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Speaker 2: Is welcome to our first podcast ever. I'm Mike MANAUGHTI
first one on this computer, so kinda yeah.
Speaker 3: And of the year. End of the year, Mike, how
are you doing doing?
Speaker 2: Okay, it's twenty twenty six if you can believe it.
Have you got more like more than halfway through the
twenties now? So that's interesting. Yeah, do you think of
them as the twenties yet?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: But I guess we should start. Uh, you know, we're
all you know, a quarter of the way through the century.
At the United States is two hundred and fifty years old,
so it's our semi quinn centennial, which is the word
I learned and I want to keep using it, which
means two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it's going great, better than ever on. All right, right,
who's complain?
Speaker 2: Not me?
Speaker 1: You could complain absolutely, You do anything anything fun for
New Year's Eve?
Speaker 2: I just streamed, honestly, like not much was going on anyways,
everyone knew was doing like very small family things. And
then also it's snowed a lots. I didn't want to
go at it's actually just streamed. That's when I figured
out how to watch The Magic King of Fireworks, so
that it turned midnight right when tinker Bell started flying
from the castle. So that actually, that's okay, that was
that's a good use of your time. I like that, Yeah, exactly,
so I had that. I had some scotch. Not a
bad time, how about you.
Speaker 1: Kind of we stayed in, Yeah, we were happy to
do so. It also snowed a lot here, and so
that was a good excuse. But I was kind of
already planning to stay in just as we had a
hectic Christmas. You know, everyone was sick, so it was
nice to just take it easy. Yeah, although you know,
getting pretty close to the break being over, not a
lot of days left there, so all those projects I
was putting off, I'm like, oh, I really got to
get started on some of these. So I feel like
I did something with this time. But I you know,
also been playing some games. That's been nice. Talk about
them later. For sure, and yeah, I'm ready for a
good twenty twenty six, even though I know it's an
arbitrary delineation from one year to the next and nothing
has changed.
Speaker 3: God, why not believe it? Why not believe? Oh my god, I'm.
Speaker 2: Ready to believe, though, Mike, Yeah, I'm not convinced. I
think I already made a mistake this year. So I
already already accepted a rug. And I don't know if
I should have. A friend's like, oh my parents want
this rug anymore? And I'm like, I had rug fomo,
what aren't gonna do it?
Speaker 3: For a rug?
Speaker 2: I don't know, like maybe to work in my living room.
He says it's a nice rug. I was like, can
I And he showed me it like all bundled ups,
like I can't unfurrol it. So I'm just gambling. I
don't want to lose out on this rug. So now
I got this rug that I probably won't like, and
it's and it's gonna be my problem. And there's war.
Speaker 3: There's Morris though, what is this? Uh?
Speaker 2: Now do you want two small matching runners that go
with it? I'm like, I guess, Jeff, I don't know
what the fuck a runner is it's a long, skinny
rug that maybe goes in a hallway or or in
a walking path. That's gonna I don't know if that's
gonna make any sense. Now I'm gonna have to be
the one to dispose of these runners in rug when
I get it. My all my hallways have really like
hard floor. That's just it's gonna slide around.
Speaker 3: I bet it's not. Get the double sided tape and
get it in place.
Speaker 1: I've I just replaced all the pads on my my
downwards on my downstairs stairs, and those were like nice
in place, and a couple of them started to get loose,
so I replaced all of them with new ones that
look fresh and clean. And I had to use the
double side of tape and they are stuck on there
and they're not moving at all.
Speaker 3: So and it's you know, it's carpenter's tape.
Speaker 2: So it's meant to like be peeled up without like
ruining your floor or anything like that. I need to
get some weaker double side take for the rubber ducks.
Everybody else in the jeeps they have these ducks like
nicely split out on their dashboard. I just have mine
little like divid on my console, and they're just awkwardly putting.
Speaker 3: There up and slopping all over the place.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're they're they're not moving much, but it's
because I've bundled them in so tightly and in you know,
any which direction.
Speaker 3: They're not all standing upright. It's a mess. I gotta say.
Speaker 1: When you started your story about the free rug, I'm like,
how bad of a decision could this possibly be. By
the time you were done, I was convinced you made
a mistake. This is this is not something you should
have to be dealing with in the first day of
a year. Yeah, exactly, this is a rug. It better
looked pretty good.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Again, I don't know. For some reason my mind, I'm like,
what if it's amazing, Well, this rug is so nice
and it's gonna really bring you know, it's going to
bring the room together, said your old Bowski thing. Yeah,
we'll see. Now you can all come and piss on it,
all right, we'll do exactly that. I listen, A good
rug is a good No. I agree, that's nice.
Speaker 1: So I don't blame you for having fomo, but at
some point you should have just said no, all right, hey, everybody,
thanks for joining us. We're gonna get into the you know,
it's the Happy New Year.
Speaker 2: God Got Soul Double seven First Light was delayed, but
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same benefits. All right, let's see here, Mike, We're gonna
take a quick break and then we're getting gonna.
Speaker 1: Get to the stories. You ready, Yeah, all right, we'll
be right back everyone. Okay, let's do it. Mike CD
Project has sold its PC game store gog dot com
to its co founder Makeel Michael Kazinsky. This is from
Andy Robinson at VGC. Gog is focused on DRM free
digital games, including modern releases in the preservation of classic games,
and is operated within Wicher and Cyberpuck owner CD Project
for over seventeen years. On Monday, CD Project announced that
it's co founder and major sl shareholder Michael Kazinski, is
purchasing one hundred percent of the shares in GOG for
a ninety point seven million which is of their local currency,
Polish dollars whatever it is, which is equivalent to twenty
five point two million dollars. As part of the deal,
CD Project and Gog have signed a distribution agreement that
includes a plan to release CD Project Reds upcoming games
on the platform.
Speaker 3: So, just like when Cyberpunk launched and a.
Speaker 1: Lot of people ended up actually buying that on Gog,
they're going to, Hey, the next Cyberpunk game will launch
there as well, and the next Witcher four, which is
going to be their next next game, that'll launch there.
So that'll help the platform in some ways and probably
goes a long way toward making it worth twenty five
million dollars.
Speaker 3: There's some quotes here.
Speaker 1: Michael Michael Nowakowski, joint COO OFCD Projects, said the sale
would allow it to focus on game development. While GOG
remains in very good hands with our focus now fully
on an ambitious development roadmap and expanding our franchise with new,
high quality products, we felt this was the right time
for this move. For a long time now, GOG has
been operating independently now it's going to be in very
good hands. We are convinced that with the support of Kazinski,
one of Gog's co founders, the future will be full
of great projects and success. It probably just doesn't sound
like CD Project read wants to focus on the games
and GOG was maybe a little bit of a resource
hog in terms of requiring them to pay attention to
keeping that thing going when they wanted to put everything
into making the games.
Speaker 3: And now they can just do that.
Speaker 1: Also, this is a company that I think has in
the last couple of years gone public, and by shedding
this and just focusing on the games, that probably does
make them more attract to investors. I am glad GOG
is not going away because recently they've been doing pretty
good work of finding classic games and preserving them in
a variety of ways DRM.
Speaker 3: Free, which I always appreciate.
Speaker 1: So this is mostly I think good news that God
can continue and just have someone focused directly on that
and CD Project I can focus on their games.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love GOG. I mean, especially just for the classic
PC games. This is like the place to buy old
adventure games, which is something I'm always very interested in. So,
you know, a lot like the classic Sierra stuff is
on here, you know, weird old origin stuff like the
Ultimas or you want to you know, get into Wing Command.
Speaker 3: Or stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So I actually I've actually accumulated as surprisingly large library
on GG just by buying very cheap classic PC games
like Alvira Mistress of the Dark. Uh in a calibeth
world of doing things like that, I got it. Need
to maybe actually start playing some of these games a
bit more. Yeah, it's a great store. Glad it's not
going away. Not really sure like why City Project read
was wanted it in the first place unless they thought
there's some opportunity for like massive growth. I don't know
if they for whatever reason, I thought they could really
compete with Steam. But there's a niche for GOG, and
I hope it continues to fill that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they do like reiterate that they will maintain
that goal of you know, he just writes it right here.
