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Everyone's Tuesday, November the twenty nine, twenty eleven, and you are listening

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to the Giant bomb Cast. I'm
Ryan Davis. We are joined this lovely

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week by none other than screen dot
COM's Alex Navarro. Alex, how you

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doing? I'm doing pretty good.
Straight in from the East Coast, just

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here to do the bomb Cast New
York City's own. Yes, I'm representing

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Queens. You're here for the for
the holiday. I am. I was

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here for the holiday. How was
your holiday? It's very nice. I

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saw a family. How's the family
good? I had a lot of food.

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Great, that's what happens. Uh. I bought some stuff, did

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some things. Mostly I slept.
I slept a lot. I like sleeping

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pretty good. Did you play any
video games? Not since I've been here?

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Oh my god? Why did we
even have him on here? I

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was playing video games? I don't
know why am I even here? I

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was played video games? Was supposed
to be out of town for this was

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kind of all you did was playing
video games. She's now I have to

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be in this podcast with this guy? Yeah, I know, I know.

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Tim good scheduling you guys, good
job. Patrick kleppis here, Hey

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and Jeff Gershman, as you've already
heard Brad Shoemaker keeping it real. We

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actually that was like one of the
one of the arguments for delaying the podcast

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yesterday was that I was we do
it tomorrow and Jeff can be on it.

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That's a bad argument. It's an
argument. He's on it every week,

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Like, who cares that special anymore? Well, because he was the

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only who played Star Wars the Old
Republic, so he can provide us some

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insight into that experience that you there
are light you hit dudes. You push

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the one key to swing a lightsaber's
key one one. I don't know what

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use what? Like? How do
with the button that I pressed to interact

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with the quest giver? Right click
on them? What if I what if

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I want to use a button instead
of right clicking? I don't know.

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There's never been a podcast more informative
on the subject of the Old Republic than

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this one. Breaking new grounds.
Let's start at the beginning. How much

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does it feel like World of Warcraft? All of it? Really much?

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Yeah? Really, they're in the
Speeders instead of Griffins. It's yeah,

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yeah, to get around his own
but everyone talks now, yeah, everyone

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talks now, well they called it. They called that their fourth pillar,

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right, or it was a pillar, like it was the idea emos don't

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have stories, so we're gonna get
emos. Yeah, real stories and real

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voice acting. But it kind of
get the impression. It's like, here's

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all that's real voice acting. Now
go get ten moles. So it's like

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this lead up to then it's bad
quart six cat teeth, ten keith just

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cat teeth. Cat teeth can't and
then and then the cat teeth don't drop

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one to one off, Like you
can't just go kill one cat and get

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six teeth out of its mouth,
even though the model clearly has plenty of

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teeth in it. In it you
have to go kill a bunch of cats

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and wait for them. So it's
an mm, that's what you're saying.

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Okay, well you know it's it's
it seems very well made, and if

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you like that sort of game and
are willing to continue to play that sort

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of game, I think that they
have made one of those games and that.

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But you know, the all the
talking and stuff, uh is neat

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for a while, I think that
you know, so I played a Jedi

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because that seemed like the right answer, and you know, early on it

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put you some kind of cool stuff. They introduce you some characters, uh,

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and you know, you get your
talk on and kind of the black

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the classic BioWare sense of look at
these camera angles. Here's this dude stand

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in here. Now you have a
dialogue wheel, and the dialogue is kind

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of like what you choose, but
it's not right for work exactly. Yeah,

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it's and it's you know, if
you if you take too long.

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The last thing they said pops up
is a little uh, you know,

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minder of what you're actually answering.
Oh, that sounds very familiar. It's

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it's it is the BioWare dialogue system, you know. And then if you

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want to be a good guy,
you push one. If you want to

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be a bad guy, you push
three. And then two is you know,

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two is if you don't want any
light side or dark side points for

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your choices, thus locking you out
of gear in the late game. So

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there's no reason to not there's no
light side dark side stuff for other classes,

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though, isn't there? I think
everyone has it. It's not every

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single decision you make. It'll be
certain dialogue choices will be still the light

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side, but when you chose your
your your character and class and everything.

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You still to choose like imperiod exactly. Yeah, but you could end up

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having a lot of dark side points
but still on you know, in the

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Republic. So the loot has a
moral affinity. Uh, there is lots

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there that requirement. There's loot that
has a social requirement. Uh. So

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you have to have grouped up with
people and and stuff to to use some

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of the gear. There's gear you
can only buy for commendation points that you

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earn in that in that zone,
they've got a lot of different shops.

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That's not even counting the Collector's Edition
shop that will be for people who bought

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the Collector's edition. Wait wait,
I don't Yeah, that's one of the

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perks of buying the I think it's
not even the digital Collector's Edition. I

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think it's only the physical goal.
That there's an end game shop. I

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hate what video games have become.
I hate it. So the dialogue,

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I think that a lot of the
voice acting is really great. You know,

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it's it's certainly better than other MMOs, and that North voice right out

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the gate on the smuggler question,
are you running into repeat voices much at

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all like people I played to like
level eleven. So I ended up spending

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most of Sunday Planet. I just
need what's the point of all this grand,

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grandiose voice acting and set up if
the actual quest themselves and what you're

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doing are not elevated to the same
just like a bunch of set up for

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Yeah, So that's where it's sort
of broke for me, is you know,

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there's some stuff really early on,
is you're kind of ascending from Padawan

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to Jedi at an incredibly rapid rate
because you're gifted with the Force, lucky

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you, and that stuff's all pretty
interesting and and I thought it was well

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well done enough, and about two
hours in I found myself just kind of

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not watching any of the cut scenes
anymore. You know. I had my

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laptop sitting there, and I was
just like, I'm just gonna look at

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the Internet while these guys get their
talk on. Then I will look over

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and press the one key because I've
already ended up getting some light side points

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and I might as well keep getting
them because if I don't get enough,

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then I can't then I might not
be able to reach the top tier of

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light side gear. It'd be dumb
to have both light Side and dark side

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points? Is it binary? Is
it is it like the cod Tour Light

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dark system where it will swing or
is it just like it didn't. I

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think it's the point. I think
it's two different buckets because it's it's when

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you make the choice. The light
Side icon appears on screen and says how

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many points you just got for pushing
the one key, so you could theoretically

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have like some of each, I
think, because I don't think it necessarily

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will subtract. But I didn't make
any dark side choices because I kept it

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in the one. Yeah, I
wonder if it would lock you out of

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something like if you if you unlock
some gear at the light side and then

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start swinging to the dark, do
you start like losing access to those things

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or those contingent I don't know.
I didn't earn enough points to even or

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even get to a point where I
could see what that gear even was.

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The fact that the like light side
dark side stuff like those distinctions are separate

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from the Republic Imperial like faction thing
seems crazy to me. Well, that

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seems like potentially interesting from a story
perspective, if they take advantage of it.

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But you know, I guess people
that have people that have played a

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lot more of this beta than I
have, have said that it's there's no

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noticeable change, yeah, which seems
uh missed opportunity. Yeah yeah, Like,

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well then why do it? And
you know, you you end up

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with with companions sort of like cotor. You know, you'll have dudes kind

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of rolling with you, and they
will you will earn affection points. So

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you'll earn or lose affection points with
your companion based on what you say.

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And that's not something quite as simple
as they are a light side person or

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they are a dark side person,
or at least that's what the tooltip said.

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My robot liked it when I was
nice, So you have you have

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a friendly robot, said a friendly
robot that I liked it, that liked

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it when I upheld the law and
bit and was a nice jedi. So

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can you not just straight up skip
the dialogue like as the dialogues playing out

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to speed it up? Yeah,
yeah, you're making all of the byoware

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management really sad by saying things like
this because they have spent so goddamn much

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money making this is really clear that
it was kind of heading in this direction

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for a while, like the original
pitch of Old Republic. I remember being

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at those first events for the game. We're like, hey, we're gonna

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take an m moo base. We're
gonna we're gonna evolve it, like we're

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gonna make this beyond World of Warcraft. It's gonna be real storagem and this

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is gonna be co toward three,
four, five, six. That was

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their pitch, but demand their pitch
all along is the cotar three through seven,

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like like that's the that's their thing
to get people like Mews like I

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don't I don't want to play this
that much. I don't like gut most

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and it doesn't seems like it's actually
kind of come back around to what you

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would have expected, which is perhaps
a better it's a Star Wars m momo

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than there. So the part where
it really broke for me on the dialogue

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side was, you know, there
there is a quest where you you're out

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and kind of in the wild and
you find a pile of bones with a

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data pad there you're right click on
it. You see a little holographic recording

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some guy who needs medicine for his
kid, and the medicine must be made

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out of cat teeth. And he's
just talking and talking and talking, sending

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this message hopefully someone will see it
someday because I don't think I could make

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it. And then you know,
you go through all this stuff and then

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it's like, go get six cat
teeth, but they must be the cat

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teeth from these specific cats in this
specific area. We know they're the exact

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same cats in the cave, but
they will not drop the teeth. Don't

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be a fool. So you tried
to go get them from some Yeah yeah,

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uh, I mean you know it
is an MMO like, yeah,

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don't as usual, Yeah, exactly, Like, don't don't think it's not

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going to be that game. You
know, there were cases later on where

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you know, I was getting my
talk on with a guy who said,

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you gotta go fight this guy because
they've kidnapped this doctor. Now, run

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all the way across this zone,
which is pretty much empty, by the

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way, just huge halls, just
gigantic areas with absolutely nothing in them.

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Here's a table keeping people. No
no people in a lot of these areas

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too. There. That's not to
say that the entire zone is devoid of

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people, but there are large hallways
and stuff. In this senate area there

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there's just nothing, and you're just
doing that. Maybe that would be all

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players, I guess, I guess, But what would they be doing there?

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There's nothing. There's no vendors there
unless you're like there to socialize and

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like I'm waiting for someone to log
in so we can go play, you

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know, which, like you'd be
doing that in the cantina because you earn,

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you earned rest while you're there.
So they've built these huge environments and

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put like nothing in them. So
point being, I'm running all the way

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across this zone staring at the map
half the time because it's it's not always

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the most clearly designed building. Get
to the other end, kill four dudes

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with a lightsaber, go through some
dialogue that says, man, the agent's

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gonna want to hear about everything you
just did. You should probably go tell

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him, then run all the way
back. Fast travel there is. There's

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fast travel that you can use every
thirty minutes to to move around the zone.

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But it's you know, it's like
the Hearthstone. It's like the classic

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kind of MMO thing. You can't
just rely on it every single time.

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So I had you know, if
you use that recently, you definitely it's

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like you can't just pay someone like, hey, take me across town,

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and here's there are taxis that will
take you around the zone, and that's

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the speeder bikes that basically act as
the Griffins and World Warcraft. But I

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didn't see any where I was.
It was just sort of all right,

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now you gotta go over here,
and yeah, it sounds like it might

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not be bad. I just feel
like people have been misled to perhaps to

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what this actually is going to end
up being. Maybe I think it's it's

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hard for expectation management with the number
of years, the amount of money that

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is supposedly being thrown at this thing, and perhaps how they originally pitched it

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and haven't changed that pitch well,
the way they continue to lean into like

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the BioWare clout and which gives a
certain expectation that on that. I also

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feel like all the coverage of that
game pretty much over the last year has

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literally just been everyone shouting as loud
as they can. Hey, guys,

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this is an MMO. Please manage
your expectations, because I think everyone figured

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this out a while ago. Three
you know, played it and didn't really

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have a very good time with it
and one of their flashpoint situations, and

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it's just like that, you know, the game is using all the same

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terms that you expect from an MMO. It's you know, at level ten

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you get your advanced class for Jedi, and it's it's the difference between like,

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do you want to be melee DPS
or do you want to be a

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tank? Uh? And it's it's
very clear it uses the word tank,

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which that's fine, but they're not
one of those things that like, yeah,

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they're not even disguising it at all. You know, you're you're getting

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lightsabers that you can only equip in
your off hand. Why why what makes

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those lightsabers different than the lightsaber I
hold in my main hands? Shorter?

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Yeah? Is it it? It
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The combat interesting at all? No, I mean the same you're hitting

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numbers on the hot bar on the
hot bar. They've I think individual characters.

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At least my guy was way more
powerful than the typical low level and

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momo character, Like I was taking
out you know, five or six guys

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that were above my level. There
are like one level above me without really

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having to stop and rest, Like
you know, the combat does keep moving,

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and I didn't find myself getting overwhelmed. I maybe died like two or

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three times in closer fights. And
then you get a companion who's this robot

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who you can who shoots and also
kind of pulls agro from guys. So

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a lot of times the robots just
getting beat up and you're just lang to

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everyone while the robot takes the damage. So that doesn't like the Smuggler class

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have like a cover system. Like
I'm wondering if maybe I want to say

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that's true, it does? It
does? I wonder if and if there

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are classes that maybe you're a little
more interesting to play. That's why I

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picked the Smuggler class in part because
I thought that I'd seen some of that

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stuff and it seemed like it could
be interesting. You know. I didn't

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get far enough into it too.
I will say though that like maybe your

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experience is different on on the Jedi
stuff, Jeff, But I felt like

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for this class, they didn't uh, they never went out of their way

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to try and introduce like here is
like what makes this class different? Like

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I just got like along the right
hand side of the screen, you're a

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little like you know, exclamation points
of hey a tool tip, there's some

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helpful get here, and I have
like, you know, eight or nine

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of those, and so I say, I'm not going to look at all

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of these, So I'm just gonna
keep trucking because I can just kind of

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shoot these guys with my blaster and
that seems to be doing the trick.

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So everyone's while. I will see
this green silhouette on a piece of cover

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in front of me and be like, can I click on that? What

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do I do? So it's partially
on me of like I didn't bother to

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go and look into the information on
how to play the class correctly, but

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I also felt like that should be
explained a little bit, maybe contextualized the

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doubt right click on stuff. But
yeah, they're there are mad tooltips all

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over that game, and that's you
know, yeah, I mean the Jedi

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earns points and spends points. So
like for for hitting with your basic slash,

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you end up earning two focus and
then you know, the the next

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level force attack is is three costs
three focus rogue system. Yeah, yeah,

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so you're kind of earning points and
spending points. Yeah, with with

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your abilities through that stuff. It's
not like a manna system or anything like

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that. Yeah, and then you
know, the crafting system is all companion

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based. Like it it has kind
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You can send your companion away for
sixty seconds to go sell all of your

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stuff. You can't specify what it
sells though. It just sells all of

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your common loot, all your grays, your bitter trash. Yeah. So

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if you have gear that you know
you don't want, you can't, like

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I don't think you can add it
to its inventory and say, hey,

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sell this too, because I don't
care. And then the crafting is all

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companion based. Also, like you
don't go it is not like World of

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Warcraft, Like you're not going to
run around and right click on plants or

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mining stuff or or whatever. Yeah, forget it exactly. Well what instead

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what you do is you pay I
think it was like ninety five credits,

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which is not a lot of money
to send your companion away for three minutes

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on a gathering mission. And if
they're successful, which you know, as

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the stat for that crafting skill increases, they'll be more likely to be successful.

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They will come back with materials and
then the craft basically, so so

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I ended up with artifice, which
is you you constructing lightsabers and that sort

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of stuff. Treasure hunting and archaeology
as my three. So you know,

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you go treasure rounting, you find
power crystals that you can use to build

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lightsaber parts, and then you can
slot those into the four slots in your

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lightsaber to increase strength and entrance,
and you know the other light space stats

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I believe. So yeah, I
think so. I'm guessing this game has

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the same problem as every other Star
Wars game of of completely uh negating any

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kind of threat that the lightsaber imposes, like you know in Star Wars movie,

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like slightsaber touches anything, it's dead. Yeah, this is you're probably

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stuff. You're you're hitting stuff for
sure, and you get a lot of

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abilities and stuff like that. You
know. The ability to leap into combat

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is useful mainly because it just helps
get you from point A to point B

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slightly faster than if you had ran
all the way over there. The game

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doesn't have auto attack, kind of
have to keep hitting the one key.

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That's peculiar, and I don't know
if that's like some deliberate thing where they're

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like, this way, you're gonna
feel like you're engaged because you're not just

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sitting there watching him swing the stuff. I mean, you know, one

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one is kind of shaped like a
lightsaber, you know, yeah, exactly.

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Or you can also right click you
can keep clicking to do the basic

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attack. But that just seems Yeah, I don't know what the point of

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that is. Why they especially if
there's no timing based you know, like

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if they mainly had some sort of
timing mechanics, it's like, hey,

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if you pay attention in our timing
your attacks to go along with it,

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you're going to get a more powerful
swing. I can see why. Yeah,

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they would want to encourage you to
try that out, but there's really

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nothing like that there. There's you
know, it's stuff that's appeared in other

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MMOs where like if you block or
perry and attack, there's an ability you

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can use immediately following that that only
lights up after you've done that attack.

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But that's that's not new to to
the genre or anything like that. Yeah,

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I don't know. Like I said, it seems well made, and

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you know, they've got all the
guild systems and groups up and all that

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sort of stuff like you would expect
from a MMO, but I don't don't

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you know. I stopped playing World
Warcraft for a reason, and I think

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people looking for a game that's going
to like advance the genre to get people

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back in on that stuff. Like
I didn't get that feeling from this at

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all. This this seems like better
presentation. Uh, you know, obviously

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a different setting, uh, and
kind of a system in place to kind

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of force you to to take in
their lower which I think about all the

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time I spent not reading Quest Dialogue
and every other MMO I've played. Like,

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it's kind of cool that they're trying
to make that stuff matter. But

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if at the end it is go
get six cat teeth, right, Uh,

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they just straight up call them cat
teeth. Yeah, because you're getting

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cat teeth from these cats for medicine. I mean, there's called cats.

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They're Manca cats or something, you
know, they're there's there's Star Wars cats,

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but space cats. The drop I
think is probably make a cat teeth

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or tooth or whatever it is.
But such house cats, you're just kid,

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no, no, and you're not
just killing house cats. You're not

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just going to people's homes. The
flesh eaters have trained these cats to be

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savages, which is why the guy
couldn't get the teeth on his own.

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They're monsters, and their monsters I
don't know, they're no, they're just

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monsters. They're just they're just monsters. They're humanoid dudes with swords and blasters.

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To be fair, I mean,
they've shown some press demos of missions

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that have like more story driven,
meaningful like kind of one off objectives.

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But isn't it is that the question, like the actual main quest stuff or

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they're actual It's hard to say.
I mean, who's to say how many

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other missions are Like I mean,
they showed one where you were like you

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were surviving an ambush on a capital
ship that you were on, and like

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you kind of made your way to
the bridge and like track down the captain

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of the ship and head to decide, like you can kill this guy on

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the spot or take prisoner. But
and some of that stuff might be the

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flash points, which is designed for
for repetitive kind of group play. Uh

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you know, it's they're not PvP
arenas, but they're sort of instances that

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you can kind of queue up for. I guess it's kind of like I'm

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guessing story missions in a way.
Uh yeah, but all the story missions

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are instance. They have areas in
the game that you can't walk into unless

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you are of the right class in
the right phase of your story. So

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you'll just see door You'll see like
hallways that just have like a red glow

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across the door, which says you
can't go in here. Either it's for

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a different class or it's for your
class, but you are either done with

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that sequence or or working up to
the next sequence. So the room where

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the guy hangs out, the agent
that you're dealing with, you know,

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all the stuff around this time,
you walk in there and it starts,

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it usually starts a cut scene,
or at the very least, you become

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the owner of that area at that
time, which is really only saying that

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if you're in a group, you're
going to be the one making the decisions

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because it's your story quest. Then
that's that's how they prevent other players from

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just hitting the three key and dark
siding you against your will or one of

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the ways that they that they combat
that stuff. That's that's not really an

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issue. And then as soon as
you walk out of that area, it

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changes from green to red and you
can't walk back in there until you've gone

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and completed the mission to trigger the
next cut scene. So it's this really

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weird thing where you're just kind of
seeing these different locked off areas as you're

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going through the world and there's nothing
stopping you other than this like incredibly gamy

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thing that just says no man.
So so the game opens with multiple uh

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pre entered cut scenes, which I
guess, based on how they've been presenting

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this game is not too surprising.
But yeah, but one of those,

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uh kind of sets up a bunch
of or at least seems like it's trying

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to introduce a bunch of very specific
characters. Like it's not just the kind

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of the you know, the flavor
like kind of combat scenario stuff that they've

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shown, but it is that also
it is also that, but there's a

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lot more talking and sort of like
this is a specific guy, this is

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a specific situation. Uh, did
you see it seems like if there's going

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to I talked to the Lady Jedi
from the intro cut scene within within half

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an hour or something of me playing
it. All right, yeah, what

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is it? Was that character from
H forty seven Root yeah, my robot

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in some fashion, but they almost
made it sound like he's like a raid

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boss or something weird, like I
don't know, I'm on my side.

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T seven sounds exactly like R TWOT
two. What he makes the same beepy

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boopy noises, only they caption it
so you know what he's saying, which

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is you know they go to work
on it's very helpful. Same type thing,

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and the in thousands of years and
robots make the same noises. Why

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what you want them to change?
Don't fix what ain't broke? What's wrong

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with the robot noises? What they
changed? Literally everything else. I just

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think it's weird that humans can understand
what those beeps mean and what every other

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language in the universe means. But
I guess that's that fits with Yeah,

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that's it fits with. They have
like a fictional reason for that. I

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don't know that they do, no, I'm sure. Yeah. I was

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to say in the was the expanded
other narrative they have like a term for

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it, expanded universe. It's kind
of it's a little like go through the

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character creation stuff. There's kind of
some creepy text concerning the humans, Like

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you know, there's four or five
different races. Yeah, it's like they're

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the standard by which all other races
are judged. Yeah, it's like by

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far the dominant now that storm Front
type of the universe from storm Troop.

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Yeah, yeah, right right.
So, and I also thought it was

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weird that human and cyborg are separate
racial classes. It's like I could play

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either as a human or I see
that that was I don't think that was

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an option for me as a Jedi. Once you once you players can't have

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a cyborg Jedi. Once you put
that stuff in your body, you are

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no longer pure human. Yeah,
the Jedi is only like purity you know,

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makes sense, Purity sole your Jedi
temple at that point, right,

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Uh, there's humans, Jedi temple
whatever. The horn face guys are Darth

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Maul dudes. Darth Maul dudes.
I had cyborgs, do you remember any

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of them? No, I was
just I was just fund asking me questions

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about that. I will never be
Wie. No, you cannot be a

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Wookie. You cannot be a Rodians. The bummer for me, because din

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they add Wookie is to like his
expansion pack on Galaxy. You could play

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as Rhodians and Wookies in uh in
Star Wars Galaxy. Yeah, totally,

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or at least a month the rest
of this two weeks. Han solos in

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that one. Where's where's Han Solo
in? Well, it's the Old republics

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NA named your character Han Solo.
I did name my character Han Solo,

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so he's in the game. She
she, that's right, blowing your mind,

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throwing all your expectations. Solo.
No, I spelled it j A

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W N C O L l O
U g H. You're the worst.

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I you You're the worst. It
wouldn't let it wouldn't let me just call

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her Han Solo. Why wouldn't It
was not cool because there are going to

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be a thousand characters and that I'm
gonna make Luke Skywalker, but it's gonna

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be Luther Campbell, Luke Skywalker,
Uncle Luke sc one around the universe,

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tell everyone you got shit on your
mind. Yes I ain't bullshit, and

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yeah you ain't bullshit, and start
talking about ho ass kid and right us.

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In the time you spent with the
game, was there any freedom to

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roam between planets or like restuck to
the planet you started on, or like

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can you immediately just hop in the
ship and fly somewhere else. You got

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curious how much you can explore.
You have to basically get to like up

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around level ten before and and get
out of your starting area before you you

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get kind of freer access to to
the world. We kind of get though,

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you know what, I didn't go
to the shuttle area prior to it,

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saying go to the Shuttle area,
so you could very well just get

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00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:37.359
the hell out of there. I'm
not sure, but that would I don't

406
00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:38.759
know how that would work. Is
there any kind of manual space flight at

407
00:26:38.759 --> 00:26:44.039
all? Or you just like there
is some There is some kind of space

408
00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:45.599
combat in it. I remember,
I think I think it's like directed where

409
00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:49.039
like you're looking on the screen like
it's you're not controlling the actual We talked

410
00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:53.359
to someone who had played in the
beta and like a while ago, and

411
00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:56.720
they said that that thing looked like
a bad flash game. So I haven't

412
00:26:56.759 --> 00:27:00.519
seen I haven't seen the space combat
for myself, but it is apparently not

413
00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:06.079
a draw. Yeah, I don't
know. It's it's a super weird thing

414
00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:11.440
that it's. It sticks very close
to the conventions of the genre for the

415
00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:17.519
most part. From from what I've
played of it and that makes it super

416
00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:21.319
uninteresting to me than you stacked Star
Wars on top of that, and I'm

417
00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:25.519
like, I'm good, thanks.
So I don't know. I can't remember

418
00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:29.119
the last time someone will be way
into like there there will be people who

419
00:27:29.160 --> 00:27:33.359
are crazy about that, but there
are people who are way into every MMO.

420
00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:36.599
There is at least someone. There
will be more people who are into

421
00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:42.400
this one than are into people enough. Yeah, it's considering the amount of

422
00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:47.599
money they have sunk into this thing
over the last I'd be really curious to

423
00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:51.279
know both, like what the numbers
they need to hit for for profitability are

424
00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:55.359
and what their projections are for ninety
days out or I feel like we don't

425
00:27:55.359 --> 00:27:57.720
need to be but we don't need
to tell the business and all this stuff.

426
00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:00.759
I don't know. I feel like
like we have we have conveyed our

427
00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:07.799
feelings and our our suspicions about this
game pretty clearly to our audience. EA

428
00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:11.759
needs to know this. I feel
like like those people that need to know

429
00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.519
these things told these people these things, or which it does, it doesn't

430
00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:19.279
matter, it's too late, like
the ship is still years ago. I

431
00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:22.960
mean the thing in terms of profitability, like when you listen to their quarterly

432
00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:25.720
calls, like it's it doesn't matter
necessarily what happens out of the gate,

433
00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:27.599
like because they're gonna have big numbers
regardless, Like there's gonna be a big

434
00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:30.160
push. It sold, Yeah,
the pre sold a bunch of a bunch

435
00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:33.279
of copies. It's gonna be on
Christmas. People have time, so it's

436
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:34.960
gonna have a big opening. What
doesn't matter is the third, the first

437
00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:38.319
thirty days or the sixty days.
It's what happens after ninety days, basically

438
00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:41.799
is when you start to see the
drop off that happens to every MMO,

439
00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:44.799
which is like it's the new flavor
of the week people are interested in.

440
00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:47.920
They see this sort of like the
first you know, two months or two

441
00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:51.039
months of content and then they go
back to Wow. And at this point,

442
00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:52.920
even Wows numbers are dropping, but
it still has a pretty high like

443
00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:56.319
ten million tamiliar user base. So
it's it's sick, we're not gonna know

444
00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:00.720
what happens Old probably for another six
months. Like that's when you know,

445
00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:04.000
you know that they start talking,
When they start talking free to play,

446
00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:10.839
that's when you start emerging servers.
Yeah, those are the two early indicators

447
00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:14.559
that a nmo IS is having trouble
sustaining itself. I have to imagine that

448
00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:18.039
they have some kind of plans in
place to like, okay, like,

449
00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:19.680
obviously we need to sell this game
out of the gate because we spent so

450
00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:22.119
much money making it, so we
couldn't do free to play right now.

451
00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:27.519
But theoretically they would have to have
some sort of yeah, like some sort

452
00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:33.279
of ideas like okay, because with
with with Warhammer, they did like the

453
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:36.799
the rolling demo thing where you can
play up to like the first tier of

454
00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:41.359
PvP stuff for free. So I
wonder if they do something like that,

455
00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:45.000
because the story is broken up into
chunks like when I when I launched the

456
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:47.960
game and get into my character,
it says like prologue, you know,

457
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:51.519
So it seems like the careers work
in acts that there'd be a way for

458
00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:53.720
them to chop it up if they
probably wanted to offer some sort of rob

459
00:29:53.839 --> 00:30:00.720
prologue demo. Yeah, we'll see. Yeah, what else you're playing?

460
00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:07.000
Track Mania two is really good telling
me that it's a driving game. Still

461
00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:12.559
running a server. Yeah, still
running a server? Are you still?

462
00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:15.759
One of the most popular track Mania
too. It's one of those things where

463
00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:19.559
there are so many empty servers that
all you need to do is hang out

464
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:23.319
on the server for about ten minutes
and just having one person moves it far

465
00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:26.039
enough up the list. Because the
list is sorted by a number of current

466
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:30.359
players, that more people will eventually
join. Ah. So if I hang

467
00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:33.319
out of the server for fifteen minutes, they'll be two or three people.

468
00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:37.640
And if those people hang out there
for another twenty minutes, they'll be all

469
00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:40.359
of a sudden, seven or eight
people, and and then you can drive

470
00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:42.559
them all off with awful dub step. I added way more. I added

471
00:30:42.559 --> 00:30:48.000
way more dubstep. Yeah, yes, any really, any any choice pieces.

472
00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:53.920
That's a red Hot Chili Peppers give
it Away dub step remix. He's

473
00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:57.440
got a heavy drop. The drop
is not as heavy as I would like,

474
00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:03.359
but uh, you know it's it's
it's pretty decent, I'll say.

