Speaker 1: Everybody.
Speaker 2: It's Tuesday, January thirteenth, twenty twenty six. Welcome to the
Speaker 2: Giant BombCast. I am your host, jan Oh Choa joining
Speaker 2: me co captain of the ship. He's his own gold
Speaker 2: plated HDMI cord Jeff Crau.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Every single one of my veins had been dipped in gold,
Speaker 1: and now they work better than ever.
Speaker 2: That's true. Speaking about being dipped in gold, he has
Speaker 2: never been buffaloed because he is on top of everything,
Speaker 2: because he's in first place, because his veins are gold.
Speaker 3: Dan Reikert rarely buffaloed. I'm rarely buffaloed. I don't think
Speaker 3: I've been buffaloed in twenty years.
Speaker 2: Speaking about twenty years, that's the energy he gives off,
Speaker 2: that of a young, sprite twenty year old. He's ready
Speaker 2: to do backflips audio listeners. He's doing the Van Damn
Speaker 2: splits right now under his chair, under his desk.
Speaker 4: Jeff Becklar, Oh my groin, it's killing me from these splits.
Speaker 3: I've also buffaloed you.
Speaker 4: In the last twenty years, Dan.
Speaker 5: Do I know about this?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: Sorry, you don't actually own any of Giant pomp.
Speaker 1: Would buffalo me, buddy? If I told you that would
Speaker 1: give it away.
Speaker 3: You can't do this to me.
Speaker 1: I'm going to buffalo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a chronic buffaloing. It happened while we were
Speaker 4: on twenty eighth Street numerous times. Vinne and I buffaloed
Speaker 4: you all the time.
Speaker 3: On the podcast or in real life, in real actual life,
Speaker 3: this is going to kill him.
Speaker 2: Insurance.
Speaker 1: You don't actually have to pay for that. You've been
Speaker 1: It's been a trick this whole time. They got you.
Speaker 4: Look Dan, you know there's certain things that we just
Speaker 4: can't tell you when when you're older.
Speaker 2: When you're older, that's very bad of you. That's very naughty.
Speaker 2: Jeff Backler to be buffaloing a friend and speaking about
Speaker 2: being bad and naughty. We got the bird boy of
Speaker 2: games media my LIKENI.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's Mike Manati. I ate half a burrito too fast?
Speaker 1: Mike?
Speaker 2: Have you were your brothers ever thought about like starting
Speaker 2: a rap group called Manati by nature?
Speaker 5: Oh no, do.
Speaker 3: You get that reference?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, he don't get that.
Speaker 5: Are you down with opp I mean, I guess I
Speaker 5: don't know enough about them to be down. I'm not
Speaker 5: not named one of their songs.
Speaker 4: What no do you have a pampwin or something so
Speaker 4: I can understand better or not.
Speaker 1: Whether I'm that with OPP is the platform literature?
Speaker 3: Yeah, literature.
Speaker 2: This is very different identifying what cream was from the cash.
Speaker 1: Oh you forgot cream forgetting around me?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, there we go. Okay, all right, you pp.
Speaker 5: Personal profit, that's it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what?
Speaker 2: In that case, I am down with OPP. Yeah, boys, Gang,
Speaker 2: how's everything doing? I know the world is on fire.
Speaker 2: Everyone out there. Go protect your neighbors and your family
Speaker 2: and friends. Go check up on them. Shouts out to
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Speaker 3: But but you know, yeah.
Speaker 2: How is everyone doing in the meantime?
Speaker 1: Yeah you say hanging in there? Yeah? Sure? Why not?
Speaker 3: Gang?
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Speaker 2: there you go. Valentine's Days coming up. You know if
Speaker 2: you don't got anyone and you know, I'll all at you.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's what's gonna happen. Uh gang I. I also,
Speaker 2: I've been on this fitness kick, right, I've been on
Speaker 2: this journey and then I thought, I started thinking, how
Speaker 2: the how do I start gamifying this? What is what
Speaker 2: is the best way to track all of this.
Speaker 3: Calories, protein and stuff.
Speaker 2: Protein like heart rate and stuff. Because I don't you
Speaker 2: want to get an Apple Watch?
Speaker 3: No, no, you don't have to do don't mess with
Speaker 3: an Excel spreasure. You don't have to do that. There
Speaker 3: are so many apps and gimmicks and stuff that make
Speaker 3: it so much easier. Apple Watches. I'm charging it right now.
Speaker 3: I just was like my Apple watch that I'm not wearing.
Speaker 3: So Apple Watch for tracking things that will track your
Speaker 3: like you know, resting energy, your active energy, things like that.
Speaker 3: Lose It is an app that you can also buffalo
Speaker 3: them because if you decline their lifetime payment premium thing
Speaker 3: a few times, they'll give you like eighty percent off
Speaker 3: for a lifetime thing. And it attracts all the macros
Speaker 3: and everything. You can just take a picture of the food,
Speaker 3: you can scan the barcode, you can do There's million
Speaker 3: different ways tracking calories and stuff like that. So lose
Speaker 3: It and an Apple Watch are the two main things
Speaker 3: I would say, what.
Speaker 2: If I don't like the look of an Apple Watch
Speaker 2: because I just don't like the square faces?
Speaker 1: All right, pixel watch for there you go, it's a
Speaker 1: round face. There you go.
Speaker 3: You like that?
Speaker 1: Grow up?
Speaker 4: I have a two? Should I get a four?
Speaker 1: I like it quite a bit. Yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it takes a second to dial in, Like how many
Speaker 1: notifications I'm getting? Like, oh I don't need that notification,
Speaker 1: but you know it's two seconds to get rid of them.
Speaker 2: Jan, this is about you. I'm sorry, No, no, no, no, please.
Speaker 2: I love I round love the world of smart watches.
Speaker 2: I just haven't partaken in quite a while.
Speaker 1: The Google Watch four does have fit that built in
Speaker 1: because Google acquire phitpicks. That's that just happens now. Things
Speaker 1: get acquired and you don't even hear about it, and
Speaker 1: then you buy a product and it's like, this is
Speaker 1: that old thing you remember now?
Speaker 3: It's crazy. Who owns Pebble?
Speaker 1: Remember that company? They just watch like a little bit ago? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, last year I thought about getting one because
Speaker 2: I had a Pebble for quite a while and I
Speaker 2: loved that ship.
Speaker 1: Those are the smart watches with the eating screens sort
Speaker 1: of trying to catch up and so like the the
Speaker 1: battery would last like a week instead of or maybe
Speaker 1: even I'm on nice longer.
Speaker 4: Yeah it is? Is there not a round Apple Watch option?
Speaker 1: How dare you even ask that?
Speaker 5: You shot for that girl?
Speaker 1: Johnny I doesn't work there anymore. He'll fucking kill you
Speaker 1: for asking that question.
Speaker 4: It sounds like it. I I was helping uh Stays
Speaker 4: with her iPhone the other day, and you know, every
Speaker 4: now and then I'm like little apple curious. You know,
Speaker 4: you get that grub, you know, you're just like you know,
Speaker 4: like I I use an iPad a lot, so I'm like,
Speaker 4: I got one foot in and.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm like, I'm playing with the phone, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, sort of could I.
Speaker 4: Could I make this work? And then like I don't
Speaker 4: know how it goes by, and I'm like, oh, this
Speaker 4: is the fucking worst. I can't imagine it. You've all
Speaker 4: been suckered. You fucking she what what?
Speaker 3: What is the what is so bad about it? But
Speaker 3: as someone who's not used other phones, what is so bad?
Speaker 4: The notification logic on those things is so ancient and terrible.
Speaker 1: I turned it all off.
Speaker 4: Well then you're I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 4: But there's just there was just like so many little
Speaker 4: quality of life things that I feel like I've taken
Speaker 4: for granted. Now, don't get me wrong, Like I I
Speaker 4: have a Pixel ten and I I kind of fucking
Speaker 4: hate it.
Speaker 1: Yea, I do, like, what's that?
Speaker 3: What phone? Do you like?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's a there's probably like a Chinese
Speaker 4: phone out there that we're not allowed to have that
Speaker 4: I would.
Speaker 2: Have you all seen the Chinese trucks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure there's like I'm sure there's like
Speaker 4: you know, there's there. I was watching like a Marquez
Speaker 4: video and there's a there's like a really cool Android
Speaker 4: phone with like a hasslebled lens in it. I'm like,
Speaker 4: I'm sure that phone kicks ass. We'll never be able
Speaker 4: to use it here, but yeah, it's it's definitely Android
Speaker 4: though for me for sure.
Speaker 3: For sure with the notifications, that's different.
Speaker 4: Just like snooze them, decide when I want get another
Speaker 4: app that'll like completely customize them in a way that
Speaker 4: I want to have them alert on my on my phone,
Speaker 4: do whatever I want, design anything I want, any widget
Speaker 4: I make own.
Speaker 1: So it's just like it's open ended. That's that's the
Speaker 1: big difference. That's the that's all.
Speaker 2: I remember when Sony used to make phones, yeah.
Speaker 4: Experience phones, right, wasn't there like an experience phone?
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, there's there was a PSP phone right right,
Speaker 1: was there like oh word, I guess that was the
Speaker 1: dot com Yeah, dot com. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I had a Sony I think Rocker E one and
Speaker 2: that was the first thing to have like iTunes outside
Speaker 2: of the Apple system.
Speaker 5: There's definitely like some Triple A game from PlayStation at
Speaker 5: that time where like the main character had a Sony
Speaker 5: phone because they were pushing them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure sure, Tony Hawk were when.
Speaker 3: You pause the UI is the sidekick that.
Speaker 1: Was def jam as well a def jam? Yeah, flip
Speaker 1: open your sidekick.
Speaker 4: You know, I used to have a Windows phone. You
Speaker 4: guys ever have a Windows phone?
Speaker 1: I did, but I immediately put Android on it like
Speaker 1: it was the Android.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh my god, that HTC it was.
Speaker 1: It's actually a pretty cool phone, especially when you put
Speaker 1: Android on it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, with like a PopOut keyboard, right, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: No, this one was like their early like iPhone clone,
Speaker 1: so I also relate to it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Is Android a company or is it like Linux where
Speaker 3: it's just like an idea? Nobody knows.
Speaker 1: So Android is owned by Google. But but Android is
Speaker 1: open source. But Google Play their play stores not open source.
Speaker 1: Google play services are not open So if you want
Speaker 1: to release an Android phone and you want all of
Speaker 1: the stuff that really makes it sing, you got to
Speaker 1: work with Google. If you want to like make all
Speaker 1: that stuff yourself, you can just use the Android open
Speaker 1: source project and all of it is built on Linux. Dan,
Speaker 1: so you were kind of onto something, Yeah, okay, and
Speaker 1: everything in.
Speaker 4: The world is basically Android.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, well, everything's like your clicks and the kind
Speaker 1: of with Android chelled on top of it.
Speaker 4: Right, Like I feel like every you know, any product
Speaker 4: that basically has like a screen, I feel like a
Speaker 4: touchscreen in this day and age, more often than not,
Speaker 4: it's an Android.
Speaker 3: Because like my peloton, Althose stores are Android, and it's
Speaker 3: like they have built in like you can do entertainment
Speaker 3: runs where it's like, okay, they've got Netflix, they've got
Speaker 3: YouTube TV, which is awesome. It's great for when you're
Speaker 3: just doing a run or a walk or something, but
Speaker 3: they have a specific ones like they'll put on and
Speaker 3: take off HBO and I want to watch Sopranos on there,
Speaker 3: and it's like, I know, Android, Like I know, it's
Speaker 3: just limiting. It's purposefully limiting what I can access on
Speaker 3: this thing. It's an Android tablet, right, Like, there's no
Speaker 3: reason I shouldn't be able to download HBO Max on there, right.
Speaker 1: Uh, probably, I don't know. I've never do what you're describing.
Speaker 1: Sounds very bizarre, but I bet. I bet there's people
Speaker 1: who jail break their pelotons, and then.
Speaker 3: There are and I've seen those videos and stuff, but
Speaker 3: there are risks involved with that. But I bet it's
Speaker 3: the thing where it's like they probably makes work. They
Speaker 3: probably make deals where it's like, okay, make a deal
Speaker 3: with YouTube or with netflik doing all our devices and
Speaker 3: so like they're just purposely making it so I can't
Speaker 3: you can't download apps onto it, even though yeah.
Speaker 1: It sounds like their own version of Android.
Speaker 3: Then yeah, okay, yeah, yeah that sucks. Uh.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to be smirch anyone but
Speaker 2: Smirch has Has any one of y'all been a belt
Speaker 2: phone holster person?
Speaker 3: Never?
Speaker 1: No, I think I want like one day, like one
Speaker 1: day of my life, I might have done. I think
Speaker 1: it's when I did finally move on from the Sidekick
Speaker 1: and I tried a BlackBerry and it was like the
Speaker 1: BlackBerry with like the reduced keyboard, and I tried that
Speaker 1: for like a week and I hated it. But I
Speaker 1: put that on my belt for some reason. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I kind of don't see those people in the wild
Speaker 4: anymore either, Like, even like the was a big if.
Speaker 1: They do, I do ask them technical problems because they're
Speaker 1: almost certainly like level one like it. Guys.
Speaker 4: I t h, well, you're you're giving them a lot
Speaker 4: of credit.
Speaker 3: I don't know, did you say you're barely a belt person.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I never wear belts if I don't have to.
Speaker 5: It's like a funerals wedding.
Speaker 1: And you don't even go to those.
Speaker 3: Funeral they're comfortable.
Speaker 5: Look, okay, I'll be honest, Like there's a bit of.
Speaker 1: A gut situation. Yea into my tummy.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, it digs, it digs into that, It
Speaker 3: digs into that. Yeah, but you don't ever have it
Speaker 3: writing down or anything. Pants are never like every pair
Speaker 3: of pants fits you bad as keeps it up.
Speaker 5: You've got a substantial ass, so I think, ye, yes,
Speaker 5: keeps it up.
Speaker 2: Man, I want to that's a good podcast title. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're welcome as anyone considered suspenders, Yes.
Speaker 4: With the tuxedo. I love wearing suspenders with a tuxedo.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, but that's like part of the uniform. There's
Speaker 1: but like what about grub jeans.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not like a clamor.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? That is like the perfect job. Yes,
Speaker 1: Like the image that popped in my head is a
Speaker 1: dudent suspenders.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and with like a some sort of like Newsy's
Speaker 4: cap on and he's just like out there harvesting clams.
Speaker 1: You know, like the cable knitted sweater. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh there's jan all right with this newsy cas.
Speaker 2: I am just that person that you all just describe,
Speaker 2: all right. I went through God, I could get my suspenders.
Speaker 2: I went through a suspender phase because of twenty fourteen
Speaker 2: or twenty twenty twelve to twenty fourteen, and I like
Speaker 2: sons exactly Joseph Gordon Levitt and then doctor who for that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're like turning everyday household objects into drums exact,
Speaker 4: making your way through the house like that.
Speaker 2: I was sorry, I was just looking for whimsy in
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You think of cool people.
Speaker 5: I think of like the southern lawyer sweating a lot
Speaker 5: in like the you know.
Speaker 1: Just a simple Southern gentleman lawyer. Yeah yeah, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, well it looks for me here, like you know,
Speaker 5: I don't know how you do it in a big
Speaker 5: city with all your city try stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm picturing the the dude you're you're describing. But is
Speaker 4: that guy a lawyer?
Speaker 3: Yeah well I think so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's lawyer, but it really is anyone in a
Speaker 1: Southern courtroom as well. The guy from at the wind
Speaker 1: that's like super religious, but like, yeah, he's the lawyer
Speaker 1: on the team. Yeah, I could.
Speaker 4: Picture his hat to for sure.
Speaker 2: So he yeah, he takes the hat off and he
Speaker 2: fans himself with it as well.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Popeye. Okay, we no one's
Speaker 1: gonna stop you. You this is an open podcast, Mike. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we haven't more to structure yet. I felt to a
Speaker 1: Popeye like Licky Hole yesterday. How much do you Oligon
Speaker 1: or the Coked Up movie or the Nintendo video game
Speaker 1: like give us pantas point, did you, guys?
Speaker 5: I mean I did know this, but it's always interesting readboard.
Speaker 5: You know that Popeye was the original urcle that.
Speaker 3: Was what does that mean?
Speaker 5: There was a comic strip and like the nineteen toys
Speaker 5: A thirty exactly what he means sentence. It's called Theater
Speaker 5: and it was about like these other people including a
Speaker 5: guy named Castor Oil and his sister Olive Oil and
Speaker 5: all of Oil boyfriend, not pop By, just some guy
Speaker 5: and they were just having their own adventures until one
Speaker 5: day Castor Oil and all of Oil's boyfriend had to
Speaker 5: hire a sailor. So they found some guy, the Popeye,
Speaker 5: and then that guy became so popular that the strip
Speaker 5: professors became called by they got rid of his other characters. Okay,
Speaker 5: the original Popeye is clearly Jesus. You had the Torah
Speaker 5: and then he became super popular and they have the
Speaker 5: whole spin off.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go.
Speaker 2: The red threads that I'm connecting, is that is Mike
Speaker 2: Manati our arcle? Oh yes, okay, yeah, that's a pretty
Speaker 2: good She's gonna have his breakfast cereal in the merchant.
Speaker 3: No it's Kodos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right right, Mike, can you hit me with a
Speaker 2: Laura Ala just in your normal voice?
Speaker 1: Don't don't do me doing? You do yourself?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 2: What we just say the name Laura, just like you're
Speaker 2: calling out for someone named Laura.
Speaker 5: Laura. All Right, you're disappointed?
Speaker 3: What can you do?
Speaker 1: Laura?
Speaker 3: Like that?
Speaker 5: What's thees? Is that what you want to do?
Speaker 4: But what's the arkle angle to Popeye?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 4: I'm not kidding.
Speaker 5: Because it's not originally a part of Family Matters. He
Speaker 5: was not a cast member. He showed up in one episode.
Speaker 5: He's supposed to do like a one bit as the
Speaker 5: wacky neighbor. That that's all they cared about was urkles
Speaker 5: in the show that just came about it.
Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't realize that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's your rkle Popeye netion there, it's it's been
Speaker 5: going on for for decades.
Speaker 2: I was a big, beautiful kid.
Speaker 3: I had the draw string you know, puppet thing or whatever.
Speaker 2: Speaking about suspenders, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Had it.
Speaker 3: I think Manati now needs a stuff on.
Speaker 1: I mean that's that same any game like gaming event
Speaker 1: where people recognize him, he immediately comes very smooth and slick.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I get. I get slip into that whenever
Speaker 5: you want, baby, not this early in the morning and
Speaker 5: not after half a burrito.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 3: It was an incredibly visual We hopped into this call
Speaker 3: because he was just trying to house this burrito in
Speaker 3: five minutes, this giant burrito, and his glasses were completely
Speaker 3: fogged up. So we just looked completely insane.
Speaker 1: Wait, why were you fun?
Speaker 5: I just cut out of the shower, so I was
Speaker 5: still kind of steaming, just.
Speaker 3: Trying to quickly eat a giant Bhis.
Speaker 1: Is all very familiar to me. This sounds like my life,
Speaker 1: Like I get.
Speaker 5: It, you get it, you get it, you get I
Speaker 5: can't be Some people are mad about the belt thing
Speaker 5: by like, oh you got a a belt. Well, I don't.