In his own statement, Kazinski said GOG will continue to
uphold its values of freedom and dependence and a genuine
sense of ownership. So they're going to keep doing the
thing of like we're we're releasing games on our own,
We're going to do the work ourselves, and you buy
a game on gog, you're going to really feel like
you own it and that you can take the files
and store it on your computer locally, on your own
server and have access to it. You don't need to
make a call to a server. You do not have
to make a call to a third party client. These
games are just going to work. And yeah, that's admirable
in the in this in this day and age, and
I'm glad that that that is not something that is
we'receding into the background. It's instead it sounds like that
is being like secured and we're going to have a
future where God continues to be an option for that.
Speaker 3: So cool to see. All right. Double seven first like
delayed by two months.
Speaker 1: Uh, this is the story of Grand Theft Auto six
moved so other games can move into that timeframe. The
game is now coming out the day after Grand Theft
Auto six was originally supposed to come out in May.
So May twenty six, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: It was going to come out well in like early
like late March, early April something like that.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: So I think that this is just them saying we
would love to have that extra time. If if Grand
Theft Auto six wasn't coming out, well now they can.
And this is this is a game that I'm excited about.
Whenever I see it, I get more excited about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, more time is obviously only going to
benefit it. Yeah, I'm looking forward to this game because
of the developer. I think there's obviously a lot of
fun you can have with James Bond's Wow, how long
it's spins since we've had a James Bond game.
Speaker 3: The last one was the Treyarch one. There was Solas,
There's a Kasos.
Speaker 2: There's also I feel like there's like a weird one
maybe after that, Like is.
Speaker 3: There another Golden Eye remake after that maybe or something
like that.
Speaker 2: There was that weird Quantum of Solace game, you know
from back when Golden You know, the James Bond games
are such a big deal in the M sixty four
and even that GameCube PS two era. Yeah, this is
definitely like, you know, especially right now where it seems
like we're you know, we know some games coming out
next year, it seems like there's a bunch we don't
know about.
Speaker 3: Are the ones we know about. This feels like one
of the big ones. Still. Yep.
Speaker 1: I expect some more movement for release dates, although there's
not like a ton of Announcer twenty twenty six. On Tuesday,
on last of them of the Nintendogs, you went over
a bunch of dates for Nintendo games. I was kind
of looking at some other dates for twenty twenty six,
and a few things have like vague time formes. But
I think we're gonna start hearing more soon, especially now
that people know the Grand Theftlow six will not come
out at least until the holiday and could get delayed
again for all we know.
Speaker 2: Double seven Legends was the last round from twenty to
twelve by by eurocn.
Speaker 3: Man euro Con.
Speaker 2: Barely that's the last game apparently, actually was it really?
Speaker 3: Wow? Okay, like yep, yeah.
Speaker 2: Before that, in twenty twelve, they released Double seven Legends
and Harry Potter for connect Remember that?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Okay, Jesus, I don't remember a thing.
Speaker 2: I don't remember there being Harry Potter, remember the Star
Wars one.
Speaker 3: I don't remember the Airy Potter one. Double O seven Legends.
I should get this for we you Oh my god?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's got like a bunch of them.
I think it was Roger Moore's there as well. Boy,
I want it's got like a forty average score. It's
like maybe Blake Club Territory. I wonder just how bad
it is. The PC version has like a twenty six. Yeah,
I'm like, I was good. I bet we can find
the platform where it's especially bad. That could be fun,
of course, like send one of us a tuxedo T
shirt or something. Yeah, okay, now we're now we're thinking. Okay,
let's see here.
Speaker 1: EA shareholders green light fifty five billion dollar takeover by
Saudi Arabia's public investment fund. This is one of the
steps that has to happen before this deal can close.
Not too surprising, like the deal that Saudi Arabia was
offering was at a premium, as these deals often have
to be to entice to entice investors to say yes
and give up their shares.
Speaker 3: It's now got to get through regulator regulators.
Speaker 2: But Jared Kushner is involved, so I don't think that's
going to be much of a problem.
Speaker 3: No, no's going to happen. Yeah, this thing's going to happen.
Speaker 1: And EA keeps saying like, yo, we're going to maintain
our autonomy and we're gonna control what happens. And yeah,
that face that Mike just made audio listeners was the
face you're all probably.
Speaker 3: Making at home right now. Well, sure they are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh huh, we'll see you know. This to
me is just like oh yeah, I mean, first of all,
these big corporations in the first place are just not
where interesting games are coming from for the most part.
Speaker 1: Like, you know, I think twenty twenty five was the
year that proved that we don't really need the eas
of the world all that much anymore.
Speaker 3: Now they can put out great games.
Speaker 1: That's great, that's fine, But how often are they doing that,
like even like collectively all of them together, Like in
twenty twenty five, how many of their games were really
super noteworthy?
Speaker 3: Not many? Like yeah, yeah, now.
Speaker 1: There's not as interesting as Silk Song or as Clari Obscurer,
Like yeah, it's they're they're competing with a world of
developers now, and it seems like their model of doing
things is completely outdated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've mean, looking at my top ten, I think
you felt the same.
Speaker 2: Like, boy, you know, India is a loaded term, maybe,
but there weren't that many games published by major publishers, right.
I was like, you know, it was like, here's two
Point Museum from Sega, and uh, you know, Bonanza's from Nintendo.
Even then I had one Nintendo game, which is relatively
low for me. Yeah, so yeah, exactly, So you know,
I don't think this is gonna be good for you,
as it's almost certainly gonna be bad for EA. And
yet I still almost not ambivalent towards it because there's
a lot of there's you know, jobs and stuff at stake,
but in terms of the quality of games, I don't
know if that was going to be on.
Speaker 3: An upward trajectory.
Speaker 2: Any Ways, it'll it'll be it'll be a bad sign
when we see Ronaldo showing up in Battlefield six or
something right after this goes through, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like immediately, yeah, And that's always like the issues
with this deal are that, like EA is gonna have
to service some of the debt, like some of the
money being used to purchase EA is being extracted from
me a through debt, and they're gonna have to pay
at a kind of a high interest rate because they're
they got rated like a B and that's pretty low.
Speaker 3: It's pretty low for.
Speaker 1: For like, how when debt gets rated and so that
makes it's gonna have a high interest rate, and that
means that he's not gonna be able to take any chances.
So when people are people in chatter listing, hey, Battlefield
six was great this year, and I like the sports games.
I was playing NHL and it's like, well, NHL has
not been great.
Speaker 3: For a long time, but whatever, I get it. I
like it too.
Speaker 2: Sometimes those games aren't going anywhere. All those games will
be kind of exclusively what we're gonna get, I think,
and they'll find ways to like double down on Battlefield
instead of instead of taking we're not getting the third
Mirror's Edge out of this. No, no, they're not bringing
back EA big No, No, of course not.
Speaker 3: So we'll see.
Speaker 1: I bet this thing gets approved later this year and
we'll find out what that looks like afterward. But in
the meantime, I'm just not gonna be looking forward EA games.
Speaker 3: All that much.
Speaker 1: And maybe I'll kind of be hoping that by Aware
can squeak out that massi efect excuse me, that Massifact game,
and it's okay, like that would be right, yeah, yeah,
that thing which I think I don't know, like not
to be like, no, I get it, Doom and Gloom.
Part of me is like, ah, yes, Buyowaar's Last game,
and that's kind of what I'm expecting.
Speaker 2: I hope that's not the case. Maybe that game comes
out and it's great and they see a bunch of
value in that brand and that franchise and other things.
Speaker 3: But I just I worry. I worry. Yep.
Speaker 2: All right, that does it for the news topics. You know,
some stuff was happening while we've been off. You know,
we didn't have an episode last week because it was Christmas.
But yeah, you know, those are the big stories worth
talking about.
