Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly
video game show here at geek Versus. I'm your host,
dil Wasn't it with me? The t of mnt's Taylor Field.
It's a bit of a tongue twister, but I think
I got it. How are you doing tonight?
Speaker 2: You got it? You got it. I'm doing good. I'm
happy to be here, happy to talk some weekly news
with you on side Quest. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had kind of a fun episode here, a
little impromptu. I'm gonna be talking about a Vowed that's
the new hottest game on the market. I've been playing
much of that, and then we've got some other games.
We've been playing some other random things that are gonna
pop in the mix there. But it should be a
nice and low key episode, so looking forward to all
of that.
Speaker 2: In terms of.
Speaker 1: Plugs, not too much today, join the discord chat with
us about all sorts of stuff. Hit up the Patreonic,
get episodes early and ad free And I don't know
what kind of things are on the feed these days, Taylor.
I feel like I'm a little out of the out
of the loop. What's going on, what's releasing this week?
Speaker 2: What is released in this week. We got Daredevil's season
three retch that me kurkly did on the weekend that
dropped on the very night Treon. But I'll be dropping
the public feeds later this week, just in time. Also
with we got a lot of news that's going to
be covered this week and or trailer, lots of DCU news,
Dared Neville, Born Again predictions. That's all in the news
at some point this week, so stay tuned for that.
And what do we got? We finished Spider Man, we
finished Dexter Original Sin. Trying to think we got any
movies around the corner. We did a Captain America Brave
New World review. So I think things review wise are
quiet right now until we get to and or and
what else. I know, there's some stuff creeping around the corner.
I just for now that that was a great breakdown.
Speaker 1: I could have named half of those things. But yeah,
so go check out all that stuff, subscribe, you know,
do all that good stuff. Let's get right into it
here with a I always like to share the odd
curiosities that I just learned about video games that I
never knew about. Here's one, Taylor, have you ever heard
of the game Fortune Street?
Speaker 2: No? No, I have not. This was on the Wii,
and it was a.
Speaker 1: Sequel to a game that was called ID Techie Street DS,
which was a DS or a Japan only version of
a similar game. But it's like a Monopoly kind of game,
Like I don't think it's quite like Mario Party and
that there's I don't think there's mini games, but it's
kind of like Monopoly, but with Mario characters and dragon
Quest characters just like randomly acrossover for the between those
two worlds, and maybe some other Square Enix stuff in there,
but like mostly I think just dragon Quest and Mario,
which is so bizarre and like I feel like as
diehard Mario Party fans. When I learned about that, I
was like, what where this game exists? I feel like
I've never seen this box art, never seen it mentioned anywhere,
but it feels like something that I would have rented from,
you know, Blockbuster back in the day. So I was
very shocked to learn about this last week.
Speaker 2: And this is on the Wii and the WU.
Speaker 1: I think it's on the Wii, and then the first
one is on the DS. But like I said, the
first one was only in Japan, whereas this one seemed
the second one Fortune Street released everywhere, but yeah.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was funny too just thinking about it, because you know,
eventually Dragon Quest with the with hero got into Smash
as one of the playable characters, and that feels like,
oh cool, the big a big crossover event like this,
but like, oh, there was this crossover between Mario Dragon
Quest stuff like way back in like the mid early
two thousands. So kind of just a fun a fun
weird thing to go back on. So I don't know,
I kind of want to find a copy of this
thing and like pop it in sometime on a stream
or something. Could be a fun fun thing to check out,
like because I know, you know, Travis obviously loves his Monopoly.
We always like to do a Mario party thing. This
could be a fun weird thing. But like I said,
I've never seen it in the wild before, and I'm
at the used game stores all the time and I
usually take a quick look through the Wei games, so
off to see if I can find a copy of
this bad Boy.
Speaker 2: There's a I see one copy on eBay Okay only
forty eight bucks and that's the shipping is twenty two
to seventy nine. If you can only find one copy,
but it's only forty that's like not too bad. Usually
if you don't see one of something, it's ridiculously expensive.
That's right. Yeah, but also like wow, Yeah, the roster
of characters is pretty big. I mean, Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong, Bowser,
Junior Bowser, Toad Wallawiji. Yeah, that's who's the weirdest Mario
character in there?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 2: Who's the deepest cut the deepest cut? Ah? Or is
it pretty surface level? I think they're all very familiar characters.
I mean, okay, the weirdest one would be burdoh probably, but.
Speaker 1: Okay, they don't have a yeah, piranha plant or like
a no no, a guy that burrows underground. Then I
forget the name of it.
Speaker 2: There's four mystery like unlockable characters here. Let me see
what those are.
Speaker 1: Oh and then yeah, it looks like the Dragon Quest
roster of it is pretty huge. And I don't really
know those characters well, but you have you know, regular
human NPC type characters, but then also some freaks, as
Dragon Quest always has.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we got todet, we got the key to Okay,
so those are the two hidden ones and then Dragon Quest,
we've got Slime Bianca Angelo, Jessica Putting, Alina Kuril Yangis
Hassan dragon Lord, platty punk heel, slime, dancing Jewels, and Stella.
I love that.
Speaker 1: Always some good freaks in the world of dragon Quest.
But anyway, yeah, go check out Fortune Streak. I'm just
very I always love learning about just strange things like
this that somehow escaped my my radar. But anyway, that
was the thing. And then other thing I wanted to
ask you about is later this week is obviously we're
going to miss it for this week. Side quest is
that they're doing another Pokemon Presents on the twenty seventh here.
I don't know if you have you seen have you
seen Pokemon Day?
Speaker 2: I believe right, it's a whole shin dig.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you expect from that? Do you think
anything big is gonna come out of that?
Speaker 2: Uh? Well, my hope is that we get well, I
want to see some some new card stuff revealed, like interesting.
I'm hoping that we get a little bit more insight
onto this this team rocket kind of set that might be.
Speaker 1: Do they don't really do that stuff in their presentations
as well? I don't really watch that. I have to
just catch the Highway Idea video.
Speaker 2: I got no idea. This is kind of like the
first time really kind of paying attention for what kind
of card stuff might be popping off with Pokemon DIY
because I feel like I haven't been really there, uh
watching what they kind of do. But game wise, I'm
definitely hoping for something to be like the next gen Pokemon, like,
I uh, something away from Scarlett and Violet, something a
bit better than those two games. So we'll see, We'll
see what they do. Yeah, I feel like it.
Speaker 1: Would probably be a Pokemon Legends z A I would
think would be the big, big one. Yeah, And what
do you think, like, is that kind of like Archaeas
in the is that because it obviously in the Legends
following that Legends and naming scheme, So do you think
it will be kind of like an Archaea situation, like
a sequel Arcia.
Speaker 2: That's what I kind of thought it was going to
be doing. And yeah, I think it's great. And at
the end of the day, if they put out a
game like that, that's fantastic. I haven't played Archais yet
and I want to get into it. I want to
try it out. But man, I miss Pokemon being a
little bit more point a to Z. It's just really
I think the the idea and the narrative being very
open and widespread is very cool and very fitting for Pokemon.
But every so often, when I pop in that Sapphire,
I pop in that Pokemon Platinum, it's like, Man, this
linear story, We're going to different towns in this cohesive,
straightforward narrative. It's just that's for me peak Pokemon. I
really miss that in these newer ones. It's just it's overwhelming.
You got everywhere you can go, which is fitting and
it's cool for Pokemon. But yeah, I digress.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. Yeah, I feel like a lot of people
are pretty happy with that that direction for it. Yeah,
I feel like a lot people are pretty excited to
just have Pokemon like in the overworld, rather than just
having like to run into them into like a bush
or something like that.
Speaker 2: I wish I was younger than I'd enjoy it more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you had more time, I feel like that
is maybe the big difference is that it takes longer
potentially to get through these things. Yeah, so I'm curious
to see what happens there. I don't think we'll get
the next like mainline gen situation here. I feel like
they're probably gonna focus on legends, get some more info
out about that, because I also feel like that next
one is probably going to be a bait, like they're
probably gonna mainly try and sell it on switch To.
I'm guessing it's gonna be a cross gen situation anyway,
and they'll put it on Switch one, even though Scarleton
Violet was like just barely squeaking by. But I just
feel like for the sales of it, they'll probably do.
Speaker 2: It that way.
Speaker 1: But I feel like they probably don't want to do
that before like the switch To. Yes, it has been
unveiled now, but like we don't really know much about it,
and they technically haven't announced any games for it yet.
