Speaker 1: It's the Internet. You're busy, Let's do this. Welcome to
the Game Mesticides podcast. This is the podcast where we
decide everything about the world of games, so you never
have to think for yourself. I'm your host Jeff Grubb,
and with me is Mike Miniti. In today's episode, Oblivion
Remake for Real, Xbox is cooking a handheld console? Did
Kojima just drop a new snake? Mikey says, silent hell
fs and chat and who wants to be a Mikeyanair
and then last second topic because I forgot soundhill e
Flic school, So so we're doubling up on the sound Apparently.
Speaker 2: What do you?
Speaker 3: What do you?
Speaker 1: Don't you? I didn't do that. He made the joke
and then I just threw it in there and then
do it. I've just done it while you were there.
I did reference the fact, I said, Mike, So maybe
it's just yeah, he just assumed that you get people
stop me sometimes. Mike Manatti, how are you doing. I'm good.
Speaker 4: I'm good. Got a little weekend trip coming up, so
been getting ready for that.
Speaker 1: I think when is Mike Manatti gonna have an l
I don't think it's ever gonna happen again. It's going
okayna win, Mikey and here tonight. There's some hard ones
in there, but I think you're gonna win. So you're
gonna earn a T shirt before you go.
Speaker 4: It'd be nice, that would be very nice. Yeah, I'll
definitely get some T shirts there. But yeah, yeah, I
can't say too much about the trip right now. I
don't know when I will, but yeah, I'm gonna have
a fun time, but you know, I'll be hanging around.
I'm not going to Disney World, Jeff. I think I
could say that, Oh no, no, you're doing important work.
You don't have time for frivolous, childish things like that.
Exactly at me.
Speaker 1: I went to the doctor day and I'm just excited.
My blood prep pressure a okay, very good actually just
two years. Yeah, that was nice to see. I was like, oh, yeah, okay, cool,
you did lose weight and stuff. That will help with that.
Apparently that helps. That makes a big difference apparently. So yeah,
so like one ten over sixty eight, I'm oh, this
will sound pretty good to help you.
Speaker 4: Because every time they tell me the numbers, I have
to ask them, is that good? Oh?
Speaker 1: I'm too embarrassed to ask them. They're just like that's good.
I'm like, okay, and then I google. I try to
remember the numbers, and then I google it when I
get home. I'm like, okay, that's the good range. That's
the good range. So apparently doing all right. So that
was nice to see. But other than that, feel a
little sick because I have kids, and that's just how
it goes. Yeah, that Emmy was sniffling yesterday, so I
sniffle today. That's how it goes.
Speaker 4: I see, I see they got to put up some
anti bodies here soon or something.
Speaker 1: I mean, they'll just they'll build up for the shit
that's already happened, and then the new ship will come
down the pike and not have to deal with that.
It's a whole other thing. I was playing Fester's Quest again.
I don't know. I think I like it. You can't
get it out of your head. I think I like it. Yeah,
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2: You know what to do.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like okay, yeah, yeah, Look, there are
still so many things about that game that are egregious.
I think the worst thing is that one enemy attack
that just slows you down indefinitely unless you know to
use vice gripts, and if you have vice scripts, that's insane. Yes,
just the weapons hitting the walls is so infuriating every
time that happens.
Speaker 1: Especially because so many of the weapons have a like
they're symmetrical in wavy, Like there's one that like will
like shoot out to like two sides at the same time,
and if it hits the wall on one side, it
stops immediately on the other. So it's like that one
didn't hit a wall. Why is it stopping well, because
it's brother over there did hit a wall. It's it's bad.
Speaker 4: I kind of want to try that European version where
the weapons go through the walls and apparently some of
the health pools have been lowered because it is insane
how much hope a lot of these characters have. But yeah,
I don't know. Some other Endes games I want to
play that are probably better, including like from Sunsoft I
want to be Gremlins two.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, it's got some good games for sure. Yeah,
but Mike played that for Blake Club. Everybody that's up
on John Bomb now you should go check that out.
It was a good time, that's right.
Speaker 4: Part of the power block, which I need to have
a bumper for. I'm riding just like I'm writing and
take down the government.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well you know you're rioting, but in a
very pleasant way.
Speaker 4: Very pleasant and polite way, but still firm.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, no, no, you are anti your anti
establishment is I thinks.
Speaker 4: You like Hank Kill telling guests at his cookout that
they want their stake done well done, right, you asked
them to leave firmly but kindly.
Speaker 1: Yes, you are gamings, Hank Kills what we've always known.
I like that. I like that. Yeah, that's pretty good.
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that's what that is. Yeah, got big topics. Let's talk
about it, Mike. You ready? Okay? The rumored Oblivion remake
could launch sooner than expected. I could get announced here
very soon, could launch as soon as June. As soon
as this leaked. I was someone texted me that I
trust and said, yeah, I heard that this is happening,
so hey that I mean, boy, I would like to
be playing Oblivion in remade and Unreal Engine five. I
bet that's gonna look pretty good, although I'm also like
worried that it could just be a broken mess. But
why would they put it out if it wasn't ready.
They've never done that before.
Speaker 4: No, No, they would never do that with a Bethesda game. No, Hey,
that's neat. I uh, you know, I think were kind
of expecting this earlier in the year when there's that
Xbox event, right, we thought that this was going to
show up there, and then it didn't. So it was
a little bit like.
Speaker 1: Oh, I said, June, I guess it does? It is April, right,
April's the god, that's crazy. It's April twenty twenty five April, A.
Speaker 4: Bit more than two weeks away, is April?
Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, that's bananas. Yeah, boy, it's so. I guess
it could launch as soon as April, but it's going
to release potentially before June, so somewhere in that range. Yeah,
we're talking about something that is two weeks away probably
from us hearing about it at the very least, right, So, uh,
is an Oblivion remix something that you've been pining for?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 1: Was that even like something you were entertaining. I mean,
we've been hearing these rumors for a while, but I
guess before that was that something you were thinking about. Yeah,
you know a little bit.
Speaker 4: I like Obliving a lot, and I'm not super bothered
by its current graphics. There is some ugliness to it.
It's some ugly characters in some ways. It's a little
charming how ugly everyone is in that game. Yeah, but hey,
I'm down to see what it looks like, all remade
and you know, prettyphied and all that stuff. Living In
is a very good game, honestly, one of the first
kind of Western style RPGs. I really played through it
at that At that point, I wasn't super into the genre,
believe it or not.
Speaker 1: I was more of a j RPG weep purist.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: And I think there's a lot of people, especially some
Skyrim fans, people have got into the series with that
game who never really got around to oblivion, and I
hope that this will give them a good excuse to
do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think it will. I am curious
to see like things like mod support, what that looks like,
if any can be easily. That's your first thing, is mod?
Still kidding? For Elder Scrolls, it's.
Speaker 4: Still the first thing you're thinking about his mother remaking
the game. You're still just immediately thinking about mods.
Speaker 1: You wait, you like that's I think you're the weird
one here.
Speaker 4: Oh for yeah, I guess I am. But even even
in Outer Scrolls, I don't use any mods and don't
really care too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean that's fine, but that's weird. Like this
is a franchise for like the launch like right away,
and like I'm just I'm curious system mod.
Speaker 4: The mod is that they modified it by remaking it.
Speaker 1: It's moded. That's that's but that'sa that's them just doing
their goddamn jobs, all right. That's that's still North getting
paid Actually, I'm just I'm curious about it because it
is so important to this franchise that it absolutely is
an important part of its ecosystem and its longevity.
Speaker 4: You're You're right, it's and it just never has been
important to me. I've never cared about the mods.
Speaker 1: I used the mod to get my Skyrim save off
of my Xbox through sixty and put on my PC,
so right away, and I'm like, well, I'm doing this,
might as well do some other stuff. Mike, you would
love mods. They have ones that make everyone's faces clean.
Don't you hate dirty faces?
Speaker 4: So the faces were pretty clean in this game. They're
just kind of weird looking. There's all those dead eyes everywhere,
but I'm dead eyes, damn it.
Speaker 1: And oblivion. Maybe it's hard to see if it's like
dirty or just ugly. Yeah, Skyrim, it was very clear
that they were dirty faces. Yeah. No, I'm I love
I love mods in these games, like I would probably
play it the first time through with mods for sure. Yeah,
I have no respect for game developers, is what I'm
trying to say.
Speaker 4: I understand that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I am looking forward to this. I will
probably spend a lot of time with it. I like
Oblivion a lot. I you know, really liked the Skyrim,
but I think Oblivion is the one that I actually
enjoy the most when I think about it, because it
was just cool to go into that game, have the
city decide like, oh, I'm gonna be a thief and
sneak around and steal people's stuff and find a fence,
and then discover that there was a whole campaign built
into the game specifically for an idiot that would play
the game that way. So yeah, looking forward to kind
of going through all that again and maybe trying to
play it a different way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that Oblivion was a little bit of
a sweet spot for the series in terms of the
size and the complex sitting in the openness of it.
You know, Marwin is maybe a more complex game, and
then Daggerfault is a bigger game that Skyrim is definitely
the most streamed one of them. It's Skyrim still has
a lot of those elements. It's not like Skyrim is
some Oblivion for babies or something like that. I like
Skyrim a lot too, and I think people do this
says a lot. You bring it up. The quest design
and Oblivion is just very very good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yes, yes, that was some of the best. Like,
I think that's the standard by which I judge a
lot of current quests. Still is doesn't make me feel
the way some of those Oblivion quests made me feel.
For sure, you and your Obedience kink just like you
how to play the game Obedience.
Speaker 4: The game devotement police are gonna get me if I
installed mads on. I'm just lazy and I'm just like,
I can't play the game now when I install something else.
Speaker 1: I already to install the game. Yeah, I was already
all right. Xbox branded handheld plan for release later this year.
Apparently I think a SEUs is making this thing. That's
the rumor going around. That sounds right to me.
Speaker 4: Really, that's interesting as basically already made a good portable
Xbox so why not.
Speaker 1: Yes, And they're like, well, now Xbox like will handle
the software environment, So yeah, I think this could be good.
I mean, what I'm really hoping is they go in
there with the idea of let's address I want to
say fix, but let's address every single, tiny little issue
with using Windows on a handheld PC by making something
bespoke for one of these handhelds. And if they do that,
I'm like, well, I'll be very happy because I would
love to use Windows on a handheld. I do sometimes occasionally.
It's it's getting it's getting a little bit better. You
can definitely use it. It's not like it's some unusable
piece of crap. It's just a little annoying. So if
they go in there and address all that stuff and
make it streamlined, I will be very excited. You know
you already really like your ax. Is this something that
you are once again are pining for.
