WEBVTT 1 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:38.439 Hey, everybody. Welcome to Game Spot after Dark, Episode one hundred and 2 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:43.280 no, not one hundred two hundred. Oh my god, Marty Kurty, 3 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:46.280 take it away. I've already fucked up. Welcome to game Spot after Dark, 4 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:49.719 the podcast in which we a bunch of dudes sit together sometimes other people, 5 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:52.640 other creatures, other things, and talk about games. This is the 6 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:56.759 episode that is the one after last week's episode of the one before next week's 7 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:02.280 two and six. Welcome everyone, I'm Kurt and Davina. This is Jake 8 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:07.120 Decker and joining us both at the very end, the original host of today's 9 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:10.840 episode until I was put on the spot to do it. So it looks 10 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:14.239 like, yeah, I sill seeded hosting duties after five seconds. You're the 11 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:19.000 podfather. Now I've never hosted an episode. It's until this moment, and 12 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:23.640 I'm what if we don't have a host. We don't What if we like, 13 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:26.920 why do we need one? Exactly? We are an entity, yeah, 14 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:34.040 one and all six eyes, three eyes, untipens and thoughts about games. 15 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:37.480 We are game Spot. That's us. We talked about games here a 16 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:40.599 game spot. Uh. You know, we also talked about what we're talking 17 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:45.000 about games calm because that happened this week. We have to we're happening. 18 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:47.480 Well, we don't have to because we don't. Actually we're not there. 19 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:52.439 We're here. Like I watched the thing opening that I watched it and I 20 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:56.719 was like, okay, cool, I can never as someone who works those 21 00:01:56.760 --> 00:01:59.359 things. Yeah, we were all collectively working covering it. And do you 22 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:01.040 think we would know everything? I feel like I don't watch all. I 23 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:05.640 like, I like it all leaves my brain right when it ends, I'm 24 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:07.879 like, I don't remember what I watched. And the worst part two is 25 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:09.680 like when when you're like, so, my job doing it is like to 26 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:14.080 write yeah, like titles and you know, no, it's on what's what's 27 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:16.080 being seen totally. And then of course when something comes up that I know 28 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:20.360 about, everyone's a curt You're on it. You know this. So when 29 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:23.400 Alan two came up, I was just blasting out like words and plaice things. 30 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:25.039 And then next thing I know, I was like I had not see 31 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:29.120 a single thing that happened. I just like saw blips and blurps, and 32 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:30.280 I had to like, wait, did you go back and watch that trailer? 33 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:35.159 Oh? I sure did, real good, real good. Put more 34 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:38.599 live action in games, please, yes, No, I mean, don't 35 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:40.479 do it unless you need to with it with the merit. Sure, But 36 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:43.960 all I know is I just don't just do it anyway. I don't care. 37 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:46.919 Yeah, just tastefully do it tastefully or not yeah, or not, 38 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:50.560 do whatever you want. But I will say, I don't know if a 39 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:55.000 game could like check more boxes for me. It's upsurd seriously. Uh do 40 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:00.680 you watch the somebody one on YouTube today just posted like twelve minutes new gameplay 41 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:04.759 and it's very clearly just like the package to be a role that you're supposed 42 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.759 to like cut up. But they just like posted, Oh is it the 43 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:12.080 like the gameplay? Yeah? Like Alan walking Through? Yeah, yeah, 44 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:14.800 yeah, I know. I did see that. I watched that. It's 45 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:17.599 pretty good. I was like, ooh, it's very spooky, the the 46 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:23.599 the I just I'm we're about I don't I gotta stop talking about it because 47 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:27.439 why Because this is a podcast you're supposed to talk. You know, we're 48 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:30.039 collectively supposed to be jibber jabber and skippy boppin. I mean, I love 49 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:38.240 Alan Wake too two to know. All I know is that in that gameplay 50 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:43.639 footage, I showed that his board because you know, his writer's room. 51 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:46.759 The other character has it as an evidence board, and he has a plot 52 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:50.439 board which he uses, which you, as a player, can use to 53 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:54.479 change the surroundings around you by writing this like putting cards up to change the 54 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:58.439 story. And I was like, smash my face against it. There's some 55 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:00.919 narrative stuff they were kind of hinting at that. I'm curious if the game 56 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:04.879 will do where One of the examples was like there was a U crashed as 57 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:10.639 like subway car that was like blocked, and he like changed it so that 58 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:15.080 the subway car was still there, but it instead like caught on fire and 59 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:16.959 like burned. But he was able to then walk through it. And then 60 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.319 when you're walking through it, there's not all these just charred bodies and he's 61 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:25.600 screaming, and I was like, oh, that's like you wrote that, 62 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:30.759 Alan, you wrote all those people dying. That's m like, I'm do 63 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:32.959 you think they're gonna go into that. I'm like, I don't know. 64 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:35.600 That's I mean, he's apparently, I mean, who knows, because the 65 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:41.279 characters that are in those games are characters he wrote. It's true, So 66 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:46.480 Alex Casey's in his world as well, and the and and and all like 67 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:49.800 everyone is I don't know, we'll see it's like the Smash Bros. Of 68 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:54.120 Yeah, like the hand. Yeah he's he's the white gloves that are smashing 69 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:58.920 all the toys right right, everyone is here put Allen wake and Smash Bros. 70 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:02.199 Or unless we just believe he is the hands sure oh yeah, okay, 71 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:05.600 yeah that you fight in the end. Yeah. Anyways, games, 72 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:09.040 calm games, Tom, that's the main you know, that's not the only 73 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:11.240 thing that interested me, but that was like, you know, when we're 74 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:13.800 working it and they're like, yo, get on this, like yes, 75 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:16.759 and then I'm don't have a single idea what we what I was watching It 76 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:19.639 happens every time, Yeah, totally. Yeah. My favorite part of that 77 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:24.399 opening live was the Call of Duty game play, not because I cared about 78 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:27.000 it, because it was ten minutes long and I said great, Yeah, 79 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:30.279 I didn't take a break. I'm pretty sure I got like food, like 80 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:34.079 fantastic. I walked away and I was like, I'm good. See I 81 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:38.399 was making thumb I mean, you were helping me make something else. I 82 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:42.279 was on that particularly they're trying to make a thumbnail and it's all dark and 83 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:47.600 rainy, and especially when you pull screenshots from like Twitch or something, and 84 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:51.920 it's dark and rainy. It looks like absolute shit. It just looks awful. 85 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:57.639 It just looks super chunky. Nothing works. Uh, everything looks bad 86 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:01.120 and photoshop. So you know, I was watching that. I'm interested. 87 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:03.920 But let's look like the weirdest part of our job. I think when you 88 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:06.720 like explain it, because there's like other parts where it's like a review games 89 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:10.959 or like I make guide coverage or we go like film stuff like you know, 90 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:13.639 and then it's like, yeah, I sit down and watched this live 91 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:17.199 stream and I take screenshots. Yeah, I actually know another guy to take 92 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:20.439 screenshots and sends it to me and then I put text over it. And 93 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:24.439 a while ago while that dude in the corner is writing, you know, 94 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:27.959 writing down game come out this or in my case, it's just like did 95 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.079 anybody see the really state? When did they say it? Couldn't you tell 96 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:33.000 me if they said it? Or me being like I have no idea who 97 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:36.399 the fuck this character is? I think somebody please tell me who this this 98 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:41.240 man with hat and gun? Who's this guy? Gun guy? That's my 99 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:45.120 job usually. That was definitely my biggest misconception, as like when I went 100 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:46.879 to my first day through. I was like, Oh, can't wait to 101 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:49.480 be in the audience for the Xbox thing. That's gonna be me. I'm 102 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:54.519 gonna be there, like maybe all of the camera never been to a single 103 00:06:54.600 --> 00:07:00.000 press confidence now to be fair, at this point I kind of enjoy watched 104 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.959 him anyway. You know, you get the you get the nice cuts that 105 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:06.800 you get the you get the the raw trailer I guess not the raw trailers, 106 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:11.759 but you also like the camaraderie of all of us together, like you 107 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:16.399 do get the shirt camaraderie where like we're all either like this looks like fucking 108 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:21.399 garbage and we're like ripping on something happens and everyone gets really excited. Like 109 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:26.439 you can't do that when you're in the audience. Yeah, I mean a 110 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:30.839 chill and plant. I will say, you don't get the witness people storing 111 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:38.360 the stage and muttering a bunch of nonsense. Again again my favorite, Well, 112 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:41.000 that guy was smart. He did it early. He didn't said the 113 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:42.959 other guy did the end. I'm going to do it right at the because 114 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:45.600 you know, he just he was just he was just a twitch chatter, 115 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:50.399 just saying. But then there was another ominous being who walked by the screen 116 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:55.600 at one other man who just like appeared saying something on the shirt, but 117 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:59.360 the text was so small, and I was like, he's fucking man, 118 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:03.279 goofball that kid open open the floodgates. And then and then Keiley, it's 119 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:05.120 just yeah, he opened the flood gates. And apparently security didn't any better. 120 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:07.240 Now that I know that there's a lot of moving parts and things, 121 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:11.959 I'm not judging anything. Also like to be fair, game's calm like this, 122 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:15.959 Keiley's not in charge. It's the different as team and different people. 