I don't think maybe some developers are starting to like
spill the beans a little bit of like yeah, we'll
be on switch To that kind of stuff, but I
don't know. I don't think this would be the opportunity
to do that. I think they might hold off a
little bit, so I think it'll be ZA. And then
I saw that there was a potentially leak of like
a multiplayer thing, so I don't think there's much more
info on it other than like another multiplayery thing, which
makes sense because the Unite was like, what three or
four years ago. Now, I feel like, so maybe it's
a good time to get a new one of those out.
Speaker 2: I don't even know.
Speaker 1: Is Unite still getting like updates the new characters and whatnot,
or is it kind of just did they drop it
at some point, I'm not too sure.
Speaker 2: Every so often I see it getting a few a
couple of new updates. There's one more that was also
getting Oh I can't remember what it's called, but I
feel like I feel like Pocket definitely kind of took
over the like the spotlight from it. So yeah, maybe
that was probably Unite kind of got shafted a bit
with the release of Pocket. Pocket's just taken all the
attention away. I'd say, yeah, are you still playing it
every day? I still play it probably every second day.
They've they've released some cool new some new packs.
Speaker 1: I can't remember what it's called, Like, is it going
into the later gens or is it just like other
alternate art of the earlier stuff. It's yeah, so it's
providing of some of the other generations and then some
alt arts for cards that we already have.
Speaker 2: So I've been doing a little bit more battling on there.
It's a lot of fun and just collecting more more
very cool full art illustrations. There's lots of really cool
ones in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool. Some of the full art stuff is
really sweet. I was watching a couple like I'm not
really want to seek out like Pokemon pack opening videos
and stuff, but a couple of the content creators that
I already tune into like did stuff like that recently,
So I was watching some of those and yeah, just
seeing some of the you know, I only have like
the original cards with like the very basic art compared
to some of the stuff they do now. So it's
cool to see all that fun stuff. Are you are
you buying packs like in person these days at all
or are you just in it for the pocket?
Speaker 2: At this point, I'm like, I'm not buying any packs
on pocket. I will refuse to buy with real money
digital Pokemon packs. If I'm dropping money, I'm buying the
physical for sure. Okay. And so that being said, I
open up my two free packs a day, and when
I do my challenges I'll get some extra packs that
I can open to and so that's a lot of fun.
But buying physical cards. The last ones I would have
got were some Prismatic Evolutions, and I remember, like the
lineup for that was crazy. It was nuts, like Toys
r Us. The lineup was out the door going far,
but I was like third in lines. I managed to
snag something. Because it's sold out everywhere and so I
haven't opened it yet. I just I have a trainer box,
and I'm just like I'm holding onto my trainer box,
like I don't know if I'm gonna open it or
what I'm gonna do. No, because part of me really
wants to pull the the umbry on. It's just it's
such a it's such a cool card, and I want that.
That's you should do live stream. You should do a
live stream unpacking. That'd probably be drive some new traffic
to our YouTube channel. Maybe that's what I'm thinking. And
you know what, I set up a YouTube channel for
that kind of thing. And so I've got probably like
fifty videos of me opening up different packs YouTube of
like two years not on there. If they haven't been edited,
they're just sitting all in my my hard drive. You
published any of these videos, but the accounts got a sleeper.
You just got a sleeper Pokemon YouTube channel. Ready to go?
Okay pretty much? Yeah? Yeah, so eventually I'll I'll do.
Speaker 1: That when you when you're drop in those what's the
what's the plan there?
Speaker 2: You have fifty videos? Right, I go, well, not ready
to go. I just need to like do some more
editing and get them all like spliced and all that
kind of stuff, and then I'll start pumping them up
and uploading them. It's just lots of videos. Like me
and Madison we go camping out in where do we go?
Salmon Arm? Yeah, we went to Salmon Arm, camping at
this campsite. Like, oh, let's go into town for the day. Sure,
went to this town, a cute little game store, walked
in and I got a couple of Pokemon packs, went
back to the campsite and just I got my camera
and filming me roopping these packs, like oh this is
so cool. I got heat trying all those other ones.
And then I just save that video because it's just
so easy to do, especially when I get home and
I buy a couple of packs. I just set up
my camera and I just opened the packs up underneath
the camera and just save the videos. So I've got
a few things, and yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to check those out. Those are gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: I'm sure cool.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll announce it on geek first and stuff
when you start dropping those. Uh okay, well that anyway,
Yeah that was so. The Pokemon Presents is coming on
February twenty seventh, but we have a Pokemon present for
the listeners right now. Taylor, it is time for the
Gen two quiz. You said you could do it. Oh man,
I wanted to cut you off guard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted to cut you off guard. Study.
Speaker 1: I want to go off the cuff here, and I
want you to see how many of these Gen to
freaks you can name. So if you have any tabs,
open clothes them. If you have any cards on your desk,
rip them in half. But I've got a list apparently
there's one hundred. And you know you don't have Kirkling
this time, so I don't know how much time I'm
gonna give. We'll just see how this goes. But whenever
you want to kick it off, take it kick away.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So we start with and I can bring up a
visual if you need like some help at some point,
but you know, I'm sure you can just rifle off
a bunch.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we got to start with the starters. We
got chick Garita, sindaquill, I'm not saying that in order,
and I want to say Meganium cause of the three sindequill.
We got typlosion, and then we got f alligator.
Speaker 1: Are you typing something these out down?
Speaker 2: You're in as well? I'm typing a couple.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, just because I I don't know how to
spell these freaks. Once you get so, I'm gonna try
and follow as best I can.
Speaker 2: What else do we got? Oh my goodness, okay, Typlosion, Frilligator, Meganium,
got those ones. But I need to hit Sindequill, Chickorita,
and good lord, I can't I remember the guy's name. Okay,
we will come back to that. Come back to that.
Uh Taurus, I'm pretty sure is a gent two? Isn't
he one? I think he's one? Oh? He has one?
He has one? Who was I thinking of that? Because
I think that the baby pokemon are Gen three? They
weren't brought in here for Gent two. I don't feel
like pseudo voodo. That's a gent two.
Speaker 1: Ses.
Speaker 2: Yes, Caesar, he is gent two, I believe. I think
he's one, isn't he Caesar? No, cyth, there's Gen one.
His evolution is gent to steeleix is Gent two. That's
another one, right, okay, because steel was a new type.
That's right, that's right. Yeah. And then yeah, legendaries. I
guess who do we have? We got ho, we got Luigia,
we got nte, sue kun uh do reiku okay, hot start,
hot start? What else? Oh? That's Gen three? Sorry? Take me?
Speaker 1: Did you get all the starters? We got the starters,
but did you get all the evolutions for all them?
Speaker 2: I did? I did not know total dial that's one
of the other starters. Ah.
Speaker 1: These are really hard to spell. I'm gonna just put
that up there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They don't make it easy, like so you can't
say sick okay. And then we have oh my goodness, no,
that was Gen three. Gen three is bleeding over into
my Gen two here? Who was crow bat to Gen two? Oh?
That's yeah, you got him?
Speaker 1: Ye?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay? And then what else do we got here?
Speaker 1: Is there some other like Gen one people? That got
evolutions that you can think of.
Speaker 2: Yes, hit on Top I'm pretty sure that's another one
from the and then Tyrogue I think as a Gen three.
Isn't he tyrogue? But because there's hit on top and
Gen two, maybe tyrogue is a gentoo as well.
Speaker 1: He's in there. Ty Rogue's in there?
Speaker 2: You got is he really? Oh? My god? It's okay,
So let's see we got oh h there's flaffy and
what what is that evolutionary chain? My goodness, oh god, laffy.
My flaffy should be the pink electric sheep. And there's
an evolution change. There's an evolutionary chain. Yeah, three of them. Okay,
I can't remember that evolutionary chain very well. Okay, let's
just take it easy. Let's just breathe, breathe, breathe. So
we've got those starters. Okay, I'm really not expecting this.
Holy crap yours you were last time? Mm hmm. I
was very confident.
Speaker 1: So give me the legendaries again. You you rifled them
off quickly.
Speaker 2: Ho lugia ante suicun raiku totadal you remind me another one?
Ce that's another one. Guy favorites there that was the
last one on the list. Apparently that was the last
one on the list. Yes, the mew of the list. Ah,
and then who else, Steve, We've got we got Larva Tar, Pupitar,
Tyranna Tar. I'm pretty sure those are Gen two. I
like Tyrannatar a lot. He's cool.
Speaker 1: What was the third one called Tyrannatar? Oh, yeah, he's cool.
I don't know if I've ever seen the second of
that one. I've only ever seen the first and third somehow.
Speaker 2: Okay, Sanitar. And then we got oh, that's the Gen three.