Speaker 4: That's kind of the weird thing, right Like, I like
my ally X, and I'm gonna always be interested in
any further asis portable PC gaming handhelds.
Speaker 1: I suppose.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of curious to see just how much ground
the switch to covers in a lot of way. First, right, Like,
how powerful is that thing? How many Xbox games just
end up on there anyways? Right Like, that's that's another
aspect of this. How much are we going to need
a portable Xbox when Xbox just ports all of their
games to switch to anyways? So you know, how how
powerful can it be? What does differentiate it from a
rag ALLYX? Is it just kind of the overlay that
sort of thing. So yeah, I'm curious. I want to
see it. I have faith that Asis is going to
do good work here. It is interesting that like Microsoft
themselves just isn't doing it, is there. It's like a
possibility that Microsoft doesn't manufacture the next home Xbox.
Speaker 1: Oh there's definitely a possibility of that for sure, or yeah.
But I mean I think they have a Xbox that
they manufacture, and I think they have a handheld that
they eventually manufactured. This was just the fastest way for
them to solve the problem of using Windows on a handheld.
Speaker 4: I mean, it'd be incredible if it was just like, hey,
we let that as the ask this rog that that's
pretty good what you were gonna call the rog too?
How about ally too? How about you just call that
the portable Xbox?
Speaker 1: And I think it's just would be like yeah, okay,
like yeah, sure, that's fine.
Speaker 4: You're might give us money, sure.
Speaker 1: Right, we will sell We would have sold, you know,
quite a few of these, but we will sell a
lot more if the thing is just branded as Xbox.
So sure, why not? So hey, we we'll see how
that goes. What do you think I mean if it's
just a PC handheld it's gonna run the games that
can run that run on PC, right, Like, do you
think that there's I mean, they could have a layer
of translation that lets some Xbox native games run on
this thing, But do you think that's a possibility, because
I really don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Jeff, And you know, there's there's other things,
like the back was compatibility stuff where you can play
a lot of original Xbox sixty games on a current Xbox.
Really well, I don't know if that stuff carries over.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, that team, Jason Ronalds team that was
doing that, I feel like that they are probably heavily
involved in making sure all the stuff that they can
get working on this thing, Like that's probably what they're
working on. So whether that manifests as the backward compatibility
stuff as we know on Xbox, or some kind of
new backward compatibility translation layer that enables native Xbox games
to run on PC. But I mean, at a certain point,
it's like, if their future is making PCs that they
label as Xboxes, maybe it just makes more sense to
get people ready to like port those games over to PC,
just release them natively. That would make more sense. So
I just I'm curious to see what their stance is
going to be on stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I also am and I really have no idea,
so it's a bit of a way and see thing.
Speaker 1: Yep uh, Destrainted too on the Beach introduces its own
solid snake. You know, really, that ten minute trailer came out.
It looks absurd, it's it's it's baffling. As always with
Hideo Kocuma. I had a good time watching it. I
think that there, it looks interesting. I want to play
the game. I'm actually kind of getting the mood to
play Death Stranding Director's cut, so I'm going to be
spending some time doing that. I think I might do
next week scrubs gimmicks on a giant bomb on that game,
playing some more of that game. So I'm I'm in
the mood for this game to come out and blow
me away. And it's coming out soon that people were
realizing June eleventh, was that to date or June twenty sixth,
one of those it's a June sometime. It's yeah, how
about you, Mike. I know these trailers usually kind of
make you roll your eyes. I don't know if I
was rolling my eyes so much in this one's just
kind of I don't know. I wasn't reacting too much.
I said before.
Speaker 4: I was kind of just a series of pictures and
sounds and words. There was one line I can't remember
that made me roll my eyes a bit. But hey,
you know whatever, I don't want to yuck anybody's you said,
Did you say that you recently found out that a
character named die Hard Man's real name is John McClain.
Speaker 1: In the video game Death of Stranding, the character die
Hard Man his real name is John Blake McClain, John
mc So you like that. I like how it makes
me want to scream, like, not anything do that to me?
This does and I'm like, ah, what what?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 3: That a metaphor what is that?
Speaker 1: It's not I don't know. It's a reference.
Speaker 4: It's just a reference.
Speaker 1: It's just do you remember die Hard like at a
certain point, that's all it is. That character is also
the president in that video game. That's Look. I do
think what was.
Speaker 4: Die Hard Man's platform that he ran on, like trust
me our grippy mask face, look at my skull face,
you can trust me.
Speaker 1: It was that Diehard's a Christmas movie he won that
he's going to minize it. Yeah, Hey, I'm gonna play it.
I don't know, I'm I am like, I want to
see how much or how many of the ideas from
Destraining One carry into this game. It does look like
they're still going to have like the delivery system and
stuff like that. But this game is supposed to be
about how like the first game was us connecting and
that was a mistake and literally this trailer says we
should not have connected.
Speaker 4: That's kind of interesting because I mean, I do think
all the time about that. It's like the incredible optimism
of the Internet and then of Web two point zero
and how it was nothing but a good thing. That
we're making the world smaller and you know, well you're
gonna be able to just talk to somebody from China.
Isn't that beautiful and amazing? And like, yeah, there's a
lot of other things that happen like that. You know,
next thing, you know, we're just watching videos of people
getting be headed, right.
Speaker 1: There are consequences of that, yep, exactly, And you know,
and he'll deal with that. He does, like he does
always bringing that stuff into his writing. It'll be ham fisted,
But I I personally, don't mind that. I want my
I want my video game fists to be a little
hammy personally. Uh so that's okay with me. And then
there was your balls, Jeff, Oh no, I was we
were going to get to that. God all right, jump
ahead in the news. I can't believe they didn't want
to talk about your balls, dum trek. I was like
upset for you, you as you asked a genuine question
that you would have supposed your male grown up friends
who are there to support you handle it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, I mean maybe they're not really friends.
That's maybe. Yeah, it's an excellent point, Jeff. Maybe they
are a bunch of fake friends all along.
Speaker 1: This Now Madscape does sell a razor blade now, so
I think even they are saying, well, you can't just
stop at the was the lawn, Oh, the trim, the tremmor,
you do that to clean it up, and then you
got to finish the job with actual sharp metal.
Speaker 4: That's right, that's right, Gotta get metal metal on flesh.
It's the only way to really take care of that.
Speaker 1: I was also confused, like, is this okay? There's still
hair down there? Have we completed the job? So that's
what the first time.
Speaker 4: I was like, I don't I don't feel shady. I
don't I don't feel right. I don't feel fresh down
there yet.
Speaker 1: Nothing is shorn here. What if we accomplish this? Was
that a chia pet anyway? Solid snakes in this fucking game? Basically?
Speaker 2: What that is?
Speaker 4: That just is that, like die hard man? Is that
just another reference? Because that's really all I'm maybe getting
at it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's might be more there, okay for that. I expect
her to definitely be more there for him to talk about,
like what it meant to him to, you know, lose
that character whatever. Do he does that kind of stuff?
I mean he's yeah, he does use metaphors and he
does yeah, So.
Speaker 4: It could be something interesting about how he feels about,
you know, was like not really being in charge of
that character anymore and people make me stuff about him
without him. It could be It could just also be
I kind of put someone who looks like salt Snake
in my game.
Speaker 1: It could just also be that, I don't know.
Speaker 3: You might be on the fucking money right there, because
this guy doesn't have a lot of things going on,
and I respect Fatima.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: He's Alexandon want to say, he's like white as a
notion and deep as a puddle.
Speaker 1: And I sure he nailed it with that.
Speaker 3: I don't think he has that.
Speaker 1: He likes watching TV and movies a lot, like that's
the the guy and he just like, yeah, so he
knows the language of he knows the language of of
self expression and and and like what people like the
tropes that people go to to be like, I am
expressing an idea. But yeah, I actually, again, I don't
care that much if it's not that deep. But you know,
it's ride to paragol Taganas and Chat points out he
uses his games as his own therapy. The way Backlar
uses his voicemail dump Truck is therapy. So yeah, I
think that is.
Speaker 4: Just therapy because that seems like torture to beat.
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, we're not making them any better, I'll
say that much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what's helping.
Speaker 1: Uh, Mike, you watch the sound hill f trailer. Yes,
new one just dropped. I've had a chance to look
at I've had a busy evening.
Speaker 4: What'd you think it's pretty neat, Jeff, It's basically silent
hill in Japan. It's like the fog rolls into this
sort of you know, quiet Japanese village like Silent Hills
on Tour or something like that. So you have a
bit of you know, some of those you know, And
I'm not somebody who's super familiar with Japanese horror cinema,
but there's still imagery here that was giving me a
bit of that vibe. There's some freaky stuff happening, like
one point make characters look at the camera, then like
her face starts just like peeling off from the top,
like it's just falling off. I'm just I'm excited, Jeff,
because I like Silent Hill too let remake so much
that I'm hoping that there's just a little bit of
kind of momentum here and it's gonna be good.
Speaker 1: Now. It's not Bluebird team making this.
Speaker 4: It's a company called Neo Bards who has kind of
worked on a lot of remasters and ports. They've actually
worked on like Resident Evil ports. I think they've worked
on a lot of those multiplayer mos that didn't quite hit,
like Reversed. They also did the recent Dead Rising Deluxeury Master,
I think things like that. So but this is definitely
their biggest project so far. Again, I hope there's like
a little continuity. I don't expect it to play exactly
like Silent Hill too, but I hope there is some
of that vibe in here and this doesn't feel like, oh,
this is a complete different team on the other side
of the world just also made a Solent Hill game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know. I think of Nintendo in
the way that they work without outside developers, and it's
like they have a really strong producer at one of
their divisions. That's like I oversee the two D Metroid games,
and I will work with an outside developer to help
to make one of these, but I'm also in charge
of making sure the game is a Nintendo Metroid game.
I think I'm with you that the idea here would
be that there's a strong producer at Konami who oversaw Blueber,
who is now taking those ideas that really seem to
guide Blueber in the right direction and say, okay, now
let's apply that to f So, like you said, there's
you're not talking about continuity in terms of narrative. You're
talking about continuity in terms of the quality of the game.
Speaker 4: Call it the game and like the feel a little bit. Again,
I don't it doesn't have to be exactly the same,
you know, I don't have to have the wooden stick
with the nail in it and then the shooting and
all that same exact mechanics. But yeah, I wanted to
feel familiar. I wanted to feel like the same series. Still, Ye, Chris,
do you watch this?
Speaker 1: Well? What'd you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: I'm a siren freak. I love those games. So this
has that vibe, you know. Yeah, it's pretty cool. They
leaning really hard into them, like the Stalaco, the Ring movies,
that kind of right.