123 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:20.040 But Keiley being like, I'm just so disappointed. This is supposed to be 124 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:22.720 such a lovely night. I'm just so disappointed. I feel so bad for 125 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:26.000 these developers. I do applaud him for how how easily he he just was 126 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:28.319 like went right back to it, and yeah, I just been being like, 127 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:31.680 this is a this is a time for us to celebrate and Todd how 128 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:35.440 or is he came on script of his brown leather jacket and all like, 129 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:39.399 uh to talk about a game we've been hearing about for since the existence of 130 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:45.440 mankind. Yeah, and someone clipped it where because I think he says like, 131 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:50.360 of course I'm going to come for Starfield. Someone clipped it, I'm 132 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:54.480 gonna come from Starfield or something like that. Was like, like the internet, 133 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:56.960 keep doing that. That's funny. Keep doing that. It's one of 134 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.039 the good things to do. Yeah, keep clicks. It all worth it, 135 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:05.000 the stuff I come from Starfield. Come on. Speaking of which, 136 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:07.799 we can talk about the title screen of Starfield. Huh. I don't want 137 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:11.840 to. I don't want to. I don't want to, absolutely don't. 138 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:18.720 Yeah, it absolutely reflects the years of development that went into to that game. 139 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:22.120 Yeah, I can of worms. No, no, uh, what 140 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:24.840 else is games? Come? What else do we see? There was that 141 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:30.399 one god First Descendant or something like that that looked kind of wild. I 142 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:31.679 think it was called The First Descendant. You mean a game that was every 143 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:39.320 single game that was that was Crimsons Desert, which about and they just kept 144 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:43.919 adding new mechanics of the Kingdom. It was like, okay, this is 145 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:46.360 like a you know, regular combat. And then they start climbing like Assassin's 146 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:48.639 Creed and we're like, all right, it's like Assassin's Creed. And they're 147 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:52.879 riding horses and like skidding and I'm like okay, so you can do that 148 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.240 too, And then jumping from the air and like dropping bombs like Zelda style 149 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:01.600 and I'm like, what y And then there's just up floating sky islands and 150 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:03.399 then he's like jumping off of them. And now the dog thing. The 151 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:09.080 dog is specific because they made sure to show you like several shots of petting 152 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:13.679 a dog because Twitter, and I think they also emphasize that because you can't 153 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:16.679 pet the dog in either Breath of the Wild or Two's the Kingdom. And 154 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:20.159 I feel like this game was like, we're gonna do everything we can to 155 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:22.879 get every ounce of attention possible, and that means you can pet the dog. 156 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:26.279 And we're gonna say it again, you can pet the dog. It's 157 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:30.240 like you said, it feels like a someone programmed like an AI to like 158 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:33.360 pruise Reddit and just find like what are all the things gamers wanting in a 159 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:37.039 video game? And that's really never ended. It just kept going. Yeah. 160 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:41.840 I was getting ready for them to be like guns catching Pokemon. I 161 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:43.559 was like getting ready for like a mech to come in and been then becomes 162 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:46.480 tie and fall three. Well, hey man, I mean you know that 163 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:52.120 was just the first trailer and they got a pr cycle but inters, oh 164 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:56.039 well, I don't I just thought it looked cool, interesting, But I 165 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:58.759 don't know, I not remember what that is. It was like an unreal 166 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:05.759 five action game explosions third person? Was it the war frame looking like the 167 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.759 Yeah, kind of Warmer Riders or Outrider, Yeah, I guess kind of 168 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:13.559 Outriders shooters. I guess yeah, yeah. I don't know, though. 169 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:18.519 It's one of those things I appreciated for. I mean, I feel like 170 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:22.360 Heaey knows to do this and for this show. He was like, just 171 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:24.919 you know, like this, this isn't a show We're gonna have mic drop 172 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:28.519 announcements. We're not gonna have like this huge stuff. It's just to get 173 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:31.759 a closer look at some of these games. And going into that helped, 174 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:37.080 Like I wasn't really totally just you know, I had no expectations. I 175 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:39.360 enjoyed it. They ended on Alan Wake, which obviously it's not to say 176 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:41.480 I'm not excited for Alan Wait, but more just like, yeah, it's 177 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:43.799 that. It was that kind of show where it's like we're instead gonna end 178 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:48.279 on like a very big, well known game that's coming out in like two 179 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:50.960 months. Sam Lake's hair looked perfect, as always it always does. I'm 180 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:56.080 convincing it's just it's a lego pieces. Yeah, it's or I mean, 181 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:00.519 I'm convinced he doesn't have to shower. He just like rises from a shadow 182 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:05.720 and perfectly a cup of coffee next to him. Imagine he every single morning 183 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:09.000 he comes from a cup of coffee, like he climbs out of a cup 184 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.879 or just from it like a black sludge, and then it all withers away 185 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:16.960 and then there's still there there stands like, hello, I am Sam Lake. 186 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:24.000 You know. Yeah, the man has his cute he's figured it out. 187 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:33.000 Yeah, so but games come of happen. It's happen. You're still 188 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:37.279 happening. It's just jez Louise. Yeah, no one else will cares. 189 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:39.639 I'll just say it right now to get out of the way. That had 190 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.360 the Destiny showcase right before Opening Night Live. You care why, That's what 191 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:46.279 I'm saying. But I'm the only one who cares. So I don't want 192 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:48.639 to bore you guys. But were you excited? Yeah, it was mostly 193 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:52.879 excited. So it's the big reveal was there? The final shape, which 194 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:58.120 is the there? It's not the last expansion for Destiny, but it's supposed 195 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.879 to be like the conclusion to like the story they've been building up for the 196 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:03.720 last ten years, so it's like kind of like supposed to be the big 197 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:09.679 finale for what they have, and it looks appropriately finale ish, which I 198 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:13.200 think is kind of neat. I think the thing that was cool about it 199 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:18.399 that got me excited was how normally in Destiny, if you if you ever 200 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:24.080 play a Destiny campaign, they they've gotten better about like their campaigns being more 201 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:26.399 like feeling like an actual campaign. Like before they used to be like really 202 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:28.600 bad where it'd be like, oh, it's just kind of a loose collection 203 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:33.600 of missions and cut scenes and activities and you're like, this isn't really working. 204 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:37.720 Were recently they have like proper missions that actually feel like invokes like Halo, 205 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.759 kind of like older Bungee aesthetics. But they still like Pepper in that 206 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:45.879 whole live service, like I can go out and you can go do like 207 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:48.879 a bounty, or you can go do you know whatever, and you want 208 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:52.000 to round the thing. This one they said it is start to finish a 209 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:56.440 linear experience, which which I was like, I actually think that's really neat. 210 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:58.840 Like they said, after you beat the owner experience, like then it 211 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:03.639 opens up and the open world stuff is all there obviously, but I actually 212 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:07.440 really dig the idea of like I start the thing up and it's just here's 213 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:11.879 a campaign from start to finish, no interruptions, You're going from one point, 214 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:15.480 you're going to the end, and you beat the big bad And I 215 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:18.080 was like, I really like that, Like that feels like an appropriately good 216 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:22.240 way to do that. And it's also like it's like I don't really play 217 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:26.320 games as a service thing, but like you know, I do still sometimes 218 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:28.200 pop on Halo Infinite to play with friends, and like every time there's a 219 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:31.320 new season, I'm like, what is happening? Like what is like? 220 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:35.320 What is all this stuff? Why is everyone on fire? Like what is 221 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:37.360 going on? And there's no like there's no way for me to like, 222 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:39.480 there's no connective tissue for me to be like involved or care about anything that's 223 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:43.120 happening other than just like I'm just here to shoot my friends totally. I 224 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:46.960 mean Current Destiny's like that. They also put out the new season and it's 225 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:50.960 got this whole like it has like a deck building system in it now, 226 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:54.399 which is weird. Okay, like it's not as complicated, but it's one 227 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:58.840 of those things where it's like I can imagine like a new person being like, 228 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:01.879 oh, right, like Destiny, I should hop in and then they're 229 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:05.200 like, what the yeah funk is going on in this video game? So 230 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:09.440 yeah, live service games are weird. I don't know, but hey, 231 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:11.519 that's I mean, that sounds more exciting than what the last one was, 232 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:16.440 right expansion of this, Yeah, that one was pretty disappointing from a like 233 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:20.799 narrative perspective. It kind of if Yeah, it feels like they're just like, 234 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:22.320 yeah, I don't want to really hit. We need a really you 235 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:26.840 can tell they're like, we need to make sure this one lands, because 236 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:30.879 I think people were just kind of like, you know, just like pretty 237 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.240 whelmed about the whole thing, Like the stakes weren't The stakes felt like they 238 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:35.120 should have been high, but they just kind of like weren't there, and 239 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:37.799 so they were just like what am I doing? Like none of this feels 240 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:43.480 like should have like the gravitas that had, So I'm excited. It's also 241 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:46.240 potentially because they have said like we're going to continue doing Destiny after that, 242 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:52.320 and I'm curious to see if like this is the point where I decide to 243 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:56.960 pop off because it is like the ending, so like tip of this story, 244 00:15:56.039 --> 00:16:00.840 and you know, I like that universe, so like, if they 245 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:04.679 have something intriguing, you know that's new, I would potentially keep playing. 