone DLC, right, so it's going to
be like the mos Morales spin alone. Yeah. Uh they so, yeah,
maybe they talk about Venom because Wolverine is is still pretty far away.
So I don't know. So, how are you feeling about the summer game
mess overall? Then? So we have we know xboxes doing something in June.
You'd be Soft announced something for June. Uh, this will probably probably
be happening in May, relatively close to when the all those other things are
happening. So that's starting to like shape up, you know, of course
you Aquielli's thing. Does that feel good to you? I don't know,
sure I do. I still feel like it's gonna be kind of slow.
It's gonna continue to feel kind of slow in this middle part of the year.
I think there's gonna be a lot of people sort of warning their breath
and waiting for a Nintendo to talk about switch to. I don't maybe that
happens this summer, does does it? I don't know. They're not gonna
have much in the way of games to even talk about. By summer,
I feel like, I mean, we already kind of have low expectations for
what Sony's going to do. Xbox seems to have the most going on,
but they also seem to have like the biggest hurdles in terms of of you
know, kind of reaching audiences. You know, they struggled a bit in
the past to kind of live up to expectations. Right Like this time last
year, I was feeling fantastic about Starfield, I think, or by the
summer I was, ye, and you know, not that Starfield was some
disaster. Of course. I think this time last year, we're pretty close
to Redfall coming out, or it had come out, and that was a
whole thing. So I mean, you need I'm not feeling like great about
the rest of you. That doesn't really bother me. I've been saying for
a while now. I could kind of use some time off to catch up
on things and play some more old things. That's fine. But I think
we're going to probably look at like what we're seeing at the Summer game Fest,
and we're gonna have more talks about hell. I think what it used
to be like when it was e three huh yeah, yeah, definitely.
It's uh, it's gonna be a mess though. It's gonna be spread out
and slow and fits and starts. I think we'll get you know, for
me, like, okay, put Ubisoft, Sony, Microsoft close together.
Maybe we get lucky Nintendo does a direct around that same time. If all
that happens, I geah, that's enough for me to like get excited.
Obviously we'll be out in la anyhow like at this point, but that'll all.
If all that's happening, that'll make it worth it. I mean,
we're getting Soilks songs soon, so that's fine, right, Yeah, I
mean it seems like it might. How do you feel about that? Ah?
Pretty excited. It's like, I you know, I never actually like
let myself get excited about Silk Song because it always seemed a million years away.
But boy, Holliday is a very good video game with Silk Song actually
comes out, I'm just going to immediately dive into that and have a very
good time For people who are wondering it's been rated by the ESRB. When
the store page went up and now it's they found that it was rated by
the Korean Rating agency back in February, so about two months ago, and
that means it could be it could come out any minute. Honestly, the
way that that has worked in the past, it could also come out much
later this summer or later this year. Things you know, shift all the
time. But if it's rated by Korea usually that means about six weeks later
it comes out where obviously already past that point or getting right to that point
right now. So yeah, any day people are pointing to that Triple I
Initiative Gaming showcase, Mike, that is happening on the tenth I believe it's
April fourth. As we're recording this, you think, do you think it
could pop up there? Like maybe if it was presented as the most important
show stopping thing there. I think I agree with you. It seems too
big for that at this point. It would be if that was happening,
that to me would feel like the people who make Hollow Night Soilk Song are
doing the Triple I Initiative show a favor, like, Hey, we're gonna
make kind of make your show seem more important because Hollow Knight's Silk Song was
there, and I mean listen, at the end of the day, all
this stuff is just people talking to one another. There is every possibility in
the world that that studio is friends with people response for that show and they're
like, yeah, of course we'll be there. We got your back game
there. That could happen. If it's like, all things being equal,
that thing shows up at the Xbox Showcase again and right it is still it's
a game past game still right, so that deal has already been made.
So like Microsoft has an incentive to showcase the game and give it a very
good slot on their thing. So that still seems like the most likely and
more people would be watching the Xbox Showcase than the triple in isiative by a
factor of like ten, if not one hundred. Yeah, all right,
finally here help Lay two makes me mad just yeah, not though because a
cinematic way. Yeah it is. The previews are sounding promising, more promising
than I was expecting. I was for me. I was like, the
first hut Blade wasn't for me. So when I read these previews and I
start talking about combat and like things where it's like you're causing a like sort
of a jail break and then everything catches on fire, part of me my
imagination gets going I'm like, oh, I wonder how I can interact with
that in the reality is I probably it's probably pretty limited interaction. I bet
you're right. I bet you're right. But you know, my brain gets
going, who knows, maybe some more is happening there than I'm realizing,
and the very least if it looks cool, it does look like a very
pretty pretty game. Thirty frames per second on Xbox Series S and Xbox Series
X. Uh. I am at a point where I'm not surprised by that
mic. So when I when I saw that, I'm like, yeah,
okay, that that sounds about right for this game. And then you're You're
like that still bothers me, and I'm like, man, I'm glad Mike's
out there. I know he's still there. Like, because here's the thing,
so many times like this will happen and people are kind of shittier.
But I think this happen because the developers are lazy, and I know you're
not like that. So when you're like that, I just like, sixty
fives per second better, I'm like, yeah, probably, no, that's
exactly I don't. Yeah, I hate it's like people are being lazier,
but no, it just actually is something that I notice a lot, and
it bothers me, and I get it doesn't bother everyone I had. It
was really interesting to me Final Fantasy seven Rebirth launch with you know, performance
mode and fidelity mode or whatever, and you know, I tried both and
like the one was at thirty primes per second, and it I am so
sensitive to that. I don't know why, because I played plenty of thirty
fps games in my life. But if I see the smooth one and the
nut smooth one, the smooth one looks like like like a flip note to
me, it looks so rough to me, I can't stand to look at
so like, of course something sixty fps. But that was a game that
a lot of people were like, no play the fidelity version. Like people
keep throwing out the line, oh, it looks like vacileine on performance mode.
I'm like, does it? I so, you know, and of
course it's just hey, different people are different. But it's so crazy to
me how I don't see that at all in terms of the fidelity, Like,
yeah, I guess it looks a little bit worse. I can barely
notice. And then this frame rate thing is such a big deal to me
that it's like if I was like making it and somebody told me our game
is only gonna be three fps, I'm like, well, we got to
do something about that. We have to sacrifice earlier, like that rock texture
is going to be two pixels now, And of course that's not what you
should do, but somehow it's the way that I got coded. And it's
just a game to a certain extent, especially a game that's supposed to be
kind of the newest, greatest, most impressive thing. It's just not gonna
be that graphically impressive to me if that thirty frames per second, like it's
kind of snobby, uh, And like I understand why that's the case.
That's just sort of the way I see things. You know. Some people
kind of phrase this and it's just semantics, but people say, oh,
well, the framework has to be lower so that the graphics can be better.
I mean, to me, frame rate is a major part of the
graphics, right, That's just a visual component, and again, like maybe
the most important part of it to me. So yeah, I understand it's
not some major deal breaker, of course, but especially because like I naively
thought in the be Gangs that he's just generously like, Wow, we're not
gonna have to worry about thirty frames per second anymore. No, we're like
at the point we're consistently getting games that don't even have like a sixty FPS
option. It's just not even considering that stuff. Yeah, and yeah,
I tend to agree with most of that, and I definitely think that when
I I mean, really, the reason I'm more nonchalant about this these days
is I'll play it on PC and I'll fucking make that thing run at sixty
frames per second whatever I have to do. And that's that's the truth.
And you know that's Dragon's Dogma two is a game that struggles at sixty frames
per second sometimes with even my machine. And so like, the reality is
I can go with like forty five frames per second even like a variable frame
rate, because I you know, I got the g sync turned on on
these honitors to make fuge for that, right exactly. So if you have
the is it vrs that's very gole reat shooting, so VR are very variable
refresh rate if you have that, uncap it like, and if you can
get up to like forty five, I'm gonna be pretty happy. And most
TVs can do that these days. So again I hear thirty frames per second
like that. It's not I don't love to hear that because that doesn't get
close to where I'm very happy with the game. But again, I'll play
on PC and I won't This will leave me behind because I won't be thinking
about it anymore because I'll be playing on a machine that doesn't have to deal
with that. And then if if you're on console still and it does bother
you these days, it's like they do give you the option to go play
the some PC if that really matters to you. So it's like, as
as much as we do criticize, and I think it's fair to criticize,
it's like the solution is out there, and I think that's just where we're
at, and these developers are gonna be like, hey, we're gonna push
these consoles as far as we can. And one of them is a three
hundred dollars than with a GPU that's only meant to do ten eighty P sixty
and it's getting kind of old already. So the fact that we're here is
not too surprising to me. As all there is to it, right,
you know, It's like if a show was in town. I really wanted
to see and they said, standing ramontely, I'm still gonna go see the
show, but I'm gonna wish I had a seat. Yeah exactly, Yeah,
yeah, uh. You know. The PC thing is good, and
like that's definitely part of it, is like, and I'm like, yeah,
I guess I just need to invest in better, better PCs, But
I like consoles. I want consoles to be better, and I get it.
Consoles have to be affordable and like that money has to come out of
like chips and hardware, so it's gonna be difficult for these things to do
what a high end PC can. Of course, I guess, you know,
maybe what I want is impossible, but the heart wants what it wants.
Jeff, Yes it does. And again, like I said, I'm
glad you're out there just like being reasonable about it, being like I like
this better because it's like, oh yeah, that it comes down to it.
That's how I feel, and I just dot to feel like like the
big like thirty fps fine crowd is just like a reaction to the people are
being real shitty about sixty fps, and I get it. I get it,
but like, you know, everything has to be these extremes. Yes,
right, it's like like you said, it's it's not even a nice
to have. It's like, no, this is a criticism. It should
have this. But I'll make do. I will make do. I do
hope that we are getting to a point where, you know, as like
you know, we get better processes on these things. We do realize the
games don't need to look much better anymore for a bit. Maybe we can
like push this into making frame rates better for a bit and pull off our
need to like make a rock texture even higher and to add even more particle
effects. But I just don't know if that's how it's gonna be. Wow,
like not a real prestige gamer over here, all records based. Uh.
The reality is that I think some of the biggest developers in the world
have already made that decision. Like, I mean, Call of Duty will
always be sixty frames per second, and I think Call of Duty always looks
pretty damn good. Yeah, And the big part of it is it's sixty
frames per second. So I feel feeling, Hey, if you're gonna learn
from another studio, maybe look at a couple of Call of Duty's doing,
because they said more like Call of Duty. Yeah, listen, they saw
a lot of video games. I don't know, I mean sixty frames per
second with stuff that looks like Call of Duty or Doom or any of the
number of these games that like can easily pull off sixty frames per second,
if not higher. That's where I want games to kind of like dial in.
But I get that the prestige studios do need to like feel like they
feel like they need to push these things as far as possible. So here
we are all right. That does it for the big topics. If there's
anything else you wone wants to bring up, you can always send in a
super chat. We'll get to those right after a quick break. Let's do
the super chats. Mike, what do you got for me? Carlos Lopez
says it's a lie when execs say games are the biggest entertainment movies and music
are more popular with barrier for entry so high, and after that sixty to
forty split article, it seems gaming has resaturation. When will execs realize this?
Ah to kind of so schieff. Do you believe that video games are
the most are the biggest entertainment medium? It til you measure it? If
it's about like dollars spending a lot of times it is the biggest one,
but clearly that doesn't mean it's you know, bigger in terms of cultural footprint.
Music is of course bigger movies. More people see movies than play video
games, although that does feel like it's probably there's probably a bar that is
going to cross there eventually, where like free to play video games on people's
phones will definitely put them that ahead of you in movies because the barier entry
is higher for that than even to play games on your phone. So here's
here's the reality that does not act matters. That doesn't matter what's the biggest
video game or what's the biggest entertainment medium. That's all just blah blah blah.
Distraction. Is it growing? Is all these companies care about. And
at the moment, console gaming is not growing. The wider gaming marketplace is
actually stuttering overall when you take an account everything that's happening. So that's what
these companies are worried about. And they don't they can't. They don't measure
themselves against movies or music. In reality, that never really happens. That's
always just for a pr blast. Next one here is from Connor Willis's congratulations
to the top five world record holder. Well now if it gets approved,
Jeff, Yes, I was grinding some more Mortal Kombat mythologies last night.
I am very excited for you. Like, that is really good work.
I was watching some of it and it was like, how far you came?