Speaker 1: But if anyone else wants to talk about anything, what
we're gonna do is we're gonna take a break, come
back and read these super chats. So if you have
a subject you want us to discuss, get in the superchats,
put it in there, and we'll talk about all of
it before we're done with the show tonight.
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna take that break. We'll be right back. Everybody.
All right, we are back, Mikey. Can we get those
superchats please? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Starting off here from Postman Dances twenty twenty six, can't
possibly be worse, right, Yeah, let's find out.
Speaker 3: I mean, it absolutely can be, but it can't be.
Speaker 2: We have midterms, right, Jesus Christ. Yeah, we did something.
Look forward to a boy uh m zeus like to
nightety one says I found my mad Cat's retrocn PS
two control while cleaning a closet last week. What's the
weirdest controllers last peripheral you have? Happy New Year, pen? Hmmm,
this is interesting. I don't Dan had so many fun,
wacky ones, like he has the the GameCube chainsaw control. Yeah,
some controller now that he made a former corporation that
we worked at payd for was smart and very a
wise investment of his.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I don't try like.
Speaker 2: I had some junkie mad Cat style controllers and things
like that, for sure, But I'm like anything super silly.
You know. I had like the bongos, I had them
are rocas, I had the all all of that stuff.
I had like the weird game Boy, the original one
that like made the screen bigger. It was just like
a magnifying glass screen thing.
Speaker 3: I thought that was important.
Speaker 1: I know, I definitely had all that kind of weird
stuff for handheld. You know at this point, like the
weird ones that are like within reach right now. It's
like a Stadia controller or an Amazon Luna controller.
Speaker 3: Which I have around here somewhere.
Speaker 2: Sure, and those but those are just they look like
Xbox three sixty controllers.
Speaker 3: Are we not interesting? Maybe not? I mean.
Speaker 2: For my whole life, I was always like, man, first
party controllers are so expensive, so I would get like
crappy third party controllers. So I had like a bunch
of like Blockbuster in sixty four controllers that looked like
a boomerang that got left in a microwave for too long.
That's the most interesting stuff I had because I was cheap,
so I'm not gonna have the interesting, fun expensive stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had stuff that ruled, like the Dreamcast fishing controller.
I think, I think, I definitely.
Speaker 2: I think I had one of the GameCube keyboard controllers
back in the day for fancy start.
Speaker 3: That's cool. I like that. I love that ruled. I
think it's great. I love that thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like the Dreamcast keyboard for typing of the
dead stuff like that.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Next up is from Chris Pratt. It says more like
twenty twenty sex am I right gamers.
Speaker 3: Jordan Midler, Scottish.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be the Chris Pratt comeback year. He's
got that movie where he has to defend himself on
a video call and a try Yeah, and then he's
got the Mario another Mario, So big year for chrisip.
Speaker 3: I bet he makes a lot of money from the
Mario movie.
Speaker 2: Next up is b Travin, who says she epics on
my go og till I steam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's going on today?
Speaker 4: What is this?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a It's a new year, nobody, nobody
has to chill yet? All right, Jason Finnelli says, fellas,
finally some sincerity you needed sincere. Yeah, you can always
count on Jason for this. Ba's happy new Year. Just
want to let Minati know his defensive two point museum
on the GB Game of the Year pod convinced me
to buy it. What on pal here's the toy choice
six the year, Pragmata payus. Thank you, Jason, I hope
you enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I wonder how many Steam refunds are going to have
the reason being Mike Manatti led me astray I.
Speaker 2: Just checked overwhelmingly positive. It's currently and the English he
is on two point really well reviewed. Yep, you know, man,
I know, like it'll be great for Pragma to come
out and get like eights. That'd be so good for
like a new IP. But there's a part of it's like, boy,
I don't know why I would love it. It kind
of gets funny if this game be like it's not
because like it's part of Game of the Year discussion
by the end, I don't know why. I think that's amusing.
It's just a video game recent I think it'd be fun.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they're good. Yeah, that's that happens.
Speaker 4: I see ex A Primal. People forgot about ex A
Prime oalthing this house like the same, like vibes.
Speaker 3: I think this will be better than Exo Primal Maybee.
Speaker 2: Exo Primal is going to be held back in reviews
because it was multiplayer, and that's kind of always there's
always a weird bias and from critics for that not
a weird one. It's just like, yeah, I'm not going
to place it by myself, and there's not much there
if I play this by myself. Fragmt is you know,
a single player game with with you know, stuff going on.
So I and I from what I've played, it's interesting
and fun and I think as a chance of being
an eight for sure. Tony Morales says, spending the day
off catalog in my games and listening to you all,
my question is do you all have a question regarding
my collection?
Speaker 3: Pete this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the most expensive game. I gotta know
what's the dumbest game. I hope they're the same. That'd
be fantastic. I hope you can answer in units of
Cuba wore if you want to, which again is about
five hundred US dollars.
Speaker 3: It'd be like, I wonder what point two cube of wares?
I hope you know what. I hope my.
Speaker 2: Virtual office, basically the PO box I have is open tomorrow.
If it is, I will go because I still have
not gone to get the Devil's Third that I.
Speaker 3: Believe Antonio has sent to us. Isn't there a CD
I think there's a.
Speaker 2: CDI in there, just in a weird room in a
in right next to the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 3: In Cleveland, Ohio. Everybody is a CDI with my name
on it. I got to get down there and check
that out, all right.
Speaker 2: Absolutely just a noise back, says also any twenty twenty
six games you're excited for that might be flying under
other people's ray dar. I mean, you know, I talked
about this one on Tuesday, but it's the one I'm
playing right now, and I'm allowed to say I'm playing it.
Speaker 3: That's it. I can talk about the first half of
the game. Big hops.
Speaker 2: It is going to be an early like like standout
for platformer of the year. Like it is like it
is one of those platformers where it's like, oh, a
spiritual successor to all these other three D platformers. It's
not as good as the ones put out by you know,
real video game companies, no one of that. This is
going to stand right alongside anything else. Is it as
good as a Mario.
Speaker 3: It could be.
Speaker 1: It's definitely gonna be as you know, it's as fun
as anything else from any other company, And so people
should get on that one immediately.
Speaker 2: Yeah, boy, I'm not super sure necessarily. I haven't, like, god,
let's take too much. I think all the stuff I'm
looking forward to is at least relatively well known, even
things like Orbital's right, which is that, yeah, switch to
exclusive co op game with the eighties anime right that time?
Speaker 3: It's going to do the ice Clambers co op game
after that. So yeah, how we decided that this is
their trajectory. It's going to be a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: Actually, But yeah, asides from that, I mean, I hope, uh,
you know, this isn't off the rate or anything, but
I hope that, uh, what's the space from Yacht Club
Games actually comes out this year, Mina the Hollower, you know,
the hollow Hollower that was like.
Speaker 3: That delay was you know it was going to be
kind of indiffinite.
Speaker 4: Yes, and you know what the one yes I had critic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh I did too. Oh, they probably screwed me over.
Actually I probably loss.
Speaker 2: I should probably look at the Fantasy critic for a
giant bump.
Speaker 3: What's this? Oh my gosh, fucking grace, Well, look at this.
Speaker 2: Everybody looks like I won handedly. Just I don't know
how he is the sorest winner. I don't know how
he does it. I had the first pick and it
was a new Super Mario three to gave.
Speaker 3: It didn't even come out. I threw the first pick away.
It still trounced you all.
Speaker 2: You were able to get rid of that game, right,
So it like didn't matter in the end, So I
could have had something else I could have I could
have used that time to pick up Monster Hunter Wilds,
which was had an inflated score or something.
Speaker 3: But you know what I did get right? That was
Expedition thirty three.
Speaker 2: That was pretty smart, stuck in there, got dispatch even
shit like Jurassic World Evolution three. None of you cared
about that that got an eighty four average score. Was
I remember being like, I will save my third pick
for Expedition because I played the demo at that point
and knew it was gonna be awesome, and then you
picked it and I got screwed on that one. My
counterpick's perfect sleight of hand. Again, I had heard it
didn't come out on Pokemon Blacket. We remake that didn't happen,
so that I was gonna say, we have to do
our recount of what happened. But you're already like you're
you guess you could just do it again.
