Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday, December sixteenth, twenty twenty five. Welcome
to the Half Birthday, Episode nine and twenty one. We're
coming to you from main Gear HQ. That's right, we're
getting ready to record Game of the Year podcast, but
we couldn't leave you on a Tuesday, oh by yourself
to grow here joining me as always co captain of
the ship, Jeff Grubb. I'm happy to be here. Thanks Jan. Also,
let's just go down the couch. Tallest lad in the room.
He's ready to fuel up because he's got the canister
right in front of him. Turba sewn Sean MC.
Speaker 2: I am here in full mind and body and not
belieguered from my trip at all.
Speaker 1: Fantastic. He took the train all the way up here.
He was about to just run, but we told him
just get on the wheels, on the steels. That doesn't
the chuck. Yeah, I'm not much of a runner. I
got them flat feet and I'm a big lad. It's
my first BombCast. Yeah, okay, fantastic, fantastic. Uh working injured today, folks.
He's such a trooper and constant worker. He'll go out.
Don't worry with a smile on his face.
Speaker 3: Dan, right, it wasn't injured about an hour ago. But
then that was before. Do you want to describe what happened?
Speaker 4: Jan?
Speaker 1: This table was not properly weighted. And then the microphone
that Jeff Backlar speaking into right now whacked Dan in
the nuts.
Speaker 5: Just fell over, just the emotion.
Speaker 6: Mike saw it, but from a distance, He's like, Dan,
watch out and there was nothing microphone just right in
the nerd. So glad I got that workman's comp stuff
figured out. So if you have to file a C no.
Speaker 5: No, no. The nerds are feeling okay.
Speaker 7: That's parting. Dan is like in pain and he's like, no,
you can, you can laugh.
Speaker 1: But everyone was afraid to laugh.
Speaker 3: I mean, if I saw that happen to one of you,
I would want the permission to last, you know, because
it is just objectively the funniest thing.
Speaker 1: We've got, the bringer of all things, Bagel the yeasty
boy himself. Oh, Jeff maclar, that's pretty good, Thanks for
that chance. I try, I try.
Speaker 4: For just keeping track of who gets injured the most.
I mean, Dan, you're running away with it.
Speaker 5: Am I really?
Speaker 1: I think so?
Speaker 5: I mean, who's I've broken two bones in my life?
Speaker 1: Is that? I think, like, well, like we working yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh here, yeah, since being here this trip?
Speaker 1: Did you get shot in the face? Shot in the face.
Speaker 5: I got shot in the face, broke fingers mania.
Speaker 1: You said you needed to go to the house.
Speaker 3: In your head, Yeah, microphone of the nards part brother, Look,
the microphone had nothing to do with me a moment,
all right, saying they're not bothering anyone.
Speaker 6: Your nuts bounce back pretty fast. You were feeling good,
not too long hit the nuts.
Speaker 5: It means it fades after ten minutes.
Speaker 3: Mike Mana here has been inside for two hours, and
it's still talking about how cold he is.
Speaker 5: We need to check on that cool now.
Speaker 1: I just keep talking about how I was cool.
Speaker 6: He remembered it being old, and he was so deeply
affected that he was talking about it.
Speaker 1: Shouts out the will running the ones and twos behind
the scenes over there and last but not least last
in town up oil games media. He's the cold never
bothered him anyway, except today, Mike Manatti.
Speaker 8: I think I have some information for everyone because I'm
kind of getting I was the only when he saw
the nutshot on Dan, and I'm realizing that people don't
know exactly everything that happened.
Speaker 1: Jana hit the microphone and knocked it over. Why it
fell on Dan as I was repositioning the other microphone.
Wake up, Dad, man, we caught you. I'm just saying,
you know.
Speaker 3: I never heard on I'm sorry Dan, Hey, ghost Dog,
it was an accident.
Speaker 1: I understand d thank you, thank you. I don't think
I introduced myself. I'm a Jan ghost Dog, Gachola and boys.
We got a This is gonna be a very small
short app because we got some pods to record today. Uh.
The first thing I want to talk about, though, how
smooth was everyone's travel, no.
Speaker 5: Problems God all time or bad travel day. Sean and
I definitely had it the worst.
Speaker 3: We wound up at the same airport for several hours
before we took off.
Speaker 7: Everyone's flight got the land everybody and it.
Speaker 3: Wasn't just the way, like the weather was the thing
keeping everyone back. But like I was on three different
planes boarded when it got canceled for different reasons. There
was a weather one. There was one where right before takeoff,
the pilot is like I just hit my regulated minutes.
Speaker 5: A lot min a day. We got to go back.
