Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday, December sixteenth, twenty twenty five. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Half Birthday, Episode nine and twenty one. We're
Speaker 1: coming to you from main Gear HQ. That's right, we're
Speaker 1: getting ready to record Game of the Year podcast, but
Speaker 1: we couldn't leave you on a Tuesday, oh by yourself
Speaker 1: to grow here joining me as always co captain of
Speaker 1: the ship, Jeff Grubb. I'm happy to be here. Thanks Jan. Also,
Speaker 1: let's just go down the couch. Tallest lad in the room.
Speaker 1: He's ready to fuel up because he's got the canister
Speaker 1: right in front of him. Turba sewn Sean MC.
Speaker 2: I am here in full mind and body and not
Speaker 2: belieguered from my trip at all.
Speaker 1: Fantastic. He took the train all the way up here.
Speaker 1: He was about to just run, but we told him
Speaker 1: just get on the wheels, on the steels. That doesn't
Speaker 1: the chuck. Yeah, I'm not much of a runner. I
Speaker 1: got them flat feet and I'm a big lad. It's
Speaker 1: my first BombCast. Yeah, okay, fantastic, fantastic. Uh working injured today, folks.
Speaker 1: He's such a trooper and constant worker. He'll go out.
Speaker 1: Don't worry with a smile on his face.
Speaker 3: Dan, right, it wasn't injured about an hour ago. But
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 1: that Jeff Backlar speaking into right now whacked Dan in
Speaker 1: the nuts.
Speaker 5: Just fell over, just the emotion.
Speaker 6: Mike saw it, but from a distance, He's like, Dan,
Speaker 6: watch out and there was nothing microphone just right in
Speaker 6: the nerd. So glad I got that workman's comp stuff
Speaker 6: 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,
Speaker 7: 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,
Speaker 3: I would want the permission to last, you know, because
Speaker 3: it is just objectively the funniest thing.
Speaker 1: We've got, the bringer of all things, Bagel the yeasty
Speaker 1: boy himself. Oh, Jeff maclar, that's pretty good, Thanks for
Speaker 1: that chance. I try, I try.
Speaker 4: For just keeping track of who gets injured the most.
Speaker 4: 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,
Speaker 3: the microphone had nothing to do with me a moment,
Speaker 3: all right, saying they're not bothering anyone.
Speaker 6: Your nuts bounce back pretty fast. You were feeling good,
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 6: affected that he was talking about it.
Speaker 1: Shouts out the will running the ones and twos behind
Speaker 1: the scenes over there and last but not least last
Speaker 1: in town up oil games media. He's the cold never
Speaker 1: bothered him anyway, except today, Mike Manatti.
Speaker 8: I think I have some information for everyone because I'm
Speaker 8: kind of getting I was the only when he saw
Speaker 8: the nutshot on Dan, and I'm realizing that people don't
Speaker 8: know exactly everything that happened.
Speaker 1: Jana hit the microphone and knocked it over. Why it
Speaker 1: fell on Dan as I was repositioning the other microphone.
Speaker 1: Wake up, Dad, man, we caught you. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: I never heard on I'm sorry Dan, Hey, ghost Dog,
Speaker 3: it was an accident.
Speaker 1: I understand d thank you, thank you. I don't think
Speaker 1: I introduced myself. I'm a Jan ghost Dog, Gachola and boys.
Speaker 1: We got a This is gonna be a very small
Speaker 1: short app because we got some pods to record today. Uh.
Speaker 1: The first thing I want to talk about, though, how
Speaker 1: smooth was everyone's travel, no.
Speaker 5: Problems God all time or bad travel day. Sean and
Speaker 5: I definitely had it the worst.