I remember, because like you were fighting that dinosaur on Blake Club and
I'm like, just do what he's doing on the video, and like you're
like kind of half doing it, but it never worked right. And then
like tune into one of your streams and you're just doing it perfectly. I'm
like, man, that looks so good, so I'm not surprised that you
got there. Really well done, dude. The best thing is that I
have the fusion fight technique down for the most part, where you just do
these weird like triple punches in this exact pattern, this exact timing, and
you could just instat kill him, and God, that feels good. That
is fantastic. If this run gets approved, and I assume it will,
it will be the new number five. Now, because I'm a little shitter,
I'm gonna have to point out it'll be the new number one in terms
of original hardware, right, I mean doesn't really count every play on emulation.
I don't think so. No, no, but yes, uh very
excited about that. I'm gonna push a little bit harder. I'm a little
A part of me is almost a little worried because this run went very well
for me. I basically messed up a bit at the final boss that cost
me twenty seconds, a few small mistakes here and there. To really make
much more progress, I need to find like a minute or two to shave
off. And I'm wondering where that's gonna come from. Somebody to like look
up some more advanced strats or something I don't know, or are you doing
the things where like you know, you have enemies uppercut you up to like
platforms and stuff. I'm doing that. There's like a real hard version of
it that Segot the world record holder does where he kind of like roundhouse kicks
this guy across multiple gaps to have him upper cut him somewhere that lets him
like skip a major boss fight, And that is like, can I do
that? Maybe like that might be this the kind of real difficult stuff I
might have to consider learning if I want to go much further. We'll see.
But I was very happy this run, like it actually feel you know,
more and more like feeling like actual speed runs, because for a while
it was every time I beat this game in one sitting, I do it
a little bit fast and last time. And now it's like we're resetting like
thirty forty times before I actually get like this run now, so it feels
really good. Cool, it's all fun. Uh yeah, I'm pretty great.
Next one, here's from Adam GCS is in honor of me for defeating
the push up challenge. Hey, congrats, Adam GC. I would not
be able to do that, so there. Yeah, stuff got me like
one of those push up boards for my birthday, so I'll give it a
shot. Even look, even if I need we even want to, Like
I do exercise, which needs to be more pretty soon here. I hate
pushups, and I know that's why they're good for you, because they feel
terrible. I don't like it. I don't like exercising on the ground.
It's like, yeah, what am I so kind of like grub? Do
you mean that allowed to use that? I'm not allowed to use that word,
Zuemer, says Isaac new and was right, delusional criticism of Aloy and
Mary Jane and fighting equal but opposite delusional criticisms of Eve Sony wins regardless.
Flip flat Maner says, thirty fps. Amateurs tell me about games you love
despite them running like actual garbage. Like when I planted control on a base
PlayStation four. Hey, BP, the Wild did not run well, and
that was a great game. Yeah, it got it got a little bit
better over time, but I think Cocarico Village still is kind of a little
bit of a mess these days. Stunt race FX give me eleven frames per
second. I don't care. That game like has has a lot of charm
and I like it a lot. Yeah. Fall three on Xbox three six,
I don't think it was great, but that's how I planned and I
had a great time. So yeah, again, it's not the end.
I'll be all, Oh, here's Chris Pratt. Chris Pratt is back.
That's nice, Chris, he says. He says, thirty f ps,
sixty fps, one, twenty f ps. It doesn't matter as long as
you're gaming like I was in nineteen and nineteen eighty six playing Mario in the
arcades. It's stomping Poopa's cool. Chris John, Thank you, Chris John.
Thank you Chris John. Scrub mcgrub, but the first super tender thank
you. Scrub says was catching up with the BombCast today and Jeff mentioned a
natural disaster Taiwan could interrupt the world's chip supply. Then that happens, Oh
you guys, Cauka. Look, look it's your fault. Look people not
that is so fun. Don't make me laugh at that. Christ Look.
I was just like, hey, if the natural disaster could come, it
would be bad for our consoles. And then a real natural disaster happened and
hurt human beings, and I was like, oh my god, this sucks.
So that's such an unfortunate time. Holy shit. People matter way more
than video game consoles. I just want that to stay for the record,
and I'm gonna stop talking about ship that could happen in the future on podcast.
Don't don't worry about adjusting my focus. They were good. Uh.
Next one here is from Antonioni. He says, thanks for taking my She's
Island tweet. Well today Mike didn't know about the other Twitter drum. Oh
no, your tweet was funny, ANTONIONI. It's all good. Next one
is from El Gregor says, is Jeff aware of wearing shorts. I've heard
of the concept. You wear shorts constantly, you wear shorts at times when
everyone else is wearing long pants. You're a big shorts guy. Shots in
Argentina because Dange will beat you in your legs and you will die. Well,
that's right, listen, I I appreciate uh that my Southern American friends
who believe that wearing shorts is only for little boys. But I'm a little
boy, so I will wear some shorts. They kill you for singing Fank
Sinatra. They kill you for wearing shorts. So that's kind of violent down
there, because that's Filipinos that will kill you for wearing my pass. They're
a little and brown. To Mic, they're all the same. I already
I already accidentally called Jad tamp today. I can't be doing that R fault
that jam Tan and Dan. Basically the thing, it's hard. It's hard.
This is two chaps. There's more jets in the past. I can't
handle it. How am I the only bike? Is that even true?
That is weird? How are you the only? Mic? Am I?
All right? I do I run hot? I need shorts, so yeah,
I wear them all the time. Thing it's gonna kill you never come
here. Then that's the uh. That's like the great paradox of running hot
is that you want to wear a T shirt because it's cool, but then
you want to wear the hoodie because it hides so many sweatsins. Yes,
exactly, Yes, it is the uh. It's the constant battle between I'm
gonna wear yep uh. Pre Traven says, tired of how damn woke Mario
has gone. I don't want to have to explain to my kids what italy
it is. That's fair. That's a difficult conversation for every tarent I get
it. That's really good. Uh. The a miracle, says Mikey.
Nice shirt, Joe s Yes, this is my I got the shirt from
packs for beating a Shura, a new Trio boss in the next Finnal Fantasy
fourteen expansion on Dontreil. So it's very happy to get my shirt. And
I'm not gonna lie. It's kind of the MVP of the team because I
was the Red Mage, which is my main and I got randomly put on
that computer and Red Bay just can revive everybody very fast. So since we
were dying a lot because no one had ever played the spots before, I
was just reviving everybody like crazy fun time that new song came out, Christian,
you heard that song? Did you like it for don trail? Yeah,
it's pretty the video this song is the song from the trailer, but
the video is new. The video is fun, a funny video. And
Tario Wolfe says, as someone who's actually played Stellar Blade, that game slaps
would love if more people talked about the Vida game part of the video game.
Yeah, And like we said on here before, like hey, we
just we want to like this game too. I don't want to let us
get to me, but god, I'm trying my best, but these motherfuckers
are being so much Jeff, it is starting. I don't want to be
that. I want to enjoy Stellar Blade, absolutely, but it's like I'm
just like looking at it sometimes and all I can it's like I could just
imagine them like frothing at the mouth, being able to like see an ass
or something, and it's like off putting. I gotta I don't want to
let them win, and I'm not going to, but I've had to make
a conscious decision as well to like not let them get to me when it
comes to the game, because it's like, that is silly. They should
not win that and take these things away from us. Because I bet the
game's gonna be based on the demo. I had a really good time with
it. It's gonna be just fine. I do find a lot of it
appealing. I think the designs are cool. A lot of times. I
think some of their fashion is really cool. They yeah, but I know
exactly what you mean, Mike. They get in my head and I shirk,
but they remember back we found out about the heart of the vagina,
we weren't upset. We laughed at I'm hilarious, but I guess, like
what it is like weird to me. If you think that's like a real
cool thing, I don't care, but I am a little bit like,
Okay, it's like when you walk in and somebody cool in like a fun
ironic way, like, sure, look, how stupid this thing is.
Isn't that fun that they're like that in This is going to solve my made
up cultural wark. Yeah, this is a flag in the ground against the
woke mind virus. If you think that you are sick and need help.
Now. I was about to say, I really like how she how she
like sheets her sore on her hair. It's a cool light effect. Do
you ever see her like story? Yes, she put their sort away and
it turns with like the hair clip sort of thing. Right, it looks
super cool. That is one of the cooler animations that I think the Enemies
are pretty good. Uh. Next up here is from Mitchell Dice another first
super chat. I think you said, hey, Mike and Jeff, can
you all do some match card predictions WrestleMania forty? Thanks? Why don't we
do that right now? Jeff? How about I read you the card?
You can really quickly give me your prediction? Sure, is the card like
fully out? Now? I think so? I got I've got a card
pulled up right now. So let's just do what they have right here.
Night one, We're gonna cind of blaster Us a little bit. The Rock
and Roman Reigns versus Cut Your Roads and seth Rawlins. Rock and Roman Reigns
win that. Yeah, I gotta set up some future drama. I gotta
get the women the World Championship match Rhea Ripley versus Becky Lych I mean,
yeah, it's gonna be a good, good match. Ray Ripley's gonna win.
Yeah, I agree. Gunther versus samy'se Ay for the IC title.
Uh, this is like the the first time in a while that I feel
like maybe someone could take down Gunther. But now gunh there probably wins guns
There's gotta move up to like bigger things eventually here. Eventually, it's just
the timings a lot. I don't I suppose Gunther being like one of the
first feuds for a Cody Rhodes. I like that. I mean, and
are they worried about, like, you know, like Sammy's still popular,
but he got really hot that moment. Is it like a concern of them
to like reheat him up that much? Again? Does Winnie the Icy Boat
even do that? I'm not sure? Y, I say, that's that's
why I'm like, I think this is gonna be another really good fight.
I think it's gonna be very entertaining. I don't necessarily think Sammy's a needs
to win this belt. Jays versus Jimmy USO. Uh yeah, I god,
I think man, Jay, I'll go with Jay. What's that?
That would be like the feel good one? After the Tag Team one is
going to be disappointing to people. Uh at uh six Pack Ladder match for
the Tag Team Championships. Judgment Day versus Awesome Truth versus Di Y versus New
Day versus New Ketch Republic versus A Town down Under. I listened to based
on not much. I think Judgment Day. It seems like Judgment Day might
maybe I was miss hearing misunderstanding. Is I think Judgment Days maybe at the
end of its life, right, it's been running for a while. Yeah,
that's that seems likely. Yeah, but I mean it's it's still like
the I don't know. Is there a better like Tag Team ready to take
to come in in the night Over? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
we'll see uhblaiir Naomi and Jad Cargill versus Damage Controlled. Uh you gotta
let Jade get him and sorry should influence your decision? Boy, do you
think No? No, no, I'm interested in your take as well.
Yeah. No, I I think Jade Cargill gets a really big showcase.
Yeah. Yeah, I think that's probably what a good part of this match
is about. Ray Masterio and Dragonly versus Santos Escobar and Dominic mysterio dominict Masteriro
always wins. There you go? Was that last year we had the amazing
like h entrance out of the cop car. I think he's a prisoner.
He's prison He is the best wrestler in the history. I love him so
much. O gat Night two. Let me start from the bottom because last
time he was kind of doing the big matches versus Bobby Lashley in the Street
Profits versus the Final Testament Final Testament. Okay, uh l A Night versus
aj Styles La Knight. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I think so
Adri Styles will have a good match. Styles out here openly talking about how
his retirement's like like not far away, not that llen n It's like a
real young guy. But come on, I think there's a little beacon do
there with him still. United States Championship triple Threat Logan Paul the Champion versus
Randy Orton versus Than Owens. Uh Yes, it is a tough one.
I think Logan Paul probably does win, though, because I think that that's
some fun heat. You could take forward story and don't forget summer, Say
mc cleveland. He might be carrying that belt at least to Cleveland, right
right. And he's from Cleveland, right, so him doing the thing up
being from Cleveland and doing the thing and I got out of here with the
belt. That's yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Women's Championship match
Bailey versus Sky Bailey. Yeah, let's go Bailey. World Heavyweight Championship Matt
Seth Rowins versus Drew McIntyre. I think Drew mcatyre is gonna get in there
and have a good time. I think Drew Mactar's gonna win. I agree.
I think Drew's been shining a ton lately. I thin he's been a
lot of fun for a while now. Ye setside this belt, since they
introduced it, I think you know, said has been fantastic with it too.
I think he has been the right champion up until they found someone that's
a good replacement, and Drew McIntyre is the right guy at the right time.
Finally, does the story Coy get finished? Roman Reigns versus Cody Roads.