Speaker 1: You all can't say ship. If you want to go
Speaker 1: yell at that guy on social media that's like the
Speaker 1: fashion guy and get him to scold Mike, then we'll
Speaker 1: take it. But otherwise everyone.
Speaker 5: Else has during any tucked in shirts. No one can
Speaker 5: tell if I'm wearing a belt or not.
Speaker 3: It's not about the visuals though, it's about the utility.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's not what people that's not what the
Speaker 1: people are yelling.
Speaker 3: I guess if you got the butt situation helping me out,
Speaker 3: then maybe you're fine.
Speaker 5: My pants have never fallen off. No one has ever
Speaker 5: seen my underwear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one.
Speaker 4: No one lifts their pants like shrug down to the
Speaker 4: but where they fall down a sun But but I do,
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: So they're upset more about the presentation, which I'll I'll
Speaker 1: get on board. Like if you're wearing a tucked in
Speaker 1: shirt and no belt, you look insane. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: don't talk my shirts if you don't funerals and then yeah,
Speaker 1: I got a belt.
Speaker 5: Yes, I will wear belts if I'm trying to look nice.
Speaker 1: YEA saying I'm not gonna wear Sure, he's not kle guys.
Speaker 5: Come on, look at my fucking life everyone. I got
Speaker 5: the Capcom sign. Here all my video games from when
Speaker 5: I was twelve. There's figment on a calendar. I'm here.
Speaker 5: I don't need to wear a belt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes the tracks.
Speaker 5: Okay, right, here's the burrito. It's still in tinfoil. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna do that later.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do that right. Belt wouldn't be dead in
Speaker 3: that house, Okay.
Speaker 2: I I guess let's talk about video games now.
Speaker 4: Got a belt sponsorship belts?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah, that was a joggers thing. Like,
Speaker 3: I'm a belt guy with jeans, but you're wearing joggers.
Speaker 3: You don't need that, right they have?
Speaker 1: They have an elastic band.
Speaker 5: I don't think go ahead, I don't know if you sorry.
Speaker 1: There He's go ahead, and Mike's like, well, jam was
Speaker 1: trying to talk, but he did say go ahead.
Speaker 2: If Mike Manatti is the ercle, who is the Carl
Speaker 2: Winslow to his Mike Manatti?
Speaker 3: Right, I mean the history of job I feel like
Speaker 3: Vinnie has real Carl Winsley.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, in the history. Yes, he's the most Winslow
Speaker 1: of us. All.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, sure, sure, okay, Okay.
Speaker 1: What's that what's that actor's name? I wanted to say,
Speaker 1: Jean Johns, Reginald Reginald L. Johnson.
Speaker 2: All right, Yes, there's a very good key and Peel
Speaker 2: sketch talking about Carl Winslow and Steve Rkle. Speaking about
Speaker 2: Steve Rkle arguably one of the smartest characters in sitcoms.
Speaker 2: I'll say, just like Jeff Grubb and I are the
Speaker 2: smartest companions to be playing Miss three Exile with right.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to bring this up because during Monday
Speaker 5: Mornings Missed with Mitch yesterday we completed maybe the greatest
Speaker 5: video game puzzy of all time, or like the very
Speaker 5: beginning of this game, you counter this guy's like crazy office,
Speaker 5: and part of just all the clutter are these weird
Speaker 5: weights of evenly balanced like orbs, and it's like you
Speaker 5: see four glass orbs their equals, like what are these
Speaker 5: better looking orbs? And like, okay, well that should be important, right,
Speaker 5: And then much later you're in this weird islet you
Speaker 5: come across this giant marble machine and some contraption where
Speaker 5: you're trying to get the marble to go across this
Speaker 5: balanced tube and you see one of the counterweights, and
Speaker 5: then you could see where you could uplift the other counterweights, Like, okay,
Speaker 5: so something's going on here in this whole thing where
Speaker 5: there's components to weigh the counterweight that you can make
Speaker 5: it based off of apes, so you can put in
Speaker 5: like one of the apes can be made of wood,
Speaker 5: when the aps can be out of metal or glass. Okay,
Speaker 5: And you're looking at the other counterweight and you can
Speaker 5: kind of.
Speaker 1: See what's made out of but.
Speaker 5: If you you can see it from other angles, you
Speaker 5: can actually oh, one of the ace is actually glass.
Speaker 5: And it's this whole thing and then suddenly you're like, oh,
Speaker 5: the beginning of the game where there.
Speaker 1: Are these ways.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 1: We sort of been taking notes.
Speaker 5: Oh no, right, and like and then there was this
Speaker 5: incredible Eureka moment from Jeff because we thought we had
Speaker 5: the map figured out, like okay, four glass orbs equals
Speaker 5: one wood orb or something.
Speaker 1: We broke everything down into units of wood. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this thing is wait, it weighs eleven wood eighths and
Speaker 1: it's like and then Mike's like, well, the metals sixteen wood,
Speaker 1: so we're never gonna use those and it's like that
Speaker 1: really bothered me, and I'm sitting I'm like, he's right,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. They wouldn't build this puzzle where we don't
Speaker 1: use any of like one of these six components they're
Speaker 1: giving us. And then we're sitting there and it's it's
Speaker 1: a balanced thing. But you can move the fulcrum right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's like yeah. A certain point, it was like, wait,
Speaker 1: there's no way they're gonna have it. So the fulcrum's
Speaker 1: in the middle, otherwise that there would not be a
Speaker 1: way to move it left and right. So what if
Speaker 1: we move it to the left and double the and
Speaker 1: that way we can actually get to an even number
Speaker 1: and use the metal pieces. And it all just sort
Speaker 1: of fell into play.
Speaker 5: So many things started to play because at that moment
Speaker 5: I also realized the thing that my brother told me
Speaker 5: back the day was, oh, I was in physics class
Speaker 5: and I had to use something I learned in physics
Speaker 5: to beat miss three. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 5: this is the physics moment. It was never calculus. It
Speaker 5: was this entire time. So then just this incredible moment
Speaker 5: of doing this math and like setting off the marble
Speaker 5: machine to get and then it actually working, and I
Speaker 5: just popped off so hard for that puzzle actually being complete,
Speaker 5: and then of course it's like, all right, now go
Speaker 5: to the next puzzle because the marble gets stuck somewhere else.
Speaker 5: But still, I am really licking Miss three. I think
Speaker 5: it's already my favorite of the series. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are like having some issues with
Speaker 1: the motion because it's so previous Miss games. Up to
Speaker 1: this point, we've been playing the remix, but in the
Speaker 1: past they were slide shows, like just still images pictures.
Speaker 1: They were just pictures. Jan this one is photo spheres
Speaker 1: like panoramas, and you can look all around them, and
Speaker 1: so there's like some warping and it could feel a
Speaker 1: little bit disorienting, but I've been fined, so it's like
Speaker 1: kind of a shame that some people are getting a
Speaker 1: little bit woozy watching it. But I think as a game,
Speaker 1: this it holds up. It looks amazing. I still love
Speaker 1: when it clicks from the just pictures into one of
Speaker 1: these animated FMV sequences that uses all the game assets
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and they're pre rendered, of course,
Speaker 1: but I just love that like subtle transition into the
Speaker 1: video clips that still holds up. It's it's got the jew.
Speaker 2: The fly throughs for the worlds when you enter a
Speaker 2: new book, I really enjoy. We've got a couple of
Speaker 2: emails appreciating Monday mornings missed with Mitch, and some of
Speaker 2: those emails have been calling for some type of cooperative
Speaker 2: series now with the three of us, but with back
Speaker 2: Lauren Dan trying to sell puzzles together.
Speaker 5: Well it'd be I mean, well that Escape Academy.
Speaker 1: What if what if it's said it was jurf dib
Speaker 1: on one controller and Dan on the other for Escape
Speaker 1: Academy too.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I don't know.
Speaker 1: To be very clear, this is up to Backlar.
Speaker 3: I just don't know.
Speaker 2: There is another first person game. I think you were
Speaker 2: dealing with Shapes or whatever that had a co op mode,
Speaker 2: not Portal two, something like Snipper Club or whatever. No,
Speaker 2: not Snipper Clips Me, no, no, no, I was just
Speaker 2: putting it out there. I could I don't remember the
Speaker 2: name of the game, but like maybe we could throw
Speaker 2: you two into it or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, he's he's played most of Portal too. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know how much we should be
Speaker 4: doing these, like physical challenges kind of things. I don't
Speaker 4: just feel like.
Speaker 3: I want to do a mental challenge. I want to
Speaker 3: beat him intellectually.
Speaker 1: You should, wasn't That was asking Jamie talking about popucom.
Speaker 2: No, but that's a funny name for popcom.
Speaker 4: Okay, Oh, I'm not gonna try and repeat that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Brad Dura should be in Breed video games.
Speaker 1: He's great every time we get to see him. And
Speaker 1: again it's F and V so he's just like little
Speaker 1: resolution rendering and he's looking right at the camera and god,
Speaker 1: that style still rules.
Speaker 3: And I am scrolling through. Is this the MYSS yesterday
Speaker 3: where you solved the puzzle?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: My character is trying to find this moment where you
Speaker 3: beat it, And it's like everything I'm seeing on the
Speaker 3: screen is indecipherable.
Speaker 1: Looking for like a everything It is for us too
Speaker 1: when we first That's what we keep saying. It's like
Speaker 1: every time we enter a new area, it's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, there's all these things and it's all complete
Speaker 1: nonsense and it's like.
Speaker 3: A broken globe at the pinball machine, the Diaragma.
Speaker 5: The pop off happens at about one forty uh okay okay,
Speaker 5: an hour forty two minutes is when we finally I think,
Speaker 5: start putting it together and we set the puzzle off
Speaker 5: and uh, yeah, that whole island with all of it's
Speaker 5: like Japanese pagodas in this weird Marble machine. It's uh,
Speaker 5: it's forretty cool. And it's like, you know, this game
Speaker 5: is definitely going back to that missed One style of yeah,
Speaker 5: the hub world and you have puzzles there just to
Speaker 5: access the different book slash islands, and then once you're there,
Speaker 5: it's pretty insular and you're solving all the puzzles there
Speaker 5: to basically get one thing and in this case is
Speaker 5: these symbols we're looking for, and then you go back
Speaker 5: to the hub island. Gosh, it's good.
Speaker 1: I think they're like, I just kind of want to
Speaker 1: keep doing these kinds of games with you guys forever.
Speaker 1: Like people are saying Nancy Drew games Anti Chamber. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's when you've ever played, Like, no, I
Speaker 1: don't know if Anti Chamber has co op, but it's
Speaker 1: like it's you know, yes, it's the non Euclidian sort
Speaker 1: of similar kind of game to this, where it's like
Speaker 1: you're solving puzzles, but the geometry doesn't necessarily make sense.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, my brother liked that one. That's
Speaker 5: the one with the John Delancy in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh, something I want to help one of you guys
Speaker 5: play Monkey Island. I think that'd be fun. I would
Speaker 5: love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah that yeah, yoga?
Speaker 2: Uh speaking about games like Monkey Island, Mike Benatti, you've
Speaker 2: also been playing Disco Elysium.
Speaker 5: If you guys ever felt incredibly bad and guilty for
Speaker 5: not being into a game. I was born and raised Catholic,
Speaker 5: so yes, so I was doing this whole like twenty
Speaker 5: nineteen apology tour. There was all these twenty nineteen games
Speaker 5: I hadn't played, and this was, you know, I played
Speaker 5: through like most of them, you know, the last few years,
Speaker 5: like Rezivil to remake and Sacero in the Outer Wild
Speaker 5: and Slay at Spire and this was the last one.
Speaker 5: I figured it'd be something I was into, and I
Speaker 5: was streaming it and so many people were excited for
Speaker 5: me to play this game. I was getting texts from
Speaker 5: like some friends like I'm so glad you're going to
Speaker 5: finally start this game. Band Chuck came into the chat like, Mike,
Speaker 5: this is my favorite game ever. So excited to see
Speaker 5: you play it, and like, within like twenty minutes inside
Speaker 5: my mouth, I was like, I don't want to be
Speaker 5: playing this any.
Speaker 2: I think I know why.
Speaker 1: I was like, watch, I watched you start playing, and
Speaker 1: I tune in later and we were doing something else.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't. Yeah, if you would have asked
Speaker 1: me before and I would have been very like like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're gonna.
Speaker 2: Like this now, Mike. Yeah, do you not like the
Speaker 2: game because of like the Dower tone and that every
Speaker 2: kind is just sad?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't want it to be that.
Speaker 5: I don't want to you know, flanderization, right where a
Speaker 5: person like you know, where like Flanders start as like
Speaker 5: a mildly catholic person, then you know, an aspect of
Speaker 5: a character gets amplified to the point of cartoonish. Just
Speaker 5: I don't want to be like Mike only likes something
Speaker 5: with sunshine and rainbows at all times. Right, But it's
Speaker 5: not just that Dower.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's Dower, but it's also kind of up
Speaker 1: its own ass. Yeah uh, And I I like that
Speaker 1: game a whole bunch, but it's like you have to
Speaker 1: like get on its wavelength with that tone. It's a
Speaker 1: game for people from like what's that neighborhood in Brooklyn
Speaker 1: where all the hipsters hang out Williams story, Thank you Beck. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's for people and Williams and they deserve nice things
Speaker 1: they do, and this is for them, it's not for Mikey's.
Speaker 3: I would play literally any j RPG before I played
Speaker 3: disco Lease. Oh yeah, you would see it's get much
Speaker 3: like the worst game for me ever. Right, everything I've seen.
Speaker 1: Or heard of you would explode.
Speaker 3: Yes, did not developers go to jail or something crazy too?
Speaker 1: No? No, no, that's not weird one of them, right,
Speaker 1: But it wasn't like the people who made the game
Speaker 1: were awful people. There were people who in the studio.
Speaker 1: There were people that who studio go to jail.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people that haven't checked in on Giant Bomb in
Speaker 2: like a couple of years. They just assumed the same,
Speaker 2: like didn't they all go to jail?
Speaker 1: And they were correct. I wanted to maybe.
Speaker 5: Try one more time, not on stream, because I don't
Speaker 5: know if that was part of it, because like you know,
Speaker 5: the game has a slow pace already, But then I
Speaker 5: had like the extra voice acting on that they added
Speaker 5: were even the narration as voice acted and kind of
Speaker 5: sitting there listening to us just reading it and moving
Speaker 5: all my life. I know that maybe sounds silly. I
Speaker 5: was like it made the play the pace even more glacial.
Speaker 1: Were there any sort of fun bits where like, uh,
Speaker 1: you were kind of having the narrator talk and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's clever or something like that, because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of moments where it's like, oh, this sort of internal
Speaker 1: like internalization of the character's thoughts being presented as this
Speaker 1: external voice could be a lot of fun, but you
Speaker 1: have to kind of get to those moments.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: It's like I could tell it's all good, Like the
Speaker 5: game looks great. I do think it is well written.
Speaker 5: I just I don't know. I just wasn't enjoying myself
Speaker 5: is a good question. Yes, yes, he was a lot,
Speaker 5: but like that wasn't even though I quit shortly after
Speaker 5: meeting him, that wasn't what bothered me. I get it
Speaker 5: at some of obnoxious brack kid with a you know,
Speaker 5: very very annoying voices telling me to go fuck off
Speaker 5: all the constantly.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: I don't know, Maybe maybe I needed more puzzles, Like
Speaker 5: I don't mind the dice rolling. Sure, right, Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: damn about it.
Speaker 1: You complained about it every time the dice. Oh, by god,
Speaker 1: you forget that you complained about it.
Speaker 3: No, I know it was in discolsium.
Speaker 1: You've talked about it before. Yes, you have said that, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely so.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I just I felt I felt really bad.
Speaker 5: I just I did. So I think I'm a bad person.
Speaker 5: I might try it again a little bit more on
Speaker 5: my own and see if at that pace I can
Speaker 5: kind of get on its level a bit better.
Speaker 4: Just from the outset looking at I don't know if
Speaker 4: you're I don't want to. You know, you don't like it,
Speaker 4: you don't like you're allowed to not like stuff for now,
Speaker 4: But I think you should maybe give it like another go,
Speaker 4: that's all. And then and then I don't like it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I think I want to give them one
Speaker 5: go again. Like this isn't that far off from all
Speaker 5: these point and click adventure games where what mostly what
Speaker 5: you do is go around and talk to people. That's
Speaker 5: what those are, and I like those a lot. I
Speaker 5: don't know if it's just you know, the tone, if
Speaker 5: it's just that I am solving some puzzles or doing something,
Speaker 5: and this one it is a lot more talking to people.
Speaker 5: That is the game basically is talking to people, and
Speaker 5: maybe they're like early on, I'm like, oh, now what
Speaker 5: does this person have to say for ten minutes?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 5: What does this person have to say for ten minutes?
Speaker 5: I don't know, it's just getting I was like, I kind.
Speaker 1: Of want to do something. It does pick up, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the things you're doing is like using your
Speaker 1: language skills that you build up over time to do
Speaker 1: more and more, and that's exciting.
Speaker 5: But what really worried me? I hope it's not the cases.
Speaker 5: I've been playing so many like frum Soft and Souls
Speaker 5: games lately, and I'm like, oh, no, am I becoming
Speaker 5: like Souls brained. I just want to be playing more action,
Speaker 5: like dodgy stuff constantly. Is that the only thing that's
Speaker 5: getting me kicks right now? Should I just be playing
Speaker 5: Lies of Pe right now?
Speaker 1: I don't want to be? I mean, why is the
Speaker 1: piece good?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 3: Better with the Perry Absolutely, I think I'm gonna play through.
Speaker 3: I keep saying sectory. That's the thing. The way everyone
Speaker 3: talks about it, Like Mike, you were talking about being
Speaker 3: one cool best games you've played Yes, Kala, and like
Speaker 3: it's like fuck, Like it did intimidate the hell out
Speaker 3: of me when it came out, but I think I
Speaker 3: want to do it.
Speaker 5: It did me and like the first time actually, like
Speaker 5: I was like, so tim't even playing it. I was
Speaker 5: like I don't know and dropped off. And then you
Speaker 5: kind of like push through. You get used to it
Speaker 5: and you start feeling a lot more comfortable with it,
Speaker 5: and then it becomes the best game ever. I think
Speaker 5: that's the thing.
Speaker 3: I was playing punch Out and it's like, Okay, it's
Speaker 3: so much about reflexes and enemy paths and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: and I'm fucking good at that, so I know I
Speaker 3: have it in me. So it's just a matter of like,
Speaker 3: I mean, that would probably feel really good to do
Speaker 3: that with like a modern game.
Speaker 1: So they're the very similar. Yeah, yep, punch Out, pun well,
Speaker 1: punch Out to the proto Soulsborn games. It really is.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: Speaking of punch Out, Dan, you've been playing Mike Tyson's
Speaker 2: punch Out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just in between sex Euro second Story breaks,
Speaker 3: same first three letters this weekend. I just decided to
Speaker 3: beat punch Out twice and Mega Man two. Once I
Speaker 3: was just on the CRT, so I was like, what
Speaker 3: the fuck, let's just let's just play some of this
Speaker 3: on the actual AS controller and everything turns out punch out.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 3: I haven't played it really in a couple of years,
Speaker 3: and the speed run tactics from when I was doing
Speaker 3: that didn't come back. But just playing it the way
Speaker 3: I normally played it, I was able to go through
Speaker 3: and beat it twice pretty easily and still incredible. And
Speaker 3: the meg Man two fantastic. But Mike, I forgot about
Speaker 3: the part in Wiley's Castle where it's that like puzzle
Speaker 3: boss where you have to use crash Man shit to
Speaker 3: like blow up the walls, and that's really fucking stupid.