Speaker 3: We wound up at the same airport for several hours
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: keeping everyone back. But like I was on three different
Speaker 3: planes boarded when it got canceled for different reasons. There
Speaker 3: was a weather one. There was one where right before takeoff,
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: where they liked, They're like, oops, we put you on
Speaker 3: the wrong plane. There's crosswinds, this plane is too small
Speaker 3: for that. So we got swap me do a new plan,
Speaker 3: but we're gonna take you off right away. And then
Speaker 3: that one had to go back to so literally like
Speaker 3: an entire day spent at the airport.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also had mechanical issues with mine, where they were
Speaker 2: just like, yeah, one of our radars just doesn't work
Speaker 2: and we need to get that sorted. And we were
Speaker 2: just on the tarmac for like two hours. It's negative
Speaker 2: three degrees in Wisconsin, and they're like, yeah, we need
Speaker 2: to turn the plane off for a little bit while
Speaker 2: we reboot the computers. And then it all ended with yeah,
Speaker 2: we need a road team to drive two hours here
Speaker 2: to fix the radar. So then I had to get
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 8: I got here last, mine was canceled well before I
Speaker 8: 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
Speaker 8: 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
Speaker 6: past when I would get there.
Speaker 1: And it worked out.
Speaker 3: Sean and I got here, got to the airbnb at
Speaker 3: two thirty in the morning last night.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and here we are like a baby already. It
Speaker 7: was so warm down there at a space heater. Oh,
Speaker 7: I made your bed, Sean. I appreciate that he was already.
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 6: is on the top floor and then the bottom floors
Speaker 6: are frigid no matter what happens up there. So the
Speaker 6: heater was basically running all night at like somewhere between
Speaker 6: seventy five to eighty and pro long time it was
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 1: open a window.
Speaker 5: Yep, it was fine. The covers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I made the pro move because I was thinking like,
Speaker 1: I'm really hungry. So I hit the door dash on
Speaker 1: the way to the uber, and then I panicked a
Speaker 1: little bit that it was no longer in the front porch,
Speaker 1: and then someone kindly brought it in.
Speaker 6: I like Jan's here and opened the door and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 5: six pack of nugget.
Speaker 1: Trick that was ominous. Damn.
Speaker 2: We just like there's one light on in the kitchen
Speaker 2: 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,
Speaker 3: you know, a play, like someone trying to trap me.
Speaker 1: I should have left a note because they gave me
Speaker 1: like there was like a buy one, get one free,
Speaker 1: and I didn't want that many nugs, so I should
Speaker 1: have put a note. I'm sorry. It felt implied.
Speaker 6: They were just coming in from a long day, they
Speaker 6: were in a vulnerable state, so they didn't trust it.
Speaker 1: You ordered more nugs, Well, there was a ten and
Speaker 1: then there was like, hey, if you want an extra ten,
Speaker 1: We'll just give this to you for free.
Speaker 3: Can we door dash a bunch of those new rolled
Speaker 3: stick Peblano kiss? And I'm talking about this because we're
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 5: can see whatever you one like.
Speaker 1: That's the saying. Actually, I think calories definitely count on
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 1: everyone that said, Hi, hung out for a bit. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you'll know this. Barrett Courtney from
Speaker 1: Kind of Funny, I fox with him. I still don't
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 1: nice things to say, thank you for congratulating, congratulating all
Speaker 1: of us on the independence. Also may just say it
Speaker 1: was really weird for me because I'm used to hang
Speaker 1: out with you all all the time. That was very weird, Uh,
Speaker 1: not hanging out with my forty year old dudes, and
Speaker 1: that everyone is so young and constantly just wants to
Speaker 1: stay out And I'm like, and then I was a
Speaker 1: little buzzball fairy. But the thing I want to talk about, sorry,
Speaker 1: is at the Game Awards, We're all at the hotel
Speaker 1: lobby common thing, and a gentleman approaches me, very excited
Speaker 1: to see me, and I assumed he was a community
Speaker 1: member of the website or who works in the industry,
Speaker 1: and it was like, Jan, Jan, do you remember me?
Speaker 1: I'm so and so, and I remember him last year
Speaker 1: because him and his posse last year very excited to
Speaker 1: see me, and we're talking, we're catching up and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to remember now and I was remembering that last year.
