Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, November fourteenth, twenty twenty three. Welcome to
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Choa. Welcome to God's favorite podcast today. Don't forget to either start defrost.
Maybe it's too early to defrost your turkeys, but maybe order the turkey,
maybe completely ditch the turkey and go Hamlet just go ham. Let's go
Ham with the holidays. Joining me co captain of the ship Ham enthusiast and
aficionado Jeff Grebb. I'm gonna do a turkey on Thanksgiving. Also have some
ham of some sort. But listen, I unlike some I don't have any
metals. So I do have these probiotics though, and so I'm feeling pretty
good here. This is the metal of the body right here. I am
the I am a walking gold medal. I don't need anything else. He's
pro probiotics, pro ham, pro turkey, pro whatever you gotta have for
your protein on the holidays. Jeff Beckler, Hey, that's all correct.
Those are all correct things you said about me. Uh, the person who's
preparing my Thanksgiving, that's right, it's my Thanksgiving texted my wife. My
wife and I and was like, I should you not? She goes,
how do you feel about turkey? And I was just like, is this
about Thanksgiving? And then she followed up with like, I'm thinking of pulling
an audible. How do you feel about brisket for this? And I was
like, fire it up because turkey is overrated poultry. Okay, let's go
with the brisket, boys and girls. He's making it. He's making a
face. Maybe it's because his neck hurts from carrying so much God dang gold
around his neck. Make a triumphant return to giant bomb. We have Trivia
cruise ship, Olympic medal winning person captain. Now I'm the keg y.
Hey hi, look, of course briskets better than turkey, but come onsivy
have turkey. I don't care what it tastes like. I gotta do I
do? Who wants to waste the meal? Don't waste the meal? Even
overrated. Everyone knows what turkey is. It's like chicken. Of course,
of course turkey is whatever. That's why you smother it in gravy. Then
it's amazing you smother everything in gravy or anything in gravy. It's it's our
culture. I mean, it's not very good culture, but its culture.
But we're even birds are above turkey asip from chicken, which of course is
and maybe a cornish hen. Maybe I don't want to peasant. I don't
want to know. I don't want no quail duck. Look, we all
like we're big boys and tried duck and pretended like we liked it. But
come on, prepared by certain Asian fusion restaurants other than that, Mike,
uh, the the phrase I don't want no pheasant is very funny to me
for some reason. I'm glad you liked that. So you know I've had
an Ostrich burger before. Oh how sorry? It was all right, it
felt I don't know if I'm using this word properly. Gamey, here's some
here's some Disney trivia for you and the killiman Jar Safaris and Animal Kingdom.
When they point out Ostrich eggs to you on the right, yes a fake
Hey, no, no, no, Mike, they're Disney reel. Well,
I mean there are real ostriches around there, so you could be mistaken
for thinking that they're real. But those are not real eggs. The tour
guide refused to say they were fake. He only wanted to say Disney reel.
And I said, wow, man, this must suck to be Oh,
you were the guy who asked my kid, and the truth it was
my kid, and this stranger lied to his goddamn face. Hey. When
I was cleaning up and we were liquidating for a certain show that I used
to work on, I found in a refrigerator, buried in the back,
uh, encased in styrofoam in Ostrich egg Oh that's like that Cowboy Bebop episode.
It's exactly like that Cowboy keep Up episode. And then I felt very
conflicted of whether or not to keep it cold or just immediately throw it onto
the ground, the ground. And then when I went to the dump,
my my compatriot, my my friend may have threw it on the ground.
Oh oh an old like they are like big, right, the Ostrich eggs.
Yeah, I don't have a lot of experience with Ostrich eggs. You've
seen Willy Wonka like ye, like the big honkin things. I think like
an goose eggs actually okay egg but big. It's hard to imagine. Uh.
Yeah, listen, you gotta throw those on the ground. If I
had one of those, that's the kind of thing that you guys ever see
that YouTube channel Man News. It's the kind of thing to be on Man
News and the guy finds a bunch of like ostrich eggs, He's like,
oh man, you know he's gonna throw it to the ground. Then he
does, and then everyone cheers. There's something about a very large egg that
I find deeply upsetting, similar to why I'm like kind of scared of sunflowers,
Like, have you ever seen a fucking big ass sunflower? Yeah?
Like they are fucking horrifying. They're like meaty and weird and they look alive.
There's something about an actual gigantic sunflower where I'm just like, right,
that's not right. That feels like we did some like Ninja turtles oohz shit
exactly. I was gonna bring up a turtle secret of the Ooze where they
have a sunflower and pretend that it's a dandelion that got hit by the ooze.
Yeah. Yeah, Well it's being about oohs and secrets. I've been
oozing because we've been holding on to some secrets. Gentlemen. We've seen some
losing. Mike's been cruising, I've been doing and I'm specific I'm drunk on
this show. This show because we have some super secret special announcements that are
no longer going to be secrets as soon as we announce them, and we
have been spinning plates for what feels like weeks in the background here a giant
bomb. We don't have to talk about the actual process, but stuff is
happening, and uh, stuff is happening the week of the Game Awards,
the first, well not the first thing to pop off on the Game Awards.
But Jeff Grubb, would you like to share what is one of the
special events happening? Yeah? Yeah, So, like Jane said, we'll
have stuff happening all through that week of the Game Awards, and so look
out for podcast that week. But on Wednesday, December sixth, the night
before the Game Awards, we will have GB at Night live in Los Angeles.
Back in the studio. We're gonna have a series of couch panels,
just like it at Summer Game Fest. It's pretty good crew that we're putting
together. Still got some more people that are that are confirming, but a
lot of cool names are gonna come hang out with us. A lot of
friends. Most of the I think everyone from the team's gonna be there,
unlike it's Summer game Fest, so that's gonna be really exciting. Uh so
yeah, look out for that. That'll start at five pm Pacific time,
so eight pm Eastern Wednesday, December sixth, Come hang out with us.
We're gonna treat it kind of like a little bit like a game Game of
the Year pre show, but also just kind of wrapping up the year in
general, talking to cool people about cool things. So don't miss it.
That's gonna be It's gonna be a big night. Come hang out with us.
I cannot wait. Yes, yes, And you know, like we
just mentioned Tea's there's gonna be a lot of stuff popping off and one of
the big things that we've been working real, real hard. And when did
I say we, I mean Jeff Backlar. Yeah, mostly Jeff back Mostly
Jeff Backlar has been working mighty mighty hard to make sure this happens. Because
let me just change that December ninth, Saturday of that week, Jeff Baklar,
we will be putting on Giant Bomb Game of the Year, live in
person, ticketed event. Can you believe it? I really can't neither,
can I. It's almost like if we dream too hard, it won't happen.
But it will happen, folks. December ninth, we are going to
be doing the final day of deliberations in front of a live audience. We
will crown the top ten and we will crown the Game of the Year live.
December ninth, We're doing a special matinee time. We're going to be
doing this at twelve pm Pacific time at the Moroccan Lounge in Los Angeles.
We are going to be selling tickets to this live event very soon, ye
look out for until soon. Yes, uh. And we have even allowed
Mike Manatti to be on the poster ladies and gentlemen and be there right there.
He got the medals, he got the best title because he got the
with Yeah. Yeah, if you look at the top of all the names
of who's gonna be there, it's just with Mike Manatti, and everyone knows
that's the greatest honor. Yeah. I'm just finding out about this. Although
we said, and he didn't understand what the hell we were talking about.
Yo, Mike, CA's the with and I'm like, I have the width?
Is this a bad thing? You heard what you wanted to hear?
No, it's your first with everyone, it's his first with which is very
exciting, and from my last with Genie. You're free. Uh, this
is uh, this has been a very many months in the making. We're
very excited about this. To have a live in person event like this,
wow, really really cool shit. We are trying to do everything we can
to make this as special as it as it possibly can be. Speaking about
special, we will have special guests Grayson Right, Bailey Myers, Blessing,
Audio Yea Junior and more. More is with like an as risk. We're
hoping to get more exactly. It kind of depends on who's going to be
around. Uh. You know, it really was a lot of work to
put this together. Blackla really has been working on it pretty much constantly.
It's been a lot of back and forth. We're gonna, like you said,
we're gonna try and make this as special as possible, but we're also
let's treat this as like a test run. If this goes well, we
will be able to do more of these in the future. So if this
is like you, Hey, we've been looking for a way to support John
Bam, come hang out with us on this night, and that will really
go a long way, So just so excited to make this happen. And
again thanks to Backler for so much work, putting so much work into this,
it's been awesome. Yes, of course, I'm sorry, Mike.
Yeah, that was your turn to talk. What's up, budh The wisness
is so cute. Thank you? Yeah, you wouldn't. You're welcome.
No, we're excited that you're going to be there, of course, Buddy.
We gotta thank jerem Artists extraordinary. Remember, our community makes a lot
of our merch, makes a lot of our graphic design. The speed in
which this human being works is truly mind blowing. Please hire him if you're
in need of some amazing art. We we got to thank our booking company,
Real Good Touring for putting this together. Our we we hit some incredible
snags along the way and they've been able to really write the ship in a
in a really impressive way. So so thanks to that crew as well.
Yeah, this is great. We're you know, we're gonna try and have
some special stuff for people who are at the show live. We will give
you ticketing information the second we can. It will be pretty limited in quantity.
The amount of tickets that we can sell to this thing. So just
the heads up for that. But yeah, we will, we will.
We wanted to get the word out about it today and we will give you
all the details when we have them. But you know what you need.
You need to know that the date is December ninth. The time twelve pm
sharp. You get there as early as you want, but eleven thirty our
doors and uh yeah, more information to come. Yes, yes, I
put this in our little dock here, but I will personally gear Jan t
that we will stream it no matter what any av person says to me.
Wow, because because there's been many road speed bumps on that road, many
speed bumps, and I'm tackling it like I tackle life and just going pedal
to the metal flooring it just go straight through the maze. Baby. We
could beat the train, is what I say. As the train approaches.
That's that's what we always says. It's got to jump on it, and
then you jump on favor. The problem in Spider Man two is that Peter
shouldn't have stopped the train. He should have just pushed it so he clears
the river. Exactly. It's just a boy. I'm just a man and
you'll get more up beats like that during the Game of the Year discussion because
we've got a lot of great topics and a lot of great y categories and
stuff like that. So yeah, yeah, it happened. A lot of
It's gonna be great, great, great, great, great fun times.
If you're in the Los Angeles area southern California, we'd love to see you.
I'll give everyone No, I'm not gonna say I'm gonna give everyone a
hug. I'm gonna give everyone mouth kiss. I used to kiss everyone on
the cheek. How do you think I feel? Polite and thoughtful head nod
where I just look at you and like proud of you. That means a
lot to me, proud to you. That's right. Just start bumping butts
as a greeting because like those, there's like a lot of padding there,
you know, there's not a lot of like actual flesh contact. I think
just a nice friendly button bump that won't catch on. Mike, I like
where your head's on. Hey, December seventh, the Game of Wars.
December ninth is the giant on THINGA say, Mike, what's on December eighth?
What's on Deber eightes birthday. We better find a cheesecake factory. Let's
go. Yeah, Okay, I'm just gonna leave this poster for the rest
of the time. We have one more special announcement, and I didn't clear
this with everyone. The announcement is Mike is going to tell us about his
vacation. Yeah, what a surprise. Yay, I'm kidding. I want
to hear it. I want to hear Mike, like you were gone for
quite a while, you were on the cruise, was gone for it,
well, like I was only on a cruise for three days and then it
was kind of a normal Disney World trip after that. But the cruise was
definitely the highway, like the most you know, for somebody who goes to
Disney a lot. It's always the most exciting to see the new things.
And I've never been on a cruise or a Disney cruise obviously, so the
Disney cruise, like, wow, this is only new things. That's exciting.
So it was fun night one. A bit of a hiccup. Turns
out those ships move and you can you can get pretty sick if you're not
ready for that. Everyone on a Disney cruise get sick at some point.
Wait, did you get you get you got sick. My understandings, those
cruise ships are like solid, so rock solid that it's impossible for that,
and I feel a move though for sure. That's what I thought, Jeff
going into this swist is what I told myself. It was. This is
a big ship. It was pretty now. Some people were saying, oh,
it was especially bad weather or windy, or like, oh, because
it's a three day cruise, they have to book it a little to get
to Nassau or our first port of call. I don't know whoever it was.
It was it was rocking. Uh. Now you know, doctor Dad
did bring some pills that eventually snapped me out of it. But for a
while there I was like, oh, no, this is just gonna be
my whole three days. This isn't gonna be good. Were you in a
box or something? I don't understand. Why why are you miming like you
were showing the sway? I wasn't in a It was ruby, but uh
I felt bad at first, like because like I was with my dad and
my step mom. We go to dinner. My step mom like left immediately.
I tried to like keep my dad company because he was fine. He
didn't care. Then my food came. I was like, all right.
We had a waiter who had really long name with four a's, so he's
like, oh, just call me, just call me four aces ha ha
ha. And I'm like sitting there green four races, like sees this and
he's like, haha, I guess goofy must be steering the ship. I
was like, not now for it. You think that was hilarious and amazing,
Like this sounds like a nightmare. Normally I'd be all about this four
races, but right now, please sinking everything I have, so not just
make a mess on your table? How can hid me about? How can
you then tweet about that? How can you have the sickness? Who I
was scared at the time. I didn't want every woe to take Oh,
Mike sick on his cruise the whole time, because yeah, my dad gave
me a pill on a patch. And then the next day we start off
docked at Nassaut anyway, so after that I was, yeah, we were
there's a Bahama cruise. So I didn't go to NASA. I stayed on
the belt because it seemed more fun on there, and I actually had a
few people tell me don't go to nass out They'll rob you. I don't
know, that's just some kind of white person fear that got sprints of me.
But I was like, yeah, well they have a water slide on
the boat. So water slide get robbed? Right? What is this?
What does this tropical eyelid country have for me that isn't on this Disney boat?
So yeah, I just stayed on the boat and there was Yeah,
the water slide, it's like a ride. You go on a ramp.
They have like videos of Mickey and then the water slide goes down and up
because of the jets. Yeah, waterslides can go up? Now what we
But okay, you're being you have to be more specific, like where along
the line does it go up? Like after you go down, so you're
on like a raft down Oh tumble wumba tech got it. But yeah,
then you go, oh okay, So it's like a water coaster they call
it. But it wasn't like all that intense or anything. Lot, you
know, even though you associate Disney stuff with kids, A lot of adult
stuff like seven eight bars one was the Star water swan, uh said,
a lot of wife swapping. You just adult stuff. I just assume that's
what that means. You're like, hey, man, I did karaoke the
one night, and then the next day we were at like Disney's Island.
I felt safe there. I walked, was talking about Jesus Christy was walking
around Disney's Island, and people just me to come up and mug you.
I want that that's gonna happen. I was just walking around the isle of
people be like, hey, karaoke bike Like, yep, that's me.
I get carry carrying around a sick bag and eleven seasick patches on his mike.
Were you wearing sunglasses the whole time? I feel like you should have
been. No, I'm not a sun Look at my ask how dark they
are. I don't need sunglasses. I've never worned. I hate sunglasses.
I'm sure you know it's all the light. That's not what sunglasses do there.