475
00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:07.440
But yeah, that server is still
going, so I don't know. It's

476
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:10.319
out there. It's called Giant Bomb
Official Classic. Maybe we should just do

477
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:14.960
another TNT with it or something.
Maybe your end your in celebration. I've

478
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:19.359
been I've been a racing tracks from
the server. Uh. Culling the list

479
00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:22.160
down because there's well over a hundred
levels on there, and some of them

480
00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:27.880
just are they tired or just not
not great driving experiences, so kind of

481
00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:34.880
been have Have there been any rumblings
from the Mania people about like expanding on

482
00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:38.440
track Mania, Like, well,
no, because shoot Mania is up next,

483
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:42.240
but I've been talking about that for
years. Yeah Mania, right,

484
00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:48.000
quest Mania. But I thought the
like the whole Canyon idea was like,

485
00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:49.319
yeah, then they're going to release
the next part of this, which would

486
00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:52.880
be a whole new area. Yes
they will, but first they're going to

487
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.759
do shoot Mania and then I believe
quest Mania and then they do track Mania

488
00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:59.640
two again, like it's it's that's
that's okay, They've been the plan all

489
00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:01.279
along. Okay, it's not just
to track Mania, which was like two

490
00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:07.759
years ago and three when when ub
Saw gives their awkward thirty seconds to this

491
00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:09.720
is track Media. I don't know
why we bought this stuff. It's explain

492
00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:15.240
explain to me the logic in the
track Mania subtitle naming conventions, because you've

493
00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:20.000
got you've got like United and Forever
so United. Forever United took all of

494
00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:24.960
the well so Canyon United just took
all the previous stuff. And I don't

495
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:27.960
even necessarily care about what's in them? I just want to know how they

496
00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:32.400
picked these words canyons named after the
environment. Yeah yeah, So trak Mania

497
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:37.960
Sunrise had its environments, and track
Manian Nations was the free to play one,

498
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:40.839
right uh, And track MANI United
is the just the paid version of

499
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:49.279
Nations. So all Nations is is
the stadium environment, whereas United has six

500
00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:52.960
different environments, including like the car
style that was in Sunrise and some of

501
00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:57.119
that other stuff. So track Mania
two is just the canyon environment right now,

502
00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:01.359
and they'll release track Mania two ice
Island. Yeah, they've already done

503
00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:07.039
Island, so yeah, there's already
an island government, so space it's yes,

504
00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:10.920
Yes, it's amusing to me this
franchise is still around, and not

505
00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.680
because I don't like it, because
I remember playing the first game and being

506
00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:16.559
blown away by how much I actually
enjoyed it, and everyone thought it was

507
00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:19.839
crazy. Yeah you're crazy. It
was like, what the fuck is this

508
00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:22.920
nonsense? You're out of your mind? But I not let you review games

509
00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:27.599
anymore. But somehow this is endured
and in fact thrived at least in some

510
00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:30.759
small sections of the end. Yeah, yeah, some small, very French

511
00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:34.519
sections of the Yeah, it's it's
it's very French. Yeah, but it

512
00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:37.079
sounds like the drop off has hit
hard. Oh it's huge, man,

513
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:39.400
No one is playing that game as
far. It's it's it's sad to see

514
00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:43.759
there's you know, there's one or
two servers that get some action on a

515
00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:45.759
regular basis, and that's you know, maybe that's where the pro players are

516
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:49.799
going and kind of died by the
time you reviewed it, Like, wasn't

517
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.680
that like kind of the it was
the week the Battlefield three came out,

518
00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:58.119
when is when our server went to
ship and a lot of the other servers

519
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:00.640
did too, And then it seems
like Skyrim just kind of rolled through and

520
00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:02.680
clean everybody else out, so understandably, so you know, some people are

521
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:07.640
kind of coming back to it.
But completely to answer your question, Canyon,

522
00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:10.559
it really just applies to the tile
set used to make the levels and

523
00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:15.159
the specific car and handling model of
said car. So each each different environment

524
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:19.719
will have its own tile set and
its own car, all right, So

525
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:22.599
there is some correspondence to the name
between the name and what's in. Yeah,

526
00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:25.480
they refer to the car as the
Canyon car. Like there will not

527
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:30.320
be a TrackMania two Banana. There
could be, Okay, if if all

528
00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:34.599
the tiles took place were set on
a banana or banana land, and then

529
00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:39.880
and then the car was just the
banana car, like they couldna two iron

530
00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:43.800
rand after that. Yes, okay, it's all on a train track.

531
00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:46.519
You have to keep laying down tracks
in front of this train and self sacrifice

532
00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:52.760
is not allowed. Okay, track
Mania, track Mania still a thing.

533
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:59.920
Jeff is playing. Yeah, that's
pretty good. Yeah, and that's yeah.

534
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.159
I don't know. I put another
ten hours into Skyrim. It continues

535
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:07.320
to be enjoyable. Yeah, I
only just barely scratched the service of Skyroom

536
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:13.920
at this point. Patch is coming
out tomorrow. Come out on glad that

537
00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:16.239
I've only barely dealt into it yet
that the patch is going to be out

538
00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:19.920
by the time I get home,
so I can just jump in into I

539
00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:22.280
was watching a video on the internet
of a way to get your all your

540
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:28.599
skills up to one hundred. Really. Yeah, it involves that that blood

541
00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:31.119
collecting quest, the item you get
from that raises a bunch of stats,

542
00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:36.519
and there's a way to basically use
that item without the item being used up,

543
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:40.559
so you can kind of use the
item over and over again and make

544
00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:45.440
the game and basically just get to
a hundred on everything. So basically at

545
00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:49.719
that point, Yeah, yeah,
sounds lame, it's not you'd be one

546
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:52.039
hundred at everything. I feel that's
something i'd want to like maybe exploit,

547
00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:57.000
Like once I'm done, I don't
want to grind anymore. Like I've got

548
00:35:57.039 --> 00:35:59.760
nowhere of the quest to do,
not especially hard game to begin with,

549
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:02.400
So I'm pretty sure that at the
same time, I would really like to

550
00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:07.599
just have Smithing one hundred and you
know all stuff, like just get that

551
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:10.840
out of the way. I've pretty
much decided that as soon as my character

552
00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:15.239
Urgan proc now uh decides to once
he finished all the story stuff, he's

553
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:21.519
just gonna go through and murder everyone
in Skyrim as everyone. So that's I'll

554
00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:24.920
wait until then to use that hundred
everything you've been warned. Yeah, well

555
00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:30.440
I didn't notice. All is pretty
good. My guy's name prisoner because that's

556
00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:32.599
the default name. I went,
I went and looked through. I was

557
00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:37.679
looking at like Nordic baby names.
That's goods like I want my Nord to

558
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:43.920
be extra Nordy. I was.
I was watching ull God was oh,

559
00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:45.800
I was watching the Da Vinci Code, and Urgan proc now is in that,

560
00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:47.400
and I was like, oh,
You'regan proc. Now is a really

561
00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:50.480
good name for a character. I
should name my Skyrman character that. Then

562
00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:54.039
I actually did it. Yeah,
what else have you been playing, Alex?

563
00:36:54.639 --> 00:36:57.679
Oh, let's see, I spent
most of last week on w W

564
00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.400
twelve that was playing a lot of
wrestling. For about a week. I

565
00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:04.800
played some of that for the Quick
Look. I watched Jeff play how So,

566
00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:07.280
now now you've had some more time
with it, how how are you

567
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:10.119
feeling about it having some more hours
into it. I mean, I've played

568
00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:13.159
it for the Quick Look, and
that's that's it. Okay, I haven't

569
00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:15.320
really spent too much more time with
it. I know you bought it at

570
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:17.360
a certain point we needed it for
the Quick Look, So yeah, I

571
00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:21.800
ended up actually buying it twice because
Amazon didn't get it here in time and

572
00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:23.280
it had to happen. So I
have two copies too, for no good

573
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:29.880
reasons. So this is great,
four copies of WW It just happens.

574
00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:34.000
Things happen. But that was a
game that I started out really liking a

575
00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:37.800
lot more than I ended up liking
it toward the end, because they do

576
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:40.440
make some really fundamental changes to the
gameplay and that one. But then you

577
00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:43.679
start playing stuff like Road to WrestleMania
whatever, and it's like, oh,

578
00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:46.320
yeah, here's that, here's that
bullshit that you're not maybe as fond of

579
00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:50.039
anymore. But the story stuff they
did in All Stars was so good.

580
00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:52.199
I was hoping that Road to WrestleMania
would be like, would have some of

581
00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:57.039
that stuff or or no, wait, there wasn't even story stuff in All

582
00:37:57.039 --> 00:37:59.719
Stores. Really wasn't. It was
all that Rady Orton ship. But yeah,

583
00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:01.039
they they have the storylines. I
mean, whatever do they have?

584
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:06.760
Oh that's right, I remember that
now. Yeah, I barely remember that

585
00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:08.360
stuff, to be honest with you, I was so well done. I

586
00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:12.800
remember all the fucking I remember the
Paul Bearer stuff. I remember like going

587
00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:15.760
After Paul Bearer. That was really
good, just just the basically like they

588
00:38:16.039 --> 00:38:20.480
reduced all the storytelling down to like
we're going to insert promos into this.

589
00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:23.360
Yeah, and they're all incredibly well
done, at least for the Undertaker.

590
00:38:23.559 --> 00:38:28.559
Randy Orton can't talk no unless he
is in front of a live crowd,

591
00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:30.559
and sometimes even then, and even
then that's kelgy. Yeah, it's the

592
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:35.840
Apex Predator. But I am going
to Yeah, just the stilted, just

593
00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:38.760
worst vocal booth sounding see that.
But the thing with the All Star stuff

594
00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:42.360
is that was really fun. It
was really un fun in that sort of

595
00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:45.000
goofy old wrestling kind of way,
whereas this is still trying to be you

596
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:50.159
know, the current w W universe, which is not as great. And

597
00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:55.400
also this the Road to WrestleMania is
revolves exclusively around Shamus, Triple H and

598
00:38:55.559 --> 00:39:00.840
somewhat like imaginary rookie character. So
it's like you can't just pick and choose

599
00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:04.119
your storylines. It's just like one
long story that just focuses on those three.

600
00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:07.159
I like the idea of them doing
that, because to do it in

601
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:10.440
a way where you could pick any
character would make it too create. Like

602
00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:15.719
they're able to at least write custom
stuff for that storyline in sensible in a

603
00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:16.800
way. But at the same time, you don't care about Shamus. There's

604
00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:20.880
hours of you playing as Shamous and
you're like, God, damn it,

605
00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:23.519
I'm still playing as Shamous, right, you know, And I don't know

606
00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:28.079
for me. The only thing that
is like the quality of the writing,

607
00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:31.400
like definitely better than it would have
been if they had just well it's better

608
00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:35.559
if they then if they had just
gone all, you know, just see

609
00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:37.119
what you know, Devil make care
or whatever the fuck you know, let's

610
00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:40.000
just play whoever is you want,
and here's a bunch of generic storylines.

611
00:39:40.039 --> 00:39:44.519
It lets them have like commentary,
like mid match commentary that applies to the

612
00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:46.480
current situation more than it normally would
and stuff, you know, things that

613
00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:50.639
would be a lot harder to do
or would sound a lot more generic,

614
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:52.840
would be like he is doing this, yeah, you know. But the

615
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:59.760
storyline is still kind of bad.
I mean, it's still like it's SUBtv,

616
00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:02.199
which I mean, if you've been
watching the WWW lately, that's still

617
00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:06.079
not that's not good. I haven't. No, I haven't been watching it.

618
00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:08.119
I haven't. It's been great to
not watch wrestling. I came within

619
00:40:08.199 --> 00:40:12.440
inches of going to Survivor Series this
year, like just saying, fuck it

620
00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:15.079
it, I want to go,
And then I decided against that because tickets

621
00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:17.280
were like two hundred bucks each and
I was like, no, I'm not

622
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:20.639
gonna do that. That's a lot
of money to That's a lot of money

623
00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:23.119
wrestling Live, which is already kind
of a bad experience. Also, five

624
00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:25.920
matches, one of which is a
diva match, so it's like, why

625
00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:30.239
what I do that? Now?
It's like football when you remove the commentary

626
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:34.400
for from it, and it comes
a lot less less interesting. There's an

627
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:36.840
energy to a live wrestling show that
I still like, unless you think you're

628
00:40:36.840 --> 00:40:42.320
gonna get s damned right. Yeah, it's kind of cool carrying those pops

629
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:44.800
and like seeing you know, the
rock walk out on stage or whatever,

630
00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:46.079
Like that's still kind of cool.
But I also don't want to pay two

631
00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:49.719
hundred bucks to go to do that. Yeah, that's that's not a it's

632
00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:52.239
not a good value for the dollar, but you know it's it's a better

633
00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:55.239
game overall, certainly than last year's. But they're the presentation and a lot

634
00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:58.679
of significant ways from what I've seen
in the camera stuffs a lot better.

635
00:40:58.719 --> 00:41:01.760
Their headless stuff I think is interesting. I guess yea, I could get

636
00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:05.519
in the way any game, but
playing the game anyway, so yeah,

637
00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:07.960
it kind of it kind of makes
it difficult to tell kind of the current

638
00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:09.679
status of your character. I think, how badly have you beat up this

639
00:41:09.719 --> 00:41:13.920
other guy? Like how close somebody
earning the finisher? Like, what's what's

640
00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:16.519
going on here? Some visual cues
somewhere would be helpful, but yeah,

641
00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:17.880
well, I mean they do this
stuff where like, you know, your

642
00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:21.480
guy kind of holds himself if he's
hurt, right, but you don't know

643
00:41:21.519 --> 00:41:23.360
if that means you're gonna get beat
or if he's just he's just been working

644
00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:29.039
on your arm the whole time,
you know, So I'm sorry. How's

645
00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:31.559
the how's the animation blending shaping up
from ear to year like that? Somebody

646
00:41:31.559 --> 00:41:35.559
who doesn't care at all about those
games, like watching them from an outside

647
00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:38.239
perspective, like the herky jerky way, you like, transition from one stance

648
00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:40.599
to another. Has always been like
the most off putting thing. Well,

649
00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:45.719
it's gotten even weirder because they've been
adding new moves and new animations, and

650
00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:47.880
the newer stuff they keep adding is
like way better animation quality, but all

651
00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:52.119
the old moves are still the weird
hole over animation. So it's like,

652
00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:57.079
here's this really stiff, awful looking
suplex followed up by this kind of amazing,

653
00:41:57.199 --> 00:41:59.960
full of free flowing motion, you
know, other move that the guy

654
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:05.679
is do. It's like it alternates
between like bad mannequin robots and also something

655
00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:08.320
that looks vaguely human. And then
they've added all this like havoc physics stuff

656
00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:13.280
that like still doesn't feel like completely
implemented in the game yet, so I

657
00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:16.199
just wonder where that even applies the
web mostly yeah, and it's like it

658
00:42:16.360 --> 00:42:20.000
sort of works, but then like
you'll see a guy like bending on the

659
00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:23.159
bottom rope and it's like all suddenly
starts jutting out of the ring. It

660
00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:28.800
looks really weird. So they're just
I don't know, they've made overhauls,

661
00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:31.960
but it is not the complete reinventing
of that brand that they have made it

662
00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:36.039
out to be. That is.
That is where ice come off on it.

663
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:38.559
And other than that, I've been
playing Serious Sam. I started playing

664
00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:43.440
Serious Sam before I came out here
for the for the break B three b

665
00:42:43.719 --> 00:42:47.239
FE, big fucking everything. I
think. Really that's I don't know,

666
00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:50.760
I don't know for certain, but
that's that's what I assume it must mean.

667
00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:54.840
Best friends everywhere. Yeah, totally, that is. I want to

668
00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:59.760
play Patrick's game. Yeah, totally, that's much those guys and they're like

669
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:07.880
with the bombs in their hands and
you're Stine, but they never get to

670
00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:14.199
because they've exchanged the game. Yeah. Uh, that is. I mean

671
00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:16.480
the few hours I've played is largely
what you know, of serious sam.

672
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:20.360
It is duche running at you and
you are shooting them. Though, I

673
00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:22.480
have to say that game it takes
way too long to get going, which

674
00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:28.119
is to say it takes any time
to get going shooting immediately. No,

675
00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:30.719
it takes like in upwards of fifteen
minutes before you start shooting guys of dudes.

676
00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:36.400
What, yeah, it is even
shooting anyone? Well no, yeah,

677
00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:38.639
because you start story setup. Well, there's there's a cut scene that

678
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:43.559
sets up a story. Yeah,
and then like the early going is like

679
00:43:43.639 --> 00:43:46.760
hand to hand combat and like some
other stuff. It's really weird finally some

680
00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:51.599
c yeah, well no, yeah, pretty much like it's like quick time

681
00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:53.119
event, like you press a button
and you pull it like a dude's eye

682
00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:59.480
out. All right, sold me
on this. You're shooting hell of dudes

683
00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:00.559
that just start running at you,
and that kind of goes on for a

684
00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:06.440
while. But I've been hearing things
like there's a level in that game where

685
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:08.360
you have a flashlight and you're running
around with a pistol in the dark,

686
00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:13.239
Like that is a thing that apparently
happens in that game, And I'm like

687
00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:17.440
Doom three was a heavy inspiration.
Yeah, I guess, but what the

688
00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:21.559
hell is pro Team doing. That's
none of the serious They put out that

689
00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:23.039
trap. They put out the video
that said, like, you know,

690
00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:29.440
they're funny little official Serious SAM Strategy
Guide, and it was like running backward.

691
00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:32.280
Yeah, and it's like I think
they get it. I think I

692
00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:37.320
thought that was like funny and clever, and simultaneously it made me not want

693
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:40.039
to play serious SAMs, Like I
don't it's such a like Serious Sam so

694
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:44.239
weird. Yeah, it's always been
weird, but now kind of the legacy

695
00:44:44.400 --> 00:44:47.400
of it. Of well, so
what Serious SAM would would was created.

696
00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:52.920
It was as kind of a response
to the kind of sophisticating of and complication

697
00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:55.639
of first person shooters, yaing of
developers. It was like, no,

698
00:44:55.639 --> 00:44:58.960
we want to we want to see
that first one was published. We want

699
00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:00.280
to strip it back down and we
want to make this, you know,

700
00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:05.960
just fast running gun corridors like Doom. Right. So it's it was.

701
00:45:06.079 --> 00:45:07.840
It was already intended as a throwback, but it's now been long enough since

702
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:14.960
Serious SAM was around really that it
has its own throwback quality to it.

703
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:20.320
So the layers are are getting too
weird. Yeah, I don't know.

704
00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:23.239
The few hours I played have been
fine, but I'm also just like,

705
00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:27.119
well, yeah, serious Sam so
cool. I guess you know, if

706
00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:29.639
you're into serious Sam, check it
out. He's been off games are cool.

707
00:45:29.800 --> 00:45:35.480
Here is more of that. Yeah, I actually thought enough games three

708
00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:38.920
double D is the side scrolling shooters. Yeah, and the one that I'm

709
00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:43.199
stacking, the gun stacking. The
gun stacking one's pretty good. But what

710
00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:47.159
was the other one? There's the
turn based RPG or the yeah rpg kind

711
00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:52.559
of like actually has an active battle
system, kind of like Corona Trigger amazing.

712
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:57.199
I don't know what the third one
is. I thought there was a

713
00:45:57.239 --> 00:46:00.159
thing. I mean, I've played
some Skyrim. I've I'm still only a

714
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:02.159
few hours in. You know,
I've barely done much with my character at

715
00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:05.320
all. I've been killed by a
couple of giants at least, so you

716
00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:07.000
know, I'm like everyone else.
I snuck up behind a giant and killed

717
00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:12.360
him. Nice one shot. Nice
work. I've been watching a lot of

718
00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:15.679
videos of people doing really terrible things
in Skyram more than I've actually been playing

719
00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:20.039
Skyrom. Like people like like basically
becoming hoarders of goblin skulls, like just

720
00:46:20.079 --> 00:46:23.960
filling their entire house with goblin skulls
in a way that is horrifying. The

721
00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:30.519
guy who has become a downright cottage
industry of room filled with item Well,

722
00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:32.880
that's that in and of itself for
sure, but even just the look at

723
00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:36.239
this fucked up Skyrim video. Yeah, well, do you see the one

724
00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:38.920
yesterday about the serial killer. No, there's a guy who has been killing

725
00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:44.280
all his female companions, severing their
heads and putting their heads in his in

726
00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:50.519
his house, like shelves and like
like like uh kurk. Hamilton asked him,

727
00:46:50.599 --> 00:46:52.679
why did you do this? He
was like, oh, I don't

728
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:54.760
know, you know, because it's
the only way to make the voices stuff.

729
00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:59.480
I was lonely. I just wanted
to, you know, like,

730
00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:00.960
once the missions were done, I
wasn't really using them anymore, so I

731
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:04.559
just wanted to keep them around.
Oh Lydia. So it's like there are

732
00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:07.320
all these severed heads on shelves and
their naked bodies are like strewn about his

733
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:10.480
house. That's yeah. I've been
seeing a lot of screenshots of the nude

734
00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:15.239
mode that you can download. The
really weird to me. Some of the

735
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:19.639
mods are like the nude mod obviously, you know, hey, sure,

736
00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:25.079
fine game, but yeah, but
the weirder ones are this mod cleans up

737
00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:32.760
the female face, clean clean female
dirt from female, specifically the specifically female.

738
00:47:34.199 --> 00:47:37.519
Oh, it's tied to clean the
dirt off Caucasian what purity lydia?

739
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:43.440
Is something real, real bad about
that. I don't want to play Skyrim

740
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:45.960
anymore. Yeah, it's it's taken
on a very dark bent over the last

741
00:47:46.079 --> 00:47:50.000
week or two. Their aim is
to make the game that lets you do

742
00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:52.519
anything you want. They have succeeded. I'm just worried about it might actually

743
00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:55.639
inspire for the real Like one,
Skyrim is no longer good enough for them.

744
00:47:55.679 --> 00:47:58.920
What are they going to do in
the real world? Are those official

745
00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:01.039
mods? Is that through the mod
system? God? No, they haven't

746
00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:07.400
even released the official models. Yeah, so putting out well, I thinks

747
00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:10.360
that make it way up your white
ladies. Let me tell you, I

748
00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:15.519
think the have a system with which
I can filthy my white ladies, because

749
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:20.280
that's more what I'm looking for.
Yeah, I don't like starting to sound

750
00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:23.400
like Saints Row. I did play
a little bit more, saying I went

751
00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:28.119
back and restarted Saints Row. Did
Yeah you finish it's you. Yeah,

752
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:30.400
Saints Row is pretty good, pretty
goddamn good. Yeah, I went back

753
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:34.119
and restarted it because I wanted to
try some of the other missions the other

754
00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:37.079
way. But mostly I'm just running
around blowing shit up, just like it's

755
00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:40.519
like athartic, you know, half
hour each day of just destroying everything.

756
00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:45.880
It's fantastic. I think you when
you and I hung out this weekend and

757
00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:47.400
we had people who did not know
what Saints Row the Third was. I

758
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:51.760
think the demo you gave was the
most perfect demo anyone has ever given of

759
00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:55.239
a video game. Within five minutes, you just changed yourself into the toilet,

760
00:48:55.280 --> 00:48:59.719
gave yourself duel loading like SMGs,
and just ran around to start fucking

761
00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:04.239
killing cops. Toilet, toilet,
toilet. You should play, I'm playing.

762
00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:09.960
Don't say you already? No,
No, you don't even know.

763
00:49:10.239 --> 00:49:13.480
He told me some other stuff a
couple of weeks ago. Yeah, I

764
00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:17.679
think several moments in that game have
been diminished because I already knew. Yeah

765
00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:22.559
no, not not in the way
I'm the way I'm describing it is not.

766
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:24.360
Can you did Daly and then you
know, yeah, it will get

767
00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:29.679
ruined. Yeah, I need to
stop doing activities. The activities are okay,

768
00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:37.119
like once each in the campaign,
all of them, I did every

769
00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:44.480
activity Saints Territory does. But did
you do all of the the Saints book

770
00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:45.760
stuff, because that's what I still
have to finish. No, I'm about

771
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:50.559
halfway through the Saints book stuff.
Yeez, that shit is that shit is

772
00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:52.079
a slog I don't like. Yeah, that's just like I actually didn't seem

773
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:54.679
kind of broken when I was.
It's a little broken. I didn't mind

774
00:49:54.679 --> 00:49:58.960
doing the triggering. It is weird
sometimes, well, I would be looking

775
00:49:59.000 --> 00:50:00.039
for a specific car and I get
in the area, and then it would

776
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:04.159
just come up and say the car
has been destroyed, and I had to

777
00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:06.280
go back in and re select the
car, I mean, and then it

778
00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:08.239
would do these exact same things.
That's that's the objective stuff. Like some

779
00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:12.480
of their objectives are just broken.
Like I run into situations where it's like

780
00:50:13.039 --> 00:50:16.679
I got into a car with the
auto tune dude, and then suddenly I

781
00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:21.039
had beaten the mission right that that
was like one of those like you know,

782
00:50:21.119 --> 00:50:23.840
pimp escort things, and like with
just by getting into the car with

783
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:29.199
him, somehow I had beaten its
Yeah, it's jenky. It's totally janky

784
00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:31.000
across the board, but it's fun
JANKI for the most part, It's just

785
00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:34.719
like when little things like that pop
up and you're like, uh yeah,

786
00:50:34.840 --> 00:50:38.199
yeah, that's no good. But
more pro wrestling references. That's that's what

787
00:50:38.239 --> 00:50:40.280
I wanted to say, throw for
just play, like I want that game

788
00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:45.280
to basically be the better wrestling game
than than anything else. You should just

789
00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:49.400
have the license. They should just
give it the w w E license.

790
00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:57.760
Yeah, God, that fight is
so good. Yet, Hey, t

791
00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:01.119
As, they went through my hair. I heard so you went to Nebraska

792
00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:07.519
for the Thanksgiving holiday yep, And
and I'm going through ta going We're asking

793
00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:12.840
the They stopped me and like,
hey, we need to go through hair.

794
00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:14.840
I was like, you know,
that's cool TSA, you know,

795
00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:20.760
being being funny. Guy goes had
my shoulders like no, that's what that

796
00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:24.119
guy comes from behind me, Wow, sticks his hands my hair like into

797
00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:29.280
it. I was. I was
too traumatized. I don't know, hopefully

798
00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:34.199
hopefully latex globes how violated versus turned
on? Were you? I'm used?

799
00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:36.800
You know, I am. I
am used at this point. It was

800
00:51:36.840 --> 00:51:39.639
way worse in college when people would
just walk up to me to my I'm

801
00:51:39.719 --> 00:51:43.800
used to it, even like at
the drive in Territory. But yeah,

802
00:51:44.079 --> 00:51:46.079
yeah, my hair used to be
much much much longer. Uh yeah.

803
00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:50.679
And then the other way back they
threw my toothpaste. I thought it was

804
00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:52.559
the right size, wasn't like,
I said, what do you like?

805
00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:53.119
Guy goes, what do you want
me to do with this? I was

806
00:51:53.119 --> 00:51:57.760
like, what are my options?
And he just looks at me and then

807
00:51:57.760 --> 00:52:01.239
you just throw it out? Waste
it. Come on, there was that

808
00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:05.599
perfectly good toothing guy like in Russia
who like didn't he's They told him to

809
00:52:05.639 --> 00:52:07.199
throw out his his like whole like
thing of vodka, and so he just

810
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:10.880
drank it and it gave himself alcohol
poison while trying to walk through security,

811
00:52:12.679 --> 00:52:15.320
and he escorted out almost died.
Actually you tooth based by the way,

812
00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:19.559
I think that's actually real. Instead
just strip down and then just rub it

813
00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:23.280
all over your body all of y. I'll just use it, yeah first

814
00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:29.000
intended purpose. Yeah, so I
don't know what you guys use tingling paste

815
00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:32.920
for. Should have printed out my
options body paint. I went through the

816
00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:37.199
airport yesterday and didn't have anything with
me because I was just on a day

817
00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:42.800
trip and I had to show my
ID to a bunch of more people than

818
00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:45.880
I normally do and had people looking
at me like I was crazy. I

819
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:49.360
don't know if she just brought a
suitcases. Yeah exactly, like I've got

820
00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:52.760
my bag. I plan on returning
to this place, but on a shuttle

821
00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:54.599
flight to LA. You think they'd
be used to that by now, Yeah

822
00:52:54.639 --> 00:52:58.079
exactly. Well, I mean it
wasn't. It wasn't necessarily people that were

823
00:52:58.119 --> 00:53:00.840
attached to that flight. It was, you know, people kind of threw

824
00:53:00.880 --> 00:53:05.159
out the airport. This guy wearing
a giant bombshit. Well, yeah,

825
00:53:05.199 --> 00:53:07.960
it probably it's It was just weird. It was, you know, we're

826
00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:12.800
doing random I d checks you stop. Yeah, like what, you're a

827
00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:15.599
random? I just look too fancy
free. I was too happy to be

828
00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:16.480
there. I was like, man, whatever, I could hang out of

829
00:53:16.480 --> 00:53:21.280
the airport all day. I gotta
carry shit. Lets get some omelets or

830
00:53:21.320 --> 00:53:24.440
something. I likes a happy airport
patron. No one man. Almost as

831
00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:29.079
if you had let go all of
your material concerns. Yeah, anticipation.

832
00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:42.440
You guys have finally made the decision, don't. I'm switching Patrick Patrick video

833
00:53:42.519 --> 00:53:45.400
game. Patrick, tell me about
your football experience. Oh wow, Yeah,

834
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:49.760
so I went saw the Bears and
Raiders. Oh wow, what's that

835
00:53:49.960 --> 00:53:52.320
I've done with what they lost,
so it was so it was great.

836
00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:59.119
Yeah. So I will say that
the Raiders experience is is overstated in terms

837
00:53:59.119 --> 00:54:02.679
of this adding potential unless you're the
type of person that talks back. I

838
00:54:02.719 --> 00:54:06.519
could see Alex getting stabbed. Oh
yeah at the Raiders stadium. No,

839
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:08.639
I've been threatened. If you you're
always gonna get threatened. Like especially for

840
00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:12.840
the game. It's kind of friendly. Like you're walking through like like you

841
00:54:12.840 --> 00:54:15.840
know, the tail game lot and
they've got like like Teddy Bears strung up

842
00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:20.840
on you know, like rope and
the residency. Yeah, it's like but

843
00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:23.360
it's all good fun and like it's
during the game and after the game that

844
00:54:23.440 --> 00:54:25.880
you bring it. You bring a
jacket, Yeah, a jacket covered colors.

