Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday, February eleventh, twenty twenty five. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and seventy seven.
Speaker 1: I'm your host. Don't adjust your internet television dials. That's right,
Speaker 1: the red beanie's gone. I'm in my heel era. I'm
Speaker 1: wearing a black beanie. Now I will can a black beanie.
Speaker 1: That's how somber.
Speaker 2: The mood is.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel inside.
Speaker 2: It's being I feeling side. He's feeling better today.
Speaker 1: On the outside and maybe the inside. Jef Grub.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm feeling much better. Although I'm like, I need
Speaker 2: a haircut, but I'm too lazy to go do it.
Speaker 2: I'm starting to look I think I'm starting to look
Speaker 2: a little bit serial killer.
Speaker 1: Iss.
Speaker 2: You go to the airport, Yeah, you know. I need
Speaker 2: to go to the airport and get get an aircut.
Speaker 2: That's the only way I can get out of this.
Speaker 1: Bravo. The master of haircuts and airports and other associated
Speaker 1: stores and kiosks at the airport, Dan Record.
Speaker 3: I don't know anything about haircuts anymore. I get beard
Speaker 3: cuts from a haircut lady.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go. That's still cutting hair.
Speaker 2: That's gonna say why, But you know what, I saw
Speaker 2: a picture of you a while back with a very
Speaker 2: like kind of trimmed up, well, a much more trimmed
Speaker 2: up beard than you have now. And I think your
Speaker 2: beard looks really good most of the time. So clearly
Speaker 2: you're doing something right.
Speaker 3: I got that really keeps it in, you know, cleaned up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good work.
Speaker 1: Does she approach it with scissors or like some shears?
Speaker 3: She does a lot of different stuff. She takes like
Speaker 3: the little like razor stuff here and everything she does
Speaker 3: scissors to kind of the spot the stray hairs and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. Yeah, she's just good. You want to
Speaker 3: like a sport stuffs or something, they're gonna give you
Speaker 3: the buzzer and no, no, I go to a lady
Speaker 3: that doesn't doesn't good.
Speaker 1: Speaking about buzzers. He's the buzzer. Peter the bog Slammer,
Speaker 1: the bad boy of games media, Mike min Hey, Jackop
Speaker 1: in a.
Speaker 3: Rape Forest cat even waiting for that one. All let
Speaker 3: the record show that Jack Pop in a rape forest.
Speaker 2: I stop saying.
Speaker 4: What can I say? He fucking got me. Damn, I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna have to keep trying to live my life.
Speaker 4: But I also wanted to talk about Dancy Jack pop
Speaker 4: in a rap for.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I thought I witnessed the assassination of someone on TV
Speaker 1: on Sunday, but know it happened today on Tuesday as well.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be playing out of the Super Bowl halftime
Speaker 3: next year?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Did I had a question about your beard? Yes, Mike?
Speaker 3: What's that? Does it like?
Speaker 4: I know, yeah, I know, you know they work on it,
Speaker 4: but does it naturally kind of get that straight on?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 4: Because when my beer gets too long, it just curls
Speaker 4: to this one side like crazy, and it's awful and
Speaker 4: it looks terrible, and I get straighten out myself at all.
Speaker 3: You gotta get one of those uh bores, thistle brushes
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. You gotta use oils. You gotta
Speaker 3: really just go to town on it. Quite a bit,
Speaker 3: variety of things in the shower. Yeah, But when I
Speaker 3: don't have hair on top of my head, it's like, well,
Speaker 3: I don't have any hair work to do, so I
Speaker 3: can I can do some beard stuff.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 4: I feel like I should feel the same way, but
Speaker 4: I'm still pretty lazy about it. If you could just
Speaker 4: trim it and then I don't worry about it as much.
Speaker 1: What if you just grow it out and you braid it?
Speaker 3: No, No, I'm sorry not to that, but no, man,
Speaker 3: we knew you wouldn't.
Speaker 4: I don't want to do that. I'm not a fuddy duddy,
Speaker 4: but I don't want to braid my beard.
Speaker 3: I I uh like if I go but with what? Sorry,
Speaker 3: I'm like, I noticed how you were about to push
Speaker 3: the butt.
Speaker 4: Then you realized that I was like telegraphing it too
Speaker 4: much and you didn't want to push the funny.
Speaker 3: You read me correctly, Yes, exactly what happened there? Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm at the point now where it's like I haven't
Speaker 3: shaved my head in like a better part of week,
Speaker 3: so it starts kind of growing in, and every time
Speaker 3: it's like, well I've already got a week in on
Speaker 3: this right now, and and Bianca is fully in favor
Speaker 3: of me growing hey, hachi hair, So it's like, how
Speaker 3: long would it take? I'm just trying to do the
Speaker 3: math here on heachi? Yeah I could do it, and
Speaker 3: like my wife is like, fuck, yeah, you should do it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so could you.
Speaker 1: Wear like a hat until it goes full high? Hachi?
Speaker 3: I mean, if you see me suddenly start wearing hats
Speaker 3: on podcasts. You know what's happening.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, it's the awkward pre he hachi hair exactly.
Speaker 4: I'll get season one Frasier and we'll both have Dan.
Speaker 2: You could.
Speaker 1: You could be a bearded Larry David for Halloween this year.
Speaker 2: Bearded David.
Speaker 3: That's just one. I can't picture him with that.
Speaker 4: That won't read as Larry David. I'm sorry you will.
Speaker 3: He did that one movie on HBO, like in twenty
Speaker 3: fifteen or twenty sixteen, where was he like a tech
Speaker 3: executive and he had a beard and like long white
Speaker 3: hair going No, that was a scientology documentary. There were
Speaker 3: some does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2: I remember the crypto commercial he did where he dressed
Speaker 2: up as a bunch of different people and he appear
Speaker 2: in that one.
Speaker 4: That's right, that was the super Bowl. You're of all
Speaker 4: the crypto commercials. Larry David's being skeptical about even crypto
Speaker 4: even though it's obviously good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, clear history, clear history is name, I think. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this year the super Bowl was all AI stuff. You
Speaker 3: got your breakdance in deep Fake Martha Stewart, so you
Speaker 3: got the man super Bowl commercials. I don't know if
Speaker 3: they were ever good. These people used to be excited
Speaker 3: about him, but they all suck ass now it's all
Speaker 3: we threw celebrities into a thing.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I'm always so skeptical to be like super
Speaker 4: Bowl commercials are bad now because one they're commercials, and like, yeah,
Speaker 4: of course I liked those more when I was younger,
Speaker 4: but still it feels like there are some years that
Speaker 4: are slightly better than others.
Speaker 3: Yea, these were bad.
Speaker 1: Nikki and I, along with alyssamer Conte, were watching the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl at a bar and it was kind of
Speaker 1: hard to hear because there were a bunch of people
Speaker 1: and the TVs were outside. So every commercial we were
Speaker 1: playing a guessing game of like, okay, what is what
Speaker 1: are they advertising? And then the there's one commercial where
Speaker 1: they're just showing pictures of people super depressed and helping
Speaker 1: each other out.
Speaker 3: That's the Jesus stuff And it was the Jesus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was the Seal As a seal commercial
Speaker 2: is what you're thinking of?
Speaker 1: You miss that?
Speaker 3: Oh that he gets us, he gets us the Seal?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, okay, speaking about Super Bowl commercials, how
Speaker 1: do you find the super Bowl, the Big Game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, seemed like to be a bad game for anyone
Speaker 3: to watch us on koind of it being a bad
Speaker 3: football game, but also you know, when you're from Kansas City,
Speaker 3: it's probably especially just like not that I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I watched one game a year and it's the super Bowl,
Speaker 3: and it's like, yeah, not super invested, but of course
Speaker 3: I'm rooting for the Jeeves in City. But I also
Speaker 3: understand why. It's like I remember in the two thousands
Speaker 3: fucking hating the Patriots, and so it's like, oh, I
Speaker 3: totally understand why everybody would against the Chiefs. So yeah,
Speaker 3: what's wrong.
Speaker 1: With Tom Brady? Right now? Every time I see Tom
Speaker 1: Brady on camera? There's something off.
Speaker 2: About too much plastic surgery?
Speaker 3: No way, I mean not getting order getting plastic surgery?
Speaker 2: Yeap, do you even hear yourself?
Speaker 1: Do you?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: He should be able to afford the good stuff, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: But I.
Speaker 3: Mean it can so good, it can only be so
Speaker 3: How old is he?
Speaker 2: I don't know, He's like he's like forty five.
Speaker 3: It's not even that old.
Speaker 4: Probably would have been fine to care because he doesn't
Speaker 4: have football anymore.
Speaker 3: That seems like all he has and has ever had
Speaker 3: is football.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 2: He's forty forty seven.
Speaker 1: Okay, he doesn't want to spend time with his actual family.
Speaker 4: So yeah, like unlike his old coach, he doesn't have
Speaker 4: some uh bizarrely underage girl underage but much low.
Speaker 3: A young girl friend saw that. That was a shocking.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, Bill Belichick brought his granddaughter and oh.
Speaker 5: No, okay, there it's a real insane YoY.
Speaker 4: It's like what you know, It's like, look, it's batt
Speaker 4: Leonardo Dicapri doesn't for sure, it is somehow just grisser
Speaker 4: when Bill Belichick does it just.
Speaker 3: This grumpy old man who's never had a person who
Speaker 3: was like di Caprio. It's like the Capri it's so weird,
Speaker 3: but like Belichick does feel weirder.
Speaker 2: Well, because you can imagine DiCaprio has some sort of riz.
Speaker 2: Not that I'm like apologizing for it, but it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: he shows them a good time and it's nice to them,
Speaker 2: makes them laugh. Bill Belichick has never made anyone laugh
Speaker 2: in his entire life. That's actually what.
Speaker 1: Makes it really gross.
Speaker 3: He is seventy two, she is twenty four.
Speaker 2: That's not that makes my tell when you when I
Speaker 2: start when when I hear the ages, and my first
Speaker 2: thought is is the one number divisible by the other?
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 4: It's rough to be in your thirties and be like
Speaker 4: twenty four is too young. Then there's a guy in
Speaker 4: his fucking seventies. He's like, let's go, let's party.
Speaker 2: H Anyway, I cackled when Kyle did his thing. His
Speaker 2: name's Kendro. It's really rude to call somebody by the
Speaker 2: wrong name. Actually comment as well, thanks, no, no, that's
Speaker 2: that was Many people try to be upset on my.
Speaker 4: Behalf for the Mids thing and always tell him stop that. Well,
Speaker 4: that was a very good halftime show. I like that
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was very confused when I saw what looked like
Speaker 1: PlayStation buttons at first, because like, wait, is he going
Speaker 1: to bring out astrobot?
Speaker 5: He should have sud die.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: And I'm so happy, right.
Speaker 1: Really good, so much at PlayStation please please astrobot crib walking.
Speaker 2: I need this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was really funny watching it live. And then
Speaker 3: like you know, I know the broad beats of the
Speaker 3: feud and things like that. I mean, I've heard not
Speaker 3: like as million times, but I haven't heard the other
Speaker 3: songs and stuff like that. So just all the little things.
Speaker 3: And I didn't realize Serena Williams was Drake's X. That's
Speaker 3: fucking hilarious. Just oh, that's why she was the term.
Speaker 3: He's also from his neighborhood too, so yeah. Also she
Speaker 3: got a bunch of criticism for doing that in like
Speaker 3: twenty twelve against like Maria Sharapova. Like so it's like
Speaker 3: that's it's like several callbacks on top of callbacks. But
Speaker 3: just I know it's been talked about and tweeted a
Speaker 3: billion times with that look to the camera when he
Speaker 3: says Drake's name, because everyone just wondering like is he going,
Speaker 3: like are certain lines going to be in there? And
Speaker 3: not only were they, he knew people were waiting for it,
Speaker 3: and yeah, god, it was fantastic.
Speaker 1: Manard, what a run, What a run? He won five
Speaker 1: Grammys and uh, that whole theater full of peers saying
Speaker 1: the a minor line and then to have a whole
Speaker 1: stadium a week later at the Super Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Drake is gonna be at the Four Nations
Speaker 2: Hockey Tournament and he's gonna he's gonna have his response,
Speaker 2: and the whole world will be watching because it's hockey man.
Speaker 1: Great, really fantastic. I think one of my favorite things
Speaker 1: to come out from the super Bowl is and I
Speaker 1: harbor no ill will towards Travis Kelcey. Other than thinking
Speaker 1: he might be dumb as a doorknob, sometimes I think
Speaker 1: he'd admit it. He might have a podcast about it.
Speaker 1: Is just seeing him look so sad and upset after
Speaker 1: the game in his sequence shirt, and I think that
Speaker 1: was like the only shirt he brought because he was
Speaker 1: so confident he was going to win.
Speaker 2: That's that's what was the spinning image of me going
Speaker 2: home from the club any night I ever went to
Speaker 2: the club, So I get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh god, I just want to imagine that. I
Speaker 1: just want to imagine grub at the club. It just
Speaker 1: rhymes off the tongue the club.
Speaker 3: Ye oh oh.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Jeff Grubb, he gave me one of my
Speaker 4: new favorite moments ever this weekend. I don't know if
Speaker 4: you saw this, Jeff trying to play grim Fandango over
Speaker 4: the weekend, just playing it and he's like she's streaming it,
Speaker 4: and at one point his chat is just like, oh,
Speaker 4: don't forget the safe Jeff. He's like, oh, yes, a
Speaker 4: good thing to do. So he just he opens the
Speaker 4: menu and be it for the new game option. Immediately
Speaker 4: clicks it. New games was playing. He's like, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Just lost a bunch of progress and had to catch up.
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, it was there. It was like sandwich between
Speaker 2: like save game and then like.
Speaker 3: Load game, and I remember it was save, load new game.
Speaker 2: Those were the that was the order, so save was
Speaker 2: the talking choice. Okay, yeah, okay, right exactly. Okay, so
Speaker 2: I was actually remembering the thing from the Kingdom Come Deliverance.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it. It also has new game right
Speaker 2: at the top. My I think my thought process was
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna look at it, but clearly the first
Speaker 2: option can't be new game or saved game. You should
Speaker 2: be like down a little bit, like that's gonna be
Speaker 2: like a return or start game back up. That's always
Speaker 2: the first option in my head. So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: it'll be right here under a load game. It'll be
Speaker 2: the next thing up under that. So I just clicked it. Obviously,
Speaker 2: I just didn't read Obviously, I just went and clicked
Speaker 2: the first confirm.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was, yeah, I mean to start that new game, right,
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right.
Speaker 4: Don't believe they would ask, and I'd be like, I'll
Speaker 4: leave me alone, stop asking.
Speaker 2: Of course I know what I want.
Speaker 1: Of course I want to start a new game.
Speaker 2: Yep. Honestly, like I'm like, new game is not even
Speaker 2: going to be an option on the pause screen. That's
Speaker 2: a crazy thing too. That would be like, you know,
Speaker 2: you go, you go back to the main menu if
Speaker 2: you want to start a new game. So like I
Speaker 2: wasn't even concerned about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe maybe a retry level, maybe a research from checkpoint. Yeah,
Speaker 3: research from checkpoint is like a last ten years thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this doesn't even have checkpoints. So yeah, it's all true,
Speaker 2: but it's still incredible.
Speaker 4: Just watch you just again, like faster than anybody's ever
Speaker 4: clicked a menu option.
Speaker 3: Just just start right for that new game.
Speaker 2: I mean, clearly, it was just me. It's this is
Speaker 2: not even really a problem with the game. Yeah.
Speaker 4: My favorite crubism since the time I played Infinite with
Speaker 4: you and we had the flag like two feet away
Speaker 4: from the base where we needed to capture.
Speaker 1: It at our base.
Speaker 4: Respond you respond at the flag of Starter, running it
Speaker 4: back for the enemy based.
Speaker 3: Guy that got it.
Speaker 2: We're what are you doing? No one stopping. Everyone tells
Speaker 2: a story about how I had that clutch game where
Speaker 2: we beat Window Who Windows Central? Who are we playing?
Speaker 2: I can't remember? And uh, but it's always the Hey
Speaker 2: he picked up the flag and ran the wrong way.