Speaker 3: I'm not allowed to fly, And then we had one
where they liked, They're like, oops, we put you on
the wrong plane. There's crosswinds, this plane is too small
for that. So we got swap me do a new plan,
but we're gonna take you off right away. And then
that one had to go back to so literally like
an entire day spent at the airport.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also had mechanical issues with mine, where they were
just like, yeah, one of our radars just doesn't work
and we need to get that sorted. And we were
just on the tarmac for like two hours. It's negative
three degrees in Wisconsin, and they're like, yeah, we need
to turn the plane off for a little bit while
we reboot the computers. And then it all ended with yeah,
we need a road team to drive two hours here
to fix the radar. So then I had to get
on a different flight. That's how I end up in Minneapolis.
Speaker 6: But everyone had a flight that wasn't just delayed, everyone
had a flight that was canceled.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I think yeah.
Speaker 8: I had it the best though, even though mine, like
I got here last, mine was canceled well before I
even would leave for the airport.
Speaker 1: It's like ah, I you gotta leave the next day.
Speaker 8: So I was like, all I had to guess, I'm
gonna stay home and sleep in my bed.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mine got canceled on the way there.
Speaker 6: I got on earlier, earlier flight that was then delayed
past when I would get there.
Speaker 1: And it worked out.
Speaker 3: Sean and I got here, got to the airbnb at
two thirty in the morning last night.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and here we are like a baby already. It
was so warm down there at a space heater. Oh,
I made your bed, Sean. I appreciate that he was already.
I could just flop down like.
Speaker 1: It's for you.
Speaker 5: I slept with the window open last night.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's crazy because it's like, so the nest thermostat
is on the top floor and then the bottom floors
are frigid no matter what happens up there. So the
heater was basically running all night at like somewhere between
seventy five to eighty and pro long time it was
eighty So I'm like, I know they're cold down there.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to turn it off, so I'll just
open a window.
Speaker 5: Yep, it was fine. The covers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I made the pro move because I was thinking like,
I'm really hungry. So I hit the door dash on
the way to the uber, and then I panicked a
little bit that it was no longer in the front porch,
and then someone kindly brought it in.
Speaker 6: I like Jan's here and opened the door and I'm like, oh,
because it wasn't It was a guy handed me.
Speaker 7: McDonald importantly it was Nuggies.
Speaker 1: Of course, of course I still lot the oh yeah.
Speaker 5: When we got in two we remember seeing like a
six pack of nugget.
Speaker 1: Trick that was ominous. Damn.
Speaker 2: We just like there's one light on in the kitchen
shining on this box of nuggets and some.
Speaker 5: Mustard, you know, like Looney Tunes or whatever.
Speaker 3: When there'd be a box with a stick and there's like,
you know, a play, like someone trying to trap me.
Speaker 1: I should have left a note because they gave me
like there was like a buy one, get one free,
and I didn't want that many nugs, so I should
have put a note. I'm sorry. It felt implied.
Speaker 6: They were just coming in from a long day, they
were in a vulnerable state, so they didn't trust it.
Speaker 1: You ordered more nugs, Well, there was a ten and
then there was like, hey, if you want an extra ten,
We'll just give this to you for free.
Speaker 3: Can we door dash a bunch of those new rolled
stick Peblano kiss? And I'm talking about this because we're
all the Airbnb.
Speaker 5: I really want to try that thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm good.
Speaker 3: We're not allowing myself at home anymore. And no more
fast food all the time. I can't be having it.
Speaker 5: But when you're on a trip, calaries don't.
Speaker 1: Count on vacation. Vacation. This is this is a very serious.
Speaker 5: Work trip, a trip when you're away from home. You
can see whatever you one like.
Speaker 1: That's the saying. Actually, I think calories definitely count on
work trips.
Speaker 5: No, scientifically they don't.
Speaker 1: Hey, did y'all know like alcohol has a lot of calories?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 1: That does. How is that possible? Beats me?
Speaker 7: Dog?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 1: Anyway, I went over to the TGAs shouts out to
everyone that said, Hi, hung out for a bit. Uh.
I don't know if you'll know this. Barrett Courtney from
Kind of Funny, I fox with him. I still don't
trust him. It's because he brought his dad to dinner.
Speaker 7: Huh.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah in Cleveland. Yeah, but yeah. Everyone had very
nice things to say, thank you for congratulating, congratulating all
of us on the independence. Also may just say it
was really weird for me because I'm used to hang
out with you all all the time. That was very weird, Uh,
not hanging out with my forty year old dudes, and
that everyone is so young and constantly just wants to
stay out And I'm like, and then I was a
little buzzball fairy. But the thing I want to talk about, sorry,
is at the Game Awards, We're all at the hotel
lobby common thing, and a gentleman approaches me, very excited
to see me, and I assumed he was a community
member of the website or who works in the industry,
and it was like, Jan, Jan, do you remember me?
