Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday. Welcome to the Giant Bomb Cast.
Speaker 1: I am your host today, Mike Minnaughty and it may
Speaker 1: no longer be a time for golf, but it is
Speaker 1: as always still a time for video games. And helping
Speaker 1: me navigate the choppy waters of the video game world
Speaker 1: is an excellent crew of a fellow goobers Game Goobers.
Speaker 1: All we can rebrand a game goobers. I bet that's
Speaker 1: I'll take a gamegoobers dot com. Someone look into it.
Speaker 1: I get co kept co capt to this ship. Still
Speaker 1: I have not thrown him overboard. Jeff Grub, how's it going.
Speaker 2: I'm happy to be here, Mike, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: It's not golf week, but it's still a week, so
Speaker 2: we still.
Speaker 3: Have to do this.
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, that's right, and it's always a good
Speaker 1: week for Dan. He seems very excited about gameen Goober
Speaker 1: is Dan Riker? What is the story about game goobers, folks?
Speaker 3: I don't even know if I should say this loud,
Speaker 3: because somebody's gonna coach it. Gamegoobers dot Com is eighteen
Speaker 3: dollars and ninety nine cents and available. What yeah, got
Speaker 3: somebody by game goopers. We knew game goobers. Somebody get
Speaker 3: game goobers, and he us I mean as in somebody.
Speaker 1: He is the biggest goober I know. In fact, I
Speaker 1: bet the G on his hat stands for goober, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Jeff Becklaw, you got it.
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a shirt. I'm wearing a shirt. I'm wearing
Speaker 1: a hat that says G for goober, goofy goober.
Speaker 3: That's me.
Speaker 1: I'm a big SpongeBob guy and I love goofy goobers.
Speaker 1: There's like a fourth or fifth I lost track SpongeBob
Speaker 1: movie coming out. There's a big billboard four at the theater.
Speaker 1: And the reason I kind of see it is because
Speaker 1: in front of it is a new teenage beat Ninja
Speaker 1: Turtle short based off that newer movie. And it's a
Speaker 1: Christmas special, and I think it might secretly be a
Speaker 1: sequel to that live action Christmas special that they did
Speaker 1: that I do a caroling play stage version of with
Speaker 1: my friends every Christmas. Yes, we know that.
Speaker 4: I would be very excited for you if this was
Speaker 4: We're happy for you an unspoken sequel to that Christmas
Speaker 4: Ninja Turtle situation.
Speaker 1: Well, it's also a reference to home Alone bakalar. It's
Speaker 1: like it's called like Loston, New Jersey or something like that.
Speaker 1: It's called home alone or Chrome Alone two. Chrome Alone
Speaker 1: two is the name of the short. So they're doing
Speaker 1: some home alone shin it. Yeah, I see you googling.
Speaker 1: It's about the turtles down across the river. The one
Speaker 1: teaser trailer immediately has a chat GBT jokes, so that's
Speaker 1: a little bit like, Okay, I guess, I guess you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen year olds are probably using chat GBT O.
Speaker 2: Probably sure, probably they're doing that more than they're talking
Speaker 2: to their parents.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, see, I don't I know very little about
Speaker 1: the current teenager situation. I've got nephews and nieces that
Speaker 1: are good like ranges toddler to ten uh, and then
Speaker 1: I have, you know, a bunch of friends that are
Speaker 1: my age in between. Then I really don't know what
Speaker 1: humanity is up to.
Speaker 3: We know it's I think it's better that way. Mike
Speaker 3: honestly like he's not knowing because every time that door
Speaker 3: is like I was trying to explain the six to
Speaker 3: seven thing to Bonk recently, and it's just like, as
Speaker 3: these words are coming out of my mouth, like I'm
Speaker 3: mad that I know this. You know things that I
Speaker 3: don't know why these those numbers are important.
Speaker 1: We can't we can't do this. Yeah, we just can't
Speaker 1: do this.
Speaker 3: Good. It's not good.
Speaker 4: You're you know, you're either in the club or you're not.
Speaker 4: And we know where you guys stand. We get it, okay.
Speaker 1: I know I'm usually talking about how movies are mid
Speaker 1: and I don't see many movies.
Speaker 3: I saw two movies this weekend. You were you were
Speaker 3: saddened about the loss of Diane Keaton's You're Going Back?
Speaker 3: You know it was Godfather and Annie Hall And right, yeah, that.
Speaker 1: Wasn't a joke. I posted at our discord. I'd like,
Speaker 1: looked at her filmography and I'm like, I know, this
Speaker 1: is a very famous person, and I I know Diane
Speaker 1: Keaton is if I see Die movies and O God
Speaker 1: movies from her philmography, I think I've ever seen our Look.
Speaker 3: Who's talking now, I think she's the voice of one
Speaker 3: of the.
Speaker 1: Dogs and then finding Dorry and I assume she's just
Speaker 1: the voice of like I don't know, the a dolphin
Speaker 1: or something that was actually I.
Speaker 3: Mean the oscars in Memoria Montage is just gonna be
Speaker 3: a look. Who's talking now and finding I've never seen
Speaker 3: Annie Hall. No, I never saw anything.
Speaker 1: I've never seen Godfather, so I've never seen her in
Speaker 1: a live action movie.
Speaker 3: I never saw Father of the Bride.
Speaker 1: I think I saw the end of Father on the
Speaker 1: Bride on like TV and at Disney Hotel.
Speaker 3: Is a very different, very different motion picture. He saw
Speaker 3: that on a streaming platform online.
Speaker 1: It's like Farmer on the Dale exactly. It's exactly that.
Speaker 1: Tell me more about Lost in New Jersey, Mike, maybe
Speaker 1: a pivot back to that.
Speaker 3: I saw tron aries.
Speaker 1: Mon No, never of so much people, I mean on
Speaker 1: a movie. I'll tell you what, my incredibly low expectations
Speaker 1: helped me not absolutely hate it.
Speaker 3: I suppose cool sounds great.
Speaker 1: Do you have thoughts on Jared leto Mike, do you
Speaker 1: have a v once again? This might be the first
Speaker 1: thing I've seen him in?
Speaker 3: And what else would I seen him in? Blade Runner?
Speaker 3: I mean Million Club? Okay, get which I like?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I do. Like you didn't see Morbius, You're mister Morbius.
Speaker 1: I didn't see Morbius or that first suicide squad. That's okay,
Speaker 1: that's understandable.
Speaker 3: Heat see for a Dream.
Speaker 1: But the once, the one semester I was a film
Speaker 1: major they made me watch that. That was a sad movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, I'll tell.
Speaker 1: You nobody, nobody, nobody had a happy idea of that one.
Speaker 3: Well maybe maybe that one rich guy but a perverse
Speaker 3: gat time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a weird movie to watch if you have
Speaker 1: a crush on Jennifer Connolly because of the rocketeer. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: we haven't reasons Yeah, oh no, rocketeers a great reason.
Speaker 3: Never actually pop gun Maverick is that's sure?
Speaker 1: Yeah whatever, Yeah, she said some kind of movie in
Speaker 1: the nineties where she's just in like a Walmart or
Speaker 1: a target for like a long period of time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she rides the horse.
Speaker 1: We you know, because that reminds me of the other
Speaker 1: movie I saw, which was roof Man, which is an
Speaker 1: actual good movie that was just unequivocally a good time
Speaker 1: with Channing Tatum and Kristen Dunst in it. I liked
Speaker 1: that quite a lot.
Speaker 2: Roof Man is the movie they're doing the thing where
Speaker 2: if you go to an Alamo draft house and show
Speaker 2: your ID and it says Jeff, you get to see
Speaker 2: the movie for free.
Speaker 1: Because Channing Tatum.
Speaker 2: Is apologizing to all Jeffs for the my name Jeff
Speaker 2: from that damn twenty one Jump Street movie. So they
Speaker 2: did a whole deal. Like his character in this movie
Speaker 2: is also called Jeff, but like this is an apology
Speaker 2: to Jeff's so bad you could go on a date.
Speaker 3: We should go see it. Yeah, I'm not gonna work.
Speaker 3: We should get our reparations.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's about time. I don't I don't know if
Speaker 4: I have one of those theaters near me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I didn't. I didn't Denver.
Speaker 1: It was awesome, but the only time I ever been
Speaker 1: to one was I think LA when we saw god
Speaker 1: Zilla minus one, when Dan fell asleep during the movie.
Speaker 3: Which never ever happens. It's happened twice in my life.
Speaker 3: It happened there, and it happened in the Killers of
Speaker 3: the Flower Moon again. The guy who admonishes me because
Speaker 3: I will look.
Speaker 6: At it, Etra Butter, we literally just got done with
Speaker 6: our stage show and all that exhaustion of the whole week,
Speaker 6: and we go to a theater and that's why I
Speaker 6: fell asleep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you just don't respect cineba like I do.
Speaker 1: I saw the Two movies, including the New Tron How
Speaker 1: about you all, would you get up to anything first week?
Speaker 1: And Jeff, you were traveling, Yeah, yeah, I was. I
Speaker 1: was telling you before that. I it was kind of
Speaker 1: a bummer.
Speaker 3: INDI Now.
Speaker 1: We went to the Toledo Zoo. It was great.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: We did a red panda thing where it's like we
Speaker 2: got there early and they let us go in there
Speaker 2: and feed the red panda. We got to feed them
Speaker 2: cranberries and the kids are having the great time and
Speaker 2: steps it's their favorite animal.
Speaker 3: It was for her birthday.
Speaker 2: So we did that and I'm filming the whole thing
Speaker 2: with my new Dji Osmo Pocket three and get all
Speaker 2: kinds of great stuff. And then at somewhere in like
Speaker 2: the last five minutes of that trip, I lost it.
Speaker 2: And I cannot find my pictures cameras. It's devastating. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I've just been bummed out ever since. I'm constantly on
Speaker 2: the phone with the zoo seeing if they found it.
Speaker 2: And uh, I like, I'm like about to just be like, hey,
Speaker 2: if if you just can you put up signs and
Speaker 2: say I'll give like two hundred dollars just for the
Speaker 2: SD card.
Speaker 3: I just want the pictures. I just want the movies.
Speaker 1: I know this is about emotional value, but do you
Speaker 1: think this is hurting your walk more than when I
Speaker 1: went to the Zoo and accidentally won those two auctions
Speaker 1: for those signed photos of pricing pretty close?
Speaker 3: I might have HD out there a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we keep losing money at zoo. Zoos are bad luck.
Speaker 1: For Giant Bomb. I think we're finding you.
Speaker 3: Suggest buy the Zoo.
Speaker 2: Clearly the only option we have here to buy the Zoom,
Speaker 2: our solutions.
Speaker 4: Everything cannot be buying it. We did this already a year.
Speaker 3: No, it's a lot company. Yeah, okay, sure, what's that
Speaker 3: going for?
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's for sale.
Speaker 3: The price.
Speaker 1: Fellas Xbox, that'll go great. I'm sorry about that, buddy,
Speaker 1: but you had a good time though.
Speaker 3: You know me. Here are what's important?
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, for sure, it's we just we took fewer
Speaker 1: pictures because I was getting everything on there and it's stuff.
Speaker 4: I don't want to unpack this more than it needs
Speaker 4: to be. But like rub it in, what do you think?
Speaker 4: What do you think happened?
Speaker 2: I think that uh it got I was carrying it
Speaker 2: because I didn't want to lose it, so I had
Speaker 2: in my hand the whole time, and then at the
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, we are going to
Speaker 2: the gift shop, and I think I set it down
Speaker 2: to go help one of the kids with with something
Speaker 2: some i'thing about to pay, and I think I was
Speaker 2: setting down various things, like they're like they had a
Speaker 2: drink and I think I set that down in the
Speaker 2: drink down and I went and dealt with that and
Speaker 2: came back and picked the drink up and just left
Speaker 2: it there.
Speaker 1: I think it's just like and it blends in with shit.
Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, exactly, it was just there on the
Speaker 2: and like, you know, now I'm holding even more stuff
Speaker 2: because we just bought a bunch of stuff. So I
Speaker 2: think I just my brain was like, now I have
Speaker 2: everything in my hands and good to go.
Speaker 3: I think that's what happened.
Speaker 1: Any number of other It could have fell out of
Speaker 1: my pocket, it could have been somewhere else, but it
Speaker 1: definitely was near the end of the day, which is
Speaker 1: especially frustrating an animal not it, at least I honestly,
Speaker 1: that would be the I would love that best case
Speaker 1: scenario and animal gets it and we find it in
Speaker 1: like five years in a cage.
Speaker 4: Lodged in a lions esophagus is more exactly right, because
Speaker 4: it's like it's it's shitty to imagine that somebody did
Speaker 4: just like see it and took it instead of sending
Speaker 4: it to Loss and Found, which I guess you know,
Speaker 4: of course that happens, but of course it happens. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think it happens more than well, I don't know,
Speaker 4: what do you think the I.
Speaker 1: Think it's about fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3: Guess many fifty. It killed me as a kid. I
Speaker 3: was at Worlds of Fun, which is like our six Flags,
Speaker 3: and at the time, I was like, my dad was
Speaker 3: really trying to give me in a baseball and for
Speaker 3: some reason I picked the Atlanta Braves were my team.
Speaker 3: And I was obsessed with the Braves and Dave Justice
Speaker 3: and Ron Gant and all this stuff. And there's one
Speaker 3: of the pitching games a World's Fun, where you pitched
Speaker 3: twice and it tells you miles per hour and you
Speaker 3: guess the next one. And I guessed it and I won,
Speaker 3: and they gave me like an Atlanta Braves batting a
Speaker 3: hat and I was wearing it around. My favorite thing
Speaker 3: in the world we get on the timber Wolf, the
Speaker 3: roller coaster, they make you take it off and put
Speaker 3: it in the cubby. By the time it was down,
Speaker 3: the thing was gone. Somebody had just like taken it
Speaker 3: and like no loss and found no way to get it,
Speaker 3: and just like oh, just the highs of like oh
Speaker 3: my god, I won this thing to like yeah gone.
Speaker 3: Now yeah.
Speaker 1: The feeling mm hmm, I find it.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I hope I.
Speaker 1: Just get I hope I get a call during this podcast.
Speaker 3: I would just leave you all and go deal with that.
Speaker 3: That's fair enough.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe back Lard Dan had a more uplifting weekend.
Speaker 1: They can balance things out here.
Speaker 3: About a car, Well, about a car you bought it, Yeah,
Speaker 3: well it's going to be here in like six weeks,
Speaker 3: but we bought it and ordered it. What kind of car?
Speaker 3: Yeah I got. I got a hybrid. I got a
Speaker 3: super cross track hybrid. It's coming in in a little bit.
Speaker 3: So I drove around. Never did a hybrid thing before.
Speaker 3: I kind of learned. Well, I mean, back Lar, I've
Speaker 3: driven your car. I don't know if that was a
Speaker 3: hybrid or fully electric fully electric okay, but yeah, the
Speaker 3: breaking thing that like regenerative whatever, like charging the battery
Speaker 3: as you do that, so you don't need to like
Speaker 3: get the stuff in your house. You don't have to
Speaker 3: worry about it. Like it runs on gas over like
Speaker 3: eleven miles per hour or something. So I don't know
Speaker 3: kind of looking forward to it's not like an suv
Speaker 3: or anything. What's a little higher up than.
Speaker 4: Our It's like a mid It's like halfway there, right,
Speaker 4: it's like a it's crossover.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's higher up than like the President everything.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know. I liked it. Like we've
Speaker 3: had that super roup since twenty twenty and it seems
Speaker 3: good and people seem like super routes.
Speaker 1: So good job. That was not everyone's buying a car.
Speaker 1: How did you do it? You just go in and
Speaker 1: be like all right, I'm not going to let anyone
Speaker 1: toss me around.
Speaker 3: Not gonna get buffalo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how'd you ensure that?
Speaker 3: I mean I did completely just fall for a marketing
Speaker 3: thing and that they sent us a thing in the mail.
Speaker 3: This is like, hey, Dan, we're here at the super
Speaker 3: roop place and got some people that are really interested
Speaker 3: in the twenty twenty super U you want to come
Speaker 3: in trade it in or whatever, And like I recognize
Speaker 3: it as like, oh they want to me to buy
Speaker 3: a new super brew. Sure, then we realize, like, this's
Speaker 3: for like five years, it's not gonna be worth It's
Speaker 3: just gonna lose value as we go on, so might
Speaker 3: as well bump it up a little bit. So it
Speaker 3: was a marketing thing that was not I don't feel
Speaker 3: like I got buffaloed. I think it just got me
Speaker 3: thinking about upgrading and trading in. It seemed like a
Speaker 3: good time to do it.