It's true. I don't stop doing this. Keep talking to you,
like, don't ever stop doing this. I don't wait, don't wait,
don't I got to get a photoshop open, give me a second. I'm
already ahead of you, buddy. I never classes. They always like basically
make everything look dark. But it's like them, I'm fine the vibe,
Mike. I feel like you would mess the vibe of something free. But
I can't, like, you know, torture myself like that. The world
is full of color. It's the world is a carousel of color, right,
like so they say in Disney. So I had to look at it
all. I want to go home. Mike is He's a Jimmy Buffett fan,
and I think that explains most things about him. Jeff told me Jimmy
Buffett died during Summer game Fest. Yeah, I'm the person that broke the
news to Mike that Jimmy Buffett died. I'm always no matter why you guys
did shots. Yeah tequila, yes exactly. I'm also the person that told
him that Coke zero was ending. So I was there for the two worst
moments of his life. It turns out they just changed the formulas slightly,
so it was okay. Yeah, but hey, in the moment, you
were very dev I gotta get myself some Minati problems. Man, it seems
like it seems like it's easy living Bass. It's bad. It's bad.
Lots of good food on the boat we went to like the one nicer restaurant
called Payo Plo and it was a steakhouse and it was incredible that the people
were saying the chicken tenders on the ship, like the tend's situation is real
good. I'm like, they're tendis How good can they be? Oh,
they're good tends. You can get just all the tend's you want. They
won't stop you. They had three different barbecue sauces for your tend's. Wait
wait wait, wait, three different barbecue sauces. Yeah. I didn't know
there were that many. It's just just yeah, I'm glad you enjoyed.
I'm glad you ate that food and enjoyed it. Oh, I ate my
tendy's. It was yeah, it was good. Yeah, that was good.
You know a lot of time in Disney World, I did the new
Majana walk through things. Oh it was fun. Yeah. There's like water
everywhere and you get to like pretend like your majana, Like there's one where
like the waters. It's it's like a jet of water going up. I'm
gonna keep doing this motion and uh, it matches where your hand is like
magic. So you put your hand here, the water comes up to there,
you put it there. The water comes up to there, lots of
just fun little stuff like that. It was cute. It was pretty at
night. But yeah, it was a it was a lot of stuff going
on. It was it was long. It was a long time to be
away, even in Disney World. At that last day, I was pretty
beat up, right, And that is I love my Disney vacations. It
is always this weird thing where I get home and I'm like, I'm exhausted
from my vacation. You the Monday or Sunday night, You're hey, you
want me on gmm, like you were ready to go as soon as you
got back. What were you like, Man, I'm kind of miss getting
it back into the swing of things. They definitely missed it. Yeah,
I mean, so, you know, doing all the stuff with you guys,
my stuff at games beat, Uh, I mean I was listening to
as much stuff as I could. By the way, the switches the best
console ever. I just wanted to Yeah. It was kind of like,
man, I should have wait until Mike was here out, but uh yeah,
you guys AW did a lot of great stuff though, and it was
always good because at night I would still like to try to listen to a
little something or a couple of times. Even in lines. I didn't wait
too many lines because I'm so good at the lightning ling stuff. The longest
line I waited in was ninety minutes to get that picture with Scrooge McDuck and
Donald Duck together at the Christmas party. Yeah, oh, they don't know
they're not normally together back of lark. Oh I didn't realize that. Okay,
fair enough, I take that back. It made me take a picture
with Minnie and Daisy afterwards. I felt a little awkward about that. They
made you well, it's like like the line you grab their shoulders or what.
I think. I just kind of stood there and let them flank me
and I you know, it's like I think I tried to make a joke
and it was probably awkward, like ha ha, yeah, thanks girls.
I don't know what is this? What am I doing here? I think
it's weird too. I don't want to do this. I said I was
never going to go back to Disney, but I feel like now we're all
gonna be SoCal. That's true, but I do. I think I just
need to go with Mike, like I want to go. It's a good
time. Yeah, I need to be there with you. Man, it
was he was. He was like he's very considered because he like he I
think at that point, like the joy for him is like having you experienced
joy. So it's like, yeah, I got to see all this stuff
really quickly. I'm like, oh, this is a great time. So
yeah, it's good, it's exciting. Let's just cancel the live show and
go to Disney. Yeah, Disney on my birthday. It's that always sounds
great. But it's actually a lot harder to get to Disneyland from downtown LA
than you think it is. It's a long ride. It's a long ride.
I remember there, but I remember when Grubb Dan and I jumped onto
the shuttle. It was like a solid hour to get there. Jeezyah,
it is from from where we were in Los Angeles. Well, you know,
speaking about uh thirsty costumed characters that was there, that was a stretch.
Sorry, I had I had pluge Eminem's in my mouth. Let me
just finish fudge. Eminem's was now like the Brownie ones in the purple bag.
Mm hmm. Yeah, stop doing that with you, all right,
bullsh please? Are we okay with that? You? Oh my god,
Mike. That's just horrifying. Mike is doing the thing where he's like clockwork
oranging himself. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you my clockwork orange story. Night.
Good keep that one. I can't remember if you're the one who thought
it was a porno or not. That's me. Well, I mean I've
been playing Thirsty Suitors. Okay, thank you ja parts if it do feel
like an adult film Thirsty Suitters. I check this out during Summer game Fest
and it is finally now out. It is very akin to a Southeast Asian
perspective of Scott Pilgrim adjacent story where you were going back to your hometown,
you gotta take care of some family jazz, and while you're in your hometown
you encounter all of your exes and it is just as awkward as you would
expect it to be, except they gamify in countering your ex'es. One of
the mechanics in this it isn't like a primary major mechanic in the game,
but there is skateboarding in it, and it feels okay enough, it feels
Tony Hawk adjacent enough. But the neat thing that they've added to this that
is not critical to any of The major major stuff that you do in this
game is like up grinding or grinding a rail above you, and I am
all for that. I think skateboard games should do that, whether it's Tony
Hawk pulling out a fun little hook from his pocket or just doing like holding
it above them and just like holding on to that for dear life as you're
going by. Because I am all for up grinding. That's the new official
name. The X game's council has has told me, I'm I'm clear to
announce that today an talk to Bob Chad Muska, Yeah White even Yeah,
yeah, yeah, Kelly Slater. Oh it's alsothing signed by Kelly Slater.
I was at a Ron John gift shop and I thought about his his his
weird GameCube PlayStation two game, Travis Pastrana. I know he doesn't really grind
on rails, but he allowed that. The first game I thought of when
you said this was Assassin's Creed Revelations because they were running out of ideas.
So the whole thing there was the hook blade. There's like that be where
he's like that guy's explaining it to it is like it's got two parts,
the hook in the blade. They photoshop that that Nick cage like, oh
yeah, face on it, but it's a very grab go ahead. I
was just gonna say, I didn't this game has grinding. I didn't realize
that that's what kind of game it is. Well, you know, you
encounter your axes, so there may be some grinding going. Okay, oh
this game skateboarding mechanic is not like a big thing. It's just one of
these small, like little things they've added to it. Your encounters with your
exes turn into like turn based RPG combat where it is it's not just like
attacking and defending casting a spell. The story and your encounter is being told
throughout it. So occasionally when you get to the second phase of this boss
battle with your ex it's really just you kind of uncovering some trauma that had
happened between you guys, where it's like, hey, so did you did
you cheat on me and you didn't tell me about it? Is that what
happened here? Or why did you leave me? Type of thing type of
stuff going on, And it's an entertaining way to talk to and encounter previous
lovers in your life. I wish that no one has to ever do it.
Because that in the game, it's fun real life incredibly awkward, but
it's doing a lot of neat stuff. And I forget the main character's name,
but yes, Thirsty has the whole slew of differing styles and types of
exes. So you know, folks that are are males, females, male
presenting, female present and it's neat because you're you're all just trying to solve
your personal issues at the end. And I feel like it handles closing the
book on previous relationships in a positive way versus making everyone completely like evil enemies
antagonists versus like, Okay, we can actually grow past this, but I
will beat the shit out of you first. Yeah. Is the strength of
this game, the characters, the story, the and when you say the
combat is like or the combat like encountering your excess, it creates a turn
based combat sort of scenario. Is that like Undertail? I've never played Undertail.
I think I locked myself into having to play it for Extra Life one
year and I have yet to return or deliver on that. No gender Tail,
it's right there. Yeah, that's it. But Thirsty suitors, Yeah,
when once you encounter them, it turns into a turn based combat game
where it does, it can start to feel a little bit repetitive as you
go through the encounter because you're just trying to wheel down a lifebar or charge
up a specific power. But as you go through the boss battle style encounter,
some different mechanics pop up, where like a turn based type of thing
where you have to hit paper Mario style hit a certain command to be more
effective, or have someone slip on like wet ground or whatever. But yeah,
it's mostly the story and the characterization that is pulling me through the game
so far. The mechanics stuff, it's there, it's neat. I feel
like it's mostly there just to diversify combat. I'm not super deep in about
like two hours in, but I'm all about up grinding. Yeah, of
course, this is what we've always known about you, jan Is, You're
the upgrinder. Yeah, we grind up and we punched down exactly. That's
what we do here a giant bomb, jan If. I have a list
of Get the Game Awards stuff got announced and there was a bunch of indie
games that got nominated, and I'm like, oh, I don't actually think
I played India these because I haven't really played David Diver. I played a
little bit of it. I haven't played Dredge, I haven't played Venba.
There's like a whole list of Indiana, the Little Sea of Stars, right
I played a Little Sea of Stars and I kind of want to play more
of it. But it's like, that's my point here is if I have
this list of games that I'm trying to catch up on this year, do
you think this ranks high on that list of I should try this now or
is this kind of thing like when I have time maybe later. I'd hate
for this to get lost amongst like the storm of everything, especially with bigger,
high profile indie titles. And we don't have to get into it right
now about what qualifies and what doesn't qualify as an indie game, because that's
the hot topic right now. But you know, I will say that I
think the story and the characterization of everyone in Thirsty Suitors is substantial enough to
check it out before Game of the Year season ends. Okay, But that
being said, I do think it could occupy occupy a good spot in that
like holiday period of like post Game of the Year, post New Year or
pre New Year's where like we have like a stretch of time to really sink
your teeth into a game, you know, like I feel like Ven but
is going to wind up in that spot for me where I don't have the
time right now to just fully dive all the way deep into it. Because
there's an obscene amount of indie games that came out, y'all, Like we
talk about all the triple A, double A B game style stuff. This
has been another great year for indies, and I think, unfortunately, because
of the high volume of all the bigger stuff, it's getting forgotten about.
Yeah, Port Cocoon, that's a that's a real good game, right,
like that could have been nominated for Game of the Year last year. That's
the one where I'm like, I actually might prioritize that. For one,
I know it's relatively three hours exactly, it's shorter, and people say it's
a grubby game. It's a grubby game, yes, because yeah, thank
you, Yes, that's that. Those are my people, So yeah,
I'll be I think that's the one I'm prioritizing. I did Humanity last week,
really really liked Humanity. So I'm gonna try to keep some of these
games in my rotation when I'm also catching up on like Boulder Skate and stuff.
Yeah, if anyone has like smaller titles that they want to like recommend
to the crew to check out before we get to Game of the Year,
I'd be more than happy to check some of that out, maybe like in
a grab bag style thing. Like one of the titles I think, like,
he's not gonna get any love except for from me is Fuga two,
you know, just loading those furry children into the soul cannon and everything.
God, and that's not even an indie game. That's like a fun JRPG
with cats. Hey, fire Alum Engage came out this year. Sure dead
yeah dad, yeah, uh grub January. I'm gonna ask you is that
worth circling back to listen? I like it a lot it Did you finish
three houses? Finished it like three times? Okay? When it comes to
three houses for you, what was it like? Oh man, I just
love spending time with these characters. That was that was a big motivating factor.
Yeah, don't go back to this one. Yeah. The characters sucking
this one. The combat is better, Like the combat is the best the
fire Fireman has ever been. It is, right, so good characters.
Yeah, it's and and it's they suck so much that it makes it easy
to lose momentum with some of the best turn based tactical gameplay you've ever experienced,
which is really frustrating because I really liked that game. Yeah, when
they announced Engage, I was really hyped about it because I think three Houses
ranked I think it's one of my favorite games that release in the past decade.
But a lot of that is tied to the Superior House, the Deer,
the Yellow House, de Baby. All right, well, you know,
speaking about up grinding, you upgrind by holding your skateboard with your hands,
and Jeff Grubb, you've been playing a game called Hans. Yes,
so I opened up. That's a hell of a transition I've been. I
opened up my extra life stream with this game Hans, which is the other
watermelon game that's out right now. Oh yes, this is a only up
like where you play as a watermelon. So it's oblong. I talked about
this a little bit somewhere, but either way, I played some more of
it, and I like these games. I like the idea of just a
bunch of assets from a store thrown into a game to make an obstacle course,
and the sort of spin on that here is because you are playing as
a watermelon, it is oblong and it is misshapen, so some of the
roles you do will kind of throw you off the path a little bit.
I had played a little bit of this before during the stream, I played
enough to like starting to get the flow of things, and it's they don't
they don't even really have controller support, so I was playing mouse and keyboard.
But after like you know, thirty minutes playing it, I was really
getting the hang up of the feel of like how this watermelon is going to
behave And then there's something about like okay, I yeah, I fell down,
but now I could do all these obstacles that were a challenge for me
before relatively quickly, and having that difficulty curve get conquered so quickly and feeling
like you're making progress is really nice. The problem is that, and this
is the problem with these games in general, you look up and you see
just how much further you have to go, and it's so intimidating that when
you do fall after like ten minutes and you're like, well that's ten minutes,
and I know, like, realistically, i'ma have to climb for at
least an hour and a half probably longer to actually get to the top of
this, and boy, when I fall from that, that's going to be
even more frustrating. Now, I think that's what makes it a good game
for streaming, And you know, it's got some fun elements of you can
get costumes for your watermelon and your costume and the costumes are always just like
just off the path, so it's like, oh, I could take a
risk of goe to go get this costume, but that's going to increase my
chances of falling and then my watermelons and be dressed up like you know,
grout show Marx is that his name, the guy with the bushy and they
in the nose? Yeah, seventy sam h And that's that's fun. But
in general, I just like that it's it's a pretty competent one of these.
It's not falling apart at the seams like some of the ones have been.
And when you fall from a great height and the watermelon hits the ground,
the game yells Hans, does it smash? Though? No? What
are we? What are we doing? I'm gonna I've been falling from like
you know, five six seven stories. Maybe it does if you get high
enough, but from where I was on four feet, it's it would it
would explode. Rolling off video, I will, I will crush a watermelon
with these god dang thighs right here. Oh, actually that's I feel like
that's very hard, but I'd love to see you attempt it. Nevertheless,
I'm going to be doing until Game of the Year. Then, yeah,
we know we're doing during intermission? Is is is the watermelon name? Hans?
Is that? Oh? This is an excellent question. I don't know.
I didn't know that. When I fall from a great height, the
game just goes in like a voice with gravitas and says, Hans, I
guess it. Wait, I guess Hans is an immortal being, birth from
a bizarre twist of science and left behind when humanity embarked for the stars.
Well there you go. So of course it doesn't smash. It's immortal.