I can't say that one. Ooh u uh uh what oh?
What is that one? What is that one? Uh? Actually
I said earlier those are two more right obviously?
Speaker 1: Is there any other evolutions or just the to you
and that.
Speaker 2: Just and just those two for Gen two? And let's
see here, Ludi cola, that's that's a later one. That's
not this one. Oh, down fan, I want to say,
that's that's like a bore elephant Pokemon. Okay, yeah, I've
seen that guy before. But that's the evolutionary there it
is evolutions, yeah, but I only the one other form.
I don't know what that one is though. Shoot, uh
that that okay, Chickoritas and Nicole mcganny. Difflusion Relligator. Hmmm,
what do I got here?
Speaker 1: Okay, let me know if you want some hints.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm trying to think of the different types because
I don't you know. Okay, let's see here, buy sharp.
That's another generation that's not this one. Ah oh no,
that's probably a Gen five. God damn, you're all over
the place. I am all over the place. GLI score,
gl I score, I think gly I score. And what's
this other name part of this quiz? That's a Gen
three shut of a gun? Yeah, that is a Gen
three Okay, bond slide, Now that's one of the baby
Pokemon from the next gen U. Al Right, I'll take
a hint.
Speaker 1: Okay, there are a few more Gen one people who
got either evolutions or pre pre evolutions. I feel like
those could be some good ones to grab pre.
Speaker 2: Evolutions, not like mine, Junior.
Speaker 1: That can't be a thing in this gen. I'm appy
sure that's later gen that is not part of this gen. Okay,
pre there were some iconic iconic Pokemon Gen one.
Speaker 2: Not pa Chu. That's gotta be a Gen three Pachewe
really the baby Pokemon. Okay, munch lacks, let's just roll
through them. That's not one. Okay, igly puff, you got it. Yep,
that was gen two. O my god, been living a lie.
I thought that was the next gen. It's not much
living alone. And then we got no, no, that's not one.
Speaker 1: There's a couple more that I'm seeing here.
Speaker 2: Hmm, goodness, gracious, a couple more. Eh, at least one
or two more of those. But I can take you
another direction if you want to think on the sure,
sure take me to another direction.
Speaker 1: Who are just the basic ass normal types from this gin?
Can you think of those ones, like the early ones
you'll encounter when you're going through those first batches of
hay and not really hay more grass than he.
Speaker 2: Can you picture those freaks? Well, I know, obviously we
got like a bird one. I'm trying to remember because
we have I know, not not ideal. Oh my god,
oh oh oh knock knocked owl.
Speaker 1: And then what was the what was the first.
Speaker 2: I'll come back to that one. I can't remember what
the first first one is. And then I remember there's
usually some equivalent to the rat. They always got the rat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's definitely a rodent in here, which looks like
there's I'm guessing this is an evolution.
Speaker 2: Can you think of any of the bugs? What I
want to say, like an A dose, I dose, I Montreal,
I I re Ari. Yes, okay, yeah, that's the spider one,
I think, and.
Speaker 1: There's an evolution of that or a pre Yeah, he's green,
he's green, little spider beetle guy uh is it spin.
Speaker 2: Arc spins spinner spinnerac bionicle names relicants. That's the next gen.
I think that's Gen four, reliance three, that's Gen three.
That's not this one. Okay, all right, what else can
I do?
Speaker 1: There's a there's a pokemon whose name is spelled backwards
and what is that palindrome? Right, it's spelled the same
backwards as Yeah. Can you picture that one?
Speaker 2: Mm hm god dang, okay, I don't think I can.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of fish. Can you think of any
fishes fishies in the sea?
Speaker 2: Choo choo no chin chin chin chin chew uh chin
chu is a chin? How do you spell chin? And
then c h o u oh that was in there? Yeah,
that was there. Okay, it's like the little night glowfish thing.
Oh and yeah. Who else is there? There is? Oh oh,
this is where they brought in uh slow King, actually,
isn't it? Yep? Yeah, me and were talking about that. Yeah,
good one. Gore was there, fish ones are there? Pine Co, Pinecco, yeah,
nice pole, and then forest Tress forest Tress. I think.
Speaker 1: In here, I just got to figure how to spell it.
Foresttress might be you got it? Yeah, that's one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm thinking there's another Pokemon that's actually very similar
in design. I feel like to that.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know about pine Co. That's pretty cool though.
Speaker 2: I like that pine Co. Yeah, it's kind of fun.
Is this where I'm not even sure what I know?
His name would be? Licky tongue got an evolution in
this gen? Oh okay, or maybe that was later because
there's licky tongue. Cachleon is definitely next gen. Oh my goodness,
anything on lacky tongue nothing? What would you How would
you spell this? I guess I haven't guessed what the
actual name is. I couldn't really help out with that.
Speaker 1: I don't see it in here, and I'm scrolling around.
There is still a couple of those Gen one freaks,
but it might be hard to find those gen ones.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, oh that's right, because we got the Polly's
and they introduced another evolutions to go poly wrath or
you could go h toad polyte nice one great, and
then we got a grateful we got Oh goodness, gracious,
I know I didn't get all the baby Pokemon, and
I'm really convinced that they were like next gen. But
how well do you think? You know?
Speaker 1: Poka floats in Super Smash Bros? That map you remember that?
Is you remember shocked? Full legend too is? Can you
can you visualize Poka floats? Any any come up to mind?
Speaker 2: Through unknown? Was that in there? Yeah? Okay, okay, this
is how my brain works.
Speaker 1: I gotta like related to something I know much better.
Speaker 2: M hm oh poory gone poor gone too.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's right, gone to. I can't believe they just
called it too. That's hilarious.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then there's I think the next form is
poor gon z. But that's that's a later chat. That's
freaking stuff. And then we have uh, I want to say,
do you want a couple more hints here?
Speaker 1: I'll give you another five minutes to go if you want,
if you want to keep five minutes sure. I'll give
you one quick hint. One that sounds a lot like hemorrhoid,
and I've always found it odd that they named it this.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, it's a ramroid. Is that the fish? And
it has an artillery. It evolves a nice guy. Yeah,
we're moving now. Wait is that an evolution? It's an evolution? Yeah? Yeah.
It always threw me off. I remember trading the cards
that as a kid with that uh baby Pokemon. Oh,
Misty got uh to a P to P in this one,
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: And there's another one iconic one from the anime, a
Team Rocket usage one Team Rocket.
Speaker 2: On the toga pe thing. There's Token Tech. I'm pretty
sure to Tech was Tech or two, but uh a
Team Rocket one. Eh. I think I might be making
this up, But my goodness, I remember they had Carnavine
and that's next gen though that wasn't this one. And
then there's me else. Uh yeah, hackins and wheezing and
all that. Ah, I can't remember what they had here
for them. M oh no, I remember, I remember throw
out all the animes wawats, that's right, good pick. And
then oh what was his pre form?
Speaker 1: Oh? I don't think he has one here actually, but
there's a couple other guys that look a lot like him.
Speaker 2: Why why not? Was his? Yeah, I think that's a
different gen. Different. Okay, there's a big Pokemon from their gen.
Speaker 1: But there is a couple other guys that look very
similar to Wabbafeed Actually was a quick evolution?
Speaker 2: Was electa virus? Not in this is he? That was Jen?
That was next gen? That was Gen four. I think
Elective Fire, but Ella Kid was kid.
Speaker 1: I've literally never heard of Elokate until looking at this
page right now, which he's insane to me, really dirty.
Speaker 2: And then we got who else do we have here?
I'm trying to think, oh mm hmm. There was three forms.
There's mammo swine, which is later, and then pilo swine
and then I don't remember what the first form was.
You got swine, pilo swine and oh, pilo swine and
swine swine ub. Yeah, the mammal swine was the final form.
That's good, nice using that one. And then what else
do we have? Oh? I remember this one, Pokemon go actually,
because this form is usually the tank on most of
the gym's Blissy Blissy from Chancey Blissy. You got it?
And then I already said slow king, I said unknown,
I said, oh, I said, I said no, I already
said Gli score.
Speaker 1: Didn't I that was another gen, different gen?
Speaker 2: And then the previous evolutionary gly gly scar did I
I didn't get that one, right? I guess today Gli
scar or as you said that, Hm, there's glys score.
Speaker 1: Is there another glasscore?
Speaker 2: I thought I had a pre form. Oh okay, I guess, Sorry,
what'd you say? I was calling it gly school scar,
but there's gly score. But I think I was just
getting it wrong.
Speaker 1: Can you remember what that evolves from? Uh?