Nope, bottom of the fourth No, Yeah, I think so at
this point, what are they? Ah, God, if they don't imagine,
no, come on, imagine you see that like the Rock was at
some like fan event, the crowd and there's like some little girl was yelling
at him. Uh oh, your Cody roads Fin. She's like, why
do you why do you think you should get a title match in roy Because
I'm the final boss and I'm the great one. She's like, if you
want a TOMMA, you should have edited the Royal rub one. And then
even the Rock kind of starts laughing. That's great, all right, I'm
looking forward to this though. It sounds like it's gonna be a good time.
Rich ronin Way says XB, I assume Xbox is disrespectful. It should
be ashamed. Unreal, Wait, who's XB Xbox? Is Xbox disrespectful?
It should be ashamed or somebody else XB. It should be a shade of
their Wordsyophon, it's not giving us sixty fs. Maybe it's about the fps
thing. I think they're being sarcastic. Sarcastic tony On He says Mario sixty
four size Sunshine both have some of the best movement and fuel, yet they
run a thirty f ps games game can be exceptional, better than games with
twice the frames. Yeah. Even Sunshine, though at the time, was
criticized for only being thirty ps and it kind of shouldn't be Like the original
demo they show was at sixty f ps, right, and a lot of
games on GameCube ran it sixty frames per second, So like like, uh,
Mario GATXI feels better than Sunshine. I think the high frame rates are
part of that. And yeah, Mario sixty four and Sunshrin I do agree
those games feel good. Okay, yeah, I mean part of that is
my bias, is what I'm saying. Part of it is they're better at
that than a lot of other studios. They just are. Mario sixty four
does not feel choppy in the way like Fall three on console felt choppy,
Like it's just something different is happening there. And men, Goldie says,
go into Ohio this weekend. Is there a restaurant I should try? I'm
doing all the tour stuff NFL and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame picture outside
of Mike's house, et cetera. So you're gonna be in Canton, in
Cleveland, at least Canton. I don't know not much about Canton, to
be honest. Cleveland though rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You'll be pretty
close to the flats. Collision Bend is a great brewery, and restaurant.
There also very good seafood restaurant called Lindy's Margharitaville there. Of course, closer
downtown is East four Street where Michael Simon there and chef is a great barbecue
restaurant called Maples. Also a very good brewery across the street from that called
Butcher and the brew brewer get the Albino stout. It's incredible. They If
you go to the west side of Cleveland, you'll find a Great Lakes Brewery,
which is another brewery. It's the biggest brewer, local brewery in the
area. They have a very good restaurant there. Also, there's a lot
of other breweries and fun things in that west side area, including sixteen Bit,
which is an arcade bar, and a very good ice cream place called
Mitchell's. So those are kind of my hot spots. It's a good list.
Mike's right, go to all those places, and then Goldie I'll get
in the discard. My wife has been in Canton a bunch of times recently,
and SA I'll see what she has recommended recommendations she has for that area,
because I think she has some good places. FBI agent says, I
just wrecked My Room after the hell played thirty fps announcement. I understand it's
hard. Sometimes sometimes you just got to go Sitz and cam on that shit.
Listen, you didn't hurt anybody, That's what matters. But you hurt
any violence, and you'll try harder. Yes, Epic Wallpaper says beat Shipwreck
sixty four and Road ninety six while listening. Love you guys, Love you
too, Epic, Thank you very much. Ten Derek says, what are
the chances we hear about Monolith's Wonder Woman game this year? What ear might
have released. I'm very excited for that game, man, I have no
idea. They said there's something recently that less I believe that that's going to
be a live service game too. And that's Sam was just the CFO not
knowing what the he was talking about. It must be like, how is
that going to be? I mean you remember that this is the company that
did make that second Mortar game a live service game kind of, or at
least had weird micro like they made loop boxes out of like getting friends,
Remember how that was. That's an interesting time. Yeah, we'll see.
I bet they let things cool off with Suicide Squad a little bit before they
start talking about that, so they probably talk about it later this year,
unless they already had plans to put it in some showcase this summer. Let's
see her now. Next one is uh from Man I went down there to
thank you. Yeah, Tarlie Printiss Win Wicker HD for Switches canceled. I
eat it it well, daring here dammit him uh Ol Grugs has an honor
of Gammer two thousand. Check out the f m V cutscenes for steel Hartbringer
on PS one. The game itself is mid, but the cut scenes are
so bad it's good. Yeah, that's why gamarag thousand rules. It's a
whole package. You have the wild FMV cutsies and a fun game and a
really fun game. Yeah. I'll try to beat that here soon everybody,
so tune back in soon. I'll let you know. Pretty dude says people
are acting like multiple streamers and posters didn't choose to play Rebirth in thirty FPS
because they want their nostalgia game looking the best. Help like to outrage.
It's just because it's Xbox related. I mean, I don't know if it's
in if it's necessarily an Xbox the only thing right, like I remember on
Patsy sixteen was criticized on PS five because its frame rate was a very higher
study even on a performance mode. And like you know, on Fantasy seven,
rebirth does have the option, so the people that don't care can play
it in thirty and the people that do care just played it at the higher
frame rate. So I mean that end gets all we're saying. Mike O'Leary
said, Mike, I decided do run Disney's Five Kames January. But I'm
thirty nine and live a editary gamer life, so I'm fully prepared to get
code grandmad. While yeah, I know Dan's like, oh, let's do
it. I'm like, it would be fun. I'm so far. Maybe
maybe I need to get off my ass a little bit. But my brother
did it one time. I hope this doesn't mind be telling the story.
His nipples got very chafed and started bleeding, so he kind of had bloody
nipples nipples part way through the Disney thing. I won't say which brother.
There we go. That's fair. Either one of them could have had the
bloody It's great because now people can assume it's either one whenever they need to.
There you go, one of those. Yeah, guys say the bloody
nipples. Number one reason. I don't do any running like marathons or anything
like that. So I know that's a real thing that happens to a lot
of people. I don't need that. I don't think it would happened to
me. My brothers have dry skin. I never have you remember this in
Boston, right, everybody's like, oh, it's so dry, everyone's dry,
quick past the chaff thick. And I was like, I'm fine,
Yeah, I'm just very moist. Yeah, like we all felt your hand
and it was like so weirdly soft. You have popcord over there. Your
mystery science three thousanding is out of control. So I was about to say,
do you do you skip one? I think you skip one. Adam
GC says this one his owner a few for being two racious dudes. I
don't think you read that one. You're right, I davis that one.
Wow, Thank you Christian. I'm glad that one's over here telling you to
be quiet. Adam GC said this one was an honor of you for being
two righteousies. Thank you, Adam GC. I appreciate it, Thank you,
Christian. Next one here is from flim blamb Mandrew says Mike is making
mythologies his Mitch Willow David says, I missed the world which still at sixty
fps left in it. How excited is it gonna be? With it's Christmas
time? We could just watch that commercial over constantly. I honestly I still
have it opening like a tab over here and like mighty every once in a
while that I've free started my computer probably six times since we did that.
Oh here comes you know, Oh incredible, Uh, Burrito says, hi,
guys, just showing appreciation, keeping awesome, Thank you so much.
Burrito, really appreciate than Michael James says, went to Kyoto and by Nintendo,
jumping the wall and getting pastsecurity was easy. The Japanese, Uh,
to say the Earthbound three was hard. It's not easy. It's got to
say. Turns out the Japanese word for earthbound is mother, So I just
gotta do that mother. That's a stupid question. But like, is the
name in Japan like we say Japanese is it? Did they just say mother
or do they say the Japanese word for mother. I don't think it's a
stupid question. I don't might just be mother. I believe the box are
so they would just say the English word, but I know they use a
lot of English words because, like you know, like you'll hear like a
commercial for like a foun fancy gaming, they'll say like a bunch of Jeffanese,
and you'll hear like final frontal sy and I'm like, oh, you're
just I thought you had words for final and fantasy. But that's nice too.
Next one is from my Chris. First one, Thank you so much.
Chris is up just five bucks or two dudes who are so cute together
and are fun to hang out with. Digitally, wo We're kawaii. That's
what I say. I'm upstairs. Tell me my wife and kids. I'm
kawaii. Yeah, I like that. The Rocky says, imagine being mad
at something called sweet Baby. It is inredible. It's incredible just imagining the
most officious evil people ever had sweet Baby. They should post it. And
it made me mad. This person said that they don't like Yeah, this
FIRS just said it would suck if I was a white male gamer, and
I took it seriously and got it. I crapped my pants. Uh power
Gloves says, Hello Beef and Cheddar boys, my name is in fact power
Glover, a power Glover. Since you asked and no, my parents waited.
Second, my parents have no idea about the Nintendo proof of the same
name. Love you guys play Captain Cowards. I choose to believe that this
is my friend, mister power Glover. Christian, you have my permission to
talk ahead. You expected me to like not talk about this. This is
I don't think your name's Pallark. I want to see a person to get
damp. Although Mike Manadi is a truther, Ali Miracle says, if I
ever visit the Midwest, I am paying mikey as a tour guy. That'd
be fun. Remember like the guy who Cramer was based off of just did
tour guest tours in New York forever? Did he really am? Not just
like Cramer thing? Ever? And then Antonio he says it put like an
animation has a lot to do with feel rather than just frames. Galaxy feels
better than Sunshine. You are on this week? Brother? What do you
think, Jeff? Which one do you think feels better? Galaxy or Sunshine?
Uh? Galaxy? What kidding me? One of the best feeling games
ever made? Oh yeah, SunSITE feels very good. Also, I really
don't have I really don't have any complaints, but I think I think Goux
feels yeah. And then part of that is I could see the frames.
I could see the difference, Like, yeah, there are games that like
solve this by like having a for lack of a better term, because I'm
not a game developer, three frames sixty frames per second, even though they're
not like rendering sixty frames per second, right, so like the motion is
being calculated in the background for sixty frames per second. That helps. That's
it. Thank you so much for all these super chats. Everybody really appreciate
it. Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah. We got a couple of games coming
up. Uh, yes, we do. We're going to get to those
right after a quick break. We'll get set up so we'll have we are
going to pick our favorite games of twenty nineteen. But I think we have
an update on what's been happy with the Metacritic league. Yeah, I saw
an update for power Glover and I have a Facebook account if you really want
to verify this is my Christian name. I just want to the odes set.
A guy that's power Glover is in our video game podcast. Look I
believe you, and I believe very hateful. I've been one over. You're
right, I believe now. I believe Power Glover regardless, just an incredible
name, no matter, it's good, it's good. I love the Power
Glove. Did damnbody ever say I love Power Glover? He's so bad?
I just did. There it is somebody. I can't be the first.
There's no way somebody else. I bet they quote the Wizard to you.
I bet that was Power Glover's spouse's vows. That's Power Glover's uh vice name,
assuming that she took his name. You you Force Glover. Gotta love
the Glover, Gotta love the Glover, Gotta love the Glove. All right,
We're gonna take a quick break, like I said, when we get
back, we'll get set up for some fun games and new topics. Right
after this, everybody, and we're back, and we're gonna do the game.
Mess open credit predictions Q one result in Q two predictions. I promise
it's more interesting than that title makes it sound. But which is like a
press conference where we're gonna show charts, which we are, but it's fun.
It's gonna be great. Sean, can you take this over, I
sure can ron Burgundy. So if anyone is tuning into the show for the
first time or you just haven't in the past three months, every quarter community
member the unchared Wolf is very nice and pussing gard. This little game that
the boys play and our Patreon producers can also play over in the discord is
exacutly produced by Bob who is apparently a giant nerd and then me, I
don't know what the hell I did other of them percent, So thanks for
the credit the rules as it got a fucking gif you jerking off. The
rules are the game. Mess was given a list of twelve different games coming
on the first QUO of twenty twenty four, with the task of predicting their
open crick scores. And the score is a term by its top crick average
on Open Critic whoever was closest to a foul score in the commute, both
in the community and versus the boys guess one point and if they predict the
score exactly right, they get two points. And if you didn't think a
game would come out by the end of the first quarter, you would say,
well, not released, and you would get double the points. So
first, let's get to the results of the Q one predictions. So going
down the line here, Jeff picked first, and then they alternated from there
on out. Game number one is like a dragon infinite wealth, where right,
Jeff picked eighty five and spoiler Mike one with a prediction of eighty six.
It's actual. The actual score is ninety so very high score there.
Michael was closer. Mike gets one point. Just like for a fantasy critic,
if a game gets over ninety, right, you get double points.