Hans isn't just a refreshing summer snack. He's a melon with dreams, ambitions,
and a bounce that defies his juicy constitution. Okay, Backlar is also
reading my bio. It turns out, yeah, oh wait, this is
John's not Hans Jan Sorry, sorry, I can't stop thinking about Frozen because
there were so many Frozen things that I did on the Disney trip, and
Hans is the name of of Anna's boyfriend. Yeah, like I did.
I did a froz and dinner on the boat, and then there was a
Frozen fireworks show before Christmas, and there was a Frozen sing along that was
like way better than had any right to be. So I kind of got
I kind of got Refrozen coded. It's all I can think about. I've
been listening to a Frozen two soundtrack. It's a problem. I feel like,
not everything that pops up in your head, like about Disney needs to
likes f after mouth. You know, maybe that was a good I contributed.
Maybe well, I'm all for this saga of Mike getting back into Frozen
because hey, turns out Frozen, yes did pretty good music. Uh speak
about saga, Mike Manati Alan wake too. You have finally gotten the chance
to dip into it. Yeah, I like, I didn't want to start
it before that was on the trip because I knew I was gonna be yeah
it was, it'd be weird, right, But last night I did finally
get to start it, and there's a downside to that because it is a
little weird, Like it's already one Game of the Year award, so many
people are like, it did, yes, this game of the Year.
Yeah, the Golden Joysticks. Oh I thought Boulderskate won that. Am I
just making ship up? Now? Ship some awards? I'm sure at that.
But yeah, okay, I think you're right. Actually, maybe I'm
making shit up. Okay, but yeah, you know, everyone's going on
about how amazing the game is, so it's like a little awkward. One
critics choice, so choice, thank you, Okay, that's that was my
thing. Cool, but so like you do immediately kind of get it a
bit. There's a lot interesting going on. I only got to play for
a few hours. I just got past the Night Night Show thing with Alan
Wake, so I barely just started playing as him. There's like this,
I have this fear immediately that like, oh no, I'm gonna be the
asshole who likes one more because uh because like everybody, like everybody drags on
like one for like the fighting gets repetitive. You just keep shooting things with
your flashlight and at least as far and I'm like I had some more things
to shoot with my flash, so that could change pretty quickly. I don't
know. And Jeff said this before, and I'm a little bit at that
point too, where I am kind of waiting for the amazing things to happen.
So far, everything has been done really well, very competently, with
a lot of like flare just like a lot of good presentation. But it
has been a lot of walking and talking and even the Mind Palace, which
is a really gussied up version of just kind of a walk and talk or
just kind of relaying information. That is what it is. It's not that
much of a game that you're doing in there necessarily, So I definitely am
into it and I want to play more. I'm not like, I'm not
trying to be like, oh, I'm not feeling it. I'm feeling it.
I'm excited there to play more. Mike, Uh, do me a
flavor and at least get to chapter four of Alan Wakes's campaign. Yeah.
Really, so I'm at the same point, Mike, And we'll be playing
on the website tomorrow when you get a chance to choose between playing Saga's Alan
and everyone's saying at least play Allen until you get to the part and you'll
know it when you get there. That's what I like. I like I
see another dick, Hey, how many will you see? We can only
consider ourselves so blessed if we do mm hmm. Yeah. The problem,
not the problem with Allan Wake two is that, like, I don't want
to overseell it for some folks, and like I know some of the language
around it, folks saying it's a turnout of turn five out of five here
saying it was their new favorite game, ever after they already said that about
Tears of the Kingdom early. Yeah, I feel like I definitely said that
too, so i'll, you know, tackle that grenade there. Yeah,
that's right, win ship. I did say it was the Jesus of video
games. I'm right where Mike's at with with the Ellen Wait two. Still,
by the way, I like, I'm glad that I'm playing with you
guys, because your guys is all at like seeing things from the from parts
before that you've already played and going, oh, it's making me think like,
Okay, I'm glad I'm paying attention. I'm glad I'm doing I'm glad
I'm spending time with this because I bet a lot of these things are going
to pay off. They just haven't yet for me. Now again, I'm
into it. I think I'm just in the building up. I'm like putting
money in the bank, and at a certain point this game is going to
cash it all out, I think, and I'm excited for it. I
can't wait to see what that looks like. Yeah, so I am right
on the precipice of completing this game. I know for a fact that I'm
like one, maybe one and a half chapters away from completing it. But
I have this weird paralysis that I used to have with games a long long
time ago, where I just don't want it to end yet. And I
know that hey, a a type of new game plus is coming out in
the future. But I need to finish this game if I'm gonna should say
that this is my favorite game of the year. Yes, yes, we
are going to require that of you, I think. Yes. I also
don't want any grief from any special guests about me not completing games going to
destroy you. I changed my bod. I want you to say that your
favorite game of the year is that gave you didn't beat, because I want
to see what gona throw a chair at my head, I'd allow it,
but yeah, because of your gusto, Mic, I've decided I'm gonna go
check out Resident Evil for Remake Game of the Year nominee Resident Evil for Remakengratulations,
Mike, congratulations. Everybody was told me it wasn't gonna happen. I
believe that, which made that victory victory, Like I made the fucking game
victory on the cruise. It's right, it's happening. Count looks like they
do. Huh, looks like they uh yeah, Reside and I don't want
to Like that's the other thing I'm trying not to just compare only two to
like the Resident Evil games, like recently because I also play resideval to remake
for the first time last month and also very good. But yeah, well
honestly, even playing on the Way Too is incredible how much you could see
it taking from those games remakes, and like, of course, definitely do
that. Yep, that's a great idea. Like the weapons selection thing is
straight out of there, and I'm like, yeah, that's what it should
be. That's right. Uh. Speaking about Residue, Belo a remake grub.
You just threw this onto the dock. Now, yeah, I guess
I decided I want to talk about it. I got back into it.
I've mostly been playing on the Steam deck. Oh, led it is very
good on there. It looks really nice. The the HDR really does pop
and boy it it just looks nice. But yeah, it turns out that
game is one of the best games of the year. It is very good.
The shooting is just very fun. Uh, it goes. It has
such a good pace to it, like you're, yeah, you're doing You're
doing like stuff that might be stressful for because it's like so intense, but
you know, the game is going to probably change up and probably change up
pretty dramatically here in the next fifteen to thirty minutes. It's always going to
be introducing something new, and sometimes it's it's going to be very very different.
Like I did get to the minecart scene last night. Yeah, and
it's like, oh, this is it's so silly and fun and what it's
like this little delight in the middle of this game that is so different from
everything else, and yet it leans into what the game is best at,
the shooting and the interactions with the enemy characters, and like, you know,
sometimes they they're holding the little sticks of dynamite and you shoot them make
them explode. But just like popping off headshots, bang bang bang on these
moving carts is so satisfying. I don't know. I got to the part
where I really dealt with Ramon Salazar, and I remember people saying how they
thought this game removes some of the fun of the original game, because the
original Maroon is more like, he's more like silly and I'm more of a
goober and he is, and I miss his tricorn hat or whatever it is.
But it's fine, it's fine, it's complete, it's fine. There
are so many other character who are you get a big glow up in this
game because of that, like like Ashley and other people. So you know,
well, that's the great thing about these remakes again, and you know
they are different games than the originals, and those originals are still there,
but yeah, in this version you have these differences and sometimes maybe you're not
going to like the differences. That's what's great about them is that you do
have these two bespoke experiences now. But yeah, that was what I think.
That is like the number one thing I could say about the game.
Whyl it's so much. I don't know if I ever played a better paced
video game. Ye. That pacing is just incredible. I think I remember
thinking about that about the original Residual for and I think it's better here.
It is just really will I mean, I can't put it down at night.
That's the big thing for me, that that it's almost always a sign
of really good pacing, because I, you know, I do need something
different about every twelve to thirty minutes. It's like in that range, I
can feel myself getting a little bit nancy, and you know it's not just
oh, it's going to be different. The the individual levels themselves have a
good bill to them. You're moving, you're working towards something. You Usually
they put you in a space where you see the thing that you're going to
be interacting with, and now it's like, okay, now let's set up,
give you a bunch of things to interact with that, and we're gonna
put some challenges in your way, you know, along that path. But
overall it's about dealing with this big problem. And I really like that.
It's just a really confidently made and well directed video game. I think that's
why I like Allen Wig two so much because it does remind me so much
of like evolving off the back of Ari four. I think, I really
think that you highlighted that I don't really talk about with Ari four is like
there's something so satisfying about the sort of like controlled maze of every level where
you kind of like it's just this amazing kind of like oh and you're back
here, and we just stick the landing of like your path and it design
it's just incredible. Yeah, and it's just really lost. You can go
on tangents, but you're always it's the game always takes you back to either
where you need to be or somewhere interesting. Yeah. The real estate like
management of all that is like so smart and really fun, and I think
it's even and it is able to like convey a bit of its own sort
of like storytelling just through that right where you're like the place you thought you
couldn't even like touch, you graze upon, and then you're just like back
and that that stuff's really really awesome to see when it when it lands,
you know, yes, definitely, and I do. I playing these games
side by side Resnuele four and Alan Wait two again see the parallels, they're
going for slightly different things. Obviously Resilble four is more much more actiony,
but but yeah, overall you can you can debitaly see the threads, and
it is interesting that another studios are kind of getting on that tip of like,
hey, these are some of the most beloved games. We can kind
of just take what we want to do do it in that style and it's
a pretty good template and can be applied to something like Alan Wake and they're
one hundred percent correct about that. Yeah, I think, like you said,
our Force is like this action game right, like it just straight up
is uh. I think I think allen Wick is like surprisingly competent when it
comes to the action stuff where you sort of don't always expect it. And
uh, yeah, I do think they are much more like than they are.
Not definitely. I've been playing trying to throw some time into a game
that is radically different than anything we've discussed so far. I've been playing Slay
the Princess. Yeah, I've been curious about this one. What got you
just started up? Jan I saw some positive buzz circulating around Slay the Princess.
This is definitely not my style of game, and I say that,
but I did play something like Dopey Doky Lurture Club a couple of years ago.
This is what genre is. This is a story game, like a
narrative style of game, a novel. Yes, yes, yes, it's
a visual novel style game where you wound up Groundhog daying yourself in a quest
to slay the princess, perhaps maybe not slay the princess, perhaps befriending the
princess. I'm not personally the biggest fan of the art style. It's all
hand drawn. The characters look a little funky for my taste. But the
whole thing is voice acted, which is nice. So you can just set
the text advance to auto, just listen along as you're playing through. And
I say groundhog Dang because it is a loop after a while, once you
get through the initial opening sequence, and then you have to take into account
the different choices being made and the different variations as you go through. They
are framing this as like a horror visual novel, and I wouldn't say that
I've been scared at certain parts, maybe more so like unnerved. Be warned.
The game can get a little graphic at time, and not like graphic
and like a hello princess graphic and I like, oh, stop, princess,
stop, don't do that. Do you see en trails? Do you
see anybody's entrails? We see several trails. Oh Jesus, and that can
get unpleasant. I can tell that I like the game though, despite not
being a fan of the art style, because I'm sitting there at my computer
occasionally hitting F twelve because that's like, oh that was a good line.
Wow, that was a great line screenshot. Oh cool. I'm gonna remember
this forever. I'm going to pass this quote to someone not related to games
and they'll think I'm hella smart. Is the thing here, like you said
Groundhog's dating, It is the thing like, Oh, you play through it
and then you're like, well now I want to see it again in a
different way. Or is it a continuous play through and one play through has
an effect on the next. It is a continuous play through where you are
building upon the information that you were learning each time. There's a narrator,
the Princess character, but then there are also different several voices going on within
your head that kind of split off into to the different aspects of you as
a character. I don't want to spoil too much. It does seem like
it is a lengthier game than what most visual novels would be because there are
so many choices in different outcomes. I thought I was making good progress and
like the three to four hours I was in, but it turns out I
may be nowhere near the end of the game. It's if you're looking for
a palette cleanser, a spooky pallette cleanser amongst all the action games popping off
this year, I think I can rightfully recommend Slay the Princess. It may
not be for everyone, though, because the style of visual novel game it
is is very dark in the subject matter, and like I mentioned, it
does get very graphic where there's multiple times where I had to look away because
I was so squeamish around the blood. We hate it's it's black and white
with the pencil drawing, And I get what you mean about not loving the
art style necessarily. Does it like does the blood like have color? Does
it like have like pops of color anywhere? Is it all just like the
pencil black and white kind of gray scale stuff. The game is primarily black
and white pencil style. However, the blood is like a vibrant pop of
red. Oh wow, okay, yeah, every everything you know. The
subject matter of the game, like the storytelling, I think is done really
well and it handles a lot of, you know, existential crises of what
is worth it and being okay with your place in life, yet continuing to
push on and push forward. But I don't need to question my place in
the universe too many times this year. I'm ready doing that with several games
already. Sure, yes, do you think I would like it? Here's
the thing. I have a hard time recommending it because it is a lot
of reading, and it is a lot of paying attention to specific story beats,
like I think definitely, Like maybe if we were to stream this from
the beginning right and then we do decisions by committee, that could be fun.
Oh I would have an I'm doing that. Yeah, But there are
aspects it is a lot of like listening or reading, and if that is
not your cup of tea folks at home, then Slay the Princess may not
be for you. But if you're looking for another good visual novel style game,
I can recommend Slay the Princess. I guess thirteen Sentinels Ages Rim was
visual novel adjacent, but there were gameplay elements to that, like the turn
based stuff. But Slay the Princess is purely like, all right, let's
read and let's decide what we're gonna do. Cool. I got it on
Steam. I might. I still might try it, but I doubt.
I doubt it's gonna be my thing, But everyone's talking it up so much.
I might just check in on it. Yeah, I think you could.
Honestly, like, once you get into the loop of the loop,
you can just skip to the specific decisions you want to make. And hey,
if you read faster than you can then the game is performing the voiceover,
then by all means you can skip passed through a lot very quickly.
Okay, there is voiceover though, huh yes, voiceover for virtually everything except
some of the subtexts that is, like hard descriptions or like your own decisions
will not be voiced. But everything else is and it's done really, really
well as well. If this was I don't think this is out on I
don't think Slay the Princess is out on anything else other than Steam. But
I definitely would recommend playing this in a mobile format. Speaking about mobile formats
Mike Minatti, this isn't the game of the week, but this might be
peripheral of the week. Well, maybe I did get a PlayStation portal.
I don't have a whole time to say about it, because I you know,
I had just got back from my trips. I haven't really been able
to put this thing through its paces yet, but I have some first impressions.
I want, you know, I know it looks goofy, right,
Oh, it certainly, do ye think. I think it's really comfortable.
It looks comfortable. Yeah, it feels great, like it feels probably better
to hold than like a steam deck or a rock or maybe honestly even like
a base switch to me, just having those handles there. I mean,
I like the dual sense a lot, and this is basically just a dual
sense. I think the analog sticks are actually a little bit smaller than a
base dual sense, but still feels pretty good there. I haven't been able
to try too many games on it. I was messing around with Astro Playroom.
Yeah, it's cool to just see your game on the screen here and
it works. I'm kind of My big hope is that this is gonna help
me finish Ful Fantasy sixteen because I do so much on my gaming in bed
and very little of it in my living room. So hopefully I can take
this thing to bed and do a kind of an hour you that on here,
Princess play that portal. Yeah, see, I'm like a little worried,
like how what's gonna work? Because even my little test with Astro there
was like artifacting here and there. It's not much and clearly can play it,
but I always I always have that issue with streaming, where as soon
as things get slightly unoptimal, I'm like, well, why am I playing
it like this? I should just not play it like this? Why right?