Speaker 2: I know very he's pink. He looks exactly the same,
but he's just smaller and cuter. Glei tongue, it's it's
a gli. It's a gly word, for sure, it is.
I think on that one. Uh. There there was another
one that was kind of like a cytherether I remember,
and he was blue blue Cither. I remember this because
he's in Pokemon Go, a certain Pokemon or region based
and this one was from oh, hair across, hair across,
but I don't remember which region he's from. That reminds
me though. There was yeh, hair across and then There
was also cross Corrus Corsola Corolla course, because yeah, that
one is from Mexico. If you want to catch him
Pokemon go, I remember, okay. And then there was.
Speaker 1: I remember this this one. He had a paintbrush for
a tail. And the thing was he could copy moves
or no, he could kind of turn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he could copy a move.
Speaker 1: He could transform the tempo technician tempo technician Pokemon or something.
Speaker 2: We're temple technician.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on there.
Speaker 2: Uh my mind keeps thinking Snegel, but it's not Snegel.
It's close to that, though, I would give it to you.
Speaker 1: You give me Sneagel because it's smrgel smeargel right with
the painsh that's right, I'll give that to you.
Speaker 2: I feel like I've hit my five minutes, though you have.
Speaker 1: But you were on a roll there, so what was
I gonna do stop you?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: If you have any other ones that you think you're
on the tip of your tongue, I don't know what
I can do for hints other than.
Speaker 2: Just be like give it away. I know those more
baby ones. Yeah, and I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure
Jink's had one. Ah, I don't see anything that looks
like that. But it's not. It's what is it? Smooch
smooch smooch them? Yeah yeah, Jinks is like pre uh
baby form. I'm pretty sure that's gent two smooth them.
Let me see here. I think I was in there.
I was in there. Okay, nice? What other baby ones
are there? Because yeah, we did peachw we did Igaly buff,
we got smooth him. Why not? It's on in there.
We've got Ella Kid, Togo pee ah, and there was
mag Mar gets another form meg Mortar later on, and
I know they turn into like a three three form evolution. Yeah,
the mag Magpie. I can't be right mag B.
Speaker 1: Mag B meg Bie okay mag be an Ella Kid
and best friends on the on the playground right there.
Speaker 2: Uh goodness, gracious.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna give you thirty more seconds, and I
gotta cut you off because thirty more second we gotta go.
At some point, I feel like I really dropped the
ball on any of these bird poke Come on, Uh
you you so you still don't have the you got? Uh?
Speaker 2: What the heck is this guy called.
Speaker 1: M You got knock towel, but you didn't get the
evolution that gets into that lock towel if you that's
maybe a going to pick up.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm trying to remember what the what it looked like.
I think it had like one foot and it was like,
uh yeah brown and then like red eyes with the
burrow brow of its eyes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna share my screen here, okay, and
you can see how you did here. I'll tell your
what number? How many do you think you got in that?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say I got around thirty. Maybe I'm being
too generous to myself.
Speaker 1: You got fifty, you got half fifty the overall list,
and I don't even know if you wrote down all
these these starters.
Speaker 2: Can you get those?
Speaker 1: Uh so?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's Meganium, which was the yeah yeah, and then
this is a cool app by the way, it's not bad.
Speaker 1: The other one like had a sharp time limit when
you and Kirkland finished last time, then it kind of
messed everything up. But I like this one because it's
nice and visual.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the visual kind of. I like this a lot
more too. There's a lot it's unknown, so Sindequill, which.
Speaker 1: Can have there you can't remember the three Middles, which.
Speaker 2: Is oh, crocodile. That's the second one. For Tota dil
rockin'aw uh bay leaf that's the other one. Uh and
in some way and what was I got to get
the last one? Now? What was his name?
Speaker 1: Sinde quill type flosion and who's that middle freak?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, uh sinde quill typlosion and ah uh Kolava. Oh,
I think that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so long we'll give you a score of fifty
four out of one hundred, which you know, on a
school test that would not be good. But I think here,
I think that's great, especially once again I tried not
to give you any prep or hint that this was
going to happen today. For that you would just be
going off the cuff.
Speaker 2: Here, So I have the thing.
Speaker 1: We can quickly scroll through them so you can well,
hopefully not feel bad, but just to see the freaks
that you miss.
Speaker 2: Centric hoot off for fox sakes, Yeah, hoo hoot. I
you should have had hoot hoot. You know what I mean? God,
some of these other bugs.
Speaker 1: Lady Lady Laden you got the spiders, which is nice.
Speaker 2: Oh, Chinshu had a form lantern. That's right. I totally
forgot about that. You got chin Chu, right, I got
chin shoe, but I didn't get lantern. Uh peach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you eventually got peacha. Klefa is one of those premies.
You forgotten.
Speaker 2: This freak not to Marie and Farrow. That's what they were. Oh,
this amphros is the evolution of that. These are nothing alike.
I know, very different. Oh belossom right, marrow marrow Yeah, jump.
Speaker 1: Pop hop it and bloom a palm oh crud a
palm streaky because there's no evolution, right, so it's just
like not, yeah, there is, there is later, okay, Ambi
palm sun Current's pretty cool, little sunflower seed. I would
have thought you'd get Wooper and Quagsire. I thought those
were kind of.
Speaker 2: Those are poque floats ones too. I remember them now and.
Speaker 1: I feel like those are the ones that I was
talking about. They're kind of like Wabba Fett. I feel like, yeah, yeah,
you're right, it's blue and round. Murcrow is pretty cool.
You didn't get murcrow.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, mischievous misterievous is sweet.
Speaker 1: That was the palindrome one I was talking about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dun sparse, Oh clare, son of a gun, I've
never heard of Snubble and Granble until this moment. Yeah, oh,
quill Fish, it's funny. I was reading, uh reading, Ruben
sent me a video of this guy. He was training
a Quillfish team in Pokemon and had like a perfect
team that knew how to use the move explosion with
perfect evs and so basically they were just like, it's
a very powerful team to contend with. So Quilfish was
on my mind, but I completely forgot about it for
this exam. Shuckle.
Speaker 1: If you're in a gym, If you're in a gym
fight and you use explosion or like self destruct or
whatever and you kill yourself and the opponent, do you
beat that gym or do you.
Speaker 2: Have to no idea. I think you just need to
have us. You need to survive. You can't have your
Pokemon or your Pokemon be fainted.
Speaker 1: Z ursa ring Oh slam god dang.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a cargo of course. Uh Deli Bird Oh
my god, manteene scarbird looks like a Mario character. Yeah,
Pokemon scar rays is cool. One hound or and hound doom. Wow,
I really thought that those were Oh no, later, mighty
nas Jen three fuck that's right. Oh, Kindra was jet yeah,
I did not know about King. That's pretty wild. Oh
my god, you popped in my mind to you o
fan fee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fan Fee Stantler, another basic normal type. You
got tyrogue, hit on top, smoochum. You did really good
to this section.
Speaker 2: Here, oh mill tank of the classic mill.
Speaker 1: Tank, and then you did really good with the ending
bits here, all these legendaries and stuff. Overall, I'm impressed that,
Like considering last time you had Kirklin at your side
and you had like less time, I think here, I
think you did really great, So.
Speaker 2: I'll take it. Thank you for making the question question
what I know? Should I do another Gen with you?
Or is this where the book stops. I would love
to do a Gen three, you know what. I easy
for me to say, I feel so confident.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I'll grab Jessica and you and Jessica can
tag team Agen three or something.
Speaker 2: Maybe that'll a little bit. That sounds awesome.
Speaker 1: Cool, We will do that at some point. But how
about that we take our first break of the show.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Hello, we are back taylor Field this weekend. I know
that you and the boys did some dropping in the
world of Call of Duty with your new teenage meeting
Ninja Turtles costumes.
Speaker 2: How'd that go? Was it fun?
Speaker 1: It was?
Speaker 2: It was pretty good. Actually we managed to get four wins.
They got yes, they went one freeze turtle. They gotta
win because Emily hopped in, so Emily Travis Kirkland did trios.
They got to win, and then I did Emily buy
the skin as well. No, no, we were calling her.
We had the three turtles and then we were calling
her the handler. You know, you got you wanna maybe
that's right. Yeah, so that was that was a lot
of fun. Yeah, we actually got the four wins, and
it was a little rough at the start, but we
managed to kind of like turn things around. Uh, let's
see if I can share this screenshot here so you
can see. I'm just gonna hold my phone hold my
phone up so you can you can kind of see
the boys. There's a yeah, April Emily in the back. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that she's just chilling on the side there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the the packs. I feel bad because some
people that want to get the packs, like you gotta pay,
You gotta pay a fair pretty penny, which is very
unfortunate when you think about it. If you want to
own all the packs.
