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At least Bubbsy can't hurt me anymore. Wait a second, what's that?
And the mount rushmore crossovers? But first, Mike, how are you doing
well? Gaming crossovers? It's all crossovers Footstones. The Jetsons would be like,
not they in the rank? Actually no, that did No, that's
just bias because that is just the first time. The way dating ones,
it probably still would not even ring. Wow. Yeah, it's the truth.
We've come a long way since the Flintstones met the Jestice. But you
no love in your heart? That's what I I'm hungry. Yeah, I
listen. I'm doing pretty well. I hope you're well. Mike. Uh
yeah, I noticed. Actually I didn't notice. Hot is it down there?
Jeff? You tell me it's I'm comfy. I'm I'm good, doing
good. I wish I had a thermometer here so I could prove it to
you, but I'll do that later. Yeah, I am uh ready for
the heat to stop. I went outside to do some stuff today. It
sucked. It's yeah, I mostly got to stay in. I went on
run yesterday and like I had a very good run, probably because of the
steroids, but then like I could not stop sweating afterwards because of the heat
and probably because I pushed my body beyond a limit it really was comfortable with
because the steroids are tricking it. Sure, but yeah, it's just wait,
like more sweating than I've done in a while, an uncomfortable amount of
sweating. Like the point of like this, I don't think I should be
losing this much fluid. Well, and I think it is with the humidity
and like the do point, you're at a temperature where the sweat is not
ap evaporating, it just continues to build up and so it gets really gnarly.
Yeah, it got it got weird. It got weird up in here
for a little bit. Weird heat is the worst kind. People say it's
humidity. No, it's it's the weird heat that's the worst. There really
is like a thirty minute window do I can like go out and do that
and not die, and it's like, basically at eight thirty, it's like
the only chance I could make it. Even then, still still a smidge
smoking. I means it hasn't absolutely destroyed me. I've been able staying here,
although like my ear system usually pretty good, but even even mine,
I have it. At sixty eight, it's I got seventy four. Actually
it's struggling, but we'll be okay, we'll make it through it. Yep,
yeah, I guess you know what. Let's just get into it.
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free. All right, Mike, some stuff happened this week. Do you
want to talk about it? Yeah, I would like to do that.
Shadow the ar Trees the highest rated DLC of all time, big surprise.
Huh. Yeah, I hate being like that. I hope it does sound
a little shitty, but I'm like, yeah, of course, of course,
you know, like I like Out of Rags was my favorite game of
that year. I absolutely love it, and like the Apartment's like yeah,
I know, I know everybody loves and it's like, I think. The
one thing that is maybe a little bit surprising, although it is it seemed
like it was leading to this the entire time, is that, like,
no, this basically feels in a lot of ways already like elden Ring two
and if that is the feeling people have coming out of it, of course,
it's the highest rated DLC of all time. And at a certain point
it's like I was already so excited to play it. How can I get
more excited to play it? Here it is, and I still haven't started
it. I think I'm gonna start it tomorrow on upf on Giant Bomb.
That seems to be the plan right now, so I'll hop in there kind
of kind of fresh. I haven't played a ton. We did those multiplayer
streams, but I have not messed around with my main character in quite some
time. I suppose I should double check to make sure I could do it,
But I do remember beating Mog, so yeah, I'm sure I beat
Mog. I gotta It's just I need to just start the thing out to
see it's all there. Yeah, because it is a little weird, just
because part of me feels like, if I play this now, I'm kind
of almost rushing to get it done before the Foul Fantasy fourteen expansion comes out,
which is really gonna take up my time. So I mean, I
probably shouldn't just think about that. I should just you know, play this,
be into it, enjoy it, and I know that I am going
to enjoy it. I'm glad it's here, Glad it's getting reviewed very well.
Although like at this point, I am at that point where it's like,
you know, the people who like from software really like from software.
Of course, at this point of a from Software game ever gets like below
and ninety again, and that's almost like, whoa, what's going on?
Yeah, what's for? Oh my god? It's yeah, what's his name?
Missing the bowling shot in the big lebowskins, Like, oh my god,
he's gonna have a heart attack. Yeah, expectations are always going to
be high for this this company going forward, But yeah, I don't know.
Something about a ninety five for a piece of DLC at least that's where
it was earlier. Today weird you out a little bit. You think it's
too much for any DLC? Is that what you're getting at? Did you
tell me the truth? Oh? I think it puts a lot. Yeah,
I haven't played. I think it puts a lot on a DLC to
be like, Okay, this is up there with some of the best games
ever. That's what I like that vill of our VGC stories mentioned It's like,
this is the thirty fifth or something highest rated game ever released that's been
rated on Metacritic. So it's like, okay, yeah, that does seem
like a lot. And yet if it's elden Ring, of course that makes
sense. I mean where else. Yeah, so it's a lot. And
I think I mentioned this to Sean this morning, went on, gmm,
that's like maybe this was an expand alone. It's like that, like that
would make it even these expectations or something would be reset a little bit for
me. I don't know. That's very much a me thing, but I
don't know. Whatever. I am ready to go play this check it out
myself, and I'm sort of ready for everyone to be playing elden Ring again
because I thought that was a really fun time and I think having that Zeitgeist
return will be very favorable and it'll be a little different because, I mean,
you played almost all of it before last time, in that review period.
I played a good amount of it in that review period. This time,
both of us kind of waited for the game to just actually be out,
whether we intentionally or not. Yep, I don't So you think your
plan is to actually hop in I know you were kind of going back and
forth there a second ago. What do you think the plan actually is?
Now? Are you going to be playing this game this weekend? At some
point this weekend, I will probably spin this up. I don't know if
I'm like going to stream it. It's gonna kind of play it when I
can, But yeah, I'm gonna spin this up. I'm gonna play.
I'll have fun cool Yep, I'm gonna I'll start it tomorrow and I think
it'll be the game I'm playing going forward, kind of as I'm finishing up
thousand Year Door, and then that'll be the game I focus on. And
honestly, you know, July not a lot coming out, not a ton,
so I know you have your your Dawn trail eminent. When when does
that actually come out? A couple of weeks. I mean it was supposed
to come out. I think this like around now, and then when they
announced the urger he release date he's like, let's push that back. A
cop admitted as much. That was yes, that was yeah, yeah,
that was the packs I was there. It's like, yeah, that's that
makes sense, that's smart. So that'll keep me busy well, and then
you know, I think August is the war within the World Warcraft expansion,
so I actually have a good amount of mmoing to do for a while.
Yeah, August kind of things do pick up a little bit more, but
then by September it's full sprinting once again. For at least one big game
a month for me, and if not more than that. Actually, I
think most of this months do have more than that, and a lot of
those are like Nintendo games, So, uh, let we just mentioned too
very soon, man of course. Yeah, honestly, what if that game
comes out and it's like, no, there made a lot of improvements,
That game is way better. Sure, I did write down here that I'm
still thinking about that direct just a couple of things. I have gone back
and looked at all those trailers again for the big ones at least, and
I'm just like, so happy with everything we saw. Mario and Luigi is
the first thing they showed, and I was like, I think when I
was first see I'm like, I'm so glad they're going for that art style.
And now I was looking at it and I'm like, are they nailing
it? And then I watched it a couple more times and I'm like,
actually, no, I am fully on board with the way that game looks.
I think that the sort of bold black outline that they did. I
was listening to DF direct today and they mentioned the thing that it did remind
me of, which is Super Smash Brothers for the three DS. Yeah,
sure, that black outline, and it's actually like, I do know,
it's sort of about that feels like a stylistic choice but also a readability choice,
and I think it really helps them with the to show off all the
animations that are happening in Mario and Luigi. But then it just looks so
much fun. So very happy with that. I did show the kids the
Zelda trailer and they caught on pretty quickly. It's like, wait, is
she gonna be saving link this time? And I'm like yeah, they're like
they both jumped up, and we're very excited about it. So yeah,
just very happy with all that stuff, and very happy that many of those
games are coming out in a matter of months. So still very happy with
that direct. How about you? Absolutely you know that art style, Like,
you know, I'm always gonna be a little bit of a pixel freak,
so like comparing it to the originals is maybe a toss up for me,
but compared to those three DS remakes we got, Yeah, this looks
a lot better. Just every time I think about Metroid, I'm so happy
I've been playing through Zero Mission. I'll talk about that a bit later,
but just in such a Metroid mood, which I usually am in anyways,
but just seeing Prime for knowing it looks great, being so excited for that,
and thinking about Mars's Caplin two still constantly. I guess that's the one
thing I want to talk to you, because there's there's more noise about that
game not coming to Xbox than I maybe would have even expected. You think
anybody in Team Xbox or Team Capcom is feeling heat from that? I yes,
I think definitely a Team Xbox they're feeling heat about that. This is
it's this is happy to gain skip your your system with no obvious reason,
unless the reason it's like, well, we don't think it'll sell well enough,
which is kind of yeah, but I mean it's a reason, but
it's an embarrassing reason, right exactly. That's the same thing where it's like
you are taking a bad beat publicly, regardless of whether it's that or it's
just you know, random. Yeah, so one Xbox I'm sure is feeling
the heat about that. At the same time, again from that DF to
Wreckt and Sean, we talked about this a little bit this morning where we
weren't sure if it like it was the MT framework thing where it's like they
didn't maintain that on Xbox they definitely don't have it for Xbox series, and
it sounds like what happened is it's this is according to DF, they would
know better than I do, but it seems like on Xbox One even that
they stopped maintaining. However, they were reporting games with MT framework two Xbox
and so there's just no easy way for them to do that without spinning up
something completely new that would be more expensive than any of these other ones,
and at a certain point that doesn't make sense. Now that's still not great
for Xbox, but it feels like they're not doing this because they hate Xbox.
It's just it would cost them too much money for it to make sense
and HU and they did. They did maintain that empty framework stuff because they
were doing like the Ace Attorney Chronicles games for Switch and stuff like that.
So that's why that was working on there. I it's weird. I want
I think Capcom might be like, Man, maybe we can make this happen
if we get some help from Microsoft. And I think Microsoft should do that.
If they have enough money, they should just do that in every one
of these cases, and so they could pave this stuff over and get on
the other side of whatever the future looks like for them. Yeah. I
mean we've seen Microsoft kind of like devote resource of Befloor when there is a
loud enough outcry. We kind of saw that with boulders Gate, right,
So yeah, I do wonder if any phone calls have been made or anything
like that. Yep. And another thing, Uh, I looked at Uh
I watched that Super Mario Party Jamboreewe. That game. Why does that game
look so good? Do you have you looked at this trailer again? There's
like some really incredible like I don't know, like backgrounds. You know what
reminds me of is that uh the that God the one game I can never
remember the name of that I love, the one with the chest in the
oven see yes, spoon Heaven No. Uh, like the tabletop games for
the Clubhouse Clubhouse Clubhouse Games, thank you, that had like a lot of
great materials and reflections, and like it looked really premium. There's a lot
of that going on in the background of this Super Mario Super Mario Party game.
It's weird. I remember saying I thought Mario Party Superstars was actually one
of graphically the best looking SWITCH games. I think, you know, there's
a you know, not a whole lot of intense other things going on in
Mario Party games, so you can just kind of have some really nice details
and character molls and stuff. But no, yeah, those Mario Party games
Switch actually graphically look very nice. Yeah, there's it's just it just looks
really really pleasant to look at. Parents the same developers US Clubhouse games.
That's interesting, is it according to the two people in chat? How could
two people be wrong? No, they can't be. That's okay. I'm
not, honestly not surprised to hear that. Once you like looking at the
game, I got those vibes, so happy to hear that's there's something there.