Speaker 1: Huh, You're just gonna do all of this again when
we do it on Giant Bomb content great, wonderful.
Speaker 2: Uh, I can't wait we do this again. Are we
gonna maybe drafting up on Friday?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm excited. We'll have to get a draft. Sed.
We'll talk to Sean about it. He's our commissioner.
Speaker 2: All right, Uh, where was I got distracted there by
winning so much? Gwyn the Hunter says, Happy New finally
gave control a chi recently to prepare for Resident.
Speaker 3: I am enthralled.
Speaker 2: Did you play this at all? Any rex for similar vibes?
If so, yeah, I played, uh actually played it through
finally this year. Definitely really liked it. I mean, gosh,
funny Left I think comes the closest to it for me,
is like Jedi Fallen Order, Jedi Survivor even kind of
have similar vibes if you haven't played those yet, are
quite a sert of shootery. But there's sort of three
D Metroid Vanua ish with the some of the platforming.
Speaker 3: New powers and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, for sure,
you know. But yeah, in Residents coming soon, so get
ready for that.
Speaker 2: Next up is from Taco Bellmont, Happy New Year's Fellows
GDQ soon and he runs looking forward to he nash, Yeah, actually,
look at the schedule, because we're gonna go for at
least a day. Uh, maybe maybe I'll stak down for
more than one. That starts on Sunday. It's again still
in Pittsburgh, which is awesome. They're starting with a Mario
Sunshine run. Sunshine is such a fun speed run game
to watch, so that is going to be a good
time for sure.
Speaker 3: But there's a lot of newer games I playing about.
Speaker 2: Legend z A already has this run that is somehow
only like two hours long.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Even I think even silk Song is on the skups,
like Silent Hill f is on the schedule somehow.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: I think Bonanza is like an incentive game, so that's
probably gonna be played at some point.
Speaker 3: They're doing Super Metroid.
Speaker 2: It's called the category is called GT Classic and I
don't know what that means. Expedition thirty three is on
the list and it's an eighty percent race glitchless on
expert mode and somehow that takes about two hours.
Speaker 3: Wow. Okay, yeah man, yeah, rage it's very cool. Oh
I will for for sure.
Speaker 2: Uh they're doing it any percent win Wicker Round, which
is only thirty minutes now that games are going down crazy,
so like, yeah, the second last one will be Silksong
as an incentive about an hour. Then the actual last
game is going to be picking on Emerald. Actually, I'm
a little bit of a stupid traditionalist that I always
like the best of Super Metro as the last game, Jeff.
Speaker 3: But that's just me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I'm I'm saying, yeah, that's true, but
I know that they it's not an official tradition so
that they don't always do that. Easily's Chronicles is even
on this list. So yeah, just a ton of games
that came out this last year there, that's for sure. Yeah,
I'll be a yeah, I'll be checking it out quite
a lot.
Speaker 3: Right now. We're thinking about going on either this Sunday
or maybe the Friday. We'll see. I'm excited.
Speaker 2: Uh. Zombie Porn says how much has grew up prepared
for Mike's birthday? It's only eleven months away. Mike should
have a counter counting down the days. Two streams. I think, Pete,
just I think.
Speaker 1: Mike says like it's going to be a big deal,
which applies to me that he's got.
Speaker 3: Some ideas for what we're doing for his birthday. Well,
I mean so far.
Speaker 2: I thought it because like my brother's like, you know, shocker,
We're going to Disney World. So that's my family. I
don't know how I'm making you guys suffer the fact
that I'm turning forty. Yet I should definitely come up
with some sort of elaborate stream that you have to
be a part of, whether you like it. I mean,
last time I made everyone play Lego Party with me,
which was definitely fun.
Speaker 3: You got out of it somehow, though, Yeah, I have
I think it was like other people should have a
chance to play. And also I don't celebrate your birthday.
Speaker 2: That's right, I forgot. It's not a different religion. Yeah,
but yeah, well, yeah it'll be fun. Forty years old.
My goodness, this is the year I turned forty. Oh no,
just really great? Uh. And then Chicktowsky says, hey, Mike,
maybe you want fancy credit because you were in a
stable job with nothing crazy going on and had time
to pick over games. Damn, so did Dan so well, actually,
Dan and Jeff had some interesting things with their jumps.
I'm tired. I tire you all's excuses. That's what I'm
tired of.
Speaker 3: I had a chance until Metro Prime got fucked.
Speaker 2: And then also my game that I got of War.
Never never could drop that because they never confirmed that
it's coming out next year instead of this year. But
those two were the only reason I didn't really have
a chance in the end. But if those two had
worked out, I would have been right there with you.
Speaker 3: So you know, you won fair and square.
Speaker 2: I mean, Jeff came to play Drift, did pretty well
in fact, Yeah, but have a bad counterpick. Yeah, the
Princes as a counterpick, so that now that alone didn't
quite cost them, but it was close. And if it's like,
if that didn't happen and if like Termina or two
D no, fate was a little bit better or something
like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he did pretty well. He was second place.
Speaker 2: No, not bad, all right. Next up is Antonio Morales.
Expensive game is a complete in box Polkemon Emerald. We
just talked about Pokemon Emeralds. Those games are I thought
them most was the Catherine Collectors that comes with Boxers,
but I forgot I collected Blake Club games. I think
that's good. That casts them with the freaking Boxers. Incredible
they ever.
Speaker 3: Played that game.
Speaker 2: It is a good game. It's a good puzzle game.
It's definitely, you know, kind of weird in its.
Speaker 3: Very I never played it.
Speaker 2: It's like Cubert, right, it's it's a cube based puzzle game.
It's a lot of block pushing and points. Just realized
that's why it's called Cubert.
Speaker 3: Because cube bird.
Speaker 2: Oh Phoenix, Yeah, fucking Christ all right, all right, it's
called Catherine.
Speaker 3: Catherine is Latin for Cube. Okay, there.
Speaker 1: It is like notable in the the travelog we just
put up of you and the a Cleveland Gaming Classic,
like in the background when other people are asking for stuff,
like one out of.
Speaker 2: Every three things they're asking for is a Pokemon game.
Like everyone it's it's like Pokemon is still that franchise
for so many people, and everybody like wants a good
copy like the one they had as a kid that
they don't have, like complete a box or something. There's
so many the repros on the market, right, yeah, that
they just kind of muddy the whole place.
Speaker 3: So everyone, like the real ones have been marked up
in price.
Speaker 2: I really decided I really want the I don't know why.
I like never even occurred to me that I should
play this game. So just now is the Disney Tetris
that they released for in the town sixty four, So
reason it only now ocurred to me, like, hey, that's
the game I would like, and that was just like,
does that use two D sprites? Because that yeah, it
looks great and has a story mode. Capcom made it
a great.
Speaker 1: Sprites on N sixty four are so good. That Doctor
Mario game is one of the best looking games on
the N sixty four.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. Yeah, so that's good. That's why I'm looking.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine it's a very expensive game, but when
I am looking for heavily. All right, let's see YouTube crash,
so let's get back here, hex props.
Speaker 3: That's funny. Dan counter picked his favorite game pees that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't even think metroy Prime four was gonna
come out this year. No, yeah, maybe it should, but
it did, and it didn't end up hurting him all
that much. Really, I guess hurt him a little bit
still because it's like seventy, so it's like anything above
his seventy is like one point.
Speaker 3: It was in the eighties, right, so it was eighty one.
Speaker 2: He doesn't deserve to win anyway, because he named his
team no RPGs allowed, and then at the end, when
he was desperate, he packed up Octopath Traveler zero. So right,
so yeah, yeah, apparently they were allowed, Yeah, to forfeit exactly.
He did get Silksong though in that gig that gave
him his most points by far was this silk song.