Speaker 1: So do their hands look weird when you're in first person,
do you like see the freaky hands or do they
have like gloves on and stuff.
Speaker 2: You don't see the hands because they're for the most part,
the guns kind of hide them. But when you are
doing certain things, they do have the hands, right, they
got the hands. They're one hundred percent turtle, so they
got the three fingers. When you are doing fun emotes
with your guns moving around reloading, then you can see
the fingers kind of moving around, like with Donnie He's
flicking around the bow staff and all that. So that's
a lot of fun, right, I guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Normally you can only see like the top half
of the gun, I guess, So that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yes, Now, I don't know how well this will look
on here, but one of our warzone wins because you
can pick up bodies, right, you can take them hostage, right,
So I grabbed this one guy. You can see it
kind of well, actually, so I grabbed them hold on
the hostage. He's the last guy in the game. And
so we're all just in the final circle. And then
the executions, Oh, they're just it's it's super fast, but
the executions are super sick and what else do you
get with the characters? You get emblems, you get all
that kind of stuff. They get the signature weapons, and
then they have certain firearms affiliated with them. So Donald
Tello comes with assault rifle and a sniper rifle. Leonardo
you get the swords obviously, you get assault rifle SMG,
Raphael's assault rifle MG, and then Michelangelo is a marksman
rifle and a SMG, so they'll have their own little type.
Speaker 1: Is there any way that like their their actual regular
weapons are integrated other than the finishing moves.
Speaker 2: Yes, so you can replace. Like with the way it
works now, you can carry two guns and you have
a third one which is your melee knife, your melee weapon,
so you can switch out your guns for whatever, but
you can also switch out the melee knife to be
whatever else you want, like a baseball bat or machety
what are you have unlocked? So that would basically be
like the bulls staff or the katanas which is neat.
So then you just hold down your melee button and
you pull that out and you can just like use
it as your melee weapon, which is pretty cool. Uh,
And yeah, doing doing the different emotes is the characters
is fun and just their voice lines are really really
enjoyable to see, Like there's certain things that they say,
like talking in Call of Duty lingo, but then doing
it with like the Turtle's voiceovers is very funny. It's
very I appreciate it cool. Yeah, so it's it's been
very nostalgic. A Splinter event will be starting soon where
you'll be able to unlock Splinter as a playable operator,
and then some members of the Foot Clan as well.
I already got Shredder because Shredder came out like two
calle of Dude years ago. I'm pretty sure with a
Shika island. Oh it was kind of just him on
his own. Yeah, very weird, but yeah. They've added another
game boll called Cranked TM and T Cranked. So basically
it's zombies that you're playing, but the zombies are Foot
Clan member is walking towards you, and you just got
to like every kill extends your timer, and if you
stop getting kills the timer runs out, you lose. You
just got to make sure you keep getting kills, keep
that timer going and playing smart. They added a few
other things as well. Is that like on one of
the Zombies maps, or that's on one of the Zombies maps.
Yea cool. Cool. They also added the skate park as well,
which is like Ninja Turtle themed and like Tony Hawk
kind of vibes too.
Speaker 1: Which is, yeah, didn't they like tease announce like Tony
Hawk three plus four remake or something like through Call
of Duty or something.
Speaker 2: I think I'm not exactly sure of the details, but
there was some kind of rumoredly tease Tony Hawk related
thing coming from that. But the map is cool. I'm
pretty sure the map is a re release of something
that we've had before. Uh. And then the last thing
that they released was Bullet which this is a very
new thing for Call of Duty. It's a bullet train
that's just zippen along and it's it's it doesn't stop,
it's constantly moving. And have you seen what the map
looks like for this? No?
Speaker 1: Okay, I played with you guys like last weekend before,
but it sounds like it's changed.
Speaker 2: I'm going to pull this up so you can see it,
because this is absolutely ridiculous. This map. So it's a
two v two or six v six. This is it's
just this long thing. Oh, where are you going? Where's
where'd that map go? I don't want to play well, actually,
you know, this isn't actually too bad terrible. You can
kind of get like a gist of it here, So, okay,
you can shoot from one side of the train to
the other. The train is constantly moving, you can jump
down inside the train, and then when you're inside the train,
it's basically like tight little rooms where you're pushing down
from one side to the other side. So it makes
playing like domination close quarters types matches like really really fun.
It's just it's so close quarters combat and I love it.
I put it up like, man, I feel like I'm
Ethan Hunt and mission impossible. This is apps literally fantastic.
Speaker 1: So I feel like Modern Warfare two had that, not
like the iconic airplane or airport mission, but it had
one inside an airplane I think too right, Yes, one
mission and similar kind of very tight space like that.
Speaker 2: M cool sounds a goo good update. Yeah, it's a
lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then you also mentioned that you've been back
Durrassic World Revolution two. I don't if you listened to
last week's side quest, but Kirkland was playing that game
as well. Actually he talked about it last week a
little bit.
Speaker 2: Really, but yeah, what have you been?
Speaker 1: Is there like anything new with it? Are you just
coming back to revisit it as you do every once
in a while.
Speaker 2: I'll have I'll about that.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could not remember, Like there's there's a lot
that I couldn't remember with this game in terms of
just a little bit of details. So I thought the
best way to get in this is just hop into
the sandbox mode. I played more of the campaign, did
some did some missions again and whatnot, and I thought, Okay,
I'm gonna try the Jurassic Park, like what if Jurassic
Park was a success storyline? So I did that. That
was a lot of fun. Really enjoyed that. Uh And
then I thought, okay, we're gonna do sandbox modes. So
I picked location Canada. We're gonna bring it home nice
and built like a excuse me. I built a whole
kind of compound where I had a fenced off like
area for park management, security, everything like that. And then
I thought, okay, we're gonna build a huge tank and
just put like the mosasaurs in there. Take a note
that when I was releasing these dinosaurs. I made sure
to make their genetic modifications have them really really friendly. Uh,
just super kind and cohabitable and everything like that. And
there were no fights. All the dinosaurs were great. I
had like five mosasaur, like a bunch of pleasiasaurs, everything
all living together. It was great. They're all happy. And
then I had like spinosaurs together, t rex is all
together in the same pen, and I don't want to
put the brachy of sources and the triceratops the stegasaurces
in there. And I thought, okay, they're all really friendly.
I'm like, damn, I'm doing such a good job with this.
And so I thought, okay, let's let's diversify and spread out.
Having the water set up with the water tank and
then having the capability of being in first person walking
around your park, which is great sitting in the bleachers
and then being able to actually descend the bleachers underwater
like they do in the movie. I didn't realize you
could do that, okay. I also thought it was really
neat that you could have an observation platform inside the
water tank and it has like you can see where
it has a tube and you can build where the
tube goes underground, it comes up to like a staircase
in the actual park where people can access and go
down and view, and the same thing goes for standing
in like the tree log in the carnivores or other
dinosaur area where that was in the movie as well.
Drastic World They've taken so many things and done such
a great job really making this game stand out on
its own. And I love seeing the stuff too from
the Camp Gretaceous being added in here at those different dinosaurs.
It would have been nice to have a little bit
more hybrids because I have I guess Drastic World Builder
on my phone. It's a mobile game, and they have
just a plethora of hybrids. You're combining like triceratops and
Stegosaurus together and you get Zaney creations. So it would
have been cool to have a little bit more of
that in the game. But yeah, it's just really kind
of touching base on on what the game was all about,
and just really enjoying raising the dinos and whatnot, and
so what the experience that kind of caught me up
guard was. So I thought, Okay, my dinosaurs aren't fighting.
I need to make them fight. So I started to
breed raptors, and I made them very angry, very hostile,
pissed off, like, oh my god, and then I bred
I think I did. It was a t rex, and
I thought, Okay, these guys are gonna go to town
on each other. I had five raptors and I had
a t rex. I can't wait to see what's gonna
go down. I put them in a small containment with
no water, no food source whatever. They had to fight
each other, and they didn't. And this was a small enclosure.
I'm telling you, nothing was happening. I thought this is crazy.
And now they're start getting they're starving, like what's going on?
So okay, maybe it's just because they're carnivores and they
just don't want to fight. So I put in the triceratops. Nothing.
They were not fighting at all. Of this is absolutely crazy.
What is going on? I put in a few more herbivores.
Still nothing. This is a very small case. Now I've
got like two t rexes, the a dominus rex, five delaphicsauruses,
five raptors, three triceratops. Like it's pretty packed in here,
and they're all super miserable because the living conditions are subpar.
