WEBVTT 1 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:31.359 Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, November twenty first, twenty twenty three. Welcome 2 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:36.479 to the Giant BombCast powered by NZXT. I am your host this week, 3 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:42.920 jan Oh shoah furly reminder, go defrost the turkeys now. Definitely defrost the 4 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:47.000 turkeys. Now. If you haven't bought the turkeys, it's not too late. 5 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:51.240 They selled sliced turkey. Just make a bunch of sandwiches for Thanksgiving. 6 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:54.119 You'll be fine because then you could get some ham, get some good old 7 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:57.520 ham, or you know what. You know what, just put some mayonnaise 8 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:00.119 in between two slices of bread. You'll be fine. Co Captain of the 9 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:07.319 Ship Sandwich Officionado himself Jeff Grubb wants a sandwich artist. Always a sandwich artist. 10 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:11.120 Yeah, absolutely, man. I'm leaning back for this episode. Jan 11 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:15.200 It is a holiday week here in the United States, so I'm straight up 12 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.959 laying back. He's bicking back, being bull. You know, he's always 13 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:25.959 cool. He's on the soundboard making making sure that we're never bored with our 14 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:34.959 ear holes. It's more who's saying Jesus Christ. Uh, that's you know, 15 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:38.359 I'm never gonna I'm never gonna not hear that sound and not think of 16 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.640 Tam. Forget Dick Wolf. It's all Tam Tam. How are you? 17 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:47.480 I'm good? How are you? I'm excited to be half of this giant 18 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:49.599 bump cost. We got a lot to talk about, a lot of serious 19 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:53.200 things, a lot of un serious things. Garol of Rivia is coming to 20 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:56.439 destiny too, according to my email. So you know, exciting things are 21 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:59.879 happening in the world. A lot of wholesome content. And mister wholesome him 22 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:05.159 He's always wearing cardigans, He's always wearing warm fall colors, fall tones. 23 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:09.520 He's always welcoming people onto his lawn, passing out warm cups asider to the 24 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:16.120 neighborhood. Jeff Becklar, Oh, it was a very very charitable description of 25 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:21.520 what I do during this time of year. I'll take it. Listen. 26 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:24.759 I used to like Thanksgiving. I used to look forward to it. I 27 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:30.919 used to find a lot of joy in rekindling relationships of years gone by. 28 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:38.800 And I've noticed, as I've talked to out with my therapist, that it's 29 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:45.080 not the happiest time anymore for me. I do have to see a lot 30 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:50.599 of my family. Okay, And hey, Beckard, you want to say 31 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:53.960 the energy you bring to this podcast to kid us off on the right foot. 32 00:02:53.039 --> 00:03:00.319 It's immaculate. It's a maculate Listen, you guys, you that was 33 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:04.080 in yard stare you're doing right now of emotions. I just couldn't. I'm 34 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:09.319 so happy joked around that you wear cardigans. I'm sorry, this is hey, 35 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:13.080 this is your fault, Jan, the three of you. Sorry. 36 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:20.319 You're exactly from the audience, from the from the live chats, from everyone. 37 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:23.439 This you are my therapy. You helped me get through this holiday, 38 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:30.000 this fucking holiday, in a way that I'm eternally grateful for. So that's 39 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:34.000 what I was getting at. That was the build up, is that this 40 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.120 is a great time of year and I'm so happy to be a part of 41 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:40.639 it. And listen, we have an amazing month coming up, amazing, 42 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:45.520 you know, it's very it's a very exciting time of year. So I'm 43 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:52.080 feeling around right. Yes, Jeff Backlar, Jeff Backler is pulling the strings, 44 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:54.599 y'all's He's the pupping master, he is the geppetto of this whole dang 45 00:03:54.639 --> 00:04:00.439 operation. Because folks, if you missed the original ticket sales to the Moroccan 46 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:04.960 Lounge, have no fear because we've switched venues to accommodate. We are now 47 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:10.680 going to be at the Terogram Teogram Ballroom. Tickets are still available. Tickets 48 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:16.000 are now available again because we sold that pitch out showtime. Uh exactly, 49 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:20.759 tam, So Ticketmaster will drop the link in the chat here, will make 50 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:24.480 We've tweeted it out. We're going to continue to tweet it out. Let's 51 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:29.040 sell that bitch out again. Let's do it. Do it your faces again, 52 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:32.519 just keep setting them on and they keep having to big arenas somehow, 53 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:41.000 I'm Madison Square, goten Madison Square Garden. No, it's no, all 54 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:48.439 you dumbasses in l A your crypto dot com theater by Yeah, that's next, 55 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:54.959 that's next. Exactly, very exciting, very very thankful that all y'all 56 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:58.519 are coming out. But hey, we we switched venues because there was a 57 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:03.160 high demand, and I'm incredibly happy and so so thankful that there is a 58 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:08.480 demand. So I'd love to see your lovely faces. Let me be clear, 59 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:13.360 this will be the last venue once these stands are gone. They are 60 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:16.279 gone. We're not doing this again. I Am not doing this again. 61 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:21.519 Fucking buy the tickets now, don't wait, Please buy the tickets. Please, 62 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:27.759 thank you, thank you for your patronage. Hey, I don't know 63 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:31.360 if if you want to like collectively make a giant bomb commune and like get 64 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:34.759 an Airbnb together, join the Giant Bob Discord. There's a bunch of cool 65 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:40.160 folks, maybe like go find it sound like together? That does make it 66 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:44.959 sound like the bomb worshiping people who live underneath the earth and beneath the planet 67 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:48.920 of the Apes, which is completely accurate. Hell ya, I'm hell yeah, 68 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:51.399 that's what our discord is like. So and it's it's pretty hot, 69 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:56.319 pretty You know, we're not only God's favorite podcast, but we are the 70 00:05:56.319 --> 00:06:00.680 Taylor Swift of podcasts as well. You know, we all know this. 71 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:03.399 This was in our bones. We feel this. You know, we're shaking 72 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:08.319 it up. We dated a football player. That football player would finally become 73 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:13.079 popular. Yeah, exactly, that that football player would now be a spokesperson 74 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:16.040 for flu shots and COVID vaccines. Is that true? Is this person not? 75 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:21.040 Did no one care about this person until this was pretty popular? But 76 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:28.079 he is ascended because of of Taylor Swift. What's gonna happen when she dumbs 77 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:32.079 him? He's going to be killed? Like that's what happens Taylor Swift, 78 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:35.800 you get executed by her friends. No one's seeing Harry Styles in like three 79 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:41.600 years. She's gone. Yeah, I don't know if she ever dated Harry 80 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:45.920 Styles. Okay, that sounds right. I don't know. Okay, thank 81 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:54.279 you. Remember remember no one does does that but dead exactly? I think 82 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:58.000 I just I thought him in Super Mario RP. Is that a real person? 83 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:02.199 No, it's not a real personat say it them, but you know 84 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:08.480 I I personally it's it's a great deal, uh that that We we get 85 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:14.079 to see y'all soon at the Teogram Ballroom once again. That date is December 86 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:18.560 ninth of twenty twenty three. You know, if you are listening, a 87 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:21.800 lot of people are gonna be listening this when they're out there trampling people on 88 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:26.319 Black Friday. And first of all, stay safe. Thanks for listening to 89 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:29.040 us while you do your do your dirty, dark deeds on that day. 90 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:35.319 Say stay trampling, Stay safe trampling. Instead of spending your money on goods 91 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:40.199 that are perishable, get an experience, buy tickets to our show, come 92 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:45.639 see that instead. And look, there's another thing. It's entirely possible that 93 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:48.399 Friday. We also have new stuff in the store. Now. Look now, 94 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:51.480 look, I wasn't planning on saying something, but it does seem like 95 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:56.240 the stars are lining up. People. So you've got a lot of money, 96 00:07:56.079 --> 00:08:01.920 Oh Mercurytrojaz money gotta you gotta spend money on the store. There's new 97 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:05.120 store things that we've never stored before. Okay, get excited about that. 98 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:09.279 It's not just a new fucking T shirt. We're not gonna this is things 99 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:15.839 you've never been able to buy ever, ever ever. Okay, really fucking 100 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.720 excited. And then there's really been busy this year. What the hell you 101 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.399 got? You've gotta make a lot of stuff happened in the last few weeks. 102 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.319 You know, look, I'm backloading my twenty twenty three vacation. Come 103 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:28.639 back, You're like, I guess I'll do some work. And shit happened, 104 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:33.879 all right, all right? And uh it's not a hockey puck out 105 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:37.559 of someone to sell it. Although yeah, although I would take a GB 106 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:41.559 brand and hockey puck any day of the week. Yeah. So there is, 107 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:45.360 there's there's cool stuff. Those posters are well on their way, they're 108 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:50.799 going to be available very soon. And of course those limited edition ones that 109 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.720 are super sick that that I'm getting for us personally this weekend, so don't 110 00:08:54.720 --> 00:09:00.480 worry. Yeah, those for us, but yeah, everything's gonna be great. 111 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:05.320 Stay tuned, follow us on the social platforms and the discords, and 112 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:11.399 you'll be the first to know. Baby Hell yeah. But Bechler, what 113 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:15.600 else can people look forward to this Friday? I'm not done. He's not 114 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:22.600 done. I'm not done. Our wonderful friends over at NZXT have a Black 115 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:28.840 Friday for the ages. If you go to nzxt dot co slash Giant Bomb 116 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:35.080 BF, the BF is for Black Friday. There's deals, there's deals to 117 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:39.120 be had. We're very appreciative of nzxt for hooking us up with all these 118 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:43.440 player three but heemoth rigs that we've been rocking all year and there's plenty of 119 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:48.360 deals to be had that they will be launching i think now through Black Friday 120 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:52.320 and some more stuff on the actual day of Black Friday. Like you can 121 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:56.960 get fifty percent off I'm sorry, you can get one hundred and fifty dollars 122 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.440 off any custom build over two thousand dollars. They're gonna give you four hundred. 123 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:07.759 Yep, they're gonna give you four hundred dollars off that base player three 124 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:11.799 rig that they sell five hundred dollars off the player three prime. That's the 125 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:16.320 ones we have. Uh, we love that. We love these machines allan 126 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:24.000 Week two is just a phenomenal experience on that sweet sweet forty ninety anyway. 127 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:30.159 That's that's what's popping off this Friday from our friends at NZXT. And we're 128 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:33.879 also working on maybe something at the live show that we'll tell you more about 129 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:41.840 when we get to LA. That's Los Angeles people traveling in for that. 130 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:46.120 People bought their flights to Louisiana on accident when they went to LA on accident. 131 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:52.399 Look, I'm flying LA for it. Whatever, there you go, 132 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:58.639 whatever, no big deal, I guess Hey, tam here here's an open, 133 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:03.519 open declaration. Uh one year, maybe next year, maybe the following 134 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:07.840 year during key three, you me, Lucy, whoever else wants to join, 135 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:13.159 get in a van and drive to l A. That sounds that sounds 136 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.600 amazing. I'm down for that, all right, fantastic. I love I 137 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:20.840 love driving. That's how it's how I pretend to be a father. Anyway. 138 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:24.039 That's all the plugs, guys, that's all the plugs. How about 139 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:28.600 we talk about some video games a Backlar, Do you have issues with that 140 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.600 link? The fuck is going on? What's wrong? On a chat? 141 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:35.720 I posted a link and it gave me all this fucking HTML bullshit. Remember 142 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:41.919 when the internet used to just work with booma posting your Booma posting right now? 143 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:45.960 If post right there? God, I just don't have patience anymore, 144 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:48.840 folks, I don't. Okay, got a little bit of senior itis. 145 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:52.039 This week? Is Jeff Beckler, the stephen A. Smith of video games? 146 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:58.919 Oh? Yes, yes, I know who Stephen A. Smith is, 147 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.480 and I think I'm supposed to not like him. No, he's fine. 148 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:07.559 I like disrespect haii in like a truly unforgiving way. Yes, I 149 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:13.120 I dislike. Well, fuck him, I'm I'm a I'm a Charles Charles 150 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:18.080 Buckley shack guy, Charlie clearly better. Yeah. Yeah, he's also a 151 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:22.600 big hockey fan, Charles. He does, he does enjoy hockey. I've 152 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.000 heard him talk about it at length on an NBA show, Steve Bay Smith 153 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:31.960 says, the only thing that's black and hockey is the puck. That's pretty 154 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:39.120 fun. That's a decent joke. Forty years ago, Steven, Hey, 155 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:43.879 Jeff Grebb, you've been playing Super Mario RPG Yo. That game still is 156 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:48.480 really great. I kind of can't stop playing it. It's stunk when I 157 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:50.559 got sick of dance House because I'm like, well, at least I'll be 158 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:52.000 able to play in bed since I want, I don't want to get everyone 159 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:54.519 else six, i'mna stay away from everyone. I got sick of dance House. 160 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:58.879 In case people don't know, wait, you gotta can you talk more 161 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:01.159 about that? Man? Yeah, grub grub, let's rewind rewind the tape. 162 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:05.000 Yeah, we to do the voice effect. Do the voice effect. 163 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.600 Okay, so you look great now? Yeah, going on. It lasted 164 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:13.919 like twenty four hours, maybe a little bit longer than that. I've had 165 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:16.559 some like up and down with the stomach since then, but it's mostly been 166 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:22.200 fine. I flew out to dance house in a different state to do Extra 167 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.480 life and I got there and I hung out and it was great. Wind 168 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:28.480 Bag was on my plane when we connected in Chicago. He tapped me on 169 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:30.120 the shoulder. I looked up. I'm like, oh my god, there's 170 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:33.799 a celebrity on this plane. Uh. And we got dance House. We 171 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:35.960 hung out that night. We had a great time. We watched like four 172 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:39.440 hours of norm McDonald clips. It was a really good time. And then 173 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:43.399 I go to bed and I'm like, eh, don't feel great, but 174 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:46.600 a good a good poopy is gonna make me feel better. And so I 175 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:48.679 sat down the toilet. Nothing really happened there, so I'm like, uh 176 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:52.480 oh, I'm gonna just go get in bed and see if something happens. 177 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:56.679 And then I woke up with some reflux and then I realized, Okay, 178 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:58.519 my kids had been sick. It is happening to me. I need to 179 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:01.120 go fine, you know, like when an animal is sick and they go 180 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:05.519 hide away. I did that. I went to go find the most remote 181 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:13.279 bathroom in his house, and I would I just unloaded both ends, both 182 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:18.679 ends. I yes, stereo from Yeah, just absolutely crushed that thing. 183 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.519 Uh. I did a good job cleaning up. So there's like almost no 184 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:26.759 evidence. Uh, I would say no evidence, but I just like it 185 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:28.240 was like five am. I'm like, oh, all right, so I'm 186 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.799 not gonna be able to do anything here. I woke up that morning like 187 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:33.960 maybe it's out of my system, Like nah, like an hour before things 188 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.919 were getting ready to start. Actually this, I woke up in the morning, 189 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:39.240 I'm like sleeping. I'm like okay, thinking about how I'm gonna tell 190 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:41.840 everybody I'm not gonna be able to do anything. So everyone was still sleeping, 191 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:45.440 and then Dan wakes me, was like, the computer's broken. I'm 192 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:50.399 okay, so we need on top of your bed here. Computers broken. 