Yeah, just kind of still buzzing from it, really likes. That's
where I'm at. That's why I wanted to talk about it more, just
because it's like, God, that was a good direct. It was a
lot of fun. Limited Run Games had their latest reveal thing where they announced
a bunch of new projects today. I saw some stuff while I was doing
other things, but I don't know you were watching. You want to tell
us about it? Yeah, I mean there's a lot of fun stuff here.
The one last thing, believe it or not, is Bubbzy. Is
this gonna have Bubbzy three D in it? I think it's gonna have Bubbsy
three D, at least I say, according to the Steam page it does.
Oh, it's gonna have Bubbsy three D. Bubbs three D is getting
imported into MVG's carbon Engine piece of shit because it's all carbon engine stuff here.
I did see that, yes, and even so there will be like
some improvements. I'm like, man, what can you possibly do? Maybe
the way it's already so perfect, right, I mean, well it's called
the Perfect Collection. I'm like, man, what is Remember that thing you
had to do in the end of game with the colors? Are we gonna
find out what that finally means? Now that people are gonna play this game
again. I I hope so. I hope they like are able to unravel
what was going on there. That would be awesome, but I think like
even Game Boy games are going to be in this thing. Uh so that's
what you know. There's like a lot of stuff that they showed here where
it is almost like collect collections and stuff of like not the greatest games in
the world. Like we know about Gas and I defend gets a bit.
Gas games are fine. Like Fighting Force, Fighting Force is fied. We're
getting that, and I'm like, man, I'm so glad. I'm so
glad. Living the Run is like, we're gonna preserve Fighting Force because somebody
has to. Hell. Yeah, they're even they're going to re release Sphere
Effect, which is you know the Me and You in the magazine circuit back
to the day. Probably know it as the lesbian games. That's cool Magazin
talked about, but like it. Graphically, it's one of the best looking
PS one games. It's it kind of does the Mega Man Legends thing with
face textures, so it list actually animates really well. So getting that h
Then there's like other things like they did the physical release of Gimmick that kind
of hit in gem NS game and now Gimmick is just getting a sequel,
so so that's neat. There's some kind of clock Tower, just a bunch
of stuff like that. I like Limited Run a lot. I'm a big
fan of what they are doing. Seeing them do the showcase like this is
a pretty neat Yeah. You're looking at that Steam page for Bubbzy can you
believe Yeah? Because they have spring shots there, there's like the game by
Games and then Bubbsy three D is getting a modern release. Can you believe
it? I can't. Actually, that is bananas. What could possibly go
wrong? I can tell you a lot of things twenty twenty five. I
mean, god, they imported Bubbsy into a new engine, bubbs three D.
That is so wild. Yeah, you ever play much of the two
D Bubbzy games, because I did, Like, you know, I read
for them a lot of hi bad everybody rented and they were always fine.
You rent to them and then never really wanted to play them again. They
weren't again. Like, I don't think they're ever terrible games like three D
is terrible, but the other Bubzy games are just kind of weird mascot platformers,
of which there were a dime a dozen of those. Yes, what
you said though about you know limited run games go on there going out there
and doing this work. It seems like they have a very good plan of
let's, you know, hire people that know what they're doing to preserve these
games, and then let's bring in people who kind of know how to find
these games and know their value and know how to get them together. I
mean Audie Sorely, also from Digital Foundry, who has done some Digital Foundry
work, is the producer on this Bubbsy game. It's like, okay,
yeah, that's that is awesome and it's very cool that they're able to do
this. So yeah, impressive stuff. And I do find myself being like,
maybe I should get a couple of these games physically, which is not
an urge I typically have. So if they're even kind of getting me wrapped
up in it, and there are tool a few cool ones getting ones.
There's a really cool looking Dark Forces Limited run premium edition that they announced during
this that has some pretty neat stuff in it, including like a like a
blueprint of the one ship from it and you know, come remember to coin
special pin stuff like that. I think they're also doing a physical version of
wolf Instine too, the new Colossus on switch, so that's yep, you
know exactly. Yeah, it's it's just kind of neat stuff. And I
think for people who are worried about like the future of physical games, I
think this is proving that there is going to be that boutique market. Like
I think the ship has sailed on your one going to get a day one
physical version for every game going forward that seems to be kind of over.
You're going to get it for most games still, but a lot of games
are going to make the decision to be like, no, we're going to
be digital only. It's just cheaper and easier. But stick around and if
you want that physical version, we will probably make something happened for you in
the long run. And big events like this where there's a million of these
projects and they're all different kinds of games. It is older games collections and
then Wolfenstein too for the switch like that. It's such a breadth of different
kinds of content that I think it really speaks to the fact that collectors will
just show up for all of these and I think that's a good sign.
Yep, exactly right, all right, Mike, I not too much else
to talk about. Things did kind of slow down a little bit after SGF,
so gared. I mean, I don't know. People are trying to
make a big deal about who or who isn't going to be a games com,
and it's like, yeah, right, it's much as much really ever
happened at games I know, some things do sometimes it's a little bit more
busy than others, but it seems like that Opening Night Live hasn't been a
huge thing for the last couple of years, and for a couple of years
before that, there were a few things. PlayStation's not going to be a
games com, Nintendo says they're not going to be a games com, and
then Xbox says they're going to have quite a bit at Games Come, their
biggest booth ever, and then they made some promises about how there was some
stuff they could have showed off here that they're saving for games Calm. So,
yeah, they'll have some stuff, but you're right making a big deal
of it. We'll just see what happens when it happens with that sort of
thing. So yeah, I mean, I'm glad, Okay, I'm glad
that x is going to be there. I'm excited to see that people are
there than not. Yeah, I think people you know, it is wirds.
What I was talking about this is actually the biggest game conference, Like
it seems like people don't act like it is. Well, I mean it's
the biggest in terms of just like raw right feet on the ground. But
I guess like it's I guess it's weird that doesn't translate into more value in
some way. I don't know. Yeah, I guess the other thing from
you know, circling back to the direct people were like, hey, is
that Metrod running on switch to a lot of people looked at it like definitely
not And I think we kind of guess that looking at it. Yeah,
I know, I know during the thing one place said do you think during
switched to? When you know I was watching it on your discord with it
clearly just be taking a shot dark. But yeah, like other people said,
yeah, it looks like about as good as Metric one remaster does so,
which looked fantastic, right, looks good enough. It is now just
a matter of still, well is it also going to come to switch to?
And what will it look like on there will there be improvements? What
is that going to be? Like? That's those are kind of the questions
now that we're not going to get answers for in a while yes, exactly,
all right, I think yeah, I think that that'll do it for
the news. Why don't we just take a quick break, we'll come back,
we'll start getting into all those super chats and we'll talk about what they
want to talk about. Does that sound good, Mike? So they want
to talk about cool dude things. Okay, I bet that's right. Right
after this, everybody, all right, we are back. We got some
super chats and we have a Mike Manati who knows how to read. Let's
put those two things together. Go ahead, Mike de Bucket twenty three says,
think you all will do a giant bomb. Fantasy Critic midseason check in.
Dan got Astrobot. What is Turboshan doing sleeping on his team? You
know I've pulled it up. Yeah, right now, Dan digget Astrobot.
It's a big get. Ooh you know what want to? Oh? Oh?
Dan had Metroid Prime for as a counter pick though, so that's actually
pretty good for him because that is not coming out this year. It sucks.
Yeah, things looking not too bad for Dan had thousand year Door remake
that got him nineteen points, and he had seven rebirth that's my five points.
But you know still projected in first place. I think probably Mike Naughty,
because I think any reason you would care about projected it is Mike the
Naughty, who did very well with both the full roster mic. Yeah,
but only three of my games have been ray. I mean I did good,
person you loved, right, Why are you talking about projected then?
Because I'm projected to win yea, So I probably I had that Skull and
Bones counterpick. I had the unannounced three D Mario counterpick. Look, I'm
still looking pretty good. Although yeah, we'll see, but yeah, there's
some people we gotta we got it. Maybe a remind Tam and back Galar
and Lucy. Look after this week, yeah, maybe until after this week
for in particular Jeffy. I mean Jeff's project it for a second. Right
now, you did very good with Dragon's Dogma two, but Latro was was
a huge get for you. That's some game called Banisher's Ghosts of New Eat
and whatever that has got you ten points. So although you did pick me
trod Prime four beyond, I do have that's you know, I have a
drop. You can drop it, okay, and everything else is scheduled to
come out. Although I'm skeptical about skate story, but you got you picked
up you you picked up Dragon Age back then because you were very confident for
no particular reason, that was going to come out here, right. I'm
really mad that my I'm sorry that Dan got astro though, because I'm like,
I put a ton of money on there, and he spent seventy five
a lot whatever, And I mean, I know it's a lot, but
like that's probably like that's going to be a pretty high I think there's a
strong chance that game is uh, you know, high eighties, maybe even
low nineties. Oh, I bet it'll be low nineties. I bet.
I think it's a strong chance. Yeah. I would have talked because like
I know, you're like, oh man, I think Astrobot can maybe like
breakthrough and sell like five million copies, and like I I want to believe,
but like all the reasons you list were the same reasons why I thought
Ratchet and Clink ripped apart with sell five million copies showcase and it's got reviewed
so well and seemed so excited and then it was still like three million.
Yeah, I think that it's I think things have changed a little bit where
like people are really starving for stuff on the PlayStation. Uh, they are
getting a little bit tired of Hey, Naughty Dog's got another remaster of a
game they released a bunch of times. I think Astro looks even more exciting,
looks even better than Ratchet. And I think that well. I mean,
also, there's a lot more PlayStations, and yeah, I don't know.
I think things are lining up for it to do better than Ratchet in
a lot of ways, but there's nothing guaranteed. And for me, like
five million is breakout, big number, like that would be huge for that
kind of right, Yes, exactly so, And like you know, seven
million is like dream scenario, I said, but that is a dream as
in it's not going as a dream. Yes, But yeah, we'll see
Burrito. Thank you, Brito. I'll have to listen to the pot tonight
as I'm on the road. But Mike, this is for you. Getting
Dan real good with the Extinct Dragons bit. Never seen him get shoot hot
like that. Very nice work. He was so ready for it. Do
you think that when he went to the bathroom or whatever, you think he
had the show on and was listening, because he seemed prepared when I got
But it's not only it's usually Gan's move, but maybe for that show he
might have done that. Maybe it was very I was dying. And then
shortly after that he knocked out your audio again. It was a good like
three minutes there of blake clubbing fun stuff. I hope afore. Yeah,
you're cauld you believe that. Man. Look look, Jeff, I'm not
I'm not groveling because I'm going next and I'm worried about what you're gonna pick
for me. I swear to god, I thought it was gonna be a
ted to twelve hour game. I swear to god, I'm not mad,
but I do have a strong sense of fairness. If it wasn't gonna be
you, it's gonna be me. You wouldn't be to play this game.
You can, you can yell and you can, and you can grovel,
you can, you can do what you need to do. But I just
think that there is a penance. Is that the penance needs to be paid.
I think there is a price that has to be paid. So we'll
see what that means. Something of mine yet, I had something in mind,
but I know I need to go see if it is going to be
painful enough and I'm not sure, so we'll see. Okay, I want
that'd be like really, I think really it would be fun for me to
watch you play, and I think in the end you would probably like in
the way that you liked mythology sub zero, where it's like this is something
that's so weird. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
interesting. We'll see, we'll see. Uh. Alian miracle says how the
gamer Inhaler go Detroit may how did you feel? Not again? Okay?
For people don't know, Jeff bought some gamer Inhaler thing called get Good.
They supposed to shove up his nose and then smell like like smelling salt.