I'm so and so, and I remember him last year
because him and his posse last year very excited to
see me, and we're talking, we're catching up and I'm
trying to remember now and I was remembering that last year.
He never said my name as Jan, and he never
said giant bomb. And then he said something that made
a click even further that I don't think he thinks
he's talking to the right person, because he was like, oh, dude,
like love every thing you're working on. Loved you a
MythBusters grant close. Uh uh, love that you're staying booked
and busy. And then it was like me, booked and
busy is something you say to like an actor, and
I am not yet. And then he was He asked
me like, hey, like, I want to follow you on Instagram,
Like I don't use Instagram that much. Uh Like if
I follow you there, we followed me back and we'll chat.
I'm like, heyeah, okay, okay, sure, sure, sure sure. He
pulls his phone out, goes to the search and then
he starts typing, oh yeah young. Yeah. For those of
you don't know, Yong Yah is the English voice actor
for Cure You in Yacht Oh you thought you were
in that guy? Wow?
Speaker 8: The YouTuber and oh my god, no whoa He said
he's a chipmunk man and God.
Speaker 1: Of war rangaras. Yeah, and then I tell him, now
go ahead, hit hit follow, hit follow, I'll follow you back.
That's the way. But but how was watching the game
boards at home for you all? Yeah? Good? That was good.
Larryan scarred us. They made up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was fine.
Speaker 8: They did a mega man that was exciting. I was
very happy about Mega Man. I saw the clip afterwards. Yeah,
and there is a new nicely Old Republic kind of game.
So we got a fast tracked Joe Tour. Oh yeah, true, yeah,
we got to do that. There's gonna be a pod
racing game, well racing game, and all the stars are here.
It's not just pot race. We've got land speeders and
the bikes and Hope to Buba hopefully all the vehicles
from Star Wars Demolition on the PlayStation.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well, they made that bad Bubba Fetcha where he rides
a rink corps, just like in that game. So maybe
you just ride a rink corps on this thing. There
are horses in that one movie. Maybe you can ride
a horse.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, so the Last Jedi the Gambling Horse. Yeah,
that was a bad part of the movie.
Speaker 6: They ride the they ride the space horses on a
star Destroyer in Rise of Skywalker.
Speaker 1: Which horses are you talking about?
Speaker 7: There's two horses. I blacked that movie out.
Speaker 8: The thing that the other Gungan wasn't Jarge, the Lieutenant
Gungan was on.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 1: You're talking about he's a cheriot or whatever. It sounds
like an animal. He's like, yeah, yeah, I think one
of those things.
Speaker 9: Yeah, looked like I got you. There's like some implications
that's a problematic. Yeah, there's nothing problematic. Those are the ride.
Don't talk to them.
Speaker 1: Contrary to popular belief, it was not me wooing whenever
Cody Roads came up on stage. I'm never gonna back
like okay. So also I understand people got to work
during the show Homegirl next to me, brightest laptop screen, typing,
the whole weird. And then I'm like they're trying to
build some atmosphere and everything, especially with the Divinity trailer
and presentation. Meanwhile, just like shine bright and white, Well,
why you just turned on the brightness?
Speaker 3: I don't get Well, if you're doing an article or
posting or something, don't go to the show.
Speaker 5: You're not gonna get good wi Fi.
Speaker 1: You can do this live that life before. Yes, it
does suck. Yeah, because like.
Speaker 8: There's a time where it's like I want to go
to the show and I know I have to work,
but I kind of, you know, I want to be there.
Speaker 1: There's something to it.
Speaker 8: But after I got after I did it a few times,
I very quick was like, I'm not going to the
show if I have to write any.
Speaker 1: But also based off of where I was sitting, my
assumption is if you want it to work on the show.
And also there's the the seats cost money, Yeah right,
so might not get a cheaper seat and be less
I don't know, visible or in the way. Also, that
ship was loud, y'all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I felt bad. I should have told you to
bring your plugs.
Speaker 5: Did you pee at any point?
Speaker 1: Yes, and it took me a very long time to
get back to your coral and yeah. Yeah. So it's
weird though, because they have a whole separate long as
line for people to fill in as seat fillers, Yet
no one filled any seats around me. Oh weird, Like
there was a whole section that was empty next to
me that never got filled up or whatever, And so.