246 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:07.840 But if they don't, this could be that moment of like, okay, 247 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:11.480 I am done. I don't need to keep playing this anymore. Do you 248 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:17.600 play games of service games, Jake? I actually don't know. I've never 249 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:22.639 played a game like as consistently as you play Destiny or anything like that. 250 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:26.039 I would say the closest was I played Rain of sixth Siege for a long 251 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:29.120 time, and like, yeah, that is a games of service. But 252 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:33.919 I almost consider like these like PvP multiplayer games a little different because it's not 253 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:37.039 really a story that I'm following. Sure they do like a little lord drops 254 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:40.559 and stuff like that, but I never cared about that. It was but 255 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:47.000 just like cool, dude, do cool stuff. New characters, they add 256 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:49.240 new maps, new characters, new weapons, and they're putting master Chief in 257 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:53.519 it. Yeah, they're adding a master Chief skin. Where did that? 258 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:56.840 Where did that happen? I think it's happening now, Like I mean they 259 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:03.119 put Mazuma in it. Yeah. I have very mixed feelings about that because 260 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:07.279 I it clearly is like that whole, like Fortnite kind of opened up the 261 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:11.400 floodgates of like I hate it, you know, licensed characters like that's the 262 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:15.799 thing that sells, and like Call of Duty like immediately jumped on that and 263 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:18.400 they said, look, we're gonna put like attack on Titan characters and Call 264 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:22.839 Duty and they look garbage. And Nicki Minaji Minaj, the Nicki minajh one 265 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:26.559 is funny, not because I like her in Call of Duty, but because 266 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.640 people have already taken the model and ripped it and started putting her in other 267 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:34.000 games. So like, yes, like there's like a Lady d Nicki Minaj 268 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:37.039 mod that is like that is the greatest thing ever. Like, yes, 269 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:41.480 I'm one hundred percent on board with this, but as a whole, I'm 270 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:45.640 I don't know. I feel like it's just kind of like it cheapen things. 271 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:48.799 Yes, I really With Siege, it was interesting because I feel like 272 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.119 they did that pretty slow and I feel like they still kind of are doing 273 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:56.440 it. So like I remember when they added like Jill Valentine, and to 274 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:59.880 be fair, they didn't even add like they did Jill Valentine in the scene. 275 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:03.599 Yeah, they didn't even add Joe Valentine. They gave Joe Valentine's costume 276 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:06.079 to a character so like you could play. I think it was, like, 277 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:07.400 God, I don't rememberr name. I want to see. Her name 278 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:12.039 is Fifa, but that's definitely not it. Oh God, I can't remember 279 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:15.839 her name, but they gave a character so she still looks like the original 280 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:18.839 character. She's just wearing like Jill was the same thing. I think, 281 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:22.960 the same thing, and like mass Chief's probably the same thing. I bet 282 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:26.759 it's like one of the operators. Uh is it too Chanca? That'd be 283 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:30.079 pretty good. Maybe it's like Tchanca or something like that, which is okay, 284 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:33.480 but like, yeah, I don't know. Like I kind of like 285 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:41.400 the aesthetic of like the more mill sim like everyone's all geared out, and 286 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:42.839 I know that's kind of cringey, and some people don't like it, and 287 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:45.160 some people like this if not get it, but for some reason, it's 288 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:48.799 just like I'm playing a Tom Clancy game. I kind of want to. 289 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:55.400 That's like the fantasy that I want to. If I want to be master 290 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:57.359 Chief, I'll play Halo and I'll probably have a lot more fun being master 291 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:02.680 Chief and Halo than I wouldn't Siege, right, But the memes I don't 292 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:04.960 know, like people like dance and ship as he's cares well spend money on 293 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:10.319 it. I guess like two Rainbow sixes credit. It took them a really 294 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:12.640 long time to get to that boy, so I guess it sort of what's 295 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:22.079 worse enough to be the villain. Call of Duty is my least favorite example 296 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:26.119 of it because like they like tried not to do it for so long and 297 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:30.559 instead they just added these weird costumes that also didn't fit. Also, I 298 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:33.519 feel like sometimes I feel and also this this is just me as somebody who's 299 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:36.559 not a called duty person. I'm sure like people are gonna be upset when 300 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:38.960 I say this, But I also feel like sometimes like it just feels inappropriate, 301 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:44.720 and that's what I was. Yes, like Fortnite is like cartooning fun 302 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:48.880 times, and it's like, you know, Call of Duty is very like 303 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:56.119 raw raw American military imperialism, nationalist jingoism. Here's Nicki Minaje everyone, And 304 00:19:56.119 --> 00:20:00.640 you're like, that's when they added Jigsaw, He's run around ever with shotguns. 305 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:03.119 Yeah, this was modern warfare one I remember, I guess like and 306 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:07.839 then like when they added Rambo, that's when I was like really scratching my 307 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:11.559 head. And I know Rambo as a character has looked been like portrayed in 308 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:15.279 many, many, many different ways from someone who you know, is you 309 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.519 know, formed on PTSD, and then they kind of did make him more 310 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:21.279 of a like oh I mean yeah it was they had the one movie where 311 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:22.160 he was serious. Yeah, well, I know, and they and they 312 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:25.839 did stick. I mean, I believe I'm a huge This is really weird. 313 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:30.359 I'm an actual massive Rambo face. I love those movies. I've even 314 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:33.640 like read the book adaptation of First Blood, but like, oh wow, 315 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:37.799 uh, you know, I think like Rambo four specifically does a really good 316 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:41.079 job. I agree of like honing it back into a man who's wanted to 317 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:44.119 escape this this sort of thing. And I think they all all those movies 318 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:47.160 have different identities for Rambo, but seeing him in Call Duties one of those 319 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:51.559 things, like I get it, but it's part I mean, it's just 320 00:20:51.559 --> 00:20:57.000 sort of like this character is like founded on being a commentary on war. 321 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:00.519 It's like it's like it's fun. I don't want to ship on Anybody's like, 322 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:03.400 well dude, it's just a movie, and you're right, it's just 323 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:06.839 it's totally is How does it compare to like say, when they put Rambo 324 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:11.759 in Mortal Kombat eleven, again, I mean it's more but again that is 325 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:17.000 like so cartoonish, that is so like yes, so it's so like it's 326 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:19.359 so over like Mortal Kombat. That's why I think the violence Mortal Kombat in 327 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:22.599 general is just so like yeah, so asinine and over the top that it's 328 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:26.279 like, can't you can't really take anything seriously in a game like that. 329 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:30.559 Some Mortal Kombat actually has like a theme, thematic theme to their guest characters 330 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:34.519 that I appreciate it. Like nine was specifically, well nine had just a 331 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:37.359 few but it was like horror character. They just had Freddy. But then 332 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:44.240 like ten was like eighties horror characters, like eighties action and then it was 333 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:47.640 like action heroes. I'm this one they're going for, like superhero. So 334 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:49.799 like there's like a there's a theme to it that like to me at least, 335 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:55.000 it's like you're you're thinking about your choices and the book end on Rambo 336 00:21:55.039 --> 00:21:57.039 and Mortal Kombat is like, that's not a war game. It's not a 337 00:21:57.039 --> 00:22:00.519 game based on military. It's not a game based on war. It's just 338 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:03.559 like you're just using you know, Rambo as a character to beat up Terminator 339 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:07.160 and rule Cop and Wright like the fantasies that. Yeah, it's no different 340 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:11.200 from how he was. Like they made like Rambo action figures and exacties and 341 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:15.000 stuff. Yeah, exactly. That's maybe the best way to describe Mortal Kombat. 342 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:21.240 It's just smashing action figures together and speaking of games as a service and 343 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:26.119 character. That's why I brought it up. Well, I mean, I 344 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:29.359 was gonna segue right into Invasions, so I played more Combat one, I 345 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:33.160 did the preview for it. I went there and got but like half an 346 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:37.880 hour and a half with the game play most of the characters that people had 347 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:40.920 in the beta, with the exception of Kung Lao and then Cyax as a 348 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:45.200 cameo. But Invasions mode is the new mode that they added, which is 349 00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:52.319 their games as a Service mode. So it's one of those uh segues where 350 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:55.039 I'd like, I'm not a game as a service person. I don't even 351 00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:59.160 do. I I mean, is phasmo phobia considered that? No? No, 352 00:23:00.359 --> 00:23:03.240 I mean I think. I mean I made a video about online gaming 353 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:04.720 and how I really like I guess it. I think it needs to have 354 00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:07.559 like a ton of micro trans I think. I think the closest I can 355 00:23:07.559 --> 00:23:11.319 get to a game that I have consistently played and come back to pretty often, 356 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:15.920 No, I haven't sunk a top like one hundred hours into it is 357 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:18.000 See of Thieves. Like that's probably the closest to games of service that I 358 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:22.920 would say that counts as a game. I definitely that is because I've actually 359 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:26.720 spent money in that game to have a cat, so right or I no, 360 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:29.960 no, I had bought a monkey. Actually, like Fastmaphobia is just 361 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:33.559 a multiplayer game that they have just it's early access to that they just keep 362 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:36.160 updating, like you know, I don't know. It's like I wouldn't call 363 00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:41.920 like Classic Counterstrike is like an anti games of service games of service kind of 364 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:47.119 Yeah, there's no there's there's no micro transactions, there's no money spent. 