It? Like this thing is so nice looking and expensive looking and hefty.
It is kind of a bummer. That's like, oh this it is
just streaming off my PlayStation, Like I wish there was something in here,
even if they just like put in like I don't know, fifty PlayStation one,
PlayStation two games, something that was just natively on so I knew if
I'm carrying this thing around, I have access to something without connecting to my
PlayStation that would help, or even the cloud streaming stuff like the normal cloud.
Does it feel fragile at all, Mike, like, how does the
build you feel? It feels sturdy? Like again, the thing itself,
I think feels great. The screen even looks nice, right, it's definitely
it is a black ass black mirror, man, Like, that is a
good thing. You guys are all right? Look at that? So yeah,
I so initialpressions are The device itself, I think is pretty nice.
I think it's sturdy. I think it's good build. Not exactly sure how
functional it is or how what's gonna work for my purposes yet I will report
back. How much is this thing? Again? It's two hundred, I
think so, Yes, two hundred dollars, okay if yeah, in my
head I thought it was three hundred. I'm like our character so far this
this is a stupid purtress. But then when I heard two hundred, just
now, yeah, three hundred would have been crazy nuts, it would have
been it would have been like sort of normal for like a consumer electronics come
be like Sony. But I think that they're pretty They're wise enough now at
this point to not go down that route. Two hundred dollars completely a fair
well close to fair for this er. Yes, yes, I could justify
it. Basically people are being chatter like, hey, why doesn't have Bluetooth?
Most consoles don't have Bluetooth. Only the switch has Bluetooth. Really,
I don't think the Xbox doesn't have Bluetooth steam Deck. The Steam steam Deck
does have Bluetooth, and it uses apt X, which is the low latency
Bluetooth for connection here. But yeah, it's just there's too much latency with
most Bluetooth Codex to actually support that. Doesn't it feel like a little feature
light though, Like I'm thinking about it now, just like why why?
Yeah? I mean, I listen. I think the question is going to
continue to be for this who is this? Four? But the fact the
matter is, I keep saying me. So I'm fine, I got an
answer. I'm good. I'm gonna get it. Uh, it's everyone else's
problem if they need if they don't have a reason to buy it, maybe
it's not problem at all. Just don't buy it, Mike, is there
an SD cart slo at all on it? Like? Can you load up
anything? What would you need that for? I don't know, Like maybe
you're watching the movie. Of course they're like, oh did we put in
the hack port? Well, I means I think that USB port. You're
still gonna be able to get in there, get up in that business.
Yeah, well, must be very disappointed thinking about That's right, he's fucking
it about house. I finally got my hands on the analog pocket. Me
too, Me too, Bud. Let me tell you, does that smell
like a Tony Award or anything like that? Smells like two Tony Awards?
Hello, weird. I don't know what to do with mine. It smells
like it sounds like someone recorded like a song dedicated to Mike Manatti near this.
Sorry, now I get it. Sorry. I bought the analog this
analog pocket off of a friend of the site, Alex Bunyellow. Thanks Alex
Grub. That is a good black mirror effect too. Damn he's out up
for a second. That thing is so good, Grub. I blame you
for me wanting to do this, because in the back of an Uber Brod
just hands me his analog pocket and out of all the games, I'm playing
stunt Man for the Game Boy Advance, it's such a good game actually,
And then like it's all their faults. The screen quality on this is absolutely
astounding. It's literally ten x the Game Boy Advance screen so that they could
just perfectly upscale it ten X. It's great. I got one too.
I got the Orange Limited Edition transmission. Yeah, yeah, this is mine,
not yours. Manani did you did you have you installed all the the
cores the f PGA course? Yeah, I think I did it right,
like Dan hooked it up. Thanks shout out to Dan Reikert. He's on
Twitch. And I feel like, I'm I'm happy with what I have here.
Uh. And again it was him and and Bonniello. We were having
lunch one time and bonnie and They're like playing it at lunch. I'm like,
what do you It's kind of rude, you guys are playing Pocket.
But anyway, I like grabbed one. I was like, oh wow,
I need one. And it took me like eight months to get it.
And I feel like I understand exactly what's going on here. I just this
is one of the things where I'm like, I'm more happy to have it
and I don't want to be playing it more. I want to be playing
it more. Like what do I do play video games? Play it more?
Is that? Yeah? Probably? Some used game stores and game some
game Boy game Boy Color games are often pretty cheap just go get some do
crimes rather do crimes? Put the cars in. Yeah, yeah, you're
looking for holes everywhere. Yeah, I got the game Gear adapter. Even
get stuff there. Oh there's a game Gear adapter Turbot Duo I think or
whatever it was. What was their portable thing called not Turbo Duo, but
talk about rocket Turbo Express. I can finally check out the pictures on this
game Boy cam. Awesome capsle that's my only game facts guide ever. I
wrote a game Boy Color fact was a child, and I gotta get I
gotta get a game Boy Color because I have the docs. So I could
use that as a webcam. That'd be fun. Oh my god. Yeah
I can use this as a camera. Oh yeah, somebody did that at
remember somebody at the game Boy camera at Uh oh yeah Pax Pats. That
was fun. Yeah. Uh wait, I think the game Boy camera was
made by game Freak. Yes, yes, yes, it was as a
wild uh huh yeah. Game Freak has done a lot of stuff outside of
just this is way too dark. This is not good. Okay, there
we go. Oh wow beautiful. Uh well that's it. Oh. Also,
you know I'd been remiss if I didn't shout this out now, but
shots out to Zombie Pie. Shots out to Turbo Sean for doing a fantastic
job and helping organize all the bullshit for Extra Life, Extra Life not being
bullshit. It's one of my favorite things we do throughout the year. But
we were able to raise in weekend one thirteen thousand dollars. Not a small
feed by any means. Thank you Grub for kicking off the day doing some
titan Fall two and I was like, oh man, maybe I should just
play titan Fall two the whole time. It's real good. And then I
played. I played six hours of video games and it flew by and it
goes to titan Fall two. How was that last hour? Did that fly
by? No? God, Okay, no, we get it. You
get it. You guys don't like Red Dead Redemption two through it. Literally
it's just not a good game. It's just not a Mike Mike. You
and I we get along. We get it. Okay, I should have
made it better. It's my my big thing. So it's so easy to
just yeah, it's easy to play. Also, Special shouts out to John
Luke, Jake Decker, Dave Amadi, tam To more Hussein, and Matthew
Rory for swinging by the SF office. We did Extra Life for a couple
hours altogether physically Rory and Rory and his company donated a whopping thousand dollars to
the cause for the children and everything. And I made the stupid decision,
just like Jeff Grubb did, of like, hey, let's mark a lofty
goal of doing this, and then we'll probably not get to that, and
then someone will immediately get to that, where I made the stupid decision of
like, well, you know, if we get to seven thousand dollars,
I'll go play through The Quiet Man and j Quiet Jan you deserved it.
And I made my bed and then I lied in it, and then I
witnessed the brilliance of the Quiet Man. And let me tell tell you,
I think Alan Wake Too is related to the Quiet Man. Oh yeah,
it's all part of the same universe. I think it's part of the remedy
the universe. I just hate it if you go too long without playing the
Quiet Man. Yeah, it like just gets antsy. And so we got
to force things to happen against we has to play it. Let me tell
you, I thought I had completed this game already where we could have just
done all of the audio, because I feel like we've seen the original campaign
on the Quiet version, the Quiet version, the version too much on this
website. But it turns out when I think I beat the game, I
may have done it on Brad Shoemaker's account. Oh where save there? Or
maybe Matt Rory's Steam account, because when I got home and I was like,
all right, let's go to my library and download the Quiet Man,
Uh, it was not there. I had to buy it again. Are
there any Quiet Man mods? There shouldn't be? Makes it really loud?
Yeah? I knew that was coming there. So shout shouts out to Turbo
Sean, Zombie Pie, everyone that helped out if you donated or even tuned
in for Extra Life Weekend Part one. Also, folks, I know it's
it's financially very hard times across the board for everyone. So if you find
yourself non a position to donate, don't feel bad at all. Just hanging
out, sharing the stream with friends, posting about the stream that can help
out because someone that may be in a position to donate can go ahead and
do that. Jeff Grubb, Mike Manatti. This weekend, Extra Life continues
because y'all are heading to Dan Reicherd's house. Yeah, I'll be on a
plane Friday evening. Mike will be on some Nickelodeon roller coaster bullshit in Minneapolis,
Mall of America and Carry the Coaster. Yeah careful, these are actual
thrill rides. Yeah, I probably will not be going doing that. No,
no, but yeah, we're gonna be at Dan Rye's house in his
basement where he's been troubleshooting for like two weeks straight and we're trying to get
everything working. But he's done a good job of getting everything set up.
We're gonna be there playing games on Saturday, starting at what was it like,
twelve New I think it's we're starting New Eastern New Eastern and going at
least until eight pm. I think maybe seven pm, and then we might
start. But but yes, definitely noon to seven. And it's not just
you three because we have another special guest. Nothing bad can happen. The
wind Bag is also joining y'all. In person. Wind Bag is a Yes,
he is going to be at Dan Records hot and I cannot wait to
see what real person the wind Bag is like. Oh my god, I
can't imagine it's exciting. It's going to be a pleasant time. Yeah,
the wind bag is not bringing green screen. Folks, do not do not
wish that on the wind bag. You guys see won't be there. Guy's
gonna be see his legs. No way I heard save him. I didn't
get to watch that to dance save him. Well, I mean we loaded
the deck. I think Dan did save him. Yeah, okay, good
good. I was worried about that, all right, folks. That does
it for the first segment of the show. A lot of stuff happening,
a lot of games, still a lot of games. I'm still playing like
a bunch of stuff too like, and there's still more games to play.
Still taking RECs, folks. If any indie titles you think may have got
swept underneath the rug during Game of the Year Game Awards season, send them
my way. I want to know. I want to know what else we
should check out, folks. That does it for the first segment. Let's
go take a quick breaking break and we'll be back with the news. The
games keep coming, just like the news keeps coming. Nothing is slowing down.
Ever, We're we're sliding downhill. We hit beat a crouch on a
slope and we're still sliding, Jeff grub news and it don't stop coming.
As I had to say that to finish what you said. Yeah, okay,
so the news it does feel like it's maybe slowing down a little bit,
but there's plenty to talk about. Still popped off like crazy. While
I was on vacation, I noticed exactly so yes that week you were out,
it was non stop, the huge headlines, and does seem like people
are maybe taking a break. I wonder if at a certain point a lot
of these companies might start wrapping things up for the year in terms of big
announcements. But Nintendo is gonna have one last thing here. In fact,
they already did this morning. Nintendo Indie World Showcase happened. Not a lot
to like, you know, not a lot of headline grabbing stuff there.
No soilk song, No no silk song really is the headline. No silk
song, A lot of the stuff that you've been waiting for in terms of
like, oh, indie games is gonna ask no UFO fifty things like that.
It was a standard Indie World showcase where they gave us updates and showed
off some new, interesting looking indie games. Shante Risky Revolution and the Outer
Wilds, which had been previously announced Switched re emerged here Theologist audition Archaeologist,
the Archaeologist audition, uh, and then trying to see if there's anything else
that stood out. I wasn't able to watch most of this because we started
the bomb cast, but when I looked over, I did think core Keeper
looked pretty cool by Kamara, looked good to the game right that the was
the star named eos first person storytelling puzzle adventure, had a cool style.
But yeah, overall, just Nintendo giving an update on its indies, and
indies do very well on the Switch, so I'm glad it's still popping off.
The Chante game is neat because this is the one that was supposed to
be the first sequel to the original Game Boy Color game Chante Advanced, and
they just couldn't find a publisher for it back then. They announced it early
in the year that they are just stilling to finally make that game. And
that's what this is so really cool to see that backpack here, it looks
neat. That's like Grower. Yeah, yeah, it's like a combination of
that moving game, but with the dungeon crawling RPG stuff that's neat, is
it? Does they have deck building? Or is this? It has backpack
organization? Yes? Stuff? Oh like that. You organize your backpack much
like you would in like a Resident Evil game. It's like a grid style
and then from there you choose your weapons and that informs your style of combat.
So like if you only got a backpack full of bats, you can
only swing away at folks, sure, and then you're screwed if you come
up with someone with a knife. Of course. All right. The Game
Award nominees were also announced. We' I'm not gonna go over all the categories.
I got some here. Game of the Year is. The six nominees
are Allen Wake two, Balder S K three, Marvel Spider Man two,
Super Mario Brothers, Wondering the Legend is all the Tiers of the Kingdom,
and there's one other. I can't remember what it is. Oh, that's
right reside before remake. There you go, we did it. Yeah,
go ahead. It's interesting because I think it was always going to be those
other five and basically the one question mark was what's that six to one going
to be? What's going to slot in there? I mean I know you're
getting a lot of this is the Bresley Evil four guy, Mike, I'd
rather Armored Course six be in there than Recivil four whatever that seems right?
Yeah, I think Forest, if your game didn't get in, I think
it's gonna be real easy for a lot of people like which one is my
enemy now? And they're gonna pick on Resne before your game should have been
better than what I'm gonna say. But you know, congrats, Mike,
I know you worked really hard on this game. Uh well, look,
it's not gonna win. It's this is probably between all only two, borts
Gate three and Tiers of the Kingdom. That's probably the competition. I mean,
you guys want to you guys want to say answers real quick out of
these six specifically yes, out of these six yes, Just you don't have
to explain it. Just what is your pick? Mike, I think Bortskate
three wins. I mean, like, is that your children? What's your
choice? Oh? Oh sorry, I thought were saying who we think is
gonna win? Oh resdue Forest my game there? Yeah, okay, uh
uh and then backlar h Allen Wake two, jan Alan Wake two, and
then I am the legends, all the tiers of the Kingdom. But these
things could still change. We'll see. Look, if I was sleeping since
October twenty sixth, they would have been Zelda. Also. I just needed
to know that. You know, I would have said that too, But
then I just I keep finding myself going back every other day to Spider Man
two. Yeah, Spider Man two is a very good It's a shame that
it's gonna get pretty glossed over here because it was habits with all these insomniac
games. Yeah, I mean, this is an insane list. These are
all incredible games. You're right, it is truly an insane list, that
kind of I mean, if you show me this at the beginning of the
year, I'd be like, fuck, all right, you know, I
guess I know some games are missing, but it's hard to even say they
got snubbed, Like of course I would like to see Armored Course six and
Pickment four on there. And some people are upset that, like foun Fantasy
sixteen or street Fighter six or Starfield didn't get on there. But it's just
been that kind of year. It's been No one's saying starving, it's not
people are saying star but you're allowed to say anything. If you can say
whatever you want, that's im. I'm gonna show my whole ass here.
But I am happy and sad that Hogwarts Legacy did not get nominated. Happy
in any category because JK. Rowling. Of course, sad for the actual
developers that worked really hard on that game. Yeah, I'm sure if they
felt a little salty about that, I wouldn't blame them too much. They
kind of got caught up in something. And now I haven't played the game
at all. Is do I think that game is possibly better than any of
these Games of the Year games. I would be pretty surprised by that.