Speaker 1: So I mean, yeah, you got the market of the
Speaker 1: advertising work it did, but I don't think I was.
Speaker 3: It was a bad idea.
Speaker 1: But buffalo buffaloed is when you get taken advantage of.
Speaker 1: Is that what?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, when you go to like and so my
Speaker 3: grandpad always sa if you went to like a car
Speaker 3: dealership or whatever to get like you just need to
Speaker 3: get your oil change, and they tell you like, oh,
Speaker 3: you should probably get this and this and this and
Speaker 3: this and this, and like upsell you on a bunch
Speaker 3: of stuff you don't need. That's getting buffaloed. So always
Speaker 3: in the service of.
Speaker 1: You own the last car or you're releasing.
Speaker 3: It owned it? Yeah, nice, yeah.
Speaker 1: Cool, good job.
Speaker 4: Wait to be Yeah, we don't have to unpack the
Speaker 4: specifics because I don't want you to find out live
Speaker 4: on this podcast as you got buffaloed.
Speaker 3: So I think there's stun be good though, right, We
Speaker 3: did some research and talk to people. No, super is
Speaker 3: a great car.
Speaker 1: I had a Forester for many years.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, look at those two. Yeah right, Mike.
Speaker 1: I got a COVID shot yesterday.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right.
Speaker 1: I feel terrible today. My kid my did got one too.
Speaker 4: And the nurse we sit down, and you know, Dibb's young,
Speaker 4: he's not a fan of shots.
Speaker 1: Who is at that age? Who is that all?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: One, right, It's a relatively painless thing for the most part,
Speaker 1: and he was a little nervous. So the nurse applying
Speaker 1: the performing the vaccinations starts telling sees it the little nut.
Speaker 1: He's a little squirmy, let's call it that.
Speaker 4: And she goes, don't worry. Whatever happens, it can't be
Speaker 4: worse than the couple, than the family that was here
Speaker 4: about three hours ago.
Speaker 1: I said, tell me about this family from three hours ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta know.
Speaker 1: She goes, well, it was a six year old and
Speaker 1: eight year old and a ten year old, and the
Speaker 1: six year old got the shot immediately threw up and
Speaker 1: then the eight year old passed out, and then the
Speaker 1: ten year old threw up all over me on the floor.
Speaker 3: Oh to throw up sandwich.
Speaker 1: And Dylan's just like, no, why are.
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: Like he looked at me.
Speaker 1: He's just like, what's wrong with this lady?
Speaker 3: Did you see the color leave his face? And he's
Speaker 3: just like what like?
Speaker 4: And I go, I said, oh cool. Now he knows
Speaker 4: that puking is an option here, he knows that's on
Speaker 4: the table. Uh No, he took it like a champ.
Speaker 4: It was all good. He feels fine today. Stacy feels
Speaker 4: fine today. For whatever reason, whenever I get this thing, man,
Speaker 4: I feel like dog shit. Yeah, not progressively better over
Speaker 4: the years, but I feel bad today.
Speaker 1: Interesting, I probably should get Yeah, I probably should get mine.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've been feeling worse for some reason
Speaker 1: each time I get one. I don't know why, but
Speaker 1: each time it hits me harder than it used to.
Speaker 1: I really need to, though, because like my crones, medicines
Speaker 1: are you know, stuff that is supposed to actually suppress
Speaker 1: my immune system, because that's what like the crones is,
Speaker 1: is my immune system being overactive and attacking my call
Speaker 1: in and whatnot. But also means I'm can more easily
Speaker 1: get things like the flu or crown, so it's good
Speaker 1: for me to get the shots. It's a real it's
Speaker 1: a real battlefield out there of germs and viruses everybody.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, but you know that just reminded me.
Speaker 4: Dyl Is like he's like, oh yeah, let's get a
Speaker 4: flu shot, Let's get a COVID shot.
Speaker 1: He's like, it's all good. He's like, how many diseases
Speaker 1: could there be?
Speaker 3: Thirty?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah about that. I'm like, I'm like
Speaker 1: thirty four. There's thirty four that we know about. It's
Speaker 1: a battlefield of diseases in this world.
Speaker 3: Everybody.
Speaker 1: Uh, speaking of battlefields, Dan and music, I don't know.
Speaker 3: We got that.
Speaker 5: Version that's beautiful.
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Uh. Dan and I
Speaker 3: checked out some.
Speaker 1: Battlefield six Friday evening. We played a couple hours of
Speaker 1: it or so together. Actually just rang around in that
Speaker 1: main mode conquest being great soldiers going undefeated was unreal.
Speaker 1: That's the one way putting it.
Speaker 5: He shit, but my gosh, just made me a liar,
Speaker 5: like that, what the fuck?
Speaker 3: Wow? Uh Dan, I think we had a good time.
Speaker 3: I had a good time in the way that like
Speaker 3: anytime I've played a Battlefield game, it like kind of
Speaker 3: felt like the exact same brand of good time, which
Speaker 3: I'm no battlefield scholar. I reviewed three for Game Informer.
Speaker 3: Didn't play the old ones because they were PC only
Speaker 3: and didn't have that, and then like four and five
Speaker 3: and all the future ones and all that didn't really
Speaker 3: mess around with, so like very limited battlefield experience, but
Speaker 3: everything we played for those couple hours like, yeah, this
Speaker 3: seems this is fun and this is a battlefield, you know,
Speaker 3: like I can't speak to the tiny little tweaks they've
Speaker 3: made or what they've changed from like the future one
Speaker 3: before that or whatever, but it was fun. I don't
Speaker 3: think I'm gonna play it more. I've heard the campaign
Speaker 3: is not great, Like, Mike, do you see yourself playing
Speaker 3: more of it?
Speaker 1: It's only if I get invited to player friends. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: I was having a good time, but there's no whirlwind
Speaker 1: where like tonight, I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, ah, I got an to play big games.
Speaker 1: Time to just jump into some random online matches of
Speaker 1: Battlefield six. It was fun playing with you and running
Speaker 1: around with you and and for me be like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm in a tank jumping this tank with me. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go, you know, going to point A together, and
Speaker 1: you gotta revive me and I gotta revive you. It'd
Speaker 1: be funny if you killed a guy just using your
Speaker 1: stimpack thing or whatever it's called, right. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a very good one of those. And it's also like
Speaker 1: it's a very good looking game. It's running really nicely
Speaker 1: and a time where you know, even on a very
Speaker 1: high end computer, some games are just kind of running awkwardly,
Speaker 1: this one seems like it's its performance is pretty good
Speaker 1: all around. I will say I'm a little surprised, like
Speaker 1: it's a very good one of these. It's almost a
Speaker 1: little weird how I don't know if there's a lot
Speaker 1: of new juice here, right, And maybe it's because when
Speaker 1: they try to do new juice people don't like it.
Speaker 1: And been the last couple of Battlefield games, this is
Speaker 1: very much supposed to be kind of a bad the
Speaker 1: basics sort of thing. But there was like a weirdness there.
Speaker 1: As somebody who played a lot of Battlefield nineteen forty two,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is this that different of an
Speaker 1: experience than what I remember playing that game? In two
Speaker 1: thousand and three.
Speaker 3: Or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: No, is that a bad thing? I guess not necessarily,
Speaker 1: but it's it's a little weird. I mean, counter Strike two,
Speaker 1: even though it's called that, is very much still basically
Speaker 1: that game as it was in nineteen ninety nine or whatever.
Speaker 1: So there just is always kind of room for these experiences.
Speaker 1: Did you guys try any the close quarters one, the
Speaker 1: one that's more like Call of Duty?
Speaker 3: No, I reel like with Battlefield, Like it's when I
Speaker 3: think Battlefield, I think of Conquest. I think of that
Speaker 3: running around to get points and stuff like that. And
Speaker 3: with I just had the mildest of curiosities about this one,
Speaker 3: and so I figured, if I'm going to probably play
Speaker 3: this once, I want to check out the mode. I know, like,
Speaker 3: I'm not doing a deep dive on this game. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to try all the new modes and stuff
Speaker 3: like that. So that mild curiosity was stated by just
Speaker 3: playing for a couple hours with Mike. Had a good time,
Speaker 3: and like, I don't know, it's just I'm not feeling
Speaker 3: the draw to check on more of it.
Speaker 2: I played that close Quarters thing and I liked it
Speaker 2: quite a bit. You know, it's Battlefield but it's Call
Speaker 2: of Duty. But I think it's a pretty good sort
Speaker 2: of not in the middle. I don't know how to
Speaker 2: say it, but it's like, No, I had fun playing that.
Speaker 2: I think it like helped me kind of get a
Speaker 2: good idea of the feel of the guns and the
Speaker 2: running around without having the typical for me battlefield experience
Speaker 2: of I ran a long way just to die, which
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: Is a me problem and not a problem with this game.
Speaker 3: I should be playing a.
Speaker 2: Different way, but this mode makes it so I don't
Speaker 2: have to play it a different way. I can still
Speaker 2: just be a jackass run in there and have a
Speaker 2: pretty good time. That was still when it was bots
Speaker 2: mostly there was a few human players in that match,
Speaker 2: but it still felt I don't know, it was dynamic
Speaker 2: and fun, and I'm like, Okay, they kind of got
Speaker 2: all the basics here, right, And do I need to
Speaker 2: play this instead of Call of Duty?
Speaker 3: No? Probably not.
Speaker 2: I also probably won't play much more of this, but
Speaker 2: at the very least, I'm like, Okay, there's something here.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's any thing new, like you
Speaker 2: were saying, like not new juice, but they got what
Speaker 2: they needed to get right.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I like that you could take a blow
Speaker 3: torch to tanks because I was just running around to
Speaker 3: a certain point, just jumping on top of tanks and
Speaker 3: like blowing them up with blow torches.
Speaker 1: That was fun, right, Yeah, It's like, you know, there's
Speaker 1: plenty of opportunities for Dan and I to run around
Speaker 1: and like, you know, have a have a good time,
Speaker 1: and emergent funny things to happen, like always trying to
Speaker 1: resme at the last moment he gets snipe and I
Speaker 1: see his corpse just fall over, and you know, things
Speaker 1: like that. So yeah, you know, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people were just hoping to get a good one
Speaker 1: of these, and that's absolutely what they delivered here, and
Speaker 1: that's I think we're seeing that reflected in this game
Speaker 1: being a pretty big success right now. Speaking of success, Uh,
Speaker 1: Jeff Backlar has successfully finished Silent HILLFLO. I hear, I hear, Jeff.
Speaker 1: This is a game that like really should be played
Speaker 1: through multiple times. Do you have any drive to do
Speaker 1: another playthrough to see what changes that's second go around?
Speaker 1: Do you feel pretty satisfied seeing credits that one time? No,
Speaker 1: I'm not playing this game again, not because I'm not
Speaker 1: interested in seeing all that stuff.
Speaker 3: I just can't do it. I can't.
Speaker 4: I can't play a game twice this quickly. To me,
Speaker 4: it just seems it's not that's not for me. That's
Speaker 4: not a thing I can do. I don't think. I
Speaker 4: do want to see all the alternate endings. I do
Speaker 4: want to see all that stuff. I find that stuff interesting.
Speaker 1: I thought the.
Speaker 4: Story really went places and covered a lot of stuff,
Speaker 4: and I'm happy to know what else is available there.
Speaker 4: I think this game is like really kind of like
Speaker 4: perfectly paced, little timing wise, like this is what I want.
Speaker 4: I think I did it in ten hours, give or take,
Speaker 4: and that's and that's what I want. I think that's
Speaker 4: you know, even I know I'm finishing games left and
Speaker 4: right here, guys, but you know, Cronos dragged for sure.
Speaker 1: And I liked where I was at with this one.
Speaker 1: I think it.
Speaker 4: I think it really completed and kind of wrapped things
Speaker 4: up in a really satisfying way. I was very hot
Speaker 4: on in the beginning. I know I talked about this
Speaker 4: maybe last week of the week before, and I think it.
Speaker 4: I saw everything that it was trying to do, and
Speaker 4: I think that momentum carried all the way through this
Speaker 4: game's a very combat focus, as you probably know, and
Speaker 4: I've seen a lot of criticism that sort of says like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is this is some sort of uh, you know,
Speaker 4: slap in the face to the purity of Silent Hill,
Speaker 4: and it's just like, oh my god, you have to
Speaker 4: touch grass, you fucking freak. I don't care what you think,
Speaker 4: You're stupid. It's a different it's a different game, for sure.
Speaker 4: I think there's enough of that horror survival horror overlap
Speaker 4: where I felt more than well served with what it
Speaker 4: was doing.
Speaker 1: Did you finish it? How did you find it? I'm
Speaker 1: pretty close to the end, I think. To give you idea,
Speaker 1: this is not really a spoiler, but I just finished
Speaker 1: the stuff back at my.
Speaker 3: House, so yeah, I think pretty deep in there. I
Speaker 3: like it a ton.
Speaker 1: I think it's and I think it actually kept getting
Speaker 1: better and more interesting. I know some people don't like
Speaker 1: the combat. I actually really like the combat. I think
Speaker 1: it does a good job of feeling very heavy and
Speaker 1: feeling kind of like I am like chunk. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gotcha schunky, and it's a bit awkward, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I am a teenage girl swinging a steel pipe
Speaker 1: at monsters and it kind of does feel like that,
Speaker 1: but there is still stuff to it. You do have,
Speaker 1: you know, dodging, there is a sort of pary system,
Speaker 1: not like a traditional pary system, but there are things
Speaker 1: to think about that you're not just flailing around swinging
Speaker 1: at enemies like a man. And it's even a bit
Speaker 1: more to it than Selen Hill two's melee combat, which
Speaker 1: was mostly just dodging and swinging. And there's again I
Speaker 1: want to spoil it, but there's something that interesting that
Speaker 1: happens with the combat at a certain point that game, like,
Speaker 1: oh this is happening now, yeah, where suddenly it almost
Speaker 1: feels a bit more character actiony for a little bit.
Speaker 1: It was, and it was really satisfied see that. And
Speaker 1: there were some messed up sequences around there, huge Jeff
Speaker 1: stuff that I was I was literally doing the finger shields.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know if I can watch I
Speaker 3: don't know if.
Speaker 1: I could take a look at this, which it's horrified,
Speaker 1: but also it's kind of fun.
Speaker 3: I like being like I'm not going to look, yes
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm going to peek through these little fingers right here.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I remember saying like oh this is not as scary
Speaker 4: as I wanted to be in the beginning. Certainly challenges
Speaker 4: that take as you play on. There are some truly
Speaker 4: brutal and gruesome scenes later on in this game where
Speaker 4: I was just sort of like, oh damn, that's fucked up.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think some really striking characters that show
Speaker 4: up later on too, where I'm just like, fuck, look
Speaker 4: at this person that's super sick. Yeah, there's you know,
Speaker 4: the game when you start off, you the game starts
Speaker 4: off more traditionally silent Hill than it ends right, Like,
Speaker 4: I think you have the fog and you have all
Speaker 4: that stuff for a good four or five hours before
Speaker 4: things kind of you know journey into you know, floral
Speaker 4: horror hell, and you kind of have a bit of
Speaker 4: a different look and feel to the game.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think overall, really really strong.
Speaker 4: I'm I was pleasantly surprised, did not know what to
Speaker 4: think of this going into it. Really glad they were
Speaker 4: able to stick the landing with this, and yeah, big fan.
Speaker 4: A lot of people have asked me, I know you
Speaker 4: have two grub you play this or Chronos. I'm still
Speaker 4: going Saln Hill left for sure. If you're looking for
Speaker 4: the spooky game this month.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like, I think this is what you guys
Speaker 2: were getting at a second go. But people were saying
Speaker 2: early on that it wasn't very scary, but it sounds like.
Speaker 3: It's at least just disturbing. Yeah, but it does get there.
Speaker 1: No one is going to be confused or like say,
Speaker 1: this isn't a whoreor game.
Speaker 3: It just right okay. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think for my you know that aside, I think
Speaker 4: for my taste, there's a couple areas that are a
Speaker 4: little bit too labyrinthy where you're sort of just like
Speaker 4: map span and you're like, what are we doing here?