365 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:48.240 You can't spend any money in that game. But I'm coming back to it 366 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:52.880 all the time because there's new ship. But anyways, yeah, Invasions Mode 367 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:57.079 is basically that like if you I kind of I mean, if you if 368 00:23:57.079 --> 00:24:00.319 you haven't read my preview, you should read it. I also a video 369 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:03.799 preview and get YouTube dot com slash games what But it's more or less just 370 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:11.920 like take basically Mortal Kombats Conquest Mode, Mortal Kombat eleven's Towers of Time mode 371 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:17.079 and then smashed it together with Smash Bros. Supersmash was Ultimate Bros, Smash 372 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:25.000 Bros. I'm interested h and and combine it with the Smash Bros. World 373 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:30.200 of Light mode. So it's like you're moving along basically a board game of 374 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:33.920 spots with your little a little more Mortal Kombat character, and then every single 375 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:37.680 place you land on is a a different fight with a bunch of attributes and 376 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:41.640 abilities, and you like gain currency, you will level up, you can 377 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:47.920 use medallions and loot and things to like make the battles different, which is 378 00:24:47.960 --> 00:24:49.920 exactly what Towers of Time was and Mortal Combat Eless. You can say Towers 379 00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:53.559 of Time was their life service thing where it had the currency, but it 380 00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:57.200 was all in game stuff, and like this time they're actually going to be 381 00:24:57.279 --> 00:25:03.880 like rolling out seasons like new maps, okay, which makes it that way, 382 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:07.599 and like you will be unlock and cost like I think that's the thing 383 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:10.200 that defines a line of service game is if you have if you have seasonal 384 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:15.680 mad seasonal seasonal maps that they're going to be rolling out. Yeah, so 385 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:19.960 there's that. And to be rather candid of the forty some minutes I played 386 00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:23.319 with that, and it could just be my game as a service brain, 387 00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:27.720 I was not having a great time. But I don't know if that is 388 00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:32.480 the I don't believe that's a blanket statement for other people. I think it's 389 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:33.680 just I also don't think the time that I had with it was enough to 390 00:25:33.759 --> 00:25:37.759 understand like the breath of what was there, of what you can do with 391 00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:41.599 it, but it I was just more so eager to just go back and 392 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:45.200 keep playing the story mode, which is great from what I played. Yeah, 393 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:48.680 I mean I always wonder like how much of the audience likes that kind 394 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:52.920 of stuff, because I think there's like the very hardcore audience for fighting games. 395 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:56.160 We'll just play the you just play the game, can you just match 396 00:25:56.200 --> 00:26:00.799 make? But I totally understand that that it's maybe not the most appealing thing 397 00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:03.920 to like a casual person that you need more of like a hook, like 398 00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:07.880 an incentive like oh, like I do this thing and I unlock like like 399 00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:11.920 another Eleven's tower as the time you would unlock like specific costumes by like beating 400 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:15.519 characters in the same deal, and I think there is something to that where 401 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:19.440 it's like, oh, you're like giving people like a reason to want to 402 00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:23.839 keep playing, because most people aren't going to just play to play, like, 403 00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:26.400 you know, a fighting game, especially a fighting game where there was 404 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:30.839 very difficult and skill based. Yeah. I was trying to envision like a 405 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:33.359 scenario in which I want to would want to play it, right, That's 406 00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:34.200 where I was struggling, where I was like, I don't know if this 407 00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:37.400 is just this was this is for me. Yeah, I'm I'm kind of 408 00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:42.839 torn on it. I do think like I feel like no fighting game studios 409 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:48.640 really cracked the live service model for fighting games in a way that seems pretty 410 00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:56.960 I guess in depth, they're useful, like because like even Smash Bros. 411 00:26:56.039 --> 00:26:59.200 Is the game that I kept coming back to and I still go back to, 412 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:02.599 that wasn't a live service model. But they release characters every now and 413 00:27:02.599 --> 00:27:04.079 then, and then they hit a point where they just stopped, you know, 414 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:07.880 and like and like Street Fighter, No there maybe no, the thing's 415 00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:12.079 kind of weird. So they have like a season pass that like like a 416 00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:15.039 battle pass thing. Yeah, that's like I think it's like thirty days or 417 00:27:15.079 --> 00:27:21.359 something. But I was like, I'll try one, because it was only 418 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:23.519 like I think it's like two dollars or five dollars or something else, like 419 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:26.039 I'll try just to see what it's like. And all of it was just 420 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:32.680 like, oh, you can unlock like face plates or like avatar costumes. 421 00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:34.400 Like none of it was like stuff that I actually cared about. The Turtles 422 00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:40.720 thing. The whole Team Turtle thing was like a special like that was like 423 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:42.480 their equivalent of like a crossover event thing where it's like, hey, for 424 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:48.160 like a limited time, we also are selling these like special Turtle costumes you 425 00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:52.759 can get for like a month only, and you wear them on your avtar 426 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:55.880 and you can do them, which I think is an okay way to do 427 00:27:55.960 --> 00:27:59.359 it, like especially because like the game has the avatar stuff where you can 428 00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:06.359 like put You're like, that's you're wearing that, right, So kind of 429 00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:08.680 if you're doing like normal matchmaking where you just play a character, you're just 430 00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:11.480 playing that character. But if you go to like the battle Hub, which 431 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:15.240 is they're kind of like you can wander around and challenge people to fights, 432 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:18.079 and there's like little arcades you can sit down. There's a little circle in 433 00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:22.599 the middle called like the Avatar Fight Ring, and you can go there and 434 00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.960 you can challenge your avatar to other people's avatars, and it's just very silly, 435 00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:29.519 but it's just kind of so it's like it's not serious, but it's 436 00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:30.880 kind of like a fun little thing you can do, so you can you 437 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:34.519 get to see everyone's costumes and you can just like, I'm dressed up as 438 00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:38.000 a turtle and I'm gonna do a spitting bird kick on you because I have 439 00:28:38.079 --> 00:28:44.000 trying these moves. Set on the fifteen fucking dollar thing, though, holy 440 00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:49.759 shit, what that was almost stay capcom like fifteen dollars. It wasn't who 441 00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:56.160 knows though, like even if it was like per turtle, per per turtle, 442 00:28:56.519 --> 00:29:00.839 sixty dollars for all four turtles. O god, I mean I was 443 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:03.440 gonna say it was like, of course, like Rasheed was like seven dollars, 444 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:08.599 Like an actual new character was not as much as one turtle cost. 445 00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:12.839 But that's because they know that a punch of people are going to want Rasheed 446 00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:17.240 and if they charge Rasheed fifteen dollars, people are gonna be pissed. They 447 00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:19.920 know that a lot only the people who really want this, they're going to 448 00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:22.400 spend fifteen dollars in there. I don't know, man, I feel like 449 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:26.119 fifteen like I would have if they were each like five dollars, I probably 450 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:30.480 would have bought one or two, but fifteen no amount of money I would 451 00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:33.519 have gotten that. But I can see why, like a Turtles fan probably 452 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:37.559 wouldn't be happy about it. Maybe they're like, I'll pay fifteen dollars if 453 00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:40.079 I mean, even even it just feels way too much time. It does 454 00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:45.319 feels a new character in Mortal Kombat eleven was like four bucks, like Smash 455 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:51.200 Brothers like five bucks a Fortnite like they're they're pretty well Fortnight Fortnight is a 456 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:56.200 little fucking weird. I don't know anything about Fortnight. Usually you can't just 457 00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:59.319 get the well sometimes you can't just get the skin. It's like part of 458 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:03.599 the battle pass right sometimes. Okay, all right, I shows what I 459 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:06.440 know. Yeah, I've played enough to kind of understand how much of a 460 00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:08.039 rip off a lot of that that stuff is. But but that game is 461 00:30:08.039 --> 00:30:11.200 also free to play. It is free to play. I think that's probably 462 00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:18.440 the biggest difference. But it very much like it. Basically, the store 463 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.519 changes every single day and they will have something there and usually be like fifteen 464 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:25.599 bucks twelve bucks for cost. But it depends what it is. You know, 465 00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:27.720 if it's like Spider Man or something, it's probably going to be more 466 00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:33.240 than just like another like Epic created Fortnite character, but they cycle that store 467 00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:38.519 almost daily, so like they very much encourage people to be like, oh, 468 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:41.960 this is here today, either you buy it now or you may not 469 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:45.640 ever be able to get it again. Like like I have a friend who 470 00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:48.599 plays quite a bit of Fortnite, and I told him I want Indiana Jones 471 00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:52.000 and he's like, okay, i'll let you know. Indiana Jones shows up 472 00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:55.440 and like he texted me, he's like, Indiana Jones is here and I 473 00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:56.559 go on and it's like I'm gonna wait and he's like, well, I 474 00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:59.799 don't know when it's coming back because it's only dining. And I was like 475 00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:03.640 hitting me. So that's kind of how they were. But yeah, I 476 00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:11.279 do think like I don't know that. I feel like developers are maybe overthinking 477 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:15.519 this fighting game games is service sort of deal. Like the way I see 478 00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:19.960 it, there's three things people want in fighting games. Costumes, characters in 479 00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:23.759 stages, yes, and like when I hear about this, like I don't 480 00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:27.079 know, invasion mode. It's like I don't really want to do any of 481 00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:30.440 that, you know. I also had I feel like the name itself gives 482 00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:33.000 it imply something different. Yeah, Like when I was like when I was 483 00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:34.680 taking Invasions mode, you know, when they told us ed, I was 484 00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:37.480 like, oh, swick are you like, are you gonna be able to 485 00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:41.759 like invade someone else's games? There some sort of like interesting way in which 486 00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:44.200 you can like mess with someone else. It's just like, no, it's 487 00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:48.839 it's this. There was. I mean, I'm probably get the details wrong, 488 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.440 but there was a thing called like invasion in Mortal Kombat X, because 489 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.799 I had the whole faction system where like you would sign up for like a 490 00:31:56.839 --> 00:31:59.680 faction like are you part of the Linnquair, you part of like Outworld or 491 00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:05.240 whatever, and then like every month or so, those factions essentially fight to 492 00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:15.279 see who won, and there would be like an invasion. But I think 493 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:17.799 I think it had like a similar name like invasion, and I was like, 494 00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:20.799 wait, is it that? And I was like, no, it's 495 00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:24.319 not okay. But I think like if a fighting game, if the foundation 496 00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:30.599 is there, all people really want are just stages in characters and costumes and 497 00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:35.799 I don't think there needs to be these extra modes all this. I could 498 00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:39.319 be wrong, but like with Smash Bros. Like that had a start in 499 00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:43.480 an end. Don't call that. I wouldn't call that a games and service 500 00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:46.759 at all. But like if they just kept releasing characters, I would still 501 00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:50.240 be playing that I would consider a game of service and I would be like, 502 00:32:50.279 --> 00:32:52.720 this is exactly what I want. You know, like every three months 503 00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:57.039 they drop a new character that's eight dollars and it comes with the stage. 