Speaker 2: The only story that's I don't remember what the other thing? Yeah,
Speaker 2: well of course not. Yeah, I barely do.
Speaker 1: Incredible, lovely, lovely. Any other thoughts over the weekend? How
Speaker 1: is everyone doing? They're feeling okay, ish, you.
Speaker 2: Got a little bit sick of feeling better now.
Speaker 3: I'm just SICKI poo been doing the thing where it's
Speaker 3: you know, first week post my blike club assignment and
Speaker 3: just like Blue Skies Ahead Grub has all the gimmicks,
Speaker 3: he's got the game. His wife looked at the game
Speaker 3: and laughed, which is always very good, very very excited
Speaker 3: for tomorrow on this website. It's going to be good.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna want to miss it.
Speaker 2: Just for.
Speaker 4: We're doing at two pm Eastern eleven am Pacific, since
Speaker 4: a state of play is happening in Pacific, so we're
Speaker 4: moving it up a little bit so we don't kind
Speaker 4: of overcrowd the schedule there and run up against that.
Speaker 4: But yeah, please be excited.
Speaker 1: Fantastic, fantastic. What about we talk about some video games.
Speaker 3: Ah, that's about.
Speaker 2: That, sound me.
Speaker 1: I can't actually talk about the details of this game,
Speaker 1: whether or not I like it, but I can say
Speaker 1: that I played it because I was in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: yesterday with Timorrow, Lucy and Nikki playing Split Fiction, and uh,
Speaker 1: maybe did you like it? Maybe I'll talk about that later.
Speaker 1: This motherfucker tried to get me.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Question, yes, should they have called it spliction?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, now it's so fun spliction. Did you get to
Speaker 2: talk to Joseph Ferris? I? Uh, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to do work. Hell yeah, you you
Speaker 2: looked like you were just having a good time. I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's a video game event right there.
Speaker 1: We'll we'll talk about that aspect later. Nicky and I
Speaker 1: did draw a crowd, uh, with our with with our
Speaker 1: our gaming. Yeah, Tam and Lucy talked to Joseph Ferris.
Speaker 1: I believe they'll have something on game Spot later this week.
Speaker 1: I will say that if you're gonna have a slider right,
Speaker 1: this is not a commentary, it's not commentary and split
Speaker 1: fiction or spliction as the cool kids are calling it,
Speaker 1: or or on ea.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, if you put a tomato on a slider, you
Speaker 1: need that bad boy to be a thin tomato or
Speaker 1: just overall a small tomato.
Speaker 2: You can't have a comically large tomato, like if that's
Speaker 2: what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 4: By slider in this instance, you know, like a book yep,
Speaker 4: sandwich yep?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Why did that take me so londer? I was like,
Speaker 3: what are we talking about?
Speaker 4: A slider like something an intensity slider boards thinking about Yeah,
Speaker 4: like the Gama slider. William, what do you mean a tomato?
Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Speaking about tomatoes? Tomatoes are an old fruit, right, they
Speaker 1: grew these for a very long time, and uh they're
Speaker 1: in Mexico.
Speaker 2: Okay, well maybe they just didn't have tomatoes, Dan Jesus
Speaker 2: never had tomatoes whatever, But Jeff Grubb did they have
Speaker 2: tomatoes and Kingdom Come Deliverance too?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I did not. Actually, it would have been just before
Speaker 2: they would have started getting tomatoes. Wow. I guess maybe
Speaker 2: that would have been the earliest part of them getting
Speaker 2: to trade it. Either way, that doesn't matter. You were
Speaker 2: just setting me up to talk about the video game.
Speaker 2: I okay, so I started. This is where I'm is
Speaker 2: where how I frame this? I am playing a bunch
Speaker 2: of other stuff that frankly I would rather be playing,
Speaker 2: but we can't talk about it yet. I got a podcast,
Speaker 2: so I'm like, let me talk about Kingdom Come Deliverance too.
Speaker 2: I said I would, I said I wanted to. I
Speaker 2: got a little bit of time. Really, What's what made
Speaker 2: it easiest was I was going to play it. I
Speaker 2: was gonna stream it to my steam Deck. I just
Speaker 2: assumed wouldn't be good on the steam Deck. But when
Speaker 2: I went to go do that, it gave me like, hey,
Speaker 2: here's the warning about how this game doesn't work. It's
Speaker 2: like all the settings, the graphic settings work great on
Speaker 2: the steam Deck. It's just some of the text as small.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh really, so I loaded up on the
Speaker 2: steam Deck, runs perfectly fine, really good way to play it.
Speaker 2: So I've been playing. I've been playing it there and
Speaker 2: I think my first impression is this is this is
Speaker 2: the big deal. Huh uh? Really what that is is
Speaker 2: like it's just kind of such a corn fest. It's
Speaker 2: really corny. It's cheesy. Constantly, the characters the way they
Speaker 2: interact with one another, pretty cheesy. The way that they
Speaker 2: tell their story, like it is, you know, the guys
Speaker 2: in a bad situation to start, and the camera zooms
Speaker 2: in on him and he talks about how when he
Speaker 2: started this adventure, he just thought he was going to
Speaker 2: have some sex and it would be kind of it
Speaker 2: would be maybe a few other things would happen, and
Speaker 2: that would be the whole adventure. How did I end
Speaker 2: up here? And then it cuts to a flashback from
Speaker 2: that point to how he got in that situation, Like
Speaker 2: that's the level.
Speaker 3: It's the person groove set up.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's what they refer to it as in storytelling
Speaker 2: in the literary mediums. Yes, so, and then it just
Speaker 2: kind of doesn't stop doing that sort of thing. It's
Speaker 2: very gimmick heavy early on, and it's all storytelling gimmicks,
Speaker 2: so tons of flashbacks. You are going to get a
Speaker 2: segment there early on where it's like, okay, we're going
Speaker 2: to let you choose your character. The way they do
Speaker 2: that is it is a conversation and people ask you
Speaker 2: a question about yourself and you answer it, and it's like,
Speaker 2: based on those answers, you're going to be a certain
Speaker 2: kind of character, and really, I think it seems like
Speaker 2: it's going to be pretty open after that. You could
Speaker 2: still like you don't have to just be someone who's
Speaker 2: go with the sword or someone who's good with a mace.
Speaker 2: You can try to do other stuff later. They're just
Speaker 2: kind of setting you up early on, but it was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: here's another gimmick. And then after that it was a
Speaker 2: kind of a long cut scene setting up like your
Speaker 2: band and like the trouble they're going to get in
Speaker 2: how things break down from there, And I'm just I
Speaker 2: still feel like I'm not playing the game, even though
Speaker 2: I am probably like three or four hours in now,
Speaker 2: and so it's like, oh, okay, I think I like
Speaker 2: that they are using a lot of these gimmicks, and
Speaker 2: they are doing a lot of these cheesy, corny things
Speaker 2: in this setting, like historical medieval fiction. That's something you
Speaker 2: don't see a lot of. I think also the cut scenes,
Speaker 2: for as corny as they can be with the blocking
Speaker 2: and how the characters move around and interact with one another,
Speaker 2: they are high quality, and so it's part of it's
Speaker 2: like almost like, hey, this is what a Final Fantasy
Speaker 2: game would feel like if it took place in this
Speaker 2: medieval setting, and so I like some of that because
Speaker 2: it feels very fresh, because we don't get a lot
Speaker 2: of these kinds of games in this setting. It's just
Speaker 2: not I don't know, it feels like the indie game
Speaker 2: that it is in a lot of ways, where the
Speaker 2: way that you would expect a game to function the
Speaker 2: way that it doesn't. And that doesn't mean it's necessarily
Speaker 2: doing things in a bad way. It's just like, you know,
Speaker 2: you go up to a character and you expect to
Speaker 2: have the context sensitive button tell you what you're gonna
Speaker 2: do with the character, like over their head somewhere easy
Speaker 2: to see. They bury that down in the corner, and
Speaker 2: so it's like if you're not looking there, you might
Speaker 2: miss an option. And you gotta just get used to
Speaker 2: that because that's the way this game works. And again,
Speaker 2: I don't think that's necessarily some like really terrible way
Speaker 2: that this is just their own user experience that they've
Speaker 2: built for this game. But it's just like, oh, that's
Speaker 2: become so standard in other games they would just hover
Speaker 2: that over a character's head so you never miss it,
Speaker 2: and I'm just so used to that that I'm like
Speaker 2: at a certain point, like this just feels awkward, and
Speaker 2: there's a lot of examples like that, I think, But overall,
Speaker 2: I'm beginning to like get into it. I'm just not
Speaker 2: falling in love with it. It's definitely not a love
Speaker 2: at first sight kind of game like I'm having with
Speaker 2: some others stuff.
Speaker 3: What's the game exactly?
Speaker 4: Is it just a Skyrim like is a sort of
Speaker 4: more narrative driven than that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's very narrative driven for sure, in terms
Speaker 2: of setting up a lot of stuff that your character's
Speaker 2: supposed to do. But then like there is definitely like
Speaker 2: an openness to to how you approach everything, and you
Speaker 2: can kind of you can do your own thing of course,
Speaker 2: and go explore and go hunting if you want. But
Speaker 2: I'm still like, like, in the process of getting to
Speaker 2: the open area. Yeah, it really drags at the beginning.
Speaker 1: Why was I under the assumption or I might have
Speaker 1: just been getting Kingdom Come Deliverance mixed up with a
Speaker 1: different game, But there's a medieval game game in a
Speaker 1: medieval setting where it's like multiplayer and you're swinging the.
Speaker 2: More.
Speaker 1: How is what I was thinking of?
Speaker 2: But also.
Speaker 1: Another one of those Okay, so it's nothing like either
Speaker 1: of those games.
Speaker 2: I mean, it looks like those games because it takes
Speaker 2: place in the same setting, but no, yeah, those are
Speaker 2: like just open combat games where anything can happen and
Speaker 2: players are doing stupid stuff. This is honestly much more
Speaker 2: like Red Dead Redemption.
Speaker 3: Too Times, which isn't a turn off to me anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's like, I think that there's points on
Speaker 2: the spectrum of trying to be like red DEDRONEMH two
Speaker 2: that can clearly work, and in the Redemption to two
Speaker 2: clearly works for a lot of people. So I'm playing
Speaker 2: this and keeping an open mind, and it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: I think they want me to play a certain way
Speaker 2: for the most part, and they definitely want me to
Speaker 2: like go and experience their their their big storytelling beats beats.
Speaker 2: That's the priority early on. I don't know if that
Speaker 2: changes later, but I think that this is mostly a
Speaker 2: game for people who are like, Hey, I really want
Speaker 2: a game to like just tell me a story, give
Speaker 2: me a character that I can play as, not that
Speaker 2: I can like define on my own terms. Just give
Speaker 2: me something to like to put me in the shoes
Speaker 2: of an actor in a story, and I'll be happy.
Speaker 2: And it's doing that, and I think it's doing a
Speaker 2: pretty decent job at that. Again, it's just not getting
Speaker 2: over the top for me personally.
Speaker 3: Also, real quick Grub, you alluded to other stuff that
Speaker 3: we can't talk about yet, but we I did just
Speaker 3: check the embargo. Hell yeah, as long as we say
Speaker 3: in a text caption or vocal so that review access
Speaker 3: was provided to us by Xbox, we can mention that
Speaker 3: we will be talking about Avowed and when we were
Speaker 3: talking about it, so that'll be later this week. We
Speaker 3: will be able to talk about AVOUD. The reason I
Speaker 3: don't have games on my thing this week is because
Speaker 3: I played twenty five hours.
Speaker 2: Of Avowed over this weekend.
Speaker 3: So we will talk plenty about Avoud.
Speaker 2: Very sokay, yep, yep. I think we're going to make
Speaker 2: that BCR right, I go throw that in there.
Speaker 3: But that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: Lovely, lovely. You know, Jeff Grubb, you are playing PC
Speaker 1: games and there's something you definitely need to play PC games,
Speaker 1: and that is a graphics card and you have here
Speaker 1: RTX fifty eighty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I figured I kind of like give my
Speaker 2: thoughts on this right now. It's complicated. The RTX fifty
Speaker 2: eighty is a very performant card. It does run games
Speaker 2: very well. I went from a forty ninety to a
Speaker 2: fifty eighty, so I don't actually see too much of
Speaker 2: a like the raw gains because it's they're pretty close,
Speaker 2: and really the fifty eighty falls up falls short in
Speaker 2: a lot of cases. So the reality is it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: we how do I talk about this card? Because there
Speaker 2: is the tendency in PC hardware realms to be like, okay,
Speaker 2: it's always a comparison game. How does this compare to
Speaker 2: the forty eighty? How does this compare to other similar
Speaker 2: cards of a similar price structure, And that works up
Speaker 2: to a point until you like, okay, how does that
Speaker 2: help people? Because if I say, well, just go get
Speaker 2: a forty eighty or a forty ninety, you can't those.
Speaker 2: They don't sell those cards anymore. They stopped making those
Speaker 2: because they knew they were going to be selling you
Speaker 2: the fifty eighty, and so you have to either go
Speaker 2: get them used, which I just I don't recommend for
Speaker 2: graphics cards these days because you never know what they've
Speaker 2: been used for. A lot of times they have been
Speaker 2: used for mining or they've been used very heavily and
Speaker 2: you're not going to get the long term support because
Speaker 2: you're buying an older card. So like, if this is
Speaker 2: the card you can get, does it do the job?
Speaker 2: It definitely does, And I think that you should be
Speaker 2: like willing to engage with like the DLSS four aspect
Speaker 2: of it. I think a lot of people just say, hey,
Speaker 2: what is the rendering performance before you turn on all
Speaker 2: those tricks? But who is going to play a game
Speaker 2: and buy a thousand dollars card and not turn on
Speaker 2: all the tricks. Everyone's going to do that. So the
Speaker 2: thing there is, if you already have a forty series
Speaker 2: card that you're happy with for the most part, you
Speaker 2: just got the DLSS for update, and that does if
Speaker 2: you're running a game that uses DLSS. This is the
Speaker 2: new version of DLSS, and all that's important there is
Speaker 2: they've changed the technology behind it so that it can
Speaker 2: basically do. It looks a lot better with ray tracing.
Speaker 2: It looks a lot better overall, really, and in some
Speaker 2: cases it's a little bit less performance, but overall it's like, hey,
Speaker 2: your graphics card got a major update and it's running
Speaker 2: very well. I would personally not rush out and get
Speaker 2: a fifty series card. They do seem like a stop gap.
Speaker 2: They're using the same architecture overall as the last generation,
Speaker 2: and the performances really do come from those tricks, and
Speaker 2: those tricks mostly work on older cards. The one thing
Speaker 2: that doesn't is multi frame generation. And this is controversial.
Speaker 2: It's some people. I personally have used it a couple
Speaker 2: of times and I'm like, this is working for me.
Speaker 2: It looks it makes the games look very smooth. I
Speaker 2: like it, but a lot of people can't stand it
Speaker 2: because it's fake frames and they can feel the delay
Speaker 2: and there's a slight delay. Now, the thing with multi
Speaker 2: frame generation is the delay is not any worse than
Speaker 2: it was when they were just generating one frame, but
Speaker 2: there was a little bit of delay for that one frame.
Speaker 2: So multi frame generation is just not a thing I
Speaker 2: think most people are going to go out and buy
Speaker 2: a card for and I think that's fair, especially when
Speaker 2: not every game is just going to work with it.
Speaker 2: Now you can do some stuff in your games with
Speaker 2: special software to get it to work in a lot
Speaker 2: more games, but again, who's going to do that? Really?
Speaker 2: That's an enthusiast sort of thing. So overall my thoughts are, Hey,
Speaker 2: if you need a graphics card, I would probably and
Speaker 2: you're in the range of spending like a thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: which is where the fifty eighty is at, the fifty
Speaker 2: eighty is probably still the choice because your only other
Speaker 2: option is the AMD like seventy nine hundred XTX I
Speaker 2: think it is. And this card, this card's better than that.