Second pick there, yep uh. And then rat Man du
says bear Mary belated Christmas to Jeff and the Lions skull.
Speaker 3: Yeah, congratulations on your.
Speaker 2: Team is not making the playoffs football, that's the thing
still happening. The Brown's unfortunately Steelers at least, which I
was happier just because my my nephew is like, he's
like he just realized that he has free will, I think.
Speaker 3: So he's like, wait, why am I a Browns fan?
They're terrible?
Speaker 2: So I think he's like, you know, there's a lot
of Steeler fans in this area. We're close to Pittsburgh,
so I think his friends like are talking into being
a Steelers fan.
Speaker 3: Like my still's chance. Yeah he should save himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah yes, wait where my mom got him a Browns
ornament and like we already knew and we were kind
of joking, Oh, he's like, ah bike. Then like my
brother's sister, his my nephew's mom was like, we're putting
on the tr right now that it actually became a
fight for a little bit.
Speaker 3: Let's back down, every buddy. But yeah, but then the
Browns spat the steer, so I wonder if he's reconsidering.
I don't know. Listen, that Brown's team feels like they
could be good here in a year or two. Just
that man, that.
Speaker 2: QB situation was such a drunk Yeah, it's rough, all right,
And that's it for the supertest for now. Everyone, If
you want to still send one, we will read it
on the air. We always go back to them before
the end of the show. So thank you so much
everybody who I send in super chat, and thank you
future super chatter. You right now, I could see you
pulling out your digital wallet and pushing the appropriate YouTube
buttons to send us digital money, which apparently is just
as good as real money.
Speaker 1: Apparently, I guess. All right, well, thank you for that
entreaty to the audience. Mike, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Christian. We're just doing Mikey in there right when we
come back. That's what we're doing, and.
Speaker 4: We have this life for the community. Okay, fantasy critic, All.
Speaker 3: Right, well, then what should we do? First? We just
do Mikey and their first.
Speaker 4: Then very short, we should do this life for it's
very short and.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, sounds good. We're gonna take a break. Everybody,
get that. I'll set up. We'll be right back after this.
All right, we are back.
Speaker 2: We have Fantasy Critic video game draft results, right, Christian?
Speaker 3: Is that what we're looking at here? All right?
Speaker 1: So we have a PowerPoint presentation. Yeah, for the community.
Let's go in and go through here. Uh so bottom
five so this is this is like everyone? Is that
how this is working?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just gonna show it off here so
people could see. We'll read the winners here in a
second league winners. The cheesiest win winner was B three
n D seven so it's a bend seven uh, and
their team name was wife Who's r us game mess critiques.
Shojikoto won that their team was Embrace uh Embrace our
group the Chaos. And then the messiest league was won
by waz Bat with Heismey and Sons Limited. And then
the beefiest was a big Man Finelle Birds games.
Speaker 2: Well, Jason man, somebody's laying other than Mike. All right,
let's see here. Top four. There you go, So let's
go here and see this last one is for the boys.
Speaker 3: Uh and then there you go our champion.
Speaker 1: Though the overall winner with the highest score in any
of the leagues was in fact Ben seven.
Speaker 3: Wife who's are up?
Speaker 2: A wife who's r us with one hundred and seventeen
point zero eight points. Yes, importantly I did better than Jeff.
Speaker 3: Yes, I tried a little bit there at the end,
but there was a time actually I forget the AGA.
Speaker 2: I did better than even it, better than for now.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know what.
Speaker 2: The one thing I actually had an empty game slot,
and like the last two months, every time I tried
to fill it, I will do it on a Thursday
when you can't make a bid, until eventually there were
no more new games left, and I never was able
to fill in that slot. But I'll take you the
same thing frequently where it's like why can't It's like, oh,
it's that day of the week where the thing is closed.
Speaker 3: All right, Well we'll get the setup.
Speaker 1: We'll go again, because this is something that everyone likes
and enjoys doing, including us. So yeah, we have details
Christian or.
Speaker 4: Yes, change the discoor and the sign up is gonna
start soon.
Speaker 1: I think we have to sign up, like I think
we I think we got told that we need to
do that, so we'll do that soon.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, it's an asymmetrical Is this how you saying?
Speaker 3: Asymmetrical?
Speaker 4: Asymmetrical asymmetrical drafting? Yes, we're gonna so yeah, check the
discoor yeah, or for rare monks either and then he
will he will point you at the at the Jesus
Christ form to fill up, and then we will get
down going.
Speaker 1: Okay, We're actually gonna take one more quick break because
I need to get set up for mikey in there,
but that won't be long.
Speaker 3: Everybody will be right back, all right. Thanks for hanging
in there with us. Everybody.
Speaker 1: It's time for who wants to be a MICI inn
There the America's favorite quiz show with only one contestant,
Mike Minatti.
Speaker 3: You are that contestant.
Speaker 1: As always, there will be ten questions of ascending difficulty.
You have to get them all right to win, and
if you win, I will I'll buy you a T
shirt or something cool.
Speaker 3: Roosevelt. We get Roosevelt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, you know what, you can have a one
item from Roosevelt.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's it's huge. Actually, that's nice. I got I
just it just got like a bunch of new Mickey
stuff in. Actually, I got you what I thought was
the coolest for Christmas. Jeff got me a good Mickey
Roosevelt hoodie, which I like quite a lot.
Speaker 3: So, okay, this is good. This is good.
Speaker 1: Okay, so hopefully I tested it was all working before.
Let's hopefully that whole up where we often don't have
good luck with these millionaire apps online, but this one's new,
so we'll see. Mike, Are you ready for your first question? Yes,
all right, here we go. First question? What company makes
the Nintendo switch?
Speaker 2: Is it a Nintendo, B, Sony, C, Sega, D, Pizza Hut.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I used to go with Pizza Hut a lot in
the nineties, and I don't remember seeing the Nintendo switch there.
And then I hate the letter S, so I'm gonna
have to guess Nintendo. Final answer.
Speaker 3: All right, that's his final answer, Mike Manati, that is correct.
A okay, god, got good.
Speaker 2: All right, time for your second question? What do you
play as in the game Frogger Fog? That's the A
question A answer, B George Costanza, C Frog D Slippy.
Speaker 3: It's wild how there was like so little talking video
games in mainstream media even in the nineties that I
thought it was insane that seinfold an episode.
Speaker 2: About Frogger at the time. Well, video games, it's a
it's Frog. Final answer, all right, Mike, that is correct. A.
That takes us to question number three. Which of these
was not a real working code name for a major
Nintendo project A Dolphin, B, Titan, C Revolution, D Project Reality.
Speaker 3: Now Dolphins, GameCube, Revolutions Wei and Project Realities N ten
oh sixty four.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure. So that would leave Titan as the
odd one out here. Titan final answer.
Speaker 3: That's his final answer, So we're gonna lock it in,
Mike Manatti.
Speaker 2: That is.
Speaker 3: Correct. A.
Speaker 1: Question number four, which of these franchises got an entry
on the Virtual Boy? Is it a Mario Golf, B
F Zero, C, Donkey Kong Land or dam Tense?
Speaker 2: I believe it or not, it's mcgammy Tense with Jack Bros.
Oh yeah, but those other ones may have helped the
console a little bit, but no, you get Jack Bros.
Speaker 3: Everybody. So yeah, the final answer mcgommy Tense. All right, Mike,
locking that in for you. Uh, that is correct.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm excited for my Virtual Boy thing. To come
in hopefully soon.
Speaker 3: Oh you know, I know. Yeah, I was happy to
get my order.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm excited to play virtual blood games because I'm weird.
All right, Question number five, you answer this right, you'll
be halfway there, halfway to your Roosevelt product of choice.
Which game uses the Decima engine?
Speaker 2: Is it A The Last of Us B God of
War twenty eighteen see Bloodborne or D Horizon Zero. Don't
I hate this because like I'm and I realized I
should probably had chat now. Okay, I'm pretty sure it's
Horizon zero, don. I'm not one hundred percent stro which
I hate. So they don't want to use a thing already.