504 00:32:57.200 --> 00:32:59.720 And now, I'm sure that's a lot of work. I'm sure that's not 505 00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:04.039 easy to do, but like, I don't know, I feel like it's 506 00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:07.759 not that hard. Yeah, there's also a lot of gears that a lot 507 00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:10.640 of pieces that we're not seeing when it comes to some of like inn evasions 508 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:14.920 mode and like when you start creating season passes and in currency, it's like 509 00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:17.799 there's so many different hands at play and so many different people at the tables 510 00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:22.200 that you need to please, and yeah, I like stockholders and all that, 511 00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:25.279 and it gets so complicated and so whichb themselves are kind of known for 512 00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:29.759 pushing that in their games, So it's like another realm necessarily. Yeah, 513 00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:35.799 I would never necessarily like it's hard to be like this is what we want. 514 00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:37.519 It's like it's not about that, it's about what the you know, 515 00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:39.880 the stakeholders are gonna want or here when you're when you're putting a game out, 516 00:33:39.880 --> 00:33:43.240 and that is And that's also to say that may not even be true 517 00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:45.000 either because the developers themselves may have actually thought this was a good idea. 518 00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:47.440 Sure, not saying that it is a bad idea. It's just because the 519 00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:52.279 games even out yet well also like to their credit, like I think Moral 520 00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:59.079 Kombat has always been weird and experimental, Like even back during like the Xbox 521 00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:01.839 original, like the Ready era, they had like weird like story modes where 522 00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:07.519 you'd run around a racing mode. Yeah, like like they have always like 523 00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:10.599 put in like weird modes and like someone like they had like I think they 524 00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:13.800 had like a chess mode in one of them, and like you know, 525 00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:17.880 and I think those modes have varied in quality, and they keep trying, 526 00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:21.599 they keep they keep trying, So I think that's just kind of their thing. 527 00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:25.719 And also it's never taken away from like the core stuff. This is 528 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:30.880 gonna say, Like I play most Immortal Combat games, I just played the 529 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:34.760 story maybe like hop in for a couple of matches and I am one satisfied. 530 00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:37.119 Yeah, Like, I I dig this stories. I love their cut 531 00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:42.960 scenes in their totalctories, and I love the bombastic nature and like and like 532 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:45.480 the gore and stuff, and like I have fun with them. And like, 533 00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:49.880 you know, invasions mode, I'm you know, some people, some 534 00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:52.000 people will probably enjoy it. I might try it, you know. I 535 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:54.039 played all of what is it a World of Light and Smash Bros Or whatever, 536 00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:58.920 Like I played all that twice because the redo it, I did it. 537 00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:02.039 I played it just to get Kyle Hyde spirit. Oh yeah, like 538 00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:07.280 and I'm done. It doesn't feel like they took away from this stuff you 539 00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:12.000 actually want. Yeah, Like, so it's totally and I think it's totally 540 00:35:12.039 --> 00:35:15.079 fine, and I'll play it when it comes out just to get a taste 541 00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:17.159 of it. But when I boot up More Kombat one, it's going to 542 00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:22.000 be story Mode, which same looks pretty cool. I was. I mean, 543 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:23.920 I watched we we Have like the opening eight minutes on YouTube. I 544 00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:28.760 was watching that and I was like, they've like nailed it. They're doing 545 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:32.599 some weird fun stuff with the story, like small spoiler, but like the 546 00:35:32.599 --> 00:35:36.360 beginning, it has like Shang Sun yeah, like as an interw in, 547 00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:39.079 like what they're doing with like the play on his character they're doing because the 548 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:43.360 whole like universe reset. I was like, Oh, that's really cool and 549 00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:45.679 I love that and you really get to see, like, you know, 550 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:47.920 his villain's journey, you know, like this is he still voiced by what's 551 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:52.119 his name? The I don't know. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna guess 552 00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:54.639 because because it sounded very similar, but I wasn't sure. I forget, 553 00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:59.360 I forget the actor's name. But in More Kombat eleven he was I don't 554 00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:01.639 think trade by the actor who played him in the original movie, which was 555 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:05.719 great. Yeah, I'm not convinced it's him this time around, but I'm 556 00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:07.360 not gonna I'm not gonna say. It at least sounded very similar, so 557 00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:09.960 it had the same vibe. I think, yeah, it might be. 558 00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:15.400 He's like all I know is that like since nine Mortal Kombat nine, they 559 00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:19.920 like found and it's the same dude, Dominic. I can't remember his last 560 00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:22.239 name right now, but he's been the main director for the story mode for 561 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:25.960 the story mode bet yeah, and I was able to talk to him when 562 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:30.280 I was there for the preview event and like he, uh, all the 563 00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:32.800 inspirations are so obvious. But like one thing he was talking about, which 564 00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:37.599 I'm interested for the next game, is that he didn't play a role Mortal 565 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:40.800 Kombat one. But apparently he's been really watching a lot of Bollywood action films, 566 00:36:42.599 --> 00:36:45.039 so he's always so he was always talking about like he always talks about 567 00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:50.239 how like Asian cinema and like Chinese martial arts films and like even Japanese films, 568 00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:53.880 just all of it has like he all of it has so clearly inspired 569 00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:59.599 and has goes on to inspired Mortal Kombat, but and rrr inspired Mortal Kombat 570 00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:02.960 now that the one is done, though, now he's been watching Bollywood action 571 00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:07.119 films and like been going down that path, and I'm like, I can 572 00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:14.440 only hope because those I've seen a lot of those movies. I highly recommend 573 00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:19.719 a movie called Bodyguard, Bollywood action film called Bodyguard. It's phenomenal anyways, 574 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.519 but I want to see if that in any way starts to like inspire whatever 575 00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:30.239 the new would be. Might be a few more Injustice three or Injustice Injustice 576 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:35.119 History be so but yeah, no, it's like hard it's like hard to 577 00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:37.280 imagine them going wrong with their story modes at this point because they like got 578 00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:40.480 it down to like a science, to the point where it's like watching the 579 00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:44.599 cut scenes in those games are like they're just fun. Yeah, you know, 580 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:50.760 they're silly and they're like, it's exactly what. Yeah. Also, 581 00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:53.639 was it the last word where they had that UFC fighter voice, so you 582 00:37:53.800 --> 00:38:04.639 played she was really looking for I remember you can immediately and you know they 583 00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:07.519 must have been like, oh, this is so bad, but like there's 584 00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:10.000 too much red tape. Contracts have been signed, Yeah, this was the 585 00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:14.159 marketing team came up with this or whatever. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, 586 00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:15.679 no, because I actually went back and played a little bit of eleven 587 00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:20.800 because I was just kind of like a Mooral combat mood and like I picked 588 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:22.800 her and I heard like one of her lines and was like, oh, 589 00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:28.199 yeah, I couldn't remember if it was her or like their daughter. No, 590 00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:30.559 it was her, yeah, because Cassie. Cassie's great voice here, 591 00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:37.079 but she's good. Everyone else is fine. I completely forgot about that, 592 00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:39.719 like again, even even shang Soon, because like yes, because because that's 593 00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:44.679 an actual actor, he's an actual actor, and he's he's bringing a level 594 00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:49.800 of hamminess because like Shee is supposed to be a serious character. That's like 595 00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:53.800 your soul is mine or line as I can't remember right now. Yeah, 596 00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:59.760 I love him. Yeah yeah, but you know, play that looks good. 597 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:01.519 Played some of the bait over the weekend and I was like, man, 598 00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:07.119 this game feels the snappy. Yeah, I'm excited. I've like, 599 00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:10.000 like I said, I only do the story mode and that's probably all I'll 600 00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:14.079 do because I don't want to mix my fighting games up too much. I'm 601 00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:19.239 trying to get deeper into street Fighter. But I'm I'm I'm excited just for 602 00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:34.199 that, you know, a Mortal Kombat flare him. Yeah. Yeah, 603 00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:37.719 I've also I'm still checking along in Balder's Gate three. I finally made it 604 00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:44.519 two Boulders Gates. Wow, it's real, it's real. It's super In 605 00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:47.239 this play three, I think like forty hours. I've got one hundred and 606 00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:52.760 twenty hours in a lot of that is just replaying Act one for gameplay flat, 607 00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:59.440 so it's not as not as interesting as uh as one might hope. 608 00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:01.679 Again, going back to the beginning of this podcast, when people think that 609 00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:09.079 what their job is and not realizing it's yea over and over and you're like 610 00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:15.840 satorial shorter. Thank God. Undoubtedly it could be worse. Yeah, but 611 00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:21.159 uh it's I don't feel like I'm just playing video games at work when I'm 612 00:40:21.159 --> 00:40:24.360 recapturing the same segment for the eleventh time. Is a different class in order 613 00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:30.920 to make a video on all the different classes. That said, I finally 614 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:35.440 made it to Baldiscate. Balderskate is super impressive. It is a huge city. 615 00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:37.760 I have not found where it ends. I guess like I am still 616 00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:43.440 traveling through the city. To be fair, like every building distracts me because 617 00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:47.280 there's something interesting, there's something to explore. And one thing when I was 618 00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:52.320 in Belgium when Spend the director was giving a talk, he was like, 619 00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:53.679 one of the things that we try to do in our games and especially in 620 00:40:53.719 --> 00:41:00.119 this is like it's layered right, like you stumble on a quest, then 621 00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:02.440 it seems simple, and then you find out they've got something hidden behind their 622 00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:06.079 bookshelf, and then you go through the bookshelf and you find the secret room, 623 00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:08.639 and then you go in that secret room and there's a small hatch under 624 00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:13.719 a rug, and then you're in this giant underground cave that has happened like 625 00:41:13.800 --> 00:41:17.079 three times already in Balder's Gate itself. And I'm playing with two other