Speaker 6: They didn't cut to the audience that frequently. It never
looked like seas someone off that just wasn't a camera zone.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm surprised they care that much about doing stuff
like filling seats if hey, yeah.
Speaker 1: Because that's what the Oscars do. Did you meet miss Piggy?
I was gonna say, Mike, despite all these wrestlers showing
up and all these actors, the person who was most
star struck to see was miss Picture.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, even though she's banging Keeley.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't yuck anyone's yumps. They're porking. I'm impressed.
All right, Uh, we're not going to talk about games
today because we're going to be locked in this room
talking about games for quite a while. But Jeff Grub,
do you have any news I do just real quick,
Mike dispatch? Uh huh? I like Dispatch? Yeah, yeah, I was.
I really enjoyed that. It was like like I played.
Speaker 8: Like the first four episodes like Okay, once the day,
I'll do an episode, then the last four episodes like
I'm just gonna do all this right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah nice? Uh? I really That's not usually my style
of game.
Speaker 8: I think the dispatching was a bit more gameplay for me.
Like if it was just the dialogue options and the
quick time events, that would not have been enough for me.
Speaker 1: I would have enjoyed the story. But I really liked dispatching. So, yeah,
did you like the hacking. I do.
Speaker 8: I'm a sick of for hacking. I like to do
you know the pipe dream thing and BioShock everyone.
Speaker 1: Pipe dream? Yeah?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I watch BioShock retrospective today, people like, now, obviously
the hacking is stupid.
Speaker 2: Well, the hacking is cool because at a certain point
you can fight back against like the traps that are
laid for you.
Speaker 1: I think that's a fun, little.
Speaker 8: Spect escalated very nice. Yeah, like so complicated that you're
going to lose a hacking thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the great thing about the gameplay of
Dispatches that they do escalate it, and there's fun twists
that you don't necessarily expect from it. The way that
weaves into the story and everything, it makes it feel
like more of a video game than some of those
games have in the past.
Speaker 1: And I swear I'm not going to do like every
single did you do this or that? Did anyone here
kick Sonar out? For sure? Ye sucks dude. No, he's
a goody little free He's a cryptos in a way.
That's like, I like, I liked them a lot. Yeah,
I felt bad.
Speaker 7: I kept Lady Batman ruled rules, they kept Sonar I kept,
so I like I liked Coop.
Speaker 8: Also, I kind of I kind of want to be like,
I don't think we should cut anybody. Actually, I think
this is a stupid idea, but that was not.
Speaker 7: An option, the boss said, Cuts Corporation.
Speaker 1: The hot blonde lady.
Speaker 7: Yes, man, the hot blonde lady. That's right here.
Speaker 1: Alright, dog, it's time to start the show. Are you
ready to go? Yeah, dude, I'm ready. No, you look
like you were in a den of iniquity right now.
I don't know what that means, and I don't know
what you want. It's not like I have a home studio, Jan, Yes,
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I guess I have a fan on. Well,
it's hot, I'm not going to turn that off. Let
me just hit this right here. Is that any better?
Speaker 1: Jan? Much better? We can clean up your shot with
auto frame and video noise removal and grub. You can
even make it look like you were paying attention using
the eye contact tool, so I could still watch my stories, Yes,
yes you can. Nvidia Broadcasts is a universal place that
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And since I'm using the Nvidia Studio drivers, I'll get stable,
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Speaker 1: Jan, I'm not even looking at the camera at all
right now, Grub stop stop looking at me. I haven't
looked at you forever.
Speaker 6: So the Game Awards happened, Mike talked about a lot
of the big ones already here there a second, and
if you want a full breakdown of what happened in
the Game Awards, we're not doing it here.
Speaker 1: We did that on Game as Mornings on Friday. Go
listen to that. But there were a.
Speaker 6: Couple things since then. I don't know if we mentioned
it during the show. We might have talked about it
in the post show, Mike. The Mega Man trailer did
have Proto Man's whistle in it, and that's got the
people talking.
Speaker 1: Literally that's Proto Man's music.
Speaker 6: Yes, literally, I guess real quick how you feel about
that game right now, Mike.
Speaker 8: I'm excited, Like again, with that build up, there's a
part of me that thought that maybe this was going
to be a little bit of a bigger swing than
just another two D Metro Mega Man game, And like
you know, of course, that's when Mega Man has been
his best for me. I do like legends, but yeah,
I love classic Mega Man, so just getting another one
of those is still exciting. I do hope there is
a little bit something here. Maybe that little something is
two player co op Mega Man and Proto Man, And
I like Proto Man's a character, a ton you can
even do other characters. You can do a bass or
whatever else you want to do there. You can bring
roll in, make her playable.