So I look at my settings and I'm like, oh,
there it is. I gotta toggle the dinos like engaging
in attacks thing because it was turned off. I was like, okay,
so that, well, like, what's the worst is gonna happen
all my dinos. I'm sure like it'll be fine because
some the other enclosures there's lots of room, YadA YadA YadA.
I toggle that and I should have saved. I toggled it.
This small coin containment zone. Holy shit, they updated the
animations or something, because all five raptors jumped on the
t Rex and just fucking annihilated him. Everything was just
like chaos, and even my bigger enclosures, like the two
spin of saurces were killing my brachiosaurces, Like, oh my god.
It was absolute mayhem. But the fact that the raptors
just all jumped onto one target at once just blew
my mind. It was super cool to see, but super
stressful because all my ass that's got just murked speed fast.
Speaker 1: Were you able to recover this situation or was it
like this park's closing. I'm moving on to the next
save game.
Speaker 2: I definitely recovered, Okay, the downside was my aviary. I
had about thirty different type well thirty different avian dinosaurs
like ten, ten and ten, and it was just like
a full on aerial battle. They were just bodies were
dropping like crazy in there. So I'm still working away
at that, but so far, the most co habitable and calm,
even with that setting toggled, were the marine dinosaurs. They
all were great. I think I lost maybe one mosasaur
and a battle, but the rest they're all really really
happy and content. But everything else just was on land.
Speaker 1: It's just carnage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh it's it's brutal. It's brutal. God damn, that's wild.
Speaker 1: I gotta get back in that game too, And that
sounds really fun. I wonder if I was playing with
that Sidney. I feel like I never put different types
in the same enclosures. I don't know if it would
have happened anyway, because do they ever fight their own kind?
Speaker 2: Is there certain types that are There are certain types
I think in regards, so if you have an Alpha
and they just don't like being with others of their
own kinds, but some of them are very social, so
you want to but it depends how you genetically build them,
and some some just have that coexisting kind of thing,
like the bracky source like being with the stegosaurus kind
of stuff like that, and it's cool to see. Some
carnivores are very social as well, Like I keep bringing
up with the Spinosaurus dinos, I really like that they
would just it's a huge enclosure and you left them
alone for a few hours and you go back and
you see them just walking side by side, and then
one le like just lays down and sleeps, and the
other one just kind of stands around and just hangs
around that one, and they're very like they're just kind
of connected. And I like that dynamic. And it's fun too,
because when you're breeding the dinos sometimes it's not just
hey one dinosaur. You can actually select, Hey, we're gonna
grow five eggs at once, and some of the eggs
may have different attributes than the others when they're born.
But then you open the gates and it's like, oh,
here's like five velociraptors coming out all at once, Like
this is really cool just to see, and it's like
they're all part of like their own their own group
or their cluster, right, So.
Speaker 1: Very good yeah, I always love those updates because you know,
no shake against Kirkland. But I mean he's not building
parks like you're building parks. You're You're on a different
level when it comes to these these enclosures.
Speaker 2: So what was he doing like Gladiator's style one v
one dinos?
Speaker 1: And I think he's just, you know, a beginner, He's
just a new seasoned vet. And I think you probably
just no dinosaurs better than he does as well, which
I'm sure helps to some extent.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'd love to.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll bring you guys on in the same week
or something. You can talk about that a bit more
or something. If he keeps playing it, that would be fun.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that was good. I love that.
Speaker 1: And moving into what I have been playing, it's really
just one thing here. Well, you know, I've been playing
more SIEV, but I'm not going to talk about that today.
I talked about that a lot last week, but I've
really just been playing Avowed. So this is the latest
game from Obsidian, who have made a million games over
their career, a.
Speaker 2: Lot of RPGs and things like that. But for me,
I've played a lot of their games.
Speaker 1: Now, I guess I mean Followut in New Vegas is
probably my favorite of theirs and one of my favorite
games of all time. My favorite Fallout game. Yoda Worlds
is a game I played through once and then I
played through it again when all the DLC came out,
so I did two full play throughs there. Grounded was
my game of the year when that finally came out
a couple of years ago. I've jumped into Pillars of
Fraternity a little bit actually last year, which is in
the same world as Avowed, so just trying to get
familiar with that play a little bit of pentiment. I
was looking through their history. Apparently they were working at
an alien game back in the mid two thousands. I
got canceled that I'm really bummed about because I think
it would have been really cool to see what Obsidian
would have cooked with a alien game. I mean, it
was a different era for Obsidian, but still would have
been pretty cool. But uh yeah, that's kind of what
kind of leads this into here. And I feel like
Avowed seems like it's the same engine as Outer Worlds.
It seems very similar in terms of the scale, the scope,
even like the art style generally, even though they're sci
Fi versus fantasy sort of settings and Outer Worlds. You know,
it's funny, I feel like kind of set the stage
for my expectations for Vowed, just because it is their
most recent game, and Outer Worlds is a game that
I really enjoyed the first time I played through, and
then when I played through it again that second time,
I was a little less impressed. I think it's just
like the scale of the world. It's like, oh, I
wasn't really finding anything new. I'd kind of seen everything
in my first play through. I could, you know, make
some different narrative choices and story moments, and it changed
a couple of things, but like not as much as
I was hoping it would. And then the DLC, like
one of the DLCs was great, the other one was
kind of garbage. That was like kind of just balanced
out to like I don't know if I needed to
spend another fifteen twenty hours with Outer world So that
second play through was a lot quicker when I was
just kind of blasting through everything. But so so I
think because that I've kind of had lower expectations for Avowed,
But then once again in the last couple of months,
I think like them delaying the game again and then
just like polishing, and then hearing like previews and things,
it was like, Okay, this game's sounding really good, but
I want to keep my expectations a little bit low.
So yeah, I'm I'm still pretty early on in it,
maybe five or six, maybe seven hours or something like that.
I didn't have a ton of time to play it
this weekend.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Honestly, my first take right off the bat is like,
I'm really glad this game did get delayed, even though
it kind of screwed me in the draft last year.
You know, I'll take that because this game is so
freaking polished, like there is no bugs. Load times are great,
it runs really well, tutorializations are really good, looks good,
sounds good, and like, you know, comparing it to Sieve seven,
which I talked about now, my SIV seven game.
Speaker 2: I'm so deep in it.
Speaker 1: I'm like in the modern era now I have like
twenty cities.
Speaker 2: It's huge.
Speaker 1: I'm playing on the biggest map side of the most CPUs.
Game crashes every two turns and I got to burn
it up again. It's so freaking annoying, and the game
is like just not fit and so like maybe my
my by bar is low for what I you know,
what a finished game is these days, But it was
just so nice to jump into a Vowed and it's
just a clean, you know, no friction experience, just going
there have a good time. Obviously the game pass makes
it a lot easier to do as well. I really
want you to check this game out because I think
as a Skyrim and just Elder Scrolls fan generally, I
think you're really gonna like this. I mean, the first
thing to know, I guess is that this game will
It's it's not a huge beathes the open world, like
that it is small, it is kind of like outer worlds,
and that it's like smaller zones and whatnot. I'm still
only in the first one that has felt pretty expansive,
and even when I look at the map and see
the fog of war, there's like things everywhere haven't done yet,
and now there's other zones. So I can't speak on
the overall scale of it, but just from what I've heard,
what I've experienced so far, but I think what really
is standing out to me, what like kind of ninety
percent of the game has been for me so far
is just combat it's kind of more than I was expecting.
I feel like Obsitting are known so much for being storytellers,
having narrative dialogue choices and things like that, and I've
definitely had a few of those. And maybe it's just
because I'm playing it like a Sky or another Scrolls game.
I'm just kind of running in ram directions. Oh there's
some lizard creatures over there, let me go destroy their base,
and then A'll get distracted by this cave and go
through that thing, and then you know, I've just mostly
been doing that instead of rushing down like main quest stuff.
So maybe that'll change out, but so far it's just
been a ton of combat, and you know, in theory,
based on my experience with the Outer Worlds, I don't
think I would have enjoyed that so much, just the expectation,
but getting into this, like they have improved the combat
from Outer Worlds at first person combat so freaking much.
I remember in Outer Worlds my first play through, I
was playing like a melee based character, and then after
a few hours I kind of just started a new
run because I'm like, the melee commat doesn't feel that goold,
Like I don't really want to do this, but this
game feels so freaking good. Once again, the polish of it,
the animations are outstanding. The hit like you just feel
like your sword is like slowly chopping through someone as
you're going through it, like compared to Elder Scrolls. I
love Elder scroll so much, but just like it has
a very similar combat system to that, but the hits
just feel so much better. So it's a very satisfying experience.