people, 626 00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:21.360 so like everyone's just kind of going their own directions, checking out the 627 00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:27.559 city, like getting in different shenanigans. Like it's why, Like I found 628 00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:31.159 my perception. I rolled correctly for perception, found a hidden door, opened 629 00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:34.920 the door. We walked in, and someone was just like there was some 630 00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:38.239 evil magic going on in some dude sacrificing some creature. And I'm like sneaking 631 00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:40.280 in and I opened the door and look and I'm like, no, I'm 632 00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:45.480 out of here. I'm not not engaging in this. The issue that I 633 00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:50.960 have been running into though, is there seems to be a bug or a 634 00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:57.360 memory leak or something that when you enter Balder's Gate it kind of messes up 635 00:41:57.400 --> 00:42:00.039 your game a little. I've heard this from other ball Is this like the 636 00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:02.400 Act three thing of it? Yeah, it's just Act three of the game 637 00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:08.039 kind of starts to it starts to buckle a little interest. So it's interesting 638 00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:13.360 because I was I've been playing, so I was playing with these three friends 639 00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:15.119 and or these two friends, and we enter Balder's Gate and we stopped there 640 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:19.000 and We're like, okay, let's stop. Let's next time we play, 641 00:42:19.079 --> 00:42:22.880 let's explore ballders Gate. We loaded back in and it is super laggy, 642 00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:24.400 and we're like, what is going on here? Like every time we try 643 00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:29.079 to jump, our character would like freeze for a half a second. MPCs 644 00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:31.719 would be like bouncing back and forth as they walked, and we're like, 645 00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:36.000 this is this is so weird. So he reloaded a save before we went 646 00:42:36.039 --> 00:42:38.559 into Balder's Gate and it worked. We're like, huh, okay, So 647 00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:43.320 we went back into Balder's Gate and it happened again. I'd do some research 648 00:42:43.360 --> 00:42:47.960 and apparently a way to improve it is by taking Jahira, like including Jahira 649 00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:52.079 in your party and then going into Balder's Gate and that mitigates it for some 650 00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:58.000 reason, and it does. It's still a little laggie. However, The 651 00:42:58.079 --> 00:43:02.119 issue I have is that in my solo save, I just hear has just 652 00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:07.119 died. So I'm like, I don't know how I'm gonna circumvent this, 653 00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:08.960 So I'm kind of from my solo game. I'm kind of just waiting for 654 00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:12.159 a patch. I guess, to be fair, they may have fixed it 655 00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:15.519 by now. We did this tuesdays when we found this, so I've never 656 00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:22.239 like a specific character. It's bizarre. I saw it online and we're like, 657 00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:24.480 no, that's not gonna work. All right, well let's just try 658 00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:27.719 it anyway. And we get in and at first like I don't think this 659 00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:30.360 works, and then like thirty seconds later, it's like, no, this 660 00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:34.519 works. It's still a little buggy, but it's it's definitely playable. Okay. 661 00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:37.199 I am still like it's bizarre, still waiting to play it, and 662 00:43:37.239 --> 00:43:40.519 I'm like, I'm I'm like trying to see if there's like a window during 663 00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:45.519 September that I can finally like I have it, it's installed. I like 664 00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:49.400 it's I'm people are playing it on their steam Deck correct, Like that's like, 665 00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:53.000 yes you can. I I think I play it on Mac. I 666 00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:57.159 think playing it on PC and then going to steam Deck was a little difficult 667 00:43:57.159 --> 00:43:59.480 to do. Maybe if you just start on steam Deck it would be fine. 668 00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:04.000 Still trying to start, and I don't think it is like deck ready 669 00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:08.440 or whatever, but I think they're working on that. But but it ran 670 00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:12.320 okay. I mean I was able to play it just looked looked kind of 671 00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.920 when does it come on? Five September. September it might just you can 672 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:20.519 play it on and it does have cross really yeah, there's there's a part 673 00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:23.239 of me that's like, just I haven't even finished Pick Been four yet, 674 00:44:23.239 --> 00:44:27.400 And I was like, and I'm obsessed with those games. I'm obsessed with 675 00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:30.360 that game, and like I'm also taking my sweet damn time with it, 676 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:34.400 like I deliberately it was almost given to me for coverage here a game spot, 677 00:44:34.760 --> 00:44:37.119 and I was like, you know what, I'm saying no, because 678 00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:40.280 I want to enjoy the game as much as I can, So I need 679 00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:45.639 to finish that and that's not even a long game. And then Starfield, 680 00:44:45.559 --> 00:44:51.679 Yeah, it's a lot like what we Basically I'm hoping that I can like 681 00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:55.119 fit boulders Gate in like the tail end of September, like that really not 682 00:44:55.119 --> 00:45:00.079 fit it in, but like play it from mid September onwards and then be 683 00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:06.360 ready for when I see my brothers. Wonder comes out two at the end 684 00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:08.559 of the month, which they moved Bluster Soul. Hopefully it'll be less hot, 685 00:45:08.599 --> 00:45:14.559 because that has actually been my biggest barrier to playing Balder's Gate is we've 686 00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:19.119 like had like a it's been unusually hot this summer. Wonder, why what 687 00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:25.039 could be causing it, and in the Bay Area air conditioning is not a 688 00:45:25.039 --> 00:45:29.480 thing they have just fans. But yeah, it's been really hot in my 689 00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:36.639 apartment and I'm playing that game with Georgia, so we're playing together and that 690 00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:40.360 just causes your PC to scream and just two PCs generate and so we have 691 00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:45.639 both PCs just making the house even hotter. Like I will will play and 692 00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:49.320 be like, yeah, let's play Balder's Gate. Play for like thirty minutes 693 00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:52.960 and be like, we have to save the city of Balder's Gate for winter 694 00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:58.719 when when yeah, especially they don't patch it by that, because yeah, 695 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:00.360 good lord, I've been playing so much Boulthers Gate. I feel like my 696 00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:05.000 PC isn't going to explode any minute now. And then I played a different 697 00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:07.800 game away a PC and it was silent, and I was like, oh, 698 00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:10.360 this is what it should be sounding. Okay, I'm not curious, 699 00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:14.679 like because I know I'm curious that I'm not gonna get an rog ally, 700 00:46:14.760 --> 00:46:17.440 but I am like curious the difference of performance on Stay the steam Deck, 701 00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:22.199 for ally, in terms of screaming that it'll be doing on the boulders Gate, 702 00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:25.960 when when I did on steam Deck, it wasn't loud at least. 703 00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:30.320 I mean that that fan was blowing, but it wasn't like my PC, 704 00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:35.679 which is like huffing and puffing. Steam Duck's also gotten a lot better since 705 00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:37.800 launched, because I remember when that thing came out, it was just screaming 706 00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:42.960 all the time. Yeah, they patched it and added some fan options. 707 00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:45.519 Yeah, they've done a better job with it. So I'm looking forward to 708 00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:51.280 doing it, to playing it. I to what was it Todd Howard said, 709 00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:57.480 I come for for Starfield, I come for boulders Gate three. Yeah, 710 00:46:57.679 --> 00:47:00.599 when it happens, just wait until you play it. Horny as hell. 711 00:47:01.719 --> 00:47:06.239 I've heard it. I've seen I've also actually been playing. I forgot 712 00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:09.360 to mention it earlier, but I've been playing Red Dead on Switch, which 713 00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:14.840 is which is really good. Like, it runs great, it plays great, 714 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:19.719 So that cames pretty sure. I think people were just pretty concerned after 715 00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:23.400 the GTA uh sure collection. I think people were. Their reputation is maybe 716 00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:28.400 a little spotty at the moment. Yeah, but but I mean I've had 717 00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:31.360 no issues. It runs, it seems pretty solidly thirty frames from what I 718 00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:36.000 can tell. I think I watched a bit of Digital Foundries video on it 719 00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:40.400 and run it runs great. Uh, fifty dollars is still kind of pricey, 720 00:47:40.519 --> 00:47:45.199 I would say. Yeah. However, Red Dead Redemption is one of 721 00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:47.159 the best games ever made, and even like playing it now, I am 722 00:47:47.199 --> 00:47:52.039 still so impressed by the writing on display. Like what else came out in 723 00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:55.039 twenty ten to compare that too, Like I guarantee you there is no like 724 00:47:55.159 --> 00:48:00.679 Triple A game that even comes close to the writing even now. It was 725 00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:04.119 Massive two that was the other game that was that year. Yeah, I 726 00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:07.119 remember that being like the two games, I'd argue, that's a very different 727 00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:10.840 type of writing style, but like I agree with you, like like the 728 00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:17.920 way Red what two games came out twenty Deadly Perminition correct, okay, obviously 729 00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:22.800 the superior right and then and Alan like oh yeah, so but I will 730 00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:27.239 I'm still you know, all that aside, Uh, there was a reason 731 00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:30.360 when like I played Red Dead redom Sure when it came out when I was 732 00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:35.599 like nine whatever, and I was like, this is the greatest game that's 733 00:48:35.599 --> 00:48:37.960 every sure, and like it's one of those things where like that ending, 734 00:48:38.679 --> 00:48:43.159 for the longest time, that's the best ending I've ever experienced in the game. 735 00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:45.800 It lives with you for a long time until you play Red Dead Redemption 736 00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:51.599 two you're like, that's the greatest play, Like that's it. But yeah, 737 00:48:51.639 --> 00:48:53.679 I guess, like I guess it's some of the best writing in that 738 00:48:53.880 --> 00:49:00.960 sort of like video gaming like trying to be movie style, which is Dan 739 00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:05.039 Houser the Team and yeah, did so well anyway, but like that that 740 00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:09.960 game opens up with John Marston getting on a train hunting down Bill Williamson, 741 00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:15.239 and like there's this great scene where he's on a train and there these two 742 00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:21.000 conversations happening that he's in the middle of and like about like expansionism and like 743 00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:28.800 the westward push and like and like the the hypocrisy and like the dangers. 