I know this is not fantasy critic. Did this game count for that or
not? Do you know? No, because it's ninety so it should have
just yeah, it would be ninety one, I believe, or well,
because they do go by the decimal Hawaii would be like, you know,
ninety point one or whatever however that would like, yeah, but it should
be ninety one will get you the dull points. Hey who community winners on
that one were Bench, Adam, Juice, and Ben seven, who all
got exactly right with ninety Very nice. Now I would have thought that was
high but them. Game er two was techn eight where Mike said eighty four
and Jeff said eighty three. Mike wins because it was another ninety. Very
nicely done there, Bugadiulto low Rule both predicted eighty nine and then Mark predicted
ninety one, So split the durrance. They all get a point there.
We've both been lowbughing. I just been low balling less and it's been working
out for me. Yeah. I think we just didn't realize how much this
year was going to be cooking. Yeah, good game so far. Game
number three Persona three reload where Jeff said ninety and Mike said eighty nine and
Mike wins yeah again because it was lower at an eighty eight and a bunch
of people in the community said eighty eight. If your name is on screen
right now, you got two points. Very nicely done there, I think
Mark, I'm gonna just call it one name. Game number four, Suicide
Squad Kills the Justice League. Mike said a very nice sixty nine. Jeff
Price is right him with sixty eight. It was fifty nine wow on open
critics. So Jeff gets one point there, very clo see that's screaming mad
and got it exactly right with the streaming mad and with fifty nine. Wow,
that is skill right there, man for that game. Oh Christ is
in chet fifty nine is like Chris is like magic number. They sees they
were Christmas talking about your bleeding nipples earlier. It's like, it's like Justin
Wong with thirty seven. Yeah. Uh, Game number five, Hell Divers
two, Jeff said eighty two, Mike said eighty and it was eighty three,
so Jeff was closer. It gets one point there, Cryoris, Cycling
and Fusion all got exactly right with eighty three, so two points. Yes,
it's interesting. It's like that's one of the most positively talked about games
of the year, and yet it's lower than quite a few of these,
right critic. I thinks some of those early reviews were, you know,
pinged for connection issues now issues the classic YEP game number six, Mario versus
Donkey Kong the remake Here, Mike said seventy two, Jeff says seventy three.
It was a little bit higher on that at a seventy seven, So
Jeff gets one point. And then Lewis, ag Almsley, Fish and Love
and Low Rule all got exactly right. Was seventy seven, and you catch
up at a three point lead. I'm blowing it. YEP free unanswered points.
What the hell? Game number seven, Skull and Bones finally comes out.
Jeff predicted a very nice sixty nine. Mike predicted sixty five. It
was sixty on open credit. Game comes out and is still on sixty after
all that. Yeah, development, Hell, he's just been like, you
can't delay that many times? Not at least get a seventy come on bench.
Jamie h Monogrim, Fish and Love and Warren Curtis all got it exactly
right with sixty round numbers, so that makes sense. Here we have Mike
and Jeff's original Skull and Bones production from January third, twenty twenty three,
from a year I'm gonna say eighty two. Hm, I think the first
game was around there, and I bet they're going to improve this one.
I'm gonna go eighty six. That's my favorite number appear. I think I
have a lot of eighty six is uh scalling bones? Who I wish I
didn't go first on this one. Do you think it comes out? I'd
say eighty right, I'll say seventy eight, eighty and seventy eight. There
we we wised up a little bit. I can't believe that I have my
shaved beard at that time in this video time Incredible, Oh Boy. Game
number eight was Final Fantasy seven rebirth. Mike went with an eighty seven.
Jeff went with eighty six. You're both a decent amount off there because it
was a ninety three. It's got open critic click wins. That one gets
one point. Nick to go Clink Bob, Laser Wolf, and low Roll
also ninety three, so shouts to them forgetting those points. Game number nine
was Alone in the Dark. Jeff predicted a seventy, Mike said sixty eight.
It was low at sixty three, so Mike gets that point. Cycling
said sixty two and Lea said sixty four, so they both get one point
for being cleed. I still have not seen like a screechh off this video
game. It's out now, and I still don't think it's free. I've
had it, I got a code for it like weeks before it came out.
I never touched it. We should just play it on I'm very curious
what everyone's problem with this game is. Because I saw someone streaming a just
passed. I was like, look, okay, like it looked like mediocre
modern Resident Evil. So I'm genuinely curious what's wrong with it? And you
and plus folks played in they were like, it's okay, so yeah,
that's that's what I thought, which I guess you know, sixties is sixty
three if that is the okay, but not like like far from good,
right, that's sure three right? Yeah. Uh. Game number ten was
Dragon's Dogma two, where Mike said eighty five and Jeff said eighty six.
It did go a little high at eighty eight, so Jeff gets one point
there, and then in the community Adam Juice clinked, Joise Klaus vision forty
nine lose ag All got the extra point with an eighty eight prediction. Yeah,
say it little went a little high as right. We've had no spot
ons yet, Mike, not neither. No, we've been close. It's
been very close. Yes, something's been on it. Game number eleven Princess
Peace Show Time. Jeff said seventy nine, Mike said eighty one, and
it went a little low was seventy six. So Jeff gets one point and
Razzle, Jazzled and Bugadillo in the community get two points with their spot on
predictions. Okay, so so far I got three points, then you came
right back with three points. Then I came right back when another three points.
You got two points in a row. Right now, if you get
another point, it's just insane. That's just the pattern. So I'm assuming.
So now game number twelve, Rise of the Ronin Mike said seventy six,
Jeff one with seventy five our first spot on from the boys. There,
Mike got two points to his prediction of seventy six. It was seventy
six, and Zuemer and Mark also got exactly right with seventy six. In
the community. Let's fucking go, Let's fucking go. I never played a
moment of this game. Let's go. That's the right, Mike West,
that Mike wins eight to five. What's up, Christian? Sorry Mike West
punching the at the camera, but in the tiny box on the overlay,
it looks like he was doing something el with his hands. It took me
saying, look like I was jerking off a cock already. God hell all
right, anyways, I am now going to slowly scroll through the entirety of
the community results as I bant a little bit here, so way everyone can
take a look at what their scores were in the community, on the video
version and in the anchor graduations Lewis ag and fish and love for winning this
quarter. Well done, but work regrets to me. I won, I
did very well. I mean, yeah, sure, they only get points
if they get it exactly right, right, or there's like, I guess
the same rule as apply if they are of everyone right, But they're competing
against the crowd, right, So yeah, so it's much more difficult in
the community. So nicely down there. Well done. All right, let's
get on to quarter two predictions before but for quarter two deadline for the community
is when the first game gets reviews, which guests we'll see. I don't
know if these are in chronological order or not. I think they might because
I know the first game is coming up soon. So Mike's victory has him
going first, and then you will go back and forth from there. Sound
good? No, I need some time to do some research. No,
holy shit, I'm curious what game's even coming out this quarter. Let's see,
I'm curious, little thing. And yeah that other thing game number one.
Oh you do Chronicle one hundred heroes mikey Oh that's rough. God,
I want to believe. I did not like that first game they released,
which I know is like a kickstarter stretch goal side game. I thought that
was pretty disappointing. It's so hard just trying to be swee get into again.
I know they had the original guy involved, rest in Peace. I
want to believe. I don't know if I believe that much. I want
to say it's going to be a seventy seven. Okay, Jeff. That
sucks because I want to do I wanted to do like seventy nine and hope
that Mike would go with like a low eighty and I felt I would have
felt really good about that. I'll go with you know, I'll go with
the seventy nine. What the hell, I'll have some faith. I kind
of wish I had the hire of it, to be honest. Now,
I don't know all right. Game No. Two Tales of Kanzaru Zao.
Jeff, I'm ken Zara, Yeah, kin serah Zoo. This is another
tough one. I've heard really good things about that about this game. But
do I I'm kind of Mike. Do I believe jan Can we ever believe?
Really? I'm gonna go with in eighty two? Okay? I do
believe Dannato. I will go with an incredibly brave and different eighty three so
like, like I mentioned when we talked about that, I did play a
demo and seem's promising. I have high hopes, but I think you guys
might be in the ballpark there. Game number three is Sandland. Oh gosh,
gosh, what is all these games of Creators? Super sleepass Away?
Ah hmm, gosh. I wish I played this demo. Now. Nobody
seemed blown away by that demo, at least from what I was kind of
hearing. Everyone think likes somebody. This game looks like the concept. I
don't know how super in love with the overall thing everyone's going to be.
I want to say, I'll do it Cowards eighty okay, nice and round
seventy nine, so you know, just a little bit lower. Okay,
Yeah, I have to anywhere. Based on playing a demo, I think
it's gonna be low all right. Game number four everybody's favorite Stellar Blade exactly.
I'm glad Jeff's going for well fuck me, no, no, that's
I mean that I think is what you're supposed to do when you play in
this game. Apparently, I feel like anything I go with I'm not gonna
feel great about because it's like, aw, I'm gonna go with an eighty
Okay, it's yeah, it's so hard, just because I'm tired of the
difference only being one point. I'll say in eighty two, Hope does that
it's been eighty one? All right? Right? You number five? Home
World three, Mike, okay, man, people really like Homeworlds. But
it's been a while. It's been a while. Is it gonna have a
Boter's Gate three kind of comeback? Right? Don't know. I don't think
it's like getting in the nineties. It could be in the seventies. It's
probably in the eighties. I'll say in eighty four. Okay, I think
that this game is gonna have a strong self selection bias among the reviewers.
And I know it's an RTS, by the excuse me, sorry, I
know it's an RTS. That wasn't an exact embarrassing to Boters Kate three.
Give me a break, go ahead, Jeff, he just made an old
game franchise that was coming back. I'm shot. I'm gonna go with an
eighty eight. I think this game is gonna do very well with reviewers.
Okay, okay, I mean it's ways one of those cases where you think
is gonna review this game, right, so I'm saying you got self selection
bias? Yeah, all right, game number six, thirty fps. What
do you think it's the newest saga tobate too? Oh boy, send you
new am I yes, send you. Yes, this is tough. Oh,
capacitor just meant that artist's don't review. Well, capacitor, I'm sorry
for yelly gets you. I'm gonna go with in eighty seven. Okay,
how the first game? Do I think the first game is in the high
school. It's sold, I mean reviewed well. Critics like these games,
right, man, look it up now you guess now you can look man
and a World War Starfield got pretty good reviews at first. Anyways, I
think it God in eighty eight, really, I know it's like could be
an eighty eight for me, all right, Jeffy said, in eighty seven,
God, that's hard. God, I wish I had eighty seven.
That sounds great, right, It's like the right in that zone where I
think that sounds such a good one. Thank you A great gues thought.
So that's why I said it. I wish I could have that. I'll
go eighty eight. I'll go idiot, you can think, is this the
game where you can select the same one. I'm not doing it. It's
only closely to the closest to the messy pit. Actually, I don't think
we can here, that's right. Yeah, do we know what send you
a sacrifice? Has I do? I'm not telling this guy, what are
you talking? Eighty eight? One of them, you said that's how we
did. I didn't listen listening to them. I was only listening to part
when he said my score was very good, eighty four. I got an
eighty four and open as Okay, okay, this game is going to review
better than the first one. Yeah, thirty FS strikes again. Pay for
Mario a thousand year door, Mikey ninety two. It's game freaking rules.
This remake looks good. This game is gonna review well, this game is
going to blow people away of how good it still is. H uh yeah,
yeah, don't even care about the frame rate anymore. I've gotten over
it for this one. Let's go thousand your door. God. Yeah,
this is another one that's gonna have that self selection biased too, because the
people that like this game know they like it. I'll go with ninety go
with ninety go too, well, fair enough game number eight shouldn't MAGAMMI tan
say five vengeance? So the expanded slash Golden Royal, what have you?
No one cares, all right, listen, I don't know what it is.
So I was feeling frightened, so I have to be mean. I
from this goal. I do like logo like the I like how like the
Roman numeral V has like this drop shadow that that is an actual V for
vengeance. That's cute. It's graphic design. Based on that alone, It'll
get eighty two. The cowards number interesting, Okay, eighty five The SMT
freaks are real. Yeah, I wish, I wish I would have known
what the original Shiman got my ten seconds fucking eighty five? Of course,
God damn. I heard that they're adding hard in vengtions. So it's gonna
really all right. The next one's a little bit interesting. Game Number nine
is Elden Rings, Shadow of the Urd Tree. The expansion. Michael,
Uh, it'll be high. It's gonna be high. How high it is
just expansion. People are gonna freak out. I think ninety five. I
think people are gonna lose their minds. Oh, okay, that's the right
number, because like, how can it like it couldna be the same.