So I think I just got to do lifelines. I
have my lifelines. That last time I just went for
it when I wasn't sure and it didn't work. But
I still think it has to be the move because
there's a lot of hard questions left.
Speaker 3: I said, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Don't think the other ones use very interesting engines. I
always hear about the Horizon engine. How to user, it's
Horizon zero, don, Mike Manati, is that your final answer?
Final answer, Mike, Horizons.
Speaker 3: You're a down It's correct, Okay, all right, halfway there,
just for a moment, just for a moment.
Speaker 1: Is scared going to get more difficult now? And it
is worth pointing out, as you just said, you do
have all three lifelines. You're fifty to fifty which might break.
But don't worry, we'll figure it out, You're asked the audience.
We will put a poll in.
Speaker 3: Chat or phone a friend. That's up to you.
Speaker 1: You'll have to actually call a friend, that's you know,
we don't have someone waiting on the line like they
do when Regis called them or whatever.
Speaker 3: You'll have to figure that out, all right. Question number six,
the special move star Rain is learned by a character
in what game Super Mario RPG. That's your A answer
B Star Tropics see excuse me, cee terr Enigma or
d secret of evermore.
Speaker 2: Really tempting the face of how much we've been saying
Tara Enigma this episode. Yeah, this is Geno's move, My
boy Gino. God, I love Geno, so happy to see
him again when they remade Mario RPG. Even like if
I wasn't one hundred perent sure Star Tropics doesn't have
anything like that Tera Enigma. Clearly the me answer stick
her to evermore. You're like a guy of a dog.
I don't think you have a move called star rain
in that game. It's Mario RPG. Mike, is that your
final answer? As my final answer?
Speaker 4: Sir?
Speaker 3: That is correct?
Speaker 2: Okay, somebody's looking okay, Okay, four questions left three lifelines
in your pocket.
Speaker 1: Let's get to question number seven. Mike, what was the
first Pokemon ever designed? According to game Freak? Is it
a Pikachu, B, ride On, C, Bulbasar, or D Squirtle.
Speaker 3: This one's interesting.
Speaker 2: You would think it would be, Mike, one of the starters,
maybe Pikachu, but it's actually humble. Ride On was the
first Pokemon ever designed? I heard this story before. I
can't remember where, but I do know this. It's ride
On actually. Final answer, Mike.
Speaker 3: Rideon is correct?
Speaker 1: A Okay, here we go. Number eight. Which chip was
included to improve the performance of Super Mario RPG. Is
it A the super FX chip, B, the Super FX
two chip, C, the SA one chip, D the DSP
four chip.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's getting harder now, this one. You know, I
know not many games used the SUPERFX two, and I
don't think think Mario RPG is one of them, although
it's a later Super Nintendo game, so like it could.
I know very little about the Essay Essay one in
the DSP four. If I was just just guess, I
would just go with the super FX hip and nothing
more than that. I do have lifelines. I'll try fair
which one you use, because I don't think this is
one that anyone I call would know. Really, fifty to
fifty would help audience, so I think the audience knows
that much about Super Nintendo chips. I'm not really sure.
I almost feel like the fifty fifty might be my best,
but then let's do the fifty fifty Jeff, Okay, this
could visually break, but I think I can parse it.
If it doesn't work, I'm trying a different browser. Let's
go for it, all right.
Speaker 1: So it's get this is actually getting rid of the
SUPERFX and it's getting rid of the DSP four.
Speaker 2: So your choices are super FX two and say, well,
it's interesting because I would have guessed super EFS one. God,
what the hell's the Essay one? Because it's a Nintendo game,
it's got to be their chip, so it would probably
just be the Super EFS to them, which I did
think would be here, But I say, one must not
be a Nintendo thing. Why would they just they would
just use the super effects, And like I said, it's
a late Super Nintendo game, so it would probably just
use that to the original. Yeah, super FX two, that's
gotta be it, Mike, is that your final answer?
Speaker 3: That's my final answer, mister Jeff Grubb.
Speaker 1: All right, Mike Manati going with super FX two used
one of his lifelines and Mike, that is.
Speaker 3: Oh is it breaking like that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: There we go, Okay, super X two incorrect.
Speaker 2: The correct answer was the essay one.
Speaker 3: Ah, what that was? The essay one.
Speaker 2: It's like like like processed information a little bit faster
or some shit. I honestly can't even remember, but I
am curious about this one.
Speaker 1: Looked it up and it's like, no, the supervex is
not in there. It is the essay one. Super effex
was yeah, but like something that would be used in
like games ahead three D, and you're right, SUPERVX two
was used in like almost nothing.
Speaker 2: I guess if I thought about it more like in
my mind, maybe those special moves were using three D effects,
but not really.
Speaker 3: If I had thought about that even a little bit more,
I might have realized that. Yeah, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So let's go ahead, let's finished off two more questions.
Let's see how you would have done so every one
close that.
Speaker 3: Damn damn, I thought I could have done that. And
now you were like you.
Speaker 1: Were going you were thinking along the right lines when
you were started there with like not a lot of
stuff using super VX two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if I thought more about, like, wait, what
would actually have been used for the SF the SUPERFX
two in that game?
Speaker 3: Nothing? Really? So yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: Question number nine. Microsoft acquired Rare in two thousand and two.
How much did it pay to do so that? Three
hundred and seventy five million, two hundred and twenty nine million,
five hundred and forty million or two hundred and twenty
five million.
Speaker 3: I don't really know.
Speaker 2: I would have guessed three hundred and seventy five million,
but this was definitely have been a lifeline use that
would have been correct.
Speaker 3: That's funny.
Speaker 2: Okay, Then what's up? What's the next?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Last question? After punch Out for we Next Level made
another Wii game? What was it?
Speaker 3: Was it? A super? Excuse me?
Speaker 1: Mario Strikers charged b ticket to ride see Tom Clancy's
Ghost Recon or d Captain America Super Soldier.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's one of Sugar's charge unless
this is some kind of trick question. Charge came out
first and somehow they made that Captain America game for Sega.
But no, I think it's just more of Sugar's charged.
You son of a bitch, You tricky son of a bitch.
Speaker 3: It's question number ten.
Speaker 2: All right, so Captain America Super Soldier. That would have well,
what did they do ticket to ride? Did they do
ticket to Ride? Let's check.
Speaker 3: Tom clants recon.
Speaker 1: They made Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon for the Wii.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's a good final question. I like it.
Speaker 2: That one really sent me. When I was looking into that,
I'm like, that can't be Brian. It's see yeah, boy
guess their probably means like, boy, this is too easy
if it's just super Mario, I did it to Mario streamers.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 2: That was a good, good, good list of questions there I.
Speaker 3: Could have It was it was fun you were cooking,
and of course it does.
Speaker 2: It always gets much harder there in those last free questions.
Speaker 3: A lot on the line, a whole.
Speaker 2: Shirt, a whole entire shirt. That's right, all right, that's
I'm man. I love doing Mikey and Air. We'll do
more of those here pretty soon. Always want to give
Mike a chance to win one of these. I think
that's when it's at its best. But hey, well done, Mike.
We'll do it again soon.
Speaker 3: All right, sounds good. I'm coming to win next time.
All right, we'll do one last break.
Speaker 1: Everybody will be ver quick to talk about what we've
been playing, clean up the super chats, and.
Speaker 3: Get on out of here. We'll be right back. All right, Mike,
what have you been playing?
Speaker 2: More fun fancy tactics, which I enjoy quite a lot
because it's you know, like a lot of the RBTs.
I love playing on my switch. It's got perfect combination
of if I just lay there and grind and watch
a video or something, so you for that, you need
to level up those jobs. Anyways, there's constant progression, so
feels good just to do that. The story stuff, it's fantastic,
so it's really engaging on that front. The voice acting
is so good. I love how even during the battles,
characters will still talk sometimes and the story will continue
in the midst of a fight, so like that, there's
just constantly interesting developments happening all the time. I'm like
just in the middle of chapter two, and gosh, even
though there's a lot of proper nouns and it's like
a lot of political stuff, it's so pretty easy to follow,
very intriguing. So, yeah, it turns out it's Final Fantasy
Tactics a good video game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to get back to it.
