WEBVTT 1 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:20.960 Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly 2 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:23.280 video game show here at Geek Versus. I'm your host, 3 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:25.640 til mustn't I have with me? Peter the park Day 4 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:27.120 the field? How you doing to my friend? 5 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:29.719 I'm no good. I've got to change my nickname after 6 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:33.359 the week. That's from Spidey, right, Peter park Spidey? You 7 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:35.200 got it? Travis did had He had no clue what 8 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:35.640 it meant? 9 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:38.159 Did you not? Did you have that on the Spidy review? 10 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:40.640 Though? No? I had it yesterday because we're talking about 11 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:43.320 Spider Man versus Doomsday at the box office. 12 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:46.079 Okay, yeah it made sense to me. 13 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:46.920 But yeah, I got a lot. 14 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:50.759 Okay, I got Peter Parker on the mind. Yes, happy 15 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:51.159 to be here. 16 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:52.159 Yeah, absolutely. 17 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:54.759 This is a gonna be a fun episode of side Quest. 18 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:57.039 We're gonna be times on the game plane. We're gonna 19 00:00:57.079 --> 00:00:58.719 do a bit of a preview for the second half 20 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:00.759 the year. I know it's in August, we're already technically 21 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:03.000 past second half the year, but yeah, we're gonna just 22 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:04.640 kind of look through that calendar. A bunch of new 23 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.000 things have been announced or have release dates that didn't 24 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:09.239 when we did this at the back in January. So 25 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:11.079 that'll be fun to check in on that. But we're 26 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:13.879 gonna kick it off, of course with a Patreon question 27 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:16.359 that me and Travis answered last last week, but I 28 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:17.719 want to get your take on it, and then whenever 29 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:19.760 Kerkin's on the show next he'll answer it as well. 30 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:24.400 And that was from Sam Green asking which which video 31 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:26.719 games do you wish you could play again for the 32 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:29.879 first time? So whether that's like the magic and discovery 33 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:32.599 of uncovering like secrets in a game for the first time, 34 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:35.359 or maybe just like those early memories of you know, 35 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:37.760 checking out in a multiplayer game for the first time. Taylor, 36 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:39.159 what comes to mind for you? What are some games 37 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:41.239 that you wish you could play again for the first time, 38 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:44.200 just vanquish your mind, your memories of it and have 39 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:47.760 that fresh experience in twenty twenty six today, I. 40 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:52.159 Mean immediately, Halo Reach is absolutely that's a great gay 41 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:55.480 that story in that campaign, like I've been playing I 42 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:58.760 think I mentioned a few episodes ago side Quest that 43 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:00.959 I was kind of trying to play through again and 44 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:03.280 slowly but surely make them away through it. And yeah, 45 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:05.159 it's just it hits different as an adult because you 46 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:08.000 actually understand the stuff they're talking about in the story 47 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:10.240 cut scenes. But I would love to play with again. 48 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:12.199 So you got that. 49 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:15.960 Yeah, well, I'll just cut you off real quick, which 50 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:18.000 is that it's interesting with like because a Halo Campaign 51 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:20.680 Evolved just came out or it's supposed to come. I 52 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:21.280 think it just came out. 53 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:21.879 It came out. 54 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:24.319 I wonder if, like, because there's new missions in that, 55 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:25.599 I wonder if people will have like a bit of 56 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:28.000 that experience where it's like you can kind of experience 57 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:29.560 the first game again for the first time because there's 58 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:31.960 like new new content, new missions that were never there before, 59 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:34.560 and it like looks really good and whatnot. So hopefully 60 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:36.520 people can have a similar experience. But I think Reach 61 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:39.319 Out of that like whole series of games, that's like 62 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.639 a really good pick for this particular question, I think, 63 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:44.960 especially because it's got like remastered versions and stuff, so 64 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:47.520 it still looks great, you know when you're playing it today. 65 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:50.439 It does. Yeah, it's just it holds up. It holds 66 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:52.240 up so good. I would love to get what they 67 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:54.919 did to Campaign Evolved. If they do that to Reach 68 00:02:56.039 --> 00:03:00.080 that'd be cool. Oh my god, they will, No, I 69 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.039 don't think so. I saw that there were talks for 70 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:06.159 Halo two getting the campaign involve treatment, and I just think. 