It is halfway between nine. It's gonna be more the same. They're gonna
do like one or two things that do surprise people. That's gonna make them
like freak out. I feel like I have to go ninety six. But
should I just go ninety four to be which one's safer? I honestly don't
know which one is safer? Some hard question? Maybe should go? Maybe
should play at really seven? Say eighty, Yeah, that's it, that's
what I should do. I'm gonna go with you don't win anything. I'm
gonna go ninety six. Interesting, I would say the safer A raw would
in ninety four. Oh, I think it's I think it's ninety four safer
as well, but I am I'm glad, I appreciate. And then we
have game number ten. Last one here Luigi's Mansion two h D Jeff,
I mean this one's between the ninety five and ninety six as well, right,
all right? Plus I think that they will make some improvements enough to
get this game up to a big fat, juicy eight zero. Oh okay,
man, I would have won to say seventies, but even that Mario
versus Donkey Kongrey Make got a seventy seven, which seemed surprisingly high at me,
so it could still be like a seventy nine. I think an eighty
one will be safer. Eighty one. All right, got it, Well,
we have everyone's predictions in here. Let me reformat this really quickly,
and if I have everything lined up, you should be able to see it
on screen now and nothing in the sixties is time. Yeah, yes,
what happened might actually be a decent quarter in gaming. I'll just run through
this very quickly for the audio listeners who might not be able to see this.
The predictions go as follows. Eiding Chronicle one hundred Heroes Jeff says seventy
nine, Mike says seventy seven. Tales of Canzar Zoo Jeff says eighty two
and Mike says eight three. Sandland just as seventy nine. Mike says eighty
Stellar Blade Jeff says eighty Mike says eighty two. Home World three, Jeff
says eighty eight, Mike says eighty four. Sanua Saga Hell Blade two,
Jeff says eighty one. Mike says eighty eight. The Paper Mario thousand Year
Door remake Jeff says ninety, Mike says ninety two. Shimagami Tense five Vengeance
Jeff says eighty two, Mike says eighty five. Elden Ring Shadow, the
Ur Tree two high scores with Jeff saying ninety six and Mike saying ninety five.
And lastly Luigi's Mansion two HD. Jeff is going with eighty, Mike's
going slightly over at eighty one. Always have fun with this, Always have
fun with this. Yeah, it's a fun game. I I'm excited about
it, looking forward to see what happens man Darknight, and we will we
will have a ThReD up in the discord for anyone who is a supporter and
wants to participate in the game. So uhet find the podcast producers channel.
We'll we'll get you everything you need from there. All right, do we
have another game or should you going to Game of the Year for twenty nineteen,
going in the goody this year or right this episode? You know what,
Let's take a quick break while I just get set up on the document
and then we'll be right back after that. That this and that. Wow,
Mike Manati, tell me what the best game of twenty nineteen. Wise,
you dumb bitch, it's fall Fancy fourteen shadow Bringers. Yeah, it's
an expansion, don't give a shit. It's the best expansion ever, so
freaking good. This was part of reason why this game had its massive blow
up in like the middle of its third expansion. Part of it was because
the serendipitously world warchive was in a real rough spot and then everyone's like,
hey, you know what's real good right now? Fall facey fourteen. Because
this shadow Bringer expansion has the best narrative of any MMO ever, one of
the best Nator's ever, incredible characters, an awesome world explore, one the
all time great soundtracks from Soakin, who just does nothing but great soundtracks.
This is probably his best one. Two great new classes with the Dancer and
the gunplay. Gosh god, shadow Bringers rules. It's a I can't imagine
anything ever being a better MMO expansion. Is this the time when everyone was
doing the meme about it's free to level sixty it's got a free trial?
Yeah? Yeah, the whole everything about shopping is popping off, and like
the game first thing, expit just came out like all people playing it were
stunned by how good it was. But then like throughout time, every like
so many people uh went over. In fact, you'll should like shared a
slide at the packs panel. I think you should it before, like showing
like new players and the jump from the previous expitch it to this one.
There are just so many people who flocked over to it. Hey, we
also had that near Automata ray during all of this too, that was fun.
I'm like looking at the games came out this year and it's gonna get
This is gonna get in the time where it's gonna be really annoying because everyone
who's listening it was definitely playing games at this point. They're gonna have their
own opinions and I don't need that. I don't we don't need your opinions.
Is this about uh? Why is this about not liking uh Secros that
much? That's I have that problem a little bit. Well, I love
Secaro. It's probably gonna make the list my surprise prize, but it's you
know, it's about wilds. I think I'm gonna I'll put Outer Wilds on
here, and I know the people that know, If you know, you
know, and then there's gonna be a lot of people like, well is
that's on there? I've never played that, so it's not a good game,
and I just don't want to deal with that. But Outer Wild's fucking
rules. It is one of those games that gives you just enough to like
to figure out some problems and you come back to the game and then you
have to figure it out on your own. It has an incredible physics system
of this this actual clockwork moving solar system. Each planet is so unique.
The first time that I went to the messed up weather system planet where you
just like you crash land on the planet and there's this giant, massive,
like one hundred meter tall tornadoes that are in the ocean and if it goes
over you when you've like landed in the ocean, it'll suck you up and
throw you back into space. And that shit owns so hard. And then
you get to a point where you've played through this loop over and over again.
It's a time game. You play through the loops so many times that
you kind of become a master of this clockwork universe and you understand exactly what
you need to do to accomplish this goal in the right amount of time.
It's it's a good successor to Majority's Mask, it's a good successor to a
lot of like early space expliration games, and it's and honestly, it was
like a good spiritual successor at the time to what I felt about Breath of
the Wild, where it's like, here's a game that lets you just mess
around with the world and figure things out on your own, and it works
the way you expected to work, and it just it's such a good game.
Yeah, Outer Wilds. Of all the games I haven't played, I
think this is when I feel almost the worst about. It's it's very high
out there. It's definitely, I tell you what, I believe, it's
a really good summer game. It's gonna be It's a really good just kick
back having a summer beer feeling the like summer camp vibes of the game,
which it definitely has, where it's like you're going and you're meeting aliens by
campfires and they're always in like woodsy areas on these moons. It's so it's
so cool. Resident Evil too. The remake came out in twenty nineteen.
I actually finally played through all of this just last October. Gosh, it
is incredible. You know. It's it's one of those remings where you took
the classic and it is just this very very like high fidelity glow up in
a way that buzz does feel new. So like the original is still the
original. This doesn't replace it, you know. So it has like modern
conveniences, right, it is like third person now there's no tank controls.
It's kind of you know, it's a bit easier to navigate. But they're
very smart about like what things they should keep, like the limited limited inventory,
like the fun way you have like these two characters, and like even
playing them in different orders can change things in the animal scarcity even just like
the old school kind of puzzle design from the old Resident Evil games that Rakin
City Police Departments. Just an all time great locale and a video game and
it looks so freaking cool here, just one of the all time great remakes.
This is like, you know, I think we talked before about how
Resident Evil seven was kind of the start of the CapCo renaissance, and this
right here was like a big like oh yeah, they are just having a
moment right now and we're still in the midst of it. Yeah. I
love resiuable two as well. I think it's it's the game that matches up
scary and fun I think the best for me. I think I still find
it pretty frightening when I was playing it, and I also find it so
appealing and everything you're doing. You're right about the puzzles, like they kept
so much of the charm of what a residuaval game should be while also making
it feel like one of the most modern video games ever released. So they
just they just nailed everything with that game. It's very good. Yep,
exactly. Yeah. I think there's one I probably would put it here put
on your would be Secoro Shadows Die Twice. This is the from game that
I really got into first. It is the challenge was the appeal at first.
Am I going to see if I can overcome this? And then when
you start to get into the flow of the combat, and and you're fighting
against awesome bosses that basically have all the same skill set that you do,
and I really like that in a game. I like a boss that's just
like, no, I obey the same rules that you do. In fact,
I'm going to use some of the moves that you use because I was
previously your sinse or whatever, and now I'm going to use that stuff against
you. And getting like being able to go ahead ahead with a character like
that is very cool, and then learning their patterns and kind of like a
punch out boss fight and having them like, you know, stab you and
doing the awesome perry where you step on their weapon and then you can just
get in their ass and fuck them up. It is one of the coolest
feeling games. And then it has great moments like the guy on the kite
flying down and shocking you out of nowhere. There's so much cool stuff like
that. Secro Is is still a standout for me, and it's one that
I've been thinking about going back to more and more because it's it is that
like that first love that I had with from Soft. Yeah, I don't
really know why, Like I wasn't super drawn into it. I think I
just do need to go back and give that one another show. And it's
the point one where it's like eventually you will line up with it. Yeah,
we believes. So we just mentioned three came out. It's FY ninety
kind of kind of a banner game for the game Bess for some reason,
A flag what a glow up right, Yes, Like this was always like
a pretty good series, and then we just mentioned three was awesome. Setting
it in the hotel was really smart because you have like this one building,
but these different floors. Each floor kind of feels like a level. Incredible
boss designs during this one. Just fun walking around, so many things to
get Guigi. We got Guigi Love Luigimated three one of the best Switch games.
Yeah, it's it's a combination of incredible animation, so like just technologically
it's one of the most impressive Switch games. Honestly, one of the most
impressive games of the generation. It shows what you can do. The animation
is so good when you focus on animation over all this other fidelity stuff.
It is like a living game in a lot of ways. And then it's
like, got really fun mechanics. There's a part where you get kind of
like a buzzsaal chainsaw thing and you just you're cutting apart everything in a room
and everything bursts apart into It's such a satisfying way. And then of course
you get the vacuum. You can vacuum everything up and that feels great.
Yeah, it's just it's again that feels good to play it looks so so
good, and then it's got really good pacing. You're always moving on to
the next interesting thing. So like those three If you check those three boxes,
usually I'm gonna be pretty happy. Let's see. You know, I
think I would actually go with Jedi Fallen Order. I wondered if you'd bring
that one up. Yeah. I like Star Wars Jedi a ton. Uh.
This is another uh, really good sort of from soft game, but
it's more of the you know, babies first from Soft Game in a lot
of ways, and I completely welcome that for an ip like Star Wars where
that makes sense. And then it's the Metroid venue. It's it's got the
Metroid Prime map in it. I like the backtracking. I like discovering these
worlds. I like connecting the shortcuts and feeling feeling like the master of a
three D environment. And then I really really fell in love with calkestis something
I did not expect to do. A huge part of that was the awesome
like team and the camaraderie around him that like elevated him in a lot of
ways. I thought the will they are won't they romance he has with with
with the love interest, where it's like, and they leave that on an
interesting note. I thought that was really touching. I'm a big fan of
that. But everyone on the crew is so interesting. It has such great
personality. So a game that does story really really well. Uh, and
then it's just an awesome game to play. I think it's got really it's
got decent combat to great combat. And then on top of that, I
really like exploring the worlds. Yeah, yeah, I agree with all of
that. I enjoyed Jedi Fall in Order quite a bit, so don't need
a beat survivor definitely need to do that's the same. Yep. Oh,
this one might be more of a me thing, but I really like River
City Girls. This is a way forward beat him up. It might be
my favorite beat him up. It has just fantastic filling mechanics, fun juggling,
just just also, let's just like ton of fun character work. It's
a very pretty looking Sprik game. It's got good music. It's a fantastic
couch co op game because you can you know, you can play the Spirts.
But if yeah, if you want to be like that person like,
hey we're gonna spend five hours, We're gonna play through this whole thing.
It is so good for that. Yeah, I don't know, this one's
special to me. I still need to play the second one because that game
launched launched in a rough state, so I just like, I guess I'm
gonna wait, and I waited long enough. I hope it's working all right
now. And the rough state thirty frames per second. And that was a
game that they like apologized publicly for that, like that that was like a
mistake, yes something, Oh well, that was weird. Oh god,
there's a there's a bunch I could choose from. I think I'm gonna let
the the podcast producers maybe say some of those. So I'm gonna go with
Fire Emblem three Houses. That would have been my next one too. It
is really really good tactics, it's it's it's a strong Fire Emblem game really
though. It rides on the cast of characters and the really incredible storytelling that
goes along with like you choosing your house and sticking with these characters and feeling
ownership over them. I did the Blue Lion Lions, which I think was
by far the least popular of the three houses, and like there's something like
defiant in me about that where I'm like, yeah, of course I did.
And in the Pycloss team, yeah you met you exactly. You missed
out, like there's there's so many interesting twist and turns, and then you
find out all the houses have awesome twist and turns. Uh. And it
made me want to go back and play some of the other houses. I
never did because again, I felt such an ownership over Blue Lions. Part
of me is like, oh, that be a betrayal at this point,
but that's how this game can make you feel. So yeah, I'm a
huge fan of Three Houses. What do you like about it? Uh?