It's supposed to make him energy or power amplify energy and focus focus from Detroit.
How fus they don't know any think about focus in Detroit. They make
that's where they make the focus focus cool. Cool. I feel pretty good.
Actually, hey, I feel sharp. I'll say that. Yeah,
that's just the body like giving you the endorsemance that it does before you die.
It could be parts of my brain shutting down. Yeah, like yeah,
it's like flooding all that good stuff in there. Yes, it's actually
ninety degrees of your base right now, My senses are all like dumbed down.
Scha says, you guys rule and I only feel alive when I hear
you all read my chat. Well, you tell my wife Magic that she's
the coolest. Thank you, stay amazing. Magic magic, magic, magic,
Look at me, Magic, You're the coolest. Magic. Magic is
real and cool. Yeah, that it's pretty real? Is that is?
That? Is that the No friendship is real is what the Bronie say.
But I bet they think magic is real too. Wait, friendship is magic?
Oh, friendship is magic, that's what they say. I guess that's
the subtitle of the show. I thought, Sean, what why do you
assume? I mean yes, I mean yeah, thank you. Jim's Fighting
Hers is a fantastic fighting game. Go check it out. Uh. Simon
McKinley SD says Mike, how can you say Mario doesn't get any in the
thousand your door. Every female you meet wants to sin on his mustache as
soon as they meet him. Also, is he sixteen? Check? Oh,
I know people want to have sex with Mario doesn't know what it is,
doesn't know what it is, and it doesn't happen. So uh yeah,
so I no, I still haven't played a whole lot of FOP fans
sixteen in a while, which I want to. I want to want to
imagine Honestly, I could probably get him to call you. I feel like
if I tried right now, I could get Ben started calling. No no,
no, no, no please. I'd be so embarrassed. No please,
I would die. All right, We're not going to do that,
but imagine that he's there. Okay, it like, what what would you
say? You would you do? Like you know what, I'm gonna go
play it right now, I might start crying. Okay, all right,
fair enough. I don't want to put you in that situation, right It
would be the same way. Edgar Marina says, are you guys making it
to evil? Probably not, Sadly, I have like it's been as I've
already done more travel this summer than I would like to, and I might
have more other stuff. So uh, the idea of making it to evil
probably just not happening. I'll be watching it a lot this year, though.
I'm very excited for you know, the thtreet Far six and Teking eight,
but also for the Third Strike Retro tournament that they're doing as I'm like
kind of waiting for uh Marvels coming too. I kind of want to pick
up some Third Strike again and maybe play some more of that for fun,
but no, I'm looking for it like ASP and got that fucking game.
Just it's a thing in the world to look at. It is so good
looking. I I do think like that kind of two D pixel art like
pure fighting game really did peak with that market looking game ever made. I
think is legitimately the best looking game ever made. It is gorgeous, so
U I will say before I move on, there's like maybe maybe like a
five percent chance I got EVO this year because I about that. There's like
there's a way to get cheap flights near me if I could get like a
press pass for in our thing because I won't be well, we could do
that, so there's like a five percent chance I might be there. Cool
cool, cool cool Yeah yeah, same same with me where it's like I
would love to go. We definitely talked about it, but I'm right with
Mike where too much travel already and there's like other cool things I would have
loved to have done that I didn't even like entertain so I'm like, I'm
at that point with travel already. Maybe next year, maybe next year.
Bailey Moon says thoughts on Yuka Replay lead the Yuka Lately remake, I just
I never gave Yuka Laily much mind one because when that came out, I
didn't even really have much of a soft spot for Banja Kazuli. I only
played through it a bit after that and finally got it back when the day.
I was just kind of like, this isn't Mario sixty four and was
kind of a shitty about it, which I was wrong, but still like
when Ukulele came out and one was like yes, so then I guess right,
it's just not as good as it could be. And the winner one
likes is the two D one impossible there? And like, I, if
anything, I'll go play that before I play replay. But I don't know,
maybe really kind of maybe they're really fixing it up replay. When did
the two D one come out a few years ago? Now, it's been
a little bit, probably twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, right, twenty seventeen,
so seven years. Yeah, so this will be like not even their
first new games. This is just a remake or remaster of a games.
So they haven't done a new game in seven years. It's kind of a
bummer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but uh, you know,
I hope it does well. You know it again, if it comes
out and if I hear like amazing things and it's like I can't miss it,
then then absolutely. I always say I keep waiting for like, and
we've had some good indie three D platforms by keep waiting for, like the
the big one of those, like the Celeste of those, or the Shovel
Night of those which hope maybe might be Shovel on Nights exty four right that
would own Yes, got that's so I'm definitely looking forward to that. I
hope that we get to you can replay THEE and they they've made the edits
to it that make it great. That's what I always hope for these.
This seems like this is a chance for them to do exactly that. New
Medics say is Dead by Daily is my favorite crossover game. I love it
and I hate it too much. Yeah, we definitely remember Dead by Daily.
That might be a good contender. Then we're talking about our Mounta Rischmore
crossovers later. Yep, keep it in mind Power Glovers has been a while.
Just wanted to thank you guys for all you too. Here's some Margaritaville
money for the Metroid bet. When will you rank samssus suits in a top
five love from the Power Glow, Thank you so much, Power Glover that
is a fantastic lass and the ten Dog's idea ranking Samus's suits. There are
a lot of them. There are ones I have strong opinions about. A
big fan of the dread Suit. I'm not so much a fan of any
of the gravity suits. I do not like that purple color almost ever.
Yeah, I think I like when I get it because I just like getting
new stuff. But I think at the end of the game, I'm always
like, oh, I'm glad I got away from that. So yeah,
and they're's like there's some weird, funky ones like in Dred you get the
metroid suit at the end and that looks amazing, right, so, and
you know weird weird things like that. The entire Wolf says, do you
all expect people to fight for Outer Ring DLC for a Game of the Year.
Yes, Yeah, I think I do expect it, and I expect
to not be on board even I don't know. Uh, it's twenty twenty
four, man, I marriage now, come on right, be possible?
No, I mean, okay, Look, to be clear, my Game
of the Year a couple of years ago, I believe was FA Fantasy fourteen
en Walker. So I am a piece of shit. I get it.
I'm not saying it's not eligible. I'm just gonna kind of look, I
haven't played yet. I'm I don't know why. I'm not like being down
on it, but probably it's like, you know what, I played the
preview. I did really like it, but it definitely was just yeah,
it's more elder Ring. That's great. So I guess I'm kind of curious
to see, you know, if it is ever more than that. But
just like, just getting more elder Ring is fantastic and I'm glad they did
it. I don't know if I give you a medal for that. Yeah,
I mean, we'll see. My guess here, my hunch would be
that it gets in the conversation and we get to the point where it's like,
you know what, though we gave elder Ring Game of the Year,
we can let's reward something else. I bet something like that happens to me.
It's a little bit like why I didn't put Metroit Primary Mastered in my
top ten last year. It's like, yeah, I know you all know
met Troit Prime. Yeah, you know, you'll kind of get it me.
Troit Prime probably was the best game last year. Ruled it in it
it was good stuff. Okay. Next one is Taraoaki Blues, who said
got built for Patreon. I've been a member now for one year, found
you guys looking for something to listen to while mowing the lawn. Thank you
for the year of content and making yard work go bite quicker. This is
their first super check. I thank you so much. Tariokei Blues really appreciate
you. Blues. That's nice. Oh grug says Bubzy three d for the
game. Miss hall of Fame move, we should do another hall of fame
here. Sin. I'm like a little offended that because like these guys that
work on this, we like we're like acquaintances at least, and some of
them I considered to be like friends. They didn't like even like run this
by me. They like didn't like consult me on bud like I am a
like an authority on Bubbs three d, you should reach out to MVG right
now, you should say what's up? Tell me, don't stop them,
but say I should be involved. I might might have to. I might
have to make some calls here, mix some calls like look, if they
for some reason remastered Mortal Kombat mythologies, I would feel this way, I
should be involved in this. I'm probably still the last person on Earth that
beat that game. I guess this bullshit, But come on, it doesn't
count beat it. Either they're using or I was getting paid to whatever.
Uh it is wild, like this has to be the first bike Club game
to get like work on and something like right, yeah, right, right
is it that fucking Batman game? And uh, Sega, who has no
shame? It's like we're not talking about Sonic the Hedgehog. Yeah that was
on the Genesis. There was no other game called that. No, so
that's incredible. I wonder why, Well, go ahead, Sean, you
know, Jeff, I'm I was thinking of getting something going a giant bomb
with audio and MVG since they're also working on Tomba, and we also we
know a guy who's really should should I just like get the three U in
a room together and just like fist fight it out for a little. Yeah,
I think so that's probably what needs to happen. Okay, cool?
Uh oh yeah, assuming Mex says peaching, Zelda getting Spotlight games this year
feels like Nintendo giving its heroin some needed attention. Is now the time for
Crystal's own game? While you're here, is now the time for Crystal's own
game? Oh god, I wish what would that game look like to you?
I would say dating sim honeypop fuck. I mean, honestly, Star
Fox Adventures now, I've actually like played that. You're still bad. There's
something there, there's something there a lot better, but it could be a
lot better. It's it's just a mediocre Zelda game. But yeah, what
if you know, like, what what if you just do that as a
spin off? Good work? Do you think that was calculated at Zelda and
Peacher both starting their own games this year? I think a coincidence. I
mean, it's kind better that it took this long, to be honest.
Yeah. The way I view it is that like it was more likely to
happen now because they're more mindful of it than they've ever ever been, so
when the opportunity presents itself, they were more likely to say yes, So
I guess in a way it's not a coincidence. But I clearly what happened
with the Zelda thing is they're like, we have an idea, a gameplay
mechanic, and we maybe don't want you to use the sword because it would
take away from them mechanic. So wait, oh wait, you know what's
a good idea. Link always has a sword, so let's just not use
Link. And people have wanted to play a Zelda like. That's clearly what
happened here, So and I get why some people are like, oh,
so it's like it's got to be the woman because you know, it's a
character with that sword. I get that, but honestly, I'm like fully
on board with what's happening here. And I finally get to play as Zelda
in a video game, so I'm again all on board. Yeah, yeah,
I'm excited. Tyler James bas says the Sonic fans go to heaven.
No, but neither Sonic caters don't go to heaven either though. That's okay,
that's true. Yeah, they're too fast for heavens. Derek says,
I have not stopped thinking about that direct If this is what Nintendo has for
end of like console, what could they possibly have for switch to? I
mean Mario? They have Mario, right, yeah, and really one Mario.
Yeah, it's kind of equivalent to everything else everyone announced this entire summer
game fest. So yeah, and I mean maybe gonna you know, I'm
gonna be so exciting that mark, but yeah, I mean it's almost funny.
How good of a mood the direct put me in because I did just
really like that kind of walking on sunshine all week. Yeah, yeah,
just super excited for all of that. So man, that was a good
week. El grug says, who's more helpful in Bike Club Dan or Superfly
Johnson? And why don't more games have mission critical objectives hidden underwood horse carts?
Yeah? Why don't they? And yeah, super Fly Johnson way more
helpful than Dan, of course, out a doubt. I mean super even
though super Fly Johnson mostly just stands in doorways and closes doors on me and
then sometimes closes doors on himself and fucking gets killed. Man, what a
game? And that last the way it was rough? You think you have
more like that where you got to wander around one level for three hours looking
for bullshit? I bet there's at least one more like that. Yeah,
right, great. Chuck Towski says, the thought hit me today that I
wonder if a lot of studio equisitions games fail to hit because the studio isn't
making their honest, unique vision. I mean, there's always corporate meddling and
whatnot. These things are always a series of compromises to one degree or another.