Speaker 1: It's the first sound hell set in Japan, it says
here in my notes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why the Silent Hill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't have sound hills, and like it's not
like a Springfield where there's just towns named Soulent Hill
over Japan as well.
Speaker 3: No, I look so it will be cool though, yeah,
because it's the first one. They're like, yeah, we're gonna
go full Japanese culture, Japanese like you know, they're they're
they're all their customs and that kind of stuff. So
it looks cool and the writer, I'm not a fan
of the writer. The writer is like a famous visual
novel writer. I'm not a fan of his stuff, but
he usually does like good horror. I think, like people say,
it is like good. So I have fad in this game.
Speaker 4: It looks cool, cool, And there's no date or anything
on that trailer, Jeff, you know, I'm not expecting it
this year at least I guess.
Speaker 1: Then. Yeah, it kind of feels like maybe the thing
where there's another trailer like very late this year that
maybe gives us a date for New Game Awards. Yeah,
you know, some will two really just kind of came out.
It feels like that just happened. And uh, it's not
like Konami is able to like put these things into
a factory and just pump them out or something like that.
Each one's going to take time.
Speaker 4: They was pretty good timing to release a trailer though,
to remind people, Hey, you like to Silent Hill too,
remake more is coming. You know, you don't have to
live for the next remake. There's a next mainline solnd
Hill is happening also, please be excited.
Speaker 1: And then you know, just as a reminder, we did
get that news. Bluebird Team and Konami are working together
again on something, and everyone just seems to assume I
think fairly it'll be another Silent Hill remake maybe and
then yeah one, then do one, then do three?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if you combine them.
Speaker 3: I think you should.
Speaker 1: But but I mean I thought maybe you think they should,
but I don't think they will because it's more money
to do two games like you just did.
Speaker 3: So everybody go watch the Sphere Hunter Sellent Hill videos.
Those are fucking.
Speaker 1: Awesome, absolutely love surround. Uh oh right, yeah that does
it for the big headlines.
Speaker 4: But I think did you check out real quick the
Steam sales? The spring sales start today. I don't know
if you I didn't. That's right.
Speaker 1: You don't need to.
Speaker 3: Worry about always rush those things? Has that account?
Speaker 1: Okay? All right? What you fuckers buy? What are you
so excited about?
Speaker 4: What I got?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: You got and nice? That's one of like the game discounts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty good?
Speaker 1: Got it?
Speaker 4: Like rules?
Speaker 1: I uh got it?
Speaker 4: How can I shift? Sort of stuff? I'm trying to remember?
Was a Pathfinder? I got Pathfinder that j RPG final?
Happy about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So I want to play through that thing?
Speaker 1: God?
Speaker 4: Now I can't remember, and I'm very bad at organizing
my lists.
Speaker 1: Of m Sure you got The Walking Day the Telltale
Definitive series.
Speaker 4: No, absolutely not no, No, I don't really care about
that thing whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: Oh, the Mass Effect Legendary Edition was so cheap, and
I'm like, well, I have that on next Box. I
may as well get that on Steam now. Enter the
Dungeon was like a dollar. Also, yeah, I see ten
and ten two Hdery Master because they do want to
play ten two finally soon, and it was very cheap.
I was like, okay, I'll get that cool. All right,
Well that's cheap, but I think I have that on
Xbox already. I don't know if I need the PC version.
Speaker 1: It's good. It's great everywhere. You can play that anywhere,
especially because you'll have the backward compatible version, right and
that's going to run. Like, that's gonna be awesome. I
think they got. I do remember testing that on the
early Xbox Series X and it was awesome.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Okay. That does for the headlines. Like I said, that's
what we wanted to talk about. But there are people
who have sinning things that they want to talk about
in the form of super chats. We'll take a quick break,
we'll come back. We'll read those right after this. All right,
we're back. I see some super chats, Mike, go ahead
and read them.
Speaker 4: Big Fresh three seven says all this AI and gaming,
but they're not using it for the one game that
it would be cool when endless conversation with C Man. Yeah, yeah,
it is wold that like we're seeing Aloy talking in
an ali AI voice. But even like that, right, like
it doesn't sound as good or seem as interesting as
C man. Wash. There's actual creative ideas with C Man.
So even just come even if you just go back
and pluck the ideas of an intelligent person who made
C Man and try to throw AI into it, now,
you're still not gonna have anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I, Yeah, you're right. It's like the Sega's
probably just like, well, if we did that, people would
think we're making a new suit se Man, so we
have to like we can't just like put that out
as a test or something like that. So yeah, but
I personally would like to see that. I think that
is the actual good use of all this AI large
language model bullshit. Is give me a game where I
could talk to a stupid character that will, you know,
insult me exactly.
Speaker 4: Next one here is from Big Richigan, who says heard
anything about a remake of the original Fancy Star Online.
I think a guy talked about it about six months ago,
but I don't know if I should believe it. I
didn't hear this when it was brought up six months ago.
It was if I did, I forgot about it immediately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't remember either. Do you hear it?
Speaker 4: If you hear anything? Fancy Star Online is kind of
a weird game to remake, Jeff, because it was a
you know, it's it's online kind of an MMO is
generous in terms of the actual amount of content in
the game. I loved it, though, but I also wonder
if it was very much a product of its time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, you know, they did that Fantasy Star Online
the New Genesis update to like the most recent version
of a Fantasy Star Online, and it's like, oh, you know,
they're kind of just they have stuff that's slightly more
modern going back. I don't know. I suppose if they
did a ton of work and brought that back in
Sega's in the mood to do that sort of thing,
I would check it out. But maybe it's like time
that they actually just went back and remade Fantasy Star
the first you know, JRPG instead instead of trying to
go right back to the Fantasy Star Online. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, if they have a great like that, say agent,
I would love a new sort of Fantasy Star making one.
Just give me like a new h D two E
Star or just whatever you want to do to make
a new single player fancy Star.
Speaker 1: That would make me. Yeah, I'm a little surprised like
that hasn't been leaked as part of this initiative of
bringing back stake of franchises. Maybe it's a phase two.
Who knows.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all like they own any companies that are
good at jerrpg's Jeff, what can they do?
Speaker 1: No, No, that's a really hard thing for them.
Speaker 4: Uh, big freshness, Mike, what's your favorite position in bed?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: I've tried to play the rock alley in bed like
you always talk about, but I can't get comfortable. Oh,
I mean I do I set up. I do just
kind of set up in bed. Well, when I'm doing it,
something laying down and playing on any handheld is a
little uncomfortable for me. So I am just kind of
sitting up criss cross stops with my legs out there
and I got my laptop thing, my surface pro propped
up on some pillow pennies at my feet, and I'm
just playing like that.
Speaker 1: Really Yeah, no, no, I mean, I don't know nothing.
None of that was wrong. I just I think I
would be more uncomfortable in a lot of those positions
and laying down with like sort of supporting it with
one hand that's on the surface that I'm laying on,
and then kind of just stabilizing it with the other one,
like kind of laying on my side. Uh, that's pretty
that's pretty comfortable comfortable for me. But I'm usually when
I'm doing that, that's like I'm making a contras decision,
like let's go lay down the steam deck on like
the big bean bag or something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know that. Yeah, that's just I don't
know what it is about that and all different.
Speaker 1: Like, Yeah, I mean, honestly, I get uncomfortable at this
computer desk trying to play games that way, and I'm like,
I'll just go lay down and play games. So that's
just my body.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty comfortable at the desk a little too comfortable.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh, Simon from Saskatchewan says fuck tariffs, but I'll still
support you as things like y'all thank you silent elbows up.
I'll be very impressed if my knows who coined that
Jeff should because a d E T legend.
Speaker 1: I'm blanking on that. I'm sorry, Yeah, elbows up?
Speaker 4: Or I'm gonna google elbows up, what elbows up means
and why Canadians say it? Gods, there's a whole story
about it. Oh no, give me a give me a
give me a fast answer here story.
Speaker 1: Who said elbows up? Or just elbows up?
Speaker 4: Inspired by Canadian hockey legend Jeordie How.
Speaker 1: Okay, Gordie How? Yeah, okay, I just there, I'm sorry.
And he was a Detroit red Wing. He's like the
Detroit Red Wings. So yeah, okay, fair enough. I I well,
when I think of GORDI how I think that Gordiao
hat trick which was Mikeah hat trick is when you
score three goals and know, okay, all right, I know
what I'm just like, okay, I'm doing It was an
audio joke. You thought I might not have known. No,
be the audience, sirget a little bit. I was gonna
get to what a Gordi how hat trick was, So
I was just setting up a stage. A Gordy how
hat trick is when you get a goal and assist
and a fight all in one game. So that's a
much more impressive thing in my opinion.
Speaker 4: And Backler's right. I still just kind of look like
Uncle Fester. Now, I still look so pale in this light.
I better get some I better stay outside a lot
this day.
Speaker 1: Like listen, I mean that, really you're being sent to
Florida as like a prescription to cure the Uncle Fester.
Speaker 4: Yeah it is, you know, it is like the tail
end of winter too, right, or just like it's just
getting nice out. This is the palest I'm going to
be gonna work on that.
Speaker 1: I have started walking outside again, which reminds me, I said,
I do see Dan and Chad. Dan remind me to
ask like or ask you or ask Bianca directly. I
know she likes walking outside. I'm like, you guys are
in Minnesota, now, what if you would she do? I
need to like get some tips on this because I
spent all winter not walking outside, and I'm like, oh,
I think getting outside a little bit was instantly a
cure for some mental stuff. So like, I need to
find some answers to that question.
Speaker 4: Uh Simon's back it says this duke, you can forever
bat an for Blake Club. If yes, can Mike be
dressed as Randy Pittsford each time sexist jokes happen, you
need to apologize. I will never dress up as Randy.
Speaker 1: Now that is a Yeah, that's a that's against the
bylaws right there.
Speaker 4: If it's a joke, I'll dress up as a generic magician. Sure,
But the thought and kind did uncle, Yes, basically have
the cloak and everything. I bet you Nigle forever is
bad enough, But I am worried about just how distasteful.
Speaker 1: It might be. Right, Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: Simon again says I am a star as one of
the best ways to end the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Also, Dan saying pussy emphatically on beast cast was an
al theimer.
Speaker 1: So are you sure it's not the bomb cast?
Speaker 4: That would make more sense? Why? Why did I It's
funny that I inherently I didn't even watch the beat
cast beast casts at the time. I've served it all
through osmosis after becoming friends with these people. You're right,
pomcast he did say pussy a lot in and he.
Speaker 1: I mean he always does. We've asked him to stop.