845
00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:30.519
But I wanted to h definitely give
a shout out to Zach. I

846
00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:34.400
would leave his last name absent,
but he was a giant Pomp fan that

847
00:54:34.480 --> 00:54:37.119
offered to let us Bears fans come
by to his Raider's tailgate, and he

848
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:43.599
was super nice and he anybody.
He was like, yeah, well he

849
00:54:43.920 --> 00:54:45.559
told me where we were and I
could kind of spot it, and I

850
00:54:45.639 --> 00:54:49.280
was like, I don't need to
be weird, but like that's pretty deep,

851
00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:52.320
like can you would you come get
us? Like I don't want to

852
00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:55.599
walk through all this Raider territory colors, like I would have to like plot

853
00:54:55.639 --> 00:55:00.719
out like there were a couple like
bears like safety hide out. You're like,

854
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:02.760
I can like stop here and then
like sprint to the next one.

855
00:55:04.239 --> 00:55:07.079
Yeah. So I made it and
and he made the experience very nice,

856
00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:10.719
excellent. So that was thank you, thank you to him for So you're

857
00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:15.599
saying the Raiders reputation is not all
it's cracked up to me if you want

858
00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:17.719
to if if you want to yell
back as I mean, the place gives

859
00:55:17.719 --> 00:55:22.440
a horrible like first impression when you
get off the Bart and it's just this

860
00:55:22.039 --> 00:55:25.639
uh everyone being heard of through this
tunnel that is just full of barbed wire.

861
00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:30.639
Oh yeah, it's just there's just
like right like all of our fences

862
00:55:30.679 --> 00:55:32.239
along this like kind of narrow path
right out of that bart. YEA.

863
00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:36.480
So for like a bunch of white
people from like San Francisco, like when

864
00:55:36.519 --> 00:55:38.039
you go out to there, you're
just like, oh, this reinforces all

865
00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:43.639
my preconceptions about Remember the beginning of
bad stereotype, beginning of X Men.

866
00:55:43.760 --> 00:55:46.440
When Magneto is in his family are
being shuttled toward the death camps like a

867
00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:50.239
big barbed wire fen. That's it
looks like exactly. It looks like a

868
00:55:50.280 --> 00:55:52.840
deer being shuttled to a death.
Which is why in that you want to

869
00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:55.119
do you want to have your colors? You don't. You don't want to

870
00:55:55.199 --> 00:55:58.719
You don't want to taunt the need
to advertise, don't taunt the fans.

871
00:55:58.840 --> 00:56:00.239
No, uh so, yes,
I was on vacation. I didn't.

872
00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:02.719
I didn't. I didn't play too
many games. I was a lot of

873
00:56:04.079 --> 00:56:07.840
a lot of drinking, a lot
of family stuff. Same thing. Yeah,

874
00:56:07.960 --> 00:56:09.719
he was like a game, but
I play. I did start playing

875
00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:14.400
a decent chunk of and charted three
on Sunday and last night, and I

876
00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:16.360
played with the new patch that I
wrote about for the site, and that

877
00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:21.440
it adds this new aiming tweaks that
some of the fans gave feedback on feels

878
00:56:21.480 --> 00:56:25.519
way better, like like I was
having. I didn't play enough till I

879
00:56:25.519 --> 00:56:28.880
probably best articulated. But the one
thing I could say is that I was

880
00:56:28.920 --> 00:56:31.239
really having trouble pulling off headshots and
it charted three, where like I just

881
00:56:31.280 --> 00:56:35.360
kept like the auto aim was just
nudging it like out of a direction,

882
00:56:35.440 --> 00:56:37.599
was like, I'm better at shooting
than this, and with the new altered

883
00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:42.119
aiming like pop pop pop, like
they're still soaking up too many bullets,

884
00:56:42.199 --> 00:56:45.440
but I feel like I'm getting what
I want to aim at. How much

885
00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:50.239
had you played before the patch?
I had played the first night chapters so

886
00:56:50.280 --> 00:56:53.599
a decent amount, okay, and
then I played between chapters nine through thirteen

887
00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:58.760
last night with the the updated aiming
and got through the awful, awful Pirate

888
00:56:58.840 --> 00:57:01.920
section. Awful. I haven't gotten
yet that well, that one section.

889
00:57:02.199 --> 00:57:07.199
It is Pirate section, not not
the entire Pirate area, but that shooting

890
00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:10.639
section when you're when you're on Yeah, terrible. That's one of my least

891
00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:14.800
favorites. It's what is so frustrating
forward to it. There's so much like

892
00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:16.840
I don't mind the comment in that
game too much, but I hate how

893
00:57:16.880 --> 00:57:21.639
slippery Nate is where he's just kind
of like he's always feeling like he's wobbling

894
00:57:21.679 --> 00:57:24.000
around, Like I never feel like
when it hits like wasted, so it's

895
00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:28.880
like a wavy tube man. Yeah, yeah, that's actually an app comparison.

896
00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:30.679
Like I never feel like when I
hit circle, like I'm going to

897
00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:34.800
connect down to the thing that I
want to And what's really frustrating is that

898
00:57:34.840 --> 00:57:38.480
the way they have added flanking to
this game like ruins a lot of the

899
00:57:38.519 --> 00:57:42.400
moment to moment stuff where I'm having
like a good shootout and then just a

900
00:57:42.440 --> 00:57:45.000
guy comes behind me and shoots me
with the shotgun and it's over and there's

901
00:57:45.039 --> 00:57:47.000
nothing I could have done. There's
no way that I could have anticipated that.

902
00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:51.920
And the game is constantly flanking you
with waves and enemies where you can't

903
00:57:51.960 --> 00:57:54.960
just deal with a couple. That
game has a pace there. That game

904
00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:59.639
has a very specific which is don't
shoot, just just don't even bother.

905
00:57:59.639 --> 00:58:01.679
It's you can't be too fast,
you can't be too slow, you can't

906
00:58:01.559 --> 00:58:06.119
sit behind cover for too long.
You have to do But it doesn't message

907
00:58:06.159 --> 00:58:09.320
that properly. It doesn't a horrible
job of messaging the pacing. Uh.

908
00:58:09.639 --> 00:58:12.920
It gave us a bad first impression
right off the bat, and that first

909
00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:19.039
seating sequence when you're you're you're it's
in the dark underground cave and there's all

910
00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:22.800
these like fog is like obscuring all
these snipers, and you've seen the red

911
00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:25.920
lasers come at you, and you
know every time that your sequence is finished

912
00:58:25.960 --> 00:58:30.599
when the fog just magically disappears,
and then you can keep moving forward and

913
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:32.760
does it like four times. Like, I feel like the Interarted series has

914
00:58:32.760 --> 00:58:37.880
like a pretty decent combat setup,
but just really poor combat scenarios. Like

915
00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:42.840
I feel like the actual shooting isn't
bad necessarily, but like the combat scenarios

916
00:58:42.880 --> 00:58:46.000
just aren't interesting or particularly fun.
I think the melee stuff is all right,

917
00:58:46.079 --> 00:58:50.559
but it just feels like a bad
Batman Arkham Asylum because that's kind of

918
00:58:50.559 --> 00:58:53.800
the setup they're going for of it
definitely not as fluid hitting square to engage

919
00:58:53.840 --> 00:58:58.559
and then hitting counter when when a
guy comes near. It's doesn't have the

920
00:58:58.599 --> 00:59:01.000
same depth. Yeah. Yeah,
but here's the question I have if so,

921
00:59:01.039 --> 00:59:06.280
if it's the pace is signaled poorly, how do you signal that pace?

922
00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:08.719
How how do you sort of like
hand hold a player through that sort

923
00:59:08.760 --> 00:59:15.280
of thing when it's time to move
forward. Yeah. I guess I just

924
00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:20.519
won't have this problem in other games, but this game is that the punishment

925
00:59:20.559 --> 00:59:22.679
is so severe for having that lack
of messaging. If if it's like,

926
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:25.000
hey, guy comes up behind you
and starts shooting and you're like, oh

927
00:59:25.039 --> 00:59:29.519
fuck, I should probably move but
Patrick's point of you just die of just

928
00:59:29.559 --> 00:59:32.320
like yeah, comes with a shotgun, says howdy, and then I have

929
00:59:32.360 --> 00:59:36.679
to reload the chair and like I'll
be mid mid melee and like I'm really

930
00:59:36.760 --> 00:59:38.440
enjoying it. Like there's only one
guy in the ship. The camera at

931
00:59:38.440 --> 00:59:42.400
no point positions me so I can
be aware of what's happening around me.

932
00:59:42.599 --> 00:59:45.880
There are no interface indicators to tell
me, like I know there's grenades,

933
00:59:45.920 --> 00:59:47.000
but I don't know there's a guy
behind me, and then the middle having

934
00:59:47.039 --> 00:59:52.159
this great melee combat confrontation and just
shotgun to the back. I don't have

935
00:59:52.199 --> 00:59:54.039
a chance to recover. I have
no chance to get away, like and

936
00:59:54.079 --> 00:59:57.840
that just happened, especially in that
pirate section where I wanted to put the

937
00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:00.039
game down or ratch of the difficulties
like this isn't. I don't feel like

938
01:00:00.039 --> 01:00:04.199
I'm learning every anything anytime I die, which is I guess the frustrating part,

939
01:00:04.199 --> 01:00:06.400
like in Gears of War any other
good shooter, I feel like I

940
01:00:06.440 --> 01:00:08.400
know why I died, where I
messed up, or I missed the flanking

941
01:00:08.440 --> 01:00:12.679
from from a group of enemies and
then charted. I just don't feel like

942
01:00:12.719 --> 01:00:15.000
I've learned anything when I die.
I just feel like I just got caught

943
01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:17.320
off guard and got one in it
killed. Well, those those environments are

944
01:00:17.360 --> 01:00:22.039
like far more wide open than I
feel they have been, like than they

945
01:00:22.079 --> 01:00:24.400
were in Uncharted two. So it
just I feel like the AI has a

946
01:00:24.440 --> 01:00:29.719
lot more options. They didn't they
didn't flank into at least nearly the degree

947
01:00:29.719 --> 01:00:30.639
they do now. And I think
that's what hurts it a lot, is

948
01:00:30.679 --> 01:00:35.000
that you can't just like in that
pirate section, there's like three ships you

949
01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:37.320
can jump to, and so I
would like go on to the first ship,

950
01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:38.360
like I'm gonna take out these guys
and then move on to the next

951
01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:42.039
ship. No, It's like,
why in the middle of you taking out

952
01:00:42.079 --> 01:00:45.320
that first ship, those guys from
ship two and three are working their way

953
01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:47.239
over. Yeah, so in the
middle of you working out the ship one

954
01:00:47.800 --> 01:00:51.960
enemies, you suddenly have six dudes. And anytime you get one of those

955
01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:57.039
bullshit armor guys like that's they're always
carrying a really powerful shotgun and you you

956
01:00:57.039 --> 01:00:59.079
can engage them in melee, which
is the best way to take them out.

957
01:00:59.079 --> 01:01:01.400
But I don't know, I'm really
enjoying every other part of that game.

958
01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:06.440
I just like I wish I could
just delete the combat, but you

959
01:01:06.480 --> 01:01:08.400
say the new stuff makes it better. But yeah, the patch, the

960
01:01:08.440 --> 01:01:13.639
patch makes them. Is it a
optional face? It is you're going,

961
01:01:13.639 --> 01:01:15.360
You're go into the Yeah. The
option says ultimate aiming, tab it on.

962
01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:20.239
I feel like all the description there
is yes, just alternate aiming yeah,

963
01:01:20.280 --> 01:01:22.039
which I don't think they want to
get too specific of, Like here's

964
01:01:22.079 --> 01:01:27.880
the aiming you like for everyone who
bitch it's basically uncharted too, so like

965
01:01:27.920 --> 01:01:31.119
they made adjustments to my understanding time
not I was like they made adjustments that

966
01:01:31.199 --> 01:01:36.639
were related to hopefully trying to make
it easier when enemies are flanking you,

967
01:01:36.719 --> 01:01:37.800
so that the auto aim would adjust
to that. Like there are some other

968
01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:40.719
things. There's dead seat stuff,
there's how it handles the analog stick.

969
01:01:42.039 --> 01:01:45.159
Basically, this kind of brings it
back to when charted two and I just

970
01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:49.360
felt really comfortable, and immediately I
felt a difference in my ability to essentially

971
01:01:49.400 --> 01:01:52.920
pull off headshots and things that I
was having trouble with. The interesting thing

972
01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:55.519
about all of that is that it
does sort of make you realize exactly how

973
01:01:57.119 --> 01:02:00.920
neck deep into that stuff all those
guys get. When they realized that they

974
01:02:00.920 --> 01:02:04.719
don't even understand why, like how
it's different to the player. Like in

975
01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:07.119
that article you were saying, like
they just they were like pouring through code

976
01:02:07.159 --> 01:02:10.760
trying to figure out, like why
is this so different when it's like clearly

977
01:02:10.880 --> 01:02:15.000
Night and Day the two games like
the way the combat works, but like

978
01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:19.320
they've made so many changes, like
little subtle changes here and there for whatever

979
01:02:19.400 --> 01:02:22.920
reason, they just all kind of
like turned into this one big difference in

980
01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:25.679
the combat. And it's just amazing
how like you can make those kinds of

981
01:02:25.760 --> 01:02:30.480
drastic changes without even really realizing.
It's weird. It's weird that, you

982
01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:32.639
know, if it is something that
they didn't intentionally change for this game,

983
01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:36.960
then why put it in as an
alternate aiming toggle? Why not just say

984
01:02:37.119 --> 01:02:39.760
we fixed that thing. I think
that because they think that there are people

985
01:02:39.760 --> 01:02:43.320
who like it this way, that
like I've gotten used to the way on

986
01:02:43.440 --> 01:02:45.360
Charted three does it, And I
think everyone in that office has just gotten

987
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:50.199
super used to the way on Charted
three plays that they don't see it as

988
01:02:50.199 --> 01:02:54.719
a problem. So I would imagine
that's probably why. God damn, that's

989
01:02:54.719 --> 01:02:59.599
a gorgeous game, though, yeah, just stunning. Have any have any

990
01:02:59.599 --> 01:03:02.400
impact the multiplayer of these changes,
No, I believe not. I think

991
01:03:02.480 --> 01:03:06.760
I think this is a because those
are separate teams within Naughty Dogs, and

992
01:03:06.840 --> 01:03:09.320
so when when those changes were coming
up, they they sat down with the

993
01:03:09.400 --> 01:03:13.679
multiplayer and the single player leads and
it sounded like that. As far as

994
01:03:13.679 --> 01:03:15.440
I know, it doesn't apply to
the multiplayers, it's a single player change,

995
01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:20.840
but yeah, that patches out and
does some things with like the motion

996
01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:22.719
blur or something. I'm not sure
the other changes are, but the aiming

997
01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:27.280
is feel significant. So if you've
been having issues, I think this this

998
01:03:27.320 --> 01:03:30.239
will help you. Has anyone played
that game in three D seen it in

999
01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:34.039
three I've seen it in three D
like multiple times, but I've never seen

1000
01:03:34.199 --> 01:03:37.800
it would be so awesome in three
D. Ever, the sequences they've shown

1001
01:03:37.000 --> 01:03:39.800
the word pretty great. It's great
cut scenes in three D. And I

1002
01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:43.920
also think I would get a horrible
headache playing that game. Guys in three

1003
01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:47.360
DS. I've found it terrible in
every game that's had it to the third

1004
01:03:47.360 --> 01:03:52.079
person shooting dudes. And I didn't
like Gears at all. Okay, yeah,

1005
01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:53.800
okay, I have yet to enjoy
a game in three D at all,

1006
01:03:54.159 --> 01:03:58.280
three D S or you know,
console or otherwise. I think some

1007
01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:00.480
has been all right, Mario Mario's
I haven't played Mario yet. I did

1008
01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:03.960
like three D Stanchion what I played
of it, but Mario Kart, I

1009
01:04:03.960 --> 01:04:09.039
would just turn it off for like
three D console games, it's not interested.

1010
01:04:09.199 --> 01:04:11.840
Yeah. I actually really like the
three D in Marico. Yeah,

1011
01:04:12.079 --> 01:04:14.800
it's the first first three D S
game that I have pushed it all the

1012
01:04:14.800 --> 01:04:17.119
way up and just left it there. Yeah, no headache, no cross.

1013
01:04:17.199 --> 01:04:20.840
My initial thing is always like just
nudget just above off of like like

1014
01:04:20.920 --> 01:04:26.800
let's get the subtlest three D effect
we can have usually just because of like

1015
01:04:26.840 --> 01:04:29.519
the viewing angle, Like the deeper
you go into the three D, the

1016
01:04:29.760 --> 01:04:31.159
more rigid you have to be with
with how you're holding that thing. I

1017
01:04:31.639 --> 01:04:34.480
should just turn all the way up
and then if if it is causing a

1018
01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:40.599
problem, all yeah, okay,
part is not a good rigid playing game

1019
01:04:40.639 --> 01:04:44.480
because like, especially we're playing a
multiplayer, your hands will be shaking around

1020
01:04:44.519 --> 01:04:45.840
a lot. But it looks good. I think the three D looks good

1021
01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:50.000
in that game. Yeah, uh, Brett, let's Patrick. Unless there's

1022
01:04:50.039 --> 01:04:58.719
a subscon you should play Sants.
I should play Sants. Ro should I

1023
01:04:58.760 --> 01:05:01.320
think here, you guys right.
I should have played Saints. Yeah,

1024
01:05:01.400 --> 01:05:05.639
everybody should. Yeah what did you
play instead? Uh? Played some Sants?

1025
01:05:05.960 --> 01:05:10.119
I did. I did play some
Saints like like like Patrick, familial

1026
01:05:10.360 --> 01:05:14.440
opplications getting in the way. Sure, game playing time. It always seems

1027
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:17.519
like you're gonna have that time.
And then like I brought Step too drunk.

1028
01:05:18.119 --> 01:05:21.119
Yeah that's what Christmas is for me. Christmas is when I shirk all

1029
01:05:21.159 --> 01:05:26.000
family and just play games for a
week. Yeah I did. I did

1030
01:05:26.039 --> 01:05:30.880
play the Amazon Lightning Deal game.
You did what? You helped the economy

1031
01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:38.079
like a mother stimulated. He bought
a PlayStation move. I think I completed,

1032
01:05:38.800 --> 01:05:42.039
and he opened up the box and
look at it. I opened the

1033
01:05:42.039 --> 01:05:45.719
cardboard box that it was shipped in. Yeah, the actual like theft proof

1034
01:05:45.719 --> 01:05:48.920
packaging is still in take I'm gonna
play with it. You could send I

1035
01:05:48.920 --> 01:05:51.679
don't know, but it was twenty
five dollars. Also what, I also

1036
01:05:51.760 --> 01:05:56.320
bought a second PlayStation three, So
why not? All right, now you're

1037
01:05:56.360 --> 01:06:00.679
set. I think I completed four
separate Amazon transactions on Friday. Stuff kept

1038
01:06:00.679 --> 01:06:02.840
popping up, but I just always
Cyber Friday. I wasn't even paying attention.

1039
01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:11.039
Asked. I did buy a an
airport express from Apple because they were

1040
01:06:11.079 --> 01:06:15.000
having oh yeah, even Apple.
See they're just count they're just barely barely

1041
01:06:15.039 --> 01:06:18.480
count. As it was, it
was like a hundred bucks off the laptop

1042
01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:21.679
tax a little bit. I guess
that's basically it. If they get rid

1043
01:06:21.719 --> 01:06:25.840
of the tax, it's free shipping
Friday. And I want to get the

1044
01:06:25.880 --> 01:06:30.280
iTunes in my living room, so
reasonable, and get some internet out there

1045
01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:34.239
too, So this will do that. Get that internet out suns right,

1046
01:06:34.320 --> 01:06:38.159
need more internet. I don't have
enough. I also bought a new router.

1047
01:06:38.519 --> 01:06:42.039
I bought an SSD new PS three. Okay, caught me the dark

1048
01:06:42.079 --> 01:06:45.599
Knut and blue Ray, pretty good
spread other stuff. It's not too bad

1049
01:06:45.599 --> 01:06:49.519
at all, man, it's the
stuff I missed. They had a twenty

1050
01:06:49.519 --> 01:06:54.119
five dollars ukulele. Who wouldn't buy
ukulele? You've been in the market for

1051
01:06:54.239 --> 01:06:59.960
ukulele? Could you be you've been
actively talking about Hey, I stopped active.

1052
01:07:00.119 --> 01:07:01.559
We talking about you have Let's be
fair. That was like a year

1053
01:07:01.559 --> 01:07:06.519
ago. How is your ukulele training? Like? How up you Rilling Chainsaw

1054
01:07:06.679 --> 01:07:14.679
about his ukulele and about potential ukulele
purchases and if certain ukulele brands were of

1055
01:07:14.679 --> 01:07:16.960
any value. You have access to
resource like that, you avail yourself.

1056
01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:20.079
I'm just saying that was a couple
of months ago. They had both Tron

1057
01:07:20.159 --> 01:07:24.199
movies. They had the five disc
Tron Blue Race set for thirty bucks last

1058
01:07:24.239 --> 01:07:29.519
night. Damn it, that one
was new. It's a list like eighty

1059
01:07:29.519 --> 01:07:31.760
bucks comes into stupid disc that's supposed
to light up, but my never I

1060
01:07:31.800 --> 01:07:35.559
also know I got the one that
doesn't have the stupid disc. Yeah,

1061
01:07:35.840 --> 01:07:39.440
I got the stupid discs. I
got the stupid slightly below that, which

1062
01:07:39.480 --> 01:07:46.159
still gives me the original Tron Neutron
and Neutron and three D. Yeah I

1063
01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:50.239
missed out on also the Shadow of
the Colossus and Eco tal for like twenty

1064
01:07:50.280 --> 01:07:54.320
bucks. Yeah, I got that
yesterday. I missed that. But I

1065
01:07:54.360 --> 01:07:57.360
did get the entire Lost Blue Ray
collection for like one hundred bucks, which

1066
01:07:57.360 --> 01:07:59.880
I figured it was worth it at
that price, but I was not going

1067
01:07:59.920 --> 01:08:02.800
to pay full price for that whole
thing. I know Patrick approves of this,

1068
01:08:03.119 --> 01:08:05.599
this transaction. I about that about
that last year, I didn't buy

1069
01:08:05.599 --> 01:08:10.679
anything? Why do you hate the
account? I didn't buy anything either.

1070
01:08:10.719 --> 01:08:13.119
I about a book in a game
for Christmas presents. I'm saying, how

1071
01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:15.599
about it. Yeah. I bought
a lot of stuff on Etsy for Christmas

1072
01:08:15.679 --> 01:08:18.680
gifts, drinks. Some beop almost
bought a fucking television yesterday. They had

1073
01:08:18.680 --> 01:08:23.399
a lightning deal, Like what kind
It was a pretty nice it was cheap

1074
01:08:24.199 --> 01:08:30.319
sung Well yeah it matters how much
like it was. It was it's thirteen

1075
01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:35.319
hum for it was three D Samsung. Pretty nice. But I think I

1076
01:08:35.439 --> 01:08:38.199
let it go. That was would
have been a dumb thing to do.

1077
01:08:38.359 --> 01:08:43.840
I think I've started. I'm finding
I'm beginning to troubleshoot my TV, which

1078
01:08:43.880 --> 01:08:51.119
has been randomly powering off as as
opposed to looking online at catalogs. Yeah,

1079
01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:55.760
yeah, yeah, yeah, No, it's uh because it's fucking fifty

1080
01:08:55.760 --> 01:08:58.600
five or sixty one inch TV that
I have. It's like, I'm not

1081
01:08:59.239 --> 01:09:03.640
it's trying to save I should try
and save this thing. Uh I uh,

1082
01:09:04.079 --> 01:09:09.840
it's it's a it's a deal.
P. So I swapped out the

1083
01:09:09.840 --> 01:09:14.800
the lamp in it when I had
first when I first bought it, the

1084
01:09:14.880 --> 01:09:18.199
lamp was had been used and so
the lamp was kind of dim and going

1085
01:09:18.319 --> 01:09:26.439
from uh like I searing LCD where
I have all of the like, you

1086
01:09:26.479 --> 01:09:30.560
know, not the brightness, but
the intensity turned all the way up to

1087
01:09:30.560 --> 01:09:32.960
to a used DLP, Like the
swing was so hard, Like I can't

1088
01:09:33.000 --> 01:09:36.119
deal with this. I need this
TV to be brighter. So I bought

1089
01:09:36.159 --> 01:09:39.720
a new lamp immediately swapped it out
in that which is not cheap, right,

1090
01:09:41.479 --> 01:09:43.680
So I got a new lamp,
threw that in and it was okay,

1091
01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:45.279
and then it started just like randomly
powering itself off. I was like,

1092
01:09:45.399 --> 01:09:47.479
fuck, this sucks. What can
I do? This thing's clearly like

1093
01:09:47.520 --> 01:09:50.399
long out of warranty. It's gonna
cost me like one hundred twenty five bucks

1094
01:09:50.399 --> 01:09:54.680
just even get like a dude to
come and look at it. So I

1095
01:09:54.760 --> 01:09:57.600
called the service company and said like, hey, this is the problem.

1096
01:09:57.600 --> 01:10:00.199
I'm like yeah, it just be
like one hundred twenty five bucks for to

1097
01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:01.039
come out to see the thing.
I'm like, I know, like,

1098
01:10:01.119 --> 01:10:05.840
well, let's see if doing some
troubleshooting on your own before we you know,

1099
01:10:05.920 --> 01:10:11.279
go and and go down that route
or whatever. And and he identified

1100
01:10:11.319 --> 01:10:14.680
that like he didn't ever do this
before you switched out the lamp, and

1101
01:10:14.800 --> 01:10:16.479
like, well no, but I
only had it. I didn't have it

1102
01:10:16.520 --> 01:10:18.520
long enough for it to really be
an issue because it we'll try the old

1103
01:10:18.600 --> 01:10:21.479
lamp and let's see what happens and
then call me. And it has not

1104
01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:25.720
since I swapped out for the old
lamp, it hasn't not given me trouble.

1105
01:10:25.800 --> 01:10:30.000
So uh, currently I'm dealing with
a slightly dim TV, but it

1106
01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:31.840
stays on, which is that's that's
really the important part. Can also I

1107
01:10:31.960 --> 01:10:36.279
tell you playing multiplayer games where your
TV randomly turns off, that's just fun.

1108
01:10:36.359 --> 01:10:39.600
It's just you know, it's like
an extra variable. It's like that

1109
01:10:39.680 --> 01:10:45.720
Mario Kart's squid power up. Yeah, there you go forever. No,

1110
01:10:45.840 --> 01:10:47.239
not forever, but for like a
minute while you go like fuck, like

1111
01:10:47.239 --> 01:10:49.720
hey, wait for it to for
the lights to stop flashing, and then

1112
01:10:49.720 --> 01:10:53.920
I can hit the power button again
and hopefully it'll turn on and it's delp.

1113
01:10:54.119 --> 01:10:57.760
So the warm up period's kind of
long on it. But yeah,

1114
01:10:57.800 --> 01:11:02.800
a fifty five inch three D l
ed lit LCD. Yeah looked nice,

1115
01:11:03.159 --> 01:11:06.920
pretty nice, But I let it
go. Probably the best time you let

1116
01:11:06.960 --> 01:11:12.239
it go. I did not go
to Fresno for Thanksgiving this year for the

1117
01:11:12.279 --> 01:11:16.279
first time in a long time,
which meant that I had a lot more

1118
01:11:16.279 --> 01:11:19.000
time to play a whole fucking bunch
of games. What did you play?

1119
01:11:19.159 --> 01:11:26.680
So I did, but all of
them. Okay, I finished uh Arkham

1120
01:11:26.800 --> 01:11:30.600
City, which I had only played, I don't know, maybe in hour

1121
01:11:30.720 --> 01:11:35.119
or two of before that kind of
had just gotten through the tutorial stuff,

1122
01:11:35.199 --> 01:11:41.680
and that game was real good.
I think I like Arkham Asylum better.

1123
01:11:42.720 --> 01:11:48.239
Uh. And they really do say
bitch a lot in that game. They

1124
01:11:48.439 --> 01:11:53.119
really, they really has to getting
around it. They're fucking prisoners. Really

1125
01:11:53.279 --> 01:11:58.680
so they cursed so they can't curse
the way you want them to curse.

1126
01:11:58.800 --> 01:12:01.600
Really happens a lot. I'm only
three or four hours into that, especially

1127
01:12:01.720 --> 01:12:04.920
having that woman's stuff he started playing
a catwoman stuff. That stuff really starts

1128
01:12:04.960 --> 01:12:12.119
kicking in. It really happens a
lot. And uh, And I'm not

1129
01:12:12.159 --> 01:12:16.800
sure that I necessarily like the the
edge offying of the Batman villains that that

1130
01:12:16.960 --> 01:12:20.560
like that that serious specific take on
Batman villains, I'm not sure that.

1131
01:12:21.079 --> 01:12:24.199
I think. I think mister Freeze
is awesome in this game. Yeah,

1132
01:12:24.199 --> 01:12:27.279
I think like their rendition of mister
Freeze specifically is fantastic, one of the

1133
01:12:27.279 --> 01:12:30.000
best. I like the difference between
the like the voice modulation and when he's

1134
01:12:30.039 --> 01:12:35.600
just talking to you. I think
that's a really cool effect. Yeah,

1135
01:12:35.760 --> 01:12:42.479
I don't like how trusting Batman is. He is on everyone people that he

1136
01:12:42.560 --> 01:12:46.640
should clearly not be trusting, Like
yeah, Bane, Yeah, you're an

1137
01:12:46.680 --> 01:12:50.560
insane psychopath that broke my back before. But hey, let's split, split,

1138
01:12:53.159 --> 01:12:56.079
let's pound it. He does make
it clear that Batman, I mean,

1139
01:12:56.560 --> 01:12:59.720
makes it clear in their initial exchange
that he has not to be trifled

1140
01:12:59.720 --> 01:13:06.560
with. Sure, okay, sure, Bane cares. I don't know Batman

1141
01:13:09.079 --> 01:13:12.680
it, I mean, it works
out whatever. But there are a couple

1142
01:13:12.720 --> 01:13:15.600
other ones where it's like, why
did you say yes at all, Batman?