Speaker 2: This is a better card than that, unless you get
Speaker 2: a really good deal on that. I would probably just
Speaker 2: go with the fifty eighty now if if you were
Speaker 2: if you can wait, I probably would because I would
Speaker 2: imagine a fifty seventy Super or Ti down the line
Speaker 2: will be a lot more affordable and probably pretty close
Speaker 2: to the performance. They also could have a fifty eighty
Speaker 2: TI or a fifty eighty Super and that would be
Speaker 2: pretty good as well. I think I think that the
Speaker 2: next like half step that they do for this generation
Speaker 2: is probably where most people should jump on. Again that said,
Speaker 2: if you need a card, now, I think this is
Speaker 2: it's totally acceptable, it's beyond it's more than acceptable. It's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a computer that I bought that's on
Speaker 4: backward right now. But you know is a gonna be
Speaker 4: a fifty eighty and I felt good getting that, and
Speaker 4: then you know, when the review start coming out, it's
Speaker 4: been a lot of I don't know, it's been a
Speaker 4: lot of negativity, and like part of me is like,
Speaker 4: h this is a lot of money to spend. A
Speaker 4: kind of feel a little scared about the graphics card
Speaker 4: it got, but you know, I have thirty seventy TI
Speaker 4: I do want to.
Speaker 3: Upgrade, and it's kind of like, well, what else am
Speaker 3: I going to upgrade too?
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna you know, I'm not gonna get a
Speaker 4: forty series card right now, right, No, don't want to
Speaker 4: get kised one. So yeah, like I think, I think
Speaker 4: I'm going to be completely fine. And you know, I
Speaker 4: think a lot of stuff people mention, it's not stuff
Speaker 4: I will ever notice on the screen, right, Yes.
Speaker 2: And you will notice a severe performance bump from where
Speaker 2: you're at right now. It will be much better. So yeah,
Speaker 2: and I think that's the case for most people. So overall,
Speaker 2: it's pretty good. I think DLSS four kind of being
Speaker 2: a different thing, you know, separate from the card. I
Speaker 2: think that is actually a pretty good improvement. DLSS has
Speaker 2: been really good for a really long time, but there
Speaker 2: were some things like the ray tracing reconstruction they were
Speaker 2: doing where that could add some fuzz, especially to any
Speaker 2: objects in like the middle distance. This really does make
Speaker 2: it look better than ever has. They're using a completely
Speaker 2: different model than they used before, and I think it's
Speaker 2: even at a point where it is you know, I
Speaker 2: guess it's not brute forcing. This is a different thing,
Speaker 2: but it's brute forcing performance in games that I thought
Speaker 2: would probably never be able to get there, like Jedi Survivor.
Speaker 2: I was playing that as a test because that got
Speaker 2: an update to DLSS four, and I was like, hey,
Speaker 2: this is a game that hitches a lot. I want
Speaker 2: to see if this helps with that hitching. And it
Speaker 2: does for the most part. There are still times, especially
Speaker 2: when it's loading between cut scenes and it's about to
Speaker 2: load in the new level, the hitching still really hits.
Speaker 2: But there was a lot of just momentary frame hitches
Speaker 2: in the gameplay that was really distracting on PC and
Speaker 2: I really disliked it. And you still notice it sometimes,
Speaker 2: but it's greatly diminished with DLSS four. It's not a solve,
Speaker 2: but since I have it, I'm happy that it's there.
Speaker 2: It is not a reason to go out and buy
Speaker 2: a new card.
Speaker 1: Though, got it, got it well, from talking about the
Speaker 1: fifty series of graphics cards to a long running series
Speaker 1: of games. Mike Manata, you've been playing Tales of Grace,
Speaker 1: Grace's f remastered. Is this part of the greater Tales
Speaker 1: of franchise?
Speaker 4: This is, in fact in the Tales of franchise with
Speaker 4: Tales of Symphonia, Tales of Vesperia, and Tales of Kenzau.
Speaker 1: Miles tales per hour.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Joe jk uh, Yeah, you know I like the
Speaker 4: Tales of games. I'm not some super fan. I've played
Speaker 4: a few of them. The ones I've beaten were Tales
Speaker 4: Symphonia and Tales of Vesperia. Both those have gotten remasters
Speaker 4: on modern consoles. Of Symfonia ones a bit poopy because
Speaker 4: it's based off an inferior PS two version of the game,
Speaker 4: said the gyankey version, so doesn't round sixty fears per second.
Speaker 4: That Tales of Vesperia remaster, though, is fantastic. That was
Speaker 4: the game that first came out on Xbox three sixty.
Speaker 4: I think that's still the best Tales game that you
Speaker 4: could play. Unless you want something super modern, then you
Speaker 4: want to play Tales of a Rise, which is the
Speaker 4: newest one. Tales of Grace's was originally a wee game
Speaker 4: that didn't get localized here until they made Tales of
Speaker 4: Grace's F for the PlayStation three. What do you all
Speaker 4: think the F stands for? Because I don't know perfect.
Speaker 4: I think it's got to be for final fun. Was
Speaker 4: a good guest though, Okay I didn't hear that. I'm
Speaker 4: glad that you reiterated. Yeah, I was fuck step farther far.
Speaker 2: That's what you know.
Speaker 4: So you know, I do like when a title has
Speaker 4: a game has been remastered twice and it has two
Speaker 4: things in the title now, like noting that Tales of
Speaker 4: Grace's F Remastered Definitive Edition Game of the Year version
Speaker 4: remastered remastered.
Speaker 2: Says, which I think.
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I don't like that at all.
Speaker 1: It made me think of other words.
Speaker 3: And we're definitive edition.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Oh god that ship.
Speaker 3: So you know, I was happy that a new remastered
Speaker 3: of a Tales game came out. I was kind of
Speaker 3: curious because no one ever brings up Tales of Graces
Speaker 3: is like their favorite.
Speaker 1: Who was unaware of this and the Tales franchise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly saying.
Speaker 1: I've seen sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think part of it is because again, it was
Speaker 4: originally a wee game that got We only got here
Speaker 4: kind of well after the fact when that PS three
Speaker 4: version did drop. But I do hear people say nice
Speaker 4: things about the game. It is very pretty. It's got
Speaker 4: this kind of pastoral look to it that's pleasant. I
Speaker 4: think it's lighthearted even for tales standards. And the one
Speaker 4: thing I see everyone says is that this is the
Speaker 4: most you know if if you really are into the
Speaker 4: power of friendship kind of j RPG, this is one
Speaker 4: of those for you. It's sometimes those do hit, but
Speaker 4: those kind of jerrpits can also be pretty trophy. And
Speaker 4: guess what happens in like the first five minutes of
Speaker 4: this game?
Speaker 1: Do you lose memory? Well?
Speaker 3: No, but you find a character who has amnesia? Hell?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah?
Speaker 1: Right? Uh? What if what? I'm sorry to derail this mic,
Speaker 1: but like what if we're it's a summer game fest
Speaker 1: or game awards or an event we're all together and
Speaker 1: Dan has amnesia?
Speaker 4: Wow, I would convince him that he loves j RPG's. Like,
Speaker 4: the first thing you have to understand about yourself is
Speaker 4: that you only really care about one kind of video game,
Speaker 4: and it's it's this.
Speaker 2: I'll show him. Well, I feel like I feel like
Speaker 2: novels as well.
Speaker 3: I think there might be like a twenty year paper
Speaker 3: trail of me saying everything but that if I wanted.
Speaker 2: To do research though, So we'll keep you in a
Speaker 2: vacuum sealed bag.
Speaker 4: I'll vocals. I'll tell you Chris, right, remember that bit
Speaker 4: with your clones. That's that was Chris, the whole that
Speaker 4: now historical fact. Yes, that's right, thank you, all right, right,
Speaker 4: take the business, brother. Yeah, but I always like the
Speaker 4: TAILS games because to me, it's the it's the closest
Speaker 4: you get to having a bunch of action RPG elements
Speaker 4: to But still, when you ask me what the genre is,
Speaker 4: I'll say JRPG first. It still has a lot of
Speaker 4: those trappings, just in terms of the way the game
Speaker 4: looks and feels and plays, the way the menus are,
Speaker 4: the fact that you still kind of have these overworld
Speaker 4: areas and you when you know, when you start a battle,
Speaker 4: you go to a separate screen, all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 4: and once you get to a battle, it is that
Speaker 4: real time combat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the way this one works, you string.
Speaker 4: Moves together, and it's it's not just like, oh, mash
Speaker 4: the button to a combo. It can be that, but
Speaker 4: if you use different direction inputs with that, you kind
Speaker 4: of have different strings and each of those have different effects,
Speaker 4: and they start to cost more of this resource which
Speaker 4: you lose as you fight, so you have to guard
Speaker 4: sometimes and encourages you to play defensively to get that back.
Speaker 3: I'm like five hours in, so I'm sure there's.
Speaker 4: A lot of depth I'm going to discover later in it,
Speaker 4: but so far I am having a good time, even
Speaker 4: if you know, again it's a little trophy.
Speaker 3: Sure, it's a little.
Speaker 4: Predictable for a kind of ps PS three era JRPG
Speaker 4: sure did have a thing going on with them a
Speaker 4: bit where I think they did start to kind of
Speaker 4: fall for some of the worst tropes and they got
Speaker 4: you know, when we say something is very anime, and
Speaker 4: that's that does sound stupid because anime is everything. I
Speaker 4: think people know what we mean sometimes by that, right,
Speaker 4: and and this can be that just the way the
Speaker 4: characters look, the way that they emot. Again, it's like
Speaker 4: the same kind of archetypes that you maybe have seen before.
Speaker 4: But still there's not enough positive year that. I'm excited
Speaker 4: to play some more of it again. It looks very pretty.
Speaker 4: I like that pastoral, kind of kind of cutesy vibe
Speaker 4: to it. The main character has daddy issues, very exciting.
Speaker 4: Can't wait to see how that develops.
Speaker 2: Daddy issues of the year.
Speaker 4: Right and right now, all the characters are kids, but
Speaker 4: in the anime intro they're adults. So I think there
Speaker 4: might be a time skip skip.
Speaker 1: So hot, hen need a.
Speaker 2: Fifty eighty for that? Actually, so okay, I.
Speaker 1: Need a fifty eighty time skip. What if?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: What if people start calling you zuddy Mike saddy? But like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh zuddy.
Speaker 4: It sounds like I'm sutty, Like I'm like soapy or something, suddy,
Speaker 4: I'm sudsy. So it's a bad nice Yeah.
Speaker 3: Speaking about time skips, can I talk about Dragon Ball
Speaker 3: Z for a second.
Speaker 2: Sure, I don't think we could stop you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know the.
Speaker 4: Very end of Dragon Ball Z, so they killed Boo
Speaker 4: and then there's a ten year time skip yeah yeah uh.
Speaker 4: And then during the time your time skip, Vegeta and
Speaker 4: Bama go to visit Goku and they're like, Wow, you're
Speaker 4: a bad friend. We haven't seen you for five years. Wait,
Speaker 4: Gok is a bad friend. He could teleport, he could
Speaker 4: fly around the world, right, and it's what's a it's
Speaker 4: a type of peace. Bama is the first friend he
Speaker 4: ever made when he was like some brat who accidentally
Speaker 4: killed his grandpa and you're telling me, like, what's a month?
Speaker 2: You can't pop over there for dinner. I can't go
Speaker 2: to defend him. And then you said he could teleport.
Speaker 2: I'm like, ohh I could teleport, I'd be much better.
Speaker 3: Can he teleport or is it just the cloud?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: He is he flying the cloud?
Speaker 4: Then he doesn't anymore after like the first few episodes
Speaker 4: day yeah, yeah, yelly Goku because he learned it from
Speaker 4: the Aliens after he uh killed Freezer.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Transmissions car by the way, the INCID transmission coming on
Speaker 4: is still the top tier.
Speaker 1: M no, no no.
Speaker 3: The father son one, I know you like the father's
Speaker 3: son one.
Speaker 1: My father son Kam is the ultimate one. It's so good.
Speaker 3: Like Also, Goku's son go ten is best friends with
Speaker 3: Vegina son. You know they're hanging out constantly, Like you
Speaker 3: don't just pop.
Speaker 4: On over there while they're would be in the same
Speaker 4: room as his son.
Speaker 1: We know you would hate that. What's worse, he did it.
Speaker 1: I've said this before. Goku is the drake of anime
Speaker 1: because he's a dead beat father, right, and he did it.
Speaker 2: Yes, Vegeta turned into the camera and smile and say
Speaker 2: Goku yeah, because Goku didn't know he had a second child.
Speaker 3: Is there a dominic mysterio in dragon Ball? Speaking of
Speaker 3: the second child?
Speaker 4: Remember, they're gonna wish Goku back, so he could, you know,
Speaker 4: be routed, maybe be a father to his son. He's like, nah,
Speaker 4: I don't want to rather be dead cool that at
Speaker 4: the end of the time, skipp thing your dragon Ball
Speaker 4: z He's like, I'm gonna go trade this stranger and
Speaker 4: live with him. Now, buy a teenage sud and wife.
Speaker 4: See you later.
Speaker 2: Idiots, did you like leave YouTube on last night and
Speaker 2: like some four hour explainer video came up and you
Speaker 2: just forgot to turn on this?
Speaker 1: This has been marinate in his heart for years. This
Speaker 1: is his time skip. Here's here's here's what.
Speaker 3: Facebook has become for me this week? What uh the old.
Speaker 4: White people in my life complaining about the halftime show?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah, clips of dragon Ball and whatever, like
Speaker 4: the og dragon Ball clips come on I'm like, man, this.
Speaker 3: Looks way better.
Speaker 4: This looks animated better. It seems more fun. I should
Speaker 4: watch dragon Ball.
Speaker 1: Dragonball is great, dragon Ball is very fun. Dragon Ball
Speaker 1: Super has become an indecipherable mess. Uh yeah, but I
Speaker 1: still a lot.
Speaker 4: Of it just through these YouTube clips or these Facebook clips. Now,
Speaker 4: I think I got all the main sagas and storylines down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I don't. I don't remember if I
Speaker 1: ever watched GT to completion. I know there's like, Wow,
Speaker 1: a bad guy that's called Baby.
Speaker 3: I've seen.
Speaker 2: I've seen more GT than ever through these things too.
Speaker 3: Which is weird because GT's whole thing was supposed to
Speaker 3: be like Goku trucks and pan are flying through the universe.
Speaker 2: That's why it's a grand tour.
Speaker 4: And then after a bit of that, they're like, bring
Speaker 4: them back to Earth and have them fight a cell knockoff.
Speaker 3: Actually that'll be better. Yeah, people like that more Trunks gimmick?
Speaker 3: Is he someone's kid?
Speaker 1: D Oh? Okay, yeah, Trunks is hella cool? We can
Speaker 1: all agree on that.
Speaker 2: Well, did you just.
Speaker 3: Show up in like chop Fruits and half or something.
Speaker 4: I'm it's like when the Great Colleague showed up just
Speaker 4: immediately squash the undertaker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Trunks was cool. And then Trunks is a
Speaker 1: brady kid that grows up to be kind of a
Speaker 1: dufus because he didn't have to face the strife that
Speaker 1: future Trunks.
Speaker 3: So he was rich. He was like a rich kid
Speaker 3: that just like didn't he had an easy life.
Speaker 2: He's one of these millennials.
Speaker 1: Yea, a neo baby, as I.
Speaker 3: Know, you're a history of Trunks fan jam.
Speaker 1: Come on, god, you still love that that character?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Okay, cool a good?
Speaker 2: Wait real quick? Can we dissect what just happened? Mike? Yes,
Speaker 2: did you look at the list of games decided it
Speaker 2: was too short and said, hey, we needed diversion.
Speaker 3: Or no, I was gonna do that no matter what. Hell,
Speaker 3: just time skip came up because I've been I have
Speaker 3: been stewing on this for a bit. I brought Timeskiple, Like,
Speaker 3: here's my.
Speaker 4: Chance to scream about Goku being a bat five years.
Speaker 4: You can't go visit two of your best friends who
Speaker 4: are already hanging out with your son constantly.
Speaker 3: A you know how to teleport? Can't go say hi?
Speaker 3: For five years?
Speaker 2: What is he doing?
Speaker 3: I know he learned to train.
Speaker 4: He's training eighteen hours a day just outside of the
Speaker 4: hut he lives in.