It's uh, it's a problem. Yeah, uh my mistake there.
Speaker 4: Uh Maema from Simon says, found an attenderless for you
to fix. Yard Maker h yard Maker's most memorable characters
from old school Nintendo games twenty five of them? Starts okay,
but te Hoppy? That was tea Hoppy?
Speaker 1: What's what? That's thoppy? What's tea Hoppy? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Tea Hoppy is Oh my god, it's it's one of those.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Is that Rambo Bunny terminator from Clay Fighter?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? That's on a top twenty five twenty five?
Twenty five is not that many like it? Says Nintendo
characters what okay? Or old and it's his old school
Nintendo games. That's crazy boy.
Speaker 4: People people just couldn't stop copying us this past week
trying to fix the sixty list.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: That's when you know you made a good list. That
you made so many people mad that there are multiple revisions.
I'm pretty ashamed that we forgot pac Man Championship Edition
d X, which is a game I played for hundreds
of hours. I love that game.
Speaker 4: So yeah, kind of a failure on my part, specifically
Postman dances so soundhill f Huh what does the F
stand for?
Speaker 1: Fuck?
Speaker 4: Why is it lowercase? I don't like the lowercase? Okay,
it's not a capital.
Speaker 3: Remember it was like a picture thing back in the
day when stop Yeah, remember we were like and nothing
go ahead, Christian. Yeah, nothing camera like related or like
picture related. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. Is there is it like a
musical symbols or anything musical in the trailer?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, that is right a little. There's kind
there's not a musical element that er really, I don't know.
It means nothing. They looked cool, like they weren't. They
weren't going to call it sold hill eights or whatever
they're actually on. They don't want to remember downpour happened.
Speaker 3: That for But in a part of the trailer they
were like doing like a ritual and there were some
like music stuff around her.
Speaker 1: So people are saying, forte, that's what they have. That's
what means in music, that's it.
Speaker 4: I don't know. We'll find out.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Sludge Reinhold says, apologies that this has been mentioned on
another pot or in the trays, but is it intentional
that the game breaking news theme is the same melody
as the Mike Manati Mike Mike Manatti song.
Speaker 1: There might be a similar uh a tour behind the
music for the Mike Minatti song and this song. So
Mike Manatti, Alex Bondet, well, okay, you're right, you're right
you saying it first, but yeah, Alex Bonyellou helped us
come up with that, So yeah, shout us to Alex.
Speaker 4: Tuber says Mike manaughdi the smoothest man in gaming, Thank you, Tubert.
I agree, do you think, well, yes, yes, he means
like smooth.
Speaker 1: Isn't like that's a smooth dude, or that you are
texturally smooth as a human being.
Speaker 4: I think he's talking about my balls.
Speaker 3: Here we go. We don't need to say the joke alone.
Speaker 1: Hitian noises.
Speaker 2: Chris.
Speaker 1: I thought we were I thought we were Uncle festering. Still,
I didn't know we were back to the balls. I'm ashamed.
I should have known what was going on.
Speaker 4: Next up is from Will Davis says, you're becoming uh
glarther with these Oblivion rumors. Fuck, man, don't say that,
just say things like.
Speaker 1: You can't like, you can't take it back.
Speaker 4: Now it's been then we all like sit here, We
know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Rious, I supposed to be offended by that insult? How
dare you screaming?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: And says Mike is a pro gamer after playing Fester's quest,
he should go moon bathe at Disney World soon with
his Wizzard hat and sunglasses. Tonight's a good night for moonbathing.
That Mune, that Mune. That moon is huge tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was driving home from the doctor's appointment, and I
was coming down the highway and it was perfectly lined
up at the very end of the highway, this huge
sphere like surrounded by trees on each side. It looked
so cool.
Speaker 4: And then, yeah, it's going to be a lunar eclipse tonight.
Fire Hair says favorite Oblivion quests, who'd done it? Al Teimer?
For me, it has been so long enough that I
don't know how well I can remember individual quests anymore,
which is great because when I play this game, yes
a lot of it will feel pretty new to me.
It's like playing Monkey Kong ninety four right now, every
time I play that game, it's at least been like
four years, maybe even more so I don't remember exactly,
so it's never like, oh, I remember this level, I
know exactly what to do now.
Speaker 1: Every time it's like a new experience. Yeah. For me,
it's like, I mean again, I'm vaguely remembering it. But
the Thieves Guild quest sort of naturally unfolding as I
played the game that way anyhow, was very cool.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I do remember now the Thieves Guild quest
where you do actually steal an Elder Scroll, and I'm like, oh,
that's the that's the name of the video game, right, That's.
Speaker 1: All That's always gonna get a pop for me when
you get the thing that's the name of the video game,
especially if there's a subtitle that you think is more important.
You're like, hey, the Elder Scroll is just the name
of some old video game and they wanted to keep that.
That's not relevant to anything. So the fact that it
becomes relevant on that quest is cool. And then really
just being like, well, I like sneaking. I can steak.
These people get mad if I'm in their house and
they don't want me there, but I could sneak into
their houses and take stuff, and then you're like, well, shit,
I can't sell any of this stolen stuff. How do
I deal with that? And then you discover fences and
that leads you on this path and again it's just
a natural progression of this play style. I thought that
was so exciting. It's good stuff.
Speaker 4: Next up here is from tg I f Bromalgus his
congrats on Fester's quest Spike Peanuts. Thank you, tgif it
is it is fun Jeff knowing that I beat that
game again, a game from my childhood that I played
pretty early on, like it might be one of the
first twenty video games I've ever played, Right, it's like
that early on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's right man, Yeah it's it's a very
weird game. I'm glad to I was happy to watch
you beat it.
Speaker 4: Don't say that, excep is how grug it says so
because Mike beat Fester's question, what's sitting? He isn't going
to take the picture with his feet out? Awesome job
with that, Petenus. No, look, I can't stop artists from
doing what they want to do, though, right and exactly,
maybe you know we've dressed up as Blake Club characters
before for conventions and stuff. Maybe had a paxwust or
something I could I could bust out the fest re quest.
I don't mind the makeup on that as much as
these more elaborates and uh kind of difficult to get
off the quanchi stuff.
Speaker 1: So right, yeah, and I think we put in an
official request for feet and you're like, you said no,
And I'm like, yeah, fair enough. You've given feet away
enough for free dah too much feet already.
Speaker 4: Uh, Chris Pratt says, all these remakes and remasters and
still no Mario Arcade remake. Might have to drive my
new Tesla to meet a motor on the house for
a thought, Peanuts. Oh man, you hear that. Chris Pratt
heard the call?
Speaker 1: Yea, yeah, he said, doing his duty to God and country,
of course.
Speaker 4: But let's be honest, Chris Pratt very likely at tesla.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Symbiosa says, any penis I mean packs East plans this
year my dogs personally, I will not be there. My
Disney trip that I planned with my family a while
go just kind of happens to be. Then I assumed
it was going to be earlier in the year, in
March again like it was last year. So I'm missing
pexis sorry, I.
Speaker 1: Think I'm I've been told im I need to be
there by work, So yes, probably I wish I could
be Pecksy is great. Oh yeah, for sure, it's I
want to be there. And I think, you know, even
even without Mike, we might do something Blake Club related,
just because Pax really liked our last panel. Wow, hey, look,
what can we do. You're the Hey, you're the one
that's gonna go like quit on us and go like
take a vacation.
Speaker 4: Least I can't like lose and be punished by playing
a Blake Club game or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it'll be I mean, if we do something
Blake clib related. And again I don't think there's anything
like written in stone yet. If we do it, it'll
be some variation on the theme, maybe like another multiplayer
one that wouldn't make sense for Mike or something like that.
Speaker 4: It was a lot of fun Pax West playing that
awful Wee Family mini game thing.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we could just have someone play the part
of Mike Man. We could uncle Uli And then I said, hile,
we could hire an uncle Fester caused player, and then
I then immediately like I think I broke because I'm like,
Jeff Grub, what do you think there's just Uncle Fester Coslayester.
We'll get a fake.
Speaker 4: Uh uh next one here, sorry, like YouTube crash. Of course,
we'll make sure about the right place.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Here we go from Heilly intelligent hope. Oblivion remake isn't
just the same game remade in the isn't just a
game remade in the Skyrim engine. I mean, what's the
Skyrim edge At this point, Skyrim is not that much
newer a game than Oblivion anymore. So it's going to
look better than skyriman it's going to be an unreal
engine is the reel engine five?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? So and there is, and there is an
Oblivion remade in Skyrim by fans. It's a mod. Oh scary, Mike,
you better run for that. That's pretty bad. And some
people have been working on that for years, and so
there's a lot of people like, man, this kind of
sucks for those people. But I mean, you know, you
make mods, you know what you're getting into.
Speaker 4: I Beccus was pronouncing Helian, but I always, yeah, I
always say it like that.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So this is the reason I can remember now because
of this person's user name. Right.
Speaker 4: Highly intelligent they're making They're making a pun. It's a pawn,
highly intelligent, stay Hillian. It makes no sense. I know,
I know, but I did too. I was a kid
when I was reading this stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just honestly I didn't even think about what it
sounded like. And then you know, i'd have to say
it once to be like, just do stuff like that.
Like when I was a kid with Hokemon, I was
like Charmender, Charmillion, and then I looked at the word charizard,
and I was like, Chaarizard. I called him Chaerizar until
they said his name in the anime, and they're like, oh, ship's.
Speaker 1: Way more sense.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: Next up is from epicop and World says, do you
think they will improve the combat in Oblivion? If they're vowed,
I can't go back to bad, But as the combat, I.
Speaker 1: Think they'll improve it. I don't think it'll be as
good as a vowed No.
Speaker 4: No, I don't, you know. There's a part of me.
They'll probably improve it. They might not, and I'll be
fine of it, but it might be a hard pill
for some pot the.
Speaker 1: Remaking everything in Unreal Engine five, Why wouldn't you just
improve it? But you're right they might not.
Speaker 4: I mean, Eric, because like what does what is improving it?
Speaker 1: It won't bother me. I still like the way it feels.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's just you know, I don't know, it's
not that kind of game necessarily. There's obviously combat in
the game. But yeah. Next up is from Sultan a Boss.
He says, got a super ten run I'll catch the
VOD have a confirmed Mike's placement on the speed run
leader board for festers Quaes. I mean if I submitted it,
it would be last place at eighth place. I don't
think I'm gonna submit it, Jeff. It's just I wasn't
speed running. It's just not a speed run, you know.
Yeah enough, I can't learn the speed run. Probably try something.
It's omit that, but it's not a speed run.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 4: Next up here is from Michael you Tom super said.