71 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:07.599 You know, trilogy, but I don't know if they'd go 72 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:08.439 past the trilogy. 73 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:10.599 Yeah, I would think so too. But they already did 74 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:13.680 an anniversary for two and revised it, but then three 75 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:16.319 never got any love. Three had its anniversary. It's like, well, 76 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:16.960 that's a shame. 77 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:19.520 Did two when they did that niverieson that had like 78 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:21.240 to have any new content or was it just like 79 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:21.960 a code of paint. 80 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:24.840 It was just like coda paint and a beautiful code 81 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:29.319 of paint. It was, oh my gosh. So yeah. But 82 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:32.840 than that, I mean, i'd probably take I would take 83 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:35.680 both Calderty World at War and more Fair two because 84 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:37.319 you have the zombies for the first time, and then 85 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:41.240 you've got World War at Modern Warfare two playing Michael 86 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:45.159 Myers and all those different like three sixty Noscope, Ballista's 87 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:50.479 Interventions or not Ballista's just intervention, and Barrett fifty Cows 88 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:52.039 I think was the other one. This was so much fun. 89 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:56.800 And then the last one I'd probably throw down would 90 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.280 be Assassin's Creed two. That game. Playing it for the 91 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:03.840 first time was pure magic. Oh my gosh, just ten. 92 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:08.080 And that's got some some remastered versions, right, I'm sure 93 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:08.439 like it's. 94 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:11.599 Got a Yeah, they did an Etzeo trilogy and that 95 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:15.560 included Brotherhood and Revelations, and they gave it a little 96 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:20.000 bit of a spruced up kind of quality factor to it. 97 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:24.040 But it needs like an actual full on remaster, completely 98 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:27.399 unreal engine amp at app let's go, that's what it needs. 99 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:29.240 Is there an element to that one though? Where since 100 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:31.639 you've played every other game in the series, would you 101 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:32.839 go back to that when and be like, oh, it's 102 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:35.120 missing these mechanics. Are this quality of life stuff that 103 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:37.040 like the future games have added or do you think 104 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:38.600 it would like stand up just because it's like such 105 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:39.639 a quality game on its. 106 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:42.000 Own, Well, here's the beautiful thing, because I mean I 107 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:44.160 would notice that I would miss it. But Black Flag, 108 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:46.560 I mean, I'm pretty sure they just revised the combat system, 109 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:48.839 so it's the current combat system from the games into 110 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:52.079 that old into the Black Flag. I believe that's what 111 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:54.160 they did, if I remember watching the videos correctly. It's 112 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:56.680 been a good minute. But they that wasn't just this 113 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:00.079 fresh coat of paint. They totally spruce that up with 114 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:02.720 modern day assassin's creed mechanics, so that if. 115 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:04.800 They didn't do that for Assassin's Creed too, how do 116 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:06.000 you think you would How do you think it would 117 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:07.680 a fare for you if you played it now? 118 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:08.480 Truly? 119 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:11.480 Right now, mind wipe you go play the game right now? 120 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:12.360 How do you think that would go? 121 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:15.040 I'd still like it because it's a story that I 122 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:17.360 fell in love with and the characters, so that would 123 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:21.240 definitely kind of hold that prominent factor over over everything 124 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:24.720 for me. But uh, yeah, it would be that would 125 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:26.920 be such a shame a miss opportunity if they didn't. 126 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:30.240 But it's a simple combat system anyways, mm hmm. 127 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:33.319 Yeah those are good picks me. Yeah. I mean last 128 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:34.920 week me and Trevs were like trying to figure out 129 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:37.240 which games you would pick. I didn't think about Halo 130 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:39.399 for some reason. But yeah, we we thought he's going 131 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:43.000 to pick an Assassin's Creed for sure, he's got it. Yeah, 132 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:45.600 oh yeah, that's great. 133 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:46.439 Yeah. 134 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:48.800 Again, like I said, when Kirkland's on next, we'll ask 135 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:53.360 him his answers would be. But jumping into games, we've 136 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:55.240 been playing, Taylor, what have you been playing lately? 