Speaker 2: That would make the name make more sense because dual
override if they're just bringing back the double gears, so
something that doesn't seem like something win emphasis.
Speaker 1: I think Double Gear was good for eleven. That one game.
I don't think you bring it back, you do something else. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I also was like watching some better like comparisons of
the eleven and twelve art style and graphics, and I'm like, okay, yeah,
this is a noticeable improvement, especially the Mega Man model,
which was kind of lanky and weird looking at eleven.
Speaker 2: Like eleven is clearly the base, and then they just
sort of like, you know, really dialed it in for
this new one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Did you like the Maverick Hunter art styles.
Speaker 1: The PSP one? I thought it was It was okay.
Speaker 5: I think that game was good.
Speaker 8: Mega Man next. I mean I would never play Maverick
Hunter again over just playing.
Speaker 5: X for sure.
Speaker 1: At this point, Mike, did you ever like the Mega
Man zero games? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, they're great. Meg Man
zero three is a top tier Mega Ya typically zero
games are fantastic. I like to see X ones as well.
Should I play Legends? I've never played Legends?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Legends?
Speaker 1: Okay, this is content now, this is Legends Mega Oh
all right, all right, Mega Jan right, Mega Legends.
Speaker 7: You've got like five shows qued up with your name
and then fine, it's fine.
Speaker 2: Do you know ice about Legends?
Speaker 1: It's my favorite game. Oh yeah, so all right, yeah,
this will be fun. There you go, bec wh where
you can ask Mike something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, why why is that like the only game that
said twenty twenty.
Speaker 8: Seven's funny, isn't it?
Speaker 1: It's hilarious.
Speaker 8: Toy twenty seven is going to be an anniversary for
Mega Man. Oh that will be the fortieth.
Speaker 6: And they have to have time to do their contest
where people can write in and yes, oh yeah you
guys miss this oh ye yeah big wait cle clear space,
Mike you're big announced.
Speaker 8: I did announce my eligibility and my entering the Mega
Man Design a Robot Master contest.
Speaker 1: Uh, so that you're.
Speaker 5: Declaring yourself for the contest for.
Speaker 8: This exactually because they used to do this back they
for like Nintendo Power on the NY So I'm constantly
thinking about it right now.
Speaker 1: I mean I am in the idea phase. You're announcing
your candidacy.
Speaker 5: They did announce that they're doing this for real.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I have to.
Speaker 8: I think by the end of the year, I have
to design a robot master some minute. And uh I
have an idea right now, what if like there was
a Stone Man, what if that he was some kind
of like rock based and I me and he was rock.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good. Yeah, I love that, Mike. Honestly, you
should be like a music man. They haven't got too
many music ones. Actually, yeah, there might be something there. Yeah.
Piano man man, piano man. Yeah. I still have to
find that rejection letter I have from.
Speaker 5: From Mega Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I was such a dumb idiot.
Speaker 4: I guess I was like eight or something and I
saw in Nintendo Power all the submissions and then I
wrote back, which was probably like six months after they
even did the thing, and I.
Speaker 9: Was like, I forgot here's do you imagine They're like, like,
stop pretting.
Speaker 4: I got such a such a pity letter of like,
oh you sweet idiot.
Speaker 1: No, it was typed, but it was definitely like a
person Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I kind of who knows if I can even
salvage that to find it, but it was it felt
good to get the Hendo stationary.
Speaker 1: Do you still have it?
Speaker 4: I think it might be before we move on from
Capcom though.
Speaker 2: A little thing that I don't think was shown during
the show, at least I don't remember it, because you know,
they annow switched to version of Pragmata, and you know
recently they Annow switched to version of are E nine.
Both games are getting amibo, and so Pragmata is ganging Diana,
which I guess that makes sense that the kid, Yeah, yeah,
the kid, and then r E nine is gang Uh
what's Ashcroft think, Grace Ashcroft Amba. I'm like Capcom is
really the only ones I was having Nintendo supporting that
this way, because.
Speaker 8: You can't believe people were trying to say that prag
Model was secretly a Mega Man game. Yeah, you were
out there on the front line trying to stop these
people stupid, and now we have like actually Megama and
games of course they weren't doing that, but people just
really trying to force things.
Speaker 1: That's because it's a battle network game.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get the ships, you're gonna.
Speaker 1: Exactly that demo for Pragmata that it looks like it
was the same demo checked out earlier this year.
Speaker 5: Okay, people seem to like it.