Speaker 3: Come on, take a break.
Speaker 1: The there's a new dragon Ball anime. I forget what
Speaker 1: it's called.
Speaker 4: Di uh uh yeah, Diamond, diamond something right, Dima Dima
Speaker 4: was not like Demon.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Dai katana, but that's not it.
Speaker 1: That's that's a different there. No, that's John Romero's dikatan
Speaker 1: right right right. And now they're all little babies, which
Speaker 1: is fun.
Speaker 4: It's fucked up that the gimmick of the new thing
Speaker 4: is like gook is a kid to get i'ment bitch,
Speaker 4: that was Dragon Ball GT. You already did that.
Speaker 3: Mike reminded me of a little existential moment I had
Speaker 3: this weekend when you talked about, you know, old people
Speaker 3: on Facebook hating the halftime performance. I possibly got a
Speaker 3: text from an older person during the performance. I don't
Speaker 3: get this. I'm just crabby about this. I don't understand.
Speaker 3: This isn't music. You know this that who could say asleep?
Speaker 3: He ledein Yeah, And I remember getting so annoyed in
Speaker 3: thinking and don't worry. I came to the realization you
Speaker 3: will all have immediately where I was like God, damn it.
Speaker 3: Not understanding something or not liking it, or loudly proclaiming
Speaker 3: that you don't understand it or like something. It's not
Speaker 3: a personality trait. This is not interesting. This is not
Speaker 3: adding anything to any conversation. You're just it's not interesting
Speaker 3: that you don't fucking get it. And then I got
Speaker 3: to the same It was like, oh oh yeah, fire
Speaker 3: Escape podcast of the I recorded that before they say
Speaker 3: we're for losers and nerds. I know I had had
Speaker 3: that thought. M yeah, okay, perhaps perhaps I should take
Speaker 3: this knowledge and do something with it.
Speaker 2: I also had an existential real realization over the weekend.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about uh, dikatana and I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: now and I hadn't realized this before. Maybe you all did.
Speaker 2: John Romero's Dikatana, John Romero's Big Sword. It's the name
Speaker 2: of the game a penis joke. Wow, wow, right, not
Speaker 2: even a joke.
Speaker 3: His penis.
Speaker 2: It's just not his John Romero's penis.
Speaker 1: They should just name it that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, basically they did suck it down.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Jesus Holy Ship, this is a wow.
Speaker 2: We should rename Miles Prowers because John Romero's penises. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Realizations in the future no longer Phoenix down moment.
Speaker 1: Here's how we're gonna do well on YouTube. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna take that realization and turn it into a video essay, okay,
Speaker 1: and then drubs grubs give a good video essay face
Speaker 1: to the camera.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's when I realized it was about his penis.
Speaker 1: And then that's when we would play the clip of
Speaker 1: I jerked off at a rainforest cafe, Jack Top in
Speaker 1: a rainforest ca. Sorry, jacked off, I didn't mean.
Speaker 3: I specifically made this button so it restarts every time
Speaker 3: you press it, so I can do this.
Speaker 6: Hey, Jack BikeE Jack Bobie Jack bopike jacko Jack pop
Speaker 6: in a rainforest.
Speaker 2: All right, damn it?
Speaker 1: Well, speaking about penises is a game that is uh
Speaker 1: has a distinct lack of penises, which is citizens Sleeper
Speaker 1: too talked about this last week, continuing to play this. Yo,
Speaker 1: they should put this out on a phone. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: should one hundred percent put this out on a phone, because, like, UH,
Speaker 1: I would much rather play a game where I'm reading
Speaker 1: a lot on a phone or a tablet versus perhaps
Speaker 1: a resident evil on my phone. Yeah, or like like
Speaker 1: even a final, big final fantasy game I'm probably not
Speaker 1: going to play one of those. I would read because
Speaker 1: the gameplay in Citizens sleep Er two incredibly light in
Speaker 1: terms of what you're doing. You're just picking options and
Speaker 1: rolling dice. But I just want to read and I could.
Speaker 1: I realized I could do this on my steam deck,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to bring my steam deck with
Speaker 1: me everywhere, and I generally will have my phone on
Speaker 1: me and just just please please do that for me. Guys,
Speaker 1: do that for me.
Speaker 2: Sur That hasn't happened, you know, Citizen at least was
Speaker 2: a Citizen Sleeper one.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 2: That makes a lot of sense. It feels like the
Speaker 2: kind of game that does just end up on because
Speaker 2: it sold pretty well, and that's usually the threshold if
Speaker 2: you sell enough to be like, we're going back, we're
Speaker 2: making a sequel, reinvesting in the first one. We're adding
Speaker 2: like voice lines like they did with disco Elysium. Yea,
Speaker 2: now I'm just a Discolysium. Did that get released on phone?
Speaker 2: I don't know, So I don't know. Maybe there's no
Speaker 2: maybe there's no market or in their opinion, I don't know,
Speaker 2: but you're right it would work well on phone because
Speaker 2: I feel like.
Speaker 1: There was that there was a period of time when
Speaker 1: Apple Arcade was new and fresh in some games were
Speaker 1: simultaneously releasing on Apple Arcade as well as Steam and Console. Sure,
Speaker 1: I would like Citizen Sleep or two on my phone,
Speaker 1: please it continues to be great. I haven't completed a
Speaker 1: cycle yet, but I have stared deep into the void
Speaker 1: and experienced many an existential crisis as I am befriending
Speaker 1: all of these people and coming to terms with my
Speaker 1: own reality and perhaps stopping bad habits. But I'm not
Speaker 1: going to do that today. But what I am going
Speaker 1: to do today is here Mike's experience with the Monster
Speaker 1: Hunter Wild's beta. Y'all played this on UPF last week.
Speaker 1: If folks missed that, yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Me, Jeff and Sean and actually are Christian.
Speaker 4: We're playing the beta, and you know, it's basically that
Speaker 4: same beta. It might be entirely that same beta that
Speaker 4: we had before, but this time I did get to
Speaker 4: play with friends that aforementioned crew, which to be clear,
Speaker 4: was kind of painful to figure out. And you know,
Speaker 4: it's one of those things where it's like our numbers store.
Speaker 4: It's like, am I are we the idiots? Are we
Speaker 4: the dumb dumbs and.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I maybe, but this.
Speaker 4: Seems like I could be a like a little bit
Speaker 4: more sense because either it's like join a link show
Speaker 4: or whatever and join the World Link Show or like
Speaker 4: the Field Link Show things like this, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: what does all that mean?
Speaker 3: I just clearly I want to go beat up a
Speaker 3: monster with my friend.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I understand why they do it now this way,
Speaker 2: because it's like, Okay, there could be this lobby that
Speaker 2: we are all just hanging out in, like our whole
Speaker 2: discord could be hanging out in this lobby. But then
Speaker 2: when it's time to actually form a party and go out,
Speaker 2: well you want to have a small, smaller party within
Speaker 2: that lobby. I get it, but I think like it's
Speaker 2: just the way it was presented was a bit confusing,
Speaker 2: and it wasn't like easy to invite people through Steam
Speaker 2: and again, like Christian Sand was our settings, there was
Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff that I think was like both
Speaker 2: wrong with what we were doing and the way the
Speaker 2: game presents it. However, people will get over that hump
Speaker 2: because it's Monster Hunter and it's worth it, sure, and
Speaker 2: once you do, once you understand what to do, it
Speaker 2: is relatively seamless and worked really well, and I was
Speaker 2: having a really good time, right, yeah, go ahead, like
Speaker 2: you please.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, yeah, that's the more important thing,
Speaker 4: right because that, Yeah, that was a headache for a bit,
Speaker 4: and it's always flustered when you're like trying to make
Speaker 4: content and you can't get things figured out. But once
Speaker 4: he got through that, and it was just, you know,
Speaker 4: a group of us fighting a big monster together.
Speaker 3: That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: What weapons did y'all? Pick?
Speaker 3: I was doing the godlong sworts like a katana, which
Speaker 3: was fun kind of you know, it seems like I
Speaker 3: wasn't doing a lot of stagger damage necessarily, but I
Speaker 3: could move pretty fast for such a big weapon and
Speaker 3: do a lot of damage. I was also using the
Speaker 3: bow because in this game, your your mouths whatever they're calling, yeah,
Speaker 3: whatever they're calling.
Speaker 4: The big sort are using the dick katana. You can
Speaker 4: go over to your mouth and push a button and
Speaker 4: equip a second of different weapons. You basically have two
Speaker 4: loadouts you can switch between. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 4: I never used these range weapons in these games. That
Speaker 4: always sounds lame to me, and that's not what I
Speaker 4: pictured a monster hunter but I tried the long boat
Speaker 4: and that was actually a ton of fun. It is
Speaker 4: almost more mid range ye than anything else. You know,
Speaker 4: you're you know, you point in shoot, but there are
Speaker 4: still combos to it, and these long kind of you know,
Speaker 4: higher risk, high reward kind of charge moves. You can
Speaker 4: fire a homing shot so that your shots will target
Speaker 4: a creature more easily. I was surprised how good that felt.
Speaker 4: It's nice to know that I could switch between those
Speaker 4: two things at any point that I wanted to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was. I think I was using the white
Speaker 2: bow gun. I think I was using one of the
Speaker 2: bow guns. And I've mostly picked that because I knew
Speaker 2: we'd be in my point of view so we can
Speaker 2: kind of see what everyone was doing up close while
Speaker 2: I was standing about mid range away from the monster.
Speaker 2: But I really enjoyed it. The focus thing that like
Speaker 2: brings the wounds into view really is a cool feature
Speaker 2: because it's like, okay, well I'm gonna move around and
Speaker 2: get my sites set back on this thing, and now
Speaker 2: let's let's focus in on it so I can, you know,
Speaker 2: and that's just really aimed down sites is all that
Speaker 2: really is, and it makes the wounds glow red, and
Speaker 2: that would say, okay, I have something to aim for
Speaker 2: and I you know, of course, the the monster Hunter.
Speaker 2: The weapons have their own functions, like I have a
Speaker 2: specific little mini game I need to do with my
Speaker 2: gun to really hammer home on those wounds. And it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: just trying to aim at it and hit it with
Speaker 2: your big, your big, your big attack, which you have
Speaker 2: a limited number of unless you sort of do something
Speaker 2: which I was still figuring out, and whenever I would
Speaker 2: hit it, it would like completely destroy the wound, do a
Speaker 2: ton of damage, and that felt very satisfying. And then
Speaker 2: the rest of the time I was kind of doing
Speaker 2: pretty mediocre damage, but I was able still to like
Speaker 2: kind of all right, let's focus on this tail. And
Speaker 2: it was fun things to be like, oh yeah, Mike
Speaker 2: mentioned the tail could get knocked off, Like I remember that.
Speaker 2: All right, let's all hone in on the tail. And
Speaker 2: when we like successfully knocked that off, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we accomplished our our own goal that we decided we
Speaker 2: were going to try to do on this in this battle. Now,
Speaker 2: let's actually take down the boss. And it felt like
Speaker 2: we were all playing our roles and I was just
Speaker 2: having a really good time.
Speaker 1: The gang gets some tail together, that's right, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: did get some tail. I'm very excited for this to
Speaker 1: come out. I am doing the thing where I want
Speaker 1: to try a different weapon. I want to maybe go
Speaker 1: with like the heavy bowl gun because I saw like
Speaker 1: the different amotypes and that seems fun to try and manage.
Speaker 1: But I think I'm just gonna swing away with that hammer. Baby,
Speaker 1: you need to swing away. Did y'all get enough materials
Speaker 1: to dress up your hunters and dumb outfits or not?
Speaker 4: They didn't even have crafting turned on yet. Like a
Speaker 4: good they had some outfits just already in your stash
Speaker 4: so you can mess around with it a little bit.
Speaker 4: But yeah, Gemma's workshop wasn't open yet.
Speaker 1: Were y'all able to ride your mounts together or I
Speaker 1: mean like all four together?
Speaker 3: Yep, we're all on our separate mounts.
Speaker 2: Like what's like?
Speaker 3: What's you're in a group?
Speaker 4: You basically share the kind of the whole zone, like
Speaker 4: where the monsters are roaming. It is a different instance
Speaker 4: whenever you're in that town. That's why it's kind of
Speaker 4: two different group settings. And yeah, that's sort of what's
Speaker 4: going on there, you know, My favorite thing is just
Speaker 4: that you still can just accept missions and post them up,
Speaker 4: but you can just you know, look on the map,
Speaker 4: find a monster, and if you started attacking it after
Speaker 4: a little bit, it's like, okay, this is your mission,
Speaker 4: mission started, kill this monster.
Speaker 2: Great yep's And once the mission started, it was like easy,
Speaker 2: easier for like Christian was joining us, and he would
Speaker 2: use that to get in because now the mission had
Speaker 2: started and there was a mission for him to join.
Speaker 2: So the game was handling a lot of that stuff
Speaker 2: automatically in the background while we were just actually playing.
Speaker 2: That was nice, That was really neat. He also had
Speaker 2: a lot other I'm sorry, the hunting horn, yes, which
Speaker 2: just looked like a giant saxophone. Yeah, and that rules.
Speaker 2: That's an incredible thing.
Speaker 1: I love when my Palica will bust that thing out
Speaker 1: and just like all right, cool, you're playing a fun song.
Speaker 1: Let's fucking go buddy.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And that's such a good one when you're in larger groups,
Speaker 4: because it's whole thing is based on the combos you do.
Speaker 4: You do different groups buffs, right, and like he's even
Speaker 4: kind of making these circle zones that if we stood
Speaker 4: and we got buffs. So that's just a really neat weapon.
Speaker 1: I think the focus mode because I've seen some people
Speaker 1: that are new to the Monster Hunter series complain that
Speaker 1: there's no real good lock on. I think that being
Speaker 1: the Monster Hunter's version of it will help on board people.
Speaker 1: I'm god, guys, I'm so fucking excited. I'm very upset.
Speaker 1: I don't have it in fantasy. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: go hunt things with y'all.
Speaker 3: Let's see who got monster Oh, how you did? Uh?
Speaker 4: Lucy didn't know. I named my team Nonster Hunter Wilds.
Speaker 4: But then I had the first round picks. I picked
Speaker 4: the three D Mario game That's got me out. Then
Speaker 4: Lucy was second and picked Master Hunter. Well, so it
Speaker 4: was the second pick of the entire draft.
Speaker 1: Well, I want to fight Lucy. Now. I know I'll lose,
Speaker 1: but I still want to fight, and so does Mike
Speaker 1: Manatti because Mike Manatti has been playing Street Fighter six.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, I played this game quite a lot when
Speaker 4: it first came out and enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: How's my Yeah. All I want to know is great
Speaker 1: that that.
Speaker 4: Was kind of thing like that. You know, we've had
Speaker 4: a bunch of DLC characters already and none of them
Speaker 4: have really spoken to me. I didn't care too much.
Speaker 4: Terry almost, but my you know that's a yeah, that's
Speaker 4: a good character. It's also a familiar character I've played.
Speaker 4: I've never played any of d S and Case super deeply,
Speaker 4: but I played enough of them here and there that
Speaker 4: I'm generally familiar with my move set, the thing she
Speaker 4: does with her fans and whatnot.
Speaker 3: And yeah, they.
Speaker 4: Ah, that's a joke. Yes, that's great, It's it's funny. Man,
Speaker 4: Just it can't believe they made a video game character
Speaker 4: that I'm blushing.
Speaker 3: Just talking about.
Speaker 2: It's like I'm stammering my word though. That's literally who
Speaker 2: like the whole character is meant to do that.
Speaker 3: Dan looks very confused. I'm googling.
Speaker 2: You won't be impressive.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 4: There are multiple times I was like playing this and
Speaker 4: watching her and her like Jim Shorts and the loading
Speaker 4: screen be like, man, even this would do nothing for Dan.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 3: I'll say it does nothing for me, but I'm happy
Speaker 3: it does things for you.
Speaker 2: Mike.
Speaker 1: You're not alone, right, You're not alone. I'm with you.