193 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.559 Suit. He's like, because they don't even know I'm sick, because I 194 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:58.879 had an chance. Yeah, because they were all sleeping. Uh so as 195 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:01.399 you basically hover and over my computers broken, to my god, I'm like, 196 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:03.600 So I went down, I fixed the computer, and then I got 197 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:07.120 done. I'm like, I don't I'm not going to be able to do 198 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:09.559 this and I don't want to get you guys sick. And so they just 199 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:13.519 they played games all day and I slept NonStop and not I didn't even have 200 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:16.720 enough energy to play games, which was stinky. I'm sorry that happened, 201 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:20.679 man, you know, it's most I feel back like I brought like the 202 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:24.639 flu or maybe the neuro virus is what I think. It probably was very 203 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:26.480 similar to when I've had the neuro virus before. I'm like, oh, 204 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:30.399 I just brought that to someone's house as a gift and then left and that's 205 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:33.759 all I did. So yeah, but I got better, like almost right 206 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:37.639 like the next day, I I didn't eat that whole time and I just 207 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:41.559 got back. He's like, I'll go better, suspiciously quickly off exactly, 208 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.360 almost like it's my thing, Like I'm just like some pervert who likes to 209 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:48.320 go to people's house and throw up and their toilets and leave. Does Dan 210 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:52.600 still have the same amount of TVs as he did before you came? I 211 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:56.600 mean, listen, who's question question? I got to know the suspect here, 212 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.840 right, Yeah. I mean I was too I was too sick to 213 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:04.279 do anything about it. Yeah, but I was. I was just really 214 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:07.679 worried about being good enough to get back on the plane for my flight on 215 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:11.080 Sunday. And by that morning, I was like, you know what I 216 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:15.080 am, I'm good to go. So it was like relieved that I didn't 217 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:17.200 have to like, hey, Dan, can I either stay your house or 218 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:21.480 find some hotel or something. So that worked out fine. But I did 219 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:25.200 get on the plane and I booted up Super Mario RPG and it's a game 220 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:29.919 that I found like, Okay, hey, I always love this game. 221 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:33.399 I've played it a million times now. As a kid, I rented it 222 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:34.720 a bunch of times and I was looking forward to this even as I was 223 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:37.360 hearing the reviews, so it's like it's pretty much a one to one remake, 224 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:41.799 and and it is, and that means it's still that very playable game 225 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:45.000 where I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna start it up, and suddenly i 226 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:48.759 am kind of pretty deep into it. I'm getting a bunch of the characters. 227 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:53.600 It just it just goes. It has such a fun rapid pace where 228 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:57.440 like one scene after another happens, and the scenes are pretty small, and 229 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:02.399 yeah, you'll do some fights, maybe you'll like ten of the these encounters, 230 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:04.160 but they go by so fast. And the game has done a lot 231 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:07.119 of streamlining to make it go even a little bit quicker, which I think 232 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:12.720 is to its benefit. But the upgraded visuals kind of do change the context 233 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.319 a little bit of the way that they present the stuff. So on the 234 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:19.920 Super Nintendo, it was like the storytelling was done a lot of times where 235 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:25.400 like Mario is a silent protagonist and they'll have these characters mime what is happening 236 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:27.480 to each other so they can explain the story because a lot of times Mario 237 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:30.880 can't speak, and it's like on the Super Nintendo it's like, oh, 238 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:36.039 these little sprites bounce bouncing around, showing each other like what's happening in the 239 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:37.640 story, and it's like that makes sense here. It's like, oh, 240 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:40.640 well, I mean, they have the power to do all this other stuff, 241 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:42.319 so it's it's a creative choice. But it's not even really a creative 242 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:45.920 choice. It's just they're doing it because the Super Nintendo game did it, 243 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.640 and so in that context it feels a little bit stranger, and I understand 244 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:52.440 why some people are like, kind of wish they would have done more with 245 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:55.759 some of these things. But as someone who loves this game, that purity 246 00:17:56.039 --> 00:18:00.559 is not bothering me all that much. And I'm not like I had Shuttle 247 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.920 of the Clauses was like a one to one remike that got a big visual 248 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:07.160 upgrade, and I thought it lost some of its luster in that change, 249 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:11.119 where it was more ethereal before and less ethereal afterwards, and Links Awakening almost 250 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:15.799 the same thing. Although I ended up really liking the way links Awakening looks 251 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.920 on the Switch, I had a similar concern. I love links Awakening on 252 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:22.240 the Game Boy. It has this dreamlike ethereal quality where it just feels like, 253 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:25.960 oh, is this real? Or not, and it lost some of 254 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:30.160 that, but it changed into something different here. It's like they're trying to 255 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:34.279 mimic the Silicon graphics look of that Super Mario RPG game, and I think 256 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:37.960 they do a good enough job of that, and a lot of times it 257 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:41.519 looks stunning. So I've enjoying that side of things, and then when it 258 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:47.680 comes to the combat and actual playing of the game, I'm I'm happy with 259 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:51.640 the streamlining. The big thing for me was Super Mario RPG was always this 260 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:53.359 is the game that introduced me, and maybe some other game did it before, 261 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:56.720 but it was the turn based combat game that had the timing of the 262 00:18:56.759 --> 00:19:00.079 attacks. So when you jump on an enemy's head, you hit A and 263 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:03.440 that does more damage, and when you get attacked, you hit B and 264 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:07.160 that does the defense. And you can block. And now if you time 265 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:11.079 the blocks and time the attacks. Maybe Super MARIOPG did this before, but 266 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:15.440 it did not give you this much information. But if you time it better 267 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:18.039 now it's like you actually do even more damage. And if you time it 268 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:21.920 perfectly when you do your attack, you can do a damage to everyone on 269 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:25.680 the screen, and when you're getting attacked, if you perfectly time it, 270 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:29.559 you'll actually one percent get zero damage and you'll see a little shield come up, 271 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:33.000 and that stuff is cool. It adds even more depth to that whole 272 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:38.759 thing, and then it also makes the battles go by faster, so I'm 273 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:42.440 really happy with it. I just wonder, like this is a game that 274 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:45.599 people, when they tell me they haven't played it, like you're gonna love 275 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:49.480 Super MARIORPG, And I hope that's still true. I think it is, 276 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:52.559 but I'm curious to hear if, like anyone else ends up playing it here 277 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:56.119 ever, if they haven't played it before, if they do end up liking 278 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:59.359 it. So I've never checked it out before, but everything I've seen, 279 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:03.480 from the up visuals to everything I've seen of the game before, have made 280 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:07.920 me want to check out Super Mario RPG. The way you're talking about this 281 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:11.839 Grub, it's like you want to recommend it, but you also don't, 282 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:14.920 And I feel like it's an odd because this is such an odd time of 283 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:18.119 the year where time is precious and we want to check out as many games. 284 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:22.039 Would you consider this something to check out or noteworthy enough to check out 285 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:25.640 for Game of the Year, because I feel like it is. I feel 286 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:30.119 like there's been enough done to it. Yeah, here's I want people to 287 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:33.160 love this game, and I wanted to be like, on when we get 288 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:36.319 a bunch of like guest top ten lists, I want to see it on 289 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:37.279 there. I think that that would make me really happy, and I think 290 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:41.279 a lot of people will end up loving it if they come to it through 291 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:45.519 this game. But it's like, at a certain point, I'm like, 292 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:49.279 ah, it's still that super Nintendo game and so it's not like necessary for 293 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:52.599 most people to play for this year, if that's how you're thinking about it. 294 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:56.319 That said, it's like if you get a time where you're like, 295 00:20:56.359 --> 00:20:57.640 I have a little bit of time and I'm looking for a game that I 296 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:00.480 know is going to be fun and is going to have a lot of cool 297 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:06.599 characters that this one million percent is worth playing. Like, I do fully 298 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:08.920 recommend playing it, it's just you don't try to fit in right now for 299 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:11.480 us that are that's trying to play a bunch of other games, that's not 300 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:18.839 necessary, you know. The the the headline here of this game has always 301 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:22.920 been this is an RPG story that does make it feel like there is more 302 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:26.920 going on in the Mushroom Kingdom than than the previous mother Mario games. Before 303 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:32.119 this, uh, you know, Bowser is doing his own thing, and 304 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:34.759 eventually you know you can it's well known at this point you team up with 305 00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:38.359 him, and it's kind of like reading up to that. There's so many 306 00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:42.079 cool little instances of him, like figuring out his place in this world with 307 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:45.640 this new enemy threat and that that's really cool, cool and charming, and 308 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:49.519 Princess Peach has her own agency here and she does her own thing and that's 309 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:53.160 cool. And so being able to play with these characters that are so familiar 310 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:57.839 and having them have like really good writing and have it be really funny, 311 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:02.079 and it was always funny and they maintained most of them. That stuff has 312 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:04.680 always been great and it's it's worth experiencing. So if you've never played it, 313 00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:08.720 I do recommend this game. Okay, I might have to check it 314 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:14.119 out. I did not play. I mean, you play it with dab 315 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:18.039 together, especially because I'm like, my four year old's been interested in it 316 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:21.559 and she's she tried to play it. I'm like, boy, if you 317 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:23.640 could read English, you would have a really good time with this. But 318 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:30.000 she's having a good time, like either way, So yeah, sixty dollars, 319 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:33.519 see yeah, I mean, like, what makes you think that, 320 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:36.480 right, cause it's like, does it look like a game should be less 321 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:40.359 than sixty? No? I think I was just doing like a Larry David 322 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:45.799 thing. I guess yeah. I don't know. It's just like okay, 323 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:51.920 sure, yeah, that's I don't know why. That was a very organical 324 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:55.240 I think that's where I'm coming from too. It's like I love this game, 325 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:59.359 and I do recommend it, but there's something about it where it's like, 326 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:03.079 ah, they just took that Super Nintendo game and put a new paint, 327 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:06.680 Cocoata paint on it, and I'm happy about that, but it does 328 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:08.759 feel like, oh, that's you know, that's like a forty dollars remaster. 329 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:11.200 It's like, well, no, this is what we used to call 330 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:15.160 remix before Resident Evils screwed the whole thing up for everybody. Yeah really, 331 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:18.440 I mean that was my point, like, this is not that. So 332 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:22.440 you know, where's like the less money I'm spending is I guess yeah. 333 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:26.079 I mean, now, not to be fair, when this game came out 334 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:29.960 on the Super Nintendo, it was eighty dollars. It was like eighty or 335 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:33.640 ninety dollars. Yeah, deal, Now it's a deal. Yes, honestly. 336 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:37.160 And then the game is like if you try to buy that Super Nintendo 337 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:40.799 cartridge today, it's I think it's more expensive than that. So this is 338 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:45.559 the cheapest this has ever been. Technically, what was games were? What 339 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:49.119 was like the average N sixty four game cost back then? Wasn't it something 340 00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:56.480 insane? It was always down between In the UK, you could pay like 341 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:00.640 ninety pounds, which is like close to one hundred dollars real money. Like 342 00:24:02.279 --> 00:24:03.759 a lot of them are like, yes, seventy dollars was like a sixty 343 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:08.960 to seventy in the nineties, yes, which is basically one hundred and thirty 344 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:12.079 dollars now not quite that much, but yeah, right, I don't remember, 345 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:15.519 dude. Yeah maybe in the last year. And yeah, with the 346 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:22.559 like the twenty five percent inflation, yeah uh yeah. I mean this if 347 00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:26.720 you are someone that like played Links Awakening and you had a great The Switch 348 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:29.359 remake and you had a great time, this is right in line with that. 349 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:34.279 And and even like the little improvements that they did make, it's like, 350 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:37.119 yeah, that goes a long way. Now. I'll say the I 351 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:41.480 was hopeful that during the combat animations this and I was speaking this a little 352 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:45.799 bit where it's like, oh okay, it's hard to tell the timing of 353 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:49.200 when to do the attacks, and the Super Nintendo version it's they say, 354 00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:52.440 hey, do that, and they explain it like right up. The very 355 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:53.960 first thing they tell you in the game is if you time these attacks, 356 00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:56.480 you'll do more damage. And then you go through the game and it's like 357 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:00.359 you'll get to some of these enemies and you're like, did I I do 358 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:03.039 it right? When? Am I supposed to do this? There's no feedback 359 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:07.200 and there was no like telegraphing from the enemy animations of like when was the 360 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:11.759 perfect time. Occasionally there would be a sound queue. Sometimes it would be 361 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:14.599 like the sound que would be like a red herring would be a distraction. 