Speaker 3: I done that.
Speaker 5: Basically soft lock yourself if you get there and you
Speaker 5: don't have enough crash bombs, because it's the only thing
Speaker 5: you have to place them in the exact right order.
Speaker 5: I mean, I you know, I love Megmat two, but
Speaker 5: I'm always a Mega Man three is better person, and
Speaker 5: I do like to use that bosses. One of the
Speaker 5: reasons why Mega Man three is better. People kind of
Speaker 5: forget about how awful that boss is.
Speaker 3: Yes it is awful, but that game is still great,
Speaker 3: So Okay, that's good times. In between my secretory, we.
Speaker 2: Were just talking about Souls Born games. Is it okay
Speaker 2: if I talk about something at the end of Liza
Speaker 2: p Yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh, I mean, I mean I know about like the
Speaker 5: the sequel bait if that's what you mean.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I is it has Wicked ruined? Returning back to Wizard
Speaker 2: of Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 5: Nah, I think Wizard of Oz is still so like
Speaker 5: I'm omni president culture that it somehow still even exists
Speaker 5: outside of the shadow of Wicked, which you know that
Speaker 5: second movie has come out that's.
Speaker 1: Already retreating a little exactly. It already feels like it
Speaker 1: happened and it's not an ongoing concern.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay, uh Dan.
Speaker 2: Another game that you've been playing is Star Wars. Should
Speaker 2: I Survivor? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I grub Was it you that was telling me that
Speaker 3: you started playing it again recently?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, Now that was the thinking that I might
Speaker 1: actually start streaming, so I did put a pause on it.
Speaker 1: I was gonna stream this game, but I'm I'll be
Speaker 1: curious to hear how you're feeling about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really good and like it. You know, I
Speaker 3: think it came out of the time when there were
Speaker 3: like issues with it on PC and I like I
Speaker 3: started up and the beginning.
Speaker 1: We went to like Summer Game Fest as well, like
Speaker 1: right after it came out, and it like then we
Speaker 1: came back and there was a bunch of other games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing is like there were problems with
Speaker 3: it at launch. I didn't love the very beginning of it,
Speaker 3: and there was just a bunch of other shit going on,
Speaker 3: so I just never came back to it. So like
Speaker 3: now it's perfect. There's not a lot coming out. It
Speaker 3: runs awesome on PC now really just like man, just
Speaker 3: the actual like running around of that game feels great.
Speaker 3: Just you start, you know, you're double jumping, you're grappling
Speaker 3: around your wall, running the lightsaber. Stuff feels amazing, Like
Speaker 3: you're jumping off of a wall, run and like deflecting
Speaker 3: a blaster shot with the lightsaber and just everything just
Speaker 3: feels very cool. It is almost like like a from
Speaker 3: Light where it's like I'm not beating myself up trying
Speaker 3: to you know, progress in this game. It's a I'm
Speaker 3: playing on defaul difficulty. It's pretty smooth. You just playing through,
Speaker 3: but you feel very cool, like all the peries and
Speaker 3: everything and just the visuals in the audio and everything
Speaker 3: are so just top top tier with Respawn, like they
Speaker 3: killed it and really really loved it. I'm several hours
Speaker 3: in now, I'm at the second kind of like big
Speaker 3: area and definitely definitely enjoying any glad. I went back
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 1: I trying to remember that check came out. Oh, Janet's
Speaker 1: worth it. Yeah?
Speaker 2: What year was that?
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty three?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm thinking of something else.
Speaker 2: The sequel.
Speaker 3: Oh you're thinking of Outlaws maybe? What was? No, I'm
Speaker 3: thinking of something way older.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well then Force Unleashed.
Speaker 3: No, what was there?
Speaker 4: Was like a third person lightsaber game Outleashed?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Unleashed with Star.
Speaker 3: Two the four Jedi Caliber four.
Speaker 5: Oh you think about Jedi Knight from the nineties.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, no, maybe Jedi Academy.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Well, that would be Star Wars Dark Forces for Jedi
Speaker 5: ninety three, Jedi Outcasts two, Jedi Academy.
Speaker 3: What what did you say?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't like Star Wars anymore? What?
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, honestly I think it was Jedi Academy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jedi Kita is great. Yeah, yeah that that Jedi
Speaker 5: cat is technically the fourth Dark Forces game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the last piece of Star Wars fiction that
Speaker 4: I interacted with two thousand and three Jedi col.
Speaker 1: And Jedi Again. After you hear the full title, you
Speaker 1: should like Star Wars more. That's the kind of dumb
Speaker 1: shit that actually rules, because.
Speaker 2: That sounds like U two thousands pop punk emo song
Speaker 2: title is why?
Speaker 1: Okay, never mind, You're right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like Panic at the disco or something.
Speaker 3: It was like just two bands doing that.
Speaker 4: But I but your point.
Speaker 5: Is taking yes, yeah, yeah, maybe Grogu and the Mandalorian
Speaker 5: or the Mandalorian and grogw will be good.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna save everything.
Speaker 2: It's I don't think so is that a game.
Speaker 1: Or a show. It's a movie.
Speaker 5: The Bobcat guy from that cartoons in it.
Speaker 4: What.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, I know what you mean. You know
Speaker 1: that's based on the original, like Ralph McCory designed for Chewbacca.
Speaker 5: I do know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, isn't that fun? That's like the cool stuff about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: cool grub.
Speaker 2: I don't think you should stream Jedi Star Wars Jedi Survivor.
Speaker 2: I want you to stream the Avatar game.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about that too, Yeah, because they're the new
Speaker 1: update for that.
Speaker 3: In full gimmick.
Speaker 1: Oh Dan, I literally thought about having blue paint and
Speaker 1: playing the game.
Speaker 5: Yes, carry out crowd.
Speaker 3: Get a blue light.
Speaker 1: Jesus uh.
Speaker 2: Keeping on the Star Wars train, Jeff Greb, you've been
Speaker 2: playing Star Wars Genesis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, does anyone know what this is?
Speaker 5: Jesus star trek thing. They can't take that from us.
Speaker 1: It's all this is a full conversion mod for Starfield.
Speaker 1: This you go to the website and they give you
Speaker 1: like a little installer and it's great. God, I love Matyrs.
Speaker 1: The instructions are like, if you skip this step, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna work, and I'm not gonna help you. You
Speaker 1: guys are the best. And there's a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: like that. It's like, don't skip this. If you do,
Speaker 1: know do you're not gonna be able to save on controller.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, that's crazy. But the reason so it's
Speaker 1: weird like that is it's a little installer that installs
Speaker 1: like one hundred and fifty different mods to turn this
Speaker 1: into a completely it's a complete Star Wars game. Now,
Speaker 1: they rework the main story of Starfield to be about
Speaker 1: Star Wars stuff. There's a whole other campaign about working
Speaker 1: with the Rebel Alliance. You could just go play the
Speaker 1: game though, on your own, separate from any of these campaigns,
Speaker 1: and you can inter interact with the Imperials and they
Speaker 1: have some stuff to hire you to do, and there's
Speaker 1: bounty hunters and there's a bounty hunting system. It is.
Speaker 1: It made Starfield kind of fun. Like it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: It I don't know, it looks a little bit messy
Speaker 1: because they'll introduce a bunch of like Star Wars geometry
Speaker 1: and so like there's like these rounded doors and now
Speaker 1: some of the NPCs are like walking up on the
Speaker 1: sides of these like rounded ramps because they don't know
Speaker 1: to walk around it because it's a but broken aspathes
Speaker 1: the game underneath crazy. But it's it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's this is like still the nice thing about being
Speaker 1: star a Star Wars fan is sure EA can't figure
Speaker 1: it out. They flubbed the license for ten to fifteen years,
Speaker 1: but there is enough excitement in the community still where
Speaker 1: they'll just continue to do it themselves like they have
Speaker 1: always been. There's always been Star Wars conversion mods. They've
Speaker 1: always been the most robust total conversion mods cool and
Speaker 1: this is like maybe the prime example of that. So
Speaker 1: I was playing it this morning for about an hour
Speaker 1: and a half and I'm like kind of mostly doing
Speaker 1: the converted main campaign and it's okay. But even like
Speaker 1: the people who are like doing it, like we wrote
Speaker 1: this and we did kind of a bad job on it,
Speaker 1: you should just go get into the rest of the galaxy.
Speaker 1: So I think that's gonna be my plan going forward.
Speaker 1: I have my own Star Wars spaceship and it's I
Speaker 1: don't know it. It's really well done and a cool
Speaker 1: way to maybe play this game.
Speaker 2: Really like a little quick look for this.
Speaker 1: Grund'm yes, I think so. So I'm gonna be playing
Speaker 1: a bit more of it, kind of have something instead saying,
Speaker 1: then let's set up a quick look. That'll be fun.
Speaker 4: It looks some of those Yeah, go ahead, Mikey.
Speaker 5: It looks really cool, but like you still have to
Speaker 5: play Starfield. So I don't know, yeah, sort of right,
Speaker 5: but it's like, yeah, you're not wrong.
Speaker 1: There's the bad parts about it? Are this are the
Speaker 1: Starfield parts? Also? Yes, I think that they're uh, I
Speaker 1: think they did use like AI to replace the main
Speaker 1: actors voices with things that sound like Star Wars stuff.
Speaker 1: Am I'm like trying to keep I'm like listening. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's just that actor and they must have taken her
Speaker 1: voice and built a tool to replace it and make
Speaker 1: her say the Imperials instead of whatever she said originally.
Speaker 1: The rest of the line is from the original game,
Speaker 1: and it's like they kind of just splice this stuff in,
Speaker 1: and it's.
Speaker 4: Like interesting because everyone in Star Wars does sound like
Speaker 4: they're AI people anyway exactly.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, if I could take that stuff out,
Speaker 1: I would, but I'm not going to not play this
Speaker 1: just because it's like no one's making money on this thing.
Speaker 1: And it's yeah, I don't know. It's not like a
Speaker 1: business that's happened here and trying to use AI. It's
Speaker 1: people trying to like make their ideal Star Wars thing
Speaker 1: and whatever I.
Speaker 4: Was I was talking about a little bit of a
Speaker 4: departure here. The Have you guys seen some of the
Speaker 4: cyberpunk mods that are out there? Some of these are
Speaker 4: like freaking me out. Now, I get We're seeing like
Speaker 4: there's this one super ultra photorealistic mod that I saw
Speaker 4: the other day that basically made the game look like
Speaker 4: some retro future like thing shot in the eighties. Like
Speaker 4: it was like a real world sort of filter layered
Speaker 4: over it. I kind of couldn't believe it. There's a
Speaker 4: lot of really cool, like glitchy VHS sort of filters
Speaker 4: out there too. I don't this, I don't know. I
Speaker 4: feel like that's like my most interest in this game
Speaker 4: is coming from the mod sort of stuff that I'm
Speaker 4: seeing online, where like I don't know, every now and then,
Speaker 4: like a game becomes the sort of testing ground for
Speaker 4: a lot of that stuff, and I think Punk is
Speaker 4: slotting into that in a really cool way. Uh some
Speaker 4: of it is, Oh man, I got I don't I
Speaker 4: don't have it installed on this computer, but I got
Speaker 4: to figure out if I could just play around with
Speaker 4: that photo realistic thing.
Speaker 1: Who knows, like how complicated, and so now you know
Speaker 1: it's probably not. I mean, there was the photo realistic
Speaker 1: stuff for Grand Theft alloo, and I did that a
Speaker 1: couple of times, and yeah, like, oh that's amazing. I
Speaker 1: bet that stuff's even better. Now, let's let's let mess
Speaker 1: around with that. That could be fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, really cool stuff and I'm also assuming like they
Speaker 4: really kind of cherry picked the b roll for that
Speaker 4: and the way they Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2: Well, speaking about making a game look completely different, Mike Manatti,
Speaker 2: you have checked out the demo for Dragon Quest seven Reimagined.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I have played. Uh, I think most of
Speaker 5: that demo a couple hours into it. Really interested about
Speaker 5: this one because fop facy or facy Dragon Quest seven
Speaker 5: sort of big legacy, I think is it's slow, especially
Speaker 5: the intro, so like you know, basically, if you're playing
Speaker 5: that PS one version, it's like three or four hours
Speaker 5: of kind of walking around this island and talking to
Speaker 5: people and going back and forth between a few locations
Speaker 5: and solving some push block puzzles until you get into
Speaker 5: your first fight. And then they made that three DS
Speaker 5: version several years ago and it picked up the pace,
Speaker 5: so instead of like three hours, mana, that takes two
Speaker 5: hours now, and that still feels kind of slow, even
Speaker 5: though there's comparable games like personas, they have these slow
Speaker 5: openings you don't fight much for a while, but you know,
Speaker 5: like a start of a Persona game is generally more
Speaker 5: interesting than the start of a Dragon Quest game. As
Speaker 5: much as I love Dragon Quest. It's just you know,
Speaker 5: probably true. So I was curious this time around. And
Speaker 5: the pacing is even much more improved here where first off,
Speaker 5: they actually add of fights earlier into the game, so
Speaker 5: you do at least fight something, but even then, just
Speaker 5: getting through all of that, getting to the point where
Speaker 5: you're now on an overworld you can go fight monsters
Speaker 5: and stuff is more like one hour, maybe like an
Speaker 5: hour and some change, so and like less like going
Speaker 5: back and forth to places, less tedious puzzles. They had
Speaker 5: a couple other like simple, more fun puzzles. They aren't difficult,
Speaker 5: but they're cute. Just that whole process of this Island intro.
Speaker 1: It's moving along much faster.
Speaker 5: It doesn't feel like anything has been lost in terms
Speaker 5: of like the story. We're kind of setting things up,
Speaker 5: so just smartly edited. The look of the game actually
Speaker 5: like quite a lot. I think it does look a
Speaker 5: lot better than the three DS version, which is just
Speaker 5: kind of like it was three D models. But they
Speaker 5: also like moved the camera really far in the original
Speaker 5: game was pixels, so kind of you know far up
Speaker 5: and high up there. You kind of had a good
Speaker 5: field of view the entire time. You could sort of
Speaker 5: see everything. So this with that diorama aesthetic, again, you
Speaker 5: could see a lot at all times. It doesn't feel
Speaker 5: claustrophobic like that three DS version looks sometimes looks a
Speaker 5: bit weird just because some of Dragon Quest seven's characters
Speaker 5: look we're especially the Keifer. You guys might remember him
Speaker 5: from the Tyler. He's like the blond boy with the
Speaker 5: really like.
Speaker 1: Square job the Team America.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, he's just kind of an ugly dude.
Speaker 5: He's he's a nice boy. We like him, but he
Speaker 5: just he he won't look right in any art style.
Speaker 5: He's just kind of a.
Speaker 1: I like how ugly he looks. Yeah, really do yes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a prince.
Speaker 2: He yeah, he probably is a prince to someone out there.
Speaker 5: He's an actual prince of the kingdom.
Speaker 2: I also mean in terms of like affection, but going.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, yeah. There's some other just smart changes. So
Speaker 5: this game at the slow pace, it has a job
Speaker 5: system and then the normally you don't really learn about
Speaker 5: that to like, god, I'm gonna maybe rob like twenty
Speaker 5: hours in.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 5: You at least start with like a base job, so
Speaker 5: you're immediately leveling up a job and I'm sure for
Speaker 5: in the game you'll get to the monastery where you
Speaker 5: can unlock new jobs, with the fact that you start
Speaker 5: with something there that feels good. So yeah, I think
Speaker 5: it was smart to make a demo showing off the
Speaker 5: intro and your safe progress is going to carry over
Speaker 5: so people can kind of see how that beginning has
Speaker 5: been edited and change, and apparently those changes are going
Speaker 5: to be throughout the game. Just quickening up the pace
Speaker 5: of what was a one hundred hour JRPG back in
Speaker 5: a time when these things are always like thirty hours.
Speaker 5: It's an even that three D S version it was
Speaker 5: more like eighty hours, but still felt very long for
Speaker 5: what this game is, which is like a relatively straightforward
Speaker 5: but well done in fun turn based RPG. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: never felt like it needed to be as long as
Speaker 5: it was, so I think it's neat to see them
Speaker 5: approach it this way.
Speaker 2: Speaking about slow openings and JRPGs, with all the Final
Speaker 2: Fantasy talk that we've had on Games Mornings recently, I
Speaker 2: for whatever reason decided to dip back into Final Fantasy ten.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and let me tell y'all, the opening of
Speaker 2: that game is so goddamn slow. But it's so fucking metal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean anarchy, yeah exactly, because anarchic and everything
Speaker 5: going on there. It's all interesting and.
Speaker 1: It looks cool.
Speaker 5: There's crazy weird underwater soccer sports happening.
Speaker 3: That pre rendered opening were in there part where he
Speaker 3: like comes out of the sphere and like does that
Speaker 3: he's doing like a Baki pay like a j Styles kick, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he's like, I remember that, just looking unbelievable.
Speaker 5: Back then, I think they were doing with Final Fantasy
Speaker 5: seven money for like the next ten years were just incredible.
Speaker 2: I think I just yeah, no, I did too. I
Speaker 2: think I forgot how much. Final Fantasy ten just feels
Speaker 2: like it is ripped from Star Wars The Phantom Menace,
Speaker 2: but with more water.
Speaker 1: It is very.
Speaker 5: Phantom Menace coated in a lot of ways in.
Speaker 2: Terms of like the aesthetics of everything, but also is
Speaker 2: or in one of the coolest mother fuckers in the world.
Speaker 5: He's yes, yeah, Court of Mchinam hearts too, and.
Speaker 4: It was awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think you know, is like the poster
Speaker 2: boy for Final Fantasy but.
Speaker 1: Like thoughts thoughts, Yeah, yeah, but man Orn is just
Speaker 1: so fu sick.
Speaker 5: He's one of the all time great party members for sure.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know how much I'm gonna stick with
Speaker 2: Final Fantasy ten because I I don't know how much
Speaker 2: bandwidth I have to take on it. In older jrpg
Speaker 2: have already played through, but like just watching that opening
Speaker 2: sequence and and just going through that and like what
Speaker 2: a simpler yet too long of a time, and I
Speaker 2: just want something in the butter zone there.
Speaker 3: Who is the dopey guy that plays a waka?
Speaker 5: Yeah he's nice but racist.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I just already threw a ball like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, yes, Lulu, Lulu.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a really good game.
Speaker 1: It's great, it's great.
Speaker 5: I keep hoping they make the next class in foul
Speaker 5: Facey fourteen walk inspired and call it athlete or something
Speaker 5: to somebody who kicks a ball at people. I think
Speaker 5: that would be a lot of fun. Jen, are you
Speaker 5: playing the remastered version? You know there's like some.
Speaker 2: Like there's another not just forwarding or whatever.
Speaker 5: It's the uh, it's the character models. So when they
Speaker 5: they update the character models, but the new models don't
Speaker 5: facially animate as much. A lot of people just kind
Speaker 5: of like stance there with the same face, whereas they
Speaker 5: emoted more. That's sort of the problem apparently with the remaster,
Speaker 5: which I think you sucks but could get over it
Speaker 5: and it's it's probably worth it for the convence of
Speaker 5: just being able to play it on whatever and have
Speaker 5: an HD. But a bit of a bummer that that
Speaker 5: is an issue.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm really really tempted to check out Final Fantasy thirteen.