It has the Skyrim thing too, of like the two handedness,
so you can pick what you want you left and
right hand. You can kind of swap things around at will,
so you know, in Sky you have like you know,
a spell maybe in then like a sword or a
shield sword or just a two handed weapon. So it's
kind of all that same thing, although like magic is
kind of integrated a bit differently in here. There's all
sorts of different things. Like obviously there's your basic like
swords and shields, two handed, one handed, all that kind
of stuff. There's you know, of course, your bone arrow.
There's guns in this game, though, like the kind of
like slow pace like musket type guns. There's one that's
kind of like a sniper, and then ones that are
kind of just like pistols. All of the range weapons
in this game don't have AMMO, which is great. You
don't have to worry about how many arrows you have,
how many bolts you have. It's just balance based on
like cool down times and how much damage and range
and how slow they are to like you know, take
out and reload and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: And then the magic I think is been.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite parts, and I'm that's why my
character is here. I'm kind of playing as a wizard type,
so my I. The way it works is you kind
of have two load outs at any given time, so
in your menu you can pick what weapons you want
in each of your hands, and then when you hit Why,
like in the way the most games that we switch
weapon out, in this it like switches your load out completely.
So one of my loads is just a basic like
fire sword and a shield, which is really fun when
like people are swarming me, I need to like tank
a little bit, and then when I hit Why and
I switch my other load out.
Speaker 2: I have a wand like a little Harry Potter.
Speaker 1: Wand in one hand and then just like a tome
in my other hand. The wand is really satisfying. It
kind of feels like the Hogwarts legacy like basic attack
that you can do and once again doesn't have AMMO
and that's not even tied to your manna, so you
can just like span that as much as you want.
It just takes well, not as much as you want
to take stamina, so you can't just do it forever,
but kind of have to balance it with your dodging
and whatnot. But then the tomes, I think is one
of my favorite things. I've always loved that aesthetic for
like a wizard in a D and D setting to
just like hold a book out like a dome with
your you know, beautifully intricate like spell is drawn on
the page and so you kind of hold I'm holding
that one hand my wand in the other and the
spells like you can you know, when you have a toma,
you have access to a handful of different spells that
you can cast out of there. And it's cool once
you get like, once you've like picked up a book,
you can also expend skill points to just learn those
spells outside of the book. So let's say this book
has a fire, ice and electric spell, Well, I can
also just like spend experience points to learn those permanently,
so I don't need the book in order to use them.
But then I can always just like you know, use
the book if I want to, which I really like
for the aesthetics and like, once again the animations. You know,
obviously the books, like you're holding it open when you're
just walking around attacking, but when you start sprinting, you
like close the book and like kind of put it
to your side a little bit. I know there's one
spell that like you slam the book shut and it
shoots out like a shock wave. So just like really
cool visuals to it all, and it makes it so
much fun and all the all the combat that I've
done so far is really frantic. It's kind of like
arena base and it's just really intense where there's a
couple of people who are of course are going to
charge you, a couple of people in the back just
throwing you know, shooting bone arrows or throwing whatever stuff
at you. There's like usually a healer or two in
the fray as well, so if you are just targeting
down the person who's like charging at you, they might
just be getting healed as through that. So it's kind
of like, Okay, I gotta sneak around back, take out
the healer first, or maybe go for the range of
people first. And so I feel like there's that level
of strategy, plus on top that you have your companions
right who are kind of moved around in different spots
than the one companion I have right now. It's kind
of all about tanking and taunting, or at least that's
how I've leveled him up to put him in that
kind of thing, so I can just be like my
little glass cannon mage in the corner, just spat mean
spells from the sideline. So I think that's why I
think you would like this game, because I know, you
know you love older Scrolls, and there's a million reasons
to love an other Scrolls game, but I think the
combat here is very similar to that, but like even
better in some ways. And we'll see how that progresses
as it goes along, But so for I'm really impressed
by it. Like a ton of variety, a ton of
different weapon types, and I'm having fun trying them all
out because they all have different very feels like feels
to them.
Speaker 2: And then as I said, like the.
Speaker 1: Feedback of hitting people with different weapons is very notable
as well, so it just makes it like super duper gratifying.
I think only later on the combat would be maybe
like your godlike powers, that's like your chosen One storyline
kind of situation. So there's like spells that kind of
exist outside of all those other things I mentioned too,
and so you can kind of use those, and they're
on usually a higher cool down because they're like more powerful.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm absolutely loving the combat in this game.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm getting to play as like a
battle made which is always like a type I want
to play in games like this, But because of the
load out system in most games, you just don't have
enough hands to do all that stuff. But because you
can switch back and forth, it make for this really
front hybrid style that isn't just slowly digging through your
menus to switch all your weapons out. You just quickly
do it, even quicker than like a hot key stuff
because it's just slowly one button. So really really freaking
satisfying combat. And like I said, that's kind of been
you know, the line's share of what I've been doing
in this game so far, along with just exploring to.
Speaker 2: Get into those combat sequences. So yeah, I think you.
Speaker 1: Would really like this game. I think you should give
it a go.
Speaker 2: Do you think do you think you will? I will
give it a go, I definitely will. Of how you
described that where you close your book and it sounds
a shockwave about like so cool, that sounds esthetically very pleasing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then so enemy variety has been pretty good so far,
I once again off to see how that kind of
evolves through there. On top of that, I mean all
the the rewards for combat, you know, of course, like
picking up equipment and things like that. So far, I've
been really satisfied with that. I feel like what I
really enjoyed about Outer Worlds was that it's a you know, RPG,
but not a fully hardcore RPG. Like you only have
like six or seven stats that you're upgrading, right, and
then your equipment have like different stats on top of that.
But it made it kind of really short and sweet.
You didn't have all these random skills that you're never
gonna use. Instead, like each of them does something, and
every build can justify using at least most of them.
So it kind of is a similar thing here. I
think there's literally like six attributes that you get, you know,
classic like strength, intelligence, that kind of thing, and so
you're picking what those different do. They all feel pretty
good when you get them, you know, because there's like
additional range or a tax beyond those kind of things
as well. So that's been really fun. And then the
equipment is really good as well. It's a classic you know,
you have you can put like a something on the
upper part of your body and put on like a boots, gloves,
you can put on like like two rings. You got
to be kind of deciding what you want to use there.
But what I think is really cool is you'll pick
up like legendary weapons, right that have like unique effects,
finding those all over the world. It's cool is at
any point you can just take any of those legendary
weapons and like rip the enchantments off of them and
like put them on something else. So if you find
like heavy armor that has a really good enchantment, but
I'm like a mage and I don't want heavy armor,
I can still rip those effects off and put them
onto my wand or whatever else I want, which is
really nice. It's just like a great quality of life
feature to not make you feel too stuck or that's
the worst thing when you're playing an RPG game and
you just find a weapon that you can't use, which
is like nine percent the time in Elden Ring. I
find a cool weapon that I just don't have the
stats to use it. I'm like, Okay, well, I guess
maybe thirty hours from I'll have enough stats to use
this thing. But this game is just doing a really
great job of like, yeah, if you're finding something it's
not for this play through, that's fine. You can just
tear it apart, rip it out for parts, or just yeah,
take the abilities off it and put them on other things.
So that element of it is really good, and I
think so far the exploration has been fun. I'm curious
to see how much more it evolves in terms of
how you're interacting with the environment, because it has like,
uh simple kind of elemental stuff like you know, there's
cobwebs in front of this, or there's wood plank since
you got off like burn those down to get through them,
or like there's this platform on the other side of
this out of water that you can't really jump up,
but if you like put an ice platform down with
your ice ability on top of the water you can
jump on that to get above, or like there's a
thing you have to charge with electric ability. So it's
pretty simple stuff like that. They're not really complicated puzzles.
They're pretty basic. It's more just like a match of
the color kind of game, Like it's like a children's
game or something like that.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how much of their that is,
like in Dungeons, if there's like a puzzle element to
the dungeons, or if it's mostly about the combat. As
I said, I'm loving the combat, so if that's what
this game is kind of all about, then I think
I'm fine with it.
Speaker 2: But we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1: I am finding a lot of interesting side quests, Like
just the prompts for the stories are fun and interesting
and kind of weird. The story it's hard for me
to comment on it too much at this point, just
because I'm so early on, but you know, it's kind
of the classic Chosen One storyline. You're sent to this
place that's been experiencing this plague and you have to
figure out what's going on, and so I'm still kind
of early in the moments of uncovering what all that means.