362 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:18.559 You're supposed to do it on a different queue. This game, if you 363 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:22.599 get into a battle with a new enemy for the first time, when they 364 00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:27.400 when you go to attack them, it will give you a exclamation point about 365 00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:30.920 when when when to do that button press and when they attack you, it'll 366 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:33.440 give you an exclamation point. Now, if you get the timing right enough 367 00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:37.559 times, the exclamation point will go away. But overall, like's they's still 368 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:41.839 not quite as reactive and they're not telegraphing at quite as much as I thought 369 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:45.519 they were going to. So it's improved, but it's not like some drastic 370 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:48.240 change where you're you feel like you're gonna have all the information you need to 371 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:52.519 play the game as best as you possibly can. Okay, Okay, Well, 372 00:25:55.200 --> 00:25:57.319 I chose to go on the other side of the rpgfence last week, 373 00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:03.400 and I, you know, because I have a certain loyalty to Tiles Grub. 374 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:10.039 I can't betray the Tiles. Talked about this briefly last week on BCR, 375 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:15.640 But holy smokes, y'all, did Atlas Have I ever felt more targeted 376 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:19.880 than I do in this moment. Continuing to play Persona five Tactics, you 377 00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:25.119 know, I got over the initial hump of their not being snappiness to the 378 00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:30.279 Tiles because the way that this game game's difficulty ramps up, or let's say, 379 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:36.559 complexity, ramps up in such an organic way versus other tactics games that 380 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:40.759 feel like they take forever to actually start to get interesting. Okay, I'm 381 00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:47.359 listening because I really love the original Mario and Rabbids, and then the second 382 00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:52.680 one fell off pretty quickly. I don't know, maybe just timing throughout the 383 00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:56.559 year but those games specifically, you had a limited squad and it felt like 384 00:26:56.559 --> 00:27:00.640 it took a while with a story and the gameplay for it to ramp up 385 00:27:02.279 --> 00:27:06.160 in a good way. Same thing with Midnight Suns last year. I enjoyed 386 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:11.079 that to a fair amount, but I feel like it took forever to actually 387 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:15.400 get somewhere where it felt like the combat was satisfying. You were clicking off 388 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:21.920 on all cylinders. Here you get that satisfaction pretty quickly, and even after 389 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:26.519 the initial you get through the initial tutorialization process, which because it is an 390 00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:30.160 RPG, it does take maybe like close two to three hours before you feel 391 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:34.440 like the training wheels are finally off. But man, this game is really 392 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:41.920 singing for a turn based RPG or a tactics based RPG. This really does 393 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:47.319 have the juice. And that's not just because of being tied to Persona and 394 00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:51.559 I would have expected because it's a smaller title or not like a mainline title. 395 00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:56.279 Kind of like a spinoff like Strikers, is that they lean back on 396 00:27:56.359 --> 00:28:00.279 the story elements, but no, they're going all the way in, always 397 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:03.200 go all the way in, right, Like, is there a Persona spin 398 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:07.880 off that doesn't go all the way in with the story. I don't know 399 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:11.799 too much about the fighting games. Tam do h oh, No, they 400 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:15.119 go in, they go in. Still, Yeah, I feel like the 401 00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:18.799 Atlas and everyone they partnered with realizes that, yeah, they get and the 402 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:23.200 story are like the most important part of one of the most important parts of 403 00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:26.640 Persona. So they just do not mess around with our stuff. They're like, 404 00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:30.079 it's not always high quality, but they at least give it a good 405 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:33.480 like swing at it. And most of the stuff is canon. I think 406 00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:38.000 a few of the fighting games are canon, so usually they they've been building 407 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:42.000 that Persona five universe for crazy amount of time, and I think that it 408 00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:45.640 helps with fans of that universe, but also it's going to set them up 409 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:48.400 real nicely for Persona six when that comes out, even though it will be 410 00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:52.279 unrelated. People just have a nice awareness of that franchise. Yeah, and 411 00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:57.319 I building off that. I think I'm more excited after being like really pleased 412 00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:00.319 with this because I mentioned this UCR. But I was kind of put off 413 00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:04.880 initially by the GiB Art style. Gotten over that hump fairly quickly because the 414 00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:11.000 gameplay and the narrative works really well in tandem, and I guess the gbr 415 00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:15.519 cell differentiates it enough from the mainline Persona five, but that just makes me 416 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:22.240 more excited about the prospect of what is in Atlas's back pocket with Persona six 417 00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:26.359 and wondering like, okay, like, hopefully you all have learned the proper 418 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:32.160 lessons from what is singing with the audience what is not singing. It'd be 419 00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:37.599 really great if you have proper representation of the LGBT community without punching down, 420 00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:41.160 and not in the cool way that we punch down, but like, honestly, 421 00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:45.880 like if you were a fan of Final Fantasy Tactics, Front Mission, 422 00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:52.599 anything with tiles Project Triangle, then I definitely recommend checking out Persona five Tactica. 423 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:56.680 I'm playing it currently on the Switch and it runs fine. Low times 424 00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:02.480 are a little bit long. If you think that this is like a scale 425 00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:06.279 down, hampered side story that Atlas kind of just churned and put out there, 426 00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:11.039 it's not that at all. It is a fully fledged Persona game minus 427 00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:15.799 the like social links, right, but you still get a pretty good story 428 00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:22.119 that I know that there are fans of metal Gear out there that where are 429 00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:25.440 they that that that don't think metal gear is a political story? What the 430 00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:27.920 hell is going on here. I know there are fans out there that think 431 00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:33.759 Persona is not a political story, but hey, let me tell you this 432 00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:37.200 one. It's right in your face, y'all. It's right in your face. 433 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:41.839 These kids want to dismantle everything, and I'm all for it. Uh. 434 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:45.200 It's also in game Pass, so if you have game Pass, it's 435 00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:48.119 it's kind of a no brainer, y'all. Check that ship out. Check 436 00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:52.400 them. So these kids are literal anti disestablishmentarianisms. Hell, yeah, that's 437 00:30:52.400 --> 00:31:00.480 not Uh okay, wait, so I you saying this thing gets started quickly 438 00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:04.599 is definitely ringing in my ears because I've I love these kinds of games and 439 00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:10.279 are at least at one time I really did love strategy tactical RPGs, and 440 00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:12.960 I've tried to go back in recent years to some of those Final Fantasy Tactics 441 00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:15.720 games, and I'm like, oh, I wish just we get started fast. 442 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:21.559 You kind of want to get into it. I love So I love 443 00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:25.759 that, But does it still have like if I'm playing through the story, 444 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:30.480 like enough of a story and like that you feel it's satisfying. So it's 445 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:33.640 like, oh, it does still fully qualify as an RPG? Yeah? 446 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:38.119 One hundred percent and if you managed to read faster, then the voice actors 447 00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:42.519 can read out their lines. You can fast forward through majority of the dialogue. 448 00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:47.079 And the neat thing about this is that it takes that into account and 449 00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:51.160 it will just have like memos or like notes of just bullet point story beats 450 00:31:51.160 --> 00:31:53.119 of like, hey, you found this out during that scene if just in 451 00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:56.799 case you forgot, this is what you found out, This is about this 452 00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:00.680 person, this is where we're at. Just so it's sums that up. 453 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:02.759 But yeah, even if you're trying to like speed through the story to get 454 00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:08.720 to the specific gameplay, they're sprinkling in story within those story missions or the 455 00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:15.440 combat missions, right and important if you if I tack someone in the back, 456 00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:21.359 do I get a bonus? There are bonuses from full Side, and 457 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:28.400 there's more bonuses for like positioning characters in Okay, So like it's basically replicating 458 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:31.000 the all out attack from PERSONA where once you'd weaken them down, you could 459 00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:35.720 like rush them and there's like a fun new animation. So they have variants 460 00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:39.079 of that that is more catered towards a tactics game. So you do have 461 00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:45.119 that satisfying like positioning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the for me in 462 00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:47.799 a Tiles Tactics game. I that's really important to me, So I'm glad 463 00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:52.720 to hear that. I feel like in some Tiles Tactics games that have come 464 00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:57.480 out recently, there isn't a lot of differentiating between your characters in the beginning 465 00:32:57.559 --> 00:33:00.319 and further you get down with them. Here, it definitely you are picking 466 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:05.319 your load out of characters of like, Okay, well this character is good 467 00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:10.039 at AoE, this character is better at attacking from a distance. So you 468 00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:15.680 wind up really having to cater your party for the specific mission. And the 469 00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:20.799 maps are short as well or small. I think that's like one of my 470 00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:24.920 bigger problems with Fire Emblem is that the maps get too big that you wind 471 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.680 up just spending turns just traveling throughout the whole map. Here, they're more 472 00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:35.079 condensed, and like I said, it's just much more snappier because of that. 473 00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:39.119 It's like you can play in short bursts. It's Final Fantasy Tactics, 474 00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:44.680 but snack size fan fantasy snacks. And that's what we're all about here, 475 00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:52.279 Snacktica. There you go hungry. Uh, Jeff Grubb, you have been 476 00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:53.720 chanting. It looks like, oh, you and I have been chanting. 477 00:33:54.559 --> 00:34:00.400 Yeah, you mentioned I can't remember where hey you would like like this, 478 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:05.279 and I think you think Lucy and Tamy. Also, if you're talking about 479 00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:09.199 chance Son, that's one. I've been evangelizing that one for a while now. 480 00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:16.039 Holy Moley is that Mike right? So good? What the heck it 481 00:34:16.119 --> 00:34:20.039 is? Okay, So just I mean, we talked about it before, 482 00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:22.199 but I'll just lay it out again real quick. At least what I played 483 00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:24.800 so far, I'm pretty early. It's a game where you got to figure 484 00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:29.639 out what them symbols mean. Uh. There's you walk around as a little 485 00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:30.679 guy, like like the little guy you play as, he's like a little 486 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:35.320 he's got this little grimlin walk kind of hunched forward with a hood on, 487 00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:40.280 and we and we identify with that. Uh, I don't I don't know 488 00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:46.159 who Ramen is Goblin. He's like a Romen goblin. Yeah, he walks 489 00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:51.360 around the world, Uh as a Ramen Goblin. Uh And yeah. So 490 00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:55.119 I'm like so I'm like already very excited. And then I walk up and 491 00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:57.840 it's like, oh, hey, with the symbol, we don't know what 492 00:34:57.840 --> 00:34:59.320 it means. I'm like, okay, well, I'm sure the game will 493 00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:00.239 just tell me it's like, oh, you got to figure out. I'm 494 00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:06.119 like, it's a cool game. It's one of these games where I anytime 495 00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:08.199 a game is hey, remember this thing, I'm like, first of all, 496 00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:12.039 if you're asking me to do five other things, that's not gonna happen. 497 00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:14.760 I don't have the memory for that. But if that is the core 498 00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:19.360 focus, let's let's go. Let's fucking go. I can handle that to 499 00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:21.679 a certain point. Now, I do still have a pretty bad memory, 500 00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:23.599 so it's like, oh, man, what was that symbol I was literally 501 00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:28.079 looking at two seconds ago. The game does a good job of putting you 502 00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:34.559 in situations where, uh they if you can't figure out what the symbol means, 503 00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:37.039 it will It's like, okay, no, just keep going and eventually 504 00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:42.639 we're gonna give you a series of symbols and gestures from a character and NPC 505 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:45.679 and this is where you're gonna get the most information and you could probably figure 506 00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:49.079 it out here and maybe even still you won't figure it out, but just 507 00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:52.280 go a little bit further and more context and more context will come and then 508 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:53.400 you can figure it out. And when I say like, actually, like 509 00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:57.320 it's up to you to figure out what these words mean. They do give 510 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.239 you the chance to just type in what you think it means. Now, 511 00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:04.519 once you have a certain number of symbols that are in a certain grouping, 512 00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:07.280 you can then move those symbols over to the page, and if you get 513 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:08.320 it correct, the game will be like, yes, that is what this 514 00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:14.119 means, and we'll just kind of fill in their contextual differences as they come 515 00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:17.280 up. For example, I say, oh, this one's clearly greeting a 516 00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:20.960 greeting. This person's greeting me, and then it's like, well, when 517 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:22.840 someone uses that to say goodbye, the game will say they're saying bye, 518 00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:27.480 They're not saying greetings anymore. So like, okay, very cool. I 519 00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:30.360 still feel great about figuring this out, and the game is not going to 520 00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:32.079 be silly about it. It's going to be now, let's keep it clear 521 00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:36.440 so you don't get confused, and so it's just got everything going for it 522 00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:38.719 where it's really thought out. It is not a one to one example, 523 00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:42.440 but it reminds me a lot of a Return of the Oberden in terms of 524 00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:45.800 the parts of your brain. It's trying to get you to get that discovery, 525 00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:49.320 and anytime I'm thinking about Return of the Oberden, I am happy. 526 00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:52.360 So boy, just really cool, fantastic experience. It is like the way 527 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:58.039 I describe it to people is it requires knowing the reference point of duo lingo. 528 00:36:58.159 --> 00:37:00.199 Like you know when you're doing dio lingo and you're starting off and you're 529 00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:05.360 like shit, shit shit learning the words, and then that one time where 530 00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:07.480 the word pops up and you immediately know what it is and you're like, 531 00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:13.239 I know this word in a different language. The satisfaction you get from that 532 00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:16.039 moment is what this game is entirely about. I'm like, I'm obsessed with 533 00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:20.440 languages or like to learn about languages and trying to learn languages as well. 534 00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:23.639 So this like scratches that very particular itch for me, but it's something that 535 00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:29.360 anyone can really get a satisfaction out of. There might be an initial phase 536 00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:31.280 where you feel a bit confused and frustrated, but that's by design. You 537 00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:36.559 are learning a brand new fictional language. But once you start getting it, 538 00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:39.480 you're like, oh, I can now read this language with that's made up 539 00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:44.119 of symbols that are completely made up. It is quite satisfying. Well, 540 00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:46.280 it does the thing that they say you should do with when you're learning a 541 00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:50.400 language, which is get immersed, right, you were immersed in this world. 542 00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:53.159 And I'm someone who who is not obsessed with languages but would very much 543 00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:58.920 like to be. And I'm kind of terrified because I wouldn't be good at 544 00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:01.840 that, and not being able to know my way around a place and not 545 00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:07.639 be able to communicate I find to be very uh isolating and uh not just 546 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:09.880 like embarrassing to a point where like I am wasting this person's time. So 547 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:14.079 the idea of going to a place, getting immersed in a place in a 548 00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:16.800 language that I don't know so that I can learn it is something that's like 549 00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:22.159 I might be too afraid to try that. This game replicates that experience in 550 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:25.079 a safe space, and it feels like it's working the exact way you it 551 00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:29.039 should work, like you said, where you know, these people are just 552 00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:32.280 going to speak their language in their symbols, and you're gonna get hit that 553 00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:36.199 symbol over and over again, and eventually, because of so much context, 554 00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:38.239 you are gonna be like, Okay, now I know exactly what that means. 555 00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:44.719 Uh, And having that experience gamified is very impressive. So just really 556 00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:51.079 joining myself this this game kind of in the same light Grub acts as exposure 557 00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:53.679 therapy for me because I share a similar fear and anxiety of I kind of 558 00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:57.719 don't I really want to go to this place? Why don't speak the language? 