1143
01:13:15.720 --> 01:13:18.680
What did you think? I think
Batman can handle himself. I guess

1144
01:13:18.720 --> 01:13:21.479
I look at it this way,
and I mean Batman clearly does handle himself.

1145
01:13:21.479 --> 01:13:25.680
Well, he just puts himself into
unnecessary trouble by being so trusting.

1146
01:13:25.800 --> 01:13:28.279
Yeah, I looked at this way
and you can agree to disagree. I

1147
01:13:28.279 --> 01:13:31.399
think that the writing is much better
in Arkham Asylum. I think the storyline

1148
01:13:31.439 --> 01:13:34.039
was much better. I think the
mechanics in the world are much more interesting

1149
01:13:34.119 --> 01:13:39.000
in Arkham City. Yeah. I
like the density of Arkham Asylum, which

1150
01:13:39.000 --> 01:13:42.039
is something that you kind of lose
in arkhamas Fair. Yeah, it's not

1151
01:13:42.079 --> 01:13:46.199
focused enough for my taste. Still
the combat's fantastic. Oh my god,

1152
01:13:46.199 --> 01:13:49.319
it's so much fun to fight dudes. Like just like flying around the city,

1153
01:13:49.399 --> 01:13:51.880
see a group of guys, just
bomb down on them, you know,

1154
01:13:51.960 --> 01:13:56.279
hit the shock just ruin them.
And like as you get new,

1155
01:13:56.359 --> 01:13:59.920
Like I really focused on the combat
abilities early on for my for my build,

1156
01:14:00.079 --> 01:14:03.680
and just like the weapon disarmed stuff
is super cool and like when you're

1157
01:14:03.680 --> 01:14:11.920
busting up their guns and just it's
not complicated now, like it's a couple

1158
01:14:11.920 --> 01:14:15.600
of buttons, right, but it's
timing based and you have to have a

1159
01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:20.600
certain amount of awareness and but it's
it's not impossible. Like that game does

1160
01:14:20.640 --> 01:14:25.399
a great job of making you feel
like you're unfucking stoppable. Well, it's

1161
01:14:25.399 --> 01:14:28.319
what's crazy. So the like Arkham
Asylum, I didn't really get that far

1162
01:14:28.399 --> 01:14:30.000
into the combat system. Like I
was very surface about it. It was

1163
01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:32.760
just like punch, punch, punch
counter when I need to. That was

1164
01:14:32.800 --> 01:14:34.880
pretty much it. Like that's all
I really got into. I know that

1165
01:14:34.880 --> 01:14:38.319
there was more to it than that, but I didn't really see too much

1166
01:14:38.319 --> 01:14:41.880
of it. I feel like this
does there's more to it in this game

1167
01:14:41.880 --> 01:14:45.239
obviously, but it also does a
better job of again popping things up with

1168
01:14:45.359 --> 01:14:47.840
like, hey, you've built up
enough of a combo, now you can

1169
01:14:47.880 --> 01:14:50.960
do one of these other moves.
Now you know these things are are available

1170
01:14:51.000 --> 01:14:53.800
to you. It's like, oh
cool, and I can jump over this

1171
01:14:53.880 --> 01:14:56.880
dude to do this crazy takedown move. And the more we use some of

1172
01:14:56.880 --> 01:15:00.880
the swirl of bats and everyone and
everyone gets dizzy. Every freaks out when

1173
01:15:00.880 --> 01:15:02.680
you bring the bats in and likes
knocking all the dudes down and then just

1174
01:15:02.760 --> 01:15:06.359
jumping up and killing them all with
bad rings. Yeah, it's the first

1175
01:15:06.359 --> 01:15:10.279
beating. Yeah, being able to
like like just like quick like tap tap,

1176
01:15:10.319 --> 01:15:15.319
and I freeze that guy so he's
just standing there whaling on these other

1177
01:15:15.359 --> 01:15:17.399
guys Like just yeah, combats just
so much, God damn funny. It's

1178
01:15:17.399 --> 01:15:21.640
the first beat him up I've played
that intelligently discourages button mashing because like you

1179
01:15:21.680 --> 01:15:26.720
can do it and it's totally workable, but like it gives you good solid

1180
01:15:26.760 --> 01:15:30.680
reasoning. Not there's even that that
thing that gives you like krits or whatever.

1181
01:15:30.800 --> 01:15:32.800
If you don't button mash, yea
of just like no, if you

1182
01:15:32.880 --> 01:15:36.800
hit your timing exactly, yeah,
you are going to do way more damage

1183
01:15:36.840 --> 01:15:40.960
and be far more effective, which
I never really did. I still mash

1184
01:15:41.039 --> 01:15:45.680
like want. I just want to
hit those guys. Those crit hits are

1185
01:15:45.680 --> 01:15:48.279
awesome, though, hit those guys
hard. It is a game when you

1186
01:15:48.319 --> 01:15:51.279
when you lose your rhythm, it
can be very frustrating. Like the moment

1187
01:15:51.319 --> 01:15:55.039
you get out of like your like
because you get in the zone. Yeah,

1188
01:15:55.199 --> 01:15:57.159
but the moment you get out of
that zone and then you just get

1189
01:15:57.159 --> 01:16:00.479
your ass handed to you. And
eventually figuring out how to use the gliding

1190
01:16:00.479 --> 01:16:02.960
and dive bombing stuff correctly, which
that is so crucial to learn because it

1191
01:16:03.159 --> 01:16:06.039
completely changes how you get around that
open world. They should have introduced that

1192
01:16:06.039 --> 01:16:10.680
earlier and maybe it's I was doing
side stuff or something. So it's like

1193
01:16:10.720 --> 01:16:14.720
it's optional, like you could go
through that game and never encountered. So

1194
01:16:14.720 --> 01:16:17.640
there's so there's the glide stuff,
which is like the the AAR training yeah

1195
01:16:17.640 --> 01:16:23.239
things, but then there's like the
specifically like the dive bombing to glide mechanic

1196
01:16:23.319 --> 01:16:27.560
which lets you go faster and further
with each with each bride, which is

1197
01:16:27.560 --> 01:16:30.920
a separate thing that's not even part
of the AAR stuff. Uh, but

1198
01:16:30.039 --> 01:16:35.199
just blows. There's no training for
that stuff. There's something where it's there's

1199
01:16:35.239 --> 01:16:38.880
there's some mission where it's like it
gives you like the outlines of like,

1200
01:16:39.039 --> 01:16:43.560
hey, dive bomb like this through
this area and then pull back up and

1201
01:16:43.600 --> 01:16:45.439
you'll go further and go faster.
I don't know if it's a story mission,

1202
01:16:45.439 --> 01:16:48.640
but I don't even think I found
that they tutorialize and contextualize. I

1203
01:16:48.640 --> 01:16:51.600
think that's I think that's forced though. That's got to be forced. I

1204
01:16:51.640 --> 01:16:57.560
don't remember, because you do the
initial ar training to get like the grapnel

1205
01:16:57.640 --> 01:17:00.000
boost. Yet that's the crucial thing. It makes it able for you to

1206
01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:01.920
get around the city. Like everything
else, you can just kind of do

1207
01:17:01.960 --> 01:17:06.119
it. Yeah, well there's the
dive bomb attack, right, like you

1208
01:17:06.159 --> 01:17:10.279
can dive bomb, yeah, you
know dive bombing. Yeah that trigger.

1209
01:17:10.359 --> 01:17:12.439
Yeah, it's not really an attack, but you're just kind of you can't

1210
01:17:12.479 --> 01:17:15.119
you can attack out of it.
But yeah, but then that's so you

1211
01:17:15.159 --> 01:17:18.000
do the die bomb, and then
when you pull out of that and pull

1212
01:17:18.119 --> 01:17:21.439
up, you can go higher and
faster. Right, there is a mission

1213
01:17:21.439 --> 01:17:25.720
somewhere that like there are lines in
the environment of this is the path you

1214
01:17:25.720 --> 01:17:28.960
should follow by doing dive bombs.
That's not part of the r training.

1215
01:17:29.039 --> 01:17:32.199
Were I don't think I ever,
which I thought was as critical as the

1216
01:17:32.239 --> 01:17:35.439
grapnel boos stuff, and I was
a little surprised that it didn't happen earlier.

1217
01:17:35.479 --> 01:17:41.319
But it sounds like apparently that's not
a key thing of the experience because

1218
01:17:41.319 --> 01:17:43.319
none of you guys know what I'm
talking. I have no idea you can't

1219
01:17:43.319 --> 01:17:49.399
even do that. But that stuffs
fun once you get it down. But

1220
01:17:49.720 --> 01:17:55.760
I actually still also really enjoyed,
like all of the all of the thug

1221
01:17:55.800 --> 01:18:00.199
and henchman dialogue that you overhear is
really good, like like them stay any

1222
01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:03.359
around, like the Joker guys talking
shit about the Penguin guys. Like I

1223
01:18:03.640 --> 01:18:06.920
thought the kind of the flavor dialogue
for that stuff as you're flying around the

1224
01:18:06.920 --> 01:18:10.279
city was really well done. I
don't like that it's wall to wall though,

1225
01:18:10.319 --> 01:18:14.279
it never stops everywhere you go every
time you fly over the area,

1226
01:18:14.319 --> 01:18:16.279
like even if it's slow, the
dudes everywhere constant chatter. Yeah, but

1227
01:18:16.279 --> 01:18:17.920
you don't, I don't know.
I don't. I don't want to hear

1228
01:18:17.960 --> 01:18:21.560
it all the time. I like
that un bother me. I like that

1229
01:18:21.600 --> 01:18:26.199
stuff, and it's two really good
lost reference. Isn't that game are there

1230
01:18:26.399 --> 01:18:30.479
too? You know you you haven't
seen all of Lost that I have.

1231
01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:38.760
The Joker Church I don't recall,
and I jammed through that game quickly.

1232
01:18:39.720 --> 01:18:43.039
The other one is they they just
one of the random like gang chairs.

1233
01:18:43.039 --> 01:18:45.439
It's like, hey man, they
ever stay where the island was from?

1234
01:18:45.199 --> 01:18:53.439
Good Lost Refences? Okay, I
thought they were talking about Arkham nought I

1235
01:18:53.479 --> 01:18:56.960
caught that, But you didn't.
You didn't get a moment where the Joker

1236
01:18:57.319 --> 01:19:00.239
is talking about how his whole finale
is going to be in this game,

1237
01:19:00.279 --> 01:19:02.920
and he's like, it's not gonna
be like you know, like everyone,

1238
01:19:03.640 --> 01:19:06.560
I don't want to spoil the show, but I don't think anyone here really

1239
01:19:06.680 --> 01:19:10.479
is that worried about I'm to everyone
that's listening, I don't want to know

1240
01:19:10.520 --> 01:19:16.039
whatever. The statute of limitations isn't
No. I know, I like that

1241
01:19:16.039 --> 01:19:20.479
show too much to do that to
anyone. It was an autistic kids dream.

1242
01:19:21.000 --> 01:19:29.159
It was all in a snow globe
anyway. The island was their lost

1243
01:19:29.199 --> 01:19:33.359
innocence, it turns out, and
that's why they were lost. See it

1244
01:19:33.359 --> 01:19:38.800
make all makes sense really just it's
really just the extension of Citizen Kane.

1245
01:19:41.680 --> 01:19:44.960
What else did you play? I
just think more about Batman because that was

1246
01:19:45.560 --> 01:19:51.479
pretty much the entire game in like
two or three sittings. Yeah, the

1247
01:19:51.520 --> 01:19:56.880
fucking shark. Yeah, punch moment's
pretty amazing. Well, so I fell

1248
01:19:56.960 --> 01:20:00.520
in, so pretty shark punch,
I got this that, which is awesome.

1249
01:20:01.079 --> 01:20:03.960
I fell in once. Yeah,
if you fall in, it's pretty

1250
01:20:03.960 --> 01:20:08.520
great. But then also when you
don't fall in that other part it's also

1251
01:20:08.560 --> 01:20:12.000
really great. Yeah, really,
and falling in made that part better for

1252
01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:15.359
me because I'm like, yeah,
fuck you shark, kind of a chick.

1253
01:20:15.479 --> 01:20:20.640
And then I went straight from Batman
into Rayman, which seemed like an

1254
01:20:20.680 --> 01:20:26.840
a logical progression. Rayman Origins Is
They Are Men is very good. I'd

1255
01:20:26.960 --> 01:20:31.720
recommend it highly. It's a very
good looking game, controls amazingly well done.

1256
01:20:31.840 --> 01:20:33.920
The co op stuff at a lot
of variety, just the stuff with

1257
01:20:33.960 --> 01:20:38.159
Jeff during the quick look. But
I do wish it had online play,

1258
01:20:38.239 --> 01:20:42.199
because that's, you know, my
my choke point. Patrick. You said

1259
01:20:42.199 --> 01:20:45.920
that you had been playing something with
the with your lady friends and that you

1260
01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:49.600
kind of had hit a difficulty for
attle point, which that's what I keep

1261
01:20:49.640 --> 01:20:54.119
hearing, is like, like that
game becomes no fucking joke at halfway through

1262
01:20:54.199 --> 01:20:57.239
it's like, oh, oh,
all right, this is the lastformer not

1263
01:20:57.520 --> 01:21:00.479
playing anymore here. The good news
is that once you hit that point,

1264
01:21:00.520 --> 01:21:04.119
if you for some reason hit a
level you just can't get through, yeah,

1265
01:21:04.880 --> 01:21:08.840
uh, you can kind of go
back and just you know, take

1266
01:21:08.880 --> 01:21:11.479
some of it some time to go
and catch some of those other you know,

1267
01:21:11.560 --> 01:21:15.079
little medallion dudes. Uh, you
know, sort of build up your

1268
01:21:15.199 --> 01:21:17.119
cash it and take a little time
before you go back and try and best

1269
01:21:17.119 --> 01:21:19.079
that, or you can go in
one of the other worlds and you know,

1270
01:21:19.159 --> 01:21:21.199
mess around with that stuff because it's
kind of open at that point.

1271
01:21:21.279 --> 01:21:26.720
It seems like it's pretty generous though, with like the checkpointing from like each

1272
01:21:26.920 --> 01:21:30.159
chunk of the levels in that game. The only one that aren't are those

1273
01:21:30.279 --> 01:21:33.239
goddamn treasure hunts. I hate the
treasure hunts because the one where you're chasing

1274
01:21:33.239 --> 01:21:36.840
the treasure chest around and like,
those are so much fun, so much

1275
01:21:36.880 --> 01:21:41.560
fun, the first two, but
then after that it's they become insanely hard

1276
01:21:41.640 --> 01:21:44.520
trial and error and there's no checkpoints
in those the first three. And I

1277
01:21:44.520 --> 01:21:46.239
really enjoyed active. Yeah, by
the third one, I was like I

1278
01:21:46.279 --> 01:21:50.720
wanted to throw my controller and set
fires because I again, I feel like

1279
01:21:50.760 --> 01:21:57.359
they they make it pretty clear sort
of. They leave enough breadcrumbs that you

1280
01:21:57.399 --> 01:21:59.720
know, like, this is the
path that I need to get through.

1281
01:21:59.840 --> 01:22:02.079
Is just matter of execution of yeah, hitting the timing right, doing your

1282
01:22:02.079 --> 01:22:05.159
triangle jumps, you know, floating
when you need to float, sliding when

1283
01:22:05.159 --> 01:22:09.159
you need to slide, and and
if you could do that stuff, then

1284
01:22:09.199 --> 01:22:12.359
it it works out. Question is
a little random. Can you play this

1285
01:22:12.399 --> 01:22:15.920
game with the deep pad? Gosh, you know, I don't know.

1286
01:22:15.119 --> 01:22:18.439
I'm not sure what I was using. I was You wouldn't want to on

1287
01:22:18.439 --> 01:22:21.960
the Xbox. It wouldn't make it
any better. Well, that's faster.

1288
01:22:24.760 --> 01:22:27.880
I guess it comes down to whether
there's like analog movement or not. But

1289
01:22:28.560 --> 01:22:31.199
playing two D games without analog movement
with a stick feels weird to me.

1290
01:22:31.399 --> 01:22:35.079
Yeah, because there's so much throw
going from neutral to all the way to

1291
01:22:35.079 --> 01:22:38.800
the right on a stick versus like
this's just a click on a deep pad.

1292
01:22:38.880 --> 01:22:41.840
You know, I didn't notice anything
because it sounds like this is like

1293
01:22:41.880 --> 01:22:44.920
fast enough and skill based enough that
you need precision to get through some of

1294
01:22:44.920 --> 01:22:47.159
the stuff. I had no issues
animation balance, I you know, it's

1295
01:22:47.199 --> 01:22:51.079
it's you always hear about like,
oh, too much animation priority here there.

1296
01:22:53.000 --> 01:22:55.880
I don't think there's too much,
but there is some like there's there's

1297
01:22:55.920 --> 01:23:00.000
a little turnaround time. I never
felt using the analect stick that I wasn't

1298
01:23:00.119 --> 01:23:02.039
Anything that I was doing was not
a result of the analog stick. Like

1299
01:23:02.399 --> 01:23:05.279
the animations are snappy. They don't. They don't. They're not sluggish.

1300
01:23:05.319 --> 01:23:09.199
There's nothing like you're like waiting for
something to finish for you know, a

1301
01:23:09.279 --> 01:23:14.159
noticeable amount of time, like it
it moves with you pretty well. I'd

1302
01:23:14.159 --> 01:23:15.359
have to go and check, like, I don't know how much the analog

1303
01:23:15.479 --> 01:23:19.600
is ties should God damn, it
looks so good everywhere all the time.

1304
01:23:19.680 --> 01:23:23.920
Yeah, that art, just that
two D hand drawn. Four different art

1305
01:23:23.960 --> 01:23:27.520
directors worked on that game. It's
it's phenomenal. It's really really good.

1306
01:23:27.600 --> 01:23:31.119
I love them more Michelle Nswell,
Yeah, more or less. They announced

1307
01:23:31.119 --> 01:23:36.560
that they're doing that HD version of
Raymand three uh ramdod, which yeah,

1308
01:23:36.600 --> 01:23:41.600
weird. I never I never played
the three. It's okay, it's hold

1309
01:23:41.640 --> 01:23:45.520
them HAVOCU them have two is not
on XBLA or anything, right, No,

1310
01:23:46.520 --> 01:23:51.960
it's one every single platform from the
year three DS version it's just like

1311
01:23:51.960 --> 01:23:57.600
a version of the DS version version
of that game, if you have any

1312
01:23:57.640 --> 01:24:00.760
platform from the year two thousand,
the Dreamcast version was the best, right

1313
01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:03.880
and had like improved lighting. Yeah, I think Dreamcast version was really good.

1314
01:24:03.920 --> 01:24:06.399
They did more stuff to the PS
two version, but I remember they're

1315
01:24:06.439 --> 01:24:12.600
being frame rate issues, So yeah, why do you see? I mean

1316
01:24:12.600 --> 01:24:15.439
I played, I played through that
game on the PC. Why do Raymond

1317
01:24:15.600 --> 01:24:19.039
three? Mm? Hm, it
was the easiest one. Everyone already has

1318
01:24:19.119 --> 01:24:25.920
Rayman two on five platforms. You
know what, I would wager that what

1319
01:24:25.960 --> 01:24:30.159
I saw of Rayman two on the
three DS, uh, it feels a

1320
01:24:30.199 --> 01:24:34.920
little old. There are things about
that game that that that don't feel particularly

1321
01:24:34.960 --> 01:24:40.479
modern, and I could see Rayman
three bridging that gap a little better.

1322
01:24:41.479 --> 01:24:44.600
But a good time for Rayman.
So cheers. I'm happy about that.

1323
01:24:44.720 --> 01:24:47.159
Just you know, well, provided
those games are selling, which you know,

1324
01:24:47.199 --> 01:24:51.439
freaking raymand Ah, that game is
gonna sell. Yeah. Well it

1325
01:24:51.520 --> 01:24:56.479
got made exactly, That's exactly they
got made. The critical the critical I

1326
01:24:56.560 --> 01:24:59.600
made. I got to play it. You know, that's more raymand than

1327
01:24:59.600 --> 01:25:01.079
I've had a long time. Not
my problem. What happens after that?

1328
01:25:01.159 --> 01:25:08.920
It was forty dollars yesterday, So
it tells you anything I feel. I'm

1329
01:25:08.960 --> 01:25:12.359
not gonna say that that game doesn't
seem like it's worth sixty bucks, but

1330
01:25:12.520 --> 01:25:15.239
gosh, it does seem like a
such an easier sell if you say it's

1331
01:25:15.239 --> 01:25:16.760
like forty bucks, like okay,
yea even fifty, Like this is a

1332
01:25:16.760 --> 01:25:20.039
really good two D game, you
know, it's it's not a short game

1333
01:25:20.079 --> 01:25:25.960
necessarily, although it's also a game
that I really don't like playing in extended

1334
01:25:26.159 --> 01:25:29.159
stretches. Like no, you know, I was playing Batman for you know,

1335
01:25:29.199 --> 01:25:30.840
five six hours at a time.
I think any any platform or does

1336
01:25:30.880 --> 01:25:34.439
not lind itself to but that game
is like do a world, and like

1337
01:25:34.680 --> 01:25:36.399
go do something else for a while. It's an hour, hour and a

1338
01:25:36.439 --> 01:25:40.800
half at a time, like a
day you do a world and then yeah,

1339
01:25:40.880 --> 01:25:43.720
it's nice, especially given that,
I mean there's quite a bit to

1340
01:25:43.800 --> 01:25:45.720
that game, but like I don't
want it to be over, so like

1341
01:25:45.760 --> 01:25:49.279
I'm willing to stretch it out a
little bit. Yeah, I haven't been

1342
01:25:49.279 --> 01:25:53.680
going back in redoing anything I've done. I've done a couple of them.

1343
01:25:53.680 --> 01:25:59.279
The time trial stuff gets real crazy, real quick. I bet I can't

1344
01:25:59.279 --> 01:26:01.319
see myself going maybe past the first
world of doing that stuff. It's actually

1345
01:26:01.319 --> 01:26:05.760
pretty crazy how easy the early worlds
feel after you start getting deeper into the

1346
01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:10.680
game. Like it's I mean,
that game feels challenging the first time you

1347
01:26:10.720 --> 01:26:12.760
put you boot it up. I
mean, even it's you know, breezy,

1348
01:26:12.840 --> 01:26:14.720
it still feels like, you know, that's you know, there's there's

1349
01:26:14.760 --> 01:26:16.239
timing. It's it's kind of a
challenge to it if you want. It

1350
01:26:16.239 --> 01:26:18.760
feels like the easiest thing in the
world. If you want to get anything

1351
01:26:18.800 --> 01:26:23.119
in the game, even if you
just want to mainline it, it's it's

1352
01:26:23.159 --> 01:26:25.720
there's still gonna be rough spotspacially in
the set back half of the game.

1353
01:26:25.760 --> 01:26:28.119
But if you want to get any
of the stuff, if you want to

1354
01:26:28.119 --> 01:26:30.960
do any of the secret stuff,
that's where the timing really really comes in.

1355
01:26:31.840 --> 01:26:35.960
Uh. Yeah, that's a game. Play it. You should go

1356
01:26:35.960 --> 01:26:41.840
by. You play it. I
recommend it. Everyone critics agree ray Man

1357
01:26:41.840 --> 01:26:50.840
Origins is a game continue to.
Continuing to avoid a Skyrim, I also

1358
01:26:51.439 --> 01:26:55.760
picked back up Gears of War three, which I had only played like the

1359
01:26:55.840 --> 01:26:59.920
very first mission of UH so I
picked it right back up with the like

1360
01:27:00.079 --> 01:27:02.720
the first Coltrane mission and got through. Yeah, some of that stuff.

1361
01:27:02.840 --> 01:27:06.560
Just try and play that co op. I found it more enjoyable. It

1362
01:27:06.560 --> 01:27:10.439
seems like it could be like I've
been wanting to do before player and saying,

1363
01:27:10.560 --> 01:27:13.960
run, I don't know if anybody's
in. I'm just getting my normal

1364
01:27:14.039 --> 01:27:16.520
on for the time being. Man, But the game is not hard even

1365
01:27:16.600 --> 01:27:21.520
on God what's their terminology for one
under and saying is it hardcore? Hardcore?

1366
01:27:21.600 --> 01:27:25.640
Yet even on hardcore? I was
I was reading an interview with with

1367
01:27:25.680 --> 01:27:28.680
Blazynski where they were they asked them
like, hey, your normal doesn't feel

1368
01:27:28.680 --> 01:27:31.159
like normal anymore, and they said
that was as a result of Casual not

1369
01:27:31.199 --> 01:27:35.880
being casual enough. So they just
kind of ratcheted everything like casual is supposed

1370
01:27:35.920 --> 01:27:39.920
to be. You can't die.
They re centered in the same way that

1371
01:27:39.960 --> 01:27:42.960
Halo did. Yeah, and it's
it's just too bad they didn't one that

1372
01:27:43.039 --> 01:27:45.359
one step down from the top is
the one that you should play if you

1373
01:27:45.439 --> 01:27:47.840
think it does say like when you
look at hardcore, I think it does

1374
01:27:47.880 --> 01:27:50.399
give some of the same text that
Halo guys do, where it's like this

1375
01:27:50.439 --> 01:27:54.199
is the way you should play it. I just I didn't know they made

1376
01:27:54.239 --> 01:27:56.159
that change, you know, Like
I've played all the other games, Like

1377
01:27:56.279 --> 01:27:59.000
I was challenging enough on normal,
and then I go back and played a

1378
01:27:59.039 --> 01:28:00.880
hardcore later, and I thought that
was the that's not to be the bad

1379
01:28:00.920 --> 01:28:03.760
move to the wrong move for this
one. It's just too easy on normal.

1380
01:28:04.880 --> 01:28:11.119
And I kind of broke up the
big games with some Super Mario three

1381
01:28:11.279 --> 01:28:14.199
land, which is that's a that's
a delightful game, that's fun, that's

1382
01:28:14.199 --> 01:28:17.000
a pleasant thing. They did a
good job with that here things they like

1383
01:28:18.960 --> 01:28:23.039
yes, yes, I wish it
wasn't Yes to that game, Like it's

1384
01:28:23.039 --> 01:28:25.880
it's kind of a weird situation because
the first half of that game, or

1385
01:28:25.960 --> 01:28:30.640
you know, just under half is
just kind of dumb easy. Yeah,

1386
01:28:30.640 --> 01:28:32.960
so it takes a lot longer to
get going than it should. I just

1387
01:28:33.000 --> 01:28:40.800
think just the layout, the way
that they kind of incorporate different Mario platforming

1388
01:28:40.880 --> 01:28:43.479
ideas, like they kind of pick
and choose the stuff that they like,

1389
01:28:43.680 --> 01:28:47.760
and like they create something that's like
it is both familiar but a new arrangement

1390
01:28:47.760 --> 01:28:53.680
of that stuff, and like that's
you know, when Nintendo's add its best,

1391
01:28:53.720 --> 01:28:58.439
it's doing that basically. So so
I really enjoyed that. And like

1392
01:28:58.479 --> 01:29:00.720
one of the cork and seats of
the game is everyone has tanuki suits.

1393
01:29:00.760 --> 01:29:04.000
Everyone got tailed, right of just
like there's just tailed, like there's a

1394
01:29:04.079 --> 01:29:10.159
leaf explosion and now it just it
seems like that they were just like people

1395
01:29:10.199 --> 01:29:15.279
saying like you need to bring back
right here's your fucking scot One. The

1396
01:29:15.319 --> 01:29:17.640
way he was describing it to me
yesterday, it reminded me of Medal gre

1397
01:29:17.680 --> 01:29:23.079
Solid too, where plans for metal
gear rex leaked to the world and now

1398
01:29:23.119 --> 01:29:27.079
everybody has metal gear. Yeah.
Yes, it's been a prolifer. Philanthropy

1399
01:29:27.159 --> 01:29:31.560
is an anti tanuki suit organization that
is going around crawl through holes and fences

1400
01:29:31.560 --> 01:29:34.239
and trying to save the world.
I think, yeah, I think it's

1401
01:29:34.239 --> 01:29:38.840
cool. I like it. That's
that's damned fun. Did you play any

1402
01:29:38.840 --> 01:29:45.880
Skyward Sword? You goddamn son of
a bitch. We both got fucked by

1403
01:29:45.880 --> 01:29:50.680
this, by by my accidental troll. I wish I wish I could say

1404
01:29:50.720 --> 01:29:57.159
that, were you impacted by so
Wednesday? I uh tell the whole story

1405
01:29:57.239 --> 01:30:00.359
just for the folks who haven't heard
so Wednesday. Yeah, uh, you

1406
01:30:00.359 --> 01:30:02.600
know, Patrick's gone, Brad's gone, just be and Jeff in the office

1407
01:30:02.600 --> 01:30:06.319
pretty much. Yeah, of Connect
games, a bunch of Connect games and

1408
01:30:06.319 --> 01:30:09.720
at one point, right, we
did that. Yeah, and we played

1409
01:30:09.720 --> 01:30:12.760
more Words for Money, a lot
of that out. Yeah. Uh.