137 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:58.959 So lately? Uh? And it ties back into the Halo 138 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:02.079 I just pop on the campaign evolved and took a 139 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:06.160 deep dive into it. I wasn't I was getting excited 140 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:08.319 for it. But this is a game I've played countless times, 141 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:10.959 every iteration, and this being the third one, which is 142 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:15.120 quite hilarious. I've beaten the campaign many a time. I 143 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:17.279 played the living daylights out of the multiplayers. So this 144 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:19.040 is the Halo game that I've got the most experienced 145 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:22.040 with above all the other Halo games, and so playing this, 146 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:25.399 it looks beautiful. And the first thing you notice is 147 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:27.240 when you play a game, you're so familiar with the 148 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:29.279 cut scenes. You know how they start, you know how 149 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:31.920 they end, and so when you're playing and you get 150 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:35.279 the intro cut scene, and it's like they added extra 151 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:37.800 stuff here in the cut scenes. You're getting like space battles, 152 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:40.199 the Pillar of Autumn jumping out of slip space, and 153 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:42.680 you see like Covenant carriers coming in on the opposite 154 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:44.959 side of the planet and it starts firing MAC rounds 155 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:48.040 and blowing. I'm like, WHOA, You're getting like fighters flying 156 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:50.959 a I'm like, okay, this is pretty sweet. I'm digging this. 157 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:52.959 And like extra stuff in the ship where like Sergeant 158 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.519 Johnson's running aund they're fighting aliens down the hallways. That 159 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:59.959 being huge because I'm a big cut scene guy. Most 160 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.120 of my times at night when I'm uploading you know, episodes, 161 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:05.879 podcast episodes, I wander into YouTube and look at Halo 162 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.279 cut scenes the past of the time while they download 163 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:12.079 and they upload. So that was that was a big, 164 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:15.120 big factor for me. I just couldn't believe it. And 165 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.680 then of course new weaponry that you're getting. You got 166 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:20.439 the skulls that they've placed throughout here too, and just 167 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:24.120 I'm not going to go into super detail about the 168 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.199 amount of content you can add them with the skulls, 169 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:28.800 because you can add new enemy types that weren't there before. 170 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:30.879 You can really change things up. You can you have 171 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:32.959 sprinting now, which is cool. You can move the sprint. 172 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:36.839 There's a very large customizing component to this game, which 173 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:39.879 is awesome. On top of it just looking really really beautiful. 174 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:43.839 And I did not touch the three prequel missions the extras, 175 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:46.439 but the fact that they added that is really you can. 176 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:47.879 Just skip those and jump into like. 177 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.079 There's two Yeah, you can do the campaign or you 178 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:53.319 can do extras, which is those those bonus missions. So 179 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:55.759 I will get around to playing them because I really 180 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:57.680 want to be immersed in that I've already watched the 181 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.879 cut scenes for all of it because I'm curious, and 182 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:03.480 the game came out early for people that pre ordered it, 183 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:05.399 so I just I dived in and I just wanted 184 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:06.800 I didn't buy it, but I wanted to see what 185 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:09.000 the cut scenes were for that story. So it looks 186 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:11.319 pretty cool, looks engaging, and I'm excited to eventually get 187 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:13.240 around to it, but I'll play through the main game 188 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:18.240 first just because and it's it's been a delight so far. 189 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:21.560 I really, I really thought that was it the twenty 190 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:24.639 fifth anniversary. Was that what the previous one? I was 191 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:27.439 a ten year anniversary? They did the remake? I can't remember, 192 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:29.279 but when that first remake came out, I thought, wow, 193 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:31.279 these graphics look great. At the time, this is awesome, 194 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:33.240 and I was back on three sixties. So now being 195 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:36.639 at this point where we're two generations later on consoles, 196 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:39.600 and the game just looks even better. There's some weird 197 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:41.960 stuff with characters kind of running and their animations look 198 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:44.320 a little bit off, but for the most part, it's 199 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:47.799 it's pretty. It's pretty fantastic, and I hope that this 200 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:50.759 applies to Halo two because I will take it only 201 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:52.639 if it means we get Halo three. I need a 202 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:55.279 Halo three like this, Like you said, just the trilogy. 