744 00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:32.320 It's just it's really good. They like set up that world and like one 745 00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:36.760 scene and then you step off the training or in Armadilla and it is just 746 00:49:36.800 --> 00:49:40.000 like whoa, Like it holds up also so well, don't they really do? 747 00:49:40.119 --> 00:49:43.800 Also, if I remember correctly, like that opening scene is also like 748 00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:46.320 the soundtrack is immaculate because like it, if I remember correctly, it has 749 00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:51.000 that sort of like whimsy sort of exciting on the horizon for the moment he 750 00:49:51.039 --> 00:49:53.280 gets off the train, and like the two, like the pedestrians move out 751 00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:57.480 of the way, and you realize that he's being escorted yeah, with with 752 00:49:57.480 --> 00:50:00.840 with sheriffs, and then kind of like yeah yeah, and that's like when 753 00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:04.559 I was like, fuck, that was so well fucking that was like, 754 00:50:04.599 --> 00:50:07.079 you know, you see this character, you think he's by himself, he's 755 00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:08.679 in the midst of these conversations. She realized like he's being escorted, and 756 00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:14.000 like it's just shit like that. So like, yeah, I guess, 757 00:50:14.079 --> 00:50:15.400 like my my, my take on it is like, yeah, fifty dollars 758 00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:19.440 is a lot. If you've played Red Dead Redemption too or Red Dead Redemption 759 00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:22.760 and you have it on other platforms, probably not worth it. But if 760 00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:27.280 you've never played Red Dead Redemption before and you own a switch, uh, 761 00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:30.239 like yeah, you are not going wrong. But man, it's like it's 762 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:34.480 not available anywhere else except for those original consoles. No, no Xbox Yeah, 763 00:50:34.840 --> 00:50:39.760 because xboxwords competitive and that version is not fifty dollars. So that's the 764 00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:43.159 that's the part where I go because I'm like, I agree with you, 765 00:50:43.199 --> 00:50:46.280 it is I think it is worth spending fifty dollars to play it. But 766 00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:49.760 I'm also like, if you have an Xbox, if you have an Xbox, 767 00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:52.639 you don't have to spend fifty dollars. And also I think I don't 768 00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:57.400 I don't think rocks are there that's pushing it. And I think it runs 769 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:01.440 should I think it runs best on like Xbox Series X one X as well 770 00:51:01.519 --> 00:51:06.440 too, because they did that the four K stuff. That's so it's like 771 00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:07.519 and it's not like, you know, it was locked to thirty, but 772 00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:12.360 it's not like these versions have any like they're also locked at thirty. It's 773 00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:14.320 like the way the game was supposed to be seen. Yeah, yeah, 774 00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:17.960 and so like I think the other reason why this switch is a little more 775 00:51:19.079 --> 00:51:22.440 enticing is it it feels like that how that game runs fits the switch, 776 00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:27.679 while the PS four version seems like they could have done a little bit more 777 00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:30.639 like improve the framework, improved the resolution. Like watching the Digital Foundery thing 778 00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:35.559 was interesting because like the switch and PS four version are pretty comparable, which 779 00:51:35.599 --> 00:51:38.519 is like, so you could have gotten a little more juice out of that 780 00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:43.320 PS four version. So it's complicated, but I think like at the end 781 00:51:43.320 --> 00:51:45.119 of the day, if you never played Red Dead Redemption, like you're not 782 00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:47.480 going wrong if you oh yeah, you check it out. But anyway, 783 00:51:47.480 --> 00:51:51.199 I just want to talk about that a little because I've been playing it and 784 00:51:51.239 --> 00:51:54.400 I've been so impressed by so many things that I was impressed by back then 785 00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:59.360 that I'm amazed that I'm still impressed by. Like I'll speaking of Red Dead, 786 00:51:59.480 --> 00:52:05.559 I've been playing in a game that stars the Arthur what's his name, 787 00:52:05.880 --> 00:52:12.119 h Roger Clark, Roger Clark, Fort Solace Chester game, The Actor game, 788 00:52:12.159 --> 00:52:15.840 which came out like what two days game a couple of days ago. 789 00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:17.599 I think came out like because they had like presentation on it for Opening Night 790 00:52:17.679 --> 00:52:22.280 Live and they're like it's out now. Yeah. Yeah. That is a 791 00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:24.679 our reviews up on game Spot of Market Lainey reviewed. He gave it a 792 00:52:24.719 --> 00:52:29.360 seven out of ten, which I think was an appropriate review. I like 793 00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:32.440 one hundred percent agree with his review. So to set it up, it's 794 00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:40.639 it is a space uh kind of like sci fi horror, suspense mystery game. 795 00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:43.639 It kind of invokes a lot of the things you think of when you 796 00:52:43.719 --> 00:52:45.800 think of that, like you know, plays off of like things like aliens, 797 00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:52.360 Uh, sci fi is involved. He uh. Marc de Lainey referenced 798 00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:54.719 Moon, and I think that's a great comparison like Moon kind of h it 799 00:52:55.000 --> 00:53:00.440 is a good one. But the game it self is sort of in that 800 00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:12.039 adventure game like like the Quarry Dark Pictures kind of where it's like character walking 801 00:53:12.119 --> 00:53:17.039 around picking up an object looking at it. You're reading audiologs on computers and 802 00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:21.840 watching video files. Is it as choice heavy as those games? No? 803 00:53:22.320 --> 00:53:24.800 So that's the thing. There is no choice in this game. Interesting. 804 00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:30.519 The narrative seems to my knowledge fixed. There are a couple of quick time 805 00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:35.760 events, but I and I flubbed up a couple of them real bad. 806 00:53:35.880 --> 00:53:37.559 It did not seem to Actually, I don't think there's a loose state, 807 00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:40.920 and I don't think it changed the outcome unless I maybe maybe if I really 808 00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:43.719 really messed one up, there would have been. But I did not have 809 00:53:43.840 --> 00:53:45.360 that happen at all, and it seems like it would have played out the 810 00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:50.119 same way no matter what. So I'll say from a game play standpoint, 811 00:53:50.599 --> 00:53:53.679 it's pretty limiting. So if you're kind of wanting something more like a like 812 00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:58.920 a Telltell or like a Quarry, where you want you know, like, 813 00:53:59.079 --> 00:54:00.679 oh I want things to how how could it turn out? I'm gonna replay 814 00:54:00.679 --> 00:54:04.280 it like. It's not that kind of game. It's basically like it's a 815 00:54:04.360 --> 00:54:07.239 story that you gotta get to interact and play with. And but the story 816 00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:10.440 itself is a fixed narrative. It's also only three and a half hours long 817 00:54:10.519 --> 00:54:15.440 sold And I genuinely love that about it, Like it gets in, it 818 00:54:15.480 --> 00:54:19.000 says when he used to say, and it gets out and it's it's I 819 00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:22.960 think it's pacing is excellent. You know, it's like this, it's got 820 00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:25.480 this good like slow burn, like kind of like dread where you're you're figuring 821 00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:30.800 out. So the whole narrative is you play as Jack, Arthur, Arthur 822 00:54:31.559 --> 00:54:37.679 what's his name, Roger Clark. Thank you, said Arthur Clark. Arthur 823 00:54:37.719 --> 00:54:43.119 Clark, Arthur Clark, Morgan, Troy Baker, Troy Baker, Roger Clark. 824 00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:47.119 Yes, he is like a you're on Mars. He's part of this 825 00:54:47.239 --> 00:54:53.079 like mining outfit and they get a distress call from a nearby station called Fort 826 00:54:53.159 --> 00:54:55.960 Solace. Uh. And he's like, oh, that's weird. They're not 827 00:54:57.079 --> 00:55:01.039 responding to the like from the distressing and also let's go check it out and 828 00:55:01.079 --> 00:55:06.039 see what it is. And you're off to figure out the mystery. Uh, 829 00:55:06.159 --> 00:55:09.000 And like I really don't want to say like anything about what it is. 830 00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:14.119 And like what happens. Other than that, I found the narrative to 831 00:55:14.159 --> 00:55:16.760 be very like I want. I genuinely was like I would like to I 832 00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:20.320 want to know what happens, and like you know that, I always had 833 00:55:20.360 --> 00:55:22.880 like bits and pieces of like maybe like maybe it's gonna go in this direction, 834 00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:25.920 maybe it's gonna go in this. It really keeps you guessing where it 835 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:31.800 goes, and I think the direction it ends up going in felt fairly like 836 00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:37.239 novel and unique to me. And yes, exactly that was the whole thing. 837 00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:38.920 Uh you know, you wake up at the end and it's red Dead 838 00:55:38.960 --> 00:55:45.280 Redemption too. Uh yeah, it was. It was really good and like 839 00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:51.440 the acting's great. Uh yeah, Troy Baker is, isn't it as well? 840 00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:55.039 He does a good job actorman. But but all the performances are good. 841 00:55:55.039 --> 00:56:00.320 It's very small cast, but I think everyone like bring brings their game 842 00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:04.400 to it, and it was awesome. Team I think it was, and 843 00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:08.039 it feels it feels that way, and it's scope, but they're definitely punching 844 00:56:08.079 --> 00:56:13.159 above their weight visually because it does visually look very impressive and you can tell 845 00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:16.639 they're I think they're like kind of trying to make that feel impactful and standout, 846 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:21.000 and I think it really works. The only thing I didn't really care 847 00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:28.360 for about the game is your character moves incredibly slow. Wait, you didn't 848 00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:31.719 like that in like Colosto Protocol. Uh No, there's a lot of things 849 00:56:31.719 --> 00:56:37.679 I've been liking Colosto Protocol, but Protocol there was a run button. There 850 00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:39.719 is not a run button in this game. You walk at a fixed pace 851 00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:45.639 the entire game, and I think for the most part it works fine because 852 00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:47.920 the game's trying to pace itself in a particular way. They don't want you 853 00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:53.199 to speed through it. They're trying to build atmosphere intention However, the game 854 00:56:53.519 --> 00:57:00.880 does have these moments where it kind of opens up the stations lightly and kind 855 00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:05.119 of gives you like a freedom to move around, where it's like, you 856 00:57:05.199 --> 00:57:07.719 know, hey, we need to go here. But also like you picked 857 00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:09.800 up a key card and maybe there was a door back there that you could 858 00:57:09.880 --> 00:57:13.880 find, like an audio log, and you want to find that stuff because 859 00:57:14.079 --> 00:57:16.079 that is the main way you get the story and like the mystery. So 860 00:57:16.199 --> 00:57:20.280 you're like, I want to read all of this stuff, but there's no 861 00:57:20.400 --> 00:57:24.239 way points or anything like that, so it can be pretty easy to get 862 00:57:24.440 --> 00:57:28.079 lost. Or you're just like, hey, I want to go check out 863 00:57:28.119 --> 00:57:30.199 that way, and you walk there and then it turns out there was nothing 864 00:57:30.280 --> 00:57:32.719 over there, or it was a dead end, or you're that door is 865 00:57:32.719 --> 00:57:37.199 supposed to unlock later, and then you're like, okay, cool, turn 866 00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:39.800 around, slowly, walk all the way back, and so you're just like 867 00:57:40.079 --> 00:57:45.800 it's like that in that moment, the pacing of the movement speed just feels 868 00:57:45.840 --> 00:57:49.800 like agonizing, and you're like, Okay. Sometimes I hear stuff like that, 869 00:57:49.880 --> 00:57:52.599 and I get like, I feel like those are the weird critics. 870 00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:54.239 Like those those criticisms are the ones that I want to experience my own, 871 00:57:54.280 --> 00:57:58.199 because like sometimes I do, I will defend it, you know, like 872 00:57:58.320 --> 00:58:01.039 if like, oh yeah, and it and I are on the same page, 873 00:58:01.119 --> 00:58:04.199 I think all three of us are probably on the same page of defending 874 00:58:04.280 --> 00:58:09.000 something like that in a game when it's merits that sort of I'm a sucker 875 00:58:09.119 --> 00:58:13.840 for walking slow and again, I think, but you're like, I don't 876 00:58:13.880 --> 00:58:16.239 care if it's six hours or I'm walking, I'm buying it. Yeah, 877 00:58:16.840 --> 00:58:20.599 Like I think the r I understand why they went that way, and from 878 00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:22.719 like a pacing, artistic and tent standpoint, I agree the majority of the 879 00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:27.280 time it makes sense. It's just like it is weird that the game like 880 00:58:27.719 --> 00:58:31.159 opens up like it just explore around. But then when you can't do that, 881 00:58:32.599 --> 00:58:36.320 and it would be great if they gave you like a little razor scooter, 882 00:58:37.559 --> 00:58:44.440 just little hop off. That's that's the thing. I would love to 883 00:58:44.519 --> 00:58:46.280 make a game like for Sallace that is so serious from what it's and then 884 00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:50.199 there's just so dramatic. And then you just come across a razor scooter in 885 00:58:50.239 --> 00:58:53.960 someone's office and you're like, it's ever get around. Yeah, this is 886 00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:58.679 completely this is a completely off tangent. This is this is so off tangent. 