Speaker 2: That that's when I skipped back in the day.
Speaker 1: I think I think you hold on a little bit.
Speaker 1: It feels like they're it feels like they're gearing up
Speaker 1: to do something fun.
Speaker 5: They got to remaster that and release it as a
Speaker 5: trilogy eventually. Yeah, yeah, as long as you're okay with
Speaker 5: the charac just in story not being that great.
Speaker 1: Thirteen it's fantastic.
Speaker 5: Or like the level design, the combat in the graphics
Speaker 5: and the music though all fantastic.
Speaker 3: Why does that guy have a burden his hair?
Speaker 5: Oh that's a little Chokoba that lives in there. It's
Speaker 5: you know, well because he did chuk about a said
Speaker 5: he lives there. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: That's cool?
Speaker 2: Well, going from talking about Final Fantasy thirteen, which some
Speaker 2: people consider a bad one, to an amazing one, Mike Minatti,
Speaker 2: you have finished Final Fantasy Tactics the Evilies Chronicles.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is the opposite of my Discolyesium shame, where
Speaker 5: I feel so good about finally playing through this game.
Speaker 5: I've been a big Final Fantasy fan for a long time,
Speaker 5: and I've always kind of felt like a bit of
Speaker 5: a phony because I had never really played much of
Speaker 5: any version of Tactics. I think I was back when
Speaker 5: it was newer. I was intimidated by it. They even
Speaker 5: when like the PSP remake came out, I just didn't
Speaker 5: get to it. Even this one I didn't get to
Speaker 5: right away. So finally played through all that, and yeah,
Speaker 5: everyone was right. This game is freaking fantastic. The story
Speaker 5: is uh gosh, it takes itself so seriously that I
Speaker 5: just respect the hell out of it for that. Even
Speaker 5: you know, compared to other fun fantasies, even the darker
Speaker 5: Final Fantasies, they will still like have jokes or really
Speaker 5: silly sequences. This game is as like serious as serious
Speaker 5: can be. The entire time. You are not allowed to smile,
Speaker 5: You are not allowed to crack a joke. Everything sucks.
Speaker 5: Everyone's visible and they will probably not have a happy ending,
Speaker 5: and you're just gonna deal with that. I'm like, Wow,
Speaker 5: that's pretty bold for like nineteen ninety seven or whatever
Speaker 5: when this game yeah came out. And also like not
Speaker 5: an easy game, even like this remaster, this remake, which
Speaker 5: I imagined probably smoothed things out in some places, Plenty
Speaker 5: of fights even when I was grinding that were still
Speaker 5: plenty difficult. Maybe part of my problem was that I
Speaker 5: wasn't adding in the or characters to my party because
Speaker 5: I was like, nah, I got these this crew of
Speaker 5: no names that I've been building up. Get out of here, Orlando,
Speaker 5: I don't care that you're overpowered. Also like that there's
Speaker 5: a guy named Orlando, but they spell it slightly fancier.
Speaker 5: But all I can think about was Epcot the entire time.
Speaker 1: Jones. No, oh, I think it's Orlando Bloom Wow, Okay.
Speaker 5: I think Orlando Jones saying about Disney World, believe it
Speaker 5: or not. But you know there's the Wee Graft fight
Speaker 5: that's famous where it's like suddenly a one on one
Speaker 5: duel where he's just stronger than you, so good luck.
Speaker 5: And then uh, like towards the end, the glass fight
Speaker 5: is challenging, but slightly before that, you get to fight
Speaker 5: some guy and there's this chasm and he has like
Speaker 5: a dozen flying monsters that can all basically one shot
Speaker 5: your people, And I'm like, how am I supposed to
Speaker 5: do this? And it was the most just running around
Speaker 5: spamming phoenix downs, just kind of barely inching my way
Speaker 5: closer towards victory over like thirty minutes and finally getting there,
Speaker 5: and it felt so good when I did. You know,
Speaker 5: this has a job system also, and I just love
Speaker 5: that stuff and like messing around getting certain abilities and
Speaker 5: equipping them here and finally settling on like my final crew.
Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, I've got got a ninja, I got
Speaker 5: a dragoon, I got a summoner and dragoons. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you have to have a chemist because they can throw
Speaker 5: phoenix downs and high potions all over the place. Summoner
Speaker 5: was really strong for me towards the end. Like my
Speaker 5: strategy for a lot of it towards the end was
Speaker 5: get my summoner in there and hope that they cast
Speaker 5: Bahama or whatever, and that'll that'll get me started.
Speaker 2: That can work with that they'll preemptively drop a magic
Speaker 2: nuke that's just bahamat. Yeah, I really hope that with
Speaker 2: the success that Evili's Chronicles has had, that perhaps they
Speaker 2: will look at remastering at Tactics Advance and Tactics Advanced too.
Speaker 1: I just take a collection that's kind of updated, that'd
Speaker 1: be great.
Speaker 5: That'd be awesome that even if they just put it,
Speaker 5: I mean, if they just put Advance on s O,
Speaker 5: that would be.
Speaker 2: Mike, did you check out Advance in the past?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I played Advanced act like I'm going to finish it.
Speaker 5: But yeah, like I'm totally very different game right, but
Speaker 5: gameplay wise, uh, still fantastic as well. I'm curious what
Speaker 5: the futurists are because this this remake here has done well.
Speaker 5: It's sold over a million copies, which is almost which
Speaker 5: is you know, great for for what this is. There's
Speaker 5: got to be some kind of future for Tactics. I
Speaker 5: don't know if they're going to be as bold as
Speaker 5: to make a new game. Yeah, maybe, especially you can
Speaker 5: get Matsuno back into the fold, that would be incredible.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I can't imagine this is the last we
Speaker 5: see of Tactics.
Speaker 2: I uh fell into a hole with Tactics A couple
Speaker 2: of years ago. There used to be a PvP mode
Speaker 2: where people would just go fight against each other in
Speaker 2: squads in Final Fantasy Tactics uh. And then there was
Speaker 2: a Twitch channel that just automated it, so just be
Speaker 2: two teams just fighting each other of just square odds
Speaker 2: that were super like leveled up. It was really fun
Speaker 2: and entertaining. I gotta gonna find what that was called.
Speaker 5: Forgot Jen, have you ever played Tactics Ogre, because like
Speaker 5: that one got remade Tactics soger Reborn that was like
Speaker 5: theo is a Tactics team's game before this basically never,
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 2: I've never checked out Tactics Ogre. I think the only
Speaker 2: other like older Tactics game of that ILK I checked
Speaker 2: out was like Front Mission, and I really liked that.
Speaker 5: Right Front Mission three is supposed to be the good
Speaker 5: one of those, and that one I think is getting remade,
Speaker 5: so maybe I'll check that out at some point. I might,
Speaker 5: Like I'm a little exhausted like Tactics is. It's a
Speaker 5: lot like kind of emotionally and you know, just even mentally,
Speaker 5: so I'm definitely not looking to jump right into another
Speaker 5: one here.
Speaker 1: So similar with the Shining Force games to these Tactics games.
Speaker 5: Similar, I think they kind of remind me even more
Speaker 5: fire on them. I think like the Shining Force two
Speaker 5: is the one day and that one I think is
Speaker 5: just on NS. So so if you were curious, you
Speaker 5: could play Strending Force y too.
Speaker 1: It's a really good greame.
Speaker 5: I don't think the translation is very good unfortunately, so
Speaker 5: you're kind of stuck with like that. You know, nineties
Speaker 5: era bare bones not great translating style right that we
Speaker 5: used to get for sixteen bit RPGs.
Speaker 2: But there's a lot there well, going from a very
Speaker 2: serious game all the way through to a game that
Speaker 2: is just the lighthearted romp Big Hops, you guys talked
Speaker 2: a little bit about it last week. We have a
Speaker 2: review on the website that our own Chuck wrote. Go
Speaker 2: check that out on the new website that Chuck built.
Speaker 4: Got nothing else going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't have to do that. He just did that.
Speaker 2: We didn't tell him to. But Big Hops, I don't
Speaker 2: have much more to say about it than what y'all
Speaker 2: had to mention earlier. But I just really like having
Speaker 2: a three D platformer that is like low stakes to
Speaker 2: just hop and bop around. My one critique about the game,
Speaker 2: I wish I could use the time more. I want
Speaker 2: to be just slanging all over the place.
Speaker 4: Buddy, come on, right, what is this? Is this dib worthy?
Speaker 4: What do you think?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, ye, dude would love this. Yeah, if he liked
Speaker 2: Mario O to see, he would dig the crap out
Speaker 2: of this.
Speaker 3: Very good. But this this.
Speaker 2: Brings me to my point that I wanted to bring up,
Speaker 2: is that I think frogs are the best video game characters.
Speaker 5: They're great Frog a frog, Yeah from Credit I thought
Speaker 5: he was. He's very range coded speaking of by the way, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's got an incredible theme song, God Frog's theme. I
Speaker 5: think that was my first I could have a custom
Speaker 5: ring tone. I think my first custom ring tone ever
Speaker 5: was frog Steed from Grit Weird Man.
Speaker 1: Was crazy Frog.
Speaker 2: So also, you know, not the best frog, but a
Speaker 2: good frog, crazy Frog. Yeah, oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: The frog's name in Skate Story, Oh it was just
Speaker 4: rib it.
Speaker 2: No, it was something of I might be getting confused
Speaker 2: with the frog from Hades too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I used him a lot because he just gave another
Speaker 5: death defiance, right, I think, And that helps, especially early
Speaker 5: on when you're just trying to kind of get through runs,
Speaker 5: Like yeah, absolutely, I need that.
Speaker 2: There's like a little frog freak in one of the
Speaker 2: Star Star Wars Jedi games.
Speaker 3: Survivor has that week I met him yet, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: something like that. He's great slippy slippy Damn people like I.
Speaker 2: Was gonna ask people like slippy.
Speaker 5: I think he's annoying.
Speaker 3: It's a nice guy who flies the ship.
Speaker 2: I've never checked out the Star Fox games. So yeah,
Speaker 2: how is Slippy in y'all's opinion?
Speaker 3: Him a little bit like? Okay, but Falco is the asshole. Uh,
Speaker 3: Peppy is the wise old hair and he's like, you know,
Speaker 3: your little cousin that you got to protect.
Speaker 2: But he slippy like Tails coded yes, yes, I guess, yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: a little more can handle himself a little better than Tales.
Speaker 5: Is definitely more competent, can actually pilot.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Tails is like the Donatello that Sonic needs.
Speaker 3: Oh all right, well like tails like flies.
Speaker 2: The stuff he makes.
Speaker 4: Tails is completely capable. You don't need to put tails
Speaker 4: seatbelt on for him in the way you probably have
Speaker 4: to for Slippy.
Speaker 5: Do the s slippy, But I think that's slippier.
Speaker 2: Is that God?
Speaker 3: But this says that these are all.
Speaker 2: We need to turn this.
Speaker 1: I love st voices.
Speaker 3: We need to move past that.
Speaker 5: Just sixty four voicelides are all good.
Speaker 3: Like kid, they're also really good star fucks.
Speaker 2: If I never played those games, should I go back
Speaker 2: and check them out?
Speaker 3: I mean, Starbucks sixty four is still amazing. Sixty four
Speaker 3: is incredible. I think with S and E S one
Speaker 3: it wouldn't be necessarily fun to play now for the
Speaker 3: first time. But you need to put yourself in the
Speaker 3: perspective of like a kid who's never seen three D
Speaker 3: anything and suddenly the super FX chip change everything, and like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 4: Harder to do for people, you know, it's just sort
Speaker 4: of like mind shift themselves.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: You gotta be there.
Speaker 5: You're in the crowd and the train is coming right
Speaker 5: the screen and you're scared for your life.
Speaker 1: I know, I know.
Speaker 4: It's like showing a caveman a lighter. I get it.
Speaker 4: It's not that easy, you know. I thought I was
Speaker 4: gonna be able to show my kid like all this
Speaker 4: eight big glory, and he's just sort of like this,
Speaker 4: shiit sucks.
Speaker 1: That's why I can't have kids. I did not try
Speaker 1: to show my kids, and they got interested in all
Speaker 1: the sea.
Speaker 5: You gotta let them find themselves like.
Speaker 3: Drug gets old.
Speaker 4: Maybe I don't know that's a good idea.
Speaker 3: Your kids should beat Tyson before they can play that
Speaker 3: Star Fox.
Speaker 5: Enemy is My enemy?
Speaker 2: Was that three D adventure Star Fucks game? Neat weird?
Speaker 1: It's not great. I never couldn't get into it, but
Speaker 1: I always think I can remember it's a Zelda clone
Speaker 1: the other game cube.
Speaker 5: When Star Fox Assault is vastly underrated. That one, I
Speaker 5: guess it is actually pretty fun.
Speaker 1: I jan, I think you could like Star Fucks Adventures.
Speaker 1: I want to say that that's not a character flaw.
Speaker 1: I think there's something in there that you could like.
Speaker 2: I know what you're saying with this. Yeah, I know
Speaker 2: what you're saying with this.
Speaker 1: Trick. No one like no no no, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: no no separate from that, although that won't.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna my Google search is gonna be weird
Speaker 2: after this. Well going. Uh. We were just talking about
Speaker 2: space ships to another ship, and boy, have y'all sailed
Speaker 2: on this ship for quite a while now, Jang Sector,
Speaker 2: that ship.
Speaker 3: Is the Redeemer, only we don't even look the other ships.
Speaker 4: Ask me this about Sectory. I feel like I'm only
Speaker 4: playing this game because of you guys talking about it
Speaker 4: in the way you I can tell you know, I enjoyed.
Speaker 4: I play probably one percent of the time you guys play.
Speaker 3: Right, I can tell you have not seriously played it
Speaker 3: because you said you just buy all shields first, and
Speaker 3: that's the craziest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I kind of try a different roll
Speaker 4: out every every run. I kind of just like experiment
Speaker 4: a lot like that used to be my go to,
Speaker 4: and now like the first thing I do is speed,
Speaker 4: and then I get like one or two speeds in
Speaker 4: before the first bosses.
Speaker 3: But then it's like blaster missile. I think before the
Speaker 3: first boss, I want to have one blaster, one missile
Speaker 3: and almost all speed before I sure want to have
Speaker 3: that full speed is important. And then I'm finding on
Speaker 3: challenging difficulty that blaster is more important than it was
Speaker 3: on experience difficulty and less effect.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: What I was getting at though, was like because of
Speaker 4: the sort of like, uh, you know, the weighted opinion
Speaker 4: that we have on this thing, I don't know, like
Speaker 4: are people playing this game outside of our little circle.
Speaker 5: Like because I mean some people, but like on Steam
Speaker 5: it only has like eight hundred reviews or something, which.
Speaker 3: Is well, okay, it's funny because it's like everyone I
Speaker 3: know is obsessed with it, like Bonk and I will
Speaker 3: just sit there and just play each on our seam
Speaker 3: deck for hours and hours. Now I've got seventy hours
Speaker 3: in this game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna ask you actually go check Steam
Speaker 1: and tell us, tell us your our count. My hour
Speaker 1: count is fifty nine point three hours?
Speaker 4: Is what?
Speaker 3: Oh god, it's weirdly split between because I'm playing on
Speaker 3: different devices, so it's like I see it update in
Speaker 3: weird ways. But I believe I saw it like fifty
Speaker 3: eight last time I played on my Steam.
Speaker 5: Okay, So I played this yesterday for Mega Man and
Speaker 5: definitely was having a good time. I don't know if
Speaker 5: anyone ever mentioned to me, or maybe I forgot that
Speaker 5: it's it's it's very gratious. It has the grattiest upgrade.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, that's the first Yeah. Yeah. When we first
Speaker 1: talked about it, it was like it's the greatest upgrade
Speaker 1: system and then.
Speaker 5: And it's like yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, I do
Speaker 5: like that. And I was definitely it helped when people
Speaker 5: told me get more speed right away, because that first
Speaker 5: boss without speed is u is a bit of a bear.
Speaker 3: It's hard to lose. All my lives is bosses. I'll
Speaker 3: have the best run ever and I'll get to one
Speaker 3: of those shithead bosses, like those big circular ones around
Speaker 3: the edge and three times.
Speaker 2: Do you like the bosses? No?
Speaker 3: Terrified every time.
Speaker 1: When I when I know hit them, it's the best
Speaker 1: fucking ship in the world. Yeah, absolutely, no, It changed
Speaker 1: when I beat them without getting hit.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, the snake is the easiest one for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I've come around on the cylinder one because if
Speaker 1: I have enough speed, which I almost always do now
Speaker 1: at this point, the patterns are pretty easy to predict.
Speaker 3: So the one I can't do, there's a couple. There's
Speaker 3: the one where it's like the spokes that go around
Speaker 3: that one fucking sucks, and there's the one with the
Speaker 3: big ring and then the ring in between and it
Speaker 3: all kind of If I.
Speaker 1: Can get those early, that's like, oh hell yeah, they
Speaker 1: get There's different versions of versions of them depending on
Speaker 1: what phase you meet the man. So if you get
Speaker 1: them in phase one, they're much easier than like phase
Speaker 1: four yea, and there it's like, oh god, I got it.
Speaker 1: Just kind of get lucky.
Speaker 3: Here a lot, and I just saw something I've never
Speaker 3: seen before, Like I got farther and challenging than I've
Speaker 3: ever gotten and like a boss had a completely other
Speaker 3: mode where it just turned into like this nucleus of energy.
Speaker 1: Yes, I just had that too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's first time I've seen that. And it's
Speaker 3: like Jesus Christ, this game is so fucking hard, but
Speaker 3: it's so good.
Speaker 4: If you pull that one with the late with the
Speaker 4: laser beams with the other you know, the grid laser beams,
Speaker 4: like the alternating rotation stuff, if you pull that one first, like,
Speaker 4: I'm so fucked on.
Speaker 1: So here, here's like some like tips for that is,
Speaker 1: immediately shoot one of the targets and then it gives
Speaker 1: you a line to the next target and hopefully you're
Speaker 1: close enough that you could just kind of aim at
Speaker 1: that line and then you could focus on your ship
Speaker 1: and only pay attention to the projectiles. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I could just even if it's off screen, I'm probably
Speaker 1: gonna be able to hit this thing. Now, sometimes you
Speaker 1: don't have the range to hit it, and.
Speaker 3: The missiles help to Now this helps a lot with that.
Speaker 3: So there is the line, but there's an accessibility option
Speaker 3: that gives you a line from your ship that helps
Speaker 3: you line up your strikes, and you can short or long.
Speaker 3: So what you can do is on the boss you
Speaker 3: can just look at your ship and just put the
Speaker 3: yellow line and then put your like you can change
Speaker 3: the color of the line that points where your ship
Speaker 3: is pointing and just overlap it. And as long as
Speaker 3: those are overlapped, you look at your ship. There's accessibility
Speaker 3: options that are like pretty solid. There's one where it
Speaker 3: makes the red more obvious. It kind of pops more. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like the danger zones and stuff like that, So tweak
Speaker 3: the accessibility stuff. I've turned the music off. I just
Speaker 3: can't have any more.
Speaker 1: I that's not reals don't count anymore. I have the music.
Speaker 4: I enjoy the path to the boss way more bosses,
Speaker 4: way more more than the bosses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, and the bosses are a lot
Speaker 1: for sure. That is the most dangerous part. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was, God, I was definitely getting it. I was
Speaker 5: having a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: It's it is.
Speaker 5: It is mentally exhausting. Like twice I almost finished a run.