Speaker 1: I wished that that button a lot.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, you're swapping back and forth. There a good
Speaker 4: amount in two really uh sort of guilty areas that
Speaker 4: I can think of at the top of my head.
Speaker 4: But other than that, you know, really strong stuff. Really
Speaker 4: some of the puzzles, I thought, how'd you find some
Speaker 4: of those puzzles, Mike. I feel like there's a couple
Speaker 4: where you're just like, huh, Like I.
Speaker 1: Was stumped in one where I needed to stop and
Speaker 1: kind of like come back to it. There's nothing there's
Speaker 1: not like tons of levers. You're putt. You're sort of
Speaker 1: just reading poems and matching up.
Speaker 4: The clues that are given by those I don't think
Speaker 4: little little poems.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Don't think I struggled too much.
Speaker 1: But I'm been I'm very much in a puzzle mindset
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: I've been playing so many of these kind.
Speaker 1: Of games that I'm on that wavelength at the moment.
Speaker 1: There was a couple of the where I sort of
Speaker 1: flailed around a bit and maybe just sort of brute
Speaker 1: forced it. There's one about shadows. I'm like, did I
Speaker 1: show this puzzle? And I was like, oh, I guess
Speaker 1: I did. Okay, fine, good enough. I don't think the
Speaker 1: puzzles are are the strong points of this case.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would have liked to see a little bit
Speaker 4: more there with the puzzles. Yeah, but I think overall,
Speaker 4: you know, things really tied up together a couple like
Speaker 4: inventory management things where you're like, things don't automatically assign
Speaker 4: to a place on the on the on the items
Speaker 4: select screen, you have to like manually put them there.
Speaker 7: If you were losing a little bit back, you're getting
Speaker 7: a little choppy again this first Midge there, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: Vanwige there, Yeah, the amatory manager stuff is relatively fine.
Speaker 1: It's a quick the progression too, uh was like you
Speaker 1: get all these most of the items you get you
Speaker 1: have like the main healing items, and there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of other stuff that can heal, but mostly you're supposed
Speaker 1: to sell it for shrine points so that you can
Speaker 1: get level ups essentially, So there's a lot of like, well,
Speaker 1: I already have three divine water, so I can't pick
Speaker 1: up this dried carcass kind of a thing. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I usually had more than enough healing items. I don't
Speaker 1: know about you, but I was not hurting for those
Speaker 1: at all. Yes, definitely pretty charitable in that category for sure.
Speaker 1: I know I should have stopped playing Hades two a
Speaker 1: while ago. Will be a lot of things to play,
Speaker 1: but I kind of still just keep playing Hades too,
Speaker 1: and it's it's almost becoming a bit of a problem.
Speaker 1: But that game is just it's just really fun, even
Speaker 1: just like playing a run a day, and they do
Speaker 1: just keep giving you reasons to play past the credits,
Speaker 1: because there's like still some mysteries. There's kind of a
Speaker 1: big one. I'm sure it's tied to kind of like
Speaker 1: a big story moment. Still kind of like in Haites
Speaker 1: one right where after you've got credits, it's still like, well,
Speaker 1: invite everybody over for dinner, just kind of like one
Speaker 1: of these things I need to see. Then there's the
Speaker 1: Knights Champion rewards, where if you can do a run
Speaker 1: with a lot of those modifiers on, you fight the
Speaker 1: hard mode versions of the bosses, you unlock these kind
Speaker 1: of in game statues. Even though I don't like achievements
Speaker 1: or trophies, the idea of something in the game that
Speaker 1: shows me my achievements, I think that somehow is more
Speaker 1: INTI excuse me, entice to me. And the character relationships
Speaker 1: like oh, I don't you know, I go, what's up
Speaker 1: with Dora and her memories? I got to give her
Speaker 1: more ambrosia and things like that. So yeah, there's all
Speaker 1: these reasons I still keep coming back to it and
Speaker 1: playing it quite a lot, and it still continues to
Speaker 1: be really fun. Is anyone else still playing this one
Speaker 1: or is everyone else kind of moved on?
Speaker 3: I can see myself going back to it on like
Speaker 3: a flight or something when I just want to, like,
Speaker 3: I'll do a run. You know, it's been a bit,
Speaker 3: but you know, there's clearly there's three things that I
Speaker 3: have in the hub world that are covered, and like
Speaker 3: I can tell that some like late postgame type stuff
Speaker 3: or whatever. So there's more there if I want to.
Speaker 3: But like you said, there's just a lot of shit
Speaker 3: out right now that I'm focusing on. But I see
Speaker 3: myself playing more.
Speaker 2: I've kind of put it aside well in the middle
Speaker 2: of it, And that's not like a reflection on the game.
Speaker 2: It's more like I get this experience I know, and
Speaker 2: it's obviously very good, but it almost feels so refined
Speaker 2: that it's like, uh, it feels like candy. It's like
Speaker 2: I like I can just sort of I don't know,
Speaker 2: I could see where it's going at all times and
Speaker 2: being like, I know, I'll have fun with that. Let
Speaker 2: me try some other stuff, and I'm not necessarily feeling
Speaker 2: a great pull to go back to it.
Speaker 3: But again, that's it's not a reflection of the game.
Speaker 3: It's not me.
Speaker 1: It's literally because you absolutely love Hades once, I guess
Speaker 1: I'm a little surprised after You're still like, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't seem enamored here.
Speaker 2: I think I know I would be if I really
Speaker 2: just kind of like completely gave myself over to it,
Speaker 2: but I'm also like, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: It's I feel like the rewards are so frequent and
Speaker 2: so much that it just feels like I don't have
Speaker 2: much of a choice in it.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: And it's not like I don't think that's a bad thing,
Speaker 2: because they are so good at delivering those things and
Speaker 2: they're so important for a Rogue Light, But just the
Speaker 2: way that I'm I'm feeling right now about games, like
Speaker 2: I'm definitely much more at a baby Steps mood than
Speaker 2: I am like at hades Chea, And in this moment
Speaker 2: right now, that's all.
Speaker 1: I guess, like, you know, so comparing recent experiences here,
Speaker 1: because in a Silk Song and you can go out,
Speaker 1: you can get some upgrades and whatnot, but you're largely
Speaker 1: sort of pushing through when you hit a roadblock there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in Haities two, you're right after every run you're usually
Speaker 1: getting some pretty substantial kind of permanent character upgrades or somethings.
Speaker 1: It really is like you are getting better at the
Speaker 1: game too, and that's why you're gonna be boxer. You're
Speaker 1: also getting stronger, yeah, all the time as well. Do
Speaker 1: you prefer one or the other you think. It just
Speaker 1: kind of depends. I know, I think I'm like, so
Speaker 1: I oscillate.
Speaker 2: There are times where I definitely like to have the
Speaker 2: game that delivers the Hey, you're gonna get better, but really,
Speaker 2: let's just let you upgrade the character. And so the
Speaker 2: tenth run from now is going to be so different
Speaker 2: from this one like you're doing today, because your character
Speaker 2: is gonna have so many more abilities and powers to
Speaker 2: you know, this this run is more like just kind
Speaker 2: of like unlocking that stuff.
Speaker 3: That's really what it's about. And I think in this
Speaker 3: moment right now, I think I am.
Speaker 2: Feeling a little bit more towards I, I guess the
Speaker 2: Spelunky side of the spectrum where it's like, no, I
Speaker 2: don't know if I want any sort of upgrades. I
Speaker 2: kind of just want to get better at the game
Speaker 2: and sort of push against that sort of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think That's where I'm at in this moment. But
Speaker 2: I wouldn't change Hades too, Like I wouldn't change a
Speaker 2: thing about it. I'm glad it exists the way it is.
Speaker 2: I think it's a work of art in terms of
Speaker 2: their ability to deliver something that can make people feel rewarded.
Speaker 1: One of the reason why I think I am finally
Speaker 1: going to slow down is because I'm playing a sort
Speaker 1: of similar game. It's another Rogue Light experience. It's called Absolom.
Speaker 1: I've been hearing people talk about this. Yes, it's a
Speaker 1: beat them up so very much in that kind of
Speaker 1: classic Streets of Rage. There's some Golden Axe vibes here
Speaker 1: as well, but it's also run base and it's very
Speaker 1: much you're basically getting like the Boonze kind of system
Speaker 1: where after a fight, it will drop like, well, do
Speaker 1: you want to add burning to your main attacks or
Speaker 1: have a thing where if you successfully dodge and you
Speaker 1: get two little swirly tornadoes that automatally attack people. That
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and you know, so all like the
Speaker 1: Hades esque roguelike Maca and there's the permanent progression to
Speaker 1: kind of thing, and you can unlock more characters, so
Speaker 1: that's kind of like getting a new weapon, right, But
Speaker 1: then you know, at the core it's a beat them up,
Speaker 1: and I like I do like two d beat them
Speaker 1: up quite a bit, and all that stuff feels very
Speaker 1: good here. You know, you could do some juggling, you
Speaker 1: can grab people and throw them, but there also are
Speaker 1: a lot of like kind of mechanics based around dodging,
Speaker 1: and you know, like the parry system here. It's not
Speaker 1: like a perry button, but if you dodge into an enemy,
Speaker 1: then yeah, you kind of perry them. They're off bounce
Speaker 1: for a second, and you can attack them. There's even
Speaker 1: a system where if you do your kind of heavy
Speaker 1: attack at the same time as the enemy doesn't attack,
Speaker 1: then you kind of have a clash and use. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like a critical hit scenario there. So it's
Speaker 1: even harder to do than a dodge or a parry,
Speaker 1: but with greater rewards. It's also just a very good
Speaker 1: looking game. It's all, you know, two D hand drawn.
Speaker 1: It's a very good sounding game, very pretty music. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just you know, Haites has a beat them up.
Speaker 1: I know this sounds a little reductive, maybe oversimplifying this is,
Speaker 1: but also because of that, it's you know, two players,
Speaker 1: like a lot of great beat them ups are I
Speaker 1: haven't tried that yet, but it just is clearly designed
Speaker 1: with that in mind.
Speaker 3: So on that note, I've been hearing really really great
Speaker 3: things about this game, and I've intentionally been trying to
Speaker 3: like not even look at screenshots or anything of it
Speaker 3: because Boom, you know, grew up, are probably good to
Speaker 3: just kind of like soft tease this, you know, no specifics,
Speaker 3: but I mean, I'm committed to it. Let's do it
Speaker 3: me too. I have for a long time wanted to
Speaker 3: bring back. This is the run if you have not
Speaker 3: seen it, it's a run that it's say, a feature
Speaker 3: that me and Vinnie used to do where several times
Speaker 3: a week we would play like Contra or Contra hardcore,
Speaker 3: you know, different games and try to beat the game
Speaker 3: in one run. So Grevi and I are going to
Speaker 3: go in blind starting this week. You know, keep an
Speaker 3: eye on our socials and everything for specific timing and
Speaker 3: things like that, but we're going to go in totally
Speaker 3: blind and we're going to do a run. We're gonna
Speaker 3: try to do it most days. You know, again, stay
Speaker 3: tuned to our socials and stuff for timing and things
Speaker 3: like that. We might have to squeeze it in between
Speaker 3: things or whatever, but it seems like a great way
Speaker 3: to experience that game play a co op. So yeah,
Speaker 3: this is the Run Absolom starting this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that'll be good. I like my first
Speaker 1: real run, I like maybe got to the second boss,
Speaker 1: and even my run through that I actually died of
Speaker 1: the first boss again, so it wasn't like just constantly progressing.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, this build was clearly now as
Speaker 1: good and I was maybe playing sloppy things like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that I think this would be
Speaker 1: a pretty good fit for that. Who knows, maybe we'll
Speaker 1: find out it gets really easy on the fourth run
Speaker 1: you beat it, but I bet it'll take more than that.
Speaker 3: Like I've seen a lot of people in the chat
Speaker 3: here say it's it's a great game for this, and
Speaker 3: you know, I had some people doing some recon this
Speaker 3: weekend playing it, and yeah, I think we're gonna have
Speaker 3: a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: With the grub o exciting. Okay, cool, Yes, I'm glad
Speaker 1: to hear that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike, you said there's like maybe like ten minutes
Speaker 3: or whatever for like you know, kind of like getting
Speaker 3: into the game story. So like, well, probably just the
Speaker 3: first episode, grub Let's just go in totally blind and
Speaker 3: do whatever. That might be a little longer one if
Speaker 3: we have to get past the opening thing. But yeah,
Speaker 3: one run per stream.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because like the first thing you do is
Speaker 1: not really one of the traditional runs it's more of
Speaker 1: like a setup thing. So sure, sure you do that,
Speaker 1: then you do a run, and then after that you
Speaker 1: just do a run each day. I'm curious, like, I mean,
Speaker 1: the first two characters you can be as there's kind.
Speaker 3: Of a stocky.
Speaker 1: Dwarf and he has a gun just for his special attack,
Speaker 1: and then there's like a I think kind of like
Speaker 1: a dark golf with a big sword. Do you guys
Speaker 1: like know which ones you each want? Problem?
Speaker 3: I'm I'm not a stocky dwarf guy. I never picked
Speaker 3: the stocky dwarf.
Speaker 2: I could be a stocky dwarf guy, a stocky dwarf. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: that sounds good.
Speaker 1: I like stocky dwarves. I'm a big stocky dwarf fan.
Speaker 1: Kind Of continuing on this the rogueliking here, Dan, you've
Speaker 1: still been checking out megabank a bit, huh.
Speaker 3: I mean that that is still my thing where it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, if I've got ten twenty minutes, you know,
Speaker 3: like that's the one I will play. I'm not doing
Speaker 3: the like in a multi hour sessions like I was
Speaker 3: doing I started playing, but uh yeah, between that, it's
Speaker 3: just like I'm just playing more Yota still and that's
Speaker 3: more like, hey, I've got a night in front of me.
Speaker 3: I can really sit down and sink into this for
Speaker 3: a few hours. That's I'm doing. Yota and the shorter
Speaker 3: ones Makeabunk. Still loving both of them. Yota, I really
Speaker 3: am loving. I think it's great. I am into the story.
Speaker 3: I think the way they tell it is is like
Speaker 3: cut scenes and stuff are great. The way that like
Speaker 3: you'll go to one of the six or whatever to
Speaker 3: kill him, and you think, like I thought it was
Speaker 3: gonna be a quicker thing, like an Assassin's Cree Shadows
Speaker 3: you can just like find one of the dudes and
Speaker 3: kill him. And this one, it's like I started going
Speaker 3: after a dude and it became like a multi hour,
Speaker 3: multi part quest line of like you know, setbacks and
Speaker 3: going back to this area and stuff, and like by
Speaker 3: the time you finally get to the guy and everything,
Speaker 3: it's a super climactic, cool fight. Like I just I
Speaker 3: love the presentation of it. I love the open world.
Speaker 3: I just think they're kind of nailing it on so
Speaker 3: many fronts right now. So yeah, so Yota Megabank and
Speaker 3: then some embargos stuff we' talk about next week.
Speaker 1: Sometimes with these games, like oh, so Yota, I will
Speaker 1: get into a bit of kind of map fatigue, right,
Speaker 1: like the formula becomes maybe a little bit oppressive or tiring.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like that at all with this one? No?
Speaker 3: I feel like because you know, I'll finish one of
Speaker 3: these longer main story quests and I will, like per
Speaker 3: erfully just kind of warped myself to like, oh, I
Speaker 3: got one of those you know, map segments over here
Speaker 3: for an altar, and I'll just kind of like ride
Speaker 3: my horse over there, run into like a few little
Speaker 3: side things on the way. It's it's I think you
Speaker 3: can paste it out pretty well because even the multi
Speaker 3: part big story ones like give you the freedom in between,
Speaker 3: like you know, you can tell like, oh, talk to
Speaker 3: this guy and it's going to kick off the next
Speaker 3: big thing, or I can just kind of take a
Speaker 3: little break, do some side stuff. Level up a little bit,
Speaker 3: not level up, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you look up at the sky at all when
Speaker 3: you're playing that game? Not intentionally? Really? I guess in
Speaker 3: photo mode a couple of times like I do, finally
Speaker 3: going to photo mode more than news you look, you've
Speaker 3: seen any trails in Wow? We did?
Speaker 2: We we we did that one photo mode thing, and
Speaker 2: we did the the Aurora boreality.
Speaker 3: We did, but he wasn't actually curious about it. Grab.