I think he says any update on the God of
War remasters. I saw Santa Monica say there wasn't any
announcement planned for the event taking place on the twenty second.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like I said this on Twitter somewhere.
Like the way I heard it was when that state
of play was getting announced. I was told there would
be no God of War remasters there, despite the rumors
happening at the time, and it's like if that happens,
that would probably happen somewhere close closer to the anniversary.
So that's how I heard it. Now they're saying there
won't be anything now. I think those games exist. I
do think those games are are probably going to happen
at the very I mean the very least. They are
by far the most popular games that Sony has this
part of its streaming service, like its most stream games
are all all those original God of War games, so
they know how popular they aren't how well they would
be received that they did remaster it. So there's just
some circumstance, circumstantial evidence there for you. But yeah, I
do think something's happening there, But no, they don't plan
to announce it now. Maybe just happens later this year
or much later than that. I really don't know.
Speaker 4: That, boy, Jerry says, Mike, did you see the game
Threads of Time yet? Super cron Tugger inspired JERRYPG looks
promising also favorite Eastern Candy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did. It looks nice.
Speaker 4: There's there's a lot of these kind of indie RPGs
inspired by Crona Sugar things, and usually I wait for
word of mouth to let me know if I should
play it, and even then maybe don't get to them
like I want to. There's that there's another one who
was that changed Echoes or something like that that everybody
really liked. It came out a bit before Ceas Stars
even and I should check that out and just haven't yet. Yeah,
Threads of Time is on my radar. Eastern Candy, Jeff,
I don't doesn't do much for me. I don't like
Kendy that much anyways. At Eastern Candy, I think a
lot of it is pretty mid You thought the sky
the waight Christian no I was.
Speaker 3: Saying, fakey Dallium. He doesn't like Easter. That's not really,
that's not like Easter candy. And in the home Crunchy
it's just perjutta. You get baskets full of cured meats
much better.
Speaker 1: A lots of salted meats everywhere, just all over the yard.
I like Reese's eggs as people in chatter point. And
I also like like Starburst jelly beans things like that.
Speaker 4: When I was in Catholic school, like it was like
the girls Scott Cookies, they would give us this catalog
of Easter candy we were supposed to sell to our
relatives around Easter time. It was this whole thing. I
was seeing all those oversized eggs and bunnies and all
this garbage that tasted like cardboard.
Speaker 1: And the bunnies were always hollow, so it was like,
actually like just two ounces of chocolate and really disappointing. Yep.
Speaker 4: Next one is from Philip Reguez. The San Francisco Nintendo Store,
Mario Kart, Lego Set, and Doomed the Dark Ages all
launched on May fifteenth. Is there any chance that is
also the Switch to launch date.
Speaker 1: I mean it's not impossible, but probably not. Probably they
probably it'll probably be a little bit after that. Although
the Nintendo Store being open, you know, in time for
the Switch to to launch, that probably is not a coincidence.
Speaker 4: Mag Ners the Corgie with just a super chat here.
First one, thank you so much, appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Wolf to you too, Wolf Wolf.
Speaker 4: Big Fresh three sevens is deaf Stranding, death strand deaf stranding.
Deth strand writing is Borderlands three writing. That was them,
not me who kept saying death stranding. Wait, the game
is called deaf stranding. I don't know. My brain broke it.
Speaker 3: Bulls all the time.
Speaker 4: He's your brain that's stranding, right? Is that the name
of that game? That sounds wrong?
Speaker 1: Death stranding the name of the video game.
Speaker 4: I just really hate saying the phrase deaf stranding writing
for some reason. Sure, okay, yes, but that is what
they wrote. Your death stranding writing is Borderlands three writing. Okay, anyways,
that's oh I got me played Borderlands three, but that
sounds unfair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you want to say, if you want to,
I think there's bad in different ways, that's fine.
Speaker 4: Oh goddamn records concerned for me. No, I'm fine. I'm fine.
I did see Borderlands three is deeply on sale for
the Steam sale, and I was almost like, what the heck.
Then I'm like, yeah, maybe I'll play Borderlands four when
that comes out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm think I'm in the same way.
Speaker 4: Uh, there's a manners the court gee again saying Jeff,
have you heard anything about the beta launch for sub
Nautica two?
Speaker 1: No, no, I haven't. I haven't really been looking or
paying attention. Uh, but I'm you know, always interested in
starting up a series called grub Nautica at some point,
so I'll keep an eye open for it.
Speaker 4: Night Trauma with their first super chest Thank you so much,
says thank you guys for all the awesome content. Always
look forward to anything you guys do. Here's a first
ever super chat to celebrate Mike's stomping festus quest like
Chris Son wamps the flu bus.
Speaker 1: Thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: To us band dancing, donating to get us to stop
talking about balls?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, well we'll see if see if that changes
anytime soon.
Speaker 4: Mike O'Leary says, donating to keep talking about balls, all right,
and that one has more more thumbs up, So there
you go, Chuck Toowski lifts her tail. I have no
idea what it is you imply, Master, I am but
a poor Argonian maid. Oh, Critias, So you are my dumpling,
and a good one at that, such strong legs and
shapely tailed. I believe this is the lusty Argonian.
Speaker 1: Jeff, Yeah, that's what it sounds like to me. And
I definitely recognized that on first. As soon as I
read it, I knew we were talking about a lusty
Argonian Edgar Marino.
Speaker 4: My little sister told my son that I used to
make Final Fancy ten slash into Rudo AMVs when I
was younger. Did you guys ever do anything more embarrassing? Look,
I think that sounds kind of cool, Edgar. Don't let
them get you down.
Speaker 1: And don't aren't the kids a little impressed by that?
Like they probably think that's cool. I mean, how old
are your kids? I guess if they're like teenagers, maybe
maybe not so much.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I don't know. I'm just into it.
My brother made a World Warcraft three music video set
to Dave Matthews band one time. I thought that was
pretty neat. And there was a dragon ball Z music
video set to It's My Life by bon Jovi that
I thought was amazing. I watched the shit out of
that thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's probably a list of things that are more
embarrassing than I did that I've blocked out just save
myself from not having to think about every day for
twenty years. That's fair.
Speaker 4: And then finally tuber says, when is Mike going to
ad the allegations that he is abusing any s tossed
your run if they're beating Faster's question, and one go,
I am convinced he is doping for Blake Club, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, you see, he's clear. I mean,
now you could be on that next gen stuff that
we can't track yet, but I mean, as far as
the rules are concerned, he's well within the bounds. There
you go, I'm clean.
Speaker 4: I'm clean, at least as far as everybody knows.
Speaker 1: You know what it is. It's like you're you're so
patient with those games because of like stuff like Mega
Man that you got really good, like you have you
beat Mega Man three without ever getting hit. You beat
one of those games without dying, without dying still still,
that is like attestings like how patient you could be
with those games? And that's the game Faster's quest if
you play it patient, Like you see anatomy coming at
you and you're like, you're not killing it, and I think,
like a lot of people like I'm just gonna give
it a couple more shots, and you always backed up.
You always are like no, I'm gonna get myself more space,
and like, I don't know, it just was the right
way to play that game. So you're built for it,
is what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like I like playing these any games.
Speaker 1: It's fun.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'll talk about later, but that night I
just was like, well, let's be one of my childhood
NIS games that that doesn't suck, and I played through.
Speaker 1: Little Nemo is a great one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just the same thing. I'm like, oh, yeah,
this is great. You know, it's difficult, and you dialogue,
you got to red things and then that's okay. You
get a bit better each time, right, Like that was
the whole thing with Dark Souls, Right, it brought a
little bit of that flavor back to gaming a bit. Yeah,
there's something about that I find very appealing.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. All wrapped up.
Speaker 4: I'll wrapped up for now. If you guys want to
send in any more super chests, we will get to
them before the end of the show. Thank you so
much for all of the support. You're amazing.
Speaker 1: All right, it's gonna be time for who wants to
be a Mike and Air. We got that set up
ready to go. We'll get to that right after another break.
We'll do that.
Speaker 4: Get rancaus. I need to call you Dan get Raycus,
I need to call you.
Speaker 1: We're back. We're back with mikey and Air. Who wants
to be a Mike and Air? Mike? This is the
game where I give you a ascendingly difficult questions in
the style of who wants to be a Millionaire? They're
all video game related. Uh, there's ten this time, because
that's the way that this outline worked. They will get
they will get pretty difficult. If you win, I will
buy you a shirt from the Yetti whenever you say go. Uh, so,
are you ready Mike to become a mikeyonaire?
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's see there's anything good over on the YETI
right now, there's there's there's some Frostfateau shirt because that
marathon is at you see what's all this yu gi?
Speaker 1: Oh shit?
Speaker 4: So really I might be banking that one for a
little bit on some street fighter stuff that doesn't look terrible. Okay,
it's your Okay, I'm ready, I'm ready, All.
Speaker 1: Right, let's get right into it. All right, Here is
your first question. Which console did Sony release in nineteen
ninety four in Japan? Was the Xbox PlayStation, GameCube or
Sega Genesis.
Speaker 4: It's It's always so messed up trying to think of
the plazation as a nineteen ninety four console, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I mean. I was like, right, like, oh,
I should just say in Japan because it's a weird
thing to think of other Yeah, I'm like that.
Speaker 4: I associate that conso with the it's nineteen ninety five
so much.
Speaker 1: It's December in Japan, so you know, it is very late,
to the point where most people probably never touched the
PlayStation in nineteen ninety four, even in Japan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a PlayStation.
Speaker 1: Final answer, All right, there we go correct. All right,
here we go on to the next one. In Minecraft,
what material do you need to mind to get diamonds?
Is it a cobblestone, B dirt, C stone or D
diamond or yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I don't play a ton of Minecraft,
so this isn't based off of experience, but I imagine
that you're it's probably diamond or makes diamonds? What this
is a let's so must have a celebrity Jeffardy with
dustard seeds.
Speaker 1: This condiment is made from mustard. Yep, that's the vibe here.
Diamond or is that your final answer. That's correct. Okay, good.
Question number three? Which oof? I'm gonna correct that. Which
of these is not a starter type in mainline Pokemon?
Is it A Electric, B Water, C Grass or D Fire?
Speaker 4: I am pretty shocked. We have had this many generations
and they haven't switched this up.
Speaker 1: Shot.
Speaker 4: Ah, that's funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now you know, assuming we're not counting that time,
you can get Pikachu as your first Pokemon. The answer
is Electric generally, not one of the three starter pokemons
that you can pick.
Speaker 1: Is that your final answer? Final answer? All right? That
is correct? All right? Question number four, what is the
name of the AI companion in the Halo series? Is
it eighty B GLaDOS, GLaDOS, B B Gladows, C CO
Pilot or D Kurtana?