Speaker 1: He never said my name as Jan, and he never
Speaker 1: said giant bomb. And then he said something that made
Speaker 1: a click even further that I don't think he thinks
Speaker 1: he's talking to the right person, because he was like, oh, dude,
Speaker 1: like love every thing you're working on. Loved you a
Speaker 1: MythBusters grant close. Uh uh, love that you're staying booked
Speaker 1: and busy. And then it was like me, booked and
Speaker 1: busy is something you say to like an actor, and
Speaker 1: I am not yet. And then he was He asked
Speaker 1: me like, hey, like, I want to follow you on Instagram,
Speaker 1: Like I don't use Instagram that much. Uh Like if
Speaker 1: I follow you there, we followed me back and we'll chat.
Speaker 1: I'm like, heyeah, okay, okay, sure, sure, sure sure. He
Speaker 1: pulls his phone out, goes to the search and then
Speaker 1: he starts typing, oh yeah young. Yeah. For those of
Speaker 1: you don't know, Yong Yah is the English voice actor
Speaker 1: for Cure You in Yacht Oh you thought you were
Speaker 1: in that guy? Wow?
Speaker 8: The YouTuber and oh my god, no whoa He said
Speaker 8: he's a chipmunk man and God.
Speaker 1: Of war rangaras. Yeah, and then I tell him, now
Speaker 1: go ahead, hit hit follow, hit follow, I'll follow you back.
Speaker 1: That's the way. But but how was watching the game
Speaker 1: boards at home for you all? Yeah? Good? That was good.
Speaker 1: Larryan scarred us. They made up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was fine.
Speaker 8: They did a mega man that was exciting. I was
Speaker 8: very happy about Mega Man. I saw the clip afterwards. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and there is a new nicely Old Republic kind of game.
Speaker 8: So we got a fast tracked Joe Tour. Oh yeah, true, yeah,
Speaker 8: we got to do that. There's gonna be a pod
Speaker 8: racing game, well racing game, and all the stars are here.
Speaker 8: It's not just pot race. We've got land speeders and
Speaker 8: the bikes and Hope to Buba hopefully all the vehicles
Speaker 8: from Star Wars Demolition on the PlayStation.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well, they made that bad Bubba Fetcha where he rides
Speaker 8: a rink corps, just like in that game. So maybe
Speaker 8: you just ride a rink corps on this thing. There
Speaker 8: are horses in that one movie. Maybe you can ride
Speaker 8: a horse.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, so the Last Jedi the Gambling Horse. Yeah,
Speaker 7: that was a bad part of the movie.
Speaker 6: They ride the they ride the space horses on a
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 8: Gungan was on.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 1: You're talking about he's a cheriot or whatever. It sounds
Speaker 1: like an animal. He's like, yeah, yeah, I think one
Speaker 1: of those things.
Speaker 9: Yeah, looked like I got you. There's like some implications
Speaker 9: that's a problematic. Yeah, there's nothing problematic. Those are the ride.
Speaker 9: Don't talk to them.
Speaker 1: Contrary to popular belief, it was not me wooing whenever
Speaker 1: Cody Roads came up on stage. I'm never gonna back
Speaker 1: like okay. So also I understand people got to work
Speaker 1: during the show Homegirl next to me, brightest laptop screen, typing,
Speaker 1: the whole weird. And then I'm like they're trying to
Speaker 1: build some atmosphere and everything, especially with the Divinity trailer
Speaker 1: and presentation. Meanwhile, just like shine bright and white, Well,
Speaker 1: why you just turned on the brightness?
Speaker 3: I don't get Well, if you're doing an article or
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 1: does suck. Yeah, because like.
Speaker 8: There's a time where it's like I want to go
Speaker 8: to the show and I know I have to work,
Speaker 8: 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,
Speaker 8: I very quick was like, I'm not going to the
Speaker 8: show if I have to write any.
Speaker 1: But also based off of where I was sitting, my
Speaker 1: assumption is if you want it to work on the show.