1410
01:30:12.800 --> 01:30:15.479
It was a good day. And
I was like, oh, you know,

1411
01:30:15.520 --> 01:30:19.159
four day weekend coming up, and
there's the box first Skyward Swords sitting

1412
01:30:19.159 --> 01:30:23.399
on Patrick's desk. I'm like,
I should probably play that. You know,

1413
01:30:23.680 --> 01:30:26.439
it's it's important. It's they that's
a that's a major game. I

1414
01:30:26.640 --> 01:30:29.399
need to know firsthand about this.
So it's like, no one else is

1415
01:30:29.439 --> 01:30:31.119
gonna pick this up. Yeah,
I'll I'll snatch this copy. That's cool,

1416
01:30:31.119 --> 01:30:33.159
and you know, pop it open
and it's the two disc things.

1417
01:30:33.159 --> 01:30:36.000
So it's got the front disc is
the soundtrack disc, and it's all golden

1418
01:30:36.039 --> 01:30:40.279
and ship yeah. And I could
just see like the edge of the disc

1419
01:30:40.399 --> 01:30:43.720
behind it, and it's like,
yeah, that's also gold Zelda's good.

1420
01:30:44.159 --> 01:30:46.159
Close it up, throw it in
my bag. After he does that,

1421
01:30:46.319 --> 01:30:50.119
I see Twilight Princess sitting there and
go, oh, Patrick's probably done with

1422
01:30:50.159 --> 01:30:53.439
my copy. It's Twilight Princess.
I'll just grab it and throw it in

1423
01:30:53.479 --> 01:30:57.600
my bag. Yeah. So we
get back home, get dinner, get

1424
01:30:57.600 --> 01:31:01.279
back home, tuck in for the
for the weekend, and I had recovered

1425
01:31:01.279 --> 01:31:04.640
my three sixty profile to one of
the xboxes here at the office. So

1426
01:31:04.640 --> 01:31:05.960
when I got home, I was
like, oh fuck, I have to

1427
01:31:05.960 --> 01:31:10.159
re re recover my profile here,
and that takes like two hours at this

1428
01:31:10.199 --> 01:31:13.000
point for me. So I'm like, well, I'm not gonna play any

1429
01:31:13.000 --> 01:31:15.960
three sixty games right now, so
let's get started. Let's let's play a

1430
01:31:16.000 --> 01:31:19.880
couple hours of Skywood Sword. This
good good a time as any. So

1431
01:31:20.039 --> 01:31:23.720
well, obviously I need to go
and find the Wei remote that has the

1432
01:31:23.760 --> 01:31:28.239
wee Motion plus dongle attached to it. Oh well, that that one needs

1433
01:31:28.239 --> 01:31:30.760
batteries, So let's go get the
fresh batteries. All right, did that,

1434
01:31:30.000 --> 01:31:34.119
Let's pull Galaxy two out of the
wee put put Skywood Sword in,

1435
01:31:34.680 --> 01:31:38.000
you know, hit hit the menu, and I'm sitting there and there's the

1436
01:31:38.039 --> 01:31:42.039
opening cut scene that's playing, and
there's like vistas and there's fucking link its

1437
01:31:42.079 --> 01:31:45.119
galloping on a horse, and I'm
looking at thing like this kind of looks

1438
01:31:45.119 --> 01:31:47.880
like shit, like this isn't like
everything looks real boxy, and like the

1439
01:31:47.960 --> 01:31:53.479
lighting effects everything's kind of grainy,
and then fucking howling wolf shows up.

1440
01:31:53.520 --> 01:31:57.600
I'm like, wait, I thought
the fucking wolf thing was in the last

1441
01:31:57.640 --> 01:32:00.960
and then title screen like in Twilight, and pretty like what the god damn

1442
01:32:01.000 --> 01:32:02.960
it. The only thing I would
have made it better is if the price

1443
01:32:03.039 --> 01:32:05.920
is right, losing horror had played
over the title screen. But it was

1444
01:32:05.960 --> 01:32:11.159
just such a build. It was
like like thinking about it and like,

1445
01:32:11.159 --> 01:32:14.840
oh, I gotta get yoke batteries, the controller and sitting there and like

1446
01:32:14.880 --> 01:32:16.720
all right, like you know,
making room and shit, because I like

1447
01:32:16.760 --> 01:32:19.199
I need room to swing around and
stuff, right, and I'm just like

1448
01:32:19.239 --> 01:32:25.079
all right, I'm we remote.
I plugged in the fucking nun Chuck,

1449
01:32:25.119 --> 01:32:28.760
which I hadn't had plugged into a
WE remote in probably a year in my

1450
01:32:28.800 --> 01:32:30.720
house. It's like, all right, let's go. Zelda dazzled me.

1451
01:32:31.680 --> 01:32:36.960
And then the game I wanted to
play at I've never played Twlight Print.

1452
01:32:38.000 --> 01:32:40.640
I also never played Twlight Princess,
so it wasn't like I had that immediate

1453
01:32:40.640 --> 01:32:42.560
like oh, I've seen this cussing
before. I know what's happening here.

1454
01:32:43.039 --> 01:32:45.880
I realized where I've screwed up.
So I'm just like trying to like drinking,

1455
01:32:45.920 --> 01:32:47.199
and like, all right, you're
opening atmosphere, you're setting the tone

1456
01:32:47.199 --> 01:32:50.560
in the mood here. Let's let's
let's do this, Zelda. So then

1457
01:32:50.600 --> 01:32:54.159
you take to the Internet to post
about what's happened, and I go like,

1458
01:32:54.520 --> 01:32:56.760
oh shit, I bet I bet
that means it's in my bag.

1459
01:32:57.039 --> 01:33:04.279
Fuck him. I'm gonna play some
Scarwoods crack over the case empty you had

1460
01:33:04.359 --> 01:33:10.359
nothing? Yeah, I see this
all unfold and like I've had a couple

1461
01:33:10.439 --> 01:33:14.079
drinks at that point, I'm just
like hollowy with fucking laughter, and I

1462
01:33:14.359 --> 01:33:15.479
was like, what's so funny.
I was like, I can't explain it.

1463
01:33:15.560 --> 01:33:20.000
No one would find this at all. None of you people in Nebraska

1464
01:33:20.039 --> 01:33:27.239
would find this at all. Patrick
was the desk, it was from from

1465
01:33:27.239 --> 01:33:30.439
the quick list take it with you. It was just no, yeah,

1466
01:33:30.680 --> 01:33:34.720
everyone made reasonable assumptions. Yeah,
yeah, no, and and yeah no

1467
01:33:34.760 --> 01:33:40.279
malice on Patrick's behalf. Just it
was just somewhere else. Uh. But

1468
01:33:40.720 --> 01:33:43.479
of course they just get back to
Twitter. It's like twenty twenty five messages

1469
01:33:43.520 --> 01:33:45.479
like nice troll, dude. I'm
just saying, Oh I wish, I

1470
01:33:45.600 --> 01:33:51.920
wish I could claim that it was
a control Wan Twilight Princess back. Uh,

1471
01:33:53.239 --> 01:33:57.199
it's not my problem anymore. It's
on It's on Patrick's desk, all

1472
01:33:57.279 --> 01:34:00.600
right. I swapped out the disk
I now have Starwards board or do you

1473
01:34:00.640 --> 01:34:03.159
do? Yeah? I remember we
took it out of that week yesterday,

1474
01:34:03.520 --> 01:34:08.840
I hope so God damn it now
just just seated doubt in all of this.

1475
01:34:08.920 --> 01:34:11.399
Now, all Zelder related things you
have to like, triple chests can

1476
01:34:11.520 --> 01:34:17.359
be a tiny one of those GameCube
whatever they called them, uh not ROMs,

1477
01:34:18.760 --> 01:34:24.640
what they call those GameCube discs.
They're just they're just they're fuss.

1478
01:34:24.720 --> 01:34:30.439
It's the small small form factor DVD
DVD's but less so m M thanks DVD

1479
01:34:30.560 --> 01:34:39.720
minus yeah minus minus uh and uh
Mario Kart seven, the seventh Mario Kart,

1480
01:34:39.840 --> 01:34:43.720
which actually is the seventh Mario Car
that their math checks out. The

1481
01:34:43.840 --> 01:34:46.800
arcade games don't count the kames really
because it was just like they're just updates

1482
01:34:46.840 --> 01:34:51.199
of existing games. Yea. For
the life can I figure out why this

1483
01:34:51.359 --> 01:34:56.520
was the time they decided that a
numbering convention was required. It couldn't come

1484
01:34:56.600 --> 01:35:00.760
up with anything, but did Mario
Kart three DS is not good enough because

1485
01:35:00.800 --> 01:35:03.720
the three it's like, it's not
Mario Kart three just wouldn't work. Man,

1486
01:35:03.800 --> 01:35:08.359
just call it Mario Kart three D. No. No, I kind

1487
01:35:08.399 --> 01:35:13.279
of like it because it's brazen it
really is just just like there are seven

1488
01:35:13.359 --> 01:35:17.720
of these games. You've played this
game already six times before, and now

1489
01:35:17.760 --> 01:35:23.760
you're gonna play it again. There
are there are things about Mario Kart seven

1490
01:35:23.800 --> 01:35:27.359
that are that are great. Uh, you know, it's it's you know,

1491
01:35:27.439 --> 01:35:30.560
Mario Kart is Mario Kart. They're
they're not gonna make any radical changes

1492
01:35:30.600 --> 01:35:33.600
to it, even when they have, like people have been wildly unhappy about

1493
01:35:33.640 --> 01:35:39.479
it, like the double dash stuff
that not that not that radical, but

1494
01:35:39.600 --> 01:35:44.600
something that's still stuck in people's cross
for whatever reason. So it's it's sort

1495
01:35:44.640 --> 01:35:46.159
of like the you know, Nintendo's
kind of like, hey, message received,

1496
01:35:46.279 --> 01:35:49.000
We'll just keep making Mario Kart.
You know, once per platform,

1497
01:35:49.079 --> 01:35:51.640
we will make a game that says
Mario Kart on it, and you'll buy

1498
01:35:51.680 --> 01:35:58.680
it. Uh, this this seems
like a well executed One of those tracks

1499
01:35:58.720 --> 01:36:01.159
are great. I think that the
ones we saw anyway, the new tracks

1500
01:36:01.199 --> 01:36:04.319
that they've built for because so it's
like sixteen new tracks, sixteen classic tracks.

1501
01:36:05.199 --> 01:36:08.479
I think the new tracks are solid. Are the classic tracks good?

1502
01:36:08.520 --> 01:36:12.159
Do they pick good ones? So
you know, I don't have like that

1503
01:36:13.079 --> 01:36:15.800
that Mario Kart specific affinity. It
seems like they're are they are they recognizable?

1504
01:36:15.880 --> 01:36:18.920
And do you still enjoy them?
That is? The new tracks are

1505
01:36:19.159 --> 01:36:24.159
are always better though, and there
are you recognizing them as those tracks?

1506
01:36:24.199 --> 01:36:26.560
Are you recognizing they are? Like, oh, this is the ghost track.

1507
01:36:28.079 --> 01:36:30.600
I can tell the difference between like
the ghost track and the N sixty

1508
01:36:30.640 --> 01:36:32.399
four game and the one in the
DS game. Yeah, you have a

1509
01:36:32.520 --> 01:36:38.319
level of specificity. Card call because
of card call too is all you need.

1510
01:36:38.479 --> 01:36:41.359
Yeah, that's so. So I
don't I mean, I don't have

1511
01:36:41.520 --> 01:36:46.119
that that affinity. I feel like
they the new tracks are more three dimensional,

1512
01:36:47.079 --> 01:36:49.279
like you kind of look at that
series, there's a progress Like you

1513
01:36:49.319 --> 01:36:59.239
look at the original Super Mario Kart. It's flat whirl rotation, and they

1514
01:36:59.399 --> 01:37:01.239
you know, they get a little
more three D, more hills and such

1515
01:37:01.680 --> 01:37:05.039
as the series goes on and this
one, since they introduced underwater stuff and

1516
01:37:05.119 --> 01:37:09.600
aerial stuff, the tracks get kind
of bigger and there's more open space.

1517
01:37:09.760 --> 01:37:13.000
There's you know, kind of bigger
turns, bigger hill but it doesn't become

1518
01:37:13.239 --> 01:37:15.039
like Diddy Kong racing or anything like
that at all. It's not just like

1519
01:37:15.319 --> 01:37:17.880
you're flying no no, no,
no no. So the aerial parts are

1520
01:37:17.880 --> 01:37:21.640
just like you're gliding down, you
are you have like a you know,

1521
01:37:21.800 --> 01:37:26.359
a hang glider or a parachute or
something that that pops up over you and

1522
01:37:26.439 --> 01:37:29.159
you kind of glide down through the
section. There's like rings or there's not

1523
01:37:29.279 --> 01:37:31.479
rings. There's a question boxes and
stuff question boxes. There's coins that you

1524
01:37:31.479 --> 01:37:33.640
can pick up. There are things
that you can use to extend your your

1525
01:37:33.680 --> 01:37:39.119
airtime. It seems like the airtime
might it seems like the airtime makes you

1526
01:37:39.159 --> 01:37:41.600
go faster. It seems like you
can't pick up lost time. If you're

1527
01:37:41.600 --> 01:37:43.880
able to stay. We can also
do things like there are some parts where

1528
01:37:43.880 --> 01:37:45.720
you could sail over a turn and
stuff you can you can get and you

1529
01:37:45.720 --> 01:37:48.800
can get a lot of ground and
if you glide intelligently, and some spots

1530
01:37:48.960 --> 01:37:51.600
yeah yeah, and and there always
you can fire weapons while you're still in

1531
01:37:51.600 --> 01:37:56.319
the air too. You can shoot
shells and stuff, and when someone gets

1532
01:37:56.359 --> 01:37:59.479
knocked in the air, they don't
spawn where they You can do all that

1533
01:37:59.520 --> 01:38:02.000
stuff in the new tracks, so
they've they've inserted the little bits of of

1534
01:38:02.119 --> 01:38:06.640
aerial and underwater stuff in the old
tracks, but they are non interactive.

1535
01:38:08.720 --> 01:38:11.800
It is like you're ramp and you
shoot off that ramp and then you're in

1536
01:38:11.880 --> 01:38:14.880
the air but you cannot turn.
It's like you're gonna go and hit this

1537
01:38:15.039 --> 01:38:16.800
other end of the thing and keep
going like that's how it was in those

1538
01:38:16.840 --> 01:38:20.960
old games. Yea, they just
didn't change. It's still a little strange.

1539
01:38:21.439 --> 01:38:28.000
So it's only the new tracks really
make use of of those new abilities.

1540
01:38:28.000 --> 01:38:30.640
That Wah who wah who Island one
was who Yeah? Yeah, the

1541
01:38:30.640 --> 01:38:33.800
woo who Island is an awesome track. There's there's a couple of It's a

1542
01:38:33.880 --> 01:38:39.239
really extended gliding sequence that goes on
for like good thirty seconds and you have

1543
01:38:39.319 --> 01:38:41.760
to dodge stuff that's in the air. Yeah, it's the longest one.

1544
01:38:41.800 --> 01:38:44.199
It's the best one. Yeah,
you guys definitely saw saw that. And

1545
01:38:44.520 --> 01:38:45.840
there's no laps on that track.
It's a single lap. It's just like

1546
01:38:45.960 --> 01:38:51.359
a three minute long just point point
point point point straight. Uh. You

1547
01:38:51.439 --> 01:38:57.159
know the handles well handles the way
Marto cart you know, I think should

1548
01:38:57.159 --> 01:39:00.720
handle it the way people expected.
The physics change a little bit when you're

1549
01:39:00.800 --> 01:39:03.680
underwater like there are that's kind of
the nice But about when you slide around

1550
01:39:03.720 --> 01:39:06.520
corners when you're underwater, you hop
up on two wheels, Uh, you

1551
01:39:06.600 --> 01:39:09.640
never flip, but yeah, you
hop on two wheels, A nice little

1552
01:39:09.680 --> 01:39:13.039
touch. Be nice if you could
roll your cart straight, roll your cart

1553
01:39:13.199 --> 01:39:15.920
or you'll you will get rolled repeatedly. Let me guess, Let me guess

1554
01:39:15.920 --> 01:39:18.920
you get screwed by blue shells all
the goddamn Yeah. I mean, I

1555
01:39:19.000 --> 01:39:21.720
still I still wish those are removed
from the game, or at least there

1556
01:39:21.760 --> 01:39:28.000
was a toggle. I still don't
like the blue shell. It's Mario Kart,

1557
01:39:28.439 --> 01:39:30.000
you know, Yeah, but I
know I agree, not always had

1558
01:39:30.039 --> 01:39:32.319
blue. There's the thing. Think
it's a really cheap way. The games

1559
01:39:32.319 --> 01:39:36.359
already cheap enough in a lot of
ways. It doesn't need that. Yeah,

1560
01:39:36.560 --> 01:39:40.600
I actually think Mario Kart's really easy
by and large. I think Mario

1561
01:39:40.680 --> 01:39:44.359
Kart is is only cheap because of
that mechanic. I think buy and like,

1562
01:39:44.439 --> 01:39:45.760
if you know, how do you
play Mario Kart? You can just

1563
01:39:46.279 --> 01:39:50.319
bust through that shit really easily.
I mean I tore through, like playing

1564
01:39:50.319 --> 01:39:54.720
the game single player, I tore
through all the cups. Yeah, you

1565
01:39:54.800 --> 01:39:58.439
know, most of them at one
hundred, one hundred, most of them

1566
01:39:58.479 --> 01:40:01.000
one fifty, a couple at one
hundred ccs, which is like the difficulty

1567
01:40:01.359 --> 01:40:05.560
scaling in a couple of hours.
It didn't take that long, and that's

1568
01:40:05.560 --> 01:40:09.520
like thirty two tracks. And I'm
guessing you weren't getting beat a whole lot

1569
01:40:09.600 --> 01:40:14.239
by the add I guess I was
meaning more multiplayer. Point is my point

1570
01:40:14.319 --> 01:40:17.119
is that difficulty only really applies to
the single player because like what happens,

1571
01:40:17.680 --> 01:40:21.560
you know in a race with block
opponents is you know, much more up

1572
01:40:21.600 --> 01:40:28.920
to the players. Yeah. Also, it's like you still have that like

1573
01:40:29.920 --> 01:40:34.000
Mario Kart is about those hard swings, like it's it's become such a fundamental

1574
01:40:34.079 --> 01:40:39.399
thing about it that I think if
you didn't have crazy upsets in races that

1575
01:40:39.640 --> 01:40:44.920
were you know, computer assisted like
that, Uh, people would cry foul,

1576
01:40:45.039 --> 01:40:48.279
which I don't know if as much
Nintendo's fault. This is the audience

1577
01:40:48.359 --> 01:40:55.039
that's making these demands of Nintendo as
far as kind of those balance things.

1578
01:40:55.039 --> 01:40:56.800
But there's new power ups in it, and I think some of them are

1579
01:40:57.359 --> 01:41:00.840
pretty cool. Yeah, throwing the
fireballs off some there's one til Yeah,

1580
01:41:00.960 --> 01:41:04.720
I mean it doesn't it's not as
usefuls as it's just super useful. I

1581
01:41:04.800 --> 01:41:08.399
was in first place with the tailor
yesterday and somebody shot a red shell at

1582
01:41:08.439 --> 01:41:11.239
me and I wapped the red shell
out of the way that timing is real.

1583
01:41:13.439 --> 01:41:15.159
The timing is is high level Mari
cart strategy. I like. I

1584
01:41:15.279 --> 01:41:18.880
like the you can also make the
blue shells work for you if you're you

1585
01:41:18.960 --> 01:41:23.239
know, I like that because they
hit everybody. You just make sure everybody's

1586
01:41:23.239 --> 01:41:26.560
bunched up around you when it hits. There's a new power up that's called

1587
01:41:26.560 --> 01:41:30.159
the Lucky Seven that if you get
it, gives you seven power ups around

1588
01:41:30.199 --> 01:41:32.359
your cart, just just like you
just see the icons for all of them,

1589
01:41:32.600 --> 01:41:34.800
like sort of the way you would
have like green shells or red shells,

1590
01:41:34.880 --> 01:41:39.079
like rotating around your cart. So
and then you just hit the button

1591
01:41:39.079 --> 01:41:41.800
and I'm not sure if it's like
placement for where they are at any given

1592
01:41:41.840 --> 01:41:44.479
time or if it's random, but
then you will just start busting off all

1593
01:41:44.520 --> 01:41:47.039
of these power ups, which is
a kind of a fun different way to

1594
01:41:47.279 --> 01:41:50.119
handle that. But I don't think
that game is a ton of fun single

1595
01:41:50.159 --> 01:41:54.439
player, Like there's not it never
has been. There's nothing, there's nothing

1596
01:41:54.479 --> 01:41:58.760
really to do. It's sort of
like you not on stuff. You're looking

1597
01:41:58.920 --> 01:42:02.119
like there's cart parts and you're locking
characters, but like characters are very rigidly

1598
01:42:02.199 --> 01:42:06.199
class based, but it's more of
a foregone conclusion that you're just doing that

1599
01:42:06.319 --> 01:42:10.600
two unlocked stuff. It's like that's
the only reason a single player even Coon

1600
01:42:10.600 --> 01:42:12.359
don't even exist in these kind of
games, because like, well, they

1601
01:42:12.399 --> 01:42:15.760
need an excuse to unlock some shot. I would argue that they could make

1602
01:42:15.840 --> 01:42:18.079
a compelling single player. Yeah,
yeah, there's more, certainly more they

1603
01:42:18.119 --> 01:42:21.119
could do. I argue that it's
like the parts they have in place,

1604
01:42:21.279 --> 01:42:27.479
if a range and presented in a
different way could have a compeller, perhaps

1605
01:42:27.520 --> 01:42:30.960
as the film Days of Thunder,
but in Mario single player experience, but

1606
01:42:31.159 --> 01:42:34.760
as it is like yeah, do
the you know, Grand Prix races and

1607
01:42:34.960 --> 01:42:39.000
Dylan locks some stuff, and then
you'd probably go play with other people.

1608
01:42:39.119 --> 01:42:41.439
Right now, it's just like I'd
rather pay half price than just only get

1609
01:42:41.439 --> 01:42:44.880
a multiplayer game that I play when
I'm around people and the online works like

1610
01:42:45.319 --> 01:42:47.960
sports up to eight players. I
was playing with folks, a single card

1611
01:42:48.000 --> 01:42:51.319
stuff works. This is still before
I'm recording this, still before that game

1612
01:42:51.439 --> 01:42:55.119
is out, at least in the
US. I think it might be out

1613
01:42:55.119 --> 01:42:59.439
in Europe already because I was playing
with all Europeans. Was worth the Sunday

1614
01:42:59.560 --> 01:43:02.840
or something it may have been.
So I think it's I think it's already

1615
01:43:02.880 --> 01:43:09.479
out in in Europe's because I was
playing with Swedes and Frenches and Britishes and

1616
01:43:10.239 --> 01:43:14.079
yeah, all sorts of Euros uh, and it worked well. I didn't

1617
01:43:14.079 --> 01:43:16.239
have any sort of you know,
lagger or you know connectivity issues. There

1618
01:43:16.279 --> 01:43:25.840
it goes and it has uh,
there's no there's no game specific friend codes,

1619
01:43:25.880 --> 01:43:28.960
but they have these. You can
create community groups and then they have

1620
01:43:29.159 --> 01:43:32.279
community codes, and then you can
give out those community codes, which the

1621
01:43:32.319 --> 01:43:36.760
community codes are basically like friend codes, but they are asynchronous, so you

1622
01:43:36.920 --> 01:43:40.399
just if you enter that code,
you are in that group. Yeah.

1623
01:43:40.560 --> 01:43:43.960
And so when you pull up like
online multiplayer, it's like I just want

1624
01:43:44.000 --> 01:43:45.399
to play with anyone, yeah,
or you say, or I just want

1625
01:43:45.439 --> 01:43:48.000
to play people from a community,
and you can choose one of the communities

1626
01:43:48.039 --> 01:43:51.720
that you're a part of. So
I created the Kid Ellis Fan Club and

1627
01:43:51.800 --> 01:43:57.359
that's my community naturally. Yeah,
the best community from Mario Kart's set.

1628
01:43:57.479 --> 01:43:59.880
I'm now gonna go get a copy
of this game because I want to be

1629
01:43:59.880 --> 01:44:01.800
a member of this community. It's
just you and Kids Ellis. It's the

1630
01:44:02.000 --> 01:44:06.840
thriving community. So you're the community
manager for the kid Ellis I can confirm

1631
01:44:06.920 --> 01:44:11.560
that kid Ellis is a member of
the kid Ellis fan club. What naturally

1632
01:44:11.720 --> 01:44:15.279
take from that? What you shall? It's a little narcissistic, don't you

1633
01:44:15.399 --> 01:44:19.520
think? But the absolute best people
should like themselves, like at the end

1634
01:44:19.520 --> 01:44:23.680
of the day, you know,
we all beat ourselves. Should be a

1635
01:44:23.760 --> 01:44:26.399
fan of our tear ourselves down.
But I think it's okay to stay like,

1636
01:44:26.479 --> 01:44:28.680
Hey, you know what, I
like me, because if you don't

1637
01:44:28.720 --> 01:44:30.720
like you, who else is gonna
I don't know. I don't know if

1638
01:44:30.720 --> 01:44:32.439
I I comfortable say I'm a fan
of me. I like me. I'm

1639
01:44:32.439 --> 01:44:34.840
not a fan of you. I'm
not a fan of you gonna be you

1640
01:44:34.880 --> 01:44:38.119
know what if you if you can't
be in your own fan club, why

1641
01:44:38.159 --> 01:44:41.640
should anyone else? Yeah, I
suppose you might be anyone you might be

1642
01:44:41.840 --> 01:44:45.640
about that. But the best time
that I had with Mario Kart seven one

1643
01:44:45.720 --> 01:44:48.279
is when we were here in the
office and I, you know, just

1644
01:44:48.319 --> 01:44:53.800
the one cart so we did you
know the download play stuff, which means

1645
01:44:54.000 --> 01:44:56.760
which I think is actually pretty generous. They let you play on any of

1646
01:44:56.840 --> 01:44:59.920
the tracks, any of the Grand
Prix stuff. But anyone that is doubt

1647
01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:02.600
loading, can only play a shy
guy and has no cart customization options.

1648
01:45:02.760 --> 01:45:06.720
Also appears that you were able to
locally send a firm more update. Yeah

1649
01:45:06.960 --> 01:45:10.640
yeah, so that game when I
when I first put that cart into my

1650
01:45:10.880 --> 01:45:12.840
my three DS, it is like, hey, there's an update, the

1651
01:45:13.000 --> 01:45:15.359
system update. You need to update
your system, right, like okay,

1652
01:45:15.439 --> 01:45:18.199
sure, let's do this. And
then when we went to do the download

1653
01:45:18.279 --> 01:45:21.760
play it said the same thing to
them like press okay to get the update

1654
01:45:23.159 --> 01:45:28.000
from me. So they are propagating. That seems like a very dangerous victim.

1655
01:45:28.000 --> 01:45:30.279
I was a very viral we put
we put the three DS is almost

1656
01:45:30.319 --> 01:45:35.640
touching. It's a real close together
here. You get your bug hunting.

1657
01:45:36.159 --> 01:45:40.600
That's it's It's okay as long as
the three D and we did four like

1658
01:45:40.680 --> 01:45:43.319
it does again like up to eight
players, where we did four player games

1659
01:45:43.359 --> 01:45:45.239
in the office because that's as many
three DS as we could drum up.

1660
01:45:45.640 --> 01:45:50.039
And it was fun where the viability
of a vanilla shaw Guy was handily demonstrated.

1661
01:45:50.319 --> 01:45:51.840
Yeah yeah, I would like to
point out, yeah, I know,

1662
01:45:53.000 --> 01:45:58.399
Brad killing it. Brad's Brad's acuity
at Mario Kart Alex prove. Just

1663
01:45:59.159 --> 01:46:03.039
to clarify, Alex and I were
part of a semester cabal Daily Daily Mario

1664
01:46:03.199 --> 01:46:08.960
Kart players for a couple of years, clandestine organization dedicated to Mario Kart on

1665
01:46:09.079 --> 01:46:13.520
DS, which which which was the
time period that I've recognized how great that

1666
01:46:13.600 --> 01:46:15.520
game is if there are eight people
in a place that they all have the

1667
01:46:15.600 --> 01:46:18.159
cart and are down to play.
Would ocasionally walk past that and just kind

1668
01:46:18.159 --> 01:46:21.079
of shake my head. It was
but it is the right move for you

1669
01:46:21.760 --> 01:46:25.359
in that in that specific context,
that was like some of the most fun

1670
01:46:25.479 --> 01:46:28.760
multiplayer I've ever had, But like, that's that's the only way to really

1671
01:46:28.840 --> 01:46:30.840
achieve that with that game. So
he tried getting people to come in and

1672
01:46:30.880 --> 01:46:34.079
play online occasionally, and we would
always be less happy. Yeah, I

1673
01:46:34.119 --> 01:46:36.520
mean, well it's just what's the
point of playing online because there's nobody there

1674
01:46:36.560 --> 01:46:39.920
to yell at them? Yeah,
you can't, you can't ship talk to

1675
01:46:39.920 --> 01:46:42.439
each other. And I think really
like the handheld for it, like DS

1676
01:46:42.560 --> 01:46:46.399
N three DS is a great place
for this, like better than the way

1677
01:46:46.479 --> 01:46:48.479
to play it, better than a
console because you don't have to deal with

1678
01:46:48.560 --> 01:46:51.840
split screen nonsense to have a bunch
of people in the same location playing the

1679
01:46:51.880 --> 01:46:56.560
game. I think that game looks
like that's yeah, that's the best looking

1680
01:46:56.600 --> 01:47:00.199
Mario Kart game. It's that looks
better than aren't we full stop? Doesn't

1681
01:47:00.199 --> 01:47:03.640
matter the system. Marriot Carte doesn't
look very good, even for a wee

1682
01:47:03.800 --> 01:47:08.199
game. It's like not that great. It's you know, it's super colorful.