Speaker 1: Actually, I was enjoying it, and I was kind of
really starting to understand how much grinding was needed and
like knowing the right maps.
Speaker 3: To go to to grind, and I was getting into it.
Speaker 2: And then I had to catch up on some other stuff,
so I had to put it aside.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that could just be my switch to game.
Speaker 1: I you know, is there a chance it feels like
they're like, with this game coming out and seemingly doing
pretty well, they.
Speaker 2: Should just do a new Final Fantasy Tactics. But does
it feel like that's possibly?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What is the guy up to these days? Is my
first question?
Speaker 2: Set So you know, I I think I'm butchering that meme,
but I wonder because I mean, they did you know
Triangle Strategy, right, Yeah, Matsuno Matsuno. Let's see, Matsuno he
worked on the scenario for this. That's just an old crediting. See,
I don't really know if he's even working technically.
Speaker 1: Matt Roland Barrier Chat says he did some Final Fantasy
fourteen stuff in the past, right.
Speaker 2: He created the raid. Yeah, well there's a whole like
Evilly Seemed Raid for that. Oh right, awesome? Yeah, yeah,
very much based around found Phasy twelve and Found Fantasy Tactics.
Some of the references in there I am now getting,
which I enjoy quite a bit. He's at Algebra Factory now,
so you know, maybe.
Speaker 3: Bring him in. I would like that.
Speaker 2: Sure, I think they should. It's hard because he had
to kind of live up to this. Or you can
make one more like Tactics Advance for sure, a bit
more lighthearted gameplay focus perhaps, but gosh, why not make
a new Tactics because you could make that in this
style still relative, but it doesn't have to be, you know,
the big production that.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't want it to be. Absolutely. I was.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I was in the mood I
like replay links Awaken or whatever, which I am always
in the mood for that. So I was going to
do it on the switch version, and as I was
booting it up, and it's like, oh man, that's right,
it runs so much better on the Switch. I started
like to feel guilty because I'm like, I don't think
I ever beat Echoes of Wisdom, and I was I
think I'm pretty close, and I'm like, and I know
that runs really well as well on the Switch too,
So I booted that up instead and was I was
pretty close to the end. So I just spent a
couple of hours kind of getting through there, and I
got to the point where it's like, hey, do you
want to go for because if you do that, you
can't go back.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, okay, I'm here, And I always like
it when a game says that.
Speaker 1: And then it's like fifteen to thirty minutes left, Like
it doesn't need to be four hours.
Speaker 2: Let's like actually end the game. If you're telling me
we're about to end the game, and.
Speaker 3: That's what this game does. It gets out of the
way pretty fast.
Speaker 1: I thought the final boss fight was pretty okay relatively
speaking to the rest of that game. That game's strengths
were certainly like one when you started using your abilities
to maybe sequence break. That's when I was having the
most fun, like realizing I could go over the borders
of these areas and go over the trees and find
other things and start doing them out of order.
Speaker 3: That was really cool. And then when you kind of
get into the.
Speaker 1: Designed puzzles, they're pretty good Zelda puzzles, but you do
end up kind of doing the same things over and over,
like you find the stuff that works and you stick
with it.
Speaker 3: But I enjoyed that game quite a bit. You know,
I wouldn't necessarily be begging for another one in.
Speaker 1: That style, but as a two D A side while
Tiers of the Kingdom is coming out, Like, this was
a great little adventure and I'm really glad it went
back and finished that.
Speaker 3: I think it came out after Two is the Kingdom
somehow exactly. Yeah, that's I think that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, but yeah, I like that game. I'm glad
they made it. Like, you know, if I rank my
the Zelda games, would it be on the lower end. Sure,
that's because most Zoda games are very good. So yeah,
it was definitely a neat experiment, and maybe it wasn't
like you know, Zelda games are always like oh, this
could be, you know, nine out of ten, big deal,
and it's no, it's an eight out of ten this time.
Maybe maybe seven out of ten, but that's still fine.
Good times, yep, yep.
Speaker 3: Super cute.
Speaker 2: And uh, you know, I had Zelda dressed up in
her catsuits so she could talk to cats, which is
a kid I liked.
Speaker 3: And that was fun.
Speaker 1: But yeah, now I'm like, oh yeah, maybe I will
go play some more Links Awakening or I did. We
got the three DS out again because the kids wanted
to play Tomadacci Life because I had told them months
ago that Tomodacci Life's coming out in twenty twenty six,
so on New Year's Eve and he asked me, so
tonight it's coming out tonight because it's gonna be twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Six, right, Like, oh no, no, that's not how it works.
Speaker 2: That's funny, very very cute that you've been waiting till
now to ask that. So we got out the three
D and played a little bit of that. And when
I did that, I also started playing a Link between
Worlds again, which God, that game just game so good.
It just feels incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anything else from you?
Speaker 2: I have been playing Bloodborne that's been the game I've
been streaming, right, Yeah, how's that going. It's going, Wow,
it's going. Well. It's funny because when you first started up,
that's thirty frames per second hits you like a truck
and it's kind of jarring, but.
Speaker 3: You get used to it, you really do. It's fine. Now.
Speaker 2: It's funny because like I did this one, I did
play back when it came out, and I'm playing it
with the context of having played all the other from
Soft you know, Soul's games, and it's interesting to be like, Okay,
this is the one that's maybe the most like Dark
Souls won, especially in terms of level design, and I
think and I know that that's a very important element
for a lot of people who like that game. In
this game, just like the way the levels are interconnected
in the world exploration, that stuff is all very good here.
Just the vibes, right, doing the whole kind of Victorian
kind of spooky wear, gothic like it's yeah, it's a
great design choice for the game. Yeah, I've been having
a good time u ramping you through it. Get pretty
close to end the Bass game actually going to be
trying out the the docs and the expansion, which I
never played before, so I really know very little about that,
so be curious to try all that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you have a like a general ranking of
FRUM games in your head right now? Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, Uh, Secro's number one, then elden Ring, then probably
Dark Souls three, Dark Souls one, Bloodborne, Uh, Demon.
Speaker 3: Souls, Dark Souls two, Holy moly.
Speaker 2: I mean they're all, they're all. They're all good games.
Speaker 3: Stevens Soles.
Speaker 2: It's it is kind of like not quaint, but it
is simple now relatively compared to some of these other games,
like the boss Like, the thing I like about these
game is the most are the boss fights, and the
boss fights and Demon Souls are all pretty simple or
gimmicky at this point. And then Dark Souls too is
just kind of it's it's still good probably, but it's
got a lot of bs for sure.
Speaker 3: All Right, let's see here.
Speaker 1: You said you're almost done with Bloodborne plans for like
what happens after that because you are running out of
the souls Bourne games.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the other kind of project I need to complete
is that twenty nineteen apology tour, and there is Discoellesium,
so I might do that there's a lot of like
PS one games I want to play this year, and
some Saturn games.
Speaker 3: Two Threads of Fate on the PS one is a
big one.
Speaker 2: That's the Squaresoft game that's more of like an action
RPG platform or thing. Chuck is right, though, I bet
something this year I probably will go back to Lives
of p and play through that because I will be
kind of craving another Soul's Lake experience. So though there's
a couple of those coming out, this You're coding two
is happening. We'll see if that's any good. That's like
the end of January Neo three.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't call co Vein like a souls Like
is more like an action He has a little bit
on that, so but it's more action even than souls
Like for sure.
Speaker 3: So we'll see. We'll see.
Speaker 1: All Right, Well, I think that's it's probably do it
for the show, Mike, Yeah, you said you had an announcement.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, almost for I was about to talk about
another thing. I did the TJA predictions with the community
and we got a winner with twenty points. Twenty nine
is a big tony, so it's a big Tony is
gonna Be, he got the he got the chef's favorite person.