Speaker 3: I know it feels like cheap. It is. Yeah, it's things, brother,
Speaker 3: move on.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of Trails in the Sky, I took out
Speaker 1: Trolls in the Sky first chapter.
Speaker 3: Finally did that.
Speaker 1: Finally did that on the Mega Man Block.
Speaker 3: You shut up. I worked yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, U oh, we're drinking your Martini's on your
Speaker 1: yachts or whatever.
Speaker 3: You do on your days off. I was.
Speaker 1: I was putting food on families by playing this anime JRPG.
Speaker 1: It's called Trolls in the Sky first Chapter. This is
Speaker 1: a remake of a game that I played on the PSP. Originally,
Speaker 1: it was kind of one of the best jeerpigs of
Speaker 1: that era at a time we weren't necessarily getting a
Speaker 1: ton of good ones, like the PS three era wasn't
Speaker 1: really good for that stuff, but this one, because those
Speaker 1: PSP was still sort of pixely and it kind of
Speaker 1: felt a bit more like a really good PS one
Speaker 1: JRPG in a lot of ways, and it spawned this
Speaker 1: whole series that is still going. There's tons of sequels
Speaker 1: to this game. I only ever played this one in
Speaker 1: the second one, which is kind of a single story,
Speaker 1: and then from there it goes into all these big directions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they rem this one with very pretty looking graphics, like
Speaker 1: slightly soociaded but very colorful. Just looks very modern and nice.
Speaker 1: The music is all of a higher quality as well.
Speaker 1: The opening cutscene. I think it's gonna be rough for
Speaker 1: people to get through if they are not like super familiar,
Speaker 1: super used to or super in love with that very
Speaker 1: kind of specific anime presentation, you know.
Speaker 3: What I mean? Which which one?
Speaker 2: Like the like kind of like if you say, imagine
Speaker 2: a standard anime in my head that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like you know, you ever see why anime worth
Speaker 1: like a characters massive way they bunk them on the
Speaker 1: head like bronc like that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: Right, three stooges, not.
Speaker 1: Three stooges, it's like anime stooges.
Speaker 3: It's just.
Speaker 5: It's trophy. He's trying to say, that's trophy tropy.
Speaker 1: And it's a little grating if you're not super enveloped
Speaker 1: by that stuff. And I'm relatively vloped by it just
Speaker 1: through jerrapygees. But even there like not as much as
Speaker 1: I used to be. I don't know why my tolerance
Speaker 1: for it is actually getting kind of worse with age
Speaker 1: or even this opening cut scene and just some of
Speaker 1: the voices and you know, English English voice acting Japanese
Speaker 1: voice acting, it is it still kind of has the
Speaker 1: same impact on me because the English voice, I think
Speaker 1: anythings is trying to replicate the inflections and the tones
Speaker 1: of that original language. Anyways, but it's just kind of
Speaker 1: a lot and the main character's voice, I don't know
Speaker 1: what it was. I just couldn't stand it. It's just
Speaker 1: sort of to me, Yeah, did you switch to Japanese?
Speaker 1: Because everyone was saying do the do the subst to
Speaker 1: Japanese and it was still like I don't know, wasn't
Speaker 1: that much better?
Speaker 8: And one I don't I don't know that language, so
Speaker 8: it's now the English guy. Yeah, I mean, look, sometimes
Speaker 8: that makes sense, like for Soon, who f Actually I
Speaker 8: did switch at to Japanese.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is such a Japanese game that yeah,
Speaker 1: like doing this is more like I'm watching a foreign
Speaker 1: film makes sense to me here. Yeah, here, it's like no,
Speaker 1: I think I'm as well just keep it on the
Speaker 1: Japanese and it really is kind of just the one
Speaker 1: girl's voice that's grading me now. In the opening, cutting
Speaker 1: is a lot, and after that things settle down a
Speaker 1: little bit there, but again that's kind of the one
Speaker 1: minus because the pluses are very nicer. The combat is excellent.
Speaker 1: It's similar to Metaphor Fantasia, which apparently took this from
Speaker 1: a later Trails game that didn't play where to start.
Speaker 1: It is more of an action RPG, and then you
Speaker 1: kind of use that to set yourself up for an
Speaker 1: advantage once you transition into the turn based stuff. And
Speaker 1: even when you're doing that, when it's your turn, you
Speaker 1: kind of have free movement range and that replicates the
Speaker 1: original game, which is more grid based, almost a bit
Speaker 1: more like a Final Fancy Tactics in the battles here,
Speaker 1: but your instead of grid, it's more just like you
Speaker 1: have your circle of where you can move, and certain
Speaker 1: attacks have advantages based off of hitting enemies from the
Speaker 1: side or behind, or an AOI in a circle around
Speaker 1: you're an AOI in a ligne in front of you,
Speaker 1: so you're constantly thinking about move and placement even though
Speaker 1: it is turn based fighting. So the combat feels very good.
Speaker 3: Would you say does it share any DNA with Ease
Speaker 3: A Lachrymosi of Dana.
Speaker 1: Well, that's more of a pure action RPT. So some
Speaker 1: of the stuff, honestly before you go into the turn
Speaker 1: based a little bit in fact, you know this is
Speaker 1: that this is that company, these Falcom has two big pillars.
Speaker 1: Of course you know this, but I'm just telling the
Speaker 1: audience of Ease Yeah, and trails. So those those are
Speaker 1: the two big ones there for them. So yeah, the
Speaker 1: demo actually even though like at first I was a
Speaker 1: little bit like, oh, this is too much for me,
Speaker 1: but no, then by the end of it, the impression
Speaker 1: at left was not demo. My first play session was
Speaker 1: very strong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were saying that, like, can you just give
Speaker 2: me a little bit more on the combat You said,
Speaker 2: it's like action but like still has some menu based
Speaker 2: stuff or what.
Speaker 1: No, it's like did you you played a little bit
Speaker 1: of metaphor right, yes, yeah, a little bit like remember
Speaker 1: how you kind of like you're you're you're fighting people
Speaker 1: in the world, but it's really just to get yourself
Speaker 1: in a vance's for when you transition to the turn base.
Speaker 1: Now okay, yeah, so here it's almost it's a bit
Speaker 1: more free form here because you could just keep fighting
Speaker 1: them in that action.
Speaker 2: Because that's why I saw on the trailers was I
Speaker 2: was like, okay, that's confusing, Okay, keep going, but.
Speaker 1: Like eventually you're not dealing that much damage that way.
Speaker 1: So what you really want to do is you deal damage,
Speaker 1: and when you get them into a stun state and
Speaker 1: you transition into the turn based stuff, then that gives
Speaker 1: you an advantage.
Speaker 3: You can kind of start with your sort of.
Speaker 1: All out attack or whatever they call it here kind
Speaker 1: of thing. So you start, Yeah, this really is using
Speaker 1: that action RPG stuff to one, is it just quickly
Speaker 1: take out weaker enemies that you don't need to bother
Speaker 1: going into the whole turn based combat thing, or to
Speaker 1: give yourself an advantage leading into it, because you know
Speaker 1: you can still just take damage and everything else the
Speaker 1: same in either mode. So and again, I mean there's
Speaker 1: probably intricacies there that I didn't completely understand from playing
Speaker 1: two hours of it, but I already can see where
Speaker 1: it was going. A lot of jepty somethings. In the
Speaker 1: very beginning, they're very boring because you have like one
Speaker 1: spell and one attack, no, absolutely nothing, But this was
Speaker 1: immediately very interesting so I like the original game a lot.
Speaker 1: I would like to play more of this again. It's
Speaker 1: definitely is a pretty game, statically pleasing all around. I
Speaker 1: would recommend it, even if like some of the tropiness
Speaker 1: of it throws you off at first, I think you
Speaker 1: can kind of push through it and get.
Speaker 3: Used to that excellent.
Speaker 1: Can I make a quick request before we go to
Speaker 1: the break?
Speaker 3: Can we do a golf week recap? Actually?
Speaker 2: Can we just since we're experts now we played all
Speaker 2: the golf games, we just do a mount rushmore of
Speaker 2: a golf video games.
Speaker 3: I think we can do it. Well, Yeah, I've got
Speaker 3: thoughts on that.
Speaker 2: I think Tiger four. I think Tiger four is actually
Speaker 2: it's just that four for me. I think I would
Speaker 2: also put Neo Turf Masters on there.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it looks really good from we played. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Beach golf links for the Sega Saturn. Uh pebble
Speaker 1: beach golf links?
Speaker 3: Is I like it would be right there?
Speaker 1: Or links?
Speaker 3: What is it?
Speaker 2: Links three eighty six pro? But I'm willing to give
Speaker 2: it to Craig Stadler here, so uh pebble pebble golf
Speaker 2: links all right?
Speaker 3: Color Mario Golf.
Speaker 1: And then I was gonna say Mario Golf for Game
Speaker 1: Boy Color.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, Mario Golf.
Speaker 1: You know they needed to be that, like Told Steel
Speaker 1: Tour for the Mario golfs. Yeah, I like that Mario
Speaker 1: Golf one because that's like the RPG. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: hot Shots and original Mario Golf definitely.
Speaker 3: All could be up there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're missing Golf Story and Kirby dream Course. Now
Speaker 1: though sure Golf Story didn't love that.
Speaker 3: Have you never played Kirby's Dream Course. That's a couple
Speaker 3: of times. I just could wrap my head around it.
Speaker 3: I like, it seems so cool. I just need to
Speaker 3: understand it more. You know, it just is so different
Speaker 3: than normal golf, you know clearly though. No golden tea
Speaker 3: gold tinge God. Yeah, yeah wow. I mean golf with
Speaker 3: their friends was good. Not Rushmore, but yeah, but it's
Speaker 3: maybe that might have been a game to play over golf.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a Mount Rushmore. It might be a
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore like multiplayer games. Honestly, it's like just so much. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's really really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah off, it's actually you know, it defaults to off.
Speaker 3: We turn it on because we're cool.
Speaker 1: What a terrible detail.
Speaker 2: Okay, so our mount rushmore of golf games is Tiger
Speaker 2: O for Neo Turf Masters, Pebble Golf Links and Mario Golf.
Speaker 1: Gpe Beat Golf Links God Pebble Golf.
Speaker 3: Game. I'm replacing it with links. Three to six Pro. Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 3: all right, there you go. There's ore. There's because that
Speaker 3: might have been the one I played. Yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 3: was one of the six pro.
Speaker 1: He's like really kind of a George Washington.
Speaker 3: It's uh.
Speaker 1: It was the first kind of popular sim golf on PC.
Speaker 1: Crap carried Golf Week, and you are not going to
Speaker 1: disrespect him like that.
Speaker 3: Jeff and I are gonna fight. What's this?
Speaker 1: Break happens everybody, So we're gonna have things out for
Speaker 1: a while here. In the meantime, though, you just chill out,
Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
Speaker 3: You piece of shit? How did you do me?
Speaker 1: Ow?
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Speaker 3: you doing here? Oh? Like like existentially or what do
Speaker 3: you mean?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Dan, like here a giant bomb covering games?
Speaker 9: Oh?
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Speaker 1: All right, Greb, we both said some things during that
Speaker 1: fight that we can never take back, especially the many hateful,
Speaker 1: hateful things he said about Craig Stadlers left the company.
Speaker 3: He was so bad. I'll go I'll go in in
Speaker 3: club of Walbrust right now.
Speaker 1: And yeah, geez, I know. We talked about how funny
Speaker 1: escalation is during the break. No, no, everything's great. U
Speaker 1: Backlar is tied up for a moment that so we're
Speaker 1: gonna just get going on the news. We wait for him.
Speaker 1: There you go, there it is, there's that music.
Speaker 2: Yeah, news, I'm gonna do the news.
Speaker 3: Let's get into it here.
Speaker 2: A big story from the last day or two is
Speaker 2: a massive Pokemon leak hack.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of information being thrown out on the
Speaker 2: internet and from a lot of accounts that have done
Speaker 2: Pokemon leaks before, so maybe they all got a hold
Speaker 2: of the same hack.
Speaker 3: Again. The sort of origination point of this is a
Speaker 3: little questionable, but.
Speaker 2: Some information is getting out there. Recently suggest a major
Speaker 2: breach at game Freak, revealing details about the next few
Speaker 2: years of Pokemon games, including the tenth generation mainline titles,
Speaker 2: which will be Pokemon Wind and Wave. I think, I
Speaker 2: guess it could be wind in Waves. I've seen it
Speaker 2: both ways. Set for release in twenty twenty six, these
Speaker 2: games are rumored to feature procedurally generated islands based on
Speaker 2: Indonesia and Southeast Asia, a survival game focus, and a
Speaker 2: new Seed Pokemon or new Seed Pokemon not a news
Speaker 2: that there could be multiple and.
Speaker 3: That's seed as an seed. Not sure exactly what to
Speaker 3: make of that.
Speaker 2: The leak's also outline potential rivals and edemy organizations, with
Speaker 2: the antagonist reportedly involved in land development. Fun Reasons to
Speaker 2: believe the leak's credibility include the extensive volume and quality
Speaker 2: of the materials, proposal documents, concept art, beta footage of
Speaker 2: Pokemon Legends ZA, and the granular, uncurated nature of the
Speaker 2: content graphs and excel sheets. Furthermore, the leak accounts disseminating
Speaker 2: this information have a proven track record. That's what I
Speaker 2: was saying before, A bunch of accounts here that have
Speaker 2: done this sort of thing for a while. This current
Speaker 2: leak may be related to a twenty twenty four Tara
Speaker 2: leak that prompted a Nintendo subpoena. So people taking chances
Speaker 2: out there sharing this stuff and Nintendo might go after
Speaker 2: them or say, hey.
Speaker 1: How did you get this? However, skepticism is warranted.
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Actually, you know, the thing is people could be throwing
Speaker 2: in a plenty of made up stuff alongside these things,
Speaker 2: So yeah, definitely take some of it with a grain
Speaker 2: of salt. But they apparently some of these leaks, some
Speaker 2: people are saying it goes all the way to Gen
Speaker 2: eleven the plans for that game.
Speaker 3: We'll kind of hold off into some of this stuff
Speaker 3: is a little bit more verified, but.
Speaker 1: For now, Yeah, Gen ten procedurally generated islands in Southeast
Speaker 1: Asia sounds interesting enough to me, Mike, what do you
Speaker 1: think I suppose? I mean, procedural generation makes sense for
Speaker 1: some things. I don't quite understand it. In a Pokemon
Speaker 1: it seems like you kind of craft an overworld and
Speaker 1: towns in dungeons the very specific ways there, and even.
Speaker 5: Like alright, alright, alright, sounds like you guys need a
Speaker 5: Pokemon expert.
Speaker 3: Us here. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so a lot of this sounds like extension of
Speaker 5: what they've already been doing with the series. You can
Speaker 5: tell Mike hasn't played Garland Violet because who boy, you
Speaker 5: could have sworn that world was procedurally generated that way,
Speaker 5: and so I think a lot of this lines up
Speaker 5: with what they've been doing, especially combining stuff like Archias
Speaker 5: into the mainline games, because some people heard Survival and
Speaker 5: were like, Lol, they're going after Powell World. No Archeus
Speaker 5: was a survival game, Like, they've already done stuff like this.
Speaker 5: This just seeds seems like them revisiting some of those
Speaker 5: concepts folding them into the mainline. And then a lot
Speaker 5: of this does line up with stuff we heard from
Speaker 5: the Tarot leak. As mentioned, this sort of island adventure
Speaker 5: was also rumored as a result of that, so a
Speaker 5: lot of the information does seem credible. I haven't looked
Speaker 5: into this extensively because I've also heard that there's just
Speaker 5: like a lot of ZA stuff that was leaking out
Speaker 5: as well, and there is that you know, that game's
Speaker 5: out this week. I just want to play that game.
Speaker 5: I don't want to see stuff early. It's kind of
Speaker 5: like the Insomniac leak, you know, there was terrible things
Speaker 5: that happened with that, and also footage a wolverine that
Speaker 5: was definitely not meant to be seen, and so that's
Speaker 5: kind of how I'm feeling about this one. If it's
Speaker 5: in the news, I'll you know, look into it and
Speaker 5: we can talk about it and everything like that. But
Speaker 5: otherwise I kind of don't want to know everything that's
Speaker 5: happening over there. You know.
Speaker 3: Is there much in here about Black and White Remakes?