559 00:38:57.719 --> 00:39:00.760 And I feel like I'm gonna it's gonna offend everyone to just just make 560 00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:05.960 a fool out of myself here there. No one is like throwing rocks that 561 00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:09.159 you were, like attacking you. You're just solving some basic puzzles and figuring 562 00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:14.039 out the language, and it helps me ease me in of like, Okay, 563 00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:16.000 if I were to go to Japan, no one's gonna throw rocks at 564 00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:21.280 me or make fun of me. Yeah, okay, Like it's like a 565 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:25.639 little bit of Paris. So I don't know for any reason though, just 566 00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:30.880 like because you crossed the picket line you didn't know existed. Yeah, I'm 567 00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:34.360 blown away. I always like at this point, we're like talking up a 568 00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:36.079 game and people like, oh, I should check this out. We haven't 569 00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:38.719 said the name in a while. Chance of Sinar s E N n A 570 00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:43.840 A R. It's on Steam. I've been playing it on the Steam Deck 571 00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:47.079 and the Lenovo Legion Go and it's been yea very good. I think that 572 00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:52.719 it's also another game pass joint I want to say, oh, really fantastic, 573 00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:58.559 yeah, or I'll double check that I am and asks if there's combat 574 00:39:58.599 --> 00:40:00.760 in the game, not that I've experienced. I don't think so. I 575 00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:06.280 played with the boy. Yeah, it's it's all basically, there's no combat 576 00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:09.039 stuff. It's you just have conversations and you're figuring out puzzles on walls, 577 00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:13.360 and it does escalate, but as far as like I'm not finished, but 578 00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:15.039 no, at no point are you holding the sword and trying to swing it. 579 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:20.039 Right. There are antagonistic elements, but yes, I don't think it 580 00:40:20.039 --> 00:40:22.559 ever rises to the level of combat. Sorry, not on game pass, 581 00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:27.719 I stay correct. Okay, fair enough. We got an emails picking up, 582 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:30.679 We got an email. Grab real quick before we get to that email. 583 00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:34.320 Anyone else playing any other things they want to chat about talk about? 584 00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:38.920 I played a bunch of you finally got around to it. How do you 585 00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:43.480 find it. I'm enjoying it quite a lot. Yeah, it's a very 586 00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:49.119 chill game. Yes, it's fine. It's really nice climbing games by don't 587 00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:52.239 nod. I feel I feel like it flew under the radar a bit. 588 00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:54.599 I know, like jan you mentioned it last week. I think it was 589 00:40:54.719 --> 00:40:58.960 or maybe during Revengeance one of those, but because on my list and I 590 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:01.559 just wanted to play as much of it as I can before the game that 591 00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:06.440 you start stuff started happening. And yeah, I'm like maybe three hours into 592 00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:08.679 it and it's like a four or five hour game, so I'm planning to 593 00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:14.199 finish that hopefully today. So yeah, I've been really really enjoying that. 594 00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:19.800 Highly recommend that it is just a really cool climbing game where yeah, it's 595 00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:24.320 it's like it feels satisfying and quite kinectic to move around, but it doesn't 596 00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:29.039 have the weird like jank of climbing games that they usually have. It's quite 597 00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:34.320 forgiving in how like far you can reach and and how sticky you're you are 598 00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:38.159 to like various climbing points. But the real kind of like conceit of it 599 00:41:38.199 --> 00:41:42.760 is like you anchor yourself to points like at the beginning of a big climbing 600 00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:46.119 point. There's a whole civilization that has made like climbing up and getting higher 601 00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:52.039 towards the clouds their whole thing. So very well, yeah me and not 602 00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:55.679 someone get someone getting higher, I don't know, wow, wow alarm. 603 00:41:57.159 --> 00:42:01.639 Yeah, and and there as they kind of like there are these climbing points 604 00:42:01.639 --> 00:42:05.880 where you attach yourself with the rope and then you start climbing and you remain 605 00:42:05.960 --> 00:42:07.880 attached to that rope so that if you fall, you kind of are always 606 00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:12.320 anchored and you can climb back up with that point you can't. Yeah, 607 00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:15.719 and then you can also create manual points for yourself to like kind of it's 608 00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:19.920 almost like save your progress along the way. But it's just like a really 609 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:24.840 nice mechanic that I feel provides an element of like freedom to that you can 610 00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:28.960 just pull in control of your desk. Yeah, there's points where you're like, 611 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:30.960 I don't know where I'm supposed to go here, so I'm just gonna 612 00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:32.519 let go, and you let go and you swing about a bit and you 613 00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:35.679 can look around and be like, Okay, I know where I'm going, 614 00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:38.039 reel myself back up, get to that point again, and start climbing again. 615 00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:40.920 I feel like that's the one thing that it does differently from a lot 616 00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:45.119 of other climbing games. It doesn't punish you for falling. It kind of 617 00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:50.360 builds that into its own kind of like discovery and navigation mechanic. And also 618 00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:53.840 it makes it a little more like exhilarating as well, because you're like, 619 00:42:53.880 --> 00:42:57.840 oh, I'm just going to drop down here and see what happens. And 620 00:42:57.880 --> 00:43:00.599 it's really really satisfying when you drop down and you're like, I can now 621 00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:02.960 see where I'm supposed to be going. I'm supposed to swing the rope hair 622 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:07.159 there, or like you swing across, you come close to a wall and 623 00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:09.800 you like stick one of those ledge points in there, and you're like, 624 00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:13.480 oh, I made it further than I should have been able to because I 625 00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:15.599 timed my jumps and did this kind of stuff. And there's also like a 626 00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:19.559 you can you can do a self imposed risk reward situation where you're like, 627 00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:22.599 I'm not going to use any of these like mid climb points. I'm just 628 00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:24.840 gonna do it. I'm gonna raw dogs climbing and see how far you can 629 00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:30.679 get. Now I'm interested, go on. I also enjoy the small details 630 00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:36.000 because at any point during your climb, even if you're holding onto your rope, 631 00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:38.280 you just press in one of the analog sticks and then your character will 632 00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:44.320 just like shake out their hands and Yeah, the stamina by is like quite 633 00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:47.400 big, but it does like like the max of it depletes over time as 634 00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:52.440 you like get tired, but as it's draining, Like you can always just 635 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:57.559 press the button to like recover up to the max is draining and then get 636 00:43:57.639 --> 00:44:00.760 actual use of the and you can regain back to the lowered max if you 637 00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:04.239 rest your hand. Yeah, and then you could fully rebuild it if you 638 00:44:04.239 --> 00:44:06.760 get to a breasting position, which is just still where you could stand. 639 00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:09.039 And then there's like as you go along, you have this like little buddy, 640 00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:13.320 Like this game is full of like little freaks and that kind of stuff, 641 00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:15.920 but like you ease, but like you have this buddy who like you 642 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:19.880 will who's able to like put this pulse that will make for example, vines 643 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:22.000 grow and that kind of stuff. So you have that kind of and then 644 00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:28.840 it starts to get a little more complicated by introducing like if you're indirect sunlight, 645 00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:34.000 your stamina drains quickly because it's hot. Tell brother, yeah. And 646 00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:37.679 also like the plants that or like the ledge points that are like organic that 647 00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:40.800 emerge, like they might like fade away quicker or dissolve because they're in dire 648 00:44:40.920 --> 00:44:44.639 lyrics sunlight, So you need to think about am I in shade or am 649 00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:47.239 I in sunlight? That kind of stuff. It sounds complicated, It sounds 650 00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:52.159 complicated, but it is very, very very casual, Like it's very fun 651 00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:55.840 and at the same time it has the depth for it to not feel like 652 00:44:55.920 --> 00:45:00.519 a completely like pointless experience. It's one of the those perfect sweet spots of 653 00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:07.840 like engaging and mechanically satisfying while not being overly demanding. It's in that short 654 00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:13.480 hike sort of genre. Yeah, these smaller ascending platforming games, and it's 655 00:45:13.519 --> 00:45:15.960 it's you know, it has its own take on platform obviously because it's a 656 00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:21.719 climbing game. But I just I really like these experiences, and especially when 657 00:45:21.719 --> 00:45:25.800 they focus in deeper and deeper on just doing that one thing and then kind 658 00:45:25.800 --> 00:45:30.960 of just exploring that little nook of gameplay. And that's definitely what they're doing 659 00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:32.239 when you saw. Yeah, I'm a big fan of it. There's also 660 00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:37.119 like some some story beats and some little things to explore if that's if that 661 00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:39.719 tickles your fancy. But if you do just want to stick to the critical 662 00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:44.400 path and like I want to climb this mountain faster, you can just do 663 00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:45.880 that. You can skip through such of that. It just like no, 664 00:45:46.679 --> 00:45:50.440 the stores are little notes and there are like nice cute little things where it's 665 00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:53.679 like someone who's been in this kind of like small isolated spot. It's something 666 00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:57.639 like I've had enough of this. I'm gonna go out there and climb and 667 00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:00.039 like adventure and find this kind of stuff. Those people who are like, 668 00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:04.519 hey, I know it's really risky of this climb stuff, but I really 669 00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:07.239 miss you whill you come and you know, make it to me or like, 670 00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:10.599 And there's people like developing relationships and people trying to realize dreams and people 671 00:46:10.599 --> 00:46:15.440 dealing with isolation and loneliness. And it's it's all told through text most of 672 00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:20.079 the anyway, and and it's kind of accentuated and elevated by really nice music 673 00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:22.880 and these kind of ambient moments where like you'll pick up a seashell and you'll 674 00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:27.360 like hold it to your ear and like instead of just being like a wishywalker 675 00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:30.000 sound, it starts playing this kind of like the ambience of what you used 676 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:32.719 to be like there. So if you're in like a you wore the cameras 677 00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:36.679 around the wall, the camera will you walk into one room, for example, 678 00:46:36.719 --> 00:46:38.119 and there's like cups and tables and that kind of stuff and it looks 679 00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:42.360 like it's a cafe or something like that where people used to be that is 680 00:46:42.400 --> 00:46:44.519 now empty, and you put it to your ear and it will like pan 681 00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:47.599 over all that stuff and you can hear the hustle and bustle of like when 682 00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:52.039 it was a thriving cafe. And it's a really smart, really nice way 683 00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:55.280 to present a history of a location without kind of like doing flashbacks and stuff 684 00:46:55.320 --> 00:47:00.199 like I really like those moments just yeah, just because they don't end until 685 00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:04.639 you end it, so you can just let it like wash over these locations 686 00:47:04.639 --> 00:47:07.880 while that sound is happening and you're like, oh, I really do feel 687 00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:09.880 like this was a lived in space and it adds a lot of emotion to 688 00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:15.639 a game that is mostly this this simple climbing game. This is also a 689 00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:20.440 good game to play while you're just tell you definitely let me tell you. 690 00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:22.719 Just like show games, you get into that flow state and then you start 691 00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:28.480 crying about climbing a mountain. It's great. It's great. I beat Residua 692 00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:31.360 belefour the remake. Cool. Yeah, it was. I kind of started 693 00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:36.840 up again when I got the Steam deck o led Uh and it looks really 694 00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.800 great on there, plays pretty good on there, and the HDR is just 695 00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:43.159 popping. So it was it was a good reason to kind of get it 696 00:47:43.199 --> 00:47:46.360 back and get back into that. And boy, that game is really really 697 00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:52.480 fun. The shooting is just exquisite. It has really good pacing. Uh, 698 00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:54.719 and I kind of couldn't put it down. I had other stuff to 699 00:47:54.760 --> 00:47:58.599 play, and it was like, well, I'm just gonna play. Every 700 00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:00.920 time I pick up the Steam deck, they would turn back on and be 701 00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:01.639 resueable. I'm like, well, I'm just gonna play more with this. 702 00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:05.239 This is gonna do what it tells me to do. I'm gonna do what 703 00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:07.159 the sister's telling me to do. I'm gonna listen to the universe. And 704 00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:12.719 it's just yeah, I really had a good time with it. I'm glad 705 00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:17.320 that Mike stayed on my case to play it, are you? Oh yeah, 706 00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:20.280 I got to do the deal. See. The funny thing about Ari 707 00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:22.880 four remake is like, that's a game that I would like kind of go 708 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:25.679 back to, you know, like maybe once every other year or so. 709 00:48:25.960 --> 00:48:30.159 And now that I played it again all the way through, I feel like 710 00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:34.920 I'm now I'm good for another like decade. I don't have to do that 711 00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:38.679 again. And I played the hell out of Resumeable for in GameCube when it 712 00:48:38.719 --> 00:48:44.000 came out just NonStop. So it was like when I was playing this originally 713 00:48:44.280 --> 00:48:45.280 the earlier this year, I'm like, oh, no, I've played this 714 00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:49.760 game, and I'm it's like, no, it is like a full remade 715 00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:53.000 thing. It's not quite as drastic as residuable to remake, but it's up 716 00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:59.000 there. I feel like with the remake, it's mechanically a little more complicated, 717 00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:00.039 and you know, if you see, yeah, the AI is better 718 00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:04.639 and it feels more like a not a chure, but like feels more like 719 00:49:04.719 --> 00:49:07.199 resistance when you play it, if you know what I mean. The old 720 00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:09.719 ones like now reach the point where it's simply enough that you can like breeze 721 00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:14.119 through it, and that makes it really conducive to repeat playthroughs, even if 722 00:49:14.119 --> 00:49:16.760 you even if there's like an habitual kind of approach to it, this one 723 00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:20.440 it feels like when you go into it, maybe if you play enough where 724 00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:23.199 you've kind of like internalized it to the point where you did you know, 725 00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:27.639 the original resonue before you could get there, But it feels like I'm gonna 726 00:49:27.639 --> 00:49:29.760 get my ass kicked a little bit here, so I don't really want to 727 00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:34.119 play it again, you know. The The update for Ari Ari four is 728 00:49:35.840 --> 00:49:39.880 is less the like, well, it's definitely not the story, but it's 729 00:49:39.920 --> 00:49:45.760 certainly the things that you don't see. It's the it's a it can blend 730 00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:51.239 in with contemporary titles. I think yes, in a way that you know, 731 00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:55.599 the original probably has a tougher time doing. And I think that is 732 00:49:55.639 --> 00:50:02.000 like a really special achievement because that game you could fool someone being like, 733 00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:07.199 yo, this is a twenty twenty three game. Yeah yeah, right right, 734 00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:08.960 you know, and then uh, you know, and I think that's 735 00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:14.519 you know, for me, like that's just as impressive as the other quality 736 00:50:14.519 --> 00:50:21.480 of life improvements that have gone you know, throughout I wanted to I know 737 00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:23.559 everyone was like we were talking Extra Life for a little bit. I know 738 00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:27.280 you guys did was I'm sorry, Jan? Was there other things that you 739 00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:29.559 wanted to Was there a game of the week? Was there something else? 740 00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:37.480 Please? Okay, step on, step away, Okay, what with Okay, 741 00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:45.559 I'll be gentle, I'll wear socks. Uh No. I think I 742 00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:50.679 was going to say earlier about talking about Extra Life Grub that Dan and that 743 00:50:50.760 --> 00:50:52.559 old crew did such a great job. I did a great job. You 744 00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:57.000 did a great job. I saw you that you were in like jail for 745 00:50:57.079 --> 00:51:00.599 a minute and quarantine and Mike went to jail too. I kind of felt 746 00:51:00.639 --> 00:51:04.960 bad because you were like you had like a blanket wrapped around you, and 747 00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:07.320 I was like, oh god, is he like shivering and they're fucking with 748 00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:09.760 him, Like what's happening now. It was at that point I was like 749 00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:13.320 I just wanted to get like let everyone know I was alive, and my 750 00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:19.320 kids were apparently were like watching like okay, oh boy, life and stuff. 