Speaker 4: I remember that Naked Blue Lady anywhere? It's Kurtana and
that's what Pilot used to be called. All right, let's
go ahead, and is that your final answer? Oh, they
changed the name of a Microsoft's thing is anymore Cartana?
Speaker 1: They got rid of Kartana kind of across the board.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I see, I see, I see.
Speaker 1: Is that your final answer?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Correct? All right, we're onto question number five. Worth apparently
sixteen hundred points, which are meaningless. In the video game
Super Mario Brothers Too, birds fly on magic carpets. What
are those birds called? Is it a pigy B Pigeoto
see pigeot D Piget.
Speaker 4: Well again, contextos are going to help me here because
those three of these are Pokemon from the same evolutionary line. Uh,
and one of them isn't, which makes me think that D.
Piget is the magic carpet bird from Super Mario Brothers Too.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like you're going to go with piget here, Mike.
Is that your final answer?
Speaker 4: Final answer?
Speaker 1: Mike's going with D pidget for the birds that fly
on matric carpets and Super Mario Brothers Too. That is correct?
Speaker 4: All right, doing good, so have all my lifelines. I
feel good halfway done.
Speaker 1: Things are gonna start getting a little bit more difficult
from here on out, but just a little bit. So
with question number six in BioShock, which ability enables players
to shoot electricity from their hands, is it a electro
boal B electrodekinesis let me say that again, be electroconesis
see static flick or D shock treatment.
Speaker 4: Ooh okay, yeah, this is the first hard ish question.
You know, I played BioShock. I remember getting an electric ability.
I don't remember what it was called. Shock treatment sounds
too cute, electric bolt sounds too basic. I think it's
electrokinesis close chat just remove temptations in case people were
saying anything in there. I think it's electric kansis static
flick that it's not really a flick jet. I don't
think a static flick. I don't think it's shock treatment.
I don't really think it's electrical. I think it's electric canesis.
And it seems crazy that just maybe like, go my
get a little bit here, but this questions don't get
so much harder, Jeff, They're gonna get so much harder.
I don't really want to use a lifeline yet. I
just don't, just as a reminder that you use them
or you lose them. I mean, but if you get
it wrong, you are done. There is no coming back
from a wrong question. But Mike, hey, you're right. It's
only going to get harder from here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't know how much this audience knows about BioShock.
They're all young, and I like my brothers played BioShock, right,
I don't think they're going to remember the name of
the electric spell, so calling them is not gonna help
that much. Fifty to fifty could help, not ton, I think,
I think my best course of action is to be
a little risky and just go ahead and say electric canesis.
We're going to the raw dogget with no lifelines.
Speaker 1: All right? For the question in BioShock, which ability enables
you to shoot electricity from their hands? The Lost characters
tohoe electricity from their hands, Mike is going with b electrokinesis.
If that is his final.
Speaker 4: Answer, is my final answer, Jeff Grubb, all right, Mike Manatti,
that is incorrect. No, the answer was electro bolt.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 4: I fucking blew it, dude.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought that one might be tough. I
wasn't sure an idea like electrokinesis will definitely trip him up,
as I was coming up with that one, but I
wasn't sure if I would really trip you up that bad.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see how you do on the rest of these though.
No T shirt this time, So we're gonna come back.
We're gonna have more Mikey and Aires in the future
of the foreseeable future should have Dan. Did you know Dan?
Speaker 4: It should have called Dan. Electro bolt is so generic,
but I guess, eh, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I was surprised to him, Mike. I think I just
don't like the fact that it's called electro bolt when
I was looking this up. All right, question number seven
in du Sex, what disease is used to control the
world's population? Is it black death, virus, B graye death,
a blue plague, or d A mega strain.
Speaker 4: You know, I never played dy SX one. It's one
that's very high on my really, yeah, I would like
to do that pretty soon, but uh, my guests would
be Omega strain. That sounds dio sxy.
Speaker 1: All right, it's mega strain. It's actually grade death.
Speaker 4: I would have had to have lifelined that one, and
that that would have been tough too, cause, uh man,
that would have I would have been guessing, and I
feel like most of the lifeline people would have been guessing.
So fifty fifty would just had to help me on
that one.
Speaker 1: This one was gonna be my sort of uh this
could be like my my gesture to you, I think
you try to get you there to the end. In
the video game fastres Quest, who gives you TNT. Is
it a Mama, B, Mortitia, C. Pugsley or D Wednesday.
Speaker 4: It's funny because like I don't quite I think it
was Wednesday. I think Mama was Mama gives you lurch,
Mama gives you.
Speaker 1: The news, And the phrase Mama gives you nooses is
going to be burned to my head for the rest
of my life.
Speaker 4: By the way, Yeah, Mortitia was also pretty late in
the made no early. Morticia might have given you T
and T. She might have given you the vice scripts.
Wait a second, very early on the first two you see,
I think are Pugsy and Wednesday, and you don't get
the TNT. Then you know what. I bet it wasn't Martitia.
I bet Martitia gives you T and T it was
on that That would have been embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Also when you got it wrong for that one, I
thought that one might trip you up. So I changed
the wrong answer text to say lot'll eat ship for
audio listeners, just so you know that, all right? Question
number nine. What device enables SAM to detect BT's in
death stranding? Is it the ODRA deck scanner, the chiral detector,
the time fallse censor, or the UCA scanner.
Speaker 4: God, I bet it's called time fall sense. I wonder
if that Dan would have known this one if I
had to. Yeah, I'm all right.
Speaker 1: When you said Dan get ready, I'm like, oh shit,
he might be able to help with this one. But
I don't know Dan. Also, I mean I played this
game like for several hours. I used this thing. I
did not know what it was.
Speaker 4: I played a junk of it. I don't remember name
this thing. Let's guest time fall. Let the time fall.
Speaker 1: It says wrong? Don't you respect all tours? It's an
odra deck scander man.
Speaker 4: I thought, man, this, I feel better about losing when
I did, because that is getting rough for me in
all this.
Speaker 1: All right? Last question? What is doom Guy's real name
in the Doom novels, which you know, I guess it's
not Cannon, But in the Doom novels, is it a
doom Guy? B Jack Carver? See Romeo Kormac or d
Flynn Taggart.
Speaker 4: Romeo Cormack would have been good. They might have been
that cute with it, Flinn tag If that does that
sounds that's I don't like saying that. Uh, Jack Carver
sounds like something they would have just named this guy.
Let's go with Jack Carver.
Speaker 1: All right, do you want to use your fifty to
fifty it's your last chance.
Speaker 4: Oh, I still have lifelines here, Sure, go ahead, fifty
to fifty eight.
Speaker 1: Let's see that's gonna work. All right. How do you know?
Speaker 4: I guess it's Flint Taggart because that in Doomki are
my only choices?
Speaker 1: Now? That is correct, Flint Taggart. Okay, go to jail.
Yeah it's Taggart. That one. I was like, I was,
you know, just kind of throwing some stuff around. I'm like,
I remember those novels. I thought he had a name
in there. I'm like, that can't be right. And I
had to like go to a bunch of websites just
to check. But apparently Flynn Taggart.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think I got a single other question
right after that one I missed day.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you didn't take your time to
really think some of them through, so like when you
do that, usually have a better chance of getting things right.
So but hey, yeah that those that get really rough,
it was start losing eventually, That's okay. It was hard
to like do the difficulty curve with only ten questions.
So yeah, we'll iron that out for next time and
do another Mikey in Air, but this time you are
not a mic and Air you remain just a Mikey. Uh,
you know what, still rich in all our hearts though,
that was my intent. All right, let's take one last break.
We'll come back. We'll talk about what we've been playing,
all that good stuff right after this. All right, we're back,
and Mike, what have you been playing?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: After Fester's quest, I mentioned that I did play through
Little Nemo de dream Master, not Dreamfinder. Yeah, Dreamfinder is
a character from Epcot. Yeah, dream Master. This is a
Capcom NYS game, another one that I had as a kid,
and I like, are you familiar with this one at all?
Speaker 1: Jeff, Little Nemo? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I played it a
little bit. I never beat it or anything like that,
but uh, I like that game. I think it's a
good video game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a tough I mean, Capcom was just so
on fire at this time they could rarely do too
much ron and yeah, this game just has also f
you want from Capcom, where it's that really tight, good
feeling two D jump in and move in. The music
is of course incredible. Also, like like the characters in
the setting, it's based off a movie that came out
at the time, a cartoon that was itself based off
of a very old comic stript story about a kid
who dreams and goes to Dreamland and there's a bunch
of weird dream people there.
Speaker 1: Have you read that? No? No, Like, have you either
you read or watched Little Nemo. I've not consumed really
any Little Nemo outside of the Disney Pixar film called
Little Nemo, which I think is or Finding Nemo, which
is comboly.
Speaker 4: Unrelated, right. I remember when they announced that, I was like,
finding Nemo? Are they they're doing something with Nemo?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I like, wait that that old video game And
it's like, okay, nope, this is just my brain making
connections where there is none. But yeah, this was a
really fun playthrough.
Speaker 4: It gets it's not too bad and at the end,
like there's a last level that is suddenly basically four
levels in a row and you have to beat it all.
You know, with with so many lies you can continue
to start back, but it's it was pretty difficult, but
still satisfying to get through. Somehow took me about as long,
maybe a little longer than it did. It beat Fester's Quest,
so that was where. But it felt good beating two
of these childhood and e s games that have you know,
kind of hung over me for a long time in
the same day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was fun to watch you play some little Nemo.
That was a good time. I started a wander Stop.
I can't I can't remember the name of this game.
Evert me double check.
Speaker 4: I said, wander Stop, isn't it not.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried. It's not the name of the nick
wander Stop. Yeah, it is a game about making tea.
It's just about a little bit more than that. It's
about you know, burnout out. You know this. He plays
a fighter who you know has been fighting her whole life,
and then she loses a fight and she said, oh god,
I gotta train even harder. This is my entire life.
I can't ever lose. That makes me, That makes my
whole life a lie. Or if not first or last,
you're not first, your last. So I'm gonna go train
even harder. And she trains so hard eventually she kind
of like can't even lift her sword anymore. And she's
running through the woods and she has to like kind
of drop her sword and then she drops from exhaustion.
And a big guy that kind of talks like the
sauna character from a Frozen like a Swedish character or whatever,
or you know, Norwegian character. I suppose he picks you
up and carries you to his tea shop in the
middle of the woods, and it's like, hey, you want
to just hang out here? And at first she's like,
no way, please, No, I can't do that. I can't stop.