She's gonna get that with the role. It's gonna get
that role until late the next DJA when we're gonna
do this fantastic.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's great, thank you. How many points did Be
and Mike get when we did it? Do you remember
for sure?
Speaker 4: Let me see if I have. I don't think you wait,
did we we talk about that, didn't we?
Speaker 3: Yeah? We did, we did.
Speaker 4: We did the whole thing.
Speaker 3: I don't remember how.
Speaker 2: Many points you remember either. I don't think we were
quite You want I remember you won, Jeff. I want
to see if I beat the community a couple of points.
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, so yeah, that's it. I was about
to say I did the wipe in in in our creators.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's that's optional, right, They give you the option.
So how does how is that.
Speaker 3: Working for you? And and like, what's in the reaction
to it?
Speaker 4: I haven't seen any reaction to to she's been playing it.
You haven't seen anything. But I like it. It feels
right right at the end there, I was just doing
full like full agro stuff all the time because everybody
was doing that pretty much at the end everybody was
just like going with the best stuff and she was
like shooting each other all the time. It was just
full p VP. And now things came back to that
normal more like, hey, let's just team up because everybody
are doing quests and stuff. And it's also then the
Christmas stuff was going on. I don't know if it's
still going on well with the frozen map and that
kind of stuff, so it kind of returned to that
that level of cooperation a little bit. So I like,
I'm enjoying it. It's cool if you if you haven't
played yet for some reason, it's kind of it's kind
of the same with with with Tarco, where it's like
the best time is when the white happens because everybody
is like a fucking not so with the with the
progression is back to zero and it's fun. It's fun.
I was missing that that interaction of like not having
to shoot for outside every single time.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, that you need that.
Speaker 1: That's you know, I get why those resets need to
happen so you can kind of bring that aspect back
because that went away forever.
Speaker 3: That would be our greater sort of going away forever.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they give you.
Speaker 4: They give you like a cute cut scene of your
guy like leaving the town and then like dropping into
like the middle of the desert and you see him
walking into the like the horizon and like living and
they threw you like, hey, great another one.
Speaker 3: Oh cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's cool, and you get to and you get
to like if you I did. My first build was
like old movement, Like I was like climbing like crazy
and all stuff. And now this new thing, I'm going
more for like sneaky stuff and like looting faster getting stuff,
like faster opening BOXX I am not able to open,
so like you get to the barrier your bills and
playing the run ways. So it's cool, it's cool. What
I want is like maybe once a year do an
actual like full research because when you do the wiping
this game, they give you depending on how much stuff
you have and that kind of stuff, they give you
a boost to your XP or the straight up give
you skill points. So I feel like like once a year,
like force everybody to go to zero and get all
that stuff back. Maybe if we drop an expansion or
something like that, you know.
Speaker 1: I bet they will get to that point eventually, where
like the community is now like being like, Okay, we
get why we need to do this. It's probably a
scary thing when you're trying to be super friendly. Early on,
I got my computer just started screaming at me with
the hell all right I found it? Yeah, so I
bet they'll get to that point eventually.
Speaker 2: Yeah ahead, Christian Tamos wants you to say their full
discord name because that's Big Tony.
Speaker 3: They're the winner.
Speaker 4: Uh was that? Sorry? I missed it, Big Tony, the
final Fantasy guy. That's what I put in the name
of the on the of the name. You put in
the in the in the form.
Speaker 2: So yeah, if you just making sure our winners demands
are met, don't worry. Yep, that's how it works here.
We we serve at their pleasure for sure. All right, Mike,
we have some more super chats to clean up, right, A.
Speaker 3: Few more here? Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, uh acratics as any new hobbies who plan
to learn in twenty twenty six thinking about getting into
ham radio Shenanigan's real dad.
Speaker 1: Shit, No, yeah, I did a little bit of a
little bit of like coding, and by coding, I meant
like I just kind of looked some ship up on
Google and it told me what to do and for us, yeah,
built a tool so that we can like see what
games are coming out each month. And that was fun
and I think I might I want to do a
little bit more of that and and just seeing like
you know what, I want to build the game mess website.
That's what like and a kind of like just as
a hobby on the side, and so don't expect anything major.
Speaker 3: Don't expect like anything but Buck's.
Speaker 2: Doing over on Giant Bomb Buddy, uh, but just kind
of to see like we can have like a little
bit of a home base kind of point people in
the right direction instead of just having it redirect to nowhere,
which I think it's still doing. Really, I'm actively trying
to not start a hot because I did get that
enterprise d Lego and I don't want to become a
Lego guy.
Speaker 3: I have no room for it. I just want to
build this one big lego and leave it at that.
Speaker 2: Come on, Zombie Porn says Jeff should do another speed
run show where Sean teaches him how to speed run
My sixty four, mainly so Seawan gets couldn't call Jeff
Old for an hour every week We've talked about doing
something like that for a while now, we just haven't
haven't had the time in yet.
Speaker 4: That already close in all all the time, and I
don't know why.
Speaker 2: People is yeah, but like officially doing it. Yeah yeah,
pluffam says joining in only because why not. Most expensive
game in my collection is the gold cart aka of
time and box stupid. This is shark pointing love a
girl on U m D. That is funny, shark point
I'm a girl and you that's good. That's good, all right,
that seems to be it.
Speaker 1: All right, great, So I'm gonna hit the button. Let's
see what that's a full blast right away. I know
I was just thinking the same thing. It's going for you.
But is it even plain at all? That's even better,
hear me, neither. Let's see here. It should just be working,
but it's not. Oh wait there, we just don't want
to be depressed twice.
Speaker 2: There It is okay, fantastic, all right, yeah, no problems whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Look, I love having a new computer.
Speaker 1: But when you have like fifty interdependent things, when you
whenever you do anything, it is it was intimidating to
switch from one.
Speaker 3: Computer to the other.
Speaker 1: So sure, slowly, but surely we'll get everything rebuilt over
here and be able to do things as normal.
Speaker 3: But thanks again for everybody for bearing with us. Well
we could do all that.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't complain about getting a new computer because this
might be the last one I ever fucking gets going
right now, my old computer, I've already scrapping that for parts.
Speaker 1: I gave the GPU to un sou.
Speaker 2: Look he's got claim on the RAM too, But I
need to like figure out what, like what else I
need to get off this computer.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, I.
Speaker 1: Got put this computer off to the side, and I realized,
what do you think half finished travelog was on there.
I'm like, if I don't get that done now, I
will never do it.
Speaker 3: So I got to figure out what else. I was
impressed you did.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not like saying I gave up, but
I was like, Jeff got busy, That's okay.
Speaker 3: I was relationship though.
Speaker 1: I really did get busy, and I was happy to
finish it. No, for real, All right, Mike, where can
people find you on the internet?
Speaker 2: Blue Sky Tolkoto New ninety Disney just went up, so
check that out. We looked back at nineteen ninety six
and Disney and just kind of ahead talking about the
new year. So yeah, you can see me there, Giant Bom.
We're back on Monday making the content again everybody. So yeah,
Giant Bomb. Good Monday to January fifth, we're back. Game
of the Years out now too. It's all all four
days are out yep.
Speaker 1: And then guest lists have mostly gone up. There should
be a few more going up the rest of the week.
I think, Sean God, it's got to be a lot
of work, but we did record a music episode. Yeah,
like I think it's going up tomorrow, but it's a
lot of He's he wants to edit it, make sure
like all the stuff gets put in there.
Speaker 2: So I'm sure he's working on it right now. So
it'll go up when it goes up, is what I'll say.
And let him figure out what that looks like. Yeah,
and it's seven more guest lists tomorrow, says Marino. I'm
going to spend some time tomorrow catching up because I'm like,
I was reading them all as they were coming out.
Speaker 3: And I missed the last few days. I'm gonna sit
down and just read them all on my tablet. That
sounds like fun. All right everyone, catch you next time.
By thanks Mike, Thanks, thanks you all. Nice diddy dong
the cum gutters, No, no, no, how's that? So on there?
All right, we're out.