It's a factor, but there are a million factors. Yeah, and
you know a lot of these studios get to a point where it's like they
are saying it's their vision, but it's pre compromised because they know that to
get the green light, they have to present a certain kind of game,
so it's kind of baked into whatever they do. There's definitely a part of
me that's like there is a world in which all of that, you know,
Bethesda Magic and BioWare magic, and all the magic of these studios that
have like put out games that have had issues after years of development, where
they're like it could come together in the last minute, like it always has.
It's like, I think that still works at a certain scale. And
I think that scale is what happened with that trade prime for where it's like
this is not some four K expansive the biggest game you've ever fucking seen.
It is a sequel to a GameCube game, and they took a long time,
and when now that we're looking at it's like, yeah, that looks
really solid. Fact, that looks way too good to be running on the
switch, And I think if you're in that zone, you could pull it
off and like have like kind of this game that feels like a little bit
like a miracle at the end. If you are operating at a game that
is two hundred and fifty three hundred million dollars with like fourteen hundred people working
on it or some shit like that, hoping that the magic that runs through
the studio can apply that broadly is just it's it's madness at this point,
and that's what's gone wrong with so many of these games, Rocksteady being the
most recent example. So yeah, it's rough. Uh man, did you
see that Crash Bandicot and Sant trilogy. It sold twenty million copies. Now,
granted it's been a while, it's probably been on sale of budgets on
a lot of platforms, but I don't care, Like, what's parking insane?
What twenty million. They announced to day twenty minute for Crash Bandicoot in
Sane Trilogy, just for Insane Trilogy, yes, trilogy. Now Crash Bandicoot
four sold five million copies, which yeah, that's all that makes also very
good, and it's that's incredible. It's like, even if it's like five
bucks for like the last year, that's insane. Do you do you think
there's now we know that so if I Curious Visions did in sant Trilogy,
they're Blizzard. Now they're not doing anything with but Blizzard, but we know
that Toys for Bob is working with Act Division. When I see these numbers,
I'm like, they're probably just making another Crash for them. If not
that, maybe Spiro, But I mean, I don't know why you I
don't know why Crash five just didn't happen sooner. If it was doing this
well and you're building momentum, why stop, right, I think they're probably
doing spiral apparently spy. I think spiral makes Senseiral also very good. If
you just go back and forth between those two seems solid to me. Do
that, right, Let's just do that and then Simon McKinley etsy again with
a liquor number for one month, thanks so much. With the amount of
women throwing themselves up, Mario, at some point he would have stumbled into
one by accident. Just probably, Yeah, I think so. God,
I just don't think so, because like Dan, what was he gonna do?
Take him home to his like you see his house one thousand yar door,
it's somehow like one or two rooms and he lives there with Luigi.
Yeah, what is he gonna do? Yeah? Right, he's he doesn't
put a sock on the door. He doesn't know what that means. No,
no, no, do you think why do you think she keeps getting
kidnapped? Guys? Come on, put too? Yeah. Uh, that's
it. That's it for the uh the super chats. Thank you everybody.
Appreciate eight it. Jeff, back to you all right, Hi, howdy
neck, thanks for tuning in. Man, appreciate it. You know what
we should do now is let's take another quick break. We'll get set up
for our decision of the night, which of course is the best video game
crossovers. We'll do that right after that, Baby punch it. We're back.
We're going to talk about the best video game crossovers. We're gonna do
a mount Rushmore in fact, which means Picky the force foremost emblematic, most
iconic, represent represented representatives, representatives of what makes over. It makes a
video game crossover. Sorry, man, I think the get good is wearing
off. I think it's destroying your brain. All right, Mike, where
do you want to start with this? I mean, let's start for the
reason why I thought about this Marvel versus Capcom. It's funny because it is
a series and it starts with X Men Versus Street Fighter. I would maybe
just put Marvels's Capcom two on there as kind of the peak of it.
In a lot of ways. There's other games in there, and three is
also very good, but two is where it just got real wacky and it
got broad right like up till then there's kind of like, well, it's
just the X Men and then the Street Fighters, Like, well it's all
Marvel versus the Street fair Well, now it's all Marvel and Capcom. And
then in two it's like it's like, not only is all of them,
it is so many people from them. That was just one of the first
games that had in ridiculous roster, just tons of people in there, and
they you know, we're doing things like like getting a bit more obscure and
where with it giving you characters you know, like like Tron Bond things like
that. So you know, it's when I think about crossovers, I still
just think of the Versus series in general. You know, Capcom data a
lot of these, uh, and there's some that are even outside of this
series, like cap con Versus S and K is also very good. It
may be worth considering, but Marvels's Capcom is still the epitome of this for
me. You know, the game where you can have you know, Jill
Valentine fighting against bb Hood from Dark Salkers. Amazing stuff, right, Yeah.
I mean when I whenever I look at that roster, I'm like,
I actually always forget, like some of the characters that are on there.
There's that many and it always surprises and like a lot of them I still
don't even recognize. I'm like, who is this? Where are they from?
There are a couple of c's even like a Ruby Hart who is actually
important for the lore. I'm kind of a big ruby Harder or like what's
a Mego or whatever, the cactus person. There's a couple of season there
for some reason too. On top of everything else, it's like a why
doctor that's not going to be in the Switch version because of like licensing.
I thought I read that, but I didn't. Don't. I didn't.
I didn't see that. If that's the case, I don't think so though.
No, Okay, well that's good. I am. I think I
want to just get this one out of the way because it's is like the
most crossover game at this point. It's it's called Fortnite. Oh yeah,
man, god, I guess so, huh yeah. I mean it's hard
to like argue against it because it is the crossover game now. That's like
one of its main appeals. Although I suppose whenever young people play they actually
don't care as much about that stuff as I thought they would. It's kind
of like, you guess, mostly for the Olds. Mostly for the Olds.
Yeah, but they have just about everything in there, and you can
have Johnson and there with Darth Vader and Indiana Jones all fighting alongside one another,
and it all looks pretty good. I think it was Austin Walker who
said it's like Fortnite's just like plastic, like you could just mold it into
anything, and anything could be a part of it and feel like it totally
makes sense in there. Yeah it is. And the thing it's like they
could do really could do anything, and it would not be surprising. At
this point. Everything makes sense in Fortnite, dude, g does like the
I don't want to say like cynical nature, but like it's the crossoverness of
it is very monetizing this and of course it isn't a lot of other things,
and all these things are designed to make money, but here it is
like very specifically, you know, pay money for all this stuff. I
don't know if version of the crossover, I mean, I know what you
mean. Maybe we could talk about that purity argument maybe as we're like whittling
things down, but I think it's hard to argue that it. I mean,
it should be on the short list obviously. Kingdom Hearts, yeah,
I kind of figured would get to king them art. It's Disney Disney and
bad stuff n quite literally because they were in the same office building in Japan
and an elevator. I mean that was the original pitch just Disney meants Final
Fantasy. I remember seeing that and just losing my mind. It's still so
even as just like a weird Disney mega crossover thing, which there are a
lot of, but at the time this happened, not not really back in
like two thousand and two when it came out, even that was a little
weird. To see a game that would have both like Jack Skellington and the
Beast in it was kind of shocking. But then let alone also Cloud Strife
and Squall. Do you think the fact that, like the Marino says this
in chat that the sort of deprecation of the Final Fantasy element of it,
like, does that hurt it's crossover peel? Or is the fact that all
the Disney stuff is still crossing over with one another. I'm talking about Kingdom
Hearts won mostly anyways in this one, but I think it did hurt the
series, but they started kind of reversing that a bit. The DLC for
Keendom Hearts three brought back Final Fantasy characters. Now, maybe it's just a
token gesture there, but even just looking at Kingdom Hearts four, it looks
like, Okay, this looks like a bit more Found Fantasy again. I
hope that manifests in actual references and not just more original characters that kind of
look like Nactus. Well, see, I hope that they do do that.
But you know, even like even when they were in the midst of
that, like Kingdom Hearts on the three DS had a world ends with you
level right or things like that. Again, I hope I wish it would
lean into it more and be like, here's a Crono trigger level or more
thing like that. Like the peak of it for me was in Kingdom Hearts
two when Urin from foun Fantasy ten was just one of the party members.
This is the first time it wasn't a Disney character. It was just the
guy for foul Phasy ten. That was awesome, but still, like the
whole series was launched because of its crossover appeal, and it was this weird
crossover and then it kind of became its own things. And in some ways,
Kingdom Heart's like, you know, something about it seems almost more important
than the fan fantasy in some ways even somehow surpassed one of the things that
was a crossover of Uh Mario plus Rabbits. I No, I'm joking,
I thought about it too, don't worry, UH Super Smash Brothers Ultimate.
Uh. Literally the whole thing of everybody is here and that meaning, uh,
the solid Snake, and then cloud Strife and Beya and Netta and so
many friggin Belmont from Simon Belmont from Castlevania, so many cool characters from other
franchises, and then like a million from Nintendo franchise is including like Little Mac
and a million other name. It was cool back when it was just like,
oh, Nintendo crossovers of because again, like you didn't have a game
that had Link and Mario in it unless you know, like, oh,
there's a like a Link reference in Mario RPG, right, But here they
are as like equal playable characters. And also like you know, they've got
more obscurity even in the beginning because he had nests in there and things like
that, or Captain Falcon, like, oh, like the pilot from F
zero that's cool. And then yeah, they kind of got smart by adding
it. Then Brawl slowly doing guest characters and it was kind of unexpected ones
like you know, Snake was a surprise. Sonic made more sense, but
then kind of slowly until we're at the point now where it really isn't just
Nintendo stuff at all. It is as much almost all gaming to where you
can say things like maybe a Lloyd from Horizon won't be in the next match
Brothers, and it's not an insane thing to say, like, you know,
you know, getting Sora in there. I think kind of was the
just oh, anything can happen. Now we can have anybody in these games.
You could have master Chief in there and I wouldn't blink anymore. Yep,
yes, exactly. Once it got to that point with Ultimate where it
was like literally any character from any franchise, from any console ever could appear
in here and it wouldn't be weird. That's like when it like a scinded
to clearly being able to be on this list here, Uh, what do
you go next, Mike? And we keep in mind we can always jump
over to the community Answers Day from the podcast. Yeah, maybe we should
do that. There's just one that I do like, although I like,
Here's a Storm, but uh kind of like actual Okay, I like that
one. I think that is very much in a Jetson meets the Flintstones,
JSS meets the Flintstones of video games. It should have really made sense,
and yet it was actually super fun, a great early switch game. But
it's like, yeah, there's just too great buzzle games and it's you play
it. It could be just a good game. It could be a good
Tetris game, but you play the weird mill of both of them. It's
fun. They had that kind of elaborate story mode that was also a good
amount of fun. I like Shadows to Tetris. There should be more games
like that. Definitely, let's put Dead by Daylight on here since someone You're
right, someone brought that up. And you know, it's great because it
has a lane horror stuff and it's been able to pull a lot from that,
a lot of the iconic franchises, but it also like has fun.
It does things like oh, here's Nick Cage. Why not right exactly,
And it's one of those things like, yeah, once Nick Cage is in
there also not weird anymore. Of course he is. But when we did
play it, I was like, oh my god, it really does have
Halloween and Left for Dead and Nightmare on album Stream and Saw and Stranger Things
in Silent Hill. It's like, oh my god, it really does have
every horror franchise that you could sort of imagine, and it really is the
super smash Brothers of horror games. In a lot of ways. Okay,
so ione to Chat said this my cook and I had to bring it up
because this is like the Jets to Meet the flint Stones. And that is
one of the first times I ever saw a crossover Battle Toads in Double Dragon.