203 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:58.159 Just do the trilogy and then we're laughing. But in 204 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:01.879 closing this prequel mission, I think set a good bar 205 00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:05.559 for the fact that there's such an expansive universe here 206 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:07.759 that they can tap into. There's so much story, and 207 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:10.360 we don't need to keep going ahead ahead beyond Halo 208 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:12.879 five Halo Infinite, as cool as that would be. But 209 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:16.120 if they just release another ODST game where you're on 210 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:18.600 an outpost and the flood is coming like Horror style, 211 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:23.039 or just add more prequel stuff. This Human Covenant war 212 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.960 lasted for so long and there's so many different missions 213 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:28.600 and narratives that they can pursue, and I think, if anything, 214 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:32.000 these prequel missions that they've introduced show that I think 215 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:34.600 people are craving and people want to explore more of 216 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:38.639 this universe, So give us that please. Yeah. 217 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:41.320 Yeah, I don't know when I'll jump into this, just 218 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:43.720 because I'm not on game Pass these days, and I 219 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:46.399 still haven't even Halo Infinite Campaign even though I really 220 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:49.039 want to. But yeah, I'm glad to hear that it's 221 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:51.320 like so successful. I can't wait to hear how those 222 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:53.080 new missions are and if they feel like they fit 223 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:55.360 right in or if they're like different, Like I don't 224 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:58.000 do they add any weapons or anything from like later 225 00:09:58.080 --> 00:09:59.799 games that weren't in the original game, or do they 226 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:02.720 keep pretty close to like what that original experience was. 227 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:07.279 There are new games, games, new weapons, So the first 228 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:10.039 thing I notice yet SMG and they've got a few 229 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:12.159 other things that they've they've thrown in there too, which 230 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:15.279 is pretty pretty spicy. So I'm down. I'm down for it. 231 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:17.320 And again you got the customization. You can customize your 232 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:21.519 your armor and the weapon skins too. There's some really 233 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:24.960 cool designs and there were four armor types right off 234 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:26.480 the bat that you can get. There's one by doing 235 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:29.480 a quest on Discord. There's two that they put out 236 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:32.519 on Halo Waypoint. One was like an Xbox Anniversary another 237 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:35.440 one was like a rock pattern one, and then there's 238 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:37.480 a fourth one. You get the silver skin for just 239 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:40.600 logging in to Halo Campaing Evolved and that you can 240 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:43.039 get it. So definitely go check out Halo wait Point. 241 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:44.320 I think that you can find them there. Check out 242 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:46.559 their social media is if you want to get the skins. 243 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:48.919 Or care about it because for free skins is for 244 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:50.320 free skins, so why. 245 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:53.279 Not absolutely, you just have to jump through all these hoops. Yes, 246 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:57.840 that's right, great, that's that's an awesome surprise. I didn't 247 00:10:57.879 --> 00:10:59.440 know you were a playing there, and I'd love to 248 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:04.120 hear that. I have two games to talk about today. 249 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:06.720 One is Classical Reliable Hitman. I have a fun act 250 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:10.120 to it. But then before that new game Machine Party, 251 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:12.200 I don't I remember this one, Taylor, because I mentioned 252 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:14.480 it I think when when it was an announced I 253 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:16.480 dropped it in like our geek first chat because I 254 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:18.200 was like, we got to play these this game guys. 255 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:19.399 I don't know if you remember this one, but it's 256 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:22.200 like the essentially the elevator pitch of this game is 257 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:25.639 it's a Mario Party meets Saw. So it's kind of 258 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:27.759 like a bunch of Mario Party mini games, but with 259 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:30.919 like the Saw sort of squid Games sort of aesthetic 260 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:32.879 to it in terms of the Mario Party. In thisess 261 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:34.519 it like it doesn't have like a board game element, 262 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:37.200 like it's just mini games. So I picked this up, 263 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:39.399 played it with some friends. We're actually gonna play again tonight, 264 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:41.559 which I'm excited about because when I played it when 265 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:43.000 we had three of us. It's like a four you 266 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.159 can do four players maximum. We had three of us, 267 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:46.559 and so it was fun to see how the mini 268 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:48.440 games play there. But I think, you know, adding that 269 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:50.840 extra person will be and of course an extra layer 270 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:53.399 of chaos. So yeah, it's a lot simpler than Mario 271 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.559 Party in that sense that you're pretty much just loading 272 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:59.000 into a game and there's all there's all fifteen mini games. 