887 00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:01.400 But this is your razors now. This reminded me of this person I 888 00:59:01.559 --> 00:59:07.079 saw when I was at EVO a few weeks ago. Me and Georgia were 889 00:59:07.119 --> 00:59:09.679 like hanging out. We're in the middle of the EVO sho Florin and we 890 00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:13.440 were like looking around, like, oh, what what match do we want 891 00:59:13.440 --> 00:59:17.000 to go watch? And this guy like comes up, doesn't talk to us. 892 00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:20.719 He's just near by us, and he's holding like a piece of pizza 893 00:59:21.239 --> 00:59:25.400 and he's wearing a shirt that says iHeart female orgasms. Maybe you were looking 894 00:59:25.440 --> 00:59:30.519 in a mirror maybe, but I don't think I'm as cool as he is. 895 00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:34.679 And I was like, we were just like that's a guy. And 896 00:59:34.880 --> 00:59:43.880 then and then he had hes on. He lead away, and I like 897 00:59:44.079 --> 00:59:51.760 the like the like struggle to not just immediately burst out laughing like we're just 898 00:59:51.880 --> 00:59:57.800 like that was the coolest motherfucker I've ever seen. Just he just showed up 899 00:59:58.480 --> 01:00:05.159 into women's orgasms, how his pizza and then lead away. Incredible. God. 900 01:00:05.320 --> 01:00:07.000 So yeah, I just I think about that guy. I'm like, 901 01:00:07.079 --> 01:00:12.760 wow, I nobody's up to have to He's probably well, he his his. 902 01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:15.760 If he sure says I heart female orgasms, it doesn't mean that he 903 01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:21.360 gives them. And the heart was like an actual like physical drawing of a 904 01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:23.599 heart too, like a like a beating heart, like no, no, 905 01:00:23.679 --> 01:00:27.280 no, no, just like a you know, normal red But what you 906 01:00:27.320 --> 01:00:30.559 didn't say like heart spell? Yeh? I understand. Uh, well you 907 01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:34.679 should have got his name and his number. I really I was really tipted 908 01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:37.679 to tell him what you do and then he'd probably want to be on an 909 01:00:37.719 --> 01:00:40.199 episode of The Curt Walker. Yes, yes, specifically, yeah, you 910 01:00:40.239 --> 01:00:42.920 should go up to be like, hey, we have the show for you. 911 01:00:43.239 --> 01:00:45.320 I'm not even present for this, because like you, I should have 912 01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:47.880 just given him your Instagram and not told you great and the like, message 913 01:00:49.000 --> 01:00:51.840 this guy, message him he and tell him you want to you should you 914 01:00:51.880 --> 01:00:53.280 should get a guest in the curt lock for sometimes that'd be a good bit. 915 01:00:53.480 --> 01:00:55.639 Everyone I meet, I should just be like, hey, can do 916 01:00:55.719 --> 01:01:00.400 any favorite. You know what I used to do. I used to always 917 01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:06.079 give a friend's number out instead of my own all the time, even even 918 01:01:06.440 --> 01:01:12.400 like ao, well it's a messenger there's instead of mine all of the time, 919 01:01:12.880 --> 01:01:15.000 which sounds really egotistical. Be like I was always giving my number out, 920 01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:17.679 but anytime somebody was just like, hey we should keep in touch, 921 01:01:17.960 --> 01:01:22.159 Yeah, sure, here it is. And it was always this one specific 922 01:01:22.280 --> 01:01:27.199 person that's every single time. Uh. And it was only like much much 923 01:01:27.320 --> 01:01:30.960 later until you know, they finally were like, people are messenging me saying 924 01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:34.039 hi Kurt, like what the fuck is going on? Yeah? That paper 925 01:01:34.079 --> 01:01:39.599 trail kind of leads directly like instantly. Uh. So I feel like it's 926 01:01:39.639 --> 01:01:43.199 only it's been like fifteen years since I've done that, so it's only fair 927 01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:45.159 that it starts to come my way in some way. But I'm going to 928 01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:50.519 be disappointing a lot of people since Curt Lockers. So if you want to 929 01:01:50.519 --> 01:01:52.920 be a guest and the curt locker, too bad has called the Kurt Locker 930 01:01:52.280 --> 01:01:57.960 not the guest locker, unless you're the guy with Healy's Yeah, I was 931 01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:00.119 eating a slice of pizza wearing really cool shirt. Yeah, and I'll make 932 01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:04.639 maybe you might just let you host the episode. I'll be the guest on 933 01:02:04.719 --> 01:02:07.000 it instead. I'll come out of the locker, yeah and just say like, 934 01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:12.000 hey, this is a whatever, mister cool man. Yeah, this 935 01:02:12.320 --> 01:02:15.159 thing now, yeah, and I'm out. What do you think the metaphorical 936 01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:20.400 meaning of shoving someone into the curt locker would be? Would that be bullying? 937 01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:22.159 Would that be what? What? What is it? No? No, 938 01:02:22.239 --> 01:02:22.760 no, no, no, no no, not in my not in 939 01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:25.679 my world. No one gets shoved into the No. I mean they you 940 01:02:25.800 --> 01:02:29.239 can get shoved into the curt locker, but it's not like you're being shoved 941 01:02:29.280 --> 01:02:31.400 into the physical wall is a locker. It's like you are being pushed. 942 01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:35.880 Is it just like your play D two or something? Yeah, yeah, 943 01:02:36.159 --> 01:02:38.360 he's shoving you and it's just like have you ever heard of a man named 944 01:02:38.440 --> 01:02:43.360 Kenji? You know, forcing you to listen to me talk about one developer 945 01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:45.159 for hours and hours and hours, and no matter why, if anything, 946 01:02:46.039 --> 01:02:50.239 the audience are trapped inside the curt locker. Yeah, I would like to 947 01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:52.920 think it's not bullying, but that doesn't mean you're not sucked into a place 948 01:02:53.000 --> 01:02:57.360 that you don't know, you haven't left yet. Yeah, okay, but 949 01:02:57.400 --> 01:03:00.239 I'd like to imagine if I'm physically I gonna shove you into the curt locker. 950 01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:02.760 I imagine the locker opening up and you were flying into a zone. 951 01:03:04.280 --> 01:03:07.119 I imagine like the opening a twild zone on the door I was about. 952 01:03:07.159 --> 01:03:12.159 It's like like, imagine, if you will, a space exists beyond this 953 01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:16.000 locker door. If you ever do, like if you ever do like a 954 01:03:19.280 --> 01:03:21.519 like just just a one off, like if if you want to do like 955 01:03:21.599 --> 01:03:24.480 a like a fun Time Halloween horror episode, you should. I think I'm 956 01:03:24.519 --> 01:03:29.079 just gonna rebrand it. I think if Kurlocker ever comes back, I'm just 957 01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:31.719 do we know anyone who can do a good Rod Sternly impression? I can, 958 01:03:36.119 --> 01:03:37.480 Yeah, I did. For I basically ripped an offer. And it's 959 01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:42.679 when I first got a job here. I forgot about that. Yeah, 960 01:03:42.719 --> 01:03:45.519 and then the Twilight Zone episode was the last episode. This is a show 961 01:03:45.559 --> 01:03:49.079 called True Fiction that was on the Games by Universe Jesus Christ three and a 962 01:03:49.079 --> 01:03:52.639 half years ago, and the very last episode of it was a twild Zone 963 01:03:52.639 --> 01:03:55.360 episode that taints. When it came out and I was like, it's okay, 964 01:03:55.440 --> 01:04:00.400 so it goes now, I was like four hundred thousand years and like 965 01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:02.480 rose like out of the blue, like True Fiction had been canceled and gone 966 01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:05.639 for like a year, and then odd of nowhere, somebody like slipped into 967 01:04:05.719 --> 01:04:09.639 my slack d MS and was like have you seen this? I was like 968 01:04:09.880 --> 01:04:12.320 wow, wow, wow, So yeah, that is my favorite thing. 969 01:04:12.400 --> 01:04:15.360 Like it happens. It's now the highest performing episode of the for the long 970 01:04:15.440 --> 01:04:19.800 time. It was the Twin Peaks episode. Two things very important to me. 971 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:24.039 There you go, You're gonna go enter the Curt locker and find a 972 01:04:24.079 --> 01:04:30.840 girl wrapped in plastic, which sounds really uh let's uh let's take that back. 973 01:04:31.800 --> 01:04:36.880 And and if it's alive, we can't take it back. Okay, 974 01:04:38.159 --> 01:04:43.559 yeah, okay, yeah, anything else no, yeah, no, Mostly 975 01:04:43.599 --> 01:04:49.760 for what Fortnight Fortnight, FORTNIGHTE. I also talked about somehow this we didn't 976 01:04:49.800 --> 01:04:55.639 Yeah, oh man, I'm just waiting for like I'm waiting for games. 977 01:04:55.679 --> 01:04:57.880 I also feel like I'm just waiting, are you? How are you waiting? 978 01:04:58.199 --> 01:05:00.280 I feel like I'm waiting for games. Stop. Yeah, just so 979 01:05:00.400 --> 01:05:02.960 I don't know, I like I have been in this weird lull where like 980 01:05:03.079 --> 01:05:08.280 sometimes I go home and I maybe it's the heat, maybe it's I don't 981 01:05:08.320 --> 01:05:11.559 know, Like he definitely takes it out of me, like I don't want 982 01:05:11.559 --> 01:05:14.599 to sit in this room. And yeah, like yesterday, like me and 983 01:05:14.719 --> 01:05:17.119 Jake both apparently yesterday got home and then just said like I'm just gonna lay 984 01:05:17.159 --> 01:05:20.199 on this couch and doa guess. Did you also do that too? Yes? 985 01:05:20.480 --> 01:05:24.760 I I mean we were all out together on a project, but we 986 01:05:24.840 --> 01:05:27.400 were. When I got back, I like sat in the sofa and I 987 01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:30.639 had attentions to play Texas Chance of Masker. I haven't played again. I 988 01:05:30.719 --> 01:05:31.760 need to play that. Yeah, it was going to last night and I 989 01:05:31.920 --> 01:05:36.880 was like, I'm gonna die. I'm just gonna close my eyes and disappear, 990 01:05:38.039 --> 01:05:42.760 which is exactly what happened. Into the curt Locker, into a dimension 991 01:05:42.840 --> 01:05:46.800 beyond time and space only if the curt Lockers are very small, But I'm 992 01:05:46.800 --> 01:05:50.400 sure I could fit in there. With my D two D all my games 993 01:05:50.440 --> 01:05:54.920 that no one cares about the collection. So I did the exact same thing. 994 01:05:55.880 --> 01:05:58.280 So we're all on the same page. Okay, great, excellent, 995 01:05:58.599 --> 01:06:00.159 Yeah I would like games. No, that's I'm not gonna say that. 996 01:06:00.400 --> 01:06:03.000 What I was gonna say, Oh like games the chill. I don't actually 997 01:06:03.039 --> 01:06:06.719 think that. I actually think it's phenomenal that we have so many games coming 998 01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:11.679 out. It's just us specifically, are of a certain position where it's like 999 01:06:11.719 --> 01:06:14.440 you don't have to play everything, but there is a level of you feel 1000 01:06:14.440 --> 01:06:18.400 like to like at least to understand, understand or experiment with everything. What 1001 01:06:18.519 --> 01:06:21.159 it is is like there there are games that come out that I look at 1002 01:06:21.159 --> 01:06:23.960 and I'm like, this is not for me. I'm not even gonna play 1003 01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:27.920 this. I'm not even gonna like consider it because I know, like I 1004 01:06:28.719 --> 01:06:30.840 won't have an opinion on this and someone else will. So I think the 1005 01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:34.079 trouble is those games that I see them, like I know I would like 1006 01:06:34.280 --> 01:06:38.920 this, or I know I would have something to say or thoughts about this 1007 01:06:39.039 --> 01:06:41.800 game. I just don't have time. Yeah, like, yeah, I 1008 01:06:41.920 --> 01:06:45.039 want to play the Texas Chainsaw Massacre game for example, just for the multiplayer, 1009 01:06:45.159 --> 01:06:48.440 but like it is a game I'm perfectly fine stepping even though I hear 1010 01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:53.840 it's you know, I'm pretty good. But then there's something like, uh, 1011 01:06:55.280 --> 01:06:58.840 I can't talk about it. Never mind, there's other games that are 1012 01:06:58.920 --> 01:07:01.320 coming out that I that like, uh I want to play more of, 1013 01:07:01.440 --> 01:07:06.199 but I just don't have the time. You know. Yeah, It's like 1014 01:07:06.480 --> 01:07:11.639 I I this is this might this might be like a weird thing to say, 1015 01:07:11.760 --> 01:07:15.679 but I kind of like really hope that this trend keeps up in terms 1016 01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:18.480 of just like consistent games, consistent things, because I feel like that's the 1017 01:07:18.679 --> 01:07:21.480 that's always been a weird thing that separates games from other forms of media, 1018 01:07:21.559 --> 01:07:25.559 especially during the summer. Having released during the summer is nice. Yeah, 1019 01:07:25.639 --> 01:07:28.800 And like you know, it's like other mediums have so much coming out all 1020 01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:30.800 the time. There's so many movies coming out all the time you never even 1021 01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:32.840 hear about, you never even know about even marketed to you, but they 1022 01:07:32.920 --> 01:07:35.559 exist and like they're still there. And like seeing with books, there's so 1023 01:07:35.599 --> 01:07:38.559 many books coming out and you have no idea, but they're there, and 1024 01:07:38.559 --> 01:07:42.480 they are games coming out all the time. Yeah, yeah, you know, 1025 01:07:42.840 --> 01:07:45.440 but maybe the quality of some of those aren't sure that's true, and 1026 01:07:45.639 --> 01:07:49.039 I mean, but it's just I like, I'm glad that games are coming 1027 01:07:49.079 --> 01:07:53.679 out. I'm glad there's gonna be something. There's something there at any single 1028 01:07:53.719 --> 01:07:56.239 moment in time for people. I just it's just tough because I feel like 1029 01:07:56.239 --> 01:07:59.039 we, as as gamers and as like an audience, like feel a weird. 1030 01:07:59.280 --> 01:08:02.840 Even the normal people who play games are that isn't their job to play 1031 01:08:02.920 --> 01:08:08.000 games are probably feels seem to be overwhelmed by the amount of like options they 1032 01:08:08.039 --> 01:08:11.320 have. Sure, because like your friend messages you or you just you want 1033 01:08:11.320 --> 01:08:14.480 to feel like you're part of the conversation because everyone's talking about it. And 1034 01:08:14.519 --> 01:08:15.840 then you, you know, you have dumb dumbs like me, who're you 1035 01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:18.600 know, like going back and playing older games I've never played before in the 1036 01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:23.479 in between other games. Right, Yeah, but I love it. I'm 1037 01:08:23.520 --> 01:08:26.880 happy doing it. Yeah. You know, when Allen Wake two comes out, 1038 01:08:26.920 --> 01:08:29.760 everything else stops. Oh yeah, and Super Mario Wonder. I'm very 1039 01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:32.600 excited about that game. Yes, I agree, Bob, all right, 1040 01:08:32.960 --> 01:08:35.760 cool, well let's sleep, I think. Yeah, let's get out of 1041 01:08:35.760 --> 01:08:40.840 here. Let's take lessly on our couches and sleep. Well, thank you 1042 01:08:40.880 --> 01:08:44.199 for tuning. In everyone to a game spot after Dark, episode two hundred 1043 01:08:44.399 --> 01:08:47.359 and six. Thank you for having me. Thank you for having me, 1044 01:08:47.479 --> 01:08:50.520 Kurt, thank you for having me. Luke Yes, thank you for having 1045 01:08:50.520 --> 01:08:55.760 me. I'm happy to be here all right, everybody, We'll catch you 1046 01:08:55.800 --> 01:09:12.119 all next week. Bye bye bye to bloody body on T Day. I 1047 01:09:15.920 --> 01:09:21.479 day by day day