Speaker 5: Nothing as far as I know, because I feel like
Speaker 5: it will hurt me. Yeah, And that's also like where
Speaker 5: it first tipped us all off that like, oh, black
Speaker 5: and White Remix probably is not happening because it wasn't
Speaker 5: in the taro leak from what last.
Speaker 3: Week entirely, which this might be an extension of, is
Speaker 3: what people are thinking.
Speaker 1: I've seen some budgets floating around maybe as a part
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 3: What are those are real?
Speaker 1: Because it's like, oh, wow, all these games cost like
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars or less?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding? Oh yeah, that is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: We're cheating out like labor is cheaper in Japan. But boy,
Speaker 2: that's a very small number compared to any other major
Speaker 2: video game that is. It's it kind of again. It
Speaker 2: makes the initial performance and just graphics of Scarleton Violet
Speaker 2: even more insult that they rush these games out with
Speaker 2: barely a budget.
Speaker 1: And they're like the biggest games, like, why not give
Speaker 1: it a little bit more?
Speaker 3: But Mike, you know, they don't have.
Speaker 1: To cost Spider Man two levels of budget, but my god,
Speaker 1: thirteen million dollars for Za.
Speaker 5: I think hopefully that puts into perspective why these games
Speaker 5: are like this, because, you know, some there's always corners
Speaker 5: of the Internet where these games come out looking like
Speaker 5: Scarlett and Violet performing the way they do on Switch one,
Speaker 5: and people are like lazy devs ha ha ha. No,
Speaker 5: it's really is like some fuco in the company is like,
Speaker 5: we need to hoard all the money, and so we
Speaker 5: can't have a Pokemon that, you know, despite the fact
Speaker 5: that it's going to sell thirty million copies, we can't
Speaker 5: pour you know, more money into it. We can't make
Speaker 5: game Freak bigger. As far as I know, it's still
Speaker 5: only around like a two hundred employees total total. For
Speaker 5: whatever reason, they think that they just need to keep
Speaker 5: building up the coffers, I guess, and it's very very bizarre.
Speaker 5: And yeah, hopefully scarletand Violet taught them a lesson that,
Speaker 5: like we it's clearly taking them more time to put
Speaker 5: out these new games. They're they're like, which will cost
Speaker 5: more money, Which will cost more money? Yeah, necessarily exactly,
Speaker 5: and hopefully they do just like, you know, strengthen the
Speaker 5: budget and have more contractors and stuff, because like something
Speaker 5: is going just wild there with management.
Speaker 1: The if you embargo for Za did happen?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was, I was going that up eighty two
Speaker 2: on Open Critic Let's see three out of five from
Speaker 2: Eurogamer Illumino City could do with the work, with work,
Speaker 2: excuse me, but Pokemon Legends ZA is a much more
Speaker 2: tightly focused and delightfully goofy returned to better form, at
Speaker 2: least by modern Pokemon standards. Four out of five from
Speaker 2: games Radar. That dream sold to us by the Pokemon anime.
Speaker 2: It's right here, clear that clearer than it's ever been.
Speaker 3: Let's see what else. Let's give it another one.
Speaker 2: Ten out of ten from the sixth Axis, who says,
Speaker 2: unlike the most recent Pokemon Scarlett and Violet, Za is
Speaker 2: a game that really holds your attention. The spiritual successor
Speaker 2: to Legends Archaius, It's learned from the mistakes of the
Speaker 2: distant past and beautifully shows what city life is like
Speaker 2: in the Pokemon universe. I could see myself playing this
Speaker 2: for another one hundred hours as I finished my Poke Decks,
Speaker 2: Shiny Hunt and generally have a good, a great time.
Speaker 2: This is easily the best Pokemon game on the market.
Speaker 2: And then let's see seven out of ten from Nintendo
Speaker 2: Life's Alana Haigs, who says ZA should be celebrated for
Speaker 2: its fabulous real time and it's largely smooth jumped to
Speaker 2: the switch to but in condensing things down to one
Speaker 2: single location, it loses part of the Pokemon magic that
Speaker 2: Archaeus and many other entries managed to amplify. I'll forever
Speaker 2: find filling up my Pokedex fun and for the switch
Speaker 2: to generation. This is a good starting point for the franchise,
Speaker 2: but if the Legend series is to continue, it needs
Speaker 2: to recapture its personality and fuse that real time system
Speaker 2: with a bit more freedom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these reviews are pretty in line with what Archias
Speaker 1: got actually, so yeah, right around there.
Speaker 5: I'm excited to see that. Over at VGC, Joring gave
Speaker 5: it five off five stars because I know that.
Speaker 3: He's a Pokemon freak.
Speaker 5: Well, his opinion definitely aligns with mine on how we
Speaker 5: feel about these games. Of like, yeah, you know when
Speaker 5: the games look bad. Well, we'll say that when they
Speaker 5: run bed, we'll say that. But like, how how's the gameplay? Like,
Speaker 5: as a Pokemon fan, how does it feel to play?
Speaker 5: And it's got me hype that he's hype And a
Speaker 5: lot of these other reviews are glowing as well, which
Speaker 5: you know, people really liked Archists as well, so I.
Speaker 3: Like the Arcus a lot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's a sign that people like the
Speaker 5: Pokemon formula being mixed up and not just being babies
Speaker 5: first RPG. And it's a sign that maybe, you know,
Speaker 5: everything we heard about this leak, maybe they are looking
Speaker 5: at the games differently now and trying to do something different.
Speaker 5: Because Scarland Violet kind of was different with the open
Speaker 5: world and stuff. But I would like to see them
Speaker 5: pull more of like a Sun and Moon, where Sun
Speaker 5: and Moon radically overhauled the way those games played. It
Speaker 5: did not have the gym structure, you were island hopping.
Speaker 5: It was story driven, and you know that was divisive,
Speaker 5: but it was a mainline Pokemon game that was felt fresh,
Speaker 5: and so I'm hoping that's that's what the future of
Speaker 5: the series is as well.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep going here. Following the cancelation of
Speaker 2: its live service God of War, Sony's Bluepoint is hiring
Speaker 2: for a third person action game Bluepoint Games. Following the
Speaker 2: cancelation of that God of War title, the spinoff is
Speaker 2: now hiring for a new third person action game. Sony
Speaker 2: confirmed in January that it had canceled live service games
Speaker 2: from both Bluepoint and Ben's studio. With Bluepoints canceled project
Speaker 2: believed to be that God of War spin off, blue Point,
Speaker 2: known for remaking and remastering PlayStation games like Demon Souls
Speaker 2: and Shadows of the Shadows of the Cossus, will be
Speaker 2: returning to its roots with a new third person melee
Speaker 2: action experience. This new project will mark Bluepoint's first original
Speaker 2: title since Blast Factor in two thousand and six. WOW
Speaker 2: Sony has stated that both studios remain valued members.
Speaker 3: Of PlayStation studios and are working.
Speaker 2: With them to determine their next projects. Yeah, okay, it
Speaker 2: still sounds like a new game from them instead of
Speaker 2: a remake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Blast Factor was like an early PSN game.
Speaker 3: I remember. That's only what I can think of that
Speaker 3: like wasn't a remake or remaster, but like they have
Speaker 3: established themselves as like one of the better as far
Speaker 3: as its like a straightforward, you know, remaster. I think
Speaker 3: they've done a great job with that, or you know,
Speaker 3: like Demon Souls was a full remake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've They've done a lot of like full remix,
Speaker 2: Like Shadow of the Classes was a full remake.
Speaker 3: Oh, I like that Shadow Remax. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess so. But this isn't this is
Speaker 1: going to be a brand new game. It sounds like right,
Speaker 1: it's like I suppose.
Speaker 2: Like you know, they're hiring for a third person action game.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's maybe it's it's still a remake. If it is,
Speaker 2: I know some people are already speculating once again that
Speaker 2: it's blood Born.
Speaker 3: It's not Bloodborne. I mean what I mean.
Speaker 1: I feel like the obvious thing here is they were
Speaker 1: working on God of War as well, Let's just remake
Speaker 1: God of War one then instead of that. I definitely
Speaker 1: heard that there is some interest inside of Sonia in
Speaker 1: doing that.
Speaker 3: Whether or not it's moved ahead at all, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know, and I.
Speaker 2: Would probably speculate that's probably still hasn't happened yet. But
Speaker 2: if it has, maybe this is it and it's years
Speaker 2: and years and years away.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Is there a chance they're making like a new game,
Speaker 2: but but in an established franchise like God of War
Speaker 2: or something like that, Like I mean, rather kind of
Speaker 2: spin off metal.
Speaker 1: God of War seems like it's just already so busy
Speaker 1: with that Mystania game we're all expecting, and then you know,
Speaker 1: a new game almost certainly in the works obviously. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I just don't know, like we need Bluepoint making
Speaker 1: even like you know, doing the remake is one thing,
Speaker 1: but new game from them also, Like do you just like, like,
Speaker 1: is it like another God of War sension, Like here's
Speaker 1: another story from his brief times we forgot to talk about.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much interest there is grub.
Speaker 3: Have your kids played or did they talk about Jumping Flash? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Pretty much constantly? Okay, so it could be that to
Speaker 3: kind of capitalize on that.
Speaker 1: Of course, the youth are Jumping Flash Flambor, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Lamber is the word.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I hope. So Jumping Flash would that be three?
Speaker 3: They did two?
Speaker 1: There is a third one that was Japan only that
Speaker 1: wasn't really called Jumping Flash three. Also not really a
Speaker 1: third person or really I guess it's an action game.
Speaker 3: It's more of a shooter. I don't think I hate
Speaker 3: to say it.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's jumping Flash. It's probably you're probably yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It just seems like Blue Point has
Speaker 1: been fumbled whatever. Like you know, they say started off
Speaker 1: so strong with that Demonsul's remake. It should have been
Speaker 1: a really big part of the PS five and instead
Speaker 1: they kind of had to waste all this time on
Speaker 1: a God of War life service title that went no.
Speaker 1: So I hope that this thing gets seen through and
Speaker 1: kind of puts them back as a deally concern parentheses positive.
Speaker 2: It's a it's actould Point, it's also melee. I think
Speaker 2: it's melee focused and not sure focused. If that, you know,
Speaker 2: narrows it down for you at all, I think it
Speaker 2: might just still be God of War and Got of
Speaker 2: War remake would be would be cool.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Lego Party and Digital Eclipses Tetris Time Warp will soon
Speaker 2: be available to stream on Netflix. This is part of
Speaker 2: like recently there was some like, oh, Netflix is going
Speaker 2: to be doing less of you know, big games or
Speaker 2: other stuff. We're gonna kind of do more family focused
Speaker 2: stuff and and and party game focused stuff and stuff
Speaker 2: where you don't even need a controller, you just choose
Speaker 2: your phone. Sounds like this is the angle they're going,
Speaker 2: and I gotta say hearing this, it's.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, you know what, that's a pretty good fit.
Speaker 3: Like Lego Party.
Speaker 2: If people could just like start playing that on their
Speaker 2: TV through Netflix like right away, Like I I could
Speaker 2: see that really working.
Speaker 3: The thing is like a lot of those mini games
Speaker 3: are you know, like oh, you know, tracing a line
Speaker 3: pretty specific with an analog stick and everything.
Speaker 1: So I think you're gonna have to connect a controller,
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah.
Speaker 3: But still that's like if that works. If it works, well,
Speaker 3: that's really fucking smart because anna think about I told
Speaker 3: the story about my very I wouldn't call them casual
Speaker 3: gamers family that were like Lego Party kicks ass the
Speaker 3: other weekend, like they're single issue gamers, right yeah, And
Speaker 3: if everyone's got Netflix, like that's that's pretty smart. And
Speaker 3: then you can still play cross play with people on console,
Speaker 3: like that's if that works. That sounds cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I uh, I see they've they've all they've done
Speaker 2: stuff like you know, the Oxen Free sequel.
Speaker 3: I guess they're gonna keep doing stuff with that studio.
Speaker 3: Let's see here, but.
Speaker 2: They're also going to bring in Bogle Party and Pictionary
Speaker 2: game Night and party crashers full your friends.
Speaker 3: So these are the kinds of game they're going to
Speaker 3: do party games based. Then I thinks now Bogle party
Speaker 3: and Pictionary game Night and party Crashers, I don't know,
Speaker 3: but if they do, we should maybe play some of them.
Speaker 3: Bombiton Yeah, okay, fantastic. I love Bogle. I'm not great
Speaker 3: a boggle, but I love Boggle all right.
Speaker 1: Nintendo says, it's close to you. Pickman videos were Nintendo
Speaker 1: Pictures short films rather than a game or a movie teaser,
Speaker 1: So we talked about a bunch in a bunch of places.
Speaker 1: But now it's like, okay, we finally got it all
Speaker 1: wrapped up here. They introduced a video short that had
Speaker 1: a baby going around room chasing things that were floating.
Speaker 1: Then the next day released another version that short that
Speaker 1: showed that really it was Pickman doing that all along,
Speaker 1: as suggested by the piman in the background that was
Speaker 1: a blurry and the Pickman musical stingers that were in there.
Speaker 2: And then everyone's still like, well what is this for?
Speaker 2: And then Nintendo's like, hey, this is about Nintendo Pictures.
Speaker 2: Doing new Nintendo shorts and that's all it's about.
Speaker 3: And I'm I'm completely fine with that.
Speaker 2: I think that's that's a fun thing, even though it's
Speaker 2: not as exciting as some of these other possibilities.
Speaker 3: I guess my question was like, to what end? You know,
Speaker 3: it's just gonna expensive YouTube videos, you know, Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: it's training.
Speaker 1: Basically, like before Pixar made a toy story, they made
Speaker 1: shorts and commercials for years, right, this is basically it's like, well,
Speaker 1: can we do this? And you know, you could look
Speaker 1: at it and they're clearly following like a Pixar DreamWorks
Speaker 1: Illumination kind of style in these things. Nintendo has to
Speaker 1: partner with people like Universe and Sony to make movies
Speaker 1: they just do. They would much rather be doing this
Speaker 1: stuff themselves, and they know they don't have the infrastructure
Speaker 1: to do that today, but this is part of them
Speaker 1: turning those wheels and getting things going so that someday
Speaker 1: they can just make the Pickman movie or you know,
Speaker 1: a Mario movie or what have you. They would rather
Speaker 1: be doing this stuff all internally and not have to
Speaker 1: work with so many partners. Yeah, and their their videos
Speaker 1: are very successful, very popular, this one has ten plus
Speaker 1: million views. I think quite a bit more than that
Speaker 1: just on the YouTube version, but it's also on look
Speaker 1: on social media, it's probably coaster like twenty million, if
Speaker 1: not more. And those old, those old Pickman shorts.
Speaker 2: From a long time ago, the ones that Miamoto basically directed,
Speaker 2: were very, very popular. They eventually put those up on YouTube,
Speaker 2: but you originally can only get him on the three
Speaker 2: DS and the WEU, so they put them up later,
Speaker 2: like way after the fact, and even then they like
Speaker 2: racked up millions and millions of views. I think they're like,
Speaker 2: this is a completely fine use of these resources for now,
Speaker 2: with obviously the point being, as Mike said, to train
Speaker 2: them up to do full Maybe I bet they don't
Speaker 2: do a movie anytime soon, but I could see them
Speaker 2: doing like a show, like a like a ten episode
Speaker 2: twenty four mile maybe like twelve minute animated episodes or
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 3: I wanted to just be like a nineties like make
Speaker 3: it like Married to the Children, but with Pickman, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: they laugh like a laugh track and every laugh track
Speaker 3: live studio. Well, I guess can't really do that with Pickman,
Speaker 3: but you know, like the style and live Studio audio.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, okay, yeah, wait work at a shoe store,
Speaker 3: Captain Olimar. Sure, yeah yeah. Alamar has always got his
Speaker 3: hand down the front of his pants in the front.
Speaker 1: Attractive life that he resents.
Speaker 3: Yeah, huh married with Pickman right there it is? Yeah
Speaker 3: yeah yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: The City at Dulam Final Fantasy is a mobile three
Speaker 1: v three battle game which brings Final Fantasy characters into
Speaker 1: modern Tokyo for god knows what reason.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Square Knox has announced The City at Dulam Final Fantasy,
Speaker 2: a mobile spinoff set in modern day Tokyo, scheduled for
Speaker 2: release in twenty twenty six. The iOS and android game
Speaker 2: is described as a three v three team boss battle
Speaker 2: arena where players use powerful abilities to defeat a boss faster.