They have a really nice thing in the dialogue where
certain words would be highlighted, like maybe it's like it's
like the steel ger wrote is like a type of
it's like a faction in the world. But you wouldn't
necessarily know that, but like your character would know that, right,
they'd have that backstory, right, And so whenever you see
that word, it might be highlighted if it's like a
weird word like that, And then at any point in
the dialogue, you can just bring up this glossary that'll
tell you. It'll give you a brief, like a one
paragraph thing of like this is what this word means,
this is what this faction is, or if you forget
who this character was, you can see like, oh, who
is King Frederick again, then I'll give you like a
quick backstory of on who he is. Just really great
little quality of life feature that really helps you get
more connected with the world. And it's a really smart
way to so many games. Right, it's like, my character
should know this. It's really dumb that they don't know this,
and I have to ask this question of this character.
It's like a really basic thing about this world. But
it's a good way to like fill in that information
without it coming across as your character being some like
bumbling fool who doesn't know anything. And then yeah, there's
there's a lot of themes of like reincarnation here, and
there's different gods and they all kind of it seems
like they all there's reincarnation that's incorporated to all these
different gods and their beliefs, but those kind of occur
in different ways. And so the premise of this game
is that you are a god, like you were sent
down by one of the gods, I guess, or you're
born by one of the gods. But I guess that
the prompt is like you don't really know which god
that is, and I'm guessing that'll be based on your
choices and stuff, Your dialogue choices and even choices in combat,
who you turn against, who you team up with, will
kind of determine what that stuff is.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what's going on there.
Speaker 1: But in the classic upsitting way, like a lot of
the notes and random books I'm picking up and reading,
there's some like really interesting just a little like two
paragraphs of just like this interesting philosophical idea that's actually
made me think about things. I'm like, ah, that's an
interesting way to consider stuff. But then it's also like
written from a certain god's perspective, so you get like
that little bit of world building in there, and and
there's books freaking everywhere. It's just like Elder Scrolls in
that way too.
Speaker 2: So I've some of them.
Speaker 1: I've just picked up just to put them in my glossary,
and I'm like, I'll come back and read this later.
But yeah, so far, so good and all that, but
I just haven't encountered much of the story at this point.
It's you know, it's got the classic dialogue system like
any Elder Scrolls game or Outer Worlds. And then in
that same way, like you're based on your stats, like
maybe if you have high intelligence you'll have access to
a new dialogue option that you wouldn't otherwise have. That
kind of stuff, so it gives you, you know, a
little incentive to or it makes you feel like your
role playing your character a bit more, which I like
all that stuff, And then what else do I want
to say about this game? I think, as I mentioned
a couple of times already, like the quality of life
in this game is just insanely good, Like there's some
things I really love other games. I've been doing this recently,
but I love that whatever armor you want, you can
pick what armor you want for the stats, and then
you can just pick whatever army you want visually, like
what you want your character to look like, and it's
just the click of a button. It's like Hogwart's Legacy
did a great job of that, but it was still
like kind of a hassle to actually like go through
the menus to select that stuff. But this, it's really
right trigger if you want to wear that left, trigger
if you want to look like that. So it's just
super simple, super quick. Even the same for like when
you're going through your potions and stuff, and you know,
I have like peppers and apples and blueberry pies on
top of health potions, essence potions, other random things I've
never heard of. There's like little symbols next to them,
so it'll be like a little heart symbol or like
the man a symbol, so you can tell like what
it's going to heal you for. So just little things
like that too. It's like I don't have to scroll
through these items, don't have to read I can just
look at these symbols to figure out exactly what it does.
Sprinting in this game doesn't use stamina, so you can
just sprint as much as you want. It's not gonna
burn through your stamina so that you get f't when
you walk into a combat sequence.
Speaker 2: Great choice, love it. Is it realistic?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: But I don't care. It's just really fun.
Speaker 1: If you get over and encumbered, you don't just break
stuff down or just send it to your camp. You
don't have to, you know, drop stuff, then fast travel,
get rid of stuff, and then fast travel back to
where you were and then continue.
Speaker 2: It's just so quick and easy.
Speaker 1: So everything about this game just feels like it's so
well thought out, and it really feels like they took
those extra few months to really just polish the experience
and make it super clean. There's just seriously been zero
friction in this game other than just, like, you know,
a hard combat sequence, which is the only kind of
friction I want in a game like this.
Speaker 2: So I'm loving it so far.
Speaker 1: I do feel like I really loved the Outer Worlds
at the start as well, so I'm curious to see
if it tapers off in the same way the Outer
Worlds has kind of for me a little bit, even
though it's still a solid game. I don't know if
this is a game I will want to play through
multiple times, but I feel like they make it really
easy to like respect your characters, so I just want
to switch builds. You know, it costs me like one
thirtieth of like the amount of money I have right
now already, so it's pretty quick and easy to do that,
so I can just try different play styles out. But yeah,
it's just a super good time and I think it
really just check it out for the combat alone, and
like the animation work is really really solid, and then
in terms of the later stuff, just it'll be one
of those games I have to report back on week
to week. But first impressions, first few hours have been like, yeah,
really top notch. I really really enjoying this game, and
it seems like kind of like exactly what I want
from a game. You know, I love my older scrolls games,
but at the same time, I'm down for like a shorter,
more confined experience kind of what you're saying about like Pokemon, Like,
you know, I kind of just want some linearity, and
sometimes for a game like this, I just kind of
want some lineary. I don't want to have to like
spend two hundred hours, you know, I want to move
on to the next thing. So I don't know how
many hours I'll take with the things. I have heard
that people have been putting some hours into it, and
like Outer Worlds was a pretty short game, so we'll
see if it's longer, shorter and whatnot. But yeah, this
game's great. Definitely check it out on game Pass. Of course,
any questions about it based on everything I just rifled
off there. No, I mean, it's just from what you said,
just a bit more of a cohesive narrative, not as
opened up as.
Speaker 2: The other schools are, And I kind of I like that.
That's very enticing. I like that it's kind of got.
Speaker 1: These little sections and you just work at these these
sections of assimies doing quests and that sort of stuff.
Are you harvesting as supplies to the build like your
own little community or your own house or anything like that,
or I don't know if there's a house yet. I
actually just got to the gates of like the first
main city.
Speaker 2: There's like a little.
Speaker 1: Almost like a little port town that you got to
near the start, and there's no house there, so I
don't know if you're decorating a house, but what you
do have, I'm guessing you don't. I just I don't
think that's the thing that this game has. You are
picking up resources all over the place, you know, from
enemies that you defeat, or like picking up plants and
stuff like that. And then yeah, so the way it
works is, you know, there's like fast shovel points around
the map, So it's rather than just like every point
of interest in the way another s Girls game would have,
it's more like specific spots on the map will have
like these little you know, things you can teleport to.
But then on top of that, there's these giant gems.
I forget what they're called exactly, but when you go
to those, you can like set up camp for the night,
and that's something I really like, actually like, rather than
it like Balder's Gate had that as well. Balder's Gate
it would like take you to like a separate spot, right,
and so it didn't it wasn't like integrated into wherever
you were in the map, which.
Speaker 2: Made sense for that game.
Speaker 1: From this game though, since it has like specific locations,
there's actually it's a flat kind of area, and so
you actually like set up the camp like you set
up a bunch of tents.
Speaker 2: You set up like little Blacksmith area.
Speaker 1: All your companions will have like a different little bed situation,
and so you can walk around, you can talk to them,
and that's where you're doing your upgrading over your gear,
where you can like do that enchantment stuff that I
was talking about and all that.
Speaker 2: So I think that's probably more what it will be like.
Speaker 1: As you're going through the game, more people will join
your camp, and your camp will get filled out, and
then that'll get plopped down or the map rather than
like actually having a house, because yeah, Outer Worlds had
the spaceship and as you went through the game and
got more companions, they would fill out the different like
apartment like rooms kind of in the spaceship, but it
kind of came with you, right, And I think it's
kind of a situation like that. So yeah, I'm not
sure if there's a player house yet at the moment.
Speaker 2: Cool cool yeah, cool yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really great game, really fun time check it out.
And that's really all I've been playing other than you
have just playing more Sieve and just having the game
crash every fifteen minutes, and then just trying to get
there's one freaking game done so that I can put
it down until it's patched and fixed and working properly.
But I don't need to lament on that too much.
About has been a good time, so thank you everyone
for listening. I don't even know what the heck the
topic is going to be next week, but you will
have to just tune in to find out, or look
at that you know, thumbnail on the title when it drops.
But thank you everyone for listening, thank you Taylor for
joining me, and we'll see you again next time.
Speaker 2: Bye bye,