I mean, I'd love the actual three houses. And I'm not usually a
person who replays these games, but I did do a choice because I did
God the the Empire people, I forget their house name first. Then I
went back and didn't Golden Deer. And it's funny because like, it's the
same in a lot of ways, but it really did feel very different,
just because so much of what makes Firebom fire Firebom is that cast of characters.
I think it also did the best job of the Firemer games in terms
of like trying to add that kind of persona level social stuff in there and
it felt really interesting. I'm glad they got away from just trying to be
Awakening again as much as I love that, right having the school as the
backdrop and making it classes and stuff like that, good system. You run
around the school and there's all these other things to do. That was a
lot of fun. Yeah, definitely one of my favorite fire album. Still
the best Fire Moll game on the Switch. Okay, do you have anything
else you want to mention or should I go with the podcast producer? Well,
I don't want to match Kingdom of Arts three, which I still think
is a good game. I'm not gonna try to get it on this list,
but I like it the parts three. Yeah, I had one that
was like that where I'm not going to try to get it on the list.
Oh, super Mario Maker two. I love Super Mario Maker two.
It would be in my top five personal top five. The super Mario Maker
got its flowers. I'm not going to try to do that here. It's
unnecessary. It's like what we did, what you do with Final Fantasy fourteen,
you waited till shadow Bringer. We already did that with one. I'm
good with two, not making it give me a second here and I'll get
up the podcast producer persons here. Yeah, what's this year? I guess
that's right. Let's see if somebody community brings it up, then we can.
That's interesting, man, it's been five years to the vapex legend.
So let's see. Let's go here with Jackie Ge who says, A play
a Plaguetail Innocence. Have you ever played the Plaguetail games? Mike, No,
didn't really look like my jam. I gotta be honest. Yeah,
I'm like, I'm a blue sky and gaming kind of guy. Uh And
a game about a plague and rats is usually gonna be the kind of thing
that pushes me away, although I do think it looks cool in a lot
of ways. Uh. Dan Fiasco mentioned is one that I'm glad. I'm
glad it didn't take long to get to this one. Control. I like
Control a lot. I didn't beat it, but I enjoyed almost all the
time that I was playing it. It felt to me the entire time like
just a really good, solid eight out of ten. That's where I am
with Control, Like just so many good ideas. I think about the objects
of power all the time. I think that some of the powers you get
where she's like jumping up and through the air and stuff. It's really cool.
Eight out of ten for me. That's where I'm at with that game.
I don't know how about you. I think I'm somewhere. I do
want to go back because I did. I bet, I bet I'm gonna
like it more of the second time. Yeah, I really do, especially
after playing on Wait Too, I really want to go back to control h
Nick Carbo says Resident Evil too, which absolutely agree with that. All right,
explain this pictures has the picture and they're choosing Outer Wilds, and it's
a picture of the Tallos principle in one door and blood leading out of it.
Then the witness with the door open, blood leading out of it.
Then return to the over den with the door open and blood leading out of
it. And then Mike Manatius the grimy burn knocking on the door of the
outer Wilds, which I also have this fear everybody is. I'll say,
right now, I'll let you have the otherwise you that one games actually to
be fair Towers principal. I have no I have nothing on that. Did
you play the twist principle? Not like it? No, I did it,
but I'll still take responsibility for murdering it. Witness. In Return of
the Up Dinner Classics uh Ali America, Servesa Christo says shadow Bringers one brings
shadow one bring tumbling through time that we walk is luck. Did you mute
him? I did? Angels? Oh he's still going. Did you mute
him? Sean, I don't have the boy Oh Sean, Wow. Yeah,
because I'm gonna be very pissed at what he has to say about the
next game. I believe that based on that and what I'm looking at,
this must be Devil May Cry five. That's where Dante does a Michael Jackson
inspired dance when he gets a weaponized fedora. Wow, gave a seven random.
That's a that's a good game. It's seven ten. You're saying that
devilem crist the COVID of that meme where the woman has like lettuce on her
head and like, oh look at her, she's so random. Uh so
look, and I was beat. I did say this during the Tech and
eight finale. I felt a little bit of the same about that. There's
something about that is a little bit No, I'm sorry, I like it.
I like it. It's a little duh. I'm sorry it's a little
and I quote this game will never become an action game classic. Meanwhile,
one of the only scores on Meta correct below in ninety I stand, we'll
see what people think of ten years. We'll see. I think you're probably
gonna be wrong in ten years, based on what I know about the Devilment
cry fans. Jamie h twelve twenty four says astral Chain this is the switch
game I haven't played that I am the most curious to spend time with.
I was liking it, but again, it was pretty talky for a game
that should not have been focusing on story because it didn't have much to say
or entertaining there. The combat was fun, though. Man, this character
looks like Chia in this screenshot. By the way, I don't know Chia
was an astral Chain. Maybe I will go back to it. There you
go. Oh man, The Rebirth Wolf says Tetris ninety nine was last year.
Man, we gave Tetris effects of love. I think just last year.
Yeah much. I love Tetris ninety nine. I think Tetris effect is
still the Tetris for me. I yeah, probably Touch ninety nine is great
though. Two times champ. Beef Hammer says Kingdom Hearts three. There's the
Xana Flair moment, the most powerful wizard in the history of all mankind.
Yeah, I think some probas A character might have passed them up. I
forget, but in my heart that this kills Donald spoilers so powerful that Donald
fucking dies after they're using it, and he kills a person, he kills
one of the many Zea norths, but then everyone else fucking dies. So
there's time travel shenanigans. Let's see here. Doctor Ryan says Control Yes,
absolutely randomly, rossy It says Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, always be clothing
Slash Corgy says Mortal Kombat eleven, which DLC characters. I think of many
of them. Incredible stuff they had it. Yeah, that's the actual actor
that played Yeah pretty that. Yeah, you got Robo cop and and Rambo
Terminator. Just a lot of fun stuff there, I know, especially amongst
the fighting and community. I agree like the gameplay isn't the best of all
the new Mortal Kombat games, but it's a very good looking game. Might
still be the best looking in the Mortal kombats. Adam Juice says fire Fire
Emblem three Houses Choco Bop says The Outer World another game where I'm like,
that's like an eight out of ten, sometimes a seven out of ten for
me. A game that is has a lot of good stuff going for it,
it just never got over the hump to be like, oh, this
is a classic game for me. I know exactly what you mean. Like
and I enjoyed basically being able to play another Fallout style game from Obsidian.
It's a lot and it feels exactly like that if that's what you're looking for,
But there's nothing about that like really stuck with me in the way a
fault like a fall at seventy six did. Yeah, I think it just
doesn't quite sing. It like does a lot of stuff right, it just
doesn't quite sing. Grub a gohoole. Pretty good, says Cadence of High
Rule, which is a very tell you what great soundtrack, just an unassailable
soundtrack, so good. I listen to that all the time. Still,
the game itself is the one where I'm like, I like it, I
just don't love it. Sure, I'm glad it exists and it was a
fun play through exactly Villain Max I say, I would say fall at seventy
six when I meet Fault New Vegas. Damn, thank you, Benji Bub
I'm always doing that villain Mack says, fire Emblem three Houses, Lenny Cool,
Dick denversityd Doro thea with that hat? What is it with me and
hats? Because I remember in the time Skips she doesn't have the hat anymore,
and I was kind of like Andy in Toy Story too it I don't
want to play with you because it's because he's bald, right, yeah,
maybe with the no I've always liked hats. I don't know. Doesn't she
look good in her hat? Sheok's very cute? Yes, absolutely, Lenny
Cool Dick Dever says, Baba is You, which I was hoping I'm gonna
bring up. It's really good. It is so Mike, you know how,
like the Witness just fit with me. And I was like, oh,
this is my puzzle game, and I come like, I'm doing all
these puzzles on my own. No help. I didn't. I don't want
help. I'm gonna solve these for everybody else. Baba's You is the one
that made me feel very stupid a lot of times. It's so it's like
a game where you kind of like code the rules of the game by moving
around the blocks in the world. So like when you say Baba is you,
that means you, you the player, are playing as Baba, but
you can put something else. But as Baba, go move something there in
front of the is like rock is you, and now your playing is the
rock and you can move the rock. It's figuring out what we need to
do. It is awesome. It is It's really fun and it's worth playing.
Uh, it made me feel stupid after a while. I think it's
one where I need to go back to it and give another shot. I
have like nothing against it, Like that's not even fair. I love it
just made me feel stupid. Let me ask you something right now. Just
popped in my head and I think we kind of taos before. This is
five years ago. Now, all of these games, Yeah, you know
what five years used to mean in terms of the difference of what the game
me wrong. Games feel like they came out, yes you bees, Oh
yeah, yes exactly. And I don't know, I don't want to make
this a bigger discussion, but you know there's all this talk about it.
Okay, the most the most played games like games from ten years ago.
That was just something that couldn't happen during like the nineties because everything changed so
much. Of course people were playing the new thing, so yep, yeah,
but where we're at. But then, you know, at a certain
point, it's like you get you get Grand Theft Auto five, you get
a handful like you get Red Dead Redemption, and you get Last of Us.
Games aren't gonna look much better than that, And then you get all
these games, it's like, yeah, they could just you can play this
forever, and like Call of Duty's the same every year in a lot of
ways. Eventually that just kind of happens across the board. Yeah, here
we are. It's not too surprising. And if like Secoro were to come
out today unchanged, people wouldn't blink an eye. It would still be considered
for a Game of the year. Uh. And that was Corley poos pick.
By the way, is Secoro? Uh input name here? Uh?
Is this Final Fantasy? Shadow Bringer? Is that that weirdo you guys like
in the sm and he is probably the best File Fantasy character ever? Yeah?
Yeah, it's got in puts God saying Mikey, remember that we once
lived. Oh God, oh oh the final fight. Oh, it's so
god god like does this game basically has like a portals from Avengers endgame moment?
Uh? And it's just so good. It's so hype. It's so
hype. There I say it. It's hype. It's fucking hype. That's
that's so hot. Mike, Uh, Doominal Crossing says Luigi's Mansion three and
Star Wars, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order Fairy Games. I'm a huge fan
of Layers, says fire on Bloom three houses. Mister Bowler says Control.
Uh, take him behind the sauna with an axe. I was so happy
I played Control just so I could like recognize the janitor when he showed up,
yes, and like hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes,
yes God he rules screaming mad? Is this Ace Combat seven Skies Unknown a
very good video games? It's very good. Uh, one of the first
games I played on my Travis kelce in there strange real who is it the
UN's name? Oh? I see Travis Kelcey and Patrick Mahomes. Okay,
yeah, fair enough because they're because they would have been on the mat and
cover that year, I'm sure. Yeah. Is Combat seven is great?
My favorite part about is Combat seven, other than it being a really fun
game, is there's a scene where a dog is sitting next to the president
and it's just a jpeg of a dog. It's what a good game?
Uh. Flobotron says, I was waiting for someone to bring this one up
as well. Disco Elysium a game I played for several hours and really enjoyed,
but kind of got I fell off before I really got into it.
I feel like, so I feel uh wrong put it trying to put it
on the list personally, Yeah, this is not one like Odwild's. I
have not played it. Feel very bad about that. I should definitely do
it at some point here. I'm curious how you feel love this game.
People who like this game love this game. It's like, like, because
it's kind of like grimy, I'm like wondering how. I wonder if like
you're gonna drive with it? Yeah, I mean I can't get with that.
Sometimes it depends. I don't know why Cyberpunk's specific griminess really threw me
off so much. This is more interesting than that. At least it seems
more interesting. Yeah, this guy is this guy doing a running around,
jumping and giving a double bird as he's falling out straight. Okay, cool,
I think he's about to run into a lady in a wheelchair. So
like like Sean Sega chats and arbity all time. But it's like it's almost
all dialogue trees right kind of a game. It's like there's combat, it's
dice rolls. Yeah, so yeah, and you'll see the dice rolls on
screen and stuff in the bottom corner. Uh and uh yeah. A lot
of it is the dialogue. But the dialogue is almost like the combat basically
is how it is. How I would describe it, man, I just
know. So we have like half these go from where at a level.
Let's go Terry Ockey Blue says, Slight the Spire. I've never played it.
I will try to correct. Yeah, it's another one, sorry,
says what the golf. I like, what the golf. It's one I'm
not thought about much after playing it though. Cass Buckeroo says. This is
fire Up, Yeah, Fireland, three houses. Tommy Pencil says, disco
Elysium. This is one of the best early things, honestly, Mike.