I don't even know why that how that happened. And the funny thing
is it's really just a Battle Toads game, and in some ways it's the
better Battle Toads game, even the NS version. It's just a Batotsods game
where Jimmy and Bimmy Lee are playable characters. Also, uh, and I
always actually really liked the Battle Toe to Double Dragon. I kind of think
it's underrated, to be honest, it's just gonna say, yeah, sure,
why not let's have the two beat them up series. Uh, that's
the only thing they have in common where they're gonna be together. Anyways,
Yep, all right, I'm gonna get to the podcast threads right now.
There it is, I see, I see, I see special Knicks thing
killer. I say, twenty thirteen, am I one? I kind of
uh, I want the next one to go even harder with that stuff.
I like that they added, you know, uh rash one of the Battle
toes and they added, you know, the one Halo character, and I
think rant Ram. That's great. I hope it. I hope that they
do another one is even more of like an Xbox fighting game in some ways.
All right, ra, I want to see people. I want to
see people say the other ones. Don't say that if you're thinking it yet.
All right, let's see here. Let's get to the podcast producers,
starting with Doctor Lynch, who says super Smash Brothers Ultimate. Chris two K
said, do you want to say something real quick? I just like that
banner art, that that moral that they kept adding to Right, here's my
guy Mega Man down there, you know, Oh gosh, probably the reason
why I cared about Marvels Capcom so much. Like fighting games. Okay,
but that wasn't some big person. But marsa Can was the first versus one
that had Mega Man in it, right, and I always liked Megan Man.
So I was like, wow, this is on Dreamcast. I have
Dreamcasts and Mega Man's in it. I guess I suddenly care. So I
actually played a good amount of MVC one, but then like MVC two.
You know, I loved it one so much. I was so excited,
for that. I remember, like I had to like tell the Funko land
to bring it in because they weren't going to order any It's like, you
have to get one for me. Then they forgot anyway, so I had
to wait in the next few week, Like nobody else wanted Mars's catc on
two in Youngstown, Ohio. Uh but meh, it's been really hon Mega
Man, coolest person in town apparently. Yeah, that's why. That's the
point of that. Yeah, Chris two case says Professor Layton meets the Ace
Attorney. What this game Phoenix right versus? I think it was a versus
Professor Layton. You know what's funny because, like you take, I'd be
all over this shit. And I was so excited when they announced it and
I got a copy of it and never got around to it. It's just
never got around to it. Still one, this is the first as attorney
game I should play. Yeah, so I need to rectify that at some
point. I mean part of it is like just like I know it's gonna
happen. They're gonna be against each other and they team up at the end,
which I mean that's what it should be. I know, I don't
know why I'm acting like I'm too smart for this game. I bet.
I think I also heard some people like don't really love it, love it,
but I don't know. I still I'm glad it exists and I should
check it out. Same hospice says, yes, Dead Cells where that got
a million of the indie game characters. A lot of indie games would do
this for a very long time, where they would bring in a lot of
guest characters from other indie games. I remember super meat Boy doing that pretty
early on right, Yeah, And I always like it when they do that.
It's always it's always nice, right, shovel night. And I don't
know other characters that I'm not recognizing shown in the rest. There's somebody from
Hotline Miami. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, the chicken guy casual
says street Fighter cross Tech in I've never played much of this. I've heard,
you know, some mix things waiting for Tech and cross street Fighter.
That would be kind of amazing, And I almost hope that that idea could
maybe get revived, But who knows. It's I don't think it's ever officially
been canceled. No, not really. Yeah, but this is the game
that had the really weird Mega Man in it. Also, absolutely no,
this is a trash game. I'm sorry. There you go, all right,
then there you go. Two time Champ beef Hammer says a Fortnite and
don't forget John Cena. Yeah, it's hard to argue with the game that
just has John Cena in it. Huh yeah, John Cena and Rudo and
Master Chief Jack. Yes in Zio Auditorium with hell yeah, but listen,
maybe is in there too? Okay. Bubbs e G two bubbsy G says,
uh, which is that game from the new game Fun Confusion? Look
at all these universal properties and some other things. I like how Chris Pratt
from Jurassic World is very front and center in the center. Yeah, they're
like, man, you get on that craft, Chris Pratt energy. That's
anthing we need. Put Freddy Fasberg whatever his name is over there, more
definitely more famous than anyone else here. Oh my god, all right,
screaming Madden? Is this? Uh? Madden? A Madden truck inside of
Burnout Revenge? Is that what They're good? That's pretty good? Okay?
Cool? I like that. Did you see that? Horiuh Forts the Horizon
the new one got like a universal pack that includes like all the Doloreans and
uh Kit from night Rider or whatever. I was like, oh, that's
kind of want to get that. Shoul play that game. Uh let's see
Willow Davis says Kirby in the Amazing is he Ner Let's see here, Smash
Brothers is rare copyability in Kirby series and Debut and Kirby Amazing Mirror. Okay,
this is the thing is so in this game he had an ability that
just gave him his smash move set I think is what he's getting at,
which is pretty and then you fight, then you fight Masterhand and Crazy Hand
in it from Smash Brothers. So that's cool. Villain Max says NBA Street
Volume three, where Mario and Princess Peach are fucking stunting on some hose and
that pretty good stuff. Well, I forget why because even with this everyone
prefers volume two to volume three. I forget what the reason. I'd have
to like go back and play, like remember why this one didn't work as
well? But Volume two was like kind of pure and perfect and this maybe
just got a little bit more convoluted, not because of what we're seeing right
now with this is fantastic. This is with Mario and Peach just slamming and
jamming. God, incredible. Josh L. Page says Marvel versus Capcom two,
it's so good. Velocity Prime one. Iceman though, fuck Iceman,
and you're fucking chipped in image with your ice beam your piece of shit.
God, it's cheap bullshit. You wanted to say it, Velocity Prime says,
Kingdom Hearts. Tommy Mantels says, oh that second three, that's that
dinosaur guy that's gone from Technical three because is yeah, a character not from
a Tecan. That's why we haven't seen him another tecans. Also, he's
farting in this picture very right. Anytime a character's parting that is already automatically
good. Uh, mister Bowlers, says Sonic and Mario. At the Tokyo
twenty twenty Olympic Games, where Man the shirtless Warrior is standing next to shirtless
egg Man, it's upsetting because they have this like the same exact torsos and
then just play completely different legs, arms, head sizes, all the other
proportions are completely different. It looks disgusting. They they look like someone going
getting ready to go troll in Second life with their awful Yeah. How many
total minutes of the Mario and Sonic The Olympic Game series have you played in
your life? I have played probably about one hundred minutes in the last month
of my caussing. Yes, I don't think I've ever played more than five
minutes. They were like, wait, Tonic and Mario are in a game
together. I'm like, all right, let me see, let me learn
to get something, let me show you something. Did they like it?
They like, try to like it or any try to like it? Yes,
I could tell that they're not really into it. They usually end up
going back to Mario party after about twenty minutes. So Matt, a rare
immortal of Avim, says tell Tales Poker Night too. These were fun,
yes, fun crossovers. Two has Clap Trap Sam for Simmax, the guy
from Venture Brothers, and then uh, what's his face? From Evil?
Yeah? So like, as you could tell this, this one didn't do
it quite as much for me. I like Sam, but these other characters
I'm not that super into. The first one I liked because it was the
Tycho from Penny Arcade, which, yeah, look I'm old. I like
Penny Arcade, Strong bad God. Sure were the other ones in the the
Heavy from Fortress Too, I think, and I think Max. I think
it was just also Max. They had Sam and Max, so I like
the first roster. I actually did really enjoy this one was fine. Have
you seen him? They played that trailer for Borderlands in front of a too
That Jack Black's clap trap is not what I was expecting. Bad, just
a man. No, he's he's no, he's really doing a voice sho.
It might be too much of a voice. Actually, I don't know.
It seemed annoying. Maybe it'll work in the movie, but maybe not.
I want to go back and play that multimedia celebrity poker game with Joe
Piscopo. That's what I always think this Nolan says, Barack Obama cross Burnout
Paradise, where the billboards were inside the game for the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Freedom MC Liberty Balls says Joker in Mortal Kombat, Like was this eleven
instice? I think, Okay, yeah, Mortal comb versus d C Yeah,
like yeah, I mean at this point, like Mortal Kombat and DC
are so intertwined because you know, there's been some guest characters across them now
and all this stuff, and then there was what's funny is that actual Mortal
Kombat versus d C is kind of I don't really care that much for that.
Uh, this was a good fatality, though, I think it's got
They didn't do like fatalities that it wasn't like gory and that's why he threw
me off, because he's a little bit gory that he's shooting here in the
head that tore me off. Was like, oh, they think that can
be ins also like censored in some territory it was censored. I think even
in the US. I forget there was because that it was like was it
teen, it was tin or something. It wasn't rated because you know,
obviously they didn't want people just you know, decapitating Superman and Wonder Woman stuff
like that. Yeah, and they the Marino says, they put Joker into
Mortal Kombat eleven and gave him the actual fatality that was censored in MK.
There you go, uh, yeah, this this fatality for people. This
is more combat eleven right here. And then he laughs and then he pulls
out a real gun and shoots her. All right, dance it's funny.
Uh joy Z says Darth Maul and Tony Hawk's pro Skater four O three that
come on, that's the airport, dude. I can't keep them all.
They're all at a certain point they almost together. For me, Wow,
Tony Hawk does even that? Yeah, because I was like, that's all
I was playing back to back to back for years. So Tony Hawk ears.
The big one for me was a why did Christians last interruption sound like
he was in a water tank? The second one had Spider Man. That
was the first one. That one blew my mind, even though they made
the Spider Man game, but like, yeah, there's some good Darth ball
in this actually was amazing. There was a there's a bunch of weird ones
that jingle for apparent ingle. It was always actually a lot of fun to
see who they would get for these. Uh yeah, yeah, this got
I want to play some Tonyork three now. Uh October set. I'm sorry,
Christian No, I was saying to take another kid of the death sense
you have? Now? So did Tony Hawks on mesh together? Okay,
well listen, I don't think there's any unmeshine them in my brain. This
is I believe Sega and All Stars Racing transformed right with with you on the
on the hang on on a hang on arcade machine that turns into a watercraft.
This game rules so much. Uh, it's one of the best cart
racing games ever. I kind of like more than a lot of the Mario
karts. It has a fun a ton uh a ton of fun Sega characters
and tracks some of the best of us. Like the tracks because you do
get things like the pans are dragoon track in the after burner track in they
just rule. You also have weird characters wreck at roufs in here for some
reason. Danna Kakpatrick was a character. That's right. Uh, this game
is fan fantastic and it's a There's been a few like, oh, there's
a bunch of Sega Saunic characters in this thing. They did even a tennis
game like that. None of them come close to Racing transformed fantastic game.
What's wrong with Sega? Why don't they keep doing this like that? Racing
after this? And they Yeah, they had that same team at a third
one and it was like just the Sauna characters and worse, and it was
like way less charming and more basic is basically just cars, was like,
well, the mechanic is that you can like pick up the characters draft like
stuff. It's like, that's way less interesting. Worst nights like, yeah,
it's upsetting. Hang On as good arcade game too, hagon Is.