Speaker 3: Than the enemy team.
Speaker 2: So you are you probably assemble your team and race
Speaker 2: to beat the boss again.
Speaker 3: It sounds like.
Speaker 1: A clash of Clans sort of thing.
Speaker 5: Is this an excellent primal grub?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't think like you're I bet
Speaker 2: you just like throw the characters out there and then
Speaker 2: they mostly auto battle.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Like, there's one section here where it looks like
Speaker 1: somebody is doing third person shooting.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden. I don't know why it is.
Speaker 3: I can tell you this.
Speaker 1: It's not a fighting game, right, Like that's the problem.
Speaker 3: I won't think that's what the city it should be.
Speaker 5: Also also high, I'm back while backlowers away. Why the
Speaker 5: hell won't they just make a final fantasy fighting game.
Speaker 5: Why are they so averse kind of going back to
Speaker 5: where like the city started? Guys, god bless the ring,
Speaker 5: damn it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody likes the City of One and whatever the
Speaker 1: sequel is calling them PSB. Then they made that bad
Speaker 1: one based off the Arcade game that was three on
Speaker 1: three and kind of garish and ugly and too complicated,
Speaker 1: and now it's now it's this. It's just it's it's
Speaker 1: very pretty mobile slop, but it still looks like mobile
Speaker 1: slop even the whole Like, oh, they're in modern Tokyo thing,
Speaker 1: Like why so that we can put them in modern
Speaker 1: costumes as well, so we can sell those and you
Speaker 1: can also sell their original costumes. Also, pet Peeve, i'd
Speaker 1: stop stop showing Terror with blonde hair. It was still
Speaker 1: good when the Magic the Gathering Cars just had her
Speaker 1: with the green hair. It's just better that way. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's just another mobile thing here. There's like
Speaker 1: at least they're doing some inches seeing characters like the
Speaker 1: Foul Fantasy fourteen representatives, actually Gaya, which is a kind
Speaker 1: of supporting character from one of the Raids series in
Speaker 1: that game. And you know, there's some other choices here
Speaker 1: that are a little bit more interesting than the standard ones.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure they're gonna throw all sorts of characters
Speaker 1: at this thing. The sperretix is always just throwing shit
Speaker 1: at the wall and seeing what sticks. With mobiles, I
Speaker 1: don't even know if they're sticking around to see what sticks.
Speaker 3: I think they're just throwing at the wall.
Speaker 5: They do have wild swings though, because sometimes they do
Speaker 5: have good mobile games, Like I know people really liked
Speaker 5: record Keeper back in the day.
Speaker 3: I think that just a couple of years a lot
Speaker 3: of people did play Brave Vex.
Speaker 5: I like Braves. I thought that was actually like really
Speaker 5: good because cow was just a turn based Final Fantasy
Speaker 5: sixteen bit RPG on your phone. It was pretty sick. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't know they take wild swings there.
Speaker 2: Uh, there's gonna be a closed beta for this thing
Speaker 2: on November seventh through the fourteenth for players in Japan.
Speaker 2: The United States in Canada, with applications available.
Speaker 3: On the game's official website.
Speaker 2: So I got I guess rush, run, don't don't walk
Speaker 2: to go get into the city of Dulham. Final Fantasy's
Speaker 2: open or close? Bait, I should say, Jeck Backler, what
Speaker 2: do you think of the city of Dulham? Final Fantasy
Speaker 2: A mobile My three Battle game takes place in monn Tokyo.
Speaker 1: It's way better.
Speaker 4: The first time I ate it, it was they've fallen
Speaker 4: off though, because I don't know, maybe they got like
Speaker 4: a new sous chef. I'm not sure, but it's different.
Speaker 4: It's hard.
Speaker 1: I get it. Star I agree absolutely. I heard that
Speaker 1: the Somalia is like getting a divorce and he's just
Speaker 1: not in the game anymore.
Speaker 3: Oh no, well maybe life Maharty instead. There you go.
Speaker 1: Everyone's going through something, you know.
Speaker 2: Avatar Legends the Fighting Game was canceled last year, and
Speaker 2: I kind of just put this in here because for
Speaker 2: jan because now they're bringing it back with a debut
Speaker 2: game trailer and a new developer whose entire existence it
Speaker 2: is about giving games a second life. Avatar Legends the
Speaker 2: Fighting Game is a two D fighting game based on Avatar.
Speaker 2: The list Airbender twelve twelve playable characters at launch, a
Speaker 2: single player campaign, and cross play. The game is being
Speaker 2: developed and published by Gameplay Group International, which just is
Speaker 2: a name a new studio that acquires and reimagines commercially
Speaker 2: unrealized games. Avatar Legends. The fighting game was previously in
Speaker 2: development at Maximum Entertainment, publisher of them's Fighting Herds and
Speaker 2: Diesel Legacy the Brazen Age, So there's some There was
Speaker 2: some cachet behind that, but was canceled last year and
Speaker 2: now Gameplay Group International is going to bring it back.
Speaker 2: It's coming out some summer twenty twenty six on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo,
Speaker 2: switch To and PC. Is this where the fighting game,
Speaker 2: the fighting game scene is at, where it can support
Speaker 2: even fighting games like this, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, dog, Like there's a scene for everything nowadays. It's
Speaker 5: really cool. In the age of rollback net code and
Speaker 5: cross playing everything, a game can have a small audience
Speaker 5: on any given platform, but if you add like, oh, well,
Speaker 5: you know, it's got like a thousand players here, a
Speaker 5: thousand players there that may that you know, dwindles, and
Speaker 5: we only get like a couple hundred on each platform.
Speaker 5: You can still get a good matchmaking pool of players
Speaker 5: on every platform, as long as you get strong initial sales,
Speaker 5: your's set, and something like Avatar in each This is
Speaker 5: exactly what we were talking about with Final Fantasy, where
Speaker 5: the Avatar is coming out with a traditional two D
Speaker 5: one on one fighting game. It looks like it's gonna
Speaker 5: have assists in some ways, maybe like Mortal Kombat one.
Speaker 5: It looks like it's gonna be very like fan service,
Speaker 5: not not in that way, but in the good way
Speaker 5: to people who love this series, like jan and as
Speaker 5: a fighting game fan. I didn't get super into Avatar
Speaker 5: back in the day, didn't have cable, you know all that.
Speaker 5: But I look at this game and I'm like, this
Speaker 5: looks sick, and yeah, I definitely think it has a place,
Speaker 5: maybe not necessarily on the EVO main stage, but you know,
Speaker 5: at least with people playing online and stuff, right yeah.
Speaker 1: Like looking at Hi, I'm like, man, I wish they
Speaker 1: would do this for a franchise I care about, and
Speaker 1: avatars you know, by all accounts very good. I just
Speaker 1: haven't been able to watch me like this and Invincible
Speaker 1: what even the Marveltoe con like, these all look like
Speaker 1: good games about franchises I'm just not super hot on
Speaker 1: at the moment. Where's my Star Trek D Space nine
Speaker 1: one v one Fighting game?
Speaker 3: Or Yeah? What else? Do I like? Fighting Game?
Speaker 1: The seventeen seventy six musical, Oh fighting game? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean figment versus h a truck Disney at all. He's
Speaker 1: had too many hit.
Speaker 3: The beer guarded in Germany.
Speaker 1: Oh no, he's climbing the pyramid in Mexico. He's not
Speaker 1: allowed to do that.
Speaker 2: I would like to see a Founding Father's fighting game though, Yeah,
Speaker 2: just Benjamin Franklin versus John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
Speaker 3: He had what Abe Lincoln was in the Fight Club
Speaker 3: game with Fred Yeah? Yeah, though the Jared Leto in
Speaker 3: the in the Fight Club game there is, I'm a
Speaker 3: character from the Fight Club.
Speaker 1: Yeah, game wouldn't be terrible. Still, he's kind of barely
Speaker 1: you like, I don't think you could really pick Jared
Speaker 1: let aloud.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they put Abraham Lincoln in there, who was?
Speaker 4: But because no, But that's because first of all, he
Speaker 4: has a huge part in that tits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the man boobs please. Also, uh yes, and
Speaker 1: is Gandhi in it? Because they basically the Abraham Lincoln
Speaker 1: in the is because he's like, which historical figure would
Speaker 1: you want to fight?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Look, I'm not the fights where.
Speaker 3: I just know that I know that line.
Speaker 1: I know that's probably where they got it from.
Speaker 3: Right, definitely, I have the the roster for the fighting game,
Speaker 3: and yeah, meat Loaf is in it. Helena Bottom Carter
Speaker 3: is selectable. Which that must be the only game that
Speaker 3: you can be Helena Bottom Carter in. There's not a
Speaker 3: Harry Potter fighting game. Oh yeah, strange, m Yeah, they
Speaker 3: got everyone. All the stars are here. Uh all right,
Speaker 3: well wait, sweet Gandhi was in it? Or was not
Speaker 3: in it? Gandhi's not in the fight Club game?
Speaker 1: Okay, Clown High Fighting game. Yeah we'll get mad again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: first right of Clone Hi was so good. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: get it. That was so funny back in the day.
Speaker 1: I'll bring I'll bring the beards, right Bechler, Right, Mikey Yeah, alright.
Speaker 1: Moving on with the news, the next Xbox should be
Speaker 1: stronger than PS six, but more expensive.
Speaker 2: Reports claim as a reminder, Microsoft still under a BDS
Speaker 2: call for boycott for its involvement in Israel and Gaza.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: Both the PlayStation six and the next Xbox com SOS
Speaker 2: are reportedly targeting a twenty twenty seven release. Insider Kepler
Speaker 2: L two claims Sony plans a twenty twenty seven release
Speaker 2: for the PS six. Separately, hardware insider Mores Law is
Speaker 2: Dead posted a video discussing the AMD Magnus APU, which
Speaker 2: he believes will be part of Microsoft's next gen Xbox
Speaker 2: and is also planned for a twenty twenty seven launch.
Speaker 2: Or My life in Daming is what I was about
Speaker 2: to say. Moore's Law is Dead suggests the new Xbox
Speaker 2: might be a console PC hybrid, potentially stronger and more
Speaker 2: expensive than the PS six, aiming to challenge the PC
Speaker 2: gaming market.
Speaker 3: Let's see.
Speaker 2: He also claimed previously claimed that Sony is planning at
Speaker 2: PS six handheld with Nintendo Switch like docking abilities.
Speaker 3: We'll see. All this stuff does.
Speaker 2: Seem like it's probably still a little bit in motion. Obviously,
Speaker 2: they're going to have to start solidifying these things now,
Speaker 2: maybe actually before now. But the idea here would be
Speaker 2: that they would start manufacturing these things in early twenty
Speaker 2: twenty seven for a late twenty twenty seven launch, which
Speaker 2: would be you know, a seven year kind of six,
Speaker 2: seven year six, So yeah, that I don't know like
Speaker 2: a normal generation and then we're gonna get onto the
Speaker 2: next one.
Speaker 1: But this generation hasn't felt normal in any other way,
Speaker 1: so still a little odd.
Speaker 4: But the details are every generation, they are increasingly of
Speaker 4: less relevance. Yeah, what kind of Also, when I first
Speaker 4: read this, the Xbox should be stronger than We're just
Speaker 4: not sure if it's got it in it.
Speaker 3: Seasons have Daming. That's my favorite Judy Dench podcast.
Speaker 1: Okay, you said my life and Daming and it made
Speaker 1: me think of a freaking Dalton Abbey. I want to know,
Speaker 1: would it be funny if I a person who never
Speaker 1: saw any Dalton abby anything, only went to that last
Speaker 1: movie that's about to come out now that's the big finale,
Speaker 1: and like gave a very in depth review. I've watched
Speaker 1: it because I love Downton Abbey. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't think it would be very funny.
Speaker 3: Actually, it came out last month. There's plenty of your
Speaker 3: things you could do with your time.
Speaker 2: I think if you did that, you would be like,
Speaker 2: I need to actually do see what's gonna happen here?
Speaker 2: And I think you would get very into down Abbey.
Speaker 3: I just genually like it. It's interesting.
Speaker 4: M pey mp Matt may you and Chad says, just
Speaker 4: watch Gosford Park. No, Gosford Park. Gosford Park was I
Speaker 4: have a weird connection to that movie because I was
Speaker 4: interning from Bob Ballaban when he was producing Gosford Park,
Speaker 4: which is this Downton Abbey pre predecessor.
Speaker 1: And I'm like strangely.
Speaker 4: Familiar with that movie in a way that anyone's like,
Speaker 4: what you backal, Are you know a lot about Gospford Park?
Speaker 3: Do your gosshead gossip?
Speaker 1: I'm gost coded, Yes, it's true, I'm goss coded.
Speaker 3: Yeah. He turned with Bob Ballaban.
Speaker 1: Yeah for three summers.
Speaker 3: Yep. Do you know well?
Speaker 1: I know him pretty well?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Could you text him right now? I'm not asking you do,
Speaker 1: but could I get text him?
Speaker 3: He probably right back?
Speaker 1: Who the fuck is this?
Speaker 3: Can you get Bob Ballaban on the dump truck?
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not, there's a non zero chance. I mean
Speaker 1: you know, I got his phone number. I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's crazy? Who is that? You would know him if
Speaker 3: you saw his fast with the character actor for a
Speaker 3: long time he was in some.
Speaker 1: Executive Yeah, he's out there.
Speaker 4: Who Got in Love? Who fell in Love with a Lane?
Speaker 4: Right in the NBA, and he's showing up in a
Speaker 4: lot of Wes.
Speaker 3: Anderson character actor in a million things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the only way forward for Xbox Baby,
Speaker 1: if they have one, is.
Speaker 3: They can't Bob.
Speaker 1: People saying I've had strange instances in my life where
Speaker 1: like he's come back around. Were like also knew like
Speaker 1: Richard Drivers' kids for a while, and like what, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a who story.
Speaker 3: Mister Hollands kids.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly, and then obviously like they know him
Speaker 4: because they were in with the alien movie called Close Encounters.
Speaker 3: Yeah movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you see Bob Ballaban.
Speaker 3: Who is that? He's the He's the pile of potato.
Speaker 3: This is important, u h, chef.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about that. Get weird owl reference in this conference.
Speaker 3: No way, Mike, you just said second word owl reference.
Speaker 3: You're doing that is scary in the dark or whatever
Speaker 3: that was. I wasn't doing. Yeah, I wasn't doing.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was taking MacArthur Park about So you're filling
Speaker 1: pages and pages of wiki lore right now, the original
Speaker 1: I'm normal. All the sweet cream frosting, rolling down cream frosting.
Speaker 1: That's what Carthur Park.
Speaker 3: He's trying to do. Yeah, the yeah, to cake out
Speaker 3: in the rain.
Speaker 1: Microsoft denies claims that Target and Walmart stars are removing
Speaker 1: Xbox products from shelves. Uh.
Speaker 2: This this popped off over the weekend and then someone
Speaker 2: asked Xbox and the like, they're not doing that. But
Speaker 2: everyone's like, well, we believed it because it just like
Speaker 2: that just sounds right now. Everybody immediately believed in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know they didn't say they did not say
Speaker 2: this for Costco, which did take this stuff down, did
Speaker 2: take Xbox products off shelves and off their website.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know that they do.
Speaker 2: They when all this stuff was happening, they're like, hey,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna keep making hardware as well.
Speaker 3: Just look at this thing where we said we're working
Speaker 3: with AMD and we're making new hardware.
Speaker 2: So they do seem dedicated, but dedicated for now. And
Speaker 2: also like it's just so easy to dismiss anything they
Speaker 2: say officially because he has and will change. So Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe Target Walmart still has it for now, but I
Speaker 2: don't blame anyone for being like skeptical about the future
Speaker 2: of Xbox.
Speaker 3: That'll be a.
Speaker 1: Real bad sign if Walmart stops selling Xboxes.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, definitely and yeah again, like where this originated from.
Speaker 1: Let's see, yeah, they I think Deston.
Speaker 2: Was like kind of out here trying to find because
Speaker 2: he's the one that said something about Costco and was
Speaker 2: trying to find out exactly what's happened there, and then
Speaker 2: Windows Central came out and countered the story.
Speaker 1: Man, all right, that does it for the news though.