Get to this point where the main character talks to the kid with the potty
mouth, if you like it at that point, you're gonna like the game,
I think. Doctor Lynch says The Division two. I do like the
Division too. Actually, I thought of a lot of the looter shooters that
weren't Destiny anyways. I thought the Vision two was a lot of fun.
It's the game I wish I actually played more of. I always had a
good time when I was in that one. Like, look at the screen.
OOO, you want to play the hit game Outer Wilds by Mobius Digital.
I agree, I do, Man, I really do now for some
reason. So for some reason, I'm selling very hungry for Outer Wild's by
Mobius Digital Games. Weird Weisman says untitled Goose game. I wondered if someone
to bring this up as well the Dice Game Awards Game of the Year.
That's a little bit of derision there, Jeff, not really. I'm glad
that game developers like a game like this. To me, that's fun,
but it wasn't my game of the Year. It's a fun game to play
around kids. I had a really good time doing that. Uh oh Man.
Beautiful Zoom says the Legend of Zelda Links Awakening a game that I feel
better about every single day. Honestly, Yeah, it was fun. It
was it's I liked. I liked the rs a lot and links linking.
It's just a very good video game. Yep. Zoomer says Obsidian's best.
The Outer worlds Let's see the razzle, Jasel says the tourist. I think
I played this for a little bit. I didn't really get it, and
then I think I know this stopped playing it. This is the one that
runs eight K on your consoles. I remember that that's a lot of Yeah.
Uh days in Man says Daisy Man two says Outer wilds oh, Matt
in the Rare West is ape Out that this is such a good pick up
and play game. If you want a good game, like to shut your
brain off everybody and just play on you like your Steam deck, ape Out
would roll. You just got to make sure you play it with the speakers
turned up. Then seven says fire in one three houses, A lot of
fire in one three houses. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. Uh.
Spliff Blazinski says, I believe this is control. Yes. Super Harmon
says that the Outer wa Yeah, the Outer wilds uh Antoe says top tier
adventure game. Get on it, Mike Tangle Towered rules, No, want
to check it out. It's cool. I forget to remind me later.
You'd be like the Captain Toad guy, remind me every week at I think
I'm at this point. I think there's multiple Captain Captain Toad guys. Oh
yeah, Breadfish says Baba is you? Warden Cliff says Judgment a game I
just never really think about. But this is from the Yakuza team. Yeah,
yes, it's basically but with a lawyer, which does sound appealing to
me, I have to admit. Yeah. Mex says Shadow Bringers. Hell
yeah, mid Mitsugi says Metro Exodus. I never played a single Metro game.
Somehow, Metros this is probably the one to play. It's a pretty
good game. Uh bar Spackle says The Outer Worlds. Isaac fucked up that
we had two games come out that year. One was Outer Worlds and Outer
Wilds. It confused me for years. Only now am I pretty good about
it? Yeah? I might. It takes a second for me still,
but yes, it trips me up to this day. Isaac Clark says Pokemon
Sword and Pokemon Shield, which is disqualified because that's two games. So I
was curious if we were going to finally get through a year where new Pokemon
generation came out and nobody would nominate it. But uh, Swords Shields still
stuck in there. We know. What I like about this game is that
I guess the names that was my favorite Partar's right, you did do that?
Yes, that was a that was a good job. Uh, Crouching
Boomer, Hidden Zoomer says blood Stained Ritual of the Night game. I really
do like it's a It's a lot of fun. I a grew with your
criticism like it got too Talking Crisis says Outer Wilds. Leah the Hottest Mess
says Control. God, what a good looking game. I do like the
the what do you call that kind of the brutalism, Yeah, the brutalism's
design of control. I think it's very fetching. Yes, Jeremy Biff says
fire Emblem three houses. Adam Juice says fire Emblem three houses, and they're
all with different gifts of tea time from three houses. That is the most
popular pick amongst people. Yes, t money Og says Shadow Bringers, which
yeah, I think is the second most popular pick. Wong Gift says Control,
which is right there as well. And Ai the Somnium Files, which
I know has its fans Hammet of Texasys Mordowe, which is I think it
is one of those like like Chivalry, Yes, chivalry exactly. I thought,
yeah, yeah, I think it was like the follow up to Chivroy
for a lot of people. Quink says Ace Combat seven. I want to
play that again. That's a good picture of he's coming in to play.
Some's got back. I think I just want this as a poster. Big
Tony, the Final Fantasy Guy says fire Emblem three houses a little bit of
a curveball there. Vision forty nine says the Outer wilds epic couple of World.
Ben says the Outer worlds uh, he says shadow Bringers. Willow Davis
goes with, oh yeah, I was wonder if anyone would say stranding.
Okay, one weird too, man, took a long time for anybody to
bring up deaf stranding. Yeah, I'm much I need to go. I'm
gonna make I'm gonna make sure that's this year, man, I don't.
I'm pretty I'm pretty sure it is. Yeah, yeah, wow, okay,
interesting, man, that's twenty nineteen. It's like four years or five
years ago. Jesus Luigi's Mansion three bench. JC says this has got to
be shadow Bringers. Oh yeah this' it's the end of the opening cinematic.
Oh yeah, big sword. Oh remind me we talked about opening cinematics someday.
Shadow Vers is a very good one. Adam Juice says, a fire
is this firebook three houses? Yeah, it says, yes, yes,
Why just because you just because you have your teeth a devil Knight, you
think there's something weird about that. You're right, that's my bias and I
admit it. Christian says this game still rules remnant from the Ashes again.
Yeah, I know a lot of people really got on ribbn It two,
but people forget rymn Itt one was popping off. People were super into that
game when it came out. Uh and then Turbo Sean says Devil May Cry
five. It's very funny. You have to deal with Mike, the guy
that gave it seven poun Sorry, look, I'm sorry. I was like
I remember that type of you, Like, is it just me that the
like, No, it's just me. I'm abusing with the crowd every once
in a while, I guess I have to have some kind of a hot
take. At least you're aware of it. I'm aware, trust trust me.
It's fine there, It is all right, Okay, I have brought
the list back up. Anything you want to add, Mike, No,
No, I'm not a big sorry. You know, Like basically, what
I learned from this is that I feel really bad about not playing Outer Wilds
and disco Elesium. That's kind of my big, uh takeaway. I knew
I wanted to go back to Disco Elysium. Now I really want to.
Hey, no one said Apex Legends, right, Yeah, no one did
bring that up. I mean it's always we're with these games that are just
kind of still around that think of them as a twenty nineteen game. Yeah.
Also, it's the kind of game where like maybe you did play it
a lot that year, but then you're kind of just done with it,
right at a certain point, you get done with these games and you put
it very hard in the rear view mirror. It's a good it was a
good game, and it was one of the if we're doing like Mott rushmore
of shadow Drops, it would definitely be on that huh uh yes, oh
yeah, without a doubt. I mean, god, that might be the
top one, okay, yeah, and then anything else probably Anthem this year,
oh god, oh wasn't really Jesus. Gears five was as well,
and no one said that either. Yeah. See that's what That's what I
was kind of like a lune that with Gear six. I mean, like,
you's people like Gears five, but boy, I don't people and they
don't have a lot of stickiness. They really liked the DLC. Actually,
it's what happened that DLC came out. People really like that, all right,
So I think that then I think we will go with Final Fantasy fourteen,
Shadow Bringers, Outer Wilds, residentavial To Secoro, Shadows died twice,
Luigi's Mansion, Three Star Wars, Jedi Phone Order, and River City Girls.
That means we have to get rid of two of them, right,
yeah too, So okay, I uh. The one I do feel strongest
strongest about is Outer Wilds. That was of the year that year, and
I obviously feel I alsusly feel strongest about shadow Bringers, and the way that
Shadow well feel like Shadow Bringers was popped up so frequently. I'm oh,
you know what we should cons fire and three Houses. Yes, that's that's
what that should be considered. We think they were the three Yep. As
much as I like Jedi Phone Order, I don't think it quite hangs.
Yeah, I I like it on the list, but I I'm fine with
it. I'm not. That's not what I'm gonna fight for. So I
mostly agree then. And as much as I love River City Girls, I
seem to be kind of like, you know, as much I like championing
this kind of smaller game, It's fine. We don't have to put it
on a top five. Yeah. That leaves us with Resuval two secro Shadows
died twice. We just mentioned three and fireroomm three houses, and we have
three spots left for those four games. Okay, I know that Sekra is
the one we're going to get yelled at the most are keeping off it,
but I kind of want to keep it off. Yeah. I really like
Secrow. I love it, and it's them doing their thing, and I
get like they switch it up in some fun ways. Absolutely. Yeah,
I mean it's it's it's a different game than there they're you know, dark
Souls games. But when I look at Resuval two, Legia Mentioned three,
and fire Mim three Houses. I really do love all those games as well,
and so and I think, you know, if it's our list,
and it's both you and me, and we both love those three games,
and you love all those three games more than Secro, I think we can
probably leave off Secro. And I'm going to blame you and Tam yell,
yeah, go for it. Yeah, he damns my best friend. No,
understand, that's exactly what I thought. So there we go. All
right, So then we move up these three games, and now it's just
a matter of organizing the order. Yeah, I think I would put three
Houses maybe last. I don't know if that sounds right to you. That's
where we have it, yeah, I think. So it's a game that
I really like. I wish the tactics were a little bit more dynamic for
me. Yeah, it was a little muddy looking. Oh so that was
one thing that I did like and engage was how it was brighter. It's
more colorful. Also, the characters had too many feet. They got to
go back to Awakening have fewer feet. Yeah, yeah, exactly, just
stubs, just stubs. So that means, as it stands, right now,
Shadow Bringers at number one, which again I saw him down with two
for out a while at one. Yeah, yeah, let's go. Yeah,
I mean the way that, Yeah, I recognize a game that people
feel like so so strongly about, and if Final Fantasy fourteen has not had
its moment yet, right, I don't think we put it on any of
this list. I mean that fac Shot Brings is the reason why I fanm
Facy fourteen is going to be healthy for like at least the next decade because
that one expansion was so good. Right, So yes, I'm mine fine
with that at number one, uh, as long as Outer World Wilds is
number two. And then from there, I guess we're talking about resumeable two
at three or at four with Luigi's mentioned three swapping with it. Oh man,
I could go either way. I tell you what, buddy, have
me in such a good mood, you like you could figure that one out.
But you know what, let's put Luis Mansure three up at number three
as as anserve in the game, mess Cannon, let's go, let's go
for it. There we go. I like that is this peaceful ship like
coming to I mean god, I just I know how you freaks feel about
Shadow Shadow Ringers, I wish I felt that way about it. I feel
that way about a game. I had like an ass under my sleeve to
say about Shallow Bringers for you to put in number one, and it is
that in the sorry did me to deny you? It's okay. In the
Spanish Ship they added bunny People to it. Yeah, that's right, the
Bunny People expansion, they get the bunny cap. Well that's important to me
too because that that that just creates great art on on website and the roth
guar but whatever, oh oh yeah, the plenty of people. Oh it's
funny because like based technically to play Shadow Bringers you need to play like one
hundred hours of like an MMO first, and I would. I'm still like,
yeah, it's worth it. Actually, like everything else is good,
awesome, but just Shadow Bringers is insane. All right, I am posting
this online ball Mike, why don't you go ahead and read it one more
time for the people Best Games of twenty nineteen. Number five Fire on Them,
three Houses, number four, Resident Evil two, number three Luigi's Mansion.
Three, Number two is Outer Wilds, and number one is Final Fantasy
fourteen Shadow bringers. Hell yeah, hell yeah, I just got to throw
you under the tambus real quick. All right, there we go, now
you go. You're tanging him immediately a tag. I just said, please,
don't don't let tam see this. Oh it's Mike's fault. Oh god,
okay, I yes, awesome, I'm happy with this list. God.
Outer Wild's rules and that is. There was a company that reached out,
but I hate you want an outdoor television and I said yes, and
but it was like weeks later and they never got back to me. I'm
like, I should just get one and then play Outer Wilds outside with a
phone going this summer. That sounds so pleasant. But I should just take
my steam deck outside and not be a complete jackass about it. All right,
you know what we should do. Let's read these final superchats and then
we'll go ahead and talk about what we've been playing. Mike, why don't
you read those super chats right now? Yeah? Yeah, So the last
one we did was the last one for power Go Over. No No,
I saw that. Yes it is, Burrito says here to defend Alone in
the dark. Very much spooky, not scary like Allen wake one in my
opinion best of joy by appreciating the setting, slash, asthetic and voice acting
more than the story. I give it a seventy five. Hey, at
least everybody seems agree. It's better than the last time they tried to reboot
Alone in the Dark. Right, Yeah. I think one of the things
I heard is like it has like David Harbor, like this relatively big actor,
and they like barely use him. I'm my god, it's a shame.