Speaker 1: And also there's the the seats cost money, Yeah right,
Speaker 1: so might not get a cheaper seat and be less
Speaker 1: I don't know, visible or in the way. Also, that
Speaker 1: ship was loud, y'all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I felt bad. I should have told you to
Speaker 4: bring your plugs.
Speaker 5: Did you pee at any point?
Speaker 1: Yes, and it took me a very long time to
Speaker 1: get back to your coral and yeah. Yeah. So it's
Speaker 1: weird though, because they have a whole separate long as
Speaker 1: line for people to fill in as seat fillers, Yet
Speaker 1: no one filled any seats around me. Oh weird, Like
Speaker 1: there was a whole section that was empty next to
Speaker 1: me that never got filled up or whatever, And so.
Speaker 6: They didn't cut to the audience that frequently. It never
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 7: like filling seats if hey, yeah.
Speaker 1: Because that's what the Oscars do. Did you meet miss Piggy?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Mike, despite all these wrestlers showing
Speaker 1: up and all these actors, the person who was most
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: All right, Uh, we're not going to talk about games
Speaker 1: today because we're going to be locked in this room
Speaker 1: talking about games for quite a while. But Jeff Grub,
Speaker 1: do you have any news I do just real quick,
Speaker 1: Mike dispatch? Uh huh? I like Dispatch? Yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that. It was like like I played.
Speaker 8: Like the first four episodes like Okay, once the day,
Speaker 8: I'll do an episode, then the last four episodes like
Speaker 8: I'm just gonna do all this right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah nice? Uh? I really That's not usually my style
Speaker 1: of game.
Speaker 8: I think the dispatching was a bit more gameplay for me.
Speaker 8: Like if it was just the dialogue options and the
Speaker 8: 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,
Speaker 1: did you like the hacking. I do.
Speaker 8: I'm a sick of for hacking. I like to do
Speaker 8: 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
Speaker 8: the hacking is stupid.
Speaker 2: Well, the hacking is cool because at a certain point
Speaker 2: you can fight back against like the traps that are
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 8: going to lose a hacking thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the great thing about the gameplay of
Speaker 2: Dispatches that they do escalate it, and there's fun twists
Speaker 2: that you don't necessarily expect from it. The way that
Speaker 2: weaves into the story and everything, it makes it feel
Speaker 2: like more of a video game than some of those
Speaker 2: games have in the past.
Speaker 1: And I swear I'm not going to do like every
Speaker 1: single did you do this or that? Did anyone here
Speaker 1: kick Sonar out? For sure? Ye sucks dude. No, he's
Speaker 1: a goody little free He's a cryptos in a way.
Speaker 1: That's like, I like, I liked them a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I felt bad.
Speaker 7: I kept Lady Batman ruled rules, they kept Sonar I kept,
Speaker 7: so I like I liked Coop.
Speaker 8: Also, I kind of I kind of want to be like,
Speaker 8: I don't think we should cut anybody. Actually, I think
Speaker 8: 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
Speaker 1: ready to go? Yeah, dude, I'm ready. No, you look
Speaker 1: like you were in a den of iniquity right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means, and I don't know
Speaker 1: what you want. It's not like I have a home studio, Jan, Yes,
Speaker 1: you do. The computers that main Gear built for us
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I guess I have a fan on. Well,
Speaker 6: it's hot, I'm not going to turn that off. Let
Speaker 6: me just hit this right here. Is that any better?
Speaker 1: Jan? Much better? We can clean up your shot with
Speaker 1: auto frame and video noise removal and grub. You can
Speaker 1: even make it look like you were paying attention using
Speaker 1: the eye contact tool, so I could still watch my stories, Yes,
Speaker 1: yes you can. Nvidia Broadcasts is a universal place that
Speaker 1: works with most live streaming, voice chat, and video conferencing apps.
Speaker 1: It's supported on any n Video, g Force ArtX GPU,
Speaker 1: And since I'm using the Nvidia Studio drivers, I'll get stable,
Speaker 1: optimized performance in Adobe Photoshop, Da Vinci resolved in all
Speaker 1: the other apps that I need to use to fix
Speaker 1: our mistakes in post. You know what.