Speaker 5: I think I think I was on the final boss
Speaker 5: and like the last time, I was so max it
Speaker 5: was literally just like okay, it was like to transition
Speaker 5: to the boss and I just turned my brain off
Speaker 5: for a second and then accidentally stayed in the red
Speaker 5: area where like the level, Like.
Speaker 1: That's happened to me, But oh, I can't let my
Speaker 1: guard down for us, that's an instant kill for people
Speaker 1: listening to this conversation wondering why that's so bad. No
Speaker 1: matter how many shields you have, you get caught in
Speaker 1: the red It's an instant.
Speaker 5: But like you know so much, keep it's fun, keep
Speaker 5: you traveling, like okay, like okay, if the letters show up,
Speaker 5: I need to make sure I get an M or
Speaker 5: or an I. You know, there's a power up there,
Speaker 5: But should I wait for my strike to reload so
Speaker 5: I can like strike into it and get another strike
Speaker 5: right away, which upgrades? Like yeah, it's it's there's a
Speaker 5: lot to keep on.
Speaker 1: All that, all that fun, all that like keeps getting
Speaker 1: deeper as you began linking all these systems together. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like the early part of it. But eventually it's
Speaker 1: like you're gonna always be striking, You're always gonna be
Speaker 1: leaking these things together. I've had runs where for the
Speaker 1: entire first two bosses, I basically had a strike link
Speaker 1: chain going the entire time. I might have lost it
Speaker 1: once because it's by the time I was doing that
Speaker 1: second boss, I was at like seven million, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: I think I'm onto something here, And of course I
Speaker 1: immediately fussed up after that.
Speaker 3: So I am nipping at the heels of Grub and
Speaker 3: I very much want to make that happen because he's
Speaker 3: a like ten million. I'm at like nine million, seven
Speaker 3: hundred thousand. And did you I just remembered I was
Speaker 3: talking to Mary Kish last night. She said she started playing.
Speaker 3: Did you send her like a Steam message or something,
Speaker 3: just saying like you'll never get to ten million?
Speaker 2: Uh huh?
Speaker 1: And here let me see. I did get a message
Speaker 1: from her back, Fuck you Grub, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: So where we're coming after you? Yeah? I love this.
Speaker 1: This is my favorite kind of gaming. It's leaderboard chasing
Speaker 1: and having again. Like the one big problem is that
Speaker 1: the runs that we're doing on this mode are a
Speaker 1: half an hour to like really set a score. Now,
Speaker 1: we could have all collectively decided to play one of
Speaker 1: the shorter modes. There's modes where it's like it's probably
Speaker 1: ten minutes, but for like for I mean it's this
Speaker 1: is probably the best way to play it. But like
Speaker 1: the Gates mode is great, that's just a passivism from
Speaker 1: Geometry Wars. Could have just done that and that's like
Speaker 1: ten minutes to get a really good score in there.
Speaker 1: But I'm doing these runs and every time I just
Speaker 1: can't stop playing. I'll do like three to four back
Speaker 1: to back, and it's taken up all my time and
Speaker 1: it's like at this point again sunk cost fallacy. I've
Speaker 1: played so much, I've got so much practice. I do
Speaker 1: have like a really good sort of grasp on how
Speaker 1: I'm linking all these strikes together at this point to
Speaker 1: the point where it's like I'm not even I'm not
Speaker 1: thinking anymore. That's kind of where I want to be
Speaker 1: with games like this.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it makes this addiction so much more potent
Speaker 3: than other games. Is that like this is a great
Speaker 3: steam Deck game, but it is the worst, like Steam
Speaker 3: Deck with something on in the background things, because I
Speaker 3: would love playing games on steam Deck and like that's
Speaker 3: how I was watching a lot of the Moral Combat
Speaker 3: Legacy collection documentary stuff or shows in the background where
Speaker 3: it's like all right, yea, I'm looking up everyone saying okay, cool.
Speaker 3: You can't do that with sectories. So when I'm playing SECTORI,
Speaker 3: I am just staring at the screen. Yeah, music's off,
Speaker 3: nothing in the no podcast, no shows. I am just
Speaker 3: Sectorian for like hours and hours, and I feel insane
Speaker 3: when I'm done, and it's good. Six I swear Saturday
Speaker 3: it was like six hours of me just like in
Speaker 3: a sectory hole.
Speaker 1: Oh my heart.
Speaker 3: My eyes were like, yeah, it used to be like
Speaker 3: a warning label on this game.
Speaker 1: I think I know it's it's really net because I'll
Speaker 1: be playing on the steam Deck so much that it's
Speaker 1: like it's great because the screen and the sticks are
Speaker 1: right next to each other. So I sort of begin
Speaker 1: like building to my mind a mental map of like
Speaker 1: the stick goes in this direction, it's going to shoot
Speaker 1: in that direction. And I'll come play on the computer
Speaker 1: and I'll be holding the controller on my lap and
Speaker 1: it feels a little bit off. So if I just
Speaker 1: kind of hold the controller up a little bit so
Speaker 1: it's on the same level as the monitor, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's because I've been playing on the steam Deck for
Speaker 1: tens of hours and I'm so you to that. I
Speaker 1: kind of have to like level these things out so
Speaker 1: I can have that cardinal direction again. It's yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's building neuro neural pathways my brain that are becoming permanent,
Speaker 1: I think, hopefully for the better, right, Like who gives
Speaker 1: a ship.
Speaker 2: There's there's the underground pipes going on in your brains now,
Speaker 2: huh all right, gang, well that that is uh the
Speaker 2: video games. We're gonna go take a quick bricky break
Speaker 2: and we will be back with some news right after this.
Speaker 4: Back like you had something, Oh yeah, were you're talking
Speaker 4: about the Mortal Kombat thing Dan before we broke the
Speaker 4: documentary the documentary. Yeah, So in the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 4: I've been on and off watching that in bed with
Speaker 4: my wife because I'm romantic. I'm a romantic guy. Last night,
Speaker 4: we're watching the part where they like put the game
Speaker 4: into arcades, you know, like secretly.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 4: I'm like it's like twelve thirty and she like leans
Speaker 4: over to me, she goes, you know, it's weird. I
Speaker 4: always thought the name of this game was Mortal Comeback.
Speaker 4: And I was like what, She's like, Yeah, I used
Speaker 4: to think it was Mortal Comeback.
Speaker 3: You think how long did she think this? That's what
Speaker 3: I said, Dan, I said, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: The title shows up when you start the game.
Speaker 2: There is a song where someone yells combat.
Speaker 3: It's like one of those smoking out loud game titles
Speaker 3: of all time.
Speaker 1: So people aren't coming back. There's there's combat though, happening
Speaker 1: in the game quite frequently.
Speaker 4: Well, like we we had a pause because we were
Speaker 4: laughing for thirty seconds just because of how insane of
Speaker 4: a statement that was.
Speaker 5: It was a movie, it wasn't this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, this before all.
Speaker 4: This is like when it came out like the mid
Speaker 4: early nineties, ninety ninety three, right, or it's like what
Speaker 4: was it on, like S and E, S and Genesis
Speaker 4: probably Yeah, okay, so we're like little kids. We're like
Speaker 4: old ten eleven years old. We're like Dibb's age, so
Speaker 4: you know, yeah, we can't read that age.
Speaker 3: So I understand why she couldn't read the marquis.
Speaker 4: Which tracks right, which tracks Mortal Comeback?
Speaker 1: Why would it be you still think it was with
Speaker 1: a K. That is a great question, Like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: get the answer to that.
Speaker 4: That yeah, okay, Well i'll let you know tomorrow. When
Speaker 4: I'm not sleeping in the garage.
Speaker 1: Careful, break a plate, kid, it's cold. Yeah, I have news,
Speaker 1: but my understanding is Jan you have a news story first,
Speaker 1: please hit me with it.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, Gang. Just like y'all have been on Sectory Scout, please,
Speaker 2: I have continued to partake in maybe too much more Rivals.
Speaker 2: And they just dropped a new character early, a new
Speaker 2: new character trailer reveal, and it's Dan's favorite Marvel character,
Speaker 2: Deadpool of course. Yeah, but here's the fucked up thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're so good at that, Dan, Wow, Rafelcopter Dog.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 2: But there are three characters in or not three characters,
Speaker 2: three classes in Marvel Rivals, the Tank, the DPS, and
Speaker 2: then the support and somehow Deadpool is all three of them.
Speaker 2: Oh so, uh, you choose whether or not you want
Speaker 2: a healer Deadpool, a DPS Deadpool, or a tank Deadpool.
Speaker 2: And I watched the trailer while we were on break.
Speaker 2: He looks absolutely insane and it's gonna break the game
Speaker 2: parentheses positive proak and.
Speaker 1: I like have all those Deadpool characters from that last move,
Speaker 1: I mean obviously from the comics, but like all the
Speaker 1: variations of Deadpools, like skins all. They're gonna make a
Speaker 1: lot of money. I like death. Yeah, he's almost Disney.
Speaker 4: He's the well they're all Disney, but he is. Uh yeah,
Speaker 4: that sounds right. I mean that pinball game is phenomenal.
Speaker 3: I'll just say it.
Speaker 4: Sure, it's one of the best. It's Nolan North doing it.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good job.
Speaker 4: It's inoffensive for the most part.
Speaker 3: It's Mike.
Speaker 5: I kind of want of Marris. That's been a moment.
Speaker 2: Don't need to tell me twice, baby, Yeah, people have.
Speaker 1: I've been. It's been showing up in my algorithm when
Speaker 1: I'm not asking for it, and it's like, yeah, this
Speaker 1: game is getting really good right now. I'm like, jan
Speaker 1: keeps saying that, so maybe we should check it out.
Speaker 1: I guess since we're talking about Deadpool, let's hit this
Speaker 1: story that I just saw before we started doing this.
Speaker 1: In the last hour, it sounds like Facebook has shut
Speaker 1: down a couple of studios, including that uh twisted pixel
Speaker 1: which goes back a long way explosion man.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they acquired them in the last a while ago.
Speaker 1: I think they acquired him in twenty twenty one, and
Speaker 1: they last made Marvel's Deadpool VR for the Medquest three
Speaker 1: and like just came out. Yes, So it's like sounds
Speaker 1: like one of you know, I'm listening. He's always making
Speaker 1: great bets over there at Facebook. This Marcus just brilliant guy.
Speaker 1: Billions of dollars in the VR, billions of dollars into
Speaker 1: the metaverse. It all paid off. These were just a
Speaker 1: couple of weird ones that didn't seem to work out.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: He's also closing down Sanzaru sun Zaru Games, which made
Speaker 1: that ours Asgard's wrath too. They got like, oh VR game.
Speaker 3: When they brought back Sloper, Oh yeah they did.
Speaker 1: They did the Sly collection and the God of War collection.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh yeah, that would have been much better
Speaker 1: use of their time if they were still doing stuff
Speaker 1: like that, but they're not, and now they have closed
Speaker 1: them down. This is of course them shifting away from VR,
Speaker 1: which surprise, surprise, now they're under AI and that's gonna
Speaker 1: work out just great.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let me get to the once I've written
Speaker 1: down here. Uh okay, So have you guys ever written
Speaker 1: read something that's insane but makes perfect sense? We'll just
Speaker 1: hang in there, understanding game pricing with the developers of Peak.
Speaker 1: This is a quote that they provided to Steven Tatillo,
Speaker 1: and every word of this makes so much sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna read this, dude.
Speaker 3: That's very good.
Speaker 1: How much is a game really in a player's mind?
Speaker 1: What does it even mean to spend five bucks? Well
Speaker 1: that's five bucks, but six bucks, well that's still five bucks.
Speaker 1: Four bucks is also kind of five bucks, Three bucks
Speaker 1: is two bucks, and two bucks is basically free. So
Speaker 1: we've got these tiers. You know, twelve bucks that's ten bucks,
Speaker 1: but thirteen bucks is fifteen bucks, and we found that
Speaker 1: eight bucks is still five bucks. It doesn't become ten bucks.
Speaker 1: Seven ninety nine. You know that's five bucks, right, So
Speaker 1: eight bucks going to five bucks is the biggest differential
Speaker 1: we could find in pricing. So we found it very optimal.
Speaker 1: The game was good dollars when it.
Speaker 4: Gain Just that quote qualifies these people to have the
Speaker 4: highest office in this country.
Speaker 1: This is the kind of shit where it's like, if
Speaker 1: this was what the people posted on LinkedIn, there would
Speaker 1: be a much better place. This is what people try
Speaker 1: on LinkedIn, but then they just fucking trip all over
Speaker 1: them selves.
Speaker 3: This is actual in SEMs industry. Steiner math, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 4: But the eight bucks is five bucks is the most
Speaker 4: real shit anyone has ever said.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, God, it's right.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're claiming to have any date or anything.
Speaker 1: They're just saying it. It's like, no, you're right, they're one.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 4: It's it's the most like it's just a sort of
Speaker 4: like a vibe reed in the in the most accurate,
Speaker 4: like sobering way.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's like the evidence is before us, where
Speaker 1: that game just absolutely cracked everything at eight dollars and
Speaker 1: just came out and destroyed all right. The Xbox Developer
Speaker 1: Direct will feature a secret fourth game. That thing is
Speaker 1: happening January twenty second. They've already confirmed Forts Horizon six, Fable,
Speaker 1: and Beast of Reincarnation. Uh so we're gonna get a
Speaker 1: good look at all these things. Beast of Reincarnation is
Speaker 1: the game preak game that people who make Pokemon this
Speaker 1: is there. Maybe Soulisborne looks like a souls Burn game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it could be more of a character action game. We
Speaker 1: don't know. We're gonna find out more at this thing
Speaker 1: they're showing. They're showing Fable and they said specifically a
Speaker 1: lot more gameplay. We're gonna focus on the gameplay.
Speaker 5: Of Fast and didn't we get a gameplay review a
Speaker 5: Perfect Dog before that got cancer?
Speaker 3: We did?
Speaker 1: Yes, right, but it's like this one, like like they
Speaker 1: would have canceled this one if that's what they were
Speaker 1: going to do. But hey, famous last words, so we'll see.
Speaker 5: Maybe I wish the fourth Secret game was just the
Speaker 5: uncanceling Perfect Dark, but still I'll still be excited when
Speaker 5: it's Crimson Skies. That's all right.
Speaker 1: So it's uh, it sounds like according to uh VGC,
Speaker 1: it's a smaller game from a first party studio. You know,
Speaker 1: they always have like a ton of games like Cooking
Speaker 1: in the Kiln or whatever, so.
Speaker 3: We'll procited, I dare you right.
Speaker 1: It's like there's some rumors it could be from Double
Speaker 1: Fine or something like that, but they just had a game,
Speaker 1: so we'll see.
Speaker 5: I don't right, right right? Yeah, Keeper just came out. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean Week of City. It somehow always makes like
Speaker 5: four games a year, so it could just be like
Speaker 5: another smaller pediment sized obsidian thing even who knows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, makes that cool. They had three games last year,
Speaker 1: so it'd be even crazier. But you're right, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: put it past them. Okay, let's see here. Resident Evil
Speaker 1: Showcase set for next week, featuring a new Resident Evil
Speaker 1: Requiem gameplay snippet. Capcom is hosting the Resident Evil Showcase
Speaker 1: on January fifteenth at two p m Pacific time, five
Speaker 1: pm Eastern. That's what was That was a Wednesday? No,
Speaker 1: it's Thursday, right, Yeah, so maybe we can find time
Speaker 1: to talk over that. I know it's gonna last twelve minutes.
Speaker 1: We'll see if a team gonna be worth it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna show off probably some of the other stuff
Speaker 1: that we haven't seen so far. We've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of like the one side of things. This will probably
Speaker 1: get over to leon, but who knows, we'll see. I know,
Speaker 1: I'm like ready and god, this game sounds like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're just using everything they have they have and it
Speaker 1: doesn't like worry me that they have these like bifurcated
Speaker 1: gameplay styles. It's like, no, I have full confidence in
Speaker 1: Capcom to pull up both at this point, you.
Speaker 3: Know, yes, six weeks away, it's like who cares? Is here?
Speaker 1: That's the good one. Wow, It's like it's the first
Speaker 1: big release of the year by far. There's not a
Speaker 1: ton this month, but next month things pick up. But
Speaker 1: even then it's like, oh, it's not until Resident Evil,
Speaker 1: really all right? Ubisoft hits the Division and Avatar Studio
Speaker 1: Massive Entertainment with layoffs. Ubisoft is implementing a proposed organizational
Speaker 1: restructuring at its Massive Entertainment studios, which could result in
Speaker 1: fifty five layoffs. This follows a voluntary leave program, so
Speaker 1: they basically have already been doing like soft layoffs up
Speaker 1: to this point. Massive primary focus going forward will be
Speaker 1: the Division franchise. They're making the Division three, but they're
Speaker 1: also going to keep working on the Snowdrop Engine what
Speaker 1: has been doing, which has been doing pretty well for them,
Speaker 1: like that thing runs really well on the switch for example,
Speaker 1: or the Switch to I should say, they also are
Speaker 1: responsible for Ubisoft, so okay, I guess that's something they're
Speaker 1: gonna keep doing, along with an unannounced innovative tech project
Speaker 1: that they have working as well. Of course, you know,
Speaker 1: the Division is not part of the three over at
Speaker 1: the ten cent back new version of Ubisoft that is
Speaker 1: separate from the old version of Ubisoft, where they're working
Speaker 1: on Assassin's Creed games and Ghosts Recon and Far Cry
Speaker 1: so like everything else has seems like it's subject to
Speaker 1: these ongoing cost cutting measures. And this is the studio
Speaker 1: that just had Star Wars Outlaws, which are underperformed, and
Speaker 1: before that Avatar Frontiers of Pandora, which also seemed to underperform.
Speaker 1: Although both kind of had small pop ups here and there,
Speaker 1: they clearly didn't hit what their targets were for those
Speaker 1: big budget games. So they're going back to Division three
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be doing it with a reduced staff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a shame because you know, part of Outlaws
Speaker 5: problem wasn't really the studio. The game one came out
Speaker 5: earlier than it should have. It clearly needed a little
Speaker 5: bit more work, and now it seems like it's in
Speaker 5: a much better place than when it launched. And then
Speaker 5: you know franchise fatigue because the franchise has been mismanaged,
Speaker 5: which isn't Massive's fault at all. You know the Avatar game,
Speaker 5: that seems like that one got like a pretty decent
Speaker 5: bump when the new movie came out and they released
Speaker 5: an expansion for it. Seems like a good amount of
Speaker 5: people actually finally either went back to that game or
Speaker 5: picked it up. And also, like the Division three. That's
Speaker 5: going to be a huge game that's going to take
Speaker 5: a lot of people, So a little strange to do
Speaker 5: layoffs if that is your next project.
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah it's And they've said as much that that
Speaker 1: next Division game is going to be massive, and they
Speaker 1: wanted to not you know that's thing the studio, but
Speaker 1: also yeah, it's going to be massive and there they
Speaker 1: want to make sure that it's going to have like
Speaker 1: the same impact that the Division one did. The Division
Speaker 1: two got to a place where people who liked that
Speaker 1: game really liked that game. Yeah, they're very happy with it.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I think they want to continue that
Speaker 1: momentum and see if they can break it through to
Speaker 1: a bigger audience real quick. Ubisoft also seems to be
Speaker 1: hinting at teasing straight up confirming the Division Definitive Edition.