Speaker 1: Let's wrap things up and hand the show back over
Speaker 1: to Mike Manani. All right, thank you so much, Jeff.
Speaker 1: We'll take one more bricky break.
Speaker 3: We'll come back.
Speaker 1: We've got some emails, We've got some super chats. We'll
Speaker 1: hit all that's right after this.
Speaker 3: Emails.
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Speaker 1: at giant bomb dot com. We're always happy to hear
Speaker 1: from all of you. It's like we are happy to
Speaker 1: hear from Mike from Loveland. He says, Hello, great bombs.
Speaker 1: What is one game from the first half of this
Speaker 1: year you haven't touched yet, but you swear to God
Speaker 1: you're gonna play before the end of the year. Time
Speaker 1: is running out. Love the show, Love you all. Mike
Speaker 1: from Lovelin Man at least.
Speaker 3: For dot com Slash twenty give me some Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I feel like the first half of the other is
Speaker 3: not that much.
Speaker 1: Like for a while, I was like, I'd have to
Speaker 1: finish Avowed, and now I'm like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I really need to find I.
Speaker 3: Thought it'll probably be in my top ten. I liked it, and.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe let's sqeeze in my top ten if I
Speaker 1: finished it. I don't feel some giant pool. Even Doom
Speaker 1: the Arcages, which I liked and kind of dropped half
Speaker 1: way through, I'm kind of like, I mean, I liked it,
Speaker 1: I don't think I need to go back.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be my top ten. Like I got
Speaker 3: probably three quarters the way through Doom and fell off,
Speaker 3: but I don't think I don't feel the need to
Speaker 3: go back to that. I do feel like I've just
Speaker 3: kind of been playing all the big stuff this year.
Speaker 3: I I'm looking at the list and like.
Speaker 2: The one I see everyone going back to that, I
Speaker 2: was curious if anyone here will go back to, which
Speaker 2: I don't think they will.
Speaker 1: Is Kingdom Come Deliverance too?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We are going to skip on that probably like there's
Speaker 1: there's Honestly, I'm worried about the stuff that's happening, like
Speaker 1: now or it is about to happen, Like yeah, like
Speaker 1: Ninja Guide and Ghost of Yote haven't been able to
Speaker 1: touch that yet. It's not Pokemon. It's just like Touch tactics.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm like, I'm more gonna start about this
Speaker 1: last quarter than anything else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty up to date outside of that.
Speaker 1: Though, I never no No you exist.
Speaker 3: I never never touched South of Midnight m super hot
Speaker 3: on Like. I don't think anyone who's like, oh, this
Speaker 3: is a train recker, it's terrible. I think it was
Speaker 3: just like it was great in trailers and then it
Speaker 3: came out and nobody seemed super hot on it.
Speaker 2: I think I think it was just like a very
Speaker 2: old school style of games. Sure yeah, and it wasn't
Speaker 2: like a fantastic one of those.
Speaker 3: But I think a lot of people liked it.
Speaker 4: I would also like to give blueprints, and honest to god,
Speaker 4: go I played a good amount of it, but I
Speaker 4: would I think I just want to like, get back
Speaker 4: in there.
Speaker 1: Still gonna be high on mine. I liked that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it's definitely high on mine. The OTC
Speaker 2: Hero I just had it and then I lost it.
Speaker 3: Oh yes.
Speaker 2: Split fiction is when I guess I did touch it,
Speaker 2: but I'm not really played it all.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's top ten, but it is. It's
Speaker 3: very good. It's probably the best one of those.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely gonna be I mean, barring something catastrophic.
Speaker 4: I don't see how that doesn't make it there. It's funny.
Speaker 4: I recommended split fiction to another kids add on Dibb's
Speaker 4: hockey team, and he comes back the next day and
Speaker 4: he's like.
Speaker 1: Bro, He's like, I didn't know games were doing that.
Speaker 3: I I didn't know.
Speaker 4: We we got we got this far and we're like
Speaker 4: doing all this. I'm like, it's pretty good, right. He's like, like,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna trust you on games now. I still never
Speaker 4: told him what I do. I'm like, yeah, don't worry
Speaker 4: about it. But first one's free, next one's gonna cost you.
Speaker 1: I didn't need to at least try deaf straining to
Speaker 1: at some point I have not touched that.
Speaker 3: The thing that's gonna happen, though, is like, if you're
Speaker 3: not gonna like play it, play it. It's not a
Speaker 3: game that you play for like two hours. The sense
Speaker 3: of it, you know, it's like it's a much longer
Speaker 3: process than that. Saying I shouldn't bother. I'm saying, go
Speaker 3: all the way in or don't at all.
Speaker 1: I would say, all right, we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 3: I mean, you don't think I did two hours.
Speaker 1: Will get some sense of like, Okay, I get this
Speaker 1: and I want more of it, or I will be like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like there's just so many tools and things
Speaker 3: that you get in and the narrative and everything that, like,
Speaker 3: I feel like you play two hours of it, you're
Speaker 3: barely gonna scratch any of that. You know. I didn't
Speaker 3: try Pipistrella.
Speaker 1: Oh that was fun.
Speaker 3: It's a good one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, Travis says, Hi, ghosts and goblins one. Do
Speaker 1: you have absolute certainly remember the last time you ate
Speaker 1: a bacon cheese blug?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Wendy's.
Speaker 1: I had a bacon junior bacon cheeseburger from Wendy's.
Speaker 2: Okay, exactly, let's see here. I could probably figure it out.
Speaker 2: It was like last maybe it was last Friday. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because I got Wendy's for the kids, and that's what
Speaker 2: I got. It's got to be bacon, yeah, Junior, it's
Speaker 2: got to be a bacon cheeseburger.
Speaker 1: I could have gotten one, yes, because I went the
Speaker 1: five guys and I was like, I'll just get a
Speaker 1: regular cheeseburger.
Speaker 3: I'm glad I did.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to do like the whole Can you
Speaker 1: believe what blank plink plink costs?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: But if five guys getting a cheeseburger fries in a
Speaker 1: soda was twenty bucks, and I'm like, what the hell
Speaker 1: you know?
Speaker 3: It's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the last bacon cheeseburger I had was also
Speaker 1: a Wendy's situation at the beginning of the summer.
Speaker 3: I think in August I had There's place called Lions Tap,
Speaker 3: and I think I had a bacon cheeseburger there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had went there's a place in here called Coaches.
Speaker 1: I think I had one there. Uh yeah, We're.
Speaker 3: Gonna skip the rest of the questions. Just go with
Speaker 3: those last one here.
Speaker 1: What was I wanted to talk about?
Speaker 3: The second one?
Speaker 1: All right, Backglart was is that new Taylor Swift song
Speaker 1: any good? It says that new Taylor Swift. I guess
Speaker 1: the album the The Diary Downfall Book about a.
Speaker 3: Line dancer or whatever it's called.
Speaker 1: Right, I don't dislike Taylor Swift. This is not a
Speaker 1: good album. I've been hearing that. I've been hearing that
Speaker 1: this is even even the maybe some of the hardcourse
Speaker 1: with these not all of them. I'm sure some of
Speaker 1: them will be down for anything.
Speaker 3: But people.
Speaker 2: Someone explained to me that it's because she's aging now
Speaker 2: of being a pretty little white girl and all of
Speaker 2: her music is pretty little white girl music.
Speaker 1: So you know, I kind of push back on all
Speaker 1: those narratives.
Speaker 4: I think it's just like unfair to just be like,
Speaker 4: I mean, look, just crank out records in record time,
Speaker 4: right it is. I find that not like troubling. I
Speaker 4: just find that to be like a footnote that needs
Speaker 4: to be talked about because music is.
Speaker 1: Just putting out like one a year.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm always a little suspicious about stuff like that. Not
Speaker 4: that like to discredit the quality of the work. I'm
Speaker 4: just like, really, you're pumping out new music like once,
Speaker 4: Like I don't know, a lot of my favorite bands
Speaker 4: every four years. I'm lucky if I get a new
Speaker 4: record out of those guys. Anyway, I just I think lyrically,
Speaker 4: I think things are just not there. It's it's very
Speaker 4: it's very saccharine, it's very just sort of not challenging
Speaker 4: anything interesting. I just I just don't find it very interesting.
Speaker 3: How does the combat? The running rounds?
Speaker 4: Fine, the combats right, I'm just not like, oh, we're
Speaker 4: taken with like, wow, there's she's got a lot to
Speaker 4: say here.
Speaker 1: I think some of the lyrics are like actually kind
Speaker 1: of like remarkably stupid in place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was kind of like very surface level MEMI
Speaker 2: stuff I heard, And so I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't have an opinion, you know what,
Speaker 3: I will see the Borderlands four of music. Yes, three
Speaker 3: was more MEMI.
Speaker 4: So I think Tornado Drop actually has a really good
Speaker 4: review of it. I think it is very thoughtful.
Speaker 1: Uh and well written review. Go watch that, all right?
Speaker 1: Oh she's a showgirl, not a line dancer. All right,
Speaker 1: Travis sa Fargo. That's we'll leave it there for you
Speaker 1: and thank you so much, and then we'll go to
Speaker 1: Brandon from Alabama, says dear jan Is Marvel snap a
Speaker 1: rogue light chance not here, But I'm going to answer
Speaker 1: for him and say no, of course, no, No, it's
Speaker 1: a card it's a card game. It's a card game, man,
Speaker 1: and you click things and you get you spend your
Speaker 1: deck over time.
Speaker 3: I see how you got there.
Speaker 1: But but but no, Valerie from Denver, so hype bombers
Speaker 1: between you chuckleheads and vgb's. My brain has become so
Speaker 1: fucking infected with the my wife thing. I just said
Speaker 1: it reflectively out loud on a pack bus. But listen
Speaker 1: to the podcast. I hope you're fucking happy. I'm writing
Speaker 1: this in mortified silence to avoid having to look at
Speaker 1: anyone else, right, perfect email, Valerie, Yeah, perfect, fucking even.
Speaker 4: Look I'm with you, val if I may. I think
Speaker 4: there is something about what happens to your brain is
Speaker 4: you're like, everyone's in on this joke, right, this dumb
Speaker 4: Borat thing that went away twenty fucking years ago, it's
Speaker 4: back now, and you are all aware that it's back now.
Speaker 4: And I will say this in public spaces with the
Speaker 4: understanding that we have all agreed that it's cool to
Speaker 4: do this again, ironically as it were.
Speaker 1: No, it is not. Unfortunately, I apologize.
Speaker 3: On the Mount rushmore of like impressions that got overdone immediately.
Speaker 3: I think Borat impressions very much up there in like
Speaker 3: eight or whatever. And then Austin Powers some.
Speaker 1: Hours early nineties, Jim Carrey as.
Speaker 3: Sure just Jim Carrey. Yeah, yeah, just Jim Carrey, Christopher Walking.
Speaker 1: Everyone does one of those.
Speaker 3: There's like this is the whole dude chatter. Fine, no, yeah,
Speaker 3: but if we're going specific chatter, Chappelle, Rick James circa
Speaker 3: like early two thousand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was much more flash in the pan.
Speaker 3: I feel like that.
Speaker 1: Came, but it was every certain Yes, yes, at least
Speaker 1: he's not at least he has war free speech these
Speaker 1: days doing his finally yep, yeah, uh okay, then next one. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, anybody alis have an ant Valerie? Valerie
Speaker 1: is such an ant name to me is positive.
Speaker 3: Which is also very anti name. I've I have an
Speaker 3: aunt jam How yeah.
Speaker 1: Rebecca from Canterbury says your bomb giants, is there any
Speaker 1: piece of art and media that you have revisited following
Speaker 1: a big life event? Just growing older that's led to
Speaker 1: you having a newfound appreciation for set art and media.
Speaker 1: Plus my dad a few years ago and recently replayed Spiritfair.
Speaker 3: Fuck? Why did I do that? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Hope you are well, trans writes Rebecca from Canterbury. PS
Speaker 1: all the giant bombs who independent throw your hands up
Speaker 1: at me? There you go, There you go.
Speaker 2: It's the cliche thing, but Interstellar was different after having kids.
Speaker 3: Stupid, but it's true.
Speaker 2: Also, first man, I think I kind of like didn't
Speaker 2: really pay attention the first.
Speaker 1: Time I watched that, but then watched it. I think
Speaker 1: I had had kids the first.
Speaker 2: Time I watched it, but I was really feeling it
Speaker 2: the second time, and like that movie is just about
Speaker 2: like losing kids.
Speaker 3: I don't think I could ever watch it again. It
Speaker 3: was very affecting. I feel like like I've grown as
Speaker 3: a person in a lot of ways over the years.
Speaker 3: Thank you for the laughter. But if you think in
Speaker 3: broad strokes, I'm kinda just the same dude, I wasn't
Speaker 3: like nineteen ninety eight. Uh so, yeah, I don't really
Speaker 3: have any like you know, like it all kind of
Speaker 3: hits me the same now as it did back.
Speaker 1: Don't revisit things because you're hardly visiting.
Speaker 3: You're just like they are experiencing you. Do you know
Speaker 3: what I mean? Do you get one up like you're
Speaker 3: just you're specifically you're humanity.
Speaker 1: You very clearly you But.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean things like like Meddle your solid
Speaker 3: impacted me like crazy in ninety eight, and it does
Speaker 3: in the same way now it's not like, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: my clone dad came back at the graveyard and now
Speaker 3: I can think of this in a different way, you know,
Speaker 3: It's like it's still like that happens to the rest
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 4: If that's like the same emotional experience that the emailer
Speaker 4: is talking about, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: It's like a big wife if that would be like
Speaker 1: getting married or having to move.
Speaker 3: I mean there were things that after being married. There
Speaker 3: are things like I talked about that thing in Spider
Speaker 3: Man two, that little scene on the bench with the
Speaker 3: guy talking about losing his wife and he proposed her
Speaker 3: at that pond and stuff, and like that actually affected
Speaker 3: me because it very much mirrored like I proposed backing up,
Speaker 3: you know, but park on a bench and stuff like
Speaker 3: it just kind of like I empathize that, but like
Speaker 3: I've never gone back to something that I didn't previously
Speaker 3: have feelings about. And then I do you know, I
Speaker 3: mean that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you know a lot of these
Speaker 1: things for this is usually loss of a loved when
Speaker 1: they're having kids, right, So those are the big hYP
Speaker 1: of this here.
Speaker 4: I don't have an answer to this about going back
Speaker 4: to something, but what remains of Edith Finch is the
Speaker 4: game that made me ball in a way that I
Speaker 4: could not understand.
Speaker 3: Game made me madame.
Speaker 2: It made me so mad that leaving a baby in
Speaker 2: a tub and he died big surprise.
Speaker 3: Wow, Yeah, I gotta spoil that. Fuck that game. That's
Speaker 3: so stupid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, like they Yeah, I guess I was just
Speaker 1: sort of.
Speaker 3: Have empathy for these characters. Why would you do that?
Speaker 3: You're not wrong, man, you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, either way, I don't know. There's something about
Speaker 1: that thing.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty good game.
Speaker 2: Otherwise, I put on Spider Man one uh yesterday, and
Speaker 2: this is just a tangent you guys made me think
Speaker 2: of brought up Spider Man, and I was watching and
Speaker 2: the kids they're kind of paying attention, kind of playing Minecraft.
Speaker 2: But then the kissing scene comes on and Addie was
Speaker 2: just like locked in and I'm like, Oh.
Speaker 3: This is gonna be like a formative thing.
Speaker 2: She's gonna think this is what romance is, upside down
Speaker 2: kiss and yeah, and I like leaned.
Speaker 1: Over, like this won an m TV Movie Award for
Speaker 1: Best Kiss.
Speaker 3: It's a hot what house? What that award is?
Speaker 1: It's the only one I think I remember.
Speaker 4: Oh, there was one where like, I feel like there
Speaker 4: was one where like Adam Sandler and Kevin James were kissing.
Speaker 3: That sounds right, Yeah, the alley of that.
Speaker 2: I've watched a lot of Chuck and Larry through YouTube
Speaker 2: shorts in the last week or so.
Speaker 1: That keeps popping up and my sons, and that's fun.
Speaker 3: I prefer that. Yeah, it's the big one.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: The first time I saw Galaxy Quest was.