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Speaker 1: Jan, I'm not even looking at the camera at all
Speaker 1: right now, Grub stop stop looking at me. I haven't
Speaker 1: looked at you forever.
Speaker 6: So the Game Awards happened, Mike talked about a lot
Speaker 6: of the big ones already here there a second, and
Speaker 6: if you want a full breakdown of what happened in
Speaker 6: the Game Awards, we're not doing it here.
Speaker 1: We did that on Game as Mornings on Friday. Go
Speaker 1: listen to that. But there were a.
Speaker 6: Couple things since then. I don't know if we mentioned
Speaker 6: it during the show. We might have talked about it
Speaker 6: in the post show, Mike. The Mega Man trailer did
Speaker 6: have Proto Man's whistle in it, and that's got the
Speaker 6: people talking.
Speaker 1: Literally that's Proto Man's music.
Speaker 6: Yes, literally, I guess real quick how you feel about
Speaker 6: that game right now, Mike.
Speaker 8: I'm excited, Like again, with that build up, there's a
Speaker 8: part of me that thought that maybe this was going
Speaker 8: to be a little bit of a bigger swing than
Speaker 8: just another two D Metro Mega Man game, And like
Speaker 8: you know, of course, that's when Mega Man has been
Speaker 8: his best for me. I do like legends, but yeah,
Speaker 8: I love classic Mega Man, so just getting another one
Speaker 8: of those is still exciting. I do hope there is
Speaker 8: a little bit something here. Maybe that little something is
Speaker 8: two player co op Mega Man and Proto Man, And
Speaker 8: I like Proto Man's a character, a ton you can
Speaker 8: even do other characters. You can do a bass or
Speaker 8: whatever else you want to do there. You can bring
Speaker 8: roll in, make her playable.
Speaker 2: That would make the name make more sense because dual
Speaker 2: override if they're just bringing back the double gears, so
Speaker 2: something that doesn't seem like something win emphasis.
Speaker 1: I think Double Gear was good for eleven. That one game.
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 8: the eleven and twelve art style and graphics, and I'm like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 8: this is a noticeable improvement, especially the Mega Man model,
Speaker 8: which was kind of lanky and weird looking at eleven.
Speaker 2: Like eleven is clearly the base, and then they just
Speaker 2: sort of like, you know, really dialed it in for
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 8: Hunter again over just playing.
Speaker 5: X for sure.
Speaker 1: At this point, Mike, did you ever like the Mega
Speaker 1: Man zero games? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, they're great. Meg Man
Speaker 1: zero three is a top tier Mega Ya typically zero
Speaker 1: games are fantastic. I like to see X ones as well.
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 1: all right, all right, Mega Jan right, Mega Legends.
Speaker 7: You've got like five shows qued up with your name
Speaker 7: 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,
Speaker 1: this will be fun. There you go, bec wh where
Speaker 1: you can ask Mike something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, why why is that like the only game that
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 8: Mega Man. Oh that will be the fortieth.
Speaker 6: And they have to have time to do their contest
Speaker 6: where people can write in and yes, oh yeah you
Speaker 6: guys miss this oh ye yeah big wait cle clear space,
Speaker 6: Mike you're big announced.
Speaker 8: I did announce my eligibility and my entering the Mega
Speaker 8: 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
Speaker 8: for like Nintendo Power on the NY So I'm constantly
Speaker 8: thinking about it right now.
Speaker 1: I mean I am in the idea phase. You're announcing
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 8: to design a robot master some minute. And uh I
Speaker 8: have an idea right now, what if like there was
Speaker 8: a Stone Man, what if that he was some kind
Speaker 8: of like rock based and I me and he was rock.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good. Yeah, I love that, Mike. Honestly, you
Speaker 1: should be like a music man. They haven't got too
Speaker 1: many music ones. Actually, yeah, there might be something there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Piano man man, piano man. Yeah. I still have to
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 4: saw in Nintendo Power all the submissions and then I
Speaker 4: wrote back, which was probably like six months after they
Speaker 4: even did the thing, and I.