I mean, I'm kind of in a big Sega ArKade mood after watching that
Pandemonium Sega rally thing is hang on miss a Gucci as well? It makes
t T I don't think so, but I'm not sure right rules, yes,
Buckeroo, says Jesus Christ. That game, which is from the The
Stellar Blade people's game where the ladies jiggle while you shoot a gun, and
they did a crossover with near Automata because of course they get yet. So
those are those are ladies that look like they do what the jiggles? Who
jeez, they didn't even see nine one. Yeah. I was looking at
thighs for a while. There you got thighs and you've got stomach o.
Yep, there it is. Uh the two of the two kinds of girls.
Uh. Weisman says, Oh, that's right. They put this Zelda
stuff into a Skyrim for the Switch at Lawn. That's wild that you can
get the Master Sword and Skyrim and it's official Highly and you say Highian Shield
and Champillion Hilly and the I always over correct Hilly and Shield and the Champion's
Tunic. Yeah, that was weird. Caleb L says Project x Zone two,
which is like, is that a platform fighter? No? Uh,
they're kind of turn based strategy games. I think, yeah, And it's
uh, gosh, yeah, these I've never actually played these. I mostly
just see screenshots and they're always real weird because there's a lot of dialogue and
it's uh, it's Sega Capcom and Bandy NAMPK and Bandy Namco. Right,
so it's Nintendo technically, yeah, and a couple of Firearm one characters.
Man, I played these. They are tactics games, tile based, then
when you get into the combat you do moves by doing fighting game inputs.
It's very weird. The story is very bad. They are mediocre games,
but okay cool In terms of crossovers, it was sounding fun for a while
there. Man, you got U La La in this, Like just seeing
these characters together is really neat. Uh, but oh, well, La
La that's Strider or is that Shnoby Uh? I think that's I think that's
Shnoby. It's hard to tell. They're pretty similar people, right, Yeah,
same time I was saying, all Ninja's look the same. That's exactly
what you're saying. Alex says, one of them there, Kingdom Hearts.
This would be the second one. That's when Goofy fucking dies and Kingdom hearts
too. One of the best moments of the series. So remember, you
know how like Colombo doesn't get mad, but then when he did get mad,
he was like, holy fucking ship you remember that. Now, I
mengine fucking Mickey maus kits mad because because somebody just killed Goofy, it kind
of ruined. It was amazing. It like touched me deep. He's like,
he's like, they're gonna fucking pay for that, and he runs off
with his sword like ready to kill, going into a battlefield where Cloud and
Squall and Tifa already fighting. Oh, I like you sounds pretty cool.
Dan Fiasco says, sol Caliber two, which of course had Link and uh
hey, Achi and Achi spawn. Somebody won that one. Uh but man
Brose, he's on the team. Sol Caliber two with Link was so cool.
That was we talked. I think we did a list of our Aunt
Rushmore guest characters before and I think that was on there. I love Link
and Solicabra two and Sol Coppras had some other very good ones. I think
Darth Vader and Yoda was a ton of fun and uh four And I'm glad
they don't like go too crazy with it. I'm glad so coverg isn't isn't
just some guest fighter fest. I like that they do like one or two
smart ones. T B was was a good one for six, but you
know, it's not quite enough of a crossover I think to make this.
But when they do do it, they're smart about it. Jamie h.
Christmas Eve says, oh, okay, the crazy Taxi game in Yakuza in
a light like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, which was very fun. There's like
there's like a lot of like say arcade references, like an extra cigar arcade
games in like a Dragon. Adam Juice says, all right, I'll need
help with this one. Let's see, okay, Pso Online the chow Garden.
Yes, yeah, Fantacy Star and Mine had a bunch of other fun
sega stuff. Because you had like that little the mag it was called Little
Robot Friend and it like that could turn into a child, could even turn
into other Sega consoles. I think you could have like it be a Saturn
at one point. So fun stuff like that that I did appreciate in Pso
let's see if I can. Okay, that's that might that's downloading something.
H disaster by Ley says the Vagina Bones game. I don't know why the
image is being weird. It's Leah lee leyah leyah lea, yes, excuse
me, Uh yeah, I'm not sure what this is. If if someone
else wants to check that out and let me know for blaming hotel wife,
I'll see if I can find it. Ebo Jannis says Battle Toads and Double
Dragon. Yes, ah, look a look at this again. That's a
fun again. Your Mige sessions is what this is. That's right, that's
what the China Bones. You should have put that together. I always kind
of have a problem with that game because the fire album aspect of it is
very minimal. Yes, practically nothing. I kind of wish there was more
of it. Yep. The same, Max says Super Smash Brothers. Uh,
you know it was this ultimate yes right till Mario. Yeah, I'll
never forget h Man. Yeah, they just did they do They did just
do that, didn't they. That's incredible. Stabbed A lot of people die
because Ridley killed Luigi in that trailer, I believe me intro to well,
I guess they don't die. They just get like taken away all the characters
and it was their souls just you know, depending on your religion, that's
like dying. Sure, okay, Uh, my kid still really likes that
Kirby is the only one that lives. Bradfish mentioned super Monkey Ball where you've
you've got uh what what's his name? For me? You know more than
I do? You think he's a guy? Yeah? Who's a guy?
Here? The other one? Yeah, hear you? Yes, cure you,
yes, yeah, you got Carrie. You could do Sonic and Friends.
I think beat even with an option. They had a few sages there
that was nice. Terry Aku Blues mentions punch Out, which had Mario as
the referee. Uh, Wizard of Blass says links Awakening, which did have
a lot of weird Mario references, including the chain shop named bow Wow at
Madam what was her name's house? Yeah? I remember, but yeah,
that was cool that it was I remember even back theame was like, what's
a change? Trump? Is that allowed? Yeah, it's like what's going
on here? And then of course we found out what was going on all
along. Uh bench j C says, uh, is this the Smash Brothers
in the Ambo game? Or they shout out to all Amobos? But actually
these are the Smash brods Ambo specific coma compatible with more than fifty Ambo and
I'm assuming these are the Smash Brothers. One the game would be Super Mario
Maker. Oh yes, Super Mario mak Oh that yellow best the yellow background?
Yep, okay okay? Uh input name here says Mugen. This is
that fighting the fighting game tool that lets you just kind of make your own
stuff with people. Oh right, we can't count this because he will be
the best one four times. It's great. I do usually just like to
watch videos about mugon games and actually play Mugen games. I have to admit,
but it is, you know, because you could do things like have
Ronald McDonald versus Big Bird, and they have elaborate moves sets and special moves
and it's very funny looking. Uh B mentions, is this Kingdom Heart?
This skinwich is what I was telling you? This is shortly. This is
right around when Goofy fucking dies but squall in the cloud fighting against the Heartless
together, Yeah it is. It's very cool dude stuff right there. It's
very cool dude stuff. A sledge Moore riinehold it, says Mario plus Rabbids
Kingdom Battle. There you go. That is a real crossover right there.
They made the best out of a bad idea with that one. Uh huh,
Doctor Ryan says in Megan in Tech and seven that's from the Walking Deay
television program on AMC, Wong Gifts says Bat Orientedotion didn't two, which apparently
had fucking earthworm gems. It sure did, And it was kind of wild
because I think a lot of us were really past caring about from Jim already
even at this point. But it wasn't even like because ClayFighter Grant's the same
people Clay Fighters sixty three or third also had from Jim or from Jim in
two Fighting Games. Yep. Famous character from back in the day always be
clothing. Slash Corgy says, what I believe is sol caliber three four four
four okay, if that's right. Four Darth Vader and had Yoda as well.
On one of the h I mean, Yoda was fine in this yet
star Killer or whatever, but Darth Vader and this was cool as hell to
me. I love yoas X Fox and dar Vada was so well later you
could later they let you get both on the other ones. Uh. Mason
Mason W says, this is Geese Howard right, my good job. This
was a cool guess character Geese from Fatal Fury, the main bad guy of
Fatal Fury, and he just kind of translated very well to tech in I'd
like the guy from the Zombie Show with a bat. Oh n, it
is technically like two taken. He taught other character who to use the wave
on Untaken. So impressive. Uh. Octo says always bet on the Duke
with Duke Newcomb's Bullet Storm Tour. Geow wow, I kinda I kind of
want to go see what this is about. I don't remember this at all.
I kind of remember happening and being like, oh, I'm not checking
that out. Uh. And Panada Eater says Fighters Mega Mix where you fight
as a fucking Daytona car the hornet. This game that's the best rules.
Yeah, this was a very early wacky just whatever Fighters. Like the fundamentals
of it is Virtual Fighter and Fighting Vipers. You combine those two rosters,
then you throw in some other things like some Sonic The Fighters characters, some
Virtual Fighter Kids characters, and then yeah, just wacky shit like the car
from Daytona, USA, like the Sega a M two logo. Ah,
this is just a really fun wacky game. Uh, Ape Escape in Metal
Gear Solid three. That's fine for Morton Cliff God, that's fun. Riz
Racer says Soul Caliber two once again with Lincoln Soul Caliber two for GameCube.
The Gordons Fisherman says Mario Hoops three on three, which was developed by fucking
Square Enix. Right, you can tell because of that athletic white age character,
weird, I can actually tell you. Is it a cactir? Is
that what that is? As a cac Yes, that is correct. U.
There's a there's a black page with a fire Raga basketball on the top
left there in a moment Google, I mean yeah, and Luigi is just
looking very confused. Yeah, which he's like, don't take my bone.
Uh the wow, got this one before the other one. The sly Cooper
Wolf five says PlayStation Move Heroes, which I honestly have no idea what this
was. I guess it was a MIDI game collection, but probably mem this
zero memory of this. It's got Jack and and Sly and and yeah clank
there they're all the stars are here. T t k A. Grafin says,
Monster Hunter World plus Witcher three. Uh, there you go. That's
a big one. It's a good mission, it's a good like it's fun.
So yeah. Crouchy Boomer Hidden Zoomer says, cleavage this is from uh
but she's from Guilty Gear. But this is that kind that isn't K game.
I forgot you? Sorry over yep yep. Good that crossover game mess
Eden says a street fighter cross techn what's going on? That came up earlier
and Christien wasn't impressed. I don't blame them. I don't play. It
feels it's a it's a bad feeling fighting him. I don't I don't know.
Yeah, but it's cool crossover, but it is. Look, when
you think about crossovers, especially the ones of the Blank Cross Blank variety,
is it does have the name at least? Yeah, it does, and
it doesn't feel like it's a kind of disappointing when you see like three fighter
characters probably playing taken. But then you see this and it was like,
oh man, it's not like they didn't the scene on work, it seems
Yeah. Also like ship Big Tony says Blade Blaze Blue Cross Tag Battle,
which has yeah, you know, a bunch of characters, you had the
Ruby characters in it. Really yeah, that was like, yeah, so
it's you know, it's Blaze Blue, it's the persona ones I assumed guilty
gear and then you had Ruby for some reason, there's no guilty here,
but there's no guilty gear. Well that's okay, but there's from others serious
as I like, yeah, okay, really just didn't hear about just now?
Uh huh uh. My only exposure to Ruby is that h Bomber Guy
video. So did you watch the new Folding Ideas video about Yeah, what
is that? I has even come across my feed? What is it?
Oh? Yeah, it's it's called I Do not Know James Rolf. So
he's talking about the INGR video in nerd and at first I was kind of
like another video essay people just kind of complaining about the ing video in Nerd.
It's a little bit of that, but it's mostly not that, so
it's good he does. He wouldn't do that. Uh barb Spackle says Super
Mario Maker two, which, honestly, seeing lenk Link in a Corebo shoe
it always messes me up. That's it's a cool looking thing. There is
that flash game when I was like in call It's like Super Mario Crossover where
it was just like play Mario is MegaMan or is the Blastermaster or as Lincoln.