No, But like I mean, I have no idea like it would have
played in Best Narrative. I don't know that like adaptation would that count?
No adaptations are TV shows? Oh okay, Yeah, I was confused about
that. I voted. I voted like things getting turned into video games,
and apparently it was the other way. Yeah. They explained it in that
text where if you read it, but I know I didn't I read anything.
Let's see Best Game direction, Alan Wick two, Balder's Gate three,
Marvel Spider Man two, Super Mario Brothers, Wonder and the Legends, all
the Tears to the Kingdom you can tell. So it's everything except for resid
Evil four. Right, well there's only five in this one. Well,
as soon as that happened, I was like, well, game, there's
gonna be those five plus one. Yep, I was like, what's it
going to be? I said at the time, not Resident Evil four.
So I don't know. Best narrative Alan make two, Balder's Kate three,
Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven, Phantom Liberty, Final Fantasy sixteen, and Marvel spider
Man two. Quick question, So best narrative that means best story basically,
yeah, the best storytelling. Story writing. Storytelling is how I would form.
It's just like the whole thing, and that's that's probably going to be
on the way two bouldersk three, Maybe Cyberpunk as a dark horse there probably
I get it. But Tears of the Kingdom fucking slammed with its storytelling.
I'd get it. There's not a lot of narrative, but boy it's so
emotional. But hey, it wasn't gonna make this list. No, not
really, I don't know of those for best story. You guys going down
like two, Becca Lar and yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, you
know, I feel like a lot of people are going to sleep on the
story of Final Fantasy sixteen. Oh. I thought you were gonna say Spider
Man. Oh, I did fall asleep during the storytelling Final Fantasy sixteen,
just to be clear, but no, I think the storytelling in Spider Man
two is actually pretty good. I think I think it's I think it's surprisingly
good. Yea, that's solid. I just I just doesn't do I don't
know. It was very predictable at a certain point. I guess maybe I
don't really hold that against it so much. But yeah, balders Kate three,
I'm getting into that enough that I'm like, ah, the storytelling there
is really good. I could see Boulderskate three winning that. I think it's
gonna go to balders Kate three. Yeah, I think there's a strong chance
for that. And then art direction, let's let's do it for this one
allan Wait two, High Fi Rush, Liza p Super Mario Brothers, Wonder
and the Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. I flip flop between Wonder
and Tears of the Kingdom. Actual ahead, I was gonna. I think
Wonder, Uh, I mean for me personally, probably takes. I think
I actually am voting for Wonder. I think if I just choose one,
come on, this is where we can give High five Rush Award and it'll
win for best very specifically music, beat, fighting, game audio design.
Like yeah, yeah, for sure. But just the way that that game
transitioned between like the actual animated segments was incredible. I just love the way,
and I know, like definitely deserves to be nominated. Without it nominated,
I'd be happy for one. I think it's surprising that lies off P
got nominated, and I know that bomb Rush Cyberfunk is just aping the jet
grind radio aesthetic, but surprise blood Borns. So yeah, so I'm I'm
surprised at lies of P made it. But something like bombers Cyberfunk Funk,
I don't think very many people played bomb Rush cyberfunfortunately probably Yes, it's a
certain point. It's the popularity contest, it really is. I bet if
you did like a cross section, like an algorithm of like multiplying a game's
sales with its Metacritics score, you would be able to answer the question to
all these categories pretty safely. Let's oh, then best performance Ben Star,
Cameron Montahan, Idris Elba, Melanie Libbard who is an Allen Way two,
Neil Newban who's in balder Skate three, and Uri Larryhal Yes story and yes,
and then Uri Loenthal who is Spider Man. Yeah, I mean Ben
Starr Star for Yeah Internet gem Ben Starr sweet little boy. Yeah, guys,
a little bit obsessed with the cheesecake Factory. He won't let us go
in, he won't stop talking about. It's embarrassing at a certain point,
but whatever, He's cool otherwise other than that. Yeah, whether or not
you like Final Fantasy sixteen or you detest the story, Ben Star is giving
it his all throughout the whole absolutely, uh all right. Dragons Dogma two
has been raided, suggesting their release isn't far off. Dragons Dogma two has
been raided in Saudi Arabia. Capcom has not announced the release date, but
the game is fairly far along. Capcom did recently say that an undisclosed title
will be released by March twenty twenty four. Most people assumed this was Monster
Hunter, which is due. Uh, but this game's rated, and usually
when these things these ratings happen. We get the games within about six to
ten weeks in that range. Uh, that's shocking. Yeah, but this
game's been disclosed. Yeah they announced this a while. Yeah, yeah,
disclosed in what way? Like, yeah, of course it was announced,
but coming I mean you think it? Does that make it make sense that's
coming out in like the before March Yeah, man sings fests. I mean,
I wouldn't be shocked if we had a real coming out party trailer thing
for this game at the Game Awards or something like that. Right with the
release state. I can totally see that happening. Accept the award for Game
of the Year, they're going to bring up their friends and then Dragon's Dogma
two come up here, buddy, you do this too. I can't wait
for that. I can't wait for that Game of the Year, like like
Orchestra overture they're going to do by the way with songs. Oh yeah,
they're going to play bullet in the Blade from Flute Man needs to return.
That was the first person they booked. After this, be there immediately.
He's gonna present for Game of the Year. We need to get the Flute
Man on the couch. Okay, we'll get him. Let me see,
we'll see. I think it's if this game is coming out before March.
I think, Mike, you're exactly right. Game of the Game of the
Game of Year Awards and then a date and a big reveal and they say,
hey, show up in like a week and we'll have a big like
showcase of all the stuff. They've already done one of those, But I
don't think they had a date at that point clearly. So yeah, we
should hear about this very soon. If this is the case. Lariyan is
teasing that Bouldersgate three, Xbox and physical release news will drop this week.
Larryan's Studio Studios is tease plans to announce an Xbox Series X and S release
date for Bolder Skate three and a physical edition of the game. The game
got nominated for eight prizes at the Game Awards. As part of like a
message about that and saying thanks to fans, they also said Xbox fans and
fans of physical media should watch this space for a formal announcement. It's going
to be a busy week. And that was just yesterday, I believe when
they when they sent that out to fans. So Hey. Yeah, they
keep saying that that Xbox version is going to launch before the end of this
year. They haven't said exactly when. They did have this interesting tidbit about
how they've been optimizing for the Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S and in
doing that they discovered some serious optimizations that will make the game run better everywhere,
So a lot of benefits coming from that. But yeah, so it
seems like that game is going to make it up for the end of the
year on Xbox, So good luck to those fans. It's so wild that
Yablo four I have completely forgot about and has not occupied any space in my
brain. Yeah, like ninety two on Metacritic, and just not even in
the conversation, not even like people aren't even talking about the getting snubbed.
Yeah, like, I feel more people are talking about Armor Core six not
getting nominated for a lot of these categories we just talked about. But like,
yep, man, that's a better game. Yeah, yeah, I
like. But it was pretty easy to kind of move on forget about the
other four when I was done with it. Okay, yeah, all right,
I gotta I gotta include Balder's Gate three in the Sprint to the end
of the year. Yeah, we could do that. We could do that.
Look that thing we do where we play the game next to each other
and just like force each other to keep playing because I'm starting to make some
progress, but I also keep playing resume before and so that's on the problem.
You got your priorities. That's fine, yes, of course, of
course, of course, real game of the Year. Sure h. Bandy
Namco Is revealed it's Nintendo partner studio Banda Namco Is officially announced Studio two and
Studio s. It's internal studio and I guess the studio too, and Studio
Test. That's an ampersand I think they're one thing. It's an internal studio
that works with Nintendo on commission projects. The team has worked on a number
of Nintendo titles, including Super Smash Brothers, Mario Kart, and Arms.
But previously it was like this not Cloak and Dagger, but this shrouded thing
that they like, oh we don't have like a Nintendo studio. Now it's
like just straight up, this is our name, studio that works with Nintendo
on things. The team consists of one hundred and fifty two employees, thirty
two percent of which are new graduates. The team is currently working on a
three D action game project commissioned by Nintendo. Band On Namco has a history
of working with Nintendo, going back to Donkey Konga and Star Fox Assault,
the Mario Kart arcade games. Did they do the f Zero arcade game?
Someone Sega? That was Sega? Thank you? New Pokemon Snap and Pockin
Tournament. I'm gonna say Pockin. I have no idea if that's right.
So, yeah, this is like them solidifying this going forward. Nintendo has
talked about wanting to release games more frequently and uh kind of making these partnerships
more robust over the long term. It is one of the ways they're going
to get there. They're going to open more studios internally, probably, but
having banda namcob be like, no, we are one going to just have
the studio dedicated to what you need means probably more Nintendo games going forward.
And band Namco has done a pretty good job when they work in Nintendo in
the past, So I'm pretty excited about this. Yeah. I really liked
Pokin Poken. Poken was a poken like techin right, Yeah, Pokemon Yeah
whatever, Yeah, you can use a chandelier ghost chandelier Pokemon a fight.
Doesn't that sound cool? We all that sounds very cool. Thank you.
I should man him and get good at this game. Uh. Mass Effect
five got an in seven day tas on November seventh, but don't expect the
game anytime soon. The next Massfect game may not see released until twenty twenty
nine or later. That comes from Jeff Grubb on game as Mornings where we
talk about this news. Did you say twenty twenty nine? I believe you,
Jeff, But twenty twenty now, why could they announce this then it
could come in like it's like by twenty twenty eight, Like let's be fair.
Oh thank you for being so charitable with jumping up in the timeframe.
What the they were talking about years from sci fi movies? Jeff Grubb?
I know, yeah, Hey, so they probably shouldn't do this teaser.
I don't get it. This teaser was they did this just to have something
for the fans, but they know internally this game is still far off.
They are finishing up Dragon Age Dreadwolf, which will probably release next year.
Almost certainly will release next year, but it could slip. It could but
probably is coming out in twenty twenty four. It's a game that they originally
tried to get out this year, and that game when not necessarily when it
was announced, but like from it's like similar kind of teaser it got I
think at the Game Awards in twenty eighteen to now I'm being told that that
from this teaser on the end the end seven day teaser to when this game
comes out, it's going to be a similar timeline. People point out,
Oh, but but Dragon Age was rebooting all these other things, and it's
like that, Yeah, I mean that didn't derail things in some unexpected way,
that it was all kind of built into the normal development stuff that those
kinds of reboots happened all the time at that point in the development. And
I think that they expect a similar timeline for Mass Effect. So twenty twenty
nine is I just would not get at your hopes up for coming any time
before that. If people want to, like say twenty twenty seven, knock
your socks off, but there's no reason to expect it by then. I'm
going to be in space by the time this game comes back. Yeah right,
No, you want to hear some fuck Mike Kit'll be in high school
by the time this pot's fucked up? Stop isn't that fucked upop? I
hate that Aaron Rodgers might play football again before this team comes out. At
least this gives us all time to play mass Effect in dramatasins. This is
a direct sequel, right right, So they did the two key pieces of
information outside of the trailer, which was just a cool looking lady in a
cool outfit walking down the hallway and that's it. There was text associated with
these little clips that they were putting together. One of them said epsilon,
which is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, so obviously mass effect five
andrama to be in four. There was also Andromeda distress signal was another line
which confirms that they are going to bring in the mass Effect and drama story
together with the Massive Act trilogy story into one, which is fine, probably
the right thing to do. I think it makes sense because you can,
like you could save things by making the next thing better, right, you
can ye rectify what is it called not retcon? Thank you? You can
retcon and make people feel better about Andromeda. If this is a respectful of
the original trilogy antics that stuff and does something interesting with it, but we'll
see. It's a long time between now and then, and Dreadwolf will have
to probably do pretty decently to keep things on and even kill for them.
Yeah. Oh, and I mean that's not guaranteed buyowers last two games were
Anthem and Mass Effect and Traumeda. Right, Like yes, the last two
were Missus, So who knows now to like quell? I know, like,
man, those BioWare fans are real and they get heated about this stuff.
I'll just reiterate what I keep hearing. Dragon Age Dreadwolf is in a
good place. They feel pretty good about that game. So if I'm not
saying it's gonna be Game of the year material necessarily, I don't know.
But internally they are feeling pretty good about it, even though like Dragon Age
Inquisition right did win Game of the Year, that kind of defaulted the game
of the year right because he has a soft year. But but yeah,
sounds like they're pretty happy with it, even though they keep delaying it.
Internally, they haven't announced like a release date, so it's not a real
delay. It's just kind of the target keeps moving a little bit. But
that's a normal part of the development cycle and they're feeling pretty good about it,
so hey, I think it's worth getting your hopes up a little bit.
I know that we go ahead, and Mike, I was gonna say
two thoughts. One, I kind of want to play and Drama. I
never touched a second of that game. He's doing an and Drama playthrough kind
of tickles my fancy for some reason. Let me put this out there.
Let me interrupt you real quick. I know that we have a playthrough of
mass Effect one through three, piloted by one Alex Navarro accompanied by Vinnie Caravella.
The naming here is two perfect gents, mass Effect, Jan Drameda.
I know I have also never played Andramaa. Mike, Mike, do you
know the drama about naming that feature? You're you aware of this feature where
Alex played Mass Effect. There's drama, no, no, so what what
What was the name of it? It was mass Alex mass Alex. So
how would you feel if instead they called it Alexi Quest? All right,
I remember that that's a terrible name. Okay, everyone prefers Alexi Quest.
Yeah, it's about Alexi Quest, yes, because yeah, but it's but
but they went in Mass Alex because they wouldn't have the name of the game
somewhat in there. Yeah, I think that's probably bestre pro Mike fantastic.
No, No, I still think they chose wrong background with you Alexas.
When I saw it written out, it looked better than just hearing alex Ques.
But that's not the name. But I love Galaxy Quest, but that's
not what an Alexy Quest could really be about. Anything like oh right,
oh my gosh, Like this guy's a drummer in this game. It's hey,
it's empirically the better choice Jan Dromeda and Dramenati Jan Dramenadi m until it
doesn't mean anything. My god, this is like a special side season of
Holiday season of Blake Club. Mike and I have to be in spacesuits the
whole time. It Why do I put the universe? My second thought was
too many games have days, too many gay friends have days, and it's
ridiculous if you feel pressure to like tease video games that are coming out almost
like the twenty thirties, it's a problem. But what would be the funniest
gay rich I used to have a day? We need to make a day
for like the Quiet Man or something I don't deserve really into it. I
don't no one observes Mass Effect Day. You can emails to Jeff Jeff back
so wrong. No serious person I think celebrated Mass Effect Day. All right,
Mike, there is no funnier day possible than Last of Us Day?
I'm sorry? Is that why people are playing through Last of Us all of
a sudden? Is it really a day? It was was a few weeks
ago, I think, right, I mean yeah, they I think they
had to say we have no announcements because they can't, you know, their
multiplayer games in limbo. But yeah, there's a day that Limbo Day is
very depressing. Yeah Wednesday, right, it's every Wednesday. Uh, Limbo
Day deserves a day more than the Last of Us. Who can celebrate the
events of the Last of Us were like, oh, let's holiday if this
they took, it's literally just the day. And like the story where like
the zombie up break at right where the world ends? What are you doing?