Speaker 1: Before I watched Star Trek, and then I start checking
Speaker 1: saw it and the the movie was funnier. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of people out there space balls before Star Wars.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean I saw Rocky five a bunch of
Speaker 3: times before I ever saw any other Rocky movie, and
Speaker 3: so I thought Rocky five was awesome. And then I
Speaker 3: saw the other ones and I went back and watched
Speaker 3: it and I was like, oh, this is definitely the
Speaker 3: bad one. So I got that counts and there you go.
Speaker 1: Jones from Saint Paul says, are you guys aware that
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon has also been on the New York Times
Speaker 1: Best Selling Authors list multiple times, also where each time
Speaker 1: it was for children's books?
Speaker 3: Are you also aware that these are.
Speaker 1: The most mid children's books that existed and The other
Speaker 1: reason they sold as well as they did is because
Speaker 1: they have the name Jimmy Fallon on them.
Speaker 3: I feel like that should hurt their sales.
Speaker 1: Call me when you have a Newberry, Cawdacott, Jimbo. Until then,
Speaker 1: stay in you're fucking way.
Speaker 3: Ps.
Speaker 1: Dan Starkey is closing his month to get out here.
Speaker 1: The Foulon stuff's not surprising. It's all marketing too. With
Speaker 1: that stuff. Every child agrees is the greatest work of
Speaker 1: literature ever know.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure he did the rounds on every NBC
Speaker 3: Morning Show and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you get the n cap on, Barnes and Nobles,
Speaker 4: Jimmy Fallon. It was those Dad Dad books right there
Speaker 4: was like the book where like the sheep was saying
Speaker 4: dad and not Mama or something like that.
Speaker 1: Oh I don't look I have There are very nice
Speaker 1: people who have wrote children's books, but there's like.
Speaker 3: A lot of people who aren't.
Speaker 1: This is my job as writing children's books. Then write
Speaker 1: a children's book and it seems like, yeah, it worked.
Speaker 3: Can I try? Yeah? I bet you could. You could.
Speaker 3: You're a man.
Speaker 1: Most people could. You have no idea what children would
Speaker 1: like or watch? Extremely successful because of that thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's like so crazy. It's just my
Speaker 4: work kind of stuff. Because Alex Banyello wrote a children's book,
Speaker 4: Miller did take.
Speaker 3: Me out of page it like everyone's like, think about okay, well, okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: let's let's work shop this.
Speaker 1: Well, I haven't I have one an idea.
Speaker 2: I want to hear your just quick, Jimmy fallon merchandise
Speaker 2: dot com is a sad sad Matt.
Speaker 1: Now we can continue to go to a giant bomb
Speaker 1: dot com instead. That's a happy place.
Speaker 3: What is the right age for children's books for like
Speaker 3: a six year old? Is that kind of like the
Speaker 3: prime time?
Speaker 4: Well, I think you're already yeah, to old age, any age.
Speaker 3: I mean you got to like, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: Like it's a bad question, a bad question, Dan, because
Speaker 1: there's children books for for every kind of That's the thing.
Speaker 3: I got to figure out what you choose one.
Speaker 4: You have to decide. You have to decide who am
Speaker 4: I writing this for? Okay, kids like smaller.
Speaker 3: To ten that is, you know, but there's that they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: they don't like doing chores or whatever.
Speaker 4: You know, it's like everything you don't have chores, Guys,
Speaker 4: maybe I think I'm out.
Speaker 1: I think I'm out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, no, we don't think of the way we're
Speaker 3: going to get there. What's the universal among children? They
Speaker 3: don't like doing chores?
Speaker 4: Right you you're every kid in your mind? Is Kevin
Speaker 4: mcallis there? I think that is.
Speaker 3: What it is, the universal thing across every age and
Speaker 3: culture everything, like I don't like doing chores.
Speaker 1: A four year old is not responsible for chores because that.
Speaker 3: Keeps four people in chat say that their four year
Speaker 3: olds have chores, real chores.
Speaker 1: Get out of here.
Speaker 3: What they after themselves? That that's not a chore, that's
Speaker 3: just cleaning up. I don't know. They're not taking out
Speaker 3: the trash. That's a This book is for eight to
Speaker 3: twelve year olds, and it's about chores. What it's an
Speaker 3: eight year old?
Speaker 1: Yeap?
Speaker 3: Okay to twelve year olds? All right, so this is
Speaker 3: for Dylan. You really think about doing chairs or chairs toores?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: He is? Okay. So this book is aimed at ten
Speaker 3: year olds. Uh, not just from New Jersey, from anywhere.
Speaker 3: It's universal. Wow. And the moral The moral is, hey,
Speaker 3: sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do,
Speaker 3: but you're you'll grow as a person and you're helping people, okay,
Speaker 3: And so that's the not the metaphor, what's the moral
Speaker 3: of the story is sometimes you have to do things
Speaker 3: you don't want to do, okay, Dan. By the time
Speaker 3: we're at so it's a caterpillar and he's no, go ahead. Sorry.
Speaker 1: At the time where ten kids should be reading like
Speaker 1: chapter books, no longer the books were.
Speaker 3: Told thought okay, then we're going for six year olds.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, maybe younger, maybe you should be thinking more
Speaker 1: about that's like three, like two to five range.
Speaker 3: Okay, And it's okay, two to five. And it's about
Speaker 3: it's never too early to start thinking about what you
Speaker 3: want to do for a living. That's the moral. That's fine,
Speaker 3: that's fine, right right, because you find your bridge about
Speaker 3: finding your passion early on and deciding early on to
Speaker 3: to go after it. And so it's like play it
Speaker 3: for capitalism. Yes, so maybe it's about Okay, it's about
Speaker 3: a caterpillar who he he lives on the lawn with
Speaker 3: his family and every day he looks up at the
Speaker 3: stars and thinks about the space, and so he loves showover.
Speaker 3: He's fascinated by space. He looks at the moon every
Speaker 3: night and He's like, oh, mom, caterpillar, I just what's
Speaker 3: up there? And she's like, well, maybe if you work
Speaker 3: hard enough you can find out. And so he goes
Speaker 3: to like caterpillar space camp and he like studies space
Speaker 3: stuff in school and winds up being the first like
Speaker 3: caterpillar astronaut.
Speaker 1: It becomes an accountant.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, no, he follow those dreams and he
Speaker 3: made it.
Speaker 1: Is this a world where like humans are also existing,
Speaker 1: but the caterpillars have their own space.
Speaker 3: There's like caterpillar versions of everything. So there's a caterpillar
Speaker 3: like governments and stuff, you know, got it? Yeah? And
Speaker 3: do you know what the story is of the very
Speaker 3: hungry caterpillar? I can picture I think the unique art style,
Speaker 3: didn't it segmented caterpillar in the front? No, what is
Speaker 3: the story?
Speaker 5: That?
Speaker 3: Basically just he just eats a lot. It's very high.
Speaker 3: Is it award of warning for overeating?
Speaker 1: Is that the moral a little bit?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 2: He gets he can get upset Tommy, but he turns
Speaker 2: into a butterfly.
Speaker 3: It's just kind of then, no, caterpillar, they already did that.
Speaker 3: They already did the caterpillar. So mine is about Yeah,
Speaker 3: mine's about a woodpecker. It's a family away. Oh I'm
Speaker 3: tired of eating this house every day. Oh mom, I'm
Speaker 3: bored of this. And so the woodpecker starts a little
Speaker 3: farm where it makes a bunch of like, you know,
Speaker 3: vegan snacks forever society now yeah. Yeah. So he's like,
Speaker 3: I'm tired of this thing that I'm eating every day.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna invent something better for us woodpeckers. And so
Speaker 3: he makes a little woodpecker and need in the market
Speaker 3: and fill it. Yeah yeah, And then he's gonna make
Speaker 3: a bunch of like healthy like a whole foods for
Speaker 3: for birds.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, I'd like to make a book about business, Dracula.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 1: More like Back of our Dan.
Speaker 3: Jesus, Yeah, I have.
Speaker 1: All the sharks are invested. And it took pulling teeth
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 3: I get it, all right.
Speaker 1: We got a few super chats here to get to too.
Speaker 1: From the first on Drace, it says mug week when
Speaker 1: mug Master Mitch must stop the hate. What if the
Speaker 1: hate is justified? Whoa that he can keep going? WHOA?
Speaker 3: Mugs are bad and they're.
Speaker 2: Prejudice hate, it's judas it's he has judged what has
Speaker 2: happened here, and it says this is this must be hated.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's like what what what?
Speaker 3: What is mug Week? I mean we play as a
Speaker 3: mug manned cup heead and then what we introduced. It's
Speaker 3: it's like an advent calendar. Every day we introduce a
Speaker 3: new mug to the store.
Speaker 2: My god, we have we raise money for charity by
Speaker 2: having you sit on a dunk tank, but we throw
Speaker 2: mugs at you instead.
Speaker 3: This sounds paidful. Cut me.
Speaker 1: That's all that mugs do is break great big frush
Speaker 1: storty seven says says Dan.
Speaker 3: Tried Warhammer forty K Speed Freaks. No, what is that?
Speaker 3: There's so many Warhammer forty K games. There are cool
Speaker 3: Warhammer things. Now I can acknowledge that we played that.
Speaker 2: I'm going to guess this is a a car combat game,
Speaker 2: like like Star Wars Demolition.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like Star Wars Demolition. Okay, good, I like that.
Speaker 3: It's like freak style from me a big.
Speaker 1: Because you can then you can trademark it.
Speaker 3: This looks good. It is a car combat game? What
Speaker 3: is this? All right?
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh, let's play this.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't want to make this What the hell
Speaker 3: is it? Play online or with bots? Does that have
Speaker 3: like a co op campaign like Twisted Metal? I would
Speaker 3: go through that with you. I'm getting it now, this
Speaker 3: says online PvP.
Speaker 1: What the hell where does come from?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'll try it out.
Speaker 1: It weirds me out, actually that I haven't even heard
Speaker 1: of this game.
Speaker 3: It's from the.
Speaker 2: Change Element, which has done the Let's See Grip. Do
Speaker 2: you guys remember that?
Speaker 3: Like, yes, yeah, yeah, it has.
Speaker 1: Even though they're very positive, it does not have a
Speaker 1: lot of Steam reviews. So he's like, this really went
Speaker 1: under the radar even for Warhammer forty k.
Speaker 3: Yeah, two hundred and fifty reviews. Not a ton.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, a p idiot, Box says, sharing a
Speaker 1: picture to the Giant Bump discord of my Zoo's baby
Speaker 1: or ring itting wielding a knife that somebody threw it
Speaker 1: to the exhibit a few weeks ago. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: one of the exhibit monkeys or apes to get a weapon, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just give it. Just give them your camera instead.
Speaker 3: That's way better.
Speaker 1: Ah, but I'm sorry, do you think they're like excited
Speaker 1: about the knife? You think they very quickly become afraid
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: Holding it. They're excited.
Speaker 1: But if if any parton was able to understand ooh
Speaker 1: sharp thing, do you think they.
Speaker 3: Go scared it away? There? Now?
Speaker 1: This is how Plant of the Apes starts.
Speaker 3: Okay in two thousand and one in Space Odyssey exactly, I.
Speaker 1: Think they go weapon, thinking weapon. It depends on the
Speaker 1: eight but yes, for the most part, weapon apes together strong.
Speaker 3: I know that apes and knife very strong.
Speaker 1: Matthew Madison says for the Jan Coffee Fund, Thank you
Speaker 1: so much of Matthew, And then Kitty Catman ninety three
Speaker 1: says Mike golf At just arriving, got to say, as
Speaker 1: an individual for the huge ass had this hat is
Speaker 1: comfy as hell or shit? Sorry shit not how good
Speaker 1: great work Fellas.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Ca.
Speaker 1: I'm glad, I'm glad the merchants arriving and it's looking
Speaker 1: good and feeling good. Yeah, I haven't been here today.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 1: Usually like hats like that don't fit me very well,
Speaker 1: but this that fits great. I was very happy with it.
Speaker 1: So maybe we'll use that style of hat for some
Speaker 1: other design again in the future because it seemed seemed
Speaker 1: pretty comfortable.
Speaker 3: Cool, But there we go. That's it for the super Chats.
Speaker 3: As well phones.
Speaker 1: What do we have popping off this week now at
Speaker 1: Giant Bom Some things are getting moved around a little
Speaker 1: bit since we missed a good chunk of yesterday for
Speaker 1: the holiday. So if you missed Monday Mornings and Mysteries
Speaker 1: with Mitch, we're playing seventh Guests. We're actually doing that
Speaker 1: on Friday now. That's a twelve thirty Eastern so kind
Speaker 1: of in between Games Mornings and upf speaking of you,
Speaker 1: PSA believe our plan is to check out a bunch
Speaker 1: of the Steam Nextfest demos that are popping off right now.
Speaker 1: There's a Star Trek Voyager game. I want to play, everybody,
Speaker 1: I need it.
Speaker 3: The children's book is about a golf ball who he's
Speaker 3: sad because he's owned by a family of golfers and
Speaker 3: they're bad and they don't know how to golf well,
Speaker 3: and he wants to fly. He sees all trying to
Speaker 3: whack him. Yeah, he's jealous because he sees all of
Speaker 3: his friends and there's we there's flying three hundred yards
Speaker 3: in the area, you know, and he can't. He's just
Speaker 3: got these goobers. And so he like does the thing
Speaker 3: where he emancipates himself from his family and gets adopted
Speaker 3: by a better golfer family. Geez yeah, so child divorce. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you can do that. You know, you can do anything.
Speaker 3: You know what. You've got a bad situation and I
Speaker 3: love it. Thank yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: It's got a Pulitzers in your in your future here,
Speaker 1: thank you?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: J backour Uh.
Speaker 1: Do we have anyone fun we could talk about for
Speaker 1: voicemail dump truck this week and anything we can announce
Speaker 1: there's that have to be a mystery right now.
Speaker 4: I don't know if this person has been confirmed yet,
Speaker 4: so I will save.
Speaker 1: Said at the end of last episode, but I don't
Speaker 1: know for sure.
Speaker 3: It's Bob Web.
Speaker 1: We did it all right, yeah, okay, yeah, And I
Speaker 1: think jam is actually planning to check out some Pokemon
Speaker 1: Legends z a Thursday night if you watch me do
Speaker 1: some of these kind of opening night game streams. Believe
Speaker 1: Jan's planning to do one of his own for that one,
Speaker 1: so keep an eye out for that on Thurdyesday night.
Speaker 1: Some other things, like I said, we're probably gonna get
Speaker 1: that this is the run for Absolum starting here maybe
Speaker 1: around Thursday as well.
Speaker 3: I mean there, I would say either tomorrow or Thursday.
Speaker 3: You know, it's gonna be a thing that we're just
Speaker 3: kinna squeeze in between other things or like maybe sometimes
Speaker 3: Games Warning Mess will roll into a run, but just
Speaker 3: keep an eye out. You know, we'll try to be
Speaker 3: good on the socials about it and everything, but we
Speaker 3: want to play a lot of that.
Speaker 1: There are some of our things with you know, embargos
Speaker 1: and whatnots. Yeah, there'll be more, but yeah, plenty of
Speaker 1: happening here all the Game Mess mornings. Of course, there's
Speaker 1: tons of fun stuff to check out on Giant Bob.
Speaker 1: Even though we're leaving golf behind, the good times are
Speaker 1: going to continue to.
Speaker 3: Roll Backler, can we talk about we were gonna mean
Speaker 3: you were gonna talk about something after Games Warning Mess tomorrow,
Speaker 3: after Embarger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just don't know if the if we're allowed
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 3: I don't know who we are, but yeah, Backlar and
Speaker 3: I have been checking something out that if you want
Speaker 3: to stay tuned after Game Morning Mess tomorrow and I
Speaker 3: might just kind of chat about something we've been messing with.
Speaker 1: Awesome, all right, then I believe we are just a
Speaker 1: done and we're ready to get out of here. Everybody
Speaker 1: he's been Jeff he's been Jeff, he's been Dan. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much to Sean for helping us out on
Speaker 1: the back end this evening.
Speaker 3: I have been Mike. Good times, everybody.
Speaker 1: We'll see you all next time, right here on the
Speaker 1: giant bomb cash Woo.
Speaker 3: I think you're supposed to yell things, now do it now?
Speaker 3: He does that. Some times I can't. I can't be
Speaker 3: about golf anymore. I don't care what you guys said.
Speaker 1: I still kind of want to see that Downton Abby
Speaker 1: movie with no other context, but just I think is
Speaker 1: happening here.