I remember that was a lot of fun. I mean I never played
that, but I've definitely played a lot of like Chinese rom hacks that have
that sort of thing going on. So sure. Hammond of Texas says Ghost
Recount Wildlands the Predator Special event that that was such a good idea, but
that the thing with this is they should have just done it and not told
anybody. So just a Predator shows up because that would have been cool.
Has been in a lot of video games. Yeah, right, yes,
yes, absolutely, Ed says, what is this? Oh this is even
sevenfold and black ops too? Baby? Oh my okay, so that is
insane Avenge sevenfold okay whatever. Ali Miracle says the CVS capcom versus s and
K Yeah, and I never quite loved this art style, especially with how
the Capcom characters look at look up, look block out there that's just kind
of cursed. The more I look at it, they're like more more like
the way it's cursed, but it's definitely cursed. Like I won't disagree with
you, fucking Dan Hls, says hell Boy in Mortal Kombat, which is
more combat eleven I believe right, Sean Justice too, Oh never mind,
fuck me. Well, yeah, sorry to keep track of these things.
I know them all and they're still like blend together for me. Yeah,
they did do some good guest characters. I know, like Elemon's I one's
favorite in the way it feels. But like having RoboCop and Rambo in there,
those are some pretty cool guest characters. H tink says Mario Hoops three
on three Boomers bobcat Is typing says the Burger King games. I mean,
what is that? Those are just Burger King games? They're not. I
guess they're crossing over with Xbox I think, but I suppose so. Yeah,
Okay, Nick says Steven Spielberg's crossed over with video games boom Blog.
Yeah, they boom Box is fun. You were sick, but we played
it at the extra like get looking forward to it. You missed out,
zy Arc, says Aloy in one of these mobile games. It looks like,
ooh, do neither of you know what this is? It looks vaguely
familiar. Remind me that's Aloy in Gensen Impact. Okay, we're all the
chuds up this this This is how all the chuds want Aloy to look to
be correct. Yeah, all the moisturizer, all right, good? Uh.
Super Harmon says, uh, this is yeah, Aliens. It looks
like an alien clone is just doom wad about Aliens. I don't know,
it looks kind of I mean what I was thinking about is Alien Versus Predator,
because Alien Versus Predator the video game, I don't think it predated the
comic book crossover, but the game predated the movie anyways, So I still
think of Alien Versus Predator in video game terms before anything else, because I
mean, you had the shooter, you had the beat him up, and
then you had the the other first person shooters. That was good, but
I don't I don't know what this is exactly. Turbo Sean says Marvel versus
Capcom two. The handshake herd around the world. Yeah, I just got
I love this, like kind of respectful, like we're meeting for the first
time and shake and then the new key art, the fucking Predator version of
it. So fucking good. Yep, it's fantastic. So Paradigm says that
perhaps this only thing is the first total conversion mod for Doom and that makes
sense. That makes sense. That's kind of the thank you since I was
getting cool. Christian says, super Robot ties in. Yeah, the biggest
crossover game. I think this game has more crossover than any other game.
So this is like a gun dam and a bunch of other big mecha things
turned into a strategy series. Yeah, everything you have from like Cam and
Ray there, like I think he has a crossover with Kim Noom hearst too,
like Harry reporters. They have like like it's weird, this is it's
great if you're like MENX, this this is shit. So nobody wanted to
bring up a PlayStation All stars. I was. I was waiting for it.
No one wants to bring it up. I like that, guy,
I do. It's a fun gamee Look, is it gonna make our thing
here? No? No, not no, there there, Christian just threw
it in there for me. I appreciate that, Chris Ship, thank you
very much. The uh another one I think should be I want to consider
Fighters Mega Mix that game rules. That's that's okay. I'm down. And
we already got battle Toads in Double Dragon, which is the one I would
have wanted to put on here. Mega Mix Mega Mix is one word,
sir out there you Yeah, no, I got there. Okay. So
here's what we have, Marvel Versus Capcom two, Uh, Fortnite, Kingdom
Hearts, Super Smash Brothers, Ultimate Pu, Puyo, Tetris, Dead by
Daylight, Battle Toads and Double Dragon Fighters Mega Mix. Do we want to
put anything else up on the short list? I think this is a good
short list. I do too. I think think we have the four four
of the Mount Rushmore in this list already. I am okay with Marvel Versus
Capcom two being a lock. That is absolutely a lock. I'll say it
right now. Kana Hearts is also a lock, Jeff, Okay, I
can accept that it does get tough here because there's I want battle Toads in
Double Dragon, as like George Washington. Yeah, We're gonna get so boomered
for that. I know, Oh, we're gonna get boomered hell out of
it. And yet yeah, yay, you don't have to convince me.
I know what it's like. Did I think we put Smash Brothers Ultimate and
that means we're leaving off Fortnite and Dead by Daylight? There's there is something
haphazard about Fortnite's approach, is there not? It's just anything. I guess
it's beautiful in some way. It is most reminiscent to me of funk Go
yea for of crossover and that's like they do it better than Funko. They
do, but it most reminds me of funk Go Pop. So I know,
I'm kind of okay with what you're saying. O Ge Batons and Double
Dragon is kind of the George George Washington here, Like there might be an
earlier one I don't remember. I can't. Yeah, I absolutely cannot think
of one earlier though. The game is tenally called Battle Toads Slash Double Dragon,
Like, yeah, that's the actual name. Weird, Yeah you know
me, I had to look it up. Yeah, I was kind of
weir just like that. Yeah, shout out the Fighter Mega Mix though I
do, oh yeah, for sure. But we are putting Smash Brothers Ultimate.
I mean, come on, yeah, come on, And I think
that's gotta be it. Like, I think there's okay, I think there's
something to be said for like the main element is there is this main pillar
and it's crossing over with another thing or a lot of other things. But
I like something about the main pillar being worth across you over with in the
first place, like, and clearly Fortnite's getting there. But I think it's
like, well, a lot of those are generic characters, and then they
are just bringing in a lot of guest stars to sell because they need something
to sell, and a lot of people aren't gonna buy the generic stuff.
And again a lot of kids are these days. Yeah, I don't know.
I think that kind of speaks to me a little bit. Yep.
Alright, So by Fighters Megamix Dead by Daylight also, I think, honest,
I'd probably put that up before Fortnite even so our four are Marvel versus
Capcom Two Kingdom Hearts, Battle Toads, Double Dragon, Battletodes Slash Double Dragon,
I suppose, and Super Smash Brothers Ultimate does that sound right to you,
Mike afraid to being called a boomer? No, absolutely not. I'm
actually never even more proud of us. Hell yeah, that's what I like
to hear. All right, cool, then I am going to capture that.
We will post it on Twitter to get yelled at. Uh hell yeah,
all right, we'll take another quick break when we get back, we'll
talk about what we've been playing. This is a podcast now, you can
tell because the way I'm speaking to you, Mike Manati, I'm picking up
on the change in your tone. Now. Yeah, uh yeah, we
are. We did good work there. We made the right decisions. I
think I am very proud of us shot out to battle Toads slash Double Dragon.
But now, Mike, I think we got some more, some more
super chets that I would like you to had a few more. Here beef
Hammer with their tenth super chet. Think He says, Hey, Mike,
I'm playing Rebirth and really enjoying it. There's a lot of cuttings to skip
takes a lot of time. Is there any way to skip them faster?
Wow? I did not like the jet absolutely dot Uh. PropheC two says,
salute me, far mock. That's incredible. Hope. I hope for
Maaji becomes a really big game, so we can like T shirt and people
will get the joke. Oh, that be incredible. Uh. Mickey O'Leary
says, let's not forget the greatest dad game crossover all time, Top Gun,
Maverick and Microsoft Flight similar that. That's very good, Mikey. Actually
that's a good poll. I like that a lot. And then eight says
Mount Rushmore video game elevators. Let's see we can do this a very mass
effect. That's right, prime elevator action definitely. And then are there elevators
in uh burger time? I want to really call those not elevators. I
want to call those streets of streets of rage like Fall Fantasy seven the elevator
fight, I kind of a stairs Did you say? You're right? You
always do that anyways, I think streets of rags consideration fo Fantasy seven is
good. The streets of Rage is good too. We'll got to say streets
of rage. I think, ohas one with the people invisible, this is
tough. Might have weight to expand this into a food discussion sounds good to
many. It's too many, all right? That does it for the super
chats for now. If you guys want to send in any more, we
will read them before the end of the show. Thank you, Thank you,
everybody. Always appreciate the support as always. All right, Mikey,
you've been catching up on anything? Well, I've been playing Metroid Zero Mission
now that's on nso I've been having a lot of fun with that. I
for some reason, like I always like know that Metroid Fusion is short,
and I'm prepared for that. I forget that Zero Mission also very short.
Sure, yes, really have any big problem with that, but it does
catch me like off guard a little bit. And part of it's like the
hobbit of gaming. It's like you still reading it, you're done later that
afternoon, right, And part of it is because you know, it is
a remake of an Anas game that a lot of the length was because you
didn't know where to go, and this one does tell you where to go.
I don't have some big issue with that, but you know, you
know, you go where it tows you too, and then you do that
thing and then the next thing you know, you're zero suit Samus and you
know it's all very fun and uh, very good, and it's you know,
it's interesting because you know, I know, like you know, shows
like seamp Sigh Valley prefers this to to super Metroid. And one things he
talked about was how Supermritroid feels floatier in my mind, like, I bet
that's right. Is it really that big a difference. It is a big
difference, just how that floatiness. I kind of forgot just how flowy supermtroid
is compared to this one. Now me, I don't really that doesn't bother
me. And in some ways, like you know, I'm a freak and
I like that floatiness. It's super Metroid. But I totally see how if
that is something that bothers you, and I can understand how that would bother
you, then yeah, like much, in which case I don't understand it.
He doesn't get it. But how dare you say about my buddy,
Sean. He's entitled to his metroid opinions. You've always been on my side.
Freaking wow, that's right, but man, metro games are just super.
But you know the thing is though, like because it is so short,
like once I beat it, and if I don't get the best anything,
it's like, well maybe she's just kill right back into it now.
I bet it can do it even faster. I'm not sure, like what
the skips look like in this one. Uh, there are any kind of
whack key weird things that you can do and like you know that are like
the mildly intended skips, right, those are always the really fun one.
It's super metroight and it was great when dread like really had those kind of
figured out for you. So yeah, I don't know. Maybe maybe i'll
like even play it like again again right after this, maybe look some things
up and see if there's any weird things that I can do there. But
you can do it very easily. You can very easily sequence break and stuff
just by jumping right okay, bomb jumpahow okay and the first time aloud Super
Metroid and I realized I could do bomb jumping, and then I realized I
could like do really high bomb jumping by getting a timing right. That felt
so fucking said, what a great series. You still do have the wall
jump in this one, and it's easy to pull off in Super Metroids.
You can have some shenanigans there. Yeah, I like the difficult wall jumping
Super Metroid. I like that a lot. I did. I also am
playing a Metroid game, and mostly the process was trying to figure out the
best way to play this game. Do you want to guess what Metro game?
I wanted to play that Prime two? No, guess it Prime Pinball
Nope. Oh not Federation for Us. No, but that is on the
list after this one. Oh? No, is it other? M what
is it? No? Metroid Prime Hunters. Oh that makes sense. That's
so smart. I'm the guy I want to find out all about Silux.
I definitely played this game at the time. I don't remember fucking Silox.
I remember a big rocky guy or something like that. Yeah, So I
looked into the best way to play this. I tried to see if there
was like a prime Hack equivalent, which is like, you know if on
PC or Steam Deck you can have dual stick or mouse and keyboard control for
Prime Prime one, two, and three using Trilogy and Prime Hack Emulator.