751 00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:24.400 So went years of therapy there. Good job. So so you know, 752 00:51:24.400 --> 00:51:28.639 thanks everyone who donated, Thanks everyone for doing it during my little pinball 753 00:51:29.079 --> 00:51:32.760 situation. And I wanted to shout out another Giant Bomb community member who we 754 00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:37.360 did not shout out that I felt bad that we didn't because this person was 755 00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:42.320 like for a while, like acting as like the interim captain of the Giant 756 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:45.079 Bomb team until we got our shit together. I'm talking about Anthony Thomas, 757 00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:52.280 who streamed for twenty six hours well done, who raised six and fifty dollars, 758 00:51:53.400 --> 00:51:59.360 received the single largest donation of six hundred and sixty six dollars and sixty 759 00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:05.679 six cents from Satan himself. Hell yeah, he Stan kids. And also 760 00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:08.840 because I felt bad because Anthony also streamed through fires for a little while too, 761 00:52:09.559 --> 00:52:14.880 and I copied him. I am a non original bastard, and I 762 00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:16.320 just need everyone to know that it was a good stream. It was good 763 00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:20.599 stream. Everyone had good streams. Thanks for everybody for participating. It was 764 00:52:20.639 --> 00:52:22.639 really awesome to see. And you know, we're all raising money for the 765 00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:30.440 kids. It's great exactly all the kids, great great cause, all around, 766 00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:35.039 great job. Yeah, you know, extra life. It's always like 767 00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:37.400 a fun little uh stop right before a Game of the Year of like, 768 00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:40.920 all right, cool, let's let's let's put some good out into the universe. 769 00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:49.920 Universe univorse uh univorse before we uh you know, perhaps divorced from each 770 00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:54.159 other during Game of the Year. I just need to say this word one 771 00:52:54.199 --> 00:53:01.519 time. Rmusic uh Grub. We got an email and it ties into what 772 00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:07.920 you also have on the dock here. Let me hear you that. Okay, 773 00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:10.360 that's it. Longtime listener, first time writer. I have a question 774 00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:14.760 for Jeff Grubb. I'm wanting to get a handheld PC, but I don't 775 00:53:14.760 --> 00:53:16.639 know which one to get. I heard great things about the steam Deck, 776 00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:21.119 o led and the Roger ally, but I haven't heard much about the new 777 00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:23.679 Lenovo Legion go. Do any of you have any experience with it? Much 778 00:53:23.760 --> 00:53:29.639 love from Cody from Salt Lake City, Utah, sent from yachay mail from 779 00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:34.440 iPhone. The Novo Legion go to the polls. Yes, I cannot stop 780 00:53:34.480 --> 00:53:37.880 saying that every time I pick it up. Yeah, I just got mine 781 00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:40.119 when I got back from from Dan's. It was it was waiting for me, 782 00:53:40.159 --> 00:53:43.960 and I got it out right away and played around with it, and 783 00:53:44.119 --> 00:53:46.760 I think, I listen, it's still pretty early. I haven't had a 784 00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:51.679 final verdict on the thing or whatever that means, but I do have a 785 00:53:51.719 --> 00:53:54.920 pretty good idea now of like how I would explain someone like what they should 786 00:53:54.920 --> 00:54:00.519 do when they ask this question. The I think if you can get away 787 00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:04.960 with playing your games on a steam Deck, that is the overall like most 788 00:54:05.039 --> 00:54:09.679 refined experience. The steam deck O led is really awesome. It's really nice 789 00:54:09.719 --> 00:54:15.320 to use. You are just going to be slightly limited in some circumstances if 790 00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:16.920 you have a lot of games on Epic, if you have a lot of 791 00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:22.159 games on the Microsoft Windows Store or game Pass, or if you want to 792 00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:27.360 play some specific games that don't work on steam Deck because of the antipiracy or 793 00:54:27.400 --> 00:54:30.400 anti cheating stuff like destiny or call of duty. So it's like those are 794 00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:34.800 real limitations and things to keep in mind. There are ways around those those 795 00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:37.280 things, but it's a little bit more work, and then that defeats the 796 00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:39.159 purpose of the Steam deck allege just being this refined experience. But it is 797 00:54:39.239 --> 00:54:43.039 the most console like, it is the most well thought out, and it's 798 00:54:43.039 --> 00:54:46.440 my favorite way to play handheld games for the handout PC games right now. 799 00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:51.679 But if you are someone who wants to go and like have the breadth of 800 00:54:51.719 --> 00:54:55.599 all these options, of all these other stores, the ally is very excuse 801 00:54:55.679 --> 00:54:59.159 me, very powerful. I think it's a very comfortable system to hold. 802 00:55:00.679 --> 00:55:02.639 It's uh that they don't have track pads on it, so if you don't 803 00:55:02.639 --> 00:55:07.199 care about that stuff, it's kind of more condensed, and the screen is 804 00:55:07.199 --> 00:55:12.599 really nice. Uh. The Lenovo, the Lenovo Legion Go has a lot 805 00:55:12.599 --> 00:55:15.239 of those same benefits. It's just kind of like it's wild own thing. 806 00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:20.960 So the controllers on the side, they pop off just like a switch and 807 00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:24.159 then you can use them wirelessly. But even more wild than that is the 808 00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:29.639 right controller there's it comes to a little like dock, this like little circular 809 00:55:29.679 --> 00:55:30.800 disc and you can put it in there, and if you look on the 810 00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:36.039 bottom, it's got a mouse like tracking ir light or whatever, and you 811 00:55:36.079 --> 00:55:37.800 can set it down and it turns into a vertical mouse, so you can 812 00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:40.719 put the screen down on a table, and then you can use the left 813 00:55:40.719 --> 00:55:44.880 controller as like your you know, your WASD kind of thing, and then 814 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:47.760 you can use the right controller as a mouse and just start playing keyboard and 815 00:55:47.760 --> 00:55:52.079 mouse games on a table. Now, I think that is something I might 816 00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:55.599 never actually end up using it in any real world scenario, but there are 817 00:55:55.639 --> 00:55:59.519 people out there who will. And if you're thinking like I want, I 818 00:55:59.599 --> 00:56:02.599 want to have my PC games on a go, but the steam deck solution 819 00:56:02.719 --> 00:56:06.880 of using the track pads seems kind of whack to me. I don't really 820 00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:09.119 want to play Civilization that way. I don't mind it. I'll play them 821 00:56:09.119 --> 00:56:13.239 that way. But if you think that there is another option out there, 822 00:56:13.239 --> 00:56:15.599 the Lenova Go does give you this full other and it has a trackpad on 823 00:56:15.639 --> 00:56:17.239 it too, so if you want to play it that way, you can. 824 00:56:17.480 --> 00:56:21.280 And then if you have a desk ready to go somewhere, or if 825 00:56:21.280 --> 00:56:22.360 you're like at the airport and you want to take up a table in front 826 00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:27.039 of you and just do that. The option is there. I think the 827 00:56:27.079 --> 00:56:30.639 Lenovo Legion Go is it's heavier, it's a gigantic, it's bulky, and 828 00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:35.440 it kind of like feels bulky when you're holding it, but it's not so 829 00:56:35.800 --> 00:56:38.159 out of the realm of what's normal that you couldn't get away with using it 830 00:56:38.199 --> 00:56:43.719 as like on the go, like you'll still be mostly fine. I think 831 00:56:43.760 --> 00:56:45.599 the answer here again is Steam Deck. If you can get away with it, 832 00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:49.719 and if there are games that would cause a headache on a Steam Deck, 833 00:56:49.960 --> 00:56:53.079 then I would probably look at the benefits of these two systems and say, 834 00:56:53.079 --> 00:56:57.000 hey, if I want something that is going to be more portable, 835 00:56:57.199 --> 00:57:00.119 gonna make more sense on the go, it's probably the ally, And if 836 00:57:00.119 --> 00:57:01.880 you want to have all of the features, then go with the Legion Go. 837 00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:07.400 I think the software on the Lenovo and the Asus are kind of equivalent, 838 00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:10.320 not great. They both run Windows eleven that has a lot of headaches. 839 00:57:10.360 --> 00:57:15.039 I tried to put the Lenovo Legion Go into sleep mode while I was 840 00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:16.920 playing a game, and it just keeps turning back on and goes into that 841 00:57:16.960 --> 00:57:22.000 Windows like standby mode where it's like, oh, hey, put in your 842 00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:24.360 pen so we can get back into Windows. I'm like, no, actually, 843 00:57:24.440 --> 00:57:27.960 just go to sleep. So there's still headaches there. That's one of 844 00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:31.199 the main reasons I don't like using those things. But Windows has its benefits. 845 00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:35.079 So yeah, it's not an easy answer. But if you can get 846 00:57:35.079 --> 00:57:37.920 away with the Steam Deck, that's definitely the one I reckon. I still 847 00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:42.639 can't believe, like we don't have an elegant EGS solution on the Steam Deck. 848 00:57:42.960 --> 00:57:45.360 Like I know it exists, and I know you can be a fucking 849 00:57:45.440 --> 00:57:50.239 maniac and stay up all hours of the night trying to like maguver your way 850 00:57:50.280 --> 00:57:53.360 through it, but it just doesn't. It's just not happening, you know. 851 00:57:53.800 --> 00:57:58.000 Yeah, I mean it's not. Yeah, it's not like Native and 852 00:57:58.119 --> 00:58:00.360 it is a headache, yeah for sure. I mean I think it more 853 00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:07.480 surprising is just like man game Pass, Like Microsoft has this partnership on going 854 00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:10.559 with Valve. Why't why wouldn't they just make that happen. But even even 855 00:58:10.599 --> 00:58:13.239 that, it's like, oh, well, you could stream your games, 856 00:58:13.239 --> 00:58:15.519 that's what we made happen. That's not really the answer I'm looking for, 857 00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:21.559 Greb. Last question about the Lenovo Legion go if you're playing it in bed, 858 00:58:21.639 --> 00:58:23.400 holding it above your face and you drop it. Do you think it'd 859 00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:29.199 break your orbital bone? I think there is a like a five percent chance 860 00:58:29.239 --> 00:58:31.480 that it would. Yes, okay, which is significant. One out of 861 00:58:31.519 --> 00:58:35.719 twenty times, one out of twenty times. Oh a big boy, it 862 00:58:35.880 --> 00:58:39.360 is big. Any other things, any other games we want to chat about 863 00:58:39.400 --> 00:58:45.320 before we go to break? No sick No. Once again, folks, 864 00:58:45.360 --> 00:58:49.199 if you're just tuning in now Live or you know you tuned out while you 865 00:58:49.199 --> 00:58:52.920 were listening to the archive, tickets are back on sale for the Giant Bomb 866 00:58:52.960 --> 00:58:58.519 Game of the Year finale. We've moved to the Terragram Ballroom. The Moroccan 867 00:58:58.559 --> 00:59:00.639 Lounge was too small. We sold that out. We're trying to sell out 868 00:59:00.679 --> 00:59:04.079 this one too, folks. If you're in the Los Angeles area, so 869 00:59:04.199 --> 00:59:07.039 Cal, I want to see you. I want to see you. I 870 00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:09.679 want to high five you. Maybe not kiss on the mouth, No, 871 00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:15.760 just can't do that anymore. Yes, high fives on the mouth. There 872 00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:17.639 we go, That's what we'll do. That's what we'll do. Also, 873 00:59:19.960 --> 00:59:22.360 all right, I'll relax, We'll go take a quick break break and we'll 874 00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:31.079 be back with some video game news. I'd be remiss if I also didn't 875 00:59:31.079 --> 00:59:39.840 shout out pug Tato for dropping dropping fat stacks for the kids over both weekends 876 00:59:39.840 --> 00:59:45.400 of Extra Life. You're solely, solely responsible for why I had to play 877 00:59:45.400 --> 00:59:51.239 through the quiet Man again. Well I respect that. Uh yeah. I'll 878 00:59:51.280 --> 00:59:55.199 blown away by the by the generosity. Yes, yes, also blown away 879 00:59:55.199 --> 01:00:00.719 by the general generosity of everyone. Nothing is too small or too big. 880 01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:08.840 Also if you're just hanging out to too small general generosity, general general generosity. 881 01:00:09.320 --> 01:00:15.480 Uh, I need to find an outlet for the stupid like two line 882 01:00:15.519 --> 01:00:19.039 bars that I come up with because I I don't have a proper outlet. 883 01:00:19.079 --> 01:00:22.320 Maybe you know what, one one week during the shoutouts, we're just gonna 884 01:00:22.360 --> 01:00:30.559 freestyle, all right everyone, right, Yeah, I bought a I bought 885 01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:34.719 a kai Oh yeah, the drum hand right beats yeah yeah, to make 886 01:00:34.719 --> 01:00:37.639 beats. I say what we do is I'll make I'll make beats and there 887 01:00:37.639 --> 01:00:42.880 will be like five minute long beats and then you just drop your two bars 888 01:00:43.119 --> 01:00:45.119 and then we'll put it up on SoundCloud. Like it will be ridiculous. 889 01:00:45.159 --> 01:00:49.079 It'll be hilarious. People listen to five minutes songs for like two lines. 890 01:00:49.719 --> 01:00:53.440 Okay, what's what's your producer tagging name? Then if I'm general generosity. 891 01:00:54.159 --> 01:01:00.480 I had one. I had one that I won't tell anyone. Oh. 892 01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:09.679 So we were walking once Vanilla Ice, two Vanilla Icia. We were walking 893 01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:14.679 and there was just like this sign on in the streets of London that just 894 01:01:14.679 --> 01:01:16.599 said general Waste on it, and I was like, that would be my 895 01:01:16.679 --> 01:01:21.000 rap nickname. There we go and then and then we came up with a 896 01:01:21.039 --> 01:01:23.679 whole like trash based rap group. Lucy had one as well, so I'll 897 01:01:23.679 --> 01:01:29.320 stick with general waste. What about horse animal? No, that's pretty good. 898 01:01:31.199 --> 01:01:37.719 I feel like that's horse animal. WHOA, Let's not be shoals here. 899 01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:39.880 Let's not be shoals here. Okay, all right, East Coastal. 900 01:01:40.079 --> 01:01:45.199 How you guys remember these things? I remember grub because I occasionally think about, 901 01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:49.320 like, man, I'd like to maybe have like a local political career 902 01:01:49.360 --> 01:01:52.800 where I helped my community. And then I think, no, that's never 903 01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:58.239 gonna happen, because last Friday I loudly proclaimed, let's make a new slur. 904 01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:04.719 Anyway, when did you say that? I don't remember exactly. We 905 01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:09.239 don't can't place these things on a timeline, but we can't place the news. 906 01:02:09.960 --> 01:02:13.000 Hello, everybody, real quick, here the there you go? This 907 01:02:13.079 --> 01:02:17.440 is the Lenovo Legion. Go look, wo thing is wow Deck? How 908 01:02:17.440 --> 01:02:22.440 many of these fucking things do you have there? Jee? Wow? I 909 01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:27.440 got my two Steam decks. I'm getting it. I'm good. I'm getting 910 01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:30.599 another one as soon. Actually might be geting another two. And none of 911 01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:35.039 those count. The little Chinese handhelds that are just like little Android emulators. 912 01:02:35.119 --> 01:02:37.559 That's that's that's your rap name. That's your rap name. Grab Chinese handheld? 913 01:02:38.079 --> 01:02:42.239 No no, no, yeah, yeah, I like I like his 914 01:02:42.360 --> 01:02:45.719 rap name being little Chinese emulatory. Yeah, that's a lot of That's like 915 01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:50.320 a sentence to say, you know, I feel like I'm using my analog 916 01:02:50.440 --> 01:02:55.199 pocket the wrong way. Like I'm not like I'm playing it. I'm not 917 01:02:55.320 --> 01:03:00.159 using it. It's like a paperweight your ass with it. I usually it's 918 01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:04.440 like a DDLL machine is just in fucking shambles on the ground. Now. 919 01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:07.920 I just want to make sure I'm like maximizing all of a couple of games 920 01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:12.519 you want to play. I don't know. All right, there's another podcast. 921 01:03:12.559 --> 01:03:15.960 Maybe. All right. There's not a lot of news happening this week. 922 01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:17.159 It's like a bunch of people about to take the rest of the week 923 01:03:17.159 --> 01:03:21.440 off, so we'll get through this switch to might not have the chops for 924 01:03:21.519 --> 01:03:25.119 real DLSS. DLSS, which is deep learning super sampling, is a feature 925 01:03:25.199 --> 01:03:30.840 that everyone knows about because in Vidia on PC. It works by using AI 926 01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:35.159 to upscale the resolution of games. Basically, in Vidia trains a model like, 927 01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:37.400 hey, here's what this game looks like if it was running at like 928 01:03:37.519 --> 01:03:42.239 thirty two K, and then it takes that data and it like instills it 929 01:03:42.440 --> 01:03:45.719 through those big updates that you get from Nvidia into your hard drive. So 930 01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:46.840 it's like when you play those games, it'say, oh, okay, we're 931 01:03:46.840 --> 01:03:51.039 just going to take this stuff and make it look more like that. Some 932 01:03:51.280 --> 01:03:54.599 of these solutions are going to be coming to the next switch and DLSS might 933 01:03:54.639 --> 01:03:59.400 be in there. But apparently this the switch chip might not have the d 934 01:03:59.639 --> 01:04:03.519 LA, which is the deep learning accelerator processor that would essentially make DSS free 935 01:04:03.559 --> 01:04:08.360 for developers by freeming like they could just add that as a feature and not 936 01:04:08.400 --> 01:04:12.960 worry about any of the detrimental effects of taking away horsepower from actually running the 937 01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:15.400 game. And if they don't have that, that could cause some like picking 938 01:04:15.440 --> 01:04:20.440 and choosing between developers and so hey, this this new handheld system from Nintendo 939 01:04:20.880 --> 01:04:26.280 might not be as powerful as other systems on the market. Big shocker. 940 01:04:26.440 --> 01:04:30.159 Huh, why you even got to say that? Yeah, I mean that's 941 01:04:30.199 --> 01:04:32.519 just where we're at. I mean, it's listen, I think that video 942 01:04:32.679 --> 01:04:36.039 is going to give as much power to Nintendo as they possibly can. They 943 01:04:36.079 --> 01:04:41.400 want, Nintendo have something that's pretty powerful, but at a certain point we've 944 01:04:41.400 --> 01:04:45.119 got to recognize this is Nintendo and they're just not going to do that. 945 01:04:45.320 --> 01:04:48.519 Nintendo. Is that you know that scene from Futurama, Zach Branninggan's like lower 946 01:04:49.000 --> 01:04:55.639 lower, lower, too, low lower. That's Nintendo aspects. Yeah, 947 01:04:57.039 --> 01:04:59.880 I mean the reality is is that like that would probably add a little bit 948 01:04:59.880 --> 01:05:02.000 of cost to the processor, and Nintendo's like, well, well, we 949 01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:04.599 don't need that when our games don't use that, who gives a funk about 950 01:05:04.599 --> 01:05:10.039 other people? And so yeah, listen, this thing's going to get revealed 951 01:05:10.079 --> 01:05:14.000 in the next year. So it probably actually almost certainly in the next year, 952 01:05:14.320 --> 01:05:17.039 so we'll know. But people shouldn't get their hopes up that DLSS is 953 01:05:17.079 --> 01:05:23.159 going to solve everything. Uh. It will probably have some positive effect on 954 01:05:23.159 --> 01:05:25.960 the next switch, but it's not going to be some magic solution for the 955 01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:29.159 switch. The way I used to use. I used to use this thing 956 01:05:29.199 --> 01:05:32.639 on account track called half Life Sound Selector, which was called h l SS. 957 01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:36.039 So every time I hed DLSS in my mind, it just translates to 958 01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:44.199 dof life sound selector. Hey, I always see DLSS as dssl's or DSLS. 959 01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:46.360 Yeah, of course, yes, Oh okay, I have the shoe 960 01:05:46.440 --> 01:05:50.159 fits sure, you know. And I learned now that when we're saying that, 961 01:05:50.199 --> 01:05:54.360 we're not talking about we're talking about the Internet right now. Oh yeah, 962 01:05:54.599 --> 01:05:57.880 in the internet, Internet, Internet, okay, yeah, five fiber 963 01:05:57.960 --> 01:06:01.559 mica all that. Yeah, Pokemon is going to last for hundreds of years. 