1683
01:47:08.319 --> 01:47:13.920
They hit the different weird themes of
kind of like weirdly specific like Mario

1684
01:47:14.119 --> 01:47:18.119
level or like location themes. Musical
level is probably the standout that I saw.

1685
01:47:18.239 --> 01:47:20.399
Yeah, that's my favorite. It's
really neat. There's one where it's

1686
01:47:20.520 --> 01:47:24.479
like the like a lot of the
corner music level. No, no,

1687
01:47:24.560 --> 01:47:27.199
no, A bunch of the corners
are made out of like keyboards, and

1688
01:47:27.239 --> 01:47:30.520
so as you're sliding along them,
it's playing each note of each key as

1689
01:47:30.560 --> 01:47:35.760
you go across its. Yeah,
it's really RAFFI drums is there he might

1690
01:47:35.840 --> 01:47:42.199
be. You could say I could
make a me that looks like Robbie drumms.

1691
01:47:42.199 --> 01:47:45.039
No, you need to get Robbie
drums as we me. Yeah,

1692
01:47:45.960 --> 01:47:47.840
that's true. I do that.
Anyways, we're the guy's up to Yeah

1693
01:47:47.960 --> 01:47:54.479
Drummond probably mister Drummonds. What drummers
do it? Phil Drummond, it's right

1694
01:47:54.600 --> 01:47:59.399
up gangster. Uh so yeah,
I think if you have people that you

1695
01:47:59.479 --> 01:48:03.920
can play Mario Kart seven with locally, uh that's that can be a ton

1696
01:48:04.039 --> 01:48:10.119
of fun. But it's a much
harder recommendation without that stuff. It's a

1697
01:48:10.159 --> 01:48:12.840
just specific condition for a game that
is supposed to be a kind of you

1698
01:48:12.920 --> 01:48:15.800
know, mass market appeal. You
know, it's like, no, here's

1699
01:48:15.840 --> 01:48:17.720
the one win condition for this game, and the rest of it's kind of

1700
01:48:19.119 --> 01:48:23.840
but you know, and in thinking
about this for for review, like just

1701
01:48:23.960 --> 01:48:28.760
starting to think more abstractly about Mario
Kart, I started going a little crazy

1702
01:48:29.479 --> 01:48:32.960
just about like the like what's the
appeal and like what is a good Mario

1703
01:48:33.159 --> 01:48:36.319
Kart game really? Like? But
have we reached this point where it has

1704
01:48:36.840 --> 01:48:43.640
just made a full break from the
other like genre upon itself as opposed to

1705
01:48:44.039 --> 01:48:45.279
because it's comparative to the rest of
it. Really, it really is at

1706
01:48:45.279 --> 01:48:47.960
this point, Like you know it
it was the first cart racing game,

1707
01:48:48.199 --> 01:48:53.960
and then there are a bunch of
imitators. They tried for years and years

1708
01:48:54.159 --> 01:48:58.640
and they stopped, they gave up. There really hasn't been a meaningful significant

1709
01:48:58.680 --> 01:49:03.479
cart racing game in since I would
says. Car carts just came out like

1710
01:49:03.640 --> 01:49:10.359
three weeks Jimmy Johnson's everything with an
Enginemmy Johnson last significant. How did they

1711
01:49:10.399 --> 01:49:15.760
not just call that Mada gas carts. Yeah, that we had because someone

1712
01:49:15.800 --> 01:49:17.840
at some point said, no,
the Mada gust car name has to be

1713
01:49:17.880 --> 01:49:20.319
on otherwise no one's gonna know what
this is. Get the brand out there.

1714
01:49:20.399 --> 01:49:25.640
Don't be a dick. It's too
late. Yeah, that's kind of

1715
01:49:25.800 --> 01:49:30.560
this Sunday Mary Carts seven. Look
for it, catch it, catch it,

1716
01:49:30.800 --> 01:49:34.800
drive it. That's all I got
for for I think is that video

1717
01:49:34.840 --> 01:49:40.000
games? Hang on? What's up? Uh? I didn't talk about the

1718
01:49:40.039 --> 01:49:43.760
one practical effect of all the stupid
stuff I bought. That was to get

1719
01:49:43.760 --> 01:49:46.960
a giant box of mono priced stuff. Yeah, and a wireless controller receiver

1720
01:49:47.159 --> 01:49:53.600
for the PC turn my PC into
a next generation console. What so,

1721
01:49:53.680 --> 01:49:57.039
how is that working out for you? It's great, I have to say.

1722
01:49:57.039 --> 01:49:59.520
I loaded up Saints for the third
on my PC this morning, and

1723
01:50:01.640 --> 01:50:05.960
a good video card. But the
rest of my PC is not like I

1724
01:50:06.079 --> 01:50:11.199
just I did the like the detect
thing. Yeah, for performance and whatever

1725
01:50:11.239 --> 01:50:14.079
setting it it shows for throw you
into d X ten mode. Yeah.

1726
01:50:14.119 --> 01:50:16.640
It was running super SLIPT. That's
a shame. I'm playing that game on

1727
01:50:16.760 --> 01:50:19.000
my Giant teller will not giant,
but it's a you know, it's forty

1728
01:50:19.039 --> 01:50:23.479
six inch TV. It's it's your
bigger than my twenty inch computer monitor.

1729
01:50:23.560 --> 01:50:28.960
It's certainly there at ten adp uh
running at a nice frame rate with a

1730
01:50:28.960 --> 01:50:32.119
bunch of d X ten and eleven
shaders and stuff. It looks pretty awesome.

1731
01:50:32.279 --> 01:50:34.800
Yeah. The more I hear about
this, the more people that are

1732
01:50:34.920 --> 01:50:38.479
dragging their PCs into the living room. Well, that's the thing. That's

1733
01:50:38.479 --> 01:50:41.000
so, that's that's what I used
to do. Yeah, that sucks,

1734
01:50:41.159 --> 01:50:45.479
yeah a lot. Yeah, so
getting this long cable and getting this controller

1735
01:50:45.560 --> 01:50:47.680
receiver, now there's still some set
up time. I still have to like

1736
01:50:47.760 --> 01:50:50.760
uncoil this cable and run it down
the hall. Yeah, you just have

1737
01:50:50.840 --> 01:50:54.319
it set up all the time.
No, No, that would be your

1738
01:50:54.399 --> 01:50:59.399
girlfriend must love. That's pretty amicable
about it. But it is a tripping

1739
01:50:59.399 --> 01:51:02.399
hazard. But I mean it's like
sixty seconds of set up and then you're

1740
01:51:02.439 --> 01:51:05.439
on the couch playing this game and
it looks way better than the console.

1741
01:51:05.600 --> 01:51:09.960
Yeah, and it's it's awesome if
you if your PC is anywhere near it

1742
01:51:10.039 --> 01:51:15.399
your TV. I recommend getting a
long cable and mostly just Saints brok Uh

1743
01:51:16.920 --> 01:51:20.199
playing. Oh let's see, I
was gonna bring that up earlier. I'm

1744
01:51:20.239 --> 01:51:24.399
in Act two where you know how
like you have one story mission at a

1745
01:51:24.439 --> 01:51:26.119
time, and then all of a
sudden you have four at a time.

1746
01:51:26.239 --> 01:51:28.800
Yeah, and then all of a
sudden you're back to one, like one

1747
01:51:28.800 --> 01:51:31.840
at a time. I I have
just I've just cleared out all the side

1748
01:51:31.960 --> 01:51:34.640
story missions. I guess you would
say I have. I have one story

1749
01:51:34.680 --> 01:51:40.079
mission left now that I think the
whole boat is the next mission. If

1750
01:51:40.119 --> 01:51:43.960
that rings any belt, Remember that's
a good mission. That is, people

1751
01:51:44.000 --> 01:51:47.640
need to stop talking about Decker's die
because I'm tired of hearing about it until

1752
01:51:47.680 --> 01:51:49.840
I just get to it. Yeah, it's great, it's a great mission.

1753
01:51:51.640 --> 01:51:55.119
Well that's so yeah, Like this
is the one time where I agree

1754
01:51:55.159 --> 01:52:00.560
with Jeff's philosophy of just like plow
through everything full speed ahead. The guy

1755
01:52:00.560 --> 01:52:02.840
who's left standing there. I always
I always like to just kind of like

1756
01:52:02.880 --> 01:52:05.439
put the story aside and go screw
around for a while. But like it's

1757
01:52:05.439 --> 01:52:10.039
not even around in that game kind
of is making me burn out on it.

1758
01:52:10.079 --> 01:52:12.960
A little bit. Yeah, the
side activities are not the best thing

1759
01:52:13.000 --> 01:52:16.520
about it, and you see enough. They're okay, but they're not good,

1760
01:52:16.640 --> 01:52:19.520
and they'll give you they'll give you
enough of a taste of all that

1761
01:52:19.600 --> 01:52:24.439
stuff through the story stuff, like
stick to that through all that. That

1762
01:52:24.520 --> 01:52:26.680
was that was the mistake I made. I didn't realize that a bunch of

1763
01:52:26.680 --> 01:52:29.560
the story missions we're just gonna be
the side activities. So I did a

1764
01:52:29.600 --> 01:52:31.960
bunch of the side stuff already and
then doing them again as story missions.

1765
01:52:32.000 --> 01:52:35.000
I'm like, I already did this
like three times. Trick is the chaos

1766
01:52:35.319 --> 01:52:39.159
find its way into the storyline.
So you don't need to run around and

1767
01:52:39.199 --> 01:52:42.399
dick around two side missions or even
just blow shit up wantingly until you're done

1768
01:52:42.439 --> 01:52:45.800
with that stuff, because all that
stuff is in the storyline and you will

1769
01:52:45.840 --> 01:52:48.119
do it all. So I'm just
gonna go, alright, I need to

1770
01:52:48.159 --> 01:52:50.880
go back and do the second.
I still done the second. I've got

1771
01:52:50.920 --> 01:52:53.680
to save it at the end of
act one, just so I can even

1772
01:52:53.880 --> 01:52:57.239
I did that that. Yeah,
you don't need to worry about that for

1773
01:52:57.319 --> 01:53:01.840
the end. Yeah that that has
no lasting game impact on the story.

1774
01:53:02.159 --> 01:53:04.640
It does, it does get you
that achievement. It gets you achiev Oh

1775
01:53:04.680 --> 01:53:09.039
but that's it. Yeah yeah,
yeah, it's just it's the bonus of

1776
01:53:09.079 --> 01:53:13.239
money or respect. Yeah. Also
worth saving all that that side stuff to

1777
01:53:13.319 --> 01:53:16.159
the end because by the end you
will have so much money flow that you'll

1778
01:53:16.159 --> 01:53:23.000
be able to start buying some of
the really unreasonable properties power, the power,

1779
01:53:23.640 --> 01:53:26.920
the ability stuff where it's just like
im, I'm at the point.

1780
01:53:27.000 --> 01:53:29.119
Yeah my character doesn't take damage.
Yeah, I've been either. I've been

1781
01:53:29.159 --> 01:53:31.479
trying to max out my cash flow
because yeah, some of those upgrades are

1782
01:53:31.640 --> 01:53:35.039
pretty damn appealing. I take the
damage. That's disgust. I upgraded every

1783
01:53:35.119 --> 01:53:41.840
gun because the level four guns are
so fucking great, especially the little four

1784
01:53:41.880 --> 01:53:45.520
pistols are just that's it. So
I got the guns, and I got

1785
01:53:45.600 --> 01:53:53.079
the don't have to reload ability.
Yeah, I just diffinite ammo. Yeah

1786
01:53:53.239 --> 01:53:57.199
it's on a basis, but I
can infinitely dump. Just hold the trigger

1787
01:53:57.439 --> 01:54:00.159
to something. Sounds good too,
It's really good. It's really good.

1788
01:54:00.479 --> 01:54:02.520
Not only do not run out of
AMMO, but you also don't have to

1789
01:54:02.560 --> 01:54:09.680
reload. Yeah, it's just constant
dumping. Do you like to dumpy?

1790
01:54:11.920 --> 01:54:15.479
And yeah, pistols get real powerful. But I just hate the constant having

1791
01:54:15.520 --> 01:54:19.359
to tug. Yeah, but at
the same time you were I want to

1792
01:54:19.439 --> 01:54:27.800
dump. You are juggling motherfuckers that
are already dead with those You were juggling

1793
01:54:27.880 --> 01:54:30.199
their corpses in the air with the
bullets. I have to say that game

1794
01:54:30.279 --> 01:54:33.319
felt a little bit annoying or kind
of overwhelming early on, though, before

1795
01:54:33.359 --> 01:54:36.239
you get any of that stuff.
If you try to take on like one

1796
01:54:36.279 --> 01:54:40.560
of those what are they called,
like the game control fast on the operation,

1797
01:54:40.720 --> 01:54:43.079
you wait, you wait till you
have all got the thing. I

1798
01:54:43.159 --> 01:54:45.960
was trying to do that out of
the gate where you have nothing epistols,

1799
01:54:45.000 --> 01:54:50.960
and there's comes like, okay,
you just get really good at headshots,

1800
01:54:50.960 --> 01:54:56.079
so you don't. Once you get
that air strike everything the world as you're

1801
01:54:56.159 --> 01:55:00.279
fucking oyster. It becomes inconsequence,
those those things become into yeah yeah,

1802
01:55:00.279 --> 01:55:03.159
Like I got the RPG and like
took one of those out in one shot

1803
01:55:03.319 --> 01:55:05.239
last night. You know, it's
like it's nothing now, give you the

1804
01:55:05.319 --> 01:55:10.760
VTOL yet, but the air strike
is so fun. Keep playing. Come

1805
01:55:10.800 --> 01:55:15.439
out of your garage like or your
airpad or you know, I mean I

1806
01:55:15.479 --> 01:55:16.239
have a helicop. I'm just saying
it is a spawn from a crib.

1807
01:55:16.319 --> 01:55:19.119
Yes, yeah, okay, you'll
know the air I have a helicopter on.

1808
01:55:19.359 --> 01:55:24.399
You don't have to worry about losing
that one. Yeah. The games,

1809
01:55:24.560 --> 01:55:27.399
it's pretty fun, really really good
PC version, which is yeah,

1810
01:55:30.680 --> 01:55:32.600
two was a mess on the PC, so it's nice. This one seems

1811
01:55:32.640 --> 01:55:35.359
like the best version. It was
bad, bad bad. Uh yeah,

1812
01:55:36.720 --> 01:55:45.079
well fantastic. Let's talk about some
news. I like news. Uh,

1813
01:55:45.439 --> 01:55:50.119
let's talk about George Miller and Brendan
McNamara. This is a weird thing.

1814
01:55:51.039 --> 01:55:55.640
Yeah, George Miller is still trying
to make that Mad Max movie Fury Road.

1815
01:55:55.680 --> 01:55:57.439
I think it's what. It's still
trying to make that game too,

1816
01:55:57.479 --> 01:56:01.039
apparently, Yeah, which I think
was in development at Avalanche is my understanding.

1817
01:56:01.319 --> 01:56:05.720
So it is no longer it's being
made. Alan's swee the Swedish Avalanche,

1818
01:56:05.760 --> 01:56:11.119
not the Disney the Disney okay,
uh yeah, it's no longer being

1819
01:56:11.199 --> 01:56:13.720
worked on over there. It's being
worked on it. It's not a team

1820
01:56:13.720 --> 01:56:15.720
Bony team. It isn't exist anymore. No, they're this weird company that

1821
01:56:15.720 --> 01:56:18.119
I can't remember off the top of
my head, but they've basically been bought

1822
01:56:18.119 --> 01:56:28.159
by Miller Mitchell Interactive Basically Chrome Studios
is going under in Australia, and then

1823
01:56:28.359 --> 01:56:31.199
it kind of like all game development
in Australia. It's, yeah, it's

1824
01:56:31.199 --> 01:56:34.319
going through a tough time. They're
also trying to get through there. Like

1825
01:56:34.399 --> 01:56:38.560
looks like like they can't have like
a lot of mature rate of games out

1826
01:56:38.560 --> 01:56:40.720
there, you have to import them
from the US. But they're performing that.

1827
01:56:40.880 --> 01:56:43.159
That's true. That's a weird place. But yeah, so yeah,

1828
01:56:43.159 --> 01:56:51.039
George Miller is assigned to that and
Horror of the Orient Orient because you have

1829
01:56:51.199 --> 01:56:57.479
no art in your soul. That's
why my soul is all art needs more

1830
01:56:57.560 --> 01:57:02.880
words, which is supposedly is act
actually a common historical nickname for Shanghai.

1831
01:57:03.159 --> 01:57:08.319
So like it's not yeah, okay, it's not, but that they're not

1832
01:57:08.359 --> 01:57:10.840
going to call that game when it
comes out, that game will not be

1833
01:57:10.920 --> 01:57:14.760
called the Whrror of the Orient.
When you release that game any format,

1834
01:57:16.399 --> 01:57:19.239
it'll be called True Crime Who of
the Orient. Yeah, there you go,

1835
01:57:20.000 --> 01:57:26.800
there you go, mad Max whoors. The George Miller connection to games

1836
01:57:26.840 --> 01:57:30.239
has always seemed really weird to me
because it doesn't seem like they have any

1837
01:57:30.319 --> 01:57:32.000
idea what they're doing. If you
read any of the quotes about him,

1838
01:57:32.039 --> 01:57:34.680
talking about video games. He doesn't. Yeah, he has no idea what

1839
01:57:34.760 --> 01:57:38.760
he's talking about. Yeah, but
at least he's interested. And it's not

1840
01:57:38.840 --> 01:57:43.159
even like a like a you know, Kurt Kurt Schilling thing where it's like,

1841
01:57:43.239 --> 01:57:45.439
you know, he clearly is engaged
and understands what he's talking about,

1842
01:57:45.479 --> 01:57:49.199
despite maybe not completely understanding the game
industry. But like with the George Miller

1843
01:57:49.239 --> 01:57:51.600
stuff, it seems like no one
has any idea what they're doing. Well,

1844
01:57:51.680 --> 01:57:54.560
George Miller seems we're just one of
those guys. It's like, I

1845
01:57:54.680 --> 01:57:56.880
know this is important. I know
I need to be involved in this.

1846
01:57:57.079 --> 01:58:00.960
I'm gonna find a way to get
invested in you know, your heart hired

1847
01:58:00.000 --> 01:58:03.680
away Corey Barlog from the God of
War team. It's like, oh yeah,

1848
01:58:03.760 --> 01:58:08.439
you're gonna go get this this serious
guy who has designed a big game,

1849
01:58:08.479 --> 01:58:11.600
and you're gonna have him work on
something. Yep, it was it

1850
01:58:11.680 --> 01:58:14.199
was a Mad Max game. It
was Fury Road when that was gonna be

1851
01:58:14.239 --> 01:58:15.880
shot in Australia. They have,
like George Miller has like one hundred and

1852
01:58:15.920 --> 01:58:19.359
fifty vehicles already built. They're still
talking just like it's going to happen.

1853
01:58:19.439 --> 01:58:23.640
They're just sitting in Australia like Charlie's. They're on its supposed to be in

1854
01:58:23.680 --> 01:58:26.760
it everything like Tom Hardy. At
one point I think we were talking about

1855
01:58:26.840 --> 01:58:34.079
for Bad Max that that guy made
Babe two. He did. I still

1856
01:58:34.119 --> 01:58:38.000
need in the City, still need
to see. You should see that too,

1857
01:58:38.119 --> 01:58:41.359
I know, taking to see.
It's a dark, weird movie,

1858
01:58:42.399 --> 01:58:45.279
both the Happy Feet movies. I've
heard happy Feet two is kind of weird

1859
01:58:45.319 --> 01:58:48.880
and dark two. A'st worry about
it. I didn't see it. I

1860
01:58:48.920 --> 01:58:55.000
don't like penguins, so this is
yeah, yeah, those guys, Uh

1861
01:58:55.239 --> 01:59:00.079
puffins for life word so something like
this is kind of just next for for

1862
01:59:00.960 --> 01:59:04.760
post team bond Ie uh in Australia. Yeah, if we get now anywhere

1863
01:59:04.800 --> 01:59:11.960
two will not be made by them. So uh, Skyrim patch coming tomorrow,

1864
01:59:12.920 --> 01:59:15.560
look for it. Don't play any
more Skyrim until that Skyrim patch.

1865
01:59:15.960 --> 01:59:19.079
PS three owners have it three sixty
PC is damn it? All right?

1866
01:59:19.199 --> 01:59:24.159
Do you have a PS three tentatively
Wednesday? You know what it sounds like?

1867
01:59:24.239 --> 01:59:29.119
The PS three deserve the patch first. Yea, that's as serious ship

1868
01:59:29.239 --> 01:59:30.880
going on. There's a there's an
issue where the bigger your safe file gets

1869
01:59:30.920 --> 01:59:35.159
the worst your frame rate is yea, which is not ideal by the right

1870
01:59:35.199 --> 01:59:41.199
spells. Don't worry about it.
Shout at your PS three when when Duke

1871
01:59:41.239 --> 01:59:47.800
Canyan Lynch show up after a hundred
head shots with shotguns. In the patch

1872
01:59:47.880 --> 01:59:53.000
notes, one of them is,
uh, character shows up dead tier wedding.

1873
01:59:53.079 --> 01:59:56.079
Yeah, that sounds great. It
was like, don't don't fix that.

1874
01:59:56.720 --> 01:59:59.520
There was also a weekend in Bernie's
reference. Yeah, what what is

1875
01:59:59.560 --> 02:00:01.720
the skelet It's some key that's mentioned
in there's a lock pick that never breaks?

1876
02:00:02.199 --> 02:00:05.720
Okay, you did. Your lock
picking points still go up each time

1877
02:00:05.720 --> 02:00:10.960
you're using that. I think why
why why would it matter at that point

1878
02:00:11.319 --> 02:00:15.119
because it breaks? Because if you're
finishing the question, can you have it

1879
02:00:15.439 --> 02:00:17.319
all that? If you don't,
you don't have a wait, I'm not

1880
02:00:17.359 --> 02:00:19.760
gonna be saying you have to turn
it in at some point. Okay,

1881
02:00:20.359 --> 02:00:24.920
this okay? There is a perk
at the top of the lock pick tree,

1882
02:00:25.039 --> 02:00:27.600
right. Because we we were asking
about it was like whether what if

1883
02:00:27.600 --> 02:00:30.720
you did that quest line got that, could you just hold on to that

1884
02:00:30.760 --> 02:00:32.960
and then not worry about the lock
picking perks anymore? Yeah? You could.

1885
02:00:33.159 --> 02:00:35.439
Yeah, you can do that with
there would be some ques stuff you

1886
02:00:35.479 --> 02:00:38.640
wouldn't be able to do, Like
there's a there's a side quest for you,

1887
02:00:38.720 --> 02:00:41.199
there's just about there's about you could
stop and be like, I'm gonna

1888
02:00:41.239 --> 02:00:43.159
hold on to this. Yeah,
there's a side quest pret you pick up

1889
02:00:43.159 --> 02:00:47.399
a pretty good companion or buddy fighting
dude, bro person. It's actually not

1890
02:00:47.479 --> 02:00:50.079
a dude, but still if you
if you never, if you never,

1891
02:00:50.159 --> 02:00:53.319
if you never turned in that quest, or you never finished that quest,

1892
02:00:53.359 --> 02:00:55.800
he would just follow you around for
the entire game and like tank all your

1893
02:00:55.880 --> 02:00:59.359
damage for you. But he's super
annoying, so I don't recommend it.

1894
02:01:00.600 --> 02:01:04.039
But for those ice trolls, those
guys are nothing. I killed one frustralls

1895
02:01:04.079 --> 02:01:08.800
they should I find you finally got
back? Yeah I killed Did you go

1896
02:01:08.880 --> 02:01:12.600
back up? The seven thousand?
Different just just ran up on me and

1897
02:01:12.600 --> 02:01:15.000
I'm like, oh, I can't, I can't get away. This has

1898
02:01:15.039 --> 02:01:17.560
to happen now. Towards the end
of the he was making a move.

1899
02:01:17.560 --> 02:01:20.000
I had to get it on.
Towards the end of the college quest line.

1900
02:01:20.000 --> 02:01:23.640
There's a place you go to that
they're everywhere, Like I thought two

1901
02:01:23.640 --> 02:01:27.359
of them at once and killed them
both without much problem, Like they get

1902
02:01:27.399 --> 02:01:30.239
easier. I might need to ask
you if you know of a place where

1903
02:01:30.239 --> 02:01:31.640
I can find a specific type of
elf blood, because I only need one

1904
02:01:31.680 --> 02:01:35.560
type. I start, remember which
type you want to elf blood? I

1905
02:01:35.560 --> 02:01:38.840
can get you elf blood? Yeah, okay, you elf blood by three

1906
02:01:38.840 --> 02:01:43.520
pm today? Why do you need
to you know what I'm I'm even gonna

1907
02:01:43.520 --> 02:01:45.960
ask you about your elf blood?
Needs? I need it? Just that

1908
02:01:46.119 --> 02:01:50.199
any like that, any kind of
elf blood, it does not suit you

1909
02:01:50.520 --> 02:01:55.000
as worrisome I need I there's the
thing I'm doing. He needs it for

1910
02:01:55.079 --> 02:02:00.039
his life. Alex dazzled us with
information about Specops the line, I will

1911
02:02:00.039 --> 02:02:02.399
happily talk about Specops the line,
what would you like to know? What

1912
02:02:02.600 --> 02:02:04.600
is it? Is? It's a
video game? Is it is actually a

1913
02:02:04.640 --> 02:02:10.359
video game? Yeah, they're gonna
put it out early? Are my quandaries?

1914
02:02:10.680 --> 02:02:15.680
Is it Gears of Sand? Not? And that's not an entirely inaccurate

1915
02:02:15.760 --> 02:02:19.439
statement. And of killed it's a
third person shooter. I mean it's it's

1916
02:02:19.479 --> 02:02:24.199
a military You shoot the glass to
make the sand, kill the gods.

1917
02:02:24.279 --> 02:02:27.239
There is times when you can do
that, Yes, that that can happen.

1918
02:02:27.560 --> 02:02:30.159
That is what the fact. The
first thing you do in combat Okay,

1919
02:02:30.199 --> 02:02:31.680
So it's the same game it was
when I played it, more or

1920
02:02:31.760 --> 02:02:34.520
less. So is sad. What
the fuck have they been doing. They've

1921
02:02:34.560 --> 02:02:39.920
been adding moral systems and making it
look in control way better. Okay,

1922
02:02:40.239 --> 02:02:43.039
Yeah, at least that's what they
told me. I haven't I didn't play

1923
02:02:43.039 --> 02:02:45.079
the old version, so I don't
know if it was more broken back then

1924
02:02:45.199 --> 02:02:48.319
or what. But the shooting handles
really well seemed broken. Yeah, it

1925
02:02:48.399 --> 02:02:53.079
seemed okay. And some of the
things they were saying about what they wanted

1926
02:02:53.159 --> 02:02:56.479
to do with the kind of the
moral stuff and the story of that game

1927
02:02:56.560 --> 02:02:59.720
sound. They apparently did a lot
of rewriting, and like they've been focusing

1928
02:02:59.760 --> 02:03:02.600
a lot on trying to make that
stuff actually meaningful as opposed to just like

1929
02:03:02.760 --> 02:03:06.000
still Nolan North. Yeah, Nolan
North is still angry. Okay? And

1930
02:03:06.439 --> 02:03:13.079
oh the what the the black guy? Yeah? Is Kid yea from Kid

1931
02:03:13.239 --> 02:03:16.640
play right? Chris? Yeah?
Chris Kid read yes? And apparently there

1932
02:03:16.760 --> 02:03:23.439
is some somewhere there is some really
good, uh throwaway recordings of Nolan North

1933
02:03:23.520 --> 02:03:29.399
and Kid riffing on one another in
various voices, and I demanded they surfaced

1934
02:03:29.439 --> 02:03:31.760
that somewhere. I want I will
pay sixty dollars for that. Yeah,

1935
02:03:31.840 --> 02:03:35.079
yeah, and not the game.
Nolan North and Kid and Nolan North is

1936
02:03:35.119 --> 02:03:38.880
the group they're starting. The game
looks neat And the thing I was sort

1937
02:03:38.880 --> 02:03:41.159
of impressed by was that they actually
let me play it for an hour and

1938
02:03:41.159 --> 02:03:43.359
a half. Like they didn't.
There was no steering of the demo.

1939
02:03:43.520 --> 02:03:45.760
No one was like telling me what
to do or how to handle it.

1940
02:03:45.840 --> 02:03:47.079
Was just like, here you go, We've set up these five chapters for

1941
02:03:47.119 --> 02:03:49.560
you to play. Go. Yeah, because I mean when when I played

1942
02:03:49.600 --> 02:03:53.239
it, it was only as an
E three judge and they were being real

1943
02:03:54.159 --> 02:03:56.800
kind of skittish about it. Well, I think they're still being pretty selective

1944
02:03:56.800 --> 02:03:59.479
about who they show it too.
But they're like, they had a bunch

1945
02:03:59.520 --> 02:04:00.680
of people out to see it and
they let them all play it, so

1946
02:04:00.840 --> 02:04:08.359
which was impressive. Hio. Oh
well, no, see they had the

1947
02:04:08.359 --> 02:04:13.199
San franciscom pointment. Apparently no one
we never saw any of that. Yeah,

1948
02:04:14.119 --> 02:04:16.720
we won't get into that. So
red so sand is this game's red

1949
02:04:16.760 --> 02:04:20.600
barrels kind of. I mean,
honestly, there were only a few times

1950
02:04:20.640 --> 02:04:24.760
where the sand really played into the
gameplay that much like there was a lot

1951
02:04:25.000 --> 02:04:28.800
of there were there were definitely,
like some sequences where like you've triggered this

1952
02:04:28.960 --> 02:04:30.319
thing to happen, and all of
a sudden you were dangling off a ledge

1953
02:04:30.319 --> 02:04:33.479
while all the sand below you starts
like, you know, falling underneath.