Speaker 4: Well, she's a very fun character to play as though,
Speaker 4: like her fans, you can kind of send out a
Speaker 4: bunch of them, and if they get blocked, if you
Speaker 4: kind of do a charge move, they can sort of
Speaker 4: bounce up and hit them again. So basically you can
Speaker 4: kind of get your opponent blocking a lot, so you
Speaker 4: can do interesting mix ups. She has pretty good speed
Speaker 4: in terms of her kind of dash thing whatever that's called,
Speaker 4: so you can get in there pretty quickly to do
Speaker 4: throws and whatnot. You know, I'm still very was pretty
Speaker 4: bad at it. I was able to play through arcade
Speaker 4: mode maybe a couple online matches for Funzie, but not
Speaker 4: do amazing or anything. But if I was to jump
Speaker 4: back in and ranked in any substantial way, I could
Speaker 4: see myself having a good time playing as my Lovely Lovely.
Speaker 1: That about does it for game this week, folks. There's
Speaker 1: embargoes abound. We'll talk about more stuff on BCR this
Speaker 1: week and next week the games are coming out.
Speaker 2: I played one more inter Magnolia. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Lilies.
Speaker 2: It is a sequel to Ender Lilies. Although yes, and
Speaker 2: you know, I heard about this from the besties. Russ
Speaker 2: Freushnick is a Metroid Vana freak, and he was talking
Speaker 2: it up and all of them were super into it.
Speaker 2: Said things like, oh, the best combat in a Metroid
Speaker 2: venue ever. So I'm like, well, I need to judge
Speaker 2: that for myself, and it's got you know, it doesn't
Speaker 2: start off with that, like you need to like build
Speaker 2: up and like build your character. But you could see
Speaker 2: how it works where it's like you get these spirits
Speaker 2: that can attack attack on your behalf, but they immediately
Speaker 2: are like, hey, which button do you want to assign
Speaker 2: that attack to, implying you're gonna have four different option
Speaker 2: options at all these different times, and the second option
Speaker 2: you get, the second attack option you get is like
Speaker 2: this big thrusting fist punch that has a cool down
Speaker 2: on it. So you can already see it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: that's very different than the quick sword attack. I just
Speaker 2: had orders of Ecclesia coded a little bit, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: a little bit. Also a very near coded. Actually it
Speaker 2: has a lot yes, like there's a monkey lie everywhere.
Speaker 2: It's a bunch of robot shells that are like very sad.
Speaker 2: So that's near to me. I'm gonna try to play
Speaker 2: a little bit more of it didn't immediately grab me,
Speaker 2: but that's also what they were saying on the Besties,
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna see it through and see if I
Speaker 2: can get some of these more complicated combat options. But
Speaker 2: the way it starts as a metro vane like what
Speaker 2: doesn't feel immediately as good as Metroid Dread or something
Speaker 2: like that. But it doesn't feel bad either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you say best combat in metro Vanya, I
Speaker 3: mean Prince of Persia to us crowned. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: I think we can mention pretty freely on here now
Speaker 3: Giant Bombs the game of the Year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: That that is so far and beyond the best combat
Speaker 3: I've seen in any two D game.
Speaker 4: Actually that I'm just like immediately skeptical. If you say
Speaker 4: something is better at common than it, I'd like to
Speaker 4: see it and like to try for myself to see
Speaker 4: how it measures up. But man, it has has a
Speaker 4: lofty shoes to fill.
Speaker 1: Exactly before we go to break. I also got a
Speaker 1: little bit of time. I haven't spent too much time
Speaker 1: in it. But keep driving is uh A. You're just
Speaker 1: gonna drive a buick across the country and figure out
Speaker 1: your feelings but also manage inventory. It's like fucking vibes
Speaker 1: FTL a little bit. It looks right, Yeah, Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: managing like your car, the peeps in it, all this
Speaker 1: all the jazz in it. I'll try and spend more
Speaker 1: time with it so we can talk about a bcr
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll stream it. Uh, maybe we'll stream a bunch
Speaker 1: of games on the website this week because games are
Speaker 1: starting to come out. It turns out while.
Speaker 3: That they're doing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought I.
Speaker 3: Thought we were done.
Speaker 2: How we were done?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Uh, folks, We're gonna take quick breaking break and
Speaker 1: we will be back with some video game news.
Speaker 2: Something bringing Hey Jack Bop and a raincourse.
Speaker 1: Mike, you need to stop telling us that.
Speaker 3: All right, we know, we understand, we get it.
Speaker 1: We're all very proud of you. Okay, that's not the word.
Speaker 2: We're all very machine. We just know that crowd that
Speaker 2: was built around Nikki and Jan well, we're gonna do
Speaker 2: that for you the next time we're at Rainforest ca
Speaker 2: jury On, tell us that get whacket.
Speaker 3: We like to get a crowd at.
Speaker 2: I can't say now you talk about.
Speaker 3: It's because you were because you're good at a video.
Speaker 4: Game, Jeff Grubb with the news, because you're Goober's in
Speaker 4: a video game.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: PlayStation state of play returns this Wednesday with a forty
Speaker 2: plus minute show. Soon in our Interactive Entertainment will stream
Speaker 2: a new State of Play presentation on Wednesday, guys, February twelfth,
Speaker 2: at two pm Pacific time, five pm Easter. So we'll
Speaker 2: talk over that. I think we'll get that set up.
Speaker 2: It'll be a good time after a blight club. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: stay in the gimmick.
Speaker 1: Yeah for you to introduce that. Yeah, and you're not
Speaker 1: going to be heated at all from like perhaps being
Speaker 1: frustrated for two hours.
Speaker 2: No, very unlikely. I mean I'll beat it, like because
Speaker 2: it's a blakening round done by yeah.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, just like.
Speaker 2: Just like, oh wow, I am excited about this. They
Speaker 2: need to talk about games. I'm excited about you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you do you think any Xbox titles will get
Speaker 1: featured on the State of Play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably.
Speaker 1: Jones.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: They're not going to like announce some like game has
Speaker 4: been in for the not sports because like a vow
Speaker 4: for instance, which is coming out very soon, has not
Speaker 4: had a PlayStation version ever announced, right, something like that.
Speaker 2: That's true, but they got to like, you know, Indiana
Speaker 2: Jones is coming to PlayStation very soon. Be surprised that
Speaker 2: that shows up in there. Yeah, and then people are
Speaker 2: in chatter asking about PC ports. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: I have no idea. I'm really hopeful Demon Souls gets
Speaker 2: announced PC.
Speaker 1: Would love to play.
Speaker 2: Demon Souls on PC. Oh, sure, that'd be cool, But
Speaker 2: I mean beyond that, like, do we expect anything major?
Speaker 3: Well, the last one was in September, and that was
Speaker 3: also forty minutes long, and it was you know, kind
Speaker 3: of a lot of talking about some games that we
Speaker 3: knew about, showing off some that were at that point
Speaker 3: coming out relatively recently. Some you know, like they're talking
Speaker 3: about my Sofner wild to that one. But you know,
Speaker 3: they did have the very big reveal at the end
Speaker 3: of that one of Ghosts of I always say it wrong,
Speaker 3: yo tie yo te yo te kam Right, So I've
Speaker 3: got something similar like, well, hear about like you know,
Speaker 3: Melgar Solid Delta for sure, because that's happening pretty soon.
Speaker 3: The trailer party just went up on psn early. There's
Speaker 3: like a Snake Eater.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it.
Speaker 2: Went up psn early, but honestly, I don't remember did
Speaker 2: they put it out.
Speaker 3: It was PSN and then it had the release date
Speaker 3: on him for August.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and then they'll but they'll definitely have at
Speaker 4: least one big announcement again Tranding, completely new who Tranding.
Speaker 3: They just said they're doing like a big live stream
Speaker 3: from south By Southwest with Kajima. So I don't know what.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe maybe we get a tease for a south
Speaker 3: By Southwest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe let's go to south By Southwest. Sure we should,
Speaker 2: that'd be great, man.
Speaker 3: I think Hotel podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love a good hotel podcast last night, thank you?
Speaker 2: Yes, normal crew on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 4: Know, there's some third parties that might be interesting to
Speaker 4: hear more from, like yeah, Metal Gear, we'll see, But no,
Speaker 4: are we gonna hear some more about some of the
Speaker 4: sun Hill games from Konami. There's those rumors about a
Speaker 4: triple A Castlevania game. Do we here, you know, Capcom?
Speaker 4: I think we're all kind of wondering. Hey, He's like,
Speaker 4: you almost always have a some kind of resident evil.
Speaker 4: We know about looking forward too, so it's almost a
Speaker 4: little weird at this point. That's been quote unquote so
Speaker 4: long since we've heard them, and that's a new one
Speaker 4: that could happen here with a residuval nine or another
Speaker 4: remake probably nine right now, that would be a big deal.
Speaker 2: I think the thing I wonder where they're at is
Speaker 2: they probably a few months ago, maybe before Concord, we're thinking, okay,
Speaker 2: in that state of play, and early twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: that's where we'll go hard on Marathon in fair Games. Oh,
Speaker 2: if that's what they have for this state of play
Speaker 2: and they don't have any of those other like big
Speaker 2: pillar games, people are going to be like, wait, what
Speaker 2: you're still doing this. I thought you would given up.
Speaker 2: And they, of course they haven't fully given up on
Speaker 2: live service games, but they also have to get those
Speaker 2: games out and they do want to try to like
Speaker 2: focus on them a little bit. So I think they
Speaker 2: might be between a rock and a hard place a
Speaker 2: little bit. So Marathon might be a huge hit. Who knows,
Speaker 2: it's it's bungeee, it's something fair games, well, fair games.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm still holding on to hope and I hope
Speaker 1: Mike will still share a pow pow fruit with me
Speaker 1: that we might see some Kingdom hearts for stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's another one that it's been a long time.
Speaker 4: They don't have a big Kingdom Hearts or get big
Speaker 4: found fantasy game sort of looming over instead like this
Speaker 4: is you know, as far as we know right now,
Speaker 4: Squaring is next big game, right, There's a dragon Quest twelve.
Speaker 4: I think even the dragon Quest people recently are like, yeah,
Speaker 4: we're gonna release details on that one very slowly, so
Speaker 4: don't expect anything big there. This could be a good
Speaker 4: opportunity to start talking about Kingdom Hearts for in a
Speaker 4: more substantial way.
Speaker 2: Like Sony Santa Monica. Do we know what they're working on?
Speaker 3: Well, because we haven't heard about the Corey Ballrock game,
Speaker 3: right right.
Speaker 2: That's and that's been quite some time. Actually, yeah, I
Speaker 2: is it like the thing from More of the Rings
Speaker 2: or no, it's like not exactly like that. Now, let's see.
Speaker 4: So you know, there's all this Insomnia stuff as Omniac
Speaker 4: Wolverine maybe, especially if that was going to be thinking
Speaker 4: is that Venom game actually happening? And there's some reason
Speaker 4: think not, but there's reasons to think yes, especially like
Speaker 4: Miles Morales was so good. I don't know why you
Speaker 4: wouldn't want to do another Miles Morales size project.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean with the way that Spider Man two ended,
Speaker 1: they kind of have a setup to do a two
Speaker 1: plus type of game, right, well.
Speaker 4: Plus, you know, it's not that this is not much
Speaker 4: a spliering where but there's like a whole section inspider
Speaker 4: Man two where he plays Venom for a bit. He
Speaker 4: has a very distinct move set and you do it
Speaker 4: for like twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: Right, Oh yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's like, didn't really put all that work into figuring
Speaker 4: out how Venom would play just for that.
Speaker 3: It seems like maybe not.
Speaker 1: Would they ever circle back to that multiplayer game that
Speaker 1: they were working on for.
Speaker 2: I think I think they will at some point, but
Speaker 2: they you know, they're just so busy. They have uh,
Speaker 2: you know, after this, they're making X Men games right there.
Speaker 2: They have a long line of things that they are
Speaker 2: going to try to get done, and I think a
Speaker 2: multiplayer game would probably be a distraction in their opinion.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: We could see more of Ghosts, We could see maybe
Speaker 4: more of Intergalactic from Naughty Like you think there used
Speaker 4: to be rumors about some kind of in Charted remake
Speaker 4: or something like that. Do you think there's anything with
Speaker 4: the Charted right now?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I mean maybe, but but probably not,
Speaker 2: or if it is, it's probably pretty early.
Speaker 1: I've kind of had an appetite to play through and
Speaker 1: Charted again, so I wouldn't mind a remaster.
Speaker 2: Just go play on Charted four.
Speaker 1: I want to climb a train.
Speaker 2: Jeff Grub, You're right, watch them watch the movie.
Speaker 1: I did recently, and then I was upset all over again.
Speaker 2: It's okay.
Speaker 3: Mark Wahlberger is a mustache at the end of It's
Speaker 3: gonna be great in the seat.
Speaker 2: How smart. I think we could get like Retoo Neural.
Speaker 3: That yeah, criminally underrated. I think I love return He
Speaker 3: was radio right when yeah, yeah, we're like, I'll tell
Speaker 3: you that was game of the year that year.
Speaker 2: I just played Hades and I was like, oh, this
Speaker 2: is like every run is the same. Compared to Hades,
Speaker 2: where everything could feel different every time. It just was
Speaker 2: like a kind of a bummer after a while.
Speaker 3: Is really good. But I might take Returnal over it.
Speaker 3: You would take it turn over Haiti would be close.
Speaker 3: It'd be close. It's been a while step playing you there.
Speaker 3: But I really fucking love the tone of Returnal a
Speaker 3: lot in the just the world and the environment and
Speaker 3: everything that, Like, I don't know, the Haities stuff didn't
Speaker 3: really do it for me.
Speaker 1: They added multiplayer to that, right, I'm not imagining that
Speaker 1: tried it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we could try that before it's like.
Speaker 5: A co op tower thing. Yeah, yeah, we should try that, jeff.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, I saw some other third party companies here
Speaker 4: that might be working on something big, like maybe.
Speaker 3: We all know, we all know, sod just tell me
Speaker 3: something about Bridgewister. You said you're get to it for me,
Speaker 3: you promised me.
Speaker 2: I asked a couple of sources and one of them
Speaker 2: said lull nerd and then didn't say anything else. So
Speaker 2: is that that's a shoot, that's for real? They really
Speaker 2: said that, You're right? Not at no, But I can't
Speaker 2: help you there, not yet anyhow. Hey, I I hope so, buddy,
Speaker 2: for your sake, Yeah please uh anyway. Some other Sony news,
Speaker 2: a new PS five and Astrobot bundle is reportedly coming soon.
Speaker 2: Sony is reportedly releasing this PS five bundle with a
Speaker 2: download code for Astrobot. The bundle will also include a
Speaker 2: standard PS five console with a disk drive, but not
Speaker 2: a special Astrobot dual sense controllers I think are sold
Speaker 2: out right controllers? Yeah? Oh?
Speaker 1: Did they?
Speaker 2: I think? I like, yeah, I got I got one
Speaker 2: in the box here and I was my I guess
Speaker 2: cousin in law, I don't know he was asking for.
Speaker 2: He got real obsessed with Astrobot. I'm like, I'll just
Speaker 2: give him that. They can't find it, no problem. Then
Speaker 2: stuff like looked up the price and says, no, you
Speaker 2: cannot give him this five hundred or control. Oh yeah, wow, Okay, anyway,
Speaker 2: I think that's something that could show up at that
Speaker 2: state of play.
Speaker 4: We'll see it makes a ton of sense. That's the
Speaker 4: smartest packet game you can do right now. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's the most PlayStation game imaginable here too.
Speaker 1: Make a make a Kendrick lamar Bot please?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 2: Is he signed to Sony with Maybe they could actually
Speaker 2: make that happen.
Speaker 1: I mean Kendrick and Astrobot both short kings.
Speaker 2: That's right, man, astro just wearing the jacket and the
Speaker 2: in the boot cut jeans. A classic Sony rhythm game.
Speaker 2: Action game could be marching to PlayStation. Plus this is
Speaker 2: pat Upon three. Uh three was like a was that
Speaker 2: a psame.
Speaker 3: PSP was still on? Pat Upon three was still PSP?
Speaker 2: I believe Yeah. I think they might have done it.