Do you all get like really dirty and sweaty and like kill each other?
Like what do you like? We're the real monsters. You just give
you just give a playful bite to your friends like yeah, uh, lego
two k goal artwork has reported that was that was like bars for a second
Lego two K Goal. Uh that so sound cool? You can that's my
that's my producer tag. You're gonna hear that in the beginning all my songs.
Now. Uh. This is Lego two K's Goal soccer game that's been
rumored for a while. Artwork leaked via the number one place for weeks,
the PlayStation store. The game is being developed by Sumo Digital. It is
a soccer slash football game, your Pa Football. It's coming to PS five
Xbox Series X and SPS four, Xbox one, Switch and PC. It
did get rated way back in June from South Korea. I think they keep
like they haven't even like officially announced it, so it's weird, how like,
okay, is this thing coming out? It feels like it could just
get announced it and drop really quickly. But this is part of two k's
efforts to take their really strong sports development a side of things and expand it
into more into games that are more family friendly. They did that with Lego
two K Drive and now they're trying to apply it to soccer. I think
I'm more excited about this one than I was about two K Drive two K
Drive. I like the idea and then I played. It's like I'm just
gonna be with Mario Kart. But hey, a friendly, like family friendly
soccer game like those always work. Now are you gonna be able to compete
with Rocket League? I think you got to be different than Rocket League.
Just kind of try to be more like actual soccer with little lego characters,
and that could work. Rocket League made soccer better, that's right? Oh
yeah, well okay, yeah, is going to be in Rocket League?
Actually? What took so long? Jesus queens? He looks great in there
too, like he's got these fully animated with the face and everything. It's
it's like, man, I want to play Rocket League again, just for
I don't even like cars? What the hell? Why do I like?
It's the highway? When's that happening? When are they already happened? Have
already happened? We got to get on that. Man did still rocks Rocke
League all the time, Like it's amazing how like he bounces off literally everything
else in his entire life, but he's always just like, man, I
gotta dip back right into you. It is what So okay, I'm intrigued
by this, but I guess it does just upset me where it's like they
even took the name goal where that erases all in any room for the possibility
anything. I know, I'm going to do this to yourself, man,
I know, it's like, what is the good analogy where like the guy
who just like keeps thinking his dog is gonna come home one day. Yeah,
and that's really what it is. It's just not hockey. He's gone
to the farm up state, buddy, It's that's where it lives now.
Literally, Yeah, I'm not upset. Look, we all know European football
soccer is the distant cousin of hockey, and they are cosmically connected in all
the best ways. So this will be fine. This will be fine,
and I'm excited about it. But like, come on, the idea of
like lego hockey, little lego hockey players doesn't excite anybody, Like, come
on, come on, listen, I want ice hockey arcade games to come
back. I don't know if I need to be lego, but listen,
if they did a lego hockey game, I'm sure it'd be fun, just
like that old Konami one with the little guy the regular guy in the Fat
Guy that was that's the best. Yeah. I mean I've been playing a
lot of like the NBA Jam equivalent of hockey that came out from midway back
in the day and hockey. Yeah, game's fucking awesome. Is that the
one you're playing? Yeah, okay, that's got like blitzy, right,
it's kind of in a polizzy and there's like, you know, you can
like light the net on fire in the way you do NBA Jam with your
boom shack lacas. How are you playing that? What are you playing that
on? Uh? I bought a cabinet, I know, am I And
you know I'm doing it the the good old fashioned way. Okay, Well,
I'm just saying like, that's kind of thing we can get going on
the first second, we can have a little tournament. No, I mean,
yeah, I'm running it on a PC. I'll get it set up.
You don't worry. You probably need to do the nuts and bolts there,
but I would love to do some sort of tournament thing. That'd be
sick. Yeah. That's a great game. Great game. Finally, and
I know you guys have been chopping in the bit to talk about this one.
Rock Steady is launching a Suicide Squad kill the Justice League video series.
This week, rock Steady will launch a video series for this game. The
first episode of Suicide Squad Insider will unpack the story and gameplay of the game.
Uh. This is a game that was supposed to come out this year
got delayed after its reveal. They said they were going to change some things.
They weren't going to change the fundamental live services stuff about it. Uh,
but they're gonna make some changes and improvements. Where you guys at with
Suicide Squad because I'm just at a point where I there's no way I'm gonna
care about it until I play it myself. That's where I'm at. It's
incredible. I guess yeah, I guess it's time to start marketing this again.
It kind of just felt like it almost felt like we were rid of
it for some reason. This screens though, that like we have all this
marketing budget in this quarter, we just just just put it out, just
put it out. Yep, we got we had a little bit of a
relapse here with Suicide Squad and then come back. One thing we're gonna see
in this gameplay. Look, I bet one thing that they like change or
were able to fix where those kind of stupid, very blatant like Purple Weekend,
they doubled down. The whole thing is purple. Now, yeah,
it's not kind of like that. I wonder if they eased all off the
kind of stupid like looter shooters stuff to it, like what the plus five
to batmanituned enemies, right, I they probably changed the language around that stuff
to like, let's let's actually make it meaningful, guys, Hades is right
there. And if like Hades has been out for long enough time now,
if you're putting out a game that has like any sort of of progression system
based on like your tax and you'd kind of you don't do it like Hades
at a certain point, that's just a neglect. You are doing things wrong.
They did it right, copy what they did in Triple A Games.
We haven't seen that yet, so yeah, we'll see. Uh, this
game's coming out. The original release date was something like, uh, yeah
May about twenty twenty. No I got announced in twenty twenty, and then
it was Spring twenty twenty or twenty twenty three, then May, and now
it's finally got to release date of February second twenty twenty four, very likely
to actually make that one. We'll see. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting,
right, because I wonder where it's gonna go, because is it to
be like, oh, it turns out it's just bad. Is it gonna
be like it's fine, or is it going to get that you know,
golden like wow, actually it's good, like Guardian got. I bet it's
fun to play. I bet it's actually fun to play. I hazard to
think that, though, because would they have made this much of or tried
to make this much of a correction at this point of like if it is
fun to play, well, so that's that's the reporting. Is this correction?
Isn't that drastic? Apparently it's it is because it was a six month
delay, and so they were never going to go in and change what really
how it plays, or even the stuff like people really complaining about, which
was, well, I don't want a live service Superhero game. Just give
me another Batman game from the company that made awesome Batman games. And they're
not really going in that direction at all. It's still gonna be the game
it was. They're just trying to make it better. So and I've always
heard that the people who played this game think it's fun. What if it's
a reverse suicide squad, because when that move originally came out, it trailered
very very well. But the actual movie poopy, the original trailer for this
and presentation poopy. This game could be good. I hope she'll be game
good. It'll be interesting to see how they present it again, because they
definitely had to, you know, so much of what happened with the delay
was a result of that one big reveal they had on like the PlayStation Partners
Showcase whatever that was. It was a disaster, right, so the approach
has got to be different. And I just the whole concept of this game
though, of these four villains having to kill the Justice League and Flash is
going to be weird, and Superman's gonna be evil? Isn't that novel?
And say, no, it isn't anymore. You guys have done this a
million times. I'm over it, and I think that superhero fatigue could hurt
this a little bit. But can I can I get on my comic high
Horse real quick? Yeah? Yo yo yo? I hate so Marvel right
they have too many universes, right, yes, but in the comics there's
always been our the mainline Earth and the Ultimates franchise, and Ultimates is I
believe where Miles Moreus first got introduced. They're they're rebooting and doing a whole
new Ultimates universe, and it's so exciting. It's like, ok what was
the original Ultimates? Like when did that get started? With that? Like
a very nineties Ultimate X Men was the first one and it was late nineties,
I believe, Okay, And then I'd Spider Man. Ultimate Spider Man
is the one I remember, and that like felt very late nineties Internet.
It might have been like two thousand, early two thousands, early two thousands,
Okay. So the thing that's exciting me right is they're kind of fludging
with the origins of heroes for once, where Evil Red Richards, who goes
by the Creator, gets kicked out of our Earth, he's like, fuck
y'all, then I'll just go make a new one over here. And then
he is slowly interfering with the origin stories of how some of the superheroes get
their powers. So, for instance, he kills he he killed, he
doesn't kill. He captures the Spider that originally bites Peter Parker when he's a
little teenager of the lab and then saves it for later. Cool. It's
neat stuff yeat stuff the maker, sorry the maker? Yeah, why is
read Richard's evil? He's too smart? Yeah, person anti intellectualism again,
it's a plague. Hey, that does it for the news? Jan the
show is once again yours here it is. It's in my hands. It's
cute. I want to burp it, but I'm gonna put in the fridge
because it's a little too hot. Yeah. That's what I do with all
my babies too. Hey, I'm not a father, but I'll still raise
it. Did you play one on a podcast? Marvel Universe? Earth?
Is six sixty six? A thing? Six sixty six. That's probably six
definitely a thing that's that's us. Yeah, six six six just gotta be
like an evil one. Yeah right, yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Yeah, there's six years is cool? Right back. I'm such a mark
for Satan. Yeah. Do you like that number of the bet song by
Her Maiden? I do? Yeah? Hell yeah, man's celebrate all the
Devils. I worry. Uh. I wore a shirt for that album one
time in the mall, and a lady harassed me for Satanic. Hell yeah,
uncomfortable. Good good, very good. Well we're gonna go hard that
you were a Disney altar boy basically just like I just tried to outpace her
because just kept following me until I left them all because I just made me
and my brother really uncomfortable. Again, she was she was chasing you,
just kind of following us. She just kept going, that's disgusting. And
I was like, why is this lady like jeering me wherever? I I
was like a teenager. I was really confused. You should have realized she
didn't like the iron made a number of the B shirt. Yeah, you
should have like done some like like a vampire like scare at her. Cool.
Yeah, I should have been like, just stop stop, you're making
Satan angry. He's channeling me. Yeah. Well we're gonna go take a
quick break and channel our own dark lords, and we'll be back with the
Darkest Lord emails. And we're back with emails. Bombcasts a giant bomb dot
com is the email address to send your emails to. I love and appreciate
all of the emails that you send. I read all of them. I
read all of them. Sometimes they'll copy and paste the nice ones if they're
addressed specifically to a person, and then I print them all out and then
I cut them up, and then I make a little confetti and then I
roll around in your emails. So there you go, folks. First email
comes from Ken. It's about auto saves. What are bomb throwers? Hello?
So I have heard that people are having a bit of trouble with how
often Alan wake two saves, and that made me consider the state of auto
saves in general. I bet there is some game, maybe a handful of
games even that have done this. But is it too much to ask when
a game is auto saving a sound place to signify the save is taking place.
As someone whose first game was Pole Position, I've witnessed a lot of
changes in how a game is saved. I think that the auto save era
has been the hardest for me because the auto save icons are easy to ignore,
and I tend to manually save if given the option. So, anyway,
do you think auto saves need a sound a sound event associated with them?
Maybe a ding or the sound of pen on paper, maybe even a
little jingle. Ken from somewhere in Queens, New York. I definitely also
don't notice the auto safe thing unless I'm like really looking for it, Like
I know I want to quit some looking for that icon. I think an
option for a sound would be good. I wouldn't want that by default,
though that could be a little yeah acting, I think I don't want to
hear that. I mean, you should just let me save whenever I want,
uh, Like only so I wish there was a manual save. I
get what they're doing. I wish I was like kind of what the resivol
games do where the whole you can't manually save when you want to think it's
kind of a hard mode thing, right, but on normal mode you can,
you know, you get save wherever you want. Who cares? Yeah,
I don't trust the automo save even when I do see the thing.
It's like, well, I mean, where are you gonna put me?
Like where where am I at? Am I gonna be like right where I'm
standing so I can orientate myself as soon as we get started, or are
you gonna put me back at some you know checkpoint that I'm not really sure
about? And so yeah, I usually wish I had a manual save.
And if I do, I do that and save on exit I do that.
But as at a certain point. As long as a game says how
long it's been since the last time it's saved, I'm good At this point
with games. I am at peace. As long as it says you saved
two seconds ago, I'm like, okay, shutting you off. We're good,
and then I go about my day. It's almost like we should have
some sort of like unifying like agreement, you know, in the same way
that all cars require backup cameras. Now, well maybe just maybe we all
agree that. Like I don't want to get too greedy, hear, but
like a total playtimer, like if you could just do that for me,
would just be like a real quality of life sort of thing. Yeah,
uh and yeah, like the you know, just to know how long you've
it's been since you played. I think that is like or the time of
save, right, Like give me that and that's it and then anything else
you can do your own thing, but let me just standardize that. Yeah,
are you guys feeling about I don't know, I don't I don't know
how often you play your xboxes? Jan, I know you're not using an
Xbox, but the what's it called quick resume? Thank you? Yeah?
How are you guys? Feeling about that these days. Whenever I whenever I
do start up an Xbox A game, even if it's like from oh,
I haven't played this in weeks and it picks right back up from where I
left off using quickers, I'm still really impressed by it, and I just
it does just break just often enough that's like, oh, I'm still not
expecting it to work. It's not totally flawless, right, So it's because
of that, uh, and the reasons why it loses are unclear, right,
So I get it with online games for sure, Right, that makes
sense. But I agree, like I've definitely gone back to it thinking like,
oh, FC twenty four is just going to be like right where we
left it, and then no, it's not. It needs to reboot or
something. So I it's it's a little too wishy wash it to be like
a feature that I think is you can't really exactly. I think I've been
spoiled by the switch, like just putting that bad boy to sleep. The
only time it's boned me is the end of Tears of the Kingdom. But
that's but that's because of the boning, boning, holler at me. But
that's because I was using my partner switch and I just needed to reaff de
keates to the internet. But when I was rocking my own switch, it
was completely fine. I don't think i'd like a dang for auto saves.
I don't think i'd like a little sound motif at all. Well, somebody
said, like for alt, like if it was like a little typewriter noise,
maybe that'd be fine. Like if this is something really in universe,
maybe I'd allow it. But I don't know. It could still be distracting.
Yeah, uh, all right. Next email here comes from Terrell.
They write in Hi everyone, but the news of Sony delaying games and focusing
on live service games, I have a question. Can PlayStation actually afford the
big single player games that it is known for, not only in financial terms,
but also in regards to a long term business strategy. They seem to
be a similar situation that Activision was with Call of Duty, where a single
player off your game could cause a lot of issues. This PlayStation now find
itself in a similar situation where the big single player games are no longer sustainable.