But I don't know, spooky, not scary, Alone of the Dark
kind of being like this in its wheelhouse. That sounds fine to me.
Mike O'Leary says, Just to clarify, George Miller directed Babe Too, Pig
in the City. He's a mere co writer in the first Babe film?
Is that all right? Yes? I always thought he was, like I
man, okay, interesting for some reason. I always thought he was also
very like much the guy on the first Babe You know, what a writer
is still very important? Am I getting it mixed up with Happy Feet?
Is that my problem? Yeah? He did happy Feet as well? Right,
that's weird that he did happy Feet. Why just discovered that the other
day. That's the guy he's got one of the craziest careers. Yeah,
that's talent, that's raw talent. The idea it absolutely is. Yes,
no, no demining it. Adam Wilson says, congratch, congrats Mitch on
the Twitch partner. I believe control was released to anything. Yeah, we
got to control. And thank you so much, Adam. I appreciate it.
Then there Wolf says, uh, the pretending to be tam here,
grow up? Mike manaughty never Yeah, I got some bad news for you
about that. Yeah, that's not happening. Jeff, what have you been
playing? Classo? Gamera two thousand probably the best thing you played this week,
right, Gamra two thousand is very good? Yes, let's see what
have I've been playing. I was playing more Mario Golf, really enjoying that,
played some more Dragons Dogma two. It really kind of been pretty busy.
It's been hard to like spend a lot of time with games. I've
been playing one thing for review, but the Yellow Taxi Goes Room is the
one that I've been spending the most time with and it's it's interesting. It
is an N sixty four collected on style, a platformer kind of but you
play as this little wind up yellow cab and it can't jump, not really,
So you drive around the space and you kind of have to like find
your way up like through the different roads and ramps, and if you hit
a ramp, you could do a boost and then you will boost into the
air, and so like there are these jumps built into the world. And
then if you get like hit by like one of the bomb characters, you
don't really take any damage. You just kind of you your flash and you
can jump like it explodes you up into the air. And once you're up
in the air, you can hit the gas sort of drive through the sky
a little bit and try to get to these areas, these other areas of
the maps. So what it is is like manipulating these various mechanics to try
to get hard to reach spaces so you can collect all the gears in the
world and collect all the coins, and then you're using the coins to buy
stuff like hats, and it's it's pretty simple and interesting, and really what
this game is thriving on is it's really strong aesthetic. I think the way
the car looks when it's moving and you like you do a turn and it
just throws itself into like a power slide and it looks so neat all that
stuff really works for me, and it's just it's taking me a second to
sort of get my mind to understand the way the game wants me to play.
And now that the more I do that, the more I like it.
It was just very different for me to be like, this feels like
it should be a straight up platform or and sure, I'm a car,
but just give me a button to jump. It's like, well, no,
the challenge is how can you drive around this world and sort of decipher
it way that you can get to these places? And once I sort of
gave myself over to that challenge, it started to click in a really strong
way. But at the very least, I'm like, hey, and in
sixty four collected on in twenty twenty four. I'm glad that we're getting these
from indie developers these days. So, yeah, I know you saw this,
Do you have any interest in playing it? I do, actually actually
did just tell you and get a code myself, so I'm going to tell
you at some point also, Yeah, but yeah, I think it's at
the very least think it's gonna be one that if people have any affinity for
that era of gaming. This is a good one to like check in on
and see if maybe it's your jam. Hey Jeff, super quick sentence,
we're rolling along. What do you think of the techan a story mode?
Tech and eight story Mode was Actually I had a lot of fun with it.
I agree with Mike, it's dumb, but I love dumb and it's
tech in, so I'm expecting dumb. I think all the characters are just
idiots, and I love them all being idiots. It feels very fast and
furious to me is kind of what I want from them. And it was
the kind of kind of game where as I was playing and I was getting
a little bit more challenged by the CPU and I was getting to get some
boss characters, it was fun to like engage with the mechanics a little bit
more deeply and feel like I was improving a little bit. And I like
that. But that's just that's just a cool game that looks cool and at
the very least, I'm like it doesn't take itself seriously, which makes it
a lot easier to have fun with it. I I think it's been kind
of finishing up Persona three reload. I'm in January now, so making a
lot of progress there. I have most of my social links. Not sure
I'm gonna be able to finish all of them. I might like miss one
or two, which is gonna drive me crazy, But that's actually the most
I ever completed in a single play through. That's kind of one of the
fun things here. Like, you know, I've played like a few persona
games, like I'm like like I've kind of really got it down to a
point where it's like I'm mixing out a lot more of these social links than
I ever used to. Like the first time I played for Soona three,
like maybe I mixed out four or five. Now it's most of them,
and I am like, so I'm able to fuse a lot of really powerful
personas right now. So we'll go ahead, Christian. Do you know if
it's easier now to max out the the the social I'm not sure, because
there's maybe because you can buy that computer program that lets you max things out
at night if you don't do anything else, so that probably helps. But
like I'm being smarter about like making sure I have a persona the same arcana
in my inventory before I talk to people, or there was like one tip
I read that I fault. That helps a lot that especially like the first
half of the game, until your social stats are maxed out. Just do
you know, I'll do all your links in the first half of the day
and do your stats in the second half. I think the first time I
was playing through it, I was obsessed with getting my intelligence higher because I
was worried about passing my midterms or something, and I wasted probably a lot
of time just studying in the library very slowly raising those stats. So it's
just a matter of playing these games a lot, and also like knowing,
like hey, I can probably clear whole section of tartarists in just one day
because I know that it's okay to use my soul drops and play it this
way and blah blah blah. But man it is. It has been so
good. I think this is absolutely the best persona experience you can have.
Right now, I get excited to play it every night. Still. Real
quick, someone from uh the Twitter said that they subscribed to the Patreon and
wanted to say, AI the Somnium files putting all out on that, So
yeah, it's someone else brought that one up to real quick because I haven't
played that. What is it? You know? No, it's from THEE.
I think it's look into invented. Wait what, Homer, do you
know who invented the ham? I'm sorry, I'm just quoting Hanks Scorpio from
this something for you to look into? All right, well, I think
I guy's gonna do it for us, Mike. I don't know if we
have anything else I have to talk about in this episode anymore, super Chats.
I guess I think we are actually good. We're good. Thank everybody.
In that case, what you got going on this weekend? What you
got I mean WrestleMania, I guess right, yeah, wrestle May Sunday.
Hopefully you're able to make it. I think it's my friends friend's birthday on
Saturday. He wants us to go to some brewery near here. We haven't
been too yet that he loves, so doing that pretty busy. Actually,
maybe maybe streaming tomorrow we'll have to sneak some of that in, especially since
the rest of the weekend is going to be busy. Maybe take a small
break from Mortal Kombat. Now that I got this, PEB, maybe a
check something else out tomorrow. We'll see. I'm looking at Twitter and I'm
seeing and you want some trends? Right now, Redfall is trending. I
think it must be. It's got to be like a year anniversary or something
for that game, right, Yeah, there is a promise, but I
don't I don't think there's anything that WAP doing on Giant Bomb anything. It's
hard to in the right now. And then, uh, let's see Laura
Croft is trending with Agent forty seven and Pikachu. What on earth could that
be about? Somebody released the list like the most iconic video game character is
according to this poll, and like Laura Cross is number one, ahead of
Mario. So it's not a very accute. There's no way. It's just
a bad it's that discussing film one. I think I blocked them. I
blocked discussing film for ship like this source BAFTA. What did the British know
about anything? Okay, don't please don't send this episode to tame. It's
okay getting the tam beat off of me, Thank you. I appreciate that.
Like blaming all of England on for this list, do your accent?
Do your British accent, Mike, you sh your time. So Mario and
Trogle, the fifteen most iconic video game characters fifteen Crash Bandicoot, Solid Stink,
Steve, Pikachus behind Are you Pikachu's behind? Arthur Borgan, Shadow Heart,
Credos, Master Chief, Link, pac Man, sack Boy, Conic.
You don't know Saxo five, Sonic, Agent forty seven, Mario and
Number one La Cross. We love Agent forty seven, but come on,
no wad on, it's sane. Thanks for watching, everybody. We'll see
you next time. Relate. Oh sac tech boys from an English studio.
Come on, hey, look at us, Look at us? Who would
have thought? Not me? We all come, I was fast, glitteris
this is the quick break we're in the go right to super chats. I'll
get a new drink as we did those. All right, sounds good,
Let's do it all right? Are you right ready? Get your little stuffy
in here. I still don't believe we are on one this episode, but
not in that regard. I'm empty beer bottle under here. Oh look,
you couldn't throw that away himself when he's over here the other day. Yeah,
he's off the plenty nipples. Oh ship, we knew, Yeah,
but your garbage on my floor oh my god. Christian was like in a
mood earlier. Now Mike, it is transferred to Mike. I wasn't in
the moon, not like a bad mood. You were just on the proverbial
one. You were on it, yeah boom, but you know who mhm.
I you saw anything of that Twitter Twitter thing? Because I saw a
bad tweet and bad animate tweet and it hurt me so much I had to
turn off Twitter. I'm sorry, buddy, heard me hurt me in my
brain. It was about one piece. It was. It was about one
piece that people were arguing about, one piece of being political and one person
which one piece is very political. One person was like, well, not
only the FASTI is because the fascist fun with his friends and she's like the
people he likes, like they do fascion things about I gets him. If
not fascist, he wouldn't find them like. Yeah. Mother. The reason
that most people get involved with politics because it affects their personal friends and family.
Yeah, weird. It's not heally political. It just happened. He
never ran for mayor. Actually a thousand fucking issues did he ever run for
mayor? He probably did, probably at some point at some point. Okay,
I think this is looking good. No, Sean, you're not gonna
like F eleven or anything like. That's what it looks like. That's what
it looks like. Okay, cool, great than we are set? Oh
man, I love fucking political discussion that. I mean, it is the
thing I like about and Or so much is that that is like how old
the characters are political Like it's all in a bunch of different, very tiny
ways, and it's all really personal and it's like that that's what makes that
show so good. So to hear people just talking that way, I'm like,
oh, you idiot buffoon, Like I hate it. I hate it
the whole like bugging in the media literacy or like you need to read more
into the thing you watch. I'm like, I was like, oh and
now this, I'm like, fuck, I think they were right. We're
like it's I mean, I could make things better. I can make it
more fun, more deep, especially as you get older. That's the problem.
What what did you say, Mike, incredible jests we got here?
What do you think I said? Incredible jizz we have here? Yeah?
I still think that's what you're saying. It does sound a lot like what
you're saying. I genuinely don't know what just Jeff Jeff the jeffs because he's
a weirdo. Oh my god, I don't care anymore, Mike, but
it does bother me. I get it, all right, Yeah, in
that and that other thing in over here and over there and then there behind
and forward, I'm gonna kill a railway. And you lined up, Jeff,
go ahead northeast and that sweet when I won? What's so all the
cardinal? I see? Did I? My memory is I won last quarter
and you won the entire year? Or was it reversed? The reverse?
Okay? And but Mike went it was a tie, you guys tied quarters
and so you were slightly right exciting stuff. All right, Well that this
just sets me up for my comeback this year. Okay, all right,
we're gonna stop saying that word come back. You've had vernly said like a
lot of the sea. Yeah, you said, we all come at one
place. It's very funny. All right, just keep doing it. He
Look, you can't avoid saying the word come and that's like me just say,
I'll just say this will be my back then. That's why we all
understand what you mean. There's the money bringing jes Zie back. Yeah,
bring back all the time. Okay almost ready. That's why is this so
small. It's because I made it small. That makes sense. That'll do
it. That'll do it whenever somebody says that'll do that's the Pink movie,
the pih that'll do. Pig Babe, That'll do pi babe. Yeah,
the George Miller classic. Yeah, yeah, I know that. Okay,
browser, This is what happened when you learn English from movies and the Simpsons.
Every every phrase is a reference. I like that. Yeah, you're
like the episode of Star Trek Next Generation where the aliens only talking metaphor.
It's like that darmock enjela At to Nagra yep, when the wall fell.
Yeah, yeah, there it is. Okay, we're set up and bringing
it back. Be su