Speaker 1: I like it a bunch. The combat system, we don't
need to get into it, but it seems really what's
going on. Keep I haven't had a time to check out,
but I'm super excited when we get it. I want
to hear what you think.
Speaker 8: Yes, not the pivot too hard, but still Game Awards.
It sounds like it does sound like Fay the Old Republic.
It's not going to be coming out this decade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's literally the story that I was going
to bring up.
Speaker 6: So that was the rumor, and Casey Hudson came out
and said, no, it's going to be out by twenty.
Speaker 5: Thirty okay, twenty third June.
Speaker 6: Right, yeah, yeah, okay, I know, but they're like, there,
he just came out and said it. But you know,
how much can you trust anyone who's making the game
these days?
Speaker 7: He has a great recent track record of he.
Speaker 6: Did he's not done anything, and so that's like, you know,
when you talk to people in the industry, they're like, yeah,
I mean everyone just thinks of him as the mass
effect and kotor guy and fair enough, but it's not
that much since Anthem, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's possible this game does not come out. Yeah,
it probably still comes out before the Chronic Dream one.
Oh my god, is that still a thing?
Speaker 3: Was the one that got canceled, and they both get canceled.
Speaker 6: Got canceled, making that Black Panther game that is still
coming out, just got delayed one cancel.
Speaker 1: One of them got canceled.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the Black Panther game got canceled.
Speaker 1: She's making up America.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, so all right everyone bro game everyone's talking
about coming out of the game.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's High Guard. Uh that is it's getting ship on.
Speaker 7: Really, even even.
Speaker 1: That game was like why was that last? Is like,
oh wait, they paid the most, that's the thing.
Speaker 6: Like I'm assed around a little bit and it's like
maybe they paid, but it is a team that's self publishing,
and it's there's not like there's some ten cent behind
them that's like here's.
Speaker 1: Here's two million dollars making this. Like so it's.
Speaker 5: Former Respawns, so former like titan Fall apex.
Speaker 1: People, Yes, this.
Speaker 6: Looks like a titan Fall apex with like kind of
a slight sci fi fantasy.
Speaker 1: I mean you said it, Immortals of Avian. It's mixed
with concord Is.
Speaker 6: It's like to dislike ratio is one to ten, it's
one like for every ten dislikes, which is very similar
to the trailer that Concord had when everyone was.
Speaker 1: Like we don't want this. Fuck.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this game's out January twenty sixth. Now, the difference
is it is free to play suppose what Concord had,
So maybe it can like get by on.
Speaker 1: Its own merits if it's really fun to play.
Speaker 5: Oh, January twenty sixth, like the next month's.
Speaker 6: Five weeks, right at least, right, I've definitely come around
to like I feel bad, Like I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think we should like, you know, celebrate, like
the game's not for me. I'm looking at the game.
I'm looking at like that's not I'm not in the.
Speaker 6: Mood for these games that are sure machines to extract
value from us.
Speaker 1: But I should still play it first, play it first.
Speaker 4: I think it's fair to have the reaction, yes, we had,
because it's it's completely reasonable given the.
Speaker 1: State of the state, right, especially for one last thing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it might be a costly telling. You know, this
game has lu him Outye, maybe it's going to be
a big hit. Yeah, but like putting a game like
this in that last lot is kind of setting it
up for failing exactly.
Speaker 6: That's the one thing everyone's taken away is like it
might have been a lot better had they not been.
Speaker 1: The one last thing at least all the heat would
not have been on it.
Speaker 4: I also wonder like what the editorial sort of like, uh,
you know, consideration of all that is too right, where
like a Kelly, you know, it's like, oh, is this
what we want?
Speaker 1: And I wonder I just wonder how all of that went, Like, I.
Speaker 8: Mean, he might have been like kind of went over
like well, like you know, people made a Picks Legends
that was a big hit, right, So yeah.
Speaker 6: And the game's out in six weeks at that, right,
it's like an early access thing.
Speaker 5: It's like out out out wow.
Speaker 7: I felt like, I think this would have not been
a thing at all if that guy had a different haircut.
I don't know. I think it's their character. On the
main character, it is very like the quaff and it's
like really close on the sides, and I'm like that that's.
Speaker 6: What's very gen Z sort of YouTuber look.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like and if you're going for like a
fantasy like sword and board type thing and then then
you slap that on there, I don't know it.
Speaker 2: I feel like Killy was trying to lean into the
whole smaller teams, more independent stuff. So do you think
that was a decision to say, hey, let's have this
smaller team's game be are one last thing to try
to like say that we are also behind this, and.