Torell some from my iPhone dah kind of they can mostly afford it because
most of their big games succeed. They're very good at making those, and
they have the expectations built in that they know that they're going to sell to
a certain audience, and that audience seems to be growing, especially with the
Spider Man games. It's not like always growing. I think they haven't updated,
like the sales on the Last of US Part two compared to the Last
of US Part one, Like they had a number early on of like eight
million sold in a week or something like that, and then we didn't hear
much. I think the estimates are like, hey, it's around ten to
twelve million. It's no Luigi's Mantern three, as we always say, but
that's my barometer, right exactly. These games are very, very expensive,
and the thing I always hear is, yeah, they're not as profitable as
you would think because they are so expensive, and it's not just how much
they cost to make. They also spend a lot of marketing. But Sony's
also not super worried about it. It is an accepted strategy of this is
our calling card, this is what makes a standout, and so we're going
to keep doing it. But all of the concerns that this emailer lays out
of oh, how if one game goes bad, That stuff does exist,
which is why Sony is looking at live service games. It was going to
be the alternative strategy. It still is right now according to them, going
to be their alternative strategy. I don't know how much we believe that,
how much gamers believe that, how much investors believe that, but that is
currently what they're saying, and they need that because, yes, if the
Last of US Part three comes out and for some reason as a bust,
that would be really hurtful to Sony's bottom line. It wouldn't completely knock them
down the way it would have with some of these other publishers. And the
big reasons for that is, like, Sony's got a lot of momentum with
its console sales, and really, PlayStation network is such a strong backbone at
this point where it's the subscribers for that millions of those subscribers like forty million
or something like that, and people spend a lot of money on micro transactions
still in third party games on the PlayStation and that is a steady, steady
revenue. So Sony's going to be like this, It's got the sturdy backbone.
Its issues are just with it can't identify where to grow, whereas like
all these other publishers are like, we don't know where to grow. And
also, if one of these games go bad, we're going to be fucking
boned, and Sony's just not in that position, that's all. Do you
think that Sony may learn the wrong lessons from the success of Spider Man two?
And yes, they're fine doing these big blockbuster single parad games, but
do you think they start to go IP heavy. So that is a lesson
that's been learned by everyone across the industry over the last couple of years,
and so Sony's definitely going to be doing more of that. But I think
that's why again they go back to the live service like that, will do
our original IP over in live service. We'll take our existing ip that are
doing very strong, and we'll keep making more of those, and then we'll
have if we want to make a new big blockbuster game, we probably will
work in a Superhero Game space, a Marvel space or something along those lines,
because that makes more sense these days than trying to get a new IP
off the ground and be the biggest thing in the world. That's really difficult.
On top of making a game, which is also really difficult. So
yes, Sony's learning that lesson, and it might I think in the long
run it probably I think you're probably right, Jan, it probably will be
the wrong lesson because it's like you still got to try to make new IP
because that's investing in your future in a way that renting IP just isn't.
But they're definitely going along with the trend right now, and EA renting IP
all over the place. You know, even it'll be soft Yes, you'd
be softy Avatar, Yes, and then even like two K with like the
these Lego games, but hey, we want to expand into making more games
or families. What are we gonna do, Well, we're gonna work with
Lego and all these different things. So it's just that that is the trend
in the industry overall right now. Like I can see a world where PlayStation
is making a Dune game. Yeah, I mean if and I think if
as those ips continue to grow, if they if they do better and better
from move movie to movie, there will be a line of these big companies
waiting to work with them. Yes. Absolutely, It's like this factory line
of do you have something successful as a comic book or a novel or something
like that well might get turned into a movie or a TV show, and
that like Netflix and Amazon, they are still fighting over those properties. As
much as like they've been in precarious positions over the last couple of years,
they still really want to be the companies that grab those and then those can
be the next things to get turned into video games, and then the video
games can get turned back into TV shows and it's all just kind of feeding
into one another. And that's what they want to do because a lot of
these executives see it working somewhere else and they that makes them think it is
a much it's less risky than if they were to start their own thing.
Another question for the room here, it feels like, why doesn't a big
publisher, and when I say big publisher, I mean Sony or Microsoft or
Nintendo in this case, why don't they take in IP like let's say Despicable
Me or Shrek and make a good license game. What if there was like
a first party Shrek gave. I'm I'm just speaking myself of just desires out
into the universe, right, Well, the t I don't made him Taro
games for a while there, remember that was right, it was game freak.
Actually, yeah, yeah, I think it's what Jeff's saying. I
think especially Nintendo is like, well, we'll just invest in our own iph
obviously. I think Microsoft and Sonny feel that a bit like Sony. You
know, a Spider Man that is Sony related, still right, they don't
have to go over to a universal or an illumination and like try to wrangle
together some kind of deal to do that, but they do have to regular
deal separate from their movie deal for Spider Man for video games, like Marvel
still owns the video game rights, so they have to make a deal there,
but it still feeds into their the synergy there of them making the movies,
so it makes all the sense in the world for them to do it.
Yes, I think for Family IP it is likely that the perception is
you don't need to put as much work into those to get a return on
your investment, And if you were to put a two hundred million dollar budget
into a Shrek game, you're not going to get them investment back on that.
At least I think that's what they believe. They're wrong, of course,
we know that, yes, but that's what they believe it will outperform
Luigi's Mansion three yes, or if anything could, it would be the two
hundred million dollars Shrek game. Yeah, that's absolutely it if the margins are
what they are with putting out actual dog shit. Yeah. I think it's
just everyone's afraid of making family games to go up against Nintendo. It's really
hard and Nintendo does not spend two hundred million dollars on their games, so
you are just taking a real risk for no proven return. A sack Boys
big adventure, I do. No. I got that on the Steam Deck
and the kids like it sto. Yeah that was that was That was okay,
But I don't think it sold. No nobody played it. Nobody played
it. I mean even Ratchet Clay didn't sell as well some of these other
games for sure, which is a shame because that's like the best game on
the place. You should it's the best game. Well, I mean I
think it's the best rection in Clank game probably, but probably that or a
cracking time. Next email comes from Alex and Bendigo, Australia. Alex writes
in as soon as Jan described what a code Grandma was on episode ninety one
of the dump truck. Oh geez, I loved that. I loved that
I was listening to in Disney and I was like, oh, I hope
Jan explains whether Grandma is. They are not ready for it. They are
not ready for I got it, I gotcha. I imagine various crew members
wandering around Disney covertly dropping piles of Mike's ashes from their pant legs, like
the prisoners did in the film The Great Escape. Oh yeah, do what
you will with this information, Alex and Bendigo Australia. Mike, just remind
me again, I have a pretty good idea of what this is, but
just for our listeners who weren't listening, and for myself completely remember the details.
It is co Grandma is when a person who works at Disney see someone
trying to spill ashes of a loved one Programma. Yeah, you caught somebody
trying to spread ashes anywhere in the park. And it's just incredible that there's
a code for that specific because it must happen fifteen times a day. Apparently,
yes, I hope it happens fifteen times a day. Is maybe let's
take uh, let's let's take the members of Giant bombs. So that's Jeff,
Jeff, Me, Dan, tam Lucy, six people to spread your
ashes across Disney. Let's go to Disneyland first. Where do you want the
six parts of Mike Manatti's ashes to be nice? Right? Yeah? Definitely
at the corn Dog Stand, which that's one again, the main street Okay,
got it? Yeah, like you were being an idiot. Yeah,
you dumb ass. Okay, stupid saying stupid things. I thought you were
just there back alar in the Indiana Jones ride where you go behind the head
of Mara and there's all those skulls in that text ghosts. Lots of ashes
there, maybe too, maybe extra Mikey right, okay, you know what,
Yeah, we'll send Turbo, Shawn and Nikki to spread like a little
bit more juice over there. Yea, the back the backside of water and
Jungle Cruise. Okay, uh, it's spot Spot, the mint Jewel of
bar where I get my Bennet's. Yeah, the big that that that's gotta
be one of them, for sure. I like it should be somewhere in
Tomorrowland. But nothing's really big Spender Mountain Mountain is kind of scary for me
anymore. Big thunder Mountain, Big thunder Mountain. Where you see the goats.
There's a goat there, and I always before you go down the second
hill and I go goat. Okay, Yeah, and everyone on the t
because they're like, Mikey did it. He did his line a lot of
ashes. Just throw it right at that fucking goats face. Yeah, someone
in Chad. You don't want to figure to be your Disneyland. But by
the way, big figment development's happening right now, Huge figment developments. Disney's
been teasy something. He's been hours and I don't know what he's talking about.
A huge developments. Tell us, Mike, tell us about this dusty
ass spiral does He's been like sharing a lot of pictures of like figment with
like his idea book, and he's been going to imagineering I think because of
us. Yeah, they're going to announce an update to that rye finally.
Yeah, they're gonna put him out of his misery. Big How many more
Disneyland spots? So one more? One one more? Just inside the steam
stack of the Mark troin riverboats, you might need like somewhat taller. It's
pretty high up there, just boiling water. Coming out of it. Drop
it great. Yeah. Yeah, So you're putting your ashes in the steam
stacks so that it's evenly dispersed along the river. Is that what will be
like in there forever? Because ashes have memory, but like a lot of
it will gets you know, hearing the dumbest ship you've ever heard. I
got I fell down a YouTube rabbit hole about a month ago with people doing
like urban exploration at Disney urbs. Yeah, urbs, our splash, Disney
Underscore, urbex underscore figment. That's wild. That's some wild ship. I
I. It's not behavior you want to encourage, but urban explanation or urban
exploration is this where you go in place instead have been shut down or what?
It's just people trespassing. It's like fancy trespassing is really what that means?
I mean in Disney World, the big one is they used to have
this island on one of the lakes, which was basically like a little zoo.
It's like some bad zoo with some birds and stuff. It's been shut
down forever, but people will like swim to it and crocodile invested water,
so will swim to and it's kind of hang out there for like day,
and a lot of the architecture is still there. It's really interesting. It's
all just overgrown and weird but very dangerous. Like you're talking about birds.
Reminds me of when I was playing Mortal Combat yesterday and there was a bird
in the game and I said pterodactyl. And you're like, Jeff, why
would there be a pterodactyl? But you're right, like to be this frustrated
with me, But Jess saw something in the sky. You're like, I
bet that's a pterodactyl, the only the only thing that flies. They're really
god the better parts of those things are like the stuff that's hidden in plain
sight. Right, It's like, yeah, that island is like creepy and
weird and it's like overgrown. But the other like little nooks and crannies of
Disney that are like just adjacent to an active thing. But these guys like
go in you know the way and in the Figment Ride, like there's a
second floor that used to have the kind of interactive playground element and now it's
just like a lounge for the vacation club people. And for a while a
lot of that old like playground stuff was still up there. People would steak
over there and it was weird, I think, real scandalous Disney porn.
Let's said, there was the whole thing with Buzzy where somebody stole Buzzy.
If you know, you know, big deal, big deal when they stole
Buzzy. Well, figment. We all have our assignments. We're all gonna
choose where we're gonna go spread Mikey's ashes when the time comes, not the
Haunted mansion. Dude, come on, come on, let's play it out.
What am I enormy? I mean, come on, we're already,
hey, place back of large, We're already spreading his ashes evenly, six
ways fagerous because it looks my ashes are going to look a lot like powdered
sugar. Okay, well, Dan is not going to do that one day.
Make make Dan with my Asha mcdad eat Mike NAUGHTI do it? Do
it? I don't know? Okay, all right, next to you,
maybe next Joe from New Jersey. Hey, folks. On the last episod
Backlar was arguing that you were falling into the trap by calling every game lean
and juicy. As a counterpoint, what are the fattiest and driest games you've
ever played, and can either of those things quality be a quality rather than
a downside. I don't know what I'm meaning like this now. I would
argue that Assassin's Creed is very fatty, but sometimes about to say fahalla,
wow. Yeah, good one driest forts and Motorsport, and I think it
was a benefit to a certain extent. It's just grand to Verso seven's dryness
was maybe a little bit better where it's like, yeah, we're just hanging
out talking about talking about cars and it's nice, isn't it. And that's
like maybe a little bit even more pleasant. Yeah, I think that I
get what Fortza is doing. I think I could use just a bit of
juice. Yep, they continue, but sometimes you're in the right mood,
it's exactly what you're looking for. As for dry, I think of games
with deliberate friction. Amnies The Bunker was a really good game that came out
this year and was completely ignored, But I definitely wouldn't call any of the
gameplay mechanics juicy. Thanks great drove from New Jersey. That's another fatty game.
Maybe maybe PUPG is the dry game then, where I was like,
I wanted to call that one juicy because it's juicy for me, but actually
what it's doing is like the good kind of dry of The mechanics are just
rigid in what they are, and they and they work in unexpected ways,
but but they are, Yes, they're rigid. So I don't know,
I think that could work for that. I think the newest Super Smash Brothers
game, Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, I think it's pretty fatty. I understand
the fan service of wanting to throw everyone in, but maybe we don't need
everyone. Oh well, you're wrong there. I just actually played like five
hours of Smash with some friends. Sunday games so very good, very five
different kinds of lives. Yeah you do Sunday nights. I spent it almost
all night underneath my sink trying to fix a leak in my Yeah it was
plumbing. I was plumbing. Yeah, I wasn't doing that. That was
handing fun drinking. Hmm, what like fatty is like? Is it too
many things to do? I mean almost any mms played like World Wars,
Big Fatty. It's got a problem. Somebody should talk to it. Real
fat game over there. Yeah, Well, I think Fatty is just like,
oh, they just didn't stop adding things. Yeah, things excessive.
It's not just that it's a big game, but it's like, oh,
they're gonna charge you ten dollars for a horse. Also, come on,
guys, you have a problem, Like, uh, do you really need
a side of fries? You already got the fries appetizer that kind of thing.
Yeah, got it, got it, got it? Okay, Uh
that's right, fart ass chat. The Persona game can be a little fatty
at times. Juicy and fatty. Yeah, that's juicy and fatty where shim
mcgarmy Tedsi fatty and dry. Yeah. Yeah, I really wanted to like
one I did to Jan I like lasted like a few hours. I was
like, it was also like too difficult where it didn't need to be.
Those games are always definitely a bit harder. Uh. I tried to play
Strange Journey the DS one, and I'm usually pretty good even I was like,
this is like running the enemies already with a bunch of instakil mechanics,
and I just I can't, I can't. I think Final Fantasy seven remake
is lean and juicy at the same time. Whoa, that's a very Juicy
Game Special Barrett Father. Okay, easy boys, remind me show you guys
the screenshot of when Ada showed up and she was I had had her modeled.
Did you guys hear this? Explain yourself, Jeff. I, So,
as I was getting residuable for I'm like, okay, i'll play that,
but like to encourage me to do so, I'll go download some mods
and I threw some stuff in there and I didn't use end up using mini,
but I, uh, I forgot that I did really anything until Ada
finally showed up and the proportions were more, and I completely forgot I had
done this, and I was just like, holy shit, oh my god,
what is this game? And then I realized it was my sins that
made it happen. But yeah, it was shocking. What I love when
I'm playing a game. And then I uttered to myself, whether out loud
or quietly underneath my breath, damn shawty what that dang DoD Damn Yeah,
have a batty though maybe always been a battie. Really definitely Ari four just
a game of batties all right. To end, the emails got a little
quiz. I got a little quiz let's do it a little quiz about anime.
Well, sorry to break it, do you shit shit? Josh?
Some of these were for anime. I didn't. I can't win medals at
Josh has a quiz about anime? Oh fuck yeah, I'm anime expert.
Jeff Backlar ready for this? Well, well you get name dropped in this
email. Hey guys, been listening for about a year now and thought i'd
send in a quiz since you seem to enjoy them. Hey, Josh,
thanks for listening for a year. Buddy, Yeah, thanks man, I
appreciate it all podcast points. If you're a newer listener to the Giant BombCast,
I will kiss you in the mouth is now. It's about when I
started showing up here everybuddy. Since Jeff Backlar is now an anime, I
thought you were trying to get me to kiss you on the mouth. Is
what you were saying? Is that not what he was trying to do?