273 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:00.600 You play all of them back to back. You got 274 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:02.159 a score RaSE on how well you do in these 275 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:04.679 different mini games, and then you know whoever has the 276 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:07.480 highest score like wins at the end. You know, the 277 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:09.919 mini games, they vary, like some of them are very 278 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:12.320 very simple, some of them are a bit more involved. 279 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:12.960 But I don't know. 280 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:15.879 I think like to start from start to finish probably 281 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:19.559 takes a half an hour, probably maybe maybe forty minutes 282 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:21.879 or something like that, depending on how quickly or slow 283 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:24.600 you slowly you do some of it. It's like a 284 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:26.519 nine dollars game. It's pretty cheap. I don't think it'll 285 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:28.879 have tons of replayability unless they add more to it, 286 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:30.679 but at least for me, like I've already played two 287 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:33.720 full rounds probably can do a couple more tonight, and 288 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:34.879 you know, I don't know if I'll play it much 289 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:36.399 more than that, but you know, for nine bucks, I'm 290 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:37.840 not gonna complain to much. I think it's like a 291 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.080 pretty pretty good amount of a amount of content. I 292 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:43.679 really like the aesthetic. It's definitely that's where the saw 293 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:47.039 part comes in, the kind of dark grungey. It's kind 294 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:50.000 of got like a ps one dithered sort of aesthetic too, 295 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:51.720 which has been very popular for a lot of indie 296 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:55.759 games lately. Definitely like like mouth Washing and did that 297 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:57.919 kind of thing, Crow Country, A bunch of these cool 298 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:00.519 like indie horror games are kind of using this aesthetic, 299 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:03.039 and I think it works quite well for this gives 300 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:04.799 it like a silly vibe to it, and like that 301 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:07.960 dark grunginess. And yeah, it's it's just really fun. Like 302 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:12.799 the mini games are so stupid and silly and nasty, 303 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:16.240 but it's just it's so much fun. Like some of 304 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:18.200 the one of the one of the minigames, Taylor is 305 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:21.720 literally just everyone's sitting in a room and you just 306 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:24.519 have to finish a cigarette in thirty seconds. So you 307 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:26.960 have to like that, So trying take as deep of 308 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:29.000 a breath of U can as this cigarette, burn through 309 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.639 as much as you can without coughing, because if you oversmoke, 310 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:34.080 then your guy will start coughing. You'll have like a 311 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:36.039 cool down for a little bit. So you're trying to 312 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:39.879 take like the biggest, nastiest breaths in and then exhale 313 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:41.679 and then like breathe it in again. You're trying to 314 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:44.360 like get that timing just right, and if you don't 315 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:47.399 finish your cigarette in time, then a gun just shoots 316 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:49.480 you in the freaking ahead and you just die. So 317 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:52.440 that's like one of them. Another one of my favorites 318 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:55.039 is it kind of rotates, so everyone gets a turn 319 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:57.279 as a sniper. You're up in like a sniper's nest, 320 00:13:57.320 --> 00:13:58.759 and then everyone else has to like run through an 321 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:01.159 obstacleurse and get to the and you're just trying to 322 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:03.559 snipe them as best you can. They take either two 323 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:06.279 body shots to kill or one headshot, and it's just 324 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:08.480 really fun. And so sometimes they'll like everyone will try 325 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:10.960 and run at the same times that like you can't 326 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:13.799 keep track of everyone, or you'll have people like sneaking around. 