Speaker 2: I might might have released it elsewhere after that after
Speaker 2: some time. Uh but yeah, looks like it it's going
Speaker 2: to be coming back. I know there's some pad Upon
Speaker 2: freaks out there. I never played.
Speaker 3: They're called Greg Miller.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some Greg Miller's out there.
Speaker 3: I was a local Roco guy when it comes to
Speaker 3: PSP kind of a rhythm.
Speaker 1: It's a game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I always associate pad Upon and look a Roko with
Speaker 4: each other. Yeah, yeah, I like pad Upon, I definitely
Speaker 4: kind of. I don't think I even quite beat the
Speaker 4: first one and had my fill of it, so like
Speaker 4: they kept making them. I was a little bit like,
Speaker 4: I don't know if I need more pad Upon. I
Speaker 4: bet it's been so long now that if I went
Speaker 4: back to one and just went to a pad Upon three,
Speaker 4: I would have a good time.
Speaker 2: I was over on my DS playing my Elite Beat Agents,
Speaker 2: looking down, thinking pathetic, playing a real rhythm game.
Speaker 1: One day.
Speaker 2: One day's amazing to play?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 3: Is that something I could play on that DS?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was hoping like something like, well I have
Speaker 3: ds' is like with that? I have that? Wait, I
Speaker 3: have the fucking cart like nineteen DS is. Why don't
Speaker 3: I just play the game? How could I do an
Speaker 3: analog or maybe the trim? You why it's no I
Speaker 3: just have the game. You could also just use.
Speaker 1: Your phone, your steam deck could also do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, Yeah, I think it's a good game on
Speaker 4: shoot hard where those d S d S game.
Speaker 3: Oh chat reinding me. I reviewed this game, right, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I guess I could play this back in the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when y'all were playing the lead Beat Agents.
Speaker 4: That was a stylus only game, right. Oh yeah, as
Speaker 4: a stylist joint for sure. I guess you could use
Speaker 4: that thumb strap if you were a real freak like
Speaker 4: the okay, the thumb strap.
Speaker 3: I gave it a seven point eight, criticized the track selection. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I didn't like skater Boy because the song was bad.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I think I probably just wanted it all
Speaker 3: to be like Credence or something. Yeah, that's probably that era.
Speaker 3: Yeah okay, yeah sure.
Speaker 1: Did any of you guys ever play the DS Guitar
Speaker 1: Hero game? I wonder Yeah, on tour on deck kids
Speaker 1: right back, it was open all time, bad commercial.
Speaker 3: I've tried to find this on YouTube recently, where it's
Speaker 3: a dude at like an outdoor diner type thing. If
Speaker 3: anyone can find this, I remember this being legendarily bad
Speaker 3: and a girl's looking over at him and he's like
Speaker 3: tapping at the screen and stuff, and he starts doing
Speaker 3: like a solo and she's like impressed and comes and
Speaker 3: sits next to him, and they're like rocking out like
Speaker 3: at a diner. And it's I think it was presented
Speaker 3: on ironically and oh, yeah, I'm gonna pick up this
Speaker 3: chick with my guitar skills.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I had the same experience in the in I was
Speaker 4: gonna say the Rainforce Cafe, playing Phoenix right and screaming
Speaker 4: objection loudly in front of a group of girls.
Speaker 3: We loved it.
Speaker 1: A girl that I may have or may not have
Speaker 1: had a crush on made me feel stupid when she
Speaker 1: showed me her brain age score versus mine, Like, oh
Speaker 1: you're you smart smart huh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just a younger brain. That's not your fault.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that stuff.
Speaker 4: You know, It's like, you guys have one friend who's
Speaker 4: like really into IQ tests.
Speaker 3: Or what you're like the acronym of like introvert something.
Speaker 2: This is Briggs.
Speaker 3: Yeah that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: How I love how Harry Potterhouses is just like Myers Briggs.
Speaker 2: Oh that the whole series is very like White Girl's
Speaker 2: psychology coded absolutely all right for resistance, I'm sorry. What
Speaker 2: we start the brain.
Speaker 3: Age and we fit age from the same company.
Speaker 2: They are obsessed with our God.
Speaker 1: This switch to is gonna heal us spiritually spirit age?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you want to have as high as possible,
Speaker 2: you have an old soul?
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 4: For serious I gotta have the lowest spirit age of
Speaker 4: the group, right, My spirit age has to be so young.
Speaker 1: What do you like? Is a younger spirit score better?
Speaker 2: Only a young spirit where jack off? Is this a.
Speaker 3: Morality score or a religion score?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: What the spirit wisier is the worst? Wouldn't you Yeah,
Speaker 3: wouldn't you have the most youngest?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 3: I thought we wanted to all the other examples, young
Speaker 3: is better. So what you're saying like you're the most
Speaker 3: holy of us all you're.
Speaker 2: The most innocent? Yes? No, what have you done for
Speaker 2: the Catholic? And this episode might come on?
Speaker 3: I read a tweet from the Pope and liked it.
Speaker 1: Oh like the black beanie was a bit Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, you're Hollywood Vegas Jerome. You said you want to
Speaker 4: heal Era. Well here it is.
Speaker 2: Sonny rejected to pitch for Resistance FORMNI founder. Yeah, any
Speaker 2: of you guys, Resistance heads.
Speaker 3: I like the first one a lot because it was
Speaker 3: a launch game for the PS three and it had
Speaker 3: like a like a it was like twenty plus multiplayer,
Speaker 3: which wasn't really a thing that happened as much, and
Speaker 3: I'm liking it. You could check the controller to get
Speaker 3: the grenade tag off you, all right, the six axis supports.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Two I thought was fine. I didn't play as much
Speaker 3: as one, and then I reviewed three, and I remember
Speaker 3: I was there was one of the times I was
Speaker 3: like significantly lower than the like Metacritic average, and so
Speaker 3: all of the like Sony Heads and Resistance really came
Speaker 3: after me for because I gave it a seven out
Speaker 3: of ten and most people were giving it like nine
Speaker 3: and people.
Speaker 2: Out of five.
Speaker 3: Yeahh is Resistant three talked about as a nine out
Speaker 3: of ten these days?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: No, I stand by. I was right, It's it's fine,
Speaker 3: it's a fine. Yeah, I don't want to like crap.
Speaker 2: It was this is too much.
Speaker 3: But I never quite understood.
Speaker 1: Resistance was the game with the gun where you just
Speaker 1: like shoot it away and then you pick a target, right,
Speaker 1: you could use to.
Speaker 3: Tag on it, so you like get like like a
Speaker 3: homing tag on it, and then wherever you're shooting, the
Speaker 3: general area would kind of like jump.
Speaker 4: On our just pointing up and looking at pictures. This
Speaker 4: is like it's the epitome of the piss filter eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, and then like later on they're like, well,
Speaker 4: if we had some like blue flares, that's exciting too,
Speaker 4: that'll help make it really pop.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think Resistance is fun and good, but I definitely
Speaker 4: resent it for kind of being a stand standard bear
Speaker 4: for a lot of the worst.
Speaker 3: Tendencies of Triple A games at that time too. Yeah right,
Speaker 3: I rubble everywhere.
Speaker 4: Everything's piss filtered and gray, and you know those apartments
Speaker 4: like these are the people who made Ratchet and Clink
Speaker 4: and now here's this and I think I definitely like
Speaker 4: it more when they do Ratchet and Clear.
Speaker 2: Anyway, they rejected it for timing and market opportunity, basically
Speaker 2: just saying opportunity costs. We'd rather you take this time
Speaker 2: to work on anything else, and they did, and they had.
Speaker 3: What was this about, Because there's a there's a bit
Speaker 3: there when Samniac was kind of making some flubs with
Speaker 3: you know, I just have arat a clink, ratcha clake
Speaker 3: all for one, not very good.
Speaker 4: Then they had that weird flour player game that like
Speaker 4: got rebooted before it came out that nobody he liked.
Speaker 3: Or remember when I ratchet that All for one.
Speaker 4: There's All for one, but there's another four player called
Speaker 4: that was an original I.
Speaker 2: P fuse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, fuse though, but people don't remember that was Overstrike.
Speaker 3: It's supposed to be Overstrike and when the.
Speaker 4: Strike and then the yeah, yeah they did our reverse
Speaker 4: Borderlands on it, yeah, which is a very strange decision.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and some of.
Speaker 3: The gones we're okay infused. I remember that was the
Speaker 3: interesting one because me and Ben Hanson went out to
Speaker 3: Insomniac for that because we did a game and Former
Speaker 3: cover and so it's one of those things where you're
Speaker 3: in the room. It's a four player thing. So they
Speaker 3: set up like me and Hanson and a couple Insomniac people,
Speaker 3: and it's just like whenever you're playing Cooper multiplayer, like
Speaker 3: at the studio with people who made the game, you
Speaker 3: definitely get that like E three just like whoa, yeah,
Speaker 3: get to the chopper, you know, like that type of
Speaker 3: thing was just and hands and playing like all right,
Speaker 3: the gun's kind of okay. Okay, and like the two
Speaker 3: other people on our team just like all right, god,
Speaker 3: we got extract, we gotta do this thing. It's like, okay,
Speaker 3: all right, look between the journalists and and the team there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: very excited.
Speaker 1: They have a related story to that later this week.
Speaker 2: Man, very fun.
Speaker 1: Not in the same way. Not in the same way.
Speaker 2: Still. Yeah, yeah, So this just sounds like this happened
Speaker 2: after twenty eleven, that period when they were done with
Speaker 2: Resistance and hadn't really moved on to anything else at
Speaker 2: that point. So yeah, it's been a while.
Speaker 3: It had a big VR thing for a bit there too.
Speaker 3: Kind of yeah, they were super Man.
Speaker 1: A robot thing.
Speaker 3: What was the name of that game of your robot
Speaker 3: and VR?
Speaker 4: I know I can't kind of like it, but yeah,
Speaker 4: probably spell shooting TV.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, trying to bring the IY back judgment.
Speaker 2: You ever see like any of those like YouTube shorts
Speaker 2: about people playing the VR spell casting games against one another.
Speaker 2: Kind of yeah, okay, well we should do dragon Ball.
Speaker 2: We should do that. We should see if we can
Speaker 2: get that game.
Speaker 3: We should do what it was the ps VR Harry
Speaker 3: Potter No Wonder book. What in VR was it? It
Speaker 3: was like a gimmick again book it was with the eye?
Speaker 2: Wasn't an eye was with ee toy? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a Harry Potter one.
Speaker 4: Actually yeah, god, the weird Harry Potter games that you
Speaker 4: got a Hogwarts legacy, but you also get like that
Speaker 4: quiddage game that came out and then nobody cared about.
Speaker 3: Yeah some eye toy thing. Oh wow, I just searched
Speaker 3: first thing. I looked it up on YouTube and I
Speaker 3: see me in a Harry Potter hat and scarf and
Speaker 3: glasses playing this.
Speaker 1: So that's hell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, very cool.
Speaker 2: Is uh is that eye toy? Or am I thinking
Speaker 2: of that eye? A judgment game?
Speaker 3: I have Judgment? Was the card game card part? Yes,
Speaker 3: three card games? That was eye toy. It pointed down
Speaker 3: at the grid. It was like a five five grid.
Speaker 3: I know because I pulled this out at New Year's
Speaker 3: Eve at a party. The cloth and I just walked
Speaker 3: my hands into his mid conversation and just threw the
Speaker 3: cloth at him. He just looked at me and then
Speaker 3: he looks. He looked up and he like nodded across
Speaker 3: the room like I recognize I have Judgment.
Speaker 2: When I see it, I recognize it.
Speaker 1: Yes, Dan, Uh what was your existing knowledge of the
Speaker 1: Harry Potter universe when you did this video that you
Speaker 1: you share, Oh, this is it in Harry Potter.
Speaker 3: Okay, no, and no, it it's always been nothing.
Speaker 2: It's still nothing.
Speaker 1: You look great in it, though, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Gryffindor, Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3: Just Slytherin Dan He's I think I've heard that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I did read the first book just to see what
Speaker 3: the hell was. I read that like a few years ago,
Speaker 3: a few years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, you just like really enjoyed her politics.
Speaker 2: You're like that was the thing.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it was in New York because I ever
Speaker 3: heard listening to the audiobook walking to GB Easts.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: I remember when I was in England for the first
Speaker 3: time when I was eighteen, and you know, they had
Speaker 3: the Harry Potter books and it was Harry Potter and
Speaker 3: the Philosopher's Stone. So I was like, hah, I bought
Speaker 3: it and read again, like this is a very different
Speaker 3: and interesting experience.
Speaker 2: Uh GTA six is still on track to release in
Speaker 2: the fall of twenty twenty five. Take two says they
Speaker 2: did their earnings report and I'm pretty insistent about this.
Speaker 2: I think that right now. They probably do think this
Speaker 2: game's coming out later this year. I they made a
Speaker 2: big delay once already. Internally that was not like, oh
Speaker 2: we announced it for twenty twenty four and it's coming
Speaker 2: out in twenty twenty five, but internally they were expecting
Speaker 2: it in twenty twenty four. So maybe this game really
Speaker 2: is gonna be ready. Are you guys like preparing yourself
Speaker 2: for that possibility.
Speaker 4: No, I've come out this year and you're gonna lose
Speaker 4: a ton of Fantasy critic points.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be hilarious. GTA six will come out, Metrod
Speaker 3: Prime four will not.
Speaker 2: That's another Fantasy critic reference everybody in case you're.
Speaker 1: I just want GTA six to just come out this
Speaker 1: year already so we can all stop talking about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well people will talk about it for ten years.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, like, and we'll talk about it for yeah, twelve,
Speaker 1: twenty years, and.
Speaker 3: We'll do a feature where were able to go up together,
Speaker 3: and yes, of course I'll be a fuddy duddy and
Speaker 3: be on.
Speaker 4: I don't get these games are so popular and it'll
Speaker 4: be Fantastict's.
Speaker 3: Be real, how much of Mike is because it's just
Speaker 3: like adult problems and crime and.
Speaker 4: Stuff, not even that, but like I don't know if
Speaker 4: it's like the British humor or whatnot, but like a
Speaker 4: lot of the same reasons why I never like, like
Speaker 4: when Conquer's Bad fer Day came out right and I
Speaker 4: was fourteen, I should have been the target audience for it.
Speaker 3: I remember at the time thinking this shit's really immature.
Speaker 3: Oh I was sixteen, and I fucking loved it.
Speaker 4: See So is that saying with like the Psugta games,
Speaker 4: because there's a lot of that, Like you know, we
Speaker 4: run by a billboard and it's some stupid it's like
Speaker 4: a parody of like somebody putting a pickle in a doughnut.
Speaker 3: Right, every number is sixty nine, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Every number sixty nine. And then I I did. I
Speaker 4: kind of just constantly rolled my eyes out a lot
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird. I rolled my eyes at GTA stuff
Speaker 3: back then, just because it did seem like really you know,
Speaker 3: low effort jokes with the like sixty nine and stuff
Speaker 3: and all that. But something about Conquer, I think I
Speaker 3: like British humor, and it also was just constantly referencing
Speaker 3: like it's started with the clockwork horriage reference. It doesn't
Speaker 3: like all these movies are saying Private Ryan and the Matrix,
Speaker 3: and like, I think I liked that more.
Speaker 4: I probably could have gotten over myself a little bit
Speaker 4: with Conquer.
Speaker 2: But Conquer insists upon itself, for sure.
Speaker 3: It does a terminator thing where a hay bail turns
Speaker 3: into a terminator and it's talking like an't like.
Speaker 4: There's it's good at references in there. It's yeah, they're
Speaker 4: all good games. And when I play a GTA, I
Speaker 4: generally have fun. I am just sometimes and I do
Speaker 4: get it, but I am often just like, oh so
Speaker 4: this this is the one. This is the biggest thing. Okay, uh, all.
Speaker 2: Right, we'll stick with this. General company rock Steady is
Speaker 2: back working on a single player Batman game. It's claimed.
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone's.