1954
02:04:33.560 --> 02:04:38.800
Like it's it's more visual trickery than
it is like actual mechanics, but it

1955
02:04:38.920 --> 02:04:43.159
looks really cool when it happens regardless. I know there was one part when

1956
02:04:43.199 --> 02:04:45.840
I played it where there was basically
there were a bunch of dudes and there

1957
02:04:45.960 --> 02:04:48.960
was glass with sand behind it because
the building had been you know, covered

1958
02:04:49.039 --> 02:04:51.680
in sand, and you can just
shoot those guys or you could shoot the

1959
02:04:51.680 --> 02:04:55.760
glass and the sand would kill them. Yeah, there's sever there's several situations.

1960
02:04:56.439 --> 02:05:00.159
Mechanic, Yeah, that is definitely
still there. But I and the

1961
02:05:00.159 --> 02:05:01.960
stuff I thought was interesting was more
the story stuff. I mean, yeah,

1962
02:05:02.000 --> 02:05:05.119
it's a pretty typical war game in
a lot of ways, but the

1963
02:05:05.199 --> 02:05:10.439
fact that they're looking at like Heart
of Darkness and the trailer is crazy.

1964
02:05:13.960 --> 02:05:17.880
It is It's like a weird art
installation. It's very bizarre. It got

1965
02:05:17.960 --> 02:05:21.399
me way moist in the game than
anything I've seen before. There's it just

1966
02:05:21.520 --> 02:05:25.960
has interested. It's like the Heart
of Darkness thing like that they're they're going

1967
02:05:26.000 --> 02:05:27.920
pretty far with that stuff. Yeah, they are. I mean, like

1968
02:05:28.159 --> 02:05:30.920
the Conrad dude that you're after is
at the very top of the tallest building

1969
02:05:31.119 --> 02:05:35.119
in fucking in Dubai. Like there
is a whole sequence where you like,

1970
02:05:35.279 --> 02:05:39.680
because of the way the sandstorm is
going is the eye of God damn souron,

1971
02:05:40.239 --> 02:05:42.880
Like the way the sand is going
around this building. Like they are

1972
02:05:42.960 --> 02:05:47.119
not subtle about their their their influences
at all, And at the same time

1973
02:05:47.119 --> 02:05:51.319
it's cool, Like the dialogue stuff
is actually pretty well written. And there's

1974
02:05:51.359 --> 02:05:56.640
a weird side character who's like this
DJ that is like on the radio all

1975
02:05:56.720 --> 02:05:59.920
the time, and he's like narrating
various things, like like sort of like

1976
02:06:00.119 --> 02:06:02.079
the Lynn Thigpen in the Wars kind
of thing, but he's like a weird

1977
02:06:02.199 --> 02:06:06.079
gonzo journalist who has gone there to
cover this and is now trapped there.

1978
02:06:06.439 --> 02:06:11.520
So he's just on the radio playing
weird like deep purple songs and like talking

1979
02:06:11.560 --> 02:06:15.920
about what's going on and like relaying
Conrad's orders to people. And it's this

1980
02:06:15.239 --> 02:06:18.880
bizarre side tangent of the game that
I thought was really awesome. Is he

1981
02:06:18.960 --> 02:06:23.720
taunting you as you try to get
to Coney Island. I really wish there

1982
02:06:23.800 --> 02:06:27.399
is no Coney Island in Dubai though, unfortunately. Yeah, now what studio

1983
02:06:27.520 --> 02:06:32.560
is making this Ya Yager as in
the people made game called Yager, which

1984
02:06:32.640 --> 02:06:35.880
was a flight simulator. Yeah,
they're in Germany, same my stomach.

1985
02:06:35.920 --> 02:06:39.720
Just heard thin thing about Yeager.
Yeah, but I think a lot of

1986
02:06:41.600 --> 02:06:44.239
a lot of the internal two K
production people are working on that. But

1987
02:06:44.439 --> 02:06:49.159
Yeager is the development house Germany.
Ery gonna be any good? I think

1988
02:06:49.199 --> 02:06:51.560
it looks neat. It's too early
to tell. I don't know. They

1989
02:06:51.640 --> 02:06:55.319
showed me the multiplayer No, that
they're showing that in a couple of months,

1990
02:06:55.319 --> 02:06:57.479
apparently because that was gonna be That
was one of the things that show

1991
02:06:57.560 --> 02:07:00.720
this game back, was they had
that closed beta. Yeah, the reaction

1992
02:07:00.760 --> 02:07:05.119
to that was poor. Yeah,
they said they were going to show that

1993
02:07:05.159 --> 02:07:08.439
in a couple of months. They're
gonna have another big session to show the

1994
02:07:08.520 --> 02:07:11.880
multiplayer side of it off. That
game must be coming out in the summer.

1995
02:07:12.079 --> 02:07:15.640
They were saying, like Spring twenty
twelve. Okay, so maybe that's

1996
02:07:15.680 --> 02:07:18.680
the two k's May game. Yeah, that might be there. That might

1997
02:07:18.720 --> 02:07:21.800
be their quarter Dump. I don't
know. Well, the Max Pain is

1998
02:07:21.920 --> 02:07:25.279
there is there. Well, that
game is probably not a quarter dump,

1999
02:07:25.319 --> 02:07:28.960
but that game is not in March. Yeah, all right, but no,

2000
02:07:29.079 --> 02:07:30.479
I enjoyed it. I enjoyed what
I played it. It's a simple

2001
02:07:30.680 --> 02:07:34.159
shooter, like it is not a
super complex thing, and it's also not

2002
02:07:34.359 --> 02:07:38.479
a million quick time events. You
know. It's like the action feels pretty

2003
02:07:38.479 --> 02:07:41.640
fluid and pretty organic in the sense
that you are doing a lot of the

2004
02:07:41.720 --> 02:07:44.000
things in the game, as opposed
to the game handholding you through it,

2005
02:07:44.039 --> 02:07:47.399
which I appreciate. But it's a
shooter. It's in the desert. Whether

2006
02:07:47.479 --> 02:07:50.439
that moral stuff becomes meaningful or not, I can't say for certain yet,

2007
02:07:50.520 --> 02:07:54.239
but you know, it's I think
it's at least worth Yeah, Like a

2008
02:07:54.279 --> 02:07:56.479
lot of stuff they they talked about
early on was just you know, it's

2009
02:07:56.520 --> 02:07:58.520
like as you you know, at
the start of the game, you're getting

2010
02:07:58.520 --> 02:08:01.319
to this this area and you know, they're buttoned up their soldiers, they're

2011
02:08:01.359 --> 02:08:03.479
dudes. But then over the course
they're total dude stuff that you yeah,

2012
02:08:03.520 --> 02:08:05.239
but at the beginning, but then
by the end of the game, they've

2013
02:08:05.239 --> 02:08:09.119
completely unraveled and they're just they're already
unraveling, like fifteen minutes into that game,

2014
02:08:09.159 --> 02:08:13.359
as soon as they start seeing bodies
everywhere and like realizing that their own

2015
02:08:13.359 --> 02:08:15.600
soldiers are shooting at them like that, all that, you know, like

2016
02:08:15.800 --> 02:08:20.039
motherfuckery goes away. So I appreciated
that. So it's not Army of two.

2017
02:08:20.399 --> 02:08:24.159
It's not Army of two. Okay, definitely not sat next to a

2018
02:08:24.199 --> 02:08:28.439
god a plane with a PSP.
A he had a PSP? How crazy

2019
02:08:28.439 --> 02:08:31.479
he's at b he's playing an Army
of two. So you should spend some

2020
02:08:31.560 --> 02:08:35.079
time in the New York subway because
it will blow your goddamn mind wide open.

2021
02:08:35.119 --> 02:08:41.960
How many people still have PSPs?
And you're just and I various things.

2022
02:08:41.000 --> 02:08:43.960
Sometimes they're just watching movies like a
lot of For some reason, multiple

2023
02:08:45.000 --> 02:08:48.359
times I've seen people watching Van helsing
on their PSP. I don't know why

2024
02:08:50.079 --> 02:08:54.439
are they? Umd's there anyway you
can tell? I cannot say for certain.

2025
02:08:54.479 --> 02:08:56.920
But other times it's been like it's
been everything from like bust a move

2026
02:08:56.000 --> 02:08:58.600
to like kill zone. Like I
I can't say, Alex, and I

2027
02:08:58.640 --> 02:09:01.159
didn't think it would get you stabbed. I'd say we need a regular feature

2028
02:09:01.199 --> 02:09:05.640
of what are the New York subway
systems playing on their PSPs? Yeah,

2029
02:09:05.760 --> 02:09:07.680
no, believe me, they're the
dudeling. Those things are not people.

2030
02:09:07.720 --> 02:09:09.600
I want to poke on the shoulder
and be like, hey, what's your

2031
02:09:09.680 --> 02:09:13.000
playing dude? I know, I
know. The guy also switched over to

2032
02:09:13.199 --> 02:09:20.640
a medal of Honor heroes or something. Oh man, that's like real real

2033
02:09:20.800 --> 02:09:24.199
quickly, in such a way that
I could see that he had not opened

2034
02:09:24.279 --> 02:09:31.560
up the slot on the the PSP
Yeah. Maybe, yeah, maybe he

2035
02:09:31.640 --> 02:09:35.279
did that. At least it wasn't
a PSP GO. It was not.

2036
02:09:35.880 --> 02:09:37.560
I have never seen a PSP GO
in the wild ever. I'll see we

2037
02:09:37.640 --> 02:09:41.119
canna find mine. Never never,
even in like a game industry event,

2038
02:09:41.199 --> 02:09:45.760
have I seen someone just own a
PSP GO. I can find mine a

2039
02:09:45.880 --> 02:09:48.319
look around, Yeah, but you
never bring it anywhere, do you?

2040
02:09:48.399 --> 02:09:52.399
I don't know where it is?
Yeah, exactly talking about the Van Helsing

2041
02:09:52.640 --> 02:09:56.159
talking about the released time frame for
Spec ops. Uh, yeah, wouldn't.

2042
02:09:56.159 --> 02:10:01.600
Wouldn't you expect me to be or
or generally the release time frame for

2043
02:10:01.680 --> 02:10:07.560
Take two stuff, wouldn't. Maybe
when GTA five would come out, like

2044
02:10:07.640 --> 02:10:11.680
they that you know in the Q
two they've got they've gotten into this annual

2045
02:10:11.760 --> 02:10:16.159
cycle of pretty much owning may Yeah, but they're dead. And then Ellen

2046
02:10:16.199 --> 02:10:18.119
Moore and then like you know,
they'll have a game in March, right,

2047
02:10:18.199 --> 02:10:20.239
so Max Pinnion and March. Well
I guess, well, no one

2048
02:10:20.279 --> 02:10:26.039
that there's the timing of the announcement
of GTA five, Like the next spec

2049
02:10:26.319 --> 02:10:31.039
could be a spring I know,
you know they could they I'm not I'm

2050
02:10:31.039 --> 02:10:33.039
not saying they would not launch Spec
ops against their own other big game.

2051
02:10:33.119 --> 02:10:35.600
Well mean, El Noir came out
and made Duke Newken Forever came out in

2052
02:10:35.680 --> 02:10:39.479
June. Yeah, well specifically rock
Star stuff like rock Star you know,

2053
02:10:39.640 --> 02:10:43.119
Red Dead came out in May.
Eleanore came out in the next May.

2054
02:10:45.920 --> 02:10:48.640
So you're thinking, let's say GTA
five next mate, you're saying it may

2055
02:10:48.680 --> 02:10:54.199
come out May. Yeah? Maybe? All right? Fuck, all right,

2056
02:10:54.239 --> 02:10:58.079
let's talk about new releases. There
aren't any. There aren't a liar.

2057
02:10:58.640 --> 02:11:01.640
I mean, it's Mario Carts comes
out on Sunday. Are you two

2058
02:11:01.680 --> 02:11:07.239
for PSP available now? Van Helsing
for your PlayStation Portable now out on UMD.

2059
02:11:07.359 --> 02:11:09.039
I saw the Tack two is coming
to the PlayStation Network. There's a

2060
02:11:09.439 --> 02:11:13.960
Vultron game coming to Xbox Lab,
Arkada and PlayStation Network this week. Okay,

2061
02:11:15.720 --> 02:11:18.640
Vultron, you guys there's some PlayStation
mini I was interested in that comes

2062
02:11:18.640 --> 02:11:24.239
out. I think this week seeing
it Movie Night available for eight hundred Microsoft

2063
02:11:24.319 --> 02:11:31.119
points this Wednesday. Apples to Apples
comes out next week. Really curious to

2064
02:11:31.119 --> 02:11:37.119
see what that actually is. Yeah, retail? Oh okay, Laura Dough,

2065
02:11:37.279 --> 02:11:41.560
I'd be crazy. PlayStation network.
The first three Sly Cooper games are

2066
02:11:41.560 --> 02:11:46.199
now available as downloadables. Are those
the I guess hopefully the HD I FID

2067
02:11:46.319 --> 02:11:50.119
like new versions? It's gotta be
surely. I never played the third one,

2068
02:11:50.079 --> 02:11:54.720
all right, really like those games, as is Modern Warfare two and

2069
02:11:56.039 --> 02:11:58.880
the Blog two. Oh. Seeing
a Movie Night also available on PlayStation networks.

2070
02:12:00.000 --> 02:12:03.359
It's not just Day three, same
thing. But I don't have those

2071
02:12:03.439 --> 02:12:07.239
button controllers for the p S three. I don't used my buzz controllers anymore.

2072
02:12:07.479 --> 02:12:13.199
Man, they stop? Oh man, I suckered into more shitty peripherals

2073
02:12:13.279 --> 02:12:20.039
fucking video games. Other than them
being extremely dumb, those were dumb.

2074
02:12:20.399 --> 02:12:26.359
Those were I only half jokingly held
that move controller over the Trash game yesterday

2075
02:12:26.439 --> 02:12:30.279
when it came in the mail.
I don't I don't know that I have

2076
02:12:30.399 --> 02:12:33.880
a game I can play with it. I was thinking about, what's that?

2077
02:12:33.039 --> 02:12:35.119
What was that PSN game that came
out like the week of the move.

2078
02:12:35.199 --> 02:12:39.560
It's all physics based. Yeah,
and what's that called. It's it's

2079
02:12:39.479 --> 02:12:45.439
getting that because did you play probably
the US a little bit. Yeah,

2080
02:12:45.479 --> 02:12:50.560
but it's good play. I need
to play the fight with Danny Trejo.

2081
02:12:50.800 --> 02:12:54.720
That needs to happen, the fight, lights out things. Yeah, stop

2082
02:12:54.760 --> 02:12:58.880
moving your feet. He doesn't like
it when you move your feet. He

2083
02:13:00.199 --> 02:13:03.279
was his feet. He's Danny Trejoe. He's earned it. Fair enough.

2084
02:13:05.479 --> 02:13:07.800
All right, guys, let's take
it home with a little email here,

2085
02:13:09.520 --> 02:13:15.800
oh right, emails. Bomb cast
at jabomb dot com is the email address

2086
02:13:16.359 --> 02:13:18.199
for you to write us in emails. You've got questions, you got things,

2087
02:13:18.960 --> 02:13:22.520
got stuff I don't know? Write
us and I got stuff, man,

2088
02:13:22.760 --> 02:13:28.239
But get into here, write us
man. Won't you create a fake

2089
02:13:28.399 --> 02:13:33.960
Gmail account and you know you have
your confessional Lord knows, don't use your

2090
02:13:33.000 --> 02:13:37.079
real one, please don't. First
team that comes in from Eric Smith in

2091
02:13:37.239 --> 02:13:41.439
Rochester, New York. Hey,
Bomb crew, You, guys often refer

2092
02:13:41.520 --> 02:13:45.880
to cut scenes as FMV. From
what I understood, FMV, full motion

2093
02:13:46.039 --> 02:13:48.800
video is a term that's used to
describe actual video of real actress portraying characters

2094
02:13:50.039 --> 02:13:52.439
either in game or in cut scenes. While FMV can be a cut scene,

2095
02:13:52.479 --> 02:13:56.119
a cut scene isn't inherently FMV.
Can you guys break it down for

2096
02:13:56.239 --> 02:14:01.960
me? The V stands for video
not humans video camera, I think,

2097
02:14:03.159 --> 02:14:07.159
But I think for the clarification this
guy is looking for. If we are

2098
02:14:07.279 --> 02:14:09.439
calling a cutscene FMV, what we
are specifically calling out is that it is

2099
02:14:09.520 --> 02:14:13.920
not rendered in real time. This
is a pre rendered whether it's the engine

2100
02:14:15.039 --> 02:14:18.399
or not, that this is something
that was produced previously and is just it

2101
02:14:18.520 --> 02:14:22.640
is a video file that is running
in a full motion form actually in the

2102
02:14:22.680 --> 02:14:26.520
game engine. Actually, I do
use FMV to refer to the video of

2103
02:14:26.600 --> 02:14:31.319
real people. I also that was
what I think the easiest, the easiest

2104
02:14:31.359 --> 02:14:33.000
way to use it. But I
think it applies to both. When I

2105
02:14:33.039 --> 02:14:35.880
think of MV, I think of
you know, wavy two man chronicles.

2106
02:14:37.039 --> 02:14:43.399
Now, So there you go.
There's the clarification. Next email comes in

2107
02:14:43.520 --> 02:14:52.239
from Albert Peter Uh. He is
writing in about gifts, right, So

2108
02:14:52.800 --> 02:14:58.199
he's if he's gotta align on some
good gifts because if you're going to BBS

2109
02:14:58.239 --> 02:15:01.199
I used to call, isn't there
anymore? S? He says, if

2110
02:15:01.239 --> 02:15:05.279
you're going to adhere to gift based
on the hard g and graphic. Then

2111
02:15:05.680 --> 02:15:09.600
I hope you also henceforth say Jay
fag, since the P and JPEG stands

2112
02:15:09.640 --> 02:15:16.159
for photographic. I actually actually like
j FAG. I actually think that's that's

2113
02:15:16.319 --> 02:15:20.560
that's my raft name. Jinny raft
name is Jay Fake. J FAG sounds

2114
02:15:20.600 --> 02:15:24.319
way better. I don't know.
I mean, it's just I'm you know

2115
02:15:24.399 --> 02:15:28.359
what if that's if that's a concession
I have to make. I'm willing you're

2116
02:15:30.079 --> 02:15:33.840
you're willing to butcher jpeg just so
that gift can live on. Yeah,

2117
02:15:35.279 --> 02:15:39.479
it's way more. It's way because
no one's going to adopt j fag.

2118
02:15:39.840 --> 02:15:43.199
You have a chance to adopt people
into the Jeff, I say, Jeff,

2119
02:15:48.760 --> 02:15:56.800
what about all them pangs? If
you like pins? Orange, Samuel

2120
02:15:58.159 --> 02:16:03.920
Boise, Idaho, Captain Faloffel on
the boards, Hey Bombardiers. While recently

2121
02:16:03.039 --> 02:16:07.880
looking through my shelf of games,
I came to a disturbing realization that for

2122
02:16:09.039 --> 02:16:13.960
someone who is OCD as I am, I have no proper system for how

2123
02:16:13.079 --> 02:16:18.279
to organize games in a franchise.
My call of duties were arranged by release,

2124
02:16:18.720 --> 02:16:22.319
my halos ordered by Timeline, and
my need for speeds were in alphabetical

2125
02:16:22.560 --> 02:16:24.880
order. So while I sit here
and try to figure out how to order

2126
02:16:24.920 --> 02:16:28.520
my games, what are you doing? You guys? Arrange yours? Thanks

2127
02:16:28.640 --> 02:16:31.479
guys, love the show order of
release, order of release. I put

2128
02:16:31.559 --> 02:16:35.600
them on the shelf, like hopefully
the games that are in the same franchise

2129
02:16:35.639 --> 02:16:43.840
are pretty close together. What the
fun I don't even want to think about

2130
02:16:43.879 --> 02:16:48.079
your shellow the my god. I
tried that for literally a week, and

2131
02:16:48.200 --> 02:16:52.680
I went insane. I went absolutely
insane. I get rid of most of

2132
02:16:52.760 --> 02:16:56.879
my stuff. So I have like
a shelf that I am more obsessive about

2133
02:16:56.959 --> 02:17:00.120
order than most people. In all
I have way less games even then,

2134
02:17:00.200 --> 02:17:03.319
like probably Ryan and Jeff do on
their shelves, and I still go nuts

2135
02:17:03.399 --> 02:17:05.879
if I don't have that in some
kind of like semblance of an order.

2136
02:17:05.159 --> 02:17:09.520
I got upset because that Who Wants
to Be a Millionaire game came in a

2137
02:17:09.600 --> 02:17:15.680
green case, and I separate out
my Connect games from my regular three sixty

2138
02:17:15.760 --> 02:17:18.000
games. It's now there's gonna be
a fucking green case. So what you're

2139
02:17:18.000 --> 02:17:20.040
saying is we need to get a
purple case. I need to get I

2140
02:17:20.159 --> 02:17:24.200
need to find a loose purple case, you know. So what you're saying

2141
02:17:24.280 --> 02:17:28.360
is that you have a terrible disorder
that is actually hindering your ability to function.

2142
02:17:28.479 --> 02:17:31.239
I wanted to say something else about
games that I'd forgotten from earlier.

2143
02:17:31.360 --> 02:17:35.399
We have this whole podcast devoted the
games. Feel free to say we played

2144
02:17:35.479 --> 02:17:37.719
that fucking that that Who Wants to
Be a Millionaire game on our our Friday,

2145
02:17:37.920 --> 02:17:43.520
our Wednesday Connects a Thawn. Yes, it was terrible, because terrible,

2146
02:17:45.040 --> 02:17:48.879
but I went home and I loaded
up single player and it's all voice

2147
02:17:48.280 --> 02:17:52.440
and it's kind of awesome because it's
okay. So the first part still sucks

2148
02:17:52.479 --> 02:17:56.639
because that opening round thing that you
had to do. Someone wrote me and

2149
02:17:56.680 --> 02:17:58.959
said that they do that. Now
that's the show. Now, Yeah,

2150
02:17:58.000 --> 02:18:01.239
okay, I still love all I
still don't like it, but like I

2151
02:18:01.360 --> 02:18:03.360
realized, okay, if this,
if if this game was just answer five

2152
02:18:03.440 --> 02:18:07.440
questions and win a million dollars,
that that sounds awesome. That's not there's

2153
02:18:07.440 --> 02:18:11.000
not enos there's not enough too that
for the game. So having more questions

2154
02:18:11.000 --> 02:18:15.719
I get, but it's it's actually
kind of awesome because it's not just like

2155
02:18:16.239 --> 02:18:20.479
a bat You read the correct answer
from the four that they present you,

2156
02:18:20.879 --> 02:18:22.159
and it seems like it actually works
pretty well, and then just ask you

2157
02:18:22.159 --> 02:18:24.680
if that's your final answer, and
then you say that is my final answer,

2158
02:18:24.760 --> 02:18:28.879
and it takes that. I always
just said yes. Occasion, I

2159
02:18:28.920 --> 02:18:33.079
would say, see, all right, okay, I said and it got

2160
02:18:33.159 --> 02:18:37.639
it. So there's a certain there's
a certain out of flexibility and some of

2161
02:18:37.680 --> 02:18:39.239
that stuff. But then other things
there are pronunciations that it was just not

2162
02:18:39.600 --> 02:18:46.239
I had to say things in a
really wrong and awkward way for the fun

2163
02:18:46.319 --> 02:18:48.879
because all the dialogue they recorded is
wrong and awkward. I just kind of

2164
02:18:48.920 --> 02:18:52.840
talking back to it inst native dialect. I just want to say that it

2165
02:18:52.719 --> 02:18:58.000
the two player stuff is still busted. Yeah, but uh like it's kind

2166
02:18:58.040 --> 02:19:01.280
of some cool stuff in the single
player thing. Uh, it's it's still

2167
02:19:01.360 --> 02:19:03.680
is a trivia game. You know, it's still who wants to be a

2168
02:19:03.680 --> 02:19:07.959
Millionaire? But but that stuff worked
better I want to be It's kind of

2169
02:19:09.000 --> 02:19:13.200
cool. Those questions get weird and
hard quickly, so just like the real

2170
02:19:13.239 --> 02:19:18.200
show. Okay, yep, I'll
stick with Power Up heroes things. I

2171
02:19:18.239 --> 02:19:20.479
just wanted to clear the air,
as you know, say what that single

2172
02:19:20.520 --> 02:19:24.479
player is like? So, yeah, I guess it's a release. I

2173
02:19:24.520 --> 02:19:28.840
guess I do. I do alphabetical
its system, alphabetical order of release is

2174
02:19:28.879 --> 02:19:31.559
just that's mine as well. But
I do have to I do have to

2175
02:19:31.559 --> 02:19:37.520
break out those kind of games.
Can't I just have random purple cases on

2176
02:19:37.639 --> 02:19:41.600
that shelf. It's crazy color coding
is not. I'm not willing to go

2177
02:19:41.680 --> 02:19:45.760
that far. When you want to
play a Connect game, you want to

2178
02:19:45.760 --> 02:19:48.360
look at all of them quickly.
I don't want to play a Connect game.

2179
02:19:48.479 --> 02:19:54.040
Yeah, then separate them all out
and throw them all away. Then

2180
02:19:54.159 --> 02:19:56.399
you don't ever have to like look
at them. When you're looking at actual

2181
02:19:56.440 --> 02:19:58.000
games that you would want to play, you're like, oh, yeah,

2182
02:19:58.159 --> 02:20:00.680
yeah, fair, Oh there's not
a lot of those on my shelves either,

2183
02:20:00.719 --> 02:20:05.479
So what are you gonna do next? Email comes in for Matt.

2184
02:20:05.680 --> 02:20:11.399
Hello, bomb Cast, says Matt. With Thanksgiving came the sales, and

2185
02:20:11.479 --> 02:20:16.040
I saw that the Skylanders starter pack
was on sale, and I came to

2186
02:20:16.159 --> 02:20:20.079
realize it probably would be again.
I have a young seven year old nephew

2187
02:20:20.319 --> 02:20:22.680
who I think would really like the
game. However, with all the extra

2188
02:20:22.719 --> 02:20:26.239
stuff for sale, I wasn't sure. Bomb Cast, but mostly everyone but

2189
02:20:26.360 --> 02:20:31.600
Jeff should I buy? Was essentially
a gateway toy drug for my nephew this

2190
02:20:31.840 --> 02:20:35.079
Christmas. Only if you hate his
parents. Yeah, only a lot.

2191
02:20:35.280 --> 02:20:39.760
Alex Navaro thoughts, I am one
of the few people who is taking up

2192
02:20:39.799 --> 02:20:43.159
a very firm stance against Skylanders.
I think it is there staunchly anti Skylanders,

2193
02:20:43.200 --> 02:20:48.360
appealing to the most base and awful
instinct of children to just collect them

2194
02:20:48.399 --> 02:20:50.559
all, and it is preying on
our children, and I do not believe

2195
02:20:50.600 --> 02:20:54.559
in it. Have you seen the
pirate ship? It is a blight.

2196
02:20:56.680 --> 02:21:00.319
I saw that silver Skylander ghost Sword's
pretty cool. Yeah, sort, what

2197
02:21:00.399 --> 02:21:03.840
do you what do you say to
ghost sorts? Fuck it? Why not?

2198
02:21:03.840 --> 02:21:07.479
We've got We've got one yea,
one, nay one? Fuck it?

2199
02:21:07.559 --> 02:21:11.799
Why not? That's sort of a
stain, that's yea, just say

2200
02:21:11.879 --> 02:21:18.120
yea. No. That's that's less
committaled than even fuck it. Why not?

2201
02:21:18.559 --> 02:21:24.959
That's at least open interpretation that is
refused to answer the questions, answer

2202
02:21:24.000 --> 02:21:31.799
the questions of my history with the
Skylanders. Show me on the doll where

2203
02:21:31.799 --> 02:21:37.959
the Skylanders touched you. Drobot got
me right here. I think it's I

2204
02:21:37.040 --> 02:21:43.239
think it's fine because it, like
for all of the weird like collectible,

2205
02:21:43.639 --> 02:21:48.440
at least you can do something more, buy more shit, at an angle

2206
02:21:48.520 --> 02:21:50.559
to it, like that started a
game that started, kid, you can

2207
02:21:50.600 --> 02:21:54.360
still play. You could have those
three characters and you could play with ghost

2208
02:21:54.360 --> 02:21:58.719
three dudes and have a time and
and have a weird angle on that game.

2209
02:21:58.840 --> 02:22:03.399
And that seems like that still works. So I like it's it's kind

2210
02:22:03.440 --> 02:22:09.239
of what saves the saves it from
seeming completely awful to me. Sean go

2211
02:22:09.360 --> 02:22:13.280
for Matt, knock yourself out.
Actually what comes in from anders in Denmark?

2212
02:22:15.959 --> 02:22:20.360
DRS has to say last week you
talked a bunch about alternative battlefield games

2213
02:22:20.440 --> 02:22:24.520
and Jurassic Park games, but you
somehow never thought of the game that I've

2214
02:22:24.559 --> 02:22:28.639
been wanting for a while, Battlefield
Dino Riders. What's not to like?

2215
02:22:28.040 --> 02:22:33.879
A future tech dinosaurs, ancient Earth
and two very distinct factions. I think

2216
02:22:33.920 --> 02:22:37.399
it's weird when they merge cybertechnology and
dinosaurs and it's it's too it's too much,

2217
02:22:37.559 --> 02:22:41.680
too far. You don't like Dinah
writers, anti Dina writers, Yeah,

2218
02:22:43.280 --> 02:22:46.879
pro skylanders, anti robot or not
even robots, cyborg dinosaurs. I

2219
02:22:46.959 --> 02:22:52.559
like Trobot and he's a cyborg dragon. That's so it's pretty different. That's

2220
02:22:52.639 --> 02:22:56.920
magic technology. Yeah, I just
want to read that Jurassic Park four script.