Speaker 1: There was a poster for that at a Ubisoft event
Speaker 1: in Japan. Seems like it would just gather up all
Speaker 1: the DLC and all the expansions and everything that you
Speaker 1: can get and put it on all in one package
Speaker 1: and put it out again.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: They've done some events in the Division two to like
Speaker 1: make the world like snowy and feel like the Division one,
Speaker 1: So maybe they're trying to bring it all together and
Speaker 1: set up for whatever Division three is going to be.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever been interested in the division
Speaker 2: at all. I don't think I could point it out
Speaker 2: in a.
Speaker 1: Police to be a little dad coded. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: like the most Tom Clancy of the Tom Clancy game.
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, maybe Splinter self still is, but this
Speaker 1: is very mock. I've had some good times with Division two.
Speaker 1: Every time I played it, I enjoyed it. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a part of me.
Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe like the division sikos feel differently,
Speaker 5: But I don't really want to go back to Division
Speaker 5: one necessarily. I mean I would want to just I
Speaker 5: don't know, like like two was always better than one,
Speaker 5: am I mind? So I would just play that, or
Speaker 5: I'd be excited for Division three. But I guess there's
Speaker 5: you know, some some value there. You know, it is
Speaker 5: different it maybe that stuff is kind of stuck in
Speaker 5: and accessible now. So if it's like bringing it into
Speaker 5: the Division two ecosystem, which then ties into the Division
Speaker 5: three ecosystem, I guess it could make sense.
Speaker 1: I think that the This is how I feel, and
Speaker 1: I think I've heard people that go this as well,
Speaker 1: that I like the setting of Division one better then
Speaker 1: I do the Division two, but I enjoy playing Division
Speaker 1: two more. I think Division three is probably going to
Speaker 1: try to combine those things and kind of make it
Speaker 1: feel like you're in Division one while having all of
Speaker 1: the cool dark zone stuff that Division two had, And
Speaker 1: they're probably trying to like remind people of that by
Speaker 1: going back to the definitive edition.
Speaker 5: Ye, because the Division one was like Christmas New York.
Speaker 5: Division two is just hot DC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, summer DC. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I really liked the Air and Space Museum level.
Speaker 3: I don't know why.
Speaker 5: Apparently neat yep.
Speaker 1: All right. Call of Duty on switch to could be
Speaker 1: eminent according to data miners who are looking looking at
Speaker 1: the Call of Duty HQ app, which is that the
Speaker 1: hub app that you used to access all the other stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know, actually I can never understand what that
Speaker 1: thing is. But people have gotten in there looked at
Speaker 1: the code and they've seen references to the switch and
Speaker 1: like to NSO and having a user account stuff connect
Speaker 1: from Activision to Nintendo stuff, so cross play can work.
Speaker 1: And it sounds like people are thinking a lot of
Speaker 1: this stuff is setting up something to happen, excuse me,
Speaker 1: with Call of Duty on switch to this year, probably
Speaker 1: Call of Duty war Zone before anything else, because that
Speaker 1: game is still up and running and working on like
Speaker 1: a PS four and probably it will be for a
Speaker 1: long time, so that's likely what they're going to move
Speaker 1: over first. I don't know, is it even worth it
Speaker 1: to do Black Ops seven at this point they see,
Speaker 1: they seem ready and willing to move on from that
Speaker 1: one pretty fast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they have to do this. They told
Speaker 5: the courts that they would, right, told the government.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Nintendo president reiterates plans for future movies and animated videos,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't rule out anime. Nintendo president Shuntara for
Speaker 1: Akala detailed the company's plans for future film and animated content,
Speaker 1: emphasizing deep involvement from planning stages to ensure meticulous craftsmanship
Speaker 1: consistent with their games and merchandise. He also said, like
Speaker 1: this is still about exposing our characters to more people
Speaker 1: and not necessarily about us becoming this company that makes
Speaker 1: a lot of money from movies and TV. It's like
Speaker 1: we the ones we put out, hopefully they make a
Speaker 1: lot of money, but we're not going to try to
Speaker 1: put out ten a year, as like this is the
Speaker 1: primary way that we are generating revenue. It is about
Speaker 1: making sure our characters have as high a profile as possible.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he talked about acquiring Dynamo Pictures, which is
Speaker 1: now Nintendo Pictures, which are making these animated shorts like
Speaker 1: the Pickman stuff, and like we're going to do more
Speaker 1: of that, and then they were asked he was asked
Speaker 1: about what about anime. It's like, if we can do
Speaker 1: it in a unique Nintendo way, we might do that.
Speaker 1: Doesn't sound like that's that means there's anything in the
Speaker 1: works currently. So, Dan Reiker, which Nintendo anime do you
Speaker 1: want to see?
Speaker 3: I would watch I don't know if there's any I
Speaker 3: would watch them.
Speaker 1: I would watch them. Mike Tyson's punch Out anime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Epo style, Boxer Mac with little characters. All right, yes, yes,
Speaker 3: give me that specific project.
Speaker 5: They should make an anime based on Pokemon.
Speaker 1: That could never work.
Speaker 4: That would never work, Like, never rule out anime, You
Speaker 4: should never rule out anim.
Speaker 5: I mean also, we've had Zero anime, We've had Kirby anime,
Speaker 5: we have.
Speaker 1: That animal crossing anime movie.
Speaker 5: Have surprised hasn't been. I'm sure there's probably been something.
Speaker 5: I'm surprised there hasn't been a more substantial fire emblem anime,
Speaker 5: something something sure I was gonna say.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe they could use this as a
Speaker 2: vehicle to bring characters into the fold that may not
Speaker 2: be as popular. I know that strop your likes. I
Speaker 2: know that everyone here likes Metroid a bunch, But I
Speaker 2: don't know if like the general Nintendo audience.
Speaker 1: Would Yeah, yeah, that'd be a great way to Metric's
Speaker 1: hot now, yeah, everyone talking about it. People can't self
Speaker 1: talking about what they love to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but, like you know, they would save on voice
Speaker 2: acting for the Metroid anime because like Samus wouldn't have
Speaker 2: the many lines.
Speaker 1: Apparently she would have no lines.
Speaker 5: Apparently she's now completely mute as a character and doesn't
Speaker 5: talk even to people who talk to her.
Speaker 4: Brain training anime.
Speaker 2: Oh that would be good, actually, I think.
Speaker 4: That's why I said it.
Speaker 1: All Right, Well, we'll see what they're gonna do with that.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, what about that price of that switch
Speaker 1: to is that going to go up? Well, Nintendo's keeping
Speaker 1: an eye on RAM prices and tariff impacts. But when asked, well,
Speaker 1: is that going to cause the price of the switch
Speaker 1: to to go up, he's like, that's hypothetical. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to answer that, which sounds like you're raise the price.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know it's not hypothetical. Is the
Speaker 1: stuff costs more? But he did say like they're always
Speaker 1: looking to find ways to acquire to procure components at
Speaker 1: an affordable way to keep the price where it is.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I don't know, they might let the
Speaker 1: switch to supply like that because it seems like they
Speaker 1: have a lot of them. They might let it dry
Speaker 1: up a little bit before they try to rush out
Speaker 1: and buy a bunch of RAM at super high prices.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we'll see how much how much ram could
Speaker 4: the switch to happen?
Speaker 1: I know, like four fine, one please come on? Two
Speaker 1: glass orbs and one would.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 5: Don't act like there's ram in a switch to. So yeah,
Speaker 5: they really don't want to raise the price. I think
Speaker 5: they are the ones who steal, very uncomfortable about doing that.
Speaker 5: I think, even though I'm not saying it won't happens,
Speaker 5: it could definitely so happen. But they're probably resistant to it.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, like my thing continues to be, they've
Speaker 1: built themselves a lot of like trap doors that they
Speaker 1: could you know, surprise jump off stage by going, oh,
Speaker 1: that Mario Karp bundle's gone, and then they reappear on
Speaker 1: stage with a new bundle that's actually five hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars and it comes with a you know, a
Speaker 1: game or maybe two games or something that they could
Speaker 1: position Welcome to. Yeah, it comes with Welcome Tour and mart.
Speaker 4: That away from that's actually where Welcome Tour is located in.
Speaker 4: The twelve gigabytes of RAM.
Speaker 1: Switch To Tour.
Speaker 5: Should have cost eight bucks because that's basically five bucks
Speaker 5: instead of yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh my, there you go.
Speaker 4: Now you're thinking, man, whoa, we were so many threads
Speaker 4: together with the shark tank over here. I think the
Speaker 4: switch to is overpriced, and they've built in that over
Speaker 4: priced seeing like, yeah.
Speaker 1: But they built it in for like potential stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: I think they built it in for component uncertainty. And
Speaker 1: then the teriffs came along as well, and now components
Speaker 1: are actually going way more crazy than need I think
Speaker 1: even they predicted. So I think they're already kind of
Speaker 1: at their limit, and they're kind of hoping that they
Speaker 1: can redline it for a while and see what happens.
Speaker 3: Is the terf stuff, because I remember they announced all
Speaker 3: of it, everything went crazy, and then it seemed like
Speaker 3: they immediately walked it back.
Speaker 1: Is it like back or well, they walked it back
Speaker 1: a little bit, but there's still it's like still like
Speaker 1: thirty percent I think from China and Vietnam and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. It's not three hundred percent or something.
Speaker 4: I mean, you have you bought anything internationally in the
Speaker 4: last eight months I've.
Speaker 3: Done in the last years really some of those Yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess that was before the terror stuff. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: find myself just happening.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do buy like a decent amount of stuff
Speaker 4: from from like uh, Europe and I And I've noticed
Speaker 4: that like some people will some outlets will be like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's built into the cost right where they'll say, like,
Speaker 4: you're not going to pay anything. But I had something
Speaker 4: from DHL coming the other day and that I'd pay
Speaker 4: eighty dollars on.
Speaker 2: So what that happens, Like do you pay the delivery driver?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So in the case of like DHL, they will
Speaker 4: front the money and then you pay DHL. If you
Speaker 4: don't pay it, the payment unlocks the disbursement, So if
Speaker 4: you don't pay them, they'll just return it descend her
Speaker 4: in like a week or something. It's super sick.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. Yeah, yeah, it rules. It's really making us
Speaker 1: a lot of money.
Speaker 2: That's why a freaking Osmo costs eight hundred dollars now
Speaker 2: instead of three hundred when it originally came out.
Speaker 1: Yep, but all those Osmo factories are here now, so
Speaker 1: it's a really really good thing. Yeah. Well, I mean, actually,
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court is still they're ruling on the tariffs
Speaker 1: is still coming in and you can kind of tell
Speaker 1: the way the wind is blowing because there's been some
Speaker 1: social media posts from certain someone who's like, if.
Speaker 2: They do this.
Speaker 1: He literally said, we're screwed if they they go back
Speaker 1: on let the tariffs happen, which is just an incredible
Speaker 1: thing to have a president post online. But yeah, and
Speaker 1: it seems like there's a good chance the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: is going to come back and be like, we don't
Speaker 1: like these tariffs and we're not gonna let them happen,
Speaker 1: and then all that's gonna fall apart. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: kind of a mess for a little bit as well. Wow,
Speaker 1: finally we'll know what a mess looks like this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know what, I haven't seen one at quite some time.
Speaker 1: And freaklin I could use the entertainment. I'll take a.
Speaker 4: Mess over a catastrophe.
Speaker 1: I mean, uh huh. Balder's Gate three Boss explains lack
Speaker 1: of switch to version basically said Wizards of the Coast
Speaker 1: and Hasbro don't like us anymore and don't want to
Speaker 1: pay us any money to do the work to get
Speaker 1: this on switch to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that okay, interesting, that's it's it's where to let
Speaker 5: pettiness get in the way. I mean they would make
Speaker 5: money too, Yeah, how that works. I mean they don't
Speaker 5: even have to have Larian do it, right, like you
Speaker 5: hire other companies support games all the time. That's the
Speaker 5: thing that other studios can do. Maybe something about Larian's
Speaker 5: contract or I don't know, but yeah, whatever the case,
Speaker 5: I can't imagine why a switch to version of this
Speaker 5: game is not out yesterday. That would be such a
Speaker 5: slam dunk.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think we were talking about it on a
Speaker 1: show recently. We're like, in twenty twenty six, that'll just
Speaker 1: be on switch too and it's like because obviously it'll
Speaker 1: make a lot of money. But yeah, I think eventually
Speaker 1: the money will talk and this will happen. But you're right,
Speaker 1: whether that's Lariyan getting the contract after people sort of
Speaker 1: like they're like, let's just all make money together, even
Speaker 1: if we do have bad beef, or they pay a
Speaker 1: studio to come in and do the job. Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 5: Did you look at like caseay. They also did their
Speaker 5: big red at Ama where they're talking about the AI
Speaker 5: and they said they're going to stop using general of
Speaker 5: AI for concept art. WI interesting because before it was
Speaker 5: it's not a big deal, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: Still they said they're not gonna use it for concept art,
Speaker 1: which is the thing they said they were doing, and
Speaker 1: they got a lot of heat for that, and then
Speaker 1: they're like, we're not gonna do that anymore. However, having
Speaker 1: said that, and he literally said having said that, and
Speaker 1: then said, we're still gonna use Jenna I for other
Speaker 1: like to be iterative, he said, which is like the
Speaker 1: concept art. He said, I know it sounds like for
Speaker 1: the other departments, but I don't know. People gus should
Speaker 1: keep yelling at him because clearly they haven't heard the message.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see. Nintendo Switch Tow's latest GameCube game
Speaker 1: is now live, bringing the total to eight games Switch
Speaker 1: to Switch Online plus Expansion Pass Expansion Pack. I think
Speaker 1: a service has added the GameCube game fire emblem Path
Speaker 1: of Radiance, which is a very good strategy tactics RPG.
Speaker 1: It's like one that was very expensive on GameCube for
Speaker 1: a long time. So this is a really great way
Speaker 1: for people to actually play this game, and it's added
Speaker 1: to a list that's growing pretty quickly for game Cube
Speaker 1: games on Nintendo Switch ns O GameCube.
Speaker 2: I want to I gotta check this one out. I
Speaker 2: never checked out this fire emblem.
Speaker 5: Yeah, people do like it a lot. Back in the day.
Speaker 5: I didn't check it out because I thought it looked
Speaker 5: really ugly compared to the GBA games at the time,
Speaker 5: And now it's come a bit full circle where it's
Speaker 5: ugliness is sort of endearing I think, so, uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I want to find some time for this for sure.
Speaker 5: This is one where like some of the slight problems
Speaker 5: I have with the emulation, like the analog sixth sensitivity,
Speaker 5: that doesn't really matter for a tile based tactics games.
Speaker 5: This is one that I bet would work great on
Speaker 5: so so And most importantly, now that there are eight games,
Speaker 5: I could finally make like a two row fill out
Speaker 5: the entire library thing on that app without any gaps.
Speaker 3: Might've been struggling for so long.
Speaker 1: Everybody, Thank god. What happens when there's nine games? Three
Speaker 1: three rows of three?
Speaker 5: Oh, that wan't work. No, there will be a little
Speaker 5: gap in the in the right. I think I have
Speaker 5: to mess with it. I'm scared.
Speaker 2: Why would you do this to him?
Speaker 1: Because it's funny, because it doesn't I don't even see it.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. And Dan, Yeah, when I saw.
Speaker 5: Your n s O library and how not organized it was,
Speaker 5: I was mad at you.
Speaker 1: It means nothing to me.
Speaker 5: When the game grub and made sense to me, I
Speaker 5: literally spent time like, if it's that I don't want
Speaker 5: to play a game, will just go into my libraries
Speaker 5: and organize me too.
Speaker 3: There's enough Caveman Super Nintendo games have a Caveman row.
Speaker 1: Exactly, exactly. Yes, I'll make a cave Man.
Speaker 2: And when's the last time we had a Caveman game?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Dial for a while. There are so many in the
Speaker 5: sixteen what's the screen.
Speaker 3: Guy that left to make the monkey game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying to remember that Ancestors the human Kind. Honesty,
Speaker 1: that's the game. I love that. I know Dan hates
Speaker 1: it's such it's the weirdest fucking game. It's about like
Speaker 1: making people evolve and you can swing there.
Speaker 3: That game again, I appreciate that it exists, but I
Speaker 3: want WAG. I want Tailor of the Sun, you know.
Speaker 5: Not far Primal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 1: It's not It's not far cry Primal. It's like something else.
Speaker 1: It's like a weird emergent storyline game. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Horizon, She misses You.
Speaker 5: It's cave sent the Horizon series. Yeah, there's a cave man.
Speaker 2: There's too many glowy bits for a caveman.
Speaker 1: Too much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, electronics, because it's like it's far got blasted back
Speaker 4: to the Stone Age. You know, I know, I get it, Mikey,
Speaker 4: but uh yeah, I don't think that qualifies.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 5: What about the Flintstones. We should do another Flintstones game.
Speaker 3: It's about the flints should like a Flintstone's hit and run.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, dam can you like instead of like
Speaker 5: holding down acceleration, but you have to actually use your.
Speaker 3: You gotta do like style.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I do think a bedrock g t A
Speaker 4: would be fun.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, GT bedrock you go. Oh man, mister Slate
Speaker 5: will be there, pebbles will be there, bad Bam will
Speaker 5: be there all this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what part would you want this in the story
Speaker 2: to take place? Mike? Is it like post pebbles and
Speaker 2: Bam bam or after.
Speaker 1: Babies.
Speaker 5: I don't want it like, oh, they're married now, I
Speaker 5: don't want to before that. They're around No prime Flintstones,
Speaker 5: pebbles and Bam bam are there. They're being funny, they're
Speaker 5: being chilly goobers.
Speaker 3: And you have a navvy and it's the little green
Speaker 3: alien guy, the Marshall guy. No navvies.
Speaker 1: We have a strict.
Speaker 3: Right there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta have the great be a part of it.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 5: If you go you go to the Order of the
Speaker 5: Water Buffalo Lodge, you can go bowling.
Speaker 1: There is a still conversion mod for Starfield that turns
Speaker 1: it into the Flintstones.
Speaker 5: Earlier.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I should leave me exactly. My brain is Harvey
Speaker 4: Birdman broken, where I cannot think of Flintstones him being
Speaker 4: Tony soprano. I I just envision like a Gta Flintstones
Speaker 4: tony soprano, where like the kids are grown up and
Speaker 4: they're like a j and meadow, Like it has to
Speaker 4: be that, you know, like you're not gonna be able
Speaker 4: to get away with a little.
Speaker 5: Baby actually, like Stone, what no z saurus on your
Speaker 5: phone read for sure? Ship out of those dinosaur ribs, y'all.
Speaker 5: Come on, I bet there's a lot a shred of
Speaker 5: fat in them, but I bet they still look so good.
Speaker 5: It's just all lean.
Speaker 2: I know, I would eat so much of it.
Speaker 1: I'm like happy that, Like I get those Total Star
Speaker 1: Wars conversion mots for everything, but I wouldn't hate living
Speaker 1: in a universe where instead it was everything got of
Speaker 1: Flintstone's total conversion. Like you guys have, like you have
Speaker 1: an ip that you would like wish that everything just
Speaker 1: kind of had a mod that it would turn into
Speaker 1: or anything like that, or obviously Flintstones for you, Mike, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: I don't know, just turned everything into Hockey Mortal.
Speaker 4: Comeback for sure, Marvel, comeback for sure.