Speaker 9: Was like, I forgot here's do you imagine They're like, like,
Speaker 9: stop pretting.
Speaker 4: I got such a such a pity letter of like,
Speaker 4: oh you sweet idiot.
Speaker 1: No, it was typed, but it was definitely like a
Speaker 1: person Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I kind of who knows if I can even
Speaker 4: salvage that to find it, but it was it felt
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 4: Capcom though.
Speaker 2: A little thing that I don't think was shown during
Speaker 2: the show, at least I don't remember it, because you know,
Speaker 2: they annow switched to version of Pragmata, and you know
Speaker 2: recently they Annow switched to version of are E nine.
Speaker 2: Both games are getting amibo, and so Pragmata is ganging Diana,
Speaker 2: which I guess that makes sense that the kid, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: the kid, and then r E nine is gang Uh
Speaker 2: what's Ashcroft think, Grace Ashcroft Amba. I'm like Capcom is
Speaker 2: really the only ones I was having Nintendo supporting that
Speaker 2: this way, because.
Speaker 8: You can't believe people were trying to say that prag
Speaker 8: Model was secretly a Mega Man game. Yeah, you were
Speaker 8: out there on the front line trying to stop these
Speaker 8: people stupid, and now we have like actually Megama and
Speaker 8: games of course they weren't doing that, but people just
Speaker 8: 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
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 1: need to get into it, but it seems really what's
Speaker 1: going on. Keep I haven't had a time to check out,
Speaker 1: but I'm super excited when we get it. I want
Speaker 1: to hear what you think.
Speaker 8: Yes, not the pivot too hard, but still Game Awards.
Speaker 8: It sounds like it does sound like Fay the Old Republic.
Speaker 8: It's not going to be coming out this decade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's literally the story that I was going
Speaker 1: to bring up.
Speaker 6: So that was the rumor, and Casey Hudson came out
Speaker 6: 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,
Speaker 6: he just came out and said it. But you know,
Speaker 6: how much can you trust anyone who's making the game
Speaker 6: 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,
Speaker 6: when you talk to people in the industry, they're like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean everyone just thinks of him as the mass
Speaker 6: effect and kotor guy and fair enough, but it's not
Speaker 6: that much since Anthem, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's possible this game does not come out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it probably still comes out before the Chronic Dream one.
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 6: 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,
Speaker 1: oh wait, they paid the most, that's the thing.
Speaker 6: Like I'm assed around a little bit and it's like
Speaker 6: maybe they paid, but it is a team that's self publishing,
Speaker 6: and it's there's not like there's some ten cent behind
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 6: a slight sci fi fantasy.
Speaker 1: I mean you said it, Immortals of Avian. It's mixed
Speaker 1: with concord Is.
Speaker 6: It's like to dislike ratio is one to ten, it's
Speaker 6: one like for every ten dislikes, which is very similar
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 6: is it is free to play suppose what Concord had,
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 6: to like I feel bad, Like I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think we should like, you know, celebrate, like
Speaker 1: the game's not for me. I'm looking at the game.
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 6: 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,
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 8: game has lu him Outye, maybe it's going to be
Speaker 8: a big hit. Yeah, but like putting a game like
Speaker 8: this in that last lot is kind of setting it
Speaker 8: up for failing exactly.
Speaker 6: That's the one thing everyone's taken away is like it
Speaker 6: might have been a lot better had they not been.
Speaker 1: The one last thing at least all the heat would
Speaker 1: not have been on it.
Speaker 4: I also wonder like what the editorial sort of like, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, consideration of all that is too right, where
Speaker 4: like a Kelly, you know, it's like, oh, is this
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 8: like well, like you know, people made a Picks Legends
Speaker 8: that was a big hit, right, So yeah.
Speaker 6: And the game's out in six weeks at that, right,
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 7: a thing at all if that guy had a different haircut.