2221
02:22:56.959 --> 02:23:01.159
That is diner writers. Yeah,
I really want to read it.

2222
02:23:01.200 --> 02:23:05.520
You're still looking at other Drassic Park
games on eBay? Are you looking up

2223
02:23:05.680 --> 02:23:09.639
Jurassic Park fan fiction on the internet? Up? Heavy Drop? Does Ian

2224
02:23:09.680 --> 02:23:13.559
Malcolm take off his shirt? Probably? Yeah, that's it seems that seems

2225
02:23:13.559 --> 02:23:16.079
like a natural fit. Yeah.
Does that happen a lot? Yeah?

2226
02:23:18.959 --> 02:23:28.000
Wah Fiction war Bad Jeff Goldbloom,
Sam Neil, slash Fiction. Laura Dern's

2227
02:23:28.040 --> 02:23:37.159
just kind of there watching, all
right, Adam Schwally in Portage, Missouri.

2228
02:23:39.600 --> 02:23:43.079
With sky Rim, Skyward Sword,
and Skylanders all coming out in such

2229
02:23:43.079 --> 02:23:46.440
a short periods obvious, the intellectual
properties involving the word sky are hot.

2230
02:23:46.639 --> 02:23:50.879
Right now? Does this mean that
we should be expecting a new Skies of

2231
02:23:50.920 --> 02:23:52.959
our Katie game in the near future
or do you expect this just be the

2232
02:23:54.079 --> 02:23:56.719
new trend in video? No,
that's Skies, It's totally that's not the

2233
02:23:56.799 --> 02:24:01.120
same thing, Adam, You're obviously
miss the point. Perhaps if they named

2234
02:24:01.120 --> 02:24:05.840
it sky Kadia, all right,
maybe they Yeah, I would totally play

2235
02:24:05.840 --> 02:24:09.719
sky Kadia. I've been I've been
playing that Rochard game, and you've worked

2236
02:24:09.760 --> 02:24:13.920
for a company called sky Rig all
right, that game. It's a good

2237
02:24:13.040 --> 02:24:16.040
name. Yeah, put that,
write that one down. They should have

2238
02:24:16.120 --> 02:24:20.440
called that game rock hard. I
think it's like it looks that's the implication.

2239
02:24:20.479 --> 02:24:24.319
Well, I mean it's a name
to say that, but I think

2240
02:24:24.360 --> 02:24:28.079
that's the there's a little double meeting. I mean, yeah, yeah,

2241
02:24:28.120 --> 02:24:30.840
that's fine, but I mean the
logo is already. She'll say it rock

2242
02:24:30.920 --> 02:24:33.319
hard every time I've seen that game
in like whether it was Once Team or

2243
02:24:33.440 --> 02:24:37.719
you know, just like sending press
releases with the name of the game like

2244
02:24:39.079 --> 02:24:43.600
rock hard was it? Like game
makes me rock hard impression? They want

2245
02:24:43.680 --> 02:24:52.799
to give weird game. Speaking of
which, Dick Miller from Kingston upon Whole,

2246
02:24:52.879 --> 02:25:00.360
England whole? What Kingston upon Whole? Ul Oh okay, England.

2247
02:25:00.399 --> 02:25:03.360
I don't know. It's a place
upon places. Get together with your naming

2248
02:25:03.360 --> 02:25:09.639
convention, seriously, no whatever,
they it's stokes Lee upon Trentford on something.

2249
02:25:09.719 --> 02:25:13.719
It's great. It's it's great because
it's a good shorthand, Like,

2250
02:25:13.760 --> 02:25:16.239
oh that place isn't I didn't have
to you didn't even have to write England.

2251
02:25:16.239 --> 02:25:18.319
I knew that when you said it
was upon something. Got it together

2252
02:25:18.879 --> 02:25:22.440
in the UK dear BombCast at the
end of last week's podcast, you mentioned

2253
02:25:22.680 --> 02:25:26.719
Christmas trolling, and I was reminded
of last year when one of my friends

2254
02:25:26.760 --> 02:25:30.079
decided to get me the box set
of the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog on

2255
02:25:30.200 --> 02:25:33.280
DVD and thus ruined my day to
Tank. To thank him for this,

2256
02:25:33.559 --> 02:25:39.360
I have purchased a video player and
as many episodes of Mortal Kombat Conquest as

2257
02:25:39.399 --> 02:25:43.040
I could find on VHS, not
all of them, to hand over to

2258
02:25:43.120 --> 02:25:46.600
him on Christmas Day this year.
What I want to know is have I

2259
02:25:46.719 --> 02:25:50.760
gone too far or is there something
extra I can add to this to make

2260
02:25:50.840 --> 02:25:54.879
it that much better Mortal Kombat Conquest. I don't know if you guys ever

2261
02:25:54.959 --> 02:25:58.719
watched did is that the live action
one? Yeah? That's really fucking bad.

2262
02:26:01.079 --> 02:26:01.840
It was it was it was a
sci fi show. Yeah, I

2263
02:26:01.879 --> 02:26:05.280
think I believe so. I think
it would make a lot of sense if

2264
02:26:05.319 --> 02:26:09.520
it was a sci fi show.
It seems like it has all of the

2265
02:26:09.680 --> 02:26:13.360
quality and ear markings of When I'm
From multiple seasons two. Yeah, because

2266
02:26:15.040 --> 02:26:18.559
programming, I want to say that
might have been to Conquest. I bought

2267
02:26:18.719 --> 02:26:24.239
a pack of VHS tapes with included
Space Jam for eight bucks. Space Jam

2268
02:26:24.280 --> 02:26:26.959
would probably be a pretty good one. He might enjoy that. Yeah,

2269
02:26:28.000 --> 02:26:31.000
that's yeah, yeah, yeah,
I got that because you know, you

2270
02:26:31.079 --> 02:26:35.559
can just toss uh, Mortal Kombat
Annihilation on top there and just sort of

2271
02:26:35.600 --> 02:26:37.879
like it's an extra little cherry on
top of the fuck you. That would

2272
02:26:37.920 --> 02:26:41.440
probably work. That would be I'd
be excited if I got Mortal Kombic Conquest

2273
02:26:41.559 --> 02:26:46.360
VHS tapes, but we would you
be excited if you got Annihilation with See

2274
02:26:46.520 --> 02:26:50.440
you didna likes. You're a troll, so a troll can eat troll for

2275
02:26:50.680 --> 02:26:58.079
sustenance. When when you get an
aurab back, you're just like, oh,

2276
02:26:58.200 --> 02:27:01.440
this is great. Yeah. How
many episodes of a show on a

2277
02:27:01.520 --> 02:27:05.079
VHS tape it was? He's like
six hours. I mean if you're taping

2278
02:27:05.120 --> 02:27:11.239
it right, Yeah, But I
mean the commercially released ones. That is

2279
02:27:11.280 --> 02:27:16.120
that commercially you know what, Yeah, it's don't be the commercially released one.

2280
02:27:16.159 --> 02:27:18.680
It needs to be like bad dubs. It have been dubbed over like

2281
02:27:18.000 --> 02:27:22.239
you got Sledgehammer originally, wasn't it
like someone dubbed No, they weren't dubs.

2282
02:27:22.280 --> 02:27:24.639
I've actually bought those from the producer
of the show and they were actual,

2283
02:27:24.760 --> 02:27:28.680
like they never sold them. But
they were VHS tapes of the full

2284
02:27:28.760 --> 02:27:31.879
run of the series that Alan Spencer
had made, because I've bought actual dubbed

2285
02:27:33.000 --> 02:27:37.319
VHS collections off I bought. Yeah, I got Sister Gabe before they started

2286
02:27:37.360 --> 02:27:43.440
putting out Transformers. Transformers. Yeah, that's it. Hm, that was

2287
02:27:43.479 --> 02:27:46.920
a mistake I had. I got. I got a Larry the Cable Guy

2288
02:27:46.040 --> 02:27:50.680
DVD for Christmas one year from a
relative who does not know me very well.

2289
02:27:50.799 --> 02:27:52.680
That's pretty good. I wonder how
I wonder how that plays in the

2290
02:27:52.799 --> 02:27:58.040
UK. Oh man, dude,
I wonder if that was just his stand

2291
02:27:58.159 --> 02:28:01.760
up. So I bet that would
be. Now, you should get one

2292
02:28:01.799 --> 02:28:07.680
of those, like actual movies in
the UK. They might, they might

2293
02:28:07.840 --> 02:28:09.479
love it. I don't know.
I don't know. That might actually that

2294
02:28:09.479 --> 02:28:15.440
would be the horrible backfire. Yeah, much society, But it's like bringing

2295
02:28:15.479 --> 02:28:18.719
a bullfrog to Australia. You were
ruining the environment by just you know,

2296
02:28:18.159 --> 02:28:22.239
Americans. So I took that TVD
and I sat down with with my roommate

2297
02:28:22.239 --> 02:28:24.280
and I said, we're gonna sit
here and we're gonna watch this fucking thing.

2298
02:28:24.440 --> 02:28:28.079
Fuck you, you're not going anywhere. And he kept trying to leave

2299
02:28:28.120 --> 02:28:31.399
and I start hitting him you were
gonna sit there and we're gonna smoke every

2300
02:28:31.440 --> 02:28:33.000
one of those DVDs. Yeah,
because I had it sick. You know,

2301
02:28:33.120 --> 02:28:35.799
watch this fucking Larry the Cable got
it. You know what? It

2302
02:28:35.959 --> 02:28:39.639
was not very good. It was
not It was not a hilarious fun time

2303
02:28:39.680 --> 02:28:43.680
experience. The problem when you watch
those things is that the time, like

2304
02:28:45.000 --> 02:28:48.319
if you find yourself laughing it like
it's really painful, but like fuck,

2305
02:28:48.440 --> 02:28:58.120
oh no, what's wrong? I
was a lotcas that didn't happen. One

2306
02:28:58.120 --> 02:29:00.799
time I flipped like two and a
half man and like I I got chuckled,

2307
02:29:01.399 --> 02:29:09.079
get out. Chuck started buying those
shirts. I don't did the baton

2308
02:29:09.159 --> 02:29:13.479
get passed on shirts as well?
Does Ashton Kutcher now have his own I

2309
02:29:13.479 --> 02:29:18.319
don't know Bahama shirt line to go
with his tope fingers crossed. Let's find

2310
02:29:18.319 --> 02:29:20.280
out America's favorite sitcom? Yeah,
ratings up on that show. Yeah,

2311
02:29:20.319 --> 02:29:24.000
they went down again. They did
well after he got divorced from or after

2312
02:29:24.079 --> 02:29:31.000
the divorce thing. And he said
weird stuff about John Molesters soy rape it

2313
02:29:31.040 --> 02:29:33.760
probably shouldn't have said. Yeah,
probably should have done this research on that

2314
02:29:33.799 --> 02:29:35.840
one. He was all like,
it's great what so, Dick Miller,

2315
02:29:35.840 --> 02:29:39.600
you're doing fun, You're doing a
great like the MK stuff. That's ye,

2316
02:29:39.760 --> 02:29:43.000
that's a great quest is a good
like? I respect that choice.

2317
02:29:43.079 --> 02:29:48.399
Yeah, yeah, because annihilation is
the easy one commercial question is going you

2318
02:29:48.479 --> 02:29:54.200
can get like the RoboCop TV show. But also that's it's bad, nearly

2319
02:29:54.239 --> 02:29:58.600
as bad as conquest. Also the
fact that he is also giving him a

2320
02:29:58.719 --> 02:30:05.639
player. Here, here's this old
thing space you'll see it in your garage

2321
02:30:05.719 --> 02:30:09.000
forever. Here's this giant thing to
get rid of it in the car boot

2322
02:30:09.159 --> 02:30:13.719
sale. The only things that you
have to use on this are awful.

2323
02:30:15.760 --> 02:30:18.840
That's great, that's good stuff.
I'd say you've you've won upped him handily

2324
02:30:18.079 --> 02:30:26.040
clearly. Congratulations on that, sir. Yeah, that's it for emails.

2325
02:30:26.040 --> 02:30:28.280
Thanks everyone who wrote in, I
have an email? Well, what kind

2326
02:30:28.360 --> 02:30:31.120
of Okay, I'm just gonna I'm
gonna say it out loud though. That's

2327
02:30:31.120 --> 02:30:33.879
cool. Okay, who's it from
for me? Oh? Yeah, let's

2328
02:30:35.079 --> 02:30:37.120
what's it? What's your email saying? This one comes in from me?

2329
02:30:39.479 --> 02:30:43.120
What? This is totally this is
totally self indulgent and just probably the only

2330
02:30:43.159 --> 02:30:46.600
one that can even approach answering it. But I kind of actually just want

2331
02:30:46.639 --> 02:30:52.559
to ask the listenership how to migrate
p S three's because that sounds like that's

2332
02:30:52.600 --> 02:30:56.079
awful, god, since I just
bought a new one. So I bought

2333
02:30:56.120 --> 02:31:01.559
my slim when they came out and
when I went through that migration process,

2334
02:31:01.680 --> 02:31:03.200
and so the drive has to be
fat thirty two. Don't fuck that up?

2335
02:31:03.559 --> 02:31:07.920
Okay? Oh man, yeah,
that's already. That's the part that

2336
02:31:07.200 --> 02:31:11.159
sucked the most is because I kept
plugging and stuff and it was just like

2337
02:31:11.319 --> 02:31:15.120
you didn't see it, like what
the fuck asshole piece of ship? The

2338
02:31:15.159 --> 02:31:18.399
fuck it? Like, just got
so pissed and then realize it needs to

2339
02:31:18.399 --> 02:31:20.079
be fat thirty two. So I
wouldn't, you know, I had to.

2340
02:31:20.200 --> 02:31:22.239
I had to find a drive that
I could format and then did all

2341
02:31:22.280 --> 02:31:26.079
that stuff and then when I moved
it, so you move everything to this

2342
02:31:26.159 --> 02:31:30.120
external hard drive and then you plug
the hard drive into the new PS three

2343
02:31:30.120 --> 02:31:31.040
game and says, hey, this
is a backup you want to restore this

2344
02:31:31.079 --> 02:31:33.920
ship, and you go, fucking
a wait a minute, how do you

2345
02:31:33.000 --> 02:31:37.680
move stuff onto the heart? Like
is there as a separates there's there's a

2346
02:31:37.760 --> 02:31:43.520
transfer tool or backup tool that you
used to do it, and I had

2347
02:31:43.520 --> 02:31:48.159
to redownload all of my PSN stuff
that the thing didn't transfer any of that

2348
02:31:48.680 --> 02:31:52.399
about is like save games, and
transferred the majority of my save games,

2349
02:31:52.440 --> 02:31:56.440
but even not all. Like how
little one didn't move and you manually moved

2350
02:31:56.520 --> 02:31:58.680
I did, ok It wasn't like
it was locked to that PS three and

2351
02:31:58.799 --> 02:32:03.040
thus couldn't be moved, and you
could theoretically you could use PlayStation Plus to

2352
02:32:03.120 --> 02:32:07.559
move anything. Okay, because I
know, like like just a random example,

2353
02:32:07.600 --> 02:32:09.280
like the heavy Rain say file is
locked to the p S three save

2354
02:32:09.319 --> 02:32:11.760
it on, some of that stuff
will move. I'm concerned about this stuff,

2355
02:32:11.799 --> 02:32:15.799
not because I want to clean the
old system completely off and just forget

2356
02:32:15.799 --> 02:32:18.239
about it. Yeah I believe that
a chunk of that stuff will move.

2357
02:32:20.239 --> 02:32:22.280
But yeah, it didn't move everything, and it was just no rhyme or

2358
02:32:22.319 --> 02:32:24.479
reason to it. It was.
It was a really bad experience. And

2359
02:32:24.520 --> 02:32:28.239
then I had to go redownload everything, and my stuff was spread across two

2360
02:32:28.239 --> 02:32:31.520
accounts, which was annoying as hell
because I had to go dig up this

2361
02:32:31.559 --> 02:32:35.639
whold account, log into that one
to download a few things that I still

2362
02:32:35.680 --> 02:32:39.159
cared about, and then I had
to log into my current accounts to download

2363
02:32:39.200 --> 02:32:43.959
everything else it was. It was
a bad process. I don't know if

2364
02:32:43.959 --> 02:32:46.639
it's updated or changed that they've been
through so many firm ware updates. Maybe

2365
02:32:46.639 --> 02:32:48.360
they've gotten better at it, but
it's donty would let you do the Xbox

2366
02:32:48.440 --> 02:32:52.680
Live thing and then you pay to
change your name? Yeah, I don't

2367
02:32:52.760 --> 02:32:54.920
understand why it's dumb that they don't. It's probably because because I wanted to

2368
02:32:56.000 --> 02:32:56.520
change my account for a long time. But it's like, wow, I

2369
02:32:56.600 --> 02:33:00.520
got all this shit type, I
guess I'll just ride out to the next

2370
02:33:00.559 --> 02:33:03.479
generation. And the really annoying thing
is, uh, some of their usage

2371
02:33:03.680 --> 02:33:09.280
rules are locked to or some of
the downloads get locked to hardware and account.

2372
02:33:09.879 --> 02:33:15.879
So I have some sing Star purchases
that I downloaded to a PS three

2373
02:33:16.040 --> 02:33:20.000
that is still here in the office
somewhere and cannot access that content from any

2374
02:33:20.040 --> 02:33:24.000
other PS three. That's why I'm
worried about moving to a new system.

2375
02:33:24.040 --> 02:33:26.319
It's it's just sing Star that does
that. So if you if that,

2376
02:33:26.479 --> 02:33:30.959
if that's thankful, you probably have
knock found down that horrible path. But

2377
02:33:31.040 --> 02:33:33.159
the bad thing is like, even
if you wanted to buy those songs again,

2378
02:33:35.719 --> 02:33:39.200
yeah, if you can't buy them
again, so there's there's no way

2379
02:33:39.239 --> 02:33:41.600
to get that stuff without contacting them
and having them go through some long,

2380
02:33:41.920 --> 02:33:46.360
arduous process that I just looked through
message boards and it's just sounded like the

2381
02:33:46.399 --> 02:33:48.959
sing Star stuff was such a pain
in the ask that I just never did

2382
02:33:50.000 --> 02:33:52.200
it. It's like, all right, fine, I'm never gonna play sing

2383
02:33:52.280 --> 02:33:58.200
Star again. Yeah, it's just
online systems and and and rights management systems

2384
02:33:58.239 --> 02:34:01.079
developed by people who have no idea
what any of that stuff is supposed to

2385
02:34:01.520 --> 02:34:05.840
accomplish or something like. It's just
like, at no point a human entered

2386
02:34:05.920 --> 02:34:09.520
that process and said, here's a
use case, and and oh wait,

2387
02:34:09.600 --> 02:34:15.479
what if this happens? I guess
we hire a bunch of customer support people

2388
02:34:15.639 --> 02:34:18.280
to manually deal with each one of
these cases as they come up. That's

2389
02:34:18.319 --> 02:34:24.799
a really big Yeah. The economy
fuck it. I don't know. Yeah,

2390
02:34:24.120 --> 02:34:28.719
it's yeah, that stuff sucks.
But that's again saying Star kind of

2391
02:34:28.760 --> 02:34:33.799
a right minority problem. So at
least here the States, it all sounds

2392
02:34:33.840 --> 02:34:35.280
like such a mess that I thought
about just pulling the hard drive out of

2393
02:34:35.319 --> 02:34:37.760
my old PS three and putting it
in the new one. Don't do that,

2394
02:34:37.879 --> 02:34:41.200
But then then I'm stuck on an
old sixty years drive that's almost full.

2395
02:34:41.280 --> 02:34:46.040
Yeah, that's ridiculous. That's don't
even won't work, doesn't I don't

2396
02:34:46.040 --> 02:34:48.600
think that word. I really don't
think. And then when you pop in

2397
02:34:48.680 --> 02:34:52.040
it goes like here's a drive.
Also thought about hooking them both up to

2398
02:34:52.040 --> 02:34:54.920
a PC and just like running d
D to move everything over, And don't

2399
02:34:54.920 --> 02:34:58.280
know if that would work. But
I don't know that there's some sort of

2400
02:34:58.360 --> 02:35:01.920
hardware keying that happens with it.
Okay, So if anybody listening knows the

2401
02:35:01.000 --> 02:35:03.360
smoothest way to migrate to a new
piece, I think, never in my

2402
02:35:03.440 --> 02:35:07.479
life what i'd say. I have
thought. I would say that Microsoft's solution

2403
02:35:07.760 --> 02:35:11.719
for hard drive swapping was elegant in
any way, shape or form, but

2404
02:35:11.840 --> 02:35:16.639
not naratively not but at least it
moves. But I understand it. It's

2405
02:35:16.799 --> 02:35:20.120
it is a step process that I
know how to do. It's annoying because

2406
02:35:20.120 --> 02:35:26.000
they're selling those three twenty drives now
and you probably need a new transfer cable

2407
02:35:26.239 --> 02:35:28.520
for those because it is a different
type of drive, yes, and you

2408
02:35:28.559 --> 02:35:31.280
probably need updated transfer so well,
I guess the transfer software is built into

2409
02:35:31.280 --> 02:35:33.360
the three sixty now, So if
I lose my transfer cables every time I

2410
02:35:33.440 --> 02:35:35.479
do it, so I end up
buying a new one every time I do

2411
02:35:35.600 --> 02:35:39.280
it. Well, so they're selling
these three undred twenty gig drives, now

2412
02:35:39.559 --> 02:35:41.760
they might come, they don't come
with it, no, Jesus Christ,

2413
02:35:43.079 --> 02:35:45.559
not that I not that I saw, you know, unless it's hidden somewhere

2414
02:35:45.559 --> 02:35:46.879
deep in there. But you know, looking at the what's in this package,

2415
02:35:46.920 --> 02:35:52.840
it didn't say and a transfer cable
because they're expecting, with four games,

2416
02:35:52.000 --> 02:35:56.479
to be putting a hard drive into
system for first time. Not idiots

2417
02:35:56.559 --> 02:35:58.559
that go like, well, I
have a two fifty, but it's too

2418
02:35:58.680 --> 02:36:05.479
small, all yeah, not enough
for games. I've purchased too many games.

2419
02:36:05.639 --> 02:36:09.719
This is clearly my fault. Well
at least it's not like me where

2420
02:36:09.879 --> 02:36:15.079
most of my hard drive space is
dedicated to things related to rock band.

2421
02:36:15.399 --> 02:36:18.479
Yeah, by and large. Yeah
uh so yeah. If you have solutions

2422
02:36:18.520 --> 02:36:24.799
for for Brad other than kind of
the obvious direct path, uh just to

2423
02:36:24.159 --> 02:36:30.440
buy a Vita and buy the biggest
memory card you can and then transfer transfar

2424
02:36:30.920 --> 02:36:33.280
transferans far everything to the Vita.
The prices of those memory stakes, well

2425
02:36:33.319 --> 02:36:41.360
so what were those were those official
US prices? They're bad, bad proprietary

2426
02:36:41.399 --> 02:36:46.159
bullshit. It's it's like the biggest
is a thirty two gig and it was

2427
02:36:46.200 --> 02:36:52.200
one hundred and thirty bucks something.
It's it's absurd four gig for thirty bucks

2428
02:36:52.399 --> 02:36:56.120
something like that. No, I
mean the question is memory cards and and

2429
02:36:56.280 --> 02:36:58.840
and and you and you need them
for something like it's some games, some

2430
02:37:00.120 --> 02:37:05.200
games require that it goes to a
stick, because again I bet there's like

2431
02:37:05.479 --> 02:37:09.520
I bet, I bet anything there
are manual installs for some of those games,

2432
02:37:09.600 --> 02:37:13.520
and I bet, I mean I
are required installs. They've run off

2433
02:37:13.600 --> 02:37:16.360
cards anyway, so it's it's not
like they're spending a disk. So I

2434
02:37:16.520 --> 02:37:18.280
still bet that they make you install
something. The whole thing was that the

2435
02:37:18.440 --> 02:37:22.639
cards that the games come on,
we're supposed to have enough room on them

2436
02:37:22.680 --> 02:37:26.959
in a lot of cases to also
store DLC for that game and saves for

2437
02:37:26.040 --> 02:37:31.760
that game. But I imagine that
some developers, I imagine every first party

2438
02:37:31.799 --> 02:37:33.120
game will have that stuff, and
a lot of third party games would be

2439
02:37:33.200 --> 02:37:37.559
like fuck it, man, this
shit's expensive. You should buy a memory

2440
02:37:37.879 --> 02:37:39.440
card. Well, yeah, the
problem it seems like Sony in student an

2441
02:37:39.440 --> 02:37:46.200
actual policy saying like hey, you
have to allocate space to your say we're

2442
02:37:46.200 --> 02:37:50.159
gonna do DLC. That's gonna bes
and so that's got to be. Haven't

2443
02:37:50.200 --> 02:37:54.840
we learned from the PlayStation three era
that Sony hates policies. They hate telling

2444
02:37:54.000 --> 02:38:00.319
anyone to do anything. Forcing,
They really hate enforcing anything. You guys,

2445
02:38:00.319 --> 02:38:01.639
just do whatever, Just do it's
best for you. Like all this

2446
02:38:01.719 --> 02:38:05.719
stuff, and please stop calling us, please leave us. We'll make all

2447
02:38:05.719 --> 02:38:07.719
this stuff and as long as you
guys just agree to use it, that's

2448
02:38:07.840 --> 02:38:09.799
enough for us. Yeah, yeah, here, God help us. I

2449
02:38:09.799 --> 02:38:15.559
don't know anyway. Vita stuff sounds
like a real yeah thing. It's a

2450
02:38:15.559 --> 02:38:18.200
boner growner, but I mean,
I don't think it comes bundled with one.

2451
02:38:18.479 --> 02:38:20.799
There are multiple. Oh I guess
it's just the three g not three.

2452
02:38:20.879 --> 02:38:26.280
There is one that doesn't come with
any memory. And if you want

2453
02:38:26.280 --> 02:38:28.520
to get the you can get the
hardware early if you buy a bundle,

2454
02:38:28.920 --> 02:38:33.600
right, Sure, fantastic. That's
a fun new wrinkle. It comes with

2455
02:38:33.639 --> 02:38:37.159
a little deviance, I think,
uh, and that's it. I spent

2456
02:38:37.280 --> 02:38:41.440
two hundred dollars on like a one
gig, one gig or two gigs stick

2457
02:38:41.479 --> 02:38:45.159
on the PSP first came out,
So of course all three Lord of the

2458
02:38:45.239 --> 02:38:48.840
rings films on want all these music
videos here. I have to store Van

2459
02:38:48.920 --> 02:38:52.639
helsing on here. I have to
I need Van helsing to be watching.

2460
02:38:54.319 --> 02:38:58.079
Had you been a bundle at some
point like and you get Van helsing on

2461
02:38:58.239 --> 02:39:01.559
UMT. I don't know, probably
weren't you m d's though they're probably.

2462
02:39:01.760 --> 02:39:03.200
I have no idea what he was
watching. I just know that he had

2463
02:39:03.319 --> 02:39:07.639
Van Helsing on his PSP, and
he was the first guy was joyous about

2464
02:39:07.639 --> 02:39:11.040
it. He was like smiling the
whole time. The other guy maybe not

2465
02:39:11.120 --> 02:39:13.680
so much. He was just sort
of stoic about it. The worst maybe

2466
02:39:13.719 --> 02:39:16.600
this is just a guy with a
towel in Times Square with a bunch of

2467
02:39:16.639 --> 02:39:20.600
memory sticks with Van helsing on it. That guy is Stephen Summers. Yeah,

2468
02:39:20.799 --> 02:39:26.719
all right, And on that note
we end this week's John bobcast Alex

2469
02:39:26.840 --> 02:39:28.360
Navarro. It was a pleasure.
Thank you for coming in from New York.

2470
02:39:28.600 --> 02:39:31.719
Loved it. Safe travels. Thank
you, sir. We'll see you

2471
02:39:31.719 --> 02:39:35.360
again soon. Indeed, uh the
rest you fuckers. I've got hold raiser

2472
02:39:35.440 --> 02:39:39.319
on MD. Do you no dodgeball
in um D? I've got I robot

2473
02:39:39.360 --> 02:39:48.120
probably is my HOWD raizor MD is
my PSP? Is Japanese. So that

2474
02:39:48.239 --> 02:39:52.399
sick puddle of mud disc. Oh
fuck, dude, I think I still

2475
02:39:52.440 --> 02:39:58.040
have the Snoop I the Snooped yea, the Snoop smoke Fest World Tour whatever

2476
02:39:58.079 --> 02:40:05.959
it was, Old boy on you
really weird in Japan to be kind of

2477
02:40:05.000 --> 02:40:07.559
cool. What do you have?
What do you have? Good movies on

2478
02:40:07.719 --> 02:40:09.680
um I don't know where they even
came from. That's weird. You're supposed

2479
02:40:09.680 --> 02:40:16.520
to have like Kate Hudson Romantic Comedy
is and Van helsing Mister Woodcock on um

2480
02:40:16.600 --> 02:40:20.319
D. They had already stopped making
you. I don't know why, but

2481
02:40:20.399 --> 02:40:24.959
that seems like the perfect UMD movie. Yeah, exactly, just like Jack

2482
02:40:24.040 --> 02:40:28.760
and Jill. Yeah, yeah,
the change Up. The changeup totally be

2483
02:40:28.840 --> 02:40:33.040
a UMD. The new dis for
movies is bitch. I watched that on

2484
02:40:33.280 --> 02:40:41.479
um DAR. All right, So
that's it for the podcast. Thanks for

2485
02:40:41.520 --> 02:40:45.440
this thing. We'll be back next
Tuesday edition of the JAT Podcast