Speaker 1: Last story and it's good news. We're gonna get to
Speaker 1: kill Mecha Hitler. Machine Games is three and a Rainbow
Speaker 1: Siege Rainbow six siege style multiplayer title. Machine Games, the
Speaker 1: studio behind Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, is reportedly
Speaker 1: planning a third Wolfenstein game, according to Windows Central and Kotaku.
Speaker 1: Window Central also claims the studio is working on a
Speaker 1: Rainbow six Siege like multiplayer title. This news comes after
Speaker 1: the release of the critically acclaimed Indiana Jones, which I
Speaker 1: then got a PlayStation five version. They did release a
Speaker 1: third wolf of Stein game from Machine Games, that was
Speaker 1: Young Blood, but that was not that was a spin off.
Speaker 1: This should complete the trilogy and finished telling the story
Speaker 1: of bj Blaskowitz. H sounds like that's the plan. Boy,
Speaker 1: I'm excited about Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the second one. Incredible. I loved it, yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My favorite part is when Ronald Reagan shows up.
Speaker 1: They don't make it clear it's Ronald Reagan's Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, before Hitler pace himself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hitler kills Ronald Reagan and peace himself. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Good video.
Speaker 1: It's an incredible video.
Speaker 3: Like they're so going to make a big deal out
Speaker 3: of the Mecca thing, Like that's going to be such
Speaker 3: they know everyone needs it, you know, yeh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's and it's such like a great thing to
Speaker 1: build toward. And they've already kind of like like messed
Speaker 1: around with the idea of bodies living on like bj
Speaker 1: bat Blaskowitz's head getting put on it like a Nazi
Speaker 1: super soldier body, and they've done great work with like
Speaker 1: the subtext of what that means. But they've also just
Speaker 1: made it awesome cool action stuff like his head floating
Speaker 1: around like getting put on the body, and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: now they can mess around with the other side of that,
Speaker 1: of Hitler being put into a suit.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 1: Right, Well that's probably years away, hopefully, hopefully we get
Speaker 1: it sooner rather than later. But that does it for
Speaker 1: the news from me handing the show back over to.
Speaker 2: Janajoa Fantastic Gang. We're gonna take another quick bricky break
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Speaker 2: comes from Mike from Loveland. Bull ju Bos New Year,
Speaker 2: Yet it seems like the horrors are persisting. What does
Speaker 2: the Giant Bomb crew do? Free little treat? Imagine you're
Speaker 2: in your car driving home alone from a stressful event.
Speaker 2: What is the stop or what are you excited to
Speaker 2: go home to? To balance the scales? Also, or if
Speaker 2: Giant Bombs sold a snack through the merch store, what
Speaker 2: would it be? Love the show, Love you All. Mike
Speaker 2: from Loveland.
Speaker 5: Shack started selling those gummies and I think they're popular.
Speaker 5: So maybe we would have giant bomb gummies with our
Speaker 5: faces in it.
Speaker 3: That would be good.
Speaker 1: Yea, But he has the corner the market cornered on
Speaker 1: giant head gummies. The gummies are giant gummies.
Speaker 5: Will be very small.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right? I like the direction.
Speaker 4: Are is this drugs or no candy?
Speaker 1: Just sugar?
Speaker 3: Should try this? Are they good?
Speaker 2: I have a bag.
Speaker 5: I'll you know, I'll do a live review shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't like them all that much.
Speaker 1: They're they're a you know, okay, yeah, I prefer like,
Speaker 1: you know, those gummy skittles like that. I prefer those.
Speaker 3: I don't like just normal ass gummy bears. I like
Speaker 3: sour like patch kids. I want some like some more density.
Speaker 3: I don't want to bounce back like gummy bears. Bounce
Speaker 3: gummy bears, you know, like you're chewing literal rubber.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't understand, okay, never like you.
Speaker 3: Know, you know what I mean, Like a sower patch kid.
Speaker 3: It's like it doesn't have that bounce back, you know,
Speaker 3: it's just.
Speaker 2: Kind of like, Yeah, I'm not a big sweets person,
Speaker 2: but I really love those peach rings, like the watermelons.
Speaker 5: There's in here. There's peach, berry punch and orange. I
Speaker 5: really have no interest in peach.
Speaker 1: Who's this guy? Who's this guy against? The spokesperson for
Speaker 1: I was gonna make man shock is he's big, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just not in his line.
Speaker 3: That's a good idea for a product. He's doing good.
Speaker 1: John's sound nice.
Speaker 5: No, I like my gummies should not be too gummy.
Speaker 5: I like them a bit firmer. I think Betty Crocker.
Speaker 1: Well, we were all just saying we hate the Harrabo
Speaker 1: gummy bears because they're too firm.
Speaker 3: We don't want to bounce back.
Speaker 2: What do you mean by Betty Crocker.
Speaker 5: Betty Crocker makes uh like they have a brand of.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Really, Oh okay, he's chewing.
Speaker 2: He's chewing chewing the blue one. He's halfway through.
Speaker 5: It's a damn fine gummy.
Speaker 4: I just searched, like an idiot, Betty Crocker, fucking gummies
Speaker 4: and to the surprise of literally no one, Mickey and
Speaker 4: Friends and Malana gummy bears.
Speaker 1: That's why you like.
Speaker 3: Those fruit snacks.
Speaker 1: Gummies?
Speaker 2: No, No, they're aye, they're gummies. I guess these are
Speaker 2: a lot like those.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're fruit snacks. I think we should like, you know, know,
Speaker 1: like Japanese like snacks. Is that come like boxes, like
Speaker 1: a box of Jeffes snack? Actually, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3: Love that. Yeah, somebody hap it's weird that he bit
Speaker 3: a gummy in half, Like I know they're big, but like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I've never been a gummy and half those are the
Speaker 3: whole one in your mouth there, it's big.
Speaker 1: It's big.
Speaker 3: It's big.
Speaker 2: That's probably the peach one, though, Mike, I.
Speaker 5: Made sure I got to redishments out. I got the
Speaker 5: paler one and I threw it the hell back in there.
Speaker 1: You're like my You're like my six year old who
Speaker 1: will only eat certain colors of candy. This was very good, though.
Speaker 4: I'm addicted to Japanese snacks. There's a there's like a
Speaker 4: you know, like a market a couple of miles away,
Speaker 4: and I just go nuts.
Speaker 1: Man, that sounds awesome cause I got the box delivered
Speaker 1: and it was like that. They were really good, but
Speaker 1: I'm like fresh, it's even better. Ye do it for me.
Speaker 2: That's my favorite flavor. You're such a big.
Speaker 4: Good Mike learned to love it.
Speaker 3: Is curious look on his face.
Speaker 5: Tast like nothing.
Speaker 4: Oh I can't taste.
Speaker 2: Have you had a peach before?
Speaker 1: To tell? What do you mean? It's tastes like nothing.
Speaker 1: The two first gummies fried all your buds.
Speaker 4: What's happening?
Speaker 5: N just wants just loot more subtle. It's not bad,
Speaker 5: I guess, but it's subtle all right.
Speaker 2: Two out of three. That's not bad for flavors.
Speaker 3: I'm going a big sumo orange kick oranges and they
Speaker 3: got the little nub up top, so it's easy to
Speaker 3: just peel them and it's just juicy. Sumo orange is
Speaker 3: sucking awesome.
Speaker 1: Like, how does it compared to like a clementine or whatever? Bigger?
Speaker 2: They're bigger.
Speaker 3: They're bigger, and they got the nut cracking the top off.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so the shell is so soft, it's so
Speaker 3: easy to Those are like I like a just pier orange.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I like the small ones because they're easy
Speaker 1: to like, snack on him. Sure, eat real quick, four
Speaker 1: of them if I need a lot?
Speaker 4: Are these named sumo because of like top not?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Oh, because they kind of look like little wrestlers.
Speaker 3: They a little on them, gonna say, do you make
Speaker 3: them fight?
Speaker 2: You know, they do a very good job marketing them
Speaker 2: because I always know when they're in season because it's on,
Speaker 2: Like we.
Speaker 1: Could and we could spin them and make them fight
Speaker 1: in a little thing. Yeah, a little baby.
Speaker 5: I don't think we can beat check at this gummy game.
Speaker 5: It's it's impressive. I don't want to Here is his quote,
Speaker 5: but I wasn't surprised. Well here's how we beat I wasn't,
Speaker 5: you know. I apologize I wasn't familiar.
Speaker 1: Oh oh yes, yes, was unfamiliar with your name. What
Speaker 1: we got to do?
Speaker 2: I think we would be very well served in the
Speaker 2: jelly bean market. M we we each pick a flavor
Speaker 2: that represents us.
Speaker 1: My mind would just be.
Speaker 2: Jeff the flavor.
Speaker 1: Do you find out? Can you find out?
Speaker 3: Can we spelling GB like jelly beans?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Gross, I knew you would all do the weirdest ship
Speaker 4: the garlic jelly beans.
Speaker 3: Like I'm wear the popcorn, buttered popcorn and jelly bellies.
Speaker 3: I think that's delicious.
Speaker 5: This mine's actually sweet, So there you go. Mine's a
Speaker 5: better fit for jelly beans.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, someone I just like triggered a memory.
Speaker 1: The shark. Remember the white instry shark.
Speaker 5: That was pretty crocker, I'm telling you, Okay, they made
Speaker 5: the best ones.
Speaker 1: What was the what was like the thing there?
Speaker 4: It was all sharks that almost like the magic. It
Speaker 4: glued in the dark, glowed in the dark too. It
Speaker 4: was like a different texture. It was like the more
Speaker 4: kind of like the drier, chalkier texture like and they
Speaker 4: were delicious. Remind the like white airheads, the mystery ones
Speaker 4: where they're just yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Was the other part of this question.
Speaker 5: There's you know, there's a local ice cream place handles
Speaker 5: I like to go to if I really need a treat.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, Oh yeah, what's a little treat y'all give to
Speaker 2: yourselves barbies.
Speaker 5: Actually I'll go to RP if I'm like down, like sad,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, that's an excuse to do something bad
Speaker 5: for me so I feel better, I will go to art.
Speaker 3: Oh I always want to say.
Speaker 1: I'll say to my family, I'm going to the corner
Speaker 1: and I'll just go to the gas station and buy
Speaker 1: some crap because I'll just need to get out of
Speaker 1: the house. So it's like I'll just go get a
Speaker 1: you know, a drink or something and a candy bar.
Speaker 3: I will after you do this, I should do this.
Speaker 3: I do compress after long runs, like after like a
Speaker 3: half marathon or whatever. I'll go to Taco Bell and
Speaker 3: just get the most because you just burn like a
Speaker 3: billion glories and it's like, I'm going to get everything
Speaker 3: at Taco Bell. That sounds awesome.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll just yell in my car for a little sure,
Speaker 2: that's nice.
Speaker 1: That's a great treat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well the windows down actually yeah yeah, yeah. People
Speaker 2: get scared when I roll all the windows down. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right. Next email comes from Eric in Massachusetts. Gang,
Speaker 2: are there any games that you personally regret not playing
Speaker 2: before Game of the Year discussions? For any year? It
Speaker 2: doesn't need to be number one, but something you are
Speaker 2: just disappointed he didn't have more love at the time.
Speaker 2: Eric from Massachusetts, Go, yeah.
Speaker 5: This past year, I did feel like we didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I think e'x after Dan, none of us just kind
Speaker 5: of happened to not play it. I don't think it
Speaker 5: would have been Game of the Year, so like, but
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, she got a little bit more love.
Speaker 5: I definitely wish I had played Secoro a way earlier,
Speaker 5: like going back to that. So it is my twenty
Speaker 5: nineteen game of the Year. Not that I feel that
Speaker 5: bad that I gave it to three Houses back then.
Speaker 5: I do like that game a lot, But yeah, I
Speaker 5: think Soekaro would. That's like one of the few times
Speaker 5: we're like, oh, if I had played this game, then
Speaker 5: it would have straight up been my favorite game that year.
Speaker 3: I bet if Game of the Year is right now,
Speaker 3: I think Sectory would do better like it got on
Speaker 3: the top ten. But like I feel like, like grub
Speaker 3: you and I probably a lot higher on our personal list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it was number two of mine, so okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I forget.
Speaker 3: Where it was mine, but it would have been higher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, really good.
Speaker 3: I wish I finished Dispatch before that's.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I been like I wrote the book. I'm not finishing Ship,
Speaker 4: so I don't know.
Speaker 2: But you didn't finish the book though.
Speaker 4: It's still like still stuck in limbo, Google dog, it'll
Speaker 4: never get done.
Speaker 1: None of you said two point Museum? What's that?
Speaker 5: I didn't bring it up, but I played like thirty
Speaker 5: hours of two point Campus this week becomes my game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been playing a lot of that.
Speaker 3: Actually, well, how did you like it?
Speaker 2: It's a museum?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I talked about a little bit last week. It's
Speaker 5: still not as good as museum, but it's more two
Speaker 5: points and I'm just kind of chugging it down. Apparently,
Speaker 5: I just like this series.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm going to make a note I want
Speaker 3: to play two point Museum.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 2: It's like you're like it, yeah, I should do that.
Speaker 3: Were you making that note just like out loud or
Speaker 3: on my Google doc here? Yeah, dang out, that's probably keyboard, right,
Speaker 3: It's it's a keyboard. Mossing okay.
Speaker 2: Next email comes from Matt. Matt writ saying, Hey guys.
Speaker 2: On the last episode of The Dump Truck, Dan mentioned
Speaker 2: he once wanted some sort of scheme to win a
Speaker 2: million dollars and I think I may have come up
Speaker 2: with the best idea. Hell, we need to get Dan
Speaker 2: on the game show the Floor. His topic could be
Speaker 2: as simple as video games. Even if someone challenges him early,
Speaker 2: I think he would be good enough to somehow come
Speaker 2: out on top. When Dan ultimately comes out on top,
Speaker 2: it'd be the final piece of the puzzle for the
Speaker 2: movie about his life. It'd be an amalgamation of Forrest
Speaker 2: Gump and slum Dog Millionaire. So my question is, if
Speaker 2: Dan was to try and get on the show, what
Speaker 2: would his topic be and what would the eventual movie
Speaker 2: about his triumph be called? Thanks? How me on? I've
Speaker 2: never heard of the Floor.
Speaker 4: I think it's it's either Rob Low or like one
Speaker 4: of those people you could easily slot in.
Speaker 5: For immediately believe that it's Rob Low.
Speaker 1: And it's right.
Speaker 4: Like has like traps doors in it and trap doors
Speaker 4: in the floor. I don't know anything else. It seems
Speaker 4: like there's a board.
Speaker 1: The floor is a trivia game where eighty one contestants
Speaker 1: stand on a giant led floor on a square representing
Speaker 1: a category like horror movies or famous athletes. A random
Speaker 1: contestant challenges a neighboring opponent to a head to head
Speaker 1: quiz duel in the opponent's category. The winner takes control
Speaker 1: of the losers square, expanding their territory while the loser
Speaker 1: is eliminated.
Speaker 5: That's okay, you like, do you go in with your category?
Speaker 3: Is that you think?
Speaker 1: I think you have your category and that's like your defense,
Speaker 1: and then you challenge someone around you who you think
Speaker 1: you can beat them in their category? Is what it
Speaker 1: sounds like.
Speaker 5: So like I'd say, I go in with Disney Parks.
Speaker 5: That's great, obviously I'm going to be fine the first round.
Speaker 5: But then do I, like take over horror films? NOORI?
Speaker 5: I have to answer those questions.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's that's your question. I think you have to
Speaker 1: do you have to beat them in horror, horror games
Speaker 1: or horror films to take over their category. But once
Speaker 1: you do that, I think it's like now when someone
Speaker 1: challenges you, it's still yours.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I think it just expands your territory mic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I'm applying right now to be on it.
Speaker 5: Dance digars should be wrestling even more so than video games.
Speaker 3: I don't think so, because again I I like, I
Speaker 3: don't know anything about Japanese wrestling. I don't know anything
Speaker 3: about three North American companies don't know about either, right,
Speaker 3: I mean way more about games than I do wrestling. Okay,
Speaker 3: I would do if I got to pick, I would
Speaker 3: do video games for sure.
Speaker 2: We should all apply to this game show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, literally entering into the floor.
Speaker 5: Is it broadcast on a Disney that worked?
Speaker 1: By any chance that might help my chances?
Speaker 2: Yes, it's on Hulu.
Speaker 5: Oh well there you go. Then yeah, Dan will Dan
Speaker 5: will do video games in the show be called uh
Speaker 5: leave it to Danny.
Speaker 3: Okay, what do I put for an occupation? Podcaster? Self employed,
Speaker 3: business shower, game, content creator?
Speaker 5: Game?
Speaker 3: That just sounds like a guy with a YouTube channel.
Speaker 3: I never say content creator.
Speaker 4: Wow, it's amazing. Just look in the mirror, you know.
Speaker 2: Oh, I like, I like what Chad is saying, media mogul.
Speaker 3: Oh there, I'm gonna say games media personality. Okay, I
Speaker 3: think they'll like that.
Speaker 5: Okay, personality.
Speaker 2: We should we should get on the family feud. I
Speaker 2: think we will the family.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 4: That we were trying to show did family few last
Speaker 4: night and there was like a really problematic category.
Speaker 1: Really just a lot of every answer is penises.
Speaker 3: It was it just was it was like.
Speaker 2: Favorite thing you saw at CES twenty two something like
Speaker 2: I forget.
Speaker 4: What it was.
Speaker 1: It was something that was like worst things than I
Speaker 1: looked at each other like we have.
Speaker 4: To turn the fucking channel.
Speaker 1: We can't watch the family view together.
Speaker 4: That's what's happened.
Speaker 3: Oh the survey that I need to fill out to enter.
Speaker 3: What are you like when you play games? Are you
Speaker 3: a risk taker or do you play it safe so
Speaker 3: super competitive or just do it for the fun? Elaborate
Speaker 3: all right, yeah, super competitive but in a fun way.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of a stinker okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 3: know where to play the from the just.
Speaker 1: Watch this and then Mario party party and then.
Speaker 3: I have a ton of fun with it. But I
Speaker 3: definitely play to win, not in an aggressive way. I
Speaker 3: just have a lot of fun. Are these can a
Speaker 3: little stinker nose?
Speaker 2: Are all?
Speaker 1: Can?
Speaker 3: I'm typing?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: All right? Next email comes from Travis and Fargo Travis
Speaker 2: writes in five questions, I choose one of them. Travis
Speaker 2: writes in what's the most beautiful or astounding place in
Speaker 2: your state? California, It's Yosemite, Yosemite National Park. Oh, it's
Speaker 2: tough to beat, boy, I feel like you can say
Speaker 2: the sheets. Yeah, I mean there's some part there are
Speaker 2: some nice parts of how today. Oh yeah, there's two.
Speaker 1: Trying to remember the name of the place. There's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of great like rock Hawking Hills, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: Hockey Hills. Yeah, Hockey Hills is up there.
Speaker 5: Probably Hawking Hills, at least on this side of Ohio.
Speaker 5: I think there's some lake Erie short stuff that's that's
Speaker 5: you know, plenty nice.
Speaker 1: That thing is probably stuff in the Appalations, but no
Speaker 1: one goes there, not unless you want to be taken
Speaker 1: by the appellation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they're practically in West Virginia, so like look
Speaker 5: out right exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think it used to be in the Margaritaville, but
Speaker 5: they closed it in Cleveland.
Speaker 3: I never go too far from the Twin Cities. But
Speaker 3: it's like it's just like there's just a million really
Speaker 3: nice lakes. It's not like there's this one, Oh my god, vista.