I can't be a quitter. But you know, you take
a little bit of a break and you may start
making some tea and it's it's very pleasant. It is
definitely a you know, Capital Sea cozy game. Oh wow, Yeah,
it wants to be, you know, considered that way.
Speaker 4: Games are better than mods.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, yes, and the things that discussed Mike Minati.
It is just slightly above mods. Yeah, it is, I
think interesting because it's definitely trying to explore these ideas
through gameplay mechanics while also making the gameplay mechanics fun
in their own right. It is satisfying to, okay, plant
three things of tea in a row to make a
tea fruit grow and then you can harvest that and
then go put that in a basket, let it dry,
and while that's happening, you can go take you can
go gather some other stuff. Then you bring all that together.
Once everything's ready, take it over the giant tea machine.
And then that is a cool little process you go through.
And while you're doing all this, the game is kind
of just discussing these ideas of burnout with you and
feeling overwhelmed by life and pushing yourself too hard and
defining yourself through the things that you do, maybe through
your work or other pursuits of passion. But I don't
think it ever like crosses this line into being preachy.
It is just existing in these concepts. It is. It
is discussing them, but I don't think it ever is
like it never feels like it's scolding you or claiming
that it has the definitive right answer for what people
should be doing when they feel this way, which I appreciate.
It feels like it's written in very from a very
mature perspective, and that is nice. And then on top
of that, it is a game that is I find
pleasant to play. I don't know if I'm super in
the mood for something like this right now. You know,
I'm not like you or I have this like I
know you play it up a little bit, but you know,
coachy games usually are not the thing you're choosing to
play first, and really they're not for me either these days.
There's a couple I like, I mean, I would put
like Star New Valley in that bucket overall, like a
very wide form of that bucket. That's the one that like,
oh yeah, I'll play something like that for sure. And
then this is like a more boiled down take on
stuff like that that is maybe then amplifies the coziness
a side out of the equation. And I'm like, oh,
you know, I don't know what it is, but I'm
just I don't know. It doesn't don't want to call
it a waste of my time. I feel like that
is exactly what the game is trying to discuss, where
it's like, no, just take a breath and enjoy something
that is enjoyable. But it is a little bit of
a barrier for me to get over, and it's definitely
a mental barrier in my own brain. But it does
everything well. I think it runs good on Steam Deck.
It's something I can just maybe actually snuggle up with
in my bean bag and hang out and and and
and play with. But yeah, not not necessarily hooking sinking
its hooks into me personally, But I think there's a
lot of people who will find something here to really
respond to. UH. And I you know, I think it's
from some of the people that worked on UH what
is what are those games called the Uh? It's those
those choice games where there's the narrator Mike the Stanley Parable. Yeah, yes,
and so I think that's where it's like, Oh, these
are people that know how to put ideas and writeing
into games, and so that side of things really shines.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it looks interesting. I like these angry penguins I'm seeing.
Speaker 1: In this one screenshot.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you've come across them yet, but
that's I've not.
Speaker 1: But like the fact that there are things like that
in there that like that does kind of entice me
and make me want to play some more. I think
I'm I actually, I am just in a a spot
personally where I I you know, I'm not it's not burnout,
but it is like this noise, this cacophony of everything
in the world happening, sort of existing in this shell
that I have to build for myself where it's like,
let's just kind of keep this family unit I have here,
like safe and happy and like having a game being like, well,
let's you know, just gently touch on those feelings that
you're using to to like generate that shield. It's like, oh,
that's so, that's kind of sensitive. Actually, I don't know
if I'm ready to do that yet. And I think
that's mostly what it is for me.
Speaker 4: That's going to be your therapist's job at ten years exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and really he won't be able to undo
all the damage the stress is done, so that'll be fun.
Maybe I should play this game, shit anything else now.
Speaker 4: I like the idea of tea. I like tea. I
wish I drink my tea, But I find that I
often like the idea of tea more than I actually
like tea.
Speaker 1: Well, and that you know, I think the the idea
I get is I think that's true for people who
also really like tea is the process of making tea
and like having tea time and making it this ritual thing.
It is very important to them. So yeah, I I
also was like, as I'm going through this, you know,
huge elaborate version of making tea. I'm like, yeah, man,
making tea is just a cool thing.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: I do like my I still like my shirvamatte but
that is just throwing a bunch of dirt into a
cup and then drinking the water out of it. Yeah,
it's a little Yeah, it's great. It's what it feels like,
brute forcing tea in a lot of ways like that. Uh,
you playing anything.
Speaker 4: Else, gosh, you know, so a lot of two point Museum.
I think I might be quote unquote beating the game
as much as you can. And you know, Dokey Con
ninety four and Pitt Cross still just really liking all
that jazz.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like kind of picking up PGA two K
twenty five still quite quite frequently. And that's been my
zone out game where it's like I could just I
could just whack a ball into a hole. That's all
kind of a very base need that I need to
serve right now, and that's working for me. And then
you know, almost be grim fandango. So yeah, probably gonna
wrap that up this swell. We'll see. I've really got
to do my taxes, but uh, maybe wrap that up
this weekend.
Speaker 4: Take the boats you send me that form?
Speaker 1: Not yet, you can assume me if you want.
Speaker 3: Can I sue you?
Speaker 1: You probably could, but you probably don't want to because
then I think you don't want to draw attention to
anybody about your tax situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if I were you, all right? I need I
need a hunt update for a Mike. How are you feeling?
Are you been playing some Oh?
Speaker 4: I mean I'm yeah, I do. I'm playing a bit.
I am almost in a mode right now. We're like, okay,
I gotta just go in there and beat the game.
And I am excited to beat the game more for
the sake of beating it then because I'm going to
quote unquote beat it. Gotta really ruined that phrase forever
for me. I gotta start saying solve it or finish it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Look, I still really like when the fight monsters in
the game, Uh got my last team. When I was
playing it, the story felt like it was dragging even
more than usual. And he's even more of YadA or
Nada or whatever that his name is just kind of
I don't know. I don't know if whining is the word,
but he's doing something and he's being all teary eyed
about something.
Speaker 3: So let me explain. He's conflicted. He's conflicted with the monster.
You know, he was like the monster to keep living,
but the monster is fucking up the environment. So it's like, oh,
this is the dichotomy of the hunting. And I'm like,
I don't really get.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like whatever you think, not that I'm gonna
kill the monsters. That's what I want to do.
Speaker 1: I bought the video game. This is what I bought
it to do, so it's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But you know, again, I do enjoy the game.
I am excited to see how I feel about the
sort of other end of being through this story. But
I think I do think that the guy from Monster
and Here was like, this is why these games got
so much bigger is because we added all this story stuff.
I think that is almost unhinged. And I hope they
don't actually believe that.
Speaker 3: They might believe that over there, they.
Speaker 1: Might believe it. I think you might believe it.
Speaker 4: I mean there is like there's a correlation, which isn't
you know, always causation, right, but there is like a well,
they've made most in the world and that have more
cut scenes, and then the game starts selling better. Granted
Rise did it, Like Rise pulled back from that and
also sold really well. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, Mike, what would it take for you to
skip a cut scene in a video game you haven't
played before.
Speaker 4: A cut scene I am watching for the first time.
What would it take the skip it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I just I just maybe maybe nothing.
I don't know, like you would have to like.
Speaker 1: Hey, let's say it's not like let's just let's say
it's like not something like egregiously racist or offensive. So
they're like, oh, you're like you're endorsing Nazis by watching this.
But is there something like so bad in terms of
quality that if you feel like you're actually wasting your
time so much that you would skip a cut scene?
Do you think that's possible?
Speaker 4: I mean I would maybe stop playing the video game, okay,
if I felt like that is the thing, right, Like, you.
Speaker 1: Would st stop playing the game first rather than not
watch the cut much like like the one time I
came that close to liking a game, it so much
more than the cut scenes was neon White.
Speaker 4: Even then, like I still like got through it. It's
just uh, it just I don't know. I feel weird
when I do it, Like I this is a me thing,
but I just feel like once I start doing that, well,
I'm not really playing this game anymore. Actually, I'm now
this is some weird facillity of of that similar.
Speaker 3: Yea, if I if I follow that rule, I finish
the video game. That's crazy. That's a crazy if I
follow that way.
Speaker 1: Are you always skipping cut scenes?
Speaker 3: I'm if the constant is boring, I'm stepping that shit.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, okay, no, yes, same, but I mean.
Speaker 4: I can't it. But if the cuts he's boring, then
the game is boring. And I know it's.
Speaker 1: Different, No, it's but it is the video I get it,
like I feel, I feel the way where it's like, no,
the video game is the video game I'm playing. But
I will never be like what you just said is wrong. No,
that is part of the video game. Like you're right.
Speaker 4: It's like it's like I kind of want it all
or nothing, and like, hey, this is the experience they
wanted me to have, and I'm gonna like judge this
whole thing based off of the experience, Like doesn't mean
I'm going to do everything. I'm like, oh, I could
do every side quest, but this stuff is to me
in a way super mandatory, even though it's not because
you can't just skip them. Now, maybe a part problems
that I did grow up when we couldn't skip them.
So to me it is just a you know, now,
I do do things like you know, games are voice acted,
but you can still read the dialogue.
Speaker 1: I'll often kind of read faster than they finished.
Speaker 5: And that.
Speaker 4: You don't do that you have a problem with Christian, Yes,
that just like to hear the voice I.
Speaker 3: Did, and I don't know why I can't do that.
That's that's just I don't know for me.
Speaker 4: Kevin House like brought up Dale before you skips of
the dialogue right, and like I get it because I
was playing that deal for Expansion. I was finding all
the dialing story stuff so mundane and obnoxious to get through.
Speaker 1: But I just stopped playing the game. I really did.
Speaker 4: I was just like, well, I'm not enjoying this anymore.
Like this should be additive to the experience. It should
be helping you to enjoy it. And if I don't,
then then I don't just resent the story. I resent
the entire game.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think for me, it's like I uh was,
I'll think of a game like Bad Dudes, where it's
like the intro is, you know, the president has been
kidnapped by ninjus, and like that's what these things are
here for, just to like add some flavor. And really
you're supposed to button press through the ship and get
to the video game. And that's how I view it.
So it's like if it's something I don't like, I'm like,
well that's that's fine. The video game is still here.
So it's just a different different freaks for different freaks.
All right, Mike, I think we probably got a handful
of most more super chat, so thread those and then
we'll get down out of here. Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: From Josh Paige, Jeff, you have to take responsibility for
getting life during wartime stuck in my head. I'm annoying
my family singing this ain't no fooling around at them
since Tuesday.