Speaker 1: Going to be too surprised to hear that, right, No, No,
Speaker 1: you know, can you imagine like they have to get
Speaker 1: it right right or else this time Batman will be dead? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it could be kind of you know, like that
Speaker 4: Dragon Da situation. Right, you go away from a thing
Speaker 4: for a while to try do some other things. Those
Speaker 4: don't really work out, and now is it is it
Speaker 4: kind of too late? I mean even Arkham Night, which
Speaker 4: sold really well and was you know, reviewed kind of well,
Speaker 4: you know, it didn't. It doesn't seem as well regarded
Speaker 4: as the previous ones. So maybe you're already on a
Speaker 4: little bit a downward slope. They're like, well, what do
Speaker 4: you do to make one of those exciting again? But
Speaker 4: you know, for me, like, oh, maybe make one more
Speaker 4: like Arkham Asylum, make it a bit more kind of
Speaker 4: contained and metro ving. And I just know that that's
Speaker 4: a hard sell internally and probably even to a lot
Speaker 4: of players.
Speaker 3: Now, that is the one that, like, I liked all
Speaker 3: three of those games a lot. I was even higher
Speaker 3: on Night than I think a lot of people were,
Speaker 3: but I do think it was diminishing returns every time.
Speaker 3: The one I like the most was Asylum, just because
Speaker 3: it was that more contained, you know, like yeah, like
Speaker 3: on paper, like when you would hear about Arkham City
Speaker 3: being like, oh my god, you're gonna get to fly
Speaker 3: and it's like the Mario World Cape and it's a
Speaker 3: whole city, Like yeah, that's awesome. But man, Asylum was
Speaker 3: so focused and so good for it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely liked all of them.
Speaker 4: I mean I wish they maybe do something really interesting
Speaker 4: that they probably won't do, like a Batman Beyond kind
Speaker 4: of thing, because that's going to you know, because.
Speaker 2: They then that's it's gonna be like whoa.
Speaker 3: We tried doing one of the kind of one of
Speaker 3: these without Batman and it was called Gotham Nights and
Speaker 3: nobody really cared.
Speaker 4: So let's not do that again. Gosh, I don't know
Speaker 4: what direction you take. I bet it's going to just
Speaker 4: be another big, open world Batman game, and that could
Speaker 4: be a ton of fun. I like Arkham City a lot,
Speaker 4: and I also like Arkham Knight more than most I think, Dan,
Speaker 4: I remember being a little confused why everybody hated the
Speaker 4: Batmobile stuff so much.
Speaker 3: I thought it was pretty fun, that was really fine. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I think it had a lot of early
Speaker 3: hate because of performance issues, Yes.
Speaker 4: Performance issues, and yeah, you know, the story wasn't amazing.
Speaker 4: Perhaps I wonder if it's like, is it enough just
Speaker 4: to be like and now here's the bat Wing and
Speaker 4: that's the whole thing too.
Speaker 3: No scale it back scale, it back felling bigger as
Speaker 3: a problem for sure.
Speaker 1: I So I like the Batman the movie, but I
Speaker 1: don't want them to have to go for that. I
Speaker 1: maybe would be down for like a year one Batman,
Speaker 1: though not in the same tone as the Batman.
Speaker 3: Oh like an Arkham origins.
Speaker 2: I do think that I hope they kind of change
Speaker 2: up their own a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: For as much as I like Arkham Asylum and then
Speaker 2: enjoyed City and I never really played Night, I always
Speaker 2: just think that their take on it is always so
Speaker 2: aggressive and I don't know, immature. Again, I've always just
Speaker 2: wish they could change it up a little bit. I've
Speaker 2: always hated.
Speaker 1: How the Joker looks like, yeah, two pointy, very very point.
Speaker 4: You kind of like pointy Joker. I think I have
Speaker 4: to disagree with you there. I think that's kind of
Speaker 4: my favorite joker.
Speaker 2: I think I just associate it with all like of
Speaker 2: their I don't know again, Maybe it's because it's a
Speaker 2: British studio. Maybe some of that's just coming through and
Speaker 2: I'm like, that's fine, But I just kind of wish
Speaker 2: they would try something new. You want Adam West.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they could nail the tone of
Speaker 1: that now, that'd be really difficult.
Speaker 3: Is there a game? Is there a Bad Batman game?
Speaker 3: With the Jared Letter likeness because I just want to
Speaker 3: do Mike Blake Club and him have to be the
Speaker 3: Jared Letter Joker.
Speaker 2: No, I mean we could just any game with the Joker.
Speaker 2: We could just make him do that one.
Speaker 3: It's not so funny that we could just.
Speaker 2: Make him do it. I think.
Speaker 1: Isn't there a villain's lego game like DC? Yeah?
Speaker 2: There is, but I'm like it's bad.
Speaker 3: Fine, can you just show up for a BombCast like
Speaker 3: Jared leto Joker. Let's all do it.
Speaker 1: We all do it right.
Speaker 3: I've heard you have extra white face paint. No, I
Speaker 3: do that away for sure.
Speaker 4: If I would love one that actually kind of looked
Speaker 4: more like the Shoemaker Batman films with the giant statues.
Speaker 2: Sh that would look so good in a video game.
Speaker 3: I unironically appreciate and love the Shoemaker Batman movies. And again,
Speaker 3: I'll say it again. Watch Batman and Robin now maligned
Speaker 3: back in the day, you watch it now. I watched
Speaker 3: back to back with Batman Forever, and I used to
Speaker 3: be a big Batman Forever mark. Batman and Robin is
Speaker 3: a more fun watch.
Speaker 2: It's because it's like Manna from Heaven. Now, because it's
Speaker 2: like they don't make movies like not that anymore. And
Speaker 2: it's like and it's like, oh my god, this is
Speaker 2: this is what we had, and we gave it up
Speaker 2: for this swingy shit on it.
Speaker 3: We drove it out of town with pitchforks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were so many is a bat credit card
Speaker 4: and it's like, no, this.
Speaker 3: Watch it and expect the tone of like the sixty
Speaker 3: six movie, you know, like and then you're you'll have
Speaker 3: a good time.
Speaker 1: Bat skates would kind of fucking rip though, just.
Speaker 3: Like Astrobot when you just walking the icy automat.
Speaker 1: Doesn't pure Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 2: Sticking with DC, Wonder Woman game has reportedly been rebooted.
Speaker 2: Why relatively very recently apparently been rebooted, has a new director,
Speaker 2: and it's still years away from release. The game was
Speaker 2: announced in twenty twenty one. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: guys know this. It's twenty twenty five now. I don't know.
Speaker 2: They've spent one hundred million dollars on it. This all
Speaker 2: comes from Jason Treyer Bloomberg. Uh. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 2: if this ever comes out.
Speaker 4: I mean, you already, like, man, during that time, you
Speaker 4: already completely missed that moment when wonder Woman was popping off. Yeah, right,
Speaker 4: like we already had the rise and fall of wonder
Speaker 4: Woman with.
Speaker 2: Suicide Squad over again. Maybe not as bad as Suicide Squad,
Speaker 2: but yeah, no.
Speaker 3: God, that's a god, that's a problem.
Speaker 4: And meanwhile, like the one superhero that seems like it's
Speaker 4: probably gonna have a moment again, it's Superman, because that
Speaker 4: James Gun movie looks like it's good. Yeah, I guess. Gosh,
Speaker 4: everybody was always like, why does it rock? Say you
Speaker 4: just make a Superman game, And I guess we're still
Speaker 4: not gonna go that route either. Oh, I wonder this
Speaker 4: wonder Woman game ever comes out.
Speaker 3: They made that three sixties Superman game. I remember that
Speaker 3: being Superman Returns. Yeah it was bad. It wasn't sixty
Speaker 3: four bad. But yeah, he does not have a good
Speaker 3: video game mystery.
Speaker 2: No, No, I.
Speaker 3: Had the game as a kid, my friends did, and
Speaker 3: he had to go into the phone boost to change
Speaker 3: and yeah, yeah he was really cheepy looking.
Speaker 1: Its bizarre. God, that second Wonder Woman movie is absolute
Speaker 1: dog shit is so bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I do like watching I'm not like a
Speaker 4: giant Red Letter Media fan by do like watching their
Speaker 4: video on that wonder Woman movie.
Speaker 1: It's pretty funny. The best part to come out of
Speaker 1: those Wonder Woman movies though, is the I guess Wonder
Speaker 1: Woman's theme where it's.
Speaker 3: Guitar thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the guitar is good. Whenever it chows up in
Speaker 2: the other movies, it's always good too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I remember it's Galga Dot.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, she tried to act and oh PSN
Speaker 2: went down over the weekend for like almost a whole day,
Speaker 2: almost twenty four hours. I don't do any of you
Speaker 2: guys get hit by the key numbers. And they used
Speaker 2: to go down for a month back when we were
Speaker 2: a real country. Yeah, apparently maybe similar reasons. The reporters
Speaker 2: always like they did this as a precautionary measure because
Speaker 2: they were breached. There was a security breach. Now they
Speaker 2: said nothing was taken again like this, I think this
Speaker 2: is there's still like some stuff to be shared about this.
Speaker 2: But either way, they were down for quite some time.
Speaker 2: A lot of people could not play their games, especially
Speaker 2: anything they owned digitally. And and yeah, it came back
Speaker 2: up online around Sunday sometime right or was it, yeah,
Speaker 2: Friday to Saturday. Either way, it was down for almost
Speaker 2: twenty four hour Yeah, okay, so it was Friday to Saturday,
Speaker 2: from like one evening to the next evening. They might
Speaker 2: extend some stuff like that Monster Hunter Beta specifically because
Speaker 2: of this, they're going to get people five extra days
Speaker 2: of PlayStation Plus if you have PlayStation Plus, that sort
Speaker 2: of thing. So they had to make good here. But
Speaker 2: this was like one of the bigger outages we've had
Speaker 2: in quite some time. Both Xbox Live and PSN have
Speaker 2: been relatively stable for the last couple of years, so
Speaker 2: this one cost a lot of headaches. Uh. Finally, another
Speaker 2: Resident another classic Resident Evil game, has been rated for
Speaker 2: cringing consoles. I think we talked about Resident Evil six
Speaker 2: last time. This time, Resident Evil five has been rated
Speaker 2: for Xbox Series X and S by the ESRB, suggesting
Speaker 2: a potential remaster or some big re release or something
Speaker 2: like that five and six could easily show up at
Speaker 2: that state of play tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Right right, you think, No, No, these are just kind
Speaker 3: of remasters, is maybe even generous?
Speaker 4: Yes, exactly ports, and they've already been ported, like they're
Speaker 4: already playable on next.
Speaker 3: I mean I've played all of r E five co
Speaker 3: op like two or three years ago online in the LA.
Speaker 2: Correct and so like whatever these are, it will be
Speaker 2: very minor, like just made maybe native versions for PS
Speaker 2: five and Xbox Series X and S. Why they're doing that,
Speaker 2: who knows. Maybe it's just something like, oh, yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: just make sure that this is good to go, has
Speaker 2: a few extra features maybe, uh, and really this is
Speaker 2: just a setup. Hey, this is stuff we're doing with
Speaker 2: Residevil while we wait for here's Resident Evil nine or
Speaker 2: something like that that they could shoot announced tomorrow.
Speaker 4: And then like in terms of the remake, I think, gosh,
Speaker 4: it changes every time there's a report. But the latest
Speaker 4: rumor is Resivil zero now is the one that's going
Speaker 4: to be remain next. Before that was Code Veronica. Before
Speaker 4: that people were saying five.
Speaker 1: So yeah, never played zero, GiB it'd neither.
Speaker 3: Fine. I still want.
Speaker 1: That's the train one, right, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 4: Switch between them and Rebecca's there with a guy with tattoos.
Speaker 3: It's a cookies and Cream. It's a cookies and Cream
Speaker 3: like train.
Speaker 2: I think I think a remake of Zero would be
Speaker 2: awesome because I bet they make that game very good this.
Speaker 4: Time, right, because yeah, people have some complaints about it,
Speaker 4: so uh, you can make it better.
Speaker 2: I'm done with the news, done with the headlines. Back
Speaker 2: to you, Jen.
Speaker 1: Wow, Well, Jeff Grubb, We're gonna go. Uh he'd be
Speaker 1: read some emails after this. Brick and Break Emails. BombCast
Speaker 1: at giant bomb dot com is the email address to
Speaker 1: send your emails to. You can write in about any
Speaker 1: and everything, whether you've got a question, you've come up
Speaker 1: with a fun game, or you want to perhaps rank
Speaker 1: the staff members on different criteria. We love and appreciate
Speaker 1: all of your email Spirit score spirit Yeah, yes, yes.
Speaker 4: Yes, apparently as you guys think it's better if it's higher,
Speaker 4: I guess I get it, like we if.
Speaker 2: You are an actual like a shoot reverend, a shoot monk,
Speaker 2: shoot priest, your email about our spirit score will be
Speaker 2: ranked higher in our system.
Speaker 1: So yes, yes, yes, uh so you know we we
Speaker 1: allow any type of email to hit the BombCast email inbox.
Speaker 1: So why didn't know and send an email this week?
Speaker 1: What the heck?
Speaker 3: Yeah we were This is official call for emails.
Speaker 2: Oh look at Carmen San Diego review code.
Speaker 3: Does it come with a with a encyclopabia?
Speaker 2: I don't know, red happens with that? And like it's
Speaker 2: rockapella that.
Speaker 4: The word Britannic, Britannia, Britannica. Maybe this is just a
Speaker 4: very white thing of me very Uh.
Speaker 1: Might be careful.
Speaker 3: I'm like, that's a very important sounding word, Britannica Encyclopaedia.
Speaker 4: Of course, this has to be the most important book ever.
Speaker 2: The BombCast email is how I found out that former
Speaker 2: os U head coach Jim Tressel has been appointed Lieutenant
Speaker 2: govern state.
Speaker 1: Actually, yes, so I've had to do a lot of
Speaker 1: calling of the BombCast email address, and this is just
Speaker 1: going to invite more bat ship things to it. But
Speaker 1: we can go down the line of newsletters. We want
Speaker 1: to go that ch I met Jim Tressel.
Speaker 4: He's he was dan at YSU, where I'm alumni for
Speaker 4: a long time. That was his gig there after coaching
Speaker 4: Ohio State University for a good while there.
Speaker 1: Watch Time Magazine sent an update. Uh you we can
Speaker 1: go buy these old watches. There's a lot of five
Speaker 1: hundred protect Philippe Ellipse watches available. Also Hasbro Pulse transformers
Speaker 1: Hearts of Steel toys available soon.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: That one transformer is a train and rob.
Speaker 2: For Cleveland dot Com. Because it wasn't me.
Speaker 1: I someone keeps signing us up for that because I
Speaker 1: have unsubscribed for it Samsung. You can switch up and
Speaker 1: save get up to one thousand dollars in total savings. Wow,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, thank you for sending us that email.
Speaker 1: A President's Day sale I think is coming up if
Speaker 1: you want to buy a mattress, buy flowers for your
Speaker 1: loved ones. Guys, voodoo donuts, he's gonna have.
Speaker 3: We had.
Speaker 4: I had a meeting for work this week and I
Speaker 4: was like, all right, not to sound incredibly single, but
Speaker 4: is Valentine's Day this week?
Speaker 3: I'm not got a good laugh.
Speaker 1: Yep, I don't. I'm not going to click on this
Speaker 1: because I don't want to give anyone money. But in
Speaker 1: this one email newsletter, it just says, put bananas in
Speaker 1: your garden and just watch.
Speaker 4: And it's like a life hack and it's just like fertilizer.
Speaker 4: Not because they will sprout more bananas, you know what.
Speaker 3: It's good. I didn't want to ask any questions because
Speaker 3: me not understanding something is not uh what the call back?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Actually, where are the seeds for bananas? So don't they
Speaker 4: be in the ignorant questions?
Speaker 3: Mike.
Speaker 2: They used to be a lot bigger and a lot
Speaker 2: like rock here, and that's why it was difficult for
Speaker 2: us to eat. So they've been like shrunken by science
Speaker 2: over time, so you don't really see them, but they're
Speaker 2: like they're like the little black parts in the middle.
Speaker 3: I've been doing a lot of avocado stuff lately. I
Speaker 3: had one this morning, and boy, you talk about just
Speaker 3: a mighty seed situation, and that's just like the most prominent,
Speaker 3: Like god damn, this is like half the fucking thing.