Speaker 6: It's just hard to see the forest for the trees
when you are in that position of like we are
doing a favor for this game that we all are,
we believe in. We like I'm Jeff Kelly, I saw
this thing.
Speaker 1: I live in La. Their studios in LA.
Speaker 6: Let's do one for the homies and not think about
like what the expectations will mean for that game when
the game is the one last thing. Yeah, just it's
so easy not to think about.
Speaker 1: It's just like boy like Fad the Old Republic Divinity
would have done so much better, and that's I think
the Leon reveal would have killed as like the last
thing there's tomb Raider, right, Yeah, I think I think
could have closed out that.
Speaker 8: I guess the one thing that we knew it was comings.
Maybe like that wouldn't be exciting enough. It's something nobody
wants to see coming.
Speaker 2: I think Fate would have a great final one, yeah,
because like that lineage of games isn't necessarily my type
of game, so I didn't really pop off. But like
everyone I've seen who like saw that's like.
Speaker 7: You know, people clamor for that exactly.
Speaker 4: With doing a game like The Knights of the Old
Republic sequel and not ever deliver on the promise.
Speaker 1: You aments about the moment exactly.
Speaker 8: Why you announced the Shenmuth three kickstarter at the sun.
Speaker 2: Even if it's weird that pop is like, what's all about.
Speaker 1: Out the super ipatch which from that game?
Speaker 6: But last thing that I think we'll probably bring up
Arcade one up sounds like they're closing.
Speaker 1: They send out.
Speaker 6: Letters to people being like, hey, we're going away. That
means a couple of things. For some of these machines
that have online connectivity. Oh yeah, uh, they're saying that
they have the I think they call it the poor
man's matchmaking that a lot of indie games use, where
it's like the game is able to keep track of
the last one hundred people that connected to the game
their IP addresses, and they like it just looks to
see if one of those people is online, and so
like it should continue to function even once it's offline.
The Infinity table, which I have and my kids really like,
which is just a big tablet you sit down at
it's a table. And they made a bunch of games
for a lot of board games that are real board
games you could play on here. That one might be
a little bit more of a question mark of like
what's going to happen to the services that.
Speaker 1: Provide those games? Would I be able to just get
them all right now? And we don't really.
Speaker 2: Know, are you specifically talking about the code Mystics ones
or like just across the board arcade one.
Speaker 1: Up, our across the board ouride?
Speaker 2: Okay, because I did see Code Mystics chime in a
little bit on like this whole what's going on here?
And they said that their net code does allow like
direct peer to peer matchmaking. It's just like the server
makes it better. Yes, the server improves it. This they
will still have basically what every indie game has that
stilled catch making.
Speaker 1: Yet trust bumming out though I like r K one up.
You know it's it's it's a difficult business. It's expensive.
A few of us are going to have one if
any of these, Like I had my one misspac Man
one and I liked.
Speaker 8: Having that, and you know, kids will come over, they
would play on that. It'd be fun thing to turn
on at parties. People sometimes just put it on in
demo mode. It's rough because I bet it had a
hard time finding ones they hadn't done yet.
Speaker 5: That couldn't all the main ones, I think, But it
was so cool.
Speaker 8: Like, man, there was a company that just made a
replicas Simpson's Arcade Machine Home, you know, the Marvel versus
cap one two before we had the collection. The fact
that they did.
Speaker 2: That, yeah, it was it was an avenue for these
games that aren't getting published otherwise because because I know, Greb,
you talked about this on some game this morning. Is
like because it's classify as a toy or something like that.
It's like it makes the licensing easier or something. So
I think that's why we saw stuff like the Simpsons stuff.
So it's a little sad to see that the whole
thing go down.
Speaker 8: I hope, like, I hope this niche gets filled by
something else, so I do like somebody making home arcade machines, analogy.
Speaker 1: Arcade.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: God, it's going to be so heavy.
Speaker 6: I mean, I wouldn't I wouldn't hate like one that
was like kind of funded by the community where it's
like just slot in your analog pocket and it works.
Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Condolence to stage styles who has like an entire arcade
went up room and yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh yeah. I think that's going to do it
for the news though, Jan Well, let's get to emails. BombCast.
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We're strapped for time. First and last email of the
show comes from Simon from Saskatchewan to your bomcast. I
was wondering what type of facial hair would look the
best on each Giant Bomb member, For example, Backlar with
a pencil mustache or Sean with a soul patch.
Speaker 5: No, no, Sean would be awesome.
Speaker 7: I think that would be powerful.
Speaker 1: Too bad Mike is refusing to give us Mary Blit Smiths.
Maybe Dann er Er or yeah, Jerff can play some
Rudolph for the wee. It's a Mari party like if
that helps what anyway? Hope you guys have a good break.