Speaker 1: But I don't. I'm like, I'm lost on this.
Speaker 4: What did I do song that you got stuck in
someone's head?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure. Take responsibility, you know what? You
know what, here's here's a good I did I have
been meaning to talk about this. This is Talking Heads? Okay, yes,
so I don't know music, but the names of songs
for even the bands I like, get this this. I
I don't engage with music that way. It plays on
my radio. It's like skipped the cut scenes. You skip
the titles of songs. I guess yes, I I for
like the Beatles. I can name like the Beatles. I
could probably name three or four five song titles. I
don't think about song music that way because I'm not
cataloging it. It is something that happens, and I'm like,
I enjoy that sound. So when I say something like
Talking Heads is one of my favorite bands, it's true.
It's one of my favorite things to hear. I wouldn't
call myself a huge Talking Heads fan. Does that make
any sense to anyone else? This is how I feel.
This is my way, but I think it's weird. I
do think I'm weird about this stuff, but I just don't.
I don't want to ever dedicate that much space in
my head to memorizing that like lyrics in the names
of names of bands and or names of songs and
stuff like that.
Speaker 4: The tape of you again to explaining it. It's sounding
weirder at first.
Speaker 1: I know it's not that weird. I think, I know,
I do think I'm a little bit weird on this stuff.
But it's like I just would rather hear it than
anything else, and that's good enough for me. So yeah,
all right, any more super chats.
Speaker 4: Screaming Man says, how do you two feel about the
cartoon Swatcats? I did not watch much Swatcats. I'm sure
you hate them, Jef, because they're cops.
Speaker 1: I oh, yeah, no, I mean there's I'm like trying
to think someone called the elite beat agents cops, and I'm like,
are they cops? They music police?
Speaker 4: They are helpers?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like they just a nonprofit, right, they're the mister
rogers helpers. Look for the helper.
Speaker 2: Opposite of cops.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, okay, okay, yes, thank you.
Speaker 2: Guys help people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitional opposite of cops.
Speaker 4: You're right, right, I mean they helped that one guy
steal things, right, Like they didn't even rat them out.
They help they help people commit rhymes.
Speaker 1: They're just the music enforcers. And but the music is
as a crime itself.
Speaker 4: Uh, Mikey O'Leary says, Jack Ryan five movies that arrived
today forty hits hard, that's funny. What's your favorite Jack
Ryan movie, Jeff, I think, well, my favorite Jack Ryan
movie is easy. It's Hunt for the Red October. That
counts for some reason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like the Jack Ryan movie.
Speaker 4: Better than Clear and Present Dangers, which is I.
Speaker 1: Like that one. Yeah, President Ager is great. That Amazon
Prime show is is like Prime Dad Show bullshit, So
I like him.
Speaker 4: What what do people think of some of all fears
these days? That was a hit at the time.
Speaker 1: I think it's considered a little bit lesser, but it's
like a guilty pleasure for me.
Speaker 4: People ever remember the Chris Pine one that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it did very well.
Speaker 3: Is that one a good one or is?
Speaker 1: I I like it, but it's it's also kind of lesser,
but I like I really like what's his name, the
old dude in that one who's in Yellowstone. I can
never remember his name. Kevin. I want to say Kevin Coliner,
Kevin Costner. I like Kevin Costner. That's so a weird
thing of mine.
Speaker 4: I think it's just such a big coward move. How
all the other Jack Rye movies don't have the name
Jack Ryan in the title, and then Chris Pines is
called Jack Ryan.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you're right. They're definitely like we need
to like turn this into a brand so that can
maybe we can have a connected universe that was in
that time.
Speaker 4: So yeah, alrighty, And then we got one here, last
one here from Zassi. Zasi says, did you guys play
The Big Catch? It's a crazy high quality platform er
from Steam next vest I think you'd like a lot.
Speaker 1: I did not. I didn't either, but I'll check this out.
That's not the Carnival one that I was talking about. No,
because you have the.
Speaker 4: Catch, I would assume it's about fishing, but that's just
an assumption.
Speaker 1: H No, but I didn't play this one.
Speaker 4: Now is fishing adjacent? I don't know if it's like
all Big the Cat related, but it looks like he
has a fishing pole.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, sounds like a good time to me. Anything else, Mike,
I was like, we're caught up, all right. Thanks for
all the super chats everybody. Thanks to everybody who tuned
in and listen to the show. Mike Banani, I'm gonna
hit the button to get us out of here. Uh, okay,
you you're feeling ready, you gotta. I know you got
a secret mission you're on this weekend. I know that's
maybe the most stressful part is getting ready. But do
you haven't.
Speaker 4: I don't want people to be like, oh, he's gonna
make it. I'm not even gonna really be able to
make content be everybody, So don't I think.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but he's doing Mikey stuff for Mike. You. Yeah,
we don't get well, we don't get all this time.
Everybody who can't mind every bit of the stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I am, but you know, no, it's not
related to my balls. I wish you know. Packing is
always stressful, especially because there's so much stuff I can
only pack in the morning, like all the toiletries and
now the sea pat machine one not, It's fine. I'm
looking forward to I'm trying out this this new budget
airline that opened up a rep to Orlando from Actron,
So I'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1: N that might be Uh, you might use something like
that next time. I mean we usually fly United. I
got a United credit card and that's handy, but it
was expensive, so yeah, my hilarious breeze. I'll try breeze.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it look just from looking at it,
I'm like, Okay, hope, I think it's gonna be nicer
than like a Frontier or a Spirit, But who knows.
Speaker 1: We'll see, Yeah, I hope so, and we'll see.
Speaker 4: I think the way Spirit like paints their planes yellow,
I think that's I'm like even just like, you know,
you don't have to like also make the planes ugly,
because you could still make them look nice. No one
will stop you.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, the idea of like the
liveries that they would put on planes that were like, oh,
here's a bunch of Pokemon, I'm like, oh, do they
do that like all the planes? And growing up and
realized it's like no, that was like one plane once
several decades ago, and like planes are decorated in a
fun way. That was pretty disappointing. I wish we got
more of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we should have more fun with planes again.
Speaker 1: Yeah for real? Yeah fun. They should take planes less seriously,
is what I think. Yeah, right, that we're well on
our way in some ways. All right, everybody, if you
are watching live, we'll have some more stuff on giant
bomb tomorrow on Professional Fridays. It's gonna have repo and
stuff like that. Tune up for that. So then have
a good one, take care of yourself and goodbye. It's
the sixth part that really gets yet answer. It's really
classic of this show lately. A penis.
Speaker 2: Hey By.
Speaker 1: For you. You are a confessor looking motherfucker.
Speaker 3: Yip yip gip yip yipip.
Speaker 1: Good ship, buddy, got me fight forever for four bucks?
All right?
Speaker 3: Oh I'm water bottle almost.
Speaker 1: For four bucks? Come on, yeah, I think it's easily
worth four bucks. That's that's funny.
Speaker 3: Hell, I want to get the I'm gonna get the
super Chetts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm ready when you guys are ready to get
back into it.
Speaker 3: Way, I need to buy this team. I should just
jump back into.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go.
Speaker 3: All right, we are on the break, all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dan could be your phone a friend, absolutely okay,
and I'll get the set up.
Speaker 4: I think the more there are holes in that plan.
Speaker 1: You never know. Okay, there's that, there's this, and then
let's get this here.
Speaker 2: We'll call anyone he knows except for his trivia show host.
Speaker 3: Oh my guys, that's so true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: Bad person a bad human being. Okay, it's gonna fit
in here. I guess I'll have to be like this.
Speaker 3: Bom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom
boom boom boom boom boom boom bom boom that I
will foreshould be as selful as possible.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I said for shoot, and everyone knows what
that means.
Speaker 1: You know, it's I noticed that people don't have the
same issue with work, right. I think people just get
work right, like you're being worked.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because like working the crowd is a really
common one.
Speaker 1: But it's more, yeah, it's like has because you know,
they all come from the same sort of like showmanship,
like a Carnie speed of people traveling around. But you're right,
working the crowd definitely is one that got out there
much further than shoot.
Speaker 2: Or like you got worked over is kind of yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, but it's like the one that you know,
people can complain about. At this point, we're not going
to stop and people are allowed to not like what
they don't like. But the one that always gets me
is like words mean what they mean and so okay, well,
you know this form of using the word shoot this
way is uh decades older than you. It's you know,
I might this is This.
Speaker 3: Is so weird because like, if if this was real
life and I hear somebody talking in a way I
don't like, I don't go to them, and I'm like
constantly telling them, then they aren't like that, I will
get my ass.
Speaker 1: That's also you know, the idea of like of like
asking anyone to stop talking in a way I don't like.
It's crazy to me whether people are allowed to not like
they don't like.
Speaker 2: In the chat, Dan record says I'll stop when the
air and I stop saying wifu and sampi, And you
know what, that's very fair.
Speaker 1: That's fair, completely fair.
Speaker 2: Because those are made up words there, so.
Speaker 3: I never you know what, sometimes I never heard that
right there telling people that you stop saying sampire or
wifle their faces.
Speaker 2: Well, sampi is, yeah, sampie is just like you know
Japanese word, but life.
Speaker 3: Allow Japanese people to say sampia exactly.
Speaker 1: That's fair, all right, I think we are set up. Mike.
Let me share this with you though.
Speaker 2: Oh did did you guys talk about Mike's balls yet?
Speaker 1: Okays, about it. You should thank you.
Speaker 3: You should be here to like to be on the
right side of the force, not the other side.
Speaker 2: No, no, I Christian, I am offended at the way
they treated my friend Mike.
Speaker 5: What I said, thank you, it is twenty five is
the perfectly normal thing for someone to take care of
themselves that way. Like, yeah, I was you know what,
you know, I was disappointed. My man Jan was sitting there.
I could see it on his face. He's like, oh, no,
I have to tell the Olds that they're wrong about
this thing that involves telling the entire Giant Bop audience
that I shaved my ball.
Speaker 2: Took him like I saw two minutes.
Speaker 4: Into the concerned.
Speaker 1: About taking care of his balls. I'm gonna tell him
the truth, and I'm gonna have his back and save
your balls.
Speaker 2: It's fine, all right.
Speaker 1: Set up, ready to go. I think Mike, you should
be able to see it as well. I think it
might even work this time. Guys, let's go.
Speaker 4: Okay, I see it, all.
Speaker 1: Right, let's so let's get into it.
Speaker 3: Mike's loser, Mike, Mike, all right.
Speaker 1: You guys still good?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Sean, you want to talk about capcom coup.
Speaker 2: Before I actually didn't watch much of it.
Speaker 3: All right, let's not talk about capcom cop okay,