327 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:15.399 At one point, I put like a hat on my 328 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:17.879 character and I was like baiting by crouching and like 329 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:20.240 sticking my hat out so you could like shoot my hat, 330 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:21.960 but my head's out in there, so I could like 331 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:25.200 make it by uh just super fun and silly stuff 332 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:28.440 like that. One of them is like everyone's driving like 333 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:30.440 a forklift and you got to go pick up boxes 334 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:33.159 and like put them on your in your area and 335 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:35.879 then whereas most amount of boxes like survives that round 336 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:37.200 and then you kind of whittle down if there's no 337 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:39.480 one left, but you can like you know, steal boxes 338 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:41.759 from other players. You can like bonk in other people's 339 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.279 forklifts to make them like drop drop boxes or like 340 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:46.519 stick them in corners. Some of the mini games are 341 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.279 like the very squid games and that Squid Gaming, and 342 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:51.600 that there's one where like the platforms will like fall 343 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:53.720 out from under you and so everyone's kind of running 344 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:55.360 around on these platforms that are following oner them and 345 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:57.960 you can like push people in uh like off the 346 00:14:58.000 --> 00:14:59.600 map and stuff like that. So you're kind of messing 347 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:01.360 with each other for the most part, but then sometimes 348 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:03.600 you'll just have people like teaming up. Me and my 349 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:06.519 friend Jesse were playing and Nick he is like way 350 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:08.399 higher score than us, so like okay, we're gonna two. 351 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:09.799 We won this guy. We're gonna take him down as 352 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:11.600 best we can, and so we were kind of just 353 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:14.919 teaming up on him a little bit. And uh yeah. 354 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:14.960 It's a. 355 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:17.240 It's a it's a really fun time. Uh you know, 356 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:19.559 definitely again, like maybe only a couple sessions worth of 357 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:23.279 replayability out of it, but I'm having a really good 358 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:25.279 time with Machine Party. It's a it's a good game. 359 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:29.039 I'm excited to try it. You've sold me on it 360 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:32.200 just the cigar thing alone. Yeah, yeah, you should jump 361 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:32.720 in if. 362 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:34.159 You pick it up tonight. We're gonna play it probably 363 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:35.720 like eight pm or something if you want. If you 364 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:36.519 want to jump. 365 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:38.559 In, that'd be pretty cool. It's on all consoles, is 366 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:39.000 that right? 367 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:42.039 Just s team, I think, just any I don't I 368 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:43.919 doubt it would get poreded. I feel like it's this 369 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.080 seems like a very Steam Steam ass game. 370 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:47.919 I would say, I don't know. There's a few games 371 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:50.039 where I think like, oh this this looks fun, like 372 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:52.320 the Bomb Diffusing one. It's like, oh this is on Steam. 373 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:55.039 Oh no, they ported it to Xbox and other consoles. 374 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:56.840 Steam's doing pretty good with these. 375 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:58.799 Sports, that's true. I feel like for a lot of 376 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:01.759 these Steam games, like they'll start with Steam and then 377 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:03.840 if it's like really successful, I guess, and then they 378 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:05.919 get some extra money in the pocket, then maybe they 379 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:08.320 can and poured it over the consoles. But I doubt 380 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:09.600 that I'll have them for this one. But who knows, 381 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:11.519 maybe maybe would I played with most and keyboard. I 382 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.159 don't know how it would control with a with a controller. 383 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:16.960 I think it does have controllers support, but it felt 384 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:19.360 pretty good with most keyboard, especially for the sniper one 385 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:22.759 first person sniper mode with the most keyboard, which is I, 386 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:24.320 you know, I sniper. I play a lot of first 387 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:26.720 person shooters. I was struggling. I was struggling to get 388 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:31.120 the sniper shot. It's it's tough. It's really a tight Yeah, yeah, supermind. 389 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:32.639 I won't spoil the other mini games in there, but 390 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:36.080 they're all equally deranged and weird, and some of them 391 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:38.399 are like more dexterity, some of the more strategies. Some 392 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:40.120 of them are like yeah, really quickly the smoking one. 393 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:42.600 Some of them take a bit longer, so good mix 394 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:45.080 of stuff. Again, like you once you do one round 395 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:46.960 and you've seen all fifteen mini games, like there isn't 396 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:49.559 like a huge pool, like a hundred plus a Mario party, right, 397 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:51.639 but then you can do like custom if you want, 398 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:53.519 so you can like pick just certain ones I think, so, 399 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:55.559 I don't know, there's a little bit, a little bit 400 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:57.639 going on there, but yeah, that's Machine Party on Steam 401 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:01.360