Uh. There is a project in the works that is like trying to do
that with Hunters, but it's very much in the works, So there are
there's other ways to do that, but the way that most people decide was
probably best and easiest is to play it on Steam deck and map the touch
screen controls to the touch pad, so on the right touch pad, and
apparently that works really well. And of course if you have like melands set
up right on your Steam deck, you could have like the big top screen
here and then boast both screens with one on top of the other over on
the right, all on one screen. And it actually looks really nice and
works really well. So I got that all set up, started playing it,
and mostly that was what I ended up doing. But it seems to
work fine. That touch controls. Actually I'll do function the way I want
them to. So I'm gonna play through that and at least see what's going
on with this Silux guy because I want to do that. And apparently he
also shows up some yeah and three in post credit stuff and then yeah,
he also does show up. I think it was mentioned in Federation Forces maybe,
Oh yeah, great, So it's like a part of me. It's
like, guess there's some way like someone else could play through Federation Force.
I mean, it's still a co op. Metroid Prime does not sound chable.
It must be kind of fun, right, Yeah, And that was
like that that was a campaign that was separate from what because I'm pre you
know, I played that thing at the soccer mode was soccer. That was
just a player and I never wanted anything to do with it. But there's
that right, No, like no, I mean the actual game is just
that. It's like, you know, it's like that one of those like
four Swords but with Metroid. Yeah, okay, maybe we'll look into that.
That could be fun doing like uh mobile like handheld stuff over something like
what should we call it? The thing that we use parsec? Oh,
Jeff, you know how they got the Nintendo Online services up and running through
like fan hacks? Now? Yeah what Yeah, once Dan is back,
we get some compadres action going again. I don't know if I'm doing it
with Dan. That's the point, Mike, you got. I don't know
if I could. That's like see what the game is like and see how
much you could one do more on one episode. Anyways, there'll be a
fun think about that. I would have maybe beat this game. I only
thought we were good. Remember we thought we were gonna be Four Swords Adventures.
Yeah, yeah, I have all kind of a broken heart about that.
Got part of that pretty that was that was just over with. Well,
I guess we're not doing that. Huh. Live my whole life trying
to get to a situation where I could make that happen with other people and
kind of get us all paid to do it. I'm like, it's perfect,
we have an excuse to beat it. It's like, oh, even
that's not enough. Fine playing noaks, Fine, we got We'll do it.
Like someday we'll have some extra life thing. We're just gonna have ten
hours, like be you into it. People are just gonna actually play through
all four sorts of adventures. Hell yeah, all right, fantastic and then
Top More thousand Your Door, which continues to be fantastic, so good.
Yeah, and uh and then yeah, I was playing third right because I
was just like, I don't look at that game. Yeah, that's that's
been my week. Uh. I did like start up what was it?
Uh? I did like briefly boot up body cam. Have you seen this?
Wow? I've heard about this. Yeah, and I think it is
kind of disturbing. Uh. It's more disturbing when someone else is playing and
you're watching them, which is how I first really saw. Someone was playing
it on TikTok, which has like you know, it has like that's a
different context of like this looks like real. Is someone just going on shooting
people on TikTok? Like that context really threw it off. Once you're playing
it, it's a little bit more like, Okay, of course this is
extreme, but I get what they're going for. But yeah, I don't
know. I'm kind of I'm more curious about it than entertained by it,
so I might spend some more time with it just to see where it's going.
But honestly, if I's gonna play another shooter right now, I'd probably
go back and play more Sniper Leaf five instead. Uh, but yeah,
that's what I've been playing, Mike. Anything else from you, No,
no, no, that's the big thing. We got one more super chat
here from Jacob Bench. He says should Elden Ring be eligible for Game of
the Year? Look, Tree is eligible for Game of the Year. That's
fine, Like if you want to. I don't know. I'm not a
big fan of like people are like, oh, I played a game that
came out two years ago, so now that game is my Game of the
Year for this year. No, I think the Game of the Year should
come out in that year. I mean, yeah, on their personal list,
on geni bomb dot com. You can do whatever you want, but
yes, I would never Yeah, eligible here on the game as sure you
do whatever you want is sure. Yeah. I think for me, it's
like a game got a major update to the point where it's like, you
know, we know, we know it when we see it. These days,
when a game has been up there, and that's usually what it is,
right, you feel like a new game, yes, like clearly.
I think like if people want to say, like Destiny of the Final Shape,
I'd be like, Okay, I get it. Yeah, that's fine,
that counts. No expansions do count. When Yeah, when I was
like roy my Eyes at ur Tree, it wasn't so much that I think
experis don't count. But there's a prime it's like, boy, we sure
did give older Ring as many flowers as can possibly be given to a game
already, And of course that doesn't mean that it can't get raised for a
new thing. Probably still is going to be better than any game that comes
out right here right, Probably that's it's that game. Yes, all right,
Mikey, I think I'm gonna hit the button, hit that button,
baby, all right, everybody, Thank you for listening, Thank you for
watching. Thanks for just being loyal to the game mess It's been so great
to see the community grow and come back from Summer game Fest, get right
back at the swing of things, and see everybody continue to tune in even
though we missed a couple episodes there for a little bit. Just means a
lot. Mikey, where could people find you on the internet? What do
you got going on? You know, all that Tokodo, all that stuff.
Nineties Disney did an episode ranking all of the attractions in Disneyland Park.
I want to listen to it. We were just there and so I'm like
very invested. Yeah, that's why, Dick. It's like, oh,
I just did a lot of these again, so I think this would be
a fun thing to do. So yeah, so we it was good just
days in that park, not California Venture. There might be a separate episode
someday. Yeah. I had a lot of fun with that. Then our
new episode we're going to do at the end of UFF it's gonna be about
the Disney World monorail. So for that in about ten days. It's different
than the people mover right, yes, yes, Monroe, very different.
You'll you'll see the monorail because yeah, you'll be using the monorail. Is
very like actual transportation in Disneyland. Oh okay, not really a ride,
it's like utilitarian, very cool. Okay, Hey, tomorrow I will be
starting ur Tree on Giant Bomb for UPF. I'm just gonna go in there
and play it. If you follows one can hang out. Should yeah,
but yeah, and then we'll have a BCR tomorrow on Giant Bomb BombCast for
Vengeance. TAM's gonna come in. He's been playing. I saw on Steam
sixty hours of Shadow of the Tree, but no way, yes, like
like fifty nine. Yes, a lot of guys. There's the guy Someone's
like, do you think I think Tree is gonna have a chance at a
Giant bun game in the air Well, I think it's gonna do pretty well.
It's gonna do very well. Yes, I think someone else I saw
on my friends list had played eighty hours already. S that's wild. So
yeah, a lot of people have been playing a lot of that. Dam's
gonna come in and talk about it. Lucy played a game that I think
she'll Yes, I think she'll finally be able to talk about tomorrow on the
podcast. So we'll do that might have some other fun stuff in there.
I don't know. We'll figure it out, but it will be a good
time. And then a bunch of great stuff happened on John Bam all week,
so you can check that out, including Blake Club, Last Blake for
a while, everybody. We'll be going out on Wednesday, so thinking bye.
Most people are beating him right now. Oh, let's freaking go.
Let's freaking go. I am an animal. I have been plenty horny,
thank you. Break all right, get set up for that, all right,
I can see them. I am good to come back whenever you guys
are all right. Yeah, I'm ready. All right, here we go,
break break, break, break, all right, Just take me a
second to get up here, cool, perfect up up output. Is that
bubbsy music? Yeah, it's always bubbsy music. You're gonna let's see here,
Jean. If I want to, I'm having Tam and Lucy on bc
R tomorrow. If I wanted to do like the out rushmore of British shit,
what of British like British like gaming computers like the Commodore and the Tandy
or whatever. Uh, Jeff, I I know the numbers. Ninety audience
have no idea what you're talking about. That's kind of what I figured.
Yeah, all right, but I don't know what I'm talking about there,
so exactly. Yeah, there's that, there is that good. Yeah,
we would need Gary Witta, that's right. Yeah, the z X Spectrum,
Amiga in it, sure niche British game studios or magazines. Yeah,
I mean I might just ask them about that and be like what it like,
what was it like? So what's it like to be British? Exactly
right, that's what people want to hear, That's what people want to be
asked about. I mean, tam can fill an hour of airtime with Eldon
Ring talk, so like we'll be good, Oh yeah, we'll be good
talking of that stuff. Yes, Apple two was global. Yeah, I
would talk for hours about Gianna Sisters. That is one that I stumbled across
as like maybe not a kid, but maybe after like a little bit after
it was like a going concern and Giana Sisters is pretty good. Yeah.
The f in Towns Marty, Yeah, what was the FM? Was that
like a British computer as well? Totally? Yeah? The BBC what was
what they had a computer of their own? Right? Yeah, I don't
remember what is was called? But yeah, that sounds right, man,
I was thinking the Mount Rushmore, British game franchises, Wipeout, Tomb Raider,
Banjo KAZUOI, Red Dead, Redemption too. Yeah, the BBC Micro
That sounds right. Yeah, that's it. Thank you Hu who was the
Dean Bowling ass. If we've ever reached out to the digital foundery homies uh
currently only on Patreon. We did do an episode Jeopardy with John Lemon,
yeah, a couple of months back. That'll be up on the free feed.
I think we're on schedule for like two weeks from now. I may
or made really is that the next one? I may or well, I
may or may not get one out this weekend. I'm trying to do roughly
every two or three weeks until we get caught up. Okay, every month,
cool cool, cool, I should it's the cool guys that were there.
Do we did we ever get brad On there? But it didn'tvite Brad
On there, Brad Shoemaker, I would have been no, no, yeah,
we could do them on the next one. Okay, maybe we'll can
make that happen the next couple of months. We'll see Yeah from town sounds
really British, but apparently it's Japanese only. Yeah. Like, my assumption
for a long time was like I think like a lot of those computers were
in both territories. But no, they really did seem to have their own
scenes. Now that I've looked a little bit closer, so those scenes are
wild too. You talk to people who are there back in the day and
they talk about like the piracy scene and everything, because you know, it
was all a lot or a lot of it was just floppies and everything interesting
according it on tape. Oh that's my favorite. The best in the world,
Just the best thing in the world. Just once in my life.
I want to load a video game for a cassette tape, right, I
want to do that. That's so cool. It's messed up and I love
it. Just all data, baby, just all data. All right,
we are going to get back into it. I think. Let's do it.
Okay, all right, brok through, all right, right, I'm
starting Bottle Bottle Toes and double Drayons on my beta. Hell yeahs like a
real gamer. All right. Let me just Cammer brings up a good point.
Where's the Nicki minaj and Call of Duty? Giant. I like that.
Yeah, I want to believe super Tyson. Now. That last one
was like a hundred bucks. For some reason, it was like, whoa
alone, We're gonna go and get in here in a second. Everybody just
gonna finish up. Who I play? Rash sits pimple Billy or Jimmy the
world's your oyster. I'm kind of a billy guy myself. I always go
with a battle toad. I think I go with Rash. I think,
oh, you gotta go with Rash. Yeah, I think he's got to
k I. He's the most important one. We're in the space. This
is a chapter on space. Yeah, yeah, you start on a spaceship.
It's cool. Okay, let's get back into it. All right,
awesome, we did good stuff there, We did good work. Do you
want super touch what I've only been playing? Oh? Let's do you think
about it? There's no more of those? All right? Here we go?
All right, we don't have been going. I'm sorry, I don't
know. Oh no, no, no, sorry. I thought we were
doing a podcast. I was like, I was bringing it back in.
Okay, we're going too late.