964 01:06:01.800 --> 01:06:09.840 Oh my god, my wait you here's an idea for you. Here's 965 01:06:09.880 --> 01:06:13.599 an idea. Okay, I'm just gonna float this idea for the Pokemon company 966 01:06:13.639 --> 01:06:19.039 and Jan. If this is gonna last for hundreds of years, it's going 967 01:06:19.119 --> 01:06:25.719 to be entirely unmanageable for that many Pokemon to exist. And I think what 968 01:06:25.920 --> 01:06:30.320 start what expire so that I think manageable amounts of Pokemon. I think what 969 01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:33.679 needs to start happening is some sort of weird Pokemon disease that is like making 970 01:06:33.760 --> 01:06:38.840 certain Pokemon extinct, like killing them off, Like, oh my god, 971 01:06:38.880 --> 01:06:42.840 we had this, this virus went around and killed all the Pikachu's and now 972 01:06:42.840 --> 01:06:45.400 there's no Pikachus. So I feel like then seat and not need to start 973 01:06:45.440 --> 01:06:48.599 calling Pokemon as well, like put them in a vault in the same way 974 01:06:48.679 --> 01:06:53.440 that Destiny does with fucking guns. Just be like, oh they're they're gone, 975 01:06:53.480 --> 01:06:59.239 man, Like all all the hit one chans are dead. When will 976 01:06:59.679 --> 01:07:05.239 peak? It should be in the public domain? All right? Well Google's 977 01:07:05.280 --> 01:07:09.320 not very helpful there. Eventually the stuff is going to be the public domain, 978 01:07:09.320 --> 01:07:14.280 and then Jane can make Pikachu Pikachu. Well, zero chance Pikachu is 979 01:07:14.280 --> 01:07:17.960 going in the public domain. So if Mickey Mouse does it maybe in Japan. 980 01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:21.760 Will never Mickey Mouse is in public domain? Uh, steamboat Willie technically 981 01:07:21.880 --> 01:07:26.519 is okay. I was gonna say, I can't imagine the kind of heinous 982 01:07:26.559 --> 01:07:29.079 ship that Mitch is coming up with in his mind right now. Well, 983 01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:32.559 Mike, I know you're gonna love this. Is against Mickey Mouse going into 984 01:07:32.599 --> 01:07:35.239 the public domain. He wants the Disney to have it for forever. Oh 985 01:07:35.280 --> 01:07:41.599 he's he's he's pro capitalism. I get it, Yes, pro capitalism, 986 01:07:41.719 --> 01:07:45.679 Mitch, Yeah, the fuck Mike. Okay, he gets a lot of 987 01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:49.039 heat, just like I want I want. I want Mickey Mouse to be 988 01:07:49.119 --> 01:07:55.679 private and I don't want health careful anyone. That's what it sounds like. 989 01:07:57.000 --> 01:07:59.480 He's going to come in here. He's going to come in here. Yeahst 990 01:07:59.840 --> 01:08:00.760 the he does get a lot of heat for this one. Go easy on 991 01:08:00.840 --> 01:08:03.880 him, guys. He just likes Disney a lot. Go easy on him. 992 01:08:03.960 --> 01:08:09.320 This capitalist ghoul. Yeah, this is this disgusting pig, all right, 993 01:08:09.920 --> 01:08:11.880 But he makes a lot of money for the kids this week, and 994 01:08:11.920 --> 01:08:20.399 everybody give him a break. Yes, because we can't afford healthcare. I 995 01:08:20.439 --> 01:08:26.399 want to get Mitch a tsha that says privatize Mickey Mouse on it. I 996 01:08:26.399 --> 01:08:30.720 feel that would be a great Actually that's actually a shirt, all right. 997 01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:33.880 Sosnmia, who is the chief operating officer at the Pokemon Company, says his 998 01:08:33.960 --> 01:08:39.000 role is to ensure Pokemon will outlive us all. He wants to keep Pokemon 999 01:08:39.039 --> 01:08:42.800 alive for hundreds of years, making sure it survives well past our lifetimes. 1000 01:08:42.960 --> 01:08:46.479 It's important to keep satisfying existing Pokemon fans. It's equally as important and harder 1001 01:08:46.479 --> 01:08:50.520 to ensure younger players will keep discovering the series. One way the series can 1002 01:08:50.560 --> 01:08:55.760 expand the futures to show how show more of how pokemon behaved in the wild 1003 01:08:55.960 --> 01:08:57.880 e thither, that's what it needs. Jan's four kids will be like, 1004 01:08:57.920 --> 01:09:00.399 well, I got to see how these pokemon actually live. No, just 1005 01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:05.119 just cut down the amount of them. Most of them are dog shit. 1006 01:09:05.479 --> 01:09:09.880 We the vast majority of my ship. Keep all the dog ones, keep 1007 01:09:09.920 --> 01:09:14.000 all the cat ones. Take out the sand castle. I like the chandelier 1008 01:09:14.079 --> 01:09:16.079 ghost, what about the ghosts? Keep all the ghosts. Yeah, keep 1009 01:09:16.119 --> 01:09:19.840 all the sexy ones. Keep the Oh you need the sexy ones. Yeah, 1010 01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:24.800 a fun, fun story. My partner was giving out candy and stickies 1011 01:09:24.840 --> 01:09:29.640 for Halloween and then there was one, Uh low puney folks at home. 1012 01:09:29.680 --> 01:09:33.479 You can go google Lowpney l O p U and not do it at work. 1013 01:09:33.520 --> 01:09:36.680 Be be a little freak at work. Yeah, yeah, turn safe, 1014 01:09:36.680 --> 01:09:42.079 setch off on a Google low Punny and uh, one of the kids, 1015 01:09:42.079 --> 01:09:44.159 like you know, he grabbed his little sticker pack and then he saw 1016 01:09:44.199 --> 01:09:46.000 that low Pony was there and was like, miss blah blah blah, can 1017 01:09:46.039 --> 01:09:50.439 I can I switch for that one? And then she just up and she 1018 01:09:50.560 --> 01:09:53.680 knows, like, I know why you want to fucking switch to this, 1019 01:09:53.800 --> 01:09:57.640 you little freak. Yeah, go ahead. I like how what you said? 1020 01:09:57.760 --> 01:10:00.119 Uh, I like how you said fun story my partner, and then 1021 01:10:00.159 --> 01:10:04.439 from behind it, I mean just like turn like, oh god, you're 1022 01:10:04.560 --> 01:10:13.239 educating the children. It's good. That's the story here though, right, 1023 01:10:13.279 --> 01:10:17.279 Jane is like your your desire for them is to focus in more on the 1024 01:10:17.319 --> 01:10:21.199 good Pokemon. And what he's really saying here is they have to keep making 1025 01:10:21.279 --> 01:10:26.560 an unsustainable number of Pokemon, because that's the only way this makes sense in 1026 01:10:27.079 --> 01:10:30.479 hundreds of years. You have to keep making more Pokemon. I think that 1027 01:10:30.560 --> 01:10:34.520 the Pokemon legacy will definitely live on if they are a little bit smarter with 1028 01:10:34.600 --> 01:10:39.199 their decisions when it comes to the games and how they handle the IP. 1029 01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:43.520 Because it's been how many years since that last Detective Pikachu movie. I don't 1030 01:10:43.560 --> 01:10:47.359 know if there's enough momentum or sustain momentum anymore for like a Detective Pikachu two 1031 01:10:47.680 --> 01:10:50.359 movie at least. Yeah, I mean, with the Morriman movie, make 1032 01:10:50.399 --> 01:10:55.119 it so much money, They're gonna keep trying Pokemon movies, just maybe not 1033 01:10:55.159 --> 01:10:58.079 Detective Pikachu too. I'm waiting for them to get to their phase where they're 1034 01:10:58.079 --> 01:11:00.960 like, we're gonna make Pokemon mature. We're gonna make it for like the 1035 01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:04.720 older people, and it's like Pokemon his Oh no, mewtwo's a fallen on 1036 01:11:04.800 --> 01:11:08.960 hard times as crackhead. Now no, no, here's what we do. 1037 01:11:09.239 --> 01:11:13.319 Here's what we do, tam. We just remake Logan but with Pokemon, 1038 01:11:13.439 --> 01:11:17.640 but with yeah Logan, but with like who's hit Man chew? No, 1039 01:11:17.880 --> 01:11:20.439 hit Man chew? What the fuck is up? Hit Man hit Man chomp? 1040 01:11:20.520 --> 01:11:25.399 But I can't. I decided four thousand of these things. I don't 1041 01:11:25.439 --> 01:11:31.159 remember what they're called making up POC. I had a really good shot of 1042 01:11:31.159 --> 01:11:33.960 it being real. Now let's keep it. You had a solid show. 1043 01:11:34.000 --> 01:11:38.960 I was thinking of, what's the one with the fucking the frog with the 1044 01:11:39.000 --> 01:11:44.279 tongue that everyone loves Greninja gren Inga. But it's like Logan and then mew 1045 01:11:44.319 --> 01:11:46.640 two is Professor X in that movie. Yeah, mew two is Professor X. 1046 01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:49.319 Yeah, I love it. I'll cut the check, cut the check, 1047 01:11:50.319 --> 01:11:53.039 let's go. I think what they should do. You know how the 1048 01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:56.359 MCU like they had the longest time, they were like ship. We can't 1049 01:11:56.399 --> 01:12:00.560 access these characters because they're fox Everyone's you know, now when them back, 1050 01:12:00.600 --> 01:12:03.199 we need the Fantastic four, we need or the X Men back and now 1051 01:12:03.199 --> 01:12:05.479 they go and everyone's like, oh, hell yeah. I think what they 1052 01:12:05.560 --> 01:12:10.119 do is they do that but with dig one where they're like, we need 1053 01:12:10.159 --> 01:12:14.560 Digi one, and they acquired Digi one and didgit wan to fold it into 1054 01:12:14.600 --> 01:12:17.239 the universe as well, and that would be incredible. It now it's like 1055 01:12:17.279 --> 01:12:20.960 Marvel versus Capcom by his Pokemon versus Digi one, and it's like Capcom makes 1056 01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:24.800 up fighting game is sick, let's go. It would be more like when 1057 01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:29.840 ww by WCW and then they just treated the WCW wrestlers like garbage. Yeah, 1058 01:12:29.880 --> 01:12:38.239 idiots, like sting you get out? Yeah. Returnals director is leaving 1059 01:12:38.279 --> 01:12:43.479 Housemart Kerry Kruger director of Housemark's acclaimed PS five exclusive Returnal and so now he's 1060 01:12:43.560 --> 01:12:46.960 leaving the Helsinki based developer after fourteen years. Kruger said the decision to leave 1061 01:12:47.119 --> 01:12:50.800 was very difficult, but he was confident that the developer's brightest chapter has yet 1062 01:12:50.840 --> 01:12:55.199 to be written. He said he was proud of all the amazing things Housemark 1063 01:12:55.239 --> 01:12:59.119 has accomplished and that he's leaving the company with nothing but deep gratitude for the 1064 01:12:59.159 --> 01:13:01.680 past. We don't know what he's doing next. I don't necessarily, but 1065 01:13:01.720 --> 01:13:04.760 he's probably gonna go start his own thing. Who knows. I just want 1066 01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:09.640 to say someone in chut used the Pokemon Fusion website to create Hit one Shoot. 1067 01:13:11.520 --> 01:13:15.920 Okay, Yeah, it's it's fantastic and Pikachu obviously that's very good. 1068 01:13:15.960 --> 01:13:23.159 Oh that makes sense. Uh well, yes, so it's sorry, sorry, 1069 01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:28.039 well well done front tickiness for that. Harry Krueger. Yeah, he 1070 01:13:28.119 --> 01:13:30.359 was in charge of Returnal, but he is not in charge of their next 1071 01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:33.600 game, which is some new I p uh. They're still working on that. 1072 01:13:33.600 --> 01:13:36.359 That'll come along here in the next in the next couple of years. 1073 01:13:38.039 --> 01:13:40.039 How do you guys feel about Returnals? That was like a hot one for 1074 01:13:40.079 --> 01:13:42.640 you guys. I thought it was pretty okay, Yeah, I liked it. 1075 01:13:42.920 --> 01:13:45.159 Yeah, I enjoyed it. I think I thought it was a cool 1076 01:13:45.159 --> 01:13:49.399 place for that depth to like go it. He was like a very satisfying 1077 01:13:49.880 --> 01:13:55.119 evolution, good use of their skills. Yes, agreed. Yeah, I 1078 01:13:55.159 --> 01:14:00.760 think it's a quick game, all right. Dragon's Dogmas two's release date has 1079 01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:03.319 seemingly leaked. It's coming out on my birthday, March twenty second, twenty 1080 01:14:03.399 --> 01:14:12.119 twenty four. Yeah, March specifically, and only March birthdays, true, 1081 01:14:12.199 --> 01:14:15.520 Jeff Acalor, I happen to know it's your birthday too. No, no, 1082 01:14:15.640 --> 01:14:17.640 I said, only March birthdays is cool, Like everyone, Okay, 1083 01:14:18.880 --> 01:14:21.159 that's true, that's I know, you know, I know, you know. 1084 01:14:24.039 --> 01:14:29.239 Yeah, Dragon's Dogmas. It's impossible to Dragon's Dogma two's release date. 1085 01:14:29.680 --> 01:14:34.039 There's too many possessions there. Yeah, so this this game was the date 1086 01:14:34.079 --> 01:14:40.560 was leaked by Peggy in the UK Capcom Peggy again, she is, they're 1087 01:14:40.720 --> 01:14:45.640 just shouting on the streets about release dates. The Capcom has an event coming 1088 01:14:45.720 --> 01:14:48.800 up soon. I think at the end of this month they'll probably reveal this 1089 01:14:48.920 --> 01:14:53.960 date then confirm it. But we haven't heard much about this game in any 1090 01:14:53.960 --> 01:14:57.359 real way since they announced it. There was so they had like one little 1091 01:14:57.359 --> 01:15:00.279 revealed trailer since then, and then oh yeah, okay, well we'll hear 1092 01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:02.239 about that game and like probably another year and then we'll release it a year 1093 01:15:02.279 --> 01:15:04.920 after that. It's like, no, this thing is coming in fast. 1094 01:15:05.159 --> 01:15:08.479 We should be playing it in the first quarter next year. And this is 1095 01:15:08.479 --> 01:15:11.640 the game that Capcom was probably hinting at that they said that they have a 1096 01:15:11.640 --> 01:15:14.680 big game. It's gonna sell millions of copies in the first quarter next year. 1097 01:15:14.720 --> 01:15:17.199 That's unannounced. Well, this is all those things except for their assuming 1098 01:15:17.199 --> 01:15:19.520 it's gonna be a big hit, So it seems like they have a lot 1099 01:15:19.560 --> 01:15:23.680 of confidence in it. Any of you guys, dragons, dogma guys. 1100 01:15:24.880 --> 01:15:27.560 No, but I know someone who is tams his hand in the air, 1101 01:15:27.640 --> 01:15:30.760 Tam, you're a big dragon's dama guy. I like that game. I 1102 01:15:30.760 --> 01:15:34.279 think he is great. I think Dark Orisen was a fantastic expansion. However, 1103 01:15:34.439 --> 01:15:39.000 it needs to be digging some serious points for getting rid of the original 1104 01:15:39.039 --> 01:15:43.079 theme tune, which is one of the greatest theme tunes of all time one 1105 01:15:43.079 --> 01:15:50.000 of the greatest title screens of all time. Bees Into Free is a unbelievably 1106 01:15:50.279 --> 01:15:55.479 brilliant butt rock from Japan that it comes out of nowhere. It starts with 1107 01:15:55.520 --> 01:15:58.119 like piano notes and you're like, oh, this is gonna be one of 1108 01:15:58.119 --> 01:16:02.840 those things. It goes it basically yeah, it's just like you start shredding 1109 01:16:02.880 --> 01:16:06.399 and you're like, oh my god, this is incredible. But yeah, 1110 01:16:06.399 --> 01:16:10.079 that game is the original was a lot of fun. It had that like 1111 01:16:10.159 --> 01:16:15.680 nice blend of monster hunter souls ish and like its own climbable stuff, which 1112 01:16:15.680 --> 01:16:20.199 is which was really cool. I feel like it's It's The interesting thing for 1113 01:16:20.239 --> 01:16:24.720 me is like they're very confidently saying this will sell millions and millions, and 1114 01:16:24.800 --> 01:16:28.600 yeah, I'm like, hmm, interesting. I feel like the world is 1115 01:16:28.640 --> 01:16:32.600 in a different place now with Fantasy, where that feels more like a reasonable 1116 01:16:32.760 --> 01:16:38.920 as assssion, especially given in a post Skyrm world, in a post you 1117 01:16:38.920 --> 01:16:41.359 know, Game of Thrones world, you know, in a world where you 1118 01:16:41.359 --> 01:16:45.359 know the cells games are super popular or difficult years is kind of like expected 1119 01:16:45.359 --> 01:16:46.760 in a lot of bunch of games. But yeah, I'm excited to see 1120 01:16:46.760 --> 01:16:48.760 how that game performs. I'm excited to play it. It's you know, 1121 01:16:48.800 --> 01:16:53.319 it's like, for my money, one of the most talented it's not in 1122 01:16:53.439 --> 01:16:57.319 Team Act. Capcom one of the most talented developers when it comes to combat 1123 01:16:58.159 --> 01:17:01.039 and stylish combat as well. Obviously worked on a bunch of dovitm Cry games. 1124 01:17:01.079 --> 01:17:04.640 So I trust them to make it a really cool, interesting game. 1125 01:17:06.479 --> 01:17:12.079 Last couple of stories here. Let's see Balderskate three is getting a physical deluxe 1126 01:17:12.239 --> 01:17:15.039 edition. It's going to be eighty dollars. There was no physical edition before 1127 01:17:15.079 --> 01:17:16.760 this, so it's not like you can go to the store and buy a 1128 01:17:16.760 --> 01:17:20.760 copy of this. This was a digital only. The deluxe edition is going 1129 01:17:20.800 --> 01:17:23.800 to have a bunch of extra stuff in there. It's actually a pretty good 1130 01:17:23.800 --> 01:17:27.439 deal because it's eighty dollars. But it does make me wondering in the future 1131 01:17:27.479 --> 01:17:30.520 as we get to more like digital only releases, something that will probably be 1132 01:17:30.600 --> 01:17:34.279 more common as we get later in this generation, especially next generation. You 1133 01:17:34.319 --> 01:17:36.800 guys think this is kind of maybe the way that it's going to happen, 1134 01:17:36.840 --> 01:17:43.039 where big games get released digital only and then a like an eighty or ninety 1135 01:17:43.039 --> 01:17:45.840 dollars version gets released and if you want it physically, that's the one you 1136 01:17:45.840 --> 01:17:49.640 buy. Yeah. Yeah, I could see that being a trend, especially 1137 01:17:50.880 --> 01:17:56.560 with I mean, I don't remember the last physical game I bought, but 1138 01:17:56.640 --> 01:17:59.800 there's been like digital releases where I've thought, like, oh, I'd really 1139 01:17:59.880 --> 01:18:02.800 like if I had a physical representation of this, like Tunic Right, metrop 1140 01:18:02.840 --> 01:18:05.680 Prime four was from earlier this year, is the last one I bought physically? 1141 01:18:05.760 --> 01:18:10.079 Yeah? You pull Metroc Prime four Metroc Prime Remastered? What the book? 1142 01:18:10.640 --> 01:18:15.000 No, don't stop telling people care for an alley. That's where I 1143 01:18:15.000 --> 01:18:21.039 get my leagues from the Alley shit. Uh yeah, clipped and ship everywhere. 1144 01:18:23.720 --> 01:18:28.680 Yeah, Games Journalist, Chefu Report, Metroid Prime four, it's ship 1145 01:18:28.760 --> 01:18:32.319 everybody, Stop getting your expectations up. It's acoustic day. Uh yeah, 1146 01:18:32.359 --> 01:18:36.119 I am. I'm thinking this is going to be very common. I think 1147 01:18:36.119 --> 01:18:40.439 Baltis Gate three is actually gona probably set a precedent for this, and it 1148 01:18:40.720 --> 01:18:45.159 like Alan Wake two that's digital only. I think a physical version of that 1149 01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:47.640 comes out eventually, and it'll be something like this where it's like a deluxe 1150 01:18:47.800 --> 01:18:50.840 edition, maybe not like a collector's edition. They might have that as well, 1151 01:18:50.840 --> 01:18:54.199 and that'll be two hundred and fifty three hundred dollars whatever, But I 1152 01:18:54.199 --> 01:18:58.640 think they'll have a physical deluxe edition only and that'll be like eighty or ninety 1153 01:18:58.680 --> 01:19:04.199 dollars. They give me a fair mossh really like this idea because it feels 1154 01:19:04.439 --> 01:19:10.079 less shitty in my mind. There's a period of time where all these collectors 1155 01:19:10.199 --> 01:19:14.159 editions with yourself is perhaps the most memorable, like perpetrator of this, where 1156 01:19:14.159 --> 01:19:18.079 it's like we've got five different versions and each version is full of more bullshit 1157 01:19:18.199 --> 01:19:23.119 than the last, and it felt like these things were being created to try 1158 01:19:23.119 --> 01:19:27.319 and like in a very cynical way cash in on excitement for games, whereas 1159 01:19:27.399 --> 01:19:30.840 this approach allows it to be reversed where it's like a game comes out like 1160 01:19:30.920 --> 01:19:35.199 Balder's Gate three people are super in love with it, you know, culture 1161 01:19:35.239 --> 01:19:40.520 around it emerges, discussions around emergers, like brains around it emerges. The 1162 01:19:40.640 --> 01:19:43.920 developer can look at that, take some money that they've earned from the game 1163 01:19:44.239 --> 01:19:47.960 already, and be like, let's make something that is for these people who 1164 01:19:48.000 --> 01:19:51.840 love it, who can now buy and use it to and have it every 1165 01:19:51.880 --> 01:19:55.920 part of it being meaningful. I think that's the important thing that about the 1166 01:19:55.920 --> 01:19:58.479 bottles Gate one that feels a little different. It is like you look at 1167 01:19:58.520 --> 01:20:00.359 every item in there and you're like, that's that's cool. That's cool. 1168 01:20:00.399 --> 01:20:03.319 As a fan, I would be excited if I had all of these as 1169 01:20:03.359 --> 01:20:08.680 opposed to here's an empty case, a map, and some other bullshit like 1170 01:20:08.720 --> 01:20:12.359 that. At the very least, in that empty case map and that I 1171 01:20:12.479 --> 01:20:15.319 have an investment in that. I know that I like that map or whatever 1172 01:20:15.359 --> 01:20:18.159 it may be. Yeah, So it feels like a much better way to 1173 01:20:18.159 --> 01:20:21.640 do this. I wouldn't be surprised a few months from now there's a physical 1174 01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:26.239 version of Alan Wake and it's like got the thermos in it, it's got 1175 01:20:26.279 --> 01:20:29.319 you know, a slash, the soundtrack, flashlight, or it's got like 1176 01:20:29.399 --> 01:20:32.000 you know, the clicker in it or something like that. And it's more 1177 01:20:32.039 --> 01:20:35.800 meaningful because you've played through that game. You know the value and the kind 1178 01:20:35.840 --> 01:20:40.039 of like weight of those items in the game, and and you have an 1179 01:20:40.079 --> 01:20:44.840 attachment to that stuff. I really like this idea as far as like cashing 1180 01:20:44.880 --> 01:20:47.960 in on fandom goes. This feels a little more and also keeping physical alive, 1181 01:20:48.039 --> 01:20:51.880 right, like, yeah, we get like already Alan Wake, Baulder's 1182 01:20:51.920 --> 01:20:57.279 Gate. These are Game of the Year nominees coming out without physical versions right 1183 01:20:57.319 --> 01:21:00.880 away. The trend is moving in that direction, and people want to keep 1184 01:21:00.920 --> 01:21:02.680 physical around. Well, this is how it's going to happen for a lot 1185 01:21:02.680 --> 01:21:05.960 of these games. They're just they're going to save so much money by not 1186 01:21:06.159 --> 01:21:11.279 having to print this stuff up and then recognize the demand afterward and then being 1187 01:21:11.279 --> 01:21:13.319 able to charge you a little bit more, a little bit of a premium 1188 01:21:13.319 --> 01:21:15.560 because you've already fallen in love with it. As you said, tam So, 1189 01:21:15.720 --> 01:21:17.800 I think you're right. Yeah, there's that one company that does similar 1190 01:21:17.840 --> 01:21:23.119 right already with limited rings Actually there's actually like six or seven of these things. 