Speaker 3: It's fun to get it out there when you like
Speaker 3: get your like lote knife and you do that, and
Speaker 3: then everything about avocados are great. If you get one
Speaker 3: that's ready to go. It's fun getting the pit out.
Speaker 3: It's fun cutting in half. And then when you do
Speaker 3: the little like crisscross tik tac toe thing. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: get it all ready to scoop out a spoon. You
Speaker 3: get it in there and your poppet, it's oh, man, avocados.
Speaker 2: Are you using like you're using a knife to cut
Speaker 2: it open? Yeah, okay. People do tend to cut themselves
Speaker 2: to open avocados and ripe enough.
Speaker 3: Like this morning, I just use the butter knife the
Speaker 3: same wine I used to spread it on the toast. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's good. And seriously, last night I made fucking I
Speaker 3: made salmon, potatoes and asparagus and it was all great,
Speaker 3: but I still can't get over this fucking potato stuff.
Speaker 3: It is so I put. I used butter for the
Speaker 3: first time, and h holy I used a bunch of time.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, it's very good. Wait, no, I've I've done
Speaker 3: jos fr seasoning.
Speaker 1: Don't even like, holy shit, for the first time. No, no, grub,
Speaker 1: We're not gonna We're not gonna do it. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna do it for.
Speaker 2: The first time.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I literally looked up here's the deal. I read, so
Speaker 3: I find out what you need to cook them at
Speaker 3: at what temperature, and then I just have a note
Speaker 3: in my phone. So I always looked like, okay, potatoes
Speaker 3: four hundred degrees for thirty minutes or whatever. But I
Speaker 3: decided to look up a different recipe last night because
Speaker 3: I wanted to make it with the asparagus. So I
Speaker 3: looked up specifically potatoes and asparagus Recie, and that was
Speaker 3: the one that threw in the little butter hack, and
Speaker 3: I did the butter Oh my god. Yeah, the butter
Speaker 3: hack is the hack for all foods. Speaking of all foods,
Speaker 3: why is every now that I'm doing this all the time,
Speaker 3: fucking everything is olive oil. You just go nuts with
Speaker 3: olive oil. Shits on the pan, it's in the mixing bowl,
Speaker 3: you're tossing your coating.
Speaker 1: What is it like?
Speaker 3: Why is that so I used it to when I
Speaker 3: see the salmon? Because most most foods in need fat,
Speaker 3: and olive oil is like one of the a few
Speaker 3: oils that has a pretty actually distinct flavor that's a
Speaker 3: little fruitiness, people say, a little nightiness, some very good
Speaker 3: for you. It's like it's just like this wondrous food though,
Speaker 3: Like it's like avocados, Like avocudas are delicious and they're
Speaker 3: good for you.
Speaker 2: You there's a video from a youtube'sman talking about like
Speaker 2: you probably haven't had real olive oil. You should watch
Speaker 2: that because you should try to track down the real
Speaker 2: stuff or at least uh you don't have to get
Speaker 2: like real Italian olive oil oil, but you want real
Speaker 2: olive oil that really.
Speaker 1: Does make Giada Delorentis baby, she has their own brand
Speaker 1: of olive oil. I want to get a single You
Speaker 1: want to get a single origin olive oil? Dan?
Speaker 4: Yes, Okay, you're be careful with the potatoes though, right,
Speaker 4: Like that's a sometime food.
Speaker 3: You know, why are you saying, well, they.
Speaker 2: Because they they've killed people in the colon.
Speaker 3: Again, I'm not eating like twenty in a sitting.
Speaker 4: Well, I know, I just make sure you don't like
Speaker 4: think that that's equivalent to eating like a side of
Speaker 4: vegetables or something.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I I like to do some potatoes and I'll have
Speaker 3: some asparagus or something like green beans or something.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I know, it's still like it's still better for me
Speaker 3: than everything I was eating before. Yea bake. Eating potatoes
Speaker 3: like that is better than eating French fries for swee
Speaker 3: potatoes love swoo potatoes too, even better for y Yeah.
Speaker 2: I had potatoes and green beans last night, was in
Speaker 2: some olive oil and all that stuff, and I was like, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm having a DAN dinner. Yeah, associations are changing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I asked a blue sky because I was this
Speaker 4: this thing.
Speaker 3: Okay, so like you know, some of my needs to nephews,
Speaker 3: they'll call, you know.
Speaker 4: You get the part of the grated parmesan cheese and
Speaker 4: like the green container and it's very fine and like
Speaker 4: the kids in my life would call that sprinkle cheese.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I thought that was cute cheese I've heard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was at subway and like the just like
Speaker 4: the older lady in front of me ask for sprinkle cheese,
Speaker 4: Like I wonder that's a regional thing. So I posted
Speaker 4: it and like that, you know what not asking and
Speaker 4: I should have knows what's coming. But the amount of
Speaker 4: people who are just like, that's not even real cheese.
Speaker 4: It's insult to it and all stuff.
Speaker 3: I was just like I always thought the parmesan like
Speaker 3: I thought that was the only form of it. Like
Speaker 3: I only would hear about parmesan cheese in the Shaker.
Speaker 3: And I didn't realize until like my thirties that like, oh,
Speaker 3: you can just buy like a block or you know, grated. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's very good when you do. It tastes good.
Speaker 4: But you see even it's like, look, guys, like I
Speaker 4: love getting the block and bring it. Sometimes I like
Speaker 4: this seizing the Shakers stuff. It's fine, awesome, I go
Speaker 4: with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I had perhaps one of the best meals of
Speaker 1: my life while I was down in l A. I
Speaker 1: had oxtail meatballs and then the piece of resistance was
Speaker 1: tempora fried squash blossoms filled with.
Speaker 2: Oh that sounds pretty good suns Italian multibedle.
Speaker 3: I now could no longer boast of one hundred success
Speaker 3: rate on my Domino's pizza, speaking of parmesan that I
Speaker 3: put on, because you know, Hanson came over for the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl and I was like, oh have you seen
Speaker 3: have you tried my special pizza? And he gave me
Speaker 3: a ship for calling it my special pizza? And I
Speaker 3: was like, you listen to every video game podcast ever,
Speaker 3: I would assume, and I tried to explain. He's like,
Speaker 3: let's get a normal one too, So we got a
Speaker 3: normal one and the gimmick pizza, and he tried it.
Speaker 3: He was not blown away. But he doesn't like Ranch.
Speaker 3: He's weird about by Ranch, and that's a critical component
Speaker 3: of my gimmick pizza. So man, I wish I didn't
Speaker 3: like Ranch. So it's not one hundred percent anymore. Hanson
Speaker 3: did not care for my special pizza.
Speaker 2: Also, I did realize that my pasta thing anti pasta.
Speaker 2: I love anti pasta or anti pasta. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: I thought about that as well. Like it. He like Bretch.
Speaker 3: He's in lunch meat fantastic.
Speaker 2: Well no, like no, like when you get it from Okay, No,
Speaker 2: you're right, you got me. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes there's some
Speaker 2: pickled peppers or something. There's a lot of peppers.
Speaker 3: What is this ship? This magic thing that I didn't
Speaker 3: know existed. Now I'm having a lot of sandwiches for lunch.
Speaker 3: We had a lot of turkey sandwiches, and I have
Speaker 3: the murder breadder bread. That's really good. So I get
Speaker 3: murder bread turkey. Uh yeah, murder what's murder? It's that
Speaker 3: company where it's murderers that make your bread and it's like, uh,
Speaker 3: they're in like oregular days. That's it. Yes, yes, murder bread.
Speaker 4: Like it's just like this's just like that that red
Speaker 4: wine company thirteen crimes or whatever.
Speaker 3: What do you Oh, I just call it murder bread.
Speaker 3: So it's yeah, murder bread, turkey, a couple of lot
Speaker 3: of protein. But then there's this gimmick thing that uh
Speaker 3: Bok bought and it's just it's like gr delli peppers
Speaker 3: is there? Like I think it's is it? Really? It's
Speaker 3: got a real tang to it and they are really
Speaker 3: tiny little peppers and like a greenish sauce type thing. Oh,
Speaker 3: my god, the flavor is fantastic.
Speaker 2: Very do you know what's happening there?
Speaker 1: Dan?
Speaker 2: Bacteria? Mm hmm Jordan Narra, Yeah, yeah. Do you put
Speaker 2: when you when you pickle stuff, when you put it
Speaker 2: in a Brian you're letting. The bacteria is from like
Speaker 2: kind of ferment, which doesn't always mean tying alcohol.
Speaker 3: You don't like when food's fermented, right, I don't like bacteria.
Speaker 3: I don't like fermenting. I don't like it makes it
Speaker 3: taste good.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: You know what's so fermented bread? That's wheat, brother sweet
Speaker 4: and yep, and then sugars in it forments. That's yeah.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I needed to get that out of my system.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm just going to get into the
Speaker 1: baking scene and become main event jan and then just
Speaker 1: go used good. Alright, alright.
Speaker 2: We could get one email from Avocado Stuff says, when
Speaker 2: did you use butter for the first time?
Speaker 3: Oh? Well, visible butter was my thirties. What so here's
Speaker 3: the deal. You know, I don't like spreads, I don't
Speaker 3: like ketchup mustard anything. I didn't like like ranch all
Speaker 3: the stuff. I didn't try that shit until like college.
Speaker 3: For the most part, A lot of it, I still
Speaker 3: haven't had. So I wouldn't eat visible bread. So if
Speaker 3: I got a roll at Thanksgiving, because the only time
Speaker 3: I would have like real food as a child was
Speaker 3: it like Thanksgiving. We'd go to my grandma's place and
Speaker 3: she would have a whole like spread of stuff, and
Speaker 3: I would just get a roll with no butter because
Speaker 3: the butter looked crazy to me. But I was having
Speaker 3: macaroni and cheese like eighty times a week, and I
Speaker 3: would ask that my mom. I could tell that, like
Speaker 3: when she would use a ton of butter, it tasted better.
Speaker 3: So I would like double the butter in macaroni cheese
Speaker 3: because it tasted so fucking good. But you couldn't see
Speaker 3: because it was all kind of like, you know, in
Speaker 3: this morphous cheese pasta bowl thing.
Speaker 2: You know you want your food to be a morphous yes, And.
Speaker 3: So I would not try butter if I could see it, like,
Speaker 3: and I've never had butter on corn on the cob
Speaker 3: or anything like that.
Speaker 1: You've had any popcorn?
Speaker 3: Yes, and melted butter is fainted like movie theater. I
Speaker 3: would fill half the fucking bucket with the AMC butter.
Speaker 3: I remember, I was probably in my thirties when I
Speaker 3: tried butter on bread for the first time, and I
Speaker 3: was like, this is fucking great, Like this is incredible.
Speaker 3: Breads so much less dry, so much more flavorable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they really onto something with that whole bread and butter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and now I'm fine with I like butter across
Speaker 3: you guys, invisible butter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dan, I think you should try avocado oil.
Speaker 3: I had that, I've had that cook with and stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 3: canola oil, avocado oil, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you want to use if you're going to like
Speaker 4: cook something in oil for a while and at high temperatures,
Speaker 4: that's when you want to use avocado oil instead of
Speaker 4: olive oil, because all of oil could burn.
Speaker 3: Avocado oil not very lucky to burn.
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 3: I have learned that as I use it to see
Speaker 3: your chicken and stuff like that. Yeah, Now I pat
Speaker 3: down the meat so it's not all from the souv bag. Normally,
Speaker 3: if it has water in it, it fucking explodes all over you.
Speaker 3: So that's why down usually.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, pad down your meat, just like you do
Speaker 1: at a rainforest cafe, folks.
Speaker 2: And that's gonna do. It's been a rainforest cafe. There
Speaker 2: was a fall up from avocado stuff, says Brining's that fermentation? No,
Speaker 2: but it causes fermentation, like, yeah, that's fermentive vegetables, that's what. Like,
Speaker 2: all that stuff is kim chi. I've been eating a
Speaker 2: lot of it.
Speaker 3: I don't like it's very good for you. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: you're what that thing you're just talking about pickled? Yes,
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about, but no, it's not.
Speaker 3: You can't remember and a food hack that you love.
Speaker 4: I can't never say whatever jor didn't read Jordania. Yeah, whatever,
Speaker 4: the stuff with the pickled carrots and gas and.
Speaker 3: Everything, Yeah, that's definitely pickled.
Speaker 1: Folks. If you want to my gosh, if you want
Speaker 1: to start sending in emails, please please send them in.
Speaker 1: If you don't, If we don't read at least three
Speaker 1: to four emails a week, Mike Minatti does not get paid.
Speaker 1: We withhold his paycheck. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And also, was there actually paperwork or was this like
Speaker 3: territory wrestling handshake agreement?
Speaker 2: It was barely a handshake right now.
Speaker 1: Nope, And I hope you didn't I know what he did.
Speaker 1: But yeah, very very good bit Mike, folks, bombcastigiant bomb
Speaker 1: dot com is the email addressed to send your emails two.
Speaker 1: For the rest of this week, Game Yester Mornings popping
Speaker 1: off right gro that's.
Speaker 2: Right, we'll be back in action. Looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: We will be talking over the state of play popping
Speaker 1: off tomorrow. There will be a voicemail dumb truck. We'll
Speaker 1: have a very special BCR later this week. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about some games. Perhaps we may stream some games as well.
Speaker 1: But also, folks, get your popcorn ready, get your popcorn
Speaker 1: and your visible butter out, because tomorrow is a new
Speaker 1: season of Blight Club.
Speaker 3: Oh shit, you will.
Speaker 2: Get paid for that.
Speaker 3: Don't worry about the beginning of the Blightening round, in
Speaker 3: which all of our games are We've among us we
Speaker 3: seemed confused by the definitely I feel like you guys
Speaker 3: have said two episodes four hours max, and I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like that was like supposed to be
Speaker 2: like a very outer possibility. But that's fine. I feel
Speaker 2: like the picks.
Speaker 3: Are within that. I feel actually, manatis is the shortest
Speaker 3: you're shortly Well, where's the thing, Mike. I don't want
Speaker 3: to say too much, but how long to beat? It's
Speaker 3: very short on it, but I've tried to game.
Speaker 4: It's probably some bullshit puzzle game or really hard platform
Speaker 4: that they know how to beat.
Speaker 3: We'll see ye.
Speaker 2: Same for dance dances, like I think the how long
Speaker 2: to beat might be like fifteen minutes or something like that,
Speaker 2: But I don't think.
Speaker 3: It's gonna take I don't I know. Jeff wasn't though,
Speaker 3: oh what.
Speaker 4: The few times my life I was worried he was
Speaker 4: maybe shoot hot was when he was like, how long.
Speaker 2: Is my blightening round game? Because it's like, I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, these minds are gonna be like five
Speaker 2: times longer and it's gonna be that thing again. But
Speaker 2: now it's at this point Mike, who cares whatever.
Speaker 4: Then laterally you're like, actually, Mike, heres is gonna maybe
Speaker 4: take longer to Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be fast. Is gonna be fast, I think
Speaker 3: because it's one that I specifically you have tried to
Speaker 3: figure out and play many times and really came up short.
Speaker 3: So I want to I want to see this thing through.
Speaker 2: Steph came downstairs yesterday. She's like, make him play Home Improvement,
Speaker 2: Like she's.
Speaker 3: The one where you shoot the you shoot the staple gun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you would dressed me up as as Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Would, we would dress you up as the guy behind
Speaker 2: the fence.
Speaker 1: In front of him.
Speaker 2: This conversation so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, we could put a jpeg over you.
Speaker 2: But you've build fences.
Speaker 1: He has to make the fences. That's so good. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, folks, that about does it this
Speaker 1: week for this week's giant bomb, Cass, thank you for
Speaker 1: joining us. You've been lovely. I hope no one writes
Speaker 1: a series of diss tracks dedicated to you, but maybe
Speaker 1: if they do, you might deserve it. Perhaps also be
Speaker 1: a better friend than Goku. All Right, go visit your friends. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's been Mike, he's been daying, he's been grubbed. I've
Speaker 1: been saying we will see you next week fall or.
Speaker 2: Another episode of the Job.
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