Merry Christmas, your filthy animals. Simon from Saskatchewan. Thanks Simon,
thank you, thank you so well. You would have to
diet though, yeah, exactly, which is beneath.
Speaker 3: Who would be the kind of like let me triple
the you know the like it's.
Speaker 6: Mike right about the Lemmy, Yes, let me looks cool?
Speaker 1: It does on. Let me know if I can do it.
He's dead if you do it careful. I liked when
I had the mustache.
Speaker 8: Apparently a lot of other people didn't know. You guys
are all supportive and I love that about you, but.
Speaker 1: Supportive you had just a mustache. Yeah, yeah, it was
not this actual life.
Speaker 8: But one before that, I got chased a mustache like
very I got three am and.
Speaker 1: I liked it. I got to see it. I can't.
Speaker 8: Then I got home and they're like friends that were like, Mike,
you're going to ruin your life if you keep so
serious that like if I kept it, they would have
taken it as a personal insult that I don't trust.
Speaker 4: Facial hair just like comes right back real fast.
Speaker 8: But like you, I would have got if other people
were more welcoming of it in my life, I would
have accepted.
Speaker 1: I've floated it out there. I don't think my girlfriend
would be Dan. I think if you had like a
braid in your beard, it'd be cool.
Speaker 5: Like the split thing, or you just.
Speaker 1: Do it very one braid down the beer one of
these fells for like Lords the Fallen. Yeah, yeah, man,
I don't know, you know. The more that I'm looking
at Sewan, I think he would look good for the
and then he has to wear a beret, okay, just
to make me friend out the chin a lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, kind of a rescue and yeah, okay, not like.
Speaker 1: A Dan where all the beers coming out, just like
the point.
Speaker 6: Of Okay, I want I do want to occasionally curl
my mustache and I let it get a little bit longer,
and that's like it's the weird awkward in between face
that's hard to survive.
Speaker 1: I tried doing that once and then my barber shouts
out to barber Jan, uh it was. It just came
up to me, it's like you're doing too much, because
he was like, you can't do the pomp and a mustache.
Speaker 5: Stop, Mike, Mike and Jan have the best mustache ability.
Speaker 3: I think, like, yeah, to just kind of fill it in,
but the beard. But the mustage. Yours comes in stronger
than mind does. Greb, you got you got a pretty
god musk.
Speaker 1: Ye looking like what that looks about mine?
Speaker 5: Okay, fair enough, I just can.
Speaker 1: I wish I could grow a beard so bad is
just not just patchy?
Speaker 5: Oh okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then like it just looks embarrassing. Yeah, anyway,
that does it For emails, bombcasting on bomb dot com
is email just center emails to boys. What we got
going on the rest of this week? Nothing? Actually, yeah,
maybe something later in the week, but that might be
more pre recorded Jimmy jams because we are pre recording
and we're here at main Gear. Shouts out to our
homies here, uh for letting us use the stew to
get Game of the Year going once again. That will
be dropping Tuesday Thursday, Tuesday Thursday for the next two weeks.
That's right. We got three days of fun categories and
the fourth day we'll be crowning the top ten and
ultimately our Game of the Year boys. Person.
Speaker 8: Yeah, happy holidays, everybody happy indeed, Mike, what Dave honk
is it?
Speaker 1: This is day two? That's wrong? What is going out?
So last night was night one? Today's day one again?
I finished. I think I was trying to get my
did not go into that much.
Speaker 4: I'm the I'm the worst person to answer this, but
I do think today. I know today is the second night,
but it's the first.
Speaker 1: So we're lighting the third candle tonight. Wrong, No, it's
the second candle last night. I'm counting the mother candle. Well,
that's gets lit every night. But no, it stays lit
just like we do here at.
Speaker 7: Baby.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next.
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gi bomb dot com. You can go clean your account transferred.
You go a long and form slash log in, put
your email, hit forgot password to reset your account, and
then you could join in the conversation there. It's it's amazing,
hundreds of people chatting on the forumst Yes, you're twenty
twenty five people talking on the forums.
Speaker 1: We love to see it. Yes.
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on the site.
Speaker 1: Go folks. We will technically not be seeing you next week.
We're going to be going on holiday break, but we've
prepared all the game of your podcast for you. The
thing I'd like everyone to do now is do the
most impressive motion with your hands, that Mike MANAUGHTI demonstrated
for us that I got this microphone.
Speaker 4: We'll see myself over hurt myself.
Speaker 1: That's a lady, all right. I'm gonna sit in his
nuts again. I caught it, I thought