I thought that just a few weeks. That's upsetting that kay, No,
stop, Okay, that ain't right. That boy right. Since Jeff Bakalar
is now an anime expert, I thought i'd make an anime theme it,
make it anime themed anime has no shortage of strange sounding titles, partially because
of them being translated, but also because there's just a lot of weird anime
out there. I made a quiz where we have to spot the fake anime
name anime title from a list of three. Not sure if you'll pick this
quiz, but I'd be happy if you do. Include the answers and an
image attached to the email. Aniway, Thank you. Hope you enjoy this
quiz. Spot the fake anime name? Question one. The three options are
do you love your mom and her two hit multi target attacks, Children of
the Whales, or Reborn as the villain of my favorite video game? Which
one is the fake name? Better? Flipping a coin? Well, so
do you guys feel like that the red herring here is Children of the Whales
and that the other two like? Okay, so you think the bottom of
one Whales is definitely real? I think yeah, Like I think the bottom
one is is uh is fake? Well, okay, so I'm coming around
to you, Becklar, I agree. I think the bottom one is fake.
Reborn as the villain of my favorite video game is my answer. I
think that's real. I don't know there's a lot that's like they love those
children of the whale. Sounds too normy, but maybe it sounds that.
I think it's too it's too normy to be fake. But number one is
like so ridiculous. I know I'm supposed to. That's what it's real.
That's what I think it is, even like three steps beyond that where I
actually I don't. I really don't think it's real. I think that your
mom's too about a multi target attacks is not real? Okay, the answer
is Reborn is the villain of my favorite video game. It's all right,
Mike, you got it. You always got to go more extreme. If
it's anime, what is that even about? Was that show? But it's
about loving your mom and or to hit mult targets? Is that a he
t No, Mike, it's not. It's a yowie wow. No,
it wouldn't be. It's a mom I saw y she does she love you
anymore because of the yowiness? I don't know, Look at me, Okay.
Anime expert taps the sign, taps the sign exactly. I'll get this
one wrong, though. Or your medals, I'm just not wearing them.
You can't see them. Okay, question two. The three options are my
chaotic gamer love life that's about me, real girl that's about me. Rascal
does not dream of bunny Girl sendpie. I think I see that one.
Bunny Girl is real. I think, yeah, I think the first one's
fake. Only if you believe bunny girl Spie is real? Is she real?
Another gamer one? Is the is the fake one again? Man?
Yeah, that's why I'm not gonna go with it. I wouldn't be surprised
if it's right, though, So I'm gonna go with a real girl.
But I'm gonna listen to the anime expert not as one. Love life is
not real, and y'all are correct, My chaotic gamer love life is not
real? A question numbers for two. Let's see question number three after school
bakery? How heavy are the dumbbells you lift? With a question mark?
And finally, Wonder Egg Priority the hard one. This is very hard.
My gut tells me number two here. Yeah, but I do love questions
as names. Wonder Egg Priority, that's pretty silly, Wonder Egg Priority.
I just need to see the logo of that thing, even if it's fake.
After school Bakery almost certainly a very delightful, pleasant, low key show.
I'm gonna go with after school bakery. I don't know, but I
think just something about it is throwing me off. So I'm going after school
bakery as being the one that isn't real. The one that is not real
is after school bakery. Nice. I just wanted it to be real,
damnit. Sure I get that. I feel like the fun isn't after school
bakery. After all right, it's where the us that even mean the kids
get under the bleacher. It's what we call my mini van after high school.
Yeah, you watch your stolen TV. Yes, exactly the other crimes.
I didn't even know about jeff stolen TV story. By the way,
that's floors not fucked up. I agree, it changed things for me if
I'm being sure, of course, Yeah, I'm kidding. Oh, I
might start watching How heavy are the dumbbells? You lived? Yeah? Yeah,
I hide nothing, I hide nothing, all right? Oh they're that
heavy? Okay? Oh the dumbbells are? Who those dumb bells? Got?
It? Ques? Just a muscle Mommy show. This looks all right?
Question number four. The options are world end colon? What do you
do at the end of the world? Question Mark are you busy? Question
mark? Will you save us? Question Mark? Two? My childhood bully
is now my roommate? Three? Why the hell are you here? Teacher?
How was capitalized? I think that the teacher is a devil or something.
I think the first one is fake. It's a bit much, isn't
it. Yeah. I'm never gonna go with the one that is too much.
I'm sticking with those always being real. I'm going with the bully.
Why I think the bully is fake. I'm gonna go with why the hell
are you here? Teacher? The answer is, my childhood bully is now
my roommate. You did it, Mike? All right? We got why
am I here? We got three more? Question five? Can you learn
to love a zombie? Two? Our love has always been ten centimeters apart?
Asteroid in love? God, asteroid love sounds like a muppet chill segment.
Yeah, I'm going with our love has always been ten centimeters apart.
I think the by throwing in the metric system in there, it's meant to
throw us all, throw us Americans off. So I think it's our love
has always been ten centimeters apart. I will continue this thirty three chance exercise
that we are doing, and I'll say asteroid in love. All right,
I'll go to the zombie one. I don't think the zombie one is the
answer is Mike, you got it right? Can you learn to love a
zombie? Wow? Capital Z for the zombie things? You can't love them?
Take that. Cranberry's all right, it's okay not love them because they
don't got a soul. Question number six, The options are the Garden of
Words, the Day I became a God, the Garden of Eternity. Oh
Jesus, I think it's the day I became a God. I think the
I think this is some trickster, my old like middle school multiple choice things.
Tell me if two are alike, then one of those is probably the
answer. I'm gonna a garden of eternity. That's too generic. Yeah,
I'm going Garden of eternity as well. Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding
ding. Garden of eternity is the answer. All right. I think I
need a fifth medal for anime expert. Yeah, we're gonna take back Lars
sign and give it to you. God, damn it, I took me
all nay. Question number seven the final final question Here, gents, the
options are. I can't understand what my husband is saying. My STEMPI won't
take a hint, high score girl. The gamer ones have always been rough.
I'm going with my SIMPI won't take a hit. Same, I'm going
high score girl. The answer is for the fake anime, my SIMPI won't
take a hint. Well, we all got like that, right they they
use it differently than it's actually the common usage, right usually. I don't
know. Maybe they kept calling me, people kept calling me then person of
four as well. I know. Well, I mean, you know,
if the shoe, if the shoe fits right? All right, folks.
That does it for the emails real quick. I'm just looking at this dot
com. I see your boulders Gate email. I'm gonna read it, okay,
yes, yes, I meant to just copy that to you directly.
Everything good, all right? Speaking of random shoutouts, when I won my
first trivia on the boat, somebody did come up to me my Zey cruise
and say that they were a fan of the bumpcast. Was very sweet,
so surprised I forgot to ask for their name, So I'm sorry, but
thank you so much for saying hi. I think the name is Mickey Mouse.
I think right, Mickey mouse Mouse, it was Maximilian goof and then
he was like, please lot more. Dad mentioned me again. Yeah,
sure, where's rocks an though? Rocks? All right? All right,
we have gotten to the part of the show with the shout outs. Google
doc is still floating around the purest social media uh in existence is just a
Google doc that I pass around weekly. And we have Giant Bomb Live and
La Live. Bet your girl is going to be there live. Shout out
to Jerffer working on it less than three h three. Why do they call
it oven when you of it? The Cold Food of Out? Hot eat
the food? All right? I hope you're okay. We never wrote that
in The Cold Food of Out, that's what it says. All right,
Hey, I'm not having trouble reading this time. All right? No an
egg sandwich salad? Okay? Hey nose? Fuck you, hey nose?
Maybe what's the nose thing? It's a dan thing? I think, Oh
okay, sorry, heyos, Maybe get new friends who won't abuse you.
Spreading Mike Manatti's ashes at Disneyland, slash World shots out to Cassette Beasts better
than every Pokemon game ever made my light gast my keep Gait, my boss
girl, my Rekert Dan, eat good chili, avoid Cincinnati Banana Slama.
Shout out to y'all stoked on everything you've done to keep the bomb chicken.
Also bring back the C word in little text here. I see the new
GB Disco mods and all the other GB mods. Yeah, shots out all
the mods. When Mike holds his eyes open, he looks like fizz Gig
from the Dark Crystal. Oh my god, Janet is no. Oh Mike,
you are a demon. Stop with a hung it makes it worse.
Y'all looking stunning today. I'm moisturized. I can't believe TAM's last name is
spelled wrong in the Game of the Year poster. Just getting Shouts out to
Backlar for almost having a heart attack. Photoshop exists. It's fine, but
no, it's correct. Face love bo check not the show. Did Mike
use the wallet condom on the cruise? I told you I took a picture
with Minnie and Daisy, okay, super equivalent of a furry on avanyath.
I didn't start this, I just middled it. Oh yeah, the video
game is all the sounds spit roasted by Daisy and aheadas doesn't even make sense.
Video game is all the same extreme rusty voice. Shut up, John,
good job, Buddy, shouts out to Travis and Taylor. Their love
is real. Mom Wife Jane loves Mom's dead Parkore video. I say of
the Quiet Man's connection to the Remedy verse buying Nosebleed tickets to aw Full Gear
in LA twenty four check, I'm getting back into it soon. I've decided
it's gonna be my workout show again. Also Columbros, check we I watched
episode four last night. Jeff was going to watch it too. We're going
to record that on Thursday. That's right. Also, love Boat check a
piece of shit. I'm sorry. I'll try to watch Love Buddets some point.
Well, I know what boats are like, and apparently I discovered love
on it too, and so I'll be ready to go parasocially bringing Disney cookies
to the GB crew in La Let's go. I'll bring that popcorn bucket for
you too, Jane's so that's why you're coming, Mike. You're gonna taste
out all the food first. Make sure you don't die, please, dah.
Folks. We announced at the top of the show we're doing GB at
Night during the Game Awards Wednesday, December ninth. Nice, Gun, I
got turned upside down? Yeah? Is that right? Yes, ninb Yeah,
that's how I'm keeping the couch is back. We're gonna have a lot
of lovely guests. I've seen the doc that Grub is painstakingly putting together.
The GB at Night is the sixth, the the live show is the ninth.
That's all right. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, dates are
stupid. December sixth is when we'll be doing GB at Night for the Game
Awards. Also, you can see the poster here that we have on the
side. Giant Bomb Game of the Year Live December ninth, twelve pm Pacific.
We will be having a live event at the Moroccan Lounge in Los Angeles.
We will also be streaming this live. I don't care what anyone tries
to tell me. If I have to, I'll hold my micup or I'll
hold my phone up all the time. That's what we're gonna do. Oh,
it's funny how we time that sixth and the ninth. Nice. Nice,
but rest assured. Ever, we will also still be having our regular
Game of the Year deliberations. The Giant Bomb Game of the Year Live is
just going to be the grand finale of that where we will be crowning the
top twenty, then the top ten, then the top Game of the year.
Hey, also gonna I'm gonna bring it back less. There will be
Game of the Year list on this website. We're gonna be getting them from
our friends new and old alike and throughout the holidays. At some point we'll
get them posted on the site. And for that stuff, I'm having people
help me, but I'll get these things edited and collected and look out for
that. I'm actually really looking forward to that. So Game of the Year
list will be back in twenty twenty three. Yes, yes, God,
I gotta put my thoughts to paper. Now, what else is going on
this week? Boys? We got a lot, We always got a lot.
Why do we do this? Uh? Yeah, we're just saying this.
Let's see here tomorrow light Club, so look out for that. We
are getting back into Ride to Grub Jeff Tribution. I think I'm also playing
Allen two tomorrow for a bit after a games mornings and then on Thursday we
will have Voicemail Dump Truck. We will have upf on Thursday, and then
on Thursday. We're doing unprofessional Fridays on a Thursday with Mario Kart. I
believe right? Is that three Modern Wark for three? And then Mario Kart
is Thursday Night throw Down on a Friday, And yes, we'll be playing
Mario Karton kind of doing the the new tracks in a tournament. So get
Mario Kart downloaded and come hang out with us and play, and we will
be on Friday. Yes, we will also have a game of Mornings throughout
the rest of the week and bcr BombCast for Vengeance on Friday. Gosh,
what a jam packed week. Mike, happy to have you back, Bud.
Hey, yeah, thanks, it's good to be back. Everybody,
Miss Joell. Hell yeah, we got tons of stuff popping off. Also
also also to cap off what is already a packed week, once again announcing
Extra Life Part two. This weekend, we got Minati, Grub and the
Windbag heading over to Dan's place. Beckler, what are you playing? Pinball?
Oh? That's right? Oh fuck Sunday, I believe one pi.
It's a tough act to follow. It's so tough I almost forgot. Yes,
I was playing food Fighters the pinball machine experience. Yes, they gave
the food fighters, their own pimball machine. I'm gonna get DCMA clap so
fast your head will spin. That's gonna be on Sunday the nineteenth, one
pm Eastern is where I'm targeting a star. Time there. Beautiful, beautiful,
beautiful, And hey, the year's not over. We can always spend
some stuff up back for extra life as needed. I know that Tam had
an appetite to do some more things when more of the West Coast folks were
available. And hey, you know what, should we just say? We're
probably gonna talk over the game awards for those that aren't going, Oh we
are right, that's we are. We're gonna be doing that. Lots of
fun stuff popping off while we're all together in me and Jam, I'll be
doing real work where all these people are gallivanting with celebrities and Jeff Keeley at
the kids me. I'm sitting next to Vulcary. Look at my business hat.
I'm Jeff Beckola. Look at me. I'm it was Pokey Maine.
Okay, not Valkyrie that Okay, we'll poke Maine. Here's the funny thing.
I'm not gonna wear a hat, wear two hats. Gonna wear you're
gonna wear a headband. I'm gonna wear a hair band is what I'm gonna
wear. No, I decided, uh no hat. This year we took
you know, the Scaredess. That's the real ship right there. The testing
did not go well last year. Audiences were upset. So we're gonna have
to turn this round. My army's hat. Steph took it and put it
somewhere and she says she put it somewhere safe and if I find it,
I can have it back. Because she keeps finding on the floor and I'm
like, look, it's not the kids do it and she's like no,
so I think it's with her hats, but I haven't looked. It's precious.
It should be taken Oh yeah, it should be taken care of.
This just crossed my mind. This has nothing to do with anything, but
I just want to dance. Let's go dance, just dance. We can
dance even you could do it, dance while we're out in Los Angeles.
Yeah, that's why I'm saying, let's all take it like a K pop
dance class. Oh sure, yeah, let's do it all right. Talks
that we totally have time for that, we have time for all these things.
We should squeeze in a Disneyland trip while we're at it. Yeah,
all right, folks, I've been Jan he's been Jeff, he's been Jeff,
he's been Mike, and you have been looking great today. Just remember
to wash your hands. Just just do that for me, do that for
your good old boy. And also we'll see you next week for another episode
of the Giant BombCast. I love you double xp Hey, uh you know
for shoot here while you're listening to the Giant BombCast, I don't know,
go subscribe on whatever you're listening it to leave a review, all type of
stuff. Tell your friends, Yeah, make a mixtape CD. I would
have pulled myself over. I think the Giant BombCast has been fucking banging this
whole year. Great, Yeah, you're cute. I'll kiss you in the
mouth. Oh God, like like this. Oh okay, okay, now
we're famous black all right, right right,