1191 01:21:23.119 --> 01:21:26.840 Now, Yeah, like limited runs approach is really good, but it 1192 01:21:26.920 --> 01:21:30.279 is obviously taking like indie digital titles and doing it for them. In most 1193 01:21:30.279 --> 01:21:33.000 cases, I would like it, like like bigger games to have a similar 1194 01:21:33.039 --> 01:21:36.760 treatment where it's like it has a bunch of has an expensive thing, but 1195 01:21:38.000 --> 01:21:42.600 everything in here is something you're going to care about. All right, let's 1196 01:21:42.640 --> 01:21:46.119 see here, border Borderlands four and Tiny, Tina's Wonderlands to have been mentioned 1197 01:21:46.119 --> 01:21:50.520 on someone's leakedin profile basically a former Gearbox employee. Have these mentioned, It 1198 01:21:50.560 --> 01:21:56.439 seems a bit obvious that these will happen. They aren't happening. Borderlands four, 1199 01:21:56.520 --> 01:22:00.000 Tiny and Tina's Wonderland too, probably will get announced over the next couple 1200 01:22:00.159 --> 01:22:05.000 years. The question is Gearbox is that embracer Embracers in a tough situation. 1201 01:22:05.079 --> 01:22:11.239 They They've even mentioned that they might try to sell off Gearbox. This Gearbox 1202 01:22:11.319 --> 01:22:15.279 has enough momentum, has had enough successes that someone will probably pick them up. 1203 01:22:15.680 --> 01:22:17.279 You guys think two K I if it comes down to it, two 1204 01:22:17.359 --> 01:22:20.079 K will just buy Gearbox to ensure that these games can keep coming out. 1205 01:22:20.079 --> 01:22:24.720 Because two K deeply involved in the Borderlands games, right, Yeah, I 1206 01:22:26.079 --> 01:22:31.800 that's the first immediate company I can imagine picking them up other than them getting 1207 01:22:31.800 --> 01:22:38.000 swallowed up in the mailstrom that is Xbox and just consuming everything. Yeah. 1208 01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:43.399 Absolutely, but just no surprise these I mean Borderlands three very successful, tiny 1209 01:22:43.399 --> 01:22:46.520 and Tina's wonder Lands they said beat expectations. So the fact that we're getting 1210 01:22:46.600 --> 01:22:49.680 more little surprised there. I mean, do you guys want anything else from 1211 01:22:49.720 --> 01:22:54.960 Gearbox at this point? No? I think I'm good. I'm full, 1212 01:22:55.479 --> 01:22:58.920 yeah, full, all right full. It's one of those instances, you 1213 01:22:58.920 --> 01:23:01.279 know, where you create food and you have a lot of it, like 1214 01:23:01.560 --> 01:23:05.079 day after day, week after weekend, and then you realize I don't need 1215 01:23:05.119 --> 01:23:09.600 to eat this food anymore. Yeah, and have cheddar Bay biscuits in. 1216 01:23:09.840 --> 01:23:14.159 That's the one thing that in my mind, I'm like, maybe it wouldn't 1217 01:23:14.199 --> 01:23:17.359 be in their best interest to do that with gearb isn't Gearbox like partly OneD 1218 01:23:17.359 --> 01:23:21.279 by ten Cent now or something like that. Or is it Embracer It's Embracer, 1219 01:23:21.359 --> 01:23:25.880 It's Embrace. There's so there's some stickiness there as well, or messiness 1220 01:23:25.880 --> 01:23:29.359 there as well that they'd have to untangle. But I also feel like they 1221 01:23:30.279 --> 01:23:32.640 if I was in that situation trying to make that decision. I would look 1222 01:23:32.680 --> 01:23:38.600 at whether how viable this franchise is going to be long term, if that's 1223 01:23:38.680 --> 01:23:43.279 the main reason I'm acquiring that developer. I feel like a lot of people 1224 01:23:43.279 --> 01:23:45.720 love that franchise. I feel like it also is on the cusp of like 1225 01:23:45.960 --> 01:23:48.039 going one way or the other. The movie is gonna come out. I 1226 01:23:48.039 --> 01:23:51.560 feel like that movie will be a kind of collection point for the franchise. 1227 01:23:51.960 --> 01:23:57.640 Yeah, exactly. Either it breaks through to the mainstream where people are like, 1228 01:23:57.680 --> 01:23:59.960 oh, I love this shit, this is amazing. I've never had 1229 01:24:00.359 --> 01:24:03.800 mad Max but annoying before this is this is I'm down for this, and 1230 01:24:03.800 --> 01:24:06.399 and that will be like, oh yeah, we should acquire them, or 1231 01:24:06.479 --> 01:24:11.960 I feel like if that doesn't work. My my personal opinion is as much 1232 01:24:12.000 --> 01:24:15.920 as I you know, do engage with the boradline franchise in the gaming space, 1233 01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:19.800 it feels like it's losing a lot of momentum and it's like doing a 1234 01:24:19.840 --> 01:24:23.680 lot of the same things over and over again. Like that last boat Borderlands 1235 01:24:23.720 --> 01:24:26.960 three, I was like, it sold very well, but I know it 1236 01:24:27.079 --> 01:24:30.279 sold really well, but like I every moment playing that game was like this 1237 01:24:30.399 --> 01:24:32.680 hurts man. This is just I know, right, like we're being and 1238 01:24:33.399 --> 01:24:36.640 people It's sold very well, probably because people want Borderlines back. Does that 1239 01:24:36.680 --> 01:24:41.399 mean they like after a while they're like, ah, I don't know if 1240 01:24:41.399 --> 01:24:44.479 I need more Borderlands because Borderlands three didn't do much for me. Does Borderlands 1241 01:24:44.479 --> 01:24:46.479 four get hurt by that? But I think by the time that that that 1242 01:24:46.479 --> 01:24:50.479 that people realize that it will be too Like the publishers the two K and 1243 01:24:50.800 --> 01:24:54.560 Gearbox will be like, well, now we're already making X. Last one 1244 01:24:54.600 --> 01:24:57.800 succeeded, so yeah, yeah, I guess so, but my my, 1245 01:24:58.000 --> 01:25:00.760 I guess the point is like, the next one could succeed, but if 1246 01:25:00.760 --> 01:25:04.760 it continues on the trajectories on do they believe that it will be the investment 1247 01:25:04.800 --> 01:25:09.159 is enough for them to do they believe the trajectory is good enough for them 1248 01:25:09.159 --> 01:25:12.880 to invest in long term by buying that studio and untangling the mess that isn't 1249 01:25:12.920 --> 01:25:17.920 breaker Embracer and then also h and and and then also getting in bed with 1250 01:25:20.199 --> 01:25:24.880 a bunch of people who have done questionable things in the past. Yeah, 1251 01:25:25.000 --> 01:25:30.159 I I I speculate that the reason two K did not buy Gearbox when they 1252 01:25:30.159 --> 01:25:32.159 were up for sale Embracer broad is because they probably didn't want to have to 1253 01:25:32.279 --> 01:25:36.159 deal with the headache of Randy Pittford. But they found a usp with some 1254 01:25:36.600 --> 01:25:41.000 yeah pawn on it and they were like, well, maybe we shouldn't buy 1255 01:25:41.000 --> 01:25:45.319 this. H Finally, earlier this week or Lassen last week, at some 1256 01:25:45.359 --> 01:25:48.359 point I said Star Wars to the Old probably isn't being worked one anywhere anymore. 1257 01:25:48.359 --> 01:25:51.119 And I just clarified this on GMM, but I figured i'd do it 1258 01:25:51.159 --> 01:25:56.720 here as well, so I mentioned this and it got picked up everywhere. 1259 01:25:57.079 --> 01:26:00.760 Uh. Yeah, Star Wars Noting the Old public does seem very unlikely to 1260 01:26:00.800 --> 01:26:03.680 ever come out this remake. Uh. And that's not that's not going to 1261 01:26:03.760 --> 01:26:08.920 change with any of this, but it's I say that because PlayStation seems like 1262 01:26:08.960 --> 01:26:11.520 they're done with it and they don't want anything to do with it. And 1263 01:26:11.560 --> 01:26:15.359 this kind of game from Lucas, Lucas Arts and Lucasfilm doesn't really happen anymore 1264 01:26:15.399 --> 01:26:19.079 unless it has a partner. Lucas does not really like funding games themselves. 1265 01:26:19.359 --> 01:26:24.439 They like finding outside partners. That's why the uh, the Quantic dream game 1266 01:26:24.439 --> 01:26:28.000 happens because Quantic Dreams said they would fund the game themselves, and Lucas say 1267 01:26:28.000 --> 01:26:29.920 all right, knock yourselves out, go have fun with it, go make 1268 01:26:29.960 --> 01:26:32.439 it sure. That's what this was where it's like, hey, Embracer will 1269 01:26:32.439 --> 01:26:35.960 make it. Sony is going to come in and basically be the publishing partner 1270 01:26:36.199 --> 01:26:40.600 and have the exclusive rights to it, And now Sony washing their hands of 1271 01:26:40.640 --> 01:26:43.960 it and not wanting to do deal deal with it anymore makes it seem very 1272 01:26:44.000 --> 01:26:45.720 unlikely that it would be able to find that partner to make it come to 1273 01:26:45.760 --> 01:26:49.680 life and actually happen. Now you would say, well, what about ea, 1274 01:26:49.840 --> 01:26:53.800 they they did it before. Ya. He's been asked multiple times and 1275 01:26:53.800 --> 01:26:58.279 they've said no because they want to focus on what BioWare like owns completely themselves. 1276 01:26:58.680 --> 01:27:01.479 Maybe that changes, but it has not changed over the last five years. 1277 01:27:02.079 --> 01:27:05.479 Where the over that period where Lucas has been very excited to make this 1278 01:27:05.560 --> 01:27:12.800 happen. So if this game is also has it has their own thing right 1279 01:27:12.920 --> 01:27:17.520 like their Star Wars games are doing gangbusters in a completely different format, like 1280 01:27:17.760 --> 01:27:21.520 the Jedi Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, like they are printing money with that 1281 01:27:21.600 --> 01:27:27.119 stuff and right critically acclaimed and doing some interesting things that they have no real 1282 01:27:27.199 --> 01:27:31.279 incentive to go back and real that a game clear here that is like probably 1283 01:27:31.359 --> 01:27:35.840 going to require more effort than they than most people realize because that although people 1284 01:27:36.079 --> 01:27:42.279 love the Nights of the Old Republic games, they're like very they are extremely 1285 01:27:42.359 --> 01:27:45.560 outdated, Like you basically would need a full redesign, and that that was 1286 01:27:45.600 --> 01:27:49.239 what the promise was for this game. So it's like like an EA looks 1287 01:27:49.279 --> 01:27:51.319 over them, like, yeah, we don't want we don't want to deal 1288 01:27:51.319 --> 01:27:56.560 with that. So like when I say the game is not being worked on 1289 01:27:56.640 --> 01:28:00.479 anyway, it means from the perspective of what this game was announced at as 1290 01:28:00.520 --> 01:28:02.760 a Sony published game that's gonna come out and be on the PS five, 1291 01:28:03.479 --> 01:28:09.640 that idea is almost certainly never gonna happen. That doesn't necessarily mean no Nights 1292 01:28:09.640 --> 01:28:14.319 of the Old Republic remake is gonna is gonna never happen, and someone could 1293 01:28:14.319 --> 01:28:15.880 be working on it somewhere. This is where like my information ends. I 1294 01:28:15.960 --> 01:28:18.319 want to want to be clear on that. I don't know what's going on 1295 01:28:18.399 --> 01:28:23.000 in Side Embracer. I don't know what's going on at Saber and so like 1296 01:28:23.159 --> 01:28:26.439 this is not my reporting. I'm just if someone is working on something over 1297 01:28:26.479 --> 01:28:29.039 there, I have no idea, So just to be clear, it's from 1298 01:28:29.079 --> 01:28:31.159 the kind of the sony side, and that makes it very unlikely that anything 1299 01:28:31.199 --> 01:28:34.880 actually happens with this thing. So if what you care about here is will 1300 01:28:34.920 --> 01:28:39.239 one day I'd be playing Nights Old of the Old Republic remake? Will I 1301 01:28:39.279 --> 01:28:44.319 get Kotur again? As of today, it seems very unlikely. So yeah, 1302 01:28:44.439 --> 01:28:45.399 sorry about that. If that's what you were looking forward to. I 1303 01:28:45.439 --> 01:28:48.840 was looking forward to that. Oh well, Jim, that's gonna do it 1304 01:28:48.880 --> 01:28:53.159 for the news. Ready to get out here to do the final segment. 1305 01:28:53.720 --> 01:28:58.479 We've got so much power Jeff Grubb right, yeah, making news like I 1306 01:28:58.520 --> 01:29:00.119 was making news. I was like, all right, make some ship, 1307 01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:04.920 make some news about us, like do that get selfish with Jeff Backlar was 1308 01:29:05.039 --> 01:29:16.079 there when I bought Metroid Prime for everybody? Please? Well, I am 1309 01:29:16.119 --> 01:29:21.039 realizing, you know we we need to defrost the Okay, that's right. 1310 01:29:21.399 --> 01:29:26.760 Your Lenovo Legion go to also comes preloaded with a bunch of photos of Tam 1311 01:29:26.800 --> 01:29:32.439 so yeah, yeah, you can only be so blessed. We'll be back 1312 01:29:32.640 --> 01:29:43.840 with your emails right after short quick Fricky break BombCast at try bomb dot com 1313 01:29:44.239 --> 01:29:48.520 email address to send your emails to. We read them, print them, 1314 01:29:48.520 --> 01:29:51.680 out shred some of them. Some of them. I can't believe you would 1315 01:29:51.680 --> 01:29:56.600 write that and type that to another human being, and then, you know, 1316 01:29:56.680 --> 01:30:00.680 we all have a laugh about them afterwards. Fun quizzes, fun musings, 1317 01:30:00.159 --> 01:30:04.560 fun beefs. There's been a growing trend lately of people emailing the show 1318 01:30:04.920 --> 01:30:09.800 and then a day or two later emailing a retraction saying like, hey, 1319 01:30:10.039 --> 01:30:12.600 I was not in a good place when I wrote that, Please don't air 1320 01:30:12.640 --> 01:30:17.680 that. Yes, where everyone's punching bag, you know exactly exactly. First 1321 01:30:17.800 --> 01:30:23.680 email comes from a A rights in? What is this? Pretty little liars? 1322 01:30:23.840 --> 01:30:28.039 Is that a timely ref? I don't know. I know what you're 1323 01:30:28.039 --> 01:30:30.439 talking about. Thank you, thank you, Thanks. It's that HBO show, 1324 01:30:30.520 --> 01:30:33.439 right, yeah, it was like an ABC Family joint for a bit 1325 01:30:35.399 --> 01:30:39.760 free for what am I thinking of? What was the HBO show with the 1326 01:30:39.840 --> 01:30:45.399 lying uh gossip girl, low down, dirty liars, big little lies? 1327 01:30:45.479 --> 01:30:49.439 Thank you Michael, Yeah, big little anyway, A rights in, I 1328 01:30:49.520 --> 01:30:54.239 was just thinking about these terms. It's important to differentiate the two. I 1329 01:30:54.239 --> 01:30:58.880 should say that these their subject read bouncing off versus falling off. Example, 1330 01:30:59.399 --> 01:31:02.439 I fell off sentiment, enjoyed it, but got distracted and never finished hooks 1331 01:31:02.439 --> 01:31:05.840 were not strong enough to pull me to the end. Bounced off of f 1332 01:31:05.840 --> 01:31:11.319 F sixteen because my forum felt like I was gonna spasm from just pressing attack 1333 01:31:11.399 --> 01:31:16.239 repeally without thought. Bounced off is way more negative, I AMO thoughts biggest 1334 01:31:16.279 --> 01:31:23.279 falloff versus bounce off games of the year as always, Hey, A is 1335 01:31:23.680 --> 01:31:29.479 totally right. Bouncing off is much more of a sort of pejorative. I 1336 01:31:29.760 --> 01:31:33.359 think it can be for me A lot of times. Bouncing off means I 1337 01:31:33.399 --> 01:31:39.079 did not get hooked in time, and I bounced off before what I really 1338 01:31:39.079 --> 01:31:42.119 think is a good college try. Like I don't think I even gave this 1339 01:31:42.119 --> 01:31:45.800 thing enough of a shot just to know if this is a pejorative or not. 1340 01:31:45.920 --> 01:31:49.720 I bounced off, and yeah, so it's like it's more repulsive and 1341 01:31:49.760 --> 01:31:53.960 not like, oh it's repulsive, but like it's actually like pushing back in 1342 01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:55.960 such a way where like, oh, okay, I just can't deal with 1343 01:31:55.960 --> 01:31:58.600 this right now. And I guess that sounds more pejorative, but I don't 1344 01:31:58.640 --> 01:32:01.960 mean it that way. It's not experienced enough a bit to know I understand 1345 01:32:01.960 --> 01:32:06.960 where you're coming from. I think I think bounced off has a more like 1346 01:32:08.159 --> 01:32:12.560 deliberate sentiment about Yeah, yeah, we're falling off. It's like, not 1347 01:32:12.680 --> 01:32:15.800 my fault, it just happened, and I feel bad about it. Bounced 1348 01:32:15.840 --> 01:32:23.479 off as a phrase has negative connotations, but a negative sentiment isn't necessarily necessary. 1349 01:32:23.560 --> 01:32:26.760 Isn't necessarily why that sounds right, you know what I mean? Like 1350 01:32:26.880 --> 01:32:29.239 bouncing off is like, oh, yeah, it didn't work for me, 1351 01:32:29.359 --> 01:32:31.600 But I could play a game and be like it's just not really working for 1352 01:32:31.720 --> 01:32:34.960 me, or I like this, but it's not enough for me to carry 1353 01:32:34.960 --> 01:32:36.960 on playing, so I'm going to leave. I feel like you can bounce 1354 01:32:38.000 --> 01:32:41.159 off that, whereas falling off is like for me, I imagine it as 1355 01:32:41.199 --> 01:32:44.880 like I want to play that game more, but one reason or another, 1356 01:32:44.960 --> 01:32:46.199 I'm unable to do it right now, or I for you know, I 1357 01:32:46.239 --> 01:32:48.960 want to return to it later on. So when the kids, when the 1358 01:32:49.000 --> 01:32:53.199 kids say I fell off, When you fall off, you know, when 1359 01:32:53.199 --> 01:32:56.880 you say you fell off, that's very different. That means that you're washed. 1360 01:32:57.159 --> 01:33:00.039 You're washed, and you're you're no longer ret of it. Yeah, 1361 01:33:00.079 --> 01:33:04.920 well grab on our business cards. It says bad YouTube or so yeah we 1362 01:33:04.960 --> 01:33:11.239 already we Yeah that makes sense. I guess that's where in my head because 1363 01:33:11.239 --> 01:33:15.479 I'm thinking of that connotation where I think that fall off feels like the more 1364 01:33:15.520 --> 01:33:23.399 negative term out of the two. And I'll associate falling off a game not 1365 01:33:23.520 --> 01:33:27.960 with not having the time for it or letting extenuating circumstances get in the way, 1366 01:33:28.239 --> 01:33:30.560 but for me just being bored with it. Like See of Stars, 1367 01:33:30.760 --> 01:33:34.479 I fell off because I was bored of Sea of Stars. That's that is 1368 01:33:34.520 --> 01:33:39.439 how I interpret it too. Now I'm bad at using words so to so 1369 01:33:39.600 --> 01:33:41.479 maybe you and I are in the same thing. It's you and yeah, 1370 01:33:41.560 --> 01:33:44.199 yeah, maybe we're doing that thing. I feel like that in that case, 1371 01:33:44.439 --> 01:33:46.279 it's a bounce off, not a fall off. Okay, okay, 1372 01:33:46.479 --> 01:33:49.119 listen, I'm ready to change. I'm ready to be better. Yeah, 1373 01:33:49.199 --> 01:33:53.279 I'm ready to start about growth, giant bomb, We're all about growth, 1374 01:33:53.319 --> 01:33:58.840 punching down, gatekeeping, girl bossing gas light. Right, you know I'm 1375 01:33:58.840 --> 01:34:06.279 saying all right. Next email comes from Rob. Rob writes in about AI 1376 01:34:06.319 --> 01:34:11.279 and games. Rob asks, hey, bombed, DearS, Well, most 1377 01:34:11.359 --> 01:34:14.840 use cases of AI tend to be focused on replacing jobs or how can we 1378 01:34:14.880 --> 01:34:17.840 make more money? There's one case I'd love to see sports games. Growing 1379 01:34:17.920 --> 01:34:21.399 up, playing Madden or NHL, I always hope that this year's title might 1380 01:34:21.439 --> 01:34:26.119 be the one where my name would be one of the options, and it 1381 01:34:26.199 --> 01:34:29.880 just never happened. Being able to train an AI on the announcers and use 1382 01:34:29.920 --> 01:34:33.359 them to say every name in existence would be inclusive and also something beyond what 1383 01:34:33.479 --> 01:34:36.520 is feasible without it. I'm sure there are many other use cases that can 1384 01:34:36.560 --> 01:34:42.479 be improvement being an improvement and not just detrimental to the industry. Hopefully we 1385 01:34:42.560 --> 01:34:45.840 get the positive ones. Thank you for all the years of entertainment, Rob 1386 01:34:45.079 --> 01:34:49.119 Ps. As someone who came over from GameSpot to Air Pointing Down and all 1387 01:34:49.119 --> 01:34:53.239 the years of Giant Bomb, I think it's amazing how resilient you have been 1388 01:34:53.319 --> 01:34:56.039 and how well you have stepped into the roles. Keep it up, keep 1389 01:34:56.039 --> 01:35:00.399 it going. Great job. Thanks Rob, Thanks Rob. Thanks Yeah, 1390 01:35:00.399 --> 01:35:03.279 I mean listen, it's I remember talking to a guy about VR who had 1391 01:35:03.319 --> 01:35:08.800 been doing VR research. This was the early days of our current generation of 1392 01:35:08.840 --> 01:35:11.720 VR, and he'd been doing VR research for years and years and years, 1393 01:35:12.079 --> 01:35:15.720 and I'd be like, man, it's someone gonna be able to like take 1394 01:35:15.840 --> 01:35:18.199 a celebrity and put him in VR and kind of just kill them or do 1395 01:35:18.239 --> 01:35:20.520 whatever. And he's like, yeah, man, it's VR is like a 1396 01:35:20.600 --> 01:35:24.920 nuke. You can heat a city or you can blow one up, and 1397 01:35:24.960 --> 01:35:28.560 it's like, at a certain point, everything's kind of that way. AI 1398 01:35:28.640 --> 01:35:30.279 is going to be able to do amazing things, and it's also going to 1399 01:35:30.319 --> 01:35:33.680 be able to destroy a lot of things, and we're not going to really 1400 01:35:33.720 --> 01:35:38.560 know what's what until we're there. In a lot of ways, you know, 1401 01:35:38.720 --> 01:35:43.520 I'm hopeful for some of these things I have In recent sports games, 1402 01:35:43.560 --> 01:35:45.880 I think they have been doing some of this stuff now, maybe not MAD 1403 01:35:45.199 --> 01:35:48.800 or NHL, but I feel like I played something recently and they just said 1404 01:35:48.840 --> 01:35:53.680 my name perfectly and it sounded like that that person's voice. Now they pay 1405 01:35:53.720 --> 01:35:56.000 these people a lot. Maybe they have them sit down in a booth and 1406 01:35:56.079 --> 01:35:58.920 Jeff is one of the names on a list. I don't know. Yeah, 1407 01:35:59.239 --> 01:36:04.920 oh it is, So you meant your surname, oh, Grub. 1408 01:36:05.840 --> 01:36:10.439 I love that. I love the idea that you're surprised Grub as well. 1409 01:36:10.479 --> 01:36:15.000 That's I love the idea that you're surprised that someone said Jeff. And a 1410 01:36:15.039 --> 01:36:17.079 lot of games do have that, Like a lot of games do have the 1411 01:36:17.119 --> 01:36:19.319 list, but this felt like one that wouldn't. So I was like, 1412 01:36:19.319 --> 01:36:21.439 I can't remember what it was, but it was surprised. But like if 1413 01:36:21.439 --> 01:36:27.039 there was a list of names, Jeff would be on there. It's like 1414 01:36:27.079 --> 01:36:30.640 the it is my name going to be on the the souvenir license exact, 1415 01:36:30.760 --> 01:36:34.520 Jeff would be there. Yes, for sure, I think, Uh, 1416 01:36:35.279 --> 01:36:39.840 I want to say, I fucking heard Doc Emrick do it once for one 1417 01:36:39.880 --> 01:36:43.800 of the NHL games. I forget how long he was doing those, but 1418 01:36:43.840 --> 01:36:49.000 I think that he's like a famous uh person, it's a prolific hockey sports 1419 01:36:49.079 --> 01:36:55.600 announcement who was retired and I forget which game it was. I don't remember. 1420 01:36:55.640 --> 01:36:58.760 I definitely remember that being a thing, but it was very clear that 1421 01:36:58.800 --> 01:37:05.840 this person just recorded did like four hundred popular you know names. I think 1422 01:37:05.920 --> 01:37:11.960 the notion of like using AI to have I think you got to ask. 1423 01:37:12.119 --> 01:37:14.600 I think it needs to be done with the permission of the voice actor. 