Speaker 7: I don't know. I think it's their character. On the
Speaker 7: main character, it is very like the quaff and it's
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: fantasy like sword and board type thing and then then
Speaker 7: you slap that on there, I don't know it.
Speaker 2: I feel like Killy was trying to lean into the
Speaker 2: whole smaller teams, more independent stuff. So do you think
Speaker 2: that was a decision to say, hey, let's have this
Speaker 2: smaller team's game be are one last thing to try
Speaker 2: to like say that we are also behind this, and.
Speaker 6: It's just hard to see the forest for the trees
Speaker 6: when you are in that position of like we are
Speaker 6: doing a favor for this game that we all are,
Speaker 6: we believe in. We like I'm Jeff Kelly, I saw
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 6: like what the expectations will mean for that game when
Speaker 6: the game is the one last thing. Yeah, just it's
Speaker 6: so easy not to think about.
Speaker 1: It's just like boy like Fad the Old Republic Divinity
Speaker 1: would have done so much better, and that's I think
Speaker 1: the Leon reveal would have killed as like the last
Speaker 1: thing there's tomb Raider, right, Yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: could have closed out that.
Speaker 8: I guess the one thing that we knew it was comings.
Speaker 8: Maybe like that wouldn't be exciting enough. It's something nobody
Speaker 8: wants to see coming.
Speaker 2: I think Fate would have a great final one, yeah,
Speaker 2: because like that lineage of games isn't necessarily my type
Speaker 2: of game, so I didn't really pop off. But like
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 6: means a couple of things. For some of these machines
Speaker 6: that have online connectivity. Oh yeah, uh, they're saying that
Speaker 6: they have the I think they call it the poor
Speaker 6: man's matchmaking that a lot of indie games use, where
Speaker 6: it's like the game is able to keep track of
Speaker 6: the last one hundred people that connected to the game
Speaker 6: their IP addresses, and they like it just looks to
Speaker 6: see if one of those people is online, and so
Speaker 6: like it should continue to function even once it's offline.
Speaker 6: The Infinity table, which I have and my kids really like,
Speaker 6: which is just a big tablet you sit down at
Speaker 6: it's a table. And they made a bunch of games
Speaker 6: for a lot of board games that are real board
Speaker 6: games you could play on here. That one might be
Speaker 6: a little bit more of a question mark of like
Speaker 6: what's going to happen to the services that.
Speaker 1: Provide those games? Would I be able to just get
Speaker 1: them all right now? And we don't really.
Speaker 2: Know, are you specifically talking about the code Mystics ones
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 2: little bit on like this whole what's going on here?
Speaker 2: And they said that their net code does allow like
Speaker 2: direct peer to peer matchmaking. It's just like the server
Speaker 2: makes it better. Yes, the server improves it. This they
Speaker 2: will still have basically what every indie game has that
Speaker 2: stilled catch making.
Speaker 1: Yet trust bumming out though I like r K one up.
Speaker 1: You know it's it's it's a difficult business. It's expensive.
Speaker 1: A few of us are going to have one if
Speaker 1: any of these, Like I had my one misspac Man
Speaker 1: one and I liked.
Speaker 8: Having that, and you know, kids will come over, they
Speaker 8: would play on that. It'd be fun thing to turn
Speaker 8: on at parties. People sometimes just put it on in
Speaker 8: demo mode. It's rough because I bet it had a
Speaker 8: hard time finding ones they hadn't done yet.
Speaker 5: That couldn't all the main ones, I think, But it
Speaker 5: was so cool.
Speaker 8: Like, man, there was a company that just made a
Speaker 8: replicas Simpson's Arcade Machine Home, you know, the Marvel versus
Speaker 8: cap one two before we had the collection. The fact
Speaker 8: that they did.
Speaker 2: That, yeah, it was it was an avenue for these
Speaker 2: games that aren't getting published otherwise because because I know, Greb,
Speaker 2: you talked about this on some game this morning. Is
Speaker 2: like because it's classify as a toy or something like that.