Speaker 3: You have to see. It's just like there's a million,
Speaker 3: just really fucking nice lakes around here.
Speaker 2: Wait does the butter come from you, Dan?
Speaker 3: But Wisconsin, Wisconsin, there's no like Orlando lakes butter.
Speaker 1: Oh maybe no, Well, Wisconsin has a lot of lakes
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, you know the lake from here, right, yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 6: but that makes so much more sense. They didn't change
Speaker 6: the name when they went to LA.
Speaker 1: From base basketball where it's like the Lakers moved from
Speaker 1: Minnesota to LA where there are no lakes, and the
Speaker 1: jazz moved from Wherever to Utah where they don't allow music.
Speaker 2: Music.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very good.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen that movie in a while.
Speaker 4: Everything basically north to me is like sprawling mountains and
Speaker 4: like you would think you're in Vermont, like it's just
Speaker 4: that forever, ever and ever in Colorado.
Speaker 1: When I was in Denver, the most beautiful thing was
Speaker 1: walking out of the grocery store and seeing the rocky mountains.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's cool, all right. Moving on down the emails,
Speaker 2: John from Greece right said, high Bomb crew, I have
Speaker 2: a beautiful clear amber. Nick RG threety five x x H.
Speaker 2: In my New year's resolution is to play more retro games. Yes,
Speaker 2: right now I want to focus on one of the
Speaker 2: best handhelds of all time, the GBA. So far, my
Speaker 2: plan is to replay Final Fantasy Tactics Advance to try
Speaker 2: Fire Emblem the Blazing Blade for the first time. I
Speaker 2: would love to hear your recommendations. I don't care about
Speaker 2: genre of game. Just give me your top GVA picks.
Speaker 2: Please don't worry, I totally own all the games you
Speaker 2: will recommend. Thanks in advance. John from Greece. Yea, this
Speaker 2: is my favorite platform warrior ware. Sure Stuntman is surprisingly
Speaker 2: good on there.
Speaker 1: I always make play it.
Speaker 5: Metroit Fusion for Sure is also very good on gb Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the astro Boy game is very good.
Speaker 1: Oh yes it is.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah's good. Both Marios sports games Tennis and golf
Speaker 5: on advance are a ton of fun. Mega Man Battle Network.
Speaker 5: If you haven't played like the remasters.
Speaker 1: Drill Dozer Rot up recently great game. Absolutely try to
Speaker 1: actually try to track down real one of those. But
Speaker 1: it's expensive now, but you get the rumble. I guess
Speaker 1: you cold probably emulate the run, don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Klonoa Yeah, games, maybe two of them, but they're
Speaker 5: very good on g B A.
Speaker 3: Actually, the Advance Wars games are fantastic.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah on one and two if you're looking
Speaker 5: for traditional turn base, if you're looking for something a
Speaker 5: bit sillier, but maybe even Petter Marian Luigi Superstar.
Speaker 2: Saga is one of Yeah. Mega Man Zero games are also.
Speaker 3: Zero Caslvania games, Yes, is actually on game Boy Advance.
Speaker 5: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater two on g B A, Yes,
Speaker 5: actually an amazing version three as well, But yeah, two
Speaker 5: and three on there are great.
Speaker 2: I love actually the Zelda game. I think the Sonic
Speaker 2: Advanced games are very good, so if you're a fan
Speaker 2: of Sonic check those out as well.
Speaker 1: I was really good. I've got to port recently to switch,
Speaker 1: but worth checking out.
Speaker 2: Lizzie McGuire is a good game. I think Corey in
Speaker 2: the House. I think that's for the DS. Never mind, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that might be the DS. Yeah, a lot. You can't
Speaker 2: go wrong on the g BA.
Speaker 3: Turns out it's also like the analog pocket like all
Speaker 3: those like you know, retor hand held and stuff. G
Speaker 3: BA just pops on it like those.
Speaker 5: Like I Goku games were actually pretty fun, like Zelda ish.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, no, no, those are very good. Those
Speaker 2: are very good.
Speaker 1: Car Battle or Joe play that one.
Speaker 2: That's a good one Car Battle or Joe. Oh the
Speaker 2: meta bots games those are.
Speaker 5: All yeah, there's I love, like just how many games
Speaker 5: have weird, surprisingly competent isometric versions on g b A,
Speaker 5: like like Max Pain it's like a g b A
Speaker 5: game that's yeah, like the Two Towers Return of the King.
Speaker 5: Games that are basically Dioblo likes are actually pretty good.
Speaker 3: M H is playing that Unbound and that sounds very impressive.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah that ship is that should? It sounds really
Speaker 3: yea god?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think I pitched a long, long time ago game
Speaker 2: Boy at Chance, and I just played a bunch of
Speaker 2: GBA games like alright. Two more emails. This one comes
Speaker 2: from Tyler from Baltimore. Hey, Bombers, I think twenty seven
Speaker 2: year old listener. One of my favorite parts of your
Speaker 2: show is hearing about games that were before my time
Speaker 2: but clearly had a big impact on you. Chief. If
Speaker 2: each of you could prescribe one game for Zoomers to play,
Speaker 2: what would it be and why? Ps two generation are older? AboutUs? Points?
Speaker 2: If it's playable on modern consoles or PC Tyler from Baltimore.
Speaker 4: Well, I was gonna say a Shadow of the Colosses.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Slovenia Symphony of the Night.
Speaker 5: More of you should all play grim fan Dango.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh sure, here here's a wild One, ray Gar
Speaker 2: for the PS two or ry Gar for.
Speaker 3: The NES Yeah, Bloomers, Twisted Metal Blast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't have a lot of car combat games.
Speaker 5: Anymore, Final Fantasy specifically.
Speaker 2: Uh, or guys, God Bless the Ring, Embracer Type four
Speaker 2: god gaming altered games.
Speaker 4: Think about cool borders all the time.
Speaker 3: PS one it's never good.
Speaker 5: But yeah, just gonna tell you how it's as good
Speaker 5: as ten eighty.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely cool. Board has always disappointed me from this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those games aren't good.
Speaker 3: Why are we talking about anything?
Speaker 1: Well, tricks is great. It's the trickies. I love tricky.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, uh, Tyler, you should actually play if
Speaker 2: you wind up liking middle Gear Solid or you're a
Speaker 2: fan of Kojima and you haven't checked out Zone of
Speaker 2: the Enders, play Zone of the Enders. God JAHOUDI just
Speaker 2: sounded hell of an incredible word, Mike, Do you have
Speaker 2: the email document in front of you?
Speaker 5: The email documented from me?
Speaker 2: Yes, I do the run of show. Could you read
Speaker 2: this last email?
Speaker 5: Yes, dear jan please say SIV seven and the six
Speaker 5: to seven Cadence Brandon from Alabama, can you say it?
Speaker 5: Oh me, you want me to do it. That's why,
Speaker 5: that's why you have to do it. Well, said dear John.
Speaker 2: I'll do it.
Speaker 5: I'll do it.
Speaker 3: CIV seven.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: I got it.
Speaker 2: And folks that does it for emails, BombCast giant bomb
Speaker 2: dot com send your emails in thank you to any
Speaker 2: and everyone that sends an email. Mikey hit me with
Speaker 2: some super chats if we got it.
Speaker 5: You got a couple. I saw some people say they're
Speaker 5: having trouble getting them through, but a couple got through
Speaker 5: here now please, they says, congrats them being absolum in
Speaker 5: one attempt. What was your favorite part of the story,
Speaker 5: Pis It was a credle watching you guys just mash
Speaker 5: through the final boss's dialogue.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it is like a whole monologue prepared that.
Speaker 1: You guys are just killing just to take care of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's dead. We were there to beat him.
Speaker 1: We did.
Speaker 2: What about last words?
Speaker 5: Cool?
Speaker 2: Yeah you was your father?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great words.
Speaker 5: In my opinion, you guys all right every time and
Speaker 5: your pants says, if you can own a prop from
Speaker 5: any movie or f m V game, what would you get?
Speaker 5: I think were we told that they still have quant
Speaker 5: Chi's thrown at their realm from dream.
Speaker 3: You streaming from Quantchi's Thrown to be incredible that I
Speaker 3: mind exactly the mcgroober notebook.
Speaker 4: Oh sure, sure someone's made that.
Speaker 3: Uh already made a one to one replica of it basically,
Speaker 3: But I want the original one.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh, I don't know if you could have that.
Speaker 5: I mean it's like, you know, like the hover board
Speaker 5: from Back to Future two is a pretty big and.
Speaker 1: They sell that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but like I want the one right, Yeah, they
Speaker 4: are not just like stealing the props from the movie.
Speaker 1: But I mean, is it the question if you could
Speaker 1: have anything?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't think he's asking like what do we
Speaker 1: want for our birthdays?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: He's okay, fair.
Speaker 4: Enough, fair enough?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have this, like I have this secretly three
Speaker 5: D printed vial, but if I had the real one,
Speaker 5: that'd be cool.
Speaker 2: I want Keno's moped from TM two. They're going to
Speaker 2: start delivering pizzas. Yeah, it's salting livid, just like I.
Speaker 4: I should have four hundred answers to this, and I
Speaker 4: can't think of anything I want.
Speaker 1: I want Tim Curry, Curry's outfit from the Command of Concrete,
Speaker 1: Yeah all the time.
Speaker 5: Would you want Donnie's Folgers ashes a cup thing?
Speaker 3: That's good?
Speaker 4: Oh that's funny.
Speaker 3: What about the Mill Murray ball with a hand in
Speaker 3: it from king Pin the Rose? He loses his hand, Yeah,
Speaker 3: don't put the hand in the ball.
Speaker 4: Woody Housen loses his prosthetic hand in the ball. But
Speaker 4: Ernie McCracken bowls with a crystal ball with a rose embedded.
Speaker 3: Okay, oh, yep, I'm looking at it now. Yep, Okay,
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, probably made about it. It's kind of actually fantastic. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it probably made replicas. But I would love a speed
Speaker 7: racer helmet. I've been thinking about the Wakowski movie a lot.
Speaker 1: It's good.
Speaker 2: Need s a banger?
Speaker 3: Oh, I know what I want.
Speaker 4: I want the z F one gun from Fifth Element.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's great.
Speaker 5: Held from Rocketeer.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, hell yeah. Grub is there like
Speaker 2: a Star Wars related thing you'd want?
Speaker 1: I don't like. I've had plenty of years now, to
Speaker 1: I get like a replically lightsaber, and it's never been
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Did you do the thing at like Galax's Edge where
Speaker 5: you make a lightsaber?
Speaker 1: No, we did the droids instead. Yeah, the cooler, right,
Speaker 1: I'll do the lightsaber ones next time I'm there. But
Speaker 1: we did the droids with the kids and that was
Speaker 1: that was fantastic. They like spent the next forty five
Speaker 1: minutes just playing with those. They have like a little
Speaker 1: pad across the street where you can get them out
Speaker 1: and move them around because they're radio controlled. We had
Speaker 1: a lot of fun doing that. But uh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I I like the like the really dumb stuff,
Speaker 1: So like anything that like references and in world like
Speaker 1: company would be cool, or even like the like brass
Speaker 1: dice that Don Solo had for some reason that the
Speaker 1: end of Last Jedi, because oh, because they were gonna
Speaker 1: like make a big deal about it being in Solo.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's really fucking dumb.
Speaker 3: I would like that. I think.
Speaker 5: I think one of the planet Hollywood's had like the
Speaker 5: giant like wax figure of the naked Sylvester Stallone from
Speaker 5: a demolition Man hanging in its rafters I think I
Speaker 5: would just have that just hanging above me in my
Speaker 5: office at all the time. So I'm doing this, you
Speaker 5: know what's up?
Speaker 1: Taco orangs? Got it? If I could just have hobbitant
Speaker 1: just the.
Speaker 5: You know what, the one rig or something could be
Speaker 5: what the town of Hobbited, I'll just live in a
Speaker 5: hobbit hole.
Speaker 1: Would that be to scale to you grubs from because
Speaker 1: the one that they built that's still there that you
Speaker 1: can visit is to human scale, So they could. I
Speaker 1: think it might even there's probably some of them that
Speaker 1: are like bigger, so that like people look small when
Speaker 1: they're in there.
Speaker 5: But yeah, absolutely they apparently Red Letter Media owns the
Speaker 5: Sylvesters the love thing by the way.
Speaker 1: They good for them. They deserve it.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's nice. And Tym Morale says that they couldn't
Speaker 5: send a super chat but they said something via KOFE
Speaker 5: if if I don't know if we can easily access
Speaker 5: the coke tick out this.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 5: There you go, don't worry where Dan is on it.
Speaker 4: Oh that's a good idea, Dan Fiasco one of the
Speaker 4: poison green balls from the rock that like as anam on.
Speaker 3: Your Christmas tree. That would be incredible.
Speaker 2: Yes, I just want Willem Dafoe from Spider Man one.
Speaker 3: You just want the actor will It's just to like
Speaker 3: yell at me, I have the Antoni moreles One says
Speaker 3: if Nintendo releases an anime, can we finally get Waifu?
Speaker 3: Episode two? Also update on tall clothing merch Master also
Speaker 3: also how about then Bear's good better best?
Speaker 5: You guys don't want anything to do with a wife
Speaker 5: Fu episode, right, don't worry about that. That's something Jeff
Speaker 5: and I did on our show, and it was it's.
Speaker 1: Become sort of notorious. At this point, we don't We
Speaker 1: can't try background again.
Speaker 5: I mean again about the tall clothes, like, there might
Speaker 5: not be too much I can do. Like the way
Speaker 5: the store works is that we could pick from a
Speaker 5: selection of clothing that the supplier has available and then
Speaker 5: put designs onto that. So I'll check again to see
Speaker 5: if they have any special tall options. But a lot
Speaker 5: like like with that and with like larger sizes, a
Speaker 5: lot of times they just don't have any or like
Speaker 5: so few that when we sell five of them, we
Speaker 5: start getting like order things coming in, like oh no,
Speaker 5: we ran out of that. Actually, got to go tell
Speaker 5: those people.
Speaker 1: Now that we don't have them, Well, we were always
Speaker 1: looking at potential new vendors and stuff like that. We'll
Speaker 1: see if that's an option in the future, but right
Speaker 1: now it.
Speaker 2: Is front of mine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, as soon here I have to do another store refresh,
Speaker 5: so I'll take a look.
Speaker 1: So that Bears game just it was incredible. Did they win?
Speaker 1: They were down eighteen points, it was like twenty one
Speaker 1: to three or something like that, and they beat the
Speaker 1: Packers and just kind of embarrassed them. It was it
Speaker 1: was amazing, and that's the Packers got what they deserve.
Speaker 1: So I'm rooting for the Bears now, even as a
Speaker 1: Lions fan, which sucks, but here we are.
Speaker 4: I would I want Peewee's bike from Peewe's Adventures.
Speaker 5: It's rough one. A lot of your favorite films are animated,
Speaker 5: at least the two d Ones. I guess I could
Speaker 5: like ask for an animation cell. But if it was
Speaker 5: like a CG movie, like what do I want? Like
Speaker 5: the processor from the computer I got?
Speaker 1: Don't kind of actually kind of.
Speaker 5: It's a fun game to play, by the way. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the Morphers from the Power Rangers movie.
Speaker 2: Oh that's good.
Speaker 1: I love that plastic Hardshell Power Rangers costumes from the movie.
Speaker 5: Oh god, they had those on this They had as
Speaker 5: I think one of those on display in Hollywood studios
Speaker 5: and Dismal for a long time. I really the Planet
Speaker 5: Hollywood store that there. I think that's right, and they
Speaker 5: always looked cool. I remember the first song I was
Speaker 5: in a Planet Hollywood. The idea that like, to me,
Speaker 5: I was like, this is irresponsible that they have these
Speaker 5: prompts just here. They need to be like locked up.
Speaker 5: These are too precious.
Speaker 1: These were in a movie that was the biggest deal ever.
Speaker 5: I couldn't believe that. I was just, you know, eating
Speaker 5: right next to the freaking battle ring from you familiar spaghetti.
Speaker 1: Sauce on it. Yeah, this is dangerous.
Speaker 3: Look out.
Speaker 4: I've wont something from Wayne's World to.
Speaker 3: The guitar, the gun rack, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: An oh, you know what the penis pump from Austin.
Speaker 1: Pound Swedish penis and larger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, well, just get the car, the morphobile
Speaker 3: or whatever car, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Alan Rickman's alien headprop from Galaxy Question. It's
Speaker 1: a good.
Speaker 5: Oh god, it's all ripped up and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just wearing it all day without even remembering that movie.
Speaker 5: God got a little Kexy Quist's what a freaking movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the book, Austin Powers writes about the penis and
Speaker 3: larger pump. That's my bag, baby, Mikey anymore, super chest.
Speaker 3: I think we're good.
Speaker 5: I think we're good.
Speaker 2: Actually, now, all right, thank you to everyone sent a YouTube,
Speaker 2: super chat and gang. What do we got going on
Speaker 2: for the rest of the week. Games Mornings popping off Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mikey's definitely be Larry tomorrow.
Speaker 2: It's it's gonna I don't know.
Speaker 5: I've got this whole Titanic or by Tannic with a
Speaker 5: y thing to get through. No one knows what it means,
Speaker 5: so I do we do.
Speaker 3: It's just bad. It's not even a joke.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I do all by Like, there's one costume
Speaker 5: slot I don't have yet, and I'm hoping it's like
Speaker 5: a reward for being the game and forgetting all the trophies.
Speaker 5: It better not be indicating a fourth movie sequence.
Speaker 2: It's gonna lose my mind.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, I can't take much more, fella, So I'm
Speaker 5: gonna starting out. I swear to God, I can't this
Speaker 5: fucking I tire of this, Larry is leisure.
Speaker 2: Voicemail, dumb truck popping off on Thursday as per you,
Speaker 2: and then unprofessional Fridays Friday afternoon as well. We mentioned
Speaker 2: at the tippy Top there's a big Hops review on
Speaker 2: the website written by Chuck Towski, who also built the
Speaker 2: new website. And then folks, a little bit of housekeeping.
Speaker 2: We are taking Martin Luther King Day Martin Luther King
Speaker 2: Junior Day off next Monday, so missed will be moved
Speaker 2: to a different day. No game miss mornings that day.
Speaker 2: Mega man, I don't know, Mike, you do whatever you want,
Speaker 2: Mega Man. There we go. I was gonna say, you
Speaker 2: could maybe just watch the children's film Martin, where everyone
Speaker 2: goes back in time with a young Martin Luther King.
Speaker 2: I thought that shit was a bang ad.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about the show Martin, which I like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's I was, Yeah, That's what I.
Speaker 1: Was thinking of to I remember seen this movie.
Speaker 2: Oh, I also like the show Martin Gang. Anything else
Speaker 2: I forgot or anything else we want to talk about
Speaker 2: before we get on out of here now?
Speaker 1: No good?
Speaker 2: All right, okay, fantastic John bomb dot Com slash go
Speaker 2: help Chuck with the wiki and hey, you know, resist,
Speaker 2: just keep resisting out there, gang, stay safe as well.
Speaker 2: We love you. That's been the show.
Speaker 1: He's been Jeff, and he's been Jeff.
Speaker 2: He's the Mike, he's but Dan.
Speaker 1: I've been Jean and you at home.
Speaker 3: Slump show going on over there.
Speaker 2: Look at you?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 3: What that bang do?
Speaker 5: Oh my god,