1424 01:37:14.720 --> 01:37:17.000 Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, that's the difficult part where you're 1425 01:37:17.039 --> 01:37:21.079 where you're using and also like the problem with doing that kind of stuff is 1426 01:37:21.119 --> 01:37:26.039 you can get the permission of a voice actor to do it, but the 1427 01:37:26.159 --> 01:37:30.159 voice actor would need to be very careful. So like they have phrases like 1428 01:37:30.239 --> 01:37:33.439 in perpetuity, in there, which they can use like loopholes on to carry 1429 01:37:33.479 --> 01:37:38.880 on using that that kind of like techno, that same based technology to for 1430 01:37:38.960 --> 01:37:41.920 many years to come. Like the voice be like, yeah, you can 1431 01:37:42.039 --> 01:37:45.399 use that in the next NHL game, but like ten years down the line, 1432 01:37:45.399 --> 01:37:48.079 they could still potentially be doing it, and you're like, fuck, 1433 01:37:48.199 --> 01:37:51.000 I did not count for that. Yeah, yeah, you know, it's 1434 01:37:51.079 --> 01:37:54.560 it's a whole It's a slipper slope. I think. I think that's my 1435 01:37:54.600 --> 01:37:58.720 biggest fear is voice actor would If I was a voice actor and they were 1436 01:37:58.720 --> 01:38:01.600 like, we want to use your voice for this brand new technology, I 1437 01:38:01.600 --> 01:38:06.520 would be like one million dollars. Yeah, get one million. Yeah, 1438 01:38:06.600 --> 01:38:11.520 I would like one million per use every new game used it. One million. 1439 01:38:11.560 --> 01:38:14.479 That's how much. It is. Like they're telling you this is brand 1440 01:38:14.520 --> 01:38:17.119 new technology, and ship take the piss. I would take the absolute piss. 1441 01:38:17.159 --> 01:38:19.920 If I was one of these voice actors, and it'll probably end and 1442 01:38:19.960 --> 01:38:24.239 them going funk off telling me off. I'd be like, sucks to you. 1443 01:38:24.319 --> 01:38:27.079 You then you either give me the bag, the very big bag, 1444 01:38:27.199 --> 01:38:31.239 or get lost, or take this piss, have this piss. Gargle it. 1445 01:38:32.000 --> 01:38:38.359 Okay, uh yeah that that that's a fear right, So voice actors. 1446 01:38:38.560 --> 01:38:42.359 If someone brings up AI B B B, be wary and ask for 1447 01:38:42.399 --> 01:38:45.359 the bagh without a doubt. Yeah, or come to that meeting well hydrated 1448 01:38:45.399 --> 01:38:53.479 and ready to piss Joe or John writes in from Vegas. Do you think 1449 01:38:53.520 --> 01:38:57.199 that name is in in in the list of names that sports commentators read John? 1450 01:38:57.359 --> 01:39:00.880 No, no way, Johnny john Tham, but not John. What 1451 01:39:00.920 --> 01:39:04.520 a crazy name? Exotic man beer. You bring up the whole key chain 1452 01:39:04.600 --> 01:39:09.039 name tag thing brought up like a sore memory where it's like, I have 1453 01:39:09.119 --> 01:39:14.800 to buy two key chains for my first name. Oh buddy, there's not 1454 01:39:14.880 --> 01:39:16.920 one that's Jared Jerome, but it's I have to buy and then you got 1455 01:39:16.920 --> 01:39:21.479 to buy a little one that's just a hyphen. Did you have a have 1456 01:39:21.520 --> 01:39:26.840 a phase where you went as JJ God No, fuck, no, dude, 1457 01:39:27.039 --> 01:39:32.239 I've tam I've tried to navigate these seas. They are choppy. I 1458 01:39:32.399 --> 01:39:35.159 just want you to know I want to give jan a nicknames so bad, 1459 01:39:35.199 --> 01:39:41.199 but he won't let us. I'd rather just go buy Jerome, which is 1460 01:39:41.239 --> 01:39:51.920 perfectly cool. Just go like Delfish name for for jan j Jo Jjo. 1461 01:39:53.720 --> 01:39:56.520 I thought you hated and now I want to do it a lot more. 1462 01:39:56.880 --> 01:40:00.560 I mean, I feel like my hockey bring went to OCHI for a while, 1463 01:40:00.560 --> 01:40:05.119 but he was like, you shut your stupid whoa we got, we 1464 01:40:05.199 --> 01:40:12.680 got I can play now you're ochie, I can play. Boys. Wait, 1465 01:40:12.760 --> 01:40:16.720 is Jerry Seinfeld's full first name? Is it Jerome? No? Okay? 1466 01:40:16.760 --> 01:40:20.000 If anything, it's like Gerald. But I imagine because I had a 1467 01:40:20.000 --> 01:40:25.159 friend trying to make Jerry pop off when when she was only calling me Jerome, 1468 01:40:25.159 --> 01:40:28.319 and I was like, the fuck is this anyway? Uh? John 1469 01:40:28.319 --> 01:40:31.439 from Vegas writes his name is Jerome? Is Jerome Allen Seinfeld? Is it 1470 01:40:31.479 --> 01:40:36.079 really? Yeah? Yeah, I can't believe that. I know, I 1471 01:40:36.079 --> 01:40:43.319 don't believe. I googled it. I googled it. Yeah, Jerry, 1472 01:40:43.359 --> 01:40:51.920 I meaned him, I'm sorry this happened to you. I think you owe 1473 01:40:51.960 --> 01:40:58.760 someone else an apology to Jerry Seinfeld. I will not have me no oh, 1474 01:40:58.800 --> 01:41:01.199 because the boy who cried wolf is all of a sudden once not lying. 1475 01:41:01.399 --> 01:41:05.119 Okay, buddy, great job, here's your here's your trophy? Are 1476 01:41:05.159 --> 01:41:10.840 you you're not taking it back? I thought it's very clear what I'm doing 1477 01:41:10.840 --> 01:41:13.239 with that I am not taking. Well, then I will see you in 1478 01:41:13.279 --> 01:41:20.199 Court. It's coming you sue me in some podcast court in the World Universe 1479 01:41:20.239 --> 01:41:26.079 podcast Court. Happy to be there. I will be representing myself. Dan 1480 01:41:26.199 --> 01:41:34.000 Record is your attorney, No me. I pulled up time dot is to 1481 01:41:34.079 --> 01:41:41.079 sink up anyway. Hey guys, it seems clear that this is an extremely 1482 01:41:41.119 --> 01:41:44.039 strong year for games. Would you say this is the best year for games 1483 01:41:44.039 --> 01:41:45.920 that you can remember? If not? I hate this, man, you 1484 01:41:46.000 --> 01:41:51.479 need this discussion. I hate this. Stop this. Okay, We've do 1485 01:41:51.600 --> 01:41:56.319 this every year. Every year is just the best year. And you, 1486 01:41:57.000 --> 01:42:00.560 oh, it's basically like it's basically like, I wrong, I've got nothing 1487 01:42:00.640 --> 01:42:03.600 to talk about. Should we talk about if this is the best year in 1488 01:42:03.680 --> 01:42:09.039 games? Who cares? Man, It's fine, it's probably good. But 1489 01:42:09.079 --> 01:42:12.560 thank you for your email. Yeah, thank you for email. I'm not 1490 01:42:12.680 --> 01:42:15.199 mad. I'm not mad at the email. Like it takes a lot to 1491 01:42:15.319 --> 01:42:18.399 email this podcast, and I respect that. Is this the worst year in 1492 01:42:18.479 --> 01:42:24.000 games? Is this the worst year in games? Yes? I think it 1493 01:42:24.079 --> 01:42:26.840 might be. I feel like you can make a compelling case for it be 1494 01:42:26.920 --> 01:42:30.119 the worst year in games. That what was that new worst game that just 1495 01:42:30.119 --> 01:42:32.760 came out, That Walking Dead game? Apparently on the playla is really really 1496 01:42:32.760 --> 01:42:36.039 bad. So we got Gullum, we got King Kong, and we got 1497 01:42:36.319 --> 01:42:42.239 this Walking Dead games. So that's a trifecta, right there came out, 1498 01:42:42.560 --> 01:42:45.199 Oh yeah, buddy, that was not That was like Midway too, Jesus 1499 01:42:45.439 --> 01:42:49.039 Man. Oh red Fall. Red Fall also came out, Oh red Fall, 1500 01:42:49.359 --> 01:42:53.239 but also yes to the emailer, this is the best year in games. 1501 01:42:53.319 --> 01:42:57.000 Every year is the best year in games because games are some buy some 1502 01:42:57.079 --> 01:43:03.960 miracle made. John can Tinues, you guys do great work. Fuck you, 1503 01:43:04.119 --> 01:43:10.760 Jordan twenty podcast points. There you go, Yeah, give him all 1504 01:43:10.800 --> 01:43:14.359 the points forever. Damn. You are right. I I agree. The 1505 01:43:14.399 --> 01:43:18.359 fact that anything gets made is don that is it. If a game is 1506 01:43:18.399 --> 01:43:20.800 released, I'm like, this is the best year ever. I can't believe 1507 01:43:20.840 --> 01:43:27.239 these people made a game. It's crazy games astonishing, astonishing. We should 1508 01:43:27.319 --> 01:43:30.560 check out. How can we make Dan dress up as what's his face? 1509 01:43:30.560 --> 01:43:38.039 From Walking Dead? Who would Who's this Walking Destiny's game? Yeah? No, 1510 01:43:38.119 --> 01:43:40.479 that's what I'm saying. Does he be Daryl? Does he be Rick? 1511 01:43:42.960 --> 01:43:47.119 He would be a funny looking sheriff, No, mister Grimes, Rick 1512 01:43:47.159 --> 01:43:50.760 Grimes. But then but then Dan would have to wear like a sleeveless like 1513 01:43:51.000 --> 01:43:56.079 Denim vest. Yeah, I want to see him as Darrylay. I think 1514 01:43:56.800 --> 01:44:01.119 as Darryl he can played one of the Anderson brothers easily. The Gods of 1515 01:44:01.159 --> 01:44:03.920 Ascar old Gods of Ascar guy. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 1516 01:44:03.920 --> 01:44:09.520 If were gonna costplay as someone else, it would be Lord Sadler from a 1517 01:44:09.680 --> 01:44:14.159 Well. Of course, you just have to get a cape, I guess. 1518 01:44:14.159 --> 01:44:15.520 And that's it. It's done, cost him done, all right, 1519 01:44:15.600 --> 01:44:21.680 all right, last email of the show before we uh take the long break 1520 01:44:21.760 --> 01:44:27.760 of a short week. Let's see what is the name? Jeffrom Quebec City, 1521 01:44:27.800 --> 01:44:30.680 Right, so, dear bombers, who's made a fucking show lately? 1522 01:44:31.039 --> 01:44:35.119 No, man, Jeff from Quebec City. Thank you? What does that 1523 01:44:35.199 --> 01:44:39.439 mean? It's our new slur? Yeah, we made a new slur back 1524 01:44:39.520 --> 01:44:45.079 of our goal. Yeah what does it mean? You know? You know, 1525 01:44:45.560 --> 01:44:47.960 I don't know. If you and I are walking walking, we've got 1526 01:44:48.000 --> 01:44:50.920 a cup of coffee, I nudge you and like look at this show. 1527 01:44:51.600 --> 01:44:59.399 Yeah, like you know, you know, you know, Baal, you 1528 01:44:59.600 --> 01:45:02.600 know you'll know when you feel it, you know you'll be driving down, 1529 01:45:02.720 --> 01:45:05.800 you'll be driving your cart. When we described when we came up with shoals, 1530 01:45:05.880 --> 01:45:09.760 Jesus Christ. We can you can you can you spell it for a 1531 01:45:09.800 --> 01:45:15.840 back lass? So you can h o A l al Yeah, can you 1532 01:45:15.960 --> 01:45:20.000 use it in a sentence? Look at his show? Yeah, but that's 1533 01:45:20.039 --> 01:45:28.960 not don't deserve rights. They should round up all these shows, right, 1534 01:45:29.000 --> 01:45:34.800 we took it too far, too far. It could be any is it? 1535 01:45:34.880 --> 01:45:41.119 People who cheat? And Mario Kart he could have been I can't believe. 1536 01:45:41.359 --> 01:45:45.199 I cannot believe you. I cannot believe we got canceled May weeks before 1537 01:45:45.199 --> 01:45:47.600 our first time a Life show by all the shoals. It went really it 1538 01:45:47.640 --> 01:45:55.960 was zero to sixty, all right. I've learned to never to not let 1539 01:45:56.359 --> 01:45:59.920 Backlar out of a joke, otherwise he will turn it all the way. 1540 01:46:00.560 --> 01:46:10.760 He'll steer into the skin and keep going gas. He's hydro planing over jokes. 1541 01:46:10.800 --> 01:46:15.560 That's good, making it new Slurs would say, it has nothing to 1542 01:46:15.600 --> 01:46:24.880 do with space nazis. That's the title of this episode. A new episode 1543 01:46:24.920 --> 01:46:30.640 four, a new slow episode. We we have a we have a good 1544 01:46:30.680 --> 01:46:38.960 time here a giant boy. Uh you know what, No, never mind, 1545 01:46:39.039 --> 01:46:42.479 never mind going to keep those thoughts in my head for the best, 1546 01:46:42.600 --> 01:46:46.119 because now it's time for these shoutouts, shoutouts, and shoal was the only 1547 01:46:46.159 --> 01:46:49.399 one. There wasn't like another like candidate that was like there might have been, 1548 01:46:49.479 --> 01:46:55.439 but I brought up how On the Old Bodega Boys podcast, they brought 1549 01:46:55.520 --> 01:47:00.119 up calling, uh how polygons sounds like a slur sometimes. Oh okay, 1550 01:47:00.479 --> 01:47:06.439 oh you dirty polygon? Yeah? All right? Shout outs, shoutouts, 1551 01:47:06.680 --> 01:47:14.880 happy, thanks, sliving, hashtag ad hashtag not sponsored hashtag, sleigh unused 1552 01:47:14.880 --> 01:47:17.399 cow thanks for the shoutouts. Mister clothing corky. Winter is nearly upon us, 1553 01:47:17.399 --> 01:47:21.359 which means one thing, fluffy Tanoki season has begun. This message brought 1554 01:47:21.399 --> 01:47:27.239 to you by the Counsel of Appreciation of Raccoon Dogs. What's better Thanksgiving dinner 1555 01:47:27.279 --> 01:47:31.800 plate for loaded turkey sandwich from leftovers plate. Shout shout out to Mike, 1556 01:47:32.159 --> 01:47:36.359 Chad, half Life and joy or Minnati. I am Turktron. I have 1557 01:47:36.439 --> 01:47:40.800 come for the year ninety five, ninety five to save this bird that lies 1558 01:47:40.840 --> 01:47:45.560 before you. He is great great great great grandfather of God blocks that's destined 1559 01:47:45.560 --> 01:47:50.680 to leave the rebellion against master chickens. That's aquatine. You know, most 1560 01:47:50.720 --> 01:47:54.960 people don't know the difference between apple cider and apple juice, but I do. 1561 01:47:55.239 --> 01:47:57.840 Now here's a little trick to help you remember. If it's clear and 1562 01:47:57.960 --> 01:48:00.479 yella, you got juice there, fella. If it's tangy and brown, 1563 01:48:00.840 --> 01:48:06.840 you're insider town. Oh. I want to dance with Menadi. I want 1564 01:48:06.840 --> 01:48:14.840 to feel the HARKing with Manati. I want to dance with Menati with some 1565 01:48:15.079 --> 01:48:20.960 grubby cuboo. I Ganachoa am making a formal declaration. That's skull Island. 1566 01:48:21.079 --> 01:48:27.199 Rise of Kong is Giant Bomb's game of the year. If you're lost, 1567 01:48:27.239 --> 01:48:30.600 you can. If you're lost, you can look and you'll find him. 1568 01:48:30.960 --> 01:48:33.680 Tam after Tam. If you follow, you will catch you. He'll be 1569 01:48:33.880 --> 01:48:41.479 waiting Tam after Tam. Heinos fuck you. I love eating non bread with 1570 01:48:41.520 --> 01:48:45.479 garlic ioli and pizza pie while drinking ice Chai Tea shouts out to not catching 1571 01:48:45.600 --> 01:48:49.359 live Giant Bomb podcast since I'm working in the new time zone starting tomorrow. 1572 01:48:49.920 --> 01:48:57.760 Sad Face Tom realization. The RoboCop movies are totally tokusatsu. The realization brought 1573 01:48:57.760 --> 01:49:00.520 to you by rewatching the first two movies before diving into Rogue City, a 1574 01:49:00.600 --> 01:49:08.239 solid B game. She's Whizz more like She's Jizz can we beat Giant? 1575 01:49:08.560 --> 01:49:12.680 Can we beat Giant? Bomb? Besti's finger points, best nuts, big 1576 01:49:12.680 --> 01:49:15.680 shoutow Shouts out to my cousin, doctor Richard, who finally finished his dental 1577 01:49:15.680 --> 01:49:20.199 residency, all while keeping in shape as a professional bodybuilder, checked out his 1578 01:49:20.239 --> 01:49:29.720 socials at fitting. Oh hey, did you skip the last name because you 1579 01:49:29.720 --> 01:49:32.920 don't want to like the docks? Yes? Yes, yes, because it's 1580 01:49:33.039 --> 01:49:38.560 it's Richard Handler as in Dick Handler. See because I was like, oh, 1581 01:49:38.600 --> 01:49:41.159 some people they don't want their whole last name, and I was being 1582 01:49:41.239 --> 01:49:45.680 kind. How do we finally get shot banned for his behavior? He knew, 1583 01:49:45.720 --> 01:49:47.520 he knows what he did. The wind is pushing me into the clouds 1584 01:49:47.560 --> 01:49:51.079 again. I feel the blood in my veins. Thanksgiving tip, don't feel 1585 01:49:51.079 --> 01:49:55.720 your potatoes before boiling. Less water in the mix, lots of butter, 1586 01:49:55.880 --> 01:50:00.720 heavy cream, and smooth it out. Jan Freestyle check. Uh uh uh, 1587 01:50:00.439 --> 01:50:04.560 I don't got anything right now. Coke free style check still sucks. 1588 01:50:05.159 --> 01:50:13.439 Hi, Roger Goodell here Goodell. After watching Patrick Mahomes flounder last night, 1589 01:50:13.479 --> 01:50:18.359 I can definitively say Brock Party is better than Patrick Mahomes. Bang bang uh 1590 01:50:18.680 --> 01:50:21.880 the frick the toots. Hi, I'm the dude, Mike met on the 1591 01:50:21.920 --> 01:50:25.319 cruise. Hi, Mike, you were super nice. But I gotta tell 1592 01:50:25.319 --> 01:50:29.159 you guys, he hasn't been totally honest. He was Disney Adult's Only Cruise. 1593 01:50:29.399 --> 01:50:32.520 Mike was a legend and we all called him the Cocketeers. You're a 1594 01:50:32.560 --> 01:50:40.359 fan Launchpad McCook. Oh my god, was he lying about something and he 1595 01:50:40.439 --> 01:50:45.199 was holding He was definitely in like some like wife swapping stuff on the Disney 1596 01:50:45.239 --> 01:50:50.840 Adults Only Cruise. Put all your keys in this bowl. We put all 1597 01:50:50.840 --> 01:50:55.680 those cuyes in this bowl. We'll get ready to k You're so skimmity, 1598 01:50:55.840 --> 01:50:59.800 you're so phantom tax Everyone who donated, streamed and watched during Extra Life but 1599 01:51:00.000 --> 01:51:03.600 Potato and Permanent sigh and shouts out to you for listening live or the archive. 1600 01:51:03.920 --> 01:51:08.920 I love you right right the podcast five stars or a thumbs up. 1601 01:51:09.119 --> 01:51:12.479 I don't know how people rate podcasts nowadays. I don't know. Right right 1602 01:51:12.520 --> 01:51:15.119 into Apple and be like, dear mister Apple, I really like God's favorite 1603 01:51:15.159 --> 01:51:18.439 podcast, the Taylor Swift, the podcast, the Giant BombCast. What a 1604 01:51:18.479 --> 01:51:23.399 lovely, handsome group of folks they always have. You're gonna be with your 1605 01:51:23.399 --> 01:51:26.520 family. So what you do is you might end up in like a family 1606 01:51:26.520 --> 01:51:30.399 member's car. Burn episodes of the podcast, especially the ones where we invent 1607 01:51:30.439 --> 01:51:33.800 new slurs onto a CD and just put it in their their CD player in 1608 01:51:33.840 --> 01:51:36.239 their car and just leave it in there and then put duct tape over that 1609 01:51:36.439 --> 01:51:40.399 and jam some gum in there so they can't get it out. Oh that's 1610 01:51:40.479 --> 01:51:44.760 sick, Like like the car has a CD player though, I mean mine 1611 01:51:44.840 --> 01:51:46.359 is a DVD player that plays CD. So I figured every one. Shit, 1612 01:51:47.479 --> 01:51:50.520 yeah, I don't know who. I used to use my my uh 1613 01:51:50.840 --> 01:51:56.560 CD slot in my car as the mount for my phone, like they used 1614 01:51:56.600 --> 01:51:59.840 to make those fucking little do hickeyes. You know what, if you're out 1615 01:51:59.840 --> 01:52:03.479 there and you're doing thanks coming alone, don't worry about it. Head into 1616 01:52:03.520 --> 01:52:05.920 the discord. There's loads of people in there that you can hang out with, 1617 01:52:06.199 --> 01:52:11.600 play some games, watch some movies. I'm not going to have a 1618 01:52:11.640 --> 01:52:15.960 good time with yourself exactly, you know what, Have a good time with 1619 01:52:15.039 --> 01:52:20.560 yourself in every conceivable way, within reason, within reason, no, no, 1620 01:52:20.640 --> 01:52:27.239 no, let yourself go, hold yourself and let yourself go. Yeah, 1621 01:52:27.399 --> 01:52:31.279 and then buy as many Ticketmaster tickets to our show as possible. Yes, 1622 01:52:31.319 --> 01:52:34.039 that's the right. Let you buy eight. So do that. If 1623 01:52:34.039 --> 01:52:39.439 you want to spikee By. If you were Spike listening to this podcast because 1624 01:52:39.479 --> 01:52:44.199 you you hate what Giant Bob has become, go spike by all the tickets. 1625 01:52:44.319 --> 01:52:45.279 Just do it, Just do it, Just do it so no one 1626 01:52:45.319 --> 01:52:48.199 else can pay. I bet you won't. I bet you won't spite buy 1627 01:52:48.239 --> 01:52:59.159 these tickets you show U? Was that what a little charge? Yes? 1628 01:52:59.199 --> 01:53:02.079 It was, yes, it was. Oh dear, oh dear. Did 1629 01:53:02.119 --> 01:53:05.399 that have the sauce on it? It did? It did. But hey, 1630 01:53:05.439 --> 01:53:11.399 if you do want to not spie By and watch the finale of Giant 1631 01:53:11.399 --> 01:53:15.279 Bombs Game of the Year live in Los Angeles, we have moved to the 1632 01:53:15.319 --> 01:53:18.319 Tearogram Ballroom. Tickets are now and still on sale. If you bought tickets 1633 01:53:18.319 --> 01:53:21.880 to the Moroccan Lounge, don't worry. Those all transfer over. Your Ticketmaster 1634 01:53:21.920 --> 01:53:27.840 app should have updated to reflect that we are now at the Teogram Short week 1635 01:53:27.880 --> 01:53:34.079 this week, gay mess tomorrow? No? No, no, okay, 1636 01:53:34.479 --> 01:53:43.640 are we doing anything tomorrow? No? All right? Everyone go have fun. 1637 01:53:44.319 --> 01:53:51.319 You know, it's like, I don't think that's fit with the It's 1638 01:53:51.319 --> 01:53:57.800 not like a bond thing something. Take it gun. There will be like 1639 01:53:58.720 --> 01:54:03.319 a tiny, tiny tiny bite sized episode of b c R dropping over the 1640 01:54:03.319 --> 01:54:06.520 holiday break. Yeah, just a little special, just a little special, 1641 01:54:06.680 --> 01:54:10.600 just just a little, little, little little kiss on the audio, kiss 1642 01:54:10.600 --> 01:54:15.520 in the cheek from from us to you at home, folks. Anything else 1643 01:54:15.560 --> 01:54:21.479 we gotta plug we want to talk about before we guess break dip. I 1644 01:54:21.520 --> 01:54:25.279 don't know, just look forward to everything. We're gonna We're gonna have some 1645 01:54:25.279 --> 01:54:30.279 fun stuff yet still coming together. It's gonna be great. There's no Blight 1646 01:54:30.359 --> 01:54:34.239 Club, yes that's yeah, yeah right, because Dan's out of town, 1647 01:54:34.319 --> 01:54:36.760 and yeah, I was. I was thinking about playing some Allen Wake, 1648 01:54:36.800 --> 01:54:40.680 but there's there's Let's get to the vacation. Let's get to the break. 1649 01:54:41.079 --> 01:54:43.880 Yeah. Yeah, Well, well we'll start out the miscellaneous bits and bobs. 1650 01:54:43.880 --> 01:54:47.119 We'll schedule stuff out just so you full week next week, full week 1651 01:54:47.159 --> 01:54:51.520 next week, don't worry. Oh actually full week next week, so full 1652 01:54:51.640 --> 01:54:58.560 in fact, that the Game of the Year deliberations start next Friday. Yes, 1653 01:54:58.840 --> 01:55:01.880 from this Day one of categories, December one. We're starting off the 1654 01:55:01.960 --> 01:55:05.600 month right with Day one of categories, folks. And then we're gonna we're 1655 01:55:05.600 --> 01:55:10.520 gonna make sure that all the stuff is pre recorded and all that jazz. 1656 01:55:10.560 --> 01:55:13.680 You can follow along, listen along. We love you, We're We're. 1657 01:55:13.960 --> 01:55:16.079 We got all the categories listed out, We're slotting them in where they make 1658 01:55:16.159 --> 01:55:18.960 sense. Once again, if you were in the Los Angeles area, we'd 1659 01:55:19.000 --> 01:55:24.199 love to see you. Chime Bomb Game of the Year Live Grand Finale featuring 1660 01:55:24.239 --> 01:55:28.000 all these lovely folks next to me, Lucy James, Dan Reichert, Mike 1661 01:55:28.079 --> 01:55:31.800 Manatti, Special guests Bailey Myers, Nikki Grayson, Blessing, Audio A Junior, 1662 01:55:31.960 --> 01:55:36.119 and potentially more. You know what. The real special guest to you 1663 01:55:36.239 --> 01:55:40.199 too. I've been jammed, he's been Jeff. He's also been Jeff, 1664 01:55:40.279 --> 01:55:45.720 He's been tam and you should really think about switching up the sides this year 1665 01:55:45.760 --> 01:55:49.439 for Thanksgiving. Get some green on those plates, eat some goddamn vegetables, 1666 01:55:49.560 --> 01:55:54.479 and we'll see you next week for another episode of the Giant BombCast. Yeah 1667 01:55:54.560 --> 01:56:02.239 well, I fuck your mom. Show time whoa okay, right right with 1668 01:56:02.439 --> 01:56:13.640 Mike Manattie with Big Wi We're gonna get a cardboard cut out of Sean. 1669 01:56:13.720 --> 01:56:21.760 Don't worry, Giant Bombs is now over. Go go go, go wash your hands