Speaker 2: It's like it makes the licensing easier or something. So
Speaker 2: I think that's why we saw stuff like the Simpsons stuff.
Speaker 2: So it's a little sad to see that the whole
Speaker 2: thing go down.
Speaker 8: I hope, like, I hope this niche gets filled by
Speaker 8: 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
Speaker 6: was like kind of funded by the community where it's
Speaker 6: like just slot in your analog pocket and it works.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Condolence to stage styles who has like an entire arcade
Speaker 3: went up room and yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh yeah. I think that's going to do it
Speaker 1: for the news though, Jan Well, let's get to emails. BombCast.
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Speaker 1: show comes from Simon from Saskatchewan to your bomcast. I
Speaker 1: was wondering what type of facial hair would look the
Speaker 1: best on each Giant Bomb member, For example, Backlar with
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Maybe Dann er Er or yeah, Jerff can play some
Speaker 1: Rudolph for the wee. It's a Mari party like if
Speaker 1: that helps what anyway? Hope you guys have a good break.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, your filthy animals. Simon from Saskatchewan. Thanks Simon,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you so well. You would have to
Speaker 1: diet though, yeah, exactly, which is beneath.
Speaker 3: Who would be the kind of like let me triple
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 1: He's dead if you do it careful. I liked when
Speaker 1: I had the mustache.
Speaker 8: Apparently a lot of other people didn't know. You guys
Speaker 8: are all supportive and I love that about you, but.
Speaker 1: Supportive you had just a mustache. Yeah, yeah, it was
Speaker 1: not this actual life.
Speaker 8: But one before that, I got chased a mustache like
Speaker 8: 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,
Speaker 8: you're going to ruin your life if you keep so
Speaker 8: serious that like if I kept it, they would have
Speaker 8: 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
Speaker 8: were more welcoming of it in my life, I would
Speaker 8: have accepted.
Speaker 1: I've floated it out there. I don't think my girlfriend
Speaker 1: would be Dan. I think if you had like a
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 1: these fells for like Lords the Fallen. Yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know. The more that I'm looking
Speaker 1: at Sewan, I think he would look good for the
Speaker 1: and then he has to wear a beret, okay, just
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 1: the point.
Speaker 6: Of Okay, I want I do want to occasionally curl
Speaker 6: my mustache and I let it get a little bit longer,
Speaker 6: and that's like it's the weird awkward in between face
Speaker 6: that's hard to survive.
Speaker 1: I tried doing that once and then my barber shouts
Speaker 1: out to barber Jan, uh it was. It just came
Speaker 1: up to me, it's like you're doing too much, because
Speaker 1: 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,
Speaker 3: but the beard. But the mustage. Yours comes in stronger
Speaker 3: than mind does. Greb, you got you got a pretty
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 1: just not just patchy?
Speaker 5: Oh okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then like it just looks embarrassing. Yeah, anyway,
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Speaker 1: maybe something later in the week, but that might be
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Speaker 1: the fourth day we'll be crowning the top ten and
Speaker 1: ultimately our Game of the Year boys. Person.
Speaker 8: Yeah, happy holidays, everybody happy indeed, Mike, what Dave honk
Speaker 8: is it?
Speaker 1: This is day two? That's wrong? What is going out?
Speaker 1: So last night was night one? Today's day one again?
Speaker 1: I finished. I think I was trying to get my
Speaker 1: did not go into that much.
Speaker 4: I'm the I'm the worst person to answer this, but
Speaker 4: I do think today. I know today is the second night,
Speaker 4: but it's the first.
Speaker 1: So we're lighting the third candle tonight. Wrong, No, it's
Speaker 1: the second candle last night. I'm counting the mother candle. Well,
Speaker 1: that's gets lit every night. But no, it stays lit
Speaker 1: just like we do here at.
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Speaker 4: We'll see myself over hurt myself.
Speaker 1: That's a lady, all right. I'm gonna sit in his
Speaker 1: nuts again. I caught it, I thought